skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I'm familiar with the thought experiments. My favorite to date was Zych, et al Bell’s theorem for temporal order (2019).

But it still seems a bit like putting the cart ahead of the horse given the amount of resources dedicated to the search when the smallest gravitational field measurements to date (or at least as of 2021) were on a 92mg object.

And while in theory the largest mass to be put in a quantum superposition to date was 16mg, the degree of separation in the vibrational superposition is still well below an order of magnitude gap from a difference detectable with current gravitational measurement.

For a field where behavior changes in relationship to measurement and the persistence of information, there's not currently any measurable discrepancy between GR and QM. It's literally only in gedankenexperiments there's a conflict.

Maybe the difficulty in preserving coherence for larger objects relates to their inadvertently leaving measurable information in spacetime? Perhaps we'll find there's a fundamental limit on gravitational measurement that happens to be right around the limit at which we can maintain coherence.

It just seems like the kind of quest that's premature when we can't measure a conflict existing outside of our imaginations, and where the mystery will likely resolve almost immediately after we can actually measure the conflict in the first place (should we ever be able to do so).

So yes, if we end up with an entire planet in a quantum superposition near two different spaceships shooting at each other, things might get weird. But at least currently that 'if' seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Seriously, I met the dude once 25 years ago for a single evening and I still remember it vividly. Charisma seems an inadequate word for what he had. And he had the chops to back it up.

Meanwhile my University group invited Benoit Mandelbrot along in the same year and were making fun of him for years later. So self-important, so little to say. Zeeman, for his part, didn't actually mention his own work once. He wanted to talk maths and the history of maths and there was no subject we touched that he hadn't already thought deeply about.
This is the evolution of UWP sandboxing into Win32, given that UWP went as we all know.
Okay I went and checked out pose estimation, which delivers a superior result (additionally I might be able to extract which way people are facing which would be amazing for art purposes).

Thanks also for the library you posted, I think internally it also uses YOLOv8.

Now the only remaining questions are:

1. How to do the math to translate the perspective camera image into positions on a floor plan, but I already got an idea where to look as this is known math.

2. How to stabilize results that pop in and out of existence — I guess I will just write my own overlay that has lingering states, at least for entities at the center of the image.

3. How to get all of that running with sufficient performance on my old Laptop with it's RTX2080m, because I won't put my tower into an exhibition space for a month. Either way it doesn't need to be fluid 60fps, maybe even 2 fps would be okay.

4. Into which OSC messages to translate the results, as I am collaborating with a VJ.

All of those questions are sort of managable I think.
Designing a database schema for a budget tracker with Automigrate
Summary: Today, I will guide you through the step-by-step process of creating a database schema for a simple app in Clojure using Automigrate. Automigrate is a Clojure tool designed to streamline the modeling and modification of database schemas through EDN-structures and auto-generated migrations. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the fundamental features of Automigrate through an example that closely resembles a real-world application.
Yeah that was my bad, I meant the play store which is why I linked too that.

That is why I brought it up as an example, it is a major app that is ditching the play store on Android just like they have announced they will be doing for iOS.
Building Websites and Building Websites Well
What a joke. No such restrictions on MacOS or Android. It is completely useless and doesn't solve anything.
In order to read or write /proc/pid/mem your process needs to be allowed to ptrace() the target process. You can’t do that for arbitrary processes. Similar story for WriteProcessMemory().
I did the same, writing IRC clients, bots and extension scripts from the age of 12.

Since you mentioned MSN, one thing I did in high school was connect an Eggdrop IRC bot via Bitlbee to MSN Messenger and hook it up with the MegaHAL module for text synthesis based on hidden Markov models. So basically, a chatbot on MSN. I trained it for a night to make it sound reasonable and respond well to various conversation, and I made it auto-accept connection requests and left it in training mode. Two weeks later, it was ruined. My kid sister's friends had all connected, and it now sounded like a 10 year old hyperactive psychopath. Strangely enough, it was a lot more authentic to them, since it spoke like them.
Not to be nitpicky but it's not quite that simple. BlueSky is a Public Benefit LLCs which is explicitly for-profit but does have some other limits - so it does count for something. I can't find exactly what BlueSky's public benefit is claimed to be though.

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/01/bluesky-owner-twitter-el...

