skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I love responses like this.

I know we're supposed to think everybody is being honest here, but I don't think you do love responses like this.

>Well there is only one way to find out statistically since you love statistics.

right, to get the rates of deaths by violence, rates of death by gang related violence, compare that to other parts of the world with gang related violence etc. etc. I mean I agree, everybody knows how to do statistics!

>Since you are free person you a free to go and live in Stockholm,

I stand corrected, not everybody knows how to do statistics.

>again you are free to prove me wrong statistically, and take your chances.

but anyway that is not how statistics works.

>Of course the question that follow is are you going to take that chance ? I already know the answer.

You know the answer as to whether I am willing to move to a part of Stockholm the police identify as high crime from "a western society" based on a hacker news argument with someone who evidently doesn't know how statistics work?

Amazing!!

>Please run the maths and tell me with just 5% probability to get executed by a 14 years old gang member by walking down the street you live in to get to your home lets just say 100 times how likely is this event to occur?

If "with just 5% probability to get executed" then the answer to "how likely is this event to occur?" is 5%. However as this is "by walking down the street you live in to get to your home lets just say 100 times" then that would mean 5 out of every 100 times somebody walks home they get executed.

Given the earlier number of people in the article linked with crime was 62000, and assuming that everybody walks home at least once per day and 5% of people walking home get executed by 14 year olds it follows that in your world 3100 people per day are getting executed by 14 year olds in Stockholm, that seems a lot. I mean in 30 days that would be more than the number of people linked with crime!

If that were true I don't think the EU would just be proposing to help inmates in their prisons but might be sending peace keeping forces in to help.
Back when I last did it with GPT-4-Turbo, asking for an ICS file would get it to refuse on the grounds that it cannot make a file. Asking for encoding in iCal fomat, however, would make it output into a Markdown code block, which I'd then copy-paste into Notepad and save as ICS.

These days, you may also try asking it to "use Python" for the purpose, in which case it will make you the file (by writing code that writes the file and executing it), but it's likely to make more mistakes because it has to encode the result into a Python string or array.
It’s only too late for nuclear if we continue to let oil barons decide to stunt the growth of genuine competition in the market. The reality of renewables is they are not and have never been consistent enough to provide full power, and we don’t have the battery technology to keep an energy grid’s worth of electricity on standby. If coal is too ecologically damaging then we need another on-demand power source to replace it since solar cannot supply us entirely and cannot respond to upticks in demand.

I am genuinely convinced most of the people discussing energy have no practical understanding of the power grid. Coal is useful because it can be turned on/off relatively quickly as demand required. Nuclear can do similar, renewables cannot.
> an electric helicopter during take-off and landing

Surely this would make it significantly heavier? Wouldn't traditional fuel do better in terms of weight (and reliability)?

> high speed door-to-door transportation, without train/airport infrastructure.

Is this meant for rural transport? Looking around my urban landscape, there isn't really a place to land something like this.
Do you think yours is a life well spent for anything or anyone other than your own enjoyment, even if you were clever enough to save yourself the stress suffered by many?
Ask HN: Why not replace technical job interviews with yearly standardized exams?
Wouldn't this eliminate cheating (due to question reuse), shorten interviews, and save money?
Sticker on caption phone says that using the captions can be illegal. Why?
I know. It's also one of the meanings.
> Why depend on unreliable weather to produce stable energy?

Because it has been incredibly cheap to do so.

> The Western world basically offloaded a lot of its own pollution to China

The overall effect of this on US emissions has been modest.
How do I get it to stop narrating? It's going on and on
We are working on https://aide.dev/ an editor forked from VSCode which allows you to utilize LLMs to speed up coding.

Our approach is a bit different since unlike making a better copilot or a chat experience we are building workflows which encourage engineers to work alongside AI and not just offload tasks to AI.
They're not serious:

"color: #191919;"

Here's some real high contrast, and IMO a perfectly designed website:

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6791297

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40956192
Err ... Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11 ?
Because tech can scale, even without VC funding, and building a business of any size requires a similar amount of effort and luck. There's nothing wrong with staying small but scaling slowly is sustainable too.
I think I've seen march tee on instagram!
Because they don’t have public easily findable chats serving as marketplaces for illegal things?
In my country the anti-vaccine groups incensed each other so much that at one point they started burning down cellular ("5G") towers, causing reduced availability of emergency services in rural areas.

They gathered in front of politicians their houses in large groups, sometimes even with torches, hoping to scare even the kids inside the house.

They sent myriad of death threats.

