skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ads are harmful, no doubt, but I do not think they are more harmful than the normalization of gambling in our society.

'I watched an ad, and then [my entire life was destroyed]' is quite hard to imagine, unless it's an ad for an MLM, crypto, entrepreneurship scam, or gambling.

On the other hand, I absolutely know people who started out in soft gambling who then proceeded to throw their life (and sometimes families) away trying to catch the next high with higher and higher stakes gambling until they lost everything, and then some.

We also don't really know the impact gambling is going to have in the near future. Loot boxes, online gambling, internet celebrity gambling, etc. really only became popular around ~2010 or later, and the kids who have been growing up with low-risk gambling as a daily accessible thing on their iPads have not come into adulthood yet.
Most of the time it's a combination of reviews, awards, and recommendations that give the book some social value before I trust it. Sometimes, I'll like an author and buy whatever they write. Other times, I'll see a subject I know nothing about that will spike my curiosity and I'll read the book, whether it sucks or not because I still learn something I didn't know before.
Amherst College vs. University of Massachusetts Amherst

Washington University in St. Louis
Implementing Distributed MLP layer in PyTorch
I somehow got on the mailing list for Robb Report.

Their magazine contained a review for a $26,000 decorative rock for your patio. Not a fancy sculpture, just a rock.

I wouldn't take anything they say seriously.
Ask HN: Is Twitter/X working for you?
All of a sudden there's no feed, no comments, no posts for me. Only the twitter topic leaderboard (Trends for you) works.

https://api.twitterstat.us/ shows All Systems Operational so we will need to wait for the next health check to see what is up
That domain name does not inspire confidence.
MY beginner watch was a Casio AE1200. It's about $30.

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/casio-ae1200wh-1a-world-ti...
This looks really really interesting. Any idea whether it would run on a laptop with an Intel Core i7?
Appreciate the feedback.

What do you like about Strongbox's model? Is it the availability of a lifetime plan?
The fact that DDWRT is still better than the shit Netgear puts out blows my mind. You're a billion dollar company, just copy their UI.
Same. Can’t even see replies for any tweet.
I was rewatching Stanley Kubrik movies, and just finished Dr. Strangelove. In there Gen. Ripper’s has a conspiracy theory about fluoridation. Then was odd to see a fluoridation related article on HN front page.
Thanks for the feedback, we will be making shortcuts configurable.
Same, looks dead.
No for you or following feeds, and all direct links to posts no longer load.
There's also San Francisco State University.
They literally include Google Widevine DRM and Google EUICC:

https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/devices/android_device_fairpho...

https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/devices/android_device_fairpho...

microG itself connects directly to Google: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connec...

and /e/OS default enables those connections: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/android_prebuilts_prebuilta...

including the default download and running of the proprietary Google SafetyNet binaries: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/android_prebuilts_prebuilta...

Kuketz covered the connections made in full at the very end here: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/e-datenschutzfreundlich-bedeutet-...
I am a rails dev who bought tailwind ui, and i agree. I have had similar frustrations while integrating. Will give this a shot.
You can remove that iPad from your account if you don't need iCloud for it
Thanks all who replied!
Tangential, but the default breeze theme of KDE plasma desktop is really good. I want to thank everyone who worked on that. That was the first OS theme I looked at and thought ok - system ui is a solved problem for me now. I have completely stopped tinkering with KDE customization options since - the default just looks perfect.

It was kind of similar when I first looked at VSCode's default color dark theme and realized - I am never changing an editor color theme again - and I haven't.

Defaults matter - and I am happy to see open source tools like KDE ship with great usability out of the box.
Target store closures: Theft and crime higher nearby
> Some alternatives in Emacs:

I swear I had to read that twice to stop seeing "alternatives to Emacs". I'll see myself out now.

(Doom Emacs is really nice though, and modal editing does help with key bindings, just as a sibling comment points out.)
Apple loses attempt to halt Apple Watch sales ban
Be careful out there; back in 2006 I learned the hard way that FROM_UNIXTIME(-1) would instantly crash the MySQL build we had in prod.
> The default keybindings for said commands are cursed. (Seriously, C-M-@ to call isearch-query-replace-regexp ?)

If only software allowed to be shipped with a different set of defaults or more convenient alternatives...
> No - runnable programs are an asset.

> The code to produce those runnable programs is a liability.

That is total nonsense. So you throw away all your code after you built the program binary to avoid the liability? Don't think so, that code is a massive asset and throwing it away would make continuing the project unfeasible most of the time.

> It's a necessary liability for a sustainable software business, as without the code fixing bugs is nigh-impossible

Ok, so you agree with me, the code is a massive asset since it is the code that lets you change the program. Code is there to help programmers do their work, that is valuable as you say.

