skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that the whole point of the social contract? People agree not to take the law into their own hands in exchange for the guarantee that society will protect and benefit them. If society is failing to protect and benefit people then the social contract has already been broken.

Stated another way, society's end of the social contract is to make sure that people generally aren't upset enough to commit murder.
it just works really really well.
> held accountable

Failure to "hold accountable" makes the failing part accountable.
Depending on your perspective. For "next Google", 35k subscribers is nothing. For a search engine, which has been assumed to be free for the whole decade, 35k paying users is a miracle.
Trump says venture capitalist David Sacks will be AI and crypto 'czar'
One way to describe reality is to argue that media organizations like Vox can't survive if they don't show ads to their paid subscribers.

Another way to describe reality is that people can choose to subscribe to various substacks or newsletters instead. On those platforms subscribers get zero ads, they get more in depth and more thoughtful articles, and because the system has much less overhead modest subscription revenue is sufficient. Vox also does video reviews, but then again, there are also many high quality tech youtubers. Vox certainly has the right to charge for a subscription and then serve the subscribers ads. And people have a right to walk away from a bad deal. Vox could disappear tomorrow at no great loss to society. We might like some of the reporting Vox does, but we don't need it.

Vox media has raised about 450m (according to the first google result). Modest profitability is not enough for Vox Media because they need to secure a significant exit for their investors. This puts them at odds with their readers and subscribers. Not that laudable if you ask me. They made a bet they were going to disrupt traditional media and become a new great media platform. But now it looks like Vox itself is getting disrupted. Like newspapers of old clinging to a business model that no longer exists.
How did you learn? I'm an embedded dev and when I tried to learn basic web dev, all the resources were a mess of importing unnecessary libraries
When I accidentally use Google I’m instantly surprised and delirious. The difference in both search quality and advertisements is astounding.

Been using Kagi since its beta and I’ve never used Google intentionally since.
While i have to admit, from all the alternative frontends i have seen over the years (and there have been alot) this is by far the best.

Tho as many others mention, one of the great things on hackernews is the minimalism / simplicity - and i have to admit its one of the reasons why i always like to go on hackersnews. Just a simple textlist, easy to read, no visual clutter.

Tho for people that like a more colorfull/stylish layout this might be a good alternative
Indeed, some people do not even have an inner voice, the same way some of us don't "see" things in our minds eye. Neither prevents you from thinking about words or visual objects.
Driving aggressively in LA freeway traffic, maybe, but driving on a freeway in stop and go traffic limited to pre-mapped areas is a solved problem with Ford's Blue Cruise which is only level 2 self driving according to SAE J3016, and thats been available for years. Most other manufacturers also have some sort of adaptive cruise control and lane assistance technology. Freeway driving isn't that hard.
Or they know how to advertise to their target audience well.
The docs specifically warn against it as well. A “here be dragons”, at least they are honest.
So you're saying that if I have a sentence of 10 words, and I want the LLM to predict the 11th word, FFWD compute is going to be independent of the context size?

I don't understand how since that very context is what makes the likeliness of output of next prediction worthy, or not?

More specifically, FFWD layer is essentially self attention output [context, d_model] matrix matmul'd with W1, W2 and W3 weights?
Machine sewing isn't superior in all cases, for example hand sewn button holes can look a lot better. The hand sewn holes are cut first and then sewn which doesn't leave frayed edges and has thread all around the hole. These button holes also lay flatter, which again looks nicer.

Basically any fine detail work, or and stitching meant to create a 3 dimensional shape will be superior when done by a skilled tailor than by a machine.

This of course costs more and doesn't matter for t-shirts or other informal garments.
Employment rises by 227K in November; unemployment rate changes little at 4.2%
> What do you gain from bombing residential buildings?

Its how you do war, you bomb everything and shoot everyone.
Remember some context here: much of what happened in baghdad was localized on the ground internal violence and also the US faffing about getting involved in internal violence. Civilians got targetted and collateralized in ways that are categorically different from a state actor indiscriminately killing civilians from without with limited long range weaponry.

There are places in Ukraine, like bakhmut, where it was ground combat and not long range weaponry, where you wouldn't make that side by side comparison with Iraq.
Sound like a solution in search of a problem.

And a disruptive solution with unclear side effects at that.
I would not leave it to junior developers to ask the right questions.

In my experience, from a few juniors I've cooperated with, they get absolutely awful code from ChatGPT. Things like manual opening and closing of files with unnecessary exception handling that crudely reimplements stuff that's already in the standard library and should have been a one-liner, and sure, ChatGPT will happily suggest explanatory comments and whatnot, but it's like copying in material from a reference manual, i.e. provocatively useless.

