skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Synths
I was building synthesizers for a time, most of them used chips from old computers like Commodore 64 or some FM chip from an old PC audio card that I can't quite remember. I haven't had time for that in a long while.

http://www.midibox.org/

Coffee
I guess some things around coffee and espresso machines specifically. Depth-wise I had rebuilt some commercial machines but also just being in the forum and seeing other people's rebuilds. I wrote some software for a prosumer espresso machine that had it operating with a PID and was activating / deactivating and even had a super simple API with an iOS app (That was never submitted to the store). One day I'd like to get access to some specific old 80s-90s espresso machine that I could rework and upgrade with different stuff but not so much on the horizon due to rareness.

Plants
I have a few hundred succulent plants of various types. Beyond collecting, attending meetups etc I've also grown from seed, grafted plants etc as well which is fun but I have limited space. I think one of the major things in the "scene" is to actually visit places like Mexico or Madagascar (random examples) in remote areas that have plants growing naturally. One day maybe I will have adequate space to do a lot more breeding and growing, there are some people in SF who are at the meetups who are a lot more into it (some professionally) doing cross breeding and all sorts of things or have encyclopedic knowledge.

AI images
Very superficial but AI image generation is really interesting to me. Does playing around and joining subreddits count? My knowledge doesn't pass muster on this one lol
I think it's unfair to jump to the conclusion that Kalshi is to blame for regulators banning PredictIt. From the link you posted, PredictIt promised the regulators they would:

* be small-scale and not-for-profit

* be operated for academic and research purposes only

It doesn't really say what "small-scale" means, but obviously, if PredictIt keeps being successful and growing, eventually they will no longer be small scale. PredictIt was always in a situation where they had to make a different deal with regulators, eventually, as long as they continued to grow.

If you want to blame the CFTC for shutting down PredictIt, Intrade, all of those other prediction markets, then yeah, I agree! I wish they had just been much more permissive long ago. We should blame the CFTC for being too strict. But it doesn't seem fair to blame Kalshi just because they might be the ones to finally convince the regulators to allow one of these.

I hope Kalshi is the group to figure this out, make prediction markets popular, and that prediction markets can finally get the attention from wider society that they deserve.
I was thinking the same thing.

The author references the Michael Abrash book, and said it was from "the late 90s."

But IIRC, Abrash was writing about BSP in Doctor Dobbs Journal in the early 90s.

IE: Abrash inspired Carmack, not the other way around.

In 1992 I was really keen on learning to make arcade style games on the PC, and I studied those Abrash articles like crazy.
This sounds a lot like intrade.com, which was popular among my coworkers and myself in the early aughts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrade
The "miner's inch" is another cool unit. Used to describe a flow rate of water[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%27s_inch
NASA Launch Services Program outlines the alternative launcher review for EM-1
there's an email on that site from University of Pennsylvania saying that he did obtain a BS in physics:

https://www.plainsite.org/documents/tbdmox/2019-email-from-t...
Maybe you don't notice the effects that your brand being next to stuff like porn has because you're not operating at the scale where that sort of thing matters?

You're probably not running national or global ad campaigns.
Alright... in a former life I operated a Cat 262D for moving pallets of stuff around a bus factory. It was hot, dusty, dirty work, but I don't think I ever complained about being a cage because it was great money for a 20 year old with no other useful skills the world needed.

Now get off my lawn... \s
They said BEAM, not Erlang. There is PLENTY of greenfield BEAM going on through Elixir.
>not be sold paranoia and the idea that the settings are always lying //

Yeah, um, so if Apple et al. cared like you seem to, perhaps enough to stop lying, then that might be a first step towards people trusting them? You expect the weaker party to trust first before the stronger party even proves they're trustworthy!?

>They're misleading you with marketing, sure [...] //

They have no obligation to mislead. You want us to treat liars like they're angels.
> and found a Volkswagen with a blue tick.

