skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's many reasons to believe that the future is going to be as unrecognizably (mostly) better to us as someone who was born in the 1940s to today.

In the 1940s - cities smelled like sh!t, were so polluted you almost never wanted to go outside, healthcare was still largely snake oil, the average person was still working 10 hours a day 6 days week, human rights outside of straight white christian men were questionable, AND we were in our second world war in 20 years - at the advent of the nuclear bomb.

Look at where we are now.

If you don't see progress, and if you can't see how people back then thought the world was surely coming to an end, and you think it's worse now, I'm honestly amazed.

At no point in time, was progress a up and to the right with no impediments. Every advance we've had, people have worked HARD for. So thank your lucky stars so many people get up every day and keep working for it.

Because it isn't easy. But it's what we do. Always have. Always will.

Eventually, we will reach the physical limits of how good technology can get. But we are laughably far away from that point in so many major aspects of life, that we've got a long way to go before the 10 & 20 year future might not be better.
I was condescending.

But I wasn't wrong, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What percent of species have humans killed so far? Are we going to eventually outcompete an asteroid causing over a million years of ice age?

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/natur...

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity...
I see a lot of tutorials on running mechanical hard disks without covers on and such.

Years ago, the drives had safety systems to prevent this.
The common rechargeable battery chemistries are 1.2 V (NiCd, NiMH), but a normal alkaline battery is 1.5 V. It usually works OK because the alkalines drop voltage quickly and devices are designed to operate in a lower range. If you can fit it in somehow, it something makes sense to add an extra battery. E.g. 5 rechargeables has the same voltage as 4 alkalines (6V).
Which neighborhood/district? I don't know what you mean by muslim neighborhood. Most of the city is really multicultural.
Does anyone have any advice (other than sending to a professional data recovery service) for how to access data on an HDD whose controller card stopped working, and refuse to accept a spare controller card taken from a brand new identical HDD?
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but Windows 11 users who use Google chrome are only really a crowd at the User Agent string level. Chrome allows much deeper fingerprinting.
Yes, I can tell you the difference between a typhoon and hurricane. But first, let me tell you a story about how my grandmother once survived a typhoon ... etc. etc.
My government (UK) seems to struggle with communicating some things with citizens. There is no way so send a simple short message to every citizen.

For example, recently the law changed so that pedestrians had priority at 't' road junctions without traffic lights.

Ideally, every citizen would be send a small infographic showing the new law on the day it became law. They would click "okay" and go on with their day.

Instead, the government bought up TV ads and billboards across the country (very expensive) to try to get the message across - and still, months later, you have people honking horns and getting angry at pedestrians and drivers who don't know about the change.
Interesting monetisation model. Wouldn’t a library which does the processing on-device be easily stealable? How do you plan to combat piracy?
Almost no part of the world was free from European colonialism. France was one of the largest colonial powers. If England lost to France maybe India would be speaking French instead of English now.
> Anecdotally, I know people in their 20s who use TikTok daily, and they're no longer able to watch a movie without losing focus.

I'm almost 40 and haven't been able to do this since the smartphone arrived; it's not Tiktok, it's just that the phone is right there, and movies are slow-paced (arty thrillers) or monotonous (lengthy CGI fight scenes).
Note about the more productive approach: Mozilla published a blog post[0] back in late June about what solutions are already available and advising for the law to reinforce these existing mechanisms instead of mandating a new browser-level blocking thing that can easily be abused.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2023/06/26/france-browser...
> OpenAI wpuld be on the hook, civilly and potentially criminally for any infringement

I don't think you've thought about this hard enough
Pretty similar in Milan from what I could tell (traveled there frequently before the pandemic). Although there were a handful of coffee shops that seemed to be accepting a specialty coffee angle where for 5 euros you could get a distinctly non-Italian offering.
>Get 5 friends to vouch for you

This approach is used by wechat, you can't make your own account and can only be invited by an existing user. I suspect that wechat has reached enough market penetration that this is now worth it.
I definitely identify with addressed concerns over the hassles of my go-to debug approach, viz. print statements. I have a rather intense state engine that, when things go awry, can be brutal to debug with prints. But now I am doing ClojureDart, which I know is on the FS roadmap. The state engine is stable these days, but if it misfires before you get to CLJD, forgive me if I swipe your idea and roll my own ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of FlowStorm. Maybe a tenth.
What is a good example of a Canadian news organization website that is not overwhelmingly populated by headlines and stories that are:

- clickbait

- hyperbolic

- gossip

- propaganda

- unoriginal

- unimportant
Large (and small, and in between) corporations are abstractions, through which act actual people, whose rights are not diminished by that fact.
Brilliant! I Would love to see this improvement.
I just lost data on a firecuda drive that was a few months old. The lab could not recover the data and also did not tell me the root cause of the drive failure.

