skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, given this is the third time I have read this exact text block I have:

a) increased my credence that this is a bot
b) increased my credence that you're spreading ideological bs claims not worth investigating further, despite being initially curious to learn more the first time I read this

Copy pasting a comment everywhere not a good look IMO. It shows a general lack of engaging with fellow humans in dialogue and makes you look like you might just be spreading something trying to reach as many eyes as possible because you're being paid to do so.
Either bread was expensive or hookers cheap.
That's a fair objection, but given the context I assume he was not actually having anything other than Chinese in mind. Otherwise one might as well bring up Vietnamese, which has a similar history and lexical makeup as JP/KR and is spoken about as far east, but is now written phonetically in Latin-based script with hardly any readers of the old Chinese-based writing system remaining.
Absolutely amazing. Bookmarked, gonna be very useful in 5 or 10 years ahahah

On the other hand, it's so soul-crushingly depressing to contemplate how most youtube content targeted at kids is such brain-addling garbage fucking up their psyche in all sorts of ways, all for the sake of ad impressions... If there's a place for the expression "late capitalism" this has to be it
Ireland

"It illegal to use a detection device to search for archaeological objects anywhere within the State or its territorial seas; without the prior written consent of the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht"

(Note "anywhere")

https://www.museum.ie/en-ie/collections-research/the-law-on-...
At any given time there are millions of children who will fall for the coin behind the ears trick. It's magic to this large part of the population. That doesn't make it a technique I need to evaluate for my professional practice, because I'm not a clown.
I do agree. All of Chopin’s waltzes have ABA form, this one doesn’t & sounds more like a fragment of something else.
I suppose this is what is happening. What bothers me is that it’s not ought to be this way. Would be trivially easy to put a stop to this if we weren’t being rotten from the inside.
> the English language doesn't have tools to express uncertainty without adding verbosity

Well, there's always irony quotes. For example:

The new Apple lineup will "amaze".
Train it on an irc channel about how markov chains works :D
I'm working on coffeeplaces. Whenever I got to a new town, I like to taste the coffee there. For example, at my native place, filter coffee is popular. So I am making a website where people can add coffeeplaces that they've enjoyed and other people can see it.

I'm still in the initial building - ideation phase, so nothing to show.
I have finally been able to install it and have to say I am really impressed how well this works. Sure, you can not really 'fullscreen'? There are some glitches; margins. But mostly it just works. It is so much more efficient than starting up Waydroid... I am even considering trying this with some of my other go-to applications.

Note; FreeTube is also a good client. Though at three times the size due to Electron, I like NewPipe more. It feels way more snappy to use.
Counter-counter-disagree. This is the ultimate way to make sure the joke is preserved for the future generations while keeping implications absolutely miniscule.
It's nice! A few notes: I think, the ability to read the comments of others, who have already cooked a recipe, would be great! Additionally, it would be great to have the possibility to group ingredients, since many times you start with creating two ore three independent mixtures, that you only combine in the end.

My gut feeling, for attracting users, would be to just optimize the recipes to be found by people via search engines. It's great, that you are currently adding images. This is, I think, pretty important for deciding, if I want to cook something or not.
> You can be arrested for even owning the iPhone 16, and are encouraged to report people owning it - this is some real authoritarian loser energy.

Dramatic comments require dramatic sources. This is WILD conjecture and I'm almost certain you're relying on a bizarre interpretation of the Ministry's statement on these devices not being certified.

They are prohibiting the use, import, and sale of the product because it is not yet certified. This is exactly the same way it works in the US. If you import a product that is not FCC certified, it is illegal. You will be asked to stop using it, but to say you're subject to arrest is SpongeBob levels of hyperventilation. An arrest is reserved for things like communication jamming of airports, not for someone using an uncertified device.

I also love the contradiction here - Apple fans will say it's OK for Apple to prevent "illegal devices" from its iMessage network, but now here it's not OK for Indonesia's Ministry of Industry to prevent actual statutorily illegal IMEIs from wireless networks.

https://www-cnnindonesia-com.translate.goog/teknologi/202410...
Wall clocks use batteries nowadays, but some clocks in devices permanently connected to mains power still use its frequency - e.g. my Siemens kitchen oven, which promptly was off when there were some synchronization issues in the EU grid a few years ago. You'd think that in an appliance that costs several hundred euros, a quartz crystal wouldn't really move the cost needle, but as long as they can get away with it most of the time, why spend more money?
The internet never fails to amuse me, this is awesome haha
Not really anyone's responsibility to deliver answers on a platter though.
We both know it won't work, but please make a youtube demo about this.
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> An excerpt from a religious text with a trailing space:

> "I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux,"
Are Inboxes Evil?
419 I‘m an awfully hot coffee pot
C# is pretty good about these, with extension methods and event handlers. With event handlers instead of virtual methods, it's much easier to separate the pieces.
I’ll be sure to add unicorns, thank you!
I tried to build something kind of like NotebookLM (personalized news podcasts) over the past months (https://www.tailoredpod.ai), but biggest issue is that the existing good TTS Apis are so expensive that a product such as NotebookLM is not really possible for a normal company that doesn't have internal access to Google's models. OpenAI has the cheapest / quality good enough TTS Api, but even then generating hours of audio for free is way too expensive.

