skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I wonder, is the quote trying to say something about pretentious audiences, or about pretentious curators?

About tourists pretending to be a museum audience.

>The Mona Lisa is famous in no small part because it was stolen. Its fame gave it appeal, as did its out-of-copyright status that allowed so many derivatives.

That's a myth, only applicable to mass audiences who wouldn't have the education to recognize, much less understand, the majority of what they saw in the museum in the first place. Da Vinci's work was in high esteem for centuries by the point the painting was stolen, which is also why Mona Lisa was displayed in the Louvre to begin with. That's regardless whether Joe and Jane Q. Public knew about it or read about it on magazine "must see" lists.

>just "it's overrated" and "standards have risen".

LOL
It's kind of funny how far back this whinging about kids not being able to use computers goes, especially how condescending this blog is. Most people will only learn as much about computers to do their work and nothing more, because isn't it normal to only learn the bare minimum about something you don't care about?
We're giving "both sides"ing too much benefit of the doubt.

No sizeable newspaper came out of the woodwork to both side the Huawei ban for instance. It will only happen on issues they don't want to criticize too much, and need to muddy the water.
Neither does he. He's a hack.
This is ridiculously fun, kudos. I could definitely waste a few lazy afternoons playing this.
I wonder how significant of a source of revenue the coffee shops are for Yemen, both from bean exports and remittances from immigrants.
Not the parent and I will continue to use F-Droid but Obtanium is a popular alternative. It allows you to install apks directly from various supported sources (forges, F-Droid repos etc) so you typically use the apk that the app maintainer has produced in their CI pipeline rather than F-Droid's reproducible builds.
That’s not the full context of what is in the article. The full sentence is:

> Europeans could learn from Canada how to allow immigration in a fashion that the population embraces rather than tolerates, though a housing crunch has frayed that consensus of late.

Far from sounding ignorant, the author sounds well-informed.
The enshitification of health care has been happening whether your bill is paid by taxes or by insurance. Both systems were probably better a few decades ago.
Org-supertag isn't another version org-roam, it's totally differnt way. And, org-supertag can work with org-roram or Denote.

Your words suggest that you haven’t looked into org-supertag.
I assumed they submit roughs to get feedback, and it was rejected at that step ?
One of my learning moments involved the realization that keeping up with the Joneses is much more appealing than being ahead. If all npcs interact with the village fountain it makes perfect sense. If you are the first to discover tossing a coin in it and making a wish it is going to be a hard sell.
Teddy Roosevelt’s opponents within the Republican party orchestrated his selection as vice president specifically to get him out of the way because they didn’t like what he was doing as governor of New York and figured that was a safe place to dump him. Then President McKinley was assassinated a few months later.
> Why wasn't such cartoon made when Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to essentially increase Get-out-to-vote in essentially largely democratic areas.

untrue.
Sure, but most people here have technical backgrounds and well above average skills in logic. But prompt them with specific topics, and skill in logic vanishes.

I think this phenomenon itself is very interesting and a huge deal (cognitive ability is what makes us the most dominant species, and is required just to maintain living standards), but also the secondary effect is interesting: the mind does not allow focus to be placed on it.

If you ask me, it is about as close to magic as you can get.
I don’t think you can really make a Minecraft 2. It’s like making Chess 2.

You can just make better Minecrafts, but never Minecraft 2.
Not commenting on any other part but a slight correction:

The morning after pill is not an abortifacient. While there are different types most (like Levonorgestrel) are antiovulatarory or anti fertilisation.
> As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable.

I am so sick of the self aggrandizement across the board that seems to have become especially prominent over the past couple of years. I am certain I am not the only one. A cartoon in the Washington Post is at best preaching to the choir. Not a single "powerful person or institution" in history has ever even once been "held accountable" by a Washington Post cartoon. So, so many people have such an inflated sense of the importance of what they do, like they're on some holy crusade. I am reminded of that scene at the beginning of Silicon Valley, "I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place", and all the cringy Steve Jobs impersonators we've all seen over the years.

In my opinion these kinds of people are exactly the reason that the same people being "held accountable" in the cartoon have managed to come to power. Because they've been putting themselves out there as unlikable self-righteous snobs for the better part of the past decade or so and a whole lot of people got sick of them and put the idiots in charge out of spite.

Also...it's a very lame cartoon. It isn't remotely funny nor creative. It's bland, innocuous commentary on the level of Banksy. Though I guess that's pretty much the status quo for political cartoons these days.
Do you mean Hunter Biden or...

