skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder. In my experience, all Indian news media outlets (except two) hijack the clipboard. If you select and copy an entire paragraph, in your clipboard, you get only the first few words and a link to the article. While I hate it, and think they are being hostile to me. I think they are catering to a usage pattern, that if you paste that stuff in WhatsApp, the readers would definitely get a link to the article. Traffic guaranteed.
I'm Sticking with Native iOS Development
This is what market theory says, but there are a lot of competing products at attractive price points and it hasn’t happened yet. The lack of community, software, and examples makes the competitors less attractive. The same thing happened with Arduino. There were a lot of competitors that offered more capable silicon, but the community and software libraries were the real appeal.
Hm? No, it really did come from a front-end person.

There was a period in the late-aughts when people wanted to emulate the iPhone's inertial scrolling on the desktop. Most modern sites had it and it was infuriating.

That's probably around the time when this site was built.
The global “focusing” on CO2 pollution has just misdirected all activism away from fighting localized environmental pollution by corporations to and intangible hard to fight “pollution”. It’s sad
No it's because they grossly underestimated the importance of brand trust and reputation
You die twice as they say, once when you physically die and once when you are forgotten

Mozart is immortal in that sense
It could, but then that List would have to be linear itself, and then the program would make sure that you eventually drain the list and destroy each element.

(One caveat is for linears in globals, which aren't implemented in Vale yet. We haven't decided which strategy we're going with there, but TFA talks about some)
I ran the branded type example listed in the blog through bun and it ran without issuing a warning or error for the "This won't compile!" code. Is there any way to get bun to be strict for TypeScript errors?

Does deno catch this TS bug?
>What really screws us is that it’s surprisingly hard to change people. We cook up schemes that seem like they should definitely work, then they don’t work, and this doesn’t chasten us or dim our enthusiasm for future schemes.

It's easier than you think, but the techniques that actually work are all the ones in the no-no box that liberals like me know not to touch. Advertisers use them all the time: appeals to emotion, misleading and outright false comparisons, ridicule, etc. I cannot think of a single successful propaganda or advertising campaign that worked specifically because it embraced the whole "marketplace of ideas" debate club ideal.

Speaking of "how to get 7th graders to smoke", anti-smoking and anti-vaping PSAs. They're so awful as advertising that they make smoking and vaping look good, because that is what advertising is designed to do. Make you feel good about the product being talked about. The few commercials that did actually get people to stop smoking back in the day were ones that were profoundly disturbing and had no positive emotional sentiment. Like the one where someone's smoking through a hole in their trachea. If you want to get people to stop smoking, you need to make it look as profoundly unsexy as possible, and that's something advertisers aren't great at doing.

Likewise, for sexual harassment, you don't bombard people with incredibly obvious basic moral principles and legal minutiae. You make sexual harassers look like objects of ridicule. Cringe, as the kids say. My go-to example of how to do this would be Hbomberguy's early video essays[0], like the one where he systematically deconstructs all of Davis Aurini's toughboy affectations[1].

So let's break down the archetypal sex pest. They're not sexually harassing people because they need sex - in most countries you can just pay people for it now. Instead, they're doing it for the same reason my two male guinea pigs hump each other: to assert dominance. I want you to imagine the most domineering asshole you can think of, and then figure out what qualities will make them look pathetic rather than sexy. Again, if you want an example, perhaps check out this old video from The Onion about a sex pest dinosaur: https://www.theonion.com/paleontologists-discover-skeleton-o...

Forget the Social program, forget the Emotional program, I'm talking about the Make Smoking Cringe Again program.

[0] No shade to his later work - it's also amazing, but in a different way.

[1] People say he's still sipping that shot glass to this very day.
I played this game a few months ago and it was a lot of fun. Nice work :)
The examples you're providing seem to have been thoroughly solved already.

I'm at the European AI Conference for our startup tomorrow, and they use a platform that just booked me 3 meetings automatically with other people there based on our availability... It's not rocket science.

And you don't even need those narrow tools. You could easily ask GPT-4o (or lesser versions) something along the lines of :

> "you're going to interact with another AI assistant to book meetings for me: [here would be the details about the meeting]. Come up with a protocol that you'll send to the other assistant so it can understand what the meetings are about, communicate you their availability, etc. I want you to come up with the entire protocol, send it, and communicate with the other assistant end-to-end. I won't be available to provide any more context ; I just want the meeting to be booked. Go."
Citation is sorely needed for both "transition" and "BSL XP be good for wine" claims above.

Specifically, supposed inevitability of BSL->OSI transition is dubious. If anything, there are examples of the opposite - terraform itself being prime one.
I don't dispute either of your points. It was a genuine mere curiosity on my end, not a rhetorical "gotcha!".

