skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's funny, he's knowledgeable, he writes well, he was there during the most entertaining span of decades for the personal computer.

BTW, if you ever caught Cringely's PBS series where he tried to make a homebuilt aircraft it was a fascinating case study of hubris (Cringley's), modern construction vs. tried and true techniques, and another rare example of when a documentary that starts out about one thing decides to take on a life of its own and ends up going somewhere else.

Edit: looks like someone digitized their VHS copy of "Plane Crazy" and kindly uploaded to YouTube: https://youtu.be/FSNzF-KSGiw?si=2bK0aycpGpEzbydI
Tell HN: Human Continuity of Data Project
I just found out that the longest lasting mass storage media humans have (erm, besides our genes) is essentially USB sticks and tape backups.

I was under the impression that a CD/DVD or even a hard drive could last for 100s of years. Nope!

If we were to lose all storage media manufacturing capacity tomorrow, in essence this means that all the world's data will be gone in a single generation.

To me this seems like an unacceptable risk.

It's like working 3 weeks on an intense sprint and then losing all your work to bungling a force push with no backups. You may have experienced something similar! It's awful. The sense of defeat, and the mountain of work to rebuild, that you've already done, and entrusted to....a faulty process, or in the current case, a storage media that doesn't work ... for long term.

How can we deal with this? Don't we need to seriously be considering how we can preserve (not just archive some shit online from websites) but fundamentally deal with this physical problem?

We need rock solid backup technology that we can write to that will last for millennia!
BMW will not charge extra to activate existing functions in cars
Missed chance to call it haickyournews. That's not hack spelled right, but it's kind of like a hack to write "hack" and "ai" in the same word.
Because the audience isn't "programmers".
I'm inclined to agree - when there's a simple solution (easier more reliable language), use it, the right answer is not "oh you are doing it wrong just follow these contortions and you'll be fine".

Maybe your language that requires contortions is the problem.
Clear cookies, or am I just naive?
Sports Tech: My Unforgettable Experience Participating in the ArenaX Hackathon
I live in the US. Sad but not my problem.
> Magic the Gathering is a collectible card game played with two or more players. Each player starts with a deck of cards and 20 life points and uses those cards to deal damage to the opponent and reduce the life points to 0.

I would never risk the wrath of Mill and Infect players by omitting their favorite win conditions.

If you look at the rules, there are a bunch of win/lose conditions in MTG: https://mtg-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Win_Conditions
You create the world you live in whether you want to do it or not. Delegating that to someone on TV is an illusion. Being a person who will do whatever for a paycheck makes you part of the problem. Voting and calling it all good is about as much of an excuse as confessing on Sunday. Your vote has no measurable impact either, may as well stop doing that also and just accept who you are, you're a mercenary who doesn't care about your impact on the world.
You said "Imagine a non-violent Nazi", you asked about a hypothetical where someone was a Nazi, now you're trying to change the conversation about "Imagine a person who may or may not be a Nazi" which is a very different conversation and trying to act like I answered the second instead of the first.
Similarly, there’s also https://github.com/piqoni/matcha tool which can do this for any feed and locally.
Especially since I see it on a FOSS privacy-enhanced fork, Vanadium
So about your list of cities and the masses of homeless in them. Are you saying that drugs are legal in all those cities? It seems like the homeless issue is completely orthogonal to drug decriminalization.
Hot take: The best thing about LLMs is that they’re going to expose all the areas of written work that were bullshit to begin with. Entire occupations and scientific disciplines will fall, one by one, initially claiming gen AI fraud, and eventually being forced to admit that there’s not any actual difference.
PgBouncer has always left me confused in the world of application level connection pooling. I have never quite understand the value of it if we are already using connection pools in our applications. I don't want to pool connections to another pool.
I agree, but the world just isn't this simple. It's not about murdering with you family- it's about protecting your family. Kids I knew that went to Iraq were the protective types, not murderous. People can enlist in the military with the intention of protecting their country only to be ordered overseas caught up in some bullshit war. Historically, drafts were the main reason. And no man is an island, so whatever situation pulls one person in, is bound to ripple through other people's lives and pull others in as well.

> I consider any armed person outside their home country should be considered as a terrorist and a militia

I mean, there are situations like hostage crises where foreign countries send in soldiers that I think are completely justified. But, I agree, in general. Our foreign policy has been fucked since the CIA started after WWII. I'm just grateful I never had to fight a war- chances are I would've being born in the last couple hundred years
Legitimacy based on what? Recongition by the UN? Lots of governments even predating the UN have been long accused of rights abuses. How many people affected, and proven so by what basis constitutes infractions beyond moral right to be trusted by NSO. I'm asking people to really grapple with this.
It’s kind of funny how trills work in here.
Exactly. But not at the time of the "f9h is not heavy lift" quote
Yeah I feel that matrix is misleading in a non-obvious way - it's selecting specific things that this app does all of (IE, mixing benign features in with things that are actual yellow flags, not including other yellow/red flags that the app doesn't do because you want it to look like Temu does ALL THE BAD THINGS), and selecting comparisons that paint it in a bad light (Temu has games embedded and the other apps don't, so comparing against popular game apps would show a different story - specifically on the permissions and inclusion of the JIT features) and then using red/green colors to make it seem scary, when none of these are smoking gun red flags.

