skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost entirely self-inflicted by greedy media corporations and "journalists" with no sense of ethics.

Somehow we put these journalists on an unassailable pedestal with zero accountability, while we enforce professional ethics in nearly every other profession on the planet.

There are very few journalists left actually providing a positive benefit to society. I cannot wait for GPT-4+ to put the rest out of job. Given the same source data, it writes better articles, with less bias, more closely sticking to the facts.
A particular .gov domain using Cloudflare (although from my DNS lookups, that one is not) is unrelated to Cloudflare managing the authoritative DNS servers for the .gov TLD. The fact that only a specific .gov domain - not all of them - has this issue demonstrates that.
Traditionally your local newspaper was exactly this. They paid exorbitant sums of money to _wire services_ for the right to republish their stories, and readers had access to both the local reporting and the national/global/interest content with a single local subscription.
Perhaps "human" would be a better substitution. There's a reason his robots are far more memorable than the other characters he crafted.
If you used such an aggregator, it would quickly become obvious that original reporting is only a small fraction of what news outlets publish, with the rest being made of slightly edited newswires and press releases, as well as fast-follow reporting on other media reports.

In other words, all news sources are already aggregators, and exclusive content is how they attempt to differentiate themselves and win market share from their competitors.
> A huge portion of the ‘no vehicles in the park’ questions are already answered by existing US aviation laws

It's just an illustration of how a seemingly simple rule at first glance is open to be interpreted differently.

Sure you can add nuances and be more specific about edge cases, but every edge case has its own edge cases, you're not solving the problem by this strategy, only digging a bigger hole and increasing overhead for yourself.

The author could've used any number of rules and laws and still came up with edge cases where the audience would to fail to reach an unanimous decision. The US law is full of loopholes, adding more rules isn't a solution, it merely change the question. If you commit to that strategy, of eliminating ambiguity by adding more rules, you'd be playing catch-up forever.
You can't change your fundamental body either. You may be able to get fatter or skinnier or in shape or not, but your genetics are far more important than anything you do personally. Also, I don't know what a 'soul' is: can you define it?
I don't want to login to github.com when I'm on my work computer. That's going to take me one step closer to uploading company internal stuff by accident.
I mean, overtly a market place with lower friction of customer mobility is bad for the sellers because they have to compete more (a counterpoint is that a race to the bottom to write "clickbait" is the end state as well, so it's not all self-interest).
It's already in progress. I haven't watched mainstream news for years now. Independent podcasts/youtubers have taken their place. You can also usually get breaking news on Twitter/social media now, without ever having to turn on your TV or going to cnn.com.
The last time I went to a tech conference, I squeezed a 32” monitor into a suitcase and set the Mac up when I got there. I have done enough coding on the AVP now to know I’ll be happy to just take that instead of the display. Plus I get my own IMAX-like cinema on the long-haul flight.

It really is a no-brainer for my use-case.
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To me this is semantics. So it’s a data warehouse rather than a database. Ok. Or we share data from a common source via “services” - ok but that’s another word for a database and a client (using http to do the talking doesn’t really change anything).

I’m not saying literally every source of data has to be shared and centrally managed. I’m also not saying “rdbms accessed via traditional client and queried via sql” when I say database. I’m just saying a shared database of some shape is inevitable.
Many years ago I witnessed an interesting interaction on a gaming forum.

Player A was trying to recruit players for their group. Player B posted about some bad experiences they had with Player A being hard to work with in the past, which prompted Player A to reply with some vicious personal attacks. Player B then quoted Player A’s post in full with commentary to the effect of “Thanks for illustrating my point.”

When the moderator came in, they deleted Player A’s post attacking Player B, but left Player B’s post quoting it alone.
Prompting!
> I want non sensationalized, truthful reporting and it’s clear only Ai can get me that.

Can you elaborate on how AI helps here?
What Caused the Sriracha Shortage?
So people create bunkers with multi-year food supplies and other necessities for extinction level event. Will media create bunkers to hoard multi-year news articles and opinion pieces for that?
Are you saying as long as you eat the same amount of protein you won't lose muscle no matter how many calories you eat?
This is very true in my experience. Including in cases where taking a step back would be the better choice.
Since I was in school for journalism in 2007 I’ve been saying the same thing — instead of continuing to produce episodic articles, the news media could have shifted to providing context that helps people keep track of long-running processes that affect them. I do that for my friends, because I listen to the news all the time, and I can explain how events in the news today are part of much longer series of events. They find it very valuable. But if the news media ever does this, they tuck it in to existing article formats, but unless you are very attentive over years, its not possible, easily, to keep track of why something is happening or what led to it.

