skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly disagree.

There are times when I know I have to check a, usually, pretty small bag. But especially because of the delayed baggage issue or because of last minute changes to flights because of weather or whatever, I probably carry-on (with a light load) 9 times out of 10. Especially with dress being more casual these days I usually don't really need more than carry-on unless I'm activities requiring some amount of gear.
I really wish we had strict SLAs for airport security. Like 10 minutes average 20 minutes for the 95% percentile and a guarantee that it will never exceed 30 minutes. Seeing lines form around the block and passengers having to wait hours to clear security in some extreme cases is simply not acceptable.
Did I just read a febreeze ad?
If you need to learn something (e.g. you're taking a class or your supervisor wants you to learn something), then reading the documentation is a good idea.

If you already know the content, but accidentally made a typo and are trying to debug it, then reading the documentation isn't going to help. An error message pointing out the problem will help.
Hopefully the first thing Apple do is refuse. The second I think needs to be some way to decentralise the system. Spreading Apple iCloud backups either with different providers or self-hosted will make it difficult to surveil anyone making it all pointless to try force Apple to add a backdoor
If the main reason for blogging is to get an audience and/or become popular, I'd say it's not blogging. It should be a serious descision to do it as a job, not "blogging". If blogging is a personal project then it could help with following:

1. Blogging is a very good way to help sorting out own ideas and shape thoughts on a particular topic. Unless you write it down and try to express your idea coherently, thoughts are just bouncing inside your head without proper actionable output. I notices from my own experience that ideas form and progress much better when I write them down.

2. Blogging is helpful as a form of journalling about particular topic—to return to later. Sometimes I read my old posts to refresh my memory and often get surprised that it was written by me—after some time I forget what was the logic that led me to a particular idea or descision and old posts look like written by somebody else.

3. Blogging helps to discipline oneself. Writing and editing takes time and effort. Only regular stable blogging attracts any audience at all. Not that it's important, but it's good feeling when somebody finds what you wrote helpful. Many just want to get audience without understanding what it really takes. It's not that easy. So, as a byproduct of the first two points, one learns what it takes to produce good content with a regular cadence.

It takes effort to carefully write, edit, and rewrite. But it really helps with our own thought process, improve ability to shape ideas, helps save sorted out ideas for later, and disciplines ourselves.

So, I'd say blogging is a pure self-improvement exercise—fitness for the mind.
Of course, but the entire point of that story is that people can have different subjective experiences of the same objective truth.

Some people are fine playing games at 20 fps, some people swear they can notice a 10fps difference at near 120fps.

Severe joint pain and fatigue to one person might be something not even worth mentioning to another.
Thats a great line "My dad told me that God looks out for little boys" - I wish it were true but it sounds good.
That doesn't seem as well-maintained as Bootstrap.

The last commit was half a year ago.
It’s time to take up socialism, folks.
GC implementations are widely available in Rust. You don't have to use garbage collection in Rust, but it doesn't stop you either. You just have to import some custom crate and 'implement' tracing for your own data types.
> To be honest, it wasn't particularly useful, because it requires runtime checks which panic if they fail.

Checking at runtime is 100% still incredibly useful. That's how you enforce critical program invariants to avoid security vulnerabilities or prevent invalid states that could ruin the program's data.
Why is "DNS" in the diagram in the first place? That seems like too low level a concern. You may as well have TCP and IP there.
Could you elaborate on "links are not links without JS"?
To those taking issue with the "raw" HTML claim when the author actually writes markdown syntax and converts it to HTML: SGML, on which HTML is based and which is originally understood to supply the authoring features HTML itself is lacking, has the SHORTREF capability [1] which can map custom tokens into markup and thus implement a large portion of markdown in pure SGML, if still not "raw" HTML.

[1]: https://sgmljs.net/docs/sgmlrefman.html#short-references
the problem is that wiki can become its own doom world, doom editing and creating dozens,hundreds or thousands of more pages, should the unwitting enthusiast notice just how easy it is to contribute, and not notice that that is becoming obsesive, as it will definitly trigger a "wait thats wrong" response, like the one I am acting on NOW!
bizzare that someone should consider anything "endless" as an addiction treatment, no thats just a substitute that can be worse than.the disease it proports to cure
You can always tell Americans at security in a European airport because they take their shoes off. European airports don't bother with shoe removal.

Are European airports statistically less secure than American airports? Is anyone even monitoring this? Surely by now we'd have some data to decide whether you need to remove your shoes or not.
I always liked Virgin's finger buffet, with scones, clotted cream and jam, before landing at the horror that is Newark NJ.
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Google shoves an LLM in your face anyway, so may as well craft an LLM friendly query with a paid LLM rather than their crappy free LLM.

