skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the advantage of that, over just building proprietary software?
Except Chrome doesn’t support user-stylesheets - which is an outrage (even Internet Explorer supported them).

I shouldn’t need to author my own Chrome extension just to set a minimum font-size on pages or disable fixed background images over remote-desktop.
New U.S. 'green bank' aims to steer over $160B in capital into climate tech
How does this complicate the picture?

The environmental controls you are talking about mostly protect the local environment. Protecting the local environment is great, but crudely speaking, the global climate doesn't much care about whether you dump some toxic waste in some part of China.

What I hear in complaints about the exports from the Americans is that they are worried about good old jobs for good old American boys and girls (preferably in a union that is a strong voting block one way or another). So I would take the Americans at their word here.

Yet again, if the local environment in China was a priority of the administration that outweighed concern about climate change, you would see a very different policy. Instead of just putting tariffs and other restrictions on imports of some Chinese goods. You can probably come up with your own examples.
Do you think the salespersons feedback was generated by ChatGPT? How would you feel if ALL the feedback was ChatGPT generated and not anyone's real opinion?
You can even make up your own tags, according to specific criteria, and they will been seen as spans.

Eg:

<my-dalek>EX-TER-MIN-ATE</my-dalek>

You can style them, including setting them as block level elements.

Where it can make life a lot easier is when you have a large number of nested divs. If you give the div's distinct names, it makes debugging/editing the source easier, which is probably required if you have that many divs.
SpinCalc: An artificial-gravity calculator in JavaScript
Reddit isn't taking over Google, it (and other platforms) just ate up all the bespoke forum traffic.

It's largely the same traffic (people discussing things openly on the Internet), there's just much less diversity in the domains where that discussion takes place.

Celebrating reddit for this "achievement" is odd and has little to do with Google specifically.

But I understand $RDDT needs to get pumped, etc.
Uhhh...says who?
True, but what is the best way?
No they don't interfere because they only receive. They send nothing. At least the pagers of those days didn't, two way pagers did exist but they were super expensive and really uncommon.

To be honest I wish I could still buy one because I'd love to be reachable but not trackable at times. Unfortunately Spain has no pager network in operation anymore.

In regards to how they work, the messages were broadcast over the whole country. Because the network had no idea where you were or if you even were reachable. This is why they had to be so short and why text paging was expensive.

The messages were not encrypted either so everyone could see them. It was not a perfect system but really most people just received codes or at most a phone number.
I disagree. That used to be a cornerstone of the economy —- competing for labor, not just the customer.
How are you thinking about the application of capitalism and capitalism more generally?

Here is the definition I'm working from: "private ownership of capital and means of production meets market competition, driving resource efficiency, innovation, and maximizing profit while respond to consumer demand resulting in GDP growth."

If you take that definition then look at the last 100 years, only 4 names come up:

Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. No countries in the world in the last 100 years have applied capitalism, then grown, the way those countries have.

I'd be curious how you define capitalism, and then the countries you think have applied it better than the ones I've mentioned in my posts on this subject.
I thought buying 1kg would be a good choice. After 100g I was like, now I don’t want to eat them for a long time :D
I agree, however when you look at other Western countries, these kinds of laws are quite tenable, and in fact, some similarly onerous laws have been implemented or trialed in a limited capacity in places like the U.K.

I merely wished to point out the value in a recognised right to free movement that so many people take for granted. I feel that in a place like the U.S. this kind of posturing would simply be a non-starter, because it's basically a totally untenable threat.
> If the model doesn't have an open source license, it's not open.

Actually, OSS comes with tons of strings attached that make the term open dubious. And there are many ways they could come after you legally. Apache, GPL, etc all have terms and conditions, you have to contribute back X Y and Z, agree to our manifesto, and so on.

The only truly free license is MIT. Go build a billion dollar business, change it however you want with no strings attached and you can express the license terms in a single paragraph.
Did you deploy your changes? I just refreshed and that is still there on the page[0].

[0] https://kolinko.github.io/effort/equations.html
beepbeepbeep WHAT THE FU BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! Muahahahahaha! Muahahahahaha! Muahahahahaha!
You'd be surprised just how much effort people put into using a message board to cause harm to others.

I was a mod on a reasonably large subreddit. One day, someone decides to post links to extreme and shocking images but make them look like regular posts. Delete, ban, move on. They come back with a new account. Delete, ban, move on, implement limits on new accounts. They would then spend months warming up new accounts, using them to write regular posts and messages, before doing the same thing. This was a thankless task and most regular users never realized it was even going on.

