skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think pypi should require larger packages, like tensorflow, to self-host their releases.

There is all support for that already - the pypi index file contains arbitrary URL for data file and a sha256 hash. Let pypi store the hashes, so there is no shenanigans with versions being secretly overridden, but point the actual data URLs to other servers.

(There must obviously be a balance for availability vs pypi's cost, so maybe pypi hosts only smaller files, and larger files must be self-hosted? Or pypi hosts "major releases" while pre-releases are self-hosted? And there should be manual exceptions for "projects with funding from huge corporations" and "super popular projects from solo developers"...)
My only takeaway from this exchange is you're jealous the man had the money to just go and buy Mysterious Twitter X and do with it as he wants, instead of complaining about it like the rest of us.
I wish the regulation around customers’ personal data caused companies to treat it like nuclear waste: strive to store the least amount humanly possible while allowing the business to function, and every executive team assuming that a serious incident under their watch probably means shareholders being wiped out and end of their company in its current form.
Imagine doubling down on being an asshole about laundry.
This q has been asked so much already. Write an xor network from scratch in numpy. Then write one for mnist. Then cifar10/100. Then one rnn for text gen. Then you know more fundamentals than most practitioners.
Great to hear. I have a resin printer at home and almost never use it because it’s such a messy, sketchy (in terms of chemicals) pain to deal with. The fact that FDM is good enough now for a lot of aesthetics use cases is great. I’ll probably still have to reach for the resin printer for high pressure use cases (like injection molds) but the fact that FDM can do more than before and make commercial grade parts is really good news
Because the quality of the product is not solely in engineering's hand. We build the products, and have a lot of impact on the microdecisions, but larger feature planning usually comes from product management, who ultimately should be the ones deciding what features to build to make the customer experience better
This seems like a very annoying way to consume information. Perhaps I’m old.
F yeahhhhh ... the player that never crashed, even if Windows OS crashed all around it

This is more significant (to me) than the iPhone 16 launch, I'll pay for people who can port this to Linux (Gnome) and Mac OS.
Debian losing contributions is a fairly big deal because Debian and its derivatives represent the most popular Linux distributions.

You'd think Canonical would contribute more...

I think there's also a larger conversation of what folks really need from a Linux distribution in the year 2020+. Desktop Linux is fairly needy but AppImage and flatpak have largely fixed that.
With our calculations. Which we know use wrong distance, don’t take spin direction into account, and use newton instead of Einstein.

And use things like pi=3=1 and a whole bunch of other simplifications.

It’s a miracle it predicts anything at all.
If it is a camera then all it does is photography. If you call it a camera in your encoder and solar roof then yes sure.

You are trying to bend definitions

> Cameras can be used for many things other than photography

Like plug a hole with it or hammer a nail?
No. The Microsoft. MS invented the term. DOJ found that MS used "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" in internal documents.

Younger people don't know how absolutely ruthless and harmful Wintel monopoly was under Gates. Java did not work on purpose. Javascript did not work for purpose.

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everywhere.

They attempted to kill open web in the crib with their blackbird project. Only MSN (The Microsoft Network) for normal people.
Stupid question, posed but apparently not answered in TFA: What if a small black hole approached a person, or even came into contact? Would we see it as, say, someone's arm suddenly falling off for no apparent reason? Or would the size of the black hole be so infinitesimal that for practical purposes it wouldn't matter?

FTA: "'I think someone asked me what would happen if a primordial black hole passed through a human body,' recalls Tung, who did a quick pencil-and-paper calculation to find that if such a black hole zinged within 1 meter of a person, the force of the black hole would push the person 6 meters, or about 20 feet away in a single second. Tung also found that the odds were astronomically unlikely that a primordial black hole would pass anywhere near a person on Earth."
Did anyone ever create a good open-source library that apps can use, so they can build Fediverse features (sending posts, receiving posts, etc) into pre-existing web apps without having to implement the protocol from scratch?

I know the protocol looks fairly simple at first glance but it takes about 2 man years to build a decent implementation, which frankly just means it's too complicated. Sending text ultimately should not be that hard. One huge point of friction I found with the protocol was the failure to just make things type-safe. You have lots of object properties that are "Sometimes a string", "Sometimes an array", etc. That makes all your models super ugly and all your marshaling super ugly.

By comparison, Nostr proved you certainly can avoid all the complexity. Nostr got it right. Nostr kept it simple. And Nostr is censorship resistant unlike the Fediverse which is full of politically motivated admins who love to maintain "block lists" to be sure no "Other Viewpoints" (that disagree with their own) are allowed to proliferate. Admins were having their entire servers blocked simply for saying something nice about some POTUS candidate for example. That just creates a very toxic environment, from all the people who of course claim they're fighting toxicity.
Probably not. Accretion disks are temporary, they only exist for a few thousands/millions of years after a capture event. Something has to get really close, and the smaller your object is, the more unlikely it is for something to come close enough to be consumed.

