skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May it happen that CloudFlare stops sending their call invitations to me. I have an account at them which has shared access to company domains, because sometimes I was needed to assist with them. CloudFlare reps repeatedly e-mail me to schedule a call, even after I replied to them and told that I am not a person directly responsible for our domains and asked to stop mailing me. Whoever was their rep at that time, answered that they will stop. Some time passed, and they started e-mailing again. Eventually I started putting their e-mails to spam folder.
With the use of bookmarks (prepared or improvised with index cards, etc.) or sticky notes, precision jumping within a physical book is very quick, easy, and useful.
North American Water and Power Alliance (Nawapa)
This is amazing... what a great team behind this company building a sustainable AI implementation into games. Cool to see how this will develop in the future as the technology scales. Great Job!
The N-series were great too, I loved both my N73 and later a N82, both with Gameboy emulators.

I also bought a Garmin license where I could install Garmin on my Symbian phone to do car navigation on my phone, this was at a time where most people had specific hardware for GPS navigation, now we're used to having apps on our phones, but it felt quite special back then!
Amazon shows you previously purchased products in case you're considering a return. They want you to buy your next choice from them too. It's nuts to imagine that Amazon hasn't done the math here.

Pizza rolls, on the other hand, might not be the thing you were planning to buy when you paused in front of the display case, or even just walked by. The intent is to drive impulse purchases. Plus there's ad revenue there obviously.
What? I wasn't even talking about GME at all before you brought it up. I definitely didn't claim that it was going to go up, so why should I find arguments for your statement?
It seems reasonably clear to me, yes - although "distribution" could mean a lot of things.

As the documentation is all public, though, it's easy enough to see what they're offering.
Going to guess you're pretty young? Seems odd to have not heard it differently elsewhere first.
No, there are very specific regulations around infrastructure design, including what sorts of curves are safe in bike lanes at which speeds.

The reason that angle is that "sharp" (I don't think it's very sharp tbh) is because cyclists are explicitly not supposed to zoom up onto the sidewalk at 20 miles per hour. That's how you kill someone. If you're going too fast to make a 30-degree turn and avoid crashing, you're going too fast to be on the sidewalk. It's like complaining that the tight curves on a residential street make it unsafe to drive down it at 60mph.

Anyway, the influence of the auto lobby on urban infrastructure is really well-established: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_dependency
Did you know that Gaza has shopping malls and waterfront resorts? Did you know that Israel had been opening up more and more jobs for Palestinians within Israel? Until they decided to throw all that progress away on October 7th.
Usually but not always. There have been some great corporate projects, but it does feel like they are less common now than say 10+ years ago, and typically neat twists on existing successes vs. unique ideas
(I know that it's generally rude to include LLM output in HN comments, but in this case I think it's essential supporting material to elevate the discussion of LLM capabilities above "yes it is", "no it isn't".)

You just have to be prepared to take a karma hit for it. The audience here does not consist largely of 'hackers', but seems to skew toward the sort of fearful, resentful reactionaries that hacker culture traditionally opposes.

I will say I wouldn't peg ChuckMcM as being one of the reactionaries, though. That would be an unpleasant surprise.

As far as the diagram goes, my guess is that sentence diagrams were underrepresented in the training corpus. Diagramming sentences was already out of fashion when I was in school in the 1980s -- in fact, I don't recall ever having done it. The model is struggling much the same way you'd expect a grade-school student (or me, I guess) to struggle upon being asked to perform the task for the first time.

Knowing when to say "I don't know how to do that" is still a foundational weakness of LLMs, but I don't expect it to remain unaddressed for long. We will see improvement in that area, sooner or later. The anklebiters will respond by moving their goalposts and hitting the downvote button as usual.
Housing Is the Business Cycle [pdf]
I hope they fix the issues with the controllers dying.
They do, on the main site: https://www.pbrt.org
I am offering mentoring: In which I help you
Glancing at the top results I think this one has a solid view on how the connection gets close, even if I think it's too nice to him. https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/social-science-jordan-pete...
I will say something that’s potentially controversial, but — the problem with current times is the abundance of content. RSS worked for me in 2000s, because more or less, there were less interesting content/people writing things for public. Most decent things would get into people’s feeds, and generally everyone was happy. I can’t really see it being feasible nowadays, unless something (reads: algo) filters things that I’m definitely not interested in. Which, obviously, creates a whole different problem of siloed echo chambers. It becomes even a bigger problem when you try to move the conversations to the real world, because your friends wouldn’t have read the same things as your tailored algo recommended to you.

There’s also assumed-financial-incentives, which ruins most of blogs/content for me. That’s probably my cynicism, and maybe I just grew up, but every time I see any write up, my first question is how this person gets financial benefits from it. I just never thought that far until 2015.

