skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes have this feeling that in the future, when all of the science on this stuff is well established, our future enlightened society will simply take the view that plastic is poisonous. I think it'll be the same way that we think of lead, mercury, etc: like "wash your hands if you touch the stuff" levels of poisonous. I would not be surprised if society makes this shift in the next 20-30 years. Some of the recent results are really nuts:

- You eat a credit card sized amount of plastic every week: https://nautil.us/you-eat-a-credits-card-worth-of-plastic-ev...
- 93% of bottled water has plastic in it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16793888
- Plastic containers, even "safe" ones, release plastic into food: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36532812
- Car tires are depositing plastic everywhere, including oceans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37726539

It goes on and on. There are studies showing it gets into the placenta, harms animals, affects behavior, stays in your system forever, bioaccumulates all the way up the food chain and makes its way into every organ, and so on. This is all within the last few years. It seems like bottled water is a vector for this stuff very similar to lead pipes, and tires are a vector similar to leaded gasoline, and that the evidence is basically all there and all that is needed is a big epidemiological "smoking gun" study to put it all together.

Of course not every single thing one could possibly call "plastic" need be equally unsafe. Probably some better plastic will be devised which is safer for use in tires and etc. Still, I think there will be a society-wide push against so-called "plastic", in general. People will probably push to replace everything made of plastic with something else: replacing saran wrap with parchment paper, Tupperware with glass, etc.

I'm not super interested in defending this rigorously as it's really just a hunch, but I'm curious if this is what happens.
I guess if you think all miles of flight are the same, then sure, the 737 max 8 and 9 have trillion of miles.
https://nitter.net/Johnie/status/1744556503183585471
I like my LG TV and washing machine, but I'm not sure I'd trust them with a fridge. Is it better than Samsung's fridges?
Although Stoicism isn't for me I'd recommend Meditations any day, although I find the earlier translations of it to be more poignant and lasting than modern ones.

I find it fascinating how as Emperor, Marcus Aurelius had most of his known world on a plate, with all the power a man could dream from. If anyone remotely irked him he [probably] could've had them executed on the spot, but what does he do? He retreats to his diary and reminisces that despite how troublesome people are, he shouldn't be annoyed as humanity was put on earth to help each other.

Dude had a patience I could only wish for.
Theyd be exhausting plasma right?
Nuclear is simply not price competitive.

And according to Tokamak Energy who is one of the fusion leaders it won't be ready until 2030s at the earliest.
It's an LLM technology that allows certain models to run on CPUs rather than big beefy GPUs. Makes running locally viable for consumers.
I literally addressed this:

> We did also see one fatality aboard a 737-700 in 2018, but this was due to an issue with the CFM engine and which isn't attributable to Boeing.

There is essentially no aviation industry expert who will place this failure at the feet of Boeing and not CFM. That said, the fact that engines are designed to completely contain debris from a failure is wild and speaks to the incredible standard of safety we hold aviation to.
Oh god. On the one hand this idea of carrying scripts on maya objects to be run on asset pipeline sounds really cool from a technical standpoint. BUT this also sounds like a project maintenance nightmare.

I probably share many of your extremist pov on no extension scripts because I have seen weird build time, and pre-run time scripts cause a lot of issues in projects.
Guido is still involved, but he's no longer the BDFL.
Rick Barry, who played decades ago, shot fouls underhand, but that's the only person I know of.

Professional sports are entertainment. If on-court productivity conflicts with entertainment, the latter is the priority.
I'll admit the device is very cute, but without a solution to prompt injection, you'd be a fool to give this access to your accounts.
Fun idea but it would be nice to sort countries by total number of button presses.
Dan Carlin did an excellent hardcore history podcast on the mongol conquests- it’s called “wrath of the khans” and, well, to modern sensibilities it’s a pretty shocking tale. There were details like, when a city was taken, each soldier was required to bring back something like 20 left ears from people they killed. They had big bags of them. They would round people up in pens, and kill the adults first so they wouldn’t see their children die and fight back. Sometimes they would send a single soldier into a town to demand their surrender and he would walk around killing people at random. If nobody lifted a finger to stop him, then the city was spared. If anyone intervened, the mongol army would come and sack the city. Word got around, and most cities just surrendered.

