skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a biting satire

I always appreciated the sarcasm.

"And this is what he said, on,

his way to arma gedd on:

So long Mom,

I'm off to drop the bomb,

so don't wait up for me.

But while you swelter

Down there in your shelter

You can see me, on your TV.

So long Mommee,

I'm of to get a commie

So send me a salami

And try to smile somehow.

I'll look for you when the war is over

An hour-and-a-half from now."
Substantial nutrition that we don't need though. You could get even more nutrition if you didn't feed the animal in the first place and just ate some crops made on the same land the animal would have eaten.

It's like those golden tomahawk steaks. There's no point in covering a steak with gold, yet we spend effort digging a hole in the ground to do it.
Carmack is a developer god, but against stupidity, the very gods themselves contend in vain.
I just want coloured notifications in the task tray beyond cyan and magenta.

Lot of notifications are automatic slack bots but without looking I don't know if it's a git pr or a human.
The difference is that nothing what eyko said is based on hearsay.
Well the forth gen nuclear power plants will take so many years to build that we will have surpassed some fundamental tipping points.

I am not opposed to nuclear, I think that anyone who is does not understand the severity of the climate crisis.

Problem will also be drought which will affect hydroelectric, we had this problem in Italy this summer.
Right, interesting. The song I thought first to ask about is all along the watchtower because there’s so much disagreement on its meaning and it’s one that everyone classically reads too much into, apparently it’s sort of a nonsense reference to Bob Dylan being annoyed with his record company at the time.

The AI came up with the idea that the joker is a skeptic and the thief is a believer, which I can’t find reference to anywhere else and which I found quite strange.

Also interesting that it ascribes quite different meanings whether it is the Hendrix version or the Dylan version which suggests it must be drawing its meaning from something other than the lyrics, like it must be drawing the meaning from things that other people have said about the songs online, but it’s not just directly quoting them.

It’s exquisitely incorrect.
We’re just uppity primates so our group dynamics are always going to be dominated by our social instincts.
That is my rule. Its better to ask for forgiveness than permission. So if you can hack it you can hack it without getting caught, its all yours.
i jumped the self hosting wagon 2~ years ago.
some inputs

1. go with a cheap vps and check the IP blacklisting

https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/w/f9pZjSNLHVZ4FFkdnxNaCU

https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/w/c1d4KKBe8iQ3sqL6W8vYDp

if you get a bad ip, ask your vps provider to get it changed. (and open smtp if not otherwise)

2. you will have problems sending to outlook/gmail for a few weeks. your emails will go directly to spam so you have to call your recipients and have them "mark as not spam". this happens separately with or without attachments so it will take some time...

3. i used mailinabox but there are other alternatives so this can be as easy or as customizable as you want.

4. you will be responsible for managing the domain and keep paying for the VPS (dont do anything stupid on the server because that might end your vps in trouble with the provider)

5. use backups for the server, backblaze b2 works nice and has 10GB free so yeah

6. i have used the server exclusively for work and i have found in my testing, i got emails a tad bit faster than gmail but i cant say with certainty.

about your questions.

1. if your "server" goes down, you can spin one up and "receive" the email in an emergency or you can (if you have backups), restore the same and work away...

you own the server so its not like your account will get deleted or anything. anything@anything.com will always be with you so as long as your third party has banned your domain, you should be able to receive the email.

> I wouldn't want that to happen if I needed to receive a confirmation email for, let's say, password recovery for a website.

this is a valid question. so your email goes down and you have to reset a password, no problem. as i already said, you just restore your backup and you will get the email.
The metaverse is a castle in the sky nobody can make it what Meta or John Carmack wants it to be.
Recall how a major theme of The Great Gatsby is that even if you can't just buy a fix for a particular thing, it's always possible to retreat into one's wealth in general.

(HN'ers will recognise Jay Gatz' earnest self-improvement program in the appendix to that book in many front-page posts here. The Americans of 2025 will share a lot, culturewise, with those of 1925.)
>1. Flight tracking data, collected from ADS-B, is legal and publicly available. Aircraft ownership data is public too.

Not legal in Europe. You can't legally collect this (or any other PII) for fun, you'd need particularly strong reasons to do so without consent.

Mobile phones also broadcast their IMEIs and location, it would be similarly illegal to collect and store those signals to track phone movements.

>2. Nobody has a right to keeping their aircraft movements private, and aircraft movements != personal movements.

While not all aircraft movements are personal movements, many are.
It's The Guardian. What do you expect?
Checked the danish wikipedia for Lego, for fun, and it seems that in Denmark they use "Legoklods" which is literally translated to lego bricks.

"LEg GOdt" means play well and play is good.
Any mention of Lewis Strauss is glaringly absent from the document.
Unfortunately still many people working in tec jobs do not understand that putting an ID on an official governmental document that you need to carry is effectively the same like a tattoo with a number on your arm.

