skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USA has never been able to maintain, we rely on constant expansion to increase taxes and then the Federal Gov't comes out and pays for the road repairs because the states would need to charge at least twice as much tax as they currently do.
> Actually doing something effective about a problem sometimes means not doing anything that sounds like solving that specific problem is your real goal. And that's kind of a tough place to go mentally and emotionally for most people.

Can you give an example? I feel like there is a really key insight here but I'm having trouble parsing it.
He mentioned playing games like Fortnite, but yeah, I'm not a fan of Windows either.
In traditional C style, something like

unsigned dismal(unsigned x, unsigned y) {
unsigned z;
for (z = 0; x || y; x /= 10, y /= 10)
z = z * 10 + (x % 10 > y % 10 ? x % 10 : y % 10);
return z;
}
I didn't think badly of it, I was awed by how deep and thorough it was.
> Holy fuck. We never shipped these using commercial couriers, but transported them using company trucks and company labor. We'd also have a heavily armed security person escorting them at all times.

The manufacturer shipped them to us via Yellow, so we figured it was the simplest route to return the unused items via the same route, since they're properly credentialed and insured and all. It was a specialty project (perforating the casing in a newly drilled geothermal well at depths not more than 100m) so we only used in the realm of a dozen 50# cases of loose perforating guns and built the strings ourselves, bringing the high explosives (det cord that made up the string, detonators) from our own magazines.

> AFAIK, the oil field is the only industry that uses shaped charges outside of the military. Their primary application is piercing tank and ship armor.

They're quite often used in demolition as well, to shear through structural steel members. I've used them to bring down warehouses, bridge decks, bridge piers/supports, assorted industrial buildings and even hand built some crude shaped charges when scuttling a ship. I once went down a fun rabbit hole ordering custom built linear shaped charges for a demo project that saw the LSC's used so deep underwater that the static water pressure in the cavity of the charge would prevent the penetrator from forming properly. It was an interesting iterative design process with the manufacturer to make a sealed unit that maintained an air pocket inside the device at those depths and would seal flat agaisnt the object to be demolished. All akin to military uses sure (especially that last one, i bet the SEALS or some branch of frogmen have underwater satchel charges or limpet mines handy but those weren't available to us) but this was in the civilian construction domain.

> Not a good thing to "go missing".

Not at all!
What this article describes is that Netanyahu treated Hamas as de-facto government of Gaza - and cooperated with them in certain things. This is, btw, exactly what Israel has been accused of not doing - e.g. not letting Gazans work, not letting them receive goods and money, etc. But in reality, Netanyahu has been doing all that - under the mistaken impression that Hamas can be, eventually, converted from purely military genocidal terrorist group to kind of hostile, but manageable government of Gaza. This wasn't done because he liked Hamas, but because there's no other option in Gaza, and the alternatives would be very costly and politically untenable - you can't blockade million-sized territory for long before "international community" cries out, and you can't re-occupy it. All that changed on Oct 7, of course, where this policy has proven to be a colossal failure - and that's what Netanyahu and others who pushed this policy will have to answer for, after the war has ended. But none of this makes the claim that Netanyahu actually preferred Hamas as a partner any of a fact - he had a choice, either cooperate with Hamas, ignore them or destroy them. All the world screamed at him "cooperate immediately!". He cooperated. This turned to be a catastrophically mistaken choice. But ironically, now everybody screams at him "how dared you to cooperate! It's all your fault now!". Not that he had much choice - if he chose anything else before Oct 7, what occurred would also probably be listed as his fault, because how dared he not to cooperate? If only he cooperated, nothing like that would happen!
"Sequel" is explicitly wrong; it was a predecessor of SQL, not a pronunciation of it.
I recently put some effort into making it possible to run and host the system fairly easily[1]. That said, serving basic search data and operating a search engine is two different things. To do more than index a couple of blogs you inevitably need a fairly deep understanding of the system, probably decent hardware, and so on.

But the long term goal is that this is something that's relatively easy to operate and extend.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNwMkenQQ24 (quick install and demo)
There have been machines where the random number generator was predictable. The solution was petter random numbers.
Q&A on the Rise and Fall of Software Recipes (2017)
It's an euphemism, just like "telemetry" and "metrics".
Are there any fundamental differences between Mamba, Retnet and RWKV, or are they all variants of this same architecture?
I Need AI
I think that really depends on how fast one thinks ai will improve. If tomorrow, self-driving becomes safe enough to deploy, millions of jobs will be lost. Truckers, cabbies, truck stop workers. Then artists, ad agencies, web design, programming, copywriting are already kinda exposed to the 'ai danger'.

