skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the beauty that comes with the organic evolution of these buildings but if it leads to a "break lock in emergency" door, it is definitely not better.
Thank you. Yes, it's easy for some people to move countries, as they don't have a house or a job or kids or other things that tie them down. Ironically, I think it's one of the main things the US Embassy checks when foreigners are trying to get tourist visas: how much do they have tying them down to their home country so they will be unlikely to overstay their visa?

I think what happens in these situations is that people often start to organize to gain more say in the decision making process, whether that's unionizing in the workplace or political protests and/or revolutions.

What I'm wondering is what will we do, those of us who have invested so much time and energy into building our digital homes and businesses in these digital nations? Just leave? Stay and organize? Organize how?

I don't personally like the idea of organizing as a user union or something, as I find unions to often be an antagonistic response to company management. I hope that we would start to see ourselves more like digital citizens of these digital nations and organize to try to have more representation in the decision-making processes of these platforms that may govern much more of our social interaction than our analog governments do.
Pretty nice, I was just talking to a friend about needing a music version of chatgpt, so thank you for this.

Wondering if it would be possible to create a version of this that you can point at a person SoundsCloud and have it emulate their style / create more music in the style of the original artist. I have a couple albums worth of downtempo electronic music I would love to point something like this at and see what it comes up with.
Actually thought this was going to be an op-ed explaining why SBF's mother is beyond reproach.

But it seems like an op-ed *written by* SBF's mother...Now I'm stuck in surreality loop.

Take-away quote: "Is blame an indispensible tool to control antisocial behavior?"

EDIT: looks like she wrote this in 2013 but that does not make it less weird for me.
Important detail to comment on this movie. Its rendered using the EEVEE renderer, which is kind of a "game" realtime renderer. Its not using pathtracing on a massive machine to calculate the final image.
I am happy they decided to spend their time first on supporting GTK v3. GTK v2 is disappearing from distro's and the situation was getting urgent. This happened on 4.16 and I suppose a lot more small work for it happened in 4.18.

I am also happy they decided to release more often, allthough once a year turned out to be too short. Supporting applications on Wayland is already a great step. How they decide to build their Wayland compositor is not fully clear, I think it is wise they take the time for that, to build something that they can support and maintain for years to come with a small team of people.
> If they're IPv6 then they're globally addressable

All ipv6 addresses are routeable but that doesn't mean reachable. Link local and Unique local addresses are examples of non-global ipv6 addresses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
Maybe they would do like we used to when I was a kid and double up a seat belt? It would suck, but I don't think it would kill anyone. Maybe...
> Other folks got money out of Madoff during his scam years, and the trustee says “I’m taking that money back to pay back others.”

I wonder if things like the political donations could be clawed back.
The list feels like "this is everything you can try" rather than "this is everything you should try".

Some of these are "let's take an unrelated industry and try to cram climate into its story", others are ideas that are doomed to fail. And the "if only forests existed forever they would be a better carbon sink" argument is so flawed I am disappointed to see it at all.

But, also a lot of good projects to work on in there.
APPerl creator here. I appreciate all the feedback and hope it comes in handy.

It's linked from the page, but thought I'd point out if you're curious what went into making APPerl, check out the blogpost (self-plug): https://computoid.com/posts/Perl-is-Actually-Portable.html
I installed Z-Wave all over my house. Replaced all the switches, got the sensors, light bulbs where necessary, everything was Z-Wave... and it was a nightmare.

I ended up selling the house with everything Z-Wave still in it, and the new owners were happy to have a "Smart Home" capable home, but I will never again touch Z-Wave.

Once your Z-Wave network grows past a certain number of devices it becomes too chatty and devices will be unable to communicate data. That led to motion sensors being incredibly slow and or not triggering when needed. Light bulbs wouldn't change colors until seconds or sometimes minutes later when the network was freed up enough to send the commands.

These days I have three systems: Zigbee (through Ikea TRADFRI and Philips Hue), Lutron (Caseta wireless), and Thread (through HomeKit).

I have a bunch of sensors on both Zigbee and Thread and they fire in HomeKit and HomeKit takes actions to turn on/off lights as necessary.

Lights turn on/off almost instantly, motion sensors just work (the Thread ones especially are incredibly fast), I've got temperature sensors/lightbulbs on Thread as well.

I am looking forward to seeing what Matter/Thread bring next as that is definitely where I will be concentrating my purchases. Z-Wave had a chance, and unfortunately it did not seem architected/high bandwidth enough for the amount of devices I ended up having on my Z-Wave network (~200 devices)...
The Wikipedia article mentions two types, molten and room temperature, each with their own pros and cons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%E2%80%93sulfur_battery

The paper mentions making the battery at 300c (oven temperature) but the text talks about "room temperature" or "RT":

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202206828

"...thermally treated at 300 °C for 12 h. The Mo mass loading of S@MoS2-Mo1/SGF was ≈1.2 wt.%, measured by ICP-OES. The synthesis procedure of S@MoS2/SGF was the same as S@MoS2-Mo1/SGF but the thermal treatment was extended to 24 h. To prepare the S@SGF, pure SGF was used to replace Mo1/SGF. S@Mo1/SGF was prepared by pyrolyzing the mixture of Mo1/SGF and S at 155 °C for 12 h."

