skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am somewhat working on my own workflow. I have a lot of problems with the mental workload of external task and the sheer amount of things that are left to do. For example, having to remind myself to reschedule tasks because I didn't have the time as initially planned is very hard for me.

All other task planners never seem to be made for wrong estimations and the iterative evaluation of underestimated complexities for whatever reason. Nobody can predict the future so why should we be able to plan tasks ahead of time correctly?

Conflicting things in real life are hard to keep track of for me, too - (e.g. having to take your dog to the doctor, buying groceries, or cleaning up the household) and all task planning tools that I have tried never reduce the mental workload for me, because there's still the maintenance part of keeping your whiteboard/calendar up to date once anything goes wrong. And it always does.

That's why I took the last couple days to start to work on my own tool, agenda: the idea for this tool is that the app recommends you what to work on while still being able to keep track of conflicting tasks, with the idea that it adapts over time to your personal missed estimations of how long a task takes.

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/agenda
Unless it’s the government doing the crime.
ChatGPT can't generate a non-bearded C++ man
Stick a piece of photo sensitive paper in a pinhole camera and you're good to go.

People typically make them out of black film canisters and such. Google "solargraph"
You should try writing some code to pixel-shade a screen-sized canvas in JS (which you'd have to do to get the textured skybox). I don't think the performance would be usable, especially 15+ years ago.
It seems that you want to take this under your wing because you think that this could be a key differentiator / value provider for you. Nice to see an example in the opposite direction to the outsourcing craze.
Boeing's (aeronautic business) end-users are millions of passengers, Lockheed Martin's end-users are Defense and Intelligence. No need for damage control if mum's the word.
Indeed. WAFs need to die; they're basically all just doing <https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Injection_Rejection>.
Sad to hear about the BRI billing from PacBell.

The 56k modem was a quasi-digital connection and as I recall asymmetric.

xDSL (there were so many flavors) was a disappointment in some areas in comparison to ISDN for reasons I do not recall, but I think it had to do with the fact that it often shared the copper with POTS. xDSL on former ISDN lines or in buildings wired for xDSL was far more performant. DOCSIS was generally good.

Also, modems and ISDN, owing to their switched nature, could be used to connect to services other than the Internet. xDSL and especially DOCSIS was Internet only AFAIR.
No, it's actually FSL

https://blog.sentry.io/introducing-the-functional-source-lic...
> A Calibre library CLI, anyone?

A nice idea

I wrote a remarkably hacky cli for that rdr. Basically to

- open the last book opened with the CLI

- select from the last n books so opened

- return the results of a query and narrow with rofi

I figure this covers a huge portion of my normal usage.

Pushing books to device would be useful too.
In early MacOS, fonts and desk accessories (small applications which could run concurrently with a main application in the pre-multifinder era) were resources which lived in the "System" file. An uninstalled font or desk accessory would be stored in the resource fork of a "suitcase", and a utility called the Font/DA Mover offered a simple UI for copying these resources between suitcases and the system file.

Decker doesn't use a forked filesystem, but still has "resources" in the form of various disembodied modular pieces that can be copied between decks: fonts, sounds, pattern/color palettes, lil modules, and contraption prototypes. When I designed the UI for managing and importing resources, I modeled it after the Font/DA Mover, and naturally called it the "Font/Deck Accessory Mover". :)
I’m afraid SPAM will ruin that effort. Running a pretty decent forum on Google Groups, we’ve been hit by spam recently and you have to restrict posts seriously to combat the attack.
Austin is nowhere near its potential for infill development, though.
Dangers of Python Lambda: Repeated Values Due to Late Binding
> "why write a new app"

I'd imagine spearheading a ground up rewrite of their UI would be a lot more work too.

