skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a really good elaboration of what I'm getting at! Now that you mention it, it does seem like that's the case — as if people have taken the mantra about "premature optimization" way too far, to rule out not just micro optimizations, but also using good algorithms, and even starting with good foundations. As if by default we should be using the slowest and least efficient language and runtime possible, and any little concession to by-default performance (which in my opinion doesn't really count as optimization even) has to be justified by some particularity of your field or task. And honestly, I have to wonder if that's sort of the mentality that has led us to things like Electron. It makes sense to be worried about optimization for performance if it makes it makes your developer velocity clearly worse, but in my opinion, and according to what little research I've seen, the difference in development velocity between an ahead of time compiled statically typed language and a dynamic language quickly disappears beyond a certain program size, which makes sense to me, since it would be presumptively a constant factor.
Ask HN: Best coworking to be close to the FIRE
I have just arrived in SF for two months. I am an early-stage AI founder looking to connect with fellow founders and VCs. Does anyone have recommendations for the best coworking places? I live in Cerebral Valley but am happy to commute for the right community. I've heard that Dogpatch is a great place to meet YC founders.
> And in 2024, it’s far more likely to encounter something you had no intention of seeing.

Strongly disagree. I haven't stumbled on "goatse" level shock imagery in years. Sure you might encounter stuff you had no intention of seeing, but that's only because you're being funnelled into link farms or other for-profit crapware flooding the internet. It's very rare to stumble on something disturbing.
Start by identifying the problem you're trying to solve, then validate that the problem is worth solving and that your approach can get people wanting to solve it. Then figure out what's the quickest way to test this, and only then if all is validated start building something.
It was a massive boat. They don't change direction very easily.
Vouchers would certainly raise the percentage in the US, but it would take quite a long time to get to 36% or even 18% - that's a lot of schools that would have to be reopened or rebuilt, and teachers found or trained.

The lack of kids is often because the school is in an older part of town, which has become "newly wed or nearly dead" and they don't have enough people willing to drive long distances to use the school. Others are rural in areas that are just depopulated now.
Any dummies explanation of what diffusion is?
I hope the next POTUS makes good on Biden's promises because Baltimore and Maryland will need federal assistance since they can't afford such a burden.

And I assume there will lawsuits to recover costs as this caused economic damage and risk to life (8 people unaccounted for at current time).
back in my day we had a thing called Java Applets. You had to download Java to get snowflakes on your geocities son!
Good news is that Apple can completely enforce a rule against it in their own store, and this one wouldn't bring any scrutiny from the Commission.
Your newsroom needs an AI ethics policy
I like it too. It's an experiment in musical texture -- not to downplay the curation involved in getting a nice mix of instruments, which I'm sure took some skill.

To me, it's a bit similar to Skrillex or Rite of Spring, both of which I like almost completely because of their texture. If you like it, if you don't, that's fine -- no need to be prescriptivist about it. At the end of the day it's all just vibrations.
Open Architect: Orchestrate your AI software engineers through a board
Jensen Huang said in the future we will orchestrate multiple agents doing work for us. With some friends at the Mistral hackathon, we realized this means we will command them just like software managers command their devs today.

So we created a tool that uses a board to orchestrate AI coders, reviewers and designers on a repo! You can give then work but also check out what they've been doing and approve or disprove.

We want to make this open source and useful for the most :) Feel free to reach out if you want to contribute or give feedback
Doesn't run on mobile, which is fine not everything has to. But could someone describe the page for those of us who can't right now?
I know it's crass, but why? Aren't terminals good enough
I enjoyed playing with this. On a different note, do you gather data about the different ways visitors play the videos?
You're confusing skills with intelligence. Plasticity isn't the ability to increase your intelligence. It's the ability to learn new things. Learning how to learn doesn't make you more intelligent, it just increases your skill at that specific task (learning).

I think intelligence is a general ability to solve problems. So improving your skill at solving one type of problem doesn't make you more intelligent because it doesn't increase your general ability to solve all types of problem.
On pavement, when the front brake performs well and is operated near optimal power, the back tire will not have traction. The back brake is entirely redundant in that case.
> Maybe a tangent idk, but how do unitary universalist groups work or religious communities without afterlife reward doctrines?

Unitarian-Universalists aren't growing, they are shrinking. Most denominations are shrinking, but on the whole, conservative denominations are shrinking rather more slowly than liberal ones, including the super-liberal UUs. I remember, when I was younger, I tried out a few different churches. I saw more than one conservative Protestant church overflowing with young families. I also went to a Unitarian church (only one, but there aren't many around here), and I was the only person there under 50.

