skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my city there are hundreds of restaurants serving cuisines from half the countries on the planet. Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, British, Nigerian, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Mexican, Salvadoran, Peruvian, Brazilian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (including Cantonese, Sichuanese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, and Hakka), Indian (too many to count, likely from every province in the country), Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Thai, Vietnamese, ...

In my city, too. But I don't presume that I have the right to have every single cuisine that exists delivered to me at near-zero cost. Sometimes you have to make an effort in life.
Aviation also represents recurrent revenue through subscriptions for database updates which could be on the order of $1000/yr and upwards.
I'm surprised to see these types of reactionary / rage-bait comments bubble up in HN threads recently.

I personally find that they don't add much value to discussion. Perhaps it's a sign of the community growing with outsiders not being familiar with HN guidelines [0], or that Dang is stretched too thin to constantly moderate everything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can't put your comment in the title on HN, especially not if it's a goady meta one. So I don't think 'political' comes into it for this sort of post - it breaks the site guidelines in a straightforward, generic way.
PhD student here, working on 5G systems. I too would be very interested in this. Email in my profile - and am happy to link you to my academic email once you've reached out if you want to confirm my academic credentials :)
No, it is true and has been covered in all major newspapers many times over. The Hunter Biden laptop story was censored due to warnings from the FBI, and Zuckerberg has repeatedly said that Facebook was pressured by the Biden administration to censor Covid-19-related content.
Kinda hate mine, now. My Forerunner 55 can't find a good GSP fix in less than one hour, even in wide open skies. And I've returned it so they sent me a new one, which has the exact same problem.

The reason is that they want me to regularly connect the watch to their app/software (which requires an account) to update AGPS files. And there's no workaround.

I'd just like to be able to use the watch I bought, without having it connect it to Garmin servers every now and then. Why isn't it possible?
I think it's more interesting if you have two kind of obstacles, so there are more tricks and path to try (but not as difficult as chess). This looks easy to implement.

Also, as an untested idea, it would be nice to have two dices and be able to select one of them or the other or the sum. Perhaps both dice then disappear, or perhaps the unused dice goes to the next round like in scrabble. The idea is to have more possibilities to think in each step (like make a small jump and aim to a nice diagonal, or go to the shore and hope a big hit next turn). This reduce the nasty effect of getting a 1. But I'm not sure if any of these variants are more fun, and all of them take a while to be implemented.
Repeat the attack daily for a few weeks and you might get a pattern of movement. Of course if the target hasn’t left their general area then this won’t help. But if you’re a nation state watching a target move between multiple international locations, you could match this up with passport travel data to significantly reduce the anonymity set.
Get a job that requires a human physical presence. Nurse, plumber, etc.
but its going too fast!
I have same problem and landed on using simplelists.com for email groups. Users don’t have to install anything or get yet another account.

Still, I would like to find something that does text, email, and basic group features like calendar and photos
one thing my first garmin from 2016 did for me was to make me more active, because its activity nags with minimum-enforced active time ensured that I wouldn't just keep sitting all day. Their newer models track hrv and offer ecg in some models/countries to help with heart health tracking.
The backend repo, but I'll chalk that up to not realizing I was only seeing pinned repos for your organization on github mobile.
You're missing the value of these things in identifying bugs. When you subtract a number of seconds from a temperature, you'll be glad for the compile-time error. There also doesn't have to be a runtime cost, as in C++ (and languages supporting value type instances) they can either be type-erased or cost no more than an integer.
Interesting that you think to have the authority to tell others what “the real world” actually is. That doesn’t seem to work.

Maybe you should try to get out of the technofacist mindset?
It Takes a Village
When I did a prototype with deno, I was interested in testing with SQLite. Wanting more performance, I went to enable WAL, only to discover it's not supported. To make it worse, I couldn't get the version from npm to work either.

I like the ideas and simplicity of deno, but my opinion after only spending a few days with it, is that it tries to replace everything, but for each of those things, it only recreates 80% of the functionality.

I also think being backwards compatible with npm is a blessing and curse. A blessing because it can onboard more users, but a curse because those users have no incentive to switch now, since cross compatibility would also allow them to switch later.
> Most people who use Java barely have any idea what the rest of the software industry is doing.

Not sure this is really true any more, but it definitely brings back memories from when I was learning OO programming (let's say, a couple decades ago, pre-github).

At the time, it seemed to be an industry-wide assumption that "software engineering" is exclusively done in Java. Every learning resource I could find at the time was deep, deep into inheritance and OO design patterns. Things seem better these days!
For a slightly different perspective on what FHE is used in production software today, I wrote this: https://www.jeremykun.com/fhe-in-production/
No it isn't. Moving yourself off of a platform is one thing. Moving 200k random users off (for reasons?) is impossible.
It asked for a metric and I suggested a list of metrics. It's like if I said "whales are the biggest animal" and another asked "by what metric", then I said "weight". By saying "weight", I haven't specified how heavy the animal is, I only clarified what I meant by "biggest"
Yes, but also your title is terrible. and I dont think this is tech related

I understand that Elon is a nazi though
Doing! https://www.amurex.ai/early

You can sign up here if you want to be informed when we launch it.
Apologetics of all kinds benefit from summaries of complex work.

