skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "government" is a behemoth multi-armed monster of gigantic propertions. It is utterly incapable of even observing itself in full. The best we can do is look at parts.

You are throwing the separate branches of government on the same pile, which I think is unfair to say the least.

The judicial branch tells the executive branch to stop or adjust whatever it is doing. The executive branch is not happy about this, but if it wants to survive it needs to listen or at the very least project the illusion that it is listening in some way shape or form. We haven't touched the legislative branch here which is also a force to be reckoned with.

All these branches are filled to the brim with people of various background and motivations. They might not be happy about eachother, but they are stuck with it.

I don't know about American politics, but these branches are pretty well separated in the Netherlands. Maybe not as much as we'd like, but I'm hard-pressed to call it anything but a clear improvement over the past.
California Tested Different Minimum Speed Limits for Lanes. It Didn’t Work
I recall fear over Slackware back when Patrick was very ill several years ago

(Thankfully, he recovered)

The best way for any even modestly-successful project to continue after the loss of any part of its leadership is to not be singly-maintained

Unfortunately, there seems to always be some random guy in Nebraska[0] doing thankless work no one knows about ... until he does not

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[0] https://xkcd.com/2347
It's not the job of emergency services to spend time cataloging their specific complaints and propose solutions so these companies can operate. These companies get in the way of emergency services and so they complain. It's now the company's job to identify and fix the problem if they want to keep operating.
His background is broader than just that. (VC, Stanford, Oxford)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia
Not all Chrome Extensions work on it. It has issues.. Having a native browser supporting the desktop extensions on the mobile is much needed.
I appreciate the amount of intelligence you put in the message, it is interesting to read and to think about. But the style of your reasoning gives me some hints of creationism, let me show you some anti-creationism point of view.

> Practical means something like, can they adapt their skills as widely as we can?

The most crucial (in my opinion, which has been not introduced to any more crucial points) difference between us and Koko is that we can hold our breath and gorillas can not. That leaded us to develop speech in the seance that speechless group of apes can not win an exactly same group of apes with more developed communicative ability. This, and probably nothing more, has led to such a large gap between humans and apes, so large that humans have ceased to see the relationship between themselves and apes.

I see your understanding of "practical" as something specialized, like agricultural revolution. But why a gorilla should start planting foods if it knows that nobody is going to protect its crops while sleeping because of just lack of common language?

> Can they adapt to uncommon situations?

What can be more uncommon than living on a trees without a warm house and typically without any house at all, without regular nutrition, with a lot of really different enemies from tiny insects to giant cats, with a regular fights, with no democracy and law and medicine?

Being disadvantaged requires to face some uncommonities every day, what about office managers? Disadvantaged people (if they are just poor men and not disabled ones on welfare) can easily survive nuclear war because most of them are OK about living in a similar to gorillas livestyle, but I can not believe that most of average Joes survive a situation when their money are going to cost nothing because of lack of civilization.
Yeah that what I want to see when I'm in a crash, responders wasting time with tech support on some tech device.

And let me be super straightforward here: if a radio technician needs to be on emergency vehicle at all times, it better be that his salary comes out of self driving licenses fees and not my taxes.
Yeah, I think that emergency vehicles and responders should receive subsidized equipment that will interface with SDCs on a technological level.

I don't think it's a good idea to map out every incident; that would reduce OpSec for the responders and make them more vulnerable, not less. But it seems that short-range transponders are a good idea. Put one in every fire truck, ambulance and police vehicle. Portable beacons could be set up to establish a perimeter.

Unfortuntately, SDCs are not able to recognize conventional symbols that first responders use. First responders have been caught without corresponding tech, and this is negligence on the part of the developers and manufacturers of SDCs.

If they expect to deploy SDCs everywhere, then start upgrading the tech infrastructure everywhere to accomodate them, because their inferior sensors and poor judgement is what's causing them to fail in this natural world of human-oriented signs and symbols.
I still have my local NAS and will in fact be upgrading it sometime this or next year. I don't trust cloud computing with my data, even tough I'd rather forgo the complexity and electricity cost.

But that's my price of freedom.
Russia Launches First Lunar Lander in nearly 50 years
> they say they are all about openness and power users and security

They do mention security a lot, but “all about openness and power users”? That’s not my impression. They famously eschew the “make everything a setting” philosophy. The whole Apple thing is simplicity at the expense of configurability and control. Do you see them otherwise?
Your comment and the grandparent comment have both really validated me. I know that's weird to say, but I really thought I was just Wrong about the linters/LSPs and unfinished lines or unused variables. Thank you :)
> However, as we show in a new research paper in Science, these animals do something amazing that has long been overlooked: they dig wells — or “ass holes”.

