skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how does this information really create significant value for myself?

This was a really important question I asked myself. If I build it, will I use it? I had two answers.

First, I do, somewhat regularly, have reasons to look back into this archive. If it mission-critical? No. Is it nice to have, yes? I like being able to see what happened on a certain day in the past, I like seeing how trends between activities come together, and I like tying systems together locally rather than in the cloud. I use Obsidian so bringing everything together locally is a big motivation.

Second, this is just a hobby, like any other. Having conversations like this, contributing to the universe of open source, connecting with people on the things I feel strongly about (data privacy, local first, life logging) ... it's fun and interesting and a good use of my life. There is a tendency to get a little obsessed with it all (family history of OCD forces me to be mindful about it) but I've enjoyed the process so far.

I love your browser extension idea. Managing content from the web that I want to save has been a big challenge locally.
That is exactly what they are doing at my Costco - - not allowing people in the exit and requiring ID for food court.
I have to wonder if bcachefs will do better in the long run than btrfs.
Why competent workers become incompetent managers
It would be nice to have a comparison with any of the many C++ MIR (music information retrieval) libraries in the wild:

- https://essentia.upf.edu/

- https://github.com/marsyas/marsyas

- https://github.com/ircam-ismm/pipo

- https://github.com/flucoma/flucoma-core/tree/main/include/al...
How to Write a Zephyr Device Driver with a Custom API
Good point. I am used to thinking in terms of thinks that are dynamically linked.
MakeyMakey from 2014? Would let you setup a gamepad you drew on paper with a pencil. Though it is wired, still impressive.

https://makeymakey.com/

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18303012
Starbucks Ousts CEO, Names Chipotle Boss as Replacement
>Why is it different if they do that via a middleman?

Because injecting a middleman into the situation creates a facade of plausible deniability. Obviously, such deniability is complete nonsense to anyone with eyes and a brain, but here we are.
Capitalism, as commonly understood today, by non-Economists, has everything to do with this. (Which, yes, is a major social problem.)

Vs. (IIR) Classical (Adam Smith era) Economics viewed rent as Feudalism - not Capitalism - and took a very dim view of all such "as much gold as you can squeeze out of others, without doing any real work yourself" schemes.
https://archive.ph/rge0P
Because it's dev. Does your bathroom door have a deadbolt and a key and you lock it firmly every single time when you're home alone?
Hi everyone,

I’m John, the creator of Narrative Nooks. I built this app because I wanted to help kids learn in a way that feels more like play than work. I’m here to learn from the community, so I’d love to hear your thoughts on how I can improve the app. What features would you like to see? How can I make the learning experience even better for kids? Thanks for your feedback!
> If I can just tab complete my N body code, did I really gain the knowledge of building it?

Yes, because fixing it requires about the same effort as writing it from scratch. At least with current level of AI. When it works well, you just move it to a library and use it without worrying about implementation, like we do with all other library code.

Using AI doesn't make the problem any easier for the developer. The fact that it generates functions for you is misleading, code review and testing is harder than typing. In the end we use AI in coding because we like the experience, it doesn't fundamentally change what kind of code we can write. It saves us a few keystrokes and lookups.

AI might be useful in literature review stage, formal writing and formatting math. Who's gonna give millions worth of compute to blindly run the AI-Scientist? Most companies prefer to have a human in the loop, it's a high stakes scenario depending on cost.
A Collection of Collections
Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07767-5

>> Therapeutic targeting of this neuro–cancer axis with the TACR1 antagonist aprepitant, an approved anti-nausea drug, suppressed breast cancer growth and metastasis in multiple models. Our findings reveal that tumour-induced hyperactivation of sensory neurons regulates multiple aspects of metastatic progression in breast cancer through a therapeutically targetable neuropeptide/extracellular ssRNA sensing axis.

Does anyone know of any clinical trials?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts#End_of_homestea...

> The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ended homesteading; by that time, federal government policy had shifted to retaining control of western public lands. The only exception to this new policy was in Alaska, for which the law allowed homesteading until 1986.

> The last claim under this Act was made by Ken Deardorff for 80 acres (32 ha) of land on the Stony River in southwestern Alaska. He fulfilled all requirements of the homestead act in 1979 but did not receive his deed until May 1988. He is the last person to receive a title to land claimed under the Homestead Acts.
i dont think they are complaining about the libraries, but rather the scratchpads and notebooks that people use for ideation and evaluation being moved directly into a production environment because the authors don't have the experience or time to build more structured, efficient and maintainable code.
I've coded a ton of shell scripts over the years and never actually considered this nor has anyone I know ever intentionally[1] put protections for it in their scripts so I think the original comment may be overestimating when they say "most of us"

With that said, I definitely ill be looking out for this in the future.

