skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, it's 10 per day, not 10 period? I used it last night and noticed that I had nine searches left with the "best model" before having to log in, and assumed they had to last me until the end of time. (By the way, after recently stopping using Phind because it frankly started sucking, last night's response was superb, A++, would (and will) use again.)
I wonder if this would have application to treat autoimmune diseases
Haha but no, they're not similar. We can absolutely influence the prevalence of inappropriate GUI interfaces. For starters, push back if someone tells you to make one inappropriately. I don't think there's a huge market demand from GUI-prone programmers; I believe those people skew more towards being less opinionated and just using what's suggested. It's more driven by product managers and people writing code using languages/frameworks that are very divorced from the command line perpetuating the same thing in the products they create.
I saw some early reactions to this paper that were highly critical of the researchers, and claimed that they were doxxing innocent people.

Without commenting on the substance of the posts to that board, that just seems factually incorrect to me. First, there’s the simple fact that an IP address is not an individual (yeah that’s right EU, I went there). Second, this was quite clever but fundamentally simple analysis of 100% publicly available information.

If I keep posting online various pictures taken from the windows of my house, I don’t think I have any right to get mad when someone geolocates my address.
Neskowin Ghost Forest
This is how science works. Sometimes you are right, sometimes you are wrong. Sometimes your 'wrongs' lead to the most amazing 'rights' (and not always by the same people) and sometimes they stay wrong. For example, Geoffrey Hinton was 'wrong' for years (though he didn't publish anything claiming he was right and had cracked something, but different field, but lots of people had already given up and he persisted) and look at him now.

Reputation matters, so don't commit fraud and don't try to trick others. That is the sort of thing you won't be recovering from. But being wrong is fine, even if you truly believe(d) that you are right. Note that this whole saga was not started on the timetable of the people that have the most at stake. I'm hoping they are right, I'm fearing they are wrong and if it turns out that they were wrong then I hope that they will not be dissuaded by that and that they and many others will continue the search. There are a lot of things that came out of materials science in the last two decades that we'd have never had if not for people searching for them. Not all of those searches will pan out, that's pretty much a given. Think of it as sifting for gold in a mountain of junk. For every piece of gold there are piles and piles of junk. And sometimes stuff that looks very much like gold, but ultimately isn't. That should not affect the reputation of the seekers. They are either going to try again, or maybe they'll give up. But what others think of them doesn't matter all that much.
Texas resident, in my experience they display those stats when nothing else is going on. So mostly right now they are always about staying indoors to avoid the heat or that the air quality is low so limit activity. They actually do all sorts of jokes or mention some major event in the area, like Texas vs. OU. I personally just appreciate the traffic warnings.
I created a GameBoy-like game in 13kb
This has been why I've started to really like Costco -- they're essentially acting as product curators (and back it up with a generous return policy.)
Unfortunately if you so create a new product or service it’ll be really hard to find you this way and it might require a lot more money and effort to reach out to the audience.
This, but also in the professional space. My coworkers much be 200% faster now, but I’m going to spend 80% of my time unfucking their work.
If you click on the time stamp of your comment there is an 'edit' link there. (It should also be there in the thread.) It stays available for an hour or so and then it will disappear.
Different but reproducing the only real current "signature" LK99 behavior anyone's been able to show.

That a definitely non-superconducting material can do something similar is bad news for LK99.
They've made Zookeeper optional now, although they're being understandably conservative about that (e.g. only declared it production-ready a year or two ago).
The word "novel" seems deserved. I've heard of organic polymer electrode batteries, but not ones using air.

1. https://www.polyjoule.com/
Almost any aircraft can be operated commercially.

A Cessna 150 cruises around 100. Cessna 172s are used regularly for scheduled commercial service, and cruise under 150. No issue putting a small wifi ap in one of those. If you want I can turn on my phone tethering next time I go flying to prove my point.

Plenty of small aircraft cruise around doing survey work over cities all day every day.

