skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The subtexts that you are pinning on me are your own invention, I just say about unfaithful representation of history in the press.

What is the purpose of having to mention that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were in Russian Empire in the context of their invasion and occupation in the 1940s if not an attempt to give legitimacy to the invasions?

It's far more important to stress that the people on the Baltic coast are not Russians, have nothing in common with them, nor have never wanted to be close with them. The same applies to the many other indigenous Finno-Ugric peoples[1] on the other side of the border inside the present-day Russia who have been driven away from their land like Native Americans and decimated with hostile policies that have resulted in their rapid decline.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FeoDW20WQAESJuZ?format=jpg&name=...
Just make the law also apply to gun websites and watch it disappear.
Blows my mind that Microsoft did not allocate resources to basic UX issues with Windows.
I think opus has long fixed this problem (I get entire chunks every time)
Solar PV inverters can also provide similar services to the grid.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235248472...

Title: "Using PV inverters for voltage support at night can lower grid costs"
They do oppose age verification because despite knowing there was a problem of underage people viewing their content they did nothing to stop this. Now a government solution has been imposed they are acting as if they are now some how a responsible business.

I don’t know the answers or the right way to implement things but age verification is not an unreasonable requirement.
Maybe this can help you keep track of stuff:

https://www.tools-ai.online/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O5KVQW1Hx5ZAkcg8AIRj...

And here's some that I personally recommend and are "free" to use:

TXT2VID / IMG2VID:
https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine

TXT2MUSIC:
https://suno.com/

AI TXT2SPEECH:
https://murf.ai/

PDF Summarize (You can just use 4o or Claude though:
https://askyourpdf.com/

AI ChatBot:
https://janitorai.com/
https://www.chub.ai/

TXT2IMG / IMG2IMG:
https://playground.com/

Obviously SD 1.5/SDXL/Pony

and so much more.
> I'm not aware of any large scale user implementations of the protocol though (people have been getting compatible ID cards for years, but I don't know any software that uses them outside of probably cigarette vending machines in Spain). Do you know any?

I don't know if that's what you're talking about but, in Belgium for example, to fill taxes online and to do various other types of pointless administratrivia you must use your EID card, which you put in an EID card reader (typically connected by USB).

Now the EU-wide biometrics, a sheer horror (the EU court of justice ruled that the biometrics data can be used for other uses and stored in databases outside the card... although at first it was supposed to be private), isn't implemented all around the EU yet.

My EID car was emitted in 2016 and is valid until 2026 and definitely doesn't have any biometrics data in it. I don't know if the system shall already be put in place in 2026 when I'll have to renew it for another ten years.

My point being: biometrics and NFC are probably not present on a lot of EU citizens' ID cards... Yet. So, atm, it probably doesn't make much economical sense to support that system for random usecases like selling cigarettes or alcohol.

Filing my taxes is the only thing I use my EID for.

Then there are some EU countries using their own "2FA" authentication system for anything "government related" (taxes, car registration, company filings, banks login, social security, etc.), complete with physical devices, phone apps, webapps, etc. which aren't using the EU EID at all. Basically: an entire ID system, using 2FA, but bypassing the EID entirely.

I'd say overall it's still pretty much the wild west.
What we should remember about Al McDonald [is] he would often stress his laws of the seven R's," Maier says. "It was always, always do the right thing for the right reason at the right time with the right people. [And] you will have no regrets for the rest of your life.
You deserve more upvotes. This will ineluctably lead to trails resemblimg subway cars, where people stare down and play TikTok videos full volume.
That isn't how dopamine works. If you have ADHD you require more stimulating activities in order to get a satisfying response basically. I don't think a feature phone will fix the problem. Possibly gamifying your ability to not go to those things on your smartphone might be a better plan. Figure out the situations in which you pull out your phone and try to be mindful of those situations and change The situation or your response to it.

