skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But… why go to all that effort when you can just pop the capsule and land in a thing that is not full of highly explosive fuel?

Elon had that idea of using rockets for passenger transport so I’m sure it’s in the plan, but for astronauts I don’t see why you’d rush.
I'm struggling to work out why this uses AI for getting the weather?

There are dozens of different free weather APIs which could be called directly.
Especially in the current IoT boom where you can get "smart plugs" with built-in power meters for $5-$10 a piece. If you get the zigbee version you get easy-ish API access without sending the data off into the cloud. But even the Wifi cloud-enabled versions usually have a semblance of an API. I use lots of them throughout the house without any intention of ever using them to actually toggle power.
We also used to play Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit with my other siblings. We couldn't let my sister go first because once it was her turn she answered every single question correct, continuing her turn until she won without us even getting to answer a single question.

It was a mix of movie and book trivia, but even if it had been all deep cut Silmarillion stuff it would have played out the same way. I can now never forget about the Uruk-hai Lurtz, invented for the first movie.
Stronger laws, but that will only happen when corporation can no longer buy politicians via campaign donations.
Who says I don’t use quotas? I just routinely check how everyone is doing, and what my server is doing. That’s all.
So sad.

I still have my (working) HP 11C and HP 15C calculators, from the early 1980's.

But HP was still a decent company, back then.
The farther left you lean, the more anxious, depressed, and unhappy you are
“Don't leave the same image on the display for too long.”

Why is this? Is it something particular about colour e-ink?
There a difference in how the display works that’s different to a monochrome one, that requires the caveat of “don’t leave the same image on the display for long”?

If memory serves, standard monochrome e-ink displays don’t suffer from burn-in.
I use Affinity Photo and Designer professionally and at home.

Affinity Photo is not Photoshop. That said, it's a great image editor in and of itself. Making direct comparisons I feel is unfair, yes it is glitchy and can, and does, have inconsistent UI behaviour though is only occasional in my experience.

But for US$70 per major version, perpetual (no subscription), for the small team behind it, compared to the Adobe behemoth behind Photoshop, it's pretty damn good.

As of writing (2024-06-08), Serif's entire suite is 50% off at the moment, which makes Affinity Photo US$35 perpetual, for (in my opinion) 80% of Photoshop's capabilities, when Photoshop itself is US$22.99 per month (individual subscription).

Designer blows Inkscape out of the water. Yes, I know I'm comparing a commercial package to an open source package, though for professionals who don't have time to troubleshoot bugs in open source software, let alone time to write their own patches, Inkscape sadly doesn't cut it here.

For what its worth, I am a huge advocate of open source software, though I'm also a professional that needs my tools to work now, not in six months when someone gets around to helping/assisting/writing a patch.

Downsides for Designer though, it does lack some features, like image tracing, though it's not a deal breaker for US$70 perpetual, for a user interface that's intuitive (sorry Inkscape), and that spits out SVG images that don't cause problems in other consuming applications, or SVGs that fail to display correctly.

Coincidentally I do use Inkscape for image tracing though migrate over to Designer after that.

As much as it sucks, the only way Serif will get close to knocking Photoshop, or Illustrator, or InDesign, off the 'industry-standard' pedestal is if we all support them by kicking in a few dollars for a licence, even the cheaper iOS tools, which are more-or-less on-par with their desktop counterparts.

Likewise for open-source software: they'd easily start winning over people with a better UI design (again, in my opinion, most FOSS software in this space feels unpolished) and perhaps commercial sponsorship like Blender has been able to partner.

Before version 3.0, Blender's UI sucked and drove a lot of people away. It's now easy and intuitive, if overwhelming with the number of features it has, attracting a lot of newbies and kids wanting to learn 3D.

Blender (there are some really big names here!) - https://fund.blender.org/

Inkscape - https://inkscape.org/*sponsors/

GIMP (Web Archive as GIMP's website is having cache issues right now) - https://web.archive.org/web/20240603082716/https://www.gimp....

(I have no financial interest in Serif at all, apart from owning licences for their software.)
The README says [1]:

> If your pull request follows all of the advice above but still has not been merged, this usually means that the developers haven't had time to review it yet. We understand that this might feel frustrating, and we apologize. The Signal team is still small, but we are hiring.

Again, this is how open source works. If you need the README to tell you "btw, we don't owe you anything, it is all best effort, and it may be that we don't have time to address your PR", then you haven't (yet) understood open source.

Don't take it personally, a ton of people complain like you do. Which is why I don't open source my code anymore. Then people can't benefit from it, but at least they won't feel like they can put pressure on me to work for them for free. Because that's exactly what you are doing: even if you did put efforts into your PR, you are asking them to work for you for free right now. And you don't only put pressure by complaining on their GitHub issues: you go one step further by trying to get the HN community to help you put pressure on them.

