skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apples and Acorns
If you enjoyed uplink, you might have liked Cholo, a game from the mid 1980s which had exploration, a hacker feel, post-apocalyptic scenario, and non-linear gameplay with the odd puzzle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholo_(video_game)
I request you post your "To-read," "Reading now," and "Have read" lists.
That and the crypto bull market. Imagine being SBF and knowing you could have avoided decades in jail if only you hadn't filed for bankruptcy.
I can’t recommend Next after using it even on a small project.

Whatever it sends to the browser is enough to eventually freeze the entire browser tab if you have the dev tools open. This was a daily recurrence.

Also, the “fix” for many issues was to throw “use client” at the top of problem files. Serving the application whether first time load or dev time with hot module reload took an age.

Really quite a miserable experience honestly. I have much better experiences with either a plain SPA or Astro.
I keep hear intriguing things about SPARK, but i'm not clear how I could try it in my projects. Part of this is I work with qt which already is different.
They often bring in a lot of money and attract students. Sports facilities are one of the main questions on tours. It's an arms race really, because you can't entice many students to join the school with your course syllabuses and the number of books in the library. So schools invest in other shiny things to catch students' attensions.
I wouldn't say it's trivial but yes it's there and it's very helpful.
What about when trains and busses were privatised, made more expensive (thus monetarily restricting your movement)? What about when tax on petrol and diesel was increased making travel more expensive (thus monetarily restricting your movement)[1]? What about speed limits and one-way streets and no-entry signs existing and restricting your movement? What about increases in cost of parking over the years (same again) or for employees of hospitals (restricting freedom of employment)?

"ULEZ making travel more expensive" - isn't that what people who claim to love freedom so often want, free markets which adjust things based on monetary incentives?

[1] https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/fuel-news/chancellor-facing...
Webb discovers new feature in Jupiter's atmosphere
What are better options out there (for a Node developer) if you're not using Next.js? Going to rails isn't really an option I guess
A lot longer than you think. However, yes, blocking is a good idea. It trains users to bypass the block using VPNs etc.

In your block message, make it very clear (a) exactly why the site is blocked, (b) what legal routes people can take (petition their MP etc), and (c) how to get around the block by technical means.
Sorry but you found and are denouncing the possibly only fair point in the legislation.

I dream of heads of state being prosecuted for "false communication [i.e. communicating something the sender knows to be untrue]".
I hear you- but buying a coffee or magazine I wanted anyway isn't such a big price to pay to help ensure I'm not in an annoying situation where my card is declined somewhere and I have to call internationally to get it sorted.
Usually when people say this, it's because learning something for the first time is harder than learning something you already know.
> The Tories are obsessed with weakening privacy and data protection laws.

Labour pledged to "toughen" the "weakened and gutted" online safety bill (now the act) [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/labour-pl...

Edit: clarification.
This article is frustratingly mealy-mouthed.

You may as well read the published analysis here: https://williamblair.bluematrix.com/links2/pdf/0e2c10da-0c19...

> To be sure, 2023 estimated shrink does look elevated, coinciding with growing organized retail crime. We believe there is a disconnect, however, between the expected increase in shrink and the attention it has drawn
It's pretty trivial, and really doesn't require much explanation. It doesn't contradict to what I wrote: there's no sign for the bill to be one party push over others opposing it (as stated by the comment I replied).
I simulate backward time travel simply by putting the objects around me back into the state they were in some time ago.
Does anyone know what clauses OpenAI workers work under in terms of competition trying to pick them up and win them over?

I still don't see any competition to what openai has done and so I expect some heavy rivalry coming up
A device shipping in 2024 being almost as fast as one which shipped several years earlier is … crazy? We don’t even know what the final product will be like - they have a history of not delivering due to yield or thermal issues - but I hope they pull it off because better competition benefits everyone.

Edit: this is the benchmark I’m basing my comment on finding it a bit slower than the 2022 A16.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Alleged-Snapdragon-8-Gen-3-Gee...
Negative pressure is usually a comparison with e.g. atmospheric pressure, so I wouldn't consider it a simple measurement. An actual negative pressure would presumably be less empty than a vacuum e.g. the Casimir effect.

Negative acceleration has a directional component, so again, it's like a negative velocity and is a vector.
The article says:

... political disinformation with the potential to undermine democracy.

Wonder if that applies to politicians, rather than just the populace?

If so, politicians knowingly misleading people in significant ways might run afoul of it. ;)
my cookbook on my counter has an index of onion recipes...
Typescript is a real pain, I’m still trying to figure out why it’s so popular. The constant nagging and extra typing (no pun intended) when using it vs regular JavaScript makes it a pain. Then, there’s the extra parsing step to change it back to JavaScript. Idk I don’t see the value yet.

