skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't doubt that these places can be educational and fun. I'm in complete agreement with the idea that we lose a sense of community and humanity in large cities.

What I scoff at is when communes and villages are marketed as being the greatest place to live in. Particularly when it comes from upper-class urbanites who are oblivious of the challenges of this kind of lifestyle.

But maybe I'm wrong in prejudging this particular case. That's just the impression I got from the website and the exotic sounding name. It's very similar to the show "The Curse" which satirizes these people.
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Sadly the worldcoin thing doesn't even work for bank accounts etc. I still have to upload passport scans, utility bills, fill forms and the like. And now sometimes proof of funds. What if you made money decades ago and don't have proof of how? It's all become a pain in the neck. It would be cool for me if worldcoin worked but it's basically just a crypto pump with added eyeballs.
For this to work, though, you would have seen a convergence of all humanity onto the same explanations

given the dominance of monotheistic religions this is actually happening. there is no need for origin stories to have commonalities because the convergence can also happen through replacement. if every group comes up with their own explanation for the different experiences they have, their stories are naturally going to differ, and that is what we see in history. but also, commonalities are there. pretty much all stories have some kind of creator of the universe and many refer to someone who will come and bring salvation.
There are actually quite a few, they show up in the news now and again

https://futurism.com/the-byte/delivery-bot-crime-scene

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-63821535

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/20/1100290734/delivery-robot-woo...
There’s this guy on every comment.

The vast majority of human experience has been tough. Arguably the vast experience of most life is pretty cruel.

Should they just donate the wealth of their country to some other one? Would you like to donate some of your personal income to the nice homeless people outside?

The leaps from people build dumb glass city => world is bad => people building dumb glass city are bad because world is bad aren’t obvious to me.
I would argue that is an insignificant set.

Unless you think that code-bases created in the past year are a significant part of code bases that have been created since the inception of humanity.
every new prime for new block, but not linear.
you argument makes the typical mistake done by nerds here to conflate "realism" with "idealism". yes, freedom and individual decisions ... 100%! but ... the point here is not that but what society would we like to live in? i don't want to live in a society suggesting self-evacuation upon productivity falling below some threshold - empathy is what we need and want.
Japan still uses a lot of physical games media. Lots of little game stores still exist (or at least a lot existed before COVID, I know a lot of specialty stores closed up during that) and doujin circles have historically made the bulk of their game sales (and generally gained their fame) from physical sales made during large events like comiket in their doujinsoft sections.

And while in the west this sounds kind of like a niche thing, a substantial number of the bigger games that have come out of Japan (excluding those from the AAA studios) either started their distribution with physical sales at conventions or their developers started off that way before they got enough of a following to just publish digitally and avoid the hassle.

So there's not really a clear cutoff between "studios" small enough to avoid the ire of the law and those large enough to afford getting all the ratings fees, etc paid for.
Well it doesn't stand for "source code". It's the tree of directories and files.
> So on the ground level, it's already clear some of our highest paid most valuable people spend 20-30% of their time on a flavor of administrative junk

This is most definitely not just a US problem. I work adjacent to this industry in Poland, where we basically have a single-payer system[1], and I'd say 20-30% is definitely in the ballpark.

Especially in larger institutions (think hospital, not a single doctor's office), records must be kept and handovers between different doctors must occur. This means that you have to do all this work anyway, regardless of how much of it is actually transmitted to the insurance provider, and in our case, it's definitely far, far too little.

[1] we do have private healthcare, but that's typically small / less-complicated procedures and usually covered out-of-pocket by those who can afford it, so there are no insurance considerations there.
A bigger picture is them spending this money on building is infinitely times better than spending it on war.
This modern narrative of people posting their opinions or assumptions somewhere being "dangerous" because someone could just believe it is much more dangerous because it can be applied to any opinion anywhere that was ever published.

No judge will ever rule on something based on a comment they read in the Internet.
Even drug dealers find it a bit impersonal.
No, I have never had any experience like this. I have intrusive emotions sometimes, but I don't really have intrusive thoughts or imaginings (outside of dreams).
The line was never going to be built. 150km long with a massive cross-section is unrealistic.

It has been massively scaled down to realistic proportions since, as expected.
> That's more than India, the US, Japan, and Germany produce -- combined.

And? It's not like the US is a major steel producer with annual production more than 10x less than China's.

My single state alone (W.Australia) mines almost a billion tonne of iron ore per annum, more than (IIRC) 16x the annual peak iron ore production of the entire USofA in it's history.

Rio Tinto(?) is opening another global billion tonne per annum iron ore producer as I type (don't recall the country off hand) and demand for metallugical coal (for making steel, a different type than thermal coal for heat to spin turbines for power) is climbing again.

