skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust has a GNU option for Windows:

https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/other-installation-methods...
That's the first I hear of this and I've been Belgian for the past 49 years.
At least 24,545.
"father of 3 (11 years,10 years, 18 months)."

You were halfway done then decided to have another. Oh my. Never for me.
I used Bard to summarize the video and this is the response.

This video is about the two-staircase rule in North American apartment buildings and how it restricts the construction of new housing, particularly family-sized apartments.

The speaker argues that the rule, which requires all apartments above two or three stories to have two separate staircases, is unnecessary and outdated. They make the following points:

The rule is based on historical fire safety concerns, but modern building materials and fire codes have made buildings much safer. The speaker cites the example of cities like Amsterdam and Paris, which have single-staircase buildings and lower fire death rates than North American cities.
The two-staircase rule makes it difficult to build new housing, especially in desirable neighborhoods where land is scarce. Single-staircase buildings can be smaller and fit on smaller lots, making them more feasible in these areas.
The two-staircase rule limits the types of apartments that can be built. Single-staircase buildings can have more flexible layouts, allowing for more two- and three-bedroom apartments, which are in short supply in many cities.
The speaker acknowledges that the two-staircase rule has some safety benefits, but they argue that these benefits are outweighed by the negative consequences. They propose that the rule should be relaxed or eliminated, with stricter fire safety regulations in place for taller buildings.

The video also mentions a design competition in Metro Vancouver called "Decoding Density" that is challenging architects and designers to come up with new ideas for six-story housing that comply with a modified building code that allows for single-staircase buildings.

Overall, the video is a call to action for policymakers and the construction industry to reconsider the two-staircase rule in order to make it easier to build more and better apartments in North America.

Here are some additional details from the video:

The speaker mentions that scissor stairs, which are two staircases that crisscross down one column, are not a good solution because they are still bulky and take up a lot of space.

The speaker provides some statistics on fire deaths in different countries, showing that the US and Canada do not have the fewest fire deaths per capita.
The speaker mentions that the building code in North America is stricter than in other parts of the world, such as Europe and Asia.
Show HN: DataMapPlot for visualizing large corpora of documents
So maybe https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html even if it seems that the database must be on the same machine the UI runs on, or be copied to a server with all the books. That could be the criticism of the parent post.
Yes, I tell my driving friends who complain about some nut they saw cycling - "Well, would you be happier if he did that in a Chevy Suburban?" :)
The response to all questions should be: "go to your family doctor or emergency room if you are not comfortable"
This is not a medic device and cannot be trusted more than a Google search of your symptoms
Hm, from the reading, it seem he was pretty careful to not do any harm, but still, is this type of practical research actually legal?
I am really grateful for this effort! Because of it ancient gems like z0r.de can continue to exist.

z0r had a profound influence on my younger self by introducing the art form of looping way before it was widely understood (Snapchat, TikTok) and combined it with a heavy dose of dadaism.
For video to be a major contributor to a game size is a very rare occurrence. Games are 120GB+ in size because texture sizes continue to grow.
We could mass breed humans in conditions currently faced by pigs in high rise pig farms to brute force parts of this process. Not perfect for traits that require a nurturing and stimulating environment, but great for several health related ones, probably. Maybe stimulation could be provided through welded on VR equipment, AI companions and treadmills? I am sure there are plenty of ways to provide "fake" stimulation to those genetic research farm humans to increase the range of research possible.

High rise pig farm:

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-2...
> You can be the most kind and funny person in the world, but if you don't get matches on dating apps, you're going to have a hard time.

People in you day to day life would notice you being the “most kind and funny person in the world”, you stand out in school, word would spread “you have to meet them”, you get invited to parties, events, you meet people outside of apps
Very cool ideas! Very simple concept, indeed!

It helped to pin down my own approach, which is a very similar workflow, with these differences:

- The log entries are flashcards with ID

- The structure / tree follows the scientific method, aka the glue is not ad-hoc.

