skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are questions where looking for nuance detracts rather than add to the conversation. The earth is round, there is no need for nuance there. Similarly, vaccines work and have been proven to be better than not getting vaccinated in every single case in the last, say, 20 years. Adding nuance to that only serves to muddy the waters.

The same sort of thing happens with hypotheticals. Sure, they are important and not every hypothetical should be read as an affirmation. But then there are cases like OJ Simpsons "If I had done it" - where the hypothetical framing is such an obvious fig leaf that it's ridiculous to pretend. And saying "there's an argument that" in the middle of a discussion about bio weapons, bringing up highly disputable facts like the supposed ethnic differences in Covid-19 effects, and then not spending even another second to acknowledge that there is 0 evidence for this supposed hypothetical - that all brings it to a level where it's comical not to recognize what was actually being said.
Yes, I assumed that Pep- was similar to -ito in the salty snack category.

The untrained pallet might compare birch beer to toothpaste.

I thought of cherry Dr. Pepper as just more cherry.
Why? He said nothing disparaging about his employer, nor revealed any sensitive information.
They all support ISOBMFF, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_base_media_file_format
JPEG XR started off as a Microsoft format about 20 years ago, but no one trusted them to not sue if reimplemented. Microsoft supported XR, but almost nothing else did.
The UK govt are a total shitshow right now but we'll put that right at the next elections. Hang in there, chaps.
One LFI bypass to rule them all (using PHP base64)
But HEIC/AVIF did exactly that, defined image format on top of standard container (isobmff/heif). JPEG-XL is the odd one out because it doesn't have standardized HEIF format, but for example JPEG-XS and JPEG-XR are supported in HEIF.
That’s not Hollywood money.
>not a peep from my bank

Why would a for-profit banking institution actively advertise for something that will affect its bottom line (e.g. transfer fees)..?
>fans of Professional Wrestling also know it's fake

aka Smart Marks
I installed cool-retro-term and no-more-secrets on my Chromebook with Linux, and it does indeed look nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRIG_zK4SQ
Note: Brave (Chromium) has a RSS support. It's pretty good.
This seems like a very opinionated take.

The CBDC is still planned. But way far in the future (couple years, at least). And why wouldn't it solve settlement itself?

FedNow is shipping today. If it is not the future solution, that is fine. It gives us better performance now.
Similarly, Bing is happy to run in China while Google pulled out of there.
SJWs have always been triggered by the mildest of disrespect, which is why we’re here in the first place.
Auto-tracking is broken – it's time for a new approach
A lot of pain comes from OS apis which are not supported in the standard library, like graphics, audio, and media. These inevitably need libraries and frameworks to work cross-platform.
And tracking and video recording.
On every single message outside the walled garden, Apple should have a note on iMessage appear "Due to Regulations XYZ 2023, this message may not be secure and may be open to read by third parties"
People also completely underestimate how much force flowing water has. It's hard enough to walk in waist-deep water when it's still. Somehow they see a few feet of rushing water and they think "hey, I'm gonna drive my car through that"
As soon as I saw this was put on the steam store I knew it was a matter of time until it was removed. Im surprised that Retro Arch has been on the store this long, probably because it doesn’t have any emulator cores for modern systems
JPEG XL Lossless: about 35% smaller than PNG (50% smaller for HDR). Source: https://jpegxl.info/ So with JPEG XL WebP may not serve any real purpose anymore.
These laws have nothing to do with safety. They are only about making it illegal to film police abuses. Here's the law in AZ https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2319S.pdf

Note the words "IF THE PERSON IS NOT INTERFERING WITH LAWFUL POLICE ACTIONS"

We've seen example after example of police screaming "stop resisting" while they beat someone who is handcuffed and/or unconscious. By "resisting", those people were "interfering with lawful police actions". They might not have been guilty of anything before the police started beating them, but under this law if they were recording any of it they'd be criminals.
You mean how Facebook wouldn’t “compromise” when it was outright banned?
The aversion to blockchain and cryptocurrency is because they're a scam.

There's literally no use case for crypto that makes sense. Nothing that couldn't be better done without a distributed blockchain.

Blockchain is a way to set up a really slow, really limited, and hard to manage database that's hosted among multiple untrusted entities. Literally every use case would be better handled by using a single trusted database and cryptographic signatures for verification (as opposed to "crypto", which really means blockchain. I hate how words get co-opted.).

AI at least has positive uses, even if it's also being hyped well beyond its actual usefulness.
This is the way!

I thought about this the past couple of weeks: I get less than 10% of the visits to my website(s) from google [measured via Plausible].

