skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly off-topic: Are there any Americans here are able to follow along and guess the answers when watching Only Connect? Genuinely curious.

I’m usually pretty good at quiz competitions, but the few times I’ve watched Only Connect I haven’t known anything at all. I think the questions might rely on shared British cultural knowledge that I don’t have.

I want to like it but it isn’t as engaging for me when I don’t know anything, and I’m wondering if that is just me or a common experience.

Could just be a skill issue :)
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I don’t see how sharing one’s rationale for not being a customer (as in the article) is equivalent to asserting a moral stance, nor do I see any condescension.

Is it that you are generally opposed to critical response? And if so, do you see the irony in you critically responding to another critical response?
Everyone already know which xkcd applies to this, right?
I don't understand how people don't notice the massive tax they're paying by using nvm:

$ hyperfine "~/.nvm/nvm.sh" "mise env"

Benchmark 1: ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
Time (mean ± σ): 1.722 s ± 0.032 s [User: 0.064 s, System: 0.112 s]
Range (min … max): 1.684 s … 1.805 s 10 runs

Benchmark 2: mise env
Time (mean ± σ): 13.4 ms ± 5.7 ms [User: 10.0 ms, System: 21.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 9.4 ms … 42.2 ms 29 runs

Summary
mise env ran
128.14 ± 53.94 times faster than ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

100x is definitely something you'll notice

EDIT: for some reason in discord we're getting very conflicting results with this test. idk why, but maybe try this yourself and just see what happens.
Ah ok, fair enough. This is a more recent (2017) clarification of the standard which I hadn't seen. The original mid 2000s specification did not require UTF-8.

> Previous specifications of JSON have not required the use of UTF-8 when transmitting JSON text. However, the vast majority of JSON-based software implementations have chosen to use the UTF-8 encoding, to the extent that it is the only encoding that achieves interoperability.
My uncle was a kinetic sculptor in NYC and he bought a condemned building in right next to the Williamsburg bridge in 1978 for $10k. I graduated college in 1991 and he still had a condemned building and had made 3 of the 4 floors into apartments. The 4th floor was original meaning a dirty, dusty, with no real facilities. The apartment was full of old broken furniture and building supplies.

He didn't want to work on the building he was doing a lot of work for the Exploratorium. His idea was to put in the 4th floor and have me try to complete the building to get a certificate of occupancy. So that is where I lived.

Williamsburg at that time was very different. One could not park on the street with out a chain to hold your car hood shut. One's battery would be stolen otherwise. The office I worked in was full of people who were concerned that I lived in that neighborhood.

So I had a very good set-up and I felt a lot of gratitude for my situation but it didn't feel much like a privilege. Sweeping the floors of that apartment was almost pointless for the first year or two...
If you add multiple hearing points, you massively constrain the space of possible drums. The question then becomes something like "can you see the shape of a drum?"

Proof of concept: echolocation.
The Japanese and Koreans aren't dying early though.
London Metropolitan Police make over 500 arrests using Live Facial Recognition
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Aren’t comments already part of JSON5?
I’m not sure I would call this a failure.. more just something you tried out of curiosity and abandoned. Happens to literally everyone. “Failed” to me would imply there was something fundamentally broken about the approach or the dataset, or that there was an actual negative impact to the unrealized result. It’s very hard to finish long-running side projects that aren’t generating income, attention, or driven by some quasi-pathological obsession. The fact you even blogged about it and made HN front page qualifies as a success in my book.

> If I would have finished the project, this dataset would then have been released and used for a number of analyses using Python.

Nothing stopping you from releasing the raw dataset and calling it a success!

> Back then, I would have trained a specialised model (or used a pretrained specialised model) but since LLMs made so much progress during the runtime of this project from 2020-Q1 to 2024-Q4, I would now rather consider a foundational model wrapped as an AI agent instead; for example, I would try to find a foundation model to do the job of for example finding the right link on the Tagesschau website, which was by far the most draining part of the whole project.

I actually just started (and subsequently —-abandoned—- paused) my own news analysis side project leveraging LLMs for consolidation/aggregation.. and yeah, the web scraping part is still the worst. And I’ve had the same thought that feeding raw HTML to the LLM might be an easier way of parsing web objects now. The problem is most sites are privy to scraping efforts and it’s not so much a matter of finding the right element but bypassing the weird click-thru screens, tricking the site that you’re on a real browser, etc…
In New Zealand this scheme was called "Bonus Bonds" and was wound up on 26 February 2024. Interest was charged on "wins" just like any other income. Apparently the average return was a paltry 1.5%.
This can't be answered with a simple yes/no without benchmarking this specific use case on specific hardware.

