skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little niche, but https://run-in.app is an online encounter manager for DnD 5e that I've been (slowly) building this year. I initially built it because I was dming a one-shot for some friends and got overwhelmed tracking the health and position of 6 enemies + the party on pen and paper.

I wasn't happy with the solutions I found to this online, and thought it'd be fun to try and build one myself.

The main features for creating and running an encounter are ready:
1. Adding any 5e SRD mob or a custom mob to battle maps
2. Dragging mobs around the battle map
3. Turn and health tracking
4. Status effect tracking

But there are a few bugs to iron out, and more features to come!

As a heads up, if you visit the site and get a cold start of the container, it might take a while to be properly interactive. This is, unsurprisingly, the first thing to fix on the roadmap.
I have a number of DCF77 clocks in my home, including small alarm clocks. No external antennas. No issues whatsoever.
Not to undermine your clarifying the truth, it's worth pointing out some of the confusion about that episode probably stems from some of what transpired during the war of the currents. The reason people falsely remembered it as a demonstration against AC is probably in part because it resembled things done in demonstration against AC:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_P._Brown

In other words, not elephants, but other animals.
I'm working on pls (https://github.com/dhruvkb/pls/), a prettier and more powerful alternative to ls(1) that adds a lot of customisation and provides a very fluent command-line interface. It aims to be a superset of exa in terms of the features, while being more actively maintained and targeting a smaller subset of pro-users.

It works quite well and is very usable as a daily driver. I'm adding more features to it and making it available to install it via platform-native package managers.
Old software keeping space missions alive
People are "against" challenging climate science because a) it is extremely mature and the broad strokes as well as most of the fine strokes are overwhelmingly settled and have been for decades, and b) challenge implies a delay, which is not something we can afford; this tactic is often used by people engaging in bad faith, using the guise of "challenge" to discredit the science.

People are probably downvoting you because you're coming across as either contrarian at best or bad-faith at worst. Surely you realize this.
In my experience, some of the most exceptionally skilled and hard working people are from the US, but the average US worker is way behind in skills from almost every other part of the world, and pretty far behind Asia and parts of Latin America in terms of work ethic. They've still got a lot of Europe beat in terms of work ethic though, but from my perspective, that's not necessarily a good thing.
Oh you're absolutely right, I had meant 500 amps. Thanks for the correction.
They forgot to write the article.
Wow. Glad to see that Kipkay is still making videos!
The DIY laser with a DVD burner[0] must be one of the first videos I watched on YouTube.

0: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CgJ0EpxjZBU
What is the scum part here?
For those using a DNS servers that the archive.* domains sabotage: http://archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcb... should work.
If you read the article, the flare just helped them pinpoint exactly in which year certain artifacts they found were made. And then they could reconstruct the years below and above in the archeological record.

There is nothing to do with the flare itself influencing the Vikings somehow.
It is not like she is going to be sent to a re-education camp but to me it seems there are certain things that are tolerated for now in China - you can look like a fetish doll and be lesbian and make tech videos but criticism of the paramount leader and the party is not on.

When the Taiwanese/US conflict eventually comes then it will get way worse and we are going to see things like LGBTQ is a Western evil etc ....

She really needs to leave now if she wants to be true to herself.
I don't give a damn about innovation. I like having a large house with tasty expensive food, nice vacations, and a fat investment account.

And I bet if this job paid 50K a year, OP wouldn't be doing it either.
https://archive.is/s3j9V
When I told my wife about this, all she replied was how it's gonna be monopolized by big countries/big tech and our third world country like ours will never use it.

The materials and hardware required to make LK-99 are within the reach of a high school. It's really simple and doesn't require anything more than a very hot oven (hotter than a domestic one, but still very common). If it'd turned out to be a real superconductor anyone who wanted to make it could have done.
I'm pretty sure the XDG base directory spec was not specifically a gnome thing. It came from freedesktop.org[1] if I remember correctly, and in fact gnome was not compliant to begin with[2]. That gnome wiki page references that the recommendation (which turned into the spec) came from freedesktop and documents the gnome "initiative" to become compliant. Freedesktop was focussed on compatibility between desktop environments and systems, so isn't just a linux thing.

