skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ehh, I don't know how much Wine is integrated on the MacOS version, but AFAIK it was a subpar version compared to the Linux one.

Don't be fooled by the numbers, while we advanced a lot, Windows compatibility is a wild animal and Wine/Proton is still broken for a lot of things. I'm not sure if we will ever get full compatibility, but concurrent MacOS support looks like a great undertaking. It might be possible though.
...without academics we wouldn't be here. at all. here an historical genealogy that leads to the LK99 discovery: https://hackmd.io/@lifthrasiir/lk-99-prehistory
It's actually quite easy to get a job in Germany as a tech person - in lieu of a degree, you can get a visa with 4 years of experience. But the HR teams are generally clueless when it comes to processing visas. Startups don't know how to navigate it and generally have to overpay expensive law firms to help facilitate the process. However, the salaries suck and most of the jobs are in Berlin, which imo, isn't for everyone. I guess it serves as a good jumping off point for travel and weekend fun.
The point is that it's not pre-existing Linux users.
yes china is a coal company conspiracy specifically Australia's coal
Arrest shopkeepers for assault for defending their business from being robbed, but also let the robbers roam free.
We do try to answer in a way that makes us understood by other humans.
It's not exclusive to EVs either.

ICE, and hybrid ICE, can all be more efficient depending how well you match its optimal driving profile.
Team sports require coordination between players. I never really appreciated how important it was to develop this.

The sport I want to mention briefly is Rugby. This is a catch, run and pass game. We would practise these three skills: catching, running and passing. The skill we didn't practise much was "communicating". One of our players had been coached by a national representative: this teammate told us that if you wanted to tell the person immediately beside you about your intentions you said "okay", if you were going to run to his left to get the ball, and "right-oh", if you were going to run to his right. Okay = left; right-oh = right. The beauty of this is that you intentions are instantly clear.

However, we never regularly practised this dynamic communication skill. Most of our practise time was spent practising set patterns. But in the heat of the battle, it is more effective to have a constantly adaptable attack.
> triumphant moment for desktop Linux

This is in reference to the "Year of the Linux Desktop" meme. I don't consider Steam Deck to be a general-purpose desktop computer.
This paper, and its precursor 'Could a Biologist Fix a Radio?' mentioned by bschne, come across as somewhat smug and wiser-than-thou. While they do a good job in showing the difficulty of gathering useful information about complex biological systems, they tend to underestimate what human ingenuity can do with just that information which can be gained experimentally. This was demonstrated recently by the rapid development of synthetic vaccines against Covid.
It's quite unfortunate they sunsetted the NAT instance AMI.
Indeed; the entertainment industry doesn't need CAD-level accuracy.
ClickHouse uses "grace hash" GROUP BY with the number of buckets = 256.

It can do size about 256 times larger than a memory because only one bucket has to be in memory while merging. It works for distributed query processing as well and is enabled by default.

About the linked issue - it looks like it is related to some extra optimization on top of what already exists.
Bing does that all the time.
This chart looks like all 3 months since May 2023 have been extreme outliers:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/F0A3/production/...

These 3 months seem so out of line with all others that I am not sure I am reading the chart correctly.
I think it's just a "everything is bigger in the US" joke.
That is not what they said:

Membership Fee: € 25 per month

Insurance Cost Estimate: € 40 per month (indicated as provisional at this stage of the price-quote)

Insurance Coverage Duration: 20 years

It's polite not to present speculation as fact. And you could already know your 200k was wrong since I said I chose neuropreservation, not whole-body, on the quote form.
I mean that's pretty much all an individual can do. Drop in the warm ocean. Personally I'm convinced we've passed the point of no return a long time ago, and even if human emissions suddenly dropped to zero the balance would be disturbed for decades or thousands of years to come.
it's kinda false: https://hackmd.io/@lifthrasiir/lk-99-prehistory people were working on it since soviet times, in academia. And those people influenced other people. Also in academia.

