skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're lowering the barrier to create a podcast so that might happen to an extent, but on the flip side, valued written content that has been confined in text format can now find its way to audio format. Paul Graham essays is a good example: https://app.wondercraft.ai/p/myqXnyUD
GTA San Andreas
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Fourier's Song
I hate me for watching the news about it on that time.

That's the flight that seeing all the details about on television gave me the fear of flying that I have these days, specially when above the ocean.

I just can't overcome this.
GSMA considers giving away mobile device locations through API
This is exactly backwards. Google will happily not index any of your content with a simple robots.txt file. These companies are desperate for Google's traffic. They should be paying Google for it!
Other fast binary searches https://github.com/sslotin/amh-code/tree/main/binsearch
Thats makes me think of the guy who disappeared flying a Cessna test flight to Tasmania, his last report he was talking of a large object descending on him. They rekon he had lost his sense of which way up he was and it is common to fly upside down. He was likely describing the ocean. I recall reading bigger planes can also fly upside down for long distances without piloting, maybe something like that was going on. If you think you are the wrong way up and try to get down, you are going to go up.

here is the story - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Frederick_Val...
Are you thinking of Helios Airways Flight 522? That Ethiopian Airlines flight was a hijacking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522
true but mostly irrelevant as there rarely is any load to speak of.

if you need a heavy duty machine, use it, but most of the time you don't, that's the point.

(for comparison; skylake laptop uses about 20W under max load, my 12-gen desktop uses 40W while idle)
A first-past-the-post system ends up in a two-party system, which means a big tent progressive party and a big tent conservative party; which in turn means nobody is fully happy with either option.

This isn't to say that multiparty democracies always function well, either. Belgium basically had no government (as in a party elected with a mandate to govern) for two years, from 2018 to 2020.
How many LOC is "medium" in your view? Most devs I work with would only put a thousand lines of code in a single file (obviously subjective, depends on density, comments etc). I'd still consider that a toy app, as opposed to my medium mark at about 100k LOC. At that stage you certainly benefit from all the tooling you seem to eschew. "Large" projects (the likes of Linux and Chromium) have so much mass they tend to have fully customized build systems.
Good to know I'm doing my part to fight inflation... by not having a pay raise in 20 months.
Anyone satisfied with "it's gradient descent" as an explanation isn't displaying much curiosity.
> Capture of a non-profit for personal benefit is a longstanding phenomenon in the USA.

No. Capture of a non-profit for personal benefit is key to the express purpose of non-profits in the USA.

The foremost function of non-profits in the US is to displace community organizations, especially democratic worker organizations which remotely resemble a workers' political party like you can find in other countries. Non-profit law in the US makes such organizations perfectly illegal while providing anti-democratic resemblances of them instead.
I have the full version of the serenity prayer as a cross stitch framed in my office.

>God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

>The courage to change the things I am able,

>The wisdom to know the difference,

>And the ability to destroy all of the evidence of the inevitable murder, should the first three fail.
I own the previous version of this. That's all I have to say.
Why isn't anyone discussing the obvious solution to the emergency responder issue?

Driverless cars should be accessible to be navigated by emergency services. Instances of this usage should be publicly documented.

If there's no driver to make human decisions, and the device is incapable of adapting to emergent situations, this seems like the easiest and most-logical way to handle it.
Yeah this. Humans aren’t destroying life on earth they’re changing it and forcing new species to evolve. Who knows how weird the world will be in a million years: what creatures will evolve to feed on humans.

Terrible is not an objective measure either. Oxygen and asteroids destroyed most life on earth but neither was terrible, they just were. The only reason people think we’re doing terrible things is because we’ve convinced ourselves we aren’t a natural part of the biosphere that adapted to what we’re doing now.
Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution
Ask HN: Multi-Key Text Decryption
Here’s the problem: I want to disclose all my financial details (accounts and passwords) to my family members (spouse, children, parents and siblings) in case of sudden death. I want everyone to have a little piece of the puzzle such that when everyone agrees to share their piece, only then the encrypted text with all the secrets is revealed. My family isn’t too tech savvy. What’s the safest and simplest solution to go about it?
All I could think while reading the post is, I want one.
How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing?
I'll look at that, but I really have to recommend TreeStyleTab.
>> Sensor Watch sips single-digit microamperes of power, making this a watch you can wear all year on a single coin cell.

> That's a downgrade vs original board.

> None of the alternative PCBs, clones and such I have seen so far manage to even match the original.

Yeah, but it's still extremely impressive given the upgrade in capability. I'm sure a designer has to make major compromises to optimize for battery life to level of the original.

