skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The joke here being that they didn't have a 2020 platform.

“RESOLVED, That the Republican National Convention will adjourn without adopting a new platform until the 2024 Republican National Convention.”

https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/docs/Resolution_Platform_202...

Strictly, that meant that the 2016 platform remained in force, and they blamed the inability to derive a new one on COVID. But it doesn't speak particularly well of them not to be seriously considering the fundamental statement of what it is the party wants to do.
But how long until some moron posts the nuclear launch codes on the war thunder forums and gpt-6 picks it up as training data?
This seems sort of intuitive to me so I’m inclined to believe it, but at this point can we really believe any of these sort of pop-behavioral studies with interesting quirky effects?

It seems like the entire field is so overwhelmed with fake data and bullshit that it’s hard to separate anything that might actually be real.
For a start, you don't permanently mess up your life if you are sick/distracted by personal issues for that one exam.
I'm gonna have to push back a bit on that.

I've had major frustrations precisely because conservatives do not cut down on the government when they finally get elected. Spending always goes up.

What we have, at least in the US, are tax and spend big "liberals" on one side. And don't tax, but spend even bigger anyway "conservatives" on the other.

Please don't try to sell us on the myth of conservatives being good financial stewards because the recent historical data clearly bears all that out to be nonsense. There is currently no option in the US for you to vote for if you believe we need, for instance, a drawdown in spending.
Putin doesn't have to convince the manufacturers that this will be a long term profitable endeavor for their business. It doesn't matter to Putin if a company "overinvests" because the company is not a separate entity.

If the US wants that kind of control we have the Defense Production Act to force businesses to build up capacity.

It's like how during the pandemic, pretty much nobody invested in increased toilet paper or mask production in the US, because "if I invest and the pandemic goes away, I will have "wasted" my investment"

Basically its just another failure of capitalism as theorized. Turns out, it's very uncommon for someone to decide to build brand new capacity in an existing market without extreme incentives because it's too easy for them to be burned. If we want businesses to ramp up production, we need to either convince them it will be profitable, by signing expensive, long term contracts that can't be torpedoed by a future administration getting bitchy about the debt, or force them through law.
okay, but did they figure it out? it seems they are stuck between two worlds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances

they are spending serious startup money every year on nothing. it's as if they got the google disease with the google funds. :/
They have release notes, but they hide their changes.

Just write some words to explain. It is not a rocket science.
> I said they have the duty to investigate, if there is suspicion of radicalisation.

That is oppression and a tool of oppression, and it's got a long history.

> in germany the economy ministre could not leave his ferry, because of aggressive protesters

Do you have evidence? And if there were, so what? Why must this law be enforced so utterly? Again, the tools of oppression - 'law and order!'
Sorry can't edit it now but you are correct and I wasn't thinking "that" kind of referral :-). Easy to see that interpretation though, will have to remind myself to use "links that reference the product".

FWIW cmoog, I think it is pretty cool. I've always felt that good surveillance on retail prices with specific product information (like weight/servings) would be a solid data set for economists and people like me to understand "real" inflation, "greed" inflation, and general product pricing trends.
Sync has no problem with lots of tabs - I routinely have multiple hundred open on multiple devices and firefox sync just does it's thing without complaining.
AssemblyScript works fine too!
WASM and JS isn’t a good combination atm.
Are Upanishads pantheists or panantheists?
Ask HN: Advice for a new father?
I've long turned to HN for career and technological advice - but now I face a different hurdle.

I'm a young father - my first. Is there anything the fathers of HN would tell a new father (or parent)?
It probably went both ways to some extent. But the Neanderthal population was much smaller, and probably martially weaker, as they were clearly playing a losing evolutionary strategy.
Bus companies require them, afaik.
Defaults matter. Not loading ads, logging keystrokes, and broadcasting metrics on startup would be a good start.
You stated it's not a solution. It clearly is if it works for more than 80% of people.
Did you show it when you bought the tickets? Which bus line?

I remember news stories about it, and thinking that people could no longer travel anonymously.
Wouldn't someone else step in? It was Yahoo for a while. Firefox market share is pretty pitiful these days but the default search engine is still worth something.
Receiving a call like that would terrify me. I'd become super paranoid.

I've been screening all my calls with the pixel call screener feature. Worth it.
seems equally likely that this auction is itself an ad for the beverage. never heard of them before today, but i bet you i’m going to start noticing them all over the place now.
Ask HN: Do you have a family code word? (Deepfake Scams)
Does anyone have a special code word that you and only your family members know? A word that you can use to verify a real emergency situation.
I've been seeing more examples of people using AI voice cloning tools in money scams. [1]

Seems like a pretty effective and low effort strategy or am I missing something?

