skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do a lot of analyses as a series of shell commands. Sometimes the command is complex, other times it isn't but the specific arguments I'm using matter a lot. When I need to revisit an old analysis being able to see the commands I was running is incredibly useful for picking up where I left off or answering people's questions about exactly what I did.

These are rarely commands so complex that they represent serious programming effort, but that's not why I want to save them.

(My approach: https://www.jefftk.com/p/you-should-be-logging-shell-history)
This is cool, I don't realistically know how to market a website at all, besides there being this thing called "SEO".
The point here is that Russia is only comparable to North Korea and Iran, which are rogue nations.

But it's good that you uphold West as the ultimate standard of civilization, to the point that you get triggered about anecdotes.
Everyone has the symptoms of ADHD. It's a quantitative condition, not a qualitative one. ADHDers just have them to the point that their lives are significantly impacted.

Amphetamines make everybody better. And if you take too much, they make everybody worse. Look at WWII soldiers, 1950s housewives or 21st century undergrads for examples.
No, but on some level line and plane equations are similar too. It's more about splitting bodies into convex parts to speed up the calculations.

(tbh it's been 20 years since I did that by hand ... but I would assume that the underlying math has not changed since then)
Discover the art of crafting a deeply touching sorry message to make her cry that has the potential to evoke genuine emotions and bring about profound healing. In this engaging piece, we explore the delicate balance between remorse and empathy, guiding you on how to create a heartfelt apology that leaves a lasting impact.
As much as I claim to like brutalitism as a design philosophy, I do think we could bring back some things like classic marble architecture. Maybe some new fountains
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfate-reducing_microorganism
CRUD APIs with Northwind database data
Langchain.rb
A fair point and one I didn't even think of. At this point in my life I prefer more family time to anything like a luxury car. My old car gets me around town just fine.
Anime prioritises high production rates over quality. Anime looks largely samey. There's a few notable distinctions, like Attack on Titan, but the animators on that are getting paid better then what's being quoted in this article. This article is quoting the pay scales for the animators working on single season anime that get cancelled halfway through that are based on an obscure manga that has only been read because it was published in a major magazine, but was never particularly popular and actually got cancelled a month before the anime came out. Yeah, there's a lot of great anime, and the stuff we get in the West is the stuff that's popular, with proper studios putting time and effort in. The people getting paid $5 a day aren't working on the major productions. Sure, the people that did Fairy Tale probably can get paid more, but the guys working on Visual Prison, yeah, they're not priority. Why don't they unionise? Because the people who would most benefit are afraid they might lose their jobs in the industry they want to work in. Is this backed by studies? Nope, but you tell that to someone facing down the prospect of losing their chance at their dream. And the 15% average wage increase from unionisation, let's be honest, isn't going to do anything. The issue here is the output. If anime is going to be more humane, it needs to cut how much random noise they produce. Look at Western animation. You get a handful of shows a year. Anime you get 3 years of content every 3 months. Workers are the ones that bear the brunt of that schedule.
Cate highlights positive aspects. Again, your posts focus every time on negativity. This is the point that I'm trying to get across. You talked about cancer, about blame and failure, "doing everything wrong in life and still winning the lottery" (winning the lottery isn't inherently positive, because it's what you do with it that matters).

It is not luck that shifts your mind to highlight these negative aspects, that is where agency takes place. Take care.
"televandalist"
Would still hold in this case!
Not something I need, but it’s a really cool idea, especially for people struggling with nutrition.

One feature suggestion would be to accommodate specific diets (keto, vegan, etc.) and generally allow excluding food (e.g. I hate the taste of beet roots and eggplants, so I’d always exclude those).

