MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _heimdall | 2025-04-19 17:20:29+00:00
There's a lot baked into that theory (well, hypothesis) though. We haven't gone through a cycle like that yet that I'm aware of, moving back to an old antibiotic because the newer one is no longer effective.

Looking just at the evolution of it, there would need to be pressure to actively select against the learned resistance. Maybe it would be lost eventually, but we couldn't rely on that unless something pushed the bacteria away from it rather learning to resist the new antibiotic in addition to the old one.
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-19 17:20:37+00:00
The Anarchist Cookbook is a great example. I had to acquire that from the internet.

The people responding here mainly just come across as either ignorant or intentionally obtuse, thinking that if they can prove that in some cases the school administration overruled our teachers and librarians on the most egregious texts (as they constantly did), then the entire idea of "banned book week" is performative and not useful

No one here seems to have actually made a real point, just looking for "gotchas".
by Peteragain | 2025-04-19 17:21:19+00:00
Okay. The point is that someone, yes, SOMEONE, needs to make the call as to what goes on the shelves. Mien kampf? The Anachist's Cook Book? Lady Chatterley's Lover? Is is librarians who make the decision AND IT IS NOT THE SAME FOR EVERY LIBRARY GOER!!!! Yep. They consider who's asking and why. They are some of the few remaining trusted professionals, and they remain so because we think they're harmless drudges. Power to 'em!
by rpdillon | 2025-04-19 17:21:27+00:00
I think there's a misunderstanding about the license. The license doesn't care at all about whether or not you're using the tools from Defold. They care about whether or not you're giving the ability to modify game content in a commercial product.

> “Game Engine Product” shall mean software used for video game development. This includes both the content authoring software and the software used to show the created content.

The license allows redistribution so long as:

> a) You do not sell or otherwise commercialise the Work or Derivative Works as a Game Engine Product; and

So my read is that any tool that allows you to modify game content constitutes a game engine product and they specifically do not allow you to sell a game engine product built with Defold.

This weird technicality that is invented in this discussion about whether or not you're using Defold's built-in engine tools, or developing your own tools on top of Defold is entirely irrelevant to the language of the license.
by squeedles | 2025-04-19 17:22:13+00:00
You are of course correct. The game is neither S100 or Multibus, but a similar cage. And I was misremembering the Sun2 as 68020 when it was actually just a 68010 -- which I could have verified if I only looked at the picture that I posted at the bottom of this page -

https://david-loffredo.github.io/lowcloud/encrypt.html
by bombcar | 2025-04-19 17:22:15+00:00
The point they’re trying to make is the librarian is already the censor by the fact that they decide what books to buy.

The librarian gets pissed if someone attempts to “do their job” or override them, either by banning a book they want or forcing them to carry a book they do not want.

I find it hard to believe that someone doesn’t have some books they think the library shouldn’t carry, even if it’s just The Art of the Deal.
by colkassad | 2025-04-19 17:22:50+00:00
I had a 17 year old account that got shadow banned so I went ahead and deleted it. All comments I've ever made there were in good faith and respectful and I avoided hot topic discussions (i.e. the entirety of the front page). It's no big deal. I'd say up until 2014 or so the site was pretty decent. The decline in quality in recent years is especially remarkable. Maybe they are trying to do something about this, resulting in people getting caught in the crossfire. I've moved to old-school forums for niche topics of interest. Even niche subreddits have really poor discourse these days. I'm tired of interacting with random user names as well. It's nice to recognize who you are talking to.
by markwrobel | 2025-04-19 17:22:57+00:00
> if Poland had homegrown 8-bit micros in the mid-80s

Poland had homegrown 8-bit micros in the mid-80s. Take a look at the computer magazine Bajtek [1] published from 1985, which focused on games and programming.

