skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some years ago when I lived in the north, I built probably the shoddiest circadian lighting that exists (and still operates).

It is an ESP board with some MOSFETS soldered on a perf board, connected to a huge RGBW LED strip and powered by a beefy power supply I found. 230V cables barely covered and the perf board naked to the elements.

The ESP hosts a page that displays sliders to control the light, which send a websocket command to change the PWM duty cycle. I implemented a lamp temperature to RGB that I found on God knows where, and then had a python script on a raspberry pi to slowly raise brightness and color temperature for sunrise etc by sending directly the websocket commands.

It is a single C++ arduino file with all the html and Javascript as big char arrays. It is horrendous. But hey, been running for years and I know I will never touch the code again anyway :)
Appropriately concise.
So I lost my OpenBSD FDE password (2016)
I don't think they are, I think they're stating the difference between being a patent clerk in the early 1900s and working at Subway while living in your car is substantial.
What kind of monthly users do you get?

I’m part of a lot of landcruiser related groups / sites (ih8mud being the biggest).

They’re such a wealth of information, and much of which pertains to:

- where to go (travel)

- what to get (accessories)

- how to fix / do (repairs / upgrades)

I’m surprised there’s not more opportunity to monetise sites built around a reasonably expensive hobby.
This has some (very basic) info:
https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_relays

As far as I understand it (and with the caveat I've only recently started digging into the protocols) the general concept is that ActivityPub basically has inboxes you post to, and outboxes containing the public feed, which you can follow (asking them to post you stuff), so a relay just needs an outbox that contains the full public feed of an instance, and a shared inbox that accepts things that doesn't have a single recipients. Now all you need is a message pump that takes things posted to its inbox and passes it on to all the subscribers of the relay.
Nextcloud, PeerTube, PixelFed, and others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub - has a list, almost certainly incomplete but seems to cover the major ones.
Okay, but then Sweden is another exception to the norm, not the other way around.
In a similar vein, closures are not necessary, since they can always be emulated by a global function with a data object to bundle captured state - which is still the usual way to do it in C, for example. But this sort of thing gets real awkward real fast if you do it a lot. Same thing with explicit iterators vs generators.
How do algorithmic feeds work in the fediverse?

Are there already services out there the last slurp in a ton of activitypub feed data and help surface content to users that they will enjoy?

Some of the centralized social media services do this extremely well after you've been using them for awhile (YouTube in particular)
> Just such a shame that after years of trying to convince friends and family to use signal, I now have to convince them to use something else.

This is the beauty of Matrix - you can change your client, or even your server and keep all your contacts!
Since the fiction predate the tech, what if the fiction simply inspired the tech. Making it less prescient but still valuable.
Seriously would buy this just to have it
There's an active proposal which would let you do exactly that, going for stage 3 (ready for implementations) at the end of the month: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-iterator-helpers
you might be able to disable a few more things in pro version if you mess around with group policy
Only one I've seen for a while is the one trying to get me to try Apple Arcade for free for 3 months. I don't know how long I have to ignore it before they get the message that I barely game on my phone and tablets, don't want to game on them more than I do, and have no interest whatsoever in the service.

But yeah, it's an ad. At least you can dismiss it. Dunno how long it'll stay gone (this just prompted me to go tell it "not now", so we'll see).
Is the economic concept of productivity different from the intuitive understanding of productivity.

A Quick search suggests:

"Productivity is a measure of economic performance that compares the amount of goods and services produced (output) with the amount of inputs used to produce those goods and services."

"Inputs are any resources used to create goods and services.

Examples of inputs include labor (workers’ time), fuel, materials, buildings, and equipment."

So, if fuel gets more expensive at the same rate as the value of output, productivity won't go up. Is it also true that inexpensive goods reduce productivity? So 100 pencils worth $1 each has the same economic output as 200 pencils 10 years later worth $.50 each?

I imagine the answer is something like "it's complicated"
I remember from articles about his earlier primes work that his wife lived in San Jose i.e. on the other side of the country from him. They didn't really go into it but neither of them seemed upset by this.

That house price appreciation must just be that good.

(Also, it was reported he "worked at a Subway" but IIRC he was actually the accountant for a friend's Subway franchise.)
You should probably add some context for this to be meaningful.

Could be:

- zig stdlib functions take an allocator as a parameter for dynamic memory datatypes and you can supply a static allocator

- in the near future it will be possible to link c libraries against a modular libc written in zig, so you will be able to use c code that uses malloc in a statically allocation-only context.

The second one should be exciting for embedded c developers because with a little work zig could be worked into a c toolchain so that with otherwise almost no zig code you can use a c library, or, ambitiously a c++ library, that assumes malloc in an embedded application
Oh gawd, is it still a thing?!
I was going to say the parent poster was probably eating sweet, not bitter, apricot seeds; most of what you quoted is about bitter apricot seeds.

