skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn’t work well for screen based content in general.

It's not perfect, but it works: https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/pull/610

> the most recent latent space pod

Link: https://www.latent.space/p/sam2
Kary Mullis (nobel laureate for discovering PCR, allowing DNA sequencing) disagrees in his book “dancing naked in the mindfield”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis
My biggest issue is they no longer ask, or they do ask and don’t respect the user’s choice. I always uncheck the email/signup checkbox. Yet I still get the emails. Some simply sign the user up by default and then taking the position that the user can unsubscribe if they don’t want them.

If I notice a company doing this, I stop doing business with them. If they can’t respect my inbox and be trusted, then they shouldn’t get a dime of my money.

Spamming me is never a good way to create a positive brand image. When unsubscribing I always say it’s spam when there is a survey on why I’m unsubscribing. I hope it gets them banned from their email marketing service.
I love the “3D Gaussian Visualisation” section that illustrates the difference between photos of the mono data and the splat data. The splats are like a giant point cloud under the hood, except unlike point clouds which have uniform size, different splats have different sizes.

This all is well and good when you are just using for a pretty visualization, but it appears gaussians have the same weakness as point clouds processed with structure from motion, in that you need lots of camera angles to get quality surface reconstruction accuracy.
It's as much of a compression scheme as all the other variable width integer methods are.
I think it was a joke. The statistical factor is actually age: the older kids perform better because they're more grown up (physically bigger, mentally more developed).

So if you set a cut off point at September, for example, kids born just after September: October, November, December, will be the biggest ones.

For example for an age group covering up to 11 years old in September 2024, the kids that are 10 years and 9/10/11 months old (so born in October, November, December 2013) will statistically be the best players of their group.
Ok let's dive in: The actual study in the OP says: Astrology is stupid and anyone that thinks it works is an idiot worth ostracizing.
Paris Agreement thresholds crossed
The most insightful tarot draw I've had (out of maybe five in my life) was one where I forgot to shuffle a brand new pack of cards, so I got four of the same.

I don't even recall which card it was, but it inspired careful examination of the archetype and how it fits with my life and decision-masking, lasting several days.

Perhaps that's all magic really is.
Show HN: Creme, an Free Calendar/Reminders
Hi everyone, my name is Mike and I’m happy to announce the launch of Creme!

A few months ago, I was looking for a new calendar app for my personal day-to-day activities and found that they were difficult to use, didn’t have the features I wanted (or just too many), or were blocked by a subscription. So, I wanted to build an app that took the best from calendar/reminders/planner apps while making it intuitive to use and be completely free (and ad-free). On top of this, I made it with privacy in mind: there is no data tracking or sign ups, and all of your data is stored securely on your device.
Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync
Hey, Sam and the team from ElectricSQL here.

PGlite is a WASM Postgres build packaged into a TypeScript/JavaScript client library, that enables you to run Postgres in the browser, Node.js and Bun, with no need to install any other dependencies. It's 3mb Gzipped, now has support for many Postgres extensions, including pgvector, and it has a reactive "live query" API. It's also fast, with CRUD style queries executing in under 0.3 ms, and larger, multi-row select queries occurring within a fraction of a single frame.

PGlite started as an experimental project we shared on X, and the response to it was incredible, encouraging us to see how far we could take it. Since then we have been working to get it to a point where people can use it to build real things. We are incredibly excited as today, with the release of v0.2, the Supabase team has released the amazing http://postgres.new site built on top of it. Working with them to deliver both PGlite and postgres.new has been a joy.

- https://pglite.dev - PGlite website

- https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite - GitHub repo

- https://pglite.dev/docs - Docs on how to use PGlite

- https://pglite.dev/extensions - Extensions catalog

- https://pglite.dev/benchmarks - Early micro-benchmarks

- https://pglite.dev/repl - An online REPL so that you can try it in the browser

We would love you to try it out, and we will be around to answer any questions.
The first chapter is especially fun:

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/we-need-to-talk-about-fifty-fiv...

> An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.

Also, I have to say I love the idea of antimemes. You don't want some ideas to spread? Make it shameful to even admit you have them. It works.
I consider that a win too tbh; JS land has improved a lot with e.g. Prettier and now Biome, and those were inspired by Go's formatter and stance saying "shut the fuck up about code formatting already, this is how it's formatted, end of story, go worry about more important things".
yet we constantly need to protect our industries and institutions from american domination. we are a settler state with massive amounts of natural resources. we don’t “need” america. did Australia need to live next door to a overbearing superpower to be successful?
Faster on what axis?

