skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, software is not going downhill. Rather, it has reached the bottom of the hill.

The incentives are completely upside down. The chief "innovation" of the past decade has been to shift software from being something that at least theoretically worked in the interests of its users to something that works in the interest of a burgeoning digital surveillance industry.

The field has always been ruled by a kind of fashion. But with Metcalfe's law plus the new mainstream popularity of the industry, the definition of "success" has become whatever has the most advertising money faking social proof for it. In other words, what is expected to be the most lucrative to exploit. Metrics now revolve around things like how much of users' time has been wasted, or whether they were tricked into buying something.

And to continue the landscape analogy - with remote attestation, software is now poised to be pushed into a canyon. Widespread computational disenfranchisement as corporations can wield software against individuals, but individuals will no longer have even an escape hatch to use software for cutting through that generated complexity.
They infringe if they don't pay their share of what is needed to provide for the common welfare, defense, etc.
a good pirate never takes another person’s property!
The usual challenge (and what OP said ... somewhere in this thread IIRC) is that that can be tedious to invoke on long (many paragraphs) documents.

There are recipies which will reflow paragraphs to the end of a document (or a given mark), but here one of the issues is text which shouldn't be reflowed, say, Markdown syntax for tables, lists, possibly blockquotes, code blocks, and the like.

My preferred solution is to write either single-sentence-per-line (rarely) or flowed text in vim using:

:set tw=0 linebreak nolist wrap

Latter lets me just type paragraphs without breaking lines. Vim will flow those in the edit buffer. Other tools which can't handle hard linebreaks are much happier.
Can you not name innocent people in the press?
Should they be represented in that case? Scrapers can literally cover every variable within all programmatic languages.

Special purpose is specific, and therefore not standard. I can produce a web-centric language that excludes <html> but has zero use beyond being a jackkass.

(Postscript: I don’t disagree with your point)
I wrote a whole thing about that one in case it's useful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235382
I expected the high fees for actors/director/writer, but the composer fee was surprising (page 69). And the movie was nominated for Oscars for original score (and nothing else)! Interesting decision to hire that composer, presumably made by MNS.
Yeah, it follows The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs and The Village itself made >250 million on this 72 million budget.
Fake news. Bitcoin is not banned in China, and yet China has "banned" Bitcoin at least a dozen times since its inception.
Completely disagree. I didn’t really see the twist coming so I enjoyed the story.
OT, you're the second sciolist I've found online.

See: <https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/bio>

(Bottom of page.)
Yeah for all the complaints about an extra 500Kb of JS, the real offenders are often images.
It's chosen and controlled by the citizens. Private land ownership is chosen and controlled by the owner.

I support the latter, and protection of their rights, but the former certainly has more legitimacy.
The key word there is "appear". For example: sometimes the story is fine except that it has already had a big discussion recently.
I’d suggest showing your friend the teams of the AI companies that are getting funding. And maybe sharing the stories of the weed gold rush founders who all got crushed by PE. Yes, the opportunity with AI is vast, maybe even so vast a food truck owner could found a company that wins. But the competition is the most intensely well funded and resourced companies and teams - ever - in human history.

The Wright Brothers owned a bicycle shop before they pursued their dreams of flight. But want most people don’t know is they founded the bicycle shop to pay for their passion for flight.

Background matters some. Motivation a ton more.

You don’t owe anyone the duty of playing the greater fool.
Can you link the proof for the actual claims?
Yeah, memo() solves 98% of cases
It incentivizes people to find minerals that are valuable to the public. You can construct a hypothetical where someone gets lucky, and you can construct one where someone has reason to suspect the minerals are there and invests in the land.
柔術 is actually Jūjutsu (or Juujutsu), while 呪術 is Jujutsu, ironically.
The problem is that while the major media sites generate a lot of noise, they also publish solid original articles from time to time, and we don't want to miss those. For that reason, they're downweighted, but not banned.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I’m a simple man too. Ebert is like Punxsutawney Phil to me. He’s right about 30% of the time.
Wikipedia as an institution, their insider-only ways, byzantine guidelines and more all incentivize this kind of abuse. There's a pessimistic comment on this page observing, "The world is just chock full of assholes..". Wikipedia editors are not exempt here.

Wikipedia shouldn't be so difficult to edit or highly politicized. There was a time when IP editors made the majority of contributions. Today correcting a typo might trigger a full-time editor to defend his turf. Even asking questions about an uncited assertion on a talk page can be labeled as disruptive.

I feel bad for the victims of the scam. It can be hard to edit or correct basic facts. Most business owners don't have time to specialize in Wikipedia lawfare. I have no sympathy for the WMF or the hard-core believers who wrote this expose'. Their policies created opportunities for these scammers to exploit.

