skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm? By whom, about what, for why?

I love my country and appreciate my culture. In fact, America's melting pot is just lovely to me because I get to experience such a breadth of the world and people from within it. And don't get me started on breathy jazz in a repurposed southern home, eating pecan pie with the smell of magnolias and the chirping of the cicadas.

Just because I can recognize negatives and discuss the topic from an anthropological perspective doesn't mean I'm "demotivated"?

Though I do wish we brought back American Exceptionalism in the sense of building ornate mega structures and taking on huge infrastructure projects. Not that it's totally dead, but building wide and a resurrection of fiscal conservativism has severely crippled it.
> This is an X11 application and, as such, will not function correctly when Wayland is in use
Apologies, I didn't mean to imply DCEVM went poof, just that I was sad it didn't make it into OpenJDK so one need not do JDK silliness between the production one and the "debugging one" since my experience is that's an absolutely stellar way to produce Heisenbugs

And I'll be straight: Graal scares me 'cause Oracle but I just checked and it looks to the casual observer that it's straight-up GPLv2 now so maybe my fears need revisiting: https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/vm-23.1.0/LICENSE
Genetic modification can improve crop yields – but stop overselling it
> it's probably best for worker's mental health if these jobs go away entirely.

That's a strong argument indeed.

I wish it didn't come with the cost of AI doing this work, though. I can't think of how this won't result in even worse support than is traditional.
This is a meta comment, but I think it's extraordinary that we're only 15ish years from the first smartphone release and we've already reached the "boring" incremental improvement phase for these tiny pocket supercomputers.

Consider how long it took PCs to reach the same stage (with a fraction of the adoption). It was like 20 years from Kenbak-1 to the 90s PC era.
Didn't you know? Everyone is engaged. What did you think the point of all those engagement metrics were? To get everybody engaged. I like it better like this, before, almost no one was engaged.
There’s also a big difference between one charger emitting some noise, and a couple million in a big city raising the noise floor for the frequency.
It's not just cars but the whole system built around them that is completely out of date.

If we want a really high tech transportation system it will be vastly more feasible in a greenfield city design that is a somewhat radical departure from typical assumptions.

Instead of 3000-4000 pound 7-10 passenger vehicles which more often than not carry one occupant, most vehicles should be very small and single passenger. So decrease the size of the vehicles by 10X.

These vehicles should not share the same physical space with pedestrians. Especially not in the current scenario where physics ensures severe injury or death in the event of a collision at any speed.

Vehicles should be fully autonomous. They should not need to drag their fuel around but rather have electricity supplied wirelessly.

There should be multiple levels of infrastructure so that even in dense areas you can be delivered almost door to door.

I have a lot of other ideas. Such as, buildings should be public megastructures designed to provide infrastructure for modular smaller buildings inside, with some open spaces and landscaping as well as reconfigurability. They would not need to provide a perfectly climatized space but try to make the baseline more comfortable.
if it's going to be like Duolingo, then you should have some initial capital and then try to earn more money
Rivian Loses $33K on Every Truck It Sells: Report
Good to know. Now how do I get one?
I had a Pixel 2 XL that was replaced this year not because it was broken, well the screen was bit that's hardly the phones fault, but because my carrier had an offer on a Pixel 7 that was too good to be true. The Pixel 2 is still working so, even if there are no more OS updates anymore.
Brand new HP printer needs HP account to print
Brought a brand new HP Laserjet M110we.

Only has WIFI but i don't care as long as it works.

I have to download the 110MB HP app, but ok as long as it works.

Go through the process of connecting the thing to my wifi, the printer shows up on my laptop, i start printing. I work on my project (a treasure hunt) that needs alot of printing.

The app sends me 10 notifications over 2h to sign up for a HP account.
I ignore them, i have to finish my project.

