skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have content, but now it's just a flashing green cursor:

https://a-mo-pa.com

However, there is still an "hidden" folder with web experiments: https://a-mo-pa.com/stuff/
http://char.lol
"Psychedelics, like ketamine, also have the ability to produce neuroplasticity – encouraging the brain to grow synapses and nerve connections which then opens up the potential to lay down new patterns of behaviour"

This is the key takeaway from the steady stream of good news we've been getting about psychoactive drugs and how they can help with issues like addiction and depression. I can see how a skeptic might look at these reports and think "how convenient, all the fun drugs make people happier for a little while". But I think we're discovering that it isn't this or that drug that has the potential to help people, but rather the approach that is enabled by an entire class of drugs. Determining which drugs can be most useful and how to apply them will be a big ongoing project (now that we're finally able to finally do the research). The drugs we use down the line may be nothing like the drugs we're looking at today.
https://www.danielecook.com mostly a technical blog. I added a photos section for fun which is my favorite part.
http://spaceisdisorienting.com/

I mostly blog about iOS development.
> There's Levin's complete one way function [1; Section 4.3].

I think the article also mentions this:

> But his construction was “very artificial,” said Eric Allender, a computer scientist at Rutgers University. It is “not something anybody would have studied for any reason other than to get a result like that.”

But as a layman to cryptography I don't get what is the significant difference between this finding and Levin's. Is there anyone who can explain this to someone with an undergraduate level of mathematical backgrounds?
Waiting lists in my area for 'non-urgent' cases of mental health are over 1 year.
"Does having an aptitude for spoken languages mean you'll have an aptitude for programming languages" is a different question from "are programming languages languages" even if the answer to both questions is the same.

But linguists have approached this question from time to time! The main stumbling block is highly literate people are inclined to think of writing as language but it's not, quite. You can have multiple writing systems for the same spoken language, or be fluent but illiterate. But you can't comprehend a writing system for a language you can't speak, barring disability.

So programming languages do have grammar, but not the other components of a language. Idioms in programming are a metaphor referencing linguistic idioms but structurally they aren't the same. Programming languages are more similar to writing systems, and a lot of linguistics findings do apply to them when taken in that context.

You can play around with this idea if you want. Try to convey meaning to someone using only a programming language and nothing else. This is tricky because they embed our other writing systems, so you need to be careful not to accidentally convey meaning with eg variable names. Might be best to use something like brainfuck or piet that prevents that entirely. If it's a language in the "human languages" sense, you'll be able to convey any arbitrary meaning to another person who knows that programming language, even if you don't share a spoken one.

What ends up happening is you can only do this if you reference a shared spoken language. So you can warp a PL into a writing system, but you can't use it alone to communicate.
Not that bizarre actually. I played tens of hours of Serious Sam "local coop". Basically one player plays with arrow keys and mouse, the other player plays with WSAD and lookup/lookdown button. The general strategy is for the WSAD player to clear everything on the ground level, while the mouse player is killing stuff on higher ground and doing other precision shots.
https://kay.is

I tried to put as much assets as possible into HTML, but the book banner just got out of hand in base64.
https://www.billhartzer.com
My personal blog, I post whenever I feel there's something post-worthy. Lately it's been about stuff I'm passionate about that's related to what I do professionally.
I don't know about the boring part, but I certainly have thoughts on "what went wrong". I'd say pretty much everything. And I don't say that to be mean.

If you're trying to solve people's lack of focus, you first need a solid understanding of what the root cause of that problem is. It could include deep psychological issues that I won't go in to, but root causes that are plain to see and very common are distractions outside one's control (work email, meetings, chat, etc) and distractions due to a lack of self discipline (personal usage of smartphone).

That still is a simplistic picture, but let's use it. Now your app, which is a website, aims to solve this. The first thought here is that an app means even more screen time, but fine.

Your website allows one to set a timer in which the user does a focused task. This doesn't solve the problem. The distractions outside one's control keep coming in nor does this magically fix a lack of self-discipline.

Even if you do believe such a timer helps, because it does something at a subconscious level, how is it any different from using a standard timer app natively available on any device?

The second idea is to play white noise background sounds as it puts one in a focused state. Fine, but why wouldn't I just hit play on one of the hundreds of "focus" playlists found on Spotify or elsewhere?

The third idea, one task at a time, is reasonable. But not valuable on its own, as it still enforces nothing. Plus, people already have task management systems, they don't need one more.

The fourth idea is puzzling, a support network. So I'm finally in a focused state, and then these like-minded people are going to support me: "well done, mate, proud of you". How is that not the opposite of being focused?

Bottom line, you charge money for something that doesn't solve the problem, or is already solved in far more advanced ways, at no charge. For example, both iOS and Android have advanced settings for silent mode, suppressing notifications and time used on "problematic" apps.

