skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the biggest one in PNW and it still feels super small. A friend who moved here from SF (a relatively small city itself) and was surprised how small Seattle feels, even in comparison to SF -- he was wondering where 3 quarters of city disappeared to.

I'm thinking strong writing communities, world-class art museums (Portland Art Museum is good, while Seattle Art Museum is not so well funded compared to the east coast -- our billionaires don't care for art), great universities with top non-professional programs (UW is really good, but is not an elite college), etc. The food scene here is also not great -- it's got pockets of good eats, but in general not a foodie city -- nothing is here among the best. There are too many eat-to-live rather than live-to-eat types. (granted, Portland has a much better food scene — especially Thai and food carts —than Seattle, but it's not super diverse compared to most big cities like NYC or Chicago).

Even in tech, it’s pretty much a company town. Most people work for the few big names. Someone from Silicon Valley who lives here now told me Seattle has tech but has not really a strong startup ecosystem because most people are self selected corporate types (all of top 10 market cap tech companies are here, either HQ or branch). People who come to Seattle here mostly come to draw big tech salaries and be comfortable, not to change the world. Apart from a few people at the top of their fields, there is no sense of hunger here, not like NYC or LA or SF where people take risks to go there to make it big.

Like I said, it works for many folks, but if you're used to NYC and Chicago (or even SF), there's a lot that's missing.
There is an extraordinary amount of scientific evidence that frequent moving during childhood severely impacts child psychology. I am not even sure how you can say it is BS while throwing up anecdotal experience.
Guide to Scroll Anchoring
Safari is the only major browser still not supporting scroll anchoring.
> Notably, TikTok never squarely denies that it has ever manipulated content on the TikTok platform at the direction of the PRC.

Bytedance is a part of CCP.
I don't think this is what's happening. There is no confusion.

Europe is going down the drain due to the lack of innovation and over-regulation making people poorer and poorer. Refugees cause crime on the street making people feel unsafe.

The average Joe is pissed and votes whatever extremists, as long as they oppose the EU.
> Facebook help Trump get elected in 2016 through the whole Cambridge Analytica fiasco

This comment is FUD though. Did FB do it intentionally?
As you seem to be Alexander Borsuk...

Why the removal of the MIT license?

Was that decision put to a vote like "all important project decisions" are? I assume it can't have been unless Roman is blatantly lying about only noticing it a few days later.
Right but there can be a huge difference between economy on one airline and economy on another, one that absolutely justifies paying a bit more. It's just that that difference is often opaque to the customer.
When Self–Hosting Fails: The Night My Blog Vanished
Even though this is Al Jazeera, there are photos of iconic works further into the article. Masks, a bust, murals…
I think so, but I'm not sure that OP would agree, given that they apparently want to see the exact same scrollback on all their devices.
Ask HN: Recommend subs/products for hacker/developer? (Proton Mail, Kagi etc.)
Hey HN.

I'm an early-career developer. I'm looking for free, or paid products, that can improve my life in some way based on context - they don't have to just be digital!

I currently pay for the following products:

- Proton Mail (Unlimited): Email, Passwords, VPN, Storage, Calendar ... replaces Google suite.

- Kagi (Unlimited): Search Engine, replaces Google Search.

- GitHub Copilot (Solo): Okay for coding.

- Anthropic Claude (AI/LLM): Just to bounce ideas around and help me with UI design mockups.

- Chrome developer account ($5): So I can make Chrome extensions.

- Spotify (music): Its okay, doesn't have some stuff I want (Roky Erickson etc - seriously check out "Roky Erickson - The Evil One (Album)" on YouTube if you haven't before, and enjoy Old Rock)

- Steam (games): Fallout 4 etc.

.....

CONTEXT

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I'm quite private, but not reclusive, I don't have social media or read the news, I own a "dumb" flip-phone, I basically only use this site for my world and tech news. Hence Proton Mail, Kagi, and staying off socials? I like privacy and security tools, and information management tools. Should I try Obsidian???

