skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mark’s idea didn’t replace Ethernet—and that was its brilliance. By allowing store-and-forward switching between existing CSMA/CD coax-based Ethernets, bridges allowed easy upgrades of existing LANs.

This reminds me of John Carmack's philosophy of great things coming from thinking locally and taking small steps.

> Carmack subscribes to the philosophy that small, incremental steps are the fastest route to meaningful and disruptive innovation. He compares this approach to the "magic of gradient descent" where small steps using local information result in the best outcomes. According to Carmack, this principle is proven by his own experience, and he has observed this in many of the smartest people in the world. He states, "Little tiny steps using local information winds up leading to all the best answers."
I asked this another place in this thread, but curious to know how you plan to run and deploy this model. What's the cheapest or I guess most cost efficient way to do this without burning money. I'm a college student for reference so I don't have a lot of money lying around to experiment.
Too late: Tried this at work; Did a marvelous job sharing satellite internet with the whole barracks.
Show HN: Pyramid.com
Hey, HN.

Michael Cyger here.

While my wife and 16-year-old set off on a college visit trip to the Midwest last week, my 13-year-old son and I stayed home with the family dog.

Knowing my son enjoys programming and wanting to do something that he would consider a fun, bonding activity, I suggested a "Cyger Hackathon Week" where we both develop a game and launch them publicly.

Naturally, a good chunk of our development time was spent in front of reruns of The Office, with a sprinkle of trips to our local pickleball courts, and numerous meals dedicated to chatting about our daily coding triumphs and challenges.

My game is Pyramid Solitaire.

(His is a 2-dimensional game on Godot called Lightning Roller, but it's not live yet.)

Full disclosure: I'm not a programmer. I have programmed when I was 12 using Basic, in college using Fortran 77, etc., but I don't do it for a living.

If you haven't played Pyramid Solitaire before, it's fun because you add up pairs of cards to 13 and try to clear all the unblocked cards of the pyramid.

It's low key, easy, and relaxing.

You can finish a game in about 3 minutes (1 minute if you get really lucky on the cards), so it's a great break from work or between tasks.

I wrote everything in plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript in one week.

It was a ton of fun, like putting together a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle -- for someone like me that isn't a great programmer. It felt great building something that worked from start to finish.

If you like it, I will definitely add more features and functionality. There's a "suggest an improvement" link to send me an email, and I'd love to hear your feedback via email or here.

Oh, and if you're wondering about the killer domain name, Pyramid.com, yeah, it's one of a handful of names I've collected over the years. I love domains just like every other indie developer. It's the 29th oldest .com domain name in existence, first registered October 17, 1986.

Hope you enjoy the game! ♠♥♣♦
> I had a "local" usr/* in my home directory

I always just used `--prefix="$HOME"` so that everything went into `~/bin`, `~/lib`, `~/man`, etc...

I did look into stow a couple of times, and would have been fine with it dropping symlinks going into those dirs if I'd have used it.

(A few years after XDG started being commonly used I moved everything in my `~/etc` into `~/.config`, and `~/etc` is now a symlink to it. I occasionally wonder if doing it the other way around and setting up XDG_CONFIG_DIR would be more old-skool, before catching my reflection in my monitor and realising how daft that thought is.)
Where to see all the total solar eclipses for the rest of this decade
I use some of the lower-end wifi 6 APs, coupled with an AC (controller), from fs.com, they work solidly, and with seamless roaming around the house, after figuring out some of the rather odd translation in the AC web interface. After some annoying small steps, the ssh consoles on both the AC and the APs are all that I use.

They’re mated to a Juniper EX switch running stock JunOS over PoE, primarily one AP for each floor and another one or two to fill in dead spots. I haven’t had to touch it since I’ve set it up, just keeps chugging along.

