skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there are any airport located Taco Bells. Those kind of captive locations are notorious for crazy prices.
Well, they use also tons of carbon instead of iron/aluminum to lower weight, so that price may be justifiable. Maybe.
There is nothing fundamentally preventing us from securing DNS. It is not the most complicated protocol believe it or not and is extensible enough for us to secure it. Moreover a different name lookup protocol would look very similar to DNS. If you don’t quite understand what DNS does and how it works the idea of making it a government protected public service may appeal to you but that isn’t actually how it works. It’s only slightly hyperbolic to say that you want XML to be a public utility.

On the other hand things like SMTP truly are ancient. They were designed to do things that just aren’t a thing today.
The Nazis were literally a European organisation and still in living memory. They've still been prosecuting a few of them here and there. It is quite distressing at how quickly people start talking about the virtue of these grand centralised identity systems. They are a huge threat to minorities, dissidents and troublemakers.

A messy, badly communicating shambles might well turn out to be the optimum approach to this problem. There is reason to believe that efficiency is a bad thing when it comes to being identified and tracked.
Thank you, glad you liked it! :)
That is a lot of words to make the claim that only Libertarians know how economics works.
> VAT is paid by the consumer, not the business

This doesn't matter.

It's like saying "the employee doesn't pay employee tax; the business does". The cost is still there for the business, who could otherwise be paying you it. Or using it to employ more people. Tax is tax.

In this case, the business could charge the same amount but keep what is currently the VAT portion. It's still tax revenue generated by a business doing work, paid by a consumer who does taxed work elsewhere to get the money, and all the government does is collect the money. Doesn't really matter which tax it is.
> tech is their overly conservative approach to adopting new technology, and generally low standard to overall speed of execution and productivity

Or, another reading would be that they're avoiding the hype cycle the private sector constantly falls into, and you won't be overworked/eventually stressed out because of the constant pressure from shareholders/executives/founders who want you to put 150% of your energy with no work/life balance into their "vision of supercharged spreadsheets" or something similar.

I personally wouldn't waste my youth on just slaving away at companies for money, but also spend time exploring the world and yourself while you're young enough to have the energy (and hopefully time) to do so.
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Not sure how it was 2007, but tumblr feels like relief nowadays because it still has some glimpses of that old internet. You can customize a tumblr down to the HTML, including JavaScript.

Not using the social parts (likes) etc. though. I'm using it as a way to share photos and what I'm up to with family without forced login. Like a homepage basically. It is not trying to distract visitors with pointing to other blogs either.
Providers pushing certain context (usually their own junk) is very frustrating, 100% agree. The 1000s of titles are available, just 95% of them are obscured. I use things like https://www.justwatch.com/uk?providers=amp,dnp,nfx&sort_by=i...
That stuff you find easy isnt easy for developers who use frameworks.
Must be one sexy LED display.
Easier to force them to unlock it then and there. Less bloody.
Interactive rebase is fine, I used it probably 50x a day for many years. The problem isn't really with Git here, it's more a bunch of interrelated problems with GitHub's UX, and the fact that many people culturally have never approached the problem in any other way. A lot of places basically just outright copy GitHub's UX, which I think is a good example of this.

For example, using 'git absorb' or autosquash doesn't solve the problem of the review UX just doing badly when you say "What is the difference between the last version of commit Y, and the new version." If those changes include a rebase, it shows you the entire diff including the rebase. That's often not good, but sometimes extremely necessary. (See my other posts in the thread about how Gerrit does this better.) And if you have to do something like rebase, then solve a conflict as a result of the rebase, it is basically unavoidable that you have to do all of them at once if you want the CI to stay clean (which I find important, at least.)

Also, a lot of teams just culturally hate shit like autosquash, or any squash/rebasing at all. Do I think they're misinformed? Yes. Do I think they could use tools that make those flows 1000x better and faster? Yes. But at the end of the day default user interface and design philosophy of one of the most popular software forges in the world does actually matter and have downstream cultural impact. So you have to interrogate that and break it down for people. GitHub does not really encourage, explain, or smooth out workflows like this. People learn it, then hate anything else. (I mean, fucking hell, Git rebase didn't even have --update-refs, a huge QOL improvement for stacked diffs, until like 2022!) So, you often don't have a choice. I've had many places where engineers despised GH force pushes, but only because... GitHub's UX is bad at tracking addressed/reviewed comments on a PR after a force push! They get hung by their own noose, so to speak, and don't even know it.

