skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey fellow coders, tech enthusiasts, founders, and product creators!

I'd like to share my creation which I launched a couple of weeks ago.

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https://medium.com/@makowskid/when-laravel-e-commerce-app-me...

What can it do for developers and their apps now?

E-commerce:

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Travel, Tourism & Hospitality:

- Analyze sentiment in travel reviews to improve services.

- Streamline categorization for tours, activities, and hospitality products.

Thanks!
> Building the missiles is too cheap and too easy

That's mostly true because of Iranian support according to the article, not because the Houthis were able to develop them themselves...
The Houti's couldn't make glass if they wanted to let alone anti-ship missile systems. They're just pawns in a larger game and they're setting themselves up as a target. Iran is pretty clever at getting others to do its bidding by supplying them with arms like this but there are a lot of global and also local parties that aren't going to let this pass unnoticed.
"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
(´⊙ω⊙`)！
Those pills have different effects on people with adhd and people without it. A pretty bad explanation trying to keep it simple: The adhd brain basically destroys neurotransmitters in the brain before they can be absorbed by the body. The stimulant will cause a lot more neurotransmitters to be created so that more of them can be absorbed by the body (both the natural NTs and the ones caused by the stimulant). For someone without adhd there wasn't anything stopping the natural NTs before so all the stimulant will do is flood the body with one kind of stuff.
Would you also have that belief about how much weight a human can lift ?

Just because a human can lift 500lb, we will never build a machine that can lift more than that ?

Why is it so crazy to think that we, the tool building animals that we are, could also build a machine that things better than us, just how we built a crane ?
> Question, not argument

I love this, going to use it from now on. Thank you.
Testimony before the House Antitrust Subcommittee (2020)
in general i find that stack-based instruction sets are more compact than register-based or belt-based instruction sets, despite using almost twice the number of instructions to get anything done, because the individual instructions are smaller. in smalltalk or the jvm or emacs lisp bytecode, most instructions are a single byte, though occasionally you'll have a jump or something that has a following operand byte. (python is much worse at this, because python was never meant to run on 16-bit machines.) on the mup21, each instruction is 5 bits; on the x18, each instruction averages 4½ bits

so, in the space of a single 16-bit thumb or rv32c instruction, you can fit 1.8–2.8 instructions, and that makes a big difference

i compiled some code for rv32ec. here are 8 instructions of it
occupying 22 bytes. what would this look like in a stack bytecode?

38: 00158693 addi a3,a1,1 a1 1 + 3 bytecodes
3c: 43d8 lw a4,4(a5) a5 4 + @ 4
3e: 08e6fa63 bgeu a3,a4,d2 <.L15> < if <.L15> 3 bytecode bytes including jump target
42: 439c lw a5,0(a5) a5 @ 2
44: 058a slli a1,a1,0x2 a1 2 lshift 3
46: 7179 addi sp,sp,-48 literal 48 stackframe 3
48: 97ae add a5,a5,a1 + 1
4a: 0007a303 lw t1,0(a5) @ 1

we can see that in a stack instruction set this would use about 20
bytes, barely less, because the instructions being smaller is offset
by their being more numerous.
on the other hand, some of the code is occupied with doing
things like allocating a stack frame, which usually isn’t necessary on
a stack machine

but as far as i can tell on the x87 (which i have never programmed, i'm just going by p. a-1 (176/258) et seq. of http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/components/intel/80386/23...) all the instructions are at least two bytes, so i don't see where you get any extra code density

for what it's worth, the subroutine that the above was taken from compiles to 62 instructions and 156 bytes for rv32ec, 61 instructions and 189 bytes for amd64, and 52 instructions and 138 bytes for arm cortex-m4. i'll be compiling it for my own stack-based virtual machine this year but i don't have even a prototype compiler backend yet
I still remember the live stream when little Ponytail presented this. Was pretty mind blowing at the time.
Hey Siri, set an alarm for 5pm and call it “take out trash”

Got it. Your alarm for 5pm “collet take out trash” is set.
After Minecraft was acquired by Microsoft I had to create a Microsoft account for my 9 year old elementary school daughter so she could keep on playing her beloved Minecraft. After a few weeks later Microsoft blocked her account because of not further detailed "violation of terms". Unlocking this account was several week long encounter with a service process designed by Franz Kafka.

As a result of this experience I now consider having any relevant data or system access behind Microsoft ID (or any other as Apple or Google) as risk which needs mitigation. I removed all my data from OneDrive and set up my O365 not storing data in the Microsoft cloud (I needed MS support to do so. Not using OneDrive does not do the job).

