skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They want more engagement.

It's like if you build a typewriter and give it to a few humans, they'll write on it a few times a week maybe, not that much. Sometimes a supermarket list or a letter to a friend. This is what I'd call "quality engagement". There's a person doing a valuable activity for themselves, where time using the thing isn't relevant.

Then you give the same typewriter to a monkey and every time the monkey finishes a page he gets a banana. He'll stay there all day every day. Lots of engagement and just gibberish on every page.

Advertisers are buying monkey engagement.

And platforms don't care so right now all the typewriters are made for a monkey hand to type all day every day, and you can no longer write your normal letters without feeling annoyed at why it got better for the monkey instead of leaving it alone for you.
Yup, the models are smart, but are trained to follow standard human patterns for this type of questions. And even on hackernews vast majority will not think that they would need to correct for buoyancy when actually attempting the experiment in standard conditions.

They very often get popular "tricky" questions wrong because they saw it so many times that they switch from internal reasoning to memorization/retrieval.
There was also a HN submission earlier that year talking about a leaked (or "leaked" who knows) employee manual (which looked plausible) that shared some insights into the inner working of his company.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549649
And Steve Jobs famously described it as a "bag of hurt"
Which is largely dependent on how many PhD students we mint.
Lol wendover productions, sounds like a spicy movie studio :) Never heard of that but I'm not so deep into YouTube.
What quality? We had to sue Apple in a class action because the motherboard in our MBP (and many other people's) died 7 times and the 8th time it happened Apple wanted to charge us $1200 to replace it again. We had to sue them, but we won.

> I’d say about 85% of people in the office space have MacBooks.

That doesn't prove quality. All it proves is you are in an echo chamber. I've worked in lots of corporate environments that were all PC and some that were all Apple, and a few that were mixed. All it really depends on is if the company values appearances or functionality, and appearances are one of Apple's main value propositions.
MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs
I suggest using ruby annotations for the translation part.

I am building a sanskrit reader[1] and needed a feature that allowed users to tag words with notes/meaning. ruby annotations work wonderfully for that.

[1] Site: https://www.adhyeta.org.in/

Backend: https://github.com/s-i-e-v-e/adhyeta

(The vocabulary features require a login, which is not open to the public as of yet.)
Microsoft is just trying to match features with apple which does the sorts of things with the T2 chip. Home users probably don't care that much, but corporate users do.

That said, the root of all DRM is not the TPM or the GPU or whatever... it is hollywood.
> that's becoming more and more apparent

That's been apparent for the last 300,000 years of human existence.

- 2,000 years ago: Google Ads: https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/history-advertising-n...

- 5,000 years ago: Google Reviews - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81...

There is little to no history beyond the melt at the tail end of the last ice age 13,000 years ago. Seas have risen by 200 years and we've always lived near water. My head canon: Agriculture didn't just "pop up", there was a history and tradition before that. Humans have never changed. We just have flashier toys now.
Funnily enough Windscribe did an article on this:

- https://kumu.io/Windscribe/vpn-relationships

- https://windscribe.com/vpnmap

The main two that parent poster would be talking about would be "Kape Technologies" and "Ziff Davis VPNs".

We also did an article in 2019
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2019/11/20/the-troubl...

They do a lot of astro-turfing with "review websites" that aren't actually independent at all.
> I'm curious how well docker on top of the Ubuntu vm works.

Works well enough. Better than Docker on barebone MacOS if you have lot of file access in a volume.

That's one of the thing which surprised me when I started using VMs to develop. First time was with a postgres backed app: I expected to lose performance when moving everything in a VM. But got the exact opposite result at the time. Postgres really liked the linux filesystem more than the windows one, enough to do more than offset the VM tax.
> police using photos/location to figure out that a woman from Texas

How would they access that information? Under this feature, no location information for the user would be held by Apple's servers. Plus, Apple would have to divulge it somehow to law enforcement, which they don't do as a matter of course until compelled by a court. Courts have a high bar for accessing that information.

Even so, having compelled Apple, they cannot give up what they do not have.

> you've really been shilling apple

I am not "shilling" for Apple, I am commenting about a technology Apple has adopted and which I have decided to trust.

> giving multiple replies to the same comment

Sometimes I prefer to break my replies up so they are easier to consume. I don't agree with the premise that this is obnoxious and so far none of my counterparties has complained. Why are you complaining?

> what's your problem?

