skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people discovering k for the first time, I wrote https://xpqz.github.io/kbook as a gentle intro.
Nicely done! Lots of great food for thought!
Thanks!

>50% right... 50% trash...

That's not bad at all for ChatGPT. I guess it will be a long time before a computer can really accurately describe what a complicated uncommented algorithm is doing.
Nah

If I am waiting for code to compile and I'm tired, the most interesting thing happens on my phone not what I need to do next, regardless of what that is
So many weird “you don’t need AWD” takes. Like it’s a badge of honor to use an inferior tool for a job, as long as you get the job done? Bizarre.
Commuting by car on daily basis is the most dangerous activity most people do.

- risk of accidents

- sitting longer hours, leading to loss of muscle tone etc

- inhaling particulate from engines and tires

This stuff builds up over time. The decrease in life expectancy is real.
The problem is they are not just condescending, but also just plain wrong.
During my last job change I gave concrete numbers to recruiters on what getting me into an office would cost.

In the end I ended up working remote, which is what I preferred, which wasn't surprising given how much the commuting time was worth to me.
> it is impossible to feel sorrow and gratitude at the same time.

This is very much the opposite of my experience. Being grateful even for the losses that have brought the most sorrow, the two things at the very same time, has ripped me apart, but it's also been the only way through.

ETA: I say this not to contradict you or deny your experience. I say it in case other people are thinking their experience might need to include both, so they're encouraged to realize that, for some people, it's not impossible, but necessary.
In the past, workhouses were used to "solve" this problem.
You are welcome to use the framework I made. It's called ICVR - Island Collective Virtual Reality. It is a Unity-based framework and has all the modules for creating a simple running, jumping, throwing type mechanics. It is designed for VR and PC and works on standalone devices. As a demo, i made a tenpin bowling simulator that is discoverable on the interwebs.

[see github -> willguest -> ICVR]

If you pair it with another (also FOSS) repo, you can self-host it on the Internet Computer. That means cutting out fees from hosting providers and has security built in. This is not a requirement, but it's quite snazzy.

I am fairly busy person, but would be happy to give pointers. The setup in Unity is also automated and, to get a simple scene going, no coding is necessary. There are a bunch of assets to get started there too. If, as you say, you are already a dev, this wouldn't be much of a learning curve for you.
On that page I see entries such as:

- Grease
- HUMP
- Lovetoys
- Löve Bone
- Gspöt
- Möan
- fLUIds

To be fair, I doubt most children will question the names! And this is a small enough subset of the libraries that one can just avoid them.
I come across paywalled articles at least a couple of times a week. I’d gladly pay $0.50 for most of them to access the single article.

It just needs to be easy, don’t make me create an account a subscription and shit like that. Things like cryptocurrencies could work great for these kinds of transactions. Shame it became what it is now.
Creative AIs Depend on Creative Humans
I am finding it hard to find the right words to express this so please forgive me if this comes off as insensitive.

That was a very touching piece that gave me a sense of that unfathomability Lars wrote of.
How much is it costing you to run the LLM? Is it OpenAI?
I have HTML documents from 25 years ago that are perfectly readable.

The render as I wish. ie are readable.
Reading through the actual law, it seems that only a few qualifiers are needed to prevent abuse. Although it seems it could be rendered toothless according to page twelve, section twelve, subsection two. The wording in that means somebody could interpret other parody laws to render enforcement basically impossible. It's also concerning that the main focus tends to be on musicians, despite listing deepfake nudes and other malicious uses of the technology as reasons for incitement of the bill.
You are welcome to use the framework I made. It's called ICVR - Island Collective Virtual Reality. It is a Unity-based framework and has all the modules for creating a simple running, jumping, throwing type mechanics. It is designed for VR and PC and works on standalone devices (Quest 2 type). As a demo, i made a tenpin bowling simulator that is discoverable on the interwebs.

https://github.com/willguest/ICVR

If you pair it with another (also FOSS) repo, you can self-host it on the Internet Computer. That means cutting out fees from hosting providers and has security built in. This is not a requirement, but it's quite snazzy.

