skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great explanatory writing, thanks.

> In mathematics, we say that the length diverges. If you were
measuring a smooth curve, the length would converge on a single
value -- incorporating more detail would change the length, but only
by tinier and tinier amounts.

Can you say something bout the exponential curve in this context?
IIRC whatever level we zoom to we see the same curve, neither
converging nor diverging. Is there something special we should take
note of here?
I couldn’t help but smile. To be clear, its not just Amazon who does this but they are guilty of not investing seriously in developing new tech, only monetizing it. Out of all the BigTech, they are the only one that doesn’t even pretend to invest in some sort of industrial lab focused on basic research (Even IBM has a Research division, even today).
> "What job were you trying to do for yourself that caused you to come here and hire that milkshake?"

"hire"? This makes the text look like synonym converter output.
DDG used to be the HN darling and you would get downvoted for saying anything negative or even insinuating that they are relying on Bing. Now the spot has been overtaken by Kagi but it looks like it suffers from the same problems. The counterargument that they have their own index as well is the same that was used for DDG, when the reality was that it was only used for widgets and other fluff. Let's see how it plays out for Kagi.
I have zero internal knowledge, so this is all just speculation, but a few things are possible:

1) They really were over-staffed.

2) The people who remain have simplified it to match the new staffing.

3) The system was stable enough to not need constant interventions and updates, so it keeps on running... but the people still hope nothing breaks because they have no idea how to handle a true emergency, and it is just a matter of time until they are truly hosed.
Interesting. What's your flow rate and pipe size?
I think most people wouldn't support genocide and they are not apathetic and that's why propaganda is needed in first place. When at war, belligerents systematically dehumanise their opponents so that their population or allies wouldn't oppose killings of human beings for gains.

Ukrainians call Russians "meat" and Russians portray Ukrainians as less than humans or Nazis. Russians will also not name Ukrainians but call them just "opponents" and they wouldn't kill them but neutralise them so that people can easily think in terms of reaching an objective in war and not in terms of loss of human life.

On Twitter, popular accounts would Tweet things like "name 10 Israeli and 10 Palestinian inventions" to dehumanise Palestinians by showing that Israeli lives are more valuable than Palestinian ones and if you support the "civilised world" you should support those who are contributing to it(unlike the "subhumans who don't").

In Turkey, Turks used to believe that Kurds have tails like monkeys(not a popular belief anymore but it was up until 10 years ago), therefore they are less than human.

It's just something its always done. War isn't fair or brave or dignifying endeavour. It's actually quite disgusting.
Sell your micro startup for less than 25k dollars
No, imo that won't be okay. Competition is not in a picture if one can't even finish a round :)

Perhaps you can have competitive and casual modes? One with the score and no undo, another without and with respectively.
> Or perhaps I should do hobby projects to fill this void - but that feels like it misses the point.

I don't think that misses the point at all. I think that is the point. Work to live, don't live to work.
I dunno, the second-ever GDPR enforcement action was against a kebab shop: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

Lots of tiny businesses on that list too. Also a bunch of local governments, weirdly.

Feels like if we’re at kebab shop levels of granularity for 88 pages of rules governing the entire planet, “a lot of work” is unavoidable, no?
> Note that Kagi supports all DuckDuckGo-style bangs.

You can also make your own bangs.

That said, my point was that the bang directory has a bunch of the most useful sites in each category.
why not? I have a burning passion for aerial sports, i have various sports skydiving licenses and BASE jumped for a while, so i am somewhat experienced in piloting different ram air canopy type wings. I also have a parachute rigging license and I’ve repaired and serviced parachutes for some time now.

Additionally, i also have designed a variety of mods and paraphernalia, including DLC coated closing loop pins - friction has foiled attempts to deploy reserve parachutes in the past, as well as a self-designed, modded slider to be retrofitted onto a model produced by performance designs parachutes.