One thing that’s not clear, is if it understands multiples, I uploaded a receipt [0] with 2 feta, 2 broccoli, and 3 arugula, but I’m not sure if it recognized that? I also don’t know how well that can even work without some calculation check, for this store (REWE) the amount is always below the product, for Aldi it’s the opposite https://i.imgur.com/YvqJCle.png

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/Xhw3Acs

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/YvqJCle.png
"Show, don't tell" is lost on the authors. They only talk about visual ugliness.
I also don't understand why they're doing it. On my long-running full history duplicates cost me a factor of 2 in space, and presumably the same in search time (but still perceptually instant).
Show HN: Dev Proxy v0.14 with generating OpenAPI specs and simulating CRUD APIs
It's hard for me to understand what the author is exactly talking about without seeing more images.
The 2023 Hugo nomination statistics have been released and we have questions
Love that observation on C++. That's the reason I love C++. It's a language for those who need, nay crave, absolute raw performance. No training wheels. Short of assembly, it's just as close to the machine as you can get.
Only if god is a director/exec or someone subject to a non-disclosure agreement.

According to answers to this question, "Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while I am inside the wrecked airplane?" [1]

"Insider trading, I like to say, is not about fairness, it’s about theft. It’s illegal to trade on information that isn’t public and that you have some duty to keep secret" - Matt Levine

[1] - https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/98706/is-it-insider-...
Really cool. I checked also a receipt in Romanian and it worked, it translated the ingredients.
There's a lot of seemingly random instances though, like the first ones which seem oddly specific, flowery descriptions. I'm having a hard time believing those phrases coincidentally came out the same. If we're to believe op who claims they only checked the first couple pages of each book which were free to access, this seems quite damning.

Writing isn't coding, this is not the same a just copying some snippet from stackoverflow.

But then again I'm not a writer or expert on this, so I don't know how serious this is compared to a thesis or something where this would already cost you your title.
I ended up teaching a friend to program using Kotlin. The downside was just telling them to just accept what the IDE wizard lays down as gospel first but the advantage was that running code from main() or tests was always a fully IDE integrated experience. Explaining the build system boilerplate became natural when it came time to start adding dependencies to the project.

Don't underestimate how important that integrated experience is. Within their first month or so they were already using a real graphical debugger which is something I didn't pick up until much later because of where I started.
Artificially inflating sales numbers to get higher on bestseller lists seems like an intentional deception to secure unfair gain. How is that not fraud?
The other day, I saw some workers finishing a series of 8 white shipping-sized containers each with A/C, aligned one next to the other on a plot of urban land.

I decided it had to be the expansion of a public (state) school, because I’ve read on the press about these containers being used in cases of shock-doctrine implementation.

Compared to foreign universities, Public education and public buildings in general used to be ugly, uninspiring, from the cradle (horrible huge hospitals) to the grave (horrible huge condominia-like wall with niches for a coffin).

We are transcending these thresholds to go full ugliness for the poor, in the name of economic efficiency
There's a lot more variation nowadays imo, and you can find whatever you are looking for, consciously or not.

If you want to find ugly, you can. If you want to find vibrant bright colours, you certainly can, too. At least in the UK, in both London and Manchester, where I have lived, you can find the best and the worst of many kinds of styles. Where I visited in Belfast, also. Also in Indonesia, from Bali to Jakarta, there's so much different kinds of styles you can experience. Sure, the "average vibe" is also kind of persistent, but I think the average vibe has been quite bland in many places for a while.

This includes art, architecture and the vibe as well as interior decor.

Edit: adjusted to distinguish between "general" and "average"
Forget about that account and don't use any Google account ever again. You'll be fine.
Here are my 2 cents, I think we will need some laws specifying two types of AI models, ones trained with full consent (opt-in) for its training material and ones without. The first one would be like Adobe's firefly model where they allegedly own everything they trained it with, or something where you go around asking for consent for each thing in your training corpus (probably unfeasible for large models). Maybe things in the public domain would be ok to train with. In this case there are no restrictions and the output from such models can even be copyrighted.

Now for the second type, representing models such as Stable Difusion and Chat GPT, it would be required to have their trained model freely available to anyone and any resulting output would not be copyrightable. It may be a more fairer way of allowing anyone to harness the power of AI models that contain essentially the knowledge of all man kind, but without giving any party an unfair monopoly on it.

