skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Wikipedia article didn't have any info on ramp time.

My understanding is it requires building enrichment facilitates, and processing materials. Is this not a multi-year effort?
> how much are we willing to collectively sacrifice to move that percentage of people in a positive direction?

Thats the wrong question -

How many adolescents and citizens of the future are we willing to sacrifice for our comfort today.

It will come back to byte us in the ass, condemn adolescents to life of poverty today, and get lost productivity, crime and political instability.

Push it far enough and get French Revolution
Imagine you had a qemu/libvirt guest that understands USB, but doesn't have support for USB/IP in "kernel/userspace".

usbredir gets your device to qemu, looking like it's a USB device attached to the VM, without cooperation from the guest.
I guess you would only expect different if you believed the myth that America is a free country that cares about the rights of its people.

I didn't expect any different, but I also understand that America is a failed state with an unenforced Constitution.
Relationally the only difference between a "tab", "history", and a "bookmark" is a column that tells you what kind it is.
Self hosting is definitely the way toward rewilding the internet.

If everyone ran their own blogs, chats, email, etc. and let their systems federate thru protocol rather than on a single platform, the forests will thrive again.
Comedy in the service of a strong argument is twice as funny.
Hey Alvin (the author), you see us discussing this, how about addressing the issues raised in this discussion?

https://twitter.com/alv9n/status/1780289344852431041

>So this piece is now at the top of @hackernews. This experience is always cool and terrifying, especially when they also see all the small things that don't quite work about the piece.
>Most think resources should be targeted towards groups that "deserve it more" because they are "worse off"

I believe there is behavioral game theory research that shows we are hard-wired for "fairness", even at the expense of a more optimal solution. E.g., Two subjects are given $100 to split and one was allowed to determine the split and the other the choice to accept it or both would go with nothing. A "$90/$10" split would often be rejected, even though the decider is giving up $10 and instead choosing nothing because of a sense of being slighted.
I can't really imagine anywhere but North America repelling consumer demand for cheap EVs. Most countries importing what people want to buy seems like a circle of relative volume, cost and quality improvement destroying Teslas relevance.
Oh the Humanity: Why You Can't Build Apple with Venture Capital
Unfortunately a solid number of these things would rely on the moral equivalent of slavery.

> Reduce the burden of poverty. For instance, the poorer you are the further you have to travel to the grocery store. The people who often don't have the means to easily travel for food have to travel for food.

No one wants to work in these neighborhoods because they are invariably awful. At some point the risk of an employee being murdered / assaulted means stores close down.

There's no good answer for this, other than to keep doing what we're doing. Our current economic system has consistently lifted large numbers of people out of poverty historically, and is still doing it today. We should at least give it a go for seven more generations.

That's not to say we should do nothing, but large overhauls seem uncalled for given the data.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/8/15766434/alphabet-google-b...
Net radio was a really big thing in the 90's and I remember listening to people playing electronic music that way. You couldn't buy it anywhere but you could listen to it on the internet.
> Is this not a multi-year effort

If you have a strong civilian nuclear power program, the ramp up time is minimal (weeks to months), as fast breeder reactors are a dual use technology.

If the country also has a domestic space program, you can safely assume they are also working on building IRBM capabilities
>but the grammar is the same in Austria and Germany,

Sure but that's only useful for writing, and quickly becomes irelevant in speaking when you can't understand the dialect because every word is pronounced differently than what you know. Two languages can share the same grammar rules yet be completely different from one another becasue the words themselves are different.

>Especially at the border

That's a very silly argument. Firstly, border regions between countries often share dialect similarities because d'uh, geographical proximity. A virtual line in the dirt doesn't mean two people will suddenly speak vastly different when they've evolved together for centuries only separated by a few km.

And secondly, they're both native German speakers, of course they don't need translators between each others, but that wasn't my point. My point was specifically that foreigners who learn "vanilla" German might end up needing translators when they hear some of those Austrian dialects(maybe Bavarian too, IDK).
Really cool. Obrigado! I wish it had German. I signed up for notifications. Keep up the good work!
This looks great. I wish there was an iPad version. Not for me (I prefer desktop), but for my kid.
good thing I downloaded it yesterday
Not to mention, if you rat on your parents and get yanked into a group home, your experience is very likely the same or worse as it would be at home, and growing up, you know kids who this happened to and more or less have proof as to why you don't talk about it. I certainly saw this happen to people I knew, one of them lived with us for awhile and my folks arranged for her to live with a relative, which allowed them to really make it in life instead of being stuck in the system. Weirdly, after some initial trouble that looked impossible to overcome, it was very simple to get them placed into our home, and, very simple to get them in with a relative. Most of that was the workings of the social worker assigned to them, who was hard to reach out to, and very clearly over worked.

