skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Just a heads-up for anyone thinking of paying the $3/month extra for the privilege of not seeing ads on Prime…. Per Amazon in a response to a question about this in their community forum:

“Amazon doesn’t consider trailers that run before a show to be ads.”

Trailers are ads, for other programs.

My own experience today is you now get trailers at the beginning and end of shows THAT YOU CANNOT FAST FORWARD THROUGH like you used to be able to do using the “skip” button.

Anyone else here think Amazon was deceptive in promoting their ad-free tier? Because to me, any kind of commercial is an ad, wherever in the timeline it appears.
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widely recognized as legitimate? indiscriminate rocket launches at villages, towns and cities is a war crime and is not recognized ny anyone apart from purple haired 19 yo tiktok watchers, there is not a single official entity apart from Iran-proxies who see that as legitimate resistance, you are absolutely insane suggesting that
Consider: the faster the packets go, the faster the channel gets free to let other TDMA stations talk. A big office with a lot of computers still experiences QoS losses over 6E when someone starts watching a 4K video. Get those bursts of video-buffer-filling done faster, and other traffic will stay smooth.
Interesting - so it's not thermite? That's what I expected.
You missed the important part: they charge for a yearly subscription to their service.
I admire your optimism, but think it's more likely they will show ads instead.
This strategy has changed now as far as I can remember. Google used to have a strategy of using material on iOS, but has decided to switch to a more native UIKit feel. I imagine that will be a long transition, but it's promising.
> If one's own side of the horeshoe [1] had made the gaffe, it's sticks and stones. We're a bunch of evolved apes. Sometimes we say things we don't mean. They'll get over it.

> If the other side said it, oh dear. We'd best remove them from their job, their payroll, shun them forever, and make sure they never have power again.

Care to share some examples?
Have they posted anywhere what kind of problems there are with indexDB?
This will become a collector's item, as they will be very rare, the others having ended up in landfill, and this era of AI will be looked at as comical.

Souvenirs of this era will be very valuable!
> he seems like a flag waving trump supporter

An earlier report from the same news site describes the candidates that he is supporting as 'moderate': https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans...
> It's immature and poor judgement

Which is enough to make him unfit for the position at YC and justifies his resignation.

Walmart cashiers are being fired everyday for things like immaturity and poor judgment, why should YC CEO be held under lower behavior standards than blue collar workers?!
Global cancer rates are expected to rise 77% by 2050, the WHO warns
you are an antisemite liar, I bet you deny holocaust too.
I think it is more complicated. Both sides are consuming huge quantities of cheap artillery, drones, SAM, anti-tank mines and vehicles. HIMARS and smart artillery shells can make up for differences in fire powers, but only up to a point. Better tanks and IFV increase crew survivability, but they still get taken out of combats by drones, artillery and mines.

I'm sure Ukraine air force would love long range AA missiles (to counter the Russian ones) and stealth planes to avoid SAM (but Russians are not using theirs, probably because they suck, but still...).
Because after decades of inbreeding between the legislators, law enforcement, and corporations, the justice system is completely broken.
The reputation of the Mayans was of large scale human sacrifice. As I am not a historian I have no idea how accurate this reputation is, but that reputation is a reason for thinking they were more violent than the average contemporary or later civilisations…

…although now I realise I have no idea how it compares to the mass burning of suspected witches in parts of europe.
Wonder how powerful is Scriptrunner for Jira. They got the security certifications but I cant tell how sandboxed it is.
And that's without mentioning participating in NGOs, collectives, unions, or dare I say activism.

The current system is not built for free time, it is built for work time and if you're lucky you can shove some quality time with your kids between your employer and your sleep but that's optional.

If we didn't work so much, used all the producittvity gains to actually work less as was promised, this wouldn't even be a discussion, but alas.
Show HN: SN Pro – a free, open-source font designed for Markdown
Hey everyone, OP (Tobias) here. We're excited to release SN Pro today, a friendly new typeface that's open source and free for both personal and commercial use. We've carefully re-designed each character, improving support for Markdown and ligatures. For a detailed breakdown of our design process, check out the link [1].