[1] https://nypost.com/2023/04/12/ai-clones-teen-girls-voice-in-1m-kidnapping-scam/
California's undocumented population hasn't been growing (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/16/what-we-k...)
Why does 011 not apply?
Spotify is great for discovery. There's nothing saying you can't also collect music.

If you've ever saved a song to your library or favorites, you're "collecting", just with less freedom
True but probably very tedious to achieve full compatibility with the existing JS API that way, which seems like it was a big goal here.
my strategy is to live in a different place than my area code and only pick up from number that do not share my area code. This is pretty clise to working but I did almost miss an instacart delivery because they happened to be from my home town.
How to Cut Glass Underwater with Scissors: The Rehbinder Effect Explained
If you live somewhere that the risk of being overtaken by a wildfire is not more or less zero, buying a firefighter's SCBA regulator and tank is not a horrible idea.
I can guarantee you that a UK monarch has never dialed a telephone on their own.
Yeah, any other Windows would have been worse. For me it was crappy because no-one wants to be maintaining a second hardly-used OS on their laptop. You randomly need it once in a blue moon, have to deal with two UIs with their conventions and feels on the same computer, and with copying files between them, and then and of course the first thing it wants to do is download tons of updates. Makes for a crappy experience.
Even if that's true, how is it meaningful? Who cares what you call it, it's corruption.
You also need it so you can move your towed artillery piece to shoot the rounds.

It just makes sense.
Deno is launching a new JavaScript package registry
I think it is important to note that the legal principle that allows the FCC to make rulings like this is called Chevron Deference, and many consider it to be under attack.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/01/supreme-court-likely-to-d...
I was there (you'll find my name in the Wired article), and on the whole I would agree that Xanadu's reach far exceeded its grasp. Compared to the simplicity of the http protocol, Xanadu's complexity was high enough and its performance low enough that there was little opportunity for a genuine competition.

But I will say that Xanadu was conceptually not centralized; the peer-to-peer exchange of arbitrary information at scale was definitely part of the architecture. However, the major and systemic performance problems entirely prevented any scaling up of the system, which effectively means the distributed architecture was never proven.

I agree to a certain extent with the Chandler analogy, insofar as there was a lot of "architecture astronautics" that added complexity to the system beyond the ability of the team to manage -- especially given the limitations of early 1990s development machines.

One could refer to the article itself for Walker's own view of the sad outcome:

'Rather than push their product into the marketplace quickly, where it could compete, adapt, or die, the Xanadu programmers intended to produce their revolution ab initio.

'“When this process fails,” wrote Walker in his collection of documents from and about Autodesk, “and it always does, that doesn’t seem to weaken the belief in a design process which, in reality, is as bogus as astrology. It’s always a bad manager, problems with tools, etc.—precisely the unpredictable factors which make a priori design impossible in the first place.”'

He wasn't wrong. Xanadu tried to leap fully formed into the world as a megalithic architecture capable of arbitrarily large data structures supporting arbitrarily small comparisons and transclusions, and it couldn't compete with HTTP's fully open specification and implementations, low barrier to entry, and extreme simplicity.
A Texan once boasted to an Israeli about the size of his fields: "If I get in my car at dawn and drive all day, I still won't have reached the end of my fields!"

The Israeli sighs and replies, "Yeah, I know. I once had a car like that."

(For comparison, Israel is a whole country, and in some places is less than 6 miles wide total!)
Wat zit jij weer te niksen! Niksen is heerlijk if it doesn't last too long :).

Niks = nothing. Closely related to procrastination but not exactly the same. It actually helps getting/regaining focus and relieving stress.
I'm no great fan of his (anymore), but Tesla's market share or at least market size did do very well during that period, not to mention the stock price going nuts. And this was all before he took a sharp turn at the corner of alt and right.

The controversy is not over whether or not he performed his duties effectively as CEO, it's over the disguised self-dealing that produced the comp package in the first place.

The milestones were reasonable, the rewards were not.
My thought has been that they're listening for background sounds to try to beef up the advertising profile they have on me. Maybe there is some super sketchy ad-tech company putting beacons that emit a QR-like UUID audio signature in the frequencies near the top and bottom of the range that gets transmitted by cell phones, and ringing you up from a robo-dialer and listening for the beacons tells them where you are.
At some point, (probably in a relatively close future), there will be the AI Consortium (AIC) to decide what enters the common API?
Well I still have CD and DVD backups from ~2004. Most are intact, some CDs of less quality (I don't think any verbatim) have delaminated and would throw the aluminum around if inserted.

