skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term "dark ages" was used to refer to how we (i.e. people in the present/historians) didn't have a lot of info about that period. As in, something dark is something you can't see into very well. The ages indeed weren't dark themselves though, that's a misunderstanding of the term and that misconception is exactly why historians try to avoid the term nowadays.

Roads were primarily built for military use, but once they were built anyone travelling on foot would benefit from them, which meant had real economic impacts. That said, boats can carry far more goods than pack mules far faster, and don't eat a ton of fodder every day. There's a reason all the big old cities are on rivers. It's also why the Roman empire was primarily on the Mediterranean.

If anyone wants to read pages and pages of info about classical-era and roman roads, I recommend https://acoup.blog/2023/06/02/collections-roman-roads/
> Come back to this comment and in 10 years.

We don’t have to. Municipal broadband initiatives have been around for more than 10 years.

I’ll pick the first one I find on Google for a search of “2014 municipal broadband install”. The first result I got was Chattanooga, which was installing 1gig in 2014 (https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/chattanooga-gi...). Not the fastest thing available, but certainly still quite respectable in 2024. Not many people with a gig today cry that it’s unusably slow.

But, let’s just check on Chattanooga’s current speed.

Apparently, in 2022 they were rolling out 25gig symmetric (https://epb.com/newsroom/epb-news/25-Gbps-internet-service-n...). That’s light-years better than I can get in a suburb outside of Seattle.

Dunno, municipal broadband seems like it can be just fine.
Show HN: Booking Reward Flights
I don't think people would only charge when the battery runs out. More likely people would charge weekly, say on a weekend night or during their weekly WFH day or something like that.

A 14-day battery life would then mean an average of 10.5 days of protection, which isn't too bad.

> You can argue that you'd be more dilligent about recharging but I'd counter that at scale you'd be the outlier.

I don't know about this. For bicycle users, charging their rechargeable headlights and taillights regularly (typically once weekly) is very much a habit already. This is just another thing to charge at the same time, which is a time they aren't riding their bicycle.
Often worse informed.

I love that you mentioned those 3 professions. You've accurately pointed out 3 professions whose workers are often misinformed about their profession. Not the observations, but the resulting conclusions and solutions are often misinformed.

Journalists are the worst of the lot. For the rare honest ones, it's hard enough to be the carrier pigeon for truth as is. Buy, take their willing alignment to underlying agendas, and things are already looking bad for the profession.

It's exacerbated by journalists never stepping foot in these foreign nations, and when they do, they're guided by one clearly biased party who shows who shows them around. So now their observations are misinformed as well.

Gellman amnesia is real.
Also in a startup, you'll gain the transferrable skill of sucking VC dick while doing a one-handed hand-stand.
There is or was a US run missile observation station in the Negev near Gaza but Iran’s not that stupid
A provider once gave me only a Java JAR graphical UI for an old Cisco VPN thing. I was on a Mac and it would only really work on Ubuntu. I used a different Ubuntu machine to get it going but would have liked to have done it on a virtualized Ubuntu. It did actually work on virtualized Ubuntu but I had to use VirtualBox and it was slow.
1:1s are for the IC, not the manager.
You may be reacting to the fact that the actual content is broken out into numbers and quotes—that is a house style of ours, and we’ve used it for many years.

More broadly, I would encourage you to be careful about claiming things are AI-generated vs. not. You perhaps saw it as a minor thing. I did not.

It is a bad time for actual writers and editors and is seen as a claim of impropriety in media circles. It threatens our work. I reacted strongly to it because, honestly, being seen seriously is a real point of concern.

I hope that makes sense.
This is a great post.

I'd like to tack onto your mention of teaching. I have found teaching really pushes me to understand the subject. It would be sad to lose this ability to have "real" teachers, if everything goes to AI.
Could be some kind of syncing consistency bug between servers too.
>As far as I understand, this whole Find My/Remote Lock stuff will stop working when the thief pulls the bar down and activates the Airplane mode. Then all the data is one vulnerability away from being accessed.

