skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. The shareholders are being forced by the FED. None of the investments they made make sense at this interest rate level, so they want out. However ...

The theory behind the moves of the FED is that they want inflation down. How? By firing people (people will only pay prices they can afford). The FED can't fire much people. So if shareholders want the FED to back down ... they need enough people fired.

And that doesn't really work because we are fundamentally tight on the labor market for 4+ years now. Nobody fired is going to have trouble finding a new job. Maybe not the same, but they won't exactly be unemployed (although given the wages offered unemployment might be the preferable option).

It's not shareholders, it's Jerome Powell.

It's also just not going to last. The Federal government is looking at two options, in ~1.5 years. Cutting spending by 4% (and one year after that, >10%) with LESS income. Or convincing "independent" Jerome Powell to lower interest rates back to 0%.

So we'll have, let's call it 2 years of this. The FED will be as effective as an inflatable dart board, but they only have ONE tool and goddammit, they will make it work!
So two years, not several.

I am not a walking encyclopedia. But you are a troll for acting like this.

The point was that VRE is still a tiny part of the overall grid. It will stay like that for a long time to come. And the original point that hydrogen is some kind is scam for not being green enough right now is pure hypocrisy, because the grid is in a similar situation.

And you immediately ignored the relevant points before launching into ad hominem and spouting off a conspiracy theory. Ironically, proving my point about how VRE fans do not want hydrogen production even though it solves the biggest weakness of VRE. Proving that VRE fans are just trolls these days and have nothing of relevance to say.
Started my career at a supplement company and it is definitely heresy, deception, and weird derivatives of protein and caffeine.
That may be true. But overall their prices are pretty reasonable.

Personally, I prefer paying a few francs more and in return get the certainty that I get what I ordered reasonably fast.

I never had a problem with deliveries from them, alas, high ticket items I picked up personally.

The only one time where they couldn't deliver a couple of USB chargers for a couple weeks because it was out of stock and the supplier couldn't supply I cancelled the pending order and had the money credited to my credit card.

Not having to deal with some dodgy outfit is worth the slight surcharge to me.
There's no point positing a less likely reason. Python wanted to incorporate Unicode fully. There was no way to do that that they came up with that didn't break a lot of software. You can read the documentation and see the discussion. It's not companies; it's a few people in Python leadership deciding.
What rowing app do you use?
If land could be replicated with a click of a button with close to zero cost, then sure.
From this I can only take away that you are not able to explain your position.

Trust me, the surprise is overwhelming!
This is unbelievable. I would have never expected AI to take the jobs of creatives first, but here we are. Artists and musicians can create much better work than AI, but the AI creates consistent works usable for people who aren’t artists, and need assets for their projects — whether video games, prototyping, storyboarding, etc.

It is going to be interesting to see artists revert to being a no-revenue passion again instead of being well compensated. That “well compensated” did not last long for them and I feel for the struggle. At the same time, a part of me feels art has no place being motivated by money anyway. Perhaps this change will restore the balance. Artists will need to get real jobs again like the rest of us and fund their art as a side project.

I hope an open model for music generation will be soon to follow, it will really be a big deal.
And that dynamical adjustment is very easy too ofcourse! Just move it x nm in the right direction!
Orwell had it all wrong. We would not be surveilled by force, we would be surveilled for our own amusement and convenience.
I'm surprised that ML-based MIDI generation hasn't been done quite a bit earlier and pretty well tbh. Sound is incredibly complex, but sequences of chords and notes aligned with music theory and genre conventions have well defined and easily imitated patterns. I guess part of the reason MIDI generation hasn't been a major research focus is that toy scripts get you a lot of the way.

These are pretty good, even the vocals are OK, although I wonder how much if parts of the prompt like "it may be used during a festival during two songs for a buildup" are actually adding much to the mix and the music's association with the painting descriptions is as loose as I'd expect.
This is a software package. Not wholly related.
> There are a wide range of programs that broke when Python 2 went away.

Python 2 still exists. Those programmes will break if you try and run them on Python 3, but that's not the same.
Less than a couple months ago, Intel seemed to be very enthusiastic and showcasing a bunch of testimonials from partners:

https://riscv.org/blog/2022/12/intel-pathfinder-for-risc-v-n...
reminds me of lecithin which was marketed in the 80s as helpful for the aging brain, turns out, lecithin does not cross the Blood-Brain barrier
> Even fully open sources software can't be "repaired" when its dependencies break. There are a wide range of programs that broke when Python 2 went away.

Can't? Like physical objects can't be repaired when the parts are no longer sold?

There is always a way to repair, just a matter of how difficult it is. Having the sourcee to the application itself is the first difficulty barrier. Source to dependencies would also be helpful, yes.

