skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, part out value is a function of the (un)availability of spare/replacement parts.

I’ve made decent recoveries parting out my old MacBook Airs when upgrading, like 75%+ contribution to my replacement unit (without properly accounting for my disassembly/listing/packaging/shipping time).

With an electric car, there’s some value in a motor that came out of a particular car for some other project, even if the motors don’t typically fail. Lots of franken-Tesla projects out there, just as some of my parts hit the hackintosh market.
that might work for traveling, but just sitting at home and being raided without warning is a different story.
The Death of the Marlboro Man (1973)
New Heroku Postgres Essential Plans Built on Amazon Aurora
The whole point of the article is that recent observations are making them rethink their model
How about making Firefox compatible with Tab Mix Plus again? As in, open up the API again?

I consider TBP to be the second most important extension that I could possibly install, right after uBlock, but getting it to work correctly is a bit of a slog due to how tabs have been isolated and restricted from the API.

It’s not hyperbole that my entire usage of FF rests upon the functionality of TBP.
> throw a rock and you'll hit a Cafe Landwer

Are those new to the area? I don't live there anymore, but I spent a decade in Greater Boston and have never heard of this.
Agreed. For instance, the piped bc sed thing's error handling is apparently broken, and no one has pointed that out yet. pipefail and $() don't play nice with each other:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
echo $(false|true)
echo a
echo $(false)
echo b
false
echo c

Prints 'ab'.
Hmm.

That sounds like a different thing than I'm saying, and I agree with what I think you're saying.

So, if an AI can answer "what's a fast sort function" with "quicksort, here's some pseudocode: …", that's a related but different question to "write quicksort in [this brand new language you've never encountered before]".

Is like how AI won't take our jobs, but it will take over for each individual task that our jobs are made from.
> No it's not put to rest

> That's a dirt bag move. But ~it's not illegal

Experience tells me that everyone loves when someone chooses what the law allows over morality.

Can we acknowledge that immoral acts are often not illegal and illegal acts are often not immoral and then say that it's put to rest that it's obviously and definitely a dirt bag move?
I believe this is the same thing that was submitted yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426995 only that one pointed to the blog post and this one points to the repo
The MIT startup is like a breath of fresh air - a company that is actually doing something!

Stanford style startups are a way better way to make money - but I wish people would just stop making them. Filling the economy with parasitic middle men hasn't worked out too well for us.
Greed is contagious. But looking at Closed AI and seeing Azure all over it is not easy to ignore. Looking at hostile takeover of FOSS at GitHub to train commercial product Copilot is another thing. We all knew the strategy when they bought it, and we all complied with the move. They have power because we refuse to challenge the lack of intervention from authorities. It is all a big scam.
I guess the difference is that there is a social dynamic at play between a student and an instructor. The student may tire of some aspect of the relationship before they tire of learning the material.

For example, unless the instructor has some kind of Jedi master level self control they may begin to show frustration at being asked the same question repeatedly or with minor variations.
Google sends DOJ unexpected check in attempt to avoid monopoly jury trial
> TTS from visual input isn't good enough to be an example of that yet. It's good, but not that good.

Even if TTS were absolutely perfect, then I'd still maintain my point.

> And yet, my A-level exams 22 years ago required me to have a graphic calculator.

Doesn't that sort of prove my point? Calculators existed and were obviously useful, but they didn't just stop teaching you algebra, despite knowing you had a calculator.
I would assume because bash is deployable to more locations with fewer assumptions. Scripting requires environments to be set up correctly to run, and binary makes architecture assumptions.
I can see some very niche cases where an embedded system has bash not much else and "taking the most you can out of bash" could end up being useful.

besides that? probably nothing.
yes. racism, bias, prejudice are all just variations of the same problem in different intensity
> just people playing with math and coming up with different ideas that humans find interesting, but will not affect your quality of life at all

A lot of people like to pursue knowledge purely out of curiosity. Some people even think that having a good quality of life means that there is room for these sorts of conversations!
Very interesting. Don’t think I’ve seen anything like this before. How would the speed on something like this be compared to PowerShell, for example? Is it faster because it’s compiled? Could I write a web server in it?
>Once I applied for a job that required a high security clearance. I had to write "all the traumas of your childhood and your adolescence".

Huh? I don't recall those questions on my clearance application. Was this a SF-86?
As we've learned recently, American gun owners don't give a shit about tyranny so long as the tyrants don't come for their guns.

