skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The decision does not for example stop Meta from targeting advertising based on information a user put in their bio, such as place of residence, gender and age, or based on interests a user has provided themselves.

I haven't read the decision itself, but it seems like it comes down to whether the input element in the UI is designed to convey persistence or not. When you type into a text input labeled "interests" and then whatever you entered continues to be shown when you look at that field again in perpetuity, persistence is sufficiently conveyed, so it can be used for advertising. When you type into a text input labeled "search" and then whatever you entered is echoed back only in that particular SERP never to be seen again after that, the UI doesn't convey persistence and therefore it can't be used for advertising purposes. If search history is conspicuous, then maybe? But as for links, I don't see how persistence could be conspicuous enough. They cause a GET rather than a POST, for one thing, which semantically means not changing state beyond access logs used for sysadmin troubleshooting.

The pattern I personally hate is when nearly every item in a list has a "read more" option that merely reveals the last 5% of the content. The truncation was clearly applied only to measure read rates based on these "read more" clicks, not for lack of real estate, and therefore to gather behavioral data with some plausible deniability.
Talc isn’t really used in sufficient quantities to cause cancer. So maybe this suit is justified? It’s kind of like those California cancer warning labels you find on everything but in practice the cancer risk is near zero, all it does is spook the masses.
I think you get it wrong - this will actually improve the internet.

Most of the websites are created from Templates that are then updated to some degree with content and images.

A tool like this one makes the website starting point more unique, allowing the site owner to create a better website will less effort --> better quality websites
"Within half a mile" is an inane standard. There's no evidence that a _buried_ cable leaches lead that far, that's simply bonkers. Lead is definitely not something to chew on, but this is histrionic fearbait reporting.
Sounds like an awesome idea. To make it even more useful it should be a Http proxy that I can set up easily on all my devices (smartphone, tablet, pcs, ...). All my efforts in this direction suffered from the problem that I'm using a lot of different devices and platforms for browsing.
I wonder if that's the next iteration of Wikipedia. Right now, the model is to summarize secondary sources. Once summarization becomes trivial via LLMs, the most valuable thing to do would be to assemble ever-expanding datasets of secondary sources for the LLM to pull from.
I am admittedly talking about electrical soldering, which the person quoted was also referring to, but there are different kinds.

You would need to set your solder gun to about (edit 750, not 1100) degrees Fahrenheit to begin truly vaporizing the lead. Which, some soldering irons are capable of, but lead solder’s lower melting point of about 400 degrees makes the risk low.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30629580
A scooter has the primary brake on the same hand as the throttle. It is natural to roll off the throttle to reach the brake lever. A scooter has no control lever on the left hand. A bicycle has the primary brake on the left hand, so there is no natural inclination to release the throttle before braking.
And even when cities invest in non-car transit, cars will still steal those resources. It's not uncommon in my city to see cars idling on bus lanes, or gig delivery workers parking in protected bike lines inside the bollards.
That's really understanding companies. If you can get a military contact, you can hire a person who can figure out email filters. It's not the only, or even hardest hoop you'd need to jump through.
Time to Release

https://justkeepclicking.io/whats-your-ttr-equation/
Inflation measures consumer prices, not the prices of assets like housing

The response to inflation is interest rate rises, which increases the monthly mortgage repayments and total future outlay of mortgage buyers who dont have long term fixed rates (as of course do other rises in costs of living). And of course, this ultimately has a negative impact on the value of the house (although generally quite a modest one, especially somewhere like the UK with a shortage of homes)
StableDoodle
I think you're missing the point, while you are pretty correct IMO, viewing the world in such a dichotomic way misses the fine details along the spectrum
What surprises me is that, for a country that does not miss a single opportunity to flaunt its status as a democracy, its representatives do next to nothing to protect it from a well known threat.
More Brandeisian. Hence the name, Neo-Brandeisian. But those precedents were overturned by the Supreme Court.

Only the Supreme Court can overturn the precedents. But since it is interpretation of statutes, Congress can change the statutes.
Show HN: Hypermedia Systems Book Released
All,

We have finally published our book on how to build modern hypermedia-driven applications. It is available free online:

https://hypermedia.systems

but there is now a nice hardcover edition available on amazon (sorry) and a kindle edition should be out in a day or so.
Is there any bookmarklet to add this to another arbitrary page? I can't seem to make it work, even with modifying the CSS code.
immediately made me think of this package I used to use when I did Python development

https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
A simple tag helped India save fuel worth $8.4B
Yeah I've been using vim with just a custom theme and a fairly vanilla .vimrc for 20 years. I just copy it around with me. These posts always make me feel like I'm missing out.
I live car-free in NYC. A large appeal of NYC to me was not having to park. I don't ~mind~ driving, but I absolutely hated having to deal with finding parking when I lived in other cities. Parking generally makes me feel stressed (competition for free spots), or makes me pay (using something like SpotHero makes it easy to find a spot, but costs me).