Sorry for ranting, and obviously I have no solution to this problem.
Funnily enough, I'm working on a link-blog feature on Minifeed. Kind of like del.icio.us or pinboard; at first, I implemented an ability to add blog posts to favorites and to lists, but there are so many blogs/sites without RSS, that I decided to allow users to save arbitrary links. Example: https://minifeed.net/l/rakhim
There are two components to the price of driving:

1. The congestion charge, if it exists
2. The opportunity cost of the time taken

It's plausible to me that whilst total cars will go down (supply and demand) you may get more high income customers (because they have a high opportunity cost of time) and hence some businesses may do better.

It's also not obvious it should increase costs of e.g. deliveries to businesses because the the delivery driver will spend less time waiting in traffic.

I wonder if any research is being done on either of these effects
That is not a reasonable reason not to make them.
(2016) but still relevant.
By holocaust justifiers, you're referring to the people like that professor who celebrated October 7th?
I took a class taught by David Huffman (of Huffman coding) called Cybernetics (IIUC it was the UCSC equivalent of a class Wiener taught at MIT.

The very first day, he started out by talking about kissing spheres and concluded the lecture with "and that's why kissing spheres are easy in 7 dimensions" (or something like that).

Every lecture of his was like being placed in front of a window looking upon a wonderful new world, incomprehensible at first, but slowly becoming more and more clear as he explained. Sometimes I wish I could play in the garden of math.
Dev here. An earlier, HTTPS-only version of this got a fair bit of attention about 18 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35884437.
It absolutely is hurtful to users to have to make a choice dozens of times every day. We were in a better position before, when users could choose to have their browsers just block cookies if they cared. Now I have my browser block cookies and I still have to respond to a cookie banner on every single website.
> • Allow comments

Ok, but whence the comments when serializing, and what does the codec do with comments when deserializing?

Adding comments to JSON wouldn't be hard syntactically speaking, but semantically it's a real problem not just for JSON but for every encoding where the encoded data isn't the source of truth.

Put another way, if I maintain XML, JSON, etc. by hand with $EDITOR, then embedded comments are sensible, but if XML, JSON, etc. are generated from an internal representation then now we have to wonder "what elements of the internal representation are the comments associated with, how do we ensure we represent that association when encoding, and how do we ensure that on decode we get the comments associated with the same elements.

/* Is this comment associated
with the following value?
Surely not with the preceding
one since there isn't one! */
{ "foo" /* what about this one? */:
/* or this one? */ "bar" /* or... */
}
/* And what about this one? */
Look at vulkan3D which does it right(TM).
Is there a reason people can't use hashcash or some other proof of work system on these bad citizen crawlers?
1. It allows users to accept donations with a message and display those messages through OBS Studio (like DonationAlerts, DonatePay).
2. The "Features" link should navigate to the 'Features' section directly, but because the landing page is small, the scrolling animation is not triggered
3. The "Get Started" link should navigate to the deployment guide, which has not been created yet.
I’ve personally been incorrectly diagnosed with a life altering condition. When it became more and more clear that the diagnosis was wrong the doctor just doubled down. When I said I thought he was wrong and refused to see him he sent a colleague after me to another hospital to try to persuade the medical staff there of the misdiagnosis. That thankfully failed, but the whole process very much left me with the impression that the only thing that mattered to him and his colleague was to be “right”. My health was completely irrelevant to them. And nobody put them in their place.

Sure, I’m a big believer in Hanlon’s razor. But there comes a point when you have to conclude that something is seriously wrong. My feeling is that it’s a complete lack of consequences that is the core problem. Nobody is ever “forced” to admit they were wrong. Some people can’t handle that, start believing they are always right.

(This was in Sweden and malpractice is a bit different here.)
JJ Tang on Incident Management, Cold Emailing CEOs, and the Origins of Rootly
At least my project has manual curation and strict eligibility criteria, so I don't crawl all RSS feeds, but instead focus on personal blogs.
When I'm in Canada I often transfer money (interac e-transfers). I always use the website, even on mobile, but the website has some arbitrary limits than the app does not. For example I can only transfer $1,000 at a time, the app allows $10,000. There's also a limit of recipients per day.

My charitable interpretation is that the app allows a greater verification process so the bank trusts it more and it's "to protect me, the user". But then, the website lets me transfer $100,000 using a multitude of other methods if I want (wire, e-check, create carrier check), so... yeah.
Agreed, the people who set and approved the pilot size are the important ones to remove from the decision making process
Scarlet/Violet look atrocious even next to other Switch Pokemon games. The art direction wasn't great, and it was a really poor game technically.

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2022-pokemon-scarle...

Can't find it right now, but someone did some side by side comparisons of Scarlet/Violet next to similar Breath of the Wild scenes, and it's night and day.
The people that are given the most negative attention are those that have admitted guilt. The key to success in the liberal order is to shrug it off and chalk it up to cultural differences.
Or to put a more positive spin on it: Next time you screw up at work, just remember it’s not so bad - you could’ve done something much, much more stupid.

