skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like if Michalangelo stood in the Sistine and been like “look how amazing what I did was” while people came though, I genuinely have no idea why anyone would have a problem with that.

Um… that’s a building supposed to be dedicated to the glory of God, not for any man to try to glorify himself. It would be in extremely poor taste to brag inside the building, indulging in the sin of pride.
The subject here and now is Wolfram and the irritation of many comes not from the work that Wolfram has achieved on his own but the utter lack of acknowledgement | recogonition of work done by others .. a substantial amount of work by others.

His New Kind of Science both grossly overstates the importance of cellular autonoma being Turing complete and utterly ignores a vast community of others who had similar ideas to Wolfram, many before Wolfram, and some whose work it has been said he lifted directly and claimed as his own.

Like if Michalangelo stood before the Mona Lisa and been like “look how amazing what I did was”.

See: (for example) A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
The Labor Theory of Value is what happens when you start where you want to end up and work backwards to support it.
Provisioning a DynamoDB table is scarcely more effort than provisioning a bucket. And you get way nicer constructs (still not as nice as RDBMS) for locking like ConditionalUpdate and TransactWrite.
Pardon the interruption of riverian activities, also i understand the b/w concern, yet this is kinda impt (so will repeat later)

[One might have to selectively apply MGM amnesia to MGM’s own teachings.. ]

Aaronson-Carroll’s quest (and indeed Kolmogorov, Prigogine, AND MGM’s ultimate quest (ergodicity econ))

is to move BEYOND what you just quoted of MGM.

(So that old teaching which you had for decades kept in cache is an instance of MGM being correct in a boring way)

(you might have been paying attention to my attempts to draw out experts recently?)

[i get why experts on quests prefer to stay silent on HN, so, dabblers, blowhards, and cranks are acceptable]
This brings me nostalgia from my days in residency. Microtomes are heavily used in anatomic pathology to examine body tissue under microscopes and for subsequent analyses.

Microtomes are also useful in surgeries. A subzero version of it called a cryostat is often used to get rapid diagnostic information. Tissue is sent to the anatomic pathology lab mid-surgery to obtain critical information (e.g., is the surgical margin of this tumor resection free of tumor cells? What is this lump of tissue incidently found on the pancreas?).

We would take the tissue, throw some green ink on it, cut it into a small piece, then rapidly freeze it by putting it in a goopy liquid medium that rapidly solidifies in the subzero ambient environment of the cryostat. Then we’d use the built in microtome which is at the same subzero temperature to cut the frozen block of goop and tissue and get a nice 10ish micron section on a glass slide. Getting the tissue on the slide correctly required a highly specialized tool to guide the tissue slice to the glass (a fine $1 paint brush held at the same temperature). Dip the glass slide into alcohol then throw some colorful stains on it and we can look at it under the microscope and determine if the surgeon needs to take more (we see that green ink) or if that unknown lesion he found is a benign growth or metastatic melanoma. Takes about 20 minutes, all done while the patient is still under anesthesia and has an open surgical site.
Seriously animal researchers are so weird..

Of course animals can form mental representations of shapes. Do you think they wouldn’t be able to form a mental representation of another one of their species? Their surroundings? Objects they commonly interact with?

It’s getting them to reproduce it on command that’s tricky, but that has nothing to do with their capabilities
Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen
I thought I was depressed, but recently realised that I’m actually feeling off because of long COVID symptoms. The brain fog is pretty much constant, and I’m definitely more forgetful and confused than I used to be. There are some cardiac symptoms as well, but those interfere less with my day to day. I’d love to find a way out of this state, but it seems that my doctor doesn’t keep up with the latest research, and doesn’t seem to think that long COVID symptoms are a thing…
Washing produce with water doesn't help much: https://www.consumerreports.org/e-coli/washing-greens-protec... It can reduce the bacterial load, but it won't eliminate it.

You need to wash things at least with soap to make an impact on bacteria, but who does that?
It means that someone was using checkbox status to encode ascii which isn't at all obvious unless you "happen" to convert the raw bytes to ascii. i'm guessing BSON when output as ascii doesn't have such shenanigans.
From the title, I hoped this might discuss real estate investment strategies in the context of climate change
Hello HN, I'm excited to share the latest update of my project, VirtualStorageLibrary.
This .NET library is designed to manage in-memory tree structures, including items, directories, and symbolic links.
In this 0.9.0 release, we've focused on important bug fixes and enhancements to improve the library's robustness and usability.