I've just heard that for stuff like prostate cancer, a diagnosis can be misleading, because sometimes it can take 20+ years to kill you. If you get it when you're 70, it's probably not worth going through surgery or chemo because you'll likely die of heart disease or another cancer before that anyway.
Great example of something that does not work. Javascript classes are structural by default, Typescript does nothing there.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/MYGwhgzhAEASkAtoF...
The US's per capita CO2 emissions have dropped by around 70% since 1990. It should've been a larger drop, to match that of the EU, but nonetheless it's a highly positive trend that also proved that per capita emissions can be divorced from per capita GDP growth, something that was previously uncertain. Moreover, this happened while US manufacturing output remained fairly constant.

China's per capita emissions have more than quadrupled over the same period, and are showing no signs of slowing down. At this rate it'll soon eclipse the US's per capita rate.

You mentioned India, which is a much better example of a low per capita rate.
Precisely. To put it more concretely: it is no small feat to grasp the abstract distinction between known-knowns, known-unknowns, unknown-knowns, and unknown-unknowns. They do not know what they do not know.
Global food production per capita now is massively higher than 50 years ago (and still climbing). And also probably higher than any time in the past.

Even if food production falls globally by 25% or so, any famines will be due to distribution, not lack of global food production.

If we really screw up, we may have famines similar to what was relatively common up to about 1980.

And why did we stop having them?
Two examples:

1. Google intentionally makes search results worse so that users will do more searches and see/click more ads. There was a big thread about this somewhat recently.

2. Ads have steadly taken up more of the results page and become less distinguishable from organic results. This causes users to more often click on whoever paid Google more, rather than what Google thinks is the most relevant result.
You have massively confused "AGI as a plot point" with "is what the literary work is about". For example Neuromancer is about trauma and identity. If I'm being charitable I could give you Erewhon, but that's only because a major theme is anthropocentrism. A vast majority of the book is a criticism of victorian society.

Ellison's analysis of his own work is pretty well known and while not specifically about AGI is definitely about technology misuse, so you win there.
Your words sound like something from a joke: Human: How to achieve human peace. AI: Eliminate all humans.
Everybody is giving advice on how to imagine and intuit about integer dimensions beyond 3.

But what about fractional dimensions (not to be confused with fractal dimensions)? Any advice about reasoning about the geometry of lets say something 0.6309297535... dimensional? It seems so easy, I mean it is somewhere between 0 and 1 dimensions, both of which have trivial geometric interpretations.

Closest I could think of is doing augmentations into the next highest integer dimension. That would be similar to how we often use projections to lower integer dimensions to think about higher integer dimensions, but in reverse.

And yes, fractional dimensions do exist, just like fractional derivatives or fractional Fourier transform, etc.
In the first day or two of Navy nuclear power school in 1974, all of us junior officers in the new class (93 of us IIRC) were assembled in an auditorium for a don't-do-drugs lecture by a chief petty officer who was a "fleet sailor" — i.e., he'd been around the block a few times, so it was thought that young sailors would pay more attention to him — and had been assigned to get trained as the drug counselor.

The speaker made one especially-memorable comment: "I'm told that shooting heroin feels like an all-over-body sexual climax. I don't know about you, but to me that sounds pretty neat."

(The rest of the lecture was standard stuff about how doing drugs would get us de-nuked and basically end our careers.)
Trainspotting. Those scenes are burned in my memory forever.
The Vodafone website in Italy is actually worse, believe it or not.
Technology is probably changing us for the worse–or so we always think
> When you get your own browser you can do whatever you want but while you are living in my house under my rules I get to copy/paste whenever I goddamn feel like it.

Don't give Google any ideas, err, wait...
I can view it just fine in Australia. Now I'm going to download a car too before I get caught.
I think the question for me is, why does modern music have such heavy bass?
California benefits from a dominant market position. If you have the choice to found where the investors and the talent are, why would you pick Canada when the tax is the same?
> Also curious what are the performance implications for adding to your firewall about 2 million IPs or maybe a couple 100k if you're brave to do ranges.

The problem here is, that the "bad guys" move around, and sooner or later you ban most of the eg. digitaloceans IPs, amazon IPs, azures IPs, etc., and you break conectivity for other, "good" uses.
I thought it was Java?
>it does look like our civilization will make it through this intact

Has anybody ever seriously believed that we wouldn't make it through? This just seems like an alarmist take to me.
Yeah, OpenAI is all-in on the LLM golden goose and is much more focused on how to monetize it via embedding advertisements, continuing to provide "safety" via topic restrictions, etc., than going further down the AGI route.

There's zero chance LLMs lead to AGI or superintelligence, so if that's all OpenAI is going to focus on for the next ~5 years, a group related to superintelligence alignment is unnecessary.
Did the proposed preparation entail heating? Might have described a process that destroyed most of the mescaline to spare you the experience, which can be quite frightening and/or debilitating.

