skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't sure if it was justified, but was instantly sold when it nodded with its little head.
Chadwick Tower is where the Computer Science department was based at the time, so I was in there most days. It's pretty much opposite the Cathedral in question, with unobstructed line of sight. Building 207 on this map: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/files/docs/maps/liverpool-univer...

I still use physics as I'm a game developer, it's just that I stopped studying it actively, and instead focused on my computer science degree. Not to worry, I've done OK!
Another chance to recommend a book that I learnt about from HN: I highly recommend the book, Sunburst and Luminary; http://www.sunburstandluminary.com/SLhome.html

A technical pleasure and also very good glimpse into the Apollo team - working together, to land on the moon. It is a fun easy read, written by the fellow in charge of programming the guidance computer on the lunar lander. It is also a great snapshot of that time in history, the excitement of Apollo, and with the frustration of the Vietnam war going on, some protests, etc. Just a hint - the main programmer, was an English major, and his use of the right words, were a key factor in the success of of creating an efficient and effective computer language
Minecraft community outraged as Xbox Live outage prevented play via launcher
This was my initial concern. Though this is something I want, and I'm surprised isn't built into modern browsers. I'm less interested in having a cache of images, but useful search of my history, which I think could be stored locally, would be helpful. We don't need the search to be particularly clever I wouldn't think. Even straight string search of cached text from the webpages I've viewed would be valuable. I don't need all the images, video, javascript, etc cached.
Yeah I should have just used brew. I was trying to find the package for Mac a while ago to see if I could write some swift bindings. I moved on to messing around with some other library for my experimentation.
I suppose it can edit much larger files, and supports vi navigation and editing commands.

And supports plugins in a much nicer language than dBase.

Now if it only supported easy form and grid-based UI builder, it would also be comparable to Clipper :)
Related: Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites (886 points, 9 days ago, 370 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791829
I don't get it. What are people going to a website for if not for the content of that page?
In this case what if you use 2FA while browsing with your phone. Wouldn't that also contradict the purpose?

The main purpose is that people won't get phished as easily or if they reuse passwords it can't be abused. Or if password was to leak for any reason.
There's already a government website to check some diploma (like brevet, bac, etc.), this app and some universities have deployed a blockchain-based system to grant and verify degrees. I wish less public money were spent on N different technological solutions that overlaps with each other's yet not of the them is really finished or complete.
I assume there are specific Discord servers per ecosystem? How do you find those?
> Aside from that I am curious about the discontinuity at 22h.

My water heater turns on during off-peak hours (so, at 22h). I have no other equipment that responds to the off-peak signal, so the discontinuity is entirely attributable to the water heater.

> The color scale on the hour/day grid initially seemed backwards to me.

I think it was one of the default color scales in Plotly. Maybe I got used to it, it doesn't strike me as reversed, but I think I see how it would feel that way for you.

> The daily total takes up so much space

That is true, though it didn't disturb me enough to bother changing its size.
This is one situation where metalwork probably beats 3d printing, in terms of ease of implementation.

My guess is that the antikythera was probably state of the art, built by a highly advanced workshop by extremely skilled artisans, and cost an obscene amount of money. Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison#H4
Don't post waitlists as Show HN.
Modeling to Learn
Sure with excellent roads and 99% of predators gone and most importantly, a reason to do it.
No idea why you were downvoted - that's just daft.

Offline backups are quite literally the gold standard - that might get you out of jail if ransomeware hits and encrypts.

You obviously care and think about your data - good skills mate. We can always only do our best with what we have.
> I can’t remember the last time I talked on the traditional phone network or received a legitimate call

I think a whole lot more people still make regular phone calls than the ones who don't. Anyone who runs a business for example is usually on the phone ALL the time.
> The telephone companies make money based on minutes of usage.

I don't see how that could be correct. Once you pay your monthly fee, the fewer minutes you tie up the company's resources the better for them. That's true too for pay-ahead plans.
It is the logical consequence of an attention based economy. Play by the rules or perish. Unless the financial incentives change that will be the name of the game. Along with a disintegration middle who can only grow with truth-seeking and fact based reporting.

Of course it is a breeding ground for activism and extremism.
Oh, boy. The Fool is one of my favorite characters in fiction and poor, poor Fitz. I picked the original series up on a recommendation from a college friend. I went in thinking I was too old for a "YA Fantasy" book to make my heart ache. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Took me right back to bawling over Feist's Riftwar Saga as a young teen.
Even The Pentagon can't freeze Huawei out of its operations
As someone who builds chrome extensions, and is very familiar with monetisation of most extensions…

Ding ding ding! All your data are belong to us.

I explicitly never save user data (apart from auth and subscription status) in my extensions, and the only call back “home” is to check whether the authenticated user has an active subscription.

