skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should people get to build walls around the gardens of edens and kick out the ladders of those on the other side?

Property rights are a shared fiction we adopted because they're (largely) in the best interest of society. When they instead act as subsidies and hand outs to some fortunate few, we need to rethink how things are done.
And to be fair to Jefferson and Heneghan they have repeatedly called for proper RCTs to be run.
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I think most likely the notes were the result of re-processing information written down earlier -- if the original content was taken from a class. Nevertheless, that is very impressive -- almost a product of art. I wish I could get one copy.
Having to stand for 20 minutes is not such a bad deal if you’re in decent health. Hell it’s probably good for you if you spend most of your day sat at a desk.
That’s equivalent to demanding the Python community to abolish PyPI in favor of making the “one great” standard library. Nix is a language after all. It’s meant to have tools that build on it.
Confusing robots.txt which includes

user-agent: *
disallow: /

and hundreds of spam URLs. Did the website get overrun by content spammers at one point?

disallow: /mineralstriplestomboyslocksmithsflattopswainscoting
noindex: /worthygipsy?reformatting
disallow: /abolitionistspotfulsnonabsorbentconvergingsuitors
allow: /foibles/amaliatareseffigypunishingpurposes
>Use attribute selectors to convey unicity.

> /* Do */

> [id="main"] { max-width: 80ch; }

> /* Don't */

> #main { Max-width: 80ch; }

I strongly disagree with this kind of guideline. The id attribute has very good uses, and in those cases the hash syntax should be the preferred way.

The use of id in an attribute selector is such a bad choice that makes me question the whole document.
> I've often thought that a search engine that indexes only the highest quality, probably hand-curated, sources would be highly desireable

That's what I miss about the old internet, where folks would have link pages that were just other cool sites

Sure, discovery was harder, but it was harder to AstroTurf worth SEO too
Oh for sure these limitations will fall. It's only a matter of time (and a lot of work behind the scenes).

Covariant's RFM-1 (announced Monday) is an interesting approach to generality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Go6HEC-bYU
The First Amendment does not directly protect the speech of non-US persons outside of US territory. However, US courts have held that the First Amendment can limit the US government's ability to restrict the speech of non-US persons abroad if that speech is directed at or received by people in the US.
Sort of, except not always. Compare to medical insurance in the US. Medical care in the US is both one of the most expensive and most privatised in the world.
TikTok's links to China aren't "murky". ByteDance is literally a Chinese company. Chinese companies are regularly coerced by the state in the PRC, in obvious ways (Jack Ma says Hi) and subtle ones (the coordinated dance to bail out Evergrande).

I'm sensitive to your demand for proof, but how much more "proof" do you want? If the PRC wants to manipulate western democracy by mobilizing a force of Gen-Z nuts via messages in their favorite app, they can do it, just like they do domestically.
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant,and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
https://archive.ph/YxXpa
any support for a direnv driven workflow?
It's simple, yet hard to execute well. Each sentence contains one piece of information to be imparted. The speed of speaking is slower - with emphasis on diction and pronunciation. There is a slight pause between sentences to allow the recipient time to comprehend what was just said.

Try it yourself - read some of the comments here in that manner and observe the difference.
No, it isn’t, because Austin allows building to keep up with demand. The policy failures of West Coast states aren’t a law of nature; they’re policy failures.
Gleason scores already designate 5 different types/categories of PaC, and this score strongly influences what type of barbaric treatment one will receive.

I hope their findings help discovery of humane immunotherapy’s.
oh f**, we invented this shit in software, now it's coming back to bite us
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This person must understand both the theory of query optimization and the practical challenges of safely shipping a new query optimizer on a mission-critical DBMS.

https://www.mongodb.com/careers/jobs/5650236

Compensation data: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/mongodb/salaries/software-e...
The Viture One has a built-in diopter correction wheel which can correct up to 4 diopters (which might not be good enough for you; it is just barely good enough for me).
> I recommend you to make IgG test for covid antibodies. Most likely you already have some

I've had Covid at least twice since this nightmare started, most recently in November 2023.

After both a chest x-ray and a CT scan in hospital eventually a Covid PCR test[0] came back positive and at that point the mood lightened and the doctors told me that a positive Covid test was "the good news" and to go home and rest.

