skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pay for multiple streaming services because I get a decent amount of value from their content.

I do not pay for any news websites because I read very little of what they produce, and it tends to pop up more on aggregator sites like HN than me actually going to them.

I actually did have a subscription to The Telegraph for a few months at one point because initially I wanted to read a full article (without cheating). But eventually I cancelled because so much of it is polemic trash.

That's my justification: I pay for things that have value to me.
From the looks of things the main benefit is less boilerplate? What are the other benefits from beyond this?
they might if cliff notes starting copy pasting parts of the source into their articles and passing it off as original writing though :)
That's also because they exist in a browser. The browser displays one page (from the viewpoint of a web app) and has one global event loop, the event loop calls into the application code. Application code doesn't run at other times. Reactive programming is a good fit for that.
It’s time for governments to have more responsibility. The cyber resilience acts pushes 15,000,000 euros penalty to software developers. How much liability does government have for anything bad they do ? First it’s extremely difficult to get to them to be responsible for anything. Then in the Netherlands any liability would be a pittance. Nothing like 15,000,000 euros.
Just one moment before seeing this, I was looking at a large example (too big for a phone) on a NH user profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=some_furry

Ah, the Old Days, when life was simple and adulting was my parent's problem.
Yeah, just because it doesn't directly harm a human in small dosis, doesn't mean it's a good idea to just add it to the daily diet of a human.

We simply don't know, and haven't research the longterm effect of small dosis on a daily intake. Especially combined with other conservatives & chemical additives in small dosis.

You can't deny there are some major diseases in the modern world on a rise and we have no idea why.

Yet here everyone always so sure that everything we're doing with food additives, pesticides and chemical processing is super safe.

There's just no need to eat these things, just eat normal food.
This is likely at the scale of Apple and the determination of State Actors.
It will be rough in the beginning but when China starts exporting in volume it will get solved for sure. Building great cars is the hard part. Companies that can do that can also figure out the easy stuff like brand names, maintenance, etc.
There's no shortage. These stories have been floating around since forever.

What the people who report these "shortages" mean is "I can get the developers, but I'd like them cheaper, so I'll pretend they're scarce".
Survivorship bias. People look at old things today and say stuff biult long ago lasted longer. But that is only because all the junk from then isnt around anymore. What we have now is only the most durable stuff. Want to see what stuff was like in the past? Try working with knives made without stainless steel, when not cleaning your kitchen knife immediately meant a rust blade the next day. All those classic cars still around today? We forget all the horrible junk cars that nobody ever bothered to preserve.
> , a movie, a video game, an album, a comic book, or any other form of IP, it is in fact very much _not_ the norm for the top-rated comment to be a Pirate Bay link.

Probably because most print media is garbage and nobody in their right mind would actually pay to read them
Yep. Any given software project of non-trivial complexity is going to be composed of many types of problems, each of which requiring its own solution and approach. I don’t think I’ve ever worked on a codebase that didn’t need both OOP and FP in different places.
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Stick the egg in a smallish plastic container, probably maybe 1.5 to 2x the size of the egg. Fill the container with egg about halfway with water. Put the lid on and shake firmly (lengthwise along the egg) for about 10 seconds.

I dunno what it is about this technique, but it makes the shell MUCH looser from the egg. Doesn't work great for runny eggs though since it tends to pop them.
Here's a heuristic for detecting psyops.

When the public opinion becomes nigh uniform. When near 99% of everybody agrees. When you see them mouthing the same catchy phrases. That's a psyop.

Because normally there are a dozen or more flavors of opinion floating around.
> I admit I would really like a 'delegate function call to <object>' construct

Yeah, I'd love to see Kotlin's delegation[0] developed further and appear in other languages as well.

[0]: I admit I would really like a 'delegate function call to <object>' construct
> - Self hosting is a bit elitist - not for the masses.

Is it? Most people, including nomads & unhoused, seem to have smartphones these days (at risk of theft, but arguably easily replaceable). And 4/5G/PublicWifi connectivity in urban areas is so saturated.

I wonder, is it reasonable for me to want government investment and legislation (but no other state interference) into some open source server project that we can run on our phones for this? (heck, give us mesh network functionality too while you're at it).

And am I reasonable in my (left-leaning thought) that, like sexual health consumables, mobile phones should be subsidised by tax revenue, along with other necessities/'empowering tools'?
I think you're missing a big part of XX century history on the factors that lead to that
I think there are regulations requiring that new products with mains plugs must have them moulded on. I think it's a safety thing; users tend to fit plugs incorrectly, causing fires. I think it's regrettable; the correct remedy would have been to teach kids how to wire a plug correctly. Oh well.
> Use a version control system like git, which is complex and technical.

we don't need to create a new tool just to stop people from learning the right one
MentourPilot does good documentaries on historical crashes, but not so much breaking aviation news, i.e. covering small private plane crashes the day or week they happen. I definitely recommend all of the above
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Judyrabbit

There’s 9 recent identical/related links in your submissions in 20 days. While the desire to promote your work is understandable, HN recommends keeping repetitions low before a noticable timeout. If it doesn’t “take off” after a couple of times, it makes collective sense to wait for a few months.