I’m also going to make my more powerful chrome extensions “source available” so people can see exactly what it does with your data, and on your machine. Not “open source” because I don’t want contributions
Remote Work, Remote Soul
Huh. It's a lot cheaper than I expected it to be. Only $300.

Might be kinda useful if the pendulum swings back towards actually storing all your data on your own devices instead of in the clown. And if anyone starts writing actual tools for Desktop Android.
> If you accept id+password, either you are storing them, in which case you are a target (prepare to be boarded), or someone else is.

Without specifically commenting on the relative merits of all the auth options being mentioned in the thread, I do feel it worth pointing out that "if you accept id+password" you definitely should not be storing them. And neither should someone else on your behalf.

Using one-way cryptographic hashes of passwords is well documented and nobody should have the "hoard of stored treasure, other people’s passwords" even with id+password as the auth mechanism.
IMO The problem with data breaches is not the phone number being exposed, it's the other data around it that one can combine with other breaches to make full profiles of a person's comings and goings, their location/purchase history, their associations and preferences, etc.

This is very valuable data to have, not only for advertisers, but also criminals and other bad actors.

Also, the fact that nobody ever questions the authenticity of leaked data should be VERY alarming. Imagine what power someone can hold over someone with manipulated leak data.
Yeah, you’re probably right. They’d have to be familiar with the rather eclectic mix of languages I used (Haskell, C++ and JavaScript), but then again that’s no reason not to publish it. To be honest, I’m not quite sure why I haven’t just put it online… sheer laziness, I guess.
If we learn to live forever before we learn to die willingly, humanity will become a cancer. We have not even legalised assisted suicide in cases where it’s clearly needed so we are really far from having a culture of dying gracefully.

By cancer I mean that humanity is a super-organism and humans are the cells of that organism. Cells that stop dying in large numbers (while still reproducing) is the definition of cancer. There’s no reason to think this will affect the super-organism that is humanity any different than any other organisms.

There’s two potentially terrifying outcomes. We could get the equivalent of the human immune system: those who try to stay alive too long will be hunted down and killed involuntarily. With the exception of the ultra elite of course.

The other terrifying option is that we stop having children. This would be infinitely sad. It will probably also lead to a slow decline of humanity.

This is probably one of the best explanations of the Fermi paradox: a civilisation that learns to avoid death will probably have a very small chance of adapting to that change without killing itself (war over resources and such) or slowly decaying to the point of driving itself to a slow extinction or irrelevance. Perhaps becoming so risk averse that the logical conclusion is to just live their infinite lives in a 100% safe virtual reality.
Back in the days before I found spreadsheets useful my boss was trying to get me excited about sc running on his HP workstation. That seems to be about the same time that one of the original authors was off working on something (Java) that would have more impact.

> sc-im is based on sc, whose original authors are James Gosling and Mark Weiser, and mods were later added by Chuck Martin.
Yet another reason the digital world is marching towards a closed-by-default model.
Dumbification of Our Smartphones
Impressive work!
But seeing the references to France makes me think of the (unreasonably limiting) laws. I’m under the impression that decompiling 3rd party software and disclosing the internals is quite illegal, isn’t it?
Maybe I phrased it badly - I use the minipc to backup cloud storage, not the other way around.
Just chuck Google Adsense on your page and Googlebot will get on there ASAP to start selling ads.
Absolutely agree - I think people fall into a major fallacy with sizing their battery systems. Their power consumption probability* distribution is skewed, and they think their battery needs to be sized for 99% or 100% of their daily consumptions. This gives a drastically oversized battery.

Instead, a simple approach is to download the daily power consumption for a year and size the battery for about your 80th-90th percentile consumption. You tend to find the sizing is not that sensitive to whether you go for 80th or 90th percentile, and in any case the batteries come in standard sizes.

If you've sized your battery system economically, it should be empty a good proportion of the time, but that just doesn't "feel right" to consumers.

* Yes I mean frequency not probability but I didn't want to cause confusion with electrical frequency
I have a Hawthorn. My brother-in-law, who is a landscaper, came over to show me how to prune what we thought was a flowering crab. However, on closer inspection, he exclaimed, "Wait, this a Hawthorn bush!"

It has gotten larger over time, and harder to mow around due to the thorns (spine-like protrusions which resemble small branch growths more than true thorns).

It does have one redeeming quality. Every year in early spring, for a brief but dazzling moment, it appears covered in thousands of small, white, lace-like flowers.
That's a great question, I really have no idea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_hat).

I'm generally not opposed to hunting, and totally get that beavers are a nuisance to many people, but IMHO they're probably a load-bearing element of many ecologies. I was just looking at 150 acres of swamp supporting a diverse ecosystem today created by a family of beavers
> clown

That's the best typo ever, I had an extension for chrome many years ago that allowed to replace "cloud" with a different word for funsies because it was used everywhere, might ressurect it using clown.
I've heard so many techie pitches for new, more enlightened ways of learning - and they all seem so detached from the realities of primary education that I don't even know how to process it.

