skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I folded his hydrangea design recently, following a video tutorial[1]. It is amazing. The finished model is a beautiful fractal flower. The folding steps aren’t terribly hard to do, but robinhouston‘s description - „magical and startling“ - fits this model very well.

[1] https://www.happyfolding.com/instructions-fujimoto-hydrangea
Time to stop for a moment and appreciate this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqu_l29WioM

Putin would be basically gassing all Russia and his allies; he does not have a lot of friendly faces around those days. And Russians and his allies would stop pretending that they don't care about the war and would tear him alive. A miscalculation in Zaporizhzhia would be the same as Putin trowing himself from a window.
Why would anyone living outside of New Zealand care about New Zealand laws? Why the hell would (should?) he hand over private data of some people to the police?
Check out 'Practical Vim' by Drew Neil, it's great.
There is a good idea in here somewhere, but "write like you talk" is horrific advice that very few people should follow.

"Write casually for a wider audience" might work.

"Avoid complicated sentence structure and unusual vocabulary for a wider audience" might also be good advice.

People don't read in the same way they listen, so one should not write in the same way they speak.

Or, to put it another way, "Gosh, I dunno. Seems kinda like he didn't think that one through, you know? Maybe he knew what he meant, but what he said sure ain't it."
WSL2 is slow working across the Windows-Linux bridge. If your project files are in the Windows part of your system, I'd strongly suggest moving them to the Linux filesystem. If that's not an option for some reason, then you're better off with WSL1.
Topics from the talk:

- Design goal: make it easy to write code that works with version 1 and 2

- No pointless syntax games

- Stricter compiler, better defaults

- Based on the code base of version 1: evolution, not revolution

- Nim 2 release: 2022

Some new features:

- object fields with default values

- more precision in how values are initialised

- overload enums

- ORC: the default for memory management in Nim 2

- and more...
Nap. Micronap. Moment of snoring-like breath and closed eyes.
In fact it starts so first that it started long before you even press the power button.
They could do anything else, but chose what they do. They do it because it is what they like doing. Their fans, who get no publicity, admire them for their actual ratfucking activity.

("Ratfucking" here is a technical term in politics.)
> These models cost millions of dollars to create.

Kodak had billions-with-a-b of dollars invested in the production of photographic film.

That didn't save them from competitors.
Ha, true. I'll see to making it a little less reckless, and probably give a setting to have it follow a lane, if it isn't too difficult. The idea of a "slow road" is more about taking the scenic route - back roads like these tend to have some of the highest speed limits, at least in the UK.
planned obsolescence
You’re probably using the Angular CLI within the Windows filesystem via WSL2. This tends to be slow, because all your file accesses go through various indirection layers, and that quickly adds up when you’re dealing with thousands of small text files (as you usually are in the JS world).

There are two alternatives:

1) working directly with Windows, where Angular CLI and many other things should work just fine and with nice performance,

2) working on the Linux filesystem inside WSL2 (i.e. outside of /mnt/c/), which is a disk image (.vhdx) using ext4 mounted directly in the VM.
Which drug is the leading/where'd you find the info? I believe you, now I'm just curious about the Canadian health systems' treatment philosophy + how it differs (if at all) by province.
> Parents who force their kids to attend churches where leadership will actively talk about the sinfulness of being gay

Interesting, some religions think it's sinful to eat pork or seafood or beef, and actively forbid it. Others think it's sinful to have premarital sex or to gamble or even to drink. I wonder how you feel about them. Should every child's upbringing adhere to your moral worldview? Or maybe mine? Or maybe the politician-du-jour?
Show HN: Measuring an egregore zoo by HTTP REST endpoints
Exactly. Those are not measures of use.
Also, check out U Line. They are more packaging / facilities focused.
> How can you control the market?

I think the phrase "control the market" in it's classical definition: a monopoly. It means control the definition of the market. By "controlling the market" your set constraints that should make it easier to get the product right, and then easier to sell after launch.

