skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was also working in trading floor support (as IT) in the early 2000s. We actually even had proper Excel add-ins (programmed in C++) that provided special functions and also connected to backend systems as far as I remember.
Not American, but can confirm. And I think the statement can be generalized to most, if not all, urban population, sadly.
I've been observing this problem for at least 10 years, and EVERY age group is affected. And also, among people I know, the farther from large cities they live, the better they feel. (EDIT: I was implying that COVID may have boosted something that was already a trend before it)
This is the interesting thing. I haven't played with it myself but seems MS is trying that with their new Beta python script function, but their implementation is just crazy, completely handicapped. Can't see it being a true replacement for VBA in excel.
Hence why there is the Linux kernel, and GNU/Linux distributions.
Part of me wishes they used the traditional American relative measurement unit: the football field.

It’s 0.0319 football fields tall.
Oh boy, I'm the owner of a few small websites that have been blessed to be discovered.

I should do this to pay back the favor. I already have a list of bookmarks!

Problem: it has 7328 bookmarks because I save everything good I come across, not just small websites.

Give me a few hours. :)
That might be the case for the apple-wannabes at Samsung, but for a lot of phones you can get custom roms for current gen phones. Pixel, OnePlus come to mind.
Shouldn’t he be careful regarding 2024?

No. A decent, but my no means huge, number of people have opinions about this subject. But the number for whom it is a high enough priority issue that it would determine if they would vote or who they would vote for is infinitesimal.
> Simple federated bookmarking

> A proposal, dear reader: Create a list of bookmarks linking to websites you find interesting, and publish it for the world to see. You decide what constitutes “interesting”.

For federated content, we could use ActivityPub if the site content units are posts. At some point, there should be a searchable taxonomy of the federated groupings and sources.
Beginner's Guide to GatewayD: Part 1 – Prelude
That’s a brilliant idea.
Wait, am I crazy or are these two articles saying the exact opposite thing about which class is the parent one?

The CDC one seems to say that initialisms are a class of acronym, but the Writers Digest one says acronyms are a class of initialism.
> It distorts along a completely new axis - whether or not economic activity uses land.

It actually doesn't, because if you hold unused land it's already fully rational for you to sell or lease it, so that some other activity can take place on it instead - any land that's taxed by LVT must by definition have some economic value. LVT may discourage pointless speculation in land values, but that's a benefit and far from a 'distortion'.
It's all good—I understand the need to protect the legitimacy of what's trending here.

I think in this case, a lot of people who've been following me on other channels just wanted to show some support and weren't familiar with the etiquette here. No harm intended.
Money, Wealth, and Currency Risk
For some jobs, why bother with classrooms? Throw people straight into a job and have the LLM teach them as they go. It’s a return to apprenticeship but your overseer is an AI. Cheap and very scalable.
Cause you can open, write and deploy the code right from the document itself. There is no external tools needed. Everything is baked in and works. I hate VBA with all of my hearts, but I'm going to use the tools available and with less resistance.
"seem to be independent thinkers, but they pretend to follow the in-group for the purpose of maintaining social harmony"

Preference falsification [0]. There's a book called Private Truths, Public Lies by Timur Kuran which delves into this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification
Probably better to go with an LLC. In many states they are low cost and have few requirements, but still provide limits on liability and provide a professional image. If the startup becomes successful enough to need a corporate structure, then you can hire the lawyer and go the more expensive route.
Cool, so what kinds of people typically leave and what kinds of people typically stay?
God forbid code gets written to solve a business problem rather than conform to a spec sheet right?

Businesses - and jobs - only exist to solve economic problems in the real world. Everything else, including traditional accounting, IT, legal, and HR functions are just there to make the real work easier, not harder.
I'd love to see an example of this.

I often compile things inside Alpine containers statically and run them on my local machine, and plenty of times I've downloaded deb packages, extracted them on a raspberry pi running Alpine and it's ran fine (assuming glibc compatibility is set up.
I switched to Kagi and really like it. It really shows you what's possible when you're not optimizing for ads.

Lots of cool functionality like:

Lenses: Allows you to run a search to prioritize certain domains to give you a particular "lens" to view it through.

Personalized results: Allows you to give additional weight or decrease the weight of certain domains.

Search Bangs: Shortcuts for executing the search somewhere else like Reddit, Wikipédia, Google, etc.