[1] I have unintentionally protected against this by using unique names for my temp files.
I think the answer is to not have a flavour du jour. Pick one, crown it the winner, document it well and give it some time. If the solution is always changing, nobody is going to want to put the effort in.
Also the first rule of crime is don't write down that you're doing a crime.
Patreon does not require creators to pause payments when they go on break.

But that should obviously be a choice that is available to creators, for a variety of reasons. They might be treating Patreon more like a subscription service than a donation platform. They might have personal psychological hang-ups (read about why per-creation pricing is so popular with some creators). I would criticize Patreon if it forced creators into that decision. Forcing them out of that decision is also worth critiquing.

It ought to be a creator's choice when they do and don't charge their patrons. It is not Patreon or Apple's job to decide with that level of detail what the relationship between a creator and their fans should look like. And creators who voluntarily decide (for whatever reason) to temporarily pause charging fans are not doing anything wrong.
I can see the clickbait YouTube video now: "Reduce demand for housing with this one modest proposal"

Referenced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Depends on how you look at it. Simply adding supply doesn't really address the underlying problem if you don't look at the rest of the context. If any freshly built housing is bought up by landlords who can afford to outbid ordinary people, then adding supply doesn't alleviate the problem. We're seeing this in many capitals across the world. Realistically I think any solution must start with making real estate a non-feasible investment vehicle, otherwise you're always going to bid against the ultrarich of the world either directly or indirectly, no matter how much supply you add.
It's far, far simpler, than Protobuf, more efficient than JSON, and uses existing infrastructure that many people will be at least loosely familiar with. I think it's a pretty good idea!
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Having a job he likes that pays him money he wants. That’s the criteria outlined. He’s just afraid it might end up being a job he doesn’t like.

There is a myth that higher paying jobs must be more miserable, but it’s rarely true.
It's C and Python, not C++
There was a period of time (80s-90s) that the American middle class was booming and thriving. Boomers with stable but unfulfilling jobs regretted not following their dreams, and the future looked bright, so they told their millenial kids to chase their passions and the money would follow.

Then a generation of millenials collectively got millions of degrees in liberal arts and humanities, but the degrees didn't have any class-signaling power or economic value the way a college degree in 1970 did, so instead of getting cushy careers they ended up in low-paid, low-status unfulfilling jobs, with debt from a useless degree.

Gen Z saw that happen and took a more practical view towards college, careers, etc.
> I get that they need to cut a large amount of people before live interviews

You've just answered your own question. Leetcode is meant to be a filter, nothing more.

> but hackerrank/code signal have the ability to test

I'm not familiar with those things, but I don't think companies using things like leetcode actually care how good they are at skills/knowledge testing. I think they just want a coarse filter that doesn't depend on a human making initial assessments. Leetcode does that.

And it works! For instance, I can't imagine being willing to engage in a leetcode test to get a job, so I am automatically filtered out of some positions without them doing a thing.
> That's a meaningless distinction though.

Just because there's currently no way to separate the two financially doesn't mean the complaint is invalid. There are multiple plausible ways for those finances to become untangled.

> just because the owner is rich

Him being just "rich" (7-8 figure threshold) is barely a factor. It's the extreme level and the way he acts.
Because decisionmakers literally think that potential customers who are comparing products side by side look at whether ProductA has a tick in the "AI" column and ProductB doesn't, so A must be better. I think it's as simple as that. They cater to the feature-matrix thing, they get a win for their yearly review because they "implemented AI". A good search makes users love your product. But that doesn't show up in a feature matrix, nor is it a great review bullet point to have "improved the search somewhat".
I believe this is widespread. There are plenty of hotels who have 100 rooms, yet only 6 are occupied on any typical night, yet they still price the rooms at $150/night.

Any sane manager would discount the rooms to $75/night, pulling in all the guests from neighbouring hotels, filling the place, and raking in a tidy profit.

Yet 'head office' says discounts aren't allowed, even if it increases revenue. Presumably because the CEO is mates with the competing CEO's and they all decide not to undercut eachother.
Yup, the law of supply and demand does tell the important parts of the price story. Using software to help set prices lets suppliers converge on the market rate more swiftly, but doesn't change that rate by a lot. It's the same when a buyer uses software to see a long list of market prices. It helps them determine their demand price, but doesn't do a lot to move it beyond the supply and demand story. Banning such software would reduce the efficiency at which we arrive at those prices on both the high and low side. It's not clear that demanders would benefit more than suppliers.
SpaceTraders – A unique multiplayer game built on a free Web API
I've seen an increasing number of projects with seemingly questionable Codes of Conduct or other similar guidelines. As an example, a few years ago I was interested in trying my hand at contributing to a FOSS project, and found P5.js which matched my interests. However, the contributor docs [1] mentioned:

> At the 2019 Contributors Conference, p5.js made the commitment to only add new features that increase access (inclusion and accessibility). We will not accept feature requests that don’t support these efforts.

