skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I added some case studies to the repo... Shopping assistants, researchers, curators, Discord/Slack bots, and game NPCs are just a few of the use cases I've built examples for so far: https://github.com/bennyschmidt/Arthas.AI/blob/master/CaseSt...

I just created a separate post for this because it's a different URL and somewhat adjacent to this Show HN. But maybe it's better to keep it all in 1 article - I will leave it up to the mods :)
The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2022)
Can you elaborate more about the time dilation?

I've had dreams about waking up in succession, but have not experienced a time dilation.

Do you dream you are falling asleep, having an inner dream, and waking up again to the outer dream, to discover less time has passed than expected?
^ Case in point: you discuss only your individual situation, not a word of this is about the macroeconomic environment driving your employers' decisions.
> about 7 years, 3 drive replacements for hardware failure

You've had 3 SSD failures in just 7 years? Any more details about those disks?
> if you dug into Vista, you'd find quite a few substantive technical improvements over the now-ancient Windows XP. But many of those improvements were under the hood, and thus invisible to the typical user.

The under-the-hood improvements made it very visibly slow... to typical users. The problem wasn't their invisibility.
You said "maybe it isn't as required for some people as we think granted they keep up with a regular at home regimen?"

I'm saying you not having cavities has no bearing on the overall benefit of people in general going to the dentist to get checked more often than every 10 years.
I would wonder how it got to the second month, certainly - getting to the point where this kind of post-hoc analysis can actually be done is a serious failing of management.
Where does Uncle Bob fit into this? Because he sure does love to give advice

How small a function should be?
https://youtu.be/rXjf8eiGsSI
You're thinking of 'Chick tracts' written by Jack Chick.
They have a great code of conduct as well: "Don't be an ass!"
Partially true. One of my less glorious days in IT was spent mopping water out of servers. We've all sbeen in situations where the best course of action was to shut up, sit down, type tons of dumb code, and deal with the fallout later.

But if this happens more than rarely, you either find a new job or stay and live with the fact that you've become a second rate programmer in a second rate company.
Sure, it maybe would, but it isn't. That people are poorer than they were is still true.
I am slightly embarrassed to say that yes, I watch movies over and over. All of them off of a shared hard drive using Kodi on an Apple TV to watch.

I recently through away all my CDs, DVDs, and BluRay after carrying them from apartment to apartment for years (in notebooks) and never once opening them during those years.

As for the embarrassment. I get from some POV it's a waste of time but I easily have a list of ~400 movies all of which I've watched 3-20 times each. Examples might be a movie like The Matrix I'm sure I've watch 10+ times. A movie like Harvey, 2 or 3.
Improbable since reducing added fats is still as good advice today as it was 5 decades ago.
But think the amount of ads (err "sponsored results") you got to see and click on!

This is by design.
When was that fixed?
God willing I'll never have to fly again but failing that if I had the option of safely getting knocked out for the duration I'd take it.
For me this is an illustration that the simulation hypothesis is silly. Lower level of simulation doesn't need to have any api-s or system calls. There is no way to hack anything about underlying simulation nor learn anything about it or even about it's existance.
Physicist here: yes, it is theoretically possible, but practically impossible because the complexity of a classical simulation of a quantum system scales exponentially in the physical size of the system.

It would be practically possible if the problem has useful symmetries, like only allowing 2-dimensional Hilbert spaces (qubits), and a set of possible transformations (e.g. Clifford+T gates) as we do in quantum computing. In fact one of the things we actually do that resembles what you are describing is quantum error correction, where codes are concatenated until the rate of logical errors becomes low enough.
So why wasn’t the response after day 1 of the “tough bug” something like “hey, why don’t you pair with X to get to the bottom of it?”?
CafeDVD: DVD Rental by Mail
I also recently ditched the streaming services I was paying for (Netflix, Youtube, and Max). I'd love a recommendation for an external Blu-ray drive for ripping media onto a streaming server.

That said, I recently discovered Tubi, which is completely free, has a crazy amount of shows and movies, and ad blockers seem to work fine. Re-watching Andromeda while I finish up my dissertation. It's been great fun.
The lie flat economy class remains ever elusive. Air New Zealand have a solution but it's not great.

https://www.airnewzealand.com/economy-skycouch
Very cool and fun project! Thanks for sharing.
I wrote a response that argues against your hypothesis, and then I realized ... "do I really know what I'm saying? Or are these my preconceptions and biases?"

> and we know the base rate is about 10%.

Sinister.

