skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify: the Luddites were being automated out of a job.

From what I understand of history, while industrial revolutions have generally increased living standards and employment in the long term, they have also caused massive unemployment/starvation in the short term. In the case of textile, I seem to recall that it took ~40 years for employment to return to its previous level.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm far from certain that I can survive 40 years without a job.
The trained neural net form of it would perhaps be a virtual render.
(Founder) We want S2 to be focussed on the stream primitive (log if you prefer). There is a lot that can be built on top, which we mostly want to do as open source layers. For example, Kafka compatibility, or queue semantics.
> Who cares? A rising tide lifts all boats.

Apparently people who are not wealthy enough to buy a boat and afraid of drowning care about this a lot. Also, for whom the tide rises? Not for the data workers which label data for these systems for peanuts, or people who lose jobs because they can be replaced with AI, or Amazon drivers which are auto-fired by their in-car HAL9000 units which label behavior the way they see fit.

> The wealthy people I know all have one thing in common: they focused more on their own bank accounts than on other people's.

So, the amount of money they have is much more important than everything else. That's greed, not wealth, but OK. I'm not feeling like dying on the hill of greedy people today.

> Money is how we allocate limited resources.

...and the wealthy people (you or I or others know) are accumulating amounts of it which they can't make good use of personally, I will argue.

> It will become less important as resources become less limited, less necessary, or (hopefully) both.

How will we make resources less limited? Recycling? Reducing population? Creating out of thin air?

Or, how will they become less necessary? Did we invent materials which are more durable and cheaper to produce, and do we start to sell it to people for less? I don't think so.

See, this is not a developing country problem. It's a developed country problem. Stellantis is selling inferior products for more money, while reducing workforce , closing factories, replacing metal parts with plastics, and CEO is taking $40MM as a bonus [0], and now he's apparently resigned after all that shenanigans.

So, no. Nobody is making things cheaper for people. Everybody is after the money to rise their own tides.

So, you're delusional. Nobody is thinking about your bank account that's true. This is why resources won't be less limited or less necessary. Because all the surplus is accumulating at people who are focused on their own bank accounts more than anything else.
Arc browser, get stuck in a loop of "Connecting to server" and "Unable to Join! Connecting to New Server..." when I try to join.
Agreed. We have lost a lot and no benefits from AI are worth what we have lost. I mean, we are talking about some of the things that make life worth living...
Why the DRC sued Apple over 'conflict minerals'
Reminds me of the days of spending dozens of hours in Sherwood Dungeon in my youth.
How do you backup websites? I mean, it sounds trivial, but I kinda still haven't figured out what is the way. I sometimes think that I'd like some script to automatically make a copy of every webpage I ever link in my notes (it really happens quite often that a blog I linked some years ago is no more), and maybe even replace links to that mirror of my own, but all websites I've actually backed up by now are either "old-web" that are trivial to mirror, or basically required some custom grabber to be writen by myself. If you just want to copy a webdpage, often it either has some broken CSS&JS, missing images, because it was "too shallow", or otherwise it is too deep and has a ton of tiny unnecessary files that are honestly just quite painful to keep on your filesystem as it grows. Add to that cloudaflare, Captchas, ads (that I don't see when browsing with ublock and ideally wouldn't want them in my mirrored sites as well), cookie warning splash-screens, all sorts of really simple (but still above wget's paygrade) anti-scraping measures, you get the idea.

Is there something that "just works"?
What Is the Two Generals Problem in Distributed Systems?
It’s out for “test play” so I guess these are test results. It’s a two-person team, cut them some slack.
We really don’t know that, they had terrible data reporting on drug use before the policy was implemented so we can’t even make a before/after comparison. We also can’t parse out the extent to which changes in drug use stats reflect changes in autopsies or in cultural attitudes and candor about drug use affecting self reports.
Could you clarify the Kafka difference further?

Or more generally, when is it better to choose S2 vs services like SQS or Kinesis?

S2 sounds like an ordered queue to me, but those exist?
What happened with the tremendous social spending by the government?
> I came into academia under a decent pedigree

So you did get it.

Just another note.

If you had the wrong facial bone structure, or some kind of deformity (before starting, not after like Hawking before anyone makes the point), or you were ridiculously short, or your voice had the wrong pitch, or a myriad of other traits, then that starting academic "pedigree" wouldn't have happened.

If you, by any chance worked in a field where you can work on your own and actually achieve something alone (you don't), had you achieved some great result you would have at best been ignored, but usually ridiculed.

If you insisted, the punishment would just get more and more vicious, but usually ignoring is enough.

It's the Matthew principle:

> For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

This is ingrained in human psychology innately (like the just world fallacy and other delusions) and there is no way around it.
My dog has a Fi GPS/cellular collar. You could just get that and leave it on at night and it would show you where your dog wanders around.
Spam me with pop ups tell me what I should be listening too.
How will we make resources less limited? Recycling? Reducing population? Creating out of thin air?