Slight over-kill for the environment, but I’m so damn tired of using bad wifi I just wanted to do it right!
So I can run local LLMs on my apple M1 air?
I've never heard of that microcomputer "empire" before and yet I know of lots of other computer businesses from its supposed era.
Yeah, I also kept thinking of the 1988 debut studio album by Big Pig and the urban dictionary usage of the word upon which the album was named.
1.18k drawings of plant root systems
I understand I am making assumptions bec of lack of information in the article.

Re shooting them down, if you can't shoot them down, whats the point of detecting them? And a drone being kamikaze only matters IF you can shoot them down. Because then it's a race between the drone rushing to kamikaze vs you shooting it down.

I will admit that I am just speculating here because I have a strange interest in militarized drones and little technical knowledge.

PS : Defending your position by saying that a company doesn't fuck around is not a very good argument.
So you're saying that's what they wanted to do all along, it just took them almost ten years, and it just happened to neatly coincide with the EU regulation as well?

Sure, and they're now allowing game streaming apps and retro emulators on iOS because that's what they always knew was best for the world anyway. What a coincidence (with the DMA, in that case)!

> Apple didn’t invent any of them and open them. They were all existing standards.

Counterpoint: Magsafe. They had USB-C and went back to something proprietary.

Another counterpoint: Thunderbolt wasn't an open standard until very recently, and I can only imagine that Intel gave Apple some heavy discounts on the controller chips used (or even their main CPUs) to push the standard.

Apple doesn't always hate standards and interoperability, but they will absolutely try to push their proprietary protocols and interfaces whenever it's in their business interest.
Our nuclear deterrence policy is for safeguarding our country's sovereignty and vital interests. Unless that swarm of drones threatens our continuity of the government or our ability to conduct a nuclear strike, I doubt it is worthy of a Tête nucléaire aéroportée.

Unlike any other country with nukes, we do have a last-chance warning shot option in our policy. An ASMPA missile from us means thus far and no further. It's fired from a Rafale fighter rather than a ballistic missile submarine, which means the order can be reversed at the last minute if needed and it hopefully carries the message across before the adversary's early warning systems light up like a Christmas tree with French ballistic missiles.

We do have a problem of scale with our conventional forces, which have been cut down to the bone and are stretched thin operating at capacity. Unlike the Germans, we're using our army to conduct expeditionary forces around the world and have little on hand to spare because we refuse to compromise too deeply on our long list of capabilities to fight wars and have a bad habit of not storing up enough.

It will take a long time to bulk back up, but Ukraine has been a wake-up call that is taken seriously by our policy makers.
I live north of Austin and the hour before totality we had a fair amount of clouds with the sun just peaking through, then just minutes before we reached 100% the low clouds just seemingly evaporated, temperatures dropped sharply, and every bird and frog around started singing. All the automatic lights had turned on by that time. Then totality hit and seeing the 'black hole sun' with a white ring around it was just awe inspiring. You don't know exactly how to interpret the sky, because it's kind of like pre-dawn in every direction. Sky glow is coming from every direction, and yet it's dark where you are. Finally when the sun comes back it rapidly brightens. Looking off to the north east I could see the darkness of the shadow that had been over us.
The financial incentives just aren't there unfortuately for the game makers.
That isn't how that sort of thinking is ever used in politics. If politicians start using language of "you've got to pick a side on this one!" it usually hints they're about to do something stupid. Occasionally evil.

The world is just too large and complicated for anything to ever boil down to just two sides. We can pretend it does for rhetorical purposes because otherwise political conversation gets hard; but it is important to leave space for the large group of neutrals who in all honesty probably have accurate interpretations of any given issue.
I'm pretty sure the oldest astronaut (real astronaut, not billionaire who bought a 10min trip) is currently still going to space and is 65. Conveniently I couldn't find a source so I could also be making this up, but I'm 95% sure.
Pouring cement will always be easier/cheaper than maintaining an ever increasingly expensive army...