Throughout the development of our app[2] over the past few years, my co-founder Connor and I consistently encountered font-related issues. Certain characters wouldn't align correctly or some symbols we'd want would just be missing. It's been a breath of fresh air to create our own typeface, eliminating the need for the workaround margins and SVGs we used to add. SN Pro is based on Nunito, the fantastic typeface by Vernon Adams [3].

We're relatively new to typefaces, so we're sure they will be things to improve, but would love some feedback if anyone here is into type-setting! Additionally, SN Pro is licensed under OFL (like Nunito before it) and is free for both personal and commercial use. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

[1] https://supernotes.app/blog/posts/sn-pro-font-family/
[2] https://supernotes.app
[3] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito
Well it's precisely what GPT struggles with!
Poetic meaning is probably the deepest level on which we humans relate to text, and it's incredibly difficult to produce.
What is the name of the album that was meant to be on the soundtrack?
On the flipside, Australians have fallen over themselves to serve the interests of foreign powers in countless heinous, illegal wars, flying the Nazi flag in Afghanistan, committing war crimes with impunity - for decades now.

You can't make your heinously race-baiting claims without also accounting for our disgusting, utterly repugnant participation in America's racist wars.
I have eaten in Restaurants and and shopped in shops in Berlin where at least some of the staff were unable to speak even the very basic German needed to take an order or inform the customer of the price. This seemingly wasn't considered a reason not to employ them. As another example, there are plenty, perhaps even the majority of Yoga studios that work in English only.

It's probably going too far to call it an "enclave", but I don't think any of this would happen in any other German city.
sounds like a plan.

https://youtu.be/7OUUJvXW_gk?feature=shared&t=91

( 1200 Micrograms - DMT [Music Video] )
Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Depends

Technologies: Vanilla JavaScript, React, Chrome extension developer

Résumé/CV: https://www.hemantpawar.com/Hemant.CV.pdf

Email: hemant@hemantpawar.com
Prestigious graduate jobs have a similar dynamic.

At university I remember my friends applying for places at Goldman & McKinsey at ratios of hundreds of applications per job.

These applications took time to make. Cumulatively the thousands of hours spend on interview prep per job may well have exceeded the total hours of work performed each successful job winner in their first year.

It seemed so wasteful to see smart young people wasting their time on regurgitating corporate values & case studies for jobs they never got.
Convicted console hacker says he paid Nintendo $25 a month from prison
No, it's way too rigid to iterate quickly and work interactively. And it's not a "is the language there yet" - it's not supposed to be there at all, it targets completely different use cases.
I don't think you can separate his ventures from him.
Unfortunately, the routing to make this feasible doesn’t exist yet. Users need a single IP address from a range that’s homed at a single PoP. Starlink doesn’t support user-user connections through the mesh, you need to go all the way out to your PoP, then over to the other users PoP, then back through Starlink to that user.
There are some wavelengths that maintain decent signal quality through cloud cover, and even rainstorms. I cannot find the paper right now, but iirc Tightbeam (formerly from the Google sharks with lasers team, now spun out as Aalyria), demonstrated space to ground comms in adverse weather with negligible packet loss and something like 40% reduced bandwidth.

The customer terminals will likely never connect through lasers (because a laser can only point in one direction at a time), but moving the ground station uplink to a laser link sounds very beneficial.
As proven by Go, those limitation don't matter when the language has an overlord to push it.

I was a big Oberon fan[0], not so much for Go, because in mid-90's using Native Oberon was an eye opening experience, in the hardware we had available back then.

20 years later (at Go 1.0 time), not so much.

