skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OCaml makes so much sense to me -- it's just a shame that the syntax has some weird decisions. For example, an array is:

let arr = [| 1; 2; 3 |];;

instead of something like

let arr = [1, 2, 3];

I wish ReasonML (https://reasonml.github.io/) would come back -- it's a new syntax for the same language, kind of the same relationship Elixir has to Erlang.
If there's an even longer term interest-free loan, of course I'll usually take it!

BNPLs are decidedly not that, though – see here for some back-of-napkin math: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40711149
My daughter was very disappointed with the shoes she bought recently. They lasted less than half the time real leather model from the same brand did and cost more! They also developed creases and were difficult to polish. I am ok with alternatives when they are alternatives not replacements. It's like with vegan vs. vegetarian options at my local japanese food place. They replaced all but one vegetarian dish with vegan variants and are not bringing the vegetarian dishes back. That's not choice, that's forced replacement.
> While I agree with you, I doubt banning Chinese tech will remedy this problem.

I don't mean this as a political issue, but in your comment I see one of the reasons Trump appeals to people. He promotes a mindset of "stop handwringing and just fix the damn problem."

Here we know the following:

1) DJI devices have an always-on connection

2) Chinese government is unfriendly to US and exerts strong control over Chinese companies

3) China regularly blocks US companies for whatever reason they decide.

So yeah, we can say "but banning DJI won't solve the general problem of bad companies; we shouldn't just focus on China; is a ban really fair? etc etc. Or, we can just say "screw it -- China treats US companies like shit and we're not gonna just hand over all our drone info"
Everything is wire fraud / securities fraud
Putin and Xi Are Way Beyond the Rubicon
Your first point about things being cheaper over there is true but that's not all there is to it. They're still in the basic infrastructure phase of growth. So they can build that much cheaper because people there get paid peanuts, and land is cheap. As soon as they reach a saturation point of prosperity close to where the US is now, they'll see prices spike to equal US levels. If this ever happens.

> Military is not the only way to exercise power - look at the Belt and Road initiative.

The military is the only thing that matters when the chips are really down. China can try to buy international favour with it's dodgy infrastructure deals, but that's not the same as deep, long-term alliances, and a competent military-industrial complex. The US has troops and advanced weapons stationed all over the place, including right next to China. I'd be amazed if the opposite ever becomes true.

> Demographics - how many PhDs are coming out of each country.

There's a fair bit more to demographics than the number of PhDs - not sure why you think this even matters.

> And obviously we’re banning DJI because they are the dominant player - we couldn’t compete economically so we’re using legal power instead. If the US was just better at building consumer drones this never would have happened.

Now it's true that DJI is the best, but this is not yet part of a broader trend where China is outcompeting the US on quality. And keep in mind that China is using its internal legal power to spend public money pushing companies such as Huawei, DJI, and Bytedance.
Why would material conditions matter? Hunters and gatherers used animals they hunted, and began domestication. And so has almost every society since. Even if it’s to help plow their crops or to fend off wild animals and keep the vermin population in check.
Opening of NYC's first public observatory at risk due to last-minute regulations
unfair!
I am just glad that I finally learned that I do not, in fact, have to pay for Adobe Acrobat to be able to edit a PDF and can do it for free in Preview on Mac.
I was wondering where you found some place to do custom screen sizes. Nice use of an existing product shape.
In five years the US will have a prolific consumer drone industry and will have hardly skipped a beat. This is a good move for the US from a long-term security and economic standpoint. There are some short term pains but long-term this is good.

Did you get paid 50 cents to write all these posts?
I have been to Chicago as well! I will say though Chicago is a bit of an outlier though - it is technically the midwest but its also not entirely culturally the midwest either

People are definitely community oriented there - theres alot of polish community events, open friendliness towards sports outings and open pickups (basketball volleyball etc)

I will say though I think in Chicago it tends to be a bit more like clique-y though - culturally and sportswise comparitvely to something like NYC.