To me it also seems like they don't learn much from it either. They've made much more progress from a bit of mentoring and heavy use of REPL:s and similar shells.
> If a keyboard input system provides the former sequence of bytes, but the username is stored in the login infrastructure using the latter sequence of [bytes], then a naive comparison will not find the user "émollier" in the system. Unicode defines in Annex 15 a few normalization forms as a way to work around this problem. But a correct use of these normalization forms still requires coordination and standardization among all programs accessing the data.

ICU could work, but adds an extra dependency, there is also GNU's libunistring.
This is important because Debain-family is used on many servers?

Debian seems to just squander resources on things a few powerful people care about.

All my servers have been Debian-based, so I can't be too hard on them, but whenever I see someone recommend a Debian-family distro as a Desktop OS, I feel like I need to call the police.
Right, but Gitlab does have the excellent built-in pipeline editor that will visualize and validate your pipelines for you.

It can also render the complete pipeline config (making it easy to run and debug the problematic parts locally just by copying the relevant parts, even if they're hidden in and include somewhere).
have you considered farming? you could simply dabble in it to see if you have base interest, and if so, continue digging deeper (pun intended, I guess). I continually see coders move into farming with great success, as there seem to be many overlaps. There's a good gardening/farming channel on YT called Epic Gardening that provides lots of educational content. Maybe that's a good start?
Oh, they do that too.
This is a great example of how one poor decision, or one piece of code that is too liberal cascades into an avalanche of shitty workarounds.
It will exhibit the Pro version of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
The alternatives to using previously or normally civilian buildings are, I believe, to be outdoors or in tents. Originally military buildings are too few and probably already in bad shape.
As someone from the "minimalist prefered" guys, im just curious - what articles sparked your interested through this layout and why would you have skipped them on the normal layout?

(inb4 i think the herald is a very well done thing i just cant think of a reason why an article there is more interresting than on the normal layout)
We literally have otp in a secure VM. If someone’s already in our secure VM, logging into a random software package is the least of our worries.
We should definitely be prepared when China attacks USA. Supersonic missiles to the fabs, ASML, Tel facilities too.

Maybe we should make fabs on moon, just as an insurance.

That's not a joke BTW. If China attacks both SK and TW, that's a war with US and this will happen. Fabs in USA will be a very valid military target.
I don't buy it. I think people are tired of the current system. Seeing loved ones suffer because of lack of healthcare.

For me the irony is that this has brought people from both sides of the political divide together, yet the people on the right just voted for a guy that will make society even more unfair.

Perhaps the next four years will be a true reckoning. The darkest moments before the dawn of a new era. The rise of Bernie 2.0, half man half machine, an efficient anti-drilling machine.
You raise some interesting points. As I understand, the Three Gorges dam has two goals: 1) control flooding and 2) produce power. If anything, it might be said that Three Gorges has negative death rate associated with it, because it has prevented so many devastating floods.

Italy/Spain is so corrupt/incompetent to run nuclear power plants? Also, sarcastically, Africa is not a country, but 50 countries with a wide variety of development.
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did we hug it to death?
It’s because I’m a nerd with a background in journalism, and have been around the realities of a lot of this stuff for a while.
He should implement policies to prevent rug pulls, and tighten screws on hackers.
Yes, they would get very deep concerns from the West, which they fear so much.
Not to mention that "the work involved in co-operating and communicating across the interface has to be added", which takes on new meaning and magnitude when one considers the energy requirements of LLMs.
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Thanks for the tip! Now I'm a Kagi user too.
Pinboard is undergoing a code cleanup
Visiting https://pinboard.in/, you can now read the the top:

> Notice (Dec 4): big code cleanup underway; please report any buggy behavior to support@pinboard.in
Programming and interacting with computers in general is just translation to a more restricted and precise language. And that what's make them more efficient. Speaking human is just going the other way and losing productivity.

It's akin to how everyone can build a shelter, but building a house requires a more specialized knowledge. The cost of the later is training time to understand stuff. The cost of programming is also training time to understand how stuff works and how to manipulate them.
The difference is that newspapers had tasteful ads. I didn't mind seeing a Rolex or an expensive perfume, exquisitely photographed, in the Financial Times.

Most of the Internet ads are medical issues, financial scams, weight loss scams etc. Most of these are accompanied by disgusting pictures. These ads combine the worst of classic Email spam and the yellow press.

Give me better ads and I might switch off the adblocker. I'd even tolerate a banner Coca Cola ad if done tastefully and if it is the only ad on the page.
If I knew beforehand I was getting one I would have it removed. If not (incapacitated), someone has gone through an MRI with my same magnet and just felt strong tugging, not even really painful and definitely not ripping-out-of-finger strong. It's a pretty small magnet and I guess human skin is pretty darn strong.
Thanks for being willing to stick your neck out by putting your own spin on things!

