skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first book I read was Angels & Demons, illustrated edition[0]. I was ~11 years old and my professor took my class to an used bookstore and we had to choose a book and summarize it. Oh God, how lucky I was to have this book recommended to me and to find the illustrated edition. The book's plot and illustrations complemented each other in such a way that I was entertained as children are entertained today with a smartphone.

I don't remember if I read the last book in the Robert Langdon series, but I have to say that after reading Inferno, I had to read Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

Nowadays I'm always reading something. This first experience was important and the books I chose evolved as I matured in reading.

0: https://www.ebay.com/itm/184865824842
I am not optimistic that the de-facto end of general computation can be prevented, or that there will even be noteworthy opposition.

There are so many powerful interests that stand to gain from preventing e.g. ad-blocking and content capture.
Thanks to Windows 11 requiring TPM, it is just a matter of time until hardware support for remote attestation is ubiquitous even on desktop computers.

Meanwhile, our (including myself) attention is (perhaps justifiably to some extent) on the latest news about $EXISTENTIAL_THREAT and how $THE_OTHER_SIDE did $EVIL_THING fed to us by the algorithm.
Organizations that used to effectively fight threats to freedom like this (FSF, pirate parties, CCC, EFF, etc) have lost a lot of their support/influence and clarity of purpose over the last decade.
Here[1]'s an infographic for a report on the Dutch market for Q1 of this year. See the bottom right. iDEAL is by far the biggest payment method.

[1]: https://www.thuiswinkel.org/media/oyhhmgvy/infographic_thuis...
Good. DRM should be external to the browser, not integrated into it.

DRM is mostly security theater anyway. Until a few years ago, the Spotify client just left unencrypted mp3s cached locally. And they stopped DRMing music over a decade ago. People are willing to pay a reasonable price for first party content.

If a company insist on DRM, then they should be on their own.

If we make it too easy, then they will just use it everywhere.
I had a very same reaction - "this is Foucault's Pendulum with simpler writing and a bad case of wanting to be writing Indiana Jones" - and I think that really drills to the heart of the debate about quality/taste/literature/snobbery/whatever going on in some of the other comments here.

A big part of "taste" is exposure to a lot of stuff.

If you read 1 book a year, or predominantly only 1 genre even, your range of comparison points is going to be so much lower than someone who has read 10x or 50x or 100x more that. And that volume of data is what lets you really start to separate the wheat from the chaff. And this is why so much of what people experience as a teen or young adult sticks with them so long - all of those works have the opportunity to be the first thing of its kind that the person encountered.

If you aren't interested in reading that much more, and especially if you aren't interested in reading more complex plots/subplots/sentence and paragraph structures, then that's perfectly fine.

But if you ARE interested, and you enjoyed Da Vinci Code: definitely check out Foucault's Pendulum. It's got a perfect meta twist on the whole thing too that really makes it hold up today, too, IMO.
Perhaps it's because I'm not a native speaker but I have no idea what you're trying to tell me. I'm trying to take the most positive interpretation and that you're saying that you're putting me into some right-wing lunatic fringe corner that's somehow pro-Russia? I honestly don't know. And... you never asked a question?

Perhaps read this https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, especially where it's about comments. I'm not the best example of always following them myself but I'm having a hard time extracting anyting of value from your comment. Sorry.
you must be fun to work with
A week ago, a period-19 oscillator was found by Mitchell Riley. Now, a period-41 oscillator was found by Nico Brown, proving that Conway’s Game of Life is omniperiodic (i.e. has oscillators of all periods).
I don't understand. What does "Rules for thee but not for me" mean if "google is allowed to scrape" whatever people allows Google to scrape but "you’re not allowed to scrape google" because using the same rules google.com/robots.txt says

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
....
Its funny, as I get the impression that this also describes the Reacher series. And really any "pulp" fiction. So many successful stories are basically the same story over and over. Curious why this particular one would be so derided?
While I think the combination of drag-and-drop / blocks and Svelte is really awesome, this unfortunately sits at the wrong end of the spectrum for me.

What is is: a visual website builder where I can customise blocks using an online editor.

What I'd like: an online interface that clients can use to add / change text, or make other small adjustments, for Svelte websites that I build offline using my own tools. The idea would be that, as long as I build the website according to certain interface standards, it is readable by Primo and the client can modify using the visual interface. For any bigger modifications the client would come back to me and I have all the speed and freedom of my offline workflow.

Some might suggest that what I need is a headless CMS, but I have tried those and they are all over-engineered and giving me a big headache just for setup and maintenance.
If anything, houses are going to stagnate until inflation catch up. No politician will want to sit in office while overseeing a nation-wide collapse of property value, this would tear the fabric of society too much. People can stomach making a stagnating investment, but they can't stomach making an investment that loses value, especially not when the investment is touted as a no-brainer and basic life goal investment by everyone (the American Dream).
Interesting. So we should probably have a more nuanced discussion about the Holocaust, yes? Hitler had his complicated reasons for it, and we need to be able to see his point of view.

