skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So feedback would be gifts in the same sense as a Christmas gift.

Sometimes you get a GameBoy Color.

Sometimes you get a terribly ugly hand-knitted sweater from your grandma.

Sometimes you get a shitty prank from your crap uncle who think he’s being funny.

Sometimes the homeless person you found online and welcomed for Christmas Eve turns paranoid, becomes convinced your family wants to poison him, and just leaves screaming.

And sometimes you get a lesson from your other uncle, the self-absorbed one with insecurities, on how Christmas is a meaningless made-up consumerist commercial event meant to make people feel obligated to spend money under false pretences and you are a loser for falling for it and he’s thus not being a prick just to make himself feel smart, but actually helping you grow. Out of loving altruism.

Well, guess what, dear uncle? Almost everything is made up anyway. Your fragile ego included.

Personal aparté aside, yes, you could say that feedback, in that sense, is indeed a gift.
I also got into Lua mostly through LÖVE 2D (there’s also LÖVR for 3D with a similar API, but different devs).

I’ve made a few small games using these frameworks in the past and as a hobby plan to continue making games with these frameworks, it’s fun!

Harvard also has a nice course on game dev with LÖVE 2D and Unity, CS50. Can be followed online for free [0].

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[0]: https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-to-game-develo...
> usually one set up based on actual S-parameter measurements

My brother-in-law made this funny remark couple years back. He's into mechanical engineering. "Having a simulator is awesome, but sometimes it's just faster to let nature do the calculations for you."

It's funny how you can't even measure things at high frequencies without parasitics screwing everything up.

But people are coping: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/560225/where...
Show HN: A Collatz Conjecture Calculator as Jupyter Notebook
This is simple implementation of Collatz Conjecture in Jupyter Lab. Try it on your computer or in Google Colab to visualize the problem for any given positive integer, number of iterations, and all the intermediate numbers till you get stuck on the 4 2 1 loop :D
Me: "Given you messed up everything is, I'm still alive and not gone insane. This makes me happy."
On CodeCrafters.io (YC S22), you can learn to build your own Git, Docker, Redis etc — in any programming language.

It’s a great way to grok a variety of system design principles while getting to master a language of your choice
> A Man Called Otto

This movie is a prime example of Hollywood's "machine" doing its thing.

I've read the book and watched the original movie adaptation and if you've done that you won't help but see right through the movie's producers' attempt to "commercialize" it.

In the original movie/book the woman is Indian, in the American version she's Mexican.. There's absolutely nothing wrong with an Indian woman spicing up the life of a grumpy old white man.

In the original movie/book the outcast boy is gay, in the American version they're trans.. This one was absolutely tacky. Gay people are still far from accepted universally even in the US..

All in all, this just proves the fact that movie making is primarily a business trying to cater to the audience (nothing wrong with that) but any talk about "the human" or artistic aspect is pure bullshit in my book.
Genetic research offers new perspective on the early evolution of animals
Depending on the type of content you download, the chances of anyone else already seeding that might actually be zero.
I would argue that it is. If the casinos do not want it to be they are free to automated dice throwing. As long as they give option or illusion of there being at least a chance to influence result. To me it looks like it is a skill and they should have monitored how it was played in these parameters.
There is a big difference between Lolita by Vladimir Naboko and To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee in a school library.

Fahrenheit 451 is coming true every day in the land of the free - you can't change history by banning books - the world being what it is , tales of slavery and Jim Crow will be eternal outside the South.
>Should you be worried GPT5 is going to interact with social systems and destroy our society single-handedly? No absolutely not.

I don't think most people are scared of GPT5. It's AGI that they're scared of.

And GPT5 can destabilize a society because of how fast it could replace workers.
Thanks for the link. That's like reading something from a really scary personal future.
> Relationships were shallow and lasted only so long as convenient.

I think this is a big thing, and one that in the end will ruin us as a society if we let it. There's something innately wrong about this constant rat-race I see in some friends where they effectively say "oh, there's something wrong with this partner that in my previous X relationships I didn't see before. let's go find another one".
Modern communication methods (social media and dating apps in particular) have created a situation where you can constantly compare your partner to the rest of the world, while at the same time (theoretically, for most people I'd argue partner choice hasn't increased at all, or even decreased) widening the dating pool. The idea of commitment becomes... Alien, because it's so easy to just go and trade her in for a newer/better model, not realizing that we're all flawed in our own particular way and that part of a relationship is sticking with eachother and growing because of that.
An RPI with a soundcard, a DAW and possibly some plugins can do that. Daws that work on a raspberry pi:

