skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most SF movies prefer to show only planets of the terrestrial type, in order to allow the actors to roam freely there and show their uncovered faces to the cameras.

At most there have been a few novels or movies that have attempted to describe less familiar landscapes, such as those that could be encountered on the satellites of Jupiter or Saturn.

There have been a few SF stories about planets made of some exotic materials, like diamond or some metals or some superheavy elements, but those were complete fantastic stories without any scientific base and the planets described there could not exist anywhere in the known universe.

I am not aware of any novel or movie that has tried to show a completely alien planet, of the kind that could not exist in the Solar System, but which could really exist in other stellar systems. A planet from a stellar system with a high C/O ratio might have rocks made of abrasive carborundum (i.e. silicon carbide), an atmosphere composed of methane, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and an ocean containing a mixture of hydrocarbons, like some kind of petroleum.

If there would be life forms there, they could have very significant differences from the life forms that can appear in the stellar systems of the Solar type.

Here on Earth, an essential chemical property for life is the distinction between hydrophobic and hydrophilic substances, i.e. the fact that water and oil do not mix, which enables the existence of the cells of all living beings, which are made of hydrophobic membranes that partition a hydrophilic solvent. Perhaps on a planet with reversed abundances, where hydrocarbons are very abundant and water is scarce, one could have reversed cell structures, with a hydrophobic solvent partitioned by hydrophilic membranes, though it is not clear if such structures can be made stable. In such a place, most metals would be present in easy to reduce compounds, so living beings with metallic skeletons might exist. (Though at least for now, the appearance of life in such stellar systems seems less likely. In the terrestrial kind of planets, the energy flux for the appearance of life has been provided mainly by the free dihydrogen generated by the oxidation of Fe(II) ions to Fe(III) ions by water, in volcanoes and in hydrothermal vents. It is not known whether some equivalent energy source can exist in a place with little water, but abundant hydrocarbons.)

An SF novel or movie with such a subject, about the exploration of a completely unfamiliar world, could be interesting, but this kind of SF novels were written only up to around a half of century ago. Most modern SF novels or movies no longer try to analyze the consequences of intriguing scientific hypotheses, but they choose the lazier way of just transposing traditional fantastic stories into a pseudo-scientific framework.
Possession of a file doesn’t imply that Google was reading that file, and absent a very limited set of criminal actions for which a search warrant might be issued there’s always been a reasonable expectation that Google was not reading your files… now Google is reading that file, apparently by default.
Most adults with 20/20 vision will also fail to recognize the first note on a first week solfege book.
If there are complex equations involved, it absolutely is faster. You can also create intermediate LUTs, so the tables are small and fit in cache and then do interpolation on the fly.
I think 16 colors is plenty retro enough. No need to make it artificially ugly.
The Metropolitan line stock only has a top speed of 100kmh and I would reckon it doesn't even reach that
On what platform? Which toolkit? The only good one is win32. Microsoft's online documentation used to be okay through MSDN but they've probably ruined it.
I really enjoy "No Dump Questions" as their hosts do a great job to explain complicated History, mechanics, human behaviour, ..., any topics in simple and accesible terms.

Kudos to Destin Sandlin and Matt Whitman.
It feels odd to talk about the US without bringing up BART, which has comparable characteristics to the Elizabeth Line (the yellow line is over 60 miles long, for instance, and headway through the core area is under 5 minutes at peak).
The TFL service, the actual Metropolitan Line, only goes from London to Amersham. It used to go to Aylesbury, which is at least a moderate sized town, but it hasn't since electrification last century.

Amersham is a 13th century market town. It's not tiny, but it's certainly not a city.

Now, there are mainline services running on the same physical rails which do move passengers between London and other cities, but those don't turn into a stopping underground service, the trains leave those shared rails inside London and run to a terminus station, Marylebone. Marylebone is an Underground station, but only in the same sense as say King's Cross or Waterloo - the Underground is separate though located in the same warren of buildings and tunnels.