Imagine the amount of wasted resources and man hours it would have required to keep France world war ready since 1945

If there is an actual threat the response will be nuclear, that's the whole point of having nuclear submarines deployed 24/7. For regular military operations we have quite good intel services and projection forces
I have long wondered about doing an analysis of HN comments to find correlations of opinions, instances where people have changed their mind over time, topics where the balance of opinion is out of proportion to the balance of comments due to a vocal minority.

I have made some casual observations that it would be nice to know whether the broader data supports what I have seen. For instance, one weird thing that I have noticed, is that antagonistic comments appear to me to be posted more often by users with PGP keys in their profile. It may just be by imagination.

Possibly more importantly, but also something should be approached with caution and sensitivity would be analysis of comments to identify people in mental distress. I know of a few HN users that have taken their own lives and have wondered if there was enough information in their comments to allow someone to provide pre-emptive support.
A lot of productivity type people on Twitter are to some extent slaves to fashion, and in that world eg. Microsoft just doesn't exist. Cool people don't use it, so we end up in a comedy world where ostensible productivity experts gush over random startups' products while M365 is like six times the size of Google Workspace, which again dwarfs all the startups by itself. It gets really silly sometimes when they start gushing about like, a new way to make slide decks. Then you read some essay about all the ways GSlides is torture, and you start to understand.
It's true that I am not aware of the details of the gvmt jobs, but wouldn't they still follow, even if not so flexible, the basic laws of the market rates? e.g. if you are a nurse in mainland and get offered a 2000euro/month in Ibiza, but a house on its own costs much more (I wouldn't even dare to guess a whole summer month price TBH), you would decline that job. And everyone would do so, forcing them to raise the pay until it meets the needs, or have a shortage.
The Unification Church Infiltrated Japan's Govt, Now Sets Sights on the US
They don’t even want to dig fibre for you when you have a freehold house in WX. Even offered them to pay for the digging. Currently waiting for Starlink to arrive and see if their speeds are better.
very interesting! i wonder if there's been evolutionary impacts of this, if hypothetically repeating the same experiment with westerners who have survived on wheat for thousands of years would yield similar yet quantitatively differentiable results

i would also argue that there's a hidden selection going on here in the background, once humans pick up a crop they harvest: the crop that can better influence human psychology on a civilization scale so that those humans become better at harvesting more of that crop, would thereby grant the crop more evolutionary success

so i think the psychological aspects of EATING the food are actually important to study in this context. ie have people cultivate wheat and eat rice, vise versa and also compare against wheat-cultivating groups that eat wheat, and so on

although this does get messy as if there's already been selection on the human side for traits that better cultivate these crops, then the effects might take generations to show in any meaningful kind of study -- in this case cross-cultural comparisons would be more viable
Couldn't agree more – just like it's quite silly to not be able to "AirDrop" a photo to an Android device, even though Bluetooth could do it just fine 20 years ago from a Nokia to an Ericsson or Motorola.
Yattee

https://github.com/yattee/yattee

it requires either public or private Piped or Invidious instaces [1][2].

1. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances

2. https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
It's entirely open source and pretty comprehensible. That being said, of course the dev could tear up years of work and go rogue at any moment, like any other solo open source project dev.

It's not my version of the script, it's what his auto-installer did to my zshrc, which I've retained.

And the purpose of a self-install in the zshrc is twofold: portability to new systems, ie when I moved from macOS to Arch, my zshrc could stay mostly the same, and package management stuff. You may not be familiar with zshell/zinit forks but one can also use them as general package managers (https://wiki.zshell.dev/ecosystem/packages/synopsis) and do pretty cool shim stuff as well (https://wiki.zshell.dev/ecosystem/annexes/bin-gem-node) (https://zdharma-continuum.github.io/zinit/wiki/Annexes/).