Plus the rate at which a black hole can consume mass is proportional to mass/radius. If it's too small, it can only consume matter very slowly, which means the accretion disk would be cold and quiet.
Talking about going back memory lane :) The initial name of the project was "conduit"...
Or why can't one verify a msg on it's own isolated from all of the other events on the PDS.
This is really neat! It looks like you implemented the parser and encoder entirely in Python, how does that compare to an approach where you load an extension module in C or Rust? (Possibly with the actual V8 source)
Even if you, personally, find Jordan Peterson credible, surely you understand that most people won't?

Are you using an extremely controversial source on purpose, to prove some sort of point, or are you genuinely unaware of his cultural position?
See The Creative Act: A Way of Being - Rick Rubin

He has a couple chapters on finishing.

It is also the part of the creative process that he has modified most over his career. You can feel the tension in his very articulate exposition.
A Conversation with Lina Khan: Antitrust, Innovation, and China
You could try court disclosure docs, but they tend to all be converted to PDFs for lawyers to cope with.
One of the best pieces of software ever made. Will devour its code. Hopefully new startups like Slack can learn from it too.
Not open source, not free software. Restrictions in license found here for those curious:

https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/blob/community/LICEN...
> Well, that contradicts TFA

I'm the article author.

> That looks a lot like (at least some) metadata to me.

Yes, it's metadata.

> Also, the reference you're linking to seems to be talking about device-side data/encryption. It doesn't seem to say anything about what's stored server-side, and using which encryption keys.

iCloud Keychain is end-to-end encrypted. But it's also irrelevant to the linked article. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41636398
What’s the 1 sentence version of your point?
Money is a powerful incentive.
> That's certainly not true for open source non-Windows specific software.

Well, there's a lot of nuance in such a statement.

If you're developing an open-source library; then it's up to the vendor who uses your software to make sure that they test according to the intended purpose of the program.

If you're developing an open-source program for end users, then it's also "important to know the purpose of the program, including the computer that the program will run on." This means being very clear, when you offer the program to end users, your level of testing / support.

For example, in one of my programs: https://github.com/GWBasic/soft_matrix?tab=readme-ov-file#su...

> I currently develop on Mac. Soft Matrix successfully runs on both Intel and Apple silicon. I have not tested on Windows or Linux yet; but I am optimistic that Soft Matrix will build and run on those platforms.

Now, for Soft Matrix I developed a Rust library for reading / writing .wav files. (https://github.com/GWBasic/wave_stream) I've never made any effort to test on anything other than Mac (Apple Silicon / Intel.) If someone wants to ship software using 32-bit Linux on PowerPC, it's their responsibility to test their product. Wave_stream is just a hobby project of mine.
Less than you’d think. Not even master Yoda has a mitochondria count that high!
> All my friends who are making video games start by writing their own engine

I've been there and done that one a few times. Even if you decide to use existing tools, you can easily get caught up in these infinitely-deep pools of complexity.

I am working on a Unity project right now wherein I found myself antagonizing over how to best develop an RTS-style building placement system. Instead of doing what I would typically do (dive right in), I decided that I would rework the game concept to eliminate the need for the player to place buildings at all. After some experimentation, it turned out that this was actually a superior user experience for what I was trying to achieve. I initially rationalized it as "I'll add the building system in the next iteration". It likely won't happen now.

Less is almost always more. That small starting point actually being finished is like nitromethane for the next iteration. Getting to 100% is what makes that next pass so much better. Getting to 80% will leave you feeling like you need to push the rock back up the hill all over again.
Until stability AI admits that it only makes money when it actually supports its overwhelmingly NSFW generating user base, stability will continue to be a poor choice for investors.

I still cannot fathom how it is that image gen is still so far ahead of LLMs in regards to prompting (still can’t weigh prompts for chatGPT but I can on any image generator).
Some act that is recognized as bad by society does not stop happening - it simply ensures that members of that society are aware of the badness of the act. This has a deterrent effect because people do not choose a bad act for its own sake while people will choose neutral or good acts for the sake of the act.

Recognizing something as so bad as to be "out of the pale" does not mean that people will not talk about their desire to do it. That depends on a different societal measure - how willing are people to be open about who they really are and what they are experiencing in the moment.
Previously unknown Neolithic society in Morocco discovered
It was added by one of our regular contributors to complement the WWE & NJPW icons already in our library.

It's far from the most niche one we have, though. My personal favourite is the Chupa Chups one, which I added on a whim a few years ago after learning it was designed by Salvador Dalí.
This is the fundamental reality I keep seeing.

