skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Finnish Public Broadcasting company is so much into podcasts that they call all their radio shows "podcasts".

Presumably they don't use the phrase "wherever you get your podcasts" then? Because theirs is not available "wherever you get your podcasts".

> My mom wouldn't know what is a podcast nor could she fathom what is this "wherever" she usually gets them.

But this phrase usually used in a podcast. So I assume she wouldn't come across it then?
Same here, except mine runs as a docker and I haven't touched it in five years.
The title of this entry doesn't reflect what the the ruling says, it needs editing.
Should have a (2022) perhaps this post?
In my opinion selecting something based on it's layout is oftentimes a dangerous pattern, you are basically tying the UI layout with the logic. People can overuse these cool selectors. I've personally worked on a website where the frontend part was a spaghetti mess with the half of the source code occupied by selector names. Some files have over 5000 lines of code. It would be far less pain to maintain and implement features if the website used some framework like angular.
Right, the principal advantage and differentiator of a console is the practically immutable hardware configuration. If you take that away, what defines it then?
Creat a global decentralized media server with multiple zones
- *Goal 1*: Cluster: Create a global decentralized media server cluster with multiple zones.
- *Goal 2*: Market: Develop a sharing marketplace for the media server, enabling resource sharing and monetization. This will help scale the media server cluster during peak times and reduce costs during off-peak times. In the feature marketplace fees will be used to fund the development of the project.
- *Goal 3*: Serverless: Establish a network between users, where servers only act as fallbacks. This approach aims to significantly reduce infrastructure costs and scale to infinity.
Kreative Korp Unicode Character Set Reference
Cryptocurrency too - in Cryptonomicon. Not exactly as it is used today, but along similar lines...
Aircraft make use of the air space above a bunch of people's random property. They could (in theory) also come down on top of you.

I think it makes sense for that data to be public. If you don't like it don't fly.

Also you can't prevent this sort of thing. Airplane ADS-B squawks ident info for collision avoidance and to help ATC (Air Traffic Control). The signal is simple for reliability and compatibility. Anyone can receive that data.

This whole thing about her carbon footprint is also nonsense assuming those jets are ferrying her crew and equipment that would just have to travel by commercial jet otherwise. Unless it's a lux jet just for her it makes as good as no difference in CO2 emissions whether her jet emits them or she pays United to do it.
Same way anyone over 30 did.

Although I say that knowing my grades in school wouldn't have been trash if I'd been able to use a computer and not get discriminated for my handwriting.
Ah that makes sense, thanks!
"An alarming amount of £316,859.14 was fraudulently redirected to an unknown account... a further £69,018.12 has been held for over two weeks, with an unthinkable suggestion from Stripe to write off the larger sum to release the smaller"
I've always felt as though he's writing like someone excited to have researched something and wanting to tell people. It's not highbrow, more rollicking and as though you can imagine him grinning "this is so cool (for nerds)" while he's writing it out. My last exposure was Seveneves, and Reamde before that.
Snow Crash is definitely overrated. I loved Cryptpnomicon, Baroque cycle, Anathem, REAMDE, Diamond Age
This would be a total non-story if it wasn't so political.
I got 3000 visitors to my landing page from growth hacking
I would often see how people would get free traffic to their website, and it always seemed like magic to me. Finally once I myself experienced success with growth hacking I wanted to share exactly what I did and maybe help someone.
https://docs.farcaster.xyz/learn/what-is-farcaster/messages

> "An account can delete messages at any time by publishing a corresponding delete message."

curious whether they get deleted from the blockchain, afaik this is not possible..
It's not quite the same. I, a responsible adult, find myself fiddling with my phone when attending talks, even when I'm supposedly interested in the talk. Once I start, I missed the beginning and don't understand the rest of the talk even if I try to focus later. The level of temptation is quite different.
I couldn't finish Seveneves :)

In spite of reading and mostly liking everything else by Stephenson.

Edit: but then I couldn't enjoy Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series (I did get to the end) too much. Because half the book was a RPG system manual describing game mechanics.

Think that was my problem with Seveneves as well. It read like a 'how to build and run a space station' manual.
Who is "manually managing mp3" files?

My software reads RSS feeds and downloads the podcasts.

I never see a file on my phone.
REAMDE was like reading a movie. Just great stuff. I enjoyed Snow Crash, but agree it had some unfinished-ness feelings to it. like a stronger editor could have shaped it a bit better.
They never call it handled. It's a portable console.
I feel similarly about Dune, not a big fan of the writing style but the ideas are so cool that I'm willing to "power through it" like you say
> For activist Graugaard, the decision comes as a relief. He began his crusade against Chromebooks in school in his home town Elsinor over four years ago. While this week's report makes no reference to Jesper's initiatives, it is clear that this injunction could not have been issued without his tireless and sometimes solitary activism.

