skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's totally okay to read a full plot synopsis of any fiction worth reading. Honestly, if a story is ruined by knowing whats going to happen (baring murder mysteries, which are their own animal), it's probably not worth reading. Re-reading is one of the things I most look forward to. There are even some books I re-read at the same time every year (just started my annual re-read of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress)!
It also works on other search engines, which is good to know.

And it has blocklist subscriptions, but none selectable by default.

It would be nice if someone could make a blocklist to make Google or DDG similar in low spam to Kagi.

Pretty good stuff.
There is no way to have a real discussion about this without actually being informed. Pointing out that your feelings about how rapists should be sentenced should not depend on whether or not drug prohibition is just because of 'room in the prisons' is perfectly valid. Statistics that mean nothing without broader context and analysis are pointless and misleading.
Indeed, red was the first visible LED color to be practical in production. Blue came much later.
Because with a large DC voltage you have less transmission losses than with a comparable AC voltage.
Retailers like B&H and Best Buy have worked great for me. Additionally, it’s become much easier to buy direct as Amazon’s quality as a retailer has degraded.
Thanks for asking. I think goal here is diferent. If your goal is benchmarking a query, i would recommend pgbench. Goal is to keep running the query or bunch of queries concurrently for x amount of time and observe dependent application and database behavior.

One of the features we are adding would allow you specify an audit log and replay all queries on the database. Also something we are planning to add is parameter randomization. This is kind of the goal of this tool.

Another key design goal is to support bunch of database.
Could be advantage, but probably will not.

Because OSS organizations just not created for this.

Next I will say about typical OSS org, not some daughter of commercial corporation like Apple, or Google, or Microsoft (or any other FAANG member, or how it called now).

So, exists huge number of just unregistered tiny OSS producers, who do it just for fun.

Some OSS producers become medium entities (mostly, non-profit), and some even large.

But they not intended to do this for money! This is just hobby, even when this hobby gives rock-star like popularity.

And as I looked on internal regulations of OSS, they usually avoid liability at any cost.

This is problem even in large commercial entities, but in non-profit this is just nightmare, nobody want to be responsible.

Fortunately for them, modern bureaucracy gives some methods to avoid DIRECT responsibility - they use Board of Directors; mimicry to Direct Democracy methods - conduct plebiscites on all important questions; and use all other tools of big businesses, to avoid direct decision making and responsibility.

Well, in past, when software was not really important, all these things was totally normal. But unfortunately, these large decentralized entities are uncontrollable, in sense, they could long time maintain way, on which they step when decentralized structure built, but for them impossible to reform this structure, to turn it to other way, to match changed environment.

And when I said, commercial entities have same issues, yes, they literally same, with just one difference - commercial usually made to make profit, but money is not just profit, they are equivalents of resources, mean, reserves, which CEO of commercial entity could direct to build new structure, matching changed environment.
And in commercial, very popular form centralized, with powerful responsible CEO, who could after built new structure, fire members of old (this is just impossible in near all OSS projects, as they usually have distributed ownership).

Few words about daughters OSS entities of large commercial.
Their difference, while they also like to play Democracy games, but all money still at hands of father entity, and these are extremely powerful levers.

When for some reason, daughter OSS entity become uncontrolled, or just father entity decided, that it will be cheaper to create new daughter entity than to reform old, they just create new daughter entity and make it structure as need.

This is really easy for them, because for commercial entities, just normal to have processes division (department), which just constantly modify internal regulations of entity, to match current CEO view. So as I hear, in modern entities, typical to rebuild structure every 1.5-2 years.
> a frequency of 50 or 60Hz yields what are, by modern standards, comically huge step-down transformers

Should switch to 400Hz like aircraft do. Not just comically huge transformers, but also motor/generator magnets.

> A special generator was designed to create an output of 400 Hz. This allowed a motor which was the size of a watermelon to be replaced by one the size of a one-pound coffee can which could do the same work.

> The saving of weight allowed increased cargo capacity and decreased fuel consumption. Power at 400 Hz for aviation was a success and became the standard of modern AC-powered aircraft.

> Airports all around the world standardized on the same power system. This included the physical plug and cable as well as the 400 Hz power so that aircraft from anywhere in the world could land and be serviced wherever they landed.
The aviation power system of 400 Hz became one of the first worldwide-adopted standards.

https://fcxinc.com/why-the-aviation-industry-operates-on-400...
I’d note also the issue wasn’t Microsoft writing their own browser. They already had. The illegal thing they did was integrate the browser directly into the operating system as a mandatory thing for free as a way to drive a competitor out of business, which succeeded. This isn’t my opinion, this is public record and a legal finding of fact.