I do have other problems with Git, but this post is mostly about GitHub/Gitlab style PR review flows. The same problems still happen even with autosquash or tools that accomplish the same thing.
Interesting to note:

- "Her" reference in Twitter bio, for GPT-5 as well as GPT-4o

- In comments, Alexis says he's more interested in AEI (artifical emotional intelligence) than AGI. Maybe related to his startup, but also wrt what it says about GPT-5

- Massive support for Alexis in Twitter comments, but silence from Altman
I am eagerly awaiting the complete declassification of the JFK assasination documents, which will further damage the CIA's reputation.
After watching the debate, the name-calling and lies were mostly one side. This article attempts to paint both candidates with the same brush. I don't think Aljazeera can be taken seriously when it comes to US politics.
I have the feeling that any day now I’m gonna wake up in the morning and I’ll find out that there just isn’t internet anymore because somebody did something from a hotel room in the middle of nowhere with a raspberry pi connected to a wifi hotspot of a nearby coffee shop.
> Secret White House Memo Documented Kissinger's Attitude: "I Don't See Why We Have to Sit Around and Let a Country Go Communist Due to the Irresponsibility of its Own People"

There is a saying, attributed to Stalin during the Yalta conference (but it's most definitely apocryphal): "I always thought that 'democracy' means the rule of the people but comrade Roosevelt here quite clearly explained to me that 'democracy' actually means the rule of the U.S. people". It's funny because apparently the top US diplomats and leaders genuinely do believe that.
Don’t know if it’s sad or sickening to see Google pretend it only has 10 results for a query when we all know every single query got 10k-1m results before they nerfed it
On the last bit, it seems like more parents are coming around to your way of thinking, and our public school system just sent out a survey about how hard they should ban personal electronics from our public schools.
No arguing about tastes and all, but I never understood the digestive digs at TB. Maybe I'm an outlier but it's just like any other meal.

I've had plenty of other tacos elsewhere and they are all tasty, but something about TB's meat is super unique and tasty to me I can't get enough of it. Mind you I can't stand all the new menu items they added past tacos in the last 30 years. But the tacos are special. :-)
I think Debian's system should have a system only environment with their pre-frozen packages, and then a userland specific environment, where you can install any version of anything, and none of the system packages are affected by these software packages, but when you open a terminal for dev work, you can choose a more modern Python, or what have you.

I'm seeing an uptick in what they call "atomic" systems, where this is exactly the case, but last I tried to install one, it didnt even register correctly on boot up, so until I find one that boots up at all, I'll be on POP OS.
What the US did in South America is appalling, and I can't believe they got away with it.

The women of Calama have been searching for decades for their children, brothers, and husbands who disappeared during the dictatorship of Pinochet.
The Earliest Days of Microsoft Windows NT (2022)
Wouldn't the ones you can't use the app to order from be outliers?
>When I was a kid in the 90's, me and my friends were considered the weird bunch for liking videogames, computers, tabletop RPG, etc. Sometime around mid-00s it became mainstream,

This does make sense, of course: 1990s->2005-ish is ~15 years, it's 2024 today. The "weird" kids became adults and replaced the previous and outgoing generation and their norms.
“ And honestly it's hard to cope with all of that, which means that self-hosting is out of the question unless you got a looot of time dealing with bad actors of all kinds”

That doesn’t follow from the points you made. What follows is that you have to deal with whatever percentage of bad actors you get. If not, you have to contract someone to handle that part of the job or do the entire job. Plenty of opportunities on those sentences that look nothing like today’s feudalism.

For example, I have several sites I self-host on cheap VM’s with lighttpd and BunnyCDN. I can do anything I want with the whole site, including moving suppliers. They have no comments. I have both an email and Facebook messaging if they want to contact me.

For comments, the main problem is catching spam or illegal content. That just means a 3rd-party provider needs to see the content, make a decision based on customer’s needs, and customer’s server needs to post the edit they made. Disqus already implemented much of this concept but it could be modified for more owner control.

The stronger control some want over comment quality requires more time and controls. There’s tools to help with that. The Lobste.rs’s site had great moderation tools. MetaFilter added a cheap, paid system for account creation that filtered tons of spam. Most implementations just need laborers to enforce their view of social norms with might or might not be easy, and might not be right or worth keeping around either.

That leads to countering the last assumption some commenters have: the methods used should keep the sites around as long as Google or Facebook. Most, human activity is temporary. Much has little, long-term value. Many sites will serve their purpose for a specific time. Others might go up and down. These possibilities are fine for non-mission-critical uses. Life will go on.
That was the old CIA, i'm sure they've stopped doing this and we should just accept what they say about countries today
Isn't sales tax (and/or GST also a tax) on consumers? GST is just in theory much simpler and cheaper to administer.