I'm a lifelong leftie, but it's been shocking to see how the press no longer holds power to account if it has a "D" in front of it. This obsequiousness has made the Democrats all the weaker. Someone grilling the party on Biden's health at the beginning of 2024 might have meant a real primary and a better candidate in the general. Iron sharpens iron and all that.
At that point, Canada would just be a state. NAFTA went a long way to improving the movement and people between US and Canada.
Reminded me of the Satish Acharya incident in India years back.

https://www.firstpost.com/india/drop-cartoon-take-photo-cart...

India has since slid many slots down in the World Press Freedom Index, and now stands almost near the bottom end.
Always aiming for anonymous as one can be from mid 90s so real life and online did not overlap. Since I'm no longer working I am less worried. Back in the days when I had a sharper mind it seemed I couldn't help, more often unintentionally, rock boats, in real life ... and watching petty retaliation coming in sideways though some totally unrelated aspect meant to cause me some difficulty - involving what I did for a living - meant it was entirely natural and reasonable to keep my real name out of any public online discussions.
the nytimes at least is a gaming company that still retains a legacy print side hustle
Because repairability has tradeoffs
Semiconductor Island: The colonial making of Taiwan's chip supremacy
Are you my doppelganger? I made almost this exact comment word-for-word to a friend of mine a few weeks ago.

Trudeau's immigration video from December [1] was one of the most dishonest, condescending productions that I've ever seen, basically amounting to, "Yes, we destroyed our previous internationally respected immigration system and imported five million low skilled laborers over a couple years without adding any housing or infrastructure. Yes, that's hurt a lot of you and made you angry. No, we don't think that's a problem. But because you're so angsty, we'll throttle it back a tiny wittle bit over the next year or two before throwing the floodgates wide open again."

Not a shred of anything even resembling self-awareness or humility throughout.

---

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOB7-dbYuCc
> The entire mainstream media is Anti-Trump, Anti-GOP.

Fox Corp, News Corp, Sinclair Broadcasting, and Newsmax would like to have a word with you about your lack of recognition.
> Having a lot of cultures smooshed together is a culture.

This reads a lot like "everything is a social construct".

A culture is a property that's shared by the population. The absence of such a shared property is not its presence.
Navier-Stokes Equations for Nearly Integrable Quantum Gases
> Huge refactors are also not a necessity in every codebase, if the code was written well to begin with.

If dynamically typed languages only worked well in absolutely pristine codebases that never saw any hacks or poorly thought out solutions, I'm not sure they'd be actually useful in most real-life settings. Of course, people refactor all the time in dynamically typed languages as well.
To me the difference there seems to be an incredible amount of large pools of money and billionaires publicly committing 100s of millions of dollar each to PACs, totally billions and billions, that clearly 100 percent exist to get Trump elected, but of course no PAC would ever think about aligning their activities with the Trump campaign because that would be against the law.

But Harris did raise a billion dollars, it is true.
Or you use brand as a proxy for quality and buy the Apple one without actually knowing why or how it’s “better”
What the author is missing is noblesse oblige.

Some peasants become nobles, but will never stop being peasants. Some peasants were nobles all along.
South Africa has currently so warm relations with Russia that Hungary is the only EU country that would not block its accession in this surreal scenario.
I'm going to tell mine: their objective is to sell propaganda, both in a literal and a figurative way.
> In very old days kids would have had to build their own toys instead of going to a toy store. Is there some lesson there?

Probably, yes. People have a better appreciation for what they build[0] and seem to also be more mindful about the usage of what they build[1].

Wouldn't surprise me if this extends to tech, too, but I couldn't find anything that explored this.

[0] https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/11-091.pdf

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11002-018-9465-6
I def love this trend. There are a few in Bay area too, check out Qamaria in fremont.
> But even Tim Cook is giving a million to Trump’s fund.

I think you mean "Tim Apple".
what about 8-bit ANDN? SHL essentially uses CL, so it may be because 8-bit subregister of "constant register" isn't present on the bypass network
So I stopped at the bit about the proxies because seriously, I’ve had to care about proxies almost never in the last 11 years. If your network is set up to require some special proxy setting, it shouldn’t be a network that people sign into with some random device and I would expect the IT staff to manage the proxy settings when setting up the devices that are meant to go on that network. As for being able to join a wifi network, yes, the kids know exactly how to do that and they do just fine. Maybe a handful of people who take a learned helplessness approach to anything technical might be flummoxed but the kids can do it.

And spare me the recollections of the old days when your computer booted up into a BASIC prompt. I was there, Charlie, it wasn’t all wine and roses. You had a computer you could program, but that most people didn’t have much use for and frankly right now the ability to program your computers is way better than it‘s been at any time in my 50+ years since you’ve got world class compilers, interpreters and development tools available for free along with all the documentation you can eat on the internet as opposed to having to have your uncle visit half a dozen computer stores looking for the book that describes the undocumented entry points into the ROM that let you do cool stuff.
Harris raised $1.1B hard money and benefited from $843M declared outside spend.