- Ardour

- Reaper

- Renoise

- Tracktion Waveform

- that easyfilter tool

If you don't need stereo there are some multieffects box/pedals for guitars and synths:

https://www.boss.info/uk/categories/multi-effects/

https://www.zoom-europe.com/en/multi-effects

There are also warming/effects units such as the Oto Boum or the Elektron Heat range:

https://www.otomachines.com/product/boum/

https://www.elektron.se/us/analog-heat-mkii-explorer

https://www.elektron.se/us/analog-heat-fx-explorer

And most mixer/audio interfaces have some effects/filters:

https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/proaudio/mixers/mg_series_...

https://tascam.com/us/product/model_16/top
Given that the health bureaucracies of many countries seem to disagree with you, you need to cite more evidence and sources to support this claim. You can't just do it by strong assertion.
Thank you. You're right it's overcrowded. I had passion to make it to use for my projects. I didn't want to install "npm install some-db", since I can't use persistence in cloud functions that way. Solutions exists like supabase, however I imagined separation of concerns as in apps/environments like in standard software projects beneficial for my use case.
Ask HN: Signal dropping support for my (very much working) iPhone 6: what now?
I recall already having to use an iphone 6 instead of an iphone 4 to be able to use signal at all a few years ago. Now I got a banner telling me that support will be dropped in mid August.

I feel this is a very stupid move: it is probably true security is harder to guarantee with old devices, but whatsapp/telegram support them without problem, and the "durability" aspect should count for something in their decision-process…

What do people around here recommend doing? Taking the networking effect into account, pushing people to something like matrix will probably be quite hard…
It depends on how much you want to spend on optics. The optics fit as slots, so you can put a standard mirror(0.8) and depending on the number of reflections(let us assume 6) you will have 0.8^6=25%.

From what I researched at the time, in most latitudes you do not care about raw solar power as plants cannot stand it anyway. I also prioritized price and efficient optics are not cheap.

The idea is that you compensate the small efficiency with the fact that your light is now free. The infrastructure is really simple and uses mirrors from your local hardware shop. The frame can be done in your home with steel profiles and can be done in scale if needed.

An advantage to traditional usage of natural light is that if you want you can put an infra-red filter and have a spectrum that will not heat up your green house to the point you need temperature control.

Another is that you can also put your green house in a space with natural cooling surrounding without concerning yourself with light availability. Given that the system is passive except for the tracking mechanism you also need minimal electricity.
You know this how? Because they say so or because you've audited them?
Is dental health not beneficial?
> Most people have never consumed real vanilla in their lifetime

What exactly is the "vanilla extract, vanilla beans" in Ben & Jerry's ice cream then?

Supposedly Haagen-Dazs ice cream is made from "5 simple ingredients": cream, milk, eggs, sugar, and Madagascar (sic) vanilla (which is "real" vanilla I assume?)

And what about the vanilla extract which I have on my shelf, whose ingredients are "vanilla bean extractions in 35% alcohol?"

Have we all fallen victim to a diabolical vanilla conspiracy?
How can the hypothesis class be unbounded?

Anyway, you can define a sequence of solutions with bounded uniform priors and calculate the limiting solution. For any given data set when the endpoints of the intervals go to +/-infinity the solution will converge to the uniform prior one - if it exist.
Have been thinking about it for a couple years. People generally don't realize the complexity that gets added when you start charging money for something.
State space refers to the number of states of not just the program counter, but more importantly, the data operated on by that program, which in case of TMs is the tape contents.

This theorem is not about programs B whose tape contents is linear in the length of the encoding of the program.
I'll respond to the substance but you avoided the key question that I think hamstrings your response.

Fundamentally you think the problem with America is framed around money and monetary policy. I think the problem with America is framed around power, of which money is one form of, and the middle class and lower class loss of power.

power should be entrusted to representatives of the people, but what is the remedy when it is not?

Who "enforces independently"?
The cartoon is female, but there's a guy behind, right?
I accept and listen to all feedbacks and from all people regardless, and it’s up to me to consider it or ignore it. Some people think just because they gave a feedback they expect you to apply it all or most of it, or they become hostile towards you directly or by other forms of passive aggressiveness, that’s not a feedback, that’s just a rehearsal for a personal attack.
I'm not going to search for multiple examples, I'll leave that up to you. But here is the first result from Google
https://nypost.com/2023/02/28/knox-zajac-reads-aloud-from-po...
Feel free to Google keywords such as "school board" "read" "book" "kids" for more examples.
Nice solution, if that works for your site, perfect.

If i may add, in case someone desires a little bit of revenue from a website, one very popular solution is to put advertisements in some places. Well some people consider that a security hole, including me. So i guess the definition of security varies, but the security mania goes on for many decades. I am one of those security maniacs, and any tool to enhance security is important, blockchain is one of them.
Just yesterday there was a comment here on HN [1] about https://jsonip.com, which is essentially supported by a single person (all operational costs included) and gets abused in a somewhat similar manner. I am not even sure what to think: do the folks not understand what they do, or are they just bluntly ignorant of it?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36092417
Mickey Peterson's writing is like that of an explorer charting wildernesses that only a few have yet had the capacities to visit.
There is also this proof-of-work solution https://gitgud.io/fatchan/haproxy-protection/
I see you like to ignore reality and go on with your own definitions for things.