I decided to pay for it not because of the ads or privacy or anything else but because it allows me to make "search" work better for my needs.
High ceilings mean flats also take a lot more energy to heat in winter. If heating were out of my own pocket, I might pass on a flat with high ceilings even if rent were attractively low. Do NYC blocks like the GP describes typically include heating in the rent?
Click on user name to see their profile.
Maybe a big Google query prefix to hide all major sites?
You just helped me notice/discover the downvote button. Still don't wanna use it tho, I like to focus on the positive except where there's an ultimatum like that lol. I will fall in line for the occasion
For every paper they publish, they have three others that they are keeping to themselves. Publishing papers is a recruiting technique.
> I just built an AI-generated fakenews app [1] (for fun) and it opened my eyes: we're playing with fire.

Thats brilliant. You have to share details on how you built it!
I did defeat an Alice motion. I never claimed to be an expert on software patents, I'm not sure where you got that from. I claimed to have actual experience in the field and I shared what my experience encompassed and how its distinct from the narrative you weave in every patent-related thread. I described what the patents encompassed and you called it a software patent. It's not a "software patent", it has hardware components.

>I was hoping to get a different view on the matter from someone who had had a different experience to mine.

You come off as smarmy and disingenuous. Your comment here is also not actually responsive and just seems to be wrapped up ad hom. Answer the question: what does infringement have to do with the validity of software patents as a concept?
Mostly on the idea that as the Roman Empire expanded its currency was devalued by precious metal content. That sort of pattern signifies to me decline. I understand that the currency may have been just keeping pace with the efficiency of trade. It seems to me that if trade was as efficient as Rome was hoping it would not have collapsed.

Another way to look at it is that the empire ran into a labor shortage and contracted back to a sustainable size.
Because the FBI is supposed to be a domestic law enforcement agency.
What Type of Perfectionist Are You?
Indeed, thanks for explaining.

Oh, and your mention of Graal reminds me of reading here 56 days ago that it has some support (JavaScript-only at that time) for sandboxing itsself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37572536 presumably not nearly as fine-grained as capability-based schemes mentioned in the OP, but still a useful step perhaps.
I went snooping in your HN profile to find the link, and that is a really well done site. Clean design, relevant pictures, and interesting material. It's probably going to cost me an hour or two of productivity today.

Link for people lazier than me: https://whatisnuclear.com/
I like Binaural Beats for this, plenty of Apps on offer.

Started out with this one and hacked a bit on it, never published my version though: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.binauralbeat...

Now i'm pretty content with this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.project.rb...

And this tune, it now is on my phone and every PC thanks to NewPipe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6WNB9JN_2o
Even then, I don't think that changes many or any of the arguments. Perhaps you could drop the maths, but people still need to speak to each other, will probably still write to each other, will probably still write to persuade or describe even if it's just for pleasure. People will still want to know how the world works, we should definitely still learn from our history. As I said, the focus on why we're learning may change, and the testing may change, but I don't think that just because there are no jobs that require a human to write an email means we won't teach kids to write.
I attempted to solve this recently with a browser extension at https://github.com/sharat87/inhuman-time

Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33446662
Many VBA people are just SMEs who needed to spice their work with a bit of script so they learned one thing they had immediately available to them that could be used to solve their problem.

Many of these people do not think about themselves as developers. They have primary responsibilities outside of IT structures which usually means that "more professional" tools are not available to them.

They invested substantial amount of effort to learn the language and are locked into the platform because everything they know about programming, every tip, every trick, every solution to every problem is all about Windows, Excel, VBA, etc. and they would have to essentially start from scratch if they wanted to do anything else like Python.
https://archive.ph/LT875
I would rather not have JS replaced. It would really hurt the ability of users to poke through the code and tweak stuff as they like.
>Empower parents to do what exactly
Oh idk, maybe not spend 100% of their conscious time/energy working to make someone else enough money to buy their fifth yacht??? And actually parent?? So kids aren't pawned off on to screens for 12 hours a day?? Seems pretty damn simple when most households need to be two income what the problem is. Parenting being pawned off on technology. All this "parenting" software is missing the point so hard it's comical.

Maybe subsidize child care and recognize the economic value raising children has and how much unpaid work parents do for all our future? Then parents would actually have time and energy and money to parent.
2: governments can legislate against against anything, but this feels like the other side of the same coin as pro cryptographic freedom: you're trying to ban maths.

We can, and IMO should, ban this type data use in commercial and party political contexts, but that isn't going to do anything to stop criminals and foreign governments doing these same things for their own commercial and political goals.

We need a milieu where we can survive that.
Hello, the other Esteban (CEO) here.

I'll also be available to answer any questions from the community and to receive your feedback.
They're being sarcastic. By "beat New York City in crime rates" they mean more crime.
Why do you think Apple and Google hide the file system in their mobile OSes? Just for fun?..
One nice thing with LLMs is that there are no "stupid questions". You can throw it whatever is on your mind and get some insights.
> Is low 80s upper east side a good neighborhood?