I don't use CD, DVD or BR as a backup medium. I might cut a USB flash drive to copy photos or tax/important docs etc.

Once upon a time a large part of my role was to maintain backups and disaster recovery - I'm pretty bad at it for myself. I have some important things in cloud, on phone, on computer. Super rare, if ever, will I cut copies onto cold storage.

My main backup method is - this drive is too small, copy everything on it to a larger disk and park it on the shelf.

I've lost a fair amount of data faithfully following this process. Mostly didn't matter as a lot of it is games. Possibly dashcam which sucks because of the efforts to store it but meh, it was near 100% mundane driving to and from work.

I believe it was a 2TB spinning rust controller failure - nuts. Just dead is dead - the data's probably physically is still there but I don't have a matched controller board to even begin to try. I probably wouldn't even if I did.

I've had an SSD just pack it in while using it.
The one time I go to boot windows again in literal years it decides it'd be better off dead. If plugged in will get super hot to touch - to it's credit that drive was about 14 years service. Truly impressive.
Is it pass/fail? I figure if you fuck up on one test then you have several others to look forward to and improve. And each individual test could be more focused, so easier to study for. Just have a test at the end of every year from ~13-18 instead of one ultra-test that makes or breaks your entire existence. Sounds dystopian. And also completely detached form how reality works. Unless you're in the Olympics, no one cares how you perform once. They care about how you perform and will perform over months and years.
Needing to go into the office is not slavery. It's disgusting to liken the literal ownership of a human being as property to be used and abused 24/7 to having to commute to a nice, air-conditioned office a few days a week.
US Trade Deficit with China Narrows to Lowest Since 2010
> I wouldn't want that job, and I'm not sure I could do it.

There are many jobs that I wouldn't want and that are not paid 6M a year. There are some things that I can do that not everybody can do, and still I am not paid 6M.

You can try reverting it: a CEO earning 6M a year could not necessarily be a firefighter. Yet firefighters are not paid 6M a year. And they actually risk their life.
Yep, that’s the worry. Time will tell.
That doesn't match your prior statement.
One very interesting project built on OpenPOWER, but with unique vector extensions, is LibreSOC, https://libre-soc.org/. It promises to be fully open hardware as well.
True for pwa but Capacitor is just an app on the App Store.
Drug abuse is rare and severely punished. You go to prison if you're Korean, you did drugs recently and got caught in Korea. It doesn't matter if you've smoked pot overseas, flew back to Korea, got tested and the drug test came out positive. They'll still throw you in prison.
I feel lonely in my new job, when I'm in the office. I don't work directly with anybody there. There's hustle and bustle, and I feel like the new kid.

I don't feel that when I'm elsewhere.
Yeah but Niven's best stories were mostly shorter. (Even Inconstant Moon is a novella.) IMO, Niven and Pournelle were really great complements. Niven wasn't really a great novel writer and Pournelle ended up doing militarist fiction--some of which was OK but not as good as their joint work.
Related: "Fraudulent App Impersonating LastPass Currently Available in Apple App Store"[0](from lastpass, 6 points 7 hours ago), "Fake LastPass password manager spotted on Apple's App Store" (34 points, 5 hours ago, 25 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302640
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304732
Building a Midjourney Clone for Muslims
The improvements in ease of use for locally hosting LLMs over the last few months have been amazing. I was ranting about how easy https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile is just a few hours ago [1]. Now I'm torn as to which one to use :)

1: Quite literally hours ago: https://euri.ca/blog/2024-llm-self-hosting-is-easy-now/
but this means you need each library to support each llm, and I think this is the same issue what is with object storage where basically everyone support S3 compatible API

it's great to have some standard API even if that's isn't perfect, but having second API that allows you to use full potential (like B2 for backblaze) is also fine

so there isn't one model fits all, and if your model have different capabilities, then imo you should provide both options
You and I clearly have different ideas of what constitutes judicial activism. What would you consider to be "non-activist" then, if ruling based on what the law says rather than on your personal politics is itself activist?
I have a pad of honest to g-d paper next to my keyboard for this exact reason.

Goal for the day: log into a server.

Why is that so complicated? hahahahahaha welcome to the corporation.
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is a weird comment. The Wikipedia article has a comprehensive list of sources underneath, and the comments on this post are full of people saying "this exact thing happens to me".

So I'm going to say, yes, we can believe it.
> Get a fucking grip.

Is that intended to be persuasive? Intimidating? Does it make the point stronger or weaker? Are we wiser for having read it?

