skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which we can all agree is both cool and a biological anomaly… much like it can happen in humans.
Ok, the brand is (or was) known more under the acronym AEG (at least in Germany/Europe, probably not in the US), not sure if everyone was aware of what the acronym stood for however. I just mentioned the full name first because it explains how the author of the article arrived at the translation "General Electric Corporation"...
Pretty sure this is a government subsidy for the post office
I've done some variations of this as well recently. For inserts: https://github.com/eatonphil/databases-intuition/blob/main/R.... And for selects: https://github.com/eatonphil/databases-intuition/blob/main/R....

Our workloads are a bit different and obviously our machines are a bit different.

Mine only compares mattn/go-sqlite3 to my own fork of https://github.com/bvinc/go-sqlite-lite. go-sqlite-lite seemed like an easier-to-use version of crawshaw's package but it was abandoned so I forked it to bring it up to date.

I agree, for best performance you shouldn't use mattn/go-sqlite3. It does some extra work in hotpaths. It is also higher level and easier to use though. So pick what's important to you.
Btw, does anybody know the proper way to quit home screen “Search” in iOS? Currently I swipe up to close the keyboard and then tap the empty space at the bottom of the search screen. Seemed like a bug the first time.
There's an article under there? Couldn't see it due to a paywall and the cookie pop-ups...
> The wikipedia contents are from OpenZIM dumps, which typically lag behind the main Wikipedia project by up to a year.

(edit: too late)
That makes it sound like it's highly technical and uninteresting - on a completely layman level even it's pretty fascinating, there's a photo, it's split right down the middle with one colour (each apparently as would be expected from the male or female bird) each side!
At least you admit it, but please stop.

You’re not only endangering your own life, but you’re endangering others as well.

It’s one thing to do this on rare occasions to change a route on the navigation, or change a song.

But for many people, being on their phone is the norm and not the exception — that’s what’s crazy.
It depends. I worked at a large bank on a reporting platform that made it easy to do SQL on data from all sorts of sources (CSV, Excel, JSON, calculations, etc) and use that data as the basis for another report.

We were always fighting for funding. Our director found a team that (somehow!?) was responsible for a million reports and was convinced that this was our golden ticket. When he took it up with his management her preferred option was to switch the million reports off and see if anyone noticed.

If no one is consuming the business reporting it's probably cheaper to have it produced by AI and of the same value.
"Equally balanced" you say?

If one side is demonstrably lying then it's disingenuous to make the two sides equally guilty.
Scheduling events with lots of people and timezones was always a pain. Stick an epoch time into a url for a static portable timer.

https://aisle99.com/cd/?d=s5ub7o&t=Game%20Night!
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> “The phenomenon arises from an error during female cell division to produce an egg, followed by double-fertilization by two sperm,” he explains.

The bird is a chimera, with a different genome on each side of its body, one male (ZZ), one female (ZW).
> Most simple multiplication and division... Just to get some idea of unit economics.

I always considered this to be the fundamental promise of vertical farming. Maximum efficiency and easy forecasting of outcomes. Basically, reducing farming to a function with several very controllable inputs and an easy computation yielding the outcome.
Link to the document: https://unfccc.int/documents/636608
Small note, most people go back using the gesture navigation for Android now days. It's also consistent in going back a screen normally.
On top of that, smart summon has been disabled on ‘vision only’ Teslas since they removed radar sensors.
Cool looking bird
Using TypeScript + Node + esbuild + my own build system (that lets me do hygenic macros!! and also codegen), I have made:

Accounting system (creditors/payments, debtors/billing, bank reconciliation) with optimised workflows suited to our businesses (which exports to Xero so we have a “real” accounting system too). Has a touch of AI — I use ChatGPT to help with bank reconciliation.

Lots of tools related to the above. Like automating budget reports and stuff.