All of a sudden it stops working, the error light (a red !) is blinking. I think a paperjam, do the normal stupid printer debugging (on/off, opening, removing cartridge...) nothing works.
I check the app is says i should finish the setup nothing else.

I log onto the printers web-interface, the message there:

"Status: Set up the printer now.
Printer setup incomplete.
Your HP+ printer must be set up using the HP Smart app.
Visit 123.hp.com to download the app and complete the guided setup.
Any pages you have printed were intended for setup and have been exhausted."

Instead of finishing my project i go on HN to complain.
Can anyone please build a working printer.
I would pay 5x to not give HP more money.
They’re just dumping the distraction from their core business, the Altera acquisition was one of Bryan krzanich’s many mid-steps, buying and betting instead of running a business.
> I am an Eagle Scout [...] I hate the world we live in.

Isn't there a merit badge or something in Optimistic Can-Do American Spirit? :)

> My parents rewrote the entire thing in what they described as “baby talk” and it was then accepted. The irony is not lost on me to this day.

If you could do it over, would you let yourself be pressured into ironically submitting something that your parents wrote?

Also, do you think whomever rejected your initial writeup did so because they didn't think you did it yourself? Or more like they thought you did it, but they wanted a more stereotypical youth style, maybe because they thought it was more the intent of the exercise? Or maybe for optics reasons, so that it looked like the image people have of a Scout, when upper officials and donors read it?
Worth noting: fair use is a US based approach, and is a “defence” a number of other countries allow copying material for equivalent reasons as a “right”, and it’s managed by a copyright agency.

Of course this Mickey Mouse thing is probably trademark more than copyright. There isn’t fair use for trademark
Real question: Why is this even allowed at a browser level?
My wife's 5a was bit by a common "screen" completely dies for no reason bug. It's more like the phone is stone dead, but that's how Google describes it. Even though she was well past the 1 year warranty they replaced it free under a special warranty program due to how common it is.

And by replaced it, I mean they sent a different phone that had lots of wear and she lost all her non-cloud data.
I daily a manual in Seattle and it’s really not a big deal.

The rest of the people who currently drive in Seattle are a bigger nuisance.
I have a Dutch CS degree, we had about 200 new freshmen every year. 40 seems excessively low for popular degrees.
The post may be only referring to digital/information tech.
What are the other crypto activities? I dont see that many places where you can pay with crypto, so what are those other activities, or is that just trading?
I also thought this would have to do with various deficiencies in color perception. I suppose the tips could still be useful, but not quite the same thing!
It's going to be a real shame when journalists and companies and governments browbeat Facebook into censoring this. Emojis and stickers are a language people use to communicate. Censoring them is like censoring words.

"but it's different because Facebook is creating the images" Actually these people are the ones creating the images. They literally asked for it. It's not like Facebook is shoving Mickey Mouse with a machine gun in your face against your will. People could have created and shared these images using artistic skills and tools before; all Facebook did here is lower the skill requirement.
I may be the only one not familiar, but nom refers to https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom which looks like a pretty handy way to parse binary data in Rust.
Mail and Finance
Discussed a bit in past threads:

The evidence behind strong claims about static vs. dynamic languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16287083 - Feb 2018 (1 comment)

The empirical evidence that types affect productivity and correctness - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8594769 - Nov 2014 (25 comments)
I'm quite frankly amazed that this is the first time this guy has had to put a choke on something as a radio amateur. I guess he doesn't use HF that much otherwise he'd probably have opted to buy an entire bag of ferrites.

Maybe his magsafe charger really is bad, but if it's plugged into a computer or a crap charger it's also likely that it's just RFI riding the cable straight out of the computer. USB stuff is the worst offender in my shack -- the majority of USB cables are just a complete joke.
Right?! What's the maximum acceptable level of AI-ness, anyway? If I have an AI proofread my paper and suggest a few alternative turns of phrase which sound better to my ear but earn me a 7% AI score, is that okay?
As you say yourself people make the CHOICE to ...

