skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't really buy the perpetual “us vs them” mentality I’m presented with, and maybe there is a more holistic approach to collaborating with their sentiment if there was more communication

I think it's "people who write them $100,000 checks versus people who don't". There is no true collaboration when one side of the argument is shoveling piles of money in to their lap and then we are expected to encourage them to see our side.
The Destruction of the American Middle Class
> It turns out that the above cited median annual wage for 2022 was just slightly above $40,000, and that by definition half of the nation’s 172 million workers with wage records earned less than that amount. To be exact, 84.5 million workers posted annual earnings of $40,000 per year or less in 2022, with an average annual earnings level of just $17,900.
Even before hearing about ECS I wanted some kind of in-game in-memory database for game objects (preferably with history) so I could write quests and dialogs conditions in general way.

Like "If player seen this kind of a monster already and there's at least 4 people in the room and someone there has this kind of weapon equipped - enter this branch in dialog and progress the quest".

Traditional solution seems to be hardcoded special cases for all conditions which probably has better performance but sucks so much when you're implementing quests and dialogs. You tend to avoid writing quests that require new kinds of data so you end up with fedex quests and murder quests and that's it :/.

How well did this SQLite idea worked out for you?
"History browsing & bisect are very pleasant in Git because the local computer already has all the information, and just needs to present it to you."

Probably the only thing that makes me not miss SVN too much.
> Chrome and Edge have been known to send the contents of <input> elements to a spellchecking service over the network, exposing whatever was in the field

One day maybe someone will write a client side spell checker that can work without sending things to a data centre to be rendered.
Thanks, updated title
I felt the same. It's the writing style of self-contained sentences that don't lead into the next, for me.
I think that older film cameras have a very satisfying-to-use quality to them. I find that an Olympus OM-2 with a good lens feels sooo nice to use.

I know, not exactly the same as repairing fine watches, but I think it might be similar.
> Portland did everything! They invested huge sums in shelters, treatment programs, counsellors, etc.

Huge sums were collected, but they haven't really been spent. As noted elsewhere in this thread, the first detox center built with M110 money only opened two months ago, and only has 16 beds: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/new-se-portl...
Check Fraud Is Rising and the Thieves Are Winning
I never said it doesn't.

> I can't play thousands of Steam games on my Mac

This is the point I am making. There are certain apps and features that are exclusive to certain devices. I can 't play the vast majority of Steam games on my Mac. Should Steam (and all game companies involved, including Valve) be forced to enable support for MacOS for all their games because Mac users have FOMO?
Interesting.

I think I might be I interested if I weren’t a vi-mapping kinda guy. The ubiquity is good.
Big fan of his PRML book. Can't wait to get my hands on this.
One of my guiltier pleasures is listening to an S.M. Stirling series from a David Drake outline, The General series, aka the Raj Whitehall series. A lost colony amid the stars, a turbulent planet, and the happenstance hero with a computer side-kick coaching him through taking over the planet militarily & building back up to a high level civilization. It's pretty ridiculous & direct & simple, but something about it is comfortable & silly, relaxing. I should revisit; I have only read the first four books on the first planet Bellevue.

The Hammer Slammer series is the other go to name I associate with Drake (his books). I've been meaning to retry. I failed to get into the first book but hadn't tried very hard, was just a busy time. DD has a bunch of other series tok, would love more recommendations that have stood out to folks.
> iMessage is easily good enough that I haven't had to go find some alternative SMS app

(Almost) nobody here is challenging that it is, under the condition that you communicate exclusively with iPhone users.

MMS group chats are an absolute dumpster fire from an UX point of view. In some countries, a single MMS costs about half an USD as well (per recipient)!
The ISS cost $150 billion. One Starship launch may well cost under $75 million, once they have a cadence going.

Three orders of magnitude reduction in cost in thirty years is pretty good going for something that insanely complicated.
Monte Carlo, Puppetry, and Laughter, Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques
> You can't put jmods on the module path, even though it would be easily implemented.

Yes, it could be easily implemented, although things would work nicely even without that. You make it sound as if there would have been proper build tool support if that were the case, but JARs can be easily put on the module path and still build tools don't properly support even that yet.

> When native code gets involved they are platform specific

Well, yeah. Native code is platform specific, and that's one of its main downsides and why most libraries don't (and shouldn't) use it. But when it is used, it's used for its upsides.

> At some point the JDK developers need to stop pointing the finger at build tool providers

All of the problems you mentioned could only be solved by build tools, but we're not pointing fingers in the sense that we blame build tools for things being bad. After all, modules have been very successful at allowing us to do things like virtual threads and FFM and remove things like SecurityManager. Build tools providers can have their own priorities, just as we do. But if you want to enjoy your own modules or 3rd party modules then you'll need good support by build tools.

