skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should probably be case law before anyone actually believes in warrant canaries.

'If it's illegal to advertise that you've received a court order of some kind, it's illegal to intentionally and knowingly take any action that has the effect of advertising the receipt of that order. A judge can't force you to do anything, but every lawyer I've spoken to has indicated that having a "canary" you remove or choose not to update would likely have the same legal consequences as simply posting something that explicitly says you've received something. If any lawyers have a different legal interpretation, I'd love to hear it.' --Moxie Marlinspike
I dunno. When my son needed a car to get to work we found a 1996 Buick Park Avenue in almost perfect condition at 100,000 miles. He didn't like the look of modern cars, didn't want a touchscreen, besides a 2010 Japanese car can cost almost new prices and they wanted $9k for a Chevy Sonic with 180,000 miles (didn't know they went that far!)

Granted the traction control and anti-lock brakes occasionally fail to boot up, but it seems to be a pretty good car, but it was close to the top of the line. Gets 27 mpg which is not bad for a big ass car. I like how it has a lot of the feel of a 1970s boat but it has airbags, OBD II and most of the good features of a modern car... And we didn't need to get a loan to afford it. Driving home though I was looking in the mirror and seeing it dwarfed by today's XXL trucks and SUVs.
> quality of fresh produce in US very bad compared to India

I agree. (Though you can access similar quality at American farmers’ markets and upscale grocers in rich communities.) I never remarked on quality. Just efficiency.

Indian agriculture is small scale, labour wasteful, land and water inefficient and carbon intensive. Relative to median income, produce is high cost, which causes a lot of the population to over-rely on processed cereals.

High-income Americans and Indians consume a lot of good, fresh produce. (I’ve seen fresh Indian mangoes in New York, flown in overnight, though I’m doubtful they had their paperwork in order. That obviously isn’t scalable.) The absolute threshold is lower in India. But relatively speaking it’s higher.

> We generally consume a lot of fresh produce as compared to the western world

At a high relative income level, yes. (Lower in cities, because logistics.) There are good reasons Indian life expectancy is 15% lower than America’s at birth, 2 to 5% lower at 30 (males, reverse death probability) and then 20% lower again at 40 again.
Herbs should be anyone’s starter for a garden and absolutely makes for an easy break-even.

We had a great run with heirloom (Cherokee Purple) tomatoes this year, purchased for $5.99 per plant at Lowe’s. Our raised bed cost about $100 to build and fill with soil. I spent $100 to build a deer fence. I also bought a $20 jug of Miracle Grow feed. Let’s just cocktail-napkin the water at $10 for the season, and say I have $250 in input to start my garden this year.

I got, at most, $15 dollars worth of tomatoes for the two plants. I could increase that and get into canning to reap some more value, but it’s a hobby to produce neat exotics I can’t even buy if I wanted to. Hopefully I can amortize the upstart costs over the years and achieve a break even on a long enough timescale :)
Yeah it's a pretty interesting experience actually, trying to use it for idea generation.

It's like talking to a very well informed and generally competent person ... who has no spark of creativity or insight whatsoever.

This does vary product to product - some are excruciatingly boring by design - but I think they're universally uninteresting just to different degrees.
LLMs are just one tool in a collection. Intelligence is based on many models, not just the language parts of our brain - and I expect AI to incorporate more models in a system approach. Why does it matter if LLMs are able to play chess at a grandmaster level or not? They can delegate the actual chess optimization problem to a chess optimizing program. While it’s interesting language alone is as powerful as it is, it’s very myopic to judge the tool alone and not as a part of a toolbox.
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Someone with Svelte experience please help me understand: what did "tricky" mean here? Tricky to compile, tricky for readability, tricky to design, what?
The claim wasn't that they are unaware, the claim was that it doesn't seem to show in the design of Go.

I think Go is a perfectly fine language, and I respect the goal to stay clear of complexity, but when looking at any particular Go feature, then it's easier to explain the decision with "They are used to thinking in terms of C-idioms." than with any particular brilliance or awareness of PL-theory.
Ah, the Terraform alternative. I wonder how long they'll be able to maintain backwards compatability
> Component re-rendered because hook 16 updated.

DX Amaze.
Ignoring the fact that there were concerted efforts by people in various government branches to attack and get rid of Trump while he was president makes your argument silly.

Just because Trump was in office doesn't mean his political enemies in the government were unable to use their governmental powers to censor speech that would help Trump get reelected.
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It's a climate and biodiversity concern: overproduction wastes farmland that could be, or used to be, wild. The energy put into food transport and storage was used for nothing. Wasted produce rots, giving off methane, and wasted meat or dairy represents double waste, as the animals were raised on crops.