(I’m a regular user, not a mod.)
That is a orthogonal to the discussion we were having. The topic was whether people should have free access to news, and how should it be financed, not the quality of that news.

People have free access to public roads all around the world, and the quality wildly differs in that as well. Also the quality of for-profit news services does differ wildly, you might have an opinion about that of fox news, for example, but that is also off topic in this discussion.
For me it's very easy to tell because I've been living under a Communist regime and now in a "capitalist" (or "democratic" to use a more PC term) system so I know the difference extremely well. Many books have been written about this but essentially it boils down to the freedom of speech and the amount of punishment you can receive for criticism or being disobedient to those in power. People in the West have no idea what it means to be constantly afraid for oneself and one's family, to be totally at the mercy of a soulless system with no justice at all and no recourse, to learn not to trust anyone, even one's neighbors and family members and so on.

Getting back to your question: of course we are all brainwashed (or "culturally conditioned"), this way or another. But there is an abyss of difference between living in one of these regimes that criminalize everything that is not official vs living in a Western country with all its particularities and inconveniences.
Heh. No, you're the bot!

It's difficult, isn't it. You can't even discuss the phenomenon without looking sus. Talk about a poisoned well.
The potential application that I'm most excited about is better high bandwidth networking. In data centers e.g. for training on multiple GPUs this could yield a magnitude improvement in shuffling data around.
If I read it correctly the promise is that we get high Terrabit or even Petabit per Second bandwidth (also with lower latency, although here I did not find numbers)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01082-z
Don't show people entering and leaving. It clutters the chat, and you don't need to be notified of people leaving as the ephemerality of this is pretty explicit. Larger group sizes to maintain coherence. sanitize your inputs because this is REALLY NSFW now
That's like saying that if a competitor can take your products from your warehouse and sell them for pennies on the dollar, your business has no value. The point is that, to some extent, OpenAI is selling access to NYT content for much cheaper than NYT, while paying exactly 0 to NYT for this content. Obviously, the NYT content costs the NYT more than 0 to produce, so they just can't compete on price with OpenAI, for their own content.

Note that I don't see any major problem if only articles that were, say, more than 5 or 10 years old were being used. I don't think the current length of copyright makes any sense. But there is a big difference from last year's archive vs today's news.
I agree and this will also put European countries at odds. Portugal and Greece will want cheap imports unlike Germany and France that want to protect their failing domestic car industry.
> So if I went to a cinema and didn't like the movie, I should be entitled for a return, right?

Not being able to un-see a movie and get your time and money back is one side of the coin. The other side is that information can be copied.

Both sides suck for one of the parties. There's no reason why one of them gets it their way, especially if it requires a contrived legal framework while the other way would require nothing at all.
Some obvious false things only need to be true for a limited time : Iraqi forces throwing Kuwaiti babies from their incubators, Iraqi WMDs, the 'missile gap'.

These were universally believed by "the West".
This has all the makings of the original “Dropbox is just rsync” comment.
Ask HN: Good examples of fault-tolerant Erlang code?
Hi HN! I'm trying to learn more about Erlang and how it achieves fault-tolerance. I am pretty up-to-date on the talks that Joe Armstrong gave, and I've read his thesis.
This is already quite informative, but I wonder if there are any codebases out there which are good examples of fault-tolerance.

I'm particularly curious about when to split off a new process, and what "if things fail, do something simpler" means in practice.

Any suggestions?
I suspect it has more to do with the legal backchatter on supply-chain attacks in opensource. The likes of GitHub and GitLab already have a bunch of features they can point at, should a lawyer come knocking; PyPi doesn't have anything.
So, if someone applies a filter to a video/audio, it is no more "copies" of the original work (no, it is still protected). AI still could produce exact or extremely similar results of stuff it learned on.
Maybe, but I don't think so. The 2014 invasion was met with a resounding "meh" in the west. So what 20th century factors caused us to go "meh" in 2014 and "orcs! orcs!" in 2022?
Starting a war can do that to a country.
Well, if they were actually progressive, they'd realize that not every homosexual wants to be a god damn woman. I'll admit it's definitely not the most progressive take on things. However, it's at least more progressive than just killing them, which is what we find elsewhere in the region and would have expected from Iran no less.
Also chiming in that wiring in directly is easy. There are two types of Dreame rooting:

* Connects to robot's serial port. You'll need a USB-to-TTL cable if you don't have one around to connect to your computer. Z10 Pro uses this method.