This should be easily enforceable for big corporations, else it would be too obvious if they are trying to pass one type model as another or even keep the truth about their model from leaking. It might not be as easy to keep small groups or individuals from breaking those rules, but hey, at least it evens the playing field.
OK Google, write me a satirical Hacker News comment to define "Whataboutism".
Original title edited for length:

The 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics Have Finally Been Released – And We Have Questions

This post was brought to my attention via Mastodon via HN user cstross, who posted an entire thread about this here, the initial post of which I quote:

https://wandering.shop/@cstross/111793448361231714

> Chengdu worldcon Hugo nomination statistics suggest the 2023 Hugo awards were rigged:

> [link to OP]

> I've also seen it alleged that the concom offered some attendees "special guest" treatment … and stole their Hugo voting rights in return, without telling them about that part of the "deal" first. (I will not cite a source on this until the attendee in question goes public.)
Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind!
> I am confident that D can be a viable first language

Not sure what this confidence is based on, the basics are broken (toolchain, basic syntax errors you shouldn't even need a compile step to figure out, the squiggly error underline should be right there in your editor!), and what does sticking to "Vanilla D" offer as a benefit vs. some other language?
Um, what? Perl in 2024 is just (far) worse Php. Or why just not use Python at that point?
Too annoying to write by hand. also too annoying to read the raw text. Markdown is easy to write by hand and looks good enough without a viewer.
There are two questions at play here:

1. How much of other people's work did Mark Dawson plagiarise in each of his books?

2. How much of other people's work would someone need to plagiarise before you consider it to be unethical?

We can't answer 1. just yet, but if you are going to make a judgement about him here, at least try to give your answer for 2. The first question is a question of fact and the second question is a question of subjectivity so it's important to separate them out.
> name creativity is really important to making your work findable and re-findable.

This is underrated information. I’ve seen so many products and even companies fail because the name led to millions of unrelated search results. Even if they are a giant it can still lead to bad outcomes.
As silly as it sounds, system design interviews are about systems and design
Never copy code off stack overflow!
Depends on the archive type and how the vfs/extfs code was implemented for it¹. It also depends on how the archive is treated if it is compressed container, which can be seen by looking at how a .tar and .tar.xz are handled for example. The zip handler is probably the easiest to understand, as it doesn't need to contend with external compression wrappers and is a simple perl script. (In some cases it would probably be nicer if it did extract the entire archive to tmpfs, such as when you independently pull a few files from a massive .deb for example)

Implementing your own extfs scripts to wrap a simple menu around some task can be really useful, far beyond basic archives. I wrote one so that I can shuffle my todo list priorities by moving fake "task files" in to different pseudo-directories.

¹ https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/tree/master/src/vfs/
I’ve heard that about self-plagiarism and I think it’s idiotic. You should be able to reuse your own sentences or ideas.

Specially ideas. Which cannot be copyrighted (yet).

Somebody show cage Michael Tomasello right now. Open any of his books and you’ll see a series of self-plagiarism sentences.

I now think he’s just a genius because he’s investigated his field in depth
Beauty isn’t valued in these areas by those with the resources to choose it.

When the majority of people and businesses live hand to mouth, those that don’t have to constantly maximise exponential returns to their owners. Who has money to burn on “valueless” beauty

Even if the cost of beauty is the same, and there is an actual value, as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you are increasing maximum potential value but you are reducing the minimum (you turn off some buyers who don’t like the look). Throw in the concept changing over time (pale green bathrooms used to be a big think in the U.K. in the 80s) and people go for neutral and boring.
Hoxton Farms, cultivating an irresistibly fatty future
Can’t bring myself to read a screed like this. Every few years there’s been an article making exactly this complaint for hundreds of years. Most things are ugly and/or trash. Always has been, always will be. And the current fashion will eventually change, it always does.
Hopefully the EU is wotking on more than 1 issue at a time.
If you're talking about Elvanse in Europe, it's a combination of "manufacturing issues" and "increased demand". I'm pretty sure it's mostly manufacturing issues, because although there was a bump in diagnoses due to WFH it wasn't a massive bump.

