skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, it's not right? I will add an edit. I don't know about particular financial instruments, but i do know about the economy.

Automation is constant in everything we do. For example: Protectionism of an economy is a way to fight automation, imposing tariffs on importing cars is exactly that [1]. Trump also plans to do it.

Uber is banned in Greece, or at least not totally legal, and Airbnb the same. Interfacing with any government not totally electronically (like Esthonia) is stopping automation. House zoning laws, and permissions for buildings is also stopping automation.

The list goes on and on.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-imp...
In Belgium, the "loonnormwet" or "wage norm law" controls how much workers are paid to ensure the country stays competitive. Jobs are also classified into pay scales based on their type and the qualifications needed.

This means that even if technical jobs are in high demand, if you have a lower educational degree — which is often the case — you might not earn much more because of it. As a result, these jobs may not attract many job seekers.

This situation creates a cycle where lower wages make these jobs less desirable, which can lead to difficulties in finding enough qualified workers. Now, business lobby groups like VOKA are considering bringing in immigrants from Mexico and India to fill these lower-paying positions.
> Cleaning my bathroom seems like a better benchmark.

Unclogging pipes full of toilet paper, pee and shit (I have to do that once in a, thankfully, rare while) is mine. The robots must be able to go in the garden, find the manholes, verify where the pee and shit are clogged, and fix it.

When do we have that?

P.S: every time I couldn't fix it myself, I called a company specialized in that sort of thing. Interestingly I never ever saw a woman show up. It was always men. Just as the new automatic registering of 18/26 y/o people for military only concerns men. It's interesting how the sex equality ain't respected in these cases.
Every culture in every corner of the world throughout known history.
Quite the contrary, I think that env variables have been in this state for this long because they just works and I'm all in with the say "don't reinvent the wheel". I just used modern because it's a tool made in 2023-2024 with Rust, but yeah others may be right that it's just meaningless. I'll probably remove it.
this was an absolute incredible story. I would absolutely watch a movie about this story. learning history and family through something that at its surface seems so cold and difficult to process is very intriguing, a triumph of small business, cultural differences (americanized indian returns to india), i sense a great film in this story. thanks for sharing!
Sure thing! hac is a terminal API client, like postman, but entirely terminal based, allowing you to test api endpoints, make requests and overall document any api that you're making. The main goal of hac is to bring a good experience for testing APIs on the terminal while being entirely free.
Oh, they even have UFOs!
https://pigazing.dcford.org.uk/moving_obj.php?id=20220114_20...

(BTW, nice overlays below the video player and a neat project overall.)
As long as you did not count the large libraries it was calling into.
> The other thing I'd say is that "event" could have a broader meaning than the meetup/facebook definition. Sale at a local shop? Someone's giving away a piano? Yoga on the beach every Tuesday? I'd be happy to get notifications of everything like that within walking distance of my house, and the best part is if you focus on a single city initially you can scrape & ingest all that stuff from existing big & local websites to make Radius immediately useful without waiting for event organisers to sign up.

Yep, exactly! I've been trying to find a better term than "event" or "activity" for "things to do" or "things happening around you", but I think these phrases are the best I'll get. That's part of the problem with Meetup - it's fine(ish) for finding events of a certain type but there's so much other stuff that's not on there.

If you're looking for a way to fill the month ahead, or your weekend with stuff to do, you have to scout the info from tons of separate sources.
Is this rolldown or something else?

https://github.com/rolldown/rolldown
Or you can do it without breaking compatibility.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRoX9_lXJFg
For fast iteration, our developers build, test and deploy locally using cdk deploy directly into their dev account, no need to wait around for the pipeline to do all those steps. Then when they’re ready, higher environments go through the pipeline.

CDK has a new(ish) feature called hotswap that also bypasses CloudFormation and makes deploys faster.
> why I quit playing chess: the mystery was lost.

Well, the problem is that with all the online resources, you quickly learn that chess is more about blunder avoidance than any brilliant, dynamic scheme.

That takes a lot of the fun out of chess.
Reusable syringes if you autoclaved and chemically sterilized to the point even prions were distroyed wouldn't be the worst thing.

I prefer glass bottles and they are far easier to recycle. (Not that my cities waste collection bothers to do so and I have to go out of to do so).
Dr. Vivek Murthy: Social media is a key driver of our youth mental health crisis
But math is something our brain has conceptualized right?

The set of constructs we built are those which our brain sees as being logical and in tune with our observations. The brain is a construct of space time, and its purpose is to model, understand and predict events in space time.
Extension methods make code harder to read
> promoting and selling illegally modified Amazon Fire Sticks that gave users access to premium film and TV content, as well as live football matches

And what does this "illegal modification" entail exactly?

