skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But we’re talking about kids, so people turn off their brains and assent to ann extra-legal task force that can swoop in and break up a family on a hunch.

I think the reality is that making an error in either direction can lead to tragic consequences.

I don't know of any good solution to the problem.
Extreme equatorial sunlight still causes skin cancer even in full pigmentation islanders of northern Australia, PNG, Torres Strait, etc.

https://sundoctors.com.au/blog/how-aboriginal-peoples-master...

https://www.ourmobandcancer.gov.au/ways-to-help-protect-agai...

There's some additional protection, even so most people with long Australasian family histories hang out under trees at midday.
it's also insufficient. we need businesses to take responsibility for the full product lifecycle, including the waste steam, recycling of consumer packaging, etc.
Sounds better than putting your money into yachts and jets?
I feel like this tweet is basically how things already work? Most midsize SW businesses are primarily hiring experienced devs. I see only the big cos and small shops hiring people out of college (and in the later mostly likely there is someone you know) which seems like the same as in finance.
I do agree that when you subsidize something you get more of it. So there’s a case that in some instances like education, it’s a good thing. Most people probably agree that a more educated society is better than a less educated one (although I agree there’s still room for debate on what that education should entail). The issue with an open-ended handout is that you don’t know what you’ll be getting more of.
Green Software: 217KiB html & 377KiB js to display <4 Kib of text.
Reminds me of the flash website days but much more smooth in terms of animations and (hopefully) more secure!

I am tempted to re-write personal site using this.
I think this is awesome! A very cool corner of the internet that is different and all yours.
Effects like this make it easier to design ICs that last just long enough to get past the warranty period. I still remember when the electronics industry very strongly advertised the new "solid state" technology as lasting "forever" (in contrast to the vacuum tubes common at the time), but just as with LED lighting, that turned out to be very false.
>A significant number of people generate CSV files from Excel and if these people upload these files into my application and I assume an incorrect encoding...

What if you just gave them instructions?
I bet the Earth chuckles at our attempts to label either of these the largest living things. I guess as Guinness Book entries go, these will do until something surpasses them. I've got to think that there is a more massive fungus in the Amazon for example.
> I've yet to see any SV billionaires admit any of their success involves luck.

Are you even trying, or just being glib for karma?

"You have to get lucky in today’s society in order for that to happen" -- Mark Zuckerberg
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/billionaire-mark-zuckerberg-...

"... it's both massively luck and massively hard work. Sometimes it's more luck than hard work, and sometimes it's more hard work than luck. But every success requires both." -- Reid Hoffman
https://www.businessinsider.in/linkedin-founder-reid-hoffman...

"I'm a lucky guy. I mean, I certainly had a lot of near misses, but I was very lucky in terms of actually achieving success." -- Elon Musk, CNBC, May 2017
Does anyone have a single example of a well reasoned good Reason.com article? This seems to be a no worse than average example from them. There's some ridiculous slant serving some glaringly biased agenda, with terrible argumentation.

Sources like Reason getting submitted & discussed as though their normal submissions is usually an incredibly silly time. I don't think the site should do it, but on Bluesky there's moderation layers, and it seriously makes me want something like that for the web at large, where we can turn on some kind of content warning as we browse. Content warning: specious/suspect sight. Content warning: strong agenda.

It's a bad time that the noosphere keeps happening with so little memory. That there's not cues and contexts to be like, hey, this is Reason or Quilette: don't expect normal content here.
Do you think these brain lesions show up in an MRI?
I've been told by several users here that GPT4 provides perfect programming answers for all languages, as long as you prompt it correctly. Maybe you need to work on your prompts?
Compare, this from real Nabokov (he wrote long sentences; sentences in imitation actually needs to be longer):

Twelve years and some eight months later, two naked children, one dark-haired and tanned, the other dark-haired and milk-white, bending in a shaft of hot sunlight that slanted through the dormer window under which the dusty cartons stood, happened to collate that date (December 16, 1871) with another (August 16, same year) anachronistically scrawled in Marina's hand across the corner of a professional photograph (in a raspberry-plush frame on her husband's kneehole library table) identical in every detail -- including the commonplace sweep of a bride's ectoplasmic veil, partly blown by a parvis breeze athwart the groom's trousers -- to the newspaper reproduction.
Not a clue, but according to AT&T in the article below "It is already present in all Apple and Android smartphones. An AT&T spokesperson told Fierce via email, "There is no need to deploy anything new for smartphones." I'd be interested if anyone knew how they're doing it.

https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/att-rolls-out-gps-ba...
Cancer treatment is way better now than even a few years ago. Miles ahead of the 90s.

The bee population in America is supposedly growing very quickly thanks in part to tax breaks in Texas.

Global poverty is way down. Large part of that is China.