You said you went to keep your iPhone at home and put your SIM card in a dumb phone. So does that mean you want to take your phone to work or when you go out? What were the situations in which you pulled out your iPhone and you mindlessly would browse the internet? Are you a coder and that was what you would do when you would wait for a compile or something? Any kind of downtime you would pull out your iPhone like a cigarette smoker would take a smoke break? Try to figure out those situations and come up with alternate activities to do. Once you figure out those alternate activities try to make those alternate activities have the lowest barrier to entry. Obviously pulling your iPhone out of your pocket or inches away from your desk is a whole lot easier than getting up and taking a break and taking a walk for 15 minutes or whatever.
Lease elapsed - might as well?
> Ok, so what's your criteria for saying that someone sucks at investing?

They’re no longer in business.
…and… here we go…

I have no idea why the tech industry is such a moral cesspool.
It would be kind of weird if the customer base for a Tesla 3/Y was fundamentally different from the customer base for, say, a VW id.4 or that Hyundai whose name I forget that is everywhere, tho.
Or you just have no idea what you’re talking about, because you live in a nice cushy region.

[https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria] - kills over half a million people a year.

[https://science.utah.edu/news/toxic-dust-hot-spots/][https:/...

[https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chagas-diseas...]

[https://www.un-igrac.org/sites/default/files/resources/files...] ground water arsenic levels, nice maps start on page 5.

[https://sustainability.stanford.edu/news/new-study-allows-re...]

All are driven by these factors, and there are many many more.

And that isn’t even factoring in things like natural ground water Arsenic and Uranium contamination which poisons millions in many areas.

Near as I can tell, you’re just living in areas that are the equivalent of ‘the good side of the tracks’.

If you think Nature works at smaller scales than man, you’ve never spent time in Nature.

Can we make things worse? Sure! But there are also plenty of real, large scale, natural hazards out there.
It's absolutely crazy they dont have an internal toolkit a la QT that allows them to create performant multiplatform apps. It's really mind boggling.

Even their OneDrive uses just QT.
I've been thinking about this for a while. I mostly do js/ts[full stack]. But having C# or Java under my belt would probably be a good idea, those two aren't going away anytime soon. Plus docker and k8s.

Like you said, the classics aren't going anywhere
> In countries with public health care, setting the price that high will typically result in near-zero sales,

I’m not sure that’s strictly true at least when it comes to the most expensive/newly developed drugs:

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/deadly-prices-medici...

Doesn’t seem that massively different from the relationship between insurance companies and drug companies in the US.

> In countries with public health care, setting the price that high will typically result in near-zero sales

Interestingly enough it seems like the poorer Central/East European countries end up paying more than the richer ones.
There's very little high speed rail in Germany, which means that longer trips are too slow to be useful.

That being said, there's very good regional and decently fast coverage. Delays are a problem due to postponed infrastructure investments though.
No.

It's literally impossible.

You can either have a zero knowledge system where the tokens are immediately compromised and widely shared that provides no authentication whatsoever, or you can have a system that has the ability to revoke compromised tokens that is not zero knowledge.

Or as we are likely to get, you can have a system that is both easily compromised and does not have zero knowledge, and the age verification industry is simply engaged in industrial scale lying to try and get themselves written into law...
I’ll use this to explain why typescript is bad
> The median operating margins for hospitals is around 0% or some times negative.

That so patently false it's almost comical.

Here's one source feel free to google. It's not hard to find evidence to the contrary.

> Nonprofit executives have embarked on an acquisition spree, assembling huge systems of hospitals and physician practices to raise prices and increase profits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/opinion/hospitals-nonprof...
I take subq TRT twice a week (cypionate). I may lose some efficiency in fat vs muscle but it is easy, painless and my levels are perfectly fine.

I don't see why I change and my doctor essentially said the same.
I'm Dutch, my girlfriend is Croatian, we speak English to each other, we live in Costa Rica where my daughter goes to school as well.

