skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t think a lot of us in poor countries care to stop producing CO2

I’m not sure about the situation everywhere but China gouvernement seems to care more than most other countries, rich or not. They flew a commercial plane with SAF in September. I personally think SAF is a terrible idea but give them credits for willingness.
So what I got (but I don't really know what I am talking about)

When thinking about a story (or a sequence of events) we can parse it in different ways.

We may think about the changes in time/location:

-------

1 he went to the store

2. then went to gas station

3. then went home

4. the next day he woke up.

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Or you could think of the emotional changes:

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1. he was concerned about being unemployed.

2. then at the gas station he got a call saying he got the job and he starts tomorrow.

3. He is nervous about his first day of work.

------

With fmri we can detect these context shifts.

The thing the paper adds is that by prompting the user to pay attention to 'emotions' or 'location' it affects where these segmentation changes occur in the fmri results.
You mean every other plot involving brain computer interfaces since the 1950's?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)
Show HN: I made a simple accessibility widget you can add to your website (free)
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I built a simple accessibility widget, which can be embedded on any website for free.
No signup required, just a line of (defer) code to copy & paste.

It'll not slow your website down, and once installed, there's a blue accessibility icon fixed to the lower right side of the screen, what can it do?

* highlight links and headers
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I'm not sure why, but the idea of some bluetick enraged that the computer is insufficiently racist is just terribly, terribly funny to me.
What is wrong with Ryanair exactly? Do they have too many customers and want to trim some out? All of these are just barriers to bookings and reasons to prefer other airlines.

It's true that they don't have competitors on certain routes, but they certainly do a large number of them.
Some men have honor. FTFY
> Generating CO2 should be as awkward and uncomfortable as possible.

Since essentially every activity generates CO2, what you are essentially saying is that life should be made as awkward and uncomfortable as possible.

And this certainly feels like the approach many eco-activists are taking, triggering well-deserved backlash. The Green party in Germany, for example, does extremely sensible politics in most areas, but mixes it with performative policies that are more about visibility (through causing inconvenience) than actually meaningful impact. So every time your drink tastes like cardboard as your straw is dissolving, you're reminded to vote for anything else. And "anything else" will most likely not enact the policies that might actually make sense (e.g. stricter carbon taxation).
Why? Thank God in Germany it is forbidden to requiring an account for online purchases and you can buy anything online without needing to register for an account first.
User account is an interface between a User and a system one interacts with. If you book a flight, a user is created - no way around that. So, what you essentially demand is to NOT provide you with a user interface to interact with the system. Instead, you would resort to interface through online/offline/phone support.

Your demand boils down to having less options to do actions with the business. Options that already exist and come out of the box.

Having an account is not as scary once you realize what it is and what it represents.
Yes, even at 400k it's still salary depression. The whole thing is, essentially, regulatory capture that is being used to do a sort of "arbitrage" over people.
Big corporations in the West are cannibalizing society because governments are failing at defending the interests of the majority due to the lobbying power of a minority.
Mind you I am not talking about an uprising or some bullshit like that, but, for example, the situation around medical service/insurance in the US is appalling.
TIL and looked it up, typedef is indeed just a specifier like any other in a declaration.
Also the palm, they called it graffiti.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_%28Palm_OS%29

(Google's gboard offers a handwriting keyboard, but it's on the touch screen and doesn't count. Also, it's not graffiti, so a bit more error prone. It does recognize joined-up handwriting though.)

There's also some keyboards on f-droid for braille text input and morse code input.
> if my consumer camera can generate ~1TB/hour and it's a "normal" consumer camera

If your consumer camera generates 1TB/hour then you're generating data as fast as a Red Komodo [1] recording at 6K "VFX, Extreme Detail Scenes"

Consumer quality? A high-end iphone can record 4K 60FPS video and an hour's footage takes up 24 gigabytes.

And you're watching 4K 60fps video on Netflix? Youtube? Maybe 12 gigabytes an hour.

[1] https://www.red.com/komodo
Curious: Why is SAF a terrible idea? I don't think we're going to be able to electrify long-distance flights any time soon, and SAF seems like the most sensible solution that's actually available.
All the way down.
Well, point is that as long as there's enough demand from people who can afford to fly, this won't mean less flying, or at least not significantly less flying, but it will mean even more inequality.

I just don't think this is an easy thing to resolve.
> you will never see `IntStream` kind of workarounds in C#.