It's not even just major cities either- I'm frequently in a college town in Illinois and parking downtown is a nightmare, and can easily add 10 minutes to your trip time, AND it's paid. Visiting a city I'm not familiar with can add some stress too as you don't know the best parking, unlike cities you are familiar with.

NYC has problems of it's own (trains are generally reliable, but tend to have delays right when you need them), but for $33 a week I can get to most major neighborhoods in 30 minutes, walking straight to my destination. Add in $40 for a couple cabs when I prioritize a quicker trip, and I have amazing access to my city for less than $100/week.
in this case it clearly is? i don't care about capitalism's ability to unethically try to manipulate me into giving it money. if it sucks for business owners then that's too bad - maybe they should do something different with their time.
It works perfectly together - one is not necessarily replacement for the other.

For more complicated things or bigger changes you would go with regex search & replace or sed/awk/grep but for small one-shot things it is way quicker to just click 5 times and do whatever you need to.
> the sound change doesn't have to be otherwise attested.

Somewhat counterintuitively, historical evidence shows that most sound changes are regular! Which means they affect all words satisfying the same condition in the same way [0]. Irregular sound changes still occur, but if you look at the history of a language, regular sound change suffices to explain almost all developments.

Focussing on the history of English (which is very well documented, e.g. [1]) shows this well. Consonantal changes tend to be very regular: for instance, final /ŋɡ/→/ŋ/ in most dialects. English has an unusually complex vowel system, so vocalic changes tend to be somewhat more chaotic, but still show regularity: e.g. /a/ regularly turned into either /æ/ or /ɑ/.

(See also @canjobear’s comment, which makes the same point in a nice way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758576)

[0] This is the ‘Neogrammarian hypothesis’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neogrammarian

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Englis...
XPath is implementation detail, used for searching of attributes with a give prefix, and this article is just a public note of how it was done in htmx
What about the envelopes problem? Do you think that claiming that you should switch the envelopes “but only in the situation where you happened to” find $1 in your first pick is not relevant? The question asked is precisely what to do in that particular situation! Knowing that if you switch you get more that if you don’t seems useful…

I’m also curious about your answer to the following question, really.

“You pick door #1. The host picks a number between 1 and 3 from a hat and opens the corresponding door #3. There is a goat behind the door. He says to you, "Do you want to pick door #2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?”

What do you think that the probabilities would be if you you were to find yourself in that situation? A hint: the probability that the car is behind the open door is zero. What about the others?

Don’t you have any answer at all?
In practice it seems like dang does see most of the people who @ him, so maybe they have that string hardcoded somewhere for alerts. Or maybe he just reads all/most of the comments on all stories...
Ask HN: Have you run into software issues with H100 GPUs?
We had some issues on one of the GPU clouds with H100 instances related to PyTorch not supporting the required CUDA version. Then that was fixed and ran into a different issue.

I thought it might've been isolated but then saw this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573601

Have you run into more issues with H100s than other GPUs? Should go away with time as software gets updated for them, but I'm curious how widespread issues are at the moment.
For someone near retirement who owns their home, inflation somewhat offsets interest income but they're probably not spending a huge amount in general--and higher interest rates mean they can have pretty low-risk investments (which they want a fair bit of at that point) returning 5% or so at the moment.
> What else can be done?

Reduce the regulatory regimes that force cars on business owners and individuals: eliminate street level parking requirements for property owners, create car-free zones in city centers, declare war on Saudi Arabia, prioritize foot traffic in new commercial development, set minimums for bike/pedestrian friendly mileage, decrease the number of single family residences and increase multi-family domiciles.

There's a lot.
The Birth of Id Software
Westfield Gives Up San Francisco Mall, Signaling More Pain Ahead
Small, incredibly niche businesses come up often when we talk about ads. Probably because they are one of the few sympathetic business models that benefit from hyper-targeted ads.

It is nice that people can start these incredibly niche businesses, but we have to weigh that against the fact they we’ve built a massive surveillance apparatus and also the misinformation ecosystem that grew out of Facebook is screwing up politics around the world.

But ya know, dog treats, I guess it is a hard choice.
Notice I said these features sound (and should be) easy, but they are not. The “intellisense” features themselves are fine as QoL improvements.

It’s the environment and the languages themselves that produces these “problems”. I mean, let’s say, Python. I just don’t know what to say to you if you think sanity lies in that direction.

