skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most jails and prisons only have plastic containers for microwaving your food, because anything else would be a "security risk."

When I was inside the only "cup" you could buy was a plastic storage container that was not food- or microwave-safe but was used for everything from drinking coffee to cooking noodles.
Maybe it's awful UX but it's the best you can have and it makes good sense, because there is no way Dropbox can support merge conflict for arbitrary file types. You might as well save all the copies and let user figure it out themselves -- user would know much better than Dropbox how to handle the situation.
How fun! I love how the numbers look like they are on vacuum-fluorescent displays :)
They've made HDPE bottles for a while. When I was guiding canoe trips 20 years ago, the wisdom among the guides was that the HDPE ones will float, even if you fully submerge them with the cap off, whereas the Lexan ones will sink.
Directors won an AI deal with studios amid writers' strike
Bluey is contemporary entertainment. It's not old enough to be part of culture, which is what GP was talking about. Last century media isn't either. We're talking folk tales and religion here.

Bluey is also one of the handful, perhaps single-digit number of, decent kid shows. Modern children television shows emphasize superstimuli, obnoxious behavior, and/or push merch. I am grateful it exists, because the space of children entertainment is much worse today than it was 30+ years ago.
Good! House prices are too high, and people should pay back their loans! It's a win-win!

(And I say this as a homeowner.)
Why isn't it a solution? It works pretty well for them, I don't get any calls or messages asking why something isn't doing what it's supposed to.
"Why do you always have to tinker!?!"

I'm sure you got an asswhooping. haha
Yep, well it's clear how indexed on money Tony is in this post. Not passing judgment either way, but for some people software is just a means of making money. And that's okay.
I think I've said it on this site before in similar context, but:

A good friend of mine who used to do hazardous waste disposal said the industry developed a winning mantra: mitigation, not elimination. Or to put it in more familiar terms, don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
>Possibly save up for a better backpack

TBH this does address a lot of problems, but many people don't like backpacks or whatever packs they use everyday isn't built for ergonmics in mind. A couple extra lbs shifting around can feel pretty annoying. Yes, those are solvable problems, abut I'd rather solve it by using a lighter container.
but what about the college wage premium?
Have You tried listening to the new Microsoft / Project Gutenberg audio books?

I find 2 faults with them:

1% of the time I can tell it's a robovoice narrating the MS/PG audiobooks, and

When the book switches back and forth between multiple speakers in a conversation, the MS/PG audio book fail to change voices enough.

I have spent a week downloading most of them, and will continue to leech until I have to whole 1.25 TB collection with a back-up copy.
It's been some years since I've been there so I'm a bit out of touch, so thanks for the info. That's a worry (seems they're more interested in the toy than practical safety).
> if Imba offers a new approach it fails to communicate this on the landing page and focuses on code compression instead.

Fair enough. While it does touch upon `memoized DOM`, you're correct; it might not be sufficient for readers to grasp the full implications unless they're well-versed in these kinds of libraries. For a deeper dive, you can check out this subpage: https://imba.io/guides/rendering. BTW, I don't have any affiliation with this library whatsoever.

> I just wonder, whether a new language is necessary to achieve this.

To achieve compression, no. But to achieve DOM reconciliation without a v-dom, yes.
I can recommend getting a Nextcloud instance on a third-party cloud provider (I’m using Hetzner) and using the Nextcloud apps. Fast and lightweight!
Not your street, not your road, not your right of way. Not your air, not your breath. Not your sunlight, not your tan. Not your water supply, not your legionella’s disease.

‘If you don’t own it, you have no rights’ leads to a dark place.
Agents have agency: they do stuff. The way the do it is by calling code or writing code and then executing it. They need some retrieval system too (often called memory) that selects the relevant possible actions for a current context.

I wrote this article recently that outlines what a system needs to run agents: https://github.com/lukebuehler/agent-os/blob/main/docs/artic...
When you are used to very low latency, everything else feels sluggish and more indirect. The immediacy of 1980s hardware induces a sense of realness that just isn’t quite there with higher latency. It’s like direct manipulation vs. going through a medium.
Wow, this is nice.

At first glance, I was a bit disappointed to see the first video being about Libet's experiment. To this day I cannot understand why so many people took the conclusions from that research seriously.

But luckily for me, the video, after explaining the basics of the experiment, dives into critical responses to the theory and outlines the complexity involved.

Thanks for sharing this with the world.
I like Sabine and overall enjoyed her book Lost in Math, but I feel like her particular style of "snark" (mockery) is unproductive and kind of cheap. It makes some sense on YouTube, but not as much when she's interviewing colleagues for print.