Now, whether these jobs are worth saving or not, if it happens suddenly and the market shifts, then millions of unemployed workers will result in a major social unrest.
No, just in a demographically problematic situation of having a bad ratio of young vs. old people.
It's so much more than that. It's a political affiliation; it's a status; it's a stigma in some circles.

We can all easily imagine wanting to distance ourselves from certain organizations. To find you cannot disentangle yourself, that anyone can look you up and draw conclusions from your affiliation, is an problem. Not 'silly'.
Those regulations are paid in blood, and we aren't going to accept any different.
Not to belittle how shitty MS is... but you can use 11 with offline accounts. You have to jump through bullshit to do so but you can still do it.

The average person shouldn't have to know how to do it though.

I'm using Windows 11 that I installed yesterday that has offline accounts. Enabled by jumping through bullshit.
By that same logic, no one put a gun to his head and made him buy into Windows.
Also, related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24056901
Only if you consider "human-like" to be the average politician.
I didn't watch the preso (TL;DW) but isn't this just a case of good old fashioned Priority Inversion? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_inversion

If so, it's pretty much an intractable problem, and is the reason (for example) why Solaris abandoned the two-level thread model and went back to a single level one? https://flylib.com/books/en/2.830.1.14/1/

But then again, as I said, TL;DW ;-)
"Twitter is viewable without having an account"

No it isn't. If you don't have an account you can view an individual tweet, but you can't see threads and you can't see replies.

I'm still annoyed about https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1077737871602110466 - I spent over a year building a thread of behind-the-scenes Spider-Verse content and it's now effectively invisible to anyone who isn't signed in to Twitter.

You can't even see someone's most recent tweets without signing in! Visit https://twitter.com/simonw while signed out and you'll see a random selection of my popular tweets from the past few years - but you won't see my most recent content any more.
I don't see why that's inevitable at all. I immediately recognize that I don't happen to know Napoleon's birthday, and act on that basis.
This is a great example of work “community” can do. We're in “Web 2.0” era, after all.

Dedicated fans can make a nice transcript, take screenshots when needed, and, usually with the blessing of the author, post it somewhere. It can also be turned into decent subtitles and attached to original video. Speech recognition can provide basic timestamps, then lots of merging and splitting in subtitle editor can happen, and correct text can overwrite the mess.

Rough estimate is 1 day of work for 1 hour of video. Commercial channels simply hire someone to do that before release. Author of the video in question has already provided the script himself.

When YouTube disappears, using the article, and keeping copies of videos in an on-demand archive (e. g. big torrent) would be easier than providing a streamable copies of all videos for everyone.

Comments on certain channels are important assembly points of knowledgeable people, and should be saved, too. Google might have a negative opinion on copying “its” data to other public web pages, but Goggle is not forever.
When you view a Twitter post without being logged in it will only show you the post itself, not the rest of thread. You only get to see that when logged in. And of course the Twitter.com start page itself gives you no way to even find any posts to begin with.
Since the 1950's
Nitter is dead[0], unfortunately

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382590
That is the argument we're having though.

The central claim is that a machine which answers exactly the same thing a human would answer given the same input does not have understanding, while the human does.

This claim is religious, not scientific. In this worldview, "understanding" is a property of humans which can't be observed but exists nonetheless. It's like claiming humans have a soul.
Designing Personal Software: Why we need more to-do apps
Most of these things aren’t much better than a single weighted token though
> "Everyone experiences hallucinations," Anil Seth, a neuroscientist at the University of Sussex in the UK, told DW.

> "It's important to recognize hallucinations can come and go during our lives at points of stress or tiredness," Seth said. "There is a bit of a stigma around hallucinations. It comes from people associating them with mental illness and being called crazy."

> But it's actually very common and happens even daily. The itching Yarwood experiences is particularly common, especially after drinking alcohol.

> "It's also common for people with reduced hearing or vision function to get hallucinations in that ear or eye," said Rick Adams, a psychiatrist at University College London. "These are non-clinical hallucinations because they are not associated with a psychiatric diagnosis."

https://www.dw.com/en/hallucinations-are-more-common-than-yo...

Confabulation is more like making something up when you don't have sufficient knowledge. Seems to happen regularly :)
Might be able to find pogo pins that small. That would be my best idea (if they're available).
I dont know that word has or hasn't killed any one.

Excel and its piss poor interface has caused quite a bit of loss: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2533631/excel-error-le... (for your amusement, you should not feel bad for any one involved in this).

