skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can't justify to your family, kids and other "stakeholders" that you spent thousands of hours developing apps just for learning new subjects. In the least, you need some kind of successful activity to grow out of it.

Congratulations, you have explained why we have declining fertility rates. Maybe it is a good thing. Who knows. All I know is I can't afford to have children. Having children who want to go to college / medical school should be a cause for celebration, not a scary thought for parents for one. I will tell anyone and everyone who will listen, don't have kids. It is not worth it. There is no law that requires people to have children. Let the idiots who don't understand this do all the child bearing and child rearing. After all, they lash out at the simplest idea that it takes a village to raise a child.

> solving that last pixel that is not quite right.

The great thing about a personal project like this is you can spend as much or as little time as you want to. This is the ultimate agile team where you are wearing all hats -- a true cross functional team which I believe the word agile prescribes.

> Making apps is great, and it's a sign of maturity to have a concern for how well received it will be.

As someone who puts the "pro" in procastination, I know a sure sign of procastination when I see one. This is not a sign of maturity at all. This is just laziness.
Isn't that going to be a problem with no NVIDIA GPUs?
Because they are in an uncanny valley. They create images that are almost what you think you see but are warped in a way you do not expect. This has nothing to do with women and salad.
I’m a home owner and a landlord (we rent out Condo while we are living in Germany) and I despise all the hustle porn millionaires on social media flaunting their real-estate empires. Speculating and amassing homes to what? To become slumlords doing the absolute minimum only to raise rents to the maximum possible? There’s no evidence that these “investors” spur the creation of new homes if anything they speculate up the price of homes for would be buyers.

I also learned recently that the realtor lobby has fought hard to keep the mortgage interest tax deduction which helps home owning persons but hurts everyone else.

Why am I able to use my single rental as a tax shelter? Because of decades of tax lobbying that has made real estate a fantastic investment. But has it helped the average family looking to get a home? To stop being beholden to the whims of the rental market? Has it spurred on builders to build homes? Have these lobbies lobbied local governments against NIMBY policies? F no. By keeping supply high and benefiting from high interest rates they bank — myself included — on renters without the means to buy a home or come up with the down payment to stay renters for even longer.

And don’t get me started on the BS and corruption in the title industry. Why the f does it cost 1500 to 2000 to do a damn title search? And related to that why the f is the seller paying the buyer’s agent a commission? Wtf did the buyers agent do?

Abolish the mortgage interest tax deduction and scale back all the tax breaks that make real estate so speculation friendly. Get rid of 1031 exchanges. Disallow real estate trusts all these tax haven things must go.
What Is BFG?
Ask HN: When LLMs make stuff up, call it 'confabulating', not 'hallucinating'
In humans, a hallucination is formally defined as being a sensory experience without an external stimulus. LLMs have no sensors to experience the world with (other than their text input) and (probably) don’t even have a subjective experience in the same way humans do.

A more suitable term would be confabulation, which is what humans do when due to a memory error (eg. due to Korsakoff syndrome) we produce distorted memories of oneself. This may sometimes sound very believable to outsiders; the comparison with LLMs making stuff up is rather apt!

So please call it confabulating instead of hallucinating when LLMs make stuff up.
I think the problem is, for many people, the value of their land is kind of irrelevant. If you are using land by living on it, and want to live on it because it's near your friends, family, community, place of work etc, then the value of that land to someone else doesn't really matter. Maybe when you die and pass it to your kids, it would be great if it was valuable. But in the mean time (which for most people is many decades), an increase in value only really means an increase in monthly outgoings with no financial benefit to you.

Perhaps that's the point - in order for cities to stay dynamic and fair, we need to make everyone pay something close to market value for their land - even those who bought it a long time ago. But doing so is unlikely to make those people very happy.
Unaffiliated completely. Maybe it’s just different here, but I’ve got a lot to thank LinkedIn for.
Someone breaking into a Wordpress install due to a plugin's 0-day for example, and then being able to log into all the accounts managed by that WP's openID server.
That is certainly true, but it's not a full explanation.

I recently was at an information event from our local electricity provider about wind energy projects. And there are those people... There was a conversation going on like: "The people I talked to don't want these things." Event moderator: "What are the reasons?" Guy: "They simply don't want them."

And I am pretty sure that was no fossil fuel lobbyist. It was just a guy who is against things. And there are plenty of those.
> keychain managers

Proprietary keychain managers. I will not hand Google or Apple the keys for every account I have, or even just the metadata where I have accounts.