[1] https://archive.org/details/bajtekmagazine
by jjjbokma | 2025-04-19 17:24:32+00:00
It's nice to read someone else's take on writing an SSG. I wrote one [0] specifically to generate a microblog [1] so I use a single markdown file with additional directives to provide meta data like tags and to split the file in blog entries. I am considering writing an SSG that can handle a large blog so I bookmarked your site for inspiration; thanks! I probably am going to use Python for it, though.

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog [1] https://plurrrr.com/
by memling | 2025-04-19 17:24:35+00:00
> Meh. After all, if you're not using ASN.1 you're using something like ProtocolBuffers or FlatBuffers or whatever and all open source tooling.

Oh sure--there are plenty of alternatives to ASN.1. My guess is that most people who have the choice don't use ASN.1 precisely because open-source alternatives exist and can feasibly work for most use cases.

But if you happen to have one of the use cases that require ASN.1, open sourced tooling can be problematic precisely because of the need for a robust SLA.
by k310 | 2025-04-19 17:25:41+00:00
A while back, I saw "Pervasive Games" in the bookstore and bought it.

Pervasive Games 2009

Edited by: Markus Montola, Jaakko Stenros and Annika Waern

Description:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780123748539/pervasive-g...

Reviews:

https://pervasivegames.wordpress.com/
by ben_w | 2025-04-19 17:25:44+00:00
Nobody, even at the time, believed that Henry directly ordered that Becket be killed — Henry was condemned because his words had started a chain of events that was likely to have such a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...

What meaning are people expected to infer, when a rich and powerful man publishes someone's name and address without other context? "This person is great"? "I am here"? The absence of context is going to be interpreted as every possible context, including as a call to action.
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-04-19 17:27:02+00:00
It’s incredible and Inwish long life and happiness to the newborn and her family

I would like to reflect on the timing of this - the UK Supreme Court just ruled something about a woman is a “biological” definition - and I am willing to put a lot of money on many people on both sides of that contentious debate struggling with the idea that “someone born without a womb is a woman” and “hey we can transplant wombs now”

Thousands of scientists and medical practitioners have taken thousands of baby steps to get to this point. We should fund every single one of them - we never know where research will take us.
by amluto | 2025-04-19 17:27:02+00:00
It should work fine. In C and C++, it's straightforward to YOLO it -- all you need is a pointer and a length. Rust can do more or less the same thing but with compiler-enforced safety. Many GC/ARC languages can efficiently handle slicing buffers, and it mostly comes down to library design. (Even Python can do this, although you generally pay for it in the rather large cost of every other operation...)
by jonstewart | 2025-04-19 17:27:08+00:00
Iron enrichment of the ocean seems to have fallen in popularity compared to atmospheric aerosolizing, but the iron enrichment seems less risky to me. I agree that it seems better to start now, start small, and collect as much data as possible to understand all the subtle dynamics in play. That seems better than holding off for twenty years and then going big in a desperate hurry.
Show HN: MutAnt: Decentralized public/private mutable key-value storage
by champii | 2025-04-19 17:27:12+00:00
Hey guy !

I want to show you this small tool I've been developing on top of the https://autonomi.com/ decentralized storage network It is composed of a `mutant` CLI tool that is a frontend for a rust library

It allows you to have a private decentralized key value storage as well as publicly-addressable mutable content accessible from everywhere, where you only pay to grow your storage and can mutate it -> for free forever <-

The cli looks like this

```bash

# Store a value directly

$> mutant put mykey "my value"

# Get a value and print to stdout

$> mutant get mykey

# Output: my value

# Update a value (you can use the shorter -f)

$> mutant put mykey "my new value" --force

# Remove a value

$> mutant rm mykey

```

```bash

# Store data publicly (no encryption) under a name

$> mutant put -p my_key "some public content"

# Output:

1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef

# Get your own public data by name

$> mutant get my_key

# Output: some public content

# Get public data by address

$> mutant get -p 1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef

# Output: some public content

# You can update it all the same as the private data

$> mutant put -p my_key "some updated public content" --force