Finding that "one vulnerability" is going to be pretty hard. The device is still going to be locked, you're very limited in what your exploit has access to. The common EoP used for rooting/jailbreaks are going to be out, because you won't be able to run arbitrary code on the phone. True, there are occasionally exploits in the bootchain itself (eg. checkra1n for iOS), but you could be waiting years/decades for it. By then the phone would be useless, and any juicy credentials already rotated. Best case scenario, you get some nudes.
I actually can’t use Touch ID, at least year-round.

I have naturally very dry skin, and no matter how much moisturizer I used in colder months, I had to constantly have it relearn my fingerprint, to the point where I would just give up and use a passcode instead.

Face ID, on the other hand, has been flawless since my first phone with it in 2018 (minus some mask-related challenges during the pandemic). It and ProMotion are basically the two reasons I bought an iPad Pro over an iPad Air.
Wouldn’t the softmax typically be “fused” with the matmul though?
> Neuralink

Yeah, but that's not a realistic hope even among fairly wealthy Americans right now, and its many orders of magnitude less accessible to most of the world. Considering the smartphone market penetration in some profoundly impoverished areas, this could be really huge for a whole lot of people.
Interesting. I’ve been to some restaurants that refuse to take anything but cash but I haven’t seen a business (other than dispensaries) that takes debit but not credit cards.
This is a factual description. Is your gender on the same side as your biological sex? That's all cisgender means today. Like tall, or blonde, or young.

“Mentally retarded” is a factual description of those with a certain degree of mental impairment.

But we don’t use it any more.
> Reduce Motion. Is it an accessibility feature

Yes--some people can become ill with certain types of motion on a screen [1].

[1]: https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/understanding-vestibular-d...
Correct. My comment was about programming languages in general and not specific to TypeScript. :)
Issue #1 is still an interesting albeit sad read https://github.com/google/project-gameface/issues/1
Sounds interesting, I'll give it a try.
Because in work places they are trying to make money. We want the most impact for the least effort.

There is absolutely a place for the kind of craftsmenship your are describing, but if you don’t understand the incentives of your workplace you are in for heartache.
I'm kinda fascinated by the Christian morality thing - I was raised Anglican and while I no longer believe I still have a fair understanding of the dogma. How does drawing a picture of someone violate that morality?

There are realistic pictures (and sculptures) of real people all over our churches. Are these immoral?

I think possibly the confusion lies in my framing of the question; I meant drawing a picture of someone at all, not necessarily someone naked or having sex.
Apple does a really good job of this with their Photos app, I regularly search for photos of people via their name. Surely there's got to be some OSS solution for this!
> Apache license 2.0 has to be one of the most business friendly licenses around?

Yes, in my experience it is.

Permissive licenses like Apache, MIT, and BSD are easiest for the corporate lawyers to approve but also easy for the project owner to relicense. Relicencing Monitor isn't measuring how easy it is for companies to use the software; risk is solely measuring how easy it is to relicense the software.

Copyleft licenses are lower risk than permissive licenses in this specific context as they are viral. A CLA or a very small number of contributors can negate that, as happened with Emby [1].

SourceGraph is probably the best example here (I need to add them still). They switched off Apache 2 and prompted this [2] helpful blog post.

[1] https://alexsci.com/relicensing-monitor/projects/emby/

[2] https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2.html
I stand corrected. He just said "not exactly what my hands would look like, but (laugh)"

youtu.be/kFz9afj8lu0 ~ 7:00
Show HN: Apple Music Electron
Hello, I've been building an Apple Music client for the past few months, and I released it a few weeks ago. Enjoy!

