skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a native Marylander I always find myself forgetting about Cumberland, which is a shame. As someone who has mostly lived in and around Baltimore, you head west to Frederick (aka Fredneck) for the small city in the middle of rural farmland. If you keep heading west you get to Hagerstown which feels way out there in farm country. And if you keep heading west you eventually move from farms to mountains and you hit Cumberland, which looks like a city that time forgot.

As other folks have commented, there’s some beautiful architecture and the old part of the city seems like it could be a bustling place. There’s a train station and easy access to the great outdoors. But the jobs have long gone and drug addiction has taken root for so many there. I don’t know the best way to revive a place like that but I hope something eventually works.
I appreciate the motivation for creating the site. Personally, I like sites with minimal color palettes, like maybe 2-3 muted, unobtrusive colors. The brighter color should be used for highlights or emphasis. But it really depends on how the site balances its layout. Like this one works for me despite not using sans-serif fonts https://longreads.com/picks/
I might make a website about this sort of stuff!
Lost bird species and smartphone community science
Starlink still sucks for remote work. Every time the satellites switch there is a slight disconnection, causing interruption to Zoom meetings.
If 350bn is all we need to cut our emissions in Germany (we have a 4000bn annual GDP) by 75%, then I don't get what the big fuss about climate change is. Every industrial country could cough up such small an amount (loan, Fed printing money, etc).
Ukraine keeps crossing Russia's red lines. Putin keeps blinking
The parent poster was counter-arguing that tax offices won't help you come up with a better structure everywhere in the world (original example was from Philippines where that happened).

I am pretty sure I wouldn't get that here in Serbia either.
The news I have been reading was a, Ukraine is using more than NATO is producing (hence, we are depleting) and b, production is ramping up very slow.

Small fun fact when I was in the military: we had to shoot as much as possible because the ammunition was approaching shelf live. I have shot thousands of rounds while enjoying myself with the MAG. A decade later a politician suggested the military to shout 'pang! pang!' because they had no rounds to practice with. The ammunition factory (where my brother in law worked) was closed down and military compounds were converted to housing. But yes, military spending is going up fast, but this will not be in time to help Ukraine.
Exactly. And they are going to reassess your property because you did renovations and get more than the $20k they gave you over time. Not even talking about the local taxes if you get a job there.
How many trains a day?
`make` is a great tool, but specifically for this use case (creating a distributable CLI), `just` has lots of batteries-included features such as

* a way to list all available commands

* generate completions

* run shebang commands

.. and many more quality-of-life things.

It is probably possible to achieve these using `make`, but not without some hacking.
Kind of depends what exactly you're trying to learn, but if you're working up to ML/AI, then there's How to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41276675
> but every comment you want to post costs one cent.

It should cost at least 10 cents. And I think your idea is the future.
Yeah, in the states we say 4x5, but in either case it’s the most common large format film size. You buy them in boxes and use them one sheet at a time.
6 hours a *week* doesn't sound like that much of a test for VR sickness. Try 6 hours a session and then tell me it's a solved issue.
Search for huge pages in the documentation of a DBMS that implements its own caching in shared memory: Oracle [1], PostgreSQL [2], MySQL [3], etc. When you're caching hundreds of gigabytes, it makes a difference. Here's a benchmark comparing PostgreSQL performance with regular, large, and huge pages [4].

There was a really bad performance regression in Linux a couple of years ago that killed performance with large memory regions like this (can't find a useful link at the moment), and the short-term mitigation was to increase the huge page size from 2MB to 1GB.

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/exadata/post/huge-pages-in-the-cont...

[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/kernel-resources.htm...

[3] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/large-page-support.h...