Edit: I say “parsing step “ because that’s what it is. There’s no “compiling” and “transpile” is just a ridiculous way of saying parse and output.
App requests that you are of age. You are redirected to gov site, you log in to gov site, gov site tells app true or false. No one knows your age, no one checks your ID, besides the gov site which anyway knows your age because they issued your ID. This is basic OAuth. What's the problem again?
I don't feel that capitalism is an end to be pursued, but I agree that these conglomerates should be broken, for the sake of avoiding irreversible concentration of power.
> you already do depend on the government for use of your car and you don't need to depend on the government for public transport so the argument that rests on the premise that you don't depend on the government for your car which is good but would have to depend on the government for use of public transport which would be bad, is nonsensical okay
I’ve been talking with ChatGPT to fill in gaps in my general knowledge. I pick a topic that I know very little about—the Holy Roman Empire was one that I tried—and I ask ChatGPT to tell me about it. I then ask about aspects of the answer that pique my curiosity, and the conversation proceeds from there. When ChatGPT’s answers are too long or when it asks me too many questions I’m not interested in answering, I adjust the custom instructions to try to discourage it. Two of the first conversations I had with it are here:

https://www.gally.net/temp/20231013gptdiscussion/index.html

I could also learn about such topics by reading Wikipedia or other references, of course. But somehow talking interactively about them makes them more interesting and the information seems to stick with me better.
or get a cookbook...
There was a Simpsons episode about that, wasn't there?
If you watch the video of it being said, it was a flippant reply to a smartarse question.

Trying to portray it as a serious response is pretty dishonest. :/
this happened to him several times, and each time he ended up betting it all again. if anthropic would make him whole, he'd bet it all on more bullshit crypto
The GP didn't say who the value was meant to be for. There is definitely a lot of value for users, regardless of which model.

I would like LLaMa to be more local, responsive and private rather than more intelligent; it is good enough in that regard.
In some EU countries (Italy) it can be illegal until 14. The law didn’t change since the 40s, but since the end of the 90s judges have started considering the concept of “temporary abandonment” and suing parents who’re letting children out by themselves. Very shitty.
I have never seen a cat not throw up after eating a plant.
Doing one's homework is an excellent way of exposing and filling gaps in one's understanding. I'm more or less adequate at math, but I'd be better if I had done more of my homework.
I mean, yes, it is but many (not all) protocols built on top of it are generally still “connection-oriented”. QUIC, for example, still results in a “connection” it’s just implemented at the application layer instead of as part of the UDP protocol itself.
Interesting take.

I was analyzing this as not putting all your eggs in one basket in terms of AI capabilities, but you are right that it's probably also true in terms of cloud sales.
All the responses you are getting are very US centric. Just to give an example how you could do this in the EU, today. Every country is now issuing (or planning to issue soon) electronic ID cards with digital signatures that can be scanned with your smartphone. The plan is to allow users to attest they are over or under 18 without revealing any other personal information. They will release an official EU app (like they did for Covid) or Google/Apple will add the appropriate secure API.

I don't necessarily agree we need this, but to claim it's impossible to do this in a secure way is ridiculous.
The UK has functional extradition treaties with many other countries though. Why take the chance?
Maybe we can make lemonade and use it to make actual consequences for companies and politicians that lie. Next time a company gives a bs excuse for some action, or a government agency gives a bs rationale fot some policy, it should be possible to show both that it caused harm, and that they knew the communication was untrue, and we can go "Hey thanks for making that actually actionably illegal as it always should have been!"

ah fantasies

(i'm not in the uk so even more fantasy)
If you rob a bank and then win the lottery, you still robbed the bank.
And a great Hipster Hitler T-shirt http://hipsterhitler.com/comics/19_eastern_front.jpg
5yo could be a bit young. What you describe sounds fine to me starting 8/10yo.
As someone with a dog who has been to the ER many times for accidental ingestion, I appreciate this. That said, one thing I have learned is toxicity is very much a sliding scale. Some plants are toxic in the sense that they will make your pet mild/moderately sick. Others are life threatening.

It’s probably not information you could easily add. But having access to information that differentiates between toxic meaning diarrhea vs toxic meaning likely fatal would be incredible useful to dog owners. Of course this is also likely dose/body weight relative as well.

Similarly, there is also a lot of misinformation out in social media and random blogs about toxicity. There are many common houseplants that your pet probably shouldn’t eat, but only a few are actually alarming if they do. We’ve learned just because you can find something at the top of Google doesn’t make it true, and for some reason plant toxicity is really subject to a lot of misinformation.
The Lib Dems had their chance though, in the 2010 coalition with the Tories. Lib Dems might indeed be the biggest party promoting proportional representation as a policy, but what is to say that they will be able to implement it even if they did form a government?
> a blockade of food, water and electricity, all crucial, especially when you are confined in a small area with low resources and a lot of people is a genocide. [...] keep in mind the blockade and hindering the economic development of Gaza is not new.