Look at project loon from google, those guys travel around at an airspeed of nil providing internet.
Yes, but I take it like a rebuttal.

They got the same effect that got everyone excited (half levitation) with a similar material that is ferromagnetic.

Considering that there is a lot of unknowns and randomness regarding the synthesis of LK-99, and that the half levitation effect can be explained by ferromagnetism, to me, it sounds much more likely that the original LK-99 is a ferromagnet rather than a superconductor. Simply because ferromagnets are common, and a room temperature superconductor is an extraordinary claim.

I'd like to be wrong, but for now, it doesn't look good for superconductivity.
I agree that this is ridiculous, but blame Apple and Google for wanting their 30% cut of digital goods; I think Amazon is actually right to refuse to play ball on this. Regardless, though, once you know how to do it, you only have to do two of those steps, which seems... fine?
> “Want” gets redefined somewhere between the first and second to last paragraph

I think I get what the author is going for. English lacks words to describe the degree to which you want something paired with how seriously you're willing to pursue it. A word that means "I desire this enough to seriously work for it given the sacrifices required" would be really useful and I've found quite a few people pull the same semantic trick with want that the author does as a way to communicate it.

Certainly, trying to push this idea into my mentees' minds is something I've had to spend an unfortunately large amount of time doing given how intuitive it feels like it should be.
But also good luck next time you google health symptoms - sure it’s bad, but everybody does it, and we’re going to move further and further away from accurate.
Almost every compiler is fast on toy-sized programs. E.g. the standard Java compiler is pretty fast, and uses little resources.

It becomes visible when you build a large project: you notice that when you face 100k LOCs, efficiency of every compiler's part starts to matter, and RAM usage may grow to uncomfortable levels if your compiler does not care enough.
We've levitated a living frog in a magnetic field.

Starting to remind me of the logic of the witch test in monty python and the holy grail.
I made a robot that could replicate a painting (that you made using the robot). The robot was controlled by a Wacom tablet so it had 3 dimensions of input (x, y, and z for pen pressure). It was able to replicate its own paintings using just dead reckoning. Was fun programming custom Arduino code to drive the motors.

https://www.instapainting.com/blog/research/2015/09/10/robot...
Just teach your kid libgen and be done with it.
>Like slapping Google on the wrist with a $125m fine. "oh no, an amount we can make back in about an hour, whatever shall we do!"

If the specific misconduct they got caught for netted them $x, and they got fined for $5x, who cares how much % of their global revenue is? That specific crime was still a net negative for them. I'm not sure why conglomerates should be punished more harshly just because they have more revenue overall.
The Android ecosystem has had billions and billions of dollars invested into it along with industry buy in. Ignoring it because of some small petty reasons is just a classic case of Linux users wanting to avoid success at all costs.
2. Don't pick a terrible one when teaching. What kind of reason is that?
I'm pretty sure you can't buy Kindle books with Amazon's iOS apps because Apple wants a cut.
Yep, the difference between the Ubuntu experience and the Mac experience is stark. Also when the time comes to do power user stuff, macOS has many differences from Linux that have not been translated to documentation well, basically issues there are less Googleable.
I made a robot that cheers every time the Green Bay Packers score (American football).

https://imgur.com/a/JeiDCYR

The chassis is 3D printed and a Raspberry Pi is hiding, with a couple of speakers, in the base. The Pi connects via WiFi to the local network and checks ESPN’s publicly available JSON for that day’s game to determine if the score has changed.

I gifted it to a friend that owns a bar and wanted him to be able to move to new networks and reconfigure without using a computer. So, I wrote some python scripts that interface with the GPIO pins on the Pi to reset the device and broadcast a WiFi network and web interface that can be used to connect to other networks.

That last bit now has over 500 stars on GitHub!

https://github.com/jasbur/RaspiWiFi
> Ugly things can be good, and beautiful things can be bad.

