skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quit Facebook (and all others) like 5 years ago. I only have LinkedIn which I read maybe twice a month or once a week.

Sometimes (rarely) I think what it would be like to be able to make posts to bigger audience. But then I remember the algorithm and the reason it's there, to make you and Facebook closer, not me and my friends.

Thinking of my relationship for social media is like thinking those big decisions in life, out of curiosity, "What if I would've chosen stonemasonry?", as a fun exercise. But I'm never going back. Not as long as the rules and values are what they are now. Since they have not changed, I feel no reason to have it back.

Do I feel like I'm missing something? Yes, I'm certainly missing something, here and there. But in return I have free space in my system for something else.

Try for it, like for a month at first, see what you like in it and what not.
And? How does that make Elon Musk a con artist?

It's possible to physically get in a Tesla and have it drive you from point A to point B. That's a self-driving car. You're saying it's unreliable, makes mistakes, and can be used illegally. That doesn't mean the car can't drive itself, just that it doesn't do a very good job at "self-driving"
I wonder if they bought these on purpose, or if the monitors were provided by their employer. That looks like an office.

It's hard to sympathize with someone buying one of these in 2024 and then being outraged that it wants to do ad tracking. 'Smart' monitors are so easy to avoid right now, they are all clearly marketed as such and it's still the case that premium 'dumb' monitors are available in every category.
We updated security policy at our company to prohibit use of monitors that aren’t specifically authorized.

One of our customers detected a risk in an audit - it hadn’t occurred to anyone. Now we log display connections and customer facing folks can be terminated for violating the rules.
Reading the abstract alone, I have no idea whether it's talking about algorithmic trees or, like, the big brown things with small green bits.
Not sure how well that would work if you're often adding bias after every layer
10k Drones Controlled by a Single Computer – Guinness World Records (YouTube) [video]
> It's just not great business to be a boutique consultancy, I think.

You bill per hour and there’s only so many hours to bill and your rate can only be so high. The only way to scale revenue is headcount so you can bill more hours.

It’s like handling radioactive dynamite but I think a boutique firm specializing in fixed price projects could make a decent amount of money. You have to be really really good though because one bad project contracted at a fixed price could mean lights out.
The problem with developing new antibiotics is that pharma wants to sell them at a high price to recover research costs. But older antibiotics are out of patent an are dirt cheap. So the new antibiotics only make sense in the limited cases where no old antibiotic works. So pharma finds itself selling into a small market that is hard to sell to, because antibiotic resistance is unpredictable. That's why there's a perennial problem of no new antibiotics. The problem isn't the science, it's the economic system of our system of medicine.
I just ignore the whole “frontend stack”. I would suggest to stick with traditional server side rendering and for interactivity use htmx/alpinejs.
Practice a few polyrhythms, get used to things like:

X . X X X . X . X X X .
A . . A . . A . . A . .
B . B . B . B . B . B .

and:

X . . X . X X X . X X . X . X X . . X . X X . . X X . X X . X . . X . X X . . X X . X . . X . . X X X X . . X X X X . . X . . X . X X . . X X . X . . X . X X . X X . . X X . X . . X X . X . X X . X X X . X . .
A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . . A . . . .
B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . . B . . . . . .
C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . . C . .

Learn to do them with one limb (or finger) per line, and also with all the lines on the same limb (or finger). And then suddenly, they'll start to feel intuitive, and you'll be able to do them by feel. (It's a bit like scales.)
>by means of SMS

It's can't make calls but it does send SMS via a low-frequency radio, so you can send text messages in the middle of a jungle. Technically your cellular phone can't do that unless it's connected to starlink.
Maybe in the FAANG/SV startup bubble where the companies have barely existed that long to begin with. Apple has lifers. Microsoft even more so.
Perhaps we agree? I pretty much entirely agree with you - just adding some extra color.

I am of course explicitly not talking about most people. Which is my point - at greater ranges fewer people would be willing to bike, but e-bikes enable larger ranges, but at a point it flips back to non-assist.
Quite the "flood the zone with shit" of a tactic. Make things broadly worse in many dimensions all at once, to diffuse rgse against any specific one of these incredibly hostile anti-user capabilities. Impressive asshattery!
I love the book idea. I might copy it.
> McKinsey was doing some work for their dept. I asked him what they did. He said, "McKinsey asked us for lots of information. Then they put it into a dossier and gave it back to us."

Shifting context a bit, I used to experience school classmates complaining to me about some problem they had, and, when I repeated their information back to them, thanking me for being helpful.

That didn't feel like it was helpful to me, but other people seem to disagree. This can't even be explained by the internal communication barriers that exist within large organizations - an organization of one person has no such barriers.
Holy. This is so dire. I like how "smart" is always a euphemism for "shitty" when it's the prefix of a technology product.
It says a lot about the profitability and certification costs in the commercial market.