Like in NYC theres alot more international / individualism though, in Chicago the city itself enforces a good number of rules on what you should and shouldnt be (example is the pride colors painted in boys town)
NestJS with Handlebars templates. I don’t love Handlebars but I have past experience with it so was the most pragmatic choice.

I’m interested in trying EdgeJS as a templating alternative to HB but haven’t got round to it yet.

I’ve added a NestJS error handler that looks to see if the request came from an htmx request and then serve the error response as html, if not then it sends back json since I do have json api end points as well in the back end.
Wire fraud, at minimum. This would constitute direct theft. Very similar cases have been tried and convicted several times now.
> I reject panpsychism as going against common sense; I think there probably are very simple (read: small) animals that aren't conscious.

Yes, I can definitely agree with this. I'm more reacting to the idea that it's somehow an unresolved scientific question whether dogs and cats and other mammals have emotions.

There isn't a sufficiently large difference in neurology between humans and other mammals for me to believe that they're entirely unconscious machines while we're not.

> I think most animals are conscious but a qualitative distinction between humans and animals is very reasonable. Animals didn't land on the moon or discover quantum mechanics. Whatever it is that allowed humans to accomplish things like that is a worthy basis of a distinction.

Yes, it's a worthy basis of distinction, but is it a qualitative one or a quantitative one? Do we possess intelligence that is orders of magnitude higher than the next smartest mammals, or do we actually possess something that other mammals have none of?

It's not clear to me that landing on the moon and discovering quantum mechanics require a different kind of mental process than building a beaver dam or discovering a use for medicinal herbs. That feels more to me like the same sort of thing multiplied a thousand fold.

And if it is the same sort of thing, then we're not projecting emotions onto our dogs, our dogs actually do have emotions of the same general sort that we do.
I've noticed the internet becoming generally slow and laggy over the last few years for older computers and devices. Things from around and before 2015 to 2017 are becoming pretty unusable for doing basic web app tasks.
Darkroom [1], my scenario is I am editing my photos on my iPad and it can do all the same basic edits and modifications with it and I can use my photo library to organize things rather than have them in Adobe's cloud

[1] https://darkroom.co/
> SpaceX satellites have a designed lifespan of approximately 5 years.

I wasn't aware of that lifespan but I knew it was finite. Let's say 6k sats at 20/launch is 300 launches to refresh the fleet over 5*12 months makes for 5 launches a month [0].

If the first v1's were launched November of 2019 then they will drop out of orbit later this year. SpaceX started launching the v2 minis about 9 months ago. Wikipedia claims 300/Starship. Let's round down to 200 to account for Elon-time and maybe launching a mix of Starship and F9. That would bring the needed operational cadence down to .5/month [1].

Could a well capitalized competitor start at vN+1 or vN+2, build out while Starlink air-ground combination is stalled at vN due to encumbancy, and make progress in high margin geographies proven out by Starlink already? I think it could look like the cell market with a few major players that either get squeezed out or created during any technology refresh.

Would it be more difficult because whatever that gets created is not a mutually supportive vertically integrated enterprise but fragmented? Sure.

0. 6000/20/5/12=5

1. 6000/200/5/12=.5
We did nt use plastic as often as we use now in the 50s.

After that the oil lobby shifted the world into that horrendous path.

All of current issues we have now could be explained pretty simply by human greed.

Ps. This year we double the amount of plastic due to the shift into electric cars. That oil has to be used for something.
Darkroom https://darkroom.co/
When I commented, the URL was a link to the press release. It was changed to the Ars Technica article later.

Good to know.
I don't see how it makes any sense as a behaviour other than not having thought to special case it: it's a signal which is blindingly more likely to be an error than an attack, and has no chance of success as an attack. It makes perfect sense as an affordance, even with user education.
Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago
You could call the data you generate for the tests "mocks".

But they really aren't "mocks" in the sense of behavioral mocks via IoC/DI and you don't need to manipulate them via some kind of interface in order to put them into the right state for your particular tests.

