skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I’m blocking completely google analytics, every Facebook domain and any analytics I can, I’m also disappearing for them. I don’t see them and they don’t see me!

Aww how cute. No, they can still track what you do. Remember Facebook Beacon and the outcry? It is now a reality. Facebook (oh excuse me, Meta) doesn’t back down after people vehemently react to Newsfeed, Beacon, Metaverse etc. Mark used to respond “Calm down. Breathe. We hear you.” before justifying what he did. That was when he was wet behind the ears — he doesn’t bother to do that anymore.

Facebook changed our world, our ideas of the word Friend, of the word Like, etc. Whether you want to or not, these platforms controlled by a few people will reshape society unless we build open source alternatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Beacon

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2533161/facebook-s-bea...

https://techcrunch.com/2008/09/18/is-beacon-back/
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True, their twitter has been my most frequent check up on the situation
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Thanks for that link!

My feeling watching all this has been that it's weird people are getting so excited about the replication when the actually interesting question (is it truly a superconductor) hasn't even been answered yet. Glad to see that isn't just my ignorance.
Any idea why the Science article links to a HN post as the source?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953396 (10 comments)
The "untyped languages are just fine" effect :P
Those definitely existed in the past, but there's been a dramatic uptick of terrible office etiquette in my current situation relative to pre-pandemic times, even though I'm in the same building working for the same company. I now expect any rando who sits next to me to enter a meeting.
You're completely right, but believe it or not Nim 1.6 actually doesn't manage to connect the dots between `1` and it being a possible `float`, `int64`, etc.. Even if you wanted a different size integer literal you'd have to say, for example, `42'int64`. You would be forgiven for asking how the language has purity checks for functions (`func` vs. `proc`) but somehow does not have this fairly elementary implicit type conversion (where Odin manages to even say `1.0` is a valid int value, for example, but won't permit anything that is not safely representable as a conversion).
>I need a good old fashion bloodletting.

Thanks for the laugh and your thoughtful donation.
Personally I don't think we will succeed building a true AGI based on the current computer architecture. The computing units of the only intelligent beings we know of so far - us and maybe some animals to an extent - work very different from how a CPU works. I suspect we will need to build a computer that more closely resembles a neuron and the way it performs calculations...
I suggest the drug user equivalent of an insane asylum. If you've shown you're a danger to yourself and/or others you get a place in a retreat/monastery/rehab centre/prison island where you get the care you need.

Fraught with opportunities for abuse but not arguably more than the current situation and at least the rest of us can have our public spaces back.
That is just one perspective from the article, not a consensus, and definitely nothing that could qualify as famous, and even then the argument is along the lines of "It was successful until we stop dumping lots of money into it."

That reminds of how Salt Lake City recently found out the same thing with its success in curing homelessness. The problem never ends.
A magnetic material would orient itself to the magnet, and then move towards the magnet, not get "stuck" in its fields.
Here is another workflow orchestrator for you to try: Flyte!
Very interested in this! From my initial cursory read and basic understanding, you're essentially transforming the output tokens from the LLM such that the content renders the same (i.e. same text) but uses a specially arranged set of tokens, specified by the crypto algo?

Is it something like replacing tokens for "a" and "b" with a token for "ab" in the output? And if so, in a chat conversation this would affect/break the semantic understanding the model has of the text, right?
Hacker mods an M1 Mac mini to receive power over Ethernet instead of AC
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I bet you're the only person on HN with a preference for Teams over, say, semaphore flags.
That's really not the biggest issue. DNS servers can handle this level of load just fine. People throwing out excuse after excuse (frequently wrong or ill-informed) for not doing v6 is a bigger issue.

> For one thing, the format is imprecise because it does not enforce consistency. There are dozens of different ways to write an ipv6 address because leading zeroes are allowed while leading zeroes are illegal under ipv4

You'd be amazed how much worse v4 is on this front. Leading zeros are actually legal, but they turn the field into octal. Hex is an option, and so is combining fields. You can write HN's IP as 0321.216.230.240, or 0321.216.0xe6.240. Or 0xd1.216.0163360. There's about 40 different combinations like this.

v6 clearly defines a canonical form, and doesn't have as much possible variation outside of it.