thanks for taking this on! calibre is a pita for me to use, and I know what I'm doing. makes it impossible to recommend to anyone, whether they're my grandparents or asavvy tech person.
It's hard to think of concrete benefits on the spot when the biggest benefit is the somewhat nebulous "feel" of the language. But generally: array languages typically make use of composition of primitives rather than larger, more complicated built in functions. For example in k, there is no 'sort' primitive. Instead of sort, you have grade (<). In APL this is ⍋. In numpy this is np.argsort

This means to sort an array you do x@<x, where @ is apply (indexing - for more info on k's indexing read https://beyondloom.com/blog/slicedice.html)

At first this is a bit counterintuitive. But then you realise, x@<x is sort. y@<x is sort by. <<x is 'rank'. There are all these 'recipes' that are based on <, and some of them you may not discover using numpy, as there would be another function that did it for you. You don't typically solve things by composing simple elements, as that would be far too verbose, instead using complicated built in functions, often with many parameters to describe the desired behaviour.

I'm sure other people will have other opinions on what the benefits are, but that was just one example off the top of my head.
So how much of the 8s is spent in the LLM vs Piper?

Some of the example responses are very long for the typical home automation usecase which would compound the problem. Ample room for GladOS to be sassy but at 8s just too tardy to be usable.

A different approach might be to use the LLM to produce a set of GladOS-like responses upfront and pick from them instead of always letting the LLM respond with something new. On top of that add a cache that will store .wav files after Piper synthesized them the first time.
A cache is how e.g. Mycroft AI does it. Not sure how easy it will be to add on your setup though.
I used stellarium to teach some aspects of astronomy that are usually overlooked to young children.

Some of the icebreaker questions:

Does the moon set?
Do stars rise and set?
In New York they just call that a Dinner.
I got one pre-made[1], but as another commenter said, it's "just" a box with a tiny hole and some photo sensitive paper, a pinhole camera

[1] https://solarcan.co.uk/
Wow – it's amazing to learn, over time, how to become more bold and economical in your strokes... and how to have the confidence to do so.

I think I might have learned the same wisdom from a different source – "You can always swing a bigger brush – you're missing a lot of fun", is a quote I was told once in a plein-air workshop, although I can't remember who said it in the first place!
> It seems a bit silly to ask academics to enhance DEI initiatives. These are initiatives created by administrators to solve issues that administrators have caused.

Some suspect they’ve gone too far and want to make sure they won’t be the only ones holding the bag. “Look, they signed the papers too and all agreed to participate, don’t blame just us”.
Kudos on shipping your hobby project! Looks slick. And a calibre cli would definitely be appreciated -- I hate having to click five levels deep in a dozen menus :P

If the "reader" and "editor" aspects are explicit non-goals (fair enough), then what actually does Citadel do for users? Is it mainly to be a portal to view/sort books and click on them? Is there a roadmap where you envision more features?
>A would be an excellent choice were it not completely un-googleable.

APL is named after the book A Programming Language
Unfortunately I never found a server with an active voice chat community apart from those horrible 1000 user servers full of edgy zoomers. The small ones I found were text only
The eventual solution for YouTube is to start injecting advertisements into the content packet stream, complete with re-keyframing and altering the metadata files to incorporate the ad segments into the run length. Everything prior to that is their increasingly-desperate attempts to not have to re-code their content streaming server to dynamically modify streams with advertising on the fly. But they won’t have to do that until video ad blockers start playing the ads invisibly in a shadow of the page, without showing them to the user at all. Which is pretty advanced for a regex-based player and not something I expect to see with last-gen ad blocking. Looking forward to it!
And 90V RMS AC to ring the bell on POTS lines.
The hovercraft's time might have arrived
>to call it just "discriminating harder" isn't realistic.

Affirmative Action was struck down because it is racist.[1]

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-affirmative-action-...

>Making systemic changes hurts and feels unfair, but it's far from the racism that motivated discrimination in our past.

It is unfair when the "answer" is just turning the discrimination gears in reverse. The way to end discrimination is to, unsurprisingly, end discrimination and treat everyone equally and fairly.

