skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ancient idea. Many people running their own Asterisk instances have been using Lenny for years. (https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3b7na/the-story-of-lenny-th...).

You don't even need AI. The original Lenny is just a set of static recordings with a script that waits for the caller to respond to one before playing the next.
> That said, Emacs definitely was one of the culprits for ergonomics problems, in that it encouraged multiple-simultaneous-keypresses (e.g., Ctrl-something, Alt-something), which is one of many possible contributors to typing injuries. But at the same time, Emacs back then could dramatically reduce the amount of keystrokes and mousing you had to do, compared to the alternatives, so IMHO the situation wasn't really "Emacs will blow out your hands".

Having used emacs for a number of years and now switched off it for greener pastures I think it comes down to the key chords. Even if you start with the best intentions you will inevitably end up with hair-brained chord schemes for what you need to do. Emacs is a fantastic editor, vim is vastly more ergonomic. Maybe I should try DOOM emacs or evil mode raw and see how it holds up. I am not a huge fan of having to switch to something like vscodium especially given I spent a long time configuring Emacs perfectly. But my hands are thanking me.

Editor technology has advanced significantly. Aside from ergonomics the underlying architecture of emacs seems very resistant to change. This is somewhat frustrating especially w.r.t. certain LSPs and other niceties modern editing has afforded us. Unfortunately there's nothing like it if you're a fan of LISP-likes.
Kwon is humanities' hero for leaking this knowledge to the world
> 3. In May we find out apparently our government has recovered alien technologies

This is a silly thing to include on the list since it doesn't seem to be true?
Inflation and default. Two sides of the same coin.
Fair, fair. I agree with the logic.
I believe much of economics can be summed up as: most people don't want to do most things. (This can probably be rephrased to align with Maslow's hierarchy of needs.)
First, ask yourself if you really want to work at a FAANG
Hmm. The latest stable version from the freedroid store dated to 2022.01.11

The version from playmarket hasn't been updated for a long time. You must use the freedroid version.
Testing Graph Databases
Thanks for linking someone who knows what he's talking about, very painful to see these DFT papers overhyped as some kind of proof... It proves almost nothing
Iceberg Integration with Databend
Of course not, but how to deal with the crime afterwards is more complicated than if the person was sober, I should think.
This is a great project and I want to know what databases I can support
This would have described the Mormon church not long ago. That's why they went to Utah!
Because plural of the word cryptocurrency is a contradiction. You start to get it, son.
Perhaps, but the reverse engineering efforts you mention may have already led to incredible breakthroughs over the past few decades. Lasers, integrated circuits, Kevlar, fiber optics, and more technologies were said to have been seeded among the research community based on recovered UAP components. This is based on Army Colonel Philip Corso’s account in his memoir, “The Day After Roswell”. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Roswell
how about a 3rd group that is skeptical but not angry ? :) Am I bad that I'm waiting on oak ridge/los alamos/NASA/ONL/university of texas at austin to repro?
I also doubt reducing incarnation will improve the situation either. Though its mostly being used as damage control as many people in our society come apart at the seams. it wont just require money, education and humane asylums, but a rethinking of modern social values. Humanity is more idiosyncratic and irrational than required to sustain classical liberalism.
TSMC's Newest R&D Fab in Taiwan [video]
> if someone is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, do we ask them if they want treatment? No, we have to treat then anyway.

That is not true in all US states. One cannot be committed to a mental institution against one’s will unless ordered by a judge. And one can’t be forced to ingest antipsychotics unless committed against one’s will. It’s a very high bar to get a judge to commit a person against their will, and it only lasts 30 days or less.
> To me it's just "a lot of the same stories" that are told about cuprates, and less of a "I can explain the mechanism".

