skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are not the only one asking this question.

The issue, as best I understand it, is that there is a desire for a source of minimally-vetted scientific papers, something more reliably worth reading than "it's on the internet somewhere". The problem being that current journals in many cases only pretend to offer this, without actually doing so.
Makes a lot of sense. This might work for your use case: https://khoj.dev/. It's local, free, and open-source.
While "people experiencing homelessness" or "unhoused person" is more cumbersome, it does help emphasize that it is a person, a human being, being discussed. Like the switch to saying "enslaved people/person", that kind of language puts the humanity of the individual first, not something they are experiencing (being enslaved or lacking a house). Which I think could help with empathy around the subject.
> Not even getting into the fact that mental states are already non physical

Conjecture, at best. All thought experiments purporting to show this non-physicality are deeply flawed. We literally have no reason to conclude that mental states are non-physical.
Facing Forward (2021)
You need some way to put an alias on tables so you can join a table more than once though I guess that can be optional, say

SELECT table.attribute

or

FROM table SELECT attribute

or

FROM table as a,table as b WHERE a.x=b.y SELECT a.z
"Can you move it a half pixel to the left"
We need to stop pretending that Russia is anywhere near as strong as East Germany + Ukraine + rest of Soviet Union.

This here proves that Russians cannot make chips on their own. The loss of East Germany and other high tech sectors of the former union is grossly apparent.

EDIT: if Russia were any stronger than they really are, they'd build their own chips. Rather than try to avoid sanctions to purchase our $1 low-tech mass produced chips. The fact that they've stopped so low as to rely upon burglary of others is our advantage. It means we can slow down and hamper their efforts.
Why does this feel like an exercise in the high priesting of coding. Shouldn't a python library have everything necessary and work out of the box?
It's a pretty short list for those who can offer what BC does.
I had to explain to someone at work the other day that Forbes is just a blogging platform now and Newsweek is a tabloid that's been sold to new owners like 4 times over the last decade. These are not the publications you remember from the 1990s. And yes, there are countless other examples.
The magazine chugged along for decades before changing its identity and recipe to appease a small group of non-customers. It's no surprise it's going away.
Yes, it should.

Before you know what you can SELECT you should know FROM where does the data come.

Except maybe cases where there is no data source: SELECT 1; or SELECT NOW();
There is also a more dire consequence as both scientists and developers are eager to develop these silly quantitative "dossiers" on people. Like here (unfortunately not OA) they have four sliders: extrovert-introvert, sensing-intuition, thinking-feeling, and judging-perceiving, none of which are probably based on anything sustainable:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10715...

Having said that, I do not deny the usefulness of "personas" for prototyping and developing "digital humans", NPCs, or whatever (i.e., not real people nor their "digital twins").
This seems like a perfect case study of what happens when the actual business, farming eyeballs to sell ads, is at odds with the customer and the core product and enshittification, the act of implementing customer-observable cost cutting and hoping the brand carries you. Clearly a deadly combination as you knocked out both pillars propping the company up.

If you keep the quality up you can likely get away with your thumb on the ad button but if you drop the quality at the same time there's no value left.
I remember using the brick background from windows, combined with transparent GIF graffiti in the mid 90s to create a pretty cool effect.

Early efforts from the BBS art groups like ACID, ICE, FIRE etc was also very cool at the time.

Anything more advanced prior to IE5/6s dominance was relegated Flash though. I built a framework similar to React around E4X in the early 00s. ActionScript/Flash/Flex, Mozilla/Netscape supported it and VB.Net's XML literal notation was similar.

MS and Google wouldn't adopt it and then JSON became king.
I'd LOVE this.

I also want something else that I wonder if I could dummy up myself. I want to change certain phone behaviors based on whether or not a given Bluetooth device is connected.

My use case is "when I'm on my motorcycle, connected to headset audio, I want (a) the phone to read me texts and (b) to turn on navigation audio." I do not want either of these things UNLESS I'm on the motorcycle with the Cardo turned on.
The article seems to suggest that the role of crypto to these young Chinese individuals is that it forms a means of community and a nonjudgemental channel of new thoughts. I feel it's become quite a trope worldwide actually: a following has ammassed not because of the core tenets of the technology itself, but because it is a story of something new and different, promising progress and a severe and much-needed change. When I was younger I was enamored by something called the Venus project, a movement that aimed to re-architecturalize all of society towards a post-scarcity world. Something utterly enthralling to me at the time. But when I attended enough talks and saw the people I was sitting besides, I saw that all I shared in common was a deep disatisfaction with the status quo and a distrust of authority. I saw that topics of discussion extended into various conspiracies, from 9/11 to illuminati and UFOs and beyond. I felt quite alienated at that point and never looked back. That's what I see when I see crypto. It's not a cult, per se, but it seems to gain buy-in in the same brain lobes.. if that makes sense? People make friends, find common validation, and it all snowballs. I dare say: It was never about the blockchain.
A good example would be Jomboy breaking the Astro’s pitch stealing system. This rocked baseball to its core.
It's a problem for me as a skier. Give Blackstrap products a try, I've found them to be much less problematic.
In India, an algorithm declares them dead; they have to prove they're alive
SI hardly has been "real" journalism for quite some time. They slowly let journalist go over the last two decades and has shifted its coverage over time to match what internet-based sites were doing.

