skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C# with ASP.NET Core + EF Core, AvaloniaUI or Uno or GTK bindings if that's your preference, Unity or Godot, and more.

Can build for Linux, macOS, Windows, Android and iOS, either JIT (better for servers, sometimes GUI/Games) or AOT (better for phones, CLI, serverless).

Its build system and CLI tooling is very productive and easy to get started with.
Absolutely not the solution, a temporary relief at best. Better to bury this idea.
No, I’m not. Your ai generated spam doesn’t pass the smell test. Low grade even by terf standards.

Trans women are women.
What a lovely project! Would you be willing to share your work? As with the project that kicked this off it would be great to see it even if it's just a jumble of scripts that would not work for anybody else.
How large of a prefix are you scanning and are you preseeding your scans?
> And you're worried about architectural drawings and building codes?????

Building codes, like several other categories of regulations that can at times feel oppressive or arbitrary, tend to be written in the blood of accident victims. See, for example the ghost ship fire in my recent memory of why they are important even if (especially if) you are using an under utilized space
This seems like damned-either-way. If they had only tested English and asserted that it was universally applicable to all languages, it’s likely you (or someone else) would rightfully object that it’s annoying when English speakers assume that’s all there is.
Material scarcity creates community. Once we hit abundance, we have to find ways to add that back, I think.
Inb4 somebody sics Elsevier and Springer on these Adobe goofuses.
I saw something in their eyes... Something that makes me wonder if I'll see them again on Monday.
I’ve thought about this before, and I’m not sure it is weird, I think it largely makes sense.

The early days of the internet was essentially a self-selecting group of individuals, the chances for finding like minded folks were that much higher. Just the excitement at being online at all is no longer an interesting experience to anyone - it was back then to much of this much smaller group. A shared exciting experience attracting likeminded people.

Now the entire planet is almost online, the distinction between a human and someone who uses the internet largely doesn’t exist anymore- it’s no longer a subset and has all the vagaries of real life, with its good, bad and in-between actors. Another example of this is that in the early 90s we didn’t care about identity fraud online nearly as much - today it’s a much bigger problem that many people have experienced.

Given that, is it any surprise people are now perhaps as guarded as they are in the “real world”? Back then the line between the offline world and the online one was much clearer, today it’s more and more a core feature of humanity’s daily existence, good and bad. My thoughts anyway.
Exactly. Whenever people wax nostalgic about using the built-in BASIC on old Commodores, Ataris, Apples... I like to note that JavaScript pretty much fills the same role today. Available on any machine with a web browser (which is pretty much every consumer machine), detested by programming language purists... the whole ball of wax. The only thing missing is line numbers. :-)

Sadly, the powers that be keep making it harder and harder to run HTML+JS programs from plain local text files (for example, programs that need any kind of resource other than a few pre-defined ones like images -- you can't even load WASM!)

And no, "start a local server" isn't a useful answer for a kid who might be working on a locked-down school or library PC. It's also not a useful answer for anyone who might want to develop browser-based apps that run from the local file system, but who doesn't want to ship hundreds of megs of hackery (Electron, I'm looking in your direction).

As far as "security" goes, I'm pretty sure that firing up some bozo web server presents a greater security risk than allowing a web page to access resources in its own folder.

As far as "security" in general goes: well... if I can convince you to install arbitrary files of my choice on your machine and run/open them, "security" is already an illusion.

They could easily have made modern stuff like fetch work with local files (the underlying code would be different, of course, but the interface would be the same). And yeah, this would require a bit of care to make sure you didn't allow JS code to fetch something outside the folder the web file was coming from. So what? That's your job, mang.

I mean, imagine how secure a web browser would be that wasn't allowed to load any local files, or even connect to the internet. Almost perfectly secure. Also perfectly useless.
I think one of the things that makes this guy’s story interesting, at least to me, is that there is big part of me that would do as he has done but I have actively and intentionally suppressed it. Maybe we share the same
ADHD inspired impulses. The part of me that suppresses these impulses could have easily been missing, I see his story I think, ‘there but for the grace of god go I’.

I don’t want to see him fail but since I’ve suppressed this aspect in myself I am kind of seeking reassurance of my own decisions. If he succeeds then that may suggest that I have been making the wrong choices in life. I wouldn’t begrudge him for his success and instead I would use it to try to recalibrate my own decisions.
https://news.sap.com/2023/09/joule-new-generative-ai-assista...