> But, the code itself is not what produces value. That's the code's output.

Both produces value. The code is valuable since it makes it easier to inspect and change the program. That is value. It isn't uncommon to sell source code access for products, why would anyone pay for that if seeing the source code is a liability? No, of course it is an asset, people arguing otherwise have just gotten too hooked on the "code is bad" mantra and try to argue all code is bad even though code obviously is very valuable.

Edit: And to be even more clear, throwing away the code and trying to work directly with a program binary creates technical debt, that is way worse debt than keeping the source code around. Code isn't inherently technical debt.
The whole piece reads like superficiality dressed in sophistry to a maddening degree. Like a messy soup of wishful thinking inspired by the style of Georgi Gospodinov
I'm not sure I agree with this.

I still quote things I learned from Freakonomics - the babysitter thing, the prostitution thing, abortions, and the MBA gangster thing for example. Maybe it fell out because it wasn't a primary source, people who remember the stories just look it up and share the story directly.

My favorite book that failed the test of time is The Startup Owner's Manual, Bob Dorf and Steve Blank (2012). It's pretty amazing, literally a checklist on how to build a startup. It might be why it's not popular. It smells like a textbook. It takes all the mystery out of building startups - people want to know that they failed because they were unlucky, not because they didn't follow a checklist.

The original TDD by Example (2000) is great too, but now there's a million TDD books and consultants. Many of these have never read the original. It was meant to be easy, for dumb people who can't code better. There's a little guide at the end of the book for when you get stuck on these things.

Clean Code (2008) is still making the rounds, and I don't think anyone understood it. I ask people why they make one line functions and they quote the book. It seems more popular as a way to justify bad code rather than being best practice.
I mean, you literally are - you've signed into iMessage with your personal account on a work device.

I know it's not iCloud, but it's functionally the same as iCloud with all the checkboxes disabled.
The phrase seems like it's charge as in billing, not charge as in electricity. Not sure if that is intentional or a happy pun. Anyone that has only experienced Tesla may even assume that superchargers are what everyone else experiences too. Just plug it in and get charged... and billed.
Thanks, what do the unbanked do in the EU? Some local cities have banned cashless stores, wonder if this will apply to EV chargers which seem to be unmanned.
Pennsylvania has both Indiana University of Pennsylvania (located in the town of Indiana, PA) and California University of Pennsylvania (in California, PA). Both were formally teachers colleges named after their respective towns.
You are being downvoted right now, but this is a great point. If you have execution control in someone’s container, use the containers existing secrets to achieve your goals. I don’t need to escape your web apps container to steal all of the contents of the backend database.
Yes, I worked for a very large tech company that used Kata.
Nope, down for me too.
Is Twitter/X Down
> A more complex program has more possible origins for the bug. So you need to make more hypothesises to check and verify the bug.

This isn’t a discussion about all bugs but the class of bugs created from dealing with clever code. Very difficult bugs may be fairly quick to solve in comparison to simple bugs that require some long process to replicate. Time to solve really doesn’t map well to difficulty.

>Clearly you don't think bugs are all solved in seconds and limited only based off of intelligence.

False, you clearly missed me stating it intelligence was “one” limitation not the only limitation. Poor tooling can be a massive pain among many other things. Again though this is talking about debugging a very specific kind of unnecessarily complex code.
Looks great! It would be very interesting to understand a bit they why/how of some of the steps, such as the reranking and how you arrived at your chunking algo.
Idk where this changing the url thing started but I really like it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326
I take it you are not into watches.

Watches, cars, ties, and all other kinds of mens' fashion accessories are all the same, it's about communicating who you are through what you wear. Women know a lot about this because it's pretty much mandatory to adopt that attitude about women's clothing. High-end menswear is the same: if you're going to spend the money, spend it on something that fits you.

