skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention, every government tripping over themselves to hand out all kinds of multi billion dollar subsidies to any car manufacturer willing to set up shop in their jurisdiction. And a slew of implicit subsidies to car manufacturing, use, storage/parking, legal frameworks ("if you want to murder someone and get away with it, do it with a car"), etc.
> A 2023 study found an introgession from modern humans to Neanderthals around 250,000 years ago

The article also mentions a study that suggests Neanderthal Y chromosome was introduced from modern humans in a later event.

There's no physical evidence of either of these events, but they make the modern human migration out of Africa much more puzzling.
“hacking” is the challenge of making something work in ways it was never intended - for example unlocking a car with wireless entry using a laptop and DIY electronics instead of the normal car key.

Doing it to your own car is obviously very different from stealing someone else’s, however it’s not illegal to “hack” your own car. The theft part is what gets you in trouble.
Also a physicist.

It's not quite right to call basis vectors particles, even in a free field theory. The particles correspond better to the creation / ladder operators that take you from one Hamiltonian eigenstate to another.

In a perturbative interacting case, people still think of particles as these same ladder operators, but they don't connect eigenstates so simply (the interactions generically mix all the states with the same quantum numbers).

In a strongly interacting case the story is even more subtle, because composite operators may be closer to the ladder operators between the asymptotic states, even though they're built of other... particles? Language isn't great in this instance.
>You accuse them of "indiscriminately smeared protestors", but so far as I can tell, neither @Isarel tweet nor the @ShaiDavidai thread said that all protesters were terrorists

LOL so according to your logic, although they both systematically vilified ALL protestors for months but haven't explicitly used the word "all" that is enough plausible deniability tho the smear is indiscriminate? So then we can also go through Nazi propaganda and every time it fails to include the word "all" we can assume that the Nazis didn't mean the peaceful jews, just some specific jews!? You simply want to argue for the sake of it, any sane person sees it for what it is - an attempt to vilify ALL protestors, like they have done consistently for decades.

Zionists systematically vilified ALL protestors and pro-israel media explicitly described peaceful marches as "hate marches". You're playing devil's advocate but you are doing a terrible job at it and I don't even need to take into account the history of both accounts to prove my point because it's so obvious to anybody who isn't hell-bent on denying the obvious.
Hold a rag on the chain and spin the cranks?
Now if DeX would actually be performant... unfortunately Samsung just loves putting dogshit SoCs and flash into anything that is not the Galaxy Phone lineup, not to mention their own pre-installed bloatware and general Android bloatification causing further performance issues.
Other weaknesses of Stage Manager aside, iPad has command-tab and other keyboard shortcuts. You do actually need a keyboard attached though -- otherwise, well duh, of course all manipulation has to be done with fingers.
You're right that this is a very difficult problem, but writing the document first doesn't give you much over generating it from types.

We actually have a plan for supporting multiple versions, and conversions between the corresponding types, using Dropshot as the place where that's coordinated.
turn bike upside down, spin chain with pedals using hand, while applying brush and wd40
Our ancestors and Neanderthal ancestors for that matter came there all the way from Africa. It was definitely doable at the time
It's interesting to see how in some industries there is a LOT of trust in a single person having and executing a clear vision. Creating a completely new idea with complete autonomy, authority and responsibility. Maybe the thing that comes closest is a startup founder, but in established companies there is nothing that comes close even though it's a huge drive for innovation in other industries.

Imagine if software development had the same kind of human direction/vision. Real vision entrusted to a single person with authority to execute it. Not vision that has to be brought to life through influence from playing the company politics and building it to fit some specific KPIs. Some founders might have it, also some videogame producers/directors. For the rest, most software seems to be designed by committee.
And the rest is nowadays mostly gacha developers, to which South Korea and China are also eating up their lunch, even at home.
The owner, who also tracks a Corvette, said he might upgrade the shocks next. I imagine sway bars could help too.
Pixel Tablet is the biggest let down I have ever had from a product (SW + HW combination) mine has so many bugs, so many unnecessary changes from previous versions. I don't understand how a company can release such a bad product after so many iterations.
Agreed -- we don't know all the details, and most likely it was a group effort, this debacle.
The ONLY reason I have any interest in someone's output is if it is something they themselves actually care about, what they actually think, etc. I want to know what they have to say. There is absolutely no value in them trying to say what they think I want to hear, worse, what they think most people want to hear.

MrBeast's leaked production document is pretty much exactly this: trying to anticipate what people will click on, what will go viral, and throwing all their weight behind it.

