skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a big difference between saying "the culture isn't quite unique" and implying that without conflicts, Israel would somehow disappear, and Jews would be absorbed into the surrounding culture (of what, Lebanon? Jordan?).

I was talking about the national identity. There is frankly no point to Israel's existence, internally and externally, outside of the existential threat. It has no culture outside of the self-fulfilling prophesy of being a Jewish homeland. The culture is literally just foreign influences mixed in with the Jewish faith.

Yes, I strongly believe that without the existential threat that Israel would cease to exist. It's this existential threat that drives the agriculture and tech which is just attempts at self-sufficiency. If Jews didn't have this sentiment, the desire for a nation would fizzle out and the endless conflict with its neighbours would no longer make sense. The oppressive treatment of Palestinians would no longer have any sort of justification. Kosher slaughter and Beetroot kubbeh isn't enough.

> of what, Lebanon? Jordan?

I think you'd find that Jordan and Lebanon, at least in the developed parts, are culturally almost exactly the same. The Mizrahi influence on day-to-day Israeli culture is huge, more than some Israelis probably realize (given another commenter was convinced that Sabich would somehow be foreign to Iraqis).

> First of all, 20% of Israel's population isn't Jewish.

Israel's identity is exclusively Jewish. The extras are just there as tokens non-Jews.

> Secondly, I think the Israeli culture, even if only focusing on Israeli Jewish culture, is different from, say, American Jewish culture or other Jewish cultures around the world.

Agreed, which speaks to the lack of resilience. Compare this with, say, American Lebanese or Australian Lebanese diaspora which you can drop into Lebanon and see no difference.

There's another example of this in that region that's also visible: the existential threat on the Palestinians is what formed their national identity as well. Without that threat which shapes all of their day-to-day lives (including those in the diaspora), they would have just been absorbed into their neighbors too.
Did you have asthma as kid? I know a couple of people whose teeth are wrecked from inhaler usage. Now they tell you to rinse your teeth after using them, but didn't in the past.
We were doing “velocity” at a startup using a rack of index cards. Software is not strictly necessary when everyone is in the same room.
The argument is that using "privacy" tools makes it easier for a party to single you out, and they do have a point.
This is the coolest thing I've seen here in a while. Not to spoil it, but Liu Cixin goes into durability in the final book in the Three Body series, it left me thinking for a while about just how transient we are. How exciting that we're working to solve that problem.
Someone Ph.D track in my research group was paying tutors and having homework performed for them.

While it is certainly possible that the role falls on people who want it enough, there simply aren't a lot of people financially able to do 5-7 additional years of school on a meager research stipend, esp. if they are graduating their bachelor's program with debt. You can buoy yourself with side work or internships, but what if the thing you're passionate about isn't something that excites industry?

G. Perelman is a recluse. He sees the point of mathematicians is to advance math, not mathematicians. He's so much the opposite of what this blog post seems to shoot for.
Interesting project. It'd be nice if you could trip off the few seconds of silence that is in many of these
Let's hope we are saved from some of the AI crazyness – and especially from everything related to Meta – here in Europe...
As an R programmer the examples given on the landing page seem very foreign to me -- you are almost always writing vectorized code in R, so I would think that would be front and center.

let x: int = 1

Is this a list of ints or a pure singleton? R doesn't have scalar types, so it would seem the former, but the example makes it unclear. Later in the docs it makes it clearer:

let x: int = (1, 2, 3)

And this, as an R developer, I can definitely get behind -- the c(...) syntax is always awkward and having a native syntax for static arrays is a welcome change.
Discover a revolutionary way to create and share timelines in seconds! Perfect for visualizing historical events, project milestones, or any key dates for personal, educational, or professional use. Dive into the realms of history and planning with ease.
I would probably use NATS just because I’m more familiar. I love redis but I’m fairly skeptical when my database starts wanting to be my message broker
Do you mean inconspicuous?

- innocuous: not harmful

- inconspicuous: not clearly visible or attracting attention
> The population overwhelmingly supports the war

Yeah right because when someone calls people and asks effectively "do you support the war or do you want to go to jail" you totally get data that is not skewed in any way whatsoever.

Being openly against the war is literally illegal.
mesh is a pipe dream

change my view
Study was a bit silly. Losing $10 in a game of chance is one type of regret but real regret is normally several shades darker, or at least more embarrassing. Could make an anecdotal argument that losing a small stakes game of chance is one of the easiest levels of regret to move on from. Anyone whos seen a casino on tv could tell you this. (EMPHASIS: SMALL STAKES. Yes, gambling at advanced levels is as dark as anything i can conjure.)

