skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that the killing of small businesses that care by chains that don't is that the vast majority of consumers are in a position where making even such choices as paying twice as much for a donut are luxuries. Salaries have been stagnant forever, with a boost during COVID but was then immediately undone with price gouging on the part of tons of essential-to-life industries. And do not come at me with inflation, it has been demonstrated, numerous times and is continuing to be demonstrated, as nothing more than profit seeking. Inflation was a factor, yes. Greedy bastard corporations were another, IMO much larger, factor.

The pandemic as a whole stomped the gas on an already running process of money being trapped in the hands of the uber rich, and if none of it is coming back down, then the amount of money everyone has to spend necessarily shrinks too. And this is not my usual pinko-commie-scum ass set of thoughts. This is a well understood principle that many economists have been banging on about for years now, because even those who believe capitalism is the best system, though I disagree with them on much, also understand that if all the damn money goes to the rich and stays there then the entire party ends REAL quick and probably violently.
In a way the school system teach people to fear not knowing something, because at an exam it mean getting a bad grade. At work, it is also often frown upon. This is indeed a problem in science since the goal is precisely to find more about unknowns.
We're talking about investments, they count for example if someone invests in an appliance factory, the emissions of the appliances are billed to the investor.

But of course those emissions are also the responsibility of whoever buys, and operates the appliance.

Because virtually every company and factory is owned by somebody, they've managed to put all the emissions into the responsibility of the owner of the factory, and they give regular people zero responsibility.

I'll ask you: if I fly on a plane, who's responsible for the emissions? Me for flying? Or the owner of the airplane for operating it?
> But doesn't that simply shift the problem?

Yes, but that’s kind of a good thing. It’s impossible to moderate in a way that’s acceptable to absolutely anyone.

Federated moderation gives users the ability to select moderators they like, by selecting which instances they use.
Too hard, I was hoping you would do it.
Maybe there are simply not enough doctors, so their waiting list is exactly that, months long?
I spent the weekend working on a simple Typescript app router for the NATS messages similar to what Express/Koa does for http server apps:

https://github.com/Gooseus/natsrun

Gotta shout out to the author of HemeraJS who shared their project here 8 years ago and provided a starting point for me:

- https://github.com/hemerajs/hemera

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13704694

Really just started and very much a work in progress, but figured I'd share while we're sharing. If anyone has any feedback I'm all ears.
I don’t pay for this site to view the articles but is it referring only to using the std lib?

Because adding packages is one line, express, as bloated as it can be in banal to write?
From personal experience search engines don’t honor 404 or 410.
I switched much of my personal site to returning 410 over a decade ago and Googlebot still returns on a routine basis re-requesting a document that hasn’t been on the site since 2012.
Which framework? Do you write sync or async? I’ve AoC’d rust and really liked it but async seems a bit much.
The NYT insisted that a veteran of the Israeli air force, with no prior reporting experience, conduct on the ground research for a massively-significant piece on Hamas sexual abuse allegations.

https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schw...
The fear among Times staffers who have been critical of the paper’s Gaza coverage is that Schwartz will become a scapegoat for what is a much deeper failure. She may harbor animosity toward Palestinians, lack the experience with investigative journalism, and feel conflicting pressures between being a supporter of Israel’s war effort and a Times reporter, but Schwartz did not commission herself and Sella to report one of the most consequential stories of the war. Senior leadership at the New York Times did.

Why would you consider the NYT biased against Israel?
I found this previous HN discussion helpful for context - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41921723
The password is "I'm a teapot" right?
Get a high-end vacuum with a hepa filter (such as the 0.3 micro rated S-24035 by DeWalt) and turn it on and hold it near the lint trap panel as you open the panel up.
I am going to offer you some tips for using ChatGPT.

1. Just because something is in a public specification does not mean that GPT knows about this specification. If you want to work on something, and that something is documented, share the document with the AI. Don't just assume it has read it!

