skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have also started rolling out "Premium HD (1080p)" as an additional quality level for paying users. I can't tell a difference to regular 1080p (for now), though.
Emergent Product Features

Products that harness the power of large language models often yield intriguing results. Unexpectedly, I discovered PodStash's aptitude for generating near-perfect translations in various languages. Partnering with a voice synthesizer like ElevenLabs ensures impeccable pronunciation in these translations. This feature shines for those learning a new language or seeking to enhance domain-specific vocabulary—imagine translating finance-centric articles from Bloomberg, Reuters, or FT into your mother tongue.
I never said anything about preventing people getting rich. But a slightly lower material standard of living on average seems a reasonable price to pay for avoiding the least desirable outcomes from excessive inequality.
> the whole thread, Nitter does

(Sorry, transversal practical question.) Nitter has many elisions. Do you know how to have them all expanded (see all originating posts)?
> Honestly, it’s Home Manager that really adds the maximum value

I feel like Nix does have such killer features, but they are different for everyone.

For me it was:

- system management (nixos + nix-darwin. I wish there was something like nix-darwin for non-nixos linux distros, binding daemon systemd units and desktop files into the "hosting" distro)

- on-the-spot running without globally installing for one shot tasks (nix-shell -p iotop --run iotop)

- "just works" project environment (default.nix+shell.nix or flakes)

These are the ones that made me tip over and decide to go from tiptoeing to full tilt
My Proudest Achievements

Many of my creations are "run-of-the-mill" B2B solutions: rewarding to develop but not necessarily exhilarating to use. PodStash, however, has been a joy. Listening to narratives on historical events, such as the Great Chicago Fire, has been genuinely entertaining. The background about how xenophobia led to the blaming of the fire on poor Mrs. O'Leary's cow, for instance, was captivating. I take pride in launching the V1 MVP in just 9 days, inclusive of designing the logo and landing pages. This timeline perhaps underscores AI's potential in aiding developers more than it highlights my prowess, but it's thrilling to realize an idea in such a short span.
How about stopping using Gmail then?
This year I upgraded from MBP 2015 to M2. I am still bothered by the notch on the M2.
I mean, what exactly about the science are you disagreeing with? Do you think that Covid wasn't airborne? Or that putting a piece of cloth over your face doesn't slow down the spread of disease? Do you believe this pandemic wasn't ended by a set a vaccines? I'm really curious what your actual positions are here, and whether or not you're just an ass hole who thinks they're a "free thinker".
Exactly this.

And HTML/CSS may have its quirks but I'll take it every day over fumbling with GTK or whatever
How is this unfortunate? If you drawn conclusions about the world around you using your limited personal experience then it is unreliable. Relying on personal experience to learn about the world leads to faulty conclusions, more than data or experimentation would.

- I live in X city and I get robbed at gunpoint, is this city unsafe?

- I buy a new Toyota Corolla, it breaks down, does that mean the Corolla is a unreliable car?

- I go to Vermont and I decide to go hiking. The trail I picked is muddy, it's boring, and there are bugs everywhere. Is this a good place to hike?

Wrong conclusions but harmless you might say, how about:

I'm walking in a mall and I see a Black person steal a purse, it's the first crime I've ever witnessed. Are Black people dangerous?

My sister is raped by a Chinese person and my uncle tells me a Chinese person stole his mobile phone. Are Chinese people criminals?

Of course when it comes to situations that only involve you or your direct interaction with a unique situation that makes sense. Taste, smells, sexual attraction, friendship, even your relationship to God. However for most? situations it's not reliable.
Reactors that have not yet been started do not contain that much radioactivity actually, nuclear detonation creates a lot of gunk during the energetic phase due to neutron activation and similar processes.

