skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Mute or deaf people are real, invisible people are not.
Concerns about company bankruptcy aside my thing is this: I don't want to have an ongoing relationship with a company. My entire adult life I've watched company after company succumb to enshittification. I have no choice but to assume that the company I buy from today will soon become a company I no longer want to do business with. And yes, of course I always can technically decide to cancel a subscription but then I no longer have the thing I paid for. I'm old enough to remember when I didnt have to worry about this and I definitely prefer owning my stuff.
This is scraping internetarchive (for keywords? not sure how categories are made), how did altavista add sites? Did you ask them to add yours? Were they scraping something?

My friend never used the internet pre-google and I was trying to explain how searches work and I only remember #aoltags, prodigy or mindspring or some other service (that had everquest/meridian59/that dragon game?) and I couldn't remember what the results of using alta/dogpile/etc looked like.

I just looked up meridian 59 and they put the music on spotify

June 25, 2022
The Meridian 59 soundtrack is now available on Spotify and Amazon Music!
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0lGsRspRVt5SFMUa60bkWH?si=53...
What I really like is the solidity of the whole website. Like things don't shift around and move around. There is no JavaScript moving the element when I'm trying to click on it. No fonts loading with a flash after I already see stuff on the page. Once I see it, it's there for me to click it if I choose to and that gives me a whole lot of trust and faith in the website.
My family and I go to a cafe for breakfast most saturday mornings.

The one place we usually go to has no phone signal at all anywhere in the ~150 seat restuarant. Its part of the reason I like going there.

We turned up last weekend to see they had put new QR code menus on all the tables. I had no intention of using them so I ordered from the counter as I usually do, knowing they wouldnt even work because of the lack of phone signal.

I spent over an hour that day silently chuckling as I watched pretty much every single customer pick up the QR code menu and try to use it. I saw a few get really annoyed and end up leaving.
Im not sure how much damage the place did to their clientel in a single day, but I went back yesterday and they had all been removed.

You couldnt make it up!
I think you are obviously wrong.

The original post was not just about video games, but ownership, nostalgia, and emotional development in general. I say this is obvious because they clearly discuss other media and property. They call out books and music as other parts of the trend.
"Fantastic Fungi" was terrible. It was dazzling visually, but contained almost no actual information. Just a commercial for psychedelic drugs, ridiculous.
I wish I had a decent way to calibrate my paranoia about stuff like this.

I don't want to miss life's nice opportunities just because I was too worried about this kind of thing. But I don't want to be too lax either.
Most of what I remember involves "transferability" - the ability to take a skill in one area and apply it in a different context. One way to teach this involves combining subjects, such as practicing reading and comprehension skills in math class with word problems.

There is a keyword I am forgetting which would make this comment easier to answer in detail. If I remember it I will post again.
Related:

Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32125386 - July 2022 (7 comments)

Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16398830 - Feb 2018 (12 comments)

Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2344837 - March 2011 (20 comments)
https://www.levada.ru/en/about-us/

They explain their methodology, and discuss things like what kind of questions tend to result in respondents terminating the interview.

I don't know how independent they really are; but I haven't seen evidence that they are effectively state-controlled.

If they are independent, then presumably it's true that most Russians are nationalists and Putinists. That doesn't seem implausible; as far as I can tell, a majority of voters in the USA are nationalists and Trumpists.

I've never visited a country while it was under the fist of a dictator. And in a way, Russia is special; in Russian history, autocracy and tyranny have been a constant, except for the ten years after the collapse of the CCCP. Those ten years were miserable for Russians, so it would be unsurprising if they feel safer and more comfortable with autocracy and tyranny.
> Add "reddit" to get any sort of non-promoted human-driven knowledge

you realize that now comments on reddit are SEO spam too?
not all of these domains always resolve to what you expect, depending on your dns provider.

archive.today (main)
archive.ph
archive.is
archive.li
archive.vn
archive.fo
archive.md
I run Yi 34B at 45K-70K context as a GPT 3.5 replacement on a Nvidia 3090.

Its quite smart, and fast.

The whole rig cost me $2.1K, but it could have easily been $1.5K without splurging on certain parts like I did. And its 10 Liters, small enough to move around.
You can't actually use startup investment numbers as a metric anymore because just like the stock market it's just become a avenue for financial gambling with little regard for the underlying industry.
Usually nice restaurants have small menus with only a few carefully selected options based on the season. Which restaurants are you referring to that have "big menus"?
Your missing the details of why.

This stuff can't run locally, it's cloud connected by design. It's cloud connected by design because the company's value pitch is on the data, not the hardware. They loose money or break even on the capital hardware. This is always the case, intuitive makes their money on the instruments, others make it on the subscription fee.

