skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pet peeve is:

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

Unless the context of the discussion is about voting (such as with these threads), I have a quick trigger finger when it comes to voting down comments that talk about votes.

Even if someone is asking "why am I getting down voted" or "If you are going to vote down, tell me why" complaints are annoying and pointless. Sometimes I explain, but it's not worth it, so I just vote down comments that do this.

Tangent

See, when someone does answer why they are getting voted down, the person being voted down will generally argue with the person answering, which just means you didn't want to learn why people were voting you down, and rather, you wanted to argue. If you just thanked the person for answering "why are people voting down my comment", you'd get the answer more often. But answering that question is generally NOT an invitiation to argue the merits of the reasoning for voting down.

For example, let's say I know you are getting voted down because I've rouintely see your comment get voted down because a group of people think it's wrong for whatever reason. So, I answer: "You are getting voted down because people think you are wrong." If you come back and argue with me, saying you aren't wrong... you've missed the entire exchange. I'm not necessarily arguing for one side or another, I'm simply explaining why you are getting voted down. Feel free to disagree with the reasoning, but it doesn't make my answer wrong.

End Tangent

Anyways, if you want to know why you are being voted down by people you respect, do your research. And if you don't respect the people voting you down, why does it matter what they think?
This.

I got meds with 37.

Did a degree in CS and was successfully self-employed for years until that.

Everything worked out okay-ish, but meds are a game changer. It really felt like I was playing "life" on hard mode until then.
I assume it's possible, just absurdly expensive. "Just" launch a Star-Raker into a suborbital trajectory with your passengers on board. With Star-Raker you can even have windows.
Hot, literal desert in the climate change era with few local water supplies and powerful stakeholders with river water rights, mediocre politics in an unstable era, not really a tech hotspot outside TSMC/Intel. It's not awful but it's not folsom or hillsboro or seattle, it's kind of ohio-lite (with slightly less culture wars, but much worse water problems).

(oh and to be clear by "2 to 3 digits" I don't mean 10-999% bonus... I mean they gave senior engineers a $75-125 retention bonus and principals might get 2 or 3 hundred. Those are the people who will build Intel's next foundational architectures and the nodes and the packaging technologies that lead themselves and their foundry customers to success. Have fun with that.)
What is a BRICS currency and is the U.S. dollar in trouble?
Lead dev here. I gave a detailed reply earlier. Grep for "I've always thought of the JVM as magical technlogy" on this page and you'll find it.
> In 2008, Blizzard released an intentional plague in World of Warcraft to echo the success of the Corrupted Blood pandemic. [...] Blizzard put a stop to the Lich King plague on October 28 after receiving complaints from players that the zombie infection was detracting from other parts of the game.

Takes a few tries for the lesson to stick.
Not everyone can afford to stand up the international infrastructure and accountants required to offload tax liability. Not everyone does it either.

Incentives for private individuals is different from shuttling obviously domestic revenues to an Irish-registered entity.
https://archive.ph/T8aWa
I know about the base band, were asking in the context of semi advanced criminals.
My aunt is an agent. In the past, she’s said Rocket Mortgage is considered a less competitive offer. It sounds like they have a high reject rate.
The argument that copyright abuse is required for "AI progress" is sus. It is required for quick easy buck to be made by the likes of Microsoft-- that I agree...
Hey Elon get back on twitter. You've literally made two same posts. I don't understand why you would care so much about this unless you are Elon.
This is a good set of rules; I would tend to guess (but not know) that 99.9999% of the human users of HN follow these rules 99.9999% of the time...

The human users of HN -- I do not have a problem with, 99.9999% of the time...

In fact, quite the opposite -- I'd submit and suggest that the intellectual capacity and the willingness and ability to help others of the HN community is quite amazing indeed!

But let's talk about AI-driven automated bot postings for a moment...

I, as a user, don't mind bot postings so much -- IF (if and only if!) they contribute something of value to the discussion. That is, without being snarky, without being derrogatory, without distracting from or railroading the conversation, without moving the conversation in a political and/or ideological direction, or engaging in the public shaming of specifically named individuals...

Because there seem to be a lot of bot postings like that...

>"HN has the following rule:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

This seems to be the rule that is most broken by apparently agenda-driven AI bots on HN... (it's as if some are intentionally trying to provoke people!)

To conclude, HN = Exceedingly great community of humans!

My question (to the HN community, and to the bots!) is simply as follows:

How do we tell a human created post on HN -- from an AI bot created one?

?
The meaning of my message wasn't that everyone should move to a functional language, but that Java devs shouldn't. The language has some decent features. Under all the OO patterns and abuses of framework, there was a decent core to save. My issue is that the community has declined to write their own "Java - the good parts", and tried to bolt half a dozen pair of wings on their supertanker because planes are faster than boats.

