skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see no benefit at all to having children in this day. Parents are expected to engage with their child at all times, and it's no longer socially acceptable to let a child roam the neighborhood as it was when I was a kid. In the US, job insecurity and ridiculous costs of living make having a child a financial burden.

The pure physical risk of birth in a healthcare system that does not support postpartum healthcare in any way does not seem worth it.
Ha! For those of us who were in the Morgan Stanley Fixed Income group for many years in the 1990s and 2000s AW is known for APLus which was used extensively for modeling and application work.
Makes perfect sense! Have a great day!
DocDecoder: A Universal Solution to Web Policy Ignorance
Hey HN, this is something I've been working on over the last 4/5 months.

I got the idea when watching a Black Mirror episode called Joan is Awful.

This episode is about a woman who signs up for a streaming platform called Streamberry, accepts the terms of use, and goes about her life.

When she gets home from work, she notices a new show on Streamberry called 'Joan is Awful'.

Long story short, Streamberry's terms of use included a clause permitting them to digitally clone the user, and use their likeness in any way they want (in this case negatively, ruining Joan's reputation).

I remember finishing the episode with a huuuge drive to start the project because it really clicked how big the issue is - so big, that black mirror made an episode about it.

It effects everyone, everywhere, and we're all helplessly aware of it.

DocDecoder is pretty simple, in that it uses GPT-4 to summarize a provided web page, and then colour codes each term for ease of understanding.

Despite the simplicity, I think it does a really good job of informing you about what you're actually agreeing to when using the services you use.

It's free, and I plan to keep it that way.

To see examples of summaries, you can search for any website here: https://docdecoder.app/summaries

It's currently only available on Chrome Web Store, but I do plan to add every other browser in the near future.

Please, if you have any feedback at all, I would love to hear it.

Josh
I assume you refuse to use gcc, emacs, etc. because of their creator, refuse to use JavaScript anywhere on the web, never take an Uber etc.?

Or is it just the cases where it's convenient to virtue signal?

I also find it ironic that you posted a Steve Jobs quote in a comment recently...
Do you use continue.dev or privy with that setup?
I suspect it's making use of the 'trusted personal advisor' connotations, similar to the metaphor of having a co-pilot if you will - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_council
To be fair, a 1.4% reduction in force isn't going to weaken YouTube. That's just some light spring cleaning. It's only newsworthy in the current zeitgeist.
Yes and no.

Performance on my desktop PC with good internet connection is really good. Even working together on something is seamless.

Opening my shopping list on the mobile app that takes like 5s to start and another 5s to load due to bad connection... not so much.

Their no-offline implementation is starting to bug me more and more and I have moved away from it for a lot of things.

I still really like their clipper addon, though. I use that to rapidly store articles I want to read later on desktop and mobile Firefox. Storing is fast and retrieving is fast enough if I have time to read an article anyways.
I am finding myself questioning the choice of a name that also means “toilet” or “outhouse”, but hey, you do you.
Would you be willing to share your full list?
That building is 100+ years old and was built to house the biggest, heaviest printing presses available. Extremely thick concrete and masonry, and there are no windows that open to any space with equipment. The problem is air circulation within the building. It would be really ironic if that is due to frozen equipment.
Take a look here https://github.com/marqo-ai/local-image-search-demo. It is based on https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo. We do a lot of image search applications. Feel free to reach out if you have other questions (email in profile).
Tech billionaires want to build a new city in California. Voters may get a say
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I feel like i'll get carpal tunnel if i do this five times lol, your hands might be a lot smaller than mine
Or, the over/under on what date 'the streets' catch up to him, and unfortunately, he gets robbed/shot/murdered? If you're gonna flex like that online, someone is gonna come at you at some point.
If the problem is genuinely that intractable and obvious then why would it need PR? What they've done is create a market for "scary titles and overly simplistic" frameworks, and then they've spent lavishly on that market, as evidenced by this website.

More damningly, none of this has evidenced any form of a workable socially aware solution at all. This isn't working. It's the opposite of what you want. It needs to stop.
To be fair… Russia is fighting a proxy war with the US via Ukraine. Without US intelligence, Ukraine may be on a very bad spot.
> This entire speech is less than sophomoric - written by someone with the reading comprehension of a 12-year-old Belgian sex slave in a dark box.

I thought you were being hyperbolic here, but not quite.

The speech is obviously catering to his supporter base, nothing new here. Regardless, I wonder why the Davos organization would invite this character for such an embarrassing 20 minute talk.
This seems very on point. I cannot shake the feeling that Apple's abuse comes across as much more morally decrepit because of the company's deluded self-perception as "the good guys".
Israel only withdrew ground troops and settlers from the Gaza strip, it maintained the occupation via other means, including full control over the airspace, telecommunication, sea access, the population registry, etc. Israel fully controls all but one border crossing, and the only remaining is controlled by Egypt, but fully monitored by Israel and is subject to Israeli approval.