Ignore what those guys get paid, of course.
Off topic but a developer using keygen.sh is at the mercy of any “keygen.sh key generator” program out there, no ? Crackers can centralize cracking all those software by only figuring out once the algorithm. Whereas if you implement your own dirty key licensing crackers would need to do manual work for your software. So, whats the point of this service here ?
The technical flaws are quite trivial to spot, if you have the relevant experience:

- urls[] parameter has no size limit

- urls[] parameter is not deduplicated (but their cache is deduplicating, so this security control was there at some point but is ineffective now)

- their requests to same website / DNS / victim IP address rotate through all available Azure IPs, which gives them risk of being blocked by other hosters. They should come from the same IP address. I noticed them changing to other Azure IP ranges several times, most likely because they got blocked/rate limited by Hetzner or other counterparties from which I was playing around with this vulnerabilities.

But if their team is too limited to recognize security risks, there is nothing one can do.
Maybe they were occupied last week with the office gossip around the sexual assault lawsuit against Sam Altman. Maybe they still had holidays or there was another, higher-risk security vulnerability.

Having interacted with several bug bounties in the past, it feels OpenAI is not very mature in that regard. Also why do they choose BugCrowd when HackerOne is much better in my experience.
This is one of the more exotic megaprojects I have seen online. It is similar to the Soviet's plans for "Norther river reversal". The grand scale is both awe inspiring and impractical.

The LaRouchites promoting it have their own political baggage. The submission is not an endorsement.
I had better luck going to jlcpcb.com and uploading the files. I did modify the BOM for U5 but they didn't have any in stock, so I ended up getting them from mouser and will hand-solder those. I'm super excited for the project, I've wanted something like this for a long time...though the next step would be functional switches!
Going away from physical book-based learning was possibly well intentioned (but I have my doubts)... but it was really dumb.

There are clear studies that show reading a physical book (versus a screen) and using and physical pen or pencil on a piece of paper, versus typing or drawing on a screen, leads to higher comprehension and retention of information... and thus much better overall learning outcomes. This doesn't even consider the fact that youtube, discord, and a bunch of other apps are a swipe away on an iPad.

A common solution to the "carrying books around problem" used to be there was the copy you were issued (and mostly stayed at home) and there was a shared classroom copy.

Carrying around 2-3 books plus a binder is not a big deal (and is not a 30lb backpack... more like 10-15 lbs)... we act like this is some sort of massive hardship yet so many of us did this for over a decade of our childhood with no ill effect.
The Switch 1 is certainly underpowered compared to what it's competing with in the market with right now. That's why Nintendo is making a switch 2.
> For summaries and note-taking specifically, I feel they're solving the wrong problem: it's not that I have all this information that I really want to go through, but it's that I have too much information and it's become all noise.

I think this really encapsulates something that I hadn't been able to put my finger on in regards to LLM summarization. What it seems to indicate is that, if you need a computer to summarize a large amount of text that someone has sent to you, there are two likely possibilities:

1) The information is incredibly dense/important/technical/complex. This necessitates the extreme length of the message - (think: technical documents, research papers, a rough draft of a legal notice, or your will.) For these sorts of things, you should not rely on an LLM to summarize it, because it may miss key details of the message.

2) The person sending it to you is bad at communicating, in which case the solution is help them learn better communication, rather than "de-noising" their clumsy wording into something comprehensible.

"But what if its number 2, but it's coming from your boss?"

Then I see two obvious points to consider:

First, you should absolutely be telling them about the problem, regardless of the position that they hold. You can phrase it in a way that isn't rude. "Hey boss, I saw (message) but I'm not 100% the intent. I've actually noticed that with (other time)...I usually try to front-load the action items up front, and put the specifics lower down. Anyway, to make sure I'm tracking, you're talking about (action) on (thing), right?"

Second, until (or unless) their communication style is de-noised, then part of your job is being able to "translate" their instructions. Using an AI to do that for you is a bad idea because, at some point or another they're going to be trying to speak to you in-person, or by phone.

Not having dealt with their mannerisms in an unfiltered way might lead to you being "out of practice" and struggling much harder to figure out what they're trying to convey.
Thanks. Can we also have a article about how the web was replaced by bullshit popovers and invasive javascript much to the dismay of people who use it?
Isn't that just a function of how well-packaged the service is? If this is what you meant by "modules" then I feel like it covers pretty much all code re-use - including the guile module system used by guix. Is there something special about nix modules that is not just "I can re-use code"?
The ICC has juridsiction over genocide. If they wanted to charge someone with that, presumably they would have done that instead of charging them with lesser crimes.

