skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to agree on this one, I really dislike when enarmonically equivalent but extremely uncommon names are used. The key of D# has not one but two double-sharp notes (F## which is actually G, and C## which is actually D). In addition, it includes two more sharps that are enarmonically equivalent to natural notes (E# and B#, equivalent to F and C respectively). It is just an incredibly hard key to reason about.
If it's a fully functional app, sure go ahead and upload it to the App Store. Otherwise folks can just bookmark it, right.
I wonder if there's a relevant difference between a fractional-reserve bank and a full-reserve custodian. I guess it doesn't matter as long as insurance pays out...
If you are upset at trading shops or the stock market as a retail trader, you dont understand the game you are playing.
Would you consider taking an R&D role in Europe if you were US talent?
> combines all that people don't understand about economy with all that people don't understand about technology

I agree 100% with this but it is describing you.
I think timing may not work , but given the strict limited supply, this works in the long term.

Of course, this is highly dependent on the "coin"
The economy where people cannot afford housing.

The economy where consumer credit card debt just hit 5 trillion.

The economy where high skill jobs like people on this forum can’t find work.

If you think this is a healthy economy you’re either too rich to care, or being lied to by whatever news outlet you read.
Dammit, you just ruined my day. I've been silently waiting for another season of Night Sky for over a year now.
Do they not need to run it/them continuously for years for a solar sail approach to make sense? NIF is not a good comparison for exactly that reason.
I consider that a feature, not a bug. Different people have different priorities. That's part of what went wrong with Consumer Reports... they started leaning too much on sort of softer things like "noise" and "vibration" and gimmicky features with limited utility, while deemphasizing wether the thing is worth a damn at the task it's supposed to do in the first place.
Where they came from is part of how you decide if they are good. Especially for nuanced knowledge work.

If not, I have a pacemaker I would like to sell you.
The recent HEY example is where I checked out. Calling Apple a bully is fair, but DHH definitely set out to antagonize Apple, baiting the rejection and whining about it. An "everybody sucks here" situation.
MathLapse- L-System for Single Knot Kolam Pattern Generation
Cool, I signed up there, thanks for the link.
> I'm still struggling to find an explanation short of some cosmic shift in the collective unconscious.

The end of free money and the rise in interest rates is essentially the root cause of all of this. Nov 2022 coincides exactly with when it became apparent that inflation wasn't just "transient" and the fed would need to keep rates high for an extended period to fight inflation. When that happens companies will pretty immediately pivot from a "grow at all costs" ethos to a "show your profits" mindset. Combine that with a general hangover from unrealistic, overly-hyped expectations during the pandemic ("people will spend every waking second online!!!"), and it makes sense that the change in sentiment was so abrupt.
I'd attempted to configure this some time back, but never gotten it working, and this was the kick in the pants I needed to finally get it working!

In case anyone is stuck in the same way that I was, the trailing slash at the end (which I had previously omitted, not realizing) is necessary for this to work. The docs[0] mention this, but I'd managed to repeatedly miss it:

> If the pattern ends with /, * will be automatically added. For example, the pattern foo/ becomes foo/*. In other words, it matches "foo" and everything inside, recursively.

[0]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...
> The choices being made for the F-35 have much more to do with government tender processes, military red tape, corruption, and general government incompetence than physics or engineering.

Say who? what were the competing solutions and how did F-35 go with the selection?
There is no ethical issue in breaking materials, that we're aware of. Performing experiments that cause suffering to sapient beings, when sapience is clearly not required for the phenomena studied (humans without brains get cancer just fine) seems harder to justify ethically.
Make more granular tasks with clear acceptance criteria. If the developer doesn't understand the task, suggest writing a design document.

Build trust so that developers reach out to you as they get blocked.

Try to make people explain their approach in clear terms and discourage trial and error.
Counting 3..2..1.. before Nintendo takes this down.
Google Bard is also free
In 2008, the CIA and NIC released their predictions for the world in 2025 [pdf]
What plan are you on? You likely are looking at old rates, they jumped almost 20% Jan 1st. See https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/...
>The ai nonsense is just noise used for depressing wages.

Yeah, I guess everyone I saw at NeurIPS must have been huffing whippits or in a k-hole then.
I think it's not correct to conflate the App Store and the Play Store like this. Apple is very hostile to PWAs in the App Store, whereas Google wrote a tool to easily package your PWA for the Play Store https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/bubblewrap

So for me, I publish to the Play Store to get some free users who find my app that way. App Store, not worth the headache of trying to skirt Apple's rules.

