skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What does your example have to do with this situation?

It's addressing GP's complaint about me pointing out the indirect and transactional nature of the interaction between information producer and consumer.

> the author of content we're discussing will never get paid by anyone

That's... not my problem? Bear with me here.

> will never even get a bit if personal satisfaction from their analytics knowing last month x thousand people read that page and it hopefully helped them.

Aha!

So we're talking specifically about content creators that publish for free in hopes of maximizing a number on their analytics? That's healthy neither for them nor the society at large. Or you mean people publishing content for free to make money off ads? Yeah, I don't mind that content to disappear entirely.

Note that outside of web publishing, it was never the expectation of an author to have any idea how many people read their work, much less get paid for every single "read event". They only got a lump sum or a fraction of first sale of a printed work - but had no insight or control over further circulation of parts of entirety of their works. Being able to resell your books or magazines, or give or lend it to friends, or borrow some from a library, are all good things.

All that was true before AI, and people found reasons to write new books, or to publish quality content on-line, for free and without advertising or telemetry. LLMs don't change that. If anything, they may reduce readership, not publication.

> I think much information will retreat to places like Discord or locked down login only versions of sites like Stackoverflow.

This has already been happening for the past couple years; LLMs, again, don't change anything here.
Too late to edit, but per Wikipedia[1] once the quenched-spark transmitters were widespread, transoceanic transmissions were VLF and LF, marine were MF, and amateur was high MF (above 1.5MHz).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter#The_%22s...
Agree that CBT or other behavioral approaches are preferable and that there are some legit disorders that can't be easily helped. Point is that most people don't need or benefit from therapy, and are more likely to be harmed.
Tree Style Tabs are great, but y'all should really check out Sideberry! It's modern and works very well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
I was going to tease you by suggesting adding the memorial plaques on Swanage Pier, of which there are thousands, but i see someone has in fact already added the benches!
> There are no literals in C that create composite types

Float/double literals do
> Japan, many european cities, etc are all comfortable with the provision and use of widespread public transport.

And yet, they have many many cars.
The problem is, a null-terminated string is a very simple concept for an ABI. A string with a length count seems simple, but there is a big step up in complexity, and you can't just wistfully imagine effortlessly passing String objects around to your ABI.

For a start, String objects are going to be different everywhere. Even in C++, one library's String object isn't going to be binary compatible with another. How is the data laid out, does it do small string optimisation, etc? Are there other internal fields?

So you won't be passing objects around. At the ABI, you'll have to pass a pointer and a length. Calling an ABI will involve unwrapping and wrapping objects to pretend you are dealing with 'your' strings. Simple C-style ABIs make memory management straightforward (n.b. but error-prone, and certainly not easy). If this new style ABI returns a 'string' (pointer and length) of some sort, you have to package it up in your own object format, and manage the memory. Will you need an extra object type to represent 'string I got from an ABI, whose memory is managed differently'?

None of these are insurmountable, but they are a complexity that is rarely thought of when people declare 'C style ABIs are terrible!'
Everything about walking directions from Apple maps (directions on lock screen; Apple Watch integrations) is better, UX wise.

The problem is, despite admittedly massive improvements, I still have issues with it containing stale location data, incorrect POI classification information (e.g. convenience store without gas pumps marked as a 'gas station'), and suggesting paths that don't exist or simply aren't tenable (no, Apple, I am not going to talk a walking shortcut through the middle of an Italian military facility).
American government spending has an extremely low multiplier because of onerous environmental regulations (primarily NEPA).

A mural in San Francisco cost $600k (!) to cover up due to environmental impact reports and legal fees.

Asking for more public spending is literally just asking to burn people's money.
What are the differences compared to regular Firefox?
That's reserved for use after build 197.3.
HMOs are increasingly common in the UK -- not just in London or for students, but in towns for working professionals. You can (and do) easily have a 4 bed house with 4 adults with 4 separate jobs. I have a 40+ friend with a phd who lives in such a house near Bristol (3 adults in a 3 bed house).

Hell back in 2003 I lived in a 4 bed house in London which had 7 adults in it (I didn't stay there for long). That type of housing is 3 times more expensive now in relation to earnings. If you were to put that in somewhere like Mansfield you're talking at least 4 cars even if half the people commute via bus.
> feels like you could be sued

As dysfunctional as the legal system seems to be at times, I'd be pretty surprised if she could find a lawyer willing to try that. At the very least, she'd half to pay a fair amount out of pocket just to initiate the suit, and this is someone who already hasn't shown much persistence in just getting the email address corrected with her provider.

A lawyer would presumably tell her that a case against me would certainly fail, and the healthcare provider has much deeper pockets. Go after them.

> How does it work for a paper mail - from what I understand it could be illegal to open any letter originated to some other person's name.