Netscape would have improved in response given a normal competitive market. But they didn’t and couldn’t. Instead we started Mozilla, which is probably a better outcome for everyone. My work on creating the Mozilla project is a highlight of my career.
Use multiple messages.

`git commit -m "Fix actual words that humans read" -m "Fixes: #234353"`

You could probably script this based on branch if you're one of those people who names branches after ticket numbers.

But my actual advice is that I think -m is a bad pattern that leads to bad commit messages, and omitting the message argument opens your EDITOR, and you should use that.
I’ve noticed myself looking at art recently with LLMs in mind. Is this something that an AI could spit out, or is there evidence of a human touch? And when I create art, how do I ensure it doesn’t end up looking like something out of Midjourney?

I think we will learn a lot about the creative process from AI, and I think human-created art will get a lot more interesting (and weird) as a result.
It's a little fascinating to me that Japan's public can so easily take advantage of stuff like this while the USA market seems resistant, while all the next-gen technology that enables the Next Thing is coming out of the USA. Seems like a strange juxtaposition.
University of Arizona – How Minerals Made Civilizations [video]
I tend to think it's better to have merge conflict changes be in a merge commit. That way the original commits are still present and if there was a mistake made, it'll be in its own commit. Contrast that w/ rebasing, where the original commit goes away and gets modified to account for the conflict. Compound this w/ the fact that when you rebase you may have to resolve related merge conflicts in multiple commits, and I think rebasing to deal with merge conflicts is the opposite direction of what I would recommend.
We will be adding support for MongoDB in couple of weeks.
I agree completely. Security is not black and white, same goes for agents that are malicious, if you’re protected from script kiddies by changing your ssh port and adding fail2van then it’s a net positive any way you look at it. It’s important to be aware of course that you’ll need to go a step further if you want to protect from more competent attackers, but what percentage of us will be a target of one of those.
As a general presumption, avoiding anything on the non-fiction bestseller list is a good idea. Those books are generally aimed at the lowest common denominator that reads so you probably won't get anything of value out of them. There are rare exceptions that prove the rule and you'll generally know them when you see them. People who tried reading the non-fiction bestsellers and then equated them with "books" are pretty much always the ones saying dumb things like "reading books is a waste of time" or "every book could just be a blog post". And of course people who denigrate "books" should be treated with suspicion because they're usually shallow thinkers.

I'd also advise against letting friends and family recommend books to you. They're generally going to recommend books they like or they're going to get what you like subtly wrong. A corollary of that is that you probably shouldn't buy books as gifts.

If you're looking to discover books, go to a bookstore and look around. Maybe read the descriptions on the dust jacket or back cover. If you do that a few times a year, you'll probably have more books than you can read.

Other great sources of books to read are the footnotes of books you liked or the Twitter feeds of authors that you liked. Either of these methods allows authors you already like to recommend other books.
You'd have to ditch a bunch of CSS, too. JS always gets mentioned, but it's hardly the biggest problem I tend to have when landing on random pages. I'd guess 60+% of the time it's one of:

1. very poor choice of text size and/or color

2. imposing stupid width/min-width

3. sticky headers
Did they figure out how to tax California residents who leave the state? They were trying.
Companies like Google for example. Their business model revolves around accessing websites of other people, downloading them, keeping that copy around and then presenting snippets to people who.

Here is them arguing against retroactively applying a 70 year old copyright term in Canada to works published before 1978:

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/strategic-policy-sector/sit...

> For instance, if an author created a work at 30 -- the average age for a first childbirth in Canada -- and died at the average age of 82, with a copyright term of life of the author plus 50 years, and if the average of 25 years for a generation, we are into the fifth generation after creation of the work. Adding on another 20 years only compounds the capacity of heirs of authors to leverage extended copyright to prevent Canadians from accessing valuable cultural (and by that time historical) works. We have seen numerous examples of distantly removed heirs leveraging old copyright to prevent commentators from quoting extensively from well established works, or preventing historical pictures, news-clipping and other primary sources from being
used without payment.

And indeed, it was implemented that way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_Canada#Extens...
This seems like the classic boom/bust cycle of capitalism and government. One upon a time, CA had things like free education through the UC and CSU system, and a tax rate that seemed similar to other states.

With the adoption of Prop 13 they eliminated much of the property tax revenue, and then ratcheted up the income and sales tax to pretty much max amounts while only collecting property tax from new(ish) home buyers. The Trump tax cuts then penalized upper-middle-class tech workers, all while continuing to reduce benefits. Utility deregulation has led to rolling blackouts during potential windstorms, and poor forest management has brought about some big fires.

Other states are also in on the zero-sum game that is bidding tax breaks to get companies to relocate.

