skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't have a use case for this right now, it hits a nice spot that I used to have trouble finding the right sized tool for. Your readme is also very good!

If someone comes from the `voyager` ecosystem, a similiar way easy-launching it can be achieved with [r0hitsharma/voyager-cli: Launch Voyager data exploration tool against a local data source.](https://github.com/r0hitsharma/voyager-cli)
Have any of these "anonymous startups" ever taken off?

I don't know why someone would build a project and not attach it to their own identity. Like their personal blog, Fediverse- or Twitter-account. Feels kind of cold. Before I sign up with something, I would want to see who is behind it.

This one seems particularely scary as it is part of a web of similar sites which all do the same thing: Ask for an email to access a simple frontend to the OpenAI API. I wouldn't want my email to go into that pool.

I have been watching Show HNs for over a decade now and as far as I remember none of the sites that hide who is behind them have ever taken off. Or are there any counterexamples?
Oh man I feel like I had exact same outcome for that experiment. Also when logging your food for nutritional analysis I ate much healthier food during period of logging.
Just search for 'tongue controlled/activated'. Eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQitEbzulvY
Grimes, the Musician, Willing to do 50% Split for Successful AI-Generated Song
I know most of HN lives downtown but not everyone is near a crosswalk. And then there are blind people, etc.
Learn WebGPU
I fought with bedbugs once. Poisons did not work. Just putting your bed away from walls does not help, because they climb up the walls and drop precisely on you from ceiling (I actually observed it myself). What solved it is diatomaceous earth, it actually works but you need to use it correctly. Specifically, in my case spreading this powder everywhere along the walls, floor, cracks, around the bed, etc did not help one bit. What helped is putting the powder on their nests (places with the eggs). I literally had to dismantle my couch, find every place and gap which contained their eggs and spread the powder on it. When I did that, the bugs disappeared in a matter of one or two days. So apparently the trick is you need to find and kill all the nests. I lived in that apartment for one more year, and they did not come back. I suppose I may have had a "moderate" infestation, because it seems I got rid of them relatively easy, the battle lasted for one month since I discovered them, including time for failed attempts with poisons and the powder.
There are not that many relay servers. I had better luck with using an external SMTP server and adding the SPF and DKIM appropriate records to my dns. Personally I use postmarkapp with credits, but my second choice was SMTP2GO which has a free tier.
> Index on Boolean is useless, it's an easy mistake that will take memory and space disk for nothing.

Why? Is it because an index on the bool alone, with symmetric distribution, will still leave you with half the table to scan? In other words, does that statement apply to biased distribution (as mentioned by another response) or indices on multiple fields of which one is a boolean?
> Still, it would be nice if got permission or offered a way for artists to be excluded from the data set.

It obeys robots.txt, and the user-agent is documented.
I had to sleep on a plastic blowup mattress for 6 months simply because they couldn't crawl up it. I had to starve them of their food source, which was me, for long enough that they would exhaust their reserves of my own blood and their children would starve. It was one of the worst periods of my life.
> It continued wandering around in there for 4 more days.

For a bedbug, dying in 4 days is quick! They can live for up to a year or more normally. I think you'd normally want to combine a steam treatment to kill the bulk of them with diatomaceous earth to mop up the stragglers
Henry Ford[0] quote about consumers wanting a better horse.

But in this case, Android does exist.

[0] Misunderstanding leading to misattribution: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse
Meh bringing the terminal to the table because the card being out of sight is scary to Europeans (and some Americans) is also weird. What's the waiter going to do? Steal your money? Well, yes. But Chip and PIN being brought out so many years because theft via magstripe was so common in some areas of the EU by organized crime isn't something I'd really brag about.
Good point! I too was thrown off by the picture for a few seconds before adjusting.
^ This.

I'm not signing up just to mess around with it.

If someone can share an example that would be great :)
They are like negative numbers. You can have 1 apple, but you can not have -1 apples. You can owe +1 apple, and say that you therefore have -1 apples. So -1 does exist as a number, but it is a representation of something that is happening with a positive number. And the "i" is similar to this. Maybe calling it "perpendicular" would have been better suited, because imaginary is really confusing.
You don't have to use services for google or facebook to track you through your face or being tagged in your relatives and/or friends accounts.

I kept getting the "eyes rolling look" when I mention my partner and other relatives friends I don't want them to post pictures of me online and I have very little way to make sure they don't. The only way is to refuse being photographed and basically avoid social events. You shouldn't have to be forced into antisocial behavior to make sure you aren't being tracked.

And I am only talking about photos, there are many other ways to be tracked and identified.
> It's an exceptionally strong labor market for software developers.

Really? I've just been reading about hiring freezes and layoffs.
When I was a kid I loved even just watching pictures of complicated interfaces.

