skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think average is the wrong approach. Chatgpt is pretty much an average: if you ask it about a 50/50 topic it will avoid giving you a straight answer and will split its answer down the middle with the pros and cons of each side. I've played with chatgpt a lot and it has never given anything like a feeling of omnipotence or omniscience - quite often the average opinion is wrong or at least misleading for my specific situation.

My personal conception of God is based on something more like quantum immortality - not only are you immortal because there are infinite copies of you and at least one of the copies must survive to observe the universe, but there is some sort of party at the end of time where all your selves can get together and figure out which copy had the best life. And then these selves collectively are God and they (re)created the universe so you could have the most satisfaction. But you yourself are just a copy so you'd better look up those answers with chatgpt so that you don't end up being one of the copies with a sad story to tell.
Show HN: Funktors - Array operations using Generics in Golang
A library for various array operations like map, reduce, filters etc, using generics.
For the sake of being picky, Bonjour is not a radio protocol (Layer 1), it’s a set of tools which enable zero config networking (Layer 2/3)
I read it completely differently. It is especially audacious and egregious that this guy claimed defrauding his followers was god's will. That doesn't reflect badly on christianity; it reflects badly on him.
Multi-rate is when energy's cheaper during off-peak hours - traditionally used with night storage heaters, which is why the average usage would be higher; it's more likely to be used where gas isn't available.

"Economy 7" has existed for decades, and allows a sub-circuit of the house to be energised only between roughly midnight and 7am (with an offset for each house to avoid the grid collapsing when 10 million storage heaters turn on simultaneously!)

Typically the cheap rate energy would be between a half and a third of the day-rate energy.
I don’t think “fundamentally having something” is actually meaningful here - as it’s enough to show it is Turing complete for it to have fundamentally everything. Nonetheless, it’s probably not excel that will become the next AGI.
AWS for "iCloud", not sure what else they run. I meant a "cloud server park"

Services is anything software as far as I know.

If they run their own servers, they'll have a large number of gpu core which could be used for LLMs. From what I understood is that M* is pretty good at them. That way they're not helping NVIDIA grow more as a competitor.

My point with Fleetsmith is that they're looking at corporate use.

Maybe not a lot of resources for them (boot loader), but they deliberately allow booting other operating systems.

I firmly disagree about cloud profitability. I read numbers between 30% and 60%, although I also found 2.6% for GCP and -8% for Azure. Not sure why they're so far apart. Amortization shouldn't be the issue. Perhaps "R&D"

Last part, you might be right ;-)
No, but Tiemann might remember as I remember introducing him to unwind-protect (not that he invented RAII afaik, nor would claim to have)
Respectfully, it sounds like a young person's ideals where they have the idea no one ever thought about their ideas before. Or alternatively, just someone who has very little inclination to be involved in society. Or further, someone that never cared about anyone elses opinions. Valid stance I guess, for certain scenarios.
In Java, primitives. int, boolean, float. Allocated on the stack, or the heap along with the object it is a part of.
Potify Attacks Apple's 'Outrageous' 27 Percent Commission from External Links
Sadly mixing politics and religion is highly effective because it turns voting for a particular side into a "religious war" in which very little thought is applied as to if the candidate is actually reflective of your values. (See Trump, Republicans, and evangelicals)
Alabama plans to carry out first nitrogen gas execution
Very typical of the average HN pseudointellectual actually.
How do you figure that? I don't know anything about how this works, but ad-hoc Wi-Fi connections are a thing, and they use good ol' TCP/IP. It just means you don't connect to some pre-existing Wi-Fi network managed by some third party (from the exchanging terminals' perspective).
They could be but the could also be really bad things. I am personally uneasy about how far we are and continue to extend medical assistance in dying (it's one thing to help someone a few months away from death from cancer to speed things up and avoid a ton of suffering and expense, it's something entirely different to allow the government to off people that would have otherwise likely lived for decades, are minors, are retarded, etc). That is too new for me to have strong objections though, I will wait another decade and see where the regulations/practices settle down to before I draw a strong conclusion.