- So far I need no lists, because I only learn things and I'm not tracking any activity
It would be really interesting to see some empirical data on this!

I think there's a continuum on which one can position a piece of writing, from ‘starting from a prerequisite of the piece, jump directly to the target concept’ (Feynman style) to ‘provide a long winding path of semi-related ideas each building on the last, such that by the time the reader has grasped them all the target concept is obvious’ (Grothendieck style). My intuition says that the ideal point on that continuum varies from person to person, but there's probably an optimal average. Maybe it's been studied in didactic theory?

I notice there are different cultural norms, as well. In the mathematical world it's very common to start by introducing a bunch of new notations that make the concepts in the rest of the paper easier to discuss, and the designing of those notations is an art that people spend a lot of time on. The equivalent in the programming world, I guess, is the ‘language-oriented programming’ style propounded by Lispers (and, to a lesser extent, Rubyists) in which you write a program by first defining an EDSL for your business domain, and then directly writing down your business logic in that language. I notice this syntactic approach hasn't survived very well, even though the philosophy behind it (e.g. ‘programming as theory-building’) is still largely in vogue.
Thst video looks fairly sparse and well structured by SF standards? eg interactions starting at 9:00 https://youtu.be/TOV0ndPr0Dk

Many examples of high pedestrian density in https://youtu.be/P6sw4EKegp4
Big Company Bachelor's
Why the big fuss? Fires happen occasionally. Is there something about the fire that was avoidable? There are really no details given - a real non-story.

Perhaps this part of a PR campaign to signal how government takes this sort of thing very seriously?
No, that is in general the issue with security bounties. They attract mainly people who have enough time for trial and error and/or prior domain expertise and/or extremely smart in specific software. Nowadays cybersecurity is a vast field and it is not the same to be a white hat hacker specialized in Google Chrome issues than one in iOS. Not saying it cannot be the same person but the amount of time required to catch issues is long.

I think supply chain attacks are not being taken very seriously. Think that people working, for example, in Python or JavaScript use pip or npm daily no matter if they work for a nuclear agency or your uncle's bar.
AI has resurrected George Carlin
I wonder why somebody downvoted you.

Off the cuff, running a car to the end and then switching to a hybrid seems fairly environmentally friendly, right?

I don’t think we want to prematurely take reasonably recent small cars (since you say your car is light, I assume it is small) off the road if that means building a bunch of new electric ones… especially for someone who drives little enough to gas up once per month.
Yeah but those companies aren’t able to make larger airframes. Boeing and Airbus are the only two companies making the truly big planes. Bombardier legitimately wanted to enter that market if the C-Series worked well.
No it's not efficiency. It's the washing and drying being done in one machine. I cannot do both jobs concurrently.
I just want to add

9. Longest Path in DAGs: Find a longest path in a directed acyclic graph.

10. Weighted Independent Set on a Path: Given an array of integers, compute the maximum sum of numbers provided that you may not take two consecutive cells.
Thanks!

Custom wake-word on a chip is a bit of a pain. So we are running two models. One on the chip and the second, more powerful, on the server. It filters out false positives.
Why do you feel the need to tell me I didn't read the comment? I did, and my comment was my response.

> That the market has cars bug enough for him, and the reasons for providing it, are not germane to his comment.

Did you watch the video? If the response to "why are cars so big now" is "because kids" then I think it's relevant to point out that that's not why they're big, and that we somehow manage to have 3 backseats and non-tank sized SUVs in Europe just fine.
Probably the delta encoding step is occasionally useful. A lot of areas in the "document" are only going to use the 26 lowercase letters.
The depth of coverage given to this war is remarkable when compared to 2024 election coverage. Calling it an "AI facilitated genocide" is click bait but it probably gave the article a real readership boost. I always wondered how the holocaust in WWII didn't become a news worthy focal point until near the end of the war. Now it is becoming obvious.