It's just an emoji. You can verify yourself much harder than that, see e.g. https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf

Mastodon profiles are instead verified by <a rel="me" ...> backlinks in order to avoid relying on a central authority. See e.g. https://opensource.com/article/22/11/verified-mastodon-websi...
Do you use any special hardware (like FPGAs) to mitigate the increase in computational cost or do you rely on standard hardware?

I'm very interested in FHE in the context of machine learning models without requiring access to unencrypted data at any stage (be that training or inference). So far, the performance hit wouldn't make this practical, so I was wondering whether maybe hardware solutions exist to deal with that.
The full article doesn't mention it, either, there is and will remain a lot of confusion about federated networks and that there isn't a single "Mastodon" to join a la Twitter. Part of the confusion may be that there is a non-profit Mastodon gGmbH which supports the software as well as running mastodon.social.

I wouldn't read too much into this, it's relatively low-commitment to copy Twitter posts to fediverse, it's not like they are solely going to make social media posts on Mastodon. I would assume VW has a presence on Facebook, LINE, Weibo, etc. like any large multinational.
13 Years later and Jame Rolfe's rant on DVDs still rings true

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsdzaEVeFEE

He makes a great point at then end when comparing VHS to DVD: Its like we are moving forward in technology but moving backwards in the amount of BS we have to put up with just to enjoy what we paid for. The VCR gave you more control compared to DVD players.

Things haven't improved with Blue-Ray

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tetXKdi9U3c

Streaming has eliminated many of these pain points in exchange for freedom to truly own your media.

The best way to fight back is to buy the Blu-Ray, rip it using MakeMKV thereby creating an MKV file that contains the ability to jump chapter by chapter, have any audio track you want, etc but with none of the junk that you are forced to use when you pop the Blue-Ray into the player. The best of all worlds.
It will costs trillions to bootstrap that industry in space. It would cost mere billions to make that industry on Earth cleaner. The Earth is fucking gigantic. It's literally filled with raw materials. Access to those materials is downright cheap compared to attempting to access the same material in space.
That was never mandatory!

2 quick nice or funny replies and then ask someone out is ideal. Women don’t like wasting time chatting long either.
I am not aware of any rules requiring people to spend a minimum percent of their wealth.
I'd start with the OWASP top 10, https://owasp.org/Top10/
Depending on your tech stack and funtionality you could try SQL injection, CSRF or path traversal.
I'm a big fan of distributed systems (papers and implementations) and alternate networks. Fun projects that are active right now:

- Usenet (yes, it's still alive!)

- NNCP (friend-to-friend e2e encrypted network, doesn't need IP, can be airgapped)

- Yggdrasil (an IPv6 overlay mesh network)

- Retroshare (friend-to-friend P2P encrypted network with Chat, Messaging, and filesharing, and more)

- Urbit (weird, distributed computation network)

- Secure Scuttlebutt (P2P gossip-oriented network w/ crypto signatures)

- Gemini (simpler version of the Web, document-oriented)

There are definitely more projects out there but these are projects I play around with and enjoy using.
A really good read, and actually quite instructive. I remember when they want to move the team from (I think) Massachusetts to North Carolina the response from some team members wasn't positive, I remember one commented "the news on the radio is about hog prices and you can't buy the New York Times".
It would require a very good screenwriter. Aaron Sorkin level.
You're right. Cleveland didn't actually choose Harrison, though.
Eh, it takes like 1 hour to setup a solid dev env on Mac.

I used to run Ubuntu for work (dell xps) but the hardware quality was infuriating. My model literally came apart (hinge detached).

I'd much rather spend the hour on dev env than spend a week without a laptop because of poor quality control
> I didn't know git had a consensus mechanism built into it other than manual resolution of merge conflicts

Git has cryptographic identity baked-in, so people can assert authority over their own contributions. That enabled mailing groups and IRC channels which encouraged discussion before arriving at a consensus and merging relevant files to the master branch. It's not decentralized, but it could just as easily be hosted as a torrent if that was something people cared about. However, decentralized development has historically been a farce, so most people use something like Github to control and moderate their repos. You're right, this is a "to each his own" situation, and there's literally no one on the "hosting Git via BitTorrent" side of the room. Moving to a less-efficient, more-convoluted process does not fix this. I've been following decentralized technology and the likes of Bitcoin for almost a decade, and the successes and failures of the space are self-evident.