Gay rights have come a long way. Not perfect, but it’s nice that generally people can be more open about who they are.

I absolutely love all the open source projects out there for almost anything I want.

Yeah, we could be doing better. Much better. But it’s actually unlikely we will hit the worst case scenarios for climate change. The developing world is going to get rocked by the 2+C temperature increase, but it won’t be an extinction event, there is still more we can do, and there is much less denialism than the 90s or 00s.

Am I touching too much grass?
You are a life-saver. And resourceful as always.
FireChat is gone because apparently it wasn't open source, otherwise it would still be here
Looks like the Typescript version of WSDL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Description_Langu...

Perhaps it will last longer than WSDL did?
> You might think adding a UNIQUE index would cause the "losing" xact to get constraint errors, but instead both xacts succeed and no longer have a race condition.

This is not true. What happens is that the (sub)transaction that loses the race to the index is aborted:

=# INSERT INTO foo (bar) (SELECT max(bar) + 1 FROM foo);
ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "foo_bar_idx"
DETAIL: Key (bar)=(2) already exists.
I think the proximate cause of the problems is the trillions of dollars we printed in the year or two preceding the onset of the inflation: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL. Massive inflation happened right after a government intervention that economics theory would have predicted would cause massive inflation. I’m not sure you could identify a clearer real-world fact pattern for a government policy having an economic effect than what we have here. Calling the problem “structural” seems like a way to avoid acknowledging the obvious.

I think rather than denying that Biden was the “culprit,” it would be fairer to point out that Trump started it. He was the one that printed trillions to send out Trump-bucks with his signature on them. It would behoove Biden to acknowledge this and turn it back around on Trump, instead of trying to gaslight people into thinking the economy is great. But the structural problem he faces is that his coalition is people who want the government to give them free stuff, and a critical mass of affluent people who only want higher taxes on people richer than them. It’s a coalition that cannot be maintained without deficit spending.
Do you have sources I can read on this? I wife has had a couple bouts of melanoma in her mid 20s and her dermatologist tells her to stay of of the sun.
It is a weird comparison, because it's intentionally deceptive.
Sorry, I deleted that part right after posting it, because I thought it was a little bit uncharitable. But I stand by the general sentiment, and I would just say that in our system of law and government, we have decided to solve this problem in one direction, which is to say that you are innocent until proven guilty. Taking an innocent person’s children away from them is an outrageous harm, and nobody should be subjected to it on the basis that extreme caution may save some other kids someday.

People should not feel guilty about saying plainly, no, you cannot take my children out of their home, just because an abundance of caution might help you prevent some real cases of abuse elsewhere.
Just curious: did you do a lot of lockpicking? Considering the owl side, I guess you don't need a lot of social engineering?
We are to judge because we are the taxpayers who guarantee the vast majority of those loans. That’s the mail reason I said “collateral-free.” Most of those loans would not happen in a private market because teenagers, in general, do not have collateral to secure the loan, meaning they have little to lose by defaulting.
That is really what I am trying to say. I bet all in all just going out in the sun without sunscreen is better all benefits/risks of both sides considered.
Judge0 Sandbox Escape – allows obtaining root permissions
> Firefox

Huh, today I learned.

Though if you're making any attempt to use valid tags you'll have <html lang="ja">, and that solves the problem for the web context at least as far as my testing goes.
It's good.

Rate-limited on direct chat, I had to use the arena mode. I asked the same question 10 times before I got an answer from gpt2-chatbot.

My question:

"Can you write a YAML parser in Hacklang?"

This is a fun question because every LLM I've seen so far (including ChatGPT 4) will come up with an answer that's about six years out of date. They'll often suggest code that flat-out doesn't work in Hacklang anymore (Hack/HHVM used to be able to execute all PHP code).

This is a difficult problem because there's very little Hacklang code available in public GitHub. The vast majority of Hacklang code — many millions of LOC — is closed-source and not available for training. But there is public documentation at docs.hhvm.com

The gpt2-chatbot output was still pretty bad, but at least the syntax it generated was valid in current versions of Hack, and invalid in current versions of PHP — more than can be said for any other LLM.
Yeah but there's a Pareto frontier where if you can't find a remote job, driving is probably better than being broke
Non Perl user here: why do people love Perl but hate JS? I imagine Perl had a lot more thought put into it (than JS's 10 days), but this kind of implicit conversion sounds like exactly the kind of thing that bites me in the ass constantly in JS land.

(Actually, implicit unquoted strings sound so nightmarish it's comical, but let's do one question at a time...)

I used to think the solution was static typing, but then I found none of the same infuriating bugs in Python, which has dynamic but strong typing, forcing you to be explicit about type conversions.

Edit: I think I've hit the nesting limit, so please reply to parent comment and I will find it.
It's Gawker media, what do you expect?