Basically, there has to be a better intervention than just taking people's children away, which certainly keys into your points.

I'd take it further to the point where, the poverty line is re-evaluated per locality, and inflation needs to be accurately reported, and with it the tax brackets as required by law. Then we need to dump the tax burden completely off the lowest earners, along with their requirement to file taxes at all. Then, we need to re-evaluate the bottom tiers to ramp in slowly to help eliminate welfare traps. It'd probably be a good idea, additionally, to no longer tax things like unemployment/workmen's comp/disability/social security/etc, for similar reasons. Reporting taxes itself is a burden all its own, and it negatively affects people who already struggle with math.

Also, something that isn't currently done, and certainly should be done, is to create interactions between the kids who have poor situations with the kids that have good situations. My elementary school had a 'buddy' program, where the older kids would hang out in a structured way with the younger kids. I think it'd go a long way in terms of support to have a system where kids from the good side of town interact with kids from the bad side of town in that way, and to make it a K-12 program. You additionally get the side product of the kids who have better situations being able to socialize with, and therefore have empathy for, kids in bad situations, and real empathy at that, not "spend some more tax money" empathy, actual boots on the ground empathy, person to person.
Comparing the rights we gave up after 9/11 (read: actual rights that we no longer have) to the "rights" we "gave up" during the COVID era (read: inconveniences that right-wingers propagandized about) doesn't seem very genuine...
An exponential moving average is a form of weighted rolling average that would match the plain-text description in the complaint and is often used in signal processing as an IIR low-pass filter (an unweighted rolling average over a window is an FIR filter)
Past few times I've set up a computer, I've been using Clementine. It's decent, does the job pretty well, and you can add web radio streams as well
I search for somewhat obscure and highly specific things. There are queries which used to reliably return the results I was looking for. Over the past several years these queries no longer work.

It feels like the search engine used to accept whatever I typed and used that to query. The results had to be a good match for all the words in my query. This made it very easy to find exactly what I was looking for.

Now google feels free to ignore terms from my query or to use synonyms instead of the exact term. The results are now exceptionally broad and no longer are a good match for the specific query I've entered. I now have to use "quotes" "around" "every" "single" "term" or go several pages deep to find the page I want.
One of the funny things with French is what a sometimes traveling companion sometimes says to me with some exasperation: "They don't pronounce half their letters!" :-) Also makes me realize that, bad as my French is, I knew the language a lot more than they did.
If you donate your family don't benefit. If you don't donate, your family don't benefit. The only logic I can find here is spite.
Show HN: Vibebox: Your Inbox and Vibes
Hi HN! I'm here to share Vibebox (vibebox.app), a little toy app I built to sprinkle joy across your inbox with friendly animal avatars and messages that transform mundane emails into warm, joyful reads.

About Vibebox

- Transforms your emails with playful visuals and warm messages.

- Aims to reduce stress associated with email management.

- Promotes positivity within your daily routine.

I'd love your feedback!

Is this something you'd actually use if it were built out? I'm convinced it's a fun toy app, but a few early beta testers have said it's turning into their favorite way to read email because it actually reduces the emotional impact of opening their inbox.

Inspiration:
As you can imagine, Vibebox uses LLMs behind the scenes to vibe-ify your emails. If you're curious about how it works, I gave a talk on an early iteration of Vibebox called "AI for mere mortal web developers" at Austin API Summit last month.

- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTQI0emPLDM

- Repo: https://github.com/nylas-samples/austin-api-summit-2024
Yes Ukraine showed the world that nuclear disarmament was possible -- and what the consequences are.
ever go to onion sites? They're pretty great. No javascript, social media share buttons, ad-tech or click-jacking or videos popping up or walls in front of the content. No liking or subscribing or logging in with your facebook account... it's ironic how tor is the clean internet.
> Considering all that effort, why would an English-speaker—even a diplomat—learn another language? Doesn’t everybody else speak English anyway?

Everybody else speaking English, means they can communicate with you, if they want to.

It doesn't mean you can follow along with conversation at a party or social event or work environment. You will often be left out of the loop, even if not intentionally.
What makes concurrency so hard?
I feel like the price of restaurant dining scales linearly to the number of people you're feeding, while cooking at home scales more logarithmically. [1]

If you're feeding one person, I don't know that it's that much cheaper to get stuff from the grocery store compared to just eating Taco Bell every day. If you're feeding 5-6 people, it's absolutely cheaper; I can make two large pizzas at home to feed 6 people for like $8.

Also, where are you finding $3 Happy Meals in the US?

