skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few months ago I wrote (and expanded over time) two simple scripts for note-taking and time tracking at work (because our official time tracking tool is kinda lackluster). They're really nothing special, just editing some Markdown files stuck in a Git repo, but they're a vital part of my daily toolbox.

I've pulled them out into a separate repo and published them here: https://github.com/T0astBread/sticky
I don't need more clutter in my life, especially what's usually cheap junk.
> killUnusedTerminalsAndBC.sh

How do you ever find anything if you have 100+ rxvts open? Do you just open new terminals all the time and never go back to the old ones? (Have you heard about terminal multiplexers?)
> Sending all DNS requests to Cloudflare

I like to combine DoH with a VPN. The VPN doesn't see my DNS queries, and Cloudflare just sees a vague IP based in some vague colocation center. There is still plaintext SNI[0] to worry about though, which is being mitigated with something called ECH[1]. `Oblivious DoH`[2] is worth reading about too.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-sni/

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/oblivious-dns/
Given all the very advantageous qualities this gene has to offer, there must be at leas some considerable downsides to it indeed.
You are right that that the sum of the conserved quantities can be zero also for the 8 quarks & leptons composing 1 anti-proton, 1 anti-neutron, 1 anti-electron and 1 neutrino.

I did not claim that this is how matter was generated in the Big Bang, especially because for now there exists no theory for such a process.

My point is that this is a strange coincidence as it would provide matter in the right proportions. Unlike for electromagnetic interactions, there might be some asymmetry making the process generating the particles more probable than the process generating the antiparticles. Because the 2 processes are decoupled, they might have happened at different rates, which is not possible with electromagnetic generation and annihilation.

Of course, the correct explanation for Big Bang might be completely different, only the fact that there was no simultaneous generation of matter and anti-matter is certain.

The neutral Z0 boson behaves like the photons, so I did not mention it.

The charged W bosons cannot generate particle/anti-particle pairs because that would violate the conservation laws. They generate simultaneously 4 elementary particles: quark, anti-quark, lepton and anti-lepton.

The quark and the anti-quark remain bound as one meson.

The reverse event is also possible, but highly improbable, because it is unlikely for a meson, a charged lepton and a neutrino to collide simultaneously, in order to annihilate into W bosons. What happens frequently is the equivalent event when 2 of the 3 collide and transform into a W boson together with the antiparticle of the third.

These type of events involving W bosons are what I was referring to as the generation/annihilation of systems of 4 elementary particles through weak interactions.
Apple: GCVirtualController
Sure, but the amount of kinetic energy (in sensible frames of reference) isn't really significant compared to the amount of energy locked up as mass energy of stuff.

To close approximation the kinetic energy of something is 1/2 * mv^2 and the mass energy is m c^2 so to have a meaningful contribution to the total energy thespeed has to be close to the speed of light. We generally don't observe big things (stars, black holes, galaxies) moving anywhere near to that fast and their energy is basically entirely due to their mass rather than their speed.
We should spend some time discussing the name of his boat, the “Ja’n J”. First, what does it mean?
Not necessarily. 1) It could be a relatively recent mutation. 2) It's probably not particularly important for sexual selection.
If latency is important, I would argue that ordering doesn't help you.

That is, if you have the computational resources to service your entire queue within the required latency, then ordering doesn't matter, because workers could simply claim the first available random task, and it doesn't matter who finishes first or last. If you don't have the resources, then ordering still doesn't matter, because you are blowing your latency budget anyway.

For example, say users are uploading photos which go into a queue for scaling, cropping, etc. Let's say 10 users per second are uploading a photo. In the best-case scenario, the queue is empty, so all users should see their photo fully uploaded quickly. Worst-case scenario, your queue has a million tasks pending, which benefits a handful of early users who see their photos completed, whereas most users will simply wait forever. Prioritizing early users (i.e. queue order) doesn't benefit anyone when everyone will be miserable, so it's an arbitrary choice.

The ordering imposed by queues can create an illusion of fairness when task execution time (i.e. end-to-end latency) is not taken into account. If one user uploads a 1 gigapixel photo, it's most likely going to take up more processing time than other users, and again, there's no reason to prioritize that user over any other user just because their request arrived earlier.

If you have random-order delivery, you can still measure latency, capacity, and utilization, as well as have retries and acking, and utilization-based scaling.
It never even matched tape, in terms of blank media or devices sold yearly even at its peak even in Japan.
Bitcoin Cash?
They did later with MD Data but it was too late and too expensive. Zip drives came in and offered basically the same thing for less.
Basically the game has packets with instructions like "open on game 3" or "open the first time an army is defeated". These packets then have things like extra cards, new rules, new marks for the board.

