skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember seeing the name of such a company on the credits page of the Playdate [0]:

https://metric-designworks.com/

Looks like a very humble site/company, but then you see that they have Teenage Engineering as one of their clients, in addition to Microsoft, etc.

When I have dreams of having a cool successful kickstarter around some quirky hardware musical instrument I’d invent, I definitely see myself reaching out to a company like that..!

[0] https://play.date/credits/
This is quite confusing - you shouldn’t need a columnar engine to filter/aggregate 20k rows.

Postgres / MySQL with a table per board (or one giant partitioned table with a JSONb column) would have been totally fine, as would have one SQLite database per customer that you can load the initial page of and then ship the whole thing to the client for richer interactivity.
You can statically link closed/proprietary software with LGPLed code, its just a too common misunderstanding that you can’t do so.
What do you mean? You can have kids and two working parents.
Sorry for the late reply!

I'm not sure why you think there is any 'config' involved. Perhaps you're conflating Nix the package manager with NixOS? Nix is many things, but it's also just a package manager like any other. For example:

nix profile install nixpkgs#vim # installs a package into your environment

nix shell nixpkgs#binwalk nixpkgs#vim # drops you into a shell with the given packages

nix run nixpkgs#firefox # runs the mainProgram of the given package

A couple of things to note:

The aforementioned commands are the "experimental" Nix 2.4 CLI commands that integrate with Nix Flakes. They are only experimental in name though, their status of being experimental being sort of a meme at this point. I recommend using these new commands (you can opt in by supplying a command-line flag or by tweaking the package manager config).

Packages that are not in active use (e.g. packages that you've referred to in 'nix shell' or 'nix run' invocations that are not installed using 'nix profile') are due for garbage collection. The garbage collection settings can be configured (either through NixOS, home-manager or the package manager's standalone configuration). The garbage collection can also be triggred manually. This makes experimenting with programs that you don't necessarily want to keep a joy.

The 'nixpkgs' in the aforementioned invocations is a default input that is set during installation. It refers to the nixpkgs package archive's flake's master branch's latest revision (https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs). The available inputs are configurable (again, either through NixOS, home-manager or the package manager's standalone configuration).
>- Oh look there’s only an hour left in which to actually produce code in one eight-hour day.

Usually around 7pm, once everybody's left for the day.
Yeah, it's like when they talk about all the negative effects of anxiety - what is that supposed to do to an anxious person?
I'm not much of a programmer but also find this much better for my thinking process. I'm much more creative and likely to think bigger-picture.
Noteful – a fun, free app to learn to read music and basic music theory
I think the other commenter is wrong. You are restricted from statically linking LGPL code in non free programs unless you follow the restrictions in section 4d of the license
Has anyone figured a good way to account for time spent on asynchronous communication (ie email)? A lot my time goes there and it is sprinkled throughout my days and nights.

Ideally we wouldn’t bill hourly and wouldn’t have to care, but neither the world nor my contracts are ideal!
Holy moly this article is indeed terrible. I figured the outrage was because they were knowingly using an GenAI image that was trained without licensing or something along those lines.
It looks really wonderful! I enjoy that you went for a pleasant aesthetic instead of a cold generic UI framework theme.

I have to be honest though with this specific feature set I would really prefer a local offline app with a one time payment.
I'm using a Saas accounting software for a business I run with some friends which makes a lot of sense because everyone can create invoices and upload receipts etc. – but for something that's just used by me, I find it hard to justify paying a monthly fee and putting all my data in someone else's hands. I can be convinced otherwise though if the features are compelling enough though.

I saw this blog post on the page:
https://momo.coach/blog/do-you-fill-out-your-own-tax-report/...
Since you seem to be based in Germany, does this mean the app has an Elster integration or export then? Is there DATEV export, in case I do decide to get a tax accountant to look over my things?
I find your comment unhelpful. Which is okay, you know, not every comment is gonna work for every person.