Most Marxists haven’t read Das Kapital, and rely on summaries.

New work in apologetics is very rare. Summarizing the old arguments in new ways is how it’s done.

This is something AI is very good at, and getting better.

You can argue that rational summaries don’t produce conversions. And you’re right.

But the purpose of apologetics is to remove rational barriers to conversion, not force someone kicking and screaming.
Agreed. It isn't as widely used as GitHub, but still feel it is used widely enough that more coverage would make sense.
Where did Bill Gates get these billions that he 'gave to the world' ?

Did he generate them purely from his genius and benevolence?
I don’t see how the “metacognitive laziness” (a term used by the abstract, but not defined) follows from what they describe in the abstract as the outcomes they observed. They specifically called out no difference in post-task intrinsic motivation; doesn’t that imply that the ChatGPT users were no lazier after using ChatGPT than they were before?

I’m also a skeptic of students using and relying on ChatGPT, but I’m cautious about using this abstract to come to any conclusions without seeing the full paper especially given that they’re apparently using “metacognitive laziness” in a specific technical way we don’t know about if we haven’t read the paper.
I did this. I targeted 0.5kg loss per week, and since 1kg of fat is 7000 kcal that meant 500 kcal deficit per week was needed.

I measured my weight every morning (after peeing) and wrote it down, and used it to compute weekly average.

I did weigh ingredients for the first couple of weeks to get an idea, but after that just did rough estimates coupled with tuning based on feedback from the body weight every week.

Had a near perfect linear trend for the year I did this.
> The low-hanging fruit of the mobile/web era has largely been picked, making truly innovative opportunities harder to find.

I'd like to add a point here.

There's still lots of low hanging fruit. But so much of this is hard to implement in a way that won't be immediately replicated by a major player. So good luck displacing them.
Interesting. Why would they care about something like that? Would it not just come out of the pockets of the 2 founders?
Doesn't take very much searching to find this pretty nifty palindrome prime:

3,212,123 (the 333rd palindrome prime)

Interestingly, there are no four digit palindrome primes because they would be divisible by 11. This is obvious in retrospect but I found this fact by giving NotebookLM a big list of palindrome primes (just to see what it could possibly say about it over a podcast).

For the curious, here's a small set of the palindrome primes:
http://brainplex.net/pprimes.txt

The format is x. y. z. n signifying the x-th prime#, y-th palindrome#, z-th palindrome-prime#, and the number (n). [Starting from 2]
That's the strawman he chose to flog. Indeed, why not hold in contempt people I have defined as contemptible? It's circular reasoning, at best.
What groups did the police and Red Cross shut down? Any links?
And for that I am happy with simple web site. List of options I can have, basic modifications like remove or add. Some extras, and option to pay there and then.

It is sadly too small market nowadays...
How many people live in a 250 mile circle around New York?
That's a good question. Assuming photos are of actual hardware, the only things that haven't been seen are the recess of the fan intake and the power brick.
I remember reading about this many years ago but have never been able to find the story again. So regardless of its veracity, I'm happy to see it come up.
Huh? When has Facebook ever implemented political censorship on behalf of Trump? I am not aware of a single case of such a thing even being requested, let alone granted. The scandals about government-directed social media censorship were under Biden's admin, not under Trump's.
Had forgotten that Amazon had anything to do with IMDB
Previously discussed:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16299441 (2018)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387052 (2013)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3274335 (2011)
Well that is not good news
Great idea! The PC has a phone which they interact with to use the food delivery app, accept orders, get directions, etc. we can also add some other apps like a crypto stock exchange. Here’s where it gets good, we can add a mock of TikTok and X with infinite scrolling. The content is AI generated as well. Makes the game more immersive and more horrific. Imagine getting chased by a monster, carrying someone’s burger and fries, while doomscrolling IckTok. Time to download Godot!!
LLMs have taught me something that I sort of already knew from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: the key to problem solving is asking the right question in the first place. It's not dangerous that answers can be retrieved quickly. Indeed, people had the same things to say about Google in the 90s or pocket calculators in the 70s. To me LLMs just speed up the process by which I would have manually searched the internet for in the first place. The only way to get good at critical thinking is to ask more questions.
Interesting idea, but the number is too small; getting out of having to go to the gym for only $10 sounds like a great deal.
My neighborhood has a guy who runs a small blog/newsletter. It's pretty good! They do roundups on new businesses, events, schools, talks to the city council rep from time to time, and has a generally positive community vibe.

