skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a selection:

- "The left" will try to deceive and deny reality even in the face of hard numbers. Obviously way more people migrate nowadays than historically. Most of the historic migration was also between geographically close, similar cultures.

- "The left" is elitist, paternalizing, and kind of cringe. Academic sounding writing and quoting philosophers that have been dead for over 2000 years will not exactly endear you.

- "The left" is out of touch and will talk about anything rather than address the problems people actually face. People struggle to afford rent, struggle to maintain their standard of living, and are worried about their income and crime. This article is comically far removed from addressing that.
One of the contestants in Squid Game fell into debt because of a failed business venture, and several of them are there because of medical debt caused by others in their families.
It’s like the ultimate bio-inspired stealth tech.
I mean, you're probably going to need to give the reboot rights to someone. For instance, the people in charge of applying kernel updates. And those people will, at this point, be prone to making a boulette.
LG has had this for years with their Magic Remote.
Old news, now it is all about RIIZ.
Does it mean that they should be removed entirely? Surely we can agree on the fact that I should not be allowed to make a copy of a book, put my name on it instead of the real author, and sell it? Or even claim that I wrote it and put it on my resume?
This reminds me of every time I heard a complaint that a url is “ugly”
Perplexity serving ads now made me cancel them
Not trying to be mean, but the fact that they spend that much time on ids is an indication that the team could have misplaced priorities in other regards as well.
For anyone wondering how this works, molly-guard uses package diversions to actually rename the shutdown/reboot/... binaries and replace them with molly-guard: https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/molly-guard/tree/de...

This is a cool ability of dpkg that is not well known. You can use it without making a package as well.
Couldn't most fingerprinting techniques be thwarted by just using a stock windows install in a frozen VM with a stock browser without changing anything? Wouldn't that make you pretty boring as far as any potential variations go?
Agreed. I'll copy and paste it anyway. It's not that instead of an UUID you have "FluffCat47" that is easy to type and remember, it's a freaking UUID as well (ok, 31 characters vs 36 - saves a huuge 15% of your fingertips...)
> This is just what it looks like to care about the details

This isnt caring about the details, this is going over the top on something completely unneccessary just to get attention for it.
> You don't see everything, neither do other forum participants, including the moderators.

The stuff that I mentioned was really hard to miss.

The question OP asked was, essentially, "is Stephen Wolfram actively contributing to the mathematical community?". If you really think that this is off-topic then... I don't know what to say.
I wonder if he’s familiar with Peirce’s alpha existential graphs. They are a complete propositional logic with a single axiom and, depending how you count them, 3-6 inference rules. They use only negation and conjunction.

They also permit shockingly short proofs compared to the customary notation. Which, incidentally was also devised by Peirce. Peano freely acknowledges all he did is change some of the symbols to avoid confusion (Peirce used capital sigma and pi for existential and universal quantification).
Both versions of the running man are very interesting. Whereas the book was more of 'we are all doomed' and the movie was more 'we can take control of this'.
Is this just being pedantic wrt uninitialized values?
I can literally throw my iPhone in the ocean, buy another phone, log in to my Apple account and my new phone looks and works just like the old one with all of the settings, Home Screen app placement, widgets being in the same place and local app data being restored.

You would be missing all of that
Here's a great candidate to stand on one of those empty plinths. The inscription could be "Social Justice Warrior" to return some valor to the epigram.
Ask HN: Best Android tablet for home dashboard?
I want to mount a tablet in my kitchen. I don't need it to do anything fancy. I just want to view:

* my recipes

* calendar

* notes

I plan on using Notion or building a mini personal dashboard, served as a local static page.

Ideally something Android based, with a good battery life, not sluggish and it doesn't break the bank.

Any suggestions?
> SQL NULLs aren't weird, they're just based off of Kleene's TRUE-FALSE-UNKNOWN logic!

Kleene's TRUE-FALSE-UNKNOWN logic is weird.

SQL nulls effectively violate the reflexive property of equality, because X=X does not result in a value of TRUE.

And in many contexts in SQL, NULL is treated as equivalent to false, such as within a WHERE clause.

So that means that X=X is effectively FALSE in SQL*.

That is a clown language.

*(yes, I have the same opinion about ANSI NaN, but that wouldn't come up so often if Javascript didn't love NaN for some stupid reason.)
https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/
Watch Duty App Keeps Up with the California Wildfires
The gearboxes are recyclable, the blades can be buried in a landfill or shredded into fine material to mix in with concrete.