Open Source TTS models are slowly catching up, but they still need beefy hardware (e.g. https://github.com/SWivid/F5-TTS)
> giving a warning when it fails to

This is the critical point. If CI fails or otherwise you are warned when the loop doesn't vectorize, then you can count on it to always happen
Thanks. I will take a deeper look.
Authentication is a busy market indeed.
So you're saying that it's naive to suppose that everybody being much smarter than they are now would transform society, because any wide-scale societal change requires ongoing social cooperation between the many average-intelligence people society currently consists of?
History is pretty good at showing presumed-impossible things to indeed be possible.
It was indeed in physics/math/cs where I had classes with a passing grade of >30%.

A memorable classes being Electromagnetism 4 where the passing grade in my year was 8% and Quantum Mechanics 3 with 15%.
It's more of an alternative to Magic.link.
The 17% result is for overall reduction of SFA consumption on CHD, and is statistically significant (per the standards of nutrition science). The 21% difference when replacing SFA with PUFA between subgroups is not statistically significant, and neither is the 16% reduction for reducing SFA with carbs, so they should be ignored. The study only finds this modest 17% risk of CHD events from reduced consumption of SFAs.

As noted elsewhere, this is contradicted by other studies, one of which you cite, which find that SFA reduction is not protective if SFA is substituted with CHO (only if it is substituted with PUFA).

Overall, there is no good concluaion to be made, other than that there is a tiny effect from consuming less SFAs, maybe.
Sometimes things change, sometimes we chose the wrong abstraction.

Unless you’re writing the Linux kernel you shouldn’t write it like the Linux kernel.
Indonesia sits very pretty between USA's interests against China, look at the Malacca Strait and check USA's plans for containment of China in case of a war.

> Do you really think the US is incapable of asserting economic or policy pressure over some random third world country? These countries' economic health is practically completely at our whims. Look at Cuba.

It's quite aggravating you have to resort to a neoimperialist rhetoric, hope you don't feel too bad when other nations start hating your country.

The USA probably needs Indonesia much more than Indonesia needs the US, if you start pushing countries around don't act surprise when they switch allegiance.
I'm making a discord bot that uses OpenAI's realtime voice API for fun
Thank you for this. It all sounds correct to me and brought back so many things I’d forgotten – but now I’m really curious how you remember these dates and numbers. My memory for details like these is pretty strong, but this level of recall is remarkable. I’m genuinely impressed.
You're still both missing PG's point, and getting your logic wrong for the point you are on. About the latter:

> "I meant: since most life situation where we need clear thinking do not involve writing, then we are obviously well equipped to think clearly."

That's not the QED you seem to think it is. The statement that "most life situation where we need clear thinking do not involve writing" doesn't give any reason to think that most people are good at clear thinking most of the time, nor whether people find clear thinking easier with the help of writing or if writing has no benefit to the goal of clear thinking. You're just putting two opinions you have next to each other and acting like one confirms the other.

And a friendly tip, "have I explained better what I meant before?" would come off as a lot more polite than "got it?", which to anyone who agrees with the rest of your comment could easily read as snide/patronising, while anyone who thinks you're still wrong will see it as smug and wrongly confident. (Apologies if English isn't your first language, in which case you're very good at it, and apologies if you didn't want unsolicited opinions on how your choice of language makes you seem in my view!)

edit to give an analogy: I feel your argument is like if somebody said "control of body movement is key to being a great athlete", and you replied "everyone is always controlling their body movement, clearly therefore it's not relevant to how good an athlete is".
Technically bcrypt isn't a KDF.
>Words have meaning, lets not diminish them because you're upset people don't vote how you want.

I don't know how you twisted my words in your mind to insinuate I just want 'them' to vote for 'my' team.

Governments that are dominated by one party, whether it be north korea, russia, or California tend to ossify and are controlled by party apparatchiks instead of democratically elected politicians. When there are multiple parties in close competition all parties are forced to be more responsive to the electorate.
I researched thermal printers recently and your project came up. Very creative!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland-class_submarine

> The Gotland-class submarines of the Swedish Navy are modern diesel-electric submarines, which were designed and built by the Kockums shipyard in Sweden. They are the first submarines in the world to feature a Stirling engine air-independent propulsion (AIP) system, which extends their underwater endurance from a few days to weeks. ...

