skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Because it’s in no one’s interest to see Tether collapse.

That kind of sounds like magical thinking. On the other hand trying to short USDT sounds insane from a practical point of view.

I think the reality is that we talk and think about all crypto way more than they actually are going to matter, particularly relative to the amount they are actually used. Not the BS "market cap" which is phoney in so many ways. Can we admit that maybe this isn't very important?
Are your referring to Eureka Math? (What is usually incorrectly called "Common Core")

Eureka Math is produced by Great Minds. Until 2015, they were called Common Core Inc. In fact they predated the Common Core Standard, and were sufficiently influential in the creation of the standard that the standard was effectively named after them.

Therefore calling it Common Core IS historically correct. Furthermore I have a strong distaste for their attempt to rebrand themselves to distance themselves from the failures that they were instrumental in creating in the first place.

Again I direct you to https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2019/10/06/a-great-minds-com... to see more tidbits about their history.
Yes, but there are nuances, as mentioned in the article:

> In screenplays, two authors joined with & collaborated on the script, while two authors joined with and worked on the script at different times and may not have consulted each other at all.

I sometimes use it to avoid awkwardness in lists, e.g. "I ate fish & chips and drank a cup of tea".

I guess both examples use & as a stronger binder than and.
> Why not get more proactive and start applying to companies/teams that you would like to work for.

I’ve been doing this as well, but haven’t had a single interview from either.
Yeah, insofar as there are distinct political philosophies with defining features like fascism, democracy, nationalism, oligarchy, et. al., then it is entirely possible to accurately call manifestations of those philosophies by their names and have it be an expression of fact. This is basic ontology.

We have opinions about these philosophies but the philosophies exist independently of our opinions. And to have a rational conversation we sometimes have to use terms that may provoke strong reactions. If we can't look past our strong reaction and explain why the category doesn't apply then there's no way to make sense of each other's worldview.

If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it must be a duck or we cannot have a rational conversation about the duck. We can dispute whether it quacks or walks but disputing whether it's a duck in light of evidence of its duckness is irrational.
Perhaps systemic issues make a political party commit more evil acts.

Regardless, I don’t think an AI should be permitting more hateful comments about a political affiliation just like it should be be permitting hateful comments about a particular race being more violent.
Optically, you are limited by angular resolution, so less distance means better resolution on the ground.
I'd dispute religion not being a choice and that it's perfectly acceptable to discriminate as you suggest, but, regardless, this seems like semantic cartwheels to avoid the clear, evidenced point that bias is present.

Whether you or I approve of or align with that bias is irrelevant.
Why isn't the user in charge of whether they want the page visibility api to report them?
I see abortion as a topic where the left/right split hasn't caught up to the populace. Recent US elections seem to support that [1]: "Five statewide ballot measures all came out in favor of abortion rights, even in red states like Kentucky and Montana. That's on top of an August win for abortion rights supporters on a Kansas ballot measure." Maybe a worldwide left/right split is more inline with abortion, however I don't know anything about that.

Looking at HN, I see a bigger divide on topics such as Cloudflare discontinuing services for Kiwi Farms. I tend to see vigorous discussion that seems civil and then a handful of comments that are "strong" in tone. I really don't see anything as overwhelmingly left in general.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139040227/abortion-midterm-e...
> There's a high risk of debris falling on people on the ground.

That excuse seems really odd to me. Montana is the third-least densely populated state with 6.86 people per square mile of land.
~$10 shipped at aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804457160611.html (maybe this one)
"From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent"

That was 1946 and the start of the cold war
paranoid engineer here.. will chatgpt replace us :|
Yes, this: can you get any interesting insights by playing with the embedding vectors? What happens if you add embeddings together? Weighted average of multiple tracks? Follow the average vector for an artist's work over time?
“Not in that headspace” sounds a lot like the asymmetry of empathy he mentioned in this article, which was an observation that resonated with me. (“…because they don’t perceive it…”)
Fun, but unfortunately it is pretty off for me compared to Spotify and Apple Music. I wouldn't listen to any of the recs personally. I do appreciate how out there the recommendations are though! They're just amateurish for my tastes.
Interesting, but I would cut the "Christian" from your description. Those values are not particular to any religion.
I am rapidly arriving at the same conclusion
Try acquire.com .
I think partly this is driven by the fed, but maybe more so some eager investors looking to put their weight on the scales in their favor… go figure. Don’t know how that’s conspiracy theory stuff. I agree, it’s surprising how resilient the advertising business is for these two companies.
If there's a pressurised tank and something pierces the car. its not necessarily kaboom. H2 is lighter than air. It disperses. Its burn patterns are different. I don't doubt its scary but the assumption it's worse than other fuels is an open question. It might be better than LNG in some circumstances.