Before washing machines they didn't really have any choice but to wash their own clothes (except for a few very rich that had servants to do it).

The same is true of many things - a huge proportion of the population used to be involved in subsistence activities just to grow food, and raise animals for food.
Of course we still have to eat but a far smaller proportion of the population is now required to do those things enabling society to persue other things (science, technology, arts, ...)
It is soon 5 years ago since I switched after using Android since almost since HTC Hero.

Something like this could have kept me on Android for a longer so I am thankful it did not show up until I had left Android behind.

After years of phones that became slow after a few weeks, having a phone that is still fast after 3-4 years is incredible.
But, they don't have any knowledge. They don't know how many kids got parents' help and weren't caught, or how many of the kids they "caught" really did know how to write at that level.
I remember getting the original Motorolla droid back in 2010. Half of my friends had iPhones. Other half were still on regular phones.

By 2014, everyone had a smartphone.
An underrated observation. For example, the worst USB cables in my experience aren't the ones with no ferrites, they're the ones with the ferrites.
Toss a coin, stick with whatever comes out, pretend other choices don’t exist. Amounts to the same thing.
Serious question, what do you call respect? My idea of respect is that conference calls or any phone calls should not happen in public spaces. If someone has their headphones on send them a message and let them respond asynchronously or schedule time with them.
That's really cool. I have a few of those servos laying around waiting for a project :)
He actually is adding value. The pricing is way out of line with the real demand, causing a shortage. But bands/venues don’t want to set ticket price at market price because it will make them look bad.

Scalpers take the reputation hit in exchange for setting tickets prices such that anyone who wants to pay market price can get one.

Scalping could be done away with, but only by setting pricing at market value, which many are reluctant to do. Hence, it will remain.
I did this for some time when my fiber was out for some reason. My then 4G connection provided me with about 50 mBit download and formed the heart of our network for some time. I guess you will find out if unlimited really is unlimited... Also, It could be that your provider doesn't allow it? On iOS for example I can't run hotspot tethered traffic through my iOS wireguard VPN, it turned out tethered devices get their own IP. So that's easy to detect for your provider and may be against their terms?

Also: No more wired network devices, right? Unless you do something fancy.
The labor force participation rate is only 3% higher than it was in 1950 [1]. Meanwhile, the average number of hours people work per year has dropped by over 200 [2]. People have more free time than ever. They just spend most of it consuming media [3].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AVHWPEUSA065NRUG
[3] https://www.insiderintelligence.com/content/us-time-spent-wi...
The hill I climbed on my bike the other day after finally getting back into it disagrees. It does get easier.
So not only do you gain a meditative and rewarding practice of washing something by hand, it sounds like it incentivizes you to cut down on frivolous spending on clothing as well.
Bombing two cities is definitely a great success as far as making bombs is concerned.
You can.

You are, technically, liable for likeness infringement at that time, if not copyright infringement if your image is sufficiently like a specific already-created image of Mr. Mouse.

Disney will not, generally, seek your chat out and sue you. They don't even have a channel to know it's there.

... but they can't really ignore something like Meta facilitating all their users with a giant copyright-and-likeness-trademark-infringing-machine. The "use it or lose it" nature of trademark protection alone basically compels them to at least send a C&D.
AI can take last pennies from them on scale.
TIL: Yahoo still exists in 2023
Of course. But if you truly cannot model every true statement in any formally devised system, then you are by definition going to have to reject valid rules that your logic cannot verify if you intend your system to perfectly logical.
We’ve been using Algora at https://trigger.dev for a while now. Other than being great for bountying issues we’ve found it especially helpful for getting video walkthroughs of our onboarding created and improving our docs.

Great product!
Why do people bother typing in accusations in the discussion that they know would be widely overturned in the opposing direction?

