skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing that something that can look so alien to Western eyes is actually pretty straightforward once you try to learn it. I did the same and learned Hangul so I can at least sound things out and do some basic Internet searches etc.

You can do exactly the same with other scripts, e.g. Japanese hirigana and katakana, which are fairly easy to learn, and also Arabic, which looks difficult, but is definitely learnable in an hour.
Sure, which of the 24 Atlantic cables are you going to cut with their 5-15 day repair time estimates? Or maybe the 20+ routing the other way around the Earth. (See map linked above)
Let me pose this hypothetical:

A new user signs up and immediately starts using AI to write all of their comments because they read the guidelines, then had their AI read the guidelines, and both were convinced it was okay to continue doing so, and so they did. They told a second user this, and then a third, who decided to train their AI on the guidelines and upvoted posts, as well as Dan’s posts, your posts, my posts, and everyone else’s.

One day, Dan thinks that someone is using AI in a way that is somewhat questionable, but not against the guidelines. He makes a point to mention how using AI on HN shouldn’t be done like that, that they were holding it wrong, basically.

All of the AI’s trained on HN take notice of the conditions that led to that other AI getting reprimanded, and adjusted their behavior and output so as to not be caught.

If you squint, this is basically the status quo today. HN users who have read the guidelines and made good posts, who use AI to assist them writing posts, in a good faith way, will never receive any correction or directions, or link to the thread where Dan said not to post in such a way, because they will not get caught. And because they will not learn of the rule or get caught, in their mind, they will be in the right to do so, as they don’t know any better. Furthermore, they keep getting upvotes, so it’s smiles all around.

These so-called “good faith AI users” are only differentiated from “bad faith AI users” by being told not to use AI. If said users will only receive the instruction not to use AI after being caught doing so, AI users are incentivized to not get caught, not to not use AI altogether.

There are no upsides to not adding the AI rules to the guidelines. As it is, they are Schrödinger’s rules, existing in a superposition of both existing and not existing.

If you read Dan’s replies in the linked thread, he doesn’t specifically say AI is against the rules, and actually provides feedback that the AI user was using AI “almost right,” basically, implying that there is a right way to use AI on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42224972

So the rule is not only not in the guidelines, even if you search for the rule, you won’t find it. I had to email Dan to get the rule in the first place. Do you see how absurd this situation is?
Sounds like Eternal Sunshine is on the verge on scientific possibility.
I found it to be an extremely interesting and useful tool to understand and imagine the impact of wealth distribution and automation in society. Personally, I believe in strong redistribution in society, because (at least in America) we largely live in a world of abundance, and automation should make everyone’s lives easier and more leisurely.

But I would like to point out that the “utopia” has a few serious panopticon elements which are very 1984. It seems as though high-welfare and high redistribution societies are predicated on high trust of your peers, and this takes that to the extreme…

> Another core principle is that nothing is anonymous. Eric grew up during the rise of the Internet, and the rise of global terrorism, and one thing he realized is that anonymity allows incredible abuse. It does not matter if you are sending anonymous, untraceable emails that destroy someone’s career, or if you are anonymously releasing computer viruses, or if you are anonymously blowing up buildings. Anonymity breeds abuse. In [utopia], if you walk from your home to a park, your path is logged. You cannot anonymously pass by someone else’s home. If someone looks up your path that day to see who walked by, that fact is also logged. So you know who knows your path. And so on. This system, of course, makes it completely impossible to commit an anonymous crime. So there is no anonymous crime. Anyone who commits a crime is immediately detained and disciplined.”
Some interesting niche bits: there was an attempt at Linear Hangul; there is an Indonesian language (Cia-Cia) that has nothing to do with Korean that uses Hangul; the original script had many more letters (such as a triple dot or triangle) than are currently common.
Kiwi.
Setting up a dynamic DNS record to map a hostname to my home network’s dynamic IP actually makes private VPN usable. It’s really a game changer to be able to access all the local services and resources on the road without exposing them to the public internet.
I appreciate you noticed the cleanness. It was a challenge to get it down to 2 divs and 2 classes. I’m disappointed that `background-attachment: fixed` isn’t supported on mobile after all these years. If it were, the full effect could easily be applied to any element with a single CSS class.