I'm roughly 3 years into a dev career (young-ish). Mostly doing frontend with the usual suspects (React, TypeScript), but trying to break into C#/.NET commercially. I've been exploring C in my spare time, and want to try low-level Graphics Programming (C or C++). I like paying for technical courses and books, papers etc (though free is even better).
America's gambling boom should be celebrated, not feared
https://archive.ph/nfoII#selection-979.0-979.56
> Do you... A) take the shot from where you are and crop/zoom in post OR B) walk a block and get the shot composed correctly from the start?

If you walk, the composition totally changes. If you like the composition where you are, but it's too small, walking that block will give you something worse.

The steps are:

1. Get the composition right (walking around)

2. Zoom or crop if the subject is too small.

3. Do not walk closer - it messes up the composition.

There's a whole other thread discussing this.

Hint: For the type of photography I do, I almost always get a better composition by being farther and zooming in. You won't get those shots by getting nearer to the subject.

See https://www.diyphotography.net/this-is-why-you-cant-zoom-wit...

https://www.diyphotography.net/zooming-lens-feet-changes-rel...
Yes it is. In RLHF and DPO you are optimizing the model output for human preferences. In the reinforcement fine tuning that was announced today you are optimizing the hidden chain of thought to arrive at a correct answer, as judged by a predefined grader.
ah so every generation shall have its LOLCODE, I see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE for those that don't know
The devs get it from what i can tell, management are the slow learners here
I’ll play devils advocate

Bitcoin hitting some arbitrary new high is not newsworthy or interesting. It’s the same story we’ve read for a decade.

Some kid making 50k exploiting a crypto service with some social engineering via memes is actually hacking and what should HN be about?
My family moved nearly every year (and sometimes twice a year) until I was in high school. I loved the changes. I liked that when I went someplace new, the only thing my peers knew about me was what I told them. I made many friends over the years and I’d like to think that I am happy. So YMMV.
Thanks! I used it today and thought others might enjoy.
Grateful for the refs (incl. the aristotelian epigraph, the newbery)

>Will remembered suddenly his favourite worst line of poetry.

https://harpers.org/2009/10/arnolds-to-a-friend/

>The up-beat high Victorian view of art as a cure to the woes of society

https://harpers.org/2009/10/forster-what-the-great-minds-tel...

地獄楽
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Paradise:_Jigokuraku
Hardly. That just threw away Edit1, failing to follow instructions even in this very simple case.
Plenty of countries don't have the First Amendment that are still liberal democracies that adhere to more or less free trade principles. The PRC does it because they are totalitarian State subject to the control of the Communist Party of China and their censorship regime does not stop at the border:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_censorship_abroad
It might be an improvement over a system based on those who know people get help and those most in need often never get help because they have no family or a family with no connections.
You are saying a candidate that breaks the law pursuading others to vote for them should still be elected?
How do you measure tokens/sec? Here's my attempt on a new M4 Max 128GB, does about 6 words/sec:

bash> time ollama run llama3.3 "What's the purpose of an LLM?" | tee ~/Downloads/what\ is\ an\ LLM.txt
A Large Language Model (LLM) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) designed to process and understand human language. The primary purposes of an LLM are:

(... contents excerpted for brevity)

Overall, the purpose of an LLM is to augment human capabilities by providing a powerful tool for understanding, generating, and interacting with human language.

real 0m59.040s
user 0m0.071s
sys 0m0.081s

pmarreck 59s35ms
20241206220629 ~ bash> wc -w Downloads/what\ is\ an\ LLM.txt
359 Downloads/what is an LLM.txt
Did they get flagged and removed? Or were they just not interesting/newsworthy?
openmptcp is not supported, darn
Depends heavily on where you live. I live in a place where donations must be declared and are capped per person. This ensures we know where the money came from, and prevents disproportional influence from rich people.