It's a slow moving process, but it works.
Additional anecdote from someone who lived in a few different walkable neighbourhoods in a European city (around 180 000 people).

The main benefit was having easy access to grocery stores and cafes. For everything else that's not basically interchangeable, I still used a car. Going to work, dancing classes, well equipped gym (there are 2-3 in the city that are worth going to), other sport facilities. So I was still driving basically every day.

And even meeting at cafes and pubs meant using a car (or taxi) most of the time, as most of my friends are living in their own (also walkable) neighbourhoods.

Public transit exist, but that means 30-40 minute bus ride (with waiting, if you need to switch buses - which you often will) vs. 10 minute car ride.
It's a nice idea, but I suspect I'll use it once and completely forget it exists. Herein lies the problem with systems and products for ADHD, it relies on someone like me, with ADHD to actually remember to use it in the first place. That being said, I will play around with this and see what I think, but I'm coming from a place of scepticism with regards to apps and processes, because in my experience, I've tried probably hundreds of things, and they all went out of the window after a few days. I'm speaking from my own experience though, so maybe some folks with ADHD will get more out of this kind of thing
But now I am really curious, what's a tertiary download journey?
Bing Chat already accepts images as input. AutoGPT can initiate.
The IPCC report states that airable farmland is set to increase by 6% due to climate change.
Yes. China is a bigger polluter than America, India, the EU and Japan combined.

It’s also rapidly increasing whereas the second largest polluter, the US, is now down to 1979 levels of total pollution and 1912 levels on a per capita basis: https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1686136305519050752

Any kind of global warming plan that doesn’t include China is useless.
But conservative keep tellong me it is because testerone and sperm counts are down and modern men are so weak? /s

Seriously so, there is so much more to a relationship than reproduction. And no person has less "value" than another just because they cannot have kids. You want kids but can't have them? Adopt, there are far too many kids out there without parents, tgat are in dire need of a loving family.
Sometimes you want to construct a 3D model from a single image. E.g. Stable Diffusion is pretty good at generating images of original miniatures for gaming. Will be interesting to see how SD to Magic123 to 3D print will work for this.
This might just be a joke about how everything/everyone in the USA is suboptimally bigger than the rest of the world.
I'm sure it's been a lot hotter - same with CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere - but humanity didn't exist yet.
He and the other person explained in detail why each of your takes was bad, and your only response is "dude, you're triggered lol."

And you understand that as them "taking your comment poorly"?
Given how much flak Brave (and by extension Eich) gets on HN, it's somewhat ironic that you identify his departure as the moment when Mozilla abandoned its traditional values.
Thank you for the excellent wrap-up. I couldn't keep up with everything, but with the attention this is getting - this is just excellent.

Now to learn physics.
Most PhF students a desperately looking for a usefull thing to work on. Most professors desperstely search for a usefull topic that they can use to justify grant funding. etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36997311
At least historically that hasn't been the case nearly as much as for PV panels.

I unfortunately haven't been able to find great timelines for electrolyzer costs apart from https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Cost-of-electrolyser-tec.... This suggests that costs fell around 50% between 2000 and 2015. Solar panel prices fell around 90% in the same timeframe: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices?time=2000... (and even faster between 2006 and 2021 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices?time=2006...).

Solar cost decreases have been amazing, but for example wind was less impressive and solar thermal didn't scale well.
At first, it was an opportunistic grift by a teenager looking for party money.

As prices fell rapidly at the supply level, local box stores would occasionally sell off stock at deep discounts (reflecting the real market price). Being a teenage sociopath, I would buy every last bit of it in town and then coast on the uninformed price perception for a week or two.

Prices were falling so fast at that time that the stores were always wrong footed, so I was able to keep up that racket long enough to get to the bottom of that mechanism and start ordering in bulk directly from city of industry California.

Place was called Ma labs, iirc. After that it was obvious to start moving disk drives, video cards, processors, and later everything else too. I was just exploiting basic market inefficiencies , since the only other sources were the big box stores that were constantly 2-4 months behind the price curve.