What's Improved in Version 0.9.0:

- #56 : Implemented validity checks for target node names during link creation.
- #69 : Renamed the `GetNodesWithPath` method to `GetPaths`.
- #86 : Updated `AddLinkToDictionary` to pass absolute paths for target paths.
- #144: Fixed an issue in the `RemoveNode` method that allowed deletion of the current path; now throws an exception instead.
- #145: Added validation checks to prevent incorrectly specified regular expressions.
- #146: Introduced a new exception for when a path is not found.
- #147: Added a mechanism to dynamically switch wildcard matchers, improving pattern matching flexibility.
- #148: Improved the organization of `DebuggerStepThrough` attributes across the codebase for a better debugging experience.
- #158: Fixed a bug during initialization in the `VirtualPath` class.
- #184: Resolved an exception that occurred when copying items under a symbolic link in the `CopyNode` method.

These updates aim to provide a more robust and flexible solution for managing hierarchical data structures in .NET environments.

For a detailed list of all changes, please see the release notes: https://shimodateakira.github.io/VirtualStorageLibrary/index...

Thank you for your continued interest and feedback. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this release!

- Akira Shimodate, AkiraNetwork
feel free to link your projects that were in The New York Times - or better, knowyourmeme.com!
I've known about pigeons being used for communications and even bottle-nose dolphins being used for clearing mines in WW2. But I'm just curious if they've ever attempted to use crows for reconnaissance or early warning systems. Especially for use at something like forward operating bases that are always prone to enemy ambushes. Or maybe even using crows to alert of enemy movements.

I watched a video earlier today on a YT channel I follow called Curious Droid. This episode went into how the U.S military had a hard time determining vietcong troop movements due to the thick jungle foilege. So DARPA developed this concept of electronic fenses, where the airforce would drop these sensor packages into the jungle. The package would have sesmic sensors and microphones to capture movement of enemy forces through the jungle. The problem was that this being the 1960s/70s - the batteries only lasted couple of weeks. Also data storage and tranmission rates weren't advance enough at the time to send that information to a centralize location far from the contested area. So they had to have an aircraft loitering above to collect this data and then fly the collected data to a processing facility in Thailand. By the time the data was classified and analyized, the intelligence collected wasn't really actionable for the commanders in the field.

Here is the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feDk6oaeVAY
This is why you need to be successful enough to hire your brother to be your full time PR person/hype man.

RT: ‘Wow, look how amazing Andrew is…and how humble. He’s not even bragging about the amazing things he does’
They look familiar but I can't tell if I can draw any by heart. There were so many brands to make one iconic design. Maybe TDK is the winner. I can only guess that beige colored ones are related to lessons or courses.
"The most obvious application of the mere-exposure effect is in advertising, but research on its effectiveness at enhancing consumer attitudes toward particular companies and products has been mixed."

"A subsequent review of the research concluded that exposure leads to ambivalence because it brings about a large number of associations, which tend to be both favorable and unfavorable."

This would make sense, since it's the unfamiliarity itself that elicits a negative response. Once that unfamiliarity is gone, you'd react normally (positive or negative). We're all familiar with Facebook, Google, Ford, Tide, dogs, hamsters, veal, brussels sprouts... But that doesn't mean that we necessarily have a positive view of them.

So the "Mere Exposure Effect" remains unproven for positive response in an advertising context.
>encrypted messaging app

An app that's not e2e encrypted by default, doesn't support e2e encrypted group chats, and is annoying to enable e2e encrypted messaging in.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram...
It seems terrifying at first but once you get to know it you’ll get over it. It’s super cuddly and really into graphs.
I found trying to work with them atrocious for anything that needed to be configured. You have to find the documentation for the product to see what you wanna configure, then you search the system and it's not there, so you have to find the (likely non-existent) documentation of where the snap moved the configuration to.

that's in addition to the normal gripes about application start up time, or how hard they make it to not auto-update out from under you at.

And then there's the closed nature of the snap ecosystem (single storefront controlled by Canonical), making many feel that canonical is trying to turn Ubuntu into a a more iPhone style closed system as opposed to being able to add whatever source you want to apt.
> music costs barely anything to create

I think you overlook the cost of studio time, producers, and A&R. Pop music is pretty expensive to make.
I'm still on HA since as you I have to find a viable alternative, the saddest thing is how many, dev included, do not understand the above rant, do not even have a damn idea what we are talking about...
Sued under what grounds? "Cause we don't want you to" isn't valid legal grounds.
a lot of southern schools publish in a different fashion. Most of my agricultural and husbandry knowledge of the area i live in comes from various universities .pdf files. My point is merely not publishing in Nature (or wherever) doesn't mean that serious research doesn't occur at that campus. Their "customers" may just be citizens of that state (or in some cases, that county).
Services for UNIX has been removed and the "replacement" is WSL.

I don't know if SFU was actually POSIX compliant, but Linux isn't 100% compliant and doesn't aim to be.

Maybe having some modern WSL is better than having SFU's POSIX-1990?
So this means modules like concurrent.futures can create a thread pool object (as opposed to processpool) and run in parallel?

