skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We've known for all of history that sitting inside for extended periods, allowing yourself to atrophy, not socializing with others, self-indulgence, and neglecting your spiritual and mental health are bad for you.

That doesn't really capture the risk-carrying lifestyle they're highlighting in the article, though.

Spending your days contributing to your community in a safely sheltered school, office, etc as part of a social community and then your home time further learning and socializing indoors, with others, doesn't really look anything like what you described but seems to carry the similar risk here.

While some have an intuition that's already skeptical of that life, many people wouldn't give it a second thought. You're being productive, social, healthy, and maybe even physically active. Doesn't sound too bad! But you're not getting much sunlight, you're not seeing a lot of distant focal points, and you're specifically probably doing a lot of reading and watching -- that's where the increased risk of myopia quietly slips in.
I am really in the habit of using pathlib in Python and similar facilities in Java so I just write

path = HOME / "cards" / f"{card_id}" / "card.yaml"
> Some moderate level of inflation is a pretty basic economic principle

The US had zero net inflation from 1800 to 1914, and fantastic prosperity.
The same guidelines:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate.
What would be the benefits of changing it now? Change for the sake of change would only break backwards compatibility.
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With respect, what the hell are you talking about?

Win32 file APIs can actually use either '/' or '\\' as a path separator. The stuff this is talking about is mostly around DOS command line tools and the successor, cmd.exe, which yes is mostly meant to run scripts written for DOS.

'\\' was selected by DOS, specifically DOS 2.0 per TFA, several years before OS/2 existed.
> I'm looking forward to more regulation of social media to be honest

I'm afraid that's not goign to happen in the US. Politicians never let a disaster go to waste: had the will been there to regulate social media in general, the hysteria around TikTok would have precipitated it. Instead, we got a law specifically targeting TikTok and ignoring other SM.
Agree on YAML, disagree on JSON.
An open letter regarding the DjangoCon Europe CfP
I am very disappointed it is not actually possible to listen to all of the samples at the same time. Would be interesting whether the result would actually have any sound or would average out to no noise at all.
A Polestar Phone now inexplicably exists
Yes there was a time when atom/vscode integration was shit.

They also fucked up typings in terms of community management.

Those two alone probably put them into downward spiral.

But the language is being developed with activity stronger than ever.

And it is well designed and pleasure to code in.
Show HN: Practice for the YC interview
I've been blown away by speech-to-speech LLMs lately and was looking for a fun little website to build. Enter mock YC interviews.

When I first applied to YC, I used iPG (https://jamescun.github.io/iPG/) to practice and get comfortable with the YC-style interview. Spoiler: I ended up getting in.

This took me a few hours to go from scratch to production. Would highly suggest playing around with some of the latest products (this uses Vapi.ai/elevenlabs.io)
A good reminder for parents to push beyond their comfort zones when playing music with their children, otherwise they will take the path of least resistance: popular music.
Music has become more stratified. The 90s through the present have been an ongoing escalation of music being democratized more and more, from the rise of the DAW in the late 90s to iTunes and P2P sharing to YouTube and music streaming. So there is vastly more music now, and people have more opportunity to find things that suit their tastes.

People listen to a wider variety of music and the same Billboard notion of popularity doesn't really paint a useful picture anymore. What plays on the radio or in TV ads is the lowest common denominator corporate waffle, and is played heavily, but it doesn't represent what people listen to overall.

I have personal playlists of everything from House music and 90s Eurodance to all kinds of J-Pop to 19th century folk music to early 2000s rock to 80s synth pop to orchestral music. I couldn't name a single Taylor Swift song offhand, but apparently she's pretty big.
It's an inefficient allocation, in my view. I consider exercise (and a few other things) to be necessary to sustainably perform at a certain level.

I don't see them as merely enriching things, but necessary things in order to maintain my spirit (body, mind, and soul). In the vein, they gain priority over everything else. If life comes to a point where I have to sacrifice the things that keep me going (say for instance sleep, food, sunlight, and social interaction; for you it might be family), then I must figure out how to get rid of the other "balls" ASAP with the least amount of cost. And once that's taken care of, were they really that important if they're so easily disposed of?

If you lose your spirit, or let it wither by a thousand cuts a la burnout, what do you have left?
What is "wrong" is that OpenAI would like to reduce their exposure to liability as much as possible. Telling you how to make stuff with chemicals and electricity is the sort of thing that can go wrong extraordinarily easy, and then you'd have no one to blame but the AI.

Before you go find an uncensored AI to tell you the answer - really reflect on why you want an AI in particular to answer this. AI hallucinates, you would have no way of knowing whether you're making an effective electrolyte solution or a mustard gas compound. You think the language model is going to be an effective safety harness?
The articles that get posted to the new page are posted there by users such as yourself.

