skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oddly enough I just wrote a post about why I think we should stop trying not to call them "AI": https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/7/call-it-ai/
Wash sale rules apply to mutual funds and ETFs also, not just directly holding stocks.
I agree that the web site needs a significant amount of rework.

The APK package manager specifically makes all transactions atomic: if `apk upgrade` returns an error, your system is in the state it was before it was executed. If it does not return an error, your system is now updated.

Rollbacks aren't necessarily as easy to do with "just" APK, but we support Btrfs as a first-class citizen and it wouldn't be hard to make snapshots as an APK pre-commit action if you wanted.
This is kind of like saying that the first person harvesting an apple orchard is better than the people that come after because they get to pick the low hanging fruit.

If you dug them out of their graves and presented the scientific world as we have it now it's highly likely they'd see the predicaments we are in now and a whole lot of that technological progress would be different. Turned out running economies on leaded gas burns up atmospheres and brains. Turns out that physics didn't have unlimited secrets to divulge without ever increasing amounts of effort and energy being applied to discover them.
I'm curious--when you say "a prolific pornographer," do you mean watcher or, uh, performer? Reading it I think the latter but it sounds like you mean the former.
737 Mid-Cabin Emergency Exit Doors [video]
Annual Heating Costs Comparisons
Not a big deal, just specify exact dependency versions. Curious how you think other package managers handle this better than npm.
That would certainly cause issues if you ever let them loose on the internet unsupervised. Much easier to teach them that there’s nothing inherently wrong with images like that.
How is this not still on the front page? Is Carta a YC company?
You highlighted the second part of the 1955 proposal, while it is actually the first part that is problematic. I don't think we came any near to precisely describing (for humans) every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence. And this is precisely the problem with the term.

Most people will certainly not know what LLM means if we stop using it now. I say, Let's give it a chance.
> The idea that drug use is a victimless crime is patently false

What about alcohol use then? Smoking? Buying high risk stocks, options and NFTs? Investing in high-risk startups? Working for a high-risk startups? Spending 100 hours per week on work and neglecting one's family? Any of these could potentially lead to very sad consequences for not only the individual involved but for the people close to them. But once you step on this road, it can lead you to a very weird places if you're not careful. Or you may throw the consistency out of the window and just say "but this is different!" - but then I'd welcome you to explain how exactly it's different.

> but it quickly devolves from there.

This is a so called "gateway" theory, and there are many indications it is false. For example: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB6010.html

I suspect that with further legalization and de-stigmatization of marijuana use, the link would become even weaker, because most users won't devolve anywhere - as most people who drink a can of beer on a weekend do not become raging alcoholics - and the cases where a person is driven to drug use by some problems not produced (though also not solved but frequently worsened) by drugs would be recognized as such instead of blaming the evil weed for everything. (NB: not a user myself, never did, never planning to)
You're right, and it's a fundamental aspect of the US military. It's fine that the GP doesn't understand, but it's not fine to speak as if they do. Jointness is decades old now.

Politically, it's seems very unlikley that the US desires to send ground troops (which seem more likely to be Marines or special forces than regular Army) into Yemen. Yemen is tied up with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and a Mideast that's on a hair trigger. The US wants to de-escalate, not inflame the situation. Biden is very cautious about confrontation and military involvement anyway, but I can't imagine any president doing that. At worst, some local ally would do it with our help.

More likely would be airstrikes. The US has air bases all over the region, and can fly from anywhere due to refueuling capability; they don't need a carrier to do it. If the US did conduct airstrikes, I expect they would not publicize it to avoid escalation with Iran, in Yemen, in the Mideast generally, and pulling in Saudi Arabia too. That's exactly what Hamas and possibly Iran would like to see.

But the Houthi missiles aren't that big a problem, so far.
What next generation? You are currently shrugging off the ethnic cleansing / genocide of Palestinians -- because that is what is happening and the content of the comment you are replying to -- including murder in the West Bank, with that broad brush racist talk about "people ruined by Hamas". Millions of people. Collective punishment, ethnic cleansing and war crimes are not appropriate response to anything, ever, they certainly mean you forfeit any ability to reference morality.

And on top of all that, which is grave enough, you simply ignore everything I posted that demonstrated this is about wanting to take over the land. Netanyahu and his right-wing ilk treated Hamas, you now use as an excuse to commit wanton mass murder like clockwork, as an asset precisely for that reason, to be preferred over the moderates.
This is just false with NIO buffers. There’s a large corpus of Netty-based servers and clients for all sorts of binary protocols.
What is the metaverse? An explanation and in-depth guide
Ask HN: Can we make a list of obscure/unknown non-fiction books?
I'm tired of seeing the same recommendations everywhere. What book can you recommend that you think no one else will know about that you enjoyed? Any topic is welcome!

