skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we'll be writing about the Higgs until the end of humanity

We had solid reason to believe the Higgs boson existed in the 1970s [1][2] as part of electroweak symmetry and the Standard Model, the most precise scientific theory ever proposed and confirmed. We built the LHC to find the Higgs, and it did. That was a good investment.

The FCC has no similar theoretical backing. It's simply a deeper borehole. Maybe there are WIMPs in that mass range. But there is no theoretical reason to believe they're in that range. It's simply experimental deduction against infinity. If they aren't in the FCC's range, there is about equal likelihood they're in the next energy band. It's not totally worthless. But it's terrible bang for buck at $17bn estimated.

The electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces merge into the electroweak force at 246 GeV [3]. The LHC fires at nearly 60x that [4]. (SPS and Fermilab fired above 246 GeV before that [5].) The electroweak force merges with the strong nuclear force into the electronuclear force around 10 ^ 16 GeV [6]. That is where we'll see truly groundbreaking physics. Using the LHC's construction, we'd need a 0.44 light year (27,800 AU) diameter synchrotron to generate those energies. Pluto orbits around 40 AU. Going back to the analogy, we either need a massive change in the scale of human engineering or a different approach to find the answers we're seeking.

[1] https://cds.cern.ch/record/874049/files/CM-P00061607.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model#Historical_back...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroweak_interaction

[4] https://home.cern/science/engineering/restarting-lhc-why-13-...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Proton_Synchrotron

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory
Thanks! Yeah, creating an abstraction over the raw JSON and how you want to use it in your code makes it more practical.
aka your idea/proposition wasn't compelling enough.
I was having some difficulty figuring out how Hy actually is translated to Python (and wasn't even sure if it was compiled or interpreted). Eventually I found on Wikipedia the following:
> Hy is a dialect of the Lisp programming language designed to interact with Python by translating s-expressions into Python's abstract syntax tree (AST).

Also, looking at the code on Github suggests this compiler is written in Python (see https://github.com/hylang/hy/blob/master/hy/compiler.py).

I kind of wish this was made more clear on the main website. Perhaps, instead of introducing Hy as "a Lisp dialect that's embedded in Python", introduce it as "a Lisp dialect that compiles to Python's AST". The words "embedded in Python" don't make it very clear just how it's embedded into Python. The various ways you can embed a Lisp look very different and have very different tradeoffs.

For example, off the top of my head, I could "embed" a Lisp by writing an interpreter (in C if I care about performance) and letting it be called from Python, perhaps passing in a Python list instead of a string to make it more "native". Or I could "embed" a Lisp by compiling to Python bytecode. Or I could "embed" a Lisp by translating it directly to Python source code. Etc.

Regardless, interesting project!
The existence of a guide to install Python 2 on "Mac OS X" suggests this hasn't been updated in a long time. It was written by Kenneth Reitz (a controversial figure), and it seems to promote pipenv a lot (which is a terrible packaging thing that doesn't really solve any packaging problems).
Show HN: AI as a Mini-Product Manager
Hey folks, I'm Yuval. I run a tiny startup called Glitter AI. It's just me full-time here, with a couple of freelances to help here and there.

A couple of months ago, I went from managing zero requests to hundreds -- overnight (won Product of the day on Product Hunt). As someone who gets VERY easily distracted (maybe you relate), I had to find some sort of way of handling all the chaos if I didn't want to burn out. I came up with a pretty cool automation flow that I thought folks on HN here may be interested in reading about :)

So here goes:

Most of my interactions come through Intercom. After the product hunt launch, I got waves of bug reports and feature requests. So I link every incoming message to a webhook. I do manually trigger this step through Intercom after replying to the customer (so there's context for the AI - more on that in a bit), but then everything from there on out is automatic.

Next, Make.com grabs the conversation details and runs them through prompts that guide OpenAI to "act like a savvy product manager." The task is to act like a customer-support-rep-meets-PM: parse and summarize conversations into actionable points—be it a bug report, feature request, or feedback (I'll include a link to a post with the full prompt below).

But summarizing wasn’t enough. I needed this flow to live somewhere, and to categorize everything.

I chose Notion, but it could have just as easily been Airtable or the likes (or Excel, honestly). I call the space in Notion my "Second Brain."

Once in Notion, every request is linked back to its original Intercom conversation, which helps me quickly see patterns like repeated feature requests or pesky recurring bugs. It’s like having a high-level map of what users need.