In fact, depending on whose head the boot comes down on, they'll even cheer it on.
That doesn't negate the parent point, and it's not just about attractive nuisance, although childproofing 100 acres is a ridiculous task. There's also been successful suits from people who get injured after breaking and entering locked buildings
Yeah, you never know when Wal*Mart might want to come along and buy it to put up a another big box.
There's just the small problem that Tasmania is part of Australia?
I mean if your actually concerned witht his, enable pin to drive... done
This might be an unpopular opinion. But if you need motorized conveyance to camp remotely... then you should probably not camp remotely. It's ok if some wild areas are less accessible.
> If Lisp is so good, why isn’t its use more widespread?

The Lisp Curse: http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
Yet Khan Academy is free.
> Sure it can generally put words in grammatically correct order and is passible for writing no one is going to read anyway (like marketing emails). But the moment it requires actual domain knowledge all these AI models completely fall down because, again, they don't actually understand anything, they just are really good at guessing what word comes next.

Many of us are frequently using it to obtain answers requiring domain knowledge; the evidence that this works is that the answers it gives are often found to be correct, and yet things we did not know. So your description is simply contradicting the experience of many people. Perhaps you're using it in a different domain, or not writing clear prompts, but it's well worth experiencing what people are talking about.
Not an IP lawyer, but I think the company that produced the movie owns the relevant IP, and Johansson might also own IP around it.

You can have an opinion on it, but they are going to get sued. Just like I can't take Moana and throw her in an ad where it says "I like [insert cereal here]", they can't take a character and use it without expecting Disney/whoever to come sue them.
Journey TTS (AudioLM)
That is just a question of what you are used to. The "functional style" example is very obvious to a person who is familiar with that style. In fact if the rest of the code base is in a similar style it is the easier one to understand.

There is nothing inherent which makes either better or cleverer than the other.

(Also the first one is incomplete, as "n" is not defined, making the later more self contained)
We live in a world where wealth is increasingly being concentrated at the top, social mobility for the average person is trending downwards, suicide rates in the US are at all-time highs, drug abuse rising, general deaths of despair rising, mental illness rising, climate and ecological catastrophes mounting by unchecked greed and all of this AI crap is mostly in the hands of the powerful who will use it to solidify the trends of the things I've mentioned above. Which begs the question, what kind of society is this to be excited about? Great if you live in a bubble unaffected by the above, but for the rest of us, the society sucks.
I don't know, there's many "useless" things done that at a later date have been found to be beneficial in areas not intended be the original experimenter.
> illegal

I'd imagine it's not about being illegal; probably more about the actual trouble of getting appropriate compensation on top of the fact that you have to catch the person who did it in the first place.

> Good thing is that it anyone is hurt in this scenario it's the idiot. Why worry about it?

American culture is very litigious. It's linked elsewhere in the thread but maybe also useful here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine. Not exactly idiots but perhaps people who are a little naive. Although, I also wouldn't be particularly surprised to learn of a case involving adults.
> If I let someone cross my land and he trips on a tree root and breaks his leg, now I'm possibly facing a lawsuit.

Don't worry, you're impacted by laws anyways. (My fave example is outdoor pools in LA, which by now require a fence. Never mind if there are never any children on the property, there might be at some point)

> Simply crossing the land is one thing

Yup. And it isn't just homeless encampments (which we could address, if we wanted to ever provide housing), it's also that a good chunk of people are, well, asocial assholes. See e.g. folks defacing public parks, destroying natural monuments for kicks, destroying vegetation to get their insta pic just right, etc.

I don't have a good answer. People should be free to access public lands. There should be more public lands. But the consequences of that right often are destructive, and we don't seem inclined to fix that part.
No. Prison exists for incapacitation. It is to protect society from miscreants. If punishment and/or rehabilitation occurs, that is nice, but it is not it's purpose.
the Earth's rotation rate is changing, in part due to global warming
Funnily enough, the need to have a passport to leave your country is a relatively recent thing. Pre-World War I, people could just pack and go to another country, and passports were rarely enforced. They were more a helping document while traveling than a controling tool.

Only after WWI one of the explicit objetives of the passports was to limit the emigration of skilled people. Not to menction that most countries in America were happily receiving huge amounts of people from everywhere without too much hassle. I don't think that is happening today.
TestFast your next business idea if it's makes money before spending money
Hey HN,

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I realized I am wasting my time, so I built a business idea testing tool for myself, and now I am ready to share it with you too. So you too can create a landing page for yourself within 10 min or so.

My tool asks some basic questions about the new idea, and based on the responses, it creates a landing page to help you test any business idea, with a newsletter subscription option. If anybody subscribes, they'll receive an email with a questionnaire for a 30% discount (if the product/service goes live), so we understand the audience better.

Furthermore site is tracking number of visitors / subscribers count / questionnaire filling visitors so you can easily decide how much is the hype around your new idea as you get at least 100 visitors.
Future versions will help you with marketing and acquiring potential customers.
Would love your feedback pls.
P.S.: The site speed is horrible, thank you for your patience! - It's still an MVP.