Trump raised $463M hard money and benefited from $975M declared outside spend.

Numbers per OpenSecrets.org
I hadn't been to Toronto in years until recently. We went to some parks (i.e. Parks Canada / Provincial Parks) around.

Little did I know that you now have to register online to book your visit. You used to just go and pay cash at the entrance and that's it. This time you had to have an account and prove identity by logging in through your bank account for example, before they'd even let you purchase said ticket.

We didn't really think much of it until later on but then it struck us: All, and I mean, literally all of the people we saw looked "Indian" (some may have been Pakistani etc. but you get what I'm trying to say). We were actually taken by surprise at one place, when we saw a bunch of (non-Indian) Asians in one of the parks. And once we saw a white couple. The Algonquin was completely booked and overflowing. Like you wouldn't even be able to just park and hike illegally.

All of the Parks Canada staff was White or (non-Indian) Asian.
Do you have an example of a specific article that you thought was too both-sidesy? Every time I hear this argument, it actually turns out that the arguer's problem with the article at hand is it was not left-wing enough--like taking a conservative argument at face value instead of just calling it racist and moving on. So, if you think WaPos problem is that it is not left-wing enough then I can only conclude that you are very left-wing yourself and so probably don't give good business advice.
It's not a 10/10; I've seen better. But if the person in question quit over it, I suspect it wasn't just because they were asked to rework it, something they've probably been asked to do in the past because something wasn't clear or funny or something.
>Kamala Harris outraised Trump 5-1

That is not true. Harris raised $1.39 billion and Trump raised $1.09 billion.
Because they use the metric system
The kids these days don‘t know how to use their cars. They go to mechanics to do something basic like change the oil or replace the brake pads when they could spend a few hours doing it themselves in a half-assed way.
Invoicing Process for SaaS
Has anyone found a good solution for managing your software's billing process?

We currently use Netsuite and we have a variety of billing types including:

Setup fees for new customers

Usage based billing for one to many types depending on the customer (example is billing per location but also billing per device active)

Min/Max thresholds for usage based billing

Pass through merchant of record credit card processing costs

To add additional complexity:

Invoices are sent monthly or annually

We bill some people for future months and others for activity in the last month

Right now our dev team runs reports and our accounting team manually builds the invoices out of them based.

I'm not to kean on using Chargebee or similar solutions. Seems a bit bloated for what we need.

Has anyone tackled this problem before?
To be fair that's been the case since there were food reviews.
I am a bit of an oddball in that I believe all instances and forms of unrealized hallucination deserve attention (though not equal attention).

To be clear: I am not surprised when bias exists in hallucinations, it's kind of a defining characteristic.
EV Sales Surge in UK as Carmakers Slash Prices to Dodge Fines
https://archive.today/uVmWg
Yes I'm a shill for big "New Yorker magazine". You are so smart how did you figure it out.
Yes, the name they gave the algorithm is misleading.
Show HN: Goodreads Clone built with Agent (lovable)
Built this little gem in lovable — just wow
Canada does not have the infrastructure to support more people. Housing costs are out of control, healthcare is in a terrible state, etc. If those things were resolved first before bringing people in and straining the already strained infrastructure throughout the country then there wouldn't be nearly the pushback that is happening right now.
Unless discretely in some corner of some compliance page it is indicated the entire product is an advertisement so no posts need to be specifically earmarked as such.
The article is about illegal immigration while the rest of the thread is about legal immigration.

Isn't it clear to everyone that the kind of people the government doesn't want in the country don't bring benefits to the country? And if they cheated on their way into the country, what does it imply about their integrity and their future tendency to cheat on taxes as well?
A few years ago I was doing some tutoring at a school and a student mentioned "Computer Science" class. I was impressed that fifth graders at this school with generally low performing students had access to Computer Science classes at that age.

Then I discovered they were learning how to use Word. The students really thought they were taking a "Computer Science" course. I would have liked to meet the teacher - I suspect they wouldn't know how to write a binary search in the language of their choice to save their life, let alone discuss if a problem was NP Complete.
The list of CEOs paying tribute lengthened.

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/24335290/apple-donation-do...
> decaf is very American thing

This is not true. The American's didn't come up with it, the Americans don't drink the most of it per-capita[*], and the Americans don't drink that much of it.

It would be fair to say "decaf is a rich country thing", though.

[*] although in absolute terms, they import more of it than any other single country, but there's a lot of them
> hobby projects that go weeks to months without commits

Just months? :D Last week, a hobby project took down various unrelated services on my server (like receiving email) by causing disk space to suddenly fill up. The root cause is bad handling of an expired third-party domain. I had last touched that in 2012!