> On the water surface, the submarine is powered by two sets of MTU engines. While submerged, the Kockums-built Stirling engine AIP system is used to drive a 75-kilowatt (101 shp) generator for either propulsion or charging the batteries.
Isn't that kind of what airline websites do ? Your first visit is the lowest price you will see.
Thank it is expanding now really means that it will expand forever? Are there not other physics at play that could stop that at some point, yeah I don't know much about any of this just wondering out loud.
A non-sense free newsletter app
I just set up a reminder to cancel every 3 months. At least I have to dismiss it.
It's legal for citizens to own and use Cuban cigars, and Cuba is not going to invest its way into getting cigars into the US.
I think you're correct that the energy efficiency of a human exceeds that of current computers, but I think it's a bit more complicated than a first order calorie count.

How many joules go into producing those 900 calories? Like in terms of growing the food, from fertilizer production to tractor fuel, to feeding the farmer, to shipping the food, packaging it, storing it at the appropriate temperature, the ratio of spoiled food to actually consumed, the energy to cook it, all of that isn't counted in that simple 900 calorie measurement.

I've been thinking about this for a while now but I haven't been able to quantify it so maybe someone reading this comment can help.
It might be a mistake since it's different from what's stated in their readme:

https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/...

(which is referring to the license of Meta Llama 3.2)
I’m starting a company in my hometown to help the local area with electronic waste. We offer commissioned sales, repair, refurbish, and any other straightforward computer-based tasks.

I’ve been leaning on my career as an infrastructure or DevOps or whatever engineer you wish to call it.

I’m creating our backend to automatically pay people their commission when an item sells. It also helps us navigate our (currently modest) warehouse to find items to be dispatched.

I also can’t tell you how long I’ve spent getting some old label printers working.

I’ve not felt so engaged in such a long time.
Implementing choice is superior. Not only can your program be capable of more actions, but the process of thinking about how to include these features leads to focusing on your codebase which leads to refactoring, better code. With time the code becomes so flexible that adding features is easy, because your foundation is superior. And in the process other core functionality gets fixed and becomes better.
Every number in Google Analytics is wrong
The problem is that the distance to be covered is long, and the train is relatively slow.

I left early in the morning to get to Paris in time for the train, and that was the only train that day, and that train left early because it had a long way to go.
Until you start training this specifically, then it probably loses its predictive power. If you work out, balance exercises are usually a part of your work out. Especially as you get older.
I'm building a language learning app: https://yakk.app. Way to go, but made a good start and even a little bit of money so far. I quit my job and moved to Asia on savings to keep building. LMK if any of you guys are in Bangkok, let's hang out.
Building a Distributed System with Go: Master-Worker Node Using gRPC
Yes, Vietnamese is another great objection, as it's similar to Korean that way. Given that China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam are the 4 major "eastern" countries then, and only 1 of those might be true for his claim, then why did he say "eastern" instead of just "Chinese"? That's like claiming the American continents (North and South) use English because it's used in the United States. People in Quebec and almost every place south of Mexico will be quite offended, rightfully so.
What if we redesigned language?
One of reasons SQL is declarative is that queries run concurrently yet give the illusion of working in isolation. And unlike the concurrency of independent processes, which is mostly mechanical, this one involves detailed coordination because database queries work on the same data. With these constraints it may be not that easy to come up with an imperative model that is as simple as the current declarative one.
Google has it too. :)
https://www.google.com/teapot
TL;DR: https://xkcd.com/974/ "The General Problem"

I've been not quite building that basic CRUD app I promised my friend, because:

- A. I've ended up obsessing about the general problem of how to compose an old-skool CRUD web stack, in Clojure [1]

- B. He hasn't given me any deadline. Lol.

- C. He won't read this comment because he doesn't read HN :p :)

[1] Plenty of options exist; biff, kit, duct, caveman... but when one gets that itch --- you know it --- it cannot remain un-scratched! Like so: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch...

Flights of fancy are not far behind either... https://www.evalapply.org/posts/mycelium-clj/
It still depends. Business line application yes and 10x yes. It will change it will move, don’t try to foresee business requirements. Just write something that will be easy to replace or throw away.

Frameworks and libraries not really, for those you still have to adjust to whatever happens in the world but at much saner pace.

Biggest issue is when devs want to write “framework” when they work on business line application where they have frameworks that they are already using like Rails/Asp.Net etc.
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I am working on Openkoda, an open-source platform for insurance applications based on pre-built templates and generative AI to accelerate the implementation of new insurance products and distribution channels.

