skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is stopping you from having your opinion, or voicing it, so stop blathering like you're being censored.

Your privilege is showing -- or are you just used to being agreed with and getting your way?

As for the cost -- the expense is human lives and untold misery. Which is the unacceptable cost of every war. Which is why bullies use it as a tool, in hopes that their foe will submit because the cost is unbearable.

It's brutally unpalatable and inhumane to continue with war. But the alternative is worse.

BTW last week Putin made it clear that no "peace" at the current borders will be permitted and that their original goals remain, which is (at a minimum) the merge into Russia of all the Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts, the elimination of the gov't in Ukraine (and presumably its replacement with a puppet regime), and no EU membership and certainly no NATO protection.

So basically 1/2 the territory of Ukraine, including its most productive agricultural and industrial lands, the bulk of its Black Sea coastline, and it become a client state.

That's peace?
Seems like the content market is due for a correction, then. If people are sick of toxic ads, and toxic ads pay for content, but nobody else wants to pay for the content, the content can just die and we'll figure something else out I'm sure.
It is in the Wiki:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Serializable
Any transaction which is run at a transaction isolation level other than SERIALIZABLE will not be affected by SSI. If you want to enforce business rules through SSI, all transactions should be run at the SERIALIZABLE transaction isolation level, and that should probably be set as the default.

I guess it is the same for all MVCC databases. They don't want to acquire a read lock just in case another transaction is in Serializable
Can't violate the Principle of Least Privilege if you don't know what it is.
Spaces I suppose. Very easy, clean work/personal separation. That and the bookmark/tab conflation thing they're doing is actually kind of nice once you get used to it. Oh, and sync'ing cross device is nice as well.

I don't use any of the easel or boost stuff. I'd prefer if they stop working such silly things and focus on bringing their mobile app up to par but seems like they'll get there.
Yeah that's probably why the soviets (and the americans) used grease pencils instead of graphite pencils in space.

The absurdism of this pencil/pen lore goes so deep that even the corrections can't get it right. Seriously does everyone just assume that people in the 60's were that stupid?
Show HN: Screenshot 2 Text GPT (with vision not OCR)
GPT4V tends to rely on OCR instead of Vision to extract text. I found this to be less accurate.

This is basically a prompt that forces vision's use for text extraction.
> I'm not sure how valuable it is to argue with someone who cannot read two messages up in the message hierarchy...

Do you mean the one you mentioned 4 messages up? And dropped with this?

> Ok, lets hear you argue for what service a patent troll provides.

Sure - the one you dropped was domain flipping. Clearly buying something at a certain price and then selling it again is not nothing - that's why people pay for it. Just like house flipping. Or just buying anything speculatively. I assume you realised that, and dropped it for that reason.
> I will try to see if they can be separated.

Not so fast, if you have shared code that is breaking that'd be a perfect place to start introducing automated testing. In general automated UI testing is more work and false-flags than it's worth, but the exception is heavily reused code. That said, if you have code that is technically reused, but there are so many parameters that no use site is the same and changing the way one parameter gets interpreted causes issues with another, yes that'd be a good thing to fix up.

> When you have hundreds of variables and one of them throws DivisionByZero error or invalid data type, those are hard to catch

What makes those hard to catch?
I created a staging setup, the CI/CD pipeline already, I pitched to my Engineering manager to get me a QA. I will push harder from now to smoothen the deployments.
I like Capture One as an alternative to lightroom for a fujifilm camera, it has great integrations with the camera’s film styles feature. It doesn’t offer the more powerful image manipulation features of photoshop though. It can be one-time purchased for the yearly release or subscribed for continual updates
Am I understanding correctly that because they map a “Pod” to a “Fly Machine”, there’s no intermediate “Node” concept?

If so, this is very attractive. When using GKS, we had to do a lot of work to get our Node utilization (the percent of resources we had reserve on a VM actually occupied by pods) to be higher than 50%.

Curios what happens when you run “kubectl get nodes” - does it lie to you, or call each region one Node?
Tried reading a local newspaper website recently? It’s a mess of ads, pop ups, scams leaving a small 2-3 line window of text to read and scroll!
I took a crack at recreating this in javascript once the necessary APIs made their way to mobile safari - https://highphone.app if interested! (iPhones only, sorry)
How is this any different?
I've seen old tutorial from the Windows 7 era, tried to do the same with Windows 11 but failed.

Can you explain how to use Windows bootmgr to chainload a linux kernel store either in the EFI or the NTFS?

