skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a really interesting poll (that was not so easy to dig up!) here. [1] It's from 2005, so still quite near peak movie, on why Americans aren't going to the movies. The interesting thing about the poll is, as you mentioned, the leading reason for people stated for why they aren't going to the movies anymore is they prefer to watch at home (33%).

Yet when the identical question is asked in a slightly different way, you get a very different result. When asked if they would see more movies if they were cheaper, 43% said they would be much more likely. When asked about movies being better quality, 36% said they would be much more likely to see more movies. And that was back in 2005 when movies were still far from the rock bottom current era of spandex, sequels, and remakes!

[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/17113/What-Will-Get-Americans-M...
The pirate IPTV streams are not UDP, they’re HLS vis HTTPS. Often behind Cloudflare.
This is a great point, I've often wondered why there are no seat belts on airplane toilets. Yes, there would be many obstacles to overcome (please, no course jokes) but there have been several times when I was using the facilities on a plane and turbulence ensued and I almost panicked thinking about all the possible bad things that could happen.
Why do you think you enjoy doing that? Tangentially, are you below the age of 25?
And maybe on new planes they'll change the iconography (which would probably require FAA rules to be rewritten), but let's not downplay the role of just having common sense.
There's always a judgement call regarding how skeptical to be about others' claims.

Sounds like you and GP are just drawing the line at different places.
Has SELinux become configurable on the command-line with well documented tools? Does it still occasionally decide to "relabel files" for 10 hours on a random reboot?

It's a great mechanism in theory, but the practice leaves much to be desired.
The JDBC substory is fantastic.

Google built a database, works great internally, all well.

They subcontract out to build an adapter layer for the wider world which doesn't work properly, so the wider world gets to use a crappy database. A carefully engineered core Google uses, wrapped in broken nonsense, creating an emergent whole that is unnecessarily rubbish. Noone internally notices they've done this and the external people are poorly placed to work it out.

That seems absolutely on point for Google's open source strategy.
Squash before merge is fine if you have a project tracker, where you can use the issue as a discussion hub to describe your thoughts. Then you put the issue number in the squashed commit message. The PR can serve as implementation specific documentation and discussion.
incorrect. This works on all browsers, on all platforms. It's a hook into their exposed OAuth2.0 flow. You'd have to disable javascript to stop it. signIn action can be a fetch and you're f$&ked. You'll get the "Sign In With Google" popup (with you're username already snatched).
This story is part of the reason I'd never want to know about where I land intelligence wise compared to other people. No matter the outcome, I don't think it could be good. I it's below average, I'll feel limited. If it's above average, I'll have added pressure of self expectations and maybe arrogance. That's not the case for everyone, but I'm happy where I am currently.

Back to the story - the use of grammar and spelling that progress throughout the story is so simple, but such a great way to portray his progress aside from the content of the story.
They don’t. They stop it being an accident though - except in languages like C where braces are optional for single line blocks which can lead to similarly poor outcomes.

Whitespace sensitivity is the top of Python’s pretty exhaustive list of flaws.
Where can I read this statement?
what makes you think he didn't?
It isn't all that far-fetched, really. Venus is the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon.

... as to _how_ bright it can be - I was once in an area with dark skies, setting up my telescope just before sunset. After dark, I was taking in the beauty of the Cigar Galaxy and then looked up and behind from the scope. My eyes were assaulted by a bright light on the top of the hill behind, and I was cursing the idiot who had turned that light on, when I realized that it was Jupiter, freshly risen above the hill. Jupiter is not as bright as Venus.

On that night, Venus, had it been visible, would've been blindingly brilliant. Flying 10 Km above the ground, with no light pollution, I'm not surprised that the Pilot mistook Venus for an aircraft headlight.

Edit: clarity
"Zero-g" is different to "zero gravity". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weightlessness
Hypothesis starts to support fuzzing and solver-based back ends
> I showed through the Chinese example that Central Planning does not necessarily lead to any waste of human potential and almost certainly is responsible for the greatest use of human potential in the history of human civilization.

Hold your horses. I agree that Chinese central planning has done wonders for China. However, American-style distributed planning is still clearly superior. American GDP growth has been continuous for years, and America is currently completely outpacing China. Many economists predict China's decline over the next few decades as the centrally planned demographics cliff hits. I think it's foolish to be overly impressed by China, and I think your characterization of it as the 'greatest use of human potential in the history of human civilization' is completely off point.

> Let’s talk about the U.S. The US is extremely federal but almost all the useful infrastructure in the U.S. is still a result of central planning around World War 2. The highway system, the massive series of dams and other energy projects, land grant colleges, etc.