This is a federal law called "Obstruction of Correspondence" and it is fairly specific to USPS mail. It applies to letters & packages that are either in a postal facility (including the mailbox) or have transited through it. It does not apply to email.
Another vocal-tract-model synth that showed up on HN a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912628
That is the gardens of the Alcazar, a very impressive royal palace. Well worth a visit if you're in town.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/phil_masters/5169339660

https://packmeto.com/alcazar-seville/
Insults instead of making a point. You're right to not argue because you would lose.
Interestingly they are those people that don't read the article. Thus proving the worth of opaque curiosity piquing titles.
Yeah, I'm never doing that again. I created a binding for the Irrlicht rendering engine with Lua using swig. There were always parsing errors with the header files so I had to create definition files for almost everything. It was a lot of work, but I did finally get it to function.

And then a new version of Irrlicht came out, and I basically had to start from scratch. All the definition files no longer matched the headers so they had to be recreated.

And then a new version of Lua came out and broke modules. The binding was written as a module so that had to be redone too.

I got way more familiar with the internals of swig than I ever wanted to. Each language it supports has it's own little parser/runtime integration, so I had to learn a lot about how swig and lua interact.

If I were to do it again I'd create a proper C binding to the C++ interface, and then bind that to whatever language I wanted. They almost all support C. C++ is a whole other beast.
> Eastern Europe just stares cluelessly, we really don't get this since we have no shameful racist history to work through (plenty of other shameful history to work with though, but we prefer being ignorant and tell ourselves sweet little or big lies to feel good, critical thinking ain't popular here)

Yeah, I think there's a certain amount of unexamined prejudice in the Balkans.
Also see previous discussion from yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36762301
> Porsche seems to be the only vehicle manufacturer who doesnt believe in the electric car

i think you just completely made this up out of thin air because you hate sports cars. they're one of the first manufacturers to sell an electric sports car, and their work on performance hybrid drivetrains is probably the best in the industry.

they also race in formula E and are working on synthetic fuel replacements for their classic cars.
Where are you based? My experience so far is that Apple Maps is not very good outside of the US
Profiles in Firefox isn't great.

The profiles plugin, is great.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

I would want to see this integrated.
That makes the user experience worse though. Anyone who's had a webpage layout change while they were trying to interact with it knows how frustrating it is.
Looking at https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/developer/ I'm a bit confused... Which features are just new features which will soon be in the main Firefox DevTools, and which are specific to installing the Developer Edition?
I mean they absolutely could do this but as you know they don’t actually care much. Most of the time they don’t do breaking changes like this but sometimes they do and you probably don’t want to be one of the people unlucky enough to be caught by this.
This is only available for US and UK regions. So not for everyone.
... and hugged to death

https://archive.li/yl7z2
Edit: the formatting on this is just atrocious, and I don’t have time to do more than take a quick shot at hopefully fixing it, but suspect it isn’t gonna work. Apologies in advance.

Just off the top of my head, I guess my short list would look something like this. I grant some, maybe all, of these have drawbacks, but these are the factors that I personally value and what I would miss by moving to any of the other places I’ve visited or of which I’m aware that seem like delightful places to live.
1. The sheer number of incredibly unique large cities (and the correlating lack of a single city that dominates national culture)

2. The ethos of individualism

3. The national park system

4. The sheer amount of diversity (racial, ethnic, national origin, religious, regional, etc.)

5. My personal access to, and quality of, healthcare (I grant that this is highly, highly subjective)

6. Other Americans (believe it or not lol)

7. Higher educational system

8. Economic dynamism and opportunity

9. Our foundational documents and subsequent amendments/improvements thereto

10. Our national tendency to do the right thing (after, of course, exhausting all other courses of action)

11. Approximately 10 trillion different regional cuisines (have you seen the number of strongly held opinions about different ways to smoke and serve meat?)

12. Every type of natural beauty imaginable

Not saying we have a monopoly on any of these! But I like where I live and think it’s a pretty cool place.
I don't think the pay rate really matters, and you could always decline it. I think this is more meant to safely allow someone to put most of their eggs in one basket - generally that's a risky move and the client could simply refuse to pay and put you out of business, but as a client there's a lot of value in being the main priority
I'm curious what answers you would find acceptable? I'm not being snarky - I genuinely struggle with this line of thinking. People seem to find "if I don't then someone else will" to be an unacceptable answer but it seems to me to be fairly central.