Yes, many crimes overlap somewhat, the definitions of genocide (i use plural since there are 5 types of genocide at the ICC) generally involve something that is already a different crime plus additional things to make it more serious. Sort of like how in domestic law manslaughter and first degree murder are different crimes but the physical act involved is very similar.

In any case the fact remains that the ICC prosecuter has not sought a warrant for genocide against any Israeli national.

Given that the pre-trial chamber rejected the extermination charge, it seems unlikely they would approve a genocide charge.
I'm quite certain that lot of people have already decided to buy it!

Nintendo's stuff isn't for everybody, but if you do like it... they truly do have a strong 40 year history of doing their thing and getting it mostly right nearly all of the time.

So for many people their default action is "buy the next Nintendo console every 5-10 years, because I would like the play the next 5-10 years of Mario/Zelda/etc games."

It's not unconditional love (Nintendo was in a tough place after the Wii U flop) but realistically, I think a lot of people have decided they're going to get one of these unless there's some big fiasco.
They are. Pop-ups to allow consent are required to be small enough so usability of the site is not impaired as long as the user has not decided yet. Websites just gamble on the fact that any extra profits they make offset the cost of fines. Or that no entiry reports miss use in the first place.
It's funny, because your comment made me go back and click the link. If it was some motivational speech, I wasn't interested (that's why I didn't click initially). But I actually listen to instrumental DJ sets and Cercle is one of my favorite YouTube channels. So thanks! :)
Yeah, they shouldn't. Cars are a terrible mode of urban transit. They should all get bikes and bus passes, and then everyone would get everywhere quickly and cheaply and without deadly collisions.

Everyone complains about traffic, but nobody realizes that traffic is just what it's like to drive in a city. Stop driving.
Do you think mayyybeeee this hate stems from how young americans are treated and a complete lack of representation? Red note censors stuff about Chinese politics, they are surprisingly accepting of LGBTQ etc, and it's nice to talk with people from other countries you don't normally have interactions with. It's really not that hard to understand.
I'm going to err on the side of caution and say that they were making a joke, as if the task of "occasionally opening a window" was enough to invalidate the entire concept of passivity from a passive house.
I was in an email back and forth with someone that cold emailed us about a service. Sometimes, I say "what the hell" and take their pitch and see if it's actually worthwhile. But this guy, after I asked him some basic details about his service and what differentiates them, refused to answer my questions and insisted on getting on a call.

Nope, I'm not interested. If you can't give me basic info without wasting my time to get on a call about something I'm not sure I give a shit about yet, then I won't do it. You lose my business and my company's business by proxy. Marked as spam and moved on.
RSS seems to be making a come back. Just a couple of days back saw this post going viral on X about RSS
https://x.com/0xglitchbyte/status/1878495012800897229
Did these CEOs not attend Biden's inauguration, meet with Biden etc. when he was president?
Municipal tap water higher in microplastic particles than most bottled water
You asked for substantiation. I gave you that. Your reply is totally off-topic.

Where is the conspiracy theory in what I shared and why?

Why are you so angry?
They remind me of airport flight departure gate screens that show ads (e.g. Mexico City).

You're waiting for an ad to play before you can see the information critical to the reason you're even at this place at all.
I just got an idea for a great shopping experience. An app on my phone that I can add my groceries list to and it will tell me where in the shop the particular item is located and will automatically keep the tally of what I've put in my cart so far so that I know how much I'm spending and my total shopping time will be much smaller. It could also automatically connect to some cart sensor so that I don't even need to scan each item at the cashier, but I can just pay. Something like Amazon Go, but works.
They're optimizing for cost so I'd expect LCD. Then they can release an OLED model later down the line and the extra $50 won't seem as big of a deal on top of what we can probably already expect in the price bump from Switch 1.
Oakland just shut down 2 Fire Stations in the hills where the risk of fires is the highest, with up to 7 more on the horizon due to budget cuts.

https://www.kqed.org/news/12021505/a-tragedy-waiting-to-happ...

In fact the station that responded first to the fires of last October was the one cut.

https://oaklandside.org/2024/10/22/oakland-budget-cuts-firef...

The government officials argue that there is no money, but in reality, almost every department is seeing budget increases other than the fire department. The city administrators are getting 3x the money than last budget. California leaders are the absolute bottom of the barrel.

Edit: this just from yesterday https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/response-time-for-oaklan...
great work can it be a vscode extension?
I had a hobby electronics channel that was getting quite popular (~30k subs after ~15 videos). I burned out for a different reason: it’s hard to do this as a side gig. If I could’ve done it full time I would’ve continued doing so, but YouTube just doesn’t pay you enough despite each video getting >100K views. I paid zero attention to the algorithm and just focused on creating unique, creative, high-quality content that showed a level of effort was put forth. This “side gig” burned me out.

So it’s possible you would’ve burned out anyways, despite any algorithmic considerations.