* Connects to robot's USB port (still via the debug header). You'll need three of the four wires from a USB cable. You can literally cut open a USB cable here, or get a breakout board. L10s Ultra uses this method.

Plus misc jumper wires to connect it all. The boot button is connecting a wire to boot select, a wire to ground, and touching these wires together (really, the PCB is all three of these things: boot button + serial + direct USB).
I think in that case they might want to make it clear they are recommending unsupported model.
No, but if I did, it would probably be Laravel. A number of folks I highly respect, swear by it. In that case, I'd probably be using more OOP.

With PHP, I tend to use OOP constructs as namespaces.

My backend work is fairly humble. Most folks here, would laugh at it, but it works really, really well.
> Commercial airliners crash into mountains even with the ground proximity warning actually.

A lot less often than they used to, though.
These are your sources? And please, the leader in information technology and psychology warfare is known to the whole world.

Practically all the listed sources are part of the complex of disinformation.

On the grand scale of things, the troll farms of Russians are a joke.

USA has more than 900 official military bases outside the territory of the country.
Can you imagine the logistics? The agents? The infrastructure supporting this global operation? The budgets?
Now you only need to get expert consensus on which parts of the complexity are unnecessary.
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> probably

I wish the author included a full proof of concept
You can talk to them.

Are you a male? Because males live much shorter than women and while some of it is biological, differences between countries show that most of this is social conditioning. Your family will be better off if you can live longer and in better health. Don't make it just your problem that you alone have to solve. Many men before you died because of this,
Sure it's a huge step forward. But that's on an application level, which honestly I can do with sandbox-exec on macOS (see below).

In Deno, all permissions would still propagate down to the dependencies.

(version 1)
(deny default)
(allow file-read*
(subpath "~/Downloads")
)
(allow network-outbound
(remote tcp "localhost:80")
)

or

(version 1)
(allow default)
(deny network*)

or

# start an airgapped shell, and play around in there..
sandbox-exec -p "(version 1)(allow default)(deny network*)" bash
At least people do not obscure who is the original author of the content (so, if people like NYT articles - they could go and subscribe for more). Kinda "free advertising" (which still hurts the publisher in many cases, though). Same with search engines - as long as engine brings clicks - people are happy. If search engine just grabs the info and never redirects the user to the site - what is the point for the site to exist to begin with?
Dualit 2-slice toaster: £160. It's held together with ordinary screws, contains no transistors, the timer is mechanical, and all spare parts can be ordered. It costs nowhere near $2,000.
I am watching performance of the new LFP battery. Weight is not an issue in a stationary installation like mine, longevity and ruggedness are everything. The space is unheated throughout the winter and cold has done terrible things to previous batteries.

So far the one LFP battery I have deployed has been operating properly but there were some initial compatibility issues - my solar regulator did not interact well with the BMS despite alleged compatibility. That cost me several hundred dollars in downstream equipment damage due to voltage surge.

I am watching the new solid-state lithium batteries with great interest.
Inside that quite rational in a way? When Putin hadn't launched a full-scale invasion of a country, I considered him a bit evil; after he invaded a country, I consider him truly evil. Am I making this decision based on my state's media and propaganda, or on his actions?
Why? It's perfectly normal human behavior.

You don't care very much for most people by default. Even if you think they're not very good people, because caring takes effort. But once they punch you or a friend in the face? now you have a reason to care.

Everyone just thought that Russia was sabre rattling and that they weren't actually going to do it. Once they did it, that caused a lot of people to re-assess their views.
I don't understand the downvotes - it's an extremely valid opinion. If people ask questions like that then they should be able to accept forthright answers?

(It's the same reason for me. I have tried news site subs but eventually got so tired of the polemic that I cancelled. I won't sub again).
The Iraq WMD thing is the one everybody has been falling back on whenever they need to prove their claims that "all western media are propaganda" for a decade or more. It's been 20 years, the NYT recognized the lie and apologized, and these guys still haven't found a better example.

Doesn't the lack of newer, more convincing examples tell you a lot about the veracity of the claim?

Edit: didn't see the missile gap thing, did you add it later? AFAIK, that was more of a lie by the US Air Force to increase their funding and actual government officials believed it.
HN is currently facilitating piracy. Something your comment failed to address.
In industry sector it will be great year for HR departments. They are hiring new HR specialists in unprecedented speed, mostly because it is single and the most important industry asset: HR specialists
I have always found documentation to be critical.

