skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I paid extra to buy drawer slides yesterday from another retailer for the same reason. One of the top sellers on Amazon were some drawer slides advertising as soft close when of course they were not. When the title is misleading, what the hell else is?

I'll pay more to not have to pick through the junk. And I say that as a person who loves to treasure hunt, but I don't want to spend hours reading reviews to find a decent product.
A competent project manager in this undustry also understands that software engineering is not plumbing.

And the variance in effort due to lack of standardization, technical intricacy and hidden complexity is orders of magnitude greater than plumbing so our initial estimates always suck. Most competent proffessional in this insdustry know that nobody knows how to do accurate time estimates on delivering complex software projects, so why don't you know this and why do you want me to lie to you about the crudeness of my estimates?

Frankly, I've worked with hundreds of managers too and you sound difficult to work with. You seem to have unreasonable expectations that are impossible to manage with facts.
That's a question in geology and archaeology called the Silurian Hypothesis: Could we even detect a millions-of-years old civilization in the geological record?

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748
FWIW, John Green's book was not banned by AI. It (and many others) were banned by people's reports.

Again, it's not like there's porn or smut in these elementary and middle-school libraries. It's culture war hatred targeted at gay and trans people shrouded in "think about the children."
Musk is a transphobe.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-...
Combined cycle powerplants are > 60% efficient (LHV). The LHV of hydrogen is 33.3 kWh (of heat) per kilogram.

Yes, it would be inefficient overall. And it's still cheaper than nuclear. Throw in a large fraction of energy not going through hydrogen (direct to grid, or through batteries) and the cost would be even lower.
This comment doesn’t make a lot of sense, and with all the quotes it’s hard to tell if you mean it’s actually free or not.

If they are not charging you for the TV service then why are you complaining about ads? Complain about paying for ads, not getting an ad supported service for free.
Started with the TSX distro about 30 years ago then RedHat then Suse then, 25 years ago, Debian. Never looked back.
1 star reviews can also be paid for. I tend to look at 1/2/3-star reviews that seem passionate (was written like a real person with actual emotions - bonus points for photos) and see if the things that bothered them would also bother me.

I like your idea though, and will use it as an extra data point.
Ah, yeah, the online poker example is in Sedgwick and Wayne’s books and/or slides.

Found it:

https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/lectures/keynote/21Elementary...

Slide 61-62, has some more references.
>>A top concern for The Times is that ChatGPT is, in a sense, becoming a direct competitor with the paper by creating text that answers questions based on the original reporting and writing of the paper's staff.

This seems to me to be completely standard in the newspaper industry. Many times every week, I see stories in the form "The [Major_News_Outlet] reports that [Event_X occurred] or [their investigation revealed Y] and here are the details [...].

Copyright protects the expression of an idea, not the idea itself. If you write a history of Issac Newton or the invention of semiconductors, I cannot copy that wholesale and sell it as mine, but nothing prevents me writing my own version, even using the same facts and citing your work.

I'm quite sure that I could provide a service where a bunch of workers read NYT articles and write brief summaries. I'm not sure they would even need citations, as long as we don't copy chunks wholesale.

If OpenAI is simply parroting the words of the NYT articles without Fair Use constraints (short blurbs), it seems they have a problem. If they are fully re-writing them into short non-copying summaries, it seems the NYT has a problem.

It'll be interesting to see how the courts sort this out.
Pavoni owner here - they're simple, built like a tank, and you can do basic maintenance on it with a 10mm wrench and a few other small hand tools.

As long as you're willing to invest a bit of effort in the learning curve of literally pulling a shot, it's the perfect machine. I've made 3-6 shots a day on mine for 4 years now, and I know people who have used their machine daily for 20+ years.
Google searched has encouraged long pages for SEO. Now Google sells us the idea that Google can help you reduce the useless words on the internet.

