skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting question to me, as I was focusing on AI for most of my career but got burnt out. Getting back to more traditional software engineering was a bliss. Right now, I'm working on our web scraping API SaaS (https://scrapingfish.com/). What I found mildly surprising and amusing is how web scraping happens to have one common thing with AI: you hypothesize on something, run an experiment, draw conclusions, iterate.
Musk, Zuck, Thiel, Andreessen… it’s sure full of strange people out there.
Pretty quick way to figure that out is to ask for it now, build the landing page.
Making Sense of Deming
Terrible voice transcription ?
BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who
This is a much better response than your upstream contribution.
I don't know if the ecological cost of such a model, and by extension the model itslef, is anything to be proud of.

The nitrogen effects killing what is left over of nature is something that has been documented since the 80s already. Things have only changed for the worst since then.

Walk around through some greenhouse area in
South Holland, or through some flower fields in North Holland, and the chemical smells in the air will give you a headache. I don't understand how people can live there. And I'm surprised they don't see an explosion of cancer rates locally.

No one wants to unsettle such a gret export balance, especially now with the farmer's party maybe joining the government.

So I guess the water tomatoes and the plofkippen are here to stay.
It would be an awful trade. Weaker, dumber, slower. All for something that isn’t very good and we wouldn’t use very much.

People would prefer to drive rather than fly because you’ll get soaking wet. Unless you just go around naked or something.
The first step to fixing any problem is acknowledging there is a problem. I'm not sure what the solution is. There may not be one. But acknowledging that people were willing to kamikaze massive fortunes and their careers in order to try to stop this guy should be a big red flag for everyone. And it's not just the idealists, he scares the sharks as well.
I think you should be aware that the world is much bigger than the US and in many other countries insects are part of their traditional cuisine: "Over 2 billion people are estimated to eat insects on a daily basis." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insects_as_food
Following that though is to say dead Nazi's sins are absolved.

I don't think so. Sin is a sin, crime is a crime, no matter person is dead it alive.
Freedom from Limits (For Logging)
A todo app for recurring personal projects. I found that breaking projects down into simple tasks really helps with my procrastination, but existing apps don't make that process too easy and quickly get cluttered.

My prototype lets me create project templates (that can contain other projects) and I can instantiate an arbitrary amount of them. Triggers can be a time ("every quarter") or some logical threshold (e.g. failing three workouts puts a "review fitness plan" action on my schedule).

It's my first real coding project and almost certainly too big, but it's been very fun to use so far and I already have ~50% of my ADHD social circle interested in the alpha.
They don't need a licence, and a very wide one, to do this.
Yes, there are bunch of limitations, but reducing it to plain "you can't" doesn't feel right.

Windows has, in the past, already changed its kernel, filesystem, UI, driver model and many other things. They even implemented different compatibility modes which allowed them to make "breaking" changes without actually breaking compatibility.
> On the official Apple reset form, the "phone number" is one of the id options the hackers can use to MFA bomb the target

Funny thing is you cannot set a passphrase or equivalent recovery code unless you have an apple device. So users who have an apple account for development purposes (I hate apple device UX and wont ever use anything apple again other than to approve releases and manage certificates) and have no apple products are cursed to use ones phone number.
Craft walkthroughs that clarify code
It's essentially the classic Smalltalk workstation model. End user programming, where the user live in a live easy to bend environment and just have to write few bits, some listings, to bend the desktop to it's wish.

You are in a MUA composition windows and want to solve an equation? You have some bits that do so in your system, no need to switch "application", just feed the input to the relevant function and get locally the result. You just want to change something? Easy to do, it's just few bits of code.

This is the most effective and powerful use of a computer we have ever invented. It was dropped because no one who works in sw business want power users and easy to bend code, it's nature is collaborative, not commercial. It's nature allow people to understand and those who became "alphabets" do not like Alphabet's or Oracle's o Meta-information business and they can perfectly goes on without them.
I'm guessing they're about to make some kind of generative-AI play and need access to more data.
building TUIs with ratatui. Currently working on tuix to manage screens
https://github.com/pythops/tuix
Many people never even attempt to train their dogs to address bad behavior because they dont understand that dogs speak a different language. Shock collars are good if used properly because they help you communicate in a language the dog can understand.

if your dog could speak English, it would say "Oh, I had no idea that I wasn't supposed to bark at people aggressively while out on a walk. Thank you for using this tool to help me understand the correct behavior. "
That's probably not a legal opinion they paid for.
I do acknowledge he is a problem. He doesn't come across as a honest dude at at all. I get Lex Luthor vibes from him.

But I am not sure there is anything I can do.
There was an article quoting someone close saying he wants to be President and world first trillionaire.