Hypertext and databases were made for this, but the news media can’t see it. I tried, for years, in school, at conferences and in various journalism jobs, to get people to see how this could make journalism more useful and powerful, but here in 2024, we’re still doing “articles, except on the internet”. And I can’t afford to keep working in the news media long enough to be in a position to try it out. Nobody can, unless their actual livelihood is coming from somewhere else.

So here we are, in total context collapse, and a dying news media whose slow disappearance, especially at the local level, is actively hurting people, and our democracy.

It’s bad, and its going to get a lot worse as AI makes it cheaper and cheaper to lie convincingly. But what can anyone do?
Isn’t this customer driven though? Biased sources telling some group what they want to hear get way more engagement than journalists trying to be objective.

Fox kind of proved this business model out and since then we now have others they cater to either further right or left wing audiences.

Of course now more independent and even less trustworthy sources are taking audiences by cranking this model up even more. Now it’s random rage bait trolls on social media providing “news” to hordes of infinite scroll addicts.
> here isn't any heat pump out there that will produce water hot enough (e.g. 185F)

For 185:

https://www.arcticheatpumps.com/high-temperature-heat-pump.h...

Or much more common, if you can deal with 176F, the SANCO2 ones will generate that down to -20F.

The hydronic temperatures you're talking about are only required if you have to stick with the existing radiators. They make radiators with little fans that work at lower temperatures, or larger panel radiators. There's lots of options for lower temperature forced hot water.
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I agree. Certain countries require their citizens who live abroad to have a physical proof of their foreign residency. I shudder at the thought of me having to explain to a Tunisian border agent that I live abroad and that they have to go on a website to verify that.
> The only judgements that we're asked to make are "What is considered a vehicle" and "What is considered to be in the park".

Which is a pointless question to ask because that's not how parks operate.

This entire test is flawed, and any conclusions derived from it are worthless.
You just gave them another one:

"Interesting testimonials section.

loeg: HN influencer"
A lot of us have, this doesn’t do anything to fix the very real social peril of not having a functioning news media.
"No vehicles in the park" is a rule explicitly written for humans, and rules written for humans have reasonable and obvious exceptions which don't have to be explicitly stated.

If a convenience store says "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service", no reasonable worker would refuse service to someone wearing a dress.
Ask HN: Do you use any self-hosted open source tools to run your business?
Probably most people are running some kind of open source software; but I mean does anyone here use FOSS or open source software alternatives to things like Gmail, Slack, Github, Zoom, etc.?

I've been thinking of how a company could be set up with all of its tools and infrastructure running in Digital Ocean or Vultr App marketplace services. Rather than paying premium enterprise rates to different SAAS companies, you could simply pay your own hosting fees and that's it.

Obviously there's drawbacks: you have to maintain security and updates, and your non-technical employees will have to download strange apps (maybe even sideload them) and sometimes navigate incomplete user interfaces. Availability and latency could be an issue for distributed teams, and such services could make it more difficult to scale a business

But I wonder if anyone here is working at a company small enough that they can save money by hosting their own infrastructure and communication services
Well…just using the defaults when creating an RDS Postgres in the console give you an HA cluster with two read replicas, 7 days of backups restorable to any point in time, automatic minor version upgrades, and very easy major upgrades. So unless you start actively unchecking stuff those are not entirely invalid assumptions.
I went with anything that moves unpowered or not that is not also a living thing is a vehicle so long as it falls within the light cone that could theoretically be projected from the park grounds directly upwards if it were in a vacuum.

Not many people agreed with me, but it’s a strict rule that I could imagine something like the military trying to enforce over a top secret area.

It blocks everything ambiguous so only the horse was not a vehicle.

Overall I think it’s a good experiment as it shows why it’s good to enumerate examples of what is and isn’t part of a rule in order to adjusted it the future.
Show HN: Ascent, a Christian habits tracker for Lent
Hey HN!
This is my first iOS app. I built it because I was curious about SwiftUI and wanted to learn by doing.

Since Lent is around the corner, I thought I'd share it with you.

It has also been hunted on PH today: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ascent

I relied heavily on ChatGPT to build it, and honestly it was quite frustrating at times.
The best part of building the app was to do it in public, as I shared regular updates on X and ended up having amazing conversations.
A lot of companies have tried this and it doesn’t work financially.
For those Python programmers out there, if you don't mind sharing your experiences, do you spend any time at all on the REPL? If so, what fraction of the time, approximately? Using IPython, JupyterLab, or something else? Or do you just run it directly from an VS Code or PyCharm? Anything you may want to add about your routine would be appreciated.

Oh, if you (experienced programmer or not) happen to know about a good site or YouTube channel to see Python programmers in action (as opposed to tutorials), please share.