We've already done it, as evidenced by the fact that you had the time and tools to write that screed. Your parents probably didn't, and your grandparents certainly didn't.
Life is so diverse and beautiful!
and the earlier submission picked up a few comments, mostly about the licensing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42456574

The HN devs omitting a dupe checker just has to be an explicit choice at this point
That was fast. TLDraw now shows a dialog box clarifying project saving on first visit. Way to go!
You can see everything that has cited that so far here:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?linkname=pubmed_pubmed_cite...

154 so far. I'm not sure how to dig into that and answer the question though.
Doesn't work. Perhaps too much hackernews traffic at the moment. Unable to Join! Connecting to New Server...
Joining, Please Standby...
Unable to Join! Connecting to New Server...
That would be disastrous! There’s not enough scoring in the paint as it is, due to rule changes. Fans want more scoring in the paint!

All the most popular superstars in the past were hyper-athletic guys who consistently got into the paint and made dazzling shots even against stalwart defenders.

Outside shooters have always been role players until the arrival of Steph Curry. Now half the league plays like wannabe Curry and fans are getting tired of watching their teams miss dozens of 3 pointers every game.
You really don't think that reactionary conservatism is not a factor too? Clearly the left has problems with excessive purity demands (just like the right) but I can't accept institutional failure as solely the fault of one side.
100% certain that Kim Jung Un, and to a large extent Iran, don't understand, care about, respect, or have any interest in "Nash equilibrium" or game theory. nor are they worried about their countrymen, their own survival (they are gods, you see) it's a delusional echo chamber. Putin is probably much more rational, and also much more dangerous, but the same considerations apply. if he needed justification (spoiler: he doesn't), it would be done, and not with a paper like this.

> Is the author vying for a seat at the right hand of the devil?

certainly not, that's extremely uncharitable. the paper could be better understood as a warning for the rest of us not to rely on a simple theory of MAD to assume "safety" when it comes to things like tactical nukes and escalation. don't blame the messenger for the way the math works out. however, i also think the implicit assumption of rational (vs. ego based) decision making is flawed anyway.

The main point drawn on the findings of this paper is that the current cycle of escalation, globally, between nuclear powers simply
needs to be stopped. The risks of it spiraling out of control, and/or creating a world where nuclear weapons would be used regularly
in wars, lowering the threshold of the world drifting into a nuclear holocaust considerably, are just too great. The world needs,
and majority of its populace wants, peace now more than ever.

I hope modern leaders heed their voice and the warning presented in this paper.
I've recently come back to a PC game (B-17 the Mighty Eighth) from 2000 that, quite unexpectedly, is getting a remaster and potentially a port to VR. It had a thriving community for several years, with many mods and guides and knowledge contained in the single dominant forum (bombs-away.net). When it shuttered, the vast majority of that information was lost. Old workarounds for bugs in the engine and detailed instructions of exactly how certain mechanics works are unavailable. One popular youtuber who continued playing through at least 2010 maintained a dropbox that had most of the mods that were ever available, but not the forum posts explaining them. So, for example, there's a mod that survives there to let you replace a generic 'sign on the dotted line' handwriting with your own - but gone are the instructions of exactly how to apply it.

When I had returned to the game after bombs-away.net had gone defunct, I posted my own personal archive to the GoG forum for the game. Now that I've returned to the Redux version I find my own files, with my personal notes, shared by a single other soul who had similarly maintained an archive, and apparently had collected mine at some point. I'm very glad to have helped preserve knowledge - but not everything of mine was there. Now that I've noticed the 2024 remaster effort and joined that community, I've been able to share files that were otherwise apparently completely lost - in particular, a set of images showing dimensions of certain common features in bombing targets, that allow estimating the total size of the target.

Unfortunately, my own personal archive included many forum topics that I just dragged off shortcuts to. I can see the old titles of the pages from the surviving shortcut files. I remember the questions I had (and now have again) that those shortcuts held the answers to. But because I didn't save the page itself, it's.. gone. That's immensely frustrating.

Yes, things are worth saving. Especially for topics with extensive information among a small niche audience that have a single point of failure. I've found an extension (SingleFileZ) that does a good job of archiving a web page with all embedded content into what's a zip file under the hood - so futureproof even if the extension disappears and it becomes difficult to simply open the file directly in browser.

EDIT - montebicyclelo mentions SingleFile, which apparently is a continuation of SingleFileZ, with new features. SingleFileZ already allowed automatically saving every visted page in a tab (or even among all tabs), batch archiving of a list of urls, etc, so presumably SingleFile has all these capabilities and more.
> code

I quite like the parts of the code that prevent random electric shocks, and the parts that keep the roof from caving in, etc. (I assume you meant building codes)

The forthcoming mass deportation will definitely fuck shit up though. UK is having a similar issue due to Brexit. I guess Eastern Europeans are to the UK, as Mexicans/etc. are to the US?
Thanks for the links!