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-it...

You fix it by making people aware and asking them to act responsibly.
My totally made up backstory for why this is is from bad editing in the early days of chopping up multiple takes where the edit does not happen on natural sentence endings so those intonations happen at unnatural places. it then became a thing and now is done in normal delivery as a style to be emulated.
I built a virtual pinball table. Sadly I came to the realization that I just don't like pinball, so it mostly only gets played when other people come over and want to play.

But building it was pretty easy, and fairly cheap. I used a new 55" TV (with "game mode" to reduce lag) for the play surface, and old monitor for the backdrop. It does require a descent computer and graphics card, but not top of the line. My card is a Nvidia 1080, a buget card wasn't enough. The main structure is just 2x4's, then plywood tacked on. I used dimentions from a real pinball table, and real pinball table legs. There are a lot of artwork stickers available to make it look like less of a box (though I own a printer that can print large enough that I could do my own). Overall I would consider it a fairly simple project.
none of these aspects exist in isolation . financial, physical , emotional, security are all components of a relationship. every relationship requires dependency, commitment , vulnerability
I could throw in the likes of Nethanyahu and Orban and the Polish government, some are just further down the road to totalitarianism then others.
Stated another way, distinguish observations (facts) of a story from the inferences--don't dismiss the observation/facts when rejecting inferences. This is analogous to an XY problem.
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Nothing more democratic than asking for the "containment" of the side of politics that you don't like.
So in your home coffee nerd experience coffee made from grounds with a narrow size distribution is not noticeably different than coffee made from grounds with a broad size distribution?
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It doesn’t seem THAT clear, given that they asked him about his reporting on the British government and did not ask him about Turkey?
>In the long run, solving crimes is preventing them because crime (especially serious violent crime) is Pareto-distributed.

How does that work? If you are saying because the violent criminals are now in jail, that's completely discounting new generations.

>That's great for the survivors but tends to mask the scale of the violence, as a lot fewer of those victims would have survived without Dauphin helicopters.

Ya, I'll buy that.

>This sounds like a statement about one possible way to divide the population into histogram bins in 2023 rather than a comparison of population structure between 1950 and 2023.

I linked both population trees somewhere.

>Since 1950, the most murder-prone fraction of the population (men in their 20's) has decreased by about 10%.

You need to provide some data for that, I don't see how that's possible since it's not accounting for baby boomers or for population growth (unless you mean as a percentage). GenX was quite a small generation, but the Millennia's are quite large.

Great conversation though!
That's an... interesting? interpretation of what logging is.

What you've described, to me, is the VPN logging customer activity and then sending it elsewhere to be stored.
I personally had a similar situation. We had an accounting firm whose servers we were maintaining, and occasionally the print server would reboot, always between 9 and 10 am. So I sat in there for a week between those hours and noticed the light would dim and occasionally the reboot would happen.

It turned out that the lawyer next door would come in, turn on his PC, printer and coffee pot simultaneously because they were all on the same power strip, and the drain was causing an undervoltage on the circuit the server was on during startup. We had it on a UPS, but it turns out that at the time consumer grade UPS systems only handled outages.

I measured drops as low as to 85 volts, in practice anything under 95 or sou would reboot.
Even if you put a flat $30-$50 fee, make it have limited validity (with an expiration date). Like you have in SIMs. Many foreigners buy throwaway SIMs on arrival. Most of these SIMs have limited validity. You can use the same concept here as well. It makes no sense to charge a flat fee for eternity. Also, coming to think of it, tying up with a SIM provider would be a great idea. In the same kiosk/booth, foreigners can purchase SIM as well as get a Cheq verified account. You can share a % revenue with SIM provider and not have to hire extra staff. The SIM provider would have all the necessary setup anyways for physical verification. Just reuse that setup.
An IP camera that requires the customer to set-up and secure outside access themselves will not sell to end users. The market is just too small and anyone who has the skills to secure this stuff themselves doesn't have to rely on a consumer grade product.
I have seen similar behavior on vehicles that have a dying alternator. The issue is that one vane of the rotor (or maybe stator?) has shorted and no longer functions. If when the car is shut off and the rotor stops in a particular position the alternator won’t work. Give it some time and with heating/cooling moving things around just a bit plus the act of repeatedly trying to turn it on potentially making it move just a bit, and it works fine.
In 20-30 years I most certainly do not want to use a phone anymore.

I grew up without the things, and boy was that fun.
Anything long term is meaningless to think about, besides just the fun.

AI on it's current track is going to so radically reshape society that it will be totally unrecognizable to people today. Society in it's current form makes no sense when there are smarter and cheaper non-human workers available.
I vacuum seal and freeze my basil. (You can get away without the vaccuum sealing, but it'll get freezer burn after a few months).

