skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think "fork" has a consistent meaning, at least not since the arrival of github. In the early days of open source, a fork was somewhat hostile and indicated a schism or lack of confidence in the original authors. Today, at least on github, a fork is a positive thing and is the primary mechanism by which people contribute to open source!

It's obvious that you're using the 1st meaning but it's worth clarifying because there's a lot of grey area here.

Are you forking the project to make a small change and submit it upstream? (the friendly fork)

Are you forking the project to have a playground for new ideas and experiments? (the playground fork)

Are you forking the project to deploy custom patches while you wait for upstream to fix a bug or add a feature or cut a release? (the pragmatic fork)

Are you forking with the intention of using that code to bootstrap the creation of a entirely new and unrelated product? (the bootstrap fork)

Are you forking with the intention of maintaining the existing product with a new direction because you don't agree with the authors? (the hostile fork)

Are you forking with intent to burn most of existing codebase to the ground and build it back up from scratch to compete in the original domain? (the competitive fork)

Of these, I think the friendly, playground, and pragmatic forks are generally seen as positive since the original project and its users can benefit directly. The bootstrap fork is neutral, no harm but there is an opportunity cost and occasional whining from rent-seekers or copyleft purists. The hostile and competitive forks are generally a negative since it implies a community schism and should be avoided unless there are solid technical benefits that cannot be achieved through existing means.
> If it’s so irrelevant, why did he buy it for $44 billion?

He mistaked his like of Twitter for everyones likes of Twitter, and he has no impulse control leading him to sign an iron clad contract.
correct, the term he should have used is "con man"
I enjoy reading the expert opinions of all the main characters who don't even have a basis point, let alone a fraction, of the man's net worth.
Indeed, Usenet could go over dialup (or direct serial line) UUCP, not an IP address in sight.
No, it isn't indicative at all.

The vast majority of immigration occurs without incident and there is no compelling evidence that this will change in the future.
Not really, as there are restrictions, and for example .NET Native didn't handle some of the IL pattern required by F#. This was never fixed, even though there are some kind of workarounds.

F# also has some issues with some IL constructs generated by C#, with features not exposed in F#, like protected, which can be consumed, but not authored.
Hitler drank water, ergo drinking water is bad! /s
Are you coming at this from a creationist point of view? That's common rhetoric I heard when I was growing up. You'll need to jettison that entire way of thinking, it's built on faulty analogies like "the probability of shuffling a deck of cards into a certain arrangement is astronomically small, therefore evolution couldn't happen!" If you're actually interested in learning and not just sealioning, IMO this is a great resource:

https://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/

There's a section specifically on abiogenesis: https://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html#CB0

To answer your initial question, it's really difficult to mentally grasp the scales involved with this. Billions of years, quadrillions of watts of power from the sun, some astronomically large number of chemical interactions happening simultaneously all over the early Earth. These numbers throw off one's naive sense of scale. The basic recipe of "hydrogen + time" will produce some very interesting results, however. Eventually we'll reach the heat death of the universe, or some other sort of end[1], but until then all the matter and energy bouncing around will get up to some cool stuff.

[1]: Good reading here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe
Google is a terrible tool to find scientific research. Rather use Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com) or some of the fancy new AI-assisted literature survey tools such as Elicit (https://elicit.org). I used both to find these result:

- The effect of daily internet usage on a short attention span and academic performance (https://monami.hs-mittweida.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId...)

- Enhancing Cognitive Performance in Children by Decreasing Screen Time and Increasing Art Activities (https://www.proquest.com/openview/8f41dc5ed9fff23842acf88b16...)

- Gen Z and Millennials in the Workplace: How are Leaders Adapting to their Short Attention Span and How Will they Keep them from Leaving a Qualitative Study (https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/4800/)

- Does Media Use Have a Short-Term Impact on Cognitive Performance? (https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105%2Fa000038)

- Short-term mindfulness intervention reduces the negative attentional effects associated with heavy media multitasking (https://doi.org/10.1038/srep24542)

- Influence of Short Video Watching Behaviors on Visual Short-Term Memory (https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.314)

- Attention switching and working memory spans (https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440440000014)

- Caught in the Loop: The Effects of The Addictive Nature Of Short-form videos On Users’ Perceived Attention Span And Mood (http://essay.utwente.nl/95551/)

Disclaimer: this is not my field, and I only spent 15 minutes on this, so these may not be the best articles around. On the other hand, the post seems to mention quite a lot of research on this topic, so you could read that, too. To read more, check articles that cite, or were cited by, these. Also, for obvious reasons, there does not seem to be many studies available on long term effects.
I think they need to bypass Google somehow to keep it going. Embracing LLMs could be a way out.

I already go to ChatGPT to cut through the SEO-optimized crap that Google offers me in the first couple of result pages. I would bet that a lot of the responses given by ChatGPT come from Stack Overflow.

