skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Guardian's recent follow-up suggests it's not something they track at all:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/30/reddit-mo...

> While traffic has not changed substantially, many users report the quality of content and the kinds of posts that are surfaced on user homepages now seem different. RamsesThePigeon said the content on some of Reddit’s most-followed pages, which he moderates, had “gone sharply downhill”.

>Stevie Chancellor, an assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota who has studied Reddit for years, echoed these sentiments.

>“A lot of people who made Reddit a place where people wanted to be are not there any more, and a lot of high-quality content that I went to Reddit for is gone,” she said. “There has been a noticeable decline in the quality of content, both in terms of what is posted and what people talk about.”

>In response to such critiques, Reddit spokesperson Rathschmidt said he did not “know of an industry benchmark for scoring content quality”.

Anecdotally, while I no longer visit the site directly I do maintain an RSS feed to the front page to keep abreast of big stories. It has become absolutely lousy with reposts, rehosted TikToks, and Facebook-tier engagement bait (often using a title in the form of a question) that's clearly trying to exploit their new "contributor program". My sense is the bottom is falling out of their organic content creation base and they're leaning on repost bots (including reposted comments) and junky incentivized posting to hold their apparent traffic up long enough to IPO.
The Snapdragon X Elite is faster than an M3 Pro and almost as fast as M3 Max. As you say, it really doesn't compete with the Air.
Strange question... if something works over the public internet why would it not work locally? There's no magic sauce with HTMX. It's just a JavaScript library that does what a million others do. You can run it on a local toaster if you felt like it.
I've encountered this idea that k's terseness somehow improves instruction cache use before. Can you explain further? It seems nonsensical, since instruction caching is about machine code, not source code. Why should it use the instruction cache better than any other JIT? Or is it interpreted, in which case "the terseness of the language improves cache use" might seem more of an admission than a boast... :-)
If you’re in a situation where you “truly need” type safe generic interfaces, why wouldn’t you just use a different language?

I don’t understand your second point.
I would guess that cloud seeding and Rain making has pretty minimal impact on Panama due to its proximity to large bodies of water. This is in comparison to continental climates where the atmospheric moisture is passing over arid land and different nations.
Which cities? Why 25?
I also never worry about charging because whenever I put the laptop on my home desk or work desk, I also instinctively plug in the USB-C cable carrying power and display data to it.

So I can't imagine my life would improve in any meaningful way if I were spared the effort to plug in a cable once/twice a day, especially since I always use an external monitor at home and work anyway so power delivery and charging is never something I can forget about.

And the rare occasions I do use the laptop on a train, coffeeshop, balcony, or somewhere else that's not my home or office desk, I never do it so long that the 8h battery life becomes an issue since my posture can't stand being hunched down at a laptop for more than a couple of hours, instead of working from the proper ergonomics of a desk + monitor.

Every workplace I know gives you external monitor and dock, and for home use, everyone I know they has their laptops plugged in at their desks almost all the time.

So again, I can't see what my demographic is missing if we had even more battery life.
I just looked it up and it's available for me in Sacramento for $225/month

> Single-device wired speed maximum 4.7Gbps.

https://www.att.com/buy/broadband/availability.html?product_...
This dovetails nicely with the push for WFH.
You said "give lawyers ammo to countersue" so no. Most infringement suits are from trolls.

A countersuit against a rival would need at least some basis in reality, so they'd have to be selling something that infringed your patent (unlikely).
You don't know what I'm willing to face, don't play this grimly enlightened realist character shit on me. You don't know me and you aren't smarter or morally superior for admitting a will to atrocity.

I'm pointing out that to kill a clone for your own benefit, you have to have a clone on hand you're willing to kill. This is radically different than the unexpected "me or you" situation that you keep conflating it with.

If you would with premeditation create and enslave a clone of yourself you would do it to someone else too! You have no better justification or right over either entity compared to the other. What you're admitting to is powerfully fringe, even freak. I still reject your implicit argument that these are comparable, and the explicit one that most people would do this. It is monstrous, whatever you tell yourself about the rest of us.

I'm not reading anything else about this from you. This is sick.
No.

It’s not only fire that’s a hazard, but a personal safety thing. Most men here probably never experienced being stalked, or having to turn around when your path is through a group of shady characters.

In the Midwest, brick/concrete fire stairwells have another benefit: tornado shelters. While a sufficient tornado would decimate any wooden structure, these stairwells provide essential protection from the main hazard in a tornado: flying debris.