[1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/XD...
Impressive, given that The Ashes only happened recently.
So how many stars of spectral type earlier than M8, so type O, B, A, F, G, K, and early M-type stars, are there within a 100 parsec (or 326 light-year) radius of the Sun? How would I go about finding an answer, is there an easily query-able database or astronomy app? GPT4 doesn't know, Wolfram Alpha doesn't know, last time I needed an astronomical answer I bought a ProjectPluto Guest license, but I lost the license.
A UI that includes what you’re describing could work on phones directly, self hosted locally on device.

I think more ppl than I imagine people have taken their run at this problem for personal use, including me.

It would be interesting to see if it could simply a few things I am parsing manually.
I really enjoyed the whole trilogy, and highly recommend it to my friends. But its more for the different perspective of a chinese writer talking about western events, and the general outlook of how events progress - the downplay of individuality, the scope of things, and some history of the chinese point of view.

However what I didn’t like throughout all 3 books is just how predictable the antagonists are … like the main characters devise a plan, stick to it and things unfold generally how they’ve predicted, with very few (though big) exceptions.

Maybe thats also part of the chinese perspective? I’m used to Branden Sanderson type of narrative where the bad guys are smarter than the good ones, outplay and counter moves, and apply constant pressure, but can be outplayed themselves as well.

Three body problem was more like if the other side has an advantage, there’s nothing you can do, and if they don’t, just follow the plan … But apart from that incredible series.
I see that the two batteries demonstrated were from different manufacturers. I've heard this claim before, but is the difference so pronounced when using batteries from the same manufacturer?

Also, the dead battery is at 0.6 volts - I've never seen a battery that dead. Is the bounce effect so pronounced when a battery is at 1.1 volts, which is a far more typical dead battery voltage?
https://archive.is/Sf8M0
It doesn't claim DIY GC is impossible:

The article first talks about difficulties a ship-your-own-GC faces, and enumerates workarounds for them (slide "GC and WebAssembly 1.0 (3)" and coupe of next ones).

Then it starts talking about the planned GC support extension in WebAssembly and decides to go with that.
Infisical vs. HashiCorp Vault
It’s common in clocks, but not in other appliances (nor in cars).
From glancing over the article, I am not sure how type_spec is actually invoked. Is it a separate build step that emits the language-specific type-definitions?
"If you're coding only for the paycheck, you're in it for the wrong reasons"

I think the paycheck is not that much for getting behavior control as a bonus.

In other words, mind your own business.
I really dislike benchllm's use of yamls for test cases - I'd rather it be in code.

"""
input: What's 1+1? Be very terse, only numeric output
expected:
- 2
- 2.0
"""
While I support the cause, HTTPS is the biggest thing obsoleting old devices in my experience.

Currently hitting this with an old eink project that's based on an obsolete ereader. I wonder if there's some kind of proxy I could connect to over HTTP that does the modern HTTPS on my behalf. (I'm aware of the security implications, just want it to get a tweet/weather forecast)
The Good Virus by Tom Ireland (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/books/review/the-good-vir...).

This book introduces phages and their pivotal role in advancing human health through phage therapy. In my opinion, it illustrates the inevitability of phage therapy's integration into mainstream medical practices, underscoring its potential to effectively combat antibacterial resistance.
Wow, what a great idea for a thread!

I'm trying to pare down my personal projects to just the really exciting ones, so I don't have much, butni think the most appropriate to the thread is https://github.com/EternityForest/iot_devices

It's mean to be a cross-framework library for creating device integrations, so you can, say, write a handler for RTL SDR weather stations, and use it in a simple script up to a mega framework.

