skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Europe it's all equally fast. I don't remember ever having a throttled service, that sounds like a page out of the dystopian scenarios produced in the era where net neutrality legislation was being proposed/promoted ten years ago or something. There were rumors back then that bittorrent was being throttled (and corresponding protocol obfuscation and port changing) but I never had that myself
After our first, I felt like I gained superpowers (okay, not super, somehowpowers?). Especially with the lack of sleep. Even a month beforehand, that lack of sleep would have wrecked me. I mean, it still did, but somehow I just no longer cared. With my kid in my arms, the lack of sleep just seemed like a thing that was happening, the anxiety or 'wrongness' about not sleeping was gone. My body for sure still felt the effects. But my mind was cleared of the issues surrounding the lack of sleep. There was my child, needing help of some sort or another, and here I was, the parent. End of story. Gone were the thoughts that a lack of sleep would ever stop me from doing what needed to be done for my kid. Weather that be food, or my job, or groceries, or cleaning, whatever. If my kid needed me to get it done, it just got done, all the complaints in my mind about being too tired seemed, well, childish.

I don't want to denigrate any parent. It's a tough thing to do. And it is exhausting. But, at least for me, once I became a parent, I just stopped caring that I was exhausted. When that screaming pooping little money sucker comes toddling over to you with a huge smile on the face after you walk in the room from work or wherever, all those worries and fears just somehow melt away and you just think to yourself how lucky you are to have any of it.

I guess what I'm saying is that if you think you want to have kids, don't let your lack of energy due to age be a factor. Kids give you the energy.
It does further the point that LLMs are unable to understand, infer, deduce, or reason.

LLMs are toddlers who are capable of stringing words together that make some sense most of the time. It’s not artificial intelligence.
This still makes my blood boil. I've seen people dance around the word master now.
Disagreement is not "blatant gaslighting", and ignoring people who disagree with you only harms your understanding of the world.

It's just so upsetting to me the extent to which the HN community has charged down this meme-driven, anti-rationalist path. Everything that doesn't feel right is suddenly the word of an enemy to commenters here. And we used to be so sure of our fact-based world views!
And stuff like the Stream api does not use these generics, so you end up wrapping exceptions in RuntimeException anyway, which... again defeats the point of checked exceptions.
Well, the input didn't say that the recipe was intended for consumption by humans.
Custom charges sound weird. But I take they are not held by customs under chargers are paid like they do here. And at that point she could refuse or point out they are not hers and they would eventually destroy them.
> ½ cup buttermilk (or blood [...]

Of course, it wouldn't be a viking bread without blood
That totally ignores the power imbalances between employers and employees.

Like how an employee accounts for 1/n of an employer's work capacity (where n can often be large), but an employer typically accounts for 100% of an employee's income.

Or how an employer can often delay completing whatever task a particular employee was doing with minimal consequences, but if an employee skips paying rent or other bills then they can get stuck with late fees that are a non-trivial fraction of the actual bills, which they already have trouble paying. And you can't skip buying food for a month and make it up next month.

Or how the need to pay for food and rent means that even employers that are widely known to be terrible can often find new employees to take up the slack from somewhere no matter what their turnover rate, but employees who have any kind of negative reputation, or are seen to move jobs "too quickly", can find it hard to find employment again.

I find "Work is a bilateral voluntary arrangement" where "No one is under duress" to be an overly-reductive-to-the-point-of-naiveté position.
It’s written from a human spaceflight point of view for sure. Old space was (sometimes still is) extremely analysis heavy because everything was too expensive to have it not work. This is the environment in which NASA developed its culture.

The newspace paradigm is downstream of costs coming way down. Now you can afford to iterate a few times - it’s much faster and you learn more by flying and testing against nature instead of recreating the environment perfectly on the ground and refining your analysis to the n’th degree. In this world, a good number of these laws are dated and miss the mark.

The old way is still more true in human spaceflight, because there are people on board. But even there, humans are now passengers with computer pilots, so you can do unmanned test missions that chip away at the old delays.
In the US, $11k may only cover submitting three months rent + security deposit to rent an apartment.
> Liebeck's attorneys argued that, at 180–190 °F (82–88 °C), McDonald's coffee was defective, and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other establishment

> Liebeck was in the passenger's seat of a 1989 Ford Probe, which did not have cup holders. Her grandson parked so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her coffee. She placed the coffee cup between her knees and pulled the far side of the lid toward her to remove it.[10] In the process, she spilled the entire cup of coffee on her lap.[11] Liebeck was wearing cotton sweatpants, which absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin, scalding her thighs, buttocks and groin

By that reasoning all of the coffee you make at home is defective. Arguing that something is corporate propaganda is rather underhanded when the facts of the case are publicly available for anyone to read
How do we know it is GIGO? Plenty of people like to test edge cases. It is quite possible that someone fed the AI ingredients known to produce chlorine gas to see what would result.