Ideally I think app stores should allow listing PWAs directly, rather than banning them (like Apple) or forcing them to use a wrapper (like Google). Whatever complaints people have about that (app can change without review, etc) also apply to the current situation in the Play Store. Once your wrapper PWA is accepted, you can change the website however you want. So what's the point of the wrapper?
So you are comparing communication privacy to financial privacy for very large money transfers? As I've said, it's a question of political values, but I think you will find the vast majority of people not sharing that point of view.

Also, unlike Bitcoin, Signal ads strong privacy on top of a very functional base product.
priced in, probably.
> Your understanding of CICO (or at least the point I am making about it) is wrong in your “B” paragraph.

Just to clarify B is not cico, it's the inference that you seems to make from CICO.

> For every individual, at any given time, there is a metabolic rate M for which, if their calorie intake was larger than that, they’d gain weight, and if their calorie intake was smaller, they’d lose weight. Crucially, M changes over time

This is "not" the definition of CICO, and again does not follow from CICO. CICO is fundamentally a thermodynamic statement about the observed state of a system. You are making predictive statement about a possible future state of the system.

Again, if you want to believe that statement that's fine. The point i am making is just it's does not follow from cico, no have i seen anything empirically that validate that statement.

> Since M is determined by empirical observations of your weight loss/gain in response to the calories you have consumed, you will by definition lose weight if you consume less than M calories.

sure this derived from your "definition" of CICO... but your definition is not thermodynamically derived...

> This is the argument that CICO must work by definition

the premise (the definition of the argument) is flawed.

> It’s a logical contradiction for it not to work.

Not really, CICO not working (as in this case) can be just the result of sound logic based on bad premises.
I love it. If you want to eliminate the pull down to refresh on iOS, I found this worked well for my projects:

/* Prevent elastic scrolling on ios */
html {
overflow: hidden;
}
They have, but are mostly very elusive, and definitely not something easily accessible like this
I wish the native ChatGPT app on Android had all the functionality of the web app. I dearly miss the ability to navigate conversations as a tree, going back and editing any prior turns to try out different ideaa.
We are currently in this mess off app store monopolies issue because of Google and Apple. PWA is trying to be the solution to this. Why would you upload it and repeat the same mistakes all over again?

It's like those people who use 2FA TOTP functionality along with the password managers. My friend, that defeats the whole purpose of 2FA. It's not just supposed to be an extra step, it is supposed to be isolated in another device from where your passwords are not. And 2FA's are NOT supposed to be in the cloud.

But this will happen. Because VC's will tell them to do this. And thus people it will eventually become a norm. sighs
They'll be far away from each other then, probably lightseconds or even lightminutes, so I'm guessing no.
They asked if they have an affiliate program, or were willing to set one up.

That's the standard business arrangement for almost any review site. It's how they pay their reviewers.

When nextdesk said no, they still kept it as their recommended desk for a year, and then, when they switched it, they switched to one that also didn't have an affiliate program, and still kept nextdesk as the "upgrade" pick.

It's really hard to see any evidence that the money affected their editorial decisions.
I think cronitor does that
Those numbers are way out of date. See https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/... for the latest
Thank you so much for sharing this! It's definitely an interesting and valuable perspective.
Would like to know about the platform before signup
I don't think there are any good points at all in this. On the first 5 (I gave up caring to type up more):

> 1. This won’t get new users

App Stores are still a discovery mechanism and it's a pain teaching users how to add them to their home screen vs. just linking to an App Store entry.

> 3. It defeats the whole purpose

There's times to take on the world and times to join it, and the current trend is to put them in the App Store. I don't know how many companies starting out can afford to wait for the world to change on this.

> 4. PWAs don’t belong there

Incredibly subjective.

> 5. App stores aren’t more convenient

...huh? Users are already familiar with the flow to open an app store and search for a company. Users are generally not familiar with adding a bookmark of a PWA to their home screens.
Beautiful information, but I can't help but think that this makes a subtle mistake in visualizing geographic information -- the thought that it needs to be on a map. This then creates the dependency that this then needs some kind of time animation and a slider, and all that other stuff.

This data is really quantity vs time (histograms), and the display could just as easily be a few (8 actually) static graphics aligned by date, a whole bunch for each city, or some selectable set of cities. Normalizing the data by population at the time would be an interesting addition.

(e.g. the second example here where each histogram is it's own sub graph https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40067781/plotting-aligne...)

What we get right now to get information from this is the need to slowly advance the slider and compare across the map to answer the main questions:

- Where did printing first appear in this data?

- Where did it next appear?

- Are there surprising geographic jumps (e.g. HRE to Italy) - right no I know it's between 1450 and 1500, but I don't know the exact year.

- Why did some areas lag?

- Where there any unexpectedly large or small areas?

- Any areas that grew unexpectedly quickly (Britain sometime near 1650) or dropped off unexpectedly quickly?