```

You can also use the rust library directly

```rust use mutant_lib::{MutAnt, MutAntConfig, Error};

#[tokio::main]

async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> { // Replace with your actual private key (hex format, with or without 0x prefix)

let private_key_hex = "0xYOUR_PRIVATE_KEY_HEX".to_string(); let mut mutant = MutAnt::init(private_key_hex).await?; mutant.store("greeting", b"hello world").await?; let fetched_value = mutant.fetch("greeting").await?; println!("Fetched value: {}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&fetched_value)); mutant.remove("greeting").await?; Ok(())

}

```

As a demo, I run a little loop to update a public value with the current time at the time of the update that you can publicly get at `9429076971abe17b485fd30dd3065d27fc36362ba164529e530722bdd693f6cb8904fc177bf657d29774eb42403ac980`

```bash

$> cargo install mutant

$> mutant get -p 9429076971abe17b485fd30dd3065d27fc36362ba164529e530722bdd693f6cb8904fc177bf657d29774eb42403ac980

# outputs: Hello Autonomi ! Sat, 19 Apr 2025 16:45:30 +0000

```

You can find more information on the github

https://github.com/Champii/MutAnt

The Autonomi website

https://autonomi.com

And the Autonomi forum post for the latest updates

https://forum.autonomi.community/t/announcing-mutant-mutable...

I'm looking for feedback on this tool, if it is usefull or if it has any use for you guys.

Let me know !

Happy storing :)
by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-19 17:27:33+00:00
i rather transfer few bits of text with text-to-speech and speech-to-text on end device, providing much better experience. and technically with 2kbps it is not very different than what these codecs do.

depends on device, on one hand there are handheld radios which have small ARM for UI and control of dedicated radio chip, and then there are mobile phones/laptops/tablets with so much neural processing on board that it can have model sounding like person/celebrity of your choosing.
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-19 17:27:46+00:00
This was simply not the case at my middle school, and since my aunt was the librarian, I had a lot of insight into the administrative war going on behind the scenes. She was constantly being denied books that she wanted to introduce into our library.

The tone was set by the parents and administration, which comes from a heavy Christian brand of authoritarianism which has had the Deep South in a vice grip since the beginning.

The librarians did the best they could under the circumstances, and the only way we can consider them censors is if we overgeneralize and oversimplify the situation to the point where words start to lose their semantic value and anything can be anything else if you squint hard enough.
by hosh | 2025-04-19 17:29:25+00:00
Permaculture design was developed out of systematically studying indigenous methods from around the world, and one of the insights is that how humans inhabit the land — the culture — matters a lot. If something is not aligned to human interests and norms, they won’t do it.

It goes with what Christopher Alexander understood about living architecture. How people use it matters. The whole point of pattern languages was the creation of a grammar where all possible ways in which patterns come together develop a valid, architecturally cohesive design. This allows the inhabitants themselves to make changes as their life and circumstances change, and as long as they follow the grammar, it will come out as a cohesive, functional design. Alexander also systematically studied indigenous architecture and went in with a background in mathematics. There is a reason his work influenced people working with software architecture and human-computing interactive design (but our computer systems and products does not realize the full potential of Alexander’s ideas).

There is a kind of bias at play, where we think the culture itself is rigid, and becomes out of date, and therefore, impedes progress. It does not have to be that way, and often time, the culture itself encodes ideas that are crucial. Furthermore, cultural practices can be understood or designed such that it is flexible and versatile — similar to Peru’s pre-Hispanic system of canals. If anything, it’s the bias of our modern worldview that tries to fix culture into the rigid structures just as it tries to create rigid solutions.

For a deeper reading on why that might be, I suggest: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...
by mrandish | 2025-04-19 17:29:41+00:00
Probably not a lot given the bill of materials and development (although most of the boards seem based on existing boards). These kinds of larger-than-life "event/ride" sort of games were a trend for a while. Sega made quite a few, probably because they owned and operated a chain of large amusement centers in Japan at the time.