Totally not extremist.
Women, as the GP was assuming that women wouldn’t want to host on a hot.page domain, so I then said they’d prefer Neocities.
weapons apparently https://www.ft.com/content/17f16071-87e0-4675-a152-6d6285b97...
They call the dijkstra implementation slow but that's because they aren't using the full information it presents. Dijkstra gives shortest paths from one node to every other node in the graph, so you run it once and materialize it and now you have a full Kevin Bacon database
I don't doubt renewables and batteries to be able to handle say day or two of power demand in most scenarios... Question really become about seasonal handling. Specially if we move heating from fossils to electricity even with heat pumps.

Doing the seasonal bit at scale in whole Western world(not just select blessed locations). Seems very far. At least if anything closing reasonable costs per kwh spend during low production times is considered.
> Captain Damien must team up with Leito, a local insurgent from District 13, to defuse a neutron bomb that has fallen into the hands of a local drug lord, Taha, and rescue Leito's sister Lola.

This "shows" those things in much the same way that First Contact "shows" how one may convert a Titan missile into a 3-person faster-than-light spacecraft in a post-nuclear-war Bozeman, Montana.
I saw that they bundle MeCab and Japanese dictionaries on Windows, but that's about it for multi-language support.
Great program. Highly recommend it.
Yeah, odd choice of colors.
WOW! Looks good. Thanks!
I don't own an Airtag or iPhone for that matter. I wonder how is it supposed to not raise a false alarm if you are travelling with someone who has an Airtag - e.g. by car or by train. Now imagine changing trains at the same stop with someone who has an Airtag with them (this is s typical situation in commute with public transit).

So I figure it takes a longer time for the devices to be close to each other to raise an alarm.

Now back to the mail thief, I suppose an hour or two is enough to catch them.
You can also learn how a user will approach prompting.
Building with Purpose
The ruby-lang website[1] uses red accents and looks gorgeous (to me at least). I wonder why they didn't just use the same colors.

[1]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/fr/
Might be waiting a while. Just like iOS jailbreaks and Cydia stopped being a thing, I doubt Apple's gonna let publicized workarounds work that don't involve a ton of effort to work for an extended period.
Show HN: Convert old, unused tablets to information displays
I have a bunch of old tablets laying around the house. Didn't feel like hunting down different apps on different OS's only to end up with inconsistent displays around the house.

So I made this webapp so my old Nexus 10 + ipad + surface go isn't worthless.
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents and please don't perpetuate flamewars. These things are in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341607.

p.s. No, this is not a comment on the EU or any of your views—just about unsubstantive/flamey forum posts.
I see that's tui-rs based - check out Ratatui as a maintained fork. https://github.com/pierreyoda/hncli/issues/1
I am working on the first Moroccan social network: https://rasderb.com
As I understand it, it's somewhat the opposite for internal resistance. You need to have current limiting in place because the internal resistance of the cell is turning that current into heat, and heat is the enemy of batteries.

(Probably there's also a complicated chemical reason for current limiting that I don't fully grasp)
To be involved in crimes in the nutshell: You provide exactly as much information as required by law. If EU law were not followed, Telegram would simply not be in the Google and Apple stores.
To be fair, the Go garbage collector is the most primitive GC used in any mainstream language, and lacks most of the advanced optimizations you'd expect from a modern GC. It can't move objects around, it doesn't have generations, it doesn't have good diagnostics (it can't even show you what are the GC roots for its hierarchy in a crash dump), and so on.

On the other hand, I'm not sure I've seen ASM used in many GCs, they're not that low level in my experience.
DI is rarely used to train teachers, unfortunately, and even if it were, the education-government complex designs school procedures and discipline rules that would make it very hard to implement.
Yes, and we never said it’s “all or nothing”, you misunderstood that we said that when we said we would prefer an asshole who questioned authority compared to someone who did not question authority.
vim/nvim are still heavy beasts.

Here's a recent example which made me laugh: 2 months ago, a "shortcut" for reverse search was implemented in acme[0], a 30 years old text-editor. It's not even qualified as a "feature" yet, rather, as an "experiment"[1].

Every little decision is carefully weighted; every square inch of the software is carefully and precisely designed. Japanese wooden planes are similarly designed: they don't look like much, especially in comparison with more modern, shinier tools, but they're surprisingly well-thought.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)

[1]: https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/commit/0c79c32675e83ff3d8...
I mean if we punished platforms for what they 'facilitate' we might as well just shut down the internet
https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveJob.html

That one's a bit too much red for my taste :) There's a sweet spot to find that's closer to "nice accent colors" than "aggressive red wall of text"
A drag and drop hosting solution for .NET projects - Like tiiny.host but for .NET.

Should be ready for early adoption in a month or so.

It was one of those shower thoughts along the lines of "I wonder if it's possible to drag and drop host .net projects..." :)
> The people behind the "Think of the children" type argument for interception expect people to implicitly understand that.