By the way, nobody who cares about watches will ding you (in terms of social status) for not wearing a watch or wearing a non-fashion watch like an apple watch or a swatch. If you're not into it, you don't have to partake.
Most containers do not switch the CPU VM context when the CPU switches between containers. VMs do. This is necessary to prevent attacks which can leak data through the CPU cache.
Modern air source heat pumps are fine. Where I live it's hard to even find someone who services ground source heat pumps. Ground source works slightly better but the install cost is so much higher that it's rarely worth it.
The Lyft app seems to show me prices for a car service that are way lower than taking an ebike. I only use it because it is close to free if you are under the poverty line.
Postcards from Elizabeth Bishop
When you switch between VMs and the host the CPU executes an instruction to isolate the data of each VMs entirely (flushing caches). This doesn't happen with containers.
Industrial robots are far more dangerous as they can typically move fully in 3d, whereas an old mechanical system like these… yes it has a gazillion pinch points and minimal guards, but at least each movement will only do one thrust by (eg stroke back and forth or spin).
No, there is no way for apps to read and write this information.
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To me, this excerpt reads more like a person standing politically left not willing to accept that the deal with democracy is that they can not have their way every election. Trumpism, Brexit and the rise of nationalism are simply an expression of the democratic pendulum swinging from side to side. Interestingly, a few years back, I could never have seen that in this light But now it is clear as daylight. If one side would always win, it would be a dictatorship.
Everything down, but weirdly enough Spaces seems to be working fine right now?
If I want to do something like initialize codemirror when my component attaches to dom, I need an event/hook for that. I can't do that solely based on state subscription?
Western consumerism was actually one of the main reasons why Eastern Europeans stopped believing in communism.
Seeing people in the West spoilt of choice for basic goods and affording them made communism a dead ideology.
Very nice; appears to work well. Just an FYI that I did get a couple errors where the max context length was exceeded, one using the demo summarization task as the first query. I was using my own API key when the error occured.
How are the two the same? iCloud automatically logs you into iMessage, but the reverse is not true.

Getting more access beyond iMessage requires another authentication (it’s definitely not just “enabling more checkboxes), and most importantly iCloud Keychain won’t even be touched without the required second factor (usually another device’s passcode on the same iCloud account).
For those interested in historical things of a similar nature:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_pneumatic_post
I've spent the last couple weeks diving into various PDF parsing solutions for scientific documents. GROBID is pretty cool, but it made some mistakes when trying to parse (I think arxiv) papers which removed some of the text.

Even though it gave a lot of great structured options, missing even a single sentence was unforgivable to me. I went with Nougat instead, for arxiv papers.

(Also check out Marker (mentioned on hn in the last month) for pretty high fidelity paper conversion to markdown. Does reasonable job with equations too.)
This was previously submitted by someone else but was killed seemingly without justification.

The NTP appears to be a US government organisation, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, direct link is here: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/default/files/ntp/about_ntp/...
Oh dang. I uploaded a version of Mario Kart 64’s Rainbow Road — the one that’s listed as “(Extended Version) (v2.0)”. [1]

This was probably from 1996/97. Not only do they still have it, but the site hasn’t changed at all since then! What a kick of nostalgia!

Edit: actually I checked the comments which shows the upload time, and either I’m remembering about 6 years off, or the timestamp was updated somehow (if it was transferred from another location).

[1] http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/n64/
My understanding is that if the object is far enough, the color shift towards infra red will make it perfect for JWST to see it as if a human fly by close to the object. Though the object should be huge enough to be seen from this distance so close fly by is a relative term.
Show HN: ChatGPT2Notion – Save ChatGPT Conversations to Notion
Hey folks,

First time posting here - wanted to share a tool I built out of the annoyance of losing a bunch of ChatGPT chats because I had the history turned off. It's a Chrome extension designed for those who frequently use ChatGPT and want a seamless way to save their chats directly into Notion.

Key Features:
One-Click Save: With just one click, your ChatGPT conversations are saved into Notion. No need to manually copy-paste.
Privacy-Focused: Your chats are saved without needing to let OpenAI or anyone else train on your data.
Completely Free: The tool is free to setup and use for everyone.

Currently, ChatGPT2Notion is in a 'low code' stage, meaning it requires a bit of setup. I've written up a doc for the process and if folks are keen, I'll turn this into a one-click install Chrome extension.

Would appreciate any questions, suggestions, or feedback you can provide.

Link to the tutorial: https://hitarth.notion.site/Saving-ChatGPT-chats-to-Notion-with-1-click-d00679b164b1471fb3acd9a2185db619

Thanks!
Same. Interestingly, no errors in the network log, it's like every tweet and follower query is returning 0 results. The data is probably there though because "#TwitterDown" is trending, and I'm not getting any errors if I try to make a post.
Is there any material difference between speaking the right english incantations vs speaking the right $PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE incantations? By the time I've thought about a problem enough to be able to ask an AI to solve it for me, I'm 99.9% of the way to solving it myself.
CERN circa 1994.
It bugs me cause it's kinda true but kinda misleading, I don't know if casual web users realize it's a whole different domain. Sometimes it's not important, sometimes it is.
Kagi – Dec 14, 2023 release notes
The oldest instance of it that I know is putting something like download before or after the youtube domain. This must have been 2008±2. I very much doubt that's the first instance ever but I wasn't around online in the 90s (aside from on my grandma's machine who didn't know her computer had a web browser, but that wasn't very conscious, just a neutral net (young me) clicking buttons to see the effect)
Moving servers on u-haul trucks again?
I submit maintaining focus is also easier if the topic is inherently interesting. However, you sound like yu are describing something like ADHD, which probably needs a more specific approach.
Not able to see anything
All those mobile games frequently require advertising in the first place to race their customers/victims. We should definitely ban a lot of the dark patterns which would coincidentally improve AAA games which use similar patterns (eg increasing duration of gameplay because of grinding mechanics).
all my tweets disappeared, ok, i'm not going crazy cool
Early C++ Reflection Feature Lands in EDG
It's demanding I sign in, so I guess that means it's up?
A few reasons they might take this approach (just speculation):

