skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think HN is far less accessible than Reddit. This turns away the casuals, leaving behind the more hardcore users.

Every subreddit with a large following eventually turns into a complete meme fest with low quality comments and trolls. But the smaller subreddits still offer good value.
Building a product on top of someone else's platform is always risky. Especially if your product is only a thin veneer.
I actually wouldn't mind if the house would be covered in nice grafiti!
Get some cool artist and have him spray the front, i don't mind.
The bullshit tagging is just the worst and stupidest thing to do.

It's the difference between vandalism and art.
Reminds me of my stint in software. We could easily to these numbers as well.

Until we outsourced code production to a country halfway round the globe. Completely changed the dynamics from solving interesting problems in nicely written code, to chasing people around you've never met and never will to fix bugs in 1000+ lines functions, while you know it's an exercise in futility as no doubt there will be lots and lots more where that came from.
Deutsche Bahn pays for the usage of the infrastructure just like any other company using it (e.g. Flix or any of the regional carriers). The infrastructure is the responsibility of DV InfraGO (formerly DB Netz).
Christian nationalism and traditional values are home grown terrorism?

Yes… they’re definitely the extremists here.
Defaults matter!

Just look at how much Apple and Mozilla get from Google by having their browser as a default (ca. $20,000,000,000 and $400,000,000 IIRC per annum).

Or look at how many people rejected the tracking prompt displayed for FB when it was added to iOS (+70%).
Opt-out by default = Opt-in.

Opt-in by default = Opt-out
The wiki article says that the term originated in Are.na.

Didn't know about it, looks like a great smolweb concept!

https://www.are.na/
Must admit this initially caught me out, could have been managed better in the app (notice).
Oh, fantastic, a rust implementation that already hives it off into a separate thread.

Seems the README mentions neither 'Recycler' nor the authors so none of my searches found it; possibly I should file an issue suggesting the author adds those because this is (at the very least) way closer to what I was looking for.

Thank you!
They specifically mention railway noise. I wonder whether there's something special about railways, or whether it would work for other noise as well? Especially roads with cars on them?
When you use a spellchecker to check a text who own the text?

When you use a style guide, citation book, encyclopedia, to write a text who owns the text?

I'm sorry but obviously if you produce something whether with help from a tool or not, you are responsible.
I’m happy to be white, conservative and well educated.

Stay in another state that’s more… culturally enriched.
I tried this feature in somewhat recent past and some added text was printing in different positions than shown in the editor. Actually I discovered it was in the wrong position already in the "preview" (not sure what that meant, there's probably some preview feature). Also when opening the edited PDF in Sumatra, Polish characters (ąęółśćżń) were bugged.

So beware before you spend a lot of time on a single document just to discover it doesn't quite work!
My point was Westinghouse benefited immensely from Tesla's patents. His AC transmission network wouldn't have been possible without them.

My second point was not every investment in a founder will yield a huge result - many will fail. It's a game of numbers, and just because some of Tesla's projects didn't work out didn't mean he was a "terrible investment".

Does that make more sense?
I'm with you. Any company that uses the word 'disruption' simply means making investors richer and everyone else worse off in numerous ways, and the utopian vision of people simply getting 'better jobs' when displaced by AI is absurd.

I know we can refer back to the industrial revolution, but I'm pretty sure that was no fun for the people involved (other than the investors), and we have a lot more people to think about these days.

Silicon Valley is nothing but a place for evil these days.
https://exercism.io/tracks/c

Exercism.io is not just limited to one language it has a track for most popular languages. I've used it a couple of times and can definitely recommend it. You get to compare your solution with other (top-rated) solutions and you also get mentorship at times (depending on availability I guess).
The more obvious things are that it's not training llms fully on all channels.

Some quick ideas:

Search and summarize other messages. No new llms training and about mostly linking to existing answers.

Fine tune on your messages, but only customer support messages in the public channel, not "eng-shitpost"

Natural language requests over your company data.
"Nowadays", Something Awful has required paid registration since like 2001
But that's not how VC funding works! Many to most of their investments will fail - that's completely normal. In the case of Tesla, that was also true - and then some of them (e.g. his transformers) resulted in massive wealth creation for Westinghouse's companies at least.

JP Morgan understood that as well as anyone. Venture capital is a numbers game.

The world is full of examples of founders whose first few companies failed and they then went on to start companies that were successful. The very nature of the US's system that allows failure is why it has such a booming startup ecosystem...
> It meant that we could not run ads from the "reputable" ad networks [...]

It's funny how significant percent of Facebook ads I see are an outright scam, phishing etc.

