skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because statements about how things are always boil back to a faith-based statement at some point.

Eg, all the evidence we see is completely consistent with an infinitely creative human-shaped god sitting in a 2m-by-2m universe who has turned themselves into a brain-in-a-jar and purposefully limited their consciousness to entertain themselves. With that interpretation "we" are not only the most important thing in the universe but also could reasonably argue that in reality we occupy a significant fraction of it.

Now I personally agree with the Occam's razor view that what we see is what we get, but every interpretation has to admit there are gaping holes at the foundation of any belief where the answer is "we don't know, we're just making assumptions that seem obviously true". Just because something is held to be most consistent with the currently available evidence isn't really enough to claim it is true, because it isn't obviously true to me that our evidence-gathering is uncovering important aspects about the nature of the universe. We're just doing our best - that might not be good enough. Evolution certainly isn't optimised to work out the truth, otherwise intelligence would be more usual instead of crab-shaped things.
> what appears to have happened is that the local housing market now values those condos higher than it does their detached home.

I think it is even more benign: they are trying to stay in the same area and in their area (likely sparsely populated, given their 2-acre lot) the available condos are giant 4-level new developments that cost a lot.

They can still downsize, just need to move further away from where they live today. My 2c.
Your last point is something that I've never understood.

Having the same actors over and over kind of breaks the 4th wall for me. I would prefer to see new faces, every single time. I don't get why people get so obsessed with a specific set of actors.
I haven't conducted detailed benchmarks yet but it should be much faster than a comparable Postgres database as a service hosted on a standard cloud or colo server.

You can benchmark it with this tool: https://pastebin.com/aybPTd3b

Please email james@mach3db.com for test credentials.

Thanks!
I concur, any person putting cash or anything of value inside of a suitcase at an airport and then checking that in (i.e. not carrying it with them), is just asking for trouble. I'm surprised any of the money arrived at the destination, because in the US all of that money would have been stolen by the baggage handlers in the holding area before getting routed to the actual airplane.
When I used to bake bread commercially early in the morning, the sound of the HVAC, proofing and baking systems would sound like music to me in concert. I can't tell if I was just hallucinating or what, but something about your experience reminded me of it.
In the grand scheme of humanity we have those who live in abject poverty, who are near or at slave labor levels to grow coffee or mine minerals that end up powering the HN workforce.

The words "better working environment" where the highest risk to your well being is RIS and the drive time on your commute (if you even have one) is the most fucking entitled notion ever. Do you know how many people die every year on the job, suffer disabilities that stop them from working? I dont think your average HN reader is going to be one of those people.

Most of HN is likely in the top 10 percent of earners in the US, for jobs that look nothing like every one else's. Your out here talking about work life balance when the majority of Americans work jobs where the words OVERTIME would be cause for excitement.

And that's the thing, I have worked for my money in a past life. I know plenty of people who WORK for their money today. Candidly no amount of typing is going to make me want to go back to one of those SHIT jobs. And every one else I know who has had or still has one of those SHIT jobs is gonna agree.

> It's not always feasible to get higher pay and better conditions.

in 26 years in the SF Bay Area, there has only been one time where this was NOT the case, and that was at the end of the dot com bubble. Unemployed, or a lot of risk (aka founders) are the only times I have ever seen people take pay cuts.
Build Artanis-0.6 on Ubuntu-24.04
Starbucks had a moment in the media spotlight when a store called the cops on two black men accused of loitering: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/us/starbucks-philadelphia...

In response, they updated corporate policy so that you don't have to buy anything to occupy a chair: https://www.eater.com/2018/5/21/17375806/starbucks-no-purcha... https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2020/use-of-the-third-pl...

Predictably, every chair is now occupied by a sleeping homeless person.

So now their choice is to either remove all the chairs, or potentially be mean to someone, and receive a firestorm of criticism. You can see which one they chose.

