skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know how you feel. Persevering is a real challenge. It takes a huge amount of effort just to start work. It's easier when I get going. After getting something done, there's this feeling of accomplishment but also pointlessness and loneliness. I ask myself why I'm even writing this stuff. Will anyone care?

I suppose I should do a Show HN at some point and find out.
Mastodon can replace twitter
Then it's time to flush all entries, set the column to nullable or use an enumeration and re verify everyone on the next visit
My understanding is that there's is an entirely legal official channel. All the tech companies use that to access GitHub, for example. Likewise for some universities and hotels.

It's an important detail that this guy is using VPN to work from home, not at work for a company.
All part of the process, though! Brick by brick...
> Not surprisingly, the Ranger status requirement has been met with some disdain from employees at Slack. Two sources told Fortune that many Slack engineers have found workarounds via scripts, code that can be quickly built to automate a task, to click through the modules for them.

> “There’s no mandate [on] what modules people take so people are posting lists of the easiest ones and are speed running them,” a source said.

Respect
It’s at the top of the Hacker News All Time Top Books list referenced above by __rito__.
For quick scripts sure.

For writing an application or something that actually require design and libraries? Why bother? You need to be meticulous anyway, why not be meticulous in code?
Did that with an old Thinkpad (X32 iirc) years ago. I use Gentoo and some packages (like gcc) could only be compiled during winter months or in a fridge.

Also sucessfully rescued some old NVidia card with baking oven around that time…
Some bandits says you can indefinitely print money. It's funny that even after this inflation phase, some people still believe that the solution is to "spend more" on "everything". I guess we are bound to repeat history.
You've seen how discussions work in real life right? There's no requirement to stick to some topic at hand, it's a free-flowing dialogue. That's what you're seeing happen in this discussion board too.
Hedonism is a philosophy.
Not on iOS, but you can trigger native install prompts on android and chromium browsers (Chrome and Edge).
> When I travel to China with a mobile phone subscription that supports roaming, I get completely uncensored access to the internet.

This is because when you are roaming, the data traffic goes through an encrypted tunnel to your carrier. There's not much China can do without completely blocking roaming traffic. It's not a big deal though because vast majority of Chinese people don't have access to a foreign mobile line. As long as China can control what 99% of the population can access, it's already a win.
The user is the equivalent force of Mother Nature in software engineering. You just can’t predict what they will try next!
20 years on…

“Just use another framework when you need performance” they say.
And this is why I don’t like to buy used hardware.
Technology does seem to be good at addressing some - but not all - of the problems created by a technological society.
Edit: Not on iOS...yet.
Oh but it can’t, but with a sufficiently complex vector space it can seem like it can. What seems like extrapolation is an interpolation in the semantic vector space, particularly in the transformer / attention model. This is a key difference between human intelligence and current AI, it’s not able to “create” and see beyond what it’s been trained on. Any approximation of that is simply indicative of a very complete training set, and it is sufficiently powerful enough to fool people with its expectation based inference - but when you dig into the details of cutting edge stuff you’re an expert in and ask it conceptual questions that extend beyond the semantic corpus embedded in its vector space, it will hallucinate, or if well fine tuned admit lack of knowledge, because the best it can do is interpolate within its own semantic vector space.

But listen, I’m a big buyer of generative AI, what it does is incredible. But it’s useful to not ascribe more power to a tool than the math allows.

And there are very few machine learning algorithms that do extrapolation at all with any precision. Generally they project an expectation,often of some complex highly dimensional non linear system, which is amazing, but when they are confronted with a novel input pattern they are thrown off. The issue is they’re at their core probabilistic systems, and if the data experiences a regime change that’s unexpected the model will misbehave and output garbage.
Maybe I put there a note that HP produced SSD server disks which fault at preengeneered number of writes, making your raid faulty.
No one should ever use this brand
> From a layman that enjoys scifi, I always thought universe appears to be infinite because we are in a lower dimension.

The universe doesn't appear to be infinite. The observable universe has a very definite size.

We can't really say much about what comes beyond. But the paper the linked article talks about tries.

> Gravity is a product of interaction between parallel 3D universes.

You might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle

> The holographic principle is a property of string theories and a supposed property of quantum gravity that states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a lower-dimensional boundary to the region — such as a light-like boundary like a gravitational horizon.[1][2] First proposed by Gerard 't Hooft, it was given a precise string theoretic interpretation by Leonard Susskind,[3] who combined his ideas with previous ones of 't Hooft and Charles Thorn.[3][4] Leonard Susskind said, “The three-dimensional world of ordinary experience––the universe filled with galaxies, stars, planets, houses, boulders, and people––is a hologram, an image of reality coded on a distant two-dimensional surface."[5] As pointed out by Raphael Bousso,[6] Thorn observed in 1978 that string theory admits a lower-dimensional description in which gravity emerges from it in what would now be called a holographic way. The prime example of holography is the AdS/CFT correspondence.

