skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The data Discogs has – just like Bandcamp and just like what has been lost at MySpace – is irreplaceable and ever growing. So to have years of culture on Twitter – everything from the continued existence of legacy accounts to the basic usefulness of news organizations being verified – been ravaged by Elon Musk’s vanity. The internet is forever, until it’s ripped away by people who don’t add value to it.

I am not actually sure I agree with the author's premise at all. Nothing digital is forever, if anything, the opposite is true. The internet is completely ephemeral. And it's only through the persistence, hard work, and money of dedicated people that anything is preserved.

Secondly, hoarding lots of data on the internet != a community. Maybe it's the activity that a community could build itself around, or maybe it's the public space that they use. But the reason places like Geocities or MySpace collapsed is because they held feverishly onto all of the data but none of the community.

And maybe it's worth it to hold onto stuff that's been abandoned (even if it's borderline hoarding), but I would argue that it is entirely irrelevant to what went wrong with the Bandcamp situation.
It's likely that not all dinosaurs were chicken level intelligence and were quite a bit smarter, why couldn't they have become (or been) as intelligent as modern corvids?
how about 80 Trillion? i thought the era of cheap money is done
That's nothing.

It's estimated that US healthcare per-capita spending is 20% more than countries who use a single-payer program (that's nearly every other developed country in the world).
I see others have drawn parallels to games like Deus Ex, and that one in particular is great at creating the illusion of a Nakatomi Space, but in truth the developers intended all its pathways to be traversed.

I believe to find a true Nakatomi Space in gaming we must look to the world of speedrunning. This is where players move through the game’s spaces in ways almost certainly not intended by the architects - including exploiting every possible trick to accomplish impossible moves. A gamer wishing to emulate John McClane wouldn’t demolish a wall using the rocket launcher that the level designer put in a crate: they would exploit a clipping bug to glitch right through it.

I highly recommend the “Quake Speedruns Explained” channel on YouTube.
> That is not really a conspiracy in the classic sense of something crazy.

"Something crazy" is not the classic sense of a conspiracy. That's the modern corrupt meaning.
What problems do sellers have starting their own online stores?
I get shopify, Amazon etc have a way for you to get started but actually getting customers I believe is the biggest challenge of sellers on all these platforms and their high fees too.

So for small niche sellers getting discovered is a problem. Etsy seems to solve that problem some what way but I don’t think it really does fully.
The purpose of aggregation is quite simple -- it has to show which area has which amount of some objects/properties. And it must be mathematically consistent.

If a cell is said to be a sum of 7 underlying cells, then their sum of objects must equal to this cell's sum of objects, which is not the case in H3.

You can just hope that the diff of these values is within acceptable limits, and that company management never tries to drill down into your data, and does not put all the blame for some incorrectness on you.

So, even though H3 cells kinda add-up, they actually don't, and you have to either just plainly hope, or take care of data, as I decided to do.

You'd never had this dilemma, nor need to cure the data, with a rectangular grid in either UTM projection, or Google pseudo-Mecrator, both of which preserve horizontal/vertical aspects and are perfect for such aggregative cell grids.
Show HN: YiVal, Auto-Tuning Assistant for GenAI Applications
Hello Hacker News,

I am building YiVal to try to solve

- Creating and optimizing a high-quality prompt, which depends on the specific model being used
- The intricacies of tuning parameters like selecting models or tuning chunk size of RAG to achieve best performance
- The competing priorities of quality, latency, and cost

with a more data centric and evaluation focus approach rather than a guess game.
i mean that's what class warfare is right? owners exploit workers, workers fight back. profit comes from the extra value workers generate but are not paid for.
Swytch DIY e-bike conversion kits: A long-term review
for future generations who stumble upon this, the NYT link (which actually has the correct title) is getting quite a bit of action: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37955468
When I saw a photo on Twitter of that plane that had just landed in the Hudson, posted by somebody who had evacuated the plane, I knew something dramatically new had arrived. I later saw that I could search news events and see opinions and perspectives that I'd never heard of in my life. Everybody was in the same room, we could tap into the zeitgeist.

Eventually it just caused my blood pressure to rise and I eventually decided to step away. But for a few years, there was something very interesting going on.
law enforcement companies

These don't exist in Europe for as far as I know, and should not exist anywhere else either. As soon as basic functions like this are outsourced, the state loses its monopoly on violence and a large part of its legitimacy.
You're right, the real problem with predicting trajectories through those "keyholes" [1] isn't solving the dynamics equations: our numerical integrators are more than good enough. The problem is we can't measure the initial states with enough precision.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_keyhole
> if the executives at a company do commit crimes that lead to the failure of the company, I think they should be on the hook for that

Yes, e.g. Theranos.

