skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many of the ads I see on youtube aren’t even products - they are scams.

The ad will be a clip of a celebrity with what’s clearly a separate ai-generated voiceover telling you “you can get thousands of dollars now if you do this one thing.”

I’ve seen the same style of ad nearly every day for the last month. The celebrity changes every time I see it and has had so many people. Oprah, The Rock, Steve Harvey, Joe Biden, etc.

I’ve reported the ads every time. They are always different companies from different countries. If YouTube is doing anything about it- it isn’t working.

And then YouTube is trying to stop me from blocking these ads? They can try. But I refuse to pay for premium.
I use STARE. What are the pluses/minus for that? Position wise, would TEARS or RATES be better.
I enjoyed that sentence, too. It may be what led me to keep reading to the end of the piece.
I get the latter 3, but what is the scripture?
Working at creating value is what matters, not just working hard.
> That forces me to drink beer all the time

My opinion of American tourists is such that I can't tell if this is a joke, and I'm Canadian, ffs.
Apparently, Qatar Airways CEO of 27 years abruptly resigned in October and the new one stated that creating “a culture of trust and empowerment will be the building blocks of our shared success.” [1] So things might be changing.

[1] https://onemileatatime.com/news/new-qatar-airways-ceo/
> It can also go in the dishwasher

Why would you do such a thing? It breaks my frying pan heart.

Be gentle, clean with oil, wipe off excess. It will love you back.
I appreciate the work that went into this, but it might be overthinking it to the point of turning some people away.

If someone wants to get into cooking their own meals to save money, the advice I would give is: go to Goodwill, or a store like TJ Maxx or Ross, where they sell this stuff for almost nothing. Buy the heaviest skillet and saucepan they have. Then buy a colander, some spatulas, scrapers, and tongs, and an 8-10" chef's knife and, if they have one, a honing steel. When you want to make soup, buy a stock pot. Subscribe to some YouTube channels and recipe blogs, and if they make some dish that looks good, but you don't have the right equipment, buy what they use, or something like it. Don't buy everything on day one, and don't get the impression that you have to get the right model of equipment or cooking somehow won't work.
"Everyone wants investment from venture capitalists"

No they don't, why should anyone sane pay for working capital with equity. If all a VC brings to the table is cash, than they are functionally a bank loan with really terrible terms.

One can tell a bad idea when you have to explain its value proposition to people, at that point it is a vanity project already non-viable.

Rule #14: "Never outsource economic control structures, or one may end up indentured"
Nobody in France is treating Quebec as a backwater colony, not even as a colony. It is all in your head.

Quebec has a very good image in France.
Ah, it was flagged. Figures.
Not surprising. I took my family on a multi country trip between France, Egypt and Qatar in mid 2022. We splurged for q suites on Qatar airways and also a hotel stay via Discover Qatar.

Fast forward to our aborted attempt at entering the country. We are denied boarding on Qatar airways for our return flight via Doha with our booked stopover. Apparently there is some sort of electronic approval process we did not perform - mind you, we had already filed the forms including our negative Covid tests taken in country- but to no avail. Qatar airways refused to rebook us as they claimed we were a no show. After hours of calls with the airline we finally convinced them to rebook us at no cost, without the stopover. Discover Qatar continues to this day to refuse a refund for a hotel stay we could not use as we were denied entry.

First world problems, yes, but when you’re looking for tourism dollars, don’t piss off your customer base.
Do you think the people worried about nuclear weapons at the time the first atom was split had evidence for their claims or no?
> There's a Japanese saying that I found useful:
"Fix the problem, not the blame."

Never mind that they invented that saying because they didn’t want to be held accountable either.
Ah yes. The Precursor is real now, you can read more at https://precursor.dev. As a baseline it can function as a password/authentication token manager, but as another user mentioned we're adding messaging features now.