I've never come across someone that does more preparation than drying, so to me it seems suspicious to suggest anything else. Mescaline is water soluble so one can make infusions, but it takes a fair bit of plant material to get dosed so there isn't much practical use in doing so.
https://plbrault.itch.io/youre-the-os
Ah yes, a scientist refusing to work on the hydrogen bomb couldn't have been all that concerned about it.
If your ostensible purpose is being sidelined by decision makers, trying to fight back is often a good option, but sometimes you fail. Admitting failure and focusing on other approaches is the right choice at that point.
More dystopian (and maybe more useful): A roll-eyes emoji when you're asking it to do something stupid.

(It's more dystopian, because the computer has to know when you're asking it to do something stupid. Even more dystopian: It gives you the roll-eyes when you ask it to do something that it doesn't want to do.)
Do you agree with the content in the article you sent ?

It says it's for "water too hot" not "lack of water", a nuclear plant can be retrofitted with cooling tower to not heat up the river. This is not done for cost reasons, we are already overproducing when theses nuclear plant need to shut down due to temperature.

> Kpler analyst Emeric de Vigan said the restrictions were likely to have little effect on output in practice

The article you cite, mention an expert that says it will have "little effect on output", you make it as a big problem.

And as the article says, France is still a net exporter at this climate, we export to countries that need a lot of electricity in the night, like Germany, exports have been massive theses days https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/cross-border-electrici... , despite germany attempt to sabotage our industry.
Ask HN: Is Cloudflare DNS Broken?
Over the last few months I've found that it takes a lot longer to add new DNS records which are managed by Cloudflare DNS. I get that they are probably managing billions of records and writing these zone files in a scalable way isn't a simple problem; I expect there might be a minute delay, but it feels like I'm often waiting five to ten minutes which makes using certbot to get certificates a challenge.

Today I'm adding records and double check the name and they don't show up in Google tools like https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/#TXT at all.

Does anyone know if something is happening there?

I check their self-reported status and nothing is reported:

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
It's not a poor idea, but to work it would require further revamping of roadways. The bike lanes in most major areas are unlikely to support this well (given proximity to traffic, breaks in the lanes, etc).

It may end up moot -- the article reads a bit on the speculative side, and this project might fall the way of many startups of "good idea, bad implementation," but I'm willing to eat my words in the future on this.
There are great barefoot shoes and sandals, no reason to expose your feet to the grime of city streets and sidewalks.

Xero shoes, Lems, vivobarefoot, and many more.
If it's the Ukranian military doing the launching and the targets are KGB/FSB or otherwise aiding the Russian government, that's not a war crime. It's hitting a legitimate military target.

But please feel free to snark on the US military; I know that's cheap karma around here.
> touched on how smokers eventually need cigarettes just to feel normal.

This is the same for every addictive substance, no?
because these are 2 people who are at the top of the field and can work on literally anything they want.
No, targeting opposing warfighters (the hackers are certainly such) is not a war crime, even if they attempt to hide among civilian populations. Nor is lying about the specifics of your targeting.
We could be building nuclear power plants instead of shutting them down.
That’s not correct and the Steamdeck proofs it :)

The manufacturers are always the key. What ships pre-installed and/or runs well after setup matters. Thats why ThinkPads run so well with Linux. ThinkPads are certified for Linux or even ship readily with Fedora or Ubuntu.

That I’m using Arch and using mostly the TTY isn’t an issue. It doesn’t matter that the next user prefers GNOME and Fedora. Because we’ve settled for compatibility and not incompatibility through Windows or MacOS.
The rest is just our personal choice. How cares if we run SysVInit or Systemd? Only the user.

PS: Applies also to Dells Developer Edition Laptops.
yeah, it really sucks that we improved security, reduced the risk of Man in the Middle Attacks, reduced impersonation risks by moving to a more secure protocol.

Actually, you don't need to manage certificates when we access sites over https as that is done on the server side. You just need to ensure that you are using the latest version of the SSL libraries when compiling systems.

Even then, most certificate providers give you ways to update certificates quickly and easily. If you do it correctly then you would only need to update them once a year. (you can set this to a longer duration)

- Suramya
So you mean the things the charter foresaw and was intended to make impossible is in fact happening? Who could've thunk it (other than the creators of the charter and nearly anyone else with a loose grasp on how capitalism and technology interact).
Well I was hoping there'd be a way to translate mouse input into the joystick input in a straightforward way that isn't available on emulators.
Which is not the business that Amazon and Kobo are in.
This shit is usually from "security" which, in corps, is just endless list of boxes that you need to check and are handed over manager to manager. Everyone is scared to actually remove anything from the list because nobody knows who is actually responsible for maintaining it; getting through the hierarchy to even find such a person would take a month; if you find him, he will tell you "oh it's for compliance with <some mysterious government/iso/owasp document that's 20 years out of date>, safer to keep it there"
Say we find some proteins in the blood that hint at cancer 7 years away. How is that actionable, and will it make a difference?