Hmm... well certainly some are, but the highway system is distributed planning. The feds centrally fund it, but individual states are responsible for actually planning the highway's routes, as long as certain conditions are met. The majority of American highways existed before the interstate acts. The acts simply brought them up to standards and ensured a consistent numbering system. For example, before I-5 was designated, there was the 'Pacific highway' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Highway_(United_States...) built in a distributed manner by three states acting together at the behest of groups of individuals.

Moreover, a lot of American infrastructure is private: hospitals, banking, energy, rail. This was even more true in the developing years of the American economy. By the time the federal highway funds came in, America was already a 'developed' country, and had developed without much central planning.
Doesn't this "bad" design allow Reddit to show a higher DAU? Isn't DAU correlated with ad prices? Sounds like a winning design to me, especially if it only appears that the design is bad, and not the intent behind it.
You didn't give a time frame. So I would say, there are no skills that cannot be replaced by AI in an indefinite time frame.

AI might have mastered just about every skill or capability within 10 or 20 years. Some people suspect less.

Your list isn't really just skills but more generally abilities.

Emotional IQ - See the Inflection 2.5 model (Pi).

Creativity - Ask ChatGPT to help you be creative writing poetry and then creating paintings of the poems.

Leadership/management - Claude 3 or GPT4 might be better than the average manager. 70% of my bosses have been barely competent pr!cks though, so I may be biased.

Negotiation is not that complex actually. It's boils down to being willing to walk away. Leading LLMs can be good negotiators already.

Hand-eye coordination - not for every single task, but we have robots that can play ping pong, juggle, catch balls, and solve a Rubik's cube faster than humanely possible.

Critical thinking skills: put the average person off the street against Claude 3 Opus or GPT-4 Turbo and have them take a GRE or similar test. I would bet on the AI.

For your list, we are already there.

I think that "replaced" is not necessarily the best way to think about it though. People still play chess. Or run. Or Jeopardy. We still have plenty of amateur artists that just want to imitate their favorite cartoon or whatever. Even though AI can do all of that better and faster now.

But wait 10 or 20 years. There will be very realistic and fully capable simulations of humans.
> What if the folders and requests within the API collection could be mapped to folders and files on the filesystem? … Ultimately, I realized that file-based API collections were the future. Unlike other tools, such as Postman or Insomnia, Bruno would allow users to maintain their collections in a source code repository using Git for collaboration.

Can someone help me understand what is meant by this API can be mapped to folders & files comment.

https://www.usebruno.com/blog/the-saas-dilemma
In free-fall, the object is primarily being accelerated by gravity.
Honestly I just remember careful coordination about what information / code / artifacts to release from the private IRC channel and when. He ignored the consensus a bunch of times which lead to demoralization and people leaving.

I’ll never know how real the threat to peoples jobs were but I don’t think they were being overly cautious.
>If the right person decides to cut out all the bullshit and prioritize things

How can that be an argument in favor? If the right management team magically came around, you could also buy Boeing based on that hope. But I don't think any sane investor would do that.
It sounds like Little Englander means a Brit who is a Euroskeptic and has nationalistic tendencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Englander
Typing doesn't take a significant portion of a programmer's time anyway. Automation on that half of the work is only so useful.

Checking the code on your screen against your internal mental model does take varying amounts of time. It depends on language syntax and how your mind works.

Different programmers internally think in different ways, it turns out.

In my case I found that I tend to look at the indentation primarily, and then I check parentheses and semicolons against the indentation.

(So in my case python lets me skip an entire step.)
"Little Englander" is a derogatory term for English nationalists and British people who are xenophobic or naïvely nationalistic — for the latter, those who think England is "better than all other countries", and that England should only work together with other countries when there is a direct advantage for England rather than for the benefit of humanity as a whole.
Yes, but lists, dicts and comments still requires reaching altgr nevertheless.
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What's the point of obfuscation then?
I disagree, the physics of large planes make extreme movements on the plane's z-axis like this via just it's control surfaces near impossible. All the control surfaces can really do is tilt the plane, which in absolute terms will change verticality but relative to the plane is still a longitudinal acceleration. The only thing that can overwhelm the momentum of something with the mass of a small building fast enough to cause injury like this is turbulence.

That being said having the plane lose instruments from the turbulence is a major problem that needs to be fixed

Edit: Rereading the article I did notice a passenger comment about the plane going in a nosedive, which would match the scenarios the others below me have replied with that dont involve turbulence. Always thought the airframe couldn't survive actively maneuvering at such extremes on big jets like that, guess I was wrong.
> Go on champ. Show us how it’s done.

The baseline product can and has been cloned by many people. Hacker news is one of those clones. Whipped up with minimal effort in a meme language no one ever used before.

