skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm making a game right now, and I'd kill for a good game designer.

The gap between "high level goal" and "features to implement" is just as complex and squirrelly as the gap between "features to implement" and "lines of code".
Poll: Do you use Anthropic or OpenAI APIs?
Pricing seems to vary significantly between the models. Capabilities vary too (especially for multimodal). Beyond that, each model has relative strengths at various tasks (coding, data analysis, etc.).

I'm curious which APIs (NOT apps) folks use and why.
Anthropic (Claude Opus)
Anthropic (Claude Sonnet)
OpenAI (GPT 4o)
OpenAI (GPT 3.5 Turbo)
Google (Gemini 1.5 Flash)
I don't know what I'm reading, but it's hilarious.
Completely OT, but I noticed in the last two days or so that I'm getting way more (often unskippable) ads before youtube videos, despite running uBlock Origin. Has anyone else noticed that too?
Liquid Cooling and GAN: A Winning Combination
There ought to be case studies about Transunion in the same classes in business schools where they discuss Bear Stearns.
Exactly. At $500 or $1000 per record, PII starts to look highly radioactive. Companies would be avoiding it's collection with a passion. And those that had to hold it would be compelled to do so less stupidly.
Would that potentially break shell scripts that rely on the standard ls behavior?
Hope you were having a joke - it's a comedy show. It's great but it's not a documentary
It's astonishing, that the courts allowed to stand the argument, software with no defects, had been produced and put in production, for the first time in the history of Computer Science. And by Fujitsu from all companies....
I did the exact same thing yesterday, couple of notes:

If you subclass sqlite3.base.DatabaseWrapper, it will issue the required PRAGMAs defined by Django, where foreign_keys = ON and legacy_alter_table = OFF.

I don't think synchronous = NORMAL worth it, as there is a tiny-tiny chance you will lose data. The relevant section from SQLite doc:
"A transaction committed in WAL mode with synchronous=NORMAL might roll back following a power loss or system crash."

IMMEDIATE mode might not be needed and your application might never get a database locked error, I would only use that when I see the first error.

You can read about mmap_size in depth here: https://oldmoe.blog/2024/02/03/turn-on-mmap-support-for-your...
Over 200 Possible Symptoms of "Long COVID"
Or it could be that inflation never ended and there’s a rapidly increasing number of vacuum collapse bubbles inside it, like ours, in which case approximately every civilisation is the first to exist in their bubble.
I think you missed the "low-cost" part from the title.
Make that code lowercase, introduce significant whitespace and call the langauge "Boa" or something, and it's guaranteed it'll take the world of scientific computing by storm.
Do you have a theory as to why drcode feels "FSD is a significant quality of life improvement for me"?
When you are new to it, yes. For me it's a better experience because I've been using it so long and have a good idea of what it can and can't handle. I use it extensively on roads I know it works well on, and use it sometimes tentitively on new roads when I'm in the mood. That I spend almost all of my driving time on the same few routes makes FSD very valuable to me. It's probably still not a net benefit if you're mostly driving new places or places where it doesn't work well, but it's getting better.
You have no obligation to anyone (except the government) when they ask for your information. Lying is a valid defense to this infosec ineptitude. Virtual credit card numbers are also a leap in control. Use them.
"Interesting" is subjective, but "trivia" is just information that is insignificant or of little use. Here are some other correlations you might find more interesting that are just as trivial as the one linking solar activity to pandemics:

When compared to the average person, people who prefer Miss Piggy over Kermit are more than twice as likely to have tattoos.

As the number of computer programmers in Kansas decline so do US burglary rates

Global average temperatures are correlated with the how many pirates there are
But absolutely all of us assumed it was another Boeing engineering problem…
No. You only need to prove that the other party recklessly claimed it without evidence.

The defence is the truth of the statement, or at least in its non-recklessness and that is provided by the party that is sued.

The American approach on this clearly works. There's a recent US case of defamation some dead children with clearly excessive fines, but that's also in the other direction.
I've always wondered why adding more sensors to a self driving car was such a big deal.

Yes, it makes the cars more expensive but at some point, these parts will get mass produced and they will be cheap as hell.

The more data a car has, the better it should drive.
A large group of Americans instead view this as proof that capitalism is working. (I’m not one of them) Checks and Balances, nevermind that we lack the leverage to extract more than “credit monitoring and lawyers get paid” or that it requires a civil judiciary that we pay for.
Fun fact : 'sornette' means 'poppycock' in french.
> maybe we should stop centralising critical infrastructure in the hands of a single company

Managing your own on-prem or in-colo infrastructure sucks: it's expensive and a source of risk, which is why we moved things like source servers to a centralized model.
> How do self references work when the struct is moved, given that they're pointers?

Are all references necessarily (global) pointers? Couldn't self references be offsets?
"Are there good solutions for this problem somewhere?"