Then in Notion I do manually quickly go through the summary and tags to ensure everything is in place. I then attach those clean summaries to existing pages using a variation of the RICE framework to prioritize my action items.

Every page counts the number of requests linking to it, so I can keep track of recurring bug reports / feature requests / product feedback etc and prioritize accordingly.

I can't include screenshots here, so I'm linking to my original post. It's mostly the same content as here, but with the prompt and a bit more detail, if you're interested:
https://www.glitter.io/blog/how-i-use-ai-and-automation-to-r...
This is something that really bothered me - I had an app that was small and worked fine on the latest Android OS, yet they took the app and account down because we hadn’t uploaded a new version in a year. Appeals didn’t help
It seems like ozone is the missing piece. The only ones that measure outdoor ozone are governments, and the numbers keep increasing.
That's the whole point. It's not at all obvious that you want to show the plot.

It's just as valid to save the plot and use the file in an external document.
Between 2010 and 2020 I've ordered something from Amazon around 5 times, and each time they spelled my legal name wrong, each time in a different way (due to encoding issues). And I'm an european, living in a large country. So I'm not surprised CJK languages have this problem.
> Maybe I misunderstand what you're suggesting, but aren't containers pretty much that application platform?

That’s right. And for UI, web is the obvious choice. But it’s not an application platform alone. You need at the very least file systems and networking/routing over https and maybe lower level protocol support too, that apps can use/discover without having to have a phd in Linux configuration. But to be truly useful, you need a lot more stuff wrt identity & auth, server-to-server networking, service discovery, cross-app communication, etc. Something more like Dokku probably.

> Or stuff like Helm, when you're talking about larger, more complex deployments?

Well fortunately you don’t need to open the Pandora’s box of consensus problems for a personal node (again like any other device). Also too much Yaml to make it sane probably?
- Y Combinator has a Co‑Founder Matching https://www.ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching

- I've heard lots of success stories with On Deck https://www.beondeck.com
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Paul Graham gave a talk to college students that covered this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii1jcLg-eIQ

In short: build things you are interested in with people who are also interested in those things. Don't call it a startup at first; just make projects.
This might be a great tool, but the demo is horrible. The gif slowly builds up to something interesting, showing the setup of the tool. But then when it gets to showing the output, the gif resets back to the beginning. What does the tools actually provide?

Instead of a gif, please just paste that output into code fences in the README file.
A google search can lead you to various services that offer cofounder matching.

One is run by y combinator.

Open questions are: why do you really need a cofounder? Are you some idea guy? The technical people probably dont want to team up with a student that has nothing to show.

If your idea is good, how do you know someone wont steal it?

Can you build your product on your own? Or by hiring someone? That removes a lot of issues later.
Yeah, it's an interesting problem to solve. The library is designed to parse incomplete json without waiting for the stream to finish.
At long last! Now I can finally clean up https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy (I've been poking at it over the years, but every time I upgraded hy portions of the syntax broke, or things would get moved in and out of the hyrule package, etc.)

By the way, Hy works really well inside https://holzschu.github.io/a-Shell_iOS on the iPad, although the syntax highlighting in vim/neovim needs to catch up to the 0.29+ releases and async.

Although I've tried using Fennel and Guile instead over the years, having access to Python libraries and ecosystem is preferable to me, and with async I can do some very nice, efficient API wrangling (doing HTTPS with fine-grained control over socket re-use and headers remains a pain in various Schemes, so I very much prefer using aiohttp)
> no one my age wants to aim big

Just a point. Nobody any age really wants to aim big. You'll often have to go at it yourself and in your pursuits make the "big" seem more surmountable. That's when they'll want to tag along.
The problem ist not that its shit, the problem is that in our world there are a lot of people who can't afford a $1000 laptop and Apple doesn't cater to these people at all.

Smartphones helped here a lot though but are not always an alternative. A young person barly making enough for studing (a person who needs a keyboard).
Can you go into a bit more detail on what you see as the problem in non-repudiation of presentation?
The openings were identically sized, but their position was randomized.
The Cascade Range did not exist during the Cretaceous era. Those mountains arose through subduction and volcanism starting around 37 Mya.

