skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they are putting their political system -- which is de facto a dictatorship selected periodically by a small ruling clique -- as an alternative model to democracy.

Oh please. Just because you people in the west are stuck in the 20th century and have an unyielding urge to reformat other nations and instill a political system you're familiar with, doesn't mean anyone else cares for this kind of idiocy. Stop projecting.

You're just like USSR with its obsession with "global revolution" and counterproductive dichotomies. And just like it happened with USSR, everyone else is getting pretty pissed with all that zealous crap that doesn't amount to anything but guised political opportunism IRL.

It's not like your specific approach to governance looks any less shitty to other cultures. Grow up, embrace diversity, learn to play nice with others - yours is the last civilization that needs to take a long hard look at itself. Either naturally, or through some major political crisis, or, worst case scenario, everyone else will just gang up on you like Saudis, China, US, WEU and many others did on USSR, if god forbid all that global (outside NATO and its few aspirants) distaste for bullshit "holier than thou" attitude reaches a boiling point.

Srsly, grow up. Traveling and meeting new people is extremely helpful in that regard.
> Editor’s note: this introduction was written with the help of ChatGPT.

Stopped reading.
See also: yinz
How is that any different to emissions fraud? Emissions fraud kills people, albeit slowly/statistically, and you can't pinpoint the exact people affected.
> Just because Alabama theoretically has potential doesn’t mean it has everything California does.

No one was saying that other than you.
Historians today tend to trace the ultimate fall of the Roman Empire to the multiple crises of the third century, even if the name of the empire limped on for a couple of centuries more. So AD 293 is quite a late date, on the threshold to a new era. From the viewpoint of modern historians, it is hard to understand how Italian Fascism could have seen anything that late as worth being proud of and emulating.
I’m not sure why anyone finds this hard to believe. Do US media companies tend to align with US geostrategic objectives? Now consider that the link between the Chinese state and its companies is much firmer and more authoritarian than it is in the US.
How often are one-off designs actually required? Quirky, unique concrete structures seem like a market limited to the high end only.
Ask HN: How to square the circle of wanting to share ideas but not train AI?
I find myself wanting to write blog posts (or even just HN comments) sharing thoughts and ideas. I’m aware the vast majority of blogs are never really read, but they will help train AI to recreate content similar to what I produce and devalue any future thoughts I have.
This greatly puts me off and leaves me to this dilemma of how to square this circle. Perhaps it’s just worth the trade off, or perhaps as blogs are now rarely read there is no benefit to sharing.
Have you had this concern and if so, how did you resolve it?
My review of Richard Powers: reading him is like reading a Yale-educated version of Nicholas Sparks.
Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people
Have the owner/s, management, board held personally liable. Jail time. Pierce the corporate veil.
Send people to jail in addition to the fines.

The corporation won't suffer but the next people will have a disincentive to commit illegal acts.
NZ already recognized vertebrates like cows as such (Animal Welfare Amendment Act (No. 2) 2015); this is just formally expanding it into invertebrates.
I plan to support mobile for my Qt/QML app[1] in the future. I can't believe it's that bad... I really hope that the Qt Company will take this seriously.

The lack of native-like scrolling on macOS/iOS with Qt Quick is something I experienced when developing my app as well.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/
A corporation is made of people. Fraud and reckless endangerment are crimes, even when you do them on company time. And once you have middle managers convicted, there are gang-related laws that allow you to easily travel up the chain of command.

The legal frameworks exist. There is just no will to enforce laws if the crime is done on company time.
I've been on both sides of interviewing, so much so that I can almost tell just be looking at subtle things on a resume or in interviewing whether or the person has real programming skill. In my early days, I hired some real stinkers, and learned from those errors. I've worked with people who wrote code that made The Daily WTF[1] (I know, because I submitted it) I know how to reject candidates that check the boxes that HR screens but can't code. I've consulted (mercifully briefly) at organizations where programmers whose primary skillset was using copy/paste but were able to jump through all the Jira (technically Azure DevOps: same shit, different name) hoops were given ownership of key parts of a system.