I appreciate Covid is still a threat to some elderly and/or sick people. To the majority of us, it isn't ... and wasn't ... ever [1][2]

[0] Unwitting comedy moment from the (otherwise friendly and apparently competent) student doctor. Took my history very thoroughly, felt my glands, examined ears and looked down throat. All without her wearing any kind of mask. Then late on she decided to take a Covid swab, so left the small room that we'd been in together for 10+ minutes to retrieve swab and FFP mask, which she donned to swab my nostrils. Am afraid I giggled when I saw her go get the mask, had to tell a lie to avoid exposing the utter nonsense of fetching one at that stage :)
[1] https://twitter.com/d_spiegel/status/1241297511287046144?lan...
[2] https://twitter.com/d_spiegel/status/1271696043739172864
Metro systems even in the best examples don't give easy anywhere to anywhere access. There are places you cannot access because there is no direct route and unlike a car there are no 'shortcuts' around going where the train goes.
Because they're on https://pluto.tv ? They've got dedicated channels for The Price is Right, Let's Make a Deal, classic Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, classic Family Feud, Supermarket Sweep and Deal or No Deal, plus Buzzr and a couple of other random game show channels. Pluto's not mentioned in the article at all, but there they are, streaming a ton of hit game shows.

Oh, like, ones from this year? Hulu has modern Jeopardy, Press Your Luck, $100,000 Pyramid, Name That Tune, Match Game, a whole ton of others. (This is mentioned in the article, but somewhat dismissively.)

Plenty of hit game shows on streaming. Not a great article.
If YouTube had a Dewey decimal style clickable directory it would be a lot easier to find content.
> RAII adds a humongous cognitive load to a language

How does it add cognitive load? Compared to manual resource management it certainly removes a lot of cognitive load. And what is the alternative?
One could argue that it is not actually a word https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/what-does-cromulent...
Misleading title. The company they/she work at is literally a part of EA.
What differentiates this from (say) Obsidian?
Stripe does handle sales tax remittance...through their acquired subsidiary TaxJar.

Alternatively, you can use Avalara, which is a lot more expensive. (And since their acquisition by a PE fund last year, a lot buggier.)
isn’t government funding for academia mainly grants for research rather than investments in teaching.
I haven't asked them directly, so maybe that's on me. There are reasons for that but to discuss them here might identify the company and the people involved.

I'll try that and get back.
What does MSW stand for here? Maybe "Mock Service Worker" https://mswjs.io/?
My father was diagnosed with a Gleason score of 10 this year.

When it’s this bad, ironically some barbaric options are off the table.
You can live in what ever reality you want, but NIMBY behavior is inherently rent-seeking.

That being said, I don't hold it against people from paying themselves rent and taking a profit when they sell. But if you have kids, you do have to come to terms with the fact that you're creating a situation where they likely won't be able to afford to live in the neighborhood where they grew up or near you at all.
I interview a lot of candidates and the quality of a lot of the recent grads makes it seem like I won’t be hurting for income until the day I croak. I’ve been interviewing people on and off for about 20 years now, and the talent pool has gotten much worse in the past decade. Might be because a lot of kids are choosing the field to “get rich”, might be just general deterioration of education idk. Case in point: over the past month I interviewed 8 fresh grads. Only one was actually good and got an enthusiastic vote from me. What to do with this is not clear to me. If anything you need to be much better educated to make a serious dent in this field today compared to 20 years ago.

Which is to say, companies discriminating against the older workers are doing so to their own detriment, in my opinion.
Being mad about this is like being mad the thief who stole your belongings then pawned them. The crime was spying on you in the first place. Automakers should not have any data, to share or sell or give to law enforcement with a subpoena.
Everybody knows Elon can’t tolerate anyone questioning him or criticizing him. The news here is that Lemon is surprised.
You have to check by hand, just like you have to check an intern's code.
What’s wrong with medicine if it makes your life better?
Exporting from Obsidian is so easy though. I forget how the defaults are, but installing hte Pandoc plugin makes it a zero-effort option.
Eh, I mean I've interviewed lots of just absolutely terrible candidates of all ages. Part of the problem seems to be that perception of this group is based on a narrative about their age in the first place.

(Not to mention, you meet someone for an hour, what do you really know about them? You can evaluate them for a job, but why are we spinning yarns about their internal motivations?)
I'm curious: why is it such a bad choice?

As for the #selector, in what cases do you need that much specificity? Not a rhetorical question!
LOL. Yeah man. Almost there.

Here to offer praise to the AI overloads. Hope they read my comments later and know I was a true believer and should be included in the maintenance crews they allow to live.
Not saying without kitchens so much as smaller kitchens. When you look at new home construction in the past 10 years, they have MASSIVE kitchens. A lot of them are bigger than my first apartment.

https://www.homes.com/property/kestrel-at-waterston-north-gr...
> with the US approach you get more walkable neighborhoods

Have you actually ever spent time in a post-Soviet country? Their cities are an order of magnitude more walkable than literally anywhere in the US. And that's ignoring their much better mix of uses (ground floor retail, etc) and access to public spaces (by foot).
Psychophysiological and emotional effects of human–Dog interactions by activity
Binning off? What an idiotic turn of phrase.
Not a comment on if AI if AI or not but pattern recognition is intelligence. Or perhaps more strictly something that has general pattern recognition capabilities. But in any case pattern recognition and intelligence are very closely related (perhaps the same thing), so saying that AI is "just" pattern recognition doesn't seem like a good counter argument. The argument then has to be about how much pattern recognition an entity has for it to be intelligent or how general it's pattern recognition capabilities are.
Insurance companies don't have to make money from underwriting or insurance.
rokid does too
Sure ageism is a thing, but I can't help but think that long experience in industry can be sort of a "get another job" superpower.