I'm well aware that they claim that they don't have access to that, but I do not trust them.
Only because our universe is currently expanding, if it wasn't or would stop in the future, given enough time you could eventually distribute the task over a large enough region to perform the computation and afterwards combine the results in one place. And one would probably have to throw in a couple of technical requirements, for example that the energy density does not decrease faster than the future light cone expands.
All London's crossings, which tourists are more likely to be familiar with, are Pelicans, although sometimes modified with countdown timers in busy areas.

London doesn't use Puffins by policy, I'm not sure exactly why - in very high density areas I can see that the Puffin features aren't helpful, but that doesn't explain a full policy.

[Differences: A Puffin's cross/ don't cross indication is local, your side of the road, next to the button and angled such that you're looking at oncoming nearside traffic as well as the indicator; whereas a Pelican has indication atop a post on the far side of the road. The timers work differently meaning Puffins can react faster if unused for a period and then called, initiating a walk cycle very quickly in this case if able; if you're road traffic the difference is that Pelicans use flashing amber and Puffins never do IIRC]
I doubt anyone is seriously suggesting there's any problem with calling Twitter Twitter. A company is not a person, and is not normally afforded the same courtesies around self-identification that a person is.
These fake problems were invented already and this article tries to debunk them. Nothing wrong with that, on the contrary I'd say, and pointing out there are other real problems doesn't really change that?
I maintain 3 servers. It's not worth automating the deployment.

I'll spend less time just setting them up by hand.

The company will survive a few hours of downtime.
I don't understand how people can say things like this where companies don't even make a profit like uber year after year yet no one wonders why they have the shop they do.
What happens if you use Windows, Mac, FreeBSD, Linux, Android (without Google account!) and iOS? Yes I use all of those daily.

All the implementations I've seen are walled gardens. We really need some self hosted option that is fully cross platform.

Besides the walled garden I definitely don't trust a big tech player with the keys to my entire online life. Besides tracking and telemetry concerns they can block me for any perceived "terms of service violation" usually without much recourse. Or even because I logged in from an unexpected location as recently happened to my Instagram.

Not so much a problem when I hardly have any data in Google. Huge problem when it's the key to everything else.
Given Edge, Brave, Opera, Silk, Arc, Vivaldi, etc[0], are all built on Chromium, are you sure?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Active
A lot of my friends and coworkers from Eastern Europe share my sentiments. Every job I’ve had was due to being recruited via LinkedIn without me lifting a finger, starting from 1k euros gross per month, up until 15x that.
I've direct experience on the power of handwriting to memorise concepts. When at the UNI, I was studying CS (while working part-time) less than 10 ya, and classes where full of laptops. I was take notes during lectures using only pen and paper and similarly I was taking my notes about the main concepts from the courses books. Then I was re-writing them again in a more summarised way, and then underline this notes and study all together. The power of handwriting is real and I'm still taking notes and keeping a journal nowadays.

It's sad that this incredible ability of our brain to learn concepts from the small movement of our hands, probably sculpted by our evolution, is going to get lost in future generations. This is because companies are making deals with schools to provide them software and devices. In a better world the school system would be one of the top 2 priority of every country, and receive adeguate public investments to don't have to adapt their education systems at companies product, to satisfy the greediness of entrepreneurs and investors.

Don't abandon pen and paper, don't regress human brain capacity.
Do you have any recommendations for getting over the friction of starting? Like, suggestions of what to write about if you're unsure what's worth putting to paper. I'm sure I'd have plenty to write once I got started, but an empty notebook is intimidating!
Of course all of this is a game.

I address this point of yours

> However, a sentence constructed using the same structure as yours highlights a problem.

> 'Me two dog bite yesterday'

> Did you bite two dogs or were you bitten by two dogs?

"Me two" could be ungrammatical in that language.

"Me VERB" is grammatical. Generalizing: "SUBJECT VERB" and for subject I'd go with "NOUN modifiers", so "dog two" and not "two dog".

So the sentence should be either "Me bite dog two yesterday" or "Me dog two bite yesterday" or "Dog two me bite yesterday" or "Dog two bite me yesterday" or even "yesterday" + any variation of the above.

Being a native Italian speaker I'm used to free order sentences. Given that language should be a mix of English and romance languages, some free ordering should be expected. Cases should stay away from any language aiming at simplicity. We simplified Latin a lot to get Italian (and French, Spanish, etc.) We also have way more speakers now.

What happens in the real world is that when adult speakers of different languages meet in a bare place and start communicating with too simple rules like "beer two me drink yesterday" (that would be a pidgin [1]) is that they eventually have children that learn the language and add grammatical layers to it. So you would end up with Yesterday two beers me drink" or whatever they feel sounding better or being more economical to speak and understand. Then they become adults and have their own children and the language stabilizes. That's a creole [2] and it can be as complicated as any of the languages it derives from. This answers your last question.

