skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly why I clicked on it.

“Have you ever been confused…” the video begins. Why yes, yes, I have!
I'm a VP managing six projects. They require hours of care each day. The fundamental problem is that the workday is too short, and not that I made a choice to add six projects to my life.
Maybe this can be our magic bullet to save free content after we killed ads: train AI on user input/behavior (at least for a brief period of time until the EU throws another fit and California follows suit). Perfectly fair tradeoff to me - it should be fair use for AI to train on anything at all in my view, same as it's fair use for a human to look at something and learn abstract lessons from it.
Why were you side-eyeing LIGO? Gravitational waves were a prediction of an extremely well tested theory, and all that was needed was to engineer an instrument sensitive enough to see them.
The parent meant that the “desktop app” is actually a browser.
This comment reminds me of those Amazon reviews that give a product 1-star because Amazon had a shipping issue. Yeah, sorry the product wasn't able to get to you but you aren't helping me figure if the product itself is any good or not.
True, some of these top secret crafts are something else.

There's a reason why America never bothered to develop hypersonic missiles.
I know but its all Google would throw up as any links related.

Hyperphosphatemia is very easy with supermarket cappuccino style beverages as is extremely hard water, and an NHS that fails to act on any diagnosis for several years, even from 3rd party's.

I say extremely hard water, based on the amount of chalky residue left behind in a situation best described as pan evaporation. Never seen anything like it before in all my life.

But then I only have to look at the water and food regulations to see the govt is using legislation to create health problems.

The perfect GDP boosting circle jerk to the unassuming uneducated person on the street, unless of course big business is influencing or writing the regulations?
There is a weird bias where VC doesn't seem to care much about market defensibility and unit economics. Growth is good, but companies without solid unit economics or poor defensibility can get to 100m in revenue and still not be worth anything.
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K
I'd pay with my credit card like a normal person
FYI

>Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
'every' is pretty bold.

the group that is in trouble is those who bs lots, GPT Today can bs much better.
Honestly, why would you want that? If you start using Lisp you rapidly stop focusing on the parentheses and instead focus on the code structure.

Indentation is a big guide, but can't do all the work.
Self-hosting Jitsi is the better option. Or BigBlueButton, and there are more self-hosted open-source Zoom alternatives.
> Lying and dishonesty is a personal matter, not one of corporate policy.

Would that this were true. Hundreds of UK sub-postmasters will tell you of their experience of extreme mistreatment based on the UK Post Office lying as a matter of corporate policy.
https://archive.ph/TbzGM
Add to the mix bug reports like, "This worked on the Gateway when the Epson was freshly plugged into the LPR port but crashed after the Epson had printed 5 pages. If we remove our sound card, then no more problems..." Microsoft's strategy was to support legacy and buggy hardware -- this reduced friction for OEMs and helped expand the market, but it also caused a lot of trouble.
What are you on about? Sync is a native app that uses the Lemmy API, not some webapp wrapper. And the original version also features ads unless you bought the pro version.
Never seen a digg link on HN.
The treatment is for type 1, not type 2. Very different causes.
Heavily depends on manager/team/business unit, but the main issue is usually insane workload and insane deadlines on projects that are already late from the moment they start because sales/marketing/execs promised $MAJOR_CUSTOMER something totally unrealistic will be delivered.

The churn level is high. People are constantly fired, let go, or leave after their relocation bonus expires if they don't see any promotions after their tolls.

Lots of "Game of Thrones" backstabbing going on behind the scene inside the org between managers, each trying to get the spotlight for the successes on them to get that sweet promotion, while disregarding their team and workers as disposable commodities that can always be replaced by overseas workers if they don't fall in line and deliver on the impossible deadlines.

The difference in pay between junior and seniors/managers is huge, so they dangle that carrot in front of you so you put up with everything just for the chance of hopefully making it to that level one day.
It's only used in memory, AFAIK. I doubt they could outperform B-trees in a db context.
Would you lie to your boss about if, you lied or not, according to directions
Smoke-spotting AI watches live video to find early signs of wildfire
TIL there's a "north is up" setting! I always found this frustrating because my mental model is also "north is up", and when zoomed in I can get confused by "your direction is up".
It was already annoying that titles can be changed by a moderator without leaving any trace and now titles are also being mutilated automatically at submission time into something that may or may not make sense. At least in this case the submitter may notice what happened and change it back.
Nah, it doesn't. It just shows that it's time consuming and expensive to replicate their studies.
Where are you flying? I've never lost a bag outright but I've had bags delayed by days or weeks on maybe 5% of flights. I tend to go to places off the beaten path though.