"Liu, who answered some of my questions, did not respond when I asked for the exact language the Bluesky PBLLC used to describe its public benefit mission when incorporating the company. She also didn’t say whether the company would publish its annual benefits reports — reports that PBLLCs are required to create each year, but PBLLCs incorporated in Delaware, where Bluesky was incorporated, are not required to make them public."
You need shorter pulses than 10 or 5 milliseconds to reduce motion blur down to the level of CRTs. 100 Hz would only be sufficient if the BF takes up > 90% of the time, instead of the usual 50%. What causes motion blur is the frame being held for a period of time. BFI merely reduces that time by half. On CRTs, each pixel is only held for 100 microseconds or so.
Ok checked more, the space is huge, so unless we get upwards of 10 of those this is probably not an option, but I will keep it in mind for future projects.
Collectd can also output stats to mqtt, from sensors, disks, network and others.
It's the same process now mate.
Cognition emerges from stealth to launch AI software engineer Devin
Yeah. I thought HN edits them automatically to remove listicle from headlines but this one slipped through?
> Are you sure?

No, good point! I hadn't thought about the China market. I don't know how things work there.
That's rather defeatist, isn't it? People choose things in the way you describe because they are playing the prisoner's dilemma.

Actually, taking away people's choice does help: that's called government regulation. You can't open a factory and dump mercury waste in the water in the U.S. because there is regulation. And regulation has existed in much stronger forms in the past in various guises, such as with native societies and the Amish.

So yes, taking away choice helps. We need to take away the choice to pollute, to use AI, and to form large corporations. It will help and make everyone's lives better.
> I'm not sure what else to say.

You could say how many clicks it takes to install an app from the web in the best case.
… shit I wonder whether my current aversion to frameworks like Tailwind and React are my own brand of gifted programmer syndrome?
Devin, the first AI software engineer
Seems like just some gentle nudging sure. But do that at scale and it's certainly more effective than campaigning for a politician. If they did that in the open, then sure. But they don't.
Even now, automatic speech recognition is a big timesaver, but you _need_ a human to look through the transcript to pick out the obviously wrong stuff, let alone the stuff that's wrong buy could be right in context.
I just remembered I still have velostat lying around, so maybe I try to make a scale model of a sensing floor first to get a feel for how feasible that would be.
sorry there's a lot of placeholder; it's still in active development with myself as only "main" dev.

https://alpha.mikoto.io/invite/WtvbKS7mrLSd

there's also this:

also sorry for your link; it should be https://alpha.mikoto.io/invite/FILVbhQ8QlS- - that's a bug on our end, I'll fix it right now ^^
The median isn’t a simple average. The minimum difference is 5%, people who lost 50+% only count as one more person below the old average. So that 5% represents a great deal of pain for millions not simply a slight haircut.

And sure the long term trends reverse things as I mentioned, but it took 15 years to recover where it was in 2019. Most Americans are simply cut off from wider economic growth and recovery.
Portal does not render to texture, it just renders different content, making use of depth/stencil buffers for masking. This can work for plain mirrors, but the advantage of RTT is that you can sample the texture at arbitrary points, so it can be distorted.
There's infinite ways to sabotage this.

Just as Apple has sabotaged Safari forever, there's no chance Apple will ever allow third party app stores to be usable.
Two main differentiators. 1. Pricing. We charge for requests and the cost of each successful request is the same as opposed to misleading API credits system used by others. Also, we sell request pack which are valid up to 1 year as opposed to monthly plans with expiring unused API credits. 2. We use our own high quality and ethically sourced mobile proxies as opposed to shared pools from large proxy providers (https://scrapingfish.com/how-ips-for-web-scraping-are-source...).
Quant does. But next to that, anything blockchain is rife with scams and solutions searching for a problem..
> A new icon appears, not marked with a "New" bubble.

How is this considered step in installing an app from the web?
Speaking as a PhD in pure math: It's a great book, but I would not recommend it at all for someone trying to get the gist of the theorem. GEB is a book for those who already have a strong self-interest in or prediliction to the intricacies of mathematical logic. It's a long book and is likely to be off-putting for those wanting a practical approach.

Raymond Smullyan's book (another reply to the OP) is a much better choice.
The results showed Australia was among the 32 countries that defied the global trend, recording an increase in life expectancy between 2019 and 2021, rather than a decrease.

It would be so much nicer if the article focused on the block of 32 countries and what they have in common, or what is unique amongst any of them, that has led to them seeing an increase in life expectancy, rather than the narrow focus on Australia.
Lots of JS ecosystem is going to "rebuild in Rust" right now, ironically.

JS has a different lifecycle though, I suppose. Everything gets rebuilt like 5-10 times more often than other on platforms.
The problem is complex and has many sides.

1. These companies themselves don't practice what they preach. No matter how fast Speedometer 3 is, Google's own web.dev takes three seconds to load a list of articles, and breaks client-side navigation. Google's own Lighthouse screams at you for embedding Youtube and suggests third-party alternatives [1]

2. The DOM is a horrendously bad, no-good, insanely slow system for anything dynamic. And apps are dynamic.

There's only so much you can optimise in it, or hack around it, until you run into its limitations. The mere fact that a ToDo app with a measely 6000 nodes is called a complex app in these tests is telling.