If I were to make serious use of this on a site, I’d probably opt for the non-JavaScript one class version anyways and optimize for simplicity.
Would you buy an IPO of Chrome? The key supplier of like half of Google's searches? Seems like a no brainer.
This could be a mechanism explaining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_point_theory.
The smugness of that article had me thinking I was reading The Atlantic for a moment.
I'm fine with just voice calls. Or maybe 360p30fps calls, I don't mind.

As long as the communicator is free (I don't have to pay to have it or replace it for the newer version) and private (I can be sure no one will listen or record).

If we slow it down, I think humanity can manage without 4k, with a 50% cut in digital entertainment, and without buying new expensive useless communicators each couple of years.
while not the direct subject of this issue, that blog post is completely unhinged.

as a sibling comment said: "idiots all around".

or perhaps simply extremely bad at interpreting and handling social skills and emotions.
No, it's academic dishonesty: representing work that you did not do as your own work.

ETA: "Academic dishonesty" also covers things like falsifying data and willfully misattributing sources, which is a closer approximation to this case.
These types of ultra-high IC positions tend to be gate-kept by companies, often requiring a lot of prestige and experience.

It's a nice gesture that they exist, but we're not all Rob Pike or Peter Norvig.
> Music composers have long been attracted by the idea of an automated tool for music generation, that is able to aid them in their day-to-day compositional process.

As an amateur composer I find this notion ridiculous. I love my DAW and all of its capabilities, but the compositional process itself is something I’ll never want to automate. That would defeat the purpose. I’d give long odds that if many composers were surveyed the percentage who want software to generate musical ideas for them would be close to zero.
> I don't think I've had a data loss incident since I stopped using Windows 98?

Data loss from a kernel crash or power loss, sure, have not seen that in some time.

However data loss from disk failure is something I've seen in the current century. I started using ZFS in my home network when I began to see that at home. I haven't had anything major that ZFS with redundancy couldn't recover since.
Apple is making significant changes to how MacBook Pro speakers are replaced, a move that could lower repair costs for many users. For years, replacing speakers in MacBook Pro models required replacing the entire top case, which included not just the speakers but also the battery and other components. This made repairs costly and time-consuming. However, Apple has announced that starting soon, speakers for the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with the M4 chip family will be available as standalone parts.
What new dictatorships are there sice around 2010?
Cool. Thanks for the confirmation answer. Just figured maybe "money efficiency?" Get double functions out of the same wiring path? Or it might do something neat.
I generally agree - caveat is for some values of "some simple blur" - the one described in the article is not one in my book.

For reference, for every pixel in the input, we need to average 3x^2 pixels, roughly, where 3 is actually pi and x is the radius.

This blows up quite quickly. Not enough that my $5K MacBook really breaks a sweat with this example. But GPUs are one of the most insidious things a dev can accidentally forget to account for not being so great on other people's devices
Configuring VSCode with Nix on macOS
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I've been successful in learning a foreign language using an app that basically consisted of reading increasingly complex stories.

I don't want to recommend the specific app I used, because it's the only one I tried, and I don't know how well it compares to other, similar apps. But there are a bunch of story-based language learning apps on App Stores. My suspicion is that most of them work relatively well, particularly compared to more typical modern language learning apps like Duolingo.

Unlike gamified apps like Duolingo, you do need to actually have the motivation to regularly use them, though. They're not going to entice you with funny animations and points and leaderboards and notifications and all of those things.
> Modern garbage collection assumes that the weak generational hypothesis holds and that most objects die young

Aside, I'm curious how first-class support for value types and Go-style stack allocation via escape analysis changes the value proposition of the generational hypothesis. If we hypothesize that short-lived objects are local to a single function scope (and thus eligible for stack allocation either explicitly via a value type or heuristically via escape analysis) then it might completely upend the generational hypothesis and make it so that relatively more long-lived objects are getting heap-allocated. Surely someone's done some studies on this?
It's not really that, but have you tried ranger?
Why do you think this is being done, then?
Did they invade Hong Kong? It's a very western viewpoint that invasion is the only way to affect change.
> Well, I strongly disagree to the arbitary dividing of the world in good and evil.

