skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess if I had to describe it it's sort of like instead of primarily looking after yourself and your own needs, it becomes more of a collaborative project. Like I care about the people around me by anticipating what they might need (would you like a cup of tea, would you like a pillow) to make them comfortable, and in return, they do the same for me, and I get a positive feeling of community around this looking after and being looked after cycle.

From there it continues towards my knowing that when I arrive somewhere they are sort of socially obligated to offer whatever they have to me regardless of whether they have the means to or want to. Maybe I feel like they would be more comfortable sitting and chatting with me but they are insisting on standing and serving me with drinks and such. So I say no initially, I want them to rest for a moment. But they indicate, by asking again, that it's no problem, and that in fact they will be making something for themselves regardless of what I say, at which point I think about if I actually want something.
Acreages are better still, I agree.
>>>I am baffled by why WD isn't voluntarily issuing product recalls, replacements, and/or firmware updates as necessary in this situation

The last (class?) lawsuit seemed to clear for a pittance, I'd think objectively, its cheaper to resolve the lawsuit than issue the recall.

This is not long-term thinking, but keep in mind this is the same (product) management that seems to have created these hardware problems in the first place.

And WD can always change names and remove negative brand equity.
> The 9 lines contain all natural sciences. They contain physics, chemistry, material science, biology, medicine, geology, astronomy and all engineering disciplines.

so, can you go from these to predict the structure of DNA/RNA and predicting how they work?

also, I don't like the use of "nature" as some sort of concious entity that prefers some behaviors to others.
'Foundation' space advisor on keeping Asimov's fictional galaxy realistic
Having spent many happy hours in the years 1967-1970 between pre-med chemistry and physics classes in the Bomb Shelter, I resent (jokingly!) your apparently negative aspersion about the aesthetics of this go-to lunch spot.
> Real world industry wont stand for "hallucinated" outputs

Of course they will, if the other benefits are large enough. Checking factual accuracy of a large corpus can often be considerably simpler than generating the large corpus to begin with.
I was personally building that demo and expressed these concerns at the time ten years ago. The other person on the project, who was like 17, convinced Ted that my, at the time, 20 years of software development somehow made me malicious and he asked me to not work on it.

So he got what some sniping high school kid can make.

Yes I'm still bitter about it. I don't make broken shit and that shit was broken. I still went to the demo/announcement at Chapman university (Woz was there, that was pretty cool)

The reason Nelson's stuff hasn't gone anywhere is because he's a tyrant persuaded by fools and liars. I wish him the best regardless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warnock
Aus will get added to Britain with geo-locking out these territories.
> the French Revolution… ushered in democracy.

It did not. It ended with a military officer declaring himself emperor.
> the tools embody the collective creativity of all the world's previous-gen artists.

And doesn’t reward them for their contributions, thus, removing the “feeder” creativity. Soon, schools stop teaching art, because no one wants to become one, and the algorithms end up using the output of other algorithms as their input, and original creation dies.

Original creative output can be ugly and disturbing, but it is original human creation.

Tools can help this (my example is 3D modeling. When the tools were still “raw,” then only engineers could produce 3D art, and it showed. Once the tools and standards progressed, real trained artists started to use them, to produce awesome creations).

I hear, all the time, non creative people drooling over not having to pay or deal with creative folks.

This is nothing new. Just a new venue for typical human greed and laziness.

We’ll figure it out, and, I guarantee, some creative folks will figure out how to use these tools to become quite successful.

And those non creative folks are still gonna have to pay them.
> The sketchy history of institutionalizing people shouldn't stand in the way of genuine medical treatment.

It seems like it should in some way. For example, required ethics classes for the practitioners would limit who is allowed to apply such treatments. A bad history should at least prevent further bad history.
>Unlike many of my progressive friends, I understand the root frustration of the MAGA crowd

After hundreds of think pieces about this, I think very few progressives don't understand the root frustrations here. We just find the outlet for that frustration hopelessly misguided.
Self driving trains, on the other hand, complete hundreds of thousands of passenger-miles every day without incident.
Author here.

We do this for SPA. The POST can be supported just like you explained. Then you can either reload the "page" to see that the checkbox is checked, because backend will include that as part of the page, or (as an optimization) reload just that checkbox if you created a specialized resource for it. The entire page is still there for you to fetch upon transitions.

Among pages, you will still need a few individualized resources sprinkled around for optimizations/reloads/fragment-paginations. The difference between that and a complete API is that they will be entirely design driven. If a table needs paginating, and is built with data from multiple resources, you will not provide 2 resources, and expect front-end to paginate and glue them together. Instead, you provide a complete paginated resource for this table, where data is ready to be displayed as-is.
https://archive.ph/uMr2g
De Facto Ports
Line 1:

> Action W = ∫ L dt is minimized in local motion. The lines below fix the two fundamental Lagrangians L.

