skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn’t even work with alternative web browsers on iOS which are just using embedded Safari.
Wow have heard about CRDB but just now reading what it does.

That's an incredible piece of engineering.
There was a recent lifestyle article about decaf coffee. Have you tried any of the roasters listed here?

https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/15/decaf-coffee-is-finally-wi...
Breaking iChano AtHome's network encryption with Frida
Wow - great illustration indeed!
For me (writing in mixed English and Spanish) it's never necessary to actually change the keyboard unless I just want the ñ key available. I wrote half of this with the English keyboard and half with the Spanish keyboard and it didn't make any difference with respect to autocorrect. If I want to use Spanish text in the middle of my sentence por ejemplo así, it just works. It autocorrects "asi" to "así" without switching to the Spanish keyboard.

It could be a function of time spent writing bilingual text. If I add a new keyboard (I tried Hungarian as well) and it didn't work for that. Or it may only work with exactly two languages? It's not a documented feature as far as I know, so it's hard to say what the conditions and parameters are.

For good measure I also tried reseting my keyboard dictionary just in case what I'm describing is just the effect of intermingling my autocorrect dictionary with so much Spanish over the years that it can code switch now, but nothing changed.
Oooh thank you! I totally thought it was public - just changed it. Thanks for that. I got confused as I had my old website public already (https://github.com/TN1ck/tomnick.org).
The key here is technological adaptations that help humans thrive where they could not live previously. It's irrelevant that humans can't survive in space: they will, for example, build space stations in the future, just like they build homes with artificial heating in Arctic regions now.
Show HN: Dnd-Map-App – An Open-Source Virtual Battle Map for Your TV
Hello HN!

I'm excited to share `dnd-map-app`, an open-source project I've been working on to enhance tabletop RPG sessions, especially for Dungeons & Dragons. This tool transforms your TV into a dynamic battle map, providing an immersive and interactive experience for both the Dungeon Master (DM) and players.

Key Features:
- Fog of War: Reveal hidden areas as players explore.
- Interactive Map Control: Move around, zoom in and out, and adjust the map in real-time.
- Area Effects: Add visual representations for spells and other effects.
- Web-Based Interface: Access the battle map from any modern browser.

Technologies Used:
- React: For building the user interface.
- Konva.js: For 2D canvas animations and rendering.
- Websockets: For real-time communication between the DM and player interfaces.

If you're interested in trying it out or contributing, please check out the README on the GitHub repository (https://github.com/yourusername/dnd-map-app) for detailed setup instructions and more information.

I look forward to your feedback and hope you'll join me in making our tabletop sessions even more magical!
Amazing. I bet HS2 was going to fix congestion in Penzance too

So much coolaid being drunk

Note how Sheffield, Newcastle and Liverpool aren't in any HS2 plans...

I'm in favour of rail projects. I just dislike the dishonesty about the benefits
Flexibility means for me more something more like, I think I know what I want to do but I also know that I'm probably wrong about that, so for now let's skip all the baroque protocol and let me make it work first. Once I'm sure I wrote what I actually wanted I'll add types if only to get rid of some bugs, consider edge cases and earn nice code completions and auto-generated docs.
Peer pressure isn't new, though. It's both something that happened before social media and a problem exacerbated by social media, like being picked on for not being on $athletic team. Resigning yourself to accommodate your oppressors isn't reasonable or healthy, unless you're doing it to build a strategy for dismantling or usurping them.

I do think an outright ban ignores that there are constructive platforms with a semblance of rules and culture that can provide value, and platforms rife with scammers whose job it is to give vulnerable people mental disorders so they remain addicted to their approval. It's pretty easy to tell which are the best and worst of which, and it's generally teachable.

Finding out other's opinions can be important, but they shouldn't be the first or only lens a child views the world through. The wrong subreddits or influencers or streamers know more about their audiences than their audiences know about them and use it to trap and indoctrinate them under the guise of being a "community". They even make it fun! But not participating also doesn't hurt anyone.

Maybe hearing two year olds all over Target perfectly reciting "hey y'all and welcome back to my youtube channel, remember to like and subscribe for more content" isn't cause for alarm, but I'm more inclined to worry about kids not being able to connect and engage normally to the world around them AFK because of social media than the opposite.
yes, many non US firms do exactly that for international announcements:

- use "second half of ", "begin of", 3 quartal of, etc.

- or a specific month if they want to be more precise

also for western focused announcements they also use "holliday session" as their tends to be a holliday session in most countries in both summer and winter (through their start differs _a lot_, but it tends to just work out if you release early enough)
It's crazy how oversold the project is/was too. Honestly some people believe it will fix every congestion problem in England
> None of the clients need to be aware that a network partition exists (except a small number who may see their connection to the bad side drop, and be replaced by a connection to the good side).