Also you can presumably shield reactors to survive reentry or even ship the fuel in multiple such reentry proof containers. And of course longer term build these in space, given nuclear propulsion is basically in space only anyway given its characteristics.
While not a blog post, I created a Privacy Frontends with Tailscale repo on Github with this this setup using Tailscale MagicDNS and Caddy.

https://github.com/ecliptik/tailscale-privacy-frontends

I've tested it out on a new Tailnet on a t3.medium EC2 instance and it works relatively well. Adding new services should be relatively easy.

I'm planning to write up a post about the more technical details on the stack still.
Not a KDE user, but I really love the UX of KDE Plasma. One thing I think they should work on is better stability. Hopefully Plasma 6 solves this issue.
RIP Stanley. Thanks for your book!
Hi Rob,

Big fan of you! We've reached 2 mill ARR and a team of 10 with our bootstrapped SaaS. I think your book is amazing, but it's likely more for earlier stages.

Any resources you can recommend to scale further?
> Having determined the correct marketing category, it feeds you more content from that category.

Maybe this is the aim. But in practice they recommend Netflix content which has nothing in common with your preferences.
Unfortunately for Iran, someone at Natanz also used a USB stick to transfer files:
https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/12/2944329/stuxnet-computer-...
Perhaps because biological creatures themselves can exhibit complex shapes and patterns through simpler mathematical principles like fractals and cellular automata
The direction people refer to is the company making a few decisions that deviate from being 100% idealistic. Forget the fact that the client is open source, the parent company being a non-profit, and the app being ad-free. Instead, focus on delayed server source code releases, a weird US crypto currency thing, and the company not supporting private/standalone Signal networks. Oh, also, super concentrate on the client using phone numbers as if it's a fatal flaw rather than a design choice. Instead, keep using WhatsApp or Telegram which have way more problems (like being owned by Meta or having completely closed source server code).

Companies generally trying to do the right thing (e.g. Signal and Mozilla) are held to impossible standards. They are by no means perfect but they're leagues better than the alternatives.
Heh

I wonder if anyone did that comparison, an Electron app vs Chrome + a local copy of node+express whatever running the backend
Obligatory demoscene links for anyone continuing down the rabbit hole: https://nanogems.demozoo.org/, https://www.pouet.net/.
and what might those reasons be?
Sealed fuel capsule at the bottom of the ocean should not be a big deal - ideally you would fish it out and re-launch it. This has already been done with an RTG before.
Seeing as The Matrix is a metaphor for the sanctioned reality we share and drains us of energy for it's own maintenance, and governments actively de-humanize high aggression individuals and deploy them to brutalize designated 'enemy' populations to incite fear in the citizenry, I'd say we're already there.
Exactly, I have been a huge distro hopper to the point that having the same install for a month was already at the high end (though I did keep my home partition).

Now I have 2 years old NixOS installs on personal machines and they do not get bloated with packages that the package manager can no longer handle, and is basically always at a state as if it were freshly installed. It just “feels right”. To me, that makes the occasional edge cases worthwhile to suffer through (some binary package, mostly) - especially that in most cases something like steam-run is enough to make it work. When it isn’t, systemd-nspawn can boot you into any systemd distro you would want.
Bell Labs of AI – Robotics: Boston Dynamics: Marc Raibert Discusses AI Institute
Nano Gems – Tiny Demoscene
<Full Title> 'The Bell Labs of AI and robotics:' Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert discusses AI Institute
There's exactly that, it's called YouTube premium lite. But apparently it's only available in a few countries.
I've never been able to get this to work under UTM on an ARM Mac; if anyone knows the magic qemu and VM settings, please drop me an email (email in profile).

It would be nice to have fullscreen, full res 3d accelerated VM guests finally. I've never been able to get this to work as smoothly as I think it should.
I would say it is probably YT that understands way more minutiae details about me than I do myself.

With a VOD like Netflix it’s always going to be a lot less granular. It’s high production value content, so you will see things that are being pushed across the entire platform regardless of individual preferences.

