skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
… sure? But my point is that this is not a lot of work.

I find the claim that it had exploded 30x to be almost impossible. Because you will struggle to do a single McKinsey project for 1/30th of 8M.
If western demand goes away, you think African demand can compensate for that? Domestic would be more realistic, and even there China has nowhere near enough domestic consumption to keep the system running, let alone sustain historical growth rates.
Alternative perspective:

Small languages can benefit a lot from machine translation. In a world where most texts can be autotranslated, reading or even listening to e.g. Wikipedia in ones own language will be much easier.
I've never seen HN article where Putin is portrayed positively.
Right. If you are in the HN bubble, then 30 years ago IBM was a big name in computing as the inventor of the PC, OS/2, maker of a great keyboard, and a bunch of weird systems we never touched. They sold their PC and keyboard businesses, and let OS/2 die. We think some of those weird systems still exist, but those never were very relevant unless you had to work on them.

HN users are trendy. If you didn't grow up in the 1990s or before though you may not remember just how picked on this type of crowd was. Now while we are never exactly the "in" crowd, we are respected, being a "nerd" or "geek" is now an acceptable thing. We have come a long way and that is enough trendy enough for us.
I've just created an account, and I added my website for the sitemap, but after it was done running, there are no results? There's nothing in the Results > Runs page, there are no projects or tests.

I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or there's an issue with your product.

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Edit: Ok, I was a bit too fast to leave this comment. I did find a test in Tests > Quick tests, which at first I thought was just a demo test, but it's actually my sitemap.

It created the sitemap with all the links, but there are still no screenshots, so that's still an issue.
This is major pusher of propaganda?

> Most DRAGONBRIDGE activity is low quality content without a political message, populated across many channels and blogs

If anything, this is a demonstration that their efforts are futile and incompetent, very much non-threat. I’ve seen even 4chan do better

We have multiple actors that push divisive misinformation through bots, much more successfully, and we do not apply any scrutiny to that.
Oh boy...after the first two paragraphs it gets so wrong I even don't want to start arguing.
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This doesn’t change the premise of your argument but to clear up your understanding - no one is able to instantly take payments from your credit card. Your credit card company records the transaction as having taken place long before any money actually moves.

They are far more cautious about giving leeway on the conduct of the consumer than that of the merchant.

3-7 business days gives the merchant’s bank long enough to debit the funds, ensure they exist, then send them back, with a buffer for errors.
That means the data of US enemies is much safer than the data of US vassals^H allies.
Nice article, makes me wonder what a better representation would look like. It would be interesting if Html could have non string attributes that reference some local values from a scoped script tag or something.

I found the take on attributes for default configuration to be an odd take. Think about "class" attribute for example. If it only ever showed the default, toggling classes would look really odd in the dom inspector / stringified html, either not showing an active class or showing an inactive one.
The public thinks many issues are more important than climate change. Here is a recent article about this.

Biden Is Spending $1 Trillion to Fight Climate Change. Voters Don’t Care. (Wall Street Journal April 9, 2024) https://archive.is/ape1n

'President Biden has done more to address climate change than any of his predecessors. So far, voters don’t seem to care.

The Biden campaign and a collection of progressive groups are trying to change that. They believe the president’s record on climate change can boost his popularity with young voters.

The strategy is risky because climate has never been a priority with voters. And it is unclear whether climate policies could reverse the deep skepticism many young people feel toward Biden. Recent Wall Street Journal polls have found that Biden’s support among young people is shrinking compared with 2020 amid concerns about the president’s age and his support for Israel’s war against Hamas.'

The graph shows that 25% and 22% of people thought immigration and inflation were the most important, vs 2% for climate change.
Would it be legal for an airline to refuse doing business with you after you have claimed your money back once?
Is Meta Ai on its way to whatsapp?!
Hard to get much more obvious than that. How else did you think this was implemented as a front-end library?
I believe (historically at least), local calls in america were free - setting up a robocaller could take advantage of this - the only cost was energy. In the UK/EU the same calls would cost the robocaller money.

Similarly, I understand it is free to send SMS in the states, you pay to receive them. Again this is a cost in the UK - though with a headless mobile phone and a SIM with 'unlimited sms' this can be worked around, though the SIM need to be rotated.
Same is true of real javascript objects vs JSON. For example, you can't put Date() in JSON. Nor objects with a prototype.
Free open-source solution for cybersecurity posture management (GRC)
Wonder how long until its back to round numbers? - 800pm
Imho, the service branches are defined by and structured around the type of equipment required to complete their missions.