I can’t really think of any positive outcome of murdering every one of a city’s 2 million inhabitants- with knives, no less, which is a lot less impersonal than bombs. They genuinely considered non-mongols to be a form of cattle. You could make the case that the whole central Asian region never really recovered.
> At CES this year, the automaker announced MBUX Sound Drive, a new feature that uses sensors and software to link music to driving. It’s hard to describe, but Mercedes says its composed musical tracks to pair with with regular functions like recuperation, acceleration, steering, and braking, turning the whole car — as Will.i.am puts it — into its own “orchestra.”

"It's hard to describe" is almost never a good way to describe a product.
Virtually yelling and calling me "bro" doesn't form an argument for government intervention, but it seems to help you vent, so have at it.
I think the target market of this doesn’t overlap with spare pixel 7 buyers, and it’s not meant to be mass market and have a huge demand.
It doesn't compound because you aren't repurchasing more treasuries with your interest.
There has been so much progress in Julia’s startup performance in the past “few years” that someone’s qualitative impressions from several major releases before the current one are of limited relevance.
You are right - Frameworks make building Skyscrapers easier. But it also means that you somehow first have to understand how to build them and THEN you have to understand what you don't need. Sure, starting out with some Python or Javascript interpreter is incredibly cheap and easy. But actually getting into serious programming is.... complicated. It feels like every shed now requires the foundation of the skyscraper.
Also please describe it in pictures and words too. Video only really limits where I can watch this. I’m in a waiting currently and I’m not about to just play a video like some sort of psycho.
I noticed that there is nothing in the FAQ about vouching, so I did a search and found this.

I think it would be useful to know if there are some accounts or groups which frequently flag things. You could potentially expose this data without disclosing their names. Are there in fact people acting as censors?
The idea of a washing machine, coffee maker, refrigerator, etc. including a network card strikes me as a solution in search of a problem. Unless you are the company marketing these devices and the problem is "how can start getting in on the user data collection game".
I just replaced our samsung fridge after catching it being over 45F for over 24 hours for the second time in six months.

Absolutely junk and dangerous. Could have made us sick if we hadn't paid attention to it.
> And wash your clothes in a modern washing machine with a microfibre filter on its drain outlet.

That doesn't solve the whole problem because the microfibres eventually need disposal.
I bet he leaves it out in his apartment more reliably than if you gave him a book off Amazon. The fact he can’t access the contents of the book isn’t the point. It’s that he takes pride in something he wouldn’t normally read is because it’s yours. That’s why a DIY project for your parents is better than a shrink wrapped piece of future garbage.
If they did - why my NZ feed stinks like communist kolkhoz?
https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2024/01/09/everything-wrong-w...

> It’s common to instead use adapter libraries that map a domain representation to a database representation, such as ORMs. However, such an abstraction frequently leaks and causes issues. ...

FWIW, I'm creating a tool (strategy) that is neither an ORM or an abstraction layer (eg JOOQ) or template-based (eg myBatis). Just type safe adapters for normal SQL statements.

Will be announcing an alpha release "Any Week Now".

If anyone has an idea for how to monetize yet another database client library, I'm all ears. I just need to eat, pay rent, and buy dog kibble.
This is beautiful, it's very futuristic looking.
Unfortunately, this is becoming somewhere between difficult and impossible.

Lots of vendors make their “dumb” stuff unequivocally worse than the smart stuff, but just not using the “smart”.

I think the worst part right now is over-complicated circuits to provide like button presses and stuff, then charging $400 when a small part of that circuit inevitably dies so you are forced to take your range to the metal reclaimers and get a new one.
We helped to develop a model for data ethics
How is that related to other browsers not getting an extension?
I find it puzzling that airlines are still ordering this plane.