The only mentions of higher temperatures are for thermogravimetric analysis where they heat it to 800c and measure the amount of S as it varies with temperature.
New and Improved Embedding Model for OpenAI
How can I do a stint in McMurdo?
Given the trends towards remote tech jobs, it could be difficult to convince your companies engineers to show up to the office for what’s usually just a weed out leet code interview.
for a four minute clip, it looks great.
Not sure, but "only ready-to-go UNIX-like" (OS X had not yet been certified as UNIX) was why $previous_job had 27" iMacs at every workstation.
Yeah I thought it was obvious that the government issues permits instead of doing the actual building, but felt the need to clarify that after your nitpick.
"Barron" was ripped off from the Hilton's:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barron_Hilton
Using the lightning network is faster and cheaper
A second photo has been added to the collection - for anyone who thought I might be joking about doing this.

Photos will periodically be added to the collection - not that I expect anyone whatsoever to ever be interested in following a collection of photos that is meant to be boring and uninspired. However - feel free to use this collection of photos as a counterargument to the argument that "art requires some effort". I promise that I will put far less thought and effort into the photos of this collection than I have in any writing of prompts for AI generated art that I've done.

Art is little more than a statement and sometimes a small statement can carry a large message.

https://imgur.com/a/Oez2w64

Tomorrow I will work on setting up a domain and gallery for the images - to facilitate easier discussion and sharing. Is the real artistic statement the story behind the collection and not the collection itself? How can the two be separated? Can one exist without the other?
another thing i'm looking to implement is getting into habit of forced submission of self to my will. I witnessed it in religious context, but the idea is that daily suppression of small desires, and performing small "work" like tasks increases self control. There is a cultural equivalent of this called dopmaine fast. Which is similar to fasting religiously.
>built too much ... debt

Infra net benefit goes beyond basic balance sheet math, no serious analysis suggest US high way system or 1T infrastructure bill to get US infra unfucked a massive waste. The purpose of infra is to generate more economic activity than it consumes. Analysis of net benefit of PRC HSR a few years ago was ~400B, or ROI of ~7%. It's a solid investment. The other context is PRC pop concentration of 1.3B east of Heihe–Tengchong Line, denser the closer to coast, where military aviation gets priority due to proximity of neighbours makes mass civilian air travel not feasible - HSR is replacing capacity for air travel not slow rail. Imagine if all US aviation, military and commercial are biased towards one coast to the point where capacity to move bodies becomes functionally saturated. Hence the joke that once PRC reunites with TW, they can afford to push military aviation further out from coast and then civilian aviation (notorious for delays in mainland) wouldn't be such a shitshow. Also why it's not useful to contrast to Germany since connecting requirements for a long trip (i.e. 600km Berlin-Munich) in a small country is different from long trip (i.e. 1500km Beijing-Shanghai) in a large country. Ultimately, PRC HSR is impressive reflection of CCP state capacity because it's not just about laying down fuckload of tracks, but being able to politically realize enormous projects for the right reasons.

Also for reference this entire idiotic PRC HSR boondoggle narrative was popularized by Indian nationalists after PRC nationalists made fun of them for not being able to build HSR, then amplified by customary western PRC bad bubbles.
Very true but if the hash matches the images are guaranteed to match too. That's my first pass when deduping my drives. My second pass is looking for "logically equivalent" images.
Z-Wave's mesh networking was a giant pain to get functioning correctly, and good luck if devices were multiple hops away... things would just randomly fall off the network.

With Zigbee (IKEA TRADFRI and Philips Hue) I haven' had any of those issues, nor with any of my Thread devices.
I'm curious why many of the doors have deadbolts.

In an environment where you presumably know every single human on the site and there are probably no other humans in any direction for 1000 km, is there a need for locks on anything other than bedrooms and bathrooms?
Tron 2 soundtrack was such a huge disappointment from me, and I'm a die hard Daft Punk fan. Listened to it once, never went back to it.

The original Tron soundtrack is such a joy, totally underrated... Amazing how she blended electronics with orchestration... in my memory it feels like a purely electronic soundtrack but it's not at all. The artistic impulse would be to go full electronic with something like this, she went in the opposite direction, and gave the score a sense of humanity (humans in the computer world).