Looks like you can actually buy bitter apricot seeds on Amazon.com though; and the reviews are full of people hoping it will cure their cancer. Sad.
> What angers me about this trend is that many of the experiences I treasure are being devalued in order to prioritize more revenue

How naive to think the richest company in the world sees you as anything but $.
havn't thought about it too much, but seems like merkle tree may be able to tackle this problem.
Small correction: cryptographic algorithms don't depend on "prime numbers being hard to find", as they are not hard to find. Say you want to sample a 1024-bit prime. Then if you sample a random 1024-bit integer, it will be prime with probability 1/1024, roughly. This is a consequence of the prime number theorem [1]

Some crypto (namely, RSA) depends on on composite numbers being hard to factor, which is a different problem.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem
Patent clerk (at least back then) is a more skilled job than it sounds, as it's someone that actually reviews the patents rather than just a general office dogsbody, so you have to understand the technology and to some extent the science in those patents. It's not totally unrelated to being a scientist and definitely a less surprising early career job than delivery driver.
I am blown away and inspired by the straw bale house build. Well done! It must be very rewarding to see the end result.
You're asking for a summary of the entire fields of speech perception and psycholinguistics. A good place to start is the groundbreaking speech perception experiments done at Haskins Laboratories in the 1950s by people such as Alvin Liberman.
Why not just solder on an FM transmitter to an existing USB Sound card? Seems like a 5-minute hack.
Browser developers should love Markdown because it's ill-defined, and so they could go to town trying to detect which quirks flags to enable for a given piece of Markdown that doesn't identify what version of Markdown it's using.

Would there be syntax highlighting?

```c
int main(void) { }
```

The more RAM and modules required to render a page, the merrier!

How about styling? People style the results of markdown by targetting the HTML conversion with CSS. So you're going to have to define a correspondence between markdown and the DOM in order to do that.
Why is the arrow-function "this" behavior odd? It captures it from the outer scope, just like it does with all other local variables. This is exactly how it works in pretty much every other language out there.

It's the old-style "function" behavior that always determines "this" at the point of the call that's odd, if anything.
Rather they didn't bother with this, but very pleased I can turn the entire feature off in settings.
> He's currently slandering people on the daily, so I doubt it.

Examples? If it's daily, you should be able to quickly point to 3 from the past 3 days.
It was around 50k - 250k USD in 2012.
For something like this it would make sense to leverage existing libraries instead of "rolling your own". For the storage engine especially, it's very hard to get both performance and safety right.

Building on top of Microsoft's FASTER[1] Log and FASTER KV would be a good option for a storage engine, as that is also C# and notably provides higher performance than the in-memory ConcurrentDictionary class in the standard library!

LiteDB uses locks for writers, which means it has virtually no chance of being anywhere near as performant as a lock-free log.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER
Musk encourages people to vote Republican
> Been doing that for<ACK>or the last 42 years
Thanks for this. I have a bunch of SDR dongles. I am going to mess with it when I get home.
There have been many, many films made about Srinivasa Ramanujan. I'd particularly recommend the 2015 one, The Man Who Knew Infinity, I found it super charming.
This was an interesting one - a proof by a 67 year old retiree that nobody in the field knew about for 2-3 years after because they didn't read their email.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170328-statistician-proves-...
This is great! I've done something similar, but to detect helicopters and tweet them to a local copter spotting group: https://twitter.com/dcskycam/with_replies

I also use the Pi+HQ Cam, but with their wide-angle lens, and I do all the object detection (and heli type classification for a handful of types) on-device using TFLite.

How do you not run up a Rekognition bill?! One of my project goals was to have the total cost be as low as possible, so while I do use AWS for the website hosting (S3+R53+CF) it's $0.60/mo - everything else is on-device. With Rekognition, processing a file every 2 seconds, it would add up!
A lot of the things they've built on and will maintain through (I imagine) many engineering hours, are already features in Terraform Cloud. The implementations in TFC are better than the competitors as well.
Curious about the session expiry. I can't remember the last time I had to re-login. Do you only use the Desktop client occasionally?
0.502 and 0.504? If so, they're introduced as parameters back on page 10. I can't tell you much more than that!
Yes, but signing in there has way less permissions to your data than installing the app is my point.
Calling attention to a problem is great. Assuming the worst path from someone is very different than that, and not so great.
Math used to be a young person game, but it now requires so much knowledge just to get to the frontiers of human knowledge, not to speak of making a dent into uncharted territory, that results are being obtained later and later in life. When mathematicians have had time to accrue sufficient knowledge while still being sharp enough to make the intellectual leap.

The sad part is that as the trend continues we may reach a point where a mathematician's intellectually productive life is not sufficient to contribute anything novel, statistically speaking. And as population seems to be close to peaking, we will also have less chances of exploring the extremes of mathematical dexterity.

