skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of the peace also mentioned that while there are food safe epoxies they were worried that they may be less food safe than expected when used with high temperatures like tea or coffee as opposed to being used in a simple serving dish.
>I don't expect anything like Recall to make me more effective.

I expect stuff like Recall to help me y'know...Recall.

There have been countless times where I was like "Oh I remember there was a book I was searching but not what the name is."

and I didn't know what the name was, when I was looking for it, or the terms that I used for it. THIS is when I expect it to be useful.
I didn't even know he was also a Starbucks exec. Wild.
This would only be true if additional lanes were built on top of each other instead of next to each other. As lanes are widened though they just keep pushing things apart and making other types of transit less pleasant, which will then create demand that wasn't there before (because people now need to be on roads longer to get where they want to go). There is a maximum density that cars can support that is LOWER than most cities are built up at.
Probably have to wait for anonymous insider disclosures, or even maybe a revealing lawsuit to pop up in the legal system.
A couple years ago Apple added the concept of swap to the new iPad Pro version of the day. M1 finally had the power to support it.

I must’ve hallucinated running swap on my Amiga way back when.
I follow someone that tries to do field research. What I get from her and stuff she links to is there are a few things at work. More education and opportunities for women means they choose to have fewer kids yes. And if motherhood is heavily policed and results in lost opportunities they have even less.

Myself I think the drop from a fertility rate of above 6 to less than 3 is simply that taking care of infants and toddlers gets real old real quick. If birth control is available and child mortality is low that's what women (and men) choose.
As I said in another comment in this thread:

There have been countless times where I was like "Oh I remember there was a book I was searching but not what the name is."

and I didn't know what the name was, when I was looking for it, or the terms that I used for it. THIS is when I expect it to be useful.

I'm fine with taking snapshots of my whole PC activity, as long as data is stored locally. I take plenty of screenshots myself. People act like they have never used a computer for productivity.

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Again, if someone has physical access to my PC, I have better things to worry about.
people still use twitter/X????!
I would not because you don’t go 60mph with a leather jacket for protection on a bike, you go about a quarter that if you are really pushing between lights.

And honestly as a biker taking the entire lane is so much safer than some bike lanes even. Sure people honk but they arent psychotic they will pass you by merging the lane. If you ride on the shoulder they try and squeeze by and thats where there are issues. You are also more visible to turning traffic from other directions when you take the lane.
Here's his resignation letter:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/0000829224240...
Yeah, it's text-only, like the really original Zork games. I'm working on more documentation, but first I've got some issues to resolve in code. Thanks!
Yes but please try to avoid repetition on HN. The GP's response was rude and broke the site guidelines but https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... does look excessive to me.
We used to hear that LLMs hallucinate but, apparently, we are witnessing the hallucination of apps now!

This reminds me of another quiet funny error message, again, from Microsoft about a Windows Phone error message telling users to "insert CD and Restart Your Computer" (
https://thenextweb.com/news/this-is-the-funniest-windows-err...)
There are more than half a billion iPads out there.
Ask HN: Anybody else back on Laravel/PHP after 12 years of Express/Django/Flask?
After ditching PHP 12 years ago I headed for node/python/typescript based backend solutions like AdonisJS

Now I find myself installing Laravel 11 + Orchid + FrankenPHP + Livewire exclusively

I also realized 99% of time you don't need Edge/Cloud. Simply hosting your application on dedicated/VPS machine is enough. Also didn't feel the need to use React/Vue anymore. Livewire on Laravel covers 98% of use cases (for state/context heavy apps like editors maybe not).

Just looking back at the past decade I can't believe how much backflipping I needed to do only to find myself returning to the classics but realizing that its evolved to the point it can negate the need for node/python/elixir/exotic stacks.

FrankenPHP has probably been instrumental in my decision. I've been consulting and moving companies to serverless and I regret it (but they convinced themselves servers were boring), there is extreme cost savings not only on rental side of things but development.

It's also easy and cheap to find Laravel developers who no can replicate 98% Frontend engineer work (who also concidentally pushes for more backend logic)

I keep remembering, I'm not facebook or google, kubernetes, react, abstractions are not for me and I finally finding so much joy with Laravel 11/FrankenPHP/Orchid again.

Anybody else finding themselves in my shoes?
Asking even a top-notch LLM to output well formed JSON simply fails sometimes. And when you’re running LLMs at high volume in the background, you can’t use the best available until the last mile.

You work around it with post-processing and retries. But it’s still a bit brittle given how much stuff happens downstream without supervision.
I know a large number of people who commute by bike in Melbourne. Every single last one of them has at some point been hit by a car or has suffered serious injuries trying to avoid being hit by a car. Many of them have had this happen multiple times, and these are all cases where they have dedicated bike lanes — they weren't riding with general traffic, which is of course far more dangerous.
>AI is a […] social good.

