skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope that you forgot the /s on that line.

Learning Patterns is one of the worst things to do without the experience in the problems that they solve since it results in coders who think that you write programs by hooking up some objects built with a Factory via xml (well, that was the thing when I wrote the post... its yaml now) and you've got a program - and that every program should be built of Factories and Observers and Facades and such and the dev goes about and builds the Patterns without actually solving the problem.

I have ranted on this before and that rant is at http://the-whiteboard.github.io/2016/09/02/patterns.html

I would also encourage reading https://www.artima.com/articles/how-to-use-design-patterns

> Bill Venners: Is the value of patterns, then, that in the real world when I feel a particular kind of pain I'll be able to reach for a known solution?

> Erich Gamma: This is definitely the way I'd recommend that people use patterns. Do not start immediately throwing patterns into a design, but use them as you go and understand more of the problem. Because of this I really like to use patterns after the fact, refactoring to patterns. One comment I saw in a news group just after patterns started to become more popular was someone claiming that in a particular program they tried to use all 23 GoF patterns. They said they had failed, because they were only able to use 20. They hoped the client would call them again to come back again so maybe they could squeeze in the other 3.

> Trying to use all the patterns is a bad thing, because you will end up with synthetic designs—speculative designs that have flexibility that no one needs. These days software is too complex. We can't afford to speculate what else it should do. We need to really focus on what it needs. That's why I like refactoring to patterns. People should learn that when they have a particular kind of problem or code smell, as people call it these days, they can go to their patterns toolbox to find a solution.
Agreed, very impressive results. It's both ~worrying and amazing that I'm sure an AI agent could just directly trace a path in the expression latent space to produce a photorealistic and real-time rendered head.
I kind of wonder if it would be worth it to give people opiates to exercise. As exercise clearly has numerous benefits, but for many (myself included), it is a miserable thing to do.
Summary of what "blows away" means:

- Apple News+ has seen a 9% increase in subscriptions in the US between 2020 and 2024, while other leading news outlets have only managed ~3% growth during the same period.

- Apple News+ subscription growth is about 4x faster than major news sites.

- The Apple News+ partnership program is becoming a lifeline for news websites losing revenue.

- Apple's growing user base is a key driver for the growth of Apple News+ subscriptions.

I was curious about giving it another shot, but the price has increased from $10/month to $13/month and even with the plan, you still get bombarded with ads -- at least during the free month trial.

Can anyone confirm ads after the trial ends and payments kick in?
Although PaleMoon is great, it creates a brain split

Firefox had very advanced addons for the time, and very good developer community. XUL removal just gave everyone PTSD

Don't know how good is the continuous fragmentation of the community
It's a good deal. Apple One for the family includes the boosted versions of the various media apps (Music, TV, News, etc.) plus more storage. I would never pay for a sub to WSJ or The Times or Globe & Mail or LA Times, but they are all included in News+ plus many more specialty, long-form, and even some local outlets.

It's also encouraging that Apple actually pays participating publications real money, and (supposedly) without much additional effort. Quoting Semafor:

A spokesperson for Time said that Apple News has become “one of our most important partners and delivers 7-figures of revenue for TIME annually,” adding that the publication garnered 5 million unique visitors from Apple News last month. The revenue and audience numbers have been similar at major Condé Nast publications, including Wired and Vanity Fair.

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/19/2024/as-clicks-dry-up-...

Of course, Apple may change the terms, and these pubs don't "own the customer" if the gateway is controlled by Cupertino, but 7-figure revenue really helps these organizations stay afloat.
Trinity keeps KDE 3 on life support
Did the repetition become obvious before or after you saw both implementations? It’s possible that if you dried it up right away, you would’ve abstracted the wrong thing, and it’s way more obvious only in hindsight.
I think it would be hard to argue the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc. are near market saturation for their audience— especially compared to the much more relevantly new Apple News+.

Additionally, Apple News is not a media site, but a media aggregator. Apple News does not employe journalists to produce stories.

I’m not sure there’s much to be gleaned from growth rates (percents) alone here.
The article comes off as mostly clickbait TBH.
I live in San Francisco, our school system here stinks.

I'd say about 25% of the teachers at my kid's school are incompetent so that kinda lines up with 1:4 saying "technology bad". It took the pandemic for the school system to come 20 years into the future technology wise and they're still at least 15 years behind.

I honestly wouldn't trust a teacher to tell me what the future should be or if something is good or bad...
People that spend a lot of time together tend to transmit and share microbiome species.

I'm confident most illnesses, including mental, are rooted in our microbiome makeup.