I'm always interested to hear more about the sustainability of alternative HN frontends... the initial time investment, ongoing hosting costs, etc.

Maybe it'd be worth doing the research to find out what the probability is of lasting longer than the domain renewal year, especially for those such as this offering the chance for users to invest additional value.
The intermittency is really bad/hard to deal with unless you have a large geographic distribution with long distance transmission that can handle that level of power.

Even if you can handle weeklong cloudy stints, winter is especially rough due to shorter and less intense sun with much longer shadows potentially knocking out whole strings. Right now our home array gets maybe 4-6 hours of reasonably good generation per day, and it’s simultaneously the highest amount of load we see all year, due to heating needs.

We could try to overpanel so that winter load is met, and overcast generation is more sufficient, but it’s still challenging and would need an extreme amount of energy storage and land.
Just imagine how many poorly-written shell scripts will break when we suddenly allow dollars, quotes, backticks and the likes in username. Heck, even allowing spaces sound like horror to me.

On the display side, I'm sure most tools that display usernames won't make it easy to see if there are leading or trailing whitespace characters, double blanks, tabs etc in usernames.

This sounds like support hell to me.
Does anyone have a real link to this? The current link just takes you to a random government site with zero information specific to a rule that you "must file new report" etc.
It's more expensive to screw over large workforces in countries that actually look after employees rights Vs ones with weak protections.
Have to love the endless "how can we fix this" from people looking to extract as much money as possible with as little regard for staff as possible.
Unfortunate ambiguous uses of the word drop throughout the otherwise excellent article
> It’s antithetical to our foundational principles as a society.

I'm not sure it actually is. The foundational principle of society is basically the social contract "Individuals give up the right to exert violence in exchange for society providing safety and benefit."

If society fails to uphold its end of the bargain, then it seems logical that the individual is no longer obligated to hold up their end.
I guess the solid ground still has some ice cover that moves?
There is: Because the US said so.

This is simply naive, and completely out of touch with how the world actually works.
I think most people cheering him on expect him to get caught and probably the shooter expects that himself. Having a long term effect will be if his reasons for doing it inspires law makers to enact change. Or if he inspires 3 or 4 other people who are successful in gunning down CEOs of other exploitative industries, even after upping security.

If he is killed and/or we never learn a motive, he'll just be forgotten under a pile of online and media speculation. Hopefully his plan anticipated some kind of dead man's release of his motive.
Right. It is/was just a big bucket of money and obviously there were free papers given away on college campuses and subway stations. But, at least back in the day, newspaper subscriptions and newsstand/put your quarter in boxes basically paid for creating and delivering the physical copies.

The generally dire journalism situation these days is there is mostly no physical distribution and physical advertising dollars have become digital dimes. And local news--which was never a really thriving business--is basically dead.
Is this a bot making tool?
If engineers have this problem then people with no engineering skill at all that just want to build some app will be hopeless. The days of no longer needing to hire engineers will never come.
Thats interresting because it worked for me, and i only used operators i found in the kagi docs Oo (intitle / inurl - yes intext isnt in so i just added the term instad of with intext)

I also tried others after the post, i just didnt update here - for example i did a site:laughingman.dev (my domain) to see what gets indexed, and saw also that google finds more stuff than kagi.

I don't wanne badmouth kagi - please dont missunderstand me. And yes search operators especially in the way i use them is a very specific thing, but well thats something i do daily and i rlly like it - if often helps me to find stuff alot more precise than with just some basic stuff. It also helps to sort out false postive results more reliable. If this is not a case for kagi well than kagi might just not be for me - which doesnt mean its not good for others. Im only speaking for myself
There’s plenty of psychologists that think those are immutable traits (e.g., how disciplined someone is may be related to their genetic disposition for conscientiousness), so I’m not sure about it being a wholly moral argument.
That's because you haven't clarified what the "time-frame was that someone in Hollywood declared Fanny Packs to be out of style right when tight jeans came into being".

https://archive.org/details/clarion_yb_1945/page/n27/mode/2u... shows that "tight jeans" were a thing in the 1940s (that links to a 1945 yearbook entry listing a pet peeve of "girls who wear tight jeans and sweaters").

I assume the "someone in Hollywood" refers to Yankovic's 2006 song "White & Nerdy", which characterizes the fanny pack as part "white and nerdy" fashion, indicating how it was no longer part of pop culture fashion by then. He lives in Hollywood Hills, I believe.

