skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used the term "New Normal" from day 1. Conspiracy theory is just a derogatory term to belittle opposition.

They gaslit us on so many topics throughout the years.
They have went back on their statements on Ivermectin

They have went back on their statements on efficacy of the jabs - starting from 99% effective down to 10% - indicating
they never had any tangible data to support their claims

They said that the jabs were about stopping transmission, then gaslit saying they never said that despite hundreds of hours of recording saying otherwise

Fauci admitted the 6 ft distancing had no science / data behind it.

Should I bring forth the damage caused by thrusting stage 2 ventilators on people?

What about the damage from vaccines with myocarditis and GBS?

You can call me a conspiracy theorist all you want, but the official narratives are more riddled with inconsistencies than the "conspiracies" were

Now back to your original question of can we dispense with the data that is knowingly bad - yes.

Comorbidities were enough to do that, along with false attribution. Ofcourse these topics were heavily censored, creating even more discourse.
Just a heads up, jobs based in NY are legally required to have a salary range in their job listing.
The whole "top of the power curve, all other languages are Blub" never was true.

Consider Lisp and Haskell. When a Lisp user looks at Haskell, they know they're looking down. No macros? How can you get anything done in Haskell? But when a Haskell user looks at Lisp, they also know they're looking down. No decent type system? How can you get anything done in Lisp?

You have two languages, both looking down at each other, and both knowing why they're looking down. Something is wrong.

I claim that what's wrong is the idea that languages can be ranked on a single-dimensional axis labeled "power". To those who think it can, I ask, power for what? For writing programs? Which programs? And don't say "general programs". I've never written a general program in my life. I've written a bunch of specific ones, though.

What I actually care about is power for writing the specific program I'm trying to write. (Why would I care about power for writing the programs that I'm not trying to write?)

So the really useful question is, what makes it hard to write the program that I'm trying to write? (I don't mean what problem the program is trying to solve.
I mean, what things make it hard to write a program that solves that problem.) This may be a variety of things - team skills, algorithms, memory management, thread management, and so on. You can think of those things as a vector in a multidimensional space. Then, think of languages as a tree in that multidimensional space. Pick the language that is the branch that reaches the furthest in the direction of the vector that is the things that make it hard to write the program. (Oh, and libraries. The availability of libraries can make a huge difference.)

Or, to state it without the metaphor: Pick the language that makes it easiest to write the program you're trying to write.

For example, say you're Google, and you're writing programs that have to have large numbers of threads, and have lots of dynamic memory, and will be long-lived and worked on by a large number of people who have to be brought up to speed on the existing code. Go is a language that addresses that set of problems. Neither Lisp nor Haskell would work as well. They may be "more powerful" in some sense, but they're not more powerful for that program.
Perhaps rather the abundance of disincentives to redo things completely from scratch.

Parts of mathematical biology are still AI resistant, but otherwise, funders are not going to be happy about proposals to discard all those models/theory in order to possibly discover no better models/theory.

EDIT: that's Feynman's modus operandi, everything from first principles, avoid looking at previous work if possible.
Great, this means I'm going to need to learn GIS tools...

Thanks Google, I guess it was over due.
Never thought that I will see the return of third-party repackagings ala "Joe Shmo's Super Hyper Windows" in any somewhat popular capacity.

I expected it even less in a recomendation for an actual problem.

Time is a flat circle.
> It's not like your entire maps history will be stored on the device exclusively.

Isn’t that what “more private and works on each device independently” implies?

Obviously we need more detail on the implementation here but AFAIK Timeline is the only time I’ve seen a full accounting of my location in the cloud. There will, I’m sure, be a lot of ways it can still be inferred: purchases, which IP address I’m on etc etc but if Google is stepping away from constantly streaming your phone GPS location to the cloud that’s surely a good thing.
Technically, yes, but that won't stop random cop stopping you and haggling you, when he sees one. The Austrian ones can be pretty arrogant and you don't want to ruin your day for that.
diff (40% worse code, pre-40% worse code)
Kilometer-tall skyscrapers to double as batteries
Model 3/Y/X are only 12V. Cybertruck is only 48V. Audi has cars with both 48V and 12V. You're not going to get the cost savings benefits of switching to 48V by having both 48V & 12V.
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France, too. I attended a clowning course over there last year and they reminded us constantly that we couldn’t photograph or film other students without their express permission - even out of class. It’s illegal under French law and they also consider it a gross violation of the person’s right to privacy.
I haven’t used it in a while but:

https://linux-hardware.org/?view=search
There is an older story out there about WiFi failing during a storm, even though all the cables and antennas are fine. I'll see if I can find it.

