skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, frankly it’s giving too much rational basis to emotional states IMO.

People posting on web forums, especially engineers, like to poke holes in things and aren’t big into expansion and exploration at the moment. Probably a bit depressed from sitting in front of their computers all day too.

Ask someone who just spent a month on the pacific coast trail, or who is about to go to Antarctica the question, and you’ll get a different set of answers.
Ah, yes, I absolutely trust Sam Altman to keep all of my personal data, to never resell it to people I have absolutely no idea of. Just like I absolutely trust him to not completely manipulate worldcoin and generate tokens that will be given to bots. He's totally not in a position where he creates both the problem and the solution.
Because not everyone wants to use the Tor network but may still be interested in a browser that comes configured for as much privacy as possible by default instead of having to configure various settings/extensions manually?

Options for incrementally improving privacy are still good, even if it doesn't go as far as the normal Tor browser.
Another related Trek episode - the one I expected you to link: VOY's "Distant Origin" - https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Origin
From Apple’s first iMac G3 to the iMac with M1: a visual history
> I assume this is all done server-side

I assume so too, and given that, it's incredibly frustrating (but not at all surprising) that they require users to use Chrome to be able to use the feature.
Will this apply to all americans or only white supremacists?
The good news is there's a lot you can do to turn this around, but it largely depends on what kind of apps you're offering. 2% piles it up MoM but it could be way worse.

What's the price point for your app and what categories do they fall into on the app store?
I’m all for folks dropping or opting out and making their own way, that’s what I did as a drop out a good 15 years ago.

I still think there is a certain point to the anti-intellectualism association. If you’re if the mind that universities are involved in something of a scam, printing degrees for low-quality, low-effort students in exchange for those sweet, sweet loan dollars… that will naturally lead to folks having a raised eyebrow at work wondering if Timmy in the corner is really worth is salt or just has a gimme-degree not dissimilar from the perception issues of the Affirmative Action hires - one now begins to question if everyone, or just most, have a bullshit degree and an inability to really think… just another NPC.

It can and does erode societal trust.
Well yes, but you probably don't want the idea that you're a serial killer popularized. That totally understandable position should not be used as evidence that you're a serial killer.
Ironically, articles got pointlessly long because of Google. Everyone stretches their content because long form ranks better.

A few hours ago I wanted to know the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane. Here is the answer: they're the same thing, just in a different ocean. I clicked three or four articles and had to read for a few minutes to get to that answer.

It's even worse with videos. It takes 10 minutes to answer the simplest questions, because that's the ideal length for monetisation.
Ask HN: What's the sentiment behind the negative reactions to AI-related posts?
I often observe in the Telegram HN channel (13k subscriptions) that AI-related posts, including topics like LLM, OpenAI, and LLAMA, receive reactions like poo, vomit, and dislike emojis. I'm curious to understand the reasons behind these reactions. Is it driven by concerns about job displacement or the perceived overhype of AI? Your insights would be appreciated. For context, I'm neutral on whether AI is inherently positive or negative.

The channel link: https://t.me/hackernewslive
One thing I have noticed is that devices with built in voltage sensors will oftentimes read even fully charged rechargeables as low battery, which can be annoying. This has happened with devices as new as a Roku remote and as old as a Game Boy Advance. It may vary from battery brand to brand, but I just use the AmazonBasics.
SEO rears it's ugly head again - yes, articles have gotten much longer, why? Because the Google bots think longer content = more authoritative content.

It's not actually a direct correlation, but enough people take that as gospel that they will pad out an article to make it super long just for the SEO value.

Similar to recipe websites giving their entire life story before a recipe.
Oh no, regulations, the second biggest threat after nuclear wars =(
You could probably do that with one of those DPU/SmartNICs, like the AMD Pensando or the Mellanox ConnectX
incoming backroom payment deals with publishers. "OpenAI now features training data from our partners X, Y, and Z"
Or as an renewables energy storage for use in leaker plants.
Four year college stats: over 40% of students don't have loans. Of the remaining under 60%, mean debt is ~$30k and median debt is ~$20k of low interest loans. Average lifetime income gain is well over $1m.

