skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I liked playing devil's advocate, I wouldn't be annoyed at your answers.

To be honest I started a few years ago interacting with comments I would otherwise ignore because I thought it was harmful to keep yourself in filter bubbles, but I think it's pointless and I'm mostly having negative experiences that I don't need in my life.

To address your points: I'm not a marketer, I've got a STEM masters degree and I work as a data analyst, never worked in any marketing related job so far, no interest to do so.

You bring a decent point that often advertising isn't something people want, it's rather something they have to accept because they're paying either zero or less than the producer wants/needs for the service they're using, which I think is a fine point. We could go back to a point in time where most things were not financed by ads: either they're financially viable or they don't exist. That's a tradeoff, and companies like Netflix tried to move away from this and found some success. But it seems to me in a lot of situations most people are fine with the old radio station model where you get a few ads every now and then but don't pay anything.

If we decide to go this way and make it impossible to fund most of your company or activity through ads, then we'll have a lot less ads, but still won't reach zero ads. Think of the very old ads in the newspaper kind of thing. People need to send information about things they're selling or jobs they need, or events that might interest people. You're bound to have some advertising, you probably just mean to say you would like to have much much less than the current level.
https://archive.ph/ZT1FD
Not at all what I was getting at. Most of the complaints here are trifling and/or matters of taste. There are good reasons to disfavor Python, but you have only provided bad ones.
Non paywall link ?
> Not anymore

From the blog:

"if your primary device is inactive for a long period, we automatically log you out of all companion devices."

There is one primary device, and multiple linked companion devices. This is different from telegram where there is no primary device.

Also see : https://faq.whatsapp.com/653480766448040

"Not all messages and chats are synced to linked devices from your phone. WhatsApp Desktop syncs more message history than WhatsApp Web. To see or search your full history, check your phone."
As usual the html title is a bit more prosaic:

"Reddit sued by advertiser fed up with ad-click obscurity"
Ironically, one of the perhaps better known Multics stories involves a panic-style message from early in its boot loader.

It was in Latin. "HODIE NATUS EST RADICI FRATER".

https://multicians.org/hodie-natus-est.html
I'm carnivore. Medium priced meats: chuck roasts, beef shank, salmon, chicken thighs. Butter, eggs. Huge supermarket chain in a small town. That market basket has particularly inflated. I buy most meat in bulk and I'm back to buying at the grocery after half a year of eating a single cow and a lamb, so a lot of it hit me at once.
Yes, it's one of those movies that marked movie. The music is also very interesting, distinctively different from most anime movies.
Racer Experiment 4 – Racer Heavy Platform (RHP) [video]
Ideally, ahouldn’t it be undo?

I suppose that would be weird, but c-u c-x 1 would be consistent.
Note: this is a repost:( I didn't get any interaction on my previous post, so I am trying one last time to hopefully get some feedback!
thanks, have postponed it for too long already. the time has come
They are entirely different. That's my entire point.

Heritability doesnt mean inheritability. A trait is "heritable" only if it varies with the genes of some population, so a scottish accent is nearly 100% heritable.

Heritability was a statistic invented for when the experimenter was in control of what genes were in what population (for breeding plants). It is meaningless when genes arent being controlled.

Heritability is the idea that if you control which plant has which gene, and the plants are different, then it's probably because of the gene. But its applied to cases where no one is in control of the gene, so it's meaningless.

When I said scottish accents are nearly 100% heritable, that's correct, as a matter of fact. If you compute the heritability stat for scottish accents it'd be nearly 100%.
> you will very likely go an entire project without running into a single memory bug

Sure, you haven't lost the handle to the memory, but you can still "leak" memory with a GC. Happens all the time. Add to data structure at state 1, do something in state 2, remove data in state 3. What happens you never hit state 3?

> But for most programs, those modern garbage collectors are good enough that those downsides just don't matter.