There is expert, in-depth coverage today, but with few exceptions, it hasn't received much attention.

https://robertjprince.net/

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I drove from Houston to San Diego and back in my EV6. It wasn't bad, but in the interests of disclosure, I'll point out some of the caveats (some of which may not apply for those using the Tesla network)

1. Our trip was on major interstates (I10 and I8)

2. Not every charging station had full speed

3. Charging stations weren't so close that I could reliably skip one

4. Range goes way down on open freeways (wind resistance, lack of regen)

5. Charging stations aren't always on the freeway like gas stations, so you may find yourself going into towns and off of the freeway, increasing drive time

6. Charge times weren't bad, but I have one of the fastest charging cars, so literally, YMMV

Overall, in a gas car it would have been a 2 day trip; in my EV, it was more like 2 2/3 days (adjusted our intinerary in SD, else we would have had additional hotel costs). That said, I drove just to prove haters wrong; I'd fly the next time. However, if I had to do a long trip, I'd probably consider renting something else.
As language nerd it is interesting to see the Crystal improvements, congratulations on keeping it going.
No, I still won't buy an EV. EVs are being forced down or throat to, again, have customers make another buy in the name of the earth. Tax the fuck out of China, India, USA for being the biggest polluters, then tax the fuck out of carbon emissions for the largest emitters. Then you tax the fuck out of SUVs and useless large vehicles. Only then you can go after the combustion engine, which is at its peak efficiency and lowest pollution.
Why is it a trend to act as if you shouldn't have any opinions about something just because there are other things you can buy?

I did not buy an all in one. I was just saying that they don't make sense to me.

I'm allowed to have opinions. I'm a human.
Then only allow paid/subscribed users to post.
The best tooling for each OS is the one from the OS vendor themselves.
Getting divorced is probably many men' fantasy :D
"Builders or plumbers or sparky license on the other hand...always relevant, doesn't change according to which company is flavor of the month."

I'm regretting not being an electrician. Really hate the constant change in tech. Even 5 years ago it seemed like it wasn't so fast.
And if they wanted to talk about it, I’d listen. Where I protest is when people make grandiose claims like “this solved so many problems for me, it even solved problems that I didn’t have!”, which only serve to perpetuate the modern hippie-dippie stereotype.
I think that’s exactly the mindset of most people because they don’t think they’re being racist, xenophobic, etc.

If someone were to grow up in an economy built on coal mining with 13 year old miners, and you’re really effective at organizing 13 year old coal miners, then you’re gonna be very productive.

Even though everything that you’re doing is existentially bad for everybody, they are all ignorant of it’s harms. So even if temporally coal mining with miners might be the only thing that anyone is aware of to do that is “productive.”

You can make no “mistakes” and still lose just from ignorance
Show HN: Material Files – Open Source Material Design File Manager for Android
Features:

- Open source: Lightweight, clean and secure.

- Material Design: Follows Material Design guidelines, with attention into details.

- Breadcrumbs: Navigate in the filesystem with ease.

- Root support: View and manage files with root access.

- Archive support: View, extract and create common compressed files.

- NAS support: View and manage files on FTP, SFTP and SMB servers.

- Themes: Customizable UI colors, plus night mode with optional true black.

- Linux-aware: Knows symbolic links, file permissions and SELinux context.

- Robust: Uses Linux system calls under the hood, not yet another ls parser.

- Well-implemented: Built upon the right things, including Java NIO2 File API and LiveData.
I like the first code example on https://crystal-lang.org

# A very basic HTTP server
require "http/server"

server = HTTP::Server.new do |context|
context.response.content_type = "text/plain"
context.response.print "Hello world, got #{context.request.path}!"
end

puts "Listening on http://127.0.0.1:8080"
server.listen(8080)

Nicely concise!