Thanks in advance, and apologies for the digression.
If you need scaling. Not all applications need scaling (e.g. I'm doing an internal tool for a company that has 1000 employees, it's unlikely that from one day to another that number of employee will double!), and for most applications a single PSQL server either locally or in the cloud is enough.
I believe that is only available for native Windows apps. Alt-Space was the keyboatd shortcut for it, very useful if the window had moved so far offscreen that you could not reach it with the mouse.

However, this doesn't seem to work with the newer Electron style apps, like Teams. They do not appear to follow the classic Windows patterns.
Just did a grocery run. The only thing up anywhere close to 50% was Coke, and even that's only up 40%. Bread was up 10%, and that's typical IME.
> "In the park" means in the region of space where one could physically interact with people in the park

Endless regress detected, redo from start.

100% agreement with the majority per question might put you in a very small minority, BTW.
I'd say black and white. I haven't seen anything as rubbish from Manning.
If you think LLMs can replace journalist you don’t actually understand what journalists do.
>But once you have these extensions installed, you basically lose all support.

Its gotten to the point where I have multiple browsers as fallback. FF with lots of essential extensions > Brave with just a few > Unextended Chromium. A necessarily ridiculous state of affairs, but there you have it.
Ours is similar. It also has a medium-speed cycle that runs in about an hour that does a better job than the fast cycle, but uses more water and electricity than the default (slower) cycles. That cycle is still probably more efficient than a top loader (though I rarely use it).
AI generally? I would say there's no point in that, it's an undue restriction on freedom.

AI provided as SaaS by companies? They don't want the bad press.
Isn't that overly restrictive? Some programs are guaranteed to terminate even with mutual recursion.

For example, these (obviously inefficient) functions always terminate for all values of x, since both terminate given an input of 0, and 0 is the minimum possible input to these functions.

bool even(unsigned int x)
{
return (n == 0) ? true : odd(n - 1);
}

bool odd(unsigned int x)
{
return (n == 0) ? false : even(n - 1);
}
Terrible analogy
If you travel a lot or don't have external monitors I understand the utility you get from the AVP. That's not my life though so the math works out a little differently.

I'm very glad that the AVP/MVD does work for people and I hope the number of people it works for grows over time as Apple improves the hardware. The content consumption angle is also totally valid and I enjoyed it, just not enough to balance the cost especially since it's a solo experience.
The hardware simply isn't there yet. Pixels per degree needs to be a factor of two or three better than it is now, without foviated rendering.

It's clear Apple had to cut corners in multiple places.
My experience is that the fundamental issue is that people agree or disagree on things for the most part based on their perceived location relative to ‘the group’, not based on if they think the thing itself is actually reasonable or not. At least within some (surprisingly large) bounds.

Some people will fundamentally ‘center’ on what they think the group will think, others will ‘go more’, others will ‘go less’, and some will ‘go opposite’. A few will go ‘fully independent’, but they’ll only take ‘independent’ directions no one else has taken, which isn’t actually independent.

If modeled out with one set of ‘group thought’, I’d be surprised if it followed anything but a bell curve.

It’s why things are so all over the place right now online - the same process is happening, but with infinite apparent ‘groups’. So it’s scattering things more randomly than would historically have happened. Maybe even an inverse bell curve, actually.

Rationalization then happens after the fact.

It’s the Overton window, but what happens when there is not a single window - but everyone nearly has their own, custom window.
Yeah, I've learned how to be someone people like to talk to, but I still don't often do it because it is exhausting. I learned a lot from my sister-in-law who is great at it and everybody loves talking to her, but she can get into a positive feedback loop where the interaction energizes her to keep it up, whereas for me, my reserves to keep it up deplete after an hour or so. Even she, though, will eventually get tired of doing it and is famous for suddenly disappearing and going to be in a room by herself to recharge. I think a key to her approach is she will sometimes make the story about her and let people pay her back for listening so well, and then just when they are losing interest, she'll flip it back to be about them.

She and I can talk for hours though, because we know how to minimize the tiring part and make it more of a back and forth.
The presuppositions are what make the question interesting. It's an explicit test of pedantry.
My (basic) understanding is that weight loss always causes muscle loss if you don't exercise or don't ingest additional protein to compensate.

Is there anything new about these drugs specifically that causes muscle loss, or is it the same as with natural weight loss?
It doesn't answer for the OP. He still owes $35k on an experiment.
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> And it's sooooo much faster that python and Ruby.

That advantage becomes vanishingly small when the language task is to glue together a bunch of spawn/fork/exec to external processes.