Then, on the other side, there were people who absolutely lost it when they felt you made a bad decision. I deleted a post asking for cash under the table work in a local sub, combined with multiple people offering what looked like clearly illegal work. Multiple regular members of the community went absolutely crazy, as if I had personally wronged them.

I enjoyed running the subreddit but I had to give up. The person who took over after definitely enjoys the power a little bit too much. That's what you get when it's a volunteer gig.
thats an ugly accusation. Whats next, they need assistance installing hidden microphones in EVERYONES home? perhaps we start with yours? maybe cameras? dont think the bedroom or toilet is excluded.

How about police get to doing actual oldfashioned police work?
Whats so terrible about the modern frameworks?

I used to have that attitude, but after trying the latest version of ReactJS I think its pretty nifty for what its intention is.
No, I’m not arguing if it is right or wrong. I’ve been explaining why the levers exist as that was what was being asked. And to be clear, the case I’m referring to the kid was tried and convicted (originally) of 1st degree murder with a shotgun. In juvenile court.

And if it turned out the kid did murder them, then people would be up in arms that he got released early - especially if he committed another murder before he got locked up again. Which could happen.

Cases like this too [https://www.klfy.com/local/iberia-parish/trial-for-11-year-o...].

Was it a miscarriage of justice? Perhaps, I haven’t seen the evidence. The courts eventually came to the conclusion it was! Until they did, according to the courts it wasn’t.

it was also legal while it was happening.

And 11yr olds are plenty capable of being defiant, malicious, contrite, etc. too.

And active dangers to those around them.

I wasn’t there in court when this was going on, so I have no idea if the kid was being out of control, or the judge was being out of control. I’ve seen both play out. The appeals court felt it was the judge.

The whole situation is quite terrible regardless. But that’s what the criminal justice system is for - to resolve terrible situations in some eventually sensible way. Woe to whoever gets caught in its gears though.
`curl cheat.sh/$command_name` usually works pretty well! (as long as you've got curl, of course)
I think this article underestimates the Latino population that endorses legal immigration.
I must be old, but when I look at stuff like this I feel nothing but dread.
WebSocketStream API
5GHz is a 6cm wavelength. Building glass will have a non-zero amount of attenuation but shouldn't be a particularly problematic building material.
And a lot of people can question these decisions and make and impact if they cared enough. I get tired of people, especially those with “senior” in their title complaining “they’re doing it wrong”, instead of participating in the planning and feedback and escalation process.
To be fair, that is exactly what happens now except most of it is on WhatsApp :)
so lets look at this from above..

1: a law is proposed, to solve some problem (real or otherwise is irellevant).

2: wait shiiiieet, this law kindof sucks, it could really hurt people.

3: I KNOW! lets fix it by making it not hurt us, only those we govern!

you do not get to claim incompetence to get you out of what you did in step 3. (and no, not you personally, obviously)
Is the soil any good up there? I ask because people say this about Canada without recognizing that the soil quality is rubbish in our northern lands.

edit to add: averages are one thing. Average temperatures are going up. The real scary part, for farming, is the variability of weather -- that's on the rise too.
Don't Believe What They're Telling You About Misinformation
No crypto-problem is NP-complete. People tried that for a while, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_cryptosystems but it didn't work.

> Or maybe there’s something about NP-complete problems that make them less amenable to be a valid crypto system?

To simplify a bit, the problem is that to work as a crypto system your particular problems needs to be both in NP and in co-NP. And we know of no problem that is both NP-complete and in co-NP. It's widely conjectured that there is no such problem. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-NP that page even mentions integer factorisation.

That's why you can't just take the NP-complete problem itself as a basis for your cryptosystem, you have to pick some subset of instances that's also in co-NP. And apparently it's almost impossible for us to pick such a subset, but still have the instances be hard enough to solve on average.
I don't think it should be too hard to see why a community of hackers take issue with laptops becoming harder to repair and upgrade, considering they're typically the target demographic for such features. Especially when the result is trading almost all forms of autonomy over their devices for marginal increases in RAM speed...
Honest question, What does skilled in ai even mean ? Knowing how to use the frameworks and apis, or knowing the foundations of the field.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40071539
Standard Conjectures on Algebraic Cycles
In 2024, this is the action the EU takes? I feel sick.
Reminder: California passed a minimum wage law for fast food workers that exempts places that make their own bread (ahem, totally unrelated coincidence: Panera which bakes their own bread is a big donor to CA's governor).

https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-c...
I Build A database to help indie hackers
As the title says I’m building a database of information that will help you land that next side project or startup idea. I share with you some of the most successful “tools” on the market along with pulling tons of analytics every day.

For example I asked Reddit how they make 1k/month and got over 500 responses.