I completely support these efforts, but it turned me off the project. It seems a bit too strict to just refuse any PRs that cannot be considered as increasing access by some measures. I even tried looking for the proceedings of the mentioned conference to get more context, but didn't find anything conclusive. It seemed like an arbitrary decision, made outside public oversight.

It might be the case that these policies aren't enforced seriously, but at that time I decided that I didn't want to risk working on something for potentially months that I found cool but couldn't present as "increasing access". So, I just went ahead and played around with OpenGL instead.

[1]: https://p5js.org/contribute/access/
Is there a simple way to check if my Python script is affected? Because I guess numpy only complains if the FPU has been screwed up before it loads (not if some other package loaded later does it)?
They will do absolutely everything they can in the city to lower the cost of housing EXCEPT allow more of it.

"it's those greedy landlords fault"
Claims of inventing new materials via AI were debunked...

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/deepmind-ai-study-c...

DeepMind is overselling their AI hand when they dont have to.

"whos to say that" - this could be a leading question for any "possibility" in the AI religion.

"whos to say that god doesnt exist" etc. questions for which there are no tests, and hence fall outside the realm of science and in the realm of religion.
Apple says Patreon must use its billing system or risk removal from App Store
> That's how many burglaries are solved in my area

I'm interested by this, could you post some examples?
C can be used in C++ code, no?
The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
> I technically could. Nothing stops me from self-signing apps or using websites only. It's just massively inconvenient

literally all you have to do is `brew install altserver` and then be on wifi with your laptop once a week.
I have too often lately been in a situation where I cannot find any authoritative sources for a topic where there should be one. The first time this happened it was deeply unsettling - I couldn't recall going back a decade a single time I couldn't find a random piece of information - it was sometime mid-2022. Now it's so commonplace I just resign myself that I may just not get an answer to whatever question I have.

The most ironic thing would be if this "post truth" situation we seem to be in drives people back to brick and mortar libraries.
In the case of hotel-casinos however I don't know if I believe in the posted prices at all as a lot of people are getting comps. My mother-in-law has a moderate gambling habit at the local casino and she gets free rooms all the time.

They opened a new hotel-casino near the Catskills that I was thinking about using as a base camp but I thought the posted room rates were insane but I'm sure if you were gambling you'd get a better deal.

Also they end their data in 2022 when the effect of the pandemic was still there to push occupancy down. I remember going to Buffalo a lot around that time and having Priceline put me in various Marriott group hotels at great rates.
Yes, the beast. It's a monstrous thing that does everything and nothing particularly well.
If they're shipping notebooks to production and having so many crashes, I'd question that they even know how to do Python.
Imagine the terrible future in which disinterested first-tier customer service bots just regurgitate from a script, often getting stuck in a loop, with a short context window so that you have to keep prompting your request with different phrasing.
It's not - the FTC released a statement on this very topic a few months ago: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fix...
> It is easy to generate mock implementation code

Not in any reusable way. Take a look at mockgen and testify: All they do is provide a mechanism to push implementation into being defined at runtime by user code. So, if they, or something like it, is in use the implementation is still necessarily there for all to see.

> Also, the original author of the function that consumed the apparently unnecessary interface type may have intended to test it

Okay, sure, but this is exactly what the commenter replied to was talking about initially. What is a repetition of what he said meant to convey?

> That means the discussion may be broader than just what one person contributes to it.

Hence why we're asking where the relevance is. There very well may be something broader to consider here, but what that is remains unclear. Mocking in and of itself is not in any way interesting. Especially when you could say all the very same things about stubs, spies, fakes, etc. yet nobody is talking about those, and for good reason.

> If this offends you

For what logical reason would an internet comment offend?
As always, -funsafe-math-optimizations are neither fun nor safe
>>Most robots require kill buttons or estops on them so that a human can shut them down. If a customer ever feels the need to hit that button, then the people who have built and sold the robot have failed. They have not made it operate well enough that the robot never gets into a state where things are going that wrong.

A corollary of this is the robot that gets it's kill switch activated should also notify it's designers of the failure and details (upon rebooting, not first waiting to shut down), or provide a report that the customer can send. These should be top priority repair/upgrade tickets to improve it's function in the real world.
Don't worry you Americans.

Your government will soon find a reason to sue Airbus (corruption, unfair competition, etc.) in order to extract its secrets and supply them to Boeing, and voila, Airbus' technological lead will be wiped out.

See Alstom's story for a manual of the perfect economic imperialist : https://www.economist.com/business/2019/01/17/how-the-americ...
from your experience, what are the pros and cons of expo vs no expo ?

