skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I started with Snow Crash and disliked the style and parts of the content so much that I ditched it and never bothered to read any other book from him. Maybe I should try that one then.
In the year of the Linux desktop, with Wayland and IPv6 for all. /s
I was new to New York in the late 90s. I watched some people playing card games for money (3 card monte scam). I took out my camera and click. Every head turned towards me. “No pictures”, I nodded and muttered something back incoherent as if I didn’t speak quite understand what the fuss was about. They kept playing.

It’s different now when everyone has a camera and the results are available instantly.

I have to go back through my photos and sort and group more. This is something I feel ai would be supper helpful with.
The Bark and Bite of Doge
> Read the case, They were guilty of basically not getting a permit.

ESI pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, (because their facilities killed, at least, 150 endangered eagles). The court sentenced ESI to a fine of $1,861,600, restitution in the amount of $6,210,991, and a five-year period of probation

So yep, basically, a little tiny, 8 millions worth, paperwork problem.

> Meanwhile there are no permits for killing eagles with rat poison

Wow, that is super-unfair!. If you think that the US government should grant permits to people craving to kill endangered eagles with rat poison, write your local governor about your concern. This must be a traditional local sport somewhere.

> The fallacy is saying this is a concern

Is a concern

> while not having measurements showing it is a bigger concern than <whatabout that>, <whatabout this?>
(read this with the music of Dragostea Din Tei in your mind)

Is still a concern
I definitely dont think so, its insulting to anybody who ever engaged in actual photography and put the serious effort in to learn this craft / art blend.

Same can be said about fake music, paintings or soon fake movies. Do you put the same impact or value to old masters paintings vs endless cheap AI generated stuff? AI novelty already wore off quite some time ago for those.

Can it be consumed and enjoyed? Of course, everbody has their preferred fun, ie people already wasted millions of lives in virtual worlds for fun, relax, or to cater to their loneliness or addiction. Usually but not always to detriment to their real lives but thats another topic.

Everybody enjoy whatever works for you, but dont hijack widely accepted words and meanings just because it momentarily suits you or you try to push some narrative, on 0 effort lazy things like this.
Modeling Inflation Dynamics
Indeed, preventing co-opting positive terms by non-creative people who devise ever new ways of redistributing IP of actually creative people won't work.

They'll just do it and come up with convoluted rationalizations.
Opting to define ‘photography’ is definitely not the same as gatekeeping
> The point, I think, was that "safety" presumptions about Rust are often exaggerated or poorly misunderstood due to hype. That could certainly lead to problems

Then the point is hypocritical.

Runtimes for safe programming languages have been implemented in unsafe languages since the dawn of safe programming languages, basically.

EDIT: I see now that you are the cigarette warning guy. In that case I don’t understand what this coy “I think” speculation is about when you made such a bizarre proclamation on this topic.
Very clean job
sfeed (https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html) has basic infrastructure to do that
dump it on Wikipedia. afik wiki never removes anything. it just gets buried in an edit history . or Wikimedia image files
Odd but still not within the guidelines as

> HN users get ornery if you make them jump through hoops

Is in them
AOL. In the late 90s, I was in the chat rooms, by the early 00s me and my friends would swap between AIM and text messaging depending when texts were free. Kids definitely had an online presence, but it wasn't like the mid-00s and after when social media rose up.
Children's song lyrics I heard growing up.

Sun, sun, Mr. Golden sun, sun shine down on me.
> however old

Eh, I don't think there's a very convincing argument that the world is better off paying artists for things that were made more than 50 years ago.

(Yes I know the person above said 10, I think 10 is too aggressive.)
I fully disagree that the mind can operate without "awareness." We understand neither the how nor why of consciousness. But its not just a parlor trick—consciousness helps us mediate our attention.

It's one of the core things missing from our current AI path. Even if the LLMs reach 100% parity on human computational power, we humans are still acting as the ghost-in-the-machine, mediating and directing said computation.
just upload them to social media accounts. Afik twitter, facebook, and youtube do not have storage limits . no deletion for inactivity either.
Right now I’m reading the Expeditionary Force series and one thing the author drives home is how incredibly slow the speed of light is.
> This opinion puts you in a very small minority...

Statements like this always make me think about how the majority of americans believe that buildings can be haunted by spirits or demons or that ESP or telekinesis are real.

https://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2018/10/16/paranormal-am...