Israel maintains a 300 meter no-go zone inside the Gaza strip which they regularly shoot at Gaza residents for entering (although reports exist which states people have been shot at up to 1.5 km from the border).

Israel reserves the right to enter the Gaza strip whenever they see fit.

Israel has kept a continuous blockade of Gaza since 2007, between 2005 and 2007 there were also blockades of various levels of intensity. This started before the Hamas takeover of the strip.

Israel claims it ended the occupation but nobody outside of Israel believes that. This includes the UN, EU, International Red Cross, Human Rights Watch, etc. Even the US state department considers Gaza to be occupied territory.

No, Israel only ever partially withdrew from Gaza. Their conduct prior to oct 7 is more then enough to qualify as occupation.
I mean I don't know, but I'd guess either lobbying or because someone thought it'd make their re-election chances better or because someone thought it'd give EU companies a competitive advantage? Or maybe someone is genuinely concerned about human rights and thinks this is realistically the best they can do right now? I honestly don't know or care.
May be. But words are words. We can't use deduction or metadata even to determine that. And who cares. It could've as well been written by a very real person.
> Extremely poor journalism... some shmuck journo...

This is a guest opinion column by a book author to promote a book. All of these facts are very visibly stated on the page, including the word OPINION (in all caps at the top of the page), the author's professional bio, and the title of the book being promoted.
That's seriously impressive! The level of expertise and dedication involved in such a project is truly a remarkable and inspiring feat of engineering.
The specialists are appointed by the President, a position which is entirely political. Appeasing their political boss is one of the specialists’ job requirements. Why? Because if they don’t they get fired. Presidents from both political parties have gone to court in order to ensure this is so.

Limiting the power vested in the executive branch is a necessary step to keep our three branch system working.

And while common law is created by judges, it is always possible to pass a law that overrides it.
But is this kind of messaging effective even on those terms? I'm fairly informed about climate issues, and I have no idea what action the source article is calling me to take.
university of kentucky will admit anyone breathing with a pulse
Have you checked under /System/Dev Options/Running Services/Google Play Services? You'll see it's still running, even if on a treadmill.
> individual actions which do matter are mostly those which drive collective action. That means individuals need to learn to organize and do the work of organizing. It's hard work though

100% agree. And look, if you’re trying to get single-use plastics banned, you shouldn’t be using them. But your Nos. 3 and 4 should be pinned to every discussion of this kind.
In addition many whites moved to Ascension Parish in spite of the pollution for the well paying jobs that required relatively little education.
I’m a long time Cron user but didn’t know it had Calendly functionality. How do you share availability?
If you don't need collab, give Trilium a try. It's IMO better than notion at keeping things organized (notion lets you create types/objects as "databases", but craps at polymorphism, i.e. extending and specializing those types). I really don't need the bling of notion/capacities/obsidian if they can't manage consistent data, and Trilium works offline, too, and is impressively hackable.
Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
USA is a large closed economy. China is a large open economy. I’m simplifying, but the bottom line is China definitely doesn’t want a Cold War scenario.
This is how 9/11 was a ChatGPT hallucination conspiracy starts.
it was a joke. i'm fascinated by his approach.

shakti.com has a suspiciously familiar looking snippet of javascript

was it him?
That scenario is both prevented by and worsened by American primacy.

The previous - and very possibly future - President openly espoused Putin-friendly propaganda and threatened to leave NATO. European dependence on American power worked for many decades, but may leave them in a very tough situation now.
When Google decided that all user supplied search terms were optional, result quality fell off a cliff.
I see both side of the equation here honestly... fyi I have kids, the two for one deal.

On one side, kids are tough. It is a commitment, if you are used to a certain lifestyle of travel and individual activities things are going to get significantly tough. Not impossible, but it will probably be different to accommodate others needs. On top of that my wife career has been pushed aside for a few years to help the kids before kindergarten starts. There is a financial burden, even with state benefits if you are educated (I live in the EU). I see why so many people don't have kids, it just isn't worth it for them.

At the same time, kids are great and I have no regrets even though we are parenting them through the "terrible twos". I love them so much, they are a driving force in my life. I find it somewhat scary that I had a child free mindset in uni. On top of that I have increasing skepticism about pensions going into the future... there is just too many old people around. What money is going to be left when I get old? _probably none_. The kids are my backup plan, of course I cant count on them, its their life too, but those chances are better than the possibility of dying alone in some cheap care facility or worse.