That's not lifelong debt. Most people buy houses that are many multiples of this, cats that are similar to this, and many other items with far less benefit.

Calling this lifelong debt is nonsense and fringe outcomes at best.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, just answering the question as I saw it :)
> This species is a net negative for the universe.

We're not important enough to be net negative, nor have we been around long enough. I am still hopeful that 10 million years from now, we'll have rampaged across the supercluster, spreading despair and wickedness in our wake.

Then, and only then, will we have achieved net negativity. Do your part, help us become that.
Hands-On Change Data Capture in Go with Postgres and Debezium
This is really old hat by now. Everybody is aware of the fact that when it is cloudy and there is no wind that you will need other sources. But on balance for the planet as a whole there always is plenty of wind and there always is plenty of sun. We are just not capturing it and we are not transporting it effectively across longer distances.

People used to say that you can't make baseline power with solar and wind. Slowly - and often grudgingly - they've come around and now realize that it isn't about 100% availability, that will always be a mix. The question is simply how much of that mix can be offset by renewables and the answer is 'much more than you originally thought'.

And as the price of solar and wind drops further and further that fraction only increases.

Every KWh that is produced by solar and wind does not need to be generated by fossil.
Thanks, that makes a ton of sense, smaller/better by design but equipped to handle the same kinds of problems that JavaScript does.

Is there any advantage to writing in Dart and transpiling that to JavaScript?
I don't know about others, but I feel that it must suck working for a company that is so closed that you can't even express yourself normally. And this while the company still reaps the benefits of society, like the results of hundreds of years of scientific advances, and of course open source software.
Appreciated if you have any suggestions on books, articles, blogs or ideas we can try.
Scrubbing sensitive data at 180MiB/SEC/core
This also applies to app ratings, especially for company apps.

Uber's app might be perfect, but the rating will reflect on the company, drivers, and experiences of users.

Anecdotal, I've worked on apps for a train operator and currently a power company, it still holds up.
when did we learn it was heading our way, and how far away is it at detection? hours, days, months, years before impact? that's key things to know.
For home espresso you really want the ability to tweak the grind size for each shot. Small variations in grind size can significantly change the flow rate, which dictates the peak pressure & shot time you can achieve. When you buy a new bag of beans it can take a couple tries to "dial in". The appropriate grind size depends substantially on the coffee variety, roast level, age of beans, etc. If the pre-ground coffee doesn't hit the mark then you are SOL for the batch -- including if it is too fine and doesn't flow at all. Even if you hit the mark in the beginning, the shot behavior will change over time as the beans age.
This was not a good thing
WebAssembly is the Flash of 2010. Even if companies adapted I would rather block it from running on my machine. I prefer transparency these days because almost every company is abusing user’s privacy.
There's been talk of replacing the natural gas used directly for heating in the UK with hydrogen. I have absolutely no idea how viable that will actually prove to be but it seems difficult.
Technically his comment says "wanting to" not actually doing it.
> maybe we should flip the acceptance criteria to make sure you are not performing task at superhuman level

Many CAPTCHAs already operate this way. "Bots can do things at suspiciously superhuman speed" isn't new.
Very based, very true.

This is also why I believe after many many failed iterations and variations of capitalism, we will arrive at worker-owned co-ops winning in the end. It is the only way to truly align interests while still working within this ridiculous capitalist framework.

The fun part is the union leader becomes the CEO, gets elected, etc.
My responses shift because I am trying to understand your position.

Your original position was "Commuting violence now because you think it’ll happen in the future is a horrible argument and can be used to justify anything."

Your current position is that some level of violence is acceptable to prevent some types of future violence.

It therefore seems that you agree with the logic of "just war".

Why then did you write "Logic don’t work that way."?

You seem to only allow violence when faced with violence.

Is dumping toxic pollution into a drinking supply, knowing it will cause deaths in the future, a form of violence?

If yes, then violence can be used to oppose such action, proportionate to the expected deaths, illnesses, etc. based on your best model of the effect.