[0] - The whole linage, and still think Active Oberon is the best dialect (with AOS) that eventually came to be, after Oberon v1.0 from 1987.
New-wave reactor technology could kick-start a nuclear renaissance — and the US is banking on it

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You sound extremely business savvy, looking for business partners?
I appreciate the detail you've given and you clearly know your stuff, but I think your looking at it too deeply, at least compared to me. Basically, use a familiar notation where a familiar notation would be appropriate. Your complex ad example is a good case where it probably isn't.

> What about adding two decimals?

rx = ry +bcd rz

I'm really thinking of simple, simple changes. As you point out some situations aren't appropriate for it, in other cases maybe it is. Or maybe I'm just plain wrong and it never is appropriate. But it's just a suggestion and worth considering, no?
Not sure on the accuracy or if it applies to you, but prior to getting the septoplasty my ENT did mention it might not make a big difference if overweight or obese and so often doesn’t recommend it in those cases.

For comparison, I used some of those nasal strips before surgery and the post-surgery were very comparable, so that might be an inexpensive option to try? I also recall someone mentioning some sort of nose plug thing from Amazon you could get that does the same thing.
I agree that JSSS was a poor choice, but Internet Explorer tried sneaking JScript into CSS in a few different ways, which wasn’t great for security or interoperability.
To be fair, Java didn't have generic types when Juice was announced.
CEOs, politicians and anyone under the age of 16 should not be allowed to use social media.

However, for politicians, CEO's and other "public figures" I would argue for an intermediary, let's call it the Ministry of Truth, to clean, revise and fact check all interactions with the public.

With this, damage to stakeholders (of companies and political parties) can be done in a controlled manner, and an artist's public perception can be adjusted.
I suggest staying away from proprietary systems like Mathematica or Maple.

What to use depends on what kinds of problems you need to solve. SymPy is really good for a lot of things, very simple to use, and just a Python library. Sage is more powerful in some areas (which may be irrelevant for your needs), but a much bigger beast. There are several old, powerful, clunky CASs like Maxima, Axiom, FriCAS, that you probably don't need.

I suggest starting with SymPy. Working on getting better at doing things by hand will be useful even if you mostly use a CAS in practice, since knowing how to do it by hand will mean you know what to tell the CAS to do.
Thanks for this as a fellow Goodreads power user. Would look forward to a chrome plugin if in your plans that helps sort my book lists.
Beautiful typeface.
It was used on Oberon System 3, and AOS.

When compiling you had the option to generate proper native binaries, or slim ones to be JITed on load.
radv: Vulkan AV1 video decode status
How confident are you that those devices don't contain toxic chemicals or radioactive material?
I worked on a tablet computer ca. '99. We were not first, nor did we have any illusions we were. There were novel parts about our business plan, but a tablet was "obvious".

But it's an illustration of what you describe: When the iPhone and later iPad were launched, a lot of people thought they were new.

Even though there had been a whole fad of touch devices in phone and tablet form that had come and gone before the iPhone came.

A lot of us dismissed them at first because we'd seen that fad come and go, without realising that the genius of Apple with respect to those devices was not in the technical innovation, but in recognising when enough percent-point improvements had been made to unlock something that'd actually appeal to the general public.

"Our" tablet was tethered to a custom DECT base station (wifi wasn't widespread yet), had about 2 hours of battery. The resistive touch was awful, the screen resolution was small, and I had to cram Linux and the GUI, with space left over for a port of Opera, in to 16MB of flash and 16MB RAM in the original prototype...

In retrospect it had no chance in hell. But to a geek like me it was amazingly cool.

Other tablets and pda's with or without network and phone of that era were either attempts at slimming down laptops (e.g. I had a laptop with a touch screen on a swivel back then) that were still way too big, or they were devices like ours, with all sorts of limitations that geeks were fine with, and regular people weren't.

So when these devices disappeared one after the other, many of us dismissed the concept as a whole as tried and failed, rather than realise that the problem was one of enough percent-point improvements and not the concept.