What's your problem?
Don't forget to spice it up with some bias!

https://x.com/i/grok/share/uMwJwGkl2XVUep0N4ZPV1QUx6
Why not do something you care about? I started a company recently making apps for comic book collectors and it’s been more fulfilling than anything else I’ve done.
I think GP was probably exaggerating but there are far fewer owning companies than actual vpns. This article does a decent job of showing it https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-2... but may be a bit out of date now (Oct 24). I believe it, or a similar one, made the rounds on HN a year or so ago.
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2A people presumably think that even though there are some edge cases that are bad (citizens owning nuclear weapons), the risk of unintended consequences of legislating against these cases is too great given the small-to-nil occurrence of these cases in the real world.
Thank you for the details: I really like the minimalist UI, well done! And I like to see you sharing the tools that you build to help others learning.

That being said, I'm surprised though, that the translations are GPT generated, so not sure how trustworthy this actually is.
Domain foreign users have to be able to trust that learning resource are proof-read / accurate.

Not to say it's worthless, but you may want to note that the translations were done automatically and may contain errors.
Adding autoplay videos that are tangentially related to the wiki page.

Said videos take about 10 seconds to show up and will cause the screen to scroll to a different point from where you are currently reading

Their privacy policy is exhaustive, and you opt in by default to sharing your data with Google and 7 other analytics providers

UI noise like "share to Instagram/YouTube/LinkedIn" that probably 0.1% of people even consider using

When you're on a specific game wiki, you care only about that wiki content, but fandom places a Fandom navigation bar and side menu

Their default email strategy sent almost daily updates for random posts on (unrelated) FANDOM community when I made a couple comments on a specific wiki a decade ago.
By removing it from the market, making enormous technical tweaks based on user feedback, and then putting it back on the market.
Backing it up a bit - not only enjoy being hungry, but recognizing it in the first place.

Lots of overweight people have never been hungry in their whole life. They eat on a schedule, so have an appetite, but real hunger? Never more than the grumbles of an empty stomach.

But it would benefit them to not eat until they are hungry. Then have a small meal. Feel what it's like to be satiated, not full, just satiated. The notice how long it takes to feel hungry again.

Then try being really hungry. Like "I woke up from a deep sleep at 3am and felt a ravenous need to eat something".

I've found that my sense of hunger was reset by this process. I get hungry if I don't eat a meal, but it's not a big deal. I can ignore it. Another 6 hours and I'll start to be really hungry. Then I can have something small.

I don't find it hard to keep a healthy weight any more. It's not difficult to eat to a slight caloric deficit and lose weight if needed.
This article presents very biased view without sufficient evidence.

Not worth your time.
I agree regarding the age of his viewers. Every single under-15 is know watches him.

Which makes it interesting to see just who sponsors him. What nine year old is investing in crypto? What eight year old is buying VPN products?
I think there are actually two questions there:

1. Is it possible for a view of the world in which humans aren’t at the center, but still flourish? I think the answer is…possibly; but I am a little, but not extremely, skeptical. I think human psychology seems to benefit from thinking we’re at the center of things, or at least that we aren’t merely another random creature in space.

2. The more interesting question is whether this is even possible, given the apparent nature of existence. I’m not an expert on quantum physics, but from my layman understanding, the observer necessarily affects the observed. Which would seem to imply that the observer is necessarily at the center of their own vision of the universe, even on a physical level. Again, I’m not sure how that spells out in physics and I could be mistaken in my understanding here, but: it does seem like the vision of the universe as this independent thing which humans move around on is a cultural legacy and not how reality actually is constructed.

On that last note - not sure I necessarily agree there. I think the unstated meta-purpose of natural sciences is to gain more information, with the assumption that more information is necessarily good. Scientists seem more driven by a desire for knowledge than a desire for human flourishing, to me.
rideshare@spacex.com

I just googled SpaceX rideshare, it was the very first result.
As others have mentioned, the main problem is that open systems are more vulnerable to low-cost, coordinated external attacks.

This is less of an issue with systems where there is little monetary value attached (I don't know anyone whose mortgage is paid for by their Stack Overflow reputation). Now imagine that the future prospects of a national lab with multi-million yearly budget are tied to a system that can be (relatively easily) gamed with a Chinese or Russian bot farm for a few thousand dollars.

There are already players that are trying hard to game the current system, and it sometimes sort of works, but not quite, exactly because of how hard it is to get into the "high reputation" club (on the other hand, once you're in, you can often publish a lot of lower quality stuff just because of your reputation, so I'm not saying this is a perfect system either).

In other words, I don't think anyone reasonable is seriously against making peer review more transparent, but for better or worse, the current system (with all of its other downsides) is relatively robust to outside interference.

So, unless we (a) make "being a scientist" much more financially accessible, or (b), untangle funding from this new "open" measure of "scientific achievement", the open system would probably not be very impactful. Of course, (a) is unlikely, at least in most high-impact fields; CS was an outlier for a long time, not so much today. And (b) would mean that funding agencies would still need something else to judge your research, which would most likely still be some closed, reputation-based system.

