skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience image generators are anti-gay and refuse to create images featuring gay people many times.
Just what I want when I'm looking for information about a restaurant! An improv partner that hallucinates bullshit when I ask simple questions. Here was my experience: https://imgur.com/a/qRVO2DW

I'm honestly so over this stuff. Yeah, LLMs are cool tech and awesome for a few select use cases, but this is just an objectively poor concept for a service--to have any utility, this thing needs to be fairly accurate about things like menu options and pricing, and I can't imagine getting a better experience from a chatbot than a curated database like Google Maps or, you know, the restaurant website.

The big selling point here appears to be "personalized" recommendations, which I'm sure is code for "our service builds a dossier on you, then lets businesses bribe us for access to it; or, if we manage to build your trust, we'll also let businesses bribe us to skew our recommendations in their favor."

The latter case is how Google Maps works, but at least in their case the information you get around all the hyper-targeted advertisements is relatively accurate. We don't need more sleazy "platform" companies trying to plant themselves in the middle of value streams that exist because of Maslow's hierarchy, and the very last thing we need is companies that do this atop the half-baked technology du jour and end up serving up a steaming pile of functionally worthless spyware.
> Why is the US the only one being argued to have abandoned its ally despite being the single biggest provider of aid?

The US has only been accused of abandoning Ukraine since (approximately; there’s some blurriness because of some trickling out of previously-approved, unused, aid) it stopped providing aid. That’s the point of alleged abandonment.
Why Warp Drives Are About to Get Better
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03095.pdf
Even if I take at face value everything you put in your comment, what is the problem? You seem to be arguing "Popular artists will want to be paid what the market is willing to bear!!" And??? I'd rather the artists get paid than Ticketmaster.

Besides, in my experience, I've seen that artists generally don't actually want this (at least solely), because they want their concerts to be populated by passionate fans as opposed to just rich fucks that tend to be more boring as audience members. Don't a bunch of artists have deals where longtime active members in their fan clubs get first access to tickets so that they don't have to pay more on scalper sites?
Do you put the hash at the end of the dirname in the store?

IIRC, Nix names things like "$unreadable_hash$pkg_name" which makes tab completion impossible in the case someone wants/needs to go spelunking in that directory.
> Berliner said the social media posts demonstrated Maher was all but incapable of being the person best poised to direct the organization.

> "We're looking for a leader right now who's going to be unifying and bring more people into the tent and have a broader perspective on, sort of, what America is all about," Berliner said. "And this seems to be the opposite of that.

Berliner could have stopped at criticism of the coverage, but now seems to be looking for ways to attack the institution in destructive ways. Berliner knows these attacks could bury and destroy NPR. NPR holding onto Berliner this long might be a mistake - it invites the tidal wave of attacks from the right, and the 'centrist' Dems will join in (like cowards joining the bully) - but at this point, it may be time to fire them.

The real test of the CEO will be handling this crisis. It should not be unexpected in the modern world, and there are playbooks for being effective. It's now part of the job.
>did USA guarantee Ukraine's " borders and sovereignty"? Or did it not?

Seems like the U.S. did not guarantee Ukraine's borders and sovereignty. Or at least not according to my reading of The Budapest Memorandum:

https://policymemos.hks.harvard.edu/files/policymemos/files/...

...right?
Not the link you wanted to post, which is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashed_face_distortion_effect

and is an excellent find.
The work of checking IDs is mostly done in US venues already, for 21+ drinking wristbands. It would have to be done differently, for sure, but a good portion of that labor is already being incurred.

More likely, the venues don't have much economic incentive, if any, to reduce ticket reselling and scalping.
> they demand exclusivity in their contracts

Right off the bat, exclusivity clauses shouldn't be legal, it's the definition of anti-competitive.
that was someone stepping in because the homeless person had been threatening. In general people won't help because the risk of helping is too high.
> The participants were 2,212 visitors (62% female; median age 28; only U.S. residents or citizens) to ProjectImplicit.org, where they were randomly assigned to this study. All participants in the research pool had previously filled out demographic information, including sex, age, and political identity (7-point scale, strongly liberal to strongly conservative). 1,174 participants self-identified using one of the three liberal options, 538 chose the “moderate” midpoint, and 500 chose one of the three conservative options.

The strong left-leaning bias in the sample makes me suspicious that this sample isn't representative of the wider population. I can't find the raw data, but given the selection method I strongly suspect that the sample is mostly college students.