Well, you lost me. As a non-physicist maybe I'm not ready for the distillation of the field into 9 lines.
Many people there have to choose between food and heating. And use pre-paid power meters.
I liked the first season of Foundation so much, I thought it was a great interpretation of Asimov's work.
Saxons
While this is an interesting and well written post I wonder if HN is becoming a dumping spot for any long form content regardless of topic whatsoever.
Amazing that almost everything after 1 (apart from 5) is circa 100 years old. And almost nothing is newer than circa 50 years ago.
https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/a-modern-c-dev-env
Inspired by this discussion, I decided to see if I could get Anthropic’s Claude 2 to write a similar book about an ongoing news event—the tropical storm that is (as I write) approaching Southern California. It did very well—good enough to be published, I think, as long as nobody checks the facts. Here is the result:

https://www.gally.net/temp/20230820hilarystorybyclaude2.html
set aside 10% of your team's time to do these unwanted jobs. Say yes to the bulk of them but explain that it will take a long time to complete the task. Ignore all complaints that these tasks are taking too long. If they complain to senior management then give senior management the choice, you either do your main task or you do these unwanted tasks - their choice.
#3 There is a well-known group of "homeless" people here who beg around my small town. Aggressive towards mainly little old ladies leaving church, a bank, or drug store. The all sit on blue milk crates and have signs claiming no food, no home etc. but you see them being dropped off and picked up by a car each day. They beg while browsing the Web on your mobile phone isn't convincing of their plight. And you see them in local clubs too living it up with piles of cash.

Supposedly homeless but I guess some could be and just a temp sharing of a room or couch in a rundown apartment. They continually smash things in it like the sink and walls, doors, etc (I know this because I know someone who knows the company who maintains the building). Laws prevent eviction if it's cold outside.

I'd say many people would be all for homes to assist homeless rather than parks and sidewalks covered in tents. But I'd say they everyone doesn't because they feel we are all being conned. Which prevents the majority of homeless from getting help.

>Section 8 has strict rules about guests and inspections and income paperwork every year.

Sounds good but I've seen how many people who live on the street have become wise to gaming the system. It's a skill they learn to survive so I can't imagine a clueless civil servant here knowing how to spot that. One woman I knew was frighteningly good at it. She had six kids from five or six different men most dead from drugs, she continually stole from stores, but always got sympathy when she turned on the tears. She had a full-time job for most of the time government housing since she had kids. I just checked court records and see she was pregnant yet again by some scumbag two years before she died.
How well does this work for them in practice? Try as I might, the great I could get ChatGPT to generate was what I would consider student quality code. Good enough for learning, maybe ok as a starting point, but would never pass code review at my day job and it also tended to break in subtle and not so subtle ways when additional requirements or bug fixes were prompted for.

I did find it was good at explaining code, but I was also able to read the code alongside its explanations since I have been programming for two decades, and I did find it useful for familiarising myself with unknown codebases (although the tooling for this needs to be worked on). I also find it’s quite capable at little self contained code snippets (useful for bits of data mungeing in Python for example, but not quite able to build a full product).

Presumably these people are generating snippets of stuff and gluing them together. I guess that can work, but I can’t imagine the output is particularly good or bug free.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-rv-safe-parking-ho....
Authoritarians gonna authoritarian.
Many DD are running unstable, so it should be non-breaking enough for most people. The most common breakages are file conflicts. It is a shame we didn't fix such issues yet, as it is a bit difficult to fix the problem, but having testing as an additional source and rolling back the problematic package should fix the issue. I don't remember any other kind of breakages (other than upstream regressions, but this is a rolling release) for the past five years. If you tried unstable 10 years ago, this is now vastly different.

On the other hand, I remember Arch transition from readline 6 to 7 making the system unbootable (2016) if you did upgrade at the wrong moment. I don't know if package containing libraries are now versioned to avoid such issues.

I think the main difference you get by using Arch is AUR (we don't have that in Debian) and, I think, more fresh packages (mainly because it easier to package for Arch than for Debian).
Anyone has noticed also that the "instrumental" keyword becoming mainstream and even totally false? More than half "instrumental" playlists and songs are including vocal singing...
Huh, thanks for the article: I've learned a bunch of new terms that we still can't use anymore because they refer to gender and they're transphobic. The guidance said to use terms like "plug" and "port" and "jack" and stuff. Although isn't the latter rather sexual???
I'm not at all sure you're wrong. Or at least there may increasingly need to be some reputational authority whether it's as a person's real-life identity or authoritative third parties. You sure can't trust reviews or self-written puffery.