The blockade of food and water is new. And if you're saying this is not new, how can it be a genocide if people aren't dying because of it? Genocide is defined as killing off a population, but while life is certainly not great for Gazans (to say the least), Israel is not killing them.

> combine it with a bombing campaign that is indiscriminately targeting civilians and their infrastructure, from internet to hospitals is a war crime.

Your facts are wrong. It's not indiscriminate shooting. Israel is targeting militants, which make it not a war crime. It is an unfortunate (truly unfortunate!) reality that the militants choose to place themselves among civilians, including under hospitals, on purpose, which means that Hamas is responsible for two crimes - both shooting at Israelis, and getting Israel to fire back on their own civilians that they are supposed to protect.

> there is no such thing as eradicating hamas because Israel and its policies are a recruitment tool. This conflict will continue and the children today will be fighting in a few years because what choice do they have than resist.

Well there is eradicating Hamas. It is a specific group with specific people in it. ISIS was eradicated, after all.

But yes, it's a complicated situation.

But there is a choice other than resist - if they give up on the idea of getting back all of Israel (which effectively means eradicating the Israeli state), if and they give up armed resistance, there could be peace tomorrow. The Palestinians have had many deals put forward and chose to continue fighting.

I really wish there was a for everyone to get what they want, but if what they want is for my country to disappear - well, sorry, what am I supposed to say to that other than no?

> not all children make it, the malnutrition rate was around 15%. again, all caused by Israel as they have control major aspects of that open air prison.

Just to be clear, Egypt is also blockading Gaza. No one is blaming Egypt, and no one is committing terror acts against Egypt. Why is that?

Also, you call it an open-air prison, in what sense? Gaza is under the control of Hamas, Israel left it twenty years ago. All they've done since then is wage war against Israel.
Yeah. Good thing China, Russia, Iran and North Korea hold their arms buyers to a higher humanitarian standard.
Or perhaps AmazonGoogleKleinerPerkinsKlaxoGoldmanSachs GmbH
Your analogy is interesting to me.

I definitely see the parallel, but I'm not actually sure this is true.

A lot of the deep functional stuff I'm learning right now are more about finding connections and shortcuts between things that we used think were different.

For me, comparing functional programming to older languages is more like comparing "tally marks" or "roman numerals " to a modern "place value system".

Now back to the physics analogy. The gap between quantum physics and chemistry is both a theoretical and computation limit.

There are also seen to be very distinct layers where the lower level don't seem to correlate with higher levels.

But I can also see this might apply to the Curry-Howard correspondence.

Hmmm. I have to think about it more...
Not really irreversible unless they get a monopoly on violence, so as long as the overton window from the publics perspective shifts dominantly towards breaking them up in the future we'll be able to get a better situation.
How is that a fair point? First, how do you define "untrue", and second "knows", in any meaningful sense? A country like China is in the position to define what "untrue" is, and of course, if it is untrue, then it is not possible that you have a different opinion, so you know by default that it is untrue.

So this is just pure and simple censoring. And certainly against free speech.
What is a kernel method? I know what an operating system kernel is. I know what the kernel of a homomorphism is. I have taken courses in computational statistics and neural networks. Yet I’ve never encountered this use of the word kernel, which the article unhelpfully does not define (yet is critically based on). Googling for kernel didn’t help either, because the term is extremely overloaded.

Can someone help?
Yep their github management is atrocious. I understand it's a popular product so you get a lot of low quality issues opened, but there tons of real problems where no developer ever appears, and then are closed by the bot because of inactivity.

Infuriating. The longer I do this, the more that issue management responsiveness becomes a real consideration when choosing a dependency.
Most of the complaints about allow are just flaming, but this is straight, legit criticism.

I don’t understand why Apple has chronically been so terrible towards developers. They need them!
> Since when, in human history, was this an implicit critical assumption in anyone's mind?

Since we discovered Dignity, that has been a fundamental tenet.

(Yes there are also many occasions «in human history» when the principle got instantiated for protection against the ignorant and the malevolent.)

> The point is still: Wikipedia doesn't worry about integrating with systems that require you to be identified

The point is not with the occasional use of those systems in special cases (e.g. donations), but with systematic use in fruition.
Attribute Superpowers Taken All the Way
Ask HN: How to convince your Boss that webdev is hard?
My Boss in my large company thinks it infrastructure is more important and difficult than web development. He thinks it is just like making a wird document. That is why I alone do webdev and admin for 50 websites while our it infrastructure Team is playing pocket billard. How to show how important and difficult webdev is today?
Respectfully, I disagree.