What a convenient world where the client is not affected by the network partition.
This is especially true in the US where fire code make it practically impossible to build a 4 bedroom unit which families will want. (it is legal, but if you try to design one you discover the code forces a lot of space that you can't do anything useful with and so it isn't possible)
The difference isn’t quite that extreme. Pound per pound “chimpanzee muscle exceeds human muscle in maximum dynamic force and power output by ∼1.35 times” they are strong largely because they are extremely muscular not simply stronger on a pound per pound basis.

However, there’s inherent strength vs endurance tradeoffs involved. Space taken up by mitochondria is in direct competition with the cellular machinery that turns ATP into motion. Similarly, increased capillary density can supply more nutrients and oxygen, but again displaces more directly useful muscle tissue.
Yeah this isn't a web app... this is a Chrome+Safari app
Nothing requires an ESOP to skip on a separate retirement fund for employees and expect them to retire from their share of the investment.

In the contrary, I expect the owners of an ESOP are very much in favor of having a well managed separate employee retirement fund. More so than in a publicly owned company.

But of course you are right that the risks factors of losing your income and losing your investment are pretty much 100% correlated for an ESOP. Some investment diversification is always a good idea.
Interesting to note that almost all of the salaries from 2023 - 2024 dropped by quite a substantial amount.
I thought about buying a supercritical CO2 extraction machine from Alibaba and having a small business around making decaf beans for roasters, but the numbers didn't work out great. I believe it was around $20k usd for the medium sized ones.
I'm not a huge fan of the FFB but as someone with a degenerative inherited retinal disease, your friend makes me feel more optimistic about my future. What a badass!
But it’s somethhing that happens too late.

Phishers benefit from low domain prices because they can churn them faster than you can investigate them. Scams are fast, investigation slow.

Worse, you investigate only to find that the scammer is out of your jurisdiction (which I submit is the #1 problem with “enforcement”) and there is very little you can do. Also, if they can churn domains quickly, the thread that connects them is harder to find, so you only have the remnants of one or two scam domains where there may be hundreds more by the same perpetrator.
Sears was selling houses from their catalog for many decades before this.
No need to be so absolute no one is "assign[ing] responsibility for your well-being to others", there are grey areas and gradients and employment is fundamentally full of those.

No one person can be an expert in everything, we live in a society and should act like it. Needing to be an expert in healthcare, hiring processes, finances, and a dozen other topics just to switch jobs is a major barrier to the just switch mentality you are presenting. And I know first hand, I am just switching constantly because it is what I wanted. We should have reasonable baselines and minimums for treatment, and those should shift and get better as we improve society.

> Every time you try and demand that someone else do it for you, you are going to end up disappointed.

Yet there are countries that have better situations for labor than the US?!

Even something as simple as universal healthcare would fix a ton for millions of US people. It would empower worker to switch jobs and employers to lure top talent held by it. Only a hundred or so other countries figured it out, there is no way we could do it here we would only end up disappointed, right?

I pick that as an example, but we could go over many possible topics that aren't blanket assignments of "responsibility for your well-being to others". Consider non-compete clauses, IP transfers, minimum wage and tons of other topics that if they had a minimum floor of decency could allow more freedom the the worker and employer.
Sure: if we believe that having a giant third-party in the sky that does verification of users itself a giant privacy violation that the web currently doesn't require us to subject ourselves to--and if we also believe that the information they collect won't be invasive, particularly when dealing with an international context--I absolutely agree that we can then use various cryptographic schemes to protect our information from the provider.

However, I certainly don't believe that: I believe that having a giant centralized verification service is inherently dangerous in a world where we are apparently reliant on inanity like CrowdStrike to feel a sense of security; and, in fact, there was even just recently a big hack of an identity provider company.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/hack-age-verification-...
Some other examples:

* Yugoslavian worker self management (arguably successful: the place had some other problems that hampered them, shall we say)
* Mondragon (the world's largest worker cooperative)
* John Lewis Partnership/Waitrose (an employee trust with some workplace democracy)
* Rehn–Meidner model (which is more about mass ownership across the wider economy and was tried in Sweden if memory serves)

There are a _lot_ of variations of this kind of thing and only some have been tried. Most haven't seen much action at all, just a few sui generis examples - most of the more specific examples above, really.
So you’re setting up a multi-region RDS. If region A goes down, do you continue to accept writes to region B?

A bank: No! If region A goes down, do not process updates in B until A is back up! We’d rather be down than wrong!

A web forum: Yes! We can reconcile later when A comes back up. Until then keep serving traffic!

CAP theorem doesn’t let you treat the cloud as a magic infinite availability box. You still have to design your system to pick the appropriate behavior when something breaks. No one without deep insight into your business needs can decide for you, either. You’re on the hook for choosing.
I might be ignorant but wasn't there a plan to add Typescript support to the browser itself?