Despite Germans have made bad experiences with that, the idea survived the 3rd Reich.

The idea that as a human being you need "governmental documents" to identify is an authoritarian core value that is fundamentally against individual freedom.

Jews were forced to always carry their "Kennkarte" with them.

Please do not tell me about positive use cases that are based on the naive idea that "the government is the good guys".

When electronic IDs are not rolled back everywhere then democracy and individual freedom will be lost for a very long time.
Elon Musk's team seeks new funding for Twitter – investor
On the albums page, the link for "The Remains of Tom Lehrer (disc 1)" RAR file has a typo. It should be https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/trotl1... (replace the last lowercase L with 1).
there are people who hang out by airports and record every flight in and out.

Don't worry they want to classify that as cyber stalking next.
That decision by the EU was found to be illegal by an EU court, by the way: https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/commission-los...
Excellent movie, but how the hell is it relevant to this?
Solaris is used in life-critical environments, like for example medical systems or energetics. Anything that's absolutely life critical and must run for thousands of days without rebooting. And it's really nice for running software because of its advanced features like the runtime linker, zones containerization and fault management architecure features like SMF. It's awesome software on awesome hardware.
Yeah well, you're anonymous, so you might as well be someone with a huge ego who got their idea shut down by Carmack once and is still bitter about it. More often than not, when people think they "prove something wrong with data" it's more that they're "taking some data and interpret in a way that fits their standpoint".

Carmack has proven enough times in the past that he's able to deliver, that he can push technology, knows what's possible and what isn't, and can wrap up a product. "Wading into fields he has no experience in" sounds pretty unlikely for VR given his past work. And I wouldn't consider the Oculus Go a failure, more like ahead of it's time and released too early. A prototype of the quest. But I guess now it's easy to claim everything that's bad about the go was Carmack's work and everything good about the quest and quest 2 was someone else's.
I'm a bit over Raspberry Pis at this point. They're impossible to find, and their performance is terrible. I tried getting back into one of my Raspberry Pis from scratch just earlier today, and even with setting up the OS from scratch and the most up to date version, it was unbearably slow. So slow as to be unusable for even the most simple tasks. So that kickstarts forum hopping trying to figure why, and there's laundry lists. It's just a massive time sync. I've decided to upgrade to a Dell or Lenovo mini PC for some desktop Linux needs, where I need a GUI, and go with other embedded solutions over Raspberry Pis or relegate them to headless only uses.
If you blogged about it, we would all read it.
See Bob Altemeyer for research into "people who are willing to follow strong men" (authoritarian followers)
>I have plenty of examples across multiple top-tier companies, of senior leadership who were smart, thoughtful, effective... and still reasonable and compassionate.

some hide it well, some haven't met a cutthroat enough politician/executive. Some may be smart or lucky enough to completely avoid the scene altogether and tend to their own farm peacefully. And then maybe 2 remaining groups are truly in sync and altruistic and overall seem to be interested in the betterment of their audience than profits.

I wouldn't bet on Meta being in the latter category tho. I hope carmack enjoys his farm, he's definitely earned it.

>I think it's simply that it's tough to move people, plain as that.

can't make a horse drink. In this case, it's probably more like you can't even lead the horse to water to begin with.

That's why culture fit is such a strong factor in success. you can't spend all day fighting and expect reasonable progress to be made.
The war in Ukraine has decimated a once feared Russian brigade
But by that standard, I could just ask GPT to write code to multiply the numbers. It's not even trying you be an embodied agent with a hand able to type onto a calculator.

GPT is remarkable to me not for its failings, but because of how far it can get when it's only trying to win the game of "predict what token comes next".
Curious: Are you affiliated with ClickHouse or any other Columnar DB project in any way? If so, you may want to add that as a disclosure.
This is fine.

Seems silly to put solar panels on rooftops in California until we have totally filled the I-8/10/15/40 corridors with massive utility scale plants stretching a couple miles in both directions from the highway.

Solar panel production and installation has limited capacity so shouldn’t we prefer the desert climate multiplier to get 4x the energy? Take that panel off your roof and send it to the Mojave! The grid losses are negligible in comparison
When paper beats the screen
They're welcome to reply how they want to, but it's an example of the discourse on Twitter, as mentioned in the parent comment.
> I’m often wondering how one can do that, besides showcasing the freedom of expression that people can have in the west.

That only works for people who give a damn about freedom of expression. Can you imagine what it'd be like if almost every conversation you had were linked to money somehow?
>if the question was "how to make money and secure future prosperity?" instead of "how to build an impossibly safe plant, far safer than any standard we've ever applied before?"

I'd be happy with this if there wasnt a liability cap on all nuclear plants at ~0.1% the cost of cleaning up 1 Fukushima.