There's a inevitability about most scientific discoveries (there are notable exceptions but they are few) and unless we're talking about something with capital outlay in the trillions of dollars then it's going to happen whether we like it or not - short of a global totalitarian state capable of deep scrutiny of all research.
What? snprintf is nothing like doing an O(n^2) computation when O(n log n) was expected.
I took an old laptop and transformed it into an Arch Linux based smart-tv (thanks to a stabilized "air mouse" and AwesomeWM to configure windows positions and shortcuts through LUA). Now I basically do everything through Firefox in kiosk mode: it's fast, you can avoid ads, telemetry et similia through configuration tweaks and extensions. The only problem I have is with Sky/NowTV services, that are not accessible by web browser and don't have Linux apps and are not (yet?) working through wine. All the rest I use (Prime Video, Netflix, Mubi, Discovery+ etc) work great with it, way faster and cleaner than usual smart TV apps. This with a 15W-TDP 4th-gen i3 based old entry level laptop.
That's just to say that Firefox can actually be pretty good for TV!
Ask HN: Junior devs of HN, what are you doing to become senior?
The Fold-and-Cut Problem
I think only Stephen Wolfram would be a worse teacher on that particular topic…
I agree that they got pretty good but there’s still something that they get wrong, their intonation is a kind of passable average. If you want to be able to distinguish them from actual human speech pay close attention to intonation/inflection. They’re still very usable, Im not claiming otherwise
> [1] https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

That link says " We encourage you to keep crunching for science." with a link to https://scienceunited.org/
Sadly I cannot update Firefox anymore as any newer release would mean my other monitors would only show a black screen when looking at anything even remotely encoded with copy protection.
I use “tree tabs” and like it best due to its features like folders and unload-tab. However it is a pain in the ass to configure the theme to look right in dark mode. Plan on investing an hour. But once done is done.
More and more it seems that science is being clouded by moneyed interests and greed. If we can't trust science, what can we trust?
I haven't used ONNX or GGML, but presumably using GGML means you need to reimplement the network architecture?
Speedometer executes a bunch of TodoMVC projects, so it's a mix of JS and DOM work. FF has done a lot of cool work on their DOM and have started to focus some on making JS faster, so they are pretty fast here.

https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/

If you are interested in just JS, JetStream 2 is a good metric IMO, but is perhaps less "real world" as it doesn't really do DOM stuff. FF is slower here, but has made a lot of progress recently. (going from somewhere around 35% slower to around 10% slower).

https://browserbench.org/JetStream2.0/in-depth.html
Virus scanners and spam assassin can be configured as content filters:

https://stalw.art/docs/smtp/inbound/data#content-filters
https://stalw.art/docs/smtp/inbound/data#spam-filtering
> Literally every other country in the world proves you don’t need them.

Please, tell us one country in the world that doesn't need cars.

Many, may be less dependent on cars than the U.S. . But no country is independent of cars. Using such hyperbole doesn't help the conversions. It just deepens the trenches.
how do you prevent cherry picking?
Philadelphia I-95 Bridge Collapse Explained [video]
I've used it previously, and the issue is that while it "works", it's a nightmare to maintain, and the resulting code is not idiomatic in the high-level language which makes it difficult to use.
Show HN: RankRaven – SERP tracking for AI chat models
Millions of people are now using chat-based LLMs like ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard to do research, however companies don't have any insight into how their products appear in the results. For traditional search engines, there are lots of SERP tracking tools that help companies analyze changes in how their domain appears in the results for different keywords, but AI models are a black box so far. I've developed a tool similar to SERP tracking apps but for AI chat models, which tracks if/where a keyword appears in model answers for specific prompts and visualizes changes over time. Would love to get your feedback and ideas for additional features.
Daily reminder that aspartame is a really bad migraine trigger, this comment will get downvoted as usual, but hopefully other people suffering from it see this.
That is true at the end of a divorce, but in the beginning, possession is a very big deal. With a joint account, one partner can legally drain the entire account to a new personal one, and the other partner has no recourse other than court, which is slow.

This is a highly assymetric risk for a lot of couples. If one of the was the sole source of income, they are in a much better position to wait for the court to intervene.

This is assuming the money is still there at the end. The offending partner could attempt to hide it. Or they could have genuinely spent it.
Frick to be fair I only skimmed it. Still props. Just props to Intel.
In my experience, the following things are notably better in Apple Maps vs. Google Maps:

* No dangerous shortcuts where I risk to damage my car

* Routes make much more sense in general and are nearer to what someone who knows their way around locally would suggest

* Voice instructions are clearer, easier to understand and timed better

* Walking directions are easier to understand

* The UI is less annoying. In Google Maps, I find it quite easy to miss the compass button when walking, which causes the map view to freak out and makes me lose context.

What's better in Google Maps:

* Better metadata about shops, locations, crowdedness etc.

What both cannot do right:

* Re-route when an Autobahn is closed completely (I am located in Germany). It's a hot mess for some reason, while that's working relatively fine when there are accidents/congestions.

