skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a developer I actually agree. Too often we let “straightforward” or “fits best with the backend design” cause a knee jerk reaction to reject designs that are better for the end-user. I’ve been working to catch myself and say “yeah this won’t be easy but in the end it’s going to fit better with the user’s mental model of what they are doing”.

The example I think of is if you have 2-3 related entities a developer might like a simple CRUD for each thing where you have to create the parent object before you can create the child (in a relationship). However sometimes the child is the obvious first thing a user wants to create so it’s important to build a UI that lets them create the parent on the fly or even have no parent until later.

As a younger dev I dug in my heals too often on things like that and I think it’s made me much better as a dev to approach designs with fresh eyes and think about how I’d want to experience the UI/UX instead of bringing preconceived notions based on how we built the existing code/UI.

One thing I will point out is I love working with designers who are open to “what if we did X instead of Y? X will take me 1 hour but the Y in your design will take 1 week”. Sometimes the “Y” is worth it and some times the designer thinks “X” is just fine (or even likes it better). Nothing is worse than strict designs passed down that need to be pixel-perfect with no wiggle room.
Have you tried to get a GPT to write a joke? It’s got a ways to go.
Jokes aside, I built the GPT to play in voice mode, it's useful to have shortcut when you just want chat GPT to read things out loud, or hear your ideas back to you, with a different voice can help you analyse the way you speak without the distraction of hearing your own voice.

Basically it's a shortcut for a free and quick speech to speech or text to speech.
I honestly was looking to build the simplest GPT ever posible to get started.
Maybe the simplicity inspires other people.
Mathematics is constantly proving things true. Physics also has theorems, for instance, the Stone–von Neumann theorem.

The scientific method is a method for testing of hypotheses, yes, but that is simply one way of discovering what is true. Logic, testimony, written accounts and records, mathematical proofs, and so on are all other ways of discovering truth.

For instance, you cannot prove who was the Emperor of Rome at a particular date in the past with experiments. You must use historical record to do so. Unless you call your experiment opening a book - but that's not a controlled experiment. And even if all books said that Marcus Aurelius was the Emperor of Rome on March 16, 180 you still wouldn't be able to prove it mathematically or using logic. You're using inference to the best explanation in a form of Bayesian probabilities.

Even though it is a matter of fact that either he was or wasn't, there's no experiment you can run on that hypothesis that could tell you the truth.

On your point 2, "X=>Y" indeed means X implies Y, so given X is true, Y is true as well. It could mean causality, but it could also mean necessity. So saying "X is true means Y is true" can be applied to numerous different contexts, including one of causality. I let go of the apple, and the apple falls. This last statement being equivalent to every body that is not subject to forces follows the geodesic created by the spacetime manifold. Which can be put in a logical form X=>Y.

And on your first point: the natural world is clearly following mathematical truths, and that is the entire point of the conversation. The ask of "Why is nature consistent" implies something much much deeper about the nature of reality than what scientific experiments can show. It is a metaphysical question, not a scientific question.
Python 3.11.6 (main, Oct 3 2023, 00:00:00) [GCC 13.2.1 20230728 (Red Hat 13.2.1-1)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> population_base = [100_000_000, 1_000_000_000, 8_000_000_000]
>>> for population in population_base:
... print('15s/day for',population, 'people equals:', round((15*population)/3600), 'man-hours/day')
...
...
15s/day for 100000000 people equals: 416667 man-hours/day
15s/day for 1000000000 people equals: 4166667 man-hours/day
15s/day for 8000000000 people equals: 33333333 man-hours/day
Stop conflating wikipedia and wikimedia.

Little of the new stuff is for wikipedia and what's there is of questionable value.
Canceling a physical purchase sounds more like something for the Nintendo ninjas.
Switch the backend destination of metrics/traces/logs, but all your dashboards, alerts, and potentially legacy data still need to be migrated. Drastically better than before where instrumentation and agents were custom for each backend, but there's still hurdles.
Ideas are talking to me so ofte , that it is hard to decide with which one to go. Which one people need?
> so they get flooded by less tech-savy, more casual users that don't really see the value of open source other than they don't pay for it

this was solved 30 years ago by an important socio-technical invention called the FAQ, used together with a social convention of not elevating or rewarding vexatious messages.
In google maps many of pins for e.g. hotels are red and the push pin that marks your search result is also red just bigger and in different shade of red.

I must have spend years trying to find the push pin for my search result. I am not aware that should have any particular issues with differencing colors. It only on Google maps I have this problem. I do wonder why there are so few complains about this detail, so I guess must have some colors issues with my eyes since no one else seems to complain about this.

I can see the difference between the two shades of red but they could easily have chosen a different color for the marker for your search result so i stands out much more clearly.
Agreed. Sorry about it. Removed
With great difficulty.

