skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that mean we won't be able to grow mammoths and dinosaurs from their recently found dna? Another childhood dream shuttered.
That's interesting. I haven't read The Big U, I should pick it up.

For me my enjoyment of his books is pretty close to inversely proportional to the amount of weird sex stuff he puts in them. Anathem has none, and I think its one of his best, Snow Crash goes pretty hard, Diamond Age is mostly good but then the end of the book is randomly a weird sex-powered computer thing.
Thank the Lord in the Spanish translations of software they drop the "sorries" and the "pleases". That much amount of grovelling must be some American thing I reckon.

Unfortunately some American companies are starting to cheapen out on translations by having them made in Mexico even for software used in Spain so the sorries and the pleases and some other spanglish terms are coming here.
Oh, now I understand what you mean - you're thinking of this as a way to do `for (T x : collection)` in Java.

I see this as more like the `yield return` functions of C#, which I definitely wasn't expecting. That can of course also be used to implement an iterator for a collection, but it seems much more general.

Given that before generics Go had exactly 3 types of collections, and that those were all iterable with range, I guess I never thought about this thing missing from the for loop.
0.9c is great but would there be a big difference at say 0.9999c?
Our representatives can't even comprehend that Google doesn't make the iPhone, so I personally wouldn't expect any federal legislation any time soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmuROTmazco
This reminds me of the old Headspace meditation app circle that was used to help steady breathing before beginning a session. I like it!
whale sushi? also fire and sushi don't seem very related to me.
I know how XMPP is structured in a very modular way, but is there actually a (widely supported) extension for server-side multi user chat archives at this point, i.e. one that allows “Slack-like semantics” for rooms?

The ones I’m familiar with only archive direct messages, not group messages (or at least not those sent before joining a given room), and going offline on the last client means leaving a room.
> "it can be compiled to WebAssembly in order to run Python in the browser."

I have seen this approach with C-python and NodeJS already and I think it simply not viable, what they are suggesting is compiling the runtime (the same one you use in non-wasm projects) to wasm and then run your python code on top of it.

This is a double-whammy of performance degradation, you basically have two JIT-compilation steps happening (once by the wasm runtime to compile the rust-python wasm and again by the rust-python code compiling your python code). And this is on top of normal performance degradation from using a dynamically typed language compared to a statically typed language

To make dynamic languages (even JS) viable to run in a wasm runtime, the language must be compiled directly to wasm.

Project still looks pretty cool and useful though, there is plenty of python code that could be useful to use in the browser no matter how badly it runs. Just don't try to build a web framework on top of this kind of approach.

Edit: Let me reframe this a bit, this is what I think, I haven't really benchmarked anything and rust python might be doing some tricks I am not aware of.
WhatsApp Chat Will Soon Work with Other Encrypted Messaging Apps
Except for having "handheld mode" https://www.nintendo.com/us/switch/compare/
Apple could have won the education market if they would have made a plastic ipad for $100.
Yeah embiggening your word-stock
> I reflected your comment back to you for a reason.

That wasn't my comment.
I think eve online famously uses a third party interpreter. Stackpython maybe?
Unrelated, but this link puts me into an infinite refresh loop on two mobile browsers on iOS (Firefox and DDG)
That's only at the federal level. State and local law enforcement are free to carry on as usual.
A to Z but reversed 50% of the time is the way to go to avoid bias while still being sorted one way or another
The first ever What If, that made it a hit (in more than a sense). 0.9c is not fast enough to make a really big difference in mass or time for the ball, but its speed alone is bad news in something like a dense enough atmosphere.
Having implemented it, I don’t really agree. It adds a layer of security and auditability at the database level; logging works even if someone logs into the database from a cli and modifies it directly; and you can implement roles in such a way that prevent changes to the audit logs. None of this is possible at the application level.

To me this is one of those things that looks hard until you look deeply. Yes, it does take more time to do things right. But not that much more.

