skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! Once upon a time I did something very similar.

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/visualizing_commute_tim...

AFAICT the only reliable source of commute and transit times is Google Maps. To be useful it requires real traffic data. Unfortunately Google jacked up the prices way too high to be useful.

My dream is a service for building isochrone maps with full support for walking/biking/transit/driving.
I imagine the former will become xcrete.
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A similar project named BabyJesus?
Is this similar to when Google and Facebook renamed to Alphabet and Meta respectively and then rebalanced the former applications under the latter like a red-black tree?
after a more than cursory google search, I can find no evidence that in gmail you can use any character beyond "+" and extra "."s. do you have a source to contradict this?
I thought a multiparty system would resist this kind of polarization...

But the distrust I can understand. In the U.S. some legitimate systemic problems (especially in rural areas) and surpressed issues/controversies built up institutional skepticism among conservatives. Bad actors (on the extreme left and right) amplified it and turned it to obsession. The pressure was always there, ready to explode for years, but Trump just tapped it particularly well.
> Anyhow, I can't really find a decent answer in that blog - my understanding is that he hand-waves it away by declaring that it is beyond physics and thus can't be confirmed or denied by such.

Which is right, in a sense. The fallacy is to use that as a proof of his proposition even though it’s a non sequitur.
Ask HN: Public Benefit Jobs?
Hey all,

I am in my last year of software engineering at university. I am struggling with the idea of working for a large company, especially ones that produce things that are harmful to us all (social media being a leading issue). I don't care about making any money for myself as I live a simple life, and I want to build something useful or at the very least neutral in its effect on us.

That brings me to public benefit corporations, nonprofits, etc. However, in a lot of situations the only PBCs I see are crypto... "companies" or spinoffs from massive companies. What I'm talking about when I say "public benefit" is a group of people working to build an open source, highly reproducible weather station that could be easily and cheaply distributed to people in need.

Any ideas?
Language features like type promotion or automatic casting to default/zero values are likely to change how the new function is called, purely based on the change in type signature. Even if every old input has the same output in the new function, old code can compile to produce a new input and have broken behavior. That's ignoring any metaprogramming or more complicated type shenanigans.

Is there something special about Clojure making that change safe?
2.0 and up.

Honestly you better save your money if you can live without it. I've been using 1.x for years and they never asked for more money so I upgraded to show my support but I don't really think it's worth forking that much amount of money yet if you're happy with 1.x
Written instructions are abysmal for woodworking or other mechanical tasks. I adore videos for home improvement.

But yeah, I'd love written instructions with optional videos for each step.
Whats the benefit of this inplace of using bcrypt or py-pgp? I really don understand this trend of piling on abstraction for simple problems. Its basically a hole github project that could be solved in 2 wrapper functions.
The diagram is intending to show this inerpretation:

> Interpretation

> Maps of mortality risks and excess deaths indicate geographical differences, such as a north–south gradient and increased vulnerability in eastern Europe, as well as local variations due to urban characteristics. The modelling framework and results are crucial for the design of national and local health and climate policies and for projecting the effects of cold and heat under future climatic and socioeconomic scenarios.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

So this is ragebait BS from Bjorn and the "CO2 Coalition".
"Cyclic Combinational Circuits", by Marc D. Riedel

> we present theoretical justification for the claim that the optimal form of some [combinational] circuits requires cyclic topologies. We exhibit families of cyclic circuits that are optimal in the number of gates, and we prove lower bounds on the size of equivalent acyclic circuits.

http://www.mriedel.ece.umn.edu/wiki/images/7/7a/Riedel_Cycli...
Relevant discussion https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HBHsFCeAMSqMD7Td7/does-the-s...

I wondered aren't the structures where there's more randomness than what we see more likely since there are a lot of different ways for it to be random.

The discussion helped me realise it's a measure problem, and a measure can be constructed according to the complexity of the mathematical structure.

Makes sense, but why should the measure be constructed like that?
I instinctively click on 'X' when I want to close a thread. It kinda works.
Yup, that's the price as a collectors item, but also as a spare part for devices that can be sold at thousands quids once repaired, so if the price was based purely on demand over offer it would still make sense. Whoever had the idea is a genius to me.
If it was the plan from the beginning then why announce it via rambling tweets late at night, before it's even announced to the employees? LOLOLOL. UNICODE X "ICON" LOLOLOL
Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models could be more expensive
Right? Why even buy the company if you’re going to throw away the branding? I’m pretty sure he could have built his own version for a fraction of the 44 billion he spent albeit without the user base, but at least the new user base is there by choice.
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I built a tool that allows frontend engineers to easily set up their environment.

I got the idea after using (and loving) Robin Wieruch's post (https://www.robinwieruch.de/mac-setup-web-development/). I thought why not have an app that can be consistently up to date with this, and allow some customisation from the user's end.