Even if there were mountains around, 2K meters is not that high. I used to live in a town at 2500 meters elevation in Colorado.
Most fossils we know about come from wetland and marine environments. It's extremely rare to find things for mountains and jungles. Fossils require quick deposition and the right conditions... Exciting stuff.
It's just a waste of time.
I wish users more aggressive about their software. At least once a week I hear something along the lines of:

> I'm not a technology person, so I can't make X do Y

It would be so much better if the go to response was:

> This technology sucks, so I can't make X do Y. And if it can't even manage to make Y easy, then I'm sure not going to trust it with Z, and I'm going to tell my friends that they shouldn't either.

If the business types need to be reminded that the quality problem is hurting them, then we should coordinate among ourselves to ensure that it hurts even more until they notice.
What parts are closed off?
I'm surprised to hear this. Fortunately it doesn't look like the source code itself got taken over [1], and of course F-Droid, which is always the best place to get any open source Android application, still has the same version as the latest Github release. [2]

These applications are blessedly feature complete, and I haven't noticed any issues being "stuck" on the F-Droid versions.

[1] https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-File-Manager

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.filema...
Neither of those sound like screen locks, they both mention it only happens when turning on your phone.
While not a rule sustainability should be a factor to consider imo. Author would quickly find out what an impossible routine or habit looks like.

I consider calculating it would be along the lines of: sustainability = effort x time.
Why so snarky?

There are mainboards who integrate this type of stuff onto their mainboard controller
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41616540 48 points by kawera 4 hours ago
When we design data structures do we not say that the sum of all things are intended tradeoffs? It doesn’t make sense to say that you intended to buy milk but you didn’t intend to spend money. Nothing in life works like that.
XML has a sweet advantage though. It can be styled in the browser. For example a sitemap that works for Google, OpenAI, &c. and is human readable looking like a web page.

Example:

https://www.wpbeginner.com/sitemap.xml
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every project falls well short of its goals. if you aim really big, there is a much better chance that there will be something of real value in the parts. a half-baked mvp of a tiny idea is almost always worthless.
Just buy semaglutide from a peptides vendor (typically $100 per 10mg).
Even better, let the devs just watch the users use the product.

I often join support when they have a call with a customer demonstrating an issue. I also sometimes get to join support when they're on-site for training or similar.

Every time I watch users use our product, I learn so much about what to do and what not to do.
That’s what I’ve been fearing, too. It’s like dressing up as medical workers or using chemical weapons: no matter the legitimacy of the current target, it’s virtually certain that someone else will cite that as a justification for why they’re doing something similar. This seems especially dicey in the generative AI era where it’d be increasingly cheap for some government to “prove” that the people they just bombed were Hezbollah-level threats.
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“Sigfrid von Shrink - computer shrink”

This is called Gateway by Frederick Pohl
An analogy: /pol/ used to be a libertarian board, but once it watched Ron Paul receive two screwjobs and saw that the anti-libertarians are actually militant (even if only covertly), /pol/ realized a militant ideology is the only solution as a bunch of ragtag armed individualists are no match against an organized instrument.

Libertarianism will make its greatest advancements in creating software and systems which render groups redundant and/or impotent vs individuals. A homomorphically encrypting, opaque, Monero-like Etherium would threaten the neccessity of certain governmental functions and lock the government out from observing (like Bitcoin) and manipulating (with force) participants.

Uncensorable prediction markets, DAOs, the possibilities...
Thank you! And sorry for that!

I see that you are registered in Saint Leu now, but if you want you can choose Saint Denis now.
Hey folks, I'm around to answer anyone's questions :)
porkbun is still a classic "good" company of "we just want to do this one thing and only this one thing and it's clear what you're getting"
We have the same. I'm not sure if it's something built into humans but it turns out very much like the lunchroom at school, where the same people gravitate to the same areas/desks. I've probably sat in one of the same four desks for the past year and know all the people around me.

Also share in your experience that I'm going into Zoom with my team on a different coast, or other teams across the world. I'm the only one at my hq. I was thinking about this the other day and it's actually kinda nice - the people around me are on different teams so I get to talk to them about their work and I don't have deal with my team complaining endlessly about our problems! :)
Recent science suggests that the body adjusts to burn approximately the same amount of calories per day, given a consistent amount of activity, regardless of how much activity there actually is. So, a person with an active lifestyle will burn approximately the average 2,000 calories, but a person at rest will also burn about the same number.

I'm oversimplifying massively, but essentially, the theory is that if you don't give your body an outlet to burn with, it will burn the calories on things that aren't good for you. Eg, increasing inflammation.

It wouldn't surprise me if some of these effects are contributing factors.