The free market would never, ever, ever have built a single plant if 99.9% of the insurance costs weren't fully socialized, however. That's why the cap exists after all - the government was desperate to get the private sector to build these things.

Arguing to chip away at safety standards in an industry that already has full liability protection against its own mistakes...doesnt make a lot of sense to me.

Especially when solar, wind and storage are all way way cheaper even before insurance risks are taken into account.
We often hold AI to the bar of a highest submission in a field (critique this song to the level of a music/English verse critic) but if you think about the average quality it's performing much better in that context.

(Just get it to output "this song is really about drugs" and you're now up to the bar of "average Song Meanings" submission!)
From my experience as a secondary school teacher, it's the latter which then leads to the former. Kids can't read. I'd say in my last year teaching I probably only had three kids who I would consider literate, able to read and make inferences, think about the material they're reading, etc. There's several reasons for this (and not just social media -- they're often taught to regurgitate for the state exams), but it's a real issue.
I'm not defending anything, although you clearly seem on the attack.

I worked for the company, I was not the decision maker. Many of us have worked at companies where decisions are made that are questionable or unethical, sometimes even illegal (although I don't believe this would have been illegal in my country at the time).
> The government will make up the difference if retail prices are lower

… and pocket it if higher, right?
Security Research on Twitter: Before and After Musk’s Takeover
Sub question: was the prompt you used “how would captain holt from Brooklyn 99 describe the song X”?

To quote the AI:

Meaning of the song "Push It" by Salt-N-Pepa

"Push It" by Salt-N-Pepa is an upbeat, danceable song about embracing one's own sexuality and being willing to see it as a positive. The lyrics tell listeners to “push it good” and “show the guys that we know how to become number one in a hot party show.” This is a call to women to take control of their sexual power, to own it and show it off with confidence. The song celebrates the freedom to do whatever one wants with their body, regardless of societal expectations and rules. The chorus includes themes of empowerment and self-acceptance, telling listeners to “push it good,” “push it real good,” and “get up on this.” The song has become popularly associated with female empowerment, and has served as an anthem of sorts for many women.
> Let's completely destroy the desert biome because we are afraid of nuclear power
But there's a reason the folk wisdom tells you to never meet your heroes. When you do, you painfully realize that the stories didn't focus on their humanity but instead were spinning the myths of their divinity.

This is part of the reason I like Steve Jobs so much. The stories around him never failed to mention his legendary penchant for downright nasty behaviour. And yet people loved him anyway, even when they lived in fear of stepping into an elevator with him! It’s bizarre and entertaining stuff!

Personally I’d rather work with boring, reliable, friendly people in an low-stress job and focus my passion on my hobbies. I recognize that others might want to take risks and try to make something big.
I usually take about 3-4 minutes to shower but when I shower I want PLENTY of HOT water. You may claim these mist showers provide the same comfort but I'm just not buying it.

The constant legal push for water saving armatures in showers is something that bothers me to no end. Especially since I live in Norway where we're neither lacking water nor renewable electricity.
Maybe Oculus Go was a failure in all those areas because VR will always be a failure in those areas.
I think you're right, but it goes a step father. They then associate that with reading in general, and liking books. Then they start to believe that self-insert dystopian YA is just as literary as, say, actual dense literature that explores the human condition. Or they make books their personality, without ever reading them. r/books is full of examples like this, where it almost seems they talk more about the idea of reading than they do the books, while also constantly seeking validation for not even attempting something challenging.
Not really. Terrence and Terence are too visually similar and tbh I've seen more former than latter.
I have very little knowledge on information theory, but wouldn't a perfect hashing algorithm for a set of data have to embed all the variance of that data? At query time this could likely still be made faster than binary search, but would not be O(1) as the complexity of the hashing algorithm depends on the data it is built for.

Edit: Wikipedia says perfect hashes have O(1) runtime for a given dataset. This framing is a bit weird, as I would think the size of "1" still depends on "n". Also Wikipedia gives ~1.44 bits/key as complexity so this should be much better than the 9 bytes the article came up with.
Here's the 1st amendment for reference:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

How exactly does the FBI asking a private sector company to take down posts violate this amendment?
Surely only legacy data? No new data going into it?
This is completely incorrect. Elon owns Twitter, Twitter is responsible for complying with the GDPR on their platform.

Elon in fact has a lot to do with the apparatus of GDPR enforcement.
> As you can see, he has a measured and empirical approach to the topic.

He still hasn’t corrected his inaccurate comments about pro-drop after all these years. (A bit of a hobby horse of mine: earlier comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127035)
There is a sense of premium quality from your books, so I bought em. You haven’t let me down!

I have been curious. Why the choice of java as introductory level?