Takeda (who manufacture Elvanse in Europe) are being very coy about what "manufacturing issues" means. Their latest estimate for a return to full production is Q2 2024, but it's slipped before.

/r/adhduk is quite good at tracking updates around shortages.
Protesters call for change to Netanyahu government
AI bots are everywhere now. These telltale words give them away.
Dismissing an argument on the basis of its conclusion certainly seems like an odd way to go about things. Many of the social structures we take for granted today would have at one point seemed absurd.
https://archive.ph/foGdJ
Plagiarism isn't illegal. Copyright infringement is. My guess: the award you get when somebody paraphrases your sentence doesn't cover the cost of litigation.
Uppercase Eszett lowercases to lowercase eszett, which then uppercases to SS, which then lowercases to ss.

It’s not incorrect but does show that you can get four different strings from one with just case operations.
>some things I've seen recently accusing people of plagiarism are just draconian IMO like they cited the person, but screwed up the quotes somehow

Can you provide an example of an incident like this?
And do you know what the Muslim nations believe, based on religious texts, about their right to be supreme in Middle east (and really the whole earth for that matter)? Granted, all these seem to be absurd, but you need to understand that the whole of the Middle East is based on myth-making. Israel is absolutely not exceptional in that.

Israelis/Jews ARE indigenous to Palestine. If they didn't want to live scattered amongst other peoples who regularly subjected them to pogroms, that is prerogative; It is not for me or you to judge. A substantial part of the Israelis are Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews, not the Ashkenazi who are being derided as "colonialists" (although that is also quite a suspect argument).
The submitted link has an anchor in the middle of the article. Why?
Theres a style I see on HN where ppl disagree with the post at the start, the halfway in agree with the post. Im not sure if thats a new thing or if I just started noticing it.

> sure, the "general vibe" is also kind of persistent, but I think the general vibe has been quite bland in many places for a while.
Thank you so much. I am sure he will love it. He likes it when I say Bonswa.

I asked ChatGpt to help with the pronounciations. This is what it said.

So, the phrase "Kif aħna xbin? Kollox sew" would be pronounced as "keef ah-na shbin? kol-losh sew".
The submitted link contains an anchor/hash pointing to the middle of the (long) article. Why?
According to studies, rich DOES make you happy.[1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/14/the-bi...
Why do communists build brutalist buildings?

I don’t think the recent trend in abandoning aesthetics is accidental.
It's HN's mods' convention to tag articles in that style [0]. If we want to have a conversation about every eccentric thing HN's mods do to this site, and whether they make sense or not, we'd be talking for a long time.

(That person's comment was benign, in my opinion, because the mods are going to manually hide this subthread anyway—it's a minor and short-lived distraction. It's a pretty common interaction on HN: there's a meta-discussion about the HN submission itself, "please edit the title / please change the URL to this one / please whatever", and 'dang steps in and says "Thanks! Fixed", and then he kills the subthread because it's no longer relevant. I feel this status quo is basically okay?)

[0] Many examples, https://hn.algolia.com/?query=2023&dateStart=1704103200&date...
If this is done in the UK, I'd be very wary of receiving a libel lawsuit. Saying someone is a serial plagiarist is a damning accusation to an author, and examples I read (and TBH I got bored after the first 5 or 6) were rather tenuous: turns of phrase or even just a common adjective-noun pair.
Sure, I am definitely concerned that my high level worries are being nudged to and fro by certain parties subconsciously (and the resulting rabbit hole of locating the actual source / counter, counter-counter propaganda etc...)

But on the ground, I would be considered an enemy of the billionaires.
SMEs and large corps would benefit, but billionaires and trillionaire mega corps would sacrifice a lot.

