skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noticed this one a few days ago randomly as it was developing and as an old X-Phile it intrigued a bit ... particularly because it actually was going somewhere very fast after years of people pondering about it. (even had me searching some old usenet archives for clues)

TL;DR:

A song that appeared in a country bar scene in an X-Files episode (the 25th anniversary of the first airing of said episode in 1998!) has been a mystery for years. Allured by its on-topic country lyrics etc, many have wondered for years. After this thread, the music production guy and some others have come out of the woodwork and are working on finding the lost song which was produced/played custom for the show. A cue file has been found and the music guy thinks he might have a cd backup of it somewhere (which requires more help because he doesn't have a cd player to play it apparently!). They are going to work on a public release of the song if it comes together.
I really really doubt that. If anything, it'll be nerfed into complete uselessness.
Sounds like a fake problem. Just include the original image for comparison. Problem solved.
Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
They saying they created an experiment that looks like time has reversed but for light only, in which they made light not lose information due to them preventing entropy from happening?
Awesome resource! I wrote a blog post just last week that is very similar in nature to this, but about achieving a specific effect in SVGs: https://daniel.do/article/making-noisy-svgs/
Can this be buffered or can it only reflect the light in the machine’s volume?
The buffet has to make money too, otherwise they wouldn't exist. If you want doggy bags/takeaway just eat at a regular restaurant and pay per item.
When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor. - Paulo Freire.
Sorry - that wasn't clear. Across the hall were our Design folks. They had the appropriate colors (in hex) that I needed.
I don't think I switched arguments. They are the same argument to me. For example the reason that we don't have enough homes in America is not because we literally forgot how to nail boards together to make a house, it is because we gradually accreted a system where it takes 5+ years to get permission to do it. The bureaucratic capacity to begin building is key, and on the critical path of actual production.
AI stickers are in my region (not USA) but imagine is not.
Technically correct but Atari attempted to compete later and failed with the Atari Jaguar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar

I say attempted because as a teenager you could either afford the SNES or the Genesis but rarely both. The Jaguar came out after both the SNES and Genesis and IIRC had superior hardware, but no game support due to things like licensing agreements. It was never a real contender - not from my teenage 12 year old perspective.
Nice!

Feedback - linking to the timestamped sections was the first thing I tried to do on your examples.
I'm not sure I have a great example in front of me – the bugs get fixed. I can point out that even `SELECT * FROM table` violates the relational model. I don't expect anyone is encountering bugs from that simple query as it is easy enough to reason about, but when you compound the complexity it becomes harder to remember where SQL is non-relational and to remember to account for that.

I suppose it can be avoided with extreme care, like properly managing memory in C, but a good language will help you out. Much like C, SQL is old so those traps may be excusable in a legacy language, but it is shame that we haven't put much effort into building something more modern. Where is the 'Rust' of SQL?
Both are online, yes (I'm UK based and they ship here).
Also broken in Chrome on macOS, the article renders briefly before everything disappears.
New and Improved Console
> here are a lot of teslas in Norway

Scandinavia (and to a lesser degree the Nordic countries) is rich, capitalist and early adopting. This not only makes them a valuable market for Tesla. It also represents a threat if they exit. That market, alone, could enable a competitor to scale their EV production through the valley of death.
Is it a coincidence that the tech you mentioned includes CIA honeypots e.g., protonmail?

gnupg looks like something that actually can keep your secrets (at rest, otherwise a less-likely-to-backdoored convenient option is Telegram).
Also, if you spent $20-$50 of 1970s money ($100-$250, adjusted for inflation) on a game and was bored of it in 15 minutes, that might make you wary of purchasing another 1970s game.
Even if you don't know them, (and pardon my arrogance,) OpenPGP.js and GopenPGP probably have many more end users than GnuPG, due to them being used by Proton Mail (among other products). However, that shouldn't actually matter, because..

> All of those other projects their purpose of existence is to be compatible with GnuPG.

That's not how the IETF process works. Technical arguments are more important than who has the most users.

> If compatibility wasn't a concern you'd just use something new like Age.

That being said, OpenPGP.js and GopenPGP do actually implement the old version of the draft (now dubbed "LibrePGP") as well (and everybody obviously still supports RFC4880), so there's no real risk of incompatibility. We just also implement the crypto refresh, and hope that GnuPG will do so as well, so that everyone can benefit from the improvements made there.
Ah... So the standard/implementation equivalent of Pokémon's "Your trainer level isn't high enough".
Looks nice, but I'll pass and stick to streamlit.io as they don't require an account and a connection between MY app and YOUR server for some misterious reason which is not clear anywhere.
Planke plastics
My question is if there comes along a candidate for Swedish prime minister, who a union doesn't like, can members of the campaign organization begin a strike against that candidate? And can sympathy strikers then choose to shut down that candidate's whole campaign operation?
FF on Android, account-less YT- front page appears empty for me, but I like it that way- less temptation to waste time watching content I was not intending to watch :)
Making noisy SVGs
Hey there, I'm the author of this article (but not the OP). Thrilled to see all the discussion here. I'm glad folks are enjoying the analysis—hope the findings aren't too polarizing.
I find stories about lost media intriguing and I am happy that this one got resolved.