You know what I feel if I'm barred from something because I dared to be born to Japanese blood? I feel anger and resentment towards the fools who judged me for the color of my skin rather than the quality of my character, for refusing to see me as just another American.

Sincerely screw discrimination with a rusty spork and may it die in a fire. Absolutely noone deserves to be treated better or worse than another for reasons not concerning their character or capabilities.

>Where does this idea come from? I can recognize the disparities of the present. I can make actions to undo those. This isn't some fault I need to feel guilt for, it's just a reasonable outcome of understanding the past that lead to the current present, and a desire to change that present

Children are born with no crimes or sins to their name. Whatever their ancestors might have done, that is of absolutely no liable consequence to them. If someone seriously tells me to apologize and pay amends for Pearl Harbor or Nanking or whatever else before my time because I'm Japanese, I am going to sincerely tell them to fuck off and pound sand.
Love the project. Calibre is absolutely an amazing tool, but it never really adapted into the whole self-hosted era. I really like the focus on maintaining compatibility with the Calibre library. Personally the features I use the most are the folder watching and automatic book conversion.

Now if there was support for multiple Calibre libraries...
A nitter.cz link for the thread. @TeamYouTube actually answered.

https://nitter.cz/stolsvik/status/1746337762842747388
My attempt was a 6-month exposure from a winter to a summer solstice using a Solarcan pinhole camera (https://solarcan.co.uk/)

Fairly pleased with the result, would definitely recommend having a go: https://stickyhat.com/a-6-month-pinhole-camera-exposure/
Capitalism, climate change and externalised costs, no surprises here.
Nice read. Very detailed.

That kind of optimisation make a big difference when I am trying to load a webpage on the train. Thank you for caring!
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I don't think the behavior is something specific to the left. What is specific to the left is making opposition to witch hunts an explicit element of their catechism. Thus engaging in witch hunts reflects more poorly on them.
> the negative PR that would come of, say, a death that could’ve been prevented had someone subscribed

It seems this could easily be avoided by selling 1 year subscriptions, available retroactively for a steep fee.
The people who would have been paying a tithe[1] to their local church presumably. In the UK there was this thing where the second son of some rich family would typically go into the church (because the first son was going to inherit and there were only so many occupations that were respectable for a rich person to do - any kind of actual work not really being among them).

[1] Percentage of earnings, canonically a tenth, but not sure whether/how much that was always the case.
I thought Ireland was already the go-to tax haven?
Do you mean viewing multiple libraries at once? What would be the benefit of that over having one library with saved filter views?
Unfortunately I don’t have any recommendations to give, my experience starts and stops at application development. Though I would love to spend some time in a datacenter!

Potentially have a look at Infiniband and Clos/fat tree networks?

My more generic recommendation would be to explore semantic scholar for impactful/cited papers, look for some meta analyses, and just dig through multiple layers of references till you hit the fundamentals (typically things published in the 80s for a lot of CS topics).
Yes. I'm a broken record on this topic, but I largely stopped messing with J and K once I got decent at writing point-free Haskell. Verb trains are even more powerful with functors in the mix. <=< is already available, and once you write an equivalent for fmap, you really start cooking. |||, +++, &&&, and *** are great too. And you can always write UTF-8 operators to make it even shorter and prettier.

It's unfortunate that the serious Haskell I've seen at work/in the wild is rarely friendly to vertical screen realestate in this way.
So your saying that even more people are being housed? I guess we need more Section 8!
I don't think directly metered, but protected such that the line will automatically disconnect if there is more current drawn than usually.
Forums can definitely see some improvement. I want to subscribe to certain subforums and threads, and get all the updates in a single app (like with a RSS reader) without having to visit each forum. IRC got this right. Reddit was okay, but all your content is still beholden to a single platform.