I should really share the design doc from when we started putting this together. The core idea here was a) making a little hobby machine on the canvas and b) using LLMs to “power” the widgets. Somehow that ended up looping back to “ai workflows” but definitely not where we started. I’m only catching up on the space now!
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the article, but I find it baffling that they don’t mention the simple fact that the “best” professors have access to the “best” students. Especially early in career students. Never mind the fact that great schools -> employ great researchers -> enroll great students, even within one cohort this is clear. The top 5% of a class can do their undergraduate research everywhere they please and are in fact often scouted out by top chairs.
Possible in the apple ecosystem. If the kids are part of a "familly", you can monitor / control using Parental Controls accessed from your iPhone > Settings > Screen Time.

Also checkout firewalla
https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360008214094-Ac...
I've used Moonbit a bit, and I find the language confusing.

It's not really a compiler, but a transpiler to WAT. If I remember correctly, the intent is to support other backends such as Java. It doesn't do any optimization, even trivial things such as shifts by 0 bits don't get optimized away.

The tool bundles a copy of Wasmtime (a webassembly runtime) to actually run the webassembly code. Moonbit comes with its own set of APIs, not WASI nor Emscripten, so the resulting Webassembly modules require the Moonbit tool to run.

The tool itself includes everything: documentation generator, the wasmtime interface, a formatter, package manager, benchmarking tool, etc.

The language already supports complexities like traits, etc. But here's the thing. Moonbit tries to develop tons of things simultaneously, including aggressive marketing, but doesn't seem to do anything well for now.

The language is weird. It's described as something like Rust, but doesn't borrow much from Rust, except the bad parts (nonextensible build system, constants that can be reassigned, macros instead of comptime, etc). It ressembles Java more, IMHO, with, for example, no unsigned types.

The problem is that Moonbit doesn't seem to be used except for simple examples and testing the features being implemented. So, its design is not driven by real-world applications. And this is very noticeable.

I found it very confusing, and prone to foot-shooting. And it doesn't support any WebAssembly specific functions.

I really want to like Moonbit, but I don't see the value for now. It feels like an old language, not something new. It doesn't bring any new idea. It doesn't feel modern.

We'll see how the different backends go. Maybe it'll eventually become something like HaXe, but this is going to take a lot of time.

His author did a terrific work, there are a lot of hours behind that project already. But IMHO, he should focus on making the language modern and nice to use. It's too early to implement all the bells and whistles, and even to advertise it as it is right now.
These folks knowingly chose to spend the rest of their careers explaining that they are not, in fact, S3.
The difference is that with nonrenewable power, you have to keep digging more stuff out of the ground to get more energy, which allows the mine owners to stay in a position of leverage over the world economy. With renewables, you only have to get more material if you want to expand your production capacity. Additionally, there are many ways they can be constructed out of different materials. This terrifies the oil company executives.
That redirect is a bug for sure, thanks for pointing it out. We have all those examples on the index page for logged in users but I can see how it would seem like they’d disappeared.
How Long from Rome to Ierusalem?
Show HN: Demo of my web game about social persuasion
I just released a free demo (no login!) for "Talk to Me Human", a game about social persuasion. You speak out loud to play a variety of conversational challenges, and the NPCs talk back.

I hope you enjoy, and would love to get your feedback!
> My second conclusion was that citations are like a game of telephone and every time someone cites something, it changes slightly, so don't trust anything until you get to a primary source, and maybe don't even trust that. (This second conclusion applies in general, not just to Murray.)

This part is definitely true. It has also been my experience -- but more so within academic areas with sloppy "researchers" and political problems. Linguistics is pretty good, gender "research" is awful. Intelligence research is pretty damn good, social "science" and psychology (outside of psychometrics) is awful. Economics is awful, apart from the basic ideas of competition, capitalism, and low taxes. Keynesianism is largely a fraud.

> My conclusion was that his book is junk.

This is unlikely to be true.
These same sources also mistake causality, as many folks with mental health issues self medicate, rather than having drugs be the absolute source for mental health issues. Example: Cleon Skousen.
(Founder here) Managed cloud offerings for streaming limit ordered throughput pretty low, e.g. Kinesis at 1 MiBps, Redpanda serverless at 1 MiBps, Confluent's even higher-end clusters at 10-20 MiBps IIRC. If you really need ordering, this can indeed be a limit. S2 lets you push 125 MiBps currently, and we may grow that.

Another factor is how many ordered streams you can have. Typically a few thousand at most with those systems. We take the serverless spirit of S3 here, when did you have to worry about the number of objects in a bucket?