The goal is to use the same menu that shows different Windows versions from different drives
This ship has sailed, bro. lol, the year 2000 called they want your car back
They will almost certainly settle, and very quickly in my opinion (also just a layman opinion however) because if Masimo is successful in forcing them to stop sales the next logical step would be to force them to disable the feature until a ruling is made otherwise.
This was personal experience, it’s really not necessary for you to call me a liar.
Go has a really nice spec and multiple implementations too.

https://go.dev/ref/spec
Both might be equally capable but the incentives are entirely different. An Engineer is motivated to deliver accurate predictions because that's their job. A CEO is not motivated to deliver accurate predictions because their main job is to hype their product and services.
Basically a wall of text going around that Intel and AMD never delivered anything in OpenCL that would make developers actually care.

They only needed to make something half as usable as CUDA, in polyglot support and graphical development tooling for GPGPU.

I was once in a Khronos panel webminar in HPC, where no one in the panel understood the relevance of Fortran support in OpenCL, then no wonder Fortran workloads get deployed with CUDA.
Agree, it is one of the best WASM interpreter! Even better than some of the runtimes we can get here and then
Performance is very good and architecture and beauty of the code is definitely impressive.
In 1970s Ireland, Pubs Briefly Replaced Banks – and It Worked
What's causing people to distrust everything is not some troll farms lying to them. It's their own government lying to them, constantly, repeatedly, incessantly - and then claiming only strict control by the same government over all the information can save the citizens from evil trolls that are out to get them. I dgaf what Russians say, but when I see the US government lying constantly and the corporate press parroting these lies and submitting themselves to the partisan propaganda - I will never trust them ever again on anything.
One American steel company is "failing". And by "failing" you mean still producing billions in profit every year, leadership just decided they wanted to cash out.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/X:NYSE
And yet NUMMI failed.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a5514/4350856/

Then the building became Solyndra, which also failed.

GM, of course, is one of the stupidest companies on Earth, so they'd have trouble selling free beer to college football fans. If you want to blame them you won't get any argument from me.
It saddens me to no end that this constitutes "daily activity". I want to see a day where the non critical internet is unplugged, just to hear crowds rejoy in new found mental space and energy
Got any links by chance?
> * You can't actually delegate agency to a computer. The Restatement of the Law of Agency says an agent must be a person.

Does Amazon manually review every purchase made on their site? This seems not to be true at least for some contracts.

The rest seem to fall along a similar vein. If you believe software cannot act as an agent for a corporation in creating sales contracts, then similarly it should follow that what you're suggesting is true -- LLMs cannot act as an agent.

But we know that is not the case in some circumstances.
Wouldn't be shocked if infotainment does too. What else should they use?
Ublock Origin is great at anti-adverts and anti-anti-adtech.

For everything else, use SponsorBlock! (Crowdsourced auto-skip YouTube for annoying in-video adverts)
A Handful of Companies Rule the Internet with DDoS Mitigation
Having access to it is not the same as having permission to take it, make copies of it, or remove it or its copies from the owner.
Totally agree with you. It feels like nowadays businesses are not really about making a profitable business. But about vanity metrics and get a huge exit ASAP even if the business doesn't really survive without VC injections.
I'm actually an immigrant in Canada, so part of the problem!

BUT: I look around me and I see oodles of space and very little new building going on. 2.7% growth should not be impossible to deal with.

When I first moved to Toronto, I was shocked to discover that there are not only actual houses in the downtown area, but entire zero-rise neighbourhoods.

I now live in Calgary, which is where half of Ontario is moving, and according to this [0] we had a "record" new housing starts last year of 5700 houses and 7700 apartments in Calgary. We probably need closer to 57000 and 77000; we have the financial system to support that, and we have enough room for it. Finding that many tradespeople might be a challenge, but we aren't even trying.

[0] - https://calgaryherald.com/business/local-business/calgary-ho....
What do you think the back office is for?
I'm curious what you were aiming at?
This is very bad for America. We need to keep some degree of industrial steel capacity capabilities in house.

For perspective, the vast majority of global steel capacity is in China, which made over half of global steel output in 2020 (its almost a trillion dollar market), while the United States accounted for approximately 4%.

I mean Nippon is a great company, but this is a critical piece of infrastructure at a time when things aren’t going exactly perfectly in the world.
> Person 1 is a so called solopreneur. Works hard. Pays bills. But eventually burns out and because no one want her/his "shares", she/he closes shop. "Damn I wish they told me about exit and the value there of...," she/he thinks. A hobby that produces revenue is not the same as producing value.

My old boss closed shop. Didn't want to fuss with selling to someone. He'd generated plenty of economic value to retire on and travel around the world for his retirement years. Nice big house, boat, no debt, lots in the bank. Profits for his clients, salaries for his workers, revenue to his selected vendors.

No acquisition. Plenty of economic value generated.

You can continue to be aggressively wrong and watch your comments descend into the grey and get flagged as a result, but I'm out. Constructive debate requires a shared reality and set of facts.
> TypeScript has a single implementation

It's probably a matter of time until there's a TypeScript compiler implemented in Rust. But the surface area of the language is pretty big, and I imagine it will always lag behind the official compiler.