“megasearch” which is just a lightweight interface that wraps full text search queries of Everything (for files), Microsoft Graph (for emails, tasks & calendar), and Fuse.js (for iMessages, Telegram, & WhatsApp messages that I manually import). I really want to automate message importing, and I really really want to make this search actual file contents (alas Everything gets slow if you index content), and I really reallly really want to make this use a vector DB and AI search!

“video-clone” — paste any video url and it downloads it using yt-dlp, uploads it to my file server, and gives me a public URL.

Parcel inventory system for our post office. This was the most involved. I made an Android app AND REGRET USING REACT NATIVE! Version 2, which is nearly done, is a simple Java app with a web view. Version 1 has been used by staff since September 2022, handling thousands of parcels per day, with very little maintenance! It’s mostly a CRUD app, but I’m quite proud of it.

I also use this Node platform for random stuff — like one-off scripts for scraping web content, or crunching some spreadsheets in a way that’s annoying to do with just formulas or Excel’s other features.

Having an environment that is batteries-included, debugging-friendly, logged, connected, scheduler’d, web UI’d, CLI’d, etc, plus that I’m familiar with makes programming far more suited as a pocketknife tool. Oh, especially when it comes to dates, times, and datetime formatting! TC39 + my helper methods = less fear of dates
I shared this with my spouse, who worked for an ag startup in Boston (still exists, different leadership, who knows what they're up to now). They had this to say on the matter:

One big competitive advantage of [company] was that we were able to hire smart, young ag scientists, especially LBGTQ+ ones, who wanted to live in a big, queer-friendly city. We had a lot of great people who were really excited that they didn't have to live in Davis or Ithaca, as well as people whose partners' careers tied them to a big city in some way (doctors, lawyers, finance).

(They would also add UMich, University of Minnesota, and the Research Triangle in NC to your list.)
I created a Roku remote for macOS. Before I made the app, there was 50 iOS remote apps but none of them had a native macOS version. For a while I used the testing client that I found on Roku’s developer site, but it didn’t have volume buttons.

Building it gave me a chance to learn modern iOS dev and SwiftUI. And I even had a bit of fun playing around with audio streaming protocols to get the private listening feature working!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/roam-a-better-remote-for-roku/...
> My car has sensors to detect when a passenger isn't wearing a seat belt and to blast an ear-hurting alarm directly at the driver. It's so loud that it's actually a safety issue in itself because it's hard to focus on driving when there is a blaring alarm in your face.

You aren’t supposed to be driving until all occupants in your vehicle have buckled their seatbelts. That’s why the alarm is loud and annoying, because obviously you can’t be trusted to follow basic motor vehicle laws. You’re not supposed to be focused on driving before everyone is buckled in.
Hardware threads are not the same as software threads.
Sqinn author here. Yes, sqinn performs quite well compared to the 'standard' mattn driver. The only use case it clearly breaks down is when SELECTing very large (gigabytes) resultsets.
I know this is nothing new, but imagine what we could do with billions of hours worth of brain time if we all collectively decided not to watch TV (or even just stopped watching Big Bang)
And here is some other thing like that.
Why Develop a PDF Library Now?
A developer working on an open-source PDF library explains their motivations and reasons for developing it now.
Missing some Invidious and Yattee for youtube there friend.

Adfree and crowd-sourced sponsor segment skipping is a glorious experience.
Cobbling together a script is great for one-off work if it gets the job done. What it's not good for is your core business, if it's going to evolve and need refinement over a longer duration with continuous feature additions and changes. Maybe someone who's brilliant could start with a python script and evolve it into Django during the project, but could also simply switch to Django early on.
For some values of ad-free.

Direct ads from the site you are viewing, yea adblock is great.

Aren't you feeling thirsty and want the cool crisp refreshing taste of an ice cold coca cola right now?

In content ads, and user posts as ads are far more difficult to deal with, but at least they don't track you.
It only later developed into the general term as opposed to initially specifically referring to Epicureans.