Edit: it was the other way around.

https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/
It wasn't switching to the cloud that saved your dev team. It was getting rid of policy/thinking that allowed the "ownership" of a critical service to be so opaque/siloed that it took half a day to reboot a computer.
Are there exceptions for police, fire fighters, elected officials, or other governmental employees? Are you allowed to do so for these people if they are acting in their official capacity?
It's too bad we don't build this kind of thing any more. Imagine what kind of pyramid we could build with modern technology!
Create 3D Gaussian Splat Apps with the PlayCanvas Editor
Not if the additional cost is more than the additional revenue.

Let's assume that without binning you get 20% over cost of manufacturing. If it costs 5% more to bin-check all resistors, and you wind up selling 1% of them for an additional 100% mark-up:

No bin Bin
Cost to mfg: $ 1.00 $ 1.00
Cost to bin: .05
------ ------
Total cost $ 1.00 $ 1.05

Base price $ 1.20 $ 1.188 (99% sold at base)
Premium price 0.00 $ 0.022 (1% sold at un-binned cost x 2.2)
------ ------
Total revenue $ 1.20 $ 1.21
====== ======
Profit $ 0.20 $ 0.16
I'm a very long time Python developer, but also did a project in Clojure, a type of lisp, over the last year.

There is no comparison between the Clojure REPL and the Python REPL. Python's is just literally a shell that you connect to and can run commands in. The Clojure REPL is far closer to a Python Jupyter notebook (if you know about it) built into your editor - it's a long-running process to which you can send commands all the time. But because of the way lisp is structured, and because of the tooling, you can just write Python code in the file you would normally use, stand on one line, and hit a command to get it sent to the REPL and the output of it written in the editor.

It's... hard to explain how powerful this is, and how much better things could be if we had similar tooling in Python.

Note: I still much prefer Python for many reasons, but this one aspect is something that I also used to think (yeah, Python also has a REPL) and I realize now that I had no idea what power this really has in lisp-world.
The docker container... For a simple CLI tool... What?!
If you shipped most software from 2024 back to 2000 it would be (correctly) labelled spyware. It also wouldn't run at all because system requirements even for simple applications have bloated beyond belief.

AI is just the latest iteration of these trends - now the vendor gets to record everything you put into their software and a text editor requires exotic new hardware so that the AI "copilot" can run and help you type every character.
I'm a fan of audit logs, but what you're describing is more event sourcing than audit logs. From what I understand what you're suggesting is that you don't change the key in the original table, you just record the change in a second table. Presumably, then, when you need to read a row you must also look up the list of diffs for that row to make sure that the natural key hasn't changed.

Two things strike me about this proposed model:

First, under your proposal the version of the model that you work with at the application layer must have two copies of the key field—one is the database key for when you need to make changes or look up more data and one is the meaningful business-model field that's actually up to date. That's exactly the same extra mental overhead that natural keys are supposed to have solved, only worse because the fields will have similar names and will contain the same content most of the time, making it easy to accidentally use one where the other was expected.

Second, if you're going to introduce effectively an event-sourced data model then you've introduced a ton of new database records already, so why not just give everything a proper unique key while you're at it? Once you've done that you can modify the original row after all (while retaining the audit logs!) or, if you're serious about event sourcing, cache the latest derived value and look it up by its database key instead of carrying around an out of date natural key that's just waiting to be used incorrectly.
I started using Foursquare’s Swarm app for recording locations on holiday etc. it works well enough even if it has a load of social nonsense I don’t need or use.
we have every reason to think there's something special about consciousness since it's the one "thing" in "existence" that we all seem to agree exists, yet is 100% unobservable
That's how people get better at video games too.
You CAN sue, but you won't, because no lawyer will take the case and the potential gains in most cases don't pay for the filing fees let alone discourage the behavior. So with a few exceptions, videos like this go largely unchecked because the current system we have is too inefficient at these low financial levels.
Do-It-Together: Feminist Reconfigurations of Hacking in Montreal
McDonald's Loses 'Big Mac' Trademark in European Union
Ugh, this is annoying. Especially since the feature probably can't easily be replicated by a third party app.

I wouldn't be surprised if the APIs used to get a rough estimate of the position in the background without invoking battery draining GPS are private.
With K8s on bunch of Pis I have dozens of layers, machines, network connections to monitor.

With single server, complexity is much much lower. I installed my server years ago, once a month I check logs and do updates (10 minutes of work). Some time next year I will upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 and replace SSD (just in case), about 1 hour of work.

K8s is really horrible when it comes to time efficiency!
> For example, a person who accidentally entered an active shoot of a Hollywood movie encountered the actors and had a short conversation with them. The footage turned out to work well with the scene, and the director wanted to keep it. In order to do so, not only did they have to pay this person and give them credit for a speaking role, they had to be given membership in the Screen Actors' Guild.