Maybe de-index receipes talking about how this soup was my grandma’s preferred soup. It’s not so hard, you still have the full power on search engines, Google! For at least 2 more full months! Do it!

You are the problem, Google.
That's why using that '-h now' felt particularly dumb in hindsight but I'm always impatient.
Long distance power transport is tricky for security reasons and also transmission losses (1% per 100 miles or so?).
i agree. i researched reviews for products and services i like and product and services that look fake. i think the top restaurants in my area have a staircase like distribution where 1 star reviews have the lowest aggregate quantity. products and services that suck have more one star reviews than 2, 3 and 4 star reviews and are consistently more polarized with one and five star reviews.
I'm just more excited about WASM as a compilation target and I don't really feel like getting into details. The current WASM spec does not have tail calls, but there is a proposal for tail calls that is sitting behind a feature flag in V8 right now. I am currently working with Andy on Guile Hoot, a WASM toolchain for Scheme, and we use the instructions (return_call and friends) in that proposal. Like GC, the tail call proposal has high likelihood of landing across all browsers.
Terms of Use are a thing, and if the Times can prove that OpenAI infringed their web terms by scraping, they may have a case... but terms of use probably won't monetize well or give them enough leverage to prevent OpenAI from using their data anyway and may end-up distracting from the main copyright suit.
I own a Gaggia Classic that this mod is for and I'm a little unsure of calling a nearly $500 machine + DIY 'affordable'
If you live in a city it's relatively trivial to buy pre-ground from a good roaster. Not the same as grinding in the moment of course but for a week's worth it's generally ok. Especially for the first coffee of the day.
Did Q&A also disappeared for everyone at same time ? Its not shown to me for past week or so
“Doomguy: life in first person” which is the autobiography of John Romero. I definitely enjoyed “Masters of Doom” which is a great book in itself, and this added perspective from Romero was enjoyable.

But I grew up on their games, both playing and modding, so I do have a soft spot for their history.
Can't speak for Portugal, but "decent espresso at every corner" in Italy is sort of a myth.

There is uniform espresso at every corner, with quite dark roasts that cover up potential differences in flavor for the beans/crops. That's a side effect of expecting coffee for ~1 Euro, regardless of quality: quality generally goes down.
We Italians are used to that (you could say we don't know better), and dislike any variation from the norm, so that doesn't bother most people; in actual coffee countries you have places that do care about coffee quality and experiment with single-origin, different roasts, etc. In Italy these places are a tiny minority, and for the rest is the same burnt expresso everywhere (and, if you're unlucky, very acid).

It might be different in big cities like Milan, but I doubt it.
I've always felt one of the main reasons for this is that we never really got true microtransactions on the web. Pretty much all payment processors charge at least $0.20-30 per transaction.

My theory is that if there was a way to frictionlessly pay, say, $0.02 to access a piece of content ad-free, most people would be pretty okay with it. They key part is making the transaction frictionless - no more than 1-click/1000ms.
Removing verification was a major decline in usability. Verified accounts were good to know that you'd found the correct account for an organization or person you were looking for, but that's gone now. Verification was also a good first approximation that the account is at least somewhat notable, and not just some random online person, but that's gone now, too. With verification, Twitter used to be a moderately trustworthy source of news, now it's just a big pile of low-trust accounts saying things. You can certainly do the work to build your own trust network, but that's exactly what I mean by "decline in usability."
Can confirm, my parents had an aluminium telephone line in the UK until it failed and had to be replaced. Moot point as it's replaced with a fibre optic cable now though.
I feel like you're worried a little too much about having to tolerate some waste here and there and not worried enough about global changes to biosphere function.

Yeah, having mine next to your house sucks, we need to get better at managing that kind of thing. But it's a local suck. It's in a totally different category than having the climate shift into a mode that no longer supports our food crops, for instance.
> One battery breakthrough will obsolete this entire process.