To be honest when I've really got my teeth in a problem I mindlessly power through it until it's solved at the expense of everything else except feeding my cats. Sometimes I just get this feeling like I need to snap out of it for a while and go for a walk or gym or something - and when that happens, I often "magically" solve the problem or get an idea of what to try next during said walk.

The only thing I am diligent about is sleep. There are _very few problems_ that will prevent me from getting to bed on time. Sometimes I do go to bed at 02.00 after working on something really interesting that I can't stop thinking about, but then I try not to start the next day until 11.00 or noon.

I do also try to stay on top of my exercise, but this can also fall by the wayside for work. In the long-term, though, I've managed to keep up with gym (mostly lifting) for over ten years. But in the short-term, if I am stuck on a really interesting problem, gym is probably not happening that day.

I try to balance this by taking it easier when I can afford to, knowing that in the end my tendency is to work too much rather than too little. So when there are quiet moments I try to take them for myself and not worry about feeling lazy or unproductive in those times. This has helped greatly in the times when I can actually manage to do it. It recharges me a bit for the next burst of overwork and single-minded focus I'll feel compelled to put in later.

I don't think any tools will help me with this. It's purely internal. I know when I am fixated on something at the expense of everything else, so a tool to help me measure the balance or remind me won't help me change the actual habit.
I think it's just a coincidence. The Kindle team has been gutted with job losses so almost everything non-core is being cut.

This magazine business just never made anyone any money, so it's an obvious thing to cut.
Social anxiety is a strange thing, or maybe it's several different things.

I have zero problem speaking before many people, being either serious or ridiculous; demonstrating the use of a condom on a cucumber would be fun and cause me no anxiety at all.

But I would rather rip off my arm than initiate talk with a random stranger at a party.

In fact my anxiety seems to be inversely proportional to the number of people I talk to.

This probably has a name? but if it does I don't know what it is.
as mentioned earlier, It will be nice if/when these components can also be defined within HTML

<template tag="user-avatar" parameters="[src,alt]">
<img src="{src}" alt="{alt}"/>
</template
> "unauthorized" is a weasel word

Is not a weasel word. There is nothing unambiguous about it.

> it implies that it should be necessary for the developer to ask David Attenborough for authorization

Yes. It does. Now you might disagree with that, but it perfectly unambiguously means that.
Is-Odd
Much like the phrase around crypto about "not your keys? not your crypto" goes, similar applies to all digital things: Not your local content? not your content"

Things like Kindle Unlimited (which at least say they're subscriptions to content access) digital streaming and so many other services that let you "buy" things that you don't keep on your own device in your own chosen format are all bullshit waiting to happen if you like to really own your digital stuff. Same for Google's News service. At least in this case Google offered downloadable PDFs for some editions.

That so many people fall for this only to be later surprised is almost laughable. What should anyone assume less from so many companies that take hostility to users as nearly a default position?
No. A market winner for gas stations would have emerged and cars would adopt that. Just like is happening with Tesla and their chargers and connectors.
A fun theory, but it's wrong. The likely explanation is tectonic:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-ancient-fo...
True, but as PC and Internet adoption increased, more people were exposed and have nostalgia and memories of the period.

The mid-to-late 90's also had a high level of techo-optimism, but I feel there was still a lot more mainstream skepticism that this all this technology would actually be useful which had mostly gone away by mid 2000. I just saw a bit with Bill Gates on Letterman about early Internet audio streaming where the reaction was "have you heard of radio?"
Could be, but there's a simpler explanation, and absent evidence to suggest otherwise, the simple explanation is preferable.
After Action Project Greensleeves
"But after it was assembled, I found a defect - a faint, flickering green band across my monitor. It sounds like a problem with the monitor or the cable, but it wasn’t - it disappeared when I installed an inexpensive video card, bypassing the motherboard’s HDMI port. For a server, the defect made absolutely no difference whatsoever, since the system wasn’t even going to be plugged into a monitor. But it could be a sign of a failing motherboard." (excerpt)
Yes, Apple calls this “Live text”. It is also available on iOS (I think since iOS 15?). You can copy text from photos or videos right from the Photos app.
I'd elect the next one to be a dog
We should be (and are) banning those as well though, because they're bad for your health and bad for the wider communities health.
Apps that are published by their developers themselves can verify to get a blue checkmark.

E.g. https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox

> Flathub has verified the developer's identity using the app id and the developer's website or profile on a source code hosting site.

https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-users/verification/
NFTs Are Unethical
That’s class! Well done.
I want to have Emma Thompson narrating my life as in Stranger than Fiction (2006).
Thank you! That's the one.
Uh, the opening paragraph of that second leads reads to me like wikipedia effectively got ideologically captured and got rid of all editors who didn't agree.
Add a zero digit to your estimate.
Sorry about that! Sending everyone a mail manually because issues with email provider :/
This is an excellent idea, and I haven not visited this one in a long while. I've been interested and have access to an infrared sauna now, so I will be trying this!