OxyContin ref was obviously a joke.
It seems odd to me that there's no ARM-based NAS with SSDs on the market, to focus on minimum power consumption rather than maximum read/write speeds.
Encodings I have used or been exposed to in my career: ASCII, Latin1, Windows-1252, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, GBK, Zawgyi, Shift-JIS
In this case we’re specifically talking about the possibility of a truncated script from a trusted source
I read it recently and while the ideas are there, it is not a great read (the dialogues in particular are pretty bad).
> I want to see who a company has sold/given my information to and what limitations that sale has

To expand on this more - I feel like laws requiring companies to keep a "custody chain" of personal data at every transfer step would be relatively un-controversial. Sure, I'd rather do away with personal data being able to be bought and sold entirely, but an easy first step is "massive fines for any company that doesn't carefully track exactly which entity touched the user's data".
I get the appeal of this stuff from an aesthetic perspective, but it's woeful from an accessibility standpoint and it makes your website completely unusable on older computers and not-that-old mobile devices.

Cool, but use with caution. The usual warning for graphics-heavy web stuff.
I didn't propose any solution or claim Shift-JIS fixes this. It doesn't really since a single Shift-JIS document can only encode the japanese variant, not both.

However, a unicode codepoint which acted as a "language hint" switch would solve this, and wouldn't require doubling the number of han codepoints.

There already are unicode variant selectors, but iiuc they only apply to a single character at a time, and no one actually uses them, so they're not very useful.
Using SQLite as a Key-Value Store
> In the Java world, sure.

While 2011 Java certainly still runs today, 2011 Java is Java 6, which probably looks quite a bit different than the Java you'd write today. Not "different language" different, but different enough, especially with lambdas, and if you're doing anything with multithreading, or like to use functional-style streams APIs.

(I remember when generics came out in Java 5... now that did make it look a bit like a different language.)
They’ll probably switch to the application that does it for them and just works, instead of the one telling them to do something they don’t really understand.
> but oddly enough melanoma is negatively correlated: sun exposure protects you from melanoma.

I hate to be that guy, but: citation needed.

I did a quick search and the best I could find was speculation that sun might be protective, but the majority of what I found said sun exposure increased your risk of melanoma.
The web is not dying
I think most people would rather get in their car, drive to the ocean, board a ship and join the navy, and come back after a few years abroad - than following some instructions on how to use the computer.
I also used the neovim plugin. I'm on a fiber connection in the Midwest, so that is likely a factor. Latency was on the order of 2-5s consistently, which is way more than enough to interrupt my flow.
Bespoke languages are a hard sell and incur significant extra effort on the team building this.

1. People don't want to learn bespoke languages.

2. You have to build all the ecosystem tools for a language (compiler, docs, language-server, IDE integrations, dependency management)

Similar endeavors are WaspLang and DarkLang, which I have yet to see in the wild or (meaningfully) on HN. Better to use an existing language and focus on the value add.

I personally built something with similar value add (source of truth -> all the things). I've been through some of these pain points myself.

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

The idea is CUE + text/template = <all the things> (not limited to APIs)
> In particular the civil clause demands that members of the university reject research projects and funding which could serve weapon technology.

Wait, what? Are you saying German universities are forbidden from contributing to Nix/NixOS, which is used by Anduril?

Or say, the RISC-V ecosystem, which may be used as chips driving military weapons?

... or the Linux kernel? Heck, any OS at all?
> Maybe we should rethink that rhetoric just a bit?

Blatant emotional manipulation is not suitable for HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
(citation needed) on the melanoma. UV is basically identified as the main cause of melanoma. Unless you meant exposure in low-UV situations. But that's a massive caveat that really needs to be added to that message.

Everything about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanoma basically disagrees.
On single user systems, sure. However multi user systems can benefit greatly from dynamic linking; some highly multi user systems become impossible to create at all with only static linking (RAM demand becomes too great).

Dynamic linking also leads to better CPU cache utilization and thus higher performance; provided if multiple applications are actually utilizing the dynamically linked library. While RAM is somewhat abundant these days, L1/L2/L3 cache on your CPU most definitely isn't.

Application startup times are also of higher performance when part of the code is already in memory.

EDIT: Let me elaborate a bit on what I mean by "benefiting greatly" with a real world example.

I have a system with around 300 tenants with a minimum of 500 PHP processes online at any given time. A single PHP process is able to load 70MB worth of dynamically linked libraries (PHP extensions) if so chosen by the tenant. I'll just skip libc and other such libraries to give static linking a chance.

With dynamic linking, the maximum memory requirement is 70MB for said extensions.

With static linking, the maximum memory requirement is 35GB for said extensions.

Dynamic linking thus leads to 99,8% cost saving on memory usage. Bear in mind this is at minimum load: static linking requirements will scale linearly with load.

