skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. Ubuntu is slow and authoritarian.

For people who want a slightly more polished/user-friendly Debian, I strongly recommend Linux Mint Debian Edition.
Only when the mob says so, apparently
As a kid, my family got a new PC and it came with the full version of Jazz Jackrabbit 2. Both the campaign and the local multiplayer were a lot of fun, but quite often the multiplayer crashed. I also read about the game having a level editor called the Jazz Creation Station, but my copy absolutely didn't come with it. I looked though the game files and all that. I loved level editors so I was really disappointed.

We had a closer look at the disc and it was a mysterious "OEM Version" (I know what that means now, but none of us did back then). But it said version 1.0 so surely it was meant to have everything? We contacted Gateway, like "is there any way we can upgrade to the actual final version of the game?" And the answer was no.

They were bundling an unfinished version of the game!

----

> OEM Versions

> These beta versions were originally distributed alongside Intel's manufactured hardware, as a result of a partnership between Epic and Intel. While most people who acquired these versions assumed they were the same as the retail release, they were actually builds from halfway through the game's development.

> Two OEM versions exist: 1.00g, which is the most common, and 1.00h. These versions have quite a lot of differences compared to the final release, such as different file formats, many levels use different tilesets or are in different orders, many sound effects weren't coded yet into the game, different screens for loading and menus and different and/or glitchy physics for weapons and objects.[0]

[0] https://jazzjackrabbit.fandom.com/wiki/Jazz_Jackrabbit_2/Dev...
I'm interested what specific current activity in the ICT/tech sector made this relevant. I can invent some, but what was in the OPs heart and mind, to post this? or is it reddit style karma-whoring?
This is why the Apple renaming of various applications to “generic term.app” annoys me so much.

iTunes I can search for. Music I can’t.
My beef is that it is more addictive than FB or Twitter. Also, Facebook can be used to get back into contact with people from your past.
No doubt I should have specified "in the United States", but I thought that the mention of Washington covered that.
Sigh, more drama from San Francisco. Theft and homelessness are fine, but if perchance something makes it more difficult for you to drive, it is suddenly a catastrophe.
Adobe Co-founder Dr. John Warnock dies at 82
If the water is not boiling you're going to need a very large system (for natural convection) or a pump.
From a cursory view this seems not at all novel. I can’t tell what is improved over the paper from over 20 years ago ([1], although there was a similar paper released that same year). I’m asking one of the primary authors on that paper for their opinion on this now.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10928750/
With no other context, I would not suggest stock Ubuntu.

It’s had incremental improvements, but as a desktop OS, it’s a bit rough in my recent (within the last 1.5 years) experience.

If there are specific issues you have with Fedora, and/or you simply want something Debian based, I would suggest a stable Ubuntu derivative like pop_os! or Zorin OS.

Seeking recommendations is great, but as a desktop Linux user myself, I don’t think there’s any better substitute for having a spare “play” computer (even a junker or a cheap mini PC) that you can just try a few distros out without affecting your main PC until you find your match.
with Chrome/Arc/Edge being what they are, being able to get 24GB was a game changer for me - it allowed me to go back to an Air, which is definitely my preferred form factor.

I never regret money spent on RAM....
Company idea:

McKinsey, but for helping companies undo whatever McKinsey recommended to measure software developer productivity. Or just hire them again.
Actual title is “Linus Torvalds: I hope Intel's AVX-512 'dies a painful death'”
One of those things should exist given everything we know about the universe, and its kinda weird that it doesn't seem to.
Any scattergun design method in drugs will make fantastically toxic substances. The horror here, is somewhat confected because rational FDA mandated screening processes would detect and remove them.

Also, "the emperor of maladies" makes it plain that cycotoxic substances are the bedrock of Cancer treatments these last 4-5 decades. They may be hateful but they were necessary until gene tooling got up to speed to do the cool things we do now.

Maybe we're going to have to get used to machine-method drug design throwing out sarin from time to time, and then ask ourselves "ok: we found uses for Botulinus toxin (botox) for chronic spasm, what is it about sarin and other nerve agents that makes drug design s/w want to suggest them" -Unless of course they're just like common salt, too easy to make.
I think there are really two types of programming languages, "idea" languages and "practical" languages.

"Idea" languages take a concept and try to build almost everything out of it. So like, lisp with lambdas, or smalltalk with message passing, or prolog with logic statements, etc.

Then there are "practical" languages, which don't necessarily have a "core" idea; more likely they're defined by the domains they're useful in and have a grab bag of ideas. So like C++, typescript, etc.

I think "idea" languages have their appeal because they seem elegant, and as coders, we often try to take a novel idea as far as we can. Usually, that ends up being too far. Like, if you're building a React app, and you go overboard, maybe everything becomes a reactive component even when expressing things in that way can be awkward and your component isn't really a ui "component". Or if you're writing in a functional language, all the sudden loops become recursion and you're praying that it has tail call optimization. If you're writing java, maybe you see dependency injection everywhere. I think we just have this urge to see how many nails our shiny hammer can hit, even to the point of diminishing returns.