Finally, execution is also sub par, as your fellow Indie hackers agreed on.

I truly say with the best intentions that this is a bad idea. And it sucks to work on bad ideas that go nowhere. But you shouldn't feel too bad about that because creating a new idea that monetizes and is sticky is close to impossible, the bar is that high. Most people hardly every install apps and when they do, almost all of them are never opened again.

Do not consider yourself a failure because failure is the norm in such a competitive space.

"I need to pick a fight and stop trying to please everybody."

Yes, fine. But contemplate more about which fight to pick. You're self aware about it, which is good:

"Am I doing the wrong thing again?”, I wondered."

If you suck at separating good ideas from bad ones, which is common, you need better and earlier feedback.
We have an official answer of how we respond to RFPs - we send an invoice for "RFP response"

* $5,000/h

* 10h minimum

It is cathartic to hear the freak out on the other side. We also say "No" to "Fill out this questionnaire" or "We need answers to the following questions". You either have a product they want at which point they will figure out how to ignore their rules to get you, or you do not have a product that they want and you are wasting your time doing "enterprise sales"
To be fair this isn't an announcement of a product or anything like that, so their line of RISC-V processors could have distinct branding e.g. FooBar RISC-V Processors (by MIPS).

Totally agree though that they should probably be careful and put some thought into how they brand these.
I often rewrite in my free time what I do at work without dependencies and I'm often amazed at how far and faster you can move.
"resurgence of fascism???!! [emphasis mine]

WTF? Please explain, esp. why not instead a resurgence of [communism, religion, authoritarianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, wizardism a la Harry Potter, Pokemon-ism, etc, etc.]

When I read a post containing such phrases, I am likely to suffer a severe attack of "give-a-sh*-ism" (as in "I don't give a sh* about this.")
> If the traffic is sporadic or unpredictable you have 100% efficient resource utilization, which is very difficult with traditional servers.

"100% efficient resource utilization" is a bit over stating it, but it sure is a lot easier to ensure you don't over provision.
Can we grow it?
they are useful for social engineering and phishing
Thank you so much!

My current problem is, the two pieces I have right now were so much work, and are so polished, that I can't bring myself to add any new writing, because it wouldn't live up to what I have. Some day...
More of a landing page than anything, but... https://elliot.la
Very good point that the Lambda code can be written in such a way that it can run from both Docker and Lambda.

But I'm not a fan of Fargate. I find it easier to use vanilla EC2, and it's cheaper than Fargate. But I'm also very comfortable with EC2 and Fargate takes care of a lot of the ops stuff so to each their own.

What I didn't mention too is Lambda has "Reserved Concurrency" pricing which for extremely consistent workloads lowers the gap... I've never had a product with that consistent a workload though.
This could be done with a few people eg: “The remarkable brain of a nightclub bouncer with the worlds highest IQ.”

The article talks of him like he’s a child. Bouncing around at all the attention. Thrilled to make new friends. Bordering on mockery. Hidden behind wonder, the call goes out: look at you, who are not one of us. A carnival ride for the writer, gather ‘round everyone!

Smart enough to do anything he wants, not smart enough to be normal.

“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.“
>less stopping power

True, but I think it’s better said as longer stopping distance. This is fine though. The speed limit should be the speed that no reasonable person would exceed, but what we have in the US is in fact the speed no reasonable person would drive. Again, the cops don’t even enforce the posted limits until +10 because they’re so low. That’s not ok.

>more death

Not really. Death clips the risk function. You can’t go above 1.0. An airliner nose diving into the ground (like that one recent case) is equally fatal at 300, 400, and 500MPH. No one is suggesting slowing planes to save lives.

Similarly, a concrete wall teleporting to 150ft in front of you is going to kill you on a highway at 60, 70, and 90 MPH. The goal therefore is to prevent spontaneous debris from entering the roadway, and of course keep relative speeds among motorists as low as possible. Impacts with stationary objects should always be sloped, for example a guard rail and not a bridge support column.

That’s how you actually save lives, not something ridiculous like capping all transit to 25mph.
Heartwarming story
> Push back against online censorship, cancel culture, and privacy invasion.

> Informed by principles on digital rights.

surely a trustworthy site both claiming to be pro privacy and in the same notice asking for your email address instead of letting you access the page immediately.
I really appreciate that you're at least thinking about it. Community is a bit like security: you can't just layer it on after building the "cool parts" of your system. The name "trust & safety" makes the parallel even more clear.