> Forks find it difficult to keep up with the changes

That's interesting to think of multiple implementation of a language as "forks" rather than spec-compliant compilers and runtimes. But the problem remains the same, the time and effort necessary to constantly keep up with the reference implementation, the upstream.
Depressing to see people trusting M$ over literally anything else...
Indian Telecom Bill allows Centre to take over services over 'national security'
Sorry my melancholy but it seems that sooner or later everyone sells out.
360° SPINNING guitar neck [video]
Did they actually demonstrate that Amazon was raising prices above MSRP or above prices at say Walmart or Target for similar SKUs?
Stop being anticompetitive and give me access to your infrastructure. I should be able to sell a service running code on your hardware.
There is a very high price to pay when going with your own scheduling solution: you have to compete with the resources google and others are throwing at the problem.

Also, there is the market for talent, which is non-existent for fly.io technology if it's not open source (I see what you did here, Google): you'll have to teach people how your solution works internally and congratulations, now you have a global pool of 20 (maybe 100) people that can improved it (if you have really deep pockets, maybe you can have 5 Phd). Damn, universities right now maybe have classes about Kubernetes for undergrad students. Will they teach your internal solution?

So, if a big part of your problem is already solved by a gigantic corporation investing millions to create a pool of talented people, you better take use of that!

Nice move, fly.io!
Yes this is important. Otherwise in the future you'll see proprietary rust distributions for various devices or with specific features
How is it possible to generate a stolen image?
> the massively overpriced $15/m

why do you consider this massively overpriced? 55% of it i believe goes to content creators and they make more from a subscription watch then an ad supported watch.
Zeplin doesn't do what Figma does, but Figma does what Zeplin does, if that makes sense. You wouldn't stop using Figma and use Zeplin instead, you'd only supplement your Figma license with Zeplin if you thought Zeplin did design handoff better than Figma (maybe it does, I haven't used it in years, but that wasn't the case a few years ago).
Wait, what, really? Is there some article or study, or something where I can read about this? It sounds quite interesting.
Nice, quite a similar philosophy.
Genius, just make it illegal to be unprofitable.
It seems kind of obvious that peer review is going to reward peer think, peer citation, and academic incremental advance. Obviously that's not how innovation works.
I can't tell if there's anything here I should be trying to learn. Best I can tell it's choosing obtuse naming for Static and Dynamic typing.

> Summary: Static vs dynamic typing debates often flounder because the debators see from two different perspectives without knowing it. Learning to identify the two perspectives can calm the discussion. The tension between the two perspectives has led to Gradual Typing and other technologies.

I'm not buying this. The best pragmatic answer for myself is that static types is better in large or across teams. Dynamic typing is good for solo or early development by a small team. Gradual typing is the best you can get when a product developed with dynamic typing grows to be developed by many.
The Next Front in Climate Activism Is De-Privatizing Utilities
If their reluctance were based on valid reasons that they handled in a unique way - might be good. In theory.
Curious how much it costs Netflix to serve 1 hour of a movie in high res. Can anybody with relevant knowledge estimate?
Entirely coincidental, but, Google(1998-) is nearing the age of Sun Microsystems(1982-2010) when it died.
Possibly. I tried hard to have some memorable examples.

But I'll be honest: Every time I got review comments (or re-reviewed myself), it took a bit of time for my brain to warm up again into "transaction mode".

The big lesson may that concurrent transactions are pretty hard to reason about without external assistant like diagrams or test scenarios. I really like the system Postgres uses for transaction testing (AKA - deterministic simulation testing). Create scenario that match your business logic and then run them serially but with different ordering of statements and make sure the results are as you expect.
Loss of data is irrelevant. If you don't have permission to take something or copy it, then you're stealing. Again, I think the benefits of what happened in this case are obvious so I'm not arguing the morality of this. I just think it's absolutely silly that people are bending over backwards to pretend that this isn't stealing and that the reason we have something that would have been otherwise lost is because someone had to balls to steal it.

It's stealing. You're taking something from the owner without permission. Just stop with the mental gymnastics.
On an unrelated Note, I admit I hated the idea of setting up processes because I enjoyed the freedom given to me by my manager to make architectural and code decisions on my own and move fast rather than following rigid practices. I am not sure if that mindset is good.
> When you lend money from a bank, you will not spend it on fancy restaurant visits. Because you know you will have to pay it back.

Wealthy people borrow against their equity all of the time to avoid taxes while funding their lavish lifestyles.
"I have to assume" -- you do? Why?

The DOJ already signaled it wanted to block this on antitrust grounds almost a year ago. If "regulators" had immediately rejected the deal, there'd be a similar "oh, this will have a chilling effect" complaint because they slapped it down without adequate due diligence.

