skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it, or would it simply delay the bill? Every one of us must pay the final price at some point.
Exactly right. Even that verified improvement is limited to very small part of the world
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/08/16/hawaii-news/reques...

"Instead of approving the request, Manuel asked the company whether the Maui Fire Department had requested permission from a village elder"
Ok, but people won't use it just for recipes. If it's successful and common place google will monetize it.

The beginning could just be "see this related product or service." Which won't mess with the content. Perhaps that's fine.

I'd argue though that any summarizing tool inherently has a bias. It must choose to ignore certain details and make decisions about what to highlight.

As we understand LLM's more and the stuff that summarizes folks controlling them will be able to make those decisions and the money and power behind that will absolutely abuse it.

That's not even considering the effects this would have on journalism and writing in general if most of it gets summarized.
Many many years ago when it was the UK/GB Sizewell B reactor public enquiry it seemed to be the case that nuclear industry workers basically had a lower risk of death from all causes ... except for crossing the road!

Which might not be in conflict with this study, if nuke workers are (say) more careful than the average Jo/Joe and that more than makes up for the above small increase.
It seems to me that these guys are taking the SpaceX approach--don't look for what's best, look for what's the cheapest way to get the job done. That's why almost all orbital rockets have used hydrolox for at least the upper stage but SpaceX uses kerolox. Hydrolox has substantially better performance but brings with it a whole bunch of handling headaches. SpaceX uses a lot more fuel to deliver the same mass to orbit--but fuel is a tiny percentage of the total cost of a space launch.

The penalty for not using hydrolox when you're going beyond low orbit grows even greater--but SpaceX is figuring that with Starship they can ship up fuel separately and still get more throw weight per dollar. Even now, note how a fully recovered Falcon Heavy launch is cheaper than an expended Falcon 9 launch even though it uses 3x the fuel.
Is Reclining Your Airplane Seat Upright Behavior or Downright Rude?
I used it just the other day to work an aime problem for my middle schooler.

scheme@(guile-user) [5]> (exp (* (atan 1) -2))

$9 = 0.20787957635076193

scheme@(guile-user) [5]> (expt 0+1i 0+1i)

$10 = 0.20787957635076193+0.0i

a problem c/c++/java/js/python/rust/go can't handle after decades of progress. even my favorite R can't work this problem. scheme ftw.
I suspect this view is held by American adults who aren't from a young enough generation to use TikTok. While Facebook and Instagram might be 'evil', they're considered 'our American evil'. This smacks of jingoism and ageism. It's simpler to ban what you don't personally use.
Having sporadic issues sending messages here.
On HN and reddit, experience doesn't count. Only reading about others experiences after they've been paid to write research experiences.
Nvidia Makes 1k% Profit on H100 GPUs
The author also misses a really relevant fact, that modern lasers are an order of magnitude more efficient, so the 400MJ would be dramatically less, low enough to pass breakeven.
That's more correctly called an "entitlement" rather than a "right", IMO.
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Ok, but what happens when Woz then assigns himself employee number -1? Jobs should have foreseen that and assigned himself employee number Woz-1.
Putting aside the privacy arguments, IMO there should be a simple case for quid pro quo import/export control.

China bans American software companies from their market, thus giving an advantage to local alternatives.

Those local alternatives on the other hand get unrestricted access to American markets.

Why exactly should they be allowed to operate?

Trade is always reciprocal, and software should not be an exception.
I wonder what the survey results would have been like for American adults if asked whether rock and roll should be banned circa 1956.
Founder here…stoked to geek out with ya’ll here!
My plastic consumption weighs on me, too, as does our collective consumption. Especially our collective consumption; I can only do so much, and feel ~powerless to change our habits. Focusing on individual responsibility feels like a distraction when regulation is the way to effect widespread change. I don't really care that world leaders use private jets; the vast majority of us don't need that, but they arguably do, since in-person communication can be so effective, especially at high levels. I care about shifting culture so that we feel well-off enough, cared for enough, basic needs met well enough, to not resort to "retail therapy" and the like.
I would reserve plastics for medical use and other "mission critical" uses, not for yard ornaments at the other end of the spectrum. It's a tough problem and I'm wary of oversimplifying the answers, and that uncertainty leads to stress, whereas someone who thinks they have all the answers might mostly be stressed by their insistent advice not being universally accepted.
Yes, his YT channel is lovely - that's how I originally discovered him actually! That's why I decided to give his book a try, despite having a title that evokes worries it's a "Sacred Geometry" type of thing. Luckily it isn't like that at all.
And how are they labeled for that by US? :-)

You don’t understand, it’s different (c).
This goes great with my vibes-based coding style.
Thank you for providing an alternative view of the world, it would never have occurred to me otherwise! Enjoy your nap and stay safe.
I don't see the problem as long as everyone understands the risks they're taking.