This is indeed very common in the real world, and often talked about in one way or another on HN. So much so that the parent almost certainly has seen multiple examples after nearly 15000 comments and 13 years on HN.
That's a good question and there is a lot of speculation about that but ultimately we just do not know. There is a whole tree that you can set up to track their reasons, the big branch at the beginning is labeled 'it doesn't work' (which obviously is a bit short on the confirming side, it may still have a 'fraud' and a 'true believers' branch but that's academic) and then from the other branch you get branches which may be labeled as 'they don't know how they did it' and so on.
Other people are commenting that Brothers are getting kind of enshittified like these HPs have been know to do forcing people to use "HP+" and subscribing to ink on their discounted models.
How is your work affected by the end of the switching (Tofino) division, are there other users of Barefoot's tools inside the company? I hope I'm not asking anything confidential here.
Amazon's software is odd here. If I click on the name on a real Jane Friedman book, it does not include the fake books... But this is not commutative. If I click on the name on a fake Jane Friedman book, it lists out a mix of real and fake books.

For example, this is a blank notebook on Amazon Canada that a seller has stuck her all-lowercase name upon. If I click the author name on the listing, I'm taken to an author search page that intermingles it with her real books.[1]

That strongly implies Amazon asserting they're one and the same.

Knowing that in the reverse this does not hold tells me that this us probably an unconsidered edge-case and not intentional design. But still, Amazon is, in that search, saying "oh you're looking for more jane friedman (lowercase) here's Jane Friedman (title case)" which implies they're the same person.

I'd call that a software bug... but now that Friedman has informed them, they can't plead ignorance of the bug.

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/NOTEBOOK-Notebook-journal-jane-friedma...
Simple filesystems - those oriented at speed, without integrity checking, compression, encryption and raid-like features. Which are extremely useful and desirable in a filesystem.

When people tried to do a full-featured filesystem, with a remarkable exception (ZFS) it's either a disappointing unfinished mess (btrfs) or a promising, but a long-term project taking years (bcachefs).

Making a filesystem with strong support of important features is an extremely demanding project.
> There's no reason to squash when you can create merge commits from fast-forwardable state instead

Sure there is. Less noise commits.
A lot of people here say that the Rust version is non-idiomatic and likely not even working.

So the answer apparently is simple: between two languages, for an important project use the one which you wield best.
Because some people will screech that the RAM is soldered and can't be upgraded; the laws of physics dictate that DIMMs degrade the signals too much for the speeds desired.

Of course, if Intel puts more emphasis on ARC iGPUs I wouldn't be entirely surprised to see mobos come out with GDDR VRAM soldered on. Some people will definitely still screech, but they aren't important.
I think that's an ok workaround, but I don't want to go to physical bookstores, and I don't want physical books. As much as I do like the feel of a physical book, I much prefer the convenience and portability of a digital book.

And speaking of convenience, it would be a big shame if we had to go back to physical stores for non-trivial purchases because we can't trust anything online.
A device that levitated tungsten filaments in halogen bulbs so they wouldn't sag as they were "seasoned". I used a DC current and an electromagnet to allow the Lorenz force to cancel out gravity. That was a one off, but I thought it was cool.

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I worked in a shop making gears for a few years... I made most of the drive gears for the Marvel 8 bandsaw between 2016 and 2020. I also made lots of other gears. I'm sure that most of them will be in use for decades.
It’s such a ridiculous idea that most people think it can’t possibly be true. Until they find out it is.
Huge swaths of that essay could have been written by my father ... Seriously, though, what's wrong with being an individual? With asserting that individuality in your own way? And how does that erode the soul of our society?
I usually use reflog to answer the question "What was the name of the branch I was just working on again?"