It's harder to set rigorous definitions for community than it is for security. So it will likely change as the project evolves. But if you ignore it entirely, and just hope it will work itself out, you'll be in a continuous state of crisis-fighting.
Google Bans Apps with Hidden Data-Harvesting Software
https://nilaykumar.github.io/

I recently redid mine to use org-babel with org-publish. I'm pretty happy with how it came out, though it's still slightly under construction. Maybe a little too much going on to be called 'minimalist' though.

Any criticisms or suggestions appreciated!
https://blog.erethon.com/

Hugo based blog with a custom theme https://github.com/Erethon/hugo-HackThePlanet-theme.
where is the M thing coming from?
I do similar - the banner image is pretty much the only exception: https://rymc.io/

(I really need to kill the light mode variant, since I despise it - it's much better in dark mode)
https://archive.ph/IJKRf
http://pnathan.com

personal blog, etc. haven't really done much for a few years, I've been attending to work and family more.

its actually built out of a common lisp system that fully embraces code/data paradigm, the non-blog content is wholly within the lisp. :)
https://legitimatesounding.com/

crappy css, passable html, hasn't been updated in a while, but runs on a very old version of a home built hosting platform. very in need of updates.

it also hasn't had a hn "workout" recently.
The animation gave me epilepsy on mobile, lol.

But nice idea.
https://samweaver.com

A few years out of date...
Of course you aren't concerned NOW...in 30 or 40 years you certainly will be. But then, you appear to be a nihilistic antinatalist, so there are clearly other issues at play here.
Reference to the movie quote in "Tropic Thunder" from Robert Downey Jr.s character.
Interesting range of blog post topics (looking forward to reading in more detail a bit later) and beautiful photos, thanks for sharing.
Others feel that weird is the greatest compliment.
Very fair point. You probably won't be saturating your lambda RAM and CPU.

But the granularity is much finer with Lambda so you're closer to full efficiency. No having a server with Gigs of RAM and multi-cores sitting around for hours a day with 10% utilization.
This is available in California as well (albeit from mostly private providers and not covered by most (or any?) health insurance)
You personally know of over 100 cases where the company didn't have any sort of formal policy obliging it to advertise jobs, but went through a full fake hiring process with multiple candidates it was committed to not hiring just for the fun of it?!

(Your assumption that my understanding of hiring processes is based wholly on theory might be wrong)
https://echevarria.io

Started on it in undergrad to have a place of my own for photos and programming projects. I've slowly expanded it for the past few years. Heavily inspired by Tom MacWright's https://macwright.com
Nicotine and Parkinson’s disease; implications for therapy
I maintain (what I think is) a classic personal site: picture of the author, articles, and bookmarks. https://aftermath.net/
One additional change that came after the release of 2.7.0 and is continued in 2.7.1, there are now builds that support legacy Windows 64-bit (7/8/8.1) as the main builds are only for Window 10/11 64-bit starting with 2.7.0. The last version to support 32-bit Windows is 2.6.6 and as that's no longer updated, it would be better to switch to mainline KeePass on 32-bit Windows.
https://utf9k.net/

My site has gone through a lot of iterations but I'm currently trying to balance some cool, newer features with a relatively simple codebase.

It's currently using Hugo w/ Markdown but there's also a couple things like a live player powered by server sent events which is neat.

I also have a bunch of blog posts and other things.

A cool trick is doing some content introspection with Hugo such as what images are missing alt tags: https://utf9k.net/debug/alt-text-missing/

Everything is open source too: https://github.com/marcus-crane/utf9k and for the API that powers the live player: https://github.com/marcus-crane/gunslinger
https://ja.cob.land

Should have another fun post out within the next week!
With the availability of game engines, gameplay programming is actually very high-level. Most of the logic is handling some input or some collision or updating some position or timer every frame. The more complex parts of a game (collisions, physics simulation, rendering, asset management, networking, etc.) is handled by the game engine itself, so the games programmer usually only need to interface with the high-level API of these systems.

Also, games programming is HIGHLY agile. Most of the logic you implement will be thrown away. It's all about rapid prototyping and finding what is "fun". Of course, once you've found something fun you might want to build it into a solid and scalable system, but even in such a system you might want to keep the flexibility for designers to extend and add new elements as they see fit (using visual scripting!). The ability for non-programmers to be able to make gameplay changes is also an important factor.
The part of the link which showed the correct spot may have been dropped, but the NYT reporter has posted about it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/evanhill/status/1511760338743545858

This link may work as well: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/06/world/ukraine-russia...
A vision for data interchange in Elm
http://jonathankorensucks.com
https://oisinmoran.com

As always, it needs more content (working on a new piece now, and some fun ones in the pipeline), but pretty happy with the eclectic enough mix I've got up there so far. Would love feedback if anyone finds any of it interesting!

The styling is a super simple (originally copied then iterated on http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ or one of that series), and I try to keep it that way.