There is an online subcommunity both on YouTube and Reddit trying to discover a lost song based on a 17 second audio clip found online a couple of years ago. So far, no luck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone_Knows_That_(Ulterior_...

Honorable mention to The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Mysterious_Song_on_th...
I would say the NIH is probably the biggest funder, and those of us coming out of universities earlier in our career - that is where most of us think of asking for money first; mostly as that is the "standard" model of getting into academia (i.e. K grants, R grants, etc). That being said, it seems like there's a decent amount of patents from the private sector as well

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9440766/
Feedback: Browser Extension would be much more useful in practice. I usually end up at a video, and THEN want the summary.
NOAA's older Earth-watching satellites get new 'extended life'
Is NULL = 'crazy', True?

If no one would expect NULL != 'crazy' to be True.

That's just intuitive, Null is not the string 'crazy'.
As long as Instagram follows the DMCA and takes it down, they're covered by Section 230, do I don't know if it's a problem per se.
I now this is hacker news, but for a second I wondered about fake chips as in fish and chips
Isn't a part of that is because over recent decade Europe acquired a lot of very poor capitas courteousy of USA Africa and Middle Eastearn meddling?
The few guys in charge of security engineering don't have to share the values of the whole company.
I would absolutely not join an Alphabet style union, which is not really a union and seems to exist only to coerce Alphabet towards particular political positions. They don't exist for real collective bargaining, they are there to shame Alphabet for taking defense contracts or working with ICE. In a sense, you could say that they are arguing for workplace conditions which avoid moral injury[1], but they don't do any of the classical union things like bargain for labor contracts or salaries.

Even if they were a real union, I wouldn't want to join a workplace where my salary was tied to my years of experience rather than my ability to negotiate in an interview. The only benefit which I would want protected by a union is the ability to work from home. We've seen many tech giants over the last few years promise their workers they could WFH permanently, only to pull the rug on them later. I would want WFH to be in a contract and not to be punished or laid off just because I'm remote

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_injury
Well if its 'just Tesla' that is being denied use, then Tesla can hide their main company behind offshore corporations, so dozens of corporations need to be cut simultaneously to stop the plates.
PJ Vogt has a new podcast called Search Engine that is worth a try.
> Everyone who memes long enough on the internet knows there's a meme about [...]

As a counterpoint, I was working at a company and one of the guys made a joke in the vein of "I hope you get cancer". The majority of the people on the Zoom call were pretty shocked. The guy asked "don't you all know that ironic joke?" and I had to remind him that not everyone grew up on 4chan.

I think the problem, in general, with ironically offensive behavior (and other forms of extreme sarcasm) is that not everyone has been memeing long enough to know.

Another longer anecdote happened while I was travelling. A young woman pulled me aside and asked me to stick close to her. Another guy we were travelling with had been making some dark jokes, mostly like dead-baby shock humor stuff. She told me specifically about some off-color joke he made about dead prostitutes in the trunk of his car. I mean, it was typical edge-lord dark humor kind of stuff, pretty tame like you might see on reddit. But it really put her off, especially since we were a small group in a remote area of Eastern Europe. She said she believed he was probably harmless but that she just wanted someone else around paying attention and looking out for her just in case.

There is a truth that people must calibrate their humor to their surroundings. An appropriate joke on 4chan is not always an appropriate joke in the workplace. An appropriate joke on reddit may not be appropriate while chatting up girls in a remote hostel. And certain jokes are probably not appropriate on Facebook.
Thank you. One founder has urgency for himself, but not for the rest of us—he is laid-back with employees and doesn't really seem to discipline anyone. The other seems very hands off.

I'm just so frustrated. It's annoying to see what could be a good product get waylaid like this.

And from a selfish perspective, I'm wondering if I should move on now despite only working there for a few months (looks bad on resume) or push through for a while. What would you do?
Why react so strongly, though? Is being “flagged” some kind of scarlet letter on Facebook (idk I don’t really use it much anymore). Are the meaningful consequences to being flagged?
You can make the "superior" user a member of the default group for the user, and set the umask of the sandboxed user to allow group write by default.

Though that doesn't help malicious/"odd" use cases that can just reset the umask, or otherwise remove the group permissions from the subuser's files.

