skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It boggles the mind that print media managed to make anonymous advertising work for the best part of 400 years, but somehow the advent of the internet means we're expected to believe that it's impossible to have ads that are topic-related, rather than viewer-related.
Developed nations have to drastically cut emissions too, and that means developing new technologies and new ways of life. It’s not enough to plant trees and bamboo. That won’t capture enough carbon to fix the issue.
In addition to different decisions made by individuals, they also can't power a feedback loop 24/7 a kerjillion times per minute.
At least in the US, the Supreme Court has decided in the past that shrinkwrap licenses can be used to put restrictions on works that copyright doesn't apply to (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProCD,_Inc._v._Zeidenberg), so I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing clickwrap "you agree not to train AI on this page without the author's explicit permission" licenses.
FWIW, while I support the program, most of our pipes, including all the water mains, are fine. The water supply is fine. It’s the private lines to specific buildings that are old and problematic.
Right now using Obsidian (without being good about connecting notes). I'm just writing, dumping into a folder, and leaving further organization / analysis for later.
Here's what I use

- tally.so forms, can embed anywhere

- cloud function (gcp)

- sendgrid (adds to contact list)

Unless you're getting hundreds of contacts a day this setup is basically free.

Demo:

https://500k.agency/mba-interest

Source

https://github.com/500k-agency/functions/blob/master/functio...
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What a weird comment that could extend to literally any post here.

Maybe we should just delete HN and replace it with a link to a climate change non profit, since apparently we're better off platforming that than discussing anything else.
Definitely. Shout out to the effort they've put into their api's as well. I've integrated them into a product and raise awareness of sustainable fishing for several major retail outlets.
Programming is a thinking person’s job. Your brain is more powerful than ChatGPT and that will continue to be true.

What ChatGPT and other tools like it can do for you is regurgitate knowledge that would be harder to find otherwise.

But programming a great system requires heart, creativity, collaboration skills, as well as original knowledge and unique experiences.

It also requires having ideas that no AI can regurgitate based on training from other folks’ ideas that the AI devs scraped off the intertubes.

The current situation is macroeconomics, IMO. It’ll be hard to secure internships during any period of economic uncertainty, skimpflation, and higher interest rates than the prior equilibrium.

So, keep programming. Focus on the skill of getting code to work and focus on what makes you unique as a programmer. If you like programming, stick with it.
Real teeth don't require hanging anyone. It can involve things like mandatory FAA audits at random, and removing the ability for manufacturers to self-audit. It can involve the SEC delisting stocks from the exchanges. It can involve a government takeover of bad actors, removing the board of directors, and installing a board assigned by the FAA.
Definitely a fun read, but the author has an axe to grind with the references to "who gets bitches" and the unnecessary footnotes. Take what you will from it.
QubesOS? I would love to know the answer, but I think it is going to be a long time before we have proper application sandboxing on Linux.

The browser is likely the biggest threat vector running on my machine, yet there are no easy ways to lock it down to just reading/writing Downloads and its own cache.
https://archive.is/20240310162206/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Agree with all of this. Our QA do all this and also provide dev support to designers, content creators and engineers, support build and editor stability in addition to the actual game quality, manage several labs with various hardware and set-up for reviews/playtests etc. and they do a lot of automation work and process improvements/documentation, including a lot of the onboarding documentation because as someone else pointed out, they have a good understanding of all aspects of the projects.

They are highly skilled and technical.
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I was with you until you started saying that the trend towards LGBT identification wasn't just people's emotions.

People think you're Alex Jones because it's a very, very dumb reach.

Punk wasn't something in the blood.

Recent LGBT craziness is just a trend like any other.
>> "I've spent my whole life looking for that flash of recognition in someone else's eyes that they know it too.

That's somewhat orthogonal to creation. Although it is something some creators see, and set out to change it.

But the group who can see a different, say, social structure, are distinct from creators. Creators create, not to change things, but because that's how they are. Changers can see a different path, and are frustrated that change is hard.

Both are small minorities, with some overlap, but are distinct groups.

Incidentally there are lots of population groups around the world, in every country. The Amish, which gave rise to this thread, are an example of that.
This isn't a simple composition; entire details were ai created. You can see sections around her hair that look like stable diffusion inpainting. The texture will immediately be cut off and a very softer blurred ai generated part will continue. There are details all around the image that look like that. The jacket and both sweaters aren't original for instance. Large sections of the background on the left were clearly added in as well.