The movie Challengers this year portrayed the most relatable depiction of regret ive ever seen. Made me feel like the intrusive memories of mistakes i live with daily, and keep to myself, are a universal experience. Knowing that living with regret is part of life helped me embrace it. Now i can think of it as, "my brain doing that thing that all brains do" then move on without a mental breakdown.
I was wondering if you had considered the possibility of AI companies using the recordings for voice training and faking. Good to see that you made an attempt with https://www.crowdwave.com/robots.txt but a couple suggestions.

Some robots.txt validation tools include the query string and since you have Disallow: /*.mp3$ a URL such as https://audio.crowdwave.com/DhERq8HaTKupuN5DVohWDQ/19985/CM4... might be allowed because the URL doesn't end with .mp3

Consider using

Disallow: /*.mp3

or

Disallow: /*.mp3$
Disallow: /*.mp3?

You might also want to make the same robots.txt file available at https://audio.crowdwave.com/robots.txt
Wow this is super handy! I have paid tools that function like this for a couple of specific stacks but this seems like an amazing general purpose tool.

Considering the ease of setup the README purports, a few hours of dealing with this might save me a couple hundred bucks a month in service fees.
So, is this Hell as one commenter said or an art piece or the future of social media for people who don't actually want to be social?
Me and a friend also mined a ton of bitcoin around the same time on his PC. We forgot about the whole thing when it turned out that you couldn't do anything useful with it. I wonder if the keys are still somewhere on a disk on landfill.
IPv6 is better than IPv4 and NAT. Your connection has been reset by peer.
Show HN: Comparisons – Gemini-1-5-vs-ChatGPT-4o
I can confirm this, and will add: on my Pixel 6 running GrapheneOS, I have to scroll down the "6 pack" of buttons on the in-call screen to reveal the record call button. There is no UI hint that these buttons are within a scrollable element, so discoverability is poor.
So all LinkedIn posts are of the same quality then? Would you also say that all HN comments are of the same quality too? You're painting with an awfully big brush.

Look I get it, there's a lot of crap on LinkedIn for sure, and it's pretty obvious this crowd is generally against "influencers".. I also see no value in them generally speaking.

But it's reductive, and inaccurate, to say that there's zero value across the board on there and that every post is low-value influencer-spam. Not everyone is trying to build an audience or push their newsletter.

Some people just want to share their knowledge and interact with their professional peers, and for better or worse LinkedIn is the most known place to do that..

You could say the same thing about this place. Why are we all here?
Thanks for the links!

I’d love a display that let me pick the color or picture showing on the screen when it is off, or maybe it’s the wrong question and power-efficient things with solar panels directing sun energy to batteries that keep them going on all the time is the way.
I do register that as a problem but it's the same kind of problem as bad weather. Nothing can be done about it.
This looks amazing, congrats on the release! Really looking forward for the database hosting feature as well (and probably networking and mounting data dirs).

As a side note, any reason why you decided against using docker in swarm mode as it should have all these features already built it?
Anti-fluoride people say the weirdest things.
I'd argue that since most observability use cases are "write once, read hardly ever" they aren't really transactional (OLTP-oriented). You're doing inserts at a high rate, quick scans in real time, and a few exploratory reads when you need. Generally you're not doing upserts, overwriting existing data; you're doing time-series, where each "moment" has to be captured atomically.

Given that, it makes sense that if you have an OLAP data, like Apache Pinot, you can do the same and better than OLTP. You can do faster aggregations. Quicker large range or full table scans.

(Disclosure: I work at StarTree, which is powered by Apache Pinot)
Pray tell, what browser has had these problems?
The whole thing of Hamas is embedding itself and its infrastructure in the civilian areas. If civilians are requested to evacuate, informed about the fact their houses are used by Hamas and the rocket launchers, rocket factories, tunnels and electric infrastructure to support all of that is going to be targeted, then perhaps it is not exactly fair to use words “bombing civilians” as a matter or fact?
I trust Musks ability to attract stupid money and hype towards highly beneficial technology and research goals.
Because that leaves a lot of money on the table for competitors to fund a business.
Show HN: Discover your true MBTI by having your friends take the test for you
I’ve taken a bunch of personality tests over the years, but I keep getting different results every time. It got me thinking – what’s a better (and more fun) way to really figure out who I am?

Then I had an idea: wouldn’t it be way more accurate if the people who actually know me took the test for me? They probably see things about me that I might not notice.

So, I created truembti.com – a website where your friends take the test for you, and you take it for them. I hope it’s a fun way to discover your personality type and have a good time with your friends in the process.

Please check it out, and let me know what you think!

P.S. I used Cursor to build the site, and it was a game-changer. It wrote over 90% of the code – highly recommend!
My first thought was, which windows version does it need? /s
Thermodynamics says "no", at least on macroscopic scales.

My thermodynamics lectures are some 20 years in the past, so my memory is a bit rusty, but iirc you need "free energy", that is, usable energy in the form of a low-entropy energy source, which is usually a temperature gradient (but could also be a radiation source or something else).