I want to block google(bot) from visiting my website and I'm seriously considering adding a "Usage Policy" that specifically prohibits any crawler from visiting my site(s).

Admittedly, I couldn't care less about the traffic, others might.
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- Built-in mechanism for retry & throttling.
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- SDKs for nodejs & Java (more on the roadmap).
- Schema-aware streaming makes sure that your data stays clean when building data pipelines.

Learn more at https://nozl.dev/
You can find a quick demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/f3cb78defa2747abb91e13b5b6df19f1?...

Looking forward to your feedback.
> but might not help you with the task of writing better professional Python programs

Let me disagree here: right now I’m doing mentoring with some python programmers where I work, they watch the videos, read the relevant part of the book, and we have a discussion together after each part. I hear constantly “oh yeah, I can apply that here or there”, “this streams concept is so good”, etc etc etc.
I think it is most valuable if your background is “only” Algol family languages.
This is why, every where I can, I only use a company's web app and not their installable app. The few apps that I use as apps, I buy for each platform. This is also why I avoid subs for most apps. Not paying a sub for both platforms for a calendar app.
> Grandma's savings/deposits arent going to evaporate the next time a bank collapses.

That's already the case.
This is a hardcore book.
> Why shouldn't images embed "soft" subtitle tracks

That would be a layered image format, like .psd (Photoshop).

It's an interesting idea, memes could become editable :)
Suggestion: When highlighting text, you want to use "multiply" blend mode (a.k.a. subtractive color mixing) instead of opacity. Opacity makes black text lighter/greyish, which is not how physical text markers work, or colored sheets of transparent plastic.
Japanese comedy excels at these very bad jokes.
The Phone app on my iPhone manages to do all of those things without uploading my contacts list/social graph to anybody else’s servers though.
This sort of thing is exactly why I will not shop at Whole Foods. Amazon is entirely too hungry for data and grabs/correlates it at every single possible opportunity, whether you like it or not.
This tech is already spewing sewage faster than a UK water company.

The images, the text, no doubt soon to be movies...a never ending stream of vacuous content, mashed from centuries of previous content, and for what? Entertainment, selling you crap you don't want or selling you to other machines to harvest and process.

Jaron Lanier is right. I'm already bored of the fantastic images and the inane drivel on blogs. It was all fun for about a minute.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/23/tech-guru...
At your level of resolution, they're different things, but if you zoom out even further, they're the same. A gifted and talented person or persons worked really hard and produced a thing. Whether that's insulin, USB, Bohemian Rhapsody, or the French Laundry is besides the point. Why should one area be treated any differently than the other?

If society really wanted to wring every possible invention out of inventors, we'd lock them in the basement and give them a workshop but instead we let them loose on YouTube so they can try to become Internet famous.

What great works of art are we missing out on because someone needed to work a job for money instead? What great works are we missing out on because someone was successful, made a bunch of money, and didn't have to work again?

You're totally right about specialization and people getting into traps as a founder.
aside from the fact SICP now has a javascript edition, if you pick a book that focuses on whatever random modern javascript/python programming language you're not really studying anything like the material in SICP.

SICP is more like studying the actual composition of wood itself than it is about tools. this is still important whether youre using new or old tools.
Right?

Well, at least in the tiny part of the IT world I get to control, I always try to validate based on both the three letter extension and any common or sensible expansion of that. So ".jpg" or ".jpeg", ".jxl" or ".jpegxl" etc. etc. (And in most cases, I actually try to parse the binary itself, because you can't trust the extension much anyway.)
Also why is the comparison to a woman, and not a hetero male? That seems confusing. Clearly, he was not a woman, I think we can all agree on that.
So this is extremely complicated and nuanced with respect to intelligence acquisition, and I don’t think there’s a definitive right or wrong answer.

I certainly acknowledge my own bias with this however, with respect to what Chomsky discusses, I make the distinction that most of the “code/data/information” that you need in order for the language capacity to develop is actually embedded in our biological mechanical systems. That is to say, if you were to take a human infant and never expose it to another human with respect to generating sounds for language, the infant would still develop some sort of sound based communication system. We see this with feral children, mute children, deaf children. They still have a verbal function, even if it’s not connected to any semblance of coherency.

So in that sense it’s like you’re given all of the building blocks for language out of the gate biologically and then the people who are around you tell you how to assemble them into some thing that is functional. This is why different languages have different rules yet language acquisition is consistent across cultures.