Maybe not directly mimicking MBAs, but I have to assume that SAP's data sets are heavily MBA-flavored.
Canada has a national maple syrup reserve. It's almost empty
One thing I’ve noticed with AI tools is that many people are entirely willing to offload the thinking process to the machine. They don’t use it as a way to enhance their capabilities or come up with new ideas, but just to do the work entirely. It reminds me of this line from Agent Smith:

…which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about.
I've been reading Steven Pinker's book "How the Mind Works", and even if you're not a particular Pinker fan like myself (apparently he's quite controversial in certain circles, though I'm not quite sure why), the book is really quite an impressive feat, and there are a bunch of great sections about theories behind the evolutionary bases for relationships (specifically romantic relationships and friendships), love and other emotions, and altruism. I learned a lot, and at the very least made me more aware of some of my subconscious mental feats that go on when navigating relationships.

One thing I'd point out about the theories presented in the article is there is not much (if any?) evidence that says if you start with "People in successful relationships tend to have these traits" that then if you try to emulate those traits that you will find better relationships. The first in no way implies the latter, and I see this unwarranted leap a lot when discussing these types of sociological issues.
They said "European colonizers." That doesn't signify every European nation, but only those with colonialist histories.
By forcing a monopoly.
Yep. The downtown architecture is pretty and goes back to when I assume it was an important agricultural hub for the region and money existed.
What Is Green Software and Why Do We Need It?
Interesting! I read some blogs. How "dispatch" compares to something like temporal?
It's based on a center of mass point of the earth.

The system is an example of an "ECEF" or Earth Centered Earth Fixed system.

Good writeup here -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-centered,_Earth-fixed_...

Edit - fixed center statement.
Given that healthcare is a complicated problem economically, I'm not sure why countries like the US say don't look at other counties where where the system works better and copy them.

See this for example https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109036/satisfaction-hea...

Singapore has low costs and high satisfaction. Maybe copy that one?
Because I don't live in SF. So ask the companies when they'll deploy elsewhere.
How about https://github.com/utiasDSL/gym-pybullet-drones
> How they managed to squeeze all of that inside such a tiny device is baffling.

The San-Ti probably use similar technology they use to create sophons: by unfolding a proton to get access to the 11 dimensions it "occupies", which makes it very very large, giving access to insert circuitry and building an advanced computer. Upon completion, you can ask it to fold itself back to its original size.
Is human sacrifice the only practice that means a culture deserves to be eradicated or are there others?
Getting crushed between superpowers is probably one of the worst national nightmares. You can just hope your elite is intellectual(?) enough to not put themself in that position on your behalf.

I wonder how much such disconcert for drafting is due to running low on nationalistic types that more or less volunteer. I think most people just fake their nationalistic support to not be beaten with sticks or whatever, when it really comes down to it, they bail if possible. I guess there is a reason the borders are closed for men draft dodging.

I mean, there surely can't be a greater part of the community that would by their own free will put them self into a trench, than would volunteer to run as a coach or whatever the local soccer team or equivalent.
Ask HN: Books about sales for indie hackers and small SaaS businesses
Hi everyone,
Are there any good books to learn sales for someone who is pursuing a one-person online business or a SaaS business with a small team (less than 10), pre product market fit stage?
For the lols, probably.
We're in broad agreement. The only unknown is that of timing. Russia will not win. The collective "West" is helping very deeply, and part of the problem has been getting everyone closer to the conflict to realize there are no options other than force. That has taken much longer than it should have. (e.g., France's recent change in tone.) It is not such a doom-and-gloom picture -- Poland is leading the charge in terms of ramping up modern military capacity. Every participant nation is chipping in heavily to get the job done. More expensive air defense systems will give way to cheaper alternatives (F-16s, air drones, eventually lasers to neutralize "slow" drone and cruise missile threats), freeing them up to focus on ballistic threats. The front is going to be increasingly taken over by "unmanned" systems -- mine laying robots, loitering vehicles, automated fire vehicles/stations. Systematic destruction of A-50s is paving the way for fighters to operate with much less risk, taking out bomber threat and continuing to use HARMs to further reduce risk from S-300/400s and EW. Ukraine has been so effective in deep targeting of refineries, factories, airfields, at some point it will be time to turn attention to creative ways of stopping the air-launched threat from Olenya and others at the source. These things are won by logistics, and relying on continual delivered aid is a losing strategy. Everyone wants it to be over yesterday, but the only thing that will counter Russia's ability to whip a mobilization economy faster is collective sustainable local production done right. Russia was counting on the US, UK, etc. losing focus through election cycles, but the Eastern Bloc and Baltics will not lose focus. That was a big hurdle to overcome, and the leadership exhibited there helps ease fears that the outcome will solely be determined by what the US does or doesn't do. You couldn't have convinced me earlier Germany would be the ones dragging their feet and France would unambiguously flex muscle, but here we are.
It depends on how much you're wiling to hack something together, but you can get new telegraph keys for like $30 apiece: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805611852897.html

Connect those up to Raspberry Pis with audio jacks and you're off to the races.
Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
And enumerations from the start.
> This kind of comment always blows my mind.

In a good way or a bad way?