An obvious hack to bypass this is to assemble "a group of citizens" who start spending money to campaign for a candidate without any direct connection to them, but in such case, there's a special commission run by retired campaign finance people that analyzes the spending and can take action like demand a candidate to pay back over-cap portion of the money spent to advertise them, even if someone else paid for it. In the worst case, this can be escalated to the Supreme Court, who has the authority to scrap and re-run entire elections if the impact of illegal practices is deemed large enough to sway elections.

So far, this system has produced a very transparent campaign financing environment. It was heavily tested in the first few years and withstood attacks remarkably well. A shadow figure of a political party used a retail network they owned to run a huge advertising campaign for a keychain that depicted the mascot of a major political party in their colors. The party was never directly mentioned, but you were blasted everywhere with their colors and the same animal as their mascot. After years of legal battles, it was deemed an illegal donation and the party had to pay for it all back with penalties. It was such a financial blow that the party underperformed for the next few electoral cycles due to constrained finances. No-one dares to try these tricks since then. Both financially and politically, it's cheaper to respect the rules.
However, we should consider that this is about online privacy features, which is a fairly hot topic nowadays. And it kind of feels that we got drape curtains* instead of a lock - and I think it's not exactly what people would reasonably expect for a feature like this? Or do they clarify that it's a weak protection somewhere?

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*) I mean, it can be unlocked by literally opening JS console and typing one command. That's a gate latch at best.
> the beauty of alert/prompt/confirm is that their API is incredibly simple yet effective and also doesn't require the proggrammer to have any UI design-skills

I’ve long hoped for more APIs in the style of alert/prompt/confirm, which are more like ready-made building blocks rather than cement to make cinderblocks with as most web APIs tend to be. Anything that helps cut down on the amount of HTML, CSS, and JS required to be written or imported would be a substantial QoL improvement. This does not seem to be a popular view, unfortunately.
…unless you know where to look on the share drives…

A place where I worked had almost all actively used manufacturing files stored in a network folder labeled "do not use".

The MRP software they used had so many layers built on top of old layers that it would occasionally throw COBOL errors. This was a 3rd party system too, not something cobbled together in house, but no one had bothered shopping around for something better. That was mostly because the accounting department used it to, and while to most manufacturing departments a 20-year-old computer is as useful as a brand new one, you're lucky if you get an accounting department that knows how to let a spreadsheet do the math, instead of manually typing it into a calculator.

Regarding your questions, what you've come across is sadly pretty common. The best advice I can give is that for anything to be accepted it absolutely must be stable. It can also be helpful to offer multiple options for each change, let the employees try them out and pick what they like, then build on from there, working your way to a full implementation of the new system. If, after several iterations, you realize that you need to change something you had implemented earlier, it's okay to do so occasionally, but the advantages over the old method must be clear to everyone using it.
What an absurd argument. Even if granting the dubious assertion that increased gambling is a sign of a booming economy it's not a good idea to celebrate people's dreams of unearned riches. This will lead to a lot of heartbreak and more transfer of wealth to the already ultra wealthy.
The technique is interesting, but every time I see this effect, I can't help but feel like 2010 is calling and wants its UI design back.
> DEC's Unix (the other one, not Ultrix) was the most baffling. It took me days to realize that all command line utilities truncated their output at column width. Every single one. Over 30 years later and that one still stands out.

Do you mean OSF1/, Digital Unix, or Tru64 Unix?
Obsidian is something I just thought of. Could be good for someone like me? I currently just take notes on Apple Notes, but need something "better" but not "over the top" to get going in.

I want to remember "how to program" and "why I did this" etc.
DraftKings sued after father-of-two gambles away $1M of his family's money
It’s a novel invention but at this point I still don’t see how it’s anything more than a speculative gamble

I stayed away from bitcoin early on because I didn’t understand the fundamentals. I spent too much time reading about P/E ratios and frankly don’t really see what exactly makes one cryptocurrency more or less valuable than any other, aside from the memes and the hype.