[1] Probably not literally true, but more or less how I think about it.
Interesting. Would you agree that not everyone is the same? How about that not everyone is a "good person" by nature?
Infants' brain responses to social interaction predict future language growth
South Africa disarmed their nuclear weapons as well and showed the benefits of that.
Internet Powered Nonsense
What happens if you just decided not to move? That voluntarily leave would need to become a firing with notice pay and severance.
Actually, ability to keep two or more competing hypotheses in mind at the same time is a sign of intelligence.
Yeah, no need to surveil the government insiders giving tours of the capital to now-convicted seditionists. No national security threat to address there...
I dunno as someone who grew up with relatives who have been trapped in these cycles, I do think some of it is a choice. I realize people are affected by all kinds of things, but when things are given to you and you have no interest, it's hard to see that as anything but what it is.

But of course, it's important to help people who are down; but being poor does not absolve you of all self responsibility.
I've been wondering where it all went.
On what factual basis can you claim that adverse events are primarily driven by genetics?

On the face of it this seems ludicrous. A baby born to a mother living in a high-risk environment but then adopted by a low-risk family would likely do far better in their life than the inverse.
Researchers turn metal waste into catalyst for hydrogen
Great way to treat customers lmao
RealAudio was my go-to before Winamp showed up. It's crazy to me that RealNetworks is still around.
Because they remember the past far more fondly than it was and converge the utility they get from the current day with the ideals of back then.

The reality is there is far more creative and well produced content on the web and closed platforms today than there ever was in any other point in time. And if you can't find it fast enough, AI can generate direct, customized answers.
Author here. I think our issue is that many recruiting tools are built on top of naive ChatGPT... because most recruiting solutions don't have the training data to fine-tune. So whatever biases are in ChatGPT persist in other products.
That project was dead in the water once they decided to name it "OpenTofu".
My Twitter feed has a bunch of people doing extremely niche deep dives into Cold War weapons systems. For example, on the design of MiG-23 air intakes: https://twitter.com/BaA43A3aHY/status/1753715489686057384
Text Classification for Developers
If you want to try a scatalogically over the top fun remix of the originals, install the project brutality mod. Romero gave it his seal of approval as well.
US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like'
This will probably greatly interest you:

https://mattlakeman.org/2024/03/30/notes-on-el-salvador/
How about never. In a couple of decades creeping normality will be complete and nobody will ever fight for these rights back because they'll have forgotten they ever existed in the first place.
I hadn't heard of them, and the price seems really good. I love the idea of being able to use apps like Winamp or similar.

Does di.fm have much mainstream music? What is the selection like compared to a Spotify our Youtube Music?

I wouldn't even care that much honestly if they have mainstream music, as long as they have music I would like and can discover without extreme effort.
I don't think it's the media's place to make us feel inclined to take action. What action, exactly? Progressive, conservative, green, techno-optimist, religious, etc? It's their job to report on whatever is news-worthy, and it's up to viewers what they want to do with that information. I don't agree with pushing agendas disguised as news. That used to be mainly a Fox News and AM-talk radio thing. It's dissapointing to see the rest of media follow suit.
That's because Express has been seriously neglected for the past 10 years. That's why it's still version 4. I think you still have to hack in basic support for async handlers.

Performance is bad. Bad as in all the other frameworks use it as a baseline for their benchmarks lol.
> NPR, being the whitest place on Earth

Come on, they're about as diverse as America itself is: https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179803822/people-at-npr

In fact, Black people are proportionally overrepresented relative to the U.S. population at NPR, while Hispanics are underrepresented.

Sunday morning's Weekend Edition host, Ayesha Rascoe, is a Black woman. Unfortunately they lost Audie Cornish, also a Black woman, from All Things Considered. She was great.

I do think it's fair to argue that NPR is far more liberal than it ever was, and Uri Beliner's inside story provides some credence to that. But that's different from being "white." (Keep in mind that the vast majority of Trump voters are white and would bristle at NPR's news programming; support by non-whites is relatively low.)
Why are there no names on the country map? I don't know what's what.
It's true that there's big problems and it's true that things should change.

The issue is that the solution that is proposed to the problem is to have more attention to the problem. This result in a virtuous circle where things have to address the problem more and more.
It does help address the problem though, it's not falling on deaf ears and it is educational.

This then becomes a kind of noise drowning out other signals. It's the signals that listeners want not the noise.

Is anything actually improved, do people benefit? I would say yes!!

But it's a move away from signal and information towards problem education and political or social messaging.

The virtuous circle can get reinforced by objections to the changes. Objections or "discomfort" are often proof that more changes need to be made. The signal is further reduced and those in change become blind in their virtue. Metrics in how good they are doing are perceived in terms of the messages that are put out not in quality productions. A kind of seige mentality makes it hard to determine the difference between criticism of the content or format and political objections of the added messaging to the content. Both positions become opposition and encourage more of the same.