As I said, the goal is not H2 tanks. Did you read that? do you understand how sintered metal H2 storage works? or NH storage? (NH is btw, also scary bad. people used to die when ammonium refrigerators leak)
Two camps in a race to decide who can behave the stupidest
now, we're taking the spirit of the idea to heart. i like it.

it's not any less believable than Havana Syndrome or other such "unknown" almost scifi type of things we've seen recently.
Publishing a TS monorepo to NPM is hard
Why would that be the assumption? If Black history is the reason for the disparity between white and black people (in the US, presumably), why can't the history of treating women as delicate quasi-children without agency be the reason for the disparity between women and men? Or perhaps the history of mass sacrificing men as expendable soldiers? Or any other past or present practice that no doubt has an effect on current cultural norms?
Curious, did you just get the album/song lists from iTunes and get the corresponding raw music audio from other sources or does iTunes really allow one user account to download the raw audio of 120M songs?
Show HN: Converse with Books as If They Were People
I built this site to let you ask any book any question about anything as if it were alive.
Man, this sounds pretty apocalyptic to me, but maybe I'm misunderstanding it entirely

Let's say someone bootstraps a company under the current laws. They deposit $200k into a corporate bank account. In 2023 they pay themselves $50k and make no revenue. In 2024 they pull in $60k in revenue and pay themselves $50k again. For tax purposes, they'd have $60k - ($10k from year 1) - ($10k from year 2) = $40k in profit to pay corporate taxes on?
How did you download that many songs? Wouldn't that be something on the order of 360 terabytes?
I second this, somewhat like http://boilthefrog.playlistmachinery.com/
> According to a Pentagon source, the balloon offers "limited additive value" over satellites.

Why wouldn't we prioritize simply acquiring the thing for analysis of what sort of optics and other capabilities they're floating through our air-space?

Who cares what "limited additive value" we presume it to have over satellites.

It's a huge psyops value, and a huge opportunity to demonstrate we can trivially acquire and reverse such items if they'd like to send us more of their state of the art surveillance gadgets to take apart.

By not doing so we imply that's not something we're capable of. Not a good look at all.
How did you get the 120MM songs?
I learned them for exams that involved lots of arithmetic. A lot of it was folk knowledge passed along the peer group partly by asking some of the kids who were one year ahead (and closer to the exam). There was some stuff like this but also other “tricks” (in physics problems, approximating sqrt(g) by pi and stuff like that), or calculating the integral of e^ax times sin bx by “completing” it to e^(a+ib)x, or the cube root technique here http://thinkinghard.com/blog/CubeRoots.html that we used mostly for modulo arithmetic.

I’ve forgotten nearly all the useful stuff and now only recall trivia like the base ten logarithm of a few small primes. I wonder if those school kids are still passing on this sort of cobbled together knowledge, now decades past.

I always considered this kind of trick stuff somewhat beneath me, as a child, since it did not discover some underlying truth of the universe like a mathematics proof in number theory would. But that was dumb because in the end I managed neither anything interesting in Number Theory nor complete mastery of thE tricks and at least the latter would have been entertaining to document.

As an aside, there was a kid in our group who could rapidly decompose numbers into sums of powers of two (a skill that turned out useless even in the constrained environment), essentially obtaining the binary representation as soon as you wrote the number out (or showed him the written one). He couldn’t explain how, though, because he was mentally not quite there and would frequently lose verbal skills. After the nth time he stood up on the desk and randomly peed while we were there he was out of the place. Besides it wasn’t that useful and it could just be high skill at the straightforward modulo and shift algorithm. Going the other way was also fast for him but useless for us, though more impressive since adding 2^64 (a number I could still tell you off the top of my head) to some other power of two seems less straightforward.
It seems at least some of you could do with electric showers, since they have problems with showers needing time to heat up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34634223
Meta's Dreams Have Become A Metaverse Nightmare

https://analyticsindiamag.com/metas-dreams-have-become-a-met...
Ten bucks says they've already taken non-kinetic action. Jamming, optical lasers, etc.
Especially in enterprise teams, it is a daily interrogation just for management to keep tabs on your performance. I'm fine meeting and giving status updates every few days, but honestly not every single day
The concept of race is a tool of oppression. As a society, we can decide to do away with the idea of race. We choose to allow the system to continue to exist, the same way a slaveowner chooses to continue to be a slaveowner.

Economically, white people and men are clearly advantaged, and money is probably the purest form of power there is.
If someone didn’t get their money when they tried to redeem, they would definitely scream bloody murder about that. So far, no such party has.
All legitimate questions, but if we only built perfect systems we would never have had TCP, let alone the pile of hacks we're now using to discuss this topic.

