skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is in reference to this essay:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co...

In the Beginning was the Command Line

Neal Stephenson

About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up
with the very strange idea of selling information processing machines for use in
the home. The business took off, and its founders made a lot of money and
received the credit they deserved for being daring visionaries.

But around the
same time, Bill Gates and Paul Allen came up with an idea even stranger and
more fantastical: selling computer operating systems. This was much weirder
than the idea of Jobs and Wozniak. A computer at least had some sort of
physical reality to it. It came in a box, you could open it up and plug it in
and watch lights blink. An operating system had no tangible incarnation at
all. It arrived on a disk, of course, but the disk was, in effect, nothing more
than the box that the OS came in. The product itself was a very long string of
ones and zeroes that, when properly installed and coddled, gave you the ability
to manipulate other very long strings of ones and zeroes.

Even those few who
actually understood what a computer operating system was were apt to think of
it as a fantastically arcane engineering prodigy, like a breeder reactor or a U-2
spy plane, and not something that could ever be (in the parlance of high-tech)
“productized.”
I'm not convinced climbers ruin the grip strength metric that much. Yes, as a climber your grip strength will be proportionally stronger when compared to other metrics. However, this also means that you climb regularly, which involves a lot of other muscles, balance, and lots of hiking if you do it outdoors.
Awesome Neuroscience on Github
Finding genuine product reviews is borderline impossible these days. Search results are usually just worthless affiliate link spam, even from supposed "reputable" outlets. Are there any other places on the internet that try to solve this problem in a way that can't be easily gamed by marketers?
This is kind of corporate politics that is ruining the tech industry.
Be careful what you're good at is good advise.

But be good at something is also good advice :)
Ask HN: A .prompt File Format?
Thinking about a good file format for sharing chatgpt / mygpt prompts

My first idea

a zip file with a .prompt extension that includes

prompt.md

/actions/
- action1.yaml
- action2.json

/assets/
- uploaded-asset1.doc
- uploaded-asset2.pdf

how would you do it?
From the comments on a similar thread here yesterday it’s clear many people on HN are passionate about the subject even though they aren’t clear about what the fourth amendment protects, what the NSA does, what are rights, and so on.
The nothing-else-to-do "work" of a "data scientist" no doubt.
Yeah. Too much the cold war angle. I think he overstates the role of government/military and underestimates how much the consumer market has driven the process innovations that has made computing cheap and ubiquitous,
> I use tools, not tool tools.

You remind me typical pro-Russian men who claim they are non-interesting in politics with no realizing their choice "not to be interested in politics" is a pro-war choice.
>The value of the “options” back when he was conditionally granted them was like $50M.

Getting the options was contingent on market cap, so not sure this makes sense.

Besides, this is about Elon running over a captured board. When you read the series of events that lead to the pay package, that part makes more sense.

Remember, the board also had to return money...
A theory I have is that some may use it as Schelling point [1] to coordinate. For reproduction but maybe other things too.

Similar how the environment conditions after a rain can be the catalyst for ants nuptial flight [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuptial_flight
DAIrrhea. Like verbal diarrhoea but potentially multimodal and generated by bots.
does sourcehut support shat gitlab is trying to achieve here?
Facebook bought their eventual competitors by making an offer they couldn't refuse. Zuck knows Metcalfe's law.
Last week my wife got prompted by Ubuntu's automatic software update to install a security update that required signing up to some paid Ubuntu subscription.

I'm not sure this is really what it meant (I didn't see the prompt myself), but it was what Ubuntu made her believe.

After updating without this "option", all her VirtualBox VMs stopped working (I don't mean to imply that these two issues are linked).
There's already a discussion going on over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39201317
Is it that baffling? After all, the core principle is that instead of representing a continuous spectra, you project the spectra to a few basis functions[1], so you can later reconstruct an approximation of the original spectra.

Our eyes have three different cone cells with different responses[2], so the fact that three basis functions[3] that roughly align with the cone cells work well as an approximation isn't that surprising to me.

That said, way back when I was doing rendering I was toying with the idea of trying to find a optimal basis functions for rendering, like if scene-specific ones could improve things.

[1]: https://www.psych.mcgill.ca/misc/fda/ex-basis-a1.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space
I work for Groq and we serve the fastest available version of Mixtral (by far) and we also have a web chat app. I'll refrain from linking it because it has already been linked and I don't want to spam, but I'm available to answer any questions people have about Groq's hardware and service.
Very much something I'm interested in.

The problem I have is it jumps straight in at a level that is too high for me, I literally can't answer the basic questions you start with. I need more basic introductions and foundations, perhaps this is only an app I can come too once I've studied to a certain level elsewhere?
Are you actually talking about the Vegas Loop unironically?
It’s not about that. It’s about if some new fundamental discovery shatters all barriers leaving VR in an uncontested position of technological supremacy. You know, the arguable position of the “smartphone” which apple leads in.