As a java-turned-haskell-turned-java dev, I can enjoy some OO programing, even though I prefer FP, but I definitely don't enjoy unprincipled FP riddled with side-effects, null pointers and built upon the quicksands of frameworks that are thoroughly unfit for that purpose.
After reading the testimonial I'm really craving a Philz mint mojito. Would love for them to expand to Europe ;)
OT1H, I hear you and agree it is frustrating and very bad UX. OTOH, there is no rug-pull outcome because the board of anything decided to rug-pull API access to AcitvityPub endpoints

That said, I think ActivityPub has only solved the distributed posting identity problem, and has not yet solved the "lemmy.ml shuts down" problem, in that such a thing will not take my ActivityPub identity with it, but will take a lot of the high subscriber communities with it, forcing them to relocate yet again
> What is it that people love about Obsidian?

When Obsidian launched, there was already a lot of hype building in the note-taking community around Zettelkasten and Roam Research. With Roam, basically any word in your note could immediately link to another note, and you could see backlinks in your notes prominently.

However, Roam was both expensive and online-only, so when Obsidian came out and it was: a) polished, b) provided most of the functionality of Roam, and c) was offline and plain-text (also unlike Notion), it was an immediate hit.

The other special feature Obsidian offered was easy and powerful customization. The major settings are actually core plugins that can be enabled or disabled (like daily journal, tagging, or slideshows). Plugins and themes are easily discovered and installed from inside the app, which has led to a vibrant and popular plugin community. All you need is one plugin to be indispensable for users to never leave.
World of Warcraft was one of the pioneer MMORPGs. My knowledge of how things go here is thin on the ground, but anecdotally from discussions of others who worked on other contemporary MMORPGS: it's easy for us in this era of distributed-everything to overestimate how easy doing anything in these systems was. I'm aware of one circumstance where a known buffer-overflow bug was delayed for weeks in fixing in another game because devs simply released changes to the codebase in exhaustively-tested integrated batches; in the meantime, they relied on "game masters" to monitor the bug and fix it by hand when it manifested.
We don't have lie detectors even for AIs and we can look at every single bit inside them
Typed lisp? Unlike Lisp, Haskell has enormously complex syntax, so generating code in it is a huge hassle.

Template Haskell is something to use only when absolutely necessary, while Lispers write macros without a second thought.

I considered your method of writing my own tooling, but have had a vague feeling that Lisp works better for this frame of mind.
I'm not an encyclopedia of links. There are full time researchers with phds that go more in depth into why you're basically wrong about what you say. If you want to trust the summary generators you read of faulty logic, go for it.

All you did was show me a prison study that can be refuted by basic logic, and a graph of labeling that made zero sense for anyone with a brain.
>>Visual Studio as a developer for Windows apps is a different story… but then you have much bigger psychological issues I’m untrained to diagnose.

WTF are you on about. Games development for PS5/Xbox and Switch only works on Windows, that's where the entire toolchain for these platforms is. It's not just windows apps. I love how so many people on HN like to pretend that Visual Studio isn't the most powerful IDE around, it's a powerhouse for developers and you'd need to pry it out of my cold dead hands.
I'm also curious for more information
Power companies are regulated as an alternative to competition.
Just updated the language in our FAQ for this!
This is sort of the thing. Everyone I meet with ADHD has some similarities, an a lot of nuanced differences and lots of their own little tricks and methods for dealing with it. Many of them have therapists they believe have had a positive effect on them. Many have medications that they believe have a positive effect. That may or may not be true depending. Whatever seems to be working is whatever they're evangelizing and while I'm glad that mental health is becoming more accepted and discussed, I wish treatments/rituals/coachings/medications were left up to the patient and whomever they chose for professional care

Therapy helped for me until it didn't and then medication did and still does. That's just me. My nephew struggles with medications. It's so easy just to get an initial reaction with mental health issues, and then want to evangelize whatever stimulated that reaction, but this stuff is nuanced. There's all kinds of variables commonly shared and some not so common.

Anyway, be cautious of telling people what they grasp with personal health issues, they likely just don't grasp your particular flavor. But with regard to this website, I'd be cautious in general.

It reeks of excited evangelizing done by someone who's way of interacting with the world is business and computers.
Likely related to your account history. The suggested pages I get are dog videos by influencers selling overpriced pet products. I follow a lot of pet channels so that adds up.
I thought Ford et al were being bribed by Tesla to use their network, as all new EVs sold after 202X cannot use a proprietary connector, which means it has to use the same connector as at least two other companies, to get subsidies. Same for new charging station subsidies.
Given how primitive the Go GC is, I doubt it'll work at all.
I think you’re right, and there are multiple reasons executives don’t see office space as a “sunk cost.”