Citation needed.
Roads are widened all the time with the goal to increase average speeds.

I can think of counter-example where it's more clear that travel time is not an independent variable to road width:

- lanes on highways are extra wide so you drive faster. (The wider the lane, the faster people will drive, the margin of error is greatly reduced allowing a faster travel speed). If what you were saying is true, then there would be first a lot of projects to narrow lanes to the minimum in order to increase the number of travel lanes. IIRC, US highways have as a standard a 13 foot width (I might have that somewhat wrong), IIRC as well, the absolute minimum width is more like 9 feet. There could be almost 50% more lanes by narrowing, but that would reduce traffic speeds.
(can't help but think of the fixer in pulp fiction)

VINCENT: I said a "please" would be nice.

the Wolf takes a step towards him

THE WOLF: Set it straight, Buster. I'm not here to say "please". I'm here to tell you what to do. And if self-preservation is an instinct you possess, you better fuckin' do it and do it quick. I'm here to help. If my help's not appreciated, lotsa luck gentlemen.

JULES: It ain't that way, Mr. Wolf. Your help is definitely appreciated.

VINCENT: I don't mean any disrespect. I just don't like people barkin' orders at me.

THE WOLF: If I'm curt with you, it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast, and I need you guys to act fast if you want to get out of this. So pretty please, with sugar on top, clean the fuckin' car.
Does talking with the voices in my head count as interviewing?
This seems JSONServer https://github.com/typicode/json-server but in YAML
Doubtful because it's Apple, possibly configured by laser or wire jumpers just prior to package encapsulation.

Older GeForces were hackable similarly, but then Nvidia shifted to specific resistance values: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398555
We don't want blogspam on HN regardless.
> Let's say that you are a doctor and you live in a town of 20,000 people with one hospital. You are stuck being "loyal" to that hospital unless you move.

It’s tangential to the main point of your hypothetical, but: in many states that small town doctor’s salary is a multiple of what it would be in an urban or suburban area, and he’s chosen to live there because he’s making a ton of money.
The average age of first drink in the us is like 16 years old. The law doesn’t stop anyone from drinking it just serves to ruin peoples lives with a criminal record for behavior a huge percent of people engage with.
Sure, many menus open on mousebutton-down events, but nothing is activated or started until the mousebutton-up event.

> Switching Chrome tabs works on button-down.

True; the same in Firefox. That is interesting. Perhaps it’s because simply selecting a tab is considered a safe and reversible operation. I did use the word “decisive” for a reason.
Indeed, and you're also not going to travel on a high speed, congested road. For one thing, there's usually no point.
Many old forums are only sporadically indexed by Google even if you do verbatim text searches using the site:... modifier.
When I see vintage computers (amiga, atari) boot up straight into a repl in an instant I have to admit I feel confused.

Modern uses forced a lot of layers for genericity and security ..
In Europe though 15 days would be illegal. You'd start day one with 5 weeks. Minimum. Plus bank holidays.
> I don't want to waste years of my life...

Here's an exercise I use for prioritization amidst dozens of journals that are filled with scribbles of ideas:

Imagine you're on your death bed, and you've been supremely lazy, and didn't do anything with your life. You've had ideas, but you did nothing with them. What are the things that you would have liked to know whether they would have been successful or not?

"Photography was interesting, and I was good at it...but success or failure wouldn't have meant that much to me. But my piano compositions...man, I would have liked to know how that would have turned out!"

This tells me "Double down on your piano. Photography is cool too, but it shouldn't be the priority."
I'll bet it's a yield + dont-want-a-lawsuit combo
Paracetamol is the default painkiller for most people, I would suspect that regular use means some kind of inflammation.

I would not find surprising that chronic headache could be correlated with risk of dementia.
Please don't start flamewars on HN and especially not nationalistic ones. We're trying for something other than that here—more interesting and less repetitive, for starters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The information about how the world operates exists or can be generated

The hubris of mathematics. At what scale does whether prediction become 100 percent accurate? How large of a model do you need, and how big of a computer to run it?

Do we thing that reducing the world to a model and feeding it through (what isnt even close to a model) of "thought" or "interaction" or ... what ever you want to bill and LLM as is going to be any more accurate than weather prediction?
I’m not sure games count as GUIs as pertaining to this discussion. GUIs in games would qualify, sure.
Why do i feel like increasing the amount of government intervention won’t be a fix
Motorcycles are dangerous because of the speed honestly. Especially a lot of these bikes people buy that are just way too much power for anyone to be reasonable with. Like why do you need to strap yourself to a rocket that can go to 60 in less than 2 seconds? I’m sorry you aren’t even strapped in you are holding on for dear life. Theres no where you can do that and claim to be safe and responsible short of being a trained rider on a track.
Hey there! Kamal is a new way to deploy Rails 8 apps. It is based on Docker. It turns out it's really easy to use it to deploy Telegram bots as well!