Unnecessarily childish
Also

Firefox accounts for 0.48% of the mobile browser market share

I wonder what is the cut off for being a major
What socialist (so-called) policies benefit older mothers more than young ones?
better still, establish a Ministry of Truth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_in_Nineteen_Eighty-...
For some time I’ve been consuming a lot of material on certain subjects I am interested in. Daily commentary, regular blogs, every interview a few people that I follow give, various background info related, etc. I’ve been doing it for over a year, often more than 3-4 hours per day. I’ve become quite informed, sure. But I have to admit that I don’t recall the contents of the information that I consumed all that well. Certainly not well enough to debate someone on the topic.

Perhaps this is a limitation of my own brain physiology, or deficiencies in the approach I’ve taken to consuming the information, and others would have faired better in my place. But this experience has made me seriously doubt the effectiveness of such consumption if the goal is to learn, as the OP advocates.

Thankfully that wasn’t necessarily a goal for me personally, I was just satisfying my interest in the subject I care deeply about.
It's a report on the g-2 measurements of the muon, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37088274
> Models evaluate all weights on every pass

Not true for GPT-4.
Startup funding is drying up
Good question. Browser forks make me nervous -- I know Iceraven pulls fixes, but I'd rather have as short a chain as possible sitting between me and security fixes.

If uBlock Origin wasn't supported I would be on Iceraven, but I don't run a ton of extensions so I was willing to tolerate some inconvenience in order to be closer to the source.

The other thing is that Iceraven isn't a silver bullet, you can install any extension but if it's relying on an API that's not implemented yet it will break. Which is totally not their fault, but it gets back to -- Mozilla needs to actually implement full extension support beyond just flipping a switch on.

I'm glad Iceraven exists though :) I wouldn't not recommend them to someone who needs more extension support, it's just not right for my personal use case.
Above all LK-99 looks to be physically interesting and worth studying and a step forward for science. Now if it is actually super conducting, awesome, that’s a bonus.

Just a little strange that something so sophisticated was made by people so sloppy.
https://archive.is/t2Rac
To quote Gary Frost (creator of Aparapi), TornadoVM is the state-of-the-art right now. He mentioned this at JVMLS 2023. Hopefully the videos will be available soon from this link:
https://openjdk.org/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/
Ministries in Nineteen Eighty-Four
No acknowledgment by them how easy it's been to push on open doors (QE and ZIRP).
I think the request and reasoning is pretty clear in the article. Autonomous vehicles can't be given instructions by emergency personnel. They can't follow lawful orders given by a police officer – the kind of instructions that in critical situations can take the form of "do an action or you are under arrest."

It should be pointed out that it is a crime to knowingly impede emergency services.

I would say that the request is that these vehicles not be put onto streets without having some mechanism to prevent the examples in the article from happening, or maybe not approve their opration at all.

At the risk of sounding like I don't want technological progress, it should really be pointed out that robotic vehicles aren't necessary in any way. There isn't a massive problem looking to be solved by them, they're just a capitalist optimization undertaken by rent-seeking mega-corps like GM and Google. Hiring a human driver for passenger vehicles is already one of the cheapest services you can imagine, these corporations just want to take the minimum wage salary of an Uber driver for themselves.

With that in mind I think it's a fair ask of these corporations to do more to make their autonomous vehicles able to handle emergency situations where a human driver would be expected to take the instruction of a police officer or firefighter.
yeah, of course. its old crap that I'd have to find if I can. I will look.

roots in boehm means globals and the stack. this little thing had explicitly declared roots.

edit: I found it, mail me at yuri@tenuki.org. be prepared to be unimpressed.
https://archive.is/tP37c
all this has accomplished in the last decade is a decrease in market share

A crazy idea but maybe Mozilla also have some fault on that
Long COVID isn't worth worrying about for most of us. Most any serious viral infection can potentially cause post-viral fatigue syndrome and SARS-CoV-2 is nothing special. Only a small fraction of the population is susceptible, way less than "half". While we should try to find effective treatments for those patients it's hardly the end of the world. Stop being a catastrophist.

Eric Topol is an alarmist attention seeker and not taken seriously in the field. I wouldn't believe anything he says without extensive independent validation.
https://probablydance.com/2023/04/27/beautiful-branchless-bi...
Show HN: Ledit – a read-only, client-side only Reddit and HN client
I've been frustrated with Reddit's recent API turn, and am also not the biggest fan of HN on mobile. I used to take part in discussion years ago on both sites, but have slowly turned into a lurker. As such, I need a slick client that works on both desktop and mobile, that let's me merely consume content, both media and comments, on both sites.

I build ledit over the past few nights for exactly that purpose. I gather others might also have a similar need that's not yet filled by other options out there.

https://github.com/badlogic/ledit

How does it work?
* As a default, you see a multi-reddit called ledit mix. It's an set of subreddits my partner in crime combined to a multi-subreddit. Great for quick media fueled dopamine.