The abortion thing is also potentially problematic because it hasn't really been settled. The old law was just thrown out without replacement legislation, which legalized everything from early abortion (which most people are fine with) all the way up to very late stage abortion (which a large minority of people are very much not ok with). This leaves a wedge for people that feel strongly against the policy to convince more people to also be against by referencing the extreme minority of very late stage abortions as a cludge to remove support for the vast majority of abortions that are a lot earlier. I'm a big fan of abortion (mothers seem to know when they are going to raise criminals and abortion removed so many future criminals that it actually changed the crime stats) so I would prefer for us to go through the uncomfortable situation the USA is currently going through and settle this with a compromise that removes a lot of that wedge pressure, while maintaining abortion laws that would allow the vast majority of currently performed abortions with no additional bureaucratic BS.
The right way to use it is not a greenhouse but a pool of seawater, maybe an existing small bay.

The hot air then dissolves a lot of water vapor, brings it upwards while cooling down and rotating turbines, and releases as fresh water.

Now you have a desalination plant that produces energy, not consumes it.
A trillion dollars makes many things possible.
I firmly dislike cherrywood, anything that is more red than brown is absolute shit to me. My parents loved it, thought it was the pinnacle of wealth.

Now you might be questioning why I dislike cherrywood. The answer doesn't actually matter though, I dislike it. Most importantly, I am not the only one.

I like vinyl, because I spent a few weeks of my life (probably at most a few hours total actual wall clock hours on it) replacing flooring in a couple of rooms through a few houses. The beginning, and the rest of my answer here though, also does not matter. It only matters that I like it and will pay money for it over wood. I am also, not the only one.

Gray is used for many reasons in new builds, its a neutral color, and because many builders build a house/apartment, THEN sell to customers. Very few customers buy a plot of land, contract an architect, make customizations, and then build the building. It comes with the realization that people will substitute out the things they want on their own, not requiring someone else figure out everything they like and being creative all on their behalf for $0.
It does indeed. Also I use gas for both hot water and cooking - and keep the ambient temperature relatively low, so the fridge and freezer aren't fighting the heating.
Biscuit: Delegated, decentralized, capabilities based authorization token
Considering how boring and generic phones have become, if you’re really hell bent on airdrop just get an iPhone like the majority of the world.

Who in there right mind would pay for this?
> Multiplatform apps obviously multiply that burden

They also multiply the number of potential customers, so I don’t see that being a problem.

> with some platforms being more problematic than others

That _is_ part of the problem. As a developer, you have to compare your programming effort with expected revenues, so if a platform is “more problematic”, you’d only develop for it if you expected to get more revenue from it (either by getting more customers, by getting each customer to pay more for the product, or, sometimes, by getting more revenues on other platforms because you also support this one)
That site hosts a lot of historical material that many "budget" providers would probably balk at and kick you off their network without much recourse. Having a good relationship with a provider that knows you and will go to bat for you can cost some money. That said, $100/month is not terribly expensive for dedicated hosting.
Might be cheaper but I think you failed to understand the need for a redundant heating system. That is isn't wholly based on the complexity of PV.

Secondly there is nothing preventing me from leveraging the cost savings of PV heat generation when available. I just want a parallel heating system that isn't reliant on PV solar generation.

I thought I made that clear.

I also would be able to use the system during the shoulder months where the efficiency of heat generation isn't an extreme need.

Passive solar is simpler the Photo Voltaic solar and I believe there is a rich middle ground in balancing the 2.
(This interview is from 2022)

“GeoCities was not about self-promotion,” Bohnett told Gizmodo in an interview. “It was about sharing your interest and your knowledge.”

It was about sharing, but also it was a little bit about promoting ourselves. It felt good to share what we knew, and build something people found useful. Also, there was a self-promotion part of that. Way before there was "Likes" there was "Hits" and if the hits went up, we felt better than more people were reading.