In the article, I am showing how to deploy a Telegram bot written in Golang and deploy it on a VPS.
Ah, I think i just realized how to fix the analogy!

The issue is with how many books are checked out a time. If the line is absurdly long, at some point you will make fewer trips to the library to avoid paying the cost of waiting in line. You would check out more books so you would go less frequently. You would be trading storage space at home in exchange for time (not having to wait in line). If the line were infinitely fast, then why not go to the library exactly after you have finished one book to then go get one new book.

If an automated checkout then exists, the line time would be less, making it less expensive to go to the library, which means a person would be willing to increase their trip frequency to the library. Suddenly, you have a line full of people all checking out exactly one book, and returning the next day to do the same thing again (rather than checking out one weeks worth of books, and coming back a week later instead of the next day).
You don’t have to follow the specification. If enough people don’t, the standard committees will eventually adjust the standards, or, make more standards.
with the export restrictions, only the abacus app will work in global markets.
I told them they shouldn't give the insurance company their SSN.

There is no "someone else" who will give the insurer this information.
There's a lot of wishful thinking going on here isn't it?

All these models still regularly fail to provide me with correct code to use even the most common open source libraries (stuff like numpy and matplotlib), even though there were certainly trained on that code.
you should be a mentor to someone your junior, it’ll be more beneficial to your career than being mentored
Start by not reading news. Convince others to do so as well. Instead, ask them to read sources. Inform them about disinformation, and if they are intellectually challenged, guide them to the least damaging news outlets. Remind yourself that all humans are not inherently bad, and that we all strive for a better life, and that noone really wants war.
You've repeated yourself for a third time, but have yet to explain yourself. Pointers are unnecessary in every language, but there is nothing to suggest that a language with them is low level. Clearly there is nothing about pointers that make them low level.

I'd ask again, but it is apparent you don't even know what you meant by it.
I don’t know whether or not it’s still the case that at Planimeter we ship the largest pure Lua game engine published on GitHub, but I remember our biggest issue being rather unrelated to the language itself in that game development has some real performance concerns that are hard to measure even with standard tools.
> Spending time horizontal while not asleep is very unhealthy for your heart.

Why is this?
Language is fluid and changes over time. Pedantically clinging to distinctions that no longer serve useful purposes doesn’t stop this from happening.

If a clear separation in meaning between the two words was useful, their distinct use would become more closely adhered to over time. If not, people will start to blend and confuse the two. Of those options, the latter has happened and will likely continue happening with or without your objections.

That this has happened is pretty clear evidence that the distinction hasn’t been worth maintaining.

> Small children say things incorrectly and we still understand them. Should we all talk like that?

Fully grown, articulate adults say things “incorrectly” all the time and nobody bats an eye. The sentence “Hey, where you going?” is missing an entire verb and every one of us has said and heard that sentence (or one like it) hundreds of times without anyone noticing or caring.
Windows (and to a lesser extent Gnome) have much better Window handling. Shortcut keys for tiling, snap to grid, snap to fill, window-walking (I don’t actually know what this feature is called but it’s when you cycle through window snaps and the window will “walk” across each position of each display in order).

Meanwhile macOS has none of these things and struggles to remember my display arrangement between restarts.

Sure I can download Rectangle/Spectacle/Amethyst and solve some of these problems (while giving screen observing permission to a third party) but it’s far from ideal and not at all what I used to have on Windows.
What substantial difference is there between a message being manifested physically via printing as opposed to having it be a collection of bits in specific states on your hard drive (or memory, for that matter)?
White flashing when starting some Windows applications with dark mode enabled. It's jarring!
Of course I understand prime number trees...

Look, I'm the interviewer, quit turning the tables!
They don't want new datacenters because they consume water and Chile is in the middle of a drought. Makes sense.

But here's something that makes less sense: the list of golf courses in Chile [1]. By my count more than 70. You know what keeps the golf courses green and lush? Water. Plenty of it. In fact, on average a golf course needs 25% more water than a Google datacenter ([2], [3]).

[1] https://www.golfpass.com/travel-advisor/course-directory/862...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=how+muc...

[3] https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=how+muc...
Remands me of "Operation failed successfully" errors. It was a meme, but in some cases I had to implement failing an operation in a test service fake and log something like that.
> How can I find a problem I want to solve...

What pisses you off? X or Y exists...or maybe doesn't exist.
"Why the hell is it 2024 and I'm still doing X?" "Why the hell is it 2024 and there isn't a way to do Y?" Questions like these could be a good start to finding a problem that you're passionate about and motivated to solve.