Control of AGI could certainly give you that.
I think there too many movies now.

He can't watch all of them. But I am sure he does watch some recent movies.
Scientists turn to AI to make beer taste even better
https://archive.is/20240326192857/https://www.ft.com/content...
Good fucking point this
If not for the OSINT accounts covering live the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I would have been out of there years ago.
Based on the scale of comparison between different living beings and their effects on other living beings.
I'm not sure what you are getting at.

The national bank increased the interest rate in order to increase the value of the yen and now it is the lowest in several decades. How do you conclude that it is a "needed balance"?
How it compares to the more established forever.com? I have an account but dont like that they dont accept zip/encrypted files. I have to diguise them as video files :)
I really don't get what people are doing wrong here.

I have a 7000 token prompt that generates JSON chugging away in production and at scale I'm seeing ~1 in 4000 generations require a re-generation, and even that could probably be killed with some basic "healing" code.

OSS are prone to outputting garbage in my experience, but OP mentions ChatGPT:

How are you running into issues if you simply prefill the response with ```json and set ``` as your stop token?

Also, are people also just not trying to parse the opening and closing bracket and treating it as broken if there's a preamble? The prefill gets rid of the preamble, but if you're not willing/able to prefill, how hard is getting JSON out of a string?
"Subjected to" is unrealistic, given the vast majority of trans people never get the chance to use them — waiting lists for treatment are so long that most trans people are forced to undergo their default puberty and then try to claw some of the changes back with hormones when they can get them.

~30,000 diagnoses of gender dysphoria in children in the US per year VS ~1300 initiating puberty blocker treatments.

This is not something that happens to them, or that they are subjected to, this is something they essentially campaign for, for themselves, for years.
There are lots of example of hard to understand Python local control flow, Python is a long way from being consistent in encourge good behaviour. When comparing the same type of code let say arg parsing C is usually worse. In Python you can get lost in library hell looking at the details of that code but in C it's just knowledge of basic functions of the language how ever terse it might be. On avarage I agree.
Really interesting comments here. I haven't found an appealing option for scripts and CI ( I think I am allergic to yaml ), bash is just way too fragile. So I've decided to write my own scripting language that is written in Go, similar in many ways to Lua, but with first class support for executing other commands, running API tests, and manipulating data. Currently dogfooding with plans to share in a few months once I'm confident it's good to start getting feedback. So, one executable plus your scripts, cross platform, no yaml.
I love the fact that GPS signals are below the noise floor; its only through correlating the complex modulation that you can find the signal. At least, that's how I understood it when I did my degree!
Swimming may or may not be appropriate.

Swimming, generally, is pretty poor lower-body exercise. Most swimmers have very well-developed upper-body strength, though favouring back and torso generally.

Legs get comparatively little workout, though for competitive swimmers starts (diving off the blocks) and turns (kicking off the wall) are periodic explosive strength.

Swimming can and does lead to joint problems in many cases, notably shoulders (for most strokes) and knees (breastroke or "frog" kick). The human anatomy isn't really designed for dragging itself through water, and repetitive stress injuries can emerge. The leverage effect of even a small effort exerted at the hand or foot transferred to the elbow/knee or shoulder/hip can be stunningly large.

There is the option of "aquasize" or "water walking", which can be useful as rehabilitative exercise or for the morbidly obese. This is water-assisted movement, though, not swimming per se.

Mind: so long as you're mindful of limitations, and swimming is both convenient and useful, it's a great exercise and a useful training tool, or goal. But it's possible to hurt yourself in all kinds of ways.

A useful rule of thumb is that mild soreness in muscle after exercise is generally OK. Pain in joints or connective tissue is not, and is a strong signal to back off, with total rest for days or weeks often required.

(Source: long-time competitive and recreational swimmer, some-time fitness fanatic.)
Florida braces for lawsuits over law banning kids from social media
So they have a perpetual right to your contend, for as long as they are providing you a service.

Either way you read it, it seems like poor wording.
No, he said he would not mind coming to the US in a comment.
The problem with adding rate limits, at least a global per user rate limit, is that you then create a new denial of service issue, preventing people from being able to recover their account.
Should be good, so long as there are no obvious signs of injury or pain in the involved joints (ankle, knee, hip).
You either pause the worker threads or share the state, there's no other way. However, the GC thread does not modify the data state.
Well, that makes me think about Excel !

I think what the author describes is why Excel is so heavily used. It's often not easy to clearly define the specifications - but it's easy to play a bit with the data the user knows, and discover some flaws in the logic, corner cases etc. And also very easy to prototype processes. I almost miss it.
They want permission to commercialise my content "for purposes of providing the Services to" me?