That aside, I believe you're correct that it's projected demand should Neom go ahead, but even a "short trial" section would use more steel than the world trade centre, the plans are for a "wall" of a city, much wider than a world trade tower and in a continuous strip - the foundations I've seen pictured being dug have a substantial footprint even for a short stretch of something intended to be much bigger.
Shocking and depressing how easily they've been able to find overcharging consultancy firms and willing spruikers ready to hype up what is obviously a stupid and unrealistic vanity project.

At 1% of it's planned length, it's already going to be nothing like the shiny CGI videos. And the Howeitat had to be removed or jailed to build even that. Shameful.
> The overwhelming majority of software authors are unconcerned about cross-process Spectre attacks, indicated by the fact that none of them enable IBPB. The only exception I've seen is Google Chrome.

As expected, Google goes the extra mile again to keep their users safe.
Core guidelines, conference talks, books, online articles, etc. are not authoritative. If I really want to know if my C code is correct C, I consult the standard. If the standard and an online article disagrees, the article is wrong, definitionally.
Terrorists aren't morons. In fact, they typically have engineering degrees.
Because those are the only two choices.
Fe is for iron here
“Coerced”? Check some recent news to see that for Apple rainbow-washing stops at the very moment they are held responsible for providing basic censorship circumvention tools.

I am amazed how people still cling to the hope that one day a corporation will do something nice for them without any hidden motive.
Trying to find a fence for human skin would hard although, given humanity, I imagine not impossible.
Honestly? No. Please feel embarrassed about your sheer arrogance to think that LLMs are a viable shortcut to not having to do The Work.

This pisses me off so much.
I appreciate your perspective, thanks for sharing. Mine is that great engineers are extremely hard to find, given there are many more jobs available to them than there are folks searching right now. For nearly every other role, the opposite is true, and hiring local talent is very possible.
Just Iran alone is capable of defeating Israel if it wishes. Israel is only 8M people. There are hundreds of millions of Muslims living in Middle East. They aren’t united right now, but Israel, ironically, could unite them.
That could work. Probably it’d be a very easy bit of middleware/express extension to write, it’s basically just wrapping the existing writeHeader, write, end, in the hot new syntax. Probably you’d get some benefits in composability, and lose some performance in the extreme.
I am aware that this is the norm. It's not just language production; lots of things we do are done by seemingly unconscious parts of our brains, even though they feel like conscious choices we make.

I am open to the possibility that these "unconscious" things we do are not actually unconscious, but are actually done by parts of our brains that are separately conscious — i.e., other entities that live in our bodies with us.
I can spot a pattern that people who think AI should be able to violate copyright often anthropomorphize it as a silly defense.

If you mean what I wrote, it's irrelevant what you call them. If governments think there is an AI race that they will lose if they enforce copyright, they won't enforce copyright.
The smart money is betting on: 22nd Century Superslum
Again, China.

Already importing more than a billion tonnes of raw meterial in order to make steel - they have the logistics to move weight and they're not importing steel they're importing iron ore and metallurgical coal to make it and use it.

They're glutting with steel about now and in the near future, their massive city scale housing developments have come to an end and are possibly looking to sell their ongoing production to the Saudi's.
We live in a time when Orwell, Monthy Python have all become reality.
This may be tangential but the NHS is not without some sickening expenses. The costs are just opaque and hidden but ultimately taxpayers are paying for £300 for a stainless steel bucket for patients to pee in thanks to bureaucracy and government contracrs. (that figure is pre 20s inflation)

So every month the government siphons off 40-45% of your income and donates a lot of it to Big Healthcare. So a case of being damned if you do and damned if you don't...
I just learned Golang, and i liked your idea, i'm going to test it soon! saved in bookmarks
No, they used a Lithium IRON battery. LiFePO₄ literally means Lithium Iron Phosphate. These batteries are safer, more thermally stable, and have a longer cycle life compared to typical Lithium-Ion (LiCoO₂) batteries. However, LiFePO₄ has a lower energy density, meaning less capacity for the same size and weight.
You can talk about design philosophy all you want. You can confirm that Windows sucks all you want (I agree).

That doesn't change the fact that my external monitor doesn't work and will never work on Linux/Unix (random example, I can give you tons of others of things not working).

Is it Linux's fault? No. Does it make Linux suck in that it is completely unusable for most people? Yes.