I consider using my Microsoft/Google/Apple IDs on other sites as adding to the risk to be cut of my data or work at Microsofts mercy.
The most basic right protected by copyright is the right to make copies.

Merely making a copy can definitely be infringement. "Copies" made in the computing context even simply between disk and RAM have been held to be infringement in some cases.

Fair use is the big question mark here, as it acts to allow various kinds of harmless/acceptable/desirable copying. For AI, it's particularly relevant that there's a factor of the "transformative" nature of a use that weighs in favor of fair use.
The Anarchist rebellion in Spain for instance was not only instantly crushed by all sides (Fascist, communists, liberal democracies) but it has been written out of history too. You hardly ever learn about it, except if you read Anarchist books.
> state power rests on violence and coercion; violence and coercion, to be defensible, require a moral justification; social contract theory and all other attempts in this regard are pathetically inadequate. Therefore, there should be no political state.

Stuff like this is why anarchist writing is so unreadable and unpersuasive. Like okay you've discarded the entire framework of society and oh I should read your book to find out why... But what would I, given this sample of how inhuman and inane your analysis is?

This stuff is dropped like it's a logical conclusion of a rigorous mathematical framework and therefore incontrovertible. Yet it sounds instead like clear evidence that the logic and the framework are themselves broken, since the conclusions are laughable and absurd. Anarchist writers always seem unable to grasp this. The result is that their body of theory is essentially meaningless to anyone who doesn't already believe in it at a basically religious level.

Obviously I haven't read, like, a majority of anarchist writing. But anyone who's wandered the internet for a while has likely encountered a lot of what I'm talking about.
I found the statistics in the article were not presented in a coherent manner. I couldn’t tell if right on red had a greater impact or not.
Even worse than being a pedestrian is being a cyclist. Right on red makes it dangerous to get in front of the light queue by passing on the right
Instead of penalizing those nice cities with RTOR rules designed for reckless cities, we should step up enforcement in areas where the drivers choose to speed, until they also become nice.
Isn't that what Lichess already does, plus estimate difficulty based on which bot Elo is required to solve the position? (The OP's site doesn't have difficulty estimates but it's from A curated book so presumably that's captured in the puzzle number.)

https://database.lichess.org/#puzzles

> Generating these chess puzzles took more than 50 years of CPU time.

> To determine the rating, each attempt to solve is considered as a Glicko2 rated game
I just used mc to transfer some pictures from my Mac to my Linux nas for later backup with rclone. I haven’t found a better paradigm for dealing with files than the two way pane. Also enabling lynx like motion makes for really quick navigation.
Don't give people bad ideas.
The growing inequality of who gets to work from home
> The syncytiotrophoblast is the outermost layer of the placenta, the part that is pressed against the uterus. It’s literally a layer of cells that have fused together, forming a wall. ... There’s no other structure like this anywhere else in the body.”

> When evolutionary biologists like Chuong mapped the genomes of these cells, they found that the protein that allowed these cells to fuse into a wall, called syncytin, didn’t look like it came from human DNA. It looked more like HIV.

So the entire premise of the placenta evolving from a virus rests on the fact that the organ has a unique function requiring a unique protein in the body. Saying the source probably is a virus seems quite a leap of thought. And aren't there many highly specialized proteins in the body?

Has anybody has some more information on what protein in a retrovirus looks similar to syncytin?
I mean, population decline is a thing, and most 'developed' nations, or whatever you want to call us, are experiencing it. Demographic collapse sounds like a a scary term bandied about by people with an agenda (or those who want to proclaim the sky is falling but bizarrely want to ignore climate change and ecological collapse).

I'm just guessing, because I haven't encountered the term and I'm not finding much about it on google. Certainly nothing from scientific or authoritative sources. I guess one article from FT uses the term to describe China's population decline.
> The Houthis provided a solution on day 1: a ceasefire to end the genocide in Gaza.