Or is the functionality as of 3.13 still limited to low level python embedding applications?
> someone new to professional programming, or someone that's looking to learn, also needs to buy a new laptop (for a totally unrelated reason), and asks you for a recommendation based on their need to use the laptop for programming/development.

Short answer: Whatever platform you're already comfortable with.

Longer answer: It depends on the software you wish to develop. Most of the time, it hardly matters unless you're targeting a specific platform that have hardware restrictions. I can develop on Linux/macOS/Windows all equally terribly (I'm not a great developer) - I haven't really found the OS to be the bottleneck.

Web development? Any platform you're comfortable with. Most tools are cross-platform, and docker/containerization is a solved problem.

Mac/iOS software? Apple hardware is ideal for this (not because of the hardware, but that's the only place you get _supported_ by Apple on).

dotnet? Anywhere. But _better_ on Windows these days.

Android? Anywhere. Just bring plenty of RAM.
I agree that the title should changed. Depending upon the reader's location, UK is a well known uni in the area. Also, the domain gave a good hint: uky.edu
I've watched all the talks from JVMLS so you know why it's worth to do it
Cygwin is a compatibility layer between linux syscalls and windows. And that is all userspace. So if you somehow implement everything in there plus the raw kernel functions, maybe there is a chance I think.
> but still got nothing useful. I think it's fair to assume there is nothing to find there at all.

It's a good thing people who accomplish great things don't think like that or we'd have no science at all, because for millions of years we didn't. If they did, they would have had to conclude it isn't possible to predict the future. Yet here we are, knowing why apples fall (or whatever.)
> ads on Windows

I don't have that. Unless you're talking about the self-advertising Microsoft do for OneDrive/Office 365. Apple does the same thing.
Gennady Korotkevich Hits 4009 Rating; New 'Tourist' Rank Introduced
Competitive programming icon Gennady Korotkevich, aka "tourist," has shattered his own rating record, reaching an unprecedented 4009 on Codeforces. This achievement not only solidifies his position as the greatest in the field but also leads Codeforces to create a new rank, "Tourist," above the Legendary Grandmaster title, in honor of his extraordinary contributions and influence.
>The subject here and now is Wolfram and the irritation of many comes not from the work that Wolfram has achieved on his own but the utter lack of acknowledgement | recogonition of work done by others .. a substantial amount of work by others.

He wrote many essays on history of mathematics and science that IMO not just give credit where credit is due, but help immortalize these achievements.

We would be also be better off if the people who do interesting things that he wrote about bragged about them - so we'd get more exposure to the interesting things.

Ignoring bragging is easy. Finding out what Ramanujan's thought process was when he was coming up with his brilliant mathematics, in the absence of his own detailed notes, is pretty damn hard.

[1] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/category/historical-pers...
That's quite a common bias - since Mac users tend to be more enthusiastic about using Apple products they tend to be more vocal about it. The rest of the world just uses what's in front of them.
If Cloudflare was proxying or hosting Twitter and refused to block Twitter in Brazil, then… couldn’t Brazil block Cloudflare?
Stumbled by chance. chris at otari dot consulting. Currently working in AI and looking for a founding gig
Great! This also gives that option along with others so its easy to find the article.
It’ll be a nice day when AsyncRead/AsyncWrite lands in stable but I think we should appreciate that it didn’t happen hastily. Now that Linux has uring, Windows has IOCP etc we need to pass ownership of buffers to the kernel instead of passing by reference.

Edit: we use nightly Rust at work so I’m able to use async closures no problem but they’re not quite in stable just yet.
please, if you must post a paywalled article, add a link so we can read it

https://archive.is/JAJnU
The 3rd party service, do they require you to mail the actual coins to them before they authenticate?
It wasn't that abnormal for my early 20s. I'd never imagine doing anything like that now.
Nice! The wow effect was enough to imprint it into my mind.

Now I'm waiting for something that cool for Celsius and Fahrenheit...
Elon Musk's Boring Company can't get Tesla FSD to work in tunnels
> Is that not intelligence?

"Intelligence" should be adaptive, and general purpose.

Complex systems that are unable to grow or change are basically the definition of an unliving "mechanism", contrasted against an intelligent mind/being.
Multi-dimensional, dynamically sized arrays in C (and C++) the right way
hand fed a crow hot cheetos right outside the palace of fine arts. good times.
> 30 - 50 years of continual gutting of the NHS

The date range feels a bit arbitrary here. The difference between 30 and 50 years is enormous.

Also, I will get no love for this comment: Highly developed nations have no one to blame but their own democracy for failing to stop the slide. Why hasn't the same decline happened in Denmark or Japan or most other highly developed democratic nations?
That's the thing about Mongo, it's great until it's not. And Not comes quickly for many projects.