It only supports the latest version of macOS for now, but I intend on fleshing the app out, as well as adding more sections and tools.

I'd love contributors to help me set this up for other OS's and their versions.
Apple Aims to Keep iPhone Shipments Steady Despite 2023 Turmoil
Don't think you can libel the dead.
Send prompts to multiple GPT models at once!

A captivating experience of the current AI coldwar.
ChatGPT Hacks
It was a political game for journalists and now it’s officially instead of unofficially meaningless, but it was never serviceable and certainly not “harmful”. Hyperbole is a plague.
The original still loads (eventually) for me. YMMV.
My pet theory is that the decline of poetry tracks the advancement of mass media and decline of other types of public/social performance. There were always genres and authors of poetry that were specifically for reading aloud with a group - Robert Service being a good example. It was fun and play. What market there was for this kind of poetry narrowed as mass media expanded, and poetry was relegated to children and the literary.
perl scripts. sorry
FYI, Privacy Guides is a shitshow. It was formerly privacytools.io[1], and in 2019, the creator[2] of privacytools.io stopped contributing[3] and a new contributor[4] immediately focused on donations[5], became the admin[6] and took control[7] of most assets, including donations but excluding the domain and Twitter account[8]. In 2021, the creator of privacytools.io launched a new privacytools.io[9] and added affiliate links[10], and the Privacy Guides team shut down r/privacytoolsIO rather than return it[11] to the creator. Like I said, a shitshow.

[1] https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io

[2] https://www.reddit.com/user/BurungHantu

[3] https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/commits?auth...

[4] https://github.com/jonaharagon

[5] https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/commits?afte...

[6] https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/commit/4b60a...

[7] https://redd.it/tuo7mm

[8] https://twitter.com/privacytoolsIO

[9] https://redd.it/pxtw2y

[10] https://www.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/raftz6/i_made_...

[11] https://redd.it/qk7vn0
> Doesn't that seem to make this point moot? If they're not responsible for what users do hacking around, then there's not really any need to keep firmware closed source or locked down.

To sell the device the manufacturer has to make sure the device follows regulations and normal usage will follow end user regulations. The easier they make it for regulation-violating user modifications the more likely the product is to not get a license for sale of the device.

In something where the radio baseband is a physical circuit layout conformance is easy. Without modifying surface mount parts that circuit will always conform to its license.

For complicated basebands (WiFi etc) with software control having a fixed/closed firmware is the easiest way to get a license and not get it pulled after the fact.

The WRT54G is a fluke because it ended up using Linux/GPL code in the firmware. It was then obliged to release the source because of that. You can buy devices that allow firmware development and modification but not at retail and you can't offer them for sale without an FCC license covering them.
The next pandemic could spring from the US meat supply, new report finds
I didn't substitute anything. The reality of the situation (which Harari forgets to mention anywhere) is that these things he is so scared of have ( or will have ) majority or supermajority support in the near future.

Talking about authoritarianism in Israel is useless as it suggests that there is something related to Russia or China or Cuba or Iran, but the reality is that the elections are pretty free, there is no rigging and it is simply people voting for programs they want.

I am sympathetic to secular Israelis(they are the economically productive element of the country) but I don't like the insinuation that liberal democracy is the only form of democracy, especially since Israel doesn't have a written constitution.
OP was being disingenuous at best, as if the country could be brought to a standstill over a minor legislative change to allow one guy into Parliament
The Secrets of 'Magnetic Rose'
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-paintings-hanging-inside-a...

Here's a random photo of Louvre, place with both the art nerds and money to hang things "properly". You can clearly see they tilt forward on the cables, maybe not as much as OP but still.
This reads like the history of the US involvement in central and south America.
I came to say the same thing; kroki is the powertool of choice in this space.
According to ETSI who have been busy reading their thesaurus to redefine negative sounding words, it wasn't a "backdoor" they specified into TEA1, rather, it's just a necessary application of export control regulations.

"The TETRA security standards have been specified together with national security agencies and are designed for and subject to export control regulations which determine the strength of the encryption. These regulations apply to all available encryption technologies. As the designer of the TETRA security algorithms, ETSI does not consider that this constitutes a “backdoor”.[1]

ETSI also completely bullshits this claim:

"We are pleased that this research affirmed the overall strength of the TETRA standard, finding no weaknesses in the TEA2 and TEA3 algorithms following extensive analysis."[1]

Which directly conflicts with the researchers who found[2] and demonstrated[3] the highest severity problems directly impact users of TEA2 and TEA3 algorithms:

"The issues of most immediate concern, especially to law enforcement and military users, are the decryption oracle and malleability attacks (CVE-2022-24401 and CVE-2022-24404) which allow for interception and malicious message injection against all non-E2EE protected traffic regardless of which TEA cipher is used. This could allow high-end adversaries to intercept or manipulate law enforcement and military radio communications."