The Navy builds years-long expensive ships, then sends them halfway around the world under command of someone. It has a structure to facilitate that.

The Army (at best) efficiency organizes a huge amount of people and material, and it deploys and sustains it wherever needed. It has a structure to facilitate that.

The Air Force procures, operates, and sustains the most technical platforms. So it's gotten halfway decent at doing that, or at least learned some lessons from repeated mistakes. It has a structure to facilitate that.

(And the Marines scrounge through everyone's trash bin, cobble something together, and come out armed to the teeth)

Point being, if you look at the people who have risen to the ranks of power, they've been moulded to fit their service culture. Which means some services might not be as good as procurement...
Which experienced CUDA programmers do anyways!
If my reading of history is correct while there might have been more than one power or more or less equal powers they all vied to be the one most powerful one. I think that’s the natural order of things and the question is do you want the west lead by the US or one of her allies to be that leader or China or her allies.
Look at it this way. Would you like it if, through “addition” and natural attrition, 20% of your company was ex-McKinsey folks? Countries are the same as companies. The way they are reflects the culture and values of the people. When a large fraction of your population becomes recent immigrants from the subcontinent, your country will become more like the subcontinent.

I’m part of the problem here. Half my family lives in Canada now. They’re super nice people and their food is a huge upgrade over the dreck Canadians were eating. But they’re Bangladeshi, not Canadian, in substance if not in legal technicalities. They don’t have the culture and values suitable for running an egalitarian western democracy.
How could I not? They are incredibly loud.
> At the Federal Communications Committee, the loudest voices come from the telecommunications operators. There’s an imbalance in the control that the consumer ultimately has over who gets to invade their telephone versus these other interests.

This, plus the monetary incentives are the root reason it's still a problem. Ignoring the actual scam part, the companies terminating the calls (that is: your phone provider) is making money on two ends: they get paid by the originator, and they get paid by the consumer they're delivering the call to (you). The telco originating the call is getting paid by the spammer. Spam is profitable for everybody.

> I think that we’ll be able to push the genie a long way back into the bottle. The measure of success is that we all won’t be scared to answer our phone. It’ll be a surprise that it’s a robocall—instead of the expectation that it’s a robocall.

I think a different genie is out of the bottle that won't go back in: the expectation you can immediately and synchronously interrupt any person and demand their full attention. I almost never answer my phone for that reason, not just because of spam. I'd just rather interact asynchronously via text or email, without interrupting whatever I happen to be doing. If I'm able I'll reply quickly, and I'm happy to switch to a synchronous phone call if it makes sense (I'd still prefer that over dozens of back-and-forth texts where nuance is tricky and it's easier to misunderstand each other).

It's at the point if my spouse or most close family/friends actually phone me, my reaction is "Oh no, what's wrong?"
You're right, but to the consumer like me I cherish how I'm able to connect to my favorite individuals like Andrej Karpathy and still learn a lot. I guess most people are likely the same, and spend an awful amount of time daily on this, whether they know it or not.
I actually went down nearly this exact same rabbit hole recently. Specifically I was curious why, given all of the demand for GPUs, compute not been commoditized and resold through public markets. This also led me to the Enron's ideas before their collapse :)

One thing I found surprising is how hard it is to discover prices of this compute time in today's world as compared to traditional commodities like oil. A factor could be a difference in regulation, for example in the US I believe there are requirements for reporting energy trades between producers and consumers.

side note: I made this minimal website for tracking these prices which shows some of the disparity: https://computeindex.michaelgiba.com/
We're in a tizzy because we're inventing a new system that redistributes power as chaotically as did our invention of firearms.

We never came up with a solution for controlling firearms (at least in my random country); we have fought for a long time about how, and the people who believe there is no how focus on who to blame after each gun tragedy.

When the AI stuff has an event as significant as a gun tragedy, we'll try to figure out why it was able to happen. After a while, many of us who do not believe there is a way to protect ourselves will focus on who to blame.

AI is a hose connected between order and chaos. Depending on which direction the hose is flowing, you can gain or lose from it. People with something to lose are scared. People with nothing are thrilled. The rest of us are, well, I have no idea what to think about it. I suppose I have to just see how it goes, because I sure don't believe we can create a policy that can stop it.
It's not "you're the real racists", but rather "this is racist". Which it is.
Maybe, but that is a lot of overhead vs a well organized bookshelf where I don't need reach for some app(s) on my phone just to find a book. This story is from several years before chatgpt, I've organized my bookshelf since so I won't have to find out.
> A delay is them not doing their job right, as promised.