There's probably tons of small Mongo installations all over the internet doing great in their little niche. But the moment a project gets too big for Mongo, it becomes a problem very quickly. I suppose it's like comparing a bike to a car. If your problem is getting around a small town with nice weather, the bike wins. But the moment you need to move 5 people on the interstate to the next town in bad weather, there's no real choice besides the car.

That's been my experience with mongo every time
Hey HN,

I'm excited to share Code2LLM, a CLI tool that allows developers to chat with their codebase using GPT-4o or Claude-3.5 without the need for an API key. The goal is to make code exploration and debugging faster and more intuitive.

Here’s what makes Code2LLM stand out:

No API Key Required: Start interacting with your codebase right away without the hassle of managing API keys.

Multiple LLM Support: Compatible with both GPT-4o and Claude-3.5 Sonnet.

Focus on Developer Experience: Designed to be easy to use, efficient, and perfect for enhancing your development workflow.

You can find more information, along with installation instructions, on the GitHub repository: https://github.com/adhilroshan/code2llm

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any suggestions you might have. Thank you!
Ed Grochowski's Software Museum
I wouldn’t go assuming that they’re redundantly stored.

Do you have a particular government in mind?
Your brian fog more than likely comes from excess inflammatory cytokines as a result of specific T-cell populations depleted by covid.

Maybe try fixing that by regenerating part of your thymus glad with growth hormone—-either endogenous via HIIT workouts or externally administered (see the TRIIM trial).
Is this like iNaturalist?
Having a bunch of teams adding fields to JSONs doesn't exclude the end result of a competing product. You need bricks to build pyramids

The point I was making was 6 figures for that vs nothing for maintaining some dependency they use is very one-sided
only one person figured out how to sign up for free trial...

i guess we need to make it easier...

In the meantime, more explicit instructions:

after creating account, click on the username in the top right corner.

Then, enter an email, verify email.

Then, click on the username in the top right corner again.

Click on request free trial.
OK, it's was obviously wrong to create cyclic references few years ago.
there was publications about viruses "causing the host to be more outgoing/in public" in the lead-up to the part of the disease where you're laid up with fluids leaking out of every orifice. I'm fairly certain some flu and iirc sars-ncov-2 were found to display this secondary (or tertiary) effect.

So you "catch" a flu. Before you know you've caught it, suddenly you want to go out to dinner, or go to a meetup of friends that you weren't planning on, or go to the movies / a concert.

Your misrecognizing faces seems like it might have felt the onus was on you to go up to people you saw and say "hey how've you been!" which, if you were infectious, would be detrimental to other people but beneficial to the virus. maybe long-covid or whatever left that part of your brain miswired and it took however long for the brain to fix the feature.
DPI usually refers to actually poking around the contents of the packets, which in TOR are (hopefully) minimally informative. With timing attacks you just keep track of the volume.
Perhaps having an OS polyculture is a luxury afforded to organisations with lots of time and money to wear the inefficiency cost of doing things 3 or 4 different ways, or who want to intentionally prop up a competitor to ensure there is market competition (it's fabled that IBM bought so much SLES to provide a competitor to Red Hat), and maybe some other reasons.

An Ubuntu monoculture at least gives you an easy migration path to Debian.
After using Ubuntu (with a few detours here and there) since 2006, I switched everything to Debian with the latest release. I'm very happy. It feels like Ubuntu used to feel - a distro made for users first.
> The US and the UK power holders have massive incentives to privatize healthcare and schooling

This is quite a wide brush that you paint with here. Fifty states in one country, and another 60M people in the UK across its four countries. This feels like classic HN overreach.

Speaking only about US public schools, as long as your community is mostly middle class or above, your schools will be fine, as most funding comes from local property taxes. Note: This is different than almost all other highly developed nations that fund education from state or national level.
My bet would be on some compounding error from long usage also.

I'm using Apple Notes and it fails in some random ways after keeping it open for 1-2 weeks: When I try to copy something I select, it copies some random stuff, dragging text won't work, I can check/uncheck todo boxes. Goes away when I restart it.
> "Fine I'll do it myself" is a story basically as old as time.

Heavy survivorship bias in your list of examples, though.
Looks great! What are you using to generate the videos/captions?
I checked it. Looks okay, but Bash errors are pretty subtle.
Also consider Goodbye, God be with ye. [0]

Adiós - A diós - go to god. [1]

[0] https://www.thetabernaclechoir.org/articles/goodbye-is-short...

[1] https://www.spanishdict.com/answers/145252/origins-of-adis
I had projects that were in every major news outlet when I was about 20. Press doesn't mean your projects are good. Don't believe your own hype. its p toxic.
"If you see a corvid and think, 'ooh, is that a raven?', then it's a crow. If you instead think, 'dear lord that's the biggest bird I've ever seen', then it's a raven."