The progressive income taxes I implemented would probably seem absurd to most HN readers (negative at the bottom, ridiculously high at the top)
The inheritance taxes: same.
Corporation taxes: same.
I would propose that X is forced to sell to the US gov (unless large changes are implemented), which would seem absurd to even most centrists and many leftists. (If it's indeed a town square, then we will make it a proper town square).
I would force breakup of most of the largest companies in very specific ways (and think it's feasible, without sacrificing a nation's competitiveness and productivity).

My idealistic stance is that the very top can effectively be curtailed while letting the innovation and big business continue either undisturbed or empowered. I.e. it is not 'have my cake and eat it too', but 'There are two tiers of elites to deal with in very different ways'. Remove the billionaire playground, keep the capitalist innovation.
Everyone is still experimenting what works

Most companies are settling for hybrid, and workers not returning are slowly being left behind. Mostly because "classic" companies processes are not ready for remote workers
I know there are systems like that for academia, student papers etc.
https://webcomponents.dev/blog/all-the-ways-to-make-a-web-co...

Yet, they are all Tools, and you don't learn a Technology by learning a Tool,
or do you become a Writer when you learn Word?

``::part`` is part [sic] of the Standard, it doesn't require any tooling.

CCS in JS is your choice

https://jsfiddle.net/WebComponents/znbgf726/

https://i.imgur.com/inJAbQW.png
checkout https://penpot.app -- its OSS figma.
Diamond Electronics Suit Green Power Grids
Sounds excellent.
It would also be super useful for people with IBS/FODMAP like dietary issues.
It could show you what ingredients may be causing flare ups (fructans and galacto-oligosaccharides and polyols)
The debate about how we can’t make classic beauty anymore will always be around (and it’s not very interesting).

But what strikes me in some “ugly” cities is how accepted it is to let things be objectively ugly, for example in some cities you can see how a building wedged between two beautiful buildings has been torn down but the effort to build a new one seems on hold. As if owning the building/land gave the right to leave a scar for any amount of time. In cities where this doesn’t happen I imagine you simply don’t get a permit to leave an ugly hole. Build it or face a stiff fine, perhaps forcing you to sell to someone who would build. Seems like the only reasonable way of keeping it tidy.
A lot of UK inner city areas look like this for example.
Poster was as sloppy as the author himself
What If Life on Earth Began When Interstellar Objects Crashed Here?
Nobel laureates call on EU to relax rules on genetic modification
PU-239
Related:

1. James M. Cook & Dawn Plourde. (2016). Do scholars follow Betteridge’s Law? The use of questions in journal article titles. Scientometrics, 108(3), 1119–1128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2030-2

2. Boris Peon. (1988, August 4). IS HINCHLIFFE’S RULE TRUE?·. Annals of Gnosis.

3. Stuart M Shieber. (2015, June). Is This Article Consistent with Hinchliffe’s Rule? Annals of Improbable Research, 21(3), 18–19. https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume21/v21i3/Con...
its a word salad rant. An exercise in style to say mostly something that could be summed up in a few sentences.
Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home
Yes and probably, but then Google is in the US.
If it's a finetuned multimodal vision transformer, it's probably multilingual.
Maybe give bsx a try instead? (disclaimer: I'm the maintainer)

pnpm add --dev bsx

{
"scripts": {"cleanup": "bsx rm -rf some-cache"}
}

https://npm.im/bsx

This would use busybox-w32 on Windows, and regular shell on other platforms. You do have your usual footguns like some *nixes not having some tools installed out of the box, but for the 95% cases this should be fine and it's only 536 kB (vs 1.5M for shx)!
>Hate is the consequence of fear. We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
— Cyril Connolly
Never heard of it either. "Build and share delightful machine learning apps, all in Python." I am wondering what the heck is so special about "machine learning apps" that would differentiate them from any other app that has a UI with a Python backend.
this is great. lowers the bar of entry to people who are learning it for the first time because they can learn each tool one by one understanding what it actually does instead of using an all-in-one tool as a kind of magic black box.