skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Half the success is understanding what you are agreeing to when you dismiss the terms of use the first time you use software or a service. Most people can't be bothered to read any of that but it can still come back to haunt them. Businesses can afford to pay lawyers and when big amounts are involved, their job is ensuring that isn't wasted. Generally, you get what you pay for and agree to.

Small businesses and consumers indeed have no negotiation power to haggle a custom deal. You get what you pay for and when the amounts are low that doesn't typically include a lot of hand holding or personal attention.

Consumers generally don't need source licenses. Just not a thing. People who need those aren't consumers but developers that generally either work for a company.

What you buy as a consumer or company when purchasing software is a limited right to use the software. That's it. Nothing more nothing less. You buy whatever it says in the terms that you are buying. It's your decision to agree with that or not. Or indeed to bother informing yourself about that.

But you do actually have power. You can vote with your feet and for example cancel subscriptions for services or buy software from competitors. Or use open source software. That keeps service providers a bit honest. I cancelled my Netflix account a few months ago. Their quality has dropped and they raised the prices on me. So thanks but no thanks. I might enable them for a few months in the future if/when they have something worth watching. I'm thinking of doing the same with Amazon Prime.
Yeah. If you ever want to feel nostalgic about old-school web development, go build an email template.
There’s so much nonsense on the TED stage. They even allowed Graham Hancock.
I met him a few times and after his death, I was contacted by a 'friend' (you never know; I just know for sure that he lived around the block from him, as did I at the time in that miserable town) of his who wanted to hire me to figure out the secret. They all thought it was real. But they missed the background to reason about it correctly, like Kolmogorov complexity. I don't think he was really seeing it as faking; he just thought he needed some more time to make it generally applicable, but the idea was basically a re-applied compression; you had 4 files; the original video, the compression exe, the decompression exe and the decompression data file. The compression would apply a (fairly basic) compression algorithm which was more or less of the type 'replace a pattern of x bytes by 1 byte'. That mapping was written to the decompression data file and repeated until the compressed video was very small; however, the decompression data file would be very large (similar, obviously, to the video(s) sizes together). His secret computer had a storage with the decompression data file and the idea was that he would, in time, find the ideal decompression data file (the Golden mapping or some such) that would be small-ish and yet would be able to compress 1000s+ of videos very efficiently. Which indeed would be enough, but it's not possible of course. To be clear; they believed they could ultimately have one few mb data file but with videos of 64kb by re-applying the encoding, hitting of some magic bag of mappings that would be found always repeating in very large files, thus making the compressed file smaller and smaller and smaller.

I don't know really how far he really got with this and no-body knows or ever will know. I would wager that IF they (the investors, people the investors hired etc) found that floppy disk, they would make it disappear due to the enormous embarrassment if that would leak out.
We've build (and open-sourced) our own livecomponents[1] for Django and based it on htmx. That way we got a ton of client side functionality for free and didn't have to reinvent the wheel. Just this week we've retired our old react based webapp and replaced it with our Django livecomponents. htmx is awesome!

[1] https://github.com/om-proptech/livecomponents
We have no way of knowing whether there is any time even with the "notion of time passing", as that notion depends on a notion of memory of a past, and we have no way of knowing if that is real, including whether or not there is a train of thought or any change.
From Catherine Nixey's The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World:

> When modern histories describe this period, this time when all the old religions died away and Christianity finally became pre-eminent, they tend to call it the “triumph of Christianity.” It is worth remembering, however, the original Roman meaning of the word “triumph.” A true Roman triumph wasn’t merely about the victory of the winner. It was about the total and utter subjugation of the loser. In a true Roman triumph the losing side was paraded through the capital while the winning side looked on at an enemy whose soldiers had been slain, whose possessions had been despoiled and whose leaders had been humiliated.

> A triumph was not merely a “victory.” It was an annihilation.

> ...

> For before it preserved, the Church destroyed. In a spasm of destruction never seen before—and one that appalled many non-Christians watching it—during the fourth and fifth centuries, the Christian Church demolished, vandalized and melted down a simply staggering quantity of art. Classical statues were knocked from their plinths, defaced, defiled and torn limb from limb. Temples were razed to their foundations and mutilated. A temple widely considered to be the most magnificent in the entire empire was leveled. Many of the Parthenon sculptures were attacked, faces were mutilated, hands and limbs were hacked off, and gods were decapitated. Some of the finest statues on the whole building were almost certainly smashed off then ground into rubble that was then used to build churches. Books—which were often stored in temples —suffered terribly. The remains of the greatest library in the ancient world, a library that had once held perhaps 700,000 volumes, were destroyed in this way by Christians. It was over a millennium before any other library would even come close to its holdings. Works by censured philosophers were forbidden and bonfires blazed across the empire as outlawed books went up in flames.
I missed the (2014), not sure it was there initially (but it was in the article anyway).
It’s my anecdotal experience that this really was not the case at boarding school.