Did this actually happen or are you speaking hypothetically?
This sounds interesting. Can you please elaborate on how you are using Proxmox ?
I agree there's something wonky with the page. My argument is different: A web page should not be able to take down the computer, no matter what. Web pages are untrusted; this is a DoS threat.

Really, it also shouldn't be able to choke the browser.
If anything it gave them a false sense of confidence:

> our whole environment is in a single, self-contained file

Except the parts of the environment which aren't in that file, like the current date.
11th Circuit Judge Uses ChatGPT in Deciding Appeal,Encourages Others to Consider
I can speak to the situation today.

When Feynman was involved in physics the field was rapidly expanding and it would be a field that would attract truly ambitious people who want to have an impact.

When I got my PhD in 1998 the APS was projecting that 3% of us would get permanent jobs in the field. Some would say "the cream floats to the top" but in a world where I could get 30x the attention creating a web page than writing a paper, in a world where you could go into a much less competitive field (with more definite and rapid progress!) like Computer Science at the time, or where you could go into industry and become one of the founders of what was to be known as "big tech" or make your billions in finance I suspect the real cream didn't even start grad school.

The people who do get professorships can play a mean game of musical chairs, I'll grant them that, but the nature of the field is that someone who makes a major breakthrough in fundamental physics theory will probably wait 1/2 or 2/3 or all of a career to see it vindicated. For instance a major theory of how quasar jets formed from 1980 or so has recently seen some partial confirmation. The Higgs Boson was predicted in 1964 and observed in 2013 with a nearly $5 billion machine. Note this quote from Peter Higgs:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...

Neutrino oscillations were predicted by Bruno Pontecorvo in 1957 after he defected to the Soviet Union. He passed in 1993, oscillations were definitely observed in 2001 though we know retrospectively that oscillations explain an important experimental result from much earlier.

Another viewpoint is that Feynman and his generation solved all the easy problems and much harder ones are left.

Perhaps it is very different in some other fields. I look at biomedical papers today that blow me away in terms of how much progress has been made on understanding life in terms of chemistry, physics and such. Omics really had lived up to it's potential after a slow start. On the other hand, word is that it's even harder for young people to get established in those fields than it is physics.
How to Successfully Launch Journey Chains on Hacker News?
Hi HN Community,

I'm seeking advice on the best way to launch a project on Hacker News. I'm working on a new platform called Journey Chains, which aims to create lasting, meaningful connections through a combination of physical keepsakes and digital storytelling.

The Concept:

-Engraved Bracelets: Each bracelet carries a personal quote and a unique code.

-Shared Journeys: These bracelets are passed along to others, creating a tangible chain of shared experiences.

-Digital Tracking: Our platform tracks each bracelet's journey, allowing users to share and read stories connected to each bracelet.

Goals for the Launch:

-Generate interest and discussion around the concept.

-Gather feedback and insights from the community.

-Attract potential early adopters and backers.

Specific Questions:

1. What are the key elements of a successful Hacker News launch post?

2. How can I make my post engaging without coming across as too promotional?

3. What type of content (e.g., images, videos, detailed explanations) resonates most with the HN community?

4. Any tips on timing or other strategic considerations for posting?

I'd greatly appreciate any advice or experiences you can share. Thank you!

Best,
Brittany
would only happen after azure supports risc-v VMs.
Apache Doris but Not Elasticsearch and InfluxDB, Why
I want to know which idiot at MS headed this effort. That person and anybody that green lit this operation needs to be 86’d.

I haven’t held Windows in high regard in a long time but they somehow managed to lower the bar even further
Anat Ashkenazi to Join Google and Alphabet as Chief Financial Officer
Like with every other film/photo professional they need signed releases from all people on their images, to be used later.
Or they will be taken to court by someone sooner or later. Nothing to worry about too much.

Same as using Beatles songs in videos. Which will cost you about $20.000 - $80.000

Biggest problem is that "influencers" have no formal education in publishing and copyright law. This is what we learned in film class in the very first week. But staying a free, not-regulated occupation is more important imho.
I'm not sure what this comment is relevant to. Timelines is not "new"
Yes, you are allowed to film the police. This is a fundamental human right, which Germany has a long history (so far) of respecting. You may not use the pictures you take for commercial purposes, or for the purposes of ridicule or to interfere with their official duties.
"My account didn't get shut down." - But why not yours?
True, the Isfahan mosque ceiling is mesmerizing: https://www.google.com/search?q=isfahan+mosque+ceiling&sca_e...
Ask HN: How hard is it to build a B2C chat?
We are running a B2B SaaS company[0] which turns an e-commerce store into a multi-vendor marketplace.

We want to provide a chat solution so vendors and customers can communicate. The chat needs to support text and images.

Should we build or buy? From a technical point of it doesn't seem hard to implement, and the existing SaaS solutions are expensive for a multi-tenant, white-label solution.