If at all possible I use carry on only.
I’m here for this timeline. Just let the bots argue infinitely, come to a nonsense conclusion, and then have management synthesize the summary with another bot that then feeds decisions that require more meetings.
It was mostly written by me, although I do admit to using ChatGPT to help out in generating some of my material. Most of the recent blog posts are Feynman style lecture notes I wrote for myself to learn new concepts and this piece I actually wrote well over 10 years ago and I figured to share it in case anyone else wanted a quick and visual overview. Apologies for missing out any important concepts. At the time I wrote down material that I found important so there are definitely things I may have not explained correctly.
Toasters plus Hacker News should always equal John Siracusa’s glorious series of toaster reviews:

https://www.caseyliss.com/2015/9/10/siracusa-on-toasters
> Until users are made to pay (ideally with dollars and not with attention) for a service like Reddit/Digg/Lemmy/whatever, these services are going to keep going away.

Nobody needs to be "made" to pay. There are many different models already for running Mastodon servers. Some are cooperatives, some are crowdfunded, some have premium content, some are literal non-profit charities, some are parts of bigger businesses that do anything. You can't have done any research into this before you made your comment or else you'd know that.
> well JavaScript if you're willing to buy into the idea that it's scheme in c syntax, which isn't actually that far off.

It is quite far off. Just look at the version of "SICP in Javascript" (of which Julie Sussman was even one of the authors). The important points of the book are obscured by all the boilerplate and workarounds for the poor expressivity of the language.
The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September
The hard part of checked exceptions is when they start interacting with higher order code- in Java this often happens when an interface method wants to throw. Each implementation may want to throw its own set of exceptions, but the code that just works with the interface doesn't care about any of them, and existing languages don't really give you a way to express this.

What you really want here is polymorphism in the exception specification, and a way for consumers to allow these new exceptions types to "tunnel" through out to the caller that knows about them. And for that to work while still providing any guarantees that exceptions are handled, it turns out you need something like a borrow checker, to prevent the interface object from escaping that outer scope!

Here's a 2016 paper on the subject (with Barbara Liskov as a coauthor): https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~yizhou/papers/exceptions-pldi201....
There is also a provision for letting them train AI on Customer Content (10.4: machine learning, artificial intelligence, training) so the distinction probably doesn't matter in this case?
It seems to me that every ‘AI’ effort I see today utterly depends on circumventing or ignoring privacy.
I took an overnight bus through Finland as a student. Never again. Less leg space than the cheapest airline, no awesome view like you get from flying, no toilet as I recall (so no reason to get up and stretch legs either), and didn't sleep for a moment. Six hours of boredom while being dead tired and needing to stay seated upright. After arriving, the day consisted of bone-chilling cold strolling through a city while dead on my feet.

Flying is approximately 850km/h as the crow flies compared to the 100 that a bus does across defined roads. If the bus ride is more than three hours and there are no other options like a train, all else being equal, probably I'd opt for wasting more time with airport stuff (getting there and back, waiting an hour on the airport and 30 minutes in the boarding line because they require you to be unnecessarily early) and cause more greenhouse emissions to avoid the disaster that is overnight busses
Wait, what is "the service" here?

As I understand it, it refers to using meet.jitsi.si, not "another service" someone might provide by downloading the Jitsi software and running it on their own server.

Please correct me if I'm wrong since this would give me cause to reconsider running a Jitsi server.
The incentive should be to clear the way for tenure track

The junior faculty will clear the rotten apples at the top by finding flaws in their research and then will win the tenure that was lost in return

This will create a nice political atmosphere and improve science
Valuations are mostly bullshit free cash flow net of share compensation is what matters.
I think generally it’s better to never lie outside of a few rare corner cases (mostly around avoiding violence).

Those corner cases have basically never come up in my life (stuff like the SS coming to your door and asking if you’re hiding Jews).

Most of the times people justify their own lying they’re wrong to do so imo.
One of the most striking understanding gaps in the modern world is that consumers still willingly believe they aren't interchangeable, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
CSA Matter – Distributed Compliance Ledger and the IoT (2022) [pdf]
> Who seriously thinks this shouldn't have been published until someone else had been able to replicate the result?

Nobody, obviously. You cannot reproduce a result that hasn’t been published, so no new phenomenon is replicated the moment it is first published. The problem is not the publication of new discoveries, it’s the lack of incentives to confirm them once they’ve been published.

In your example, new observations of giant squids are still massively valuable even if not that novel anymore. So new observations should be encouraged (as I am sure they are).

> Or replicate the results of the flyby of Pluto, or flying a helicopter on Mars?

Well, we should launch another probe anyway. And I am fairly confident we’ll have many instances of aircrafts in Mars’ atmosphere and more data than we’ll know what to do with it. We can also simulate the hell out of it. We’ll point spectrometers and a whole bunch of instruments towards Pluto. These are not really good examples of unreproducible observations.

