skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar analysis for The Baroque Cycle would be cool (for undefined reasons...just in a Surprised by Joy sense I suppose). I am 2/3 through Quicksilver. It looks like the used copy of The Confusion that I ordered is missing the maps. I guess they are available on the map maker's website [0].

I recall that some digital map version of the track of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was interesting when I was reading that a while back.

I think a super-interesting project of similar concept would be to fully 3D model the apartment building from Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (Knuth: "perhaps the greatest 20th century novel" [1]). Hundreds or thousands of architectural and furnishing details are described in exquisite detail, of maybe 20 apartments across 6 or 7 floors. My apologies for any gaffs in this idea--I only made it about 1/3 of the way through the book mostly because of busy life.

[0] https://baroque-cycle.com/
[1] https://cs.stanford.edu/content/contacting-donald-knuth/retd...
Show HN: AppFlowy – An Open-Source Notion Alternative Built with Flutter
Hey

I recently stumbled upon AppFlowy (https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy), an open-source project that caught my attention. It's essentially a Notion-like workspace, but with a twist:

Built with Flutter (front-end) and Rust (back-end)
Fully open-source and self-hostable
Focuses on data privacy and ownership
What I find interesting:

The tech stack choice - combining Flutter's UI capabilities with Rust's performance
It's positioning as a privacy-focused alternative to Notion
The potential for customization and extension due to its open-source nature
Their source is Iran International and that outfit is propaganda and agitprop oriented. It is as unbiased as their opposite number PressTV (run by IRI) or RT (Russian) or an ideologically committed red/blue outfit in US.

These days Reuters is the closest thing to relatively unbiased reporting in the West. imo.
Well, at least the base station opposition usually has a point: these things are goddamn eyesores.

In ye olde times, back when we actually raised taxes to have money to build things, we built aesthetically pleasing radio towers [1] [2] (my grandpa actually worked in construction of the latter as a crane operator) that have become a beloved part of our city landscapes. No one complained about RF despite the old analog emitters running multiple megawatts of power.

Nowadays? It's usually eyesores on already ugly roofs in urban areas or metal towers looking about as pleasing as a high-voltage transmission lines.

My two cents: Maybe if we would actually invest money into making things look good, we'd get less opposition. And that is valid for a looooot of other NIMBY-plagued infrastructure as well.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernmeldeturm_N%C3%BCrnberg

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympiaturm
* European double-pane sash windows: Effectively banned by various regulations

* American double-pane sash windows on hardware store shelf: $100

* European triple-pane tilt turn windows, on hardware store shelf: $200

* American triple-pane tilt turn windows, 'call for quote': $900

...

* No Salt Added Snacks in the health food section for 10% of people: $4

* Lots of Salt Added Snacks in the main section for 30% of people: $2

* The 60% of people who would prefer a moderate amount of salt for $2: Not a part of the Nash Equilibrium

There are all sorts of areas where the market offers suboptimal choices because consumer pricing, availability, product segmentation, and market segmentation is a game that is somewhat orthogonal to the range of consumers' ideal outcomes. Sometimes, regulation significantly improves those outcomes in a way that prices cannot. Banning slave labor is one example where it would be a significant benefit for a trivial cost, but the market absolutely isn't structured to pay that cost using higher prices.

Externalities not paid by consumer or manufacturer is one category of those benefits to examine, but there are many more.
Show HN: Local-first app with PGLite local database
Such a crash wouldn't tell you that much, also you would need to do 50 with various angles to have a definitive winner (of course it should be new one).

What is being done are standardized crash testings, so same environment, same speed, same obstacle, different results for each model. Even that us reduced to 0-5 stars for cateogry, no finer granularity. That's as much scientific as anybody is willing to do. I still don't consider it great since slight difference could mean very different outcomes, but for some reason manufacturers are not willing to part with 500 cars with various equipment mix to test them from all angles, speed and so on.
The linked article is about a study of mobile phone use, not proximity to a base station. I don’t know anything about base station technology, so can’t comment on the risks there, but I would imagine that the risk profile of holding an antenna to your head is different than the risk profile of living near an antenna that transmits to hundreds of devices.
Same. It seems like one of those numbers that’s dreamed up just for the sake of splashy “science” journalism.
Think through your argument.