But the majority of failed businesses fail for reasons that have nothing to do with crime.
microsoft bing offers chat that can read images and use your PDF files. As far as free offerings go, MS is better
They are, but only slightly. If you asked me a year ago if I thought any of this would be possible next year I would've laughed like Gol D. Roger.
Apple seems to think otherwise.
No, health insurance could be like almost any other insurance: bought by the individual, not by his employer or the state.
I don't want to consciously remember to switch though. I want to naturally use both in my normal workflow, and see if I feel any difference.

(Also, because TST is familiar to me from years of usage, I'd probably end up never switching to Sidebery.)
I loved Twitter. More than once I've read tweets thinking "this will be on mainstream media in a few days". It felt like the pulse of the world. For any event, I would check Twitter before any news site.

I also had something similar to a community on there for years.

There's no doubt that Twitter used to be the main platform for promotion of solopreneurs and technical content creators.

For me it's almost all gone.
Twitter was already awful long before Musk bought it.
Photopea and Vectorpea live in the intersection between Photoshop/Illustrator and apps like Canva, which, let’s just accept it, is the vast majority of users out there.

Pull back for a moment and consider where this is going. If we’re talking three-legged stools, good raster and vector editors held up by the browser means they’ve got a seat at the table. Adobe is literally spending billions trying to achieve the same thing.

This stuff should be baked into the browser at this point, but we’ll eventually get there. With decent raster and vector tools you can build diagrams, whiteboards, pagination, presentation, animation, app mock-ups, even throwaway social media banners—-and it’s all scriptable and multi-player when it’s in a browser. And it’s easier to tack on “AI” when your workflow (another example) is in a browser to begin with.
It won't look like the world is flashing, because eInk just doesn't work that way anymore. Any modern eInk display can go many page turns without a full-screen refresh. IIRC Kobos, Nooks, and Kindles come preconfigured to only refresh on chapter breaks.
The design system is really well documented: https://designsystem.digital.gov/
An Analysis of Signal's PQXDH
Is this a real article or is this something "leaked" to create a competitive investment round?

Media savvy, folks
Most refrigerators also do not have AM radios either, and they often do cause a lot of hell for AM. Same goes for pretty much all other appliances. When they're running I have a much harder time operating my amateur radio gear, even doing a lot of things to help mitigate it.

Most things in my house mess with a lot of radio stuff. 70cm is practically useless to listen to inside my house from all the interference that gets picked up. I find it strange how fixated you are about it specifically affecting AM radio.
As I said, fake news. That photo isn't what you think.
Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings tipoff Amazon and Microsoft
I would agree wrt Copilot. GPT4 through the Chat app is a different story, I find it incredibly useful for branching in to new skills or rubber-ducking complex problems.
Mastodon is hard to use. Just compare it to Threads, it’s not subjective that way. I think that’s the whole answer.
The A16Z bit cracked me up. Especially because it probably does function as a valid signal, at this point.
It hasn’t even been 1 year since mainstream awareness of AI started. Saying interest has already peaked seems premature especially when revenue is ramping so quickly.
The arguments against removing timezones apply to adding timezones - it just depends on what you're used to or which type of conversion you find easier. The arguments in this oft-circulated article really fall flat.
You should never invest in your employer anyway, at least not if you can't hedge.
Obviously I reject the framing. I have never felt exploited by my employers, nor do I feel entitled to a share of the profits beyond what I negotiated when I took the job.
Casablanca, 1942. (Had expected it to be a Yes, Minister quote)
> Some techno-optimists thought that TV, personal computers, the internet and other technologies would bring some bright enlightened future

They were right, on a case by case basis. It meant a brighter, more enlightened future for me personally.

I was born in nowhere Appalachia with access to nothing. A third tier failed retail store was exciting to have access to; a McDonalds was exciting to have access to. The Web appeared like god damn magic cast down from the heavens circa 1994-1995. I had almost zero interest in computers growing up in the 1980s and early 1990s. I immediately understood what could be done with the Internet: I didn't need to ask permission, I could just immediately start creating anything I was capable of building on this new canvas; no licensing, no heavy government restrictions, no enormous bureaucratic walls to climb over: dial up and go. Go learn, go create, go chat with people from Australia or France, go meet thousands of people on WebChatBroadCasting or IRC, go become part of the Doom & Quake mod scene and learn how to program/script/design levels/whatever.

