skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is discussed by the article:

> There are toxic plants that may kill you but will be nice about it. “Poison hemlock is much better,” says “Wildman” Steve Brill, a New York based foraging expert and tour guide with an encyclopedic knowledge of the edible and not-so-edible plants of the Northeast. “You just stop breathing and your heart stops.” Socrates, when choosing death over a life in exile as an old man, chose poisoning by poison hemlock. It was a gentle death.

> Poison hemlock is related to spotted water hemlock, but, um, only taxonomically, not in the way its poisons affect mammals. Here is Brill’s explanation of what happens when you eat spotted water hemlock:

> Every single muscle starts firing and contracting, so you have convulsions, you chew your tongue into ribbons, you vomit but then you can’t open your mouth because the jaw muscles are contracting 10 or 20 times as hard as they normally do, and you die a horrible death
Microsoft's new Copilot Pro brings AI-powered Office features to the rest of us
You have absolutely nailed it. Anki should work as a sliding window on material that you wish to learn not as an ever increasing bucket with more and more stuff in it. That way the new material will always be underexposed. It's much better to keep moving. I have the exact same patterns with learning pieces to play on the piano, and within those pieces you see those patterns again (it's almost a fractal).
No Strong Sender Identification Assurances
> They remember the days of windows XP well - endless viruses, trojans and expensive security software.

>They will be effectively forced to download apps like WhatsApp and Instagram from wherever Meta puts them

So, what's the connect? You've started with big scary viruses and ended up with WhatsApp?
> but if they are competent enough adults

and there's where the wheels fell off the bus with your argument. so many non-adults are using devices and downloading content. if their friends are using a non-Apple store and all using an app from there, they will follow. we'll see what kind of parental controls any 3rd party app store provide. teens will absolutely look for ways to skirt anything their parents are using to limit them. it's just part of being a teen.
I was just about to post this too. Highly recommend this video.
Explaining how you’ve impacted the bottom line isn’t BS, it’s how business works. Failing to understand this is a common mistake made by technical people, unfortunately.
Good news, the regular effects are also negligible.
Japan startup eyes fusion laser to shoot down space junk from ground
Bug Hunt #1
Hey HN!

I want to create a series of posts about me debugging stuff. For my future reference and for blogging purposes too. I was wondering what ya'll think!
In 2024 I would suggest deploying 2x25G instead, via e.g. MCX4121. Pricing is similar (<$30 NICs), but:

* 2x25G throughput is higher than 40G,

* 25G latency is lower than 40G,

* you can use 25G ports as 10G ports, and

* you can use DACs to connect 4x25G <=> 100G

That last point is particularly relevant given the existence of switches like the Mikrotik CRS504, providing 4x100G ports on 25W.
no, they dont:

https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw

https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-gcc

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...
What happened to my search engine?
> I'm amazed at how little district heating is used in northern climates like Canada and the northern US.

It is used on most if not all Canadian university campuses. Canadian university buildings are also far less sprawling because they're all connected to a steam generation plant.

Toronto has district heating.

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/water-environment/e...

In the reverse direction, Lake Ontario is part of a cooling system as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Lake_Water_Cooling_System
> I've read many European developers lament how they could effectively retire and return after working for just a few years if they could work in the states

You can project this to European (or even US) remote job + your place. Just charge top European or US rates, not the "local market rate".
I've been looking for a place to store files for backup. Already keeping a local copy on NAS, but I want another one to be remote. Would you guys recommend S3? Wouldn't be using any other services.
While most distros can basically do the same thing, this does a good job pointing out the differences (such as release cycle, philosophy, etc).
I aim higher.
Don't know why I didn't think of that. Thanks a bunch. I guess i subconsciously ignored it because people here didn't seem to hype it up too much. thanks again
I tried pasting it into ChatGPT 3 (I don't have access to 4) and it responded as if the hidden characters were not there (I checked and they were definitely included in my paste buffer). I wonder why this trick works on 4 but not 3.
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Are you comparing new Intel cards to old mellanox cards on ebay? If not idk why, I have not compared them myself, some feature maybe? Cost doesn't always make sense either.
In such a large world it’s hard to find ways to help out. What can an individual do to accelerate this trend?
React is the industry standard right now, to the point where it inspired the official UI frameworks for iOS and Android. I’d recommend it on that basis to some extent, but I also think React’s concept of UI snippets as values you can pass around like anything else is quite powerful and I miss it when working with template-only composition frameworks like Vue. If you learn it, it’s also a useful comparison point when learning other frameworks later - and there’s plenty of resources out there that explain other frameworks in React terms.
Scrum forces you to package your work into daily sound bites. It pull your focus elsewhere and reframes your work in a wasteful way where you are always cutting off the corners because of how it affects your 30 second daily advertisement.
PS: i searched before posting and it did not show up, but there it is now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39003146
Exactly, it has negative value. You will hate it forever and tell your friends. I'm not sure how making something bad cheap makes it better.