The Elizabeth Line is closer to the model explained here, running a fast long distance service, a metro service and then back to fast long distance. Reading isn't a city but it's more significant than Amersham and those are core London services not a terminus with the option to change.
It’s disabled on $JOB and my personal Google Workplace. Author opted into some bard thing and then forgot about it.
How Canva collects 25B events per day
It's not an insane amount of effort, and a lot of people are quite shameless.

I think your conclusion is wrong because you assume "huge risk/effort -> people only do this out of poverty" when it's "almost no risk/effort -> people want a quick hundred bucks".
This is giving me flashbacks to editors of yore; EMACS, Eight MB And Continually Swapping. I remember reading almost the exact same comments on Usenet from the 80s and 90s.
I remember this quote from a 1930s book when the topic of book reviews come up, and I think it applies to NYT in particular.

"There are critics and reviewers, literary and artistic journals, which ought to be at work mitigating these evils and establishing contact between a writer or painter and the kind of audience he needs. But in practice they seldom seem to understand that this is, or should be, their function, and either they do nothing at all or they do more harm than good. The fact is becoming notorious; publishers are ceasing to be interested in the reviews their books get, and beginning to decide that they make no difference to the sales."

The quote is about connecting writers with an audience interested in that kind of work, and allowing writers to receive feedback which will improve the writer's future output, which is a relationship beneficial to both.

Without it, writers may be "driven into a choice between commercialism and barren eccentricity". I'm not sure the NYT book reviews help; they may do more damage than there would be without their interference.
Basically "It doesn't matter when it doesn't matter".
Another interesting head scratcher (thank God I never had to deal with myself, but saw the mess it can make in the data easily) are government-enacted devaluations. And probably very similar to the concept, stock splits.
Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions
By most accounts the Elizabeth line in its operational phase has been a great success.

According to the ORR's (Office of Road and Rail) first annual report after opening the central section of the Elizabeth line, passenger numbers have exceeded their "post-pandemic optimistic scenario" and the line is on course to be revenue-positive within a few years.

More details in this London Reconnections post here: https://www.londonreconnections.com/2023/the-state-of-rail-b...
London could be cleaner but it's in no way wholly "absolutely disgusting" and "the most revolting environments, stations, trains and rolling stock"
That does not seem useful? Unless there is a bug in where the files end up, ie they are not namespaced by the package?
Shipping tests is great, it allows downstream to verify the package works. Linux distributions now a days often runs test suites during packaging.
the name is fly.io. it's in the title
The space seems saturated and a bit confused. Sierra.ai comes to mind. I have tried building a product around this need myself (tiptap.chat) but it's taking a bunch of marketing to convince people. IMHO having a sufficiently context-rich bot like this on any resource-heavy website or service is a net-win. But the procedural chatbot era of the last ten years – those little annoying bubbles in the bottom right corner – has soured peoples' perceptions. :/

Best of luck if you try building something!
This episode on Persian vs Greeks is awesome:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1KXlgyx1NnCpnlOVXlp5Cg?si=n...
Q1 Lite Emulation
Hi all

I've seen a couple of comments relating to the Q1 Lite computer and am looking for people with technical knowledge ofthis system.

I am currently working on emulating the Q1 from a set of provided ROM images.

The following has been achieved so far:

* A disassembler (with annotations) and an emulator has been developed using a Z80 emulator written by a third party
* A memory class has been added allowing periodic hexdump of modified memory
* input commands are intercepted (by Z80 emulator)
* output commands are intercepted (by a hack)
* The Q1 lite boots up until out putting "Q1-Lite klar til brug" (danish)

I am currently stuck on the IO hardware (keyboard, display, printer, disk) so would be interested in any documentation/ideas for those interfaces.

For example I have to 'emit' 0xE and 0xf from the keyboard to achieve progress in the boot sequence.