> Another big problem area is PKI as well.

To who?

To the scary boogyman white-supremacist KiwiFarms NBC fearmonger types? Yeah, have fun getting anyone to rule in favor of them. To the rest of society, centralized CAs are a boon. Not only are they wicked-fast (good luck querying a blockchain faster than a DNS request), they go out of their way to prevent systemic abuse and domain-squatting in ways that crypto can't. You want to apply PKI to this space? Convince me that it wouldn't start another FTX-like situation, with powerful individual exerting economic power to centralize the market a-la crypto exchanges.
Good one. Probably a good crime comedy to be made out of that concept, "Acme Inc.",where they just set up a generic shell and write the business plan and pitch to investors based on some espionage and other dirty tricks.
No idea, it was years ago.

I parented my way through it, and it all worked out fine.
> In theory, there is no path for a malicious Tailscale control plane to remotely execute code on your machine, unless you happen to run network services that are designed to allow it, like an SSH server with Tailscale-backed authentication.

Now I feel less crazy for not using Tailscale SSH for similar reasons.

I'd like to see a security evaluation of Tailscale, on a per feature basis.

I'd like to see tailscaled run with far fewer privileges.

Is there a Tailscale alternative that just does Wireguard + NAT traversal and doesn't try to do key management?
What's amazing about the linked blob post is that the headline is "But Does It Work?" and the word "no" only appears once, in the phrase "there’s no looking back."

The article asks really tough questions of itself, like "Have you tested it, does it work?" and then very carefully does not say yes or no. Why ask yourself those questions if you don't want to answer them?

Imagine a politician who starts a campaign speech "People are asking me, 'Am I a Ghost Wizard?' and here's my answer: ghost wizards are valid concerns. This builds upon the latest in crytozoological knowledge of supernatural studies. The first study of such wizards was conducted in the 1960s and 1970s. As I've discussed previously with my constituents, the United Nations has previously looked into ghost wizards. In a way, it seems that..."
I was loathe to take direct financial responsibility for anyone’s loss due to the potential legal ramifications. Suffice it to say I have made it up to her in other ways.
> Ed Roberts - MITS

And the very beginning of Microsoft
We have yet to see if that is a viable business model, correct?

You keep not addressing that point, or providing concrete monetary values to any of these statements you are making.
Definitely some interesting data indeed!
I have no knowledge about this particular case but that is absolutely not how YC operates or thinks about its business. I've never heard a single comment from anyone at YC along such lines. I'm not moderating this subthread the way we normally would*, but IMO you guys should be more scrupulous about posting snarky smears.

* because https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

(edit: for anyone wondering, I didn't flag the GP comment)
Amidst all the turmoil, something positive to come out of Musk's acquisition of Twitter.

Though I'm shocked that they paid such scant attention to this problem under previous management.
> how incredibly powerful

To the best of the updates to my knowledge, they are much less powerful now than when we could use XUL many years ago...

I am not aware that the lackings forced around the time of the deprecation of XUL got fixed.

I still use browser forks to keep on using those vital extensions of yore (Scrapbook etc).
Yeah you make a really good point (especially with those two examples, which the latter might not even require data collection at all). But I do think that an arms race in this direction would change the public view. You'd sure have a lot fewer nerds like us arguing about privacy. Though we'd probably be arguing more for open source to lessen the trust issue.

