skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry, you aren't the only one. Python craps its pants when this happens too.

You see, Python packages (i.e. Wheels) are Zip files, and can be installed w/o unpacking them. There are various tools in standard library, eg. `importlib.resources` (used to be `resources_pkg`) which could be used to list all the stuff that came with the package as if it was sitting in directories. But, in this case they fail...
> My favorite Banks sci fi is The Algebraist which isn’t a Culture novel.

Is it not? The Nasqueron Dwellers are very culture-y in their habits an eccentricities. The Sleeper Service GSV is described to be holding gas dwellers on-board in Excession. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some cross contamination between the Culture and the inhabitants of Nasqueron.
That's interesting to hear, because my impression was that software/web development is a field full of people who are self-taught or at least very enthusiastic about learning new tech. I am personally pretty undogmatic when it comes to languages or tools and I assumed most developers who care about solving problems are the same way.
Surface Detail is a fantastic read - by far my favorite of the series. Trouble is that to fully appreciate it means having read all the previous books in the series. Still worth it though.
Was it, perhaps, a fairy tree?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW1ys7d-CuI
Using today's technology, wouldn't it be possible to equip lightgun with a mini camera, process the image to determine corners of the screen it's looking at, and from that calculate its position/direction?

Kind of like how QR codes are scanned using phone camera.

If needed, one could even upload a display frame (current or near-future one) to the lightgun for use as reference.

Probably this would take some calibration, and sure the image processing would take some cpu/specialized processing hardware, but this being 2023 sounds doable, no? (if not done already)
Cassettes were mostly used on 8 bit machines ;)

Tape drives were relatively expensive to floppy disks.
It’s a shame that the options for orgs that don’t want Internet dependencies dwindle by the day. The poorly connected and security conscious get left behind again.
Subtle difference, Dick's statement doesn't say that "good men should do nothing", but that "good men should refuse to do bad things". Setting boundaries, in other words.
Are you sure you want a novel? It seems you are more looking for an essay in speculative futures. In a novel, everything happens how the author "wants". Including in Children of Men.
Any chance this is a clerical error? We see this sometimes in police crime statistics, where an obscure crime is recorded that seems rather unlikely to have actually happened, like detonating an atomic bomb.
Yes, so I've never seen anything but the EU-sanctioned installation flows and the regression is in these flows.
Also just noticed this morning by clicking on an url in discord I got a windows popup to choose my browser instead of directly opening Firefox.
Further improvement would involve a more balanced workplace culture than promoting only "dedicated" workaholics (and expecting those workaholics to be men).
They did just that with GitHub so you may well be on the money.
Show HN: Using mkdir to track financial transactions
I've been exploring uses of file metadata. Here's an interesting one with a legitimate (and potentially unreliable) use case. Focuses on ease of use.

Would love to hear feedback.
Or rather: a realistic take, because the article is bitter.

This kind of headline edit is done assuming the maturity of the readers: they can see by themselves if the title matches the content and act accordingly. The fact that the original author decided to soften his message in the headline, doesn't change the content. So, as long as there is free speech, one can submit link like I did. You're also free to complain, and yet others have right to disagree with you.
> Affront society is described as being "a never-ending, self-perpetuating holocaust of pain and misery", where the strong prey upon weaker species and individuals.

> Among the Affront's technological accomplishments is an aptitude for genetic engineering, which they developed long before spaceflight. They use this skill almost exclusively on 'prey species', which tend to be changed so as to provide greater sport (and opportunity for sadism) during the communal hunts forming a major part of the Affront culture.

> One of the few changes to their own species was the redesign of their females to make sex painful for them

> "a never-ending, self-perpetuating holocaust of pain and misery"

I'm curious: do you honestly believe the Affront are cool?
I don't remember turtles in Zork
Why I built a heavily moderated news site for AI professionals
I am sick of reading the nineteenth post of someone building a wrapper around ChatGPT and calling it an innovation.

Sadly, this kinda of ML news dominates HackerNews and Reddit. So in good old Hacker fashion, I did build my own site for it: https://news.aiapipro.com/

What is different?

I am paying a freelancer to content moderate the site and also have an auto-moderator bot in place, to keep the site as clean as possible and deliver actual technical news, no marketing spam.

Are there any users so far?

A few people already use the site on a daily basis, and with this Show HN, I hope to get more people on board, as in the end, the best source for good news is experts discover during their daily stroll around the internet.

The human posts are augmented with a few RSS feeds, which you can find (and contribute to) here: https://github.com/aiapipro/news_ai_api_pro_bots/blob/main/rss_feeds.json

Doesn't something like this already exist?

The only things that somewhat came close were these closed, hand-curated weekly AI newsletters, but they are also flooded with ads, and you can't discuss the articles.