The fact that they wrote this without an ounce of self-reflection or awareness of the problems is more troubling than the scam itself. Scams will come and go, but we've been stuck with Wikipedia as Google's and therefore the Internet's arbiter of "truthiness" for too long.
lol first they came up with the phone menu. Then they came up with complicated phone menus meant to confuse you and get you to give up. Then they replaced those with voice recognition menus that are straight up infuriating. Then they replaced that with AI that tries to act like it's a person.
- You can't win this Dillon.

- Maybe I can get even
Tried the game on mobile. Skipped the tutorial and instructions and naturally tried quick press to uncover, long press to mark a mine. Good job for coming up with such an intuitive interface!
Sure. But windows was/is the loss leader for that. No gaming or office without windows. Even Azure benefits from it as it ties into Active Directory with Azure AD. This makes it a completely integrated story. So that they are even still making money off of windows directly is just a direct benefit.
Let me translate this for the layman: papers are written using terms and notation that only makes sense if you've gone through the the process of learning their derivation from first principles in the narrow field in which they apply.

It has the odd effect of making this stuff comprehensible only to those that essentially already know what it is, and possibly a few people academically adjacent to those people.

Other people can decipher it, after long and arduous labor, but it essentially requires rediscovering the path that brought it about, knowing what the outcome will be. In that sense these papers are less useful than they seem.

Academia is a little like religion: to outsiders the language and rituals make little sense, only those indoctrinated in its tenets can achieve enlightenment.
No, I loved the ending and then thinking back through the whole movie and remember how I just assumed it was in the seventeenth century or whatever. The “it was all for nothing” in an isolated compound in the modern world made the movie for me.
Not necessarily.

> In 2016, Pontzer and colleagues published a study putting forward the constrained energy model: Energy expenditure does increase with more activity, but only to a point. Once physical activity gets really high, the body will adjust other components of the metabolism to keep your daily energy expenditure within a narrow range

https://physiqonomics.com/biggest-losers/

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/study-off...
I spent all day posting 70 or so comments in this thread trying to explain exactly that.

If there are specific examples I haven't addressed yet, post links and I'll take a look!
If you want to be very authentic and use "legacy" tools, such as SoftICE, then you can't beat the old articles that +fravia put together.

Although he moved on to search-based research, and sadly died, there are still mirrors out there of the old content, frozen in time.

https://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/mirror/fravia.org/academy.ht...
There is no difference. You can't feel the part of the computer system that registers those clicks, the same as with the camera. Maybe your mouse driver registered a double click due to a faulty sensor, maybe it registered nothing for the same reason, maybe you bluetooth mouse is disconnected or out of juice, so nothing resisters.

All of this is exactly the same - you have no tactile UI feedback
FYI, I've done this myself several times, though usually working with an extant book, either from a text or OCR dump, or hand-typing it myself (don't ask).

For works which consist principally of standard sections (e.g., Book / Part / Chapter / Section / Subsection / ...), fairly standard font styles (normal/roman, italic, bold, code blocks / pre / poetry), footnotes/endnotes, and perhaps a few tables, illustrations or images, Pandoc-flavour Markdown is far more than sufficient. Writing or formatting is virtually seamless.

If you're writing something with more complex internal formatting, then I'd lean more strongly into LaTeX. You can do most of your initial authoring in Markdown and generate LaTeX from that, for further finishing work, or simply start with LaTeX. The key discriminator here would be either mathematical formulae or complex image placement. Note that creating the output you want in HTML or ePub (itself effectively a specialised HTML format) might still be challenging.

The next step up would be a specific layout tool (Krita or Adobe Illustrator, say).

But start with Markdown + Pandoc and see if you like the results. It should be Good Enough, and if not offers a smooth path to more powerful tools.
In one of our iterations, we did indeed have a mandatory rule that each set of caveats added by a holder was terminated by a “sign off” caveat. But in the end we concluded that if that mattered in the actual enforcement, then one wasn’t really doing things “the capability way” and then that principal probably needed some stronger authentication than merely having held the unattenuated macaroon.

But that’s theoretical thinking and the real world is indeed more shades of gray.

See you in Madrid!
SEL4 is proven correct. Formally verified. No security holes in the default install, of any sort, ever. I mean, it doesn't do anything. But it has no security holes, with almost mathematical certainty.
There's one little problem. The character you are quoting is immortal.
There's a name I haven't heard in a while!

DN was fun for a very brief moment. But really, it died so long ago I think someone flat out forgot to tell it.
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It'd be fine if they had been upfront about it, and you had a way to turn it off.