Fair enough, and thanks for the readout. I realized after posting I essentially demanded an explanation as to why the cuprates are high-Tc, which is probably its own Nobel prize.
I think it's a pretty good comparison.
I’ve seen several tweets implying the gubberment is rushing out RTAPS to “cover up” the alien stuff
Elementary school me was introduced to the physicality of Taiwanese parliamentary politics from the Cat in the Hat movie (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rtXccR1h_Ak).

It's an underrated movie tbh, especially given that Barbie got an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes
Thus proving the parent post’s “credulity” point.
I can relate to both comments. Covid really sapped the life out of me. Some relationships broke down during isolation, I lost friends, my fiancée left, I felt stuck in a job that I hated... The research into LLMs and diffusion models started to wake me up, but this superconductor research has, for some reason, really awoken something in me. I feel excited about the future– my future!– for the first time in a while. My zest for life is back in full force, I feel like myself again, and I've been very excitedly telling everyone I know!
Somewhat relatedly: a site with HSTS is not supposed to let you click through an invalid cert warning. The browser should also ignore HSTS with invalid (self-signed) certs. But there are bugs, and thus you can find yourself in the position where you're unable to ignore the cert error on a site that never had a valid cert.
Please keep partisan politics off of HN.
Take Control of the Packet Path with Segment Routing Traffic Engineering
Yes, but I'd argue that is likely the bad shame that is unproductive and unnecessary.
I know plenty of people who still have not taken a COVID-19 vaccination, so what are you on about? You were welcome not to take it and to also not participate in public life while there was an ongoing pandemic.
>All the actual scientists have been rock steady at, "it is probably not going to replicate," especially CMTC.

Sinéad Griffin isn't an actual scientist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_Griffin

Plenty of real scientists are excited by the DFT results while cautioning they are merely supporting evidence and not conclusive evidence.
At what point does the constant, ever-present, insistent barrage of annoying become significant to you?

People are literally committing suicide because of code software developers write. Not for ICE or despotic regimes, but for Facebook.

Now I'm not sure a ransom signup pattern reaches that level, but the idea that dark patterns can't reach that level isn't in evidence. While the impact of a piece of software you write on a given individual is usually small, a decision made in software has the power to reach many more people than a decision made by a doctor about a specific patient.

Software developers need to take responsibility for their actions and stop blaming their bosses or society for their actions. What we do, does matter.
The list of icons for permissions in my address bar is kinda hilarious now.
You gotta ask, "am I in a cult?"
This has been a pet peeve of mine as well. I avoid sites that require logins. I’ve been experimenting with alternate authentication/authorization mechanisms.

It’s a major reason why I created https://prose.sh to explore what’s possible. We don’t require an email and only ask for it on https://feeds.sh because it’s an rss-to-email notification service.

Read only websites and write SSH apps are pretty congruent to the HN bubble.

There’s an added benefit that only people that can open a terminal can create an account.
So you never need good data. "They're trying so hard and it looks like what I want! Forgive them!"

This is why people think Bigfoot 3xists after 60 years

We need proof - real and clear data. Reliable data. Reproducible data. Anything else is dismissible, not forgivable.

It feels like bet-hedging:

If LK99 is nothing? Who cares it's a nothing video on the internet.

I'd LK99 is real? Well we know it's true so a bad video of a real thing is real!

Don't run the race and stop two feet from the finish line. Expend the pain and attention to make your effort worthwhile.
Not surprising: the vast majority of major games are windows only, and then use steam deck/wine to work anywhere else.

You can do similar with some games on Mac but it’s done through the windows client which is what I assume is being measured - couple that with the comparative difficulty of setting wine+steam up and you have negligible mac usage.
> To be honest, this is a hunch thing more than a I can teach and explain it thing...