The reason for the slider mod? The oem one is too small to slow down the deployment sequence, breaking the bones of unsuspecting parachutists. They are far from perfect in many cases and have never been sued for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dvy7ywQK18

Here’s another scary case in point if you’re interested in going down that rabbit hole. But I’m getting off track, I’m just having fun and I’m aware of the risks I’m taking by pursuing this. You’re risking your life on potentially badly designed gear either way, i just only have myself to blame lol
Wow, that's a pretty awful website. You navigate to it and you get three popups. One of which is modal and blocks out the entire site. It manages to piss you off before you can even read the headline.
It's going to be like self driving cars all over again.

Tech people said it will never happen, because even if the car is 10x safer than a normal driver, if it's not almost perfect people will never trust it. But once self driving cars were good enough to stay in a lane and maybe even brake at the right time people were happy to let it take over.

Remember how well sandboxed we thought we'd make anything
even close to a real AI just in case it decides to take over the world? Now we're letting it drive emacs. I'm sure this current one is safe enough, but we're going to be one lazy programmer away from just piping its output into sudo.
Double-replying, and I don’t altogether disagree. I think there’s something subtly unpleasantly moralizing about it. I don’t know how to explain it beyond that. The feeling I got from the OP and that your comment alludes to is the same one I get from this other short story, Manna.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)
How is this wild speculation? I just tried MS Copilot app, and after the very first question it inserted some ads relevant to the question.

We know product placement has been a round for decades.

I am flabbergasted that you think it’s wild speculation it would appear in the next round of tech.
I think the only thing weird is the buttons on the top like "edit" "recent changes" etc. Apart from that I would even notice it's a wiki and not a classic blog.
I just write HTML
> There isn't one.

https://github.com/pharo-open-documentation/pharo-wiki/blob/...

https://despotadesdibujau.github.io/southsmalltalks/how-to-d...

https://book.huihoo.com/smalltalk/pharo/enterprise-pharo/boo...

Also, not generally available unfortunately:

https://richardeng.medium.com/mobile-smalltalk-c6f0cc712909

Both cinecom and vast should allow deployment/distribution:

https://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/

https://www.instantiations.com/vast-platform/
It happens daily.

Here's another: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/humanitarian-tr...

Maybe you just try so hard to side with terrorists?

They hurt both Palestinians and Israelis.
I don't understand the praise of Marginalia.

When I search for "Steve Jobs" on Marginalia, I got blogs about his speech in 2011 and some mailing list from 2007.

When I search for my own name I get nothing. In Google it's just me.

It's cool that one person built all this of course but... that's not a good search result compared to Google?

Maybe I miss something, maybe I use it wrong
Look at the two circular images. They use height map to produce the consistent highlights using 3d model. The texture is real but the highlights are faked using 3d model based on height map.
> 2) assuming that what you are building is something the user wants - until people use it, you have no proof for this. Lots of startups fall into the trap of building stuff that nobody wants or needs.

> You have to pitch and explain the thing to them and even then they still might not get it. Only when you show them the thing and they like it will you get some confirmation that this might be something they want/need.

If you have to build first in order to pitch and show it, then necessarily you've had to assume that what you were building is something they want. Maybe your point was to get new features quickly into the hands of users to test the assumption early, but that has its own significant downsides.

I like the way you phrased it though, in terms of "don't assume foo" instead of "do bar", because it implies that there's really no replacing good old-fashioned _thinking_ with blindly following a 5-step plan to success.
Self driving cars are largely a failure. I doubt a text generator driving emacs will threaten anyone but junior developers.
Wait until you hear about Earth!
> That’s what Lua was made for. Idk why I would “<choose><jsx></jsx></choose>” over “choose { lua }”.

React was made for web developers. Most web developers know HTML already. Many of them probably know Lua too, but not as widespread as HTML-knowledge.

JSX is basically HTML in JavaScript, so it's easy because it's familiar. The reason for JSX is to make DOM creation in JS more like DOM creation in HTML.
It's actually more equivalent to a stock reverse-split than locked up shares.