How low is the false positive rate?
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Making Good Strides on SMP CPU Support
Why? They had that with the zero… I’m guessing those sold a lot less.
I would love to hear anyone defend the practice of disabling paste on password fields.

I run into it relatively frequently and it both angers me and blows my mind that some developer or team thought this made sense
It's also making sure AI is aligned with "our" intent and that "our" is a board made up of large corporations.

If AI did run away and do it's own thing (seems super unlikely) it's probably a crapshoot as to whether what it does is worse than the environmental apocalypse we live in where the rich continue to get richer and the poor poorer.
We didn't get the briefcase either. But one officer did bring his K9. Which then tried to bite my classmate during the "come up here and pet it" session.
Yes, I'm going to have to see some evidence for a claim as wild as that.
Many games were very playable with UltraHLE back in 1999, on the hardware of the time (~ Pentium 133 IIRC)
>it just seemed like a needless cost center in a growing business

To some of us, that sounds like, "Fire all the climate scientists because they are needless cost center distracting us from the noble goal of burning as much fossil fuel as possible."
Pretty much all the most commonly used strawman arguments rolled into one post, good job :) You forgot to bring up moving cargo though, so A-.

> advid year round cyclist

So all the women, children, and parents doing utility trips each day on their $50 bikes in the Netherlands are "avid cyclists". Got it.

> flatish city

Bikes have had gears for a looong time. Ebikes are nice too.

> with nice weather

Because the Netherlands is known for its excellent weather? Anyhow, public transport is needed too.

> and who doesn't need anything too far away, most of the time

Yes, we're talking about cities here. Also, trains. Small trains are fun too (trams).

> Buses need roads.

...yes. Thankfully nobody's proposing removing roads.

> Not everyone can cycle

Nobody says they can and not everyone can drive either (:O). In fact, more people can cycle than drive, funny that.

> (very, very expensive, even on the low end) ebikes

Show me a calculation that results in ebikes being in any way expensive compared to a car. In any case, arguing about the expense of biking is absolutely hilarious when you can get a perfectly adequate commuter bike for $50.

Nobody's saying cycling is the miracle solution that works for every person in every situation, everywhere. What they are saying is transportation in dense cities must be efficient and the only way to achieve that is a combination of walkability, cyclability, and public transport. Oh, and you can just use a car if you'd like to, just prepare to pay for the burden you place on others by doing so.
Ask HN: Should I raise my rates?
So I’ve been running Jim Designs (https://jimdesigns.co/), my one-person subscription-based design studio for SaaS startups, for a bit more than a year now, going from making my first internet dollar to close to $10k MRR.

I’m getting too much demand these days, and I’m genuinely wondering if I should raise my rates.

The obvious answer is yes, but I know these spikes come in waves, and I'm concerned that if I raise my pricing, it will diminish future demand, and I’d lose a competitive edge.

I’ve been gradually increasing my pricing ever since I started, but I feel like I'm hitting a glass ceiling, although I realize my current rates are quite low for the provided value.

I’d for sure rather have fewer clients willing to pay more, but I see quite some benefits in having lower prices:

- Gets you more clients, thus a bigger reach, and an increased word of mouth potential
- Feels more sustainable in the long run as you need a continuous stream of new clients with this model.

I’m not sure if these arguments are legit, or if I’m just trying to justify my lack of confidence here.

The one thing I’d like to avoid is to increase my rates, but then have to revert back in case it doesn't work out well. I'd feel bad for the customers who'd go for a given price point, then later realize prices went down :/

I don’t wanna sound like I’m creating reach man’s problems for myself, but I’m genuinely interested in what the best approach would be here.

Jim

PS: You can follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/JimDesignsCo) as I continue to share my journey.
For me it always lead to confusion, indecision and not buying anything when there’s too many choices
It's not 2004, Google has more ways beyond just Gmail to hoover up behavioral data to feed its ad platform. There's Android OS, Chrome, Maps, Youtube and Google Analytics. You live in a panopticon, you just don't know it.
(2023)

Some deep insight from DanPriceSeattle here?

Some more discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34253478
You misunderstand my statement on tax.

Taxs on investors are quite high in Ontario/Canada compared to California. Not only does this minimize the outcome for the investor - it decreases the risk for making larger bets on big outcomes. In terms of exits -- you have a smaller playing field and fewer buyers being based in Canada vs USA. All the things add up to make a smaller opportunity for investors and builders and you work harder to pay more taxes to the government.

In terms for your ambition argument -- that could be an inherent problem in Canadian culture that no one wants to change the status quo - it is definitely a different culture than SV. The largest city is captured by financial industry for the most part which doesn't bode well for innovation.