Virtually the only original parts of the image that are unmodified are the faces and hair from the neck up and fingers on the two older children. The person who made this clearly had nothing to go on.
Originally MCTS did have randomness, yes. I think the article mentions it, but this came in in the form of playouts at the end, used just to evaluate positions. This has been replaced in current similar projects by NN evaluations, which are higher quality (as you can probably imagine, just playing random moves to see who wins is not very good, it was just the best strategy known at the time).

So the monte-carlo turned out to be an unessential (and suboptimal) part of what is now still called MCTS, making the name a bit unfortunate.
yes, i could have done that. but to late now.
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Yeah that works, but OP's point is that that's way more work than it needs to be.
How do you propose that the owner of a system should be able to administer it?
I'd love to adopt that myself, wonder if there's any good reading in English beyond the Wikipedia article...
Look at the size of the machinery we use to dig up fossil fuels. You need an even greater amount of machinery to bury trees and bamboo to undo the damage. Who's going to pay for that?
> The safety of the aviation industry is by and large directly due to strict safety regulations, many of which Boeing pioneered

Isn't that rather self-contradictory? Having an unsafe airplane is bad for business. It put Lockheed out of the airliner business, for example (Elektra). Also DeHaviland (Comet).
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Show HN: Memozora – A flashcard maker for language learners
I built a flashcard maker that especially works for language learners.

Over the past 3 years, I've implemented pretty much everything I needed for a flashcard app.
It meets all my needs. However, I want this app to be useful to many others too.

Do you find this app useful for learning new languages or acquiring new knowledge?
Is there anything missing in this tool?

Any feedback would be appreciated. Thank you!
The penalties you're talking about are not criminal penalties.
There are plenty of topics you can get the gist of in 30-60 seconds.

When the alternative is not spending any time learning those topics at all, I'll take the 30 seconds.

I'm not going to spend minutes to hours learning something I'm barely interested in to begin with. As far as general knowledge goes, TikTok/Reels are great.
The God's honest truth is nobody knows what the demand for software engineers will be, especially over a timeframe of a 40-year career. But in all likelihood there will be robust demand for software engineers going forward.

Here's the thing though: make sure you really want the job. A good test to see if its right for you is this: have you ever programmed a game? If you have, that means you really like programming--enough to play with it. If you haven't, you might not like programing enough to do it 60 hours a week.

I see you are already a CS student, so this doesn't apply to you, but if anybody asks me "should I learn computer programming" the answer is no--if programming was right for you, you'd have already learned how to do it. If programming is right for you, you aren't wondering whether you should start doing it--nothing could possibly stop you from doing it.

If you are a programmer, very bad things will happen in your career. You will work 60 hours a week for year on a project, just to have it canceled and all the code thrown out. You'll have two or three death marches---where everybody knows the project is going to die, but management expects you to work overtime on it, with absolutely no hope of success, until the bitter end. And then you'll get blamed for the project failing--you just didn't work enough overtime :-)

It is almost impossible to measure the productivity of programmers, so very frequently your boss is not going to understand how valuable your contributions really are. You will unfairly get passed over for raises and promotions.

When your hair turns grey, you will face age discrimination, in many forms. When your boss wants to try the next programming/management fad--which you've seen variations of fail miserably at other companies--your boss will not value your opinion, he'll just think you are an old dog which can't learn new tricks. It will be harder and harder to get a new job. Eventually, your 30-years of experience will be valued at exactly 0, because everybody just assumes you haven't kept up with the latest trends.

But...if you really really like programming, that will keep you going through all these trials. For some people, its such a great fit that they can't wait to go to work in the morning, and hate to leave at night. For most people, though, eventually it would become a nightmare of tedium and burnout. A big salary is not enough to get you through. You have to actually love programming.
You’re still not getting it. A lawsuit for defamation still has nothing to do with “getting it wrong”.

You can say many things that are literally correct while conveying the completely wrong message.

It’s like the picture with the soldier, gun, water, and the child. You can present whichever cross section of those that you want to paint completely opposing narratives without defamation.