Then COMDEX happened. It got me tied directly in to motherboard and peripheral card manufacturers. I also got introduced to the cocaine and extremely friendly booth-girl shmoozefest, and NGL for naive Alaskan me it was heady stuff. The real deals and the points negotiations were made in the afterparties with piles of coke and very persuasive “account representatives”. Memorable times were had in the hedonistic environment of an exploding industry.

At that time there were a lot of small manufacturers in industrial parks. They were usually pretty small outfits usually just a shop with a few hot air stations for warranty work and a wave soldering table, 15-20 employees at jet labs, for example, which was one of our big suppliers of motherboards, video cards, modems, lan, and other peripheral cards.

My activity festered a plague of tiny pc builders selling systems, and launched the careers of at least 50 technicians and small businesses. We used to put on big public LAN parties and public PC repair clinics as promotions for our “dealers”. I worked with a training/testing outfit to get new dealers A+ certification to reduce the damage to society and actually grew into a semi responsible citizen during that time.

Fond memories but I’m glad to leave that hustle behind.

After that, I unwittingly became a software developer for a major criminal organisation. I thought they were a car dealership, but gradually it became apparent as I built out their backend that the dealership was just a small part of a very large laundromat.

It took me years to extricate myself from that and for years afterwards they would give me gentle reminders that they were keeping an eye on me. Free 500 dollar an hour lawyer’s though. They never let me get near a courtroom or a police interaction without “proper” representation showing up even for years afterwards (statute of limitations?)

The fact that they always knew when I brushed up against the legal system in any small way, even traffic tickets in rental cars, gave me great respect for the scope of their concern. That and their obvious love for mid range turbine helicopters.

I was probably lucky to leave that alive.
Hah, don't count on it.

I worked on my master's thesis quite a bit, even worked on submitting a publication (it was in control systems and was only rejected because they wanted more empirical results). The stuff was extremely groundbreaking - we were able to get 2 orders of magnitude of better performance compared to existing solutions.

Fast forward to a few weeks back, when I was talking with a process team at a multi-billion dollar biotech company (yes, it's a huge) somewhat casually, when that idea cropped back up. Their response was basically "meh, we really don't need that much higher performance".

I'm sure if I were to start up around this, I would be able to get enough funding from the recent AI rounds from VCs. But I wouldn't have customers willing to buy this in the first place! I would be like the proverbial solution looking for a problem to solve.
> So why did the OSI write[... ¶] While there is agreement on the broad term "open source" as meaning approximately what is captured in the Open Source Definition the term has, ironically, now become so popular that it has lost some of its precision.

That passage says two things:

1. "open source" means what OSI says it means

2. there are people like OP who exist

OP does exist. That's a self-evident and indisputable fact. Were you expecting me to argue otherwise?

Acknowledging that it's true, however, is completely different from saying that the definition they're using is widely agreed upon or that there is a difference between "Open Source" and "open source" that is wide accepted. (The first sentence in that passage actually says the opposite...)
That's why I suggested following the Phoenix LiveView route. It's a very thin and fast JS-layer that defers processing to the backend. Avoids framework churn.
hmm I think I prefer my selfhosted Trilium thank you

https://github.com/zadam/trilium
Hadn't heard of Poe's law.
I'd say the best sarcasm does contain a lot of truth. Think it used to be that the best sarcasm did leave you wondering a little if it was meant to be sarcasm.

Interesting idea.
It can be that everyone has different knowledge base, so everyone has individual interpretations.

For the post in question. I've seen it in real life, so it didn't seem 'extreme' enough to be obviously 'sarcasm'. Though, I could tell it was sarcasm, it was perhaps the good type of sarcasm in that it contained a lot of truth.
https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c
Coming soon to TikTok in Europe: A ‘For You’ feed without the TikTok algorithm
Depends on purpose.
Especially the doors opening and closing sounds..
I use Mailgun for all of my WordPress installs. I have a couple dozen. Works great, and they have a generous free tier.
A walled garden is when users contribute the data for free, but the data is stuck. No free API access.
“Walled garden” is orthogonal to “open source”

A walled garden is a site that degrades significantly or is unavailable without an account, like Twitter. Anyone can view all of HN modulo dead comments without an account.