I am fairly busy person, but would be happy to give pointers. The setup in Unity is also automated and, to get a simple scene going, no coding is necessary. There are a bunch of assets to get started there too. If, as you say, you are already a dev, this wouldn't be much of a learning curve for you.
I seriously doubt that except fresh produce in some hellishly hot desert country large scale agriculture using desalinated water makes sense. Much less so if you don't grow some cash crops but have to process it then transport the final product.

There are almost "miracle plants" like Salicornia which can be watered with sea water, but these do not have growth rates of more picky plants like corn or hemp.
Looks like you're making a game then. Talk him into descoping the prototype to something that will work with scratch. Begin laying out the game, let him know the artwork and sound you need. Let him look over your shoulder, you will end up doing most of the work though. Invite him to any major design decisions
Yes, but I don't want to disable it. I want to be able to mark specific items to never be offloaded, and I wish offloading would offload old things before recently used things.
I have written a one-liner that exports dot-env files stored in `pass` into the current shell for those projects that have a lot of secrets. I don't use `direnv` though, just close the shell (or all of a project's tabs/windows) when done. Similarly, for Kubernetes, I just export KUBECONFIG by means of an `fzf` script for just that shell. I also keep a terminal window and virtual desktop per project. I have access to too many projects for any secrets or contexts to be set by default.

As a consultant, simple solutions that allow for quickly (manual) setting and getting rid of environments when done have worked best over the years. Using dedicated windows and desktops helps your brain to use "physical" location to keep you from messing things up. Obviously your mileage may vary if you mostly work on just one project at a time.
I thought the same thing. You aren't the only one.
Anyone is free to 'fixate' on whatever topic they want? Just like how you can be 'fixating' on this?

There's not that many HN users who can change what someone else decides, and you don't belong in that category, hence my opinion is just don't disguise it under a different angle.

Otherwise, I simply don't care either way about those claims.
And that's why 3-2-1 specifies to have one _offsite_ backup
The HTML parsing question is an annoying meme that people laugh along with to feel part of nerd culture. This one is an extremely thorough attempt at answering the question. Not comparable at all.
I'm currently working on a 'simple' integration between an accounting and crm software. I'm already pulling my hair because of various exceptions, limitations and whatnot. I think Horizon was anything but simple.
Ticktok Shop sold 20B$ of items and Temi sold 10B$. All of that came from 'impulse buys' of the customers possibly because people were looking at something and wanted to buy it.
You have to pay because Apple asks for a commission in exchange for you being allowed to sell your product in their store.

I think what you're really asking is: Where's the value if I want to (or have to) do my own marketing anyway? The answer is trust. I'm more likely to trust you with my money, with you executing code on my device, if Apple allows you on their store. Even the big brands like Epic get this value, because who is judge that whatever "I look for" isn't being hijacked by some impersonator? Perhaps that trust is misplaced, but the effect is real, thus the value is there.

Apple considers this worth a 30% commission, and 100% of developers on the App store agree, or they wouldn't be on there. The question whether you couldn't get more value by doing it all yourself doesn't even ask itself, because there is no alternative. Whether that is anti-competitive in the legally prosecutable way is a very interesting question that we're all eager to hear answered by the courts.

Personally, I do find that a 30% (or 27%) commission on out-of-band purchases is outrageous and that phone platforms should be cracked open, but I can also see the argument from the other side, comparing e.g. to video game consoles or set top boxes.
Unless you're talking about some odd, restricted subset of HTML, writing a HTML renderer is an incredibly complicated task. Chromium and Firefox are both huge and have had so much development, and still have differing outputs for the same HTML. CSS, SVG and JS are all part of a complete renderer, and are huge projects in their own right.

