skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i too feel entitled to get stuff from a public library w/o having to deal with a for-profit company.

also drm-free media because i grew up with copying stuff from libraies (books, cassette tapes, cds, vhs ...) and imho this is still a big requirement.
Strange dice that it seems to mostly be c++, sponsored by 3 prominent elixir shops, with an original OSC server implementation by Joe Armstrong.

https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/tree/dev/app/server...
I came up with an hypothosis ; particles amd waves work orthoganly -

The particles will have the energy in direction A <-- They only flow in direction, but have zero control

But a wave is the ability to PUSH

So if its a recipricating PULSE, it has the wave of PUSH - this velocity can be proximity - (RSSI) type...

so aside from lidar (which I have spoke on) - you reflect the UVs (i met an PHD on this and he revealed) --- so LOAA is scanning material types - and thus is in the position to TARGET material,,,

This is super secret
I completely disagree. I've found that GPT-4 and Copilot Chat generate good suggestions most of the time. What kind of things are you try to use codegen for?

You also need to provide adequate context. I don't think source code alone is good enough context most of the time (E.g. need an error message as well), unless you're pulling in multiple chunks of code.
PyPI is just one gear in the quite broken Python packaging mess. But I hope it’s a good starting point!
You would win and then find out the company assets are $10,000 worth of office furniture, a k-cup machine, and a network switch.
Nix solves a different problem than Hocus. Nix lets you define a development environment, Hocus gives you a way to run it on a remote server. Right now we use Dockerfiles to let users define the packages they need in their dev env, but we would like to support Nix in the future too. Interestingly, you can use custom BuildKit syntax https://docs.docker.com/build/dockerfile/frontend/ to build Nix environments with Docker https://github.com/reproducible-containers/buildkit-nix, and that's probably what we will end up supporting.
You can leave your phone at home and go to a bar no problem. If you can't pay for drinks, that's a problem.
Of course, but the interrupt semantics are lost, which is the problem. I'm not convinced that you actually live this, because if you did you would know this.
Why don't you contact them to let them know?
This is my attempt to achieve Zero Trust in a way that greatly exceeds the Microsoft and US Army Zero Trust specifications:

https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...
> which I guess is meant when they talk about a 1D superconductor, i.e. the wave function has p-symmetry, but not even sure if that's what they mean

I think they mean it only appears on islands that are much longer than they are wide or high. I.E. I understand it as a geometric limitation on the form of the crystals they can make.

The theoretical stuff that got here implies it has d-wave symmetry, and so does the original paper.
I have to admit as someone who enjoys WFH and would never work in an office again, that having co-workers like you is one of the main reasons. You should work on not relying so much on others. You may be benefiting from all that social "charging up", but you're taking that from the person on the other side of the conversation.

I work to make money, not to fill someone's social void. You'll be happier if you explore the root cause of your issue and get a little more comfortable with yourself.
I am curious how important 100GB dev environment support and efficiently binpacking dev environments and rat-holing on memory efficiency actually matters for the first X enterprise customers for Hocus.

Memory and CPU cores are cheap. Getting the UX, resource allocation/sizing/instance type, and general pattern for multi-tenant dev boxes seems more fruitful.

Would love to see any data supporting this prioritization, and what the answer is for Workstation / HEDT-type environments given the industry's current focus on AI.
Show HN: Open-source library to manage todo items in Python code
I made this library that collects all TODO items from a python project, creates automated summaries and notifies them over email, SNS or SES etc.

It is highly customizable allowing to add custom summaries, custom notifier and integration with downstream applications.
You probably could, but likely would have needed a cease and desist letter involved at some point.
Also in locomotives is that no gear box would survicee so much weight.
I got a lot of telemarketers calling from numbers that only show up on my phone as "Restricted".

So there isn't even a phone number to trace.
I don't want to defend LLMs and generators (which are cool but still a long way from true AI). But it's not like people don't suffer from the same problem -- perhaps not on basic arithmetic, but on many complex problems.
A culture of good, clear documentation is critical.
Ask HN: Deferred Compensation for Startup Consultant?
Hi, I imagine it's a common situation for specialist consultants working with startups, who can't quite afford to pay them in cash, to work out alternative payment arrangements.

Being paid in stock is one option, but how common is it to be compensated by debt (which presumably would be paid only if the startup survives long enough)? Maybe in the form of a non-recourse note, maybe in the form of payment due after an extended period (year+), or perhaps convertible debt?

Anyone have experience with such arrangements, cautionary tales, tax implications?
I really enjoyed messing with the "Microsoft tech support" calls I would frequently get. In addition to keeping them on hold for half an hour "while my computer turned on" (aka I made and ate breakfast), I liked to try to follow their directions on wholly inappropriate hardware and seeing how they responded. After telling one guy that "chrome" wasn't a recognized command, he asked me what was on my screen and got very excited when I replied, "READY."