See also how MTA has removed all the benches from its stations, for the same reason: https://hellgatenyc.com/train-stations-should-have-benches
One on complex analysis - https://complex-analysis.com/
I want an easier way to switch between my blue green and yellow high lighters when reading a pdf for school. Also, how about a menu button that exports highlighted selections into a markdown file?
Seriously, I want to see those wooden IBM product mockups and ordered xenon, not a Wikipedia article on wood.
Giving up is the cowards route. How do we figure out what to do?

It's only a "ponzi scheme" because of hard to guess demographics. It requires help & correction I'm my view. It's bleak sad & vicious anti-human nihilism to "give up". That feels low, cruel, and an unimaginable horror to me. Giving up & doing nothing is an opting for unimaginable brutal cruelty & suffering. How can I even start to sympathize with that?
This is really impressive. It's not important, but I kinda wish the constellations could be optionally overlaid onto the visualization somehow.
Exactly. In my opinion, casual CS/TF2 is the “real” game and competitive is its weird mutant offshoot. But I guess the majority of gamers today prefer hardcore competition and ranking over just dicking around and having fun.
The second Parallax Propeller chip has a CORDIC engine in silicon. It's fast, and handles 64bit intermediate products, which makes the divide and trig stuff more than adequate precision for most things. One can always increase precision in software too.

I was late to the game learning about CORDIC. I had used fixed point a lot in 8 and 16 bit assembly land for performance, and determinism.

When I found out about it, I was stunned! It was fast, and only required basic math capability to be useful.
Worry free update has not been a thing with macOS in ages. I dread any OS update, since it will take ages at the very least and very likely to bring more bugs than the one, they were supposed to fix.
And sometimes they outright remove support for useful stuff (subpixel rendering, hello) or obsolete still useful software just because they decided to (32bits apps hello).

I don't know how people can still things like that about the Mac, even Windows is better these days.
> I mean, if I couldn't imagine how it possibly could've been done, then it had to be the aliens, right?

That sounds right.

I couldn't imagine how Indiana Jones 4 could possibly be such a bad movie. It turned out to be aliens.
Solaris/Illumos has a better name for this: `membar_producer()` and `membar_consumer()`. The first is release semantics, and it's what a producer must do before it finishes publishing some memory to a consumer. The second is what a consumer must do before it starts consuming what the producer gave it.

I find that naming convention much more intuitive than release/acquire, though release/acquire is more general.
I do understand it to the extent that I can write correct lock-free data structures. For me that's enough, I don't need to know what happens exactly in the CPU for each architecture (altough I have some understanding).
Ask HN: What are some books/resources where we can learn by building
Some examples that come to my mind are
1. https://build-your-own.org/
2. https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

I'm interested mainly in distributed systems and machine learning, if you folks have any such recommendations I would really appreciate it.

In ML, I'm looking for something to absolutely learn from scratch. I'm fairly comfortable with Linear Algebra so anything that helps understand the algorithm underneath such resources will be very beneficial.
Why are chefs baking bread? There's buildings to construct.
7 Widespread misuse of AI for deepfaking.
> Do people usually store key material without encryption at rest?

As usual, depending on the threat model, yes, it can be very valid to store key material on a disk without encryption. Not everyone is Snowden.
Discussion (11 points, 4 days ago, 49 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40293403
The whole thing reads like great literature. There should be a scientific magazine for papers that can be understood by the motivated layman. I accidentally read the whole thing in one sitting.
They're saying that no true definition of autism can contain intellectual disability by classifying any intellectual disability in an autistic person as a distinct, totally independent condition.
I can't ELI5 (don't like such things anyway) but if you know calculus, the v^2 follows directly out of trying to integrate momentum (or quantity of motion, a fun phrasing) with respect to velocity. Momentum is mv, units are kilogram * meter/second. Integrate with dv, you get 1/2 mv^2, units are kilogram * meter^2/second^2. (Double-check, take the derivative of that with respect to v, and you get mv.) This 1/2 thing times otherthing^2 relationship actually shows up all over the place in math and physics, it's quite beautiful, and incidentally another reason to prefer using tau=2pi instead of pi...
The Rabbit R1 Walked So That Cake Could Run.
This was the UK. I don’t think $4k is “many months salary” for a lot of people in the UK.
Show HN: Brainstorm blog post ideas that resonates with your audience
1) Seed. $3M raised. This was 2018 numbers.

