skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dang, with respect, is there any room for critical discussion on this site? I understand wanting to maintain the climate, but a lot of these discussions are coming from non-experts or have profoundly negative ethical implications. Particularly when things like the brain comes up, it seems like science fiction is more accepted than actual science.
An ESIM Manager for Mobile Linux
Hermes monitors the resale websites. If they can find out the identifier then you will be banned.
Music industry giants allege mass copyright infringement by AI firms
Exactly this. When you're reading different news sites, you never have any idea which sites load hundreds of comments at the bottom and which don't. What you think is a long article actually turns out to be 80% comments by page length.

The same thing happens with books that include references at the end — a print book can be 20% endnotes. I've even encountered bizarre EPUB's where for some incomprehensible reason there's a page break between each endnote, so the actual content of the book ends somewhere around the 5% mark of total page count.

I actually really appreciate a super-thin (2px) progress bar in the header.

I don't like an always-visible table of contents because I find it really distracting. But I really like the way Wikipedia does it in their app, where it's a single tap to reveal the table of contents full-screen, centered on and highlighting your current section.
So?

Like, I get it, a very vocal minority of HN is very much against Cloudflare for perfectly valid reasons, including this risk.

But the value Cloudflare provides to these sites far outweights the problems. Otherwise they'd dump them.

This guy should do as said and just ask their ISP for another address to NAT from.

I'll get severely downvoted for this tho.
Boeing just wants to show they can make something that can't plummet back to Earth.
The Daily Fail, really? Surely you can find a better source than a nazi tabloid rag.
It is easy to treat Galileo as fighting the obscurantist church of the 15th century, but as the article explains briefly:

> provocatively voiced the pope’s own arguments through an obtuse Aristotelian called Simplicio

... Galileo's ordeal with the inquisition was mostly due to him making fun of the pope (probably not a good idea). The truth is that until Kepler introduced elliptical orbits and variable orbital speeds, the Copernican heliocentric model still needed epicycles and was not much better than the ptolemaic model.

And the church didn't even care _that_ much. Copernicus himself was a priest and, while he himself was wary of publishing it and framed it as a way to do astronomical calculations without any kind of philosophical implication, in the end it circulated without much fuss.

This of course should not diminish his contributions to the scientific method and his other contribution to astronomical observations (mostly the satellites of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn, though his instrument wasn't good enough to recognize them as rings).
The robot brings you a flotation device. You should have one of those already.
You should be wearing it if you're on the water for exactly the reason you've stated. Almost no one actually does this.

I've lived and fished on the lake for years. It's great for recreation. Way too many people do so entirely unprepared and often drastically underestimate the impacts of alcohol out on a boat in the hot sun.
All of a sudden I'm seeing loads of "are you human" checkboxes from Cloudflare too. One of the better captchas, but I'm not sure why it's a recent thing for me.
T-shirts and hats don't fly too straight. Robot paddleboards can steer.
We are debating, with hushed academic rigour (well some of us are) an article where the author is talking about how they designed and implemented a system to drop hats out of a window at passers by.

Hats.

Out of a Window.

For a joke.

Not a cure for cancer.

Not a peace proposal

Not a way to get people out of poverty

Hats. Out. Of. A. Window.

This hushed "no we mustn't pun or mock" type attitude is one of the main drivers of stupid tech fads

It leads to people in positions of power to write down phrases like "This product isn't seen by our customers as a bridge to the metaverse". The product being a fucking chat app with bulletin board built in. At no point did anyone in the room mercilessly rip the piss out of them. And it shows.
I searched and their profit margin is ~55% while LVMH is ~65%. All this without requiring a single PhD.
I love your advice for beginners (last 3 paragraphs of your comment). It definitely rings true that the attainment of desirelessness can become a desire in itself, just another dragon to chase.

I like your comment so much I was tempted to share it with my FB friends. Would you be ok with that? No worries if not. If so, would you like to be mentioned by your username?

Sorry if this is not an appropriate thing to comment here. I would have messaged you privately but HN doesn't seem to provide a way to do that, and I don't see an email address for you. Cheers
For some use cases (eg editing Wikipedia, so being able to see if something linked is a stub or not say) its useful, but not i think in general for external sites.
Of course it is, which is why I said "not a useful _mindset_." I'm not arguing the semantics, just suggesting that allowing yourself to use them may alter your behavior in negative ways.
> (car (lambda (a b) (+ a b)))

An interpreted function in a Common Lisp cannot literally just be a lambda expression list, because that would not satisfy the type system. It has to be of type function and a function is not a subtype of list.

What happens is that there is some container object which says "I'm an (interpreted) function", which has slots that hold the raw source code. It might not be a lambda form; for instance, the original lambda might be destructured into parameters and body that are separately held.