> Personally, I have a real beef with the use of the colon as a separator.

It had to be changed from . to avoid ambiguity with DNS. It also allows writing the right-hand 32 bits as a v4 literal (e.g. 64:ff9b::209.216.230.240 -- fortunately only in this form and not all of the other forms v4 has) which is convenient sometimes. Given their existing use in other networking protocols and things like MAC addresses, colons seem like the obvious alternative.
>>reducing the weight of ice (by melting) increases volcanic activity kinds of things

Thank you! I was literally just thinking about how hydro-geologics(?) have an impact on the earth - e.g ;;

Do lunar tidal forces affect frozen water differently than liquid water, salt water, fresh water - if the waters have a homogenoius gravitational density for each state - then the state of these will affect lunar pulls? given each's volumes geo distributed around the globe? (the solutions affect the volume - so does a cubic meter of saline, vs sea, vs, bottled, vs spring waters have a different gravitational mass - so the distribution of the various states in global scale qty may have some impact on earths (spin?Wobble?Tides?Climate?)

/sci-fi - thanks for letting me think that out loud.

Thus as the climate changes, the wobble changes, thus the prescession, etc...

?

I wonder if you were to suspend spheres of water in different solutiuons or states inside the giant antarctic neutrino detector - with sensors for each sphere, if you would have different readings of the neutrino interactions...

So basically an array of neutrino-reflectors - such that if you detect a neutrino into the ice array - then it goes through another material sphere (whichever medium your choice is) and then the output from there....

That would be interesting to see how to affect neutrino behavior on a materials basis... and if you can LLM the heck out of all data - you get the idea...

--

So if you can aside from detecting neutrinos - you have hover materials with aversion or fondness...

point is that one may be able to take ingress, inflection/reflection (through material substance types) and learn how to reflect and steer neutrinos - unless they 100% peice their normal regardless of any input.?)

(can they be captured?
A high quality speech-to-text and/or text-to-speech program that just works out of the box

Challenge: make it require at most (1) opening a website (2) a single packet manager installation (3) a single app store installation

a good speech-to-text that integrates with programs as we use them would help my hearing-impaired friend understand the world better

and a nice sounding text-to-speech would help me listen to Wikipedia articles

I believe there are already good AI models there that can serve as the core, but they aren't entirely developed (missing features such as "really real time"/instant transcription https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/608 and speaker separation: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264) and I haven't encountered a single good interface for them yet.
People in support of this need to consider how this type of legislation affects the integrity of the internet.

This bill is not about supporting independent media like they claim. This is first and foremost a link tax, and the result of it is damaging to free press. Independent media sources depend on traffic from social media platforms to function. They themselves are often the ones sharing the links to their own content to drive traffic and readership from in which they monetize through ads. Furthermore, many of these local publishers leverage their social media following to share content on behalf of other local businesses through sponsored articles and posts. The Canadian government playing strong man here when repeatedly warned of the outcome is putting independent media companies in serious jeopardy of remaining solvent.

Meta and Google are in the right here, and I hope they continue to stand their ground. If they cave on this issue, it sets a terrible precedent that jeopardizes the health of the internet as we know it. Companies should not have to pay the source whenever a link is shared on their platforms. It's just backwards.

If you are talking about situations where they are scraping and displaying the contents of an article, that is a different issue, and seemingly not one that is the primary target of this bill.
It's indirect evidence at best. Some people value artistic endeavors more than others but I don't think most people would agree that artists are more human than the rest of us. These differences in behavior might evidence differences in values or opportunity.

For instance, with thumbs and a terrestrial lifestyle, humans are more capable of producing art and technology than just about any other animal. But I don't find this to be a persuasive argument for human minds being more sophisticated than orcas. Even if art is the answer, our lack of insight into orca language makes it difficult if not impossible to fairly compare them to us. Maybe Orcas have poetry so sophisticated and beautiful that it puts all human art to shame, but it's completely inaccessible to us because we don't understand their language. Or maybe they're far smarter and more aware than us and could compose such poetry, but choose not to simply because they don't value it.
That's common in Asian dramas, not just anime.