Now that being said, I do think there is value in a bunch of yellow flags existing that hey maybe we should look into this more and I do think this is true about Temu - esp since another app has been taken down recently due to malware - though didn't take down Temu at the same time so presumably (strong but not 100% assumption) didn't find malware in it (look at that krebs on security article).

Temu seems really scummy, they use really morally bankrupt techniques borrowed from the worst in the games industry, and they are a good example of a larger problem of data collection, so I'm not defending them. But it's so easy to take these things that everyone is doing, add fear of china and then call it spyware, coming from an investment analyst company just sounds like a hit peace. It lowers the bar on real spyware, like Pegasus and Predator, that is actually being used by corrupt nation states to literally listen into conversations. Sure you can say that China can target locations of dissidents by requesting data from Temu, but they can do that without Temu. Even Private Investigators (read unlicensed non-state actors) in US have access to gray market cell phone data to target individuals, and hackers routinely breach sensitive data from companies that don't disclose leaks. There is a lot of real issues, and to take all that real concern and point it to TikTok and Temu isn't helping.
I would argue that in general that's probably true but not always. Reducing car trips can also relieve stress on the communities living in these urban communities or improve the quality in specific locations. Here outright banning or discouraging driving is done to improve walkability, reduce noise and quality of stay.

Communities living in cities also need traffic calmed, quieter places nearby. Banning cars here is often a good first step and reuse the street with cafes, restaurants and transportation by bike, public transport and cars only if parked somewhere else.
People disagree on the definition of harm, therefore there will be preferences for law.

On a societal scale, if there is a 1:N chance a drug or experience will nullify your health and you will require society to bear the burden if your existence, then people in society may decide to attempt to minimize such occurrences through law.

If N is 6 as in Russian Roulette, society might control what you might accidentally put in your body. If N is 1,000,000 like in driving, we might regulate the requirements of who can do that to minimize the chance of harming others and drive N higher.

If N is 10,000 (for certain drugs) in terms of the chance you might overdose and harm yourself sufficiently, society might say the benefit isn’t worth the risk and ‘control what you do with your body.’
> The right Ctrl key is in a very uncomfortable position whether I press it with my pinky or with the base of my hand

When I used a traditional keyboard I rebound ctrl to be next to space so I could easily hit it with my thumb so the layout was like:

[super][alt][ctrl][----space----][ctrl][alt][super]

But now I use a split keyboard(Kinesis Advantage) with ctrl/alt/super in thumb clusters that make hitting those modifiers really easy.
Tests are literally type replacement in dynamic languages, only controlled.
It's always mentally easier to do what you are forced to instead of writing tests consciously. That is how the other side is looking at people who tell everyone that there is no coding without typing. People who surrender "think more, do less", instead doing more and thinking less - More is less sounds disgusting to me.

A big part of development is prototyping, it sucks so much to use a language that doesn't support efficient prototyping. And no, jumping from Typescript concepts/style to pure Javascript is not an efficient solution, you have limited space in your brain.

I can continue, literally all Typescript code is horrible legacy in the making. In the future people would hate it is so much that comments like this would look ridiculous, remember my words.
I just wonder why they're so obsessed to make heated seats an optional feature to charge for... it comes standard these days on so many other cars in lowest trim, including Volkswagen (which is considered less premium in Munich). If they see scaling benefits by equipping every car with heated seats just do it and price it in the base offer. The backlash from this probably cost them more than they can ever raise through a seat subscription.
Interesting Ideas from Naval Ravikant on Joe Rogan Podcast
If you have listened to Naval Ravikant on Joe Rogan’s podcast, you will find a few ideas you can apply to money, life, and happiness. These are some of the important ones that are worth sharing.
To be fair, until late last week Ryan wasn't the CEO anymore.
Donkey Sentences
Managing the Chaos of Context Switching
we could go back to welfare capitalism, the way it worked before shareholder capitalism.
Making the strong claim that this infrastructure was for a fact built by a government is not merited, unless you have some compelling evidence?