Distributed governance on the internet is a massive issue, and it's effectively unsolved for everything from pairing to DNS. In practice, good faith goes a long way, particularly in areas that are largely academic in scope - like archiving.
Pair early and often, especially if working remotely.
Something seems amiss. You can ask this chatbot how old Stephen King is and you'll get the answer.
A lot of people don't realize that a relatively simple balloon can be designed to take off from anywhere in the world, reach any other point in the world, and hover for multiple days sending back data with very little deviation. All the balloon needs is a way to change its altitude, that's it, it doesn't need any actuators to move in horizontal direction.

Google's project Loon (https://x.company/projects/loon/) did this and I thought it was pretty darn cool. The way it works is this: different layers of stratosphere have different wind directions. If you can accurately predict the wind directions in different layers, you can in theory move in horizontal direction just by changing your altitude. Loon had pretty good models and simulated the wind directions well. Their balloon used to take off from Nevada and reach Kenya (I believe) and hover there for multiple days to provide comms. They use a cool reinforcement learning based controller in their loop: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2939-8

I remember some Chinese researchers writing papers on this topic back then and them saying they'd have good results if they had access to data from Loon: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep45976 I don't think Loon ever shared any data publicly (I was wrong, they did apparently open source a ton of data) but Loon did get shut down (like a lot of other Alphabet's moonshots) and I remember some of their tech and patents were sold to SoftBank and others. I was surprised US did not try to stop this in the interest of national security.
Middle management convincing the VP that this candidate super-aligns with company strategy (AI or whatever) and said VP must create an exception for the hiring freeze.
maybe embeddings?
Absolute experience for me was just taking the elevator to the sheet music store and then walking down the stairs and reading the signs of the various renters on each floor. Music classes, instrument shops, so much culture in a single building.
How big does a large balloon have to be to contain a nuke payload/emp/etc. that can do significant damage because it's assumed to be just taking pictures? Would we be able to respond quickly enough if something was just let go from that balloon to detonante above an interesting target?

From a tactical point of view this reminds me of a movie where an infected animal is walked past guards, penetrating deep into an enemy camp. Red Cliffs maybe?

I see from another post that this is "the size of three school buses" - Seems the right size to carry a necessarily heavy payload?

A spy balloon doesn't need to be massive to have good fidelity with modern image capture elements and would be more effective if not easily seen from the ground. Also could be 1 of n.
I guess he is working with the 30s low rez previews, I know you can download them with the Spotify API. Apple Music should be similar.
As far as I can tell, this process doesn't make any electrolysis process more energy-efficient. It merely allows the use of untreated seawater, thus sparing possibly scarce freshwater resources.

It's not nothing, but it's also not a giant leap forward AFAICT.
And if the US had started shooting down MiGs in the next couple of years after that the cold war would not have remained cold very long.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant... of the soul (too)? Surprise update to a classic expression.
You're forgetting the accessories ecosystem.

I have a stereo dock that's lightning. An iPhone stand/dock that's lightning. A car charger that's lightning. And a backup power charger that's lightning.

If I upgrade my phone to USB-C I've got to figure out what to do about all of those. (And they're all used exclusively with my phone, connecting with any other Apple device doesn't even make sense.)

While the fact that my MacBook charger is USB-C is irrelevant since it's always plugged into my laptop.
Opinions that go against the proverbial grain get downvoted early here in HN, but most of the time, (see anything that dissents against the dreams of a robotic utopia)(ChatGTP) as long as you are not trolling, people will upvote it once they see it.

Basically, the title "Sr" really doesn't mean what it used to mean.
Dear Mechwarrior developers: Pay this man all the moneys and put it into the game!
I mean of course china keeps tabs on the US. It's good to keep tabs on your investments.
No, RSUs are included in "total compensation." Slightly less than $244k + $187k + $35k, to use GP's figures.
"No", eh?

Well I've talked to them a bit too and I think there's somebody there.
Show HN: An API for Pix2Pix: Edit Images with Text Prompts
Everyone I’ve ever known who was exceptionally good at this had two qualities: they started very young and taught themselves. I can’t imagine anyone requiring the instruction as an adult to be exceptional.
It could, yes, but melatonin doesn't seem to have the same association.
I tried it, I think the vibe match looks great, but the match lacks the culture context. It would be great to use song's meta data and lyrics to to improve that
Indeed - Tom Clancy wrote Debt of Honor long before 9/11, and Rainbow Six long before COVID.
I'm not an expert but the little experience I have is that you need to stop helping them. That's how they learn to take responsibility and listen to what they want to do and trust that intuition. You cannot share ownership, you need to trust before you can trust, it's a leap of faith.

OR ----

SoA is a necessary evil for multiple devs.: That way you let everyone free, but they are 100% responsible; and if they face plant completely you can replace a part entirely.

The trick is how to architect the structure: Replicate all services on all machines; they all call localhost; that way discovery is immediate and you can scale easy and read faults are both contained and tolerated. Write faults are never easy, so just accept them, nothing is perfect.