Finally, as an iPhone user, my location data is already at Apple. Why give it to someone else?
Hacking the DuckyPad: the Do-It-All Mechanical Macropad
Have you ever wondered, on a cool summer night, what would happen if you had another human input device (HID) on your desk, in addition to the old keyboard and mouse? Do you feel technologically trapped by the measly aloof functions of a QWERTY keyboard? Are you a tech anarchist? Read on.
I can only guess you mean something regarding the pandemic? Do you have links to show things were "closer to 0%?" Sounds more than a touch outlandish. :(

I'm confident we will know even more about things as time goes on. I'm less confident on any nefarious motivations in most of it. Reality is that a lot of people died, and everyone was trying to gain control and an advantage over the situation. Mistakes were certainly made, but I am back to low confidence in thinking that everything was a mistake.
I think Panic Attack is overused just to mean someone is uncomfortable with a situation they're in or they're hyperventilating, but I think I had one several years ago but I'm open to being corrected.

I was driving from LA to OC every day which is probably 3+ hours of driving normally working for a client that was an absolute ass. I was working 9 "real" hours a day meaning I didn't even have time to click around on the internet like most jobs I've had since. I was having issues with my prostate hurting in my mid-20s (turns out it was a lifting belt for squats) and I had just moved to a new city.

After 9 months, I was about halfway home where my prostate started hurting again and I just got tunnel vision where I couldn't see ANYTHING. It looked like I could only see a pin of light in each of my eyes and my ears felt like they were under water. I was in the left lane and I couldn't see for shit so I just said a quick prayer and swerved 3 lanes over to the shoulder when I promptly passed out and came to about 5-10 minutes later. I found a new job a month later and said fuck it to driving that much ever again.

I should say that this has only happened once and that I'm very very happy and confident with my life 99% of the time. I've never experienced anything like this before or after and I assume it was a panic attack.

For people who are curious about my prostate problems, I went to several urologists and no one could find anything after several uncomfortable examinations. I decided to try to scientific method and finally removed my lifting belt from use for a few weeks and the pain has been gone since. I figured it was related to my pelvic floor muscles and how they bunched up during a really tight belt/squat session doing pretty heavy weights (365-405) pretty frequently.
For anyone else who runs across this, in the US you want to also put a line through the bar code at the bottom of the letter, so it cannot be scanned. Once a piece of mail gets that code, the post office stops reading anything else on the letter and just delivers the mail to where that code says it goes. So you can toss it back in an outgoing slot with 'return to sender' on it as many times as you like, and they'll just return it to you. Until you get lucky and the mail carrier sees it when gathering up the outgoing mail, and helpfully obscures that barcode for you.
> Most countries have relaxed road worthiness tests or complete exemptions for classic cars

I doubt the exception extends to having non-functional brakes.
The exception is from things like inspections and compliance with modern standards, but you still have a duty to maintain your vehicle to its original level of safety.
We must distinguish between theoria, praxis, and poiesis. Praxis, or the practical, has as its end action, something other than itself. When I clean my house, I don't do this for its own sake, I do this for the sake of having a clean house to live in. Similarly, poiesis, or production, also has something other than itself as an end, some thing. When I cook dinner, I don't cook it for its own sake, I cook it to feed myself and others. On the other hand, theoria, or theory, has as its end truth. The truth has practical consequences, of course, but there are truths that are valuable knowing for their own sake.

Ends, of course, need a terminus. While a practical or productive act terminates in something other than itself, you must now ask what the end itself is for. Is it for itself, or something else further still? When we follow practical and productive ends, they must ultimately terminate at something that is not for the sake of anything else, but is valuable in itself. Indeed, when I said the truth has practical consequences, it was an understatement; the entire regime of practical and productive activity presupposes an ultimate end for the sake of which it exists, that justifies it, that it is in service of.

I will omit discussion of the ultimate here intentionally, because my purpose here is to frame the problem first and predispose the mind toward the answer; giving the answer straight away, or an answer, is more likely to trigger reflexive prejudices here, I think. Once framed this way, people are liberated to ask "whom or what do I ultimately serve? why do I live? why do I act?". The vista of ends and order is thrown open for examination. This clarity enables one to leave Plato's "cave" and makes it difficult to obfuscate and settle for cheap answers as it can corner the conscience into pestering us to reject dishonest rationalizations. Of course, people will often try to do so, but doing so is more likely to gnaw at the soul, something that can prompt people to keep searching instead of holing up in an intellectual ghetto and persist in mediocrity.

Now you can approach the original question.
The point is that it’s incredibly deeply profoundly naive. It’s not an insult. It’s odd that you took it as one, since it wasn’t even directed at you. But hey, you seem to have gotten some satisfaction out of whatever that puffery immediately above was, so I’m glad I could help you get that off your chest.
Stop reposting again and again:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36720544
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36729046