skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because payment processing and customer support take almost all of the $5, if not more than it.
HG Wells was awful in every way
Do you mean 20k? I doubt they 10x'd growth since January. For a bootstrapped business whose end-goal is sustainability that's doing great. When you don't have shareholders breathing down your neck for exponential returns the calculus changes.
I've know about horsehair worms for years and noticed a load of mantises on the road this fall but never made the connection >_<

I wonder how much this lowers the rate of infection in the long term.
> for all the complaining about ads,

There are couple of main complaints about ads:

1. Too many of them plastered all over in least expected places.

2. All that is done to privacy in the name of accurate profiling and targeting.

3. Malicious and misleading ads.

Should we accept that ad based industry can't survive without resorting to any of the above ?
There should be more people striving for sustainable businesses IMO.
> Small nitpick

Nitpick on your nitpick: By definition, all nitpicks are small. This isn’t important, but I thought you might appreciate the meta commentary.
Despite unavoidable bias, there's a clear line that journalists often cross where they present something in a way that they had to know was misleading. I'm not talking choice of what stories to cover or how prominent to make them but writing things like "X is increasing" when they really just cherry picked a time interval over which it increased it's otherwise been decreasing but they don't mention that. They can also omit obviously relevant information which would oppose the general impression they're trying to present. Or they'll add qualifiers that show doubt in information they don't like but not to information that supports the political belief they're trying to push. There's also the practice of making naked assertions with the obvious intent to persuade people like "X is false" instead of "source Y said that X was false". I think this kind of stuff is why they're widely disrespected.
It doesn't matter either way. The population growth is lower now than it has been during pretty much the entire 20th century. If we could build houses to keep up with a 1.3% growth in the 1960s, why can't we build enough to keep up with a 0.5% growth in the 2020s?

Maybe it has something to do with the Ministry of Housing and Planning being abolished because the minister believed the "country was finished", or a minister telling a woman who asked how she was supposed to afford a home to "find a rich boyfriend", or all construction being blocked because the country has been violating NOx emission laws for decades, or an insanely high tax specifically on social housing, or...
It got better when tools like ObiWan came out to do basic lookups from your computer, along the lines of "what book and page is this function documented on?".

("But couldn't you just jump to the definition in your IDE?" Oh, you sweet summer child. First of all, most IDEs didn't have that functionality. Second, the header files didn't contain documentation. If you were lucky, they might have the argument names.)
Elon Musk gets new support in growing lawsuit against OpenAI
Sure that's great. There was clearly plagiarism. But the topic at hand is a partisan dispute about a cartoonist quitting because she can't run an anti-trump cartoon and you're saying the wapo is terrible because it is both-sidesing all the time, with the clear implication that wapo should be more often calling foul on whatever trump is doing rather than reporting on both sides. So I'm asking, where is all this both-sidesy, faux-fair, reporting on trump from the wapo or any mainstream media outlet that is so heinous?

Trumps first term was non stop media driven hoaxes, from russia russia to the hunter biden laptop. Reporters at these places clearly start with what they want you to believe, and then present some mishmash of fact-ish sounding language to try to get you to think it. Arguing that the media was too both-sidesy to trump makes me honestly wonder what the heck you are talking about.
This is a great point. A significant part of the problem right now is the 'oligarch' aspect.
> Riders pay around $2.33 per ride and drivers earn around $2.33 per hour.

This isn't how it works. It's more like riders pay $2.33 per ride, app platform takes $2, drivers earn $.33.
I'm currently getting 16% return on capital invested, just with domestic savings. Thats an annualized return over all capital spent, including panels, equipment and labor.

Thats more or less what I expected.

So yes, your locality matters. As does your current consumption, cost of electricity, and so on.

Prices are also falling quite a bit as time passes.
May be I am an aberration, but I actually seek out coffee shops for good coffee. A nice espresso, cappuccino and on occasion black drip or pour over. I will never be as comfortable at a coffee place as I am at home, so why bother. But yes, I definitely like a comfortable place to sit while I am drinking my brew. Don't really care for another conversation at the time -- My coffee an I are having one. Also, for anyone in Houston try out Catalina coffee on Washington. The coffee shop I judge all other shops by. Best espresso drinks ever. Also, in Seattle, the starbucks reserve (I think that was what they were called. Its been a few years.) had some really good beans and well made drinks, way way better than the usual starbucks swill.
> Indeed.

Every Canadian I know who emigrated there is sick of immigration.