Do you post any articles (via the submit link in the title bar) to the new page?

Articles that make the front page get there because users who look into the new page upvote them sufficiently for them to make the front page.

Do you go sometimes browse the new page and upvote articles that you would like to see more of on the front page?
Window unit heat pumps are basically not available (Carrier doesn't appear to offer any either after a brief search). There are a lot of people who would replace an air conditioner with a heat pump who can't afford a full house heat pump. Until you give them reasonably priced window unit heat pumps they are going to continue heating their homes primarily with #2 fuel oil. That will require mass production of smaller heat pumps and competition to bring the price down.
How about I run a bunch of fear ads and sell ammo for $20/box instead. I think we both know how it will go on that one.
> The primary point of branded types is to allow you to use the type system to ensure that a particular runtime check has taken place.

I see. This is kind of cool, though the branding can still be broken via down-the-stream mutations. Would be nice to enforce re-branding every time a variable is changed, but that seems like a lot of overhead.
They raised 277M. I hope they don't need to raise more money: https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment-inc-raises-227-mill...
Yeah, they went from a more permissive license (Mozilla MPL) to a less permissive one (BUSL) but I can kind of understand why. I can also understand why the OSS community is upset, and after Hashicorp went after OpenTOFU recently, I'm siding more with the OSS community here.

Before the license change, another project (Pulumi) built something that was basically a thin wrapper on Terraform and some convenient functionality. They claim they tried to submit PRs upstream. Hashicorp loudly complained about organizations that were using their source without making contributions back when they changed to BUSL. I wasn't close enough to be aware of details there, but maybe there were other groups (I can think of Terragrunt, too, but I'm not sure they're included in the parties Hashicorp was complaining about. Terragrunt did side with OpenTOFU after the license change, though). This also means cloud providers can't stand up their own Terraform cloud service product as it could interfere with the BUSL license.

When the license was updated to BUSL, several contributors forked the last MPL-licensed version into OpenTF, then renamed to OpenTOFU. Some say that Hashicorp should have gone full closed-source to own their decision. I think they knew they were benefitting greatly from several large corporations' contributions for provider-specific configuration templates and types.

Then, earlier this month (two weeks ago?) Hashicorp brought a case against OpenTOFU claiming they have stolen code from the BUSL-licensed version, with OpenTOFU outright denying the claim. We'll see how that shakes out, but it shows that Hashicorp wasn't merely concerned about copyright & business/naming concerns (a big part of why other BUSL-licensed projects chose the license). I don't know if the upcoming M&A had anything to do with their license decision but I kind of doubt it? Maybe others here have more context or are more familiar with matters than I am.
Back in 2015 I discovered a security issue with some Dell software[1]. I remember vividly getting an email about a job opportunity based entirely on this from a company with a strange name, that after some googling made a thing called Vagrant. They seemed super nice but I was far too young and immature to properly evaluate the opportunity, so after a few emails I ghosted them out of fear of the unknown. In 2015 they had 50 employees and had just raised a 10 million series A[2].

Regardless of various things that have happened, or things that could have been, the company has pushed the envelope with some absolute bangers and we are all better for it, directly or indirectly.

Regardless of what the general opinion is of Hashicorp’s future post-IBM, they made an impact and that should be celebrated, not decried or sorrowed over for lack of a perceived picture perfect ending.

Such is life.

1. https://tomforb.es/blog/dell-system-detect-rce-vulnerability...

2. https://www.hashicorp.com/about/origin-story
What about Hong Kong?
Yes, although I think elm came first, then pine. (edit: 86 for elm, 92 for pine, pretty much how I remembered it, although 86 was a couple of years too early for me)
The failure of anti-israel suppression of speech on Tiktok is the main driver for this bill. Yet, everyone keeps saying it is a China problem. it was bundled with a war spending bill. That says loads about the importance and burial of information this carries.
Low penalty for failing to win the lottery.

Otherwise, given enough tries, your chances of landing are vastly better.

I solo'd in about 13 hours, and 77 landings.
our current economic model kind of depends on the idea that we can always disrupt the status quo with american free market ingenuity once it begins to stagnate but maybe we have reached the limits of what friedman's system can do or accounted for.
It's been years since I've had to work on a Windows system, but I'm suspicious of that. Days of my career at the State of Colorado has been spent fixing / problems. Is this something on newer Windows systems?
This seems specific to your family. My family would never allow that unless they knew the parents of atleast a few people at the place I was sleeping over.
You can do, or you can just skip all the spaces and extra quotes and junk and just use literal /.

path = f"{HOME}/cards/{card_id}/card.yaml"

Easier to read & write IMO, and works fine. Even on Windows.
Good point. I wonder how did Murdoch (Australian) end up owning Fox News?
> If you take the lower end of the estimate, another way of saying it would be "nearly 40% of the interactions involving this product are used illegally." We strongly regulate things that have a much smaller chance of causing harm than firearms.