Honestly, if your application is bound to a database but you’re not a database expert, it’s a gap you should probably consider filling. So much effort is put into making the application layer do things that the database layer can already do, but the database is generally much more efficient and correct.
Russia did more than that. Already in the summer 2021 Gazprom reduced and later stopped the supply of gas to the spot market. Then Gazprom rented storage space but didnt fill it. All this to make Europe more vulnerable to the blackmail after the invasion, which luckily was delayed enough to fall flat for that winter.

Apparently later Gazprom Germania planned some actual sabotage that was prevented.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-raided-gazprom-in-germany...

https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/putin-gas-russland-deutschland-...
Hahahaha, this is hilarious :P

Yes, you never know who you could be talking to. Reminds me of the trial lawyer advice of "never ask a question you don't know the answer to".
I'd like to go the other way, and have a filesystem that leverages a proper database for its metadata.

I can search millions of records in a split second in SQL. But searching records on my hard disk takes enormously more time. The solutions out there for speeding it up (like Windows Indexing service) rely on asynchronous indexing that's patched on top of the filesystem instead of integrated realtime within it, and are subsequently brittle (in my experience), slow down your computer at inconvenient times, and too often aren't instantly up date.

Being able to have stored procedures execute when changes trigger would be another interesting aspect that could take the place of event filters and file watchers (especially if critical portions could be configured to happen sequentially & atomically, akin to IRQ handlers).

I feel like databases have gotten lots of love over the decades and are super optimized (and by this point are pretty dang reliable). Filesystems feel like they lost their time in the spotlight and have floundered with less innovation.

Hardware that calculates CRC's of blocks in realtime would also be awesome (imagine what it would do for sync). The ironic thing is your HDD already does this, there's just no way to tap into that information at the software / filesystem driver level.
Haha yea. Thanks!
And the exact same thing goes for the double standards of the anti-Musk, pro-Swift crowd on this matter!
Hey. Back at the time, we collaborated with this young team that helped transform our startup into something worthwhile. I remember their particular SEO support even after finishing the building process (&it was charge-free, which is sweet).
Just checked the site and noticed they've expanded their services. Idk about now, but I recommend at least contacting them. Hope it helps anyway. here: https://cgsteam.io/
It also doesn’t tell you what is the terminus of a pipeline. Because often with isatty what you really want to know is if the pipeline ends with a tty. `ls` is screen formatted but `ls | less` is not without extra work.
yt-dlp ${youtube_video_url} --get-url

ffmpeg -ss ${seconds} -i "${first_url_from_yt-dlp}" -t 1 -r 4/1 -q:v 2 -vf scale="0:-1" ${target}

-r 4/1: 4 frames per second

Again this app is for mobile devices which lack yt-dlp+ffmpeg
Today it's not nearly as bad as it was before. I personally have very few reasons to use jQuery. Maybe it's somewhat shorter code and supports some cool pseudoselectors (IMHO, they are often bad patterns) but for me it's often easier to understand and debug a code using vanilla JS. For example, sometimes I have struggled to find the exact event listener callback by using dev tools because when you use nested click events because the code passes throw a lot of jQuery code before reaching the actual event listener.
Indeed. I'm fine with HN though. I'm not the one running the non free code. One can browse it and participate to it without running any proprietary software. It works without JS, and the JS code is trivially small anyway. There are open source clients too. That's a pass for me. The day this changes, you won't see me here anymore.

That would correspond to the NonFreeNet antifeature in F-Droid [1].

They could update the code they released for good measure though [2].

Running Discord is on another level for me. I would consider accessing a Discord using a Matrix or IRC bridge.

[1] https://f-droid.org/docs/Anti-Features/#NonFreeNet

[2] https://github.com/wting/hackernews
Similarly people shouldn't have used Linux for serious use cases back then. We are talking about the present.
The entire discussion is about how cloud apps are illegal for children because of GDPR
> Twitter always felt like RSS for people who didn’t know what RSS is.

Yes, but that’s a lot of people!