Not to even get started on the performance benefits this brings...
DoltgreSQL – Database version control in Postgres-flavored SQL
Related on the front page, a review by MKBHD:

Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video] | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40206063
There's some positives yes but it feels like world in decline gearing up for war.

Russia and China are again extremely adversarial and autocratic, the US is tearing itself apart in political polarisation. In my own country the extreme right fascists won 24% of votes. Gay rights are ok but Trans people are being demonised by the right now. As a whole it feels like the LGBTQ+ community is under attack. Big corporations are getting ever more powerful.

The internet is decidedly less free and very enshittified and we get tracked and surveilled wherever we go, online or not.

And no it won't be an extinction event but it will be heavy for the marginal people everywhere, leading to even more differences between rich and poor and even more pressure to equalise this by war.

And in the 90s we had much better social welfare safety nets here. Three decades of neoliberal government hollowed out anything good here in Holland. The rage of the disadvantaged by this are what's fueling this swing to fascism, they take advantage of this anger and redirect it to worse.
RISC-V support in Android just got a big setback
Apple does >1B queries per week on siri. Likely greater than 4B assuming minimal growth since 2016. I would bet >10B. I'm not saying it is equivalent to an LLM. It is getting real, serious usage. I have no dog in the fight.
Your exact words are "I empathise with myself first, and will use what ever word feels right in the situation."
There’s a documentary about the most effective response.

https://archive.org/details/dom-25409-manufacturingconsentno...
> makes your website completely unusable on older computers

I agree with the sentiment and generally advocate for lighter and simpler webpages, but the 3D animations on this particular landing page were perfectly smooth on my 12 year old macbook. I was impressed, since these kinds of heavy animations usually run like crap for me.
perhaps open source gpt3.5/4? I remember OpenAI had that in plans - if so, it would make sense for them to push alignment higher than with their closed models
great way to put it. if speed is the issue... pay up a little bit more.
Well using a human is bring an interstellar rail gun to hunt rabbit so i guess it still better ?
Is it bad that my first thought was "that's going to be a huge amount of work and end up with a lot of gaps and blind spots... we should have GPT-4 polulate it!"

I think it could work if each entry has to be peer reviewed by 3 (more?) humans. Although, AIs are better than humans at captchas now, so I'm not exactly sure how that would work either way...
The volunteers putting forgotten villages on the map [video]
A Peek Inside the Brains of 'Super-Agers'
Sure, somebody that works constantly in a field might not spend that much time imagining what the majority of the country would do if they weren't working all the time.

But some other people that have much less demanding jobs did think that in the future people would barely work. This has become much more true for Europe than USA although as you'll see pointed out all the time, USA salaries are higher then Europe.

I suspect Keynes was a socialist since he seems to have this idea that everybody would chip in only 15 hours a week in order to produce enough stuff for the whole of society.

> "But beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter-to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us!" [1]

[1]: http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
> your software should handle it correctly. There's no excuse!

It is valid for the presentation of compound emoji can fallback to their component parts. You can't expect every platform to have an up to date database of every novel combination. A better test is emoji with color modifiers. Another good one is grandfathered symbols with both a text and emoji presentation and forcing the chosen glyph with the variant selector prefix.
Mactop Released (Open Source)
Nice! The ones at my pharmacies were filled with junk. This looks great.
The only way to “extract wealth from others” is to put them to work.
please say what you tested, so that we can understand your effort without necessarily generalizing your conclusions beyond what you actually tried
Thanks for detailing this. Learned a lot.
OpenBSD does this; it’s not very useful unless you have strong CFI to prevent people from doing a return-oriented attack into those libraries that are in your address space. And also note that there is a lot that you can without system calls to mess with stuff :)
Yogurt from “raw milk” doesn’t even make any sense. The pasteurization step during yogurt production isn’t to make the milk safe for consumption. It’s to kill the other bacteria so the one that is deliberately introduced can thrive.
I think you’re totally right. I am skeptical but hopeful. :)
Why SQLite Uses Bytecode
LED lighting can last "forever", but if you cheap out on power supply components and overdrive your LEDs to get more brightness for less, they won't last.
Oh yes true. Somehow I missed that important detail.
I don’t have experience with the Android App Store, but normal subscriptions/IAP/initial purchase on iOS would protect the user info during purchases.

Apple tells you nothing about the user. You can choose to give them a UUID that they’ll echo back when you query their API about the subscription/transaction, but that’s up to you.

Apple will not give a name, email, Apple ID, phone number, location, or anything else.

See the data here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreserverapi/...
Product Marketing
I promote products on social media, b2b platforms, and Google promotions, but the results are not satisfactory. How should I adjust this? Do you have any suggestions for product display on our company website?