I may sounds biased because I would benefit from such a scheme, but if governments _want_ kids for economic stability, then make it worth it for parents to have kids! The pressure to work now days is exhausting for society, like cutting down a forest without planting new trees.
> It's supposed to be both 100% functional and 100% object-oriented (aka having powerful module system) _at the same time_.

That is well said, and I agree.

And it certainly is an acomplishment, it's even in some way elegant, but I would not call it "simple". Simple is a compiler book in less than 100 pages that _also_ includes the full source code of a compiler that can compile itself, or a language the syntax graphs of which fit on a single paper page of ordinary size.

Odersky saw that to make impact, you need to interact with an existing, large library ecosystem instead of "build it all yourself", so I'd say he is a realist-pragmatist whereas Wirth was a practicising (self-made) idealist-minimalist.

I think I will get out my old MODULA-2 book in honour of Wirth again and play with GNU Modula-2 a bit, let's see how that feels after 24 years of C++/Java/Python in-between.
I’m sorry but B2C startups are an anomaly in the overall history of IT. I agree it’s a sad turn of events but IT is way bigger. Banks, accounting, industry, military, maps, GPS, health, and infinite ways it helps humans. Selling ads was only a way to monetize, and Google is tanking like the Titanic since ChatGPT arrived (at least its 7 tanks are pierced, but the captain said to not evacuate), and most platforms even have a non-ads way to monetize, although the real price is high (Facebook $16, Netflix, Twitter, etc.).

It is very possible, with the post-covid changes, that platforms become paid-for and that there is much less of a focus on dark patterns in the future.
Not specific to this company, but, oftentimes, someone at a lowish-level position can make or break you with this stuff. If you have any contacts there, I might advise you to use them and ask what you can do to increase your "application readiness."
Codofil would like a word.
Some of us middle-aged people are having that experience, too; years of trying to "be the change you want to see in the world" with no visible result tends to leave one feeling rather tired.
why do we think these things will be programmed to accept external prompts anyways? seems like a really bad way to implement this thing. like developing a death star which is nearly invincible all except for this one little bitty flaw
"Binged" like you binge-watched some videos? Or you mean you bung it on the Microsoft search engine?
I think the intuition here is that an “intelligent” system would lean much more heavily on the heuristics than on the search, like humans. It’s hard to quantify in this case, but certainly in the case of chess, when engines were about as good as best human players, they were doing orders of magnitude larger search than humans. Which made them feel more like chess _engines_ than chess AI. AlphaZero certainly made a step in the right direction, but it’s still far from how humans play.
His raps are not even good though. Snitching on himself to make bad rap SMH
maybe? I'm wasn't even sure what databricks was until I looked it up. I might not be the right person to answer this question, so you might need to narrow down what your audience is :)

My POV comes from academia. Our data is rarely in any sort of database, and is often just in various files we have to parse or otherwise ingest and analyze. So the notebooks tend to live next to the data (on our laptop or maybe a group server).

As an aside, academics often have a very hard time paying for services. Universities want to get involved in any sort of recurring subscription, get the legal department to look at the contracts, maybe even negotiate, etc. This is true even for $10/month. So we often look to do things locally ("shadow IT" is kind of a related phenomenon).

However, researchers and data analysts in private industry probably have a very different way of working, so don't take this as gospel. But as for your original question, yes, many many scientists use jupyter locally.
You know it's in jest, of course. However, he doesn't write C either - and you know that better than us. It's a DSL with its own idioms and quirks that just happens to be in C. Often hearing about "evils" of preprocessor (which I do and don't agree with) I wonder if he ever considered anything else, aside from C, that's also low level. Heck, even asm can be macro'd away.
I just learned about this elsewhere and HN really needs to discuss it.
It's not a great request/tone, and neither is the answer...

Update checks and auto-updates for OSS are often an anti-feature though, not for the "surveillance" argument which is silly, but because update checks are often performed by distributions using the package, and it's often double work on the distributor part to change the default, something it's easily missed while packaging.

Expecting that your software does unexpected network requests where it shouldn't is also something I agree with, even if those are benign. Many people seem to think that software is going overboard with this, as stuff like little-snitch wouldn't be popular otherwise and thrust has been _already_ been eroded completely on commercial software.
A subscriber to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk, eh?
It depends on what you consider "value". Apple would argue the distribution through the App Store is part of the value chain. I think the real issue here is that Apple demands 30% always. 30% might be the "distribution value" for small indie devs, but it probably decreases once the developer is big enough and their products are well known (Epic/Fortnite, Spotify). Then it becomes just a tax that indeed skews the price-elasticity curve.
Define war machinery. Contributing to Ghidra would fall under the Pentagon.