> They could contribute patches to change these things upstream, or develop their own build system, but have never done it

Yet. There were more urgent things to work on, but maybe not for long.
In quite a few countries, the vast majority of Internet users (in Kenya, 97%!) use whatsapp at least once a month: https://www.verint.com/blog/what-countries-are-the-biggest-w...

In India alone, whatsapp MAU already reaches nearly 50% of imessage MAU worldwide, and rapidly rising.
Competition is how the world moves forward. I'm super glad small and big players have competitive models.

The thing that makes me a bit sad is how announcements show the benchmarks but they way they test is tweaked to make their metrics favorable. They aren't apple to apple benchmarks across different paper publications.

Super grateful that they openly share the weights and code with Apache license.

25 shot - is having 25 tries and selecting the best answer.

Is anyone working on an open benchmark where they take the major models and compare them apples to apples.
Been giving me the error tvq-pb-101 on my TV when trying to play. Seemed to be working on the Android app, though.
I also am skeptical of this claim. I mean, if you've got solid mechanical connection to the ISS as in you don't spin when you use the wrench, you shouldn't impart momentum. It would be the same thing if you did the wrenching _inside_ the station as well.
Maybe it's depressed because it knows about the AI Winter.
Someone made this: https://github.com/manticore-projects/fpng-java

Replacing zlib might give you a few percentage points' worth of difference, whilst fpnge would likely be several times faster.
Long time ago I learned that a database is any kind of structured, machine readable data. A database management system is the software that manages these databases and databases + database management system = database system. Dunno if recalled correctly.

Directly afterwards I got told that no one ever uses these words correctly, but the professor felt obliged to at least tell us the academic definition once.

Since this was a German lecture, some time was spent on the correct plural of schema (german: Schema). The options presented were Schema, Schemas, Schemata and everything was allowed as long as it is not Schemen (multiple shadowy figures).

Dunno why I remember this. It's the only part of the lecture I really remember.
IMO the title is actually pretty great. Yes its not very precise, but on the positive side its catchy and gets the point across quick.
Does f-droid allow non-open source apps?
even SMS is seen as outdated here i feel
Yeah I think most people would consider Volvo - a standard bearer for safe vehicles for over 100 years - a success
I only know Wordstar as being the text editor GRR Martin uses to write on his DOS machine:

https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716232/george-r-r-martin...
God speed on-call engineers. We salute you.
My health varies unpredictably; some days I'm not really fit to be out of bed, some days I'm pretty good.

Bad days, if I feel i can try working on something, I tend to stick to smaller "side" parts of a bigger task. Grooming dotfiles, editing docs, that kind of thing. Limit the possible impact of mistakes, and do things more amenable to non-thinking "change and try again" approaches.
> The fallacy of appeal to authority is referring to cases where the authority status is unrelated to the field of the argument.

This is called "appeal to false authority" fallacy. A member of this family (but not the only member)

> It is not a fallacy to assign higher credence to a statement of an expert in the relevant field relative to outsider with no relevant expertise.

Wrong. It depends on context. Check the definition again, is wider than you think.
Does anyone know how this app might be revived? Smith-Kettlewell says they have no plans to restart it.
Just another step along the march to the 'you don't own your property's mindset.
Bard solvable?
Just a note you can run upscaling on your home desktop with Real-ESRGAN:

https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN
ChatGPT-4V user remade Google's deceptive Gemini AI demo without editing cheats
Ask HN: Employer obligations hiring an international (in the STEM OPT program?)
I run a small business and have the opportunity to hire an acquaintance for some work while being able to help keep them in the US. I'd get smart-but-not-fully-relevant labor for cheap and help them stay in the US.

I figured the HN crowd has a strong contingent of people running businesses hiring internationals, so before I consult an immigration attorney I wanted to check and see if there was any red flags or advice HN could give. Anybody previously run into this situation have any tips?
Secrets like "what are the codes to the nuclear weapons" or "what are the identities of our spies in foreign countries", sure. Secrets like "we served a warrant to this entity for this information", no. I don't think such secrets are ever appropriate. The government should not have the authority to stop any entity from disclosing information they didn't agree in advance to keep secret.

When you sign up to have top-secret clearance, you're agreeing that you are to keep that information secret, and you wouldn't have obtained the information otherwise; you can always choose not to apply for that clearance and then not get the information.

Secret warrants should not exist. The concept is fundamentally flawed and irreparable. If you receive a warrant you should always be entirely within your rights to publish it verbatim.

Separate from that: the entire concept of compelling an entity to collect information is also fundamentally flawed and unfixable. Serving a (non-secret) warrant to gather information an entity already has is perfectly reasonable. Compelling an entity to gather information they otherwise would not have gathered is not reasonable.
> Does anyone know the forums where people create bills for laws

Call your electeds and let them know of policy areas you’re interested in and could comment on legislation about. Or, if you see a bill, call in the edit.
To answer my own question, the phenylacetone process is cheaper, simpler, and produces higher purity (~90% from 80%) product.