Have you tried mindfulness? /s
The problem is that it started out as any but stable and reliable. It asserted on received data, which in a network application is a super newbie mistake. When I looked at it, the pub/sub socket would hang forever if the other end interrupted the connection. So the zeromq guide which said "look how easy it is" was only true if you ignored errors. If you are writing network code and ignore errors, well, good luck. That was a long time ago (~10yrs) so if it is better now, good for them. Also, both founders have left the project. One passed from cancer, the other didn't like what he built and started over in C. Not that they can't be replaced, but transitions can be hard and take time.
didnt downvote you, but pittoresque is not an english word.
On the same note, maintaining a product for 13 years, I keep thinking about, what I call, "docs-driven development"[0].

The idea is to have a minimal set of core features that allow you to achieve complex tasks (might be tedious at the start to do so), but document those ways to achieve the tasks using the current set of features. If a certain workflow is being used enough (e.g. Photoshop: remove background from an image using the Lasso Tool), replace the tutorial in the docs with an actual new feature that simplifies this workflow (e.g. include an algorithm/AI to automatically remove the background from an image in one click).

The advantage of this is that customers are still able to achieve what they need (using your guidance/tutorial), but in the long-term you improve the product and make your customer's life easier if you start providing one-click automations/better UIs for the most common use-cases.

[0]: https://uxwizz.com/blog/docs-driven-development
If you have played around with GNU Radio, ZeroMQ is baked-in for communications with outside applications. I've played with it a bit, and found it to be very much fire-and-forget once you have it set up properly.
> I think the issue is the posturing as open source, having a github repo with no code just to attract devs and look open source-y

As the first paragraph in the README says, we use the GitHub repo to host releases and issues.

Having it on GitHub under the same organization as our other projects that already are open-source is convenient for both us and our users — https://github.com/httpie.

> and even sharing it on HackerNews right after the issues with closed source by Postman too. Feels like an "open source alternative", but not really, hence the sketchy accusation.

The person who shared it is not related to HTTPie.

Given the quality of the discourse here, I almost wish they did not! ;-)
We don't all live in countries where electricity is near-free.

In the UK, it would cost more in electricity than the $200 Zimaboard to run one of those eBay machines for a single year.

e.g. 90W 24/7 for a year is ~£212 (~$258 US), 60W 24/7: ~£142 ($173 US)

In this price range, power-consumption is a _major_ decision factor.
You're under the assumption that the PIP process is fair. I'm a former AWS employee (never on PIP) but I've seen it being applied to very smart and capable individuals. It's just a game of what manager likes you.
risc-v isn't going to displace arm overnight. x86 still exists in the same markets it's always done well in despite over a decade of ARM trying to enter its markets. Raspberry Pi is doing the sane thing of delivering a good working product to its customers. It would have an interior product if it tried to do the same with risc-v.The fact there is no existing risc-v that comes close to competing with raspberry pi is evidence of this.
I guess I'm the only one who actually enjoys Temu here. Do your research and you'll find great deals on their site. Half the stuff on Amazon is dropshipped from China anyways, why not cut out the middleman?
What LLM things can I do with an Nvidia 3090 GPU?
Diagnosed ADHD person here. Among my acquaintances I’m known as a person who will accept coffee any time off day when I come visit. I don’t that because I really enjoy the flavor off coffee and it doesn’t seem to affect my sleep.

Anecdotally, I’ve had conversations with more than 50 people who say caffeine does not affect them who likely have ADHD or some kind of attention disorder.

For example, I was at a gas station this weekend buying coffee during a small road trip. The cashier and I we’re making small talk that it was early and I wanted my morning coffee, they said oh caffeine doesn’t affect me. When I hear something like that I usually ask if them if they have ADHD and they’ll typically respond with a yes.