* Click on the icon in the top left corner to view bookmarked subreddits as well as the entry for hackernews. You can remove bookmarks by clicking the minus icon, or set them as the default by clicking their checkmark. You can also change the theme there if you so wish. Beware my terrible design skills.

* When you view a subreddit, indicated by `r/<subreddit>`, you can click the header bar and enter the name of a new subreddit you want to navigate to. No fuzzing with the browser's URL bar.

* You can bookmark the currently viewed subreddit via the icon in the top right corner. The icon will not be visible if you've already bookmarked the subreddit.

* You can also change the sorting of the currently viewed subreddit. For HN, the sorting lets you pick between news, newest, jobst, ask, show.

* Media will be fitted to the screen in a best effort manner.

* To view a post's comments, click the comment icon at the bottom of the post. They will be shown inline

* To collapse the comments either click the comments icon again, swipe back on mobile, or press Escape on the desktop.

* To collaps the children of a comment, click the comment itself.

* If you must reply to a comment, click the tiny reply button in its header. You'll be navigated to the comment on either Reddit or HN, where you can reply if you're logged in.

* Posts that have an image gallery are marked with an image icon. Click the image (not the icon) to expand and collapse the gallery.

* Tap videos to start/pause/resume them. If they scroll out of view, they'll get paused automatically.

The whole app is a single page app that directly talks to CORS enabled endpoints of Reddit and Hacker News.

In case of Reddit, I use the old `.json` endpoints. No API keys required.

In case of Hacker News, I use both the official Firebase API to fetch the stories, then use Algolia and the Firebase API to fetch comments and restore their order (that was fun to figure out...).

I could add additional sources that follow the posts -> comments structure pretty easily. I'm open for suggestions.
Textbook idiocy. Whataboutism is not a phallacy when the discussion is about comparing things.
FYI Software Mansion ran a React-Native survey last year with almost 2000 answers.

Here are the results: https://results.stateofreactnative.com/

My personal biased opinion: React-Native is awesome and keeps improving.
Ask HN: Why do you write engineering blogs?
For those of you that write for corporate engineering blogs, what's the motivation/incentive? Do you feel it's more rewarding to write for your own blog or a corporate engineering blog?
Robotaxi companies will pay for that, or will they be subsidized by the taxpayers?
Life is short, a little laughter and humor make it more bearable.
What you say makes sense, but it still misses the main point: Market mechanism fail because of conflicting interests. Your example describes a functioning market, the article describes only one symptom (!) of the opposite.

It's true, resource allocation is very important. But is the free market more important than for example the declining life expectancy in the US?

I don't think, you will find a solution besides regulation or education to my example problem. I think you have to realize, that the market incentives are causing it, that the free market should be exempt from certain basic needs, where better resource allocation (a free market) will only degrade in a race to the bottom, and will not (as you described) find a better optima for the required resources (because there might be none).

I will call it market mongering.

EDIT: To refine your mill example: What if the steel buyer does not do anything with the steel, except driving price up?
Translating a podcast into so many languages with two clicks increases our reach so much. Great stuff Wondercraft, keep it up
Translation/Internationalisation is one of the hardest problem that is not going to be solved by technology only.

RTL, plural depending on the number, non-latin char behavior, font issues, UI broken by longer translation, context dependent translation, etc. Every time I start a project or think about it I'm sweating.
https://archive.is/NvMe4
Yes, with a completely different hypothesis in the headline.
Whatever happened to blaming results on cosmic rays?
> The French had invented a new acronym: GAFA. GAFA stood for “Google Apple Facebook Amazon” and if you were a member of this group you weren’t to be trusted.

Author seems to characterize this as an unreasonable stance to have, but I personally feel like not trusting <Insert Megacorp of choice> is a pretty good default even if it's not necessary the best for all situations.
Is there some way to load an entire large project into gpt4? Or do you mean to have it translate one file at a time without context?
Indeed. I was liking the article but then it included the opportunistic “ass holes” and “mass shootings” where what they refer to already has a specific term “culling”. It’s the journalist version of “your momma so…”
You're very fortunate. I live in the the UK and my impression is that it is rare to fine that kind of community in an urban area.
https://archive.is/Xeao7
Show HN: A Chrome extension that reminds you to talk to your users
That sounds like uncalled-for negativity. Is the Guardian really known for bad science reporting?
Emergency responders use all sorts of radios already. They pretty much pioneered the ubiquitous use of radio in all sorts of situations. If there is one thing that first responders know, besides health and safety, it's radio. Licensed amateur radio operators tout their ability to respond in emergency situations as well, and whether that is true or not, many emergency responders are also Hams.