In which case wouldn't V8 support TS directly without needing to transpile?
Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth's Atmosphere
> black is no longer an advantage, manufactures can change paint quickly

Those systems and inventory still add to cost. Most consumers just don’t care about that marginal cost when buying a car.

> have a lot of options to make walls longer or shorter as you desire and so houses get great scale factors despite not being very identical

This is still more expensive than having them be identical. Fundamentally, uniqueness and cost are related due to economies of scale.
> I do not understand how a voice assistant help with this, it has never worked for me.

What do you mean it has never worked? What do you ask your assistant, and what does it respond?

> Seems like pretty hard things to do on the fly with recipes.

What's hard? I don't understand. If you need a quantity in unit x, but you only have a measuring cup or spoon in unit y, then you ask for the conversion and then you measure out that amount in unit y.

I genuinely don't understand the difficulties you seem to be encountering.

> do you really do you guys really do it that often?

Yes, literally all the time.
AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
Interesting!

I never knew nor thought about the following before:

>"the International Space station has a repeater for packet radio"

[...]

"with VHF the higher the better. It lasts at most a few miles before hills, buildings etc block the signal. But a repeater can rebroadcast your message if it hears it, thus extending the range.

Imagine a repeater on a mountain, it can receive and rebroadcast so much, and its height works to an advantage because your neighbour’s roof or some local hill won’t get in the way because youre aiming over it. Now go further and imagine a repeater so high up that it’s in space

, why then even the humble VHF can reach insane distances!"

Great article!

(Also -- and I am no Nikola Tesla expert here -- but it is possible that Nikola Tesla (and/or other early radio pioneers) used outer space itself as a repeater... how that would be possible I cannot speculate with the limited knowledge I have on hand, but there seem to be some hints or at least "breadcrumbs" in the early radio writings / early "radio lore" -- that such a thing might have been possible...)

Anyway, great article!
Apparently there are more people with money than there are houses. So don't tell me people cant afford houses. Tell me that there are so few houses that they are overpriced or something, and only the top 25% can buy them.
AMD Working on More Precise GPU Reset Capabilities for Their Linux Driver
I think every couple of months there's yet another article saying the CAP theorem is irrelevant. The problem with these is that they ignore the fact that CAP theorem isn't a guide, a framework or anything else.

It's simply the formalization of a fact, and whether or not that fact is *important* (although still a fact) depends on the actual use case. Hell, it applies even to services within the same memory space, although obviously the probability of losing any of the three is orders of magnitude less than on a network.

Can we please move on?
Also remember that you (GP) already acquired that intuition in your youth. Most things you learn look trivial in retrospect. It may be that you already had some use of that.

And if you had not learned those things you may have started worrying what this magic thing you don't know so much about is. That can also hinder performance.

(Latd edit since I wanted to add). Another reason it is good to know stuff is to be able to dispel co-workers trying to bullshit. They are everywhere and I don't think they are trying to be mean, it is mostly insecurity. But particularly in this field I think people will start throwing buzzwords around to confuse and lead you away from what is simple and important.

But GPs comment is fine as a thought provoker.
You see, if you don't let us force updates on you, your computer will be insecure, and you could potentially get a blue screen, or your business could be down for days.
What's the difference between choosing an acceptable response time that is greater than the time it takes for your partitions to sync and giving up on availability?

I don't think it makes sense to say that CAP doesn't apply if you don't need consistency, availability, or tolerance to partitions. CAP is entirely about the need to relax at least one of those three to shore up the others.
Universal Music Sinks 30% as Streaming Revenue Declines
That's possible. I only saw the car. My opinion is purely in regards to aesthetics and feel. Long-term ownership performance is an unknown.
Dup: 'Sensational' Proof Delivers New Insights into Prime Numbers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40968164
Is there an OS that provides the whole result of ps(1) or equivalent in one syscall? I was under the impression that it was ~always iteration based.
Oh yes this happend to my dear mother who is using a Surface Pro 3 from 2014. I was able to login to her Microsoft account and send her the bitlocker key. I thought it might have been a pram type thing glitching, like how we used to need to reset the PRAM on the big old imac's for some reason to get it to behave...
Yours is a recipe for inflation. The shelter thing is key. We need to build a lot more of it at a price we can afford and that means we have to keep a lid on wages, which will be OK because we'll be driving down the cost of shelter. Fully agreed on the reduce profits bit; middleman profits are the key component of both shelter and grocery inflation.
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> the most expensive part of a home is often the kitchen and bathroom

Absolutely this.

Back in 2018, mum got dementia and her old home was not one the rest of us could really move back into due to commutes, so we sold it and bought a new one in a better location. The new one wasn't quite big enough, so we converted the existing garage into a granny annex with its own mini-kitchen and shower.

That took about 6 months.