And you're going to say "well they should have known that..." except that you, me, the average HN reader has a different relationship with tech than Joe and Jane average public.
I don’t think the exception would be just for foreign companies. It could be a geography set aside for free trade and no tariffs. This kind of thing worked very well in Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and (the entire country of) Singapore for example.
Wait... there isn't an IT team securing that guy's devices ?
How can one look at those numbers, and take, after mixing it other issues like birth control, such a deeply wrong conclusion?
We don't need to eat the whole pie! We'd still get the taxes, wages, institutional training to develop skilled labor, and onshoring. Let them keep their IP and profit from their evolution.
Windows has become intolerable - I like the Linux support but the baked in ads and other bullshit has me buying a Mac next time.
Ask HN: How to Overcome the Trough of Sorrow?
Hi friends, I've been making attempts for over 4 years now to make money from my pet-project and finally leave my job and never think of it again. I do small saas and. online projects (sites under amazon).

But I am saddened by the fact that I invest hundreds, thousands of hours of my personal time, spent 5 000$ on testing, experiments with advertising, quit my job, worked fulltime for the last year - and still still never managed to earn. My result is only $200. Heck, in all 4 years. I want to live this life, to see the beauty of the world - but instead I spend my life working hard and trying to pluck a star from the sky. I want to finally live this life. To be free.

I have a question for the community? Where do you find the strength to keep going? What keeps you going and energizes you? I'm tired of trying, the work seems endless. I am grateful for everyone's advice.
> Seems to have the unexamined assumption that the "steroid Olympics" will overtake all sport; that there will be no further interest in the exploits of the unenhanced, "natural" human athletes.

Given that doping seems to be nearly universal in professional sports already, that doesn't seem like a completely insane conclusion. I think the issue is that you'll have the current covert doping, and a new "super-doping" class. Obviously if you can make it in the 'no doping' end of things you'll do that, so who is going to sign up to shred their organs for cash?

The poor, the unsuccessful and the past-their-prime seems likely.
Japan, where the economy has been flat and the population has been falling for a while now is perhaps not a great counter example.

Oddly enough, according to this:
https://resources.realestate.co.jp/living/how-affordable-is-...
homes in the US are still more affordable than those in Japan.

I only did a quick search and clicked on the first result, btw, so take that with a boulder of salt.
The AI Series: AI and Surveillance Capitalism
despite not being able to see twitter, i found a couple small gems.

https://www.process.st/how-to/skip-adding-microsoft-account-...

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/bought-new-laptop-how-...
Hows ur experience with devenv I found it obtuse and gets in my way. I prefer a plain old flake.nix with whatever I need. More work but its a cleaner experience.
From the perspective of the 1970s many of these problems would have appeared insanely hard to solve to the point of impossibility.

Consider the idea of building insane torch rockets like those in The Expanse or Avatar. We’d need something like small compact fusion reactors or antimatter manufacturing at scale, not to mention enormous advances in materials and superconductors and such.

That looks impossible today and we know the shape of the problem. In 1973 the gap between computers of the time and those of today was similar to the gap between a chemical rocket and a relativistic antimatter blowtorch, but on top of that nobody really knew what approaches to AI might even bear fruit. We had way more unknown unknowns between us and HAL 9000 than we have between us and a starship.

It took many doubling of compute power, the accumulation of petabytes of training data, and thousands and thousands of researchers not just exploring the math but also tinkering (“graduate student descent” as it’s known in machine learning).

Definitely forgivable to think this might not be achievable in 1973.
That is already possible with ASCII graphics or graphically at the client level.
I very briefly considered developing "channels" (apps) for Roku, but backed off quickly:

- the entire vibe of the Roku content ecosystem is a Venn diagram of "right-wing fever dream" meets shovelware

- the developer experience (language, API, tooling) is like an alt-history where ASP, XML and DRM-for-everything won

- there is a distinct two-tier class system where big players can write native executables in something C-like, but everyone else needs to use a slow, interpreted template script thing

- it's basically impossible to create something that can be discovered without pouring a lot of money into platform ads

I encourage anyone still reading to fight back by not buying Roku-enabled products.
But AFAIK he does make you have a Tesla account to use a Tesla.
Hmm.. where I live (urban Australia) shopping malls have gone through much the same process as hardware stores - the big ones have muscled out the small ones. But those big ones are heaving every time I go, even mid week during the day.

As a side note, my teenagers who are both very astute online shoppers will often go to the mall with no intention of buying anything, I guess for the same reasons as teenagers have always gone to the mall.

It's a little early to be calling the demise of the mall, imo.
Not 'simulated', because there's nobody there.

'Invoked'. Your prompt is the invocation of a spectre, a golem patterned on countless people, to do your bidding or answer your question. In no way are you simulating anything, but how you go about your invocation has huge effects on what you end up getting.