A small part may even be that they value work done in-office more than work done remotely. But just pointing out it’s not the most plausible objection to remote work.
It is a full blown VM, it has limitations.
PrimateJS: Solid and Markdown support, build transformations
Hi, you can find updated documentation on connecting to BigQuery here: https://dataherald.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.database.htm.... We have also updated the ReadMe.
At risk of sounding like Peter Thiel I think a lot of this thinking is driven my mimesis rather than thinking. That is, there is a lot of talk about how

functional >> OO

and "OO sux" and all that. I think most of these people hadn't worked in the industry enough to have a clear picture of what better productivity and lower defects would look like but instead they were looking for a movement to join.
Most code is not worth reading. Even well structured codebases are mostly composed of code which is not worth reading.

The difference in a well structured codebase is that some of the code prevents you from having to read huge amounts of other code. All code is bad, it starts out bad just by existing, it's only redeeming quality is preventing you from having to deal with more bad code.

Everyone thinks they write good "clean" code, and it's never true. Good programmers are good because of the architecture of their code, not because a single excerpt of code in isolation looks a certain way.

What you really want to read about are good designs. Read APIs, models, concepts, schemas, etc.

Another comment mentioned the Go standard library, and I totally agree. But stop at the APIs, if you look inside, you'll see that it's also mostly garbage. It's good because the APIs are good, and you don't have to read the rest.
I agree with you in principle, but one of the problems is that some exhibitions are so popular that you really have to book weeks in advance if you want to get in.

Case in point: A friend suggested the biggest ever Yayoi Kusama exhibition in Manchester[0], which I relayed to my girlfriend because we would be in the city 3 weeks later.

She sent me a frantic sms Get Tickets Now! since the exhibition was sold out weeks in advance.

And that's an issue you see with a lot of popular exhibitions. You can't just walk into a David Hockney exhibition at Centre Pompidou on a whim, because the time slots are sold out for weeks in advance.

That may not be fair and super inconvenient if you don't book far in advance. But popular exhibitions in big cities are so overwhelmed by visitors that there's really no other way than selling time slots well in advance.

The Kusama exhibition was totally worth it. But we wouldn't have stood a chance if we hadn't organized the tickets weeks before the visit.

I think the insistence on smart phones for basic services is much worse than asking the public to organize a museum visit well in advance if the exhibition is super popular.

[0] https://factoryinternational.org/whats-on/yayoi-kusama-you-m...
I would really like an internet-enabled version of this, like magic wormhole.

I don't know of a magic wormhole client for iOS.

It's frustrating trying to transfer high-res photos between phones. All the messaging apps silently mangle them. :(

This would be perfect, but it only works on a LAN. AirDrop gets the job done in those cases.
Branding and trust. ML folks love HF, and rightly so. They have great software libraries, host everyone's models, generally great UX all around. They do a great job of making it easy to do cutting edge stuff, while still making it possible to do bleeding edge stuff. They appeal to basically all ML folks in a way few other companies do.

Google could grow GCP by more deeply integrating HF into GCP, I think, while retaining as much of the HF brand and interface as possible.

Big friction point might be ethics, since HF is still seen as the "good guys" and where some folks who left Google over ethical concerns landed.
Show HN: Federal Travel Regulations LLM
A project I put together to answer questions on federal travel regulations. This is based on FAR subtitle F (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2021-title41-vol4/pd...)
There are a whole host of discords and such that produce and sell this stuff. Most people would rather spend $ then create themselves. This financial incentive is driving alot of creators. You have sites like mrdeepfakes which try to be the pornhub of celeb/influencer ai content that will are going to try and ride the legal line. These are the marketplaces of concern, not civitai imo.

Personally, I have way less of an issue of some person creating private pornography in their home than I do with profit generating side. Ideally laws could be crafted that protect the private rights of the individual while regulating the distribution or profit of using other people's likenesses in this way.
I agree. Couldn't they have just disabled the boss and the effect? It seems that just disabling those two things, making it so that you can't exit the boss arena with corrupted blood, then enabling them again would be a simple solution
It is not in the same species, these systems have to be trained on every individual brain, they are not reading some objective signal that is the same for everyone.

> For weeks, Ann worked with the team to train the system’s artificial intelligence algorithms to recognize her unique brain signals for speech. This involved repeating different phrases from a 1,024-word conversational vocabulary over and over again until the computer recognized the brain activity patterns associated with all the basic sounds of speech.

To use this type of system for lie detection, if such a thing is possible, you'd have to get each subject to give you thousands of example statements with truth/lie labels. This obviously defeats the purpose, and also doesn't really seem possible - does lying for a training exercise produce the same brain patterns as lying to actually cover something up? Probably not.
Show HN: Userscript shows HN comments sidebar on pages opened from HN
Working in a SaaS, I'm always surprised by these companies giving two months notice before shutting down services that are powering pretty significant websites.