Alas, my old Commodore 64 proved scam-proof.

(As an aside, I remain amazed by the scammers' patience.)
I thought this was a fact of all famous and suitably large bridges like the Sydney harbour and Forth bridges. Because painting doesn’t effect the running of the bridge much they just hire enough painters that gets the bridge painted in time and then start again. Apparently the Forth bridge now uses a new paint that means it doesn’t need to be painted for 20 years though
And more variable than the Sun.
“Worked” only applies if you’re able-bodied.
How much longer would the war have lasted without the strategic bombing?

Would those civilians have died anyhow had the germans had the military materiel to hold each city longer, which would have required fighting block by block - Imagine the Battle of Berlin but on a continental scale.
The most bizarre is people who view this as a fight between underdog citizens and established big science, ignoring that the most useful commentaries and replication efforts are coming from universities and big science labs.

(And no, a photo on Twitter of some unspecified speck levitating over an unspecified magnet-looking device posted by an unknown individual does not prove anything. If the topic was anything else, HN would've been filled with "Gah stupid non-technical people, when will they understand that you can't believe everything on the internet?")
In short, the post-fall countries transitioned to Kleptocracies more than anything else. The transition to capitalism was very spotty and state run businesses existed for a long time after the fall (and in many cases many businesses are still state run and have yet to transition).

Out of the 200M+ [1] people in the USSR, what percentage would you say had connections to the party? My impression is that 99% (all but 2M) likely did not.

Hence, the "bad" parts did apply to plenty of people and those are the people we are talking about. My experience is from living half a decade in a post-fall country from 1995 to 2000. The people I talked to that missed communism often now had it bad and were left behind. In essence the average quality of life was worse under the USSR but the extremes in quality of life were less - nobody was fully left behind as they are now. There was a very certain social net that was there. On the flip side, with less extremes, there was very little opportunity for advancement, so you wind up with a relatively homogeneously poor but not impoverished society. Post-fall, poverty rates jumped (from extremely low to very high), the homogeneously poor society was still poor and the safety net was completely removed (without any of the upsides of non-communism yet to be felt; it's a decades long process to change an economy from the USSR system).

> unregulated capitalism

The only unregulated capitalism's out there are black markets. The capitalism of countries in transition post-fall were largely capitalism in name only. Kleptocracy is AFAIK far more accurate of how to describe those transitional governments that still exist today (Belorussia, Russia, Georgia, the central Asian republics are all examples that exist today)

> as well a huge amount of people fell victims to various Ponzi/pyramid/get-rich-quick schemes that were common in the west 100 years earlier but were new here

Is there somewhere I can read more about this? My impression is the governments switched to democracies in name only. Huge portions of government were there to siphon as much as they could for their own personal gain. Want a drivers license? Pay a bribe. Want a building permit? Pay ten bribes? Want to move your grain to a port terminal? Pay a bribe at every city you pass through. (The very latter is a real example, I was very loosely involved with a post-fall USDA project that looked at that problem. Notably identifying, "Hey, here is your problem - the bribes. By the time a farmer has gotten their grain to port they've payed more in bribes than their base cost - this will not work!"

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Population_of_former...
After the last three years, I think there's plenty of that around to smoke.
The low hanging fruit are gone. With LLMs, everything except math problems have been solved.

Real AI is a monster compared to ML.
> I should be able to allow or disallow any type of web crawler/scraper i want.

You're certainly allowed to try, but I don't see why indexers should be mandated to collaborate with you. They serve their users, not you.
I'm pretty sure there is a more sane solution in between. Too bad the commitees went wild instead.

Just like with ipv4 and ipv6.
The unix69 keyboard layout: nerdy and nice
It's posts like this that make me think of Roosevelt's Man in the Arena speech. It's easy for folks on the sidelines to criticize and say "what's so hard?" It's for the best who the folks rolling up their sleeves, doing the hard work don't see/hear it. There are tons of teams working at this from multiple angles, both trying to prove and disprove it.

It's only been a few days! The fact that cutting edge science from a pre-release version of a paper isn't going perfectly doesn't mean much. Give them time. Eventually we will have more solid answer.
Why does the tone of this sound just like the January 2020 articles saying "weird nerds on twitter freaked out about viruses in china when they should be worried about the flu?"
> Well, yes, but it's harder to play games with, which makes it more stable.

Gold might be better at average value performance over time than fiat currencies which are actively managed for stability and a bias toward slight value decline, but its very definitely not more stable than major fiat currencies.
The money has to be sent somewhere. Those accounts are usually more traceable.
I can't imagine amazon prefers the use of metal vs. non-metal. As I understand the pricing they're equivalent.
Published findings fail to replicate all the time all over science. The responsible thing is to suspend judgement until it has been independently verified a few times, especially if it's a result from a field in which you are not up to date with the latest findings.