I think we need to be honest about the low merit of appealing to how well the average person's brain works.

The building itself is stunning. Look at every ground-level photo of it ever taken that doesn't include the plaza. But the feeling of standing next to the building has always been devastated by the blight of the plaza, and people are mostly incapable of separating the two. It only feels ominous looming conspicuously over a barren wasteland.

This has been quite improved relatively recently by plaza renovation (https://www.sasaki.com/projects/boston-city-hall-plaza-renov...), but that project was only completed at the tail end of 2022 so most people who have capital O "Opinions" about the building have never actually seen it in a less blighted context.
Management of glioblastoma: State of the art and future directions (2020)
Then you should assume the best interpretation of my intent, as well.

The commenter was really quite clueless when they said "No Western country in recent times has gone through something even remotely similar to what Israel has gone and is going through." To the point that we're forced to ask ourselves if it's even possible for someone be that clueless.

It's also difficult to read that statement other than as suggesting that there must be something awfully special about what Israel is going through. Especially when suffering literally 30x-100x greater (depending on your choice of metric), also ethnically targeted, has been happening right there in the same time zone, just a few notches up (and in a thoroughly Western country which Israel has extensive cultural and ancestral ties with). It's not like it hasn't been in the news.

And nevermind the suffering that has been happening in countries right next to Israel. Because they aren't Western and so don't matter.

The mind simply boggles.
that is why I said a separate server
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Blocked in the store, asked to purchase some stuff ((
Right, it’s all about the specific use case. Some more…

- These are going to be huge with boats and canoes

- Toolboxes owned by professional builders, carpenters, plumbers

- Important crates in self-storage centers.

- Museums

- Film sets (think big $200k cameras)
You understand this is insane right?
Reading: Fuzzy Logic by Bart Kosko

Learning: Professional Scrum
Master

Working on: my shitty consulting job

Happy holidays!
I have no idea what you are talking about. Ok is a value judgment which I didn't state. Allowed is a fact. Are you arguing with what I'm saying or with an opponent in your mind?
The rise of LLM’s has really devalued saving stuff online. What is the point of saving an article if I could just ask ChatGPT to created it and would probably do a pretty good job? It’s still worth keeping notes and stuff that may be hard to find but the majority of things online can easily be reproduced and are not worth saving.
Who is using them this much? They always seem one OpenAI update away from crashing?
I think you’re missing a point here. The fact that this was not part of the initial design speaks volumes, since it is entirely obvious to anybody who has ever designed an ISA or looked at assembly of modern binaries. Look at aarch64 for an example an ISA designed for actual use.
Yes, the hardware is optimized over time. But the emergent experience of consciousness isn't described in that hardware. If you're a pure materialist, you believe said experience is still present physically—likely in some combination of brain matter and the ongoing electrical currents flowing through them. But there's no "place" where consciousness sits.

Its the same thing with a game running on a computer. You can point to different systems for specific aspects of it. But you can't show me where, either in software or hardware, the experience of the game lives.
In my opinion the sine qua non of photography and indeed all art is that it transmits human experience because shared experience is one of the core binding elements and joys of human existence.

The internet and now AI has slowly separated the experience from the final product. That's absolutely an emergent pressure that comes from digital sharing simply because sites that encourage that are more likely to get more engagement due to the resulting superficiality when art is separated from experience. Indeed, once we are separated from a true thing, the search for that thing becomes eternal.

As much as I hate AI, I think AI itself should be considered an artistic reflection of machine experience. But by elevating that, we lower ourselves and forget the true meaning of sharing art for the purposes of human connection. So we are giving up a legacy and tradition for economic short-term advantage and the opiate-like qualities of advanced technology.

It's a sad process and one I think we should fight against, although I acknowledge I am in the minority.
I've ported some projects to Rust (including C, where I've used C2Rust as first step), and I've drawn some conclusions.

1. Converting a C program to Rust, even if it includes unsafe code, often uncovers bugs quickly thanks to Rust’s stringent constraints (bounds checking, strict signatures, etc.).

2. automated C to Rust conversion is IMO something that will never be solved entirely, because the design of C program is fundamentally different from Rust; such conversions require a significant redesign to be made safe (of course, not all C programs are the same).

3. in some cases, it’s plain impossible to port a program from C to Rust while preserving the exact semantics, because unsafety can be inherent in the design.