It's hosted on GitHub pages which I would recommend!
https://www.mahnamahna.net/

Originally built as a blosxom-powered blog in 2003, the site grew with a motley collection of perl and php scripts, as sites did back then. Then as social media came to prominence, I drifted away from my own site, as so many others did.

I spent much of the early pandemic rebuilding from the ground up with Django and Wagtail. Migrated the old content without breaking old links. Added some front-end niceties without breaking anything for non-JS visitors. Recently reached feature parity with the original site. Now I just need to figure out what I want to blog about. :)
Would that be something like HashiCorp's Boundary[1] ?

[1] https://www.boundaryproject.io/
I did the same and I am so much happier for it.
"So what you're saying is..." arguments are typically fantasies about the opponents flawed inner thoughts, and not worth responding to.
Title is missing "other than its own"
https://www.miscbeef.com/birdcrab

Online version of a strategy board game I made. Some other stuff on the site too.

https://www.miscbeef.com/birdcrab/quick <- Rules

The tl;dr is you have hexagonal pieces with numbers for combat and speed each direction. You decide how they want to be placed, moved, and rotated. Then turns are executed at the same time. Combat happens automatically when opposing pieces touch.
Retype: A self-hosted and free alternative to gitbook
Yes, that's the whole news. It's exciting to those of us who had to live without that feature until now.
Agree, and by leveraging other common IDPs, they take themselves out of the high touch account management tasks for that tier.
What's actually happening is ethnic Russians in Ukraine getting a taste of non-Putin flavored government which would spill over into Russia. The battle here is not over some land or some resources. Putin does not want the example of an EU Ukraine to serve as a goal for his own people. An orange revolution in Moscow is what's keeping the geriatric clown up at night. This is what it wants removed. This is the actual translation of 'Ukrainian nationalism threatening Russia'. A free, prosperous, democratic Ukraine would inspire Russians to want the same thing at home. Just look at what the Russian soldiers are looting. It's very similar to some backwards iron curtain peasants suddenly ending up in Paris.
Agreed, this is part of the historical reason why the U.S. is a global leader (arguably it's really the land mass of the country that's the important part but same same)
Yes. That's thermodynamics.
https://pavluk.org - mostly just a personal blog

the about section has the source code for the static site generator, but it really is nothing special, i just wrote it for fun and because i didn't feel like looking into existing ones
Forgive my cynicism, but it's been two years already since bluesky was announced and all we see is the occasional update from what seems a research project. Nothing really tangible is released, no extension proposal to the existing protocols is made, not one single proof-of-concept that shows "look, protocol X can not do Y, so we implemented Z".

Every update from them feels more and more like an elaborate PR piece. Just some hot air to keep the illusion that Jack really cares about decentralization.
On the other hand, X would have been GPL and not MIT if Stallman hadn't been ranting to the X developers at MIT in the 80s and generally leaving a bad impression.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj02_UeUnGQ&t=1705s
>too small

I'm sorry to tell you, but I am one of those people who frequently argue against a small less established vendor, at least for anything really important.

Why? I've been burned a few times. New (< 5 years) small companies can disappear overnight. If they don't simply disappear and have a bit of revenue then they often get acquired by one of the big players. Those players either:

1) don't know how to properly manage this new product and it stagnates, the 75% of account managers are fired and support goes to shit. Or:

2) the company has no intention of keeping the product, and despite initial assurances to the contrary a year goes by and I get a notice that they're shifting all customers of the acquired product to their own competing version. Sometimes this comes with a very sneaky hard sell to re-up on a long term contract before the announce the product EOL.
That's not what happens when a company goes private
https://beepb00p.xyz I mostly write about data liberation, quantified self and knowledge management.

Some notable links:

https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html -- map of my personal data infrastructure (usually people say I'm a bit mad after seeing this :) )

https://beepb00p.xyz/blog-graph.html -- a nice visual way to explore my posts

https://beepb00p.xyz/exobrain -- my "external brain", basically public notes/links dump
I'd expect the same as any other failure from execv(2). Something like,

zsh: Exec format error: empty-file
(last command returned 127.)

(127 is the exit status for other failures, so I've used it here. The second line is intended to be part of my PS1, the first zsh's normal reporting. The string used here is what I get from perror() for that code.)
50k-100k reads per second was pretty doable on mysql even back in 2014-2015 era.

You can get a 60TB NVMe instance with 96 cores these days - https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i3en/. Relational databases just scream on the dang things.

> 2 million random IOPS at 4 KB block sizes and up to 16 GB/s of sequential disk throughput
There is a book about this! It's Dragons Egg by R. Forward and it's pretty good!
You can even win an IOCCC and be remembered nearly thirty years later: https://github.com/c00kiemon5ter/ioccc-obfuscated-c-contest/...