People showed you can easily make it produce bad results. Presumably, we'll start to see AI hallucinations in camera photography more often if they continue down this route.
Please stop propagating this "only obese people have sleep apnea" bullshit.

Sleep apnea makes it nearly impossible to lose weight. It can cause obesity.
It was obviously an unsubstantive flamebait comment regardless of what you meant by "slackjawed". Not a borderline call.
I have a compliant : sometimes there a proliferation of anti-scientific posts, in example I can mention those related to the "50 years nuclear battery", I remember particularly one from techradar.com that was especially misleading and anti-scientific and more similar to a PR campaign then scientific information, they was stating che you can power a smartphone or a drone with a betavoltaic battery (millionth of Ampere ). This is only an example, I noticed similar article , often related to green energy with the same anti-scientific cut and sometimes anti-scientific is a euphemism. Could nice to have a way to report them , even for occasional readers like me. Often the same articles have approval posts that IMHO are bot made. we live in times where scientific fraud amplified by the media is becoming a serious problem and I think everyone should do more to stop the phenomenon.
Sounds like they really threw Carl a bone or two.
> How about children skipping school to chant Allua Akbars in the CBD and holding signs saying "resistance is not terrorism"? That happened.

"Allahu Akbar" just means "god is great".

"Resistance is not terrorism" is not a threatening phrase either.

It's very clear that you are afraid (or you expect the reader to be afraid) of who is delivering the message and not the message itself.
Stop this shade throwing at a great work of cinema or the bunny gets it. Con Air is a timeless classic and he was totally right.
Bees don't fly like birds.

Is a bee "mimicking" flight too ? Does that make any sense ? Why is the bird privileged here ?

Bats don't fly like either bees or birds. all these damn mimics running around.
Can you point to a few specific examples? Are there signs this is targetted, and done maliciously?

I have not previously noticed/recogmized articles like this, and am asking out of curiosity.
A big problem is prior knowledge. Most papers incrementally increase knowledge so by necessity they have to assume the reader knows it, lest they find themselves repeating it alot. How far back are you expected to go to help your audience understand?

The answer in most of academia is: not at all. You're expected to have learnt everything in the field up to that point. Academia is for academics and generally doesn't care about impact outside of academia, who seldom understand it anyway (because of its academic nature).
> Thanks to the community, paid editing firms rarely succeed in influencing the actual content on Wikipedia. There are paid editing firms that we are aware of with a 0% success rate.

That kind of sounds like bragging that they detect 100% of the paid editing they detect.
Trading Robot
Hi. Can I create a robot in trading view and connect it to a trading platform without using API? I guess with a third party program. Because broker tradezero don't accept trading robots.
Putting [spoilers alert] at the end is pointless
Like many of you, I haven’t visited DN in a long time. Though I liked it.

This post gives me nostalgia.

RIP DN
> For a national military to have solid logistics requires the country's culture to have a decent educational system, a strong work ethic, and a reasonably low corruption level.

Interesting. I can see how those factors would help, at least. Is that a well-accepted theory? Whose is it?

> China has the first two and they're working on the third.

Corruption is a disease of dictatorships. Without a free press, opposition parties, separation of powers, and the public able to vote out the government, nothing really stops it. Imagine how corrupt a US president's administration would become with none of those things to stop it, after about 10-20 years.

It's also the purpose of authoritarians, in a sense: You can see it in the unprecedented, brazen corruption of neo-authoritarians and their supporters in Western countries. They want power for the fruits of corruption (perhaps among other things).

IIRC Chinese history, it's long been taught that history goes a cycle of three phases (my memory of the details will be off here, but this is the idea): Chaos, when there is no stable government. Ascent, where a new dynasty seizes power, and the country grows and flourishes. Decent, where the dynasty loses momentum, corruption grows, and instability grows. Then a return to Chaos. I'm sure the Communists, who are not unlike a dynasty in many ways, are very aware of that model of history.
Trying to assess what's scientific vs. anti-scientific is outside the scope of what mods can do. I have my opinions just like you do, but hashing these things out is a community process, not a moderation issue. We could put our fingers on the scale, I suppose, but nothing good would come of that, so we don't.
It's easier to build a community when you're running your own site. Also, it's just easier to get started. You don't have to figure out someone else's data format and object classes if you just start from 0, and most people working on these kinds of niche hobby sites don't always care what an object class is anyway
the front page has definitely become less general interest and more niche tech in the last couple months.
ah yes, the manifold of the universe (god) :)
"Design Twitter" is the only reason I haven't deleted my account yet. Yes, Twitter is full of toxicity and can easily become an echo chamber -- but if you actively set out to create one it can be a unique positive. Bear with me.