Edit TL;DR: Describe how the open science peer-review system should be used to distribute funding among researchers while begin reasonably robust to coordinated attacks. Then we can talk :)
you run straight and to the right, and there is a group of 3 enemies that you can kill in less then 10 seconds and win
Honest question: what's the advantage of this over the Jupyter notebook support in VSCode? (which I use daily)
Some things to notice about this paper:

1. It contains no references.

2. It is not actually about the long and painful history of time. In fact, it barely touches on history at all.

3. Some of the things it says are flat-out wrong. For example, "How long does it take the earth to face the Sun at the same angle? This simple question has a definite and fairly simple scientific answer..." No, it doesn't. It's not even a constant.

https://explainingscience.org/2015/08/24/september-18-the-sh...

4. This is the only work the author ever published (he died in 2009).

So... if you read this and wondered why anyone should care, your puzzlement is well-founded.
Legal documents of the class action: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69503243/wendover-produ...
That website is owned by a VPN company iirc, specifically NordVPN or at least they astroturf for them. Note that on the side there is 1 & 2 VPNs and they're NordVPN and Surfshark which have the same parent relationship as they merged. That's the thing though it makes it look like there's more than one as opposed to just slapping a NordVPN ad there. Illusion of choice.

And no they're not exaggerating, have a look at the two companies I mentioned and how many "brands" they own.
What is it, that sparks your interest in industrial automation?
I would recommend on focusing on the stuff you want to instead of focusing what you dont want to do. So dont think about "I dont want to stay in ML" but for example more about "I want to see a physical occurence of what I contributed to"
thanks, without strafing it's almost impossible
You said a DSL has to have its own syntax, or have to change the language and it implies more cognitive load. That is just not the case, as stated with sources like SICP and Wikipedia.

The whole idea of a DSL is exactly to avoid learning something new. Of course there will be some piece of information to be learned, but what are we comparing against? Is there a solution where somebody does not need to learn absolutely anything? Of course not! You have to learn something, to be able to use it, the question is how to minimize the cognitive load.

You are right it would help some example, I have a couple in which I recently worked on:

1) We had a very complex ASIC which had a complicated way of configuring it: there were RF parameters and also a program that runs in the ASIC; say “repeat 20 times {send, receive, analyze, phase-shift}” of course the real thing is much more complicated. Now the ASIC manufacturer gives an API for doing everything, which involves setting registers, flags, internal state machines, etc. we have an expert that knows lots about RF and the application, but is weak in programming. We did it in lisp, but I will try to explain like if it was C: we made a bunch of functions, lots are very API like, setters and getters. But to program the sequence, we have functions that do flow control. In C looks a little bit awkward, in Lisp is much better. The example above would be: “repeat(20); send(); receive(); analyze (); phase_shift(); iterate();” The guy who writes that “code” does not care about the base language (we had previously never heard about Lisp, he was only able of basic Python). But he was already writing those programs in pseudocode for documentation. So the cognitive load for him is minimal. He has to remember to add “();” at the end of each instruction, and the loops are “repeat(n) … iterate” That’s it! That was much less, than if he had to learn the whole API of the ASIC, he is not a programmer, he is an RF engineer. You may say: it is an API, but look, there was already an API. Makes no sense to do API over API. It was all about transforming the language of the API, to the language of the problem at hand. The API tries to expose every detail of the hardware, in a language which is based on hardware and C, the DS language tries to hide details or translate things into the language of the problem. So the user of the DSL has to learn less.

2) There was an automated planner which lots of rules. Think about it as “1000 ifs, some nested”, originally without DSL, all was hardcoded in C++. We developed based on libconfig (think JSON with C syntax) a little language to express the ifs. Note: there was no new syntax invented, it is the underlying JSON/Libconfig, which are well known syntax. We only made a big “forach” for all elements in the config file, and each passed in a big “case” to dispatch the substructure to the handling function for each instruction. Took 1 day to implement. After that, the intelligence was in separated files, it could be reloaded dynamically, and the people doing the intelligence did not need to be C experts.
I always thought the writing was better in 2e but the mechanics were better in 3.5e. But 4e just seemed like the mechanics were different but not better for some reason other than they could sell new books to old players.
Procnames Start Lines. But Why?
They are both technologies that are actively used to house personal content.
Sorry, I was referring to this part:

> Once you reach a new weight, that’s just your body’s new normal.
I can't even begin to understand how they think this will succeed. The defence so many influencers employ when advertisers turn out to be doing shady things is "You can't hold me responsible! It's not my fault, how can I know what my advertisers are doing?" but as soon as an advertiser does something that harms the influencer, it's a problem?