After a couple of decades in industry, I've formed so many professional relationships that it's hard for me to imagine that I might have any real trouble finding another job if I lost my current one. I mean, I guess I could be delusional and find it to be really tough at some point, but it hasn't happened so far. People I've worked with have gone on to start their own companies or have risen to senior director roles. In fact for the job before the one I have now a senior director practically yanked me out of my previous company and shoved me into his current company.

I don't think about recruiters sticking their noses up at me because of my age or buzzwords on my resume and such at all. If I want in somewhere, I just email someone I've worked with previously and ask if they think there might be something at their current company for me. It usually doesn't take long for their hiring manager to be asking me for an intro meeting. Only then does a recruiter get involved, and they're not screening me. They're setting up an interview loop. Often with people hand-picked by the hiring manager.

Look, I know ageism is real and it does happen and has a real impact on people. But on the other hand, if you've been working for 20+ years in industry and have generally left a good impression on your co-workers, how can you not have contacts sprinkled around in your industry who can give you a leg up on the job-finding process?
I just tried Storybook this past week and it's a great improvement even from version 6.x.

That said, I wish this was at a place where I could easily use it for the UI layer with simple integration into a given CMS. As others have stated, it's great in isolation and for demos. Also, I realize that most apps and CMSes are so opinionated and using Storybook for the view of that system is a lot of overhead.

One less than stellar example is WordPress. It's technically possible to create a headless app using Next.js or Remix on the front-end, Gutenberg for the data layer and authoring, and Storybook as the source of truth for both ends. However, it was so much work to get there.

Maybe a legacy PHP system trying to be modern isn't a great example. But, then I'm stuck with any flavor of, usually paid database hosted, software like Contentful or Sanity. Again, the overhead!

I am a huge advocate for design systems that translate into component libraries, and Storybook fills part of that gap, but it'd be huge to see this type of setup become more practical.
is this a fork of regular nix?

It seems like it might be because they have special instructions for nixos users.. kind of makes me affraid to install it tbh.
I do wonder how much of that "not difficult at all" is just not knowing the difference. It would be interesting to see the difference in attitude between people born blind, and those who lost their sight later in life (old enough to have some solid sighted experiences and memories).

Just as sighted people take for granted a lot of things about their sight, I'm not surprised some blind people take many things for granted about their lack of sight -- even when they are negative, frustrating things.

While accessibility has come a long way, it still seems like it would be objectively more difficult to navigate the world blind than sighted.

> One put it like "I'm also not a tiger and can't jump 8 meters high. It's similar".

This makes a lot of sense, even if it's an imperfect analogy. Sometimes, if you have no experience with something, you won't mind not being able to do it, even if you know that a lot of other people can.

But if you look at it the other way: imagine a tiger with mobility issues that can't jump at all. Likely their life will be pretty limited, compared to most tigers.

I'm glad it seems there are (at least in your experience) a lot of people who are blind but don't consider it that big a hindrance. Ultimately what matters in life is that people are happy, and I imagine feeling like your life is constantly difficult due to something like blindness would reduce your happiness.
So you walk the last mile? Not accessible to everyone. Neither is accelerating a two ton slab of metal to move one person around from exactly point A to exactly point B (and now you need parking at both points, which adds to the sprawl issue)
Perhaps most intriguing was that playing with the dog increased both alpha and beta together in the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s control center for complex cognitive behaviors, personality, and decision-making. This suggests that playful interaction with dogs could promote a calm yet attentive mental state especially conducive to learning, creativity and emotional balance.
Is there a good reason why they are comparing Claude 3 with ChatGPT 3.5 instead of 4? Does anybody really even care about/use Gemini?
Was going to say that the people on reddit didn't realize that she's trolling them.

Per LinkedIn, they (Cliffhanger Games, the specific developer in the reddit post) have a number of white employees...Including at their executive levels...And in their HR department...
By the time this gets certified will the blades have grown too large for it?
No, it's not. Markets with a housing shortage have record low inventories and record low uninhabited units.
Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
I used to work for someone that LOVED to deploy on Fridays. She would make us all stay late if whatever she wanted to finish this week was not done yet. So many 7pm on Friday deployments, ick.
And? This is just how economy work. Chip design has been like that for decades.

The academia should be rejoiced that it has make an economical impact
Not relief. Parole.