That's not a tabloid, you cannot force text on your audience and have their "what about" heard only by their relatives.
Average across all days across all land mass. It’s never a cloudy day across all land mass… so it averages out. I’m confused you aren’t following here
I enjoyed the take of the wonderful children's book "Momo", by Michael Ende, that is based around this topic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_(novel)

SPOILERS, kinda:
It talks about time thieves, that convince people to save time by offering devices that do things more efficiently. All this does is making society more sterile as people forgo time-wasting activities (such as socializing, art and recreation) to save more time, which is then stolen by these time-thieves.

I often think about this book, which feels very prescient, especially being written in 1973! I haven't ready it in a while but remember it being a beautiful and engaging read for any age.
And we've ignored all the externalities of those choices
I went to high school (secondary school) back when it was pretty normal to forbid students from typing assignments because "not everyone has a computer". I happen to be personally responsible, via my terrible handwriting, for at least two teachers dropping that policy. At least one other just gave me a specific exception in the name of "accessibility".
In the spirit of the article, progress also means an ever quickening pace of life — and perhaps lessening quality of life, broadly increasing mental health distress and increasing numbers of people falling out of the labor force.

I think it’s at least worthwhile to pay mindfulness to the situation, and consider if the path we’re on ends in self destruction. Because most of the west is not setup to pump the brakes.
A reasonably precise although not universal definition could be to take the data points from the study in relation to the use of those terms in the study.

I think the main idea though is that there is some structure in the memory that resembles a structure in the real world to some meaningful degree. One aspect of this is composition, the other is how closely it maps to the real world.

If it were literally just a lookup table where the indices did not correspond to physical proximity then it would definitely not be valid to say that this was really a world model in that context.
Yeah, totally agree, but I still really liked it. Reminds me of Ian's Shoelace Site[1], and I don't think knots are a huge disruption area either in 2023.

[1] https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm
Not really. Sure, you can survive with a single income. But you often can’t own two cars, a house, and a cabin in the mountains, and raise 3+ kids with a single income. like you use to be able to do.

Further, nobody has much free time today, despite technology doing most of the things that we used to spend our time on. Instead of technology giving everyone free time, everyone just had to work more in order to get the same lifestyle.

Edit: though yes, quality of life is better in many ways.
Theoretical work is still awarded, but only after experimental confirmation. Penrose for example
Isn't it common for smartphone makers to pull this sort of thing on Android? Basically the factory OS would overheat in order to do well in benchmarks but a subsequent update would later get it to throttle to prevent it from frying itself.

I really don't think this could just be a mistake given Apple's size.
> I literally cannot comprehend how my suggestion that playing with words might be fun could be interpreted as bro-y.

Really? You suggest experimentation with fun styles, and you're surprised by a response in a fun style? Bro...
Just came here to say "Mickey Mauser"
You missed the point. In modern times it's expected that you'll travel those 300 miles. In the mid 1700s, no average person would be expected to make that journey
mattn's sqlite3 is probably the most ideal use case for cgo imaginable. But it can still be annoying to set up cgo to build across many platforms.

I think Go should just pull a Zig and just embed a full blown C compiler into go build.
This is really upsetting as a portrait of what's wrong with academia
College admissions have known this for a long time which is why test scores aren't an automatic entrance. Your schools sound irresponsibly myopic.
But you won't be able to afford anything (housing especially) where you're competing against dual income families.
I've thought the same, and it'll make perfect sense. If the LLM knows you very very well, and it knows the world better than any human could, it can match those up well.

The effects on broader society could be interesting. If everyone knows about some secluded beach that's cheap and great, that would quickly change... I wonder if we'll see a "smoothing out" of everything so that the big outlier advantages and disadvantages will go away, because everything is known by everyone('s LLM).
I mean, we already do, everything you buy and you think is a good product vs bad is influenced by how you have been marketed to. It’s pretty obvious when you immigrate to another country and some of the decisions people make buying wise don’t make sense to you :)
If you use Google Docs, the edit history would pretty clearly the progress and different drafts. I guess eventually somebody will prompt ChatGPT in the right way to create realistic drafts and edits as well.
Actually yes with an internet full conspiracy and misinfo, insisting on good sourcing is an excellent way of navigating the noise. This guy has zero credibility.