I'll start:
Thinking Fast and Slow - hahaha joking, I got you there ehhh!!!

what about hmm:
Critical Path by Buckminster Fuller ?
If intuition and hunches are important as you say, why study humanities?

We can just wing it, if we don’t care about things like absolute truth or sticking to something logical.
I've been running Arch continuously without a single complete reinstall for a decade now. I don't think it's fair to claim I wouldn't know how to maintain my systems correctly.
As others have said - the days are shortest at this time of year. I live in southern England (Somerset) and we are on the same latitude as Calgary in Alberta. It's relatively warm here thanks to the Gulf Stream.

Around 400-200 years ago there was a little ice age in Europe - https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/56035590 the river Thames iced over several times to the point that fairs happened.

Until recently, the only heating was a fire and then body heat in bed (we are warm blooded after all). You may have experienced a rural cottage, when its time for bed and the fire has run low. You go up to the bedroom. There's rime on the windows and you can see your breath. Your nose shuts down if you try to breath through it. A hot water bottle takes the edge off the cold in the bed. You shiver for quite a while. With luck, you are not alone ...

This year, here, buds started breaking out on trees around 20 Dec 2023. Now, birds are displaying initial nesting behaviour. We have had the wettest, warmest winter for some time.
One year ago, my friend and I developed a tool to compare time zones.

Today, I came across this post [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38876707] and thought it would be worthwhile to share our original application with you, which appears to have heavily inspired time.fyi.

The primary objective of our application was to ensure it felt like a native app. It's a Progressive Web App (PWA) and can be installed on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows.
https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/newsroom-and-events/press-rele...

"Following extensive analysis by EASA, we have determined that the 737 MAX can safely return to service. This assessment was carried out in full independence of Boeing or the Federal Aviation Administration and without any economic or political pressure – we asked difficult questions until we got answers and pushed for solutions which satisfied our exacting safety requirements. We carried out our own flight tests and simulator sessions and did not rely on others to do this for us."
All my jobs are from LinkedIn, via recruiters for various companies. In fact, I use the number of messages I get per week as a proxy for how well or poorly the market is doing.
They have "people skills"
This reminds me of a story I hear from time to time, about how monks quit bad habits. They practice mindfulness, which is staying aware of the habit every time they feel tempted. They still indulge in it, but they make sure they're always doing it on purpose, fully aware of their actions.

Once they've turned it from a compulsive behavior into an intentional one, they can stop. Their intentional behavior made the compulsive behavior shut up, so once they stop doing it intentionally, they don't feel the compulsion anymore either.

When done properly this is supposed to have a 100% success rate.
No adult should consider that porn. It might be exciting to a 15 year old?
> Nothing is "inevitable"

There is one inevitability: if a thing cannot go on forever, it will stop.

Ballooning debt cannot balloon forever.

Concentration of wealth cannot concentrate forever.

Exponential growth cannot grow exponentially forever.

These things will all stop.

There are hard social and physical limits.

It is inevitable.
I also came across similar studies years ago when looking into metformin
Especially those exposed to different diets.
Git could just as well store commits as diffs from other commits, and 99% of users would never notice.

It uses snapshots because that is efficient, but from a user perspective all common git operations look more like they are operating on diffs than snapshots.

When you cherry-pick a commit, the diff of the old and new commit will be similar, but the snapshots are normally completely different; that's the point. The same goes for rebasing, which is like applying a set of patches. Heck, if it goes wrong, you get merge conflicts, which wouldn't happen if you were just manipulating pointers between snapshots.

Git actually makes it quite difficult to manipulate commits as pointers to snapshots instead of diffs -- i doubt most git users even know about `git commit-tree`.

This is why i don't really get the "git is wrong and should work on diffs" crowd. If it did, the user experience would be 99% the same, unless you're manually editing your diffs before committing them.
That is what designers do, yes. They typically do not (and are not expected to) create the actual HTML and CSS, that's the job of the front-end engineer.
Yes, I agree. This is something I implemented in my project UI (a “more like this game” button, and the ability to specify a Steam appid for using as the query).

It works if there actually is a game out there you want similar games to, but the text input is useful for finding something when you don’t have an example offhand.
I wonder how other websockets libraries for java do it if it is impossible /s
> Those poor women, truly missing out on the gift that is you.

Given how much single women in their 30s and up (I am not in the 20-something demographic) kvetch about not being able to find a good guy to date/marry, I think that some of them (much like this woman in the article, who I think is younger) might do well to figure out the things that make them no-go material for desirable guys (whether it’s guys like me or guys with other traits that they find desirable).
I still adhere to the classic definition of AI. AI is anything a machine can do which we would otherwise consider to require "intelligence" in a human to perform the task.

