skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go on then - so far the examples I've seen don't make sense in the context of stripe.
> The only crime stat you can trust is murder and that's because bodies can't be hidden (easily).

Seems to be a significant decline since the 90’s, followed by an increase since 2016, and a Covid dip followed by a resumption of the increase. It’s still a lot lower than it was in the 90’s.
LED bulbs must drive them crazy. Many emit ultrasounds that I can hear when I'm next to such bulbs, like that of a vibrating capacitor (low quality AC filtering, low quality capacitor, or both).
There aren’t enough doctors or specialists. So what to do? The answer for most shouldn’t be “alternative medicine” where any whacko “treatment” is an appropriate stand in.
>Mine was them monetizing misery and security by withholding updates except for paid subscriptions.

To be fair here, the subscription is free[1] for most home users and even some small businesses:

>Free, personal subscription for 5 machines for you or any business you own, or 50 machines for active Ubuntu Community members.

[1]: https://ubuntu.com/pro/subscribe
I'm really surprised Hammerspoon isn't more well known. I search for something like it for months before I stumbled across it a while back. It felt much harder to find than it should have been.
Pixelmator Pro is a fantastic Photoshop replacement I’ve been using for years.
> Room is not the resource that retired people take up in homes on Earth

Proximity to friends and distance from crime has real value. It’s absolutely classist. But every social system we invent contorts to provide it to its elite.
Peripherals are not the ISA or CPU architecture: they are usually made by numerous parties.
What's New in Swift 6.0?
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40591112
Honestly I don't think it's very clear. The practicalities of cloning processes make it so that we are very far from exploring what's in principle possible. All of the cloned mammals so far have died pretty young even when the original organism lived a long and healthy life, so in that sense they are technically way more different than even siblings. Of course, this is almost certainly just a limitation of our currently imperfect cloning technology, so it's hard to judge what a perfected cloning tech would do.

Of course, certain aspects of appearance are known to be almost exclusively genetically determined, such as eye, hair, and skin color. Some fine details are known from identical twin studies to not be fully determined, such as fingerprints (twins have slightly different fingerprints). For the majority of other fine details, it's actually pretty unclear.
ubuntu is the gateway to arch, with pairs best with xorg, emacs, and firefox.

don’t forget to use a snitch. any app could start surveillance at any time for any reason.

i don’t ever let firefox talk to .mozilla..

https://github.com/nathants/mighty-snitch
Nope, only elf, no macho support.
Ask HN: SF co-working space for non-YC founder?
Staying in Airbnb near Dolores Park and need to find quiet co-working place to code and occasionally run into tech founders and engineers. Please help! Thanks!
Not sure what happened but it borked my install that was running fine.
Booted up to blank screen, no keyboard response. Working thru ubuntu's
recovery mode.
"it's not clear how the GLP-1 drugs lead to weight loss"

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-2-diabet...

They don't "cause" weight loss at all -- it's mostly an side effect. (sorry to be so pedantic).
Same! And I’ve been using Linux since 1992! But I value variety.
And many modern sound card IC sample at an effective rate of 192kHz and use internal DSP to downsample that to the requested sample rate.
Much easier to design a good low pass filter on the cheap when your Nyquist frequency is on 96kHz instead of 22kHz.

So the frontend of the sound card might actually be remarkably wide.
Having worked with some legacy subscription code it can be quite nasty.

We had race conditions where we would charge users twice

This has made me paranoid that any time I see timeout or error related to money I assume it went through and come back later.
Then "learning approaches" camp (which BTW is also an academic camps and somehow able to do science) cannot prove that knowledge embedded in practices is actually being learned at all by their machines, if one rejects legibility. It's not even non-legible: it's self contradictory, i.e., unintelligible (which means a different thing than merely legible).
No. No it didn't. That is like saying stack overflow's mistake cost you. Or the weird of some random stranger cost you.
Sorry, no android app. Currently everything is through web interface.
Chrome and chromium-based runtimes like Electron on Linux have been outperforming their Windows equivalents for almost a decade, in my experience. By a huge margin. I always assumed we had ChromeOS to thank for that.