I'd like to hear from anyone who is interested in this andmight have some information to share.

The project can be found here: https://github.com/mortenjc/Q1

-Morten
I would presume that google has already trained Gemini on all the documents.
It's pointless to require something if you can't enforce it.
Yes. And in this context, it doesn't even matter (too much) whether your type system is statically checked or done at runtime.

The main difference is whether the compiler will yell at you, or whether it'll be a runtime error. But the important point is that your mixing up won't go through and silently do the wrong thing.
tl;dr crows and magpies both use anti-bird spikes, but with diametrically opposed architectural philosophies...
You standard library might even already have libraries for eg storing currencies or time, too.
There is a bug :

N = 1000000 # Total numbers to check

chunk_size = N // num_vcpus

tasks = [(i * chunk_size + 1, (i + 1) * chunk_size) for i in range(num_vcpus)]

When num_vcpus = 12, chunksize = 83333, and 12*chunk_size = 999996, therefore we don't check the last four numbers.
This might be a bit more complex. We like to remember that we were creative in C64 BASIC, but it is really too slow for any sprite-based game development. What's different between then and now is that changing the frame color used to be an event you told all friends about.

An intersection of simple and impressive - I feel like Raspberry Pi Pico and the likes embody this spirit nowadays.
Depending on how many numbers you process, inefficiency might not matter.

You could probably use arbitrary precision rational numbers (eg as implemented in Python https://docs.python.org/3/library/fractions.html) for all your accounting needs, and it would still be fast enough.
How would it bite the dust if it's OS? If it's OS it means anyone can fork it and keep it going.

They even say that after 2026 the codebase will move to github. So to me this only means that ARM won't be in charge of developing it anymore, but the community will.
Gemini is "reading" your documents in the same sense that google servers are "reading" your documents in order to show them in your browser. Gemini is not a person and won't remember what it has "read".

If you don't want google to handle your documents, then don't put your documents in Google docs.
Tell HN: FluenceLabs are pushing out crypto tokens to FOSS devs, unclear if scam
I got an email this morning reading:

> Hello, tetris11
>
> I'm writing in regards to your github profile.
> Fluence Network have been awarding their tokens to developers
> who have made commits to open source web3 repositories in
> 2023.
>
> According to my research, your GitHub profile is eligible to
> claim <number> FLT tokens due to your web3 contributions.

> As of the current market value, these tokens are approximately
> worth $<value>. Please, note that you can exchange them for Ethereum
> or USD in two months after claiming them. These tokens can be
> exchanged on any exchange platform.

> For verification and to claim your tokens, you can visit Fluence's official Twitter profile:
> https://x.com/fluence_project/status/1775354001955151999 where
> they have posted the official claim link. Also you can find some
> instructions on their GitHub repo: fluencelabs/dev-rewards

> If you do collect your tokens, it would be appreciated if you
> could share a percentage with me as a finder's fee. My Eth
> wallet address: <some long hex>

> Feel free to reach out to me on my social networks - telegram:
> @<sometelegram>, twitter: @<sometwitter>, primary email address: <someemail>@gmail.com

> best regards
> <NAME>

I guess I have to ask. This is a crypto scam, right? One that requires you to sign with the same SSH keys you use in Github?
Yeah this is right. It's like being a software oncologist.

Often there's nothing to do. The patient is somewhat ok, and intervening would mean risking death due to the tumour being near some critical blood vessel.

At most you have some routine maintenance to do on a daily basis. Cut some things here and there, reroute a few small things, tell the patient they need this or that medicine.

You might even find it interesting to learn how the body of code works, the journal of previous surgeons, the little nooks and crannies where interesting decisions are made.

But you are never asked to rebuild the entire body.
Interesting. That tells me there's something wrong with my neovim config. When I open a file for the first time, it takes some time before it shows the contents of the file. It's not even a big config, but maybe I'm using a plugin that slows things down or something.
> Math proofs only need to convince other people

Wait, what? A math proof does not need to convince anyone: the proof exists or does not exist. If I prove X, then I don't need to convince other people that X is proven, they just have to read the proof.

