skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why so many folks are compelled by ephemeral photo sharing, even while I'm happy for those that want it to have it. It's just not for me.

First of all, the older I get, the more precious memories are because frankly, I'm forgetting more and more and it terrifies me. I don't understand why something that was worth sharing today needs to be gone tomorrow. What if I was busy that day? What if I want to see it again tomorrow? What if I'm at a party three weeks later and want to show somebody your funny puppy photo?

Second, if you think about it, it's often the most casual, lo-fi and accidental shots that end up carrying the most authentic value. Quick snaps that you don't know are "last photos with" at the time. People pass unexpectedly; too bad all of the pictures of them were set to fucking evaporate.

Third, if something is truly not photographed with enough intention or effort to keep it around for more than 24 hours... was it really worth sharing in the first place?

Finally, it's super weird to me that people don't assume that anything downloaded or displayed can be captured. In fact, having something set to self-destruct in a day probably means that people are more likely to save a copy locally than they would if you just left it there.
I think it's not really intended for synth design and complex sound design, it's more akin to an instrument than a DAW. If you read the source code for Sonic Pi you'll see that most the synths are implemented in SuperCollider language or Clojure using the Overtone library, not Ruby/Sonic Pi.
> Have you seen truck drivers complaining they are forced to
> drive old trucks and not brand new Ferraris?

No. Where I come from, truck drivers own their own trucks and are pretty happy about them. What they do complain about, however, is people telling them how to do their job.

> Not by creating "high quality" code in advance, but by
> creating low quality code that is malleable.

Nah, I don't think I will. You can have fun maintaining low quality code. I'll just move somewhere else where these instant gratification, feature oriented "minimalist software engineers" are challenged and cannot smear their spaghetti code in whatever they touch.
no particular reason.
borderline conspiracy theory.
> public class ChatActivity extends BaseFragment implements NotificationCenter.NotificationCenterDelegate, DialogsActivity.DialogsActivityDelegate, LocationActivity.LocationActivityDelegate, ChatAttachAlertDocumentLayout.DocumentSelectActivityDelegate, FragmentContextView.ChatActivityInterface, FloatingDebugProvider

Someone call a priest
There is no such thing as a ActivityPub node
whereas there is such a thing as a Mastodon node.

It is simply the other way round. It is the same with every protocol and its implementations.

You run an Ethereum node, not a "Geth node" or a "Mantis node".

You run a BitTorrent node, not an "rtorrent node" or an "qBittorrent node".

You run a webserver, not a "Django behind Nginx server".
Thanks for the nitpick. Now let's read this again as "Apps implementing the Matrix protocol...".

If one app found a way to make a nice UX for it, all the others would follow. So in practice it seems perfectly reasonable to say "Matrix" when talking about the general UX found in apps implementing the Matrix protocol, doesn't it?
Sonic Pi is a wonderful project! Sam the creator is consistently friendly and helpful, if you get the chance to chat with him or to book him for a conference or a party you should on that opportunity.
I don't know anything about the Romans so was giving you the benefit of the doubt but when you said European seafaring were due to climate I knew you were wrong. They had nothing to do with climate and instead with discovering new lands for the pope (regardless if there were people there already and the debate about calling it discoveries).
How would this affect Apple and its M lineup? As apple uses its own GPU. Would arm attempt to extort apple ?
That's good. Now she knows she might be doing something wrong or can determine that these people are idiots. Either way, you learn something.
The most unethical thing I was asked to build at Twitter
Just think of all the elderly demented Americans that got scammed out of their life savings to pay for that
Maybe it's just me, but I rather disliked the pubescent, sensationalized tone of this opinion piece.