I also massively disagree about Win/Mac making better workstations (though I haven't had to use Ubuntu for a very, very long time).
I did something like this UBlue instead. But now I have a Fedora Silverblue "spin" that's always up to date and setup exactly as I want.
I think I want to clamp down on the hyperbole a bit here, and I think its obvious the author is targeting the software engineer folks who might not be familiar with developmental biology or evolution.

The planaria has evolved a mechanism by which its body plan can be recapitulated from the distribution of electric potential.

When it gets cut in half, the electric potential changes, but this is still enough information for the vivisected halves to redifferentiate. The trade off is, of course, there is only so much information in an electric potential with regard to the patterning of a complex organism, so its hard to imagine a cheetah or a pig pulling off this same kind of trick.

The idea of some subdivision of an animal having its own prerogatives is not some sort of new idea. It goes all the way back to Richard Dawkin's 1970s book "The Selfish Gene" which lays out exactly where the "incentives" are for cells, genes/cistrons, cancer, transposons, etc...

Just because there's some example now of something vaguely reminiscent of semiconductors (which is cool for sure!) does not mean we're gonna start rethinking everything in biology.
Since Ubuntu is a very opinionated distro to begin with, I find this marketing a hard miss.
Sorry, I have hidden this post now
I first used Ubuntu about 10 years ago. Then I went on other distros and landed on arch.

Then I was sick of it breaking and having to customise everything and went back to Ubuntu. I don't bother anymore with the rest and it's great!
So lack of respect for nazis with abhorrent personalities is what's dragging down the arts?
HN is pretty addictive for me - no ads on here!
I guess I'm biased because I worked with so many other comparatively "weird nerds" that were given some space to be themselves in nuclear energy from hoarding old WSJs to dripping burger sauces into their keyboards, and in an academic research department we had a PI who ran between his office and the elevator like I did until I was about 15-16 and someone clued me in.

One thing is to always be looking for one's own blindspots and examining how your or other people's behavior might be misinterpreted, and defusing any potential awkwardness with honesty and humor. For example, forgetfulness or anxiety rather than intentional snubbing. And err on the side of humor mixed with some self-deprecation and self-awareness because it demonstrates you're cool, reciprocate, are domesticated, and strive to not embarrass others intentionally.

A while back, the department dean was a mildly-weird nerd but developed politician-/salesman-like cheerfulness and political skills taking some of the burden off PIs and supporting them in whatever ways were needed to bring in the big grants, licensing deals, and industry collaboration. Having 2 expert, dedicated, highly-productive grant writers were also invaluable. The grad students were absolutely going places and startups were on the minds of about 80% of folks. It was a good spot to branch out from or build a research CV but there weren't profits to be had directly there.
Well, reading blogs without any incentive to earn money is quite addictive too. Same for HN
Are there 100s of millions already disabled by it? You hear of it, but I feel like if the disabling was in hundreds of millions it would get more attention than it does.
Why migrate to a new language? I didn't see it mentioned in the post. Seems like they already had a working solution.
Let’s call them by names, Google, Meta, Netflix, Tik Tok.

Clickbait articles on other sites are mostly because of Google driving it anyways.
This. Actions speak louder than words and right now the actions are a free license to do whatever they want with your work.
if we go one layer deeper, perhaps we can attribute that to the fact that people just aren't willing to pay for stuff, which leads companies to have to figure out how to monetize their services. that road inevitably leads to ads as the simplest, easiest and most obvious solution.
As a libertarian, if there's one thing I don't like about Libertarianism[0], it is specifically the economists. The problem with libertarians of all stripes is that we're blind to informal power structures[1]. In right-wing libertarian economics this manifests as:

- A supreme allergy to competition law.

- Externality denialism as a nervous tic.

As an example of the latter:

>When climate change replaced population growth as the looming catastrophe that all of the authorities insisted something should be done about, I took the same approach to that issue and reached the same conclusion.

