skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you recommend a few solutions or companies? I'm looking for such a solution at the moment. Thanks!
> are kind of like a junk food version of science

While I have long agreed with this sentiment, I'd like to gently push back against the idea that "science" is itself coherent, reliable, monolithic, or able to be digested by a single human at all. I suspect what you're actually comparing to is in-depth reading of published papers from which you draw your own conclusions—reliable or not—drawn arbitrarily from a pool where there's basically zero way to actually verify the quality of the papers you're reading. In this light I don't think it's a bad thing that people are given a glimpse of scientific understanding through pop-literature because the vast majority of people—even those that read papers—grossly overestimate the certainty of knowledge that they have not specifically specialized in.

This is a long-winded way of saying basically nobody interacts with "science" directly. It all comes down to trust, and I strongly suspect that the trust in a give pop-literature writer isn't that much worse-placed than the average person writing the academic papers in the first place—outside the topic of the paper, of course. It's incredibly difficult to aggregate knowledge without serious evidence about how trustworthy the publishers and writers are, and sadly credentials and brand prestige tend to be piss-poor evidence.
> Keep in mind that "the right" is now split into pre-Trump conservatives and "Trumpists"

Trump has been leader of the Republicans since the shooter was twelve years old...

In any case, you've weakened your claim from the shooter being right wing to it being "entirely conceivable" that he's right wing. Well, fine, many things are conceivable, but what's the positive reason for thinking that it's true? And does it outweigh the reasons against thinking that it's true? The fact that he registered as a Republican for reasons we don't know, and that he's wearing a gun-themed t-shirt (I hink we can assume he's not against guns on principle), seem to be substantially less weighty data points than the fact that he's just tried to kill Trump.
I meant this part:

> If a contestant attempts to ring in before the gameboard lights activate, the system locks out their signal for a quarter of a second.

This discourages contestants from repeatedly tapping the buzzer before the question has finished being read.
You say several times that developers say they want visual programming, but I've never heard any developer ever say this. Is there some particular context where you've heard people say this in particular?
That's pretty close to what I was planning, minus the Rysnc and with Borg instead.

I'm surprised at how many people are swapping off-site drives with friends, that is actually really cool.

I still haven't decided on if I want to do upgrade to RAID or not yet.

Just using one drive as a backup for the other seems like it has more flexibility, you can upgrade just one drive at a time, make use of the extra space with mismatched storage, etc, but upgrading both drives at once might be a better plan...
I don't think there's any value in that though.

You can get all the stuff you mentioned for a fraction of the time and money it would cost to create a disposable email service and then you would also only target the service you wanted instead of sitting around and hoping that a user creates an account at the site you're looking for.

The real value would in the reputation and history of the account (e.g a popular account on a social media site or community) and this isn't a thing that someone would use a disposable email service for as they wouldn't want to risk losing access to the account.
Yeah, it’s possible we may dodge that bullet, but rather than take the win, economists are freaking out because they don’t know how to think about that.
Twenty years ago I was a researcher (Fraunhofer) on executable UML, especially on aspect oriented programming (AOP which was a thing back then, but never caught on). You could draw a boundary around some UML process flow, and attach an aspect to it. For example a security boundry, and then the code generated would automatically add a security check aspect for all flows going inside.

What we did find out, text is just better to read and understand. It's easier to refactor and much denser. We experimented with different levels to zoom in and zoom out for bigger programs but Visual programming does not scale (or didn't at least back then).
> I spend anywhere from 1-4 hours a week teaching classes live, answering questions and offering support to very real people who are struggling to market their small business. I know from experience that no matter how many step-by-step guides I make, what people always really need is a human. A teacher. Someone who sees their effort and can offer genuine feedback on how to keep moving forward.

... or do they just need ChatGPT? Because the rubber duck effect is real, but I think people have the capability to succeed by themselves.
This is one of the worst use cases for AI. You have no way to verify the quality of the output. Many of these texts are going to have pronunciations that will be difficult for today’s TTS systems. Plus, many of these are already available from good voice actors, many of them free, and they do the proper service to these texts.

It seems like you did a lot of good technical work, but I find this project entirely useless and a waste of resources.
Are you considering user-level abstractions other than files? Perhaps a plan9-like everything-is-a-file-system?
What did we lose that you think would make us happier? I can only think of things certain people lost that would make them happier at the expense of making others as miserable as possible.
Most industrial automation programming happens in an environment similar to
LabView, if not LabView itself. DeltaV, Siemens, Allen-Bradley, etc. Most industrial facilities are absolutely full of them with text-based code being likely a small minority for anything higher level than the firmware of individual PLCs and such.
Rates Insensitivity in the Downcycle
I wouldn't mind Steven Pinker so much if it wasn't for the blatant cherry picking. Always trying to make today look a good as possible and the past as terrible as possible. It just produces bias on both sides when like usual - it is full of greys.