Now, what if we had StackGPT which offered me similar funtionality as ChatGPT, but better? E.g. respond with some code and an explanation, but also link to the sources (which are probably within their site, so they have prime access to them). Or offer as an explicit option to respond using sources other than their archive, but perhaps without citing sources.
Improving user experience with Edge Caching
uh, took me a while!
That sort of mission is mostly speculation. Nabbing a Soviet spy satellite would probably be suicide, they could have easily had scuttling charges onboard that would destroy both the satellite and the shuttle.

What is known is that it was designed to go to a polar orbit, where many spy satellites are, deploy a satellite and return to the launch site after a single orbit. It's that "single orbit" part that particularly necessitates the large cross-range capability, since 90 minutes later the launch site will about 1500 miles to the east of where it was. If landing after a single launch weren't necessary, they could just orbit for a day and wait for the landing sight to come around again. Deploying a satellite in a single orbit would be an incredible feat, but capturing one in a single orbit is just too far-fetched.

The idea of doing this was apparently to launch a US spy satellite quickly without giving the Soviets much time to track the exact orbital parameters the satellite was being deployed into. TBQH it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, unless the spy satellites themselves are presumed to be stealthy to Soviet radars. Maybe that was the case. I can see why the Soviets thought it was a nuclear bomber. Anyway, the Shuttle never actually went to polar orbit at all, so in this sense you could say the Shuttle never fulfilled its purpose.
Coroutines are cooperative scheduling, and have all the same drawbacks.

They're really really good for high performance proxies though, since they make a very small number of cheap decisions for each request, and then punt the bit shuffling to the OS (which uses threads). These proxies are ubiquitous and well regarded (nginx, haproxy, linkerd, etc) so they take up maybe more mind share than they should.
That sounds like an awesome adventure - what brought to you being in Mongolia riding a horse around with a child guide mongol hoarde?

(For clarity, the only english word we have for multiple (>0) mongols, is "hoarde")
> Everything about this makes me think he's just too rich to be fired... anyone else would have been.

Don't really like this framing of the problem - he owns a majority of voting shares, and he paid (or, rather, overpaid) mightily for that right. You can't really be "fired" from being an owner, and I'll note Musk is no longer CEO (and, sure, you can argue the new CEO was hired to be the fall girl/glass cliff example, but that was still her eyes-wide-open choice).

People wrung their hands about Zuckerberg as well (he also has a majority of voting shares of Facebook), but in retrospect that hand-wringing looked premature, at least from a shareholder perspective - Meta is nearly back at its peak and has tripled its stock price from late 2022.
How big is the pie? How much money are the AI companies actually making?
No offense but you made a very broad and rather surprising (= anything but well-established) claim, so the burden of proof is on you I'd say.

> Our core explanatory framework (underpining eg quantum or relativity) is essentially still serviced by 19th century mathematics.

Eh what? Quantum mechanics and high-energy physics largely build upon functional analysis and representation theory which were largely developed in the 20th century because of quantum mechanics.

General Relativity did pick up some concepts which were already developed in the 19th century already but today's formulation is quite a bit more modern (and rigorous) I'd say and there have also been lots of advances on the mathematical side since then.

Generally speaking, the issue in fundamental physics is not that we lack the mathematical tools; the issue is that we lack physical insights (from experiments).
I like VR a lot, but pretty much all my gaming time these days is to connect with friends. Most don't have VR and of the few who do we've tried to game together and the networking was so clunky that it was more frustrating than fun. The solo experiences can be really neat but I already live alone so if my choices are the more isolating activity or the activity I'll do with friends, I'm choosing the second every time. In practice this means good old PC fps games.
>You do know that organic chemistry will quickly degrade right?

I'm not sure if I would count days (or possibly weeks) as quick.
Didn't mindgeek offer that guy more than 100 million but he said something to the effect of sorry, I've got to go play Diablo? Pretty fascinating
blowing up one of the single most recognizable brands in the entire world so you can indulge your puerile obsession you have with the letter "x" and drive the 44bn albatross you were forced to buy because of your inability to watch your mouth even deeper into unprofitability is world-historic business genius mindset. you guys wouldn't understand.
If you say something incisive to piss people off and trigger a reaction, and you get the reaction you're looking for, what we've established is that you are willing to piss people off to serve your rhetorical ends. Nothing else.

This of the "stop hitting yourself" form of argumentation.
Gatekeepers which can be destroyed by the disintermediation, should be.
"Don't accuse me of such BS"

^ then don't engage in actions which could be misconstrued as such. It's Poes law mfer.

Also, youre shifting goalposts. Tossing out herring and engaging many other fallacies.

If I were a betting man, I'd put money on the probability that you are in fact being disingenuous or are a delusional fool....