I know of engineers who credit their success to being sent to a Montessori school or a Waldorf school, but I imagine the real reason is simply that their parents paid enough attention and had enough money to send them to a small, elite school of any kind.

I went to a big, ailing public school in a low-income neighborhood. The challenges faced by the teachers had nothing to do with fixing "authoritarianism" in education (something that this article gets hung up on). They were struggling to make sure the kids show up sober and that by the end of the day, at least some of them know how to read and write.

If you want to fix education and improve the society, the ROI on the low end is much better than on the high end. It's less about enlightenment and more about basic functioning in a society.
just over so it on the cameras so there isn't a latency because you're not actually moving the giant robot head
By enormous I was expecting something that could lift a rail car.
No. TOTP MFA’s mechanics make it a significant security improvement regardless of how impressively large (???) your password is. It doesn’t inherently implicate “another service”. That’s the beauty of it. This issue is SPECIFICALLY due to forced use of Authy. Forced MFA for high-value accounts is a good thing. “A long password will protect me” is 2006 thinking.
It is called 2 factor or multi-factor authentication. It should be something you know (password) and something you have (device). Storing totp with your password defeats the entire point of it.
Mind to share the discord server/link?
This approach may vary by country. Not a single sparky in Australia will sign off on someone else's solar/battery install.
> It makes no sense but my total costs went up.

Due to inflation, the expected state is your costs will go up, even in the case of a small improvement in energy use. A number of western countries also seem to be in a state of energy crisis that could explain the price going up beyond inflation.

So that is less informative than it could be. Did you see your real energy use rise?
> How are they not extinct?

Hats went out of fashion.
Huh. Robot with denim jacket in Chromium, but placeholder image (mountain and sun icon) in Firefox. Can view in Firefox if cb query param is removed. Weird.
Fortunately, Yonatan (who was in fact the main engineer working on Google+) reposted it to Medium: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/how-the-price-of-paint-is-...

After he wrote it I pointed out most historical barns in many parts of the US are white, using whitewash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewash) which doesn't really change the conclusion of the article, which itself is a masterclass in explaining the root cause of metallicity in the universe.
No, the first amendment allows PEOPLE the right of free speech. The core of my argument is that corporations themselves are NOT people. The individuals who work for (or own stock in) a corporation are people and can do what they want; they just shouldn’t be allowed to use the money and power of the corporation to advance their own agendas.
I was able to recreate the audio they used.

sox -b 32 -Dr 96k -n 40hz_1ms_pulse_1hour.flac synth 0.001 sin 10k fade t 0.0005 0 0.0005 pad 0.024 repeat 140000

The goal appears to be to stimulate input neurons 40 times a second in order to drive that frequency as deep and as far into the brain as possible. They succeeded in this objective in mice by combining sound, light and touch (through vibrations).

The hypothesis is that driving neurons in this way aids in the removal of waste in the brain. It would be nice if they are correct.
As far as the API is concerned, the main thing you get is a combinator library for generating whatever random data structures you want to use. Working with Arbitrary types (which represent sets of random objects) makes it easy to write reusable functions for generating your test inputs. A library like that could probably be used along with Go’s fuzzing framework fairly easily?

I still think the usual combinators (map, filter, chain, and oneOf, to use fast-check’s names) can be a bit awkward, so I’m writing a new property testing library for JavaScript that hopefully works a bit nicer. (Experimental and not published yet.)
I'll take linux in an appliance over having to install an app any day, but that's just me.
Th topic of this subthread is exactly that one cannot rely on the contact list method because doctors may call from any unknown number. Maybe you haven’t had to deal with that (yet), but once you do you’ll realize that your method doesn’t work for that.
I presume that turning over the air probably causes more icing in the freezer.

Does a chest freezer have less of a problem with icing? And are they easier to deice?

Modern freezers have automatic defrosting systems so maybe moot...
This is great! I haven't come across much in terms of reverse engineering flutter apps specifically, it's good to see something like this can be done with relative ease. Nice work!
I've said this for years, since I owned a Samsung Galaxy something with the dock that had USB, ethernet and HDMI; you put your phone in and you have a desktop...

This will be the future, but only when Apple does this to their iPhones lineup; the experience will be consistent and seamless; I'm not a fan boy, but one thing i'm sure is that they will release this and it will be like working on macOS, but you have it in your pocket.
Nope, that results in significant extra complexity because now you have to implement all the stuff that the browser does for the other tags so that your website works the way people expect. (and you will get it wrong)
Everything good’s already been said. All that’s left is just a wordier retelling.
Clayton Christensen said [1] that when a new product offers something you can't get elsewhere, consumers are willing to use it even though it might be worse in many respects than the competition. I.e. smartphones were underpowered computers, but because you could take them anywhere, many more people used them than desktop or laptop computers (maybe there's a better example, but you get the idea).