Widespread use of "Log in with Apple/Google/FB/whatver" can somewhat alleviate the signup burden, but also introduces other issues like privacy. I for one don't care about signing up to random websites. Modern password managers make it almost a non-issue if I forget my credentials or one of them gets hacked.
Yeah. I was once driving home to Minnesota from Wisconsin. I was getting gas, opened to app, looked at the deals, and decided I’d rather eat later. Once I was in Minnesota a lot of them changed.
Random question: has anyone here ever purchased something they found via a youtube ad?

I never have. Approximately 100% of youtube ads I've seen are for harmful, time-wasting, unhealthy, mediocre, scammy products/services. They also tend to be blastingly-loud, and somewhat anxiety-inducing. I've never seen an interesting or informative one.

Why doesn't youtube put effort into ad quality and relevance, rather than hostility toward users who quite naturally want to avoid grotesque influences.
It's hard to imagine a socialist solution working in the context of the United States of America, though. The more viable solution in this context is allowing the free market to build abundant housing.
Hidden features: How movie recommendation systems extract insights from ratings
I think there is a pretty big jump between expecting a professor to treat all their students equally and with respect regardless of their gender/race/religion/etc and expecting them to to teach underprivleged children in foreign countries.

Everyone (well at least everyone reasonable) agrees with the former. The latter on the other hand feels like a totally different set of skills than what a professor does, and it feels unfair to expect that out of someone who doesn't have the inclination to do that (or to bring it in terms suitable to the HN crowd, the same way it is toxic when companies push good engineers into management against their will or as a requirement in order to advance)
The article doesn't explain very well...

But this is all about getting more electricity down the same wires. On a cold windy day the wires are cooled more. Which means you can pump more amps through them without risk of failure - sometimes 100% more!

However, grid operators aren't able to make use of that ability because grid operation is typically scheduled hours in advance - since classical power stations take hours to start/stop.

However if you have a reliable weather forecast a few hours out saying it will be cold and windy, then you can safely schedule in some combination of power producers and consumers which would otherwise put a particular link over capacity.
You can buy an OLED touchscreen monitor for $100? People that are happy with Frankenstein setups will always find a cheap way to replicate a product while ignoring all the downsides of a home grown replica.
I explicitly avoid products that happen to annoy me with forced video ads.

I have a whole list of companies in my head I will avoid as long as I don't forgot about them.
I’m pretty sure otelcollector is where it’s getting dropped. It sees data with the same tags coming from a few dozen processes, doesn’t know how to aggregate them, and so just does last writer wins about once a second. Makes for some very peculiar rate charts.
Note: I entered the title as "Hidden features: how movie recommendation systems extract insights from your ratings", it seems that the leading word "Hidden" gets stripped by HN
the business goes bankrupt and the bank is ahead of customers and employees in line for who gets paid first.
Sometimes I feel that if Calibre just looked better people would realize how amazing it is. It’s honestly not that bad (I actually love it) but I think people can’t get past the aesthetic.
You've discovered why it's not a great idea to write your servers in Assembly.
Can someone explain what this is and what it does? I have no idea. I use Windows and have never needed to use Docker for anything.
This is exactly the model of communication I want to succeed :joy:
Then I have full control over all my social media activity -- posts/messages and metadata (likes, and what not) and can save them and slice and dice them however I want! (without worrying about crappy interfaces on most social media products)
"Chuck Norris's Social Security number is the last nine digits of pi."
As per article, he objects to signing "water is wet". Does it make the title correct?
> Why doesn't youtube put effort into ad quality and relevance, rather than hostility toward users who quite naturally want to avoid grotesque influences.

Because the purpose of the ad is just to keep your brain busy for a period of _your_ time.
They're dense sometimes but for me the furthest thing from word salad. Every paragraph feels carefully considered and apposite.
It’s just semantics. Helping others makes me happy.
Isn’t this prevailing wisdom among HN crowd ?
Side projects are the new resume (2013)
5 Most Interesting Videos on YouTube
> modern forum stack

Genuinely curious, what would that be?