Again, if you dont like that reasonable perception of you then alter the behaviors that induce said perception.
> Related: I've often been looking how to do X, find an SO question asking that, but the answerers there refused to answer until the person explained why they wanted to do X, and then all the answers (correctly) told the person that they actually needed to do Y and explained quite well how to do Y.

> I actually need to do X, so those answers are useless to me.

I know what you mean. Whenever I (rarely) ask a question on Stack Overflow, I always have to defensively load it up with language anticipating misinterpretations and instructing people to answer my question and not some other one.

Otherwise, internet-point-chasers will fall through the woodwork giving easy, worthless advice. Even with all the defensive language, a few always show up.
I generate content with ChatGPT as well, however it’s tiring to switch from one to another app.
Ask HN: Where was your tech product launch the most successful? PH, HN, Twitter?
Pretty sure other competent platforms also exist, but among these 3 - which was the most successful for you?

Where it met YOUR success metrics criteria?

*PH - Product Hunt
"Do you not read the documentation?" - everytime I posted a question on that holy portal.
Less homeless people and more comfortable
Awesome, thanks for explaining this. Reviewing cal.com today for my company - it seems like a great product.
U.S., European heat waves 'virtually impossible' without climate change
Arc Browser 1.0
I grew up hearing stories of armed IRS agents breaking down doors and carting off all of the paperwork, leaving businesses unable to function. I have always viewed them as jackbooted thugs that could stomp all over your civil rights without consequence, just like the rest of the government.
Life didn't start as cells. It started as "naked" self-replicating molecules with no supporting infrastructure. Think a virus without its protective protein coat. Cells only came along much later, because they are much harder to evolve.

We already know that an energy input, such as solar energy, to a large collection of simple molecules like methane and ammonia can produce the building blocks of life: amino acids and nucleotides. Once a short chain of nucleotides is formed, it will (slowly) replicate itself by attracting other nucleotides in the environment. That's all the original "life" on Earth consisted of. The simple chains of nucleotides were both "factory" and "information".

We don't know all the specific steps that life took between those first simple replicators and cells. We may never know for sure because data left over from that time is so sparse. But that's not the same as not having a viable theory. We have that.
Self-hosted InvoiceNinja 4 & Stripe integration. Works great, sends follow-up emails, adds gateway fees to the invoice.
I love/hate this page on your website demonstrating all the user-hostile things web developers can do: https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/test.html

It definitely makes a great sales pitch.
It's kind of how playing guitar is nice and all, but majority of players get lazy to stand up and prefer to do it sitting in front of computer.
I've never liked the argument that "the world around you was constructed by experts and scientists who knew complex math, therefore to interact with that world you need to know complex math".

The argument that Pixar software engineers (not the animators) know linear algebra and calculus, therefore you as a viewer of the movie need to know it is nonsense, and most people can see through that.

As I see it, most people don't need to know more than high school level Algebra. Maybe trigonometry. As engineers, we think that the world needs to know what we know, but they truly don't
If that's all he wanted, it would have been way cheaper to buy Yahoo a few years ago when it sold for $5B.
Which is why the strike is necessary. The unions aren't against using technology, they are against using technology for the benefit of the studios at the expense of the workers. You're implying that not striking would prevent studios from doing that but it would not. This conflict is as old as industrialization at least and being nice about it has never prevented capital owners from exploiting workers.
Where have you been learning this?

I know there is a japanese archery group in San Jose, CA....

But I am interested in this as well..
The one that was announced in 2006 and was released in 2008?
Well, Emacs has had a poor man's "Paint" for over two decades:

;;; artist.el --- draw ascii graphics with your mouse -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

;; Copyright (C) 2000-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

It is not as nice and colorful, but it has a spray tool (yay!). Also, it is actually useful once in a while [0].

[0] https://mbork.pl/2023-07-15_Drawing_ASCII_art_charts_in_Emac...
Ask HN: Advisors/Mentors asking for equity/compensation – is this a red flag?
Lettering on a building is obviously the top priority for police in San Francisco /s
Even modern RNA and viruses can last for days which is frankly a lot of time. A quick Google indicates you can probably get weeks out of some RNA molecules in reasonable environments.
I've said it elsewhere but folks need to use Firefox, because if everyone stops there'll be no-one with a voice to stand up to Google's BS because they OWN chrome and can do whatever they want with it.

Not saying it's perfect or better, just that we need it. we need a competing browser with a rendering engine that google doesn't ultimately control that has a non-trivial market share. Otherwise we may as well just stop complaining and let google do what it wants because we'll have no power to stop them anyway.
There are procedures, but they are to general and to emergency-manifold to help. Its basically aviate, communicate, crew-resource management applies kind of rules.
In this case, discover how the plane flies, glide it towards a landable location, while communicating your intentions and location. Do not get panicy, do not get burdened with to many things (the pilot monitoring not telling about people on the runway counts as such).