One thing it was NOT about, was money. We didn't have Ads and we weren't hoping for more traffic to get more clicks to get more money.
Works great - How exactly do you know to which timecode to jump to?
Good. I'd hate for it to break out of containment!
How many people regularly die because your grocery store cashier smokes weed after their shift?

How many people could be hurt by a drunk pilot, and how many could be hurt by working at a Walmart while high?

The point is that we test where there is no reasonable danger at all and don't test when there is. Why? We drug test poor people and not wealthy people.
Is charismatic christianity not entirely under the evangelical umbrella?
It's a parody of a scam wherein you actually lose your money. It's a scam with a winky-face emoji.
Disclaimer: Googler but I don't work on this and have no special knowledge. Opinions are my own.

I don't believe Google itself is intentionally associating incognito profile data with non-incognito profile data. That does not prevent other websites from creating a simple map of (IP, user agent) -> Profile.

I'm not sure how this could even be imagined to work otherwise, with a default VPN? Even then there are other browser fingerprinting techniques (e.g. window size) that can't really be stopped short of breaking browsing experience across many sites. Do any of the major web browsers do differently?
Let me just teach my mum how to run a HTTP server and generate QR codes to send me photos of our lunch /s
Show HN: I made a simple web app to create forms
Hi guys,

I used to ship many products a year back, but I cannot build even a simple side project due to a full-time job. Now I decided to build simple side projects and ship them without thinking about colors, logos, or other cosmetic things.

PS: I wanted to move away from react/next.js and try something new so I built this side project with golang + templ + htmx.

Let me know your feedback. I will keep on adding more features to it and keep it as simple as possible.

URL: https://tinyform.email

Best,
Arvind
Weight loss drug from highly toxic plant can now be produced in yeast
https://archive.ph/nzHYI
> Because the elites want to demoralise us

Yeah no. The "elites" want profit, that's why we turned every part of the planet that we don't use for agriculture into concrete car scapes. Or Something.

> advertisements with unattractive people practically didn't exist ten years ago. Now we are constantly bombarded with them

incel vibes here.
This is so hilariously stupid that it prevents me from being tempted to flag your comment.
The ascii numbers being assigned to characters is a famous example of one C compiler passing on knowledge to a compiler it builds without ever having it specified in the source code. Given that, I am surprised to hear it ever is anything different.
> "there's a lot of thermal energy that does not get used in a cost-effective way"

Reminds me of a discussion in the comments on Terence Eden's blog[1], where a commenter argues that photovoltaic panels on home roofs are not the best idea, and solar-thermal panels are better; an edited summary:

"solar thermal, 4 square meters of roof space will generate 1500kWh per year; to achieve the same with PhotoVoltaics [PV] you would need 16 square meters. Solar thermal would roughly address water heating for showers for a family of 4 for using 4msq of panels. If that doesnt represent a useful amount of energy from a small amount of roof space I don't know what does! And with a lower environmental cost, lower CO2 emission, than PV for that energy."

i.e. it's sad that government subsidies are making PV cheaper than solar-thermal, even though it makes worse use of roof space, with worse CO2 profile.

[1] https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/12/free-money-from-the-sky/ - comments by 'ben'
Big Pharma hiked the price of 775 drugs this year so far: Report
But that's 80% of why AirDrop is so great. Exchanging files/photos/videos when you're not home and sometimes with strangers / acquaintances.
> Something about visually seeing what you're building vs just seeing text on a screen.

When i learned programming as a child, the programs i wrote just produced text on a screen -- but text on a screen was an actually encountered everyday UX on the Apple IIe or Commodore 64 too.

I think it does make a difference how quickly you see yourself as making something that could actually be useful, and it's maybe harder to do that in 2023.
Dot-product morality, perhaps?

https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/dot-product...
> leveraging state backed violence to deter the things they don’t want

I just want to say: I really appreciate the stark terms in which you've put this.