I'll slam a door on your foot once for a $, or 100 times for only 10 cents!
Cool, let me know what you cook up if you want, I'm very much interested in that particular crossing of roads.
Just doing something for 10 years doesn't make you an expert.
I thought "I can't speak to its current state" explained that I could not, in fact, speak to its current state.

But when it comes to databases, which are often the single most important part of an architecture, you'll find that many people are less forgiving of old sins, especially when Postgres now has native JSON support.

Much like I won't trust Uber with my location, or Google with my email, I won't trust Mongo with my data.
Hilariously ironic, with a sufficiently large cloud footprint, things like BGP (and more/other internetworking protocols) and OpenZFS become required skillsets. I have firsthand experience of this. :)
What are you trying to build? I would personally avoid JS if i was in startup/scrappy mode and stick to server side rendering. It can take you very far and reduces a lot of complexity. Most apps don't need to be single page applications
> The connection shows up as a ethernet port on Windows

Do you know if this is the case for all thunderbolt generations (speed differences aside)? Does it apply to thunderbolt using mini DisplayPort too or only over USB PHY?
This relates to the recent discussion of the "million dollar stereo" and the sub-discussion of Romex used as audio cabling:

"Since then, I have specified No. 10-3 solid round Romex with bond for all the screen
speakers in my installations. While some smaller theatres could be properly served by the
smaller No. 12-3 Romex, I usually suggest that installers standardize the a single size of
No. 10-3. A wire that may be a little larger on occasion is never a bad thing."
Sorry! But... R-Type!
Which one. Both?
I am the only one who finds it highly annoying that everyone assumes Nix should install itself in the global shell configs?
Though the effects of both poisons couldn't differ more.. gentle death one might choose in certain circumstances vs death you wouldn't even wish your worst enemy.

Recommend reading the article, not only because of this detail and that your "seems" would have become certainty before posting, it has even more nice points ;)
I suspect they will offer different apps. The official one on the app store becomes limited or doesn't change at all. The app released via other stores will be Zuck's wet dream of a Hoover of all your things. There will be no limitations on tracking. There will be no limitations on what parts of the system can be accessed. Even if the OS puts up road blocks, Zuck will just ask the user for permission and they will all be granted. Even if it is something the official app store would ban from publishing if they were accessed.

Do you honestly believe they wouldn't? If so, I have a bridge for sale
> or your problems are too complex for AI to solve - for now.

i am not very interesting in the current AI wave, but I gave chatgpt a try and asked them to generate some sample code using a specific library.

Now, i had read the library docs top to bottom, and the generated code was essentially wrong.

The thing that got me, i could definitely think of the specific manpages (or webpages) and samples chatgpt had used/shuffled to generate the code.

Needless to say, it shows how it can do a patchwork of text without really understand what's going on: the various pieces of code came from some different sources, were "stitched" together pretty much correctly, but the code was essentially doing the wrong thing.

Not sure how i feel about this, honestly
DMSO goes right through skin and will carry other compounds with it. It's used in some drug delivery systems to turn an injected drug into a topical one.

I first learned about it from the Shadowrun tabletop RPG. In the game, cyberpunk operatives sometimes mix DMSO with incapacitating or lethal poisons to load into military-grade squirt guns. I'm skeptical about that working IRL, but it's pretty funny.
Ask HN: Modern self-hosted e-commerce solutions?
The recent discussion about FedEx starting a marketplace to compete with Amazon reminded me that, once upon a time, people would host their own e-commerce sites. While not as popular as they once were, I imagine e-commerce solutions have a come a long way since I lasted checked in on them a decade ago.

If you wanted to self-host a small mercantile business, what options exist that could produce a good customer experience?
recordMyDesktop[0] should work on any *NIX w/OSS+X, and it defaults to a cached mode with deferred encoding so there's less load on the system during the recording.

In my experience using Linux+XOrg+ALSA on an X220 ThinkPad it works pretty well, at least in its current form.

Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of the linked fork, prior to this fork it was ~useless. If anyone tries it out on OpenBSD and finds issues, PRs for what's necessary to make it Just Work there are welcome.