It makes no sense to capture all the permutations of that.
Just get it down somewhat safe.
I think the article addresses most of these points: the collapse of passenger rail in the US is largely attributable to inefficient line division and competition (the "Alphabet Route" between Chicago and Baltimore, for example[1]) as well as domestic policy shifts around subsidized transit (in favor of larger subsidies for automotive manufacturers, highway construction, etc. in correspondence with subsidies for suburbanization).

Low population densities can be misleading; much of the US is highly urbanized, and dense urban centers would be very efficiently connected by rail service were we to improve it. I for one would almost certainly make more trips to cities in Ohio, Illinois, etc. if it was a < 6 hour high speed trip rather than an overnight one.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Route
so if I wanted to test if it leaks my root password, I should run the code and open a terminal and say, upgrade packages, or upgrade packages before running the exploit code?
That’s one of the nice things about Kagi: you can lower our block content farms, and elevate sites like stack overflow.
I think Von Neumann suggested what might be needed to engineer a complex self-replicating system. He didn't suggest a process that might incrementally lead to that though (abiogenesis in the case of biological life), which might be able to rely on simple chemical behaviors to start accumulating complexity.
I think it's mainly depends on camera movement.

Games like I Expect You To Die expect the player to sit (as the game character does) with only camera movement coinciding exactly with the movement of player's head -- do not cause motion sickness (unless we go into low FPS as you say).

Games like Echo Arena where the entire time you are flying around (you see the environment moving around you) with no accompanying inner-ear sensation of movement, can cause instant motion sickness in some.
Google/Microsoft/Apple essentially did this with HTTP/3 too. None of their shipped browsers are able to connect to a non-"CA TLS" HTTP/3 endpoint. To host a HTTP/3 website visitable by a random normal person you have to get continued approval (every 3 months min) from a third party CA corporation for your website.
I will move to Thailand and become an outsourced remote worker before I go back to the hell that is American office work
I wasn't talking "global scale" I was speaking about domestically, which is what matters.

"top 5% childhood positioning, services, access to material and equipment, and more.

Strawman, moving goalposts, etc."

Nope what i listed were specifics, those advantages he gained.

You know that but chose to misrepresent with a red herring.

This is the SOP for Elon fanbois, just more trolling type behaviors just like thier wannabe lord and savior.

Really... it's rather sad and disheartening to know you folks actually drank the Kool aid and aren't just playing games, rather actually think like this and genuinely believe you arent fools.
DJI Air 3
Hypothesis: Search, being Google's oldest product, is no longer prestigious to work in. It's in maintenance mode.
You can restart by sacrificing height for speed and "propelling" the engines up to speed.
Sugary drinks tax could prevent decay and increase health equity: study
For each step in the article:

1. You should really download the huggingface hosted model.

2. Why convert the model if meta already hosts it here: https://huggingface.co/meta-llama

3. This step completely glossed over the hardware requirements. Doesn't explain any of the instructions needed in the finetuning process.

4. "Now run the model". What? What about the model precision, hosting, standard open source tools, etc,etc...
With a TV you can still grab the pop-corn bowl or talk to people around you. I think the immersion will make sense for people living on their own but even then it's too much immersion imo, so remains to be seen if Apple's version by allowing you to still interact with your environment will at least make the pop-corn bowl conundrum moot for these people. I can't see wearing this at all in a family/group environment (even the apple TV one).
So in other words, the state that results from wrongfully typing someone's name in a textbox that is never verified when buying the domain is a multi-year endeavour for that person? Surely there has to be a better way.
We might bank with the same bank!
If we don't need the UX but need to call this functionality programmatically-- to generate PDF account statements / invoices, optionally after showing a preview as a web page -- is there a good open source solution already available that we can integrate into our app.
Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?
Anything that have had a positive impact on your life.
99% of the population doesn’t care about any of that. They will use whatever works best
How could you have time without space? They're kind of equivalent in my conceptual model. I think of both time and space as a sine wave. The way you expressed it actually matches that for me. Thanks for sharing!
Bitcoin Price Discussion
Will bitcoin price reach 60k this year?
> "Some people on Stack Overflow care more about showing off how smart they are rather than answering questions, and I think the point system attracts these people"

"Some" is an understatement.
What do you mean approval? You'd need a cert from an entity like Let's Encrypt?
Beatsaber released into early access in 2018. Half Life Alyx released in 2020. What other good VR games have come out in the last few years?
They had tutors. I think tutors aren't necessarily that out of reach, but I know lots of people don't have money for that.

They may not have had teams of tutors, one for each subject, but I guarantee you that they worked with people at some point in their academic careers.
Sounds more like you have an axe to grind
https://search.brave.com/

probably my new default search engine.
Thnx