skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I subscribed to Tidal relatively early and could tell the difference in audio quality with some songs. I stuck with Spotify because I couldn't justify paying more for a smaller catalog.

I've been slowly frustrated with the changes Spotify keeps introducing... breaking my "Starred" songs by replacing it with "Liked" songs, tampering with song shuffle, and routinely switching me to "Autoplay". Some of the curated playlists have gone down in quality as well, they'll start off great and halfway through I'm wondering why the playlist changed so drastically.

I can't say for certain the discontinuation of Car Thing will have me end my subscription, but I will say this is the start of a wake up call for how Spotify treats their most loyal customers.
You don't have to take the mod 7 of each of the values. You can sum them into one number and take its mod 7. You'll get the same result.
Waste of space seems like a poor phrase. It seems to imply it should be used by intelligent life, and if it isn't, then it's a waste.
Lying about being alcoholic (his liver) is also a hack. He hacked the MDs.

Besides the lying though it would have been better to stick to the one thing that he was investigating: fast food. He already had some ridiculous extra requirements like always finishing his meals and a high calorie count (the former sounds like some ingrained motherly “finish your meal!” scorning latent in the psychology of some adults, not a fast food thing per se). But he also stopped exercising and restricted his steps per day. It is much more interesting to change only one variable in your life when that variable is the thing that you are supposed to be critiquing.

Or else change the investigation to “Average American Me”.
Hmm I only remembered it partially, but I see it was on old phpbb boards. That said, password is probably gone forever.
> I also finally learned how signals work from top to bottom, and boy is it ugly. I’ve always felt that this was one of the weakest points in the design of Unix and this project did nothing to disabuse me of that notion.

Would love any resources that goes in more details, if any HN-er or the author himself knows of some!
They somehow deleted/deactivated my account several years ago. Not that I used it much in the last 15 years :)

For those who want to experience ICQ once again, there's http://kicq.ru, an unofficial ICQ server that uses some very old version of the protocol so only QIP 2005 and some versions of Jimm work. Adium doesn't work, unfortunately. My number there is 480976.
I wonder how many others instantly recalled the ICQ notification sound on reading the headline.
Yeah, I meant it more as evidence that things aren't limited to on press. That said, I think the other comments were clear that I missed the point that games get this right, by and large. :D
Aka Drake's equation, with sufficiently large numbers, gives a decent chance of habitability. We just don't know what the numbers really are. Those big enough numbers with small enough other names make for a low enough number that it might as well be zero since we can't observe or interact with them.
4007929... great question...!
Why are you even doing anything with the scrolling? Something someone can do in JavaScript in a WebPage is better than the implementation in my touch pad on my Mac?
She was making $2936 a month teaching with a PhD? Even if it is part-time, that seems fairly low. She had 120 students in each class, let's say tuition is about 5k per class which comes out to $1.2 million. Revenue at universities have increased dramatically and is approaching nearly a trillion total.
Sounds like a good way to not get your quarterly bonus!
As someone who learned the "right" way in German public school about 20 years ago, the statement "teaching people what was actually happening with subtraction" is completely indecipherable to me. Maybe I never learned what subtraction is. To me it's like advocating for not using a ruler because that would somehow forego teaching people what measuring actually means.

Both "measure" and "subtract" can mean doing any number of things in mathematics, depending on what you're dealing with. Intuition for things in the physical world specifically shouldn't be a goal of teaching mathematics at school. It's a prerequisite. If a child already can't grasp the concept of taking away from something, throwing mathematics and numbers at them is not going to help one bit.
Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination
Show HN: I made my own SPF Monitor to ensure my emails get delivered
Hi,

I made my own SPF Monitor which sends me an email when something is wrong or not matching what it should:

- Check if SPF exists
- Check if SPF is valid
- Check if a tag is present in your SPF, like if mx is inside
- Compare if SPF is same as a given value
- Count lookups in your SPF
- Check for duplicate lookups in your SPF
- Check if lookups in your SPF are resolvable

You can also set a check when something comes true, for example if an include you are waiting for is set.

