skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like this. Insofar as art is an expression of one's self, without consideration for practicality, this is pure art. I'm really glad to see art inside a mainstream program, props to antirez. This is the same feeling I had when creating https://imgz.org, though I guess that does do something practical.
what do you suggest instead?
In my experience, which may not be common, UI people tend to be more social than backend developers. In reality, and this is not a judgment as to what is right and wrong, but who is more readily able to push for change? Someone that is deep into the software, or someone who is closer to management and able to communicate more effectively (as far as socializing and building a rapport?). Again, I'm not saying it is right, I'm just going by the reality of how software works. This is a good reason for independent software developers to exist! I agree that there is huge business value in writing correct software that is performant, and gets the job done properly. I agree with you that Slack's UI could be improved drastically. The problem is that it's driven by money rather than productivity. I'm pretty sure you and I both agree on how software SHOULD be, but that is not how software actually is, and I don't think it will be until it gets out of the grips of large software developers, or we start to write for performance in an attempt to make software that is environmentally performant.

I'm not sure if we ever get to the point where developers need to start worrying about performance for environmental purposes, that we'll survive if the performance impacts have been measured properly. I'm not trying to be depressing, but I just don't think that it would ever happen until it was too late. Maybe there would be a minority left of society to do this, but that would be building back society. Doomsday scenario. I don't think "we" are smart enough to deal with any catastrophic situation until it's too late.
If they're like a pro sports team I'd be cut right away.
BIOS is still a shitshow; an ex-coworker of mine has been working on open bios for several decades now https://www.usenix.org/conference/als-2000/linux-bios
I used to use Dillo on a MacBook 3400c that I'd installed Linux on. That and Links. It's nice to see it again. I'm curious how much of the web is usable with it. Many of my favorite websites are still pretty basic HTML.
The Amiga had a hardware blitter that was very good at drawing lines and doing area fills, so it made perfect sense to encode video to polygons on that particular hardware.
That would be really cool! Kinda like Super Paper Mario.
They literally just charge a flat tax rate and no corporation tax. It's not really a legal loophole.

There are hoops they make people jump through - if you're a company wanting to relocate then you must have one Manx director. If you're a person then you must actually live there.

The Manx used to make their money from smuggling. This is cleaner.
I'm assuming it's satire, but just in case, there's a whole body of economics built around recognizing market participant irrationality and trying to cope with it given Econ 101 assumptions.
How is membership a marketing channel?
> This is a common fallacy, that having access to the source gives you the legal right to do what you want with it, and that is not correct. The license must be followed regardless of whether it's accessible to the public.

This isn't what the conversation was about. You started out by drawing comparisons to seeing limited-access information and clean-room reverse engineering, but what you're saying now is drastically different. Do you concede the original point? And yes, just having public access to information doesn't mean that you can do anything with it, but it contradicts the point you made originally.

Besides, the way you describe licensing here makes it sound like the licensee can just ask for anything and everyone will be obligated to follow the rules. This is the crux of the argument, because copyright law has bounds and it only gives authors specific privileges, not a right to dictate anything they like. Seeing past precedent on use cases that are similar to AI, it's not unreasonable to expect restrictions on AI use to not be legally actionable - in the same way how I can't write a license to forbid my hypothetical book from being lent in libraries, or how I can't charge you $100 for reading this comment by adding fine print in the end - a court won't enforce it.

> Having access to or viewing Windows source code and pirated content isn't disallowed. The thing that isn't allowed is copying it. That's what copyright laws are about.

What? No, there are definitely situations in which you don't have to outright copy something to get into trouble. Source code for proprietary software can be legally treated as a trade secret, which gives it a lot of "forbidden knowledge"-type protections that don't require copying.

> my software is also my IP, so my terms must also be followed in order to legally use my software

Again, I'm not arguing against this, there's no double standard in that big corps can have IP, but you can't. Refer to the beginning of my post - the argument isn't whether you can have a license, but whether a licensee can ask people to not use their publicly available work in AI and have it be actionable. This isn't settled law, but you also can't just ask for anything you want in your license and have a court actually uphold it.

> This is the same reason why you can't use GPL code in proprietary projects!