You know, at some point, if you try to see "both sides" like this, you are going to lose the plot.
> Every four years, the presidential election is on the same ballot as all the other local elections.

Yes—but a lot of people skip most or all other votes, including some more-local ones that usually aren't part of that vote. I'm saying placing so much importance on voting for president is misguided.

> However, you can only consider the effect of a presidential vote to be zero if you also consider the derivative in calculus to be zero. In terms of the presidential eletion, we aren't voting as individuals, we're voting as a state. Your vote matters.

I'm... gonna stop addressing this point in public here, for reasons unrelated to what's correct. It's one of those topics probably better avoided outside small circles due to what amount to, I suppose, marketing reasons, if you will. Probably shouldn't have brought it up.

Let it be known that I never claimed it's bad to vote in a presidential election. Everyone should definitely go vote any time they can, especially those in a forum where they're statistically more likely than average to vote the way I would. Every vote is extremely important.
Yes, this one runs on Android...

No need to thank me...
There is no install button, it asks me to "Pre-register"? Is this another everywhere-but-Europe thing?
Yeah I was thinking something along the lines of, we have factories setup to produce AMD CPUs on 4nm for 6 months, another setup for Apple etc. and if say Apple reduces its demand TSMC can’t magically turn the AMD or Apple (etc.) setups into Nvidia GPUs that quickly. Also NVidia probably benefits from some scarcity so it might not be worth their while to order more?
Still says "coming soon..." for me.
https://archive.is/8cO4F
Great news. It will make my working faster now.
But who? And what questions do you ask? Without a baseline, you're poking around in the dark. Or knocking on the same 20 doors at the same 20 universities, and all those people talk to each other and they and their students all sit on each others' grant review committees. Etc. And when two scientists disagree about the evidence, how do you determine whether one of them is a total quack? Or do you just report everything that everyone says as long as they say big words you don't know?

It's really easy to be unproductively skeptical. Never believe anything. Everything is a lie or a conspiracy. That's not particularly productive, though, because although it protects you from lies and bad actors it will never get you to the truth.
MiniZinc is just a modeling language, you can throw the problem at different solvers. You can use SAT solvers (assuming you have some wrapper that translates FlatZinc to CNF), CP solvers (can be SAT-based underneath or use different algorithms like MAC), SMT solvers (SAT Modulo Theories like Arithmetic), MIP solvers (usually Simplex + Branch & Bound)...
Just my opinion/reaction, but Da Vinci Code stood out to me compared to other "easy reading" as particularly blatant/lazy in its chasing and extension of cliffhangers.
> This is OpenAI. Not Reddit.

Altman was on the reddit board for a long time until relatively recently
We can reasonably presume these students are young and intelligent, but whether they have any interest in becoming computer programmers is a different matter entirely.

Remember, these are liberal arts students; their focus of learning is going down a completely different path from computer science or anything to do with engineering.

As the history professor wants to show her students, a computer can be used to construct a database of information and a website can be used to present that information for subsequent use. This is for furthering their subject of liberal arts, none of them care exactly how computers or websites work because it doesn't matter to them.

So long as they have a rudimentary understanding of what a database is, what a website is, and how they can be used for their goals of studying liberal arts, that's all that matters. They will likely just hire someone with the professional expertise to actually handle the database and website itself later in their careers, because their job is bigger than being a webmaster or a programmer.

It's like how the CEO of a company will want to know how a website could further his business endeavours, but wouldn't necessarily be interested in knowing what a website is because his job is running a company and not a web server.
Satire right? They’re doing what the game strategy sites are accused of? I don’t know.
Seems like a clear case of wrongful termination.
“Of course clicks and keyboard events needs to emulate the timings and movements of a human, but that's another problem entirely.”

I don’t think that’s a different problem. As you know, real browsers are operated by humans, and humans have limited processing capacity and somewhat predictable navigation patterns.

To be undetectable, you have to mimic both (almost) perfectly.

So, you have to both limit the speed at which a fake user requests pages _and_ request then in a believable sequence.

The speed issue can be circumvented by using multiple machines to make requests from, but the second is the real problem. A collection of fake users would have to either stay under the radar by not making many requests or follow human patterns.

Combined, I would think it’s not possible to efficiently scrape lots of pages in a way that cannot be detected.
Most memorable? Doki Doki Literature Club. Not a recommendation though...

playing games is a big part of my life, and until a few years ago I had self-limited to 'pop' or action/cheerful games. I started going down the road of "interactive fiction" to scratch an itch of "needing to do something productive with my game time"

it gets very very disturbing very very fast. almost whiplash fast for me (went into it blind), and in retrospect it seemed a little 'much', but it helped me get over my inhibitions and start exploring a whole genre of horror/grimdark games that I had been avoiding
A whole lot of people in-fact only turn out for the "big" votes, is the problem.
You can be perfectly honest while still putting things in the best possible light, and without divulging everything (although lying by omission is still lying).