When coins are lost, they stop circulating; that amount - of active, unique coins - is the M1 value, or the amount of circulating currency. Just like if you burn a key, or mint or destroy a trillion dollar coin thats in the Reserve, or disable shares, the value is derived from the scarcity of the resource.

Technically the "uncirculated" money has value, but only as "capital", as it's generally a liquid asset or borrowed against collateral. Uncirculated currency and coins are generally just a very flat asset, just eroding by inflation.
LLMs are not a threat even if you pipe them into sudo because they have no intentions.
Exits Recap on what drove culture in VC and technology in 2023
> Electric scooters have seen a lot more traction

Style is a big factor. Segway riders look awkward. Scooters—with the feet placed in front of each other—streamline the body and look more natural.
The border to Egypt refuses any cargo. All goods have to be brought in through Israel. There two issues there - that doesn't make the effective blockade from Israel's side a non-issue.
It is pretty obvious that if given the option, Israel would drive every last Palestinian out of the Gaza strip just to be sure that Hamas can't send rockets ever again. Once Palestinians have left, they will never be allowed to go back. You end up with millions of stateless people.

Also you pulled the last sentence out of your ass, talking as if Israel doesn't border the Gaza strip, because the city itself technically has no border with Israel.
Yeah, MS lawyers won't be happy about it.
How is a youtube downloader biased to fresh results? Seems to cover a pretty broad test.
The delta debugging paper[1] pointed out that the bug (change set) must satisfy certain properties (Definition 6-8) for the divide and conquer technique to work.

[1] Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why? PDF link: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/xyzhang/spring07/Papers/p253...
A super-lightweight, fully typed TypeScript lib to help you implement versatile NodeJS REST APIs quickly. Enterprise-ready. Patterns include Model-View-Controller architecture, typed middlewares, Inversion of Control (DI) for Controller and Provider constructs, support for event-driven composition, a health check endpoint abstraction, declarative routing, CORS middleware, verbose error handling, worker-thread based asynchronous logging, support for graceful shutdown and runtime exception handling.

Providers included: an abstraction over Sequelize ORM for PostgreSQL supporting Trait-based extensions, a Redis client with full API support, an AWS S3 object storage client and an AWS SES email relay client.

Code examples are included on the NPM page.

NPM page: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@greeneyesai/api-utils
Current version: 1.11.11
Author: @rpi1337
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0

© GreenEyes Artificial Intelligence Services, LLC.
I manage lol, being circumcised had a much worse impact on my gait for considerable time, oh, and i got my median sized nuts crushed by my leg straps once after deploying my parachute, that sucked
Exactly - AI and "free" (scraped) training data aren't inseparable. Any of the big players could train a model exclusively on content they own. Photoshop is a good case in point here - that's what Adobe has done, since they own a huge stock photography library.

But that would unveil the truth of the current situation: early AI adopters, myself included, are benefitting from an obfuscated form of theft. If OpenAI had to compensate the contributors to their training set, I wouldn't get such generous access for $20/month.
> They have a border with Egypt. Why won't Egypt let them leave?

"Leave" as in "ethnically cleanse themselves, never to return"? So what's all this song and dance about pretending to not be on board with genocide about?

> There was never a blockade because Israel never surrounded Gaza.

Ahuh.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-counted-calorie-require...

> Israel maintained the blockade was necessary to weaken Hamas, an armed, Iranian-backed group committed to Israel’s destruction.

> But critics say the blockade constituted collective punishment against Gaza’s more than 1.5 million people in its ultimately failed effort to shake Hamas’ hold on the territory. An American diplomatic cable revealed by WikiLeaks last year quoted Israeli diplomats as saying they wanted to “keep Gaza’s economy on the brink of collapse.”

[..]

> Similar to the calculation of the calorie needs, Israel also used baffling secret guidelines to differentiate between humanitarian necessities and nonessential luxuries. The result was that military bureaucrats enforcing the blockade allowed frozen salmon and low-fat yogurt into the Hamas-ruled territory, but not cilantro or instant coffee.