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Zs
Well, I actually would put them in charge on improving the german train system.

But not in charge of the german, nor english language.
The history given seemed consistent with the systems he advocated being just better designs, functionally. Maybe he cared the most about that?
Ten Years of a Single Div
> Yes, but Waymo hasn't (yet) made Google $1 of profit

And, barring a corporate reorg, it never will except by buying from Google, since Google is its corporate sibling, not parent.
Its about carrying shit around and losing it i carry my phone i'm not carrying a shitload of keys anymore, hell my drivers license is in a slot on my phone, so no wallet either anymore
The downside of loser pays is coorts will sometimes find against you in an obvious case and so only the rich can dare risk court.
I had similar issues trying to get used to EMACS when I was playing the CL. Add to that the fact that I tend to use Windows at least half of the time, and I wanted an alternative.

I ended up setting up Atom with SLIMA and some other plugins to do CL development on Windows and Ubuntu. I even wrote up some very sparse instructions https://github.com/Kehvarl/roguelike-tutorial-cl/blob/main/d...

While Atom is gone, Pulsar now has a SLIMA plugin to allow Lisp interaction.
As a southpaw, the last thing I want to do is touch a fountain pen.

Well, unless I have another go at learning Arabic…
There's another type: the Stanford Startup that can't find product-market fit so it markets itself as an MIT Startup.
I had "just" a Psion 5, but I still think the keyboard was better than many of todays small notebooks. I had even Doom on it (to slow, buts still). I used mostly the spreadsheet app for all kind of things.
The biggest miss was difficult to get access to a network for email or so.
i love speedtree tool. its a great example of how relatively simple algorithms can make natural complexity. also a great example on how to visually make things seem real while cutting as much corners as possible is that people used to fake bounced light through a room simply by making the backs of objects emit a fraction of light caught on the light facing side.

as people cant actually at observe arbitrary speeds and bandwith, you can skip most of the universe when visually representing it, to an extreme degree.
I kinda agree about researching the end of the Universe, but the birth of the Universe and black holes a pretty relevant to modern day science. We don't have a theory of quantum gravity, we have a singularity at the big-bang, etc.

Finding a theory of everything could unlock many new practical improvements. Falsifiability not only happens when you can disprove something with a physical experiment. You can't trigger another big-bang, but with a better model, you can falsify the currently accepted theory because it makes a prediction.

Thinking about the end of the universe is not that pointless though. It's tending towards philosophy, which could make people think what's our role in the world, can we at some point exist again, I think the list is long.
Has anyone tried to take this and bring it forward to today?
Dunno about Teslas, but I’m in a high theft country and the thieves quickly know what to remove to make that impossible before tossing the vehicle in a shipping container.

Will a Tesla stop working if it hasn’t phoned home in a while?
You might look into MIDI devices, since there are programs to convert MIDI events to keystrokes.

For hardware, this seems kind of like what you’re looking for: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SamplePadPro--alesis.... There’s plenty of MIDI foot pedals as well. I don’t know about using the foot pedals as “modifiers” but I assume it’s possible.
Changelog and tags for Bitnami Helm charts
Show HN: Huewords, a Word and Logic Puzzle
This is a game I wrote over the last month and a bit.

The effort allocation was pretty different from what I've done in the past.

The game design snapped together very quickly: I had the initial idea, played a couple of games on a spreadsheet to get a feel for the idea, and made one change based on those plays. After that everything felt just right through multiple rounds of playtesting. Likewise the puzzle generation is nowhere near as elaborate as in my previous game, fairly simple methods worked well and provided good variety.

Instead I ended up spending silly amounts of time on curating the word list (including using LLMs to guide the curation) and on iterating on the UI. The basic UI concept never changed, but the details basically never survived for very long after starting a new playtest round.
Search online for beware of dog lawsuits in the US as an example of liability. The problem is that these laws vary by jurisdiction, so for example in California those signs do not protect the homeowner if someone is bitten on their land [1]. Michigan State University has a comprehensive overview of dog bite laws in the US indicating where "beware of dog" signs legally protect the owner from lawsuits [2] when someone trespasses.

[1]: https://www.enjuris.com/california/premises-liability/beware...

[2]: https://www.animallaw.info/topic/table-dog-bite-strict-liabi...
I pretty much knew what I would find in the comments on this one.
The right to roam, in country in which it exist in one form or another, is exactly this: the right to roam. Not the right to camp (although some allow it usually with some restriction), live, squat, pollute, destroy, ...

As someone who sometime had to go from point A to point B in the countryside without a car, this was a necessity as it was the only safe way to do so (sidewalk are nonexistent in the countryside). It also avoid "trapping" some public land within private one (and effectively privatizing it), although, in my country at least, the state will usually preempt a small piece of the private land to always have a passage between public land.

