skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if there’s a proprietary piece of software, that’s not an issue, because you can just make your own version.\=

It's possible to make your own version only if the smaller building blocks are free. If you had to pay $2000 to compile your program, $100 to edit it, $1000 for the different tools (test suite, framework, etc) to develop it, how many people would be able to afford to develop a competitor?
Haha thanks! I'm glad I was able to win you over with some nostalgia.
I've always had a very high tolerance for alcohol. At some point I just got sick of drinking because I had to drink so much to catch a buzz. On a practical level that meant every time I wanted to go out and drink I would probably have to spend at least $50 and probably more like $100. It just wasn't worth it to me anymore.
For some reason I keep seeing people on HN showing their sites that recreate desktop environments—almost always in the style of Windows, and frequently in the 90s ‘concrete slabs’ look.

It's gonna be hard to beat https://www.windows93.net, though.

P.S. BTW, using PCjs one can actually run Windows 1 to 95 in the browser (and a bunch of other OSes). Alternatively, there's Dosbox—which Archive.org uses for emulation in the browser, and which likewise can run some versions of Windows. So one could really make their site as proper files in the virtual computer, though loading is gonna be a bit rough.
When Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson rowed about time
I'm going to assume you're in the US?

Most countries were already in the process of announcing health restrictions by February 2020. Taiwan had already been screaming for 2 months that it was airborne, and had limited airline travel and started mask mandates.
1. what is your opinion on making the code open source?
2. Selling the company so someone else can take care of customers?
https://blog.stevenchun.me/

Took some of the features I liked from Gwern (aggressive sidenoteing in pure css, some sort of link hover preview, started with Tufte-CSS as a base) and went with a color pallete that I thought was oddly charming.
Glad you liked it! Credit to Webamp for the player.

https://webamp.org/
I recently started to write a cybersecurity newsletter that will come out at least twice a month.

It's written in a light tone so everyone can understand.

https://cybersecurity.beehiiv.com/
I noticed this on my previous smartphones, Sony and Huawei, but I don’t have the issue on my iPhone.
This guy is full-on crank at this point. His newer kind of science is going to revolutionize everything, I’m sure.

> We want to use our new paradigm to basically rewrite the foundations of several important fields of science. As with the Physics Project there’ll no doubt be tremendous synergy with existing approaches and the communities around them.

Cellular automatons are going to do all of this?
My grandmother made something like this without salt: cooked meat (usually duck or pork) and lots of fat, poured hot in jars. It kept for a year at least.

The meat was edible straight from the jar, the fat was used for cooking or as spread (but tasted quite disgusting to me heh).

I reckon salted it would last even longer.
ishanjain.me
Show HN: Building a Delicious Clone
Note that linked post is an explanation of DALL-E, not DALL-E 2, which works differently.
Agreed that Windows 93 is a hard one to beat. My plan is to try and beat them all eventually, but I am patient and enjoy making the app. I've had this idea for quite a while but only in the last few years felt confident enough in my skills to attempt it.

As for more sites recreating the web desktop idea, here is a great list:

https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
https://louismerl.in

Fun trick: trying to print it out should render the CV neatly in a A4 sheet.
What's your point? There's no way to eradicate SARS-CoV-2 because there are multiple animal reservoirs and the vaccines don't reliably prevent infection.
Mirror-Man: On Aaron Poochigian’s Translation of Baudelaire
k8s and Nomad are both complex systems. My point is that Nomad isn’t some sort of magic bullet that cures the k8s illness. I can’t really speak to k8s 2-3 years ago because I wasn’t working with it. It has been a dream for me and my teams these days. But it still has its issues. Like anything else.

Transitioning from k8s to nomad for simplicity reasons doesn’t make a lick of sense. Nomad is going to fail in _at least_ the same ways and there is going to be exponentially less information as to how to fix it out there.
Why isn't visual programning more popular?

If a picture tells a thousand words, and diagrams and figures are so helpful, why hasn't visual programming taken over?