> All bytecode is sandboxed by definition

Oh my... you probably mean "all bytecode COULD be sandboxed"... try sandoboxing JVM bytecode... they tried that for years :D didn't quite work.

> The reason to deploy software as a container image (instead of a standalone binary) is that a container image contains a full chroot,

No. Stop trying to tell us what a container should be used for.
A container's main usage nowadays is to run multiple isolated "processes" or set of processes in a safe manner, making the most of the hardware... coincidentally, you can also do that using WASM. Get over your outdated worldview, mate.

EDIT: please read the link I provided. From the creators of Docker:

"If WASM+WASI existed in 2008, we wouldn't have needed to create Docker."

How does that align with your definition of what a container is or isn't?
Downvoted: look around where you work, FAANG. Count the African Americans :-)

Truth hurts, I guess?
Its true that US army created the Taliban, but it quickly brings the "the road not taken" fantasy that is only that, a fantasy, as in people imagine the middle east would be peas and roses if only America had not helped create the Taliban, and thats probably far from reality. I don't think it would have been take long for any other faction to use commercial Airlines to attack infrastructure, it was a very attractive attack vector for any enemy faction, specially given the lack of security (this days one hijacked plane wouldn't last long mid air).
But what is Web 3.0?
Web 3.0 is the next generation of the internet that focuses on decentralization, interoperability, and user empowerment. It aims to shift power from centralized entities to individuals, using technologies like blockchain and peer-to-peer networks. Web 3.0 enables seamless communication between platforms and allows users to have more control over their data and online experiences. It promises a more open, transparent, and inclusive internet ecosystem.
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This organisation was big on that conspiracy (??) theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
Yep when you let the police keep the money they become corrupt and more focused on chasing expensive cars than criminals.
Computational photography and AI related tasks need a lot more power than just using the UI or browsing the web.
I only finish reading good books.
I think it's one of those distinction people are trying to impose on the words rather than how they've always been used.

I think there's a popular blog post that kicked it off.
Could someone help me understand this plot?

What i guessed:
1. Participants were asked how happy they are.
2. After that they were asked about what percentage of people from /their own country/ would answer happy or very happy.
3. Plot XY of the ratio of people who answered happy or very happy (x axis) vs their average of the percentage of how this happy people estimate how many people answered like them (y axis).

Did I got it right?
Oh yes, the power of success.

I am sorry for you this is happening, at the same time: it is to be expected as soon as people start seeing|dreaming a lot of money and a legal loop hole.

I hope there is something in writing about the ownership of your company otherwise you stand a change to get out completely empty handed. The fact your CEO wants to keep his hands clean is a major indication to me.
Cool, I guess. But I'm not in the (niche) culture of virtual youtubing, so I don't see why I should talk about a digital cartoon as if it was a real person :D

Hope you understand!
Show HN: ProductLogz-Bridging the Feedback Gap with Rewards
Encourage and incentivize your users to provide valuable feedback. By rewarding their input, you create a win-win situation, where users feel appreciated while you gain valuable insights.
Sort of. When you point it out to a native English speaker, and give examples, it becomes obvious. But it often needs pointing out, because they can be used as synonyms.

In this instance I’m saying “nice” is just giving pleasant vibes no matter what, and being kind is being friendly and supportive but not always being nice.

If you put on clothes that don’t suit you it is nice to say that they do (because I want to keep things pleasant), but it’s kind to say something else suits you better (because I want the best for you, not to pretend everything is fine). Telling you they don’t suit you and leaving it at that is just mean: I haven’t helped you and now you feel bad.

Worth noting the etymology for kind is from “kin”, meaning family. Family should want the best for you, and frame things in a way that can help you, even if they are telling you things that might not be pleasant.

We need more kinship in modern life. Less “honesty”.
Looks like the future neuralink test subjects have come into force against fluoride.

But of course people forgot the history of water fluoridation and the risks of dental cavities

(of course, for modern countries I guess it makes more sense to have it in dental products than just in tap water, but I don't buy the moral panic)

> The report found that a link between typical levels of fluoride added to water and possible harm to brain development is unclear... the report did find a possible link to cognitive harm at approximately two times

Well good think we are at the current level and not at two times it then
Same thing goes for customer support satisfaction ratings - in some countries people will rate every interaction 5/5 unless something went horrendously wrong, in others something would have to be unusually good to get more than a 3-4 out of 5.

