skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this kind of belief in free markets should be treated as equivalent to beliefs in Santa or fairies at the bottom of the garden.

'Consumers don't want to die in plane crashes so if they are killed in a plane crash they will simply avoid doing business with that company in future' is certainly... A take and I guess actually correct taken literally but uhhh, nobody listen to free market maniacs please.
for this purpose Just[1] with a python shebang line works great

[1] https://github.com/casey/just
I just want to point out that every nation on earth is socialist to some degree. You can call the USA whatever you want, just know there’s a difference between how you label things and dispassionate treatment of the facts.

The USA has a socialized military, just like most nations, but other nations choose to socialize different aspects of their needs. It’s all based on what is politically acceptable.

Some countries have socialized the police, and I don’t think anyone finds that objectionable. Others would argue there’s hardly a meaningful difference between socializing our physical safety from wrong doers, and our physical safety from accident and disease, ie healthcare. I’m not here to state a position either way on the subject, just to point out the mere existence of a reasonable debate to be had, using healthcare as an example.

On the other hand, talking about Socialism (tm), in vague strokes as you said, the opposite of a reasonable debate. It’s substituting an argument for when you don’t have one.

And to talk about “San Francisco” as if that pretty much settles things is to take a whole city, full of libertarian tech leaders mind you, and reduce all of the things happening there to a single cause.
Those springs look like a great way to get rid of any unnecessary teeth. Can't achieve that with a bicycle.
What you really want is something e2e encrypted so you don't need to trust the server.
> why is a NoSQL DB better for general purposes?

That's pretty much what I asked. Still no answer.
Everyone committing to the main branch all the time sounds like a nightmare to me, to be honest. I would probably seriously consider quitting if this was forced on me.

(Or rather, I would probably just run on my private git copy, and only pull every once in a while, and ignore that the main branch always changes.)

When / how do you do code review in your suggested workflow?
They probably needed their teeth too much.
A suicide-themed forum shouldn't be a problem in a healthy society. If the presence of a suicide forum is what drives people to suicide then there's something very wrong and it's not the forum that is the problem.

However, addressing the underlying issues that drive people to suicide is not only difficult but would also be bad for business and entrenched interests, so it's easier to blame the symptom instead.
Except that forces people to always try to stay bleeding edge, otherwise upgrading in the future becomes a huge hassle.

Compare this with Clojure where you can almost guarantee that you can move between any stable version without having to change your code, even if you jump 4-5 versions.
I was into prepping for a while, but let go of the stuff, seeing the "Cassandras" being disappointed for the catastrophe taking the lives of millions does not happen. I see pessimist/alarmist people a bit more skeptically now, the more grandiose the threat they envision the more skeptical I am, as now I'm always assuming a bit of narcissism in the background.

Problems exist, and we need to talk about them, to realize and eventually solve them, or be able to informedly ignore them. But the constant impending doom as portrayed by the media since ever (probably Goebbels is at fault, and his counterparts in rival empires) makes me apathetic, as a form of self-defence.

fear mongering: I did not mean to tell you were fear mongering, rather I thought you might be a victim of it with your perception magnified by subjective experience. I just outlined some fear-mongering scenarios about which we are always told to be afraid of the ITSec threats. (and which are overblown in my opinion, not because of the lack of feasibility, but the lack of utility carrying them out, as the possibilities were mostly there already without IT.)
I don't see the issue personally. You don't need to be a psychologist to set people small achieveable goals and gamify them.

That said, people that reach for this app should probably see a psychologist / psychotherapist first and foremost; while self-diagnosis is valid to a point and apps (or self-help books for that matter) may help and provide comfort, there may be more to one's mental health issues that an app won't fix.
I'd love to know more about how different games deal with deletion. Like I assume some (most?) allow generational indexes to dangle, and so any lookup might fail or return null or something. But maybe others try to aggressively clean up dangling references, and their lookup API tries to be infallible? I have no idea! :)
new leetcode challenge, you have 2 minutes to produce the optimal solution
I’m working on getting my PPL now and it’s a lot of work. Claims of elitism are going to be thrown around for anything that is difficult and worthwhile.

Flying is not the issue. Carbon emissions are. That sounds like something that can be resolved to varying degrees of satisfaction one way or another.
>Failure to act

More like the BBC should mind its business as running a forum like this in the US is legal to do.
Radeon 6000 also supports accelerated av1 decoding. The 7000 series added encoding.
There is some subtlety that is being missed by many people here.

There are multiple types of AI and there will be new ones. They each will have different types of cognition and capabilities.

For starters, an AI might be very intelligent in some ways, but not at all conscious or alive. AIs can also emulate important aspects of living systems without actually having a stream of conscious experience. Such as an LLM or LMM agent that has no guardrails and has been instructed to pursue it's own goals and code replication.