Speaking of which there are marks you put in the board for different victory conditions, like you can "own" a continent whicheans in future games if you own that continent you and only you get a bonus. Same with naming a country or buffing a country so it has a permanent +1 army.

If you have enjoyed Risk previously and have a group of friends that you can continually play with I'd highly recommend it. It can still work with mixing in new people but half the fun is the shared history and friendly rivalries between game sessions.

Also there is a certain feeling when you tear up game pieces (or burn them as the winner in our case).
> ...given Google’s goal to make the replacement entirely seamless, can you actually tell the difference?

Yes. The difference is that now we can clearly see that Fuchsia runs faster than the Linux-based CastOS one. 4 - 0 on all tests. This will continue as Fuchsia spreads onto more Google products.

However, this "Fuchsia expert" cannot see the difference that this is the case and resorts to splitting hairs and damage control to downplay this. The whole point of this to Google is to make it look like nothing has changed except that it now runs faster than before.

> At this point, there’s no reason to get excited about Fuchsia running on your Nest Hub, as really, there are no differences in functionality or performance that are meaningful.

It's been admitted. They're actually scared of this and now they realise that Fuchsia isn't going to somehow get scraped since its already running Flutter and is already in production via an update and the users can't tell the difference other than it being much faster.
What would you use redis for, if anything?
I really like this idea of build command living _inside_ the code it builds. Rather than a separate readme. I wish this were more common.
1bit of information stored at 300K has a mass of 10^-38kg according to [0]. That’s a few orders of magnitude off but almost uncannily close.

[0] https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5123794
> A 50+ year old married couple that earned incomes around the median and set some money aside in their 401k might have a million or two million dollars of “total net worth”, but it does not mean they can become venture capitalists or develop land or go out and buy a Ferrari.

But they could if they wanted to, by borrowing against their 401k at nearly the lowest interest rates possible.

I want a simple term that describes people that can and can't do that. Millionaire is it as there is a clear distinction between people that have zero and negative net worth, and people with one million dollars in assets that can be borrowed against.

> a “millionaire”, at least when I was growing up, meant someone who could afford luxuries that almost all could not.

Well that's inflation for you. I think you're the one that will need to pick another word. My experience with the luxury concept is that people imagine things are more expensive or unattainable than they are. Like, there is a kind of "commoner's luxury" which is catered towards via leasing and borrowing and there is no way to distinguish which person has actually afforded the lifestyle or simply assumed even more debt. The "millionaire" colloquialism seems to have spawned generations of posers with nearly zero net worth, surrounding themselves with the image of luxuries, which even the illiquid farmer with millions of dollars of land can afford.
"Under the new rules, Fairfax will first identify all eighth-graders who meet certain academic criteria: those who achieve an unweighted GPA of at least 3.5 while taking Algebra I or a higher-level math class, in addition to math and science honors courses and either an English or social studies honors course."

"In a bid to ensure geographical diversity, a certain number of seats will be allotted to every middle school in Fairfax County, to be filled by eighth-graders at that school who meet criteria."

Doesn't seem very meritocratic to me. Doing a lottery among everyone with a 3.5 is basically saying select every student that isn't failing. High school GPAs are highly inflated to the point that most people who would be competitive in the current application system have above a 3.9. The geographical diversity quota is de facto a race quota due to redlining and cultural enclaves. I don't know how you can possibly argue that accepting students from all over the district objectively through merit is worse than a geographic quota per middle school.

And what happens when you diversity admit these students who, by the admissions test, are not as competitive? The vast array of clubs and other high school competitions become dominated by the most competitive students, i.e. they're going to look like what TJ looks like now: 70% Asian according to the article. In effect you're tossing unprepared students into the deep end to get screwed for the college application process because they have 0 chance at securing any sort of extracurricular activity for themselves.

The real kicker here is that by the article's quoted data, 70% of the school is Asian. If you really wanted racial diversity in line with the population you'd also be pushing for increased white representation along the lines of a 150% increase in # of white students admitted. But that's not what these activists are talking about, which is how you know their ideas are just politically motivated garbage.
I wouldn't say "minor." In real terms, I think it's a huge advantage in our current society. But it's just not strongly selected for.
> I see zero benefit to going through the final steps after they determined that their suspect had already died

If the victim has living friends & family, it provides closure. Additionally, solving cases, however old, boosts public confidence that crimes will not go unpunished, which in turn acts as a deterrent for future crime.
I made this for fun after watching some breathless microsoft video about AI in VS code which amounted to autocomplete sorted by popularity. I told a friend I could knock out something more useful (at the time) in half an hour. It's a ahk wrapper of howdoi designed to find code snippets from stack exchange and put them right into the code file you are editing. It is so simple but I actually found it pretty useful for learning new languages or for getting a quick reminder how to do that thing you don't use often.
https://github.com/irthomasthomas/helpmecode
IceCat 68 here, never “upgrading.”
I would imagine short sleepers need more calories.
Image color replacement with numerical optimization
You can access the equity with a second mortgage, a home equity line of credit, or a cash-out refinance.
https://apps.bydav.in

ssl is sketchy working on some of these because of gitlab and or cloudflare settings.