In general, religious communities without afterlife reward doctrines, struggle to survive and thrive in the long-run. Their members tend to defect either to secularism or to religious communities which make bigger promises
One of my favorite ISMRM posters that I saw in Toronto years ago was titled something like "a low-cost MRI-compatible communication system". It was really well written and you had to look at the photos to fully realize it was actually two Dixie cups connected by a string.
Lessons in Statistical Thinking
Association Football is one of the most popular cultural pursuits in human history. I think it's a reasonable shout
I bought my last phone with my amex and literally dropped it on a rock no more than 6 hours after taking it out of the box. Completely shattered and bricked the screen.

Amex has accidental damage coverage for 30 days after purchase, and they fully reimbursed me for the $300 repair. Very happy about that.
This is why I love HN. Busting esoteric misconceptions with detailed knowledge of industry and history. It makes sense why developers hated the Saturn and PSX came out on top. Developer experience is king!
https://github.com/wong-justin/fmin - I'm working on a file manager for the terminal. A little like Midnight Commander, and a lot like fman. Features: jump to directory (like zoxide), filter as you type, a command palette, and custom commands through shell scripting.
Still continuing to work on https://non.io, which I kinda accidentally launched on hackernews around 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296695

TL;DR elevator pitch: subscription based reddit-like platform. Your subscription is split evenly between everything you upvote that month. Nonio takes $1 out of your subscription to pay for servers.

One thing I found from the launch was there was a huge volume of mobile users, who didn't have a great experience. I hired a dev to help work on an iOS app for this, which we're building in the open.

Designs: https://www.figma.com/file/im8a7L7axmbj0S0lm27NKa/Nonio-iOS-...

Code: https://github.com/jjcm/nonio-ios
How do you check sites behind cloudflare or similar that block the status code?
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You can very substantially discount measures of the importance of Christianity in most countries, then, as by that measure the number of Christians is massively overreported in censuses etc. and it's a dying religion.

However fact still remains that a huge number of people who consider themselves Christian do not believe in the resurrection, and that in itself makes it entirely reasonable to word things that way whether you agree that those people are Christian or not.
The background problem of all this is what have been ingrained in our culture that money = success = happiness. Is not that they will or will not own a house, a car or a yatch, is the sense that they will never be able to be happy if they don’t get any of those. How many people follow careers that they are not interested in the least but they have “growth potential” or are a “path to success”. Now on top of that they see in social media people who “have everything” and are living the life and smiling 24/7 and they don’t understand that everything is just a show, books, radio, movies, tv, youtube it’s all the same, reality is on this side of the screen not in that.
separate but pertinent question: what was the mv dali's air draft? (FSK bridge's clearance is 185'/56m) ...perhaps the incident was an aborted attempt to crossing under the bridge?
As a lover of the Sega Saturn, I really believe the use of quads over tris really contributed to the Saturn's unique look.
> This is only difficult if your children are not in your presence 24/7 (public school, hanging out at malls, etc).

So you're just saying it is difficult.
This.

Plus Meta can't leave the store since they need it to address non-EU markets, and Apple can definitely force them to keep being available in store in the EU if they want to be available elsewhere.
Improving the accuracy and robustness of gps on mobile devices -- https://www.zephr.xyz/

Real physics and computational communication problems. Crazy tech, fun stuff!!
Choice Canning ships illegal shrimp to US, whistleblower alleges
> I'm not sure if I would expect any bridge to survive being struck by an enormous container ship.

Not a container ship, but an abandoned bulk carrier ship: https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2022/11/14/po...

That bridge survived with little damage, and was reopened the following day after small repairs (https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2022/11/15/te...).
More details froem WaPo...

>The ship was towed into the river initially, but the tugboats did not accompany the ship all the way to the bridge, said John Konrad, a retired ship captain who runs the gCaptain maritime news website and co-authored a book on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

>“The safe thing to do is keep the tugs,” Konrad said. “Moving forward, I think that’s going to happen. The Coast Guard is going to say you’ve got to keep the tugs tied up until you pass the bridge.”
Twitter required a login long before the rename or Elon owned it. He actually removed that restriction for a while before reenabling it.

And with some simple div removal, IG doesnt require a login to view content. This is true about a lot of the paywalled sites.
There were tugs two tugs helping depart the dock and turn, until about 43 seconds in the video. 5:08 AM real time
However, if you compare the energy and resource inputs to produce that 2-3g the picture starts looking a LOT more competitive. Not to mention a very attractive nutrient profile and potential medicinal benefits (eg a lot of bioactive tryptophan metabolites).
Encode Once and Decode in Parallel: Efficient Transformer Decoding
There's no way this is an argument that humans can do things AIs can't do. Weird quantum nonsense won't help, because quantum computers aren't oracle machines.
The improvement is (possibly) that not every line of every dependency in the graph actually gets compiled into my artifact. What I want is a tool which trims down my dependencies to just those lines of code which actually end up in my binary. That way I don't actually have to care about (again possibly) most of those bug reports, because they might not have anything to do with the pieces of each dependency I actually depend on.