> The market seems like a timing and luck factor that's outside of your control.

There's a lot that is outside of control in any startup, or for that matter, when you bring a new product to market in an established company. Some of it is luck. Some of it is being able to quickly iterate and improve. Some of it is having the capital to stay on the playing field long enough. The timing part is the hardest, and is so complex that it might as well be luck. In the end, you control what you can, and have to be ok with riding the trade-winds and current on the rest of it.
AI Esperanto: Large Language Models Read Data with Nvidia Triton
> Do we not have enough weaponry to destroy this planet million times over?

You do understand that there are nuances here, yes? In other words, that there are military operations that lie somewhere between "do nothing" and "destroy the entire world"?
This the kind of thing I wouldn't buy at amazon. It's small, expensive and mechanically simple. A good recipe for counterfeiting.
Yes, and they also seem to have admitted that the costs they're encountering are on the order of 3x, not 100x?
Cool but kind of irrelevant since they aren't the same thing.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1495...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022
This will absolutely work (and unlike beamed power, can provably avoid being used directly as a weapon by malicious actors); but, when you get to the scale "chonky enough you can attach a cable down to ground level", you might as well just build on the ground in the first place. A few square meters cross section is enough for a global HVDC grid using boring copper and/or aluminium, the losses aren't worth caring about given how cheap PV is even now.

Active support towers going up, that may work (if we solve the engineering issues, AFAIK nobody has tech demoed it yet), as those don't need to be supported by the cable, meaning the cable can be much smaller.
error in the paper, chapter 4.1, deferred return:

transformed code, but insecure

secret mut uint32 rval = 0;
secret mut bool notRet = true;
if (sec) { rval = 1; notRet = false; }
if (notRet) {
// long-running computation ...
}
return rval;

the long running block depends on the secret, thus leaks it.
Ethical Tech for the World
Ask HN: Am I wrong to think this is disrespectful?
I have been working on a startup idea for about year, talking to potential customers, refining the technical roadmap based on market feedback. On advice of a few friends that I need to thinking about funding now, not 6 months down the roads, I aligned the meeting with a couple of investors. Now comes a twist.

A friend of mine was terminated from his job, and I had aspirations to invite him as a cofounder. He contacted me one day before the intro call with investor, and I said, we will think about your situations but right now I am building this pitch deck. He offered to help. (He has been helpful in the past), So I handed over the last two slides to him.

He added another slide with the team intros and added him as cofounder & CEO. Although, if things worked out, He was my number 1 cofounder choice, but I feel this is disrespectful. He just cannot write CEO without asking me first. This shows a lack of respect, and I am not really sure if I want to work with his guy.

Need second opinions.
Eh, five drivers retired from that race, including both Ferraris—so Tsunoda was in fact third last, ahead only of young Schumacher and Latifi. I mean, it was an okay try, but regrettably it went nowhere.
Sounds like OSI layer 1 for satellites

> The Space-BACN program aims to revolutionize the way space-based communications work by developing low-cost, high-speed reconfigurable optical datalinks to connect various low-earth orbit (LEO) constellations…and we’re looking for the best minds out there to help us make this a reality.

https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/space-based-adaptive-comm...
> Ethereum network attacked and forked last month

What?!

What attack are you referring about? What fork are you talking about?

Please, provide actual information instead of throwing around sites that are clearly just helping you to confirm your biases.

> you've (sic) confusing "blockchain consensus" with "not evil" because you trust the giant faceless organization making decisions

Not really. The thing that I care about is self-sovereignty. I do not want to depend on a system where any single entity or institution (whether is a big corporation or a government) can have this type of control over me and that leave without choice.