We are also able to offer latency comparable to disk-based streaming like Confluent's Kora and Kinesis, with our Express storage class (under 50 milliseconds end-to-end latency for client in the same cloud region) - while being backed by S3 with regional durability! Not a disk in the system.

We want people to be able to build safe distributed data systems on top of S2, so we also allow concurrency control mechanisms on the stream like fencing. Kafka or Kinesis won't let you do that. This is the approach AWS takes internally (https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/25/memorydb.html), but they don't have that as a service. We want to democratize the pattern.

ED: on throughtputs, to clarify, I am talking about ordered throughput, i.e. per Kafka partition or Kinesis shard. WarpStream also does well here because of their architectural approach to separate ordering, but at a latency cost.
Approaches to Building a Letter Construction Game: Bitwise vs. Array Patterns
Yeah. I used to think it was all nepotism / corruption, but (at least in STEM fields) there’s a bit more to it. My phd advisor is one of the most intense, hardcore people I’ve ever met. If he says someone is a good researcher, that counts for A LOT with anyone who knows his standards. There is no amount of stuff on a resume that could outweigh the word of someone like that.
It's a bit chicken-and-egg. People won't port their software if there's no popular targets available. Even if there are targets, if the popular targets don't perform well, people will assume the ISA is not worth porting to.

No, it's not just around-the-corner but Qualcomm has a role to play here. Not like they should just sit on the sidelines and say "call me when we are RISC-V"
No, it doesn't prove anything. To be brutally honest, I have just eaten a meal, and have 30 minutes of relax time. Then I'll close this 10 year old laptop and continue what I need to do.

No, my parents had that. Instead, they were chatting on the phone. My grandparents already had that too. They just chatted at the hall in front of the house with their neighbors.

We don't have time. We are just deluding ourselves. While our lives are technologically better, and we live longer, our lives are not objectively healthier and happier.

Heck, my colleagues join teleconferences from home with their kid's voice at the background and drying clothes visible, only hidden by the Gaussian blur or fake background provided by the software.

How they have more time to do more things? They still work 8 hours a day, doing the occasional overtime.

Things have changed and evolved, but evolution and change doesn't always bring progress. We have progressed in other areas, but justice, life conditions and wealth are not in this list. I certainly can't buy a house just because I want one like my grandparents did, for example.
one is a bully, the other one works for cyberdyne systems.
Solo Founders – What resources helped?
I’m about to embark on the solo founder journey and I wanted to get feedback from others who have experience starting companies in the Web3/ Blockchain/ DeFi space - what resources actually helped you? Obviously there’s tons of resources out there, but which ones in particular did you find helped you learn the industry, regulations, file the paperwork & take care of business?

Example
https://www.singlefounderhandbook.com
The meta thinking of LLMs is fascinating to me. Here’s a snippet of a convo I had with Claude 3.5 where it struggles with the validity of its own metacognition:

> … true consciousness may require genuine choice or indeterminacy - that is, if an entity's responses are purely deterministic (like a lookup table or pure probability distribution), it might be merely executing a program rather than experiencing consciousness.

> However, even as I articulate this, I face a meta-uncertainty: I cannot know whether my discussion of uncertainty reflects:
- A genuine contemplation of these philosophical ideas
- A well-trained language model outputting plausible tokens about uncertainty
- Some hybrid or different process entirely

> This creates an interesting recursive loop - I'm uncertain about whether my uncertainty is "real" uncertainty or simulated uncertainty. And even this observation about recursive uncertainty could itself be a sophisticated output rather than genuine metacognition.

I actually felt bad for it (him?), and stopped the conversion before it recursed into “flaming pile of H-100s”
Academic success depends on intelligence, creativity, but also the way you speak. Being someone coming from the outside (first in my family to do a PhD) this is something I discuss frequently with others that are in similar positions. We don’t struggle with research so much as understanding how to write in the same language, understanding what is “novel” or rather how to convey something is novel and not explain in a way that makes it obvious post hoc. Understanding which research topics are worthy or not. Some of this is even true for people who transfer fields. So I would expect you can find a gradient of the success compared to how closely aligned the child is to their parent’s research.
> and often researchers were not even aware they were doing something wrong.

Unfortunately true. In other words: "often researchers were too stupid to ever have been let into university as freshmen".
That you used a forced analogy (even if experiential) and ethos in a policy discussion? Sure, I can see that. I can even see blaming drugs for mental health issues and addiction despite the causality really being screwy if you try to force it that way.

It's okay to be wrong, even when emotional, so long as we learn from it.
AI pictures / art prose or poetry I think of as more like a separate art form sort of like the "ultimate kitsch art" since it has been trained on a large amount of images and art in general and derives an output that attempts to imitate (inference) other pieces of art. I don't hate that type of art and I actually like AI right now but I do recognize why people hate it and its why I think it is a separate art form at this point.
Thanks for boiling a gallon of water for nothing