What were you saying about proficiency?

1. https://thedailywtf.com/ I'd link the actual post but it was over a decade ago and
> The consensus seems to be that Windows 12 will arrive sometime next year. Microsoft's hardware partners are expecting it.

Going to need to see some evidence on that one, chief.
It may be true, but real skill lies in realizing the moment it stops being true which is inevitable with growth and act accordingly.
For one, corporate executives signing off on these cost cutting measures need to be jailed. Customers that own impacted models need to be compensated and vehicles bought back by Toyota at retail price (not depreciated, current value). Countries need to hold corporations accountable by blacklisting import of their vehicles for X amount of years. State and local governments need to issue multibillion dollar fines.
Note: MRIs are incredibly safe. Your risk of dying due to an MRI machine exploding is significantly less than your risk of dying due to falling while climbing into the machine.
It's much easier to understand if one doesn't assume that Fascism ever cared about academic truth.
Categorical statements like these are infuriating. What has been “debunked” is that you should not use mouth wash that has a lower fluoride content than the toothpaste you used right before, or mouth wash that is anti-bacterial.

Not all mouthwashes and toothpastes are equal, therefore this categorical statement is wrong, and nothing has been “debunked”.

The mouth wash I use is the one recommended by my dentist, it is not anti bacterial and it has 0.2% fluoride.

The last article you posted simply lies:

> Mouthwash contains an antiseptic compound called chlorhexidine.

No it doesn’t. Not all mouthwash contains that. I recognize it though, because it’s what I use as an antiseptic alcohol to clean bruises.
I am surprised there is so much money to be made in such simple applications. Kudos well done
Ask HN: Resources to learn boring architecture for a small startup?
The title might sound dumb, but the real goal is to learn more and eventually get better at simple system designs like in the terrific posts below:

https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behind-a-one-person-23/

https://anthonynsimon.com/blog/one-man-saas-architecture/

There are a lot of resources on distributed systems and interview preparation where the focus is on FAANG scale, distributed setups, exobytes of data, which is cool if you are working on such a project but most likely you are not. I am not, for example.

I really admire these articles because their authors have such a great understanding of many different aspects of development.

While reading them, I noted to myself that I personally can't even answer with confidence what a single reasonably fat server can handle with just a web server and Postgres.

I have also always worked with managed DBs because it so happened that the companies I worked for are active cloud users.

Even worse, even at mid sized companies, a lot of complexities like load balancing and DNS are handled by dedicated teams and you just have to read the documentation and hope that K8s managed by the admin team does everything for you.

It really makes me feel incompetent to realize that what the authors of these posts implemented on their own, is not something I could do.

On the bright side, I really think I'd like to fill the gaps.

Maybe, there are some resources that build things up incrementally with a focus on simplicity but at the same time do not take anything for granted?

I have read Designing Data Intensive Applications, it's my favorite book but, honestly speaking, even the title says that it's about large scale.
I mean... yes? Have you only worked at a company with a single-digit number of engineers? At some point communication is critical and you need to be able to write up a design document before making major changes or additions to code or infrastructure.
"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
They certainly give back some entertainment value to society.
Some European and Ashkenazi Jewish DNA has a lower prevalence of autism
I was thinking about the tons of meat exports which come from NZ. I suppose there must be some sort of legal framework established for the commercial dispatch of sentient non-humans?
England/London is a bad example, but this one (based on the paper) is easy to replicate with GPT4 and other top models:

> Who is Mary Lee Pfeiffer's son?

>> Mary Lee Pfieffer's son is Sean Pfieffer.

> Who is Tom Cruise's mother?

>> Tom Cruise's mother is Mary Lee Pfeiffer.

> Who is Mary Lee Pfeiffer's son?