API is included as well as a little Playground, please let me know what you think about it.
It's a sensible thing to do, but I have so many ways to get at online services where I can reach them that it hasn't felt pressing - if I'm in a situation where the only phone I can get hold of isn't a smartphone it sounds more like a 999 or nearest consulate kind of situation... But you're right it'd probably be worth doing anyway.
16, not 16M.
> The OED lists a second definition of “engineer” as well. “It is synonymous with the older usage meaning ‘artifice,’” says Fuller. “An engineer is an author or designer of something, a person who contrives a plot, a schemer.” A definition one can only hope will soon pass from common usage.

I am not at all sure why.

This is an enormously valuable concept: that plots require both participants and also people who do not just direct it or order it, or even just design it, hands off (often called "the architect of the plot"). They need people who are there from start to finish, like an author is; involved in every corner.
But I think it’s relevant to say that before writing Unix he was working on Multics for a long time already. Unix was a “simplified” version of it, if I remember well. So it didn’t “spring out of thin air.”
The last bastion of the old Internet, end of an era!
I wonder how many machine operates it and if there's a GDPR 'backup your data' feature hehe
It isn't a big win compared to just calling the method with it:

meth(foo: 1, bar: 2)

# even if multiline

meth(
foo: 1,
bar: 2
)

while needlessly allocating an hash (kwargs optimize that).
You know the bull isn't the hero in the china shop analogy, right?

Moving fast and breaking things itself isn't something to be praised.

If you have to lie to promote a course of action you believe will lead to better outcomes, maybe it's you who is wrong. Maybe that course of action won't lead to the outcomes you think.

And if I have to replicate all of the work you did just to find out which of your results were related to what you were pushing, why should I take anything you say at face value?
Are there any self-hosted alternatives?
For Eddie, Mirascope, or both?

Definitely want to build mirascope-js next
Hard to realise how cultural waves come and go. Humbling
I love pico.css! It's the sweet spot for me in being quick and easy to learn but still very capable.

Flask + HTMX + AlpineJS + PicoCSS is currently my "All Python and HTML SPA"
You can using VBA functions and VBScript.RegExp. This is restricted to Windows though. Microsoft wants to get rid of VBScript, so maybe they are going through the most common use cases in Excel.
The world isn’t fractal. God made the universe with specific laws that operate on infinitesimal things many times a second. Mindboggling amount of objects, like subatomic particles or energy, that all operate at once across the universe. You zooming in and out just controls what percentage you see. It reflects our limits, not the universe’s.
"Tuition reimbursement" is definitely an accounting gimmick, at least once you're done taking classes. After qualifying exams, the idea that a PhD candidate is receiving anything that you would pay tuition for is laughable. You're doing research and teaching, both of which are things a professor does, albeit at a smaller scale and with some oversight/guidance, but that is far more akin to having a manager than having a course instructor. I'm all for including tuition as a concept when you're still taking courses, but after that point it makes no sense.
You beat me to it. As soon as I read the title, I heard it in my mind.
Valid point for some, but I was comparing compare apples with apples. I was talking about servers rented in a data center, so it was opex before cloud as well, just cheaper (or, less expensive).
I think after IRC, there was ICQ and MSN. On ICQ, you had a number. ICQ was great. I have fond memories of the spinning flower.
Top UN court orders Israel to stop Rafah offensive
If this lowers performance, can we just turn it off and forget about it?
Show HN: Highlight Code Blocks with Pandoc and Vim / Neovim and Treesitter
This is a Vim plugin / Pandoc filter two-in-one. This allows rendering HTML and PDF documents with code blocks which look exactly as you see them in Vim or Neovim with your favourite colorscheme. I used this in my old blog: there is a link to it alongside with a couple of images at the bottom of the README.
Debouncing was literally several classes in my college years, as I recall. Can definitely be more complicated, but I find the anecdote of a team trying to insist that it isn't a better experience mind blowing.