You don't even need to go as far as to talk about government lack of accountability for their own.

The French government has shown numerous times they don't care about that, anyway. We protected actual pedophiles slash rapists like Roman Polanski from being judged for crimes they committed in other countries (in this case, the US) but we are to arrest the man behind telegram because think of the children? does that compute?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski

> In 1977, Polanski was arrested for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sex with a minor in exchange for a probation-only sentence. The night before his sentencing hearing in 1978, he learned that the judge would likely reject the proffered plea bargain, so he fled the U.S. to Europe, where he continued his career. He remains a fugitive from the U.S. justice system

""Justice"" is a very relative thing. The western democracies want you to believe it's fair. Ha. Ha.
Good find/tip!

It took me a while to find it, it looks like they support it via Snowball: https://github.com/snowballstem/snowball

I wish ParadeDB exposed multi-language search capability more prominently in the docs.
Seems sophisticated. Maybe I missed it, but do we know how this thing gets onto boxes in the first place?
Worth noting Hacker News is amongst the examples, and rightfully so.
Most of the complexity in modern software is not inherent to the problem meant to be solved by that software, but instead emerges from both the organizational structures used to develop software, and from the modern engineering culture of software development.

For instance, Boeing famously bungled the 737 Max. But 737s were first created in the era of slide-rules, there is nothing about the plane which is too inherently complex to be done well. MCAS, the software portion of the debacle, was so simple in principle it could have been easily implemented by one competent engineer plus a few more to check his work. Complexity inherent to the problem space is NOT the problem here.
Researchers discovered an new way to treat anxiety
The person who wrote the text in the screenshot (a typical sensationalist "milblogger") most likely is not informed enough to realize that this software was written in Berlin, hosted in the Netherlands and its code is continuously audited and gate-kept by Apple which can throw them out of the Appstore for non-compliance with local laws any second. It has most likely survived for a whole decade in the West by cooperating from day 1; any data of interest is already being handed over to whoever is asking, otherwise they would have been banned from the stores many years ago. The only reason why it is still being used by the military is incompetence: believing the hype that it's "safe" and lack of alternatives.
Yes, it would be nice. There is at least now a presumption in favour of releasing everything under an open licence, but OS maps are one of the exceptions.
At Google, refreshed my memory:

Mike Cowlishaw - Hursley
from future import awesomness
I learned this as a teenager when I went from great at math to terrible because I got stuck with crappy teachers. Then, in 11th grade, I got put in algebra 2 with a great teacher and was tutoring other kids.

Math is completely different than other subjects. You can't catch up by cramming or reading a book over the weekend. You have to consistently learn and use it over the years. And have competent teachers to teach it to you.

Once you get placed in the remedial math, where they are just corralling misbehaving teenagers, and slapping out worksheets so kids can pass, you are basically screwed, unless you can get out of that situation.
I dunno, 9/11 proved that a plane is efficient enough at destruction to take down an entire supertall office building. Can someone do that in a theater, train station, or stadium?

And in the decades before 9/11, hijackings were actually a somewhat regular occurrence and real threat.

Yes, there is security theater involved, but I think airplanes are very obviously a special case. When they used to get hijacked it was a difficult situation because authorities were trying to deal with a fast moving plane with civilian lives on it (so they can’t just shoot it down), and that person could cross borders and do all kinds of things that you can’t do any other way.

They can be flown anywhere quickly, they can’t be evacuated when they flying, and they can quickly cross borders and barriers.

Water isn’t banned, either. There’s plenty of free water past security. Bring an empty water bottle.

Or just bring ice: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
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So the law was aimed at reasonable and compliant money-grubbing wrong-doers, but they all turned out to be unexpectedly malicious.
Teachers bought into three cueing because as it turns out, a good portion of students will learn to read on their own. However, another portion of students won't. "Just reading more" doesn't work for these students because they don't know how to decode word sounds in the first place. This is why three cueing was so cruel. These kids were basically having to fake it out of embarrassment.
Hi thanks for the support! I'm one of the founders at Permify. Both products may seem alike at first glance as you described, but there are a few key differences,

Multi Tenancy: Our architecture is tenancy-based, which means you can create custom authorization models and relation tuples accordingly for different tenants and manage them in a single place. https://docs.permify.co/use-cases/multi-tenancy

Contextual Permissions: we have a functionality that permissions can be dynamically added to access check requests. When you send these relations along with your requests, they get processed alongside existing relations in the database and will return a result: https://docs.permify.co/operations/contextual-tuples

Schema Management: We're taking an approach that help engineering teams to ease and streamline the management and collaboration of their authorization logic. We have features like:

- Schema Staging: Handle authorization model (schema) changes at different stages and deploy schemas with our GitOps workflow, specifically designed to approve, merge, and monitor schema changes.
- Partial Schema Update: Gives you the ability to update a schema partially without needing to change the entire schema.
- Data Bundles: Handle multiple data creation and deletion actions in your applications.
I'm still working on our privacy-friendly web analytics tool Pirsch Analytics (pirsch.io) like a madman :) I've been doing this for 3 1/2 years now and I'm still super motivated, especially because it's challenging from a technical point of view, and very rewarding (I live off it now).

