skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was trying to communicate how the legal system was generally intended to function. You are quite correct that historically it has not always lived up these aspirations. The tendency in certain eras for SCOTUS to creatively go beyond its charter and "color outside the lines" is part of the reason there's confusion about how the court was intended to function. Although, the popular media also bears a good share of the blame for constantly assessing court actions on moral outcomes instead of judicial process.

I also acknowledge the exact boundary of the court's proper scope has always been a philosophical gray area over which reasonable people can disagree. However, I think most judicial observers today would agree that some courts in prior eras definitely exceeded those proper bounds, even if they don't agree among themselves on exactly how much and when. While there are still those who believe the excessive judicial activism of the past was proper, I think today that viewpoint is a small minority. I suspect that's because even those who agree directionally with certain historical precedents established through such activism understand that the judicial creativity that's wonderful when the court leans your way becomes terrible when the winds inevitably blow the other way.

Hence my analogy about CPUs and how few people think it's a good design approach to "fix" poorly written code or even programs doing things we no longer agree with at the CPU level. The most predictable, reliable and sustainable long-term design approach is for CPUs to consistently run the code as written and for misbehaving code to be fixed at the program level. I think this remains the most proper design intention despite some CPUs of the past being purposefully "creative" to achieve what some may believe were more desirable outcomes than just sticking to the code as written.
> These little towns grew up before there were cars.

they used horses...

I think it's hilarious how people are trying to argue that a single train stop in a town is somehow public transportation for the citizens of that town to get around said town.

It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
I've been using Cron for the last year and a half and migrated from Vimcal.

It's a delightful calendar with all the modern keyboard shortcuts including Vim's J/K for previous next and logical shortcuts for everything else (m for month view, w for week view, c for create, etc.).

It's speedy. (Hopefully Notion keeps it that way and doesn't introduce Notion's annoying lag)

They've nailed the details:
- meeting participants are easy and logically sorted
- you can move an event between calendars and accounts with no hiccups (Apple Calendar used to die on this repeatedly)
- they expose just the right amount of information for a calendar invitation in the right order - Title, Time, participants, conferencing, then location - so you can tab through and hit enter when it's done

Conferencing is great - select your app and the meeting is automatically generated and added.

It has Vimcal-like sharing mode where you can block off time and autogenerate either an easy to read list of available times and dates or you can opt to append a link so people can book online and see current availability. I have a couple of quibbles with this implementation - it's hard to add 15 minutes to a selection - but overall it's quite elegant.

The last thing that delights me far more than it should: Command-Shift-J opens your Meet / Zoom / Whathaveyou no matter where you are on your computer.
None of this matters. Only the substance of the defence matters. It either makes sense, or it does not.
And you start on the journey when you first learn about hash maps or binary trees.
Ask HN: Do you also feel anxiety about AI, escalation of wars, etc.
I've been experiencing elevated levels of anxiety and, to some extent, fear. I try really hard not to doomscroll, but I do consume quite a few podcasts and I read HN all the time.

While I'm optimistic about technology and human beings in general, I'm quite worried. I have a small child and am entering my forties. I've never felt so uncertain about the future as I do now. If I were childless, I wouldn't care as much, to be honest. I used to be fearless, but now I have so much to lose.

I would say I'm mostly anxious about the fast-paced development of AI and/or the potential for another world war.

With regards to AI, I'm definitely excited about it on a technical level. I tinker with LLMs for fun and try to use them frequently. I love the tech, but what worries me are all the higher-order effects on society if I extrapolate just a few years ahead.

Also, humans have always had the monopoly on intelligence. What does it even mean to be a human when we don't? Why would we need 7 billion of us in the here and now? Who gets to prosper... all?

I don't read the news, so I don't even keep up with the latest information on conflicts, but I can imagine how we are maybe a few missteps away from escalation and world war. After all, it was just a bunch of circumstances and Gavrilo Princip last time, right?

I just have a feeling humanity has a lot on its plate at the moment and maybe it's more than we can chew.

Do you feel similarly? How do you cope? Especially if you have children.
Man, everyone at work is going to be really bummed when I tell them that some guy on the internet has invalidated our empirical evidence of acceptable accuracy and performance with assumptions and appeals to authority.
> For an oral poet, the smallest unit of meaning might have been the black mountain, the bursting river.

Interesting. Maybe because symbolic idioms?

"Temba, his arms wide"
I've tried both. No UI issues to complain about in Joplin. But Obsidian seems to use its own style of title bars, and it uses the GTK file chooser when my OS is using KDE.
For me, this wins the most HN comment of the day.