Not for rare outage backup or seasonal storage. Batteries would have to improve by two orders of magnitude in cost to achieve that.
Script to add back the review counts:

https://gist.github.com/trickpattyFH20/8d02b18aaf63b7d405456...
I was thinking about this just the other day. If infinity isn't actually a thing in our universe, then maybe we're taking some risks by using math with all these infinite limits and integers. Maybe if we look at theorems without using infinity, we'd stumble upon new or different equations.
The second item is "Better understand coding information in AI overviews". Is there really such a big demand for this from the average google user, or is it just something that's easy to do with these language models?
A well adjusted person would not answer ridiculous challenges.
I mean, maybe? But it could be something as simple as (a) pick a designated color like purple or something, (b) paint a purple line in that lane, (c) make it a law that you can't operate the vehicle yourself while you're in that lane.

I don't mean doing this today. I'm talking about a future where most vehicles have a driverless capability. The reason why it would be useful is that a lane of automated cars would be safer and more efficient. But the reality we have right now is that driverless cars are intermixed with human-driven cars, which will always be a danger.
> If you want a much clearer separation between frontend and backend of a site, especially in terms of contributors/teams, then it might not be the right tool.

The point to take away from htmx and hypermedia more broadly is that there isn't a clean separation between the front end and back end of a site. The concept of completely separate front and back end teams building SPAs/JSON APIs has been a very costly development that has brought substantial complexity that is wholly unnecessary for most applications.

Your banking/project management/todo list/budgeting/insurance/education/whatever app almost certainly doesn't need to be an SPA and would be developed faster or for less money if it leaned into server side rendering (SSR) and used a library like htmx or Stimulus to enhance the user experience as needed.
The difference with a door lock is, even if you are sufficiently determined and have a way of defeating particular kinds of door lock with 95% confidence, that doesn't mean that you can instantly break into 95% of houses that use that lock, because you are one person with a physical body.

If bots that can break CAPTCHAs become widespread, the volume of spam, scams, and other junk traffic is going to cause problems for many people and small websites.
1 & 2 really depend on what hardware you have. But if you get 1 & 2 today from Ubuntu, I'm willing to bet that you'll get exactly that from Debian as well.

3 hasn't been a thing for a few years now. `Xorg.conf` technically still exists, but the normal display configuration flow doesn't touch it.

4 is better in Debian than it is in Ubuntu, in my opinion. Updates are really painless and well done. But notice that the cycle is different: Ubuntu gives you 6 months release cycles and an LTS every 2 years. Debian gives you a "when it's ready" release cycle with a expected time of 3-4 years, and two rolling releases. That is, "stable" is like a LTS release.
If you're running a desktop system, you should probably use "testing", despite the name.
Shutting down factories in winter will make local industry uncompetitive, which will have awful effects.
Hey Dan. Thank you for your questions and valuable input!

I agree with you that dedicated barcode reader hardware performs well and can be quite cheap. Did you not find the keyboard-style integration limiting regarding integration in your app, basically having to design your app to accept keystrokes followed by <enter> (I think this is commonly referred to as "keyboard wedge")?

Regarding phones with built-in barcode scanners: I have some experience with Zebra TCx devices, which definitely work well, but they're quite expensive. Many companies, especially smaller ones, use employee devices and have programs that incentivize BYOD, like handing out annual cash payouts if you bring your own phone to work. Also some companies in logistics I've worked with rely on external partners (e.g. bike couriers) where you don't know what kind of device they'll use.

Regarding the pricing: the SDK periodically transmits the number of scans that the device performed to a cloud-hosted API. The license check is also online (https://strich.io/faq.html#faqDataTypes). For customers that require fully offline operation, there is a separate Enterprise license on offer.
For how long do people make phone calls though? Most of the time is spent holding it in front of you, or keeping it in your pocket.
Heh, I knew it :)

Thank you for confirming my hunch. Besides being clever from a technical perspective those systems were also designed in ways that make your average kitchen appliance look flimsy. You could probably drop one from a first floor, end up with a damaged pavement, a fine and and working system ;)
See also this thread from yesterday, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147914

"Thousands of scientists are cutting back from Twitter"

Essentially, a survey published in Nature about twitter usage among scientists dropping, in part, because of the phenomena mentioned in this New Yorker article.