I mostly agree with this. Although, most programs hit a point where you have to be aware what the GC is doing and try to avoid additional allocations. Which isn't very ergonomic at times. And is often more fucking around than manual memory management, just concentrated to a smaller portion of the code base.
If you hate particles, here's a generative thing I did

https://www.fleen.org/old_generative_art_projects/powerbox_4...
IMO it’s not that memory management is hard, it’s that developers are imperfect, so writing a 100% UB-free, leak-free program is hard. And it only takes a single oversight to cause havoc, be it a CVE, leak that causes a long-running program to slowly grow memory, or hair-pulling bug that occurs 1 in 1000 times.

Yes, logic bugs have the same issues, and even in languages like Java we can sometimes (albeit rarely IIRC) get memory leaks. But memory-safe languages are an improvement. Just like TypeScript is an improvement over JavaScript, even though they have the same semantics. We have automated systems that can decrease the amount of memory errors from 1% to 0.01%, why keep leak and UB prevention a manual concern? Moreover, the drawbacks of memory-safe languages are often not an issue: you can use a GC-based language like Java which is easy but has overhead, or an enforced-ownership language like Rust which has a learning curve but no overhead. Meanwhile, while logic bugs can be a PITA, memory bugs are particularly notorious, since they don’t give you a clear error message or in some cases even cause your program to halt when they occur.

Tangential: another solution that practically eliminated a class of bugs is formal verification. And currently we don’t see it in any system but those where correctness is most important, but that’s because unlike memory management the downsides are very large (extremely verbose, tricky code that must be structured a certain way or it’s even more verbose and tricky). But if formal verification gets better I believe that will also start to become more mainstream.
Even when the syntax does require indentation ("with" in python, "using" in C#) it's still pretty clean IMO.
$99.00 to try out ? No thanks.
I found one of those in a folder at work a few months ago and was surprised how extra-floppy it was. I grew up with mostly 3 1/2” diskettes and some 5 1/4” disks, so the "floppy" name always seemed like a bit of a stretch. Seeing an 8" disk really made more sense why they called it that.

(Eight inches was a really clever size for storage in a paper-based office environment... It fits just right in a spot meant for a sheet of letter or A4!)
They absolutely try to extract every cent where they can. For example, in Pleasanton - [0]

It's just difficult when I as an native am not going to get duped into spending $10 on "chai tea" when I know it's only worth $2 and the input cost at scale is $0.02.

Just take a look at the HMart prices near a college campus or around a 2nd gen Asian American neighborhood and an HMart in a neighborhood with plenty of 1 and 1.5 Gen Asian Americans.

[0] - https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2020/05/07/pleasanton-...
I don't think so. If I pour hot water into a mug from the kettle, it sounds different with cold water with all the same equipment, room etc
Ask HN: Obtaining Open Data/Content for Apps Motivation, Facts, Vocabulary etc.
Hi Good Folks at HN,

I'm an individual looking to break into app development and am starting with a set of apps (actually one app but with different variations) inspired by apps built by Monkey Taps LLC. https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Monkey+Taps+LLC&hl=en&gl=US

As I near completion of the app code, I've realized that due to my lack of knowledge in content, I have no idea how to obtain open data. Are there any sites that provide data dumps (even paid, as long as they are less than $50 per data source)?

I'm specifically looking for options on obtaining data for a dictionary app, a "facts" app, affirmations apps, and even a healthy tips app.

However, as someone without a source of income, I can't hire another person or buy an expensive data source for the apps.

I believe the experienced people at HN will know what I can do to obtain data for the above apps.

Thanks
but that is part of the problem: this isn't clearly communicated to the end user in the future or present.

Current users will have their install broken and need to google to figure out what is going on.

Future users will install `keepassxc` thinking it would be actually KeePassXC before potentially realizing its a minimal version.

Personally I think splitting it into `keepassxc-full` and `keepassc-minimal` would be better since it moves the choice to the user instead of implying the contents.
Does a swollen soundboard noticeably affect pitch even when the piano has a cast-metal harp?