The problem is the complexity of overlaid graphs. Text, through references, handles this well and planar layouts do not.

Consider also the density of information; an example is a (visual) AST of an arithmetic expreasion, versus the conventional symbolic representation. You could make a visual tool to build arithmetic trees. It's a very clear repreaentation, easy to follow and would be fun to use. But... real fast... it becomes unweildy.

So, visual programming is great for simple problems, by non-programmers. As other commenters have said, there are a lot of non-programmers in game development - I think most of it is non-programming these days.

Another category is new users. People play games, and then want to make games. Visual programming is more like a game than text programming is. Some of these people really are just "playing" at making games (nothing wrong with that!) But some of them are earnestly making a game - and the fewer obstacles in their way (like learning how to program), the better. Get them onboard, get them started - better for them, better for Epic, and better for the world to get the games they've come up with.

Finally, because of text superiority, programming infrastructure (e.g. git) is also text-based.

BTW spreadsheets are kinda visual, and very popular. "Visual Basic" has some visual programming elements, for GUIs. There's some business tools, like XML mappers, that are visual.
Michael Olsterhelm stated on the Joe Rogan podcast in Feb 2020 about the virus being airborne.
https://blog.jdboyd.net/

I started several posts in 2020/2021, but I failed to get any finished to actually post. I really need to get one of them done, or start a new one that I will actually get finished.
Very cool. Well done.

Reminds me of the early days of the Internet where artists that had the ability to draw would create their web sites from actual drawings. Some of the coolest sites I’ve seen.
It doesn’t actually support what I said I think, but you might like it anyway: http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html
The problem is that's a very strenuous argument to make (unless he could find an email that said that a customer was going to leave unless they fixed the bug) vs another engineer who found a new way of compressing emails and save the company X exabytes of storage space.

Keeping the ship running seems to be continuously undervalued at these companies compared to how they value building a new wing.
> the "curry is just an indial dialect word for gravy" thing

It is not a word for gravy. In Tamil kari can refer to any cooked accompaniment to rice or bread. Even a dry stir fry. The Telugu equivalent kura is even more generic and can mean either a cooked dish or a vegetable.

And Tamil and Telugu are both distinct languages, not dialects.
Let's not mention the questionable ego driven naming scheme for the place.
> One day, Vladimir Putin will no longer lead Russia.

Putin isn't the first ever russian leader and is not last. Next leader may be Ramzan Kadyrov, for example.
My point is the fact that the majority of infected individuals didn't suffer from it does not mean it is not a serious disease. Hardly anyone was paralyzed by polio, but we view it as an extremely serious disease.
My family has been getting milk from a brand called Straus family creamery which is available in glass bottles in northern California. Best tasting I've found around here.
Even Slack's CEO is still trying to figure out hybrid work
https://luke.lol
I blog about topics i find interesting as well as problem solving issues I face as a web developer.
Sure, a lot of Matlab is in Fortran (and a lot of other software as well, though you would not know from the outside), but you don’t write in Fortran when using Matlab.
I saw Wolfram give a live talk after launching his big ass book on cellular automata being the foundation of all things. It seemed far fetched and I don’t think anyone outside of his egosphere takes the concept seriously. Let alone understands it.
Per capita meat consumption is at more than 150% of the levels back then. By your own argument, we should cut back on meat, particularly chicken and beef.

https://www.agweb.com/opinion/drivers-us-capita-meat-consump...
>Don't apply tolerance in defense of mediocrity.

Despite being a grammar perfectionist myself, I know several people who don't even bother with simple apostrophes. Yet, these same people run congitive circles around me in many areas.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge. Tolerance is a good thing. The underlying content is ultimately what matters, especially on an international public forum like HN where you typically don't even know who you're talking to or what their context is.
https://fredwu.me/

I've gone through a few "redesigns" over the past decade or so. For the latest design I've tried to keep it relatively simple, but also with a bit of design flair so it doesn't look boring. :)

I blogged about my latest redesign effort here: https://fredwu.me/blog/2019-01-20-new-blog-with-new-design-a...
WingsWatch

I was fed up with the NTSB's very slow website, so I try to present the same data in a faster and more cohesive way.

