skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also learning Chinese, and I honestly wouldn't care for Pinyin all that much. (Once you get to an intermediate level of Chinese, you'll want to learn characters anyway, because that's how Chinese is written in the real world.) That said, a hover option to transliterate and translate individual words (instead of the whole sentence at once) would be great.

For a more practical complaint, in the Nuenki browser extension, the settings window has a primary-colored (green) button in the bottom right that says "Log out", but has no "Save" button. I almost clicked "Log out" when I just meant to confirm the settings I had made!

Edit: Also one question, if I may - how large is the context window for the translations? I noticed that the Chinese it generates sometimes feels a little unidiomatic, but I'm not sure whether that's due to too little context, the fault of the translation engine(s) used, or just my feeling as a non-advanced Chinese learner being off.

Edit 2: Some of the translations are definitely just wrong, too. Again, might be the fault of the engines - after all, machine translation, even in the age of LLM, is not perfect.
The problem with this approach is that even if you say that our thinking is non-deterministic because of true random effects on the quantum level, you still have to explain how deterministic calculations on random values make for free will.

You still have no influence on it, even if there is randomness involved.
I'm bearish on the giant YC classes but (C) is an entirely necessary evil at any successful startup anywhere.
Stanford, USC Banned from Giving Preference to Legacy Students
I don't think so. There's no garbage generated during the sort, which is what I'm timing. I'm sure that GC runs during the sorts, but it won't do significant amounts of work because of that.

A C-transliteration of my original Go algorithm shows similar overall performance, with performance drops at the same list lengths.

Forcing garbage collection right after each sort (releasing all references to the sorted linked list) didn't change anything, either:
https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-investigation-10/
What's the most successful yc company started in the last 5 years ?
Forced arbitration has become such a plague. It's one of the things I look for in terms of service and avoid using those services that require it. I don't see why I should be required to give up important legal rights just to, say, order some food.

Avoiding the term is difficult, as it's almost everywhere, but I can at least just not use really optional services like food delivery.
One could make the argument that the time, effort and coordination that it takes to go to the library and also coordinate a counter signature is more expensive than the cost per envelope.
screen recording isn't generally that hard on a system, depending on display config of course. video compression would be piped thru the GPU's media encoders, which are extremely efficient these days.
Acknowledge the problem?

Build in functionality so it only recognizes your voice and everything else is removed?

Don't hide behind "privacy" promises or "your data is secure" when that doesn't fix the issue.

Just because we can admit that the reality is the problem is not going away doesn't mean that we just give up and not talk about it.
I personally haven't been through this but my brother has (he works in wholesale). When he signed on it was a family run business but then a PE firm came in and bought a >50% stake in it. He complains about the amount of financial squeezing that goes on - that there is no money for training, 401ks have been shuffled around and the amount contributed is about half of what it was when he started, commissions that were previously available to anyone who could sell/upsell are now are only available to select sales leads, etc. The management has shuffled around with the buyout so a lot of the relationships they had were disrupted and replaced with professional managers that barely understand the business and only care about P&L statements.

Makes me thankful for the company I work for.
The mic quality from my macbook is usually better for me than from headphones, but maybe it depends on the macbook.
The Consistency Problem of Distributed Locks
Many of these are "Use AI For Something" startups. A few seemed meaningful but most seem destined to fail.
At the other end, I wonder what the minimum weight would be for an impact (as opposed to edged) weapon to be able to reliably damage an unarmored opponent.
I don’t see how any of the evidence martialed in this article proves the conclusion.

There’s a tendency in contemporary online culture to want to condemn the whole person. It’s not enough, it seems, to condemn Altman’s self-serving decisions with OpenAI. We also have to pretend he’s a bungling businessman, whose self-inflicted downfall is imminent. The same pattern can be observed with other public figures. It just doesn’t seem to me to beget a workable understanding of reality.

I don’t have a dog in this fight, except that I like reading HN, and I’d like it if this place didn’t descend into the kind of friend-enemy thinking so prevalent on much of the internet.
One of the biggest shocks to me was that YC now invests in war and killing people. Before their closest connecting to killing people was investing in companies that had severe negative effects for society, like Doordash or AirBnb. Now they're helping people make missiles.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ares-industries
This sounds more like indentured servitude, but it's not even as bad as that. As frustrating as this situation is, in the USA you are not sent to prison for this unpaid debt and still have agency over your time. But of course human trafficking throughout the world is still a problem today and I very much want to see it ended (as much as possible).

:edited my first sentence to clarify it's not quite indentured servitude :)
That's a great link, thanks.