Maybe I’ve been lucky to choose my own tools over the years. But I still get hung up on this. It’s just that Java is so longform.

I’m not sure I ever really wrote a sort in it, without cheating. Besides showing off that I could, I probably installed groovy or later scala, mostly.

So heh. I had a pleasant headfake in “Crafting Interpreters” when it was revealed that the JVM machinery wasn’t going to get anyone the full distance.

Java just feels backwards, as the low-level code is simpler and smaller. Why is Java still seen as more accessible than [anything else]?

Is OOPs curriculum still that prevalent?

Or. Pointers? Pointers took me a long time, even after I got them. Is it pointers?
"Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif."

was my first visit to any botanical garden some 30 years ago. I still remember and still highly recommend it. It's gorgeous.
>It's assumed that corporations spend as little as possible on operations.

A ridiculous assumption. Corporations are incredibly wasteful and tend to solve problems by piling money on them until they’re fixed.
It doesn't really work with C++.
Welp guess we’ll have to let several mega cities just dry up and turn to dust then! Glad we had such a low regret option available all along
importing was sooo slow (something I likely messed up trying to make it go faster, was only chugging along at ~100MB/s)

SQLite version 3.37.0 2021-12-09 01:34:53

here's the results tho

sqlite> create table hashes (hash text, count text);
sqlite> pragma cache_size=1000;
sqlite> pragma synchronous=off;
sqlite> .mode csv
sqlite> .separator :
sqlite> .timer on
sqlite> .import pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v8.txt hashes
sqlite> select * from hashes where hash = 'F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511';
^CRun Time: real 14.841 user 9.370057 sys 2.363629
Error: stepping, interrupted (9)
sqlite> create unique index hash_uniq on hashes(hash);
Run Time: real 530.029 user 262.952507 sys 213.305437
sqlite> select * from hashes where hash = 'F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511';
F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511:26437
Run Time: real 0.004 user 0.000303 sys 0.000936
sqlite> select * from hashes where hash = 'F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511';
F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511:26437
Run Time: real 0.001 user 0.000310 sys 0.000306
sqlite> select * from hashes where hash = 'F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511';
F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511:26437
Run Time: real 0.000 user 0.000295 sys 0.000305
sqlite> select * from hashes where hash = 'F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511';
F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511:26437
Run Time: real 0.000 user 0.000320 sys 0.000279
sqlite> select * from hashes where hash = 'F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511';
F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511:26437
Run Time: real 0.001 user 0.000322 sys 0.000317
sqlite> select * from hashes where hash = 'F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511';
F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511:26437
Run Time: real 0.001 user 0.000128 sys 0.000155
sqlite> select * from hashes where hash = 'F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511';
F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511:26437
Run Time: real 0.001 user 0.000145 sys 0.000158
It's a price I'm willing to pay for investigative journalism. But I will never be worthy of https://www.bellingcat.com/ attention.
> on the hypothesis that we have a pure, periodic signal in there

That pure sine wouldn't generate any artefacts. It would result in a 200Hz output from the AI if it throws the phase information out. You wouldn't hear a difference unless its an (aptly so called) complex signal. Eg. 200 and 201 Hz layered is an impure signal with a period below 1Hz, far outside the scope. Eventually the signals will cancel out completely. [1]

The important point is, I think, that FFT doesn't simply look at the offset aka phase. Rather, 201 Hz looks like a 200 Hz that is moving. So it encodes phase-shift in the delta of the offset between two windows. For a sum of 200 and 201 Hz it has to assume that the magnitude is also changing, which I find entirely counterintuitive.

From the mathematical perspective, this seems like a borring homework, far detached from accoustics. So, I don't know. The funny thing is that rotation is very real in the movement of strings. If the orbit in one point is elliptic, that's like two sinusoids at different magnitudes offset by some 90 degree, in a simplified model. But it has nearly infinite coupled points along its axis. As they exite each other, and each point has a different distance to the receiver, that's where phase shift happens.

> If you look here at the definition of the ω (omega) parameter

I wasn't going to make drone, but I will take a look.

1: https://graphtoy.com/?f1(x,t)=100*sin(x)&v1=true&f2(x,t)=100...
I've seen it used by both millenials and zoomers, mostly directed at boomers. It captures a general sentiment that is widespread among those generations that the boomer generation uses (or used existing) systems of power to benefit themselves to the detriment of younger generations and then complains as the younger generations struggle to earn their place in those systems.
This is actually a common pattern you get from multiple vendors.
QNX.
Technically they are not unices…
chatGPT has arrived...
The question stands, irrespective of what legacy or current dysfunction the US is suffering from. And Taiwan Invasion is the logical answer.
There is really no other reason. Just look at US struggling to even raise a single Division of troops in Europe to support Ukraine. If they cant do it in Europe, there is no way they are a serious threat as far away as Taiwan.