We didn’t get 300% inflation. So clearly the value of all dollars isn’t simply a direct percentage of the size of the US economy or all wealth in the US etc.
> The article discussed higher prices during peak demand school holidays, which isn’t price gouging on its own, and only suggests normal market high-demand pricing. Most importantly, the high demand pricing is regular and predictable [..] Price gouging is most often used to describe selling basic needs at very extreme prices during an emergency.

This is more a defense of price-gouging by bringing in market-based price fixing arguments than a strong argument to defend a "fair" price.

We can take the price of insulin in the US as an example fitting that description:

- It is a "normal market" high-demand pricing

- The demand is regular and predictable.

- There no emergency (except for the diabetics that cannot afford the medicine they desperately need)

And yet, at 10x the average price of insulin on the European market, it is clearly price-gouging.
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My legal market has all kinds of hash. Some is more traditional like bubble hash, others is modern like live rosin etc.
Is there a ready-made docker image I can run this in?
If I 'know' that my opponent is adversarial, then I might assume that he's not picking from the set of 100 possible numbers, but actually from a smaller set of 'adversarial' numbers, like the set that will always take 6 or 7 guesses using the naive binary search approach, and I can adjust my strategy accordingly.
I find I get better delivery not being a Prime member. When I was using Prime, I would do their shipping, and the items would always be late. Now without it, I just choose the free shipping method, and things tend to show up a day early. Maybe just coincidence, but I've been much happier without it.
I don't have to use TeamViewer, though I very occasionally have to use Windows RDP.

You can transfer any kind of file over ssh. scp, sftp, rsync will all copy binaries. Mainly the issues come down to policy and billable time. Many of my customers simply don't allow installing anything on their servers without a tedious approval process. Even if I can install things I might spin my wheels trying to get it to work in an environment I don't have root privileges on, with no one willing to help, and I can't bill for that time. I don't work for free to get an editor installed. I use the tools I know I can find on any Linux/BSD server.

With some customers I have root privileges and manage the server for them. With others their IT dept has rules I have to follow (I freelance) if I want to keep a good relationship. Since I juggle multiple customers and environments I find it simpler not having to manage different editors and environments, so I mostly stick with the defaults. I do have a .profile and .vimrc I copy around if allowed to, that's about it.

I can't lose time/money and possibly goodwill whining about not having everything just-so for me. I recently worked on a server over ssh that didn't have tmux installed. Fortunately it did have screen, and I can use that too, no big deal. I spent less than 60 seconds figuring that out and getting to work rather than wasting hours of non-billable time annoying someone about how I needed tmux installed.
1> At 11:49, flight attendant Andreas Prodromou entered the cockpit and sat down in the captain's seat, having remained conscious by using a portable oxygen supply.
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There's a new kind of language where the practice is to use whitespace, and only whitespace, as your syntax. Newlines separate blocks and spaces separate words.

One of the unexpected extremely powerful things this allows is finding function usage extremely easy in any text editor that supports regex. You just search for ^[functionName] . Since you know that function pretty much will only be used at the beginning of lines. You can thus make edits against the AST with regexes and without parsing the AST at all.

It's pretty amazing, and leads to quite faster development, and allows one to tackle bigger and more complex problems.
One of the worst interviews I ever had was just like that.

Often times, the "gotcha" part is just dumb and nonsensical, yet gives the interviewer(s) a sense of misguided (false) superiority, and wastes everyone's time. I would venture to say that 99% of the time it's complete un-indicative of how effective the candidate would be in the role.

Referring to my aforementioned bad interview - the question, after all the technical stuff had been cleared (this was for a junior frontend dev role) - they asked "imagine a car is broken and not running. how would you go about figuring out how to fix it?". Being someone whose brother and father enjoyed fixing cars, I asked every question about the problem with the car - how it was used, what sort of car it was, what the issue with the car was, what prior problems the car had, etc. I got a bunch of useless answers. After I exhausted all my questions, the interviewers told me I had failed. Why? One interview brought out a tiny hotwheels car with a missing wheel out of his pocket, and proclaimed to say "you didn't ask if it was a real car, it's a toy car, of fucking course it's not supposed to run like a real car!" while laughing hysterically. How on earth does that indicate if a junior frontend dev can do their job or not? Stupid.
Many windows programmers fail to appreciate this. If you're using a language that provides argv-style functionality, the quoting and escaping mechanism is entirely at the mercy of that language, so you can't reliably make any general assumptions about how to quote parameters to a command line
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Thanks! Ironically i am trying to make it bordered similarly to Zed (which i assume is what you're referring to), so i may run into issues there, but i imagine that's a far lesser concern for at least a year.

