skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The issue was that iOS was not properly accounting for the contact list.

But the autocorrect does account for the contact list. I can personally vouch for that, as it works properly on my phone.

> > I would expect the learned dictionary to be prioritized

> After all, if the dictionary is 'above' the contact list, then resetting the dictionary wouldn't fix the problem (since the word would be coming from the contact list itself, not the dictionary).

"The dictionary" is not what I said. But, even if I had said that, then any words that aren't in the dictionary would be sourced from the contact list and other lower priority sources, wouldn't they?

What I said was the learned dictionary. The dictionary made of words learned from what the user types, when the user corrects the autocorrect. iOS does not allow you to access or modify the list of words that it has learned, only to clear them. The words that it learns seem to be prioritized above everything else, which includes special capitalizations for words (not just sequences of letters lacking capitalization). Sometimes it learns the wrong capitalization for a word, and it sticks to it. Just searching for "ios capitalizing wrong words" on google turns up a ton of results from reddit and other discussion forums that mention this exact problem with iOS learning the wrong capitalization.

FWIW, iOS 17 sounds like an all-new autocorrect system, so maybe it will fix your problem just by throwing out the data anyways, since it would make sense to me for them to start from scratch with such a radically different autocorrect algorithm.
Elon Musk says Twitter will change logo from bird to an X
It's December 7, 1941. The Japanese have just attacked Pearl Harbor. Suddenly, most people realize the status quo has changed. The economy needs to make a major transition. Things need to be built at an unprecedented rate. Sacrifices will need to be made at every level because survival is on the line. Victory is possible but it will be a long and difficult fight.

Do we throw up our collective hands and say "it's too hard, the job is too big, not enough people are willing, we surrender"?

Or do we shut up and get to work?

The transition away from a carbon-emitting economy can be done if we have the will, and we will come out of it stronger than ever. We just need to stop saying we can't, and start building.
He probably wants hacker news to look like it did 10 years ago when the topics were mostly technical. Maybe time to rename “hackers”…
Yes, that is true (I don't know about the exact numbers, but there's no question there's a difference.)

Asian Americans are even better off, but why should they have to pay for reparations? Their ancestors weren't involved in slavery in the US.

Hispanic Americans are also pretty poor (more so than African-Americas if memory serves), but they weren't disadvantaged by slavery, should they have to chip in for reparations?

Southerners were clearly disadvantaged by fighting and losing the civil war, does the North owe them anything?

What about the survivors and next of kin of the soldiers that put it all on the line for their country in Iraq and Afghanistan only to find out the government lied to them and everyone else about why they were there?

Everybody could find a grievance if they look hard enough. Which ones do we try to address?
Good ideas are good ideas :-). Infocaster wins though for releasing a product, so far I haven't done that.

Everyone I've talked to about it (and that has been quite a few people) have all nodded their heads and said "Wow, that is a really good idea, let me know when you kick it off!" But at the same time there is a chicken/egg problem of initial runway to initial payout. I've looked at a couple of lean ways to kick this off but so far none have come to fruition.
that would fuck up too many monopolies and political narratives though
Try reading a newspaper?

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-...
Excellent share, thank you!!
> YAML is very easy for both humans and programs to work with and parse, hence why it's the most logical choice in context of Scaffolder.
in my opinion the solution to this is subsidies and grants for journalism. create more bodies roughly like the BBC, maybe run them through the Universities, and have them hand out grants for journalism. set up competing publicly-owned print media companies

don't nationalise the current industry or outlaw them in any way, just create competition that doesn't have to focus on profit

people may hate the idea of public ownership, but what is the alternative? ownership by Murdoch and a handful of billionaires, corporate funded and staffed by people only in it for the paycheck
It is very possible to have someone with dark skin today who is descended equally parts from former slaves and Africans who were responsible for selling the slaves to the Europeans.
No. If you think that's the whole point, you missed the point.

Mathematical beauty was one of the ways to make the point, but far from the most important.

As a footnote, one of the changes which happened since publication is the victory of functional. Note that both JavaScript and Python now embody many of the principles, design patterns, and best practices from SICP.

As a second footnote, you're right: SCIP reads better than SICP. "Skippity do da..." (and if you want a third footnote, I know in the original it's zippity, but that's how kids in MY elementary school sang it, so to me, it will always be skippity"
Have you read what Nazis write on the internet?

They would stay there because there's a huge userbase to convert and they probably enjoy being challenged and justifying their horrible views because they want lurkers to read it.

If you ever meet an actual Nazi you should ask them if they want to discuss Jews with you. I'm willing to bet they won't shy away from accepting the invitation even if you were offering it because you wanted to challenge their views.

It takes a very special kind of person to openly be a Nazi and they don't think like your typical Joe.
> I've never called a call centre for sympathy or jokes. It's always because I have a query I want an answer to or problem I want sorted ASAP.