> I am not advocating doing or saying anything unethical

I thought you were advocating being deceptive. My apologies.

I try to be honest for ethical reasons, but being scrupulously honest (at least the best I can be as a fallible human being) has also served me very, very well in my career. I am quite certain I wouldn't have succeeded nearly to the degree I have if I weren't. So I recommend it very much.

It has, at times, caused me some loss, but the gains I've got from the habit have more than offset those.

> And I don't know that there truly is a difference, legally speaking, in terms of "being fired" or "laid off".

I wasn't saying there's a legal difference, I was saying there's a difference in the impression it makes on people. If you've been laid off, it was probably because of business considerations outside of your control. If you were fired, it was probably because of some sort of misbehavior on your part.

But if you say you were laid off when you were fired for cause, that's lying.
The schoolteacher who was fired was fired in the past. I'm talking about the future. If I can make deepfakes of every teacher in the school, good luck firing one of them.

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edit:

I'll put it up as a service; the protection of women from misogynist school administrations.

We've advanced beyond when women would be fired from teaching for getting married or becoming pregnant, but not much.
IMAX 70mm is still the absolute benchmark for film quality, and has been so for decades. A really rough estimate is you'd need a 15-20k digital projector to approach the resolution of the film.

However, IMAX tried to go mass-market around 2008 and that's why you see so many supposedly-IMAX theaters now.
They typically use 2K DLP projectors. Yeah, basically the same res as a gaming PC from 2011.

My theater has the crummy 2k digital, and let em tell you, you can DEFINITELY see the pixels. I would call it passable but it's not really great at all. The only benefit of these IMAX locations is that normal digital cinema can be even worse!

There are newer 4k laser projectors that some theaters are retrofitting into their old huge IMAX locations, but these still aren't going to hold a candle. 4k still isn't even enough to really come close to 35mm.

The digital tech just isn't there yet.
I wonder how much of that is innate and how much of that is because we're not used to fake pictures on a scale AI will allow yet
Honestly at this point I'd be unsurprised if the Forbes article about the trick was written by AI as well.
I recognize her as one of the authors of the Unix System Adminstrator's Handbook.

Re: ATM: https://books.google.ca/books?id=uAblPu1lpqIC&pg=PA130
This is a good point. People are quick to worry about the real people that have been victims of this stuff and the people that will certainly be victimized by this stuff between now and an indeterminate point in the future, but we should really be thinking about the theoretical people that won’t be harmed in that possible future.
There is also Reddit, Google… I mean, do we really need to list all the companies that need perpetual increase of “engagement” to power their business model?
The US' decisions in no way grant Russia the moral or legal right to invade Ukraine.
They can get close enough when paired with a good bus system and bike rental. Most people are not going to rural farms, they are going to places that could have transit.
Don’t worry, we don’t mind. Thanks for using supabase! Let us know if you need anything to help with Primo - it looks amazing
https://archive.is/ikDzL
The first digital camera was (AFAIK) made by Kodak. The modern desktop computer was largely invented by Xerox. Both companies failed to follow through.
> The attorney representing Flannery Associates sent a letter to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, one of several agencies investigating the matter, issuing a formal response.

> "No foreign person or group holds any significant interest or substantial control over Flannery, either now or at the time of any land purchase made by Flannery," the letter said.

"Person or group" doesn't include "government". This also doesn't mean the (supposedly domestic) owners won't lease the land to a foreign entity. Also, note the word "significant." And, "foreign" compared to what? If the owners are, say, Chinese, "no foreign" means no NON-Chinese.

Not trying to stoke paranoia, but just showing how statements like this are open to interpretation and should be taken with a grain of salt.
Disagree on "relatively complex".

create index on $table ($field1, $field2);

Seems pretty simple to me.
That's a great question. We didn't do it here because power supplies tend to have a history of reliability. I haven't had a power brick fail on me.

It was an issue with the Airport Extreme back in the day, and that wasn't easy to open:
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Apple+AirPort+Express+Base+Stat...

To begin to answer you: We start calculating a repair score by identifying the critical components.

For a power supply, what are the critical components? What fails in an AC GaN transformer over time? I don't know (yet).

Right now, we aren't providing schematics / repair information, or parts for it. So that loses us two points right out the gate.