There is still a lot to do and learn (especially in the marketing department), but we have plans for a new product in the privacy space. I don't want to say too much about it until we've started working on it, but it's in the compliance space and fits quite well with our existing product. I think it's always a good starting point to solve your own problems.
The guy quoted in the article, Faragher, seems completely unaware of his biogeronologist collegue Valter Longo at the USC Davis School of Geronology and Longevity Institute, whose recommendations have picked up mainstream adoption by the public. Of course, he is probably aware of Longo but he is probably unaware that his statements as quoted in the article, contradict Longo's own first hand research and other additional research on centenarian studies.

In fact, the unhealthy habits that Farragher says are common among most old people are in fact not common lifelong habits of centenarians, according to Longo.

If Faragher is aware of the contradiction then he should state on what evidence and research he is disputing Longo's findings.

Based on his research, Longo's recommendation is basically:

Eat vegetables, complex carbs and whole grains most of the time, fish ocassionally, meat very rarely unless over 65, and fast some of the time.

Longo in fact claims that these are supported--along with epistmilogical and clinical studies-- by centarian studies which are literally first-hand detailed interviews with 100+ year-old people.

Farragher's incomplete explanation of survivorship bias also seems to have confused other commentators in this thread.
Novel strategy proposed for massive water production on the moon
Example, me, I have not written a sort in C++ in 40 years. I do follow the research and often look under the hood of the libraries to get a feeling of the pros and cons to an implementation, but I have never written one from scratch, let alone in an hour in a test. I'd fail.

Here is the big junior mistake, actually doing that, thinking you are going to do it better, instead of doing real work (exception: you are writing the C++ runtime).
Yep. 12 years studying biochem and health science makes that very clear.

Knowing and understanding are intimately tied, and it’s questionable whether one can meaningfully understand anything without first knowing things.
NASA's Starliner decision was the right one, but it's a crushing blow for Boeing
I don’t even have to read the entire article for the title to resonate with me.

But when you are poor and really need a leg up in society, you will do anything to push yourself forward - including going into student loan debt.

I certainly wasn’t equipped nor ready for computer science. Well let’s say my computer science classes I did well. It was the Calculus and Physics that I struggled because I didn’t have a good background from High School.

I didn’t have the necessary pre requisites.

When I recently completed my Masters in Systems Engineering, getting a 4.0 GPA was no problem.
Would you mind sharing your approximate age? Did you work in a FAANG?
> because it was a repetitive task that’d put someone to sleep.

Makes me wonder why that person wouldn't just write code to automate it instead of manually making the changes.

I have several dozen custom code generators in some of my projects, where I just have a spec file written in a DSL.
This is well put.

I think one way to drive home the point is defenders are cost centers and attackers are profit centers.
> You just have to double check the results whenever you tell Claude to extract lists and data.

There's also the problem that they are tuned to be overly helpful. I tried a similar thing described in the OG article with some non-English data. I could not stop Claude from "helpfully" translating chunks of data into English.

"include description from the image" would cause it to translate it, and "include description from the image, do not translate or summarize it" would cause it to just skip it.
>Using actual photons in something laser like. The problem here is that your lightsaber would go on forever, photons won't just peter out after a meter or so. So, you would need, well, something to "cap" the lightsaber, both as a cap in terms of ending something, and a cap as in "capture" or possibly even "reflect."

What about using a proton beam, and exploiting the Bragg peak to ionize a finite-length column of air?
Congrats, pretty amazing work! Loved it!!
By delivering what people want, has Spotify killed the joy of music discovery?
No one noticed that their phones were reporting an unknown Air Tag nearby? I suppose they aren’t that prevalent for people to pick up on what’s going on
Unsurprisingly, I don’t see many hardware projects here.

If anyone’s looking to share their story, I’d recommend IndieHackers, but for hardware-focused startups/projects, check out howtoware.co. (I’m not affiliated with the site’s owner in any way, but I really like the concept and want to help spread the word to my fellow hardwarers).
My partner had a scare when she got a false alarm that an AirTag was on her after going out with friends. Turns out it was due to driving with a friend that had one.
Does that mean that in your country, the day is considered to start at 1:00 AM rather than midnight? That choice is very strange when combined with the choice to call midnight "0:00" rather than "12:00 PM".