There is definitely bias in my non-scientific survey, I only ask people who make the comment about caffeine not affecting them.
For me it's the same as them, and it's because I don't bother with home row typing. Too restrictive, my fingers don't easily bend that way. Instead I do a sort of whole-(laptop)-keyboard thing where I know where the keys are relative to the edges, and use my shoulders and elbows to move my hands as much as I use my wrists - no twisting needed, so Escape is as easy to hit as most other keys.
When I was a student I worked for a company who made injection moulded HDPE parts for fishing boat gear. After a few years on the market, the company noticed identical products coming out from China, the only difference being that the parts were far more brittle and broke easily (they still even had the company website printed into the plastic).
I mean at this point, lol. I need to start looking into migrating off gmail before it shuts down.
this made my monday morning, thank you (i am a member of the society you describe however i too appreciate the irony you have pointed out).
It's a city of almost 10 million people with a metro area of 20 million people, and a broader region of 60+ million people depending on how you look at it.

The value of NYC in 2023 isn't NYC, there's no industry per se. It's a financial, cultural and administrative center -- a hub. The marginal changes have huge impacts on the region, nation and maybe the world. If 1% of NY metro people need something, that's 200,000 impacted people; more than the entire upstate NY region where I live.

The activists living in Manhattan who are wound up about Manhattan being congested, etc are living in a bubble. Their world depends on the outsiders.

The actual dollar value of toll isn't relevant. The perception is. If there's a thing in Manhattan that isn't a commute to a job, you need to do the calculus if the pain in the ass of getting to Manhattan is worth it. If you're not young or particularly mobile, it's a hard no.

Why does it matter? Huge industries in NYC depend on NYC being NYC. If you're fighting cancer, are you going to go to MSK, NYU or Cornell in Manhattan? There's no hotels of note north of 66th St, so on top of everything else, you're facing more hassle and expense. How does that impact the tens of thousands of people working at these places long term?
The problem is that there's the presumption that "the market"'s choice is what we want.

"The market" has decided on what gets pushed to the top of your social media feed, and that is by all accounts turned out to be terrible for humanity. Idiocracy is what happens when we tailor to the lowest common denominator.

"The market" will decide on the cheapest and easiest, not what's in your best interest.
That makes much more sense. Naming continues to be a hard computer science problem :)
I know there are a lot of hopes for warp travel, but doesn't it make more sense to decouple (most of) space travel from moving matter?

To do this you need to decouple consciousness from bodies, which isn't possible with humans given that our consciousness grows along with our brains and everyone's structures are unique. But it is possible with artificial intelligence. Once consciousness has been digitized, you can beam it at the speed of light to a receiver.

You still need to physically install the receiver somewhere, which is why I said only most of space travel could be non-physical. But once that receiver is in place, you can beam information to it and construct bodies onsite at minimal cost.

This just seems like the kind of space travel the universe prefers, since it minimizes action. Energy is for travel, and matter is for staying put.

The stupendous amounts of energy required for warp travel just seem wasteful, when instead of adapting the universe to life we could adapt life to the universe.
Even if you forget, you can just rollback to a snapshot.
Of course, ZeroMQ and Kafka are two very different tools that serve different purposes and one needs to understand the tradeoffs.

For us, delivering an on-prem commercial off the shelf solution, it was untenable to expect the customer IT team to operate a separate, relatively huge piece of tech (remember, this is 2014). Maybe the heuristics would be different today with K8s and advancement of Kafka. But ZeroMQ as an in-process, distributed messaging layer is dead simple. If your use case requires anything else on top of that, it's on the team to design the right solution like resiliency, statefulness, etc.

For a high throughput, distributed compute focused use case, I think ZMQ is still a great choice for coordinating execution. But Kafka and other options on the market now are great choices for higher order abstractions.
> The copyright issues become moot once...