It's really a non-issue compared to burning the remainder of fossil fuels (everything still buried).
Try fasting. Go 24 hours without food and little (water) or no drink. Do this once a month when you don't have cancer, and maybe more when you do. The theory behind it: Some cancers such as Chordoma are reliant on mTOR, which fasting inhibits or modulates. (This is also why Rapamycin is being researched for cancer treatment, though its mTOR effect is mild.) Theory part 2: tumors tend to have a lot of glycogen, which is unavailable when fasting. The body still needs it so it will pull some from tumors if necessary.
Back in the 17th century a bunch of hardline Protestants in the Netherlands got upset that Catholics and Jews were allowed to practice their religion.
The rich people who ran Amsterdam explained that after death god would sort them all out so they didn't have to.
I always admired their practicality.
> almost entirely devoid of content

I thought the same and was irritated that it talks about the study without linking to it whereas at the same time providing several other links (irrelevant to me). Finally, they did it at the very bottom.

So basically, for a casual reader, they discuss the main findings and explain their significance whereas the study just present the facts. On HN, we could just post the link to the study I guess, but for the general public it makes sense to explain what the white matter is etc.
A grep that doesn't stuck
Just train the LLM search engine to tell people it contains the answers to all their questions.
I feel a counter is that hyping and going along with hype leads to substantial misallocation of capital and this leads to human misery.

How much money has been burned on robo-taxis which could have been spent on incubators for kids.
I came here specifically to recommend Alice in Borderland. I believe season 3 is due out soon this year.

I just watched season 2 of Squid Games and whilst it was fun and I enjoyed it, it didn't really seem to add much to the series.
The Abilene Paradox is used to describe an unhealthy consensus.

The problem is, is that a hallmark of a healthy consensus, is that no one is really happy with the decision, and a hallmark of an unhealthy consensus, is that no one is really happy with the decision.
> The number of software systems I've seen designed to allow the clueless to bumble their way through operations is much higher than the number of companies I've seen that attempts to train better operators.

I agree, and that's a problem. Now with LLM, we're training everybody to not know how to find information by themselves (we call that "prompt engineering" so it cannot be bad, right? /s).
word

https://chatgpt.com/share/67813a3f-c7e8-8001-ab0c-7f024bc41a...
Thank you for the PR!
I was really disappointed of the article. This is obviously mental gymnastics to make immigration look better.

They should have done a report about the living situations in Syria (or insert bad country of your choice) and that would have created more acceptance for the people from there moving here.
IIRC, LuaJIT also doesn't like native code. Most native calls will cause LuaJIT to fall back to the unoptimized interpreter, with the exception of some special-cased functions from the standard library.

https://chrisfls.github.io/luajit-wiki/NYI/

LuaJIT prefers extension modules written in Lua with LuaJIT's FFI library, instead of those written in C using the traditional Lua–C API.
I've been finding The Prize surprisingly light on technical details - I'm 1/3 of the way through the book and half way through the chronology of the oil industry and it hasn't even mentioned a distillation column. Does it get more technical?
"THE WRIGHT BROTHERS" by Fred C. Kelly. This is the one I read and it turns out to be on project Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67672/67672-h/67672-h.htm

I'm really curious how that is considered public domain, it was published in 1943 and he died in 1959.

Anyway, one of the things most fascinating to me was their attempts to sell an airplane to the US army and other business related things. You'd think inventing the airplane would bring quick financial rewards but it was a long road.
Hack Club is also 100% transparent, and you can see all of our spending here: https://hcb.hackclub.com/hq
> That is, language
models learn the implicit meaning in text, as opposed to the early belief some researchers held that
sequence-to-sequence models (including transformers) simply fit correlations between sequential
words.

Is this so, that the research community is agreed? Are there papers discussing this topic?
Not only that, they are making the biggest mistake a company can do by telling their customers that what they are doing is wrong and that the company knows better than they do.
Boulette isn't only for safeguarding "shutdown", it is for safeguarding what needs to be.
This is to prevent yourself from some harmeful reflexes.

I my case, I use atuin a lot and automatically retype long commands and sometimes as root.

The regularity of this actions tend to lower my attention, but the fact that many users depend on what I do on big machines and with lots of priviledges isn't less true.

Danger comes from getting used to it.
Processing UK rail data in real-time
yeah it's an unpopular opinion
If you're compromising on your high-minded and unorthodox purist concept for ergonomics, you may as well finish the job of ergonomics and just use normal nulls where X=X is true.
In that situation I would stop eating for a while but I would also not count on it working since I can’t really stand hope. Acceptance is the key for me. You can find a video called fasting for survival from a cardiologist called pradip jamnadas and see if it makes sense for you or your friend.
So what you’re saying is you think XMR is just for buying drugs, and you’re also saying you’ve used XMR before.

Hmmmmmm

/s
Perhaps so, but with JS disabled, Chrome uninstalled and all Google apps disabled and or removed together with a myriad of other tweaks including phone rooting, regular rebooting of routers to change IP address as well as using multiple different IP providers seems to minimize the problem.

Can't remember when I last saw an ad (except for some static one within the page), and the last time I actually clicked on an ad was about 20 years ago.