And the point he is making is that some in Europe will gladly see Ukraine destroyed if it means cheaper gas. We should not be holding that opinion up as reasonable or even moral, it's not.
Am I making the right investments in software?
> Secondly, I think the CIA gets the brunt of the focus and criticism because its funded by the most powerful nation state in the world. Would another country do better (ethically, morally etc.?)

The actually existing and most powerful such agency in the world gets the brunt of the focus compared to lesser agencies and hypothetical ones? I hope so.
Hah, mine was a rough-looking klunker that got eliminated pretty early. But I wasn't there for competition, I was there for participation.
>Others require a very high level of proof before they agree something happened. If you require a high degree of proof you will always have to wait for declassified documents or leaks before you agree on anything.

A lot of those people are just too naive politically...
Have you ever interacted with a bureaucracy? They are an LLM assembled from human flesh: Random behavior, incomprehensible rationales, and an unstoppable and undirectable force of iron will.
Tell your boss you're getting rid of every device that lets him interact with you past five pm and tell me how it goes.
The only brand I buy for printers is Brother. I've had mine for years and I recommend them to anyone.

Return the HP, get a Brother.
Chalk: Open-source software security and infrastructure visibility tool
Curl High Severity Vulnerability (Possibly worst in its history)
Philips Hue will soon require an account to use its app – here’s what that means
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37769398
Piaggio is not gonna be happy that someone has called their company Vespa.
Phone data service is not really unlimited- they will throttle after a while.

Also, the data latency and packet size are much worse over mobile networks.
It's starting to feel silly, having a yearly release cycle for smartphones. So much of this product page is focused on new software functions that may have some vague relationship with the slightly upgraded hardware, but that could mostly be released to existing phones. Every new iPhone, Pixel, or Samsung phone basically claims the camera is marginally better and hey, look at these software features that have very little to do with the hardware and should not fundamentally be a reason to upgrade to this phone.

There is so much time, effort, and physical waste that is generated by slightly redesigning phones every year purely for the sake of making sales (as opposed to meaningful improvement upon the existing design or introduction of a new hardware feature). Think not only of people upgrading for the sake of it, but all of the cases, screen protectors, and other assorted accessories cast in plastic for previous models that are garbage now.

It would be nice if we could just space these things out to 5 years or so now, because that's probably how long it takes for anything to change enough to justify a new model.
Why doesn't he, or you, cite them ?
It shuffles one deck randomly and deals from that deck. New shuffle every deal/draw cycle.
Demo and documentation at https://crashoverride.com/
I'm surprized they haven't gotten a nasty letter from Piaggio yet.
NTT investment/ partnership
Nice try LLMy
It's also very close to the size the smaller (non-plus etc) Samsung flagship phones have head for years:

S10: 149.9 x 70.4 x 7.8 mm

S20: 151.7 x 69.1 x 7.9 mm

S21: 151.7 x 71.2 x 7.9 mm

S22: 146 x 70.6 x 7.6 mm
Continuous glucose monitoring in people without diabetes
...What I usually hear from “CGM users without diabetes” is along the lines of ‘it helps you to understand your metabolism and make changes to your diet and lifestyle’. This is a compelling narrative, but I have a couple of problems with it: First the premise that CGM outside of diabetes can show you something to fix is at best flawed and at worst an invention designed to move product.
Apart from being a rescue os, what are some common usecases where it helps ?

One, you can have your data/software literally in your pocket assuming that's the threat model you are dealing with.

The other scenarios I could think of involve too much friction to stick with it for long term.
Heinlein battlesuits could hurl nukes, yes ?

I'll wait for one of those.