Btw, Python 2 did not go away unless you mean it went away from the default package archives of some Linux distributions - but even there it's not (yet) gone for all of them. The Python 2 sources are still the same as they have always been and while you might need older versions of a few more dependencies, if your really need to have Python 2 you can get it.
I built planetiler (https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler) for this purpose. The output up to z14 is ~80gb and depending on how big of a machine you have it takes from 30 minutes up to a few hours - no DB required, just java or docker. If you are only going to z11-12, it should be quite a bit faster/smaller.

Brandon from Protomaps is also helping add pmtiles output natively to planetiler, so you won't need a conversion step afterwards!
2) This is a good list of tools! We could further into AWS and say there's a app server, a database, a pub/sub, a load balancer, and a payment processor.
I just join a company and my work is to get as many early adopters to test our product.
Not new to web3 market, but never had to go use this angle to directly approach projects and say “hey, wanna make your developers use our product and you’ll all get some in-house NFTs”… well let’s just say it’s harder than I thought (please feel free to laugh at me, cause I surely am when I think of how easy it’d be, compared to my other BD projects).
So anyways, enough of my life story, any tips, platforms, suggestions, Hail Mary on how I can successfully get developers or projects to try it???
Farmers have to put in constant work to generate revenue. "IP" revenue too often entails create-once-earn-forever. However, "IP" often has a higher upfront investment attached to it, and often is not (as) "scalable", unlike farming.

What I am trying to say is that both things are very different in details where it matters, so I think this is a rather flawed analogy.

Maybe a closer analogy would be landowners who rent out land. Should a person who bought land 10 years ago be able to generate revenue from renting it to a farmer?
thank you, looks like you are right.
I started writing yet another rant about how most HN users don't care about the rest of the planet, but then thought better of it. Long story short: way more people on Earth are using cheap (and thus low-power) hardware then you probably think. And it isn't necessarily old.
Selling water / sugar that has been "marketed differently" (read: they lie to you) is a huge industry, yes.

E.g. "Vitamin Water", all kinds of supplements marketed in the fitness industry, even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy.

Placebo is a strong thing.
I don't think the syntax of TS is the problem. It's that people are trying to define types for massively dynamic JS that is inherently hard to express as a type.
Is it those Aaron Swartz who was inspired (to put it mildly) by some other guy, Carl Malamud?

And than Aaron hanged himself and Carl feels good and still sells his books, https://www.amazon.com/stores/Carl-Malamud/author/B000APW8Z0...?

This is a wonderful instructive almost biblical story.
Nothing new here, I was at Intel's talk in GDCE 2009 about how Larrabee was going to change the world of graphics programming.

See also Edison, StrongARM,...
The Apple brand has some serious cachet. They can attract top-shelf people, and keep the salaries reasonable.

I worked for a company that had similar "cachet," and they were cheap bastards, but they did keep people, and their posture resulted in remarkably few "non-serious" applicants. The people who applied really wanted to work there.

As a hiring manager, I appreciated not having to sort through a pile of totally unsuited résumés, and, as a bonus, the ones that were unsuited, on paper, were often the high-achieving, ambitious "diamond in the rough" types that I looked for.
Chuck Palahniuk, DFW, Bret Easton Ellis, Stephen Chbosky, Donna Tartt, Christopher Buckley, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan.
or maybe we'll get back to living like 50-70 years ago, when there was minimal amount of video footage around. You trusted what you could see and touch.

It's not necessarily a bad thing.
The ability to communicate is for warning our tribe of danger. It isn't supposed to be for talking about open source software.

Intentions and realities are often different. Such is life.
Mae eye contact, or raise your hand.
Going on a metaphysical tangent, it is a bit weird that A LOT of physical processes can be modelled with linear algebra, and don't require something way more advanced ...
Stability is really something that we need to get a lot better at as programmers. Perhaps accesibility laws/guidelines should limit UI changes for automatic/required updates - you can always have users opt into your shiny newfangled UI if you want, but leave the old one instead of confusing your users.
It may also be expensive, since % has the cost of division, and there are two of them..
Not so much on the technical side, but from a product perspective I can't get over how the name, when spoken aloud, sounds like it's had a couple drinks too many or maybe lost its upper denture plate.
cost of 100 omega 3 capsules (in .gr): ~10 euros, fish and nuts cost about 18 euros per kilo and tend to spoil.
Changes to Microsoft 365 email features and storage (starting Feb first)
Abandonware should not be copyright-protected. The process of business dissolution should require sending a copy of all proprietary source-code to customers (assuming the business was not acquired / there is no new owner of the source code), and businesses that refuse to support legacy software with no upgrade path should be liable to provide the source code to such customers.