Go has maybe the fastest compile times, for example. Which is very important when you are iterating on a project.

What do you dislike about the tool chain? Seems better than most languages to me.
Another side to the topic:
https://youtube.com/shorts/18jNJvfFR6k

Mike discusses at greater length in other videos.
What could go wrong with Astrology? "You will die of suicide this year".
I mean to this end, Go is more closer to Perl(C/Unix family) than to Python(Pascal? family).

But by now most programers are so very used to making the language do a lot of error handling kind of chores that having to do them manually kind of feels doing work that shouldn't be done(Like doing what the language should have been doing).

Of course you could bolt OO onto Go. In a way similar to how Perl provides kind of bare bones means assemble a OO system. But that is not the point, having syntax to this baked into the language just makes it easier and standardised to learn and use well.

Perhaps Go is Perl done right? Than a replace for Python.

But one has to see for how long it can maintain its minimalism. On the longer run code turns to be as complicated as the problem you are trying to solve. Removing the features doesn't make the code simple, it simply make it explicit(a.k.a Verbose)
> Most people don't believe tarot cards are really some magical thing

I think a lot of people have trouble with the idea that despite astrology not being accurate or grounded in science, it can still be useful for some of the people some of the time.
I'm curious to hear from a lawyer whether the undoing of Chevron Deference will undermine these efforts.
Microsoft teams shows the same hit on downdetector, color me suspicious this is a google problem unless teams has a gcp dependency.
Ugh my student loans went to a new servicer who I swear to god is paid by the email sent to me. I get an email letting me know when the payment is coming out (hint: it's the same numeric day as last month, plus or minus a day to account for non-banking weekend days) and the amount (hint: it's the same amount it always is, because that's how payments work) and then I get an email from them after my payment completes and then I get an email from them every time someone changes a punctuation mark in the roughly 400 pages of horseshit that I signed when I was 18 years old to get an education, and of course the fucking MESSAGES.

"There's an important message in your inbox, please log in to check"

And then you go look and it's like "the white house wants to alleviate student debt, if you don't want your debt discharged fill out this form" And it's like...

a) who in their right mind wouldn't want that

b) there's no way in hell I'm getting my debt discharged, I make WAY too much fucking money

c) this is a matter of public policy and developing news, why the fuck was this sent as a secure message
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I think this would fall under "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", even though most of us think it's bunk.
That's a temporary reprieve. Gmail started hard-requiring an x-unsubscribe header for anyone that sends more than a couple hundred emails to gmail. It isn't hard to put in, it's just that the lower effort mailers need to adjust and don't have visibility on their own spam rates.
What to Do After a Successful Demo
Hey HN,

You know that feeling when you crush a demo, but then you’re like, 'Now what'? A great demo is just the start - the next step is key: the follow-up.

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Many years ago, I worked for a contractor at a civil agency. Simply to make the email system function, we needed to keep retention at two or three weeks. The only persons for whom email was to be held were political appointees. What I saw was that they would take most of their last couple of weeks as vacation, and that there was almost never anything but department-wide announcements.

It would have been possible to retrieve a point-in-time snapshot from a monthly backup, and that did happen a couple of times.
What people want is that, if cgroup limits prevent a container from using more than M/N of CPU time (N the number of cores), then GOMAXPROCS defaults to M. Ditto other managed language runtimes and their equivalent parameters.

However, as far as I can tell, there's no clear way to figure out what M is, in the general case.
You are right, it is more cumbersome, but it is worth doing it if people have played a lot and they start to unconsciously remember the "weird pattern", which is basically ruining the game. I would say the printed card can be used when that risk is low.
For my convenience; and by two-step sign up I mean "enter my e-mail into a form, then receive a confirmation e-mail and click on a confirmation link to be actually subscribed".
Yeah, you just write code without worrying about whether it can be done more concise or clever, it's a very pragmatic language.

The downside is code volume, but honestly that is rarely the problem in software.
So beautiful, thanks for sharing.
The problem is all the "scientific" fields that are nearly as high on the bullshit quotient as astrology that we stubbornly continue to defend.
Now I want to run test if they are internally consistent. Give them all needed personal details and ask them to make prediction from that date to future. And then year later come back and ask them to do prediction from same point to future. Will these be the same or will they be different?
It's not new (as 2 other commenters posted). See for example (DDR4 on X470): https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X470%20Master%20SLI/index.asp#... and also (DDR4 on X570): https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X570%20Steel%20Legend/index.as...

Scroll down to the tables listing UDIMM Memory Slot and you can see how different configurations of single rank vs. double rank play out with respective to what becomes the "max" frequency.
If say it's both with snake oil.