See Labendz, "Know What to Answer the Epicurean": A Diachronic Study of the ʾApiqoros in Rabbinic Literature (2003)

And I agree - you'd think that given how well known it is that scholarship would engage with considering Epicureanism as a context for a text discussing souls depending on bodies, describing spirit arising from flesh as a greater wonder compared to the other way around, described the cosmos as being like a body that died, and whose followers interpreted its seed parables as referring to indivisible points as of from nothing which made up all things and were scattered in the universe to cause all things to exist.
I created an app to improve faster at chess using puzzles and spaced repetitions. About a year ago I converted it into a public web app: https://chess.braimax.com/

Right now I'm in a hiatus in development (as I had to find a new job) but I'm planning to go back to it in some time.

Tactically I achieved a substantial improvement using it.
The beginning of October I started working on an experiment: What if Ansible used python syntax instead of YAML. I'm focusing on a single-machine use case, and also Cookie Cutter use cases.

https://linsomniac.github.io/uplaybook/tutorial/
That itty bitty teeny weeny thing? Yeah, it's occasionally there.
Makes no difference. Not crashing into big stationary things is the absolute bottom floor of what is required for anything 'car moves without driver behind wheel'.

From technical perspective, either they use same stack for environment awareness for summon and driving for shared capabilities and it failed or they do not, which is even worse. Either way, fail.
Shouldn’t your friend be monitoring his kid’s usage? Why is everything always some government/capitalist entity’s responsibility?
Yes(ironically). That thing is closest analogue to a USDM Kei car if such existed. The only problem is crash safety.
It just needs to last long enough to sell it forward to more dumb money (e.g., Saudis).
That's an interesting take. And what's your take about the utility of commenting about an article without reading it?
I really hope Tesla is going to sell this as a commodity robot even though their AI software isn't perfect.

Or even the motors and actuators separately.

If the video is real, what they've done on the hardware side is much more remarkable.

Just the potential for teleoperation is worth a few billion dollars. Would buy even if it has 0 built-in AI capability but I could run my own software on it.

They shouldn't wait for it to be perfect. Robotics will move ahead a lot more faster with good hardware.
They expect to not have to pay $12000 for something called Full Self Driving, and still get it?

Let's check the first paragraph of the Autopilot section in the manual:

Autopilot is a suite of advanced driver assistance features that are intended to make driving safer and less stressful. None of these features make Model 3 fully autonomous or replace you as the driver

And on the same page:

Warning
Basic Autopilot is a hands-on feature. Keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times and be mindful of road conditions, surrounding traffic, and other road users (such as pedestrians and cyclists). Always be prepared to take immediate action. Failure to follow these instructions could cause damage, serious injury, or death.
I just disabled all of these warnings on my Toyota with a third party OBDII reader and the Carista app, which also comes with lots of other fun options to fiddle with. Only thing I haven't figured out is how to disable the chime on startup!
Elon musk is a rich kid grifter who has never started his own company. Maybe spacex counts but it only survives off government grants. He never founded anything. He never created anything. He is an antisemitic pathological liar who is a net negative on humanity.
I'm making Snapress[0] as a way to stay connected with family & friends in my upcoming travels. It instantly prints a picture on my family and friends' printers as soon as I take it. Just need a raspberry pi or spare computer to run it.

I like to think about it as a Polaroid where the camera and printer are on opposite ends of the world.

[0] https://snapress.com
I always forget that desktop computers actually exist and always slightly surprised when I see or hear about one(Almost always in the context of really hardcore enthusiast gaming).

I've never actually owned one myself, the family had a shared one when I was a kid, but I never had any real reason to mess with them.

In theory, a super high performance machine seems really great, but my i5 Asus from 2018 is still fast enough for everything I do.