There are some extra steps, but you get extremely simple and reliable tests in return.

In many(!) cases you already have a data interface, especially with HTTP/REST APIs. All you need to do is simply not bury the IO call down the stack and maybe describe the failure conditions as plain data in your signature and voila.

(This is not a replacement for higher order testing like, manual, E2E or integration tests. But it certainly beats unit testing with mocks IMO.)
Toy company Zuru plans to sue former employees who wrote scathing online reviews
So...a London, UK to Houston, USA flight. When it's just 40 minutes short of Houston, it turns around and returns to London? Supposedly because of:

> A minor technical issue, later speculated to be related to the aircraft's engines, prompted the decision to return to London.

Yeah, right. Sounds like a crap-quality cover story to me.
I don’t know what you mean by efficient and “cheap” but even China’s lower costs for nuclear construction vastly exceed the cost of wind and PV solar that China is building. They built more renewable power generation capability in just part of 2023, even adjusted for capacity factor, then all 26 reactors they had under construction. All that remains is storage, and China is also massively dropping the prices on battery grid storage.
Capitalism at its finest. Tell that billionaire he can't blow all the vapor all the time.
Beating Android Ransomware;a Case Study of Locker.cb Tr
Ask HN: What Happened to HNBadges.netlify.app?
What happened to HN badges? Is it broken by accident or was it shut down intentionally?

Not everybody might be familiar with HN Badges. It is/was a 3rd party service that showed badges for every user (e.g. https://hnbadges.netlify.app/?user=_Microft) that depended on how many karma a user had, the karma/comment ratio, whether they had an internet address in their user profile, and much more.

This was previously asked 18 days ago but received no replies:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40528713
Donkey Kong '94 (Game Boy) brought back Pauline.

Donkey Kong '94 is also about as close as you can get to being a Mario Game without actually being considered a Mario Game.
Here's a cool one from here in New Zealand - Greenpeace opposed a wind farm because a portion of the energy would be used to make (carbon-free) urea. They were ultimately unsuccessful in their opposition, but they tied it up for 3 years.
It's like the oldschool scam days on MMO's.

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It's only really needed if you need to robo-forward stuff between domains. For example if you set up a domain but want to receive emails to your usual gmail.

I noticed that cloudflare's email forwarder uses an ARC record and it works a treat.
Nearly all metals are toxic to some extent if ingested. Lead and mercury are famously toxic. But chromium (a component of stainless steel) is rather toxic too, and even copper (used widely in piping and wiring) isn't all that good for you.

Nearly all metals will dissolve slightly into food or water they come into contact with.

It really isn't clear that metals pose less health risks than plastics.
I've been doing the simplest possible things to URL parameters and POST bodies but even that's been effective! Thanks for the link!
From the Twitter thread, their github appears to be https://github.com/linux-on-droid. I don't see APKs in any of the repos, though.
Don't completely remember but I think most of the time coding then spent the last 10-30 minutes thinking through what questions they might ask, what I would do if I had more time, etc.
Why would anyone with a viewpoint of the last 75 years expect anything other than microplastics are harmful?

Lead? Great material, tastes good in wine! Stops knocks in gasoline! Kills our children.

Asbestos? Wonderful insulator! Great cheap material for keeping buildings warm during the winter. Causes cancer.

Margarine? Lower calories than butter, almost tastes just like it! Causes heart disease.

Teflon? Awesome for non-stick pans! Non-stick all the things! Causes cancer.

Benadryl? Great anti-allergy med, dries you up and helps you sleep during hay-fever season! Causes dementia with extended use.

BPA? Great cheap material for making water bottles and food containers... Causes cancer.

Peppermint flavored Tums... The binding agent for the peppermint was a possible carcinogen. They pulled mint-flavored Tums off the market for a while until they could figure out a new way to make it.