I think only highly privileged people would fail to grasp how extraordinary it was, they already had access to really nice things.
Internet Archive is great, but to be clear: it's a museum of dead cultures for historical examination and appreciation. That's a valuable service, but it's not at all the same thing as supporting a living community. By its nature, the Internet Archive can never do that.
I think I increased the value of Google's ad network. By opting out of viewing advertisements I would never click for products I would never buy, I increased the average CTR and conversion rate of Google ads. But it's a bit more nuanced than that, because it means less money goes to Google (advertisers who would normally show me an ad do not pay for my impressions), but it also means that those advertisers have more efficient campaigns (reduced noise from my impressions that cost money but won't convert into clicks or sales). That's why I'm convinced that when Google forces ads into the eyeballs of someone who wants to block them (like me), it only benefits Google, not its advertisers. In fact it will mostly hurt the advertisers. Sure, possibly it could appear to superficially benefit the advertisers by driving down the average cost per impression, but any benefit from that would be proportionally offset by the reduced conversion rate of impressions from ad-resistant eyeballs.

As to your question about living in an idealistic world devoid of advertisements... it's an important question, and I believe everyone has a different answer to it that reflects fundamentally different world views. Some prefer the comfort of being followers. Some want to lead. Some want to take risks and explore. Different people have different tolerances for the unknowns they're exposed to. Personally I don't mind being exposed to unknowns and new opportunities, but I want to have as much control over their distribution as I possibly can. Your analogies to jobs and friends are apt enough, but they fall apart as soon as you add a human element. In particular, my friends and my employers are people whom I trust. That's why I'm open to hearing opportunities from them. Whereas Google is possibly the entity that I trust least in the world.

It's worth noting that if YouTube were operated by a more relatable startup, or if it were decentralized with funds propagating directly to creators, then I would be far more sympathetic to its business model. But as it stands, the centralization of Google as an arbiter of payments to my preferred creators is a textbook example of a monopolistic middleman that's captured a market without adding any value beyond basic and commoditized utility. I would also note that I sometimes donate to Twitch streamers, and I subscribe to a few Patreons of YouTubers. My issue is not with them. It's with Google.

Oh, and one more thing... I'm not actually costing Google any money. Their costs are derived mostly from storage. And I'm not uploading any video to YouTube (though I've considered uploading an hour of white noise for every minute of advertisement they force on me). The only costs Google can attribute to me are bandwidth costs, which are almost always effectively free, because they're delivering bits to me over peered connections and sometimes even their own fiber.
It's what a lot of web3 believers are trying to build, but it's very hard to both profit and give up control, resulting in a lot of people pretending to do web3 but really it's just web2 with some web3 window-dressing. But, people will keep trying, and maybe they will get it right one day. The dollars right now aren't flowing into web3 though so it may be a while.
I agree regarding training: Police officers are expected to deal with all members of the public, some of whom have disabilities or other challenges which should be accommodated accordingly. Having enough police who are sufficiently trained would seem essential.
Probably Kraken if I had to guess.

They're trying to be as by the book as possible, even though the SEC and other entities aren't making it easy.
In the US, the belief is that some are deserving of healthcare while others are not, and there is an elaborate system to differentiate between them. It's rather a scary system to live under, and it feels like that may be the point.
I can definitely see a use case. Reading while lying down, in the bath (okay, that's lying down again), on an airplane, when it's so cold out your hands freeze, etc.

I don't think it's a product for me, but I think there's at least a small market for it.
seems it will hinge on a claim about the temperature of a plasma sputtering process?

afaik speaking of "the temperature of a plasma" is much like asking "how stiff is air". Not utterly meaningless, but complicated beyond the ability of a simple answer to explain.

Technically I'd say the highest temperature of either the pan or the emitter, or any other solid object in the system, would be the maximum one could actually quote and say "we're dealing with stuff this hot" to brag on.

Rationally; I think a judge should have the power to get these people in court and spank them for being silly buggers with nothing better to do.
Iranian Hackers Lurked for 8 Months in Government Network
> Sometimes the stars align and the federal government builds a system that is actually nice to use.

> But sometimes the system is a steaming pile of shit.

I'm pretty sure I've seen the same outcomes in private business too. Just look at the history of Windows, as one of very many examples.
nice, but i had a separate idea.

what if u build a wasm runtime that can save and restore memory with and execution states, sounds much more full proof.
or i might have misunderstood this idea :D.
This isn't a recent thing, people have been lying to gain an advantage since the beginning of people.

