skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonder what could be reasoning behind this. Is it they dont want disclose data collection practices or cant do from legal points.

Things like it could come from alexa, pc or any devices devices with forced opt ins that keep scanning all your neighbours wifi networks and mac addresses.

Believe there was also an initiative where amazon devices will provide adhoc internet connectivity by piggy backing on other amazon devices on different networks with connectivity.

So all the openness but without any controls. There should already be a better term for things like this.
Supposedly, F. Scott Fitzgerald made good money with his short stories.

But yeah, they were a prestige addition for the slicks.
I love Mold. Got my Rust debug builds from 15 seconds to 2 seconds on one project.
I think there's one more axis: Frequency-of-use.

For occasionally use, the major constraint isn't speed so much as which models fit. I tend to look at $/GB VRAM as my major spec. Something like a 3060 12GB is an outlier for fitting sensible models while being cheap.

I don't mind waiting a minute instead of 15 seconds for some complex inference if I do it a few times per day. Or having training be slower if it comes up once every few months.
I think they taste better than the grocery store varieties but usually it is more difficult growing them, and they have a lower yield than industrial varieties.

There are also general quirks with growing them. Experience lends me to suggest that heirlooms are more immediately sensitive to the environment that convention varieties. Buying from baker creek who are out in the Midwest, Seeds are going to have a different response in the growing in the SE Atlantic region, that response seems more pronounced although I have no idea of how to quantify it.

Ultimately I think it is worth it, it is fun, and it taps into more of the holistic aspects of gardening. For example, learning how to make quesadillas because your heirloom corn gets infected with corn smut, so instead of an infection you have a product.

That kind of frame-shift i think goes into the nostalgia of Doing It How We Used To.
This whole thing is just making me have less and less faith in society.

There's no fucking way this is remotely true, but everywhere I look, not matter the community, there's so much "what if" nonsense that reeks of the same ignorance those people screamed about when that was the argument for COVID conspiracies.

The energy required to travel through space is obscene.

The difficulty of traveling through space is obscene.

Finding ANYTHING in space is obscene.

IF somehow all of this was done, then the idea it's been kept a secret when there's soooo many ways of tracking and viewing these things is stupid (especially when you consider how much energy would need to be expended).

This is also assuming that for some reason they want to remain secret?

The whole thing is just so on it's face bs, but people so desperately want to believe they'll ignore all evidence. I can understand that, but I HATE the hypocrisy on display from those who are routinely critical of others for having such gaps in their logic.
Your complaint is at the studios, including Netflix, then. They’re the ones who own the IP, they’re the ones who decide to use it. The actors have absolutely no say in whether Disney decides to make another Marvels movie or not.

Actors are the ones looking for a gig, often any gig, but when they have a choice, the highest paying gig. And believe me, every actor and writer in Hollywood wishes studios would invest more in mid-budget B movie not based on any cinematic universe: those are what paid many people’s bills.

As Union members, actors have a contract with studios that they negotiate every 3 years. Every three years since the last strike in 1960 they’ve reached a deal (and the result of that strike was the creation of revenue sharing for cable and film tv with actors and writers, which they are now hoping to apply to streaming).

No deal? Fine, studios have the right not to sign. But actors have the right to withhold their work. Eventually a deal will be reached.
If this is true (huge gigantic "if"), then all information on this topic should be immediately declassified. It is unacceptable to keep the biggest discovery in the history of the human race from the public. There is no justification for it.
You can tell the people who have never run a business or have worked at one small enough that they see everything. Support staff are not free. Project managers and salespeople can’t keep up with meetings and start sprouting assistants and coworkers. Customers are expensive, especially upset customers. So then the developers have to spend a lot more time making sure customers don’t get upset.
I think tinygrad is working on AMD and SnapDragon adoption
> if you follow the trails of paperwork all the way to the end, it’s all individuals

And if you follow the textbooks all the way, you and I are just electron, proton, neutron, same in the stars and in piles of garbage. The intent behind the corporation/individual matters as much, and otherwise it's just as meaningless to say as a response to GP.
If aliens do exist and are in our vicinity, they absolutely have access to every digitally-transcribed mote of data or communication, should they wish.

I kind of view this as a bit of a problem: If it is so, presumably they have orders of magnitude more capacity for control and amendment and could have very plausibly been editing every last bit of digital data we've relied upon over the last 70+ years. They could well have been re-writing our entire view of the universe.