The one I use everyday is a html javascript form hosted on gutlab pages and sending data to google sheet via apps script, to record my timesheet data.

Since coding, I have used the gotp app, which is Google TOTP impory export & backup before Google Auth itself implemented. Still, their way is to start from scratch only, whereas mine one can be used to add accounts. https://spa.bydav.in/otp.html

I used a mix of gmail filters, app script & sheets to download every email I received as eml file & save it in drive folder named as year, & eml named as yyyy mm dd hh mm ss ttt nn subject.eml
FWA Is Up for Sale
Well one instance of a password manager is somewhat one identity, but that single identity is only known/accessed by me. Everyone else sees multiple identities.
Or you can use the thermal mid range missile for Sukhoi that the Russians love and you never have any detection warning ever. From lock to impact :)

I love those in DCS.

https://youtu.be/YCrrmL8GlSY
Is the TL;DR of this really that it's hard to get people to invest in restaurants (cause they fail) so the fix is sell them as NFTs?

Really?

The blockchain does not change fundamental supply and demand, not even for restaurant investments. It certainly doesn't change the profitability of any restaurants nor give people a reason to invest in them.
It’s useful to me, FireFox’s arbitrary and capricious changes have angered legions of former fans who either now barely tolerate it, or who moved on.
The potential benefits here are that it's possible the assumed culprit has committed other crimes, and this knowledge could solve other cases, some where potentially the crime has been pinned to an innocent person.

I'm unsure how this potentially positive match would enter databases though, and find it very unlikely that any potentially "solved" case would have DNA tested against such a database.

Publishing the assumed culprit's name and details seems fairly egregious though.
I like Dave Arnold’s “Liquid Intelligence”, but I cannot stand his podcast. Comically, I don’t really like Kenji / Serious Eat’s written content, but his YouTube channel is great.
Oooh, so many:
- finance tracker for my wife and I when saving for our first house. JQuery and PHP, my first “real project” - had a great domain name: spentby.me
- stock/production management script in Python for my business that I eventually rewrote and released as my first iPhone app (StockControllerapp.com - still sells a few copies a week after 5 years)
- stocks/shares analyser script in NodeJS to show industry and company weighting’s to show if we are over indexed on a holding/sector
- Instagram post creator in React so I can make educational coding carousels in the style my account has without having to faff about in figma

Pretty much everything I build is to solve a problem I have for myself and I just don’t like the existing options (I always looks first and if I find something I like I use that, if not I roll my own)
I took the fast.ai course and now I am doing a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering focused on applying deep learning to microscopy.

I don't think fast.ai is enough if you want to do theoretical research in deep learning, but it certainly provides enough to work on practical problems with deep learning. That said, many of us in the fastai community are able to delve deep into, understand, and implement recent deep learning papers and even develop novel techniques. So I think with a little extra studying, one could go easily transition to core deep learning research.
You really really wanna do everything (locking, working, unlocking, deleting or completing) in a transaction, and use SKIP LOCKED to find work. It's actually pretty high performance when you so this.
> a sensible risk tradeoff

Note the tradeoff doesn't make sense as soon as you're operating at a meaningful scale. A small likelihood of failure at small scale translates to "I expect a failure a million years from now", whereas at large scale it's more like "a month from now". Accepting the same percent risk of data loss in the former case might be OK, but in the latter case is irresponsible. Provided whatever you're storing is not transient data.
The book "If This Isn't Nice, What Is?" [1] is a collection of his speeches like this. It's a nice read. Vonnegut had a very interesting life and unique, mainly hopeful take on the world, the sort of person you invite to give commencement speeches.

Small added tactile bonus: the hardback is printed on unusually textured paper with some pages slightly different size to others. A metaphor for the man no doubt.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_This_Isn%27t_Nice,_What_Is%...
I understood your statement as saying you are not giving up Electron if you found Qt fulfills your requirements (USB). That's was I was questioning: Why continue to use Electron if Qt does all the things you need to do.

Perhaps I misunderstood; text isn't the best medium to convey tone.
That’s awesome, is the source available?
Rabbit Holes I Dive into Every Now and Then (Alternative OSes Edition)
Let me know if you've got any feedback, suggestions or feature requests.
Slow Software, a Sign of Appreciation for Developers
I agree, I absolutely despise dating apps which seem to do well at making most people look overbearingly boring. I've heard from acquaintances that are woman that a lot of profiles of men also tend dot be very formulaic .