Deception is a common trait among many species.
serious resistance to AI is already here with the WGA strike

That's not a bearish sign.
Well, the other option is to make it possible to affordably purchase insurance directly from carriers without your employer being involved at all. I've always been skeptical that having your employer negotiate for you in these cases is actually more beneficial than a true free market.

Personally, I'd rather we figure out how to have at least some real baseline of public healthcare, but what we have today feels like the worst of both options.
> At Mondragon, there are agreed-upon wage ratios between executive work and field or factory work which earns a minimum wage.
> These comparatively low wages can make it very difficult to recruit managers from investor-owned firms.

Wow, actually brilliant idea to keep out the nasty investor-owned firms away!
But yes, "depending on the purpose" -- probably, to show something to layman users, like external partners, who'd unlikely drill down into particular numbers, and would be excited to see something techy-fancy-looking, it's ok to show a heatmap based on H3.
I'm curious - can you give an example of a pain point?
Traffic sucks, but I still prefer to leave when I'm ready, go directly to my destination, and bring cargo when needed. I wince when I hear people making drastic compromises to hand carry groceries; I also prefer Costco.
You may not have felt it, but profit comes from the value you generate beyond what you are paid. That's exploitation, and it is an objective reality. You may not have abused, which is different and tends to get people more immediately angry.

Edit: You may not feel entitled to earn what you make, but others might just call that loser talk and no capitalist would ever say that.
> The argument says that there will always be some pre-existence, which you could call 'God' if you liked.

The story did. I explained why I would not (God is superfluous).

Beyond that, any notion of "pre-existence" is as circular as a notion of "beginning".

To present God as a part of this story only serves to present the unkown as "settled", which I find absurd.
Unrelated but what’s the spike in Texas’ real time price around 6pm about? California also spikes around this time but is more spread out.
Ask HN: UI for Managing Celery Tasks?
I'm used to bull-queue, which has excellent UIs for managing jobs (retry, delete, etc.) but python support is limited at the moment.

Flower is really bad IMO for managing jobs.

Is there an existing solution for managing celery tasks (paid or open source)?

Or if I really had to build one, if I built it, would your company pay for it?
I friend my mine wrote a "memoline" messaging system for the HP3000, and everybody used it with those "smart" HP terminals. I knew he had admin privs, and what the command to give me admin privs was, so I sent him a message that said something like:

Hi, Frank! How much would I have to pay you to execute the command:

% grant Don.Hopkins admin

Followed by the HP escape sequences for [up][right][right][send rest of line as input][up].

So when he read the message, it entered the command and ran it with his admin privileges, granting me admin!

Lesson: Don't print out raw escape sequences from untrusted messages!

And don't design terminals with [send rest of line as input] commands.
Of course, computers and humans must use the same time system. Which is why now that we have computers, we always specify the number of milliseconds in everything. Unfortunately, until someone builds a type of computer that can do the type of math needed to convert between two measurement systems, this problem will remain an insurmountable obstacle.
Pattern matching bad, method_missing good?

`method_missing` hasn't been considered good practice in a very long time. i mean, most people never thought it was great, but it's a non-issue IME

there are only a few usages of it remaining in activerecord. i thought they were all gone, honestly. (keep in mind about 1/2 of these are tests)

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Arails%2Frails+path%3A%2F%...
I was on the market place rescue team, keep throwing money at a problem and it will go away.
...What?

That doesn't even make sense. This sounds like your language compiler must implement a bunch of optimizations mine doesn't.

Unions seek to organize the affairs and interests of a unit of labor to extract a fair share of productivity for the people actually doing the work. The alternative is all that value gets captured by C-suite or investors, with decreased mobility of the people doing the work into the class of investors.

Unions also have a side effect of creating a selection pressure against exploitation of your workforce to attain profitability. Without the unions spooking the management drones, you get things like Walmart and McD's going and outsourcing what was previously done via payroll to State benefit programs.
The timescale has shortened because interest rate policies have drastically changed, and suddenly the 'value' of a company carrying debt in the name of growth has changed, in addition to possibly creating a need to generate additional revenue just to service existing debt that must be refinanced at a higher rate.
But if my source code has length n in binary, and I had an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of terminals, they could find it in pi or any similar digit sequence within
(((n * n) * n) * n)! years. Finding a jpeg of the Titanic sinking autographed by the captain might take a little longer, but Fox News is working on that.
He means 100% prevention.