I think these ideas are best used to look at history. I don't think it's useful for a company or organization to aim to "disrupt" a market. Make a compelling product and the rest will follow.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation
> Whether they’ll sacrifice their mobile lead in the pursuit of gaining ground for higher end gaming.

It's hard to imagine why they'd distract themselves with that, except perhaps with a token small-run demo for pure brand marketing purposes.

Because of Apple's strict vertical integration, there's so much market for them as the de facto manufacturer delivering parts to pretty much every competitor making products that want a high performance/power ratio.
Or distribute through profit-sharing partnerships with existing dealers / manufacturers. So dumb - people really need access to less expensive vehicles these days.
Some number of years ago there was someone that built a smelter and melted down the drives. Not sure everything melted but getting anything glowing hot demagnitizes it.
> AI's $600B Question

What do you get if you multiply six by seven
I love the Racket plot library! A neat feature: if you run the plot inside DrRacket, the plots are interactive. 2D plots can be panned and zoomed, and 3D plots can be rotated. That way, if you’ve got a plot that you want to fine-tune the boundaries of, DrRacket makes that easy.
> What we really need is a combination of the two. Something that measures air temperature and water content because 68F at 5% humidity is a lot different than the same temp at 40%

The "feels like" apparent temperature accounts for things like humidity and windchill[1].

Many weather apps provide the "feels like" temp, including my app: https://uw.leftium.com

I was going to drop the "feels like" reading in my new weather app (I just didn't notice a major difference), but maybe I'll keep it...

[1]: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Apparent_temperature
Stacked bars are the right choice when you care more about the magnitude of the sum and less about the precise relative breakdown. Separate bars are the right choice when you're comparing multiple things that are similar and their combined magnitude isn't meaningful.
Thank you! I have to give credit to my friend that provided the assembly though.
"Brother Karamazov" and "Notes from underground".
I did not know before you posted this comment...
But I think in this case I did not publish any exploits so this should be legal?
What a great short glimpse into modern history. Hilarious and prescient.
Fun to see from today's point of view;
what will it look like in another fifty years?
Happy Independence Day, US HN Users
I remember when I got a 1080p monitor and watched some slightly old content (~480p) on it. The experience was very lackluster. Now I'm getting a similar feeling with a recently-bought 4k-capable laptop, and watching 720p content that looked perfectly fine on the 1080p monitor. I don't even want to think about the 480p archives. Almost makes me not want to upgrade devices.
Yes I built a player for official MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL streaming providers so I didn't have to keep switching apps.
Bone tissue reparation using coral and marine sponges
I think he is ultimately saying that you should be emotionally vulnerable, and you should read things that break through that inner barrier that we all put up. Reading a good book is like making a connection, and becoming emotionally invested in that world and the ideas within it. Turning that last page and knowing that its all over can be a heart-wrenching experience as well. I know I've experienced this indescribable feeling of loss or even grief almost after reading a good book.

That could also mean reading biographies of others lives, love stories, things that challenge your world view and things that are a little above our skill level. There is value in being willing to challenge your own beliefs (if they can't be challenged with a new understanding or new knowledge, then they aren't so much beliefs as they are a doctrine to be followed) and being willing to be emotionally vulnerable.
Hashing or tiny neural nets combined with a Vector Search engine with Tanimoto/Jaccard is a very common deduplication strategy for large datasets. It might be wiser than using linear-complexity MapReduce operations.

There is a nice Google project using 0.5 M parameter RETSim model and the USearch engine for that: https://github.com/google/unisim
That would be amazing, but history suggests Apple would never do this.
We didn't have that in the article?
PowerToys Run: extensible quick launcher for power users
Reverse engineering a smartwatch
I totally want to lose all of my desktop computer stuff when I smash my phone. “But you are not supposed to have anything locally, everything you do has to be in The Cloud”. You will own nothing and you will be happy. Not even any data.
Pretty easy to make a device that overvolts a bunch of cables after takeoff.
Time aligning GPS data with other sensors/systems that record in UTC. I'm combining data from multiple different sources together that I do not control. The duration of the data is long enough that an occasional leap second slips in and offsets things.
Gecko Tapes
Screen readers actually do generate a couple of different things that you could consider a ToC from the semantic meaning of various tags. If you structure your document properly, it's not a terribly difficult task for the browser to generate it. Apple showed that Safari 18's reader mode is going to have one, actually.
> What’s really happening down there is whatever the math says is happening

But math isn't saying what is happening in the real world. It's a model, a fake simplified world.

The map is not the territory.