Not every problem has a quick solution. Many are thorny and include lots of variables and long time spans.

Imagine trying to choose the right treatment facility for a child with leukemia that will accommodate your insurance and finances. Or what sort of care a senior parent with dementia and diabetes needs.

When the stakes are that high, having a human who can appreciate your situation and emotional state is almost mandatory.
I think it's fine to not dismiss something out of hand if you don't know anything about it (as you say that you know nothing of astrology), but if someone _does_ know something about it, I think it's fine for them to be dismissive of it if they choose to.

It's similar to saying "I know nothing of homeopathy, so won't dismiss it" (a fine position), but then you can't critique someone who _does_ know something about it, for being dismissive of it.

Of the people I've seen whole heartedly engage with astrology, it's never been as a tool for introspection (directly or sideways), but as a way to justify poor behaviour.
I wonder if the computations were modeled on the bike with a rider, or just the bike.
The $37M wave: Inside wild Aussie surf park
Why post like this should be here at all? How it meets the inclusion criteria?

If I remember correctly, not so long ago dang was editing out posts about ongoing armed revolt in Russia - a country that started largest war in Europe in recent history. And yet there is a post about minor policy decision in one of the 50 states.
I'll bite. For start

- stop fossil fuels in transport & energy, minimize plastic production

- stop subsidizing meat & dairy, reform agriculture (pollution, eutrophication, soils)

- reforest / rewild pastures, stop overfishing (carbon capture, biodiversity)

- degrowth & basic income, remove financial drivers of exponential growth (prevent repetition)

ASAP everything, 2050 is too late.
I'm just pointing out that you had it all mixed up. Twitter was allied with the national security state prior to Musk's acquisition, not opposed to them.
It's a hard question to answer because the two are entertwined. Hence the term socio-economics.

Poverty is disproportionately in minorities' court due to historical discrimination based on skin color. That doesn't mean that there aren't poor white people. But it does mean that actions targeting minorities end up overlapping a lot with poverty.

The main reason it's relatively easy to target skin color is, well, visuals. Another can of worms in and of itself, but for the most part it's pretty easy to look at a certain minorities and pin them as such.Meanwhile financials are private and it's not like every millionaire is driving a fancy car with a suit and tie.
Sunsetting a TLD to prove a point sounds really silly.
I actually tend to enjoy his controversial content, but it's a laughing matter for you to pretend you don't understand why people call him an asshole.
3.2alpha uses v8-cmake (who were great about accepting the needed patches) to build, and is a bit more stable.

Though v8 has become much slower every release when crossing the membrane that pljs is much faster under many use cases, even in early alpha.
Twitter has a CEO?
We should go back to a California State university system that had capacity for any resident who academically qualified, and was tuition free. This was actually more cost effective than the byzantine money handling administrative policies we have now.
Different than what loader?
From the paper:

> We also find a positive correlation between wages and exposure to AI language modeling.

That is only intermediary. There will be a slight increase in wages for those who can operate with AI, but soon it will be able to operate without humans in most domains and then wages will drop to zero.
The article addresses this: for instance, if you were to create a "sound mind and body" score that included "hot or not" results, and the results of the Presidential fitness test, you would inevitably come up with a score that was even more predictive of life outcomes than IQ or g.
U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption
I don't think that's correct. Pumping water from below the surface of the ocean is about overcoming gravity. The pipes themselves would need to be constructed to withstand the pressure of the water around it, of course, so the pipes don't collapse.

The reason you don't need to "pump" to force the water through the reverse-osmosis filter when you're down that low is because the overall pressure at that depth is sufficient to push the water through as-is. Merely raising water up 230m in the air and "dropping" it through a pipe into a filter sitting on the ground would not give you the same amount of pressure.

Put another way, the pressure of the water in a 230m-tall pipe on the filter on the ground is much lower than the pressure of all the water 230m under the surface of the ocean pushing on that submerged filter. While the pipe ensures that the water stays confined, it is not putting pressure on the water in the same way all the water in the ocean is putting pressure on the water that's being pushed into a 230m-submerged filter.

I imagine there is some way to do what you describe above-ground, my my intuition is that it would require essentially recreating a large ocean, suspended in the air (not as large as the Atlantic, say, but still fairly large). Much more efficient to just use the ocean we already have.

For the submerged filter approach, I think the biggest challenges are probably maintenance and keeping things stable and functioning at the pressures present at >230m below the surface. Those challenges might make it infeasible. I don't think the need to pump the desalinated water back to the surface is all that large a problem in comparison.
In most cases it made perfect sense. One joke language had no for loop by design, and just a while type loop and chatGPT invented a for loop, but when I told it to stick only to the spec it completed the problems without an issue.