Eg:

"Žiga Malek, an environmental scientist at the Free University of Amsterdam, mentioned in the survey that he had started seeing a lot of “strange” political far-right accounts espousing science denialism and racism in his feed. He has to block them constantly. “Twitter has always been not so nice let’s say, but it is a mess right now,” he said."
When they don't you just write them yourself. All we do is generate migration files to provide a good starting point. Its a convenience tool.
Oh, did know there's another one from him. Thanks!
I tend to ignore the 1 star reviews because, in my experience, most are either from disgruntled people who wouldn't even try to open the manual first, or absolute binary thinkers.

When it comes to more subjective categories, like books, 1 star reviews are even worse.
I grew up in lake Tahoe in the 80s. Lots of homes were <$100k

Now they are having to ban Airbnb because there is no affordable housing for general lower wage workers

In the late 80s lots of houses were bought and replaced with multi million dollar homes. My dad was a general contractor and built a bunch of expensive homes

So it's really hard for places like Colorado Tahoe Jackson hole etc to maintain balance between affluence and affordable housing in especially places where lots of houses are wealthy second homes
Do you consider implementing an interface to be subclassing? And if so, what's the OO alternative? Prototypes?
At the risk of sounding like an old man — heck, I guess I am — is this innovation ethical for humanity's future? A one-click "tl;dr" button for the web?

There are studies saying overall human attention span is shrinking. Anecdotally, I know people in their 20s who use TikTok daily, and they're no longer able to watch a movie without losing focus.

Squeezing all aspects of our digital life, including learning new skills or reading the news, into a bite-sized "summary," is not going to lead to a better-informed and more productive society.
I just plugged their new $99 model above. It's a great way to get started on home expresso and honestly will never need upgrading for 99% of people.
Are there Open Source tooling for running your own network with automatic provisioning benefits of the giant clouds?

Not that I am aware of. The closest would be VMWare which is rather expensive and using their lab modules. You've tried OpenStack and that is about the closest it gets in terms of free open source and bare metal provisioning of VM platforms. There are other paid tools to handle power-on provisioning on new fleets of servers but most of them are still in early development and still require a good deal of in-house development to tie everything together.
It's not as if two different storage modes, with different characteristics, cannot coexist.

Batteries are short term storage; hydrogen is long term. They complement each other.
Not sure why you're getting downvotes, but it's absolutely getting worse for me. They shut down Tweetdeck to anyone that doesn't pay about $100 a year (until the inevitable increase). The Twitter web client is far worse, infected with an overwhelming number of ads and run by an algorithm that thinks I'm looking for racist content. I had no intention of leaving after Elon took over, but he managed to find a way.
> Only in the sense that a Cisco router is copying in the course of sending me the article, which we've all agreed doesn't count as infringement.

But it does count as infringement, if its not explicltly or implicitly licensed (because it is necessary to a use that is licensed or necessary to a use that does not itself require a license but is the normal use for for which a licensed copy, which you have, is sold and used) and it is not itself Fair Use (usually, because it is necessary in the course of a use which is itself Fair Use.)

> The bigger problem is that the plaintiff has to show it is more likely than not that that sequence of words came from their text and not some other source, which is going to be obscenely difficult.

The plaintiff has to (1) show facts from which a judge concludes that a reasonable jury might conclude that, and (2) get the jury to conclude that.

This can be difficult, and it might not be trivial in this case, but in practice the combination of opportunity and non-trivial similarity tends to put more weight on the defense to show a convincing alternative explanation. Outside of conclusions that a judge views as conpletely unreasonable based on the facts, the civil burden of proof boils down to what a jury feels is more likely, not some.

