skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with you.

I'd really hate to see the return of the days when copying and pasting from Microsoft Word into a web form would result in hundreds of kilobytes of pseudo-HTML garbage.
My TATLs:

BA on 777: really nice

Virgin Atlantic on A-340: awful

Icelandair on 757: truly awful

KLM on 777: pretty nice

I don't think just avoiding the American flag is enough.
Idk.

Hormonal contraceptives are widely used and considered safe, but my experience with them by way of many women in my life over the years is that they really mess with the emotional composition and in some cases psychological stability of women.

It seems, anecdotally, that it isn’t all women or maybe not even most women, but many women are adversely affected, and it is difficult to know what impact second hand hormones (from many environmental sources) may be having on the children developing in the synthetic hormone soup hat has become the environment in many industrialised economies.

Birth control pills may be an essential component of an economy that has devalued labor to the point of needing two wage slaves to support a family, but I’m not sure that the increase in wealth concentration efficiency justifies the social costs.
A basic test is to ask how quickly you can find information about a topic that is unbiased by commercial interests.

On some topics it's nearly impossible:
- medicine
- cosmetics
- cooking/nutrition/recipes

For many other topics, it's only really possible by finding forums where people who are not blog spammer discuss things. This used to be possible by appending "reddit" to a search term, but this is getting harder as Reddit's quality is decreasing.
So I'm seeing

> Japan has a Debt to GDP ratio of 255% ... yet it is still doing reasonably well

and

> Being a net creator ... [is] a sign something negative is going on.

How do you synthasize these? Would the Japanese be economically better off if they just forgave the debts of all the people who owe them money? That seems suspicious to me. As far as I can tell the argument is that the US is doing better than Japan, Japan is different to the US and therefore the US is not broke.

I don't think that is a strong argument. If the US engaged in heavy war spending, they'd have to print like madmen and don't think their economy would cope well. Let alone where they'd get the money to prepare for a conflict without focusing on manufacturing efficiency; it isn't easy to outspend people from this starting position because they seem to be finding the limit of what they can borrow. The people they owe money to aren't going to get it back in real terms either, seems safe to say.
I regressively searched for the app advertised in the previous search. At around depth twelve, a search for “four” gave both an ad and top result of an app named “Four”.

If you’re curious, Four’s description is “Shop Now, Pay Later.”
This is a very interesting observation....I never would have thought of the parallels between OpenAI and Youtube, during this startup/rapid growth phase. You are exactly right; YouTube also bent IP laws to the point of breaking while it was trying to grow fast enough to get a commanding market share.

However, eventually, YouTube had to issue endless EULA-violations and copywrite takedowns...and the free ride was over.

Maybe if YouTube had convinced everybody that its tech was an existential threat, governments would still be debating about what regulations should be enacted, instead of enforcing IP laws on YouTube....

Just underscores what a GENIUS move it was for OpenAI to hype-up the existential threat angle. It got everybody scared, and when you are scared, your reasoning is impaired, and you start making dumb decisions. Just brilliant...
It’s Balkanizing. Every community ends up having a general other chat channel and we’ve made all these small tiny islands for that general chat channel to be in. That’s what we’re losing. The hacker Slack that I’m in the Lisp enthusiasts group, the factorial discord. All those general chats are in their own tiny little islands instead of being in a bigger, wider world. That’s what’s changing. We’ve got these small private secret tiny islands and that’s great. I love them and protect mine and nobody’s allowed in unless you know someone. Is that the way it’s supposed to be? Because there are marauders out there that are just going to come in as bots and mine it for content if it’s not protected. We’ve lost the earnest here I am, out in the world sort of feeling, to be replaced by like oh, there’s a wild world out there and we better protect and put up a wall to protect the world around us.
It reads like a ChatGPT article where the user kept asking for more and more pretentious revisions.
Hilarious. I don't think i have never seen or gotten a scam app (not including games, which I don't use) as the top result on Google Play.

