skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well considering it probably takes several hundred GBs of VRAM to run inference for Claude its going to be a while.

But yes, like the guy above said it's really only helpful for one line commands. Like if I forgot some sort flag thats available for a certain type of command. Or random things I don't work with often enough to memorize their little build commands etc. It's not helpful for programming just simple commands.

It also can help with unstructured or messy data to make it more readable, although there's potential to hallucinate if the context is at all large.
A friend used lush as his “secret weapon” for a while. I didn’t quite warm to it and now regret not paying attention. It’s amazing how much is packed in “batteries included.”

Apparently it didn’t make the transition to 64-bit machines well? But I haven’t really looked.
Getting a Japanese CERO age rating for your game costs extra per platform
Discussion (25 points, 5 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810563

Including an interesting breakdown by @adrian_b of how the article jumps to conclusions not published in the paper.
maximize all your tax defer accounts (pension etc.), postpone cashing out stocks to lower income periods

What else there todo (within legal domain)?
> it makes no sense to say "no don't use C# for webdev!! Use Rust!"

Well, first of all, I don't see anywhere where anyone said that. Perhaps in another thread? People did argue against the use of Rust for web dev, for which it's a perfectly reasonable choice among many.

Second, I have an embedded HTTP server running on a microcontroller with 500kb of ram in my current project. Works great in Rust. Simply not possible in C#.

> If [any language] is good for that use case then use it.

Agreed. The best camera is the one in your pocket, and the best language is the one you know.

> Also there are genuine benefits to having a runtime.

Things which are commonly associated with runtimes - memory safety, automatic memory management, various type systems, high level language abstractions - are all genuinely useful. Folks in this thread seem to want to hold on to a categorization of languages which Rust breaks by virtue of providing features typically only found in languages with runtimes. What Rust shows is that those benefits can be a part of a well designed language, with or without a runtime. And not having a runtime is a hard requirement in areas like embedded, OS development, realtime, etc. There is typically a separation between languages you'd use for that sort of thing and languages you might use for web dev, but the reasons for that separation do not apply to Rust. Which is fun.

Some people seem to be salty about it though, lol.

One significant downside to having a runtime is that it significantly complicates the process of program verification. Making it much harder to do statically. Necessitating certain things happen at runtime like error handling and performance profiling. Rust mostly has what it needs to get that work done at compile time, which means the developer has an opportunity to fix it, before some user runs into it.
The not-so-glamourous origins of standard railway track gauge (2021)
Please do! I would love to read it and link to it!
I like the term "societal code smells"
Funny, I have the exact opposite experience. My Linux laptops just work. My last three Mac laptops were a pain to use.
>preservationism shouldn't care about licensing and legal nonsense.

If it is reasonable that someone needs to preserve something because it has been abandoned, then the thing should automatically be in the public domain.

If you are not actively using IP for a reasonable amount of time, any patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc should be permanently expired.

This fixes problems with patent trolls too: you effectively would not be able to own a patent unless you were using it in your business.
I recently published an article about building a Dota 2 Match Outcome Predictor using data analysis and machine learning techniques. The project involved tackling various challenges and learning valuable lessons along the way. If you’re interested in predictive modeling, gaming, or data science, I’d love to hear your feedback!

Check it out here: https://medium.com/@masterhood13/building-a-dota-2-match-out...
That, and a really powerful visualization suite. In the example I gave above, you could plot the prescription purchases on a map and see that people were driving along the highway and hitting up pharmacies along the interstate. Better yet, you could drop into Google Street view in front of one of the pharmacies, and look at it from the street level and see that it doesn't even have signage indicating it's a pharmacy.
We once accidentally made a change to a python project test suite that caused it to successfully run none of the tests. Then we broke some stuff but the tests kept "passing".

It's a little difficult to productionize an always_fail test since you do actually want the test suite to succeed. You could affirmatively test that you have non-zero passing tests, which is I think what we did. If you have an always_fail test, you could check that that's your only failure, but you have to be super careful that your test suite doesn't stop after a failure.
This is why large meta-forums (reddit) are doomed to fail.
Rainforest-initiated wet season onset over the southern Amazon
Hmmm...the phone companies have this down to a fine art. Get legislation passed that lets you charge a fee, show it on the bill as a "regulatory fee." Just like how the cable companies and banks send scare envelopes to senior citizens to get them to sign up for add ons and shitty insurance plans.
You are thinking of the iPhones.

All the ARM Macs are separate memory chips.
PO chiefs changed Horizon data in branches last year without telling operators
It's a really long article, but mostly, what I got was a sense of performative inclusion (more telling, less showing), bureaucracy, frustrated college student and no recourse of any kind.