I have a degree in theoretical physics and I feel I'm not qualified to judge this finding.
Since the main problem was address space, they should've just expanded it. Let everyone keep their old v4 addresses (with 0-padding), focus on the protocol upgrade, and give new users longer addresses for cheaper. You wouldn't even need DNS changes initially. Instead, v6 became a whole new thing with additional goals like removing NAT (which I'm not even convinced is a good idea), so of course there'd be way more friction.

Like, I said this elsewhere, Cloudflare public DNS is 1.1.1.1. If I switch to ipv6, I get to use 2606:4700:4700::1111. You telling me that's an upgrade?
You don't see how your logic can be misinterpreted?

Original question: Why aren't labs outside of China publishing results?

Your answer: Because good rigorous science takes time to produce.

Logical interpretation of your answer: Chinese universities are producing bad, unrigorous science because they're publishing their findings so fast.
Automattic seems to be dominating their space, and has been remote first for years before the pandemic.
It’s arguably this exact mentality that separated the Nazis and the rest of the Axis from the Allies. The Nazis had valued an outdated concept of ruling with an iron fist, which led them to discount the opinions of their scientists (as well as all other intellectuals.) Whatever advantage they gained by being absurdly and annoyingly aggressive, they slowly lost as the Allies gained the technological advantage. The Allies then promptly punished them for their mistake.

I think this author is correctly identifying the attitude shift, but they don’t seem to understand that the attitude they’re describing was actually correct at the time. They’re passing judgment on it because they’ve seen it used for evil in recent years, but it’s like a bit of old useless programming: it was probably added in for a reason, and that reason was probably a pretty good one at the time even if it’s now a nuisance or even outright problematic in the current era.

The Allies didn’t want to go into war, but were forced to by Hitler. Hitler’s actions were a bit like the tragedy of the commons: if you break the precedent then the precedent is broken and we all suffer together. The Nazis were bombing London every night. What are you gonna do? “When they go low we go high?” I mean, cmon…
I believe it's the opposite - more publishers will consider porting to Mac.

Previously, you could only play on desktop Macs with a discrete graphics card. But now there is a M1 Macbook with powerful graphics out of the box. And the install base is pretty big.

But it only will happen with the help from Apple. We already see the first attempts - Death Stranding will be available natively on M1 Macs.
In this world we live in there exists an objective truth to things. "things" in this context can be fuzzy, like if something is "good" or "bad", or they could be physical, like if something is getting "hotter" or "colder".

Wrapping those "things" in "politics" doesn't detract from the objective truth of the "thing", whatever that may be. It's merely a lazy distraction that reframes the debate in a way that favours the person or entity positioning themselves against the "thing" (for whatever reason). Here are some examples:

> The planet isn't getting hotter. These "scientists" are just begging for grant money and so have to say the planet is warming else they won't have a job!

> The planet is getting warmer. These "politicians" are just begging for oil-industry money and so have to say the planet is not getting warmer else they won't have a job!

> men cannot be women, anyone who says otherwise is just a politically motivated idiot trying to tear down good honest family values and those who indoctrinate our students with this nonsense should be purged

> men can be women, anyone who says otherwise is just a hard-headed idiot who must vote republican/conservative/other-bad-party, is probably racist and is trying to bring us drag us back into the stone age where women didn't have the vote. anyone who indoctrinates their kids with this nonsense should be purged

None of these unfortunately common arguments are actually saying anything, or are really about the actual "thing" in question. Just like the original comment I was replying to. The "thing" is a segway to attack the person.

The original commenter doesn't understand the nuances of systematic racism or sex vs gender any more than the layman. But that's not what they are attacking. They are attacking a perceived, fictitious persona that they don't personally like, or have been indoctrinated to not like by others. And that's lazy as hell.
If you the way you use computers is keyboard driven, I recommend Vimium. Nice expirience for browsing with the keyboard only
this seems click-baity

but i'm glad about that, because it means communication on other platforms are more effective at sharing results than an outdated publishing system that drains people of their livelihood
Its not that uncommon though. I know guys juggling 4-8 women in various capacities (some more regular, some occasional, some remote).
>> Seems like one problem is that you didn’t set it up automatically and expected them to do it on their own.

Downloading and configuring CouchDB on their PC isn't something I can do for them, but it's really simple and easy to do and I provided step by step instructions.

I didn't charge them anything at all to get and use the offline first version of the app. They already paid for the online version (that's a yearly subscription fee) so there was no extra charge at all.