In doing so, it killed whatever advantage they had analyzing sports - you could get season preview articles from other avenues as good or better than SI. Nevermind the disaster of its "Swimsuit" issues (which, honestly, is good riddance, but it was a known part of the brand.)
"Plugins" like "This browser can natively view PDFs." are detectable via JavaScript. There's no way for a site to see Firefox add-ons.
Show HN: Language learning app for intermediate speakers
Hi, I made this web app to help overcome the "language learning plateau" that is common with intermediate language learners.

This is basically a podcast player that will help you discover podcasts in your target language, it transcribes podcasts and gives you feedback about what you hear in the context of the sentence you are reading.

I made something similar in the past, but it had too many functions and it covered all language levels. I rewrote the whole thing and just kept the essentials. This is what I use myself and it has helped me a lot. Hope it helps some of you too.

This is built with NextJs, I also have native apps almost ready, but I'm not really sure if people would prefer to install something instead of just using the web app. What do you think? Let me know if you find this helpful or what can be improved. Thanks.
It really seemed like one made eye contact with me once. It was clearly staring right at me. I'm always saying they're intelligent!
If you ever need column name autocomplete, writing an UPDATE statement and changing it after is an ok workaround.

It would probably be a tough change to push through for the standard committee... a great one for users though, even if it takes 10+ years until you can use it in production.
> This addresses one of the longest standing complaints about SQL, and the DuckDB team implemented it in 2 days.

what a weird thing to say.
Read the article (or just search for journalism).

This is what the author is claiming and not defining "Real Journalism". Maybe you have to go to a 4 year school and work for the NYT first to become a Real Journalist?
I used it at a previous company, but that's many years ago. I can't believe it's still alive.
If the universe is static, then there is no "repeatably observable causality" or indeed any causality at all. In that scenario any perception of time and causality would inherently have to just be our perception lying to us about a past that we have had not part in, if it exist in any sense at all. If so, we have not had this conversation, and your experience of it is just a static momentary perception of having had it.

Maybe time is a spatial dimension, and there are infinite moments of consciousness fixed in the same spatial location with no time passing.

Consider how you'd tell if a drawing is an individual drawing or a frame from a cartoon if all you have to go by is that single frame. You can argue that the drawing hints convincingly at motion, but that does not require that this motion has taken place.

Or consider a trace of a simulation, sliced and diced into snapshots of individual moments. We can argue that it's unlikely any entities in such snapshots would have consciousness, but if we're arguing on the basis that we appear to experience the motion of time, we'd equally make that argument if we were wrong about consciousness and indeed locked in snapshots of individual moments. We can even construct simulations where individual parts look causally connected but where the existence of one calculated frame tells us nothing about whether any individual other frames have even ever been instantiated (e.g. imagine a very complex function over time, where only punctuated values have ever been calculated).

I'm not saying I believe that is our situation - I'm saying we can't distinguish between that and an infinite set of other possible options, because "from the inside" there is an infinite set of possibilities that could all look the same from our vantage point. We can debate which possibilities seem more likely, but they will always be speculation as long as we're locked inside the asylum, so to speak...

Incidentally, this is an argument for a materialistic view of the universe, not against it, on the basis that absent a way of "peeking out" and seeing our situation from the outside, it's meaningless to treat the world as anything but what we measure and perceive - it doesn't matter whether or not this world is what it seems like to us or not as long as it is the only view we have of it. We just can't say if it is some inherently true objective view of the universe, and most likely it won't make any difference to us.

It only makes a difference when we tinker with philosophy around the edges, like these conversations about whether what we experience can tell us anything about the experience of other entities.
What’s the reasoning for the extra complexity and resource usage? Does it help stability or something?
It's not at all a collapse of journalism. It's a collapse of the print periodical with a content focus on topical current events. There just isn't a need for that specific kind of journalism anymore, and for the majority of topics that do demand journalistic investment, it makes 100% more sense to focus on online than print anyway (looking at things like The Economist and Foreign Policy, or The Atlantic and New Yorker). I'd argue high quality journalistic work is supremely valuable but it needs to be targeted, and lots of legacy news properties (NYT, The Guardian, etc) have been doing that -- online, often with multimedia and interactive stories.

