skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that in order to plot a time series, one has to pre-process the data to get some glyhps that get rendered.

With modern font stacks, wouldn't it be possible to process comma-separated values directly? There are fonts [0, 1] that censor words without any need for pre-processing. I think this would be beneficial for accessibility.

[0]: https://vole.wtf/scunthorpe-sans
[1]: http://projectseen.com
I'd encourage you to read up on the component model. The talk by Luke Wagner linked in other comments is incredibly informative if you can make time to watch it. It's not about replacing WASI, it's about providing a coherent model for both implementing APIs like WASI and also providing structure and tooling for integrating codebases together in a sensible way using WebAssembly.
Did anyone notice the stars in front of the planet in the image?

Probably AI generated.
The .NET community started their own version and included some other languages. I think I saw Rust at 1.4s or so but was disqualified because it was optimized to that dataset (no idea how they determined that). Someone wrote some SIMD code for c# and was like 1s. Shaving some milliseconds between c#, c++, and rust in the final end for 1 billion rows is still impressive.
Also, it might be expected for technological change to happen extremely slowly when you have such disconnected states and small communities. He recognizes there are very poor transport and communication networks. How exactly would he expect information to flourish and where would he expect innovation to come from?

I think in the real world, the hunter-gatherer culture lasted about 2 million years. Obviously middle-earth isn't hunter-gatherer but its some point of reference. From some very quick searching it seems like the start of agrarian society through the middle ages was about 6000 years. And again, as the author notes, there was a much high population density and network of people in the europe/middle east/western asia in the real world. The 12000 years without significant technological advancement seems entirely plausible even in real terms.
I would trust they would instead be happy to have such a socially intelligent friend once the dust has cooled.
I think it was impossible with the old rendering engine, hence the excitement in this blog post.
Spectrum offered me this package and I have no kids. There is no doubt that rampant abuse is ongoing.
>> The YouTube play/pause button shows the action it will do, not the state that it is in.

A lot of physical play/pause buttons show both symbols. Also in a lot of cases you can tell if a video is playing.
Thanks for commenting :)
The article is paywalled, but what I can read of it refutes your claims. It states that, according to (presumably Israeli) intelligence: around 10% of all of its Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups

10% is a lot less than most, and that's the very broad category of "ties to militant groups", not actual Hamas members. What qualifies as a "tie"? Being related to or knowing someone in Hamas, or having to deal with them, given that they operate in Hamas territory? And "Islamist militant group" is a much broader category than just Hamas.

For example NFAC [1] is a militant group, yet it has committed negligible violence (allegedly only by ex-members, not current ones). Are they including NFAC-equivalent groups under "Islamist militants"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Fucking_Around_Coalition
It depends on the machine, but some people got very fast results.
https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions/57

Why would you use Javascript for that?
The other day I was thinking that in "the times we live in"™ it would be nice to have a sort of notary for anonymous sources. The source is known between the journalist and the notary. The notary has to be assigned to the journalist from another third party randomly (probably a state institution through a process like `get_notary(unique_article_id, unique_journalist_id) -> unique_notary_id`).
The journalist communicates quotes and contact information for the quotes to the notary they've been assigned to.

Then, in case of doubt, it's possible for anybody to request the notary validates the sources of the story.

Freelance journalist could also go through the process to be able to guaranty to the Editor they're submitting to that their story is not bullshit, without having to reveal their sources or the editor to have to do the checks themselves.
Postman can also import in "curl format", so yeah, the representation works.
you say 'If you want private panels in pretty much any country outside of America, they're going to have to go on the roof as we don't exactly have the land to waste elsewhere.'

https://www.worldometers.info/geography/7-continents/ says the population density of north america is 28 people/km², and south america is 25. meanwhile, europe is 33, africa is 49, asia is 153, "australia/oceania" (???) is 5, and antarctica is 0. so basically the population density of europe is the same as america, africa is just a little bit higher, asia is much higher, and australia is much lower

possibly by 'pretty much any country outside of america' you meant either nigeria or singapore

but let's consider the worst case continent, asia. 153 people per square kilometer means 6500 square meters per person. hopefully you are aware that the average home size in asia is not 6500 square meters or even 65 square meters, and that a substantial fraction of people live in apartment buildings which share a roof. so the vast majority of land even in asia is not roofed. this is also obvious from looking at any satellite photo. but enormous numbers of people live in houses with gardens or even farms attached

if we assume a 15% average solar capacity factor and 21% efficient solar panels, 6500 square meters per person is 200 kilowatts per person. current world marketed energy consumption is something like 2, 2½ kilowatts per person. that's still too much to put on the average roof but it's not exactly a major fraction of the total land area either

even nigeria is only 250 people per square km

you're right about singapore tho
It's also worth remembering that the world of LotR has people in it who were there for the advanced civilization. It's not beyond living memory. A number of those people are important minor characters, and the sense of loss helps form the backdrop for the ever-present grief of much of elven culture.