The people who think an LLM or other type of model can do a job are the people who don't know anything about that job.

Managers who don't know what developers do think you can replace a developer with an LLM. Can an LLM shit out some code? Sure, but that's hardly what (good) developers do.

Magazine publishers who don't know what editors do think an LLM can replace an editor. Can an LLM make a bunch of statements about the quality of a piece of writing? Sure, but they may have no basis in reality and will require a real human editor to review them. Or your publication can succumb to being LLM generated slop.

Bad coders who don't know what good coders do see that an LLM can do what they've been doing and think developers will be replaced but they don't actually realize what it means to be a developer so they don't see all the things the LLM isn't doing.

Tech bros think a model will be able to revolutionize materials development but when actual materials scientists look at the output it turns out it's mostly garbage. And crucially it took actual materials scientists spending a whole lot of time to figure that out. [0]

Most of what these models do is waste actual experts' time by forcing them to wade through huge quantities of plausible looking but completely incorrect output.

0: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00643
No. Visudo will only stop you from making a malformed sudoers file not from deleting lines you don’t understand.
New defib placement more than doubles odds of surviving cardiac arrest
Some countries are ending support for EVs. Is it too soon?
I did not know that. That's a showstopper for...a lot of use cases. Thanks for the warning.
> the iteration loop is tedious

I feel that about the cloud as a whole, tbf. It's incredibly painful to me.
How do you have my first name?
OpenIVM: A SQL-to-SQL Compiler for Incremental Computations
> Then within a few minutes

> its not like I was going to return the phone now.

Sounds like you're your own worst enemy here. You're well within the return window and could easily do so and replace it with, uh... well... let us know which mobile OS has more polish than iOS, I guess.
I find that if you are imaginative or even realistic people just think you are nuts. The reality is we will probably merge with AI and become immortal.
Portable productivity took a huge leap forward with mobile broadband, which came hand in hand with smartphones.

Laptops without access to the internet are far less productive for most people. There are so many examples of tablets and smartphones with internet connectivity replacing other machines and/or making them resilient. Point of sale systems, hotel room key, ticketing systems, translation services, navigation from any point to any point, whether it be walking, bicycling, driving, or public transit.
The Thermos is properly known as a "vacuum flask" (or Dewar flask).
I felt like I was walking through an industrial space and bonked my head on "piping" trying to read this -- hahaha! TY for melting my brain just a tiny bit.
It's probably already extent, but this gives me the idea of an open source suicide prevention platform, where struggling people can reach out to a network of non governmental real humans that, differing from ther perceived rest of the world, have the time, genuine concern and willingness to try to help. There's an enormous deficit of kindness out there, else we're brilliant at making it appear so.

And I think I agree with your comment. Making it taboo might among other unintended things, increase the allure through rebellion or breaking the rules of those who inspired the will to die.
All this tells me is that you don’t help people often enough with things they’ve already broken. It only saves the file if it’s not malformed. Doesn’t stop you from deleting something you didn’t want to.
Do we want canonical that involved in our beloved Debian? Look at what they did to glorious Ubuntu, if they think Snap is a good addition to any OS then should we listen to their input?
Economics 101 it will only drive down prices if blue origin can compete at the same price point that SpaceX currently is at for will be with starship

But I agree we need something besides effing Boeing and their incompetent anti engineering management as the main competitor to SpaceX
What is the harm in making a book available to check out? You keep using the word “peddle” as if librarians are promoting these so-called controversial books over others. If you actually visit a school library (I do because I have a kid in grade school), you’ll see almost always it’s the already-popular books that get into the choice spots in the front of the library. The kid who wants to read about puberty has to search the bowels of the library basement for it.

I think the people who spend the most time in school libraries must be the Book Banners, desperately looking high and low for something to be outraged about.

The only weird ideology youve cited so far is “human sexuality” which is neither weird nor an ideology.
I was expecting to see some comment about the quality of the code. How clean (or not) it is.

I was personaly hopping a much more ordered and clean codebase.
Yes, this is the actual issue- assuming a normal distribution in cases that are not normally distributed. People also even leave off the standard deviation, and seem to be mentally thinking of the average as a point rather than considering even the “width” of the normal distribution- so the overemphasis of the average even causes people to misunderstand things that really are normally distributed.
Mechanisms controlling petal pattern proportions to influence pollinators
Wish they bothered to preserve the commit history... Can't imagine anything sensitive in there that they couldn't share.
You can't blame this one on English.

Before the ambiguity of language can get in the way, there has to be a coherent idea that you want to express in the first place.

This license explicitly contradicts itself. It says you are encouraged to contribute changes to the source, and you may not share changes to the source with anyone ever.
There is some pretty creative swearing throughout this codebase - very entertaining!
Out of 10,000 books, I expect that there is at least one that can fairly be labeled as "no really, that's inappropriate for children".