It's been like that for years.
What about it? Not everyone goes to work at the same place at the same time unless you’re talking about a literal company town, and if we still had those, they probably wouldn’t let you own a car.
There are a few of these conversion traits (for turning some kind of Thing into a Thing with a different purpose)

You're thinking of IntoIterator, which is a trait for when you want an Iterator, maybe what you've got is already an iterator, but maybe it isn't yet and yet it could easily be transformed into one (like say an array), so in either case IntoIterator::into_iter() gets you an iterator instead of whatever you have now -- the thing you had before is consumed by this.

Another you may find uses for is ToString, which says this obviously could be a string and I want the string. Unlike IntoIterator this does not consume the thing you wanted a string for.

There are also a suite of generic traits for converting to another type, From, Into, TryFrom and TryInto. As the person consuming things, prefer TryInto if you're clear what should happen when you can't, or Into if you need it to always work. As the person who is implementing the traits, prefer to implement From or if you can't TryFrom. Rust automatically cascades the conversions in one direction, so if I implemented From<Goose> for Bird, and then you later write code which needs TryInto<Bird>, that'll work just fine with a Goose using the code I wrote, because Rust concludes how to use my conversion to make it work, automatically - Rust will even be able to see that your "What if I can't?" error handling code will never run, and optimise it out of production code since I provided From<Goose> so this cannot fail - its Error type is Infallible, an Empty type.
thanks this is absolutely not okay. i sent an opt-out email for the workspace i run, and also contacted the owners of the (omg how did this happen?) 13 other slack workspaces i'm in to let them know about it.

edit: to save everyone the click, the relevant line is:

> Contact us to opt out. If you want to exclude your Customer Data from Slack global models, you can opt out. To opt out, please have your org, workspace owners or primary owner contact our Customer Experience team at feedback@slack.com with your workspace/org URL and the subject line ‘Slack global model opt-out request’. We will process your request and respond once the opt-out has been completed.
Railroads would still split cities. The reality is that American cities need highways. We have too much space relative to our population and our cultural focus on individualism mean that people will always prefer single family homes. Those cant exist without cars and people with cars need to be able to commute. The displacement was tragic but Im not if it couldve been done much better. If we're going to build the highways going through poor areas makes sense, eminent domain is much cheaper.
Knuth talks about this paper here - "The CVM Algorithm for Estimating Distinct Elements in Streams" - https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/cvm-note.pdf
This is as systemically concerning as the data practices seen on Discord with integrations like statbot.net, though at least Slack is being transparent about it. Regardless, I find all of this highly problematic.
Your software (noctie) was pretty fun to play against, but it's probably no more than ~1600 ELO. Having it assess me as 2574 after beating it was nice on the ego, but a bit silly. The comparison to Lichess ratings also seems a bit off. 2574 ELO is probably much higher than 2809 Lichess unless there's been some serious rating deflation going on over there (been a while since I played on that site).

I assume you're using an accuracy correlation, but those fail in lots of situations. For instance if somebody is substantially better than somebody else, they're probably going to have near 0 pawn loss, but that's only because the opponent never posed any problems to them.

Style issue also tend to break these correlations. E.g. - Capablanca was much more accurate, by this metric, than Kasparov. But that's because Capablanca had an extremely solid style. In reality, he would probably not fare well against Kasparov or most modern super GMs, even though many of them are far less accurate on paper.
This type of exercise doesn't quite help me. When I was learning Go, I couldn't find one that suited me, so I wrote one as I learned: https://github.com/hliyan/learn-golang/blob/master/day-01/he...

For learning JS internals, I used this: https://johnresig.com/apps/learn/
I remember installing a text only browser to visit a 'website' at CERN on this new thing the 'world wide web'. I browsed their website for like 30 seconds, and deleted the browser. That will never amount to anything. I was sure of it.

My children delight in this story. Though they don't really believe the text-only part. That's got to be a fabrication on my part.
> the liberal-conservative austrian peoples party saw the light to get rid of him

I didn't know this part of the story! Sounds very much like the ÖVP indeed...
> Now could Deutsche Bahn please also invest in some actual infrastructure

The main "problem" currently is not that they modernise too little, but too much.

For the last 5 years or so, during the summer months I need to add one or two hours to nearly all my connections because of construction work that slowly seems to move from cities into the rural regions (I'm not complaining though, no matter what the Bahn does, travellers will be affected one way or another, and I bet most of the delays you are seeing are caused by construction work somewhere at the 'leaf nodes' of the network).

Of course a couple of decades of the "kaputtsparen" mentality didn't help, it would obviously have been better to spread out the required maintenance work and modernization over those decades of infrastructure negligence.
You cant really pump up 42c tires to 100 psi safely, so no.

Remember that the wider tires are more efficient at lower pressures than narrower tires. However as the pressures go up, the difference becomes smaller. Even without aero gains, the narrower tire will be faster provided its a smooth surface.
> Huh, avocados require tonnes of water and California has recurring droughts.