One of her recurring points is that physicists get to sort of make stuff up for their own gain now, because the public (and grant institutions, politicians etc) have become very interested in the field while being mostly illiterate in it. But she does this as well. Lay people aren't fit to judge whether eg the sampling algorithms used at the LHC detector are laughably stupid, nor compact dimensions of space, inflation, etc.
I can talk for hours with anyone about anything, but I have some kind of social anxiety about starting the conversation, and that sadly goes not just for strangers but also for people I'm familiar with but not super familiar...

I'd never start talking to a person sitting next to me on a train or a plane, but when they start I'm most often very glad to have someone to talk to...
> 90% of swipes by women are for men over 6’0, which does not reflect the importance women place on height in the real world.

Yes it does. They just won't admit to it in person because it is objectively so shallow and superficial.
That would depend on how the ad is being served, no?
I don't know about most manufacturers, but IKEA sells the lids separately in part for this reason.

I also have little doubt that IKEA will be around in 10 years compared to some random Amazon brand.
> getting low quality disposable clothing from Bangladesh isn't "more efficient"

It might not be more efficient environmentally but it’s certainly more efficient economically (from the perspective of consumers in rich countries)
I work in embedded and many times I will be dropped to minimal shells where I don't access to interpreters like Python.

Also whenever I need to do some repetitive file operations writing shell scripts in the command line becomes important.
Thanks :)

While I think that we made some mistakes in the design, I'm surprised that, to this day, there isn't any widely-used language/toolkit/framework [1] that seems to do as well.

[1] Alright, there's GWT, which does pretty well with different tradeoffs. But for some reason, it seems to be extremely niche. The website mentions that "thousands of developers" use it.
I appear to misinterpreted what you said. Your initial comment appeared to me to be a reference to flying a hijacked plane into a building and that isn’t happening that often.
Suicide attacks in general are common. Never talked about in the same context is the lone angry man with a gun as that is somehow that is unsolvable in the US.

Fascinating how the TSA overreach and ineffectiveness is somehow required, yet the terror inflicted by the domestic problem of gunmen is not able to be addressed. Is it not terrorism?

Do you believe the TSA is effective? The Department of Homeland Security don’t.
I'll give uMatrix a try.
I think they just wanted to see that I was a real human. They had me hold up a sign with a code written on it. The only thing I thought of was that they might compare it to my profile pic? But it makes little sense as many people have something abstract as their PFP, or a photo of their cat.
> verge of misinformation/pseudoscience.

Yeah one was 5G. I did not like she didn’t cut off speculation and stopped watching her videos afterwards. But ultimately she is correct - there just isn’t evidence that microwave heating is safe. I wanna roll my eyes as much as next guy, but need to respect objective reporting.
This is referring to iTunes Match. An opt-in feature where you would upload your own MP3s to Apple for them to host and where there is an option to replace those songs with high-quality versions from the record labels.

a) Your brother should have taken backups of his MP3s as he was advised.

b) He pressed the button to replace the songs because there is no evidence, anywhere of this happening automatically. And common sense suggests this is the case because there would be a lot more uproar if 10's of millions of users songs were suddenly disappearing at once.
I like her sense of humour. I respect her as a physicist. I respect her as a general science news reporter.

These are however very different things, and "science reporter" is something where my expectations in general — not just her, everyone doing this — is that at best and when trying sincerely and with skill, they will still misunderstand and misrepresent as per a game of telephone.

This means I do still listen to what she has to say "out of her lane", but I don't rank it as highly as her videos in her own domain of expertise, instead treating them more like a Tom Scott video. (Tom, if you're reading this, that's still a decent standard).

I do appreciate that she explained how she does the research for these: https://youtu.be/nD6hS8WV3ic?si=raJ3UySkXZOgZfIn
https://freshairarchive.org/segments/gene-simmons

somehow I'd avoided ever listening to this. But now, my take is a little different from this:

https://www.insidehook.com/article/music/gene-simmons-terry-...

which I gather is the establishment take. After 20 years, no one cares anymore. However...

Leaving aside the fact that he IS a jerk and didn't do himself any favors: I don't think she handled it well at all. Her fixation on his makeup is weird. He gave her lots of openings at the beginning to make it an interesting interview, and she blew them off.

He started with some philosophy on why KISS is successful, and there was plenty of dumb things to argue with there, if she wanted to pick them up.

Instead she went on about his makeup, and how much money he had. Who, really, is going to answer that question?
Noisy intermediate-scale quantum era
The great thing is, if it was a scheme as implied, they now have so much reputational damage on their hands.
As if what's going to happen depends on the ensemble average of predictors.

Tell me why the lone economist predicts that there will be (and there will) an economic crash not how many
> What the reading does lack is the versatility and depth that human actors bring to the same work. It’s a far cry from, say, Stephen Fry, who created a unique voice for dozens of characters while reading the Harry Potter audiobooks. But Project Gutenberg’s audiobooks are free, the process is quick, and the text-to-speech system used is scalable.