But it seems that it doesn't really matter what I think though, you already have made your mind and you are not interested in a healthy discussion. Have a good one.
You're right - I spent a while looking for existing procedural driving games before I started, and seeing how disappointing the Dirt 4 implementation was was all the motive I needed. Thanks for the kind words.
Such a good soundtrack. If you aren’t already aware, Rick Smith and Danny Boyle have done some great things elsewhere too. Trance’s soundtrack is excellent, the London 2012 opening ceremony music was wonderfully composed and curated, and it all got me into Underworld who have been around for decades with some great hits.

Lucky the Sunshine soundtrack got released. It got tied up in copyright disputes I think and only came out 2(?) years after the film.
Less of a scam than NFTs though
That makes sense, and never occurred to me. I was in the egg-lot camp
Aside of its cultural preferences (high luster, desirable yellow color), gold is valuable as jewelry because of its tarnish resistance, ability to be drawn into wires, hammered into sheets, or cast into shapes. Other than that I agree with you.
I just remembered that I've also seen B1 megadosing used for MS, with good research. Didn't know about the link with myelin. I took it regularly for certain periods but can't say it made a huge difference, altough research says it does, but it's hard to say and I don't think I was doing it correctly, it looks like it has to be spread out throughout the day.
For comparisons, the normal “trick” is to & a failure flag for every character in the hashes so you’ll always compare the same number of characters. At the end, the failure flag is returned. This may cost more time in obvious failure cases, but eliminates timing oracles (assuming comparison and & operations require the same number of cycles regardless of the operands).
Both my iphone my MBA are now 4 years old. Both are absolutely fine and short of accidental damage I expect them to last me at least another couple of years. In all the time I have been forced to use windows laptops that were of “premium” quality, I have never ever had one last into its third year.

So could it be that pre-2015 apple products were better quality? Probably. However, I don’t think we can say that current Apple products since 2015 are inferior to their android or laptop counterparts. They may be inferior to themselves, bt I think their builds are still superior to everything else.
I think you were absent when this happened years ago.

Part of their marketing was “No subscription fees” and the premium was marketed as “lifetime”.

It was a pretty big bait-and-switch and the r/PocketCasts is a good example of bad customer relations.
Reminds me of https://vim-adventures.com/
"dechlupeni" is not a Czech word.

> but everybody would understand the meaning and the grammar is fine.

No, I certainly wouldn't. It's nonsense.

Can you name a word formed like that which is present in some dictionary?
If the language spec says a piece of code must execute in constant-time, any deviation is a compiler bug.

But yes, that may mean the language can’t be implemented well on lots of modern hardware.

A lot probably can be done by avoiding some instructions, flushing caches very often, clearing branch prediction history (if possible), etc.

That would not make the language win performance shootouts, though.

There also is the problem that not all cores may be equal and that quite a few modern CPUs drop speed ‘at will’, depending on system load, core temperature, etc.
> When you're writing / reading, it's much easier to parse complex sentences.

All other things being equal, I think this is only true because you can reread them at will and puzzle over them until you think you know what the author was trying to say.

Sometimes there's value in that. A good writer knows how to mix up the pacing of their prose, to organically guide the reader into engaging more fully with the parts that communicate complex ideas while the connective tissue disappears effortlessly into the background. But in the hands of a less skilled writer complex language is usually worse on balance: they don't understand that prose should always be economical, that less is almost always more, and many really do suffer from "the false impression that [they are] saying more than [they] actually are." Whether they're writing flowery romance fiction or technical manuals, they get high on their own supply without considering that writing is first and foremost a tool to convey meaning.

The "mercurial Spaniard" bit seems fine out of context. However, in context it had better be clear who that person actually is.
Oh, nice re: the analytics backend. Good thinking! This project has prompted me to dust off some code I was working on a couple years ago, I'm excited to play around with it.
>early naughties

Haram
These specialty tapes seem expensive but when you need them you need them and nothing else will help. And then the price does not matter that much.
No, I think. Much like your examples, I have in mind "False Data Dependencies" in the CPU. I came across this on StackOverflow several years ago. It is a long question and a long, informative thread about seemingly irrational performance differences: "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25078285/replacing-a-32-..."
That was a super interesting link, thank you.