It would be awesome if you gave it a try and liked it. I hope that together we are able to build up a highly technical community.
Your ministers are appointed, no?
> WTIC-AM in Hartford, CT, on 1080 MHz

1080 KHz you mean… 1.080 ghz is in the range used for aeronautical navigation.
No, there are more.
How close do you want to get? For what purpose are you representing 12:15?

.5:10 is 12:14 and 24 seconds. That's pretty close and uses only 2 sig figs - even fewer than the four you needed to represent 12:15.

But also, why would you obsess about these specific times? If we were using the proposed system and someone made the argument to switch, you'd be saying 'How well does your system represent the time .5:1 ? It's only 2 sig figs, but you need to go down to seconds to accurately represent it - 12:14:24.

It can get worse too - .5:01 is 3 significant figures, but to represent that time in the current system requires that you go down to tenths of a second with 7 significant figures - 12:01:26.4. Or if I go down to second equivalents, you sometimes need to go down to milliseconds - .5:09:01 is 12:12:58.464
Tar IS seekable, as it was designed especially for tapes.

The modern usage of it adds compression, which you have to undo first before doing your archive operations ;)

Zip was > tar (and cpio) in that regard because you didn't have that two step process and only had to have enough spare disk space for the extracted file, rather than extracted file + decompressed tar
I don’t understand why you think the fact that someone may choose to point and click to do something, a task which depending on the UI can be completely mindless and yet significantly safer eliminating any chance of making a mistake (by throwing in a typo for instance), does not know what a bash for/while loop is?

I suspect most people here used the HN web interface to post their comments, even though constructing an HTPP request to send to HN using curl to post your comment wouldn’t be significantly harder. The fact that they used the point and click HM Web UI doesn’t mean they’re incapable of constructing such a request where it actually is needed.
But they have also announced that Basecamp will always be a subscription product, which doesn’t fit well with their once.com story.
I imagine Bing would be happy to pay to be default. Remember it's an affiliate model, revenue share so Firefox having a small market share means the bill is smaller.

Also Firefox doesn't need that much money to survive. They have too much even paying their C-staff millions of dollars per year.
I thought it was enforcing code signature verification, but no, it's promoting Microsoft Edge.
At x+10 anyone could make a new sequel to Zork

Would the copyright holders of Zork get royalties in this scenario, like with cover versions of songs?

The other problem is that in this scenario people will just be slapping the names of things that were popular x+10 years ago on literally anything. People will just make the lowest effort loot box laden pay-to-win mobile games you can get onto the App Store, and advertise them as sequel or tie-in to that old popular game/book/movie.
AR folks are solving many similar problems, so the answer is yes.
The problem is not that the reading method should be obvious once you consider that era, but that the reading or writing method is not exactly specified and there can be a considerable variety in implementations.

For example the OP complains about a passing mention (4.3.1):

> Files MAY be added or replaced within a ZIP file, or deleted.

While the author considers this to imply (but not acknowledge) that local file headers and central directory headers may disagree to each other, I'm not even sure because the specification never clearly confirms whether a random data can appear before any local file header. The only thing that has been acknowledged is SFX (4.1.9), and it is not even specified where the "extraction code" can be embedded. Can it be placed between two files? If such thing is indeed possible, shouldn't there be a provision to avoid ambiguity due to the stray data? Say, it could have said that deleting a file in place should mask all occurrences of local file header signature 0x04034b50 so that the vacant space can no longer interpreted as a file at all.
What about the message is defamatory? I think it's scummy but not illegal.
>Reality is what people with power and influence agree it is.

The Great Heresiarchs of Phantaz agreed that the binding of men to Earth was such that the rational mind would allow one to be free of it, and to defy even gravity if such was the desire.

Confirmed in the correctness of their philosophy they walked as a group off the great cliff of Meresyp.

Unfortunately their ideas did not die with them, for ideas are immortal whereas men are not.
Are they really truly happy? I got the impression they were superficially kept content by drugs, sex and social engineering. I recall strongly disliking their society.
Just look at Uber, for example. The opportunity cost of obeying the law in the various markets they entered would have far exceeded the cost of penalties they received in practice. So what did they do? They just flat out ignored the law globally, and it seems to have worked out pretty well for them.

Unless part of the calculus involves executives behind bars, I don't know what else we should expect from corporate behaviour; they're just following their incentives.
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They kind of have one. The charter of fundamental rights of the EU contains privacy protections that has been used to shoot down at least the data retention directive and IIRC the EU-US data transfer frameworks.