It's not just us, the customers, who should "vote with their feet", but the airlines, too. I would not buy from a vendor that is not able to have a QA process that makes sure all screws and bolts are in place, fastened and secured. Even if it would not be an airplane where this is critical for safety, even if it would just be a toaster, I would stop buying.

I would find it insulting as a customer to buy something for 50 Million USD to find out that the vendor was not willing to invest a little bit in QA. I understand that the 737 MAX is very cheap, but the damage to an airlines reputation, even if 90% of the customers do not care, should be priced in, which in the end makes it an expensive airplane.

Looking at the number of quality and design issue problems Boeing had during the last couple of years, combined with the press attention they are getting now, I think we can take it for granted that during the next couple of months more such issues will be found, including the "oops, that potentially could have crashed the airplane" category.

Also, I find it really insane that after all these issues the FAA still has not been reformed, properly staffed and funded. It really really should be clear by now that the system of Boeing doing the "certification" the FAA is supposed to be in charge of themselves.

And finally: It goes beyond my comprehension that someone would decide to build a version of the voice recorder specifically for the US that only stores 2 hours of voice, while the international version of the same plane stores 25. What kind of cost reduction per unit is that, $1 per airplane? Having two different models to "certify", produce and warehouse just to save a dollar or something per unit does not sound like any sane business decision.

Some people say that Boeing is that terrible because they cut corners to save costs everywhere. But to me it sounds like they even are bad at executing cost cutting...
What do you mean by dumb. Is having timer too smart for you and you want to manually turn it off or change modes? I have never seen washing machine any washing machine smarter than that. Even for the washing machines that label themselves as smart, it just sounds like a marketing term[1] and there is nothing smart about it.

[1]: https://www.samsung.com/us/home-appliances/washers/front-loa...
And they won't create AGI either.
I disagree. AI is becoming an increasingly important tool for telling stories, and making it harder to tell stories about true crimes and dead children is not a good thing. We need our full range of tools to think about and communicate about these horrors, as much as for anything else.
One of the worst things about dealing with SaaS is that you might have no practical way to generated your own audit records for reconciliation during a dispute. You have to ask the vendor for data to dispute the vendor! The organizational incentives are all against you. Just a cursed relationship.
First thing I thought of
There were lots of computers in the '80s which claimed official MS-DOS compatibility through emulation or added hardware. There were the Solution and Conqueror emulators for the Sinclair QL, there was Amiga Transformer from Commodore for the Amiga, there were ST Outlook and pc-ditto for the Atari ST.

Not long afterwards, hardware made MS-DOS compatibility much better because the speed of MS-DOS could easily be as fast as or faster than real IBM hardware. There were many options including the Sidecar, BridgeBoards, KCS PowerPC, and more on Amigas. Later, there were DOS compatibility cards for Macs.

Often these options had advantages over having a separate DOS compatible computer, like the ability to still run the native system at the same time, and often to share files / drives and other resources. It was an interesting time, for sure.
Can a program be modeled by a finite number of tuples?
> My only complain is that it keeps asking to confirm new keys every time a new server is visited which causes a lot of friction to explore several gemini servers.

Hmm, yeah, it's a trade off. It never annoyed me personally so I haven't given it much thought, but I could add some means to configure this behavior. There should be a commit shortly.

I've been meaning to change how it behaves when the certificate differs from the pinned one as well, because as it is now you manually have to remove the old pinned certificate from the file system when a certificate is replaced, which isn't great but at least should happen much less often.

> Also, I kindly ask you to add the tag "dillo-plugin" so you can make Dillo plugins easily discoverable by searching for the tag in GitHub[2].

Thanks for the heads up! Done.

> This was done initially[3] (before 2007) but it was moved to the browser itself[4] in 2016.