Open to input and critique on the rest of the design.
Although I'm not really sure it's a global issue, but at least here in Eastern Europe you just have no time to dig in deeper in any subject as journalist. I've seen local academic institutions trying to support journalists to specialize on science reporting more than 10 years now, but all have left saying that pressure to produce just more text is too intense. Old school investigative journalism just doesn't exist any more.
Pornpen.ai unfortunately generates images based on user prompts. So everything is ridiculous anime proportions.
> You don’t judge a source by reading the source itself.

Well then, I guess we at least agree on the following: today we have science "reporting" done by "journalists" who will write about findings reported in publications that they haven't read and self-admittedly can't read.

I suppose we can agree to disagree about the usefulness of that reporting and the potential harm of that reporting.

> Usually you do so by considering the context in which the source is made and then you might consult someone who can read the source (who also needs to be judged based on the context in which they are giving you advice).

You are missing the word ALSO. As in, you do so by reading and evaluating the source and then ALSO considering the surrounding context.

Palace intrigue isn't something that should be ignored, but it also shouldn't be the entire story.
And is "programming" one of them?
People are likely subconsciously or otherwise doing the math. I had to take some calculated risks having kids because of some family history. And when folks get genetic testing, or abstain altogether, they too are weighing possible outcomes.

'Transactional' doesn't have to mean a perfectly balanced exchange or in kind. For some just a bit of acknowledgement is worth millions of dollars and/or years of sacrifice. For others they're never satisfied and forever feel cheated or unhappy with how they see things "balancing out" or failing to.
The Wikipedia War over Barbenheimer
This happens for people that through-hike the PCT for a 6-month stint. I envy.
We live in a country where people quite literally get shot for parking in the wrong driveway. Real life isn't as simple as activating your trap card.
Yes actually, because the decisions are made by old people who don't learn.
Back in the late 90s, early 2ks, the cable isp in our area started rolling out cable internet and VoIP phones. At the time, the cable internet was more expensive than we could afford, but their digital tv service included 2 phone lines, both digital (not quite isdn, but 51kb/s was normal on them). They also had a deal where the calls to their isp was "free" but had a limit of 2 hours and it would drop. I got my hands on an old 486 pc, added a modem and a nic and set it up using a router os running off a floppy. Can't remember the name off hand now. Anyway, every time it dropped, it reconnected and I was back online. Fast forward 2 months and the first phone bill arrived. It arrived in a large a4 envelope with about 100 pages in it. I opened it and the first set of pages was the internet line. Every 2 hours a line item. During the evening I was charged 1c per min. So a shite load of times for 2.40. Then in the day it was 4c per hour. So more charges for 4.80... and it just went on from there. 90 something odd pages of this. Last line item: total nearly 5 grand! And then after it, credit for the same amount. They didn't charge for the calls. The next bill came out and they stopped itemizing the bill. Bit of a panicky moment before the credit was applied. Was on that for 3 or 4 months then moved to cable Modem. Fun times.
Kinda. As an example, oil nearly everywhere gets huge subsidies. Just the industry in the US, gets about $10 to $50 billion per year [1]. But those costs somehow don't seem to matter much because oil is the default. At the same time, solar/wind is often the cheapest energy source (even without subsidies).
Replacing/rebuilding infrastructure is always expensive, but infrastructure which is already in place isn't free either.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/biden-budget-target-...
USian here, I see the same thing.
Beyond the obvious – Half-Life, Mass Effect and Fallout series – I was actually wondering recently what other games were memorable to me and why, I'd say Parasite Eve series because its unique 90s aesthetic, and Vagrant Story which introduced a grim, mature and unforgiving world in a fantasy setting.
HtDP is a great book, but probably too elementary for the average HN reader looking to begin with SICP.
I'm not sure existing journalists could do it, but perhaps this can act as a call to action for a scientist to start a blog or YouTube channel that analyzes scientific discoveries, and/or fact checks existing journalists' interpretations of scientific literature.
We can draw parallels, but you've never developed lung cancer doom scrolling twitter.
That could just mean continuing to use existing nuclear power plants, not building new ones.

Also, 76% seems inconsistent with the 2022 Gallup Poll on the same issue (which gets 51% for the same question):

https://news.gallup.com/poll/392831/americans-divided-nuclea...
> but not de jure, for you pedants out there

This means that the term "open source" is not legally defined (and not recognized by lawyer / judges) [and the OSD], right?
> The problem, of course, is that all the above move the ability to earn money from people to capital, making those who have capital ever richer and those who have not poorer, if not in absolute terms at least relatively, and that’s enough to make people feel poorer.

That’s the dystopia AGI promises to bring. Once AGI becomes a thing, it would be able to do all jobs. Trading human labour for money would cease to be a thing. The only ones who would still be able to make money are those who own the means of production.

The economy would consist entirely of “owners” who would trade the output of their enterprises among themselves. Everyone else would just be left out of the economy because they have nothing to trade with.
Death Valley is considered to be the hottest place on earth by many sources.