Really? That seems to be funny for a group that is actively promoting another kind of genocide as part of their political manifesto:

> The group's slogan reads as following: "God Is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_movement

If you had such neighbors they might just decide to kill you if you are not of their tribe. Not sure why people would whitewash such a group of extremists.
A first reason to get you started: it isn't FOSS.
As a standalone service I think most people would switch to Siri or Google assistant rather than pay Alexa plus unless it was significantly more useful.
I think people would pay for an all encompassing home awareness ai integrating smart devices but also Blink cameras. Subscribing to Blink is already compelling, if you add control and identification of people and intentions into Blink along with an ai controlled home that could be worth a subscription
i think the AND is temporarily true because of temporary market conditions—it’s unlikely to remain so indefinitely. for that matter, the dearth of entry level developer jobs is also temporary, though i think it’ll be the last to recover and the bootcamps will keep that end of the market semi saturated with grads as soon as it shows signs of recovery.
Couldn't you just
1. Draw an arbitrary line through the cake
2. Set each person's valuation of a point on the line equal to their valuation of the cross section throgh that point
3. Use the algorithm to cut the 1D pseudocake
4. Make the corresponding cross sectional cuts to the real cake

Actually for round cakes you could even make normal (wedge-shaped) pieces by re-parameterizing distance along the line as angle and cross sections as infinitesimal wedges.

Edit: And for the rectangular cake you could slice the cake up along one axis and line those pieces up end-to-end first so that the cross sections would have a reasonable width instead of having slices as wide as the whole cake
Eric Rosen is like the Bob Ross of chess.
Muahahaha pairs nicely with "Fools! I'll destroy them all!"

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-use-of-the-fools-... (it was in circulation in the 1800s)
There's a vast difference between what is taught and what is actually done. Everyone (well almost everyone) knows what they are supposed to do as drivers, but few do it.
I used to find my Alexa devices useful, until they took the widely-discussed quality nosedive and started understanding less than half of what they used to. I can't think of anything else I've purchased that became so markedly worse of a thing after I bought it. 1 experience of misunderstanding stomps out 10 of it working perfectly.

I'd read a book on the inside story of the failure of this product. From cute, moderately useful novelty to glitchy, nagging revenue grab that takes it upon itself to come into your home with "offers". Eroding goodwill, missing the boat on AI you're naturally leveraged to integrate with your large installed base, it's shiny object middle management bingo.
Gamedev is close to this. I can assure you that indies will not get the better end of the deal here. Companies with money will out-advertise you, will out-produce you, and still hold onto valuable copyright despite the narrative here about signaling the end of copyright.

And that's all before discussing how this will affect monetization. Indies already feel soft capped at $20/work and almost hard capped at $30. Will the same consumers pay those prices for what they feel is "lesser art" now? Indie gamedev can barely break even on $10-20 as is.
Sorry for your loss. Where insurance meets critical health care is an ugly boundary
That's a great insight that I've also been coming around to, although from the angle of needing to know which weekends fall within school holidays from multiple countries (cousins).
You can toggle the visibility of midweek events (e.g. bank holidays) alongside the primary row of weekends but it would be sweet if you didn't have to in order to have the same insight. Thanks for flagging!

We would typically have this "year-level" view open alongside a scrolling month view in our regular calendar to have a more complete picture, but not to totally replace the normal calendar...yet! Tweaks based on insights like yours (alongside write-access) have slowly meant that we switch back to the traditional view less and less. It's a design goal, but only if it's actually a better experience overall.
That's very much a key bit though. If you want to have any kind of yield.
Aka cede de facto authority over international waters to a buncha thugs whose official slogan includes “death to America, death to Israel”. No thanks.
It's certainly taught but the practical reality is that a lot of people are very sloppy and careless in driving. As a frequent pedestrian in big cities that do allow right-on-red it's extremely common to see cars that try to make a quick right turn immediately at the same moment that a pedestrian crosswalk "Walk" sign comes on, risking running over a pedestrian. When the reality and law is that the car has to wait for the pedestrians to cross and then make its right on red after they have cleared the intersection.

I think the main reason why right on red is banned in NYC is for pedestrian safety and traffic flow reasons.
They are considering charging because Alexa is about to get a massive update with agent capabilities. If you are paying 20/month for gpt4, you are probably willing to pay much more for amazons equivalent but that can actually do things for you like get groceries, get things delivered, one command purchase, etc. maybe even buy plane lowest cost plane tickets or make reservations.
I'm downvoting this because of the arrogant and dubious notion that people who've chosen not to have children are somehow morally flawed. The fact of the matter is that successfully raising, educating etc. a child is dramatically more expensive than it was a few generations ago. While we can debate the various reasons for the decline in the reproduction rate there's no doubt that this is a big one, not as many people can afford to raise kids.