Chiming in, not just you. :) I very briefly studied materials science a few decades ago and I'm 0% surprised that a potential breakthrough involves, of course, cuprates.
Final research project: start your own cult.
It is not, in fact, different at all. Being seen naked in public affects your status. Being seen consuming drugs affects your status. All shame is, is degradation of your status.
It’s the shipping. Amazon is subsidizing the shipping in the price. There’s an advantage there that you can get it in a couple of days instead of weeks.
Probably. I got distracted by the game so I never found out. And I only visit those websites when I'm watching a stream anyway. Really it's quite a clever distribution vector, since it involves long sessions and any experts in the audience will be too distracted to look too deeply, or at least unmotivated to investigate and publish research against a site that helps them watch the games they want to watch. It's a symbiotic relationship in a way...

I did notice the ad serving infrastructure seemed quite sophisticated. There were so many domains and proxies and redirects. Luckily uBlock Origin blocks almost all of them. And usually, I can avoid any of the "bonus" features by opening the video player iframe in its own tab (but sometimes this isn't possible, or the video player tab has some scripts to make it annoying to run in isolation).

One thing I like to do during the commercial breaks is paste the URL of the site into GitHub Code Search. This always leads to interesting results, including blocklists, people's personal media scrapers, or sometimes even the (re-)publishing infrastructure of the sites themselves. It's also a great way to find alternative URLs or other streaming sites.
Then, it would seem that deleting "Help" from the front of the headline would make a better HN title. (And are we in the business of retaining misspellings?)
Tetris OS[1] has some good content to learn from.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaILnmUYS_U
https://archive.is/oVPcm
> I don't get how we can be pushed to decriminalize drugs and then be asked for tremendous resources to treat the drug abuse we enabled?

> I don't understand why we have to pay for other people's mistakes.

It looks like you don't understand which part you don't actually get. While Portugal's program was being funded properly, the increase in drug usage was no different from nearby countries that did not change their drug laws. Teen marijuana usage was 1/3 what it was in the US at the time. But what about the cost? Well, it seems to have saved a boatload of money on enforcement.

“The most important direct effect was a reduction in the use of criminal justice resources targeted at vulnerable drug users,” says Alex Stevens, professor of criminal justice at the U.K.’s University of Kent, who co-authored the study. “Before, a large number of people were being arrested and punished for drug use alone. They saved themselves a lot of money and stopped inflicting so much harm on people through the criminal justice system. There were other trends since drugs were decriminalized in 2001, but they are less easy to attribute directly to decriminalization.”

https://healthland.time.com/2010/11/23/portugals-drug-experi...

The hippies over at Forbes seem to think that ending canabis prohibition will help the US recover economically from the pandemic like ending alcohol prohibition helped end the great depression.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kriskrane/2020/05/26/cannabis-l...

But what about the collateral damage of all this rampant treating-instead-of-imprisoning-people-for-drug-use? Well, The International Journal of Drug Policy said:

"Taking into consideration health and non-health related costs, we find that that the social cost of drugs decreased by 12% in the five years following the NSFAD's approval and by a rather significant 18% in the eleven-year period following its approval. Whilst the reduction of legal system costs (possibly associated with the decriminalization of drug consumption) is clearly one of the main explanatory factors, it is not the only one. In particular, the rather significant reduction of health-related costs has also played an important role."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09553...

Surely the stalwart right-wing CATO institute will set the record straight on the fallout from such an irresponsible policy:

"While drug addiction, usage, and associated pathologies continue to skyrocket in many EU states, those problems—in virtually every relevant category—have been either contained or measurably improved within Portugal since 2001. In certain key demographic segments, drug usage has decreased in absolute terms in the decriminalization framework, even as usage across the EU continues to increase, including in those states that continue to take the hardest line in criminalizing drug possession and usage."

Yep, they did.

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/greenwald...
Ultimately I'm glad that the research has seen the light, since I'm of the personal persuasion that there is no single scrap of science that should ever be done in the dark. All research, in a perfect world, would be entirely public and freely and easily accessible.