And no. That's not a joke (i.e. they want do say that) but a bit of irony.
DIY punk, there is such a genre?
I don't know if I would say that there's a correlation between being rude/arrogant and competent
This is a really great anthology of perspectives. Thanks for doing this, I think you're going to help a lot of people.
And now Claude can do it with the right MCPs installed + smart prompts
mostly very political

The article itself is political, so why wouldn't the discussion be? The real question is whether HN wants political discussion, which at least in the past has been "no".
Yes that would be ideal but with age friends are fewer and more busy.
Guy?
I'm very skeptical about claimed benefits.
Ive lived and worked on a farm and my parents were long term farmers for decades.

To be convinced I would need to hear the benefits from many more (commercial ) farmers. The quoted farm is a hobby farm, small scale farm.

What are the risks in such installations ?
The problem is the actual term itself, “best practices”. It really seems like we might be speaking past each other… the question is not about whether the thing you have, which you call “best practices”, should exist. It seems like you are arguing that best practices, the thing, should exist. But I am arguing that “best practices”, the term, should not be used.
When the brightness is turned too high, sure. But this phenomenon is not exclusive to screens with backlight, nor to very bright things.

Think about the street signs, where readability is very important. Vast majority of the signs have green or blue background, exactly because of this reason. (Sure, there are some B/W signs, but they are usually quite rare)
What's that got to do with anything?

What's stopping me from identifying variation in the frequency of different traits between ethnic groups in the current day? It's not a virtue to pretend not to notice such things (or, indeed, to be truly incapable of the most basic pattern recognition).

I think the argument could then be made that if you identify traits common to closely related tribes (eg. indigenous East African) that are noticeably different from the frequency or magnitude of these traits in a different cluster of closely related tribes (eg. indigenous Scandinavian) then there should be no reason to pretend to ignore them.
It’s the entire problem to a first approximation.

The difference between red and blue is really very small on this scale: Bernie Sanders and Laura Loomer are aligned on X.

And my original post shot up a few points and is now getting buried, per typical, because it’s part of the social contract around here that we scrutinize everything except unchecked techno optimism.
Billions of years ago, early supernovas blew a lot of carbon into the galactic halo.

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-carbon-bodies-left-galaxy-cosm...
In case the joke wasn't clear: Waffle House is infamous for often having fights started by inebriated late-night customers - the sort of thing that'll certainly leave you with some stories to tell.
Yes it indeed was the question asked by the Therapist and that made me realize I've not been asking that often to myself. The question made me think and made me feel uncomfortable.

So now whenever I am in a tricky situtation, I ask myself that question. It gives me more understanding of my feeling.

And once I've more grasp on it, I can tackle it better.
If the tree-sitter runtime requirements are prohibitive and a pure JVM solution (IOW, no JNI) mandatory, then I'd recommend using antlr[0] with its representative grammar[1] as a starting point. See here[2] for more details.

0 - https://www.antlr.org/

1 - https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/blob/master/javascript/...

2 - https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/wiki
Well two things:

1. Canadian household size is decreasing as more people are staying single, and people are living longer and becoming widowed. So even if population was completely flat Canada would need more homes over time.

2. Of course Canada has always had immigration and the population has thus always been increasing regardless of the birth rate. This is not a remarkable issue and easily accommodated by building more housing, but the severe systemic barriers to creating housing has made it more scarce and expensive than it should be. This was already the case in the major cities all the way back to the mid 2010s and the last government. The dominant problem here is bad housing policy dating back to the 1990s, not a sudden increase in immigration numbers in the last two years.
The net-neutrality rules that were just overturned would have actually allowed the FCC to grant regional monopolies. It's almost like FCC was created in part to maintain ATT's relationship with the government.
The real problem is the SEC has largely abdicated its role to meaningfully prosecute fraud. Short sellers shouldn't be our only real defense against fraud, but that's the reality we (Americans) live in.
tl;dr: it‘s a fast and simple (~5 LOCs) PRNG that has garnered some attraction in the computer chess community.
See my peer comment for another option. :-)
> Why would anyone choose to spend their time interacting with fake people, pushing a corporate party line to sell you something?

Really, functionally, what is the difference between any of the following other than in degree:

- Account that is nothing but AI generated content.

- Bot controlled accounts that spam messages at opportune times or can react to keywords detected in comments

- Account that belongs to an influencer and only consists of and posts influencer content.

- Account that is nothing but trolling/boosting with political memes.

