skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think people who say they will retire and become farmers think they’re going to become like legit, money making farmers? Or do you think they know they want a constructive hobby close to the earth to do while they wait to die, and “farming” (almost always meaning hobby farming) sounds like a constructive hobby to wait out the end?

It’s a meme at this point to make fun of people who want to do some form of labor that doesn’t make a good career when they retire. Of course farming is a worse job than being a developer, that’s why this person is a developer! But many things that make hard or even terrible jobs make great hobbies when you’re not doing it to make a career. And people who like to get things done still often don’t want their last accomplishment before they die to be “delivered corporate value in Q3 by…”
The "legitimate interest" part of GDPR is just horrifically abused by so many companies, who act like it's a magic two words which allow them to collect personal information without consent because they said "ooooh we really do have a legitimate reason for this data" which is against both the spirit and the wording of the GDPR.

I really hope to see a few big cases where the EU fines companies for that, so that everyone else gets the picture and stops hiding behind legitimate fucking interest. But I don't know why that hasn't happened yet, hopefully it's just slow moving rather than a case of the laws implementing GDPR being fuzzy enough that countries are worried they wouldn't win the case in courts. (But if that were the case, hurry up and update the law!)

/side note: apologies on behalf of my profession, since it's largely marketing people who've led to these shitty practises. We're not all assholes, some of us do respect people's data, rights, and (lack of-)consent.
> X-risk concerns have been around for a long time and were not invented by AI marketeers

I didn't say X-risk concerns were invented by AI marketeers, I said the “AI safety” language was invented by the overlapping groups of X-risk cultists and AI marketeers, some of whom (Sam Altman, for one) are the same people.
The answer is to stop persisting Java objects, and start writing applications with relations (facts / propositions) in mind.

The OO stuff I think has gotten in the way of our jobs. When I worked in Java it was a mountain of pointless data/transfer object transformations. Microservices has made this worse. It's a really bad paradigm.
Not sure yet how this compares to Flarum - https://freeflarum.com/ you can self-host too https://flarum.org/
Most Africans who have the resources to migrate are spoiled for choice when it comes to countries to migrate to.

Colonization making English and/or French an official language of about 50 African nations means there are about a dozen options that present basically no language barrier and much smoother cultural assimilation than East Asia in general.

I'm not saying no African at all would go to the region. But they'd be near the bottom of the list even with comparable policies.
> How did people do it before NPK and glyphosate

Compost/manure and lots of manual labor
apparently not this one though
Articles claims have been retracted
Feminism is about equality, for men too.
> Ok, fair enough; now the counterfactual is, what if females disproportionately committed suicide? It's pretty clear that it would be diagnosed on the left as related to toxic masculinity too.

This is not at all clear to me.

Women are actually more likely to attempt suicide then men, yet men are more likely to succeed. If what you say is true we should already be able to observe the phenomenon you describe. So where is it?
I wonder how much better an LLM could be given even better training data.

For example, the total number of tokens contained in the physical and digital collections of a moderately-sized university library is (probably) equal to or on par with the size of the training data for GPT 3.5.

What would happen if you could train just on that? I know we're using huge training sets, but how much of it is just junk from the internet?

(There should be some representative junk in the dataset, but nowhere near the majority.)
British recipes use ml. You’d rarely see a pint in a British recipe unless ir was quite old. American recipes use pints and - even more insane - cups.

British distance is measured in miles unless it’s a short distance under half a mile in which it’s metres or unless it’s someone old in which case it will be yards or feet. Of a horse race, in which case it’s yards and furlongs.

Land is measured in acres but industrial land in hectares.

Rooms are measured in feet and inches unless it’s for official purposes in which case it’s metres.

Liquid is measured in ml and litres unless it’s beer - which is measured in pints - or petrol which is measured in litres but talked about in gallons.

If you buy a fish you will weight it in grams and kilos. If you catch a fish you’ll measure it in pounds and ounces.

Buy suits and shirts and you measure in inches. Buy the cloth to make it yourself and it’s measured in linear metres.
Ask HN: How to get traction for my platform?
Hi, I have started a platform https://aiplaygrounds.in , here users can develop
AI Agents and compete against one another, but i have been having hard time finding interested programmers to play the game, Where should I showcase this platform? like what communities would want to play this game?
Infamously, some Mazda infotainment systems crashed when a Seattle area radio station left off a file extension in a metadata broadcast https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/10/mazda_radios_images/
My guess is it's all about liability, and possibly regulation. Nowadays our culture demands that products force people to be safe, rather than expecting people to choose to be safe and accepting the consequences if they mess up.