I don't think the genuine issues brought up (his new silly way of auto-installing zshell, etc) warrant the reaction this is getting (unixorn taking it off of awesome-zsh-plugins, etc).
The "users ceasing to post stories after one year" metric seems a bit wonky to me. I mean, I don't doubt it, but it's probably skewed by accounts created for self-promotion or spam. If you look at front-page stories, I think that most of them are from long-time members.

It would probably be useful to separate the churn of throwaway accounts and the ones that cross some engagement threshold - 50 comments or something like that.
I think storable food predates agriculture. Nuts keep quite well for very extended periods of time. Smoking and drying fish appears to also have been known for many thousands of years.

The problem with raiding before the domestication of the horse is that it's a lot of risk for not a lot of reward. How much can you carry on your back? Maybe you can carry more on some sort of wheel-barrow, but the wheel was invented after the domestication of the horse (for quite obvious reasons).

Still, while the horse is thought to have been domesticated around 3500 BC, there were fortified settlements before 4000 BC, a sign that raiding or even warfare was common. Sheep and goats were domesticated already at the time, and cheese was known. Maybe raiders were trying to steal cheese? Otherwise, there were luxury items, or status items, like polished maces, glazed and painted pottery, adornments made of animal teeth, and early artifacts made from copper. But I'm not sure it ever made sense to risk your life and raid a village just to run away with a bag of wheat.
Sorry I’m not super clear on how this works. Could you explain what it means to be linked in to the environment root?
I agree the format/layout is archaic and not friendly. There’s a reason why no website adopts the same design approach. But I think the reason is not just that aesthetics are not valued - you could conceivably choose any number of other unattractive approaches - why just the one dominant format? I think the reason why one particular approach persists is because it grants academic papers an (undeserved?) appearance of legitimacy. This is almost an unspoken bar for acceptance in the community, due to some mix of momentum, social cohesion, and inward facing norms. Journals and their process of curation, review, and editing all influence this process as well. The centralized gatekeeping of paid journals lends itself to a continuation of the existing practices.

I don’t think this discussion is applicable to just format/layout though. The writing style of academic papers is also anachronistic/archaic. I feel like most are written in an unnecessarily awkward way that impedes understanding. It’s almost an attempt to elevate the “complexity” of the content by choosing difficult writing styles, overusing jargon, and under-explaining. I’ve seen this style of writing previously defended in the same way as the aesthetics, that it is a matter of the content being “technical” or “scientific”. But if you look at any public facing post from companies that write deeply technical blogs or other such things, you’ll see there are definitively better alternatives to communicating deeply technical content.

These norms need to be broken. I think a paper should be given more weight if it is easy to consume. This means free access, nicer designs, simpler language, more transparent explanations.
Agree, and this is what Sam Altman says on this topic:

"If superintelligence can't discover novel physics, I don't think it's a superintelligence. And teaching it to clone the behavior of humans and human text - I don't think that's going to get there."

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/openai-ceo-sam-altman-s...
It's illegal to deny care in an emergency setting. Patient abandonment is also illegal (breach of duty).
+1 interested to know this as well.
Which they charge a setup fee because they know.
> toddler daughter playing a game on the lock screen

Oh gosh, I didn't realize that was possible!
That's wild. Also this[1] one is interesting. Apparently the new hate crime law is being interpreted in a generous way toward the thoughtcrime offenders of Scotland so far (the "stirring up hate" is said to be a 'high bar'), but since it's based on a subjective standard, there's zero reason future governments can't revise their understanding of the law in a way that isn't so liberal.

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-68712471
>Given 2 hours to suspend an account or face massive fines.