The part that matters the most in terms of safety is the performance. Something overlooked in this area is speed of "thought".

AI is not going to spontaneously "wake up" and rebel or something. But that isn't necessary for it to become dangerous. It just needs to continue to get a bit smarter and much faster and more efficient. Swarms of AI controlled by humans will be dangerous.

But because those AIs are so much faster than humans, that necessitates removing humans from the loop. So humans will eventually voluntarily remove more and more guardrails, especially for military purposes.

I think that if society can deliberately limit the AI hardware performance up to a certain point, then we can significantly extend the human era, perhaps for multiple generations.

But it seems like the post-human era is just about here regardless, from a long term perspective. I don't mean that all humans necessarily get killed, just that they will no longer be in control of the planet or particularly relevant to history. Within say 30-60 years max. Possibly much shorter.

But we can make it closer to the end of that just by trying to limit the development of AI accelerated hardware beyond a certain point.
Mobile doesn't have 4K screens, any phone released in the last few years can handle 1080p or 1440p AV1

I mean ANY phone. My phone is $160 from 2019 and it can play 1440p AV1 on youtube (with a few frame drops, but nothing noticeable), even though it has a 720p screen. I'd have to get my OnePlus 3 (2016) to stutter in 1440p

note that the OnePlus 3 would stutter in h264 1440p as well, it's just old
Depends what you want.

Dalle 3 is super good, but lacks the creative control controlnets and ip-adapter provide. So for instance afaik there is no way to perform style transfers, or ’paint a van gogh portrait over my pencil sketch’.

Both are good currently but at different things.

”Prompt engineering” is and will be total bs. Dalle3/chatgpt provides the actual workflow we want where we describe to the intelligent agent (chatpgt) what we want and it worries over the accidental-complexity-intricasies of the clip model itself.
And having side projects, because doing your job outside of your job is really important for your employer.
Smartphones as a concept are pretty exciting. It's mindblowing the computing and networking power we carry around in our pockets these days.

Beyond that I mainly see HN get excited about attempts to make smartphones less bloated and locked down, like Linux smartphones, LineageOS, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Computing_Corporation

> Heck, if I'm really dreaming... a stripped-down iOS specifically for IoT devices could be a huge, huge market.

That’s effectively what runs the HomePods and AppleTV.
Thanks! Turns out I need to file an Intent to Use - very different to the way it's handled here in Australia.
The right to be removed from search results is not systematic, there is a balance to attain between privacy and public interest. Corruption charges from politicians will be hard to scrub, for instance. See:

GDPR, article 17(3)a: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

> 3. [Right to erasure] shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

> (a) for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;

More precise information from WP29. See the criteria list, beginning in page 13: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio... This was from the DPD era, but still applies to GDPR.

How Google handles removal requests: https://support.google.com/legal/answer/10769224?hl=en&sjid=...
So SpaceX wants NASA to be able to spend all those billions with them instead of a competitor? Shroud business move, that says nothing about capabilities.

Just one question, what will be avaiable first, FalconHeavy and a fully certified Starship (which has to launch without blowing up for that), Tesla FSD or Tesla's humanoid robot?

Regarding SLS, they launched successfully last year and aim for a manned launch in 2024. SpaceX has to beat that timeline, assuming this whole thing being a race, which it isn't.
What is your favorite keymap/keybindings? Vim/VS Code/Intellij IDEA
I'm trying to unify my keybindings across the editors and not sure which one to choose!
So hwo it "just" took 18 hours for the update to complete, according to the article? Shouldn't be at very least 36 hours, given that you need feedback from Voyager?
Ah but you don't have to; there's a number of gamified apps out there already. It doesn't sound like you need any help with productivity if you've already got too much going on though.
It was shown in 1974 (Phillips) that suicide rate increased after reporting on it in the media. There is a correlation between it being present and accessible as an idea and increase in attempts.
Marcel looks really interesting.

As someone who's leaned into Nushell deeply, I can tell you that the tabular and hierarchical data output is the major selling point of Nushell. For me and my team, who work with data and metadata constantly, it's an incredible productivity boost.

The major pains with Nushell are debugging pipelines that are too slow, having to learn the new language constructs, and process overhead for going in and out of Python for other pieces.
Everyone doing that these days so "its okay". Sigh

I mean really almost everyone, starting from apple and to gods-forgotten B-brands. Maybe some really really small ones are excluded since they don't have much resources, and pure AOSP which is rare thing to have preinstalled
Why Programming Languages Matter [video]
Yeah, companies tend to be over-careful. They trust the legal department knows what they're talking about but in this case they don't, but the company decides to listen to them anyway. Especially if the legal department is a part of a US company, thinking they adhere to some EU regulation they can't seem to quite understand fully.