So, in practice, math is even worst than computer science. In computer science, you have to convince the compiler. In math, you need to convince math. You need to build an algorithm that compiles under the tons of math logic rules.

> if we could figure out how to allow learners to skip the “coal face” of spending long hours into the night talking to a compiler

But learning math and trying to build math proofs is even more "coal face-y". There is no pre-build debugger and you need to check things yourself, by hand, and when it fails it may be because you mess up the algorithm part or the compiler part.

> Learning how to write code causes damage to the mind, particularly in the area of how you relate to other people. When we’re learning to code, men and women both notice this happening, but men care less.

All of that is cultural. The developer mentality cultivates this idea that being burnout and being socially rude is a sign of success and is a manly thing to do.

There is no reason why writing code causes damage, because it does not happen to plenty of other activities that are as grinding. Again, developers are not special, what they do and what they live is similar to a lot of other things.

It feels more like a rationalization: the reason men get worse at relating to other people and become weirdos is because these men are failing at social life because of their mentality.
The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)
I really wish these public articles tried to give some estimate of the magnitude of the effect. Is this a big difference? Barely noticeable without using advanced statistics?

I often think of David Mitchell's commentary on whether stripes make you look fat: https://youtu.be/ISZyJ5MHApI?si=4_hJVLfsvMWWDXKE
Nice project! I have a few qualms with the instructions (sometimes misleading or unclear) and the implementation. For instance some problems fail, because 0. is considered different from 0.0

Using np.testing.assert_allclose in your asserts would solve this I think (https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.testi...).

Happy to contribute / elaborate if you think it's be useful! :)
Or just don't use a photo at all if it doesn't add something substantial. A nice photo from Unsplashed is much better than AI slop, but it's often largely superfluous.
Try using Neovim without loading a config, just like a fresh install, and see how it is.
You should have the control of your information per use case / purpose. The ad networks are also Google's property - would you be fine with the Adsense looking at all your private documents? GDPR got that right - you consent to a specific usage, not to a free-for-all.
If it helps, my first thought was Seven of Nine[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_of_Nine
Yeah. I can't even consistently get JSON output out of all models. What are people doing that they don't care about output format?...
> most companies need to borrow money to stay in business.

With respect, this is entirely untrue. Most companies don't need to borrow money. It's the functional cancer of the VC-funded silicon valley meta that needs to borrow money to do anything useful. Most corporations run based on what they earn. This is the only reasonable thing too, or every country would have the egregious debt load that the US has.
Okay well, it did both for me. It caused my shell startup to take ~1 second and there was a delay after typing every command or switching directories.
Finnish company
A great companion read is Martin Fowler’s “Accounting Patterns”[1]. Having built and maintained systems that manage financial events for over a decade, I wish I had read these patterns earlier.

[1] https://martinfowler.com/apsupp/accounting.pdf
After using FreeBSD for so much time I can not get used to 'OpenBSD-current' naming :)
It's not clear who you're replying to, but this isn't a conversation with a person. What's being discussed - away from the person who published this - are the truth claims in the post.
You gave them your consent when you opened the document in Google Docs.

And it is not like Gemini is the first NLP model to be reading your google docs. Google have had one of the most advanced spell/grammar checkers reading through your docs for years now.
Show HN: AI Powered Parallax Viewer – Making 2D Screens 3D
A best time to get off Google was before the previous problems. The second best is now. (applies after every Google issue)
>3. Third incident - Boeing sent an Emergency Airworthiness Directive to all MAX pilots. The EA crew did not follow the simple 2 step procedure. A contributing factor is the crew was flying at full throttle, and ignored the overspeed warning horn you could hear on the cockpit voice recorder.