And for all of the many issues I have with Apple, while they were not first, they still deserve plenty of credit for simply being smart enough to recognise when the time was right for this category of devices. Because a whole lot of companies got that timing extremely wrong.
2009 is very recent... I have HDDs from that era that are still readable...
They can collect the fine themselve, by billing it to the other country operator.
I suppose if they're thinking like if any third party wants to get in his head, they will declare rent is not due (waive seems wrong not just if you're living but in general if you're not the landlord) - which kind of works because of their position I think (but I'm not from the US so I don't really understand or want to bother looking into it), but yeah we've probably both thought about it too much and more than they did before posting as a quick joke at this point.
This feels very relevent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQifPHcMLE

It's not really VR, or is it? It's a model.
I recently saw this study, but it's almost 20 years old, I don't know if there's more recent data available.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360393/

"Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial"
Show HN: Octet Zone – Write IPv6 addresses in IPv4-style octet notation
Have you ever asked yourself the question if it would be nice to write IPv6 addresses in decimal octets instead of hexadecimal groups of 16-bits before? No? Well, now you can do it anyway.

I read a comment on here recently about how people always ask why IPv6 is not like IPv4 but with more octets. That gave me the idea to write a little DNS server that dynamically resolves an address like

38.6.40.0.2.32.0.1.2.72.24.147.37.200.25.70.octet.zone

to

2606:2800:220:1:248:1893:25c8:1946 (example.com)

Is this useful or more readable? I don't think so, but I still think it's interesting to see an IPv6 address written out like this.
The server also has some convenience features like supporting the :: shorthand in IPv6 by adding an underscore as one of the subdomains.
This means that - for example - the address

32.1.72.96.72.96._.136.136.octet.zone

resolves to

2001:4860:4860::8888 (Google DNS)

The website also has a little conversion tool so you don't have to do the hex -> decimal conversion yourself.

This is not really a serious endeavor and more of a little toy project to get started with Rust, but it was nonetheless fun to work on.
Software video decoding isn't some monstrous workload, though. We're not in the era of Pentium 4 and h.264 decoding drowning every CPU out there to a screeching halt anymore, the CPUs of today hardly acknowledge the load even in the low-end tiers.

The benefits of hardware decoding are lower power consumption (read: electricity bills) and offloading the work to dedicated co-processors freeing up resources on the CPU proper, which are indeed far less relevant on desktops and even laptops which can just pack big batteries.

The biggest beneficiaries are by far mobile devices and really low power hardware. Computers which either cannot practically carry more batteries or which use hardware that simply aren't performant for more important reasons.

Desktops and laptops meanwhile are better geared to benefit from the perks of software decoding: Better quality and versatility, and fine-tuning of filters and rendering paths.
I have seen the same issues in my area. People who fight curruption are sexually abused by cops. When they complain, they are thrown into mental hospitals. If the complain about that they are shot and killed by the cops.

When Western Civilization falls, it will be because the common man sees no reason to fight to keep his local police in place, and is probably looking for ways to help overthrow them.

When I was a teenager, I would have responded to a "Red Dawn" scenario by shooting the invaders. Today I would offer then assistance.
Nor enums.

The thing that made Java great were conventions (file per class etc) and its standard library (esp collections)

Unsurprisingly, that is exactly what made Ruby great
What would make even more sense is a round USB plug to make it even easier to plug it in.

I'm just tired of losing my Bluetooth earbuds
I'd have to see it to make any coherent comment .. but there is that word "Documentary".

Demoscene generative art is not often mistaken or confused with documentary.

Cutting edge is always interesting, this though is (or should be) a homage to what was once cutting edge .. literal tape loops and razors and the evolution forward.

I'm imagining there's a lot of audio and or text and or video that relates to Eno's life (biography) and artistic output (some structured, some generative).

To describe this experience as a generative documentary would imply cutting together pre existing "truthful" material along with some generated for the first time material with a healthy dash of reordering fragments while (ideally) preserving some notion of chronological tagging ( material from later in his life can appear first but ideally (IMHO) this is made apparent to the viewer ).