This is one M&A deal out of many. The vast majority -- even some that shouldn't be approved IMO -- sail through or squeak through due to persistence. I just can't find it within myself to feel bad for Adobe in this, since the most likely outcome was to just solidify Adobe's grip on the market and reduce competition. I know quite a few people who use Figma who were absolutely dreading this merger.
Why Not OpenDoc-Alikes?
> "As Greyhound terminals close, transit advocates say the public sector needs to step in to play a larger role in supporting intercity bus travel."

I wish the article would cite the transit advocates that are in favor of this.
English version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38680946
The downfall of the EU could potentially allow for a successor framework that is more democratically backed. There are some that think the EU is corrupted beyond saving and it would be easier to start a new project instead of reforming the existing.

Personally, the fact that the EU considers itself above the constitutions of its member states without having this "constitution level" approved by the actual people (there are two referendums that failed at the ballot, in France and in the Netherlands, that lead restructuring so that no more popular vote was necessary, those are the contracts which are now in place), is a major no go for me. If there ever is to be an European constitution, the people must absolutely be able to vote on it, and the vote must be binding - so rejection means no, and a not "bypass by restructuring" - and a new attempt must then furthermore be voted on.
I went in expecting them to just use Florine as a proxy for PFAS (which is commonly and incorrectly done) and was pleased to see some real science with actual compounds identified.
Seems like you are stuck not supporting creators til you can support all the creators you may reasonably choose to support.
Very astute observation.

It is sometimes worth it to take people who are unhappy in their job and/or not performing well and give them a package when they are available. I would guess there are 20 of these people at any company of that size, not just WOTC.
Reminds me of one of when I made my first android app way back in the early days of android; it made the phone scream whenever it detected it was falling.
No one gives a crap about your pedantry. I never said anything about "legally stealing". They took something that didn't belong to them and that they didn't have permission to give to someone else or copy. That's theft. It's stealing.
Depending on how exactly you segment the market, Adobe's market share is somewhere between 33% and 75%. The runner-up is in the single digits.

In my view, the case for blocking this acquisition couldn't be any clearer. If Adobe wants to grow in this space, it should make better software or cut prices or both.
Also many people use "Java" in the enterprise without paying Oracle a red cent.
zig , ocaml, odin

many system languages are making the headlines lately
its very hard to pick one to learn

not sure how to deal with this, learn them all, bet on one, what should we do
Japan (an ally) and China may own most of America's foreign debt but the vast majority of US debt is owed by the US.

And if China sells some of that debt
other countries are more then happy to buy it. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/foreign-holdings-us-treas...

The US would prefer to have a better relationship with China but Chinese threats to invade independent country of Taiwan make it very difficult
The goal is to have full ISOs, for Ubuntu, Windows 11 etc with the minimal number of partitions and files, for easy maintenance and imaging to other computers

A few ISO + a UEFI entry to select them is much simpler: the ISO file will never change. It can not be rended unbootable by mistake

I tried to explain that yesterday in a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38668260 and on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38668809
someone help me understand: Figma is a UI designer/Balsamiq like app worth a billion dollars?
"Stolen" is meant colloquially, not literally let alone precise legally.
A new look and vision for EA's Frostbite engine
"Comparing Bandera to Hitler is utterly ridiculous"

I was comparing the line of argument.

"but if all you can do is comment on Azov in 2023"

And I can and did a bit more, but there is probably no point in further debating it.
For audiobooks, do most people really buy books that are 10 hours or less? Most of mine are at least 11 hours. The average seems to be closer to 13 - 20 hours. Typically each of my books gets at least two listens, too.
is there any way to see the avg time users watch the videos? Long videos get fewer views naturally but the views can be longer. So the total user time can be the same (more views * less time spent per view = less views * more time spent per view). So I am interested in how yt determines monetization for this case.

also, is it possible to see distribution of users based on geography? would be very interesting
The problem is that you are outsourcing that information curation to a bot that is 100% happy to feed you bullshit - and you have no recourse and no way to check because it doesn't tell you how did it arrive at the information it is feeding you.

Also that information is by definition old. For something it doesn't matter, for many other things, like current news, it very much does.

So while the attraction of having a personal "butler" doing the hard work for you is great, no doubt, it is ultimately no better than getting one's information from Facebook - you have ceded control and get whatever the creators of the system deem you worthy of having. Including political and other agendas. Just look at the censorship the Baidu bot is applying and the entire "jailbreaking" industry around escaping the artificially imposed boundaries on these bots, for good or bad reasons.

And ultimately even ChatGPT and its ilk won't help us any when the web they scrape will be filled with machine-generated spam and crap drowning out all the useful information. Garbage in, garbage out applies even to these robots. They aren't magic.
This applies to discussion too.

For instance, how many Reddit comments are bots? With the extreme groupthink present there, it wouldn't be a huge shock if it already makes up over half of the comments in popular subs.