I guess I could have “made” millions simply by the luck of knowing some folk into mining back in 2013 but I still think all this stuff is pretty worthless unless you can find a greater fool to buy your stake
can someone explain how this manages to list all 2^122 uuids?
This is not child abuse. It’s an anecdote of two kids. I’m sure the parents were very loving. Another pair of kids could turn out perfectly fine doing this.
It has multiple optimization strategies. One is optimizing the few shot list. Another is to let the model write prompts and pick the best one based on the given eval. I doubt latter much more intriguing although I have no idea how practical it is.
And now fully sponsoring Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib, since Ukraine isn't doing well - best to get the Russians to look elsewhere!
If you are printing photos, drug stores have dye sublimation (AFAIK) printers that print much better quality than any inkjet print I've ever seen.
I don’t know about major American companies using Zoom. I know that the USG uses Zoom for Government

https://zoomgov.com/
Wishful thinking you will have a bank account when you already were downsized
This article won't age well and was probably better suited for the pages of Reason and not the Economist. As the article itself notes, this expansion of gambling is reminiscent of a lot of the optimism that surrounded drug decriminalization.
The USD to gold exchange guarantee ended in the early 70s, long after the great depression. And there have been many economic meltdowns since then. The two are not related.

When the economy is backed by something real, credit generally keeps up with the broader economy. It can't expand beyond reserves of real resources. Now that the money is not backed by anything, credit can expand infinitely. Credit generates most of the inflation which is a direct and ever increasing tax on the poor. It has been going on for half a century and shows no sign of stopping. The best part is even the mere attempt to stop it will cause a meltdown since the economy is addicted to credit.
The new generation in America has lost ability to cook.
The original OP is an anecdote. Could you link the extraordinary data? I want to see how they can empirically test this
Re-engineering a product for a different fab often takes years. And, if TSMC goes dead, nobody, not Samsung or Intel or anybody, would be able to absorb all the volume required, anyway.
I love the <dialog> element, especially for its built-in / standardised accessibility considerations. I'm looking forward to the day I can roll it without a polyfill (once safari <15.4 drops out of our thresholds).

That said, my one major bugbear with it is the reliance on javascript. Yep, I expect all* users on my sites to arrive with JS enabled. But I also (selfishly?) derive some satisfaction from them not having to. Why can't I control the dialog's open state with CSS or a targeted button?

Would love to learn I'm wrong about this.
>The anger here on HN seems focused on the greed of the insurance companies, but that corporations tend to optimize for profit should surprise exactly no one. Where's the anger at our corrupt government?

I imagine the anger is on them because one of them was murdered this week. I think a lot of us recognize that this isn't a black-and-white issue and that there's a lot of blame to go around. But when something like this happens to a specific part of the issue, of course we're likely to hone in on that in the immediate short-term.
That they supported them, yes. But supported in a way that this leaves all the non communists no other choice than to side with the nazis, no.
TikTok gives you what you want to see. The blue hysteria is because they can't control it the way they did with Facebook.
> The fact that the search works impressed me more than anything. Of course, like every great magic trick, it seems so simple once it is explained.

> Edit to add: I'd only tried searching for an exact UUID when I wrote this comment. I didn't realize it supports full text search! Now I'm even more impressed.

But the trick to the full-text search is that it doesn't work.
what are the alternatives, though?

For example, often when someone mentions "cargo-culting" and "old solutions", their next words are "stop editing code as text, edit as a syntax tree". But it has the same problem, just replace "character" with "statement"! Bob added a line to "else" branch of "if" statement, Alice deleted the entire statement, along with "else" branch - what is the smart system to do?
I've liked that 7-Eleven started putting DCFC's at some of their nicer locations in the US. The last time I did a fast-charging session was for a few-minute stop after a weekend spent away from home. The 7-Eleven was a pretty new location, easily right off the highway, and had a decent taco restaurant along with the usual snacks and pizza and roller grill items. Having a quick taco, grab some drinks, and a quick pee break for the kids gave us more than enough charge to get back home.