There is some API by which the interpreter gets to those pieces and then it's just recursing over the nested lists.

> Another good test is to construct a function at runtime and try to call it.

Common Lisp doesn't provide a standard API for constructing an interpreted function (or even make provisions for the existence of such a thing). Lisps that have interpreted functions may expose a way for application code to construct them without having to eval a lambda expression.

It's just a matter of constructing that aforementioned container object and stuffing it with the code piece or pieces. If that is possible then that object is something you can call.

When you call that function, eval ends up used anyway.
Yes, I know a guy who is of old Indian royal family stock (of course they have no special rights any more), and he will just show pictures of expensive bags and so on to his tailor and get them made for orders of magnitude less than retail.
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I thought Tennessee was first due to their massive music industry.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/22/1240114159/tennessee-protect-...
You've spent half of your highest salary on bags? Feels like a lot but I'm just some guy. What was the biggest bag balance you've had on the books? Or are you buying and flipping at most one or two at any time? When you make these trips, do you have a US buyer lined up beforehand or do you find them once you're in the US?
The abdigation of responsibility here on Cloudflare's part is frustrating.
That's going rather beyond the spirit of OP here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40773726>

But looking at this another way: some societies effectively transfer needs into wants by making them contingent on other factors. In the United States, healthcare coverage remains difficult to obtain even if you have significantly above-average wealth or income, unless you have access to an employer's coverage. This has improved somewhat under the ACA, but there's a significant variance on a state-by-state basis.

More generally, though "if money wasn't such a limiting factor" and "Money is rarely a limiting factor as much as the desire for more money" both suggest that it's the pursuit of wealth itself that ZaoLahma and dr_dshiv meant. And there are certainly people, particularly amongst the ultra-wealthy, who seem motivated in this way, with wealth at which access to healthcare simply isn't an issue: they could hire their own doctors, pay out of pocket, or travel to where healthcare access isn't an insane torture device of its own.
That's a fair point, although the FDA (IIUC) has power to say whether some drug must be gated behind a prescription or can be over the counter. For over-the-counter stuff I think you have a good point, but for prescription drugs (which I'm sure is all or nearly all of the interesting drugs) they are gatekeepers.
This sounds rad and I wish you all the very best!!
It’s very hard to compete on quality in leather bags without a reputation and a good bricks and mortar network because online customers have no way to tell the quality and even in person customers probably lack the knowledge - so from the producers perspective why bother spending more?
Caution to anyone who clicks this link: mute your speakers first, or else you'll have to deal with blaring obnoxious music via an auto-play video that isn't visible without scrolling.
Only power users / devs really understand what Apple does in terms of vetting apps.

Regular people just want to be able to install what they want.

As a dev who has to deal with the Apple App store (and someone who is completely bought into the Apple ecosystem, owning an iPhone, Macbook Pro, Vision Pro, Apple Watch, and iPad...), I'd like to just be able to push out an app or update without involving Apple. They require us to do a lot of work that I don't think is necessary and the app approval process is a significant time waster for us.
Industrial "robots" often (generally?) have very little autonomy. It's helpful to not be constrained to the human form.

What is a robot? An automated laborer.
> And then that old timber ends up in the landfill.

Timber often doesn't breakdown in landfills due to the level of compaction
Yes please!

Another reason: I'll often come across a blog post from 12 years where the author writes "in my next post, I'll continue to discuss..."

And how the heck am I supposed to find that next post? They didn't add a hyperlink, obviously, because they hadn't written it yet. Sometimes a blog has posts you can navigate by month, but that's definitely a small minority of blogs I come across.

If there was just a single-page index, I could Ctrl+F the title of the current article, and quickly see what followed it chronologically.
Nothing really wrong with this. Constantly changing prices means a great deal of busywork and stores constantly have the wrong prices posted the way things are now.

I'm not going to argue for the virtue of updating prices for products by hand out of FUD over surge pricing or the like. If people are really upset about it we can legislate that prices can't be changed more frequently than weekly.
The fact that we don't have surge pricing on everything is a market inefficiency that only exists due to the lack of technology. This seems inevitable, unless we legislate against it (what detractors could accurately call price fixing).
How about a flying drone that drops an inflatable from a few meters above the struggling swimmer?
I like that Walmart "sells" them https://www.walmart.com/ip/Patek-Philippe-Patek-Philippe-Nau...
they must have been really desperate, from the little you've told us here.

edit: sorry dang.
I was responding to this part of the comment:

>No online account needed

Because it implies that you need an online account for W11, which you don't.
Cloudflare provides excellent services both to customers and the NSA. What’s not to love?
And what happens if I pickup a product at X price and it changes to Y by the time I get to pay for it?
Probably because you're presenting a strawman and a false dichotomy.
But the behavior changed accordingly when lispm mutated the source expression.