An alternative is developing an artificial language for maybe a restricted community, keep it simple by enforcing the grammar with an academia, and that will stay simple forever. I don't know if that's the case of Klingon or Vulcan (are they simple? do they have a governing body?) but it might be.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language
Maybe OT, but does anyone know if there is runtime analysis of JS and/or wasm?

Obfuscation is a serious threat to the open web, and things like fingerprinting can be incredibly invasive.

Web browsers typically only support static “prettifying” (ie auto indent). I’ve seen websites probe for chrome extensions, canvas and all kinds of APIs. Deobfuscators are often not enough to restore legibility. (I assume disassemblers are similar, but I’ve never tried.)

I would love to have a trace/intercept/breakpoints of any external APIs called in order to restore a sense of control over what code websites run. Ideally, integrated in the browser. With WASM gaining popularity, this will become (much) more important, imo.
iOS does that too though, you almost never have to use the top left arrow
I am a pedestrian. I am the one put in danger by reckless vehicle owners. No surprise that you "couldn't care less". Do you even realize that there is a demographic of people who don't own nor operate a car?
The answer will probably be "it depends". On smoothness, fountain pens have the edge in that mechanically, a fountain pen is just a very smooth ball of metal that's being constantly lubricated by a controlled leak of ink through capilary action. With some decent enginnering and manufacturing (caveat : both of these cost money), this will be hard to beat when it comes to pure friction.

When it comes to practicality... Let's say one does not buy a fountain pen to be practical ;-) These things are fairly maintenance heavy and prone to accidents. There's a reason they have been superseded by several other pen types these days.

Fountain pen is a tool from a different era. One that excels at putting ink on paper in a very comfortable / stylish / craftsman manner...
Brent?
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This is assuming that machine consciousness would have the same need for autonomy and freedom that human consciousness has. AI is created by design to respond in a way that humans would find to be enslavement. Does that mean it would be enslavement to treat it in this way?
The consciousness of dogs is different to that of humans. It's possible to abuse dogs and presumably enslave them. However, it's also possible to treat dogs well but treat them in a way which would be abusive for humans.
As the Dokku maintainer said in another comment it is possible to deploy directly from an image instead of from a repo.
For one of my project I build and store the image on GitHub and deploy it on Dokku.
https://archive.ph/IBAyC
Nobody said anything about not having governments. Rule of Law is required for societies to even exist.

Read some more on the robber baron era - you'll find out Standard Oil was already losing to competition before government action. For another great example how the free market broke a cartel, read up on how Dow Chemical fought the German bromine cartel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Henry_Dow#Breaking_a_m...

No government intervention necessary.
They tried that a while back; there was a brief period when you'd actually get auto-banned for mentioning the dread name "Mastodon" (and maybe also Bluesky?)
The comments say that

> Human move correctness

is Not Implemented. Which suggests that the script only makes correct moves. My example shows that's not true when there are no valid moves.
So you’re presenting your own opinion about how the amendment should be interpreted.

That’s fine, but it seems disingenuous to present that opinion as if it’s a factual statement about how the constitution was written or has been interpreted by courts.

I’m not aware of any case law that’s suggested the 1st amendment’s freedom of press implies anything about mills or molds, nor do you seem to have any rational for why “the press” should be literal but “speech” wouldn’t be, other than you think that’s how they should be interpreted.
Do they diff multiple independently requested copies to anonymize the source? I still see request information in the PDFs from sci-hub.
> if you're importing solar panels built with Chinese coal and deploy them in Europe / Northern US, you're not actually decarboning anything, and instead you're increasing the carbon footprint but move it abroad.

That is an urban legend and not supported by any evidence. Full solar lifecycle emissions are around an order of magnitude lower than fossil fuels.
> So I use bandcamp all the time, I have purchased tons of music on it, and the articles have not made any difference to me as a user at all. The only thing I care about is the band I'm purchasing from! I use bandcamp for three reasons: lossless audio, no DRM, fair payments to the band. None of those are at all relevant to their article efforts.

Just to add a conflicting opinion, I love the articles and often use them for music discovery and purchases. Of course, the primary function is to purchase music from known entities but the discovery part keeps me coming back. In terms of ROI, to me the articles seem like a pretty smart marketing move…without them I would not have discovered all kinds of artists and made numerous purchases.
I use Google News because it is, imo, the best news aggregator. If it suddenly started to cost me money, I would move to something else. Eventually I would move to OTA TV stations that pay via ad revenue. If OTA TV started charging for viewership instead of ads, I would just stop looking at news. I care, but not enough to spend money. Same with Reddit, tiktok, hn, basically everything besides video games, stack overflow (which is another statement because it might drop in quality so much if it went pay that it might not be useful anymore), and cell services+home internet.
I guess most people don't understand "chatgpt thinking" as actual, sentient thinking. It's just easier to call it this way.