You can have a fully open source walled garden.
GPT-4 is clearly not "dumb".
A Declaration of Love to Amateur Radio
Ok, I am not even gonna lie you have to check this out. This is a gift to all CSS developers and digital artists out there!
Black swan is just called hindsight. There is no insight in Taleb's book. He just gave a name to stuff that changes things in an irreversible way.
There's one of a rat squeaking three times, and another of a door creaking open. Heard them both for the first time in The Elder Scrolls: Arena, and they're instantly recognizable anywhere else.
I've done just a little reading on ANN indexes and data structures, but considering you're at Chroma, could you explain why closeness (inverted distance) would be used in HNSW-IF instead of distance?
My online life has been way less stressful since I both deleted my Twitter account, and set up my own Nitter instance.

Same goes for Reddit.
The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
Hey, that's a very mature perspective. Thanks for sharing.

Yes, I remember those days. I don't want to go back there, and I agree that we need to pursue balance in managing things versus the actual work. It's just that we all seem to have converged on a very complex model, and I'm starting to wonder what's the driver behind it: is it technical progress, or is there something nefarious at play, say faster cycles, more features, more non-work (an endless discussion, that one).
Nice use of TipTap and Vue!

As the files are just on the file system, what's the sync story? Have you tackled merging conflicting edits across devices?
This chart is terrifying!

It reminds me of the XKCD temperature chart: https://xkcd.com/1732/
Why is everybody in this thread denying the news?
A less bad future for human beings is still possible, if we change our institutions.
I assumed I wasn’t applying myself, or didn’t use the right learning style, or whatever else was being offered as a suggestion. It didn’t help that I was a kid in the early 90s, when Ritalin was getting big, and some parents (like mine) were staunchly opposed to medicating kids for supposed normal behavior.

I found much later in life that the only things that consistently motivated me were a looming deadline, or severe consequences to failure. The lone exception was computer puzzles, by which I mean things like “how do I get this obscure Chinese sound card running in Gentoo,” or “how does a file actually get written to a drive? oh look blkparse…”

About a year ago, I got an ADHD diagnosis for primarily inattentive type, and my life changed. There have been some tweaks here and there to medication and dosage, but the amount of focus I can now devote to tasks which previously would be monstrously difficult - like writing Jira stories - is amazing.
thanks memefrog
Does my Librem 5 smartphone running PureOS GNU/Linux [0] and desktop apps count as desktop Linux?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureOS
Google gave up on checking or enforcing these things because they'd otherwise lose traffic and ad revenue.
Since I'm personally gonna die anyway whether this is a thing or isn't a thing, then honestly at this point I've just decided to not care and live my life as happily as possible with the time left (maybe humanity deserves it if it doesn't have the evolutionary makeup to make it out of this, I'm sure there's other species on other planets that will).
As I get older, all the people I've remained friends with and kept in regular close contact with since we were all teenagers/early 20s together, don't look as old to me as other people our age. I still see parts of the teen/20s versions of them in their current faces.

But when I meet someone new our age, or even 5 years younger, I don't see that part of them because I never knew it, and they look older to me. It's weird to think that how old that person looks, that's how old we all must look, really.

(Unless by some weird coincidence, all my friends and I do just happen to look 10-15 years younger than 95% of other people our age. Which would be very comforting, but is so implausible that I can't bring myself to believe it, no matter what my brain tells me my eyes are seeing. Getting old is weird.)
Kudos for building a thing! Forgive the terse feedback, but I figure you wouldn’t post here if you weren’t seeking it. Quick thoughts:

A) Without providing a viable option for mobile (or even via a web UI on mobile), my guess would be that a desktop-client-only solution (like this appears to be?) is going to be a non-starter for a significant number of your potential audience. To me, cross-platform doesn’t just mean cross-desktop-OS - If something says cross-platform my personal expectation is that means desktop/mobile/web.