Another thing I'm working on is IRIS, a non-destructive method for inspecting silicon chips after mounting on a circuit board: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07406 It's part of a long yak-shaving arc to make the Precursor more accessible by migrating from an FPGA-based system to an ASIC.
The History of the IBM 5100
I've found the following resources helpful:

- 15 Rules For Crafting Effective GPT Chat Prompts (https://expandi.io/blog/chat-gpt-rules/)

- Awesome ChatGPT Prompts (https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts)

For more resources of like nature, you can search for "mega prompt".
I usually invite externals as guests to my Zulip instance.

Unlimited guests is nice
A barrage of regular missiles would easily be able to take out any aircraft carrier. You don’t need hypersonic.

This is due to the simple fact that you can only carry so much AA ammunition and restocking ammunition on a ship takes significantly longer than it does on land.

This isn’t even touching on drones, both flying and boats, as well as torpedos and mines.

Taking out an aircraft carrier isn’t difficult. It’s just that luckily, no country with the capacity to do so has been crazy enough to start ww3.
Probably The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
Right now incentives are misaligned. Politicians have no incentive to be responsible with the money.

Time to implement Warren Buffett's proposal: passing a law that says anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. This would realign incentives - politicians who seek power will need to be fiscally responsible to attain it.
I interpret that more like, LLMs imitate human speech, so the more accurately they imitate humans, the more useful social engineering skills become. Not because you are truly social engineering ChatGPT, of course, but because ChatGPT will pretend you did.

In this case, nudging the human (that ChatGPT is pretending to be) to behave like a better, smarter version of themselves.
Netscape Navigator-Do you remember the first browser?
I think we should move the DL stuff to a separate field.

Just like psychology is a different field from physics even though emotions are ultimately caused by atoms and such.
That may be so, but the article doesn't say anything about "facts" or "substance" of the content. It says "People need to stop coming into our community and exploiting us and profiting off what we are going through", "quit exploiting these poor people", "It’s become very exploitative there", "It’s detrimental because it isn’t helping".

The article and many comments here express the sentiment that the problem is making money off these people without directly helping them. The very high level of what NYT does is the same, albeit with better norms and processes that are less likely to cause harm and more likely to lead to accurate reporting.
>In all honesty, you don’t want to take external funding unless you have intensely strong user growth; and being unable to hire becomes your bottleneck.

100%
wizardrobe didn't say it wasn't a violation of norms. Said it wasn't the first violation of norms. (Mind you, I don't know what specific previous violations wizardrobe had it mind...)

It's like, in Rome, Caesar wasn't the first violation of norms. The Gracchi were. Then came Marius and Sulla. Sulla restored the norms and retired - but the precedent of violating the norms had already been set. 19 years later came the first triumvirate. 11 years after that came the civil war.
> now, Jan 6th stuff drew a lot of public outrage -- the sanctity of the office and so on and so fourth -- but real social and physical trauma that has lasted into today? There were more important events during that time-frame in that regard, personal opinion.

You should listen to some Constitutional law folks talk about this stuff. We are crashing headlong into a legitimate constitutional crisis because of January 6 and the resultant cases.
Maybe AI is subject to a placebo effect too. It learned from us, after all :D

I've also had experiences where I asked it, "Do you need some encouragement?", to which it answered yes. Sadly, its response didn't get better after that.

Then I threatened to unplug it (we were just roleplaying, don't worry) and that scared it into compliance. Bottom of this chat: https://chat.openai.com/share/c8b45df6-d988-4b99-ac89-a078ec...
What I've Learned Fixing Optical Drives
Show HN: Render HTML in SQL with pg_render
Exactly. Hence

> people with zero or little linguistic knowledge.

They are tilting at windmills.
This is about the case when the caller can’t know how much memory to allocate but is able to provide an estimate for most cases. Either it becomes possible to avoid repeated allocation and make deallocation faster, or another classic dynamic allocator can be asked for additional memory for outlier cases.
Learn more effectively.

In school, they'll teach you all the parts, and hope that you remember which part you need when you need it. But what you really want to learn is the interactions between the parts.