The thing that has come to be called "intellectual property" is actually just a threat of violence against people who arrange bytes in a way that challenges power structures.
Even if they just replicate what these companies are doing I think there's two main benefits:

1. less waste. The entire case is being thrown away immediately by these volume consumers. All the packaging and what not is also wasted.
2. easier/cheaper deployment. Companies are already paying their employees to design replacement cases, control boards, etc. and getting them built at relatively small scales. Then they're paying them to shuck and transplant from the Mac Minis. Apple could probably charge a >50% premium for their solution vs the equivalent number of Mac Minis and companies would jump on it.

Additionally, at least in my experience, the headaches and fixed costs of deploying these machines means companies refresh them far less often than other hardware. It's totally possible that companies would refresh more frequently if Apple just sold something easier to deploy.
The problem is a world view based on appeals to authority and nothing claimed about said authority can be proven or disproven.
Flashbacks to Mad Magazine:

“This [terrible] idea will change [nothing positively, but will cause] the world [to eat itself].”
Thank you. As someone who avoids Apple at all costs but loves zsh, this really rubbed me the wrong way. Pretty sure MacOS used to use bash too.
PowerShell here, I use this:

$MaximumHistoryCount = 9999
Or if they care for their descendants in their later years.

(Not saying fish do this, though I wouldn’t be surprised if giant elder fish clear out predators. A lot of people forget this bit but it’s suspected of being a big factor in insect and lobster longevity, which both capable of recognizing their offspring and not being territorial to their presence.)
Sadly, I agree. The "always saved" and "faith without fear" motto's give most the idea that humility doesn't matter anymore. Pastor's fill them up with their being special and elect, which is in the heavenly realm, not here on earth. The concept of servant-believers, for most, isn't even on their radar.

2015 was a sort of tipping point, IMO, that has caused a sort of paradigm shift in Christianity. (sorry, a little vague, but I'm still trying to understand all the changes.) My hope is that all Christianity will go back to basic tenets of faith, biblically taught.
Making it more economical to escape Earth's gravity well isn't going to alter the physics of the Martian atmosphere or the relative utility of copters vs rovers for Martian exploration. Which is to say, even if you stationed humans on Mars, they'd still be exploring remotely via copter/rover pairs, just no longer with a human-to-robot latency measured in tens of minutes.
Without anything to show but hypothesis.
How fast would the air over the crops move, when generating the claimed 200MW of power? A breeze? Hurricane speed?
Very cool, If it isn't mentioned elsewhere I'd add a note that often times you can avoid the expensive sqrt calculation. For example the last if statement in
https://www.jeffreythompson.org/collision-detection/circle-r...

could be optimized by instead just checking if distanceSqr < (radius * radius)
They seem to have more issues with email lately
> What powerful institutions or media influence do they control?

Christians (even if in name only) have maintained majority control of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches since inception. They often still publicly swear an oath with a hand on the bible.
I have been writing low latency code for a decade and never seen cascading deletes be a problem. GC on the other hand is a constant latency problem for people.
Yeah exactly, I'll be skeptical of any sales or marketing material made by people which succeeded by selling said material. They have to prove their experience somewhere else than this very specific niche.
What takes less effort, the low effort post or the complaint about the low effort post?

But seriously, it's a subtle joke meant for esoteric perspectives. Intended for like 1%.
I don't think the average user understands that but for us more tech driven folks we've known this for ages and probably take it further with VPNs and not using Chrome at all for any serious privacy searching where we want to avoid cookies saving, advertiser fingerprinting, DNS and ISP tracking, etc.
Well lisps don’t really have destructors in the sense C++ does; objects go out of scope and become unreachable. So unwind-protect makes cleanup (closing a file, for example) explicit, which it has to be.