It's what most people would consider so, yes. It's an upper-middle-class area, clean and safe, if more than a little stuffy and uptight.
I see lots of people with links to a home page in their user profiles (on HN, StackOverflow, GitHub, etc...) I may be in the minority here, but if I find someone particularly insightful or interesting I sometimes click through to see if they have a link.
> was reading Julia Evans post about nothing [my emphasis]

Off-topic, but is this a typo of "Nix" or a passive-aggressive jab at Julia for blogging about the tedium of actually getting anything to actual work in modern development?
Machine automatically fabricates inflatable truss structures
> Very high working memory and processing speed

Are both of those really clinical markers for ADHD? as in, adhd would be expected to have low working memory and low processing speed? My understanding is its more about executive function I.E. deciding to start tasks.

admittedly my experience is coloured by my own clinical diagnosis of adhd plus anecdotally good working memory and processing speed
I really like the stuff happening over at neocities :-)

Out of curiosity, do you make any metadata available? Would be a very interesting resource to have, working on making the rest of the web discoverable as well ...
> but I really wish they would have kept focus on Windows and taken the high road and made it better, more secure, more private and then thrown Bing in Googles face without the ads and tracking

I too wish more companies existed that didn’t sell out their users but what you’re asking for was never Ballmer’s Microsoft’s MO, and it doesn’t seem to be the case for Satya Nadella’s Microsoft either based off the reporting I’ve been reading on the increased enshittification of Windows 11 over time.
> Why does progress not result in increasing leisure and standard of living in many important ways?

It did. Domestic labor went from walking down to the creek and using a wash tub to throwing it into a washing machine, coal fired stoves were replaced with gas and electric, garments made by hand are now made an ocean away, television and the internet made homes more fun to be in and gave a break to parents minding children, beating the rugs was replaced with a vacuum, the freezer and microwave made quick meals trivial to prepare..

And then, suddenly and totally organically, with no help from a media that is owned by a few large corporations that would benefit from doubling the workforce, it was decided that working in the home is slavery, now two incomes chase the same home that costs now twice as much and the population pyramid is inverting beacuse nobody had kids.
Early education especially is not something that AI can handle, because it isn't just about learning facts or processes. Take small motor skill acquisition, for example: you have kids play with play-dough, finger-paint, fold origami, play musical instruments, and learn various handwriting styles like block and cursive and calligraphic styles, all to teach kids how to move their hands in complex ways to achieve what their brains want. AI isn't going to do that for kids, and tablets seem to have made motor-skills acquisition worse since the range of movements needed for a tablet is much smaller than that needed for 3d manipulation of objects in the real world.

I don't think AI is going to excel in language education, either: I get bored chatting with a bot very quickly. Language education is all about keeping students engaged and communicating about tasks they actually care about. I don't see chatbots like ChatGPT doing that.
"All models are wrong, some models are useful." Some are more wrong and more useful simultaneously ;) This is actually the typical state of things in numerical simulation: we have infinite-resolution differential equations modeling such physical systems, but to implement them in silico we need to discretize and approximate various aspects of those models to achieve usefulness re: time and accuracy. Google has merely gone one level further in the tradeoff.

For more info on Google's approach, look into surrogate models. It's becoming more common especially in things like weather and geology.
This is pretty neat! Looks like I might have to try it out now that there's a free open-source alternative.
I mean the clocks on different planets do tick at slightly rates. It's somewhere on the order of milliseconds per year, except for really large planets, but it does add up
Moderation in all things, including moderation...but also cocaine. Many have come, few have passed
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi2336

Seems like it's better at predicting extreme weather events
Thanks for digging that up! Those "America Eats" projects are an absolute treasure trove.
The macOS parental controls are garbage that rarely work correctly or as they appear they should - which Apple a few months ago even admitted to an irate journalist that, yeah, they have problems.

I’ve tried using them - they are unusable. What’s the point of parental controls that randomly let you open private windows in Safari, without filtering, after a few hours of being logged in because the daemon crashed? It’s pointless and actively dangerous as a parent thinks they are working, but they aren’t.

Windows parental controls - what’s the point when you can’t disable Windows Copilot or Edge Copilot or the Bing search suggestions in the taskbar or the Microsoft News feed on new Edge tabs? Or when it comes preloaded with the Movies and TV and Microsoft News apps full of junk? Or when Microsoft Office lets you embed videos from Bing without respecting parental control SafeSearch preferences? The parental controls on Windows are wildly insufficient.

Nintendo Switch? I was stunned. Whole device, no granular per-user settings? What about families that can’t afford one per child? No ability to disable the eShop or force an eShop rating within the parental controls app? No ability to set a PIN code for just using the Switch? No ability to hide, say, M-rated titles for older kids from younger kids?