I see, so I had the chronology mixed up :).
there is no point to a war with russia or china, it's just imperialism
> I have no doubt everything will transpire exactly as outlined because it is simply the most intelligent take you could have.

As a general principle, claiming that you are an authoritative source without authoritative evidence is not rhetorically effective.
Discussing levels of complexity quickly gets pretty subjective. It is possible that Rama has found good abstractions that hide a lot of the complexity. It is also possible that taking on more complexity in this area saves you from other sorts of complexity you may encounter elsewhere in your application.

However, there is just more going on in an event sourcing model. Instead of saving data to a location and retrieving it from that location you save data to one location, read it from another location, and you need to implement some sort of linker between the two (or more).

This also comes down to my personal subjective experience. I actually really like event sourcing but I have worked on teams with these systems and I have found that the majority of people find them much harder to reason about than traditional databases.
I thought the same thing!
(love de pc game, the "BattleStations, BattleStations, all crews to BattleStations" never leaves my mind)
That's simply not true. It's much faster than most similar libraries, 16x faster than DRF, 30x faster than Cerberus.

Msgspec is impressive in some ways, but there are good reasons to use Pydantic instead - for a start msgspec is written in a non-memory safe language by (mostly) one person, and is less widely tested than Pydantic.
Broad means more than just your Scala backend and neo4j db.
This sounds like it's going to cause wrecks.
I agree! We're targeting the people who feel like they have unique insights/gems of information.

If you have these unique gems of information, making it available to these huge AI platforms means they will eventually just ingest and train it on their models to make your data obsolete.

So I think there needs to be something that doesn't have an LLM to train and just focuses on hosting your agent and letting you control that data and keep it private.
Yes, they deserve the jail time they so effortlessly dolled out to the innocent people.
Miketery isn't trying to rationally adjust their risk profile based on available statistics. They are trying to punish Boeing for being a corrupt institution that corrupts other institutions.

It doesn't matter how good the safety numbers are if any player is able to cheat and blame their safety problems on someone else.
That was my first thought. Or maybe it's stuck in a loop downloading an update that's failing for some reason.
Ahh that makes more sense!
Funny, from my experience, over here (Europe), Samsung TVs tend to be more expensive than LG TVs.
One of their legal battles[1], Harkell vs Pressdram[2], has become legendary and the precendent apparently referenced often in the UK legal system and beyond.

[1] for very small values of "battle"

[2] https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/arkell-v-pressdram
>the future of human-machine interface

No. I could go deep into "rare language, weird slang, local dialect" hole, but simple "No" would be enough. Their website is exceedingly non user-friendly, too
There are - but you typically can't go wrong with a Bosch (or Miele).

My Bosch is now coming up to 15 years old - I had to take it apart a year or so ago to replace the heating element as it finally blew, and the inside of the machine looked new. Spare parts are still available as well.
I don't know.

Back in the old days, everyone understood what "[IBM] PC compatible" meant. PC meant something specific, not just a generic "personal computer", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible.
Kind of. The 'scheduled tail number' will change multiple times in the days before a flight.
Lets let a petulant man-child control one of the most important media companies in the world. What could possibly go wrong?
Not that I agree with GP but this comment doesn't make any sense. I don't think any serious software product was made specifically to be difficult to use for young people and I'm certain such an endeavor would fail or otherwise be difficult to use for anyone. Young people are the ones who will try to^W^W get DOOM to run on their smart toothbrush.
> I sometimes have this feeling that in the future, when all of the science on this stuff is well established, our future enlightened society will simply take the view that plastic is poisonous. I think it'll be the same way that we think of lead, mercury, etc

I don't.

The effects of lead or mercury poisoning are fast-acting and obvious. All the links you provided talk about the release of plastics into the world, but the details on how that affects things are sketchier than say , mercury poisoning , because the symptoms are slowly accruing and ambiguous compared to lots of other environmental contaminants.