I kind of dislike the way HASS and others handle automations where they have special purpose primitives for everything that needs lots of hand written code.

I just have config entries, they must be strings, and data points, they can be strings, numbers, bytes, or objects. You can put metadata on them. There's also a few other utilities like the ability to make subdevices, and the ability to request things from the host.

There are no special subclasses, a light bulb is just a device with a brightness point.

It currently runs my security system with object detection recording, QR decoding if desired, multiple regions, motion detection without decoding every frame, and subsecond latency streaming to the browser, a nice recordings browser that can view a recording while it's being made, etc.
Really? No bullshit? 0:20 - 0:35 is content. Rest is filled with bullshit. Worst 30 seconds in my life!
I work for Ubisoft and I initially thought we published our internal cloud platform which is named "Ubisoft Cloud".
Your humble anonymous tipster notes to their skeptical audience that browsers are capable of caching all sorts of things, even something as peculiar as an HTML page.
uh just fyi: Elixir's repl is the most powerful of all of them, as it gives you incredible introspection. With care you can attach a repl to a remote running program (in prod, if you take appropriate precautions) and be able to diagnose the running state of your program quite effectively -- like you can examine the tail call state of any given process.
What I learned after managing a small team for 2 years
Do you have any information about it changing hands? For example, when it happened?
> Strictly speaking a touch screen is massively more complicated than a set of buttons.

But, it's a commodity item, produced in many more numbers w.r.t. a A/C temperature/fan encoder w/custom shape. A bog standard Renault Clio touchscreen is comparable to a good (not high, not top) quality Raspberry Pi screen you can get from RS or AdaFruit.

The screens on Opel Mokka I drove (it has two, one for dash, one for infotainment) were extremely good at sunlight, but the dash one was so small, around 7" IIRC, to control costs. So, even if they don't pay for R&D of the screen itself, the industry is so cost sensitive, that they will cut costs relentlessly to be able to sell more of these things at a lower cost and with higher profit margins.

Also, these LCD dashes has a couple of hidden LED indicator lights around to communicate fatal things in a failsafe manner.

Car manufacturers do not bear the CapEx required to develop these screens, but bear the CapEx required for developing and prototyping physical buttons.

> I just wish we ended up with aircraft style MFD's instead of touch screens. You know those things with a screen and a row of buttons along each side.

Industry is evolving on that direction now.
https://crates.io/crates/directories is a good crate for handling cross platform config locations for rust based tools
Pretty much all LZ77 class of algorithms try finding longest matches in a dictionary. (both zstd, lz4... and deflate [(g)zip] are all lz77)
https://sci-hub.se/https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlela...
No, this was just bad science from the beginning. I've done experimental physics research and the way this team published their results and how sloppy everything looked is definitely not how science should happen, it's just a great way to ruin your reputation as a scientist (which the original authors thoroughly did). Every PhD student learns to e.g. include proof that an observed effect is not caused by a different mechanism than the one claimed (i.e. ferromagnetism instead of superconductivity), this is sorely lacking from the original publication. That paper would never have made it through peer review. The paper producing single crystal LK-99 and refuting the claims [1] is good science, read it and you'll immediately notice the differences in the quality of the text, the diagrams, presentation of methods, overall structure and conclusions.

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06256
Mastodon is perfect. We don't need an other microblogging service from another corporation which doesn't respect privacy. The death of twitter is a good thing.
It honestly shouldn’t matter in 2023.
I mean, both NMR spectrometers and medical MRI machines would be a hell of a lot less complex without the cryostat.

If you remove that, those things become... really, just tubes wrapped in various coils connected to a software defined radio of average quality.
Code Generator alternative to Copilot running locally?
Will we very soon see some high quality locally hosted alternatives to GitHub Copilot?