2) The whole team would go into the office, meet with the founder/executive sponsor(s) for 30-45m to chat casually, then engineers (me) would break out for our interviews. Felt mostly like a final round interview day - mostly technical interviews and a couple cultural interviews (probably to make sure we fit with the vibe at the acquirer). During our interviews, the founder would have some 1:1s with other company leaders (their interviews). Usually we went back to our office after and debriefed as a team.

Another strange thing about the process that’s worth mentioning is the founder negotiated all our offers at the acquirer and we let her know ahead of time what we wanted for salary, equity, etc. No idea if this is standard, but I imagine it helped streamline the negotiations.
Aurora australis are dimmer than aurora borealis.
Modern Deduction: Datalog, Chain-Forward Computation, and Relational Algebra
Sure the government raises some taxes through the lottery, but there is no reason why it can't be more.
Sorry, what’s less focused, scientific method or “actual science”?
The unhappy hot take on this, is that this is a good thing.

I want every Sundar Pichai, and Satya Nadella here working for American companies. I want every smart asian and eastern European in the Bay Area to rub shoulders with. I would prefer that to it just being outsourced, or company XX having an Indian office.

Bring them here, put them in my time zone, make them my team mates. Beats the hell out of offshoring and that's the other option out there.

Edit: Clearly folks dont get h1b... There is still an annual cap, one we hit in the first few months of every year. That number is not changing.
Can it be seen with the naked eye? I didn't see anything last night.
For starters, you can purchase and store art in an airport storage area where it never goes through any customs. [0]

Presumably, this is art that will accrue in value, but is (rarely) ever viewed, so is purely a financial vehicle for maintaining and transferring ownership of wealth outside any taxation jurisdiction.

Another game is the ultra rich and famous getting richer. Art is valued not just for its objective aesthetic appeal (ha ha! As if!!) but based on its providence. Meaning who created it, and also its history. Included who has owned it.

If you are Oprah Winfrey, and you purchase some art that only the top 1% of 1% can afford. It is likely that when you sell it, not only will the exclusivity of the particular artifact itself have gained value, but now that his has been owned by Oprah, it will be worth even more. And by modeling the value she places on art, she validates these extreme price levels both when buying and selling, which benefits the whole art world. [1]

Which, in full circle, makes art even more useful as a financial instrument.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Freeport

[1] https://news.artnet.com/market/oprah-sells-famed-gustav-klim...
If people recycle PV and TPV panels at 20% from peak/new, the effective average product lifetime is shorter given a higher rate of failure.
> I rent. Right now my house cash makes $2,600 after taxes by putting it in T-Bills. This effectively drops my rent to $1,300/mo vs buying and spending $3k/mo for mortgage, taxes, insurance, HOAs and maintenance.

By my math this puts your "house cash" at around $600k[0]; the vast majority of your generation (and, for that matter, the vast majority of all Americans) do not have that kind of money to invest; their "house cash" is maybe enough for a 10% down payment on a house in the exurbs or a 1 bedroom condo. That said, I wish more people in your position would rent -- far too many would view $600k as an opportunity to buy multiple "cheap" properties as rentals.