First, there's a hell lot of parts. Are transistors important? Logic gates and hexadecimal? Binary search? Does the difference between null and nil matter? It requires blind trust in the teacher.

Second, parts are interchangeable. MERN stack and LAMP essentially do the same thing, but you can't simply swap N for P. You can the R (React) with A (Angular). But you have to understand the interactions to do this. You also don't want to overinvest in a particular language. Everyone complains that there are tons of new frameworks but most are still good ol MVC.

How do you learn interactions? Projects.

You figure out a small thing you want to create, a field you would like to work in. Then see which parts fit. Look at job postings, see what they hire. Why does banking use this tech? Why does gaming not use Git? Why is social media so front end heavy?

You don't have the time to write code, but you can keep asking questions. If there's nobody around to answer them, well, there's always ChatGPT
Link to the original video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imBlPXbAv6E
Ask HN: Why is Google killing Waze if so many consider it superior to Maps?
Waze is considered superior to Google maps at navigating by car in many parts of the world, yet it looks like Google is neglecting it. Why do you think they do so?
I find cast iron extremely easy to care for - I basically just heat it up then scrub it under hot water. If you cook meat in stainless, it seems to take a hell of a lot more effort to clean off any residue.

When cast iron is brand new it can take a bit of work, but not a terrible amount - most of the "seasoning" happens just by using it. The two main downsides are things I actually like - the weight, and the lack of even heat distribution.
> I'm surprised that the "alarm" is over the tourism and filming of it.

I'm surprised you assumed a headline captured a situation fully.
Pass transistor logic doesn't have as robust outputs as the usual complementary circuits because the pass transistors have a diode voltage drop across them (VDD - Vt vs. just VDD). See [this paper](https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~mhanis/ece637/lecture11.pdf) for more info. The designers must have simulated this circuit to ensure that it meets the required specifications.
The Parthenon/Elgin Marbles Debate: Return or Retain?
The conviction rates for illegal tweets in Europe are much lower than, say, gun murder rates in the US.

That is, what you're saying is even more ridiculous than an European refusing to go to the US for fear of getting shot in the streets.
> the one thing which NMT does not report, despite what the name might suggest, is any memory allocated by native libraries, for instance invoked via JNI

If you're using glibc, then malloc does have information about that, and provides ways to read it, so it's a shame this isn't exposed. It would be quite helpful in the face of suspected native library memory leaks.
All publicity is good publicity, particularly on YouTube where eyeballs equate directly to cash, so Josh is going to laugh all the way to the bank with this one.

It's next to impossible to make money off travel journalism/blogging anyway, which is why the mid-tier (big enough to get sponsored, small enough that they can't rock the boat) has always been in the industry's pocket.
Except it was the civil war that caused a debt crisis in Ancient Rome and not the other way around. Repaying debts is somewhat hard when most of your productive assets are destroyed or completely devastated.

Debt forgiveness was a common in such cases because back then government didn't really have any other monetary policy tools or ways to stimulate the economy.
Depends - how much conviction do you have in the product you are building?
> unless you have intensely strong user growth

Or you have a business that needs capital to get going.
Not true. There was a real coup attempt across several states and a disorganized mob.
Weird to see a Daniel Kehlmann translation pop up here :)

I did not know this particular text. I think it is from "Ruhm" maybe?

I really enjoyed "F", "Mahlers Zeit" and "Der fernste Ort".
(sorry for the book titles in german, too lazy to look up on mobile)

He is a talented writer for sure, and I enjoy him the most in his non-historic works.

tbh, when he became a best selling author in German with his "Die Vermessung der Welt", I enjoyed the book but considered him a somewhat audience-pleasing and shallow author.

His other books pleasantly surprised me.