Oh and BTW, I use a dumb/feature phone for telephone, my smartphones have no SIMs and they connect to the net via a WiFi router (usually a pocket type), and no email is sent from smartphones. Nor do I use any social media (perhaps one if by some stretch HN could be classified as one).

And Gibson Research's ShieldsUP can't find anything of note.

Finally, without JS the web runs like a grayhound. Sites that break without it are not worth visiting anyway (and they're usually the worst privacy offenders).

I've no need of them, as they say, there are pleanty more fish in the sea.

All this nonsense is only a problem if you expect something for nothing and or like the trinkets and pretty baubles Google pretends to offer for free.

PS: and I don't send or receive email from those who've gmail addresses. Boycotting those with gmail addresses sends a message that one is actually serious about privacy.
You can set default branch name for your repositories in settings.
Much more straightforward than in GitLab in my opinion.
Trump sentenced in hush money case
Apple produces way better SoCs whereas Google is using Qualcomm or some other crap

Apple's SoCs have huge processor caches which makes quite a big difference

Here's the processor cache sizes for the A16

L1 cache 320 KB per P-core (192 KB instruction + 128 KB data)
224 KB per E-core (128 KB instruction + 96 KB data)

L2 cache 16 MB (performance cores)
4 MB (efficient cores)

Last level cache 24 MB

The L1 / L2 / L3 cache sizes in the Pixel 9 CPU don't appear to be documented but based on previous CPUs I'd bet they aren't going to be very large

Are you seriously saying that you think Chrome on iOS is going to be slower than Chrome on Android?
That's because "different" and "distinct" don't mean the same thing.

Two unknown values are assumed to be different, but they are not distinct from each other.

For example, take two boxes, in each box is a die, the value of the box is the value shown on the die inside. You don't know the value since you don't see the die, it may even change as you manipulate the box, so it is unknown, NULL in SQL. Because of that, you assume the two boxes have different values. They are, however, indistinguable, so, not distinct. All you need to know is that you hold two boxes with dices in it, which one you hold doesn't matter, and that's what "SELECT DISTINCT" tells you: that you have two boxes and it doesn't matter which is which, even though they have different values.
The 2 Body Problem
> Null is one of the hardest things for traditional software engineers

Making them harder is not better.
If you think it's simple you don't really know it.

It's not that the supposed concepts that are hard, it's that it has one of the messiest interfaces and set of documentation ever devised for a software.

And there are hardly any settled concepts, the terms it used came to be as it was developed, and can have different definitions in different parts of the documentation.

If you consider it simple I'm very seriously concerned about your software engineering output
Well, there was one true part to it: Communist world fell apart and a huge number of people who were once locked in behind the Iron Curtain, were set free. To them, the change was very real.
I have a laptop that just runs a bare ubuntu terminal, no DE, and I've accidentally shut down a home server before when I tried to shut down the laptop. Quite annoying, since I was away from home at the time
The response is genuine. I’m Jewish and I feel that comparing someone to Hitler who isn’t a genocidal dictator that started a World War normalizes extremist behavior and white washes the horrors of the Nazi regime. By comparing him to a broadly popular democratically elected American president, you are underplaying how terrible Hitler actually was.

Whatever Trump is, he’s not Hitler. Just like Obama wasn’t Stalin.
> And before Battle Royale, there was Kaiji.

Coincidentally, they both are from 1996. Though, the Battle Royale-novel was only finished in 1996, while Kaijis first chapter was released in 1996. So maybe they had the same inspiration, or somehow the novel was influenced by the Manga, even though it was so early in its fame.
(Sorry on phone) California famously also has earthquakes. You can't look at the USGS risk map and seriously say the risk between living in Missouri/Oklahoma and California is equivalent. Also I didn't include PNW states in the safe list. Also the NMSZ had only one >= 5.0 earthquake (5.4) in the entire 20th century. Also earthquake deaths are only around half wildfire deaths, and I'd guess the distance between them will only increase as wildfires are only gonna get worse.

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/hazard-map-2023-50-state-u...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_by_cost
Thanks for sharing. You are right. A good developer will pick up skills even other languages quickly. Yet we will favor someone who knows the ecosystem.

I had an application today that was made by JobScan. I understand a service that helps you to match your CV to the proposed position. I dunno. I smelled it was too generic. Then I examined the PDF and I found the creator JobScan.

My personal experience is that I spoke to a lot of great candidates from Nigeria. Our last hire is from NG too.
"The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough - Shows how Orville and Wilbur surpassed the leading researchers of the day to be the first to achieve controlled, powered flight. Does a great job of describing their work ethic and research process.

"The Myths of Innovation" by Scott Berkun - Not exactly about how hard things got done, but it discusses some of the misconceptions and assumptions we make about current technology and the process of inventing new tech.
> I'm pretty sure the article is more recent than that

You seem to be confusing the date it was written with the date it was published.