Copying code wholesale from a GPL project is different from having that data be present in a dataset, thereby creating a barely noticeable influence on the production of new content by the algorithm. All this applies very cleanly to direct copying, but with AI, it gets a lot more complicated.
There’s outliers in everything, but forcing people to go somewhere to gamble gets the cookies out of the house. Loved ones can notice the destructive behavior before it’s too late. It will not stop people from being ruined by it, but it will make progress.
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I've been developing in Swift on iOS/macOS/tvOS since it launched and I switched from back-end Java. Currently deep into SwiftUI and exploring DSL/API design with ResultBuilders.

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Anyone want to leverage Omnigraffle as a programming tool? Reverse engineering the file format and writing plugins are a current project.
I'm not saying that psychedelics should be criminalized. I'm saying that they are not just some fun toys that should be allowed to be used without medical supervision.

> Nobody should ever be getting behind the wheel of a car, let alone the cockpit of a plane, if they have not slept in 40+ hours.

Yeah, just imagine if he actually had a doctor checking on him after he used psychedelics.
Tangential comment, I'm a passionate follower of formula one and have realised that basically anything advertised on F1 cars is "bad". Cigarettes are the obvious historical example, FTX is the more recent one.

There's many that are socially acceptable at the moment but only with the caveat of either "in moderation" or "for responsible adults": energy drinks, crypto, etc.

Google Chrome is one that a decent debate could be had about.

Microsoft Dynamics might be the exception that proves the rule... But I've never worked out what the hell the product actually is.
All it shows is a lifeless grey map for NYC, USA, and states the time is (current time as of my visiting the site). What is it supposed to show?
The developer of this game is Kenta Cho. He's been making games like this for 20+ years.

In 2021 he used his Crisp Game Lib to create 111 one button games! That's one every ~3 days.

For me, he's the greatest active game designer in the world today.
You could say the same of Obama who subsidised the operation. Does that make Obama a rocket inventor?
Case example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848821
I agree. I don't have a moral problem with sports betting but it's not only commercial breaks, it's completely invaded the content itself. Sports commentary has become inseparable from betting and though I have no temptation, every minute of the content feels like predatory advertising. It's not fun anymore.
I'm curious who had actually finished it
Refreshingly simple, yet incredibly fun and engaging. Truly genius.

Building this game could be a very good programming excercise as well.
Something like "TCAS for runways" is RIMCAS[1], but it notifies the controller, not the pilots.

[1] https://www.indracompany.com/sites/default/files/indra06-nov...
There is absolutely no reason to be unregulated free-market absolutists about addictive behaviors, other than blind ideology. Regulations on gambling and gambling advertisements have been around for a long time because we know that people do not act rationally when it comes to this activity. This is not dissimilar to how legalized drugs like tobacco are treated.

The question for society to answer is "is the social costs of gambling addiction (which don't remain localized to the gambler themself) worth what we gain from unrestricted advertising?". I personally would say "hell no". Likewise with drugs, let's not eliminate legal methods. That just forces it underground. But that doesn't mean it should be promoted, or plastered all over billboards, arenas, and stadiums.
The main thing is that when you impose a tax on people in order to achieve a goal, that income is not then put into the general taxation pool for politicians to spend as they wish, but kept in a separate fund that can only be used to fund the thing it was levied for. If we had more of that we'd have less problems like the NHS.
>Then let’s make it obvious and include it in the training.

Which cuts right to the heart of the B737 MAX issue - Boeing substantially changed the design, then added sensors & software to make the changed airframe handle similarly to the old 737 airframe and claimed that this meant the pilots did not need retraining

If Boeing had been upfront about MCAS, and required that pilots were trained in what it did and how to override it then the crashes probably would not have happened.
> Funny how a couple years ago shouts of “Jews will not replace us” were defended by the same people who now pretend to give a shit about Jews.

Of course they weren’t. You’re deliberately confusing the hard right with the mainstream right. It’s just a terrible and transparent tactic as when the right confuses the hard left with the mainstream left.
I think I understand the use case, and effectively you're sharding the data with SQLite. This approach is applicable with multiple databases/datastores.

However, would you really change your approach if PostgreSQL could be upgraded by a minor version without any downtime?

> One second of downtime will absolutely cause a measurable, and large, cost to your company profits.