You may not see that in Java in the future either. Java will have value objects from the Valhalla project, and part of the plan is to replace Integer with a value object. Then there will be less of a reason to use raw int primitives, because the JVM can treat value objects much more efficiently than normal objects.
Acne's Effect on the Quality of Life in Bulgaria
Traffic was NOT coming from people clicking a link on Linkedin. Linkedin allows you to upload videos, which I did. My video post was about 3 minutes long, yet people watched the Linkedin video for dozens of hours. At this stage, we are still on Linkedin, we never left. There are no external/outbound links.

Next, a few virtual friends ask for YouTube link to share the video on Facebook. I'm exclusively on LI and X, I don't like Meta products (except when they are open-source). But they insisted, and I uploaded the video to YouTube.

When I published the article 2 days ago, the total view number was 209. It had been static for months. Today, the video has gotten 372 total views since it was published. As soon as I shared my article on HN, the view jumped from 209 to 372.

Here's the breakdown of the cumulated views after upload.

Day 1: 44 views (most of which probably came from external sources. But that's just 44 views. Day 2: 170 views. At this stage, the video ranks at the top for its keywords on YouTube and in Google SERPs. Day 3: 173 views. Day 4: 173 views. Day 5: 173 views. Day 6: 173 views...

Keep in mind I'm sharing the total number of views here.

Here's the original Linkedin video post if you want to check the comments:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/organic-growth_parody-the-way...
Painful memories of when you tell brands your data is coming in as ASCII and they have it as EBCDIC.
...Subcompact cars most certainly are not gone.

I see tiny Fiats, Volkswagen beetles, Smart Cars, and other very small vehicles all the time. I live in a rural area filled with lifted pickups.

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that "there's a trend toward larger vehicles, which can make smaller vehicles somewhat less safe" means "no one is buying or selling anything smaller than an F-150".
Interesting approach! We had a similar journey at HASH to figuring out how we deal with stacked errors (as well as collecting parallel errors), developed the `error-stack` crate to solve for it. It works by abstracting over the boilerplate needed to stack errors by wrapping errors in a `Report`. Each time you change the context (which is equivalent to wrapping an error) the location is saved as well, with optional spantrace and backtrace support. It also supports supplying additional attachments, to enrich errors. We spent quite a bit of time on the user output, as well (both for `Debug` and `Display`) so hopefully the results are somewhat pleasant to work with and read.
you could just render it as if it were being shown to a person. Thats where the fuzzy logic of AI would come it. It could be trained to identify what an article looks like, based on the layout and size and other inferences (that it figures out, hence AI).

For a while now, I've thought of the idea of outsourcing this to a 3rd world sweatshop. Basically pay people to click on the scummiest ad-loaded pages all day, saving copies of just the content, and re-hosting it as, say, web 1.0 content, text and pictures, nothing more. Whether they used copy-paste, or just "save page" and then pipe it through another program, who cares. just extract the content and host it as web 1.0 that would load super fast but maybe have the same font or formatting as the original.
I switched to Dvorak ±8 years ago, and I can still type qwerty almost as well as I could back then. I could imagine it being a problem if you're using other people's machines on a daily basis though.
I get that this is about preventing ticket reselling, but I have a different question: Can someone explain the controversy around face scans for air travel? Governments have clearly laid out that flying affords zero expectation of privacy, and the airlines won't let you buy a plane ticket without knowing your name (as opposed to bus or subway tickets). If the airline knows your name, and their attendants see and verify your face when boarding anyway, then are we losing anything through the use of face scans?

Domestic flights in the US make extensive use of facial scanning, and both US and EU border agencies digitally scan your face to identify you (Global Entry in the US even means you theoretically don't need your passport to enter the country).

So why should we pretend like face scanning isn't happening? I can understand the idea that at some point, I won't need a boarding pass nor identification to get onto a plane, and at this point, it appears to not cost me any privacy that I've already lost over the last 25 years.
Strange Days.
just curious: What's your view on Asteroid OS and its evolution, is it growing as a usable alternative for Android Wear OS?

I have it on my radar since v1.0, and whenever I see the two older Android Wear devices in my drawer I keep thinking that I should put them to some new use (i.e. make them control home devices directly or similar).
Some balls bases' have arity, bounded more or less / But when they've finite measure, they're the balls that I like best
Nobel Minds 2024 [video]
That's the thing that I see a lot of. I grew up in Africa, and was exposed to extreme poverty, since as far back as I can remember.

People living poor don't like it. They may have accepted it, and may have learned to deal with it, but they don't tend to like it. They want out, and generally jump at the chance to do so.

People in richer communities may have fantasies about "living closer to nature," but that doesn't usually involve things like shooing rats off your kids at night, or having your house collapse, when there's a 3.0 earthquake.