We already see microplastics causing mutation and other issues in sea life. Why would we expect this to go any differently than what we've been learning about all these other modern conveniences?
Projects are free to change their terms and the page you link has been updated since I submitted my reports. The maximum was lowered to $1M and payment currency changed from USDC to SEI.
Cool! Just a quick tip, you should cache/store the example so you don’t pay for useless compute (people just trying out)
No Country for Young Engineers 3
I'm not reinventing systemd. On systemd systems, use systemd. On non-systemd systems, launch the process on demand from a privileged process that can do it (e.g., here `nscd` on a non-systemd system would have a call to start an instance on behalf of some UID, and the client library would call that when it can't contact the per-user instance).
Not sure I see the relation between chargebacks and issuers selling off bad debt:

Chargebacks are either paid for by the acquiring merchant or the issuer; in both cases (if accepted by the issuer), they extinguish the cardholder's debt to the issuer.
Already was somewhat degraded by the EU parliament:

https://proton.me/blog/eu-parliament-chat-control
You have to plan for it, but you're not going to have any waste until the first refueling, which is ~ 18-24 months after you start operations. (unless SMR have a drastically different fuel cycle than the big ones, I honestly don't know)
The Drawn Together reference in the article was totally unexpected but welcome.
It probably would have gone down if nuclear energy wasn't outlawed.
Well, the stereotype of Indian people being good at math specifically was itself a consequence of survivorship bias, that emerged from observing Indian visa holders who were hired based on their skills and credentials, and who were not at all representative of the average person in India.

There is a BIG difference between biases being based in reality (which they're not), and biases being based in our varying perceptions of reality, which are themselves biased.
Yup, that's the one I had in mind.
Adobe has let pretty much all of the Macromedia stuff fade out

Sure Apple is to blame partially for Flash, but even now they rarely add new features to "Animate". There are other applications out there that are doing more interesting things.

Dreamweaver has been outdone by visual studio code and sublimetext, granted it was really only good for ColdFusion.

Fireworks was left to die, oddly enough it could of been the next Sketch, although Figma probably would of beaten it eventually anyway

Freehand was killed to let Illustrator be dominant
But they aren’t. China is building nuclear faster than the West, but they still require seven years per new plant. Their original plan was for nuclear to be 18% of the grid by 2060, but their renewable buildouts have made that number seem much too high. The existing nuclear designs can’t really provide dispatchable power for the vast renewable grid they’re building, either.

The answer for nuclear (if there is one) is factory built SMRs. Those exist in the experimental phases. If SMRs take off, the current designs aren’t going to matter. If SMRs don’t take off, nuclear itself probably isn’t going to matter.
Unrelated, but I'm impressed by how fast browsers can be in some cases.

I once created a HTML file with just a start/end HTML tag and 50k (unstyled) button elements in between, curious to see how it performs. I tried the same in Flutter on a release build (using Material widgets so they are styled) and the HTML was much faster.

I was able to tab through (changing focus by holding tab) the buttons in both Chrome and Firefox at a consistent frame rate with no signs of any lag, while FLutter struggled and lagged quite a bit with the same.

Would anyone know why that is? Are web browsers hyper-optimised for static documents (beating a "native" GUI toolkit for static documents)? Is Flutter just comparatively slow compared to Qt, GTK and so on? Does the styling have that much of an impact on performance?

I am aware that updating DOM elements is uniquely slow for browsers but this experiment was a surprise for me and I'm curious for an explanation.
Importantly, it's also usually the merchant (and/or the BNPL company) paying for the loan, not the consumer.

In other words, it's just a completely different model from retroactive, cardholder-paid flexible payment options for credit/charge card holders.
What’s better, the puréed peas or carrots? That’s either to the infant eating it, or the parent who ultimately deals with it later on.
"How can I meet other people like me?"

Do you really want to restrict yourself to meeting people in their 20s ? If you expand your horizon a bit, plenty of exciting founders in their 30s,40s or even 50s .
The Gods of Logic
Signal Foundation has already said they would leave the EU if Chat Control goes ahead.

https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/112535616774247450
I wonder if the Chinese regret sharing gunpowder with the west, what do you think?
This is why the roles of the major players in society (government, monopolies) need to be circumscribed.