The one harp I've seen up close was in an upright piano I disassembled, and that harp was solid.
Weather has been good today in the region - low heating and cooling load, and it's a weekend; demand is comfortably low (currently about 72.5GW with a forecasted peak of 77, vs an actual peak of 85GW yesterday). Should keep things pretty boring across PJM.

It's a good thing this didn't happen in July/August.

(For folks around here, the pjm now app is a nice way to grab current power demand/tie flows/alerts)
So are most humans when they come out of the womb.

There is obviously selection bias at play and I agree that your world record runners are not a random sample from the population.

That said, thinking exercise and choice has no impact on life outcomes is equally silly.

Someone who starts with good health and gets addicted to crack will have different outcomes to someone who trains at a competitive level.

Starting point is not the sole determinant
Self organization always impresses me.

Check out smoothlife. It's on YouTube somewhere.

In the notes the creator discusses abandoning the project because of the soul-consuming effects of working on it all the time. Word to the wise.
Ok, as someone who both loved Now and Then, Here and There and Twelve Kingdoms, I want some recommendations from you :) Those two series were really great.

But I do agree with you, they were great because they actually had something to say about the real world.
I went to Disney world as a kid in the 90s. I remember a big sign over the entrance telling us that filming for something would be happening and we could get a refund if that wasn't OK. No need under the law, but having the sign probably deescalated many situations.
Uh, do you understand that you're actually looking for advertisements in craigslist right? Just because you're looking for it doesn't mean that they're not ads.

Nobody defend yt or mobile game-likr advertisements. Ads comes in many forms, steam storefront page is another example of good (imo, ymmv) ads.
Thanks, that is really helpful to know going into this. Any insight into what an interview process might look like? I am non-technical (founder/CEO, mainly focused on sales/biz dev) while the rest of my team (co-founder/CTO and 2 engineers) are highly technical. Our product is in the wheelhouse of what this FAANG is already working on.
If the possibility of a psycho in your building makes you nervous, you're probably better off not taking "free candy", and just avoid the stress. (Much like I decided I would rather do half a dozen very cautious measures, than get food poisoning even once.)

For what I put on the free shelves, it's things nearing/at the best-by date, the year and month of that are usually marked prominently in handwritten Sharpie on the front of the package, and I don't put things there if they have any risky signs.

For example, recently, a packet of instant potatoes was nearing best-by date, but the packet seemed puffed up more than usual, like I think I would've noticed when I bought it. So I erred on the side of caution in throwing it away, rather than risk a neighbor, maybe unaware of the suspiciousness, getting sick.
Here’s a time archive of all the cams https://www.foto-webcam.eu/2024/05/10/2230
Same here. The winters are just sporadic snow and rain now. Also live quite far north. I am worried about AMOC slowdown though.
Yes, but isn't the effect on the network a different one now? With encryption and authentication, your single character input becomes amplified significantly long before it reaches the TCP stack. Extra overhead from the TCP header is still there, but far less significant in percentage terms, so it's best to address the problem at the application layer.
We built our own benchmarks [1] to test against. It's a set of repos with breaking changes commit that we run bumpgen on the previous commit to then compare the results.

We are clocking in around 50% success rate in this benchmark.

[1] https://github.com/xeol-io/swe-bump-bench
> I haven’t heard of a clocking mechanism in brains

Brain waves (partially). They aren't exactly like a cpu clock, but they do coordinate activity of cells in space and time.

There are different frequencies that are involved in different types of activity. Lower frequencies synchronize across larger areas (can be entire brain) and higher frequencies across smaller local areas.

There is coupling between different types of waves (i.e. slow wave phase coupled to fast waves amplitude) and some researchers (Miller) thinks the slow wave is managing memory access and the fast wave is managing cognition/computation (utilizing the retrieved memory).
Exactly. Houses do not predate cities by any appreciable margin.
Interesting

That means that some civilizations figure out how to be more efficient for real and others just keep increasing their energy use

So “advancing” could mean either, and we might find very advanced civilizations on a range of two opposites of a spectrum

Nice
After firing entire supercharger team, Elon Musk reverse course
Also: written in a high level language (uncommon at the time), uniform structures and models for things like memory and IO, and many more laid out in the original Multics papers.

