skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The people know it."

Why do I have strong vibes that a better way of phrasing this is "a percentage of the people who thinks the fr gov's been acting against national interest (likely the people who think /their/ interest aligns with the national interest quite closely) knows it."

I mean, I don't know France and I'm no friend with "the government" and I oppose turning browsers into anything they are not supposed to be, but that "the government" can go against "national interest" for 20 year and "the people" know it is such a trite story that... uuuuugh. In short, you added no context at all.
Illustrated JavaScript coding course for absolute beginners [pdf]
FPGA Dynamic and Partial Reconfiguration: Architectures, Methods, Applications [pdf]
Yeah I thought that was ridiculous. Basically "other people throw garbage on the ground so I think it's fine to litter".
The author does celebrate it but points out something that the media should have:

"So this news is both good and bad. Hats off for cracking into single-digit yield! But that leaves less room to improve. Even at 100% efficiency, we’d get just 25 times more energy out, or 75 MJ. That’s still not enough to pay for the price of admission (400 MJ, just for the laser part)."
I have only tried the regular one but I liked it a lot.
I think you missed the sarcasm. Do you remember when one of the proposed legitimate uses for blockchain was recording all property deeds and records? I was making fun of that.
Large Language Models for Information Retrieval: A Survey
Common in astronomy, especially broad survey projects that use many observations over many observatories.
Well at least they're not using the Pope. For God's sake.
From the point of view of physics, there is no fundamental difference between biological life (cell based) and digital life (computer based). You can easily imagine various scenarios in which computers wipe themselves out after taking over from us. Put another way, self-extinction is not something exclusive to biology.

> would make the absence of technosignals self-evident

The so called "grabby aliens" hypothesis suggests that after certain stages of advancement, live propagates at close to speed of light. So according to it we would see the technosignals just before contact/colonization/destruction.
> ...one interesting takeaway for me from this list is that all of them were preventable...

Every disaster is preventable. Everything on the list was happening in human-engineered environments - as do most things that affect humans. The human race has been the master of its own destiny since the 1900s. The questions are how far before the disaster we need to look to find somewhere to act and what needed to be given up to change the flow of events.

But that doesn't have any implications for software engineering. Studying a software failure post mortem will be a lot more useful than studying 9/11.
If you can’t invert a binary tree, how can I trust you to change my website’s favicon?!
Recent surveys in Germany showed slightly less than 50% in favor.
Love levers! I have three going on four, they're pretty addictive.

These days you can get a very good one (Flair Flex) for $99! That, some good beans and a bit of knowledge and you'll make coffee on par with any shop out there.
Or maybe the health of the population in general just isn't very good for many reasons and it's all coming under the "long COVID" umbrella now.
Show HN: Footage – Personal video stories
Hi, HN!
Today, we'd like to introduce you to a new tool for creating, editing, managing, and sharing extensive family movies on iPhone. Effortlessly capture thrilling moments into an auto-montaging Stories. Multiple users can collaborate and film vacation trips together, requiring NO EDITING afterwards.

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No accounts are needed. The app is just 1.05 MB to download, built using pure Swift and native libraries (with the exception of Amplitude, which is used for anonymous usage analytics).

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yes, I really hope he says something about it.
Not an expert, but I’d expect that in the USA the IRA would treat them both as “not clean”, and in the EU the gas maker would have to pay the carbon price.
"The landowning class tired of squatters and so created an extrajudicial vigilante crew to beat up those who don't own property" isn't the virtuous solution you think it is.

Nor is it safe for the goon squad. If squaters start responding to such behavior by shooting on site anybody who tries to break into the building, the law will protect them because threat of bodily harm is more important than abuse of property ownership. And it should be.

Ownership of real estate implies responsibilities to the community who are inextricably tied to the geographic proximity to that real estate. Don't own more than you can maintain. Don't own more than you can use. If you have entire groups of people coming into your property and setting up shop for months at a time without your knowledge, maybe you own too much.

(Incidentally, that ethos applies to more than just squatting. The Catholic church in Philadelphia got fined a pile of money because they abandoned a church and failed to either sell it or pay the money to maintain it. It ended up with a water main break in the basement that nobody detected because nobody was on the property, and the water poured openly into the sewer system for months. The city find them for every drop of water that got wasted in that open pipe because that pipe was their responsibility; it was in their property).
I don't think so because most of these leads came from frontend recruiters that could have made a lot of money landing me a job, and as a result most of them were great opportunities for the recruiters, not so great for me and the potential future employer.