I agree we should do something about it.
The Curious Case Of Wilt Chamberlain's Free Throws:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8fn1IaTMQM
Context from the article:

> The steppe restoration typifies what historians call the global turn, a larger project of shifting histories away from nation-states and colonialist defamation and toward the peoples and processes that have knotted us together. It’s a survey of shadows, a tracing of negative space. It focusses on peoples who, in Sattin’s words, “have long been confined to the anecdotes and afterthoughts of our writers and histories.” These are some of the most maligned groups in historical chronicles: the uncivilized; the barbarians at the gate; the tribes who seem to appear from some demonic portal, destroy everything in sight, and then recede back into darkness. The steppe restoration repositions them. It treats them as subjects in their own right—as peoples who have their own histories, who formed societies no less complex than the sedentary states they confronted, and who helped craft the world we inhabit.

> The emerging discipline had to overcome centuries of historiographic hubris. Writing about other peoples has long been in service of self-glorification.

I think the term "architect" is probably better phrased as "major influencer". Yes - they did have major influence. No - they certainly weren't the brutal orks that the losers (us) said they were, they just won. Do we secretly celebrate the Roman empire, Alexander the Great, etc? What must the "other guys' texts say about them?".

The mongol's resulting state must certainly have had intelligent, diligent, and benevolent leaders, so I think this is more of a "One of us!" type push.

But honestly, horses and wheels? Yeah, that's a pretty big contribution, and that's the first few paragraphs of TFA.

> More than the Greeks, the Romans, or the Chinese, it’s the nomadic Yamnaya whose legacy survives in our words and our bodies [70% of us have this DNA]

Another good quote:

> It was through the Mongol Empire, Harl writes, that papermaking, block printing, and gunpowder moved from the East to the West, hastening the spread of knowledge and catalyzing Europe’s conquest of the seas. “The global economy of the modern age was thus born thanks to the Mongol legacy,” he declares.
Interestingly, I use the AppStore perhaps 10 times per year.

I suspect most people don't interact with it. Yes, I get updates, and yes I make use of the payments facilities, but I'm not really an active user on the app store..
Caesium , isotope 55
> should we actually continue working on this or just shut it down and return money back?

There’s the rub.

“If we don’t, the Chinese/Russians/fill-in-the-blank will pull ahead of us.”

Wearables, Artificial Intelligence, the list is long.

Resistance is futile. We will adapt.
Cloud since a web interface and email interaction are showcased in the keynote.
Free speech massacre = antispam system?

Gizmodo you can do better...

I gave reddit another try during xmas break. I would copy and paste a sutta and reply on r/buddhism. A mod would come along and called me an idiot and wrong. I never really said anything myself lol, you cant really disagree with me. Literally a major violation of right speech, but they are a mod so they decide.

I then go on my province subreddit and 11% of people have gotten the new covid booster. But if you have a viewpoint anything other pro-vaccine, you're not going to be allowed to speak.

I was then on some major subreddit and I linked a recent vibrations kill cancer cells thing. I said 'cure to cancer?' and got banned for medical misinformation.

Then I was on a vaguely trans subreddit, im trans. The person posted asking for help. They mentioned they have a feminine parts, they have an obgyn, etc. They never said their gender. I posted trying to help, and I accidentally misgendered them. They were upset greatly. Reddit admins gave me a warning for harassing/abusing them.

Dont worry reddit admins, i'll ban myself from the tremendously toxic website.

Meanwhile on X. I never have any problems at all. I actually have free speech. Amazing.
I think what’s impressive here is their approach to “Teach Mode”, which essentially teaches the average consumer how machine learning works. I think that’s already a much better approach than Humane Ai and provides a better path long term for where this could go. This approach of a Large Action Model that can control any of your apps by watching you use them is a unique implementation for a hardware device. The hardware isn’t super impressive but the approach has staying power. It’s always way less invasive than Humane AI pin, it’s deliberate usage.