So basically the opposite of what you are describing: gravity emerges because we are in a higher dimension.

> And dark matter is just matter from other universes.

Dark matter can be seen as the label we give to a bunch of experimental findings / problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter says:

> [Dark matter's] existence is implied by various astrophysical observations which cannot be explained by general relativity unless more matter is present than can be seen. Evidence for dark matter comes from many different angles, such as galaxy dynamics and formation,[2] gravitational lensing,[3] and the cosmic microwave background, along with astronomical observations of the observable universe's current structure, the formation and evolution of galaxies, mass location during galactic collisions,[4] and the motion of galaxies within galaxy clusters.

Positing matter that has gravity but doesn't otherwise interact (much) with the rest of the universe can explain those observations. But other observations are also possible. Eg some people like to fiddle with the laws of gravity to explain why the galaxies don't fly apart.
It sounded like there was no magnetron load on the power supply, because the cooling fan was spinning a little faster and the interior was a little brighter. This was during the few seconds between the smoke show and from me pulling the plug.

There was indeed a char mark on the mica sheet, but the beryllium terror at the time was enough for me to chuck it.
Thanks! Sounds like it's improved a lot since I tried it years ago.
> despite amazon throwing engineers at it

Yeah, that is one way of phrasing it. Another way to phrase it is that Amazon took it over, turned it into an ingestion funnel to their book store, and has done as little as possible after that.
It's self-hosted.
> the NSA would have had to be aware of a class of weak curves so large that it’s not plausible that no one in academia or industry discovered them in 25 years.

GCHQ in the U.K. hires more mathematicians than any other research institute or University in the country. Not sure about the US equivalents but I imagine it’s similar.

Diffie-Helman key exchange was known about by GCHQ and the NSA prior to it being rediscovered by Diffie and Helman. I think it’s hard to assume anything about the underlying capabilities of intelligence institutions. Not saying they do know this but it’s also not impossible, this stuff is their bread and butter.
Rails is really flexible, though.
Yes but they consider the additional semantics a mistake:

"we strongly recommend that you specify /volatile:iso, and use explicit synchronization primitives and compiler intrinsics when you are dealing with memory that is shared across threads."

/volatile:iso is the default for ARM as the extended semantics would be extremely penalising.
Just gotta hope nobody else walks in front of the kinect while I'm drinking...
One good reason to avoid a job doing Hotwire is so that you can take a job doing React for a similar amount, where your experience applies better and where you'll gain more transferrable experience.

In short, it's probably better for your career to work on React.
I was expecting KDE compiling on Gentoo
It's up to all of us to build the future, brick by brick. What looks impossible today might look inevitable in hindsight. Ok sorry, enough cliches from me for the night :-P
> HNers shouldn't really ...

True, but at the same time we don't know that much about what happened before the last ice age. And faced with that ignorance you have to keep an open mind, that's what HN people should do, or not have much trouble doing!

Put it another way, if we had a 3000 year ice age start tomorrow, that was ended with a comet impact that melted the ice in a couple of months with biblical flooding (or any of a host of other possible apocalypses), how confident would you be that remnants of our civilization would be traceable 15,000 years hence?

I'm sure there'd be traces but how confident would we be interpreting them correctly? If we were being intellectually honest about such interpretations. I'd say there'd be quite a lot of error bars.

If you don't already, just assume there's other civilizations out there, for a minute. If they'd utilized the Earth in the past as a way station, outpost, refugee spot, or even holiday home or whatever, and built some (relative to the total land area of all human dwellings on Earth now) small scale installations here, but were not "humans" at all, and this happened at multiple points in the last 250 million years, how well do you feel you'd interpret that evidence, today?

I think it's likely that people look at it, look at the seeming absence of non-humans just walking around, and think "We did this. It was us, in the past." But Earth's history is long, and we're a tiny part of it. Why project our present level of knowledge, impressive tho it is, onto a fantasy of insight into the One True Story of the entirety of Earth's history? I don't think we can say that if we're being intellectually honest, and HN people should aspire to that, I think.

Even from this position of ignorance it's entirely possible that other civilizations built structures on Earth in the distant past, and that only their megalithic foundations or buildings survived, owing to Earth's "active" surface geology, and the passage of time. You cannot say how probable it is from a position of ignorance, but you must admit that it's possible.