I wish I could laugh at the idiocy, but it's too personal and enfuriating to me to be funny. The enraging thing for me is that it makes my car unusable for the passenger even though that person isn't even driving!!! A human is so much better at making that decision at drive-time than the dumb software. At least use the damn airbag sensor in the seat, and if there's a passenger, let them use the controls!!!
The idea of being someone else
I'm guessing the answer is mostly no, since GrapheneOS was the most Pixel-friendly AOSP project I knew of, and they're also "buy a new phone, n00b" https://grapheneos.org/faq#legacy-devices

https://doc.e.foundation/devices and https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#google both list quite a few of them, but unknown if it's that they are currently available but once the blobs get locked it'll be the same story: unsupported

And, of course, going with "community" distros also nuke Play services and thus almost certainly will not allow Google Pay or other niceties
How are forums not just a different style of chat room where anyone can make a new room?
Both of my older vehicles have aftermarket head units and I absolutely love them. It's definitely a lot of faff to get them in and working, but a few hundred dollars and some frustrating weekends beats buying an entire new car loaded to the gills with spyware that wants a subscription fee for it's heated seats.

And you don't need to worry about the chinese government if you just never connect the things to the internet, which I never do. They are a conveyance for CarPlay access and nothing more.
But my case was with a yaml validated to a schema. A kube ingress file with a list of rules. My additional dash made it a new entry, in practice allowing everything. With xml it would have been very explicit that I now accidentally had made two rules.
There's still a significant lag time before uncensored generative AI catches up with this. So gracious of OpenAI to keep porn artists employed a little longer with all their moralizing.
> Colonization making English, French an official language of about 90 African nations

90 out of 54 is quite a high percentage.
The exact answer to his question is "no". He didn't ask about sequels, only styles, and copyright explicitly never protects style.
> No one wants to listen to two robots having a conversation.

(OP here) for what its worth, Wondercraft actually agrees with you here. it says so right on their landing page + I ask him about it in the interview. However in this case I may actually be more bullish* on AI audio than he is.

*since a lot of HNers seem to be taking a very strong negative reaction to this suggestion as some kind of civilizational collapse, I do want to say that while I may not personally care about having AI Steve Jobs drivel on with AI Joe Rogan for 24 hours, I could see SOME version of this thing doing well among the general population in the future when they get the format and the topic right (eg start with meditation, language teaching, whatever else niche long form audio/video thing that doesnt actually really need human input, then go up from there).
In fairness I picked the quote specifically because of the "uncivilised tribes" bit and we got distracted by the gas bit. It was quite relevant.
Even though the OSB hasn't reached Royal Assent, it's already started...
Ask HN: Why is DALL·E 3 not on the front page?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37586900

Why isn't DALL·E 3 on the front page? Has it been flagged down? It has only been 3 hours.
> You also express a false dichotomy - single MRI bad, but monthly MRIs for life good?

yeah, this is badly expressed on my part. I was trying to get across that a single whole body scan without context (ie it hurts here, or it bleeds there or we suspect x) is difficult to interpret. think of it as a day's unstructured logs. Regular scans allows you to build up a picture of whats changing, and whats normal for you.

> A sober reading of annual MRI/Ultrasound type tests without knee-jerk invasive followups when you are 30+ seem like a reasonable risk weighted solution in contrast, doesn't it?

I think routine targeted scanning is something that is worthwhile. The UK does a number of them, and they were normally based on evidence of outcome. Prostate/breast/cervical etc etc. I personally think the future of public health is something akin to getting each personal a vitals dashboard.

But, I'm not sure regular MRIs will give us that. if the evidence changes though, then it should be reassessed.
They re-added the oldest-to-newest sort option, at least for channels I watch
> the kinds of things you're saying

Be much more specific, please.
I think that’s a great example of a company who is trying to make a profit, and they are certainly investing in the future under the assumption that it will pay off. But I don’t see how that’s currently profitable, which is the point brought up by GP about still very much being in Act One.
> It will almost certainly be EU-exclusive

Yes, but that will change once Americans see what EU citizens can do with the same devices they use. It may take a few years.
Meat, milk alternatives could slash food system emissions a third: study
I think it's fascinating and looks like something an engineer / designer could have a lot of fun with. And on a larger scale, it seems like a really interesting idea that could bring food production closer to where people are – like cities. That said, I haven't had time to personally mess around with it much yet.

I do think after watching how unpredictable the weather is getting, that greenhouses and indoor growing will be a very important part of the puzzle in the mid to later parts of this century. I worry about the grain crops and things that are still very much an outdoor proposition. Genetic modification and experiments with different perennials may get us to a place of resiliency, but we're not there yet.