This claim from ETSI is a bit like saying that disk encryption software standard that specifies use of AES in ECB mode (note: very insecure) is strong because the underlying AES standard has no identified weaknesses. ETSI are responsible for the TETRA standards that vendors implement, and could have made it mandatory for vendors to implement features such as authenticated encryption, and/or could have developed test standards for vendors to use to verify their products are correctly implemented.

ETSI released TEA5, TEA6 and TEA7 encryption schemes at the end of 2022, likely in response to this security research. TEA5 is for European Union states and TEA6 and TEA7 users are supposedly kept secret.[4]

[1] https://www.etsi.org/newsroom/news/2260-etsi-and-tcca-statem...

[2] https://tetraburst.com/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJjTiO6C9xs (demonstration of CVE-2022-24401 being used to break into radio networks using TEA2 and TEA3 algorithms in under 10 minutes)

[4] https://cdn.standards.iteh.ai/samples/63125/8392cdca31d74030...
Someday MBAs will study this guy to learn how ego is a killer.
ive been using dietpi for a long time, its been a really nice option for headless pi. I can't say its faster or better then a raspbian headless but i like how its been put together.
It's kinda crazy how in CS, any random implementation-specific behavior is codified and relied upon.

As in, the design goal of NAT - sharing small number of external IPs by larger number of machines -- is best realized with what STUN calls "symmetric NAT". I am pretty sure the only reason full cone/restricted NAT type exists is performance, routers trying to keep translation table smaller for memory or CPU reasons.

And yet, based on router's internal implementation detail, there is now a protocol and an RFC and tools, detectors, software support, tutorials and so on.
You just changed my text messaging efficiency
In October 2022 Musk said "Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app".
> Like Gil Amelio said[0] about Apple, I would now say about Twitter: Twitter is like a ship with a hole in the bottom, leaking water and Elon's job is to get the ship pointed in the right direction.

The solution to getting Apple pointed in the right direction was (eventually) to buy NeXT and bring Jobs back. So, the solution here would seem to be - buy Bluesky and bring back Dorsey?
Misremembered about Iosevka: I requested support for a few other BQN characters after noticing it already had the double-struck ones (https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/issues/870). The other three were requests or contributions (drew 3270's 𝕏 myself!) explicitly in connection with BQN.
From [0]:

"Something like this view is defended by philosophers such as James Ladyman and Don Ross in their book 'Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized', and by the physicist Max Tegmark. I have a lot to say about Ladyman and Ross’s project in the forthcoming 'Aristotle’s Revenge'[1], all of it critical. Suffice it for present purposes to note that this sort of view essentially identifies the physical world with a kind of Platonic abstract object. Ladyman and Ross try to deal with this problem by denying that there is a clear distinction between abstract and concrete. As I argue in the book, this position is incoherent and the arguments for it are entirely question-begging. Moreover, even apart from that it doesn’t really solve the problem at all, because (as the Aristotelian would argue) Platonism itself essentially blurs the distinction between the abstract and the concrete. For a Platonic Form is characterized both as a universal (and hence as abstract) and as a substance (and hence as concrete). To blur the abstract/concrete distinction is to fall deeper into Platonism, rather than to avoid it."

[0] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2019/01/materialism-subvert...

[1] https://a.co/d/6JNDiCH
This. Twitter has been the bane of billionaires, aspiring billionaires, and corrupt nation-states for a long time now.
If this back door had been found in Chinese-marketed communications hardware, it would be front page news in the WSJ and NYT.
His vision is to turn it into a bank. He talked about this with Baron's last year. The part of the "everything app" he actually cares about is banking. His goal is to make it into the world's largest bank. He actually said so.

Honestly, not a bad idea. If you are the world's richest person you might as well have a company that can actually make money.
> There is a long and deep history of the wealthy classes pitting the lower classes against each other in this very way,

Considering yourself part of low class if you are a software engineer is the root issue here.

> primarily by directing anger at the middle tiers from the lower, and a fomenting a sense of fear of the lower tiers in the middle.

I'm not arguing that the effect you are describing doesn't exist. The point is that you are applying to the wrong part of society.

> I have checked out the income distribution in the US: you're way off.

"Way off" is not accurate. The income distribution is extremely steep at the top end. If 1% is at 350k the 150k is not far away. 2%? 3%? The page you linked doesn't load from where I am located. It's surely within the top 5% which you still ascribe to be the elite that's manipulating everybody. I'm doing the exact opposite of expressing support.
What letdown -- they're unpopulated PCBs. I'd buy Major Havoc in a second if it was ready to pop into my Tempest machine. :)
It's supposed to but blocks form naturally. Also Netanyahu is a VERY divisive figure that spews poison. He essentially poisoned the well of discourse and made it an "us vs. them" situation.