(And you're not getting the "interactive charts" mentioned in the article without implementing most of that.)
It depends, but I don't know on what. Yesterday I went and got 100 grams of salami, 200 grams of cheese. I'd probably say 500 grams of whatever else in that context, I might say half a kilo, I'm not sure.
There are plenty of ant species that are cooperative and integrate well with their environment.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/farmer-ants-a...
Right, but if I look at your sculpture and get ideas on how to make a better sculpture, then make an entirely different sculpture using yours as inspiration, and you get upset that I'm 'copying your style' we generally don't give you much sympathy.
In Apple-land it's basically 'vintage' when the latest macos won't run on it, so 7 years is an antique.
We have to assume they have considered this in the past and come to the conclusion it just doesn't work.

I suspect tying a purchasing decision to every page visit just leads to people automatically backing out of the page with a very low conversion rate because it's just too annoying to decide whether to pay for something you're not sure the value of.

Despite all the gnashing of teeth, nothing competes with ads on the web.
Nice. Looks a bit fancier than my version from a few years ago https://git.sr.ht/~wezm/lobsters
It doesn't work with a specific type of AI.

AlphaZero/MuZero game AIs do very well feeding themselves. Often better than previous AIs with hardcoded rules and training based on human games.
At least on iGPU business Thinkpads, Intel systems still seem to be more robust with Linux. The difference isn't necessarily on graphics, just less bugs overall ranging from wireless (bt/wifi) to monitor / dock compatibility etc.
Well, it was fun while it lasted. Comedy, I mean. I guess... it's OK, we'll all be 'safer' probably. At least we've still got ... clean air.

But you don't need AI to do a great Trump impression. I've seen: Tyler Fischer, Shane Gillis and 'Godfrey' do good impressions. They really nail the voice. It's funny how impression-able Trump's voice is. His voice is its own character, as is his hand gestures.

I guess entertainers need to evolve to have some characteristic.
Side thread: do you have suggestions for "validation testing" when it comes to gameplay -- not playability or fun factor, but more ... objective and mathematical? I'd like to "lint" the game, so to speak, as a formalized system in various states and I'm curious about how that is done in game dev
But to read something e.g. a manual it should render differently on a phone or a big screen they are different sizes.

If it renders the same then it is not fit for purpose that is reading on a screen.

There are reasons to use pdf if the document must be the same on all devices but you need more than a plain pdf as you could edit a pdf to change 1s to 9s.
Congratulations. You've almost finished understanding my comment.
psh RPGTK for life
Sadly disagree, I've put some BTC on my Podcasting 2.0 player (Podverse) and stream it to every creator that wants them (via the Bitcoin Lightning network).
I don't get it. What does "every day up" even mean?
We built an editor for making simple (but complete and fun) games to help young folks (or anyone) learn to code.

It's at sprig.hackclub.com

If your son shares the game publicly as a PR we'll send him materials to build a console that can play it. We've had hundreds of kids around the world share games you can check out in the gallery.
An excerpt:

> The captain then acted, most probably by reflex action, on the control column to reduce this pitch attitude without taking back the controls and making the procedure call-out, based on the principle of only one pilot having the controls. The two pilots then simultaneously made inputs on the controls. The pitch controls were desynchronized for 12 s due to opposing forces

It sounds like Air France has still not trained their pilots on proper cockpit discipline. This already proved fatal before (AF 447).
Maybe one thing that held them back was that one of the founders was also founder of The Pirate Bay. Maybe potential big clients didn't want the association.
Flattr was trying to bootstrap a sort of two-sided market from scratch. They needed to get both hosts/"content providers" and clients/"users" to sign up.

This is just a very, very hard problem, and if we're being honest about it, most of the success stories that come to mind got there through burning venture capital, which perhaps Flattr didn't have enough of?