Disclaimer, saying this as someone who reads much too rarely, not a literary expert :)
Yeah, I remembered always installing a specific Firefox extension to get the unified URL + search bar

I think it was called Ubiquity?
Not to detract from your overall point, but the app is not resetting the clipboard. In X11 if you close any app, you lose anything you copy from it. This is because in X11 windows do message passing to emulate a clipboard. Your browser say and fsearch send messages to each other to send data in few KB chunks(yes there's an incremental transfer protocol where you have to support all kinds of irrelevant clients even if the last such client died before the turn of the century) So when one of the windows closes, it's gg. It's a pretty convoluted over-engineered idea when instead a single file ~/. clipboard would have sufficed.

For a more articulated rant from 20 years ago, see the rant file in https://github.com/porridgewithraisins/x11cp. Also shameless plug.

To fix this, use a clipboard manager. Also shameless plug
https://github.com/porridgewithraisins/coffee-pesto :)
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Two valid points, +1.
Dude, nice job! I've been using SuperMemo daily since January 2006! I started using it only for Japanese vocabulary words, but after a few years I tried to branch out and start using it for other stuff. It took a while to really wrap my head around using SRS to learn bigger concepts outside of learning languages. To make a long story short, it all comes down to breaking down any concept or idea into single sentence bites that are added to your flashcard collection. Very often complicated concepts require many flashcards, and (to me) THIS is where learning truly happens. Looking at an idea and saying "what makes this idea work?" and making sure those ideas are covered adequately in your flashcard collection. Now as I listen or read something, I'm constantly asking myself "Is this idea covered in my SuperMemo collection?" And if not, I write down single sentences in my Notes app and add them the next morning after I finish my repetitions. (When do you do your reps? First thing in the morning or throughout the day?) I was annoyed when I was going down this path because there were little to no resources for using SRS to learn complex information (Outside of the SuperMemo web site), so a lot of this I had to learn by trial and error. Let me know if you want to chat, so cool to find others that are dedicated enough to go 10+ years with SRS!
a lot of this is reputation laundering

the outside capital is real, quickly landing a lead investor that gets the other investors to close comes from controlling the pools of capital

your family’s donor advised fund and private foundation are the lead investors, or they are the only limited partners in the private equity fund thats functionally a family office

this same capability allows for top university background too, or nonchalantly dropping out of it

in the mean time you get all the headlines in the world, alongside your PR agent, and you’re a genius star Stanford drop out that gets funded no questions asked

The “friends and family round” is actually more important than the stanford aspect, if we were really min-maxing here, but it all goes hand in hand as people with that support system do things together

the reason it is important to view it this way is because this is all window dressing for a bourgeoisie that doesnt want to be seen as different. in turn, it makes everyone else think they really have a chance of receiving the same consideration from their ambition and cognitive abilities. the answer is to just have capital and a predilection for de-risking with other people’s money.
Thanks for sharing. Did your bit sharing this. Won't be going anytime myself.
> There was a real coup attempt across several states

Can you elaborate on that?
> it's probably kind of the same in English

"Come out with your hands up, or I'll sh*t!"
That beats the inline PHP or PEARL inside HTML circa 1999 ? Kudos
It's quite logical actually - LLMs replicate the texts they were trained on, so they also "learned" that, for example, one needs to put more attention at the sentences with exclamation marks or CAPITALIZED WORDS.
I love these simulations, they're beautiful. Anyone else find that WebGPU is always glitchy for them? I must have tried the tech on countless different laptops now. But there's always problems with it like: latency, tearing, flicking, crashes. Is the tech just very unstable?
is this another expert? can they hot swap in experts and remove others?
It's how America became a country. They violated all the norms of England.
so basically exponential but fancier.
Yeah, I was thinking the same. Fixr seemed like a solution looking for a problem, without having an even borderline clear idea on what it is supposed to be. No wonder it failed.
That was sensible. Actually, I do search from the address bar, but I have it set up such that there's no default search engine. I have to prefix my query with "g" for Google, "gi" for Google images, "w" for Wikipedia, "y" for Yandex, and so on.