I'll give this guy the benefit of the doubt solely because overpopulation was, as far as I can tell, veiled Nazi shit. On the other hand, the argument against climate change here boils down to "well humans will adapt", which... I mean... technically yes?

The biggest adaptation is going to be people moving out of their home countries, which isn't an option for the vast majority of humanity. Immigration is not recognized by most countries as a right. If we bake the Middle East or Africa and it becomes unlivably hot, the answer countries are going to choose isn't going to be "admit hundreds of millions of climate refugees". I'm absolutely one of those "migration is a human right" people, and if David Friedman is anything close to consistent, he'll be too. But most governments are run by people who vehemently disagree with that and you're not going to sell people on open borders as an alternative to climate change mitigation.

Also, some of the actual arguments this guy uses are just... oh my god:

- Sea level rise isn't a problem because most land will not be flooded. Land ISN'T FUNGIBLE, improvements on land CAN'T BE MOVED, and the people getting flooded can't sell their homes to Aquaman. As an economist, it's your literal job to know this.

- Warming is Good Actually because more people die of extreme cold than extreme warm. How are you THIS sure global warming will only result in local warming?! Global warming is an average, and so far, we've seen local increases in both warming and cooling (e.g. the polar vortex weakening).

Yes, humans can adapt, but that adaptation isn't anywhere close to free, and that cost is not going to be borne by the people emitting.

[0] Capital L, or right-libertarianism specifically. And of course excluding all the authoritarians cosplaying as libertarians because being the Supreme Leader feels a lot like freedom if you squint.

[1] See also: The Structurelessness of Tyranny, which was targeted at left-libertarians
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610133
Koholet: The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong...

Galois: ...so publish avant que you would perish

Runyon: ...but that's the way to bet

Bradbury: ...so never say die* if you're old and sly

Bonaparte: ...alors a whiff of grape may be called for in order to reinforce existing power differentials

Machiavelli: ...and that's how states are (qualitatively) established

Dirac: ...and new states arise in (quantitative) proportion to their dot product with the Hamiltonian

* he paid his dues of tears, sweat, and blood: https://stevenbradbury.com.au/ohs-risk-management-and-teamwo... ; luckily Bradbury had better access to trauma care than Galois.
Yes, you're correct. The tokens are highlighted based on the neuron activation value, which is scaled to a range of 0 to 10.
It's not really about the editor. The editor (the LSP client) just provides support for telling the server what the user wants a definition for, and how to display that back to the user.

As a simple example, I'm learning japanese so I built a 50-line LSP server that just looks up definitions of a word under cursor in a dictionary. This is an almost-trivial server. Its only capability is to offer definitions when hovering a position in a text document. It works perfectly well in neovim with lspconfig with 2 lines of configuration. I'm sure it would be similarly trivial to integrate in VSCode, Emacs, etc.

Other non-coding uses of LSP that I'm aware of are spell-checking and grammar suggestions (LSP clients can display diagnostics), semantic syntax highlighting (e.g. for highlighting a markdown document), and projects like the one discussed here which just integrate more general-purpose AI.
Yes; with more and more people having degrees just to get into lame jobs that previously required no degree, academia necessarily changes away from being Weird Nerd ranch. Key positions of power in the academic organization will end up staffed by fewer Weird Nerds, making the structure less sympathetic toward Weird Nerds.
They have the right to have their opinion and build it into their products. But how about having other opinions and products too? Imagine in hospital, or care houses, patients will be more comfortable with human-like AI. Or AIG when it happens.

As for trust, is it a bad thing? Anyway, humans' mind is speculative, biased, and prone to brainwashing. Looks like common thing with machines. So, trust, if it's bad, can be corrected by a few movies picturing evil AI. Pretty much like fear of clowns was created. Actually Terminator already created a wave of AI doomers.
They are absolutely gambling; there are various ways that position can blow up. (Consider counterparty risk.)
the head on collision has zero net momentum while the car hitting a wall has significant net momentum which must carry into a shockwave through the wall, which also absorbs some of the energy of the crash. This makes the wall collision significantly gentler at the same speed.
Searching for "bacteria use perchlorate as terminal electron acceptor" it seems that the perchlorate thing is a simple matter of bioremediation, just give some bacterial an electron source (reduced carbon substrate).
Sure would be great if they’d find one for muscle mass that wasn’t dangerous or otherwise harmful.