That said, tooling is essential to porting, and as tools continue to evolve, the process will become more streamlined.
Is this the classic webpage that you're referring to? https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
See my response to your sibling post.

The parent post is throwing AI at the problem. The solution isn't to improve technology to make it better at parenting/babysitting our children.

The solution is to replace technology with humans.

> This kind of implies that they were not in daycare or any other position where they could interact with humans

I'm not sure where it is ok for children, particularly early developing children, to not be around other humans, or humans that can't or don't want to interact with the children. If that's the case, that's another problem altogether.

If people are having children just to have them raised by technology/AI, I hope they realize that before having children and reconsider.
Nonsense. It's (moderately) expensive, it's a cost. It's far from impossible, the proof of that being that huge companies did and do provide customer support.

Big tech loves "stripping unnecessary fluff" and "being efficient". Turns out the "unnecessary" stuff is there for a reason. The automatic management + zero customer support is dystopian to say the least.
It just isn't the case that you can't have a Show HN without signups - it's preferable for the friction-to-try be as low as possible but sometimes 'as low as possible' is, in the given context, still a fair bit of friction. Lots of Show HN's are in very early stages and unpolished, some use finicky/newish technologies, etc. If this particular one is too much of a hassle and you bounce off, that's fine but the suggestion the poster is breaking some sort of rule here is inaccurate.
Is it possible to bring my own cloud account to provide the underlying S3 storage?
Kelly betting is a rare case where the difference between subjective and objective betting is actually a big deal, because any difference in those probabilities can make a large difference in the amount of money the Kelly formula says you should bet. I don't know the exact source, but there was a YouTube video on Kelly showing the impact of miscalibrated probabilities using simulations.
"We may well have to live side by side with our subtropical southern hemisphere gardens and see them for what they are, as relics of a 19th-century gardening obsession"

I find this perspective more compelling than calling it "rewilding". The word is somewhat novel and loosely defined.
We could already have extremely high quality children's educational content via videos. But instead the ecosystem is dominated by garbage that can draw engagement rather than enrich.

Why would AI be any different? I'd expect AI content for babies to be garbage because the incentive structure is exactly the same as it is for noninteractive videos.
The AGPL precisely covers that part. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#AGPLv3.0

You can also email licensing@fsf.org with your use case and I am sure they will be able to help.
Thought experiment here would be: what if simulation theory is correct? Than there'd be a deep irony here, because traditional photography would itself be operating in a kind of generative latent space.
> he set about planting the seemingly barren island with Southern Hemisphere exotic species, first by screening the exposed site with plants such as native gorse and then with hedges of Chilean Escalonias and Rhododendron hybrids.

Rhododendron looks pretty but is an absolute plague in Ireland. It grows so big and vast that people sometimes get lost in them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27882358
Do you live in a dense city like New York City or San Francisco? Or places with less urban sprawl that are much easier for self-driving cars to navigate?

Also you still haven't answered my question.

Would you get in a self-driving car in a dense urban environment such as New York City? I'm not asking if such vehicles exist on the road.

And related questions: Would you get in one such car if you had alternatives? Would you opt to be in such a car instead of one driven by a person or by yourself?
Yes, our previous lead dev built a lot of our infra using LangGraph. I've been slowly ripping it out since assuming ownership of this part of the codebase.

I've been replacing LangGraph with simple primitives, relying on native Python constructs, etc. For example, instead of building this verbose graph of computation with LangGraph, you can just...call functions in the order you want them. Or declare them async, add them to a list, then await the resolution of all of them.

For a time I was maintaining a spreadsheet of all the refactor PRs, and I had a cumulative reduction of over 1,000 lines of code from these changes. Eventually I stopped keeping track.

^ That's a 1K LOC reduction with no functionality changes. I feel pretty strongly that LangChain/LangGraph are a net negative for our use case.
> Money is how we allocate limited resources. It will become less important as resources become less limited, less necessary, or (hopefully) both.

Money is also how we exert power and leverage over others. As inequality increases, it enables the ever wealthier minority to exert power and therefore control over the majority.
Still lower resolution than the real experience.
I thought that AlphaZero could play three games? Go, Chess and Shogi?
Understanding Transformer reasoning capabilities via graph algorithms
>The documentation you’re looking at refers to one specific data visualization. Transaction accounts are not savings accounts. Give it a rest.

