skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The addiction/tolerance potential is proportional to how quickly it gets in your brain.

Very good point. And that goes for amphetamine also (snorted vs ingested).

I used nicotine lozenges as they were big on longecity forum at one point and I had experience with them from quitting tobacco.

So a lot faster than the patch. You can feel it like seconds after resting it inside your lip.
Thanks for the reply! I'll have to try this in Blender, I'd love it if someone could chime in similarly for Linux, I'm super curious about the bindings support on other platforms.
The Volume-Control Model: The transition from information to power
Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17447143.2019.1...
Like Heptapod B. The "next word" argument is pervasive and disappointingly ridiculous. If you present an LLM with a logic puzzle and it gives you the correct answer, how did it "predict the next word"? Yes, the output came in the form of additional tokens. But if those tokens required logical thought, it's a mistake to see the what as the how.
What’s missing from this article: Any sense of proportion. It uses numbers that are large from any human perspective, but doesn’t say how they compare to the rest of civilisation, or nature.
Epictetus, a Stoic philosopher and proponent of Aristotelian virtue ethics, was literally a slave. Some ideas, particularly the best ones, aren't subject to class politics.
MySQL/Perconna/MariaDB has a pretty community with three different, large entities supporting it. At least there's some redundancy if one decides to change course

Postgres also has some separate large entities supporting it but it rolls up to the same codebase
Is this the end for the magnetic stripe?
Aren't Scientology headquarters in Clearwater, FL? The other two things are definitely connected though (LA and Hollywood actor).
Thanks for posting this. The approach of keeping the traditional 12 notes while changing the tuning on-the-fly is really interesting and maybe the right tradeoff. This is so spot-on because adaptive JI is mentioned as a possible solution at the end of the article. It's the classic HN move where a weird topic is being discussed and someone says "why yes, I've made tools that happen to exactly match the niche topic being discussed!"

In fact, it's probably not my business, but this topic is so profoundly niche (and likely to remain so for a while) that I personally wouldn't make this commercial. My reasoning (and the reason I open-sourced some projects) is that it will limit adoption while changing almost nothing about my income. Obviously I hope I'm wrong, maybe these techniques will pick up in popularity. It's also possible that I think this way simply because I'm bad at marketing.
I can agree with that, this is the primary textbook for the Open University's (excellent) Galois Theory MSc course (https://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/modules/m838. I really enjoyed my time on that course.

I was also very interested in reading about the the original papers prior to the various advancements in mathematical thinking and notation that tend to reframe how the theory is taught today. For that I highly recommend Peter Neumanns "The mathematical writings of Evariste Galois" (https://ems.press/books/hem/102) – it has the french side by side with a direct English translation along with notes explaining the context and possible thought process (it also served as a fun way to read some more French whilst I was trying to learn the language).
Yep, and the only people whose messages arent encrypted are android users due to apples proprietary protocol.

So why do they leave the kids getting bullied for green bubbles? Because its good advertising, and it makes kids ask their parents for iPhones.

They could very easily have made all bubbles green, and put a tiny padlock icon either next to the message, or even next to the user profile.
This is a nice UX experiment. What I'd like to see though, is the ability to choose whether the link opens in the current tile, or open on the right.

IMO, this behavior should be the default on Web browsers when middle-clicking a link.

Especially since people tend to have wide screens and websites don't always constrain text narrowly enough to make it readable.
Looks nice. But I'ts strange that there are so many "simple" feedreaders. Where are the tools for powerusers? How many feeds and formats are people using usually to be satisfied with simple?
I hope you can appreciate that the problem here is that the proposition that you "aren't going to change" is entirely unfalsifiable, reliant on trust, and that the individuals making the proposition are in a position to enforce it ad infinitum.

Consider me skeptical.
In some sense, the world today is the world we previously believed it to be.
Endo / Exo have a zero point, across which you discretely jump categories, after which you scale up or down subjectively.

PMF does not have a zero point. If you sell (clasically) "zero to one" item you may or may not have PMF. One nuclear reactor / aircraft carrier is a big deal. One newsletter subscription is a small deal.
While I would agree that there is a hole for certain news and information that isn't being filled (specifically investigative journalism and foreign affairs), I think there is a valid point to be made that, in the age of smart phones and social media, what use is there for the local newspaper and news network when if something happens close to you there is raw footage of it all over social media that shows exactly what happened without editorial. And that footage gets to you much quicker. Before the media companies can publish an article and find a way to spin it for sensationalism, complete with ads.

In this regard, I think there is a replacement. And for local news, I would argue that in many instances the replacement is far better since it is quicker to publish and has the potential to be far more objective.