Previous discussion[1][2] of Dylan Patel's coverage a while back.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33419138 (6 days ago, 179 comments)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33371725 (10 days ago, 10 comments)
In hindsight, one can wonder why it's not the default behavior everywhere. After all, most systems need some form of mail, but only basic. The rest can install a fully-featured version easily. It's a win-win situation: increased security for those who don't need a fully-featured MTA and the rest doesn't lose anything.
The display name is high contrast, bold, in a larger font and draws attention to itself. The username is in a low contrast color, smaller font, and clearly secondary and the whole layout is formatted in a way that makes it 'obvious' that the username is secondary and unimportant.
I did similar for my k3s rasp cluster - makes a big difference in perceived speed of the raspberry pis. It’s a pretty cheap upgrade at 30-40 bucks

A lot of cheap USB adapters give issues though. Ended up disabling UASP mode on mine due to severe stability issues
sendmail and bind :)
Varies a lot from field to field.
Mastodon is to ActivityPub what Chrome is to the Web.

Most Apple users don't use Chrome. They all use Safari. And others use Firefox.

So nobody talks about "Chrome" when they mean the web. Everybody says "I found this info on the web". Nobody says "I found this info on Chrome". No chaos because of this.

No need to talk about Mastodon when you mean ActivityPub.
> I think part of the problem for current graduate students (well, for the last generation or so) is that while the past idea / lore of graduate school [...] Astronomy? Not so much. [...]

Ph.D. in astronomy has been "do not expect a job" for at least 2 full generations now. I recall talking to an astronomy professor from (?) Univ. of Michigan ~1982. Supposedly, it was SOP to tell the kids in UM's "freshman astronomy for potential astronomy majors" course that Ph.D.'s should not expect jobs. Jobs were "possible" at lower levels, if you were clever about it. (Make sure you got lots of experience running the planetarium, maintaining high-end astronomy equipment, etc.)
>In this area a brand new house with a good amount of land is 200-300k.

Which area of France is that?
I think the problem may be that (at least in Germany, not sure about Switzerland) we've had awareness campaigns about conserving energy and water for ecological reasons since at least the 1990s. I recall learning in school ca. 2000 to turn off the light when leaving a room, to take short showers instead of using the bathtub, to turn thermostats to 19°C or less, to soap my hands before turning on the faucet and to use the water-saving flush after only peeing. This wasn't related to any particular shortage.
In UK there's basically single track roads that have a speed limit of 60mph, and you'd be crazy to use them at more than 30mph most of the time.
> Car manufacturers should be required to simulate what would happen in say 10,000 crash cases - with a wide variety of angles, loads, speeds, passenger types, offsets, etc

And how will you compare the results ? (apples with pears, SUV 40km/h 2 tonnes with small car 20km/h at 37 degree 1 ton )
I think the Beatles included three inherently gifted songwriters by sheer coincidence. No doubt the apprenticeship helped, but Harrison was writing songs like Taxman and experimenting with Indian classical music on Love You Too in 1966.
Ask HN: What are good forums for electronic music production?
Any suggestions on where to hang out as an aspiring (hobbyist) music producer ? Or other good sites / people to follow ?
Open the Tor Browser and go to: zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion
I don't know if 5687 are still made, but there are tube manufacturers, Shuagang and Linlai in China, JJ Electronic in Slovak Republic, and Reflektor Corporation in Russia.[1][2] But 5687 are not rare.[3]

[1] https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/current-...

[2] https://linlaiglobal.com/

[3] https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=5687
"nice music" I mean music that is not repeating with a period of less that 8 seconds. I don't care for a 3-loop made using code. I know it can be done, and I know it's easy to do compared to other ways.
I wanna see if it's possible to use code as an real instrument.

Yes, a keyboard and a looper can be used for club music. Same for sonicpi.
But a keyboard can be used to play/compose classical, or even "The Office" intro. Can sonicpi be used for that?
That's what I wanna see.
> They will lose a lot of people if they don't.

I don't think they will.
I guess you could create redirect page redirecting to specific comment and submit that?
I think we shouldn't call HN social media, I wouldn't even call reddit social media. Yes, there are discussions. But the topic is the focus, while many other platforms, including Twitter, are people oriented. People curate your content, on the other platforms said content is decided by topic.