This seems like a normal cycle of capitalism. If CA wants to change the game, they could consider options like the return of low-cost (free) schooling for CA residents, normalizing their property tax structures, or opening a single-payer healthcare system to CA residents.
Naive implementations of A* can break down in some common scenarios, with highly connected graphs where many solutions exist. Imagine a long barrier with the start and goal placed on either side at the exact midpoint.

Tie handling is really important! A* is often described as minimizing f(n), where f(n) = g(n) + h(n), g(n) = path distance so far, h(n) = distance to goal heuristic. But for any valid shortest path the remaining work for the algorithm to do is determined by the size of g(n). So when selecting the next node to explore you must minimize first by f(n), and then maximize g(n) as a tiebreaker. Same is achieved by breaking ties with LIFO.
Alas, no (made some contributions to TTS at G, and worked on Android).

iOS has this built in :/ which may bode well, there's no greater Google product manager than "whatever apple just shipped."

I'm doing some xplatform on device inference stuff (see FONNX on GitHub) and it'll be one of 100 items that'll stick on my mind for a while, I hope I find time and I'll try to ping you

Edit: is an Android app with a keyboard and "speak" button that does API calls to eleven labs sufficient for something worth trying?
Right, and taking it one step further, LLMs in games with voice actors providing the basis for dynamic dialogue that sounds like it's coming from a person.
It creates healthy role models for a bunch of kids out there
Neither do the authors in the book, and I'd argue that after (only) reading the book, the reader wouldn't be equipped to attempt this either (see my other post in this thread), so I think the parent poster has a point.
The other day I saw a comment saying that fonts are made complicated by turning them into programs, which you can legally protect as IP, is there any truth to that?
I find it fascinating how the US government pits every state against each other. Yes, people are leaving a high tax state to a low/no tax state. But (just using Texas as an example) what happens when Texas' growth based ponzi scheme stops growing?

Not to mention the infrastructure - The electrical grid is already creaking, and the commuting situation is already absurd in and around the major metro areas.
This reads like a disjointed opinion piece but it does link to one piece of research on the topic by Joel Kotkin that looks a bit more grounded in data:

https://joelkotkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Restoring_...
Increasingly, heat pump devices, like fridges, air conditioners, heat pumps, water heaters, are inverter drive, so they just rectify all the AC into DC and start chopping it to get to their desired frequency.

(Also dumb that electric codes require dedicated circuits for many of these things, despite them not having the surge like they used to)
Spotify starts divesting from France in response to new music-streaming tax
I could see how that would be helpful, but at least for my use case I'm more interested in seeing how LLMs integrated with computer vision can speed up transcriptions. Since a thorough proofread by a human is already baked into the SE production process (and is indeed one of the major selling points), having more automated tools to aid proofreading is nice but doesn't do anything fundamentally different, from my point of view. Whereas if LLMs can be leveraged for transcription SE producers no longer need to depend on external projects like Project Gutenberg or Wikisource to produce texts (which can take months) or transcribe texts from OCR results by hand (very tedious and error-prone--believe me, I'm speaking from experience!). It would drastically open up the range of possible books someone could reasonably produce (in a timely fashion) for SE.
I nominate the BGI vector fonts that you could use in Turbo Pascal programs.
I have a strong mathematical background, and I found the notation completely insane. Right out of the gate in chapter 1 we get a definition that has subscript indices in the subscript index and a summation with subscripts in the superscript, and then composed in a giant function chain. Later we get to 4-level subscripts deep, invent at least 3 new infix operators, define 30 new symbols from 3 different alphabets and we're barely at page 100 out of 600. I have no idea who is supposed to follow and digest this
Something I picked up in era of machine learning is why humans are so terrible at making long term decisions - if artificial neural nets model how our minds work even a little bit it is a miracle that humans are capable of symbolic logic and long-term decision making outside of ritual.

That makes this sort of thing annoying. The odds of arriving at "why did this happen?" through rational discourse are very slim. However, I do recall a number of years ago people making arguments like "lol what are they going to do, leave?" and it appears that was wrong. And I would encourage people who are gung-ho about US debt overall to reassess their beliefs in light of that - it doesn't look like the money was invested productively to me and it is a dangerous assumption that there will be wealthy people around to pay off someone else's stupid spending.

But the real problem here is not that the current policies don't create enough wealth. That is a problem, but the real problem would have been a decade or more ago. It is like when the local dam runs out - risky decisions and bad principles would have taken root decades ago that were, in hindsight, risky and reckless.
There's a product called "Soylent" and a company called "Palantir" -- lots of precedent for this kind of thing.
Prop 13 is indeed the root of many issues here. The problem is that there's no way it'll be voted away, no matter how bad it gets.
The About page explains what data they use and where it comes from. The landing page itself could probably use more details, however.
> The DMCA is complete and utter garbage from its inception to its execution.