Speculation aside I'm in the dark, of course, I can't dash off to the Sundance Festival to actually experience whatever this creation is .. several times in fact if I'm to get a sense of what is meant by "never the same experience twice".
Ah, yeah, these are estimated numbers. Estimated numbers aren't usually used for covid (or at least weren't during the pandemic; this may change); really everything was a bit too uncertain for decent estimates for the first year or so, and there would be political sensitivities to using an estimate as a headline figure.

For some sense of the scale, the WHO estimates 15 million deaths globally by end 2021, vs 5.5 million confirmed in the same period. But generally the WHO uses the confirmed figure; the estimate would rile up conspiracy theorists. I'd expect, given the situation in the US, that the CDC would be even more politically sensitive.
Yeah, I'm aware it "stuck around" in the Oberon world, but it's very annoying it hasn't escaped that niche, and hasn't been iterated on more.
Comprehensive guide on Midjourney: V6 vs. v5.2 comparison – Midlibrary
Midlibrary published a huge four-part guide for the new Midjourney version with incredible number of examples and corresponding prompts, comparison of previous versions with the new v6 and a lot of details from reverse engineering on MJ prompt interpretation, stylize options and upscaling.
From Mexican Fender, by Weezer:

She got a bachelor's degree in physics and a job in computer programming
That's pretty cool for a singer in a band so I knew we would end up jamming
That assumes I'm not doing something more important right now!

I think it's probably worth doing, but I have a list a dozen long of better startups. The key risks around something like this as a startup are:

1) Regulatory and compliance. A lot of the reason things like this aren't adopted is here. I can point you to a dozen ways to build better homes which don't meet code which is written around things like inches between studs rather than structural integrity.

2) Dissemination. In order for something like this to be successful: (a) people need to know about it (b) installers need to know how it works. Most people have no idea what a heat exchanger is.

3) Fundraising. Building things is expensive, so this would be a raise in at least the single-digit millions to start an efficient production line. No one will fund you unless you've solved (1) and (2).

To give an idea of how hard consumer ignorance is:

I was working on a random home project. I could find just one appropriate heat exchanger being sold in my local hardware store, with Panasonic's brand power behind it. The hardware store itself doesn't know what it is:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Panasonic-WhisperComfort-40-20-2...

Home Depot thinks it's a bathroom exhaust fan. It's an ERV, which is a super-fancy sort of exchanger which also exchanges / captures humidity. The manual says not to use this in a bathroom, kitchen, or similar since it literally doesn't work for blowing out humid air.... However, that's how Home Depot markets it.

I can ship the best product in the world, and no one will buy it if they don't know about it or understand it.

Pulling together a real business plan means thinking through problems like that. I can build this thing would be easy, at least for a good engineer. That doesn't mean one can make money doing so.
I tend to think all these problems stem from making certain classes of fictional image illegal, and while that remains the case then logically all sorts of 'ridiculous' things can become serious offences. People have been convicted for possessing cartoons.

As far as I know it's still OK to make images of murder and torture.
Campfire is now for sale (Slack alternative from 37signals)
Prehistoric Animals
With all due respect, I think you must be out of touch if you don't acknowledge the negative effects of lacking HW decode on video playback and content consumption on regular notebooks. People do notice this even if they don't know where the fault comes from.

Even on a modern Ryzen laptop APU, if I run H265 or AV1 4k decode in software the CPU usage is vastly noticeable. On my older Intel i5 6300HQ they're pegging it at 100% .
"I mean, you just never know if this rock and roll thing is going to work out, son."
These APIs are implemented in Chromium, included in a lot of browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, etc.), and used by thousands of web apps.

They are absolutely part of the web platform.
Child abuse = very bad.... on the other hand, leaking CIA tools is questionable since they secretly break the law (I have no sympathy for them).

Law enforcement should be called something like "don't fuck with me and do what I tell you agency"