Honestly indistinguishable from fresh basil once you cook it, and I say this as an Italian food snob.
Interview with Professor Scolyer and his colleague Professor Georgina Long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blPsZ1eTxzE
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Yep! But some people do seem to thrive more with a blank page.

Supposedly Tom Robbins writes books entirely by putting one word after another starting with the first one and finishing with the last one. I don't know if that's apocryphal, but I do think that's closer to the process for some people.

But if I were a writer, I'd be squarely in the "get out a first draft, it will be like pulling teeth, but just get something down; then you can do the fun part of revising and polishing".
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Didn't EIP not apply for/receive federal grants in that timeframe (why put non-governmental in quotes wrt to them?
> An analogous concept might be quite interesting to implement in all these signal based frameworks as well.

Which is what Svelte 5 is doing with its compiler.

> […] given a large enough codebase, that sort of spaghetti mess will emerge on its own, as not everyone will be so thorough.

LOL! You've just described React projects! Yes, of course you and your team are wonderful and have all the FP experience, so obviously this isn't an issue for YOU.

Most React codebases however turn into big balls of mud. Enormous balls of useMemo-y, useEffect-y, re-render the world-y, spaghettified mud without even any compiler-enabled guardrails that get re-written every 18-24 months but "this time we'll do it right."
I don't understand this logic at all. How can more information be bad? If you see a mass that looks very likely to not be cancer, for which the cost of further investigation is higher than the likely benefit, then the rational patient will agree not to investigate further. I don't see how more information can be bad unless you assume that the patient is an idiot or irrational.
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It seems the developer works for Tailscale in an evangelist / developer relations role. I feel that ought to have been disclosed in this article.

That gripe aside - I love this idea and the general principle. Minimal OS's are really interesting to me. I've long dreamed of a basic environment where there are 3 UI surfaces: a Terminal, a Web server / browser, an OpenGL context. Of course, if you have a full capablity web browser you can emulate a Terminal and use WebGL for 3d.

Of course, things like this exist I am sure - but the idea that you could have one that is a dozen files is super compelling. It reminds me of how I was able to get a basic http server in C using civetweb which is a handful of files I can just copy-paste into my source tree. Or the handful of files sized libraries like raylib that provide huge amounts of functionality.
Funny thing the first time I heard this anecdote was by a priest (he was formerly an electrical engineer). The conclusion was similar: how many times a seemingly illogical issue has a very logic explanation (even if it looks illogical to you at first).
Are you calling me a shitty manager? Would you say this to my face? What's wrong with you?
For some nostalgia, go to the root ...

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/

Took me straight back to University ...
If the wire protocol has a bug, that’s not something an implementation can fix.

I’m saying the wire protocol is wrong.
I've never encountered this confusion anywhere, so I wouldn't ever think to dispel it. Which isn't to say that I disagree with the more general point that defining your terms is good thing.

In any case, the post itself (which is not long) illustrates and marks out many of the differences.
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All these ideas date back to at least 2010, probably earlier. It was called "information distance". https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3520
“Trust me I’m not lying”?
Washington threatened the ICC with serious consequences if it carried out its mandate.

Powerful also does not mean unipolar/dominant. Checks and balances can exist. That's how the US government was initially designed.
Why? Because populist have a very easy job in times of uncertainty. And uncertainty, felt but the real kind doesn't matter, we have plenty. With a lot of frustration since Covid.
That's the architecture of Ubiquiti Protect: https://blog.ui.com/2019/01/09/introducing-unifi-protect/
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That might be dependent on the library then, there isn't an official OTel Go logging library yet. Seems you have to add the trace ID exemplars manually too
> The PRIME Study (which apparently stands for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface

Not sure i trust a company with brain implants that can't identify how an acronym is supposed to work...
Just want to quickly point out how much of a lifesaver delivery services are for many disabled folks. As someone who is disabled I find it very strange how critical abled people are of these technologies, even going so far as to use our situations in arguments against it without actually getting our opinion on it.
The market for a product that requires the buyer to setup a VPN is not going to be very large. You seriously overestimate the average tech competence of people. It needs to be something you just plug in and it works.
Agency is a key part of that spark, but we have done all sorts of research into agency and providing goal based agents into an AI model framework incorporating LLMs as well as other optimizers and solvers I think will provide the majority of that spark. The process of creativity depends on both internal agency and goal setting unmoored by external dictation and semantic synthesis of abductively reasoned concepts, with an aesthetic that feels into the goal based optimizer. These are things that can be simulated to the point that while there may be an uncanny valley somewhere it’ll be close enough to be hard to distinguish.