Yes - it’s tough being separated from parents and family at a young age

Yes - of course there are bullies at school. Has anyone attended any institution where they don’t exist? I see them regularly in families, workplaces, academia and local communities.

It’s a different lived experience compared to traditional schooling for sure. But I enjoyed great camaraderie, and continue to enjoy lifelong friendships with those I spent my time with.

My point essentially is - don’t assume on the basis that someone attended boarding school they are emotionally inept or incomplete which is the impression I got from this article
Do you build those yourself or just go to the Releases tab on Github?
Many porch pirates have decent jobs and plenty of money. They do it because they're greedy, it's easy and the penalties for getting caught are light. We need to revise our criminal code to apply harsher penalties to this kind of behavior. Porch piracy isn't a crime of 'passion', the people who do it presently think that the rewards are worth the risks and this can be fixed by escalating the risks.
IMO those are details, we could drop the constatness and just ask - what is required to have a single moment of redness? Or even simpler, a single moment of one tingle.

BTW experienced mediators apperently can experience no time and no space, no idea how that tastes like.
First Holmes, now Shkreli...
It's a fascinating question, and I've long thought that it's the simplest one-sentence argument against physicalism. It's a fact that I am who I am (in the non-tautologous sense you allude to), but a complete physical description of the universe would presumably not include this fact.
> This isn't quite fair. The problem is that JavaScript expertise is still volatile. It is a use it or lose it skill.

This is true of most of almost all living technologies.

> When I needed to build a Django project in 2016, there were some improvements and new features but the syntax, tooling and patterns were the same.

Python and Django both underwent major transformations between 2011 and 2016. That was the 2->3 transition, class based views, channels, packaging was heating up, async came, and there were several syntax and libraries improvements. Were you more comfortable with Python at the time, is that why it was easier to get back into it?

Most Angular 2+ apps written in 2014 have essentially the same architecture as an Angular app written in 2024 (Directives, Components, Services, Pipes, etc, etc).

What you're describing reads like putting down any living technology and picking it back up again a few years later.
Trying out ChatGPT Plus for the last couple of months has done a lot to warm me up to the idea of paying for Kagi - I've been using it to cover a lot of queries I'd struggle with for longer in a search engine previously - so I'm glad to see they're considering ways of integrating LLMs, I don't think I want to add two $20-25pcm subscriptions for it, though I'll likely continue one. (I use, and have used for at least 11 years, DDG for the rest.)

I suspect the 'problem' (for someone in my position trying to choose) will always be that a ChatGPT sub is ahead in breadth of what it offers - for example DALLE image generation at the moment would probably stop me from swapping.
Yeah, Vue is my go-to lightweight option and while using Vue with pre-build steps adds a bit of complexity you can also use Vue without any build steps(95% of my Vue usage). And then putting something like Phoenix liveview,etc into the lightweight category, really feels like putting things in categories via rumors or smth.
> The problem with measuring the accuracy of juries, is what do you measure them against? Whether the person is really guilty? In the general case, you can't actually know that.

Yes, in the general case you can't know that. That's why you need to construct artificial cases where you do know.

Very similar to getting labelled training data for your machine learning.
I have a question. Doesn't the complexity of the problems it can possibly solve vary from cell to brain.

Or is it like a turing machine where a simple abstraction can solve any possible "computable" problem?
Hang on. Those don’t look like auto-generated React classes!
You construct artificial cases where you know the ground truth.
Exactly and this is why CSS grid has changed my life. CSS grid is tables on Wheaties.
Go 1.22 Rc2
Yes, I run docker for a lot of workloads, and I can't drop the $3000+ they ask for a 32GB machine, where the same upgrade is like $100 for a regular Windows laptop.
Anyone aware of there are proposals to use computer vision for judging the technical part and the judges for the artistic part? On paper that should help fulfilling both schools of thought
It's what you've stated but also there's an ethical side to it. Many founders want to give the option for competent users to self-host, only way to do that is open up the source code. They could go completely down the open source route and rely on donations but that doesn't usually cut it. The business model then is to provide a managed service where the founders deal with the hosting, updating, security, etc.
Ah yeah, wealth inequality. E.g. lots of rich bastards own megayachts and I don't, therefore this justifies me stealing packages from other common people who also don't own megayachts.

These people aren't Robin Hood, stop excusing their criminal behavior.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/19/31/b1/1931b1494c90e78f15dc60c52...