Most with gut issues would likely agree with this because it makes it more obvious. Such as developing allergies, food sensitivities, skin diseases, mental issues, eye and hearing issues, hair loss, high blood pressure, diabetes, anxiety, etc after their gut has gone haywire.
The Afterlives of Shakespeare and Company in Online Social Readership
I read through the entire article. Nowhere does it allege that the protestors sought to overthrow the government. If it did, Richard would have actually quoted.
Samba is on gen 4 silicon and still lagging, somebody over there is doing something wrong
I read a book called spark by John r. Ratey. Changed my perspective a lot, some of the newer research and school programs happening from the research is promising.

My biggest take away is that the brain is not wired primarily for thinking, but for moving it changed my perspective. Along with some new research about how the heart produces certain hormones that only happens under stress e.g 75% heart rate for an extended duration.

As someone who's been around a lot of people suffering with mental health and at times myself I notice movement really gets things back on track.
If PG's goal was to show Sam was actually fired, why would he take it upon himself to make a tweet explaining that Sam wasnt fired?
Agree. I’m joining you on this hill to die on.

I myself also had the same unwelcoming experience in the beginning while still in university. After a few closed/downvoted posts I got a bit of ptsd and quit.

Until I started working and needed to ask questions. This time I was doing research, making sure I really can’t find my answer on internet, and I was making detailed posts with MVP and explaining all research I’ve done. As a result I’ve got answers which I probably never ever could have gotten on any other website. And I did not feel unwelcome at all. Later I even started volunteering my time when I had downtimes at work answering some questions myself based on knowledge I learned at my job.

SO is not meant to be friendly. It’s meant to get the job done. It’s meant to be a repository of useful Q/A. If you want a welcoming environment where you can post whatever at the price of possibly not getting a good answer try Reddit or Quora or something. SO is the wrong place for that. Keep in mind that people who answer questions volunteer their time and knowledge. They don’t have time to baby sit you and be nice and kind to you. If your answer is lacking research, or not a good fit for website, it badly worded or whatever - they will tell you that fair and square. Again, it’s a repository of useful questions and answers - not a dumpster fire of every question ever asked.

It is this Spartan, not-nice, straight to the point, get the job done, moderated environment is what made SO a #1 go to place for programming related questions. This is why it’s so useful, even to the people who complain how “not nice” it is.

There are already plenty of useless or “hit-and-miss useful” Q/A websites like quora, Reddit, etc. (also, remember Yahoo answers?). Why can’t we have the opposite of those websites? Why are people trying to bring SO down to the level of those websites? If you don’t feel welcomed on SO - no problem, go elsewhere!

Now, all of what I said above used to be applicable before SO started to go downhill a few years ago. I stopped engaging in community so I don’t know what’s happening there now. I don’t know how many people continue trying to preserve the original mission but I gave up cause I don’t have time.
Not if you're looking at inflation-adjusted dollars, though the values are closer than I'd have thought.

1945 cost of the Manhattan Project, $1.89 billion,[1] or $32.9 billion 2024 per <https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/>.

2016 cost of the JWST: ~$10 billion,[2] or $13.1 billion 2024 adjusted for inflation.

That's a smaller multiple for the Manhattan Project than I'd have expected, but it's still comfortably more expensive than the JWST.

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Notes:

1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project#Cost>

2. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope>
The Apollo cache doesn't magically solve everything, certainly not concurrency. It's a state store like redux/pinia/mobx, with automatic normalization plus other goodies like being able to query/mutate the store locally with gql if you want. Doing N+1 cache-only queries is also no big deal, though I don't do so myself. They probably should have called it a state store and not a cache, but whatevs...
Slightly related - I overheard a little argument at my local (hospital charity) thrift store yesterday.

Turns out some of the volunteers were marking down items - which may be within their authority to do - and then buying these marked down items for themselves ... before they even hit the store shelves. Oops.
It would be so cool to be able to save a delve exploration to a set of linked Markdown files that you can open in a local wiki app.
I remember picking up a newspaper recently and being surprised at the cost and the amount of ads. I’m usually very anti-advertisement for paid services, but Apple is following a long tradition here.
Not really.

I despise this guy as much as any sane person. And for sure he did everything he was judged for, and much more actually, even before becoming president.

But for better or worse, people in power have some kind of immunity, especially for minor things. When political opponents are pursued for those minor things, it's a bad sign for democracy.
> The article linked was in reference to their weak ass attempt to overthrow the government.