I speak Dutch to my daughter. My girlfriend speaks Croatian to her. My daughter goes to school in Spanish. Setup with grandparents is the same as with me and my girlfriend.

We're mostly consistent (though occasionally my daughter asks me to read something to her in Spanish or Croatian, and similar for my girlfriend). It generally just works, my daughter speaks Dutch, Croatian and Spanish well - she plays in Spanish, and sometimes answers in Spanish as well even if we speak our own language to her, but mostly she switches language based on context. Surprisingly (to us) she has absorbed a lot of English as well and generally understands what we're talking about, though we've made no particular effort to teach her that (she gets basic English in school, but it's not much, she's 3). Occasionally she uses a word from one language while speaking another, which can be funny because she does adjust the conjugation, so she'll apply Croatian cases to Dutch words and things like that.
I am curious why you avoid ads - personally I view them as a tremendous good for the world, helping people improve their lives by introducing them to products or even just ideas they didn't know existed.
There is a reason that Esperanto or one of it's siblings is not the language of global understanding and we are discussing in English. The world at large generally does not care about these kinds of fancy. It's half a miracle that we agreed to whatever the Chromium engine implements to be a baseline that most folks build stuff on.
What does that have in common with the topic?
From the article:
(During the hearing)

> The NASA official simply said that Thiokol had some concerns but approved the launch. He neglected to say that the approval came only after Thiokol executives, under intense pressure from NASA officials, overruled the engineers.
Anectdotes are not data, but I am carded once in a while and I’m older than you.
Having some money brings a certain amount of reassurance. Spending money is a moment of pleasure.

Though as I understand it having a lot of money creates insecurity, so I guess there is a sweet spot.
We build chips the same way for ages. Just smaller. Is that not innovation?
> which Rust wouldn't help with

Technically no. But if you can decrease those 40% where it could help you can than focus more on the logic issues.
Maybe.
You might try reading the rest of the comment.
If you drive faster still in a car that also lacks crumple zones and airbags, your expected medical bill probably decreases.
>The most interesting reason why now is a good time to start a service relative to other times is automation enabled by AI

A good time to start a business is when you know a lot of people with some pain who could become your customers. Obviously, you should know how to solve their pain better (i.e. making a better design) and more effective than others.

There are lots of existing businesses that are not stupid. Of course a lot will try to integrate AI into their workflows. They have clients, you don't.

> How do you find that first customer? Talk to the people you would have recruited as your first users if you were starting a product company.

How to find customers? Go find them.

> Instead of convincing them to use your product to solve their problem, just solve their problem yourself. Charge more than you would’ve if you’d sold them a product!

They have some pain, and you are trying to convince them to pay more because you are spending your time to solve their problem yourself, but you will use AI.

There are existing businesses that already have pipelines and experience solving their problem, with or without AI.
> responsible parents

There's yer problem right there.
Sadly it's not enough for 99% of engineers to refuse to work on an unethical technology, or even 99.99%

Personally I don't work on advertising/tracking, anything highly polluting, weapons technology, high-interest loans, scams and scam-adjacent tech, and so on.

But there are enough engineers without such concerns to keep the snooping firms, the missile firms, and the payday loan firms in business.
Monads: Option, Result, and Either Types for TypeScript
Pornhub could have implemented age verification a long time ago and didn’t. It didn’t suggest such a thing despite knowing underage kids were viewing their content. Now they try to act all reasonable. They aren’t a victim in this. They waited until a political solution was imposed to propose reasonable steps to combat the problem.

I’m all for reasonable solutions and don’t know the best way forward. I do know there is a problem with kids viewing content on these sites and I do know that these sites don’t care about that because none of them ever tried to do anything to prevent this.
And the million people being killed by human drivers every year? I guess they are a worthy sacrifice for idealogical purity.
> Fascinating to see people expecting everything to work out of the box whilst being writter from scratch.

(Sarcastically saying something is interesting is something I find distasteful.)