If Multics had been treated as a research project rather than being a plan to invent a ton of new stuff and build a system that would be deployed in volume, everybody would be singing its praises today.
I was imagining you’d show someone the simplified struct representations from the top of the article and ask them to compare/contrast them. Not to know this stuff of the top of their head.
I don’t know if the parent was edited or not, but that’s not how I read the parent post.

I didn’t take it as malicious, but trying to understand more about this method. I’d love for the author to tell us a bit more about how it works. I’m curious about what obstacles the author hit and how they got around them.

Note: re: the flagged sibling comment. Yeah, that one doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt and was out of bounds.
Surprised Google has never heard of soft delete.
Depleted uranium was not used in the NATO aerial bombing campaign in the former Yugoslavia, despite what coping Serbs claim.

Conventional high explosive munitions are damaging enough without making up bullshit.
anti patterns considered harmful
I assure you that physical research includes questions like whether climate change is happening, smoking causes cancer, and excess sugar causes diabetes haha.
Regardless of wanting sane defaults, this is not something superfile can do on itself: it runs in a terminal, and normally terminal programs do not get to choose what font is used.

So the "best" it could do is bundle the font file, but then you would still have to configure your terminal to use it. At that point, it's easier to just tell you you need a nerd font and link to their repo.

That being said, I kind of agree that, since NerdFonts are pretty good and by now quite widespread, it wouldn't be a bad idea for major distros to patch their default monospace fonts so that you get NerdFonts out of the box in the default terminal.

But, in general, if you go out of your way to install a different terminal emulator, it's unlikely you'd have much trouble changing its font anyway; still, getting everything to look nice and pretty is sometimes harder, so I suppose wezterm is commendable for including fonts and colorschemes.

(The above really mostly applies to fonts as they are an additional dependency and also highly dependent on user preference. For pretty much everything else I agree that good defaults are under-emphasized in CLI/TUI utilities. Probably because options usually get added incrementally and breaking historical defaults is not a good idea.)
Protobuffed Contracts
CryptoTalks.ai is a public API and browser chat app that allows you to use popular paid and free LLM APIs anonymously.
AI is super powerful, and so it's important that its access is free and private as possible so everyone can participate in its benefits. I built cryptotalks.ai to bring access to AI to those who aren't part of the traditional financial system or those that prefer to maintain their privacy.

Most LLM API providers require you to sign in with non-private authentication methods like Google, and validate with email or SMS. Cryptotalks requires none of that because cryptocurrency is the only accepted form of payment.

In the future, I hope to host fully homomorphic encrypted models, which will enable users to query LLMs without the provider seeing the unencrypted query entirely. This would be a big step in digital privacy, but is currently out of reach for LLMs.

I welcome everyone's feedback, and hope someone finds this useful.
Let's start slicing the pie, everyone.

On Linux this is becoming a rarity; '/tmp' (the usual $TMPDIR) is mounted using tmpfs, a distinct memory-backed filesystem. Windows on the other hand is happy for this to reside on your physical disk, persistently. I think - this isn't my area.

This almost guarantees your "yes, but" doesn't apply for anyone using Fedora Linux, for example. I dare say nearly any distribution that includes systemd, and probably/consequently, 'tmp.mount'.

While it is memory backed, one can only copy/read from this as fast as the destination can write.
in the words of Fernando Perez .. "don't fork the notebook"
"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disk?"
The harp doesn't actually lie flush on the soundboard; there should be some space in between. The harp is just there to bear the tension of all the strings. The strings are connected to the soundboard via a wooden so called bridge, which is a raised wooden element glued onto the soundboard. It has pins in it which the strings are held against in tension. Bridges have a coating of graphite usually, and combined with the fact that most notes have 3 strings, it creates kind of a blocky pattern.