Don't measure people across regions via these sort of metrics.
I don't really know what this means for the US, but in Belgium you are required to go to the dentist at least once a year if you want to keep being reimbursed by social security.

When I lived in Canada (which I assume isn't too different from the US) with poor social security due to my legal status, I never went to a dentist because it was far, far too expensive.
I wonder how much of that is tied to wealth. A wedding is (ridiculously) expensive.
My firm regularly does large B2B payments in USDC, for all manner of things. For us, it's more convenient than wire transfers because of lower cost (just a few dollars for gas), security (configurable approvals and MPC co-signers), operating hours (24/7), speed (instant vs waiting for the bank to call and confirm), and API integrations (for tracking status). All you really need is a Fireblocks account and a Circle account.
Their etymology and original meanings are completely different. Their merging into synonyms is as daft to me as “literally” now meaning figuratively or metaphorically.
Not all feedback is generous.

There is an industry of some people, rather than looking to provide feedback which accurately reflects the merits and flaws of a given work, who seem to deliberately hate-review everything to a) get clicks, and b) try to make themselves sound smarter than the people who create stuff. It doesn't really help anyone, and is almost entirely a selfish act.
Getting a TypeError: Le.find(...) is undefined when going to https://www.favoree.io/search

needs a bit more work :)
Spoilers for the books, I disagree with the above but don't want to spoil it for anyone who doesn't want it spoiled.

I think that's basically justified. He gives the foundation of their tech with a good amount of rigour and plausibility, and then as their civilisation develops and becomes equivalent to human civilisation and then significantly higher tech he obviously can't go into full detail on every piece of technology any more than you could write a story about modern human society while including a description of how every piece of our technology that is mentioned works, from first principles - the resulting book would be beyond the capability of any individual to write and would include far, far more descriptions of technological principles than actual plot. Just imagine if you wanted to tell a story about an interpersonal relationship between two people, but one of them uses a chat program on their phone and even though you've previously explained how our computation basically worked, now you have to explain neural networks and then LLMs - I think it's reasonable to just expect the viewer to imagine the things that aren't directly explained as being approximately as well explained and justified as everything else was.

He does definitely go beyond hard sci-fi at the end of book two though. The idea that c as a limit is simply a result of our brains thinking too linearly is silly, and in general going beyond the hard laws of physics is where I draw the line.
>The key insight is that corruption does not require a project to actually deliver the promised benefits, or even to be completed at all.

No, but another key insight is that it helps corruption very much if it's completed and delivers the promised benefits, since it means less chances for people to complain, and for later investigations (e.g. by political opponents) to deduce wrongdoing...

As for the California example, this is in a place with supposedly less or no corruption (and no "mafia ties" level corruption).

So, "Local/regional special interests and parasitic consultants and contractors" messing up the project is more about a huge bureaucracy and a too disjointed process, with baroque procurement laws, and decision makers who have to satisfy and yield to all kinds of interested parties along the way.

Plus of course the totally hand-tieing legal framework, and ligitation heavy environment leading to paralysis. Sure there would also be some corruption, but in the California case I'd venture to guess that you don't need much of it, and it's all both systemic and legal. It's just regular interested parties and middlemen getting their say and their legal share (but too many of them, and with high multipliers), and costly elaborate and unneeded procedures having to be followed.
I was a heavy user of "The Directory Commander" or DCOM.

I found an image at http://old-dos.ru/screens/6/9/8/5443786e5b93f5c6b2a83da43df6...

I recall being able to function really effectively with it's multiple panes and tagging, however it's been 30 years, so my memory might be entirely rosey
It's harder to do studies that seperate out adults who didn't have fluoridated water as children, but for example from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23456704/ "In this nationally representative sample of Australian adults, caries-preventive effects of water fluoridation were at least as great in adults born before widespread implementation of fluoridation as after widespread implementation of fluoridation."

So if you didn't have fluoridated water as a kid, having it as an adult still provides a benefit. This particular study doesn't say anything about having it as a kid and then stopping, but again, it's hard to find significant populations that have experienced that.
How is doing something working out for you?
This is a truth misunderstood.

No static picture or dynamic model actually works for relationships.
No "alignment" or polishing is guaranteed to work.

What works is commitment: deciding to do what's necessary to make it work. Not promise, or practice, or experience, or a wealth of emotional intelligence. Commitment.

If commitment translates to "avoiding scar tissue", fine. If "avoiding scar tissue" reinforces your commitment, even better.

But the main thing for your own identity and your relationships is the commitment.

And to realize: if it's not working, you're not committed. (And most likely, you have good reason not to be, and you're stuck half-in, half-out of something you can't stand but need, or with traits that both help and hurt you. Welcome to the real world of beings, which is... complicated.)