We need an order of Analogue Eternally-watching Monks we rely upon to fact-check basic assumptions using entirely non-digital means. Which could get complicated.
How can a bot create fake impressions? When a bot (or just a simple program) makes a http request he fetches the raw html code only. AFAIK if you don't actually render the html code in a browser or requesting all the contents afterwards again with http requests (like GET ad.jpg, GET logo.png etc.), no google ad server should be hit. Now you could argue that bots could inflate the popularity of a website and therefore the cost to run ads on it. But I guess websites that show ads have most likely google analytics running, one of the only ways Google can actually calculate the popularity (besides Google Search and maybe Chrome history). So it should be no problem for Google to exclude bots from the popularity calculation by analyzing traffic. Maybe I am just missing something, I am also no ad expert at all.
Agreed that I wouldn't be shocked if an author wrote approvingly of something they agreed with. On the other hand, I would not be shocked if they wrote characters who exhibited behaviors they personally disagreed with either.
Technically I was talking about lithium battery fire, not entire EV.

But not using water on electric devices, is one of first things we learn in safety training. Even fire extinguishers are not based on H2O, but specialized chemicals! I worked at UPS backup batteries.
You can choose not to use the GPT-based feature, that is a recent addition, not really the core product
We're like a giant Truman Show to them, except we're all the stars of it.
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Jest is magic, but far less magic than rewriting JVM bytecode.

I generally prefer less magic over more magic.
The design of MOST non-trivial products is refined over time with no expectation that older versions will be upgraded to the latest and greatest. Yes, material esp. safety defects can lead to recalls but this is relatively rare in the physical world.
Does anyone remember Blue Origin?
What happened to this company and how are they so behind SpaceX ?

They didn't have any launches in 2023 so far. wiki as a source, sorry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin
Mine are complete fantasy and take place in other worlds + don't involve me at all. A lot of my daydreams are worldbuilding or exploring 'interesting' scenarios/situations that characters would end up in. Not really a good way to turn those into real life goals.

I have a really shitty internal sense of self, though.
good one. Hadn't heard that.
Pirating and 'illegal' copies of software is not what's impacting your bottom line.
It’s not perfect by any means, but SwiftUI is the most productive development stack I’ve ever used for GUIs.

There’s definitely a huge learning curve and some rough edges, but the speed with which I can write a polished UI in it is staggering.
Went to check out the site (Canna.to) and it wouldn't load. Then I wondered what Upstream DNS I was using on my pi-hole... sure enough, Quad9.

Then I went to load the site on my phone, and it tried to open 98 popups...
Bird poop on a crashed drone would also be “non-human biologics” on a “recovered crash”.
> while shredding the originals in the process

In-universe reason for that made no sense whatsoever and was nonsense. It was not even an evil organization (this would make sense) but OCR method as described was absurd and would not work.
> but that they would focus on only the US and only get seen I the US is quite self centered.

Because it isn't true. I started paying attention to UFO's after the 2017 new york times article on the subject, and yes, there is a perception that it's a US only phenomenon, but it's a misconception. I do not have a link to point you to, but UFO's are being reported world wide, and there have been some famous cases outside the US (as far as UFO cases get famous) such as the school, Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki
Ariel School UFO incident.
What makes you think that? Seriously, what kind of job do you do on a day to day basis to even remotely consider possibility of this?
> More to the point, why is it always people in the US that have credible or semi credible (or for that matter ANY) evidence of UAP's, UFO's etc?

That's selection bias from our media reporting on it. MUFON has tracked sightings from all over the world.

https://mufon.com/
Yes, but ferry and car carrier vessel operators will be much more interested in this figure than in the overall one.
Language Level Toll Roads
I think it should come as a promoted extension or something, there are just many users who can't or won't use this feature due to it requiring a contract with a third party. Shipping it with the IDE itself unneccessarily bloats it and probably slows things down.
> By "people" are you excluding organizations such as governments, corporations etc?

If you mean "people" as in "A world where people pay for software", then no.

I think companies, especially software companies, would like to subscribe in this system if it gets big because if they have dependencies that require subscriptions, they probably don't want anything to get in the way for their employees.
In all fairness, prior to the UK being the UK, it was governed by a different set of bloody noble rivalries.
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The first time I became aware of my tendencies to daydream was a very hard time of my childhood, and if it wouldn't for video games overstimulating me (which I don't consider them a good thing in excess, but I digress), I cannot even begin to imagine the things I would be doing to avoid pretty much everything back then.
They won't need to be hired again. Work a few years, retire without a care in the world.
> public narrative of accounts from pre-modern times

There are.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over...