I'm also glad there are people willing to take some calculated risks so we can continue to learn about ourselves and our world.
The incident was recorded though: https://status.slack.com/2023-08-17

I suspect they didn't consider that it impacted their SLO because it wasn't impacting 100% of their customers.

That's the problem of status pages for large, heavily sharded, services. Tt can't reflect what a single customer experienced.
Atomically precise nanoclusters predominantly seed gold nanoparticle syntheses
China does ban US services for exactly this reason.

Principles that work in a free society work within and between free societies. They don't work on an international scale between nations that are opposed to each other, geopolitically, the incentives are all wrong.

Leaving morals and ideology aside, simply strategically, Russia, China and the US are all wise to distrust each other and put limits on how each other's corporations can act within their boundaries. It's not the same situation between allies. Like, sure the US can use facebook to mess with Germany or the UK politically, but their incentives aren't to destabilize their allies.
I wonder how much of the cost of nuclear is regulatory and lawfare related rather than intrinsic.
Largely I see inflation measurements as a model that degrades with time. Inflation of one year vs the last couple of years? Not too bad of a measure, things are similar enough. Inflation of this year's dollars vs dollars 50 years ago, much less useful as the things being purchased are radically different. Inflation comparing today's dollars to dollars 100-200 years ago. Largely worthless too many goods are either completely different or don't exist
You can't really compare past nasty smell with premium high tech NextGen® smelly shit of today.
There's plenty that could have gone wrong in the last century that could have led to humanity's extinction. The next challenge is how to deal with exceeding the capacity of the planet to sustain our civilization. You're definitely on to something with your last paragraph.
Yes, the very website[1] on which you posted this comment is written in Scheme[2], for example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
Private trams? Sounds worse than private cars to me.

Public trans? I already said I'd support that, but it's not on the menu is it.
have you tried instant coffee? Nestle have a very good "gold blend" for coffee aficionados.
maybe this observation should be part of my next article - managing difficult article writers.
Literally the plot of demonslayer
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can you share any more? I haven't heard much, but its all been positive so far
So you think we should be copying Chinese policy decisions?
I would assume need outstrips supply for platelets. Whole blood need could be very volatile. So donate platelets if you can.
> I would put money JS staying as is and WASM will be the web story moving forward

Ditto.

WASM needs just 1 piece to be pretty much widely generalizable, GC. Once that happens, things will get pretty exciting. Access to a platform garbage collector will allow pretty much any language imaginable ship to WASM with some pretty minimal runtime overhead.

And GC for WASM is due to hit pretty soon. I'm looking forward to the revival of Applets :D

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/MVP...
Pretty sure the long recipes are due to others not being able to copy them if you have long essay describing it or something?
Ask HN: FOSS maintainers, what can you "sell" to sustain and earn a living?
While the FOSS source code is open and available publicly, what do you believe you can sell to sustain project development and make a living?

For instance, we've seen projects selling ongoing support/maintenance.
Are there any PSPs for which this is not the case?
Those are not German cars.
> whole blood collected by blood banks that had passed its 42-day storage limit was centrifuged to remove cells

This seems like a great business? Blood banks get to monetize what would have otherwise been a waste product. And we get more data. Why is it creepier than standard organ donation?
Making “LCD, Please”
The distinction is irrelevant if the government branches have power to use Facebook and Twitter data as they wish. Or if these companies are near monopolies, which gives them great powers comparable with a government.
We need to ban our political opposition for the sake of democracy

This reminds me of Justin Trudeau shutting down the bank account of the Trucker protestors. We need to lock out our opposition from accessing their bank accounts or from being able to pay their cellphone bill because democracy
TBF, that stance makes sense only if you also disable Javascript, otherwise it's just superstition (look at any complex webpage and try to make sense of the minified Javascript code in there, even when pretty-printed that's about as useful as looking at the WASM disassembly).
If it were "60% of Americans favor HN ban", it'd be very easy for HN to recognize the morally abhorrent censorship for what it is. Extend to people you dislike, and who are very unlike you, the same dignity and autonomy you would yourself enjoy.