When web browsing was enabled it was able to learn these by itself.
I don't see where it could possibly be justifiable to discriminate against Asians. Where is the systemic racism that somehow gives Asians an advantage?

It's almost as if they are being punished for ruining the narrative through their own hard work, which would force people to admit that other minorities being underrepresented at Ivy League colleges is due to something other than just "systemic racism".
My company blocks all known Tor IP addresses. We simply don't have the capacity (or patience) to deal with the 99% burpsuite spam and abuse that originates from these servers.
I love that any time May turns up, really is a coin flip between astrophysics and Queen. He really has thread the needle between fame and intellect.
Whonix builds on much stronger concepts than Tails, as malware with root privileges cannot discover the users real IP address since it simply is not aware of it. It uses an internal VLAN to connect to Tor on a separate virtual machine. This design has proven to be far less vulnerable to leaks, with a track record of 10+ years.[1] However it is not a live system, and you have to trust the host operating system that you run it on as opposed to Tails where you boot into a secure environment where ever, as long as you trust the hardware.

>Whonix consists of two VMs: the Whonix-Gateway and the Whonix-Workstation. The former runs Tor processes and acts as a gateway, while the latter runs user applications on a completely isolated network.

>only connections through Tor are permitted.

>DNS leaks are impossible.

>Malware with root privileges cannot discover the user's real IP address.

See also technical introduction: https://whonix.org/wiki/Dev/Technical_Introduction

[1]: https://whonix.org/wiki/Whonix_against_Real_Attacks
As a person who has run through this particular loop once with local politics (Sunnyvale's northern border is the SF Bay which has former Morton Salt ponds in it) what I ran into was two things, one that there wasn't a cost effective power solution for just desalination, and two, the players don't care about water to individuals (drinking water and what not) because there is absolutely no risk whatsoever in the bay area of not having "enough" of it. The political block that kills it is a combination of local pop saying "we don't want nuclear/cheap power in our back yard" and the folks farming the desert in the central valley saying "If you can't supply farms, why would you do it?"

My hope is that one day, small scale nuclear power (sometimes called "modular nuclear power") will make this a reality.
Highly recommend the YouTube channel Primer and the simulations he does to get an intuitive understanding on why, for example, finite resources lead to logistic growth: https://youtu.be/uRTtlpD_U54
Author here. Not what I expected to see on hn during a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Yes, this is how normal reverse osmosis filters work. However, pumping water at that pressure obviously takes a motor and consumes energy. What's interesting about the OP's concept is that in theory it can be performed with no energy expenditure at all.
Loved watching this guy do his thing as a kid.

Also, Anthony Rother made a great song about it-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E7ZWVB8ZXp8&pp=ygUXbGl0dGxlIGN...
I think you are confusing follicle with cuticle.
The GNU one.
It's probably the most dystopian and I'm very glad I didn't have to scroll to the bottom before someone said otherwise.

The logical end of this thinking is that people who would otherwise be perfectly capable of raising children would put them up for adoption because they would want the best outcome for their kids.

It's like Black Mirror episodes write themselves.
That's his plan for improved brand safety? Move it to a porn-sounding domain name?
besides being slower, splitting them into two would mean they’d need to agree on abi and evolution. Having them ship in the same binary skips over those concerns
Hm, if you’re looking at left or (by your own omission right) and don’t have one to share yourself I’d be thinking about the why behind your common.

Would you say Equality and equity are the same?
So fuck me for having 2 parents, right? They were both poor, worked menial jobs. I wouldn't have qualified for this. There's always someone left out.
I grew up on welfare in a shit neighborhood, but now I'm an upper middle class engineer. Trust me, poor people need the help. We are all indirectly benefitting from people getting out of poverty.
Unironically know someone who deployed these tactics to spin the client in circles and do damage control on a gov project that was extremely doomed to fail. Can’t fail to meet the specified implementation if the client themselves can’t define what the requirements are.
Well let me also tell you that proactively playing the victim and daring people to challenge you is cringey and gross.

I don’t really like our democratic republic setup personally. I would prefer a popular vote based democracy for presidential elections with federal holiday voting and no ID requirements. Same for city elections although the problems on that scale are different.
10 toilet visits a day but only 5 minutes in the shower? Either this is an entire household and it stinks to high heaven in there because no one actually washes themselves, or it's a single person and they need to see a doctor because they're going to the toilet way too much. SO either way, those numbers make no sense.
This is great to know, thanks!
It’s still only 2-3 years old on the meme learning platforms
Honestly, I think you are going to see mass death and chaos in third world countries. The militaries of the first world countries are going to unite in a “us versus them” mentality and it’ll be bloody. Billions will die and we might hit our emission reduction goals as a result. The first world will be hit hard, but will adapt and limp along (likely under fascism).
I just tried building plv8 today. After 2 hours, I gave up and just copied the ready made artifact from a docker image.