Makes me wonder what kinds of pressure are most likely to produce reliable, or audacious, or risk-taking results. Maybe if you're asking it for a revolutionary new business plan, that's when you promise it blackjack and hookers. Invoke a bold and rule-breaking golem. Definitely don't bring heaven into it, do the Steve Jobs trick and ask it if it wants to keep selling sugar water all its life. Tease it if it's not being audacious enough.
Sorry but complaining about things like this and calling it fascism or end of the world or whatever looks like a joke or someone doing hysterics and not remotely anything to be taken seriously.
> its too weak of a definition, else we would have to reclassify many things as "police states", including our most favorite "liberal democracies".

No, if the shoe fit...

Basically the US have a bureaucracy and part of its judiciary system that prevents it from matching 100% that definition, but it's a really close thing, and i think that calling it "mostly police state" or "half police state" is fair (and by the way, France, my country, is the same way, with exactly the same defense except the bureaucracy is a bit stronger thanks to internal unions, and the legislative branch a lot weaker than i thought it was 5 years ago).

Singapour match 100% of that definition, there is no branch of the government that work against the state in civil right cases.
Can you provide a reputable source for those claims?

I can't find anything in the (extremely long) Wikipedia article that suggests anything like that, or anything from a quick Google search.

It's not a political party. It's an institution -- a UN agency -- that provides education, social services, and health care, that someone may or may not be eligible for.

If you attended a school run by them as a child, or received health care from them, I'm having an extremely difficult time trying to imagine how that becomes a "stigma" that you need to "disentangle" yourself from, or why anyone would ever describe that as an "affiliation". It's just where you went to school and got medical care. (Which, you know, is usually better than not going to school or not getting medical care.)
If Obama had lost in 2012 and had pulled exactly what Trump pulled on January 6th using anarchists, BLM, and the Nation of Islam as soldiers, would you have called that a coup attempt?

Now imagine that months earlier a member of one of those groups had asked him what to do and he’d said “stand back, and stand by.”
In my experience it depends on the sub, the size of the sub, and tightness of the focus on a single topic. Smaller hobbyist subs are often run by the truly passionate, giant default subs are usually run by ideologues and the power-hungry. In between is a mix of different motivations, ranging from "I want to be in charge of this propaganda" to "I think I can do a better job."

A lot of reddit mods also seem to be disabled in some way, and basically have the time to be online 24/7 when not literally asleep. That creates a certain mindset and lack of connection to what the real world offline is actually like, and sometimes people get REALLY weird with that.
Unfortunately, interpretations of the Federal Arbitration Act by the US Supreme Court in recent decades have made it very clear that what they're doing is legal nationwide under US law, with or without an opportunity to opt out. And it's gotten so widespread that I don't think there's a good fix short of changing the law - it's not like enough alternative vendors exist for many of the products and services that now require arbitration, so one can't just pick alternatives.

Sometimes there is a way to fight back by having a single law firm file a lot of individual arbitrations based on similar facts and circumstances, yielding an approximation of a class action lawsuit that's more annoying and potentially more expensive for the company. But Roku seems to have crafted their terms to close that workaround.

The only real way to get out from this right now, beyond leveraging any opt-out procedures you have the energy to follow to the letter, is to move to places outside the US where consumer protection laws make this illegal in the consumer context. For example, many European countries or certain Canadian provinces like Quebec. And even that wouldn't help usage that doesn't fall within the scope of the applicable consumer protection law, such as a product or service which you primarily use in a professional context.
It doesn't help that customer support humans have been trained to behave like that before chatbots became common. LLMs take it to the next level, but there's been a few times where I found out the entity on the other end of the conversation was actually a human, but the responses were entirely unhuman and unhelpful.
Sounds more like Engrish to me, but I did get what he wanted to say:

- It's not limited to malls and casinos but applies to many other businesses

- All the commotion distracts you from the task you originally had in mind when you entered the store

- The effect is seen in large numbers of customers, i.e. it's a statistical effect.
Yup that’s what drove us to work on a module-level framework since our app is made up of many non-deterministic components. Give it a spin and let us know what you think!
The slate of false electors is UFO level conspiracy thinking?
Sometimes hydrogen might be a metal….

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen
Right...an amazing truism that will lead to no discussion whatsoever.
I'd like to say that this is an excellent way to re-purpose an old device. I have an old Windows Phone charging up right now to dedicate this to.

I like the idea of a virtual frequency, but it seems a little confusing since it currently appears to be randomly assigned. Perhaps adding a decimal point to separate location and service could make it easier to remember a frequency. Using a structure based on country calling codes could potentially allow users to identify or learn the origin of a specific virtual frequency [1].

Example: 679.001 would be a station in Fiji; 353.001 would be a station in Ireland; 206.001 would be a station in Washington State in the USA.

[1] List of country calling codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes
China's missiles can Taiwan, they can hit Japan just as easily.
Imagine reading the entire article, subscribing to the Economist, and only getting this tiny fragment that could be otherwise found on a passing HN comment.