I don't think right-to-repair for commercially supported software makes sense. If you care about the right to modify and rebuild, put source access into the contract. But you have a commercial relationship, so the vendor is supposed to listen to your feature and bugfix requests. If they're unwilling to consider source access or feature/bugifx requests, don't buy from them, it sounds like they don't care about your business.
Much of the western world is being trained to take offense to as much as possible.
That makes sense given Herbert borrowed heavily from Middle Eastern, Islamic mythology
well, it turns out 4 core processors on 14nm can't keep you going forever. intel learned it the hard way.
PersonaGen: AI User-Persona Generator
Hey HN community
I'm Piyush, a first-time founder, and I would like to showcase a new project I have been working on.

Are you feeling drained from crafting mundane personas for your upcoming project? I would like to introduce PersonaGen, a next generation A.I. based persona generator made to assist you in elevating the process with our innovative solution for hyper-automating user-personas development.

Our platform provides a comprehensive and organized approach to product-based planning, with all your persona's arranged by projects and feature-wise specifications. Moreover, the tool also provides you with an in-depth understanding of your potential target audience, enabling you to make well-informed design choices for your digital products, be it websites, mobile apps, or any other type of market that you are looking to enter with your next idea.

Our goal is to aid you in making more market-driven decisions, ultimately leading to the delivery of an exceptional user experience, and I hope that by utilizing our tools, you can improve your daily workflow and boost productivity.

TL;DR:
PersonaGen provides an organized and comprehensive approach, also giving an in-depth understanding of the target audience and helping make market-driven decisions for better user experience.

All ideas are welcome, especially what you think about the idea or anything that you feel would add more value to it.

Thanks
Piyush
Great to see something like this here. That's how the company I now run started back in the 90ies.
Back then (and earlier, but that stuff stays around) alarm receiving centers had reaceiving devices that just printed everything they received on strips of paper. So if they received a burglary alarm somthing like

ID: 1234

Status 00001000

apperead and the operator had to grab a folder, search for the ID and then read to see what he had to do, when the 5th line went from 0 to 1.

Our company built devices that connected to the printing ports (most of the time internal connections on the main board) of the machines, interpret the data and automate the lookup against files (later a database).
I work in a large java code base, where I'm often exposed to brand new code (written a while ago, or written by other teams).

I built this tool to help me understand the unfamiliar: https://packagemap.co

There's a parser that extracts all the classes and methods from the java code and a site that renders these in a directed graph.
I use a kind of query syntax to filter the graph, and added features based on how I want to explore the code.

The nodes in the graph carry an name like: "my.company.package.MyClass.myMethod"

Then I can filter by wildcards: *MyClass*

Or see just the classes with a line terminator: *.MyClass$

Or see the code that leads up to, or away from a method/type: ->*MyClass, *MyClass->

I've found making the problem visual has massively improved how I navigate the code. In code review I spot things that are very hard to see in an IDE or file-tree review UI (like github). Things like; where abstractions are being broken/leaking, or where types are being mis-used across packages.

I wrote a summary of the common cases I find using this tool in a blog post[0]

[0] https://blog.packagemap.co/posts/common-code-coupling-mistak...
I stopped going to a gym a few years ago and nowadays do everything at home. I'll try to do HIIT a few times per week, splitting that up between running and jumping rope. On top of that, my regular training integrates a lot of calisthenics - mostly handstands, pullups, pushups, etc. - and stuff with kettlebells. I have a barbell and plates, but I don't use them as much anymore because I got rid of my weight bench. Nowadays, I mostly do deadlifts and cleans with the barbell. Have screwed around with some other things like Arthur Saxon lift, etc.

As far as how training has benefited me personally, I would say that some kind of training or regular "exercise" is in order if you want to be a fulfilled, well-rounded person, especially as a man. I didn't take fitness seriously at all until my early adulthood. I was living in my car at the time and had a gym membership for the initial purpose of taking showers, but at one point I figured, "why not try out this exercise thing that people do?" so I started running on the treadmills regularly and it had an incredible impact on me at the time and also motivated me to stop smoking (because of how difficult running was with smoker's lung). Over time I started picking up more things and now it's part of my daily life.
As a former gamedev, I think the author lacks imagination for the monotony, depravity, and sheer volume of player effort.

The most likely discoverer is some kids, more interested with wasting time than getting high scores, seeing who can survive the longest on a single quarter. Or maybe they wanted to troll others and hog a machine as long as possible.

I suppose it could be a bug found during development/QA, deemed not worth fixing, and then leaked by those with knowledge showing off, followed by viral spread. But just typing this out it sounds more complicated than kids being kids.

I would bet money that it is not a clever developer sneaking a cheat or Easter egg into the game.
Aldous Huxley had it mostly right. We're amusing ourselves to death.
I moved from python2 to python3 to typed python3.