This move is going to cost companies using Gatsby Cloud a lot, especially if they had built tooling and workflows around Gatsby Cloud.

Why are they rushing this shutdown? 2 months seems really too little for me.

Also, Netlify is targeting enterprise customers more now, doesn't this two months notice give a bad impression to those kind of customers?

I'm honestly not sure if I am too scared by these quick moves or if it's going to be a real problem for someone.
> That’s definitely an argument Tesla might want to make to Congress and the State Department

I'm guessing you meant to say SpaceX and not Tesla.
> What is stated is: “If any count value is zero, no subsequent dimensions are allocated.” This is mostly just for clarification, because what could the alternative possibly be?

The key part comes a bit later:

> The components of the last !!allocated!! dimension of the array are initialized to the default initial value (§2.3, §2.4) for the element type of the array type.

Since the last allocated dimension is the one that has zero count... well, that means each component (of which there are none) is initialized to a value of type `int`, so technically speaking, the type of each component (of which there are none) is `int`. Due to the rest of the spec, that means the type of the dimension before that is `int[]`; and that's how you arrive at the conclusion of TFA.

It's quirky, and a semantic argument at best, and certainly not worth fighting over here on HN.
All for this... anything that reduces friction in developing extensions.
Looks like the same bait and switch Dr. K (Healthy Gamer) did.
Put a real MD on the poster, and once they sign up hook your customers with people with 3 weeks of "professional training".
The BEGINs were replace by THEN (for IFs) and DO (for WHILEs and FORs). They still need something to denote the ENDs. Instead of saying "THEN BEGIN" or "DO BEGIN", you can drop the BEGIN and just assume it's there.
The woman from the title is from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and the CBC did a feature on her story. Her husband is pictured at her side in a Saskatchewan Roughriders tee shirt and Toronto Blue Jays ball cap, having dressed with his Canuckness set to 11:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/paralysis-brain-speech-1.6943...

My hope is that she'll be able to cheer on their teams.
It is in fact, completely not real.
The "need/want to fit in" would be high so based on that... the real question is... where do they live now?
This Reddit thread has a script with a workaround: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/15ysxgs/applicati...

There are comments saying it's worked on several Quickbooks integrations.

Regarding hardware drivers, I _think_ the same fundamental process of removing signatures should work, but you'll get a UAC prompt to force installation of an unsigned driver.

I'm not as familiar with driver signature enforcement though, so take that with a grain of salt.

P.S: I still have running XP installs for some $300k industrial hardware. It could be worse...
there's overhead to setting up your own local LLM instance (by that I mean both resource utilization and the setup process itself). so long as this continues (the setup portion at least), there will be people not willing to invest the time and rather pay cursor.
It may not have exactly this, but it probably has more than you realize. The rush of the 20th and 21st century has crowded out a lot of stuff. The western world has a rich poetry and literature tradition. Given how severed we are from all of it nowadays you may well find you still get that foreign culture frisson from digging into it.
How the Banana Came to Be–and How It Could Disappear
This is proof of concept I put together for searching federal travel regulations!
(a dead response)

> I doubt you would feel good if your brain wasn’t getting enough oxygen.

Without getting into _too much detail_, I have decent amounts of experience telling me that, for a lot of people, it would in fact feel rather good. Not to me, but I also dislike (in a sensory way, not moral) alcohol and many other things that make the brain feel a bit "fuzzy," which I think might be the more uncommon thing, actually.
I wish Verisign could run their services properly, instead of just making business by hiking the .com and others (while wages of engineers is actually plummeting).

Do they just focus on cash cows, or do they have other products in store nowadays ?
Ask HN: Why isn't US sport fond of pyramidal structure with promoton/relegation?
There's a recent Windows feature called Known Issue Rollback (KIR) that you would have to opt into using Group Policy, which might soon address an anticipated snafu like this, once it's become apparent after deployment:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-clien...

Here's last month's article from the same author giving an example of how KIR can be used to mitigate a video showstopper at the time:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fi...

My follow-up consisted of following the journalist back, and that might give an idea about what he had in mind.
In essence, practicing positive psychology, to us, means that we focus on the positive attributes and strengths of an individual - not on their pathology as in "traditional" approaches. It also means that we focus on helping our members achieve higher levels of well-being and personal growth as oppose to focusing solely on the symptoms relief.

Our key approach has been providing a mix of psychoeducational coaching interventions to enhance positive attributes in combination with other help our members can obtain - and not on short-term prescribed psychotherapies or medication as a sole mode of intervention.
The Trojan-horse mechanism: How networks reduce gender segregation
That's fine, his English friend isn't going to start calling Germany: Deutschland anytime soon.
I thought e/acc was some kind of in-joke or hoax? Does anyone really believe that stuff? This anonymous Substack isn't particularly convincing.