You loved cheap tasteless hydroponic tomatoes? You'll love cheap bland voice-acting.
Some ceramic items shouldn't go into the microwave because they have metal embellishments or trim. Some ceramics have lead glaze, which means they're not food safe once cracked or chipped, but I can't say whether microwaving them would make them more dangerous or less food safe.

> > For most Americans, they don't have glass plates/bowls at their work

As a note, most people I've seen microwaving their leftovers at work were microwaving plastic because that's how they packaged the leftovers from home. If there aren't dishes at work, let alone a full kitchen, then leftovers are transported, heated, and eaten from the same container.
Socialization in the PNW is highly hobby/activity oriented. It's immediate common ground and usually a recreational context.

Day to day is more much reserved and insular as we go about our business.
Unfortunately, the subprocess package is too low level, and usually ends up making scripts excessively verbose.

I wish there was a stdlib package that sat between subprocess and something else with a higher level syntax for process management. Running binary `foo` takes 3 letters in shell, and many many more in subprocess.
Do you use all of Git's features? Bundles, emailing, git-daemon? Submodules?

I wonder if you were aware that git contains an IMAP client.
That’s horrifying. Imagine he was an elderly lawyer and those were signed legal contracts, you could literally lose your life’s savings, etc.
I just listened to the beginning of one of these books.

The book text starts out "I." as in, roman numeral for chapter 1. The audio book read this as "eye" (or "I", but not 1).

Then the third sentence in the text says "1793-05". The audio was "1793 to 2005". Actually it was 1793 to 1805.

I listened to a few more sentences and had an idea of the state of it currently. The tech has advanced in the past few years, still has a way to go. Insofar as striking actors, they probably should be worried about what the big companies are up to.
When normalized for talent, the premium is quickly diminishing and is closed for many fields of study.
The best I can come up with is that this is some kind of novel abuse of Web Workers or other PWA technologies that, while never escaping the sandbox, effectively implements a spyware payload within constraints that were previously thought sufficient to prevent such attacks.
The shuttles are run by the hotels themselves, and yes they run to both parks and I-Drive is right next to Universal.
They're probably factoring in strengthened cockpit doors and passengers' willingness to fight back, because those actually work. The rest is security theater.
I honestly believe AGPLv3 for the software and CC BY-SA 4.0 for the non-software assets would absolutely be everything one would need for this project. Is there an example of a commercial AGPLv3 (or even any other copyleft license) game being cloned and sold without modification? I feel like this extra effort towards restrictions is rather unnecessary and putting the cart before the horse.
You have added to my to do list. Do I need to worry about this if I have Time Machine backups?
The Proc File System
"The Linux kernel has two primary functions: to control access to physical devices on the computer and to schedule when and how processes interact with these devices. The /proc/ directory — also called the proc file system — contains a hierarchy of special files which represent the current state of the kernel — allowing applications and users to peer into the kernel's view of the system."
How do you generally find subreddits? I used love forums instead of subreddits. Subreddits seem to have very shallow conversations and does not have decent explanations.
Since when did financial success invalidate technical expertise?
Really? I've never heard of it.
I once got a brandy snifter wedged into a Pyrex measuring cup (don't ask, I don't remember what I could have possibly been doing to arrange this).

I filled the brandy snifter with ice, water, and salt, and dunked the outside of the measuring cup in hot water. It loosened the assembly enough to get it apart without destroying the brandy glass.
That's good - it means they listened to their customers and the community. Now we are waiting for Hashicorp.
Hah, maybe this shows my age, but half a gig of ram for a file syncing service sounds like way too much. I just looked up the new MacBook Airs, and they only have 8 gig of sys memory. The Dropbox share then sounds like it's quite a lot for one service.

Why is it so memory-intensive anyways?
How Plausible went from $400/mo to $188,000/mo in 3 years
Create Music Excerpts with Composer Pal
Hey HN, I’m not so creative and I love to compose music, so me and my friends created this tool (in a hackathon) for an easy way to create beautiful music excerpts. It can generate unique short samples with its AI-based engine, and then you can build upon those samples to create your own unique composition. Give it a try and let me know what you think.
I was also interested in this. So, I scraped and crunched a lot of IndieHackers data. Things like which fields are most pursued, how many ventures succeed etc. You can read the complete report here: https://prakgupta.com/blog/real_world_stats_for_bootstrappin...
Someone needs to introduce a bill to require that the robocop be accompanied by a uniformed union transit worker carrying a lantern at all times.
Why do we need to get there? What’s the end goal?
This is called progress. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but in a few years the trend is to have all readers replaced by AI once technology will make their voice credible, then all singers will face the same fate. I'm sorry, but in a few decades, possibly years, all movies and music will contain more and more AI generated content with fake actors and artists who never existed whose fame has been carefully planned on social media.
Few will complain: "so what? We can still act or make music for fun"; then one day we'll see virtual politicians controlled by the same small oligarchy of very wealthy people, with the difference that a virtual politician could be taken out and swapped to another one constructed to appeal the right target just by filling a prompt.
You have to give them permission. No different to any RDP session
the stock is doomed, check out asmongold's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNXQ2bYik78. more importantly, insiders have been selling a ton, for example the founder of iron source. Silver lake sold all of theirs direct stocks for example.
I imagine it's because if the conversation is terrible you're still stuck together for potential hours. It's high risk medium reward.
Yeah, the main outcome of this seems to have been a massive amount of distrust seeded amongst game developers, and nobody planning to start a new project on Unity.