This is why I am insistent on holistically understanding the computing infrastructure and systems because the sensors processors, etc. are the equivalent to our cells, genes muscles, bones, etc. Most people don’t think about computing systems and generally intelligent systems this way.

If you go back and look at the work of wiener and early Cybernetics it does discuss a lot of this, however, after Cybernetics was absorbed into artificial intelligence, which was an absorbed into computer science, it doesn’t really look holistically at systems of systems, unfortunately, in the general case.

And I would argue that all of machine learning currently is very much moving in to the direction that I am describing where is exposure to frequency of correlated data that gives you your effective understanding of the world, and being able to predict the future state. That’s what I mean when I say multi-modal is “sequential and consistent in time” with respect to causal action.
Seems nobody uses iMessage in China. The stats I can find don't even list it. Maybe they're ok with leaving it as a way for visitors to talk to people at home.
I don't know what's inside Mark Wahlberg's heart, but let's suppose it's someone whom, for the sake of argument, we know truly regrets their actions: what are they supposed to do if another person doesn't forgive them?
Right away. My organization verified that an account at one of our banks could send thousands of dollars to an account at another bank, in seconds, and then send it back. It's pretty cool. :-)
Would you need to manage page settings, like margins and tab stops, or are those things more than you need?

If it really is just a local-first, rich text editor with syncing, searchable documents that you need, there might be something on the horizon. But if you need a full blown document editor, that's a bit of a different story.

Anything more than formatted text and inline images changes the scope in pretty exponential ways.
Custom instructions for ChatGPT
> Steve Jobs was notorious for shit listing companies like AMD or Nvidia and it doesn't seem to have been detrimental to Apple whatsoever.

The difference is that Apple has alteratives to AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs. Whereas the Nintendo products are unique.
It has utility nonetheless. You can't just measure things on "how many utilities/much utility" something has.
It has utility nonetheless.
Just find it funny how HN instead of embracing the utility/technology advancements that come with Crypto, it appears to undermine the significance of Crypto in an attempt to gain an edge in the competitive landscape on what is now popular.
I would guess this is a well-coordinated (with mgmt/HR) leave, and he has probably already announced it internally. Not sure why any employer would be upset in that case.
Back to SMS (c)
There's a big revival of lisp?
The Bretton Woods are calling, Kissinger is alive, time to revive the gold standard?
On the flip side, if you're a Gen Xer, you almost certainly grew up knowing an adult whose health was directly impacted by polio. And if you don't, Mitch McConnell is sitting up there in Congress. One of the reasons he didn't push back so much when they were passing COVID legislation was because of his own experiences as a child.
... how about Google pays more for bug bounty. How about Google actually pays people who report bugs/vulnerabilities. How about Google hires talent that actively tests, discovers and mitigates vulnerabilities rather than pushing that responsibility off on "the community" for considerably less pay. You know: "ownership."

There's no "obligation" to report, other than ethics and integrity. That's it. Further, there still exists no obligation for companies to report vulnerabilities as CVEs.
Web3 morphed to mean "things that use a distributed blockchain." That's why we hate it. (It's not just currency either; it's anything blockchain, including NFT.)

"P2P web" needs a new name.
Chesterton's Test
Writers will be offered a one-time payment for their writing sample, which will be used by publishers, in perpetuity, to generate content in that style.

No royalties.

Also, no further employment.

The shame of it is, this is actually slightly better than the current state of things, where no one who contributed writing to the training sets in any form is receiving compensation. But it is the same issue as one of the sticking points in the SAG-AFTRA strike.
It's probably outsourced to the civil system knowing the US.

It's a huge contrast between the US and European approach though.
I'm less denigrating the author and more encouraging people who found this idea interesting to seek out experts. I'm glad that this person is thinking about this topic. I also see a frankly huge number of absolute amateurs having their ideas about history distributed all over the world while professionals are doing everything they can to communicate effectively.
> They saw it as a skill not gambling

The players see it as a skill I don't. It's gambling and I saw the result daily of people who spent too much or were in bad state from addiction. We had counsellors walking the floor there monitoring people, and the casino (Security) would ban people, or they can self-exclude themselves.