EDIT: actually I think that hole is being filled, at least in part, by independent documentary filmmakers. What got disrupted were the mega conglomerates like Fox, CNN, MSNBC etc. And while spin and misinformation will always exist, because news is published by humans, I don't know why we would trust those conglomerates any more than any other random joe.
Thank you! I have no plans right now, but I might if there is a interest :)
Ask HN: Why Is Internet Archive Included in Cloudflare's List of AI Crawlers?
Was just looking into some steps to block AI bots from crawling a site, a feature that Cloudflare promoted recently and noticed on their list of "Verified Bots" for AI Crawlers, one called "Internet Archive" is included. Why?

There is also another one "InternetArchiveBot" listed in a different category as "Monitoring & Analytics". Will blocking the AI one mess with Wayback Machine activities and that kind of 'useful' thing?

The recent announcement post: Block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40865627

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/verified-bots
Radio and podcasts actually. Politico does this, and cpr.org (my employer) does it too. They'll have a blurb about the topic, a link to the podcast, and then a printed, edited version of the interview. I love it.
Teacher shortage mostly happens in sparse communities not dense ones since it is easy to find teachers where lots of people live.
Stillwell's book is incredible, it hits the right balance between a textbook and a (advanced) lay person introduction to a huge range of topics.
Now it finally is, yes! Back when I last really would have needed it, exFAT on Linux still required FUSE drivers (with the corresponding performance hit), and I remember having to install these as well.

Also, many embedded devices used to not support exFAT, which was annoying when reusing a flash drive to e.g. quickly show some photos on a TV with a USB port without reformatting them from "computer to computer use" to "computer to embedded use".
Scanning headlines is free and enough for me
Related: I recently tried to hire for a FE role and the number of candidates that got upset at me for "passing" was astounding. Even soft-passes. Like, I liked a few of them and put their GH in a note file for if I ever needed to hire more later, but man -- immediately deleted some of these candidates from my list after receiving angry emails. I get some people are stressed about being OOW for awhile, but man... be professional. If you're mad you didn't get chosen and feel the need to lash out, just go for a walk and don't burn the bridge.

I totally get the "what the fuck did I do?" bit.
Links as above:

The recent announcement post: Block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40865627

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/verified-bots
I don't read news (and then don't pay for it) because of the detrimental effect it had on my mental health when I did. Some people see that as egotistical, but I'm just too anxious already to allow other people to inject me with new and exciting ways to stress about the future.
Typing Mind
So? I have bought a game that wasn’t developed by epic from a company that isn’t epic.

But out of nothing epic expects me to create a account for a service that I have no intention of using and takes away my access to a product I already paid for.
Telemetry Architecture
you should write a book on friendship. we kinda need it.
Very cool. Bookmarked.
I've found that it's really good at summarizing - as it's context length is huge. Have you noticed any problems with it in that regard?
"You guys do have phones, right?"
That's the Sound of Devs Working on the Chain Gang
My employer has decided to use SPACE to measure developer productivity and satisfaction. They seemed surprised that so many of us reacted so negatively to the announcement. In this blog post, I explore and go over why we feel that way.
A strange jab at avoiding conscription - I’d rather everyone in Russia did that and not gone to that insane war.

As for the game, well that’s a hot take

If you only played in early Factory-only days you probably have seen maybe… 5% of the game?

It’s the deepest and most complex FPS there is mechanics-wise, not to mention the map design is simply above and beyond any other first person GAME, not just shooter. The developers seem to craft enormous multi-level maps inch by inch, with minimal copy-pasting. It’s on the level or better than Red Dead Redemption 2 level design and that’s a multi-billion dollar game.

Not to mention the mechanics that turn any engagement into a 10D chess.

As far as AI, eh, it has improved (you can call the scavs using voicelines and they will reply, and ever eventually command them, so you can have 5 scavs following you around the map reenacting some degenerate version of D&D :) I assume AI will keep improving faster now as they’ve added PVE mode (if that’s your thing).

Ultimately Tarkov is PvP that is unparalleled and the emergent storytelling that comes from encounters with other humans.

If you really haven’t touched in 5(?) years I’d urge you to give it a shot - the new wipe starts Aug 20 (booby traps, Molotovs and burning mechanic, UZI and M60 are coming). I heard it may be the last one wipe before the release - at least the devs started to talk about 1.0 and that the game is close to being ready (I agree actually).
Sure, but you are most likely using these funds as core positions in an account which is SPIC covered to 500k.

If you have more than 500k of assets in this form, you should have multiple funds and bank accounts.

Again, you need the collapse of the US currency if you are a) not exceptionally wealthy or b) not wealthy and incredibly financially uninformed.
> You don't pay for news because you can get it for free elsewhere.