I want to believe, but I really am not conviced that 1 second downtime to restart PostgreSQL out of 24/7/365 would make more of a dent on your companys profits, as dedicating two weeks of developers time on optimizing query performance and mobile app performance to potentially improve average response time of your apps by multiple percentage points.
I didn't really understand the motivation for a 100W LED that runs off AC mains.
As for AC, I am generally quite scared by it but my very first maker project, some 40 years ago, was a nightlight, that every kid made in shop class (it's a resin-encased vacuum fluorescent light and a resistor connected to AC blades!)
And I also played with vacuum tubes, converting AC to DC on a protoboard. After a bit I decided to stop doing that, as it's a true shock hazard./
As an additional positive, the web interface is usually less capable of mining data than the native application.
I don't care about Musk or find that interesting. I want to know about the current ROI for Twitter advertising, in standard marketing metrics.

I don't care about corporate policy, history, personalities, or why things are the way they are.
Plan9 has actual users.
In my mid 30s, got laid off from a medical device company in August, literally a week before my wedding.
Company's sales had been floundering, the company founder had caused numerous schedule overruns by meddling too frequently in product development concerns. Then in a surprise move an outside investment group bought enough shares to push the CEO out of his role. New CEO came on board, gutted all new product development efforts (and guess who was leading new product development). So I was given a bunch of apologies and let go.
Fortunately, I had been reading the writing on the wall for weeks and ended up getting an offer just days after the layoff, followed by a second offer. Pivoted into a tech role that uses my skills without the time pressures of a manufacturing environment. And making loads more money.
I think the trick to surviving these recessions is to constantly assess your organization's health and consider alternatives. The timing was just right for me and saved me months of stress.
Their distribution is called Helios and is based on OmniOS. I think they were supposed to make it more suitable for consumer use / home install at some point - the package repository is public if you want to try to cobble it together on your own.
What's unfair is being forced to move from your home of 20 years, far away from your community, just because some tech companies decided to set up shop in your city.
Show HN: Chomp Game built in React.js
I built a game called Chomp, which sparked my interest back in college when I learned about it in a game theory context.

It's a 2-player game, where you take turns biting chunks of chocolate off of a chocolate bar, avoiding a special 'poison' square. Whoever chomps the poison square, loses.

I’m learning React / web development and was inspired to create a playable online version as my first React app. And my first Show HN post!

Currently you control both Player 1 and Player 2. I imagine a future version where you are Player 1, playing against an AI that controls Player 2.

Some more about Chomp:

-It is proven that a winning strategy exists for Player 1, regardless of the starting dimensions of the chocolate bar (other than the trivial 1x1 case).

-HOWEVER, there is no known winning strategy that works for all starting dimensions. Only for some special cases, like a square NxN chocolate bar.

-Computers can of course simulate all possible games and see which ones result in Player 1 winning, but there's no clear step-by-step procedure one could follow in practice (unlike tic-tac-toe, for example).

-So if you play around and happen upon a general winning strategy for Player 1, you may have made a mathematical discovery!

-Here's the wiki for more info/background on the Chomp game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomp
https://web.archive.org/web/20240103003217/https://www.latim...
Has the US President called for genocide?
Because I think you'd appreciate it, and no pedantry intended: "Line up and wait" is the international terminology, which the US was relatively late to adopt.

https://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/resources/luaw
There is a very regular sequence of phrases and that helps an enormous amount. I had little trouble understanding the VASA recording (which is surely lower quality than what was actually hitting the cockpit radios). I had a difficult time getting the word "accident", but the part that mattered operationally "the runway is closed" was entirely clear.

If you ring up ATC and tell them “I’m eating a ham and Swiss sandwich” (an entirely non-standard transmission), you’re very likely to get “say again?” regardless of the quality of the radio link or native English pronunciation and accent.

Even transmitting the ordinary items in a different sequence (altitude, route, code, destination, then frequency rather than the expected destination*, route, altitude, frequency, transponder code) will cause confusion.

* technically, clearance limit, but that's most commonly a destination.
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I always assumed that at least one of them was inspired by the Billy Joel song
I also loved their filter

> We excluded participants if they were not engaged in the task, as assessed using randomly placed catch trials with an unambiguous answer (e.g., pairing an unperturbed dog image with a cat image and asking which image is more cat-like). If a participant failed one catch trial for Experiments 2, 3, and 5, or two catch trials for Experiment 4, the task automatically terminated and their data was not analyzed.