With that being said, I'm not sure if leaking a paper and selfishly putting your name on it and excluding others so that you win a Nobel Prize doesn't exactly seem "heroic". Certainly beneficial for mankind, but it seems like a self-serving action.
FYI already made it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29145946

But this type of trust is kinda timeless.
https://archive.is/s1Cg9
Ask HN: What will be the Most Popular AI Tools in 2023?
I like terminal applications, though for flashcards/spaced repetition I personally think a GUI is more suitable. I often use non-text media in this (pictures, formatted math, formatted text). I like Anki's approach where the flashcards are HTML.
Ten Conditions for Change: A framework for creating positive behaviors
If your daughter was raped, she brought shame to your family and you must kill her. That’s a belief and is obviously abuse of shame.

Overall shame did more harm than good
A technical exposé of Eucharistic miracles, by a YC alum
I wrote up a meta-analysis of 5 forensic investigations of Eucharistic miracles, a rare phenomenon that’s been very fascinating to me. The miracles involve consecrated bread turning into human cardiac flesh and/or blood (sounds absolutely insane, I know). They've occurred hundreds of times over the centuries at Catholic parishes around the world, and 5 of them have been finally investigated in the last ~50 years thanks to advances in forensics science and medical tech.

I spent over a year working on this article, doing research and writing on evenings after putting the kids to bed.

Some background:

I participated in one of the earliest YC batches along with another cofounder and since then have held various FAANG and fintech jobs. I’ve been mostly a lurker on HN but have posted occasionally from another account. Starting out as an atheist, I embraced Protestant Christianity and later Catholicism after extensive research into the theology, lives of the canonized saints, and phenomena such as these miracles.

Full disclosure: this article is part of a tiny Catholic apologetics site, and most of you on HN probably don’t share my religious views let alone the conclusions of the article. But regardless of whether you’re a staunch atheist or a devout believer of whatever faith, I think it’s valuable for us on HN to be able to talk freely on the intersection of science & faith, a topic that’s very rarely discussed in tech circles. Many of my friends and family are atheists, so I really treasure this kind of civil open dialogue.

Enjoy and happy reading!
I don't understand how your comment implies a lack of subsidy, it only states that the people harvesting the material can make money off of it. Which would be true if it was subsidized, too.
Those were only utilities and games, not enterprise software.
Computational electrodynamics.

We need to design better geometries for reactors so that we can channel the plasma flow to better improve containment while quickly removing wastes from the highly compressed energetic region where fusion mostly occurs. If we could do that, then that mostly solves the issues from reactor degradation and significantly improves efficiency.

The trouble is that at such high energy levels the plasma flow is relatively chaotic so high fidelity models are required to predict the behavior accurately.
> That's pretty much what docker desktop does anyway, except it bridges the host with th containers in the Vm. I don't think it's worth throwing out all of the interop there

On WSL, incl. WSL2, you get bridged networking 'for free'. I'm not sure what Docker Desktop adds there. I'm not really on Windows anymore. But WSL is part of the picture when it comes to Docker's awful performance and memory leaks on Windows. If you can give up WSL/Hyper-V in favor of a better hypervisor, you can get much better performance.

> I'd really rather not throw away all of the _good_ docker has - despite my complaints, I still use it every day.

I guess we differ there, in that I don't really think Docker (which is really useful) is a great fit for local development— especially on non-Linux. There are other teams at my org who develop using Docker, and for those I've spoken to it's been a real win compared to what they had before! I respect that. But my team currently only uses Docker in CI and in cloud deployments rather than for local development, and I'm pretty happy with that.
Big government is bad.

Unless there is a book, drug, or out-group we can use big government to control.
Very cool explanation, I didn’t understand a word you said
Lead solder is mostly ok. Arguably lead free solder has been much more damaging for the environment because of all the e-waste it created.
I love that a Nuke file can (usually) be passed around using no more than copy/pasted text.
I live on the site of a building rebuilt 13 years after a fire that was attempted to be put out by firefighters. Would that foam have contaminated the well water I drink from?
I say this on here every time this topic comes up and get downvoted to hell because no one likes to hear it, but I don’t care because people need to hear it and I m gonna preach it. Everyone who complains about RTO always focuses on how it affects them. If you want to argue from a position of strength with your company on why WFH is better, stop focusing on it’s benefits to you and more on its benefits to your company.