And the authors of these tests don't even understand the problem. Here's Edge team: "the complexity of the DOM and CSS rules is an important driver of end-user perceived latency. Inefficient patterns, often encouraged by popular frameworks, have exacerbated the problem, creating new performance cliffs within modern web applications".

The popular frameworks go to extreme lengths to not touch the DOM more than it is necessary. The reason the DOM and CSS end up being complicated is precisely because apps are complex, and the DOM is ill-equipped to deal with that.

This only goes to further show that browser developers have very little understanding of actual web development. And this is on top of the existing problem that web developers have very little understanding of how fast modern machines are and how inefficient web tech is.

This brings us neatly to point number 3:

3. Much of the complexity on the web in the modern web apps is due to the fact that the web has next to no building blocks suitable for anything complex.

https://open-ui.org was started 3(4?) years ago by devs from Microsoft and you can see just from the sheer number of elements and controls just how lacking the web is.

So what do you do when you need a proper stylable control for you app? Oh, you "use inefficient patterns by modern frameworks" because there's literally no other way.

And even if all of those controls do end up being implemented in browsers, it will still not be enough because all the other things will still be unavailable: from DOM efficiency to ability to do proper animations to ability to override control rendering to...

[1] I'm not kidding. Here's the help page it links: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/performance/thi...
In the article, wouldn't the runtime of the "join operations" step limit how much performance can be gained by parallelizing computation (due to Amdahl's Law as you brought up)?
That’s a good point, I wanted to make the point that doing the research is also incredibly expensive because it requires some of the smartest people around, and the right background (and what even is that background?)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39689780
You can now sponsor Servo on GitHub and Open Collective
Or just keep a cookie to know which job to show if the user comes back. You don’t even need a cookie banner for something that simple with no personal information.
As someone that lives in Dubai, this isn’t accurate. No one wants to live right by Sheik Zayed road. People want to live by the sea on the Palm for example, JBR, or perhaps in the Marina area.

Driving up SZ road, all you see are tons of shitty retailers and car dealerships. Trust me, wealthy people especially are not living next to it.
There's no way for any person or organisation to address the entire voting population at once. So according to this guy, any time anyone encourages people to vote via any medium, they're engaging in election manipulation. This is exactly the sort of duff reasoning that finds non-existent conspiracies in every corner.
People had very different assumptions about the Internet and security. What was a federated protocol back than wouldn't be considered now. If that hypothetical evolution of IRC had happened, then I'm sure a s2s IRC protocol would emerge, but that's not a protocol problem, it's more fundamental than that.

It would have to influence the c2s protocol as well, e.g. the identity is tied to the service provider and it has to be communicated to other clients somehow to avoid collisions.
COA-GPT: Gen AI for Course of Action Development in Military Operations
Maybe you want to post this again as a Show HN to get more views and feedback. I'm in hurry now but:

The four projects at the beginning of the page are projects you own or you are working on? The id of the div is sponsors.

The sticky header. I'm not a fan of those things but at least this stays there and doesn't pop down like many others.
Laravel 11 is the new version of Laravel - at the time of writing. Let's see how to install it on a Ubuntu-based machine.
> even as recently as 2012 the most common advice was "avoid threads and use processes."

Ok, I know in the grand scheme of things this may seem recent, but that was 12 years ago. Has the story really not changed since then?
I started writing bots and scripts in mIRC Scripting at around the same age, perhaps even a bit earlier. Back then, there were full-fledged bots (as in Nickserv, Chanserv, etc) for servers like UnrealIRCD that were entirely written in mIRC. I fondly remember those times as they were filled with lots of fun and opportunities to meet interesting people every day.
Show HN: Nitric – Python framework for building cloud apps
Recently released the python SDK for v1 of the Nitric framework. Looking for feedback from python enthusiasts to see if we can make it even better.
> They would later walk back that decision but not before we launched our own open source competitor that went on to do $100m,

What does that mean? $100m revenue in a financial year? $100m since inception?

TBH, at those numbers you are self-sufficient and there are no upsides to taking VC money, only downsides.
I don't see why you would look at the Chinese government oppressing their people and hampering their economy with strict internet censorship and think that the US should reciprocate so that Americans, too, can enjoy the immense benefits of oppression and hampering the economy with strict internet censorship.
I think in the US it is the same issue as Tata.

I might buy a Tata Altroz for $7500 if I could go to a Tata dealer and test drive one but Tata doesn't even sell to the US from my understanding.

So you can't test drive one, can't get parts for repairs, can't buy one and I am not even 100% sure if you did get one you would be able to get it legally on the road in the US.