The past cataclysm was very much a part of the current world in LotR in many ways.
I think you're talking about a Rust solution that works by reading a small prefix of the input and generating a perfect hash with no handling for misses. So it will be wrong for any input that contains station names that do not occur in that prefix.
Ask HN: Launching in a Shark Tank? Weighing Risks vs. Rewards in Niche Markets
Greetings HN community, facing a pivotal decision with launching our consumer product, which is showing promise in a niche, yet competitive market. After extensive iteration, valuable input from industry experts, and promising user feedback, we find ourselves at a crossroads: to pursue this venture further or to steer in a new direction.

We would love to get your collective thoughts on how you would approach the decision to launch our product in our current situation?

In the seven months working on our consumer product which is yet to be launched, multiple pilots were conducted, receiving positive feedback. The project witnessed several pivots, with each new direction validated through expert talks, user studies, and surveys. The sales strategy for our product is primarily focused on gifters purchasing for end-users, catering to this niche market. This market experiences three major seasonal peaks annually.

In terms of competition, the market is dominated by player "Incumbent", which boasts an estimated annual revenue of $10M, though their profitability remains unclear. “Incumbent” has established itself as the market leader through strong branding and efficient marketing & operations. Recently, a new competitor "Emerging Innovator" has emerged, challenging "Incumbent" by offering a superior, tech-enhanced experience. Our product matches "Emerging Innovator” in experience and also outdoes "Incumbent". However, for gifters, the purchasing decision is less influenced by the experience and more by the product being meaningful, easy to purchase, and offering value for money, thus making marketing and brand development key.

In preparation for launch, a detailed roadmap and financial plan have been established, projecting a $500K investment for running the business in its first two years with an estimated $800K profit in the second year and growing further from there. Due to personal reasons, we are looking for a CEO/Founder to execute the business plan and lead the company for the first 2-5 years (offering substantial equity). We also realized that our decision on whether to continue with the project hinges on the conviction that the plan is highly likely to succeed.

Beyond your thoughts about how you would approach the situation and why:
1) Are there critical blind spots or overlooked challenges that we need to address before moving forward?
2) What are the strategies to manage the risk of leadership transition in a startup, if there are any?
3) Do you think the rewards of launching our product outweigh the associated risks?
4) How would you evaluate the chances of success of entering such a competitive, niche market?
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.
There’s a documentary “The Singing Revolution,” which covers how this festival related to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/4njksFKyycY?si=vrULaKl20rVx9L9g
The benefit of curl over raw HTTP is the ability to strip away things that dont matter.

Eg an HTTP request should have a client header, but they're typically not relevant to what you're trying to do.

curl is like an HTTP request that specifies only the parts you care about. It's brief, and having access to bash makes it easy to express something like "set this field to a timestamp".
3 or 4 years for full vesting, sure - but not to start vesting. A 6 month or 1 year "cliff" where you start vesting a portion of your shares is pretty standard.
Based on the quotes near the end of the article I’d guess it was a tire retailer’s PR department. Either that or the oil lobby, naturally
I sat in a friend's Mercedes and the central display had a big flashy full screen warning that said something along the lines of "Don't let [name of their software package] distract you from driving!".
It seems the irony of screaming for your attention only to tell you not to pay attention was lost on them.
> Believe is something religious people do. The great thing about science is belief is unnecessary.

Unfortunately, we are not all equipped to replicate all experiments, so even scientists rely on a significant amount of belief and faith.
Amazon, iRobot Scrap $1.7B Acquisition Deal
That source is essentially lying to you. It's measuring electricity as "heat" by simply converting the energy value (i.e. as if you were using 1950's radiant baseboard heaters). Modern homes use heat pumps that are (literally!) 3x as efficient.

It gets away with this by admitting the error in the text ("The only caveat is that we talk only about traditional electric heaters. Heat pumps are another story."), but the numbers remain a lie.

In fact if you look at it, that site seems to me to be a for-pay blog. Most of the articles are just product "reviews", with the remaining stuff a mix of bland overview stuff and articles like this that seem to push an agenda counter to the presented theme of the blog.