People in poorer communities may have unreasonable expectations of what having money will bring, and we often see poor people that get rich quick (think Lotto "winners"), having pretty miserable lives.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
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For people like nurses, yes. That just a normal job requirement.
I'D love to understand the differences between the "devices" named A, Y, M in the performance measurement, referring to "(A, Y, M indicate different devices)"

any pointers appreciated
don’t regularly take buses to the other side of Europe

They used to. When I was growing up, way before budget airlines, buses used to be the way you traveled around Europe for cheap.
I suspect you have a different notion of what conversion meant than Gladys did. For you it seems to be about internal beliefs; for her it was about external declaration, ceremony, and recognition. Likely beliefs had very little to do with the whole thing.
I remember the good old day when you could just walk up and buy a paper ticket, and that was all you needed to board the plane. They'd ask for your name, but you could give them any name, they didn't care. I realize that we're a long way from that world now, and we could never go back to it, but it sure was nice.
This would not be the first time a whole section of the 14th amendment was just written out by the courts.
This mixed with LED keycaps that change to reflect the current assigned letter would be awesome.

For hunt and peck typists.
And the scheduler decides which thread gets to run next. On a cooperative multitasking system, guess what the OS code you jump to when you yield from a thread does, and what it's called?
What you gonna do, hire private jet? Fly with Lufthansa or Air France for EUR 500 and look at those VIPs shuttled with black Mercedes'es? Precariat should stay low, near the ground even while flying.
It's basic ethics. Amazon are an evil corp, vote with your wallet and don't support them.
Impact is the only useful metric.

It is staggeringly hard to measure.

Output is a weak proxy for impact. But it’s the one that makes intuitive sense to people. Doesn’t make it right or useful. I’m sure you all can envision a parable about your subfield of expertise that showcases how a seemingly light touch has a huge positive impact.
The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road)
Victory over the Largest Hornet Species
I believe you. Your wording just made it seem like the top speed from Teksavvy was 100 Mbps, period; not just in your neighbourhood.
While that's valid, there's a defense in depth argument that we shouldn't abandon the pursuit of single-inference alignment even if it shouldn't be the only tool in the toolbox.
You are correct in part but I think not in whole, since I said "a lot of us" and I'm pretty sure people in China would continue driving ICE and flying if it was up to them, the changes are just imposed top-down.

I'm glad when an authoritarian regime does something that ends up being good but 1) I still dislike the regime, and 2) I don't think that's something you can rely on.

Plus I'm pretty sure (just like everyone else) they're doing this not to avoid climate change but because they have a huge opportunity coming out ahead as providers of cleaner means of transportation (IMHO they already kick ass in EVs and will be the dominant player in this market).

But your point stands and has a lot of merit. What remains of my point is that I suspect most people in China wouldn't care about CO2 if up to them, and most of the rest of the poor/undeveloped countries will continue to not care.
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WSAD/Arrows = rotate
Q/E zoon in/out
That is excellent visualization!
> You didn't explain how the "bootcamp grads" thought process differs from yours.

In my experience, their thought process starts with "I know framework/library X" and ends with "What library/framework solves my specific problem".

In recent years it seems like they've completely outsourced their thought process to tools like ChatGPT. However, it's been a while since I've worked with a recent college graduate so outsourcing ones thought process may be the new normal?

I have worked with a few bootcamp grads who didn't start their thought process this way but that's something they've had to learn on their own.
WSAD/Arrows = rotate

Q/E zoom in/out
Why is old mate artificially constructing the most non-representative example possible?

Full import paths for map and iter? I’ve never seen anyone double-underscore stuff in Rust. Outside of specific stdlib cases, I haven’t seen anyone manually need to (or do) specify iterator adaptors like that.

They could have at least chosen a representative example. This just comes across as fabricating something to get angry at.
People may be thinking "what's wrong with that?" but two things to remember: Ryanair will split up people on the same booking if legally allowed to, and some seats are pretty horrible, and some Ryanair flights are 5-6 hours.

(I swear some people would argue that if there was a 200% charge for booking 2 flights together that the other person should just go on holiday alone a week later...)
I haven’t seen any figures supporting that - do you have a citation?

https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint has data from 2022 for passenger-kilometers in the UK:

Domestic flight 246 g
Diesel car 171 g
Petrol car 170 g
Short-haul flight 151 g
Long-haul flight 148 g
Motorbike 114 g
Bus (average) 97 g
Bus (local London) 79 g
Plug-in hybrid 68 g
Electric car 47 g
National rail 35 g
Tram 29 g
London Underground 28 g
Coach (bus) 27 g
Ferry (foot passenger) 19 g
Eurostar (to Paris) 4 g

So the only way that could be true would be if the bus was significantly emptier than the plane so the same emissions were amortized over an order of magnitude fewer passengers.