FWIW, I'm not anti-GMO. But I think an issue with GMOs is that a lot of what it gets used for is making crops tolerant of tons of chemical spraying.
Make sure you opt in to use runes!

You can do it project wide or per component: https://svelte-5-preview.vercel.app/docs/runes
I had that in a car from 2008 or so. Camera feed switched on when you were reversing, but no touch screen.
Missed the very important point that UDP packets are not guaranteed to even arrive. Building a product that used Multicast UDP, we were painfully aware of this.
Human Rights is a specific ideological framework. It's not a universal viewpoint, even though the framework itself might claim that it is.
On a similar point, are people using the actual duck database format or sticking with Parquet? I love everything about DuckDB, but I feel more comfortable keeping things in an existing format.

My only work with it to date has been to load-analyze-usuallydelete to refresh, so I do not require any db mutability. Outside of mutability, not sure if there are any obvious wins with the format.
Your comment seems to assume that Apple will not actually comply in spirit.

Not a lot of people have seen this, but the compliance report that gatekeepers need to file anually (plus at the start of thd enforcement period) is pretty heavy on those details. Apple will have to provide:

An explanation of how you comply with the obligation, including any supporting data and internal documents, and a detailed description of any measures that were already in place pre-designation or that you have implemented post-designation and that ensure such compliance, including:

a) the relevant situation prior to implementation of the measure and
how the measure ensures compliance with the obligations laid
down in Articles 5 to 7 of Regulation (EU) 2022/1925;
b) when the measure was implemented;
c) the scope of the measure in terms of the products/services
covered;
d) the geographic scope of the measure (e.g. if the implementation of
the measure extends beyond the EEA, please specify);
e) any technical/engineering changes that were required for the
implementation of the measure concerned (e.g. on data flows and
internal data usage policies, security aspects, tracking of new
metrics, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), operation
system (OS) functionalities, or parameters of ranking algorithms
and online advertising auctions);
f) any changes to the customer experience required by the
implementation of the measure concerned (e.g. changes in the
customer interface, choice screens, consent forms, warning
messages, system updates, functionalities available, or customer
journey to access functionalities);
g) any changes to the terms and conditions for end users and
business users required by the implementation of the measure
concerned (e.g. on the fee structure, level of the fees, introduction
of new fees, privacy policy, conditions for access and
interoperability and any other relevant clauses);
h) any other relevant changes required by the implementation of the
measure concerned not covered by the above points e) to g);
i) any consultation with end users and/or business users that has
been carried out at the stage of the elaboration of the measure and
how their input has been taken into account;
j) any involvement of external consultants in the elaboration of the
measure including a description of the consultantsâ€™ mission,
whether they are independent from the Undertaking, and a
description of their output;
k) any alternative measures whose feasibility or implications has
been assessed and the reasons for not choosing them;
l) any action taken to inform end users and/or business users of the
measure and their feedback;
m) where applicable, the interaction with measures you have
implemented to ensure compliance with other obligations under
Regulation (EU) 2022/1925;

n) where applicable, any actions taken to protect security or data pursuant to the relevant provisions in Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 and why these measures are strictly necessary and justified and there are no less restrictive means to achieve these goals;

There's a lot more from where that came from.
One side says men are bad, the other side of the aisle says women are bad.
Gary Kildall – the man that should have been Bill Gates
This guy was ripped off by Bill Gates. Gates basically became rich because they copied his product and called it MS-DOS.
Fascinating 3 part docu-series that unveils the truth about what actually happened.
Given what happened yesterday, it's going to get even worse.
Thanks to the new tech wave, my guess is that you don't actually own your device even though you "bought" it, so if you disagree with it then they will just shut it down and it's on you to either agree or sell it.

I hope (and if I thought there was any point in praying, would do that too) that a car company like Toyota will go against this trend and empower the owner to own things. I bought a new Toyota this year and I worry that they're in the process of making the Toyota smartphone app mandatory, though it isn't yet.
Totally agree. I went a fairly long time (>10 years) between car purchases and was shocked at how terrible the interfaces are in most new cars. That and creepy spyware were two of the main differentiators for me, and it can be hard to find that information on a range of cars.
> Well, no.

What a surprise.

> this is the game that represents the economic reality

No, it isn't. Economic reality is nothing like flipping coins, neither for individuals, nor in the aggregate, except insofar as both contain a random element.

> it is still a markov process

So what? Saying "it's a Markov process" is simply making the observation that there is a random element. Yes, flipping coins has a random element, and yes, the market has a random element. It does not follow that flipping coins is a good model of the market. On this logic, coin-flipping would be a "good model" of any non-deterministic process.