> How can you come in and say 'well, actually...

It's a mixture of qualities; education, scepticism, and original
thinking are the key ones. Some cultures discourage this sort of
thinking and promote an unquestioning attitude that takes whatever is
presented on face value. For me as a scientist my own upbringing
placed a lot of value on the opposite life-stance.

> i think what you say you experience is not true.

That is an unfair characterisation of what I said. Truth or falsehood
hardly applies to experience. I am suggesting there's an alternative
way of looking at what people report than "overwhelming" choice. That
may apply to you. It may not. Make your own path.

I think maybe you took what was intended as a general observation
about this phenomenon as a rebuke of your personal experience.

> disregard all the literature on the subject too!

One TED talk and a book (albeit a good one) does not really count as
"all the literature".

I wish I could understand you better. Does encountering other points
of view feel "offensive" because you disagree? Does it feel like
invalidates something you believe in, in a "personal" way (like an
attack)? Or do you really feel uncomfortable with sceptical thinking?
I can guarantee you avoiding damage to the door is nowhere near any list of things any firefighter gives a flying fuck about.
Thank you, that’s a great site. There goes my Sunday morning!
Why do you think California Forever is a far worse scheme?
How can i win 100% ni pgslot?
Used to do sprites with graph paper on my C=64 back in the day. I mean it’s kinda what graph paper is good for.
This seems a bit misleading, since for many of these games they work fine without downloading the updates. If you don't connect Super Mario Bros Wonder or The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to the internet, then version 1.0 is a perfectly playable, full version of the game.

And from my experience, I can just refuse the update every time. Heck, from a speedrunning perspective it's probably better not to update them, since the updates patch out a bunch of tech that makes them more fun to mess around with (easy item dupes in Tears of the Kingdom, easy out of bounds in Mario Wonder).
My DIY NAS Adventure
Ah okay, so you get the foundation. Still, pretty cool.
America's Northern Climate Boomtowns Are Waiting
You might be right, I don't know. I got off the Java train some years ago, sadly by moving to Scala (what a mistake!) - so I have no clue about the things you are talking about. As the companies I worked for were making hundreds of millions of yearly revenue and lots of profit based on Java, not sure they needed that.

I only have some experience with Scala/Akka. Not sure if Akka was bad or it's the actor model, I found it hard to debug and understand code written by others.

I'm now 50+ and I use Go. It's so simple it even works for old people.
Made it seem like it was written in Forth.
An ironic comment considering your nom de guerre; this might be the seminally frustrated take.
Most of the drugs have side effects and this might have as well. But this could be very benificial for the ones who can't exercise for medical or other reasons.
But do they? For example there are much more female nurses than male nurses. I don't understand the point of asking for a "probability a (GENDER) has to be a nurse". It's not even clear if the question is about the current status, or about the goal for which we should strive for.
Anecdotally, I can confirm. I remember listening to a vinyl rip of Opeth's Blackwater Park because the CD version's dynamic range has been butchered enough that it more than made up for vinyl's technical inferiority.

However, now that most people have moved to streaming services, I think that CDs may become the audiophile/hipster format of choice. They have the advantages of vinyl - being able to physically touch your collection and look at the cover art, generally no DRM, the nostalgia factor of using old technology - while also having near-perfect quality and not degrading with every listen.
Kind of, yes. The other 96% of the world population has pretty much managed just that. No where else depends on iMessage and the idea of depending on such a single-platform app to keep in touch with people is baffling.
Because it's security escape hatch. It's not needed. Suid programs caused many vulnerabilities. There must not be a way to get more privileges, only less.
> I think humans are probably too large for practical prehensile tails too.

There’s only one way to find out! Who wants to join my ‘prehensile tails for humans’ (and other great apes with cash) startup?

Capitalism, wow!
I've long pondered on the idea of a unified, indexed database of all my personal data, which can also be stored on multiple removable drives (not your storage, not your data).

I've started work multiple times, but the scale of work required just scares me away.

Ideally, I'd like to see a timeline of everything that happened in my digital life - from photos, messages, health data, e-mails, even web sites I've visited.

For documents and files it should offer full text search and semantic search, etc.

The reason I want to have all my data in one index is not just for backup. As AI keeps evolving, I'll be able to use this data to train ever more capable AIs, which could eventually know pretty much everything about me and be able to sound like myself or even emulate me :).

Looking far into the future, this thing could eventually outlive me ...
Context: https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/177166635165378186...

George Hotz: No need to hire me, just open source the 7900XTX firmware+docs and remove the signature check. We'd treat it like bring up for our own chip, get builds in CI, HITL testing, fuzzing, etc...
Deadline, end of the week? Otherwise I'm not spending more time thinking about this.

Spoke with @LisaSu. She was very polite, but said nothing of substance and indirectly rejected my offer.