Don't get discouraged. Work on a personal project if you want, so you have something to show. In my experience it's only hard to land the first job. Once you do, it becomes easier. Don't read other people's experiences and think something is wrong. Good luck <3
Show HN: Sync Everything – A Firefox Extension to Synchronize Videos with P2P
Hi everyone,

This is a very small add-on I've developed as a proof-of-concept to synchronize video playbacks in almost every website with another browser with P2P connections, without needing a server. With this extension you can watch videos online with your friends without explicitly needing to tell each other the duration or actions.

It's all free and open-source, so feel free to check it out and leave a comment :)

Source code: https://github.com/kaangiray26/sync-everything
People smoking at home can be a lot more disruptive. I would get woken up at night because of the extreme pungency of my neighbour's weed. It can catch on the nose in a physical way beyond simply being smelly... although coming home to my house smelling of weedy cat urine was kind of miserable too.

Given the choice, I say anyone smoking it should have to sit in a grow tent with air scrubbers otherwise stick to edibles.
You can’t expect journalists to not make up clickbait headlines. This is 2023, and we’ve seen what they did with LK-99.

Perhaps a controversial opinion but I can’t wait for an LLM that directly feeds off of the source: like AP news, or Arvix, and automatically provides an RSS feed of non-clickbait headlines with substantive articles if I decide it’s worth reading. I cannot wait to get this profession out of my life, and I will happily pay to make it happen.
Damn, for a second I thought this was like weedmaps but for linguini (which would be an awesome site) and then I looked a bit closer. Still cool though!
> When I was using Red Hat before Debian, there was a set of Web sites that I'd have to use to find packages,

Oh I remember rpmfind.net (which still exists!)
Nice Ad Homenim argument you've got there -- criticizing the person bringing the argument and not the argument itself.

If your point is that the person is likely to be ignored by his/her management, there's likely a better way to phrase it or worth adding a few words to clarify.
An individual or group of individuals doing this and sharing their views/summary vs. a profit-oriented program funded by major technology companies scraping this information and spitting it back out algorithmically does seem different to me. Yes, perhaps both things are on the same "sliding scale", but I do not view them as fundamentally equivalent actions.
This is the #1 problem
Why bother? The main use case for hydrogen is energy storage. So you just have a big tanker next to the solar farm that fills up when its producing more than the grid needs, and then burn it when there's less than the grid needs.
It's unpopular to be popular these days..
Three more thumbs up for Blind Sight. Gripping story but also puts forward some interesting questions on nature of consciousness and reality (but not in a woozy spiritual way; basically - what happens to your senses and thoughts when subjected to a massive and changing magnetic field?). Not quite Phillip K Dick as far as unreliable narrator goes, but it's cool once you start questioning the perspectives and observations :)
Maybe violence is the default state but I don’t think in a useful way, just that there’s lots of conflict and violence is an easy expression. So toddlers biting people are probably linked to the same urge that led to cavemen raping whatever women they could.

By not useful I mean, I wouldn’t plan my society around it and certainly not my partner decisions. Although maybe it feeds into the whole mindfulness technique of not acting on intrusive thoughts and minimizing their control over us.

> Through the lens of 'default state' - was there any civilisation pre 2500 BC that didn't practice polygamy?

This is an interesting question. I like history as much as the next person but haven’t studied this. I assumed there were because the Judeo-Christian origin story has Adam and Eve, not Adam and Eves (although the Bible is full of polygamy).

I’d look for societies that were individualistic rather than authoritarian as polygamy seems to me to be a function of patriarchy and power consolidation (ie, if the king/warlord/etc has 100 wives, that’s 99 fewer spouses available for craftsmen/merchants/artists/etc).

Wikipedia [0] says “ According to the Ethnographic Atlas by George P. Murdock, of 1,231 societies from around the world noted, 186 were monogamous; 453 had occasional polygyny; 588 had more frequent polygyny; and 4 had polyandry.” so it seems that polygamy is more common.

But again, my initial thought isn’t that this means polygamy is natural in as much as that physical strength and safety being prioritized and difficult means power consolidation. I’d like to learn about power distribution and it’s effect on family structure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamy
> But our bankers are too busy playing with [..]

It's not clear that our politicians are actually particularly serious about change, either. The only big change I've noticed this side of the pond in the last year is that our drink cartons now have tethered plastic caps.

OK, they're still made of bonded layers of cardboard, aluminium and polyethylene which make them hard work to recycle, and according to a 2021 German study indeed less than 1/3rd of them are actually recycled ...

...but at least now the hard-to-recycle plastic lids now stay attached to the empty and hard-to-recycle cartons!

<sigh>
Quoting from Stackoverflow:

- WebAssembly was designed with delivery-over-HTTP and browser-based in mind. For that reason, it supports streaming compilation - i.e. you can start compiling the code while downloading.