I don't think we'll ever have fully trust-less systems. But I do think there's a big difference between saying "trust us, we don't look at the data" vs "we encrypted the data and use this method, trust us that we aren't decrypting it". The former method is worse because there's a lot of people that have clear access to the data. The latter is better because there are more speed bumps and the argument is more sound. A lot of trust is built from demonstrating good faith efforts.
Well done? Obviously (?) I'm not saying nobody can, just thought I realised for a minute that I couldn't, then remembered the pair edited in. Fwiw I'm also not American, and have never heard of Flint. Also couldn't have told you Detroit was in Michigan anyway.
EDIT: I probably should note that I don't use Tumblr and I don't know the full context of this image

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXC71NFX4AAUPX3?format=jpg&name=...

I'm not a Tumblr or Twitter user. But it seems like Tumblr has a degree of identity verification going on with its users.

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Even Reddit has these kinds of simple checks to make "Ask me Anything" a more legitimate-feeling experience. When a famous reporter posts a picture of Reddit-account name + face for people to see and do on an AMA, it helps verify the identity.

(And if that's too much for the AMA user, having a trusted moderator do that kind of check can serve as a good substitute)
Z-Library Responds to U.S. Crackdown, Asks Authors for Forgiveness
>Many seem to not share your experience that is an ad free, lovely OS.

Because many just love to shit on it without having used it lately, because hating everything Microsoft is a timeless trend. Just like hating Nickelback and Internet Explorer. You must hate them because the internet said so, otherwise you get downvoted, to teach you to fall in line with the official party line.

People would also hate Edge despite benchmarks showing its latest iterations, even before the transition to chromium, as being one of the fastest and most performat browsers out there. If Microsoft would cure cancer tomorrow, people would still hate them just because.

Therefore the opinion of various heavily biased internet swarm minds is largely irelevant and should be taken with a glorious boulder of salt.

Don't get me wrong, I hate on Microsoft enough when they deserve it, but, as a long time Windows and Linux user, I can't really fault W11 as an OS as it's the best windows so far by a long shot IMHO.

I also hated W11 when I installed it a year ago, but since then all updates brough only improvements. I never though I'd say this but it's now a much better alternative to windows 10 for both coding and entertainment, it has put me off from switching to Linux fully, that, and Fedora and OpenSUSE deciding to remove VA-API hardware acceleration for AMD users.
Also "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" would give a dozen great movies.
Yeah I don't see my submission on the first 5 pages maybe its doing something like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33695320
It's really good for interfacing with C or writing C ffi's. If you're the sort of person who normally programs in a high-level language, then drops down to C for performance, zig is pretty good for that.

(If you want to compare zig and C, there are frankly a lot of reasons to prefer it, at least in the abstract).
Apple has done plenty of major screwups that each put a big doubt on whether “Apple loves your privacy” is something more than PR BS, but for some reason, they all got memoryholed.

An iphone user is _probably_ tracked by less ad agencies than a stock android user, but that’s it.
Road Maps for the Soul
This was basically the thesis of my college information science textbook.
No, I haven't seen a corrupt "unparceable" document. It's more issues around documents that don't comply with the schema.

Say for example you have a <figure> node that can contain a single optional <caption>. If two users concurrently add a caption, then merge their changes, the Yjs document will contain both. It has no concept of what the valid structure is. When this is loaded into the ProseMirror the second caption will be dropped.
The Dev-X Project: swyx
Rocket floater!
Yeah, there is a a bit of cold-start problem with respect to standards / certification. People kinda have to widely use something before it seems worthwhile to standards bodies to write standards, but often folks are sensibly cautious about using non-standardized cryptography. The solution is to get lots of eyeballs on it, get large organizations to really want to use it, and use that push to get standards rolling.

Personally, I think highly regulated fields like health care etc will adopt this technology extremely slowly. Academic cryptographers really like health care applications but, as you said, in practice, compliance is the main objective of health care organizations.

We are more interested in applications where privacy is actually a value add or a liability minimizer. For example, a VPN using our service could differentiate or charge more to users for offering a completely private DNS option. A crypto wallet could actually advertise (and perhaps even prefer!) that it doesn't spy on you.
It doesn't split by axis, it splits by planes that can be oriented however. Planes split a space into 2 half-spaces, hence the "binary" part. Only the older Wolfenstein-style rendering cared about the axis.
You need to understand the problem, understand what you're trying to do, and understand how this abstract solution maps to your problem.