Be careful out there. The internet is a wild place.
Its impressive how people here, that should know better, are cheering this on - just because they are parents themselves. Even disregarding the legality, its not going to work technically. The perceived safety of ones kids really crosses some wires in parents.
The previous post in the series[1], helpfully linked to in the introduction, has a lot more details of the underlying concepts.

It also set my mind wandering to the not-technically-related functional derivatives[2], where you vary the function slightly rather than the argument value.

I'm not great at math, but I do love this what-if exploration you can do in math. Due to the various proofs underlying it all it seems sometimes more fruitful than similar exploration in programming, where one might quickly stumble upon obscure compiler errors or similar obstacles.

[1]: https://nosferalatu.com/DerivativesLogarithmsTransforms.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_derivative
"Post roman empire collapsing europe" is the textbook definition of the Middle Ages (from 476 to 1492).
One of the things I always wonder about with these massive choirs with 10-30 thousand singers is how do you synchronize everyone so that it doesn't sound like a muddled mess? With such a large group the audio delays due to the speed of sound from the front to back or side to side of the choir start to become non-negligible.
Discussions about PHP inevitably end up in a "The language is better now" vs "You can still write this crap" loop. ;)
Evaluating GPT-4 as a Clinical Decision Support Tool in Ischemic Stroke
You can imagine pi for one trivial example. It has infinite details but it's not infinitely interesting. You can map it to infinite boring story (let's say John moves west/east depending on the next binary digit :) ).

Kolmogorov complexity is the formalism around that distinction.

EDIT now that I think about it - if you take PI in binary and interprete it as utf-8 - every single book every written (or that will ever be written) is in there somewhere :) And there are algorithm to calculate PI to arbitrary digit that are pretty simple.
Try https://curlconverter.com/ - "Convert curl commands to Python, JavaScript and
more"
(To parody the email that I get from every startup that got bought by FAANG)

“As a consumer I am proud, delighted and outright tickled pink that this acquisition has failed as having competition in the market will, in the long term, result in better products and lower prices”

See https://www.thebignewsletter.com/
this is genius! good job
Thunderfoot has pretty dubious credibility as it is though...

It's sort of like, once you make a name for yourself by pointing out what is wrong, suddenly everything becomes wrong.
British biologist Sholto David finds flaws in scientific papers
Then certainly the actions of Israeli leadership and the IDF represent Israel.
>A lot of it is sloppiness
Never have I been so hesitant to click on a link on HN.
Thanks for the links/translation! That's quite interesting. So is that to say it actually ended being done even substantially below budget?
It was a sad day when I learned Scots Wikipedia was pretty much entirely fake.
This is why I bounce hard off of anything that could be labelled "historical fiction".

I don't know enough about, e.g., the JFK assassination, to be sure that a dramatization of it isn't going to fill in the gaps and make me think I do know something that turns out to be serving the agenda of others, or simply wrong.

And yes I recognize that "history" is just the consensus version of "historical fiction", and that consensus is local at best, and often also serving an agenda!
Do what you gotta do haha
Games about killing people are not a problem, as long they are labeled properly (enforcing that, that's another story). Do we have a bigger problem with objectification, than with plain murdering, or with drug dealing? And how's the argument about having sex with prostitutes in GTA? Really all this only confuses me - people are cherry-picking topics to be upset about, while ignoring similar glaring ones right there. I'm not even saying about what one should be upset, just expecting some consistency in it.
Interesting.. do you have reasons to believe the niche market will grow in the next few years?
I got it. But it’s because I worked on software that is global by design and we serve markets all over the world.

I think some of these others may not have worked on such software requirements.

Your site makes sense.
>Given the ability of the CCP to significantly control major industries and movement of people, is it not possible that someone might buy an apartment in a "ghost city" while living in a rural area or renting in another city, expecting that people and jobs would flow to the city once it was completed?

Seems like it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in...

>Many developments initially criticized as ghost cities did materialize into economically vibrant areas when given enough time to develop, such as Pudong, Zhujiang New Town, Zhengdong New Area, Tianducheng and malls such as the Golden Resources Mall and South China Mall.[15] While many developments failed to live up to initial lofty promises, most of them eventually became occupied when given enough time.[6][16]

>Reporting in 2018, Shepard noted that "Today, China’s so-called ghost cities that were so prevalently showcased in 2013 and 2014 are no longer global intrigues. They have filled up to the point of being functioning, normal cities".[17]

>Writing in 2023, academic and former UK diplomat Kerry Brown described the idea of Chinese ghost cities as a bandwagon popular in the 2010s which was shown to be a myth.[18]: 151-152
Fraud and threats - they deserve to be reported to the police.