2. Share your existing code, don't just ask for one-off functions. You can do this with a tool like Aider.

3. Context is king. Do you have code (in a different language?) which does what you want? Do you have ideas/comments from JIRA tickets? GitHub discussions? Include it all. Ask questions. Don't just ask for code, but ask for a plan to implement a given feature or refactor. Add the plan to the context. Work from the plan. Have the AI update the plan as it works.

4. AIs are really good at prompting AIs. Ask Claude for help writing your prompts. Tell it what you want to do. Tell it the things you're concerned about, or possible issues you expect to have.

Here's an example of augmenting a prompt before you use it:

Original prompt: Help me write a prompt for a smart AI to review a webaudio library and find bugs.

Result:

You are an expert developer specializing in web technologies, with deep knowledge of the Web Audio API and common pitfalls in audio programming. Your task is to thoroughly review the provided WebAudio library code and identify potential bugs, performance issues, and areas for improvement.

## Instructions:

1. Analyze the library's architecture and overall design.
2. Review each function and method for:
- Correct implementation of Web Audio API concepts
- Proper error handling and edge cases
- Memory leaks or performance bottlenecks
- Browser compatibility issues
3. Check for common WebAudio-specific bugs, such as:
- Incorrect audio graph connections
- Timing and synchronization issues
- Sample rate and buffer size mismatches
- Potential audio glitches or artifacts
4. Evaluate the library's handling of:
- Audio context creation and management
- Node creation, connection, and disconnection
- Parameter automation and scheduling
- Audio worklet usage (if applicable)
5. Assess the library's documentation and API design for clarity and consistency.

## Output:

Provide a detailed report including:
1. A summary of the overall code quality and architecture
2. A prioritized list of identified bugs and issues
3. Specific code examples highlighting problematic areas
4. Recommendations for fixes and improvements
5. Suggestions for additional features or optimizations

Please be thorough in your analysis and explain your reasoning for each identified issue or suggestion.
I'm working on software for use by home hospital practitioners (scheduling, routing, and so on). Ever since the pandemic home hospital (where the doctors come to you, at home, rather than you taking a hospital bed) has been on the rise both to save the hospital bed and because being at home is a huge win for many patients. If you're in this space too I'd love to talk!
In what sense is nutrition science a joke?
Several no longer existing civilizations built out infrastructure that proved too complicated to maintain. So they had, for some time, "good employment numbers or infrastructure investment". Then they "were destroyed", or more often faded away as folks adapted, migrated, or died. Details can be scarce, as your stone carving artisans might simply stop making records. If there are any records. Some of these fallen civilizations had water-works that gave short term benefits, but eventually failed: the system became too complicated or too expensive to maintain, soil salinity grew, earthquakes cut the qanats, maybe there was a run of corrupt or incompetent leaders, wars and political unrest can complicate maintenance, or economic and trade changes can make a once profitable area irrelevant, and it's a pity about those changing rainfall patterns.

"Strong Towns" does exist as something of an antidote to mindless "it doesn't matter" infrastructure spending, and has pointed out various problems of popping up yet more suburbs that lack the tax revenue for maintenance. Or perhaps civilizations, like flowers, are all about short term gain before they fade away?
And it’s not nostalgia. You can go to the blockbuster in bend Oregon that still exists and see that it’s simply fun to walk around and see the movies. It’s just that in the back of your mind you know you can stream everything you find from somewhere.
This is so incredibly gross. I’d rather they just pull out of India completely if this was the alternative. What are all those funds we are donating to the Wikipedia war chest for?

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-fou...