Now, none of them are as clear and objective as "A being that was obvious not human spoke to me and told me about themselves. They are ..." - but that doesn't mean we don't have a ton of incidents reported over the centuries.
Even when customers run software on their own machines, you have to deal with bugs that only occur in rare occasions because your giant user base finds them all. Plus now you’re running in unknowable environments that you have to debug via telephone (the object or the children’s game or both).
If anything I've been seeing the IPA craze die down for some years now (though I am in San Diego, which was kind of at the forefront). I don't know a lot of college kids, but the people in their mid-twenties that I know seem to be shifting away from beer entirely, and are drinking more hard seltzers in casual settings and cocktails in bars. Both can be quite alcoholic.

That said, they're also much more casual about consuming cannabis since it's been legal their whole adult lives, which often leads to them drinking less when they go out.
I want to know how they apparently have advanced tech that allows them to travel the vast distances of space, and if certain people are to be believed, have crafts capable of astonishing maneuvers we can't match... Yet, they crash all the time...
My MD is really music triggered. I basically can't listen to music without daydreaming. If I want sound but not to daydream, I have to listen to brown noise/rain/cafe noises.
Looking forward to 20 years from now seeing the same posts about waging war on crypto
HTML "APIs" weren't meant for public either.

In practice, if there is a mobile app, there is an API. Whether it's creators object to your usage is mostly their own problem.
Quick feedback first

It looks great. I'd love to dig in to it more.

I know you've seen this elsewhere but I don't think I'd pay quite that much for the product, and the blow-away-everything of the free model means I'd probably not come back again.

The housing screen should let you fill in your full payment amount but ask if any of it is escrow/PII or anything else beyond P&I.

A pet peeve with mortgage offers I get in the mail, email, from my bank, etc, is they all know my monthly payment but that payment includes escrow for taxes and insurance. This leads to me getting offers telling me how much I'll save when their offer is actually higher than what I've got (especially true now that rates are higher). I felt the same moment of annoyance when I entered my payment amount and saw I'd have it paid off in half the time I actually will.

Back to cost for a moment.

Like many others, I do my own tracking today, which has a cost in time of course. Since it's coming from my free time I tend to value it in terms of what else I could be doing, and mentally to me that's the "movie model". I spend perhaps 15 minutes twice a month tracking my expenses, debt, etc and in movie terms (a ticket is $18 and provides about 2.5 hours of entertainment) that's about worth about $3 to me.

And because I take the time to look at my expenses regularly, I really, really, really try to avoid any kind of recurring costs when possible. I think this is probably true for a lot of your audience.
Ships tend to have much, much more saltwater available than potable water, yes.
Were they aliens? Well yes, there was no US Passports recovered from the sites.
> Google needs to be broken up.

Not going to happen. Rationally there should be broad political consensus about cutting Google back to size: from rabid libertarians worshiping the miraculous abundance generated by "competition and free markets" to bleeding-heart socialists keen on pushing back corporate power as the root of all evil.

Alas, these political categories no longer have any meaning. The US political system has mutated into something else (the messenger being a horned man) which will probably require some time to properly characterize and name using terminology that is appropriate to use in good company.

So the fate of Google will be more shaped by actions of external entities than as part of US regulatory efforts. Powerful countries that antagonize the US are simply degoogling and creating their own copycat panopticons.

The question is what will be the course of action of powerful countries that are alies of the US (i.e. Europe and a few others). Will they accept that their digital society will be feudal in nature because the broken US political system cannot deliver on even basic responsibilities?
Yeah I mentioned that. You have to go through a cache or an archive.
> I hate how people decide something is an inevitable eternal cycle that started in the 20th century.

People were complaining about the loudness war in _classical music_ in the early 19th century, unfavorably comparing Beethoven to his predecessors, and how his imitators were ruining music. Human nature doesn't change, and the phenomenon of people having their taste in music frozen in their teens and twenties is not something that was invented with the phonograph.

