skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The distinction you outline reminds me of Carol Dweck's "Growth Mindset" research. She suggests (based on studies) that children praised for being "smart" become afraid to take risks which might show them less than perfectly smart. They become consumed with "image maintenance" to the point of even tearing down peers so as to look "smarter" than them. By contrast, she suggests children praised for effort, learning, progress, and related things learn to be persistent even when things are difficult, uncertain, or have a learning curve. If the distinction you draw is correct, perhaps "obstinate" people were praised as smart and "persistent" people were praised for hard work and stick-to-it-iveness and related things?

"What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means" by Carol Dweck https://hbr.org/2016/01/what-having-a-growth-mindset-actuall...
"[It is a common misconception that] growth mindset is just about praising and rewarding effort. This isn’t true for students in schools, and it’s not true for employees in organizations. In both settings, outcomes matter. Unproductive effort is never a good thing. It’s critical to reward not just effort but learning and progress, and to emphasize the processes that yield these things, such as seeking help from others, trying new strategies, and capitalizing on setbacks to move forward effectively. In all our research, the outcome — the bottom line — follows from deeply engaging in these processes."
And that doesn't even account for massive amount of government money being funneled into Boeing in form of military contracts.
Surprised and not surprised. There's a lot of devs that know a little SQL, but I think it's different when you're mostly using ORMs to abstract away the DB. For business users, you pull up a GUI like this or the one that comes with the DB and sometimes spend hours writing queries and exploring the schema, so you get used to these kinds of tools... especially if you have to move between several databases. I'm sure plenty of devs, do as well, but probably a smaller proportion. It's a great project though.
> Even if you just tally things, computations may produce zero

It may produce zero but not necessarily.

Tallying things is more likely to produce a notion of "alright, no one owes anyone anything", and there's no need to track this "nothing". Only when things don't tally is it required to keep track.

Because there's no use persisting this "nothing"ness over space and time it's unlikely to have been abstracted further to zero.
Obligatory plug for Medama, which focuses on easy self-hostability: https://github.com/medama-io/medama

I think Plausible’s self-hosting is not simple, requiring unnecessarily heavy databases like ClickHouse, which can be overkill for the average website owner. Comparatively, this project can effectively run on a 256MB VM for most small website with no external dependencies.
I guess the airlines want to monetize all they can... so probably not.
"Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome" - Charlie Munger. Car companies don't need to care, if your car gets stolen the insurance company buys you a new one. You do lose some customers who won't buy your car if it's in the top ten most stolen list.

We could implement a law that fines car companies who are in the top ten list, and pays out to the car companies who are at the bottom.
That beats the entire purpose of having names on tickets, which is to stop scalers.
You can do async right in the runtime that takes advantage of all threads.
maybe when we have abundant Starlink capacity,
otherwise any satellite-to-ground roundtrip at a reasonable speed is costly
Show HN: Directed Intelligence – Smarter, More Reliable LLMs
Hey HN,

We built Directed Intelligence to tackle the problems we faced with ChatGPT-style applications. It's not a library (yet), but a pattern for building better apps.

Here’s our story:

Why We Built It:

We started by building a "wrapper" very similar to ChatGPT but it sucked.

- Users found responses inconsistent and unreliable.

- Conversations drifted off-topic.

- Advice was generic.

- Experts struggled to steer the model via prompts without technical skills.

Our Solution:

- Combine LLMs with focused scripts written in natural language.

- Active topic management to keep conversations on track.

- The system selects and follows the right scripts based on user input.

How It Works:

- Starts with a base LLM like GPT-4.

- Selects and follows appropriate scripts.

- Monitors context and switches scripts as needed.

- Adds external tools only when scripts call for them.

Real-World Example (https://fforward.ai):

- We built a CMS to manage all our scripts

- We use a state machine and various LLMs to select the appropriate script, monitor context, and swap scripts when needed.

Check out our demo to see it in action: fforward.ai. No signup required.

Looking forward to your feedback!

Cameron Westland, Max Cameron, Jon Friis
I do not understand how it's not sustainable if it has sustained itself as a part of normal wildlife management for centuries without any destructive interventions besides cutting and replanting old trees in a fairly remote region.
Why Michigan is spending millions on drone infrastructure
Sri Lanka's organic farming disaster, explained (2022)
I have to strongly agree with this. The entire point of react was to avoid all the challenges of old imperative coding of syncing up state with render state. The Dom digging was an absolutely genius idea to stop that nonsense and just render the correct state and let the framework handle the rest.