If the glue code somehow needs actual heavy processing, that processing can be factored out into another program dedicated to that, leaving only glue code. Side effect: the heavy processing code immediately becomes composable!
Premier League clubs tighten purse strings in fear of breaking financial rules
I watched the entire security conference from the Pillow guy. It definitely seemed like something was amiss, but as they say in the security industry: Poc or GTFO.
Yes, I do believe autoscaling is actually a good use case for public cloud. If you have bursty load that requires a lot of resources at peak which would sit idle most of the time, probably doesn't make sense to own what you need for those peaks.
I’m surprised something like this doesn’t already exist. Very neat idea - excited to see what comes next
I once worked at a company that put telemetry equipment out in the field. At a planning meeting for one project, some of the project's locations were not very accessible, i.e. one was at the top of a cliff. Someone made the flip remark about using a helicopter. The manager, who was an ex-seal, checked into it, and found they could afford it if they were strict about the flying-time, and that's what they used. The former manager, who had gotten the project for the company, would have had everyone using pack-mules, because he liked recreational backpacking.
>Did you miss the part of the article that highlights...

Thanks. It's more troubling than I thought. It seems the authors themselves may not understand the math!

"The difference between the assumed efficiency of flaring and the efficiency found in Kort and his colleagues’ results is a matter of a few percentage points. However, the researcher said that this seemingly small difference could be a big deal when extrapolated over the whole fossil fuel industry. Further, methane has more than 80 times the impact when it comes to warming the planet—at least during the first 20 years it spends in the air."

It isn't a problem because it's a small difference "extrapolated over the whole fossil fuel industry." It isn't a problem because it's a small difference but methane is worse than CO2.

It's a problem because it's a huge difference: over a quadrupling in total emissions. Re-reading, the authors never actually realize/acknowledge this.

Truly the blind leading the blind! :o
Are you sure about that?

esta.cbp.dhs.gov seems to served by akamai at least for me.

Also turnstile and hcaptchas are same product(captcha) by 2 different companies.
Sales incentives are set by corporate. The local dealers would have to override those.
Instead it everyone rubbing their own little power plant. Economies of scale suggests that’s it probably cheaper to centralize that electricity generation in a highly efficient large plant, which brings us back to exactly what we have been found got that 100 years
> We don’t conclude that laws are impossible to make perfect, we simply keep refining the laws, right?

Uh, we definitely do conclude that it's impossible to make the laws perfect. And we have an entire institution with the responsibility for refining laws (the judiciary), and they disagree with each other all the time.

This is very strong evidence that it is, in fact, impossible to get people to agree on what's allowed. With a dedicated institution, you can get close enough for government work (literally) but people are still arguing over the meaning of the Constitution even after hundreds of years of refinement.

I think programmer-types think, "Well a detailed-enough specification of all the rules is just like a computer program" and sure, it is. Except that computer programs are written in unambiguous language and interpreted by machines that have perfect understanding, and we still write imperfect programs that don't do what we want all the time.
The game explicitly says to ignore everything except the one stated rule:

> You might know of some rule in your jurisdiction which overrides local rules, and allows certain classes of vehicles. Please disregard these rules; the park isn't necessarily in your jurisdiction. Or perhaps your religion allows certain rules to be overridden. Again, please answer the question of whether the rule is violated (not whether the violation should be allowed).
As someone who’s exclusively used ChatGPT (3, 3.5 and now 4), how do the other alternatives compare?
I agree, I think it was still the right call to ship this device now. It's reached a point where it is good enough for some people (either MVD or just AVP native apps) and you can't wait forever to ship the "perfect" device. Not to mention developers need to actually use it to get a feel for how to develop best for it. I know a couple iOS/iPadOS/macOS developers said they pretty much went back to the drawing board after attending and AVP lab where they could test what they had been building in the simulator.

I look forward to what Apple comes out with for v2, v3, etc.
Aside from the marketing spam, this article feels like the author took every book in the self-help best sellers category and tried to distill their main takeaways. The ideas are often not wrong per se, but it's like trying to teach someone to play basketball without ever touching a ball. You can talk about the theory and grand ideas all you like, but none of them will make you get it.
Rent control fundamentally cannot work, which is why it never works. Malicious noncompliance is a red herring.
No, I'm discussing LLMs replacing "journalists" (ie the ones that churn out worthless sensationalized article after article), not journalists (the ones with actual boots on the ground experience or real insight). The former could easily have their jobs automated away.
Platforms optimize for engagement (and ad spend), not happiness. Sometimes (long term), they can overlap. Surprisingly often (especially short term), they do not.

Also, life itself optimizes for self propagation, not happiness. Sometimes (long term), they can overlap. Surprisingly often (especially short term), they do not.
true! but this is a case of won't, not can't. the 3.5 AI 100% can do this.