The idea was that these would attract more players due to the strong 'curb-appeal' of the size/concept and unique game play, while encouraging groups of friends to play together. Of course, each play was usually double or more the cost of a regular game. At the time, large arcade centers were competing with smaller hole-in-the-wall neighborhood arcades which could pop-up in any empty retail storefront as well as convenience stores who could easily add a handful of arcade cabinets in a back corner. While major amusement centers obviously offered a wider selection of games in one place, having a few of these unique big games differentiated them.

However, these games also had several downsides. Of course, they were extremely expensive for arcade owners to purchase compared to a normal cabinet but they also took up more floor space and often required more maintenance. Ultimately, arcade owners measure value on revenue per square foot vs the total operating cost, including purchase price amortized over the time period a game continues to draw earnings. Since these games remained somewhat unusual, the calculus was clearly a close thing - probably not much different than a carnival calculating the relative value of adding a "big" Ferris wheel or roller coaster. The cost is high and, perhaps, only partly offset by direct earnings but increasing overall traffic through curb-appeal and differentiation are also important factors.
by Whoppertime | 2025-04-19 17:30:07+00:00
Yes but what prejudices we accept and which we do not is arbitrary. You have no choice over your height. Taller people can have more promotions and more dating opportunities, but we don't have affirmative action for short people, and we don't treat women who say they don't date short guys like we treat women who say they won't date black guys. There's always going to be discrimination, what form of discrimination is acceptable or unacceptable is still arbitrary.
by philipkglass | 2025-04-19 17:30:28+00:00
These will probably be ignored rather than patented/monopolized by Big Pharma. A few million treatable cases per year globally, concentrated in low-income countries, is a small market to chase. Medical needs in low-income countries need to be addressed by governments or nonprofits rather than for-profit companies.

EDIT: replaced "100,000 treatable cases" with "a few million treatable cases" per https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11020954/ referenced by Lol_arco.
by natebc | 2025-04-19 17:30:29+00:00
I played video games for about 2 hours already today ... and went for a 20 mile bike ride, played with my dogs, fed the local birds, had breakfast with my friends and hugged and wished a different friend happy 50th birthday.

I'll play a few more hours of video games this afternoon too and play some music.

My point is that people do lots of things. Gaming is a modern form of entertainment and is much more active and engaging than watching TV or mindlessly scrolling a social media site.
by nodesocket | 2025-04-19 17:30:38+00:00
No can’t run custom OS as far as I know; without some seriously hackery. Admittedly UniFi NAS software currently is not nearly as feature rich and enterprise as TrueNAS for example, but it’s all very new. Ubiquiti has had a track record lately of iterating very quickly adding more and more enterprise features into their products. I expect to see more hardware offerings in the UNAS line soon as well. Highly recommend Ubiquiti! I have a complete setup at my house with their switches, routers, APs, and protect cameras. It’s awesome!
by jerkstate | 2025-04-19 17:30:40+00:00
this looks pretty cool, but I can't get delay working properly. Trying to watch the qualifying session on about a 25 minute delay, the clock indicates the correct time (17:05 or so a few minutes into the session) but the driver times aren't showing, and the radio and race control messages are current (like, I can see all of the race control messages and radio messages for all of Q1).
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-19 17:30:50+00:00
Also see

# Smarter Local LLMs, Lower VRAM Costs – All Without Sacrificing Quality, Thanks to Google’s New [Quantization-Aware Training] "QAT" Optimization

https://www.hardware-corner.net/smarter-local-llm-lower-vram...

> According to Google, they’ve «reduced the perplexity drop by 54% (using llama.cpp perplexity evaluation) when quantizing down to Q4_0.»
by squigz | 2025-04-19 17:31:09+00:00
> But identification as a child doesn't need to stop you from accessing opposing viewpoints, it needs to stop you from accessing... that.