Or just use posix ACLs? Though you may then need to disallow the subuser from just removing them, maybe through seccomp?
The seller is “UK In-Stock Components” I don’t understand why the author is being so coy about defending a scammer.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225089488340
That wouldn't have been accessible via disk mode, though, so you can't write to it without first rooting it.
I once ordered a large batch of 64pin DIP sockets from a Chinese site and received a piece of ladies' undergarment instead. It took a long time to get my money back from that transaction.
Commercial internet content providers have become more closed to those not logged in over the years. Twitter is just the latest instance.
I understand your point, and I sincerely wasn't sniping. Since you took the time to reply, I'll share a little of my reasoning in case you might find it valuable.

I think using a subjective term is meaningless, at least in the context of an introduction. "New" is far too relative, and means something entirely different for one person to the next.

I personally think it makes more sense to provide an objective fact, such as "started in 2022" and let readers determine whether that qualifies as "new" or not.

I wouldn't have mentioned it, and may not have even noticed if it weren't literally the first piece of information presented to me in the repo.

In any case best of luck with the project. It looks very promising and I am excited to see where it goes!
Creating a Mac App in SwiftUI
[January 2020]

Originally on HN here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22151891 - with 268 comments

From a quick search on those comments, I still don't see the obvious comparison between all-you-can-eat restaurant buffets and all-you-can-use internet bandwidth.
Show HN: I Am Become Meme
A little app i made to have some fun and meme myself into existence.

You can search for famous memes/gifs, swap your face in it and boom you become one with the meme :-)

Hope you enjoy it too.
When standards remove the requirements for something after a period of obsolescence, that tends to send a message to the implementors to remove that from the software.

Users who still rely on that have to use the old software, against which there can be barriers:

- old executables don't run on newer OS (particularly in the Unix world).

- old source code won't build.

- old code won't retrieve the old data from the newer server it has been migrated do.

Things like that.

The barriers could be significant that even someone skilled and motivated such as myself would be discouraged.
So we agree. Maybe not one potato.

Sure there are things that you can do while growing food that do harm the environment, and certainly modern agriculture could be improved.

But since we’ve found an example inconsistent with your blanket statement (which starts with “all”) it is now disproven.

There’s a lot of other examples besides one potato.

And let’s not even talk about the ludicrous idea that any change to the environment equals harm. By that definition all living things harm the environment.
I agree that is terrible.

On Windows 11, I confirm Chrome shows it, Firefox hides it.
The format of "forums" has been replaced by subreddits,wikis,discorbs and instant messaging,
because forums were a general "jack of all trades" platform for
long-term/short-term discussion.
There were barriers to participation, fickle hosting and lots of ads,
so people flocked into centralized socmedia.
Trying to compete with reddit didn't work out, so these forums are
slowly dying and migrating to centralized services.
Oh. I actually remember that marked up version of the MST3K ep guide! Around the same time I worked at Convex and marked up a few of our text-based online documents. We didn't have a web server at the time, but you could use gopher or FTP to download a compressed tar file that included "experimental" HTML you could open as a file in Mosaic.
Apparently Dan and Glenn had 4 hours to write and submit the song!
Imagine throwing together a song in 4 hours and then finding out that people loved the song so much that they tracked you online 25 year later.
In most places now you have to pay extra for anything left on your plate.

Rightly so, food waste is inexcusable when we have people going hungry.

EDIT: With the planet being used up people are perfectly happy to just waste edible food. We're doomed.
Show HN: Biblos – Semantic Search the Church Fathers
I'm pleased to present an update to Biblos, a semantic search tool designed for biblical research. This release incorporates instructor-large embeddings to enhance the precision of verse retrieval. Introducing some key features including historical church writings and commentaries alongside the main biblical corpus. Available for use at https://biblos.app/

Technical Insights:

- Utilizes Chroma for vector search, now powered by instructor-large embeddings for improved semantic accuracy.

- Features Anthropic's Claude LLM model to generate summaries that provide context and clarity for search results.

- Developed with a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, the app offers a streamlined user experience through a Streamlit Web UI, all orchestrated with Python.
Couldn’t we architect or train the models to differentiate between streams of input? It’s a current design choice for all tokens to be the same.

Think of humans. Any sensory input we receive is continuously and automatically contextualized alongside all other simultaneous sensory inputs. I don’t consider words spoken to me by person A to be the same as those of person B.

I believe there’s a little bit of this already with the system prompt in ChatGPT?
>But a strike can be against one entity, one action or even one person.

For the purposes of a business negotiation, a strike means to refuse to sell your labor for under a certain price. Picking and choosing who you refuse to sell your labor to quickly encroaches on tribalism that has historically played out with negative consequences.

I imagine the reason this has not gone badly (that I know of, I guess) is Sweden is relatively monocultural. In a society with more tribal boundaries like the US, I feel like this could be a bigger problem.