And of course, one for mental health.

The three put together would make a very interesting society.

Add nootropics to the mix and it gets even more interesting.
A web site with only one working page. Links to hone it to anywhere else funny work. Great. Surely a chatGPT mistake! :-D

Edit: nothing works at all.

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It looks like this page doesn't exist.
Let's get you back home.
Loved how you went above and beyond in your reply.. I know it's not 100% on-form for HN but it was a great rebuttal to what I also felt was an uncalled-for criticism of the name.
It used to surprise me how crudely made the various British civil defence structures I could see were. But, then I rationalised they were very much Potemkin village stuff. Nobody who went into them was expected to come out of them, so adding more than barely functional bathrooms, or an ambience of sustainable long term existence begged questions: Do we actually expect to use this?

Most WW2 structures were similarly crude. The bare minimum of effort to make something which sustained life, in the event of anything bar a direct hit. In the context of nuclear weapons "direct" was just a larger circular-error-probable. Many of the civil-defence facilities were simple upgrades to Ministry of Defence assets held over since 39-45. Sometimes I suspect they were mostly unchanged. They had a network of concrete outposts for aircraft detection to hand, and just .. added on to them (or not: if you were a civil defence volunteer you were mostly expendable)

They did have a certain robust charm. Doors like some kind of Septic Tank lid. Hand crank air supply, with a wooden handle. Giant clips around the doors the same as on battleships. Bakelite handsets, valves, green metal, thick earth lines, robust antenna. You could imagine a Noel Coward Hero clenching a pipe in his (always his) teeth, as he watched the skyline with binoculars, wearing a camel hair duffelcoat: "it's quiet, too damn quiet"

Filey looked awesome as you drove past on the motorway. And there is nothing in the world quite like watching a Vulcan Bomber practice take-off and landing, as you drive by in Vauxhall Victor two-tone Saloon. The future is now!

I hated the practice runs of the sirens as a child. It was nightmare stuff. During the 73 fuel crisis, all households were issued ration books for petrol: They were suez era paper. hoarded by the government "just in case" -I learned subsequently in the 80s there were huge national stockpiles of dried milk, chocolate, all of it being circulated through the sales channels close to end-of-life, but held "just in case"

When they issued "protect and survive" I felt a very strong "oh god.." emotion. When Reagan mis-spoke at the microphone doing a sound check, even worse. I think we all had nightmares around that time, Loud noises and bright lights at night did not help anyone.

(a friend worked checking the ones in Yorkshire. Official Secrets signing stuff, pencil and paper provided, along with official gumboots)
Looking at this team's project at github.com/reworkd, it clearly tells the maturity of the product as well as the team. Emoji driven development. Emoji's for all commit messages. Monkeys, bananas, rockets, fireworks, you name it, they have it in their commit message.
You keep saying it's my confusion. My friend, there is no lazy speaker. It is merely the accepted and understood use of the term in casual conversation.

I understand your semantic argument, there is no confusion, I simply believe language is not prescriptivist. If people use the words in a certain way, then that is an acceptable way to use the words. No argument from a position of "well actually, the dictionary/professional jargon says..." will sway me because I just don't care.
Read their privacy policy. It makes sense not to have ads when you are incentivizing user's data
actually those are the words. the actions are they haven't done that.

that said, they are completely untrustworthy.
This sort of issue seems common in a few places. E.g. Vue's component props can have defaults, and woe betide you if you use a literal object or array as a default, instead of a function that returns an object or array.

I'm surprised there was no lint rule for this case.
It's not some innocent mistake. The title is purposefully clickbait / keyword-y, implying that it was chatgpt that made the 'mistake' for SEO and to generate panicked clicks.