>While Wikipedia volunteers are primarily focused on producing content for the encyclopedia, the WMF is a major fundraising organization, bringing in $165 million from 13 million donations during the 2021–22 fiscal year

>Jim Heaphy, a 70-year-old Wikipedia editor and administrator who lives in Grass Valley, California, told me that he opposed any messaging that suggested the WMF was running out of money. “Wikipedia is under threat. But it is not under threat financially,” Heaphy said in an email. “The Wikimedia Foundation is rolling in cash.” Heaphy told me he sees the main threats to Wikipedia as coming from authoritarian regimes, ideologues, spammers, and vandals.
so a more precise title would be

"yocto BSP & Board bring up: x86 Early Kernel Boot Process with Microcode, ACPI Overrides, and Initrd "
As a businessman, it would be foolish for Jeff Bezos to be construed as endorsing a presidential candidate. The country is highly divided and we're headed into the largest sales period of the year for American retail. Do you think Mr. Bezos wants to screw that pooch? Presumably, nearly half of his customers support Trump. Why would he do anything to incentivize them to go check out what Walmart.com can do for them?

Also, what does endorsing Harris 12 days before the election buy you? I don't seriously believe anybody has been "undecided" since the campaign shifted to being Harris vs. Trump. I would wager that 99.99% of all Americans, whether they vote at all, have known whom they're voting for from day one.

So, you're not going to make any material impact on the election, and you stand to lose a lot of business. You can call it cowardice; I call it smart business.

Americans had better get used to it because if Trump gets elected, you're going to see a lot more of it. Let's not forget that some of our favorite German brands today were once affiliated with Germany's Nazi Party. History has a weird way of repeating itself.
I'm trying to make it easier to run clubs, associations & organizations with a platform called embolt.app[1].

We're offering online memberships, event management, and a member database packed with features. Membership management is a crowded space, but it's also a low-tech space with lots of sleeping giants not willing to iterate on their product.

It's been a really fun project so far and even more rewarding to see clubs using embolt for their daily operations.
[1] https://embolt.app
Retitled from ‘Lisp vs. golang’ because ‘golang’ instead of ‘Go’ is akin to ‘LISP’ instead of ‘Lisp.’

His substantive comments are generally correct, but I think it’s important to note that Go’s not really meant for clever code like function composition and the like — it’s meant for plodding, straightforward code which is boring and does its job. That’s not a criticism! ‘Code which does its job’ is something that we have far too little of in the world.
@blutack, I can confirm this - I recently purchased a treadmill homeTro 3.0HP and it has a third-party Bluetooth Module UART module from https://www.fitshow.com/. It seems fitshow developed this module and white-label apps to add smart features to the treadmill and other fitness devices.
I cannot confirm if it's microchip UART to BLE because since I would have to desolder it, I successfully connected UART at 4800 baud: https://pastebin.com/NCiQwr8T

If anyone knows how to decode FitShow UART protocol or has some ideas, please share your thoughts :)
> Something to keep in mind when decentralizing moderation.

FWIW federated isn’t decentralized.

Federated instances can have whatever moderation rules without affecting all other instances, but decentralized systems usually try to achieve some kind of consensus, which isn’t necessary in federated systems.
Apple Updates the iMac with and an M4 Chip
> All those small discussions were essentially pointless

Were they pointless, or were they positive feedback about a thing you personally disliked?
Wow that's dope! Is this on GitHub anywhere?
The comment you are replying to has two examples, only one of which has to do with Hunter Biden.
Doctors don't deal with insurance companies and billing. They have people for that.
I'm not sure I follow. Where are GUI workloads being discussed in the article?

If anything, article doesn't talk about MSIL or CLR, but C# language features. CLR is not the only target C# supports.

NativeAOT is supported in Avalonia (cross-platform UI framework), Razor Slices (dynamically render HTML from Minimal APIs) and I think there is also some support for AOT in MonoGame & FNA (game dev frameworks).

However, it's still early and a lot of the ecosystem doesn't support NativeAOT.
How to Hold Developers Accountable
Horse behind carriage. People aren't having children so they don't interact with any, making them feel more justified in punishing parents for not doing things the way they think it should be done.
More like declaring the real plan of setting up one org that needs to be privatized.