All the DEI efforts felt like... 'water water everywhere but not a drop to drink'...sincerely what's the point then?

As a foreigner hoping to apply to US universities next year... I don't feel UoMichigan would be a good school to shortlist, which is sad because I've heard really good things about the great state schools of US.
That's called rotoscoping.
Ask HN: Hiring an App Agency vs. DIY
I'm considering paying an app agency to develop my startup idea. I'd like to be involved in design aspects, but I'm hiring because I know I haven't coded in years and feel like it makes more sense.

Has anyone gone this route before? What has your experience been? How does it work in terms of ownership of the IP/app itself? Do you retain ownership/control and just pay them as a contractor for updates?

If you've gone this route, do you have any good app agencies you can recommend?
You want both. To test green and red pixels.
> While unit testing, I'm going to test "given that System.IO.File can read a file", and write tests accordingly. I don't want a test sometimes fails because "read errors can happen IRL".

That sounds pretty squarely in the "you ain't gonna need it" category. If your test harness cannot make a temporary directory and populate it with a copy of the test config file that's stored in the same SCM repo as the test case code, then you simply have a broken CI server. There's no need to complicate your codebase and make your tests less realistic all to avoid hypothetical problems that would almost certainly break your test suite before the test case gets around to attempting an fopen. Just read the damn file.

There are more complicated instances where mocking and dependency injection is needed. "fopen might fail on the CI server" usually isn't one of them.
When someone writes one
That's just the reality of any platform that doesn't gatekeep who gets to participate. Eventually assholes are going to join, that's simply unavoidable.
Ongoing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41858665
Yes, I agree, it can be a very bad experience for the victim, and it is definitely the case for teens where it can be combined with some sort of bullying.
Russia increasingly using cybercriminals to target adversaries, Microsoft says
Yep. And for Java: https://pitest.org
From zero to a 5. Median is ~1.5.

And usually I'm extremely productive in my deliveries.

It's the time spent thinking and creating the code in your head that matters.
Related. Others?

FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707558 - June 2024 (847 comments)

US sues Adobe for 'deceiving' subscriptions that are too hard to cancel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707037 - June 2024 (4 comments)

Cable firms to FTC: We shouldn't have to let users cancel service with a click - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39038645 - Jan 2024 (24 comments)

FTC investigating Adobe over making it too hard to cancel subscriptions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38646666 - Dec 2023 (33 comments)

Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36706138 - July 2023 (324 comments)

Some companies think customers will accidentally cancel if it's too easy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36665814 - July 2023 (163 comments)

FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36418713 - June 2023 (262 comments)

The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274519 - March 2023 (382 comments)

FTC Proposes Rule Provision Making It Easier for Consumers to “Click to Cancel” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35272777 - March 2023 (8 comments)

“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29250063 - Nov 2021 (861 comments)
Great idea except it won't make anyone money. Therefore it will never happen. Copyright law in America is not based on good ideas, reasonability, or even preservation. They are based on profit. Your idea is great, but we do not live in a world where good ideas matter at all. Only money matters here, and this idea will not make anyone money.
Getting Redstone interactions to be bug compatible is no small task. Redstone has complex interactions with nearby blocks that are completely baffling to new players and still challenging to veterans.

Mob spawning and behavior shouldn't be that difficult, but if you want identical terrain generation you are going to be cursing life.

What would really make a third party server stand out is first class mod support.

Better performance is almost a given. Minecraft's engine has a lot of low hanging fruit that has yet to be picked despite it being theoretically a multi-billion dollar game. Just look at how shockingly CPU hungry hoppers are for example. Mob pathfinding also consumes an inordinate amount of resources and is still kinda lousy.
“Eye contact” is not a monolith though. Typically we look at someone’s eyes when we are speaking but their mouth when they are speaking. And eye contact can be a pattern of crossing between their left and right eyes. And making and breaking eye contact are important parts of nonverbal communication. The typical AI “eye contact correction” will do none of this.
Thanks for the great discussion! (Sincerely)
> I often think about how unreasonably great the regulations around “Unsubscribe” links in emails are.