This is just the start and the lifetime access won’t last long.
Major Python libraries pretty much never just remove things over the course of a single major release. Things get officially announced first, then deprecated for at least one release cycle but often longer (which is communicated via DeprecationWarning etc), then finally retired.

I’m not sure that’s a realistic generalisation. To pick a few concrete examples, there were some breaking changes in SQLAlchemy 2, Pydantic 2, and as an interesting example of the “rename the package instead of bumping the major version” idea mentioned elsewhere, from Psycopg2 to Psycopg (3). I think it’s fair to say all of those are significant packages within the Python ecosystem.

Not all dependencies are internal. If library A exposes type X, and library B exposes type Y that by design extends X […] Now imagine that library C exposes type Z that also by design extends X

Yes, you can create some awkward situations with shared bases in Python, and you could split all of the relevant types into different libraries, and this isn’t a situation that Python’s object model (or those of many other OO languages) handles very gracefully.

Could you please clarify the main point you’d like to make here? The shared base/polymorphism complications seem to apply generally with Python’s object model, unless you have a set of external dependencies that are designed to share a common base type from a common transitive dependency and support code that is polymorphic as if each name refers to a single, consistent type and yet the packages in question are not maintained and released in sync.

That seems like quite an unusual scenario. Even if it happens, it seems like the most that can safely be assumed by code importing from B and C — unless B and C explicitly depend on exactly the same version of A — is that Y extends (X from A v1.2.3) while Z extends (X from A v1.2.4). If B and C aren’t explicitly managed together, I’m not convinced it’s reasonable for code using them both to assume the base types that happen to share the same name X that they extend and expose through their respective interfaces are really the same type.
Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii
ok, so the cia/assad/9i's closest squid (49miles max) will wet ya within the hour.
This is a cool idea. I’ll ask the team about it. Would make for a very interesting blog post or talk!
FWIW You can put it on both stores.
That’s scummy but it sounds like they could have achieved the arrangement “pay a share of your income wherever it comes from” without a loan.

The important part of this is a loan gives you rights as a creditor that an ordinary Accounts Payable does not. Did Lambda School’s creditors ever exercise those rights? If not, how important is the existence of a finance charge or APR or whatever? I mean, if it is only a loan for the purpose of being a product for banks, but functionally is just a, whatever, a payment plan: man, the CFPB is basically complaining about annual billing versus monthly billing discounts, bundling, and any number of psychological tricks. Scummy yes, but dramatic? No.
And that child’s name?

dell-32a7iZ
now do coinbase!
Gah, thanks, I should have spel-czeched that.

Most canonically: 神風
Oh wow thats nuts. Did you end up attending grad school for something else? Ive been thinking about applying but I haven't even able to find any departments that do research in this area. There is a huge craze around ML as its producing tangible results and it seems the school of thought is that anything else is wasted time.

The closest thing Ive found to my own is Wolframs writings.

Seriously I know I seem like a delusional nut but this train of thought has really grabbed me. Ive written hundreds of pages of (mostly intelligible) notes/figures and spend countless nights trying to implement what I can so clearly see in my head.

Unfortunately I dont have anything concrete yet that would warrant building a team, and its hard to even find people I can discuss my ideas with.

I think there ought to be interest in this area in mathematics, philosophy or even linguists though.
I think you underestimate the rate of wrongly accused and wrongly convicted. Estimates vary, iirc I've seen some papers claiming 5% and others claiming as high as 20%. There is a lot of over-charging going on too.

Then, most cases don't get to trial, so you have people pleading guilty to things they did not do because they fear wrongful conviction for something worse.
how about everyone stop calling it AI when it very clearly is little more "intelligent" than "intelligent device for starting your heater when it gets cold" (aka thermostat) (and yes, this has really been marketed)
Discussion:[0] (196 points, 7 hours ago, 81 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067939
It's not the impact that's claimed at all. No sprite magic in the world will get around trying to display 200 pixels of image on a 65" modern TV. Play an NES game on a super-high-quality 13" flat panel and it looks a lot better than on a 75" one even without any fancy scanline filters or such.

Which pixels in Mario them would you move around, exactly, to prevent big square pixels from being really obvious?

Hell, those games didn't really look great on 60" RPTV CRTs either. (For anything other than 4x split-screen, my friends and I always preferred a smaller screen since the big screen exposed all the limitations of the graphics and by the N64 era PC games had advanced to the point that we knew what we were missing.)

And of course anything Mode 7 or full-3D era suffers all the same problems of looking bad blown up to modern display sizes without "CRT optimized sprites" being a factor anymore since the models are seen from all sorts of perspectives and sizes.