[0]: $2600 per month is $31200 per year; to earn $31200 per year with an effective interest rate of ~5.17%[1] would require a principal of 31200/0.0517 ~= $603k.
[1]: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd01y?count...
This was the core premise on which Innings2 books was made. In this day and age textbooks can be made interactive. So, the CBSE math syllabus (main syllabus in India) was made interactive for 6th to 10 grades.

https://books.innings2.com/demo
This is correct. A friend of ours works at TSA. They saw a sealed envelope that looked like a large amount of cash. Questioned the passenger, he answered “well”, but wasn’t a security threat so they let him through and called the correct authority at his domestic destination.
Usually I see high quality humor make it through. The low-effort Reddit quips get cratered.
>> The first app on Flathub I find to use libssh2 library is Gitg and, indeed, it does ship with unpatched libssh2.

> So isn't it a good thing you deployed that app in a sandbox? Again, why complain about Flatpak when it likely is what's saving you from a client vulnerability?

Because it's not!

https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.gitg

> gitg is potentially unsafe

Full file system read/write access
Can read and write all data on the file system
User runtime subfolder keyring
Can read and write all data in the directory
Network access
Has network access

Now instead of the lack of useful sandboxing reducing you to the same absence of protection as native distro packages, you're worse off.
Regular atmosphere is enough for that...
> there is quite a bit of evidence that the causality of that particular mechanism (if I'm understanding you correctly -- you are being pretty imprecise here) runs in the other direction.

Not if you look thoroughly. There is no proof that causality runs[0] in either direction, and in all likelihood it would remain so for as long as the hard problem is unsolved.

> AFAICT the way in which minds arise from chemistry is pretty well understood.

That would be immensely groundbreaking, absolutely historical news that would eclipse LLMs, reverberate HN for months and would not pass either of us unnoticed.

> In fact, it is sufficiently well understood that we are on the cusp of being able to create artificial minds that are not based on chemistry.

Have you heard about the so-called Chinese room experiment or the concept of a philosophical zombie?

> I don't see any uncertainty to acknowledge.

That’s because you have adopted a philosophical position implicitly.

> Yes, but I think your attempt has failed.

You have not even attempted to object by providing a counter-argument, though.

[0] Side note: even though I am guilty of thinking that way myself, I find the whole notion of “causality running” smelling of Cartesian dualism and another inheritance of our religious past. A theory presupposing the existence of two different kinds of things (as in this case, mind vs. physical), while useful in its own ways, is necessarily less elegant than a theory that can manage with one.
Yeah i love sponsorblock
Thanks for the comments. 0222 is just a sequential number that I use, not a date, it basically means I have 222 posts on my site. I created this website using a single PHP file and all the posts are file-based, so pretty generic. Yes, I use LLM to help me write and I will look for ways to improve the writing in future postings. Again, thanks for your suggestions.
US currency is made with a mix of 75% cotton and 25% linen fibers, rather than wood pulp like paper. They're less dense so they probably don't look the same on an xray.
Can x-rays be waveguided with x-rays and/or other bands?

- "Shattering the 'copper or optics' paradigm: humble plastic waveguides outperform" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493372

- dual beam waveguiding with optics, NIRS + ultrasound: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35617859
Interesting. Thanks! More details here: https://www.untether.ai/untether-ai-announces-collaboration-...
It does not have to do with the book or any other medium. It comes from the learner. You are right about the problems mentioned.

1. Stuff does not have longevity. This is because most of the new tools are outside curriculum. This does not encourage students to learn something extra.

2. Proprietary. Books providing add ons have a different goal. They want to sell their books. So the addons or just that. Add ons. They are not complete.

These were some of the thoughts which encouraged us to build [1]. Keep it curriculum focused so kids don't learn anything extra. No books to sell :)

[1] https://books.innings2.com/
yes. took part in a hackathon and decided to make my own webframework while doing it. It was supposed to be compatible with deno and bun and I chose deno deploy to deploy my stuff. But 17 hours before the deadline this happened:
https://twitter.com/spirobel/status/1786665928954085562

deno deploy just showed a completely useless error message and stopped working.

I installed caddy on a vps and got it to work in 5 minutes.

I ripped out the deno compatibility and switchded to bun sqlite instead of turso and the website got even faster.