Can you quote directly from the article where it says anything close to that the protestors wanted to "overthrow the government"? I'm hesitant to call you a liar before giving you a chance to explain your point of view, but nothing I read in that link comes close to substantiating your claims.
That’s not weird. You’re willing to pay a premium for agency and control over your experience. Very rational.
This claim doesn't quite line up with posts like https://old.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/xjdjzu/halide_updat... or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40522988 or the developers own claims of not taking it away in this thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40517732

That is "forever updates" = no but "take away what you had" also = no. It was a period of updates with a dropoff date of where you left off. This lines up with my expectations of a one time purchase in that I'm not expecting 50 years of feature updates when buying software just because they haven't went out of business yet I'm just expecting I keep the feature access I have at the end, which is what these posts from many different folks are all claiming.
But he made an initial decision to not comment only to now comment after several months of rumors, so there was clearly a recent change in PG's thinking on the right way to handle this. That raises the question of "what caused that change?"
Lol, post-return is "salvage" by default. Brutal.
I have apple one, which includes the news. Barely use it. There are ads, not that many. Over all, the ads are palatable. Think smaller box in middle of screen, unlike the full screen take over of websites without blockers. But definetly has ads.

Also the discovery isn’t great and some articles are available and some aren’t. You can share from paywall articles for eligible publishers and open in news, works a bit more than half the time for me.

I guess if you like traditional media then it’s great. Also includes magazines but so does your library.

Personally I find the notifications to be politically slanted occasionally but a good way to know what the next new thing is. That’s a personal opinion but it turns me off from using it.
Remember, he can’t pardon himself of this if he becomes president because this is a state-level crime.
Like many others have suggested, local indexing is what I use for this, although some more natural interface may be better for structured search and querying.

What I haven't seen suggested though, is the built-in spotlight. Press CMD+Space, type some unique words that might appear in the document, and spotlight will search it. This also works surprisingly well for non-OCRd images of text, anything inside a zip file, an email, etc..
It would be nice to have that level of luxury
The concept of "intelectual property" is crazy to begin with, you can't own a thing that is not economically scarse. Nobody owns the atmosphere, nobody owns math, nobody owns a sequence of bytes. If you can copy it, you can't steal it. You have the natural right to use their public code the way you want, as they have the natural right to use your public code the way they want. In the positivist game though, wins whoever has more money to spare on lawyers, so you lose by default even if you wanna play the legal game. The deep pockets always win on that front.
AI Reveals Complex Language Patterns in Sperm Whales
I know that Target sells excess inventory on secondipity. I've got a few extremely good deals there, on kitchen appliances, Gillette razor blades, other stuff. All appeared to be in brand-new condition.
In the article, I make the case that they can reason but it is in many ways distinct from the way we do it. It is also learned from very different fundamentals. Our reasoning fundamentals come from sensing, and experiencing. LLMs reasoning fundamentals are pieces of words.

We roughly go from sensing, to object permanence, to algebra.

They go from tokens, to grammar, to abstract ideas.

Human senses, inertia, gravity, and other things that are elementary to us, are complex abstract phenomena to them. They can only think of them in very hypothetical terms.

There are some clear examples of reasoning mentioned in the article, but I believe that a large part of the perception of them lacking it, stems from them having unnaturally good writing skills in relation to their reasoning skills.
That is, no human that can write this well is this bad at reasoning.
This is one of my favorite principles, don't try to make the codebase "too DRY" . I often see it cause stress and complexity in platform or infra teams trying to support large communities of developers.

It's right to be concerned that a bunch of teams might be a wasting time implementing the same thing slightly differently, or that you'll end up fixing the same bug across all these "copies".

Often that kind of duplication is good for the business though, and the platform team doesn't have the insight to see all the divergent requirements on the horizon. Letting the teams innovate separately without having to coordinate changes in all these DRY-ied up systems can be the best way to support them.

Or even more abstractly, zero codebase chaos is not the optimal amount.
Anyone remember a zinger from Linus Torvalds a couple of decades ago: "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." (https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/magazine/the-way-we-live-...)? Horribly ironic that the Year of Linux On the Desktop™ turns out to have been ushered in by Microsoft as a subsystem firmly under Windows' thumb. How the old /. crowd would have wailed and gnashed their teeth to find out what the future turned out to be.
> Increased risk remained after adjusting for an array of parental, school-level, and area-level confounders.

Is in the abstract. They literally removed confounding variables. The only variable I can think of is that they are more acute to self check due past experiences.
Can the Data Fit in My Mouth
"Basic": a beginner's guide to everyone's favorite new insult
To be fair, strollers can get away from you, and they can get moving pretty fast. This is especially terrifying around traffic. Having your child strapped in adds to that terror.
bypass paywalls clean aint bad either
You can use Gpt4all with localdocs to analyze the folder where you store the output of paperless-ngx
That's not what I asked. I am asking whether there is even any serious claim (as opposed to your simple assertion) that someone's hearing was damaged.
I think this is a major (the only?) reason these internet companies are even successful. Because they just ignore all these costs that don’t scale well that ordinary companies should have.
It's really quite fascinating the progress happening in science with regards to furthering our understanding of neuroplasticity & neurogenesis these days, and how even the psychedelic drugs impact that.
When it comes to news, I think NPR and APNews covers most bases. I might be missing out on some news nuance, because I guess I'm not a news junkie.