Other than that, RSS doesn’t support commenting somebody else’s post.
So they want symmetric complement of the ancient Knight Processor where there was NaN encoded so that divide by zero wasn't an exception but just a return NaN.
To add: At least for methylphenidate, there are several studies showing neuronal long term improvements, "brain normalisation", in people with ADHD. That's rare in psychopharmacology...

I do understand hesitation about immediate release amphetamine, but the retarded formulations are also quite hard to abuse. If you do more than prescribed, you won't get high, you will have a bad time. "Getting high", requires a sudden onset, rush, and sharp peak, which retarded meds won't induce.

Denying people with ADHD to try stims, is really, really unethical considering our knowledge on their effectiveness treating the condition.
It's really absurd to automangle "radical statement" to "statement". That isn't stripping hyperbole, it is stripping semantics.
Maybe in the next lifetime (i.e. this lifetime plus 1)..
China's Desert Project Is About to Change the World [video]
> My life is already owned by banks, insurance companies, my children, my spouse. What’s one more overlord?

Greater societal inequality.
I graduated and went to Germany for seconds. Got myself a fancy laptop so I could thrive during the lessons, browsing Reddit. I wish I had known
Asus and Lenovo both make a handheld gaming device that competes with the Steamdeck now. Though the Orange Pi Neo looks like an interesting entrant. Manjaro is pretty similar to the Steamdeck OS, which Valve has failed to release for other hardware (they said they were going to). In fact, Manjaro is what Valve recommends to developers looking to test their games ona "steamdeck like" OS if they don't have a Steamdeck.
That was in reference to Discord, not Reddit. Reddit is searchable ~fine via Google and its internal search (but I wouldn’t be surprised if they at some point break that in exchange for more forced signups and to prevent “AI content theft” like Twitter).
> What we (and I imagine many others, though clearly not OP) would need is a "do-
> business-as" user that maps not to the database users, but to in-application
> users, and then a mechanism to pass this user to the DB, and log it in addition
> to the database user.

This is kind of what Supabase does, for use in tandem with row-level security. It stores the user's JWT in a custom configuration parameter via set_config() when the database connection is established on behalf of the user, so you can see the token by calling get_config() with the config parameter name. Supabase also provides convenience functions to destructure the token and get the things you need (like auth.uid()), so it would be easy to fetch the user ID or user name in a trigger to log it.
Yeah, I'm not sure one way is better than another. What I do think is that Lego has definitely been evolving the way people play with them.
The Big U has it’s faults; but is still an insightful look at the weird people and organizations within any large university.
I experience similar issues with Cloudflare Zero Trust (I have it setup to work as an ad blocker, using a Terraform config to update blocklists pulled from eg uBlock Origin sources). It'll work great most of the time, but when it stops working I need to disconnect and reconnect. Hard to complain since it's free, though.
Hello world in pure Rust: 400832 bytes

Hello world w/ rustpython interpreting Python[1]: 15459264 bytes

(Rust 1.75.0; rustpython 0.3.0; MacOS / Apple Silicon)

[1] https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython/blob/main/examples/...
I wouldn’t be surprised if the people contracting Mexican translators for software released in Spain dont know that Spanish dialects differ a fair bit.
And now you've meta sidetracked me with your Show HN post.
The mindfulness app that ships with Vision Pro has a similar 3D sphere thing made of what look like flower pedals, it’s definitely a nice aid to the meditation.
> Cryptonomicon has such an epic build up...

And was probably the most prophetic of all his work, to be honest Snowcrash was total satire, and fan-service: it was much like the Crypto-anarchist Sloath short-story he wrote (THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER) it was meant to appeal to a a certain audience and really no one else. It was widely distributed (it was in TIME back when that was a big deal in the 90s at the peak of Silicon valley's foray with Crypto Anarchy) but ultimately targeted content to a specific demographic, which would illicit a certain response. Few if any every bring this up when discussing NS' bibliography.

Its like Solar Opposites is a riff of Rick and Morty where the Rick character is put in a different universe and rides that story-line as far as it can before it gets tiresome but has a b-plot to carry it through for the audience to make it an entire season.