But I fully agree, the experiments are poorly setup and they don't even have inter-correlating analysis. It's hard to tell if a force is going on, which there very well might be.
Please don't do this in Who Is Hiring threads.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847672.
They signed a public letter. Making sure other people are aware of their actions is not ‘doxxing’.
But this is my pet peeve when people claim this; the only reason is because the AI code is small and constrained in scope. Otherwise the very claim that humans can easily verify AI code quickly would, like, violate Rice's Theorem.
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A homeowner doesn't control the value of their home. What's unfair is forcing them to move just because their land happened to appreciate in value.
Earthquake map showing events for the past month in the U.S.:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=21.24842...
Only if you rely on it for your positioning 100%. Presumably none of the existing measures would change.
Cryptocurrency trading & high risk stocks was part of the dataset of the study[1]. They also compare it to other gambling activities and risk groups further down.

[1](pdf)https://socialwork.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/P...
I've read most of Matt's "Notes on [X]" In general they are well written and interesting. In some cases though it's too simplified and at times insensitive. In particular, I've talked to people who are from Nigeria/Ghana or have visited there and they pointed out issues with his narrative. But most people who read Matt's blog have never been to these places, so they take everything as 100% accurate.

That being said, if you treat it as literally just his experiences, then they're fantastic reads.

P.S. His notes on Mauritania [https://mattlakeman.org/2023/08/16/notes-on-mauritania/] is really interesting for the train story. I had never heard of such a thing before.
I'm curious, what are they? I sense there's something for me to learn here.
Chinese researchers claim to be able to disable US tanks with fast-moving ball
nah it's SF ("ess eff")
DAS was basically a name people came up for to describe how keyboards repeat keys. Initial keystroke, a short delay, then repeated presses afterwards.
Yes, try regulating companies to not use Electron apps and see where that takes you. Regulation is generally reserved for egregious examples of corporate abuse, not using Electron or not. Now if there was a regulation for being able to choose client apps and have interoperability, like the EU is doing, then that's something I can get behind.
Why don't we do with (problem) snakes what we do with the mosquito, specifically releasing either a) irradiated males who are sterile that produce offspring that do not hatch, or b) males with an installed gene drive that can only sire males for all future generations?

Either case results in a population crash. I don't know if gene drives have been used against wild populations as yet (although there is great interest and substantial justification).
Thank you for your thoughtful reply and explanation. Makes sense. It is an emotional topic indeed and most threads devolve into flamewars without careful moderation. Really appreciate all you do for HN!
the real problem with these studies is the critics. If it's a study that says veganism is good, then everyone does that or has a moral imperative for that to be true will come out and say "what more do those evil meat eaters want?" while simultaneously the meat eaters will lambaste the study as worthless on any point they can find.

Of course, the situation works in reverse. The problem is that it's incredibly difficult to find genuine, unbiased, nuanced criticism of diet research. Some people are dumb enough to see research that actively admits to funding from some food industry and immediately they say "this study is total bullshit" which is just not how science works.
> building and managing an active-active system is extremely complicated

Could Postgres yet evolve to become a Spanner-like multi-writer system?
I know plenty of people who live in San Fransisco who will happily call it "SF". "Frisco" and "San Fran" are definitely far more egregious.
I like how short and sweet this summary is; it's impressive to think that years worth of person-hours of labor can be wrapped up like this.

It reminds me of a short version of AOSA: https://aosabook.org/en/

Are there any more write-ups like this about open source software? (Apart from things like LWN)
The point is more generally to allow you to go longer without having to go to your inbox and/or to be able to turn of notifications for email. The RSS comes in quietly and the body and preview is an AI summarized.

Often times I'm CC'd on an email thread and can't always know what is going on just from previews, so an AI summary as the headlines would be very helpful to be able to know what is going on, without having to go into my inbox...
The whole point of the equalization payments is to level the playing field regarding the budget of provinces. The formula has to do with the amount of provincial taxation that a province charges its residents versus the rest of Canada. Given that the Quebec income taxes are higher, the province receives transfer payments. Some of the Federal income tax that Quebec residents pay ends up going to the province, so it's not just coming out of the income tax of non-quebec residents.
Dynamics is Microsoft (somewhat poorly) making a Salesforce for people who are all-in on the Microsoft ecosystem. In terms of collective human suffering caused per year of existence I would say it's on par with the rest of the stuff you've mentioned.