> The 400€s profit went virtually untaxed due to Apple having privileged corporate tax.
> Thus, in conclusion, Apple paid little to no taxes on EU sales for ages.

Sure but how would GST help?
It's true that these taxes make things more expensive for local businesses, but also for all businesses, as they have to employ very expensive tax lawyers to figure out the best places to put their businesses. What a waste of mental effort that could've gone into more productive careers. But that's corporation tax for you.
You misunderstand me -- my position is that we are completely ignorant as to how LLMs do what they do, and it is delusional to think that we understand what their capabilities are or how they are limited.

Until we understand why they sometimes don't hallucinate we can't begin to approach the problem of why the do. And above I directly refute the notion that no model "knows what it doesn't know" -- they are manifestly capable of demonstrating ignorance.

As to next steps in this I have no concrete thoughts, and I don't even know whether LLMs are a dead end. What I suspect is that as we apply more computational power to the problem, as we've seen in the past, computational power plus network depth plus training data means that the structure of the models (like the attention mechanism or the tokenization) will eventually be unnecessary and the structures will be self-discovered and more capable for it.

As models get deeper and more expressive I am confident that things like a broader capability to understand the limitations of its own knowledge or to test its knowledge against objective reality will emerge organically. We may be able to make leaps by creating shortcuts for some of these mechanisms, but in the end depth and computation power will trump all.
There’s no way this is an improvement over cash when it comes to privacy. It’s an onramp to a vast surveillance state that might be benevolent now but can’t be counted on to stay that way indefinitely. In fact, building the infrastructure to make authoritarian control easy, also makes it more likely.

It’s not hard to imagine a future where Dutch farmers go to a gas (or charging) station on their way to a protest find they suddenly can’t use their money.
72057594037927936 addresses ought to be enough for anybody... ;)
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I've been trying to understand why I got triggered by the comment(s). I was in college in the 90s and it was very similar to the movie PCU:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110759/

Back then, sexism was blatant and rampant. The ratio of men to women in my engineering classes was roughly 30:1. It was almost unheard of for women to reach prominent positions in tech or any other male-dominated field for that matter. Yet we all had a sense that sexism and racism were finally on the verge of becoming a thing of the past.

Fast forward 30 years and I can't believe what's tolerated today, especially in politics:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/stat...

On a personal level, bigotry may be lower today than in the 90s. But on the national stage it remains as polarizing as ever.

The saddest part about that for me is that it's creating division that was almost healed. Many women feel threatened after the Roe v. Wade rollback and countless other affronts, so masculinity is often portrayed as toxic. Then men, many of whom are struggling and unheard under patriarchy as well, feel like they are being lumped in with chauvinists and turn towards the Andrew Tates and Jordan Petersons and Joe Rogans of the world for validation. Which feeds their egos in ways that many women find insulting, creating a vicious cycle.

So when I see comments that being a woman has nothing to do with it, I think that sentiment feeds into the division. Whether it's true or not is beside the point, what matters is the intentional avoidance of empathy.

Unfortunately objective takes are given more credibility in these times than the subjective ones that I believe hold the insights. So even though this is a hill I'm dying on, there's no way for me to really win the debate. Which to me is the very essence of what the Harris/Trump presidential race is getting at.
Ah you see I tried that but ran into a bug: the closer you inspect one of the universe's registers, the less accurate my reading of the value is. It seems that I can either ascertain the memory location of a declared variable OR its value, but the closer I get to one, the foggier the other gets.

Has anybody else encountered this bug when manipulating the fabric of space-time in Rust? It's throwing a pretty major wrench in the gears of my newest HN-inspired project: making a Rust port of the Universe for added memory safety.
> It almost never plays out that way in practice. What seems to happen is that after some period of time, people are making good money and they're typically spending all of it, and it becomes really hard to dial that back. If you bought a house or have all sorts of obligations of one sort or another, it may be very difficult.

This just sounds like lifestyle creep. Not everyone suffers from it.
> You can't properly see how the software evolves in 2 years

I'd counter that this is subjective based on experience.

If I've built a similar system before, it's in the same domain, and the customer/userbase has a similar profile, then it makes sense that an engineer that's "been there, done that" can foresee the needs of the system, domain, and customer and can more accurately extrapolate how the system will need to evolve.

I assume that this is one of the reasons teams hire for both technical and domain experience.

As an example, I spent more than a decade building regulated document management systems and it's clear to me what needs to be done to scale the system to support millions of documents. Is it premature optimization or over-engineering if I join a team that's building a new document management system and I design it to scale from day 1?