The factual and pragmatic view today is that if you can't afford a large home, one parent taking a lot of time off of work, and $120K+ in education bills then you are not setting your offspring up for success, this is not based on your personal morality, it is based on economics, and on statistical observations of the population.

Ergo your lionizing of people who have have children actually amounts to a defense of the economically privileged, and you assert that the benefactors of the systemic increase of wealth inequality in our society are the most moral people. It's despicable really. Go eat your cake, pig.
"Every person using technology will make every other person's life easier" is not the correct interpretation of the original statement.
Geopolitical Chesterton’s Fence: if you can’t explain why the Houthis existed before 2023; then you shouldn’t give opinions on what motivates them now.
What's Your Take on ZeroETL vs. Pipelines, Jobs, Schedules
In the data space there is this new movement of ZeroETL (started by AWS) that advocates the replacement of traditional data movement pipelines (generally implemented using Spark and Airflow) with real-time CDC replication. What is your take on it ? Did anyone fully implemented it ?
I still don't see a difference. (Mobile)
> Amazon has set course more directly towards enshittification

Maybe, but I have not noticed any significant change in the day to day quality of the service compared to when Jeff was around. Have you?
I always liked the idea of slip lanes, as then you could check first for a conflict with a pedestrian (looking left and right), then cross that point and worry about a conflict with a car or bike (looking far left). But some people are now trying to remove them because they're worried they can cause drivers to speed through the pedestrian crossing.
I think there are two bigger problems here: people turning when there are pedestrians and the car size inflation. These are not inherent problems with right on red.
keep in mind that this website bans a lot of people from posting here
They support it, but recently moved to aggressive keyword substitution. It's particularly bad if you search uncommon terms, as they'll immediately modify your search terms so they can provide more (irrelevant) results than the handful you wanted. Modern search makes me want to cry.

There's also the "we've streamlined your results" because you're too much of an idiot to actually search for what you want, but just in case click here to see the full results.

I can only expect it to get more hostile. Soon I'll be quoting every word in a search. I already had to update most of my saved searches with individually quoted words.

I do like some things. You can often write partial model numbers ending in a dash (even if there isn't normally a dash there) like dv-28- to search all variations (dv-28s, dv-28e). The classic booleans along with price filters are amazing for saved searches.
> $ hyperfine --warmup 3 'bash -c "echo hello"' 'sh -c "echo hello"' -N

Small nitpick but on Arch, /bin/sh is a symlink to bash so it's measuring the same thing.

On many systems like Debian, /bin/sh is dash instead (though default interactive shell remains bash) which is actually a few times faster, for start up and in general.
I just took a look at Meacham's 2008 winner. After skimming your paper I believe it makes it through your countermeasures unscathed.
The bar to actually completely disrupt humanity is not even that high: Completely autonomous driving. That alone is enough to cause massive disruption in our society because it eliminates a huge swath of need for human.
Mainly because free/busy means different things in different contexts (i.e. work vs. personal vs. school) and so I wanted to keep any personal planning-related interpretations of busyness confined to this view.
I’m increasingly fed up with all shell scripts.

Sure shell scripts are great when they’re small. Except then they become not small. But they don’t get rewritten.

Piping strings of instructed text between programs is an error prone nightmare.

I want full debugger support, strong typing, cross platform support, and libraries not programs.

Python isn’t my favorite language. But I’ll take a debugable Python script over bash hell 100% of the time.
It doesn't really matter that much in terms of logistics. Animators will usually be working on episode 8-9 of an anime by the time episode 1 airs. If not outright done with the 12 episode cour.

Weekly schedule is usually done for the sake of broadcast channels, which is still a bit more relevant in Japan than over in rhe West.
I imagine the insane traffic volume in NYC also incentivizes more aggressive driving. There's a higher trip time penalty for not making the turn, compared to a city with less jammed roads. This matters for people who need to make appointments or any other driving where time matters (does anyone still offer pizza delivery in 30 minutes or it's free?).
There's the internet.
All hit-driven industries, TV, movies, toys, games, anime, etc... need to be forced to pay the people who make them royalties. Money is always tight most of the time, but when someone makes a hit they need legal protection to a fair share of the huge profits.
I may have missed it, but the failure of any western leaders to publicly acknowledge the Houthi's stated reasons for their actions (and by extension their demands) is conspicuous.
Siri seems fine. Runs on device, does homekit things really well…
Well you know what they say, foo around and find out.

Carl Sagan comes to mind:

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
If you decrease quality of art, you give AI all the advantage in the market.