I'd bet it's not much more than him having sideloaded some APK that makes it easy to find pirate sites on to the devices and then selling the devices like that.
"Seemed" meaning through the media you watched while living in Finland? And you think that gives a good representative view of what the US was like in the 1970s? The news and shows you watched from the US were mostly made in large cities in California and New York.

Parts of the US in the 1970s certainly had blue laws similar to what you mention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_laws_in_the_United_States mentions that "Maine was the last New England state to repeal laws that prohibited department stores from opening on Sundays. The laws against the department stores opening on Sundays were ended by referendum in 1990." and that in North Dakota it wasn't until 1991 that most business were allowed to be open on Sunday, and 1988 for Virginia.

For that matter, TV stations would stop broadcasting during the late night, with about 6 hours of dead air, not the 24/7 of modern stations. Fall asleep watching Carson and you might be woken up by the national anthem played just before shutdown.

No doubt your exaggerations cause the downvotes. It was not illegal to work after 16:00, even in Finland. Who ran the restaurants? The buses? The power company? The phones? The hospitals? The hotels?

This 1979 travel guide for US tourists, at https://archive.org/details/fieldingseurope10000fiel/page/28... , says shopping hours in Finland (or at least Helsinki) at that time were "Weekdays, 8:30 A.M. to 5 P.M., plus 8 P.M. on Monday and Friday; Saturday 8:30 A.M. to 4 P.M. in winter, with 3 P.M. closings in summer."
> ...I find myself wondering about the path not taken here.

Check out mainframes and Tandem systems for a peek at that path. Lots of support in those systems for the notion your application’s substrate might suddenly go poof, and you need it to recover from where it left off as instantaneously as possible.

It’s expensive.
That number makes absolutely no sense considering how much more basic stuff like housing is now.

Income going up does not actually mean anything without taking into consideration that people are less likely to be able to buy a house now than 50 years ago.
Slav's didn't spend 1500 years telling stories about Alexander the Great, they have their own heritage. The first claim to the heritage of Alexander came from Northern Macedonia (formerly a province of Yugoslavia) in the 1990s for the reasons the article states.

> This is just a pattern applied across the world every time nations migrate.

So then I guess if you were a Native American and modern Americans claimed to be descendents of Geronimo you wouldn't find it ridiculous? It's factually wrong.
Especially the tag bundles.
I don’t really buy this argument. Maritime alternatives like hydrogen fuel cells and biodiesel seem like far more realistic plays than installing nuclear reactors on thousands of vessels.
Why couldn't it be a primordial black hole? Why isn't this possibility considered?
Here's a news article saying that Sony had only sold 3 PVM-4300s as of April 1990: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1990/04/22/for-40000-tvs-pictur...

I guess it makes sense considering the price. I wonder how many of them still exist today.
I'm using Telegram's "Saved Messages" channel to bookmark things, and I'm pinning what's really important. The advantage is that I can access it anywhere and anytime (with the Android app), all while sharing all types of content, including files. I have a Python script running every 24 hours that uses the Telegram API and a SQLite database storing all my pinned messages in that channel. Each time the script is ran, it sends me two types of emails: 1) a "new" type of email that gathers all the messages that I've pinned recently, and 2) a "reminder" type of email that randomly shows X pinned messages. This forces me to reduce my backlog and unpin what is no longer relevant or things that I can deal with in a few minutes.
A small percentage of humans are wired with a strong territorial mind and/or a greedy personality. A large percentage of humans are wired to view those traits as favourable and attractive and view such persons as charismatic "leaders" to follow and identify with.

My suspicion is, this is in the genes too, and I feel this is almost the bigger part of the problem.
The robots aren't paying any taxes. The countries pay for retirements from people's taxes.
Interesting. It makes me wonder about designing "lambda-client-friendly APIs".

To reduce the chances of being long-running, the api would be async, meaning: the client makes a request and gets a claim code result quickly, with the api host to process the request separately and then make a callback when done.

Lots of issues to consider.

Anyone have experience doing this? Would be great to hear about it.
I can own at Tetris but I am miserable at chess. The types of visualization are completely different IMHO.
This is why companies have started announcing they're hiring on merit. The obvious response is "wait, then what have you been doing up to now?". Disney (and Disney's recent massive losses) is your answer.

> Today we’ve formalized an important hiring policy at Scale. We hire for MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence.

https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1801331034916851995
Committing everything to a new (temporary) branch, and returning to your current branch, costs nothing and saves the headache of stash's weirdness.
> The docs don’t make it very obvious how are the environment variables actually applied.

Actually, they are not applied. This is a tool that helps you manage them, you can see it as a replacement of .env files.