Here’s a firmware crash, run ./loop.sh to trigger. Tested on tinybox and 1x7900XTX machine, ROCm 6.0.2 and 6.0.3 preview. Must reboot to bring back.

Livestreamed as "finding exploits in AMD's GPU firmware" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fFUfyT-EyA
I can’t tell if this is serious or satire.

If serious, LOL. You most assuredly cannot use vinyl, a medium that physically wears out a little bit every time you listen to it, forever.

Source: owned hundreds of LPs over the years. Also, just look at it.
Came out of the cave expecting a critical jest and call to action "Delete systemd" the sprawling Linux overseer that flouts the Unix philosophy, with a host of arguments supporting why it's ripe for replacement in the name of simplicity.

Was sorely disappointed.
What's the gotcha here for why it isn't better known? I've used Processing, Unity, Godot, hell I even played with Ember C++.

Never heard of this til now. Any major drawbacks or limitations?
Noticed too. I thought it was deliberate, how a slightly random reward increases reinforcement.
That's not a similar claim. Anyone can be annoyed by anything; the idea that it's "unscientific" to state that a method of recognizing English by measuring the positions of the lips, tongue, and jaw alongside the activity of the larynx will apply to every other spoken language in the world is ludicrous on its face. It will, because those measurements capture nearly every dimension of phonetic variation that exists. No one could believe otherwise, except apparently for metabagel.
With appropriate types and behaviors and a runtime in some other language with normal functions, you could make the code you see that "looks a lot like functions" do what this language aims to do (reactive programming -- when an input changes, update the output). The key is in what these new concepts _can't_ do. They _only_ update in response to input changes. There is no part of the language that isn't intimately tied to the reactive scheduler.

Why would you want that? The paper is pretty readable, but it's (1) interesting theoretically and (2) it solves a lot of failure modes in reactive programs, such as deadlocking a single execution thread, never yielding back to the scheduler, ....
Your complaint seems more like a failing legal system than unnecessary surveillance.

Legitimately if an investigator put a hard drawn sketch through facial recognition and that was even remotely allowed into evidence by the court then the suspect evidence wasn't the issue
I hope some day we can grow beyond the childish notion that something as broad as "the West" can have a single goal or perfectly consistent behavior in the first place.

Estonia and Poland and Czechia have different goals and motivations than Germany, Germany has a different goals and motivations than France, who has different goals and motivations than the US, and within each of those entities are dozens of other entities with their own goals. Jake Sullivan has different goals and motivations than the General Staff, Congress has different goals and motivations than either. Macron has different goals and motivations than the French Parliament, SPD has different goals than the CDU and Greens, etc. etc. etc.

It's just silly. Of course the lowest common denominator is "weaken Russia" but that doesn't mean there are not substantial factions in favor of ending the conflict with victory.
Neural Networks, Pre-Lenses, and Triple Tambara Modules, Part II
Cassette is more difficult, but I will say from experience that after enough time with a specific player (a walkman for example) and a tape you could get uncannily good at seeking to the start/end of a specific track.
Oddly enough I like the lock in… and it’s not apples fault, blackberry did it first with PIN messages and then BBM. Heck their slogan for the priv phone was privacy and exclusivity

You can still SMS anyone. But it’s much better on iPhone. They should not open iMessage to Android it’ll just turn into a big spammy dumpster fire.
Not sure it was hard sell. The computers were expensive but people knew they are the future. Parents who could afford it would buy it for the kids just to have access to the computers without knowing what good they are for.
Cool stuff, Austin! Really liked how you upgraded the X-Plane autopilot with Flask and Redis. Makes tweaking those set points way smoother. It’s neat to see Python take on complex tasks like this. Ever think of messing with this setup for other sims, or throwing in some trickier algorithms? Cheers for laying it all out there!
Probably not more popular because (for reasons I do not know) the mkinitcpio hooks Arch Linux provides are only for tinyssh and dropbear:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/dm-crypt/Specialties#Remote...
Well PHP is certainly neither of those languages
Hot Tub Lung
It's weird to read this coming from a country that basically bundles PIV with your ID. Once every few years you take a new picture and go grab it from a police station in half an hour and that's basically it.

And at the same time support this widespread would not exist without the U.S. using PIV, so I'm glad people bother :D I also recall some U.S. government site recommending a small and sleek card reader designed here (folds into an USB-stick shape).

Hopefully these processes improve and systems become more interoperable cross-borders at some point.
Good point. Even though I have hardware knowledge and studied VLSI
I'd be completely lost with the raw data.

How I imagine this working - Huang and Applebaum both suggested
similar - is that someone would publish "ground truth" templates of
what hardware should look like. The validation would only flag
suspicious differences (using "AI"/pattern-matching etc) and then
those would definitely be escalated to an expert.