Though, for something like this, it might have made more sense to target something like the Casio W800H-1AV; which is another cheap classic Casio, but it has a bigger battery, more display capability, and a 4th button.
Tell them something important to remember, ask a week later.
An ad telling you to install Chrome is one thing. I don't believe any Google nor Chrome ad had self-righteous BS about privacy, "improving the web" or similar like Mozilla constantly does.

Also, ads on websites are one thing. Ads/nags within the browser itself (which I'm already using) are another. I'm pretty sure Google doesn't bother advertising Chrome to users who already use Chrome.
Exactly. A thing so small and simple that you can rewrite it in an afternoon is more futureproof than any 8000 LOC monstrosity.
A hydrogen fuel cell is a device to oxidize hydrogen to produce electrical power. Maybe you mean hydrogen pressure vessels?

Well-ventilated low-pressure LH2 tanks are not especially dangerous. What would be dangerous is enclosing them in a poorly ventilated space, such as an aircraft cabin.
Just makes me glad how small the consequences are if I have a day of shitty performance at work
Physicists confirm prediction of massless, neutral composite particle
This is a great product: I've listened to the HN podcast and it's great.

> podcast consumption is experiencing exponential growth

I find this so interesting! I know my personal podcast consumption has fallen off a cliff since the pandemic started. I pretty much only listen to podcasts when I commute, and I stopped commuting then. I assumed that everyone did that but I guess I was wrong.
I still remember how Chrome decided to do it if 500 message was too short...
> racist truckers

Come now, really? Cooler heads[0,1] disagree with that assessment of the trucker protests.

[0]: https://www.thefp.com/p/what-the-truckers-want

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/stop-calling-truckers-racist-many-b...
Yeah, honestly what difference does it make? Most WFH roles are Salary/Overtime-Exempt. So, really, who cares as long as the work gets done?

Maybe a 40-hour/5-day workweek isn't the only way...
>For me, if hook up an AI with no training to a vehicle and it drives at a human level in arbitrary scenarios

Lol what human with no training is going to succeed at driving ?
TimeSeal: Restoring digital trust, one blockchain timestamp at a time
Hello HN community,

We're thrilled to introduce TimeSeal, our latest project that marries the immutable power of blockchain timestamps with the versatility of today's databases. After months of rigorous development and testing, our goal has been clear – to offer a seamless way to ensure data integrity, transparency, and verifiability, without the overheads that usually come with integrating blockchain tech.

TimeSeal provides multiple modes of data writing - whether you want your data fully on-chain, hashed, encrypted, or salted hashed. Our vision is to simplify the process of integrating blockchain-based timestamping into any database system, be it for NFT creation, contract validation, or any application where data trustworthiness is paramount.

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Today, we're launching on ProductHunt and would love to have the insightful HN community dive into it. We value your feedback, critique, and questions, as they will be instrumental in refining and evolving TimeSeal.

Here's the ProductHunt link: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/timeseal

Thank you for your time, and we're eager to hear your thoughts!

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Vaionex Corporation
No, they don't. His photo doesn't support his silly claim at all. He highlights that the first ingredient is sugar, and that it says zero grams, but doesn't note the asterisk, which says "less than 0.5g". The tic tacs labeled "sugar free" use artificial sweetener.

I don't think any reasonable person would read those three pieces of information and assume that regular tic tacs are sugar free.
Can you honestly answer that question for literally anything you’ve ever bought, in your life?
As I recall, it’s linked in the (excellent) article, but William Langewiesche’s article about this crash is also very much worth reading:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...

All of his articles about transportation disasters (Columbia, M/V Estonia, many other plane crashes) are very good and highly recommended.
I feel like this opinion is divorced from reality.

A company removing itself from the market creates room for competition.

FORCING Meta to provide links and also FORCING them to pay for the links they provide is absurd. They have every right to depart the market. And good riddance, too-- you shouldn't be getting your news from social media, anyway.
If the law was restricted to cases where Google / Facebook had actually scraped the content from the page and was redisplaying it, I suspect we'd be seeing far less objections. Instead, it overreached so hard that it's left Hacker News broadly supporting Facebook's actions, which is pretty wild.

Ignoring how it even applies to pure links with no content ("click here"), a lot of the previews you see on Facebook are using special meta tags that're added to news articles for that purpose. If the news orgs think that using that content for a nice preview of their article is bad for them, they should stop deliberately providing it.

(I think the `og` meta tags are a better argument here than `robots.txt`, because the former is the news orgs actively helping their content get redisplayed, while the latter is Google they-would-argue saying "we're stealing this unless you tell us not to", which sounds far sketchier.)
Those are usually structured HRESULT values, Win32 error codes, and NTSTATUS values.

So in a way, they are already "elaborating" the type of error - as well as a single 32-bit integer in C can "elaborate" over an error, that is, not a lot.