Why?

The insurance sector is probably the slowest to adopt innovation in finance, lagging far behind banking. E-commerce is on the opposite end of the spectrum.

https://openkoda.com
Great job, that’s a nice simple idea that has value for lots people.
Oh, I see the links now, thanks! But they reference four different licenses, and those are the licenses just for model weights I think?

If the intention was to make something that you can only use with Llama models, stating that clearly in a separate code license file would be better IMO. (Of course, this would also mean that the code still isn’t open source.)
And yet the worst ever code I saw was in C#.

I hope I won't offend anyone pointing at it [1]. This is a somewhat popular tool to evaluate macroeconomic policies in the EU.

A combination of language choice (C# as a natural language Microsoft Excel bosses tend to request from their interns to use), the usual churn of academic undergrads and loads of other cultural failures are the reasons this monster exsts.

Someone should write a book how to make the worst ever codebase, and start with EUROMOD.

[1] https://github.com/ec-jrc/JRC-EUROMOD-software-source-code
Glad to have a useful exchange on HN.

The difference between C and Python comes down to layers of abstraction and conveniences for the programmer. Those abstractions and conveniences come at a cost measured in performance, another way to say demands on the hardware. Computer hardware along with compiler and related technology has come a long way since C got introduced, but of course C benefits from those improvements so it remains relatively fast compared to more abstracted languages such as Python. Writing C also demands more low-level knowledge from the programmer than writing in Python or Javascript, which limits C's accessibility to programmers who just have a job to do.

Right now many people expect or hope that AI in the form of LLMs will let us generate efficient code from human-language descriptions, eliminating the need for expert C programmers to write and optimize code "by hand." I don't share those expectations, I see mostly hype and a lot of work trying to get AI to mimic a human programmer (e.g. writing Python code rather than giving optimal solutions to problems). My decades in the software business have perhaps made me jaded and cynical -- I have heard grandiose claims about revolutions in programming before. But you never know, maybe someone (or some AI) will figure out how to bridge the gap between requirements imperfectly expressed by people and what digital computers can efficiently do.
Then do it. If a teapot has a handle on it so can you.
Yeah I always see it as the minimum thing to get if you have limited money. For poor people, most of your money is better utilized to get grains instead of meat.

When I saw it in my local village's clinic it makes sense because it actually encourages eating some meat and fruit instead of none, which is the norm here because of poverty.
The Franklin Mint had a huge business in this kind of stuff.
https://github.com/adulau/mmdb-server
I've taught programming to beginners a fair bit, adults, teens, and children, in several languages, and lua is the worst of them.

The initial learning hump in programming is difficult and frustrating and lua does nothing to alleviate that. The main resource learners do have is curiosity, and usually an interest in some goal like making a game or website for a particular purpose.

Lua gets them bogged down in writing string manipulation functions that aren't in the standard library or whatever. One of the main things learners want to do is make an http request to an api, you need a library for that. There's no obvious & reliable way to get one, now your beginners are trying to configure luarocks or compile C modules.

To be clear lua is fine, great even, it's an incredible technical accomplishment. But the spiritual admiration experienced programmers have for the simplicity of implementation does not matter to a beginner. Its minimal standard lib and flexible distribution methods are a liability to teaching. I've never seen a language more reliably kill that learner's spark that is the best asset of someone new to coding.

This is somewhat alleviated if you're using it in a controlled environment for a specific goal, like roblox scripting or love. I've had success with that and would do it again. But as a general introduction to programming it's terrible.
Great idea, are you in Bangkok on holiday or using this idea to get a business visa?
AGI. Writing up a paper on defining core principles of general intelligence on which artificial general intelligence can be built with a POC of an artificial life system that can evolve better AGI systems.
I love engineering sense of humour :)
> who think the best way to realize that potential is to build for-profit businesses that enable a creative-class petit bourgeois to make it through their day without acknowledging another human being

What does this even mean? This is just a word salad.

> We think we can do better, by building tools that focus on fair dealing and sustainable growth rather than market dominance

Apparently not. Marxists[1] need to realise that profit is not a dirty word, and growth is not a dirty word. Otherwise, you get things that are generally not economically sustainable, like this. The website was funded by an anonymous rich person...

[1] I'm using this literally here, not as a pejorative.
Indonesia is big but is it a big market for Apple? I mean even western consumers are a bit miffed by $1k phones and average salary in Indonesia is ~$227/mo [1]. Is there enough buyers to sell $15m worth of iPhones, let alone make that much profit?

[1]: https://investinasia.id/blog/salary-in-indonesia/