Offhand I can think of a dozen more reasons. Lets not reverse sensible progress in the name of profits and tax revenue.
Was there something I missed? I just reread his wikipedia page, and it seems to confirm the crime-of-passion narrative that I remember from 15 years ago. That said, I would not disagree with your character evaluation.
Which speaking of, ran/runs a bunch of other useful services. IPredator (sadly no longer with us) was an alright VPN service and Njalla is (still with us) a really great domain name registrar for people who care about their privacy.

Seems RIAA and MPA are still trying to go after Njalla as far as I can tell, so you get some hints that it's actually working as advertised :)
Javier Milei speech at Davos (translated, dubbed, lipsynced via AI model heygen)
That sounds like a good system.

Yeah I find my phone and laptop quite distracting, so I don't like keeping them around when reading, especially at night.

Another use case I didn't plan for originally but is pretty fun is doing all your Kindle reading in Kindllm by having it write essays on random topics for you.
Still, why was it off course and at an unexpected angle? The captain reacted wrong, but what caused the reaction? There was another problem before.
Terry Davis was diagnosed with schizophrenia and never killed anybody.
The Failure Museum
> Surveillance capitalism doesn't care at all about the accuracy of the data that they have

It’s clear and obvious that they do. If the data was made up, they wouldn’t be able to serve effective ads.

> If you're a 40 year old man, but your browser add-on convinces a data broker that you're a 34 year old woman seeking an abortion, that data can still cause you end up the target of a lawsuit in Texas and it will take a non-zero amount of time and money to clear that up

This situation would absolutely never happen, and I think it’s blatant fear mongering.
"Some people require micro management and constant oversight"

In my experience these people don't thrive in the office either. For software engineering in particular, these people are not useful employees.
New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy
I'd like to see more discussion of the safety impact; I know the article makes the point that fire deaths per capita are lower in Europe, which lacks the requirement, but it also notes that US housing stock is also much more wooden and therefore at higher risk to begin with. (Wood construction is generally a good thing from a sustainability perspective)

Whenever I see this proposed my brain immediately goes to the Grenfell Tower fire in the UK. I guess that may just be an outlier due to the myriad of other causes, but it gives me pause.
you can have single-stair with elevators.
Yep, I prefer the office.

... but not even close to enough to car-commute more than about 10 minutes to it, given the option. That's roughly the cut-off. Under 1.5 bikeable miles (that's ideal!) or maybe 5 miles by car.

And to get that short a commute, I'd need all kinds of other compromises in most cities. Worse schools, more expensive and smaller housing.

Is my preference for the office worth hundreds of hours a year lost commuting, thousands of dollars a year in transportation costs, and all the extra micromorts from the commute? LOL. LMFAO. God no, it's not even close. No typical commute is a low enough cost that I'd pay it to be in the office. It's way off.

So, though I do in fact prefer working in the office... nah.
Generic drugs in the US are too cheap to be sustainable, experts say
In a better country he'd be in therapy rather than in prison. Alas the US legal system only exists to detain people, not to allow them to become unbroken.

I wholly believe psychopaths can be redeemed and live a fulfilling life without hurting anyone if given the proper support and guidance. I don't for a second believe the US legal system is equipped to do that, especially the prison system.
Ahem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044312
> As Molly White said, “there are never purely technological solutions to societal problems”.

I agree. It's Conway's Law on a national scale. In our advanced capitalist society, most governance is done by corporate hegemons (finance, insurance, real estate, marketing, etc), sometimes using the de jure government as a proxy. Our digital organization reflects exactly that!

It is revealing that the best form of digital identification for each person are (secret) profiles created+sold by digital surveillance companies, rather than a robust + transparent digital citizenship that is managed strictly by a public entity and the subject themself.

Some people react to the status quo by "running into the wilderness", either literally, or metaphorically by self-hosting everything. Either way, they often become digitally isolated and maintaining their personal kingdom becomes a lifelong task. It's not fixing the underlying societal dysfunction, just avoiding it.
We're dealing in hypotheticals here, so that's why I said it would be career-limiting fun. I can only speculate on what would happen.
The polluting of the internet by ai is very significant. I'm already very ashamed i was so excited with ai and what i thought would change lives for the better. I had a relative told me of a tool he used on the internet that can create hundreds of articles in the click of a button (and i assumed a fee).
It's disgusting and it's suffocating. I honestly dont know any good way forward.
Better to just do a low amount of profit sharing - if we all win you win, if we all lose you get nothing; its way less stupid than saying "well you are being dinged for our failure on X thing" when they had no ability to impact it and often times that's not even tied to profitability.
Even in supposedly soft prison systems like Norway's prisoners are denied access to the Internet because it is believed that they would use it to further their criminal or terrorist activities.

"Bruk av internett i fengsel

Innsatte i fengsler med høyt og lavere sikkerhetsnivå har i utgangspunktet ikke tilgang til internett.