Only some of the copyright issues. The issue of whether AI creations are protected by copyright, for example, would remain.
I don't know if they still do it, but a cousin of mine in England in the 80s lived in a house with no number. It was simply "The Woodlands" in that particular village.
Intel did this is the Sapphire Rapids xeons via 64 GB HBM built in and DDR 5 slots. L4 cache is also not unheard of, having been tried a few times for well of a decade. The downsides are cost/complexity for relatively little gain.
Seriously, author just throws out “for every $1 spent on a GPU, roughly $1 needs to be spent on energy costs to run the GPU in a data center” without bothering to share even a semblance of assumptions. Then we get a casual “let’s assume they need to earn a 50% margin.” What? Why?! Also, at these scales and timeframes, the time value of money becomes significant.
Rust made the correct choice: things used most often should be assigned the shortest names. This "Huffman encoding" style is what natural languages have evolved toward as well. In 2023, if I were to write C, and didn't have existing guidelines to adhere to, I'd most probably introduce the same typedefs as the author here has done.
Sure, but they are still going for the (French) homegrown AArch64 solution instead of the Fujitsu design.
At that point it sounds easier to have the focus switch executed automatically with all relevant parameters preset, e.g. duration or curve. Sort of like CSS transition or MIDI automation.
To my understanding, the researchers released antimatter particles with detector plates above and below them. The particles started out traveling in random directions. Some of the particles hit the top, some hit the bottom. They saw that more particles hit the bottom than the top.

If the particles had "anti-gravity", they'd be repulsed by the large mass of the earth (instead of attracted), and you'd have expected more to hit the top plate than the bottom plate.

The researchers also added a magnet to the top designed to cancel out the downward force from gravity, and they hit the top and bottom plate at even rates.
NATS is today's ZeroMQ, even easier and more reliable.
The problem is when people pick Mongodb thinking they can use it like a SQL database. I've been using Mongodb since v1.6. You have to use it differently then a SQL database. The way you design your schema and code needs to change also. Its just a different way of thinking about a database. When you use Mongodb you treat the db like a dumb black box. You design in data integrity into your code. One of the big reasons you use Mongodb is because you don't need an ORM. Your POCOs are the tables. People that say they lost data while using Mongodb. Were using Mongodb wrong.
I was at his wake party in Brussels. He did that before he died, so he was there. I only have the most positive memories, even though it was complicated. To give you all a bit of insight into his wonderful way of reasoning with his end: there was a T-Shirt we all could sign. It read „I was at my own wake party and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt“. That was Pieter. I can never NOT end with a smile on my face whenever I think about him.
Searching around gave me this from stackoverflow:

In C standard, it is not allowed.

> C11, § 6.4.1 Keywords

> [...]

> The above tokens (case sensitive) are reserved (in translation phases 7 and 8) for use as keywords, and shall not be used otherwise.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12286691/keywords-redefi...
Looks terrible like most uses of AI art does. Just embarrassing
I firmly believe this will suffer the same fate as 3d tv. Even sports couldn’t save the 3d tv.

I think the most that people would ever consider would be a HUD with some walking directions or something.

I could be wrong and it ends up being the biggest thing since the PC, but I just don’t understand even the most optimistic takes outside of cool gaming experiences.
The Quest 2? Yes, I know that from personal experience and I had a friend return his Pro. I'm very interested for the Vision Pro though since it's higher resolution might actually allow me to do real work in it. Currently I maintain 2 offices with my full monitor/dock/camera/etc setup which is a pain and wasn't cheap to setup. Being able to move around (to different offices/locations) with a Vision Pro and have virtual displays would be amazing. Obviously we won't know until we get our hands on it but I have high hopes. Which, if not satisfied, I'll return it.
People have tossed the idea around, and it makes sense to check, but I’m not aware of anyone who seriously thought it might have negative mass.
This is passively cooled. Fans are likely to be the first thing to fail on a setup like this. Plus it is likely you are running 24x7, and so fans means dust gets inside and eventually will kill things.
Wait until you hear about the situation in the middle east... :-(
The Placebo Myth (2022) [video]
I appreciate the point about not being 90 degrees because I periodically need plastic bins for board game organization and the ideal shape is a perfect rectangle of an even fraction of both box inner dimensions. At least now I know why all the kits for this use laser-cut balsa wood or foamboard with home assembly….
VR/AR is being hyped on and off for 30 years, until it gets contact lens sized it's useless for most people
It also counts from 1 to 12 correctly with the numerals following the curve, which seems... quite impressive for generative AI.
I'm interested in something like this, except I would love to see it as open-source and the ability to self-host (as a simple Docker container to deploy to fly.io , or my Synology NAS, or whatever), but at the same time I fully understand the desire to gain an income from this as an independent creator.
> Why is this application being distributed from a custom F-Droid repository rather than the official repository?