The parole process has reduced the number of aliens from those countries entering the US and government spending and lets us do background checks, capture biometrics and cap how long they're allowed to be here.

There's a reason why the court tossed Texas' lawsuits against it this week. They couldn't find injury.
To be clear, I would not expect it to be as fast! But I do wonder what the percentage drop-off would be and, if small enough, if that would make staying on Actions more compelling than a bespoke solution.
"If a lion could speak, we could not understand him."
Ransomware gang claims to have made $3.4M after attacking children's hospital
Who would want elon as a boss? I guess for the right price maybe.
The End of the Dark Universe?
Hi HN!

I have been building (for 13 years) a self-hosted website analytics[0] application, where the database runs on MySQL.

I decided to jump on the AI-hype wagon and add some AI integrations in my app. The obvious integration was "ask the AI questions about the stats stored in the database". Questions like "How many visitors came from Google in last 30 days?" or "which product is sold the most on Sundays?".

Being self-hosted, I didn't want to send any of your data to the OpenAI API, so my solution, as described in the docs was:

1. You type your question.
e.g. "How many visitors came from Google versus directly?"

2. The question, together with the database schema and some instructions (system prompt) are sent to ChatGPT.

3. The AI generates a MySQL query that answers your question.

4. The MySQL query is displayed to you. You can then send the query for execution to your local database to get the results.

5. The output is displayed as JSON in the chat.

Soon, there will be additional ways to display the results (graphs, exportable csv, files, images, etc.)

The AI (even GPT 4) sometimes struggles to generate valid SQL queries, but most of the times it works as expected. It is really fun to play with.

I could give more SQL examples/instructions to the AI, but that considerably increases the price (tokens)/query. If anyone knows if I can somehow make the system prompt "global" so it doesn't use tokens for each completion, please let me know.

One example question that fails (that a client mentioned): "what two pages did users visit before visiting the /pricing page?". This is actually a quite tricky MySQL query, and it has several edge cases. If any SQL guru knows a good/efficient SQL answer to this question, write it below. I linked the db structure[1].

So far the reception has been great, got some nice emails from users.

ChatGPT gets a bit expensive, so I am planning to add other different APIs (anyscale?) and even local Ollama support.

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com/

[1]: https://docs.uxwizz.com/guides/database-querying
Now have fun doing all that with 2 young kids in tow and the cost of paying for them.
You're missing commas in your example: "customerId": 12
"customerName": "John Smith" ...
On the subject of giant imported trees liking the UK, the tallest trees in the UK are a group of Douglas Firs in Wales, near Betws-Y-Coed

https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/heightrecords/gbr/

I don't recall being in Betws when it wasn't raining, if that helps explain it.
I never received an email. I found out through my employees who got the notice. I tried reaching out with no luck... I contacted our legal counsel and it turns out there is not much any of us can do in this situation. If you hear of anything, please let me know. I don't know if all of us who had money sitting with them can come together to do something. I'll save this link to see if others chime in once they realize what happened and start googling themselves.
Great list.

Using devbox myself and very happy with it.

Would be great to hear what separates flox from the rest.
Considering the amount of carbon being pumped out to power all this, you may be right.
Don't forget the "culture fit" interview.
That is exactly the cherry picking that I mean. You can point out a few examples that appear to fit the Strong Towns hypothesis (although causality isn't clear) but there are many other suburban cities which are quietly doing fine and have sustainable budgets.

The Detroit metro area would be a mess even if it had higher density housing and better public transit. The problems there are more due to federal trade policies, toxic labor relations, and failed progressive social policies. It isn't valid evidence to either support or refute the Strong Towns hypothesis: too many confounding variables.
At least in the Dutch army even the Dutch word for 'acronym' has its own acronym: afko which is short for afkorting which means acronym.
If you haven't read it, I highly recommend Cory Doctorow's book "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation." I originally had low expectations that anybody would have a reasonable answer, and mainly purchased it to support the author making it available DRM free, but have been very impressed with the analysis.

Relevant to this issue, Cory discusses how this (ab)use of copyright is what enables gigantic tech companies and walled gardens, because competing with them is not a technical problem, but rather a legal problem. He's right! (At least for now until the wet dreams of the DRM people are realized and there's hardware DRM baked into everything). If people could without fear of lawyers build stuff, big tech would have to compete on merits and user experience rather than wielding armies of IP lawyers and legal threats.

[1]: https://craphound.com/internetcon/
I found this Facebook group called "Low Miles No Miles"

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2066782386864241/

I was very surprised how many people there are who buy cars from the factory and immediately stored them, in the 1990's. In some cases the owners did not even remove any of the factory stickers or plastic.

This group must be showing just the tip of the iceberg.
I guess this is more focused on Google sheets and the limitations of it, i.e. people that do not operate with Excel files basically