They really were not at all concerned about a long term outage. I can understand that because widespread outages have been pretty rare, and the app has never been down for any significant amount of time for 20 years now. So I think it was really a lack of urgency.
‘Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde’ plead guilty in ‘spy novel’-like laundering case
Can't wait for Razzlekhan's prison tracks to drop
Startup debt and equity is, in practice, worth $0. If they can't pay anything in cash and badly need a consultant, they're definitely going to fail. That means that they don't have enough cash to operate (which is already a good sign they're going to fail) and they don't have the expertise to even build a company in the first place. Don't waste your time.
i would accept that as compensation, its a good start for a haxspace.
Speaking of which, here is a new video with Varda - some US engineers who just replicated a bit. Live stream ended 5 minutes ago, not sure how long the video will stay up:

LK-99 with Varda – This Week in Startups [live video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37002618

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1o88seNB-w
When ! occurs in an interactive command, Bash treats that specially (for history substitution or something; I don't use this so I'm foggy on the details).

It's a POSIX violation which the Bash people think is okay because it doesn't affect scripts.

So you can't just dump this into your shell interactively. It's meant to be put into a file that is sourced.

Sorry about not mentioning it!
But this one was in the park. A completely different value prop!

It should have garnered massive VC investment to gain market share quickly.
74% (don't quote me here, this is from memory) of stars are less massive red dwarfs. Only about 4% (again don't quote) stars fall into our weight class.
To be clear, the stuff I posted about isn't generally important for running games. Getting the whole commercial game library running is a goal that was more or less passed a long time ago (excluding stuff that depends on obscure peripherals anyway). The things in that list are obstacles to approaching the platonic ideal of perfect emulation and are sometimes problems for things like verifying tool assisted speedruns or catching bugs in homebrew development.

> This was about all I found: https://ares-emu.net/compatibility/21?status=3000

IIRC this game shipped with broken EEPROM code so it's a bit unclear if this is actually emulated incorrectly. Ares is really in great shape these days

I do have a couple minor open compat bugs in BlastEm (my public issue tracker is sadly not up to date...), but I believe these are just normal bugs and not "we don't understand how this actually works" kind of things.

EDIT:
> Last I looked into it, even Overdrive 2 was emulated pretty well...

Yes. In BlastEm there's a one-line glitch in one of the scenes I haven't managed to figure out. In Ares, there's a single effect that doesn't work (border dissolve after the "arcade" scene) and a 1-line glitch in the arcade scene. Both are only visible if you have overscan enabled.
Something exciting is happening, of course people want be informed as it evolves.

A similar example are election nights. People already voted,
the result is in the box, we could simply wait and announce the result.

But seeing the numbers rise like an ongoing fight is going on makes for a more entertaining evening!
Depends on the origins, as far as I can tell a lot of recent occurrence the "must be 6ft tall" is socially driven by dating app use (which enables more nuanced selectivity).

For much of history (pre-industrialization) men weren't often as tall due to begin with, due to more prevalent nutrient deficits. Additionally, rather than trawling a site with thousands of men you were largely limited by your location for potential suitors, so you simply couldn't be as picky (if you had a choice at all, as women often didn't).

I generally find that people need to be much more careful when discussing these kinds of topics. People are very quick to attribute certain attributes of desirability to biology, and there are no doubt common threads amongst humanity, but there have also been enormous swings in social trends that have ignored these factors.
This has been the summer of social media upheaval
Apply for a credit card and tell them to write "First Last, PhD". You will get it.

Source: A buddy messing with me partway through my grad school days.
The thing I love about HN is that enthusiast stuff like this makes it to the front page. <3
Here's what I see:
https://postimg.cc/CzcKc3GD
What really sucks is that I can't say anybody is wrong for being skeptical of a government, insofar as any large organization with power over individuals is dangerous. But the critical mistake they are making is that this doesn't mean a government action can't be good. Coordinating public health responses is probably one of the most good government actions possible, and it was vilified for political power.

In my mind, it's analogous to a starving rural person saying they should have their hunting rifle melted down (condemning them to likely death) because lots of people have been unjustly murdered by assault rifles. Yes, guns are dangerous - they're powerful, and power is dangerous. So we recognize that there can be abuses of the power of guns (and governments), and we already have guardrails against some of the most egregious abuses - very few people argue citizens should have free access to heavy machine guns and missile launchers. What we argue about is where we should draw the line between usefulness vs risk of abuse of abuse. And in this analogy, there are some people so scared of guns that they're saying we shouldn't even have them available as a simple hunting tool.

Bringing it back to government, people are so traumatized by government abuses, regardless of whether those abuses happened to them or even happened at all, that they're sort of arguing for the melting down of the government even when it is genuinely acting in their best interest. Except it's worse, because the anti-mask movement is not trying to actually abolish government at all, just weaponize their own fear for targeted harm.