We are doing some cool things nowadays, yes there is some blow back to account for. The past had a lot of awful things, but there were something things we did that we should consider integrating with modern techniques. And so on.
Remote meetings and meetings in general are good when there is an outcome for the meeting, when there are only the people that NEED to be in the meeting, the meeting is short enough to create outcomes without blabbering on and the timeframe is adhered to.

I cannot stand it when a 15 minute stand up, becomes a 30+ minute discussion that rolls into the next one and the next one.
What about node red?

I’ve seen some pretty sophisticated stuff done with that.
I develop, and I'd like at least a visual of my codebase as it interfaces with other systems as part of automatic documentation. So n=1, I reckon.
> What did we lose that you think would make us happier?

I strongly suspect any example I provide will be attacked, so I recommend to use your imagination. I think you can do better than this.

If you really want an example I recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman, who can write better than I can, who is thoughtful in his choice in how he uses research versus poetic license, who has already responded to critique on the novel. There's plenty worth critiquing but it's better than assuming the absolute lack of any loss. And I'd like to emphasize I don't believe in past utopia (I think anarcho-primitivism is equally lacking in imagination, perhaps even more so)—just that the idea of one-dimensional progress is moronic.

EDIT: To add on to this, Graeber points out that there's a wide span of time in between the invention of agriculture (~12kya) and the beginning of what we collectively agree is civilization (~8kya). Why this delay, if sedentary farming and market-oriented distribution offers such obvious benefits?

EDIT2: spelling

EDIT3: KSR context
For some of the books, it's true; for some, it's not.

I'm really enjoying listening to nonfiction – history, philosophy, biographies.
What a brutal philosophy.
IceDB v3 – Third Time's the Charm (2023)
Snowflake as destination is very very easy to work with on fivetran. Fivetran didn't have S3 as destination till late 2022. So it literally forces you to use one of BQ, Snowflake, redshift as destination.
So fivetran CEO's defence is pretty stupid.
This discussion isn't going in the direction I was hoping for, ha ha!

But as a developer of these sites I've used the majority to check my own domains and the most reliable one I've found is https://www.ipqualityscore.com/

I strongly recommend that you take another look at your signup process though and don't require users to give up their email addresses, instead make it optional and present an alternative like a captcha.
Visual programming with connections often just becomes literal spaghetti code, we really lean a lot on linguistic abstractions to manage complexity. I played around with lots of ideas, the latest one being direct manipulation of visually represented abstractions. Fun and somewhat promising (works really well for expressing bubble and quick sort, less well for rebalancing a red black tree after a delete), but I don’t see anything panning out before AI writes all the code for us.
We need to see the code paths that were executed for a certain request/feature/transaction.

I created Call Stacking for this visualization.

https://callstacking.com/
I assume that it is nothing if you can't provide any examples. Slaves, blood sports, women traded for power and sex are all the things that first came to mind

Edit: It's also bad form to edit your comment after it's been replied to without indicating you edited it.
The article is not really about happiness estimates but if it were, the case would be easier to make - most people are happier not having half their children die.
Looks like gold nanoparticles kill glioblastoma colon cancer:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819864 :

>> He emphasizes, "Any scientist can already use our model at the design stage of their own research to instantly narrow down the number of nanoparticle variants requiring experimental verification."

>>
"Modeling Absorption Dynamics of Differently Shaped Gold Glioblastoma and Colon Cells Based on Refractive Index Distribution in Holotomographic Imaging" (2024) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202400778

> Holotomography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holotomography

>>> Could part of the cancer-killing [200nm nanoparticle gold stars] be more magnetic than Gold (Au), for targeting treatment?

Magnets, nano robots, NIRS targeting,

"Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla" [1800W] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm7168 ..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40335170
Oh, I see. No, not yet.
The two cultures of mathematics (2000) [pdf]
One of the other comments mentioned matching voice to protagonist, which would fit your example for Harry Potter.

There are likely many factors that go into selecting the right voice here - my main point is the same voice shouldn't be used for all books. It's likely a simple heuristic is better than "male voice for all", though no approach will be perfect without the opinion of the author, which isn't available unfortunately.
There are a whole lot more activation functions used nowadays in NNs

https://dublog.net/blog/all-the-activations/

The author is extrapolating way too much. The simplest model of X is similar to the simplest model of Y, therefore the common element is deep and insightful, rather than mathematical modelers simply being rationally parsimonious.
> Made this privacy conscious temporary mail extension

> Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue

It's not privacy conscious. Privacy conscious would mean A) does not use Cloudflare as a CDN B) does not require JavaScript C) does not discriminate against Tor users.