If so, one hypothesis that might explain the results is that conservatives who go to college of necessity have a stronger understanding of the other side than liberals because they're the minority on campus for many years. If you repeated this study with a more representative sample of conservatives, including conservatives who do not have the opportunity to interact with many liberals, do you get different results?
Power Density seems to be scaling 1:1 for N5/4 to N3, with a 50% increase in transistors per mm^2 and a 33% reduction in power at the same performance (which when scaling horizontally means 50% more performance at the same power). Cost is another question, though it is still falling year over year in $/Mtr.
FORTRAN IV (1962) predates DO, which if Wikipedia is to be trusted, was introduced in FORTRAN 66.
Said it downthread, but saying it again because it bears repeating:

This is a product whose major contributors live in a state prone to very persuasive forms of coercion. Worse, this is a _build system_. Moreover, it's one of the most reticulate build systems on the planet -- I doubt more than a few hundred senior engineers would be able to spot a Jia-Tan-style compromise in the Nix machinery, let alone a remix/workalike of it.

There is currently a war going on. Not a 'war on' drugs, or cancer, or a 'culture war', or any of the other phenomena that Americans routinely nowadays call a 'war', but an actually-actual conflagration involving grads, kinzhals, and, easily, the futures of a couple of well-intentioned engineers in Moscow.

I expect the creators of this product are sincere, serious, smart, kind, generous, funny, honorable people. Yet it is simply too plausible that the FSB could come by and lean on them (or their uncle, or mother, or sister, or...) and have a little something extra put at the very root of the tree, from where it could be folded into any (or every) part of the system.

Open source across international borders is a peacetime phenomenon, as we are all about to discover, methinks. I hope I'm wrong.
Perhaps using something like a split-horizon DNS setup would alleviate that
In the first example you'd divide that by 5, or am I misunderstanding something
Tvix is compatible with Nix, thus it follows the /nix/store/$hash-$name naming scheme.
This is awesome! I enjoyed typing out the 20 words available, and would love to type more! Why are the majority of the words in the word list [1] commented out?

Also, I would appreciate if the word & its description is automatically pronounced (or maybe there's a setting to do so). This way I would be able to train audio perception, which is oftentimes challenging with French.

Right now, clicking the "speaker" icon speaks out the word, not definition, and also steals focus from the input field.

1: https://github.com/agencyenterprise/Term-Typer-Words/blob/ma...
And who are you and why should I care if you care?
Some other useful things in this department:

https://thenewpaper.co - sends you a daily text message with a short, concise daily news report that is sufficient to be aware of anything major.

https://www.boringreport.org - aggregates news stories on a particular subject from various outlets and produces AI-generated summaries of them with all the clickbaity headlines and other forms of button-pushing removed.
Stick with Consider This and the NPR News. NPR Politics Podcast is great too. I tend to avoid the opinion stuff since, yes, it's definitely got an overly-lefty outrage-bait angle.
I’ll be honest, this was around 2005-2008 — it was a long time ago and at the time I really enjoyed the ritual of it all.

The main advice I can give you is to use ripping software that integrates with AccurateRip (XLD, EAC, etc) and use a widely supported lossless format (like FLAC).

Also — I can’t remember all the details, but there’s a way to store a CUE file, along with some metadata alongside your rip such that you can recreate an exact copy of the original physical media.

At least for now, I’ve moved on to streaming services, but I’m happy to know that I have a large library of music that I ripped myself to fall back to using instead, should I ever choose to.
Your points seem irrelevant to this

NPR listener demographics

2011: 26% conservative, 23% center, 37% liberal, 14% ?

2023: 11% conservative, 21% center, 67% liberal, 1% ?
Would it have to be more or less speedy than an airport's TSA line?
Until some lawyers force us to get rid of it.
I’m talking about someone like a big venture capital fund or a big bank. Or someone like Saudis. That’s a lucrative field.
Ironically, any company doing this will want to take the place of monopoly, not increase competition in the long run.
Except an employee's contribution isn't static, while their cost is.

$7.25 x 8 hours = $58 for the day. However what they create is based on output, which for most businesses, varies day by day along with their sales.

A McDonald's could sell 500 burgers in one day at one location, but only 300 at another. In this case the employee at the larger restaurant generates 2/5 more value than the employee at the smaller one, even if both can output at the same speed and quality. So, in reality, the employee at the larger restaurant is being exploited by 2/5 more than the employee at the smaller location. Which also means the employee at the smaller location is getting paid more for doing 2/5 less work than an equally capable employee.