It’s possible that the CJEU strikes down a chat control-style law based on that charter, but preferably we don’t have to test that.
My bet is on confused older person who wants to buy new Wii for their relative.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37886616
> are we technically missing anything without this

The title is utterly misleading because the official time signal is CHU and that is still alive and well. That signal is important to all sorts of things, this one was not. (Small note: perhaps an international agreement to keep WWV / WWVB / WWVH alive would serve us better.)
What if they CAN do a bash for/while loop, but they prefer not to because bash is the ugliest effing language they've ever seen
Or, you know, a SaaS cloud company could go belly-up and lose a ton of customer data with absolutely no backup or other compensation plan. "Suing the corpse" only works if the corpse hasn't already been looted. If that happens five or six times, it might swing the public perception.
Why use this when Webmin has done the job for decades?

https://webmin.com/
>In the end, I didn’t love Use of Weapons,

Absolutely no surprises there. I've read the entire culture series several times. I've read every entry in it at least twice, some more than that. Except Use of Weapons. I only need to read about the "chair" once.
I'm the author, and funnily enough I absolutely agree. The moment a company thinks being "Agile" is interesting enough to mention at any stage during interviews, I'm out. I usually get to know the engineers at an employer well enough to confirm it was a good decision to ignore them after the fact.

Unfortunately, I still ended up joining one of these places because they made me an extremely comfortable offer... which I'm grateful for, but it sure doesn't make me any less pissed off every morning.
I will never understand the idea of gold as a supposedly crisis-proof currency.

How is hoarding pieces of a shiny but for the most part inherently worthless metal going to help you during a global war?

If you're alluding to an all-out economic and societal collapse: In that case, gold will be just as useless as legal tender. Rather, under such extreme circumstances, we'd probably see a reversion to a barter economy.
I think there's an elitism within the Linux world to being a totally CLI user
IMHO that’s about centralization of power, not the directness.

How many businessmen you see going around and promoting EU? if it’s that easy to influence they should love it.

Here’s a quote from Anthony Hilton about the media magnate Murdock:

I once asked Rupert Murdoch why he was so opposed to the European Union. ‘That’s easy,’ he replied. ‘When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice.’”
Because there was a basic set of primitives that could give rise to almost an infinite number of possibilities. Multiple paths and iterative forces leads this to a very diverse and thriving evolutionary landscape. It has become gloriously messy.

It would be interesting if those studying biological evolution could see how much of their techniques, theories, and predictive abilities could apply in this realm.
What Salt Lake City gets right about downtown
No, it's putting your own opinion in the title, and it's against the HN guidelines: "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
My reasoning is:

The original thing has already been created, and proceeds benefit whoever created it (or who they sold rights to).

Whether they choose to continue to actively market it or not, while under copyright, can't be influenced by copyright. Abandonware under copyright is still abandonware.

But! There's a class of derivative works, built on top of the original, that currently can't get made.

If they were, we'd all be better off.

Arguably, I can even see an aggressive sunsetting for derivative works being net positive for the original work's commercial value ("See the original").
> And economic interactions are the most impactful ones.

Can you clarify that (I don't have anything for or against cryptocurrencies at the moment, now that the biggest scams exploded I'm neutral). Do you mean economic relationships are more important than other relationships?
Here are the transaction costs for a retailer at the largest Dutch bank:

- Maestro, V PAY, Debit Mastercard en VISA Debit issued in Europe: €0.047-€0.06 per transaction

- iDEAL: €0.35

- Mastercard en VISA creditcards issued in Europe: 1.70%

- Mastercard en VISA creditcards and debitcards issued outside of Europe: 2.50%

https://www.ing.nl/zakelijk/betalen/tarieven/betalingen-binn...

For a €100 payment, we're looking at €0.06 debitcard transaction vs €1.70-€2.50 creditcard. If I were a Dutch retailer outside of areas/sectors with a lot of foreign/tourist business I probably wouldn't bother with credit cards either, as probably 99%+ of the Dutch have Maestro, VPAY or cash.
Last year I was second guessing myself if migration to Gitlab EE from Jira, Bitbucket and Jenkins would be worth it, as it was a massive shift for my org. Maybe purchasing a DC version of Atlassian products would be a better alternative, but after short look into invoices and licensing it was decided to go forward with Gitlab. Still not a big fan of how stiff Yaml pipelines feel in Gitlab CI and that tickets for what seems like a simple feature [1] hang around for years, but it is nice. Developers like it, and i am happy that they are happy.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/2658
> I was a Linux user back then (and still am). I didn't spend enough time with XP to bother learning intricacies like that.

Then why spend time commenting -- ERRONEOUSLY -- on them now?

> Plus, W2K was ugly too, just in a different way.

Über den Geschmack streiten sich selbst die Götter vergebens.

Anyway, point stands:

> > It would have been much better if they had had selectable themes.

> It did.
No it makes sense to promote dedicated workaholics to the highest echelons. They have maximal impact to business.

If those workaholics are women then those women very much need to be promoted as well. The data actually shows this is already happening. It shows that when you control for the choices women make about child care... the gender pay gap is largely negligible.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gende...