(It's also clarifying to contemplate this argument: "we're *not* banning you from accessing HN: we're merely banning HN from making its website accessible by you).
Given users of these sorts of apps have been demonstrated to have an addiction to them in many cases, are users of TikTok more or less reliable judges?
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Just because it's written on a document titled "Human Rights" doesn't make it so. The UN UDHR is really just a wish list of things that would be nice to have in any country. It is emphatically not a well thought-out legal document that would form the basis of a a country's laws.

Read about the recent Chilean constitution reform for what happens when people try to write a constitution based on things that would be nice to have, without seriously considering all of the nth-degree complexities that would result if those nice things were to actually be put into reality with the might of the state.
Well I just finished my internship so I'm more or less free, as long as I don't disclose anything confidential.
Blood donation centers make money when they sell your blood. Blood is a profit center for a lot of organizations. That's a big reason they're always bugging you to give more.
Seems difficult to ban TikTok alone without violating the First Amendment. If you more generally banned exploitative data practices then you’d interfere with other social media companies as well.
Who are "we", kemosabe?
Dying healthy in your sleep at home costs society a lot less. No expensive medications, hospital visits,in home nursing, etc

I suppose if everyone lived, say 5 years longer, and only delayed a disease by 5 years, it would be a break even in cost. Although, who wouldn’t want 5 more healthy years?
I'm not really in favor of banning anything. As soon as you carve out something that should be banned, then things that shouldn't be banned are twisted by the detractors into being the class of material that should be banned. Today you get rid of Tiktok because it's Chinese Propaganda, and tomorrow you say that The New York Times reporting is propaganda that must also be banned. Then there are no information sources except from whoever is in charge, and that's basically the end of democracy.

I think the cat is out of the bag with Tiktok. If we really think the Chinese government is going to influence ordinary Americans, I'd like to hear why they shouldn't be allowed to do that, and I'd like to hear why they won't just start using Instagram Stories or YouTube Shorts. I get the feeling that old people (like me now I guess) are annoyed that people use Tiktok to come up with absurd pranks that hurt a lot of people and that this platform gives them an audience. But I guarantee that if it's banned, we'll just see the "YouTube Kia Stealing Challenge" or whatever.

The software issue is worrying. If video-sharing applications can be used as malware vectors, that is an iOS/Android bug that needs to be fixed with high urgency. Whatever Tiktok can do, your Verizon app or local newspaper can also do. Do you trust their IT teams to not let malware slip into production builds? I don't. So the OS needs to compartmentalize every app, and disallow wholesale information sharing (no device ID, no access to contacts, etc.; those features are totally unnecessary).

All in all, preventing certain people from having a printing press is against everything our country stands for. Yeah, dumb people can do a lot of harm by publishing dumb things. We balance that risk with with happens when smart people can't publish smart things. Governments have always hated that, but it's always been good for ordinary citizens.
China doesn't have the same freedom of speech as the U.S.

You can't just ban companies because you want to. There are laws and protections from the government in place.
why not? all he's doing are things that are proven to be working.
As someone who has had the 'Vid several times now, I'll take my chances getting sick for a few days versus injecting myself with an untested drug and risking permanent damage to something far more important like my cardiovascular system.

Sure they've been working on it for years but until it goes through the multi year FDA phase trial, it's still that: untested.

And PS, for the 3 times I've picked it up, I'm 100% back to my old self in about 2 weeks. This "long" nonsense is an injury caused by something else, perhaps an injection of a rushed to market drug?
> Adults almost never use 'grow up' as an argument. They actually know what their argument is and say that.
Well, you're trading one problem -- apps need to include their own dependencies -- with a more thorny problem: everyone has to somehow have already installed your app's dependencies. Of course, they don't, so you bundle your dependencies anyway, as polyfills or otherwise, and transpile, etc.
> So you're saying people people with accessibility needs are an afterthought, at best?