There never was a blockade. There is no genocide. Just keep handwaving and it will all go away.
It's delusional. The only reason this is a problem in mathematics is because lines in mathematics are infinitely narrow, while in reality complexity is bounded.

In real life, specific unknowns in part of the project may turn out to be actually _easier_ than you thought, while in perimeter calculations it's always a lower bound at a higher scale.
At some margin, this is right of course, and rising rates move us closer to that margin.

My point is this behavior is better explained by the actor’s belief in something like the following proposition:

“The present value of the opex avoidance is dwarfed by the present value of a leaner org’s ability to focus, ship and execute.”
> Israel is committing genocide.

You state these things like they are objective facts that have been proven.

I suspect that most of the pro-israel side would be against israel comitting genocide (of course there are probably some extremists out there, but one hopes they are a small minority). The difference of opinion is not about whether genocide is wrong, but whether that is what Israel is doing.

And hey, with the recent south africa case at the icj, we might get lots of international law experts weighing in, so it might all become more clear.
Assuming it's true that there's some clear path in the quantum computing case, then ITER is rather different because there's currently no clear path to commercially viable nuclear fusion.

ITER itself isn't even intended to achieve that. It's a research facility to test and demonstrate large-scale fusion in a tokamak. It's not even designed to generate electricity as output - just heat energy.

If ITER ends up demonstrating that its approach could be further improved in the direction of a commercial design - which is not at all clear (see reference below) - they'll have to start a new project to achieve that. And you can expect that project to take even more money and quite probably a longer time, since there will be a lot of advances that will still need to be made.

You might be interested to read "ITER is a showcase … for the drawbacks of fusion energy": https://thebulletin.org/2018/02/iter-is-a-showcase-for-the-d... . I recommend reading the whole article.

> Letting more people work on it at the same time? Throwing more money at it?

There are 6500 people all told that work on ITER, and its total funding is projected to reach as much as $65 billion. More people and money for ITER is almost certainly not the answer.

But other groups are also working on it, including 30+ fusion startups (see e.g. https://app.dealroom.co/lists/25184). However, ITER's funding is about 10-15 times that of all those startups combined. The problem with the startup approach is they're more likely to be killed if they don't achieve results.

> Or are these decades of planning also waiting for other technologies to appear in 10, 20, ... years?

For fusion, that's certainly the case. Despite the existence of startups, which perhaps reflect the existence of either altruistic and/or gullible VCs, fusion power is still very much a research project. It's not even certain that commercial fusion power will ever be viable - the article I linked helps explain that.
I sit here, using X61s, compiling stuff, listening to music, writing code and articles, no care in the world, comfy as a kitten. I think being comfortable with less is my superpower.
I was going to say "if you wanted to live in human-ready paradise you can already do that right here" but decided not to add it!
Well at some point it may feel like natural movement. However, normal IRL walking will stop feeling like it.
7 watts idle – building a low powered server/NAS on Intel 12th/13th gen
Awesome WM has nested GTK widgets similar to what you describe, a testament to the flexibility of Lua's uber table.
> There is no logical meaning to the sum of the size of a compressor and its output that I can see.

There is if you have a time limit. Otherwise you could spend a week computing a better result and embed that directly into the compressor - for use only if you're competing that Wikipedia file.
Reading this, I am increasing my belief that this is very, if not exactly, like XSLT. You are searching a tree looking for parents, siblings, children, etc nodes then analysing or transforming them.
Do we need more new languages? Will AI need a number of languages to complete the the task?
Python is already low code enough with the use of GPT-4, I'm good.
Russians are way less instructed than an average HN woke-toke.