That is why I made a tactile "busy box" for my nephew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BGSkwGI6BI

Just a lot of fun buttons "doing nothing" as you say. :D
See also Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch, which explores the phenomenon if internet-speak more thoroughly.

https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/
> Not everyone reacts to the bites severely so some just write it off as mosquito bites or a rash like me

Some people don't react to the bites at all. Which is one reason why it can be hard to get rid of them. It's hard to even tell if they're there if you don't react to the bites.
> sunburn

There's variety. Ancient Egyptian dress didn't amount to much. Traditional Bedouin dress (granted, a much more recent tradition) is full-body robes.
> where when a Chip+PIN or contactless payment is made, where the risk is transferred from the merchant to the acquirer/issuer

In parts of the world where the consumer's bank bears the risk, and there is in imbalance between commercial and consumer banking, there is a powerful group--consumer banks--to apply pressure.

Sometimes that results in fewer consumer protections. In most: indirect pressure on merchants. (I can think of no country with an imbalance in favor of commercial banking with a strong consumer sector.) This state describes most of the world: optimized for cost reduction.

> That was the whole point of moving to EMV, it removes the fraud risk from the merchant

Who bears fraud risk varies.

In America, it was always the merchants. They have limited leverage over Visa and Mastercard. With the banks neutral and a valid competitor in American Express, there was nobody who wanted to anger consumers by taking away their swipes. (If you're that merchant, you're cash only.) So they optimized for purchasing convenience.

Australia is a cost optimizer. America a convenience optimizer.
As a Notion-user, this just seems excessive to me.

I love Notion because it gives me the ability to make "lightweight" notes/pads fast. I've since learned to utilize the linked database features which makes it easier to organize notes, tasks and projects.

At some point however, it feels like it just becomes busy-work to make new boxes to check, new links, relations and what-not.

To me the beauty is in the simplicity, cross-platform capabilities and relative ease with which I can create and access simple notes fast.

EDIT: I forgot templates. I use 2 or 3 templates for notes and "new projects". I never use more than 5 columns for my projects/notes either. And I don't have any "dashboards" besides my task-list (that I can sort as kanban with four status-indicators - basic stuff).
Finding forgotten Indigenous landscapes with electromagnetic technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River
1,600 km vs. 114 km. And elsewhere in North Africa, no less.

Come on, Egypt, do better.
You can set it in the environment for a single process.
This is what GPT-4 comes up with:

kill $(lsof -t -i :PORT_NUMBER)
Have you seen all the specialty bars fittube is repping?
Not really. Some devices can be rooted/flashed, some others are not rootable in practice. Also, there's another vector to it - SafetyNet. If google decides it can't trust the device, many apps will stop working, sometimes can kill even Camera and the like (e.g. https://www.xda-developers.com/bootloader-unlocking-no-longe... ). And bypassing SafetyNet going to be harder and harder, and device without SafetyNet passing going to be more useless (e.g. McDonalds App will not run without it)
I think these days the emphasis has changed a bit from "required reviews" (more senior dev or peer signs off on code) to "request review" (developer __wants__ the review, because it's a good learning experience and a way to share responsibility for the code (and any problems it might cause down the line).

Anecdotal, but I feel like I see more teams where that "Merge" button is available to most people, but in general doesn't get pressed until the code has at least one review, whereas before it was often only accessible to a select few, or a review was required before it activated.
A Visit to Pity City Shows Your Boss Probably Doesn’t Care About You
The sad part is really that there are several implementation of safe(r) string manipulation functions, they all do mostly the same thing, but have different names and parameter orders, preventing interoperability between major compilers. They really need to get their shit together and finally agree on a single variant to be standardized.
> Apple users are happy to pay a premium to be able to carry around a device with an Apple logo on it for everyone around them to see.

One thing Apple has done masterfully is exploiting the status circuit in the human brain. Apple users often claim they pay more because the product is superior in some or many ways, or even argue that it is, in fact, cheaper when considering everything. However, in reality, they pay more because they can. They want to display their Apple products and they want others to see them.
My comment was negative and didn't bring anything. I should have refrain.

Sorry to the author and thanks for the article, I learned about lagrange interpolation.
If you have probability distribution transition function, it makes sense to want to diagonalize it. And you can't do that without algebraic closure of complex numbers. Even a simple transition matrix of a 3 cycle has complex eigenvalues (the 3rd roots of unity).

The stationary probability distribution of some transition matrix is the eigenvectors, so the stationary "probability distribution" of even very simple matrices (like cycle of 3 values) are complex. It's not as magical as they make it out to be.
Have you though of integrating it with self-hosted solutions like Nextcloud etc?
Advantages over the usual command line approach? (which you can easily turn into an alias)

kill $(lsof -t -i:8080)
I think the real issue is that the small lens build gives it an effective focal-length of an 18mm camera . So everything appears very wide angle. It’s easy to spot professional non-phone photos when larger focal lengths make faces appear much flatter (better).
Sure, there was an actual problem, but was it a problem that would (eventually) cause a fire? Something something not letting perfection be the enemy of good enough. I think arc fault interrupters are a great idea that's not ready for prime time.