In US dramas, such as Blue Bloods, you'll see people eating. But no close-ups of the food. In Asian dramas, there will often be close-ups of the food.

Although not to the level of detal of US fast food commercials, which have become gross.
Platforms copy news stories because news sites explicitly allow it. News sites can revoke platform access at any time - and don't.
I'll look at it.

My major gripe with jupyter is that it's hard to document classes because a class must be inside one code block and you can't mix in comments block...

(unless I didn't see some obvious thing)
Module-based would be ideal. For context, I'm building a writing app. I have basic functionality + OpenAI integration, but these things have been a huge pain:

- collaborative editing

- offline editing

- faster loads with sw caching

- git history

- end-to-end encryption.

It's taken me forever to build these, and the code's still not where I want it to be. If you had modules for these that I could pay for, I totally would.
How does room temperature superconductivity lead to the feasibility of asteroid mining? Could you please explain?
Cartels aren't generally dealing in marijuana, it's small potatoes.
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The activists make a living on it though. There are massive funds allocated for these programs that don't solve the problems but rather manage them. In fact, a larger customer base will only increase their funding.
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Sometimes they require 3rd party stuff, hotlinked images, js on frontpage, etc.

I was on a ferry ship with paid sattelite wifi internet once and they only faked DNS responses for gstatic.com, google, etc. But they allowed my domain (DNS queries to it) and stripe.com (because that's how you paid) -- so they only faked responses for a small set of popular domains. IP access to the internet was, apart from stripe, blocked.

And because stripe uses FastlyCDN, they allowed all of fastlycdn network ranges (not useful for iodine), so I could browse reddit (they also use fastly) using stripe's CDN (only html, without i.redd.it image hosting, that's elsewhere).

AFAIR Fastly doesn't have a free plan, so I couldn't tunnel at higher speeds (via HTTP) but only via DNS.

But yeah, sometimes they just outright respond to any query with their IP and you are out of luck.
"The fastest way to move a cow is slow."

- An old cowboy truism, as related in the current issue of the Navajo Times.
Is the stigma going away because it's legal or is it being legalized because the stigma is going away?
So does ignorance.
Web backends. I've used Flask, Django, Sinatra, and static site generators. Flask and Sinatra are great for simple APIs, anything more and you'll wish you had the structure of a larger framework. Django for database backed frontends. Static site generators for simple sites that have no need for persistence. Static sites can actually go further than you would expect at first glance, for instance, Obama's campaign website was backed by static HTML.
> DDG [...] no ads

DDG does have ads, though? Perhaps they're less common and less intrusive than on Google, and only appear for searches that can meaningfully have ads related to them (e.g. if I search for "thinkpad" I get one). But they exist.

Unless your ad blocker is blocking them. But, to be honest, I personally rather let DDG show the ads. I want them to have their income.

I also generally use DDG first, although Google is better for me at local results or non-English searches, so I sometimes do those on Google. It has also sometimes seemed like more complex searches with OR clauses or something similar work better in Google search.

Also, while Google isn't particularly good at returning exactly what I search for nowadays (it used to be better, nowadays it seems to guess too much or return what Google wants you to want), I don't feel like DDG is better at that either, and sometimes I seem to need to run e.g. searches for error messages on Google instead of DDG because of that.

But for most general searches, DDG does fine.
It’s literally in the definition of “quid pro quo”: “a favor or advantage granted in return for something.”

By your line of logic, if Elizabeth Warren votes for something that benefits Harvard, that’s improper without any evidence that Harvard is giving her something in return.
For other possibly dangerous things in society there are things like taking a license and renewing that license. Perhaps that should be a requirement for buying hard drugs where it's legal.
It was years before I understood this and got a good patina on mine. Give the pan a good clean and do a lot of gentle frying dishes in a row.

The soap myth harkens back to the day when soaps were actually pretty caustic - they were lye based formulas that you had to use gloves to wash dishes with. That stuff would eat through enamel.
This KIND of thing however is extremely common in poverty stricken areas. Poor areas are crime ridden, because most people in poverty lack other choices, and very few people will choose to just lay down and die quietly like some people seem to think they should.