> `envelope check` could be replaced with a CURRENT_ENV environment variable in an .env file

Can you elaborate more on this? I've never used that tbh and I'm interested
I’ll eat my hat if cargo ships go nuclear. Even the US Navy stopped using nuclear for all but carriers. Shipboard nuclear is on another level to regular power plants for many reasons.
Why do you presume it must be built into a browser? Mozilla alteady has mumore products and services than just ff. These ideas could be standalone too.
From my experience, your example is the one that’s on the end of the bell curve. A sales team that goes through a list of 100 things and hand-crafts a bespoke package for my needs would be amazing.

I could list several big SaaS names where you always seem to end up in the same place: SSO is bundled with a bunch of other stuff you don’t need; at renewal time user counts always ratchet up, regardless of actual active users; increases in unit price of things you do need are “compensated” with “discounts” on things you don’t need or calculated off a nonexistent price that was never an option in the first place.

It has nothing to do with selling me what I need. If I ask if it can do what I need, frankly much of the time the answer is a lie, or close to it. Or the answer is “we don’t know, but sign the contract and we’re sure Professional Services can take care of it for you”.

Yes, if you actually want to use the APIs it’s even more of a disaster, but that’s not what I’m talking about.
And those who want to make weapons will overthrow the people who don’t…

But in an ideal future…?
It's tricky, see.

It's like a kingfisher diving in water to catch a fish. You want to dive quickly, catch the prize and rise back up away from the problem.

Go down slowly and the fish gets away; stay down too long and you drown; don't rise back up fast enough and something else might catch you instead

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Same with birth rate for a country. As you develop, you want it to drop quickly so you can actually make life better for the people you have (lower child mortality, increase literacy).

Once you you have caught the prize (an educated population able to support the system) you want birth rate to shoot back up again because now you need more of that educated populace to keep the system running.

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Countries like China dived too low and are drowning, while countries like mine (with still very high birth rates and poverty) are too slow and will never catch the fish in the first place.

The Countries like the US... they are just barely coasting above the water, they can't let go of the fish, its so big and juicy.

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Ideally you would both use external supply AND pump up our own birth rate, so you got the benefit of immigration without feeling threatened by them.

But then the extremism shark jumps and takes a bite at you. And you wonder where everything went wrong.

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really feel for women, the burden of birth and (immediate) child rearing is on them, and nothing science can do to change that, at least currently. And they don't get much of a say in this.
We do not have limitless power today, and much of the power today is being generated by carbon producing means which exacerbates the climate crisis. So yes, there is plenty of reason to not squander electricity today.
I guess the part I don't get is, if your traffic is that low, doesn't that mean you could run the service on a ~$4/month instance anyway? Even if we assume the lambda option is cheaper, it's only cheaper by pennies, basically. In exchange for taking on a bunch of added complexity.
How does Mozilla sell my traffic to Google?
We don't have enough production of basic materials like steel to scale solar and (especially) wind to cover our entire energy needs, regardless of energy storage. Fission and fusion will become inevitable in a decade or two.
There are some things that can be done, although it will only help in the cases where such a thing is actually used, which is not always.

The computers can be designed that you can write programs easily (instead of hiding them behind several layers of menus), and design the formats that can be queried and affected by such programs. Services can be made which support such things. The user interface system can be made to easily interact with other programs so that e.g. you can easily interact command-line interface with GUI (something that most existing systems are not very good at).

(You may know about Nushell (which allows command-line shell to be used with structured data; PowerShell does something similar). It is a reasonable idea, and some similar ideas can be used with interaction of data, although there are some problems with it, including that it is not what the operating system was designed to use. This is why I think to design a new operating system which allow to make it much better (in my opinion).)

Furthermore, it must be designed to work efficiently and to avoid unnecessarily requiring internet connections, and to avoid wasting so much disk space, energy, etc.

FOSS will also help, especially if the programs are not too difficult to modify.

A better way to work security than existing mechanisms would also be an improvement; so the user can easily define the security features and specify the source/destination of all I/O, which may also be proxies which are other programs (which might be written by the end user).

(I have some ideas about designing operating systems like many of the things above, although that will not affect many things that don't use it; however, it is a start, and some people may write interfaces with a few other services and programs to support such a thing.)

(Dishonest business practices should also be avoided, although that is really a separate issue, but that will help this one too.)
The equivalent of hotswap in SAM would be `sam sync --code --watch`. Works in seconds, though I still prefer to test locally as much as possible.
> the point of signatures is to show that something belongs to you

Which is exactly the point. Since a signing public key is (somehow) tied to an identity, then being able to recover a public key from signatures means that if you can read signatures then you can know who is sending messages.

Consider a scenario: I send my girlfriend secret encrypted messages in the middle of the night that look like this: [encrypted message | ECDSA signature]. My messages are a secret, and my girlfriend can know that they are definitely from me. But my wife captures a bunch of messages and uses Sophie's handy decoder ring to see that - oh hey - it's me sending those messages!