The transition from the PC/laptop has been brutal to the prior entrenched players. I’m inclined to agree with OP that this is a play that is about more about creating options now. Might be that Apple executes the winner and happily cannibalizes itself but it does not want to be in a position where it is 5 years behind in terms of R&D if another company breaks through first.
And their ambitions are even higher...

> For example, AST SpaceMobile’s first satellites had antennas with surface areas of 64 square meters, followed by second generation satellites with 128 m2 antennas, with plans for going up to 400 m2

I guess when the Starship rocket is available and if they have a reliable folding mechanism, this could happen. The question is probably whether they can keep the cost under control .
This is generally true of most of the product line... the iPod Nano / Shuffle were very popular but not the first iPod, the Watch is popular now, but the first one wasn't a all that, same with AirPods, and of course the iPhone itself. Apple has visibility into the Vision Air, and the Pro 2 & 3 and maybe 4 as well, so I'm curious to see where in are in 3 years or iterations.
The only thing "dark matter" and "dark energy" have going for them is unfalsifiability for our type 0.5 civilization. Keep in mind that general relativity isn't actually even fully worked out for real systems.
> input the final result in a [Select a format],

should that not be output?
Being a non-profit does not mean that you cannot sell stuff. I think it just means that you cannot make profit for it. So there is no incentive for stakeholders to make you grow infinitely, because they don't get money from that.

At least that would be my understanding with a non-profit?
What's nice about Edge?

The only good feature they had - the vertical tabs - is now in Brave also
Don't chase f*** you money
Optical sensor would be the best option - both induction and hall effect will add a very tiny eddy current brake effect that will slow down the pendulum. Probably imperceptively, but it'll be there and will affect time keeping eventually.
How can a browser be homophobic?
I find copilot to be most useful as an orm. It can vomit out bindings between sql and your code so incredibly fast.

It's really bad at doing anything novel and complex, so don't use it for that. But doing trivial stuff with tech you are new to is great. If you're new to sql then it can write you a decent table schema with decent indexes and give you the correct insert/update/select queries. It can even do simple joins. But don't venture into some complex nested stuff. Don't.
So as others have mentioned there already is the ".home.arpa" TLD;

Would the only difference then be the name ".internal" or is there another difference/advantage versus ".home.arpa"?
At OVPN, privacy and anonymity are not a core guiding principles in everything they do.
SONAME is here for ABI compatibility, right?
You can have merge trains where it will build the MR based on the MRs that are merging to master.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
i have the impression nutrition is a bit like religion. the right way, i.e. what a "balanced diet" means is heavily depends on the country you grew up in and how your parents did it. either this or you join a cult and swear by the one diet ... religulously.

thus critizicing one's diet is like saying: "your religion is trash", which is, not surprisingly, usually not taken well be the other.

in my experience, a healthy diet is mostly about two things:
* restricting calories to reach a balanced CI-CO for a bodyweight in the healthy range
* allowing caloric restriction without going insane

so it's technically less about the quality of the food (i.e. how healthy your meal ingredients are) and more about feeling satiated long enough to not go crazy from hunger pangs between meals. in practice, those two overlap a great deal: if your meals lack in certain nutrients you tend to become "hungry" - for those missing nutrients, but people on a "bad" diet just eat more of the usual stuff.

apart from that, people have different motives and preferences: there are bodybuilders who can happily scarf down the same prepared meals day in and out and would subsist on cardboard if possible as long as the macros are right. there are the foodies who'd rather starve than eat a meal that's not delicious. women may need other ingredients than men due to different hormone profiles. some people love the simplicity of drinkable meals that contain all the nutrients and don't care for solid food at all anymore, while for others that would be hell on earth.

the potato diet will not work for a gourmand. a low fat diet may not work for women who need certain essential fats more than men. a low carb diet might not work well for an athlete. etc.
Not from google but I can tell you a probable reason. I'd wager they did this purposefully, knowing that it's user-hostile. Google cache shows you what a page looks like to Google, and that often has things such as paywalls (edit - or login gates) disabled to improve indexability of the page. People could use this to get around paywalls, which is not great for profitability. Cached pages also don't show you the latest active ads.

Edit: also, easy access to non-paywalled content gives you a massive trove of training data for machine learning models. Even if these aren't the main reasons for this feature disappearing, they're pretty convenient side effects.
Classical don't think too much, calculate exercise.