Or the grocery list software I use daily: its main activity period is probably 2015 through 2018, with features/bugfixes being added maybe once every 2-3 years nowadays. Back in September that I added a small feature we now use on most grocery trips, but since it gets daily use by the developer, it's not like it's unsupported

One of my few projects that has regular users besides family is a ~2013 rewrite of a 2011 file uploader. Sometimes there is over a year between any change at all, but whenever someone came along with a bug report I think the fix was never more than a few days away. Come to think of it, it was just today that a friend reported being happy that I still provide it

Although stalled perhaps isn't inaccurate, I would feel that it gives the wrong vibe if someone used that to described these daily-used projects where the bug reporting method pops a silent notification on my phone and I'm acting upon any. No offense to u/apetrov, I get what they meant when reading their subsequent replies elsewhere in the subthread
From my experience those intelligent people who for whatever reasons can not get back to their original occupation still doing rather well in other fields. I am in Canada since the beginning of 90s. have many immigrant friends, most of them are well off.
Highly recommend doing software renderer stuff like this for fun. Raytracers are a popular sort of project but this sort of retro realtime rendering code makes for a great weekend project too. I implemented basically the same algorithm ages ago (actually I ported some SDL code as an exercise to learn canvas2d): http://namuol.github.io/earf-html5/

Obviously the linked implementation is way more performant and far simpler than mine, so if you’re looking for a reference I wouldn’t recommend my old coffeescript code…
Real name for professional posts I want associated with me.

Anonymous username for general shitposts.

Second anonymous username for expressing unpopular/extreme political views.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_2:_The_Sequel
This Year, RISC-V Laptops Really Arrive
How does homelessness relate at all?
Everything on the internet with my real name is a carefully crafted honeypot to prevent anyone from looking for my real accounts.
Sampling doesn't give you the actual answer for an actual array. If the program uses the array for multiple things, such as organizing the numbers after allocating the correct number of buckets, your method will cause logic errors and crashes.

The O(1) method based on statistics only works when the function making this calculation can hide the array (or lack of array) behind a curtain the entire time. If it has to take an array as input, or share its array as output, the facade crumbles.

The prompt is not "generate this many random numbers and then say max qualifying minus min qualifying". If it was, your method would give valid solutions. But the prompt starts with "Given a list".

In the article, we let ChatGPT generate the random numbers as a matter of convenience. But the timing results are only valid as long as it keeps that part intact and isolated. We have to be able to swap it out for any other source of random numbers. If it invents a method that can't do that, it has failed.
You create a better world by creating better people. My spawn will inherit the earth.
If newspapers started rejecting political cartoons for not being funny then barely any would be left standing.

I imagine that coming up with a good topical joke every day that can be told in exactly one picture is not easy, so I can believe that it's more about a good average.

At least this one respects the reader. Other artists would probably write "privacy" and "consumer rights" in the money bags.
even though movie pass is dead it created some pretty savory monthly plans from the theater. there are dead months sure but on aggregate you can easily beat their guess at the median user and come out quite ahead if you are into seeing new movies.
just to make you even more paranoid - zen2/4 (and probably e-cores and zen5) can rename memory operands too (you start to do strange things when Intel limits you to 16 registers)!

so today it needs to go through SSD or maybe the network LOL. but for real conspiracy, we should use paper and pencil
I like that the microarch names
-- Yanqihu (雁栖湖), Nanhu (南湖), and Kunminghu (昆明湖) -- are lake-themed. Coffee lake? Skylake? no, Kunming lake.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_codenames
Social Media Is Helping Bring Indigenous Languages Back from the Brink
While true, the computer as a general purpose machine has become a bloated incomprehensive, somewhat hostile affair to the user and that pushes newcomers away. There was a time when more newcomers stayed.
Sam Altman: What I Heard from Trump Supporters (2017)
Hey. I live literally 30 seconds from this place, and know Bryce. Cool dude!

I do wonder why solar panels in fields aren't more common, as opposed to rooftop solar. It seems like such a burden doing all those one-off jobs aren't worth it compared to the ease of just putting more up in an easy to access location on the ground. Especially since most people aren't set up so they can go off grid with their panels in case the grid goes down.
And phillip morris was one of the best performing stocks for nearly a century. past performance in the market is not always indicative of strong collective benefits.
Most of Canada is habitable. If you meant "comfortable to live", then draw a 100 miles radius circle centered on any existing comfortable Canadian city and see how much of it is actually developed.
Similar to public bathrooms - if a business is open 24 hours and you can stick around in there in the heated / cooled interior that's good for the homeless person, but maybe bad for loitering or the business.

I can't imagine a business closing over it, but having a closing time is a good way to get people to leave maybe?
No thanks.

Canada is a young kid with a lot of good opportunities in the future.

Europe is an old drowning rusty bureacratic ship.

It should get their shit together themselves
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