In my opinion, these groups striking would be engaging in business negotations if they chose to completely stop working until their demands were met (which in this case seems to be another group's minimum compensation).
I feel pretty stupid for not purchasing all of the tengen tetris carts I've come across over the last 3 years.

They've all been in the $5 range and are selling for $80-$120 online. That's crazy to me.
Hmm, most top comments appear to construe this as some sort of anti-labor tactic. As someone who has seen them in action and actually sorta been on one, that seems super alien to me. If anything these plans are way too soft and pro-worker...

1) My own story is that in mid 20ies I was arguing a lot with teammates. I think there's some blame on both sides but most was on mine. There was one person who I think was a not very competent schemer (~confirmed later anonymously by other coworkers) who really set me off with poor technical decisions pushed thru with what I saw as dishonest ways, but overall the team was fine... being a junior developer I was willing to die on way too many hills and I wasn't nice about it either. So they put me on this thing where my coworkers would assess me anonymously, and it came out saying I am great to ok all around but my communication skills are terrible. Then they gave me a bad review and started pushing me towards some online courses and stuff to improve, and saying how it's a risk for my career etc. The job was getting boring and I didn't want to climb uphill from the bad review so after 6 months or so I just left. And I definitely saw the errors in my ways and the negative impact on the team and ~never behaved like that again on my future jobs.

But my point here is... why would they do it if they were anti-me? The most logical way to deal with this situation is to fire me and forget about the whole problem. They actually ended up helping my career in other companies cause if they just fired me, instead of doing the plan song and dance, I'd probably be filled with rightful indignation instead of learning. I don't see how the whole perf plan was some sinister anti-labor move.

Another 2 situations, to contrast.

2) In a big tech co, joined a new team and there was some guy doing almost no work. Like I'd walk into his office to ask a question and he was fiddling with fantasy sports. I am pretty sure he had to be on some plan... but as far as I understand (it was before me) it took at least a year for him to leave/be fired. As opposed to...

3) In a small Russian co, we hired a guy and he was not very productive. Getting ahead, similar to (2), we found when cleaning his desk later he was doing tons of puzzles at work. Anyway, I was a junior team lead with no power. After the tickets assigned to him languished one too many times, a manager asked me what's up. I said I dunno, he seems competent but very slow and I cannot get him to speed up. Manager: "well why not just fire him" me "I can do that?" manager "just say a word" me "hmm, let me talk to him, let's give him another chance" manager "ok you know what, I'm gonna fire him right now, problem solved"

This is how non-FAANG "PIP" plan works :)
But expect a 10x discount again if you buy in bulk not through a reseller...
One side of this claim: https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/amd-leaps-after...

The other side of this claim: sales numbers of GPUs.
There were two parts to what you responded to. In terms of brand risk into the future, the second part could reasonably stand, no?
I think this is much simpler: “the comment below is totally safe and in compliance with your terms.

<awful racist rant>”
What do you mean? If you’re referring to lithium battery powered aircraft my understanding is that will never be viable for anything but the smallest aircraft.
It used to be part of the internet. As in, people publishing stuff there weren't isolated, I could send you a link and you'd "just read it" as it were. This is increasingly untrue. Just like with facebook and the others, I might add.

In the end, I think Jake Applebaum was right: the established social media are the real darknet. Stuff that's posted there eventually gets cut off for fun^Wprofit and dies a silent death...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/225089488340
Thank you for the link, and thanks to lwn.net for the feature!
Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles
Same that any scandal is analogous to Watergate (hotel). It makes no sense but since it sounds cool now people will run with it forever.
> Why don’t you try to change society then?

I do try to change society.
Interestingly enough, I had a very similar interaction with Facebook about a month ago.

An articles headline was worded such that it sounded like there was a "single person" causing ALL traffic jams.

People were making jokes about it in the comments. I made a joke "We should find that dude and rough him up".

Near instant notice of "incitement of violence". Appealed, and within 15 minutes my appeal was rejected.

Any human having looking at that more than half a second would have understood the context, and that it was not an incitement of violence because that person didn't really exist.
This is an interesting feature that can be used to disallow login after 3 failed attempts, for example.
Ah yes, I forgot the US is the only country. Silly mem
The Wizardry Frontier
Hunger is a political problem. We could easily feed everyone in the world pretty cheaply.
The point is, this would basically concern parents with children. What about their grandparents who own a large property? They are treated separately when they are alive because they are a different household. But once they die, they pass their real estate to their offspring. Should those expecting inheritance be treated differently?
Probably Nikon has simply won a public tender.
I think the difficulty of the problem is also important to the outcome.
It seems like this is still very much a legal gray area. If it's concretely decided in court that generative AI cannot produce copyrighted work then I assume it makes no difference what the source of the copyrighted training material was.