It isn't open source yet: https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput/-/blob/master/FTL_LI...
Is it? ZeroMQ runs in-process as a library. NATS looks like it requires a server.
You can convert this to the expected value in the way you would a financial outcome.

The expected value is value times probability.
And then the time aspect is just discounting future value back to today, like you would a cashflow. Your impulsiveness is then how much you discount tomorrow vs today.

(Expectancy * value)*(impulsiveness)^time

This way you can put a number on your impulsiveness probably from 1.001 to 2
Because the enclosure is the heat sink. It has to look more or less like that for functional reasons, and so making it pretty as well is no real extra cost.
Show HN: eBPF tool to monitor disk usage, perform actions
> But when there's a turn into a pedestrian crossing, and the light's red, no stop is required.

If you’re turning right on a red (at least in Ontario and Quebec) it’s like a stop sign - you are required to come to a complete stop before you proceed into the intersection.
Am I gonna have to put :blind: in my username here too? Anyway I'm blind and I'm a blind person, and a good many blind people like being called blind people, because it's shorter, and doesn't minimize the way blindness effects us. Anyway I was responding to someone that said something like blind people use Apple or some such, my point being that we do love our iPhones, but for computers we use Windows. And just in case you didn't get it, I'm blind too.
anxiety. bad bad bad. you feel bad. sign up to view this article. upvote it to the front page of hackernews.
A reminder that nobody except the Nobel memorial prize calls economics “economic science.”

Economists just call it economics. And you will most likely never meet an “Associate Professor of Economic Science” either.
We started httpie/desktop as a separate codebase but are working on unifying it with httpie/cli and our cloud to avoid multiple implementations by extracting a shared runtime that will be used everywhere. One of the interesting challenges here is that HTTPie Desktop is written in TypeScript while the rest is in Python.
> You don't want something like that in a city centre.

Nuclear sites also have the tendency to be built on a nation's border.
For a big corp, they want to advertise nationally. "$1 hamburgers!" or "$799 refrigerator!". You can't make a national ad if you have to have precise pricing.

Not the strongest argument, but there it is.

A college friend worked at a pizza place that straddled a county line. One county had its own sales tax; the other did not. The register was in the back of the store to take advantage of this (the location of the register was considered the point of sale for tax purposes). Question: would it have been legal for them to advertise a price in the higher-tax-county part of the store that only applied if you bought the pizza from the outher county?

Local sales tax and national VAT are similar, but they don't work that much alike in practice.
So I commute 3 hours a day, to a job I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week for, while my son and daughter are sharing a room...

When I left grad school in 1997, the biggest problem me and my friends had was figuring out whether or not Microsoft, Intel, Google, or Amazon had the best stock option package. Was it going to be 4, or 5 years before we'd be able to buy a million dollar house?

Now the advice is to just roll over. Lets call it what it is: POVERTY
To me the "economics is not real science" people is much like the "evolution is just a theory" crowd. When you don't like the results, it is comforting to find a way to not believe it.

I have a pretty serious physics education, and in my older days I find Economics to be the most fascinating science. It makes much of society understandable in ays tha were not possible before.

That said, the sub field of Macro Economics is a very difficult field for several reasons, and it may be impossible to get very far on it. But that is only one branch on that tree.
what is the control in these experiments?