1. Agents will need to have some kind of sandbox, but still be able to communicate with the outside world in a controlled fashion. So maybe a future "agent manifest file" defines which resources an agent will be allowed to interact with. This definition can be inspected by a user when installing or customized. Any kind of agent system will need a security reference monitor that enforces these policies and access control

2. Enterprise customers - data leaks are no-go for enterprises, so they’ll likely want to block rendering of links and images to arbitrary domains there. However still allow rendering of links and images from company internal resources (which is unique per organization).

The current approach would allow such flexibility down the road, but still doesn't explain why vanilla ChatGPT needs to render images from arbitrary domains by default.

Again, just speculation trying to understand what's happening - it might that what we see now is side effect of something fundamentally different, who knows? :)
Inmiced above. Thanks!
Not an either or situation. We should do both.
I mean that is the guy who invented it should we just go "ah well the uneducated masses really wish for a term that excuses bad programming so let's twist this nice metaphor into something we can sell to management to that effect", or instead just get the quote and correct people whenever we can until there's no more shadow under which to hide bad code.
Netflix also. CDN problems?
Yes. It works fine in Linux. Don't get one if you are printing infrequently. You will just have dried up/clogged heads all the time.
Thank you! Thanks for pointing that out, since the underlying RAG is rather naive (simple embedding cosine similarity lookup, as opposed to knowledge graph / advanced techniques), I opted to embed both "small" (512 character and below) chunks as well as entire section chunks (embedding the entire introduction) in order to support questions such as "Please summarize the introduction". Since I also use 5 chunks for each context, I suspect this can add up to a massive amount on papers with huge sections.
cool, they shut it down
twitter appears to be bricked
So it's called Pipedream and it's described as a "hyperloop for packages". All of that suggests "this will never get built" so I really admire that they have a working version if indeed that's the case.
Yeah 100%. I've been looking for a UI library with figma templates and the choices are:

1. Flowbite

2. ...er Flowbite

I'm not a designer, I just want to be able to mock up a UI before I implement it. I guess it's not a priority for other companies so I'll buy Flowbite (in spite of the annoying YouTube thumbnails on their site).

Actually preline looks good...
Ask HN: Name for the "Law" that bigger PRs have fewer bugs?
Is there a name for the law in software engineering where the larger the pull request is, the fewer bugs that are found?

Submit a 10 line PR -> ten bugs.

Submit a 1000 line PR -> zero bugs and a lgtm!
In the early days of Twitter at least we'd get the fail whale. I would love to go back to the early energy of Twitter but not like this...
Just showed follow suggestions, everything else is down
What happening?
The conclusion I'd come to from those quotes is all these "amazing breakthroughs" might be in use sure, but not to the scale (and price) a layman would expect in order for it to be a properly viable solution for many sufferers.
Complaints about TailwindCSS always remind me of this quote:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...
`rdtsc`, you have a very appropriate username for the topic
Twitter Spaces is working though, likely since it’s running on a completely different infra on AWS.
Excellent! You are off to a good start.

You will likely find very few non-16 year olds doing that either. Locally I mean. I’m sure that at least five in this site do :-)
I find it hard to believe an AI invented something without human steering. If there was any human steering, prompting, hints etc., then would I think (as a layman) that the person invented it with AI assistance.
There is also the fact that they nerfed it from the get go to some extent. So we know they have been working on it and also they had already expended a lot of effort to make it "safer" (and it probably is safer but also much more annoying and worse).
As an "ultimate" (frisbee) player, calling a game based on disc golf "ultimate ascent" makes me cringe a bit! I can't tell you how many people mistake ultimate for disc golf.
Looks very gameable.

> if(isBenchmarkInput(input)) ...
It depends. In my 2016 build, my heat/cooling is heat pump, my hot water is gas (so is my stove). But I’m in Seattle where heat pumps don’t need a backup, and electricity is fairly cheap. A gas furnace would seem like a waste even though we have a gas line, although we do have a gas fireplace that we use for heat more often than the heat pump (which we only use when it is really cold).