[4] https://www.percona.com/blog/benchmark-postgresql-with-linux...
"Reduced local taxes by $2k/yr for five years" doesn't have the same ring.
Indeed, and this seems to be pervasive in UI design as a whole. Until not long ago, designers created palletes of styles and components to be used by programmers. Now they draw entire screens and deliver the drawings to the programmers. This puts too much decision power in the hands of a group that don't have a clear view of the requirements and development costs -- and I have serious doubts about their understanding of "user experience" as well. Like you said, it feels that their artistic conceptions trumps anything else
You’re right. Solar sails need to be massive to move anything heavy, and they take a long time to build up speed. Stopping is another big hurdle. But they’re not supposed to replace everything. They’re useful when you can’t carry fuel, like on really long missions. They’re slow, but they work for what they’re designed to do: keep going without needing fuel.
I think you have to have assets worth significantly more than one cent in order to count yourself among the wealthiest. Just my two cents.
You can keep your number if you move. My number is from another state.
Also nowadays when you get a new line you can pick any area code, so they have become somewhat meaningless.
Revelo – Index
Is this perhaps a general failure mode of private investment into civic institutions? Centralized decision-making has inevitable blind-spots and, as a general rule, doesn't work well for larger scale resource distribution problems.
The Sandwich Generation (2013)
I haven't seen any success on the Trump/Biden tariffs. They only managed to weaken US companies by cutting access to Asian markets. China is doing just fine.
...meanwhile, Playwright is sipping piña coladas?

It seems like the choice of Selenium might be a bit limiting if it doesn't allow scrolling, doesn't give access to http status codes and doesn't do full page screenshots or screenshots of specific elements.

If you're invested in Selenium for other reasons I can see why it might not be worth switching. I can't test it right now but I'd be interested to see what a simple Playwright test does with this: just scroll to the bottom and back to the top, wait for the lazy elements to load, then take a full-page screenshot.
I probably haven't had hundreds yet, but probably more than one hundred.

So many things used to come with cheap earbuds or headphones. A pocket radio. A portable CD player. A cheap MP3 player. A laptop. I've even had some small TVs come with headphones out of the box. So there's like 40+ sets I didn't even ask for over the years. Pretty much all immediate trash.

Then there are the ones I bought in a pinch. Go on a trip, realize I didn't bring my headphones, swing by the store and get a cheap pair. Being a cheap pair, they often didn't last long. There's another dozen sets.

Now the ones I actually wanted. Not all have replaceable cups or pads, so they'd often wear out after a few years. Or they were USB, and the circuitry started freaking out after a few years. On top of that I probably have different sets for different use cases. A pair for on the go. A pair for the computer. A pair for the HiFi system. A pair for the office.
A topological sort can't be used for graphs with cycles
I Want to Love Azure, but They Make It Hard
I use Makefile for my static blog that is powered by a static site generator. Something I love about this is I can have one place to describe all the different build tools. I can have PlantUML to generate PNG diagrams, Vim to generate syntax highlighted code snippets, openssl to generate certs, etc. I was one of the best choices I made for that project.
It feels like you should end with at least pointing out that there isn't actually a limit, in epsilon-delta terms. Or to the concept of limit superior and limit inferior. Or otherwise treat this as an intro to more-serious stuff.
Meta thinks they got screwed by Apple’s (and to a lesser extent Google’s) walled gardens, so now they want their own.
Offering $10-20k to move somewhere that doesn't have jobs isn't going to build a labor market. Retirees and remote workers can decide to live in a labor nowhere to stretch their house buying power, lower cost of living, etc.
>According to the researchers, the findings underscore the importance of regularly cleaning microwaves to reduce potential health risks, particularly in environments where food is handled.

Does that follow? I'd expect that as organisms adapt to environments that diverge further from the inside of your body they also become less dangerous, all things being equal. But then again I'd never heard the idea that microwaves are sterile inside and given the standing waves inside I would have dismissed it.
Except, it’s time to normalize not doing a Delaware corporation to raise capital. Plenty of other choices and many are better suited for the modern world than Delaware.
Yeah definitely dude. Climate disbelievers are actually doing good faith deep dives into the studies and identifying specific, real problems, and pushing for better science to be done.

This is evidenced by… wait… what exactly?
Does this help?