I wrote a ton of backbone code, and was a major fan of jquery before Dom querying was even a feature of browsers. And once I went react I really fell in love with frontend dev. Frontend is so simple now because of it, while it used to be dare I say more complex than backend back in the day.
My father makes fake teeth, so for my wedding, and also my sister's wedding, he cast the rings out of old gold scraps he had lying around. It's maybe the one possession I have that I'm extremely sentimental about.
Recently I found Cloudflare's WARP app let me bypass the chat-only restriction on some long-haul airlines. You'd get like 5kbps bandwidth, but it was enough to read HN.
Where did pseudoscience come into the conversation? Depending on your approach, MBTI is either a reasonable heuristic for concepts that have been validated scientifically (i.e. correlation to Big Five), or is not attempting to be a scientific model at all.
Did they forget to block UDP? Or they left it totally open for DNS to work?!
What do you think about LLM Honeypot?
In the US, it’s free on Delta for SkyMiles members, which is in turn free to join. It’s also free for everyone on JSX with no strings, and they actually are the first airline I know of to use StarLink.

Additionally it’s free on most US airlines for T-Mobile customers, but only on devices that actually have T-Mobile SIMs (so not most laptops).
What you heard is from the Zen of Python, a short text meant to express core ideas behind the design of the Python language. You can read it by typing `import this` in the Python interpreter. The exact sentence is:

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

This sentence was coined as an answer to a catch phrase that was used to describe the Perl programming language: There Is More Than One Way To Do It. Giving programmers more freedom to express themselves in different ways was presented as a good thing by the Perl community.

Python was partly marketed as a replacement for Perl and the sentence from the Zen of Python expresses a difference from Perl. The idea is that having different ways to do things leads to confusion and code that is harder to maintain, problems that Perl was supposed to incur according to its critics.

The sentence was true to a certain extent when it came to the Python language. It don't think it has ever been true for the Python ecosystem. For example, during the early 2000s, there were a plethora of web back-end frameworks for Python. As the Python language has since gained a lot of features, I'm not even sure that this is true for the language itself.

Regarding package management, this has always been a weak point of the Python ecosystem. Python developers often make jokes between themselves about that. Unfortunately, I would be very surprised if this project was to put an end to this issue.

Despite all this, I encourage you to learn Python because it's a very interesting and powerful language with an extremely rich ecosystem. Yes, there are many ways to do the same thing with it. But on the other hand, there is a way to do pretty much anything with it.
While the ad situation with modern TVs is not something I want to defend, most of them can still be used as offline displays if you forego the smart features and simply feed them HDMI video and audio data without ever granting the TV an online connection. Unfortunately offline displays tend to either be prohibitively expensive (becuase they are sold as business displays) or lag behind in the technology used.
CVE:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-3596

Nothing on oss-security list yet, but it'll appear here:
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/09/

Essential reading is this FAQ from DeKok, FreeRADIUS maintainer who revised the RADIUS UDP approach to mitigate:
https://www.inkbridgenetworks.com/blastradius/faq
Seriously. Who votes this to the top of HN? Is this a joke?
Canada is the new California.

These poor people stealing cars need money because they are out of work. We can't throw them in jail for being jobless and "unhoused"
Yeah but common peasants have tons too. There was no birth control back then.

The common peasant should dominate the gene pool given the massively larger proportion relative to royalty.

But I’m just making conjecture here as much as you. Who knows? you could be right.
Can you point out something that is sustainable, green and healthy?
Support, liability protection, SLA…there’s a reason people pay for tools they can get for free.
park.io is fine have you checked it

i have a love and hate situationship with it. it is an industry of squatters, even telegram has done it with their usernames.

but i think what i hate more is businesses being purchased by small and large private equity firms and getting rebranded with a shitty domain name bought for 6 figs. it fucks with the end-users who are used with the old name.
I'm fairly sure that Shkreli's crime was being a bit too showy and blatant and drawing too much attention to drugs racketeering as a whole. I think if he'd done it a bit more quietly he'd have easily gotten away with it. The extremeness on his part was just the drama that surrounded him.

I reckon if any of the Boeing execs responsible for the crash made waves at outrageous parties or went on TV and bragged their crimes with cocaine still up their nose then they'd probably get grudgingly thrown under the bus too.