The point is that defamation is a minimum bar not indicative of anything related to the overall narrative.
Where archive.is is blocked:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240305202312if_/https://www.ny...
This wouldn't be a classic Paul Graham essay without his two great hallmarks -- many passages of provocative valuable insights -- paired with periodic, bewildering attempts to sabotage his own argument.

I'll add some fan mail later if necessary (because I do get value from reading him), but for the moment, here's where I believe he went off course.

1. When he says the best essays are "ineffective," he's chosen the wrong word. They are "premature." They arrive before the world is fully ready to acknowledge their power. But they catch at least a modest following right away. And then their work grows and grows.

2. Essays about new technology can be quite powerful, and that's Graham's wheelhouse, so it's fine for him to talk up this cohort. But any serious survey of legendary essays needs to look wider. The most powerful essays redefine our social, moral, political and religious norms. Here are a few favorites that didn't just win their year; they stood out for centuries.

70 AD: The Gospel of Mark. Chronologically the first book of the New Testament, and look what that unleashed

1778: Common Sense by Thomas Paine. The boldest, fiercest justification for the American Revolution, and one that's still a touchstone today for anyone with a deep interest in the theory or practice of democracy.

1963: Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King. Worth being on the list simply for its effect on the U.S. civil rights movement; even more significant as the unbreakable tuning fork for any civil or human rights movement anywhere.

We'll keep inventing new technologies, because that's what humans are good at, and I'm sure many strong essays will ensue. But it's the redefining of our social institutions that's likely to make the future so incredibly different from today. Anyone who can write a prescient reflection about society's new rules will get my vote for "Great Essays."
It's hard to get a man to understand something when his paycheck depends on his not understanding it.
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Will European Life be the preferred term?
Not an expert, but one application of neural decoding you may be aware of is brain machine interfaces (eg Neuralink). By decoding motor intent we can create devices which offer movement to paraplegic individuals with external robotics. Decoding neuronal activity in other parts of the brain could allow us to directly interface with other neural functions. Imagine a machine that could interpret your perception of space or time (or even modify it).

Another application is in computing. Advances in the understanding of neuroscience have stimulated the creation of artificial neural networks (for example, the convolutional neural network was inspired by the cat visual cortex). Understanding how the human brain encodes concepts such as time or space might help us to design artificial systems.

Finally, the most important aspect of this work is (imo) advancing basic science. We don't understand how the brain works, and work such as this brings us closer to solving the grand mystery of neuroscience.
Hive stores metadata in a relational database. So does Snowflake.
Show HN: RE3 – Reversed Engineered GTA3 Source Code
It is illegal out right claim that, at least in my country. But 100% of landlords still silently do it.
> A major reason people form isolated communities is because they are rejected by the wider community in the first place

It it though? Or is it just easier for immigrants to just not assimilate / integrate, which is no doubt a lot of effort? That hypothesis is equally compatible with the evidence, but somehow people always seem to immediately jump to the native population being racist as the primary reason, without evidence.
This has been my experience. Nobody who has looked into Mars inhabitation at any depth considers it a “plan B”, at least not on any timescale relevant to those alive today — there’s maybe some value as insurance against a planet-killer asteroid or something similarly catastrophic, but that only comes into play once civilization has been thoroughly established on Mars, which is centuries into the future at soonest.

The chief value of Mars has two parts. First, it opens up the first true frontier we’ve had in over a century and could serve as a sort of societal pressure relief valve. Second, as soon as there’s people living on Mars the impetus for developing technology to make living there (and in space) more safe, sustainable, and comfortable increases dramatically, which is a critical step in achieving true mastery of human spaceflight and ensuring that the species is not forever stuck in the bottom of Earth’s gravity well.

Some may argue that the moon can serve these purposes as well and that may be true to a degree, but its proximity is a liability. Moon inhabitations are close enough to be well within the sphere of Earth’s political influence even if it achieves self-sustainability, which itself is unlikely because Earth is always there as a convenient source of supplies and escape hatch, just a week away. There’s a certain level of necessary commitment and autonomy that comes with building a civilization on Mars which I believe is key.
> Those who did were 4.5 times more likely to experience a heart attack, a stroke or death in the approximately 34 months after the surgery than were those whose arteries were plastic-free.