Have to admit I'd not heard of Orange Goblin before but I'm headed for a journey threw their back catalogue now starting with The Wolf Bites Back.
Implementation has been a big part https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36976670 (one of many discussions if you search for previous Hacker News articles)

Especially earlier on, web components were implemented without incorporating some of the major feedback from developers. What resulted was a low-level tool with some really awkward warts and APIs that was more-or-less unusable. (hence, one of the reasons why when web components discussions come up, lit is always mentioned since it needs that extra layer to paper over some of the warts)

TL;DR: it replaces some of the bad parts of Angular/React/etc. with its own set of bad parts that become more obvious only once you get deeper in.
Sex and birth are big business – suicide pods show death is next
https://archive.ph/1pHO5
I had plenty of experiences with similarly useless debates as a teenager on the internet twenty years ago. Think of providing code examples with indentation that the reader didn't like. At least being more inclusive is a more worthwhile goal than finding the perfect indentation, but yeah, neither answers the question at hand

Could it be that you now recognise the uselessness of such a response whereas, when you were younger, you didn't know any better and took it as-is? Because I think that's almost certainly the case for me, rather than that it is an exclusive feature of modern times that some people berate others on minor-to-irrelevant points
Year reading the starliner wikipedia page was eye opening, every single test phase had issues, and repeated issues over a long period with the same systems (thrusters) is really damning.
YC did not have prestige in their early years (Jessica mentions they had to beg their friends to come to demo days). Yet people were dropping out of Harvard to join. So it seems prestige is not necessary for success and in fact may be a negative signal.
Drax is less than 4% of electricity now, it's been steadily dropping:

https://ember-climate.org/insights/in-brief/the-largest-emit...

So lower than solar now (which has been growing).
The losers. The winners are too busy governing to give a shit. https://scholars-stage.org/history-is-written-by-the-losers/
Only because they've been RLHFed and prompted to be agreeable. A Marvin the Paranoid Android LLM could similarly be designed to hate everything equally.

Genuine People Personalities, indeed.
Looks good but no way I'd pay a subscription for a utility.
Newsom vetoed the bill as a nod to his donors plain and simple. Same reason he just signed a bill allowing a specific customers at a single venue to be served alcohol later than 2 AM. Same reason he carved out a minimum wage exemption for Panera. Same reason he signed a bill to carve out a junk fee exemption specifically for restaurants.

He's just planning for a post-governor career.
> or interject

Clippy?
Low gravity in space travel weakens rhythm in heart muscle cells
>At the moment, you can't predict the future state of my brain for more than one reason, one of which is that you don't have much information about the current state

Do we not literally predicate our friendships and relationships on being able to predict the future states of minds? How long do you stay friends with the person who randomly shows up or doesn't, to any event you invite them to? Or whose tastes vary unpredictably from day to day, giving you no framework to contextualize them?
Epic Sues Samsung over OneUI's 'Auto Blocker' Setting
Correction, you own my (if we are talking near your device) data if you are using this.

That is the problem here.
Effect of Covid-19 global lockdown on our Moon
Are you sure Google Glass looking absurd wasn't what killed Google Glass?
Slavery is physically and mentally violent. Imagine your owner can do literally anything they want with not just you but also your spouse and kids, including selling them off at any time.
You could charge $10/year for this to compete with OP.
Stolen Ferrari worth $575,000 was found by tracking the owner's AirPods
I’ve written an introductory guide on how to integrate Cloudflare’s D1 (a SQLite-compatible database) with Cloudflare Workers. This is Chapter 1 of a series focused on building serverless web applications using Cloudflare’s ecosystem and Rust. The guide covers setting up D1 in a new Cloudflare project and establishing the connection between Workers and D1 for SQL queries at the edge.
For reference:
List of artists and entertainers with advanced degrees
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artists_and_entertaine...
> they decided to openly and freely share their work.

I LOVE this story. Thank you for sharing it. It's stuff like this that makes me crave the Web 1.0 (and early 2.0) days. This makes me want to support Mastodon, and Vivaldi, and other federated and open systems. I'm as guilty as anyone, allowing social apps like twitter & Facebook to take me away from writing on my hand-rolled blog. I need to get that puppy back up and running. I need to share more. Be the change I want to see in the Internet & Web.

Information wants to be free. Hack the planet!
Additionally, there is now `non-free-firmware`, e.g., http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/non-free-firmware...
That's your opinion. Maybe the original authors of this project don't care and are just happy that their invention is helping people.

I'll take the authors' published intent over your speculation.
> martialed

I think you mean “marshaled,” correct?
I haven't crunched the numbers on this, but CO2 air capture is incredibly inefficient, and it consumes energy which itself releases heat. So if the amount of CO2 you capture reduces heat by X degrees but you release Y degrees in energy consumption to achieve that where Y > X, that would be one interpretation of "thermodynamically unviable". It seems implausible to me but not impossible.
They could just as easily have trumped up treason charges. Whether the charges are valid or not is irrelevant.