Similarly, if you're building a product that interacts with calendars, perhaps you start with only supporting GCal, but you can already extrapolate that the market has 2 other major calendar providers to account for: Outlook 365 and Apple iCal. Wouldn't it make sense to write an interface here knowing that a year down the line, you'll add support for O365 and then another year after, add support for Apple?

To an engineer or product manager new to the space, any extra effort looks like "over-engineering". For someone that's built similar systems for over a decade, some decisions seem inevitable because the usage patterns of such systems are not that different and will eventually converge so one might as well start with that endpoint.

I suspect that some decisions made in the development of Threads or BlueSky might seem like "over-engineering". But those teams are not working in a vacuum; they already have a sense of how such systems will grow over time based on experience.

Thus I would make the case that the cost of perceived "over-engineering" is also going to differ. For someone doing it for the first time, that perceived cost is higher than for someone doing it the 2nd or 3rd time.

My take is that what is "over-engineered" has a subjective aspect based on the experience level of the parties involved.
Labor organizations often use a deliberately over-the-top definition of "pro-labor", where you ought to support most labor actions without interrogation or criticism out of solidarity. Is the NYT there? No, of course not, that's not really a practical position for a news organization to take.

Does the NYT newsroom generally report from a perspective that unions are good and we ought to have more of them? I don't see how you could argue otherwise.
Apologies. It is early and lack of coffee took the best of me. I am not sure if I can delete original comment now, but maybe this exchange will serve as mea culpa.
I’m not dogging the question, it’s trivially answerable: many games don’t have achievement and are games nonetheless

Further, if you remove the achievements from games they continue being games. GTA without achievements is still a game. Remove the entire XBox and PS trophies system and all their games still remain games.
Extrapolate the result of adopting this AI to 2030: The unemployment review AI has been in place for years, and the human staff has been reduced to one or two inexpensive recent graduates trying to work their way up to a real position; they don't have time for more than rubber-stamping the system's decision.

Imagine there's some kind of problem. Say, an enterprising journalist shows that the system has somehow broken; 1/3 of its decisions are essentially random, rendering thousands of deserving workers homeless. What does Nevada do? Everyone who knew how to do reviews manually has gone on to other work or retirement.

That institutional knowledge isn't coming back. Before you can turn the AI off, you need to build a whole new human-driven review process from whatever legible information you have archived somewhere.

For a single process which is catastrophic only for improperly rejected individuals, this process is expensive but doable. But unemployment review is not the end; AI is not going to stop at doing the vast majority of the decision-making for only one single, non-vital process. Add in a few more--say, 911 dispatching, payroll processing, a few utilities--and putting them back under the control of competent humans will quickly grow beyond the capacity of a the state.
It seems the author made an effort to report on the debate using the same condescending tone US media uses while reporting on African countries, or Asian "exotic" cultures, to hilarious effect, IMHO.
Tetris Gymnasium: A customizable reinforcement learning environment for Tetris
An ideology-induced bug in Mypy
Operational Advice for Dense and Sparse Retrievers
I think it’s exceptionally appropriate on 911 for us to reconcile and understand that as a nation from the 1960s onward, and accelerating with the growth of the intelligence community since 9/11, the United States has covertly or clandestinely interfered with every nations political process worldwide since the end of WWII and the “Pax Americana.”

I was an intelligence officer for ~17 years, served in Iraq and saw first hand how heavy of a hand the US plays globally in a way that is so expansive and embedded there’s no single body (HPSCI, commissions etc…) that can control it.

Yes technically all collection, processing, dissemination etc… activities are still under congressional budget authorities and executive control and subject to judicial review.

However, the fact that title 10 and title 50 authorities are so broad and interchangable, in addition to the reach into industry for any ability to do data collection, that you couldn’t dismantle the US influence system even from the inside at this point. There’s also a million checks internally to ensure OPs are LEGALLY allowed, but that just means you found a loophole or have topcover, or find an OCA that will make your activity SAP
I don't know what point you think that comment makes but it certainly doesn't answer any of the very legitimate questions I posed, including the first one since I'm willing to bet you have a pretty big conflict of interest here.
I've been using this on mobile for a couple of years now, I've noticed it failing in the way you mention quite often in the last 3 months or so. I'm not sure how maintained the rules are, they might need updating.
Previously it was working nicely, although probably only on 40% or so of pages.
I've also used ublock to block cookie consent popups, which catches more but occasionally has to be disabled as sometimes it will break scrolling or interaction with the page.
I second this recommendation.

Both SD and HD versions are on Youtube in their entirety.

This is the 720P version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM
Like the one in the Gameboy Color, that used colors but no backlight?
A better version of this article:
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/oldweb