skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone say more about this?

I've heard of this issue before but haven't experienced it myself. How does it arise, I.e. what's the race condition between git and rsync/Dropbox/... that causes problems?
> When HN learns a new word you really have to be patient.

The "new word" has been coined because there's just not so much cheap money around, and there's been a whole lot of companies that have been pressured to monetize in ways that may not be good for everyone's long term.

The word's in the zeitgeist because the phenomenon it is describing is running rampant.
I see the button at the bottom of the page when opening the job.
https://xkcd.com/204/
> his "solutions" do nothing to address the power of these monopoly platforms

Oh, his solutions DO address the problem in a way that works best: Walk away.
ChatGPT leaks answers to others queries when you prompt with a specific pattern
ChatGPT (and its future offspring) can navigate regular websites the same way humans do

It seems to be at least a not-yet-true claim, but let’s ignore that for now. It’s interesting if LLMs actually could do this. As I understand it, LLMs are trained on texts and source code among other things. But lacking… let’s name it a reasoning apparatus, can they really look at a DOM tree and tell what it is/does? It’s not a text, and barely can be a well-structured source code that was ever discussed (it’s a result of either bundling or componentization). This is almost on par with “LLMs will look at any .exe and be able to integrate with it immediately”.
I thought <em> was semantic ("emphasis") and <i> is stylistic ("italics")? And last I heard (when <em> came out) you weren't supposed to use <i> anymore because it's bad form to use HTML for styling! Much like <center>.
An LLM is much slower and requires more resources at runtime than Beautiful Soup (if you are hosting yourself), and could fail to retrieve data. It's a worse solution unless your HTML parser/scraper is broken by website changes.

This is only the case for now, however. I expect this to change in favour of LLMs as time goes on and they become easier to deploy and better at their job.
Study finds plant-based straws containing PFAS

https://www.foodpackagingforum.org/news/study-finds-plant-ba...
I have heard that Portland is such a mess because three factors hit at once:

1) the police stopped arresting for small possession, but no social services were funded to fill the gap for helping/making people get clean. Churches can only do so much.

2) the war on fentanyl pushed that drug market into homemade from ingredients anyone can get on alibaba... greatly increasing access.

3) the unemployment crisis.

I can vouch personally for the massive number of people who appear high on fentanyl, specifically. Thank goodness it's not an aggressive drug. Can someone with more context and subject expertise comment?
As a side comment, it’s unfortunate to see the hatred on this site towards those building decentralized permissionless payment networks. I don’t think some company should be able to decide whether Americans can or cannot transact.
Best way to get EV 'refill' time to minutes is battery swapping. This already exists commercially, see Nio in China, and it apparently takes as little as 3 minutes.

Similar speeds for charging are impractical because of the power spikes required even if the battery could take it.

You cannot have instant charging, that's not pedantic, that's the discussion, and in any case there is a practical limit to how fast it can happen for similar reasons.

All the work being done on smart home EV chargers that automatically schedule the right time (controlled by grid) to charge overnight are because even at current speeds this wreaks havoc on the electrical subsystems and grid if everyone plug their EVs in at the same time in the evening...
I think (at least with my comment that's one of the kind you alluded to) my hope is that it replaces huge piles of JavaScript code. I have, sadly, no illusions of a JS-free web, but at least we could get rid of huge gobs of it and have more-standard UX that the system can help guide and shape (with the benefits that entails).

It also enables a whole slew of new applications to be made that need way less JS than we used to need. So while, sure, these might be in-place "upgrades" for existing Enterprise TS apps, the hope is that it'll allow shunning those Enterprise Frameworks entirely for net-new app development. Or at least, a boy can dream, right?
> Red state: Back into your driveway? Tag can’t be seen from the street = ticket

That's seriously a law??

That's more ridiculous than anything I've seen in a liberal democracy.
My build system is cat!
I no longer stay on websites that require consent, show overlays, demand subscriptions and signups or do any other funky anti-user maneuvers. Just let this part of the web die.

Web is already hostile enough nowadays with all the tracking, scams, abuses of consent and bad ux designed to sell shit nobody needs.
Is there any payment processor that does handle VAT? How can they do that when they do not have information required?
>Have some respect for your users, developers. ‘Cause you’re one of them.