And while Snowcrash was... mediocre (in my opinion) things like Sushi-K rapping or the hi-jinks of Uncle Enzo's Pizza delivery business are exactly the kind of hokey material one would expect from such subject matter that would land for said demographic. Is it a good representation of the Cyberpunk genre, as a fan, absolutely not.

Also wasn't Amazon supposed to make a series about Snowcrash and has been 'in the works' [0] for like 7 years now? They canceled The Peripheral which was kind of a rip-off Snowcrash and that had good reviews, I can't imagine they'd really try to try to flesh-out the Metaverse when 85% of Snowcrash is just filler with an incredibly bad ending.

Hell, Amazon canceled The Expanse despite having a ton of more original content and being quite the cash cow, the books still sell incredibly well and the fans are die hard, many of them signed up for Amazon specifically for the last seasons and canceled when it was over.

Personally, I think with costly shows like GT getting the axe and Clacrkson's Farm (something I enjoy more) being what is left from the trio it shows that Amazon doesn't have the wear-withal to see such immense things through in my opinion so we may never see Hiro or YT on screen.

0: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/29/16383994/amazon-streaming...
Unfortunately, while living in EU/UK, you have no means to force US company to wipe your personal data unless it officially does business in Europe.
I thought Cryptonomicon was his best book. It's okay not to like Stephenson.
I don't think you're missing anything, really. Unlike his non-fiction essays and articles [1], which are mostly excellent, his fiction just isn't all that good. Typically the concept and ideas are interesting, but the story/characterisation/ending is poor and the digressions aren't able to hide this for very long.

I read Snow Crash and it was fun, but I had to skip over huge banks of filler. Cryptonomicon and Seveneves and REAMDE were tedious and ultimately unrewarding slogs that persuaded me not to touch his work again. I'm just glad I never attempted the Baroque Cycle.

I never understood HN's enthusiasm for Stephenson's fiction, so I suspect I'll get roasted too. But bring it on I guess.

[1] In the Beginning was the Command-Line, Mother Earth Mother Board, etc.
I tried the latest django with pypy recently and couldn't get it working, which sucked.
I agree. Kids don't need these types of concerns and distractions in their formative years. And computers are inherently distracting—as the intrinsic design of modern computers ensures that's the case.

Thankfully, my primary education was before computer tech in schools or I'd have been sidetracked by the technology and it's pretty certain I'd have learned much less. Even by that age I was fascinated by electronic stuff and invariably I'd have pull it apart or tested it to destruction.

Right, had I had the tech I'd have lost out on two accounts, not only would I have been distracted by it but I'd have likely lost it or rendered it useless by the time exams came around. Not having the compulsory tech necessary for exams would have added further unecessary stress and distraction.
I feel like if we lived in a world which was actually just, we'd be able to enact "COVID protocol" on rich people by forcing them to find ways to do their jobs without flying everywhere. Nobody really "needs" live concerts anymore, and if they do then taytay can just project an image of herself from her basement onto a giant glass screen like she's Hatsune Miku.
AFAIK mere exchange of code between employer and employee is not considered "distribution" for the purpose of the GPL. They are part of the same company, working on the same project. Similar relationships exist between client and contractor, client and lawyer, etc.
> you can get started a lot faster, make money, only then look into optimizing.

IME, companies often will first fall into the trap of minimum spend with AWS for larger discounts, such that even when you _do_ try to optimize things, it doesn’t matter. There is no greater disincentive than saving 5 digits per month, only to be told “thanks, but it doesn’t matter.”

Tangentially, I think the rise of cloud and SaaS to blame more than anything for the I-shaped engineer. Why bother learning anything about optimization when K8s will silently add another node to the cluster as needed? Why bother learning SQL when ORMs abound, and your Serverless DB will happily upsize to deal with your terrible schema? After all, you’re being told to ship, ship, ship, so there’s not really any time to learn those things anyway.