Anyway the irony is that the project chose to use a discussion platform which uses lots of modern web cruft and would be a big challenge for a new browser, when they could have chosen a (maybe less capable) simpler platform like IRC or some simple web forum which would more likely have run on Ladybird.
I'd argue the GPT-3 results were really cherry picked by the few people who had access, at least if the old versions of 3.5 and turbo are anything to go by. The hype would've died instantly if anyone had actually tried them themselves and realized that there's no consistency.

If you want to try out GPT-2 to refresh your memory, here [0] is an online demo. It's bad, I'd say worse than classical graph/tree based autocomplete. I'm fairly sure Swiftkey makes more coherent sentences.

[0] https://transformer.huggingface.co/doc/gpt2-large
It isn't designed exclusively for bagpackers. That is only mentioned on the Verge article, while if you look on the starlink page you will find no such reference: https://www.starlink.com/specifications?spec=5

This is useful for working away from home somewhere on the mountains. Where you have a cabin, have some proper solar panels setup and doesn't make sense (finantially-wise) to keep a starlink installed permanently there. The other option is car-travelling, not everything needs to be solar and using electricity from a gasoline car works great while using little space on the storage.

It isn't meant as side partner for your walking hikes.
People are never beyond evil. Just the justification for why they strife for evil will change. And to be fair, with the justification, the impact can also change.
Somehow I'm left thinking — I go hiking to get away from the internet.
Check your biological age like Bryan Johnson with this free calculator
Becomes much more interesting for vehicles in remote locations.
Same... I especially love pasting in a screenshot along the outerHtml from chrome devtools and ask "make those aligned on the same line, the thing with the text on the right" and it finds the right combination of flex and margin values on elements.

Feels like a huge burden lifted off my shoulders
Compared to what? Even remotely comparable solutions drawing less power either cost something like $5-10 per megabyte (Inmarsat L-band, i.e. BGAN, Iridium Certus) or require even more power (Inmarsat Ka-band) and still cost something like 50 cent per megabyte! Monthly plans start at several hundred dollars, and terminals start in the low 4 to medium 5 digit ranges.

If you can live without Internet when backpacking, enjoy the outdoors! If you need it for whatever reason, this just cut the cost per megabyte by about 95% and the cost for the terminal by 99%. You'll probably also not hate LEO latencies compared to GEO.
That's because it's easier and more profitable to get acquired by Facebook, Google, et al.

Reversing that (so it's easier and more profitable to compete and outgrow them) is step 1.
In reality HIV does have to deal with pressures described by Duesberg, but the virus found a workaround: extremely long "incubation period".

As you probably know, it can stay dormant for 10 years or more, but then gets into active stage, causes AIDS, and relatively quickly kills the host.
How's that alternative funded? Shouldn't Mozilla want to replace their Google payment with that instead? Or, failing that, wouldn't it be much lower budget to fork Firefox code instead?

And then to do it in C++ when other browsers and kernels are flirting with things like Rust. How long will it take for people to trust this new C++ code? I applaud the effort but am worried it'll be in vain. Then again, with how many projects I start not because they make sense but because I enjoy them, perhaps I should see it more in that way
Yep. I was in the middle of bloody nowhere last year in central Asia and came across two Italian guys doing that. Turns out there was 4G up there!

I didn't even have 4G there. I was just wifi hopping as and when I needed it.
> they are games, not oil refinery simulators.

That's an excellent point. I do feel compelled to mention the exception of oil refinery simulator games. Maxis (of SimCity, The Sims fame) made SimRefinery way back when.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimRefinery
Huawei unveils new Harmony OS, AI model in race for tech self-reliance
I suppose still better than playing TikTok videos while stopped at a traffic light?
I guess you aren't assuming to be around when the osteoporosis kicks in?
I feel puzzled looking at Industrial scenes in Video Games. They are like 3 order of magnitude simplified compared to a real plant.