"Check out Reddit. Pick a subreddit: can start with https://reddit.com/r/popular or start your own. It's where everybody flocked to. It's decent, has decent content, decent users.

If you don't like the mods/censorship you can start your own or go choose a new subreddit. content will be the same, mods will be different and what they mod will be different."
The money was not stolen, it was never legitimate in the first place.

Such funds usually get turned over to the governing body
The content published on the site in the open was never licensed to you though.

Lets say I make a movie and do a free screening of it in a public park to get people talking about it. That doesn't mean that it's ok for someone to record that screening and for people later to go looking for that recording rather than paying to watch the movie.

And being sent to a computer and stored in memory to render it to you doesn't change that either. That's necessary for the work to be displayed to you over the Internet and the law understands that (see: "What Color Are Your Bits?")
I've used Vega as part of a complex dashboard builder (think Looker/Tableau) and it is quite powerful and flexible, but like all of these libraries once you stray from the well worn tracks things get tricky.

For example, it was difficult to build charts from pre-aggregated data, like a box plot given p5, p25, p50, mean, p75 p95 and a list of outliers.
I've never used Claude only ChatGPT. What does running a paper through Claude do?
I bought PCs around year 1998, and I don't remember porn being in the selling point, furthermore everyone I knew in 2000 had PCs because they had to use office. PCs had already infiltrated the market at the point the internet became a going concern.

In other words the internet was relatively cheap for people.
Sounds like a gift to current residents who want to leave:
"...receive $10,000.00 (“Program Incentive”) payable at closing of a home or upon proof closing has occurred... "
Meaning that it will help prop up prices for those selling.

AND/OR a gift for their local construction workers:
"... receive up to $10,000, dollar for dollar match, for approved renovations ... on an existing home ... or for a down payment on a newly constructed home ..."
Mining towns are one of the examples of human hubris and stupidity I can't get my head around. If you build something in a shitty place just because there is a single resource you can sell, and everything else you have to import, then what do you expect will happen when said resource dries up? These places were meant for people to go temporarily, make serious money, and then go back to the city or countryside to build a life there, just like people who go to oil rigs do. Instead people brought their families and created an entire town or city in the middle of nowhere.

Now, the past is past and what's done is done. Can't we just acknowledge this basic reality and let these places die and move to better ones? Maybe thanks to the internet one day they will be repopulated by small tech companies operating from a single building with 100 computers and a fiber network, but until then why bullshit ourselves?
I forgot my iPhone in a taxi in China; managed to call it and talk to the driver who had found it. Had to pay him off to get it back though :/ But it was cheaper than buying a new phone.
> So why should someone do this, unless you need a permanent human presence on the asteroid?

Activity is only economically valuable if it is valued - i.e. by people.

Unless there's a population of people living in space, the ore or products derived from ore need to eventually make their way to Earth in order to be worth while.
I've created a Google Sheet to list these programs. Got three so far. Please feel free to add any that you know of.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ahY6cI0CJVbK9PRNIkjh...
There is one difference between gibberish Chinese and Latin character sequences. In Chinese, each character indeed carry some meanings (like a word). So I guess the model may hallucinate some output inspired by these meanings. In the case "慢正潤牯" -> "Slow and positive", it actually translated the first two characters literally (慢 -> slow, 正 -> correct/positive/upright).

So equivalent English gibberish would be like "hast prank bibble done anut me me ions." Google translates this one to "对我而言，恶作剧已经完成了。" (To me, the prank has been done.) in Chinese -- very valid sentence, and "¿Me has hecho una broma a mí, Bibble?" in Spanish -- also seems valid.