If one is cynical enough, it's easy to imagine shifting back to a world where you have a relatively small number of (more-or-less) trusted media outlets you have to subscribe to, some big publishers, and everything else is sort of hit-and-miss and most people won't bother with.
I’ve never read the book. Can you briefly summarize how the author expects shallow tasks to be dealt with, if not offloaded to another person?
This is where a decent competitor to Amazon can find a real opening.

"A human tests each of the products that we sell"
I can see this being useful in a system design brainstorming session with my colleagues, among other examples.
Line 10: Nature dislikes anthropomorphization
Blunt analysis, the danger of data without on the ground insight. Significant portion of housing in Memphis is transacting in the 5-figure range, many houses in the 20-40k range. We could easily triple our "all transaction index" and still have wildly affordable housing. I have purchased a half dozen homes in a Neighborhood Housing Stabilization-focused non profit, fixed them up, and try to sell them at cost. Nobody wants them, the govt sponsored options are a much "better" deal, at least for the short sighted.

We also lose "employed persons" because so many are on some form of non-working status.
But #2 is why we are having this discussion in the US now.
You mean monoxide? You can feel too much dioxide.
Yes. That is the point I was trying to make.
If you want a loop why don't you actually set it to loop some rather long video?
Well also the author is abusing the term “executive function” here, so not the only odd thing in the article. The reason they’ve never seen the phrase “EFT” is because it’s a nonsense term.
I agree that it is not the number of decisions, but how stressful they are. And if you have control of the environment, you could e.g. make some processes less stressful.

> Some decisions might be stressful and they could certainly contribute, but choosing what's for dinner is not in that category.

Ah, depends on whether one has an autistic child that has a tantrum whenever the dinner does not fit their unclearly communicated criteria. Then it can easily be the most stressful task of the day. :D

Generally, I'd like to push back against that "most people sometimes have the sensation" part, because that's basically true for everything. (Depression? Most people sometimes feel sad. Dyslexia? Most people sometimes make a mistake when reading.) That's the point of some mental problems that yes, most people experience it sometimes in an extreme situation, but unfortunately you experience it every day. And the people who experience it only once in a while are happy to provide you advice about what works for them, assuming that it must automatically work the same for you, or you are just lazy and not trying hard enough.
Hah, Softbank isn't the goal here!

I realized that Datasette is the first project of my entire career where if I was still working on it in 15 years time I wouldn't feel bored yet. There's just SO MUCH scope for interesting applications of the core idea.

As such, I want to work on it for decades. But it's lonely working on it alone (the community around it has been growing and is delightful, but it's not the same as having a full-time team.)

So the question I'm trying to answer is how to make the project financially sustainable in the long-run - not just for myself, but so I can pay for a team to work on it with me.

There are plenty of other examples of open source projects that have turned SaaS hosting into a sustainable business model - WordPress and GitLab are just two of the best examples. It feels like it's a reasonably well-trodden path.

Plus... I want people to be able to use my software. Currently to use Datasette as an individual you either have to "pip" or "brew" install it, or you can try the macOS Electron app - https://datasette.io/desktop - but I want newsrooms to be able to use it to collaborate on data. And most newsrooms aren't well equipped to configure a Linux server.

So I realized that a hosted SaaS version can solve two issues at once: it can help the audience I care about actually benefit from the value of the software so far, and it provides a reasonably realistic path to financial sustainability for the project as a whole.

And yeah, I'd also like to make a ton of money out of it myself too!
> your employer pays for it

Well, in the end the employer has reduced your salary by that amount, employers are not known for welfare. Every employee is already entitled for full public health care. Something must be wrong with it if 90% of the employers offer double insurance in away. It's a public secret or gentlemen's agreement that employed people are not supposed to use the public health sector they are entitled to before they need specialist or hospital treatment. The gentlemen's agreement would stop working if basic public healthcare were reasonably good.
There's a second-order problem related to their decline as tourist resorts. The B&Bs and hotels that were no longer viable as tourism businesses became cheap accommodation for the indigent. Perhaps inspired by happy childhood memories, a lot of people experiencing crisis decide to move to seaside towns and find a ready supply of cheap accommodation.

The most severe deprivation in Blackpool is highly concentrated in a narrow strip just behind the seafront. The contrast is quite astonishing - Blackpool as a whole feels quite run down, but there are pockets that feel truly post-apocalyptic.
It's just nonsense for clicks, don't take it too seriously
Why do you have to bring race into an unrelated discussion?
I wish something like this existed for the Amazon Scribe…
While I am the author of one of those one-man projects, I would like to point your attention towards BQN. It started as a one-man project, but isn't anymore.

As much as I would like people to look at my implementation, if you want to play around with something more complete, and also uses symbols in the same way APL does, then BQN is the one to look at.
As a consumer who hasn't tried your product, that sounds reasonable to me. I can always change to my own server if I want, but having a third party server as default for convenience is useful as well.