Honey's business model has always been obvious to anyone with any understanding of affiliate marketing, their innovation was that they created a browser extension: that's it. Coupon code websites were doing exactly the same thing for decades before, retailmenot being the one we're probably all familiar with from the early 2000s.

The claim that these influencers have lost affiliate commissions because Honey's method is true but it's also true that these influencers are losing affiliate commissions to one another. Amazon is the preferred e-commerce platform for affiliate marketing because they are extremely generous with how they attribute: if you click an Amazon affiliate marketing link and then make any purchase in the next 30 days the affiliate will get paid regardless of whether they were advertising the product you bought or not. And guess how Amazon attributes? Last click!

If Influencer A includes an affiliate link for "Expensive Camera" and Influencer B includes an affiliate link for "Cheap Toy" and you click on "Expensive Camera" then click on "Cheap Toy" and then buy the expensive camera, Influencer B is getting paid for that purchase expensive camera purchase, despite Influencer A influencing you to buy it.

Affiliate marketing is adversarial, it's a fight for attribution at the expense of everyone else. Holding Honey to a different standard isn't going to work for them. Wilful ignorance of how a company operates isn't a defence against being harmed by them, it's embarrassing.
There is no way to know this, universe can be chock full of trees of some form on certain type and position of the planet. Later than first stars for sure, but thats about it with our current knowledge
But afaik the TPM (or fTPM if no chip is present) is used to establish and restrict trusted access to the replay-protected memory block that the GPU (or other) DRM chain services depend upon to do their thing.

IMHO the author does overrestrictively interpret the FSS statement to discredit them.
> As an example, SQLite doesn't have a way to add a NOT NULL constraint to an existing column; you have to rebuild the entire table using a temp table.

Or any other constraint for that matter, every few months I look for ADD CONSTRAINT again, only to rediscover there isn't anything.

The lack of any sort of PL language (or even just trivial stored procs aliasing queries) also makes migrations more annoying, CTE can handle some of the load but the verbosity and limitations of basic SQL make that awkward, and needing to round-trip through the host language for everything is frustrating (even more so when the host language is statically typed and thus requires adaptation out).
tim, this is hackernews, everybody here makes six digits! jokes aside - when donating one should of course consider one's paycheck size. you don't have much, give a little; you have more, give a lot.
Because consumers have been conditioned to expect that extended warranties are just another layer of scam, maybe to extract consumer data, maybe just to get a slightly higher price. I think if you see these then you have to assume they are unenforceable anyway due to some fine print, and you risk finding this out after spending way too much time navigating terrible robot phone systems and similar harassment.

In a lot of contexts, consumers will never be able to trust products/manufacturers again. What can work though is if stores/distributors provide the warranty though, because unlike consumers, they may still have some power.
Show HN: Prompt Builder – Open-source macOS app for multi-file LLM prompts
• Add local files and see their estimated token usage
• Transcribe audios and videos and inject transcripts
• Fetch and summarize transcripts from YouTube or links
• Search web and inject content
• Reusable snippets
• Automatic XML delimiters
> how many people do formulate a whole sentence before saying it

The process is a formulation of precise ideas (complex at some level and verified to some degree, hopefully), then translated into sentences for output (not necessarily in these two steps, but through iterations).

This project tries to use sentences as formalizations of ideas - an interesting way enabled by availability of tools, allowing good features like transparency.
I am absolutely a Tufte FanBoi, I even got him to autograph my copy of Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
As far as I can tell the two main criticisms in the video are that:

1. The Redis API requires the developer to use different commands to retrieve/manipulate data depending on the type of data being stored. To retrieve a string you use GET, but if you want to retrieve a list it's LRANGE, for a set it's SMEMBERS, for a hash it's HGETALL. (As opposed to an API design which would allow you to call GET on all of the different data types and have it return the right thing.)

2. The lack of a predefined schema means you can overwrite values with different types. So you can create a list named "foo" and then overwrite it with a string named "foo" and then overwrite that with a hash named "foo" and Redis will happily do it, meaning the developer needs to keep track on their end what actual type any given key is holding onto.

To me these criticisms come across as essentially saying "Redis doesn't behave like a RDBMS" to which I suppose antirez's point is "well, yeah, it's not supposed to".
There are cheap and even free VPNs. If your ad can convert customers who aren’t going to comparison shop, you don’t need to be offering the lowest price.
Nothing. I just use ChatGPT and Claude so I am familiar with their capabilities and limitations.

Imagine if people who had never used VR kept saying it's just a TV on your face, or if people who had never used static types kept saying they're just extra work you have to do, or if people who had never had sex kept saying it's just a way of making babies.

It's a tedious claim when it's so easily disproven by going to a free website and trying it. Why are people so invested in AI being useless that they'll criticise it so confidently without even trying it?
Eight things that shouldn't have happened last year, but did