I am anti-airline here, I am loving where we are going with these things. But I don't agree with this: many delays happen precisely because they are doing their jobs right. This could be weather-related delays, observed mechanical issues, unexpected crew illnesses (note the plural), etc. And over the course of a day, these issues compound.

I think the government should refund the airlines the government taxes/fees for canceled/delayed flights due to weather or mechanical issues at least.
How well would tribbler work for disseminating content, such as a documentary, that might get a person jailed if they put it out on more mainstream social media?
> They don't even have the decency to be offended by my rudeness and reply with "Oh, we're just looking for someone to click buttons."

> The recruiter calls me the next day to inform me that my question prompted them to close the role, and re-open a new one at the junior level because they only needed a ClickOps monkey.

They actually learned? Thats not too bad. Sure, theyre ignorant about many other things, but learning is important.

That said, this guy sounds really full of himself. I suspect it must transpire.

> (though the work seemed like more of the "present yourself as a cog in some vast, soulless machinery" stuff I already get

So this guy is a cog and wants "leadership" roles. Cant get them, blames other peoples social skills. Cool story bro.
There are dozens of GUI libraries and platform toolkits available to both Mac and Windows. In fact, there are plenty of GTK and Qt applications floating around on these platforms. As well as a lot of applications using custom frameworks. Then of course the unfortunate web-apps-as-desktop-apps pipeline in the form of Electron. Fragmentation is a very loaded and derogatory term used to express disdain for the openness and freedom that open source desktops have. Fragmentation is a strength of open source.
Ironically, all this will end up doing is make more people racist again.
Do you have a small website for your newsletter? Or is it just archived on Substack?
https://archive.is/UWiOF
Two main reason: 1) I will never be able to easily type the fancy R. Anytime I need to type it I’ll need to google it or find a previous reference to copy paste. It presents bad UX for continued communication, and plain English would suffice given the math isn’t the point. Similarly, it would be inappropriate to use overly grandiloquent language if the writing wasn’t the point.

And 2), most engineers are not super comfortable with even relatively basic mathematical notation like this. If your audience is software engineers (and specifically not mathematicians), it’s better to say what you mean, in plain terms. While 80% of folks might know what you mean, it’s not worth losing the other 20%.

On the other hand, if the math is the point, then it is more than appropriate.
I'm not sure how much to trust the Wikipedia dates for these - it claims Cookie Clicker was 2013, but I'm sure there was a flash version of it before 2007, while I was in highschool.
Yeah - I have family in both countries (parents: mom & family from Leeds, dad and family from London cousins: I don't actually know where in Canada they are now)

Obviously, there is a lot of good stuff we can copy/learn from both countries. The thing is to make sure we can iron out as many issues as possible (large population and geographic area mostly) before we attempt something and having politicians claim it "doesn't work".

Seem my response to isleyaardvark above for my (stupid) idea to try to us the VA hospitals to test bed some of this.

Thanks!
You can pass some knowledge but it's limited. The more specialized you get the fewer knowledge bearer and if something happens to them you have to start from scratch again.
If emulsifiers cause dysregulation of the gut microbiome, then they could also be implicated in obesity, right?
the bubble can grow a lot more with another breakthrough in AI.
Bad headline.

Not only are the costs spread over decades, the extra sales of electricity (replacing fuel sales) cover the cost of the upgrade, while lowering the per unit cost of electricity.

They mention this in the article so there's no real excuse other than clickbaiting.
>Substack doesn't have a pricing page and their incentives are much more murky.

I agree that Substack doesn't have pricing page per se, but they have this, which seems pretty transparent to me:

https://substack.com/going-paid

>They want to attract writers and subscribers to the platform, but they don't really care if it is the best experience for either group. If they think of some feature that writers hate, but it increases the number of subscribers or some other metric, Substack is going to implement it.

Aren't both platforms vulnerable to this? Ghost charges more when publishers have more members (paid or free), so they similarly have an incentive to increase member signups even if it doesn't financially benefit the publisher.

To be clear, both Ghost's and Substack's funding models seem fine to me. It's hard to perfectly align the incentives of the platform, the publishers, and the readers, but both Ghost and Substack have what feels to me like sensible enough alignment.