For the ontological problem, I presume you're referring to how there are so many differing ideas of how to represent ASTs (apologies for mixing languages, these URLs were just handy):

* https://lisperator.net/uglifyjs/ast#nodes

* https://github.com/estree/estree#the-estree-spec

* ... likely others

which makes it hard for ls1 to ask ls2 about "the for-of iteration variable Node" because ls2 could be using UglifyJS or ESTree or their own(!) AST nomenclature?

And all of this is made worse by (e.g.) Java1.3 versus Java19 because languages are rarely static
Is there a reason why someone visiting your website should know or care about file extensions?
Don't underestimate possible legal problems. Tech people tend to simply throw them aside ("I will use a VPN/Cloudflare/Onion, no one will find me"), but here are my 5 cents:

1. Most likely - you site will not gain any significant popularity and you will decide to close it on your own. Meanwhile you will just be getting some automated DMCA emails/complaints from time to time, that's it.

2. Less likely - you site will be somewhat popular, it will become an attractive target for copyright owners and law firms (not as attractive as thepiratebay, but still). It usually takes just a month or two for some interested law enforcement agency to find out who you are (forget about all privacy protection methods you know, it is very easy to slip and eventually you will slip; you need to be lucky every time, they need to be lucky just once). Depending on what country you live, you will end up with a few thousand dollar fine (best case) or tens/hundreds of thousands + a small jail sentence + a criminal record. Not bad for a hobby torrent site with no income and a minimal community, is it?

Just to reiterate this one more time - it is VERY easy to find out who you are for any interested government agency [in your country], most of those 1-2 months will be spent waiting for replies for their letters and other similar bureaucracy, not for some CSI stuff.

Here is how it might go. First they will check the site domain and IP address and ask your hosting/domain providers to reveal you payment details (name/address on credit card). That's enough in 95% of all cases. Even if you use Cloudflare to hide your site IP and even if you use bitcoins to pay for everything - that will help only for some time, eventually Cloudflare will reveal your server IP and bitcoin transaction will be tracked back to your credit card. That's just a question of time and whether you are "wanted" enough or not.
I would rather like to see Google stripped from for-profit status. How Google earns its money does not really allow decoupling Search from Ads.
There are already planes that can fly (and do nothing else useful) on 300W/m^2

Solar panels already have sufficient mass power density. There's a pretty big gap between the 10s of MW a jumbo needs and the 700m^2 of area it has. If you were willing to trade some flight speed you could increase wing area 5x or so, and maybe make it work in the 2-4kW/m^2 range if all of the photons were at your bandgap.
Sad day.

I used ppcboot at musenki 20 years ago (2001-2002) on a set of MPC 824x boards.

Wolfgang was always helpful.

Support was removed in 2014
https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2014-December/198820....
Town Water Official Resigns After Lowering Fluoride Levels For a Decade
Maybe this is just me, but I like that I can decouple the way I organize my file system from the way users access my site. And with that comes the ability to get rid of file extensions and make urls more human-friendly. Remember, not every person has file extensions turned on by default on their Windows File Explorer!
Even if you're right about that, it still doesn't make the word Latin. Latin speakers wouldn't say it as one word, and there would also be a verb in a Latin sentence - "de fenestra" by itself is nonsense.

(I had the displeasure of studying Latin in school)
Show HN: I made an interactive stock watchlist maker
Hi HN, I’m the maker behind Dollarsign. Over the pandemic I've done a lot of financial research and I wanted a tool to help collect it and automatically generate watchlists. This site is a side-project for that. It uses 15-min delayed data from all markets along with live news. Since there are other people probably thinking similar things as your own ideas, there's also the ability to fork, watch and star watchlists in a github-like fashion.

Let me know what you think.

You can jump directly to making watchlists here: https://app.dollarsign.ai/w/new

Cheers!