- WebAssembly was designed to have rapid compilation times (resulting in web pages that load quickly), this is supported by having very simple validation rules compared to Java / JVM languages.

- WebAssembly was designed with the concept of a 'host' environment, i.e. the browser.

- WebAssembly was designed to be secure and simple, minimising the overall attack surface.

- WebAssembly was designed to support a great many languages (C, C++, Rust, ...), whereas the JVM was initially design for a single language, Java.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58131892/why-the-jvm-can...
> I don’t think anyone is avoiding the problem

Oil and gas companies would probably come to mind. If we apply quick fixes, you can be sure O&G will be lobbying hard not to do anything to restrict their operations.
If I were/weren't should that lend greater or lesser validation to the irrational behaviors of people seeking validation? Would this matter make more sense if I were motivated solely by bias?
Last paragraph in HN guidelines:

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
A seemingly growing trend of anti-intellectualism and anti-education, probably can't be good.
https://signal-bot.readthedocs.io

The actual Pip package isn't published yet, but the documentation should be self-explanatory.
This is why software engineering is a protected profession in some parts of the world (Canada at least), as civil responsibility and safety, along with formal legal liability is part of licensure
As far as I'm aware, the common understanding is that a vampire doesn't have a soul anymore, they are undead. This is why they supposedly can't see themselves in mirrors.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38468

This would imply that helping the soul cross the river doesn't prevent "vampirification".
I think the display of lessons shows a lack of experience in understanding software project management, which isn't surprising if they are a high schooler.
I should have expected Simpson's Paradox here. Nevertheless, I think the possibility of witch-hunting is high.
The opposite is “set vague deadlines and don’t check in on their progress.”

You’ll be accountable for team deadlines regardless - would you rather be allowed to sail over a deadline you didn’t know existed and be reprimanded for it by higher ups, or have a clear picture of deadlines and someone checking up on progress?
Debian celebrates 30 years
All frameworks beside the native ones on mobile are abysmal, people delude themselves thinking that they don't need to master the underlying stack as well.

On the Android side it is even more difficult, because the NDK as matter of principle only exposes APIs for games and implementing native methods, so anything else has to be full of JNI calls into Java, even if those Java classes are mostly composed by native methods.
Hydrogen is consumed during oil refining, it is not generally a big byproduct.
"Personally identifying information".
Similar to my AOC monitor, that has this joystick-button hidden in the rear of the frame, that is very annoying during the power-off procedure.

Also, if the screen passes from "source lost" to standby (after turning off the pc) the pressing procedure should be repeated, and if you don't take care to the monitor, you stay here pressing the button 30 seconds for nothing...

Also x2 this AOC gaming monitor is the worst screen I've ever seen, its okay for gaming/video, while for every else use is absurdly too darker or too brighter (too bright even with luminosity set to 0 and adjustable only by a "shadow control" option, which is causing loss of image detail).
It is a nice piece of napkin maths and shows how challenging (nearly impossible?) commercial fusion is in reality. Definitely going to reuse in some arguments.

Also, this one should be shouted louder for those in the back.

> "Many in our culture truly believe in “the amazing future,” uncritically extrapolating our fossil-fueled joy ride into ever-more impressive innovations and technologies."
In italy the constitutional court blocked a referendum on the matter to be held (I suppose because they didn't want people to turn up and vote, and there were other questions about the legal system that they preferred failing due to insufficient quorum).
I bought some stuff from auctions houses that buy returned stuff but what you get is very random, either as new stuff or complete junk. Coupled with the fact that there is no return policy on these returned items, non transparent pricing (they sometimes charge VAT and various taxes) and shipping is overpriced it's best to stay away unless you can go in person and check the items before you bid.

In any case the return ratio is priced in and we're very likely paying higher prices for new items to account for these returns.
I think there are more than 2 possibilities, and the worst of them is what Orwell called "a boot on a human face, forever". Catastrophe -- accidental or encouraged -- leads to consolidation, then history gets written to make the survivors be the good guys or victims of circumstances, and their victims objects worthy of persecution. I can already smell that in the air, there is nothing that can't be handled with the right narrative.

If all humans died at once, it would suck, but there is more where we came from, so to speak... but systems of control that nip any and all possible challengers to totality of their control in the bud would be so dead, even death would be creeped out.
I think there is large aspect of price vs value. If the perceived net return on getting education does not look good enough it makes little sense to get one.