Similarly, when a computer (a glorified abacus) is taking extra long when processing large amount of data, I'd say it's "thinking hard". When an iPhone (a glorified small computer) detects a WiFi signal, I'd say that it "sees WiFi".

Also note that we've been doing anthropomorphism ever since a crow dropped some cheese[1], and earlier than that too.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Crow_(Aesop)
if you're importing solar panels built with Chinese coal and deploy them in Europe / Northern US, you're not actually decarboning anything, and instead you're increasing the carbon footprint but move it abroad.

Is that true for the complete lifetime (which is what matters in the end) of, say, a PV installation in one's home? Or even for the complete PV industry?
Most people I watch on YouTube are either not sponsored or on Nebula, so I just watch there instead.
It's become a culture war issue. In the UK London introduced a so-called Ultra-Low Emissions Zone recently, and Wales has dropped 30 mph speed limits down to 20, which prompted the right-wing populist government to come out as being "on the side of drivers" and to call decarbonisation schemes "tyrannical". They've now gone full swivel-eyed loon and are rowing back many climate change commitments.

It seems to me that, in the UK at least, as the two main parties align more and more on economic and social issues that they are needing to find new wedge issues to differentiate themselves.

Not sure if this is also the case in countries with PR governments.
Agree. Also decarb/lifestyle shouldn’t be yes/no, maybe the target should be something like: lifestyle 70% ok and yo support that long term, decarb at scale X (which is not necessarily huge)
Remember Clubhouse? Dead thing, because they didn't open up fast enough (no Android). The momentum is there right now while Twitter is dying. If Bluesky doesn't get this straight within the next few months, I think it'll end up as "just another Mastodon instance" in the minds of people.
Thanks for telling me that computation requires physical matter. That sure will help getting to the bottom of this.
Now could you answer the question? What is it about the Bitcoin blockchain that requires EVER INCREASING compute.
> who then manipulates pricing to prevent competition

How exactly? Reducing profits defeats the purpose of becoming a monopoly, while any sliver of profit is the startup's opportunity.

To create a monopoly you need to restrict competition some other way, like through governmental regulation.
We simplify the world using metaphor. It is how we think.
Then see Aaron Hsu's fountain pen reviews:

https://www.sacrideo.us/a-quick-review-of-the-diplomat-nexus...

The way this reads is pretty hysterical. I believe he's on here as user "arcfide".
Yeah but that instantly raises the scope of any potential troll. It's a difference if something can only be seen by other Bluesky users or if it can be shown around everywhere.
I might do that if I am writing a quick-and-dirty program that works with times in multiple time zones and I can’t be bothered to find a library with a better API.
Do you use or have you considered using potential energy as energy storage? That is, using the solar power in daytime to climb higher and glide lower during night time?
>Well, for one, C's semantics aren't that serial, there is a large degree of freedom for compilers and CPUs how to schedule the execution of C expressions and statements.

I thought about the implications of a "parallel" statement, where everything is assumed to execute in parallel and oh boy are the implications big. C's semantics are serial but they contain implicit parallelism. The equivalent is that the parallel statement contains implicit sequentialism that the compiler can exploit to reduce the amount of book keeping needed by the CPU to schedule thousands of instructions at the same time. E.g. instead of having an explicit ready signal and blocking on it, the compiler can simply decide to split the parallel statement into two parallel statements, one executed after the other. Implicit sequentialism! A parallel statement implies that no aliasing writes are allowed to be performed. I don't know what the analysis for that would look like, but in many common cases I would expect the parallel statement to be autovectorized quite reliably.

>Even though that stuff happens in parallel, any instruction encoding is by necessity serial. Or is anyone proposing we should switch to higher-dimensional code (and address spaces)?

Uh, you know we can just encode the program as a graph? Graph reduction machines are a thing, you know.
Mining is actually one of those other renewable "problems" that is, well, somewhat real, but way overblown in many discussions.

I mean, yes, we will need some new mines. We'll have to mine different things. But overall, renewables will reduce mining. A lot. Why? Most mining today is fossil fuel mining.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Because your friend may be too close to your problems to be of help, may not speak with candor to avoid harming you/your relationship, may be an active participant in your problem, may have no experience talking/thinking about your problem limiting their ability to offer useful feedback…

Without even broaching the diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions, there are any number of reasons why paying a neutral third party to discuss your problems could be preferable than talking to a friend at a bar. Nor are they mutually exclusive.
> I doubt if everyone liquidated their positions today it'd amount to a figure remotely close to that.

The same goes for any stock in the S&P 500. Market Cap is just a number.