It's a work in progress.

https://wings.watch

Angular 13, Sqlite, .Net 6
Yeah, I think that's part of the issue, I like having it using markdown, but somehow having it like that makes me postpone more because I have to fire an editor, create the file, add the headers, etc. I'm considering other options for blogging. Thanks for the advice!
No I didn't say that.

I made no statement about my school or your school specifically in reference to how hard they are in general. We both did however use our schools as anecdotal supporting evidence for each of our respective opinions though.

But anecdotal evidence is worthless. That's why I moved to numbers. This is what the numbers say:

Selectivity is causal to difficulty in general.

Your school could be an exception and my school may be an exception as well. But given my statement above, by probability, it is highly unlikely.

In short, it's more probable that my school is harder than your school and this probability is only escapable if someone who attended both can give us a more accurate first hand comparison.
If you scroll down a bit, I think the 26th paragraph comes closest to lucidity:

- "What will the Wolfram Institute be like? There’ll be a leadership core, which, yes, I’m signing up to head. But the main meat of the institute will be a collection of researchers and fellows, working on particular, managed projects—together with students at multiple levels from high school to graduate school. We’ll be doing open science, so there’ll be lots of livestreaming and lots of open tools produced. There’ll be lots of working materials and academic papers published, and whenever we manage to make a big step forward our plan is to present it to the world using the immediate and accessible approach to exposition that I’ve developed."
Definitely would like to of seen a "Manage Cookies" popup! Nice work
There is a significant amount of research from the field of computer vision before ML even existed. It was quite robust as well within certain constraints. Those techniques simply did not generalize anywhere even close to as well as deep learning.

However, that said, in a tightly controlled environment such as a manufacturing line trying to spot defects I would imagine they would have a good chance at performing a lot better than deep learning.

A lot of the advancements in deep learning have also come out of ideas from that research. While they didn't use the techniques directly, there is a lot of knowledge that we'd be lost without.

This is one thing that scares me about ML. We are losing research into the fundamental physics/science to deeply understand these things and instead just throwing models at them.
I agree with you. But the "content creators" who are responsible for most of modern game development will flee in horror from anything that looks too much like programming. If you want to market a game engine with customizable behavior (i.e., it's programmable) to large AAA game dev teams where programmers are only a small subset of the whole team, you have to provide a way to allow people to program the engine without believing they are programming it.

This is the value prop -- and the problem -- with "no-code" tools in general. If your visual representation expresses behaviors in a way that is specific enough to be interpretable by a computer, then the constructs in your visual representation are isomorphic to constructs in some textual programming language -- with significant drawbacks compared to a textual programming language. But this zombie keeps getting resurrected because programming is seen as technical scutwork to be undertaken by highly intelligent yet socially inept lizard people -- not the truly important people, the business, marketing, and creative types who make all the key decisions. So if you want to get them to express what they want the computer to do, you will have to provide a means for them to do so that does not resemble using a text editor to write code in some programming language.

It's a bit like the modern version of the problem PC manufacturers had marketing to executives, despite the obvious advantages PCs would provide to them: PCs required typing, and executives considered to be secretarial or clerical work and therefore beneath them.
I've always been curious about what articles my friends, colleagues, and industry leaders are reading.

I wasn't there when Delicious existed, but I got inspired by what they did in the past, a social bookmarking platform, which makes it easy to save links and discover what other people are reading.

I'm trying to bring the idea back to the internet, it's is still in beta, any feedback or ideas are super welcome!
That is simply impossible. We won't have the manufacturing capacity to produce that many electric cars in 3 years.
> he could find an email that said that a customer was going to leave unless they fixed the bug

Yes, otherwise it can totally be that his impact is not that large actually.
https://thomashunter.name

I'm a prolific blogger, wouldn't be surprised if I have the most posts on here. Mostly Node.js and JavaScript.