[edit] fixed terms/privacy/disclaimer links on www page.
Downtown San Francisco is in trouble
A funny thing about this is there’s an obvious typo in the quote from Mark Zuckerberg. It says “Twitter is such as mess” rather than “a mess”. Searching for that quote finds a 2013 tweet from Benedict Evans containing the typo, quoting a review of the book “Hatching Twitter” which also has the typo.

That review describes a conflict between two of the founders which today I find baffling: “Dorsey saw Twitter as a way to update one’s “status,” the ability to say what you’re doing the moment you’re doing it. Williams saw Twitter as a way to describe what’s happening in the world around you.”

https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/397814437014700032?...

https://allthingsd.com/20131104/in-hatching-twitter-a-billio...
My Firefox is now stuck with a note at the top of the screen saying something like "voxelchain.app is controlling your mouse cursor. Please press ESC to take over."
Up Goer 5 is a fantastic example of why complex language is necessary. Even in a short example, it already defines clumsy replacements for the words it's trying to use, like "Sky Bag Air" (Hydrogen), "Funny Voice Air" (Helium) and "Breathing Type Air" (Oxygen). Other artificially-simple language projects, like the Simple English Wikipedia* or Toki Pona generally end up in the same place. You get the linguistic equivalent of copy-and-paste coding.

Sure, "don't use more complex language than necessary" sounds like advice, but anyone capable of working out the minimally complex language needed for any given topic likely doesn't need to be told this.

*A quick skim also suggests that in many places, the SEW just gives up on simple vocabulary and uses phrases like "time-independent Schrödinger equation".
Thank you, all good advice.

I'm surprised with how many people get diagnosed so late. Is it failure with the medical system or were your symptoms very subtle until then?

Lastly, what treatment are you on and how has it helped? (If you can have a before / after distinction)
You're allowed to complain about anything you want.

And others are allowed to either ignore your complants, or act on them.
"Old school vs. new school" arguments should be replaced with "Pros vs Cons". Call me, old schooled.
The R&D at either Moderna or Pfizer was paid for by tax payers.
Again, that’s not what the comment said. He says those looking to use it for criminal purposes are not the target market, and he clarifies the level of privacy granted by the product, which is extensive.

It sounds like you’ve misread, or at least misinterpreted, and I do agree the wording is a little clumsy. I’d urge you to re-read it without assuming intent and see what it actually says.
Right, but those apartments are still off of the market. Demand goes up with supply staying the same.

I will say it's a bit more complicated in the US considering how many immigrants are involved in actually building homes, but I very much doubt it makes up for the literal millions of people coming in every year. Are there any (first world) countries that have housing costs going up at a large rate that doesn't have large population growth from immigration?
I believe the project is headed by Tom Rini.
Gamification affects software developers: Cautionary evidence from GitHub
I do not necessarily think the alternate history you propose is implausible, but am not sure what your point is. We do not live in a timeline where that happened. My original comment was (quite clearly) referring to the reality in which Russia is stuck in an unwinnable war in Ukraine, not a hypothetical from eight months ago.
I’ve noticed I don’t get tired after lunch since going vegetarian, even more so as I move towards plant based. Regular exercise will help too I think.
Bingo - the dash spacing is still wrong, but it's based on the roads you might find around the Peak District (Cat and Fiddle, Snake Pass, etc.). I didn't reckon many people would mind the line spacing, but it'd be an easy fix
He was employed 25 years ago, at least long enough to be senior to the author of this post, so that puts a lower bound of 50 (which at least matches with how he looks in his profile on his company's about section).

Still unfortunate if he's just 50, however.
Unless you two had discussed it in some prior conversation, it is a red flag IMO and I'd be cautious with this person in any capacity. Doing this without having a chat about it, is disrespectful IMO as well. It also shows a lack of foresight into what might cause team issues too. So it is a warning sign on multiple levels, at least to me.