There have been real attempts at privatization of weather services in the US, despite the fact that our current system costs pennies a day per person (whether it's used for weather apps, or safe flying/sailing).
That's because you're churning temporary memory. JS can't free it until garbage collection runs. Rust is able to do a lifetime analysis, and knows it can free it immediately.

The same will happen on any function where you're calling functions over and over again that create transient data which later gets discarded.
I think the answer to the question is that clearly, using personal equipment when company equipment is available is the wrong answer.

But, knowingly picking the wrong answer can be ok if you get some benefit from it. Personally, it's not too hard to keep home and work computers mostly separate; at times, I might do a smidge of work on a home computer, or a smidge of home stuff on a work computer, but hopefully it's pretty ephemeral: I don't want work content to stay on my home computer, or home content to stay on my work computer. At my last job, I was subject to legal holds all the time and compliance is easy if corporate has access to everything and I don't really need to do anything. By the same token, I had to administer legal searches of email, and sometimes that caught personal matters which nobody else needed to see (including me); avoiding that kind of access would be great.

Otoh, keeping personal and work phones separate is just too hard for me. I don't want to carry two phones.
I use 418 as a reply to illegitimate bots. It’s fun and it makes filtering logs easier.

Nginx config snippet:

# Nothing to hack around here, I’m just a teapot:
location ~* \.(?:php|aspx?|jsp|dll|sql|bak)$ {
return 418;
}
error_page 418 /418.html;

Example: https://FreeSolitaire.win/wp-login.php
(NB: /wp-login.php is WordPress login URL, and it’s commonly blindly requested by bots searching for weak WordPress installs.)
Oh, it's worse than that. I have yet to see any of the DEI types come out in favor for raising the cap on damages related to violations of the ADA Act. When Bloomberg is getting concerned that the law written to be ignored and the average Liberal isn't there's a problem: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/slashed-366...
I exercise semi regularly and use a watch + phone combo to watch my health stats regardless of my physical activity, to include calories, so I feel like my experience is decent data.

On a day that I don't work out, I burn about 2000 calories. On days that I work out (weekly run), I burn 2800 calories, but I am so hungry that I have to eat huge meals and I have consumed the additional 800 I burned within 12 hours. Perhaps weekly runs are sufficiently infrequent for my body to not get "used to" the run, fitting it into the 2k calorie burn, thus I go way over on those days no matter what, but my body is getting those extra calories no matter what, to make up for it due to how significantly more hungry I am after.

Everyone I know who lost weight basically just starved themselves (net calorie loss).
Nowadays the "crazy uncle" is the one that denies that his TV spies on him or what ever. Sitting there at the family dinner, telling you to trust Google products. Etc.

I would like trained LLMs to be regarded as some sort of pre-compiled binary. I.e. to have the LLM, without being theoretically able to reproduce it, is not regarded as "open source" at all.

I wonder if it is possible to test if a given data input would end up with kinda the precompiled model, without wasting millions of dollars.

"OpenAI" would imply that it is open if the plebs are allowed to use it.
So it's almost twice the performance? That's great. But AI could actually easily use 10 times.

Anyone heard anything about memristors being in a real large scale memory/compute product?
Apple Intelligence is out today
I specialized in heads-up no-limit (HUNL) when I played. With cash games, no-limit head-up holdem is arguably an unsolvable game - whereas limit holdem is already solved. No limit multi-handed (more than 2 players) is solveable but only in theory (thus far). It may seem counter-intuitive that less players (less hands) could equate to more variations but heads-up (2 players) introduces a variable thats extremely difficult to quantify: we call this "meta"; (meta game can and will be present multi-handed, but to much a smaller extent, and most often at-play in "heads-up" situations within multi-handed play) the "psyche" part of poker. Meta isn't so much John Malcovich dissecting an Oreo cookie because he's bluffing - much is intangible, but as hands are played, either player is contributing to the context.

History of how hands were played, what you know about your opponent, what you know your opponent knows about you, what you know that your opponent expects you to do in a given situation.. all that stuff comes to focus in HUNL.