Appreciate the reply, thank you!
Bit different though! In your example, the video is made from manually syncing with the song bpm, as the beep is at a constant rate. It's basically just a hand-made visualization of (every other) kick drum.

While the submission has the notes not at a basic 1/4 tempo, and is automatically "animated" based on the constrained optimization. Also leads to a much more interesting visualization :)
The mechanism for fine-tuning and the original training is exactly the same (gradient descent on weights). The effects you describe are results of what exactly is used to fine tune on.
> Lastly, customers like the bigger vehicles for the most part. It coincides well with an obesity crisis.

I disagree. I think it's a run away effect. People don't feel comfortable in smaller vehicles anymore so they buy bigger and bigger. In my observations larger folks try and buy smaller vehicles. Similar to how some women will try and fit into clothes that may be too small for them. Some of the smaller vehicles are also easier for the truly morbid folks to get in and out of. Unlike SUVs which you have to step up for. Older individuals follow the same style patterns.
Coronavirus vaccines are now pricey w/o insurance as CDC access program expires
Sure but that’s not the hypothesis, that’s your definition. Of course a definition is true.
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The NASA weekly movie selection for the ISS is the classic 1997 film "Event Horizon".

Astronauts: 8O
The list of technologies adopted by the entire tech industry that are far removed or completely miss the point of their inventor is very long.
Sure, that’s part of the gamble. But for what it’s worth, I‘m pretty skeptical that raising the price like this will lower the satisfaction of existing users, especially if the remaining ones are mostly businesses.
NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools
Yes. Anybody who has shipped software would say.

I really don’t think it is a debate. The usage of arg[0] is massively understated by the article. Just go look at gcc or any modern day compiler. Its use so much that the conversion of should we has been hashes out by many different groups yet they still chose to implement it.

The security concerns are a non issue. As arg[0] was not the problem. It was the lack of technical knowledge of how systems work and a flaw in the security application.
I would look at upwork or fiverr, there you’ll find programming work on a project basis, so essentially part time
They have gotten better but even in the '00s rust was still a problem. I had a Ford that got so rusty I had to junk it. Still ran and drove great. Some of the cheaper Asian brands such as Kia and Nissan also still had rust problems in that era. Even Mercedes of that era (W210 chassis) were rustbuckets.
> which you don't

Im interested, why would you not want that when prices are negative?
You can use some model to get people's facial landmarks, then you can collaborate with Claude to find the proper formula to calculate each symmetry.
Airline forced to rebalance planes because first class seats are too heavy
They are trade secrets.
Sure, but the 'onus onus' per RW was geopolitical pressure from the power that defeated Japan in WW2. They were forced. What is remarkable about RW's analysis is the runaway success of the planned economy that catapulted post war Japan to a position of economic power before the changed were forced on Japan's policy makers.
I like endless projects. Building something the way I want to build it is fun. Why would I ever want that to stop?

I release updates to my various endless open source projects (such as https://www.farmhand.life/ and https://chitchatter.im/) regularly to the public. They are "complete" in the sense that they are fully-formed enough to be worth playing/using. But they're not complete. They will never be complete. I don't want them to be complete. I want to build them for the rest of my life, because building them is what I love to do.
I'm curious what your goals are for this if it's free. Is there a paid tier planned?
> Data backing that claim? There’s a ton of very talented people who don’t want to start their own business, don’t want to be a peon in a large corp and join solid startups instead. Come on

Well, the entire thing is anecdotal because I haven't conducted any research.

But what I can tell you is that when I was in my 20s I hired some very talented people in their 20s.

We are now all in our 40s, and none of us are available for hire by the type of person I was in my 20s.

To the extent that we (ie. myself and those with whom I worked) are more skilled and experienced now than we were in our 20s, and to the extent that this career trajectory can be generalised at least enough to make it quite difficult to hire people more skilled and experienced than you are I stand by the claim.