In fact, I just used all your searches on Google play and got

- my bank

- the train company app

- my broker

- hmrc

The next 4 or 5 in each case were also legit. Maybe this is really something to be aware of if switching to apple? Certainly would not have been something I would have been expecting from apple (though I am pretty careful about vetting apps).
The 'open web' I think is genuinely dying, but it has been for a while. Generic/Garbage AI content is just automation and commodification taken to its conclusion, spam and SEO content have been driving the signal to noise ratio down for a long time.

There's no genuine defense against it and people are increasingly moving to private spaces be that Discord servers, Telegram groups, decentralized networks etc. that are more human in scale. Patreon funded creators and streamers are gaining against public broadcasters etc.

Unless someone has a really new idea how you can make a defensible, healthy 'public townsquare' (which Twitter in its newest iteration is definitely not) that kind of accessible web is wasting away rather than changing.
This is an honest question and something I happen to have been thinking about recently.

Recently I questioned my assertion that the internet isn’t all that great anymore, but I couldn’t really come up with reasons beyond the shitty bloated websites we are served.

It seems like we are lamenting the fact that the internet is providing exactly what was promised.

The only thing we didn’t anticipate was the amount of noise that would come with it.

But it’s easier now more than ever to tell your story online with very little expense.

With that said, I feel like I’m missing the mark and would love to hear other opinions.
Because Apple is a company that does actually make great hardware, just marred by their idiot suit and tie MBA best schools social ties 1% tax dodging executive team that wants to foster the cultish attitude of their consumers and...
well they succeeded in a way.
To do {anything} well, think and care deeply
Inspection station in my state made comment to me that EVs are failing inspection for rusted brake components because of their heavy use of regen. Add to cost of ownership.
Fortunately, I have a physics degree so I am quite sure I am not being misled by the textbooks.

We will face different challenges at different scales, of course, but even as recently as 2016, researchers using a scanning tunneling microscope crafted a 8,192 bit message using less than ten thousand atoms. So, no, I see absolutely no reason why we couldn't have robots within an order of magnitude of the human cell -- we have bacteria which are much much smaller capable of a variety of functions as well as reproducing themselves

You might look into Feynman's "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."
Mesa conflicting defines with DirectX headers
> If I remember the keys on the keyboard reflect the colours on the board so that distinguishes it meaningfully (?) from on screen keyboards.

If a clone makes the game board and the on-screen keyboard use the same colors for a functional purpose, such as helping the user be less likely to use an incorrect letter on accident, then there should be no copyright issue with the matching of the colors between the game board and the keyboard.

The only copyright issue should be with the actual colors. A clone should not use the same colors that NY Times used. A clone should've used a different color than yellow for "right letter, wrong position" and a different color than "darker grey" (in dark mode, not sure about light mode) for "wrong letter". (Green for for "right letter" should always be fair game.) Simultaneously, the clone should be allowed to make the clone's keyboard use the same colors that the clone's game board uses.
Because the idea the web has a single root in Berners-Lee and that he is definitional for what the web "is" is a bit of a false meme. The roots of these concerns about controls, corporates proceed the web, and were always latent in the web, once it went beyond CERN. He gave birth to a body of code and a protocol and it very rapidly moved beyond his immediate control. The fact that we almost never got access to a read-write framework and it became read-only for most people except behind CGI gated commentaries, the absence of the engagement he wanted, was there in the 0.9 web, not something which emerged in the 1.0 web (ie, almost nobody ever experienced active annotation aspects)

Otherwise importance is personal. They're important to me as a historical bread-crumb trail. They inform.

Most gopher and wais information emerged into web rapidly. The controls behind the gopher and wais information did not emerge into some new nirvana, web was an access method, overwhelmingly read-mostly.