2 big hurdles to achieve that:

- Your entire solution needs to be completely async., end-to-end = non-blocking on all servers and clients, even deployment.
- Your data needs to be at the edges with relations to everything everywhere and unformatted = No SQL tables to alter.

----

Which you pick depends on your situation. In some ways you can think of these as before and after your kids move out.
99.8% of Canadians would like to have a word with you to explain why funding organizations with the public and express raison d'etre of overthrowing the government might get you a finger waggling.
Location: San Francisco

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Probably not (London a possible exception)

Technologies: TS, Node, React, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://www.trashstack.com/resume

Email: hackernews@trashstack.com

Full stack web developer looking for a small team.
The College offers a Master’s degree in Eastern Classics, applying the same approach to a literary tradition which, while it intersects with and interacts with the Western tradition, easily also stands on its own:
https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/graduate/masters-easte...

The monolithic, slow-to-change Great Books list that forms the core of the St John’s undergraduate Reading List is famously and self-consciously concerned primarily and narrowly with the Western intellectual tradition that informed the Founding Fathers, etc. - so as, in the creators’ thinking, to prepare graduates for citizenship in a liberal democracy.

It’s likely no one is more critical of the List than the students and faculty, who argue constantly over omissions, additions, and alterations (there is barely enough time to read all the works on the Program, so for each added, one must often be taken out).

The historical context of the creation of the Reading List accounts for its significant bias towards dead white cis men, as the creators of the list were themselves white cis men at a time when the American education system was not integrated.

(You may be pleased to hear that, for at least the last several decades, the college has admitted people of all colors and genders!)
BLM will kick you off public land when pay to play permit holders show up.
I believe the hydrogen is actually part of the chemical process for steel production, not just a source of heat.
Ohhh this is fire. I actually used this api to build https://www.magicstory.ai haha
Local sim cards have very affordable data plans, also local number is often required for local services like PassApp transportation in Cambodia. For 199 baht/6USD I got 20 GB of data in Thailand.
With international eSIM you may be behind double NAT and VPN may not work. My company VPN was not accessible.

https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Thailand
I watched Scott Manley's video [1], and he only mentions 10%. I don't think 10% is anything to sneeze at. No need to pump it up to 30%.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm5LYkGHkTc&t=704s
Is it possible that people have been getting taller also?
Stroustrup doesn't even mention Rust though and neither does the NSA document he was talking about: "Some examples of memory safe languages are C#, Go, Java, RubyTM, and Swift®."
There's been countless cases where pirates, err, I mean "digital archivists", have preserved things for posterity that would otherwise be lost today.

I actually see piracy as a moral imperative. Without it, we would not be able to properly preserve culture.
So there’s been a worldwide supply chain disruption with electronics but you think Apple is making it up.

COVID shutdown a lot of China’s manufacturing—guess where high end iPhones are made…
Including or excluding stock based compensation expense?
Very cool. Need a get a playlist from this. Seems like Spotify for us Apple Music peasants
You seem to have made a lot of assumptions about me. Anyway, what you're saying backs up my point imo. There is always some risk depending another party. If I'm using say python, I feel relatively secure they won't start shaking me down for money. For the reasons you mention, the same isn't true for ubuntu.
Just tried it, love how simple it is, definitely will save a ton of time! Going to use in my next build
When I asked chatgpt if it will replace engineers:
No, AI language models like ChatGPT are not designed to replace engineers. AI can automate certain tasks and assist engineers in their work, but it cannot fully replace the creative, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills of human engineers. AI is best used as a tool to enhance human capabilities and improve efficiency, rather than as a replacement for human workers. In many cases, the integration of AI and human expertise can lead to more innovative and effective solutions.
GreaseWeazle is great (I own one!), but it's far from "the only way today".

Not that long ago, motherboards still had a floppy controller. These computers do mostly still work.

So do the ones from the 80s, for that matter.

>USB 3.5" floppy drives

To anybody considering: Don't bother. They can only read/write the most standard IBM PC format. No flux streams.

Instead, get any old floppy drive and a greaseweazle at about the same cost. You'll be able to read and write all sorts of formats, and recover data from damaged and otherwise unreadable floppies.
Since this is HN, Lauren Ipsum by Carlos Bueno. I read it to my kid and we both loved it. Don’t remember how old was she though.
definetly will replace us
> Pi 4 is available at MSRP for either the lucky or the patient

So basically not available.

And as you said CM4's are impossible to get. I have one I ordered two years ago.
Thanks Juliana!
> Birds are among the more ritualized mating animals we know, aren't they?

Definitely. I'd say they're up there with us humans with all the crazy rituals they go through when courting a mate
Wow, TIL about the Association of Dental Support Organizations.

Now I'm imagining a future where independent open source maintainers are common and successful enough that there's a conference for the Association of Open Source Maintainer Support Organizations.
What exactly are the laws here? I know Russia does overflights frequently.