The sheer number of comments that think the state of "unsubscribe" is good is... saddening. I should not have to click a link to "unsubscribe" from something that I did not subscribe to. There's no recourse for me against these thieves.
It seems to me the various efforts are dead or stalled. Anything in actual current development or production? IPFS was supposed to go in that direction and still exists, sure, but not to provide IA duplication (that is advertised.)
Because it's difficult to find a problem for a solution :)

And, may be, the best brains of our generation aren't the best brains available on earth..? The older generations are much more profound in a lot of things - also, not to be blinded by the lAIght or so.. let's see what the future will bring us. May be a problem for a solution will be found.
God no... Then everyone will look like these people:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/

I mean, look at these morons:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/1ffddl0/w...
You'd need an external energy source (no gunpowder) and a way to translate the beam of sunlight into a mechanical impulse (boiling water or heating a bimetallic strip maybe), but generally, yes of course.
is this making use of letsencrypt as well? afaik all letsencrypt signed certificates including all subdomains are immediately public, which could be useful for security research as well
I think their adjustment is very minor and only happens when you're looking directly at the camera. It's minor enough that you've almost certainly seen it and not noticed. She may have the setting disabled, or she may be looking far enough away from the camera that it isn't triggering.
Express v5
Critical Kubernetes Image Builder flaw gives SSH root access to VMs
> If you remove "some" and change it to mean that it is the "only" thing that conveys temporal information

That wouldn't be changing the meaning. I'm not continuing this conversation because 1) I don't want to argue about the subtleties of English grammar with someone who is not a native speaker, and 2) I don't want to argue about linguistics with someone who doesn't know linguistics (as proven by your pointing to "grammar books" for evidence that it's a tense).
Nice work. Does it take time to hydrate tinybase from indexeddb, or do you mount it directly?

What are your thoughts about search over the store? Hydrate a separate lunr index?

And finally has anybody tried using your syncing over webrtc?
The best employees complain loudly. End of discussion on that one.
I don’t fundamentally disagree with your points but I do want to point out that in Rust, you have far less recount traffic than in a language that uses reference counting as a GC strategy, because you only increment and decrement on new owners, and not on every access. You can take a regular old &T to the interior of an Rc<T> at any time.
In my experience "unsubscribe" emails often do not work at all. SimpleLogin is the only way.
IIRC part of it is that the software itself can make connections between separate data sets. You're not just ingesting data about purchasing information and drug convictions and so on, you're getting automatic relationship detection. For example, figuring out that the cust_ss_num field in one dataset correlates to the conv_ssn_full field in another dataset, and knowing that those fields are the "SSN" field from a third dataset, and being able to automatically give you a view where those three datasets are correlated. This saves people having to go through every data set and manually map each field to each other equivalent field in each other related dataset.

I could be mistaken, but I think this is how it was explained to me originally.
I'd be wary of Stripe, because it seems like every other week there's a new thread here that they froze someone's account with no warning or recourse. E.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41713131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41663442 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41524399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41508877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41314293
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The law [UK sexual offences bill] would also prohibit encouraging a (so-called) child to take part in sexual activity. I think that everyone age 14 or above ought to take part in sex, though not indiscriminately. (Some people are ready earlier.) It is unnatural for humans to abstain from sex past puberty, and while I wouldn't try to pressure anyone to participate, I certainly encourage everyone to do so.
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There are more charitable interpretations, but "Stallman wants to sleep with your teenage daughter" is the less-charitable one that political opponents can continue to levy against the entire movement because the FSF won't let him go.
"The movies that play in virtual screens are native to the films’ aspect ratios, which can vary movie to movie, eliminating the black bars of “letterboxing” and “pillarboxing” you typically have on iPads, iPhones, or MacBooks."

Then proceeds to show screenshots where more than 50% of the screen is background. Just because you decided to show cloud instead of black doesn't mean it's not letterboxing.
In a free market, where everyone is free to ignore consequences, coal would be the obvious solution - but if the climate change costs are priced in - then batteries do become attractive.
Lightweight ultrapower batteries are high tech. A simple batterie for the grid, that can be big, is not and quite simple to build.

We started to price in the CO2 externalities - and demand is skyrocketing.

Subsidies are more of a geopolitical/welfare thing in this context.
If nobody seeds it (or continue development) then it's dead. Inspiration and perhaps code for the next effort sure. But not "exist" that makes a difference.
Can you recommend some tools to manage mutable torrents? I.e. create them, edit them, download them and keep them downloaded up to date.

BTW I recently tried using IPFS for a mutable public storage bucket and that didn't go well - downloads were very slow compared to torrents, and IPNS update propagation took ages. Perhaps torrents will do the job.
I don't know but I have a Galaxy Fold and I hate the tiny bezels it has in tablet mode. Trying not to touch the screen while holding it adds unnecessary cognitive load and just makes it feel fiddly. I also have a previous gen iPad mini and I love the thicker bezels.
Thanks—we've taken the dollars out of the title above.
Right up front: I agree. But, implementing this will be an absolute PITA because so many other things are systemically broken.