Unntaket er innsatte som tar utdanning under soning. De kan få begrenset og kontrollert tilgang til internett i undervisningsøyemed."

Translated by Google because I'm too lazy to type it all:

"Use of the Internet in Prison

Inmates in prisons with a high and lower security level do not initially have access to the internet.

The exception is inmates who take education during their sentence. They can have limited and controlled access to the internet for educational purposes."

Edit: forgot to add the URL

https://www.kriminalomsorgen.no/bruk-av-internett-og-sosiale...
Show HN: Xplained – AI-Driven Instant Explainer (Perplexity inspired)
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Hey that's awesome! Unfortunate that I'm going to get even more confused now about whether I'm talking about SimPy or SymPy but that's life :)
> then the physical link can be disabled and then the inputs are considered "desynchronized" and only then to the inputs become averaged.

My understanding is that it always averages the input, even when they're not desynchronized (but obviously, since the inputs are equal in that case, the average ends up being equal to the inputs themselves).
Not seeding a torrent requires more effort than seeding, it's also basically free.
Two users in the network: A and B; one connection: AB.
Three users in the network: A, B, and C; three connections: AB, AC, BC.
Four users in the network: A, B, C, and D; six connections AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, CD.

Metcalfe's law says value increases as 1-3-6-... instead of 2-3-4.

In graph terms, users are nodes, connections are edges, and in a fully-connected graph edges are in order of the square of nodes.
Those are fair points. What window management features are the most important to you on your job?
You accidentally omitted a word, that should read:

> The utility of an operating system is more proportional to the number of connections possible between its components than it is to the number of those components.
Ask HN: How much is the ISS worth in parts, on Earth?
What if we could sell parts of the decommissioned ISS on earth instead of de-orbit and burning it up?

What value would the modules provide either for practical scientific purposes, museum works, or even nostalgia items?

Imagine having the ISS cupola mounted at the top of the Smithsonian and having your own chance to look through those windows!!

What would you want to buy and how much would you pay?

How do we get it down in pieces instead of one momentary giant fireball over the South Pacific?
When there is a break in the wind, you reel the kite in, creating apparent wind.
Yep, that's what tons of houses outside of the immediate city center of Boston look like.
A more realistic solution is just to remove restrictions that discourage MFH in the first place (zoning height limits parking requirements lot size requirements height requirements regressive fees/taxes)
14 Increasingly strange ways to solve "Hello World"
The classic example is the lot that sits empty or has a parking structure on it in Manhattan. Today, you pay very little tax on the empty land or parking lot because you’re taxed on that total value of the land and improvements. This discourages building stuff sometimes. With land value tax, you’d be taxed on what someone would pay you for that land with improvements similar to surrounding, so it’s advantageous to build something there instead of nothing, since you’re paying the same tax as the sky scraper next door.

In other words, the taxable value of the land is what it would be if it had similar improvements to surrounding lands, rather than taxing it based on actual improvements.
Again. Had the picked another product the would have had many of the same issue. Are you arguing they should have done nothing?

Even with the production issues, they still had a peak production rate of 150 planes.

And those issues arent limiting sales very much.

So even with the production issues it was the right choice.

The program just isnt quite as profitable as hoped. Still the right strategy.
Living in boston with a broken leg certainly made me very proficient in the {carry crutches while hobbling up and down countless staircases using only the railing to lift my entire body up and down with one arm} waddle.

Anyone with anything more debilitating should steer clear.
I think you should rephrase your comment, your comment gives off the wrong impression in its current state.
Why has authentication moved away from making passwords safer? I like to imagine a system where the only thing that ever sees my easy-to-remember password is the browser, everything downstream gets a unique client-side hash. We did this manually in the past with various schemes, we do this today with extra steps using password managers, why aren't browsers simplifying this? (or maybe they are?) My understanding is that these schemes (say, hash your password with the domain name) are vulnerable with enough samples, but it's still better than sending your easy-to-remember password out to the internet. The answers I hear online are that there's no value added since everyone should use unique passwords to begin with, but people don't do this because it's extra work even using a password manager is extra work, the default needs to be more secure.
Please please release an open model for text to speech. State of the art text to speech is amazing, but it’s still all being gatekept by Eleven.ai and OpenAI
> making 9.5m profit per year. By engaging in various unethical practices that could be increased to 10.5m per year

This is orthogonal to leveraged buyouts or even capitalism; it’s maximising personal gains without thought to broader effects.

> But... if we bend the rules just a tiny bit, we could turn that loss into a profit... It's for the greater good, isn't it?