First, the original topic of this conversation was:

"The median bank account balance is $8000:"

The linked bankrate.com article mentions "savings accounts" in the title, and the subsequent reply also uses that term. However, the bankrate.com article body clarifies it's actually talking about "transaction accounts" as defined by the SCF, not just "savings accounts".

"The median transaction account balance is $8,000, according to the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), with the most recently published data from 2022. Transaction accounts include savings, checking, money market and call accounts, as well as prepaid debit cards."

Yes, there's some loose definitions being used and conflation going on, but when it comes to the question of "can Americans cover a $1000 emergency expense?", it doesn't materially impair the "$8000 median account balance" argument.

Second, "one specific data visualization" you talk about is the source of the $8000 figure. If you select "transaction accounts" in the dropdown, you'll see the latest figure is $8.0 (in thousands of dollars).

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/chart...

Third, on the topic of "parsing the phrasing beyond any rational meaning or common sense", I actually can't find any place on the fed's site that suggests that the figures (eg. the $8k figure) are per-account. For instance the above chart has a title of "Transaction accounts by all families", which at best is ambiguous as to whether it's per family or per account. It seems like someone just made the suggestion and others took it at face value.
I think you are right. But I think the answer goes deeper: we have encouraged a culture where the most supported information is also the most superficial. The essence of individual experience itself has long been discouraged on the web in favour of SEO and the trashy news and the trivial.

So the fact that ChatGPT can replace much of the web actually says less about the marvel of ChatGPT and more about the lack of anything really worthwhile because the profound just happens to be the least economically valuable.
In general, I am pro-turnover where there is rivalry: ceteris paribus keep the newer thing. However, information is so cheap as to be effectively non-rivalrous so I am considering running my own archival and to keep kagi's small sites etc. alive. Unfortunately, there is not a good tool for this that matches whatever Archive.org has. ArchiveHub needs routine management to keep the feed up and viewing it is not that easy. I'm sure we'll come up with stuff.

The other thing is that searching for the long tail is near impossible. The big sites dominate Google, so I need something like marginalia to actually get to the old stuff that it used to be so easy to find. Because of the median user having simple queries, some questions are no longer answerable on Google: they are dominated by the median user and never show up.
New global tool measures climate resilience at the city level
An AI tool could construct a virtual scene and then take a simulated photograph or make a simulated photorealistic painting. While I would prefer that people always use words like virtual or simulated to describe it, I think it’s likely that it will often get dropped. I’m thinking of the camera in metal gear solid. At some point people get used to something and start using less precise language.
But not in a random space but one based on a certain ruleset and a simulation time of billions of years

Not to be an ai art snob but I would value a picture which takes billions of years to happen as more valuable.

Nonetheless photography is valuable primarily to the maker anyway.
I read on HN a comment to the effect that to feel better in your 60s means you must do somethings in your 50s. The things you need to do in your 50s also make you feel better in your 50s. And to be able to do these things in your 50s requires you to do somethings in your 40s - which also make you feel better in your 40s.

Feel better meant being more active and more social. Obviously my recollection lost all the "literary" qualities that comment had - but I like its message.
Considering their profit is on the order of 100 billion, providing proper customer support does actually seem entirely realistic.
Of course, we need to give an honorable mention to the `awk` raycaster from 9 years ago.

https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster/tree/master
Has all the tech that has been produced over the last few decades caused a drop in prices of the big ticket items in life housing, education, healthcare, security/defense, oil/gas?

In theory science and tech, knowledge and info exploding is supposed to cause prices to drop. But in practice we see many counterintuitive things happening cuz everyone's interests aren't aligned. We live in a reality where things oscillate back and forth between different interests.

So if you look at Central Banking history you can even find examples(Volcker, Japan) were goal post can shift from price stability to price reduction. But thats just a reaction to context. And Central Banks will react depending on changing environments, unless we have some totally new economic thinking emerge.
Unless you are arguing that the feature should be removed from iOS and macOS devices, it is entirely a technical issue. Me preferring to use an Android device rather than an iPhone is not a parenting issue.
The commenter themselves narrowed the scope when they said

Forget all the dead from the Hamas massacre of October 7th,

And went on to focus on the 12k+ wounded soldiers and 100k displaced.

But even if we include those killed on Oct 7th -- it's simply and obviously not true that "No Western country has gone through something event remotely similar" in recent times.