If you want it this way, you'll end up paying a lot more for thr capital equipment.

There is no free lunch.
Individual schools but we already know different schools vary greatly. As a form of selection bias, I bought my home in an area with schools where most kids go to college. The house was more expensive, so also needed to be richer, and it’s a two parent home, my neighbors are the same. It is t necessarily the school that’s good, it’s just selection bias all the way down.
I'm not an attorney, but have sat through many sessions with our legal team in the past on this topic (pricing models). Agree the practice may fee icky, but I'm not sure this case would qualify as anticompetitive (in the US). First, lawyers would have a field day at defining and redefining the market. Related, it is unclear what other services we as consumers no longer have access to due to them executing this strategy. So across consumer harm, market power/monopoly, and predatory pricing the legal case might be challenging to construct. Back to your point, maybe this practice SHOULD run afoul with anti-trust laws, but the laws may need to change to apply to this situation.
Don’t understand all the fuss about VSCode. I’m sticking with neovim.
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I feel like this is a bit like the whole thing with "do submarines swim?"

I'm not interested in the question of whether an image I make with AI is art or not. I've written decent fiction in my time. Maybe here and there I inhabit the artistic category of "an unpublished genre fiction author." But I can't draw or paint or any of that stuff better than a reasonably talented 11 year old, and I'm 52. If I had artistic pretensions it's not happening.

But once in a while I want to see an image that I can't make and, well, AI boom boom yes here we go.

I don't claim that's art. I don't claim that the AI is an artist any more than I claim that a submarine is swimming. Those categories are irrelevant to my interest, which is simple.

I wish I was artistically talented so I could do stuff and now I can do some of that stuff without being artistically talented.

I feel good about this. It makes me feel better in the world.

Are we going to take this away from billions of people to protect people who can draw and have some training?
Accepting a calendar invite in Outlook could leak your password
You aren't wrong, but we can't deny that internet changed the world, changed industries, and changed society. It's not all positive, but it's become a fundamental building block of mankind at this point.
The source is copyrighted / costs money. Also, I did purposefully choose the worst question as an example.

Practice tests can be purchased from this site https://www.nystce.nesinc.com but I can't find the page for this specific test (and don't really want to spend time looking). You're looking for the practice test for CST 245. This is the Arts & Sciences section of the Multi-Subject test for Teachers of Childhood, Grade 1 - Grade 6.
I tried Flutter on my previous project, it’s good, like really good. Dart has its weird parts but other than that, I enjoy it a lot.
Stand alone comments or posts on reddit are often not that useful. But if you can find users getting into a discussion about a product or category, that is generally the goldmine.

A) It's long enough that it's much less likely to be inorganic,

B) Provides enough context for more informed decision, and

C) in an ideal world if the parties disagree you get the advantage of adversarial discussion (hopefully still relatively friendly)

Admittedly, this is pretty uncommon, but I'm more likely to find it on reddit than anywhere else.
This is definitely a typo! Thanks for catching this!
Artificial Intelligence's Promise and Peril
Generative AI is poised to unleash a wave of creativity and productivity but poses important questions for humanity
I don't see that happening except at very big businesses like chains. Most locally owned restaurants have trouble maintaining a working website let alone something so complicated.
Yea, my experience as well. Cramming a 11x14 foldout menu onto a phone pdf is not a good UX.

That said, I find the kiosk app at Panera Bread a much better experience than ordering from the menu simply because there’s a lot more information. Options, bread types, ingredients, etc. You can claw that out of the clerk, but it’s a bit arduous.

So it can be done well. It just isn’t. And it’s don’t really blame the restaurants either. A comprehensive digital experience is really not their ballywick.

Then there was a time I went to an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn. There, we had no menus.

The server came up, “What do you want?”

“Well, what do you have?”

“We’re an Italian restaurant. What do you want?”

And I told him, and I got it. I mean, indeed, it was an Italian restaurant.
Just noting that Elon Musk now owns Twitter, rebranded as X. You can expect the same degree of indecency with your data there. Grimes and (now defunct) circles? Creepy.
I replied with what the thing is called, explained what it can be used for, and recommended an introductory text to learn more.

If you can come up with a more helpful reply in as many words, then please do so.
It wasn't 100% clear to me either. The wording clearly says SMTP will support app passwords, but no clear indication if IMAP will still support them.

But I asked Google Workspace Support specifically about this yesterday, and they said:

> The application passwords will support IMAP, POP, and all SMTP configurations. Rest assured that OAuth serves as an alternative, offering a straightforward configuration process for any third-party application.