I wouldn’t say RAII is “tied to object lifetime” except in its name; at least I think of it as every {} pair defining an unwind-protect with object creation/destruction being how it is effected by the programmer. Perhaps that is the same thing as you said, simply viewed from opposite sides.

I do like the automatic nature of RAII, though implementing a whole class for it always feels clumsy to me even after doing it for decades.
ColdRiver threat group targeting critical infrastructure with backdoor attacks
The "old internet" didn't die. It's still around. It just got massively dwarfed by the "new internet" users that only use smartphones and tablets.
To piggyback off of this with a call-to-action against the realities you point out, I think it's absolutely valuable and worth it to go after the aesthetic things that you like even for subjective reasons, and even if prevailing trends say otherwise, at the expense of falling outside the confines of conformity for the sake of pseudo-safety.

Safety in numbers is a thing, but when it comes to art & design & aesthetics, it utterly kills courage, and things are done out of fear of rejection or disapproval, which makes the end product feel bland, uninspired, forgettable, and will be dated in a few years. Might as well just explore what is interesting to you and not worry about public reception. But then that's tied into many other things like fear of rejection, fear of sticking out, fear of failure, etc., that may need to be unearthed and explored in oneself – which is utterly worthwhile and necessary to do, and by staving it off you only do yourself and others a massive disservice and continue to operate in fear.

But yeah I'm making blanket statements that needs context, etc.
But neither of these implementations are going to provide this functionality, because of lack of development kits, right? So in the end people would just send it over some messaging app, which scales nicer, or create a shared album, which also scales nicer. Because smashing phones in group of 10 people might get tedious.
How much can he bench?
> musicians make most of their money nowadays from touring and selling merchandise at shows

Be reminded that this is - and has always been - the mainstream model of the lineages of what have come to be called "traditional" and "Americana" and "Appalachian" music.

The Grateful Dead implemented this model with great finesse, sometimes going out of their way to eschew intellectual property claims over their work, in the belief that such claims only hindered their success (and of course, they eventually formalized this advocacy and named it "The Electronic Frontier Foundation" - it's no coincidence that EFF sprung from deadhead culture).
Tangentially, I learned a few days ago that any attribute that can contain a URI will be executed as javascript if the URI uses the javascript: key

For a list, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2725156/complete-list-of...
Netflix has to comply with VPPA. One of the few data protection laws in the US.
Go and spend summer in Russia, it is the perfect antidote. St. Petersburg is amazingly beautiful! Museums, architecture, cultural performances, no morbidly obese people on streets, no graffiti, even metro is nice!
Please do note that not all Christians believe in the trinity. It’s mainstream, but far from universal. As an example, I am a Christadelphian, and we refute the doctrine of the trinity, as it simply doesn’t appear in the Bible, and is indeed well documented as having been developed from roughly 100–325 AD.
Thank you for your feedback. I will check
A Black Birch in Winter
https://archive.is/JPjgR#selection-573.0-573.23
i like conspiracies because it's the same thing that makes us like disaster movies. we, humans, like fear when it's under control. we like to be afraid, but not too much. we like to see movies where aliens come to destroy us, but someway, we win over them (a single rock thrown at us from space would get rid of us...)

it's the same reason why we prefer bad guys. the good guys, they're boring, they all look alike. but bad guys. there's a whole spectrum of it.

i like conspiracy theories because it turns a bland, boring reality into something more fun. and i like those theories because I don't believe in them and approach them like disaster movies.

talking of reality is a tad boring. but conspiracies can be intricated one into another, with multiples layers and a whole spectrum of it. that's why we like them : we let the fear make us imagine stuff, but we keep that fear under control all along.
gotta disagree on invincible, i thought season 2 especially has been pretty middling. a show that ironically you kinda have to pirate due to season 1 only being available on amc+ and season 2 being available through prime, but only in australia and new zealand is Pantheon. feels like something the HN crowd would eat up too.
Tim Bray: 'Mourning Google'
On Earth or Mars?