skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man here I was thinking The Magicians drew way too much on Harry Potter.

Spoilers: I did really enjoy the way the original novel "peaked" several times, each time leaving me thinking "well they beat the big bad, now what" but then there is much much more each time and the main character reaches an entirely new level of mastery they hadn't even imagined before. It's an interesting metaphor for life.
Also warp requires you to sign in before you use it. That's stupid imo
In that situation you need an anesthesiologist, not an allergologist. Even a random anesthesia tech without medical education would do far better than an allergologist. A paramedic too.
Pretty sure that English non-rhoticity started with higher-caste London people trying to sound French.
My understanding is that it isn't even used in the cameras. It's compressed, at the very least losslessly, immediately.
The article doesn’t seem to mention it, what are the super meters? What country are they located in and what are they doing?
And have you thought about what else I would invest into?

This attitude is so incredibly economical illiterate that it’s shocking we have HN commentators that don’t understand.

Who I am selling to? at what price? Do you support state confiscation of private capital?

Are factories that produce cereal next?

It’s an embarrassment to western education that educated people have such poor understanding of basic economics.
I see where you're coming from, but some governments also recognize "natural" or "God-given" rights, recognizing there are powers higher than they are that grant privileges or capabilities considered sacred. Granted, this set of rights will be different shapes and sizes depending on culture, but it's not so clear-cut that rights do not exist without government. There are moral rights that we can argue via philosophy. The state is truly only necessary to adjudicate conflicts between its subjects and maybe defend them.

I also concede it takes more than an argument to fend off government, but playing along with "monopoly on violence" is so defeatist and pre-loads conversation with a guaranteed end result, when that end is not actually guaranteed. It can be fought.
I remember sunet.se from my first forays onto the Internet (1996).
They are high end but do they really compete with Nvidia's high end like the 4090?
How is the GitHub check performed? I seem to get false positives where your tool reports that a project with that name exists on GitHub, but using GitHub's search I can only find projects that have the name as part of theirs. E.g. "hexagol" is taken according to your tool but using GitHub's search I only get 4 results which are all about projects named something with "hexagolang".
Absolutely not unless you think the very worst most dysfunctional working group you’ve experienced at work should be able to make life-and-death decisions.
Great for surgery, what about restoring non invasively ?
For me it is a interesting consequence of our modern ways of communication which is characterized by being always-online and always expecting immediate response that people turn to giving the new name of "flow-state" to what is essentially just "uninterrupted work".
Oh, I wasn't thinking about that creator.

The creators I believe in are much closer to actual science than religion.
Sometimes thing are just comped complex. I know we want to see epicycles and simplify and be able to reduce the system, and sometimes that's even possible. (Don't get me started on being all in on all of AWS.) But sometimes it isn't and, well, that's where we are as an industry.
Do they randomize the key locations though?

Otherwise, you leave behind grease where your fingers touched
not sure about this article despite ACM, it's a little a johnny-come-late trying to take measure of something without real grasp. Disqualifier includes that the number of parameters in a NN is not equal to connections, but commonly to connections plus a bias scalar for each node. A NN is not a function, it's characterized as functioning under the universal approximation theorem approximating functions. Finally, as a author one could have actually typed in what's being reasoned about into the Chat-GPT under a 'construct your answers scientifically, ask yourself why and how prior to answering and incorporate the why and how in your answers' as a pretense prompt. The transcript in https://chat.openai.com/share/73210b2e-d57f-44b4-a4ad-24e9fe... is quite contrarty to the letter's argument.
Because the cone is intuitively ridiculous? If I say I’m balancing an object (presumably of finite size) perfectly centered on a cone, then the obvious question is “you did what”? It just seems more absurd than balancing an object on a continuous surface.
In this context "super-emitters" means strong outliers, locations or events where unusual amounts of something (i.e. methane) are being released.

This often correlates to either accidents that have not been detected/fixed, to deliberate pollution for financial again, or to something nobody realized was significant before.
History tells us that societies evolve very differently and it’s a bit of a good intellectual exercise to think that maybe what you want now is not what people will want in the future.

That said, assuming human nature remains the same, I logically assume places with a larger degree of freedom will always thrive in comparison to places where there isn’t as much freedom (at least in the long run) simply because we know one central place dictating rules can’t account for all the trade offs and sooner or later will make a terrible decision no one can escape from, many times motivated by the flaws of the few people making those decisions. Meanwhile a larger degree of freedom allows people to choose what’s best for them at scale and trends happen more organically. This seems to be the idea defended in the book “Why Nations Fail” in general terms.