[0] https://github.com/recordmydesktop/recordmydesktop
What next.js does is pretty neat. They have discord but they have a bot that mirrors all the help threads onto a public website so that it can be indexed by search engines
folks, lets go ahead and quote this user again:

> The best tooling for each OS is the one from the OS vendor themselves.

and here is their defense of that position:

> As per Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

because yes, the dictionary is the correct place to find information about operating systems. LOL
I'm planning on learning Rust and experimenting with game dev so this might help me. Thx.
They use CoPilot integrated into their IDE and mostly program with Kotlin.
I use it many times a day now for:

a.) Searching a broad domain that I'm not familiar with. It finds concepts I simply would have missed if I were using Google.

b.) Asking dumb questions I'm too embarrased to ask a colleague as it often feels like everyone's familiar with the idea but myself.

c.) Understanding usage of math symbols. Often, authors use slightly different symbols in expressions, and that trips me up. Rather than guessing and hoping I'm interpreting symbols correctly, I ask ChatGPT. For this, I often just take a screenshot of the expression(s) I'm curious about, and ask ChatGPT to explain the expressions without providing other context. Then, if ChatGPT gets the domain and context correct, I feel confident that it's explanation of the terms is reasonably trustworthy.

d.) Similar to 'c', but more deeply, clarifying content in text books or online courses, where I can't or don't want to wait for an instructor or peer response. There are so many frustrating occurances in educational material where an author glosses over a concept as "being obvious" or they "leave it to the reader as an excessive to derive". Really chaps my ass - I bought the material to learn efficiently, not spend hours pulling my hair out deriving a concept that's been omitted. So, I ask chat GPT. I recently had an epit 30-minute exchange with ChatGPT-4 on ROC curves. There is actually an unspoken assumption that after plotting measured specificity and sensitivity values (between 0 and 1), you must artificially connect the last point to coordinate (1,1), even though a small subset of models will not actually measure a value of (1,1). The discussion with ChatGPT helped me tease out the logic and see that the reason this concept is ommited is because it's highly unlikely to have model with no (1,1) ROC value, but I did confirm my suspicion that something was indeed being omitted, if not actually misunderstood, by educators explaining the concept. Could just be me, buy that kind of thing will stick in my crawl for years if I let it go unresolved. Bottom line, I think chatGPT, in this sense, is a good sounding board for reflecting how most everyone in the world "thinks" about a concept (especially very niche ones - not that ROC is niche) and you can indeed have a logical argument with chatGPT that is useful.

I expect these will only improve in time, but it's helping me right now.

I will say that writing prompts comprehensively in proper syntax and grammer/punctuation seems to yield considerably better results. Perhaps because a lot of the information archived in literature and white papers is written that way and chatGPT is effectively just an echo chamber for archived material. It seems like people try to use cave man-like "Google Search English" or chat/text slang, results are incomplete or off the mark. I speak English, so I'm not sure if this observation extends to other languages.
Patch quickly!
The upside is the outdoors and Boeing flights will be less crowded.

Faster, please.
Im guessing nobody dies from this, since 30C is water.

The catch is that they’re also without any benefit, and they’re poorer to boot.
I think OpenBSD folks and non-OpenBSD folks have a different meaning of the word effortless.

Glad guides like this exist, however this shows me that I am really not cut out for running an OpenBSD desktop (I did try it, and my internet browser would crash ever 20 minutes).
In my tests GPT-3.5 just isn’t smart enough to parse the hidden text encoding. It’s encoded in a way that’s programmatically trivial to convert to ASCII but text written this way usually only occurs inside country flag emojis and always encodes country codes. There is also a deprecated usage for encoding the language of text but these would still only be country codes. It’s likely other people have discovered this method for hiding text in non-AI-related contexts, and have hidden enough of it in publicly available texts that the model can learn it in pre-training. But this is all speculation.
The article hints at, but doesn't really discuss, the concept of information entropy [1]. Each word in that message has a very high entropy because it conveys a lot of information. I read an XKCD What If article [2] a while back that gives a really cool and intuitive introduction to the concept. I don't know all that much about computer science so it was a great way to get learning more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)

[2] https://what-if.xkcd.com/34/
With a guidebook/website you can easily find some restaurants with vegetarian options in cities, or vegan restaurants (although they tend to also serve ultra-healthy low calorie dishes). But in towns you may be out of luck and it can be super frustrating trying to explain that you don't eat fish or dashi which normally has fish in it especially if you don't speak the language well. It's common that a restaurant will not make you anything. Certain areas pretty much only have ryokans as accommodations, you're expected to eat there and they won't always accommodate you.

In the recent few years, "plant-based" options are popular in conbinis and chain restaurants. But half the time they are seasoned with meat extracts. I would say "plenty of options" is stretching it, you really have to put effort in once you get out of a city. I get GP's comment and I've known other people that, if a known vegetarian Japanese option isn't available, stick to pizza, Indian restaurants and a few reliable things from conbinis so they can travel without it being a hassle.
How much did the Apollo program cost?
Are cows smart enough to do a post mortem on who ate what random plant three hours ago?
I was confused about where/how SDL gets recompiled for WASM, but it looks like Emscripten specifically has built-in support for SDL and a handful of other libraries. That's cool.