Besides, in such cases robustness can be improved by different teams performing their own analyses separately, even if the data comes from the same experimental setup. It’s not all black or white. Observations are on a spectrum, some of them being much more reliable than others and replication is one aspect of it.

> How would peer replication be relevant?

How would you know which aspects of the observed phenomena come from particularities of this specific lab? You need more than one instance. You need some kind of statistical and factor analyses. Replication in this instance would not mean setting actual labs on fire on purpose.

It’s exactly like studying car crashes: nobody is going to kill people on purpose, but it is still important to study them so we regularly have new papers on the subject based on events that happened anyway, each one confirming or disproving previous observations.
Google's copy is coming out "soon" [1], though the launch has been recently pushed back[2].

[1] https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/androids-answer-to-...
[2]: https://www.phonearena.com/news/find-my-device-network-setti...
Haha, well said. Not to mention there weren't enough people to understand the coverage of required details and their impacts, or interested to do so.
Is it possible to do something like NIFs in Java?
There's even plenty of reason to doubt the motivations of the very researchers involved here. George Church is known to have had extensive ties and contacts with Jeffrey Epstein. Here is some research at Harvard that Epstein sponsored (along with the Gates Foundation) singing the praises of "eusocial" forms of social organization, where reproductive ability is confined to a tiny subset of the population: "The ties that bind – Harvard Gazette" https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/08/the-ties-that...

Do these people really intend for these technologies to benefit the broad mass of people?
If intelligent life has colonized the galaxy I think they live in places like this and are disinclined to travel to dry inner solar system worlds like the Earth, thus explaining he Fermi ‘paradox”. If a species has perfected D-D fusion they can cut objects like Pluto, Ganymede or Ceres into numerous small ringworlds (aka “orbitals”) or other structures that make interstellar travel something you do 10,000 AU at a time.
I'd take Zoom over Teams any day. Multiple times lately Teams has completely crashed trying to view a screen share, and viewing a screen share has taken 3 attempts sometimes, or works then breaks if I maximize the window and the presenter has to stop and start /again/. Zoom never gave me these problems.
NieR was unsettling. What an interesting experience.

It is definitely a must play. Even if you play it on easy.
>>I would rather spend an extra four hours sleeping in the back of a C-130<<

i miss those days sometimes
It’s bad. Many debt slaves were created in the recent mortgage and housing crisis, and a lot of workers are furious and apathetic working these long hours for little to no pay.
glutton ;-p
I wish we can replicate the LHC
This seems to be it: https://zig.news/ityonemo/sneaky-error-payloads-1aka

It looks like it would be useful, but relies on a naming convention? Hopefully everyone picks the same field names.
>The Economist projected that China would become the world’s biggest economy by 2018, surpassing the United States.

What annoys me about economists is how often they redefine how they calculate things like "GDP" and "unemployment" and then try to compare their new oranges to their old data apples.

In many respects, if you use the older metrics China has long surpassed America on its GDP output but with the constant revision America still is "number 1".

Same goes for unemployment. You can compare these metrics when you change how they're calculated.

As for China, their youth is now experiencing what many in the West and Japan are familiar with: NEETs/hikkimori.

They don't see the point in working because the cost of living is too high and their wages stagnant so they go the opposite route and do just enough to get by and enjoy life.

I don't blame them either.
> but the check-in agent had attached the wrong tag. This one was for another passenger, who was traveling from Baltimore to Chicago only.

So what?

It’s not the customer’s fault that someone acting on behalf of the company made a mistake. That’s the company’s problem.
If that's the case, then don't claim confidence in the work or make policy decisions based off of it. If there is no epistemological humility, then yes, it is still BS.
The dark and bright sides of power
I'm sure it's getting more and more difficult to find people who can (and are willing to) play an organ well enough to play new-to-them hymns weekly in front of a congregation and not sound like someone's child's recital.

When many small and/or rural congregations are struggling financially just to keep their lights on while also paying for a pastor's salary and upkeep on their parsonage, the decision to allow a RPi MIDI system for a few hundred dollars one-time cost vs a few grand annually for an organist becomes an easier decision.
Ask HN: Why does Android Messages need my phone?
This has to be one of the most frustrating apps I have ever used, and it all comes down to the fact that the web app wants to "connect with my phone" in order to work, and is incredibly bad and inconsistent at doing so.

Is it really just getting my texts from my phone? Are the phone and the web app not pulling and pushing from and to some external service? Is this a real-world constraint that is a problem for all apps that want to act as an interface for SMS?
> Seems similar.