I ended up moving to Ecosia anyway, as that was where I personally hit the tipping point of search becoming infrequent and a lot of additional Google work. Previously the cost of that was too high.
I feel like back in 2016 when a reporter asked Donald Trump if he would disavow the Proud Boys and most peoples response was “the what boys?” If you aren’t immersed in the culture you don’t know who the movers and shakers are.
People are capable of having really deep conversations with ELIZA (program which just asked questions about things you said). I think there's a kind of "ooh it's language it must be clever" which I think is mistaking the symptom for the effect.

I'm not denying that the large language models may have some (marginal) utility, I'm saying that they're not going to magically turn into Skynet, no matter how much people dream.

I suspect they are not going to have as many applications as people claim: we are a few years in now and we see that the applications are trailing WAY behind the huge level of investment into building datacenter infrastructure. There's some good stuff in FT AlphaVille about this.
Why Microsoft's "uninstall Edge" page offers no instructions to remove browser
Original article: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid...
As long as you are lucky enough to not have used any stuff dropped in C++14, C++17, C++20 and C++23.

Exception especifications, gets, GC, string ABI,...
Awesome that there are releasing this paper and the associated data. I hope they'll do this regularly, so that changes can be tracked.

One thing I hope they'll correct going forward is inclusion of API usage. Anecdotally, I only use Anthropic models via Cursor. So none of that usage shows up in here. I'd expect that specialized tools/interfaces like Cursor will grow and thus more usage will shift to API. It would be a shame to miss out on that in the data set.
Academic papers are supposed to be about the author... They're meant to be an author's work put forth to an intended community of "colleagues", not students or general public. No one should think that a general learner is supposed to turn to academic research papers as their main vector of learning content.
AI's great, but so often when I hear people in power speak about it I feel like what they're really saying is: "I wish I could have the expertise to do whatever I wanted with impunity without having the hassle of all of these people who know what they're doing sitting around telling me why my ideas are terrible." And if they feel they can drop the artifice of having to pretend to play fair and be good citizen (because oftentimes you have to do that in order to get people who know what they're doing to help you), they will.

And that attitude's going to cause a lot of horrible things to happen.
It's not irrelevant because as I said earlier if you run a "DEIA" office and an EO says to dismantle DEI, it's a pretty easy legal maneuver to at least argue that they're different and that you don't need to shut the DEI stuff down because your office does other things too and they're all interrelated. Not saying it would work but this cuts it off at the pass. "DEIA" is a Democratic invention and that language is necessary to shut down DEI.

> President Elon

Oh I'm sorry I was under the mistaken impression you were trying to have a good faith discussion about the merits of what's happening.

The federal government is comprised of millions of unelected bureaucrats (I don't mean that pejoratively that's literally what they are). There is nothing particularly earth shattering about what Elon is doing. He's given a task by the president and he's carrying it out, which is what every single unelected executive branch employee does at one level or another.
Unfortunately sometimes even experienced people make mistakes that a recent graduate should not do (but in practice sometimes does). AI models can help avoid mistakes that in hindsight were obvious and should never have happened.
AI does best in places where there is plenty of data for training and where messing up when used is only a mild problem (and where the problem is quick and low cost to identify). Art fits both of these categories.

Healthcare data does not. What data does exist is much more private and extracting data from research papers is much harder than extracting data from images. When something goes wrong, the impact is much more negative if it is being used in any serious capacity.

This is also why AI is just beginning to crack into short video and does nothing for long form videos yet, and even less on games, despite these falling in arts and crafts.
Yeah it's possible for a non-profit to cause some of the same problems.

But I guarantee you PE is still involved in that health system to a major extent. Many if not most of the doctors are going to be employees of private groups that the University hospital contracts out to.
This reminds me of an ancient Chinese story from the Liezi, where a craftsman presents a robot to King Mu that can sing and dance. After the robot beckons to the kind's concubines, he orders the craftsman to be killed. The craftsman is terrified and deconstructs the robot, demonstrating to the king that it is simply a collection of inanimate items. The king is impressed and says "can it be that the skill of a man can be equal to that of the creator?" It's a great story that I discovered because it's an early instance comparing creativity and invention to divine power. Not sure if it has been translated but the text is here: https://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en&id=37480
It seems more of an internal note to a research community about what should be published/researched, rather than anything informative.
You're right, I am incorrect I didn't account for your nuance. My bad.

I'll try to dig it up later but that was what I'd been reading on the final part of my comment, I'l try to find the report because it was good (I'll reply to my this comment later tonight if I find it) - but the reports I've read that kinda allude to that is more messaged as "AI automation is deeper than we expect" (I don't know these labour market economists are using the term AGI) - and the most recent recent stuff (late 2024) is basically saying our measurement criteria is wrong so we don't know what is going to happen at all too bad so sad.