Because it has an editor (and you could break the work up amongst a few people) you don't have the same problems that listservs have (spam) or nextdoor (gossip and paranoia).

Substack or mailchimp would be fine for v1.

If you don't want to distribute something on paper or cover any costs, this is a fine place to start.
Was supposed to be an Ask HN but apparently I messed it up.
Just my opinion, but I found the deno 2 announcement video with all the little dev "mini-bits" to be pretty cringe, but at the very least it was original.

Seeing the Bun team do it, too, just leaves me with the cringe.

Anyway, happy to see these kinds of improvements. I appreciate the html import, but I'd rather it make it into web standards first so that we don't have the gross commonjs situation that came up around js imports. Also not sure how happy I am about it bundling react/ts in that html? I'll have to see how it plays out, but it seems like it would introduce complexity that I will have to opt out of, for the sake of "just works (with the modern frameworks that we know of, none of which I use)".

But hey, speed is always great! Shame they didn't include a deno comparison, but I'm guessing it's only barely slower, or there would be more noise about it?

Overall, none of this moves the needle for me (I avoid s3, I don't use postgres directly; only through libs, node compatibility is not relevant to me), but it does look like a lot of areas that I imagine they have been getting questions about from enterprise outfits, so it seems like they're focusing on where the money is, which is exactly what you would want from a dependency; especially one that is going to be as critical as your runtime.
"on both sides" because "on either side" to me meant it may be duo of 1-13zeros-6661 and 1666-13zeros-1.

More for those who don't click the link, other Belphegor primes numbers are with the following number of zeros in both ends (and 1 to cap off the ends): 0, 13, 42, 506, 608, 2472, 2623, maybe more.
> supports a gigantic predatory underage gambling market

Last year Valve updated their code of conduct and effectively banned gambling.
They've also been known to send cease-and-desist orders to various CS:GO gambling sites.

So I wouldn't say that they support it, though for much time they weren't actively combating it either.
I felt personally trolled when he said Google Maps launched after the iPhone lol.

If you’re not old like me, know that Google Maps launched in 2005 a couple years before the iPhone. It launched on the web and was lauded for its pioneering degree of interactivity (aided by then-new technology “AJAX”).

Presumably he means Google Maps app for the iPhone/Android.
You short-change yourself. The article mostly consists of how false the Netflix depiction is. Though the author doesn't word it that way, it's a good reminder of how libelous films are of our history.
NewPipe and Tubular also lack the continuous video feed feature, so you can watch Shorts if someone sends you a link, but they're just like regular videos.
> How large might those containers (with/without community) get?

Thrown together awk summing alpine main repository as of v3.21:

awk -F ':' '/^I:/ { sum += $2 } END { print sum }' APKINDEX | numfmt --to=iec --suffix=B

Returns 18GB. Author landed on 98.5% of packages being installable together, ~17.7GB in total, once installed. Community ends up being 100GB with 97.8%, so 97.8GB and final size ends up being ~115GB.

Probably not even the largest image out there, but large enough to be too large :)
And here's video: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1i6nylm/...
SV waiting for the HumanSim IPO
Ever notice how UFO and Bigfoot sightings mostly went away once everyone had a 4K60 video camera in their pockets?

One thread about this in 1995, and then the phenomenon is never seen nor heard about again . . .
The problem is that a lot of people treat those assumptions as if they were sacred, fundamental laws of the universe.

There are a lot of business people and government officials for whom the notion of "free, unfettered markets" is akin to a religious goal. Look around you.

There are NO guarantees that markets will work well. They CAN lead to horrific equilibria, like inequality so extreme that large groups of people cannot afford food and shelter without government assistance, or financial crises that seem to come "out of nowhere," with too many possible culprits that could be blamed (greedy speculators, greedy financiers, complacent banks, idiotic regulators, government-sponsored entities, etc.), depending on who you ask.

I say, let's be humble, open-minded, willing to try new things, and willing to change our views when the facts disagree with them.[a]

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[a] In the words of Lee Kuan Yew, who led the transformation of Singapore from one of the poorest to one of the wealthiest societies on earth:

> My life is not guided by philosophy or theories. I get things done and leave others to extract the principles from my successful solutions. I do not work on a theory. Instead, I ask: what will make this work? If, after a series of solutions, I find that a certain approach worked, then I try to find out what was the principle behind the solution. So Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, I am not guided by them…I am interested in what works…Presented with the difficulty or major problem or an assortment of conflicting facts, I review what alternatives I have if my proposed solution does not work. I choose a solution which offers a higher probability of success, but if it fails, I have some other way. Never a dead end.

> We were not ideologues. We did not believe in theories as such. A theory is an attractive proposition intellectually. What we faced was a real problem of human beings looking for work, to be paid, to buy their food, their clothes, their homes, and to bring their children up…I had read the theories and maybe half believed in them.