What's supposed to be wrong with that?
How do cancers have sophisticated mechanisms for evading immune responses when they don’t have any adaptive pressure? The cancer dies with the victim. It seems like the equivalent of mashing on the keyboard and getting a valid program.
India's lower house passes first data protection bill
For those wondering, this is what US/anti-Russia propaganda looks like.
I think you will be proven wrong.
> Canada’s “housing crisis” is a permanent state of affairs that harms people in, or in need of, rental housing; roughly one-third of the country’s households.

and

> A housing system that serves all but one group is not in a state of crisis; it is one based on structural inequality and economic exploitation.

I think my point here is the lack of common understanding of what "crisis" means and a belief the linguistic narrow interpretation is "this is not a crisis" because its a systemic failure in design and goals.

Well, "capitalism is in crisis" has been a catch-cry of the left for 80+ years and remains true, despite a lot of shareholder value being made along the way.

There obviously is a massive underlying problem around affordable homes. The article is trying to draw focus to it but I find the "its not a crisis" thing somewhat small as a hook to hang it on. If you're young, or fleeing DV, it's a crisis indeed.

The phrase which comes to mind is "permanent crisis" which I went looking for, and indeed it's been a thing for a very long time.

So no. I disagree. Housing IS in crisis, it's a permanent persisting crisis, which advantages the investor side at the expense of social well being at large.

And if like me you are at the end of your mortgage and working life, you have almost certainly been complicit in this crisis, a fight of the old against the young. We mortgaged the 60s and 70s against the future, and now the future is impoverished.
Warning: no background in science, dumb question inc

It seems like the cancer cells are pretty good at evolving to get around our immune system. Is there a reason our immune system doesn’t evolve to outcompete the thing that is killing it?
But libgen doesn't have "Good night, Gorilla". :-)

Personally, I stick with paper books for kids, even books (and not picture books.)

EDIT: Added a missing closing parentheses. I'm a bad LISPer...
$5B Google lawsuit over ‘incognito mode’ tracking moves closer to trial
Quick - name the CEO of Toyota. Can't do it? How about Volkswagen? Still no? These are the two largest car companies in the world.

Honestly, I think Tesla would be better off if Musk were to go away - at this point. Musk really is the perennial entrepreneur. He's a great idea man, and he can get a company built and make that idea come to life. But he can't run a business.

I think Musk has overstayed his welcome at Tesla. He did it - he took EV's from the niche that hardly anybody paid attention to and made them mainstream. Bravo! I never would have thought he could have done it - but he did. Now it's becoming clear it's time for him to step away and tackle another problem. Otherwise he risks interfering with his own success.
Really interesting project! Would you be in a position to say a few words comparing Fixit 2 with Ruff?
How does one validate that the NFT was issued by the real author and not a scammer issuing NFTs in the same name?
I learned about AirVPN from someone here. Most of the well known VPN providers are blocked in my country, but AirVPN works like a charm.
How/why do you use rebase for squashing?
This is not true, regular "anonymous randos" get doxed regularly and the crazies call up an demand they be 'fired', they get threats to their family, friends and livelyhood.
AFAIK, Walmart doesn’t commingle inventory though. As long as I make sure the seller is Walmart and not a third party, I can trust their supply chain.
Thanks for the kind words!

I'm currently revising my awk book (expect to release by end of this month). You can check out the interactive TUI app (https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps/tree/main/AwkExer...) that I released recently.
>why does it use such a vague light.

I was just being cute. There are typically very precise warnings and indications.
> Delightful experience.

compare this with the piracy option: search for torrent or download link, click, wait for download to finish. Upload to device. Read and enjoy.
> you can write under any name you want.

Sort of. Publishing under a pseudonym is fine, but most US states have laws that prevent you from using someone else's name and likeness without their permission.
Noclip.website: A digital museum of video game levels
> Does nobody here see the irony in bending over backwards to avoid spending money on software products when the entire purpose of your business is to sell a software product?

No, because nobody thinks that it'll happen to them. Their company's/startup's/side project's product will be worth paying money for, and surely nobody's going to try to start an open-source product that will compete with them.