> Granted, and then the copyright holder could sue for infringement at that point. Exactly whom he should sue is a more difficult question.

Well, who else might be liable depends on the specific circumstances, but with OpenAI controlling the whole course between the first copy of the copyrighted work and the infringing end product, and doing it all for commercial gain, that OpenAI wpuld be on the hook, civilly and potentially criminally for any infringement, is clear.

> Look, I get it: you want copyright to allow authors to say "you can't do that with my work"; I'm sympathetic, but it just doesn't give authors that power.

I want copyright to be both more limited in its exclusive rights and either shorter or costlier to the copyright holder than it is. But what I want is not what the law is.
Buying drugs online almost certainly funds criminal acts. Some of the most vicious gangs in Europe traffic “mild” drugs like Ecstasy, Ketamine and marijuana. Denying this is to be profoundly dishonest with one’s self.
"Russia: Revolution and Civil War". Antony Beevor is an historian with a knack for good anecdotes. It can be a little hard to follow, but it's worth a read. His books about the battle of Stalingrad and Berlin are much better though.

I'm currently reading "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff". If you need a book to unwind from a brick about the civil war, this is it. It's hilarious.

"Salt Fat Acid Heat" is recommended by everyone for a reason. Unfortunately, I read before bedtime and it makes me want to get out of bed and cook things.

"A very brief introduction to Marx" is exactly what's on the tin. These very brief introductions are a great way to read about something, although the writing quality varies from book to book.
We're cornered by McKinsey
No, because bots that handle spam get better as well:

https://thespamchronicles.stavros.io/welcome/
It would be great if they would bake in some extensions that are "table stakes" for a modern usable browser like uBlock Origin, Multi Account Containers, Total Suspender, and a vertical tabs solution like Sidebury.
If these sites are scams or fishing, then the law should pursue them and put them in jail.
> wasn't Apple

But was anyone else besides Apple seriously considering releasing a device with no keyboard and non-horrible software/UX (admittedly of course the first iPhone was probably closer to a toy than a real "smartphone")?.

Windows Mobile barely changed in the 10 years after Pocket PC was first released. I don't think hardware limitations were the main cause of that. Microsoft (or rather the faceless design committee) simply had no imagination and were more than happy to see their market share grow by 10-30% every year in a fast growing market (well.. who wouldn't?).

Back in 2010 I had a HTC HD2, hardware wise it seemed to be several years a head of iPhone 3GS/4 but for some reason it was still running iPaq software.
I find the tone of your comment quite harsh in its choice of words. Just as you call the author a "doctrinaire doomer" for not showing huge optimism about the future of our way of life and civilization, you could be labeled an "infantile dreamer" and "deluded denialist" of the very real and concerning findings about the climate change and planetary limits we will be faced with, and already are.
But is such pointed labeling really justified? And more importantly, what good does that kind of barbed language do in a conversation.

The blog post author seems to be concerned about the time and attention spent on something that is not likely (i.e. as his post states is off by several orders of magnitude at least) to realistically help with alleviating the urgent problems of planetary climate change and resource exhaustion.
I agree with that concern.

Faced with finite resources and a time limit, prioritization is essential to ensure the best chance of success. Technologies like fusion detract from finding and implementing more realistic approaches that could help with long-term civilizational sustainability.
Yes, the RISK mailing list.
However they are likely not fake, or less likely than 5-stars.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05294-9
I use Gitlab for all my private repos. But GitHub is simply the place you want to be for public repos. It's the product most are familiar with and allows you to leverage GitHub's network effects with starts and forks.
Why do you keep Windows 11 on that laptop?

I'd think that cloning your Windows 10 image would be an improvement.
> First, a human didn’t create it, so copyright protections don’t exist on its output. Machines don’t enjoy copyright protections, people do.

This is not correct. AI models are tools that humans use.

This is like saying "it was typed on a computer therefore it doesn't enjoy copyright protections"