"We made a programming error in our use of an LLM, didn't do any QA, and it cost us $10k" doesn't generate the C-suite "oh shit what if ChatGPT fucks up, what's our exposure!?" reaction. There's a million middle and upper management posting this article on LinkedIn, guaranteed.

It's like the Mr. Beast open-mouth-surprised expression thumbnail nonsense; you feel incredibly compelled to click it.

While we're on the subject: LLMs can't make "mistakes." They are not deterministic.

They cannot reason, think, or do logic.

They are very fancy word salad generators that use a lot of statistical probabilities. By definition they're not capable of "mistakes" because nothing they generate is remotely guaranteed to be correct or accurate.

Edit: The mods boosted the post; it got downvoted into oblivion, for obvious reasons, and then skyrocketed instantly in rank, which means they boosted it: https://hnrankings.info/40627558/

Hilarious that a post which is insanely clickbait (which the rules say should result in a title rewrite) got boosted by the mods.

I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that the story was apparently authored by someone at a Ycombinator company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40629998
Sounds right but since we can't get rid of internet there's only one option left right?

Edit: I love how the sentence above turned out without punctuation, especially the "left right" ending lol.
Yeah, I don't play games on it. The mapping of hardware and network ports (in and out) is awkward and could have a better UX.
I've done something similar recently. Purged quite a lot of apps on my phone when I decided to be more minimalistic about it. I wanted to improve device performance (and thus reduce the desire for an upgrade) as well as decentralise some of my reliance on apps.

The stair stepping in this is from already having removed social media (and Youtube) from my phone. For me, if I got sucked into a feed, I'd be in it for hours and feel awful. There's no such thing as moderate usage for some.

It almost became a fun game to see how many apps I could get rid of! The biggest holdouts I haven't been able to get rid of have been around banking and insurance. Too many new age fintechs, even in South Africa, are convinced that actively ditching web is the best way to grow.
MUST HAVES
StopTheMadness- lets you get more control over webpages and block annoyances
LosslessCut- lossless video cutting
Amphetamine- prevent displays from going asleep depending on what you’re doing
Maccy- clipboard manager
AppCleaner- uninstall all an app and all it’s library files
DropOver- amazing and so handy
Hand Mirror- helpful tool to just check how you look on cam before a video call
IINA- best video player
Name Changer- bulk renaming utility
Wins- window organization
Acorn- great lightweight photoshop alternative
OpenEmu- great viddy game emulator
Subler- video metadata editor
Downie 4- youtube downloader safari extension
Black out- preview extension to easily black out sections of an image
MP3tag- great music metadata editor
Affinity Designer- great alt to illustrator
Fission- lossless audio editing
Infuse- great local or server video library
Keyboard Maestro- Automate everything?
Loopback Audio- makes your desktop audio a source
Magic Lasso- fav adblocker
NetNewsWire- RSS reader
Silicon- check to see if your apps were built for M1
They have on label use as weight loss medicine. It might be discovered first as a side effect, but it's genuinely considered a primary desirable effect these days.
I want to reclaim the word engineer from Americans. Turns out everyone is an engineer, even the chatbots.
At 1:27, "So then, you can ask, why didn't [Apple and AWS] choose Coq, Lean or Agda [instead of Isabelle/HOL]?"

My understanding (having only used dependent-types -family interactive theorem provers) is that if your property can be expressed in HOL, proving it will require far less human effort to prove than Coq or similar.
Wow, we definitely had a similar path, though my internet addiction started in college where I would download freeware programs and games via ftp or browse through gopher. Used to write long email messages often.

News was a big problem for me, especially in the 00s when the housing bubble was roaring and I wanted to buy a house and trying to figure out if we really should spend 10x what our parents had ever earned for a condo…

Today, forget Insta and Snap, I follow HN and a parenting blog way way too much, and ads are not really part of the equation.

I wonder what drives this compulsion? Anxiety? Lonelines? Actual addiction (alcoholism is common in my family). I know my dad felt compelled to watch the evening news EVERY night and some people ready NYT cover to cover, is that similar?