Sounds like some crazy person just screwed up education for everyone.
"It doesn't think. It only processes."

Human thinking is frequently described as 'processing', a 'process'.

Guess, that is problem with using Metaphors and analogies.

When it comes to Brains and AI, a lot of the same metaphors and analogies have been used over the centuries, so now, which one is 'more accurate'. Can't really say, it depends on what each person meant by that metaphor.
>> A school system is very complex.

But does it need to be?

School private networks seem unnecessary, especially nowadays when most apps are cloud-based and don't require installation. Many modern routers support domain blacklists to prevent access to inappropriate content. What else is needed?
>RustPython can be embedded into Rust programs to use Python as a scripting language for your application

How big are my binaries going to be if I embed a whole Python interpreter in it?
https://podcastindex.org/ is a great.
>“The tissue still has enough structure to hold together, but it is soft enough to allow the neurons to grow into each other and start talking to each other,”

While everyone's worried about sentient AI annihilating humanity, some guy with a PrusaBio Mk7+ accidentally prints a superintelligence in his basement.
The world changes.
He wrote The Big U in 1984 and that's a super fun, approachable, readable book. He also hates it.

I didn't find Snow Crash to be particularly inspiring but The Diamond Age is absolutely where he peaked for me. After that there's just too much fart-sniffing.

Stephenson's work has a lot of ideas worth wrestling with but as far as crafting a narrative he's weak and fans of his use the former to cover for the latter.
Go is the language for getting sh*t done.
I find this sort of hard-line opinion funny in the context that the pod in podcasts comes from iPod, device which was notoriously locked down. 1st gen iPods required a Mac to upload audio to the device; iTunes was not even available on other platforms!
It's tracking her jet, not her. She is free to use something else, and even send the jet to places without her. If I recall she even has 2 jets.
And it must be linear why? And why do we need super long time scale data?

It sounds like you have made up your mind for other reasons and put up arbitrary limits...
It seems people think that, if we just focus more on Kuhn's "revolutionary science" instead of incremental, "normal science", we'll get more paradigm-shifting theories.

It could just be that paradigm-shifting breakthroughs are exponentially harder to find, and that it's not just a matter of "we just didn't look hard enough"
I was just coming here to ask if it could be alphabetical because the list is so long I can't find anything :) Maybe do Z-A instead?

There's also so many fruits I've never heard of that I feel like my opinion of which is best would be inaccurate (maybe that's the point?)
Yes, you can check UUIDs to see if they’re v7, and extract the timestamp if so. This seems to me less problematic in most cases than being able to guess the next ID (as is the case with numeric IDs). At least for us, anybody with access to the ID also has access to the time the record was created, so there’s no new information being exposed.

It’s a good thing to keep in mind though for sure.
How to Succeed with a Rewrite
relocation possible?
why would I?

for a small project those efficiencies wont make a difference on my $20 godaddy hosting account.

i dont want some tool or process getting in my way. if i have a problem then i will look for a solution.
[dupe]

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274857

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39283800
RisingWave Storage Engine Optimization: Higher Performance at Lower Cost
No webpage scraping is involved here, data is from the eBay API. It's not using any database at the moment, just in-memory caching in the Go server. Problem is there are a lot of cache misses which result in API calls of which eBay only allows 5000 a day.

Funnily, the website seems to be crashing due to the API issues while the web server is at <1% CPU utilization.
The de-division of labor. I suppose the effects will be the opposite of the division of labor.
Yes! by the same logic we should not be tracking her public concerts. The location and times of the concerts should be private information only available to her.
Show HN: I created a bot to help you find badly named services in your company
using fuzzy search and aliases it will find the service and other helpful info such as the owning team, on-caller & their slack channel.

I built it because i find that people tend to reference a service by different names - eg billing, self-serve payments or some vague acronym.. you get the drill. Also, internal dev portals are usually not accessible for non-devs.
So this is a little handy utility to improve the UX for crossteam comms.

lmk if this might be useful for you
> It is possible there are better sequestration methods than direct capture from the air.

There are yes. Rock weathering is probably the most feasible and simple.
An X-ray image of half the universe
The biggest companies might be immune, but anyone else's incentive is quite high to use Chromium (Electron) to build that app on.
I haven't finished the article yet and am currently reading it. But
FWIW I'll just park this howler from the first paragraph here:

> "prophesying what innovations are to come"

No. Prophesy is the ability to see or correctly guess the future - a
future that would have happened without the prophecy.

Christopher Hitchens nailed it absolutely when he noted that science
fiction is rarely prophetic, rather it's taken as a blueprint for
post-facto design. It is self-fulfilling, influential fiction.
I literally made an account for the first time in 7 years of lurking to respond to this ridiculous comment.