This is such a comical strawman of what I wrote but I'll try to clarify nonetheless.

Say you have a startup that wants to disrupt inventory management, your secret sauce "idea" is a feature that allows you to cut stale inventory by 14% by implementing various just-in-time workflows that optimize shipping and reception of new goods.

If you are in the US (or most English-speaking countries but considering how combative you are let's say US), your MVP should be the most barebone system that you can ship that will give your customers that 14% reduction and make them want to sign a contract with you. Having a screen-reader-compatible interface might be a must ~1 year down the line when you reach a scale where conforming to ADA is a necessity or realistically when your customers ask for it because of the ADA.

It's not about caring or not, it's about assigning your meager startup resources towards the features that the prospective customer will say "yes we want your product". That's what an MVP is.

In addition (and perhaps even more importantly), MVPs are useful in determining your product-market fit. You might go over 5 or even 10 MVPs as you pivot and refine your inventory management idea, all without having a single customer keeping the lights on. You could implement accessibility in all of them, or you could implement it only in the version that actually gets adopted by a customer.
I just got a flight Stockholm-Prague a week ago, we boarded from both doors. In May I went Stockholm-Zürich, boarded from both doors, then Zürich-Lisbon, same.

Last time I flew to Berlin with EasyJet it also boarded from both doors, now that I'm listing it I can only remember a flight from Oslo-Stockholm with Norwegian where the boarding was done only through the front door. Most of the flights I've taken the past 2 years have boarded from both entrances, I feel it's quite usual.
Great example, very readable and with a GUI as well!
> Social systems have a way of changing underneath you until it collapses.

From the beginning of time until now the statement was that you held power/money until it was taken from you or until you died (and you couldn't take anything with you regardless of how many riches you were buried with).

You want to, of your own free will and volition, reduce it to just the "until it's taken away from you" part. Which leads me to conclude that either your viewpoint is incredibly naïve or you are at the very, very top of the totem pole and wish to preserve the status quo as long as possible.
> Making everything an object is a cute idea but the fact of the matter is, most of the time data is just data, there's no associated behavior.

Data is just objects that don't happen to have any behavior.

You can look at it as there being a continuum between data and behavior:

* Purely just storing raw uninterpreted bits in memory and letting anything read and poke at them.

* Storing raw data in memory but having an API that ensures that the data is in a valid state and maintains invariants.

* Encapsulating data behind an API that gives you flexibility to change the representation without breaking users.

* Attaching additional behavior that happens to use that data directly to the type that stores the data.

Object-oriented languages support the full continuum, but the language itself certainly doesn't require you to go all the way for every type. Different kinds of data and different domains will naturally fit certain points on this continuum.

When you say, "There isn't a single OO codebase out there without POD objects", I consider that a feature of object-oriented languages: They are flexible enough to model a range of state/behavior policies.
sure they do, you have the sourcecode don't you?
I’d personally rather die suddenly due to a heart attack or stroke rather than struggle with severe mental degeneration over a period of years before dying.
Go read up on how the WTO works. We do this already for literally everything else, as does the rest of the world. The real issue is that when it comes to technology/software the policy makers have their heads in the sand.
So that American consumers can benefit from possibly better or cheaper foreign software?
I have written countless programs but would not be able to answer that without first turning to google. You might have screened out plenty of valid applicants with this
> If the library is solving the problem but solving it in an inefficient-but-working way that is not good programming.

Yep. And even then, you need to know what you’re looking for. Years ago I wanted a library which implemented occlusion on vector shapes for plotter art. I had no idea what terms to search for because I don’t have a strong enough background in graphics. Turns out there are algorithms which help - but it was years before I found a good enough library.

And if you know what to search for, there are so many terrible implementations out there. Look for priority queues on npm. Half the libraries implement custom binary trees or something, despite the fact that using a heap (an array) is way faster and simpler. If you don’t know why a heap is better, how could you possibly evaluate whether any given library is any good?
I can confirm that AWS has done this as well, I know of at least 1 person who has been hired in this manner, and it was because they were excellent OSS contributors.