If I were patio11 I'd use the second sentence as my tongue-in-cheek twitter bio line and wear it as a badge of honor:)

Given enough neuroticism, preciseness driven by fear of being misunderstood or being incorrect may be indistinguishable from pseudointellectualism. I personally would not reach for "attention seeker" when someone's actions tend to be helpful even when no one is looking (or reading).
How to negotiate with, and win against, hackers
I just checked someones home business and it did indeed show the busy times

Perfect for a burglar lol
https://archive.ph/j9pbU
This suggests there may be some more low hanging fruit in the hard sciences for transformers to bite at, so long as they can be properly formulated. This was not a problem of scaling it seems.
Please tell me that's on video and where to find it.
The on-disk layout is very similar to many modern databases, but the interface that is offered to the user is pretty much just a normal filesystem.
A neural net designed to do nothing other than compress and decompress a copyrighted work is completely different than GPT-4, unless I'm uninformed. To me that sounds like comparing a VCR to a brain. GPT-4's technology is clearly something that "learns" in order to be able to produce novel thoughts and ideas, rather than merely compressing. A judge or jury would easily understand that it wasn't designed just to reproduce copyrighted works.

> It is clearly not the same as your mind, because your mind can and, assuming you want to stay in good standing, will provide credit for influence

I forgot to respond to this, but it's not true. Your mind is incapable of providing credit for 99.9% of its influence and inspiration, even when you want it to. You simply don't remember where you've learned most of the things you've learned. And when you have a seemingly novel idea, you can't always be aware of every single influential example of another person's work/art that combined to generate that new idea.
2/3 of americans have a garage. I suspect the percentage of americans who can afford an EV and have a garage is much higher. A SFH really is the epitome of the American dream to many.
My fault for not elaborating much on this point, but there is some blame to be given to the environment around these men. It's not entirely their fault and it's not fair they have to undo a lot of it, but... well they do for themselves at least.

One of the most common environments is poverty. Their parents tell them to work hard and everything else hopefully falls into place. In this environment they grew up never having good examples or knowing the kindness expected from them as adults. They were often surrounded by selfish people and had to look over their shoulder constantly. Their social value was based entirely on their looks, skills, and/or money. Really what else can you expect?

With this I also claim there is some merit to the idea that at least part of modern feminism really is just classist misandry rebranded for a new era.

I want to reiterate that this is beginning to affect women too. Absent any good examples of how to live better they react to the same situation by taking advantage of men with the same or worse self-esteem issues as themselves. These women are not happy. They care more about impressing their peers and the man is just an accessory.

I hope my explanations distinguish my perspective from the usual "red pill" nonsense. There's something here, but I'm just a dude so idk.
Do note that (1) personal property differs from private property, (2) IP laws are definitely private property in that they give the owner power over the consumers, and (3) you cannot compare scarce resources (e.g. a car) to abundant resources (e.g. information), essentially, don't commit the "you wouldn't download a car" fallacy.

> It was bought about, in part, because people feel that someone mis-using their property is undesirable.

Really? Wasn't it to promote the progress of the arts and sciences? The whole point of IP laws is to, ultimately, benefit the public domain. Feelings by themselves aren't a really good argument either, when talking about a law that does harm to the general public.
I have a friend who works at one of these scientific societies (not the ASA). It's a complete scam - the organization hasn't done anything to advance the field since before any of use were born, and basically just exists to pay the salaries of the people who run it, none of whom are actually scientists. The money comes from a long-ago established monopoly on publishing some books that everybody needs to buy (which are, of course, written by actual scientists, who don't get paid).
My workflow isn't reliant on Obsidian's plugins, they just make stuff easier.

Like having a template for my Daily Note that also automatically includes all files tagged #todo using Data View. Or a few global shortcuts via Keyboard Maestro that open specific notes on Obsidian.

I could maybe whip up a similar system in a day on top of any editor that can render Markdown and handle links, but now I don't need to.
I wish it was possible to downvote a flag, that gives negative karma to the flaggers..
Why would you care about trying to forcibly increase ranking on HN of an otherwise unremarkable post if you aren't doing SEO or advertising your business, neither of which is welcome here?
Thanks for sharing. I asked ChatGPT to analyze your code, while telling it what it does. How well do you think it did? Did it make any mistakes?

https://chat.openai.com/share/6e754fa1-531d-432e-a767-8c8132...
Indeed, we absolutely should "let" them. We should let them charge whatever they wish, we should let them sink or swim, and we should apply our laws to them fairly and equally, including antitrust legislation.
Because you're not actually caring to listen to what people are saying.

People do not find writing SGML-based formats ergonomic for focusing on the content of their writing. SGML-based formats are great for formats that need to be both human-readable, but also unambiguous and extensible for machine parsing, but awful when the task is purely just producing writing.

If I need HTML from my writings in Markdown, there are a plethora of tools to handle that; I don't need to waste vital brain bandwidth on writing perfect spec-complaint HTML when Markdown handles only the task of writing structured text and does it well.