Really? You don't know why video games don't have 80 billion points and you don't know why a tool made to simplify meshes into video game objects isn't using your 80 billion point lidar scan?

For starters, these are meshes and you're talking about points. If anyone is meshing those points and they have any sense, they are working with "toy" sized chunks too so they avoid doing nearest neighbor calculations on terabytes of data.
Fitness as a Trauma Response
> I literally cannot remember the last time I had to show proof of age to buy tobacco or alcohol. I'm middle aged - mid 40s, in fact - and places don't ask.

I'm older than you and I'm carded every single time I buy tobacco or alcohol. The policy on showing identification varies widely depending on region, both due to the actual law and store policy.
Electricity is used to power AI. The $20 billion chip fabs use electricity.

Can you explain where the need for the increase in oil is coming from? We are specifically discussing AI.
Honestly at that time I remember getting fed up using a library for the graphics of a simulation I was doing over a weekend.

So I just threw out the graphics library and wrote directly to the screen memory. Lots of games did that
Now that OSS projects like a certain popular dynamic language have been taken over by corporations, criticism like security or performance issues are forbidden as well and punished.

(One corporation though seems to withdraw from that language due to the attitude of the project and its representatives.)
https://archive.ph/mkkao
If the world could do normalisation...

I don't want to normalise the world. A new generation born, a new generation figuring out how to throw a ball, tie shoe laces, but not store data in a flat table.
The Migrants Spending $72,000 to Illegally Immigrate to the US
That's probably the most naive take there is. Most of nuclear is not innovation but security, logistics and safety.

Something tech startups are fucking terrible at.
I feel firefox market share is mostly because they actively enshittificate their browser, and not because of google ads, or chrome being better.
My impression is mostly the same, but to add to the point about embarassment, native speakers will often not correct adults making mistakes in their language (and avoid showing that a mistake was made) while the same person would correct a mistake for a child.

Children also get exposed to much simpler language and get to learn a language more bottom up.

Also somehow my impression is that pronunciation/accent really is harder to adopt as an adult than as a child.
Scheme with HM type system sounds fun. I've used ocaml a fair bit and I really find that the sweet spot for effectiveness of types vs arguing with the compiler. Racket and common lisp both have optional type systems but neither ever really clicked with me.
No, there are many many people who are this entitled.
This is essentially down to marketing strategy. Tesla only makes two mass-market cars, the 3 and Y. This is pretty unusual in the industry. VW Group, say, makes about 10, with another 10 or so coming soon, all on the same platform, some of which, like the Cupra Born, are just a straight-up rebadge of others.

The number of sales of a _specific model_ of car is rarely a useful comparison point, because, in most cases, any given model of car has a bunch of sister models for market segmentation purposes anyway.
If I were building this, I wouldn't do that.

I would build one piece, as a well-documented Pythonic (not in Python; just in coding / documentation style) library.

The reason this is impossible is the monolithic design of these things. There are good reasons for it -- the pieces interrelate -- but I think it's possible to break it up (with a lot of work).

For example:

- A clean, documented JavaScript engine would be a good start.

- Python-style, independent, isolated JavaScript libraries would help (usable serverside or clientside where possible)

- An independent rendering engine would be nice -- again, documented and independent of the above

- Network libraries

- HTML / XML / CSS parsing libraries

... etc.

If this were in place, code could be interchangeable between serverside and clientside much more than today (and usable in other places, such as using JS as a scripting language in other systems).

Test cases for rendering (or even just making a screenshot) wouldn't need the whole browser. You would import and call into the rendering engine to make a .png without selenium.

Making a new web browser would involve mostly glue code and OS-specific code.
Your stereotypes about German trains are very old. Here, take these newer ones

https://www.tiktok.com/@liamcarps/video/7083888965668932869?...

https://9gag.com/gag/aW4W0qq
The engineers were overruled by the executives because NASA was pissed at the company for messing up their plans.