And the charger had a traditional credit card terminal on it. I didn't need any special app. Plug in, tap my payment, and it was charging.

I was doing a road trip through Ontario and stumbled upon a set of rest stops called onRoutes. These were pretty neat. A food court with a quick convenience store with a gas station and nice restrooms, right off the highway. They had a number of DCFC's which usually seemed in good working order, but this road trip was with an ICE so I can't speak to actual uptime. I did see a lot of cars charging, on my trip, so they seemed good.

https://www.onroute.ca/

More stops need to be like that for the 250kW+ stops on major highways. They were so easy and nice to go though.

For more highway-adjacent sit-down restaurants and areas (think Cracker Barrel kind of stops and those highway exits with lots of sit-down restaurants) I think it makes more sense to have those ~50kW chargers be the norm, maybe a few higher power ones. Have a dozen or so ~50kW chargers that'll have your car to 80-90% in an hour or so, four+ 250kW+ chargers for those quickly getting through, and a bunch of 9.6kW AC chargers for those stopping for a few hours.
Or illustrator … these are products are the only reason I have a MacBook Air.
An adjacent point is that states are free to run their elections as they see fit with relatively few rules. For example most states have a winner-take-all result for presidential elections where a guy who gets 51% of the vote get 100% of the 'seats', so to speak. But that's not necessary - Maine and Nebraska, by contrast, have proportional systems, where they split their vote proportionally.

So how to interpret the results from one state could be quite different (and potentially subject to rapid change) even if you know the results were genuine. So the results of states always would need to be converted, by the states, into e.g. 15 final votes. So the electoral college emerges quite naturally in this context.
Oh lol I’m sorry, you’re absolutely right, this isn’t the comment I was trying to reply to

Edit: wow, somehow I wasn’t even close, I’m like three generations off
This is awesome —- thanks very much for sharing!
Fantastic talk about pre-mortem and decision making under stress [video]
If your targeting a demographic that has trouble qualifying for a reverse mortgage, you'll need to be prepared to handle a high rate of missed payments.
For some reason, a lot of credit card processing APIs are still oriented around physical card machines, so they have a lot of fields devoted to self-declaration of the available features.

Some of the APIs allow the machine to say "I can accept a PIN up to 12 digits".

However, I don't know if anyone 1) actually delivered on it and 2) how you'd know in advance just poking random devices in stores.
Which also seems to be pretty much dead at this point.

TOR appears to have enough nodes operated by the authorities, with enough notable de-anonymizing exploits that anybody running a market or selling enough gets got

And the ledger isn’t anonymous, and never was. Even using a mixer isn’t really good enough anymore to keep the authorities from tracking bitcoin flows to the point of cash out.
In Thailand, you can live very very comfortably for 25k.
heh, I bet no matter what kind of textual explanation you required, I can provide the situation it does not cover.

You say this word is only required if it's a part of this whole sentence? OK, the other edit kept the whole sentence, but changed a single other word in it, which happened to be the subject.
Do Americans really have a 1st amendment anymore?
How many broken gas stations could you build if the government gave grants for building gas stations, but not for keeping them running?
This is a ridiculous reduction. It's clear that the numbers matter here, and that one family's decisions are nothing compared to the harm this CEO can create or prevent.
Depends if it's different from a lie I guess
Ask HN: What do you want an AI Agent to do?
Let's say you have an AI Agent that can control your computer, or do some computer actions in a limited environment. Or maybe control some other hardware device!

What would you like an AI Agent to do for you? Why would this be valuable for you?
For me, it’s less about the food (but to be clear, still about the food) and more about the cultural experience. Going someplace different, seeing how other people live, and eating with them can be a real joy. Your mileage may vary, of course. But people often find ways to connect over our shared need to eat. I think fondly about a meal I shared in rural China. I was the only American in the group. Despite our many differences, we all learned a lot from each other. I have similar strong memories about having breakfast at Shaw’s hiker hostel in Maine (the one featured in Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods). And many others. I hope to have many more experiences like that in my life.