I don't think the idea is fundamentally flawed, it's just very difficult to do this kind of thing.
Foundations of Vector Retrieval
I'd add "maintenance burden". I have a few old properties I'm responsible for that used to be web apps, one is archived as static HTML, the other one still exists as an outdated web app. Every other week I receive a request to delete user data. At some point it might make sense to pull the plug on everything :(
The author's point seems to be different in a minor, yet crucial point. You mention "won't", he focuses on "can't" and perhaps the lacking ability is due to a series of wonts.

I agree that a lot of people won't, won't, won't, and I also agree that they eventually can't even when the ability matters.
I had learned of both Biome and Rome, but didn’t know about the rebrand. Makes me think they’ll switch gears to focus on improving the linter after reaching 100% parity.
If the CEO of the Post Office or Fujitsu would end in jail for a life sentence, trust me, you will never hear anymore a case where "it would hve been too costly".

But now, in the end, the companies themselves will just get a financial fine at some point, not even matching what it would have costed them to do the change.
And so no real consequence, no change...
I think it's not unlikely that if it were actually important (someone's life depended on it, or a serious amount of money was at stake), this person _could_ be located. It would almost certainly require someone who speaks fluent Chinese to go to China and investigate in person, though.
The most powerful force in the world is when a big group of humans unite behind a story, fictional or otherwise, and march forth under a common banner. The question is which group of humans will win this one. My vote is for the ones arguing correctly that knowledge in all of its forms routes around censorship with or without our approval, for better or worse. There was never a lock. We just pretend like there is.
Perhaps ethics classes should be replaced with counselling sessions so people can value their demons. Maybe C-suite execs and corporate board members should have mandatory hours of monthly therapy in order to have the power they wield.
No, that would not be appropriate, since there is no “Expect” header you could send in the request to get a successful response.

From RFC 9110, HTTP Semantics:

The 417 (Expectation Failed) status code indicates that the
expectation given in the request's Expect header field
(Section 10.1.1) could not be met by at least one of the inbound
servers.

— <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#name-417-expectation-...>
Those are not at all the same thing. You used a search engine to find something else which you’d then cite as the source of the information. No one would take your research seriously if you cited Google Search as the source.

I don’t understand if people trying to equate the two are doing so in bad faith to confuse everyone or are genuinely incapable of understanding the difference. Either reason is quite worrisome for our future.
> A good first step. The next one I’d like to see is a one-tap toggle that disables the bulk of Samsung OS customizations and “me too” apps/ecosystem cruft, as some other vendors have.

What other vendors have that?

The fundamental problem in the android world is that OEMs have no market power, and that makes it impossible for them to do longterm investments like research and security updates.

What you see here is that using these "me too" apps, Samsung managed to acquire some market power, and so is able to do some of these longterm investments now.
> I am not keen to explore it.

Yet you did and now Youtube considers you interested in these videos.

People have entirely different perspective on what they consider gross. To pick the common ground is no solution, although in these cases being grossed out is problably the reason for the videos in the first place.

But Youtube isn't TV, you have to actively curate your consumption. For kids I would recommend to restrict access until they are older.

I think being grossed out is also not a reason to report content.
Twitch subscriptions and Patreon has shown, that if you bind a website/project to a creator, and you get benefits for donating/subscribing, that you can have a very viable business model. Both as a creator, and as a platform to facilitate it.

Most websites, and indeed open source projects are pretty faceless, and require limited interaction with it's creator. I believe, if you somehow "solve" that problem first, people will beg to donate/subscribe.
Mixtral on Anyscale Endpoints: https://docs.endpoints.anyscale.com/pricing
You can also just say "yes, the call is being recorded"
> integrating the trauma into your personality and by extension your life.

You were not wrong here and to be honest 9 hours later I feel ashamed to have made the original comment and no disrespect to the author obviously.

I’ve been having a few bad days lately and what the author and his family are going through took me back to a time when I thought could relate not as the author but someone as a family member who was affected.

I should have been more empathetic rather than making the comment about me (although I was trying not to).