Case in point: cost breakdown from the invoice of an online order a few months ago (with the dollar amounts removed):

> Subtotal

> Shipping (Economy)

> Tax (Solano County Tax 0.25%)

> Tax (Vacaville City Tax 0.75%)

> Tax (Solano County District Tax Sp 0.125%)

> Tax (Solano Co Local Tax Sl 1.0%)

> Tax (California State Tax 6.0%)

Once your address is known taxes can be calculated. At what point is an after-tax final price to be shown? On an ad? On a targeted Ad? Once you reach the storefront based on unreliable geolocation? (which would be wrong for me, because geolocation bundles two cities here together as one) Once you create an account? At the checkout when you've specified the shipping address? As things tend to happen today, its usually only at the last step.

As much as I'd like to see it, I don't see much chance of improving the visibility of final prices without comprehensive systemic tax reform first.

The obvious quick solutions aren't exactly fair in the current US system. Imagine a "quick fix" of requiring the vendors to price in-a generic taxes for everyone. Just like with credit card system fees, "simple" fixes like that that benefit the residents of high-sales-tax states to the detriment of no-sales-tax state residents. While such a system would work for physical stores, they would get hammered if they had to prices on the shelves or signs that were higher than online prices.

As much as we all want a fair straight-forward system, I don't imagine it happening any time soon in the US. There are way too many unresolved zero-sum political fights and ideological differences standing in the way.

It certainly can be done (eg: Australia) but the circumstances there were very different.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38402368
The phone rep is almost easier, because all they can do is withhold their confirmation. So, I told the Sirius guy who I was and that they were no longer authorized to charge my card, hung up, and wrote a note in my files. Sirius charged me again, and I submitted a chargeback. Quick and easy.
Unless you're on the wrong side of a space-billionaire's political inclinations...
Sadly this is not the case with Scheme and it makes for very unergonomic code, especially for a newbie like me.

Which is a shame, because I prefer (Guile) Scheme to Common Lisp.
I think the idea that it was AC or natural light and what not is a bit simplistic. E.g. here in socal its pretty common to see people cover a window entirely in the heat with like newspaper or tin foil and lack AC. Likewise there are a lot of old homes and apartments built in the 1920s that used to have awnings (visible in historical photos often) and no longer do, and they don't have central air either (maybe a couple window units which also block light).

I think the reason is simply that awnings take maintenance and are more costly. They eventually rot out from the sun and fall apart, needing replacement. Replacing an awning is not necessary to rent an apartment or sell a home, so it isn't done. If you had a ratty old one you'd probably just remove it vs replace. And even if you did want to replace that awning today, where do you even get one? They don't sell them at the hardware store like they might have 100 years ago. You'd probably have to order custom sized pieces from some company. Probably a couple grand in the materials and installation right there to do up all the windows. Plastic blinds on the other hand are like $50 at the hardware store and you can install them with a drill in 2 mins.
How would that look like, in this concrete example of add controlled smartphones?
Do you want to be comfortable for reasonable AC cost or watch cat videos in HD instead of SD. Decisions, decisions.
I was wondering if anyone had had any experience with this library.
How about we reboot democracy first?

Beware the military-industrial complex indeed.
That's a recent regression, thanks for mentioning that. We'll get that fixed ASAP. I should also mention that the brush tool isn't well-supported and will be fully rewritten early next year. It currently has some quality and performance issues because it has to generate a texture on the CPU of the width and height required by the entire stroke bounding box, which quickly hits a performance wall.
Sure, but then there's also the reality that people who don't want to deal with assholes and trolls will pack up and leave. So IMO it's best to combat it and not normalize it, so that we can have more nice things.
246 PE, with a $94B market cap.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PLTR/

Alex Karp has something figured out. The investor class loves him.
> China is not interested any 1 company getting a monopoly and becoming more powerful than the government

Those are 2 different things.

Monopoly doesn't mean "more powerful than the government". I'm not sure what that means, since the CCP disappears or coerces anyone who might threaten the supremacy of the CCP (or Pooh Bear) in any way.

Capitalism results in a single winner, for many industries. CCP prefers kingmaking in various industries, because it's easier for the government to control a few players than a multitude. This isn't what "fair market" means, in context. It's modern communism. State owned companies that are directed by government, rather than direct investment or day to day management. China learned from Russia's failures, I would say. I would also concede it's less regulated, under a political lens.
> It took Google about 15-20 years to fully reach their villain arc.

Google has only been around for 26 years, Gmail for 20. I agree they have reached the villain arc but I disagree with the timeline.
> I immediately mark them as "spam".

Ahh yes, the feel-good response that Google gives you without doing anything substantial to prevent spam from reaching you in the future.
So the foundational assumption by economists and fin-types - sociopolitical implications aside - is that resolving the debt is as simple and easy and jacking up taxes?

Tell me when I can stop laughing.
Thanks for sharing -- and even more, for the Clive Thompson link. :)
I much prefer this type of government intervention than picking winners (Apple) and losers (Google) with regard to app stores.
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