I guess the model is (over) optimized to generate valid outputs. This can be a feature, so it still translates grammatically invalid but to some degree understandable text (like with typos or non-standard Internet language).
Around the time of the 386, weren’t there a bunch of lesser options that did a bunch of similar use cases well? I’m thinking Commodores, Amigas, even a NES.
Yes I would guess this is to try and encourage remote workers to move there, would be a valuable influx
What is going on with Goggle albums?
Cannot access Google albums Get a 500 error It is down all over the world
'Decadent and passive': China cracks down on 'throwing eggs' card game
The Hang Seng stock index begs to differ.
I don't think they're quite glue people in the way that Schmidt seems to have meant, but they're definitely people on the edge of teams that interface between different groups of people - PMs interface with sales, support, customers and development, while TPgMs interface with different technical teams to coordinate a bigger effort. They definitely glue different teams together into a common effort.

I'm not wholly sure what Schmidt meant. Maybe vague hangers-on people who kind of dip in and out of things and cheerlead, and take a bit of credit for every project they have a finger in, but not doing any significant lift? I'm not sure at all though. I'm just trying to rationalize it.
Reboot My Personal Blog
It only uses all-natural organic intelligence, trained with love by caring people!
I read your post at the time and found it really inspiring!

I've been working on my own Hotglue fork to hack in some of the features we were missing like draft pages and responsive "safe areas" like MMM.page.
A bit of a shame, though, because the status quo has lots wrong with it, and it can be impractically expensive to change things around eg equity structure later.
LLMs are massively useful, just not in the way that people think they should work. No, you are not the manager with AI doing the work. Instead, it is more like someone to bounce ideas off of, a teacher (who is often wrong) and a reviewer. The human, ironically, is the specialist that can get details right, not AI (at least not for now).
US Files Suit Against Georgia Tech Alleging Cybersecurity Violations
> Until the price range becomes below $1000 or so there’s virtually no market. It’s a toy. People don’t need a teleportation device. It’s fun to play with, like a toy. It doesn’t really solve enough of a “real” problem to justify the current cost.

This argument seems valid to anyone that hasn't browsed "The Sharper Image" catalog in the back of an airline seat, or even the "high end" showroom at a Best Buy.

There's been a huge market for >70" TVs since mid 2010s, costing $3,500 - $10,000 US for much of that timeframe. Today you'd have to compare to 100" class: https://www.amazon.com/100-inch-tv/s?k=100+inch+tv&s=price-d...

All your objections would certainly apply. It's a toy. People don't need it. It's fun, but doesn't solve a "real" problem. It's too expensive to be given as a gift.

AVP offers a >240" screen, and fully immersive 3D. It needs very little to make movie watching a shared experience in the same room, or with friends far away.

Priced solely against a TV, people have proven happy to pay for entertainment toys. If the initial OOTB release had supported "seeing" someone watching the same content "with" you in Disney's theater or the VR spaces, this buying segment would have taken more interest.
I have some reservations about this idea.

First, education and training products often struggle to gain traction because they go against human nature, much like gyms. Unless the benefits are immediately measurable and closely tied to advancement in education (e.g., homework answers) or employment (e.g., LeetCode), it's challenging to achieve widespread popularity. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/2024/07/26/long...

Second, how many jobs actually require project-based skills? Are these projects essential, or just nice to have? If employers know that projects are completed by following a tutorial step by step, without much problem-solving or creativity, will these projects still hold value?

Lastly, if the content is community-driven, what's the incentive for contributors to create tutorials, especially when the platform is small? This is a classic chicken-and-egg problem, and it's not an easy one to solve. Creating a tutorial is far more involved than making a photo or video, so how will you ensure the quality of the content to attract and retain users?
Sorry for spoiling your planned launch on HN. I stumbled across it by accident (such are serendipities on web), thought it was cool and fat fingered it here. Looking forward to things coming in future.
Meditation and Emotional Regulation
The ultra modern solution: just remove settings until they can all fit in a single window. And then remove a few more.
I'm sure but for people who haven't had any better, it's like the second coming of Christ. lol
> I'm not sure why Asia is a singled out here, sounds like one to trying to construe a racist motive when there is none.

How long has Asia been a race? The continent contains 60% of all humans.
Yeah, I get where you are coming from. There’s a VR experience made by Google that takes all the images from the Curiosity Rover’s stereo mast cam and turns them into a VR recreation of the surface of Mars.[1] I definitely felt some kind of way standing there on Mars, even though it was an imperfect rendering on a Quest 2. I was where no one has ever stood before and without a suit which no one will ever be able to do. VR is truly magical.