What I miss are the sort of larger forums or ways for the UI to expose creators. This is true for all VODs - no director, no year, no critic scores. Only maybe which actors and one-sentence descriptions, very broad categories etc.
I've never heard of Arch and only fairly rarely heard of Manjaro as being suitable for anyone but tinkerers, at least not in the way Android is.

A few months ago Steam stopped working. Nobody seemed to know why. It's back now, but git-cola is gone and I'm not even sure how I broke it. Some nonsense about type errors in the hotkey module, which I don't have time to debug right now so I'm just ignoring and using the flatpak.

Most everything I use on a daily basis has 100s of MBs of dependencies in several layers... Forgetting the virtualeng when pip installing something that happens to have a PyQT dependency and trashing my git cola is... not great and Linux is full of stuff like this.

The amount of effort needed to avoid or fix this kind trouble is more that I imagine Nix would need if it was fully polished.

On Nix I was able to package a Python app in a matter of hours, and
Thanks. Do you have somewhere a demo of the hardware performing these computations?
Seems like a good prompt. I’ve got something about being concise but isn’t enough clearly
There just aren't that many animals that thrive in a dense forest

Rainforests are as dense as they come and absolutely the peak of biodiversity on this planet (on land anyway, underwater is a whole other ballgame). They’re one of the only environments humans can survive in with literally nothing but knowledge of the plants and animals around you.
"Without both objective (or analytical) science and subjective (or holistic) theology we're trying to understand the world with one hand tied behind our backs."

One definition of science is "systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation."

If you want to understand something about the world and you can do it using science why would you use any other method.

"Because it has meaning to me."

Excuse the bluntness but so? and why? This doesn't answer my question about the value and why you should use it.
I’d say the biggest difference with Radix is that it isn’t opinionated on how you style a component.

I work in a design agency and I’ve always struggled with component libraries because they weren’t flexible enough.

Radix has been a godsend and such a pleasure to use.
What is it even? I see it referenced now and then and don't understand in what situations it would be useful.
Floor Mouse (2018)
Here there are N cells with N^2 couplings. So as you say, a normal computer with this many processors could also solve a linear system in O(N sqrt(kappa)) time. (Using conjugate gradient, since matrix-vector-mult on the system would be O(N) time.)

However, (1) these thermodynamic cells are much simpler than processors, and (2) it seems the overall energy required to simulate the SDE, once the couplings are initialized, only scales with O(N), not O(N^2) as in your digital case.
Longer term - definitely thats the way to go. But first we need to build all this infrastructure & nuclear termal propulsion might be already necessary to get there.
«Vector» is the largest depository of viruses in the world. Of course, «Vector» has SARS CoV in their depository. Nobody knows what they did with it. However, «Vector» was first in Russia which started to perform testing for SARS-CoV-2, so they had experience with some variant of that virus. Moreover, «Vector» started to develop 2 vaccines for Covid-19 almost immediately.

There was epidemic in Russia in November-December 2019 with up to 700 cases per week of pneumonia in some regions (thousands of cases in whole Russia), which is at Covid level.

Quote 1tv.ru, Nov 19 2019:

> Weekly, around 300 cases are recorded in the region. 10 schools have already been placed under quarantine. Earlier, students in the Vladimir, Samara, and Orenburg regions, as well as in Rostov-on-Don, Ulyanovsk, and Krasnoyarsk, went on forced vacations. How can you protect yourself from the disease and what should you do at the first signs of discomfort?

> The number of pneumonia cases is growing across the country. Schools in Chelyabinsk are being closed due to quarantine.

> "This year, considering the rise from the previous year, we are particularly attentive to this infection. When the incidence rate became sufficiently high, we suspended the educational process," said Tatiana Sofiikina, Deputy Head of the Department of Epidemiological Surveillance at the Rospotrebnadzor office for the Chelyabinsk region.