Perhaps we could then rely on computer assisted theorem provers. Or life extension, as long as intellectually productive years are also increased. Or we will need to focus and specialize kids earlier on.
I was thinking about watching this documentary two years ago. That sounds like the reason that I decided not to.
This thread is like that meme/joke where a programmer's code gets more and less elaborate for a basic Hello World as their career advances.
There is no social network that connects users on HN, so no, it's not true for HN.
> Vast quantities of language is built on analogy. Streaming, the internet, the World Wide Web, Starship.

These are metaphors, not analogies. [1]

The GP is cautioning against argument by analogy, not the use of metaphorical language. Conceptual traps engendered by argument from analogy have been raised for thousands of years, indeed probably ever since formal discussion of language and reasoning have been recorded.

[1] https://prowritingaid.com/analogy-vs-metaphor
I need a “Explain like I’m 5” for Landau--Siegel zeros.

This sounds like a hard task as I couldn’t find anything online that does it :(
Wave a knife around in your kitchen with flickering lights. You'll see that the effect is not invisible, but an edge case. Just like with flickering LEDs on vehicles, you can't tell right away exactly where the vehicle is. Just having a flickering light on the edge of your peripheral gives you the same alert feeling when an object is moving fast near you, such as a fly. Also, flickering room light probably interferes with rendering of moving objects on a computer / TV screen (though the effect would be subtle and the bugs in the computer would drown them out).
The number of startup employees laid off in 2022 has now crossed 100k people
I can’t talk about much about the game as it’s in development and unannounced, but it’s a 3d adventure game.

We use LiteDB to hold all game state: objects on the ground, button/switch states, ai variables, inventory, etc. LiteDB allows using C# classes directly with the BSON mapper, allowing easy interoperability between the database and using the data in game. LiteDB allows using MemoryStreams which are convenient for loading and saving from a binary storage like a cloud service or a file. It’s fast at querying, but we’ve had issue with upsert performance so we perform all upserts at once in a separate thread to not impact the main game thread. Over all has worked well for the project and has had minimal issues over a year plus of development.
Personally I like Interlingua which is basically a cleaned-up latin. If you've gotten a good dose of exposure to Romance languages you might be able to read it already:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua#Samples
What I was afraid of has now come to pass. People are too divided to even reach out and talk. Is there any hope that sanity will return to Politics in the States?

Personally, I no longer respect the man.
Flicking through this paper is very humbling and awe-inspiring. Having studied in this field when I was younger, I have just enough understanding to appreciate the insane amount of thought represented here. Kudos.
Ever hear of the boy who cried wolf...
Joel Splosky wrote a great article on software pricing and price discrimination a while back (gosh, was it really 18 years ago? I feel so old now):

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
And so ... if a given markdown author finds that some commoly used browsers don't render things the way they want (or a different subset of browser does the right thing when they fiddle with the markdown, never reaching a happy consensus), they will just throw up their arms and use their mardown->HTML converter of choice.
Why is there such disdain for audiophiles? Do you have the same opinion of people who claim to taste notes of honey and oak in wine? Genuinely curious as to why everyone thinks they can hear the same as others when it's clear that humans don't. And why thus it seems it's fashionable to crap on people who like good sound?
> Is this about multiple processes using the same database

For me, yes. I experience a pretty large performance hit on shared vs direct mode. That being said, shared mode does seem to work with multiple processes; However, all processes must be on the same machine, as he uses a mutex around critical code. Or at least, he did last time I looked at the codebase.

If your DB is on a network location and the processes are on different machines, bad things will happen.

My experience is that LiteDB in direct mode is faster than SQLite, but in shared mode is slower.
> Why does the US need to stick to a 2% inflation rate?

Because high inflation means the money in your bank account becomes worthless at an exponential pace.
Ironically he didn't patent E=MC^2 and now everyone says it scot-free.
Browsing some online code communities would lead someone to believe that faang and silicon valley companies are the only employers in our industry, and if your employed anywhere else you are probably on the verge of homelessness

That is obviously not the case
Ask HN: What's out there that creates timelines/gantt charts without dates?
I'm frequently creating timelines to help illustrate how i'll complete work when bidding for jobs as a freelancer, and i've taken to doing them in a spreadsheet. This is because i'm finding that all the apps I can find that can make a timeline (Notion, Clickup, etc) need the timeline to be attached to dates. However, I need to make timelines for projects with no start date (as they're speculative - not necessarily even going to happen), and I can't find anything that does that.

Looking for ease of use and simplicity above all else, especially as i'm not likely to actually use the project management tool on the project - I just need it to be able to easily create the timeline).
Thanks.

And yeah, that's ... very roughly ... my understanding.

Though a relay would have multiple instance's feeds, ideally.