[1] https://accessmars.withgoogle.com/
Keep it simple, Russia attacked Ukraine, now they are defending it
Pfizer was the answer, 2 billion.
I really like the idea of this, really like it, but the notation /json layout honestly feels a bit of a dud.
- Academia has become a paper throughput competition
- Open access journals make it easier to game this system
- Ergo, open access journals are bad

Well, he's right that one of those things is a serious problem that needs to be addressed.
Interesting. Sounds like prompt engineering might just move from laughable to elitist field one day.
Yeah my take is that programmer's tend to make charting libraries for data they are likely to generate.
The closest thing to rationalization of what he meant I found was written 7 years ago on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Is-Eric-Schmidts-disdain-for-glue-peop...
Environmental groups capable of diving with explosives. ynow, thw same guys that accidentally spray paint the wrong airplane to protest or glue themselves to the ground

( ≧ ▽ ≦ )
It would be a smart, albeit self serving political move for VR headset makers to be advocating for carbon pricing to make their offerings more competitive with that of the travel industry.
Or https://github.com/sagiegurari/cargo-make
Show HN: Tired of Useless Web Blockers? Use FocusCLI Instead
ALL Website blocker extensions are trash, use this instead.
Use only one website at a time. No tab switching.
Focus CLI is a command-line tool which helps you block distractions by locking your screen, preventing specific keys, and setting up timed focus and break intervals.
Such as?

Best I could tell Delaware is still best state to incorporate. I’m extremely interested in contrary opinions and their basis.
I've been on Starlink since it was first commercially available (I got lucky) so I've seen a lot of changes over the years, and this did used to happen pretty regularly, but it has improved quite a bit. I don't know if Starlink fixed it or if Zoom did, but it's much better. Google Meet has handled these hiccups like a champ for a while and has gotten so good it seems like magic.
We still have email :)
Managing Multiple SaaS on a Single Server with Caddy
The law of diminishing returns[0] implies your first moves are also your highest ROI. “Make sure you’re not getting shafted.” is a good rule of thumb for a lot of things.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns
I do own a device I'm very fond of, Ploopy Mouse, but it's not likely to match your criteria. It's quite big, 3D-printed, open source, wired, and runs QMK. Loads of character :)

https://ploopy.co/mouse/
The Hottest Trend in Romance Is "Just Talking"
Personality: Hexaco vs. Big Five
> We can’t even get people to routinely turn a webcam on at most companies existing meetings.

AVP doesn't need the webcam on.

"Inside" it, your avatar could be anywhere wearing whatever, no bed pillows, PJs, or family creeping not-so-stealthily behind you.
on vivaldi(Win11) it does not work also
Tell us more about the structure. Maybe can help someone reading.
Yes, it one of the best thing that has happened in many, many years, excluding the birth of kids. It made living where we live viable in an age of remote meetings.
Still don’t see the issue.
I would really love for a Lemmy constellation to reproduce the peak Reddit experience. So far the activity isn’t there, but I’m trying to show up and be part of the solution.
I did the same! Such an easy hack.

Also the 1 helps balance/center the phone number.
Running this on Windows on an AMD card. Llama 3.1 Instruct 7B runs really well on this if anyone wants to try.
To me the size of the codebase after installing dependencies isn’t that relevant. Are you starved for 30GB for your work? My current company has projects in PHP, rust, and a bunch of frontend projects with all the modern build tooling.

The largest service we deploy is ~300Mb, maybe 200Mb if you exclude copy of Monaco that we ship in the Dist folder. That web server will have terabytes of database storage behind it and 32 or 64 Gb of Redis/Memcached behind it. If we add in the Elasticsearch we’ve got another terabyte and a ton of memory.

If those dependencies aren’t checked into version control or being shipped to prod does it really matter?
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