That's not what I said though. It's dividing chunks of time within an individual. There is no purely good or evil person. Humans contain the capacity for both, and how it manifests is mostly a function of their environment at any point in time combined with the historical context that got them to that point. Look up dialectical/historical materialism to understand how this comes to be.

> Still a surprise, that you see china as a positive force here.

I cited it not as a "pure good" like you're attempting to coerce from my words. Instead I cited it as an example of a group of people with a Marxist background doing some things better than capitalism (and some things worse).
> Even among the wealthy, the most powerful suits allege breaches of consumer rights or fundamental freedoms.

Could you give examples? The most 'powerful' (not sure what you mean exactly) suits are that I can think of off the top of my head are about M&A.
I'm afraid "supposed to" is the operating word here.

In practice, the people who make the calls more often does not do so because they inherited a crap load of money, not because their own genius or hard work raised them to the top.
The rise and fall of Seth Roberts and the Shangri-La diet (2023)
Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_point_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shangri-La_Diet
It's a rite of passage. I had some colorful 'dir' alternatives on MS-DOS 5 and eventually made my own with Turbo Pascal. Easy & fun afternoon project
One thing I didn't anticipate when younger is the extent that other people will prevent your advancement. Whether by being in the way, *isms - a.k.a. refusing to hire you for positions you'd be great at, or very common today... the majority of companies that no longer train or encourage career development. Because you might leave?

Advancement seems to be lot of outmaneuvering these folks.
The Faster CPython team at least is aware of the paper and probably will look into it

https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/707
The author of the article reports that it is quite mysterious how the circular cheeks and the pendulum work together to compensate for differences in air pressure. And indeed, most clockmakers and virtually all books get it wrong. Conventional wisdom is to have a very heavy pendulum (so small vibrations won't affect it as much) and a very small swinging arc--so that the small angle approximation (sin(t) = t) holds.

Harrison threw this all out.

The problem being solved is that when the air pressure is low, there is less friction resistance to the swinging pendulum--and when the air pressure is high, the denser air gives more resistance to the swinging pendulum.

Therefore, in denser air, the pendulums swinging arc will be fewer degrees. For true simple harmonic motion, changing the swing arc wouldn't change the period of the pendulum Unfortunately, pendulums don't exactly swing as simple harmonic oscillators--and for clocks as accurate as Harrison's, this makes a difference.

So Harrison paid attention to the aerodynamic properties of his pendulum. He made it lighter than usual, so that its movement would be more sensitive to barometric pressure differences, and he gave it a very wide swinging arc, so that there was more room for the circular cheeks at the top of the pendulum to correct for the differences. And instead of making it slice as smoothly as possible through the air, he deliberately shaped it to have more drag, so it could "sense" the air pressure more accurately.

The length this guy went to for precision was incredible. And the craftsmanship! He could make clocks out of wood which can (and have) been keeping very accurate time for centuries.
> "Nevertheless..." so you basically agree its extremely unexciting?

No. I don't agree. I find the message extremely exciting.

> That's the point.

I hear you making the point and I'm disagreeing with it.

> point of a message in the bottle

The point of a message in the bottle is whatever was the point for the people who made it. For them the point was to write up their names in such a way that it persist for the future and will be found only by people who are working on the same lighthouse they did.

> I literally want to read something interesting if I'm pulling a piece of paper out of a 100 year old bottle.

And you did read something interesting. You had a glimpse into the real world life of some real world people. The kind of working class chaps who are not usually recorded in history books. They told you that they have worked on this lighthouse and when. It also speaks volumes what they haven't wrote in the letter. This is interesting.
This was always "expected" by people in the know ever since the Model S came out in 2012 and there was real world data on cars with 100K+ miles.

Didn't stop the oil lobby anti-EV myths from spreading far and wide. And now both political factions hate EVs so expect even more people to continue to think batteries die in a few years.

EV companies wouldn't be warranting the battery degradation for hundreds of thousands of miles and several years if batteries died easily.
I know this is completely off-topic, but you might be interested in this[1] YouTuber who did something not far off that...

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhYEOG9LOIk
Marshall Brain's contributions to the entrepreneurship program more broadly were extremely significant. I never had him as a professor, but his influence on the program was clear, even to me.