Considering the latest news, like llama.cpp, new code generators, etc... maybe it is doable?
The accelerator (at least this particular use) won't help decompression.
The main "breakthrough" the article seems to be pivoted on is: sacrificing efficiency of electrolyzer brings the capex down by and order of magnitude, thus making $1/Kg hydrogen possible. The whole downstream (to H2) value chain is a different economic argument, relevant to how they want the future to be.
We aren't. It's all a pipe dream. We want to, but Hydrogen is much harder to contain than Methane. If anything we are closer to dismantling the gas pipelines then to use them for Hydrogen.

All the attached "Appliances" must be converted from using Methan to Hydrogen, too. Not gonna happen.
Call me crazy, but there must be a way to store data indefinitely, right? I mean, writing it on a piece of paper and putting that paper in a box can last practically forever, given its not actively physically destroyed.

Could we not come up with a tape storage that is write-once? Like a PROM, but in tape form?
You do this, you add some checksums every now and then, and you just lock the thing away. How is that not going to last 100+ years if physically undisturbed?
I said is, not was.
Gotcha, sorry I completely misunderstood what you were asking! That’s a really insightful question that didn’t cross my mind at all.
Posted 8 hours ago under a slightly different URL (66 comments, 43 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37154840
Which links to the original Phoronix source. Conclusion from Phoronix:

"Overall it comes down to what workloads you are engaged in whether you may notice any performance difference when upgrading your Linux kernel (or otherwise being patched for Inception on your given OS) on an AMD Zen desktop or server. For the most part users are unlikely to notice anything drastic, aside from some sizable database performance hits in a few cases. ... For those wanting to avoid the new mitigation, there is always the "mitigations=off" route or the "spec_rstack_overflow=off" as used in this round of testing ..."

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-inception-benchmarks
Maillard reaction used in cooking may have helped complex life evolve
https://archive.ph/MFwTY
Absolutely this. React is just a renderer and 6 hooks, all of them bound to the respective functional concepts which make it a simple and beautiful tool for creating user interfaces. Comparison to web frameworks is incorrect here.
Or the creator of Cicada took the Google analytics ID of that security expert
> Despite having done my undergrad in CS, I never understood what NP-hard really meant

Not having done CS undergrad, I have never really understood even P/NP. The naive explanation of problems that are easy to solve and check vs problems that are difficult to solve but easy to check seems to leave something essential out.

I mean, with the naive explanation you are I think you are left with either of two options:

1. A philosophical issue of not being able to prove a negative, you really can't prove that there is not a way to solve a problem fast.

2. That obviously P!=NP. You just for example lose information before giving the problem to the solver, say, I'm thinking a float with n decimals, then I round it to nearest integer and ask you to find the float given the integer. I can check the guess in linear time as n increases, but your difficulty increases exponentially as n increases.

I am pretty sure there is something in this problem that makes it a not legal P/NP problem, but I have no idea what. I have a couple of times tried to look for more formal definitions of P/NP, but the jargon goes immediately above my head.

(The "guess" is admittably there a bit informal, if you want a bit more formal problem, you take a process C that is mathematically proven to be sufficiently sensitive to initial conditions (e.g. chaotic), take integer x and calculate y = C(x), round y and ask what's x.)
One more thing I find baffling is the preference to ignore the cascade… and seeing it as a benefit.

Tailwind styles cascade just like any other CSS rules. No one is ignoring it. The reason it might appear not to is because Tailwind uses layers (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@layer). Technically it's a polyfill at the moment, but v4 will use the native @layer syntax.

If anything Tailwind is actually better at using the cascade than most plain CSS approaches.
The Urgency of the Quantum Computing Race with China
Just looking at those maps should explain part of it. There isn't enough coverage. So you end up with poor experience with substantial amount of people who do not get good signal.