Getting popular is the tricky part.
Investigative skills. AI can't do anything a detective does. Formulating a theory, testing it, refining it etc.

Also quickly grabbing arbitrarily shaped objects from a pile.
I am pretty sure this is one of two things: (1) https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html or (2) reporters desperately casting about for a story to write and landing on a non-story.
Self-hosting with the same availability/durability/security profile as Google would not be any cheaper (probably not more expensive either) - which is my point. His goal is to get off of Google and the other big tech providers for a multitude of (good) reasons but saving money is a red-herring that isn't just distracting but an unrealistic rationale that works against the other rationales.
Isn't this a grievous act of piracy? Daniel Keyes only died in 2014 so this story should be under The Holy Copyright (r) (tm) until 2089!

All repent and praise the Mouse!
The first few rows of seats sometimes have those, but not all the rows after that
I think you are confusing rings with discs. Larry Niven is the one doing the spinning
sqlite as a replacement for fopen is the middle ground
No opportunity. Any manufacturer wanting to export anything to EU, and that includes Ireland, needs to label all of his UK bound wares with "not safe for human consumption" labels.
From the article:

> Shoppers can rest assured, however, that the labels do not denote a reduction in standards. Aside from some divergence on pesticides, British food standards so far remain largely unchanged since Brexit.
Some folks from Chainsafe looked into it a couple years ago: https://github.com/nulltea/zk-timelock. I'd love to see this work move forward.
Crops need water, stable climates and human intervention. Global heating is driving desertification, droughts and more extreme weather events.
Oh without a doubt this makes Reddit look like it has way more users than it actually does. 2/3rds of them single visits or visitors with no posts, no comments, no engagement, just someone following a google result.
> Your line of argument could be used to excuse almost anything that an AI does

The difference between AI and LLMs are very important here. LLMs are ultimately just algorithms and party tricks, there's really nothing to excuse as they have no intent, no consciousness, no true intelligence at all.

Where LLMs can't be racist, for example, presumably an AI could. We will have plenty of questions to answer there like whether AI have rights, fall under the same laws as humans, can be convicted and punished, etc. The fact that people at scale aren't considering any of these questions is one of the main reasons I'm so opposes to AI research today. We need to know how we'll deal with an AI before we make it, and that includes all the legal and moral questions that will arise.
Of course it worked. No popular website gives people unlimited use of an API for free. Its financial death. Reddit kept it on far too long, Facebook was suitng anyone attempting to build an app based on unofficial APIs more than a decade ago, and it worked great for them

I also haven't really seen any of the major (Reddit mods are not spread out, a very small group control the majority of large subreddits) mod just quit. Anyone who edited their content "so reddit doesnt profit" just gave the internal Reddit DB more value to sell to the LLM companies

Reddit moderation, like Facebook Group moderation, works for free because people are bored and love the power grab. There are SO MANY Facebook Groups with over 100,000 and 1,000,000 users, their mods work endlessly 24/7 to stop spam and make sure everything is kosher. They've never once asked Zuckerberg for cash, the ego boost is just too big to give up
the EC should be forced to use the libre suite, thereby permanently crippling it as a functional institution
The main reason this labelling exists is for exporting into/through Northern Ireland.

Because there's limited border checks, it's to stop non EU standard food being exported to Northern Ireland, and then on to the EU.

In Northern Ireland, names and symbols matter. It's smart to avoid "UK" being prominently displayed where possible.
The Chipotle founder's new robot-powered vegan restaurant
Charlie's trajectory may be your trajectory, not as an allegory. You may be that average person.
I still love this experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM

The theories about the origins of these commenters were amazing. There's nothing to say that other people are not doing the exact same thing right now here on HN and other places. And very few people would even notice, because open LLMs have progressed significantly since then.
True. But I would say their use is one order of magnitude less than a block delimiter.
Hi,

co-author of the ODF spec (2006 ISO) here, I also got involved via NLNet to work with my local standards office to improve OOXML.

The OOXML spec was offered to the ISO standard along an unusual path, a fast standardization lane. Where there was no option for any of the people reviewing it to actually change anything. It was rubber-stamped in other words.

That fact alone doesn't mean it is a bad, but it is a bit of a red flag. The fact is, it is a really bad specification. It is a full 7000 pages long with lots of conflicting details. On top of that it is full of references like "this works like wordperfect version-n". While references are useful in specifications, they need to be to existing open standards to be meaningful. Wordperfect has never standardized its format, so referring to it is meaningless.

To implement a competing application that can use this format you'd not be able to do that from this specification alone. Next to that it is so massive that it is essentially an undertaking that makes no sense. Compare it to ODF which is 1/10th of the size. Has a lot of reuse of concepts and was written under OASIS, a standards organization, unlike the OOXML spec which was written by Microsoft and the full 7000 pages dropped on the world.