For your issue with the app, it reminded me of an axe I grind. Whenever possible, I use a bookmark to their website, even if it's mobile.

I think not enough people are challenging themselves to determine "Is the app better than the browser?".

Apps give a privileged and intimate container for that company to control and capture your experience for their brand. Apps let that company run more privileged code on your device than a website could.

I think as a society, we've been conditioned to those app icons over the last 15 years. "There's an app for that". Yeah, but there's a website for almost all of them, too. And I can at-least control how I view it, and if I'm allowed to block ads.
> people make all kinds of tradeoffs that place a finite value on their lives.

anyone who has resources and is rational will use those resources above everything else to stay alive.

it's our biological imperative.

people have addictions and mental disorders but theres very few things someone rational would trade their life for.

that's the Crux of your argument so I don't find the rest of your argument compelling.

especially looking at data comparing healthcare cost and outcomes in first world countries.
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Now you might be right about regulation because from what I've read most of that increase cost in comparison to other countries is from administration which implies regulation.

but another solution to that is socialized healthcare.
Sedat wrote about this and other useful stuff.

https://www.manning.com/books/street-coder
Exercise plays a critical role in helping the body take out the trash. That's likely a factor here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25427090
That's not quite right in general. I had monthly vesting when I was there with a short cliff (I don't remember how short, but <<1yr). Shares appreciated according to the initial grant, regardless of cliffs. My previous comment glossed over the benefits/costs of borrowing against future earnings (note that typical RSU situations are effectively a 0% interest loan in a particular security), but that doesn't seem relevant to your rebuttal.

Each month of vesting you can absolutely move shares out of GOOG (minor restrictions on insider trading, but regardless of your level you can set up automated strategies), and most employees probably should given the correlated risk between Google taking a nosedive and employees losing their jobs.

The vesting is unrelated. With no promotions or raises the 4yr bump is uninteresting. With those, they match your TC, but they happen _during_ those interesting career events. They describe some subset of your compensation for the next 4yrs. You can still invest them however you choose. You can still leave at any time (unless you believe that in your personal case the promotion train is better than the job-hopping train). You could have just as easily job-hopped and invested the surplus in GOOG.
You should get the generic Firefox Multi-Account Container extension [1] instead of individual ones. It has a setting to either replace or open a new tab, when clicking a link.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
> The real secret sauce to her side-hustle was the relationship she had with the lady who managed the warehouse where she bought the baby stuff. The warehouses usually have auctions on large lots or pallets of stuff; you bid on whatever's on the pallet, you've got no choice. The lady used to let my sister come to the warehouse periodically (usually just before a big auction) and cherrypick what she wanted, which was always the baby strollers and swing sets. The side-hustle wouldn't have worked without that. (My sister (and her husband) used to flip houses, too, and I think she sold the warehouse lady a house.)

Did she bribe the warehouse manager explicitly or just implicitly via some quid pro quos?
This doesn't really make much sense in this specific case. It was a state court, and he was found guilty of a state crime. While state decisions can be appealed to the Supreme Court, it requires that some Constitutional or some violation of other federal law be in question. I haven't seen anyone argue that in this case, even Trump's biggest supporters.

Contrast that with the Jan 6th case, which is a federal case and is currently before the Supreme Court.
Good luck finding a phone number. The last time I had to do a return, I could not even find the support chat option. I had to use a useless chatbot that was less helpful than those automated phone support systems.

Somewhere out there MBA programs are still teaching case studies about Amazon's "obsessive focus on the customer", oblivious to the fact that Amazon has been trash for years now.
Very adjacent, but if you have an infant or a small child, look for a “Buy Nothing” group in your area. It’s a gifting group and makes the cost of caring for a young child much more manageable. Clothes, diapers, formula, toys, other care items. It was absolutely crucial for us with our little one.

And you can feed all your unused stuff into it as well.
I believe that it should be obvious that the headphone jack was removed purely as a self-serving business decision because Apple wanted to sell more overpriced accessories, and not because customers didn't want it.

I'd also like to make the comment that almost all high-quality headphones are made for analog jacks.

So as a person who values high-quality audio, I am not interested in wireless headphones of any kind, cheap shitty USBC headphones, or needing to use an ugly inconvenient dongle to use my good headphones.

Lucky for me I'm not an Apple customer anyway for a myriad of reasons, but I'd argue there are no good alternatives for what would be my use case.
Alright, can you share your website so I can see if it is good?