Maybe use social media if you want to, but there is an inherit difference between these platforms. I had good discussions on HN but I couldn't name you any user, not even their handle. It isn't of particular interest most of the time. There are a few exceptions of course but those are far and few between.

A bus ride just isn't the same as a party, even if many people come together.
There are so many. MIDIBox by Thorsten Klose is great. Open source hardware and software. There are a ton of projects based on it. I am not sure what the level of other contributors are now, but it was mostly or all Thorsten back when I was looking at it 10-15 years ago.

http://midibox.org/
The trend to mend: how repair shops are leading a fixing revolution
To note: WordPress has an ActivityPub plugin, allowing you to have your blog and interact with the wider community.
Did the same happen during the beginning of the web?

Did people say "I found this info on Mosaic" or did they say "I found this info on the web"?
The title is misleading for 2 reasons.

First, most vegetable oils belong to one of two groups that have very different health properties: vegetable oils where the dominant fatty acid is linoleic acid and vegetable oils where the dominant fatty acid is oleic acid.

Second, there are two ways of using a vegetable oil, with very different health implications. The vegetable oil can be added to food after cooking, when the food will no longer be heated to high temperatures, or the vegetable oil can be used during cooking, for frying and similar procedures.

This research study has compared sesame oil, where the dominant fatty acid is linoleic acid, with lard. It is not very clear how the oil and the lard were used, but it seems that they were used mostly for frying and similar high temperature procedures.

Between the 2 kinds of vegetable oils, the healthier are those where oleic acid is the dominant fatty acid. Moreover, for any vegetable oil, the healthy way to use it is to only add it after cooking, so that it will never be exposed to high temperatures.

The resistance of fat to high temperatures increases with the proportion of saturated or almost saturated fatty acids, so it is maximum for animal fats like lard or butter, lower for high-oleic vegetable oils and it is minimum for the oils where the dominant fatty acid is linoleic acid. Depending on the temperature and the time of exposure to that temperature, any kind of fat will be degraded partially, more or less, depending on its heat resistance.

So for frying, there is no doubt that the healthiest is to use lard or butter, less healthy is to use high-oleic sunflower oil or olive oil or avocado oil, and the least healthy is to use classic sunflower oil, corn oil, soy oil or sesame oil, like in this study.

So there is no surprise about the results, they are exactly as expected and well known.

The various kinds of fat must be used for appropriate purposes. When misusing them, any kind of fat may be unhealthy.
Sonic Pi is essentially a frontend to Supercollider: https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/blob/dev/SYNTH_DESI...
/bin/false

Does one thing and does it well
https://caniuse.com/web-bluetooth

Not sure if this changes your calculus at all, but it can (theoretically) be used on chrome for android.
> Now a new version of Windows (lol)

…which is free for anyone with a Windows 7/8.1/10 license, including business customers. (My work laptop successfully activated Windows 11 Pro)
Interesting... Butteräugli does sound like a swiss cookie though. I can even imagine what it looks like based on the name.
You can still do that?

And I don't think of or treat them like dongles - I don't carry spares around, I just have the configuration that makes sense for me. (I don't even have spares to change it, but with a holiday coming up I did think I'd swap one for an SD card reader if I had one.)
In that case the shot is highly unlikely to be a significant factor, seeing as how exercise-related myocarditis has been a thing since long before COVID was a thing. Demonstrating the vaccine to be a factor would require checking for myocarditis before and after vaccination, and also doing so for the control group. I don't know of any studies which do that, though; usually it's more the other way around: diagnosing myocarditis and correlating that with a past vaccination or infection.
> and 7 years later both MS and Sony shipped a digital only console.

Not exactly. They gave you option to purchase cheaper digital only one. Not blocked physical games altogether like MS tried before. Big difference.
I never said that more lines = more productive. That is a strawman.
I remember I implemented some modifications my boss asked me and went on a business trip to Russia. It was early 2000s, no smartphones, and the only Internet on the phone was WAP. So my boss is calling me and telling me our mail server is sending out spam. Yes, I turned on open relay by accident...