No, they're not, not for most devs. Most devs don't use the stuff they produce. They're just hired guns, building something they're told to make. If they refuse to implement what they're told, they'll be fired for insubordination.
It fell in the ocean and then drifted. It's harmless to the ocean life.
Better you should worry about the tons of plastic that's endding up in ocean everyday
The object in the IR Tic-Tac video is colder than the environment. High current supraconductivity will perhaps always require a low temperature.
A beetle that heads for the ‘back door’ when eaten by a frog (2020)
There are plenty of horror stories of Paypal holding funds. They've been doing it for far longer than most these other companies, since they've been around longer than most of them.
What are you even talking about, why would anyone be building chatbots at this point? Chatbots are like the hello world of using an LLM API, it has nothing to do with what this article is about.
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> John C Weight

That's a name I haven't heard in a while. I remember that his Awake in the Night was a fantastic reimagining of William Hope Hodgson's (terrible) The Night Land

1: https://archive.org/details/john-c-wright-awake-in-the-night
How can I prevent device orientation and motion from being auto allowed?
> Give me reliable buttons any day.

My favourite pair of jeans are a pair of Levis from the 80's that only use buttons. Lack of zipper is one of the reasons they've lasted 40 years.
Is the dichotomy here really that we can either have modular batteries, or we can have more intact waste trucks and workers?

However, having just taken an entire stroller out of my shared duplex recycling bin, I know there will never be an ethical way to get 100% of people to care enough to dispose of waste properly.
Sub 10MB? That's a whole YouTube video!
Therefore proved that credulity is a conserved quantity, and HN is now searching for the underlying symmetry
I bloody thought this was a nerd trawling exercise! Or, maybe just China trolling, like you said. Payback for smashing their weather balloons?

But it was obvious to me from the first video I watched. A handheld potato camera filming the monitor of a microscope, when the microscope itself contains a good camera. That, plus the fact that he spins the magnet multiple times in his hand, like a magician. It's impossible to track which side of the magnet he is using.

Surprised HN went so hard on it. It's stuff like this that's made me slash my HN reading time.
Could you explain shortly what can be prevented?

The hard part is I believe to spoof the DNS entry and then get a cert from a CA they is in the browser root. Were there cases where HSTS actually stopped something after that? (serious question - I always wondered how much of a peripheral problem HSTS solves)
Scalpers only exist because they are not raising the price to reduce demand. If they just wanted a higher price there is still room to go higher.
Also, the 'e' in eGPU usually means that the card is housed externally to the rest of the computer - in its own enclosure.

They don't actually explain anywhere in their paper what 'eGPU' means. Is it 'emulated'? I thought circuits implemented in FPGAs are not considered emulation?
> With ProseMirror, I’d need to tunnel through 1 layer of abstraction and/or patch 1 layer of abstraction. With Tiptap, maybe I’d need to fork-and-patch both you and ProseMirror? Each layer also increases our maintenance liability.

As a contributor to the previous version of Tiptap, and as a developer that built extensions into it, I encountered the exact same problem of having to learn two different APIs while trying to build more advanced features.

Out-of-the-box libraries like Tiptap are great when their extensions or components fully cover your use case. But when you need to customize or own the code itself, the secondary abstraction becomes leaky and you start to fight against it.

Because I was building a note-taking app, I spent most of the time working on the rich text editor. Eventually, I just ripped the bandaid off and
wrote a new library that was architected off Tiptap but was a thinner abstraction on top of ProseMirror.

With hindsight, I can definitively say that was the better personal choice. The last time I used Tiptap was in 2020, and since then its API has evolved to a point where my knowledge is way outdated. On the flip side, ProseMirror has been extremely stable, improving with a non-breaking typescript rewrite. Digging into the internals of ProseMirror, learning how it has been built and maintained, contributed massively to how I write code today.

That being said, the journey of moving off Tiptap to ProseMirror took a couple of months for a junior dev. So I can understand how a market for it exists. My only wish for Tiptap now is for it to reduce its API overhead on ProseMirror, and instead build more advanced ProseMirror-compatible plugins that require a backend. Collaborative editing (comments, annotations), version control and schema migration, etc are all exercises normally left up to the developer that can be solved by Tiptap well.
This is how GPT4 answers the question... I assumed the question, but presumably will be along those lines :)

https://chat.openai.com/share/c736abf4-ae3c-4fbd-9427-b7d2f9...
What really bugs me about all the Google/Facebook/Twitter anti-ad-blocker stuff is that if only a tiny minority of us use them why are they putting so much effort into to stopping us?