Markdown does not handle layout, and barely handles tables. It is the technological equivalent of HTML 1.0, and does not contaminate itself with the task of presentation like how the evolution of HTML over the years has.
This really frustrated me when I switched to MacOS for work. The ticking of every second in the corner of my eye drives my anxiety to no end. Switching to the tiny analog clock eliminated that issue, and requires a little bit of staring to conjure the time out of.
The point is that, all the old school media (including TFA) has been running cover for her and claiming the only bigotry that exists anywhere is within the right-wing and no one on the left harbors any hate, when we can clearly see a ton of virulent hatred of Jews, lots of examples of racism and prejudice and bigotry by many people within the current democrat party, within the progressive movement and among many organizations that identify as liberal or leftist. But it's all covered up or those making the claims are themselves accused of some sorta unfounded campaign of hate.

Now we're being told that plagiarism is actually ok, it turns out that telling lies, doctoring results, passing off other's work as your own, etc is apparently ok and totally acceptable and was "always happening". It truly feels like we're fully enmeshed in some 1984 scenario with many words having their definitions totally changed, facts "updated", history rewritten, and just a general acceptance of mass gaslighting.
that hasn't been my experience with instructions i've written myself, but then again, i'm not rrrola
Yeah.

But $65k can still buy you an awful lot of hotdogs.
I may not know the particulars of his actions, but I think there may be an important and subtle distinction here. Did Schwartz limit his actions to only releasing publically funded research?
> the real story is that EV's are having teething problems in unusual cold conditions.

So unusual that EV manufacturers could not test?
The question here is how many people don't have a garage but still want a car. The rural and suburban folks are out - plenty of room for garages and charging. So any discussion of public charging infrastructure is focused on places where public transit would be a better investment.
New Semgrep rules: Ansible, Java, Kotlin, shell scripts, and more
This is an excellent article that asks some much-needed questions on the literature that exists connecting LLMs and RAGs on unstructured data, with knowledge graphs in between. We've seen plenty of articles that speculate on how one can build a simple retrieval system on top of a KG, but there are two challenges: a) constructing a high quality KG isn't easy, and b) keyword or phrase embedding on metadata for pre-filtering on relevant sections of the graph is required.

As some others here have pointed out, information extraction and searching with relevant context are the hardest parts of any search system, and it's clear that simply chunking vectors up and throwing them into a vector DB has limitations, no matter what the vector DB vendors tell you. Just like this article says, I hope that 2024 is the year where we actually get some papers that perform more rigorous evaluations of systems that use vector DBs, graph DBs, or a combination of them for building RAGs.
I enjoy helping people get up to speed, but after a while it becomes overwhelming for sure. It's just that if I'm not around for some reason I know that others will review things, eventually. PR reviews will continue if I get hit by a bus, pet features likely won't. I am happy that other people have taken some of my stances around DX and run with it, so at least on that one facet of the project I feel like I succeeded in becoming dispensable.
gps is accurate enough to tell what room you are in. Google knows roughly how large each addressed building is, theyre outlined on the map. Theres no reason to assume this particular feature would be less accurate than every other GPS feature.
I tend to agree, but the flip perspective, which I am continually trying yet failing to achieve, is radical empathy towards the goal of maximum effectiveness in action.

We need a critical mass of people to accept reality to make progress together. So if our goal is to achieve action, we need to find out the best way to get more people on board with reality. And the best psychological research shows that a focus on being right, morally or technically or factually, actually gets in the way of convincing people to abandon delusions. Radical empathy is the best way to make progress, putting aside that these people are being obtuse, selfish, and threats to us all.

Like I said, I am not yet to the point of being able to practice this effectively. But it achieves greater efficacy in many parts of life, not just climate change
May this be more successful than Dropbox's acquisition of Mailbox.
“Our AI system”

It’s our maths. No one else owns it?

Funny game the AI field is playing now. One-upmanship seems to be the aim of the game.
My home town has public transport, called the Handi-Van.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redvers,_Saskatchewan

Population 1,000.
> why would someone build an authentication system on their own?

When you don't want to pay money or you don't like the existing solutions, I made my own and then just reuse it across projects
Don't get me wrong, this is very fucking cool. I have long yearned for a world where an FPGA PCIe add-in card is something practically useful and every year I gain a bit of hope that we're slowly plodding along toward that future.

But what I really want to see is quake running on quake specific hardware, with everything burned into the logic elements running at some thousands of FPS, rather than quake running on a softcore.

While we're on the subject, the real thing that's holding back broader adoption of FPGA programming is the fucking tooling. I cannot wait till we have something FOSS like clang/gcc for verilog/vhdl that can be reasonably relied upon. Quartus is... quartus is something else.

(ok maybe the real thing holding back adoption is that it's extremely fucking niche that you actually need FPGA latency, but let me dream)
Quite frustrated about this.