If you have not looked at a fire engine or ambulance lately, you would be a little surprised at how much technology they bristle with. The last time I called 9-1-1, they showed up with an EKG, and all the other machines to monitor vital signs. In fact, there are services now that advertise they will bring a fully-functional Emergency Department to the comfort of your own home.

Yeah, who wants to mess with ancillary tech that isn't part of the emergency. Nobody, but a transponder is fairly dumb. You press a button on it and it starts. Transponders don't have a mic, they don't have a frequency dial, they are just gonna send out your ID code until you shut it down again. It will be the least of worries for the first responders, especially if they will be safe from errant SDCs.
Seperate add free internet for minors via protocol?
Why do other people have to make accommodations for self-driving cars?

The whole point of a self-driving car is that it’s supposed to do what a human driver does. Why can’t it just… avoid emergency vehicles?
[citation needed]

I'd totally read that, are there any articles?
AFAICS there's `--base=auto` which captures explicit parent's sha in the patch text output (there's also a git config option to do that automatically).

Source: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_informa...
Thanks for this, it's a much better article.
I asked my bank's chatbot if it was an LLM, and it responded with "I'll do my best to help you." The next time I talked to it I told it to go get me a human and it said it would find a human... then put me through a questionnaire before telling me to call the main support line. sigh

That said, and wow I feel like a shill for saying this, I've taken to asking the new GPT4-driven Bing random questions instead of web searching and damn if it's not doing a scarily good job. I'd do this before (ever since I got access) and it started out very interesting and then got rapidly very mediocre, but since the upgrade... it's like being able to talk to The Internet except it's friendly.
People's bad behavior has consequences. When you tie your identity to a brand, your personal behavior will be tied to the value of that brand. Every public persona knows this.
This guy is one of my favorite author, and as an avid russian authors reader i'm astonished as to why he stayed in russia.
Main discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37081306
So what is aging then? And no BS about telomere length, please.

Where can get a scientifically validated test for "biological" age? What does that even mean?
Yeah a little bit but so does everyone else that thinks these things are the solution and we should dive right into it.
> They got one billion dollars and they're reducing software development spending to focus on agenda pushing instead

Where have they announced that they're focusing on "agenda pushing"? Mozilla's "agenda" feels like a very tiny part of what they do, it's just that people talk about it endlessly.
> the element continues to cook your food at high to medium heat for another minute

To be fair, so does the cookware. (Probably more so considering the lack of mass in a heating element.)
I dislike the article's declaration that the discrepancy between theoretical prediction and measurements was "embarrassing".

Being wrong is just as much part of science as being right. ...all part of the process.
Would shorter-tenure jobs benefit the startup ecosystem?
> If a therapist isn't willing to work with you in the first couple of sessions to create a specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound plan for your therapy, you should be very wary.

I have a friend who's been in therapy for over a decade, due to debilitating anxiety from childhood trauma.

Went many years to first before switching to second, same story. I asked "well have you gotten any tasks or tools to help you deal with it?" multiple times, always same answer: "No".

Third time lucky it seems. Now seeing a therapist which comes with concrete suggestions and tasks. Things have improved. It's not a trivial problem to solve, but at least there's change now.

edit: You may ask, why stay with the therapists that didn't help? Anxiety... didn't want to upset the therapists by suggesting it wasn't helping.
I meant "basic" in the sense that it does not have a lot of helpful features for developing complicated applications. Whether or not that's easy or hard for any individual to use isn't really relevant.

That said, Vim has some IDE-like features, moreso for C (by default) than some other languages.

Again, the point is that C is complicated and hard to work with as you scale up into a bigger project, not that my tools are better than your tools.
Just my way of saying that I would expect real new-physics evidence/breakthroughs would first be reported through science journals before eventually ending up as a watered down story on The Guardian.

I was mainly surprised to see it there first, and that triggered my automatic skepticism.
Or -- hear me out -- you entice newcomers who want a big ol' rack of boxes and wires.

Like me.
And their constant user hostile redesigns. Suddenly tabs are floating separately from their pages. And now if a page is playing audio you can no longer see its favicon, etc

Speaking of mobile firefox where did Save as PDF vanish and why? and so on

edit: I have been told in a reply the save pdf feature still exists but has been changed for no reason to a different location in the menu
For anyone interested, here's a bookmarklet to view the current page's HTTP status code (makes a new request):

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That is simply not true. Like, it's literally the opposite of the truth.
Show HN: How many bookmarks do you have? When did you last used your bookmarks?
It’s bounded precision, but Rust limits the max size of an object/array to isize’s max[1], not usize’s max. So adding two isize::MAX values using usize will never overflow.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/types/numeric.htm...