I think it would be cool to be left-handed in a country where the language is written from right to left.
They're hilarious.
> I think "Search" will be changing dramatically over the next year or two. And websites which depend on Search traffic to survive will be in deep trouble.

Yes, and no. A lot of sites generate crap content as it is. Not all search queries are just questions that can be answered, some are looking for businesses, shopping items, legal help, etc things that ChatGPT, etc can't emulate. AI will hurt sites like Reddit/StackOverflow/Quora, etc which answer -actual- questions. The issue is that once that happens there will be less and less content to solve random issues and ChatGPT, etc will not have been trained on them creating a bit of a gap. Then couple that with all the junk AI articles people will be publishing, it will be increasingly more difficult to solve minor issues that you randomly come across.

ChatGPT/Midjourney, etc right now is just feeding into the "Dead Internet." I'd say currently, on net, it has been more of a bad thing than a good thing. That may change, or it could get worse.
> government will surely ban it

This is plain hystronics, but regulation is absolutely coming and will only help the larger existing players to consolidate.

Coinbase, FTX, etc have all seen the writing on the wall and are working with regulators on this.

The Wild West days are definetly over now.

If I'd invest in the space, I'd probably look at KYC and AML product opportunties such as Chainalysis, but even that space has consolidated
I send myself a message on slack with a reminder usually
> a summary of the minutes from your local city council, a respin of government economic statistics that answers a topical question, or a news investigation into a topic.

The city council minutes would likely be published by the city. Nobody is entitled to revenue from that, it's paid for with tax dollars.

Government economics statistics are also published openly. I happened to have asked a bunch of questions about life expectancy and GDP recently and Google answered those questions with info boxes and links to the data sources. If I ask a question which can be answered in a few words, I'm perfectly content not to have to view ads to read an article from an economics wonk to manually find the tiny nugget I'm after.

And as for a news investigation, there's almost no question you could ask in isolation that would be better answered by reading a full article, I think. The person asking "Who is facing legal action in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre?" wants to get back "Alex Jones." They almost certainly didn't want to read a full article, and if they did, they'd click on it.

Which is to say, Google is doing nontrivial work to accomplish a specific outcome that the "third class" sources don't solve (and usually don't even try to solve). Besides, how do you know the content Google is pulling from...

1. Came from a single source and was not corroborated with multiple sources?

2. Wasn't just scraped from somewhere else or compiled with AI?

3. Isn't wrong? Should sources get paid for incorrect information?

A passthrough system creates perverse financial incentives to answer questions that someone might someday have, without caring about whether the answers to those questions are genuine and ethically produced. And frankly, that's far worse than what we have now.
At this point, I don't know why they don't just use cargo jets, give us all tranquilizers as we board, and stack us on top of each other like firewood. There doesn't seem to be any level of service that customers won't stoop to accepting in order to save a few more bucks on the fare.
That hurts.
Because people don’t know how to pirate anymore. Circa 2000 everyone I knew was pirating everything. There is no Kazaa or bearshare or Napster anymore.
Or perhaps it's less expensive to make cars in China than in America, just like it's less expensive to make T-shirts and microwave ovens there. As Chinese manufacturing has moved up the value chain I've been hearing for 20 years that "Chinese $PRODUCT is just cheaper because of subsidies/dumping, and they'll hike prices once they dominate the market." But I've never seen the Chinese manufacturers actually raise prices above the old European/American prices even after they come to dominate different market segments. They can make a sustained profit even at low prices.
I’m pretty sure that would only help the mid-upper classes that can afford the nest egg to take a sabbatical like that.

Exercise and eating healthy (read: cooking) in our modern society requires leisure time, which has mostly been eradicated for the lower classes.
> Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources. —ASME
Seems it was related to anti-money laundering laws, specifically to bitcoin/cash exchange by a private individual.

According to article, the suspect they are seeking was sent honeypot links within that one week requested Jan2023 period, but accidentally set the videos to public.
Hi, Lapdev dev here. Let me try to answer your question.

It's installed on a remote server so it provides remote environments. If you use VSCode remote, then you can "open" it through VSCode remote ssh.

The environment that Lapdev provides essentially is a container (other format is on the roadmap) with things pre-installed as defined in Devcontainer(https://containers.dev/) format.
Hell yes, I've been wanting to do this for years - maybe I'll finally pull the trigger and hook this up so my child can harass me telephonically after she's supposed to be in bed and asleep. :)
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JSON, everything has to either be YAML or JSON.