I tend to not do this as therapy is working for me mostly, but times like these it brings back emotions that you cannot control.
Just allow import and export from and to Excel... Problem Solved

<<I wish I was joking>>>
The findings of our first generative AI experiment: Gov.uk Chat
Not necessarily. More of a lost in translation.

A great example of something hard to digitise is mechanisms for reward/punishment. Algorithmic approaches for criminal sentencing that work on a parameterised basis have been proposed over the years but always found wanting.
The $0.50 weekly price for NYT is a teaser rate. The full price for digital only was recently raised to $195/year. I imagine they make too much money from people who subscribe at the teaser rate and forget to cancel (like all newspapers/magazines) to make it worth exploring other business models.
People can tell when someone's not being entirely genuine in formulating questions... I don't want to burst your bubble but it really is just better to be upfront and genuine.
And you think more than about 0% of web users do the same?
Ask HN: Best Google Voice alternative to receive SMS? (My country not allowed)
There have been recent cases of sim hijacking in my country (theories about employees from the phone companies involved), and I use some important apps that still uses an outdated 2FA with SMS.

I tried to set up a Google Voice account (even paying), to receive a number where I could get SMS and set that number as my 2FA for those apps.

However, Google Voice is not allowed in my country. Is there any trustworthy alternative that I could use? I think Twilio may provide this service but not sure if I could get a nice dashboard for this (I do not want to code an API).

Just to clarify, my only requirement is to have a SMS number to receive 2FA codes from outdates apps that still use that (also, when travelling abroad would be easier because I wouldn't need roaming, only an internet connection)
Yup, WSL2 on the machine I'm currently sat at, with systemd and xrdp installed so I can RDP across the divide to get my full X11 config* (I am very attached to my fvwm2 setup so WSLg isn't suitable for my personal preferences) - works very nicely.

I did use VMWare Workstation for a bit many years ago and more recently Hyper-V, but since the primary purpose of my X11 setup is ssh-ing to the dev rigs where I do my actual work, WSL2 absolutely wins out these days.

* under WSL1 I used a windows-side VcXsrv instance, but WSL2 being a Hyper-V slice means it has to do X11 over the (internal) network so if I need to restart network related stuff all my clients crashed; using RDP means I just have to reconnect the RDP client
Firefox addin for ePub
Part of calibre can be used as just a reader (it might not be packaged easily for the user but can be done from the command line)
Adobe Digital Editions (this does also have a library and does try to make you add it when you stop reading)

I suspect Fbreader might be OK - its earlier versions were but I have stopped using it after it added things.

Plus the basic unzip the file and just look at the files with a web browser.

These are just ones I have on my machine now.
https://motorway.co.uk/sell-my-car/guides/car-depreciation-g...

Typical car depreciation:

> Year 1: 15-35% depreciation. 65-85% of the original value.

Seems that this is bang in the middle of expected depreciation of any car.
Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history
AFAIK there were 4 suicides related to this scandal. Where did you get 40 from?
"The argument is that any single country being overly powerful is a negative, and a more multipolar would would be healthier."

That would be a first, wouldnt it?
We are currently seeing the consequences of the waning of the US unipolar Superpower.

Venezuela had a referendum to annex large parts of its neighbor.

Iran attacked nuclear Pakistan and has its proxies disrupt international shipping lanes and wage war against Israel.

Turkey has its fingers in tons of conflicts and supported its ally Azerbaijan in the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno Karabakh.

China asserts its military dominance in the south China and is depriving other nations thousands of km away of their rights and resources. Never mind that it is also preparing to invade and subjugate Taiwan.
....

Turns out if given power people are jerks, who would have guessed.
I had an idea just like this several years ago and seriously considered doing it as a startup but somehow never heard of Flattr. I'm curious what kind of marketing to website creators did they try.

Did anyone try Google Contributor, which was a similar idea?
It's one of those original indestructible Lexmark-designed IBM keyboards - I'm not sure what coating they used, but they rarely wear. That's why there are so many pristine mid-90's Thinkpads out there.