From Facebook breaking copy/paste so you can’t email calendar events to people not on the platform to Twitter closing APIs to third party clients to Google attempting to stop ad blockers.

It’s all just to make life worse for a tiny group of people.
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When Meta did not launch Threads in Europe, the Tech Media who had previously declared how Mastodon is a failure because its signup process is just too complicated for normie users (you have to choose a server!!) published helpful articles à la “Here’s how you set up a second US app store account, configure a VPN on your phone and fake your Insta-Account to US in 347 simple steps”
I love Postgres, but 100% of my humble use cases are better served by SQLite and I wish I realised that sooner.
Bah, just an X server (or minimal reimplementation) running in an app, that then renders to its top-level surface.

What I would really like to see is an Android back end implementation for wlroots. Or alternatively, a small Android(/termux) app that just acts as a simple Wayland compositor, that compositors can then use as a back-end. I found an issue about this some time ago, but can't find it anymore.
Shareware is not SaaS/subscription-based software. That's the bad part, not "try before you buy".
What is that publication, out of interest?
@duxup Please don't try to justify this despicable behavior. You're not making the world a better place.
Exploring Unicode in macOS with Clui
You are saying

> the thing so many of people with these views have in a common is they feel no shame about the harm they are causing.

> If in your own opinion you did something wrong, you should absolutley feel shame

It implies that the list of people you don't like think they did something wrong but refuse to feel shame about it.

To me, all those people are not shameless - in the sense that they don't feel shame _at all_ -, but don't feel shame because they don't feel like they did something wrong (how can you think you're wrong when you don't _believe_ in climate change ?).

So shame in itself is not the problem.
One thing that has changed in the professional game industry is that
> and that they basically have no immigration as a result

I don't know where this idea that "Japan has no immigration" comes from – it isn't true.

According to OECD statistics, in 2019 Japan (population 125 million) had net permanent immigration of 137,824 people. Compare that to fellow OECD member Mexico, with almost the same population, which in 2019 only had net permanent immigration of 38,704. [0]

In 2019, Japan's population was 2.2% foreign nationals. [1] While that is at the low end by OECD standards, it is still ahead of Hungary (1.9%), Lithuania (1.7%), Slovakia (1.4%), Turkey (1.1%), Poland (0.6%) and Mexico (0.4%).

According to MIPEX [2], the ease of gaining permanent residence in Japan is on par with the US and New Zealand, modestly easier than France and the UK, significantly easier than Switzerland or Australia. The worst country was Saudi Arabia, with UAE not far behind; equal first in ease were Brazil and Finland, with Sweden, Mexico and Ukraine equal second, and Hungary and South Africa equal third.

[0] https://data.oecd.org/migration/permanent-immigrant-inflows....

[1] https://data.oecd.org/migration/foreign-population.htm

[2] https://www.mipex.eu/permanent-residence
I asked it to make a shit post on r/askReddit every minute and it got an error

File "/home/glot/main.py", line 1 var BLOCK_INPUT = `"If you could instantly become an expert in any one subject, what would it be and why?"`; ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Paddle does this, for example. In this case, it's not you selling the product/service to the customer directly. Instead, you sell it to Paddle and Paddle sells it to the customer on your behalf: https://www.paddle.com/resources/merchant-of-record-a-guide-...
That's not what they said, this has to be a bad faith interpretation. Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) for example has lack of shame as one of its defining traits.
It's just backdoor socialism. More and more people are constantly praddling on about how "the wealthy" are the problem, but that's utter nonsense, and IMO has no place in a democratic society.

As with anything else, the answer is to "raise everyone up", not "pull those down who have obtained something". And for the record, I am OK with taxing those with higher incomes at a higher rate. What I'm not OK with is the quite literally insane concept of "take all that money in one tax year", or "make sure no one can ever stay wealthy".

The absurd notion of "if you have more than $x, we'll take it ALL!" is pure socialism, lacks any idea of how monetary systems work, how taxation works, and how much value doing that brings.

For example, if you took every billionaire's liquid cash in the US, you'd barely notice it at the federal level, and then next year? There's be nothing to take.

This is primarily because to 'take that billionaire's net worth!!', you'd have to take ownership of a massive amount of stocks, commodities, and so on. Let's say billionaire G owns 70% of Big Corp H, and that ownership is worth $2B.

Great. So you 'tax' it. So how does that work?