I believe there are multiple works where that interval is over 50 years. I would not be surprised if a gap of a century has been surpassed.
“Emacs,vi and VSCode are the same editor, basically“
>I do worry what we are going to do with all the failed gearboxes and blades

There are three companies I'm aware of in the United States who have commercialized, and are, today, right now, recycling turbine blades.

Additionally, there are multiple startups in both the US and Europe who have developed more easily recyclable blades and those are starting to be deployed.

Blade lifecycle is a solvable problem.

The steel in the gearboxes is a problem that solves itself.
Nvidia criticizes Biden's last minute chip export limits
What's up with these comments? Let these folks format their keys the way they want.
actual functional features in API keys! How dare you! aesthetics over all!!
Or maybe people understand but still think it's dumb and hideously inconvenient?

Ergonomics matter.
My phone is an appliance. I have no more desire to manage my phone than I do my dishwasher.

I sign into my Apple account, pay Apple for more storage and everything gets backed up that’s on my iPhone and iPad.

When I get a new phone, I log in while I’m at the Apple Store, wait for everything to be restored, wipe my old phone and give it back to Apple for a carrier discount or a discount from Apple.

Life is too short to do otherwise. I work with computers 40 hours a week in exchange for money that I then exchange for goods and services.
yes they do. We use it in prod
Its a korean show, created by a korean under a korean production company with the rights purchased by Netflix. It matters a lot and is a really weird take to think it is not Korean.
It really isn’t. It’s probably not just the tip.
As a counterpoint, aircraft designers have learnt through bitter experience that interface design is extremely important, as in stressful situations, or even due to a momentary lapse in attention, even a very highly trained, careful individual can make a fatal mistake. Quite frankly the only reason tractors don't get the same treatment is that generally the operator only kills themselves, not a few hundred other people.

(This isn't to say that training is useless, just that more training isn't the best and only solution to all problems, nor will a lack of careful interface design magically create more capable operators)
> people who truly don't care

The problem with the old "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" quote of uncertain provenance is that it leaves out most of the population: the people who truly don't care.
> That is true, and part of that would have to be enabling people to make money from web type content without shoving ads in it (or it being an ad for something else).

While I think that would be good, I did say personalized advertising, not all advertising. If every visitor to site.com sees the same rotation of ads, there's no need to track anybody. Still obnoxious and a vector for malware, of course. But not really the same problem.

> My personal, controversial, conception of the future is to return to the notion of the Internet as a network of other networks, and then enable devs and content creators to sell apps and experiences which operate privately within those networks.

It never really was that, you know. And I think putting everybody in walled gardens would be even worse than ad spyware.
basically all batteries now are 1 of 2 types, and the differences within those types largely relate to manufacturing methods and trace elements that probably aren't worth recycling anyway.
I don’t understand: you say one can do this without an external thing, and then promote your own external thing?
Yeah it's a great book. It definitely gets into the weeds about his family and personal life (as a comprehensive biography should). Personally, I enjoyed that stuff, but if you just want to learn about how he did hard stuff as the OP described, it may be a bit thick at 600+ pages. That said, we summarized it in discussion form on our podcast if anyone is interested: http://businessbooksandco.com/episode/7b5d6ab9/titan-the-lif...
Loving the name "boulette" here, which means "blinder" or "slip-up".
I think the point is that the build up of why they are there is pointless fluff. The subject matter is the game itself, so it's better to rush through the setup and have more action.
Duplicate post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42610091
I've been waiting for someone to mention Liars' Game! When I started watching Squid Game that's the direction I hoped it was going in. Still good, and season 2 seems to be more in that vein than the first was. But in general I'm a huge fan of stuff that makes you wonder "how are they going to game their way out of it this time?"
"Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea" is the story of a shipwreck discovery that has always enthralled me. I've read it three times, and I'm so inspired about all the challenges they solved along the way.

(Note: the hero of the story went a little crazy in recent years. Hid from the law for a long time, and I think he just died... but still, the book itself is amazing.)
"It doesn't have to be as big of a deal as this."

Agree. The truthfulness of the four-colour theorem is good to know, although there is not yet any human-readable proof.
Hack Club is run by adults (you can see the team page here: https://hackclub.com/team), and every aspect of Hack Club is also built by teenagers contributing to everything from HCB (our fiscal sponsership platform) to High Seas (https://highseas.hackclub.com), a program we're running right now.

Happy to help if you still need help setting something up for your son :)
I agree - the reformatted IDs are shorter than the originals, so by the pigeonhole principle you are increasing the chance of collision.

I doubt this matters in reality for this case, but the number of comments stating "there is no difference" or something to this effect shows how any added step can easily be misunderstood and could (in the worst case) introduce a fatal security flaw.