Profits are multiplicative yet unpredictable, while labor is static and predictable.
The Tines are such a fascinating concept of how a pack intelligence could work. That whole universe has so many interesting ideas.
Yes and apparently it wasnt received well. :/
From Florida to Australia, Global Coral Bleaching Could Soon Be Worst on Record
Mine gives access to the Wall Street Journal. As well as some other papers. It only lasts 3 days, but clicking the link again gets another 3 days.
Take losses, unseat the current monopolist, take their place.
Millionaires' Effective Tax Rate Has Been Cut by Half Since Mid-20th Century
The data is noisy so be careful when using it for research. Always account for the provenance of the records when working with "data".
The web has been overrun by drivel for over two decades now.
Role models are kind of a non-answer to the question. It's like saying the problem is "bad luck." Role-model-based policy solutions are, if not impossible, at least deeply impractical. Childcare subsidies and other forms of welfare, including simple direct cash transfers, have been shown to be strongly beneficial and are much simpler to implement. What people dislike about those is that they involve starting fights with lobbyists. Hence non-actionable perspectives like "the problem is role models" or "the problem is personal responsibility," which are not solutions so much as excuses for collective inaction.
And at the same time a native iOS app doesn't even need permissions for haptics/vibration or have to offer a user toggle for it.
Sounds like you want Common Crawl - they have snapshots going back to 2013, take your pick: https://data.commoncrawl.org/crawl-data/index.html

(A semi-ironic detail: Common Crawl is one of the most common sources used as part of the training data for LLMs)
I just stopped going to big shows. I’ll see a crappy cover band for a fraction of the price and have about as much fun. I think I’ve seen everyone still alive that I care to see!
"Rosse Woelmuis" sounds lovely (I think I can pronounce it properly).

My grandad used to call bats: "flitter mice" which surely goes back many centuries. He was a farmer in Devon and things move quite slowly down (t)here.

German famously has der fledermaus (opera and creature) and vleermuis is the Dutch for bat. In the Germanic languages you can swap out v and f, d and g and y and get pretty similar words. Maus and muis and mouse are pretty obvious too.

No idea why we use bat in modern English - we are obviously the odd one out in the Germanic languages here and yet clearly we did used to use a similar word/description to NL and DE:

Flitter mouse - vleermuis - fledermaus - bat (wtf!)

I think that vleer (NL) means furry and fleder (DE) means ...something... and I know that flitter (EN) means to move erratically and fast. When I try to get Google translate to translate fleder it spits out bat and it also spits out bat for fledermaus.

I doubt that German is broken. What does fleder (DE) mean? and how does it relate to fledermaus?
At the end of the OP video, why does the right arm grab the hanger then hand it to the left arm? Seems like a highly unnecessary and inefficient step
I could be wrong but rarely do you get > replacement money from insurance. Pay $1000k for home, burn it down, get $800k from ins. You're out $200k.

Or am I mis-understanding how home insurance would incentivize arson
Show HN: Acopw 1.0.0, a cryptographically secure password generator for Go
>We hear nothing in that origin myth about the relationship that AI has to industrialization or to capitalism or to these colonial legacies of reserving reason for only certain kinds of people and certain kinds of thinking.

It must be exhausting thinking like this all the time.
Lynch has repeatedly hinted that there’s a correct interpretation to all of his works. He just wants you to have the joy of finding it yourself — which is why he refuses to explain any of it.

Personally, as a massive David Lynch fan, I love the fact that he does this. I must have had half a dozen interpretations of Mulholland Drive over the years — all of which I like even though I’m fairly sure I know the ‘correct’ interpretation.
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with charging more for a better product, even if you are capable of delivering that product to more people. McDonald's doesn't owe its fries customers free burgers just because the burgers are going stale soon.

The problem is when there is no effective market for price competition.

With a competitive market, prices will naturally drop to approximately efficient resource allocation
It would probably be a decent first step to commit to covering all the direct and indirect costs of donating a kidney. Not everyone can afford the time off work and life required to go through the operation and recover, and then guarantee that they'll have reliable health care for the rest of their lives. There's lots of room to debate whether income replacement should be included and at what level, but among the dozens of existing systems that do it (jury duty, unemployment, disability leave, parental leave...) it should be plausible to find a model that people feel is acceptable.
Just released a new version of a module I shared on Hacker News and Reddit in its infancy. Big thanks to @skeeto[1] for reviewing and auditing the underlying cryptographic interface.

Comments in the documentation are lacking, now that I think about it, but I'll work on that this week.

[1]: https://nullprogram.com/
Games require very low bandwidth. They just require stability. So what are the ISPs even going to do? Just worsen the experience intentionally if you don’t pay more? This is late stage capitalism garbage.
I'm responding to their suggestion to travel to Moscow. FWIW I am very excited to see a rust impl of Nix focused on performance, and I am completely understanding that a person cannot pick their nationality (to some degree).
I imagine it's because we find it morally gross to harvest organs from the healthy poor.