Out of 10,000 books, I expect that there is at least one that can fairly be labeled as "what reactionary weirdo wanted that banned?"

Not everything is appropriate for children. That's just the reality of what children are.

Not everything that someone protests (or even a bunch of people protest) is inappropriate. That's just the reality of what grownups are.

So, yes, it's really easy to defend (some) censorship for children. It's hard to defend all censorship that claims to be "for children".
Replying to myself, I found 1899 paper which is more explicit on the matter, and shows how Rayleigh was not all that certain about the results:

The comparison of the present with former results throws
an interesting light upon molecular magnitudes. It has been
shown (Proc. Roy. Soc. March 1890) that the thickness of
the film of olive-oil calculated as if continuous, which
corresponds to the camphor-point, is about 2.0 μμ while
from the present curves it follows that the point at which
the tension begins to fall is about half as much, or 1.0 μμ

[...]

If we accept this view as substantially true, we
conclude that the first drop in tension corresponds to a com-
plete layer one molecule thick, and that the diameter of
a molecule of oil is about 1.0 μμ

XXXVI. Investigations in Capillarity:—The size of drops.—The liberation of gas from supersaturated solutions.—Colliding jets.—The tension of contaminated water-surfaces

If we assume that the "about 2.0 μμ" value is just the previously mentioned 1.63 nm value rounded up, then that throws a wrench into the story, in particular this bit from blog post

> Rayleigh’s final result was 1.63 nanometers. Olive oil is mainly composed of fat molecules called triacylglycerols, and we now know that they measure about 1.67 nanometers in length, implying that Rayleigh’s “primitive” estimates were off by just 2 percent

is more of a numerological coincidence, the actual estimate that Rayleigh gives is half of that!
You're still thinking of the storage modules as standalone SSDs to be managed by software, rather than devices hidden behind hardware RAID.

I did almost exactly the same kind of drive-swapping tests with the WD Black AN1500 [0] in an Intel PC, with the same results in terms of whether the system can boot from the device, but none of that supports the conclusion that Western Digital is locking down what drives can be used behind that RAID controller. You can swap drives on the AN1500, but almost any such operation will require you to erase and reinstall.

[0] https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-b...
Are there any tools that can receive an entire code base like this, then analyze and answer questions about the code, structure, functionality?
I've been pondering the complexities of making money online and decided to challenge myself: Can I earn just $1 from a product by simply asking for it?

That's how JustAsk was born.

Why Did I Do This?

- Embracing Simplicity: Tired of overcomplicating things, I wanted to strip down to the basics.

- Product over Service: I've made money through services before, but this time I wanted to see if a simple "product" could do the trick.

- Inspiration: To prove to myself (and maybe to you) that sometimes, all you need is to take direct action.

For those interested in the full story behind this experiment, you can read my detailed blog post here:

https://www.notion.so/JustAsk-Proving-to-Myself-That-Earning...

Feel free to check out the site https://justask.world/ if you're interested in this experiment.
I just don't like pandering to people trying to sow FUD like "how to keep the fabric ones clean" as if maintaing fabrics is some new concept and arguing reusable bags just aren't as big as disposable plastic bags. People asking questions or making statements like that aren't genuinely asking. If they're going to be snarky about "how do I keep fabrics clean though?" they deserve snark back.
article is paywalled
Isn’t Stability a dying company? There have been alleged controversies around the founder and his wife. And litigation from Getty. And a claim that the main tech was done by some university grad students (?). The CEO left earlier this year but I wonder what differentiates Stability today that Cameron feels is worth joining.
I see a lot of people mentioning Pydantic here, but you should take a look into TypedDict. It provides a type structure ontop of a plain dictionary, and sounds like exactly what you’d want, and is a built-in that you don’t need a dependency for.

Mypy for example can also see the types of the dictionary are supposed to be when you use it just like a normal dictionary.
I like Xianxia because there is actual power progression. Compared to many of the new mangas where characters go to max power in about half a chapter...

Also it is often quite different fantasy and sometimes world building can be truly imaginative and different. Where as lot of others are rather too formulaic.
That was a powerful docu. I remember feeling unwell for weeks proceeding. Some may have very different perspectives, but it was exceedingly sad to me. However, recommended.
They were generally uuencoded or similar
I think there was a copy of it buried somewhere in the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29379346
I'm not sure if the Fediverse is the right solution, but it is definitely the right direction. Corporate owned social media has given us the same information control issues that corporate owned news media has: censorship and narrative control. Coupled with Citizens United, it's destroyed journalism and trust in government. The only way we regain trust in both is to make it transparent and put it in a non-profit status. Here's hoping it works.