I simultaneously love and hate cloud providers, and am eagerly awaiting the slow but steady turn towards on-prem/colo. 37Signals has the right idea.
huberman talking about visual focus + brain effects - https://youtu.be/CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367
> Too much snark and Reddit-style humor for me.

Neal Stephenson is decidedly not a good prose stylist. But I guess he doesn't aim to be. "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell" and "Anathem" are piles of really mediocre, ungainly sentences.

What he has are many interesting ideas and he is a fun conveyor of those ideas, for the most part. But he's not a Nabokov nor a Cormac McCarthy nor a Samuel Delany.

But we love him for he's "one of us". He wrote that excellent essay that placed a geek at the beginning of the Creation myth: "In the Beginning was the Command Line" https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt

Stephenson is also the one said the words of caution that inspired many a young nerd to be active in the world and work hard and always remember that someone somewhere has to know exactly how keep the lights on and the water running:

> Scientists and technologists have the same uneasy status in our society as the Jedi in the Galactic Republic. They are scorned by the cultural left and the cultural right, and young people avoid science and math classes in hordes. The tedious particulars of keeping ourselves alive, comfortable and free are being taken offline to countries where people are happy to sweat the details, as long as we have some foreign exchange left to send their way. _Nothing is more seductive than to think that we, like the Jedi, could be masters of the most advanced technologies while living simple lives: to have a geek standard of living and spend our copious leisure time vegging out._
(https://archive.is/RdxVT#selection-497.0-497.673)
Please suppress "user-select" through CSS ao that rapid button tapping won't cause parts of the screen to be selected.
Related, on the meditation side, "Sit" was posted on here the other day

https://sit.sonnet.io/
If Huberman mentioned it in a podcast, it must be true and groundbreaking way to hack your brain to a better life!

I can't wait to stare at this thing !!!!
> If the world is all ideas, then it's just as impossible to explain why different minds have a coherent shared illusion of the physical world, or even any kind of communication between minds at all.

It is far from impossible. There are many idealist models. Here is one: there is a central consciousness (call it God), and God is able to give experiences to other consciousnesses, and those consciousnesses can communicate back to God.

On that model, there is a shared world because God gives experiences to these other consciousnesses as of being in a shared world. The other consciousnesses, in turn, communicate back to God what they will, and that influences future experiences that God gives to those other consciousnesses. That gives a shared illusion of the physical world.

Note that whether you're a naturalist or an idealist, you're going to postulate some things as true without justifying them. For the naturalist, they postulate the existence of physical things without explaining why the physical exists at all. For the idealist, they postulate the existence of mental things without explaining why mental stuff exists at all. If the idealist asks to be granted the above simple postulates, then a coherent shared illusion is possible. I'm willing to grant the physicalist whatever physical postulates they need, and from that I would like to see how they explain (or explain away) consciousness.
Sorry :D Back to your task!
I think a lot of data collection is done a bit like research is. The purposes are unclear, but the sea of data might become useful later on. Time might reveal trends, certain now-insignificant people might become significant, new data mining tools might be discovered that highlight something useful, things like this.
Exactly this.

Everyone arguing DNA isn't code, its just a reductive metaphor, and that the computer analogy is wrong, don't understand computers/code, or DNA.

There is such a 1-1 correspondence, that the 'metaphor' begins to look more 'real'.
there are JEP, JPype and PyJNIus these days...
These aren't mutually exclusive. My phone doesn't have exposed screws, but it's relatively easy to pop off the back cover and access them.
fabulous - only DLSS, Nvidia only. And at a cost - it requires a lot of transistors and some energy to power it
Bluesky gets rid of invite codes, lets everyone join
The Mold Linker Is Great and Set to Become Even Better
Unless I misunderstood, GP was talking about nuclear-induced environmental problems.
Thanks :)

It just seems like good practice. I want my sites to be as fast, minimal, compatible and as usable as possible, while still looking and feeling modern.
The software. The only reason I own a Nintendo Switch is because Nintendo doesn't release their games for the Steamdeck...