The unrestrained acting out is not reserved for Mitchell Baker.
> and, even if you don't currently use Firefox, a huge reason why we have the web we have today.

and maybe especially if you dont use firefox :)
I actually had a family code word back before AI scams in case someone outside of the family were to contact a family member on behalf of another family member. So, yeah seems like that would apply here too!
If they were really smart, they'd parse and use that info to their advantage. Have info+autozone@domain.com? Send company-specific phishing emails to +apple, +wellsfargo, +$POPULAR_COMPANY every other week
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how provocative someone is being or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I use Firefox for personal browsing on mobile and desktop.

Chrome for work.

I do not sense, in any way, any difference between the two in day-to-day and even during development.

However, FF on Android has extensions and my mobile browsing experience is more or less ad-free with not much extra effort from me.
Ghosts of the Pacific Electric in Los Angeles
Sounds like you're deliberately using a longer, more activist-sounding word to "other" people you don't like.
It’s a flowery opening, but I’d argue it’s not too different than, say, opening with a Shakespeare quote or something.

I think certain commenters got weirdly angry about it because they interpreted it as some kind of feminist anti-male screed when it was just intended to be a throwaway.
They are bad faith actors. They pass no legislation to reduce spending, in fact, they just keep spending more and more. You don't buy a $1M house and then make payments like it was $500K, that's just flat out stupid.
I wrote a small utility in Rust for fun, and wrote about it
You are already trusting the maintainers of your distro by running Software they compiled, if you installed anything via the package manager. So it's about the number of people.
Just reading it now (from another post that linked it so not biased by your comment) it was quite touching. A more than charitable attempt I'd wager.
It really depends on whether the conflict stays restricted to Europe or not. A regional war is not a world war, even though Europeans might regard themselves as the navel of the world. As you say, a hair-splitting exercise for future archeologists (might actually be cockroaches or aliens) studying the leftovers of human culture.
Yeah of course it was a political border but it absolutely had cultural consequences.

You can literally see the difference in Berlin on either side of the wall. The Eastern side is similar but still different to the Western, culturally.

Even the architecture is still quite different between the two sides.
AutoLISP was put in because it was a memory-safe interpreter. Allowing users to extend AutoCAD with C would have created a debugging nightmare. AutoLISP could detect its own errors without crashing AutoCAD. LISP was the only game in town back then for interpreters which could deal with variable-sized data.

AutoCAD users were not programmers. Computer knowledge was not widespread. Keeping users from losing their drawing files, a major long-term asset, was crucial to product acceptance.
There was a strong "don't screw up" ethos within Autodesk. Much of that came from the founders, who were mostly mainframe operating system programmers.
"The AI just auto-fired [6%] of the company!"
> I couldn’t find any record of use of niksen in the Dutch language before the late 2010s.

This feel wrong to me, the concept is definitely older. It just went by nietsen instead of niksen, which is (or was) more grammatically correct/formal as niks is an informal/spoken version of niets.

Here is an example [1] from 2006 with nietsen, defined as to do nothing on a grammar forum. And before 2008 [2] as “not doing anything”. Even a use from 1997 [3].

[1] https://www.dutchgrammar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=627
[2] https://www.dutchgrammar.com/en/?n=Verbs.Ot04
[3] https://ronald-giphart.nl/vrouwen-zijn-de-baas/
We've found it really nice for worker queues for specific workloads that fire infrequently'ish.
Still watching and buying DVDs here too.
Publishers already get micropayments from you when you visit their site - just not from you directly, but from advertisers.

The same incentives for click-bait and low-quality journalism will exist in a world with reader-driven micropayments.

The NYT now has 1/3 of their top area dedicated to "lifestyle" (what's going on on Tiktok) and "opinion" sections - both of which bring in tons of clicks.
Sure, hit me up on the e-mail in my HN profile.
> A person of Indian ethnicity has no business [...]

If you post ethnic slurs to this site we will ban you. No more of this please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle lately. That's a line at which we ban accounts, so please don't do that. Past explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
I think that the "it's paid a lot because it's super hard" is generally a bad excuse. Many things are super hard, many people make a lot of sacrifices to be among the bests at what they do. Yet they don't earn that much.

When the thing you are good at is being a CEO (as opposed to, say, being a teacher), then you are very lucky. Because other CEOs before you managed to make it acceptable to earn an indecent salary for just doing a job. Ok, let's say they don't sleep at all, so they can work 2-3x as much as the average people. Are they paid 2-3x more? No! They're paid orders of magnitudes more. That's indecent.
Fascism is popular everywhere right now, so it's not dependant on the location (Sicily in this case). The question is, how did it become popular in so many places simultaneously?
I thought it was just supposed to be a pun on “gen’ AI”