We're currently having issues with playback https://github.com/Zolvy/Apple-Music-Electron/issues/1
Small nitpick, instead of having a "back to home" button on the left, maybe just make the logo in the navbar a link to the homepage.
As far as I know all of the sensors that are embedded in the pavement use inductance.
For most junior folks I meet, I recommend starting their career at a big company rather than a startup. In my experience, the dysfunctions at big companies are too much process (which you can still learn from) whereas the dysfunctions at startups are often a lack of process (functionally unknown unknowns). I've found it's much easier to solve process issues at a startup after working at a big company than vice versa.
Did I misunderstand? She said her artistic romance content is spicy. She got blocked from sharing it in Google docs not locked out as per headline and in light of this it looks like a rotten choice to use Google docs for this. Should I have stayed instead of coming back now and complainwhining about me downvotes?
I think we agree. ChatGPT can't count, as the granularity that requires is higher than the granularity ChatGPT provides.

Also the blind person wouldn't confidently answer. A simple "the objects blur together" would be a good answer. I had ChatGPT telling me 5 different answers back to back above.
Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers
Do you think mostly everyone can convert from km to miles? I doubt it, specially in USA. I think stating both units is a wonderful middle ground, everyone ends happy.
Rsync has a nice glob based inclusion and exclusion rule system.
I think this article makes a good point: the point in the title.

I find the intro almost made me not want to read the article though, as it has this long segue dunking (in a way unrelated to the main point) on some arbitary person who made the mistake of the title.

E.g., '''"it’s more than a little presumptuous to then claim that people on Gessen’s (pro-Palestine) side of the argument are “just much better informed”'''

I don't know who Gessen is, and not knowing who they are, the authors take is, to me, odd and mean spirited. Gessen, at least as quoted in the article, isn't making the point that their side is "much better informed." They actually say that their friends (who support their side) are more informed than their wife's friends (who support the other side) on this particular topic. This is a judgement on two friendship groups that they (Gessen) have first-hand experience of.

Gessen also makes some later points about how people aren't appearing to think during the congressional hearing. But none of the quoted text reaches the arrogance of characterizing all of their side as enlightened and all opposition as ignorant.
As someone who has 1/1000th of that bandwidth to the Internet, and yet still only saturates that connection when transferring from some nearby sites, I'm curious how useful having a 10Gbps local connection will actually turn out to be in practice. Being able to download Linux ISOs faster is the prominent use case that comes to mind.
I absolutely agree that on a per user basis Alcohol is more risky especially if you’re considering bystanders due to addiction and ease of access.

However, I’m looking at things from a per use basis because I’m not really attracted to drinking. So for me it’s about what risks are associated with drinking a beer vs dropping a tab vs smoking 1 more cigarette. Because people like me can choose to do some, all, or none of those things and it’s worth considering the risks on a per event basis.

Very few deaths are associated with LSD, but harm isn’t so binary. You can reasonably safely consume a lot of alcohol without issue, as in 1-3 beers a night for a decade, but daily LSD use at that level is another story.
You can do something like this with an automation in the Shortcuts app on iOS.
Think about how many highly specialized jobs are needed to run modern-day society. Think about how much of the required knowledge and skill to do those jobs would be lost, not to mention available person-hours. We could be set back a century or more, but without the cheap and plentiful natural resources that got us to where we are today.
For some parsing, serialization, or filtering tasks, you end up with quite large lookup tables of shuffles that would otherwise be pretty costly to compute on the fly, but real workloads hit only a tiny part of the lookup table at a time. (This comment fits entirely within his point about benchmarks, I guess)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240507095947/https://nymag.com...
Any chance your purchase triggers the ~238 surveillance cameras on your route back from the store to get a good idea of who they're dealing with?

The UK used to be a surveillance outlier, but sadly other places have caught up in the meantime, including the US.
Currently I have added image and text elements

Regarding images, you can choose to upload a picture or choose a random album

Regarding text, currently supports custom text, date, health data,

More elements and data will be added in the future. If you are interested, you can try it out and tell us what you need. Thank you very much.
NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code
Any option to try for free?
Fair. Maybe some illustrations showing the reflection mechanic before the training levels would help.
Pan-African Robotics Competition
Sometimes they seem so biased that I can't believe the company apologists are even real humans with freedom of will.

They argue for things that are counter to their own interests. It's difficult to avoid coming to the conclusion that I'm arguing with AI or a paid employee.