California has abundance of solar capacity deployed, to the point of negative prices of electricity around noon ([1]), which means more electricity is produced more than consumed. California should become serious about utilizing the wasted energy on desalination.

While it's important to do desalination responsibly without creating dead patches of the ocean from brine, it's an engineering challenge that has technical solutions, not a miracle that we can't have.

1. http://www.energyonline.com/Data/GenericData.aspx?DataId=20 (you might need to specify the date range to see a graph with negative prices around noon)
That's all well and good until something goes down and you need someone knowledgeable to diplomatically shout at a vendor.
New NetBSD Commit Guidelines Bans AI-Generated Code
Slowdown in sales is inescapable if you make something that doesn’t become obsolete right away. At some point your target audience already has your phones and no strong reason to buy a new one.

> some cheap Android phones give better experience with typing/keyboard

There will always be a phone that beats iPhone in one way or another. There are Android phones with 6000 Hz PWM for low frequency flicker-sensitive people, Android phones with e-ink screens, Android phones with hardware keyboards, etc. However, they suck in other ways because of Android (horrifically insecure, often full of malware from Chinese vendors that requires being a hacker to weed out, lagging in accessibility, etc.) and bad hardware that quickly obsoletes, while iPhones are quite well-rounded and work for everyone on a more or less intuitive level despite what all the haters say about it being “abysmal” in one way or another.
I wonder whether that could be fixed by using an approach like this [1] [2], to guarantee the model output meets a schema.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37125118
[2] https://blog.normalcomputing.ai/posts/2023-07-27-regex-guide...
Commuting = everyone going to the same place at the same time is only true in 2 American cities. And even then only for a portion of the population.
Possibly it just fits my brain unusually well; possibly those environments have more footguns than the ones I've used refcounting in.

I do think something Recycler-enabled is preferable, but I'm still very fond of deterministic destruction and personally willing to make the trade-off.
I’d say HN has generated them a huge amount of money. It’s a massive center of high quality tech discussion and HN posts have priority. Every other investment company would kill to own and run HN.

What’s the value? Try set up a competitor and guess at how much it’ll cost to get all the seriously top shelf users on there.
I quite like the giant Crocs outdoor pools.
I think there are noises specific to railways. And from what I believe this "MetaWindow" targets relevant frequencies.
However, I am sure this also works for the frequencies generated by car traffic.

At least the linked youtube video in this comment [1] does not mention anything about frequencies.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40384778

EDIT: I was wrong about the video. There is _no mention_ about frequencies.
Ruby 3.4, Range#size Now Raises TypeError If the Range Is Not Iterable
It's equally easy to be naive or cynical.
It’s also possible to use HLL to estimate the cardinality of joins since it’s possible to estimate both the union and the intersection of two HLLs.

http://oertl.github.io/hyperloglog-sketch-estimation-paper/
That’s an interesting result. I’ve re-run your prompt with one change (made it “translate idiomatically” instead) to guide models towards a more natively German mode of expression and a few actually came back with a more appropriate phrase than that literal translation.
We really need to start using self-hosted solutions. Like matrix / element for team messaging.

It's ok not wanting to run your own hardware at your own premises. But the solution is to run a solution that is end-to-end encrypted so that the hosting service cannot get at the data. cryptpad.fr is another great piece of software.
The solution there (adding an exception for x.com) works. I already had Twitter containerized.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1ctxa3v/twitterxit...
Ruby Tuesday Drive
If it's invalid then you don't mangle anything, it's mangled already for whatever reason, no?
Distraction is not enforced. Learning to control your attention and how to help yourself do it is crucial whatever you do in whatever time and in whatever technological context or otherwise. It is the most long term valuable resource you have.

I think we start to recognize this at larger scale.

Slack easily saves a ton of time solving complex problems that require interaction and expertise of a lot of people, often unpredictable number of them for each problem. They can answer with delay, in a good culture this is totally accepted and people still can independently move forward or switch tasks if necessary, same as with slower communication tools. You are not forced to answer with any particular lag, however slack makes it possible when needed to reduce it to zero.

Sometimes you are unsure if you need help or you can do smthing on your own. I certainly know that a lot of times eventually I had no chance whatsoever, because knowledge requires was too specialized, this is not always clear. Reducing barriers to communication in those cases is crucial and I don't see Slack being in the way here, only helpful.

The goal of organizing Slack is such that you pay right amount of attention to right parts of communication for you. You can do this if you really spend (hmm) attention trying to figure out what that is and how to tune your tools to achieve that.
This would be feasible. Even right now, but I am not sure how much delay is tolerable.

If you use tablets or screens, I would imagine a two screen/tablet setup, where on one screen there is a variant gallery with AI output and on the other screen there is the drawing area. The drawing constantly refreshes the gallery.