From user perspective is there anything else to the forum than Read/Post/Search?

Or are you referring to administration and moderation tasks?
Agreed. Unfortunately rewriting the Calibre UI is probably more work than maintaining Python 2.
I feel like the argument is van to front here. Go is easy, the problem is it's not simple.
In this case, I appreciate that OP made a public post, in case others encounter the same problem.
> Seek (by iNaturalist) is a good (and fun) app too, it visually identifies all kinds of things (plants, fungi, animals), and integrates with iNaturalist very well.

I left a comment in another thread a while ago complaining that Seek doesn't seem especially concerned with whether its identifications are correct. It was not well received.

I can now substantiate that with species-level identifications provided by Seek, where I have independent knowledge of what I'm looking at. I took several pictures of elephant seals.

For two of them, Seek was willing to make a species-level identification and give me credit for encountering that species.

One was identified as a New Zealand fur seal.

The other was a clouded monitor lizard.
This was my experience too. I was looking for something better than the 56k modem, but ISDN was 10 times as expensive and like 20% faster.

In the end I was stuck on modem until DSL finally rolled out in my area. One thing I miss about DSL was that it was open. You had your choice of several competing ISPs that offered service over the same lines. You could get some very nice fast service with lots of features for cheap. Locally run Usenet servers. Free web hosting. Free terminal server. Free Email. Static IP addresses. All the stuff that the monopolies don't offer anymore.
Have you gotten that to work? I tried several times, got everything from zero stats to high CPU.

It might work now, it definitely did not as recently as about six months ago. At some point I had to get other things done this year besides OTEL.
This looks like it parallels the shift from MapReduce's paradigm of one binary per execution graph node to FlumeJava (and Apache Beam's) monolithic binary for all worker nodes that reconfigures itself as necessary for each stage. My experience is that Flume/Beam is a lot nicer in almost all ways, so I'm not surprised that the same thing works for services too.
TV Providers (we called them broadcasters in my day) have no idea how many people are watching. They relied on the guess work from Nielsen. So I'm not really sure what you're implying they can do.

It wasn't until digital cable boxes before they could start tracking your account watched what channel at what time on what box. Or at least what was being decoded on that device whether eyeballs saw it or not.

In other words, you're focused on entirely the wrong thing if you're being pedantic with "nor do the web ads themselves". Thanks, as if I was confused on the subject. We're all adults here and understand the video bits are not tracking but the code used to deliver them.
It turns a Dockerfile into an executable script, so that by executing the Dockerfile, the shebang invokes docker to build and run the file.

Pretty neat if you're using Dockerfiles, but also highly non-standard so you wouldn't use it in your company repo (unless you want to increase the "what-the-fuck" level of your repo).

It's more of a "look, this is cool" kind of a thing if you're a Linux and container user.
It was also too much of her. Adding her in premonition scenes was excessive, IMO.
So I was thinking it would be kind of nice if there was a way to write a url like

https://nitter.net(c/o 185.246.188.57)/something/other

I guess links would still be broken though. Maybe a browser feature for a hosts file?
It’s IPC. I think are vastly overestimating the local processing overhead.
This! Worse than unskippable ad breaks are high resolution ads that come with lag.

Sometimes a 20 second unskippable and turns out to take 60 seconds or more with lag and buffering. Even thought I don't have issues on the video itself.
What are the alternatives that are less work to maintain?
Base your business on proprietary platform with history of making user hostile actions? That couldn’t go wrong.
> useful solutions aren't searchable on our site or via Google.

And since their forum does not render without Javascript, it is still not archived on archive.org, and probably not searchable with Bing or Duckduckgo
Sounds like DCOM?
I use also newpipe on phone. Requires installation of fdroid. It cannot be installed from Play store though.
Slack is reviewing and canceling long-standing discounts these days, so there’s going to be many more instances where companies are no longer willing to pay $$ per user per month instead of hosting a forum.