First time I hear such requirement
How soon can I use this to write code?
Perpetual means continuing forever, so why would it end at the end of the services?
I made https://www.befuzzed.com/ a while back, but no emails yet. But I haven't tried to market it either so that's on me.

I asked for some feedback from some strangers on discord and thought I'd try to improve accordingly before attempting something more public.

But so far it's mainly been "that's a neat idea" rather than "Oooh, I want that! I'd pay for that".
Do "we" really have a choice? As individuals, granted. But as a species, there is no mechanism to actually arrive at a decision which would result in a particular choice being made.
Breivik is also a single person; do you really want to change (or even burn down) the entire system just for one person?

In principle I have no trouble just executing Breivik; his guilt is established beyond doubt, he committed an act of exceptional evil, and he more or less declares to want to do it again (well technically he says he wants to be a "non-violent Nazi" or some such, but that's a contradiction in terms: "oh that Holocaust thing was just brilliant, more of that!" is violent rhetoric).

But Breivik-type case are rare. So rare it's not really worth changing the system over it. There's principle of a thing and the practicalities of it: in principle the death penalty is fine, but practically organizing that in a legal system with zero false positives is very difficult, so it's not really worth it.

Aside from the US, you can also look at post-second world war in Europe, which saw some executions that were rather over the top in hindsight.
bro, just let it go. use garnet or dragonfly or whatever floats your goat. but keep in mind, MBAs will keep doing MBAs things.
Exactly this.

Another reason to not to use phone (or the numbers) calls to verify users even with so called 'voice identification or voice ID' which can easily be broken with advanced voice cloning.
Can GANs prevent the ">10 fingers" problem?
FuryGpu – Custom PCIe FPGA GPU
I'm building a gamified habit tracker, similar to Habitica[1], but simplified in some ways, and with offline support. My biggest issues with Habitica are their lack of offline support (even on mobile), and their extremely downtime-prone servers. My goal is to make something more pleasant to use.

I don't have a link to share since it's still fairly early in development, but I'm making good progress!

[1] https://habitica.com/
Then look at the TOS of Whatsapp, Facebook, and Instagram.
Related large discussion:

Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis (2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39825901
That's the basis for any business model where you are the product.
This sounds like it would be useful to me at work. The types of projects I have to manage are often dependent on other tasks and shifting timelines, so a lot of the existing project management software I have tried feels "close but not quite."

Will you be releasing this for public consumption?
Read that one first in one of Dawkins' books, maybe Unweaving the Rainbow.
There is already a variant where they try to get someone to say „yes“ and just use a recording of it to use as „proof“ that you agreed to some contract.
Or they used AI to generate their new TOS and didn't proofread...
It is interesting to me that a system that had good social housing and guaranteed healthcare would not be affected by this specific problem, and would most likely (looking at places where this is true, like Austria) be cheaper than what we are currently doing.
Does it change anything? Paraphrasing:

"Vultr [will own] [all of your] User Content [and do whatever Vultr wants with] the User Content [...] for the purposes of providing the Services to you."

You could read that as: "if you want to work with us we will own all of your user content".
Related/Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39835459
You can always go out and play with a stick and a rock. If you live somewhere where there is a stick and a rock.
Only to add some historical context, ESPOL/NEWP for Burroughs B5000 in 1961 were one of the first systems programming languages with unsafe, many others followed upon that.

Burroughs B5000 had an additional feature for executables using unsafe code that we only have nowadays on managed runtimes like Java and CLR, binaries with unsafe code were tainted and required someone with admin access to enable them for execution.

Regarding C and C++, Visual Studio, Clion and clang tidy are the best we have in terms of tooling for the general public supporting the Core Guidelines (including lifetime checks), and they are still relatively basic in what they can actually validate.
And then next we could invent fusion! Wait, why does this sounds familiar?
Well, non-ionizing radiation (NIR) cause cancer has being debated such as this [1]. It wouldn't surprise me that it will be a bit like the Roundup/Monsanto situation. I don't blame people wanting to use these kind of protection just in case.

And iPhone also had this in their Product Information Guide:

"When using iPhone near your body for voice calls or for wireless data transmission over a cellular network, keep iPhone at least 15 mm (5/8 inch) away from the body, and only use carrying cases , belt clips, or holders that do not have metal parts and that maintain at least 15 mm (5/8″) separation between iPhone and the body."

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02697...
The video demo is sooo slow. Seems like I would type it faster
I am not a lawyer but I have seen startups distort/rationalize legal language as their tech services evolve to grandfather new situations into old language.