They looked better back then because it was new and magical and there were no 4k games to compare against, not because 256 pixels looked more like 1000. Like with VHS vs DVD - it was absolutely easy to tell even on a pretty small CRT.

Look at this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNx89J0MBHA - the pixels are perfectly apparent even just viewing it on a laptop screen in a browser on a video from a fairly big CRT.
Just because someone endorses legal immigration does not mean that they will appreciate being stopped and asked for their papers at random.
> ZIELSCHMERZ

> n. the dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you started up in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could.

God I hope I don't fuck it up. But at least I tried.
I can't even say whether or not Google benefits from Spanner, vs multiple Postgres DBs with application-level sharding. Reworking your systems to work with a horizontally-scaling DB is eerily similar to doing application-level sharding, and just because something is huge doesn't mean it's better with DB-level sharding.

The unique nice thing in Spanner is TrueTime, which enables the closest semblance of a multi-master DB by making an atomic clock the ground truth (see Generals' Problem). So you essentially don't have to worry about a regional failure causing unavailability (or inconsistency if you choose it) for one DB, since those clocks are a lot more reliable than machines. But there are probably downsides.
It got a couple sequels but they were Xbox only and from what I hear not as good. But I agree it could do with a reboot. And a setting so I can actually hook the plane onto the airship rather than just getting close enough.
True. Conversations were dropped as soon as a phone rang. Mind you, this was also because most people didn't even have a caller ID display or answering machine so if you didn't answer you had no idea who had called. The curiosity factor was strong. These days I don't answer when I don't recognise the number.

The expectation of actually catching someone was much lower than these days though. Because of course not being at home meant not being reachable.

There's was also this unwritten rule about not calling people too late, which doesn't really happen anymore in my circles since people can now see whether you're active (eg on WhatsApp) and switch their phone on DnD when they sleep anyway.
The dose makes the poison. The LD50 for lye is 4,090 (rats) - 6,600 mg/kg (mice). The LD50 for fentanyl is 3.1 mg/kg in rats and 0.03 mg/kg in monkeys. So, very different.
Where the shuttle led, cyber truck has followed.
> It's unclear to me if the resulting product will be better or worse.

It will be worse. If you want endless streams of synthetic text from an AI, you can already get that, today. What you can't get is a conversation with a human who has first-hand experience... Except via forums like reddit.

Given how trivial it would be for me, an amateur AI tinkerer to make a reddit bot that nobody can tell from a human - with an agenda subversively hidden in contextual responses - I can't imagine that even reddit knows the full scale of its bot problem today.
The company targeted the poor, single mothers, reformed convicts, and other disadvantaged groups. They tend to lack the free time or guidance to navigate these situations. If this work is trivial to you, I am happy to connect you with them to provide your services.
I mostly feel bad for them. I generally hate pile ons on principle and HN tends to be nasty about anything new even when it is wildly successful so nastiness here is no signal (and hardware is hard, it's good for people to try new things, etc.). AI is a new capability and there is an opportunity for new hardware that can use it.

That said, the Humane marketing reminded me of Magic Leap and I find it irritating. Particularly the big build up to what was going to be 'new information' and then it was an ad with no information. When the marketing is so divorced from what's delivered I think people are often nastier about it.

The irony to me is that in a lot of ways they're trying to be Apple, but without Apple's strategic thinking - it's more cosplaying Apple. Ben Thompson had a good write up today in Stratechery that touched on some of this: when the iPhone came out it worked with Mac and windows - the dominant computing platforms of the day! They didn't try to immediately create a standalone device from the get go and they had iterated on a narrow use case with the iPod for several years already to perfect some things.

Also - people love their phones! They may make overtures otherwise, but observe their behavior.

This is a lot more akin to what rewind aka limitless is doing. Start small/focused with a good product that solves a well tested use case while working with the existing platform (mobile) then leverage that to grow and build an ecosystem as you go.

There's so much about the Humane product that is strategically poor/user poor: a separate phone number, terrible battery, the extreme cost, etc. etc. even if the product actually worked (it doesn't) it's strategically DOA.

You don't get to mars by starting a company and building a mars rocket - you have that as the end goal and a path to get there that requires doing a ton of other stuff first so you have a shot at achieving that goal.

Any company that achieves great things builds a machine to build the machine - otherwise you just get a expensive art project if the product even works at all.

Still they did build and ship something and I like their industrial design so they deserve kudos for that. Plus I like to see people experiment so it's good when people try even if they fail, but I don't think it's helped by pretending something isn't a failure.
Because they see you're active on WhatsApp or telegram :)

I switched off the blue tickmarks in WhatsApp and even that really triggered people.