>> Mary Lee Pfeiffer's son is the actor Tom Cruise.

Of course the second time around (with models that keep context) it "realizes" its mistake, sometimes apologizing. I've tried this one tens of times and never seen it get Tom Cruise, but it will often pick another random celebrity like Harrison Ford or Eddie Van Halen.
Sure it may not be a big secret, but I would say that any substantive report about any systematic platform anomalies that align with any geostrategic objectives are relevant posts for HN, be it a platform in the US, China, or any other country.

Refusal to discuss any of these because it is something everyone ostensibly knows... Now that is suspicious.
Software Archaeology (2021)
GM buys out nearly half of its Buick dealers, who opt to not sell EVs
These are the chestnuts I know, that are sold as street food: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castanea_sativa

Native in Europe and Asia.

There also is a different kind of chestnut commonly found in parks, along roads, that is not edible:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesculus_hippocastanum
Justify the incredible salaries by attaching criminal liability in certain circumstances to the officer roles of a company.
What you basically wrote is that my problems would go away if only I wrote code that the compiler approves..

But that is not easy, and much of that is due to the complexity of Rust and the way it handles memory safety. Which is where fighting the compiler comes in.
Look at the “related news” section, and tell me if something seems off.

Then find me a second news outfit reporting this.
The problem with ash trees is they fall apart easily. Limbs and branches are brittle and fall down frequently. So they’re dangerous trees. Especially once emerald ash bore takes root.

Ashes are not very good trees to keep on a property with people and structures. If you notice lots of debris it might be worth cutting it down.
You should respect the magnet though. Those warnings aren't there without reason, getting between an MRI or NMR and a magnetic piece of metal is a bad idea
Programming in Delphi was fun and easy. It's probably because things were overall simpler then, but we seem to hold on to the idea that it was the tool. And maybe it was, I haven't tried Delphi in a while.
There were other options than gas.
~~I don't know why this is relevant, and quite frankly I find comment odd. Just because y is safer than z, does not mean we should ignore reasons why z isn't safe.~~

See OP's response for why this is crossed out (assuming HN supports it).
Each input/output training pair makes the model slightly more like the intended one. They removed the obviously-censored entries from the dataset. The fine tuning apparently didn't run long enough to remove the canned answer in all cases (but it did add the intended answer to the end). It's kind of a bug and you could report it in the community tab.
As a person thinking through this logically I just want to remind everybody that all that adds extra cost and effort and no company is going to do that unless they have to. Could a new firmware have been released mid-cycle? Sure. Could the firmware somewhere else in the world differ? Sure.

Is it likely that either is the case? Probably not. If anything, they would make a new firmware as part of a product launch.
I've stumbled on the ontological argument without knowing that it's called that myself - not as an argument for god, but for multiple universes. Namely, one can conceive a universe so powerful that one of its properties is that it must necessarily exist, even if it doesn't yet and even if there is currently only one universe - a universe so powerful that it is capable of breaking the isolation inherent of a multiverse and will itself into existence.

I suppose you could argue for anything with this reasoning.
> I can't see battery pickup working except as a once per year kind of thing.

Why not?

> Also, "take it somewhere" isn't that bad when "somewhere" is home depot, which has a battery disposal bin.

I think you underestimate how lazy people are. Lets not leave the health and safety of our landfills up to something as risky as human laziness.
Are you saying that biodiversity is more important than global trade? How much biodiversity do we "need"?
I’ve never worked as a consultant but is it reasonable to assume you always have work (8*21 hours) which pays $120 per hour?
You're right.

I didn't read the article, and assumed the opposite of its actual conclusions.

Rents are way down from pre-2020 times.

Which makes it even more fun to read the responses that argue rents will not drop even when demand declines.
The full scope is currently unclear and being investigated; it may be a broad as every vehicle that Daihatsu designed.