You're not the demo. So your no thanks is expected.

But, there are plenty of people with eye problems as OP laid out, and I can guarantee you that a large amount for them would be happy to pay $9.99 for the ability to actually consume and enjoy printed books that don't have pdf/eBook editions.

But saying “don’t do it” is so off-base. It’s completely dismissing an entire sector of the market and humanity that isn’t like you.

And perhaps that sort of comment, if given to a first time founder working on a tool that helped a swath of the population… they might see that and get discouraged.

And then that tool that could legitimately improve people’s days, by allowing them to engage in parts of life they can’t easily access by themselves, wouldn’t exist.

As someone who has spent my entire career in the realm of selling things, this is a solid business model that provides a great solution to a likely, very underserved, market.

Plus the tech is cool and sounds fun to build. So, good work OP!
> You haven't lived until a bug of your own causes a triple-fault exception that causes a literal system shutdown.

On the OS I work on, I deliberately added a triple fault trigger as a fallback method of rebooting the system if the "normal" methods fail, which I have seen before.

To anyone looking to play with writing their own OS, definitely just do it. It's a lot of fun, and there's almost no limit to how much you can learn. With QEMU and bochs, and VirtualBox, etc... it's not that hard getting started. If you want to play around without starting from scratch, but find Linux source too complicated, give OpenBSD a look. Not that Linux is that hard, but it takes some getting used to how they do things. I find OpenBSD considerably more approachable.
Neil Young's song "Piece of Crap" was (supposedly) about a (then-innovative) plain paper fax machine (previously they used thermal paper):

* https://genius.com/Neil-young-and-crazy-horse-piece-of-crap-...

* Album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeps_with_Angels
This case isn't about whether kids use keyboards or not. It's about whether they use Chromebooks.
I like it, but it overflows on my iPhone SE screen.
DNA does have error correction.

It is a fundamental building block.

I'm not sure this article is tossing it out of the window.

Just that it can be modified.

Epigenetics, how environment of the host changes the DNA.

That doesn't mean DNA is suddenly not valuable because we also found that it has capacity for modification. Still need something to modify.

Or, like code, it can be updated.
How to Condense 800 Integration Tests into 80, Losslessly
One intuition that helps is to see evolution as a random search through solution space. Another thing to realize is that -in evolutionary algorithms- the distribution of random trials will be strongly biased around existing solutions.

It helps to understand that in some situations, a search algorithm with some level of randomness can arrive at a solution faster than a systematic/random approach, on average. In other situations, a search with added randomization might be slower, but its ability to escape local optimae (to some degree) means that it is much more likely to find the global optimum (or at least a better local optimum :-P ).

Compare also: Monte-Carlo methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_algorithm
Doesn’t seem that way to me much anymore - definitely as time has gone on it feels like a lot of the behaviour police (who were everywhere scolding people for not using content warnings and stuff) got blocked by enough people that they’ve mostly given up which is nice. Sure, in the Explore tab there still a lot of “people being angry at politics” but if you are careful with who you follow you shouldn’t see that in your feed…
You’re right, I don’t.

But empirically, I can see that building quiet ones that perform very well has been possible for many years now, so I consider intentionally buying a loud one and regularly using it anywhere other than on a racetrack sociopathic behavior.
I worked for years on a massive PostGraphile project where 99% of the backend application code was written as stored procedures and table triggers, and let me tell you, once the complexity of the system moves beyond basic CRUD operations this kind of system is an absolute chore to work with. The code base is extremely difficult to organize and manage, code completion and compile-time error safety is virtually non-existent, deploying new versions will probably be non-intuitive and confusing for everyone, training new programmers on the code is chaos... it is absolutely something I would never recommend to anyone under any circumstance.

That being said, I do fully agree that things like Redis, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, and Kafka are probably unnecessary in a large number of projects that decide to add them to the stack if those projects are also already using PostgreSQL as a database.
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I was gonna say that realistically your one liner is gonna need to be ran probably 20, 30 times before you’re able to pick the exact frame that you want.

But with a little bit extra work you could make that one liner into a script that will extract a range of frames surrounding the chosen timestamp.
That's how most podcasting platforms work. For example, that's exactly how https://transistor.fm/ works. You make an account, upload an MP3, get an RSS feed.
Thanks. I will check it. Let me know if it helps you with mental focus after (It actually does for me).
Does it work in Ungoogled Chromium? I use that just on principle when nothing else works (which, in agreement with the previous posts, is rarer for me than people seem to claim)
> Python's use base is now dominated by ML and scientific in general isn't it?

No?