That is not to say that the company's excuse is valid. There should definiely be tests of the inputs to ensure they are safe (i.e. test for garbage in). The garbage out bit though would be more difficult seeming as that requires a knowledge of chemistry. Seeming as most of our knowledge of chemistry was founded.on experimentation, then later theory backed by experimentation, it is something that I wouldn't trust in the hands of an LLM.
I'm a follower of the "Quantized Gravity" flavor of modified gravity, as proposed by Mike McCulloch[1]. I fully realize it's a fringe theory, but there should be experimental evidence from an actual thruster flown in space, launching in less than 90 days..[2] I hope he's right... but the only way to know is to wait and see.

Reactionless thrust would be a handy way to get around the cosmos.

[1] https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/

[2] https://ivolimited.us/launch/
I am glad you enjoyed and learned something, thank you!

Thank you for the nitpick on the 4004! I think I will actually make a minor correction about that.

I know about the Program Counter terminology, and explicitly chose not to use it to be more architecture-independent... but maybe it was a mistake not mentioning it at all, considering it's such absurdly prevalent terminology.
Why is there not more ambition in the developed world?

Maybe there is just as much ambition as there ever was. Maybe people have just shifted their goals. Maybe they have different drives. Instead of aspiring to be the next Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg, maybe people have realised that this is not really what they want in life. Instead of having a strong desire for financial and business success, maybe people in the developed world have started to shift their focus to other things like friendship, family, enjoying life, and learning to be satisfied with less. Maybe in this new world we live in to be ambitious means something else. I don’t know.
I think Clojure had a moment 2015 to 2020ish, but it's passed. People still use it, even though it sucks. What's not to love:

- Incredibly slow

- Hosted on the JVM, so you're going to be dealing with Java eventually

- No automatic tail call optimization because of the limitations of the JVM, so it feels like you're writing a mess of macros rather than real functional code
Shades of green growth scepticism among climate policy researchers
Someone may have chequing+saving at one bank, a stock brokerage (or retirement savings) account at another institution, and a may have credit card(s) from completely different one(s).

So that could potentially be (at least) three different financially-related accounts.
And the headline decided to say what? Of the two measurements, the headline picks the one that offers the most deception and manipulation. The headline is what most see and absorb.

I find it funny (read: sad) that you're doing so well playing the HN Police on me, but CNBC get a free pass.

Yeah, I'm the problem. And The Media is the embodiment of legit journalism.

Have a nice day.
They were not empty words. Here are a couple examples:

https://torrentfreak.com/rutracker-found-itself-unblocked-in...

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/08/09/russian-cinemas-sc...
Cold Fact charted in Australia for more than a year back in '79|80 ish .. he toured Australia at that time and I once had a TDK90 bootleg cassette tape recorded by a friend of the family who made it there.

Hugely popular here at the time .. I was surprised later to find out he was almost wholly unknown in the USofA until after the dco came out.

R.I.P. Sixto.
Even if that measurably improves the ranking of your website, it still would be a bullshit job. Also cries for side effects, especially on the web.
Ask HN: Reasonably priced EU hosting with DDoS filtering?
Hi. I'm hoping to find a VPS (or reasonably priced dedicated) host with a configurable edge firewall. So far, the only option I've found is OVH, which lets us block certain source ports before anything reaches the server and has been working quite well, but I'm hoping there's more options out there.

Context: I help run servers for a small multiplayer game, and a persistent troll has been targeting us and other active servers for months. This mostly consists of fairly low-bandwidth reflective attacks abusing protocols like NTP. They've also abused Oracle's free tier to generate larger attacks.
Lego’s new $200 Concorde is a fantastic homage to the supersonic passenger jet
> Why would it “need to” crash? If it is easier to implement to not crash and the developer intention is clear why would you define your new programing language such that it “needs to crash” in this situation?

Well, let me come up with another example:

def a(x=SIZE): ...
a()
let SIZE = 16*1024

When we call a(), we need the value of SIZE to provide the a default value for x. But SIZE isn't computed yet. We could try to "hoist" SIZE, but normally that just means we have:

let SIZE = undefined
def a(x=SIZE): ...
a()
SIZE = 16*1024

And sure, you could invent a rule to "fix" this case, too. (It depends on how you implement default arguments efficiently.) But next week, you'll encounter another headache, and another. I've literally been through this a couple of times working on LISP compilers. "Executional" semantics are common in custom Lisp dialects, and it's a huge amount of work to get them right.

The price you end up paying is lower program performance and higher compiler complexity. Oh, and importantly, you normally wind up with slower load times. A compiled program is "ready to run", and can be loaded efficiently using mmap() and maybe some linking. But a program where you "execute" the top level needs to run all those top-level definitions on each load. So then you're like, "I know! I'll write a heap dumper/undumper", aka "unexec". Which will fix this problem but cause 5 more.