Being educated for huge cost is not that valuable.
Let's try not to do it like Spain then.
its almost an inverse shema.
IMO, SQL is more straightforward if not quite as terse:

select count(*) from ages where age > 17
I think the profit motive is downstream from the root causes. There are MANY issues with higher education at the moment. IMO, federally backed loans which can't be discharged in bankruptcy is the single worst factor.
The French government's approach to modern tech is similar to the UK and Germany in some ways. They seem to be advised by a bunch of decrepit dudes who stopped learning about computers before the OSI model was created.
They have an office in Paris IIRC
This seems like a better way to evaluate real-world coding skills. Did you use it in a standard 45-60 min interview or as a take home problem? It seems like it'd take a decent amount of time to read the requirements and just introduce the task.
Usually the only purpose of the lights is to show the device is plugged in. E paper wouldn’t help.
Thankfully not everyone happens to agree with him.

Had it not been for the success of Docker and Kubernetes adoption, and Go would have been as successful in the market as Plan 9, Inferno and Limbo.
No EU 2y warranty though. Was the price difference significant?
The biosphere may well bounce back but it may take an absurdly long time to sequester carbon back into the ground.

The first time it happened, as I understand, there simply wasn't a huge amount of oxygen in the air, so things didn't burn and having megatons of carbon rich organic material lying around wasn't likely to catch fire and jump back into the air.

Now, if I leave a bunch of organic material lying around it'll catch fire and go right back into the air.

I'm not sure how long that'll take to change, or what impact that has on future life here on earth, but we've got 2 examples of earthish planets that don't support life right next door.
Moka pot is only 1-2 bars of pressure, not "real" espresso. Stronger than drip, but little consistency or control. Never turned down a cup though :)
No worries, on a technical level I'm sure they have the data somewhere, but that's most likely in a backup or a replication mechanism. However, if it somewere someone would know about and they would use it, it would have come out.

The recommendations for me were ok so far, but clearly not based on my watch history. It's mildly annoying that they are gone now.
I was looking at the Nanopresso, seems like a good middle ground between size and price.
Tricky, but maybe.

But I think I was imprecise with my language. By "age" I meant the total lifetime of the universe as a place with planets capable of supporting life, rather than the amount of time between the big bang and now.
Popperian AGI Research
It seems you were meant to reply to francescogior instead.
There can only be one defense: no malcontent group (actually no group, period) will be allowed to pursue certain technology paths, no matter what (e.g irrespective of political, ethical, cultural or other differences and opinions). This is a faint echo of the biblical forbidden tree of knowledge (for those culturally familiar) - though the punishment for disobeying is not expulsion from paradise but self-destruction.

The difficulty of embedding such a cultural paradigm as a lived reality across our species is obvious. Yet it is logically unavoidable for survival on a finite planet where independent groups keep pursuing ever more powerful technologies to advance narrow interests.
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2023/06/26/france-browser...
Hydrogen storage is hard to do cheaply
Moreover, you can be multiple types of software engineer at the same time. I am currently working on two projects. On one I am unfortunately the "Over-Promiser", because I frequently underestimate how bad the legacy code is that we are working on (and how litte we are motivated on this project). On the other project, that is actually quite awesome, I am the "Lone Wolf", because I actually know how to do things best for parts of the project. I hate being the Over-Promiser and love being the Lone Wolf.
Good. This is exactly what people who disable watch history wants.
> I’ve seen her skills, and abilities, called into question by Dale Dougherty, of Make Media/Magazine - simply because she was a woman..

Did he say that? because many have said the same for other reasons.

> they went so far as to claim, there was a hidden man/husband, controlling her, behind the scenes

They did. Any refutation, beyond moral outrage?
Definitely not elegant. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...

I rather have a kernel-level filesystem remapper.
There's a few references. 'A world to win' is from the closing remarks of the Manifesto. 'With GC, the material conditions are now in place' is a reference to the fundamental basis of Marxist theory. There's probably others that I'm missing. The general tack is to suggest that WebAssembly is being democratized and made available to the masses. Bit of an odd analogy but there you go.
That can be dangerous, what if grandma fainted on the doorstep?
How to “Date” a Calculator
Trust comes after skepticism, not before it.
JavaScript like SELF and NewtonScript is based on prototypal inheritance as OOP model, even classes in JavaScript are mostly syntax sugar for how that is done at low level.
What I mean by that is that SF have a technically superior product, were first to identify the market and scaled with it, and their pricing model is designed to get you spending more.

People loved Oracle's technology back in the day (or so I understand it, I was like 2 when they released the first one).
please do click through to his profile so that you can see “thank you html” with the author sitting on a supercar.
>a profit-oriented program

The particular problem here is this program isn't magic, it just requires a lot of electricity and hardware to train at the moment. If at some point in the future this hardware becomes cheap then now suddenly OSS LLMs would be under the same set of rules that we're applying to major technology companies.

But mark my words, the large copyright holding groups don't give any shits other than how much IP they can scrape up and demand money for, for the next few human lifetimes.
Youtube needs a refresh suggestions button