For all their faults dotnet and java make it really easy to not mangle up the stack trace.
I was under the impression that many of these systems do run RTOS, and that they don't use 'modern' processors, they use rad-hardened processors. Is this not the case?
Rust's binary search used to be branchless but due to some issues down in LLVM land, the codegen doesn't issue a `cmov` where it should. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53823

old branchless version: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/45333/files
The point is way upthread, it's literally the top comment on this submission. I don't know where you got lost on the way.
Axioms can just be thought of as baseline assumptions that are included by the terms in your hypothesis. If your theorem is about some vector space V, then you’re assuming that vector spaces exist, and also assuming all of the building blocks do as well (fields all the way down to natural numbers and set theory).
Analogy can be a powerful aid in learning.
> This is one game where MAD is the winning move to play. I'd like for Meta et al to block Canadian news.

I don't know if this is MAD. I personally would start using facebook again if there were fewer news and misinformation.

If they blocked news in Europe as well that would be great. News and politics killed facebook and most social media. Politics are important for any society but they should not dominate every conversation platform as it currently does. Essentially, news have been transformed into a completed shitshow turning the internet into the new TV.
This is really neat! Found your live demo: https://dependency-management-data-example.fly.dev/datasette...

Blogged it: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/11/dependency-management-...
Guix still isn't particularly blazing, but Guile is definitely not the bottle neck these days. Guile is actually a very fast Scheme implementation now. The problem with Guix's speed right now is that the binary substitute servers have slow networking, so your options end up being either to compile software from source, or crawl through a slow download.

This is only usually a problem if you want to download something large or do a large update though. If you're just downloading a small program or you update your system frequently, it's quite reasonable to use.

As far as the "stop sign", I have never really run into that with Guix, and I did run into that with Nix. The fact that Scheme - unlike the Nix language - is not purely functional, I think encourages users to do what they want, even if it goes against the spirit of the functional package manager.
I don't see all those languages in the dropdown. Do I need a paid account?
Imagine there's a local newspaper with a community events section. The event organizers say the newspaper is stealing from them because it profits from having ads on the same page, so the government makes them pay $10 to each event they feature. The newspaper decides the community events section isn't worth the trouble and just removes it, and everybody including the government whines that the big bad corporation is bullying them. If they actually believed the original argument that it was stealing, they should be happy that they stopped!

I'm sure glad the government is focusing on important issues like this while being dismissive of the housing crisis.
The income generating event occurs where someone sees their ads.

There's a simple experiment that would prove this:

Prohibit Meta from displaying any adverts on any screens in Canada.
When they complain about loosing money, say; OK you can show the ads, but we're taxing you on that money/incone you said you were loosing.
I think the Polish example is even a bit more complex than that: it's not really that Polish has a separate form for "a few". That's the regular plural form. It's that Polish uses the genitive plural with certain numerals, instead of the nominative. That is, instead of saying "5 dogs" you say "5 of dogs".

This doesn't, to my knowledge, apply if there is no numeral provided, even if we're talking about 1000 dogs, so it wouldn't be right to call it a plural.

Of course, the point of the article still stands.

Disclaimer: I don't speak Polish. I did learn some Czech though at some point (most of which I've forgotten).
> "They could spend a billion dollars on making the best browser the world has ever seen and it would still be used by next to no-one. [...] So they've clearly decided to expand their mission to protect the web."

Seems like you're now conceding matheusmoreira's point you disputed before:

> They got one billion dollars and they're reducing software development spending to focus on agenda pushing instead.

And you haven't bothered to answer my question, so I'll put it to you again: How does rewarding the development of a chatbot to talk about sexual violence relate to furthering their mission to "protect the web"? It's nothing more than the predictable synthesis of AI hype and a popular social cause, it has nothing to do with the web at all. If the best you can come up with is people will hear about this chatbot and then maybe they'll use Firefox, then why don't you just admit the whole thing is a farce?

And as for it being an effective promotion of firefox and "clearly an area of current interest", then where, besides Mozilla's corporate blog, have you ever heard of this chatbot competition or any of the three winners? The winner of the competition is "Sanative AI", never mentioned on HN before this comment. Do a general web search for "Sanative AI" tell me if any of the results you find are likely to inform people of Firefox's existence and benefits. I feel confident in asserting that this competition has not brought a single new user to Firefox, and was not in earnest ever meant to.
I don't think you appreciate the meaning of "expensive." You know what's expensive? Starting your own business.
Often I don’t think it is as much “forgetting” but more getting behind the events to the extent they don’t properly assess / understand the situation and then make poor choices and it is too late.
I didn’t find middle school behavior to be particularly material for further social interactions in life. High school, college, yes. Pubescent bullies and cliques? Not so much. Puberty is hard enough without swimming in a sea of it. My experience was middle school was nothing like high school, college, or life afterwards. It was like some weird collective psychotic break for a few years then everyone went back to being normal.