EDIT: If you create an open API with worldwide air quality data, that would be fantastic.
Exactly. You don't even need to care about the people you are helping because, in the long run, it is cheaper to help. This isn't about money. It's largely about having someone to look down on.
> Which ever party is in power is invariably hamstrung by the opposition voting the other way just 'because'

As the other comment has pointed out, this is irrelevant: in practice, as with Brexit, a majority of 1 can let you do almost _anything_ in the British constitution.

No, the real constraint is either internal opposition - party infighting - or what the newspapers will hammer you for.

Many of the UK's most depressed towns voted for Brexit, seemingly in the belief this might mean funding diverted towards them. It did not, because why would it? Nobody cared about them before, nobody cares about them after. Only marginal constituencies matter.

It's not like their local MP is going to help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackpool_South_(UK_Parliament... was sacked from the party after a bribery sting https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65193097

> Bringing Newcastle closer to Leeds by faster road and rail

"Fun" fact: Leeds is the largest city in Europe that doesn't have a metro, tube, or tram system.
Re4 – Q&A over documents with emerging ontologies
Okay I'll bite. Emacs and Org-Mode, these are groups that require you to do a public good with the idea that you're protecting against many X's. To do this, one can contribute in any meaningful way, big or small. For a cult, it seems to only do good, despite one of its unspoken tenets being to keep corporate interests at bay. Is that bad?
Tell me about it; quarantine and sanitizing groceries became a minor thing in the pandemic. And I still feel like quarantine and inspection is a good idea to prevent introducing pests, although I was shouted down the last time I suggested it.
> I also find it a plausible variation on [1] as an explanation of the Fermi paradox—natural intelligence learns to undermine its own environment before it realizes it (due to complexity), destroying itself.

Every species, even unintelligent ones, destroys its habitat if it's not kept in check somehow. Herbivores will multiply and eat all of the vegetation if not kept in check by predators, predators will multiply if there's an abundance of prey and eventually be kept in check by famine. The trouble with intelligence is we're able to work around these natural barriers and expand the scope of habitat destruction, which we're seeing with climate change.
Plating the fixtures we touch, door handles and so on, with copper or silver might be an effective, useful and easy broad spectrum protective measure, too.

Much less "new and shiny" there, makes it a much harder sell.
https://archive.is/3safa
Debian is a boring system in the best sense of the word. I've only become a more prolific Debian user in the last ten years or so, but in that time frame, I've found Debian to Just Work(tm) and to reliably keep on working as long as the hardware isn't misbehaving. It's the type of thing we only tend to notice when it doesn't work that way, but it's an impressive achievement.
I do love Zigbee, but AFAIK the ESP32 chops with support are still in beta. I hope it will be stabilized soon, as I would love an explosion of compatible Zigbee devices.
> You definitely don’t want a yard that’s spitting distance to your neighbors’ house, that’s just silly.

I don't care about having land (nor yard - I especially don't want to take care of one), but detached house is the only way to have loud and/or space intensive hobbies (playing music with drums, karaoke, machine shop). Invent magic sound-isolating material and I'd prefer large flats in buildings, for easy access to everything.
I genuinely enjoyed reading this. Thank you!
You mean like, ban the ones in your jurisdiction that obey laws?
Partly. But if you have queued for Finnish healthcare you know that the problem is real.
Now Is the Time for Grimoires
Boring is good; languages are a tool for communication. If you want poetry, there are lots of side projects to create new dialects atop existing languages (including Go).
nature is left as an exercise to the reader
https://archive.is/OwiiA
I’m discovering an increasing number of edgelords here on HN.

You know that what you said isn’t true. Or you are really badly informed.
I left Australia for Canada, and I'm extremely happy I did.

It's not perfect, but there's a lot more ability here to live the life you want - just work 4 days a week, or maybe 6 months a year. Out West it's perfectly acceptable for a 20-something or 30-something or 40-something to say "actually, I'd like to go to work less and live more". People are very accepting of that.

So the priority is not simply to work more, but to find a life that is fulfilling and enjoyable for you.

I really like that.

When I was recently in Australia I had dozens and dozens of people confront me and tell me that I need to "get a real job" and all of that. I also feel strongly that somewhere along the line Australia's lost the plot and now the purpose of life is going to work, getting insurance and saving for retirement. I was once told "Australian's don't know how to live, they just die slowly". I've spent a few thousand hours thinking about that, and the more I saw of Australia the more I found it to be generally true.

It was also extremely eye-opening to realize how cut-off from the world Australia is, and how the media & politicians there can basically say whatever they want, and Australian's swallow it down hook and all because they have nothing to easily fact or reality check it against.
(I say this as someone who lived 24 years in Australia, studied Engineering at University, etc. etc.)

After spending 18 months in Australia last year and driving all over the entire country, I know for 100% certain I will never live there again.