I am also not sure if the article's claim is merited - it sounds a little too convenient and I struggle to find the watertight case for it in the article. It could be a case of us simply not knowing either way, and thus should avoid making a strong claim for either A or not(A).
there is no confusion here thanks for your concern.
Two from The Onion:

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The first issue is the threefold homnym, while the second is the use of a reduced relative clause - i.e. one that is not marked by an explicit relative pronoun or complementizer such as who, which or that [1]. Furthermore, the relative clause here is a restrictive one, so there can be no commas [2].

Reduced relative clauses are OK for conversation, but I tend to limit their use to only the simplest cases when I am writing. Leaving in the initial relative pronoun or complementizer is usually straightforward, but it is sometimes difficult to phrase a sentence so that the end of a restrictive clause is clear.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_relative_clauses#Restr...
https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM-2Q23-Earnings-Press... IBM is getting killed in infrastructure, their margins look to be growing but losing ~15% of their revenue y/y. This seems like them just gouging the last of the customers who are either unwilling or unable to leave.

for context during the same period AWS grew 12% y/y.
Some of the constants have changed over the years.

> (setq avogadro 6.0221367e23) ; Avogadro number

This is now standardized to exactly 6.02214076e23
>It’s easy to see how this kind of tool use comes with tremendous risks. Imagine an LLM being able to find someone’s phone number, call them and surreptitiously record their voice, guess what bank they use based on the largest providers in their area, impersonate them on a phone call with customer service to reset their password, and liquidate their account to make a donation to a political party. Each of these tasks invokes a simple tool—an Internet search, a voice synthesizer, a bank app—and the LLM scripts the sequence of actions using the tools.

Colin Powell waving a tube with anthrax at UNSC .jpg
He has a talent for failing upward though. Or perhaps if you throw enough crap at the wall, eventually something sticks. And that something can erase a lot of bad decisions made.

(Having read, or started to read, iWoz though, I have to say that Jobs is clearly a much more entertaining character. We all like Woz, but it's more fun to read about the mercurial Steve that plotted, schemed, made enemies.)
I'm no security pro, but last night I iMessaged a friend a TikTok video and according to him, the link initiated an App Clip. Perhaps it's totally safe and I'm just naive but it just seems like the risks of a link initiating code like that outweigh any rewards. Even if it's totally safe and all involved can be trusted, that experience is enough to creep me out.
I want to see more countries join NATO. NATO is just a cool idea. Having the militaries from 31 countries all under one command structure. I genuinely would like to see them try.
Sometimes not all documents can be shared publicly if they contain sensitive information, so it's balanced out by sharing it with a trusted third party that reports on it. I understand the frustration when the report is dealing with public documents or research.

Other reporters will probably end up getting access to these documents and should be able to confirm the claims, presumably.
Heard about it for the first time today and already feeling a strange satisfaction: "well if that's what they do, so much that they've become namesake to a verb, then that's very well what they deserve!" Justice at last!

Closest thing I know in German is unexpected in a very different way: "Mähen Äbte? Äbte mähen nie, Äbte beten“ is perfectly clear in the written, but when spoken the words are drawn together more than usual and without context that you might be talking about abbots or mowing, most people will insist that the utterance can't possibly be German at all.
Outside the western ivory tower arguments of hydraulic despotism, I wonder how well the claims made by these Chinese scholars working at state-supported Chinese academic institutions reinforce the narratives favored by the Chinese Communist Party, especially in reference to history of Chinese lands and peoples. They seem to toe the party line very well at first glance.
I like how thorough you are, even on a throwaway hacker news comment. I lived in Iowa for most of my life, so we're no stranger to a lot of this. I've never even thought of deers getting rabies, but it makes sense.

We've had out fair share of horse and cow accidents around these parts. Them back hooves are deadly. We used to joke that you have to exceed the number of cow-caused deaths to declare something a serious problem.

> Only slightly related, but prior to Oregon's partial drug legalization a short while ago, there was a non-zero danger of running into someone in the mountains looking after their million dollar weed plots and no interest in witnesses. There were areas that law enforcement would straight up refuse to go because of Reefer Rambos crawling about.

Here, you have to be steering clear of meth labs and moonshine operations out in the woods.
Good find - not as beleak as the headline suggests - with more net job gains than losses
> you do not have a constitutional right to spouting off in the public square without consequence

Actually, in the U.S., you literally have that specific constitutional right.

The First Amendment protects "spouting off in the public square without consequence" via the Freedoms of Assembly (the right to gather), Speech (say what you like without consequence), Religion (believe what you like), and the right to petition the government.

Loud complaining or even vague and non-specific threats (such as "I'll make you pay for this!") are actually protected by the First Amendment.

There are very rare and limited exceptions, such as "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action".
Nvidia’s AI Success
FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Companies Will Likely Ignore
Nice idea. I'm really missing a way to contol the dynamics. Maybe just mapping 1-9 keys to a velocity scaling?
I hope the incoming overabundance of GPT generated papers at least as a side effect gives the scientific community a wakeup call.