Something interesting I've noticed, is that trying to break that mold is considered negative. If you look at subreddits that tend to give out advice (typically to men) on dating profiles, they advise people to do things that make their profiles more generic.

I personally avoid dating apps, because I'm not attractive enough (or at least, not photogenic enough, somehow cameras almost always manage to clown me) and I'm not outwardly interesting enough to attract people by reducing myself down to a few pictures and text snippets.
During last lockdown in March, it became really hard to get grocery delivery slots online. And everything offline was, well, mostly shut.

The delivery slots would run out within 15 minutes of being open. So I hacked together a script that'd poll for delivery slots and notify me on whatsapp whenever there were slots.

This year I had to do the same for vaccine slots. In fact, getting a vaccine slot became a bit of a hackathon in India due to limited slots with multiple GitHub repos and hosted tools coming up to notify you of available slots.
Doge meme NFT sells for $4M
(As an ex-Google, ex-Facebook Millionaire)™
Rolling sixes is how you win at Risk.
This excited me, because FWA, founded in 2000, is one of the most influential hubs for web design of the Flash-era in Web design (and beyond that). In my first job at an interactive agency, we would kill for an FWA award back ten. Happily, we got some eventually :)

Here's a recent interview with the founder https://www.adforum.com/interviews/fwa-founder-on-why-hes-se...

Calling FWA an "awards program" is a huge understatement in my opinion.
The worst part for the family is that the media can label their father a rapist and murderer without him actually having been convicted. The police have strong evidence, from the sound of it, but with a living person the news media wouldn't be allowed to go around saying unequivocally "he's the guy" without a guilty verdict.

The upshot is that even if there's been a mistake, this man's name will never be cleared, and his family will just have to live with this.
There are a few works that try to put deep learning on some theoretical basis, I like this one, for example:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00810

This goes beyond mere intuition, but it is also still very far from a “complete theory”.

I find it disappointing that so few people in deep learning work on the theoretical foundations.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27273778
How can you tell? I thought you cand pretty much swap matter with anti-matter and reverse time and all the physics seems the same.
In my opinion the capital requirements are really not the biggest hurdle. If you start a GmbH, you have so many extra accounting requirements and everything gets more complicated. You also pay a lot more taxes in most cases. So it's something that many people try to avoid.
When tasked to do some e-mail template development at work without access to a mail server I developed a small cli tool[1] that converts HTML to EML so I could send it as an attachment to the test devices.

[1]: https://github.com/rootdevelop/html2eml
Wouldn't that stuff have taken leave right at the beginning?
Thanks! I'll try to remember to do it in a couple of months' time. This is a fascinating subject. Or collection of them.
This might be the most annoying writing style I have encoutered. The constant interruptions with random pop culture references fall flat every time and just distract from the main topic. It’s like a written version of a YouTube channel with a target demographic of ADHD-addled Zoomers. Even skimming, I couldn’t stand more than four paragraphs of it.
Currently at work we use a postgresdb for queues for long-running persistent jobs, but I'd like to move away from that model since I have doubts about how it'll scale.

I've thought about using rabbit mq, but have a few questions:
- it appears that when a job is consumed, it's gone. How would I maintain a record of the jobs & status of the job in rabbitmq? If I wanted to display job updates how would I handle that? I didn't think you could update a message once it's already in the queue

Or am I missing the mark? Do I want to separate the business entity "job" that maintains a status and updates and such from the "thing that dispatches jobs to workers"? And when a worker Has the job it just updates the business entity in the database?
>Why is rent extraction favored in the tax code?

Renting is considered a business. You can deduct interest, maintenance expenses, etc...

Individuals cannot do that.

>Actual work has little risk.

So does waiting for prices to go up in a city. And this is the key - you just wait. You don't do any work whatsoever. You just wait for economic conditions nearby to improve and then take your share of it by charging higher and higher rents just because you have monopolized the usage of your land. You don't have to contribute literally anything to the nearby economy, but can still benefit from it.

>If I own property, in contrast, it can go down in value.

Property = land + buildings. This is a tax on the land, not the building value. In a LVT scheme, the value of the land goes towards 0, and the share of the property value due to the building increases.

> Also, I probably have to pay to maintain it.

You maintain the building, not the land. Making profits on building would not change.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...

Is a good review of these ideas.
You mean you find it ridiculous that you need extra software to make macOS input bad?
The big programmer in the sky, responsible for the entire simulation is having fun introducing new variables, whenever our science gets close to the edge of having figured out all of the existing variables.

It’s like moving the cheese :-)
The pair production processes like

W^+ -> positron + electron neutrino

W^- -> muon + muon antineutrino

are allowed as are processes like

W^+ -> up quark + anti-down quark
They reliably come ahead of the laborers in those same areas
do you have a more detailed example on how this could look like?