I have had a lot of people telling me "be careful: if you don't work in your free time to implement that feature for me, I won't use your project for free". And many people say that in a much less polite way.

[1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/main/CONTRIBUTI...
“In my own case...” something worked for you. So what?

Are you sure that would work for others? And that other approaches might not be more effective?

I’ve learned lots of things from SO. The top voted answers usually provide quite a bit of “why” content which have general utility or pointers to more general content.

Yes, there are insufferable people on there, but there are gatekeepers and self-centered people everywhere.
> No one has any rights unless someone with guns is willing to enforce those rights

Right? Be in the state of nature. Argue with that lion you have a right to not be eaten. I don't think she will listen.
Microsoft already does something closely similar with Defender. For years. All your files are uploaded to Microsoft cloud automatically, if the file checksum is not in the Defenders database.

It is even very difficult to disable. It always gets back on after a while, unless you do some serious PowerShell magic.

https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-...
LedgerStore Supports Trillions of Indexes at Uber
product? that's so 2010s. it's all about subscriptions now. you own nothing but please keep paying that sweet monthly/yearly fee.
Positional encoding is standard for transformers of all stripes. They introduce a seemingly novel, redundant positional encoding scheme. It's more difficult to train, but seems to enable producing multiple tokens at once (i.e. you could get an answer that is N tokens long in N/x steps instead N steps).
Someday we will all have neural implants and we will be forced to watch an ad to do just about anything.
Consumers do rent server space and prices were manipulated, because they could control consumer choice. It’s all done for the control of the consumer, hence the antitrust.
I use the Inkplate 6Color for some similar projects. Built-in ESP32 controller, so no Pi required. Can be fully battery-powered, so if you make intelligent use of the deep-sleep/wake schedule, you can stretch that battery charge for a couple of weeks. My favorite one is a red "On Air" sign that hangs on my office door (used for meetings and recordings.) I just trigger a shortcut on my Mac and it automagically updates my status and mutes my devices. They have example open source projects for weather displays, news, Google Calendars...

https://soldered.com/product/inkplate-6color-color-e-paper-b...

Cheap e-ink projects are super fun and useful.
PC shutdowns have no place on HN, we deal in facts. It was included because I personally felt that it was an interesting historic tidbit... especially since he'd flipped from suit to flip-flops and commercial unix to Linux, but still kept this secret. No doubt in those days executives with career plans probably had to keep such things unknown. Can't comment on Digital analogues.

Re. classic PC shutdown emotive, character mud-slinging focused response below, check again: I did not state an opinion, I did exactly the opposite. Unsure what you think you are "calling me out" on - all I expressed was a (very public) fact[0] (furthermore, about which discussion has been intentionally invited), and when questioned, expressed the purpose for doing so was an interest in sharing that fact for others, since it is historically notable with respect to distinction from the current era. If my interest in sharing is now a matter subject to your offense, feel free to be offended, but don't post about it.

[0] https://www.linux-magazine.com/content/view/full/55727
RE: make it mandatory that each instance will map usernames to a random 256-bit integer, check out Verifiable Random Function: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifiable_random_function
LLMs for Parents
Every time anything happents to my account for everything, I get scared in cold sweat. This time it was just an A/B.
I have several teachers in my extended family, so I hear a lot of teacher stories. There’s a similarly weird phenomenon that happens when they have to do major discipline like suspension or expulsion: Critics come out to heap blame on the teachers for “failing the students”. They defend the child as the victim and heap blame, either collectively or individually, on the teachers involved. Some times they hand wave it away as blaming society. However, the one thing that is not allowed in these discussions is any appearance e that the child has responsibility for the consequences of their actions. Note that some of these children are nearly 18 years old at time of expulsion.

For some people, the only lens they have is a 1-D spectrum of perceived societal power. Blame can only flow up the spectrum and victimhood can only flow downward.

As soon as anything violates this idea of how justice, blame, and victimhood should work, they jump in to defend the side they think should be the victim in their worldview. They inject unrelated or assumed narratives to try to load up the victimhood of the lower side (living wage) while trying to downplay any victimhood on the upper side of their 1-D worldview (insurance can pay for it, you have enough money to replace things). By rewriting the narrative with something new that they injected , their worldview is protected and they can continue to feel correct.

In the teacher example above, this has a sad side effect where the problem students now know they have advocates to protect them despite their bad behavior. Some of them are becoming very good at reaching out to those advocates to share a sob story and replace their narrative with one of being the victim on social media. It’s creating a scary environment when kids know that not only are there no consequences for bad behavior, they know they can find someone to help defend them for it.
I managed to snag "wut.dev" (a rare 3-letter!) and have mostly been tossing personal side projects on it so far.
I’d argue that for many (way too many) of us it’s the constant attacks by those on the right to our freedoms that can cause much of what is described.