If publishing becomes a non prestigious enough thing because anyone can GPT can do it, then at least those who do it for reasons other than "publish or peril" will be the ones remaining. Given good enough filtering exists.
Exactly. Journals have sucked for a long time and practically all of academia just went along because publishing lots of stuff is the only way to have a career. The big news is that the rest of the public is starting to catch on how their tax dollars (that were supposed to go to research) end up in publisher's pockets even though they provide hardly any real value.
Yup. I'm not a native English speaker, thus I use chatgpt (and before this, quillbot or grammarly) to rephrase my sentences to become clearer, concise and have that 'professional' tone, apart from make them grammatically correct.
Scammers can abuse email forwarding to impersonate high-profile domains
All signs point to a rise in Covid
They decompose, releasing carbon back into the environment. We need something that locks carbon up.
> And 99+% of people have no interest in anything outside the artist

This is precisely something that's different about jazz, though--there's often no reasonable notion of "the" artist. It would be perfectly reasonable and expected for someone to say "play me some music with Paul Chambers on bass," which off the top of my head would get recordings led by Trane, Miles, the Adderley brothers, Chet Baker, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sonny Clark, Philly Joe Jones, JJ Johnson, Sonny Rollins, and I'm sure that I'm remembering only a small fraction.

As you note, people don't really do that with pop, or even classical. People do look for music with a certain soloist or conductor, but they mostly don't ask for music with a certain principal clarinetist.
You're not kidding. Seeing 500 applicants for a local job with remote options. There aren't 500 people here that have the skills.
Show HN: QStudio – SQL Analysis Tool
Free tool for querying, charting and visualizing data from SQL. I personally have been working on it for 10+ years :)
On every browser I've used, results from history have been the first to autofill, but maybe it depends on OS or settings?
This reminds me of the book War before Civilization, about the archeological evidence for pre-historical war and the many attempts to dismiss it, to declare walls merely symbolical (symbols of what?), weapons as means of exchange (valuable why?). A water pipe network is evidence of a centralized authority in the same way that a wall or a weapon is evidence of conflict.
Samsung Says It Will Beat TSMC to 4nm Production in the U.S.
Community to Improve Travel Experience
I am considering building a community for travelers and tourists with the goal of connecting them with locals to provide authentic experiences and reduce their reliance on traditional travel agents and their commission-based recommendations. Do you have any suggestions or advice around it ?
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so strongly agree. Grant writing is another good example of this. So much nonsense writing that just wastes everyone's time.
Your analogy is not even wrong.
Once upon a time I realized that Bach had invented macro expansion. The occasion was me trying to figure out why Partita 1 doesn't sound at all the way the notes are written, and what is that little wavy thing over the notes? It turns out that that little ornament expands into an 8 note sequence centered on the note written. Not that there weren't plenty of notes already on that page...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9etK1RuN2jc

42 seconds in.
> I don't see how that is relevant.

It's relevant.

"We have all been sold the fiction that when we buy a stock, we have become proud owners of a great American corporation. Our investment is funding that Company and America’s growth. This is not an accurate description. As I will show in this report, we are actually involved in commodity trading of street name securities in which the trading of and record keeping is completely controlled by DTCC and the elite Wall Street firms with no transparency for outsiders. Operating in this black hole of important information they use loopholes in the clearing and settlement system administered by DTCC and loopholes in the ineffective SHO regulations to create counterfeit shares at will. They can and do expand the supply of street name securities through creating counterfeit shares to overwhelm demand and drive down the stock price." [0]

[0] https://smithonstocks.com/part-8-illegal-naked-shorting-seri...
John McWhorter gives a very good critique of this in one of his excellent course from the great courses, it is called the story of human language.

Really would strongly recommended it, he is one of the most entertaining people that I have ever listened to.
Update your iPhone and Mac now has fixed two major security bugs
On touchscreen vertical height of the touch is mapped to velocity - really nifty
Cruise nears approval to mass-produce robotaxis with no steering wheel, pedals
They definitely already do that it's an important part of the role of police. Chicago did it so much they made a special compound for it, but it's not like chicago invented the practice or are the only ones ever to have done it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homan_Square_facility
Zero waste: The irony in buying metal straws and bamboo forks
In the case of OP? Cohere, I would assume.
I tried out Rondo alla turca, and it's almost like a puzzle, because it's mixing left and right hand into one stream, and if you were used to doing those two separately, you're going to futz it
Application level connection pools are not enough if you're using something like k8s and have your "application" running across hundreds of pods, each with their own application level connection pool. pgBouncer helps tremendously in that situation because all those pods will use a single pool. We cut down avg open connections dramatically by doing that from over 1000 to less than 400.