This would likely result in lot of returns, warranty claims and so on. Just not worth it in general.
Sure but they shouldn’t make 1 car and software lock half the features, sure economically it works out but practically it’s wasteful to the consumer. FSD is one thing if you have a software product not in the base car you are selling for a reasonable price but selling the only software that can unlock existing hardware in your car is atrocious. Out of principle I’m not buying a car like that unless I can jailbreak it
It’s more like : you win a Turing award by finding a strategy to parallelize this problem as you’ll be able to use that approach to parallelize all problems in P, proving NC = P.
The Ashes is a bit passe, the Women's world cup has huge novelty and locality factors
> Distributing copyrighted books is different from learning from copyrighted books.

I don’t think that has been established

Maybe people want to read copyrighted books to learn. Then we’re down to saying it’s ok for machines but not humans?
How many generations back do they count as part of one's heritage because ultimately we're all African, right?
Please Note! ^^ The above is the archive.is TOR .onion address ^^
more accurately, it was a synagogue in Amsterdam that excommunicated him and the current Rabbi upholds this. But many in the Jewish community have called for it to be reversed. Excommunication is different in Judaism and Catholicism though, since in the latter Rome enforces this whereas in the former its very much local.

He has an interesting interpretation of g-d and it is understandable the friction this caused given the religious nature of Europe during the 1600s and the desire for the Jewish community be preserved. Given it was a Sephardic synagogue and this is only a hundred or so years after the Alhambra decree which forced Jews out of Spain lest they convert to catholicism. Portugal did the same, but did not allow Jews to escape so they either converted or were executed. Persecution against Jews continued in the Iberian peninsula for hundreds of years. As such, preservation of the Jewish community and way of life was extremely important.
Funny that the article doesn’t call out that the disconnect Bluetooth button in control center is a dark pattern designed to get you to leave Bluetooth on.

I had to create a shortcut to turn off Bluetooth so I don’t have to go through the Settings app.

Apple also re-enables Bluetooth on every iOS update.
Like generating pydantic models or dataclasses for an OpenAPI schema? I haven't needed to go in that direction myself, but this[0] looks promising!

Apologies if I've misunderstood your comment

https://koxudaxi.github.io/datamodel-code-generator/
What Types of Questions Require Conversation to Answer? AskReddit Study
It's a quite known fact for long time. Still testing the voltage w/ probes (and under load) is the way to go.
In my experience, solving the NP-hard problem isn't the part that is hard, it's reducing the problem space and/or solution space to make it into a P-problem (when n is sufficiently big enough to worry about it).

For example, changing how you're storing the data in the first place, or talking to PM/PO's to learn if you really need an exact solution or if a very close approximation is ok.

Sometimes, you're even trying to solve this problem while n has grown over months or years, and some customers are hitting the tipping point and the app is crashing. So there's a lot of pressure to perform.

That's what makes np-hard problems hard, imho; not the problem itself, but all the bullshit to get rid of it.
As far as I remember, the likelihood of a technological civilization forming before us is rather small.

Basically we live in the goldilocks zone of our galaxy.

Stars further towards the center are being constantly bombarded by types of radiation that make the formation of structured self-replicators almost impossible.Entropy rules.

Stars further towards the rim have not yet gone through enough generations to produce the abundant heavier elements needed.

We live in the zone that is both old enough and stable enough for technologically adept life to thrive, and we turned up on the scene about as early as we could.

So we are probably just one of the first.
They're not a hypervisor, though. They provide a control plane that uses one via ssh. Choosing to deploy outside containers at this point in time should in my opinion be a last resort almost irrespective of what you're deploying; if the surface you interact with the host is so complex you can't grant access with granularity to a container without it becoming problematic (or at the very least via a tool providing similar levels of isolation using namespaces), chances are you have a bigger problem.

There are some exceptions, but they're few.
Sort of, but this kind of giving away often means you cannot use it at all because using anything not unencumbered is blocked by default.
Well the archival and distribution costs (the only part they really do) don't seem like they should cost $50 for say a PDF file in the 10s of MBs.

I think the fair value of what Elsevier (say) provide is > $0, but it's interesting to compare with say Spotify or Netflix - who actually have to pay for content.