Basically I want something which eliminates all the dead code in my dependency graph, and makes me review the diff in the undead code every time the dependency graph changes, my code changes, or both. Otherwise I'm very unlikely to review my deps and their usage. If it doesn't appear as an actual diff in code review it's not getting reviewed, probably.
Disagreed from me. Though, I'm not sure how hard my disagreement truly is.

Discrete programs are superior in many ways, as you do not immediately incur maintenance costs to write them. More, they typically force you to have a discrete API that they work with, and then you can lean on that.

Yes, you can do all of this with modular programming techniques. Indeed, "unit tests" are easy to see as similar to what I'm advocating here. Such that I think my assertion is softer than many folks are probably seeing. If you are "scripting" something to add data to the system, it should emphatically not hit the database directly.

I don't know where this lands me on the infrastructure as code (IAS) debate. I'm sympathetic to the desire. I start to think of it as navel gazing when I see some of the very engineered testing practices some people take those to.
Thanks for taking the time. Can you help me understand? Because I didn't get this from the devs.

Just looking at a random formula, am I correct to understand that this will use python 3.10 and NOT 3.12?[0] I understand ones like this[1] where there's a note about the issue with newer versions.

What I'm trying to understand is if the python version is specified by the formula or it will default to the newest version. If it requires it to be specified in the formula then doesn't this make it contingent on the maintainer upgrading it every python version? I didn't verify [0], but it looks like it should work with later versions of python, and it it is still using 3.10 then isn't that essentially the maintainers "fault?" Because that's my concern. I can't see how something like this stays updated when it requires a maintainer to update. Seems better to have a >=3.10 and then do ==3.10 if only 3.10 works (odd) or >=3.10 <3.12 if it works for 10 and 11 but not 12. Especially since formulas are often made by people that are not the package developers themselves and we're just reliant upon someone keeping up. I'd rather break upon a new version than have many old pythons installed. I know there's no perfect solution, but we're talking about failure modes. And fwiw, I'd rather it try to use the system or environment python rather than installing a unique version. It just gets confusing when you need to add dependencies for optional stuff that wasn't included in the formula and is extremely non-obvious to a new user.

[0] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/12a0f6bbbeda8...

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/12a0f6bbbeda8...
Canva Acquires Serif's Affinity Apps
Thanks for responding! Didn't realize you were the founder. I'll check my driver configuration first. My original message was a bit harsh so I'd like to take this chance to personally thank you - I love what Framework is doing.
>It appears the ship lost power twice before hitting the bridge.

https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/baltimore-bridge-collap...

Too early to tell

Still, the captain should make sure the ship is operational to make a trip before starting any trip

But, still, yes, I admit I should have been at least a tiny bit more clear-headed when I made my initial comment
Strong is the simplest, most intuitive workout tracking experience
It is a grid of embedded YouTube videos, each one of which including "in B-flat" or "in Bb" in the title (and so are pretty much all someone playing some random song on some random instrument... in B-flat).
>the abolition of abortion represents essentially the same scientific, non-theistic recognition of human beings, no matter their ethnicity or stage of development.

It really doesn't. Opposition to abortion in the US is entirely premised on Christian ideology and the belief that a human is ensouled by God at the moment of conception, thus making abortion at any stage equivalent to murder, whereas scientific consensus is that abortion is a perfectly valid and sometimes necessary medical procedure, not fundamentally different than removing an appendix. Science certainly doesn't support outlawing abortion outright, or banning contraceptives or forcing women to carry nonviable pregnancies to term, all of which anti-abortion states have now made law, often with politicians directly citing the Bible while doing so.
On my Pixel 6A + Firefox it says it doesn't run but runs fine if I click through the dialog.

It's a grid of youtube embeds linking videos of people playing simple, improvised sequences in Bb on different instruments. They can be played in different orders, combinations and overlaps to create different textures.
Sharing this here because it's a great app, 100% free and does what it says on the tin. Excellent UX and solves the big problem of "fitness app that doesn't price gouge me".
The question was about merits though, you can't just ignore the question.

How do teenagers find and discover businesses when they are locked behind a sign up wall for social media?
To see how I see a hypercube:

1. Start with just one point moving around in 3D and changing brightness. Make it move up/down, right/left, forward/back, and in/out (brightness).