Does the billionaire have to sell if off, and give cash? How does that happen? Remember, all other wealthy people are having their fortunes stripped, so who do you even sell it to?

And if you just hand over the shares to the government, what are they going to do with it? Sell it? To whom? No one has large amounts of disposable cash now, it's all been taken!

None of these weirdo comments about "fuck people with $10 in their pocket!" make sense.
Probably because 99.985% of people who use a browser call it "the internet" and of these a tiny fraction knows that if there is a padlock nothing bad can happen (yes I know that the padlock is now gone because everything wasn't that safe, apparently).

Then you have the 0.0something population that heard that a certificate ensures you that the site is the one you want to go to. And since it is not always the case they have up.

Then there is the sub-Planck- number of these who understand what a cert is and what it is for.
This is a terrible example. Most people do not want to murder, even when very angry. You don't need laws to make people not murder. The laws are for what to do when people do. No matter how universal an attribute is it'll never be 100%. Besides, you'll notice the murder rate is highly localized and associated with economic opportunities.

You know why talking about gay people _is_ a good example? Because you probably forgot that not even 10 years ago gay marriage wasn't legal in the US, or most of the world. In fact, only 10 countries did. 10. You probably forgot how heated that topic was. How people would try to shame two men for holding hands in public. We're not talking about some super flamboyant guy like that Key & Peele skit, but the other side of that. I mean just ask any Catholic how well shame works. Cultures change fast. Far faster than just the old people dying. But you don't get to be selective about what should be shameful or not. Times change and what was shameful in the past is considered fine now. In fact objecting to some things, such as gay marriage, have now reversed. Shame isn't defined objectively, just like our morals. So the argument doesn't work without this condition.

Speaking of Japan, you know where gay marriage is illegal? Japan. Just June the courts ruled that the ban is constitutional (but other courts have said it isn't). Which just became legal in Korea this year. Didn't even recognize the marriages of foreign diplomats till 2019. In fact, there are only two countries in Asia that have gay marriage: South Korea and Taiwan (2019 but not full rights till 2023). You can probably ask these people about how good shame is too.

You're going to need some strong evidence to convince me that Japan's low murder rate is because of its laws.
AI in general could "see" a website like we see it. But LLMs specialise in text. They will find it much easier to figure out the correct semantic interpretation of tag soup than deriving the same information from the rendered output like we do.

Also, the big question is cost. I think semi structured text will forever be far cheaper for an AI to process than a completely unstructured data stream representing visual information.
We haven't made drugs legal. We've just stopped locking people up for doing them. It's a very different thing. I'm still 100% for full legalization. Decriminalization just causes what we're currently seeing. It's a nonsense policy that is only slightly better than prohibition.

Legalize it, produce it in pure dosages of known substance and dosage, and encourage people to get treatment. That's the best we can do. It was the solution to alcohol prohibition and history will show that it is the solution to the bulk of negative externalities from drug prohibition. We'll always have problems stemming from substance use, as consciousness modulation appears to be a drive inherent to humans as a species, but we are choosing as a society to inflict a far greater harm upon both individuals and the society collectively by pursuing a policy of prohibition, including destabilizing our second biggest trading partner into a near-failed narcostate.
Is there one though? Or do you refer to the minutes-hand moving every 1 second?
Please head over to X and observe the homophobic tweets.
I've felt legal was bad, while decriminalisation was for the best, at a personal level as it focuses resources to dealers and importers and leaves social serves for the addicts as jail doesn't seem to be a working solution, but that probably to do with the prison system also.

I recall decriminalisation worked well in Portugal, and maybe it's not repeatable but I wonder if there are other variables beyond the drugs here. I couldn't read the article as behind a paywall but US seems to have other more significant issues where crimes themself are not getting dealt with in these areas. You don't charge addicts for drug use, but when they are stealing or fighting etc they need to be caught and charged. Also there needs to be social support which seems lacking in US compared to other western countries.

And bigger picture, when I watch iterviews with people caught in this life so many grow with parents and communities like this. This cycle needs to be broken somehow but doing so going into ethical grey zones, like Project Prevention, where I feel it's a difficult positive to push for but for the best outcome (in my view) but respect that people can be totally valid feeling otherwise.

At the moment it really seems one of those unsolvable issues. Such a shame it can't be stopped at the supply side.
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I suspect that they would classify that as a "biased take on history"
Precisely - malicious compliance.
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