1. Probability to pick green after a red for a given n is p = (100-n)/99

2. For all possible n given the first ball was red -> Integral_[0..100] (100-n)/99 * p(n|red) dn

3. So you need p(n|red) which is obviously different from p(n) for instance n=0 is not possible anymore -> p(n=0) = 1/101 != p(n=0|red) = 0

4. Again don't think to much, calc ... p(n|red) = p(red|n)p(n)/p(red)

p(n) = 1/101 (1 of 101 possible n, constant due to uniform distribution), p(red)=0.5 (due to symmetry since p(n) is uniform), p(red|n) = n/100 (n of 100 balls are red) -> p(n|red) = n/5050

5. plausibility check -> sum of p(n|red) for all n should be 1 -> (0 + 1 + 2 .. 100) / 5050 = 5050/5050 = 1

6. Hardest part, the integral from step 2. -> wolfram alpha says 0.33

7. It's a don't-think-too-much-calculate result, so don't be too confident )))
I need to buy an ultrasonic whistle and experiment with this! :)
Agreed, for instance in our codebase we just make all type assertions a lint error demanding a justification, as well as flat out banning the any type. But anyone is free to write shoddy TypeScript.
Ah, so the creator of the video must've just forgotten to turn on the travel mode then?
Alphabet is not a company most people interact with directly so their website address doesn't matter at all.
Please give me the liberated version with no shite while getting it.
Does climbing really expose you to your fear of death? You're strapped in, and possibly wearing a helmet if outside, while either top roped or clipped in metal anchors. I can see that fear if you're free climbing, though.

I've gone dozens of times, mostly because friends can't get enough of it, but I find it slow, boring and expensive. I've done mostly outdoor, but some indoor, and while sometimes I enjoy the technical aspect of it. Solo back country trekking and camping seems "scarier" to me.

Personally, after work, the last thing I want is intense stimulation, or to be around a bunch of people pulling on plastic. I'd prefer a nice ride or to get outside, away from everything.
And that's a good thing, I wouldn't want a game to install a rootkit on my PC.
YouTube TV starts testing customizable 2×2 multiview options
“Gremlins.”

All financial infrastructure is a patched-together collection of systems spread across multiple different firms made of multiple suborgs with vastly different levels of observability into and understanding of their local part of the total system. For many routine problems, the cost of having a rigorous answer to “What just happened?” is far, far greater than the dollar amount at stake in the transaction. You’d need the equivalent of a federal agency doing an after-accident investigation to make headway, at the cost of millions.

So we chalk it up to gremlins and move on, for better or worse. (This is one reason why financial institutions have an operational losses budget. Sometimes the gremlins eat someone’s money. So you just charge it to Ops Losses and move on.)
> SpaceX told the U.S. Trade Representative in a letter dated Dec. 10 and first reported last week that European subsidies to Arianespace, Europe's primary space launch provider, created an "imbalanced competitive advantage that threatens fair trade".

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1QF2AR/

They want to hinder competition

It's moving very fast, yet you don't hear about them attempts here in the west

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ARxkXFp3Li8R0JgXBHy-Sw

Without subsidies, it's impossible to achieve, it's just like with nuclear power plants, if the public is not involved, nobody will want to invest, Musk knows that very well, he love them subsidies

He also wouldn't be able to be competitive if the government didn't offer grants/benefits for EVs
> Wait, so it uses a continuous range of voltages instead of PWM to control the heating element?

Heating is either on or of, but it's on the order of "a few times per second". The heating action is connected to a small indicator lamp that lights up when the transformer is pushing power through the iron. You can hear the transformer buzzing briefly every few seconds to keep the tip around the set temperature. Touch the tip to a large thermal mass, and the transformer buzzes continuously. I expect there is a Schmitt trigger or a simple comparator in the control board that is in charge of the heating action. Again, check out the schematics to see how simple it is.

> Do tips not have an ideal voltage for efficiently emitting IR?

What do you mean by emitting IR? A soldering iron doesn't melt tin by radiative heating. You make physical contact with whatever you are intending to heat.

Are you perhaps thinking of Curie point soldering (or inductive heating) [0]? Those employ a much more complex process. My Weller goes by the "make the pointy metal stick reasonably hot" principle.

[0] https://www.metcal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/how-it-wor...
FWIW I’ve been using branded types for years and never had this issue.
I don't think there is much disagreement on how to be healthier.

The problem is how to be healthier without it costing too much in terms of effort, pain, sacrifice, etc.
Not known, but certainly defined. It has to not be zero at least, otherwise you couldn't take out a red ball in the first place. Or at least that's how I understand this problem. You don't know what number n is, so you need statistics or simulations to grasp the probability of the color of the next ball.
It is more like, having a free beer OS to come alongside the language is a big selling point.
Don't worry, let market fix it.
Way back then it also competed against actual cassette and CD Walkmans. So just playing was a big part of it.
A lot of this could be solved with better tooling on your side, starting with a better mail reader. Mail readers have supported threading since before many of us were born. You don't have to follow an entire mailing list to follow a thread. I know we have to use normie mail readers for general communication but why are people so averse to using a proper mail set up when it makes sense, like for software development? We already use a ton of other tools specific to software development.