Now it's fair to say that you, personally, place no value in viral content such as that. On the other hand, it's clearly not the case that this content is of no value to anyone. Very broad-based entertainment like this is about providing a small amount of value to a very large number of people.
This is the short-sightedness of market fundamentalism. To take this to a ridiculous extreme, if I decide that taking care of my children is no longer ROI-positive, should I just decide this market has shrunk and the prudent thing to do is invest in new markets?
Behind a hermetic paywall.
I use LocalSend to share files between iOS and Linux. I don’t know if it works well for a lot of files. I use the flatpak version on Linux.
Currently a technical solo founder. Got any video recs?
They missed the opportunity to copy Samsung DeXes best party trick, getting a desktop interface on a phone by connecting an external monitor. Maybe next year.
What was their reasoning?
You had to beat level 1 and start level 2, and most people didn't because the anti-piracy was utterly brutal and would kick in at the transition from level 1 to 2, locking out even people who had legal copies.

(It would count any CD burning software being installed as meaning it was pirated, it also couldn't work properly on Windows 2000, and almost always detected as pirated on ANY NT kernel, most of the cracks didn't work either, since again you had to actually beat level 1 to find out if it thought you were a pirate, and a lot of crack teams didn't test that far)
Modern derailleur systems use very narrow chains that won't tolerate being dirty. A hub gear setup with a 1/8" chain (or an old 5-speed derailleur setup) will tolerate much more abuse. A traditional roadster bike (stadsfiets) with full-length mudguards and an enclosed chaincase throws much less dirt into the drivetrain than a sporting bicycle with neither.
Punishing them via the state is the next step. Imagine taking food from someone’s mouth because you disagree with them on a public issue.

Whatever happened to ‘I disagree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’
I don't think they should be, and I don't think that belief is as prevalent anymore. But when I was starting out, there was a real divide even between people who wrote server code and people who wrote front end code for the same product, let alone among programmers who worked on lower level or more abstract things. I assume because the web jobs were newer, and more people back in the 90s-00s had moved into those jobs from places other than the traditional CS or engineering professional tracks. But I always felt like web development was really, really hard to be good at.
For M-b and M-f, the equivalents are M-<left> and M-<right>
<in a snarly medical tyranny voice> NIE, you will have zeh vackzine!

Jokes aside though, how is it that hard for people to connect the dots of what happened after "covid"? I guess because there are many other causes for cancer that have also increased since 2019 (poorer sleep quality, worse diets, depression, social isolation).
But then again, forcibly injecting something with known carcinogens, into your blood that has since caused athletes and children to immediately collapse and die (or later on from myocarditis) should be overwhelming evidence of something akin to genocide.
I get doing it to feel less alone in the journey, but unless your target customer is other indie hackers it just invites unnecessary competition.

I get that ‘it’s not about the idea - the execution is what matters,’ but why make an already difficult journey that much harder?
I get that hardware changes but some of the most impressive projects I’ve seen involve the programmer understanding the hardware of the day. There are young programmers right now writing to the PlayStation 1. And again the principals of space and time complexity don’t change. Dijkstra wrote his shortest path finding algorithm in 1956 and it’s still useful today. But the idea of irrelevance still continues to throw fear into good programmers.
We have three UHC systems in America. Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare. All are typically worse than the private system. You want people to support UHC, fix the system first!

What I would like to see is a SLA requirement that you can submit a request for a doctor who does X and is taking new patients. If you go through that list without finding one that can actually take you in a reasonable period they have 24 hours to remedy the matter or they have to cover at in network rates any doctor you select--and that remains in effect so long as you see that doctor (they can't force you to switch doctors.) Say $100/day + costs if they fail.

They don't need more than a very short period because it shouldn't happen very often in the first place.
You may be overthinking it - most blogs simply allow the text to be the width of the window... your article is very readable in Firefox's Reader Mode, so for what it's worth, my $0.02 is that'd be fine
Handling configuration changes for every resize event is horrible. I really dislike Android's design around startup/pause/resume etc of the app.
It is not an engineering decision. There is no way that a thread can safely unlock the mutex before the CV wait without risking missed wake-ups.

The mutex unlock and CV wait must be atomic for the CV to work correctly. There is no way around it.
This has been written up on HN before. Someone will probably find the reference.
>The most interesting part of the website is that first it asks for permission to use cookies.

It's a legal requirement in the EU.
People bike in rain and snow.
Show HN: PlayCodeAI – A tool I created to let my kid create their own videogames
Hi hn,

Its been a while since my kid has been dreaming to make videogames, as you know, the entry bar is high, too many technical details are involved.

A few months ago, we started making games, we have tried many different ways, from dragging blocks to write code with a high-level library to make it simple, it is still too much work.

Getting into the AI boat, I decided to give it a try for making games, turns out that it works super nicely, still, you still have many technical concepts involved, what language should the game be written in? where do you store the file/assets? how do you run it?