I was reading something on a more trades oriented forum where someone asserted that recent updates to the AFCI breakers reduced "nuisance" trips at the expense of actually tripping when there is a legit arc fault. I've no idea how true that is but it's worth noting that GFCIs have been around since the 70s, were worked into the NEC by the 80s, and are comparatively far more mature. AFCI breakers… are not and they have fucking firmware on them that requires periodic updates.

With your house I wonder how much was not the wire nuts. Could some of those older receptacles have been contributing to the problems?

Without anything more than handwaving and emotion to go on I'd rather see aluminum wiring and back stab receptacles get banned along with some sort of push to get rid of the current installs.
This is a good idea. Tracking down which process owns a port in `netstat` can be tedious. My only suggestion to improve is to clarify in the documentation if this is only for TCP or also for UDP.
Mmm this right here is why for the last two years I've been using Jetbrains IDE and Obsidian as my daily drivers, because my Emacs config isn't _quite_ right and if only I could have a shortcut to tile the buffers according to the golden ratio... but first why isn't the font-face-mode applying to magit... Hey wait, this elisp to convert org-mode to markdown is failing but only in this directory...
There's also no agreement between Pinterest and the actual copyright owners of most of their content, so much reposted art without even credit or a link to the source.

Plus, LAION is just an index, whereas Pinterest actually hosts it.
> But: I think that they were there. We just didn't see them a lot. They were cleaning, working in factories, tending gardens, looking after children etc. but they were not represented and thus were not visible. Of course they were a minority, but I'd wager they were there.

No, they genuinely weren't there. Europeans regularly tried to move to my hometown, got depressed/sick from the lack of sunlight in winter, and left. Refugees coming from further south had it... worse.

Northern Norway isn't a place outsiders can easily move into. At least, not without installing grow lights in their living room...
Build something great and they will come.

They won't stay though, because their opinion is unlikely to be the same as your opinion, and people only spend money on things that they think are good.

You might believe your app is the greatest thing in the world, but that doesn't matter at all. You're not trying to persuade yourself to buy; you need to persuade your customer that the app is good. Clue: They're not looking at the code.

Also, 'good' is a measure of usefulness rather than quality. People will spend a lot of money on absolute trash if it solves a problem that's costing them more money or time than your app, no matter how bad your app is.
I don't think the watch and the pros are connected in that way.
What happens now is that things produced by workers cooperatives can't cost more because they wouldn't find customers so if the workers don't want to exploit workers they won't be competitive. Tax break would give them the edge that normal businesses get when they fuel themselves with never ending rotation of exploited workers.

The end goal is not to make lives more or less affordable. Just make the work more reasonable by putting working people in charge of how work is organized and rewarded, more often.
A few years ago, I was sitting at a bar in Vegas having lunch and the guy next to me finished up and paid his bill and he was "Whut?!" when the bartender grabbed his card and headed off. I must say, I just got back from Europe and the near universality of just tapping a card on either a portable terminal or at the bar with no worries about manually adding on service charges (though in the UK there is usually an "optional" charge added on for table service) is quite streamlined.
Ask HN: Have you ever felt overwhelmed from sudden success on a side project?
No there isn’t
> today

More like yesterday, to be honest.
Interesting, i've never looked too much into the credit card universe.

What i know is that almost 50 (times flies, i originaly wrote 40...) years ago, my uncle worked a bit with secure terminals at a French company (forgot the name, but i know he lived in Spain for a while), then was yanked by a company that worked with American Express, took the Paris-NY Concord at least a hundred time to try to implement the same stuff he did in Europe in the US (chip + PIN), was distraught because the issue weren't technical and somehow transformed from engineer to executive, and ended up being an auditor for money laundering and fraud detection in major banks (received death threats and had bodyguards for a while).

Don't know if it is related, but the first time i went in the US i remembered some stories he told me about this American Express job and said to myself "Yeah, that checks out".
Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’
If I run a stinky chicken farm, you can bet the neighbours will complain to the city and I'll be ordered to shut it down or do something about the smell or at least compensate my neighbours.