Forces working against democracy are driven by people wanting more power at the cost of the majority. These people can head companies. So it might look like capitalism is trying to infiltrate a democracy.
No, they get taught terms like verb, digraph, as well as the difference in sounds between an and A. They don’t even teach uppercase letters until long after kids have mastered lower case. The whole “Annie Apple” thing went out of favour years ago. UK primary schools are very jargon heavy these days and phonics is all about teaching lower case letters.

My wife is a primary school teacher, a few of my friends are teachers, and I have two kids in primary school. So this is a topic I’m very familiar with.

What people forget is that the curriculum changes. It changes frequently. When I was at school the curriculum was very different to what it is like now. For example I actually learned the term “digraph” from my kids, not my own schooling. I mean, I always knew what digraphs and split digraphs were, but I never knew they were called digraphs.
and there goes the death of new flavors...
This is very insightful. Still, there are central policies and various mechanisms by which people have to obey them.

Do you have an email address where I could ask your opinion about something privately? (Or could you email me at mine, it is listed in my profile.)

Thanks.
Open models like Llama are getting better every day.
Didn’t Covid tell us there is no such thing as training our immune system?
While true, it is nice to know the powers that produced an accomplishment up front. Otherwise we are stuck with a warped view of how things happen
You… you built the thing I’ve been spending 3 days looking for… oh man
How to Tell a Great Story
hmmm isn't it just exactly capitalism? and government intervening would maybe be against capitalism?
Show HN: Visualise all your Strava Activities
I was on a run and thought it would be cool to see which roads I've taken most and the ones I haven't taken yet.

This is what my map looks like in London!
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/behlock/strava-x/main/asse...

Have fun creating your own map :)
Which might be a good thing if you're sending a bunch of tiny little packets to a consumer on wifi (cough lots of golang projects) instead of assembling/splitting the buffer yourself.
It will, as it was relatively simple.
All of this is basically just empathy. "If I were in $position, how would I handle reading this". Answer that question for every value of $position your readers could represent and you won't be far off.

If you write a document and only consider how you read it, it's fundamentally a document only designed to be read by you.
My last issue with Next was that when we were using SSR-mode with Server Components we couldn't change the env variables at runtime, unless the dev mode was enabled (otherwise it would just bundle them). We were deploying with Docker and needed for each deployment to have a different env variable. Sound like a simple task, until it's not
https://archive.ph/jo5CT
Neanderthals were the first to light fire at will, says study
source:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Artists Allege Meta's AI Data Deletion Request Process Is Fake PR Stunt
Revealing the thought process is part of the persuasive technique.

It’s another rationalist writing theme: By taking the reader through a meandering path to the conclusion, some times with twists and turns and backtracks, you give the impression that you’ve covered every possible angle already. The conclusion feels unarguable because the author has walked you from beginning to end with clear logical steps.

The hidden problem is in what has been omitted. We’re supposed to assume the author included all relevant information and presented it faithfully. What really happens is that writers tend to downplay evidence that disagrees with their opinions. If they can’t avoid it, they include it with a suggestion that they tried to consider it but it they imply that it wasn’t reasonable.

That’s where the footnotes come in: By acknowledging it in the footnotes they can signal that they are aware of it but relegated it to the footnotes as a defensive measure.

Revealing the thought process gives misleading confidence in the conclusion if you’re assuming that the thought process isn’t prone to the same opinions and biases as the conclusion.
When NAT gets involved things get very complicated very quickly for that. For many networks and ISPs this would need to happen at the IP egress level and couldn’t happen on the end device, since the end device doesn’t even know its own IP and neither does the on-prem router.
Rooting the singing greeting cards sounds fun. Although presumably they'll be e-ink field programmable AI cards by then.
So it seems this is their software defined network, the packets still look good when entering via the microsoft edge routers and they get bitflips on their way into our express route
The best argument for "over the last 50-70 years" is that we've forgotten the poorer products of 70+ years ago. A recommendation: find a copy of _The Best of S.J. Perelman_ and read the "Cloudland Revisited" pieces, middle-aged re-readings of the movies and popular literature of his youth. Not many of them linger in popular consciousness now.
Maybe not, but you could switch to single-zone S3 in that case and cut your costs down ~70%.

Migrating storage off of cloud is just really hard.
somewhat controversial - some say it's just placebo effect but I read the most amazing stories of men (if OP is not male sorry, off topic then) at this sub https://www.reddit.com/r/Semenretention/ It's 180 turn around from the rest of society. But everything mentioned above improves. If it's placebo effect I'll take it!
It's very, very high for the UK, but pretty normal for the USA.