Heck, maybe some of those dudes flying around the sky are just coming back to check, "Hey, didn't we have a house here half a million years ago? With a nice view of the ocean. Man, those were the days!" haha :)
Just normal Apple security. When a zero day becomes public, it gets patched.
How anyone can look at over a billion unique people and say "Chinese this" or "Chinese that" is as far beyond me as anything.
And with GPU just do this for the first command

docker run -d --gpus=all -v ollama:/root/.ollama -p 11434:11434 --name ollama ollama/ollama

You'll need to have the NVidia container toolkit installed.
OK, so you think a star was just a tiny point of visible light... until we developed telescopes. This is a antrophocentric world view by definition.

I think you are taking us far too serious, we are not that important...
It's not actually clear that the Big Bang was the absolute beginning. There could have been things before. These days, I hear much more talk about 'inflation' than about the big bang.

The Big Crunch is currently seen as unlikely: the (observable) universe doesn't have enough matter to slow expansion and pull back together, expansion even seems to be accelerating.

> Relativity is about time not space.

Isn't it about both?
Excuse me. Statically typed.
I wonder how family income has tracked increases in the cost of housing, health care, and/or higher education?
PWA button filters down to only web apps with a manifest + service worker. Unfortunately, Firefox is a bit behind in adding some of the features that make PWAs, well, progressive. If you're on iOS, try Safari or Chrome.
Don't dwell on the heat death of the universe for too long, either, then.
Businesses don't like the web because every time you search you have competitors next to the results. Getting users to install an app massively increases the lifetime value of that user. Consequently if search can take you directly to the app, businesses will pay more for search ads.
Thanks both - IANAP so I appreciate the guide.

However, if as he asserts this can be studied and verified, have we really not done that?
Show HN: I built my own Loom using GPT-4. Sharing it on GitHub
I didn't want to pay for loom so I created this extention to show my webcam on the browser for the product demo I wanted to create. Sharing it on HN and Github for everyone to use :)
Not "just" the Play Store.

Apps

>If a company does ever manage to fork AOSP, clone the Google apps, and create a viable competitor to Google's Android, it's going to have a hard time getting anyone to build a device for it. In an open market, it would be as easy as calling up an Android OEM and convincing them to switch, but Google is out to make life a little more difficult than that. Google's real power in mobile comes from control of the Google apps—mainly Gmail, Maps, Google Now, Hangouts, YouTube, and the Play Store. These are Android's killer apps, and the big (and small) manufacturers want these apps on their phones. Since these apps are not open source, they need to be licensed from Google. It is at this point that you start picturing a scene out of The Godfather, because these apps aren't going to come without some requirements attached.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...

and services as well.
This reminds me of a time I tried to install Ubuntu on an old thick Dell laptop many years ago.

Each time I would try the system would overheat and then crash. The existing (windows) system still appeared to work fine with light loads so I was pretty sure I just needed to get past the install and decided to try one more time.

It was winter at the time, I can't remember if it had snowed recently, but I think it was probably close to 40 degrees F outside. So I hooked up a wired keyboard and mouse, and then plopped the laptop outside on the deck and closed the door with only the keyboard and mouse inside. There was a window which I could see the screen through and start the install.

Sure enough with the natural winter cooling the install completed and I was able to use the laptop for a few more years.
Even if Singapore is authoritarian and unfree, if they have high happiness scores, high life expectancies, high standards of living, maybe we have to accept you can have some good authoritarian places to live.
> Both commercial and non-commercial users can copy, modify, and redistribute modified and unmodified copies.

I don't follow. Both examples you provided explicitly forbid commercial redistribution:

The Prosperity Public License 3.0.0
license allows you to use *and share this software for noncommercial purposes for free* and to try this software for commercial purposes for thirty days
[no other distribution allowances are made in the rest of the license]

PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0
Your license to distribute covers distributing the software with changes and new works permitted by *Changes and New Works License*.
Changes and New Works License: The licensor grants you an additional copyright license to make changes and new works based on the software *for any permitted purpose*.
[Complete list of permitted purposes]
"Any noncommercial purpose" ; "Personal use ... without any anticipated commercial application"; "Noncommercial Organizations"

So both licenses disallow distribution if done for a commercial purpose. Do you mean to say that you can dual license, under such a non-commercial license and also under an open license, that allows commercial distribution? But then, how would you discourage commercial users from simply downloading and using the open source version? We're back to the service model of financing open source.
Startup. Our business model is a small subscription fee for extra features for PWA devs. This will likely evolve over time, but we will be careful not to become what dislike. Our goal is to help web devs grow their business and crack distribution on mobile.
At least the Tenderloin has a 24/7 block party! /s
Are you guys doing treks instead of sprints?
The Seven Types of Product Messaging to Fuel Your SaaS Growth
Remind me of this in 5 years :-P
Functional/OOP flamewar is starting...
Protectionism need not be binary. As one example, Chinese users of Google and many foreign companies websites hosted inside China experienced random slowdowns making them significantly less appealing to users. This is distinct from the blanket slowdown users experience when they access foreign websites from within China.
The prime numbers, for example.
In 2020, I was doing a lot of video encoding on my Surface Book in India in ambient temperatures in the range 25–35°C, and I found that lying its heat source down on a marble floor sped it up by 60% within a minute or so, the floor acting as a large heatsink.