It's a critical long lead-time, institutional industry, for a nation. But a moneymaker, it's not.

(Even Airbus, if I'm reading it right, is at a USD$120b market cap)
It also must be widely accessible so there is minimal effort necessary to get help if you suspect you need it.

When mental health is not accessible (reasons vary from country to country - in some it's merely a stigma, but in some it can have legal consequences[1], and in some it's simply financially prohibitive) there no surprise folks tend hit a joint, or swig from a bottle, rather than visit a doctor's office.

[1] Like a difficulty to obtain or renew a driver license with a medical history of having a diagnosed mental disorder (even if it formally shouldn't be an issue). Which is why I'd even argue for ability to seek help anonymously (if desired so) as a potential requirement. Should help with any stigmas just as well.
Good work! I’m not really sold on the runes stuff though (tldr: https://svelte.dev/blog/runes)

The old way is a bit “magical” in a sense that it does some stuff under the hood to implement the intention behind your code, but it reads really straightforward:

let counter = 0;
// ...
<div>{counter}</div>

`let` in a .svelte compoment makes a variable reactive. If your state is outside a component, you use stores.

With the `$store` rune, the way you make reactive stores inside and outside components is the same, but it only works in .svelte.js/ts. The unification is great – but why not just use `let` in .svelte.js, too?

// counter.svelte.js
export function createCounter() {
let count = 0;
return {
get count() { return count },
increment: () => count += 1
};
}

// App.svelte
<script>
import { createCounter } from './counter.svelte.js';
const counter = createCounter();
</script>

<button on:click={counter.increment}>
clicks: {counter.count}
</button>

I understand it can be really tricky – e.g. you might want to use let for things that are not modified in runtime and do not need reactivity, but it should be possible to determine in compile time. (Actually after writing this all up I think I know why Svelte went with runes instead, haha!)

But again – really good work and I hope to try it out on my next project!
So it will be easier to spot DoD troll entities?
I think you are underestimating stalkers, psychopaths, people with obsessions and others who are unwell mentally.
Yes, it's any ham test in the U.S.

The sw code (morse) portion was eliminated back in the 2000s.
What failure mode could produce harmful energy? The circuit will be designed for the intended power levels and you'll let the smoke out long before you actually put out a dangerous energy level.

Not to mention how could you have the energy levels way off yet the machine "work"--produce an image?

(And, personally, I don't like the pat-down. I'd actually prefer an option to go back a version to the machines that actually displayed the image rather than had a computer process it for anomalies. The stupid computer always flags the pocket I carry my phone in--can't tell the difference between a little bit of sag and something there.)
Yes but among those the least dangerous and the ones whose interests are more aligned with the US is Cuba.

Geography is still king, US, Mexico,Canada and the Caribbean , some would say all the way to Cape Horn in Patagonia all share the same interests.

Hillary would always repeat this thing about safety in America, meaning the whole continent .

If you wanted to bring back manufacturing jobs you'd start from India and China and leave Mexico as the last
"you got defensive"

I guess, if by responding, you mean 'defensive'. Any counter point is a defense.

I think maybe unwittingly, or maybe on purpose sarcastically, you are just playing with words. And maybe I lost the thread of the point you were making.

You're entire paragraph was about 'reason', and how physics does not allow for 'reason', or explain reason, that nothing that happens is because of 'reason' and thus atheist are irrational because physics is not rational.

Maybe you are just making a little joke, that Atheist just believe in a physical world, and there is no 'reason' or intelligence behind it, it is just all cause and effect. That they are 'irrational' because they are in the universe and the universe is 'irrational'.

You basically just made a common argument for Intelligent Design/God/Simulation Theory(the alien), take your pick. That because we can't explain things inside the universe with 'reason', there must be some 'supernatural' level beyond our first order natural world, that would have reason. Something beyond our own that has reason, in order to create ours that does not have reason.

But really, on re-reading your argument, and response. I am not sure. I don't know any atheist that believe as you say they do. So it seemed like a straw man, you are projecting an atheist belief to knock it down. Just because they don't believe in a god, doesn't mean we wont be able to figure things out, to find the 'reason' for why things are the way they are.

It is very difficult when picking up an argument mid-stride with a stranger on the internet. I thought you were making an anti-atheist point, which sounded like Intelligent Design/God/Simulation Theory. But maybe you were just making some observation on how humans can't know, because if the universe is all determined, then they can't break free of that to observe it from the outside.

-> Maybe you were making a little joke, the physical/real world is irrational, atheist believe in only a physical/real universe, thus atheist are irrational.

If you want to re-state your original point, that would be good.
Not defending the sickening concept of a “spy” monitor.