It mirrors the way Prince Andrew was coddled until he did that idiotic interview and then the royal family decided to downgrade him to "still fully protected from criminal prosecution" but cut out of the family business.
Ok, so it's not "keeping them in sync" as you stated in your first post, it's not a "leap second sneaking in" as in your second post. Now it is somehow data that is not labeled, and only becomes a problem during leap seconds. I'm sure you can see how changing your story and lack of details would make someone skeptical that the problem even exists.

If there really is a problem I'm really interested in hearing what it is. But it doesn't sound like you plan to be straight forward about explaining it.
In many jurisdictions it’s illegal for the state to setup a “trap” to imprison people, like a decoy car to be stolen. This voids the validity of the proof in trial. Isn’t that the case in Canada?
I think the submission title is misleading and doesn't reflect the article. The article has a more narrow discussion about the policy and criticism is listed as being allowed.

Please don't editorialize titles. I note all submissions and all-but-one comment on HN so far have been about the conflict.
> a small society like Estonia could maybe place its focus on heavily developing mixed forests instead, for a start

Thinking aloud here, but I like this idea. It could also be signposted: one of the things that "feels" awful is just the constant gaps in forest: forest, clear, forest forest forest, clear, forest, clear. Or walking to areas you know and love and one day they're just gone. There seems no oversight and little protection.

Suppose you entered a region that was labeled: "In the next 10km, you will see managed forestry", at least you'd know it was deliberate, a large specific region designated for this work, rather than just a bunch of spots where someone who owned a plot of land decided to clearfell it and take the cash.

Because the corollary of that is areas that are _not_ managed (and not cut) and where, hopefully, forest would be allowed to grow into century-or-more old genuine wildforest. And you'd see that signposted too. Or you could plan to buy a house in the middle of that kind of land, if you valued it.
… but we can throw them in jail for stealing cars.
Police use bait cars in several jurisdictions already. It seems to reduce theft but not eliminate it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_car
The value of web analytics for our organization lies in the same realm as the value of Plausible over any third party analytics: The Funnel.

We're a membership driven organization, and by "membership" I mean we rely on donations to fund our content creation (Though whether you're a member or not you have the same level of access to our content). We care about raw traffic numbers, because it relates directly to our mission of informing people. It tells us how many people we inform day to day.

So yeah we care about those raw numbers, and those numbers are difficult to get w/out javaScript r/n because caching and the terrible log retention of our hosting providers.

Raw traffic numbers only tell part of the story though. We want to know the path people take from first landing on the site to becoming a donating member so that (in theory) we can do more of the things that promote that behavior in more people. That's The Funnel, and that's where orgs like Plausible are best. They're first party tracking, so the data stays with us. Also since they're first party tracking we can track a person's overall relationship with our site, from the first news story they read to the moment they first hit our donation page 3 years into the relationship or whatever.

We should be able to do that with our GA set up, but one of the reasons I want us to shift to Plausible is for its simplicity.
> people who use Lisp tend to do that instead of reusing third-party dependencies

Is there any actual evidence for this?
Straight up, I'm not at all being cute, I moved to Toronto in December and so far the only cops I've ever seen are the cops that are protecting construction sites. Really. And people told me oh it's just winter we have beat cops in the summer... uhm, it's the summer now and I still don't see any beat cops. No clue what is going on here but it's extremely weird.
In Canada the towing truck companies stealing cars are all part of the Mafia or gangs. It got so bad that sometime recently the government only certified a few tow truck companies. When you get into an accident you can't call a tow truck company. The police will call the reputable tow truck for you.

This happened to my next door neighbor. I saw them loading up his car at night, my dad went outside and yelled at them. They soon drove off.
It’s a fair and totally reasonable question but clashes with reality. Many hosts have data that others want/like to scrape (eBay, Amazon, Google, airlines, etc.) and they setup anti-scraping mechanisms to try and prevent scraping. Whether or not to respect those desires is a bigger question but not one for the scraping library - it’s one for those doing the scraping and their lawyers.

The fact is - many many people want to scrape these sites and there is massive demand for tools to help them do that, so if APIFY/Crawlee decide to take the moral ground and not offer a way around bot detection, someone else will.
> By "program" we do not mean a single program, but three separate programs that print "yes", "no", or "undecidable".

You can think of it not as he is describing three separate programs, but giving three separate possible descriptions of one program and asserting that one of them is indeed the correct description.
That's part of academic politics. Navigating grant funding is arguably one of the most important skills that a PHD program is supposed to teach given how important that is to the process of research.