I decided creating a simple playground where most of the tech details are already defined, html/javascript due to the portability they provide, we can get the code and see the result right away, same way, we can easily export it and upload it to a server.

So far, the results are amazing, my kid has managed to create 10 simple games in a few hours with no help at all (the landing page includes screenshots from these).

I strongly believe that this can help many other people to bring their ideas to life.

As of now, the tool is simple, it runs on the client side, requiring an OpenAI API Key to interact with the models, it has the problem that only paid users can access this and I hope to remove that barrier soon but this was the simplest/fastest way to get things done.

A big limitation relates to image loading, many images have CORS limitations that chatgpt can't detect, games without images aren't fun and I hope to solve this soon (suggestions accepted).

I'd also love making it simple to share the results with others.

Anyway, if your kid is willing to make a videogame, I encourage you to try this out, any feedback should help me to polish this to be usable for others.

Thanks.
Nothing for me either. Safari browser and MS Word .doc
It’s an ideal, and like any ideal we manage to capture in a six-letter word, 99% will get it completely backwards.
For example, everyone knows and agrees with the value of the phrase “think outside the box,” but only a minority ever recognizes “the box” they should be thinking outside of, and even fewer bother to fully apply the wisdom by making a habit out of finding the box that’s currently holding them at any given moment.
A swimming pool on the roof was literally proposed for Notre-Dame[1].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/15/swimming-pool-...
Many Japanese PC games and desktop applications aimed at the home market, from small to large developers, also do sort of these things. Just look up the word "AppLocale".
Ah, so basically mobile devices have almost caught up to the Xerox Star?
A year ago they ran a credit check even just for home internet, anecdata of 1.
> I haven't found a desktop operating system that ticks most of the boxes, especially security and privacy...That's why I'm so excited about these updates

Android and privacy are not two things that go together.
Adding Guava testlib's GcFinalization.awaitFullGc() before a benchmark run and -XX:+UseParallelGC, I saw the runtimes decrease by 30s in Bench_Fury_Ordinal and 20s in Bench_ObjectOutputStream. Ideally you would run using JMH to avoid jit warmup issues, previous runs, etc from polluting your results.
Optimal of you are writing crash-only, i.e. reliable, software.
A $112 for .io tld?! I remember it was 20 something back in 2014!
Any longstanding shortage is either a resource limit or because the price is too low.
Completely unrelated algorithms; it might be hard to come up with two algorithms less related to each other than module lattices LWE and supersingular isogeny graph Diffie Hellman --- even the outcomes of the two algorithmic approaches are different (SIDH was attractive because it gives you a Diffie Hellman, and Kyber gives you a KEM).

(I just want to make it clear that this isn't a lingering concern about lattice cryptography, fwiw.)
And what of the kids that do want yo learn if the phones are causing disruptions and promoting an anti-learning culture?

I think the lack of discipline (not just punishment, but more order and integrity) in schools will only worsen the societal problems we are already seeing. Is there any reason to think that allowing kids to be thugs in school won't lead to them being thugs in life?
What exactly do you mean? I migrated from one instance to another without problem, and all my followers/followings came over without an issue.
Even in that case it's pretty weak. It lacks workspaces/spaces that desktop OSes have these days, and isn't extensible the way Win/Mac/Linux desktops are.
If only it finally was available for Linux!
What an awful way to live, with the sense that everyone else is a fraud and you’re the only one that’s real. It sounds terribly lonely, and equally unattractive. Who would want to work with, or be around someone, with such a terrible opinion of others?
You’re making some very big assumptions about “consumers” here. Unlike the U.S. most European cities have decent public transport, and a car isn’t seen as essential.

I live near central London, can easily afford a car, have a private location to park a car etc etc. But I don’t own a car, or consider a car essential, driving in London is simply the slowest, most expensive and stressful form of transport. I do however consider my bike an essential transport tool, alongside my Oyster card.

If we need a car, then we just rent one (and have it dropped off near our home). So we rent a car when going on trips out of London, or needing to move items that we can’t using our bikes.

> So people aren't willing to spend thousands on a bike unless it can replace a car.

That’s a very large assumption, you also make it sound like a bike can’t replace a car. Which simply isn’t true, for many European cities the opposite is true, a car can’t replace a bike.
There are hundreds of 4-op FM synths in plugin format, one of them will surely resemble your preferences.
The AI Era: Teens, Parents, and the Adoption of Generative AI at Home and School
ChatGPT voice assistant is far too obviously useful.
It's the diamonds vs water paradox of value. Diamonds are highly valued yet practically useless to most people. Water is extremely low-valued, yet essential to all life on earth.