Anyway, I guess all I'm saying is that even if you can express something as turtles all the way down, you might not necessarily want to build your house out of turtles.
Arsenic and PFAS Found in Guatemala City's Public Water
Kris Nova Hachyderm, GitHub Engineer died in a climbing accident
Radon and lack of vitamin D will be problems.
Depending on how much pre alert you get you could have fun at the bar or with friends.

Or Taco Bell.
The OpenCopilot License looks like a modified version of the MIT License, since the all-caps portion is taken verbatim from the original license:

> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

https://opensource.org/license/mit/

OpenCopilot is a source-available project but it is not open source. The OpenCopilot License (specifically, the line "The Licensee may not distribute, sublicense, sell, or resell the Software, in whole or in part, without explicit written permission from the Licensor") fails to meet criterion 1 of the Open Source Definition:

> 1. Free Redistribution

> The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

https://opensource.org/osd/

This recent trend of openwashing is unwelcome because it misleads FOSS developers and users who are looking for software that can be used, examined, modified, and redistributed without limitation.
Project Blinkenlights (2001 – 2023) [Talk] [video]
The complete story of Project Blinkenlights: achievements, failures, technology and its cultural impact

In 2001, the Chaos Computer Club surprised the world with a simple but impressive interactive light installation on a building in the heart of Berlin: Blinkenlights illuminated 144 windows forming a huge but low-resolution pixel matrix on the facade of House of the Teacher at Alexanderplatz.

But this was just the beginning. Much bigger follow-ups took place in Paris and Toronto and in between a lot of other things happenened. This talk shows it all: what worked, what did not work, the good ideas, the bad ideas and all that jazz.

This year at Camp, we celebrate Blinkenlights history with another interactive light installation at the Camp.

This talk includes video clips form the various installations and the impact on popular culture.
oh i was hoping this was a cli tool :(
Perhaps those involved should be charged by the DOJ for violation of Constitutional rights... Sounds like the actors were fraudulently acting under color of law.
It was my understanding that txtai is not a vector database, but rather it uses databases. It pulls together a large set of tools that most people use together in a very nice way, such that the API is more consistent for researchers to show what they are doing.
A typical 55” TV uses ~100 watts. That’s roughly 10 LED bulbs. That’s ~900 KWh/year

A Tesla model S has between 60-100kwH battery depending on the model.

So a TV can be powered for 1/10th-1/20th a year with one Tesla charge.

In the US, our electricity generated ~0.85lbs of carbon emissions per kWh. Some places (California) can run part of the day entirely renewably. The EPA says a gallon of gas generates 20 lbs of carbon. A single car tank of 20g generates 400lbs, while a Tesla would generate 85lbs, and a year of TV would generate 765lbs. a model s Tesla has a 400m range, while the average American car has 22mpg, so that’s why I picked a 20g tank.

If running the TV 24/7 stops 2 trips a year by making the home more pleasant, it’s a carbon positive. If those same people who like the “pretty photos” drive an electric car, each “tank equivalent” is 1/8th a year of TV.
This is not open source.

I am surprised by how many HN links I am getting nowadays that float open source yet clearly have licenses that are source available or even less free.

It is almost like open source is the new techbro buzzword.
I once visited Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in the Arizona desert. It was built in the 1930s and pioneered passive energy and cooling technique’s in the desert like you mentioned [1].

While Wrights building techniques do work. There is only so much you can do. For example you don’t see anyone building caves to store wine in the desert. In Europe where you used to see cool weather the majority of the year and a scorching summer, yes it makes sense to go underground because it was naturally cooler.

In the desert, the earth itself is hot and if go underground, it will only get hotter.

[1] https://franklloydwright.org/living-with-nature-passive-ener...
Haha, posted a “Show HN” for a JS framework that makes JS frameworks and the comments were exactly as expected: https://www.fakehn.com/submission?id=H0qene04EpSjuGJkiBRK
FreeBSD uses Phabricator and occasionally Github PRs for sharing and discussing patches, not email.
I am surprised that condensed matter and solid state physics is considered a supplement/elective.
I see a scroll bar on my browser
The undergraduate Physics program is, in my opinion, heavily influenced by the working physicists in the field. Lots of physicist who work in fundamental physics is either particle physicists or work with models that are in particles. Those are the ones who teach physics in undergrad.
Seemed to be on topic for my project https://www.fakehn.com/submission?id=efLkVt2if5czNdN38wAY
GDP measures the production of a country. It’s inflation-adjusted (as compared to nominal GDP, which goes up when inflation is high).