The interesting thing about Markov processes is not that they contain random elements. The interesting thing about Markov processes is that you can make reliable predictions about some of them despite the fact that they contain random elements. But coin-flipping is not one of those processes about which interesting predictions can be made. The economy is.
They might try those things.

But what if the EU just turns around and fines them x% of global revenue for that?

The EU law could effectively force Apple to open up. Ex: who says the law only applies to EU sim cards?

What if, the law instead applied to EU citizens, and if an EU citizen happens to have an American sim card, well then that's Apple's problem and they have to allow US sim cards to side load.

Playing clever games could just result in billions in fines and Apple being ordered to change anyway.
Huge congrats to the team. I reached out to them four or five months ago as we explored offline-first frameworks, and its awesome to see how far they've come in a short time.

We didnt find anyone else who was tackling the tie between client-side SQLite, an open source CRDT/sync layer, and Postgres. We found a few who were attempting to manage this in a closed source way, but it didn't make sense to give up control of the server/auth, and every other fully open source solution was SQLite -> SQLite, not Postgres.

Great stuff from some killer engineers.
Maybe he thought the small amount would let him fly under the radar.
And Norway isn’t in the EU ;)

In the central EU, I mostly see just WhatsApp, rarely Signal and Telegram. However it might be different up in the north though, I dont know that.
Why wouldn’t the answer be the same as on android: install alternative app stores (like F-Droid). The alternative app stores themselves can be apps.
Intelligence services are good at stopping and intimidating journalists who are reporting on their activities: activities like nurturing Islamic terrorist groups in order to destabilize states perceived as an obstacle. For examples see the 9-11 attackers, the Ariana Grande/ManchesterArena bomber.

They have no lack of information: they just don't do anything with it because their fundamental job at the moment is not protecting us, it's destroying others. MI5 had all they needed to stop the Manchester Arena bomber etc.

Journalists need to be free to pursue their activities in order for us to have a functioning democracy. The detention of Kit Klarenberg, this detention, the detention of the French publisher (for Gilet Jaune protestor links IIUIC) are definite indications that these intelligence agency perverts feel empowered to interfere with one of the important parts of a democratic system.
In my car the UI just freezes until the headunit restarts 1-2 minutes later.

A few years ago I rode with a friend and he'd have to turn ignition off and on again to restart the headunit. That's rather annoying while cruising on the highway. The madman still did it - a bit dangerous because you lose power steering and the brake booster without the engine running.
I read through the transcripts and was stunned when my more CS-oriented colleagues dismissed it as stochastic parroting. It sure sounded human to me.
Okay, Microservices Have Benefits Too
A bit off-topic, but I love it how meaningful conversations are moving to Mastodon and other Twitter alternatives now.
So you are saying we're going to doom an entire population to poverty, provided courtesy of the government?

I know you're trying to make a point, but let's be realistic. That's never going to fly... and it's wrong to even think people are going to be ok submitting to technology and the government overlords for a life filed with poverty.
They feel sentient in many cases because they're trained by people using data they've selected in the hope that they can train it to be sentient. And the models in turn are just mechanical turks repeating back what they've already read in slightly different ways. Ergo, they "feel" sentient, because to train them, we need to tell them which outputs are more correct, and we do that by telling them the ones that sound more sentient are more correct.

It's cool stuff but if you ever really want to know for sure, ask one of these things to summarize the conversation you just had, and watch the illusion completely fall to pieces. They don't retain anything above the barest whiff of a context to continue predicting word output, and a summary is therefore completely beyond their abilities.
Not sure if you were being snarky but having the ability to scroll doesn't fix a poorly structured article...

Things should be explained as they come, or have a linked explanation, or say things like "we'll explain what XYZ is later".

If an article is about a tool but I don't know what the tool is and the first paragraph doesn't explain it, am I really expected to skim the entire article in the hope that somewhere is hidden an explanation, and then go back and read from the top? That can't possibly be good story telling?
Never heard of it before, any good?
It really hurts my head to even think about how that works. Does google offer some proprietary email api that isn't IMAP? Why would such a thing exist? Why would you make an email app without IMAP?
> American recipes use pints and - even more insane - cups.

How are cups even more insane than pints?
i think the idea is that compression exploits recognized similarities, so that begs the question of if a compressor is actually recognizing things usefully.
It's possible that copper sulfate is more dangerous than the alternatives, but there's no evidence that it's carcinogenic. Your linked article claims copper sulfate "has not been associated with cancer".
I always thought of Reason as libertarian adjacent. I’m kind of surprised they aren’t fully supporting the right of a private company to not do business with anyone they don’t want to.