These are really hard to answer with the present vis, but would be trivial with just an aligned stack of histograms. And the answers to some of these then naturally lead to a number of interesting secondary questions that mostly start with "why?"

note I've seen a similar issue when trying to figure out how to display the movement of things between fixed locations like cities (without a specified route). Everybody always tries to draw lines on the map between the points and then frets over how to show the sequencing. The answer is to just make a classic sequence diagram (the sequence is the important part of the visualization not the map), where the columns are the locations and the arrow or lines of travel simply shows the path between the locations. Train schedule diagrams do this, but usually rotated horizontally (https://virginian.mdodd.com/string_diag.html) The lines can then be annotated with all kinds of other stuff because they aren't being overloaded imperfectly carrying sequencing information.
> In fact, I wouldn't generally characterize HR departments as paragons of good management, so I'm not sure they are usually in a position to teach such things

Exactly. HR is there to comply with certain regulations and otherwise minimize the number of lawsuits that the company is a party to.

Maybe if they're really good they might have a robust professional development program but that's certainly not a given!
I agree!

I picked up [RetroPie](https://retropie.org.uk/) again during the pandemic. I'm sure many did the same haha.

That's when I learned [N64 emulation is difficult](https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Optimization-for-Nintendo-64/).

Well done.
done, good idea
That's silly. Anyone who's dollar cost averaging bitcoin buys over a long period of time has been incredibly well rewarded. BTC is up 146% over the last 12 months, and up 15x (!) over the last 5 years.

Even if you were slow and naïve and only jumped at the 2021 all-time high, and kept buying during the next 12 months (as one should when an asset you like goes down), you'd have made your money back and then some.
I think the advice makes sense for some apps depending on your goals. If your competitors are in the App Store, having to explain the PWA install process will slow your word of mouth growth, and you won’t look as legitimate. If the point of your PWA is just to make a website or tool used by a small or captive audience (something like Worday), then no need.

Like, if you were considering buying an office product, would you buy the one that’s available in the App Store and online, or the one that’s not on the App Store?
Well done! Someone will use this in prod. Just make sure the defaults are secure :-)
There's probably more comments promoting and defending Bitcoin on HN than ones questioning it.

The question I have is why do commenters feel the need to respond to any comment about Bitcoin that is not a (sometimes subtle) promotion or defense of it.

A reasonable person might think it's because Bitcoin is only valuable if increasingly more and more people buy it. If it's not increasingly popular or if, God forbid, everyone holding Bitcoin were to try to sell, all at once, it's Game Over. (Some folks will lose money and all Hell will break loose.)

If the first statement is false, and Bitcoin is valuable if it's unpopular, then there should be no logical reason why anyone would try to "defend" Bitcoin on HN. Why would anyone care. It's valuable even if no one is buying, right. If it lacks popularity, then this is of no consequence. Ignore it.

Alas, there is no way to test if second statement is true, i.e., it is Game Over if everyone cashes out their Bitcoin, other than this actually happening. Even still, there is no logical reason anyone would need to "defend" Bitcoin on HN if someone else believes this to be true. Why would it matter if other people hold or sell their Bitcoin.

And yet, there are consistently HN voters and commenters who seek to "defend" Bitcoin from anyone who has doubts or asks questions. That, in and of itself, may raise suspicions even more.

"Bitcoin doesn't have to do something useful for everyone to survive. It doesn;t have to "replace fiat". It doesn't have to be a payment system. It doesn't have to "go to the moon". It doesn't even need an ETF."

But somehow it needs to be constantly defended in every electronic discussion. It needs constant promotion. It needs hype.

No one can simply state "I am not interested in Bitcoin" in a discussion without triggering some "response". Regardless of the merits of Bitcoin, or absence of them, that is fscked up. Red flag.

In case anyone gets confused, I am not suggesting that any commenter literally states "I am not interested in Bitcoin" and nothing else. I am using a hypothetical example of a seemingly benign statement to illustrate the idea that _all_ comments about crypto which are not positive are quickly "countered" by Bitcoin true believers. Here is perhaps a better example. Someone states, in so many words, that Bitcoin requires large amounts of electricity. Is this untrue. It is explicitly negative. It seems quite benign yet this sort of comment will almost invariably trigger a "defense". To some, that is a red flag that there is something suspicous about these "arguments" that people feel compelled to make about Bitcoin.

Check out the film "Bitconned" if you can. Slow start but hilarious in the end. What happens when some petty criminals accidentally come in contact with hordes of "true believers". online. If I am not mistaken this was the SEC's first successful prosecution re: crypto.
How much power is needed to beam back the results from that distance? I ask because I suppose the probes are going to be very small.
Well Herbalife is a corporate entity, that has governing leadership that you can challenge its 'claims' because the corporate entity makes them, sells it to people who don't know better etc. Conceptually, that means that Herbalife gives people false information, they take that and perpetuate it in their MLM for their benefit.