So if there is another form that is actually being used for the execution, the change in source must have been detected and propagated to that other form.

Anyway, that situation looks like true blue interpreted functions. There is nested list source you can tweak, and the tweaks somehow go into effect.
I have seen this. Its pretty cool and I do want to learn it.

What I am thinking of is much more of programming language though. The fundemental object is something like a composable tree with some additional state.
Not that it should matter, but it seems impossible to conclude anything from the publicly available information and neither party seems interested in building a coherent narrative that strengthens their position.

And, like it or not, if an argument relies on confusion (especially if intended to bring the other party's credibility into question with the general public) then that argument can easily appear specious.
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On the web, I like footnotes more provided they link back to the referencing text. On my blog, I love to use footnotes for little tangents and asides, apart from their usual task of providing references. Not every post/article needs them.

Sidenotes are cool, but they are a skeuomorphism not amenable to fluid layouts. I feel plain vanilla in-line disclosure elements work better, and they might be better for accessibility too.

In dead tree books, I enjoy both. Marginalia can elevate the text. Footnotes are always in context of the whole page, which I can view all at once. No scrolling needed.
The world's most popular podcast is the Joe Rogan Experience. Which part of Spotify is using an RSS feed for that?
So cloudflare added an IP to a blacklist that they curate, which is then offered to it’s many customers to automatically use, and then claims that fixing false positives is out of their hands?

This is some amazingly blatant corporate gaslighting.
Emphasis on "research". There is no silver bullet available.
There isn't an "Uber driver" in that sense any more than there is a "person". Early on it was part-time and more gig labor. When you're being leased the vehicle via Uber themselves [https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/vehicle-solutions/] it's definitely pushing towards real job. I wonder how many of those locked-out drivers are paying for those cars on the lease program, or if they get preference.

Take a taxi, people!
SC?
I think this highlights the problem with so much of the Internet being hosted behind a single provider that has the reachability of a porcupine.
I doubt most sites are aware of the problems that Cloudflare causes.

- Lots of blogs (often product features and whatnot) that I would read and share with interested friends are broken because Cloudflare blocks their RSS feed. These companies are losing high quality traffic and referrals.

- I regularly turn away from sites because a significant number of the pageloads are delayed.

Both of these probably show up on the dashboard as "Threats Stopped". The user probably doesn't realize that a significant number of these are would-be customers.
Home AI Training Is Killing Music

(/s aside, all for this suit)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music)
> This guy should do as said and just ask their ISP for another address to NAT from.

Have you ever tried to contact an ISP before?
Maybe it's because I live in the USA where we usually have a whopping 2 choices for providers, but it's a MASSIVE pain to get them to do basically anything rudimentary, like replace a modem. I can't imagine calling up Comcast and trying to get them to change something like this...
Ask HN: Show me your WIP project
Test early, fail fast and quickly iterate.

Also, just post it here if you need help with any project or idea.
It's entertainment.

It's just as right or wrong as buying tickets to watch a sporting contest.
The microfeature I like is when posts have the full date. Blog authors want their content to be evergreen so they try to exclude it. Context is essential for me to interpret the perspective, especially for technical content. I end up having to go to the internet archive to see an estimate of when they wrote it anyway.
What browser are you on that allows autoplaying video?
We wouldn't need seat belts if we simply didn't crash.
Interestingly India got "do the needful" from Britain, but then it dropped out of use there, while India kept it.

There are things like that idea though. I hear "different different" from Indian coworkers pretty regularly, which is apparently a direct translation of a common Hindi expression.
This happens to me sometimes too. Basically 95% of web sites require a captcha now. But 95% of the web is garbage so it's really not that bad.
I'm 3.5 years into building the uptime monitoring + status page solution I wanted to see in the world, I'd argue the "core" part took a weekend to get into an MVP state.

The trick is the other 99% that non-early adopters need to feel like the solution is for them (user management, audit logs, and other SaaS table-stakes features).

In short, "we do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy".
Western Australia and Queensland have a good deal of Monazite sands that one can extract Thorium from. This would greatly reduce the need for more complex safety and disposal regulations necessary with larger fission reactors.

A small college in Texas was able to build and run a Thorium reactor, so it can't be that far out of reach for a small country : https://youtu.be/kCrrrmh-eMo?si=NChlWACDXajKm9hr
If the pandemic taught us anything (which it really, shockingly, didn't) it's that moral hazard is less of a risk than Chicago School economists would have you think.

Introducing mechanisms to keep people safer rarely yields the feared perverse behavior, so just introduce the bit of safety and keep a wary eye out for the perverse behavior.
It's complicated. The amount of industry knowledge needed is huge - not something someone with good software expertise can just leave on the fly.