Also it seems to me that the governments don’t and can’t really control their populations as much as we fear it. To do that, it needs too much information, and even though we can process more and more information much cheaper today, I don’t think it makes the big picture any easier to understand. Any visualization of data is doomed to be reduced to simplifications that only tell a very narrow story of what is really happening, or gets locked in a machine learning black box that isn’t interested in helping you particularly. The more complex something is, the less likely it is for us to make sense of it, and I think all the subdivisions of human fields (politics, history, economics etc.) actually do more harm than good because when you isolate those things you lose perspective of how they’re interacting and a whole model of how something works can fall flat (see economists not being able to predict anything in practice).

The world or human behavior remains and I believe will remain unpredictable with all sorts of emergent behaviors in different scales, if that makes sense. Some even predict nation states are declining and will be replaced by smaller city-state governments that are closer to people’s needs or that different forms of organizations will be created to deal with different issues now that companies aren’t subject to one country in particular etc.
Russia Today as a television network is banned because you need a license to broadcast and that license can be revoked when it is found that the network broadcasts only propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.

On the other hand, the website of Russia Today is not blocked though it does have some intermittent ddos problems.
It's so sad that we need this. Consumers were all allowed to have their own phone number -- why can't we all have static IPs?
A nice post about the weirdness of FTP:
https://computer.rip/2020-05-20-file-transfer-pseudoprotocol...
At this rate of change anything twenty years out is essentially impossible to estimate.

There are commercial companies working on Fusion power. We may have electrified everything by then, we may have painted the dessert white or we may be totally doomed.
I fondly remember using sites like this to download stuff (ok, apogee games mostly!) in the 1990s. I could FTP to the university VAX which would exceed my 'soft quota' of disk space every time, then I'd have to get the files onto a floppy and delete them before my account locked up.

Does anyone know if the SunSites are still mirrored anywhere? There used to be a dir called 'programming' full of weird and whacky languages which I'd love to see again. For example there was one called ALLOY by Thanasis Mitsolides. His PhD is still available on the internet but the code in usable format is not, as far as I can see.
I've been using Vim for the past 10 years every single day. I don't know any other software that I've used daily, with exception to the OS. While I come from the old school vi days, Vim really became the ultimate productivity in editing everything.
I reject the notion that no decent person seeks to lead.

I agree it is hard to stay in power without getting your hands dirty, but many good people have been leaders. And to normalize the idea otherwise would be a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy.
The example figure shows a key hit every half second, which suggests a pecking style of typing at around 24 wpm. This way the model gets very clean waveforms. I wonder how their approach would work with average or fast typists. The sound profiles might be much harder to link to characters.
No, in fact they have been far more aggressive in getting rid of that stuff than before.
Another Street Battery Salvage
There are multiple apps for this? Seems like PBS KIDS should own the authoritative one, and the licensing.
I think an attacker would find that many streamers with high quality audio have properly setup their mics with noise gate filters to remove their relatively quiet keystrokes.
Mostly oil fields which are not or improperly flaring or gaz infrastructure which are leaking. Can also be landfills where decomposition create methane but still mostly the oil industry. For “normal” emitters, you can add to that cattle farms.
Sooner or later, the physics community will come to their senses and realize that every massive particle is surrounded by its own dark matter halo. This is the reason that measurements of the gravitational constant G suffer from a high uncertainty problem not seen with other physics measurements.

Then it will become obvious that the halo is a neutral electric field created by real photons, not virtual photons.

Rebel Science
The DNS provider has some German presence, and the site and its hosting don't. The serving of torrent magnet links alone is not illegal in most Europe.
If your internal representation is stable, you can put private functions in a private friend class that is only defined in the cpp file: `private struct access; friend struct access;`.
Also 500 bystanders.
We’ve been 20 years away from fusion for 80 years now.

Maybe someday, sure. But saying fusion is going to save us is foolish. We can’t wait that long
British people also sound more American than ever. Nearby, in Ireland, there are rich (suburban, I think?) Dubliners who have never left Europe that, with their normal accents, can briefly pass for Americans to Americans.
I've never been to one of those conferences, so just a second hand anecdote:

A couple of years ago some friends of ours invited us to lunch with a couple of their relatives who were in town for a cardiology conference. They (the relatives) were both stout* people, technicians of some kind rather than doctors, and the husband was super hung over from the previous night.

Anyway, they told us all about how the sessions at these things were pretty dry, but the after party was always a drunken, hours long slurry of alcohol and aorta-clogging food, and it was so ludicrously un-heart-healthy that it was a running gag.

So I'm wondering if the people who opt to go to those things tend to perform differently in their work than the ones who stay home and live quieter lives?