If no, then poisoning the drinking water for the board of BigOilCo. is a form of non-violent eco terrorism.

> Violence due to climate change doesn’t fulfill any of those requirements

Has ExxonMobil committed any form of violence in its contribution to CO2 emissions? Remember, their own staff scientists sounded the warning about future dangers back in the 1980s.

The level of eco terrorism now are things like deflating the tires of SUVs. This is not violence, so appears to meet your criteria.

However, your comment was in responded to a prediction about the future: "Violence is inevitable, in some form or another, if the climate effects are ignored to such a degree." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37144135

If things progress as many fear, then your own logic says that eco terrorism may be justified, agreeing with dgb23.
I could totally imagine Verisign or something doing this. Imagine a world where you have to pay a yearly renewal fee to keep your humanity. They’d love it. Of course, it’s not a claim that the user is a human, but rather the user has a slightly difficult to obtain certificate that had to be requested by a human.

Could slow spam down though.
I mean you described it quite well and defended them. I raised an eyebrow and am still unsure even though you’ve said you weren’t one.

It’s kinda like arguing that racism is a fact of life for some and we should allow them to vent their racism in a controlled environment. Hard disagree.
In the pursuit of preventing much bigger tragedies? I can't speak of my anger rn. The IS is found and fed by America. They indiscriminately kill muslims and non-muslims, they don't behave like muslims at all and for some reason (?) they never touch Israel. All so that you can tell a hecking lie to come and murder our kids and rape our wives, and plunder whatever resources in our hands! To afterwards award the man who destroyed seven countries with a Nobel! I'm once again reminded that there is no modernity, it's medieval age all the way down, all the kings of west war for nothing but their power! We muslims are in no way inclined to harm you, GTFO of our countries!
I think simply modifying the hosts file on a machine to "rename" the domain of the site you want to visit would be sufficient to bypass a browser-level block.
Thank you Debian and happy Birthday
Brothers Karamazov:
An absolutely fantastic demonstration of family dynamics (from a purely male perspective).

The Idiot:
What happens to a close to perfect person in an imperfect world. What I loved about this book, it doesn't go the obvious route (e.g. oh he is too nice and gets exploited, it's subtle)

Why you should read:
Both books give an interesting inside of "russian" mentality (which I think is very important with the war going on). You will feel like you have gotten to know 4 close new friends.

Why you shouldn't read it:
1. It is a very male point of view, women in those books get displayed quite badly.
2. They are absolutely soul crushing.
>> Jean-Luc Margot, Megan G. Li, Pavlo Pinchuk, Nathan Myhrvold, Lea E. Alcantara, Megan T. Andrakin, Jeth Arunseangroj, Damien S. Baclet, Madison H. Belk, Zerxes R. Bhadha, Nicholas W. Brandis, Robert E. Carey, Harrison P. Cassar, Sai S. Chava, Calvin Chen, James Chen, Kellen T. Cheng, Alessia Cimbri, Benjamin Cloutier, Jordan A. Combitsis, Kelly L. Couvrette, Brandon P. Coy, Kyle W. Davis, Antoine F. Delcayre, Michelle R. Du, Sarah E. Feil, Danning Fu, Travis J. Gilmore, Emery Grahill-Bland, Laura M. Iglesias, Zoe Juneau, Anthony G. Karapetian, George Karfakis, Christopher T. Lambert, Eric A. Lazbin, Jian H. Li, Zhuofu (Chester)Li, Darren J. Lu, Detao Ma, Vedant Mathur, Mary H. Minasyan, Mark T. Nasielski, Janice T. Nguyen, Lorraine M. Nicholson, Divij Ohri, Atharva U. Padhye, Supreethi V. Penmetcha, Yugantar Prakash, Xinyi (Cindy)Qi, Vedant Sahu, Joshua A. Scally, Zefyr Scott, Trevor J. Seddon, Lara-Lynn V. Shohet, Anchal Sinha, Anthony E. Sinigiani, Jiuxu Song, Spencer M. Stice, Andria Uplisashvili, Krishna Vanga, Amaury G. Vazquez, George Vetushko, Valeria Villa, Maria Vincent, Ian J. Waasdorp, Ian B. Wagaman, Amanda Wang, Jade C. Wight, Ella Wong, Natsuko Yamaguchi, Zijin Zhang, Junyang Zhao, Ryan S. Lynch