I run to the nearest Internet cafe and discovered they're blocking SSH ports. It took quite some time to unblock it, make the changes (it took less than a minute) and pray nobody intercepted my access data and make a mess before I get back. I've never felt so ashamed about my lack of professionalism in my entire life. I literally hated myself for being forced to use a public Internet cafe to configure my server.
Looks a lot like Moments from Wechat.
Gambled on a non-operational Adcom amp at Goodwill for $29 a while back. Sure enough, all it needed was a 20-cent fuse. Sold on eBay for $400.

Apparently I should have have used the windfall to capitalize a repair shop.
Money just gets arbitarily created by banks. It is easy to "make money".

Maintaining a stable, accepted currency however, is quite hard and so is providing enough value for others, that they give you a billion dollars of a stable, accepted currency ...
Good luck explaining sunken costs here! I have had many, many discussions about this on this very site and I think that since it is so non-intuitive to anyone that has not taken business courses they just do not believe it.
Sonic Pi is a Ruby DSL for SuperCollider.

Sonic Pi is awesome, but ike all DSLs, while making simple things easy it has its limitations.
This seems a bit niche for a book? I mean, there might be a book out there with some relevant information in, but my guess is that the advice would be too generic to be particularly useful. The solution(s) probably depend on the nature of the business and the specific problems you're facing.

I think networking is the way to go here... If you live in a decent sized city you should find plenty of networking events for business owners. Alternatively you could reach out to people on Linkedin who might have some advice to share. When I was working on startups several years ago that's something I would do a lot. I would try to find people doing similar things successfully and send a message saying hi and explaining the situation - you'd be surprised how many people will happily talk to you for hours just to be helpful.
Hey that looks nice, but looks also like it had no activity for five years (I guess it was stable enough?)

Do you have a link to games written with it too? :)
I'd like to think that there's much more socioeconomic diversity among present day scientists, compared to those back in the day of Hardy.

Not to mention that up until 1910s, life expectancy was under 50.

Being able to work in academia as a tenured professor/researcher probably resulted in drastically different life expectancy, compared to being forced to do something else. I think it's safe to say that Zhang would been forced to live as a peasant, had he been born 120 years ago.
In Limousin.
I came across a council system for recording the holes that ultility companies dig in roads. Often a specific job would require several additional "associated" holes to be dug around the main one.

The programmer chose the filenames: "holes" and "assholes". kudos!

NB: This was MSDOS days when filenames could be a maximum of 8 characters.
Looks like there are to make stockholders happy and forced to keep growing revenues instead of making great products.

- their biggest revenue (iPhone) stalled in the last few years. Each year it's around 250 millions sales. Whoever wanted to have/switch to iPhone it already bought one.

- people upgrading iPhones less often, because there is not much innovation or devices are good enough. It's similar like with PC market - between 1995 - 2010 there was a lot of innovation in PC and few years your desktop improved a lot. Then later you could have ~10 years old laptop that was good enough for most people. I'm still using 4 year old iPhone XS that is good enough. And my old Macbook Pro 2012 still good enough for my mother.

- number of internet users also almost saturated from 2 billions in 2012 to 5 billions in 2022 so that's ~65% of users. It will never be 100% because toddlers and kids <5 years old don't/own use smartphones.

- those kids are more likely to be given android tablet first because it's cheaper for parents, such as Kindle Fire. Once they get used to android they will be less likely to switch to different OS. In similar way apple has great potential to increase sales of MacOS devices but probably just most people are used to Windows.
Go is just memory safe until you have a race, or so I have heard.
Isn't this evidence that this process has started to occur? The difficulty to make progress in certain areas of math pushes mathematicians to the shallower areas where it's easier to make a contribution. Progress in the first ones will stall and at some point the shallower areas will become less shallow and same phenomenon will occur.

Maybe we will keep forever discovering new shallow areas but I suspect this is not the case. In any case this is a phenomenon that I think will play out in the next few hundred years, not sufficiently impactful in the next few decades but more and more noticeable.
This is pretty ridiculous. The "so-called 'experts'" are... journalists? Zero of these are studies. Zero. None. Nada.