Bitcoin, is piece of open source software that was released on the internet 13 years ago running all over the world. With no central governing entity, all driven by software consensus mechanisms.

Would you consider that you just don't like some of the organizations that have built themselves around this network making misleading claims? Rather than the technology itself?
That's an ongoing issue on a lot of topics. We're willing to, and sometimes do, turn off flags when it feels like an article can provide a basis for a substantive discussion and (<-- note that 'and') the topic has had relatively little coverage on HN lately. When it comes to Israel/Gaza, we've done that several times so far:

Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38745673 - Dec 2023 (751 comments)

'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38616550 - Dec 2023 (1308 comments)

The pro-Israel information war - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572675 - Dec 2023 (1675 comments)

I'm open to others. Possibly there will be a good article about the ICJ hearing tomorrow.
and arrow keys for the joystick!
There are a couple of general OSI diagrams I produced recently, available here: https://www.nathanhandy.blog/articles/osi-model-revisited.ht.... They might be a good conceptual starting point for you.
Tangental: what’s your favourite resource for learning about music theory/composition from scratch?
It takes brass bytes to sling C++.
Several months ago, I received a report that I believed to be generated by an LLM, rather than original work. So I asked my coworkers on Slack about their expert opinion: do you believe this is original work or not?

The only answer I received was from a guy who copy-pasted it into an "LLM detector" and uncritically copy-pasted the output for me. This response got several thumbs-up from management and mentors.

Geez, if I'd wanted that kind of crap answer I could've obtained it myself, without asking "experts" for their human opinions.
In Firefox you can work around this. Click on the padlock next to the URL, then click the Right Arrow, and More Information. Head to the Permissions tab, scroll down and find Autoplay, and switch it to "Allow Audio and Video." Refresh, and you should have sound.

For whatever reason Firefox blocks it, tells you in the console that it blocked it, but fails to present the extra little UI in the site info dropdown that would usually expose the user override. Might be a bug with how this particular game sets up the web audio context or something.
They care enough to enter every HN thread that has positive news on the industry to shit on it. Valid criticism is fine, but insightful crypto criticism on HN is rare.

Fine, you don't like crypto. Say something new or insightful or skip the comment section.
Well said, everything that we are worried about right now in regards to the impacts of AI will most likely be irrelevant in a decade
> 30kg Max Payload (Dual Batteries)
> 40kg Max Payload (Single Battery)
> 16km Max Flight Distance with Full Payload (Dual Batteries)

But they don't seem to mention flight distance with single battery.
And spacebar for crouch & ... er... "pound the ground jump".
I got a big chuckle out of this one. Nice work
How the Talkback infosec aggregator works
And yet, you use e-mail?
yeah people died on those, entire ships lost.
> China industry works as one entity, backed by the state.

That's effectively how every large industry in every country acts.
Enshitification continues
Add the script tag to your page for any of the components and you can use them. No building, compiling or initializing anything.
What do you have in your git config that requires switching over host architecture?
> addresses are completely public.

Addresses in Bitcoin are pseudoanonymous. Many criminals have evaded prosecution for years (for example, the MtGox thieves) despite moving billions in the clear on the blockchain. You are feigning ignorance about the true nature of Bitcoin which is quite obviously designed to enable very strong privacy, as noted by even by its inventor in the original paper; let's not even discuss things like Monero and ZCash.
Developing a new method for remediation of contaminated wooden structures
3M has announced a solar charging headset that will be presented at CES 2024
I guess what exactly do you define as scamming? In terms of outright fraud, I agree there's a lot. It shouldn't be super surprising that scammers tend to prefer decentralized permissionless financial rails, for the same reason that political extremists and pornographers were some of the biggest earliest users of the decentralized permissionless publishing rails of the early Internet.

But I wouldn't characterize all, or even most of crypto as scams. Gambling, maybe. Are memecoins a scam? I would say they're more like a massively multiplayer form of gambling. Which you might argue is a bad thing, and certainly is dubious from a social standpoint. But if the code is openly public and autonomous, and there's no outright deceit, I don't think gambling is really gambling.

Even beyond that, there's a lot happening in crypto that most certainly isn't scams. You have stablecoins and payment rails like USDC, stores of value like Bitcoin, smart contract chains like Ethereum, decentralized finance applications like permissionless exchanges and lending markets, social applications like farcaster, decentralized AI, and gaming.

Now you might argue that all of these things are stupid and pointless and wastes of money, but that's a separate debate. Of the large projects in these categories almost none are outright scams. They're teams experimenting with new ways to run financial markets or move payments or train models or hedge inflation. Like most technological experiments most will fail. But if that was the criteria for "scam" then the entire startup sector is also wall-to-wall scams.