If I didn't invent the thing, then we shouldn't use the thing. Dockerfiles fall into this class too, they are just a shitty homegrown DSL.
I wonder if Google and Apple are regretting killing Windows Phone, a third viable competitor would have taken away a lot of antitrust heat. Still hoping an alternative emerges someday.
I think it's important to distinguish adtech companies from data brokers like LexisNexis who actually sell your data to 3rd parties. Lots of people read inaccurate statements like "Meta sells your data" and interpret that literally.
Flight simulator tricks your brain
OMG I want this so bad at the economy level. The TU Delft / Flying V design looks totally workable. Take my money!
That sounds great; I’d take that option even if it wasn’t cheaper lol.
Most of our day-of-the-week names are from the Roman planet-based names, so saturday is saturn-day, and sunday is sun-day. Some names have been changed, e.g mercury-day in english is now wednesday (wodans-day, from the Germanic god Wodan), although in French is it still mercury-day (mercredi).

Emperor Constantine I was the one who, in 321 AD, designated sun-day as a day of rest.

"On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed"
I would have been on board with it, if I didn’t get a completely wrong AI generated response from Google the other day.

I was for some reason looking into history of Reddit and ended up searching “what happened to former AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor”. Google AI summary got confused and told me that she got fired because hundreds of redditors voted for her ouster (clearly mixing up Victoria’s story and Ellen Pao’s)

I know n=1, but feels like maybe a little too early to get it out of the experimental mode.
Haxe is pretty neat, and worth playing with if you haven't. I don't do games so I haven't done much, but it kind of feels like "What if ActionScript 3 was allowed to break out of the Flash world, and keep evolving?".

At some point I should really do more with it and make a game or something.
It's not meant to be an all-encompassing statement on talent, it's a statement based on what becomes most popular on social media.

I'm pretty sure most will agree that what becomes most popular on social media, TV, and radio in this era, is far from what most people truly see as top talent.

Our favorite musicians and bands now more than ever rarely make it to public consciousness, often making it to public consciousness involves massive levels of funding, while even the most popular artists usually end up in terribly exploitive contracts (like TLC for example). Most of the modern musicians we know and love have no health insurance and, more often than not, aren't anywhere near wealthy from their work.

Taylor Swift & Beyoncé are also artists that rose to prominence prior to this new era of Social Media influence (as a footnote).
> Professionals outside of software don't do that.

What, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, the everliving fuck are you talking about?

Professionals do this constantly. Go sit in an ER and watch the hand off between shifts. Go see any serious manufacturing facility and see them review daily everything that happened the previous day. Go see an effective sales org in action.

The scrumbags may have ruined software, but that certainly isn’t the world.

You make your not entirely unreasonable points sound like the output of a zealot.
'Make a private hosted version': dev's top tip for studios shutting down game
I honestly love the idea. Remove the cargo bay and overhead bag rack and then stack bunk beds floor to ceiling for tremendous density while still being able to lie down. You should be able to fit way more people in the plane than they do sitting down and do it more comfortably as well.
Don’t give them ideas, they would actually charge extra for the tranquilizer. Snoozing through the entire flight actually sounds like a blessing.
Isn't the idea more of a synergy between alternately doing and being? Do be do be do.
Very cool project. I was really struck by this comment:

> Dial out to a short list of family contacts. It's not something I think about much, but when I was a kid there was a phone on the wall and once I could reach it, I could use it. Now, if you're not old enough to have a cell phone, you also can't call anyone at all.

That's not something I've ever thought about, but is a really huge change in what kids can do. I was always allowed to call over to a friend's house and see if they could play.
You're not going to get much traction with advertising the benefits and education oriented campaigns. Most of the time, if someone doesn't already have a habit of exercising, you're probably not going to be successful at getting them to start. They're busy with the rest of their lives.

What you've gotta do is trick them into it. Just sneak a little exercise into their daily routines without them noticing. You do that by making them live in walkable cities.
> The suit alleges that the company has a monopoly in the premium smartphone market and uses a variety of illegal tactics to perpetuate that monopoly.

> Leaving aside the details of those tactics and their legality...

Before the iPod, Apple had a monopoly in nothing. That was translated to the iPhone and building a closed ecosystem around it with engineered incompatibilities. It was mostly these tactics of questionable legality that leads to the situation at hand. It's one thing to deal with a current monopoly and see to break it up. But recognizing how that happened and preventing the means of becoming and maintaining a monopoly should be dealt with directly, rather than dealing with the consequences (of allowing the tactics) in each case.
Interesting statement, not sure how that applies without more elaboration though?
Well, developers seem to love writing "configuration" rather than "code" these days. But basically a container + the necessary tools IS a devcontainer. It's just a way of automating the "putting in the necessary tools" part especially if you need things that might need to be added to a base container, or services that need to be configured differently based on the external environment that you don't want to bake in for some reason.