And so it goes. This is one of those ideas that seems clever but leads to bitter regrets, at least in high performance languages.
I think the hard part is more that it's difficult to focus on the business decisions against the background of a loved one's death, more than the process itself is difficult.

You pretty much need an estate lawyer just to navigate all of the legal stuff associated with a person's passing, and I went through this a few years ago with my own father.

But the majority of attorneys who handle estates can also handle all of the financial and personal details as well. The only times this really NEEDS to get complicated is when the estate has a negative net worth (which means a potential lack of funds to close the estate), contains businesses that need to be sold or split up, or when survivors fight each other for their percentage of the inheritance.
Show HN: AngelvsVC – Find your perfect investor match
Why you should run from an investor offering you a big check

Remember that episode from "Silicon Valley?"

Richard Hendrix, the socially awkward yet genius founder of Pied Piper, faced a life-altering choice: take a whopping $10 million buyout from the corporate giant Hooli and its pompous CEO, Gavin Belson, or get a much smaller investment from the eccentric billionaire Peter Gregory to develop the product on his own. While Gavin's offer was tempting, Richard realized the true value lay in Peter's deep tech understanding, despite his oddball burger habits. It's classic fast cash vs. genuine support dilemma

I built this platform for those who wants to find a perfect investor for their startup, but struggle across hundred thousands of VC firms and investors.
The sound your keystrokes make is enough for AI to steal them
It's very cool, but I thing the initial download-speed test is very misleading. Consistently I get like 2/3 of my max, but then when I let it run to completion and it goes through the longer download tests it ramps up to my full speed and I get the full value.
Cardboard is edible. If it is healthy is another question altogether.
>but I've never suspected them to be randomly hiding or suppressing search results

the word 'random' must be doing a lot of work in that sentence given that they are subject to Roskomnadzor's regulations and are thus forced not just arbitrarily but systematically censor content: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/01/a-window-into-yandex...
> you make a lot of claims without a lot of evidence.

Wait, are you not the one making sweeping claims about small government and the free market?

I'd love to spend several days with you discussing what has caused me to evolve from pretty-conservative and -libertarian Republican in my younger days, to moderate liberal today. Unfortunately, I'm heads-down with, um, work, so I'll have to take a rain check.
This prompt actually works pretty well. I suspect that because you added a step requiring the model to list out what it needs to draw first, it has a much easier time creating a reasonable SVG. https://chat.openai.com/share/be9cea50-d00d-4b05-ab54-b64619...
Lots of other people have mentioned very good practical reasons (and you can read the linked post for others, like people being unsure of what the password to the Vim FTP is), but there are lots of good sentimental ones as well.

When something like this happens, you lose your mind slightly, and you become obsessed with preserving whatever is possible to preserve of the person. I went so far as to record his voice-mail message, just because I felt i needed to.

Of all the internet stuff, the thing that was most important to us was photos: he was a photographer, and he used a photo-uploading service (I think it was Google Photos, but I'm unsure, it's been a couple of years) and I was able to get an archive with all his thousands of photographs.

Eventually, I put everything I could possibly find (computers, internet services, whatever) into one big zip file, and put it on my local NAS (which is backed up to the cloud). I don't think I'll ever have the heart to go through it again, but my brother had young kids who never really got to know their dad. I figure one day they might want to look at it (even if it's 30 years from now) so it makes me feel good to know that it's been preserved.
> I've seen people (especially "citizen journalists") adopt chiefly British accents to appear more sophisticated.

That has a long history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
> I don't think there could be any way to win over somebody with prejudices this strong.

Yes, I have long prior experience of Perl 5 - it was the first non-BASIC language I learned, and from 1995 through about 2010 the language I used for almost everything both at work and at home.

That I have learned from both that experience and what followed, and that not all the conclusions I've drawn from it are favorable to either that language or its successor, you are of course welcome to describe as "prejudice" if you like.

> Nor am I certain if "worse is better" is a good paradigm to act upon.

The phrase was originated by Richard Gabriel during his time as the head of Lucid Inc. Are you at all familiar with the history behind it? Theirs is an honorable enough example, but also one I'd be very concerned to find myself following.

> The whole point is that not all software development has to be about reading code more than writing it, and maintaining the same heap of code for eternity.

You do realize, I hope, that saying stuff like this doesn't really make the "write-only language" cavil that's dogged Perl throughout its history seem any less fair...

> Once again, I'm not saying that I hold the absolute truth, I am saying, however, that you are neglecting a lot of possibilities.

And once again I am saying you have failed as yet to convince me those possibilities might offer productive benefit, especially when I have yet to see the theoretical advantage of language flexibility in microservices materialize in practice.