I just don't see how Russian influence could have moved the needle in any measurable fashion without a large number of boots on the ground. The report can be factually correct and the whole thing still pathetic.
It's not just marketing though. Cars do provide a level of freedom not given by other forms of transport. I say this as someone who started to drive relatively late in life, it completely changes what options are open to you on the weekend for example.
Brentano’s sells coffee, bran muffins, you’re surrounding by reading material, its entrapment I tell you!
My SBC Collection
You don't actually need to store it in a variable. Do it the bash way and write it to a temporary file. You can then get the sha1 of that file and then zlib compress and copy it to the appropriate dir and filename.
It may be insolvent, and that may mean "scam" to you, but those words are different.

Even if they claim full backing and don't, they have lied.

Whether that is substantially and materially a sole qualifier in determining them a fraud and scam, is for the legal system, not an assortment of most vocal persons, to decide.
way to expensive to list.
> Maybe you just try so hard to side with terrorists?

Nope, I condemn the terrorism and the genocide based on the same principles. You think Netanyahu and his gang of right-wing extremists aren't hurting Israelis? Heh. They favor expansionism and racism over security and peace. And they don't get to hide behind Hamas, just like Hamas doesn't get to hide behind them.
The under 25K is not really a strong argument for those looking to sell.
my brother used to say it's stupid to use firefox, internet explorer is the defacto standard
Tobacco use peaked in the late 50's - but who knows maybe it's a lagging thing.
Much earlier in my career I built an entire business converting MS-Access database/forms solutions that were created by non-developers/end-users to solve a particular problem without involving IT folks, most of them 'sort-of' worked, but only up until the point things got complicated, or the requirements changed, or it needed to scale and nobody (the non-developers) could figure out how or even realized their entire foundation was built on quicksand. (I would generally convert them to true .net client/server applications with MS-SQL Server as the back-end or web front-ends with a proper database on the back).

I suspect there is another opportunity coming along to make some good money bailing out folks who built 'no code' solutions that their business now depends on, but no longer meets the needs and has become to fragmented and complicated to tinker with and difficult to change, scale or adapt.

That said, I am not opposed to no-code - it is a good and often inexpensive way to solve some problems, or at least get a POC working - many of those solutions may never need to scale or adapt.

...but some will, and thus the coming opportunity.
It argues for validating your assumptions as quick as you can. Which is why mvps, prototypes, and click demos can be a good thing. It doesn't always work though. Digging in and burning through a few million of investor money before your product encounters real users, is the expensive way to do it.
To silently tax future generations*

Inflation sucks in the US too.

It's not just unfounded common sentiment, the TV just wants everyone to think so.
I've never seen a local hardware store shed kit that wasn't complete garbage for the price.

Building a simple shed isn't hard, if you can handle assembling the kit you can buy and cut the basic materials yourself. The trickier parts like getting it watertight or installing doors and windows have to be done either way, all the kit gets you is a bundle of inferior materials and a bit of time savings cutting studs.
Yes those touchscreens in cars are just ridiculous distractions and should probably be limited in their use by legislation.
The keyboard and keyboard layout are really great and primary laptop still is an X220T.

However, the resolution is horrible (1366x768), the CPU is slow, it's heavy, mine has no USB3 and the charger is quite bulky.
If Microsoft is unhappy with 70 lines of LISP that I posted on their website, then I'm more than happy to change it. Ask them to reach out to jtunney@gmail.com
Could you recommend places to read professional IR material?
“The Carolina African peanut is so tiny that when it runs through a shelling machine, only about 70% will make it into a pile of good seed, then the sheller has to throw the rest out,” Ward said.

(in this case the remainder isn't thrown out, but hand shelled).

Obviously that shelling machine is designed to process bigger peanuts. Would it be difficult to re-design it (or make adaptable) to handle smaller ones?

That would seem inevitable if this peanut becomes more popular. Hand shelling 30% of a peanut harvest, in 2024? Come on...
OpenBSD – Update on pinsyscalls(2) progress from Theo de Raadt
The forecasting fallacy (2020)
Crypto has three legitimate uses and a few less than legit ones:

Drugs, money laundering (from China) / tax evasion, csam, ransomware, and soon, common crime.