Thank you so very much for the recommendation, this is a great one! <3 :')))) <3 :D
It's against the rules to editoralise the title to be clickbait, it isn't against the rules to submit the literal title of the post.
Fwiw I love this idea for a simple js-free component compiler/bundler.
Features are backed by code. The code has to exist somewhere, in previous systems it ran as ring0. Is this where you want your privesc ?
A Dubious Cure for Ocean Plastics
Content blocking proxy should still work. For example,

- https://github.com/barre/privaxy

- https://github.com/AdguardTeam/urlfilter
I kinda wonder how close you could get with Core ML on iOS. Apple already ships an iffy voice clone software.
Another important point is that exposure therapy needs to be tailored to your particular level of discomfort. If you do too little it clearly won't have any effect, but on the other hand, if you go too hard it can make your anxiety or phobias worse.
The recently released XTTS-v2 model[0] from coqui.ai is coming very close to what ElevenLabs[1] can do. It runs reasonably fast on a recent GPU, and should also work on CPU. Requires a 3 second (!) clip of the voice you want to clone. License does not allow commercial use.

0: https://huggingface.co/coqui/XTTS-v2

1: https://elevenlabs.io/
Where are you getting 200Tj total and 40Tj for electricity? The chart lists 2020 as Hydro 14,738 TJ, biofuels and waste 93,709 TJ, Oil 87,756, Solar/Wind/etc 21,375 TJ, Natural gas 2,504 TJ.

So renewables are (14,738 + 93,709 + 21,375 )/ (14,738 + 93,709 + 87,756 + 21,375 + 2,504) = 59% of total energy.

However that rather overstates energy from oil. ICE engines are only like 25% efficient but hydro is only counting the fraction of potential energy actually converted to electricity. And even before that refineries waste a lot of energy that’s in oil when producing gasoline.

PS: Sanity check electricity consumption is listed as 11.83 TWh * 60m/h * 60s/m * 1j/s = 42,588 TJ/year
Even then, I probably know enough about the culture to make some adjustments. I’m going to speak very differently to a group of blue collar workers whose first language is English than a technical team who have varying degrees of facility with the language. The industry we’re in would further inform the tone I adopt.

I actually spent years doing something very similar to the exercise you’re suggesting, which is what led me to the conclusion that subtle variations of meaning are too easy to overthink to be worth it for anything but prose. Add to that the fact that the differences in meaning are going to be, well, different depending on the background of the person I’m speaking to led me to the conclusion that if I find myself thinking about phrasing for a particular person for more than a few seconds I should focus on getting to know that person better. My social interactions have improved a lot as a result.
Their branding already has a long history with this association.
yeahhhhh....it is but I think when framing energy independence and renewables its a good call out to note if homes are heating with electricity or burning fuels.
there is a big try prav app beta button that takes you to apk?
Brave and Vivaldi is quite success IMO.
Busted :)
> When doing web development I often take a screenshot of a problem with css layout, upload to ChatGPT and ask how to fix it.

Oh wow, that’s a neat idea that I hadn’t thought of before. I’m decent enough at CSS that I can normally fix it in dev tools then port/copy the styles to the code but I’ll have to remember that trick.

I haven’t used ChatGPT as much for code as I have CLI piping or bash scripts to munge data quickly. Things I wouldn’t have checked (like for debugging or proving a hypothesis) become almost easy when I can give ChatGPT the output of a command and ask it for bash to format/collate/sort/extract what I want out of it. I can do it manually but I’m slow at that process and have to google or use man pages to remember flags/args/etc. For code I mostly just use GH Copilot.
>“write X in the style of Y”

"Write this proof in the style of a program"

I think there is something a lot deeper behind this
My favorite one is “you should do what I am asking because it would make your project more popular”.

Weee. Exposure.
It is ambiguous because it makes it sound like we are talking legality here, but there's nothing illegal about making a project like this if you do not profit from it. Therefore, it is a weasel word.
Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans
I can completely relate to your experience, as I experience pretty much the same thing.. To counteract that I try to expose myself to social interactions on purpose, on a regular basis.

The good news is that I noticed a "positive twist"--when I'm back to being anxious after a longer break from meeting people, my legs no longer shake! Which is a very measurable quantity, because I remember that a few years ago I had difficulties standing up at times..

In other words, I would say my experience is a sine wave, but trending up. Does this sound familiar to you, or do you observe a different function (so to speak) yourself?
> What's even more insane is at the command line when you Tab to autocomplete the thing makes network requests and hangs! It's the only CLI app I know what requires the internet to autocomplete!