There's the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.t...

And Breitbart:
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2015/06/01/media-fail-no...

And a bunch of other nonsense. Every one of these "predictions" is either a journalist trying to sell copy by exaggerating a story, or conservative media outlets clapping themselves on the back for pointing out that journalists who exaggerated were wrong.

None of these "predictions" are in any way science, and all of the climate modeling in the past 30 years has made predictions which are *more conservative than reality*.
What are you on about? Your first point is that known vulnerabilities are the main issue, but somehow scanning for known issue won't help?

Additionally, I hate this "If it doesn't fix every issue, it's not worth doing" argument
I asked whether it is actually limited to whites or whether it is self-selecting this way, and you seem to think this question is illegitimate somehow. OK.

Unlike reading clubs, yachting clubs, AA etc. there seems to be just nothing else that brings these people together. Maybe you know what it is?

(I am not American myself but I recall there is a significant percentage of non-white people yet I saw zero on photos of the club in this article. There is clearly a nostalgic vibe throughout the text, the question is how far it goes.)

PS. Feel free to explain what does using a throwaway have to do with it if you want. This acc is the one I'm logged in atm but also yes I don't want to implicate my main in controversial topics like this if tides turn and bringing up these questions is again prosecuted with something more than downvotes on HN. I have been following you for a while and didn't expect you to be pro real name policies.
You don’t happen to find the link? I’d be curious to watch
Microsoft.Data.Sqlite makes it easier to use encrypted databases compared to System.Data.Sqlite out of the box.

I am yet to find a modern up-to-date tutorial and implementation of System.Data.Sqlite that offers encrypted database support without making my brain melt.
If you could buy one of every number for $600M then even if you have to split the prize 2 ways the payout is greater than the cost when the pot is that big.

Mathematically though, your odds on a single ticket don't change, and realistically even a smaller jackpot is going to be life changing. So does it really matter?

I still bought a bunch of tickets. I'll just hope that I'm in a simulation and the real me is the one on the outside running it :) If I win, prepare for world peace.
"I willingly paid a tremendous amount for the hardware, and I choose to pay nearly $500 annually to access Apple services"

It says $500/yr or more like $40/month.
which lack of progress? The few encounters with logic (in a philosophical sense, although it feels more "mathy") I had recently were all more recent works, certainly more recent than a large part of math I use!
Oh yes!! That is the right decision!! And maybe also change NTP to DNTPD or NTPsec..maybe?
If only a route planner would understand this fact too!
>I will say, make sure your supervisor is a nice person who does not place their career above all else. I was lucky with that, and I think finding such a person in academic is increasingly difficult. Never do a PhD with a supervisor you are unsure about.

This is a great point. A bad supervisor will make your time miserable, and universities generally have no interest in weeding out the bad ones.

There's an academic whisper-net where this knowledge is spread, but undergrad or MSc students generally have no access to the net. Which is a shame as it would protect them from terrible supervisors who look good to the world.

If you're in that position, see if you can find a Prof who you can trust and explicitly ask them about colleagues in a 1-on-1 meeting; at least you'll get some access then.
US Banks Spent $1B on Ransomware Payments in 2021, Treasury Says
Musk has himself been the target for a number of impersonation scams promoting illegal money drops. This has been an issue for years.

Just search on YouTube or twitch for "Elon musk bitcoin or eth" and see the scams going on right now.
My job included SharePoint administration and building simple workflows for a few years, I hated it with a passion. It's not just bloated and complicated, the documentation is a cruel joke. Some of their software I actually grew to like - SQL Server first and foremost, but also Visual Studio, and PowerShell - but SharePoint was a Lovecraftian nightmare the last time I had anything to do with it.

And I have to say, I am so glad I am not the only one to see it that way! I feel your pain!

(And yes, I have suspected at times it was a conspiracy to generate lucrative contracts for consultants and trainers.)