Compared with my samsung ssds which have (knock on wood) never died in a decade.

I know all brands fail but is there something of lesser quality with the firecuda line?
It is that, yes.
Great idea!

I am not so sure about the business model though. With WASM and cross compiling it seems this _could_ be a fairly simple thing to develop these days. Though I could be completely missing the value add or the complexity of the problem. The need for tracking for licensing purposes seems anachronistic and probably easily hacked around. I would expect to see open source competitors offering a free library that does this at some point.
I believe the response to this objection is to just have the groups wait for later "flush"es / make "trades" with strangers who would otherwise exit in later waves.
> Is the UK government really caring about the children or do they just want more convenient power

I think the UK government’s blind eye toward well-known and acknowledged instances of organized child molestation shows they don’t care. About that.
I use mullvad's vpn and I know very well what you're talking about. Social media websites will shadowban you without any TOS violating actions on your part. Certain financial sites will straight up refuse to work, and the worst of all are the sites that use only certain js libs hosted on cdns that straight up refuse to serve anyone on a vpn. That leaves you with a site that looks like it's responding, but is in fact broken.

I feel like the very act of trying to opt out of the web's surveillance is enough to mark you as a second class citizen on the web. You either submit, and let your isp and google resell your most sensitive secrets, or you're effectively shunned.

Regarding tor, it's a great idea tarnished by the fact that it's used for vile illegal activity. There's no way I would ever run a tor exit node. The risk of some 3 letter agency taking all my hardware for a few months while they figure out I'm not the guy they're looking for is too damned high.
> Starbucks is rather bad coffee though

Hmm. I roast my own beans and I feel like I know good coffee when I drink it.

For me Starbucks (I've tested in US, UK, and Japan mainly) provides a) a reliably consistent quality that is b) about 80% of ideal.

To me this is the killer feature of Starbucks, and it's why I'm a stockholder.
When I buy coffee at non-Starbucks coffee shops, it's a total crap shoot what I get. Perhaps 10% of the time I get a stellar cup. But perhaps 40% of the time I get undrinkable crap.

Starbucks solves this problem for me by giving me an experience where I have perhaps a 95% probability of getting a pretty decent cup of coffee.

Disclosure: I drink mostly their Latte drinks with extra shots (depending on size and regional variations in base shot count).
I’m not sure that’s a great interview question; the right answer to google the appropriate algorithm (e.g. Fisher–Yates), make sure you understand implementation errors that will lead to bias, and implement it over any arbitrary sequence.
I currently use the "summarize everything" extension for this. It lets you tweak your system prompt if you want to, but the defaults are pretty good. It's just another tool. Use it or don't, but it's saved me countless amounts of time digging through overly verbose prose looking for the interesting bits of information.
Even doing it isn’t a criminal act everywhere. My point was that there are ethical implication of engaging with dark web sites irrespective of what the law says.
Similar open source product is jsQRscanner on github https://github.com/jbialobr/JsQRScanner
I fortunately never had a problem using Mullvad VPN, only when using Tor.
Photobucket had a "recently uploaded images" section on the front page, at one point
This is astonishing: https://archive.ph/fbLlZ

> "Let’s start with some research from Hook Agency, which claims the best content length for SEO in 2023 is between 1,760 and 2,400 words"

The source, however loathsome, is probably correct. The front pages of the internet have become saturated with garbage ultra-long-form articles... not even "articles," really, more like ramblings. And it's Google's fault.
my favourite GNU/Linux distribution. thank you so much and happy anniversary.
the only thing I concede is that there is a gray area, the in between, as you put it... but aside from that gray area in between, large corporations do not have rights. the end.

I understand that libertarian logic uses gray areas as a means to an end of furthering their ideology, but that is not an issue for me.
Subscription fee, with scan limit for something that works entirely on-device and with barcodes that likely will not change for years feels weird.

Even weirder as I understand from other comments, that scan will fail without internet entirely due to licensing server being unreachable. Strong always-online single-player games vibe.
> How many people have more than 8 tabs open at once?

Don't most people? I basically always do. And yes, I'm a techie, but anecdotally I see many non-techies with zillions of browser tabs open because they barely notice that tabs are even a feature and so they continually allow new ones to be opened without going back and closing anything.
Some friends of mine worked at a startup in the early 80's working on a z8000 based multi-user business system (Proteus for anyone around Vancouver then).
Neat. Much needed.

Yes and: I would've loved a "parental controls" for eldercare. Config and arrange the entire UX. Mostly to remove stuff, highly constrain the UX. I'd be fine with a shell. Like the olden days, when we used AUTOEXEC.BAT to launch AutoMenu or Norton Commander on startup.

While the constainly evolving UI/UX of iOS is probably a good thing, each new iteration completely defeats my elders. They're simply past the point of learning new things.