He will be dearly missed.
The age of sailing is additionally potentially under-specified because the majority of materials used were either wood or animal skin. I have a few books on the subject which are very good, chiefly The Sea-craft of Prehistory by Paul Johnstone.

Also, sailing without counting doesn't get you very far, because for instance you may run out of food or water. While early sailing was predominantly coastal, that doesn't mean an easy pit-stop whenever you get hungry or thirsty (due to rocky coastlines, dangerous currents and waves, and prevailing winds). Probably a lot of early boats were destroyed coming ashore.
I don’t quite follow your argument. We don’t generate nearly as many small apartments (especially in places people want to live in) as calories. Solving food scarcity did little to increase the supply of real estate (if anything it resulted in higher prices because people don’t need to spend as much money on food anymore).
I think you briefly forgot the whole genre of fiction exists
In retrospect the best feature of jQuery is its longevity - could have learned one framework and used it for 20+ years. Better than learning a new framework/toolset every 18 months which is the path I took. However React/Vue/Angular are now stable enough for long term use as well.
> The telecommunications analytics agency TeleGeography maintains an addictive map of all the world’s undersea cables[...]

They weren't kidding, it is addictive! I'm surprised that zero undersea cables connect directly to the SF Bay Area, and how many cables there are in the bay around Seattle/Vancouver.

And the Far North Fiber connecting Norway, Ireland, Alaska (USA), and Japan, but none of the other countries it goes by on the way. I wonder why.
vanilla ls has never been particularly chainable - https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
Doesn't Google want everyone in an office? How does that work?
I think “a cloud never dies” is more apt for this sentiment
On my system it uses twice as much CPU as plain old ls in a directory with just 13k files. To recursively list a directory with 500k leaf files, lla needs > 10x as much CPU. Apparently it is both slower and with higher complexity.
If it weren’t for howstuffworks, I suspect I wouldn’t be an engineer. I’m sure I’m not the only one. Rip Marshall.
The Potential of Expify: More Than Just an AI Directory
Expify started as a simple idea: organize the chaos of AI tools, as I was looking for ideas to build.

I started exploring AI tools directories, whats hot, what tools I can use to increase my productivity and so on. One thing I noticed, is that the tools listed with some tags but filtering, sorting finding the right tool is ineffecient and/or very limited. Additionally I noticed that those platforms stops adding new tools for free once they get some traction, they start charging to make money which defeats the purpose of what they are trying to do in the first place.

Eventually I decided to build my own, I made sure to rank products and only keep high quality AI tools, also I made a decision to keep the platform open for all submissions for free instead of paid and spammy.

Next step is to build a community around the platform, allow users to create accounts, review, vote and connect etc.

Appreciate any feedback!
A couple of my heuristics

1. Running a smaller business takes the same amount of work as running a bigger one.

2. A running a failing business takes more of the owner’s energy than running a successful one.

This thread exemplifies at least one of them because if the plan was a bigger business, you would not be spending time on alternatives to Stripe.

Business ideas can be feasible but not viable. If it does not pencil out, it doe not pencil out.
At a university that takes their rules seriously, perhaps. Absolutely not expulsion at any k-12 school.
> Still using ancient MBR and legacy boot because, well, OpenBSD.

All this does is tell me you're young for such a hostile tone towards recently dominant, mildly deprecated tech. It wasn't too long ago that UEFI didn't really work well. I did 3 BIOS to UEFI migrations in the last year or so, on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, because those machines booted bios up to recently.
Creating command-line utilities is nice, but I personally lament the lack of man pages when people write something new.
"Don't bite the hand which feeds you" is a common phrase for what you described.

In my experience (20yr) good managers don't need any feedback. They were good because of clear communication as to what both parties expected of each other. Bad managers rarely listen to feedback and few make changes.

At my current role I'm thankful for the high level of autonomy received and being shielded from anything not relevant to my primary tasks.

I'm constantly asked to do "side quests" for others due to being a subject matter expert in several things (relative to my colleagues).

Every request gets the same answer - if my line manager agrees to it then I shall help - provided it does not get in the way of my primary tasks.

IMHO unless you own the company, your number one customer should always be your line manager.