I don’t know if vultr language is worse than others, but my concern would be that someone selling you out can squeeze a lot in that clause for a long time, particularly if you never find out. Arguably that’s in bad faith, but…

Say that to provide the Services to you, vultr has to supplement its income by (old school) selling your videos to a dvd publishing company, or (newer) creating their own streaming tv channel, or providing them to an AI model training company, or providing them to an “affiliate” advertising-serving broker who slurps your created content and slaps one or more segmentation labels about your content (“kink”, “religion(X)”, “gamer”) tied to your email which it then resells to world+dog?

Ie is selling you out part of what vultr needs to do to provides the Services to you?

I find it very hard to trust companies based solely on their legal language when that language is viewed from an adversarial position. But I am not lawyer to know what kinds of “misreadings” are “beyond the pale”/not legally defensible.
My more recent experiences with Meetup are that most events there seem to be just ways for their organizers to make money, and generally not a great way to meet people.

YMMV though; I had better experiences with it in the past in a different city.
bro, if you resort to dehumanising behaviour to do "community engagement", then there's something really wrong with you and/or your community. pretty sure fixing the problem is your top-most priority, yea? cops gotta protect and serve.
emphatic and socially active ppl tend not to be discriminated
That’s an easy one: the company exists to provide The Services, revenue from commercialising the content supports the company.
Yeah sorry I meant in the context of cloud providers
On top Vultr gives all the liabilities to the v̶i̶c̶t̶i̶m̶ ... customer:

> As between you and us, you own your User Content and you have full responsibility for all User Content you make or submit, including its legality, reliability and appropriateness, while using the Services.
im building a simple service catalog available in slack. it lets you fuzzy search any service name (eg. payments or billing because naming is hard) and get back which team owns it, their working hours, runbook link ect. so you can answer who owns this? with 1 command.
I'm still playing around with what pain points to solve for staff in large orgs s o any suggestions on what annoys you would be super helpful.

https://www.whoowns.app
They pay more than that in certain parts of the UK and US - didn't do it myself, but know people who did and they were definitely in demand.
I am confused. What does happen after clicking allow? Does Apple just provide a password reset form to the person on the iForgot website or does it show up only on the device?
yeah the crazy costs will certainly make the US healthcare system look large if you measure largeness by how crazy the costs are
I could see a company claiming they need AI in order to provide their service to their users.
This is pretty cool. I have no idea of this industry, but good to see YC and founders tackling something off the beaten path.
How does it apply to VPS instances? Do they snapshot them and scan the filesystem for content?

I’ll be migrating to Hetzner in any case.
Under 10. Discussion they discuss the lack of numbers and how they're using CONS as a kind of 'add 1' and CAR/CDR as a kind of 'subtract 1' when calculating positions in memory, similar to how integer index/pointers might be used on a different type of machine, as if the length of a list would be an implicit pointer.

They seem almost giddy about having designed a computer that can perform interesting mathematical tasks like integrals and derivatives without numbers.
"an adversarial position" is the only position you should assume when interpreting legal texts. After all, if push comes to shove, your the actual adversary. And in any other case the legal text is not needed.
What Lisp would that be? Considering it is not (as far as I can see) mentioned in McCarthys History of Lisp (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800025.1198360) I think no actual Lisp used unary arithmetic based on list lengths.

Sure, there might be toy examples used for teaching that did this, but that is a something different.
Piracy Shield Source Code and Internal Documentation Leak Online
> First is that SQLite is simple. The database is a literal file on disk. The engine is a single executable.

No, it's not a single executable. There's no database executable as far as your app goes. There's no engine. The "engine" is a library, meant to be embedded into other code and may be concurrent and have many "executables" if you implement it that way or have different apps access the database.

Think of SQLite as an intricate file format for which your app will use an API (ie sqlite.c) to access.
If you ask your parents if you can stay up late to finish your homework essay, it should follow that you only gain that right until the essay is finished.

If you ask if you can stay up late for the rest of your life, it should follow that you gain that right for the rest of your life.

If you ask for both at the same time, in the same sentence, you might grow up to write TOS for vultr.
A desktop app that helps you stay focused on your most important tasks every day.

It appears on top of all your other applications to capture and channel your attention into the things you actually care about, before you get distracted.

In the morning, it helps you effectively plan your most important tasks and throughout the day it pulls your focus back to those tasks.

You can check it out here: https://dayglow.app
... and the AI was trained on data belonging to Vultr users, who happen to be lawyers...
Java has had real time GC for decades, it isn't available as free beer, rather in commercial JDKs for real time OSes and bare metal deployments.

See PTC and Aicas, the two main vendors still in business.

And even if I am not a big Go fan, TinyGo and TamaGo show what is possible regarding using Go for bare metal deployments, OS like.