A personal todo list system that integrates with your email is also essential. I don't understand how people don't do it. It's all very well forges having status of MRs etc. but surely your job isn't only merging MRs on GitLab? So you'll have other todo lists distributed over various places like other forges, Jira type things and, of course, your email. Why not consolidate all your todos into one place? If you're interested in a patch, add it to your todo list and check the status of it periodically.

Conventions are good. It's part of being human. Learn how to use language to communicate with your fellow humans. It keeps the creative juices flowing.
>one of the biggest stories in semiconductors has been a surprise eclipsing of traditional silicon — in the field of power electronics, where silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) have raced past silicon to capture multibilllion-dollar segments of the market.

No surprise when you consider that silicon was known not to be the best possible choice as a solid-state semiconductor, starting before its rise to commercial prominence.

Silicon simply had the advantage of a head start because large quantities of low-cost raw material had become a consistent bulk commodity in the supply chain for steel mills (over a few generations), and theoretically would be a feasible source for the highly purified elemental silicon, which had been proven viable at the time to be workable for electronic use.

This was an emergency.

It was a space race.

And a cold war.

It is expected many times when very high purity materials need to be produced, that large quantities of lesser-purity feedstock need to be processed in order to "extract" a relatively minuscule quantity of the "absolute" pure substance.

The processing and handling can be quite costly, but it makes a huge difference when the large quantity of "leftover waste" raw material retains its value as a commodity afterward. Kind of like having a factory where tonnes of commodity come in, almost the same number of tonnes of equivalent commodity come out, and the prized product is only a relatively few kilos which has been carefully removed.

So in this type situation the net raw material cost of the specialty product becomes one of the least significant factors, and is virtually decoupled from the price or fluctuations of the bulk commodity itself.

It's just that germanium had made it first to the table commercially, and silicon performed better at so many things that we stayed at second generation ever since except for a few ambitious outliers. Like these.

Unforseen performance has been anticipated by some of us for a long time.
Sure - but this was about the difficulties of a habitat on mars vs habitat in space. And for some reason, there were many, one can allmost say fanatics, who volunteered for the scam called Mars One, taking a one way ticket with the knowledge that they would die, if something goes wrong.
And also can declare your own wrappers to at least achieve it for your own codebase.
I've always noticed that sun rays through monofilament fishing line attract dragonflies, yet fails to do so on overcast days.
I wonder what percentage of users these days deliberately make use of local files, as opposed to The Cloud. Maybe local search is considered a niche feature now (I have no idea if this is true or not, and I really hope that it isn't).
You know that even Linus recently said that Linux has outgrown the email workflow and needs to find an alternative?
More like using the sun/sky to adjust their attitude of flying. Everyday, not only when moon is visible.
> Computers are tools to let me achieve things

Computers are tools to run software. Software is what makes (or breaks) the computer a useful tool. A computer without software is just as useful as a lump of pig iron: handy as a paper weight but no more.

Closed software which locks your data in its grasp may be OK for some purposes but in the long run it nearly always ends up causing problems - try opening an older Word file in current Word [1] for an example of such.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38906331
MacOS is death by a thousand papercuts to use due to these small things that need an app. Installing those apps cause other problems though.
Apparently bees also drop when you turn the light off:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OmG0OT6MWC8
That's not how it works at all (see, I can do exactly the same).

1) I, as an admin, have never been pressured by anyone to do anything and can federate with whoever I want. Thousands of instances are the same. The only ones who are pressured are the biggest ones, who also happen to host the worst content (xenophobic, racist, gore, pedo content).

2) You are not owed an audience. Not everyone wants to ear what you have to say. Moderation at scale needs to happen if we want marginalized communities to thrive, and unfortunately since the internet is mostly hostile to those the most efficient way to do this is to block. But if you're not ok with the blocking policy of your instance, change it. That's the whole point of federation. You'd do the same with Nostr: you disconnect from a relay if you don't like what comes from them, connect to another one, except with Nostr you can't totally be sure the bad content will be filtered out.
TikTok is published by ByteDance, a public company incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

Can you tell which "western apps" are banned in Cayman Islands?
.lol is overpriced and worse, can arbitrarily increase the price in the future. Using anything other than an ICANN-controld gTLD (com,net,org,etc.) or a ccTLD (be very careful about ones from countries other than your own) is a fool.
There is a shared Anki deck about this https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2109889812
Code and install instructions here: https://github.com/basecamp/mission_control-jobs
Theoretically speaking, could you use high power lasers to overheat the satellites to the point that they break and permanently stop working?

I've had this idea on my mind for quite a while now, because some time ago I heard something about Starlink painting their satellites black, which reminded me of the "it's hotter in a black car" thing.
Do you have a source for that? I would like to learn more about that