> An independent panel has been investigating Daihatsu after it said in April it had rigged side-collision safety tests carried out for 88,000 small cars, most of those sold as Toyotas.
>
> But the latest revelations suggest the scope of the scandal is far greater and went back much further than previously thought and could potentially tarnish the automakers' reputation for quality and safety.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...
In contrast, in Spanish, they generally say "tu" rather than "usted", eg in restaurants, shops, etc. "Usted" is reserved for the more polite interactions, older people, etc.
I hate this type of "wrong" comment. Alabama obviously produces a ton of crops as do most of the states. After googling for 2 seconds, I even found Alabama is 2nd in the country as far as peanut production.
All digital content is currently managed by AI (search engines, social media, recommendation algorithms, etc). Even analog books will be eventually digitized and fed into AI. So there is no circle to square here, your perspective is inconsistent and you should figure out why. Presumably you have no problem with using the internet and the algorithms/platforms that are based on it so you are already participating in the system and writing posts or comments is just another form of participation in a system that will eventually be subsumed by AI/AGI.

The march of increasing computational capabilities has only one inevitable endpoint, the "panoptic computronium cathedral"™.
My favorite rebuttal for this argument is https://www.machall.com/comic/things-to-think-about which uses applied theology and the ontological argument to summon a jelly donut.
What’s really funny is that the democracy Americans keep touting as some amazing system is currently stripping away rights from:

Queer folk

Women

Pro-Palestinian people

Maybe it’s time to question if your democracy is at a point to be exported to the rest of the world (?)
You don’t expect that someone will blow through a red light, but you expect that they could, and so you look both ways before you accelerate if you’re the first one waiting when the light turns green.

You wouldn’t expect someone to suddenly accelerate from a stop while they have a red light, so you don’t typically look both ways when driving through a light that has already been green for a while when there are cars on either side waiting.

I’m not saying Waymo cars do that; just an example of expected unexpected vs unexpected unexpected behavior.
I'm guessing your Hijet is not 25 years old or you are not in the U.S. (where I thought imported trucks from Japan were typically 25 years or older).
There's a difference between a flawed proof (e.g. Wiles's original proof of FLT which was found to contain a gap) and outright crankery, though. There are more mathematical cranks than most people would think, and their arguments usually fall apart rather easily.
> The original Teletype bell in a Model 15 Teletype is a 3-inch gong with a satisfying "bong" sound. That was intended to be heard across a room of noisy machines. There's also a little end of line bell for typists, but that's not loud.

What would the machine do if a mischievous prankster ran a program that endlessly outputted ASCII BEL characters in a tight loop?
There are preprocessor macros though you need to explicitly enable them and they don't support parameters (there are workarounds but in practice they're not really needed). FWIW i never had to use them so far, the most i needed from the preprocessor was DEFINE/IFDEF/ENDIF/etc.
> I live in California and benefit greatly from incredible local produce

Without more qualifiers, that misses the point. Most local crops are still big ag varieties. The "local" crops you buy are likely the same ones sold in grocery stores anywhere in the US because so many things are grown in California.

But there are some things that can only be grown locally, because they aren't suited to shipping or because they have short shelf lives. And there are lots of varieties that are not on big ag's buy list, so large operations are very unlikely to grow them.

Even corn (which you mention) and soybeans need to be certain varieties to be turned into everything from high fructose corn syrup to the "shrimp shapes" made of soy I remember from grade school. They are part of the problem the GP is talking about, not the problem instead . . .

Big ag forces out diversity in crops and, frankly, forces a blander palate on the populace, who doesn't know better anymore.
I love this meme. It's one of my favorites. But Win10 was actually a turd and Win11 was a polished turd with a stinky one of an ad-on: more ads and more fingerprinting.

I xpect Win12 to be more turd and Win13 to be diarrhea.
I definitely think there's some truth to this, and I would benefit from some kind of unwinding. I'm just not sure yet what it is. Drugs and alcohol tend to make me feel worse the next day(s).
Honestly not sure if comparing China and Taiwan gets that conclusion for everyone?
At what point are less safe but cheaper machines worth it. Hospitals ration MRI machine access through out the world. Even in Canada, you have to wait on a list to get access.