> But we were sufficiently practical and pragmatic enough not to be cluttered up and inhibited by theories. If a thing works, let us work it, and that eventually evolved into the kind of economy that we have today. Our test was: does it work? Does it bring benefits to the people?…The prevailing theory then was that multinationals were exploiters of cheap labor and cheap raw materials and would suck a country dry…Nobody else wanted to exploit the labor. So why not, if they want to exploit our labor? They are welcome to it…. We were learning how to do a job from them, which we would never have learnt… We were part of the process that disproved the theory of the development economics school, that this was exploitation. We were in no position to be fussy about high-minded principles.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262019124
Why is "gave" in scare quotes? Did he not give the money away?

And yes, mostly genius and not benevolence.
There's always phpBB (old school) or Discord (new school).
I really hope the EU sees the writing on the wall. China is going to be really happy to pull them into their sphere of influence - and in about 5-10 years I think they'll be on par with or exceed ASML's EUV process.
Neat! Any idea if it'd be possible to make this work with macOS as well? I don't think Macs have NFC, but they do sync things like Do Not Disturb states between iOS and macOS.
...on the other hand, it's open source so everybody can port this themselves!
And accountability
No, to the whole sibling thread. He’s talking about the “pledge of allegiance” required to get hired in a university or like company, circa 2020. Also posts that imply you’re a monster if you don’t conform.

Sticklers for rules are the traditional definition. I think most of us have met a tyrant before, ruler of a very small kingdom. Often in a government position.
it's not about changing anything, but it can make a difference if people notice that x amount of people or people xyz they care about are not actually apolitical bots, but do have opinions and values.
Once you unlock payment in crypto, you get to accept various coins for delivery payment, and then try to arbitrage better compensation for deliveries. At higher levels, you'be been working the cypto side long enough to get invited to ICOs, but watch out for rug pulls!
Along the mediterranian seemed like the only place to get free water were the ancient fountains that spittle out a stream. But then you’d have to wait for the inevitable old man to finish washing his head and arm pits in that fountain. Beer was usually substantially cheaper than the water offerings.
Even most morally inclined people tend to overestimate the value of immediate benefits, and underestimate the eventual (especially delayed, unknown) harms.
I wonder if a subreddit would work?

Nextdoor dot com is actually even more toxic than a lot of Facebook is and I would avoid at all costs.
it looks like it can’t be disabled for view-once media (or at least, that’s what the settings screen says)
Thank you for collecting these here--it's been very heartening for me to see that I'm not the only one around here that sees these kinds of things and finds it difficult to maintain a positive outlook. I appreciate that there are still folks on HN willing to point out stuff like this.
It's a bit of a stretch to call them illiterate, but if you squint, it's right.

The change is easy - get rid of tokenization and feed in characters or bytes.

The problem is, that causes all kinds of other problems with respect to required model size, required training, and so on. It's a researchy thing, I doubt we end up there any time soon.
I like his work on the pinephone
Trump to announce private sector AI infrastructure investment
This is a really thorough reply to what I said and very thoughtful, thanks.

Regarding "liking woman a lot", I was quoting the original author - it seemed like an autogynophilic statement to me, the idea that you are sexually attracted to something so much you want to become it. Maybe I'm misunderstanding!

Yeah it's interesting what you say about Blanchard... the fascinating thing for me about Blanchard is the measurement of groin blood pressure to test for arousal in response (rather than relying on self-reporting), I think his solutions were sexist and backwards and a great example of how blinkered medical professionals can be.

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If we expand the dictionary definition of woman to include some men, we then need a new term to describe... well, actual women. I know a lot of people want to adopt the term "cis woman" for this, but I'm going to stick with "woman". If this is just my personal aesthetic judgement that's fine, the burden of proof is on others to expand it and I don't think the justifications are very good.

Regarding the actress you mentioned, Brian, I can totally see I might mistake her for a man as she's gone out of her way to masculinise her appearance.
I wouldn't feel guilt if I used male pronouns then later realised that was incorrect (according to my own rules) - perhaps surprise?
I wouldn't even feel temporary embarrassment because she's gone to lengths to look male.
I would correct myself to use she/her - even in direct conversation. That might be awkward but it's fine.

If I was in a country, organisation or situation where my livelihood was at risk for using sexed pronouns, I would avoid using pronouns entirely as regrettable prudence. This isn't hypothetical: parts of my social life overlap with these kinds of people and I steer through it, often by saying less, but I won't lie to someone directly.

I don't feel guilty about saying I don't believe in god/heaven to a catholic priest, even if the logical implication is that, from my perspective, they've wasted their life and chances of a happy love and sex life. It's unfortunate but really has nothing to do with me, it's all based on a set of attitudes and beliefs I don't participate in (and personally find regressive).