It's the same with scientific journals. Yes, print journals are a thing, but who actually uses them anymore, even in higher ed?

The challenge, of course, is convincing netizens to pay for your content, or freeing it in a way that isn't alienating to readers.

(fwiw, I subscribe to a couple of print magazines for my 1st grader. I think they're great for kids!)
It will be a bit harder because of different route profiles. On a bike, you can both be quite cold when coasting downhill and steamy hot going uphill.
Jqless: Combining jq and less for real-time JSON parsing
As a non native english speaker I have some trouble understanding this.
Is this just another bill that uses cyber secruity as an excuse to pass some bullshit laws?

This is common practice in Germany, so it would not surprise me if that kind off stuff also reached the UN...
Ask HN: DevOps founders, how did you get your first customer?
DevOps founders, how did you make your first sale? DevOps is mostly focussed on inbound sales, which implies you already have a product you can put into users hands. Curious, when / if you were pre-product, how did you find and close your first clients?
Are you sure that's the same person?

The site seems to belong to "Zach Holman" [1]

But the blog post attributes to "Aja Romano" [2]

[1] https://zachholman.com/about

[2] https://www.dailydot.com/author/aja-romano/
They make "hand deflectors" for motorcycles that are basically little windshields for your hands, have you considered trying something similar on your bike? Or are you not moving fast enough for the wind to be an issue, it's just how cold it is?
There are far more important/popular sources for discoverability than BC. Their UI is not great for that in the first place.
Handlerbar-mounted bike mitts help a lot.
You can't trademark a letter.
How much data is Gizmodo harvesting from you when you read this article?

uBlock Origin shows 16 domains connected; most of them loading JavaScript. The real number is probably far higher when no ad-blocker is used.
Will NASA's Next Super Telescope Find Alien Life?
> (Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it) and has experimentally shown this capability at cellular scales.

Supposing I accept that, what does this have to do with thought, which is the claim that I was specifically responding to? Does Levin or James also show that this can only be done by having thoughts?

Edit: for instance, as opposed to having some non-thinking process like gradient descent, or more plausibly, some kind of hill climbing.
A Special Kind of Hell – intmax_t in C and C++ (2020)
I just designed this 3D printed "antimask" to keep my face warm without fogging my glasses: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6438319

Somebody suggested adding a sloping nose/mouth shield, and I said what I really needed was a heat exchanger... nice to see that they actually exist.
https://archive.ph/2Mrx5
In English. I think other languages would have different word orderings. German for one, and I think maybe Russian too.
Publishers have never been journalists. For a while, they needed journalists because every genre of print newspaper/magazine had an empirically determined percentage of ads over which subscriptions dropped, so there almost always had to be some content as filler to cut the ads down to that ratio. That equilibrium seems to have gone, in a way René Thom might have predicted.
>Snorkel-Mistral-PairRM-DPO

The naming of these models is getting ridiculous...
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
Let me spell it: out every military is small compared to the one where spending is equivalent to all of them combined.

It's just there's a lot of patriotism on HN if I say such inventions are useless for only a single military it's viewed as an attack.
If you assume that the observer can "occupy" a body, rather than be a body, you have to conclude that the memories are part of the body, not the observer. You assume that you occupy the "correct" body, because your present experience matches your memories, but that'd be true even if you moved to occupy another body. Moreover, how do you know that there isn't more than one observer in your body? Or maybe there's just one observer sharing all the bodies?
I would like coffee from Starbucks.

I don't say, from Starbucks I would like coffee
As a tangent on the Magnus thing, he didn't stop because it doesn't challenge him anymore. His title defenses against players of his generation have all, except his most recent, been less than convincing. 2 of them he only won in tiebreaks. In the most recent match, he was playing against an opponent known for extreme psychological instability and who had never competed in a world championship before. They played 5 great draws, then his opponent lost one razor thin (and extremely long) game and blew up. Basically, Magnus is/was well on his way to losing his championship, and I think he wanted to go out undefeated.

This is further emphasized by the fact that the one opponent he was willing to play is a brand new player on the scene who is absurdly insanely good at bullet (1 minute) chess, but has had relatively mixed results in classical (bear in mind he IS a top 10 player), is prone to psychological issues, and is very young with 0 experience at the world level. He somewhat predictably ended up scoring 0.5 points away from last place in the candidates event - and that is who Magnus wanted to "challenge" himself with, like a cat challenging himself with a particularly fast mouse.

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Also, I was curious about the petere issue, as the Romans in particular took their competition quite competitively. Looking it up, it seems that it means many things such as attack, assail, aim at, etc. [1] But it does not seem to mean to strive, let alone with?

[1] - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peto#Latin
Most of the academic world do not.