Look in strict literal terms of course it roots in TBL. You can't deny history. The question is what context that lies in. And the context is that to do HTML and HTTP TBL and his related involved people looked at SGML and other things like the Diamond system from BBN (not for a minute do I think that was the progenitor) or Hypercards. They didn't do web in a vacuum.
> But I don't really understand why you'd blindly trust some random app?

Perhaps because Apple claims their apps go through a review process, and one would hope this would have failed that process? That's what Apple claims the value proposition of their 30% cut and closed platform are.
> In this case, the argument is indeed self evidently right.

No, it absolutely is not.

> obviously absurd claim

You are obviously and absurdly wrong.

It's clear that nothing productive is going to come of this conversation.
Agreed. For Philly I go to this guy.

https://theweatherguy.net/blog/
Yep. Pretty much any kind of wear and tear part that is on an EV wears worse compared to a similarly powerful ICE. It's probably a wash or better because they don't use petroleum products for propulsion, but it is definitely a thing that needs to be considered. EV's are not some kind of panacea.
I wish community meshnets were more popular
> the developer who had implemented the function said he had heard that if/then was inefficient, so he used try/catch instead

I would love to see that function
Yeah that seems to be a common theme with Apple peeps, being fine with "Well if you don't like what Apple gives you, go somewhere else!"

But like...if someone really does like the product but knows that product could be even better, wouldn't they naturally speak up about it?
Replying to verify I see the same app almost at the top of search result. Based in Canada and searching “Bitcoin Wallet”, it was the 2nd non-promoted result.

I have only 1 other app of this variety on my phone currently and haven’t used it or searched for anything crypto related including months.
I can tell you right now I’m going to be chewing on this comment for a few days. I think you’re really striking at the heart of a major issue here.
I mean in all fairness, name one unbiased source you’ve heard of ever.
I have a pair of Pixel Buds, how do I see their current battery capacity and cycle counts?
Tokenomics in 69 Seconds [video]
Show HN: Live OCR and Voice Recognition Flashcard App
Bluesky starts letting users pick their own moderation filters
Not just high end real estate. Your local mom & pop in a strip mall somewhere (at least in the US) has a high chance of paying % of gross receipts to the landlord + rent.

This may vary by location and landlord but it absolutely is a thing. And a guarantee for any high-end, high-traffic location.
To those of us who remember them, internet forums were amazing. You'd have one or a handful of cool people who'd pay for hosting, and then you'd have a completely free to use web forum for whatever niche interest you had and wanted to learn more about, converse about, meet others over, etc.

Then, companies like reddit came on the scene with tons of borrowed money. Suddenly those forums were less attractive because, why pay money to host it somewhere on vBulletin when reddit was free? Just make a subreddit. And reddit was cool with that, for years. That's what it was for, afterall, and it barely ever made any damn money but the users didn't care. Why should they? It's not their problem. And Imgur came alongside it, too, to provide image hosting.

Then, the money dried up. Interest rates started creeping up. Suddenly all these services that had been free to use^1 for a decade or more suddenly had to put on grown up pants and be profitable, and not just regular ordinary profitable, but VC profitable. They had to go public and be big corporations and be worth billions of dollars. Then the enshittification starts. Service quality suffers. They start walling things off that had been free for again, a decade or more. Staff get fired and replaced. Companies are bought and sold. And soon all these "FREE" services are not only not free, but are markedly shittier than they were before.

And before the free market peeps come roaring in to explain how nothing is free, yes it was. It was free for YEARS, no not for everyone, you needed someone willing to buy an instance on a hosting service or whatever. But these sites came in to service a userbase that was already getting everything they needed for free, also for free, but centralized. And then once everyone moved over, only then did they put their hand out and demand money for doing exactly what enthusiasts already were, except they did it with massive platform sites that were bloated as fuck, mired in technical debt, subject to constant and often unwanted changes, scrutinized by advertisers with zero investment in their users who could blow away everything they'd put together in an instant because it was unsuitable to run Toyota ads beside.