It also didn't restart the app for me, so took me until I missed the starting of a meeting to realize the workflow was broken, and THEN my launcher app couldn't find the name Cron (IE, the aforementioned uninstall). Then, opened it finally, and had to also redo Google SSO Auth, but there's a malformed request error (that seems to be a Google issue...) and I can't log in.
because the only other viable analogies were:

CGI-Bin

Mainframes

which were deeply out of fashion at the time.
Redundancies are only ideal when cost-free.
Oh I might read their specs: "Willow is a family of specifications:"
https://willowprotocol.org/specs/index.html#specifications

This part looks useful.

But is it useful to be a "willow" family of protocols? Probably not.

Their claims on the front page are extraordinary. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and heading the page with nonsense is not a good start.
For context, I.P. here = Intelectual Property and not Internet Protocol address. You can save a click today.
This might be great, and it might not. It's hard to tell as a lot of the documentation is missing, or has broken links. It would be really nice if the docs were more complete, and didn't require a sign-up to kick the types. Is it fundamentally better than, say Apache FOP? Multi-page tables with overflow/keep together control is hard. Does this do it better? I can't tell as all the templates seem to be single page.
i had that problem when i visited via a saved url in tinyurl.com
Checkout Anytype. Privacy focused alternative to Notion
>Nobody is being ripped off.

>Nobody should feel entitled to such a reset.

>Please don't be a bigot.

Please don't project.

>We should start protecting their rights in law today.

LOL.

You can't have it both ways:

-AI is just a tool, work produced with AI is original work of the user

-AI is an intelligence that gets "inspired" by data it's trained on

Anyway. I don't want to regulate the AI.

I want to regulate the humans that make the choice of which data goes into training an AI.
A quote that is often helpful in product design: "Good artists copy, great artists steal."
Curious, do you use anything iCloud or Apple services like iMessage then? I imagine this breaks stuff…
Pedantically, it is the file system that is a type of database. Traditionally, database is the low-level generic term, referring to any type of structured data stored on a computer. File system, also known as the hierarchical database, adds additional specificity, referring to a particular structuring of data. Another common one is the relational database, offering another particular structuring of data.
https://us.emfit.com/features/ seems to be more comprehensive
Car mechanics aren't enrolling in mechanical engineering programs and then complaining that they aren't being taught how to fix a car.
John Gray and Peter Thiel: Life in a Postmodern World
> which they will have in abundance as long as the engine is running

Right, as long as the engine is running (and warm). It's still inefficient, however, as a significant portion of the heat still leaves with the exhaust. An EV can add a resistor inside the cabin for 100% conversion efficiency, and can power it for longer than a tank of gas will allow an ICE to idle.

Both systems have advantages and disadvantages. "Strong, reliable heat" is not a clear differentiator.
A 30% discount changes things, though for most developers it would be closer to a 10% discount, since they normally only pay Apple 15% and still need to cover the 2-5% their alternative payment processor charges. If it's a recurring payment (i.e. subscription), I would still be inclined to pay the full Apple price simply because they make subscription management much easier than anybody else.
Very annoying indeed. And closing the lid on a macbook doesnt change anything to this behavior !
that is fucking awesome, you are a legend
SQLite & HCTree

Given that FoundationDB is built on top of SQLite, I wonder if that team is eyeing the HCTree engine for it.

It's still in experimental mode but provides literally 10x improvement on read/writes to SQLite.

Given Apple size & scale of iCloud, that seems like a massive win for them if that engine for SQLite can mature to production stability.

https://sqlite.org/hctree/doc/hctree/doc/hctree/threadtest.w...
I'm pretty sure OP with their 2000 notes in Apple Notes has a Mac.
> At every level of society I see products being designed for the "best case" only.

Indeed. And then being sold with caveats concealed.
Qatari court convicts ex-finance minister of laundering $5.6B
Altman says ChatGPT will have to evolve in "uncomfortable" ways
“ Every early-stage founder is thinking: to raise or not to raise? Or what if I raise just a little and see how it goes? Is there a way to get the best of both bootstrapped and venture-funded paths? ”
I've worked on low traffic apps where the entire backend API is running in Lambda. Would I do it again? Probably not. Lambda has a bunch of weird limitations (like request and response sizes) which means it's not suitable for all use cases. Additionally, you should avoid coding directly to the Lambda API. You want something to abstract that and make it look like a "normal" app. Otherwise, you wind up with a bunch of stuff you can't easily run locally.
how does it compare to google calendar?
From the video, it seems to have almost identical UI. is that indeed the case?
The same could be said about sticking your finger into a light socket. Less potential upside in that case though, hah.
It's even worse. From one of the other articles posted:

>She added that her manager was unaware she was being fired and “called me afterward and told me he was sick to his stomach and couldn’t believe this was happening.”

Not only was she surprised, her MANAGER was surprised.