But I do wonder if the practical utility of such an entity is worth the amount of effort and capital required to build and sustain it. I suspect it’ll be more a novelty than a practical tool.
Work/volunteer/consult at grocery stores and food banks and you'll make connections with people at grocery stores and food banks.

Ask questions like "hey, who are those guys taking the stuff we pulled off the shelves cause it was expiring?" or "where does all this food that's right around the expiration date come from?"
Sure, it is very democratic to try and contain ideas and movements that are fundentally oppossed to democratic rule.
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Fair enough.

I think the real question is... Why is such a unit still being used? I was under the impression that any serious ultra-precise CAD and machining was done in milli, micro, and nanometres. I thought pretty much any serious science or engineering had been metricated...

But then again I shouldn't be surprised; Americans measure the volume of lakes in 'acre-feet'...
Who is going to watch thousands[0] of hours of video, most of which will show a scientist fiddling around with setscrews or hunting down a loose ground wire?

And what scientist is going to be happy with constant surveillance that's intended to be shared (so no picking your nose, losing your temper, or making mistakes)?

[0] Literally, thousands. I just finished a paper about a project that we started three years ago. This was the main project for two people, plus a tech: 2000 hrs/yr * 3 * 80% effort = 4800 hours of footage.
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Definitely. It's surprising to see all these magic comments.

Maybe it's because of using the "runes" word :)
File sizes too.
Are you running google searches on https://news.ycombinator.com/news before clicking on stuff? Or expecting an executive summary. I think you can guess which one I’m doing. And which one I believe is normal human behavior.
One of Svelte's biggest advantages is its compiler, positioning it more as a language than just another JS framework. If I'm not mistaken, the compiler allows Svelte to define its syntax to anything they want.

Given this, I'm curious: couldn't the traditional syntax of `let counter = 0` be made to function similarly to the new let count = $state(0);? Transpile it to let count = $state(0) under the hood? If that can work technically, instead of introducing a new rune for reactivity, why not introduce a "negative" rune to denote non-reactive statements? This way, the change wouldn't break existing code; it would be more of a progressive enhancement.

I agree the move to unify the Svelte <script> tag with regular js/ts files is an improvement. It was indeed a little odd that certain syntactic sugar, like the $, would work exclusively within the Svelte <script> and not in a js/ts file that's right next to it. However, from what I gather, it seems the Svelte team is aligning the Svelte script more with js/ts, rather than bringing the js/ts closer to Svelte's unique syntax. This trajectory seems to be pushing Svelte towards resembling traditional JavaScript frameworks, like React. It's a departure from Svelte's unique strength of having a custom compiler and behaving more like a language. If every syntax in Svelte is expected to mirror its behavior in js/ts, eventually svelte will lose all it secret sauce that made it so unique. Why can't we add a rune into js/ts file, a note in the beginning to tell svelte compiler that this is svelte enhanced js/ts file, compile it like svelte script tag code? Bring js/ts more alike to svelte?
I have a similar situation but in my case it's very obviously the gentle bend in that location combined with the relatively high speed that makes the fluid hug one side of the reservoir. I'm pretty sure that the sensor is mounted to the opposite side.
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Pulsar.
Having some artificial intelligence algorithm that is completely understood and tu able like gzip is would be great for many uses.

I think it’s pretty hard to just improve a NN without more data or some non trivial amount of effort.
In fact this may be exactly what parts of the US government want. A hostile dysfunctional authoritarian broken state claiming the mantle of "socialism" (dubious, but whatever) is a great example (along with Venezuela) to point to to say "Why Socialism Bad, See?"

With the sanctions lifted one of two things would likely happen: the "communist" regime would disintegrate under competition, leaving something likely still hostile to the US but not particularly "negative exemplar"is -- like what happened in the eastern bloc -- or it would economically "reform" well enough to function/compete in the world market (like Vietnam or China) while still pretending to be "socialist." Neither of those outcomes are likely outcomes that US capital really wants.

Plus at this point the Cuban economy is heavily dominated by trade competitors to the US. Spanish, Italian, French, and (to a lesser extent) Canadian companies dominate there. Its telecoms systems, electrical grid, energy, etc. are not based on US standards or tech. Non-US companies operate in places and on "property" that US capital still considers to be "theirs" from pre-revolutionary days. Imagine the legal clusterfuck when the blockade/sanctions regime falls apart, and normal trade is attempted again...

In any case, the Cuban people and most normal Cuban exiles aren't doing well out of the status quo. But the Communist Party actually kinda prospers out of this arrangement, and it gives a good drum for right wing politicians in Florida to beat on.

I'm sure Kissinger has some blueprint on this topic somewhere written down, and it's propagated through successive administrations with little to no modification.