However, if I drive a stinky truck around, giving everyone lung cancer and heart disease, that's fine.
Mehdi Hasan proved nothing in the “debate” other than he is a shill for the security state trying to score a hit for the losers that watch bloviating garbage like MSNBC. You keep going on about a super secret contract like that means anything significant in comparison to the mountains of damning evidence presented by Taibbi and several other actual journalists.
Very true, and if there's one thing about EMV, it is pedantic and convoluted and confusing, primarily because it has evolved and is not particularly subject to "intelligent design". :)
Has anyone updated the economic feasibility studies based on using SpaceX's Starship as the heavy-lift reusable launcher? At first glance, it seems like this, combined with today's greatly improved robotics and ion thrusters to move components from LEO to GEO, may be the key enablers.
They build by the highways because the NIMBYs have forced them too. It's basically the one place you can build without serious pushback. I hope we get some serious
noise regulations.. maybe reduce the speed limits on the highways, that'll show them!! /s :)
> There really isn't anything weird or suspect about renormalization

This is the first time I've heard anyone say that. To me, renormalization is extremely weird, if anything because it's so unrigorous and ad-hoc that I find it hard to believe it even works. Sure, it does the job it's supposed to, and I understand how it does that (for the most part anyway), but that doesn't make it any less weird.
https://archive.is/PIT6Y
> they survived an entire winter of very cold weather

Unless it's really cold, bedbugs actually live longer in the cold. Up to 18 months has been reported! Heat treatment is much more effective.
Are these people not worried about storing their entire lives in some SaaS company's proprietary format on their cloud servers?
> Or maybe we just like the OS

I don't think that ordinary non-programmer people care about OS or even understand what it is. And programmers probably would prefer Linux over some proprietary OS where you cannot even sideload apps.

> build quality

I don't understand what this means. It is not like Android smartphones are breaking apart immediately after purchase.

I think the real reason why people buy Apple is due to belief (artificially created by marketing, not based on real studies) that Apple makes expensive, but high quality devices. And maybe because of a good camera.
At some point LLMs will have a easier time understanding English than actual human beings.
Actually, the fourth category is making fun of people with inferior taste. The highest form of literary enjoyment.
The issue is the definition of that market is fictional, and the nuances are in people’s heads. As soon as you write it down in legal terms, it becomes clear that it’s a very difficult thing to circumscribe without enormous government mandated regulations.

Like to me, the market IS functional - people can choose their mobile platform and get the apps available for that platform. More than that and we are legislating software distribution as a publicly regulated utility. Which to me is an overreaction to current market dynamics. Like we’ve not even had 20 years of smartphones and app stores out there and people act as if they’ve been around for a century.
As mentioned in the article linked above https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/04/12/designing-a-better-str... , memccpy() comes relatively close and is slated to be part of C23.
I wonder if they offer an option to export the data in some usable format.
> The MS monopoly is preventing progress in many fields.

I fail to see this. Could you provide examples and reasonings?

At least in the developer community they've provided many tools that facilitate a lot of progress.

- TypeScript (huge boost for the JS community)

- VSCode (massive contribution for all developers)

- Monaco (allows any website/app to provide a quality code editor)

- LSP (allows other code editors to compete with VSCode)

- Playwright (got rid of the puppeteer Chrome-only browser testing lock-in)

- WSL (I mean... Linux support, nuff said.)

- RNW (boosts react native, helping break down the app walled garden development, no need for Swift/Kotlin/whatever)

I'm sure there's a lot more I missed.
Nobody's suggesting that speaking the local language isn't a major contributor to integrating in and understanding a local culture. It's just not the only contributor.
The need for signatures has decreased (and was mostly killed by the pandemic). But there are still a few stores I go to that need a "signature" either by pen or on a terminal--but just a scribble or an X suffices.
As someone who is good at unix but watches other people struggle with it: the advantage is that people don’t understand signals, subshells, what ls stands for, what of stands for, don’t know the manual, don’t know what man stands for, don’t know the manual has sections, and aren’t interested in finding out.
How does a QR code prevent screenshotting?
Ask HN: GitFlow or Trunk-Based Development?
curious what's your current development workflow :o)
Say you have a room full of millions of people playing roulette. You have no knowledge of how they place bets but you know how roulette works. There's a wheel, 38 slots etc.

You watch all the players for a while and see that 1 player has won every single bet they've made 10 times in a row.

How much money would you be willing to give that person to bet for you?

Now imagine that you talk to this player and they reveal to you that actually they work for the company that made the roulette wheels and that they can control where the ball lands 99% of the time with the computer hidden in his shoe. They even show you the computer and do some example bets to prove it.

How much money would you give them now?
Move fast and break things, as long as it's not your house being broken or your kids inhaling the toxic particulates.
Ex-officer used dead people’s bank cards after being called to sudden deaths
I don't think Apple Pay can present multiple NFC cards automatically in succession or at the same time. And the rewards card cannot even be added to the Wallet anyways, since the bank's app only adds the Visa Debit/Credit cards, and the store rewards app doesn't add anything at all.

I'm not sure if there's even an API to add store rewards cards as NFC cards, since all of my rewards cards in the Wallet are barcodes.
ulcers are not caused by stress rather h pylori.
>Friendly health experts still insist that 97% of the population still don’t eat enough cauliflower

So that's why they've put it in pizza crusts now...