This is just the worldwide version of GDP.
The READMD claims it is open source, if you at the banner. It also claims it is MIT licensed, but as you pointed out, it is a modified source-available license not MIT.

This is a grift.
TL;DR

Swimming in salt water - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355985483_Thalassot...

"Blue space effect" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-87675-0
I used green CRTs (Apple II), orange CRTs, B&W CRTs, CGA, EGA, VGA, SuperVGA CRTs at least 12hr/day since the early 80s, then I started hearing people afraid of radiation and moving to LCDs in the 90s which I also used again at least 12hr daily, and I still keep using my laptop and reading my phone. From the Apple II manuals I have always remembered the technique of focusing on objects at different distances for several minutes to rest. But I also developed my own technique of closing the eye in pain and placing my fingertips around the cornea and applying little pressure until colored spots appear in the vision, there will be more pain than the one caused by eyestrain, but after a while it will go, and when releasing the fingers the eye will feel refreshed. I have good sight after all these years.
so... a UI?
Works great for me, I run an ARM64 Linux VM using the Apple native framework. macOS is configured to get out of the way, I only need Firefox, iterm2, and some custom shortcuts. I code and do pretty much everything on the VM. As a Linux user this has made the work-issued M1 Pro a great laptop, which I wasn't sure about.
Well there you go. Another cross-language myth of my own busted. So now I wonder which other languages de-emphasise Puns?

I too would love to see this. I can declare positively French is pun-rich, my parents had a 1940s dictionary of argot, which was rich, inventive and almost like cockney rhyming slang.
Absolute numbers don't change unless there is a first derivative. The first derivative doesn't change unless there is a second derivative. And we finally have a second derivative oointing in the right direction.
Meta threatens to fire workers for return-to-office infractions in leaked memo
In my opinion Lua's equivalent tables or more of a Swiss army knife.

It's been a while since I've used them but afair they combine hash/dict, array and objects in one data structure.

They're hashes as usual. With a special constructor or int keys they turn into arrays, last I looked the Lua interpreter even optimizes contiguous ranges of keys as arrays. And by adding metatables and metamethods they also emulate JS-style objects.
I believe the opposite. It seems like a standard KISS artefact when abstractions leak from lower levels to upper.
30ys ago my mother spent an hour a day vacuuming the house. Now she has an internet connected robot, and spends an hour once a week. She’s doing better than she was 30y ago, even if she didn’t think she was doing bad 30y ago.
+1 for VSCode Remote.

I've been coding for the past 2 years almost exclusively through VSCode remote on Linux servers with few complaints.

Get a seperate SFTP/network file client as the built-in VSCode one is slow and unstable but otherwise everything works great. If you're considering using any Jetbrains IDE over a network connection however, I'd encourage you to think again.
I'm on a iOS device, so I highly doubt Google's password management is enough to make me switch from 1Password.
32% of Americans have a tattoo, including 22% who have more than one
Not a musician, but I've never heard of anything like that. I would think that if every band member did that, it would end up just causing confusion. If only the drummer did it, it might work OK, but still, many songs have different tempos in different parts, so I don't think it would be a good solution. Normally, the drummer is supposed to have a very good sense of tempo and control the tempo for the whole band. But again, I'm no pro musician. I did a quick Google search and found these informative links:

https://www.reddit.com/r/drums/comments/7s5t4b/in_ear_metron...

https://drumminginsider.com/do-drummers-use-metronomes/
OT: Are there any tools like LosslessCut (or extensions to it) that can do the following things?

1) Insert a few title slides in the video with a bit of text and image animation (like text and a logo showing up with some basic animation)

2) Add background music across various parts of the video
Ylem
I agree and use the simplest structured logging https://www.npmjs.com/package/livelogging
Most modern architectures that target high performance implementations can do unaligned accesses, even ones crossing page boundaries.

Less common is support for atomic RMW access to unaligned location. x86 does support it but crossing a cache line causes the operation to be very slow.
related resource: https://www.3-dimensional.space/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37593770/

> Future high-quality randomised trials are required to define more clearly the effects of blue-light filtering lenses on visual performance, macular health and sleep, in adult populations.
Binance: Decoding the Borderless Crypto Empire
This is a lovely overview. Hash is a great example of how delightful it can be to program in Ruby.

One more technique worth noting is the chained functional style of using Hash, which you can do in Ruby because Hash inherits from Enumerable. If you're prototyping a script to do some data-cleaning, this makes it easy to build up your pipeline and iterate on it. For example:

foobar = { ...your data here... }
foobar.map do |k, v|
# ...
# do some transformation here
# ...
# and then return the replacement key/value for this entry
[key, new_value]
end.select do |k, v|
# do some filtering here, e.g.:
is_foobarable?(k, v)
end.map do |k, v|
# ...
# do some expensive transformation here on the smaller data set
# ...
[key, newer_value]
end.to_h

(Note that you have to call #to_h at the end since the Enumerable functions will coerce the hash into an array of arrays.)