Anyway, that got a bit wordy but I hope that you can see why I am super curious to see some application / testing of LLM in the specific HUNL format. Thanks for reading
Yeah - the other analogy I've used is that everyone can recognize a Starbucks logo, but even if you went to the trouble of learning to accurately draw one, you'd forget if you didn't practice.
Ok, so you have an issue with the certainty that Yoder used in his discussion of that particular issue. Does expressing certainty when the author of the referenced study uses less certain terms make something a joke?

If so, I have some wonderful things to show you from Teicholz that will have you rolling on the floor with laughter compared to Yoder’s stuff.
It feels like that a lot of people use exercise (and diets for that matter) as a kind of self-flagellation, working off the guilt of eating "bad". But do people really want to live in guilt like that? Is that what motivates them?

Thing is, I'm healthier now that I don't feel guilty about what I eat, and also don't feel like snacking / "cheating" nearly as much. A lot of people don't eat normal, they have no healthy baseline; they don't eat regularly, they eat reactively to "I am hungry" or "Oh shit I need to figure out something for dinner". This is especially an issue in the US where it seems that eating takeout is the norm (and what you have is decided on the spot instead of planned in advance), but please correct me if I'm wrong. This takeout culture is also growing in Europe, especially with apps and services that make it easier to just reach for it. For a good period we ended up having takeout once a week, often reactively / last minute, and it's nowhere near the healthiest choice (but a chips, cheese, kebab, sauce and salad lasagna is so good)
It's an interesting conflict. As the businesses scales, small losses which would be acceptable in a smaller operation will scale as well. Maybe a mistake people make as they scale is being too quick to give up the extra couple french fries.
See also: monads.

Some things you just have to understand on your own terms, in your own time, and no amount of coaching can move you any faster towards enlightenment than your brain will allow.
Since the competition can now offer as good battery life as Macs with the introduction of the Snapdragon X, I don't care so much about the bad Apple practices (regarding RAM, SSD, ports).
Russian anti-NATO efforts know no bounds.

that's not sarcasm, I mean that literally: they are pulling out all of the stops and abusing the hell out of GPT. Like, they used to have a 50 person team pushing JFK, Area 51, and Moon landing conspiracies, and that was in the 90s.
Ooh, and if you get an airplane, someone else deals with your baggage during the connections. Not a big deal if you're an adult traveling on your own, but obviously huge for families with small kids
> You haven't even attempted to address whether various developments in society and technology might do this to literacy the way earlier trends did to musical skills. I think that result is quite likely, by the way.

Fair, I was making a different point. Yes literacy might be reduced, my argument is that this isn’t necessarily a problem. Our abilities shift to take advantage of technology.

A lot like how we got really bad at memorizing long epics because we can just write them down instead.

That said, I don’t think writing/literacy will go away as much as we might fear. The new technologies are not a good enough replacement (yet?)
Apple Updates Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad with USB-C Ports
The US-based system is the modern version of a religion. They promote their interests based on abstract "values", so you have to believe in these values to be a good person (whatever they're promoting as good), and believe that the US gov is the leader in pursuing these values, just like the Catholic Church proclaimed during the middle ages. If you accept these illogical premisses, other governments are necessarily against democracy and freedom, and therefore have no reason to exist and need to be destroyed from within or from outside if needed. To be clear, the main problem in Western ideology is not the values themselves, but the idea that they're the best and other countries that don't support them need to be conquered or destroyed. It is barbarism by other means.
> since you can't grow many things in the US

That is a rather strange claim. The US is represented all up and down this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_producing_coun...
The thing I like about automation and machines is that they are relatively free of emotional baggage. The removal of such emotional baggage from a subject greatly nerfs the ability of people to manipulate public perceptions by tugging at heartstrings with phrases like "underclass of migrant labor whose human rights are always in jeopardy". With the human element removed it's much easier to have sane discussions yielding sane results.