The safe harbor provisions for providers hosting user-created content are great, IMO. People forget that is also part of the DMCA.
I hope the app plays this as the alarm sound: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8KKkdIODSok
> tax California residents who leave the state

Unless Sacramento has high conviction of the law surviving court challenges, they shouldn’t reättempt it. Its mere discussion is a powerful forcing function for decampment.
Nevada has _no_ income tax? How do they pay for anything? In Sweden, income tax accounts for 60% of the entire tax base.
Do states in the US have other revenue streams other than taxes? Because I just assume that corporate tax is also a non-starter
I think a world without any form of meaningful protection or regulation sounds very dystopian and not like one I would choose to live in under our current capitalist society.

Even the author of the “theorem” you cite indicated that he didn’t believe it to be practical.
Is there any particular reason why you didn't add types to the params? I'm just curious why python devs don't embrace typing more.
He seems to take inspiration from the things he experiences in everyday life or that he finds enjoyable (like his obsession with Christmas lights). It is understandable that being an American, and living in America, that he will tend to stick to topics relevant in that context. I’m sure there are lots of technological oddities in Bulgaria or Brazil for some upstart Bulgarian or Brazilian YouTuber to make content about.

He is getting millions of views on those videos, so I think he doing just fine and isn’t concerned with a “broader appeal”.
Not only are there more books in the world than you can read in a lifetime, every year a bunch of new terrific books get published. The hours you spend reading a mediocre book or a book that drains your love for reading are not hours well spent.

If you lose interest and put a book down just forget about it and move on. You will probably never ever finish it, and that's how it should be. You can always read a different book on the same subject or with a similar theme if when the time is right.

It's corny, but: read what you love until you love to read.
What worries me is California refuses to raise property taxes. That and strip local government of any and all say in where and how to build homes and buildings. I think that's what is a necessary part of any solution. Raise property taxes because without it, your income tax will have no upper bound.
A lotta motors are moving to variable drive to have a continuous duty cycle and do that by internally converting whatever is coming in into AC. They should happily accept DC since they're just rectifying the AC anyway.

My fridge is "inverter drive" and just runs continuously at a low duty cycle all day. Most heat pumps are like this too to dial up and down instead of strictly being on or off.

(Unsure what voltage the motors are running at though, so maybe AC-in is preferred to step it down before rectifying and chopping)
The last part was a big hurdle for me as an early undergrad. I was a fairly strong programmer toward the end of high school, and was trying to think of math as programming. That worked for the fairly algorithmic high school stuff and I got good grades, but it made I was awful at writing proofs. I also went through a phase where I used all the logical notation and rules to manipulate it possible in order to make proofs more algorithmic to me, but that both didn’t work well for me and produced some downright unreadable results.

Mathematical notation is really a shorthand for words, like you’d read text. The equals sign is literally short for equals. The added benefit, as others have pointed out, is that a good notation can sometimes be clearer than words because it makes certain conclusions almost obvious. You’ve done the hard part in finding a notation that captures exactly the idea to be demonstrated in its encoding, and the result is a very clean manipulation of your notation.
Fail2ban is better than nothing at all.

Fail2ban has never seemed to be the sophisticated or final solution, just a bare minimum.

Inconvenience to users is definitely a form of the security vs. Convenience debate.
Plenty of times there's a better academic version of a NYT best seller. Like. "FORGED" is a layman's book about pseudopigraphy but the author also has an more than twice as lengthy tome called "Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics". Id recommend the latter
You want more taxpayers to leave?
This article sucks.

Fail2Ban can prevent password spraying from working, since an eventual good password will still be blocked if done within the fail2ban block period. And those block periods aren't publicized.

And given appropriate configuration, is another layer of security a potential threat has to deal with.
Seems like gaming tax makes up for the loss of personal income tax.
This reply: "In 1971 Nixon took the greenback off the gold standard; the USA began importing more oil than it produced domestically and Lewis Powell wrote his famous memo. If these aren't points of inflection I don't know what are."

https://nitter.net/CrocodileChuck/status/1330625873326686208

The bewilderment will continue so long as heads are lodged in sunless locations.
Oil based paint sharpies are an alternative and useful for writing things with as well.
No, but the Franchise Tax Board is aggressive about going into former state residents' bank accounts & cleaning them out without notice for an "estimated income tax"...even if the former resident filed in another state for the year that they moved out onward. So have your paperwork in order or get a CPA to get your money back if the FTB does a surprise withdrawal from your bank account.
I guess Safari doesn’t have this large a share of developers, who are the main concern here. But I guess we will truly see if this is an issue as Bun increases in popularity.
That are other taxable areas besides income, for example property and sales taxes.