Carlos kept pushing the envelope on everything she did. Up there with Delia Derbyshire to me... total pioneer.
I think you are right, it is about money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

And specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#Highly_compe...
This is an extreme exaggeration. If you've used Twitter since the Musk takeover and come away with the impression that you can't criticize him there, you've had a completely alien experience to mine- it seems to be the main use of the site these days.

He has banned parody accounts that don't specify 'parody' in the username, he's threatened to de-amplify negative tweets, and he's banned the ElonJet account. I vehemently disagree with all of those moves, but the idea that the site is now unusable to say anything that he doesn't like is absolutely hyperbole.
Adult Swim's "Lords of Synth" comedy short contains a homage to Wendy Carlos in the form of a certain "Carla Wendos" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXgNo5Smino

There's also the documentary "Sisters with transistors" about women pioneers of electronic music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r-3hlzpV7M
you just reminded me to unload my shares!

elon's obvious downfall is very disappointing
The problem you run into with that is that saying "humans are programmed" in the identical sense as "computers are programmed" is nonsensical. We have powers that computers simply do not, like agency, imagination, we are capable of understanding, etc. So, the concept of programming a computer and "programming a human" would mean different things, which they do in our language. You run into either fundamentally redefining what programming means, placing sentient, agential, humans on the same plane as non sentient, non agential, machines; or you run into a situation where it makes no sense to say "Humans are programmed identically to computers."

But if you say "humans are programmed" in a metaphorical sense, then yeah sure that's an interesting thought experiment. But it's still a thought experiment.
Changing out the hashing algorithm in Git is a very difficult thing to do.
Its not worthless when one of the significant events was it cutting off a car that was traveling at high speed. That should literally never happen.
Does your company bill clients based on time spent on projects?
I think the answer is personal newsletters. Email is (sufficiently) distributed, and (about) everybody uses it.

I've replaced most of my social email with a monthly update. On the first day of every month, I publish a post on my website titled “What I’m up to this month.” In it, I have three simple sections:

- Highlights from last month

- Things to share

- What I’m up to this month

It sends to my mailing list. I find it works great - I can stay in touch with people, and people bring it up in conversations. It lacks the dopamine hits of "likes", but I think that it's ok to have a calmer, stupider system for staying in touch.
“all” = only Mac Pro, which has an Intel processor rather than new Apple Silicon
Lipstick on a pig. Unlike TypeScript, mypy feels really clunky.
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/the-chin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_espionage_in_the_Unite...

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/24/doj-indicts-nearly-...

https://www.csis.org/programs/strategic-technologies-program...

https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/04/25/limiting-chinese-na...
> Why isn't Git using something else?

Because switching to a different hash algorithm would break compatibility with all existing Git clients and repositories.
I mean, then so would everyone else, and we just fall back to a capital problem to advertise your creations.
Bad tools make it hard for good developers to do good things, and good tools make it easy for good developers to to good things.

Why do you care about bad developers? They won't do good things either way.
I know it sounds like I am going to be sarcastic, but I mean all of this in earnest and with good intention. Everything this generates is somehow worse than the thing it generated before it. Like the uncanny valley of audio had never been traversed in such high fidelity. Great work!
I've been hesitant to buy one just because it seems like the screen is subpar. The OLED Switch screen is beautiful, and I'd really like to see something like that in the Steam Deck before purchasing it.
Awesome article, really enjoyed reading it.

Only thing that ruffled my feathers at the end as a MA resident was the solution being additional personnel to monitor a non-problem.
Plenty of normal folks go to parties to which they contributed via a 501c3. Go to the orchestra or the ballet to see it in action. This isn't billionaire-only stuff.
I always see McMaster-Carr praised on HN, but almost never does it seem to be acknowledged as website that can only exist for engineers.

Generalizing anything from it onto the general internet population seems like thinking about education starting from a great calculus course: some useful lessons can be learned, but you do need to acknowledge that the average problem is very different.

And in the end we're left with: make a fast website, clean UI, intuitive flows.
I've never had an issue with text size, and there is a shortcut to bring up a magnifier. Then again I haven't played any text heavy RPGs on the deck.

Noise isn't an issue with PS3/360 era games and older (make sure you cap the frame rate). Newer games definitely push the system and the fans, but it's equal to a thin gaming PC. I think mine is the newer revision with the better fan, the first run had a louder fan iirc.
STUN seems like an important technique to get right for their core business, and should boil down to sending a few UDP packets back and forth with a server. As long as they have a dozen engineers that have a clue, it seems reasonable to expect NAT traversal to just work on a switch in most setups.
When I hear McMurdo Station, I think of a single solitary building with maybe a dozen people. I had no idea McMurdo was so large with so many buildings! I spent a few minutes trying to find a decent map of the entire station, but came up short.
Editors lead to fresh code
Fresh code leads to bugs
Bugs lead to suffering
This is more of a lead-gen ad for Medusa, tagging on the back of a deservedly-popular HN article.