And we see both in the study. The charts can't predict anyone and the claim of even having a consistent system falls apart.
A peak of 120 reports on Downdetector is basically nothing.
Yes but sort of what I was getting at is that individual astrologers and alchemists accomplished impressive, and usefully true, feats despite the faultiness of their tools. And their tools were eventually refined into our tools, which are much more reliable though of course still not perfect.

So who knows what we can get out of those easily disparaged modern sciences, or where they may eventually lead us. If those early pioneers had this view of their methods, had felt this sense of shame around them, where would we be?
What are you excited about concerning Ghostty? I revisit the project every once in a while, because I think Zig has a wonderful and bright future, but I don't think I could ever use a terminal emulator that isn't completely open-source. WezTerm has an _enormous_ leg up over Ghostty in this regard IMO.
> Part of the harm is in people no longer trusting drugs.

I'm not sure how trust would be eroded by the failure of an experimental drug to treat a terminal case where no other drugs are working.
I can't really disagree with the points the article makes in favor of Go, and it's not selling it over some other language/framework/tool but just celebrating how great of an ecosystem Go has. And it's true -- Go's ecosystem has matured into something very pleasant to work with.

By the same token I know professors who still write their simulation scripts in QBASIC because that's what they are familiar with and they can solve their problems quickly. You can use all sorts of tools to drive a nail.

On Go, it's almost a footnote in the context of the post, but I think a seriously underrated feature is its C-interoperability. Here [0] is an example. It's not unique of course -- tons of languages have some FFI solution for C libraries -- but Go's is I believe one of the most straightforward to use if you're already familiar with the language. And while there are portability/stability sacrifices you make when you call a native library, it does also expand the available dependencies even beyond "basically infinite."

[0] https://go.dev/blog/cgo
Many scientists hold religious beliefs, I don't see the difference here?
I assumed that the algorithm only uses the RGB sensor and the depth is ignored. I bought two d455 within the past year and they are quite nice.
Read this a couple years back. I hadn't read any SCP things at that point, but it's a really cool read (and self-contained enough that while I did look up some things on the wiki, I didn't really need to)!
Python 3.0 is older than Windows 7 and Gnome 3.0. And if GUIs can change in 16 years programming languages can do as well.
Usually I spend those 10 minutes helping them search for their stuff :-) My main interest is the lack of stress because I know where my stuff is.
Astrology continues to exist because people like to have a cognitive frameworks that give them comfort and a feeling of control over the randomness in the world around them. That is why we still have religion, which is just as bullshit as astrology and way more toxic for society.
Fluorescent talking alien raccoons! Wow, some hallucinogen.
Is this a well studied topic I can research or just a guess?
Go does support functional programming constructs (as it has first-class functions) and there are some FP libraries out there, but they are discouraged because the execution is so much slower; Go is not optimized for FP, and chooses "clumsy" for loops over clever functional programming because the loops have mechanical sympathy and are simply faster in execution speed.

That said, if you have a use case with a lot of data wrangling like that, Go may not be the best choice and a functional programming language may be a better fit.
It feels extremely strange to see Go described as a "hype" language. It was somewhat hyped around seven years ago, which is when I started using it almost exclusively. Before that, it had a strong hype peak about fourteen or fifteen years ago, just after it was born.

However, it's not a young language any more. At this point I would actually submit the opposite criticism: it is a mature language which is perhaps starting to suffer from middle-aged spread, as the bored maintainers start to stuff in more features which the language doesn't genuinely need. (Example: Iterators. Sure they're nice, but does the language really need them?) If anything, I would say it's going more the way of Java than Rust or Node.
When I first got married, my wife worked at a 7-11.

That's where people that get shit on, go to shit on other people.

I used to want to go down there, and go postal.

There's a site that has stories (I suspect not all are true), about this kind of behavior: https://notalwaysright.com/newest/
Perform better _at what_? I don’t think there’s a lot of overlap between what doctors and astrologers are trying to do
Search youtube for "texas boar hunt m134" or HeliBacon
Is that astrology or just the time of year? I.e., is the cause the position of a planet projected onto the plane perpendicular to your position at birth or some process with a strong 1/year frequency component?
> Astrology works

Citation needed. Even agreement between the astrologers was low, which is a strong argument that it doesn't work even if you believe in it. That is, the patterns "predicted" by astrology simply do not exist; individuals cannot reliably reinforce their behavior based on expected behavior because there is no agreement on what the expected behavior is.