Oncology has way way way more funding because there's a much bigger market for it - infectious diseases primarily affect poor people who aren't Americans so not much money in it. Even at the peak of covid I remember advisors warning phd applicants passionate about infectious diseases that the funding surge wasn't going to last and to be careful (which was right). Consider how moderna was originally founded as a vaccine company before almost completely shifting focus to oncology because that's where the money was. Obviously they swung back to vaccines when the pandemic showed up but now they're back focused on oncology.

Funding priorities are also set by the government - there's the cancer moonshot etc which means tons and tons of cancer funding. For universities new cancer treatments are quite valuable IP. And so on. Within a field it becomes very obvious where the funding and momentum is - what are the buzzwords everyone is putting in their grants and papers (nanotech? AI?), what types of publications are getting published int he big journals. Gene therapy came out of its winter after luxturna for example. Car-t was booming after the first approval there, entire departments were set up for it. Mrna stuff is super hot right now, but one of the researchers behind the core technology (that made her university like a billion dollars in royalties) was denied tenure and pushed out of academia when she originally developed the technology because it was considered not useful. First lab I worked in - the PI was fresh out of his postdoc and got hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding and his own lab and bought his own flow cytometer and everything (absolutely not the normal path lol) because he was a first author on a particularly good CRISPR paper. On one hand - trend chasing and bubbles have their obvious downsides. On the other hand - it does mean a lot of resources get funneled into new interesting areas when something cool pops up. But on the original hand - trend chasing and bubbles, welcome to humans on earth i guess. But yeah in terms of how you know about it - you'll know it's quite obvious who's getting money and tenure.

Infectious disease in particular is going to have a really hard time. No market for it, no industry demand. Investments there are already winding down in general: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/johnson-and-johnson-sh....
> That was the positional number system, where a small set of symbols is sufficient to write even very big numbers.

Just the other day I was thinking about it and realised that positional number system enables us to represent infinite numbers with a finite set of symbols. Whoever (person/community) invented is a genius, as positional numbering unlocks so many further inventions down the line.
I disagree. The Romans had the word “nulla” to (loosely) mean “nothing”, but for them, the smallest whole number was 1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer#History: “Historically the term was used for a number that was a multiple of 1, or to the whole part of a mixed number. Only positive integers were considered, making the term synonymous with the natural numbers”

And yes, to introduce a positional number system, you need some way to indicate “there is a position here, but there’s nothing there”, but you don’t need a positional number system to extend the integers by adding the novel concept of zero (and then, you need a, preferably compact, way to write them)
Cool I hope. Be a smaller business that actually serves your niche well and own it forever Etsy.
> Yet the USSR didn't. The official line was that the USSR chose using lunokhods (Moon robotic rovers) over sending people.

Fascinating. So where did half of the older Russian generation get the idea that the moon landings were faked? Internet hoaxes?
I thought entrapment had an element of the state convincing you to commit a crime. My understanding is if the state just leaves an Acura somewhere, and you break into it, it’s fair game.
Meta AI will soon be able to scan and edit images in WhatsApp
Ask HN: What life lessons turned you to entrepreneurship?
Like many I have strong reasons for wanting the freedom and responsibility of earning my own income from a startup - but also small things that set me upon this path.

For me one of those notable ones was when I lived in Halls as a freshman, and a dorm mate got $3000 into CC debt on top of the loans everybody else had. The college gave him $2500 to clear his debt from a hardship fund. The very same year I had worked almost minimum wage to earn $3000 and probably turned down half the parties I was invited to, and had not been able to afford a laptop similar to my (Computer Science) classmates yet.

It was the best life lesson and I needed it. I never told a soul about this or the feeling, but it made me so hard working and so keen on earning my own source of revenue. Now I am older I have let go of that being through my own labour/work/ideas (e.g. OK with being a Landlord for some income), but I have always kept the need to be able to earn your own income, and gather the skills for it. I believe that other dorm mate learned a lesson that instead hurt them in the long run - whenever it came that nobody was around to bail them out.

Do you have a similar small story/moment?
Airtag shows car in transit. Police: 'sorry we can't locate it' or 'we can't enter the port of Montreal'
Effective altruism is stumbling. Can "moral ambition" replace it?
Qualcomm, Microsoft Lean on AI Hype to Spur PC Market Revival