skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
9 million people die every year from hunger.

Humanity will do just fine ignoring the suffering of animals however smart they are.
Ask HN: Anyone Using Peltier Dehumidifiers?
Hi HN. I'm currently battling with high humidity levels and mold in my bathroom. Since the room is quite small (~5sqm) I was thinking of using one of those pelier-cell based dehumidifiers. Any experience/thoughts?
Public debt is not like household debt.

This is a mistake that people often make, and politicians usually encourage when they want to score points and raise scares about the other team's polices. Take note of if they change their tune when in power; or just stop scaring people, while running up more debts via different expenditures or other tax breaks.

But it's not the same kind of thing at all. It's not "like that, only on a larger scale", it is fundamentally unlike that. And the faulty assumption will lead you to faulty conclusions.

NB with the other commenter said: "most of the debt is held within the US borders". How would household debt look if most of the debt is owed to other members of the household and not to banks? How would it look if the household could control the money supply, like a bank.

Of course it's possible to get public debt wrong, but don't assume that getting it wrong looks anything like getting personal debt wrong. With personal debt "smaller is better, larger is worse, simple". But e.g. Eliminating public debt entirely would itself be a mistake, given that it is debt to people or companies in the same country, often in exchange for services. It can fuel growth if used with intent.
Yes a software engineer understanding data structures and runtime complexity is akin to a violin player understanding the physics of acoustic dispersion.
I mean it's pretty obvious that it is not happening today - as Jobs has been dead for over a decade and Schmidt has no official link to Google or Alphabet since 2020.
Oh I hate those pseudo-smart replies like this. You clearly know when it's generating and the distinction between creating and making (composing) music. It's generating when you prompt the ai to do all the work for you. As simple as this, you don't touch the actual producing part yourself. If you commission a song to a producer to make for your game, you don't make the music. The producer makes it
Show HN: Auto Blog Writer with title, description and images (Zephyr and SDXL)
Humans are special, but in more subtle ways than "thinking vs dumb". I think it's safe to assume that all higher mammals have some idea about the world around, themselves, their kin, etc, with a social structure of sorts, unless they are solitary. Many of them, like wolves, pass their learned experience to their progeny, that is, possess and sustain a culture. Some of them, like cetaceans, are officially considered conscious. (And there are comparably intellectual birds, too.)

Humans have unique achievements, like constructive syntax, or overcoming of the Dunbar number limitation in cooperative structures, or mathematics, but these stem from a really tall intellectual base humans share with other mammals.
School grounds at all times. Being alone with your thoughts is still better than scrolling all day.
When you spend a lot of time around a mammal, you will start to see that it has a personality, particularly if you’ve spent time around other individuals of similar species.

Humans have very similar neurological equipment to other mammals. I don’t see why anyone finds it surprising that mammals have intelligence or even consciousness.

Consciousness in others is a leap of faith. We have no unambiguous way to measure it. Most people take it for granted that other people are conscious, if they communicate in certain ways. Animals lack those manners of communication; that doesn’t mean they aren’t conscious; it means we don’t have a common language.

I’m happy that people are doing this research; I hope it leads to more kind treatment of livestock.

No, I won’t stop eating meat regardless of the results, but I would choose to support both regulation and private efforts to reduce stress and discomfort when harvesting animals.
yes, its is at my kids schools
The linked article doesn't contain much information or screenshots, here's the real source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crypto-draine...
1) How are shell scripts janky? Could you elaborate on that? Obviously if someone doesn't know shell very well they will write suboptimal scripts. Personally I use runit init, which uses shell scripts for services and it works well.

2) No idea where you got that from, I never had a problem with this (as a full-time Linux user)

3) Mixed opinions on this one. There's a ton of various info in /proc that could theoretically be exposed via different syscalls, or maybe a single syscall? But having a text-based API in this case isn't a big issue really.
No, You as a hypothetical Apple employee at this time should never receive a cold call from a Google recruiter. If you contacted Google directly they would have no issue with hiring you.
Your assumption that humans consume this data is wrong. It's actually machines that need it.
damn, that's a huge team

https://smallpdf.com/about
I wrote a lot of articles on fundamentals (verifiable time estimation, leverage points with systems theory, using the Kelly criterion to shape project portfolio, system observability, evolution, etc.) with the intention of ending up on lists like these. None of them gained much traction, which means I need to get better at condensing the key points.