I'm not saying that means it's impossible it ever will. I am saying that means you have a high bar to clear in making the argument for Raku's particular fitness - but that doesn't seem to be the argument you are trying to make, anyway.

Instead you seem to plead language flexibility in microservices more or less as an excuse, on the idea that niche languages for which knowledgeable engineers are rare as hen's teeth face no barrier here because, after all, you can always throw the code away and write more. And that is not convincing, except inasmuch as I'm finding it hard to imagine by this point you have experience with the costs involved in building production software.

(Also, what's so insulting about being called a partisan? Your partiality is by this point very obvious.)
What's not clear to me is why MS implemented the "protected folders" feature so half-assedly as to be useless?

To me, the important thing to protect on a computer are the user's files. Instead of regularly scanning everything and comparing to known bad signatures and grinding the machine to a halt, why not limit what the apps can do?

If it's hard to prevent users from downloading totally_not_shady_app.exe, just make sure that it can't access anything anyway. That may still allow it to mine bitcoin, but at least it won't leak sensitive data. Or better yet: most users aren't devs. Just don't execute anything from the users' home folder. This probably won't help with all the attacks on Office by macros and whatnot, but it'd be a start.
IMO, the combination of anti-virus and updater got really heavy. But when the updater isn't running, I never noticed the anti-virus.
> This isn’t an LLM story, it’s the story of putting an unprotected blade into a children’s toy.

But what if knives were a brand new technology no one had seen before and so had no familiarity with the risks, while the knife manufacturers were giving out free knives to anyone who wanted one, while touting they incredible power of those knives and completely failing to mention that you can easily harm someone if you're not careful?

Personally, I don't see how this isn't an LLM story and your own choice of analogy would seem to support that idea, not refute it.
"It's something that people have to do in order to survive and live"

And you don't see an issue with that?
I have a deadman switch where if I don’t log into a service for 90 days it sends all my passwords and information to my closest living relative.
Public AI Assistants on YC Podcast, MIT, Stanford, and Yale Classes and More
We try to make online audiovisual information as open and accessible as text.

Currently we have public AI assistants for the following:
- Human Behavioral Biology by Robert Sapolsky - Stanford

- Lex Fridman Podcast

- Philosophize This

- Veritasium

- Financial Markets by Shiller - YaleCourses

- Principles of Microeconomics - MIT Open Courseware

- Justice with Michael Sandel - Harvard University

- Crypto Startup School - a16z

- Y Combinator Podcast

- Maps of Meaning - Jordan Peterson

- Death with Shelly Kegan - YaleCourses

- We Study Billionaires

- The Lunar Society Podcast
Dirty hack to make it readable:
$('script,style,link,img,canvas,#menu').remove();$('body').attr('style',null);
Also the deliberate lack of GUI for neovim. The currently extant neovim GUI shells are all universally broken, and some of them crash more than they run. I have yet to find one that is remotely as good as MacVim on macOS. I suspect that most of them are merely tolerable on Linux and some might be barely acceptable on Windows.
Fast.com was created specifically to pinpoint the throttling that was actively applied to Netflix in many occurrences back then. It seems to be mostly gone, especially since streaming video now accounts for >50% of web traffic you can't easily throttle it and hope no one notices.
My belief is that prostitutes generally aren't treated that well. I imagine children of prostitutes don't typically have great childhoods either. Do you have reason to refute either of those claims? I'm not against fairly treated sex workers, but that's not the reality we live in right now. It's the minority at best.
Pretty sure that LSD is illegal :P
It got shared. It should not - in the form - have gotten shared. Evidently someone didn't realize that (i.e., "average" in the title === clickbait). So pointing out the stupidity of average is on me? God bless you. The irony of your comment is also entertaining.
Frac was the one I had as a kid: https://archive.org/details/Frac_1020
For what it's worth, one of modern China's most famous writers, Lu Xun, was adamantly in favor of eliminating the characters. Your question is by no means stupid.

There are many reasons the characters have not been replaced by an alphabet. Ultimately, it comes down to the weight of tradition. Chinese has had basically the same writing system for 2000+ years. The characters are deeply embedded in Chinese culture, and the structure of the language itself is closely bound up with the characters. Only young kids use the alphabet, as a stepping stone to learning the characters, so proposing to use the alphabet comes across as if you want to dumb down the language. There are over a billion people who have learned how to read/write the characters, so the system has huge inertia and buy-in. As others have noted, this is like switching from imperial to metric, but a million times harder and emotionally fraught.
You can also look on Ebay. In Germany, you can find a relatively cheap one on a regular basis.

For example, at the moment you can get one for less than 500€:
https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-braillezeile/k0

I bought a couple of them and sent them to a friend in France who is himself blind and active in an association to help people with learning braille. Interestingly, France has not that many second-hand braille tablets. I suppose that it is because in Germany you can get them paid by the health insurance, this makes it easier for people to get access to them.