It's not: because error sets are a built-in and completely bespoke feature, and they get handled via built-in constructs exclusively (try / catch), zig can actually attach / generate error traces: https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.3.0/#Error-Return-Traces
The libpg query library has a very important problem: It does not work on windows https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query/issues/44

I'd recommend starting with fixing that instead. It would be much more helpful for the community.
That's... True about anywhere and any group of people?
The irony of course is that the keyboard is perhaps the worst thing about the Atari ST and much of the charm in these old systems is the crisp real-time response of their simple hardware and software - which you won't get in a software emulator.
That has certainly made finding something in my history difficult more than a few times.
Didn't they just announce that they can't pay out their creators their 'rev share'

Have they paid their fired/laid off employees severance yet? Their rent? Their cloud bills? etc...
> In many respects, if you use the older metrics China has long surpassed America on its GDP output but with the constant revision America still is "number 1".

Maybe, but the Economist is a UK publication. What incentive would they have to prop up the identity of America as number 1?
This article simplifies it a bit : https://medium.com/@1kg/aa-battery-to-replace-your-meds-fbd6...
How to degrowth USA federal spending?
This was going to be my recommendation as well. Highly recommend!
My experience using applications built around the FUSE stack or the File Provider API suggest to me that while your take is generally true, it’s a “grass is always greener” problem.

The File Provider API provides a much better admin and user experience, but the storage providers tend to really easily make a confusing mess of it. OneDrive took the time to figure out how to use sync roots in a way that enables you to store your actual data-containing files to an external drive. Dropbox didn’t care about supporting that use case on Macs, so what was once possible with both is now just possible with one. That has been a source of problems for many.

On the other hand the migration to OneDrive’s File Provider implementation was a data-thrashing horror show for many.

And iCloud Drive doesn’t truly let you decide a persistent sync state for everything.

The security implications are better but it’s just the same old mess file syncing has been for a long time :)
How to add a date to HN title? The post says "This article originally ran in the February 1997 issue of Reader’s Digest."
We will, don’t worry.
Yeah just as a counter-example to the horror stories I only really had a misdirected bag once in ~40 years of flying and Swiss who misdirected gave me a good bit of money for new gear and delivered the bag to my hotel the next day. Maybe it's different in Europe? I daresay I normally travel hand baggage only.
I tried it at the beginning of the pandemic and my siblings phones all drained during the hour long call.
They're basically no barriers to publication. There are a number of normal journals that publish everything submitted if it appears to be honest research.
In your ssh config:

Host my-trusted-powerful-remote-machine.whatever.com
ForwardAgent yes

There is still one problem if you like to re-use long-running screen/tmux sessions, for a solution to this see for instance https://gist.github.com/martijnvermaat/8070533
This is true but cuts both ways: car owners spend time dealing with maintenance and repairs, parking, etc. It very much depends on where you live but one thing I’ve noticed is that most drivers are chronically late because they’re thinking of the time spent driving on roads, not actual door-to-door travel time including things like the time they spent looking for a more subsidized parking spot or waiting for other drivers to leave.

The other thing is quality of life. Walking, biking, and even using transit are better for your health – the first two can meet your exercise needs - and they all allow you to do something other than sit immobile looking at a tailpipe, so you have to make a fuzzy comparison in many cases. Where I live, driving can be as fast as riding a bike if you’re lucky on traffic but even if I take transit it’s only like 10 minutes slower so I’d have to weight 30 minutes of reading and 15 minutes of walking against 25 minutes of driving.
Sounds like they’d love your contribution. I hate when people prescribe tasks to others like this.
Yes water is a neutral compound (pH 7) , an electrically neutral molecule. I was just putting one of its chemical names as a bad joke.

I believe amateurCoder5 was as well retorting with another name for water as an alkaline compound.
That's a very good question! Most advanced languages have some way of defining the concept of a "computation within a context". For example, all languages that support a notion of Monads do have that kind of support. Examples would be Haskell, Scala, F#, ...

In those languages there are (or would be) generally two ways of achieving the same thing as errdefer:

1.) having a common interface/tag for errors

In that case, if you have a return type "success | error1 | error2" then error1 and error2 must implement a common global interface ("error") so that you can "chain" computations that have a return type of the shape of "success | error". "success | error1 | error2" would follow that shape because the type "error1 | error2" is then a subtype of "error".

2.) Having some kind of result type.

This would be similar to how it works in rust or in the example in the article here. So you would have a sumtype like "Result = either success A or failure B" and the errors that are stored in the result-failure (B) would then be uniontypes.

The chaining would then just be a function implemented on the result-type. This is personally what I use in Scala for my error handling.

Just to make it clear, this "chaining" is not specific for error-handling but a very general concept.
What's more likely, stuff gets lost or kids forget to pack it, or this guy has gotten perv bag handlers that can sniff out women's underwear and children's gym shoes and stole them, risking their job in the process? If they weren't able to sniff them out, then they rummage through bags randomly as they are running down conveyor belts to find clothing items and shoes to steal.