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I've also recently had one kitchen installed (4m^2 for an apartment I let out), and ordered a second (6 m^2, for a house I'm about to move into), and despite both being tiny and already having the water and electrical connections, they were both in the £€ 10k range.
Was about to link some of these. The feds own data certainly does not indicate a "healthy" market.

The fed also changed their own metric for inflation. It's a political play.
This doesn't work for Brave.
AI's Real Hallucination Problem
first they came for the weeds then it was to control the people

Robot dogs with flame throwers outside the entrance to your local school gates

Robot dogs with flame throwers outside the entrance to your local shopping centre

etc etc
Enough of shifting the goal posts. This was about applications doing their own audit logging, I still don’t understand what’s wrong with that. Not made up claims that applications or a git server doesn’t know who is acting upon it. Yes, a proxy may know “who” and can perform additional auth and logging at that level, but often has a much less granular view of “what”. In the case of git over http, I doubt nginx out of the box has any idea of what a branch or a commiter email is, at best you will only see a request to the repo name and git-upload-pack url.

Final food for the trolls. Sorry.
I've been playing Ironsworn: Starforged (the sci-fi version of Ironsworn with similar but not identical rules; it's a solo-friendly PBTA game) for about 2 weeks, and as a generally non-creative person, it is stretching my brain in the best way. I can barely get my D&D 5e group to play D&D 5e (it's fizzled out completely now) let alone an alternate RPG so I joined a Play-by-Post game of Starforged that was just starting up. You can play it solo or co-op or guided (i.e. with a GM). We're playing it co-op and we're playing 4 player even though the game recommends 1 to 3 players. So we all have to be creative and figure out the rules together (we're also on the starforged discord where we can participate in discussion about the rules and ways to interpret them), as well as implement the best practices of play-by-post but we seem to be meshing very well so far.

One catch is you need more than the core rulebook. You'll need the asset cards, which you can download and print but it's easier to just buy the cards. (edit: or you can just copy the images of the specific cards you pick for your character into its own document instead.) And the reference book which is spiral bound so it can lay flat might be useful, although lately I've just been looking up each move in the index of the main rulebook instead. There is a free reference for the moves in the playkit as well.[0] I see they also have a preview version of the game you can get there.

[0] https://www.ironswornrpg.com/downloads
Show HN: DataChain – Tool to create, curate, version AI datasets
Hi HN! We are the DVC team. We are releasing a new tool to make it simpler for ML teams to curate their unstructured data and improve the quality of datasets.

ML teams have a lot of files- texts, images, video, pdfs, etc. Those objects have information (metadata) about them (e.g. labels, embeddings, captions). Last 5-6 years building DVC, we’ve observed a need for data versioning at scale but also a very strong need to store, enrich this metadata and also slice and dice those files based on this metadata (create datasets). We’d seen teams keep building and rebuilding the same infra or glue ETLs and scripts again and again and decided that it’s better to solve this in a more systematic way using our knowledge and experience.

DataChain is a Python library. Think about DataChain as a “data frame” with a “chain” of operations that can be applied to it - filter, merge, map, etc. We don’t store (or require moving or converting) files, rather DataChain is storing references to the origin (paths + version id). It is using a database underneath (SQLite) to preserve results (datasets) and do out of memory computation. It can do parallel computations, data caching, and many more things that make it better suited for unstructured data, ML, and larger scale.

Saved datasets (Data chains) can be passed to a data loader (e.g. Pytorch) to access the original raw files + metadata from the DB.

Please let us know your thoughts and questions in the comments!
> but businesses are free to do what they want.

this is not true

just because you write into your contract that something will be settled in a specific jurisdiction doesn't mean it's legally actually the case
The question is, can we, as a country, afford "a lot of buyers" wanting a single-family home, as far as construction costs, infrastructure costs, replacements costs, transportation costs, etc. go? A lot (most?) of suburban sprawl was financed. A lot (most?) of it reaches varying degrees of insolvency over time. Maybe it's a luxury we can only afford if we cut back in other areas. Maybe a lot of the deficiencies we see in society are caused in part by how much money we shovel into the expensive version of this basic need that was chose.
Is there more info on the phishing websites hosted on IPFS? I'm curious how content is forwarded to unaugmented browsers.
I once wrote a linear programming optimal solver for a business problem.

But because it was all equations and logical reasoning, it was hard to understand, and boring to non-enthusiasts.

So my manager had me make a visual simulation instead, which we could then present to his managers.

This isn't as stupid as it sounds - we humans have huge visual processing networks. It makes sense to tap into that when interfacing with other humans.

I think to learn programming or math, you actually end up learning to use this visual wiring to think about written symbols. But this process of rewiring - while valuable - is very hard and slow, and only a tiny fraction of humans have gone through it.
I agree. SWP coffee usually has a very flat profile to my taste. EA is far and away the better processing method.