Granted, just the other day, I found that in GMail key repeat events are slow as heck for some reason. Made holding backspace to delete a sentence annoying.
> Products are simply built in a way...

That's one of the most important point of the right-to-repair movement. Devices are intentionally made unrepairable. And iFixit, by supporting these devices, doesn't help anyone, but themselves. While right-to-repair doesn't exclude everyday folks, it is about the possibility to repair your devices, either DIY (if you have the skills), or by going to a professional. But as it stands today, a device only lives as long the manufacturer wants it to, and not as long as one would want to use it.

On a related note, the devices are actually repairable, if you have the know how. Have you noticed that Samsung and Apple are very happy to sell refurbished phones at discounted prices? If they would really contain 1.5 phones' worth of parts, selling them at a discount would be crazy... of course if they just change a blown cap, that brings down the extra cost to $0.0001, which doesn't sound that bad anymore.
Am I the only one who uses microservices to deploy small monolithic projects?
116633 Good times!
Really gross. Honestly, has America always been this corrupt or the last 20 years really hitting its stride?

As if the DOD doesn't have enough funds, they have to pull new taxpayers funds for this clearly wasteful program.

Some super secretive, non-collaborative, non-competitive, bureaucratic run foundry will surely be worse over the long run.

Sounds like DoD wants their own foundry but won't even reach into their existing bloated budget to do it. Shameful. Would be a bad idea even if it was from their budget but less terrible than the current situation.
I remember mine, 15254346. Good question...
I tried many times to set this sound as my sms notification sound for nostalgia… and gave up every time. It sounded great on the computer but it’s very jarring and obnoxious on the phone when it runs out of nowhere. Unfortunate because nostalgia
It developed from High German with elements of Aramaic and Hebrew, in the area we would now call west Germany. The only way it's not a German language is if you deny the historic and linguistic roots of the language.
Yes, but his law is descriptive, not prescriptive. Just because it tends to happen doesn't mean it should happen, or happens for good reasons.
Sure, but on the other other hand, it might be difficult to expect someone who really believes in masks to try to prove they don't work. Or, to publish their data if they find that masks don't work(because they believe they have some flaw in their logic, or they think there are social benefits to mask wearing not covered in their study, etc).
Fast Takes: Boudreaux and Manville
Oh, I didn’t even know it was still running. I’d used it when it was latched. Don’t even re my number, but I have very fond memories of using it.
Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock dies at 53
"Uh oh"
Vouchers and Government Control
How Casey Muratori got his start in game development (2014)
Direct link to the relevant part (starting around 58:24): https://youtu.be/rFA1SzRCRWc?list=PLEMXAbCVnmY6RverunClc_DML...
The one that I've always found odd is everything deciding to dump itself in the user profile directory (this is even something that stuff like VS Code does).

XDG_CONFIG_HOME (|| ~/.config) and friends has been a standard for a long time now on *nix (including macOS) and AppData (née Application Data) has been the standard on Windows for over 20 years at this point.
This is PaaS, there is no "infrastructure". It is a http handler function and that is it.
Official ICQ client got bloated for every release. Security issues and lots of spam.

Miranda IM, open source plugin based architecture, was the best client for ICQ.

There was a fun plugin that notified you if anyone read your away message. Good trolling potential.
What does level of power have to do with imagining possibilities?
It is not the pension system per se, but the national debt that is the pyramid scheme requiring a growing population.
Header Parsing Leads to Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability
>People only think of personal quick gains over long term generational games as has been shown time and time again

Nonsense. It has been shown for much longer and many more times that people have a capacity to act on the long-term. It might involve various social thought mechanisms like religion, moralism, and politics that prevent so-called progress, but evolution often favors societies who act on the long-term. This is a especially true in moments of sudden catastrophe. A classic example is Catholicism in the face of the plague.
> But why would I invest in learning a language which imposes an arbitrary purity test on developers?