Am I missing something?

[0] https://garnet.center
Would you mind expanding on that, or can you point me at some relevant documentation?

I've never seen a systemd service example for Minecraft which allowed for sending commands to the server CLI and seeing the result without involving screen/tmux/etc. The top result on Google just doesn't allow command input at all, running the service "headless", the one on the official MC wiki uses screen, and the only other options I've seen use RCON which is neither secure nor does it show the responses you'd get on the MC console.

If there's a way to run just the straight Minecraft JAR as a background service and still be able to interact with it in the occasional cases where I need to I'm very interested.
> how could that possibly happen?

Global singleton shared across requests, instead of request scoped.

1. [Client 1/You] Auth/write to variable (failed).

2. [Client 2/ISP] Auth/write to variable (success).

3. Verify what the result was (success)

A race condition combined with a global singleton can easily explain such behavior.
They're still still an immigrant. The numbers are for residents (at some point in time) and citizenship isn't reflected by it.
Uh? OP just released a docker image and wants to release a homebrew thingy. Even assuming that was you say is somehow sensible, it's not the reason, no. You're just grasping at straws.
I'm not sure what your argument is… yeah, sure, it happens, in a lot of cases as the person in the photo you might not even know. And even if you do find out, a lot of people don't care — as long as they're not ridiculed.

The petapixel post talks about exploiting people for views on social media, and you will get sued for that in D/A/CH.

It's a bit like speeding. A lot of people, if not a majority, drives at 5% to 10% above the speed limit. Sometimes they get a (low-end) ticket. If you speed significantly, you likely still get away with it, but only for some limited time, and then (in most countries) you start racking up serious issues. None of this means that we should remove speed limits, stop enforcing them, or that they're somehow not helpful.

It just means we're humans making rules for ourselves so we can live with each other, and things are usually not black and white.
Show HN: The Bionic Reader – Speed Up Your Reading with Bolded Words
Hey HN!

I created The Bionic Reader, a handy Chrome extension that enhances your reading speed by bolding the first part of words. It's easy to use on any website and perfect for anyone looking to read more in less time.

I'd love to hear your suggestions on how to improve the extension and make reading faster and more enjoyable. Thanks a lot!
The Problems with Celery for Python
I learned Go many years ago doing some advent of code problems. As I solved each problem, my housemate pestered me for a look and then rewrote my solutions (each needing 10-50 lines of go) into Ruby one-liners. All the while making fun of Go and my silly programs. I wasn’t intending to, but I ended up learning a lot Ruby that night too.

Thankyou for continuing the tradition.
Entropy of a particular string isn't a rigorous mathematical idea, since by definition the string which is known can only take one value, the "entropy" is therefore zero bits. The reason why we can distinguish non-random data from random is that only a small subset of all possible states are considered useful for humans, and since we have an idea what that subset looks like, we can try to estimate what process was used to generate a particular string.

There are of course statistical tests like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests, which are good enough for distinguishing low entropy and high entropy data, but current pseudo-random number generators have no problem passing all of those, even though their actual "entropy" is just the seed plus approximate the complexity of the algorithm.
If you want random IDs to be human-readable (and human-communicatable), I'd just recommend base 32 or even base16. You don't actually save that many bytes from base58 or base64 when it comes to short IDs.

Case in point, the parent poster's base64 ID is 14 characters long. When encoded as base32 that's still only 17 characters (or 19 in base16), and now you have completely gotten rid of all notion of casing, which is annoying to communicate verbally.
Very interesting, this seems like a potential source of great power.
Mac OS has a serious problem with requiring loads of third party extensions to get a usable desktop experience. Most of the time it's merely annoying, but this situation also demonstrates that you're placing a lot of trust in the authors of these programs.
Oh, Gnome 3.38. I'm not sure that version even supported dark mode, only dark themes. I won't comment on aging of Debian ;).

Btw, what version of Firefox are you using? Debian comes with ESR, so chances are, that firefox' "ui.systemUsesDarkTheme = 1" still works (it doesn't in newer releases).
As a dad that does a lot of outdoor adventures with my young son... apparently there is something cute or interesting looking about us, and strangers literally crowd around us snapping photos almost everytime we go out. Maybe half ask first, but when I say no they often try to argue "it's just a picture!" I am a very private person and don't put photos of myself or my family online at all, in any capacity, but there are tons of photos of us posted online by strangers against our will- I confirmed this via an AI facial recognition search engine.

My son is also often the only non-white kid in schools, summer camps, etc. so they want to use his photo on all of the advertising, billboards, newsletters, etc. usually without permission, and they act indignant when I stop them from doing so. Apparently it's all the rage to brag that your overpriced summercamp once had a non-white person enroll, and prominently use photos of them on everything forever.

Leave us alone!