Man...! How do people in those research fields where it's standard to have a few dozen authors a paper choose the order of authors' names?
Speaking only for myself, I did find this to be a “preaching to the choir” type of book - probably not something that’s going to change the minds of a skeptic - but still had enough nuggets of value to be worth a read. It’s directed at Silicon Valley. It levels some accusations that are a bit hard to swallow. But probably necessary.

She admits very early on that it’s kind of a meandering exploration of ideas, so I came in not expecting some masterpiece and instead found it to be a collection of thoughts worth considering.

It does require some trudging through a bit of preaching, but at the same time, if one takes seriously the crises that are likely around the corner, I don’t think these objections hold water given the broader context.

To each their own, though, and I can understand why the book would rub some people the wrong way. But that’s why I found it worth reading.
What Grinder do you use? I have a Gaggia as well been using Baratza Encore but it’s not really for Espresso but now they have the Encore Esp for espresso
I hate to be that guy, but we need to be making these choices based on overall benefit vs cost to society.

What is the benefit to society of providing the best possible education to a person who will never hold any kind of position of responsibility in society? A person who will spend their entire life under some kind of supervised care?

Often trying to cram an education down these kids throats is more traumatic than useful. And society is going to pay 1.2 million for the satisfaction of torturing this unfortunate child for a decade?

What is the point of that?

Wouldn’t money be better spent paying a part time aide for the child at home with the goal of maximising quality of life, working directly with their primary caregiver? That could cost around 25k and have a much better outcome.

We should be investing heavily in our brightest students, investing in practical applied knowledge for the majority, and focusing on critical thinking and independent learning skills for everyone.

The unfortunate few that will not be able to meaningfully participate and will require support and supervision lifelong should be prepared in such a way to maximise their prospects for comfort and happiness, not trying to give them skills they can’t absorb and will not use in a misguided feel-good “see, they can do it!” effort that costs every other child in the school a better education so that we can pat ourselves on the back for giving it the best try.

Fighting evolution is a losing battle every time. Better to swim with the stream and amplify the beneficial effects while minimising the downsides as possible.

Civilisation is ultimately an engineering problem. Social engineering, governance and finance engineering, civil engineering, sadly now geoengineering.

If we did any other kind of engineering on an equal outcome basis we’d be trying to launch carts into space with oxen.

We need to focus on doing things that produce useful outcomes, not pretending that we can somehow fix the inherent injustice of unsolvable disadvantage- and certainly not cutting everyone else off at the knees to keep anyone from getting too far ahead.

Well implemented gifted and talented programs and advanced academic tracks produce value for society, raise families out of poverty, and change lives. Special needs education below a certain minimum level is a sunk cost fallacy in action.
I thought the laser "ignition" was just a demonstrator for being able to create circumstances where fusion occurs, not something that could ever be scaled up to a power plant? But this article talks about repetition rates? Would we theoretically have fusion powerplants where we ignite a plasma over and over again from scratch, using lasers? I thought that's what tokamaks and stellerators were for: keeping the fusion reaction going once ignited?
Before the $200 grinder, and the ~$200-300 of quality coffee beans in a year.

Meanwhile, one can also get a temp-controlled kettle, a V60, a years supply of filters, and a hand grinder for ~$80.
Skip the temp control and hand grinder and you are down to $30 or less.

It is better than daily takeout, sure..but lets not pretend it is just a randomly affordable purchase for most when brewing non-espresso is far cheaper for good quality. Trust me, I know, I spent the money on mine. Love it, for sure...but is every bit a luxury good.
I had the privilege of maintaining a 6 language cross-platform library for a while and man does the Typescript stuff ring true.