The existence of these people proves that there is something fundamentally different between my life experience and theirs. I must be missing a lot of context for why they act like they do.
Sonic is reselling AT&T fiber in most situations, but they provide their own support which is nice if you need it. If the problem is with the fiber, you are still relying on AT&T.
Thanks for checking it out! Appreciate the positive feedback.
Working on it! I'll let you know when it's ready.
That was my initial thought as well. I'm hoping the original author reads this and can explain, because surely there must be a reason...?
Large families.
I feel the same, I don't have any kids, but my friends do. Feels like shit. Any other advice or recommended reading? Smoker for 27 years.
Yeah, I think that could be a good way to handle it. Thanks for the suggestion!
Awesome! It looks similar to the problems that Modular AI aims to solve.
Just added the feature in v0.2.0 :)
Imo worthless hyper optimizing. Want health? ride fattest worst tires. Want comfortable distance? mount $500 hub motor.
The U.S. has done far more business for far longer with countries in the Middle East than it has with China.

I don’t think your example supports the point you think you’re making.
Most people in the world would have to look up the translation factor - we stopped using miles 50+ years ago before a good chunk of the current population was born.
It should only take a few minutes.

The images all get scaled down to 256x256 before the embeddings are generated to optimize for space. Don't have an exact number on how large the index will be but happy to run some tests and get back to you. The embeddings are stored as float32 arrays of 512 length.
Worked on photoshop for many years. It’s still there today.
That is probably not a terrible configuration for a lot of users. It is disappointing that the internet didn’t remain a network of mostly peers where everyone might host something. But, realistically, lots of people approximately just use their bandwidth to stream video, right?
Immich does this well enough for my needs! Really cool OSS project
Sustainable method for dissolving gold, silver and copper from recycled material
Heh, I didn't really think about it, but to finish out the example:

CL-USER> (defun foo (a b)
(declare (optimize (speed 3))
(type fixnum a b))
(the fixnum (+ a b)))
WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::FOO in DEFUN
FOO

CL-USER> (disassemble #'foo)
; disassembly for FOO
; Size: 22 bytes. Origin: #x101127E9B4 ; FOO
; B4: 4801FA ADD RDX, RDI
; B7: 488BC2 MOV RAX, RDX
; BA: 48D1E0 SHL RAX, 1
; BD: 7006 JO L0
; BF: 48D1E2 SHL RDX, 1
; C2: C9 LEAVE
; C3: F8 CLC
; C4: C3 RET
; C5: L0: CC59 INT3 89 ; OBJECT-NOT-FIXNUM-ERROR
; C7: 0A BYTE #X0A ; RDX(s)
; C8: CC10 INT3 16 ; Invalid argument count trap
NIL

CL-USER>

And to optimize away everything:

CL-USER> (defun foo (a b)
(declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0) (debug 0) (space 3))
(type fixnum a b))
(the fixnum (+ a b)))
WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::FOO in DEFUN
FOO

CL-USER> (disassemble #'foo)
; disassembly for FOO
; Size: 6 bytes. Origin: #x101127F026 ; FOO
; 6: 4801FA ADD RDX, RDI
; 9: C9 LEAVE
; A: F8 CLC
; B: C3 RET
NIL

CL-USER>
> The Antonine plague would continue to rage in the cities and military camps of the Roman Empire for at least another decade. A second wave of an undiagnosed epidemic disease hit Rome in 190 AD; if this too was part of the Antonine plague, then the pandemic lasted at least a quarter-century.

What ended it? Decade or quarter century - how did it subside, and why?

Can't help but draw parallels with the covid-19 pandemic -- most people you'll talk to will refer to it in the past tense, even though folks continue to get sick with it. We've stopped most monitoring and data collection, and it most definitely disappeared from the media. The one remaining reliable source of information is the wastewater analysis, which tends to indicate the virus is more or less as present in the population now as it's been in the past few years.