I wouldn't take the lower end of the estimate, because most defensive firearms uses are not reported. Firearms are also already highly regulated, yet a number of illicit use still occurs. By your logic, we need fewer firearms regulations to tip the balance.

I don't understand what you are proposing that hasn't already been tried, done, or is completely impractical. Banning things, especially an empowering technology, has never worked. It is better to decentralize and distribute that power - in this case, it is a political power - fairly and equally among all people.
The article mentions your first few sentences...

In the early DOS days, you didn't always have hard drives, but you'd always have floppy disks to boot from, and those letters were used first alphabetically.
Have you tried adapting to newer discovery methods like http://rateyourmusic.com/ or http://last.fm/ or subreddits like reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic , reddit.com/r/IndieHeads , reddit.com/r/HipHopHeads ?

Perhaps even "4chan /mu/ charts"?
MS-DOS didn't exist prior to PC-DOS, initially. "IBM's implementation of MS-DOS (PC DOS)" was the gold standard.

all of it came from QDOS, a CP/M-like OS M$ bought based on hiding their plans, and that IBM made PC-DOS from. PC-DOS shipped with the original IBM PC.

MS-DOS only became a thing once there were "IBM PC compatible" clones. It was very smart of M$ to see that coming. They kind of rode IBM's coattails into dominance in the market. Back then, personal computers were oddities and when IBM entered the game, their reputation gave them credibility.
Yeah it's been getting on my nerves as well. I use a different mobile frontend now with filters (goodbye CNN and~80 others). Gotta look for a more cross-platform way some time.

I think HN may have gotten some wrong attention unfortunately...
There are a number of valid criticisms about IBM
Ask HN: Voice isolating speech transcription for conversations with grandma
My grandma has consistently lost her hearing and has lost most of her short term memory. We have been using Ava for transcription as she can read quickly and comprehend, however reading her own response confuses her. One solution is to have the conversant wear AirPods so the mic only picks up their voice. Curious what the SOTA is for voice isolation or hiding members of the conversation. I imagine not much commercially available as the use case is niche but wonder about OS options.
> Unless you control API usage from end-to-end (which kind of defeats the point of an API)

Isn't this all frontend client bundles that talk to their own private backend API? Those are controlled end-to-end. My company has one, yours probably does too!
In my experience IBM uses the sexy stuff (used to be OpenShift) to get meetings then sells the same old boring IBM software and services after the initial meetings.
I mean it could just point to published papers or say I can’t answer that question, why flag it as a violation of use policy?
There were some very clearly hobbyist computers like the Sinclair. Also Commodore 64 that were fairly cheap in the early 80s.

But get into anything like a PC clone--much less anything with a hard drive--and the prices went up fast.
people weight their anecdotal evidence higher than scientific evidence. shrugs
You'd probably change your tune if you actually saw all the propaganda being pushed on Douyin and other Chinese social media.
GPT-4 matches radiologists in detecting errors in radiology reports
It's the first time I've seen what definitely looks like wumao comments on HN posts.
>My current new genre is South African Amapiano.

How did you discover Amapiano? I ask because Tyla has become massively popular in the last year and I'm wondering if the discovery was truly coincidental or undercover marketing?
It's AI. They'll likely end up raising a lot more money if for no other reason than acquisitions and building a financial mote. The AI companies with the most money in the bank will likely win.
Spanish company HALO Space plans to offer 'space glamping' by 2026
I don't think they will strike this down at all. The reasons I listed would be if they were to strike this down, and it's just my guess.
Are you using ollama? Devs said there was a bug that occurs when context is full, they're working on it.
I'm already measuring long-ness in terms of time. I saw that on the last trip I took. Precheck was ~2 minutes. Standard was ~30 seconds. It wasn't a problem. But it was a curious scenario.
>For cases like this, these libraries prove woefully inadequate. I had to hand-write the whole thing

Did you write it in react? This is really one of the use cases where React can become a hindrance.
Threads has also now rapidly grown to 150m MAU with higher DAU than X.

It's an incredible achievement to bootstrap a social network to the leader in its category in less than a year. And it demonstrates the power of Facebook and Instagram in being able to drive traffic.

It must be comforting for Meta to know that if they wanted to build a leading TikTok competitor or any other social network in the future they can easily do it.
As a long time *nix user who briefly worked at Microsoft (and therefore on Windows), I was very happy to learn that Powershell is perfectly happy with forward slashes in paths. If you tab-complete it switches them to backslashes (which is "fine"), but you can type commands using forward slashes without issue. Also common linux commands (ls, cd, mv, cp) all work in Powershell. It really makes the transition painless.
> Can you show me one example from the post-War era where we nationalised something that wasn’t about to fail?