In the end, I think my most popular article of the year ended up being a relatively short note on how Bill Tindall approached software development for the moon landings: https://two-wrongs.com/tindall-on-software-delays.html
Most soy grown is to be fed to animals so we can kill them and eat them. If we ate the soy (and other grains) directly, we wouldn’t need to grow anywhere near as much and destroy as much land as we currently do (+ the land required to raise the animals).
I dunno, miraculous in 1986 maybe, but in 2006?
https://interlisp.org/software/using-medley/

And installation:

https://interlisp.org/software/

Project:

https://interlisp.org/
The broader context is a lot of the Western philosophy we rely on today formed around the same time we started building intricate machines, and those thinkers also wondered whether animals were just really intricate machines. Nothing nefarious. It’s probably fine if we express more gratitude towards these animals like we used to.
Probably the combination of the British empire and subsequent US dominance led to english being established as the language. If you go to places like South Asia, English is pretty well established despite it being no one's native language there. So the British spread it around globally and then the US being a dominant superpower pretty much cemented it's status.
I was around when our lab replaced Symbolics Lisp Machines with Sun workstations.

Maybe this was a European (or non-US) thing, but non of the Lisp vendors had a built out worldwide distribution and service network, so buying and actually getting machines delivered was not a trivial undertaking.

Once Sun did add the support for performant garbage collection that Lisp needed, the choice was clear. Local sales and service clenched the deal, and versatility and broader support were cherries on top. Then the whole lisp machine business collapsed so they weren't even a remote option anymore.

A relatively short term later Suns where replaced by Apple Mackintoshs running Mac Common Lisp. MCL was a very decent Lisp environment, machinrs were cheap and by now used for much more than just programming.

The next wave would have been PCs, which had far better support. Apple never seemed to understand that your work depended on your computer, and that driving to an Apple store to drop of your machine so you could hopefully pick it up again in 2 to 3 weeks was not a serious option. Meanwhile Dell and the likes offered cheap Next Business Day on-site service.

But PC's for Lisp would be held back for a long time by Allegro cornering the PC Lisp market with a product that at the time felt inferior to MCL, while having very aggressive (phone) sales techniques and extremely high prices.
Transformers self select the architecture based on the name of the weights? What does this mean?
> I'm more inclined to think that your comment is really more revealing about what kind of knowledge is in your own personal wheelhouse.

That's my read as well.
Ask HN: How can fake AI news get on Google News?
Hey HN ! Have you noticed that website with fake AI generated news are filling up Google News feed ? The article are GPT generated, the thumbnail and author photo are obviously generated, as well as the fake author's bio. The website is filled with ads to make money quickly. One recent example. I've noticed is "TS2.space" but there are plenty more. I thought websites needed to be whitelisted by Google employees, how can this obvious B.S. happen ?

Example of fake bio : "Natalia Toczkowska is a notable figure in digital health technology, recognized for her contributions in advancing telemedicine and healthcare apps. Her work focuses on developing innovative solutions to improve patient care and accessibility through technology. Toczkowska’s research and development in creating user-friendly, secure digital platforms have been instrumental in enhancing the effectiveness of remote medical consultations and patient monitoring. Her dedication to integrating technology in healthcare has not only improved patient outcomes but also streamlined healthcare processes, making her a key influencer in the field of digital health innovation."
> Literally all of the listed projects, text editors, compilers, operating systems, and ray tracers, can exercise the exact same activities.

In the linked article, these projects are all explicitly described as opportunities to learn about low-level stuff like how to efficiently store editable text. The difference with a web search engine is that nobody today can build such a thing completely from scratch, therefore it forces you to give up the toxic NIH mentality, which in my experience is usually driven by elitism and ego (on full display in this comment thread), not by some lofty desire to learn something new.
those work well for a very small space like a chest freezer (i used one in a fermentation chamber/keezer). I would not use them for a room, they won't work well, get a real dehumidifier.

you could try damprid too, but you ideally want silica that you can recharge.

if your bathroom has a vent or ventilation hooked up to central air none of these solutions will help because you're fighting the airflow of the whole building.
According to Newton's first law inertial motion happens without interaction. What moves the inertially moving object?

In Aristotelian mechanics inertial motion stops shortly after beginning, so for sustained motion the object must be moved by another. Falling leaf is not inertial motion, it's pulled by gravity, Aristotle didn't know about gravity, but Aquinas probably did as round Earth theory required the concept of gravity.
https://simplePDF.eu will be the closest « Preview-like » experience on Linux (and any OS really).