If you've ever had to cut and paste a 50 line docker run command snippet but you forgot that one volume mount or port or ENV var that someone added a dependency on last week then you pretty quickly realize just doing complex docker things by hand is a pain. Another example, if you have a script that you want to run to fetch the latest authentication token from a vault after the container launches because you don't want to store it inside the container. Sure, you could write a bash script to run all these steps inside the container after you launch it but it's nice to have a config file to share with another dev and just say: use this.

And the secondary benefit is that having a config file for the editor (like VSCode) so that plugins can manage all of that stuff better. Generally a dev container runs the VSCode Server, and they know how to talk to each other which can make remote development easier. For example, now I can launch the same dev environment locally or on the 56 core xeon 1TB ram server at the office and it's exactly the same as far as the editor is concerned.

It looks like this project is an alternative to the VSCode Server. My team generally uses docker-compose for this since not everyone uses VSCode.
If the web page is 2MB because it's loading ads, fonts, JavaScript libraries, images, cookie banners, trackers, etc each from a different domain or CDN... the problem is much bigger. This is 14k per connection...
Engineers who are obsessed with greatness tend to not be great either
A Brief Overview of a Better Social Media Architecture
I dig it a lot. I hope it is much more affordable.

Similar but different, servethehome talking about the AMD EPYC 7C13 which seems to be a last gen 64c Epyc at a much much much more down-to-earth price. https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7c13-is-a-surprisingly...

Interesting tactic, of not re-pricing your old stuff, just releasing new models that do the old thing. In the 8s's case the story is much more complex, clearly there's an actual new chip, but I still see a lot of similarity.
This is market failure.

Insurance works best when risk is spread out over a large pool. In private markets, insurers profit by excluding 'bad risks' which leads inevitably to coverage limitations, exclusions, and high costs for those with the greatest need.

Universal healthcare systems remove this profit motive and market failure.

Everyone contributes, and everyone is covered, regardless of pre-existing conditions. This eliminates adverse selection and allows for better preventative care, ultimately reducing costs and improving overall health outcomes.

Markets are great for some use cases, but disastrous for healthcare.
Did you know that "some people" has no bearing on "people in general"? Like I said, we agree about this, but you still want to argue? I feel like you're here to argue about semantics and not what we're actually talking about at this point, or did you have something else to add?
In Conan's tribute, he told a really wholesome story about a bike Robin gifted him during a hard time. It stuck with me for some reason.

https://youtu.be/b_6wYQC9n3U?si=laraKw15n2ERu8yf
Nice pic of a Jacquard "ROM" at https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/seminaire/structu...

perhaps also of interest, a guide to their online presence: https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/le-college/diffusion-num...
Wow, this is really cool, thanks for sharing. I've always liked the idea of a home phone, rather than personal phone, for all sorts of things that belong to the house and not me personally. This pushes it one step further, will definitely try it!
CL: Lee Chae-rin (Korean rapper), Craigslist, Chlorine

NMS: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome, No Man's Sky

NBBO: National Best Bid and Offer

SIP: Session Initiation Protocol, Systematic Investment Plan, Security Infrastructure Program
CafeDVD [0] is still going strong.

[0] https://www.cafedvd.com/
I have a different take. This article is talking about the rise of those on disability benefits. Parents are incentivised to portray their children as disabled for benefits, and schools are incentivised to do the same for extra funding and lower standards being applied to them. I think most people apply for benefits likely believe they're genuinely sick and disabled, since being on benefits is not a pleasant life by design.

Oh yeah, and with rising obesity and paternal/maternal age generally getting later and later I would be unsurprised if there was an increasing rate of actual disability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factitious_disorder_imposed_on...
Think my brain just exploded
Spain's High Court orders block on Telegram app as a precautionary measure
North Korean Cybercrime Aids the Russian Military and Circumvents Sanctions
Shields Up: Powerful new security features in ChromeOS
If it has an FFI, it'll definitely beat compiling openssl wherever you can get by with just using tls1.3.
Give zerocarb, particularly high fat zerocarb a chance. Ketones heal the brain. Metabolic theory of dementia too. It's still making its way up to the mainstream but it'll eventually get there.