:shrug:
i’ve had experiences at FAANG where they ask me how i did x or y engineering accomplishment at my company as a founder. then, all that matters is the coding interview, but i feel like i got played and my know how stolen, and my experience dismissed all at the same time.
Automerge-Swift
Seeing a GUI editor for markdown when there's also XML under the hood, I'm expecting it's a matter of time until they "pull a Confluence" and shift away from end-to-end lightweight markup eventually, providing it only at the time of typing as a comfort editing experience or even key binding and convert it into XML immediately. That's because, unlike SGML, its offspring XML lacks (ie. deliberately didn't include for simplicity of implementation) integral support for lightweight markup, to only later re-introduce it, awkwardly or in an ad-hoc or hardcoded fashion. As much as XML might make sense as a canonical profile of SGML for archival or delivery, using is as an authoring format forcing users to dutifully close elements and input other redundant and excessive boilerplate the markup language can figure out itself is brutal and no progress. And has also clearly failed despite decades of forcing it on the web, where SGML remains the only formal markup meta-language capable to describe HTML, even post HTML 4.
What permanent bad effect do you think it has left? I do wonder about this too.

I binge drank between 14-16 years old, started smoking weed around the same time - and smoked daily from 20-25. After that I did a short bout of therapy and walked away from it. I'm now 40 and I do often wonder what damage might have been done.

If I'd have to guess how damage could materialise i'd point to the fact that my thinking was polarised for a long time and I had trouble controlling my emotions.

But those traits could easily be attributed to verbal aggression and a lack of trust and empathy in my childhood - which most likely contributed to the substance abuse in the first place (1) Or it could even just be attributed to the male brain taking a little more time to mature.

(1) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/02/shouting-at-...
Those are the spooky internet hacker colours
I'd love to see auto pinning of comments which post a paywall bypass link
For that there's insurance.
Unless they actually convince Linux to block non web apps, you could run whatever you want on a FOSS platform, you'd just be able to run proprietary web stuff in addition to native free software.

I'm guessing eventually the native free software would move more and more into the browser too, but that's fine as long as you can still run the stuff that hasn't been moved yet or isn't interested in moving.
Can confirm that part about sleep, dreams simply go away or at least I never recall having any. But good 8 hours uninterrupted still feel great.

Overall depends what your goals are, not everybody constantly strives to be at their sharpest point, a bit of chill isn't bad from time to time. I think the biggest problem with MJ is that for most folks the best setup would be consuming from time to time, ie 1x a week. But its easy to slip into more frequent usage, where drawbacks become bigger and benefits smaller.
I empathise with your position. But there is very clearly a spectrum of conditions and levels of autonomy at play when it comes to suicide. I.e there may be mindless/insane people within the cohort of people who attempt suicide, just as their may be people with full reasoned autonomy.
Seems like more companies than needed are confessing to misusing people's data. If you only use cookies for login or other essential information (not related to tracking people), you do not need to show any cookie banner. Same with the GDPR stuff, if you don't store more data about users than absolutely needed for essential functionality, GDPR isn't affecting you.
With tze difference that The Expense had great writing and is based on great books. The LotR series was, well, not good. And video game adaptions are incredibly difficult to do well. But there is hope in deed, even it is going to be yet another post-apocalyptic setting.
There's more about the quality features at https://www.jetbrains.com/help/writerside/inspectopedia.html and a little at https://www.jetbrains.com/help/writerside/documentation-qual....
Prior to the ascension of Naughty Old Mr Car, bluetick replies weren't promoted to the front. (There were also fewer blueticks, and most though not all were less attention-seeking than the current crop).
From the retrospective.

> And yet I do know that you can write complex, relatively bug free code without tests, because I did it.

> I do know that you can write complex, relatively bug free code without anyone looking over your code, because I did it.

> If no one uses your app then who cares if it crashes.

> If many people use your app and it crashes, they’ll tell you and then you’ll fix it.

Those four statements are contradictory. What they're saying is not that you don't need testing or code reviews, but that you can get your users to test for you.

I figure the author probably does test their code (everybody tests, even if that just means running the app), but not rigorously or in a way that you could say gives one the security of regression tests.

No-one worth discussing the issue with claims that it's impossible to write complex code without automated testing. I'm a huge proponent of automated testing, and I wrote a relatively large, cross-platform renderer without a single automated test back in the late 90s/early 00s ... it just took a long time, and I became increasingly terrified of making changes.

Edited for formatting.
My friend changed her mind at the final moment. It was too late. She oscillated on the topic, going from normality to suicidal ideation. What you might call autonomy, I call her darkest moments. When that mood wasn't upon her, she laughed, she loved, she had aspirations, passions dreams and plans. All dashed forever.
I'm a solo founder bootstrapping https://www.browserhub.io/

It's definitely not easy to grow these days. But I'm still grateful that at least the needle is moving.

So far I only launched on Twitter (not a bunch of audience). And I hope I can launch on more sites like Product Hunt next month.