Telephone operators is the one most people go to because it happened quickly and it was a lot of people, but there was also a lot of manual work generally available back then.
Rules of thumb for event driven architecture
Javascript loaded from Cloudflare! What's the chances Cloudflare (current age: 14.5 years) is still around in 20 years and still providing this Javascript (current age: 30 years) file (current age: beginning of Israel's current bombing of Gaza)?

And another one loaded from the website of the creator of that module! Last commit 2 years ago. Created 1 year before that. Will it continue to exist?
I had a teacher like that in High School. "I made a mistake in this proof, but I'm not sure what it is." "You have the book for the course, the answer is in there."
Tangentially related, I became aware how my (in)ability to reason 3 intertwined different programming languages across different files can be conveniently called as my own "context window". (the example here is HTML/CSS/JS where LLM greatly exceeds my own capacity).
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999044
It's clearly more than an interesting tech blog post written by one of the data guys in their spare time. It's an "initiative".

That said, this doesn't seem like completely superfluous "fat" like what Mozilla does. It seems very much targeted at generating interesting bits of content marketing and headlines, which should contribute to increasing Anthropic's household brand name recognition vs. other players OpenAI, as well as making them seem like a serious, trustworthy institution, rather than a rapacious startup that has no interest in playing nice with the rest of society. That is: it's a good marketing tool.

My guess is that they developed it internally for market research, and realized that the results would make them look good if published. Expect it to be "sunset" if another AI winter approaches.
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Nstart aims to guide new users to Nostr offering a easy and no-nonsense onboarding wizard, with useful hints about the protocol and some really exclusive features:

- Easy local backup of your nsec or ncryptsec
- Email yourself your ncryptsec, as an additional backup location
- Create a multi-signer bunker URL for Nostr Connect (more info below)
- Auto follow the contacts list of some old and trusted Nostr users
- Customize of contact suggestions, useful for onboarding friends & family

Try Nstart live at https://start.njump.me or watch this video to understand how it works: https://chronicle.dtonon.com/77b9a397cbbcd63f3bfc78ff2b2c060...

For devs: it can also be used by any Nostr application, web or mobile, to offer an easy onboarding flow! You can integrate it effortlessly via a simple redirect, modal or popup: in the end, the user is automagically logged into the app, without needing to touch their keys/bunker.
https://jumble.social, https://flotilla.social, https://nosotros.app, nostr-login (and so every website that uses it, like https://npub.pro, https://nostr.band, https://www.whynostr.org, etc..) are already using Nstart, check them.

Example of the integration: https://chronicle.dtonon.com/5a55f1db7efdc2b19a09284c360909e...

Docs: https://github.com/dtonon/nstart/blob/master/APPS-INTEGRATIO...

A note about the multi-signer bunker. This is really cool stuff made by @fiatjaf, that uses FROST to split your nsec in 3 (or more) and distribute each shard to an independent trusted remote signer. This will give you a bunker code that you can use to log in to many web, mobile and desktop apps without exposing your nsec. If you ever lose your bunker code, if the signers vanish from Earth, and it stops working, or if it gets stolen by a malware virus, you can use your nsec to create a new one and invalidate the old one.

More info and source code: https://github.com/dtonon/nstart

Enjoy it and send back any feedback, thanks!
You cannot simply "ignore" market forces (you might as well propose to ignore the laws of gravity, it's basically the same, consumers will "gravitate" to the products they find most attractive). In a free market, the same product (produced abroad) is cheaper. Without restrictions, domestic consumers will buy the foreign product and drive the inefficient domestic producer out of business.

National security considerations can adapt to market forces by either directly subsidizing the domestic product (so that it will be as cheap as the foreign product) or establishing tariffs on the foreign product (so that it will be at least as expensive as the domestic product) or by outright banning the import of the foreign product (so that only the domestic product competes in the domestic market).
While you are spinning around, just try to get your neighbors to align and things will snap into place.
My broad feelings on many of the issues in Rust, including what's presented here, is that they come from starting with a C-like language as a base. The memory safety and thread safety features in Rust are very impressive, but many other things feel like they're lacking and non-safety features that were added later feel tacked on rather than being a core part of the language.

I feel that if Rust had started with a language like Ada and applied their innovations there then we would have ended up with a much nicer result.
kidding:

Error 401, unauthorized. can't go faster than the US can keep up until the US can't be caught up with, ... allegedly.

theory:

flying any faster would have increased flights and reduced travelling prices. it wasn't the tech, see concorde ...
I've come to the conclusion that some people must see success as holding someone else down as opposed to raising yourself up. The poor people you're talking about don't see it as screwing themselves as long as they can recognize that some other group is more screwed.
One related: If you are a terminal emulator, and you default your TERM to xterm-somethingorother, it is on you to actually support xterm control sequences.
> The muggings continue because we don't spend the insane amounts on law enforcement and surveillance that would really be required to eradicate them.