So yeah, I get it, Reddit needs to make money. But maybe that being the case, they shouldn't have gone into a business that was demonstrably, provably unprofitable.

1: Yes yes you aren't the customer you're the product congratulations for having the most obvious observation about the economics of social media hot off the presses from 2011. Good for you.
Why are you defending a trillion dollar company lmao?

Why do you care so much that Apple has been forced to give consumers more choice, you can still just use the app store yourself, nobody is forcing you to use apps from alternative stores.

This is the standard "one true religion" reaction imo.
Yeah, Fractint was great. The VGA color palette cycling was trippy.

In the mid 1980's I typed in a Mandlebrot set program from a magazine. It was for the Apple 2, written in BASIC. It took around 12 hours to generate a 280x192 monochrome Mandlebrot.
The tech companies have boiled their frogs slowly and deliberately. Apple didn't start out the way it is today after all.
Actually, the opposite is true because they make heavy use of regenerative breaking.

What EV’s produce more of is tire particulates due to weight.

PS: And now the post says tires.
There are other search engines than google. I really have no problem finding what Im looking for except when I use google.
I'm guessing that even though the 3rd datacenter is about 35km away from the other 2, and so the building isn't in the expected destruction zone of a 1MT warhead, the damage to the city's electricity/water/network infrastructure would take the 3rd datacenter offline as well - so while your cat pictures are probably still in existence on the no-longer-spinning-rust there, they'd be unaccessible for quite some time.
Same here! Especially if I have multiple days of caffeine abuse. Weirdly, if I have too much caffeine and go exercise I get one of these guaranteed. I’m guessing some sort of relationship between caffeine and electrolyte depletion? No idea, I try to stay away from caffeine now.
Read gödel, escher, bach by Douglas Hofstaedter
Same. I used to get migraines weekly, and sometimes even more often than that. I had to visit the ER twice because of them, and one was so bad, the doctors thought it was a brain aneurysm. Just thinking about migraines makes me feel antsy.

Though I won’t look at the images, I can say that the auras I experience don’t all look the same. Some are blurrier than others, and some have more structure. It got to the point I could predict how painful and how long they would last by the shape and speed of the aura’s onset. The most painful ones had the most clearly defined structures, while I was much more likely to throw up if they were especially blurry.

And now I’m starting to feel that particular sort of sick just discussing it, so I’ll stop there!
> if you had a volcano that erupts roughly ever 100 years, base rate reasoning using the past 99 years of data would suggest that the probability is 0

Sparsity is a problem whenever you use data to predict or model something. Your example here is essentially subsampling only zeros from a sparse time series. The existence of sparsity isn't a new insight that invalidates everything. It's a challenge to be overcome by careful practice.

> when in reality your base rate in the year following an eruption is 0 with every passing year your probability of an eruption would increase & increase past 10% for every year past 100 that goes without explosion.

Sure, with large amounts of prior knowledge, you can do better than a naive base rate starting point. I'm sure that practitioners know this. Even in this contrived example, the base rate would have been a good first guess.

> predicting a rare event doesn't happen isn't that difficult

Doing it accurately (in the sense of having a low Brier score) is apparently difficult.
Close! AoA disagree hazard light was an optional feature. In the original implementation, the Flight computer in command, either the one on the pilot's side, or the one on the copilot's side (alternated on power up), were fed input from only the AoA sensor they shared a physical link with.

The optional feature was essentially networking the two ststems such that the data would be fed to the FCIC for warning light activation, so that pilot's could start running the right checklists.
We use it in gemma.cpp [1]. This hybrid of E5M2 and E4M3 decodes to bf16 in ~14 instructions, so we can do that on the fly during dot products.

[1]: github.com/google/gemma.cpp
IRC is like that, the command line nature rather violently excludes all the noise from the signal such that those who still use it today are usually worth chatting with.
I think the internet, as in the ability for arbitrary attached hosts to communicate using global addresses and properly formatted layer 3 messages, has been under attack for quite some time - and reachability isn't getting any better

but yes, that's not what people normally mean.
Crossing the CORS Crossroad
Favorite line:

"The sepiolite stems from commercially available cat litter."