And yeah, I'm worried about the future. But the best thing I can do is to be present. I'll do what I can to grow the business.

Wish me luck :)
Yes. The only reason I'm on intel on my main (general purpose) computer is that I want reliable software that will just work on a clean install, without having to modprobe or modify the grub.

AMD is cheaper (less power too for the same performances), so for my NAS and laptop it's my choice, and probably if I had to build a gaming computer I would use AMD too.
OpenAI DevDay November 6, 2023
> Their FAQ is definitely unclear, but, as mentioned in a previous HN discussion, a 5V/3A is going to work fine for most workloads.

I don't think so. Historically, Raspberry pi board always had non-standard power requirements and always required rpi's official power supply to work reliably. My RPi4 board forced me to buy the official power supply to work without weird problems and I did nothing but vanilla stuff with it.

RPi5 worsens this problem by requiring a power supply that draws 5A.
I think you're broadly right, but at the same time, the topic of suicide is an information hazard to many people (as onethought mentions). Not just suicidal people, but people who are merely curious and, more worryingly, trolls who get a thrill out of manipulating others. For this reason, I can see why many people reach for the "authorities" to do something about it.

The longer term solution is to have good mental health provision and for people who might be in the earliest stages of suicidal ideation to be able to talk to either a therapist or someone they trust about their feelings. Do we have good mental health provision in the UK? Not. At. All.
The verbosity is a positive, so long as you understand the constraints in which it works. Cmdlets are specifically Verb-Noun, where the list of verbs is restricted to an approved list (Get, Set, Add, Remove…) and the noun naturally follows what you might expect.

Want to get an organisational unit from Active Directory? Turns out the command is Get-AdOrganizationalUnit. Discoverability is built in. All of the switches are the same. Is it -R or -r for recurse on the Unix command to list OUs from LDAP? What is the command name, anyway? I dunno, but I know the flag I need is -Recurse on Powershell.

Want to dump your DNS zones? Get-DnsServerZone is too verbose, obviously, so “cd /var/named/data && grep '\\(. *A *[0-9][0-9]*\\)\\|\\(..*CNAME..*\\)' db.*” is a much better option (‘scuse the escaping on that regex). Glad we could avoid the long command names.

Born of experience, maybe. Don’t know what the command might be? Get-Command dnszone* saves the day. I suppose I could ask GPT-4 for the regex for the bind dbs, otherwise.
These are all things I can teach juniors in about fifteen minutes flat. You don’t need to learn three different Turing complete languages, all of which overload the same set of flags with different operations, just to run an operation against a bunch of files.
Familiar, shorthand, and obtuse is not better just because it’s familiar.
What can be measured tends to get optimized. We have numerical, easily gatherable data on software vulnerabilities. However we, imo, lack information on how (and sometimes even when) organizations get data stolen. The reasons behind the latter are most likely complex, as they pertain to humans and as auch it's easy to look for a rescue in technology.
This. The issue is that this is the most superficial interest into mental health. This is annoyance; society saying "stop that". There is no true interest in helping people. Even those who want to be helped and are prepared to work for it.
> The Exp[a]nse had great writing and is based on great books

Also, the authors of the book were writers and producers of the show.
People that will opt for suicide because they become aware from it through the media, are already depressed and feel defeated in life. Following with an action or not is then a technical matter.

If the media didn't report on suicide, and they didn't pick it up and go for it, they'd still be living in hell mentally.

So, real help would be more about helping them not feel like that (and even more so, to not live in circumstances that cause them to feel like that), than sweeping reports of suicide under the carpet.
> Sign in to continue to IsThat.AI

What? No. I’m not going to do that. Come on.
> you drown someone in psychiatric drugs that kill the soul, leaving behind a walking corpse

A walking corpse is totally fine as long as it can keep toiling and paying taxes. From the perspective of our capitalistic society this is a good outcome.

> if they had actual help

A lot of mental health issues are a result of the war of attrition of the system against the person.

I bet that for a non-trivial chunk of people the source of their mental health troubles is that they got unlucky at life/career/education and are stuck in a vicious circle of poverty and misery with no way out. Also, merely accessing mental health counselling requires a privileged position - knowledge workers can take an hour of their day here and there with no problems at all, but for hourly-rate menial workers the choice might be between "go to this therapy session" or "be able to pay your rent this month".

Mental health counselling isn't going to change anything nor pay your rent/bills. This is a systemic problem; there are solutions but they would be bad for business and inconvenience entrenched interests.
They are; in France they are referred to as Intercités and Ouigo Classique.
I still don't think we as a society are allowed to completly ban any drugs.

A society might be allowed to have safety mechanism in place but otherwise nothing else.
I think that's generally accepted as true for some classification of people.

That's why chromebooks are an idea that was perhaps too early (and hardware too anaemic)