(*I only mention this because a few days after we had lunch, the husband apparently had a heart attack while he was driving, pulled off to the side, and died.)
It looks like Bram was the treasurer, so his medical condition could potentially have something to do with it.
"Dark Reader" for Firefox. I'm reading HN in dark right now.
Why should I need your consent in public? Especially, if it’s incidental. If I follow you around all day, I see a problem. If you’re in the background of a video or photo I took of something else, I can’t see an issue.
Why though? We could have the browser apply the styles. And even allow user preferences to affect the presentation! kinda like firefox "article mode".

But that text/markdown would have to be restricted not to include any html tags, which are allowed in the "common" md spec.
> almost everything folks want is legally available on a streaming service for cheap or no-charge

The majority of TV shows and movies that I watch are unavailable on streaming services. I know there's some more specialty streaming services for film these days, but besides that, it seems like its mostly well-known classics, anything mainstream from the past 20 years, or new releases that are available.

I solely credit piracy for enabling my appreciation of film and TV. I was never a big fan of either until I got access to a huge catalog and started watching classics that are not popular enough for streaming services to pickup.
It never reaches the top in finite time on a cone, it just keeps going up and up getting slower and slower.
Rest in peace, Bram...
Why does no one want to increase the housing supply then unless they can get federal money to do so?
> so if an invisible being that doesn't interact in our world in any way was able to be quantified in a reproducible experience

No invisible beigns here. Our creators are either extinct (killed by a world-altering catastrophe, perhaps) or are somewhere far away where they can observe their creation.
I remember CannaPower from my first steps with piracy (also: eMule/eDonkey, KAZAA, BearShare, LimeWire). Good to know they are still operating.
Quite a while ago now, but I used to work at a tissue engineering lab in London. I was interested in how techniques from procedural design and architecture could be brought across, as actually the design of many of the TE scaffolds seemed very crude.

Blood vessels grow according to growth factors that are released in response to hypoxia, I wanted to try and model them as a space colonisation. I never quite got around to producing the actual structures, but some more details here:

https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/-/media/files/rcs/standards-and-res...
Mitigates how much? Please stop sharing news that make vague claims, HN is not Facebook
That's a bit more challenging since Google didn't exist yet when Polish people started using the word kawa. On the other hand there were certainly people around who knew.
> leafing through the book with gloves

Rare books are typically handled with bare hands rather than gloves. Gloves increase the risk of damage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/arts/rare-books-white-glo...
Studies on AD and Coffee seem to be all over the place because they are just correlative. People with a genetic disposition to drink coffee (I kid you not) have higher prevalence of AD, people who drink coffee in middle age possibly less prevalence of later AD, so people who were drinking lots of coffee right before developing AD could mean a positive or negative affect.
Banned in NL it gives an HTHS error NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID the certificate common name in the attack is advice.upc.biz
ublock origin fixes all
Hack Club Bank
i mean i didnt disconnect so...
I'd love to get replacements for my defective and missing lymphatic vessels...
Some of the appreciation should go to the academic roots, culture and tradition of the early internet. The internet originated at DARPA but many of the earliest participants and adopters were academic institutions.

FUNET is the Finnish University and Research Network. They provide backbone connectivity and networking facilities to universities in Finland and have done so for decades. They've also run the public FTP archive (actually HTTPS by now) since 1990.

It seems to me that at the time, providing a server that distributed freely distributable and open source software was part of an academic culture of sharing and of providing a public good. (The free software movement also has its roots in the academia. Of course "open source" as a term didn't exist back then, but some of the culture did, without the commercial connotations of open source necessarily.)

In today's rather commercialized world, I appreciate it that a public institution still runs such an archive in a similar spirit with no direct commercial interest. (FUNET is run by a state-owned enterprise.)
I am not aware of any zero-payment solutions. These tools cost money to invent and develop so most of them are commercial.

By GHS, developers of TimeMachine (TimeMachine created in ~2003), for C/C++:
https://www.ghs.com/products/MULTI_IDE.html see “History viewer”

By the developers of rr (rr created in ~2013) for C/C++:
https://pernos.co/

By former GHS employees for Python:
https://functiontrace.com/

Usable FOSS time travel debugging is new enough that no follow on FOSS visualization has been developed as far as I know.
It's a semi-regular question. I doubt it will ever happen. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ask+dark+mode
Depending on the game and its DRM, the SteamOS has been great. A couple of symlinks are required to run some stuff but proton pretty much bridges the divide.
Software can't defeat supply and demand unless you have a monopoly.

Suppose the amount rents have to hit before it's profitable to build a new building is $1000/month and right now rents are at $990/month. A cartel representing 70% of the landlords in the city collude to raise rents to $2500/month.

If they're allowed to, builders will keep building new housing until rents are back below $1000, because until that point they can keep making money by doing it. Even if they have to increase the housing stock in the city by the entire 70% and leave the cartel with a bunch of empty buildings.