High-quality, investigative journalism is an essential institution for a functioning democracy, yet it's not valued by the people it is most important to: average citizens.
Unless the only thing you want is a description of the image, then the real answer is NO. You can get an LLM to do something like "If you encounter an image that is not easily convertable to standard markdown, insert a [[DESCRIPTION OF IMAGE]] here." placeholder, but at that point you've lost information that may be salient to the original PDF.

The reason is because these multimodal LLMs can give you descriptions/OCR/etc., but they cannot give you quantifiable information related to placement.

So if there was a picture of a tiger in the middle of the page converted to a bitmap, you couldn't get the LLM to give you something like this: "Image detected at pixel position (120, 200) - (240, 500)." - because that's really want you want.

You almost need segmentation system middleware that the LLM can forward to which can cut out these images to use in markdown syntax:

![A tiger burning brightly](/assets/images/tiger.png)
Biden administration proposes rules to ban Chinese-made cars over spying fears
So, can I somehow use the 1913 Webster dictionary on MacOS?
It's not in the list of configurable ones.

(If not possible, Terminal would work too.)
Pretty sure many DMVs are using that tech now. Wouldn't surprise me if it's Real ID related and integrated with TSA.
> So there’s a significant amount of labour involved in effectively hand building (...)

I call bullshit on that take. Some brands sell electric cargo trikes for around $1k, while other brands sell their cargo bikes for >5k. You can buy a brand new Opel Rocks Electric for 3k more than a cargo bike. Are we expected to believe that an electric mini car is less labour intensive than a bike frame with a bucket and a COTS electric motor? Unbelievable.
We looked at Cloudflare, porkbun, Namecheap and GoDaddy. Cloudflare is the best. Detailed write up at https://neeto.com/blog/best-place-to-buy-a-domain-without-ge....

Please post a comment incase you want something else to be added. We will update the blog.
I've never been to Seattle but this description is erfectly apt for Toronto.
I should've specified. Supported types are .docx and .pdf
> These ideas are simply inappropriate for a church, a sacred space.

Why? On a conceptual level, wouldn't a glass roof allow the people to feel closer to the heavens, while still enclosed by the holiness of the cathedral?
Non-paywall: [https://archive.ph/2024.09.22-143130/https://www.bloomberg.c...]
> The Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku was designed architect Zaha Hadid, whose buildings use soft cells to avoid or minimize corners.

Its large glass front formed by the concrete 'soft cell' is tiled, sadly, with rectangles.
And it is stable, this always shocked me when I tried out some other software for music production that it actually crashed and killed my project!

You will not have that bad experience with Ableton!
Task Positive Programming: Don't Think, Just Do
Syndicating an RSS feed to Mastodon using a Cloudflare worker
> What happens when this "AI" is used to sway an election?

It already happened and the world went merrily on its way towards wherever the hell it goes.
Nice find, didn't knew the protocol either. The site lists all available dictionaries here: https://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict4

I'll then be writing a java server for DICT. Likely add more recent types of dictionaries and acronyms to help keeping it alive.
It’s weird to say but the whole startup culture has shifted, from founder to hacker and everywhere in between. It’s a victim of its own success because no one is writing feature pieces in media on quants or finance bros with the same gusto as they did in the 2010s for tech founders.

So the attention combined with the desire to escape the grind which is only offered in combination by tech founder, has nearly fully been consumed in the broader machine of capitalism.

When we ran out of stored resources to consume, we unsustainably consumed our own attention, and then when that was gone, we turned our attention to the money machine that made it possible, and started eating that.
What if brussel sprouts tasted like Twinkies?
The term is "build in public" not "talk about money in public". If you enjoy chatting about the esoteric details of building a useful thing then great. If you're mostly trying to attract customers and you don't enjoy it, then don't do it.
Prineville Oregon[1] is not a vacation town.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prineville,_Oregon
How did you get that knowledge? Everyone?
She does have multiple videos on that channel [1] tough, including development videos [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@DahrkDaiz/videos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7HQ6jSCf0
> Now they just milk their customers, calculating that many will be too lazy to leave.

I have to admit... Why even bother moving? I'm not happy with a 60% price raise but it's still complete peanuts to me. And only half of my domains are at Gandi.

It's lame of me but I'll probably just pay.
hey cool project! thanks for your efforts in the open-source space
I definitely resonate with #1 and #3, but I got bills to pay. And some of the things I want to see in the world, well, they would require a lot of money.
Of course, as cars and bikes serve different purposes.

You're not going to take your cargo bike on a weekend 200km trip or to visit family on the other side of the state/country unless you're bent on doing exactly that.

Spending this much just to move around the city? A hard sell considering a car also doubles as a moving room with AC.

My experience is that while people tend to be irrational in one-time decisions, they're asymptotically rational facing the same problem again and again.