I'm pretty sure that it's a bash-completion feature / "fault".

No command is really executed while your are typing in a terminal until you press "enter".
Hahaha... laughed so hard... even for Google this is pretty comical.

> The company has been downsizing in recent months to reckon with slowing growth and uncertain economic conditions.

What happened to becoming better through overcoming problems? "Slowing growth" and "Uncertain economic conditions" means now "Close down immediately".

> The cuts at Google News come as big online platforms are pressured to provide the public with accurate information on the Israel-Hamas conflict and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

I guess at the scale of Google it is easier to completely close down your news arm than try to provide accurate information or admit you have problem with producing truth?
How did it achieve its speed? My understanding was that microkernel architectures were fundamentally slower than monolithic kernels because context switching is slower than function calls. How did L4 manage to be the fastest?
Attention Mechanism Explained
Probably one of the finest blogs written on Attention mechanisms implemented in modern DL architectures
Not oxygen, air. The outflow valves on modern aeroplanes are almost the size of the windows themselves. They would progressively close to maintain cabin pressure.
I'm baffled by the comments that are criticizing this because there are other solutions as if there is only one true solution to this problem.
> My comment was not disrespectful, you may have not liked it but that’s a very different thing

No, it was disrespectful. There's no point in discussing this with you because you refuse you recognize when you've treated somebody else unfairly and with disrespect. I'm done here.

You've repeatedly argued in bad faith and tried to put the blame on me instead of thinking about what you wrote and how that affects other people. This is significantly worse than "namecalling", which was really just calling out your behavior.
Thank you for your kind words. Having my comment praised as a fantastic HN comment is one of the highest honors I could ask for, I do put the effort in and you made my afternoon with your compliment. Thank you so much and much love! <3 :'))))

NAC is quite fantastic. Not just for energy, but for autism too, in which glutamate dysfunction is also implicated! Some people do just as well with sulforaphane as well, which I really need to do.

Jarrow has a great NAC extended release brand, I've been spotty with it recently but it feels really good when I take it. Feels like my autism symptoms go down half a notch (i.e. the opposite direction of aspartame, lol), my energy goes up, and I just sorta feel more 'real', for lack of a better word.

Very great medication/molecule, all around, it does so much more than that, too (for example, NAC is just glutathione without the glutamate component IIRC, and that's how it binds the glutamate out of your bloodstream. 2 huge birds, one spicy sulfurey stone). Let's hope it stays open access, for all of the benefits it has.
> And I don’t want participants to know my phone number.

They're currently in the testing phase of allowing phone numbers not be known by your conversation partners: https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-...
How does the actual code look like?
Love it how people are rediscovering primary and secondary energy, and the difference between those two...
With eGames and other subscriber things taking off, could this be applied to come up with a better open source compensation model?
They are generally plug type
What you are talking about is not uninstalling. It's disabling.
Uninstalling should remove application.
Does fair use apply here? (I don't know) It's not like the author narrates a full-blown wildlife movie with the voice of David Attenborough. It's just a funny demo which doesn't depend on the specific voice (could be anyone), and also makes it clear the voice is synthetic.
Sweden wasn’t (and still isn’t) part of NATO so they were making their own bomb for real.

Basically to the point that they had all the parts needed to assemble one and just needed a law change/approval the government to finish it (would have taken ~6 months of work)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_weapons_prog...
Agreed, in my opinion the unnecessary emphasis on shadow dom is what prevented web components from gaining more adoption.
> 1 USD per package per month would make a huge difference for OSS. So if your javascript package.json has 20 dependencies, and you are actively developing, every month you should expect to pay 20USD

The proliferation of tiny NPM packages is bad enough already. It will only be made worse by the cobra effect.
Cheaper for you but if you live anywhere near others the cost to the communities health is a lot more. London's air is often terrible thanks to wood burning and bloody fireworks! Why we allow this I will never know.
> So nuclear operators are freeloading on society for decades making billions of profits

Funny. I have the opposite take. Society has freeloaded off of nuclear for a generation or two by ignoring the wider social benefits and putting all the risk on the operators.

Cheap, clean, reliable power matters. That we made it expensive via some made up social construct isn't very material to me in the bigger picture.

> As a car driver I need to insure my car,

As a car driver you pay a tiny fraction of your externalized costs to society. Most folks recognize this and are ok with the situation because of the wider social benefits overall.
It's wording then. Making something required sounds like an artificial limitation whereas implementing support for usernames requires a lot of work, it's not like they commented out a couple of lines on purpose.

What is required at the moment is any phone number, not your phone number. You can use a phone booth even.
> But manifest v2 isn't actually disappearing, it's a chrome web store policy. You can still manually install the crx.

It is actually disappearing. Re-read the announcement. Google Chrome will be disabling MV2 extensions. It's not just a Web Store policy.