While I understand your concerns, I disagree with your the idea of “imposition”. Someone doing something for free doesn’t owe anyone to do it in a particular way (as long as it’s not malevolent). You’re free to express your opinion, but if the developer has already established his guidelines, criticisms like this is not constructive.
Per rfc8806, because the data in the root zone has long TTL values, most queries to the root servers are for nonexistent top-level domains due to typos and search paths gone wrong, so in some sense it's community service to reduce useless traffic to the roots -- you do a single burst download of about 2MB daily instead of all of your query traffic.

Other reasons why you might do it are covered in rfc8806 - slightly reduced latency on cold-cache DNS queries, added resilience against DoS attacks against root DNS servers.
No such thing as a moral org that values secrecy that highly.
maybe it was the fast food that did him, in the end

For Supersize Me, notably Mr. Spurlock failed to disclose to his doctor or viewers his drinking habit, which more likely contributed to his abnormal blood panel readings, not the fast food. The whole thing was propaganda that the public ate up. It's hard to overstate how big of a deal that movie was in 2004-2005. Colleges organized group screenings of it. The ensuing bad press from Supersize Me forced McDonald's to discontinue its eponymous meal upgrade option.
For IRC bouncers there's many, but I'm not aware of anything that has a web interface, phone app, push notifications and all kept in sync. The market is pretty small.

Alternatively there's many bridges these days so you can use Matrix with one of the many apps supported.
Also I feel like repairing is often not the most efficient way to correct a problem with someone's phone. The "right to repair" movement was focused on one of the least inherently repairable things people own.
Link to the mastodon thread (from Drew’s article), for those that are interested:

https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/112319697309218275
Mac OS is designed to use workspaces. The idea is you have main windows in fullscreen and use the trackpad swipe to switch between virtual desktops. Basically they never want you to move windows at all. Maybe one of the virutal desktops has your notes and finder and other smaller apps
My agency does both, that's a false dichotomy.
It is only a chat platform and it predates the first social networks (which were explicitly called "social networks" back then). This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but I think people use the term "social network" way to much so that it doesn't even mean anything any more.
219431446 was me :D. No idea why I still remember that.
NewPipe or uBlock Origin will prevent your experiences from being ruined in the future.
Spend some time understanding what Cloud Functions has to offer. There really isn't much to it at all. A http handler function is all you need. No infrastructure or need to do much deeper than that.
If I could afford it, I would buy this just to support the idea and invest in an industry that focusses more on reducing the “virtual noise” and creating computers that are more like natural tools/artefacts that blend in with our environments instead of separating us from them and from each other and distracting us from what we actually value in life. I hope you succeed on your mission!
Sounds great until

> requires an analog thermodynamic computer

Wait. What?

Perhaps a trained physicist can comment on that. Thanks.
> IFixit's role is to make repairs more accessible to the average Joe.

Which is fine, if they would not pose as right-to-repair champions. They claim that selling a phone in 3 parts somehow helps R-T-R, that it's a great step forward. It is not. It doesn't change anything. The device is not any more repairable than any other device.

What they claim basically is that if you buy your TV as separate parts (remote controller, TV and TV stand instead of all of these in one box), that somehow makes the TV repairable. It does not, however.
It is well known that it is impossible to eliminate hallucination in LLMs

Here is a formal proof.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

Hopefully this article helps spread the word, but this is something that will have to be mitigated within acceptable limits.

LLMs are NLP, not NLU.
How do you think Silicon Valley was originally funded in the 1950s?
> So many people still wearing masks in their cars while driving alone.

Where do you live that you see this regularly?