“It is not surprising that Beethoven should, occasionally, have entertained blasé notions of his
art; that he should have mistaken noise for grandeur, extravagance for originality, and have
supposed that the interest of his compositions would be in proportion to their duration. That he
gave little time to reflection, is proved most clearly in the extraordinary length of some
movements in his later symphonies… His great qualities are frequently alloyed by a morbid
desire for novelty; by extravagance, and by a disdain of rule… The effect which the writings of
Beethoven have had on the art must, I fear, be considered as injurious. Led away by the force of
his genius and dazzled by his creations, a crowd of imitators has arisen, who have displayed as
much harshness, as much extravagance, and as much obscurity, with little or none of his beauty
and grandeur. Thus music is no longer intended to sooth, to delight, to ‘wrap the sense in
Elysium’; it is absorbed in one principle—to astonish.”
Letter to the Editor in the Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review, London, 1827
> - Science. We know now better about the effect of alcohol. This drove the public opinion into a certain direction. Having the general acceptance this was a bad idea created policies to prevent things like having wine in schools in 1956: https://expat-in-france.com

Not buying it. Common sense has always been enough to see the downsides of alcohol. If people dont care about losing motor functioning and having a painful hangover right now they wont care about a chance they will have liver problems in 40 years.
China sets out preliminary crewed lunar landing plan – SpaceNews
People can absolutely be "forced", "coerced", or "compelled" into doing something with no understanding on how to stop it. Or perhaps they do understand how to stop it but don't want the trade-offs a potential solution implies.

Either way, the coercion in the equation is constant. And that doesn't have to be a bad thing. But it is something we can acknowledge and then determine if X degree of coercion for Y outcome was moral, valid, justifiable, etc. But the coercion existed regardless of our conclusion of its utility.
Huh? You think they're literally editing radio broadcasts, network transmissions, printed media, etc? And that nobody has noticed? I think your tinfoil is leaking!
> How do you pay developers to continuously fix bugs, provide security updates and update their software when the underlying hardware and operating system changes?

Have we really strayed so far that everyone's forgotten how this is done? Security fixes and serious bug fixes should always be free (At least going back N-1. You price that work into the sale price to begin with), and you get ongoing revenue by selling new versions.
I wrote a script to redact profanity to prevent prompt injections
The screenshot feature is achingly close to my dream bookmarking app.
- screenshot something you want to come back to (a tweet a song on spotify a youtube vid)
- "AI" figures out what it is and gets the relevant info (song/vid title, URL, which app you're using, etc.)
- files the item appropriately in a nice searchable way
- unknown things get put in an inbox for you to come back to and file yourself

imo until devices get more bold about how they manage your experience (ie watching everything you do with on-device AI to be your full-time assistant) then screenshots are the best vector for this kind of thing.

anyway, exciting to see folks trying to get into this!
would love to hear more about this!
> when you bring this up you get attacked

Good, ignorance should not be rewarded. Start by googling COMETA report, Rendlesham, Ariel or the flavour of the month - Varginha.
> Why are you asking for an energy source, do you not have enough energy, how are you writing your blog?

FTA: A lot of out current problems revolve around fuel and the pollution associated with it.
> Theoretically possible, but with no proof that any such material actually exists.

I wouldn't say that it was necessarily "theoretically possible," for there has never been, and there still isn't, a grand theory of how any given material's atomic/crystalline structure relates to superconductivity. In other words, with no theory of material superconductivity, it was never quite clear what's possible and what isn't. With this new material, though, we might get a lot closer to a working model, if nothing else.
When you say there is recorded military footage, is it publicly available? Or are there just witnesses that say it exists?
Can’t we disguise the PWA as a browser on the iOS App Store? So in theory it’s just another browser that only allows to open one website- the PWA. But on the surface, to the users it will be available as an app in App Store.
I'm not a blogger and have no horse in the race, but I think you should re-evaluate a couple things on the list if you think you'd be interested in blogging.

For both #1 and #2, there are dozens of static site generators that handle all of this for you automatically. Not all of them are as complicated as the big ones. You can get started with a theme in Zola in a couple hours and that can be your blog forever, with support for code syntax.

For number 3, the idea is not that people will organically stumble on your blog in a search, but that you'd share it to different communities relevant to your blog post. If you're writing about F#, post it on the F# reddit. SEO spam can't really mess with you there. In fact, I feel like SEO spam is only pushed by Google, and communities tend to not engage with that content.

I feel you on the extremely hostile responses, though. Without fail, any article that makes it to the top of HN has lots of people insinuating it was somehow written maliciously, even if it's just about something minor like Sum Types vs Union Types. Unfortunately the answer is to shut off your brain to the hostility but take in their counterpoints. These people likely think about nothing but code for most of the day, so even if they're well-rounded and nice in real life, their brain has temporarily narrowed the scope of their world view, and they make mountains out of mole hills
Privacy-preserving usage data: Under the hood