The problem is you'll be hard-pressed to have one without the other - not to mention that even if it starts off like that, the system is so easily abused to destroy privacy on the Internet for everyone, not just kids.

And by the way, I do actually believe more people need to see graphic violence, and I do believe it helps people grow. We all hear about gun violence and club shootings and the like, but it doesn't drive home the reality of it.

Do I think kids should see that? Probably not, but I also don't believe it's inherently going to 'traumatize' all of them - I saw much of the same stuff you did, I'm sure, and I don't count it amongst my trauma.
by alganet | 2025-04-19 17:31:19+00:00
The test has been laxed by previous generations.

You miss the people who were skeptic about the details of the test since the very beginning. There are those too.

Moving the goalpost is a human behavior. The human part should be able to do it. The passing AI should also be able to do it.

Many challenges that AI still struggles with, like identifying what is funny in complex multi-layered false cognates jokes, are still simpler for humans.

I trust it can get there. That doesn't mean we are already in a good enough place.

Maybe there is a point in which we should consider if keeping testing it is ethical. Humans are also paranoid, fragile, emotionally sensitive. Those are human things. Making a machine that "passes it" is kind of a questionable decision (thankfully, not mine to make).
by henning | 2025-04-19 17:32:35+00:00
It's still not clear to me that past data has any information about future prices or that repeating trends appear with any statistical significance. Especially major indexes that aggregate lots of equities. It's not clear if they ever did and if they did if they still do now that everything is electronic and very fast. I understand there are studies showing momentum phenomena, etc. Maybe there would be if Renaissance Technologies and these other gigachad companies didn't exist, but they do.

I understand that "stocks in play" (boomer slang for meme stocks) display whacky irrational behavior that makes no sense, or there is just a temporary combination of high volatility at relatively low market cap, and therein lies potential profit opportunities. It's not clear whether an algorithmic trading strategy is applicable to such situations although I do see people always mention "stock screeners" which seems to just be code to filter time series.

After taking into account transaction costs, slippage and taxes, it's not clear that there is anything better to do than buy and hold low-cost index funds.

Also, there is a separate problem around having the computer structure/segment large trades to reduce market impact to get the best deal possible by looking at the order book to wait for people willing to buy/sell a lot at reasonable prices or something -- that is a different kind of algorithmic trading from what most people mean when they say they are backtesting a trading strategy like moving average crossover or something.

It all just feels too much like alchemy. But, if you become independently wealthy by writing code or you just don't lose a lot of money and you find it fun so it's sort of like paying to do something you enjoy, God bless.
by weard_beard | 2025-04-19 17:32:59+00:00
I would call the difference: A librarian has perspective, intent, and a fierce optimism honed like the edge of a knife through abrasive contact with the world.

A censor sees only wrong thought and choices without any of the qualities of a librarian.

(The Seafood in a bar that mostly serves alcohol is probably not up to code in terms of food safety, the bar might occasionally have live shows and some of the things done at the live show might not be 100% safe, the dishwasher might have taken the job because he is not a legal citizen and the bar owner pays him outside of normal employment contracts...)

But if you see another allegory then it’s a good joke.
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-19 17:33:10+00:00
I see, thanks for clarifying. I don't know. I still think the most important thing we can do is empower children to be as smart and well-rounded as they can be. As the only intellectual, atheist, etc. in my entire living family I experienced a near-constant struggle for growing myself despite my circumstances.

I lived in poverty and abuse, under constant surveillance, and was subject to a cultural war for my own mind against my family and government. This led to strong feelings about my own capabilities and intellectualism, and a desire to prove others wrong about my limitations.

Maybe on one side it might seem a little silly, but the child in me still takes all of this extremely seriously even now in my 30s. The cultural and intellectual war against children never ended, we just stopped paying attention or became complicit with the system.