If we don't nationalise things that aren't about to fail then why should anyone be scared of being nationalised?
What are the solutions?

As pointed out in the article, some LLM's appear to know the information when requested to list episodes, then deny it later. These are general inconsistencies.

It is not about looking up trivia, it is the fact you never know the competence level of any answer it gives you.
Yes, it does Yamataya v. Fisher and Yick Wo v. Hopkins. And that protection extends to commercial entities: First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti.
When you open Explorer and click in the address bar - what path separator is displayed? How about when you install software - what path separator does it show?

> Win32 file APIs can actually use either '/' or '\\' as a path separator.

Fantastic - so why are we still entertaining this idiotic file separator everywhere within the OS itself?

> '\\' was selected by DOS, specifically DOS 2.0 per TFA, before OS/2 existed

Fine - so why the hell are we still doing things like a dead, defunct OS did and literally nobody else did because, you know, it was unintelligent?
There is plenty of money to milk from existing customers using Vault. For everyone else, yes - time to move on.
> And runtime checking is ... suboptimal.

Especially on the frontend, where your `throw new Error("Bad input type")` might brick the entire app if uncaught. I'd much rather hear an earful from TypeScript before a bundle is ever produced.
You may not care about politics, but they do have an impact on technology. When I look at the front page right now, it doesn't seem overly political to me.
The Magnetic Heart of the Milky Way
Well they had to make a separate Peace prize, to distinguish it from the regular one ;)
>this is still okay as we can teach people to critically think and make their own decisions.

This is a nice fantasy but it fails to a number of intractible social problems. Children aren't taught skepticism because parents don't want their children to be taught skepticism. You would need to use force that you do not have access to in order to even attempt the solution you are proposing.

Second, implicit in your argument is that people would be responsible for thinking critically about every fact that they believe. This is just too much work, the human strategy requires trust, and we have massive incentive structures called societies whose main job is to facilitate that trust through the establishment of systems of incentives. This complicated system of incentives has been demolished, wholesale, by social media, and we're not going to adapt fast enough to avoid serious damage.
If you're mucking around with legacy parts of the OS, you might run into troubles. But if you're just doing regular old file I/O from a normal program, nah. Windows doesn't care. You can even mix them.
I said "I suspect this is bad for California" which I stand by. That statement says absolutely nothing about whether or not I think this is a good decision by the FTC. However, you treated it like I was against this action by the FTC and started arguing about why it's good to ban noncompetes and why it's good California is on the leading edge of such policies.

As it happens, I am very against noncompetes and I very much like this action by the FTC. You should have read more closely and shouldn't have assumed the opposite.
They just do it wrong.

If you see how poor Horizons is compared to something like VRChat that operates on a shoestring budget compare to meta's. Or something like viverse.

Their hardware is OK, but not groundbreaking. Their metaverse platform is really poor compared to the competition, although what they do have over the others is the ability to create in-world instead of in Unity. But really that doesn't stop creators. The environments in VRChat are much more compelling. I think part of this is Meta's way too strict moderation and content policy. Because really for adults a rubber-tile child playground is really just no fun. We need a bit of gritty.

So yeah really they're doing it wrong. I don't know how they do it exactly but clearly all that money goes to the wrong places.

I don't think this means VR is a bad idea. It can work, just not the way Meta thinks it can.
Question: Is the tldr of companies like these that they sell enterprise server software? And often own the hardware too (data centers)? And then sell a bunch of consulting services on top of that to Fortune 500s and governments?
It's tempting to think "How are these guys even relevant anymore?" but IBM's making $60B+ a year with over $10B cash on hand, apparently from mostly "consulting services".

For a lot of developers including me, I never think about IBM or HashiCorp (or Oracle, SAP, etc.) and it's hard to imagine why someone would want to use their software compared to something newer, friendlier, cheaper, and probably faster. Is it just relationships?

Just curious how customers are actually getting value from an IBM or a HashiCorp or an Oracle.
https://archive.ph/cN16d
blue app is dead mostly. But instagram is def not!
If you have a distance argument typed as a number, for example, and you pass miles instead of km.

It is equivalent to newtype in haskell.

Another example somebody mentioned here is a logged in user. A function can take a user and we need to always check that the user is logged. Or we could simply create a LoggedUser type and the compiler will complain if we forget.
It's funny how many of the comments here have really no idea the level of restrictions that are on US (or European) companies who want to operate in China (not just manufacture for export).
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> Chinese government using TikTok to launch influence and misinformation campaigns

That is not what anyone is concerned about. The US tried to get Tiktok to suppress pro-palestine information against israel. Tiktok effectively said they are not doing any manipulation of promoted info, even in favor of israel.

congress resurrected a ban for it. The recent uni protests helped in doing that.