- Account that belongs to a company and only posts memes and other advertisement type posts.

- Any account with activity trying to get likes, karma, etc. to gain privileges on the app or simply increase a displayed score.

All of the above are varying degrees of fake/non-authentic, and the non AI ones have been around a long, long time. These are everywhere and create engagement on multiple platforms despite people knowing about them and complaining about them. So I can understand why someone may think an AI model can possibly capture that essence and increase/lock-in engagement further. I'm pessimistic enough to think it will work if done the right way.
Valuable land is a product of labor, even if only due to being within the boundaries of a secure and orderly society.

Armies, judicial systems, etc, plus labor to bring about the goods and services. Plenty of examples of prime land decreasing in price due to the labor around it not being of sufficient quality/quantity.

It might even be that a society decreasing in wealth (real wealth, in the form of ability to create desirable goods and services) will try to inflate the value of land to preserve the purchasing power of those towards the top of the socioeconomic order.

But that probably won’t work in the long term.
I have some techniques that I use for coping. I also have ADHD so there are other overlapping challenges too.

Though I was not sure about sharing them and more importantly I still have to clearly identify them and list them out to be able to share.

It would be a good exercise and I will try to do that. Thanks for the idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-altering_parasite
> Unrelated to the above, except in the mix of sustainability and agriculture - there are a bunch of companies working on bacteria to fix nitrogen for crops without requiring separate fertilizer similar to how legumes do it.

Nitrogen fixation is energy-intensive, so something has to provide energy. Additionally, nitrogen fixation has to happen in anaerobic conditions, oxygen kills the enzymes responsible for nitrogen fixation. In legumes, the oxygen is carried away by hemoglobin (the same one used in "artificial meat"), but engineering these conditions for free-living bacteria is likely going to be problematic.

I'm personally hoping for a catalyst that can work in mild conditions.
Yep typo - 20K - fixing.

I always thought Kagi was still the old Mac focused company that enabled independent software makers to collect payments from customers.

I didn’t realize that the old company had been out of business for years until I heard the founder interview on the Talk Show podcast

https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/12/24/ep-416
Once Blizzard released the Burning Crusade characters wearing gear for those levels and at level 70 could 5 or 10 man what had been raids in WoW vanilla. And then by the end of Cataclysm you could solo Molten Core with most character types.

As a result you ended up in a world where 90% of the content was laughably easy, and rather discontinuous with respect to the original story lines. It became this weird easy sauce thing where you raced from level 1 to whatever the bottom level was of the current expansion, and then you worked your way up from there. But things you could get later could often be applied earlier (runes, enchantments, etc) making your gear massively overpowered which was "great" for leveling if you just wanted to get from 1 to whatever.

At one of the Blizcons the devs even said it was easier to do that then to try to create content that was engaging and that everyone could enjoy.

I'll be the first to admit that this was felt more by people who had been through the whole game than those who joined later, which is why I think folks playing through vanilla for the first time are so amazed by it.
The risks are the investment in foundations and trenchwork necessary to install the panel support infrastructure. There are companies doing interesting things with low-mounted high-density installations that would be more efficient and require less infrastructure.
Even so, the "camera first" Nokia 808 PureView took notably worse photos (DxOMark Mobile Photo score: 60) than the iPhone 7 (score: 86) and other flagship phones (Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge score: 86) of that time.
Oral History of Bertrand Serlet [video]
how are you able to get around ffmpeg licensing since it is client app which requires you to open your code if you use ffmpeg GPL?
Nitpick on your nitpick: It’s possible for something to be small, relative to something that is already considered small.

Things that are considered small can still have variations in the extent of their smallness.
I don't think that 80% is true in either the geographic [1] or more practical sense. It's maybe 50% by landmass.

But more significantly, it's not the arable or densely inhabited parts; the vast majority of Scandinavians do not live on land where Sami ever lived. This is just a vastly different than Canada where every square inch was native land at one point. For example, Vancouver has Squamish-owned and developed land right in the middle of downtown, it's a big controversy!

I'm not trying to dispossess or trivialize the Sami or the injustices they did suffer, it's just a very different relationship.