The second sentence was just them continually pushing adopting OAuth. I'd love to, but the cost of the (recurring) security review is not feasible for our small SaaS app, so we'll be sticking with app passwords (thankfully).
Microsoft Says It Was Hacked by Russian State-Sponsored Group
Russians are really the worst bad faith actors in the global system.
Excellent learning material, thanks for sharing. I've noticed an interesting trend: JOINS are crucial for data analytics, yet many new open-source data analytics products, or open-source OLAP products, offer limited support for JOINS. Examples include ClickHouse, Apache Druid, and Apache Pinot. It seems that currently, only Trino and StarRocks provide robust support for JOINS. Commercial products tend to have better support in this area. I hope the various open-source projects will also enhance their JOIN capabilities.
Interesting law. That means that if you want to take a holiday from work you can just pay your employer the equivalent cash value of your labour instead of showing up and there is nothing your employer can say about it since they are always required to accept money as payment. In fact, you can evade all contractual obligation by offering money in place of what was expected to be paid.

I can see why it isn't generally honoured.
George Dyson has what I found to be an enlightening metaphor for how our relationship with information has changed. It is repeated here:
https://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2010/01/george-dyson-media-li...
They did take action. The whole labeling team was fired. https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/tesl...
I think they are great. Last night we went to a little Thai restaurant in New Hampshire and we self-seated, sat down, realized there was a QR code for menus and to register that the table was occupied; a half hour later two bowls of pad thai were delievered to our table for 70 dollars plus 20% tip. For 84 bucks we had a small meal and almost no human interaction: the perfect night for half of us, and the worst experience possible for the other. Whether I'm being completely sarcastic or not is not detectable because this thing is damned divisive.
Obligatory reference to Lotus Agenda which arguably was inspired by Notes and arguably (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreaming_in_Code) inspired Chandler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software)

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Distributed Llama on Raspberry Pis
Yes, I think that's absolutely true of both plastic surgery and of AI. I don't mind, it's better than where I was before!

I can semi-draw with AI help. Good enough.
I use sqlite with litestream through Pocketbase in production for around 2 years now on a site with 12,000 / month traffic. Works flawlessly and I haven't had to do anything to maintain it.
Influencers: Looking Beyond the Consensus of the Crowd
It's fascinating to me that we went from "embedding important information in QR codes is silly because they look ridiculous and no one will ever use them" ( https://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/ ) all the way to "sweet, I can read the whole menu online and order and pay when I'm ready, this is great" in like 3 months.
I believe the standard is just "elementary school teachers should be able to read and interpret a table of data".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_(software)

It's not a renaming. Pipelines have been a thing in software for ages. Correlating differing (surface) systems to each other is very useful when it turns out that they're expressing the same "thing" but in different manners.
You get a new nas (minio server pool) and you plug it into your home lab (site replication) and now it's part of the distributed minio storage layer (k8s are happy). How is that hard? It's the same basic thing for Ceph or any distributed JBOD mass storage engine. Minio has some funkiness with how you add more storage but it's totally capable of doing it while in use. Everything is atomic.
The suggestion in the article, to simply label these things as sci-fi, seems reasonable.
As you go about designing a HackerNews simulation please make it possible to pay the users who created the purported thread comments.
Nifty, but the article should have elaborated on the use cases. It suggested that training is the biggest one, but are these really a substitute for actually feeling real-world things? Seems like they’d have to be almost magically precise to, say, simulate the difference between quality and unacceptable fabric.
The whole system is flawed.
I think that's completely subjective, because if I'm indifferent between the two mediums, then the service is not worse. I'd say it depends a lot on the restaurant. If I'm in a pricey restaurant, then give me both, because I want an experience tailored for me. If I'm in a Pub, please give me a digital menu, because god knows what is encrusted in those physical menus.

Now, having to listen to a waiter recite a menu from memory is just plain bizarre. I've been to a lot of fancy restaurants and I've never seen this. The specialty of the day? Sure. But never the whole menu. Worse than having a written menu in a format you don't like would be having no written menu at all.
The server provides data to the phone/tablet, that's service, too, and needs to be paid.
Way ahead of its time.
I will absolutely tip less for a nightmare website.

The less service part is I have to scan the QR code.
a defense against collisions like this is through CTEs that select a minimal set of columns, with column names suitably selected and standardized:

CTE_A AS (SELECT ... comment as comment_a from A...),
CTE_B AS (SELECT ... comment as comment_b from B...)
“British food and British women made British sailors the finest in the world”.
I've been using twitter for 10 years, and it's generally been "OK" (but still net positive, it helped me get an internship and a job). Last year twitter became an incredibly positive thing in my life (in spite of the exodus and things generally getting a little worse). A lot of that change for me is echoed in this post!