Apple (and System76 and Frame.work) understood this and are changing this fortunately.
Nazis, traditionally. Typing it out makes the comparison feel weak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
This seems like Anthropic showing people how to build a thin layer around Claude. Can building a thin layer around Claude be a valuable business model? If there are good profitable UIs for Claude, wouldn't Anthropic implement them itself?
Ask HN: Which database should I use?
I've been using surrealdb 1.x for the past 2 years or so. I love it. However there are some fundamental problems with it, and with 2.x they switched from string ids to object ids, which makes upgrading my 20 or so applications that have been using it a nightmare. I'm going to keep all those projects on surreal 1.x and will pick a new database. Problem is I'm not sure which one.

I'm not a huge fan on SQL because the more relations you have the more complex your JOINs become. It becomes a nightmare. I don't want to go down that path.

I've used mongodb before I switched to surrealdb, and it was pretty good for simple stuff, but for more complex queries it also becomes difficult. Also scaling it requires knowledge I currently don't have nor do I care to learn.

I'm looking at edgedb, cockroachdb and possible just got old fashioned mysql again if I have to do sql all over.

Are there any new dbs that have re-invented SQL at all besides surrealdb?
Great idea! I'll save it for next time. Wishing you the best!
sudo literally works in Windows.

Both in Windows itself as well as in WSL.
That's the only thing you felt the need to elaborate on? Okay, so I guess you're "just asking questions" then.
I wouldn't trust an employee wellness program to meaningfully address the mental health needs of employees or for any information an employee shared under such a program to stay private and never be used against the employee. In the end, no matter what third party an employer pays to provide "wellness" services, that third party works for the employer and their interests. I wouldn't trust whatever random third party they hired to keep my data safe from others either.

If you need mental health services, just see your actual doctor and leave your employer and whatever random company they hire out of it.
But it wishes it already. Israel however has nukes and is backed by the US. Iran wouldn't last 10 minutes.
I'm not sure why your comment is currently downvoted, you're not claiming it was anything but random luck and it's a funny story. Thanks for sharing.
Love it! at least i can get rid of my chrome UI/UX
By that logic, neither are modern day smartphones.
Being convinced that we need something is not the same as something being necessary for us

of course it isn't. all i am saying is that arguing about that difference is not helpful.

whose main goal is to convince us we need something

which is no different than trying to convince us that we don't need a narrative.

this is the problem i have with dominant religions today. to much focus on the narrative itself. not enough focus on using the narrative to solve actual problems. narratives are being treated as if they are the solutions in themselves, as if only believing the narrative will solve our problems automatically.

instead of pushing a narrative, what we really need is to adress the problems humanity is facing today. i'll use a narrative for those that need it, if it helps them to understand why certain problems need to be solved, but for those that don't need a narrative to do that, i won't. i don't care about people believing the narrative, i care about them solving problems.

The topic is not that much about are narratives a necessity, but what they lead to

true. the actual narrative needs to be carefully chosen. not all narratives are good, and bad narratives do need to be replaced. but again, it is easier to come up with a better narrative than to convince someone that the narrative is not needed.
"One fifth of world's steel" makes sense, was it something else before?
Oh boy that a lot of problem. Guess it was not a good buy after all :(.

Thank you for all the info!
Indeed, I worked in Scala for a while, dabbled with rust on my free time and am now back to writing C#. Although I prefer the two first, I have to say the ergonomics have improved significantly in C# and there are now nice options for rewriting legacy spaghetti OOP-code.
Both MySQL and Postgress support JSON datatype just in case you dont know
The 3G and 4G versions of that phone are Android-based, for context.
Maybe they got the same UI bug as me, where the entire article was squished to a width of about 2cm somewhere on the side and almost invisible between the links to other articles, making it seem like there's only the headline and nothing else.
The finger should be pointed at us. We could've built our cities much more efficiently, but we chose to prioritize cars over common sense. We funnelled our wealth to them and ironically they're using it to build a city that is dense and efficient, thereby respecting nature.

People need to live somewhere. We don't need - and shouldn't - live everywhere. Where it's burning and flooding, we should stop rebuilding. The Amazon sized forest in the eastern US should be largely regrown.

In that way, they're actually providing a good example. We need to think about future infrastructure for a post-oil, post-climate change world. That's exactly what they're doing.
How do you prove that you verified that a number is a prime?

If you want to prove that a number is not a prime you can show the factorization or that it breack the little theorem of Fermat with 367984321568, and everyone can check the refutation inmediately.

I don't know a similar method to show that you actualy verified the number is a prime.
Not only does Iran not wish to destroy Israel, it is also unwilling to allow Hezbollah to successfully do so either. If it wanted to destroy Israel, Israel wouldn’t have any AD after the last strike.
Based on this and similar headlines, it should be obvious by now that if you are a supplier to any business that is subsequently acquired by PE, you would be wise to demand cash on the barrelhead for sales to them.
> For the age rating to be trustworthy, someone actually has to play your game, in full

This is both unrealistic and impossible in 2024. There's an almost infinite number of choice combinations that a player can make, some of which can enable access to unique / hidden content, and there's no way to test them all.