This would be the Python equivalent:

# A very basic HTTP server
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer

class RequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/plain')
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(bytes(f"Hello world, got {self.path}!", 'utf8'))

httpd = HTTPServer(('', 8080), RequestHandler)
print("Listening on http://127.0.0.1:8080")
httpd.serve_forever()

Would like to see it in more languages.
I agree achieving human safety equivalent is the minimum bar. Ex: We can all agree that if your system is below human safety, it is definitely unacceptable.

That’s not the argument being presented though. For example Waymo claims to exceed human performance by a large margin: https://waymo.com/blog/2023/12/waymo-significantly-outperfor...

(Again, one may disagree about the methodology or the conclusions of the study. Just want to point out it’s not the argument being presented.)
Although not marketed for the public at large, thoriated TIG welding rods are still a thing, and widely available too. They are consumable, and they need to be ground down to profile for use.
Proton's response in other discussion about this:

>Proton analyzed this revelation and found it doesn't impact Proton users due to the way that Proton's encryption and infrastructure works. While the reported practices have long been legalized in the US and Germany, they are very likely illegal in Switzerland and are therefore subject to legal challenge. It would not be entirely surprising if this got overturned by the courts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939045

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1930vnh/breakin...
Maybe Tesla cars will never drive you around, but Waymo is already doing it. That basically sets an end date for when we will expect to have consumer grade self-driving cars to “wherever Waymo’s patents expire.”
This post doesn't make any sense. First of all, the premise itself is flawed:

> Image compression algorithms are, generally, pretty good at finding patterns in images and squashing them down.

No, image compression algorithms are generally terrible at finding patterns. Lossless ones are basically just ZIP, while lossy ones don't really find patterns -- they remove certain high-frequency data and reduce color information. (There are certain patterns that PNG can efficiently detect, like repeating pixels from the line above, but those won't apply to text represented as an image.)

> Here's what it looks like when losslessly compressed to a PNG: It is slightly smaller than ZIP, and about 9 bytes larger than Brotli compression.

This is certainly entirely explained by the chosen (in this case, default) compression level of the ZIP file and PNG files. Lossless PNG generally uses the ZIP algorithm, or variants. Which is why the end result is basically identical.
It's not even "left", it's Democrats. Most actual leftists are out in the country too scared for their lives to do much public organizing.
> given they advertise themselves as resilient to government requests (not as trigger-happy when it comes to legal threats as other hosters)

That does not mean they're ok with illegal things... such as CSAM which was the case here. They're not a bullet proof registrar, they're meant to be private, they're not even a registrar
Reaction to Potential PGP Schism
It's clearly a nice and simple way to write data, but what about the other way around? How do you manage to find information when you need it?
I'm pretty sure all PNG is doing here is exploiting the fact that some characters are much more common than others. It's implicitly creating a unigram character model and using that to encode.

There may also be a tiny bit of benefit related to the fact that in English if you see a letter, you're slightly more likely to see that letter again immediately after, as in words like "battle", "sonnet", "thee", etc.

I'm surprised that PNG does better than ZIP; I'd be willing to be that ZIP does better if you scale up to the full Shakespeare corpus. ZIP will start to utilize word probabilities if you give it enough text (e.g. it will learn that "the" is more common than "eth").

> Image compression algorithms are, generally, pretty good at finding patterns in images and squashing them down.

This really isn't true in practice. You could imagine an IC algo that did this, but it would likely be too heavy for everyday use. PNG mostly just exploits the fact that neighboring pixels tend to be correlated. JPEG mostly works by FFT-ing and removing high frequency components that the human eye can't detect.

If you want to play around with lossless compression, try out my "BYOM" (Bring Your Own Model) library for arithmetic encoding:
https://github.com/comperical/MirrorEncode
You honestly believe that the prequels are worse than the sequels?? There’s an argument to be made for Rise, but those other two films are Citizen Kane compared to the trash that are the prequels.
There excist a komga plugin for tachiyomi and forks
Just put a jingle bell on their collar. My family cats growing up never caught anything since.
Fwiw open access fiber systems have that now. In Utah you can actually subscribe to multiple ISPs over Utopia fiber, and it's mostly just an issue of configuring your terminal to talk to them.