I host things like side projects, all of my presentations, and my resume on it. When I publish a new book I update the pages to link to it for marketing.
> Highway driving will get less range than city driving.

For gasolene cars it's the opposite. Why is highway driving less range than the city where you get much more accelerating and breaking?
Real world examples tend to have a huge amount of unpleasant details which hinder transfer of the underlying concepts. We teach one step at a time, and even then 99.999% of the people leave before finishing. Suppose you start teaching arithmetics by introducing 5 year olds to elliptic curves…
data quality is important. every ai project i've worked on has started with visualizing the data and thinking about it.

it's easy to get complacent and focus on building big datasets. in practice, looking at the data often reveals issues sometimes in data quality and sometimes scope of what's in there (if you're missing key examples, it's simply not going to work).

most ml is actually data engineering.
Is it legal to pay an employee no salary? Are universities somehow exempt from federal and state minimum wage laws?
I mean, they're not.
There’s a meme I’ve seen floating around on TikTok that goes something like…

“I didn’t want to work a 9 to 5 job, so I started my own business. Now I work 24x7… f***!”
Yes, but then the metal would be work hardened. Ideally, if it were to act as a bullet and deform to the shape of your rifling you'd want the silver to be in an annealed state.
At this point, Italian-American cuisine is distinct from Italian, which itself has a ton of distinction between regions. People who go on about Italian-American stuff being inauthentic fail to realize this.
Great, the sooner we get rid of that yaml spaghetti, and container everywhere, the better.
Laughably false.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to have an opinion on the physics project, but I find it interesting how polarized HN is about it.

For some people it's a whole new world that will lead to new findings, for others it seems like they compare it to them having invented a new language and acting busy "translating" everything that was already discovered to this new language and being surprised they can.

Funny how even mathematics and physics can be so subjective when most people can't actually work through the math themselves and only depend on "expert" opinion.
Even milk from the same dairy tastes radically different in plastic than paper.

I always hated plastic milk as a kid. Nobody else seemed to notice the difference though. I sometimes wonder if there’s only a small subset of the population that can notice it.
No, it seems like hypergraphs should do this.
Vazhakkai Poriyal (made with raw bananas, vegetable side dish) is pretty common here in India.
Generative Art: Reaction-Diffusion and Chladni Figures (2020)
In this paper I show how to combine two mathematical tools to create generator of abstract graphics of meaningful complexity.
https://www.maxlaumeister.com/

My personal site has programming, music, blog articles, fiction and more. It has an achievement system, a guestbook, a retro games section, and a ton of little knickknacks and easter eggs I've added over the years! I recently drew and added a mascot, the bird-fox. The whole site is based on a custom Jekyll theme.
The Search for Immortality
But you can reverse AES! You obviously need the secret key, but it's trivial to reverse the steps of encryption (it's actually a bit tricky to get all the steps correctly, but you can easily google how to do it, tons of example impelentations and lecture notes online).

There are a bunch of online tools that demonstrate it such as: https://www.devglan.com/online-tools/aes-encryption-decrypti...
Their meat is mostly oatmeal. It's never going to be great.
Silver Screen Sphinxes: Greta Garbo, Buster Keaton, and Celebrity Privacy
I agree with that. But I think there's a small gap in credibility loss between "being right in the first place" and "being wrong, but admitting it promptly". And a much larger gap between "being wrong, but admitting it promptly", and "being wrong, and refusing to admit it until everyone has known you were wrong for a long time".
Blueprints is okay until you start to reach some branching or conditionals. You can always compartmentalize things into Blueprint functions, but Blueprints do have some limitations.