This is also a reminder it's good that I don't give my phone number to anyone on ebay.
For those unfamiliar with Touhou, the main character of this video is a human girl who turned herself into a magician (they are considered a different species in series lore) through intense study and practice of magic. As an outsider, I imagine that successfully working through SICP is a similar experience.
I joined a good friend's startup as employee #1. I'm still there 13 years later; it hasn't always been perfectly smooth sailing, but I think we have a lot of mutual respect and are both humble enough to look back on past disagreements and see where the other probably had a good point on whatever the issue was.
A Series of Unfortunate Events 7: The Vile Village for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vile_Village
The box certainly resists crushing, although it is also, presumably, designed to resist crushing to protect its contents.

The current Apple packaging is 100% recyclable though. There is no plastic. The box is closed with adhesive paper tabs, everything inside is paper, the cable wrap is paper. You can open the box and remove the device and cables and chuck the rest in your bin directly.

I think for most people, the occasional uncrushable box is not a big deal. Where I am, where we open these things all the time, it’s kind of a hassle. But then again we have a machine for crushing boxes.

It’s a little precious, but Apple packaging is hardly “bad.”
Be aware that online service like this one might log your request which could have sensitive data, I'm not saying it does, but those websites give me the creep
You're not in their demographic.

I mentioned previously a small Chinese restaurant in a mall in Silicon Valley which offered only a QR code. But it didn't lead to a display of the menu. It led to the onboarding funnel for a ordering app. Dine-in had been made a special case of food delivery, with a very short delivery distance. Terms of service and an EULA, of course.

We declined to be "onboarded", and managed to order from the counter.
I've been curious to check out https://www.flux.ai/, but haven't played with it much yet.
same is true of gameservers for the serious AAA studios.

On windows this sort of comes out of the box because windows always defaults CORE0 to the OS and is mostly single threaded, but you can set CPU affinity on your processes in process: just avoid core0.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/...
The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps
In Aus most light switches are rocker switches that are also "down = on".

In aviation (and old cars) switches are usually toggle switches with "up = on".

Strangely I'm ok with both. I think of rocker switches as opposite to toggle switches automatically.

- https://www.google.com/search?q=rocker+switch

- https://www.google.com/search?q=toggle+switch
Ask HN: Bounty Market?
I've seen multiple open source bounty markets come and go. Places where I can post a bounty "if someone implemented X using Y, I'll give them $10," and other people could say, "Oh yeah, I'll also add $1 to that bounty!" Or someone could propose, "I'll implement X using Y, if people will give me $11."

Are there any current, lively, active open source bounty markets?
Historically there always has been a furious reaction from women/feminist movements against anything related to this, even in past decades when even the act of thinking or imagine anything like this was all one could do.

This is a topic with more mines than an Ukrainian field, but I'll say this:

Last century, we moved places because there were many problems and deservedly so we wanted something better, we had to choose paths to take. What if the paths we choose weren't the best ones? Can we have the courage to admit that?

This doesn't invalidate any problems with the starting point, but the place we ended up might not be any better.

The same applies to this "sex robots" thing, the place of unimaginable silent pain and loneliness is already here, so we want to move to a better place, is this the best choice? or is this the only choice available to those in need? - Just as the first part, this one is to be answered by the ones following the path, not the ones on the sidewalk.
There's also Mail-in-a-Box: https://mailinabox.email/
Modeling Application Delivery with AppConfiguration
> It is more about having access to Wikipedia on deep, complex and internally consistent alternative history/fictional world

Reading wiki pages of videogames and TV shows feels quite like that.
Show HN: Privacy-first cross platform spreadsheet pipeline app
In my previous role at a small startup, I frequently developed simple scripts to assist recruiters and marketing professionals in handling data processing tasks on Excel or CSV files.

These tasks were typically straightforward and repetitive, stemming from the periodic export of data. This experience sparked the idea to create a straightforward tool dedicated to such functionalities(also mobile friendly, as they occasionally need to process data on their smartphones).

There are powerful tools like Power Query and Tableau, but they often prove too complex for non-technical users to navigate effectively. Additionally, ETL tools that support CSV/XLSX formats often come with a high price. That's why I build Tablesmith, an easy-to-use and free spreadsheet automation tool that empowers anyone to automate their data-related tasks with ease.

Furthermore, I also include AI autofill capability, which I believe would be useful.
Because I have some money and some open source things I wish existed...
Cool. I liked your posts and if you ever feel like getting back to them, I’ll get an email when the next one comes out.