Imagine e.g. an easter-egg side quest that involves the player going into a brothel, but that only activates if some NPC notices you're wearing a specific piece of armor, which has a 30% chance of dropping from a monster that you don't strictly need to kill to finish the entire game.

Not to mention content patches, intentional easter eggs, scenes which should technically be inaccessible to players but can still be accessed due to bugs[1] and so on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_(minigame)
Why the html files? You can just expose your directory structure on the web, no need for html.
I like the little phone UI showcase above the fold. Reminds me of those Flash-based interactive UI demos that phone makers had on their sites back in the early 00s.
When there's a broken title on HN there's a good chance that it's been mangled by HN's scripts.
> Those articles are very biased

What you quoted is not an example of bias, it’s just a statement you disagree with.

You also ignored the bit of countries banning it.

> I'm a worldcoiner.

Thus have a vested interest in its success. That is an example of potential bias.

> I don't feel scammed or exploited

Neither do you seem too happy about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41886812

> my privacy is invaded a lot less than by the likes of Google and Facebook

You don’t know that. All you know is what they say, and that’s worth very little. Companies lie and cheat all the time. For example, on their FAQ they say the orb deletes the data “by default”, which implies there is a way to not have it deleted. That alone should give you pause. And this is not yet widespread enough for anyone to know the worst consequences.

> Sam didn't create AI

Neither did I say he did.

> it would have happened anyway.

You don’t know (nor do I) if it would have been released this irresponsibly, making other companies do the same, if not for Sam and OpenAI. In fact, we know Google had working systems like this before ChatGPT and they chose to not release them.
Wow nice, what was the service to attract people so well?
Apollo was the only reason I could tolerate Reddit. I only wanted to use Reddit on my phone, and most other apps were meh at best (especially the official app, eww). When Reddit pulled the API crap and Apollo officially shut down, I left and haven’t gone back. As someone who spent hours a day on Reddit, I had no qualms leaving.

As someone who worked years in the Wordpress space, I’m feeling the same about never touching it again which is a shame. I’ve enjoyed the projects, I’ve enjoyed contributing to the WP Stack Exchange and helping other people, and I’m done.
Agree; however it's true that building a city with the most inefficient possible shape in a hostile environment doesn't sound like a good use of money in any case. I really don't understand the project, it makes no sense at all. Does anyone have an idea of what might be the thinking there?
> held nuclear missiles for the Soviet Union during the Cold War, essentially putting them incredibly close to our shores.

I think those missiles were installed (at least partly) as a response to US deploying nuclear weapons in Turkey (and, to a lesser extent, Italy).
How cybercriminals Attack Your Company
Interesting. I'm not a professional developer and also love fossil for toy/hobby projects. I find it fascinating that this well crafted, solid piece of software is so forgotten, and that git has just rolled over everything.
>A fifth is a unit of volume formerly used for wine and distilled beverages in the United States, equal to one fifth of a US liquid gallon, or 253⁄5 U.S. fluid ounces (757 milliliters)

So it's really not that bad /s
NI is part of general taxation in all but name. Nominally there is an NI fund but any money deposited there is immediately lent back to the government to be spent on whatever they want.
Looks more like a phone to me than the mini tablet with GSM Im using right now
I've heard something about that but haven't used it.
> North Korean hackers use newly discovered Linux malware to raid ATMs

But the ATMs run Windows. /s
Added Tone Generators
>British one is facing bankruptcy

No it isn't.
I take Adderall, and those side effects are extreme imo. If it’s actually adderall, he’s taking way too much.

Thing is, Adderall is an amphetamine, and there’s a more likely culprit for those with lots of money: cocaine.
There are resistor and capacitor-tailored versions of these. Searching on Printables, etc. will yield a lot of results.
Steel production causes around 8% of the worlds CO2 emissions, so if this is right, this project alone is causing emissions around two thirds of all of the worlds aviation.
As a British national I like to think git is a very descriptive name, because git is a git to use and understand.
Dark Patterned Voices Manipulate Users
I agree. That's why I prefer the term mobile, since I can at least pretend it means mobile computer.
Search Engine of 200k+ Open Source Free SVG Icons
Probably pales into insignificance compared to all the oil Saudi Arabian is pumping out the ground, but meh.
How to build a nuclear tomb to last millennia
Yeah. No advice and ignorance is better than certain advice
You mean this https://lmsys.org/blog/2024-02-05-compressed-fsm/