Contemplate the points distance from you as it moves around. At median brightness, the point is just its 3D distance from you.

If its bright, it's further "in" to you, if its dark it is further "out" from you, relative to its 3D distance.

2. Once that makes sence, do it with two dots moving around, passing each other in brightness and 3D position, but never colliding unless they are on the same 3D point with the same brightness.

Now move them around separately, but imagine the line between them. If they have the same brightness, that line is the normal 3D line segment between them. But the more their brightness differs, the more the are also offset in 4D.

When they are different brightness at the same 3D location, imagine the brightness line between them getting longer and shorter as their delta brightness increases and decreases.

3. Once that makes sense, now imagine two cubes. They are the same 3D location, but with different brightnesses. When you connect each pair of corresponding corner points together, with "brightness" delta lines, they now form a hypercube..

Any point within their 3D volume AND within their brightness interval, is in their enclosed 4D space. Any point outside their 3D volume OR outside their brightness interval, is outside the hypercubes 4D interior.

That is how I see a hypercube. Just two cubes overlapped in 3D, separated by a brightness (4D) delta.

4. So now you see two of the six cube-sides of the hypercube.
One side the lower brightness cube, the other the higher brightness cube. They are x,y,z cubes separated by w (brightness.

You can puzzle out the other six cube-sides. Two x,y,w cubes (separated in z), two x,z,w cubes (separated in y), and two y,z,w cubes (separated in x).

To easily identify them, think of a 3D cube inside another 3D cube. Imagine they are really at the same 3D location, but the inside one looks smaller and inside because its further away from you in brightness.

(This has the same meaning as before, but you are looking at them at a 90 degree different angle now so you can "see" some the brightness difference as position difference. Just like looking at a cube end-on, you see a large square containing another square, but the "inside" square is just the same-sized opposite square farther away.)

That can make it easier to spot all eight cubes. Starting with the inside, outside pair, then each pair of cubes in the six other cube-sides.

Boom! (If that works, ;)

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I have barely played with 5D, but 4D for simple things can get easy quickly. I should create a tool or game for learning this stuff.

"You are in a 3D maze of twisty little passageways, walls and doors appear and disappear as your lantern flickers ..."

"> Pick up the Third Eye Tiara. Put it on"

"Suddenly, your vision expands in a direction you somehow never noticed before. Everything looks normal but different. How have you been overlooking so much around you?"

You are in a 4D maze of twisty little passageways, ..."
There was basically no "bushido" in the Sengoku period, beyond what would be the regular vassal/lord relationship common to most feudal cultures. Different samurai clans had different ideas of which rituals, behaviors and traditions to follow, so there is no single idea of a "samurai code". Martial skills were probably a common factor.

"Bushido", the word itself, is relatively "new" in Japanese history. As a concept, it was written about mostly during the Edo period (and later), after the samurai were effectively de-militarized and formalized into a fixed caste and basically became bureaucrats, and no longer had major wars to be involved in. This period spawned works such as the Hagakure, which was written by a bureaucrat who longed for the olden days of samurai "virtue", and exaggerated and romanticized a way of life he didn't experience himself. Apparently later Japan bought into this idea of a glorious and honor-bound "samurai" past, but this was mostly made up.

So while there's a core of truth to it -- different samurai clans may or may not have followed different codes of behavior, who weren't called "bushido" back then -- it was heavily romanticized, exaggerated and turned into a mythical virtue of the samurai by later writers who weren't alive when the samurai were actual warriors.

Which, as a shortcut, I called "nonsense".
It's called Artificial Intelligence.
My parents couldn't switch inputs on the TV, there's zero chance they could configure a v-chip without my help. Most of my friends' parents were the same way. I don't think this technology had the impact you think it had.
I believe the definition is more to intuitively understand something. Like if you had never seen a door before, you could grok that the handle on the door was used to pull it open. Someone doesn’t have to explain it to you since it’s the only pulling option available
I won't be using your app as we created our own, and it works for us, but I can list the features our users would be missing:

import a list of tasks separated by newlines,
copy the task list to clipboard,
ability to re-order tasks,
ability to mark the current task.

Many of our users keep their task list in Asana, Trello, or other feature-rich app. Then, they create a shortlist for the day and export it to a simpler, more focus-friendly app. This is why copy/paste functionality is important. As always, YMMV.
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> But why not (or did it?) also just blast its horn repeatedly,

It's hard for people on the bridge to understand what that means. The more it blasts the horn, the more likely people to turn around, stop and maybe get their phones out to take a video what strange thing this ship is doing. By the time they realize the impact is imminent, it's too late, unless they take a helicopter ride.