> More such patients have also appeared in Rostov-on-Don. Often, pneumonia develops after the flu or acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI). However, not only viruses cause pneumonia. During the cold season, our lungs become more susceptible, and we easily catch any infection on the go. Moreover, the disease often progresses asymptomatically. A person only feels mild discomfort, unaware that a catastrophe is developing within their body.
I empathise with this uncertainty. As I understand it, flakes aren't incompatible with the previous way of doing things. Rather they represent an additional feature which can be used on top of them.

For example if you have a shell.nix that you were running with `nix-shell` which defaults to using channels to obtain nixpkgs

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
pkgs.mkShell {
# ...

You can reuse it in your flake.nix

devShells.${system}.default = import ./shell.nix { inherit pkgs; };

And it will use the locked nixpkgs input defined in your flake. You can run it with the new `nix develop` command, but `nix-shell` will continue to work, giving you the previous behaviour.
It’s written all over your face (2009)
It looks deliberately not to dimension. In the process of getting to the answer I figured out that the width of the yellow rectangle is actually twice the width of the green and pink rectangles. It's a fakeout because it is correct that the green and pink rectangles have the same height.
I was delighted when I found this out - my userContent.css to make HN more readable (make content have a limited width, set a 1.5em line-height and extra padding-top for all paragraphs).

I no longer struggle to read HN on a wide browser which display 250 characters on a single line. Each paragraph is readable, and the paragraph breaks are visibly higher than the line-height.
Hetzner might be a good choice, cheap and simple to use. You manage your own infra, which may be a positive for some.
In the worst case scenario, you can just manually create files in your home directory if needed, so putting them under .local/share something should get you desktop entries (though depending on the desktop/window manager you may need a restart).
We do not (yet?). Here is a simulation I made of similar hardware demonstrating the equilibration step of the algorithm https://app.normalcomputing.ai/composer/playground
> You may have read articles and blog posts aiming to convince you that Go is better than Rust, or vice versa. But that really makes no sense; every programming language represents a set of trade-offs. Each language is optimised for different things, so your choice of language should be determined by what suits you and the problems you want to solve with it.

That's sort of true, but I wish people would stop cowardly saying that you can't say that one language is better than another overall. That's clearly not true.

IMO this article is very very long and doesn't really highlight the differences well, which IMO are:

* Go has much faster compile times.

* Rust's tooling is very good but I would still say Go's is better. It has built in fuzzing support! Cross compilation is as simple as setting an environment variable.

* Rust is a little faster, and avoids GC.

* Go's standard library is much more comprehensive than Rust's.

* Go is much easier to learn and to read.

* Rust is a better language if you have learnt it. It has much more powerful features (especially the functional ones) and is more principled. Going back to Go from Rust is frustrating.

* Rust has a much stronger type system and the borrow checker. Both make bugs far less likely.

* Async Rust is probably the worst bit about Rust. Go's goroutines are much easier to use. Though I would say traditional multithreaded code in Rust is pretty easy - it's just that a lot of the ecosystem forces you into async.
Was pretty weird that you couldn't specify the job arguments (only workaround was to create an entirely new job), glad they fixed that.
I commend your caution, but if an adult with full faculties available to them has determined that smartphones and tablets have too many risks and downsides to be an effective tool, then what chance does a child have?

Also - why the pre-determined sequence of tech tools for your kid? I have found a much more valuable approach in general to tool selection is to first identify a problem or project, and then apply the appropriate tools. Learning tech for tech's sake to me indicates that we have become ensnared by our own tools and devices.
Ask HN: AI Writing vs. Human Writing: which one is better for content?
Please share your views on it.
> How do you use Nix on a project, any tips? What are first steps/basic scaffolding? I am eager to get into Nix but not ready to go full on (I'm also on Mac but some devs may be on Linux)

Not sure I can boil it down to tips, but: more or less any time I need to do something regularly that involves third-party code, I'll be using Nix to manage it. Specifics depends on the project. There are templates around (and templating is built into flakes via `nix flake init`), but I haven't used those much myself.