Modern parental controls suck, either are incomplete or don’t work, and are unfit for purpose.
It's one of the wealthier neighbourhoods afaik, so apparently it's pretty nice. I think 'low 80s' means when they started renting there.
How about using an LLM to help you write a MuZero-like model designed for a specific task? (Also MuZero took like 12 hours to train on old hardware, so my MacBook might be good enough here) obviously we’re not here yet, but it doesn’t seem far away. Hell, you could train a small LLM specifically just to do this.
No problem. Please replace the above link with the original: https://rnikhil.com/2023/11/12/quitting-fulltime-poker.html
You fail to acknowledge again. We already agreed to disagree on that point. We are getting your take on things now.

Answer these, let's get you on record:

Do you think encryption methods today will hold up over time 100%?

Do you think early bitcoin keys from 2008 will never be broken (disregarding tools and being found which is more likely)?

Do you understand what diversion from the point is?

Do you think Satoshi is Nick Szabo?

You won't eventhough these are very easy YES/NO questions.

C'mon, put your money where your mouth is.
The stuff restaurants use to wash dishes is really bad for your tummy and very often that stuff is still on the dishes, while you're eating off of them.
Also, use correct lang attribute value for text, otherwise your website is being offered to be translated into English.
> Aren't those negatives mainly due to the transient nature of traveling?

Nope. It's stuff like:

Lack of space. Think how much smaller your hotel room is compared to an apartment. You want to buy your own TV, with a sound system, and do an Arduino project? No space.

Poor sound proofing: Lots of noise from neighbors.

No kitchen: It's fine if you're gone for a few days, but if you're in one for a month, you likely will need to cook something. Most people can't afford to eat out all the time (and it's not healthy to do so).

I recall once while in school, there was a new fancy apartment complex being built that students had signed a lease for. Unfortunately, there were delays so the company set them up in a hotel for 2 months till the apartment was ready. These are all the complaints those students had about the hotel experience. Nice in the beginning, but not a good long term solution.
The first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud
Why am I not surprised at this point
What an achievement! Curl is a blessing.

It's interesting to me that he highlights 32 bit time_t as one important point of compatibility. Makes perfect sense if your goal is to keep your program working on many operating systems. OTOH 2038 is only 14 years away now, or well closer to today than when curl was launched. I wonder when no one will think working with 32 bit times is worth the trouble? My guess is about 3 months after the Y2K38 date, maybe even longer.
What is new on the site? Looks like the old grift?

https://lifehacker.com/deals
Is that the way the law has been applied? Or are you saying thats how it should be?
Do you have more info explaining a "rolling lease"? I assume you're leasing the land from the state... On the face of it, what happens to/who owns the improvements on the land after the lease is up or you have to move? What happens with the lease if you have to move?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

> FISA warrant requests are rarely denied. During the 25 years from 1979 to 2004, 18,742 warrants were granted, while only four were rejected. Fewer than 200 requests had to be modified before being accepted, almost all of them in 2003 and 2004. The four rejected requests were all from 2003, and all four were partially granted after being submitted for reconsideration by the government. Of the requests that had to be modified, few were before the year 2000. During the next eight years, from 2004 to 2012, there were over 15,100 additional warrants granted, and another seven being rejected. Over the entire 33-year period, the FISA court granted 33,942 warrants, with only 12 denials – a rejection rate of 0.03 percent of the total requests.[4] This does not include the number of warrants that were modified by the FISA court
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUZ9VATeF_4

This video has a lot of useful information. The straightforward answer is to externalize your memory and take notes.
>Samsung is light years ahead

In what way?

I'm someone who hasn't bought a new phone since 2016, and there are zero occurrences in daily use where I feel it's too slow. I can't imagine being one or two generations behind the bleeding edge in CPU speed to be a hindrance. What are people doing on their phones that need ultimate speed?

Only thing bothering me now is its screen size, but not enough to replace it. Unfortunately Apple wants me to throw a functioning device into a landfill to make more money, so they cut off software updates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_composting
If they don't have enough evidence it's hard to say that have substantial reasons. It sounds like they have a hunch.
I think you forgot about general relativity there. Even just for satellites the length of a second is measurably different.
Why not? The S23 is the one who's dimensions and specs are closest to the ASUS Zenfone 10 yet is also cheaper to boot and offers more years of SW updates to the Zefone.

https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=12082&idPhone...
If you'd prefer a path of greatest hits, Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke are probably the titles you'll see recommended most often. Spirited Away being a sort of coming of age story filled more with a sense of wonder, whereas Princess Mononoke is a violent story centered around the complex struggle between man and nature, as is closer to a traditional fantasy setting if that's your bag.
In all cases, you expected to take some losses when you extend credit - at what point does it become "awful" and not merely "business"?