The arguments against Substack feel like motivated reasoning for people who disagree with other aspects of Substack (VC funding, positions on free speech).
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thnx Qem for you enduring patience!

We're now multiplexing everything on 1 port. If you use our Tor-like decentralised onion routing feature that works.
Sadly, in normal mode we need two forwarded ports. Both Libtorrent download lib and our decentralised gossip requires their own port. We gossip about trust, content discovery, and torrent health.
I think the article missed an important “why” here that is confusing people here: JavaScript objects and the DOM are fundamentally different, and JavaScript is providing an API via the DOM for reading and writing HTML, which is essentially an XML document. We shouldn’t expect the objects in JavaScript to perfectly translate to their HTML counterparts or vice versa.

If anything, it’s odd that they added these conveniences like reflection that make it more magical than it should be.

(Edited for clarity)
Good simulations have constant time step and may not run in real time. From inside such simulation, you would never know.
"Not sure why people are so sentimental about preserving human intelligence specifically"

Aside from this being our most base instinct; in your proposed nightmare who would be left to behold the wonders
You're defending one side of the position when I just said I can see both sides thinking they are right being a tennable position to hold. I don't disagre with your view, the same way I can see someone who is opposed to war being opposed to the usage.
Very nice, not a fan of this kind of animation but at least it's smooth!
Let these Westerners drive directly into a ditch, they deserve it. It's like they've learned nothing from the current war in Ukraine. Some people are even mentioning dog-fights, like this is a freaking Top Gun movie or some such (there's no dog-fight against a S-300, I can tell them that).

The best thing that they could do would be to "import" a few dozen Ukrainian drone operators and engineers, people who have actively and directly fought against a near-peer US adversary, and let them design whatever they think will win the next war. But that won't make the current ghouls in the US the buttloads of money they are betting on, so that will never happen.
I pressed the power button on my monitor, and now the website is all black.
Changing the domain name should not affect ranking, as long as a 301 redirect is applied server-side to all pages. This way, pages indexed in Google won't 404. That is what could damage the ranking.
Termination of Service Notification
> they get paid by the consumer they’re delivering the call to

That doesn’t make any sense. I don’t have the phone so that I can receive spam calls. If they were able to eliminate all spam calls overnight, people wouldn’t cancel their service.
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that's so good it's scary
Dimensions go by 1/root(2) to double density...so about .7 per generation.
The countries were the companies are established.
I'm trying to avoid sounding overly nostalgic about Palm OS but it really was a nice personal computer.

This snippet highlights the focus on UX (beyond the look and feel!), and as creators I think many of us can relate to (and maybe remind others...) how great products require deliberate care in design AND implentation.

> The user interface received particular scrutiny. Hawkins set firm limits that any slow operation be reworked instead of showing a busy indicator, and explicit error messages should be avoided. Graffiti was a given because handwriting had to work, as no physical keyboard would have fit at the time. Mindful of how unusual such a device would be to many users, Ed Colligan declared that Touchdown should “delight the customer,” and developer Rob Haitani established a design theory he grandly christened the “Zen of Palm"
thanks, I've fixed them

btw, you appear to be shadow banned, probably on account of being downvoted for making short comments like "good" or "I don't get it"

Short & simple responses may be adequate at times, but usually people will view it as not adding anything

Perhaps reviewing guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html will give an idea of the ideal being yearned for (granted, it's an ideal). In general, trying to enhance the conversation with relevant information/ideas. "your links are 404" was definitely relevant here
Self-driving cars are underhyped
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Buried in the details there's a twist often missed.

China has shut down thousands of small, old, relatively inefficant coal plants while at the same time building fewer, larger, more efficient, less polluting coal plants and while doing more than any other country to advance solar and related technologies.

They have a massive population, which they worked hard (in questionable ways) to keep in check, as the associated energy demand has grown they've worked hard to meet it with the technology they had (coal) while also working to make that cleaner and working to replace it as rapidly as possible.

> Between 2000 and now their coal plant capacity factor dropped from 70% to around 50%.

I'm unsure of your specifics here, I agree they're working hard to use less, FWiW though, the most recent IEA figure for China coal use was 60.6% of total energy supply in 2021

https://www.iea.org/countries/China/coal

The IEA also asserts that globally we've reached "peak coal use" planet wide, despite the apparent foot dragging of China and India who are still bound by large populations, large energy demands, production energy usage for goods for much of the reast of the planet, and the difficulty of fast transition.