Smells like drugwar propaganda.
What are you refering to, more specifically, from Codd's original paper?
I should have said it explicitly, but there was an implicit "couldn't do themselves in a reasonable amount of time".

If the rumors are true, Apple already has iMessage running on Android, they just haven't released it yet. They used to support AIM and other messaging services, so they're no stranger to cross-platform messaging apps. The could probably pull together a Beeper competitor pretty quickly.
There's the rub. "Secrets for thee" would mean giving secrets to the whole world- enemies and all. They do eventually become declassified which seems like a good compromise. Transparency without giving a freebie to the enemy.
As ChatGPT gets "lazy," people test "winter break hypothesis" as the cause
You can self-host this matrix bridge which is developed by beeper.

So you can host this on your mac, and then you can join that bridge using matrix.

I've used this once for whatsapp, and it worked quite well, also stuff like polls and reactions worked. Though I don't know how good the imessage bridge is feature wise.
Works on my laptop but not the TV. Seems to be an issue with the TV app.
If you're trying to save your tax dollars, you should really be in favor of letting people shoot up on the BART! After all, doing nothing costs nothing!
Dated July. What's happened since then?
This isn't true. That ability is no longer there.
This only works if you're reading on a backlit device like a phone or ebook reader
Escargot: MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger Revival Project
It sounds like the reform bill, i.e. the Judiciary bill that calls for warrants, does not contain this expansion. It’s the “business as usual” bill that’s troubling. Given that, the headline seems easy to misinterpret.
> Nonsense

It's absolute truth

> That's nice. GitHub is a billion dollar Microsoft subsidiary with a gigantic legal team on speed dial.

And instead of third-party tracking, selling your data to the highest bidder, and pestering you with miles-long cookie popups with hundreds of "partners", they don't do any of that.

So, how is this impossible for any other business that doesn't have those lawyers?

> What does "non-essential" mean here?

The law has been around for 7 years now. If you still ask this question and assume that you need to spend billions on lawyers to do the easy sensible thing, it only means that you don't care about answers.
Yes and pushing 'when do i update to/from the server' onto the user is exactly what I'm complaining about. No other software I use does this. Even software originally built to do things locally allows you to seamlessly update to/from a server nowadays (e.g. working on a cloud document in Word say). And any software built from the ground up to do this tends to have a great user experience (e.g. Figma).
Good thing Tesla doesn't have a marketing team lest one might think this is a marketing stunt
Expansion of surveillance powers will only give more fuel to the Qanon nut jobs that will see the government as even more of an enemy than they already do. Who knows where that’ll lead, political divide is only getting worse every year to the point where the Republican Party is now sharply divided into two factions. This type of shit doesn’t help the situation.
Can confirm, streaming through the xbox app give me the same error.

Android app works as described.
Not to mention every street interview with a criminal involves them gleefully detailing how they only get a misdemeanor and let out easily.

https://youtu.be/fbTrLyqL_nw?si=18V5sysqmf68LYr-&t=434

https://youtu.be/3eGbX-2VB_Q?si=0Lu5xny7Jbz7v_Tw&t=34
> Tell me more about your use case and what pain points you do have!

I don't have pain points with my reverse proxy or auto tls. I honestly don't want a reverse proxy that does auto TLS by default. I put it more places where it is not needed and would prefer to opt in when/where needed.

> I _believe_ everything we've written is accurate/true, many of which cite original sources.

I see one section that does this with questionable value. That section actually decreased my trust. They are 5+ years old and the one I looked at in detail (third) only mentions caddy in one sentence. I would not put something like that as "proof" on a website. I understand you believe these things, but now I believe and trust less.
What could the passengers do if the plane were hijacked and the cockpit door were locked? Isn't there essentially no way in?

I agree though. Anyone familiar with 9/11 would fight hijackers with their life.
IMHO, it's unlikely anyone with an iPhone uses it "purely for SMS usage." That would mean we have an iPhone owner who only receives SMS from services, only sends messages to people with an Android device, has gone through the trouble to deliberately disable iMessage messages or lacks a data plan of any kind.
A sql statement can return a database… if you serialize your database entities w/ lazy loaded relationships straight from an ORM to your API response
Looks like the embedded slideshow is what is "free". They want you to purchase the actual book.
https://www.positron.ai/
Reminds me of a scene from Hyperion Cantos with the ousters (imagine all of this but the structure is sentient is also part of a Dyson sphere).
One of my close friends from middle and high school came from a family whose patriarch did this same kind of job.

He had a slightly bigger operation than this guy, because he had to buy snow removal equipment to clear snow from parking lots, but it’s totally a thing you can do.
In college the big goal was to have weekend wednesdays where you only had classes MT, RF. It was pretty great.
Yes, but a working concept for sql duplicate database & populate was to automate the 'populate with just relevant data needed.