Sometimes a CAD operation takes a few seconds, or some tests will take longer than I want them to, but a desktop at home still seems like too much trouble for the small time saving.
Hackintosh isn't cracked down on. Commercial use of it is. I had an osx snow leopard partition I hackintoshed and I was trying old HDDs and it booted on my netbook. Most of the times it doesn't work is based on broken APIs or changes that aren't related to osx. 10.8 or 10.7 was the first free osx and the first one that included iMessage.
Well, I'd argue that it makes the message more likely to be ignored. I think winning people over is a useful skill (not even on the internet, but in life)
Ask HN: What lo-tech do you use for kids to play music?
Hi!

When I was a kid I often played my cassette player when I came home from school. It was simple technology, had no major traps and getting new content was fairly easy. This contributed a lot to my later interest in music.

I'd like for my kids to have the ability to have such an experience. Now, nowadays nothing gets released on cassette's, and they do already have some favorites. Also, me and my wife are quite vary of screens for them, especially portable screens like phones and tablets, so we do not give them full freedom on how and when to use them. The problem is, that nowadays music gets released on youtube, spotify etc. - apps, and to access it the most straight forward way is portable screens.

I have some ideas on how to approach, like a laptop with limited access, I've seen some dedicated hardware for this, etc. But mostly would like to ask you, as a way to get independent view on this and new ideas. How do your kids access music? Do you have any alternatives to screens? What works well and what not?

NOTE: my kids are 2 and 6 years old, english is not their primary language.
Minor annoyances turned into OS projects:

* gui to start a timed shutdown on windows: https://github.com/a-sync/shutd.exe

* shell command to send or pipe content to slack: https://github.com/a-sync/slackr

* a discord/telegram/slack bot to show live server info, player list and population graph https://github.com/a-sync/game-server-watcher

This one was just for fun, a synchronized video player/chat app to watch movies/shows together online: https://a-sync.github.io/ws.cinema
Years ago I switched from Firefox to Chrome and I was badly missing "translate on mouse hover" from Google Toolbar plug-in. Ended up writing it: https://github.com/artemave/translate_onhover/

I also spent years searching for a way to open file links in vim (all within a tmux session). Ended up writing it: https://github.com/artemave/tmux_super_fingers
> For example, if I put my backpack on the passenger seat

Not trying to say that you're wrong, but an unsecured, heavy backpack is a real safety risk in even minor accidents. From the impact pattern, it's like having a pet or a baby in the front seat and not securing it.
That all underscores the folly of vertical farming. Regular farming has thin enough margins. Vertical farming is multiple times more expensive and would require hoodwinking consumers into paying multiples for their produce through payments at the cash register or through tax subsidies for it to survive. Farm subsidies are much cheaper than this goldbergian alternative.
> In 1/8 an acre I can produce in a vertical farm the same amount of animal fodder grass that a regular greenhouse would need a whole acre for, and use 99% less water.

And use 1000% more energy (or more than that, likely). Which is actually lost, unlike water which doesn't actually disappear when used to water plants.
It worked just fine on my phone
As an aside, even if all else fails and I need to factory reset my devices - I'm not sure if that's straight forward if you can't log in to the currently enrolled Apple ID...

> If asked, enter your Apple ID.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102506
Most companies […] are lighting money on fire - is this not the VC model?
The snark still wasn’t needed in the first place
It's amazing but is it real intelligence?

I listened to a radio segment last week where the hosts were lamenting that Europe was able to pass AI regulation but the US Congress was far from doing so. The fear and hype is fueling reaction to a problem that IMO does not exist. There is no AI. What we have is a wonder of what can be achieved through LLMs but it's still a tool rather than a being. Unfortunately there's a lot of money to be made pitching it as such.
Partnership with Axel Springer to deepen beneficial use of AI in journalism
If people are worse on average, on average they'll cause more accidents.

They won't get a firmware update, but they'll get an IM while they're late, won't pull over to reply, and ran you over at full speed instead of trying to slow down.
The premise driving homeopathy is that modern medicine has harmful side effects, and it's also not quite trustworthy even when the FDA approves it. The shear cases of big industry drug settlements and major pharmaceuticals being pulled from shelves is proof that the entire industry of home medicine needs a serious reevaluation.