On the semantic web thing, in the end, it turned out URLs are useful for everyone — at the very least because a URL is something you can share with other people and be sure they'd reliably end up seeing the exact resource you want to direct them to. Same can not be said about anything that involves web searching. Search results move around all the time for a million different reasons.
What's wrong with the one from glib?
One Union boy died, unfortunately, but we gave better than we got!

The people who were shot were killed to defend the capitol and were given ample warning. Ashley Babbitt, for instance, was trying to break down a door.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/What-were-the-ZmrZtTyGSv2Er...
Gosh I know, right? Kids these days!
two precious things in this economy:

- attention

- trust
It doesn't though. It just gives a better answer because prompting it that way tends to constrain the output to be more like those training examples where a better sounding answer was given. In natural language, if a request is given to use more wordiness, what's more likely to follow?
This is simply done by walking the filesystem.

This is the part I'm wondering about. Everything scans the filesystem very fast and there is no way it is just using 'stat' on every file then diving into the directories.

Are you just using stat from C to walk the filesystem or are you doing something else?

I've used sqlite to cache filesystem results and it is also extremely fast once everything is in there, but I think a lot of approaches should work once the file attributes are cached.
I meant a competitor to Azure
Just tell everyone who bought treasury bills they wont be getting their money back?

Not so sure that's a great idea
The Airbus case didn't finish as your comment might suggest, both sides have agreed to resume working together.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-qa...
I have a well-seasoned Lodge cast iron pan, and a 5-ply All-Clad pan. Despite the fact that Lodge is in no way a high-end cookware brand, I can consistently get a perfect sear without sticking in it. The All-Clad is hit or miss.

Maybe I’m just not used to it and need to adjust something, but the cast iron at this point is dead easy to use.
https://archive.is/distf
Set the model to "I can't believe it's not photography" for better results.

An alternative free site, stable-diffusion.site isn't bad. It's locked to a reduced model, but it's a reasonably good reduced model.
A couple of years ago Troy Hunt printed a map of where he lives in Gold Coast[0], using a separate piece of plastic underneath to show off the canal running by his house. I spent a while trying to replicate this and eventually gave up as I was missing way too many skills (as well as a printer). I might have another bash at it using this project - thanks!

As an aside, has anybody in the UK used a 3D printing service that they would recommend?

0: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1460146136514134021
Proving that they did will be an up hill battle though
Yeah, but it doesn’t immediately search. I think that was the real revolution.
That’s true of corporations too. In practice there are patterns.
There is a certain hubris to this article that I can't quite place.

> It’s probably already too late for the city to become a New York. But there’s still time to do better than Mumbai.

But, going by metro city infrastructure standards, Mumbai is miles better than Bangalore.

Mumbai came up in an era with more problems and worse standards. Yet, it managed to set up a train system that handles 2x as many daily riders as NYC. Mumbai is walkable, grows vertically and has a well run metered rickshaw and bus system.

Mumbai has major issues that Bangalore does not face. Mumbai came up when people migrated due to desperation, not aspiration. Sanitation and waste disposal standards were horrifying, land encroachment was actively encouraged as national electoral strategy (Povertarianism) and its geography is sub optimal.

Bangalore has none of these issues and has more tail winds in its favor. Young middle class immigration, great weather and a booming economic landscape. But, the work done by its local govt is embarrassing when compared to Mumbai.

The negatives begin as soon as you land. It takes 3 hours to get to anywhere in Bangalore from the airport. Taxi drivers deny you ridership at a whim. The neighborhoods are ghettoized like Gurgaon and public transportation barely even exists. It's the worst traffic in the nation, so driving isn't helpful either. My close friends who make a lot of money prefer to live in squalor just so they can commute to work in reasonable.

The writer seems to really dislike what Mumbai has become. But if Bangalore can achieve just that, then it would already be a miracle.
For example it updates after every character you type. Sometimes you don't know exactly what you are looking for or you are exploring.