To me, the change to add more unbiased views or thoughts from the other side seem artificial and miss the actual change in content. It makes things more political and less about life.
I disagree with you but upvoted you. I think it's an important discussion to be had, because I have seen lots of conflicting data, but it's unfortunate the forum doesn't want to have it.
All of the self serve tablets/kiosks have mics and cameras. Are they actively used? No idea. But they are there.
As a local resident, I’m quite pleased with the whole thing. The incentives are gated by actual performance… if Amazon doesn’t do stuff, we don’t pay. In the meantime, lots of incentives were in-kind infrastructure improvements that we really needed to do anyway. What Amazon has already built is nice and fits in with the neighborhood.

Really it’s all a tempest in a teapot.
> All means of making concurrency 'easier' are concerned first and foremost with managing the state space.

> Data mutations create new steps, which immutable data structures avoid by definition.

This is why I'll already reach for immutability-first, and only mutate in special cases.
3 of the 4 buttons in the bottom right corner say "grafik" (graphics?), programi (programs?), and "journal." i think it might be some kind of computer system.
Well that's interesting.

It took a bunch of detective work, for what should have just been a NOTE on the read me on the repo.

Is this why "science communicators" are needed?

https://xkcd.com/1254/ <<< very relevant.
The article is primarily about breaking up certain technology companies into their broad constituent parts and mandating interoperability, presumably by law. That seems a lot more realistic than your average person self-hosting, which almost everyone would view as a hassle and a usability fail.
I don’t understand how a group allegedly tied to Microsoft AI according to their paper is able to have their own twitter and do their own PR?
> Somebody snooping on or spoofing my mouse seems like an academic threat.

You're not concerned that anyone within a 100 ft radius of you can inject arbitrary keystrokes/mouse movements to your PC?
Give me the lecture, what do I put in /etc/hosts? How does this prevent AT&T fucking with me? How do I make this work on all my machines to prevent this issue? Like my smart TV?
I don't think they're talking about the renewal of FISA, but FISA itself.
Who was going to invade South Africa?

Ukraine proved you should keep them.
It is the formula for an exponentially weighted moving average.

Which is not appropriate here...
What I find frightening is not only the risk of default but also the risk of hacking. It’s easy for someone who gain remote access to create (or remove) data, records, logs … on a system.

It’s also extremely easy for the computer owner or IT people to do the same.
As someone who was on the adoption lists in California, we had to learn that statements like 'On the face of it this seems ludicrous. A baby born to a mother living in a high-risk environment but then adopted by a low-risk family would likely do far better in their life than the inverse.' were false. I don't know if it was right or wrong, but California in its mandated adoption (fostering) training courses thought that we should be disabused of the idea that taking in a child (even a newborn) would mean that the child wouldn't end up significantly like the genetic parent. There were several studies we had to read (don't have them) that supported this claim.

We didn't end up fostering, for unrelated reasons.
If parent is obtuse, so are you. The topic is clearly not entirely contained in "spending resources in an attempt to achieve a goal", if how you do it can either be understood as a "sacrifice" or something else entirely (though, to you, it might, if you don't care about the difference).

There is a cost that can be measured in money. There is an outcome that can be measured in a variety of ways. And then there is also different ways of how we think about something, that definitely informs what we do and how.
Amazon's CEO Letter to Shareholders (2023)
You're always "spending resources", even when you decide not to spend time and money: in effect, you decide to expend some people's lives.

Is it effective?

Why is it right for you that the starting point should be "we spend nothing", and then "we spend on one action only if it is proven it is effective", and not "we spend everything to help others", and then "we stop spending only if it is proven it is ineffective"?

(And before anyone makes a reverse Godwin point by shouting "communism!", reminder what the taxation rates in Nordic countries are: Denmark 55.56%, Finland 51.25%, Iceland 46.22%, Norway 47.2% and Sweden 57%. And these are not khmer-rouge hellholes where nobody can be rich and people are beaten into submission by an overwhelming state.)
This looks really great, but I wish there was a setting for "SAT level English". That could've really helped me improve my own vocabulary. Also "used in a sentence" so I could actually type something in a sentence.

And... maybe ignore typos, spaces, commas etc in the non main word? The main word is important for sure but the rest is less, just forces you to focus on what you're learning.
> A Happy Meal is frequently sold for $3.

Not anymore. I just checked, a hamburger happy meal at the McD's nearest to my house (i.e. not an abnormally expensive location such as an airport) is $4.49. Extra $0.20 to add cheese. This is for a 1/10 lb hamburger (!). As others have pointed out, I think it's very possible to acquire the ingredients for this for less than that, assuming you can buy enough for 3-4 at once.