Also, Godot has mysteriously acquired a large surge in their funding, and has a much less abusable license structure...
Mold is substantially faster than other linkers [0], so that's evidence there's still room for improvement in the C++ compiler space. It does help that there are a lot of linker features that are only used in special environments (like bare-metal systems).

[0]: https://www.gem5.org/project/2023/02/16/benchmarking-linkers...
> all his work was replaced by the original novels, sans his edits

Or he could just not have pressed Save.

Like so many, many people have done through the lifetime of computing.
Surely we can find better ways to motivate people than useless make-work.
Having spent the last three months with Agents I’m starting to develop a saying: “Any sufficiently advanced agent is indistinguishable from a DSL”

I’m becoming convinced Agents are mostly novelty. They aren’t Turing complete. They’re fun to implement, but any algorithm they run to solve a task can’t be inspected and can go awry with complex logic. You can accomplish the same thing by asking the LLM to write code in whatever language, and it’s more reliable. There is more reluctance to do that though, because the idea of a BE environment that runs user generated scripts is scary.
Female teachers have complained about UTIs and bladder infections from having to hold it for long periods of time. Students can ask for a hall pass, but adults aren't extended that opportunity.

Given that when teachers leave the room, students start parkouring off of furniture or gang-raping each other (and uploading it to social media), that's unlikely to change anytime soon.
I just avoid using any consumer based cloud storage for dynamically changing docs. Just keep it local, then upload the final result.

For code, use git locally. If I want to share, then publish to a remote VCS (gh, gl, personal gitea instance, ..)
Mathematical War [video]
You kinda already can: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teamviewer-quicksupport/id6616...

I really want this for my parents who live two states away.
Missing from this article: any quotes from striking actors or union organizers actually saying that they oppose Project Gutenberg's efforts specifically.

AI is one part of why actors are striking, and their fears are pretty directed at studios and employers. In particular they're worried about contract clauses that grant studios perpetual rights to use their likenesses and voices to train AIs that studios hope will replace them. It is a convenient narrative to phrase that as if they are opposed to AI entirely or that they are opposed to accessibility or voice-over technology. In reality even if actors were fully embracing AI-generated content, the terms being proposed by studios for ownership over training data and unlimited monopolization of actor voices and performances would still be egregious.

There have been conflicts about text-to-speech efforts in ebooks before, but it's not clear to me that the majority of actors have any problem with stilted, lifeless text-to-speech designed by a nonprofit to increase ebook accessibility.

And maybe actors will be furious at Gutenberg, I don't know. But that's the point, a good way of figuring out whether or not striking actors are mad at Gutenberg would be to talk to them directly, which this article doesn't do. What I'm saying is, in the middle of a highly public strike, be careful of uncritically accepting the word of writers who are not part of that strike when they tell you what the strike is about and what the people striking believe and want.
>What good is e2ee if Apple employees can just VNC into your phone like another commenter said?

That would be the same regardless of whether you were using icloud or syncthing...

The commenter hasn't actually linked any sort of proof or citation (at the time I'm writing this), and assuming it exists at all, it requires you to accept the inbound connection in the first place. My guess is they're extremely confused about the new switch control function that allows remote access, not some nefarious Apple backdoor like you're insinuating.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205644
Webp needs js to run, does it not?
>storage.

My meal prep uses lots of stackable take out containers, in different sizes that nest into each other, with interchangable lids, that take up a fraction of the space. Really optimizes fridge space as well since frequently you can use the best size containers.
Should I switch from Yarn to Bun?
Conway's Game of Chess
Mutually Assured Recursion
PE are essentially just really long fats.
That's the story I was raised to believe in, but similar to GP's realization, I think it's bullshit too. Plenty of crooks and liars look very happy and I doubt they have problems sleeping at night. Hell, our modern world actually glorifies lying and assholery these days, turning such behavior into respected and well-compensated career paths.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?...
For creative pursuits (including technical and otherwise) I think it's a good principle. I'm sure I'm not the only person who wrote this same sentence down again this week as a reminder.

Businesses probably need to consider how much money customers will actually pay for it, and whether it is a good value compared to alternatives.
I hate news like this because they never EVER give you a nice handy list of worst offenders, safer options, etc.