Dart was the best. Java without the Enterprise JavaBeans Injection Factory Factory. Swift without the ObjC compat baggage and fundamental design flaws like the typechecker that can infinite loop and regularly takes 200 ms for methods. Kotlin without the slapdash IDE developer side-project language stuff, "here's 20 kinds of syntactic sugar and 10 methods that do the same thing. Use your favorite sugar/naming convention for convenience"

The only ones I genuinely feared were TS and C++, C++ because a deep respect and fear of manual memory management. TS was just...weird, lot of half-baked stuff.

I was having a true TS engineer do code reviews, and they had what should have been minor bike-shedding about constructor formatting. That broke parameter doc comments displaying on hover. All I could find was people pointing this out without answers, and TS reviewer was kinda busy, gave me stock answers and didn't grok there was a genuine issue.

A week later, I finally found an issue explaining some long convoluted thing that made it impossible.
It is annoying that you can't even view a simplified form of the content with nojs. "Social Media" had become such a raging inferno of a dumpster fire that people have completely lost sight of what should be non-negotiable standards of what's acceptable in any alternative.
Years ago, I had the idea to create a clear-net version of Tor, e.g. Tor Browser without the Tor network (was called Aegis Digital, I believe The Epoch Times interviewed me about it). Separate to Waterfox, the idea would be ramp up the privacy to the max.

The problem is, when you did that, many websites would break in the most bizarre of ways. Even now, it still breaks a lot of the web. Couple that with a well known VPN and large swathes of the web are going to be difficult to access.

I'm sure this may go down well with the privacy crowd, but for the general user it was and still is a hard pill to swallow. I wound down any attempts, figuring a balance of privacy and usability would be better and if I were to offer this, why not just point users to use Tor instead?

I figure this is a good opportunity for Mullvad to capture its VPN users and shift them onto a platform they control. Not necessarily a good or bad thing, as I know VPN providers try to launch their own browsers and even some browser vendors launching their own VPN to capture the maximum value out of their users.
Federal Judge Upholds Arizonans’ Right to Record the Police
Show HN: I resurrected one of the top dead Show HNs
OneView was first posted to HN in 2017, but died sometime around late 2019. Using the web archive I cobbled together something that works.

According to this[0], oneview is the #5 top dead show hn.

[0] https://nami.land/2023/06/11/track-hn-analyze-survival-rate-...
Apple acquired Shazam in 2018 and it's integrated into iOS.
let's say windows 11 users who use google chrome
Becoming? I beg your pardon?

Their entire business was built on this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisit...

I know this is HN and all, but to wait all of these years of acquisitions, poaching, project terminations, Chrome shenanigans to destroy the internet, main product "SEO" degradation and literally every single sign of enshittification...Google has always been one of the prime examples of enshittification. That's why they are very successful at making money.
I do hope that student got full credit; that's marvelous.
I do appreciate the info about haloperidol and alcohol withdrawal. As you note, delirium tremens is a serious problem.

The essential feature of alcoholism is that the sufferers have broken metabolisms, and they find alcohol provides the calories they need to run their brains and bodies: https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1667570759034888192

Carbohydrates and protein provide 4 calories/gram, fats provide 9 calories/gram. Alcohol provides 7 calories/gram. Alcoholics train their nervous system to run on acetate, one of the breakdown products of ethanol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14085230

Rather than tranquilizing patients with haldol, how can the withdrawal patient's nervous system be fed?

A social worker I knew said one way to help with alcohol withdrawal is to provide a lot of sugar. The potassium in orange juice allows the body to use the sugar without having to release insulin. Other juices have less potassium, but would also be good.

I'm aware of some other gentle interventions too. Anything's better than inducing agony with haloperidol.
For point 2, NiMH cells are _way_ less prone to leakage than alkalines. In fact, I've never seen a leaky NiMH cell (that hadn't completely vented due to severe overcharge, anyway)
Do you likewise recommend doing nothing for where you live now as well?
Quantum Electrodynamics by Richard Feynman, shockingly a page turner, quite accessible and short!