For other use cases I've personally never really found lz4 very useful (neither gzip). Usually zstd on either low/medium can be both faster (or at least, fast enough) and better compressed.
No? What are you hoping to do with it?
I think its so children are open to eating it after the parents have bought it. If the food doesn't look appealing the parent will have to work harder but its the parents making the food choices not the child. Most of the time children don't even go to the grocery store with their parents.
You've moved the goalpost! No, the issue is that fruit flavors and cartoon characters are abused to appeal to children. That is what the original comment said and which you only half replied to! The video provided to you was an example of such - cartoons and 'fruit flavors' to hook kids on wanting sugary cereals for breakfast.
You need a calibrated measurement microphone to do this for real. Otherwise the microphone’s frequency response will skew the results.
All of the things you list can be achieved with minimal or no JavaScript, and many are completely trivial (filtering? adding reviews and comments?).

In general, if a prospective employee told me they needed React to implement website comments, I would not walk away with a very high opinion of that dev's abilities.
> How can you imagine that the world has enough resources for you to move around so many thousands of pounds of furniture every where you go?

Capitalism brings us cheap imported gas and U-Haul.
Their dictionaries and arrays split into ini-like sections are not very readable though. The double [[ is just nasty and not possible to apply in all situations (array in map in array).
// This is the interface description //

Yeah, but that is the abstraction. The associated .c files are not the abstraction, because they could be implemented any number of different ways, and it would still be the same abstraction.

It's incredible that even the header file is around 200 LOC. For state-of-the-art, very performant database, I would have thought that all manner of Os-specific IO api's would have to be used.
the whole "asking for permission" to assign a YOLO model variant was weird to begin with.

"gpt" is a more egregious example of using naming scheme to gather more attention than a substantial connection to the original.

however this is a simple price to pay for allowing open research without requiring to go through the conventional approval/clearance process.
I have no idea how much those things cost because I was taking the subway for $2.50 cents a day. I'm sure people could pay more to get to work but my pay scale didn't provide me many options.

I'm happy to say I wasn't privileged but fortunate if that satisfies you.
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Funny how you can buy British politicians for dirt cheap. In India or the US, it would take at least $100k-200k to get a single politician's attention at the bare minimum, while in the UK you can influence party positions for 25k quid.
As referenced by beejiu elsewhere on this thread[1], it applies to all foods products based on their nutritional content; there are no exemptions. Alcohol, however, does appear not to be covered by these new rules, but there are existing restrictions about advertising alcohol - [2] is one document on the topic, although I can't immediately tell if it's out of date.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42360734

[2]: https://www.asa.org.uk/static/uploaded/d3683dc1-189e-413c-86...
Thanks, this tracks with what I’m seeing elsewhere too. I’ll stick with Claude for now since it trounced O1 anyway, at least for software dev tasks.
IMHO the only way they'll pay attention if enough of us turn it all off.
True that things have changed on the child side as well. I remember being by myself for long stretches on any day.

Parents today not only have lost the village but are also expected to be with their children more.
Sorry, I'm no longer with Goldman Sachs.
Hi, thanks for the hint - actually it is a translation issue as my first version was in German and I forgot to translate the orientations.
South-East (SE) translates to "Süd-Ost" (SO) so you can use this until I push my fix :)
Some very weird things in this.

1. The title makes it sound like the author spent a lot of time on this project. But really, this mostly consisted of noting down a couple of URLs per day. So maybe 5 min / day = ~130h spent on the project. Let's say 200h to be on the safe side.

2. "Get first analyses results out quickly based on a small dataset and don’t just collect data up front to “analyse it later”" => I think this actually killed the project. Collecting data for several years w/o actually doing anything doesn't with it is not a sound project.

3. "If I would have finished the project, this dataset would then have been released" ==> There is literally nothing stopping OP from still doing this. It costs maybe 2h of work and would potentially give a substantial benefit to others, i.e., turn this project into a win after all. I'm very puzzled why OP didn't do this.
Is that just because they're old trees, which are stronger than the fast farmed ones we get today?
Except for a couple of lines that connect the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, most Chinese HSR lines operate below capacity and at a great loss.

The bulk of the rail built in the last decade was to distant poorer regions who simply aren't willing to pay for faster transit.
The wind farm is being disconnected from the South West Power Pool. It won't be selling power publicly anymore, it will only be used for mining.
The European Union is working on a standard for QR-code payments [1]. In the Netherlands, most banking app already understand QR-code for payments. There are serviced that offer a possibility to ask for a payment without a specified amount that do not the reveal the bank account of the requester.

If this could be turned into a world wide standard, one could add a link to a QR code in a web page to request for donations. One should realize that there are very different payments systems in the world and that there are payment companies, think credit card companies, that have good reasons to resist these kind of global standards.