There's also just too much news these days and most of it isn't important. It's saturated. Maybe if we cut down on the number of media outlets. You used to just buy 1-2 newspapers at most but the equivalent now is likely 5-10. And each 1 would be 2x as thick.
> is worth letting Meta create its own app store that allows privacy shenanigans that Apple has successfully banned

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend. If Meta is doing impinging on people's privacy we need to make it illegal, not let it be used by Apple as a selling feature for their anti-competitive practices.
Definitely, my understanding of writing code couldn't be called good until I understood how compilers read it.
Experiences with animals. Includes the family business (riding academy) as well as having pets, managing a beaver population, observing birds, getting pissed on by a racoon in the woods, etc.
Stoics believe in the four cardinal virtues: courage, justice, wisdom, and moderation. I think they're a good starting point for character development, and a lifetime of work on their own.
"This is a curated list of free courses from reputable universities like MIT, Stanford, and Princeton that satisfy the same requirements as an undergraduate Computer Science degree, minus general education."

Is a CS degree complete without the general education?
He addresses contributions here, “They have a really high bar”, but are accepted, occasionally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34480732
Well, in this case I noticed the same code copied while grading a project. I used then JPlag to run an automatic check in all the submissions for all the projects. It found many instances where a couple of students did a copy-paste with same variable names, comments, etc. It was quite obvious if you look in detail, and JPlag helped us spot it in multiple files easily.

*edited mobile typos
A couple years ago before the current "AI" hype cycle, someone sent me an IPhone photo of their boston terrier on a black-and-white patterned Ikea rug. Although it was "just an unprocessed photo", the rug pattern had been propagated over the dog's body replacing some of its original markings.
Another issue with news is syndication, that is multiple outlets running the same story. If I want to watch Peeky Blinders then I have to go to Netflix, if I want to watch Game of Thrones I have to go to HBO, there is no (legal) alternative.

But say there is some piece of breaking news and I click on a NYT article and get a "please subscribe to read this article", I might be tempted if they were the only ones running the article but I can just go to google news, search for the topic, and find 10 other outlets running the same story, 5 of which require no subscription so I just go to one of those.
That's the reason why you still need to do interviews. Do feed out such folks. Even if you only catch them by accident.
Or so the devil would have you believe.
> isn't publishing the content

Yes, I showed content costs 20x publishing cost if staffed + crowdsourced as in this example.

> getting reliable content

This is why I mentioned cost varying inversely with how compelled someone feels to say something.

The additional 45M in my example buys you a lot of reporters even with overhead all-in.
This is literally the second sentence of the article (emphasis mine):

> Researchers at USC noted that at peak, 1,005 U.S. tons of aluminum will fall to Earth, releasing 397 U.S. tons of aluminum oxides per year to the atmosphere, an increase of 646% over natural levels.
What’s problematic is all the Economists students who will believe this nonsense.
>> You'd only see Macs in professional sound, video, graphic design and publishing houses...

> It was that way in the US too until the iPod and then iPhone took off and MacOS X became viable.

No. As someone who had experience with existing in the 90s, I can say you're dead wrong. Like I don't even know where to start. Macs weren't as popular as PCs, but you'd see them all over in the consumer space:

You'd see Macs in department store computer displays (Best Buy, Sam's Club, Officemax, etc.).

The iMac was released in 1998 (and was so influential you had PC makers copying its style). That was the real beginning of Apple's turnaround. The iPod wasn't released in 2001, and was pretty niche for a long time.

Several families I know had Macs as their family computer during the 90s (including my own).
I mean, the horns kinda give him away, don't they? Or are you saying you are the only one who sees the horns? It's not like I want to dismiss you but you are making it really hard to know what level of abstractions you are talking in. On one hand it sounds like symbolism and yet the descriptions are very specific.
Enormous hidden ocean discovered under Mars could contain life
The Resource Curse. (Fracking.)
Bayesian probability is just a mathematical description of optimal learning process from data, e.g. common sense. It is already built into every living thing[1], because it is the best way to respond to your environment.

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2017.079...
The difference is the size of the install base. Game consoles are an insignificant niche product compared to smartphones.
Your comment means a lot to me, thanks! I'll polish up the turd, build some ready-to-go extension people can download from github instead of having to compile their own, and submit a Show HN. Stay tuned!
> wasm html5 app

That would seem a little anathema to a imgui library aiming to be native on multiple platforms and to have minimum dependencies.
Yeah, most microscopic JS hacks would be too cumbersome to use in this scale. But some conscious decisions to structure your code may make a big difference.
If most people lack certain things and other people do not, it doesn't give them the right to complain just because of that.

Companies can dictate how workers work, and it's up to the worker to decide whether they agree to these conditions or not.

It may not seem fair, but you have to look at the bigger picture, and understand how the situation came to be in the first place.
> In most of the higher quality studies, antidepressants are no better than placebo.