Also reminds me of:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526719/characters/nm0570570
Yes, its always full bit it's not always sold. An upgrade is the airline turning an unsold seat into a potential future sold seat or customer good will.

But they don't get full price for it in any way. They'll take money to seat kids there if you wanna pay.
What does that have to do with Gen AI
Why not? You are presumably less-clothed in a pool, it could take pictures. Or record private conversations. Or both.

But sure, here's another -

You can run any company's software on a MBP, downloaded from the internet, without paying a dime to Apple. Similar situation applies to Windows / Microsoft.

The iOS model is advocating for rent-seeking in MacOs and Windows binaries.
If Apple is making money from showing incorrect search results, isn’t that worse?
We will probably get there, it's just going to take time for hardware supply chains to catch up. I feel it's more comparable to mainframe eras - it took time for general purpose computing to become commoditised.
Well, they're not, which means web developers are picking up the slack.
It is great, I tried another one based on activity pub, but it was inconvenient as for each post you need to have a post too on Mastodon (or similar), cactus worked great in my case, but now is disabled as my CSP is preventing it, and Zola don’t have random Nonce generator yet, when I get time maybe this weekend I will try tinkering with it. I made a shortcode for it that will also take the post title as the “room id” in matrix so things are organized properly when you moderate it.

> There is also another interesting approach via emails

That’s actually really interesting, thanks for sharing it! Will give it a try once it’s published.

Btw, since you migrated to Zola, I had this issue until I found a way to solve it, if your posts are in folders and not an md file, zola by default won’t see it, to make it work, just add a “_index.md” in the parent directory with “transparent = true”, other than that, everything else worked perfectly for me.
Why can apps installed from anywhere steal your data?

Surely Apple's OS/framework that they tried to say they spent so much money developing, sandboxes and protects all running code from said data vacuuming behaviour?

Or did you really believe Apple when they said it would reduce security™

Because the only reason it would is if Apple let it happen on purpose so they can create a consumer backlash by saying "I told you so".
And yet if your statement were true, it would not explain why others who also own "both" disagree with you. Absolutism does not serve you, there are few subjects in this world that lack nuance.
Why are you interested? I recommend the short book "Godel's proof".

Godel's work is wrapped up in historical context which is both interesting and distracting from the core idea. For example, Bertrand's Russells' work and book isn't really essential, it's just the system which Godel worked in to do his proof.
> were all that kid at some point or another in our lives

I wasn't because my mother would never have sat with me on her lap and let me kick the arm of the stranger next to us the entire flight..
Maybe that was the case pre-pandemic, but I shelled out for Business Class on a long-haul international flight, and it was worth it, and I'm not the only one: https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/travel/pointy-end-shake-...

Maybe we'll return to looking for lower costs, but an aging and wealthier world might prize comfort more than it did in the past.
I've gotten access to Gemini 1.5 Pro today with a (supposedly) 1M context window and unfortunately in practice it's not good at complicated queries over such a large window, involving multiple recursive lookups back and forth.
Many having this issue. More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39686914

Edit: Fixed; confirmed as of 13:37 GMT+11, March 12, 2024.
Seems like everything was already sorted in the first place. This is in the works... I feel this is not as good as I would like to, but I struggle to continue writing at this moment and still want this 'off my chest'.
Sorry for some of the memes, Appreciate your time.
Luckily that's a rare thing and the vast majority if commercial real estate has no such rules whatsoever, even on main street.
Reasonably well doesn’t mean everything is great, just that the country is continuing to function. Japan’s GDP growth rate (total and per capita) has been terrible for years, but they are a long way from becoming a failed state.

In many ways Japan’s economy actually fits people’s perception of the US economy.