It’s hard to feel safe and content, when you see your very rights being removed on a daily basis.
Physics gets large amounts of commercial investment. Quantum computers have been invested in heavily by the private sector for years. The defense world invests in laser research, etc. Plenty of examples out there. You can always find a topic you personally feel is super important even though it has no practical applications today, but such arguments are unfalsifiable. I can just as easily argue [more] proton decay research doesn't matter [yet] and you can't prove I'm wrong, so it's not worth going there.

The same problems exist but not on the same scale. If your employer discovers you committed fraud to get a promotion you will certainly be fired and quite probably be taken to court by their legal department. If the fraud is at the level of the company they risk destruction and imprisonment by the government. It's not like in academia where they'll sit on it for years and then, maybe, request a little notice to be put on the paper's web page - all without the government even noticing let alone caring. The huge difference in consequences yields different risk/reward ratios and that's reflected in how often these problems are found.

> Academics actually care a great deal about fraud, funding agencies hate fraud and punish it, journals hate fraud - everyone dislikes it.

Do they? How is the co-author of this paper still employed if funding agencies punish it? Where are the university funded research-police departments? Why do we keep hearing cases like this Alzheimer's one and why are there never any announcements by Vice Chancellors about doubling investment into fraud investigations as a consequence? Why is a research audit not something that these fraudsters fear? How is it the case that publishers discover after the fact that dozens of their journals have been completely compromised by paper mills, instead of it being discovered via some more active process before publication occurs?

> science is fairly good at correcting itself over time

Absolutely not. If science was good at self correcting it wouldn't take nearly two decades for someone to notice that a widely cited paper was forged, and the people who notice these things wouldn't need to be anonymous. But they do. Look at the Gino case. She launched a massively well funded lawsuit against the people claiming she engaged in fraud. That's the exact opposite of self correction.
Ask HN: What is the future of PWA?
There's been a lot of back and forth lately - Apple have just reapproved them on latest iOS.
I wonder what the width is in miles of a chisel tip sharpie on a beach ball sized globe. 100?
Judging by how things go at my kids' school, it's quite the opposite. I and several of my friends have neurodivergent kids. The kids are quite open about it at school, and generally don't pathologize it at all. It's a huge difference from the traumatic childhood I experienced, where I was undiagnosed and also openly bullied for being a little bit weird.

If I may get a bit direct, if you believe that the move toward classifying some things as spectrum disorders, and neurodiversity in general, is about pathologizing the range of human behavior, I'd encourage you to spend some more time looking into it.
> The alternatives to Lisp Macros like codegen, method annotations, Rust Macros. Are all much less powerful and usually harder to create, but maybe that is a good thing.

I kinda agree that macros can lead to a lot of (bad) abstractions if you overuse them, but when you need a macro a lot of times the alternatives a language provides can somehow feel more magical if you try to get them to do macro-y things (decorators/attributes... languages always seem to mix those two terms) or just cumbersome and in my opinion kinda an ugly hack to paper over the fact that your language is lacking in some way (codegen). I'd much rather read a simple (lisp) macro then understand how your ugly codegen system works.

I dont have enough knowledge to comment on rust macros though.
it is a project that I recent decided to do. I needed to test and validate sending email to international domains, so I got pünicode.com. My end goal is to set up a catch-all inbox so you can also test international local part. The idea would be to send él@pünicode.com and then you could go to a temp (public?) inbox that stores the last message (or few messages).
I love that there's a section for conflicts of interest.

Would have been interesting to see a disclosure for a pharma company working on syndactyly or a disclosure that the authors belong to some secret society.
There was a reimplementation of SuperH as https://j-core.org some years ago and AFAIK it didn't really go anywhere, sadly.

One of the things you get when dealing with OEMs, and IP licensors like Arm, is a huge amount of paperwork about patents, and I used to believe this was annoying, but have come to believe it is vital. The alternative "open" "free" approach leads to something like the cloud world, where in practice it's AWS/GCS/Azure and some others in lower tiers, because of the complexities around the open/free stacks and IP tarpits that result. Just look at how AWS behave. We must be able to pay to develop and license these pieces, or you will end up with all IP being trade secrets and the vertical monopolies will get utterly entrenched.

There are definitely patent trolls around but the free case would be much stronger if financially viable open source software development were a thing.
i learned webgpu and then it couldn't hit 90fps
I'm probably missing some context - I don't really grasp the problem being solved or why it's related to the fediverse. Would an accurate summary be "how to make activitypub based systems end to end encrypted (by default?)" or more along the lines of "verified" identity like keybase?
Sure, but does it not occur to them that property owners might be performing an important function such that a policy that causes most of them to leave landlording might worsen the situation of homeless people and other poor people?