That is extremely strong claim. From what I searched, this is not what higher quality studies found. Instead, they found them statistically working for some issues and not working ... for other issues.
I'm using VictoriaMetrics instead of Prometheus, am doing something wrong?
I have zabbix as well as node_exporter and Percona PMM for mysql servers because sometimes it is hard to configure prometheus stack for snmp when zabbix cover this case out of the box.
They shipped the 128k model as the first model.
They are entertaining and know how to project confidence.
Miami's Francis Suarez blurs line between public duty, pursuit of wealth
There's some truth in that, but it's a much more apt description of post-Soviet Russia. They celebrate their WW2 win like a bona fide religious event every year.
Does that mean RCS is easier to wiretap and censor?
Don't you think : is already used for something else in CSS?
Great. This looks like it may address some problems I've written about in the iPhone photo pipeline:

http://yager.io/comp/comp.html

https://petapixel.com/2023/02/04/the-limits-of-computational...
> If someone hands me an iPhone or Mac and asks me to try to do things I feel frustration.

Wouldn't this be true if you put anyone in front of an unfamiliar OS?

> Just rambling here: the navigation paradigms, where the settings are, the animations, cursors, the way the mouse accelerates, the keyboard shortcuts, the icons on windows, maximizing windows, the dock, navigating with Finder creates invisible files directories, the "drag to install" nonsense is one of the dumbest UX paradigms ever (I'm not being facetious).

I summarize most of these as "I don't like the feel of it" which is a straightforward matter of opinion, but that's a different statement then what we started with "I don't agree that they write good or intuitive (easiest to use) software, but that's just me." A statement like this would would also mean showing how another platform does it and demonstrating why that's better or more intuitive. But I guess if you had just said "I don't find their software good or intuitive", I wouldn't have bothered asking these questions. But then, per my first comment, I think if you out anyone in front of an unfamiliar OS and asked them to use it, it would literally take years of use before they'd have an opinion that's not biased based on their prior experience. This is why I don't comment much on how Linux or Windows do things, I just don't have the expertise to say whether their approach is better or worse.

One exception is keyboard bindings, because a lot of keyboard bindings come to macOS from Windows especially in the form of cross platform applications, and I've formed the opinion that Windows bindings are worse because of the over reliance on F-keys, which are too far from the homerow and not mmemonic. (This is an example of of what I mean about giving an example, and then a reason I think it's worse).

For the record I appreciate your responses, I'm being super pedantic here and you're putting up with it. I feel like, especially when it comes to Apple on HN, which makes people blood boil, it's so hard to figure what people are even talking about when they make their statements. I really think the model of supporting statements with reasoning makes the statements so much ire useful to read.
>Google losing to OpenAI on GenAI

My take is more Google having like a 80-90% share in search and browsers and email and phone os and online advertising probably wasn't too worried about dominating everything and perhaps a little worried about being criticized as a monopoly. Hence them open sourcing the transformers model and instead working on protein folding and the like.

Now they have competition in GenAI they can take it seriously without looking like monopolists there.
Show HN: Sketch on parametric surfaces in real-time
> But if you just have an internal helper function for that, then think about if you really want to lock its existence and behavior into place, or if that would just hinder future architectural changes.

I agree with everything you’ve said up until this point. The add function should be locked down, whether or not it’s internal code. I’ve written some physics libraries for games I’ve coded in the past, and you can bet that I wanted to lock in the functionality of that complex physics code by working some examples by hand and then codifying them into unit tests!

I think you’re right at the end, everything is nuanced. Using the right tool for the right job is easier said then done :)
AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to block Starlink's direct-to-cell plans
The original press release calls it "anti-intelligent" which makes some sense. This blog headline calls it "anti-AI" which makes it sound like it is meant to mess with machine learning training algorithms, but actually it's not really "anti-AI", just "not AI". (Whether ML-based image processing should really qualify as "artificial intelligence" in the first place, just because it uses machine learning algorithms, is an entirely different story, but I guess this is just our lives now.)
> The products are basically on the top of the maturity curve

People said that about phones in 2006 as well, they had looked the same for a while then, why would you want more than a phone that can call, make messages, and has a built in calendar?
By no means an expert, but these are my thoughts:

1) probably not directly. Eventually the advertisers might notice a decrease in effectiveness lower their investment in that area (either by lowering the amount they are willing to give the creator for a sponsored segment or not doing sponsored content entirely). Eventually if they think the ROI isn't there they will reduce their spend.

2) You have to feed the algorithm beast to be successful. Even channels with high subscriptions still get a tremendous amount of views from YouTube's recommended algorithm. One big part of that algorithm is "Engagement" which includes the number of subscribers, likes, and any other engagement on the video (such as comments, which is why you'll see a lot of comment-bait questions in videos now like (if you disagree let me know in the comments).
Not in the traditional sense - they simply demand the same things they normally eat, sans the hour+ of commuting to get it.