This is a fairer critique. LBOs impose pressure. But this also happens in any other constrained environment. It’s difficult to say why that leads some people to innovate and become disciplined and others to cut corners.

The difference between an LBO and unlevered buyout is the financing. That, in turn, means who can finance it. Arguing leverage causes moral decay is, at its core, an argument that ownership of these businesses should be constrained to the already wealthy; it’s aristocratic morality.

Grounding my scepticism of your claims is that most LBOs create value. They create employment. And for many businesses with low or no growth prospects, they’re the only way for them to persist. That said, they’re daring and glamorous and that means they get written and talked about more than e.g. municipal bonds.
I'm not saying it's okay, but I'm also pointing out that the system doesn't work that way. Data brokers would not be comfortable handing over all of the data to FB if they thought FB was just going to steal it, and FB wouldn't trust gobs of unprocessed data from third parties ("You are now a 16 year old girl who likes Taylor Swift because there was a typo in the matched email address").

So in FB's documentation, they make it clear that they take the hash of your chosen identifier information (email, ID, etc) and just return the number of hashes that get matched. https://www.facebook.com/business/help/112061095610075?id=24...

They don't tell you who gets matched, and they don't give you a way of providing any other data because they don't trust it.
Google CEO warns of more layoffs in 2024 amid artificial intelligence push
From the site guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

You're just submitting all of your own blog posts here to drive traffic. Looks spammy.
> it cannot match the famous answer to the question about parsing HTML using regular expressions

Man people on SE are cringe af ngl
L&S were very important imo, just not good at being in charge of everything directly.
Regardless of who's selling the product, (extra virgin) olive oil has been consistently shown to have significant health benefits.
His product specifically? Let's look at the details: - "May 2023 harvest date" - Not bad! Most olive oils in your grocery store were harvested 2-3 years ago. This is not the most recent harvest (Oct-Dec 2023) though but you will still get incredibly fresh and healthy oils going back 1-1.5 years from the day you buy. Anything older has significantly lost health benefits.

- EVOO = Extra Virgin Olive Oil. The extra virgin label is an indicator of the highest quality i.e. no chemical/heat used, just olive fruit crushed into juice (oil). Many factors are at play here, like time of harvest, delay b/w harvesting and crushing. This is not a regulated label in the US so only chemical and more importantly sensory analysis can guarantee the EVOO designation.

- Which leads to "3rd party lab verified": show us the results Bryan! I am a panelist at one of these labs and would love to read the results :) But from my experience in the industry, the mention of this probably points to him actually having done testing and having received the label.

- UV resistant: Excellent. Exposure to light and heat severely degrades the taste and health qualities of oil. - Single source: Usually an indicator of quality since the miller and bottler are one and the same, so lesser chances of contaminants/quality failures.

- "Taste is peppery and smooth": Peppery is an indicator of quality - the peperry sensation is known as pungency, which along with fruitiness and bitterness is 1 of 3 indicators of EVOO. But smooth is not! I would argue that smooth indicates a mediocre oil. But sensory characteristics are arbitrary so we don't really know for sure what he means.

- Price point: Slightly above average for high quality EVOO. This price point usually indicates some commitment to quality - making high quality EVOO at a cheaper price point is not really possible, especially given the droughts in olive growing regions this past year.

Sources: I'm an olive oil somm, panelist on a California sensory analysis panel that tastes and grades olive oils.
I go back periodically and read the Wired article about it.

It is totally bananas:

https://archive.is/BcMRF

The wildest part was the friend who had an affair with his wife who blurted out unprompted on the stand that he had killed 7 people. They let that guy go!
blogs often fail here, original technical content is premium.
its a 'how to SEO' thing and im bet the biasing is different here, but i know a lot of people who take a very dim view of SEO tactics, its considered gaming a service.
You don't even have to go that far, just ban single-family-only zoning. The economic pressure to add more units will take care of the rest.
Making the data inaccurate absolutely makes it worthless; it’s worth is in its accuracy.
> No. JDK 9 and 11 kept all default accessibility the same as in JDK 8 (all you got was a warning) until it was changed in JDK 16: https://openjdk.org/jeps/396

This is simply not true. This sounds like gaslighting in an attempt to rewrite history, which IMHO shows poor credibility from the JDK developers.

> I don't understand the relationship to Applets, but the emphasis on integrity (a generalisation of safety) is all around the software world. It's the main reason for Rust's existence.

Yes, and Rust has "unsafe". Java still has JNI. If programmers want to write unsafe code, they will write it, to the point of shipping a modified JVM. It's their computers. It's their code. It is a misguided and fruitless effort to push ideology on them.

> That's because java.com is a website for end users downloading the JRE, which was discontinued after 8 (really in 11).

I don't buy this.