It makes refactor much easier, I can easily understand what parameter a function wants, without having to read the docstring or worse, the body of the function.

typecheckers do find a lot of errors that would otherwise be runtime errors.
Omega 3 capsules can also spoil, right?
We do have a law, but last I checked then in Estonia there was no way for a private person to do API based payments without later needing to log in to the website and signing the transactions manually with an ID card (i.e a smart card). Sad.
One of the reasons for this was the fact that there were so many home computers being made with them too .. so you could go to work and hack on the Z80 eval board/PCBA, then come home and brush up some code on telly, bring it back on tape and so on .. I made a lot of progress as a programmer in the 80's by building my own suite of home computers with the same CPU's as we were using in embedded projects at work ..

Can't really do that much these days, although a similar vibe can be had if you work in embedded linux and use ARM .. pretty nice to take code from an rPi home machine and run it on the industrial systems as well ..
Ask HN: Thoughts on Preventing or Reducing Ransomware
One of the biggest problems is the human factor, the user. What can be done to help these humans make less mistakes and fall into less traps?

Would love to hear your thoughts.
"The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted Jan. 25-Feb. 8, 2021, among a national sample of 1,502 adults ages 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (300 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,202 were
interviewed on a cellphone, including 845 who had no landline telephone)."

TLDR completely meaningless study, it's like doing car ownership study at petrol station.

Also:
"Note: Respondents who did not give an answer are not shown."

Also:
Own a cellphone ≠ use a cellphone.

I'm sure plenty of people who gave up on mobile phone would find one somewhere in drawer, same with gifted phones, but could be reached by landline in this survey.

You should also probably add (2021) to headline, since it's already 2023 and this was published APRIL 7, 2021.
The big famous ones got toasted, but one[1] of the small specie survived. A few decades ago, we realized that birds are the descendant of dinosaurs. (Or "birds are dinosaurs" if you prefer that classification.)

[1] One specie or a few species? I'm really curious about the current most popular hypothesis.
So basically once your body has all the nutrients it needs to grow or make the things it needs to make, it makes them. Even more extra stuff it doesn’t need, it doesn’t use. Makes sense.

This also appears to apply to the immune system. There’s zero evidence that supplements that are supposed to “boost your immune system” do any such thing. Yes your immune system functions best if you have good nutrition, but that’s it. Even better nutrition just isn’t a thing.

Side rant, sorry, but I had this conversation with a relative during covid, she was touting supplements to ‘boost her immune system’. There’s one way we have found that really does actually boost your immune system, that works with your natural defences by training them specifically to fight a particular disease. Vaccination.
> especially the conditioning on humming and whistling ... but to bad they use very common melodies

100%. Now if you add the detailed "Painting Caption Conditioning" to the mix, you can create a melody in the style of… an image, which, in a way, is kind of a controlled artificial synaesthesia [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
Googling "cellphone prison" I get a bunch of articles saying that "almost everybody has a phone" in prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/us/03prisoners.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2020/04/19/will-cel...
I have an iPhone, but I'm not willing to spend $1300 on one. I bought my last one refurbished for about $250, an iPhone 7 Plus, about three years ago, and I still have no issues with it.

And Boost Mobile (where I got mine) is currently advertising a deal for an iPhone 8 for $80, or an iPhone 11 for $350.

Not all of that 60% are paying the full price for a brand new iPhone, probably not even the vast majority of them. iPhones tend to last (and continue to receive updates -- I'm still getting updates on mine) for quite a while.

That being said, I agree with you that they don't need to bring the price down. And I disagree with the parent, because there's already ways to get (older) iPhones pretty cheap, almost as cheap as they were calling for.
I agree - its hearsay and deception - vitamins and nutrients and dietary supplements are a huge, profit driven, industries - they are not your friend trying to improve your health - they are trying to empty your wallet and nothing else.
Well, you can't have it both ways. Banks that follow the standard "we are a respectable organization of respectable managers" image rarely allow people a look into their systems.

Disclaimer: I'm a bunq customer, both for business and for private purposes. Smoothest experience I have ever had with a financial organization. Stuff "just works" and is hassle free.
Wrong again

https://www.reuters.com/technology/
intel-orders-asml-machine-still-drawing-board-chipmakers-look-an-edge-2022-01-19/
I used to work in defense, should that software be open source?
The basic principle still holds: "Kerckhoff's principle is the concept that a cryptographic system should be designed to be secure, even if all its details, except for the key, are publicly known" - which seems to be happening here (caveat emptor, also this should be self-hostable).

In other words, the security still hinges on the secret key, except you're not directly using the password Secr3tKey#website.example, but its hash. If everyone used this, the password strength would still be only dependent on the secret key strength, and wouldn't provide an easier avenue to a preimage (i.e. can't find the key otherwise than bruteforce; even though the explanation has some worrying confusion between hashing and encryption). Fairly straightforward, except some opsec concerns (e.g. "domain name lapses in a few years and Evil Operator starts logging the secret keys", or "site is unavailable for initial load, even though it does work offline afterwards")
AGPL does, though.