Here you can see a soundboard, bridge, and hitch pins on the harp. The hitch pins on the harp can be seen up top, then in the middle the bridge and bridge pins, and then below that the soundboard. The hitch pins are located on the opposite side of the keys in a grand, or on the bottom of the piano in an upright. You can see on the right of the image that the harp has a structural element which floats over the bridge, with plenty clearance.

https://www.chuppspianos.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Stei...

P.S. In some pianos you can really hear a metallic undertone produced by the harp, I find Yamaha pianos have a distinct sound that has it.
Eyes don't have a synchronous cycle. Every individual receptor has a relaxation time starting from the last excitation.
An error in the article.
Not the original GIS, but GIS: Standalone Complex is still one of the best examples out there of "realistic" special forces action scenes. A lot of screen time spent getting all the pieces into position, culminating in just a couple seconds of fast-paced action.
Wow, that's an amazing intuitive explanation of "where the extra energy comes from" in an Oberth effect burn that I haven't heard before. Thank you!
Oh, I'm not saying it's malicious, it's just a mindset of "creating a thing must be externally motivated" vs "we make things because we like making things".
What Is the Emoji?
Sample and hold motion blur during smooth pursuit is far from the only visual artifact resulting from low frame rates.
This can also be generalized to anything that can be expressed as sequence generated by a function

You can always just split the thing into it’s sequential elements, then get a pair-wise derivative in between the elements

The sequence of pair-wise derivatives is then the equivalent of the derivative of the original sequence

If you do this to the limit where the “space” between the elements is 0, then you get the continuous case
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/barrier-social-lock/id64482444...
> These things take acres of antennas to collect power from.

Ok. Now imagine you redirect the beam to a random substation somewhere. What's the likelihood some of the transformers will fry? Or you point the beam at some cellular phone network towers?

Russia is at war right now, and they have lots of antennas pointing up, both for anti-air defense and for electronic warfare. All those would be immediately vulnerable to a concentrated power beam coming from the sky. How likely are they to say, "sure, no big deal, as long as you promise to only use that stuff for power generation, we are totally, absolutely fine with it" ?
damaged sidewalks? from skateboards? shut the front door.

if the city actually cared about skateboarder safety, they'd improve sidewalks. Skateboards and rollerskates have the smallest diameter wheels of all pedestrian class vehicles, making them the most vulnerable to poorly maintained sidewalks. They're not the cause of the damage, but generally the victims of it... youve got it ass backwards.
That's a very insightful and peculiar observation.

To riff from your thought, play is evidence of endogenous programming for exogenous adaptation that expresses (works out) reactions ahead of the need (fitness). Play is behavioral echos from previous generations.

Why don't fitness traits just manifest precisely when needed? Why any rehearsal via play?

A picture forms in my mind of a flying insect emerging from a chrysalis— or a fledgling— the stretching of wings. Why? The exercise action is a second order effect, or beyond, of the expression of the intrinsic trait which precedes its cause.

A true notion of time is necessitated, because without it, the explanation of play lacks a substrate (dimension) for meaning.

But a notion on time only embelishes the puzzle of moments of reaction before the need. Why does the genetic program run a test under safe conditions; how does it know?

Where is the reality?

With these thoughts time takes on a freaky character: a manifestation of a nervous system.

Just as play is an expression of reaction before the need, there is the expression after the need: thought.

Memory runs forwards as well as backwards. Reversibility goes out the window: it's only a physicists longing for symmetry.

Play at a full ideation usurps all meaning from reality: reality is carried by the organism. Everything that seems substantial about the environment is a quavering field.

Holes in space called stars pour energy across a membrane (yin-yang) with life's reality manifesting at a crossing (+).

Play is the pre-doing of what has already been done.

(x) the wheel.
Why I prefer the iPad over a MacBook
It is using about 20W and then a person takes a single airplane ride between the coasts. And watches a movie on the way.