Your arguments about “me” will always fall on deaf ears at your company. They don’t care about “me”, they care about “us”.
Imagine if every doctor's office had an MRI machine and they were a fraction of the size they are now.
But are these advisories really meaningful? People volitionally ingest persistent organic flourines every day (e.g., Flonase, Prozac, Lipitor). These chemicals are really useful, and only very mildly harmful. EPA's straight-line calculations for excess deaths are comically overstated -- tens of thousands of deaths, and we struggle to actually point at more than a few high profile incidents. Is it possible that, yes, these chemicals are mildly harmful, but also very useful, and that we have to take a more sophisticated approach to the trade-offs?

Here's an amusing article highlighting the struggle to single out the "bad" PFAS from the truly life-saving PFAS. https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/is-there-a-right-d...
Calm down L Ron Hubbard
What's up with that uh? I read about the swore statements during the depositions, and all the mainstream media news, but for some reason HN had radio silence.

Is there something I missed that shows it's all shenanigans?
Me too, but that goes to prove OP's point. Jay-walking isn't just a crime, it's basically a social faux in Germany, which is why it doesn't happen that often.
Asteroid mining becomes cost effective if the demand increases.
Holy moly, the hypocrisy is astounding. Why would anyone ever trust software written by a person so lacking in integrity?
Another significant appearance of the mace is in academic settings. Even my community college had one. I only saw it in the display case in the library, but I am sure that it was lovingly carried in procession, or at least on display during commencement ceremonies.
I don't demand anything for free. I'll use it but go ahead and don't offer a service instead, won't bother me at all. User-abuse is not justified by calling usage service-abuse.
This is just so unbelievably short sited. A country is massively different than a company. A country has the force of law, it has the right to use deadly force when threatened, it can print money, seize assets, tax citizens, jail people, expel people.

Like this isn’t just about money and how much you make, that’s what a company is, a country is life or death, peace and prosperity or war and famine.

JFC…
I’ve seen this stated a ton and it’s not really true. Once trained, the model (except for decoding) is deterministic, and you can enforce determinism fairly easily. ChatGPT is not deterministic at the chat window but that’s not inherent to the model.
I would much prefer a way that doesn't require setting up another computer on the network as a print server when the printer itself is already on the network.
The Mormon church has over $150 billion in assets, and people are very reluctant to call it a cult. But it fits almost all of the criteria.
> imply put: fuck the social contract. I didn't sign it. It doesnt get me any benefits, and all it is a whole lot of "costs", all of which are ill defined.

I mean, this is what happens when you decide that the contract is one-sided. If a company dump toxic waste into a river you use, you must pursue them through the courts like a civilised man. Years in courts and millions in costs to get justice.

If you take their waste and try Tom dump it in their office you will be arrested withing 20 minutes
What's next is amazing.

You wouldn't had believed it if I had told you a month ago.
How do you use tiddlywiki alongside Obsidian? Why not just go all in on Obsidian?
> ... but batteries are consumables. I like these things to be easy-to-replace!

Replaceable, consumable batteries often get thrown out in the trash. ... and can set garbage trucks and recycling centers on fire.

https://www.waste360.com/safety/lithium-ion-batteries-are-ca...

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2023/02/09/garbage...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/recycling-firm-fined...

https://gothamist.com/news/lithium-ion-batteries-a-growing-f...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-29/garbage-truck-fires-c...

(and many more)

How does one make sure that removable, consumable, high capacity batteries are not discarded as trash but instead taken to the proper facilities to handle them?
Careful with this logic, the same thing could have (and pretty much was) said 50 years ago about fission and microchips.