I only have experience with no expo react-native development
French customs officers thwart €1.3M sale of fake Leonardo da Vinci painting
Fully agreed on point A, but I've heard the "but then humans won't be trained" argument before and don't buy it. It's already the case that humans can cheat or get buy without fully understanding the math or ideas they're working with.

This is what PhD defences are for, and what paper reviews are for. Yes, likely we need to do something to improve peer review, but that is already true without AI.

From a more philosophical point of view, if we did hypothetically have some AI assistant in science that could speed up discovery by say 2x, in some areas it seems almost unethical not to use it. E.g. how many more lives could be saved by getting medicine or understanding disease earlier? What if we obtained cleaner power generation or cleaner shipping technologies twice as fast? How many lives might be saved by curtailing climate change faster?

To me, accelerating science is likely one of the most fundamentally important applications of modern AI we can work on.
Yes. Forgejo is a fork of Gitea.
Do people search for applications in the App Store or on the Web?

This 2023 study[0] indicates 48% of people discover apps by browsing through the App Stores, compared to 21% that discover them through Web search engines.

Is this a trend?

This 2015 study[1] indicates 40% of people browse for apps in the App Stores, compared to 25% (“1 in 4”) that discover them through Web search engines.

Does this apply to Patreon?

The CEO of Patreon had this to say:[2]

> iOS is actually now the most used platform for communities on Patreon.

[0]: https://www.semrush.com/blog/app-store-optimization/

[1]: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-strategies/app-and...

[2]: https://youtu.be/L-LoTH3PzgM?si=F1xraTOFxx8SJN0C&t=61
Using OpenTelemetry and the OTel Collector for Logs, Metrics, and Traces
Why is the very existence of such a middleman not illegal? I'm sure their sales pitch is more subtle than "we'll help you get away with price fixing", but it should be obvious that the effect is the same.
During covid, many (most? all?) hotels stopped housekeeping while you were there. They would only come after you've checked out altogether. If you needed additional supplies, you'd go ask the front desk for them. Sometimes the rooms would also be staggered (nobody else would be there for a few days after you, in case the virus is still lurking)

After covid, many hotels never fully returned to daily housekeeping, often opting for every other day or so. Some still don't offer it until you check out. Guess they rode the covid coattails for the cost savings.
That's an absurd statement. For example, planck's constant is known to better than 1%, as is the mass of various particles. Heck, the Earth, which is sufficiently non-spherical for it to matter only differs in radius (between polar and equatorial) by 0.3%!
Great, I just moved my items to gitlab.

I wonder how long the new owners will add AI, Copilot, 2FA and other crap to their site.

I went github -> back to RCS and anon ftp -> just now to gitlab

I guess it is back to RCS and anon ftp.

FWIW, I would expect IBM to grab gitlab if it is really up for sale.
If we were like the Soviet Union we might address the problem of coastal overpopulation by setting up a Gulag in Idaho or Wyoming.
<dang>, this is (2022).
https://github.com/noctuid/tdrop is really rather interesting.

Thank you.
The comment was about https://github.com/markuman/sms, not OSM.
Oh I made something similar but for Netflix!

https://github.com/cubbK/dubbing_ai_netflix_client

I want to learn swedish and because there are so few dubbed movies in Swedish I take the subtitles(Netflix is good at having subtitles in different languages) and text-to-speech it :)
They want us to believe the problem is the greedy landlords, and not the incompetent, greedy, and entitled politicians.

Every time they "allow" more housing they weigh it down with petty pet requirements.
The DOJ is planning to sue RealPage...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/12/justice-department-...
A problem can have more than one cause.
If it politically vibes with him and if he prefers applied linguistics to theoretical/academic, then SIGINT/signals intelligence, whether in the military or for intelligence services. Potentially certain types of analyst position or even in the diplomatic services, particularly in regions of the world with many/complex local languages and dialects (e.g. sub-Saharan Africa or central Asia).
My understanding is that he wraps Twitter hot takes in an aura of credibility through narrative and authority without necessarily providing any proof. So in that way I’m skeptical. And it’s also ironic that an article about post-truth lifts up those kinds of ideas.

On the other hand, you could argue that at a certain philosophical high level, you can’t use current generation paradigms to meaningfully explore next generation paradigms anyway – so how else are we gonna intuit the world we’re transitioning into? I suspect that to explain emerging social phenomena we’re going to have to adopt some strange ideas, whether it’s neo-religious, postmodernism or Harari-style scientism. Pick your flavor I guess..
It is challenging to obtain informed consent when a company acting as the middleman between you and your customers changes their terms even if it is theoretically possible try and convince your customers to change middlemen.
Yes. Virtual environments aren’t a full sandbox.
It's important to add that CBS also retracted this story.