Don't think it's happening in southern California.
Building on this, strongly recommend having a project that matters to you. Real life ml-work is scoped by resources and goals, no reason your personal projects should not be the same.
I wish they would just open source it, now that it's going to be stopped. Would love to self-host it a bit, just for nostagia
Making people think you're smarter than you are. That's about it.
To quote the movie Four Rooms: "The less a man makes declarative statements, the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect."
There is nothing objective about these opinions. MacOS with a trackpad works fine if youre willing to do things exactly as intended.
I didn't mean for it to be inflammatory, but it's certainly not unnecessary to the conversation. We can both-sides it all day, but the fact is that one side has a militia proudly ready to use force. Like other commenters have suggested, this isn't necessarily a concern with a functioning civil society. But if we descend into populist mob violence, the side that has eschewed firearms will be at a distinct disadvantage. I hope it doesn't come to that, but it's not so improbable as to be irrelevant here.
We associate other stuff like sharing and virality with social networks. Isn't the phone network just as much of a social network as ICQ?
501108 - never forget
I think I still remember my ICQ #: 15868571

EDIT: How would I even log in to take a peek? It won't accept my US phone # and my (old, insecure) passwords that I likely used no longer work (and I can't seem to use that number as the login!)
Do both. Integration hell is inescapable.
I still remember my uin and password.

I still miss that “watooo” sound when you received a message.

Good times. Thanks for being part of my first days on the internet. Rest in peace.
The involvement of the quantum computer is only that it's an adversary that can break asymmetric encryption with different complexity constraints than a classical computer. For example, take two random prime numbers as a secret and publish the result of multiplying them. It turns out that if you want to find the two random prime numbers by knowing only the result of multiplication is a hard problem known as integer factorization. If you double the size of the prime numbers, discovering them takes exponentially longer. The theoretical quantum computer model though says that it can accomplish it in sub-exponential time. Now doubling the size of the number only increases your compute requirements by ~2x to recover the prime factors (specifically it's actually a logarithm so it's < 2x more compute is needed). The algorithm for doing this is known as Shor's algorithm [0] and because of how complexity works in computer science, it turns out that this algorithm can be applied to many many problems mechanically and these problems are the underpinnings of RSA, DSA, ECDH key exchanges.

These quantum-resistant algorithms are based on mathematical problems believed to be exponentially difficult even for a theoretical quantum computer - when you double the size of the problem, it again takes exponentially more time even for a theoretical quantum computer. These are of course unproven beliefs but that's true of classical algorithms too. So no, it doesn't matter where you run the cryptographic algorithm; it remains computationally difficult to solve the problem without knowing the secret. The quantum computer is critically important though for your ability to crack classical problems though - without it, all of this post-quantum cryptography is unnecessary.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.12372
> Was that actually the identifier we shared with people to connect?

Yes, exactly.
> Let’s get this out of the way: OpenAI’s voice assistant doesn’t sound that much like Scarlett Johansson.

Then goes on explaining why it is sad that the voice was so much inspired by Scarlett Johansson's voice...
https://www.dpreview.com/news/4518014471/capture-one-adds-wi...

Seems like it works well (I don't have any gear new enough to test myself).

Supported cameras here:
https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000271811...
Fighting static positions is what you do when your opponent is literally your neighbor occupying slightly different dirt that touches yours. Which is not the case with China and the US.

When you switch from land to water tooling your military doctrine to things like air superiority, missiles, island hoping make much more sense to me at least.
Not wrong, but also not a Law.
Had to look up "Blue Bubbles" because I wasn't exactly sure what you meant by that. Searching only on the term was worthless because there's now an app named that. Search results were all ads for it, or for the subreddit.

The phrase "social pressure of Blue Bubbles" led to discussions of Apple's blue text for iMessage users and green for standard SMS messages. Is that what you were referring to?

I think we need something both milder and stronger than ignored. I think we need concrete and rational arguments to persuade them away from such idealism. The biggest problem I have for those people in my life is they're often angry when such discussion come up...
Google AI overview suggests adding glue to get cheese to stick to pizza