But my Dell P2423DE monitor has a USB-C “dock” built into it so that I plug a single cable into my laptop which connects it to 2x 1440p monitors, power, mouse, headset receiver, keyboard and a wired ethernet connection.

Quite frankly, it’s awesomely convenient.

It’s totally legitimate to have a network port on a monitor.
As long as it is not called Nintendo 64, there is no way Nintendo can do anything.

The cartridge slot and the hardware architecture cannot be protected under copyright and any patent filed at the time would have expired anyway.
Depending on their profit margins and the talent scarcity they do pay.

A seasoned cheme at oil and gas was easily pulling 300k + 2M pension + 10% 401k match
it wouldn't be unprecedented. dynamodb-local exists.
> We’d all probably be happier with a solid narrative underlying our senses of self and society.

I disagree. Religion has fulfilled that role for millennia and all it gets you is people being abused. Fascism has also fulfilled that role with the same results. Look at communism in Cuba, China and the Soviet Union. Everyone blindly sharing the same narrative is dangerous
What data are you looking at that shows decreasing wages and spending?
Pick a stack and dive into it. If you find yourself getting analysis paralysis, just pick one arbitrarily; you're not getting married, you're just getting started. Make things and get feedback on them.

At the end of that process you'll have the background to reevaluate your decisions.
> Happy 10,000th Day to you :-D

Sorry, not sure what you mean?
I’ve also thought about this in quite some depth. I think people would be willing to pay a premium for simple, quality electronics.

I also think there could be a good opportunity to expand this to kitchen appliances too. Premium quality but really dumb. I would be a loyal customer
Your second link is worth reading again, seems it has had some rather concerning updates in the past day or two.

A post from that thread, linked below, is currently highlighted on that site's front page with the title "An open letter libeling Richard Stallman as a pedophile was probably written by Drew DeVault, a progressive open-source developer who has 10 years of history posting lolicon on reddit":

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/drew-chadwick-devault-ddevault...

It describes various of Drew's online habits over the years, including sharing artwork of prepubescent children in swimsuits. Perhaps there is a perfectly reasonable non-pedophilic reason for this, and I do hope Drew will return to the comments here once more to explain.

Either way, with this in mind, it places this section of Drew's report in a rather different context:

https://stallman-report.org/#support-for-the-possession-of-c...
The Languages of English, Math, and Programming
>And in fact, most of the things that you probably learned about the world, you learned through language and not through direct experience with the world.

Most things we know, we are probably not aware of. And for most of us, direct experience of everything that surrounds us in the world certainly exceeds by several order of magnitude the best bandwidth we can ever dream to achieve through any human language.

Ok, there are no actual data to back this, but authors of the article don't have anything solid either to back such a bold statement, from what is presented in the article.

If most of what we know of the world would mostly be things we were told, it would obviously be mostly a large amount of phatic noises, lies and clueless random assertions that we would have no mean to distinguish from the few stable credible elements inferable by comparing with a far more larger corpus of self experiments with realty.
You have a Mercedes, and you have a system that works virtually nowhere.
Definitely try Astro for static sites, I'm loving it!
Dwarf Fortress is a single player game. But if you take a saved game and pass it around you can take off from where others left off.

Boatmurdered is a Dwarf Fortress game session done by different people in this way, which is a good intro to the game for those who haven't played it.
So just a few more years of death and injury until they reach a finished product?
John Grisham poached material for new book, media outlets say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/18/john-g...
Those SIMs usually have very limited bandwidth packages.
This brings up an interesting point, which is that it's likely that software developers overestimate the capabilities of LLMs in other domains because our own domain is so thoroughly documented on the internet.

From what I've been able to gather interacting with other sectors, it seems like software is pretty unique in having a culture of sharing everything—tools, documentation, best practices, tutorials, blogs—online for free. Most professions can't be picked up by someone learning on their own from nothing but the internet in the way that software can.

I strongly suspect that the result will be that LLMs (being trained on the internet) do substantially better on software related tasks than they do in other domains, but software developers may be largely blind to that difference since they're not experts in the other domain.
> I wonder what would happen if Amazon introduced a boycott feature. It could be a list of active boycotts next to the buy button on a product page

A feature that simultaneously discourages sales, encourages retailers to pull products from the platform, and heavily incentivizes abuse from competitors who would benefit from convincing customers to boycott their competitors products? For some reason I don’t imagine Amazon product managers are going to like this idea.