[1] https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-sami-side-of-trom...
the problem is that async-ification infects everything up the call chain. converting a synchronous loop to async may now require that you change a lot of your sync code above that loop into async code as well, which can complicate all sorts of stuff like debugging, profiling, error handling.

for this reason i always optimize the shit out of all synchronous code before resorting to async. and if you do need to go async after that, you might be better off just offloading that optimized synchronous op to a worker thread (or to wasm) to not block the UI.

modern JS vms are insanely fast when you pay attention to GC pressure, mem allocation, monomorphism, and dont use accidentally quadratic algos. it's rare that i encounter a codebase that can't be sped up by some large multiple without ever resorting to an async/defer crutch.
> But it doesn’t - it’s a statistical model using training data, not a physical or physics model, which you seem to be equating it to (correct me if I am misunderstanding)

All learning and understanding is fundamentally statistical in nature- probability theory is the mathematical formalization of the process of learning from real world information, e.g. reasoning under uncertainty[1].

The model is assembling 'organically' under a stochastic optimization process- and as a result is is largely inscrutable, and not rationally designed- not entirely unlike how biological systems evolve (although also still quite different). The fact that it is statistical and using training data is just a surface level fact about how a computer was setup to allow the model to generate, and tells you absolutely nothing about how it is internally structured to represent the patterns in the data. When your training data contains for example descriptions of physical situations and the resulting outcomes, the model will need to at least develop some type of simple heuristic ability to approximate the physical processes generating those outcomes- and at the limit of increasing accuracy, that is an increasingly sophisticated and accurate representation of the real process. It does not matter if the input is text or images any more than it matters to a human that understands physics if they are speaking or writing about it- the internal model that lets it accurately predict the underlying processes leading to specific text describing those events is what I am talking about here, and deep learning easily abstracts away the mundane I/O.

An LLM is an alien intelligence because of the type of structures it generates for modeling reality are radically different from those in human brains, and the way it solves problems and reasons is radically different- as is quite apparent when you pose it a series of novel problems and see what kind of solutions it comes up with. The fact that it is trained on data provided by humans doesn't change the fact that it is not itself anything like a human brain. As such it will always have different strengths, weaknesses, and abilities from humans- and the ability to interact with a non-human intelligence to get a radically non-human perspective for creative problem solving is IMO, the biggest opportunity they present. This is something they are already very good at, as opposed to being used as an 'oracle' for answering questions about known facts, which is what people want to use it for, but they are quite poor at.

[1] Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E.T. Jaynes
nitpick on your nitpick on the nitpick: a "metacommentary" would be if you'd be commenting on your own text. That's even less important, but I thought you might appreciate such asides
On the home page, rather than having the horizontal scroll you can just have multiple rows for each category, that's fine - but the horizontal scroll is bad for several reasons.

The font size is a bit small for people older than mid-40s.

Forget the max-width on the main container, there's a lot of text on the page, so you should use all available screen width.

I signed up for the beta, can give more feedback on that if you wish.
I’m going to tell mine: the only thing worse than news media is random internet comments. They’re either propaganda, lies, or snake oil.
I read the GP's post as sarcastic. But Poe's Law makes sarcasm hard.
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> Apple Intelligence now requires 7GB of free storage per device

I have the absolute most pedestrian iPad, which is a 32GB 8th gen wifi only model. After uninstalling everything, I have 14.93GB free, which is not enough to update from iOS 17 to 18 (I guess a factory reset would do the trick, but I'm not yet ready for that hassle).

In any case, I find this ridiculous. That's one thing that Apple still haven't discovered the secrets of delta updates, but also, (even the remaining meager amount of) user storage is now for everyone but for users...
It's a business they would be depreciating the cost of panels. He is probably making $20k profit
I extracted the zip, found the electron build folder, replaced a string in the minified code to launch Chrome on macOS correctly and ran electron-packager with the target being macos.

Patching electron apps is fairly common. You can take a look at Spicetify or BetterDiscord to see the process in more detail
How long ago did you hear that it would take 15-20 years to break even? When I had solar installed on my house in Seattle back in 2013, they estimated it would take seven years, but it was actually closer to six. Equipment is only cheaper and better now.
I like to try out a lot of different dishes from different countries and recently tried Yemeni Mandi... WOW, it might just be my new favorite dish!
EFF still not a fan of KOSA.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/kids-online-safety-act...
I don't think this is an attractive option for Canada. The main downside of EFTA is that you are required to follow a lot of single-market legislation, without getting any say in it.

Considering how tightly Canada is currently coupled to the US, this would be an absolute nightmare for many businesses. Yeah you'd gain a hypothetical overseas market, but in turn you're losing alignment with an absolutely massive market right next door! That's something like 60% of your import/export, gone.