There are a few services like this already, which I'm not going to spoil for cred on HN, but my rating of this site as of now is 0/10, unusable in the literal sense.
I don't believe it is possible today, but I am working on it! It would be great for users trying to co-stream.

I created OBS2Browser[0] that is a good first step in the direction.

[0] https://github.com/Sean-Der/OBS2Browser
I'm sure the Wiz founding team is foaming at the mouth at the prospect of a big payday.

Wiz is one of, if not the, fastest security startup to reach $100m in ARR from date of founding (12 or 13 months IIRC). It's all about 'dat CISO money and old good buddy relationships to get the snowball rolling.

I know for a fact GhostSecurity and others have been trying, unsuccessfully, to emulate the success of Wiz. It's a bit of a 1-hit wonder.
Syncfusion Flutter Charts contains a rich gallery of 30+ charts and graphs, ranging from line to financial charts, that cater to all charting scenarios.

In this blog, we will explore how to add a scrollbar in Flutter Charts to track the zoom and pan progress and its limits. The scrollbar feature is not built into our Flutter Charts; however, we can add it using the SfRangeSlider and SfRangeSelector widgets.
People have mentioned a bunch of successful visual programming applications, but one that I've been thinking a lot about lately is Figma.

Figma has managed to bridge the gap between designers, UXR, and engineers in ways that I've never seen done before. I know teams that are incredibly passionate about Figma and use it for as much as they can (which is clearly a reflection of Figma themselves being passionate about delivering a great product) but what impressed me was how much they focus on removing friction from the process of shipping a working application starting from a UI mockup.

I think Figma holds a lot of lessons for anyone serious about both visual programming and cross-functional collaboration in organizations.
It definitely adds latency, not enough to be a bad experience.

We have vdo.ninja today and Twitch's Stream Together. Those both do the 'dual encoding' and it is a good enough experience that users are doing it!
A representative idea: if you are the one to kill a deer to eat, you get a little bit of each cut - rib, loin, filet, heart, etc. When was the last time most people ate a filet mignon?

And if you gather food like berries and fruits - you (at least sometimes) get to eat foods ripened that day in the field. How many today get that luxury?

And if one of the things that provides joy to humans is to prepare their family’s food - many folks today would be disqualified.
Now these are cherry picked which in my previous comment on this is cheating a little but I will give it a try.

At a personal level, tools/equipment that is self serviceable and can be maintained for a long life span. While some of this is still around, it is much more difficult to find.

At a moderate level. More time for family and community, unfortunately this one area that looking back we have slid backwards in. We are definitely better than the open century of industrialism but before that, hours were much more moderate, you also mostly worked near or at where you live.

At a wide lens angle. A vast majority of our technique is now having the blow back of ecological destruction/instability and a long period of climatic instability. The kind of thing that makes planning 7 generations ahead near impossible except on the grandest and somewhat vaguest terms.
Sorry about that! I will continue working on improving it.

I am also going to drop the 7z usage. Powershell has unzip built in
Article: ”A DNA Robotic Switch with Regulated Autonomous Display of Cytotoxic Ligand Nanopatterns” (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-024-01676-4
And the people doing no work taking food from the people who did the work to farm it? What do you call that?
Current PowerToys are really bloated in comparison. SVG thumbnailer gets stuck sometimes and Explorer stops responding, even when installed from MS Store it nags for updates when it should autoupdate and so on. It is not like old Win32 PowerToys where I haven't seen side effects just improvements to Windows behaviour.
The Big Tech monolith (`bingo`, `papaya`, etc.) is a fantastic callback to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ. Although that video is perhaps ironically about microservices.
The "relativistic effects" is part of how GPS works.
A) The connection is fully encrypted.

B) That would make the UX horrible.

C) I had Tor enabled in the beginning, but when I got complaints from people on Tor doing really shady stuff with it I had to disable it.
Reminds me of ArnoldC[1] from a few years ago.

[1] https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/
Just because everybody is doing it, doesn’t mean it’s rational.

The people who held onto their RSUs from being hired at Zoom during the height of the pandemic might not be so happy they chose to double down on their employment risk with investor risk.
The Bell Labs people had their own approach - Datakit.[1] This was a circuit-switched network as seen by the user but a packet switch inside the central-office switches. Bell Labs used it internally, and it was deployed in the 1980s.