For a device that champions a non-modal paradigm, the iOS UI maze has a lot dead-ends.

They should also do usability testing of Siri with elders. Something as simple as a "start over" would be great.
What’s all that AI going to be doing all day to become energy-bound?
Just out of interest, why do you say 8/21? Sounds like a pretty random date, and you seem quite sure of yourself.

What makes you think he'll "begin his counterattack" then?
The link is truncated and reaches a different page. This is the full URL:

PDF
https://archive.org/download/20181002-Mike_Nayna-Academics_e...

txt
https://archive.org/stream/20181002-Mike_Nayna-Academics_exp...
Oh, so there is. I was expecting the one about the bobcat.

https://xkcd.com/325/
Just tested sound hound and it got the first song wrong. Never known shazam to do that
Yes but that’s not what she’s doing
And what would that do, exactly? The government wouldn't care. In fact, they would probably be better off for it because everyone would simply switch to Chrome and there's one less browser to deal with. The only thing you'll do is make the problem worse and take away choice from the French people who want nothing to do with this bs.
There's a fella named karlicoss whose work you may want to look into. See: beepb00p.xyz
Shouldn't they worry about Search being incredibly low quality nowadays first?

They're literally featuring a wrong ChatGPT answer as an answer to this question: https://www.google.com/search?q=country+in+africa+that+start...
> If the citizens really cared about the future of their children they would not have elected a government that is a stinking pile of poop.

FPTP makes it more likely than with other democratic election methods that all your choices are different varieties of stinking pile of poop.
How is Brave a scam?
Why should they have to let me? It's my computer.
Students are submitting answers saying “I am an AI language model”
> It will be very easy to bypass, making this a very stupid law.

It’s not about being effective, it’s about making things illegal. It’s trivially easy to break the speed limit, but that doesn’t stop local police using it to collect millions of dollars of fines every year
It depends on your goal. Does aggressively ticketing new teenage drivers lead to better driving?

There is a huge potential benefit. If the cars are going to improve they need to be tested in the real world. So maybe some forbearance is justified?
Solar power is highly volatile and can't be stored in large quantities. It's not cheap when it is infinitely expensive at night. A better alternative to fusion would be fission. It works, is stable, and will likely remain far cheaper than fusion even when fusion becomes technically possible.
It will get bypassed easily. The lengths spammers will go to for "organic" advertising that is automated doesn't really have limits. Fine, add WEI, spammers will write code that literally issues native events to a real browser on a farm of devices. I actually saw this discussion in the WEI proposal GitHub regarding Chrome extensions. What gets a pass?

Captcha was never really the limiting factor for spammers. It was generating human readable content at scale (comments, reviews, responses, etc). But with AI that's not an issue anymore.
circle symmetry
like petals round a flower
a galaxy's earths
Fun to play with.

Bug report: input field in the demo doesn't behave like normal, I can type but autocorrect and autocomplete doesn't work. Probably just listening to key presses, no idea why you would do that though.
Who cares? It's for this reason I don't use either. Everything is just left-aligned. I haven't touched Fortran in ages, and don't think anybody complaining about either tabs or spaces has either. Just write code and don't think about it. Use a formatter to pretty up your code, if you please.
Lots of people live in studio apartments or similar. I live in a loft-style condo where everything is open, including my bedroom upstairs. The only proper separate room with a door to shut is the bathroom. But even if that weren’t the case, there’s a stupid bright blue LED light on the power strip behind my bed.
Trust the HN libertarian contingent to zero in on the real issues /s
This sounds like a fantastic feature. And honestly I think all of these negative comments are just the HN reactionary trend. Lots of people are going to use this tool and it's going to be great to bypass all those annoying sites that have a lot of crap on them. Being built into the browser makes this very useful.

Also, all this wailing and gnashing of teeth is really quite annoying. Look at you people embarrassing yourselves.
There is some good content in the book, but beware that Matthew Walker is a bit of an intellectual fraudster https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/24/why-we-sle...
I've been on Windows 10 (because i use Linux as my main OS in recent years and only boot Windows once every few months), so i don't know the latest details.

Can Windows install the Visual C++ runtimes yet?
So the article had a list of disasters and some useful lessons learned in its left and center columns. It also had lists of truisms about software engineering in the right column. They had nothing fundamental to do with each other.

For instance, it tries to draw an equivalence between "Titanic's Captain Edward Smith had shown an "indifference to danger [that] was one of the direct and contributing causes of this unnecessary tragedy." and "Leading during the time of a software crisis (think production database dropped, security vulnerability found, system-wide failures etc.) requires a leader who can stay calm and composed, yet think quickly and ACT." which are completely unrelated: one is a statement about needing to evaluate risks to avoid incidents, another is talking about the type of leadership needed once an incident has already happened. Similarly, the discussion about Chernobyl is also confused: the primary lessons there are about operational hygiene, but the article draws "conclusions" about software testing which is in a completely different lifecycle phase.