Look at mcdonalds in detroit and stuff like that, they look like banks inside, with bulletproof plastic panels between customers and staff. Californian elitists just get pissy that they have to see it in their back yard, because they want the suffering required to support their profits to be out of sight and out of mind.

People bitch and moan that "california already spends a shitload on homelessness" but like, it's california, even the small office you have to have just for a social worker to have a laptop to keep things organized will cost millions a year. If you want to function somewhere that has a land cost ten times anywhere else, you are going to have to pay more. Period. The janitors need to live there too.
I know when I want the truth about China, I go and ask the Chinese government...
I think my experience is representative, rather than unusual! PFAS are probably a net good for all of "us," as you put it.
There's a group working to build and protect the bedrock: https://protectdemocracy.org/
> I highly doubt they can preserve their pace of growth for next few decades without significant changes to the regime and liberalization.

"Demographics is destiny" also comes to mind.

Note how the era of "Japan Inc." during the 1980s was also the time when the post-war baby boom population were in their 30s-40s (i.e. peak productive worker population). As this cohort has aged and are now in retirement, Japan's economic performance has tailed off.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#/media/F...

If you look at the Chinese population pyramid, we could already be at the point of maximum Chinese economic growth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China#/media/F...

From the geopolitical standpoint, this may also explain why China and Russia have become more belligerent - they will lack sufficient numbers of young fighting aged men in the next few decades.
> doing a good deed

What? Giving them your blood for free so the Red Cross can sell your blood for $400 a unit? Oh, then the hospital can bill you thousands of dollars for a blood transfusion.
> I don't know, I haven't really seen the same level of interest from my "normie" friends that I've seen among the HN-adjacent crowd.

Implicit in this counterargument is the idea that judging what is of genuine importance is a matter of opinion, as though we could get a sense of what to pay attention to by polling a large enough sample set.

It is not. Expertise matters. Who is interested in the topic matters.

Put another way: from the Fundamental Attribution Error alone, it does not follow that identity is completely meaningless; it does, however imply that anyone with such-and-such a set of concerns and knowledge would behave in such-and-such a way under such-and-such conditions.

And those conditions obtain. And so, with a flourish: I give you, 2023 "Superconduct my clean-air-monitoring AI, please!" Hackernews
Color me very interested about footguns in Airflow as well.

We're currently considering it as a self-hosted process engine to automate technical business processes and to coordinate a few automation systems like jenkins. Crap like, trigger a database restore via system A, wait until complete, update tickets, trigger some data migration from that database via System B, update tickets. Maybe bounce things back to human operators on errors and wait for fixing / clarification. Trigger a bunch of deployments in parallel and report on success.

Systems in this space are either (a) huge, hugely expensive enterprise applications designed to consume all business processes, which is a bit overkill for our current needs (Camunda, SAP, Stackstorm, ...), (b) overfitted onto a very specific data analysis setup (aka: if you don't have hadoop, don't touch it) or (c) overly simplistic and offering no real benefit beyond investing into self-hatred, guiness and making jenkins work.

Airflow seemed like a bit of a decent middle ground there for workflows a bit beyond what you can sensibly do via jenkins jobs.
There's a wide space between "can be recycled" and "profitable enough that there's theft for base components that can be resold". That doesn't mean it won't be profitable to harvest the gold (I don't know), but one does not imply the other.

For example, paper recycling is profitable when centralized (barely), but even that's with most the pipeline subsidized, and it's not profitable to the degree that people are stealing paper to turn in because it's worth the effort.
I don't think the material is very ductile so I'm not sure that you'd be able to easily run a cable like copper/aluminum/steel transmission lines
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Newspapers don't work like that. The same reporter isn't responsible for politics, war, and science—they specialize, and a dedicated science reporter is going to be at least as savvy as a random commenter on HN.

They may want to cover it and just have a hard time explaining it to their editor, but I think "we can afford to wait until a peer reviewed paper comes out" is more likely.