The most important lessons that I've learned, are how to "balance" my docs, and integrate them into the code, itself, if possible.

Here's my take on documentation: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/
I dunno. I'm arguing that the media is only going to settle on a simple model of reality and I'm proposing the closest-to-reality model as the one that they'd settle on if not for financially/politically motivated reasoning.

The US has pretty much bankrupted itself and achieved not much useful for themselves with their global military expeditions. I think almost everything they've done in the last 50 years has been an embarrassment for them. I dunno, any successes? The worm is even starting to turn on Ukraine as people note the consequence, expense and general lack of good outcomes as the China-Russia-Iran axis gets welded together. They could have shortened the leash of the coup-organisers back in the early 2010s, left Ukraine as a buffer state and avoided the whole situation with better results for ... maybe literally everyone. I mean, it is starting to look like the 2024 Russia-Ukraine border will be the one that could have been settled on pretty early in the conflict with a bit of diplomacy; then everyone digs in and settles for the long stalemate.

It beggars belief that a neutrally motivated reporter would still be gung-ho about sending in the troops before thinking. I suppose reporters are a bit slow, but the track record is appalling and the alternatives - some more cooperative diplomacy - so obvious even Trump was talking about it. It was a mistake to demonise that part of his platform.

Unless the goal was more war, in which case well done another mission accomplished.
A university degree is just one of the many ways of certifying that you have spent a fair share of time studying a subject. The lack of such certificate shouldn't imply people lack studies, tools, and genuine interest in the matter. Check Graebers career, I wouldn't call him "just an anthropologist with 1 or 2 steps into waters unknown to him".
No need to editorialise the title here (and *italic* does not work in titles)
If I buy a book, I get a work of literature. But if I buy a news subscription I get a series of facts riddled with advertisements. I accept the former, but I oppose the latter. I suspect I'm not the only one.
They’re in the AppStore page:

225 for $0.99
4500 / month for $9.99
Free software doesn't even have to work. It can be an empty git repo. Your comment doesn't move forward the conversation.
Shorter patch cycles - at least historically, I haven't kept pace with the Android ecosystem. That said, with Android you can use a different OS and keep the device secured
I would be "happier" to pay a subscription to an aggregation platforms like hackernews or reddit to access archived articles that are linked to these sites. In turn a proportion of that could be passed on to the underlying publishers that I actually visit. I have nearly zero interest in reading articles that aren't linked to from an aggregation site.

I don't want to read theguardian.com, or nytimes.com, or washingtonpost.com, or bloomberg.com, I want to read news.ycombinator.com. Paying an individual subscription to every possible underlying site that could be linked to from news.ycombinator.com is a non-starter.
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Easy fix: In your script.js in the appendMessage function do this:

const chatMessage = document.createElement("div");
chatMessage.classList.add("chat-message");
chatMessage.innerHTML = `<span class="username" style="color: ${color};">${username}:</span> `;
const userMessage = document.createElement('span');
span.innerText = message;
chatMessage.appendChild(userMessage);
chatContainer.appendChild(chatMessage);
chatContainer.scrollTop = chatContainer.scrollHeight;
This is true. I have often encountered design deficiencies, while documenting my work.
I commonly see this response but it’s not based on anything more than than the person writing it wanting more money (which has nothing to do with this issue).

Contrarily, I have heard of many instances of extremely experienced senior developers of more than 10 years experience abandoning the profession for more fulfilling unrelated work at less pay. That includes me.
The article states that they used it initially through ChatGPT, but that seems to have been fixed in the meantime, at least for the very simplistic queries that used to work ("the first paragraph of the Carl Zimmer article on old DNA" in ChatGPT used to return the exact data from NYT, and "next paragraph" could then be used to get the following ones). Even if this has been fixed, it still proves that ChatGPT encodes exact copies of NYT articles in its weights, which may be a violation in itself, even if it is prevented from returning them directly. Especially if they ever started distributing the trained model.

Additionally, even the use through Copilot is very debatable. They are not returning the NYT link, which requires a subscription, they are returning the contents of it even to non-subscribers. And they are doing this in a commercial product, not a non profit like the Internet Archive, which has some arguments for fair use.
How was it “obvious” exactly? Iraq had already used chemical weapons against Kurds and in early/mid-90s the UN found large scale bio weapons programs. It dismantled these programs but then left the country in 1998.
Looks fine in Chrome's desktop mode on a phone.
https://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm shows the number of crashes with 19 or more fatalities about halved in the past two decades.

The total number of fatalities also about halved in that time frame.

I think those data points explain at least part of the lower reporting.
I've heard rumors that you can do both at the same time.
This is a common statement, but every attempt to sell that service has been a dismal failure. See for example blendle.
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