That is because the server has the data in the sqlite db. No need to roundtrip to turso.

btw. the framework is open source now: https://github.com/spirobel/mininext

It is like a non bloated version of nextjs. My intention is to displace php and wordpress. It is possible to get started with just html and css knowledge, but you have the whole javascript ecosystem at your fingertips.

It has no external dependencies, just 3 modestly sized files you can understand in an afternoon and it will reload your browser and rebuild when you save your code.
As it’s been explained to me (I just bought my first home), the first 500k of capital gains on a primary residence are tax exempt.

FWIW in Canada capital gains on a primary residence are completely tax exempt and their housing market is even more of a mess than in the US.
Any question? Even "What is the worst cloud service provider?"
I used to frequent a firearms related forum and someone asked if anyone had accidentally travelled with a firearm and there were plenty of stories.

Lots of examples of traveling with ammunition either loose or in magazines and it not being caught on airport x-ray. But also stories of people grabbing something from a carry-on and realizing they forgot their loaded handgun was in there.

Normally it's not that big a deal if you're flying within the US (though NY and NJ can be dicey), but I also recall a story where someone flew international and the destination was a country that would put you in prison for a long time even if you came forward (I think it was Japan or China).

They were asking advice on what to do and I think in the end they unloaded it, took the gun apart (barrel, slide, frame, etc) and dumped each part in a separate trash bin far, far apart.
$100 billion Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF). Yeah, lots of venture money to invest!
Because it's not about the acting, it's about the celebrity. It also explains why some of the biggest earners always play themselves, and the character actors earn less.
That's a shame. I'd be curious generally which area they're in and how they're different over there, I'd want to go and chat and see what's up.
The stormy sun erupts with its biggest solar flare yet from a sunspot
Not so easy: For whom is this a good thing, and for whom not?
This.
+ Hastiness and overconfidence.
When you do it over a long stretch of time, you try to stretch the limits occasionally
this is so maddeningly confusing to my brain that's used to you get what you put in

can you explain like I'm 5-10 why is the fund running out if every generation pays? are people in the workforce right now not paying into it or has there been a significant change in demographics between 1983 and now? wouldn't an entire generation need to stop paying for this to happen or is that ismplifying it
Yes, this source is the first link I provided. I added some additional information outside the article, hence the link to my site and not to the source.
"Of 50 biochemical pathways and 450 polar and lipid metabolites examined, the developmental regulation of the purine network was most changed. Purine network hub analysis revealed a 17-fold reversal in typically developing children. This purine network reversal did not occur in ASD."

That's a strong statement, and one which can be checked by others. Anyone trying to replicate this yet?
The problem is that people’s first choice is to use generic models like CRUD/CRUD-L/REST/etc., instead of unvesting a bit of time in upfront thinking/design and building a custom model.

IMO, if entity might be resurrected/revived/“undeleted”, then it either cannot be killed/deleted, or more likely what you thought as “deletion” was something else (e.g. suspending, archiving, hiding, or putting into trash bin).

It’s better to model a lifecycle of such an entity as an FSM.

And yes, Event Sourcing might be harder in some respects, but it’s make things easier in others, as it makes soft-delete and tens of other design patterns redundant.
Worked for a company writing book publishing software in BCPL, we also built our own display terminals. Then SUN workstations came along so we wrote ( or the brains at the company did) a BCPL->C compiler
There's one direction in which I see one very bright glare. What is special about it?
The new CEO (or at least the interim CEO) would be TK or Ruth.

Not a fan of Sundar, but Google could get much worse
Updated default paste option in Word for Windows
This documentation just taught me about the showdead option. Lots of good information here. Thank you.
> Even worse, a lot of it is intentional and adversarial - if you wanted to destroy a country's economy, it would be an extremely cost effective strategy to simply flood the country's internet with doomer posts about their economy, about their country, get the citizens fear riddled and have them lose faith in their country. Never have to fire a single bullet.

That's exactly what happened in Brazil 10 years ago and we are just now starting to recover