"Canada could expect to wait a median of 5.4 weeks for a CT scan and 10.6 weeks for an MRI scan"
Was XP really a hit? I remember rejecting it in favour of SP4 for Windows 2000 for the longest time. It was only once XP SP2 dropped in 2004 that it became usable
"You" would be ambiguous anyway, and might imply that you are addressing more than one, contravening the first commandment.
AI systems: develop them securely
I think you're missing the point. In this case it being a website is an awesome thing.

The underlying tech is powered by the WebSerial protocol. We basically already have the executable you're asking for. As long as Google supplies the firmware blob (and js source, though this can probably just be ripped from the current web page), anyone will be able to put up a server, and anyone with a modern browser will be able to visit the site and update -- without having to install anything locally.

Given that a 'native' app would probably be some bloated Electron abomination, I was actually pleasantly surprised that Google chose to solve the firmware update problem the way they did; it worked flawlessly for me on Linux which is seldom the case when it comes to these things.
Microsoft SQL Server Express has limits on its database size. Windows Internal Database, which is the same thing as far as APIs are concerned, does not. Well, it does, but the limit is over 500GB. So, I made Sharepoint and other vendor apps run on it.

In the same spirit, Microsoft shipped Business Contact Manager for Outlook on Office 2003 CD. That thing is functionally a CRM that was allegedly limited to 5 users. It, of course, runs on an SQL Server and so I made it run under Windows Internal Database, tested it with more than 5 users, and made it a lot more usable.
Ask HN: What will you be working on over xmas?
Merry xmas everyone. I'll be stuck at home coding most of the day.
Who else will be in that situation and what will you be working on?
Probably you're right, they just needed something widely known to make people feel some sort of national identity/united/proud and control them better
The rapid conversion from liquid or solid to gas, and the means to (briefly) contain that... is a bomb. The reason you don't block the emergency relief is that you turn a quench from an emergency involving asphyxiation, to something resembling a detonation.
I mean, then why did we spend so much money and kill so many people destabilizing half the world?

If the model was so rotten to begin with, that is.

How many people did the west directly and indirectly kill in the 20th century?
No, but estimating being booked 75%+ isn't unreasonable.
const char *d[{"First","Second",...,"Twelf"};

is not a valid C unconditionally.
It's 2023, just federate your blog and pull in comments from across the ActivityPub spectrum. If you're into low effort, just webmention.io it, else there are premade solutions for WordPress, 11ty, Jekyll, and many others.

Comments are so 2003 pre-Trackback/Pingback.
Maybe not but I like to tell myself that I do :)
In my opinion, it’s not.
Good grief.

Alabama Ag is alive and well. Not everything is avocadoes or California nuts.

https://farmflavor.com/alabama-agriculture/
Nothing. I'm just waiting for the singularity and no work is required on my part for it to happen.
This argument is somewhat related to Russell's Paradox.[1] "Suppose that we can form a class of all classes (or sets) that, like the null class, are not included in themselves. The paradox arises from asking the question of whether this class is in itself." Trouble comes from trying to force a set into existence by defining a predicate and then claiming that there is a set of all things for which that predicate is true.
The mathematicians of the era eventually got out of that mess by adding a type theory.
That broke the philosophical recursion loop.

When Russell was working on this, set theory was an abstract hobby, not the basis of industrial-strength systems.
Now that computers routinely deal with types, recursion, sets, and groups for practical purposes, this sort of thing is better understood. We know you can get yourself into a definitional mess, and that there are useful systems which lack that flaw.

[1] https://iep.utm.edu/par-russ/
Meanwhile the US military gets direct access to American schools. Especially in Rural areas.

It’s propaganda all the way down. We now just have someone competing with us on it :)