I stopped looking at the OOXML stuff for some years, so the next part may be outdated. I noticed that after MS got this ratified by OSI, and thus they dodged the threat of law requiring governments to switch to ODF, they never did an update to the spec even though the applications have seen plenty of new features.
This seems absolutely reasonable. Keep the data about people who have committed or you can reasonably suspect might be committing a crime, get rid of the identifiable information for law-abiding citizens and maybe keep the aggregated metadata.

This should be the standard IMO.
They're describing what should be, not what is.
Looking to deGoogle your website? Ditch Google Analytics and replace it with Wide Angle Analytics :)
The Barbie being an easier to watch movie than Oppenheimer is a take I didn't expect to see on HN. I'm pretty sure a lot of people on here were a lot more uncomfortable watching the Barbie movie than they were watching Oppenheimer.

I suspect a lot of people even plain didn't see the Barbie movie because they were more comfortable watching a movie that skirts over criticising American fascism/authoritarianism of the 40's and 50's, than watching a movie that treats modern American culture without kid gloves.
14 CFR 121.311(b)

Except as provided in this paragraph, each person on board an airplane operated under this part shall occupy an approved seat or berth with a separate safety belt properly secured about him or her during movement on the surface, takeoff, and landing.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/part-121/section-121.3...
When you have billions of objects this is really the only way to go - and build workflows around inventory (including athena, spark, etc)
The funny thing is its not UK gov doing this, its UK gov reluctantly agreeing to it while being reamed by EU. Labels of no exports.
>You just go off into the woods randomly during lunch, or some other time that is unlikely to be anticipated.

That might work if you're planning to start an "insurrection with the boys", but how are you going to "go off into the woods randomly during lunch" if you're a journalist working with an anonymous tipper?
I think DFU mode and recovery mode are different. In recovery mode the screen is initialized and displays the “connect to iTunes” image. In DFU mode the screen is blank; I think this is implemented by the bootrom and can be used to restore even iBoot.

https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/DFU_Mode
microsoft open many office in country and if there are employment that mean any politician would need to support that

its not black and white as you can see
In my state, the arm pit of America, OKLA, auto insurance is mandatory. However, a certain amount of my fellow citizens treat it as optional.
Simple answer: 2000 employees for a social media website doing 800 mil in revenue is too much(remember that mods are also not being paid which should technically be a tailwind to profitability). IMO once this is out in the open there will be no way around 30% headcount cut over 2-3 years.

The monetization has also been very bad historically(selling awards is really dumb), so there are definitely ways to pump revenue up fast as well. But once again, headcount cuts will probably accelerate once its public
I think you underestimate most developers.
We have a large number of actionable plans that happen to reduce profits for very rich organizations that hence spend a lot of money to prevent their implementation.
If you've got a well and your well water is always significantly below body temperature one thing that might be worth considering is installing a hand pump. You could then at least draw a bath and sit in the tub to remain cool.

That works by contact with something colder than you. It does not rely on evaporation and so is not affected by high humidity.
> the regular mental decline of the average person

of every person
I’m not sure I follow.

The eu regulations no longer apply to food companies operating in the UK, as the UK no longer is in eu-jurisdiction.

The uk govt would have to re-implement them one by one, which a) would be a considerable effort and b) defeats the point of brexit, and thus likely come at political costs.

/edit: thanks for the responses, TIL.
Just start firing people. Meta learned the same thing and cut something like 25% of the workforce. It's organizational debt, start removing layers. Because so many of the people are doing destructive make work things, throwing darts to lay off entire teams would even prob even be net positive, but ideally it would be more thoughtful.

There's no reason the app sucks so bad. Seems like this would be a priority?
One thing I like about typescript is that unless you’re a masochist, it basically pushes you towards option 1.

If you have to constantly check for null/undefined it gets annoying and you naturally think about narrowing the state space so entire sections of your program don’t have to think about those possible states.

It should also become obvious when you have a possible null/undefined state and it’s super unclear what that piece of your program ought to do about it other than alert the parent (such as throwing an error). If a component doesn’t have a role to play when null, maybe it shouldn’t ever be seeing null as a possible state.
How is that possible to not know? Have you never worked on a team?
I was perplexed trying to read few comments and understand what they were saying. As soon as a user said these look like they were generated using markov chains I knew something was up.

If I can find the comment I’ll share it.

Here is one example[1]. Trying to find a better one.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26848661
This is what avherald writes in their report (as of now, 2024-03-11 14:20 CET): "The captain later said they had briefly lost their instrumentation, then it came back all of the sudden."