[1] https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/document-library/guid...
> I left NVidia because I retired, not because I was unhappy with the managers or my coworkers. They were exceptionally good.

No worries at all. Asked because the comment about the manager asking how to make it "fun" could also have been read along the lines of "see how out of touch the managers are", and I wasn't sure which meaning you were going for. :)
Do you actually live in the UK or is this based on Musk tweets?
Chuck E. Cheese’s, Silicon Valley Startup (2013)
122 points by duck on Jan 22, 2017 - 14 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13453427

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/chuck...

http://web.archive.org/web/20170125082102/https://www.theatl...

There's a lot of neat stuff back in https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Chuck+E
It's actually bad news for students when expensive textbooks get updated who go to classes with assignments based on a specific edition and their indices get reshuffled and the old editions become useless even though the core stuff which are unchanged are really the only relevant subset to the syllabus.
Not where the reader verifies the schema. And not when you want to write a long multiline comment. (Unless you want _comment1, _comment2, ...)
in parlance this is fine because weights of a model is useless without the wrapper code around it. ignoring the monorepo bs a lot of ai companies are pushing (like hugging face also), this is not as misleading as calling open-weight models as open-source.
Very interesting blog overall, loved the mud entities festival and the baby crying competition
It does happen to Androids. Its just that by the time it matters, the manufacturer has abandoned it.
We can blame him for the 10x electricity savings for lighting we all enjoy now thanks to blue LEDs filling out the color spectrum for visible light
The punter does not win on average with stocks due to fees and spread.
First edition still has a better cover, but the 7th edition one isn’t… bad.
I think this last election has confirmed that.
Shammy. You cannot truly correct for a room without actually changing the room itself.
Accurate. There’s this seemingly never ending stream of moments of desperation, where there are no good answers.

But also if you asked me, “what led to most of the goodness in your life?”, I’d answer:

Moments of desperation
It's funny, as my phone (A 2022 Moto Razr) can work as PC, if I plug it into a monitor with it's USB-C port. I can plug it into a monitor, and plug a mouse and keyboard into the monitor's inbuilt USB-C hub, and it works just fine. Has a desktop mode and everything! If the monitor doesn't have a hub in it, I can use the phone as a mouse/touchpad! Plus, if the monitor supports it, it'll even keep it charged rather than using the battery!

And I don't just use it as a gimmick, I use a HDMI/USB-C cable to use it with my TV as a streaming/light gaming setup. Nice to be able to plug it in, kick off a streaming app or Youtube, or play some Minecraft or something on my TV in bed, all comfy.
If you don’t love being attacked for word choice no matter what you do, you don’t love Hacker News commenting
> What's the difference between a website accessing the USB device, and downloading an app that accesses it?

Arguably the browser is far more secure. A hypothetical "Arduino.exe" can access anything, not actually select the USB device the user selected due to a bug.
"Sharl" needs to focus on his driving
He was a Microsoft manager, so this insanity is expected.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. They banned certain advertisments at a particular time of day. They didn't ban parents from giving their children whatever thet want to give them.
Can’t get it to work “Market data is not available for…”
Idk, parents took kids to Chuck E. Cheese for the (at the time seemingly) wholesome appeal. Having an extremely popular and visible IP point out how creepy animatronic animals are is not gonna make parents want to take their kids to Chuck E. Cheese more. Nobody wants to take their kids to an “edgy food and entertainment place”, that’s not a thing. I think this is a great textbook example of “There is such a thing as bad publicity.”
in general, most corporate HQ moves are headline generating, because you are talking about hundreds of people going from A to B and disrupting the affected communities.

This particular headline is because KABC serves Los Angeles and Southern California, which is where this company is moving.
The original spec did require that all JSON decoders support UTF-8, though.
Are any other toppings on the list? If it's just standalone foods I'm not surprised.
That really only applies to moderate traffic area.

Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve sees ~10,000 people per year and covers 8,472,506 acres. At the other end Grand Canyon National Park sees ~4.5 million visitors there’s a world of difference between them.

But even the Grand Canyon National Park has 1,217,262 acres the majority of which is seeing below 1 person per year. It’s hard to track someone walking through an area after even just a week, the actual impact from an individual visit is tiny, it’s only at scale that there’s issues.