As for the liability, is should go without saying that there is usually laws that release you from any liability for people hurting themselves while roaming on your property (with the obvious exception that you should not put anything with the intention of hurting people, for example traps).
I mean the car drives with bluetooth, it can be relayed sure but also ... you can enable pin to drive, and even if you drive away with the car once the relay is broken due to range the car won't start again, and also stealing a tesla this way is ... well really fucking dumb, the GPS tracking on the car, the fact the owner can literally shut down the car remotely or limit speed, personally i think remote valet mode should be allowed to set the car to 10mph max
Yeah, and I actually think that there can be some value in students being challenged to find some misinformation.

I maintain that one of the very best teachers I ever had was my 9th grade biology teacher, purely because she understood absolutely nothing about biology and appeared to just be making shit up. You could argue that in a vacuum this might be benign, but part of the issue is that she would use tests provided by the textbook, written by competent biologists. As a result of this, I had to learn to ignore most of what my teacher said, and sometimes argue back with her, and I feel like ironically I learned biology better than most people in that class; if nothing else I did get an A on all the "real" tests from the textbooks.

I think that arguing is actually a really underrated tool in education. Looking for and correcting bullshit is something that extraordinarily enlightening, at least for me, and I think AIs even in their current state can be useful for that.
A few days ago, I tried running some code that hasn't been updated in about 5 years. The python launcher has bit-rotted, so now I need to rewrite it. The other 99% of the project compiles fine.

Things like perl (without CPAN) and bash generally take backward compatibility more seriously than python does.

My experience with python (even ignoring the 2 to 3 debacle) is that you can run code on machines that were setup +/- six months from when the software was written. That's unacceptable for non-throwaway use cases unless your company is willing to burn engineering time needlessly churning software that's feature complete and otherwise stable.
If you are required by law to put a fence around your pool and include a child-safe door, and you fail to do so, and a child drowns — why shouldn't you be liable?

(Although I think many from the US may interpret a "fence around a pool" to be an overreach of government regulation. But in Australia, "barrier laws" exist in every state/territory to avoid accidental drownings.)
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Is anyone doing something like using LLMs to generate Prolog (or Cyc, or some appropriately complex, brittle knowledge representation GOFAI)?
There's also the corollary East Coast Lisp / West Coast Lisp dichotomy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39583305

[...]

Leaning hard into the IDE (or ChatGPT these days) because your language design is flawed is a hella/totally stereotypical "West Coast" thing to do, as described in "Evolution of Lisp", "Worse is Better", and "History of T", and exemplified by Interlisp and Warren Teitelman's "pervasive philosophy of user interface design" and implementation of "DWIM".

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

https://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~joern/jargon/DWIM.HTML

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6492j904

If your language isn't terribly designed, then your IDE doesn't have to be such a complex non-deterministic Rube Goldberg machine, papering over the languages flaws, haphazardly guessing about your intent, "yelling at you" all the time about potential foot-guns and misunderstandings.

As you might guess, I'm firmly in the "East Coast" MacLisp / Emacs camp, because that's what I learned to program in the 80's. I can't stand most IDEs (except for the original Lisp Machines, and Emacs of course), especially when they keep popping up hyperactive completion menus that steal the keyboard input focus and spew paragraphs of unexpected boilerplate diarrhea into my buffer whenever I dare to type ahead quickly and hit return.

But my point is that you can have and should demand the best of both coasts, unless you start off with a Shitty West Coast Programming Language or a Shitty East Coast IDE.

[...]
There's some money but there's really two markets: small medium (eg a lot of work for a relatively small sale) and mega districts (and those generally just goes to the big established players because of connections)

Most school wifi isn't that bad anymore - the bigger problem for us is web filters that break things in interesting ways.
The Most Mispronounced Brand from Every Country
I see lots of people sing its praises, but (from the outside) it always seemed like it was kind of in limbo, not exactly abandoned but not exactly going somewhere either. I do see some recent activity <https://we.phorge.it/source/phorge/history/master/> so it's being developed by someone but I think https://we.phorge.it/T15801 squares with my concerns - there is likely a marketing problem for folks who aren't already in the know
This is a lot of words for not saying that students keep sending essays entirely written by ChatGPT and never proof-read by their “author.” Never having to do homework is affecting students dramatically, according to many teachers.

What Gates and Kahn describe is interesting, but it’s a little bit like talking about color theory and how the fact that a baseball bat is purple affected you after you just got whacked in the head with it.
> I.e. common people had access to the land

Only in a limited sense. The public did not have access to the land; specific "commoners" (local farmers) had specific usage rights e.g. for grazing.
Yep, if people want to do that there are hundreds of miles of forest service roads they can use to drive in to our national forests.