I follow a range of designers and front enders from the early Dribbble days and basically haven't added many people since. Yes it might be "polite" to follow back friends and colleagues who follow you, but it disrupts the balance. I don't even follow my own parents back because it introduces a bunch of off-topic content.
These tricks can be easily done simply and portably, without caring about the underlying executable format.

One trick is that you can reserve some global array in the executable, which is prefixed by a byte sequence that doesn't occur anywhere. A small utility can find that byte sequence and write custom data after it to create a customized executable.

I think that, also, many executable formats don't mind if something is appended to the executable. If the executable somehow knows its original size (you can write that size somewhere using the previous trick: no grotty executable format parsing required), it can open itself, seek to that offset and read the data.

I think this might be how CLISP creates an .exe file on Windows; I think it takes the base clisp.exe and combines it with the lispinit.mem image into one file.
Thanks for replying with added context, didn't really mean to add more to your plate with this!
I'll keep saying this, but sleep apnea causes obesity. Asking someone with sleep apnea to lose weight to improve their apnea, is a helluva task.
Yeah, I get it, and obviously the question is where people want a balance. OpenBSD does more than nothing, less than SELinux-secured Linux, which does less than some other things.

Also, doesn't SEL4 have widespread, practical application? IIRC as the microkernal (maybe under Minix?) on the baseband hardware on cell phones? Maybe I'm confusing it with something else.
Where I lived in Sweden, 1998-1999 was when the breakthrough started with prepaid SIM cards with subsidized phones. In my graduating middle school class there were maybe 3-4 kids with mobile phones (none of us were rich at all, just middle class, and all too young to drive), but in the following 3 years in highschool that went up to basically 100%.

The US was far behind on mobile phones for a long time.
I’m not sure that’s true? There are certainly people complaining about politicians from every era, but specifically shameless grifters? In similar volume to today?

For instance, you can find no end of people who utterly despise Margaret Thatcher and think that she’s the worst thing to ever happen to the UK. But as far as I am aware, even the people who hate her tend to think that she genuinely believed in what she was doing. The idea that she was wrecking the country for her own personal gain isn’t a mainstream belief is it?

Now contrast that with somebody like Boris Johnson. A politician who is hated in similar volume to Thatcher. But you can’t say that the accusations levelled at Johnson are anything at all alike to those Thatcher received, can you?

The same goes for American politics. Take a look at the criticisms directed at Trump compared with those directed at either Bush. There is a qualitative difference.
A minor thing: strokeplus type gestures are partially reversible / cancelable via garbage - I usually do a few random movements if I feel the gesture start is wrong to guarantee that recognition fails. Think there is also a more direct cancellation mechanism, but garbage always worked

However, the bigger flaw vs the pie menu is the lack of those icons showing you the list of the possibilities, so learning is indeed very limited, so you only usually use just a few frequent gestures
The right way to do this is specify a resolver to use on localhost
It makes PWAs an even worse idea, since they won’t work on one of the duopoly platforms in the EU (a market of 450 million) at all
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> Last time we reduced the annual deficit to zero, the usual debt hawks all reversed their position and said "this is terrible".

(Side: You’re likely referring to the 90s during Clinton’s administration)
Reducing the deficit to 0 barely means anything when the overall debt is high.
Besides, for your family example, it’s all well and good but families do not have to be concerned about the valuation of an international currency that they’re basing their borrowing off of.
What happened with this one?

https://hnrankings.info/39073285/

It just disappeared from HN.
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Restful is a scam and screen scraping is an actual restful API
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We have a fancy Samsung fridge with display. I was livid the first day I woke up and entered the kitchen and there was a full screen ad on the display greeting me pre-coffee.

I vowed to never buy another fancy appliance again and took it off the WiFi network.
"Mr. Hatchetman, why did you ax those people?"
This is complete nonsense. The purpose of inflation as a policy is to increase employment by decreasing the real cost of labor: in short, it's sneakily stealing money from the labor class to keep the employment metric high.

This is the primary cause of the poor getting poorer. Greed has nothing to do with it. Greed is linear. O(n). Inflation compounds. O(e^n).
I'm totally not a climate change denier and I'd probably hang on to the $20. After all $20 would do f all to combat climate change, even if everyone in my country donated.

So I'm not convinced this study tells us that much.
Wind is getting a lot more reliable as we build taller turbines. There are some states that are deploying units that are almost a kilometer tall. At those heights, currents are much more stable.

The tech will get there and I don’t think we have that much longer to wait.
Those people probably shouldn't click on a discussion thread about a movie they haven't seen.
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