I'm not surprised by the comments here I know the type I was around them every day. Even the dealers are like that, it's like a cult. Yes I know a person can make money if they are good at playing but as others commented it's because others are so bad. So to me that means not so much skill as it is being the one who sucks least.
> we never needed any "vector DB" ... the integration of real data is complex, embeddings get created through platforms like Airflow, metadata in a document store, and made available for fast retrieval on low-gravity disk (e.g. built on top of something like rocks db... then something like ANN is easy on tools like FAISS)

A good vector DB would take care of all of that.
this is entirely a factor of undiscerning consumers, companies that should have been ignored simply arent

and that has nothing to do with the technology where parasocial relationships arent needed. there are plenty of web3 projects that provide utility and without the parasocial relationships described here

(and yes, tools for speculators are utility, people really act like they never heard of financial services as soon as someone mentions crypto/web3 and utility in the same sentence)
Every country has a kanji version of its name. If you see a newspaper headline that says Rice-Buddha Relations at All Time Low, it means America (Rice) and France (Buddha) are squabbling.
Apple Vision Pro – Lesson in product positioning
toook ur jorbs!

but seriously tho, would be a great crossover episode
Descriptions des Arts et Métiers
Bayesian methods to provide probablistic solution for the Drake equation (2019)
very interesting exercise,,
Linux security mitigation broken for a year without anyone noticing
See also: Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36802662
I didn't want to name names. But if you must, it happened in the all-in-podcast. This was during episode 135, at the 23:15 mark. The show has a guide so it should be findable.

I believe hosts do research and in fact, have VC minions (paid staff) during the show pulling the data to demonstrate how the calc was derived.

(I'm actually quite surprised this is not immediately known, as I thought the podcast audience was primarily HN ..)

Also, sibling comment added his own independent analysis
This is a great point and why, I advocate so vociferously thatall of these systems and future organizations that are going this direction should be cooperatively owned, based on mutual voluntary Democratic principles, rather than owned by a small subset of wealthy individuals in your standard business construct.
Depends on how they do it.

If each ending just the linear combination of 5 different choices? Or are they actually creating something new for each combination? Essentially, how independent are those 5 choices?

An ending that is 5 different cutscenes smashed together isn’t impressive. But if those 5 choices interact than things get more impressive.
This is simply not true. Numerous Michelin-starred restaurants offer relatively simple food. The most famous example is perhaps Liao Fan Hawker Chan, who serves mostly chicken and rice with soy sauce.
I've spoken to people in the article. They expect doom in <1 year.
The market of ideas fails under capitalism. The market of ideas is denominated in votes, but capitalism requires it to be denominated in dollars. The market of ideas also fails under governments and corporations who pay thousands of people to work covertly and overtly to eradicate ideas.
SICP is a great and mind-expanding book; but I came to it fairly late, at a time when (I think, I hope) I was already decent at "elegant" programming, so it's hard for me to say if it'd help you program elegantly. Probably, but I don't think that's one of its chief concerns.

On the other hand - HtDP is explicitly focused on teaching you patterns of thought that will help you create well-structured programs. It's also significantly easier, so I'd recommend it for your purposes full-throatedly.
I always wonder how people such as Dan don't get tired / jaded / bored of working on the same thing for many years. I've noticed a trend in my life where I can't stay attached to a single project for too long and I lose interest. In a way, it's potentially made me a jack of all trades and a master of none but like, that sounds fun to me. I don't know how I'd be able to dedicate my life to something so much I'd be a master at it. I'd get interested in something else well before then!

Is it that there are two extremes of this type of thing? One extreme are people who are always flip flopping, never getting good at anything and the other is people who dedicate their lives to one thing. I wonder what causes someone to be on a particular level in that spectrum? Is it personality? Is it just that the "master" has found their calling and the "jacks" have not yet? Or is it that both have found their calling? The jack loves to be a jack. The master loves to be a master.
Again, the problem seems to be who the arbiter of safety is. The police being the arbiter seems to be the problem. I don't think we disagree much. That bill carves out reasonable exemptions that become unreasonable when the police are the interpreters.
This is fascinating, I had never heard of this aspect of JXL.
I'm pretty sure (vicariously) appreciating people who take amazing care of their bodies (often in excess of what we do with our own bodies) doesn't make you gay. Ask any gym rat the control question what kind of bodies they would depict if they were an artist, or even like to see depicted in art, and they will certainly choose jacked over flabby (or "normal") any and every day of the week.
Most of the asteroid is iron with some nickle even though most the articles talk up the gold and platinum. I would think steel would also be great in establishing habitats in space and it would be nice to have a source without the launch costs of getting it out of earth orbit.
It seems I misinterpreted some of the quotes in the article as being translations of things he said. Definitely a miss on my part.

Mistake aside, his art also has that same feel I described above. His women are posed more like a man poses for men, and their breasts look like someone unfamiliar with them (and/or unappreciative of them). The article mentions that and links to this other article about that in particular: https://renresearch.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/men-with-breast...