Also this one
I was thinking this exact thing just the other day, as in, within the last week.
Yeah, it isn't really "working" anymore if you're diagnosing non-trivial problems and replacing relatively major parts.
That's.. ..something else.

Towards the end of last year, more than 90 containers were vandalized every day.
Half-expected KenS to be dissecting a bacterium with highlights of various organelles.
Wasn't Capone successfully jailed for tax evasion?
The quality of Game of Thrones directly maps to how much source material they had to adapt.

The show runners have taken all the heat, but the fact is GRRM knew he needed to wrap up the novels before the show caught up. He wrote many blog posts about it. Unfortunately, it’s clear now that he never will.

Expecting the show runners to finish a series that even the original author can’t is just unreasonable. To that point they had writing credits on The Wolverine and a couple other shows.

But according to popular internet sentiment, Benoif and Weiss are to blame, not HBO or GRRM for leaving them high and dry…
I guess a ("simple") molecular biological mechanism can be Turing complete, but if it's as slow as a mechanical ticker tape, the mechanism will be too slow to respond to any inputs in a relevant time frame. The speed of the response is important in an evolutionary context.
I don't have an answer to offer, but anecdotal memories of reading somewhere that brains could be a sort of antenna for consciousness. Then a subsequent comment explaining how if that were the case we would fall unconscious in a faraday cage.

so, back to square one...
Integration tests are harness used to fix bad software design.
So they plan to technically allow "sideloading", but keep both the revenue and control the same as if there were no sideloading.

So there is effectively no sideloading.

Yeah, those kinds of shenanigans are not going to fly with the EU.

Fines incoming. Up to 10% of global turnover.
Because politicians and bureaucrats want to centralise power. They may very well sincerely believe they need that power for everyone's good.

Someone goes into politics because they want the power to run things.

Bureaucrats and agencies of the government want the power to run things for similar reasons, and it makes their jobs easier. Will the police ever say they do not want more powers to investigate crimes, or catch criminals? Will social services either? There are all kinds of things that can be better enforced with more information.

On top of all that they are part of the same cultural change that puts a lower value on individual liberties. It means politicians are a lot less inclined to refuse. There has also been a political drift to following expert advice with less scepticism, and the experts on these issues are the police, intelligence agencies, etc.

One cause close to my heart is that in the UK a number of local authorities keep hassling home educators (trying to bully them into sending their kids to school) even though their kids tend to do better than school going kids (their are studies showing better outcomes) because it seems inconceivable to them that people can do a better job than they do. I know people affected by this. A lot of them are utterly opposed to the idea that parents can make this decision at all.
And right at the time we got border radius the design trend changed and nobody wanted round corners anymore
Earths are to be connected to a single point, not multiple terminals of a Wago block or similar, in the UK at least. Twisting is not afaik a requirement, but it's common, and adds to the security of it. (At least, as long as the solid core hasn't been twisted and untwisted repeatedly and near the point of breaking.)

OP appears to be doing it to make a fatter gauge cable out of smaller ones though?
New York City Passed an AI Hiring Law. So Far, Few Companies Are Following It
Embraer exist for many of the short hop trips United also covers.

edit: to add some elucidation, United operate 40 737-700s that they may consider replacing soon, the E195 would be an option against the A320 or 737-MAX7 options.
Vine-inspired FiloBot "growing" robot 3D-prints its own body
Show HN:I made a codespaces alternative of Android studio
I was really inspired by Stackblitz, Gitpod and CodeSandbox for quick dev environment for fast resolution of bugs. I have come up with this POC that does the following for Android Projects:

- Opens up a cloud-based Android Studio on the browser in the context of Github issue
- Can be used to reproduce the bug/debug without changing the local code context
-You get a prebuilt running app right away
-It can be attached as git-hooks to Pull Requests for quick previews

Should I continue working on this? Wdyt?

Also should I consider open-sourcing it?
It's personal preference that's all.

To be honest it's more that I prefer TypeScript to Python. Python and JS have been my main programming languages for 14 years or so.

Either are good - I'm not totally off python. I still write async web servers in Python for various reasons. I'm not much of a fan of Python's type system probably because I haven't yet spent enough time to really learn it.

I definitely use Python for Linux systems programming or non-web server stuff - Python is really great for more systems oriented stuff.

I really liked Django at first but after a while some things really started to bother me about it.

The ORM I found complex and clunky - any time I wanted to do something I kept thinking "Ugh this would be dead simple in SQL".

Needing to add plugins to Django - I often felt like it took me the same amount of time to work out how to install and configure a plugin, as it would to write the same functionality from scratch, with the disadvantage that at the end of the process I'd often still feel like the plugin was a black box that I'd managed to make work but was never sure I had done it right.