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Not a budget lens, but it was extremely good value for money at the time and had excellent image quality for an ultra-wide zoom. Later lenses were better...
meh, I've got nothing better to do, and fucking with things is fun
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Should be a fast startup, with zero pre-requisites to get going.

I talk more about it here
https://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2024/01/announcing-the...
Young staff perhaps do benefit more from being in the office, because face-to-face mentoring is more frequent and more effective in-person than remote. (Especially informal mentoring.)

But at least the AI part is a total non-sequitur.
Some things don't add up to my eyes...far too many coincidences lately that make no sense at all.

Far too many well-known YouTubers that have massive audience / subscribers decided to give up and claim burnout; fair enough I said, I understand.

Then one "goodbye" video after another, they started jumping the ship and immediately I went skeptical and said to myself: either they have some inside info that something big is about to happen (thus the need to get out ASAP) or they are about to push them to their limits with new demands and have said "enough is enough; we are not going to die for them; it's time to say goodbye, it was good while it lasted".

There's no other logical explanation, to me; this is my personal opinion which makes me very skeptical, that's all.
webgpu hype is pretty cringe,even if you want to run in a browser (and most customers don’t) most game engines can still bake WebAssembly/WebGPU packages.
Dumb? He's going to make money from the idiot wannabes who will buy his "valid" lists (which will likely turn out to be entirely composed of previously-leaked, long-blocked cards).

There is a lot of money to be made for people not afraid to look like an idiot.
I didn't mean it as rhetoric, it's a simplified statement of a viewpoint.

I think rhetorically "..who choose to do business with them" is doing a lot more work than anything I wrote. Once an organization reaches a certain size individuals start losing meaningful choice in how they interact with it. You can say that the "gestalt" will of the organization is more important, but you can't make other people concede that their point of view is merely a rhetorical stance.
Lantern argues that being able to create indexes quickly is useful for tuning the hnsw paramters.
For the purposes of scientific trials, I wonder if it would be easier to find ways to induce twinning in utero. I suspect that a trial of 50 pairs of identical twin rhesus monkeys would generalize better than a trial of 100 identical rhesus monkeys.
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I don't know? EU might be a sleeping giant too.

But you're right. We definitely don't live in a unipolar world. But that's a good thing. More people around the globe enjoy the benefits of peace when each of the major powers are all comfortably confident in their ability to annihilate the other 3.

There used to be coups all the time in Latin America. Not so much anymore. All of Asia is rising and enjoying the benefits of peace. And don't even get me started on how much better off Africans are with the ascendancy of China than they ever were under the US and Russia.

The world 70 years ago was a bleak place for the global south. War, famine and disease ruled the day. Today, in any dimension of human development along which a person would care to take a metric, most of the global south are far better off.
> for me it was a personal incompatibility with parts of the business I don’t want to delve into in this post.

Without this, the post was pretty abstract and not very interesting.
Yup. The entire area is full of white folks with barely high school educations who are living a fantasy life by making great money through a lot of overtime at chemical refineries. Take away the refineries and you've got nothing left to sustain any of that economy. The entire metro New Orleans system would collapse within years outside of a few tourist traps and the ports.
Have you seen those peoples footwear( and homes)?!

It's the last thing on many of their minds.
This is a frankly ridiculous assertion given LKML's notoriously toxic history. Part of the problem is that overly-entitled maintainers can be as equally dangerous to actual progress in the project by stonewalling useful code on invented reasons that have never been applied to previous PRs and that the maintainer does not apply to their own commits.
You're right that most people have neither the need nor the ability to recreate the data themselves. But the same applies to using open-source software in the first place: most people who use OSS have neither the need nor the ability to compile the software from source themselves. But the whole point of OSS is that that source is available for those who want to use it, whether to study it, to diagnose a bug, or something else. I think the same is true for the LHC's technical details or a model's training data: most people won't recreate it at home, but it's important to make it available, and even someone who can't rebuild the whole thing themselves might spot an important bug or omission by going through the data collection details.
"...or animal control services shall be contacted to remove the student"

Not only did this somehow make into law, it somehow had a 91% approval rate when voted on. Unbelievable.
They are the 6th and 7th largest airlines in the country. They are small only relative to the 4 largest.

The best argument I see for allowing the merger is that Spirit has been consistently losing money since the pandemic and may no longer have a viable business model. If they're destined for shutting down in the long run anyway, then you may as well let them attempt to merge, that'll probably lead to less of their market share winding up with the 4 biggest than them simply closing up shop will.