Optical character recognition, speech recognition, game playing engines, spelling correction, fuzzy pattern matching, semantically-informed lookup and search, image classification and recognition, determining prices and whether to buy or sell... regardless of how you go about accomplishing the task. AI.

Since the 1980s certain artificial intelligence applications have become so ubiquitous we don't really think about it that way, as AI, but it is AI in principle.

Machine learning, the most tantalizing prospect in AI, of having the machine find a solution without needing to fully specify or even understand the solution, has undergone a great revolution in the last 10 years or so [1]. I continue to be surprised at the efficacy of the technique when used at scale.

We use our classic '90s AI stack - IDEs and Wikis and search engines - to construct machine-learning based models that work as context-aware and flexible pattern recognizers and transducers. Which we are now stacking, to achieve tasks like scanning the texts of old books in, translating them into other languages, then synthesizing voices to read them aloud. A person who can do that task, is probably reasonably intelligent. What adjective do we apply to a machine that can do it otherwise? Capable of the simulation of human-like intelligence in the task-domain?

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/enabling-cross... deep learning for translation may 2014 and it goes back further, 1990s
LibreOffice is a known pain point we are trying to resolve. Flatpak is on my list of things to package. Firefox and Thunderbird 102 need Rust toolchain updates that are queued but not yet live.

Chromium is a non-starter: it doesn't support musl libc, and even if it did, it doesn't support 3 of our 5 Tier 1 architectures. It also has significant issues regarding reliability, security, portability, and a rapid release schedule that would severely drain our presently limited resources testing all of the patch sets we would need to ship with it to make it work for us. But, when we have Flatpak available, you can always 
punish yourself with
 run Chromium via that, I suppose.

I'll look in to Gnome Boxes; thanks for the report.
you are aware that metformin is used to treat type 1 diabetes?
He also signed sentencing reform into law. He's not the devil like he's made out to be. He's just a total asshole who spread conspiracy theories to avoid taking responsibility for allowing Covid to spread, damaged America's reputation with its allies, and packed the cabinet and federal courts full of corrupt industry shills, who in turn tried to sabotage those institutions from their appointed positions.

GWB was worse by far. At least Trump didn't start two massive unnecessary 20-year-long foreign wars that ended up doing nothing but slaughtering millions of civilians, thousands of US citizens, wreaking widespread destruction of both human and non-human environments, and cost US taxpayers untold trillions of dollars that could have been spent elsewhere.
All these regulatory stories seem to fail to connect the full picture back to a suitable regulatory regime that actually saves costs.

With our latest round of nuclear failures, there was a new combined licensing approach taken at the behest of industry. It did not seem to work. The article cites "hundreds of millions for licensing" which is a tiny percentage of reactor cost, and frankly insignificant. For costs to be lower, there has to be a huge, 50%+ drop in construction costs. The latest nuclear failures in the US used a new design, the AP1000, which used something like an order of magnitude less concrete and steel, and that was not enough to pull down costs. Where is the money going? Labor.

The French regulatory regime is presumably OK, as it oversaw a large buildout in the 1970s, and I've never heard anybody complain about it, but it has still resulted in economic failures at Flamanville and Olkiluoto.

Eliminate ALARA, and what construction or design cost savings are there? I'm not sure and it's not really clear. What construction site savings are there? Ignore the containment? People all agreed that after Chernobyl is was a bad idea, what engineer is going to sign off on that? Maybe they are OK with it, but I haven't heard any engineer brave enough to cite a lessening of safety that would drive down construction costs.

Also, all large construction projects, the heart of nuclear, have gotten expensive in the US, even without the NRC. It's just a hard problem to build big things with complicated logistics.

Look at construction productivity trends over the past 50 years, and they have been stagnant compared to manufacturing and other types of productivity. And as productivity increases in an economy, overall wages increase, even for the less productive construction sector, because workers have the choice to work in more productive fields, and must be paid to compensate for the low productivity of working in construction. The places closest to having low costs on nuclear are economies with cheap labor: Russia and China. It's going to be hard for us to outsource construction labor to cheap countries when the reactors need to be sites in high labor cost countries.

Even if regulation is a major factor, this labor cost of construction is also a major factor. And it's unclear to me why nuclear should ever be cheap. It's a huge huge construction project, and in advanced economies, those are still very expensive.
Yeah? Well I, for one, would like to spend more time engaging with people like you. Some of the obvious steps are helpful (eg: "read Less Wrong" was an excellent step some years ago). But I would just like to point out that there ARE some people who would like to interact with those who are very bright and a little bit focused.
Sounds like fasting with extra steps. Metformin changes the way you metabolize sugars, making you tolerate (and thus crave) them less. If it has life-extending properties, they're probably from the calorie restriction and you consuming less sugar in general.