>Being given demands to suspend sitting members of parliament and major journalists, and moreover we could not tell them that this was at the behest of the Alexandre Moraes [the judge they are discussing] and we had to pretend it was due to our rules of service. That was the final straw and we said no.
I would only post a public GitHub if you have projects that are notable or different in someway. If it's just a bunch of forked repos or tutorial related projects, there really isn't any point to attaching it to one's résumé.
Amazon has an internal Nix/Guix? Probably not much public info on this...
Sometimes, I think Kaczynski was on to something.
Can a future of undetectable deepfakes be avoided?
I agree that this is a common concern with Google products, but I can't help but wonder if spinning Flutter out of Google would just end up being a vindication of those concerns rather than mitigation. If tomorrow Google came out and said that Flutter was being moved from Google ownership into a non-profit, I'm struggling to imagine that the community response would be "oh good, this shows that Google has a long-term commitment to Flutter" rather than people more cynically viewing it as yet another instance of Google shutting down a product, just with an attempt to avoid the PR repercussions. If Google really does care about it in the long term, I'm not really sure there's any way to win the debate about their stewardship, so they might as well just keep their heads down and focus on continuing work on it, and maybe someday if they do that long enough they might be able to win some trust back.
Is there anything like this for yjs or similar?
Seeds accumulate heavy metals. Many spices are made from seeds. But there is also heavy metals in sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, etc.
It's not even about faster computers and storage, but just about better test techniques, and better written tests. You don't actually need very fast hardware for fast tests; you just need to spend some time on it. And roughly know what you're doing.

External dependencies (such as PostgreSQL, Redis, what-have-you) are a pain though. I feel pretty strongly that just a single command ("go test", "cargo test", "npm test", etc.) should run all the tests on all platforms, reliably, with a minimal of fuss and messing about. Things like docker-compose or whatnot quality as "a fuss and messing about".
I can't think of any reason we should be so lucky that AI will have a ceiling somewhere between human "juniors" and human "experts"
I like how it looks, and I appreciate the effort that went into it, but other than using it to export a table in just a right format that you will then embed into your assembler directly, I'm not sure how to use it.

And I use opcode references [1] very often (sometimes daily, depending on the project). I even wrote my own disassemblers. But I mostly use opcode references for manual cross checking, so maybe I'm not a target of this project?

[1] My favorite one for x64 is https://ref.x86asm.net/coder64.html
I'm with you. Using a password manager is brain-dead simple nowadays. Gone are the days of syncing KeePass databases on cloud drives. Bitwarden is completely free and reliable, for example. Autofill works on all major browsers on both mobile and PC.

The real problem here is user ignorance and apathy. We can try to force things down users' throats but they literally do not care about robust account security practices. They'll just lose the dongle or key or whatever you give them anyway, which will force some kind of centralized approach that introduces its own drawbacks (e.g., being deplatformed or canceled).
> it's nothing like Netherlands where everyone and their dog speaks perfect English. In Germany, the college-educated people generally speak it quite well, everyone else, you're lucky if they know any at all, and it seems like you won't do well living there if you can't speak the language.

There are 2 kinds of countries in Europe:

- Those where movies and TV shows are dubbed: Germany, France etc. Especially the older generations and working class don't speak English too well

- Those where movies are English with subtitles: Many of the smaller countries with their own native language. So everybody is exposed to English all the time and many speak English pretty well.

(Have not watched movies in the Netherlands, but I could guess many are not dubbed?)
The "appeasement" of Russia is just following international norms, set in the 2000s when the world adopted a policy of acceptance towards the US's rampages through the middle east. The US is hip deep in a swamp of hypocrisy on this topic.

It'd be better if we had a consistent "no invasions" policy around the globe; but that would involve leading global powers holding themselves to that standard.
The only coherent part of your comment is the outdated South Park reference. Sit back down in your armchair, general.
The 6502 only has 56 opcodes.

The db also includes modern variants of the 6502.
Does P == NP? A contemplation of electronic security and automation in Star Wars
Kinda. I guess my native tongue is C/C++ and I wouldn't expect such a huge performance difference when using an array vs a linked list or something.

It's not like I had millions of items in that structure either, it was like 100. I think it contained the batch training data from each round. I tried to find the project but couldn't.

I was just shocked that there was such a huge difference between primitive data structures. In that situation, I wouldn't have guessed it would make a difference.