Then you have to implement it.
TSMC planning advanced chip production in Arizona, says company's founder
I found the lack of examples and mv2/mv3 fragmentation to be very irritating. For example, the Omnibox API is awesome - yet look at the documentation: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/omnib... . It barely scrapes the surface of what it should or can do.

If you're looking to get back on the horse, check out Plasmo https://www.plasmo.com/. It's by far the best and easiest platform for building and deploying extensions.
Not to mention saving lives!! If I remember correctly traffic fatalities dropped a lot after the bust in 2008 and many people got laid off.
The App Store is a list of ads, on which Apple earns a commission. I don't think it's a stretch to see it as an advertising platform.

1. Apple Displays ads (Sales content for products.)

2. Apple gets paid when those ads convert into sales.

If Apple didn't get paid when Apps were sold through the app store, then I could see how it isn't an ad platform for them. Yet, the only option, if you want to sell a product listed on the app store is to pay Apple their cut, which fundamentally turns it into a paid advertising platform controlled by Apple.
> I wonder how the government officials were able to track him for decades?

I can think of 2 major differences between locating him vs hikers:

1. Less time pressure as the government could wait weeks/months between locating him. Finding him once in a 3 month window is a success, finding hikers after 3 months would likely be for the purposes of recovering remains.

2. Hikers usually don't construct multiple semi-permanent structures that can be identified from the air (holes, animal traps, shelter)
Asset managers aren't restricted to trading things on exchanges unless their docs explicitly say so. Many hedge funds place bets directly with investment banks, through exchanges in the US, overseas exchanges etc.
I absolutely cannot fathom there is a head of/president/vp/whatever of design/ux at Microsoft who greenlighted this.

But I was thinking the same thing when Apple was playing around with the idea of ads on iOS. Aaaand here we are.

Well, time to take another look to check desktop Linux in 2022+ is already viable...
Openfire 4.7.4 release – Java XMPP Server
I'm developing an isometric city builder game. I've figured out how to depth sort everything on the CPU efficiently, though there were some ugly workarounds I had to implement. Suffice to say, for anything outside of buildings, sorting on the screen.y position of the texture works perfectly (so long as each asset is one tile in size, or broken up into multiple tiles).

But, I am starting to implement vehicles, first time adding assets that are multiple tiles in size. It would be really nice if I could create one asset for the vehicles, but the sorting on screen.y will not work for 3D rectangles, so I am breaking the up into multiple tiles...

Do you think BSP trees will work with thousands of moving assets? i.e., I would have to recreate the BSP tree every frame.
E: parent edited their post from "I wonder if Warren Buffet has any of these problems" in case anyone is wondering why this post looks out of place.

His wikipedia page documents how he and his family have disowned his granddaughter for revealing family secrets in an interview. So.. yeah, he probably does.

You can bet he has kidnapping insurance on his family, too.
That price is 95% the endpoints, 5% the cable. The fibre in between the QSFP adapters on the end is practically free.

The 30m pricing is almost the same: https://www.naddod.com/products/18231.html

1m $1,087
10m $1,124
30m $1,196

A bit of linear regression on the back of the envelope yields $3.76 per meter for the fibre, and $560 as the cost per QSFP adapter.
Fascinating -- I too once had to choose between my mastery of Dvorak and mastery of vim.

I choose vim, but I agree that I was forced to choose by how hecking terrible it is to use vim under Dvorak.

If anyone who is reading wants a cool project, make a kakaoune-like Dvorak-specialized text-mode editor!
It's a bit fiddly to change watch straps on a F91W. You want to put spring bars in there, which is what watch straps attach to, and you'll have to use a bit of force. A sharp knife helps.

There are plenty of almost-similar models, with the same low prices and some have standard lugs. The A158W is one of them. Then buy any strap you want, leather or textile are nice and cheap.

You'll want 18mm wide bars and straps.