Potential for github pulls/pushes of databases with 'select' relevant data to push/provide via sql.

Bit easier to think of it as method(s) needed to make dbms a replacement for OS where duplicate dbms is equivalent to exec a shell with relevant copy of files.
But, that party uses imessage for some things.
I want to be able to send them an SMS.

How would that be done?
No, I mean as an sms app. It’s fine for that. Group sms can get kinda rough but I’ve also never had a phone that did it better, including pre-iPhone phones, and a few Android phones. Of course it’s better if you can stay in iMessage, to avoid SMS, same as switching over to WhatsApp or whatever is way better.

> MMS group chats are an absolute dumpster fire from an UX point of view. In some countries, a single MMS costs about half an USD as well (per recipient)!

Yes, agreed, I’ve never seen it not be awful.
What if disclosing the warrant causes the target(s) to change their behavior and cause harm?

> Secret warrants should not exist.

I disagree, and so do the courts.
The visual language looks slick to me, and it appears that a lot of thought went into the redesign. A few critical remarks (intended as constructive feedback/thoughts):

- I second the point from the sibling comment that the 3d transformations don’t feel right for the terminal demos. I first didn’t realise at all that the terminal demos show-cased something meaningful. And when I did, I found it hard to follow, due to the distortion.

- The terminal demos are a cool idea, but seeing that you also try to target a non-technical audience, I’m not sure it’s the most approachable and expressive medium. Maybe a video with voice-over comments would be easier to follow?

- There is a lot of content on the page, and I’m not sure I understand the information hierarchy. Like: below the intro header, it starts with certificate stuff, then some general selling points, then some DNS demo I don’t really know what it’s about, then certificates again, then other features, etc. Overall, it feels borderline overwhelming to me.

- Related to my previous point, if I wouldn’t know Caddy previously, I might get the impression that Caddy is mainly about certificates/TLS, just because that’s featured very prominently. Maybe my mental model wasn’t right, though, because I always thought Caddy was a general-purpose web server primarily, that also happens to provide some nifty convenience features around certificate auto-renewal.

- Very nitty: I find the green background glow a bit too bright, and hence contrasting too little with the green text colour of the headline. Also, does the dark mode button have any effect?
Interesting. That was in 2022 for the Lightning. Now it was just announced the production was cut in half, so I doubt it still holds

Ford cuts planned 2024 production of electric F-150 Lightning in half

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/11/f-150-lightning-ford-cuts-20...
The material problem is that their lives are often so miserable that feeling good from doing drugs even under threat of incarceration overrides most punishments you could dish out.
If you slice the numbers differently you get a different result.

But the fact that Houston is even in the list in the first place is the interesting part. Whether it beats NYC or not is sorta not the most important part of my comment.

It seems the Forrest might have been missed for the trees. (I don’t feel like you understood or validated what I said, whether you disagree with the precise methodology or not)
I always remember bricklayers don't have fingerprints.

(also me apparently - when my fingers are wet)
I still don't see how "Drugs should be decriminalized because taking drugs is a victimless crime" and "Society needs to sync a lot of resources in tackling drug abuse" are compatible positions to hold at the same time.

Either let people do drugs and let them worry about the consequences, or, if society is going to be on the hook for the consequences, don't. There is no feasible way to hold both positions at the same time.
The PineTime is still an electronic gadget that you won't use for very long.

My watch takes 15 seconds to rewind each day, and 5 seconds to be time adjusted by one minute twice a week. Service is every 5 years, the last one cost me 88 €. It gets more valuable each year, and I plan to bequeath it to my son in a (hopefully) very distant future.

To each his own, I guess.
We can speculate on any possibility. The basis of science, and the reason for its outstanding success, is the requirement for evidence. Do we have any evidence of any other organisms ever doing anything of the sort? The answer is no.

Almost all known non-human tool use is for obtaining food, afaik.

Other primates use tools, but it's on the level of a stick stripped of leaves to poke into a termite nest (termites crawl on stick, remove stick, eat).

Avians are the other main category; some only have been observed using tools in captivty. Corvids (crows, ravens, rooks) are particularly interesting. New Caledonian Crows will actually bend the end of a tool to make a hook, good for prying out grubs from under bark. Rooks have handled some particularly complex problems in captivity.

There is no evidence of any non-human doing anything like making axes, chopping wood, and constructing something. If I understand the paper correctly, the 'axes' were 'handaxes' - archaeologist-speak for an unhafted axes, i.e., axes sans handles, i.e., effectively just the axe head which you hold in the palm of your hand. Our ancestors took > 2 million years to figure out how to attach tools to hafts, succeeding by ~200,000 years ago (but only in one place - 'the future is here, it's just not widely distributed yet'.)