(I also learned that the Surface Book has a dedicated “I have shut down because I overheated and must cool down before I will start up again” screen (an illustration of a thermometer), which I wouldn’t expect most computers to have, though I think I’ve only caused thermal shutdown one other time; during Hyderabad summer, recording in the late afternoon in an upper room, the ambient temperature got as high as 45°C, and there wasn’t enough thermal headroom for throttling to save it, so it needed extra makeshift external heatsinks. I quoted 25–35°C in the first paragraph because I was doing the actual editing overnight when it was somewhat cooler.)
The problem with her book is that it presents a fairly Eurocentric view of “God.” It also uses a historical/ anthropological approach, so there’s no claim of higher truth being made.
Thank you for the kind words, that means a lot to us! We're adding this feature, stay tuned.
The idea that people function as rational agents always acting to optimize their self interests is an idea that I think was developed by economists because it helped explain how markets work and made it possible to solve the price-setting problem mathematically using game theory. It has then spilt over into other fields of study such as sociology.

But why did humanity wait until the 1980s to understand that all humans always act in their self interest? Because it is simply not true. People don't constantly reassess whether such or such friendship is a net positive or a net negative. And people don't even have a grid to actually measure what "positive" mean in that context.

The issue is that you can always find a way to derive a selfless action into something self-beneficial. Warren Buffet asking for more taxes is acting in his self interest because it makes him look good and feel all warm inside?

So whatever example I give to answer your question, you'll always be able to find some form of transactional reason that explains why people do things.

If I tell you that some people willfully remain in abusive relationships, you're going to answer something like: it's because they find something in the relationship that is soothing some childhood trauma, and so their self-interest unconscious calculation is that it's better for them to stay in the abusive relationship than to leave.

But that's just taking the whole problem from the wrong end. That's stating that the model of self-interest is universal, and then shoe-horning every human behavior into that model, whether it makes sense or not. So sociologists ask themselves: "mmmmh what self-interest does a person have in going to a friend's funeral", "well surely there is some social benefit or emotional benefit from doing so". So basically, they attribute "unexplainable transactional calculations" to unmeasurable quantities like "social or emotional benefit".

It just doesn't help.
As a developer, I get it.

What I don't get is why as an owner/stakeholder/CTO/lead would pick the worse tool (in some context) just because everyone is using it. Well, I do get it... I just don't agree.

If you read between the lines here, everyone is just picking React because everyone else is picking React, that's the only reason apparently. It drives me mad, but honestly I do understand it.
There is no agreed upon definition of "strongly typed", so it depends on your interpretation of that term.

Ruby is not, however statically typed, nor does it have a type checker (well, there is sorbet and RBS) Those are fixed terms.
This is all about to change. A totally new way of using assets is coming with Propshaft which replaces Sprockets
Yes. In case it's not obvious from my previous comment, I own a playdate.
> Apps really need to stop processing exotic formats in unsafe languages. Every phone zero day I hear about is related to media processing.

Yeah, but JPEG-XL ... /s
I guess that releasing every year a new library version, without fixing the old bugs, also doesn't help.
If you speak Thai and do it via LINE messenger you get a much cheaper price though. Pricing seems to be inflated for foreigners.
What if you don’t tell it there’s a pun? Would it recognize it on its own?
For prototyping you don’t need a back end. You barely need one for production. Just some cloud functions and a cloud database. Firestore, gcf, or equivalent.
Cool! :)

Ah, I want smileys to convey friendliness not sarcasm or smugness. I just think text can be so "plain" heh, and I hope to make it more positive, or the interpretation anyway.

It's funny that smilies are often interpreted as smugness...heavy sigh
European data protection sais no.
sure, that's always true though
Al Lowe (the game's author) is still kickin'!
https://twitter.com/allowe/
https://allowe.com/
There are many alternative definitions of the rational numbers.

I am sure you can come up with one that includes infinity in their clauses. But there are other definitions where that is a logical conclusion instead.
And after the 1940s after defeating Fascism, America entered a cold war with the USSR/Communists. The capitalists prospered the rest of the century and the Communists after looking good in the immediate aftermath of WW2 had stunted growth before eventually collapsing in the 90s