We need to attack the root problem with the Western (esp. American) diet that underpins many diseases: sugar. The easiest, most cost-effective, and least side-effect-prone way of doing that is with fasting.
By definition such a list is impossible
Is there one that does? I regularly have more than that open in both Safari and Firefox.
I’ve started thinking package management has too much trust now. Ideally, but probably unpractically, projects should check in their packages like they used to under /lib or /third_party, and be much more suspicious of new package dependencies.

Basically, you would need to start accepting that you are responsible for any dependencies you choose to include. Any upstream changes you would need to evaluate and bring in or patch yourself.

Definitely an impossible task given how broad and deep modern package dependencies are, but at least you’d start feeling the insanity of having all if them in the first place :P.
Why are these all so...dribbblized [0]? They don't seem like real, actual designs for real people to use, they're more like aesthetically pleasing art pieces that just so happen to have some functionality attached, or implied.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6406898
aka, all models are wrong, some are useful.
The problem with systems like that is they're going to be optimized for making Amazon the most money, not necessarily what's best for the user (unless the two happen to coincide.)
Hmm. The blink dirs seem to have a very large number of security issues relevant too, despite oilpan. Which is what we'd expect, honestly; oilpan does not solve all uaf problems, uafs are not all (or even the majority of) security problems, etc. The combo of "sufficient for much of the codebase" and "the long list of security issues" paints a picture of most of the codebase being secure due to oilpan, while UI code is riddled with holes due to its lack. The reality is dramatically more nuanced (as you know, but readers of your comment might not).

As a views maintainer, I'm familiar with some of the security bugs on the UI side. Clickjacking-type issues are more common there than uafs. Uafs are an issue, but the problems are not so much due to problematic use of unsafe c++ types and idioms as problematic API designs -- resulting in, for example, cases where it's not clear whether an object is expected to be able to respond safely to calls at all, whether or not it's technically alive. Oilpan, MiraclePtr, proper use of smart pointers would all help bandaid the uafs, but are in many cases difficult to apply correctly without understanding (and often fixing) the underlying systemic design problems. Which is happening, but slowly.

There are also more dimensions of tradeoffs involved, but this is long winded enough as it is. The tldr is that at this point I would consider a couple other options better uses of effort for tackling this specific problem compared to converting browser types to oilpan.
The one thing clear in JavaScript is that if some developers think there is a better way, they will develop it and use it.
That hasn't happened with NPM because its about as useful as it conceivably could be.
The criticisms really amount to nothing, and tend to come from developers who don't even write JavaScript.
Not ready... for what? Fedora switched years ago and it's been perfectly fine for all my use-cases.
The Dribbblisation of Design (2013)
Objectively, even a 737 MAX is probably safer than driving.
> For example, some applications that use screen capture, global hotkeys, or clipboard managers may not work well with XWayland.

If you're using Wayland it would be dishonest to default to the x11 behavior. Making XWayland behave identical to Xorg is impossible, that's just the bottom line. I don't know how many different ways this discussion can be had.
You've been posting many dozens of comments about this and basically nothing about anything else for a long time now. That's not the intended use of HN. Also, you've continued to post in the flamewar style even after we asked you to stop doing that and had a considerable exchange about it.

If you keep this up, we're going to have to ban your account—that's standard HN moderation practice and has been for many years: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

I understand that this topic is unusually important and also unusually distressing, but what your account is doing is not ok on HN; and that, btw, would be just as true if you were on the opposite side of the issue.
So, this is a very long, slow-moving, open train.

Advantages I see:

- you can hop on and off wherever you want. That makes them useful for short trips

- no waiting time; you can hop on whenever you want. That likely makes up for lack of speed on short trips.

- if built at ground level, pedestrians can cross the line fairly easily wherever they want (hop on, hop off on the other side), so these wouldn’t split cities in half the way railways do, but only for pedestrians.

Disadvantages I see:

- slow for longer journeys

- power inefficient if there are few passengers (trains are, too, but this is a really, really long train. Imagine moving these 3km of track to move 10 persons). You can’t scale down capacity for less busy hours.

- all maintenance requires shutting down the system (in contrast, with trains, you take off the train and put another one on for most maintenance)

- ¿safety?
Consider the number of people who think having a bigger withholding and receiving a larger return is free government money.
US unemployment has been under 4% for the longest streak since the Vietnam War
I know that Microsoft has been doing this for 10+ years...