Since it's a 100% eithernet network, any off the shelf device with an SFP cage can connect to it
As I read that report it seems to conclude that the rich nations will benefit from climate change. Which I suppose may explain why those same nations have largely done nothing to address carbon emissions.
The read range on the chips is definitely enough that it can be used for cat flaps. There's a few well established brands in the locking cat flap space, like Petsafe and Sure Petcare.
Spam musubi is so good, the author should try making some :)
Don't forget to add fiber on this...

Modern foods are horrifically fiber deficient, as in it's removed and fed back to animals. One of the key things you said around this is...

>once the sugar saturates your blood,

This is the glycemic index. Our modern diet is filled with foods that are pretty much instantly available to the bloodstream. If like me you have a continuous blood sugar monitor you can see this in effect. Drink a soda and minutes later your sugar levels go up. Eat simple carbs and 15-20 minutes and it starts climbing. Move to more complex carbohydrates and items high in fiber that take a long time to break down and the ramp is slower and less steep.

The problem for just about everyone is how do we get away from our simple carbohydrate based lifestyles.
Assuming it's the same 'tile' tech they're using in their GPUs, it's a chiplet with a Xilinx FPGA with hard IP blocks where appropriate.[1] So it's probably a matter of reverse engineering the bitstream as well as the functionality of those hard IP blocks.

[1] My bet would be that it's mostly (90%+) hard IP blocks since most of the functionality for deep neural nets is well known and the FPGA logic just glues everything together and gives them some wiggle room as architectures evolve.
No, that's not what I said at all. I think someone could believe that they're not personally hateful, xenophobic, or racist while still being unconsciously complacent, ignorant, or subtly enabling of those attitudes in themselves and others. I can see how a psychedelic trip could show someone a different perspective, causing them to change their beliefs and behavior in significant ways.
You're right. Brain burp/misread on my part. That's a figure for individual cars. Union Pacific site:

Union Pacific (main freight carrier in Southern California) gives 286,000 lbs, ~ 140 tons https://www.up.com/aboutup/reference/maps/allowable_gross_we...
Having done some research into human attention, I have to agree with Hommel et al: No one knows what attention is [1].

In current ANNs "attention" is quite well defined: how to weigh some variables based on other variables. But anthropomorphizing such concepts indeed muddies things more than it clarifies. Including calling interconnected summation units with non-linear transformations "neural networks".

But such (wrong) intuition pumping terminology does attract, well, attention, so they get adopted.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-019-01846-w
Not pinned, but it was a SCP pick (per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308)
This year I'm trying a new mechanism based around GitHub Issues (which I've been using for personal knowledge management for a few years already) - I create a new "planner" issue every day, then use that to make notes about what I want to do and what I've got done.

Hitting Command+N in Firefox on my Mac opens up my planner issue for the day, or creates it if one doesn't exist yet. I wrote up how that system works (a tiny bit of GitHub Actions + Pages magic) here: https://til.simonwillison.net/github-actions/daily-planner
Hit Men Are Easy to Find in the Movies. Real Life Is Another Story
I don't think psychedelics are a panacea but they'll likely help the world move in a positive direction: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/09/25/strange-trip-psychedelics....

MDMA may also be the only, or among the few, things that really work in and for couples therapy (it's also not a panacea). Banning it is a travesty.

There's an interesting alternative world chronicled in part by Michael Pollan in How to Change Your Mind, and by others, in which psychedelics are integrated into therapy, psychiatry, and other forms of medicine and improvement.
There was a cloudflare error while posting which triggered lots of folks to repost lots of things. The error came up after the post was saved, though.
Is it just me, or does Crystal have a disproportionate amount of Windows demand? I feel like every time Crystal comes up, someone asks (or complains) about Windows support.
Fixed: it's MIT licensed