Maybe a sense of general patterns helps?

Most of my projects have at least a shell.nix (devShell expression in flake.nix) for setting up an environment to work on the project. I.e., add appropriate deps to path, define some utility shell functions, start up database servers and so on.

Sometimes that's all. For example, my blog just has a shell.nix for providing dependencies like hugo, gist, make, jq, etc., defining some helper functions for scaffolding new posts and such, and then I use Makefile targets for creating a dev build, production build, and publishing.

If it's something others might use, I'll generally have a default.nix/flake expression for building the package. Then I can use that for testing it, for integrating it in other projects or my own systems or whatever.

I'll often have one or more expressions for ~testing it. (If I have more than one, the first might be a straight test, and the 2nd might be a performance suite comparing it against similar tools, for example.)

If I'm researching several potential alternatives, I may build a Nix expression that builds all of them, pulls them all into scope, and then invokes them all to compare whatever I care about. Then I can readily repeat the same check locally, or go run it a bunch in CI.

If it's something I have CI set up for, I may bother to have a ~normal build that runs against pinned dependency versions whenever I make code changes, and then also set up a ~canary build that regularly re-runs my project's main/master against the latest nixpkgs so that I get some notice if something I depend on happens to be broken.

> Is it possible with complex projects like based on Electron?

I'm not familiar with the Electron packaging, sorry. I know it's doable because we've got a number of electron packages, but I don't have perspective on how easy it is and whether it's working on Linux and macOS or just the former.

> Is it reasonable to use Nix in Docker (eg. I am on Mac but want to build it like it's on CI)?

Sure. There's an official Nix container image, and some of our gitlab CI jobs use it. IIRC it's a little tricky to install Nix in a container imperatively, but I think the state of that has improved since the last time I needed to fiddle with our setup.
Could it be that some keyword triggered the spam filters? It still doesn’t justify silent deletion, but spam fighting is so painful.
not anymore: https://atomicsemi.com/about/
I think this is the default for any launch of reactors from Earth - launch inert, possibly in pieces and ideally in re-entry proof capsules so you prevent contamination and can re-launch after a failure.
Perhaps I was misunderstood; the idea is that this polymath would collaborate with the experts and act as a bridge between fields.
God that’s good.

I hope a person did that because if so they’re a genius, it’s fucking spot on.

Isn’t it so grating anywhere but where we’re used to it?
It seems to me that if waymo is ahead they’re having a hard time showing it - seems like their operational area is smaller and they have fewer cars in fewer regions.

I’m curious about the capabilities of all of the players myself but this information appears to be somewhat closely guarded - I don’t know anyone that’s gotten off of the Cruise or Waymo waitlist personally.
A similar thing actually happened to me. I was receiving a small package (probably a phone case) about once every few weeks while living in a rental house.

The seller had put my address as their address, so all undeliverable mail came to my house.

I brought a bag full of these packages to the post office, explained the situation and gave them the packages. The entire pile of packages ended up back at my house a few days later.

I found the seller on Amazon and messaged them:

———

Me: I haven't ordered anything from you. I have received 6 packages that you sent but ended up at my house because the return address that you used is my address, not your address. Could you use a different return address?

Seller: Dear nulltype, We're sorry about this, we can't change the address at the moment because of the cumbersome policies on Amazon, but we'll change it when we have a new production facility. Please forgive us. You are free to use the packages. Sincerely,

———-

The packages continued to arrive after this.
I like the interactive version: https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/inte...
It was used in "White-Collar" to create a scam!
That is not a budget issue. We could fix that if we want to, people just do not want to.
It seems to me that your competitive angle is being WordPress-focused. The WordPress business community is less online than you'd probably think. I wouldn't try to target them via Google Ads.

Have you been to any WordCamp events? Sponsored WP news sites? Done podcasts? Etc. I would do all of those before spending more money on ads.
Not sure the project moving forward with coal power is an environmental win.