It’s local only (the document you load and data you fill in never leave the browser) and free

Disclosure: I’m the developer behind it
> Your alternative is them not existing at all, they cannot survive in nature.

What’s wrong with not existing at all vs being exploited and eventually killed before your natural life is over? Statistically speaking, if you’re a cow or other animal we exploit, your chances are far greater to be born and exist in a factory farm. Is it really a life worth living at all?
I was happy to get back into blogging in 2023 and write ‘A trip to the internet in 1996 with The Rough Guide 2.0’ -> https://www.planetjones.net/blog/10-06-2023/a-trip-to-the-in...
Is it not? I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
Try coding a massive multiplayer game if you really want to send shivers down a spine. From scratch of course.
I haven't seen any performance issues on desktop, but on mobile they really stand out. I have separated logic into QML, and even experimented with implementing custom QQuickItems in some places.

Here are some issues I've seen related to performance on mobile:

1) Opening a larger app is really slow (maybe 3-5 seconds), but works okay for smaller apps. I'm not sure what's going on behind the scenes and haven't had time to dive deep there yet, so this could be specific to me.

2) Rendering full pages is quite slower than native, as is QML rendering in general, even when using the QML compiler (which compiles your QML to C++)

3) Qt text rendering is a bit slow too, but you may not need i.e QTextDocument if you're implementing a text editor of some sort.
I have farm animals and am a farmer. I raise these animals as a hobby to get cheaper high quality meat. Veganism bothers me because it places animal life on a pedastool over plant life. Plants suffer upon death too.
Most of the time, big O is not relevant if you're not writing new algorithm. For the usual CRUD app? Not so much. Heck even for more involved work, you will not touch them because your solution will be called or will call some external tools.

The good news is that, while still valuable, you won't have to lose time creating a new broken wheel. The bad news is that this part of CompSci is now mostly fundamental research.
I don't really understand how this comment relates to anyone but you.

Nerding on a computer and doing outdoor things are not mutually exclusive. They may be for you, but that's... well... you.
Incentivizing the Man on the Floor
I work in a project X style department at a mid sized European company. I have designed and built (with the help of an external software consultancy) a software system that updates global users on market prices within our industry, doing various types of calculations with the input I provide. The software is great, but the input of market prices feeding into the system is too little for the software to really kick off and be the best.

In order to increase the quality of the market prices I therefore need to engage a global broker within my industry to get them to update prices globally, which would make my software not only the best in the world, but build a moat around the idea as no one can make something much better.

There are two problems:
1. What do I offer the partner in return?
1. Answer: equity, money, exposure, etc. I am not so bothered about reaching an agreement with the c suite of the company as the idea is good and relatively risk free for them. Also, management love big data project and “digitalization”.
2. This is a very manual process, so the 50-100-200 employees of my partner would need to daily go into a dashboard and plug in 10 numbers each. Not a huge effort, but I have a hard time seeing what could incentivize them, after all they are paid on comission they make and not inputs. This is where I feel it would fall flat, as no inputs make the software less valuable - the whole idea is to sell “live” prices anywhere in the world.

How would you guys think about such a problem?
they don't necessarily need to figure out the germ theory to know that diseases spread from proximity and/or contact with sick people when it happens right in front of them.

Also, there could be many such reasons for burying/burning someone dead with his/her possessions. My point was that almost always it becomes "elaborate rituals and beliefs of afterlife with same worldly possessions that they had here on earth" - just because we know pharaohs/ancient Egyptians did it.
Filtering it out costs money. Gotta save money somehow.
I've always thought "wireless telegraphy" was an anachronistic, yet elegant term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_telegraphy
Thanks Obama for enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act:

> SECTION 1. Every contract, combination in the
form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on con-viction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $1,000,000,
or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.
oh man, this one hurts.

the original Eclipse was so godawful slow, this was back in the days where you would install Textpad after installing Java because it would pick up your classpath during installation and configure it for you. Java 1.4 I think.
Psychology behind luxury and demystify the allure of billion dollar brand-Hermès
Less meat consumption should lead to more production and decrease in price of of other types food. Also despite all the suffering in the world people still care very much about the wellbeign of dogs and cats. If anything with inflation and more and more wars around the globe the world needs cheaper food now more than ever.
Honest attempt at debunking brands/startups/industries through my newsletter, all suggestions are welcome.
Has anyone mentioned the Yakuza yet?
BSDB – A SSD based immutable KV store
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At the Build stage, BSDB creates a snapshot of the dataset and constructs the relevant database files. This pre-building process ensures that the Serve stage, where the read-only embedded KV database operates, is optimized for lightning-fast performance.