> most doctors don't perform much better than these astrologers in my experience

I mean, we've all had bad experiences with doctors, but this is comparing apples to wooden spheres painted red. I have had doctors successfully treat patients many times, including such things as prescribing antibiotics and succesfully delivering children.
There are many reasons, from accessibility to security, performance to preference, why it is a reasonable expectation to be able to browse a web page without JS enabled.

JS can add to the core and turn paging into infinite scroll, or not require a page reload on an interaction but it should be enhancing, not fundamental. All core functionality should work without JS.

This was just a given for professionals in the industry less than a decade ago. The fact it isn’t anymore speaks loudly about the lack of mentoring and the low bar we have dropped to…
I would say there are many, many other ways to broaden my perspective, not just learning and using a different programming language. There are so many things to learn!

(And I don't necessarily suggest not learning different languages, if one fancies that. I just don't use any other ones at the moment.)
wish it used sqlite instead.
New research on why Cahokia Mounds civilization left
While this is true, especially in larger corporate settings there needs to be some pushback if someone tries to introduce a new tool, because a new tool or language means you need to include it in hiring and training.
Fine Structure by QNTM is also fantastic FYI

https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Structure-Sam-Hughes-ebook/dp/B0...
This isn't some would-be candidate saying something on the campaign trail, this is the FCC and FTC taking the first steps toward rulemaking.

You should consider this rule to be as at least as real as a bill going through congress with broad bipartisan support.
Maybe it is just too early in the morning for me, but Kary Mullis disagrees with what in particular? That astrologers disagree with each other? That astrology does no better than random guessing?

The wiki link has a single line, saying that he believed in astrology, but that's it. I'm struggling to see what point you intended with your comment.
Well, I don't think that table is sufficient to show your point.

Trivially if more individuals were born in Feb/Jan then you should expect more players to be born then. This is not the case, Feb/Jan are the 12th lowest and 10 lowest birth months (for 2023 [1]; I suspect things stay fairly in line across years).

So, while comparing apples-to-oranges, if you divide the number of players by live births you see it start at 0.3% in Jan and pretty linearly drop down to 0.18% in December.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/provisional-tables.htm
How Often Should I Charge My Phone to Prolong the Battery Life?
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Site tried to detect my location. That's creepy and invasive. Tab closed instantly.
Postgres.new
This legislation is about making it easier to cancel subscription payment services, not emails.

But, in my experience, after Gmail forced unsubscribe headers earlier this year in marketing emails (1-click unsubscribe is now built into gmail), it's become infinitely easier to clean up my inbox.

So that problem is already solved IMO. Pretty much all the big inbox providers are now forcing 1-click unsubscribe into their inbox UI.
There is something a little perverse about making them work the job as a punishment. If I was the employee I'd feel a little insulted, like "Don't worry, we gave them a much worse punishment than a big fine or jail time, we're making them work the same job as you do!"
True on principle, but if an explanation or a screenshot that costs 5 hours to make would prevent replying or even just reading support requests for 6 hours, I would call it a victory.
Yeah, that's my line of thinking as well. All these isolated metrics on health are only useful to a degree imho.
Do VScode and Jetbrains's plug-ins /extensions satisfy your scripting needs? They're in JS and Java, I think.
Rather than adding additional regulation (which rarely works, just look at Apple vs EU), the only change needed is to allow individuals to sue under the CANSPAM act. Fairly certain you'd see an immediate change in behavior. Right now, only State AGs can sue.

While we're at it, extend CANSPAM to physical mail as well so we can clean up the massive environmental burden of companies abusing the US Postal Service for marketing.

(Note, I edited the language on my physical spam rant).
A very interesting new text-to-image model.
I guess this is what people mean when they say a piece of software is "opinionated"?
Because you are attributing things that are common in enterprise environments (Bazel, monorepos, and Protobufs) to Go. It's fine if you hate these things, but saying that these are the defaults of Go isn't right, and I bet that's why people are hating on you. There's nothing default about them in Go. If you work with enterprise-y code, it shouldn't be surprising that a lot of them are going to follow Google's steps.
TBH this can be said about most programming languages, and this is one reason why Node / Electron based UIs are so popular because there's so many well-developed UI options then that are automatically cross-platform.
Developing with Python is faster.
App stores solved this problem long ago without any help from the government.
I have done it for two kids at all 3 bureaus with no issues. Probably spent 15min filling out the forms and mailing the envelopes.

> you shouldn't have an advertised process that actually leads to black holes (because it's in the company's financial interest for them to).

Of course, but not providing appropriate levels of service to the small percentage of people because they are inconsequential to big businesses is pervasive across the economy.
There's a short film of that first scene (and several others in a series) I found delightful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-IiVeGAydE