It's always somebody else.
Did they ever stop?
And yet I can buy entire contents of the amazon using the Amazon shopping app. Or Walmart app. Or Target app. Or Best Buy app.

Opening amazon.com via Safari on an iphone is a throwback and a very odd experience - I haven’t needed to use a mobile version of amazon.com in ages - i use the app for all my Amazon shopping.

And one other thing - I can’t stand Musk, but given my experience with Amazon in a world where WeChat exists - perhaps Musk has a chance with his X super app plan after all.
Stays in business because lots of their clientele wants to pay in cash - lovely story though.
Was it this one? https://ferd.ca/queues-don-t-fix-overload.html
It's really not funny because it doesn't stop there. Two or three years ago a completely habituated faculty member at UMass Amherst hit a pedestrian in a mall parking lot with something like 0.25 % BAC. Ordinary people would cycle between bed and bathroom at that level of intoxication and feel very sorry for themselves, but terminal addicts go out to the mall and exceed the limits of even their tolerance. Woman fell up the ladder and is now a named chair at a different institution.

It's bizarre - it ought to occur to such people that ordinary folks cannot function with six or eight beers in the head, and that they ought to seek treatment for their condition but it just doesn't. No tolerance for alcohol behind the wheel.
I got your meaning from first reading. There's no smugness because your position isn't self-righteously or even voluntarily chosen. You've been thrust into a position on the side of the river where the flow is slower and therefore less shit drifts in, purely by good/bad luck.

I like my IT shit, but my major life joys come from my kids and sports and writing / thinking. If FAANG went poof tomorrow (and maybe be if I was a praying person, I'd pray for this daily) my life joys would be almost entirely unaffected.

It's a good perspective.
> when they don’t have any adaptive pressure

The adaptive pressure is your body constantly detecting and killing pre-cancerous cells. Eventually some will get a lucky mutation and slip through.
Building the best Kubernetes test cluster on macOS
I started with Git and now work with Subversion. SVN is definitely simpler but I find myself regularly getting frustrated with its relative lack of features and the wait times inherant to centralized version control systems.

If I could go back to Git I would in a heartbeat.
I made a volcano out of plaster of Paris. The cool bit was that for the eruption I used potassium permanganate in the volcano’s cone and poured glycerin on it to ignite the volcano.
Hi Tim. You can call me Stephen King. My latest books, Care-E and CooJoe will be out this fall. I.T. Should be available by next spring.
I made a spice rack out of unit size lumber which was strong enough to survive nuclear war.

I made a bed-desk combo when I was 16 which was similarly robust but that time modulated through my dad's sense of 'less would be more here'

I used Victor Papanek's books to get plywood "H" sections made which formed a modular bookcase I continue to use, which has been through 5 houses across 30 years now. The unit scale included a cassette tape minimum size alongside standard paperback and large format/LP scale.

I made another nuclear bomb proof wooden thing, a cassette storage case which doubled as a suitcase to move the entire collection around and then hang it on the wall. in hindsight, 90 tapes of cajun music and "my mix tape" was less in need of portability than I thought.
The other day there was a thread here about the Earthsea books where some people posted their favourite quotes from the series.

I saw that one of the quotes wasn't actually from the series and asked the user if they'd actually used an LLM to generate it. They confirmed that they had. It would have been easy to miss that it wasn't real. Eventually their comments got flagged (not by me) and hidden, but probably only due to me calling it out.

It does make me a little concerned about the future.
The qualities many people seek in a laptop is superior battery life alongside decent performance, solid build, and good ergonomic design. Apple sells this in spades. Comparing the size of Apple's market of business users with the market of "Everyone [who is] doing serious AI and science" reveals a gargantuan disparity in numbers. And even then, I'm pretty sure you can get plenty of serious AI and science work done on a higher-end Macbook Pro.
Simple question: why is there no git undo command shipped in box? There is absolutely no technical barrier to shipping such a command.