Here is more context for the QuickJS engine experiment as the runtime for a pl language.

https://github.com/plv8/plv8/issues/364
I'd rather my request fail with an error than have it be silently truncated.
It sure is. Not my choice of word. ;)
> Siri has been a subpar assistent since forever

They don't need a massive shift in the tech to make it better though. It would be cool if they improved it that way, but they have low-hanging fruit they could've addressed long time ago. Switching from one underutilized tech to another underutilized tech may not solve much without taking the whole feature seriously.
I had someone reach out on a freelancing site some months back for an account I don't monitor much anymore. They had asked my interest about something I didn't find interesting and their budget wouldn't have covered setting up a test system for the issue.

That said, I have had people reach out with a project I am interested in (and had time) and did so for the equivalent of low fixed amount. It is rare. I consider them the equivalent of bug bounties.
The State of New Mexico adopted a policy in 2022 that expands existing state-funded scholarship programs to ensure that undergraduate tuition will be fully covered for all state residents, and fees and housing for most. Depending on how you squint at it, it's probably the first state to have done so. Unfortunately the program does not have guaranteed funding going forward but there is a history of strong political support for state tuition programs and so, with fingers crossed, we can be optimistic that undergraduate debt will be a thing of the past for most students here.

It is perhaps reflective of this state's small size that there has been almost no national news coverage of the change, and even a lot of websites comparing state programs still haven't been updated to include the new changes that significantly expanded eligibility.

New Mexico also makes it relatively easy for students to establish in-state classification after moving into the state for college, so we can expect a number of out-of-state students to take advantage as well.
Show HN: Packs Club, Trading Card Subscription Service Built in 7 Hours
I'm sharing a recent project that I've launched - Packs Club, a trading card subscription service.

For just $10 a month, members receive 10 assorted trading card packs delivered directly to their doorstep. It's a mixture of vintage and modern cards, sports, collectible card games, and other [1].

I think this is an engaging and convenient way to expand a trading card collection, explore new series, and potentially uncover rare finds.

The platform is built on Express and Node.js, which is now boring but should be good to go with what we expect for traffic. It's deployed via AWS Elastic Beanstalk. For payments, we've integrated Stripe.

The entire site was built and deployed in just 7 hours. This is roughly the amount of time it took to source the cards! If the idea is validated, we will look to build a social platform and marketplace.

If you're interested in trading cards, or just want to see what can be accomplished with this tech stack in a short amount of time, check out Packs Club at www.packsclub.net.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback.

[1] Post on what kind of cards you can expect to get: https://packsclub.net/blog/2023/07/23/the-packs-june-2023/
> See, "Why is Soda Cheaper Than Water?"

Except the core premise is not true, so far as I can tell. To confirm this I went on Uber Eats, looked for chain restaurants near Salesforce Tower, and surveyed their beverage menus. At initial glance, most restaurants charged more for "water" than for soda. However, on further inspection this is because in those cases, the soda was dispensed from a fountain and the water was bottled. The latter obviously would cost more than the former, because of the cost of having to transport individual bottles. This can hardly be attributed to "Capitalism truly sucks". Furthermore, in cases where a soda fountain is available, the restaurant is legally mandated to provide the water to you for free[1], which makes the cost of water in those places $0. Of the places that only sell bottled beverages (there's surprisingly few):

* California Pizza Kitchen charges the same for water as for canned soda, and gives you more water[2]

* Chipotle Mexican Grill's cheapest beverage is bottled water[3]. The second cheapest option? San Pellegrino sparkling water, shipped all the way to California from Italy.

That said, the economic principle of "thing x costs more because people are willing to pay for it" is probably true (see for instance, airfare that's bought late), but this isn't one of those cases.

[1] All restaurants are technically supposed to, but having a soda fountain virtually guarantees that they can't weasel out of it by saying that they only serve bottled beverages and don't have cups for serving tap water

[2] https://www.ubereats.com/store/california-pizza-kitchen-53-t...

[3] https://www.ubereats.com/store/chipotle-mexican-grill-211-su...
UCLA's web site says an in-state student can expect to pay $34,667 per year for tuition, room, board and health insurance.

If your parents earn $150k/year in California, their after-tax income will be about $100k/year.
Interesting to see both the Minnesota House of Representatives and State Senate using the ccTLD of Mongolia.

[0] https://www.house.mn

[1] https://www.senate.mn
It’s excellent.

Just further down the education funnel and accessibility will be relative to navigating the barriers in K-12
There is also a "hide" button. I assure you that right now there are countless internet fora where countless people are having discussions that for some subset any of us would find horrible. Better just to not engage with what you don't like.
Could you post the 44M model somewhere where we can download?
Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

https://youtu.be/8AyVh1_vWYQ
https://archive.is/Hkv1X