To get to these results, you have to do statistics of large numbers, so it's theoretically possible to violate this on the nano scale.

The optimist in me hopes that we've found a scalable way to exploit this, the pessimist/skeptic in me says it's another cold fusion moment.
Most data scientists know git! Or, at the very least, how to follow a step-by-step git guide.

If notebooks are tracked anywhere at an org it's either where their code is stored (GitHub/GitLab), or in their managed notebook environment (Databricks/Hex)
Do you run jetstream on k8s? I’m curious if blob/kv is more reliable than redis sentinel on single node deployments. Lots of quorum issues with redis
It's widely known what sort of mental health today's 20-something are struggling with at a staggering rate of like 80% of them. Many employers won't even consider hiring them because of the self-entitlement and underdeveloped emotional disposition. I didn't make this all up in my head. I just read a lot. It's a generalization yes, because all statistical facts are by definition generalizations.
Thanks. That's a good point, should have linked to the landing page instead :)
>They want you to run IPv4 too.

Exactly.

I'd expect that they don't much care which version of IP you use, as long as they can show you ads -- which is their business model after all.
One of the major points in that book (missed by a lot of people who read it seemingly and certainly missed if you read about that book) was that NASA had a system for normalizing deviance officially in that they knew the Shuttle was unsafe at any speed and had numerous unacceptable safety flaws. For each launch they had a meeting where they reviewed all the things that they knew were wrong and made the decision that the risk was acceptable or could be managed and would go ahead anyway.

When the O-ring problem was presented at this meeting it was just another in a long list of things that could blow up the shuttle and wasn't all that remarkable among them except that, in retrospect, it really did blow up the shuttle.

That is, NASA's normalization of deviance wasn't like the individual worker who comes to the conclusion that it is OK to smoke pot and weld, but rather was an official process in the organization. A similar thing is seen in other safety critical fields. If you build a nuclear power plant with two units one might be the mirror of the other except you forgot to mirror how the door to the employee break room opens so it opens the wrong way. Anything complex like that it going to wind up with numerous deviances of that general nature and it is the job of a committee to file out paperwork on each and every one of them to decide what is going to be done about it from nothing to reworking it or taking some remedial measures in operations.
Identifying Contention Points in MySQL Using InnoDB Semaphores
What about a SIP phone? You can get a number cheaply from a cloud operator, and it can call over the internet for free.
It’s not obvious to me why this experiment induced regret specifically. Are we sure the participants didn’t feel some other emotion like annoyance at losing?
> I wonder though what things look like with super high dimensions.

Biology.
But see, Jesus taught that sin isn't just what we do. It starts in our hearts, and then what's inside spills out.

Even if you're the government, you can't write a law or enforce a law against, say, adultery. You can stop - or at least reduce - the external behavior. But you can't change hearts by an external law. You just create people who are different on the outside than they are on the inside. "Hypocrites" is a term for that, which comes from the Greek word for "actors" - people who pretend to be something they're not.

That's not going to keep them from hell. It might keep them from jail, but that's not the same thing.
You are a shining example!
It doesn’t lack anything in particular, it’s just heavier weight compared to Rabbit. I would start with amqp and iterate towards NATS with scale
Exploiting for profit -- That sounds exactly like what some religious structures are doing. Perhaps "fun" for them, but bad for the ones exploited.
Show HN: Fal.ai – generative media platform for developers
They don't desperately want you to run IPv6. They're not doing anything to incentivise it in any way.

They just deployed it because that's the direction the tech world is moving, and there was increasing IPv6 presence in end user environments.
They're not though.

AOC being the most prominent example that comes to mind immediately.
Make sure you talk to all potential users of the library and work on understanding what their issues are. Take them seriously.

Don't become a bottleneck. If you don't deliver what's needed, teams often are forced to do their own thing in order to meet deadlines.

Run it like an open source project. Allow others to contribute. Make it easy for them to do so.

Don't lose interest after the first release. Keep up the momentum.
Why do all these things use such damnably inefficient wire formats?

For metrics, we're shipping a bunch of numbers over the wire, with some string tags. So why not something like:

message Measurements {
uint32 metric_id = 1;
uint64 t0_seconds = 2;
uint32 t0_nanoseconds = 3;
repeated uint64 delta_nanoseconds [packed = true] = 4;
repeated int64 values [packed = true] = 5;
}

Where delta_nanoseconds represents a series of deltas from timestamp t0 and values has the same length as delta_nanoseconds. Tags could be sent separately:

message Tags {
uint32 metric_id = 1;
repeated string tags = 2;
}

That way you only have to send the tags if they change and the values are encoded efficiently. I bet you could have really nice granular monitoring e.g. sub ms precision quite cheaply this way.