Delicate plants taking years to recover isn’t an issue when a random square foot is unlikely to see 2 visitors in 1,000 years on average.
Seems like the escapes are slightly different. No astral unicode escapes (e.g. \u{123456} ). No octal escapes \123

No template literals (backticks)

No regex literals

No octal numbers (0123, 0o123)

No boolean numbers (0b1001)

No big ints (the "n" suffix)
Yeah they are definitely making a lot of money doing this compared to being on the other side.
Vastly? I dunno about that. I was rather fond of Tanenbaum's Structured Computer Organization.
> This is already a solved problem with Nix shell (except the task runner part)

The task runner part is also solved in Nix. See

https://github.com/Platonic-Systems/process-compose-flake

and

https://github.com/juspay/services-flake
The impact of childhood lead exposure on adult personality
All things in moderation, including moderation.
I believe they are referring to cars as "big furniture".

Still, it's a pretty bad, lame question, probably from someone never riding through hilly terrain for 100s of kms every day, while also driving 2+ kids around too.

Obviously, US could have been very much oriented towards "local" economy, but historically, it could and did invest in good road infrastructure, and that has led to growing appetite for better housing (which was only available further away from jobs), so they are now pretty much "stuck" with that.

But I did see plenty of people on bikes when I visited cities like SFO, Boston or New York (even if SFO and Boston are hilly).
Phones are a bigger problem. Nothing stops people from installing applications with insane permissions.

The basic security advice is install adblockers everywhere. You see someone using a browser without it? Talk to them.
They're not prohibiting anyone from feeding these things to their children. A lot of people will continue to do so.

The government would have to spend a lot of money on counter-campaigns to keep the public well informed and it probably wouldn't have the desired effect on children.

Finally, and this is a very important point for me, children cannot enter into business deals/contracts; commercials are business proposals; hence there should be no ads targeting children.
"The data collection process involved a daily ritual of manually visiting the Tagesschau website to capture links"

I don't know what to say... I'm amazed they kept this up so long, but this really should never have been the game plan.

I also had some data science hobby projects around covid; I got busy, lost interest after 6 months. But the scrapers keep running in the cloud, in case I get motivated again (anyone need structured data on eBay listings for laptops since 2020?), that's the beauty of automation for these sorts of things.
It's more "we don't want corporations selling unhealthy junk to have direct access to influence super-impressional kids" - cause guess what, in that case? You can be a perfectly responsible parent dietary-decision-wise, but have your kids whine and complain constantly because the kids aren't informed about the problems of it and just want the tasty shit they saw all the ads for.

Would you allow salespeople into your home to pitch your kids on stuff all day if they were in-person instead of on a screen?

Why not complain about the overreach of irresponsible companies trying to convince kids who have no way of knowing better to start damaging their long-term health?
> The problem isn't the UI, the problem is that like all software, browsers have bugs, and a CVE in this part of the code base could have catastrophic consequences. Chromium and its derivatives are highly reviewed code bases, both by good and bad actors, and there's still a considerable list of CVEs every year.

That is an argument against any feature whatsoever beyond maybe a JS-free links/lynx browser. The worse browser bug is a sandbox escape that can obtain root privileges. This has been done by exploiting many different JS features. USB communication is not more of a hazard than webgl or setTimeout().
See https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/8389 - unfortunately there's a lot of stupid false-positives especially with PyInstaller (packaging a Python application into an .exe). Happens a few times a year, unfortunately there isn't much I can do other than submitting a report to Microsoft and hoping they'll react ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Spatial Audio for music is interesting and when properly mixed for it a song can be great. But I’m not going out of my way to find those songs.

When it absolutely excels is movies and TV, the immersion is spectacular.

I’m holding out for an example of Spatial Audio/Dolby Atmos where the immersion it can provide adds to the experience. Orchestral music is probably the best place to find that.
I started skimming about 1/3 through this article. Looks to be just a fluff piece about how cool the old AI models were and how they pale in comparison with what's in the works, with about 2 to 5 lines of shallow 'criticism' thrown in as an alibi?

Ten minutes and a teeny bit of mental real estate I will never get back.
I wonder if Zizmor has anything to do with this NYC local notable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Zizmor
The devtools let you do that FWIW.
The great depression destroyed the social fabric of the us more thoroughly than did the civil war. The 1950s weren't normal, they were the result of a generations want for stability and domesticity when they had no idea what either looked like. For one thing the end of generational households to be replaced by nuclear family households was seen by the people at the time as worse than single parent households are today and with good reason.

That the majority of conservatives today pine for the 50s us that we not only lost the ability to have a stable society but even the memory of what one should look like.
Children are totally targeted. They will ask their parents and put pressure to buy them stuff. Maybe even the parents who don't cave in can be relieved of this.

In the longer term, stuff that enters your brain as a child shapes you and lasts long. See how well how many people in their 30s remember ads of their childhood.

Why would someone defend such ads anyway? I don't believe they achieve anything good for anyone except the advertiser.
This sounds fantastic! How does your tool account for softer, less obvious skills (like communication) and adapt recommendations to remote or regional job market trends?