One question I have is whether or not larger instances might serve as gating relays for smaller ones. Sort of a hub-and-spoke / leafnode (w/ reference to the Usenet utility intentional) concept.

Reading now ...

And yes, relays do of course serve multiple instances.

I find the "instances wanting to relay subscribe to the service" aspect interesting, and intelligent.
I'm sorry.

I got Omicron in January '22 despite being double vaxx'd, and I felt totally fine until 3-4 mo. later when I started to get recurrent dizzy spells, major fatigue, and bouts of anxiety, which are all very unusual for me. Checkup / bloodwork showed nothing. I am 41 y.o. who exercise regularly, does not smoke, rarely drinks, etc.

So far I can still function and maintain a job, but it makes me wonder what's going on inside of me that 11 months later it's still causing these issues regularly. Our 4 y.o. son got it as well and although he was asymptomatic I am still very concerned about what the long-term effects on him may be.

I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice, but I read a paper saying that hyperbaric oxygen therapy helped some people, so I've been using Wim Hoff breathing as a poor man's version. It does seems to help with the fatigue but not the vertigo. Best of luck.

Wim Hoff Breathing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybOi4hjZFQ
Ditto, on at least month three to six of the same login here
Douglas Prasher who cloned the green fluorescent protein became a courtesy cab driver at a dealership, until he was brought back to the lab by Roger Tsien.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-bad-luck-and-bad-n...
All of it. Like 90something percent of it. And I think you meant to say
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*

I was the sysadmin at an ISP in the 90s also. We spent the majority of our time talking about that NNTP server. Is it worth it? How do get purchase more disk when the SCSI bus is full and disks are crazy expensive? How do we get more CPU? How do we keep the load down at sync time? I think we spent more time talking about that than playing doom.

Still, Horny Robs BBS files were all on alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hornyrob (or something like that) and well, that kept a LOT of customers happy, so we keep that pile of servers running.
If you want the reasoning, this IMF paper[1] goes into the detail. Generally gist is development rate (like GDP) is high in developing country, so is the inflation

[1: Inflation Targeting as a Framework for Monetary Policy]: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/issues/issues15/
I am using stock ROM for my S21 and it also work flawlessly. Not sure whether the ROM has anything to do with it.
This sounds perfect for me, because I don't actually know git, and just use some stupid gui. And even that's a step up from my old VCS called "clone a folder and slap a date on it."

(I am a hobbyist programmer)
Are there any examples of large public companies that have reversed course on ads and purged them from their products?

It seems once they are in place, they infest and eventually permeate to all levels of the product, like cockroaches.

I suspect it is just impossible for executives to argue against something tangible (ad-revenue) in favor of something intangible (ad-free experience).
Lol @ the association with UFC. It feels right, but I can’t put my finger on why. Any idea what makes the UFC crowd the ideal audience?
For the benefit of Mr. Kite, of course.
See also, Justin Rye's "Learn Not to Speak Esperanto": http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/
I agree with everything you've said. I'd add that I'd like to be able to sync more than 5 devices, too.
Neat! Always good to see apps expanding in their feature-set. Modernizing Signal is the way to go!
> It'd have been a better experience if they'd put no thought into their lighting but used incandescent bulbs instead?

Yes.
"SMS is on the way out". I'll believe it when I see it. Apple isn't going to adopt it because they have no incentive to do so and apple has huge market share. Android hasn't even implemented it yet! We're killing super useful features because 50% (or whatever android market share is) of mobile phones might have something better next year???

Having SMS support as a workaround was huge for signal usability for me. Taking it away burns so much good will.
I am an Indian immigrant CEO. None of my direct reports are of Indian origin. You hire the best people you can find for the job you have.
What platform? I don't get this on Android or Linux Desktop (via Flatpak). Perhaps I am just good at keeping apps on both platforms up to date?
This is like intentionally shipping bugs into production so you can be the hero and fix them. Why did China have to lift 800M people out of poverty in the first place? Congratulations to the Chinese gov on decreasing the way they treat their populace like farm animals?
Sorry, I don't disagree at all and the message passing was a little tongue in cheek. I was in CS in the 90s, when the dream of a message passing microkernel utopia was so hot.

I don't see a way around this complaint other than starting from scratch. If you "fixed" C, you'd have to rebuild all those things underneath you. And the reason we do FFI is to not reinvent some chunk of code.

I think you fundamentally run into issues with ABI compatibility regardless of language. You get a step better if you could derive the ABI from the code, but there's always interop issues cross-language. I don't think you can avoid wandering into having to implement the isms of the provider's language.

So much baggage just comes from strings. Then you have higher level constructs like making threading/concurrency, memory management, etc. jive. That's even an issue at the API level. I use a ton of libraries that just wrap a C library with a language-idiomatic interface.
Everyone, certainly India, need to stop population growth.

We need to thank China as the developing country that has made massive efforts on that issue over the past 45 years.