My conclusion to all this was kind of a sad lightbulb moment -- all the past pandemics, they didn't magically end. People just got tired, it became too expensive or politically inconvenient, we collectively turned away and pretended "it went away". The quarter-century timeframe on the Antonine plague looks starkly realistic in this light.
I think there are probably factors like

* latitude

* time of day¹

* individual genetics (maybe including something about the anatomy of your iris? or the focal abilities of your eye?)

* how fixedly you manage to stare at the sun, as opposed to letting your eye wander around a bit

* how frequently you unconsciously blink

that would cause the degree of injury to vary a lot. But it's understandable that experts would like to emphasize the really, just don't stare at the sun principle as the most reliable advice, so people don't do a lot of second-guessing (like "oh well I'm at a high latitude so it's not that bad").

I had also stared at the sun a little bit on occasion in elementary school (but for like 4-5 seconds, not like 30 seconds!) and that was one thing that gave me some counterproductive confidence that it wouldn't be super-harmful super-quickly.

¹ Notably, a lot of people will "watch the sunset" for like 1-5 minutes at a time, which is a form of starting at the sun, and I've never heard of that causing anyone any trouble. It really is true that time of day and latitude both have a big effect on the intensity of sunlight. Among other things, this interactive diagram makes pretty clear why watching the moment of sunset isn't that dangerous: https://engaging-data.com/solar-intensity/

It's easy to confirm there that the incident power in direct sunlight can vary by a factor of 100× as you get further from the tropics and closer to the moment of sunrise or sunset.

But it's not a great risk to have lots of people apply these heuristics to justify staring at the sun. If you just get a little bit confused about the details, the potential for damage is very, very high!
This is the worst privacy violation and breach of trust apple users have faced. A poster described that he wiped his Ipad clean before selling it.
Now the pictures come back alive for new owner. [1]

[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1cspwh2/my_old_photos_...
That first diagonal flip is a virtually guaranteed stumbling point, I’m open to ideas on a better way to introduce it.

Until then- I’ll add a way to reset the tutorial when I go back for the accidentally-fake Settings link.
There's support for adding your own tags to files if you'd like. The tags aren't auto-generated but I've considered adding some classification features to support something like "suggested tags."
> A few months ago I discovered the "karaoke" feature on Apple Music, in which it displays the lyrics in time with the music.

JSYK Spotify has had this for years too, its just under the "View Lyrics" button but it does highlight the sentence/word karaoke style. It used to be a "spotify app" back in that genre of the service.
Its not US only though. Mostly just excluding the EU countries until they can be sure to pass all relevant regulations.
Then I wouldn’t dare emailing a zip bomb with a message containing the password and an instruction not to try and unzip that file.
As a lefty who has written on whiteboards and blackboards I'd say yes in possibly the smallest way possible.
Wi-Fi speeds

Most consumers will connect via WiFi.

And that will be typically capped at < 1 Gbps
Come to Canada, find an IT job, grind for 2-3 years, apply for immigration, apply for citizenship, find a US contractor job, grind for 10-15 years, find a gov job, relax for 15 years, retire.
Thanks! The indexing is pretty fast. Working on making some optimizations to make it faster and more resilient. As far as size, the images all get scaled down to 256x256 to optimize for space. The embeddings are stored in float arrays of length 512.
Try putting hard water into an ultrasonic humidifier…

It matters what’s in evaporated water!
Show HN: I made an app to make podcasts out of your reading list
hey folks - i made an ios app to make summarized audio from articles that i don't have time to read (or i'm not sure is worth my time quite yet).

to try it out:
1. go to the website
2. click early access button
3. submit the form (only 4 questions)

on the confirmation page after you submit the form, you'll see a link to download the beta app via testflight.

i haven't spent much time on the landing page, marketing materials, etc. the app is still in beta, but i appreciate all feedback including: the app functionality, design, how it solves people's problems, use cases, feature requests, bugs, etc!

the stack is relatively simple - a native ios front end supported by a node.js server. i'm using firebase for easy auth/database and google cloud for storage. this is the first app i built in native ios (swiftui)!