I get that it leads to a lot of people dying who otherwise wouldn't die, and that's awful, but I think it's similar to prostitution. It makes sense to allow two consenting people who might agree to do something with each other for free to also do that same thing for money, but when you allow that, it tends to suddenly lead to a lot of people who are not actually very "willing." I think there are very real concerns that an "organic donation for money" industry quickly leads to a lot of trafficked people losing kidneys.
Except that Firefox + uBlock renders many, many websites and apps poorly.
I'm a US citizen and there is a significant risk that I will be detained and held hostage if I travel to Moscow.
Before people cry about the falling sky - read the article. This is specifically about 5G Connections, largely impacting mobile phones and those few who have 5G home internet connections (I pity you).

With that said - many of you already pay for "enhanced" video over cellular data connections - and few gripe about it.

I'm all for open, dumb pipes and all, but the mobile device space is very crowded as it is, and it's really not a lot of fun to have Google Maps fail to load when you're in a crowded area because a ton of people are posting on Instagram or playing Fruit Ninja.
> Maybe what we have here with you and with many others in America is just a lack of food knowledge.

This is exactly what's happening. This is why I find it so upsetting to hear a source like NPR mindlessly repeating the myth that fast food is cheaper. People have gotten totally out of touch with basic home economics type stuff and the food industry is all too happy for them to stay in the dark.
> Say you host your own WordPress blog with comments enabled. A few of your posts get to the front page of Hacker News, and you collect a couple hundred comments from California techies.

The possibility of this is less than 1% purely due to commenting friction. Hacker News already has a comment section. No one's going to sign up for a Wordpress account in order to post their comments there.
Firefox has had an issue open for years that it's trivial for a website to create invisible tabs.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749835
> On the other hand, if the US is happy to be just a regional power that doesn't care about what happens on the other side of the Atlantic and the Pacific, it has no duty to support Ukraine.

The consequences of such a mindset need to be understood: this would be catastrophic for US business interests and economy. Not saying you're unaware, but others might be.
> I have the impression that we are observers suddenly thrust into the dream and we, like a detective, must piece together the puzzle.
> ...
> I know some people who hate his works for this reason. They want a neatly packaged story that doesn't require them to think.

As someone who isn't particularly into his work, this feels like a false dichotomy to me. There's a middle ground between dream-like sequences that are intentionally ambiguous to the point where the directory refuses to elaborate on a single definitive explanation and everything being blatant and obvious to the point where no thinking is required, and I'd argue that trying to figure something out that does have a single definitive explanation but isn't obvious is far more similar to what a detective would need to figure out. This isn't to say that there's anything wrong with anything Lynch does or with the fact that people enjoy his work, but I think it's unfair to dismiss people who don't feel the same way as not wanting to think at all.
I've posted this recently on another post as well, but before AI-generated spam there was content farm spam. This has been increasing in search results and on social networking sites for years now.

The solution is sticking to the websites you trust. And LLMs and RAG can actually make for a really good, very relevant search engine.
> to some extent

To every extent, I would counter. It's incredibly rare that a person is currently involved in STEM research at a university and some sort of US Military grant isn't providing at least some amount of funding to it/them.

My university for one allowed students to view comprehensive data about grants provided to research groups (after much internal campaigning), but absolutely refused allowing that data to be accessed by the general public. The reason was obvious when you looked at the data: 70%+ of the bucks came directly from various militaries.
Adults largely do nothing, agree.

I recall trying once, it got to the principal level. Nothing happened. The kids got a talking to by the principal, but their parents did not care. Child bullies have parents who do not care what their kids do.

Fighting back works - against a single bully. If there is more than one, they will make the fight unfair. After all, it is about dominance and not proving yourself.

Bullies eventually usually grow out of it. That is the fix in my experience.
> Stuff like "Fresh Air" and Car Talk are not considered as NPR shows - not even by NPR themselves.

So when NPR themselves[1] refer to it as "NPR's Car Talk" in official copy, you're saying that is horseshit? You should write to NPR and let them know they are wrong.

Also this:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popul...
My stance is pretty firmly that neither side understands the other at all, whether we're talking about intellectuals or otherwise.

I think the only predictor of understanding is the amount of exposure that someone has to actual human beings who hold the opposing view. Intellectual conservatives may have a slight advantage in this regard because college campuses tend to lean left, but I've interacted with plenty of college-educated conservatives who buy fully in to the stereotypes of liberals that are hawked on populist channels.
As a SQL Server DBA I have mixed feelings about EF migrations. They are fine when you are just maintaining Entities/Tables but if you start hand writing migrations with stored procedures and data things degrade fast. In our application that's barely a year old we have hundreds of migrations and you can't run all of them on a fresh instance from start to end.

I personally use SQL Server Data tools (SSDT) Which gives a full visual studio project and can be automated in CI/CD. It has some drawbacks but after learning the ins and outs you can pretty much do anything with it.