Maybe I do not read enough anglo works. I do read anglo-saxon philosophy, because it's the only culture that takes it seriously, but I avoid linguistics and history (I think the last American historian I've read is Paxton) . Anyway, in Europe and Africa, academics who you think would use the words 'white men' pejoratively the most, historians, do not. It might be different in the US, do you have a book on post-17th century that does it, as an example?
Yeah, the mailing lists are built with subscription in mind. You can't really interact with them easily otherwise.

But to be fair, you can subscribe, but change the settings to decide what gets sent to you.

For example, you can turn off mail delivery so that you will only get included in conversations that you start yourself. People do that when they are in a mailing list just to ask a few questions, and don't want to opt-in to the flood of other discussions. Sounds like that might be for you.

And fair point on the indexing. I am actually working on a workaround myself. I'll let you know when it's finished up, in case you rediscover the motivation to try your comment again.

Alternatively, if you want, let me know your email address and send me your question. I would be happy to forward your message along, and then CC you in the thread. Get you past the door, so to speak.
Your first bullet is totally correct, barrier to entry has collapsed and it's easy to do high-quality journalism without the backing of an institution. The people who are good journalists that people want to read have gone to platforms like Substack where they can directly monetize their work. The mediocre journalist stay with the institutions, so there's a net talent drain from the publishers. Which leads to lower quality work and that causes more subscribers to leave (of course annoying ads and everything contribute), and as you say the finance base has gone down the drain.

I see it as a net positive, you have a decentralized distributed group of investitive journalists who are directly reliant on their subscriber base rather than the political whims of the institution. So they are more incentivized to do good work and are harder to silence when the go against the powers-that-be.

It's a shift to merit (are you a good journalist) from credentialism (the BigPublisherCo gives you a job as a writer).
Yeah, this is a risk.

The best approach is to take advantage of the fact that Bandcamp lets you download everything and simply download everything you buy and keep backups (as you would with any other important data)
Also IMO it would need to handle distributing royalties correctly, global tax remittance, etc.

That stuff gets incredibly complicated, incredibly fast.
PRQL [1] is a compile-to-SQL relational querying language that puts FROM first.

[1] https://prql-lang.org
All the people here who don't want to pay for news, entertainment, or music are to blame.
Oh wow, the T25, I'm jealous :)

I used to own the 701C that JGC restored and was super happy to see what he did with it! Now that I've owned that legend my wish-list still contains: T25, W700ds, Thinkpad 15th anniversary edition and the TransNote.
Maybe the solution starts with the next generation of parents who have seen the direct harm the internet in its current state poses to human mental/social development.

Maybe (hopefully sooner rather than later) these parents enforce restrictions or come together to form networks that have the ability to provide some consistency and deep rooted social interaction with clear links directly to the real world, but not tied down to it, away from the giants of advertising that will always feed their users sugar and no veggies.

Maybe, of course, this has to take the form of a product that generates revenue, and maybe that makes the entire vision of a healthy widely-adopted internet an impossibility.
There are only two options these days: stay the same or enshittify. I prefer they stay the same. At least, exact term search still works.
Welcome to the age of zombie copyright holding companies.

National Geographic also went out of business last year, in that they now employ zero writers (Disney is the majority owner).

Warner Brothers Discovery Corp is performing a similar wind-down of the operations they own (they cut $3B from production budgets last year), and is hoping to apply the same thing to Paramount's holdings after their proposed acquisition is approved.

In particular, CNN and CBS will be owned by the resulting company, and there will be plenty more journalists to fire at the resulting conglomerate (WBD laid off a bunch of reporters at CNN last year as part of a pivot to cater to the Fox News audience).

The above is an obvious-in-hindsight side effect of having copyrights that basically never expire. Maybe after they've all burned themselves to ash (and stop bribing congress) we'll be able to repeal the Sonny Bono / Micky Mouse Protection Act.
On a slightly different topic, I was reading about other greek epics beyond Homer, and I knew there were things like the Theban Cycle and a broader Trojan War cycle, and it turns out that some of them may have never existed, they almost certainly weren't any kind of "cycle", the ones that did exist weren't very good, and that they may never have been written down at all outside of summaries.

https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2020/02/epic-cycle.html
So...real interest rates are -20%. That's not going to tame inflation.

I wish more laypeople understood the difference between real and nominal economic quantities. Until real rates go positive, it's profitable to borrow lots of money and use it to hoard goods, which accelerates inflation.
Azure query language's Kusto, lously based on a mix of F# and SQL, does it, as does LINQ.

I end up always starting with the generic form select * from db, and then go from there, as code completion then works if there is at least one db.
This. Short distances (~15 minutes of ride time) are very doable with no extra cycling-specific equipment, just a thicker jacket, pair of gloves and a warm hat. You kinda get used to it.
Looks like we need to add upsidedownness to the accuracy-precision spectrum.