B) If your top-level value proposition is a focus on privacy and security, people are naturally going to ask further questions about the details. For example:
- What encryption is being used here, and how?
- If data isn’t stored on external servers, how do “your notes sync effortlessly”? What mechanism makes it possible to “access your data from any device, anywhere”?
- How do I get my data OUT of this thing, if I decide it isn’t right for me?

C) If you’re going to go down the “unlike other note-taking platforms” route, it might be valuable to explicitly help people make the comparison in terms of features/approaches/architecture/trade-offs etc. How should one compare this against [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md)? [Simplenote](https://simplenote.com)? [Logseq](https://logseq.com/)? [Zettlr](https://www.zettlr.com/)? [Standard Notes](https://standardnotes.com)? Notion/Google Keep/Evernote/Workflowy/Dynalist etc?
So you could plug in a LED fixture directly to a powered wall block and run overnight, charged by solar fixed to same wall during the day.
I loved going to the movies during COVID when they were finally allowed to open.

Two empty seats to both sides, one empty row in front and back.

Zero groups of teenagers or loud people, just movie buffs or people who want to watch a movie in peace.
The right response is "because my performance issues ticket was never prioritized".
So the headline clearly says "fossil". the word "fossil" comes up in the article.

>> Dating of the sediments around the remains suggests it lived about 39 million years ago.

ok, so clearly then "not original organic material".

But then,
>> "Each vertebra weighs over 100kg, which is just completely mind-blowing," said co-worker Dr Rebecca Bennion from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

If I'm charitable I'm reading this as "The vertebra, when they were made of bone, weigh over 100kg..." ? I mean now that they are _fossils_ (ie ROCK) well, 100kg of rock doesn't really tell me a whole lot.

>> "It took several men to shift them out into the middle of the floor in the museum for me to do some 3D scanning.

Which makes me think she's talking about the _fossil_ weight. So, implying "they're big fossils"? Not that the bones used to weight this much...

then

>> The team that drilled into the centre of some of these vertebrae to work out the bone density - the bone was so dense, it broke the drill on the first attempt."

So either it's a fossil (aka ROCK) or it's bone. It (apparently?) can't be both.[1] Given that it's rock, drilling into it and breaking the drill bit just tells me it's hard rock.

There's more in the article seemingly mixing the term "bones" and "fossils" ("The bones are going on display in Lima to celebrate their description in a scientific journal")

I get that this is a "popular science" type article, but is it too much to ask that it use the right words?

[1] I checked online, and apparently;
"But a buried bone isn't the same thing as a fossil -- to become a fossil, the bone has to become rock. "
https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geolog....

"Fossils are not the remains of the organism itself! They are rocks."
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/fossil/
Hackernews was released as free / open source some years back. There's a community managed fork: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/
Are weather apps lying? The truth is in the dew point
You forgot the Russian twitter biologist.
> most of the jobs are in Berlin, which imo, isn't for everyone

Spot on. From my experience, if you come from America (specially Latin and Central) it's quite easy to feel great because the city is some sort developed and it's safe.

However, at the time that you travel across Germany or in more developed capitals it's starts to feel bad due to the high taxes and a perceived low return in terms of services in comparison with those places.
take the word "disease" out...

and you CAN imagine it : Viagra
There was an article posted on HN a few weeks ago, about Excel's rise over Lotus 1-2-3.

Excel was acknowledged as a better software pretty early on, and could always import Lotus spreadsheets, but it really started gaining adoption once it was able to export to Lotus files.

Counter-intuitively, the ability to stay within the Lotus ecosystem (and switch back at any time) is what enabled a lot of people on the fence to try Excel out. Only once Excel became dominant did people actually switch to XLS files.