It's also been, traditionally, a crazy business with dozens and dozens of vendors that a dealership can choose from. CDK and Reynolds might have pretty big market share, but a lot of that is because they integrate with zillions of tiny vendors.

Lastly, I just don't think there's been enough money in it to try. The industry as a whole is lucrative but you're not gonna get rich trying to dominate a single aspect of it. COVID represented a permanent shift in how software was viewed in the industry. Dealerships have to spend more on higher quality software, because they simply can't afford to stay in business without it.

The closest company I can think of that's trying to disrupt this is Tekion.
> This guy should do as said and just ask their ISP for another address to NAT from.

He clearly states "I don’t have the ability to change my IP with my ISP so that’s not an option".
Closer to how lots markets work in many parts of the world.
identifying customers based on gait analysis and bluetooth identification (already widely implemented) will certainly lead to individual pricing
It still exists, even if it is not used as much these days.

I have email without advertisements.

Some web sites will have RSS, and you can add it to your own if you want to do. (Although I think Hina-Di is better in some ways)

Other protocols also are still used, even if not as commonly. (I use IRC and NNTP, too.)
The factories and jobs are local, which makes it "your industry".
> And how the heck am I supposed to find that next post?

Subscribe to the blog's RSS feed?
Seems reasonable until prices are updated based on who is looking at them or when someone has something to their cart.
Industrial robots are autonomous: they do not require an operator.

An RC car requires one.
For x64, there's OTVDM to run Windows 3.1 applications.
I have to use different computers for work and hobbies, so I like that I can get some of my configs to match and therefore can allow muscle memory to handle a lot of my daily driving. if I had to use different editors, for example, it would be really irritating.
Technological moonshots are great. Modular reactors, renewable energy grids with large scale storage, are all very exciting.

But with the climate emergency and its potential tipping points being a decade away, we should immediately fix the problem with clean tech that already works.

Classical nuclear reactors are great, scalable, proven and clean. They just have bad public image from PR disasters of the past. We don't have time for fancy rebrands like SMRs, MSRs, fusion, and other stuff that could take half a century
Lifeguards on some beaches in CA use rapid-deploy personal water craft like a Seadoo.
Throw Row Arigato Mr Roboto

for saving me again...
As an owner of Apple hardware, it is my basic duty to hold them accountable. Yet many of the people who rush to defend Apple somehow think it's hypocritical to be a customer of them while simultaneously criticizing them. And there is so, so much to criticize.
Sadly, sitemaps aren't usually much help because:

- They're often only URL's which may not have titles or dates at all

- They're often not in any particular order (there's no reason for them to be chronological, so they frequently aren't)

- They're often paginated as well, where sitemap.xml just refers to multiple <sitemapindex> pages, so you can't Ctrl+F on a single page anyways

- You don't get one per-blog if there are multiple blogs on a domain

- You get all the other junk from the rest of a site if it's a blog that's part of a larger site
Apple at risk of £30B fine after EU launches investigation
Hmmm, thanks, maybe I should try that.

I wonder if it would help if I wrote a little program that plays short note sequences and then asks me to recreate the sequence (possibly modulo transposition).
Some people are passing through and only stay at a city overnight, or are just making a day trip, and getting a card and returning it for a deposit might be a hassle. You might be visiting multiple cities within a brief period, each with a different system and different card, and getting and returning a card at each sounds cumbersome. More or less the same if you occasionally visit different cities in your country or area but not often enough that you'd want to keep cards for a bunch of cities. A local might forget their card and need to make a single trip.

I can see lots of use cases for single-use tickets. All of them are technically possible to cover with a non-disposable card, of course, but that doesn't mean single-use isn't more convenient in some of them.

Nowadays phone apps might also be an option, but that can hardly be the only way of paying for public transit.
"because you live in a country where the primary purpose for you as a citizen is to go into debt, so you better know how to, at the very least, do financial planning"
If it's $12k and requires an operator this seems more of a band-aid than anything. Where are the operators going to come from? And for a lot of places the operator + device probably pays for 3 lifeguards or swim instructors.

Nothing is going to get better until we start trying to get out of the hole and improve the average person's ability to swim and make decisions in open water. I used to be a lifeguard and swim instructor and it has mostly felt like things have gotten worse and worse over the last 20 years. Fewer and fewer places to swim, more and more places just made everything a wading pool or a splash park to reduce liability, and after a generation of this there is an undersupply of people who can teach others to swim. Now some municipalities in my area are trying to ban swimming in open water. They closed all the pools to save money, it gets hotter and hotter and more people who can't swim go in the oceans/rivers/ponds/lakes to try and cool off. A lot of the people who never learned to swim make extremely poor decisions when they go into open water or use a small boat. The answer is not to fine them for going in the water.

It's pretty frustrating to think about all this after watching the Olympic trials this past weekend.