There are no simple solutions to a problem this complex as human trust.

But I really do not see, how I can I trust humans more, if it would be illegal to say true things about the past.

Truth may never be hidden, if you want real trust.
And there need to be more consequences of lying.

And people should accept, that people change. If someone was stupid in their teenage years 10 years ago, then most can actually assume, that they changed a bit.

But if someone was lying and stealing 20 years ago and is caught doing it again yesterday, I will probably also not trust this guy in 2 years, unless he can convincingly explain why and how he changed.
Yes, and I do not like that. On the other hand I do not have any private Github repos of my own and its a good reason for not having any.

I am beginning to feel that if you really want repos to be private you should probably self host.
> still several of OOM difference

I agree. Nothing I wrote above disagrees with your statement.
This catch phrase can be used to prove too much. All camouflage is bad? Hiding is useless? No, of course not. These things have deep, evolutionary roots, as a way of getting an edge in nature and in war.

In its original context, relying on obscurity alone as your only defense isn't recommended when there are better alternatives like real authentication and encryption. Also, hiding isn't an option for things necessarily done in public.

But it's still defense in depth when you can do it. People can just show up at your doorstep and that's a hassle or worse.

There is also the crazy ex scenario. We should probably avoid assuming everyone has the same security needs.
Isn't journal_size_limit is exactly for this?
From the doc:

"Each time a transaction is committed or a WAL file resets, SQLite compares the size of the rollback journal file or WAL file left in the file-system to the size limit set by this pragma and if the journal or WAL file is larger it is truncated to the limit."
The way git works means that you can check that you have an un-doctored clone of a repo just by checking that the commit hash matches. Which in this instance is quite unfortunate, because it would be very funny.

(barring a SHA-1 collision, of course)

EDIT: i suppose another approach could be to invent poisoned repos out of whole cloth and only show them to Amazon, but I susepct that'd be even easier to detect.
I'm not very well informed in this area but I suspect there are no serious alternatives. Ignoring price, are there EV:s that can travel at least 500-600 kilometers on a charge but only weigh 1500 kilos and hence are rather simple to lift with consumer or improvised tooling? Are there EV:s without remote control and 'upgrades'? Can I change lamps and shift tires on such EV:s? Do they fit at least two child seats or is that amount of space more of a premium feature?
I think Sir Alan should launch a crowdfunding appeal to take as many people to court as he can.

If they're found not guilty, then launch other lawsuits, appeals etc for as long as possible. I don't particularly care if they're not found guilty but they should be put through the wringer as much as the innocent postmasters were
> because it's such a popular show that has so much association and accessible transcripts.

Because it's so stupid even some dumb code can understand the patterns. Wouldn't work with Seinfeld.
Step 3. Ponder the necessity of having a computer more powerful than a potato when you're going to do the work in the cloud anyway, while you wait for the Internet connection to come back.

Step 4. Build your model.

Step 5. Take a break to watch silly cat videos.

Step 6. Lose your model, and all models you previously made, as Google banned your account, and all associated accounts, for the crime of using emojis in a YouTube comment.
It’s often possible to take a suboptimal route to avoid a Boeing. For example, if I fly Austin to San Francisco, it could well be a MAX, but if I go to SJC via LAX instead it is almost guaranteed not to be.
I think the suggestion is that the flora ~80,000 ya did not need fire so much as it does today, and that the change in fire requirement was a result of broad-scale, regular, frequent, intentionally lit fires.

Adaptation and species selection has resulted in what we have now -- as distinct from finding ourselves in a land that happens to need regular burning.

Contrast us with comparable latitudes (15-35 from the equator) on other landmasses.
nothing in this universe has 0 chance.
I’m afraid that the pipe character as a separator of columns will lead to inevitable errors in scripts or copy/paste with more parts of the output having a chance of being executed than with regular ls.
> In this way, one’s reputation, like one’s hand or one’s home, is an aspect or extension of oneself, at least insofar as damage to it suffices as a harm to oneself, quite
apart from any further impact it might have. It is, in other words, inapt to ask,
“Your reputation may have suffered, but how exactly did that hurt you?” There is
also another important way reputation is an aspect of oneself: It is not primarily
constituted by the voluntary acts of other people, like a store owner’s share of the
consumer market or a school board candidate’s share of the electorate. Unlike purchases or votes, the appraisals of others that constitute their reputation do not reflect the appraisers’ choices—some decision to begin viewing the person this way
or that—but are instead generally formed as natural, passive consequences of
learning the relevant information.

If a tree falls and no one hears it, does it make a sound? I can only know about my reputation from the voluntary acts of other people. These actions may be more or less conscious, just like the choice to buy from a store or to vote for a candidate, but they are not "a passive consequence of learning the relevant information".
Entity Component System (ECS) – Definition and Simple Implementation [video]
For the n-dimensional part there's xcubes:

https://www.xcubes.net/
Yeah it’s not popular because it’s clear you’ve never met a rich person in your life
Some relevant reading:

Mississippi welfare scandal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_welfare_funds_sc...