But if they're not allowed to build, prices go up. And some entity with a profit cap can't do anything about it because they have no path to supplying enough housing to lower the market price.
"Piracy" is still a thing for classical music - if you look for a specific performance of a piece you'd often find that it is not only not available online, but also permanently out of stock in physical formats since 1998.
Different subreddits will have different reactions. Also, moderation and up/down voting will swing the tone over time. One of you may have seen the post early and the other later and you could both be right in your impressions.
javascript: (() => { document.documentElement.style.filter = "invert()";document.documentElement.style.background = '#fff' })();
Can you make a novel sound? One that's not part of any human language?

Perhaps you can, using a tool. However, if we're allowing tools, I bet GPT4 could also write a program that would produce a novel token, by whatever definition you might give.

I don't think GPT4 is AGI. But this is not a good test. (And it does mean something that coming up with a good test is increasingly nontrivial.)
Or Oasis’s “Champagne Supernova” sounding (to my American ear) like “supin’ over”.

Also, The Lincoln Lawyer has an Australian actor playing a character (Cisco) with a gruff, throaty American accident, but at one point it slips through and he says “Lisa” as “Liser”.
Cicero broke the law to execute a number of citizens without trial when he discovered they were plotting a coup.

When challenged on this he said "Salus populi suprema lex esto":

"The safety of the people should be the supreme law"
how about we stop the module and linker nonsense and just do it right?

stick everything in a single compilation unit automagically and have a flag to let bad legacy code that reuses global symbols produce errors/warnings so they are easy to fix, or be ignored so that we can still have backwards compatibility.

that is just the "hacky" way of doing things and it indeed works wonderfully, although often breaking any kind of incremental build - this is because we implement incremental build wrong, which is suitably easy to fix as well.
Carbon tax incentivizes many of my points, but it’s not like my points are the sacred script on what to follow. That and some others do require government legislations (which are a good thing in most cases, and ideally are there to protect and serve the people!), e.g. mandating a standard container, others like living with your parents would need a social change, but that can also be influenced by the government, e.g. much less tax on rent in case of multi-generational homes.
Have you ever tried to use LLMs to navigate around papers in academic research areas? They are not good in tasks like that, eg finding what is important, often they cannot even summarise papers properly, getting confused with causal directions and relationships between different parts.
Ask HN: Is there a marketing-related topic you'd like an article written about?
I've been wanting to get back to blogging about marketing strategy, ideas, etc., for a little while now. Although I write quite a bit and I've worked in marketing for major tech and gaming brands for a couple of decades, I rarely make time to write on that subject for an audience looking for marketing guidance.

So, tomorrow (Sunday) I plan on working on one, maybe two depending on how it goes, articles or blog posts!

I've got a few ideas already of possible subjects, but I thought what could be more interesting is to see if there are any suggestions from HN readers of what you would specifically like to read or learn about. Both to find any subject ideas that might be better than the ones already in my head, and to know that if I can write the article, I've already found my first reader!

Obviously, I can't make any promises, and there'll be any number of areas in which I'm not qualified to write about, but my experience spans everything from multi-million dollar media buys through platforms like Google and Facebook, as well as single-site campaigns, print and TV, etc., to PR and consumer events, to business rebranding, community management, influencer marketing, etc.

So, if there's something you've been wanting to understand, or learn about, and it's not something you can already get the perfect write-up from 30 seconds with a search engine, please let me know!

You can either just give me the article headline you want to see and let me go from there, or an in-depth question, or list of points to consider, or... whatever you like.

And hopefully, if anyone's interested enough to leave a comment here, I'll be back at my desk in the morning (EU time) to start planning & hammering away at my keyboard!

(I'll also put more effort into it than I did with the writing of this post, which was a 3 minute draft followed by a quick proof-read!)

edit: On the off chance this thread picks up and gets more than a couple of comments (or even for the one comment already posted) - if anyone reading this thinks they could write a great article about one of the requests, feel free to jump in and offer, I won't be territorial :)
You made me look. :)

"House of Suns", 2008

I really liked the intro. I should get back to it and read it in full.
A Home for High School Hackers – Hack Club
This mashes a few different ideas together that don't really fit. Cargo-cult thinking means emulating something's appearance without understanding how it works. This is a specific kind of irrationality. Removing gall bladders en masse is also irrational, but it's not a cargo cult. The beliefs of a cargo cult may be unfalsifiable, but that doesn't mean all unfalsifiable beliefs are like a cargo cult.

It may be perfectly reasonable to be unable to imagine a belief being falsified. For instance, what would it take to convince you that you remembered your own name wrong and that you've been called something different for your entire life?
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