And the thing that really annoyed me most about Django is it's meant to be "batteries included", but the very first thing you need to do is work out how to implement users and signin and forgot password and signout - all stuff that should be the very definition of "batteries included". Instead, at the start of every Django project you're left to try to work out what is the right plug and how to install it and did you do it right. If I have to do all that stuff yet again for every project then why bother with Django at all? Why not just use a minimal web server and implement it myself because I'm going to have to anyway.

And then, after forming these hesitations about Django, I started doing async web programming with Starlette and FastAPI and found I really liked async web server programming and Django isn't async.

So at this point I'd pretty much lost interest in Django.
Fake Biden Robocall Message in New Hampshire Alarms Election Experts
https://www.lehigh.edu/~mhb0/Dennett-WhereAmI.pdf
Perhaps, that's the question. What is required for the simplest possible consciousness?
Definitely looks cool! I look forward to trying it on Linux down the road with Berkeley Mono font.
"Weeds" are a purely social construct, meaning only plants which humans don't like. These chemicals kill plants, not just weeds.
Telegraph readers skew wealthy so probably own a private vegetable patch.
Consider you are the author of a SaaS. You realize that your product does not have business value in some sense. By open sourcing your SaaS, you minimize the business side and emphasize the technology side. "Look at this cool open-source SaaS I've built. I make for a great Software Engineer."
Why we are remote and How we make it work?
It's not just the je ne sais quoi performance aspect that I'd be concerned about, it's something I'd call Wii-Sports-ification: the first time you try out movement-controlled games like they made the Wii console popular, you'll likely put a lot of effort into the movements as if you were wielding a real tennis racket or a golf club. After a while, you realize that the motion sensor is much more coarse, and you do much more efficient, bastardized versions of the original movements. While I acknowledge that this system is supposed to be much more sensitive, I'd expect a similar effect to be happening once athletes get their hands on those machines in training: they'll figure out how to best trigger the detection of each move, and how much flexing of the toes, bending in the back and overall effort is just enough for the machine, and it's going to change the look and feel of the sport.
Guidance for using large multi-modal models in healthcare
I actually got the dirt from outside because I was lazy, it was there and for free. The pots I have I have had them for almost 10 years now. I recollect the seeds from the previous harvest because I'm curious about breeding (I was slowly getting to a black sunflower for fun).

I don't even use fertilizer. I mix in all the remaining green matter into the post once autumn has killed everything.

My little set up doesn't produce very much but my goodness the flavor is much stronger compared to store bought, especially tomatoes.
> Have you ever shoved a <blink> into a <marquee> tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious feat of computer animation

Wrong. Marquee only worked in IE, but blink only worked in non-IE, so by embedding one in the other you simply had an attention grabbing element that either blinked or slides.
Why Making Face Computers Cool Isn't Easy
It highlights what a good screenwriter Martin is. He writes for the screen in his novels (and this is good) so much so that it doesn't engage with my imagination at all which is actually what you need for television!

Obviously he has a good imagination and it's this that the other writers couldn't replicate. Maybe the imaginary is harder to capture in a screenplay compared to literature. Fascinating topic.
Agreed - Venus is particularly unlikely to have any life because of its temperatures, I wasn't trying to claim otherwise, just choosing a near neighbor for which we haven't ever tried to look at its rocks through a microscope.

However, those pictures don't tell us anything about the presence of microscopic life. On Earth at least, only a quite tiny subset of unicellular life-forms leave any trace large enough to be visible at that level of magnification. Even if they are there in quite large quantities. "Teeming" is of course a relative term, but imagine that there were 1000 unicellular organisms similar to an amoeba on every square cm of those pictures. Would you expect to see anything?
> But what would I know, I'm one of those incompetent .Net developers.

C# and the .NET Framework were some of my favorite tools. I thought LINQ was neat.

> You also still can't easily style the select component.

Forgoing JavaScript and CSS for a .NET abstraction wouldn't make the situation any better. You'd just get whatever the select component's library gave you until the browsers standardize a way to do it.
I doubt that, the water here is very filtered here (Switzerland), the stuff that comes out of these pipes makes me afraid to drink it...
I'm with you, except for Pantry Moths. After having to throw away basically my whole food storage, every Pantry Moth is now killed on sight, no exception, no mercy. I think they gave me a mild form of PTSD (half joking).

But yeah, other bugs get carried away. And I also don't touch cobwebs. I'm actually really scared of spiders, but I know that they'll not hurt me and provide kind of a service, so I'm fine if they hang around.

Wasps are another exception. Immediate kill, no patience for these fuckers. Bees are fine, of course, way less aggressive. I know that wasps are useful as well, but I don't feel like handling them when they decide to visit my apartment.
In Praise of Buttons – Part One