Both of these countries are clearly sending a message. Get too greedy, corrupt, ..etc and we will kill you. Whereas in the US there are 0 real consequences. It is the message that is important here.

The US needs to start putting executives involved in these crimes in federal prison with very long sentences. Fining them doesn’t work they need to lose their freedom.
Hey folks,

I couldn't post a reply to a message from shubhamkrm because someone flagged it. Honestly, I don't see how the comment would've violated the HN guidelines. They disagreed with me, but did so respectfully. I suspect someone may have perceived it as a violation to the following rule:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

But I'd argue that deleting their message actually tramples curiosity. It wasn't a political or ideological message. The focus was ethics.

In the hope that this was a mistake, I'll quote most of their message below next to my replies.

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> A major reason for Internet blackouts here is because in many areas, there’s a deep seated animosity between different communities due to historical and ideological differences. Internet blackouts are done close to any sensitive event, to prevent malicious actors from spreading misinformation/rumours and provoking riots

First of all, I like your summary of the situation in India because I think it's objective and brings its nuance to the front.

> Have you considered the ethical implications of your service in such cases?

I have.

India is the reason why I describe Awala's goal as "providing all human beings with uncensored and timely communication anywhere in the universe – without impairing the fundamental rights of other human beings".[1] That last sentence is mainly because of India.

I agree with the sentiment, or the problem that the government is trying to tackle, but I disagree with their methods. They violate the fundamental human rights of many millions of people -- predominantly in Jammu & Kashmir and Manipur -- whenever they disconnect entire regions, not just from the Internet, but from the outside world. Even the postal service has been suspended.[2]

I don't think it's all India's fault though. At its core, this is a content moderation issue. Those malicious actors that spread misinformation use large WhatsApp groups and the like, and the companies behind those products haven't done enough to address the problem, so local governments in India take the drastic decision to cut off the Internet.

> Are you willing to take the moral responsibility for the damage to life and property that could be caused using your service?

Rather than waiting for something like that to happen, I'm more interested in mitigating it in the first place. That's why:

- Letro[3], the first -- and so far only -- app to be powered by Awala, only supports 1:1 messaging. No groups yet, and when we do, we'll only support a relatively small number of people (TBD; not hundreds or thousands).

- The future functionality to support "broadcasting" information to many users already has built-in mechanisms to handle hate speech and misinformation.[4]

- As I work closely with anyone integrating Awala in their existing services, I intend to ensure that they have adequate plans to address hate speech and misinformation.

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[1] https://awala.network/about

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/9/25/crackdown-on-lawyer...

[3] https://letro.app/en/

[4] https://github.com/AwalaApp/specs/issues/43
You're looking at it in terms of capability, instead of ROI.

CFO/COOs typically aren't investing in the highest-capability automation, because that's the most capital-expensive automation.

It's far cheaper and easier to buy another crane or loader, driven by a person, than a fully autonomous system.

So given the two options, they'll usually pick the former (because it has quicker ROI).

There are some exceptions, if a large proportion of the work is high-skilled, e.g. pharmacy, but with dockworkers we're probably talking about the lowest-skilled jobs being eliminated first.
> free will (in the strictest sense)

In what sense? Can you produce a strict definition, what is "free will", what is "illusion"?

This is a battle of definitions. Pick the definitions you like, and you can prove what you set out to prove.
Friend of mine created interesting directory. Like digital plots for your SaaS
Virtually all tools for video game modding and hacking are Windows first, and a large percentage them are only usable on Windows despite being open source. Approximately 95% of the tools on SMW Central and ROM Hacking.net run on Windows, with about 3/4 of that only running on it.

https://www.romhacking.net/?page=utilities

From what I can tell, game development in general is very much Windows dominated at the moment too, though there is a slow move towards more OS independent tools and engines as time moves on.
A marketplace that makes booking a hair transplant overseas easier! Why overseas? Because, not only are they are 10-15k cheaper outside of the US. The quality is better! Doctors overseas do hair transplants every day as opposed to the states where they may only do once a month.

Anyways, I am trying to make sure people only go to reputable clinics, and eventually let them pay online (instead of carrying cash). Check it out!

https://doctours.health
No need to rephrase! You can simply continue moving your eyes left to right to find additional words!
Undoubtedly, California has a stellar economy, but you see, states like Texas, which are objectively awful to live in (flat, no interesting geography in the most populated parts of the state, terrible weather, hurricanes, etc), are also similarly well positioned in the rankings of GDP.

If Texas were a country, it'd be the 8th largest economy in the world! This is a figure much less often cited. Texas has a smaller population 30 million v 38 million and is growing much faster in real terms (2.1% v 5.7%).