Or a society where people's drug addictions are treated as a medical problem, and poverty is fought with the same fervor that we fight "terrorism" and "drugs".

> Also, these examples are different in another way - few people get mugged or get the flu, but literally everyone consumes ads daily. I think a lot of people dislike ads but I'm not sure I agree that there is a strong desire to dramatically reduce or change them - people seem happy to complain but pretty hesitant to pay actual money to reduce them.

People consume ads like I consume mosquitos in the summer.
Same shit here. Started just before the NY, still had cough 1 week ago, got azithromycin that seemed to have helped with cough a lot, but I only had it for 4 days and 4 more days later the cough is back. No whooping sounds, or maybe there were in the beginning. Had a flu vaccine in November.
> It also feels like the social acceptability of trans people has moved backwards. (Just my perception, or has that actually shifted?)

You're not wrong, it certainly has. I think this is more of it having become a cause célèbre than actual transpeople standing up for their rights. As is so often the case, if a movement doesn't have a strong leader to "stop" the movement once it achieves what it was after, then it goes ever onward - partly because there's a group of people who derive their life meaning from it (stupid), partly because there's a group of people financially dependent upon it (disgusting).

As Michael Malice said in one of his episodes of Your Welcome, "They way they fucked up was going after people's kids. The normies will fight back when you do that."
Do you mean that not everyone use butterfly yet? How quaint!
IMHO, the REAL problem is not the individual doctors, it's the system we seem to have implemented to dole out "health care" as if it's a product that has to be rationed according to some metric.

I've met doctors that are passionate, but are hamstrung by "the process". The hospital has policies, the insurance company has policies, local health departmen thas policies, whatever it is. I hate that "some process" needs to be in place to keep things in check, lest we end up with patients abusing things, or doctors abusing things (SURGERY ALL THE THINGS, for example).

I think it's "the process" we have lost trust in. Individual people really do want to do good things for each other. But "the process" sadly has an awful lot of inertia, and doesn't make it easy to change.
I'm not justifying anything. Every large organization gets audited and is required to allow outsiders in to review data. It's quite legal, necessary in fact. Nobody likes it. They don't call it "hacking".
63% of Websites Receive AI Traffic (New Study of 3k Sites)
- 63% of sites receive AI traffic overall
- 98% of AI traffic is sent by three chatbots
- ChatGPT is the biggest referrer, accounting for 50% of AI traffic
- 0.17% of the average website’s traffic comes from AI chatbots
- The smallest websites get the greatest % of total traffic from AI
Concerns with the proposed addition of fibers to C++ 26 [pdf]
Those quotes are recombobulate and recombobulated. Here's a quote from 1970 with recombobulation:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recombobulation#English
It could be a backronym for Asshole Design.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
I see you're "ready to label one of the “other side” as evil" but the article seems well researched and referenced while your comment makes vague claims.

I see a lot of really specific and well thought out raising of issues in this thread, as it applies to technology, commerce and security, all very much on topic for HN.

Criticism of the current administration is an important part of democracy, we need to hold the government accountable, no matter who runs it.
First Copyright for a Single Image Made with AI
The article begins with claims of violation of conservation of energy but no examples. Then it posits that violations of energy conservation are explained by symmetries. What does that mean in English? Is there something else that changes in concert with changes of energy?
Hackers are hijacking government software to access sensitive servers
Thanks for bringing this to light. The days of objective discussions are over unfortunately, even on HN. Too much political stuff.
I meant that people who struggle to use basic CLI tools have a skills issue. The tools date from decades ago, got embedded in millions of scripts and workflows, and so their UI won't change. Like it or not we have to accept those tools have become part of the background, so complaining about grep or awk or bash just goes nowhere.

The people who wrote the shells and tools like vi(m) and awk didn't suffer from skills issues or lack of empathy. They wrote tools for themselves and other skilled programmers, in environments that no one under 50 can remember or imagine. Monochrome 80x24 displays, 8 MB of RAM, floppy disks (or worse) -- major hardware and software constraints. Blaming them for not anticipating modern hardware and software (and attention spans) seems like blaming Henry Ford for not inventing the electric Mustang.
And you can also bring an empty water bottle that there are often stations setup for the purpose of filling next to water fountains.

Mind you, I'm annoyed at the liquids thing given I used to routinely bring bottles of wine or a local liqueur home in carry-on. And I can't any longer.
Office is one of such established projects.
Give me a break the fascism nonsense is completely played out. Get another false ad hominem there are better ones to pick from.
But only Rust uses its equivalent to C "restrict" wrt. its shared and mutable references (unless dealing with UnsafeCell<>) for alias analysis optimization. (In fact, this used to trigger bugs in LLVM because it was hard to test its aliasing optimizations with purely C code.)