Large organizations will always try to grow in size and power.

We need some sort of human right for digital privacy to make this sort of thing illegal.
> when the CEO lies on a resume, nothing happens

I think it’s abundantly clear that if OpenAI fails, powerful people will face prosecution. It’s an uncomfortable but unavoidable part of our justice system that we don’t like to prosecute people until they’re no longer winners.
I don't see how language and consciousness are equivalent in any sense. Does someone who never learns to speak not conscious?

I suppose we mean the ability to learn language.
Ask Wells Fargo -> https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-agrees-pay-3-bill...
yeah, i go back and forth on it a lot

could still fold it in at some point in the 2.x line!
Credit card companies make a decent amount of their money from the interchange fees, but the majority of their income comes from interest, cash advance fees, and penalty fees, all of which the well-off credit card user paying off their balance each month does not contribute to. So credit card companies are probably making more money off their less-well-off users as a group than the more-well-off, though it may still be that individual well-off users are more profitable than other individuals.
> I think this is touching on the 'philosophical zombie' arguments.

As well as Buridan's ass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass
I get the gist of your comment, but your specifically chosen example of Microsoft is a bad one. It's not just MS's XBox subscription is bad by itself. The recent news about the forced inclusion of Recall. The forced inclusion of ads into the OS. The horrendous data collection by MS. The list goes on and on that would put Microsoft on a egregiously morally bankrupt company on all levels.

A novel idea let down by a poor example.
If by "edit" you mean rearrange the order of pages or add a signature then sure, but Preview can't do too much more than that.
> For the whataboutists: Yes, everyone is aware that american three letter agencies have backdoor access to every computer, broken RSA and AES, and control the USA's puppet government. Thanks.

You're deliberately overstating the issue, to the point of absurdity, to avoid legitimate criticism. Three-letter agencies do have a high level of access to this data, and in many cases that's because the companies involved just voluntarily hand it over (no need to get the courts involved). Even when the courts do get involved, these are secret courts where the decisions are classified, and in any case from what we do know they act as a rubber stamp anyway.

So, this is a matter of the US wanting access to that data in addition to, or possibly exclusive from, the CCP. Frankly, as I'm not currently under the jurisdiction of the Communist Party of China, I'd prefer they have unlimited access to that data as opposed to the US government, if I have to choose one or the other.
I'd also love to know more. What sort of thing is an issue?
He's the creator, but not the CEO. That title belongs to me...and you.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/chinas-quiet-energy-revolution-t...
SEC Poised to Seek Enforcement Action Barring Musk from Holding Exec Positions
Now you're backtracking. Those other primates weren't humans. In human history, pets are not recent by any measure.

We have no evidence of a specific period of homo sapiens in which we know they did not keep pets.

Also, other animals have been observed keeping pets.
Note the concern is based on historical precedent, that the commission can browbeat the parliament into passing it, especially considering the recent changing of the guard and relatively limited information that many national voters get of their MEP's activities in the european parliament because of the tendency for EU elections to be decided on domestic issues.
Apple famously told the FBI to go pound sand when asked to help access an iPhone in an actual terrorism case (i.e. it wasn't about going after dissidents or journalists or anything), even though such help was definitely within Apple's technical power.

Now, while admitting that I am no way claiming the US is perfect, does anyone actually think something even remotely similar would ever happen between a Chinese company and the Chinese government?
With all the options there seems like an opportunity for a single point API that can take a series of prompts, a budget and a quality hint to distribute batches for most bang for buck.

Maybe a small triage AI to decide how effectively models handle certain prompts to preserve spending for the difficult tasks.

Does anything like this exist yet?
What you explain here also explains the current problems in AGI research. sigh Humans keep thinking that reality, like the sun once did, revolves around them.