Moreover, this ignores the future: there’s a straightforward path to electrifying a bus which has been deployed in production for years but no proven alternative for planes.
There are Heterotopias in the US too. Some of the border regions in Southwest Texas intermittently occupied by cartels or smugglers come to mind.
yes, trailblazing.

yes, enables brevity.

yes, probably comprehensive offline std docs.

,...

https://perldoc.perl.org/perldiag should set off some alarms.
> If the airline knows your name, and their attendants see and verify your face when boarding anyway, then are we losing anything through the use of face scans?

Your face scan is now online waiting for the next data breach.

I have seen neobanks requiring such 3D face scans but not Ryanair yet.
Because some investors and users might be turned off by Bloomberg publishing an article about it.
Have you ran this in any modern version of Python? It’s been fixed for a long time.
I cannot share my recent discoveries because they are too sensitive but here's a tweet that should illustrate what users are complaining of.

"it's insane how bad Google has gotten, i was searching for an obscure japanese flash game, i used a vague descriptor and it came up blank zero relevant results. plugged the same into Bing. Boom instantly there at the top, first link for a download"

URL:
https://x.com/AlpinePeaches/status/1868662033526525969
They have always treated their customers like crap and in the past it hasn’t hurt their sales. Though recently they have had to sell tickets lower than they would have liked to boost sales. They would like to give the impression that they are always the cheapest option but it’s not always the case and customers are too lazy to shop around. Other airlines have copied their tactics so the alternative isn’t always that much better.
You've got this one wrong. Rust is designed for a specific use case. Most projects are not that use case. Therefore the choice to use Rust is wrong.

If GC is an option and you want all the nice parts of Rust, use OCaml
The book A Little Java, A Few Patterns by the same author and his colleague might answer your question.
A procedural/imperative ORM, quite neat actually
> What if I could draw the letter on my trackpad?

I have been proposing to adapt Shorthand* to computer tactile input many times. Touchpads and touchscreens can use it. It seems faster and easier for both the computer and the person than having to recognize slow handwriting.

Secretaries used this for many decades, because it allowed them to record speech in real-time.

There is always a dismissive comment about how this is not a good idea for one reason or another, but I still think it would be a great feature to have.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand
You need to read the post.

> Wait a minute, this list goes to 17, yet the intro only mentions 14! I actually did that because a couple might overlap and a couple of them are half-approaches, and that last one is just here for fun. Besides, as I learn more approaches and add them to the list, the title will get more and more out of date anyway.
> We could already colonize Antarctica, or the sea-- those are easier to reach, supply and colonize than other planets, but we are not trying.

On the other hand - we were and still are present on the Antarctica, have a permanent base on the South Pole etc.
I agree it’s unjustified, yeah. I think even the old policy was inappropriate and this is far worse.
I'd put some random keys on the bottom of my seat or wired into the TV remote or the doorbell button of my neighbours. The ordered shape and regular size, position of keys is too much of a burden to mee, constricts my wondering creative mind too much.
They should double the fine for all the god awful overdubs.
> sensory data is not digitally encoded - it is all continuous data

That might be correct but as far as I know the brain has circuits that fire periodically with a certain frequency (what brain waves are about). If such frequencies steer some kind of gate than you do have a kind of digital logic with 1 being where the brain waves cross the zero line.
Yes mostly. The cell phone wallets were the convenience difference that caused merchants to upgrade their POS systems to support contactless. Before that there just wasn't much reason for merchants to change their existing card infrastructure. Now customers feel inconvenienced if they have to use a credit card.
hell, AI systems order human deaths, and it is followed without humans double checking the order, and no one bats an eyelid. Granted this is israel and they're a violent entity trying to create and ethno-state by perpetrating a genocide so a system that is at best 90% accurate in identifying Hamas (using Israels insultingly broad definition) is probably fine for them, but it doesn't change the fact we allow AI systems to order human executions and these orders are not double checked, and are followed by humans. Don't believe me? read up on the "lavender" system Israel uses.
I've heard people say this before, but when they point to a particular problem, such as the market currently building primarily studio and one bedroom apartments, you can usually find that there is a straight line from the incentives created through our land use restrictions and that problem.

What specific problem are you thinking of when you talk about market forces contributing to rising costs?