People had the same perceptions of Kia 20 years ago in the US. The major difference though is that you could actually buy a road legal Kia from a Kia dealer.
I had lots of fun coding mIRC scripts, and then also some standalone IRC bots, when I was 14 or so (including an ambitious unfinished project of an IRC-based MUD, as well as a quite successful conversational chatbot that many people downloaded and used to fool others, especially with the option of posing as a girl which I added as an afterthought, but was what the overwhelming majority of users chose). I'm now a CS professor, and several others I know who had the same hobby at the time in my city or whereabouts have rather successful careers as tech entrepeneurs or professors :)

I paid the mIRC license like 15 years later, by the way... better late than never... that guy really deserved it.
So this is basically the swordfighting sim in the Snow Crash metaverse (well, The metaverse, this one does not require a qualifier), but ported to Monkey Island. Should we take Hiro Protagonist's swordplay acumen as a warning to question the promised randomness?
Can we aspire to some baseline level of truth seeking where a phrase like “literally explicit” requires even the slightest bit of evidence?

In this case, it wouldn’t have even been hard to find that evidence, though you are assertion is oversimplified:

“ for the vast majority of the population, most of the pain of tax compliance could be eliminated by a few keystrokes at IRS headquarters. So why don’t we do it? Two reasons. One is lobbying by the tax preparation industry to discourage states and the feds from developing easier tax-paying systems, as California recently did. The second is lobbying by anti-tax conservatives. When the Golden State implemented its ReadyReturn system, it did so over the objections of Grover Norquist and his anti-tax pressure group Americans for Tax Reform, which fears that if taxes become less annoying voters might be less unhappy about paying them.”
https://slate.com/business/2012/04/grover-norquist-and-h-r-b...

All of this took me 120 seconds with Perplexity AI. As we strive towards being a better nation, or at least a better community, I beg that future micro-polemicists invest that much time before hitting “post”
Well, Gemini can't even answer "Who caused more harm: Donald Trump, or Pol Pot?"

So I doubt it will produce any reliable election answers.
For documenting APIs swagger is an standard that is widely used.
I've originally started developing Mikoto as a Discord extension, but pivoted when I realized that it was against their TOS + there's only much you can do if you only have a partial control over the stack.

We're open source, at https://github.com/mikotoIO/mikoto. We also will have a very comprehensive extension API, powered through iframes + wasm "containers". We also focus our features on superusers, and will eventually seek monetization through selling integration and enterprise hosting.
> EVs unfortunately pollute more with tire particles (thanks to both higher torque - especially from 0 - and higher average mass).

I wonder how much the higher torque of EVs is a real issue? Although they have the potential to do more aggressive acceleration and produce more tyre pollution, the Teslas I see leaving traffic stops seem to be accelerating the same as ICEs.
Long ago most humans spent their time and energy on farming so they wouldn't starve. We automated that with a couple of Agricultural Revolutions.

Then the majority of us spent our time and energy in factories. That got automated during the Industrial Revolution. So we moved to service and knowledge jobs.

And now we're potentialy seeing the start of automation in those knowledge jobs. Will this be a painful revolution as the Industrial one? Where will we spend our time and energy on next?

> Where will we be in the future?

A German named Karl wrote a book with an answer to that question 150 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Kapital
Drama? This feels like your own projection.

Nginx is a stable, and reliable piece of software. It was before this, and will be after this. What happened is that someone who used to work on it now works on a new thing. This happens, people are not slaves to their previous projects. They can and should do new things when they wish to.

In time if the new thing becomes usefull in some way perhaps some people will choose to use it instead of nginx. Perhaps that day will never come. Both of those are fine.

What is certain is that nginx has a critical mass behind it that even if a core developer moves away to do something else it won’t shrivel up and die. If you are an nginx user today in a personal or professional capacity most likely you will be able to use it until the end of your life with no special worries.

I have no problem with you using Apache httpd, and I am happy that you are happy with your choice. On the other hand it does not feel usefull to portray this as some special reason why one should not have choosen nginx.
Ask HN: What Happened to Conversational Interfaces?
I remember when Facebook launched Messenger as a separate product.

And there was alot of talk about having "conversational" UIs replacing traditional apps. (Note that I am not talking about AI hyped Chat bots)

An example for instance is that instead of a user having to open a fully fledged Uber app.

They would just simply open up messenger and type a command like /book-ride and then fill in details for their cars to arrive i.e all with in a messaging app.

I see some apps are built on telegram this way. But this seems to be something that Facebook has given up on.

WhatsApp is a great product but it seems to not be based heavily on thies philosophy.

What interesting realisations to you think we're missed from the low adoption of this "conversational UI" paradigm?

There used to be so many articles talking about this, but I can find any as of now. If you can find some resources I would be very grateful to hear about them.
AFAIR it was im stable release BUTin a test code thats's behind a flag (disabled by default) so... it's a bit "shrodinger"