Pure IP on the backbone was highly controversial at the time. The only reason pure IP works is cheap backbone bandwidth. We still don't have a good solution to datagram congestion in the middle of the network. Cheap backbone bandwidth didn't appear until the 1990s, as fiber brought long-distance data transfer costs way, way down.
There was a real question in the 1980s and 1990s over whether IP would scale.
A circuit-switched network, with phone numbers and phone bills, was something AT&T understood. Hence Datakit.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1013879.802670
How about redefining the problem a little bit so that it is something else than what others are doing?

For example, the platform approach? Allow people to easily set up a temporary email service with their own domain. That would go around the problem needing changing domains all the time. You could make it easy for people to search and buy their temp email domain through you.

Or if that is too much, work, allow people to self-host your service by open sourcing it and creating Docker compose configurations etc.

I would personally also write a spec for one-click account delete link that can be recognized automatically, sent with the email. If that takes traction, then it would benefit everybody. It just might, as it benefits the service provider the most.
I like programming. I can still do it.

What I don't like is all the bullshit around it. Primarily now the barrier is that I don't have to work, so why would I put up with abusive hazing? I mean of course, hiring processes, which have only gotten worse over time (hallmark property of the cycle of hazing).

I'm not doing on-call rotations anymore. Either allow us to engineer the thing to be resilient, or pay off-duty people (a wonderful opportunity for offshore people that management is so desperate to use).

Finally, I don't want to code in Python or JavaScript. As a long time programmer, it is annoying that we keep going backwards and wasting more and more hardware power.

Nobody is producing anything exciting in software anymore. I can't think of a pure software company doing anything I would be excited for, because google and facebook and the like control the internet.

It doesn't even pay that well anymore, and AI is just another huge excuse to drop wages by management.

Apple is a fantastic example: operating systems are stagnant, hardware outside of the architecture switch is stagnant (and how much of that was simply priority access to the state of the art TSMC node tech).

Nobody makes good solutions for anything anymore.
Microsoft now has several games available to download for Windows, a far cry from the size of Steam's library, but it exists. If you have a Game Pass subscription, many of those games are available to install on Windows as well.

Microsoft also supports streaming, both cloud streaming and locally from an Xbox.

Yeah, I agree that Games for Windows Live was a joke. But Microsoft today is certainly capable of bringing competition, with the right leadership.
Again, wouldn't it be easier for the attacker to just buy a domain and use that completely undetected instead of having to use a rate-limited disposable email service?
I find the project it links to (and admits to be inspired by) even more impressive:
https://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/navsats/theory.html
Agreed, I should do this.

Although I still concerned about the costs of maintaining all these MP3s.
> Edit: It's also bad form to edit your comment after it's been replied to without indicating you edited it.

yea my bad, I didn't expect you to reply so quickly.
To be fair, cleaning the grounds and pruning the trees is not exactly brutal work. Like most koans, look at the broader message here.
SCons 4.8.0 Released
Tech became too profitable to be left to "those nerds" so now you have very bloated orgs. Though a freelancer should be able to sidestep the grifters unless you're selling yourself as an employee for some reason.
> economists are freaking out

Versus sticking our heads in the sand until problems arise? It’s wild that pointing out the logical consequences of changing trends, consequences which don’t manifest for almost a century, can be characterised as “freaking out.”
Trying intellectualize all of the goofy “woke” controversies over the last few years into “they just don’t like these HR policies” is just being dishonest.
Are the actual holdings of the pension public? Seems like something is like to follow!
My niece reminds me that she didn't create that diagram; she just sent it to me.
Really wasn’t a fan of Stalker. Thought it was a 2/10 at best
Why are things “merely for decorations” bad? A ton of what we do in the world is for aesthetic reasons, why shouldn’t that include web content? Things looking nice is an important thing for many people.
So you got a pile of “ai” and a pile of “real” and did a binary classifier?
I don't use Nim, but it's an interesting language. I've read someone else complaining about having to make changes to an old project every time he went to recompile it. I'm wondering how true this is, so in other words, I'm wondering about the frequency and severity of breaking changes in the language.
I put too much emphasis on that particular point, but I was trying make the argument that there are likely multiple factors at play here.
I think the whole flow concept is really only good for media pipelines and such.

In mathematics, everything exists at once just like real life.

In most programming languages, things happen in explicit discrete steps which makes things a lot easier, and most node based systems don't have that property.

I greatly prefer block based programming where you're dragging rules and command blocks that work like traditional programming, but with higher level functions, ease of use on mobile, and no need to memorize all the API call names just for a one off tasks.