I’m in the somewhat marginal Alan Kay camp and think computing can and should be reconsidered from scratch. I cannot prove we are on a dead end, but I have the strong sense that we are and I want to encourage other paradigms and ways of approaching development and computing in general.
How daydreaming too much affected me
Good point on this too, he must've told me about it too. Now my son knows (from him again).
WordPress can emit statically-hostable websites, though you may lose that site-searching functionality. It would be possible for those who work on the site to log into a running WordPress install, to write and manage their content in the dashboard, but for that to inform and redeploy a static site. It's not a requirement that the place where the Wordpress-powered site is hosted to also be running PHP and the WordPress app on that server.
> This is just an absolutely awful idea simply due to the weight.

Buried cables used to be lead jacketed before viable polymers suitable for long term use were developed in the modern era.
Your understanding of 'understanding a language' is obviously different from mine when you write that "the language model discussed above would presumably understand Alienese just as well as it would understand English" and "language models today seem to be quite good at understanding English".

Language models don't understand any natural language, they're very good at manipulating it (and us!) in terms of continuing patterns across the scale from letter (orthography) to phrases and paragraphs of seemingly utility and correctness. In that regard, yes, the aforementioned model will likely have no difficulty in reproducing novel outputs that would appear likewise useful and correct to Alienese speakers as is the case for English. However this assumption, too, should come with the disclaimer that unless someone produces a reliable test for the utility and correctness of the same LM for a variety of natural and invented languages with divergent grammars (such as including e.g. polysynthetic languages which have a very different view of what constitutes a 'word') without having to tweak any of the many finnicky parameters of these models—we can't be sure the model won't produce garbage when trained on the next 'exotic' language. So who knows, in English you use very few infixes and a lot of grammar takes places between fairly constant, fairly short words; a model with a given set of parameters that works well for such languages may not be very good at languages that has words built from many specific prefixes, infixes and suffixes that are as expressive as entire phrases in English. Just like the current generation of text-to-image generators are pretty good at a lot of things but then screw up when asked to picture a cornfield.
Hey HN! We're launching a new cache storage backend for Depot today and wanted to share. Previously we stored container build cache on EBS volumes, where each customer project received its own EBS volume. That had some limitations, including fixed size, low performance, and subpar economics.

We're now using Ceph, running a storage cluster in top of i3en instances with local storage. This lets us thin-provision the cache storage volumes, elastically grow them as needed, and deliver much better IOPS and throughput compared to the gp3 volumes we used to use. Some very large builds that used to take as high as 8 minutes to construct image layers now take less than a minute!

For the most part, Ceph has been very seamless to deploy / operate, though we've been learning many fun facts about low-level Linux filesystems. :)
In addition to telephone, electrical power distribution is still accomplished using PILC cable (paper insulated, lead covered.) There's tons of it under NYC and it is still manufactured to this day. And since the insulation is oil soaked paper, there's a good chance the oil is contaminated with PCB's.

Back in high school electrician shop class we had a few sections of medium and high voltage distribution and transmission cable (The cross sections were neat to look at esp the 130kV 1000 MCM that was about 4 inches in diameter). One of which was a 1 foot length of PILC partly stripped to show the construction and mounted to a wooden base. It sat out in the open on a table covered in dust and lead oxide. After touching it our shop teacher made sure to tell us to thoroughly wash our hands.

edit: forgot to mention lead water mains that still exist. Family friend worked for the DEP and said they liked to "leave the lead be" as the harmful oxides were on the outside of the pipe and not a major threat to the water within. Disturbing the pipes was said to be a larger hazard than leaving them in service.
Cool find, this seems to be a good option.

SearX also came to my mind but isn't exactly p2p.
The court did not conclude that, or anything about J&J's intentions.

The court concluded that the subsidiary was not actually bankrupt and so couldn't justify J&J's attempt to consolidate all the lawsuits against it into a settlements from one bankruptcy judge.

This attempted consolidation is pretty clearly an attempt to limit the judgement sizes that may come out of jury trials. Pretending otherwise is naive at best.
You know you could probably get really far just training an LLM on wikipedia and all linked citations, and nothing else

The whole problem of wikipedia only being an "inch deep" on any given topic is basically solved if the LLM also has to read every cited work in full

And maybe citation counts could affect exposure to that work during training
Huawei reveals 4G, Wi-fi 6 patent rates as it looks to bolster revenue
I got friends in KPMG and they bill on the order of 900/hr per team. I have little doubt the consultants work harder -- they bloody well better -- but if that's 2x or 3x the regular hires is absolutely up for debate. I'd argue probably not.