This is in spite of its objective awfulness. People are moving to Texas because of the economy. If Texas were in California's geographic position, one would imagine it to be an even more popular destination.

This isn't an endorsement of the Texan government, because there are many things I disagree with them on. But the idea that California's economy is singularly unique in the United States is silly. Many states with objectively worse attributes are faring just as well, and may even be poised to overtake california.

How embarassing would it be for Texas, a hot muggy swamp of a state with awful geography and terrible weather, to overtake beautiful California economically? To think people would actually eschew the ocean and the mediterranean climate and perfect weather to move to Texas simply because California mismanaged the state so much. This is the real risk.

Models show that by 2049, Texas will overtake california as the more populous and more economically productive state. Is that really the future you want? Is that the future California deserves? As a native Californian, I hope the state can turn itself around. It deserves to be a great state, but the path its on is one of decline.

One need just look at almost any metric. It's no just population or economy. Even by 'liberal' metrics, Texas is growing. For example, Texas has the largest growth rate in alternative energy sources: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/texas-trumps-cal.... There's a very clear growth curve in Texas, while California's is much choppier and doesn't appear to be going in any particular direction. At some point Californians need to actually want to continue winning instead of resting on their laurels.
I don't agree and I think some of what you're pointing out is because we're still in a transitional period into a full information society (which we don't even fully know what it would be, even now, 30 years deep into that transitional period, but it's inevitable and I'm personally sure that it would be infinitely better that what we have now).
I think of it as a duality, that usually, when we do something good, it usually creates some harm (for example, to a group we haven't even realized it existed!).

However, your point made me realize that, in fact, probably what you generally described as the most capable individuals, are probably even now mostly immune to the harm which FDA creates as "side effects" of what they consider good. So, if we assume that FDA's action don't "touch" them in most ways, should these most capable individuals be trying to reform it? But I don't think that the FDA's action don't affect the most capable individuals much. We're all one society and even if it doesn't influence them much directly, it still very much does so in more indirect ways.

Also think, why do you think that "predators" even exist? It could be either evil nature of the humankind itself, if we assume there is such, or something else creating a place for them. If it's the first one, we're fucked regardless. But maybe it's not?
Thanks for taking a look!

Long-running index creation is a problem for pgmigrate and anyone else doing “on-app-startup” or “before-app-deploys” migrations.

Even at moderate scale (normal webapp stuff, not megaco size) building indexes can take a long time — especially for the tables where it’s most important to have indexes.

But if you’re doing long-running index building in your migrations step, you can’t deploy a new version of your app until the migration step finishes. (Big problem for lots of reasons.)

The way I’ve dealt with this in the past is:

- the database connection used to perform migrations has a low statement timeout of 10seconds.

- a long-running index creation statement gets its own migration file and is written as: “CREATE INDEX … IF NOT EXISTS”. This definition does not include the “CONCURRENTLY” directive. When migrations run on a local dev server or during tests, the table being indexed is small so this happens quickly.

- Manually, before merging the migration in and deploying so that it’s applied in production, you open a psql terminal to prod and run “CREATE INDEX … CONCURRENTLY”. This may take a long time; it can even fail and need to be retried after hours of waiting. Eventually, it’s complete.

- Merge your migration and deploy your app. The “CREATE INDEX … IF NOT EXISTS” migration runs and immediately succeeds because the index exists.

I’m curious what you think about this answer. If you have any suggestions for how pgmigrate should handle this better, I’d seriously appreciate it!
Both. Even when illegal they still do it far more often.
How much did you spend on the domain??
If this is as effective as you claim it to be, then I look forward to Apple including it in the operating system for free in the future. You should consider applying there and making it happen!
Does the GDPR apply to non-European companies?

If a YC-funded startup wants to operate in Europe, presumably they'd have to follow those laws. But YC itself? Are they under any obligation?
YC doesn’t benefit from founders who are just looking to pad their resume because they don’t follow through to a liquidity event for YC.
You seem to be looking for facts to support your argument, instead of being curious about what the facts are.
Coercing people to live and work there is, at the very least, extremely objectionable. If a city can't get people who actually want to be there, perhaps there is a deeper issue that should be addressed.
A quantum leap of reasoning.
They see rickrollin, they hatin, patrollin and tryin'a catch the Bop Spotter.
Well, I try, but I’m never allowed to edit anything, even though I add sources, so no idea what’s happening there.
Pawpaws are referenced in the song "Bare Necessities" from the 1967 Disney "Jungle Book" movie. Because of that I always assumed there were an exotic fruit that only grew in India or some faraway tropical land.

https://www.disneyclips.com/lyrics/lyrics2.html

I was well into my adulthood when I learned they grow right in my home state here in the US.
Lithuania to Donate 5k FPV Drones to Ukraine