Yes there are outliers, but I posit those to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
Correct, you can always find studies that say the opposite. My general rule: err on the side of caution for any new technology.
Does this require leaving location services on at all times? Or can it turn it on/off itself just to get an update? I always leave location off just because I don't want google or other apps knowing where I am at all times.
It’s you who sees it as excuses. If I have a screwdriver multitool, I don’t need another one which is for d10 only. It simply creates unnecessary clutter in a toolbox. The difference between definition and mention search for a function is:

gr<bs><bs>ion name<cr>
vs
grname<cr>

or for the current identifier, simply

gr<m-w><cr>

I could even make my own useful tools like “\[fvm]gr” for function, variable or field search and brag about it watching miserable ide guys from the high balcony, but ain’t that unnecessary as well.
This is a review of thousands of studies saying that there aren't high-quality studies that "show the opposite".
That seems unnecessarily harsh.

I don't think that's the gist of the article, but the throwaway suggestion of 'just make lots of copies, who cares about diskspace' is insufficient and thus distracts. It's.. a single line about solutions in an article that isn't _about_ solving problems, it's about highlighting a problem exists and that it's worth solving.

I read the article more as: There is __often__ no good reason to use argv[0], and it should be avoided if at all possible, and if it cannot be avoided, it would behoove the industry to work on ways to make sure in the future it can be avoidable.

For example, why in the blazes does windows taskman.exe list argv[0] in the GUI table view? That's just asking for trouble. Show the actual file path, and always an absolute one - that way you avoid confusion about which executable you're actually running, and it's just as readable if not more readable for every app _except_ those who care about argv[0], e.g. if you ran `/bin/dd` and it's actually busybox, in taskman you'd see `/bin/busybox` instead which'd be worse than seeing 'dd'. That is simple enough to solve (add an API call to update _your own process name_ or at least update your own process 'title' which interfaces like ps/taskman can use accordingly), but, now we're talking about coordinating between OS, glibc, busybox, and so on - lots of parties. I don't mind that the article doesn't delve that deep, as that wasn't the point of it. The point is simply to show the problems the kludge of 'we will show argv[0] instead of the executable name' causes.

This article feels more about explaining that in the distant past, a mistake was made with some history as to why that mistake was made and the deleterious practical effects that this mistake is causing or is likely to cause (most of them security related). It's not really about solving the problem; that presumably comes later and should be sketched out by those who are knowledgable on _that_ subject. That doesn't imply the author is ignorant or that the article is insufficiently defended. Just that it hasn't covered all aspects of what it's writing about.
I wrote my first Lisp in C++
It barely works (supports a few forms) but I wanted to familiarize myself with Lisp-flavored languages and C++ (coming from other languages). My goal was to make it a dual-mode interpreter/compiler that might target Java class files although guides out there are either Java-specific (e.g. OpenJDK rec's ASM disassembly tools) or are from a non-JNI perspective. I hope to improve this but feel like sharing my progress so far, still got a lot to learn, esp. regarding general bytecode formats.
If you guess the obvious wrong answer the choices between green and blue become more and more obvious. If you continue to guess wrong you end up with a boundary hue of 179 or 180 (bluer than 85% of the population). How is this possible? I'd suspect someone making the choices here would be colorblind and well into the 99.9th percentile.
So much so. Regulators really need to get headlight aim and brightness under control.
Packaging Trends in Python: Highlights from the 2023 Developer Survey
Yeah, I'd like to offer paid features such as custom domains, private domains, etc. For now, the cost is pretty low to serve text out of GCS.
Excluding any type of income from taxation means every other type of income needs to be taxed at a higher rate, all to protect whatever is being carved out. Thus we tax income from investments, salaries, and yes inheritance.

Inheritance tax has positive externalities as inherited wealth discourages people from being productive members of society. Meanwhile taxing salaries discourages work, and taxing investments discourages savings.
Why does the title mention specifically duckdb and postgres? It sounds like it supports multiple embedded and remote databases, and I don't see anything special in the README specifically about this pairing...
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Could you provide more details about the images you uploaded? What file formats did you use? What are the dimensions of the images? Did you encounter any error messages?