There were a few mistakes made in this scenario - one of which was some protocol designer leaving a vulnerable signature on the outside of the encrypted message, leaking the sender's identity to anyone that can see the message.
Those LiDAR sensors on phones and VR headsets are low resolution and mainly used to improve the photos and depth information from the camera. Different objective than mapping a space, which is mainly being disrupted by improvements from the self driving car and ADAS industries
At work, I made a webpage to organize common links I need. Internal stuff that can’t be searched for with search engines. For lesser used stuff, I might put it in my notes with information around what it’s for and how to use it in context.

At home I just have a few I use for convenience for the sites I use often.
They’ll still pop up regardless of personalization but there are other options to disable them after the fact. Perhaps you did that?
No love for Commonwealth Fusion? They seem to have solid backers, technologists & approach.
I just explained why they were Greek, do you have anything constructive to add?
Not to mention modern sail
The thing is without force your stuff gets taken. We haven't got a good way around this. Our current peace is heavily based on nuclear weapons and the implied threat of force.

Don't like the status quo? Use force to try to change it.

Do like the status quo? Use force to try to keep it that way.

We don't have a stable equiliubrium where no force exists in the system. Many in this thread effectively say "You can do what you like, but I am above using force".

They can say that because their existence is secured by the force of others. There are enough people willing to take by force that if you have no force your stuff and land get taken.

This was how the world worked for all of human history until 1945. The only thing that changed it was nukes, the ultimate force.

In theory you could have a global government with a monopoly on force that enforced no more war. But that still depends on force.

Is there any convincing argument for getting out of this equilibrium?
To be fair, that's budget for magnetic confinement fusion. US has always been more interested in inertial fusion (i.e. shoot it with lasers). Likely because of synergy with military application of lasers.

The thing it, inertial confinement seems to be a dead end and has been for quite a while. At least rest of the world has decided to fund magnetic confinement (plus few oddballs with z-pinch), so I assume it's more promising approach.
Desqview/X ran on a 386 I think.

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1...
Waymo the Leapfrog
> The killer app I'm trying to apply this to is LaTeX, so that I can write math notes in Emacs, incrementally, without visible latency.

See texpresso [1] for one solution that does something like this with the LaTeX process.

Another, more conservative solution is the upcoming changes to Org mode's LaTeX previews [2] which can preview live as you type, with no Emacs input lag (Demos [3,4]).

[1] https://github.com/let-def/texpresso

[2] https://abode.karthinks.com/org-latex-preview/

[3] http://tinyurl.com/olp-auto-1

[4] https://tinyurl.com/ms2ksthc
Sort of the opposite to what we do with CO2 production at the moment?
Why is it impossible to use wind and solar for ships? I mean, most of our history, ships used wind.
Is there a less biased source for this? As far as I can find, this is what was said word for word:

>Certainly, there have been times where, you know, there’s no way we’re hiring a white man for this…. There are times when it’s spoken.

>Reporter: How would they say it?

>There’s no way we’re hiring a white man for this role. They’d be very careful how they’d message that to agents.

Is there more context? Obviously there are situations when you want an actor with a specific ethnicity or gender. And I think people who write posts like this wouldn't be shocked if the VP said "there are situations where we want to hire a white actor and we won't consider anything else. We would word it very carefully".

I'll also quote:

>When it comes to diversity, (...) there’s also a belief that it’s going to make more money if we appeal to a wider variety of people and it’s a good thing.

So... it's entirely a business decision. Disney hires a diverse cast, to target a larger audience. Completely obvious when framed like this.
B.C. launches lawsuit against makers of 'forever chemicals'
> Slav's didn't spend 1500 years telling stories about Alexander the Great

It seems that they did, as much as anyone else in Europe at that time. Slavic versions of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Romance (which was the main way the story of Alexander the Great was known in folklore) appear quite early.
Hello! I'm the main developer miku.gg, an open source platform for what I call "generative visual novels".

These are meant to provide a richer experience than simple chatbots, where creators can specify different character objectives, maps, scenarios, items, conditions evaluated by the LLM.

Players can also prompt the LLM to generate/suggest a scene new scene for their narrative. The LLM with suggest prompts for the background/music, that then are searched in a vector database.

All narrations have a conversation tree. Now, you can export that conversation tree to a Ren'Py project.
This is very useful for generating the story of your novel while you play and then pack it as a visual novel.

My plan is to create a full standalone engine for building traditional novels with AI or pack "generative visual novels" with an integrated LLM as installable games.

Anyways, it's been over a year we've been working with this and we're beginning to see what are the improvements that LLMs can bring to gameplay, validated by our small, but very active community.