> ...and what are the indicators it's even worth pursuing?

Would fixing that problem save people time? Maximize people's comfort? Minimize people's labor? Someone might pay for such a solution.
I appreciate the clarity in nomenclature.

> Each of the events have a purpose and you want to make sure that a button is only activated with an onclick, not just an ondown.

That's stated as if it is a rule, but why is that a rule?

And if if is a rule, then why does Chrome -- for example -- handle this inconsistently?

Clicking on a different Chrome tab sure seems to happen with ondown, but clicking on the "reply" button below the text box I'm typing into works with onclick.
Imagine stop and go traffic for a minute. Now imagine it with all those cars replaced by ninjas and dirtbikes and harleys. You can’t even hold a conversation when one of these things goes by. Imagine that being everything that goes by.
No one that claims to know what OOP is, knows what it means. Because the term is loose and hard to pin down.

If OOP encompasses both Smalltalk AND Rust, it's like saying your definition of X includes a neutron star and giraffe.

By OOP type theory, you mean category theory?

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Most what people recognize as OOP today is just Class/Inheritance oriented programming, and Rust doesn't belong in that camp, trying to use structural patterns from that kind of OOP in Rust is often a recipe for disaster.
Asianometry has a good video on this if my memory serves me right.
Wow. Taking 10-minute breaks every hour is not something easily achievable when you have a number of meetings with other co-workers.
IIRC IBM still uses this “innovation” in their mainframes.
It hasn’t paid in decades - it’s well established that the most effective way to increase comp is to change employer not hope for recognition.

Employers refuse to provide even basic inflation matching compensation increases, and report what increases they do provide without including the impact of inflation.

This is like the “we’re a family” or “you should be committed to the company” BS, when they’re also “hi we’re firing you so that our stock price will go up for our bonuses” and similar.
AI is good for the elite that control it, not so good for the rest of society.
> one of the few languages where characters have no direct relation to phonetics

nit: It's not accurate to say that the characters have no direct relation to phonetics. Thousands of them are semanto-phonetic compounds, meaning they combine a character relating to the word's (or syllable's) meaning with a character relating to pronunciation. Sinitic languages tend to have a lot of homophones or near-homophones, so this approach works reasonably well as a memory aid once you've memorized a bunch of the basic characters.

One problem is that many of the pronunciations have drifted from the Middle Chinese pronunciation of the words. Also, some of them have been simplified in Simplified Chinese which makes the components a bit harder to discern.

I've been learning some Cantonese recently and this is very apparent with certain common Cantonese words. For example, the first-person pronoun in Cantonese is pronounced ngo, with a low-rising tone, and written like this:

我 https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/1/

The word for goose in Cantonese is also "ngo", but with a different tone. Here's the character for that:

鵝 https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/1200...

If you enlarge it, you'll see that the left side is the same 我 from before. The right side is 鳥, which means "bird" (https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/161/). So if you saw this character and knew the basic characters for the pronouns and the word "bird", and you spoke Cantonese, you'd be able to easily understand what it meant.

Here's another one. The word "ngo" with still a different tone means "hungry". How do we write it?

餓: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/740/

In this one the phonetic component is on the right instead, which is a bit inconsistent. The left side is this:

食: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/116/

What does 食 mean? It's the verb "to eat". So if you saw this 餓 character and knew a couple of other basic characters, you could figure out that it's the word "ngo6" meaning "hungry". Many of the characters still work like this although the sound shift I mentioned above means that some work in some Chinese languages and not others.
> Spending time horizontal while not asleep is very unhealthy for your heart.

Never heard of this before, any references?
Reminding others of community norms isn't snobbish or unreasonable. How else do you expect a community to function as it grows?
Was this like in the outskirts of Saskatchewan? :) I can't think of a way to meaningfully blacklist engineers in the age of remote work.
But wait. That's also me, no dementia, not elderly. hahah. OK hopefully a lot of what I'm buying is not crap.
Sadly even back in my day (and from a fairly decent uni in Australia) the (imo) classics like os, pl, graphics courses were neither mandatory nor "comprehensive" (ie they focussed on theory and large exams at the end instead a full featured project).
Remove tax breaks above $1M or above local median price + 2 sigma.
> "Nvidia [...] denies that hosting data in or distributing data from the data repositories necessarily violates the US Copyright Act," Nvidia's court filing said.

What's allegedly claimed seems extremely strange since downloading copyright works without having obtained a license has been prosecuted very actively.

I don't see how there's any legal uncertainty at all here. If you own a book you can scan it and train AI on it, but if you don't, you can't legally download it even if you're only training AI on it.

Simply, if this is permitted there's no copyright. After all, this is a matter of commercial activity, not just some person downloading a book which he can't afford and is curious about.