The dissonance of this juxtaposition is comical. Are we going to ignore the elephant in the room? That Medusa's very own site, and the stores built with it, are the exact opposite of McMaster.com? If you started with Medusa, you wouldn't end up with McMaster.com. McMaster.com is as good as it is because it doesn't use the latest flavor of a bloated JS framework.

The points made in the article (they have a search bar at the top, they have sidebar....on the side, a cart page, a checkout page) are basic ecommerce, and have been for 20+ years. That's not what differentiates McMaster.

This comes off as a poor attempt to jump on the McMaster news cycle than to actually point out things that make it good.

It's their service, their longevity, their dependability, the simplicity, the availability, and the specificity that make it good. They're not good because of their ecommerce and web design choices. Their ecommerce and web design are good because they didn't jump on the latest tech fad every other year for the past 10 years.
> You just don’t build one of these plants in the desert.

If you're generating the electricity in a big solar field which would ideally be built in a desert (few clouds, cheap land) then building the electrolysis plant nearby makes sense. There are lots of areas like north Africa, western Australia, the southwest of North America, the Arabian peninsula, etc where sunlight and sea water are readily available but fresh water is at a premium. Ultra high voltage DC makes power transmission over continental scales technically possible, but the losses are still significant, having the option to use power close to where it is produced enables a lot of possibilities.
> How do you mock it? How do you test it?

Stripe and Firebase both offer test endpoints for their services. The foreign data wrappers for each allow subbing in a user defined endpoint in their `options` so thats how I'd recommend testing the two that have released. Some of the pre-release integrations can be spun up locally in docker e.g. clickhouse. The FDWs for those similarly take an arbitrary connection string making it pretty straightforward to write tests. Here's an example from the repo https://github.com/supabase/wrappers/blob/5fac8afb62e6e8362b...

> Add custom logic?

Views!

> tasks that the database is not designed to do

The C API for foreign data wrappers is baked right into Postgres proper. They've been around since 2013 and are pretty battle hardened at this point. Supabase Wrappers exposes that API in rust so users can write FDWs without worrying about accidentally tanking the Postgres process. Its more about making a great Postgres feature more accessible than tricking the database into doing anything new.
It's still impressive to me even if it was in its training set. The data used for training is not stored verbatim in the OpenAI model. It would still need to parse the context anew and solve the problem given its understanding of the boundaries of what I've written.
Nobody looks at a house and asks, "What kind of hammer and nails did they use?"

The OP is right: the interesting stuff in computing has always been what a new app/tool/library can DO, how it's being USED, but never HOW it was made.

This revelation first came home for me when the team of contractors I was on proposed to our customer that our mission for the next year should be to convert our prototype R&D air traffic control simulation from Pascal into C++. We were (stupidly) surprised when the customer declined, observing that the product's capabilities wouldn't advance at all but merely become a little more modern under the hood, where nobody but us contractors would ever look.
> Sure is excellent if you need to do something like extract a bunch of 1980s database files encoded in LATIN-1 though

Or, y'know, a bunch of 2010s database files encoded in latin1. Fun fact: Did you know that MySQL 5.7 is still a supported version in 2022?
I'm trans myself, and my general belief is that Steinem's position is far more defensible if we didn't have our personal lived experiences with gender dysphoria, or the evidence for things like regret rates for gender-affirming surgeries being very low. Second-wave feminism on trans issues was largely incorrect and harmful, but that is mostly a contingent fact rather than a necessary one.

This is as opposed to second-wave feminism on, for example, sex work issues, which is necessarily bad because it is more interested in moralizing than in caring about freedom or materiality.

Of course, anyone spreading the same propaganda now will not be part of the global struggle against fascism, as Judith Butler put it.
You already hear a ton of them. Lofi music on these massively popular channels are basically auto-generated "music" + auto generated artwork.
> We will stop being obsessed with money and status and spend much more time with family and friends. Entertainment will be insanely good and so will healthcare.

As nice as this would be, I think there's roughly 0% chance of it happening. Over the past few millenia humans have doubled productivity per capita a ridiculous number of times. None of those leaps led to an end of status seeking or a transition towards mostly leasure time for the masses.

Instead I expect more of the opposite from these developments. Power will get increasingly concentrated with people who have very little interest in the needs and wants of the plebs.
If it was only arguing about equally good tools, but sometimes actively choosing the worse tools is beyond me. XML and SOAP were perfectly fine and mature solutions with a lot of optional bells and whistles, but no, we have to invent and religiously use JSON and REST which are inferior in almost any way. And then we reinvent everything we already had - we invent JSON schema to replace XSD, we invent Swagger to replace WSDL and SOAP, and whatever does the job of XPath, XSLT, ... And we of course also make this change in a software that has been developed for more than a decade - because this is how it is done nowadays - and now half of the services are SOAP and half of them are REST.