There have been natural cures to many illnesses, like using witch Hazel for ear infections, that should not be simply thrown out, as those cures work much better, and with far less side effects, than taking pills. Big industry loves to suppress information about affordable cures, because it cuts into their profits.

I think regulating the profitability and effectiveness of both homeopathy and big pharma is the best move to make sure that cures are valid, but I also think both sciences/practices should be allowed to exist when they are proven, because ultimately, we as humans stand to benefit from having the option of either for our best life/health outcomes overall.
This then is a fine example that past performance is absolutely no indication of future one, despite our emotions screaming at us that its the case. We just don't like uncertainty or lack of trust environment by default, so subconsciously prefer replacing it with more comforting bad truth/lie rather than accepting the other choice.
Sort of off-topic but I believe Openpilot allows this. You can record every route you take, copy it off to your PC and run it in a simulator. You can then tweak the model for this particular issue.
Yes, it's strange to watch my children not have the same 'shared experience' of TV that I had, although things like the Mandolorian did push them in that direction.

However they do share the experience with knowing what YouTube, TikTok, Insta shows to follow/watch within their friendship group - easier sharing maybe? dunno too old.

The same also applies to music now I think.
An app for my phone that tells me when the different types of trash are collected by the recycling company, so I can tell when it's a good idea to bring out e.g. the paper trash.
A while back I read about the Oklab color space, and long story short I decided I wanted to create my own Neovim coloscheme. That led to sunburn.nvim[1], which aims to take advantage of the hue and brightness uniformity that Oklab provides.

At first I was using lush.nvim to build sunburn.nvim, but quickly it became a hassle to only be able to specify colors via RGB or HSL. My initial thought was a PR to add Oklab support to lush, but that framework does so much that it was hard to see where to start. So I ended up writing polychrome.nvim[2], which is a dead simple micro framework in comparison to lush.nvim, but does enough to take care of all the boilerplate, and supports a bunch of color spaces (which are converted to RGB on the fly).

I also wanted push notifications for when certain RSS feeds I follow were updated, because I suck at remembering to check in on things or check an RSS feed app. But I didn't want to pay for IFTTT or other bespoke solutions, so I wrote notifeed[3]. It's designed to run as a service on a server, and then check all your feeds at predetermined intervals and send the necessary webhooks based on your configuration. Feeds and clients are configured via the CLI and stored in a SQLite DB for simplicity.

[1] https://github.com/loganswartz/sunburn.nvim

[2] https://github.com/loganswartz/polychrome.nvim

[3] https://github.com/loganswartz/notifeed
First supercomputer capable of brain-scale simulation
DeepSouth uses a neuromorphic system which mimics biological processes, using hardware to efficiently emulate large networks of spiking neurons at 228 trillion synaptic operations per second - rivalling the estimated rate of operations in the human brain.
Related: Set up screen time, and disable password changes and account changes, and set a (different to your regular passcode) screen time passcode. Then you have a separate passcode that keeps sensitive account changes locked.
Great, then flag it. Once I saw the problems with it, I did.

The point is that your critiques from the comment above could have been the points in your top comment. Attacking a post because of the author, even one who is habitually flagged, just doesn't seem to be in the right spirit. If it deserves flagging, do so. If not, don't.
For trivial examples, and especially when using modern toolchains, the 6502 isn't tremendously more difficult to program for; however, if you're using the tools and resources of the day and writing large, complex projects (e.g. disk operating systems, databases, etc.) it's another story.

The 6800's larger register set (yes, 16-bit stack pointer and index registers, but also dual accumulators), richer instruction set, more consistent use of status flags, and hardware features like DMA support with no additional hardware/not a special version of the processor are what makes it more of a "real processor" to me.

I still hack on both, though, so I'm not trying to say the 6502 is some kinda turd no one should program :P