One can click on images in the gallery to move the whole image or parts of it into the drawing area. Additionally voice input leads to a conversation in the background that affects the variants as well. The process would be a mix of sketching, overpainting and voice-controlled image manipulation.

Automatic image segmentation that is automatically applied to all variants would make it easy to move objects/parts from the variants easily. The pulled parts would be stitched automatically into the drawing area, as some kind of super charged collage technique.

Maybe the variant gallery would be more like an idea board. You would say things like: "Can you make a variant with clinkers", "Please add garden furniture near the pond." etc. In the gallery these images would pop up and you can pick what you like from it.
Apple's perceived status was bigger in USA than elsewhere. Don't know about Germany, but in Poland Mac at the time was pretty much pigeonholed into few artistic endeavours[1] or DTP - you were most likely to see something Mac related because a publishing company preparing ads made a screenshot on a mac when trying to make and showing webpage in a web browser.

[1] And by 2001 was not that far from there being reasonable discussion whether you should not instead get an Atari ST if you wanted to do electronic music. (there was sorta ecosystem for ST as midi controller that was still surviving, at least in Poland, partially thanks to disco scene)
There used to be a local hydro generation that fed the local city, they had 2 clocks on the wall, one on the local grid and one on the national one - some time late at night they'd speed up/slow down the local grid to keep the clocks in sync
Thanks, I ended up purchasing one domain name your software suggested.
A f91-w will keep better time, never breaks, and costs about 2-3 coffees. You cannot beat the utility.
majority of ppl voted for some party, a party that gave consent to place/allow billboards, so indirectly, you gave consent. In the graffity's case - even the ruling party didn't gave consent, it's that they don't have resources to penalize and clean this mess
> What in the world could possibly be negative about school kids walking out of school in protest for two or three days?

They a) think all protesting is the same as doing something, when actually only specific protesting does something, and b) aren't learning something real that would help them become better at really helping with this issue one day.
Currency by itself, yes. Gold is probably best example.

Most fiat currencies impose a degree of solidity by being required for payment for certain services (read: taxes)
This is called "ad hominem". Make a counterargument, rather than attacking the person.
> you need to build the physical computer

Exactly.

Now tell me how you will do unbound computation (ie. write on the n+1 cell in the Turing machine) with a fixed number og NAND gates and without a clock.
call it whataboutism (not directed towards your comment, but related): every time i'm in a discussion involving graffiti and people complain about it i ask about advertisements plastered though the city - people just shrug
Noted my car got time from GPS the other day and it got me thinking, why aren't there unencrypted packets on all wifi that distribute NTP time so my oven/microwave/alarm/etc can grab it from any wifi it can see (even if it's not paired to them) - bonus points if APs also hand out local TZ data
RAG-GPT: Quickly launch an intelligent customer service system.
Lots of factors. For example, i get way less tired riding a road bike in the heat than a mountain bike, because the airflow at speed helps me keep cool.
Honestly Unreal is incredibly suspect in these kinds of applications. Unreal's biggest hallmark is the incredible amount of shaders it generates (thousands for a simple scene) which leads to constant shader compilation delays and stutters even on desktop.

I can't imagine it being good in a web scenario where you can't even precompile.
The Utopia rollout has been so poorly done. Where I live, the entire area was supposed to get it and they missed houses here and there. Ours is one of them.

Gladly forking out $$$ to Comcast for their coax gigabit until the city gets it right.
Do they discard everything processed so far every time someone opts out?
Or two bishops of the same color
Nothing in the article you linked appears to indicate that al jazeera is anti semitic. Nor does it indicate it's anti-Israel even. Certainly, it deleted a story, and didn't instead retract it, which isn't great, but how does that support an accusation that the entire outlet is anti semitic or anti israel?

Opposing Israeli war crimes is not anti semitic. Claiming that Israel represents all Jewish people worldwide, though, is anti semitic.
That's just not true. He's really quite good at delineating the actual evidence while telling a thought-provoking story.
Ask HN: Is there a way to bypass the new Twitter/x restriction to Strict Mode?
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com

It used to be not a problem. They keep on implementing things to annoy and alienate their user.
My intuition is that it's impossible to guarantee there are no leaks in the LLM as it stands today. It would surely require some new computer science to ensure that no part of any output that could ever possibly be developed isn't sensitive data from any of the input.

It's one thing if the input is the published internet (even if covered by copyright), it's entirely another to be using private training data from corporate water coolers, where bots and other services routinely send updates and query sensitive internal services.
Just for comparison other countries that claim "230v" have that last one - 220-240v between the phase you get and neutral and 440v between phases if you get 3-phase
To me, something being a 'non-story' is about [potential] public interest (less interest, less story). I honestly can't figure out what you mean by a 'non-story' - it sounds like you're saying it's a non-story because it's legally required to be a non-story? Sorry if I'm misinterpreting.