He isn't 100% wrong. As a person who lives in Tel Aviv I'm a liberal and an atheist. I have almost nothing in common with a settler in the west bank. But there was a status quo and he smashed it with a jackhammer.
yeah, fair enough. On first reading of your comment I missed that the 'cheating' was specifically describing the repetition of prior ideas without credit, as opposed to generally.
Amazed that the author can even make this claim without affecting his/her reputation/credibility more broadly. Simply if that were the case we could’ve afford to pay for college from fixed income without the need to access loans. Second you wouldn’t have the loan crisis where the debt accelerates way above income. This is just plain dumb.
Getting (and maintaining) a local mainframe in the first place is also not cheap though. I won't hazard a guess to which one might be easier to keep up and running, but at least in my bubble it would be 100x easier to hire more k8s admins than to hire qualified mainframe admins.
No, I'm a big fan of paying for what I use, and I actually do give money to a small social media site that I use. However, I'm also strongly opposed to giving money to transphobes and Republicans, so Twitter is out.
Everything Musk does looks a lot like some of my high-level, successful, Mary-Sue-like RPG characters I had. Including desogn rooted in what influenced my childhood, in Musks SpaceX case it seems to be th 50s SciFi. Well, I never had the money to try that in real life, and anyway I outgrew it before I got my drivers liscense. Looking at it from that perspective, it is borderline pathetic and just sad.
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> maths is also the only thing I can think of that doesn't need to be caused in order to exist

I never understood this line of argument. Plainly, there is something at the beginning of the universe (or an eternal existence in some other way) which doesn't need to be caused in order to exist. So then, why do we take this notion that everything needs to have a cause to exist as some kind of rule, when it is self-evidently broken?
And why should they follow anyone's lead? They are not Europe. Why should they embrace diversity? Diversity has a separate set of problems still being dealt with.

They were founded on a jewish identity. Changing is not a possibility. Too many wars and conflicts have baked them to remain an ethnostate.
Forgejo [0] (and Gitea) have also implemented it. Or more accurate to say, they use Goldmark markdown parser and the Mermaid extension [1].

[0] https://forgejo.org

[1] https://github.com/abhinav/goldmark-mermaid
- Thanks for the details and resources. Where is the "graph" in the post? When someone says graph I usually think of a pretty basic thing with nodes and edges.

- What're your thoughts on C4?
I find it weird when people list hyperloop as a Musk failure. He had an idea, decided to give away the idea instead of pursuing himself. It's certainly not a success, it's just an idea. Will somebody eventually make a go of it, or something similar? Maybe, maybe not.
There's software to use pens on a 3d printer to draw on paper on the bed, and it wouldn't need to be a very high specification on to turn out acceptable results
All psychedelics should be banned, and the penalties for use should be extreme.
That's funny, I have exactly the opposite effect with meditation: in the last two years I have been following teachings with which I resonated a lot and helped my meditation deepen a lot, and I attribute my newfound sports skills to this deepening. I was able to run 20km 2 weeks after taking up jogging again after a few years break, which is a distance I never managed in the past. I can see how my meditative work helps me switch the perception of effort and push further than I ever thought possible. The work with pain, effort and strong emotions in boxing also has a lot of parallels with my seated meditation practice. There is definitely something to the stereotype of the martial artist meditating in a cave
Indeed, another annoyance I have with Designer is how not purely vector it is.
I mean it's great and makes it a breeze to make documents but it really sucks for making web-targeted SVGs. Both Inkscape and Illustrator support using SVG as the project file and I never have to guess if the feature I'm using is going to actually export as vector or just rasterized and embedded as a base64 PNG (which is true for fancy gradients and some of the more advanced masking, not even just the raster persona stuff).
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I think that was the point of the article - actively listen and identify only 3 main points to write down.
I felt the same when irc was killed (for the people I talked with anyway) by twitter.

Things change. You'll get over it.
Astrology is a subset of astronomy, since astronomy is the study of things in space. But the part of astronomy that deals with how things in space affect life on earth is astrology. It's literally the definition. You can't just attribute a bunch of random bad things to astrology and then change the definition to make it fit your preconceptions. Literally just type "astrology definition" into Google.
What’s this black magic! Never knew it either.
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Wanting to see the failure of one of the few people who have made lasting important contributions to humanity, and inspires millions of builders to achieve big things, is a sad way to live life. It's frankly anti-progress and anti-humanity.
Well, with the X Window System now obsolete, I guess Elon can have that thick and thin stroked X... for whatever it's worth.
I think that the 'describe' tool is really useful.
Creating reliable standardisation in the way Pull requests are opened and communicated is beneficial