Suppose the government instituted a rule that applies to any game developer and in particular to the developer's office or whatever structure he likes to be inside when he is developing games or meeting with the other developers working on the same game. The rule says that if the game developer leaves his office and fails to hire a security guard to watch the property, then 72 hours after the game developer's departure, anyone (including career criminals) have a legal right to take over the office (even if the developer's office is his home). Wouldn't that curtail -- possibly severely -- the quantity and the quality of new games developed in whatever jurisdiction the rule applies to? Or at least raise the price of games (to cover the cost of the security guards and to compensate developers for the hassle) with the result that some of the consumers who used to be able to afford to buy video games are now priced out of the market?
A greener, more effective way to kill termites
I find pickle useful for trusted objects that I created myself. pkl.xz is for example a fast way to reproducibly store and read Pandas dataframes. I have also found pickle useful for custom serialization of some objects that needed it.
Nothing more "late stage capitalism" than corporate governance going right out the window.

I don't think these transactions are inherently or automatically bad, but the fact that they are happening with little scrutiny - even being cheered on- is bad.

"We like Elon! We like Sam! They are doing cool things and should be able to do what they want!" That's all well and good when it's your guys, but you'll think differently when it's not.
I think there's a communication issue with regards to how a syndrome is portrayed in non-technical media. And it doesn't get any better when we replace "syndrome" with "condition" or "spectrum disorder" or what have you.
A syndrome is just a description of what a black box looks like to us from the outside. We collect different outward expressions (symptoms) and give some sort of statistical baseline - e.g. a certain collection of symptoms clusters together in 70% of cases. In the case of psychological/neurological syndromes - our most poorly understood black boxes - we then create tests which are effectively subjective surveys, aggrandized Turing Tests. And to complete the picture, we also try to cluster with regard to treatment - assuming that if X modality treats Y cases well, those Y cases are all of the same syndrome.

All this is to say that while there might be one "source insult" that creates most of what we cluster as Autism, it is extremely unlikely. There are probably multiple different insults that create multiple conditions that we crudely cluster under the same Autistic umbrella. It is useless to try and define what is the "true" Autism - we need to understand the underlying mechanism first - maybe then we can give whatever we do understand better its own name.

As to why we are quick to label, I'll just say that in my country, as a child psychiatrist put it to me - before the mid-90s parents were angry with him when he made the autistic diagnosis, a trend that was then abruptly reversed and parents started to demand he label their neurodivergent kids autistic, even if he didn't find the diagnosis to be accurate. What changed? The country started to give disability benefits to parents with autistic children.
From the publication: “The speculation that the hand gesture herein presented is a freemasonry’s conveyed code is fascinating, but it is hard to accept.”

This sentence concluded a very short paragraph that apparently aimed to explore whether the hand sign could have a Masonic meaning. But instead of giving any explanation for their conclusion, the authors merely postulate the above without any given reasoning. I’m surprised to find this in what appears to aim to be a scientific analysis. Even more so would it surprise me if any conscious reader found this conclusion satisfactory.

Any thoughts?
> hands were as important a focus of attention as the face was, because they were the only other visible area of the body

Huh, I had always assumed the reason that they were featured in renaissance art was the trend of depicting subjects with a sort of realism, combined with hands tending to be a more difficult feature for artists to master; so a good depiction of hands showcases the skill of the artist and enhances the work’s merit as a status symbol for its owner.

I guess both could be true. Hands are an important focus of attraction in the modern day tbf.
Why don't you like them?

I closed my Amazon account a few years ago (after the whole peeing in bottles scandal) and have been using Best Buy ever since. Their stores are actually well run these days, with a good selection and helpful staff. Returns are easy. Prices are reasonable and can be price matched to Amazon if need be. Among big box retailers, they actually provide a decent experience. The 90 day (or was it 45? can't remember) return policy (with a membership) is nice too.

Now that Circuit City and Radio Shack and Fry's are gone, they're like the only remaining national electronics chain. There's still Micro Center, but only in some areas.

Just wondering what you don't like about them?
Stromzeiten – Plan Your Electricity Consumption Efficiently
While you're at it, please try to make LLMs fix caching and off-by-one bugs too.
Windows' multiple desktops implementation is half-baked and janky too. I was excited when they added that in Windows 10 but didn't end up using it because it's too awkward, slow, and limited.
I guess this is the new $ model for all companies, find ways to use your users/customers data to train models to improve or sell back those models as services or a new product.

Take advantage of the wild west of no restrictions or regulations, make money as soon as possible and pay the measly $1 million dollar fine in 2034 after you've made $1 billion+ and the models are already built and won't go away.