Mississippi Today’s reporting on the scandal: https://mississippitoday.org/the-backchannel/
With the amount of money vercel makes with react, nobody should see those ‘sponsorships’ as anything other than predatory market tactic
I think people have difficulty in comprehending the risks just from having been presented data and not seeing or talking to somebody having complications. For example I work in healthcare and have never seen an Opthalmology consultant to chose these procedures for themselves or their family.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a large part of Obsidian’s use are free accounts illegally using it for professional purposes.
It's not popular cuz there's millions of lazy and bitter poor people for every hard-working rich person. In my experience, it's true.
> the individuals who let their accounts be used for the scraping could be banned from GitHub, for ToS violation.

That would work, assuming GH doesn’t make mistakes and ban someone else with the same name m. That would then be embarrassing for GH. I can already see news headline “Github banned my account because my name matches that of a web scraping account from Amazon”
What's the legal basis for journalists' notes being "privileged"? There's protections for lawyers and doctors, but what exists for journalists aside from a vague sense of "journalism is important for democracy"?
I would argue that if you have this problem, SQLite is not a good database for your use-case.
We can predict volcanos erupting within days.

And this would not be "predicting", but more "noticing that the process already started"
There aren't five cases in the Swedish court system where this has been relevant.

There's only really been two cases. One is a case where a Swedish Christian Democrat politician brought up what the opposing council in a certain dispute had done previously and was convicted of defamation for this. Another is a case where a Swedish journalist was convicted of defamation for that he brought up that a guy who was suing people for all sorts of rubbish was himself criminal-adjacent in that he had been prosecuted for animal cruelty, but had remained outside the country until the state of limitations came into effect.
For what's worth - we have 2 perception systems, top down (essentially pattern recognition) and bottom up (requires sense-making). When we experience something that doesn't fit the first - automatic - our homeostasis is diminished as we experience less orientation/control ("what's this?"). Surprise is the emotion that activates this reassessment of our approach to the given stimulus. Quickly followed by our attention and then cognitive appraisal of the given stimulus that wasn't classifiable by the top-down automatic system.

The "uncanny" experience is given by this dissonance - "it looks like a face while it's not a face" - and it is just a shape of surprise as emotion. Surprise is a short lived emotion, quickly followed by a different one. The unease associated with the idea of "uncanny" is when we experience disgust as the second emotion. Not everybody experiences that. Some of us experience another emotions, like anticipation/curiosity.

The need for orientation, or to understand what is going on, is tightly interwoven with a sense of control. To have clarity about a situation is to have a sense of control and options become more apparent. When we don’t know what is going on in our environment, there can be high levels of stress and anxiety.
Well road condition can do a lot. Most of water that ingress into bike parts do not usually come from the rain directly but being sprayed by the wheels. So in theory well made/designed bike paths shouldn't induce as much dirty water spray as badly maintained roads full of puddles.
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> Another thought is the fact that no advanced civilisation has ever made it to earth is proof that any intelligent species is destined to destroy itself before it can evolve far enough to travel the stars.

Looking like our planet might prove this one to be pretty close to accurate at least in our case, within the next hundred years or so. If not from nuclear war then from running extremely low of key resources on the planet and suffering a massive conventional war over the remaining resources.

Freshwater alone seems like it can cause it. We already have major cities almost entirely running out of fresh water (see Mexico City this year). Western US came worrying close with Lake Mead's water level a couple years ago too, but thankfully it eventually started raining enough to replenish it again.
So nice of Vercel. As if their cash cow wasn’t one of those ‘sponsored’ projects. Just wait to see what they will do to svelte
I don’t think lawsuits as a regulatory mechanism is an intrinsically unworkable idea, but clearly the system as it stands isn’t working very well.
Clearly they are building their own Apple Silicon powered servers for their Private Computing Cloud, even if it is not sold to outsiders like the XServe used to be.
The bike brand doesn't really matter, the brand of the electrical motor system matters. There are 3 big leaders: Bosch and Shimano on the high end, Bafang on the low end with Brose, Yamaha and a handful of other smaller brands occupying a much smaller fraction of the market.

Bosch is also widely used in the Netherlands.
wow, someone thinks python is bad? what year is it? 2003?
Seems like the kind of thing that could make its way to the Supreme Court. I grew up partly in Mississippi and it wouldn't shock me at all if everything they're saying is true.
This. Spreadsheets can be fun as means to solving an interesting problem; they have several things going on for them:

- Focused, incremental, working-memory friendly;

- Very fast feedback loop; it's a dopamine pumping 2D REPL;

- Free of all the devops bullshit, which infected all the "proper" programming tools to the degree it's getting hard to do a local "Hello World" without having to swim through it;

- Because of the derision it gets from "normie tech folks", doing something large in it gives you just the right amount of "hold my beer and watch this" bragging rights (in some ways, this is similar to demoscene on legacy platforms like Amiga).
> pastoralism and agriculture?