That was 18 years ago. It's amazing that Yankovic has that much influence on modern clothing styles.
Having a hobby which is pretty much "trying every hobby to find the right one" I've been doing multiple variants of photography. Drawn and painted art. Some quickly aborted starts at creative writing. A half decade shattershot effort at solo gamedev(involving a branching multi-artistic art-sound-code-design efforts) and several other probing efforts.

I thus could consider myself as an experienced advice-reader and advice-evaluator.

My conclusion is that everyone is addicted to bullshit advice that signals about discipline and purity. If you want to get into anything the best approach is to stop reading generalist advice. Either probe it in a spotwise creative fashion on your own or do follow-along practical work flow tutorials. Advice for overall approaches and strategy is a waste of time at best or actively harmful and will undermine your enjoyment
What makes this a security issue?
Check out design-shop – built with v0 by Vercel
What a shame. A literal hatchet man
> we end up with the shit quality media and content we have now

I'll just say that looking back on my life consuming media (that started long before the consumer Internet was around), there has never been a better selection of media that I enjoy than now.

I've never watched reality shows or sitcoms, the kind of stuff that dominated mass media for a long time... I have interests that don't necessarily fall into the mainstream, so finding interesting or quality content was hard, and shows/films/docs were few and far between..

But now? The current system, while imperfect, at least allows for every possible topic and niche to be somewhat sustainable.

The sheer quantity of media has absolutely grown exponentially so there's definitely a lot more bad media, and media that isn't for me, but in terms of choice for myself, it's incredibly good.

Obviously YMMV and this is just my anecdotal experience, but I don't consider the system to be broken (even though, again, it's certainly not perfect).
Which Linux distributions are you installing on a new computer that doesn't come with Firefox installed already?
Your order of operations is off.

Ukrainian military did not go into Kazantip[0] and surrounding villages in Crimea to kill and rape rave-goers and families.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaZantip
One big PR issue is that Ukraine and the West collectively forgot how deterrence works. Russia arguably never really learned.*

Preemptive formulation and announcement: "If you X, we will escalate in Y way. If you do not X, then we will not."

Instead, there's a hodgepodge of reactive escalation, which is far less effective.

The point is to bargain your willingness to escalate into a self-limitation on your opponent's part.

F.ex. this war might never have happened if NATO had said, before the post-Crimea invasion, that if Russia further invades territorial Ukraine then it would supply massive amounts of arms to Ukraine.

* Russia, on the other hand, apparently never figured out that announcing everything as a red line and constantly making nuclear threats makes such announcements useless. But it seems like authoritarian regimes often have trouble interacting with freer information spaces.
The real gains in software are still to be had by aggressively destroying incidental complexity. Most of the gunk in a web app doesn't absolutely need to exist, but we write it anyway. (Look at fasthtml for an alternate vision of building web apps.)

The issue with LLMs is they enshrine the status quo. I don't want ossified crappy software that's hard to work with. Frameworks and libraries should have to fight to justify their existence in the marketplace of ideas. Subverting this mechanism is how you ruin software construction.
Muhammad is England's most popular boys' baby name for first time
The Spectrum review – a tactile trip to the 1980s
Haha that’s pretty interesting. I only have a very few of these adjustments configured. Mostly I boost sites that I subscribe to.

For example, I use this to put Encyclopedia Brittanica results above Wikipedia when the former has a matching article. Similarly, I prefer all3dp results for 3d printing searches.
I have been using Kagi for around two years. If I don't find the results I want, I sometimes try Google and I don't find results there either.

Difficult to say if Kagi gives better results, but what's for certain is that it doesn't give worse results.

I am happy to pay 120$/year to support the business model.
Huh, how come?
That would be a big selling point for Kagi for me, getting rid of w3schools, "geeksforgeeks" etc. and have things like MDN pushed to the top without having to specify it in the search query.
IMO it's not fixing something, it's offering an alternative perspective.
I live in Ukraine and run a software company here. I still don’t understand how the power grid is still functioning and how quickly it is repaired after an outage. I’ve been here since the war started, including some of the worst hit front line cities like Kharkiv and power outages after strikes were always resolved within a 48 hour period max, usually faster. How it’s possible to replace damaged substations within hours, I have no idea.

Now I live in a relatively quiet area with a solar inverter battery (similar to the Tesla wall) and I have almost uninterrupted power sufficient to keep my business going. Just have to avoid using heavy appliances like the washing machine when on battery power.
>> internal permissions model

This isn't that big of a deal any more. A company just needs to add the application to Azure AD (now called Entra for some reason).
And yet Iraq and Afghanistan are today politically independent from the US. The occupied territories in Ukraine are now Russia.