Obviously there are further optimizations we can make if e.g. we know the values will respond nicely to delta encoding.
New studies unlock the mysteries of prosopometamorphopsia, a disorder that distorts faces. One woman’s condition improves when she wears orange-tinted glasses
If the paper's claim is correct, it would literally be the creation of Maxwell's Daemon.

I am banking on the author not fully understanding their own experiment, rather than a complete overturning of thermodynamics. I would be very excited to be wrong, though.
Fair Source licensing can work if adopted early and openly
Kernel 6.11: Power moves and hardware grooves
The Hacking Complication, How It Works [video]
Yeah, Unity has terrible GC, even with incremental per-frame collection improvement. It's going to be interesting to look at the difference once they finish migration to CoreCLR.

If you'd like to look at a complex project, you can try Ryujinx: https://www.ryujinx.org. It even has native integration[0] with Apple Hypervisor to run certain games as-is on ARM64 Macs. There's also Metal back-end in the works.

Other than that, any new .NET application runs on MacOS provided they don't use platform-specific libraries (either something that uses Linux dependencies or kernel APIs or Windows ones). My daily drive device is an MBP.

A side-note is that on MacOS .NET does not use regions-based heaps yet and uses older segment-based ones. This has implications in terms of worse memory usage efficiency but nothing world-ending.

[0]: https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/tree/73f985d27ca0c85f053e...
In Search of Discipline
I second this. It's too risky and simply not worth it. Nevertheless, I find this "optional ACID" thing interesting. Many years ago when I was a graduate student, NoSQL was a big thing. It was widely claimed that transactions were expensive and you had to drop them in exchange to scale. I always had this question that if transactions were the culprit, why not turning them off? I later found that the relational system is such a monolith that everything (caching, concurrency control, logging, locking) is wired together in an extremely complex way and there is simply no "turning off".
Hard to see that as “abusive”…
A startup utopia became a nightmare for Honduras
I’ll reach out. I am planning to build it for my company
The account seems to be connected to a real person, but it has a high number of submissions (over 350 submissions the past 30 days)
Amazon Ads' new Video generator makes visually ads–fast
Before you read this, it's worth your time to check out Haraway's Wikipedia page. The criticism section sums things up nicely:

Haraway's work has been criticized for being "methodologically vague" and using noticeably opaque language that is "sometimes concealing in an apparently deliberate way". Several reviewers have argued that her understanding of the scientific method is questionable, and that her explorations of epistemology at times leave her texts virtually meaning-free.

This manifesto is exactly the kind of nonsense that led Alan Sokal to send his fake paper to Social Text. Essays like this should come with a Surgeon General's warning: this writing may be amusing, but if you take it seriously it will rot your brain.
I'm a waffler on this as well, increasingly leaning away from containers lately. I can recall one time in my pre-Docker career when I was affected by a bug related to the fact that software developed on Mac OS ran differently than software running on CentOS in production. But I have spent untold countless hours trying to figure out various Docker-related quirks.

If you legitimately need to run your software on multiple OSes in production, by all means, containerize it. But in 15 years I have never had a need to do that. I have a rock solid bash script that deploys and daemonizes an executable on a linux box, takes like 2 seconds to run, and saves me hours and hours of Dockery.
>It wasn't very long ago...

If that's how geopolitics worked China would still be an American ally, vice versa. But alliances can change. Once an enemy always an enemy isn't a thing.

>they don't actually care about the health of the state

That's true but it's not a requirement for Xi to care about Russia. In fact I'm very sure he doesn't care about the Chinese people either. Russia needs China and the CCP uses Russia, not just for cheap energy but for fighting a war that many Westerners haven't even realized that it has begun already. Russia and China have a common enemy, that enemy is NATO.
Thank you for the suggestions. We are currently developing a cloud-native version of EloqKV, with both Serverless and BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) options underway. The binary is a technology preview for those interested in experiencing the new architecture. EloqKV is built with a cloud-native focus, featuring a quaternary decoupling architecture that enables independent scaling of CPU, memory, storage, and logging. This design maximizes cloud elasticity for optimal scalability and resource efficiency. So I completely agree with the suggestion to offer a SaaS solution, allowing users to experiment.
Thanks for sharing. Despite some prior encounters with diatomaceous earth over the years, I never paid much thought to what I had been handling until I saw some diatom art a few months ago at the Exploratorium. I've been crazy about them ever since and suddenly want to know everything there is to know about them!

I'm also tempted to copycat some of those YouTube microbiologists who collect water samples from random places and throw them under a microscope to look at diatoms, among other things. I could possibly convince my retired pathologist mom to gift me her microscope and repurpose it for exploring the microcosmos :)
Sounds like a great idea for wildlife tracking.

They already have miniature kinetic energy generators, now they can pair with heat difference generators (air vs animal body temp)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38086227
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