Thankfully, Unreal really shines when you combine them both together: C++ and Blueprints. That's when things really start to click.
We never locked down society for 2 years because of polio.
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.ph/IyOuO
I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)
Most German milk is either "long life" or UHT, both of which taste better to me than "normal" pasteurized milk, which is the most common in England, for example. The three different pasteurization techniques result in different tasting milk.

I do notice a difference between foil lined carton, plastic jug and carton milk, the latter usually tastes the worst probably because the carton is more permeable?

But I do love fresh raw milk whenever I can get it.
Not available anymore? Product page says contact an email address for buying.
I'm particularly happy with the hero "image" — certainly loads faster than any fullscreen retina JPEG, to boot.

https://ivanish.ca
> This is sort of like how squid ice cream seems normal in Japan.

I regret to inform you that squid ice cream is actually pretty darn weird even in Japan.

Red bean (azuki), sweet corn or roasted tea ice cream, on the other hand, would be quite normal.
https://ajnasz.hu

A personal blog mostly in Hungarian, lately some English posts which is far from perfect, but some might find useful if a search engine honor the site.

It's 16 years old, started with drupal, then some years ago I changed to metalsmith [1], because the content isn't dynamic at all, and it was fun to try something new.
I also started to move to hugo, but they didn't merge the pr [2] which would have helped in the transition. :(

The look is still similar to what it was in the beginning, in terms of colors at least.

[1] https://github.com/metalsmith/metalsmith
[2] https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/7295
This is rather dark. Most people have made money in some simple ways, 1) real estate (still one of the best ways to wealth) 2) consumable products (food, wine, light bulbs) that are in constant demand 3) clothing (fashion always works with some caveats) 4) other consumables (oil, gas, water) 5) investing over long periods (10+ years is optimal) 6) trading other people's money (Hedgefunds, PE) actually I think PE acquisitions of existing profitable businesses is the easiest way to FU money 7) startups (not the best success rate at all but yeah it is a way

But if you are risk averse, buy companies, roll them up, take them public and go live on an island.
Cooked green bananas (both actual plantains, and just unripe regular bananas) are used as starchy sides in a lot of cultures (mostly South America, Africa and the Caribbean afaik).
The more I hear about Stephen Wolfram's schemes to name things after Stephen Wolfram, the more admirative I grow of Nicolas Bourbaki and wished he were publishing amazing math software these days.
Either he is onto something or not, but his ego is going to scare any sane person away.
That sounds amazing! I wish they'd study something like energy storage or cheap imaging mmWave radar, or portable chemical analyzers, or any of those supposedly world changing things that seem to totally vanish without a trace again whenever anyone makes a breakthrough.

Hopefully it's not just this?new physics thing.
I'm partial to fried spam, eggs and pancakes covered in maple syrup.

If you want to get really wild, coat the spam in sugar before frying it at low-medium heat. It caramelizes around the outside and gets extra tasty.
It's Branchial Graphs and Multiway Causal Graphs now.

I find it interesting. He has a lot to prove but good on him for trying to make progress. Who knows what this could lead to.
Don't know. I downloaded the image, installed it and was greeted by a mandatory login. Next step was uninstall and delete the dmg image. What a waste of time.
PiGlass v2: A wearable Pi Zero 2
OnApril 5th, 2022, OpenSea, the biggest NFT marketplace by trading volume, suffered a 24.84% decrease in trading volume in the past 30 days; a 20.18% decrease in the number of addresses; a 12.52% decrease in the number of daily active users. Additionally, NFTs are traded at an average price of around 14,000 US dollars, a 30.13% decrease in 30 days (...)
This interesting to me. The sidebar in IDEs is one of the features I dislike most about them. I vastly prefer the C-x C-f helm menu with it's fuzzy search to IDE approach of aimlessly clicking around a directory tree like a philistine. For the rest (linting, syntax, autocomplete), lsp and a language mode make me pretty happy.
https://jan.bio

My virtual playground since 2002. Not a lot of content, changed the domain name a couple of years ago. Currently written in emacs org-mode and post-processed with Zola.