Sounds like a great time to explore the world and gain social skills that way.
Elon Musk says Tesla cars now have a mind, figured out ‘some aspects of AGI’
We're currently in a minority government situation here in Canada. First past the post makes no sense at all, majority of the votes get thrown out, and the party that actually won the vote didn't get the most seats.
Probably more like a local maxima.
(fortunes)
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You'll never see all the places, or read all the books.
But fortunately, not all are recommended.
yea forth is amazing for that, i used to develop a lot of baseline or "test everything in the beard spin" type if firmwares in forth and miss it
I suppose you've heard it all, like the fact that there are more than 10000 planes currently in the air and we haven't heard about a plane crash for weeks now. If you go to https://globe.adsbexchange.com and zoom out you can see all the planes around the world, flying safely. I suppose the only way through the fear is to fly and realize at the end that you're fine (although obviously IANAP)
I'm not sure using the word "Patrician" in this case (when talking about the late republic) is accurate. By that point almost all legal privileges patrician had were abolished and plebeians aspiring for a public career generally actually had more opportunities (you had to be one to stand for election as a people's tribune and at least one consul legally had to be a plebian).

By that point Rome was a full on plutocracy and most senators/nobles weren't patricians. Probably one the most famous Roman "lawyer" Cicero was not only a plebian but a complete no-name from a provincial town (and most famous Romans from his time like Cato, Pompey, Brutus, Mark Anthony, Octavian were all plebian while Ceasar, Lepidus and Metellus Scipio were patrician) .
It's pretty clear that ChatGPT is being used here as a synecdoche for recent LLMs, and transformer LLMs in particular.
CloudSeeder (or maybe just CloudSeed)
Ah yes, meanwhile I still get to use the only browser not made by the Gigacorp trying to put advertising anywhere they can.

People get so pissy about mozilla pissing away a few dollars here and there, or maybe is full of people just extracting cash from the brand.

Meanwhile google as a corporation extracts a tax on pretty much anything that touches the internet.

But sure, mozilla is the bad guy here and we shouldn't use their browser......
I imagine the critique is based on the nutrition label alone; I'm not aware of and cannot find any labeling where the brand suggests the product is "sugar-free" outside the nutrition label.

Regardless, it is indeed a deceptive practice that I believe should not be allowed, along with the "sugar-free!" labels when they have maltodextrin or other "basically-sugar" ingredients.
Sounds like you'd be a good grandparent. Maybe consider being the one to build that community, family, of understanding and acceptance first above all else.
Still cheaper than golfing.
In my opinion, this is the crux.

Think about it for a moment. Can you define human intelligence? Have you ever gotten in a debate with someone about this? Is there a commonly accepted way to designate intelligence that isn't somewhat controversial?

How will we ever define AGI if we still haven't even defined RoHI (Regular ol' Human Intelligence) sufficiently?
Because application errors are not one-size-fits-all. Sometimes it's because of some specific flow being broken. Sometimes it's "the site is down". Sometimes it's a "there's an error condition that needs to be bubbled up to the user". And sometimes it's a poor internet connection being mishandled.

While code fixes are not in their power to do, changing their behavior, or waiting for a better internet connection (i.e. "something went wrong" actually means "go log in to the hotel wifi") are things in their power.
What an amazing article. I know comments here are meant to be more substantial, but this is truly one of the best written content I've ever come across.

My most sincere admiration and thank you notes to the author for putting all of this together in such a great way!
yeah, it evidently got posted on some social media because it's been just rampantly resubmitted https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=max.levch.in

I really wish HN had the mildest of dupe checking, as anyone who does care about the topics of these repeated reposts has to go and read all the different threads
Burros would wander into the outdoor theater I'd go to as a kid and a stage worker would have to walk over to them and try to quietly shoo them out. Raucous bunch sometimes.
Shares were going down for some time, env0 (Terraform Cloud competitor) just raised 35m from VC for a what seems to be a good product... Hashicorp did it's move. If there's a community behind, the fork will live and, who knows, maybe many will start using it instead of the original one. It's all up to the community and substantial sponsors, at this point.

I still think that the best way to compete is by having a more appealing product, thought, rather than changing licence. And I mean this for Hashicorp, Elastic, etc.

If you need to do this move is because you don't really succeed at having a better product, else you would just benefit from FOSS rather than it being a liability.
>If they actually believed the original argument that it was stealing, they should be happy that they stopped!

Simply beautifully put.