Which landmass / culture / epoch are you trying to describe here?
Yes, you can try to automatically guess the wrong encoding based on statistics that only work some of the time when given large amounts of free flowing text.
It's because of the preservation of a moment in time, not the fire.

Everybody chases funding. Such is life.
I'm curious what has come of "reporter's privilege" in the age of citizen journalists where it's recognized.
there’s already a PEP to address the GIL. python is going through its JVM optimization phase. it’s too popular and ubiquitous that improving the GIL and things like it are inevitable
Not going anywhere as in the end of the road?
In NYC, there ought to be at least one meetup group for startup founders?! I would have a look on https://www.meetup.com/

BTW, did you consider applying to YC? You don’t have to move permanently to SF to join.
I've found https://torrent.garden, which seems to constantly index, but some stuff is kinda broken. Also it's completely unfiltered.
The first amendment has freedom of the press.
The chord progression is rather conventional for this style of music, especially for the late 1940s. Listen to some songs by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington or Vernon Duke from the 1930s.
> Given this glaring overstep and our steadfast effort to protect our journalists and our sources, we declined to turn over that information, citing a First Amendment protection called “reporter’s privilege.” Reporter’s privilege, which is recognized by 40 states based on numerous legal interpretations of the United States Constitution, serves as a basis of protection and privacy for journalists and the sources who share important information with the press.
Fundamental right of the protection of journalistic sources i think. He should be able to scrub his notes of any name before handling them over, don't you think?
As a researcher who wasted some years, the chasing of funding has fuelled the downfall of science.
I guess you missed all the negative reviews in this thread?
If you find people in the last year of college, perhaps at least some of them will go on to launch a startup…?
PNG is not lossy, your example uses a preprocessor to quantize colors before being compressed with PNG.

PNG loss no information from the image being fed to it, the loss was done before creating a simpler image.
If you read the article, it explains reporter privilege and the legal basis thereof. It comes from an interpretation of the First Amendment, the argument being that free speech would be chilled if reporters had to cough up the details of everyone they talk to in their investigations.
But a horse in exchange of erotic massage ? That is funny.
Show HN: RenderDotVideo – Make videos in the browser (Chromium)
Hi, I'm Per and I spent the last months on this side project. It's a template engine where you can render and export MP4 videos with sound from your browser. No server involved.

If you want to try it out, it costs nothing and you don't need an account.

Unfortunately it's Chrome/Chromium only for now.

Please check it out if you can :)

Per
I use it for creative inspiration. I'm bad at working without constraints, but I can take a rough idea or design and run far with it, learning a lot in the process of doing. I wouldn't get quite as many chances to without a template, however bad.
This is indeed sad. We are/were a customer, and one of the earliest edge computing customers. For a long time they've been the only provider truly offering the ability to run native code at the edge. But they've not really taken advantage of their early lead, so others have caught up. Also, reliability and capacity problems have become very commonplace in the past year or so. Hope the team has a safe landing elsewhere.
PS. Consider listing your contact details in your profile. Otherwise there’s no way to reach you outside of HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28012969
Well, I was considering getting some Sonos speakers for my new home, but now probably not.

Any recommendations for multi-room alternatives? I have a pretty substantial personal collection of ripped music, so I suppose Bluetooth would be sufficient to cast from my phone or HTPC, but something with Tidal support would be ideal, since I'm paying for it.
That's not an Excel problem. That's a problem with using Google's shitty, half-baked, bloated facsimile of Excel.

I personally would rather build an Excel sheet (in actual Excel) than a simple web app. In fact, I believe a double digit percentage of SaaS startups would be strictly more useful to their users if they came in the form of a downloadable Excel sheet instead of the bullshit web SPA thing. But of course, selling something useful for the customer is not how you make money today.
Thats not PNG being lossy, the image was preprocessed to lose information by reducing color count before being compressed with PNG.
Ventoy: Remove BLOBs from the Source Tree
This. Road condition is the key. Most of the water you collect while riding, even with full length fenders, is dirty water sprayed by your and other users tires. The rain itself usually account for very little in comparison.
> I decided to find a list of top 1000 popular sites (which is much easier to find) and then try to clean those up. Obviously that's not a perfect method and leaves a lot of sites flagged by mistakes, but I didn't find any other way.

This shows that your primary mistake is not that you’re not a developer, but that you are not willing to devote time and be analytical about the problem you want to solve.
I didn't type that. Probably got butt written.
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