Wow that is huge. I recall reading a thread on here just a few weeks ago where a number of users were tearing down some others for suggesting they were concerned about microplastics, and positing that if there was any negative health effect to microplastics, we’d have already found it.

I would not be surprised to learn more about these negative effects moving forward. But the real question is, will any governments do anything about it.
> Do you think the first page of Google is good and formed by good incentives and empowerment of the user, considering how much of a cultural force it is (Googling something being just a normal part of your thought process)?

Yes. Google is an immensely useful everyday tool available to everyone for free. I think the negative externalities it causes are laughably trivial compared to the utility provided.
Better qualified source:

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/juno/nasas-juno-mission-measur...
They are the same thing. Template-generated HTML has been called server-side rendering for decades.

People immersed in development using front-end JavaScript frameworks have been sufficiently isolated from server-side rendering for long enough that it’s a foreign concept.

A recent optimisation in front-end frameworks is to generate the initial HTML on the server instead of sending an empty shell that does nothing but load the JavaScript application.

As you point out, this is just server-side rendering, which is a very old concept. However, if you have spent the majority of your time with front-end frameworks, “SSR” is a new concept that has recently been invented, not that old thing that people used to do before front-end JavaScript frameworks took over the world.
How do you do this with an Android phone and iPhone, one of which is yours and others is some friend's? My most common problem is sharing media.
This feels like a solved problem, since you have an app for your car on your phone, although I guess you could disable notifications for that app. Upgrading your cellular connection on your car gives you remote services back, it’s useful for that alone, but recall notifications can just be routed through the app so I don't think I would miss much.
You can't see the point of elucidating the nuances of the way the brain encodes the information around us? Surely even if you see no value in basic science of this nature in and of itself (in my opinion a mistake) there are myriad application-based reasons to understand how the brain works, including both medical progress and the brain's influence on artificial intelligence designs.
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> a conspiracy of the world's militaries seems a little far-fetched to me

Really?

Well one way to think of it is no military will reveal tracks only accessible to their most classified radar systems, because all militaries wish to protect the secret capabilities of those systems.

If that doesn't suffice for you, we can go a bit deeper haha! :)

Perhaps you don't need to use the word "conspiracy" if that makes it hard for you to think about. I know that word has become loaded (CIA invented the term 'conspiracy theorist' apparently as a term of abuse to discredit any who threatened to reveal their secrets), and it's meant to (and indeed seems it can!) cloud thought, but all 'conspiracy' really means is "breathing together": con-spire.

But perhaps you can think of it rather like a loosely coordinated mutual self-interest, rather than the tighter collaboration suggested by conspiracy.

Whatever the reality may be beyond the classified veil, which may nevertheless surprise your priors, there's precedent for loosely coordinated mutual self-interest in a number of areas, that will also explain the lack of transparency the world's militaries seem to share around discussing and revealing plentiful data about the UFO topic:

- there's a classified but revealed international system in place for atomic test notifications between enemy nations, as well as rocket launches, to inadvertently avoid trigger global thermonuclear war.

- all nuclear states already 'conspire' to keep the technical and engineering secrets of atomic weapons out of public awareness, to preserve their own advantage (to, erm, annihilate each other ha! :S)

- sworn enemy special services / intelligence services often collaborate / interface together at a high level, in secret, in ways that would seem surprising to their populations who only have the picture of spy-vs-spy and enemy-nation

Given these pertinent existing realities, it's rather less hard to consider how all militaries would share a common goal of projecting strength and capability (for that is what they are required to do to accomplish their mission of protecting their populations), and that, if all Earth's militaries were confronted with a global threat, which well outpaced their own capabilities, and against which they had no effective defense, and had the choice to be able to A) tell their populations they were outmatched and essentially no longer 'fit for service', or B) keep that embarassing truth secret by any means necessary while continuing to pretend everything was fine, I think you'd likely agree with me that this 'conspiracy of the world's militaries' would rather choose A than admit to B. Would you not? Haha! :)

Secondly I think you'd agree that no 'conspiracy' was required in order to keep that so. :) hahaha :)
+1, I recall reading a thread on this not too long ago. For me, the main, quite unfortunate, take-away was that a lot of the microplastics could actually stem from the filters of reverse osmosis systems.

See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38942293