And it leaves out the main point: most of these consultants are blame shields for officials -- "we moved to technology X because Bain & Deloitte told us to". But when you look at the numbers, the spreasheets don't add up, and it's clear that a VP decided this was the course and needed ammo to back it up.
You've deliberately ignored the context.

It's like somebody saying 'It's funny that girls still walk in mini-skirts in the park' under the news that a girl was raped. And then you appear: 'Nowhere did *** say it was funny that the girl was raped'.
https://archive.ph/Af5Yg
The World’s Oldest Glaciers Are Buried Under South African Gold
Presumably helium as you said.
Such tosh.

"A higher-rates world would also improve housing affordability, helping young, would-be homeowners. Based on current interest rates, the house-price-to-earnings ratio could fall to around 5.6 – the lowest level seen since 2000"

The cost of a mortgage for such people has increased even higher. Maybe in time the cost of mortgage payment will return to the same number of weeks.

If you wanted to buy an average £300k house in August 2022 on a 2% 90% 30 year ltv mortgage, you'd need a £30k deposit and £998 a month. AWE was £618 then, so that's 48.5 weeks deposit and 1.6 week a month payment

If you wanted to buy a house today with 49 weeks deposit (£30,300) and a 1.6 weeks a month payment (£1051) at 6% you'd be able to borrow £170k, so afford a house of £200k.

Houses haven't come down by 33%, nor will they - the supply isn't there. Most Landlords for example do not have a mortgage, but are seeing even higher rental income.

If the average £300k house from last year was up for sale for £200k today, it would be snapped up by cash buyers and rented out to a captive market.

All high interest rates do is reduce spending of people with variable loans (typically mortgages). They do nothing to slow pensioners with massive savings (from downsizing) spending their savings. I guess it might mean landlords will spend the money on expanding their portfolio as deals come up.

If you want to solve the housing problem, you need to build more.

If you want to redistribute household wealth, stop taxing strivers more than havers, merge NI into income tax for example. It's crazy that a house owner with 30k a year in dividends keeps £2200 a month post tax post housing, more than someone working for 70k a year in the city paying 2k a month in rent
That doesn’t matter in a world full of iframes, js sdks, app/site integrations, and shadow accounts. A company with the massive reach of Facebook or Google can absolutely track you all over the web without you ever signing up for or even directly using any of their services.
The Spike: How Your Brain Uses Electrical Impulses to Communicate
XPath is very impressive and expressive when one just looks outside the xml/html world. An abstract XPath query selector only needs a tree enumerator with nodes reporting the name and (optionally) some attributes. One of such application is querying against Abstract Syntax Trees [1] of programming languages. The name here is the name of the rule of then node. A further step is to have semantic relationships understood. In this case something like //IDENT[@owning_class='CFooBar'] is possible

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree
It's a team of 10 people with 1 year each
I created an online tools website
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I do tell them that. I see no reason to be memory unsafe.

It is a huge uphill battle to become a new general purpose language, and the smallest thing can kill it. The fact that Zig is memory unsafe means that I, who am not a bleeding-edge adopter, but am an early adopter and in a position to make decisions about what is used at work, have disqualified it and lost all interest. I have no use for such a language for greenfield projects. Simply offering a more convenient onramp to the sorts of problems that C has is not a compelling value proposition for me.

I extremely strongly suspect I am not even remotely alone.
I think probably most of us use the scroll wheel (or equivalent) to scroll, but the advantage of the visible scroll bar is the immediate feedback of both document length and current location.
Ask HN: Why does Firefox have such a low market share anyways?
Over the last decade, firefox's market share has dropped from ~25% to less than 10% (numbers vary depending on where you look). At the same time, the browser only got better in my opinion. What is going on?
Since we are talking which to avoid, just to add a translation suggestion, Peter Green's is highly regarded.
Have you ever tried to scratch your back with only a wing?
But those contexts and also such "contexts transformations" exist, so why possible at some places and unthinkable at others? Just saying "dreamer hits reality hard" is a bit destructive, arrogant, and apparently not the complete necessary truth?
Google opens up Bard to 230 countries but Canada is excluded
it would help if we would reallocate funds from the "kill the middle east brown people" fund to the "pay needed services" fund, like firefighting, replacement of water supply lines to homes, etc.
Hitachi bundled BeOS in 1999, but Microsoft stopped it installing a bootloader
At first this seems like a retaliatory move. But for Bard to be viable in Canada it would have to be trained (in part) using Canadian news sources.

It's going to be very difficult to argue Google shouldn't have to pay for that privilege. I wasn't a huge fan of the Government's new bill but once you throw in the AI training angle, things start to get really complicated.