Now your code literally shows the pipeline that your data is falling through — and each of these steps can be side-effect-free, with no mutations to the original foobar structure.
That is a great question. txtai is indeed different than most on that list.

It's similar in that it writes data to vector index formats such as Faiss, Hnswlib. It has metadata filtering via SQLite/DuckDB to filter on additional fields.

It's different in that it can use other vector databases for it's file format. And it has significant logic via workflows for data transformation. Then there is the graph component for topic modeling.

So that's where I came up with the term "embeddings database" which I consider a vector database and much more.
Except that when it was first implemented, the government explicitly stated that the Social Security Number was not a valid ID.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/596180023/how-social-security...

Due to this, it is fundamentally missing multiple levels of security. You can actually guess someone's SSN within 2 digits if you know their date of birth, and location of/hospital of birth.
Fun fact: average household electricity consumption in Florida is among the lowest in the US. [1] This is because heating generally requires more power than air-con, and indeed, the average British home uses 12,000 kWh on heating, vs. on the order of 8,000 for air-conditioning the the average Florida home. This is despite Florida using 4x more power for air-con than the US average, and that the average Florida home is a lot larger than an average UK home.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/reports/2009/sta...
One of my exes loved this game. I swear, it’s been so long but I’ve never had such an urge to share something with her.

I love this game, especially because of the memories of her it brings back. We were just not a good fit (and I was too much of a child anyway).

Amazing open-source work!
Too many domesticated honey bees - and not enough wild bees, or other insects - which are all in alarming decline.
Honestly the LA area is not getting much action. Little bit of rain. We kinda lucked out. Hopefully the next one misses us again.
> My difficulty with this piece is that despite mentioning economic growth over and over and over, even extrapolating a comparison to the number of atoms in the universe for some reason, it gives no working definition of it at all.

This is false. He links to an explanation of what he means by it in the very first footnote. (That link points here, btw: https://www.cold-takes.com/what-is-economic-growth/ )
This little thread helps solidify my opinions towards using only the few in the small section they point out, being Qdrant, chroma, or weaviate. The fact that someone who works at pinecone didn't take the time to read an article in their field, decided to comment anyway, and then stated they didn't know what serverless or embedded may mean with regard to databases pretty much sums up the state of many vector databases, especially pubecone imo.

I don't even really love Qdrant or chroma (haven't tried weaviate, but it's at least in the right region according to the article), but at least they are embedded.

I pretty much refuse to use any DB that requires using API keys, putting data off premises, and even if it requires setting up ACL. I don't even use postgres much for the complex ACL and having to set up ports reason.

SQLite and DuckDB are truly incredible, can store gigantic databases (>2TB is still perfectly quite performant) and you can just hand any collaborator the entire DB on a disk, without having to worry about complex password junk.
The following snippet from the article seems important in case anyone missed it:

> Still, the save-the-bees narrative persists. Its longevity stems from confusion about what kind of bees actually need to be rescued. There are more than 20,000 species of wild bees in the world, and many people don’t realize they exist. That’s because they don’t produce honey and live all but invisibly, in ground nests and cavities like hollow tree trunks. But they are indispensable pollinators of plants, flowers and crops. Researchers have found that many species of wild bees are, in fact, declining.
Maybe the two last paragraphs of the introduction section of the study help? Apparently, yes, a stem cell based therapy was a thing already but it wasn't allowed in the USA, so they made a manufacturing process that didn't involve murine (mice) cell lines.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg6470

> CLET is not available in the United States, as the manufacturing procedure uses xenogeneic murine feeder cells and fetal bovine serum (FBS) and is not compatible with current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs). The use of murine fibroblasts carry a risk of viral contaminants and inflammatory response against murine antigens

> We developed a manufacturing technique to address these shortcomings: cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells (CALECs). We removed antibiotics and murine feeder cells, used highly reproducible methods for LSC isolation and expansion onto human amniotic membrane, and developed rigorous quality criteria for the manufactured tissue graft.
It's too bad their shipping lead time is 6+ weeks, this looks like a nice open-source competitor to PurpleAir.

> We currently ship approximately 1-3 weeks after receipt of payments. Delivery takes 2-3 weeks to most destinations (North America, Europe, Australia).
You see convenience jump and quality (temporarily) regress over and over in the short time photography has been around. Black & white film and photos look amazing. When color started coming around you needed more light and the quality dropped for awhile. In the 70s you can see faster film become available to filmmakers. This let them move out of the studio with more outdoor footage instead of large studio lights and hand-held instead of being locked on a tripod or crane. In exchange, the quality of the picture dropped. Then again, with digital scanning and vfx. I remember hearing vfx studios would sometimes get away with 1k images for theatrically released feature films if the effect was fast or blurry enough.