This is an interesting podcast about the topic if you haven't hear of this concept already. They interview a female statistical professor from Harvard about it.
They must barely make any money from them. When I read the title of this article, I thought "Gosh, I have a plea too... Can they free the Infocom games?" - and the article was exactly about that. We've been waiting for over a decade... Microsoft, if you are reading this... Pretty please? It would also send a good message to regulators that something good came out of this.
HN user understand tone challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
Nah, Moloch loves the "authentic" humans, because they can be bullshitted into doing anything. Yes, they'll resist any direct attempts at telling them how to live their lives - but they'll do that as much to a tyrant, as to their democratic representatives, or their own community. Inertia is not a virtue - neither for an object, nor for a human.

The way against "authentic" humans' resistance/reactance is something Moloch figured out long ago: take it slow, manipulate their beliefs about themselves and the world. This even scales better than tyranny. Marketers and advertisers know and use this. Politicians and activists and religious leaders know and use this. "Authentic" humans will follow their intuition off a cliff if you make them believe it'll make them feel safe, or fulfill their lust. Easy when you're also responsible for instilling fear and/or desire in them in the first place.
I can't see how we can avoid eventually creating AIs that are far more powerful than we are - in that case something like the Culture is probably the best we can hope for.
The term is "state capitalism": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
All of this started immediately after the U.S./EU’s limitations on MS from their antitrust case ended.

The US /EU protected the world from 20 or so years of this BS. I suspect Google, Firefox, Chrome, Social Media, maybe even Apple’s resurgence, etc as we know it would not have happened if it wasn’t for the them preventing MS from abusing their monopoly in the most blatant manner.
That's presumably the 'effort' they're referring to.
> that allow extending React websites with plugins powered by the community

So you are you talking about user-provided plugins? Sort of like web browser extensions, but talking to the React API?
> fined before by the EU for this kind of OS/Browser bundling

And now Apple gets away with only allowing one browser engine on iOS, even if you try to go out of your way to use something else you can’t (third party browsers have to use the Safari engine built into the OS by App Store policy)
The consistent pattern is really really shitty links.

Modern Chinese wives in the US has F-All to do with traditional farming or Hunter Gatherers.

Home school essays submitted that outline the writers own particular bias are not exactly peak Histographic study.

An essay on Mayan division of labor does not undercut the reality that there's a ton of work to do and it gets split up (see my closing point), it actually reinforces it.

To reiterate - woman work just as hard as men in traditional farming and hunter gatherer lifestyles and your wealth of links don't run counter to that statement.

It's not to your credit that you attempt to bludgeon yor way through with a mass of links in the hope that no one will look closely.
> Two companies(master/visa) hold complete control over the entire customer spending in the whole world.- They also prevented banks from catching up to the 21st century, technology-wise, and we still do not have instant online payments.

India has UPI, China has WeChat Pay and AliPay, Russia has MIR, and forced Visa/MC out of business for domestic payments like five years ago. Adding insult to injury, all these systems do have instant online payments.

Oh, and Japan has JCB, heard African and Latin American countries have their own systems too. The "world" you're talking about is a small one.
This makes me unsure if I should continue hosting more serious projects on Vercel.
I care if it's an obscure tech stack and there isn't a lot of contributor, because it will indicate that it's more likely that it lose interest in development. Or if I want to contribute and so I want a tech stack I know or I'm interested into.
Ask HN: Why are there no open source NVMe-native key value stores in 2023?
Hi HN,
NVMe disks, when addressed natively in userland, offer massive performance improvements compared to other forms of persistent storage. However, in spite of the existence of projects like SPDK and SplinterDB, there don't seem to be any open source, non-embedded key value stores or DBs out in the wild yet.

Why do you think that is? Are there possibly other projects out there that I'm not familiar with?
Thats weird thinking people work "hours".

Many professionals work 50 to 60 hours a week in America or more.

Their profession is essentially their life.
A 9 second delay for a radio channel? So they can't do some interactive things like phone calls without a 9s delay anymore either?

It really seems modern tech doesn't care about delay at all, while personally I do care about it. Modern tech should be better, but on the delay it's getting worse instead. Bluetooth audio is another example, with top tier headphones no longer supporting lower latency bluetooth codecs like aptx, and GPU's being ok adding delay to insert some "AI" frames, and delay between moving a camara and seeing the updated image on screen. Plus this love that designers have for "long-press" on/off buttons rather than immediate clicky ones.
Not exactly standardized, but .7z should be versatile enough to cover most use cases except for a basis of application data files. For that case, you can actually design your own file format, which is surprisingly easy if you know your own requirements.
The thread on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/111243840362802813
OP mentioned ProxMox UI as being much better. I think you're focusing on the wrong point.
Hey, quick question: Is there a way to handle async behavior? Like in puppeteer we had something like waitFor helper to wait while loading the page. I couldn't find a similar thing in your readme. Or is this framework for only static pages?