Boycotts are wishful thinking in the modern era of online shopping. The Venn diagram of people who would actively boycott a product like this and the people who would seek it out on Amazon has no overlap. These products are targeted at people who do purchasing for their office or who click the buy button without taking 1 minute to glance at reviews. The people who care enough to actively boycott have already read reviews of a product before they seek it out for purchase.
I am outraged by the lack of outrage over this enshittified dystopia.
I would like to think myself better than that but things have really escalated to a point I really wish death and illness upon the advertiser leeches that started and continuously fueled the enshittification train till the point that we're at now.
What do you mean "next to"? You provide a file, the system gives you a way to pay the people who made it and a way to prove to others that you've done so. If you keep CSAM next to your music, that's on you.
I think truly full stack is probably too much to ask: just accessibility is a huge area of knowledge, for example. I can fiddle around with back-ends, but I want someone more experienced to check my work or just directly help out with e.g. scaling or observability.

That said, if you truly want to learn, MDN is the reference, and they have a pretty good curriculum too: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/curriculum/

Also, ignore the dizzying amount of frameworks. Learn web technologies, and then React. There are millions of back-end tools as well, but in practice, you only use a limited set. Front-end is the same.
Same. My newest computer is from 2015... That said, at least one vendor is making computers I'm willing to purchase: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next
i have the same experience 12.5 is insanely good. HN is full of people that dont want self driving to succeed for some reason. fortunately, it's clear as day to some of us that tesla approach will work
By that token, every attempt to encapsulate reality into a simplified story is successful until it fails. Not a very useful thing to bring to the table
apologies for the confusion, i could have linked the first tweet but the further exploration was also interesting
> At the current rate of improvement it will be quite good within a year

I'll believe it when I see it. I'm not sure "quite good" is the next step after "feels dangerous".
I’m looking forward to Bitnet adaptation. MS just released a tool for it similar to llamacpp. Really hoping major models get retrained for it.
Nice, I've got the same (default colorway)! Such a good keyboard! I built/bought many keyboards and finally got tired of the search and decided to finally try the fabled Topre... so good <3
I’m for this as long as the company also takes on liability for human errors they could prevent. I’d want to see cars enforcing speed limits and similar things. Humans are too dangerous to drive.
That just implies FSD is as good as a bad driver, which isn't really an endorsement.
Did you consider the Pinephone with keyboard?
That claim wasn't made. It was a hypothetical, what if it was 10x safer? Then would people tolerate it.
In short: inflated tech stacks, "quick and dirty" solutions, and too many inexperienced decision maker on the market

Longer:
React became standard because people with actual no frontend knowledge (and taste) wanted to have building blocks, doesn't matter how bad, ugly and slow it is.

Next.js is hyped, because it does many things quickly (and dirty), a low learning curve. It does what PHP did 10+ years ago, and since so many new devs are in the market, for them, this is a new thing (you know, every joke is new for a new born...).

Next.js is pretty much just used as a baseline to load shadcn blocks/components, have a routing that does not require a backend, then push everything to be static (No, I won't mention that, if you can write decent vanilla JS code, how much faster, safer, efficient code you can write instead of that monstrocity).

How many bad startup companies are on the market (3-8-year-old companies that still state it is a startups and still looking for funding, without an actual user base) they tend to have "opinionated" leaders who basically have always some friend who recommend things that is pretty much just hype-train decision without actual experience or understanding the consequences.

Many companies burn hundreds if not thousands of dollars on infrastructure to fire up Next.js. And if you check all the features that are stated for it and compare it with 5-10 years old PHP solutions, you will realize, you can run the same product on a monthly 5 dollar vps too... (unpopular truth)
I had the exact same reaction: biology or computers?

The only hint I can see anywhere on the page is "Statistics > Machine Learning" above the abstract title.

I really want it to be about actual biological trees being studied on the scale of forests growing with smooth edges over long periods of time, but I suspect that's not what it is about.
nice to see zellij+helix combo users out there. Helix been my fav editor for like a year already, zellij is also a daily driver, and now i'm learning jj :P
Play around with some stuff and see what works for you best. Personally, I didn’t get frontend at all before React came by, and then switched to Svelte because it fits my mental model exactly.

If you don’t like anything – no worries! Classic SSR with templates and stuff is a thing too, as another commenter pointed out.

Edit: no matter what, make sure you write good HTML first and foremost. Use proper semantic tags, don’t add dozens of nested divs, use native controls when possible etc. Make sure to check accessibility, but it should be OK if you don’t do any weird stuff. MDN is a great starting point.
That would be good because it would incentivize all FSD cars communicating with each other. Imagine how safe driving would be if they are all broadcasting their speed and position to each other. And each vehicle sending/receiving gets cheaper insurance.
You understand the Hacker News guidelines ask people to not assume bad faith? We have every right to be concerned about this case, since it'd be bad if a court establishes a precedent that denying people access to online services is computer fraud and abuse. In any case, it's unlikely to happen, since WPE's complaint reads like a teenage manifesto. They might succeed in pulling the wool over the eyes of rubberneckers, but it's difficult to imagine a judge being taken in by that.
Rebar and Reinforced Concrete