Walter, ffs, they were taking off hot & high from Adis Ababa with airspeed unreliable because of the screwed AoA sensor; a sensor unjustifiably classified too low in terms of consequence for failure, and deliberately wired non-redundantly and kept from being cross-checked in most configurations in order to avoid training burden to avoid cert work to compete with the NEO. Without that AoA sensor, overspeed had no basis; garbage in, garbage out.

Let it go. Boeing f*cked up. Period. Their (the pilot's) instruments and alarms were completely untrustworthy. You (Boeing) don't get to blame pilots for not doing memory items when your (again, Boeing's) technical design is screwed from the first. Your 757 work was fine. The MAX as it was was not. Nothing will ever make it so.
I don't know why I was expecting something relating to feature engineering and/or feature extraction in the context of AI research before I clicked...

Now I'm there, wondering why we need full blown frameworks to handle booleans in applications...
Claude 3.5 does remarkably well though on many tasks, compared to the others, and on those it's not at all blind. It's getting there.
People live and think in the present, as an added plus people have terrible memory. Think in 5-20 years and use that timeframe to put the events one after another.
Only complaint I have is that it's already so popular that trains are absolutely packed!
You are missing my point.

Of course, it is possible with IAM because IAM is a top-tier ACL system.

The point: I don't want to learn it.
Ah, thanks. I assumed tapinarof was an inhibitor, as the papers on its mechanism describe it as downregulating cytokines. It appears the exact mechanism isn't quite clear. Bissonette et al 2021 [1]:

Tapinarof was found to bind directly to AhR, resulting in
downregulation of inflammatory cytokines, regulation of
skin barrier protein expression, and antioxidant activity
... In a T-cell polarization assay, tapinarof markedly
inhibited T-cell expansion and Th17-cell differentiation
and reduced the production of IL-17, while also reducing
IL-17A and IL17F levels in a CD4 T-cell assay.

It looks like tapinarof modulates the signaling behaviour of AhR, but so far the precise mechanisms are educated guesses.

The story of tapinarof's discovery is fascinating. It's produced by a bioluminescent (!) bacillus P. luminescens that (quoting from the paper) "lives symbiotically within parasitic, soil-living entomopathogenic nematodes." It was observed in the 1950s that "the nematode did not putrefy once dead, in contrast to the rapid decay seen in the absence of the nematode," leading to the idea that the bacillus' metabolites had antimicrobial activity — which turned out to include what is now synthesized as tapinarof.

Coal tar is another semi-natural substance that is thought to act on AhR.

[1] https://www.jaad.org/action/showPdf?pii=S0190-9622%2820%2932...
I get what you’re saying. But at a fundamental level there’s a difference between “using” content to do the thing I’m asking you to do (display it in a browser) and running it through an AI to do processing on that content.

I personally think the two situations are quite different.

I agree that if you don’t want Google to sniff on your content you shouldn’t put it on their servers to begin with.

That said, stating that Gemini won’t remember, is dubious. Because given the track record of these companies I have my doubts that they don’t log everything they can put their hands on.
Absolutely, great advertising.

If only I knew what an internal enablement initiative or customer acceleration solution was.
Should be tagged 2021
This is an absolutely insane amount of money, and that's not changed if you choose to live somewhere where that amount is easy to spend. The answer to that is simple: live somewhere else. I struggle to think of a region on earth that wouldn't define 300k as an incredibly high salary.
I put together an HTML+CSS template for authoring one-page documents that will be printed out (or saved as PDF):

https://github.com/jkitching/1pager-printable-html

It can be used for creating a PDF locally, or the HTML file can also be viewed directly in the browser - both should look identical.

When I was looking into different ways of converting HTML into PDF, everything I came across did a pretty bad job at correctly supporting CSS layouts and positioning. So I ended up just using headless Chrome for printing. Perhaps WeasyPrint does a better job with CSS support?
Yes, I did think twice about posting that precisely because of Diva.