There are certainly lessons to be learned from past incidents both software and not, but the article linked is a poor place to do so.
I don't particularly enjoy it, but 2 hours a week is a cheap price to pay not to be in better shape than 80%. It's one of the craziest effort/gain ratio out there, the closest thing to a magic pill. It's not a hobby or entertaining, it's maintenance. I don't like doing an oil change but I know that if I skip too much my car will die.

I also don't particularly enjoy working yet I do that 8 hours a day.
All right, I've read! I'm sort of referencing two different threads I'm involved in here but from the Django docs:

> Your models will be scanned and compared to the versions currently contained in your migration files, and then a new set of migrations will be written out. Make sure to read the output to see what makemigrations thinks you have changed - it’s not perfect, and for complex changes it might not be detecting what you expect.

So it's not different other than it can scan the changes in models to help create the migration which is a nice little convenience.
> The men's rights stuff tells them they've been sold a lie/raw deal by society...

I think that's it in a nutshell. Selling a narrative of undeserved victimhood is very powerful. I think a lot of men stop at convenient victimhood and do not follow through and to learn how to be resilient, reliable, and genuinely put others' interests ahead of their own.

If you're being a "nice guy" just to get something, then you're not actually a "nice guy", you're just play acting in order to get what you want. People recognize that almost immediately, and do not trust people like that with relationships or responsibility. Peers will trust you when you accept that you cannot trick the world into trusting you, and you start building trust through actions.
What specs do the laptops have? Windows 11 has higher requirements than Windows 10.
This is at the level where EU should intervene.
My guess is that in this case the first 4 listed are main contributors (in whatever way: authors, funding, ...) , while the following are alphabetically sorted.
For the millionth time: you can use Brave without any of the crypto nonsense. I'm typing this on Brave now and I still barely understand what a BAT is; I've never spent more than 10 seconds looking into it and the browser makes no attempt to force it on me.
I'll use AI to puff out articles with nonsense so they get higher ranks, and then Google will use AI to shorten them again.

The Dead Internet theory will soon be indisputable.
It's not a dead drop if you have to log in and everything is recorded, is it?
I was writing a comment about why I think spaces are better, specially with auto-formatting but now...

I feel like tabs could be better if you let the auto-formatter do its job by setting the tab width to 4 spaces. That should be good enough so that people with a tab width of 2 or 8 don't see the code lines neither very short nor very long. I also feel like most people who use spaces are good with a tab width of 4?

I also would not take into account tab widths not in [2, 8].
> This is an absolutely disingenuous point that compares the cost of full-economy-of-scale tech to literal one off R&D prototypes.

No, even at scale, materials that you can extract from ore are inherently going to be cheaper than materials you have to extract from three different ores and then crystallize, even in a manufacturing lab. These just aren't comparable processes, and no amount of scale is ever going to fix that.

Instead of assuming I'm making a disingenuous point, you might have asked for clarification.

That's setting aside the problems others have brought up, which is that the materials in question have other properties besides conductivity which make these materials inappropriate for transmission application.
WASM isn't the same as Dart in the browser because "Dart in the browser" means the Dart VM and standard library are already compiled and installed on your browser while WASM means the VM and standard library must be shipped from a server to your browser and compiled before the program can run.
New York Times Reportedly Considering Lawsuit That Could Throw OpenAI into Chaos
Hi Kenny! Go ahead! There is a ton to explore in this area, so looking forward to whatever works for you.

ClojureDart is still on FlowStorm roadmap, just waiting for the self hosted version there.
Excellently said. You've put into words things I've felt for a long time but never got round to articulating
Remember we're not just talking about power plants. We also need to replace our petrochemical distribution networks, beef up our grid in a real way, replace all of the petrochemical based heating (a majority of heating in the US, often built centrally into buildings), both replace all petrochemical-powered vehicles and make any changes required to routing, replace all on-demand power generation with non-gas-based solutions, rebuild all industrial facilities to not use petrochemicals...and so on. This is all happening concurrently and would largely focus on existing infrastructure and it would need to happen FAST.

World war two, the example raised the most often, required only increased output. It had no limits on how to get there. This requires both. I really don't think it's like anything we've ever tried to do before.

In particular it wouldn't be this hard to...replace everything eventually when it makes sense. In order to maximally dampen climate change we would need to do this as quickly as possible.
What does that mean? I think the point is she is racially Korean, aka Asian not white/Caucasian, given context to her being accused of being "anti-white".

edit: also see "It's not far off from Korean culture" https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/981575986322989056 which apparently she is qualified to judge.
Humans are worse. Obviously if you don't know how to discern garbage data from legit data, you're going to have a bad time, but these emerging tools are strictly better than anything that has existed before.