Every time I see people commenting on here saying "people still use that?" or "why would you do this to yourself" etc, I get it, I've been there, there's a lot of shit out there. But I stumbled on basically this path he describes (made a brand new account, stopped being self conscious, just started following interesting people and replying to interesting things) and I feel like it has supercharged my learning & connecting with cool people and maybe even "dark smoky rooms full of interesting people" (nothing smoky yet but getting there!)
Wonder if the AI companies are already so far ahead that they can use their AI to detect and avoid any poisoning?
Yes, such as the Ubisoft game "The Crew" which will have its servers deleted on March 31st and can never be played again.
Many probably did die due to defects at first but since it’s so cold for longer periods of times, those units were fixed along time ago. It’s nothing new: abnormal events causing abnormal results.
Still, imagine how multi-role a "modernised" Sopwith Camel could have been in 1967. (compare F4Es and MiG-23s)

(Speaking of A-10s, how many 30mm rounds does it take to equal the wine bottle in https://xkcd.com/2883/? Anti-armour Abruzzo?)

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Yes, I wanted to read something about how to make code or tools more intuitive, not a reminder of how badly our minds have been poisoned by this new era of media.
I admire the sentiment but surveillance cameras are everywhere. It's not just Teslas.
Consumer laptops, such as apple silicon macbooks with just 32gb ram, can run fairly large models, such as Mixtral-8x7b, an open source model that's comparable to gpt-3.5, well enough for interactive chat, (and seems likely models of this size will keep improving) - ofc, 64gb ram preferable, because it unlocks larger models. And 3090s are the other way to to go, which are faster but not quite as much vram, though you can use multiple.
My point is that if one can guess the password on a random test box and through that gain access to critical internal systems, you have lost the right to call your system "not vulnerable".
Related:

Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179883 - June 2023 (4 comments)

Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957389 - July 2022 (20 comments)

Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31376125 - May 2022 (6 comments)

Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30179355 - Feb 2022 (123 comments)
Ask HN: A Thing in Go/HTTP?
I've noticed a strange thing in Go while doing some benchmarks compared to C. In Go, when under load testing, I see the client send a FIN to close the connection, but it can take up to 200ms for the Go implementation to send back it's FIN. I don't see this in the C side. I've tested several implementations now, and dug through the Go source to try and figure out where this is controlled.

As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be anything deliberately handling this behavior, unless it is under the handling of idle connections.

Does anyone have any ideas of where to look that deep in the stack?
Photos and art don't have to be unique to be good or valuable. No one learns by only doing new things - what would happen if someone refused to write a hello world program or a database or whatever because it had already been done?

I agree with the overall article sentiment that it is important to take in experiences rather than stand around taking photos you will never actually look back at, but "it's been done better, I shouldn't do this" is a mindset which will hold you back.
Thanks, again.
Glad I usually read a few comments before the linked article :P
Ask HN: Where can I buy a list of Restaurant Names & Address in NYC?
I don't have a problem with certain exceptions for online only retail or other specific cases. For example if you are a very small business.

The law needs an update for sure.
We should get away from using the term buy with respect to media. What you're actually doing is licensing in. Why not just say the latter, even if it sounds awkward? At the very least it will build awareness of the actual nature of the transaction.
And if we had banned these digging machines would be be talking to each other on the internet now?

Somehow work survived.
I mean physically large menus. Not menus with a large quantity of selection.
I will dropkick you if you refer to an LLM as a Librarian
Quoting [3]:

"I’m going to make a claim here that will be unpopular with some compiler and language people. It’s OK if you don’t agree. Personally, I learn more from strongly stated opinions that I disagree with than I do from several pages of qualifiers and equivocation. My claim is that parsing doesn’t matter."

agreed 100%
With this "solution" it looks like the world of art enters the cat-and-mouse game the ad blockers were playing for the last decade or two.
Ask HN: As a developer do you code for money?
The games from the 00s are pretty much just "that one random game someone released this year", but it's neat how in the 10s they actually start looking different again and often really cutting edge and something you wouldn't expect any pre-1993 game to look like.
This reads like a farewell and it probably is the next generation of dining. In North America the workforce isn’t there to staff restaurants and some of these digital menus allow you to order without staff needing to support it.

We should start to encourage some online menu standards though to
welcome it in.
Muphry's Law [0] strikes again!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
Supposedly the new trend is no menus or service at all - instead, you order at the counter even at more upscale places…
New posts on my blog have been getting steady inflows from Bing for over a month now, but zero from Google. I never thought the day would come when Google's search quality would be worse than Bing's. Google's search quality for the long tail seems to have declined very much.