Other C dependencies could probably be managed with vcpkg.
Miserable where? North hemisphere is fairly vast and there has been plenty of snow "here"
https://nitter.net/goodside/status/1746685366952735034
Interesting. So we can compute source code!

What's the equivalent of this: take code and double the numbers in it, then execute it:

CL-USER 33 > (eval (mapcar (lambda (atom)
(typecase atom
(number (expt atom 2))
(t atom)))
(cons '*
(list 3 4 5))))
3600
I think it does, just not in the things your measuring.

Sitting on a couch for 10 years will make you an expert. Not an expert in sitting on couches in general but an expert in sitting on your couch during the period you were there.
>While the machine itself isn’t expensive, it is not cheap if you consider the cost to operate. A machine like this is very power-hungry. Suppose the power consumption is 1000W per hour.

Alright, a server will be more power hungry than e.g. your desktop, but... This specific Dell R630 has 2x 750W PSUs in it. That 750W is the maximum rating of one power supply, and there's 2 of them for redundancy - not for increased power intake. That server will run at 750W maximum - but that is the absolute, absolute maximum power it should draw. It's when you have all the rails loaded to the limit and running the server to the ground.

A more realistic scenario would be e.g. 100W or so on average.

The worse problem if running this server at home would be the terrible small high-RPM fans they have in 1RU servers. The loud high-pitched whine of them will drive you nuts. A better idea would be to get either a lower-power 1RU pizza box, or something larger that can take larger fans - replacing the fans with something quieter and adjusting the fan controller to spin at lower RPMs.

>1000W per hour

This is just wrong.
the fact that you're even suggesting WSL shows how out of touch you are with current Windows development.
isn't that what the $99/year fee is for? the commission from app sales was for the service provided via the store
Supposedly, 5 stories or so is the best bang for buck due to going higher incurs more significant costs. At least that’s what I’ve heard in the US regarding defeating sprawl…
It's just the end of the end. NFTs are off to join SPACs and ICOs and every other kind of hellish scam we've been subject to over the last decade due to complete lack of regulatory power and oversight in the securities market.
It is almost certainly the other way around. Even 1000-base-T PHY is complex block of analog magic that draws significant power and adds measurable latency over direct SGMII/optical link. In comparison USB4 is even more directly connected to CPU than the whateverMII interface of PCIe NIC.
Exactly, just like cable TV, the next step is paid with ads!
Once an advertiser, always an advertiser.

There was a great 20 retrospective on CNN (24 years ago in June and no doubt put together by a thoughtful intern) that showed the CNN anchor talking about how being a paid cable news program meant they could be trusted not to be influenced by advertisers... then they cut to advertising!
Then there's C++. After ~30 years of it, I realized that I don't know how to initialize an object anymore. So I've given up.
Show HN: GPT to analyze your NPS Survey
We built a Custom GPT to help you analyze your NPS data. It's free forever, no strings attached.

It can:

1) calculate NPS score

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To give it a try, just upload an Excel :)

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Nothing will top the $485 wooden volume knob:

> Dynamics are better and overall naturalness is improved. Here is a test for all you Silver Rock owners. Try removing the bakelite knobs and listen. You will be shocked by this! The signature knobs will have an even greater effect…really amazing! The point here is the micro vibrations created by the volume pots and knobs find their way into the delicate signal path and cause degradation (Bad vibrations equal bad sound). With the signature knobs micro vibrations from the C37 concept of wood, bronze and the lacquer itself compensate for the volume pots and provide (Good Vibrations) our ear/brain combination like to hear…way better sound!!

Source: https://bobbyowsinski.blogspot.com/2012/05/485-volume-knob.h...
I'm sure you're not the only one, but I'm perfectly fine with it.
So true. Jammertal Deutschland, as the saying goes. (Germany, valley of the bitching)
Their reputation comes from the high volume of high quality and influential research that they do, as well as their deep integration with other institutions (e.g. when I was doing the Aero Astro sequence as an undergrad the head left to become head of the US Air Force; instead we had the former head of NASA. Or maybe it was the other way around).

When you look at the rankings of world universities the judgement is mostly by research output, not quality of education (though I think an MIT education is great, for the right students).

MIT is a large research organization with a small school attached: tuition revenue is less than 10% of MIT’s total revenue and education is about 15% of expenses though the web site mixes it in with other activity to make a larger number (you need the more detailed budget to dig the true number out).
Scrum just got taken out back. Agreed.
It works though.

I attended the very first MITx on electronics back in high school.

It got me a job being on my resume