Python may dominate those fields vs other languages, but those fields don't dominate Python use, in my experience.
Neither are written in PHP so they don't work on most cheap hostings.
lol if you think a domain blacklist is an effective way to block inappropriate content.
I think Scott Alexander's [recent post on genetic causes of schizophrenia](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-fair-to-describe-schizo...) is an important piece here.

Basic summary is: just because there are environmental / other factors doesn't mean it's incorrect to say that gene's cause schizophrenia. In other worse, finding additional causal variables doesn't negate the causal impact of existing causal variables.
For $120k a year, Christopher Rim promises to turn any student into Ivy bait
Writing a shift-reduce parser, interpreter, compiler for infix arithmetic
Those aren't podcasts, in my opinion.
When things I subscribe to become not-podcasts (which has only really happened once - looking at you BBC), I spend a few minutes looking for something new to try out instead. I always have too much in my queue anyway.
Frugly vs. Freemium
Musk's double standards on free speech absolutism made the original feud marginally noteworthy in the first place.
I have seen them used extensively, especially pypy & jython by big companies. I have seen ironpython twice, but I rarely venture into windows/.NET land.
Lots of great and very clear examples here. As someone who's been writing SQL for over 30 years, I wish I'd had something like this at the start.

Obviously there's a lot more to learn about many of these areas to really make the most of them, but this is a really good launchpad.
> I’ve always found the denial of the existence of experiential consciousness to be kind of funny. If you removed all my senses and put my brain in a vat to keep it alive, what would be left? As far as my brain is concerned, consciousness is the _only_ thing for which I can be definitively certain of its existence.

Yes exactly, it is the thing that is most familiar to us, most accessible, and the only thing of which we can be certain. Descartes in his Meditations went down this path, starting with that foundation.

But I don't think you need to land on solipsism, because we don't have to believe only those things which can be proved. To me, it seems a reasonable hypothesis to suppose there are other consciousnesses. For an experimental line of thinking that leads to that conclusion, I would recommend the aforementioned Meditations.

Many are tempted to think that the physical world is the certain thing that we have, missing the fact that we experience the physical world, and so it is experience that we have access to, not the physical world itself. That I am conscious and have experiences of such and such is the thing I am most certain of. Whether there are physical things that correspond to those experiences is an extrapolation.
€0.03 for 3 thoughts, seems like thoughts got cheaper nominally
My bad; I'm sorry for jumping into conclusions.
I had absolutely no idea the Monstera Deliciosa produced fruit!

Nice idea, thanks for sharing.
VLC runs on mobile devices: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html
This is par for the course for Americans and credit reporting agencies. It's disgusting how they use your data without consent, don't protect it, then charge you to 'lock' your credit. I love unfettered capitalism.
How earthquake resistant is all the lithography equipment? The alignments are so sensitive..
Ahh, thank you very much!
The format of a Neal Stephenson book is:

A great deal of content about whatever Neal Stephenson is nerding out about at the time he's writing the book that forms the world-building (The metaverse in Snow Crash, MMORPGs in REAMDE).

There will be random digressions about other things he's nerding out about that don't amount to enough to be a major feature of the world (volcanic glass knives in Snow Crash, tuck-pointing masonry in REAMDE) that he nonetheless works into the story.

Some plot happens in this world, followed by an ending of highly variable quality. He ties Snow Crash together fairly well, as I recall. REAMDE, I was less impressed by.

For context, I've read everything of his except the Baroque Cycle up to Seveneves. He's pretty consistent in sticking to this format.

In my opinion his best writing is In The Beginning Was The Command Line[0]. I particularly like the quote "I use eMacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor." It makes me smile despite the fact that I'm a vi person. It's also uncharacteristicly short for his work.

[0] https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.sh...
Eh, everyone likes different NS books (just look at all the replies).

I like Snow Crash and love Cryptonomicon, and I couldn't go past the first volume of the Baroque Cycle.
No. Whomever benefits from it will find a way to incentives the people who actually do it.
Doing it your way it will just end up being a ranking of things that are kind of okay, but comes up first in your mind.

ie: apples

(Still upset blackberries are only 20th)
> Your notion that browser-based apps are somehow bug-free is absurd.

My notion is that more people are familiar with using the web stack, than any other alternative.

Out of curiosity, I perused some local job boards: out of about 50 technical role ads that I looked through, 4 were embedded or desktop development, there were some DevOps and ML related roles in the middle, but the majority were web development.

If that's the set of technologies and the languages that people are familiar with (high abstraction level, no manual memory management), then attempting to use these "performant" options obviously wouldn't turn out well, due to a lack of skill, familiarity and/or user experience of that tooling.

I mean, in an ideal world, GUI software would be even easier to create than using Lazarus was back in the day (the RAD approach), but sadly the greatness that was lcl is mostly lost to time because nobody cares: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library
Go is what I reach for when I might otherwise write Python but need to actually, like, distribute my program.