BSDB excels in both storage and memory requirements. For optimal performance, the Serve stage should be deployed on SSD-based instances. However, the Build stage can effectively run on any storage medium with reasonable sequential IO speed. Furthermore, even with vast amounts of data, BSDB operates with minimal memory requirements. Building and serving a database with 10 billion records, for instance, requires less than 8GB of RAM.

With its streamlined architecture, BSDB achieves remarkable query performance. Each query only requires two IO operations, enabling BSDB to achieve a minimum of 400K QPS when deployed with a 1000K IOPS NVME SSD. This exceptional performance comes at an incredibly affordable cost, with BSDB costing less than 300 USD per month on AWS.

BSDB has already established its prominence in serving user profiling, embedding, and ID mapping-related data services internally. With billions to tens of billions of records and scheduled data refreshes, traditional databases struggle to handle such massive updates without compromising online serving performance. Additionally, most databases fail to deliver an optimal cost per QPS ratio. BSDB, on the other hand, excels in both aspects, ensuring seamless performance and cost efficiency.

In conclusion, BSDB is a game-changer in the world of data API serving. Its efficient Build&Server approach, low storage and memory requirements, remarkable query performance, and cost-effectiveness make it an ideal choice for organizations dealing with massive datasets. Revolutionize your data API serving with BSDB and experience unparalleled performance and cost efficiency like never before.
At no point does the author say or even imply that you need the factory pattern to implement Space Invaders. Are we reading a different article?
Looking at github, the OP is 16. not to reduce you to your young age, OP, but great work. I hope you take the criticism in the right way. When i was 16, my websites did not look at all that good. Well done!
Is there a good longform article about the impact that solar will have by providing free or even negatively priced energy? Eg road transport becomes nearly free? What impact does this have on other parts of the economy?

Seems like we might get there in a few years instead of a few decades.
> Calling someone's opinion "toxic" and "gatekeeping" attempts to shift responsibility for one's emotional reactions and feelings to another person: What you wrote triggered me. An adult takes responsibility for their feelings and reactions and doesn't get "triggered" or interpret the opinions of strangers as personal attacks or judgments.

The delightful irony here is that the reason you wrote this paragraph is because of the emotional reaction you had to the choice of words!
Out of curiosity, how does the login or lack thereof factor into the cost of the platform?
I suppose it's so IP holders will have to have an office and revenue in the market it intends to exercise rights, than just outsourcing it to a lawyer and having 12 copies/year at $1k each compliance sales?

Japanese IP holders exercising IP rights solely in moral grounds in markets they have no intention or ability to enter had been a source of frustration to some. Requiring substantial economical involvement sure is one way to force it.
https://github.com/Flipper-XFW/Xtreme-Firmware/blob/1a9c9cc3...
Craigslist is US only.
The issue is quite the opposite. There is no airflow. That's why it is so damp. BTW the house is not mine so modifying it to increase airflow is not an option.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeons_law
I wish. As you can plainly see in this thread, most "real programmers" consider such things beneath them, and the scarcity of relevant resources is a natural consequence.
Collaboration Improves Efficiency in HVAC System Design with Quantum Computing
'Stake' as in to roast the rich on a spit, and eat them?

Celeb Teriyaki? Prom Tikka? Bunker Hunker BBQ?
I have been using Stripe for over a month. In the first week, they rejected our account, but after a week of communication, they reactivated it. When our daily transactions reached $5,000, Stripe closed our account, citing unauthorized payments. They refunded all the funds in our account to the customers, resulting in a loss of over $10,000 for us.
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Could make breakthroughs on fusion, through materials research or something else, and it has shown some results on fusion confinement control systems:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04301-9
Dont forget the birds sone birds like corvids and parrots are roughly intellectualy equal to primates and cetaceans.
I agree that these are all valuable things for a software engineer to learn, but in my experience, it’s valuable to at least take a crack at the projects listed in the post. I wasn’t under any illusion that I was going to build anything amazing, and gave me deeper appreciation of why you don’t try and build everything in-house.
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> Steam will drop Windows7/8 support January 1, 2024[1], Vista and XP support got dropped a long time ago. Meanwhile they still sell Win95/98 games on the Steam store, which won't run well or at all on a Windows10/11.

Why wouldn't they work well? Every time backward compatibility is mentionned, Microsoft Windows is praised as the best example of it and people brag they can still run everything they used to run in 1995.
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