Source: https://youtu.be/vSSkDos2hzo?si=CrPh2_vLRqHG0Z3i
their biz is affiliate marketing.
so yea, paid for, effectively.
Think of on-call like medical triage. On-call should triage outage (partial/full) level scenarios and respond to alerts, take immediate actions to remedy the situation (restart services, scale up, etc.) and then create follow-on tickets to address root causes that go into the pool of work the entire team works. Like an ER team stabilizing a patient and identifying next steps or sending the patient off to a different team to take time in solving their longer term issue.

The team needs to collectively work project work _and_ opex work coming from on-call. On-call should be a rotation through the team. Runbooks should be created on how to deal with scenarios and iterated on to keep updated.

Project work and opex work are related, if you have a separate team dealing with on-call from project work then there isn't a sense of ownership of the product since its like throwing things over a wall to another team to deal with cleaning up a mess.
I maxed out the fireball spell, then targeted it at the stone walls of a building to let the splash damage murder the residents without alerting the guards or accumulating evil points. Great way to open new properties on the rental market.
You're a kid, you don't have any ties. Your time is cheap now. So just hack, start and dare yourself. The more you code, the more you network, the more mistakes you make now the better. The cost is low and you'll learn very quickly from it.
> In usual conversation “is your phone unlocked?” could mean 1 or 3

Is that really something that gets confused often or any more often than any other disambiguation in the English language?
Sorry for this! You should be able to, now
I'm imagining something like a Rabbit, but shaped like a giant thin Chiclet, 5 cm on a side, with no display or visible buttons. Touch it and it plays a tone, then you speak to it and it speaks back.
Your reality, perhaps

In the last 4 compagnies I worked for (the multi-billions kind of compagnies), everybody uses workspace, there are no office 365
I agree that it has its problems.

Last week, I noticed that one of my contacts had an invalid date for their birthday. Try as I may, I cannot get Nextcloud to recognize 1/5/2000 as a valid date.

(And no, it's not a localization problem.)
Newbies who just moved in are much more likely to leave as well. Why invest the time?
porkbun is good and I felt much the same way until I started working with them. I've also heard good things about AWS Route 53
This statement is a russian doll as in it potentially includes the customers using this product ;)
This passage would fit well in a science fiction story.

Thank you for writing this, made my day :)
I think that’s because the Meta key is the Option key on Macs which conflicts with some traditional keyboard shortcuts for other things in the OS.
XML is a language designed for markup (i.e. text formatting), and fitting structured documents into it creates an impedance mismatch.

Dictionary definitions may be considered as marked-up documents, so it may work. The overall structure of the dictionary is not.
I tried to evaluate their intro Linux processor (RZ/A) a while back and the amount of support we got from the factory was dismal. I got an FAE to confess that the two factions (Hitachi vs NEC) didn't get along. They have a bread-and-butter product line in the RL78 but we dropped the idea of using them for anything else.
I'm not talking to them I'm on HN with a buncha rich nerds looking for supplements.
Same, then it went to “to help with employee interviews“
Scandinavia is similarly dark and gloomy in the winter, I think?

Does the darkness cause this effect in people? Is the darkness a filter for people who are like that already?
I managed to do 2, sort of, with py2app and judicious hacking. You can compile everything to byte code and use Python "single file" deployment tools.
Oh that's an interesting use case. You are the first one!

Unfortunately for now it's not supported, but I'm adding this to the feedback list, thanks!
This is messed up. Feels ripe for a wrongful death lawsuit at the minimum, and likely some regulatory enforcement against this scam insurance
What we have normalized is forcing people to work while sick, so they can make everyone else in the office sick.
My grandfather told me about this yesterday. He said something along the lines that they needed helicopters to get where they are to retrieve them.

To which I said: this is the most important discovery about dinosaurs, who would’ve thought they had helicopters!

Didn’t quite land like I had hoped. My transition to Full Dad is complete.
100% agree with this. And I’d put most of the software into this category.

Also, let me offer you a different view on the software you use a lot and therefore want to support. The more a software/service is important to you, the more you should worry about having that as subscription, because it can go away in a matters of hours without you being able to do anything about that.

Think if slack went bankruptcy. Or if it was acquired by someone that shut it down. What would all those people that heavy relies on slack for their workflows? Or what about GitHub?
Depends greatly on your level of experience with electronics repair.

In rough order of difficulty/complexity:

Simply remove the module, wipe down the connections with alcohol, reassemble. If there's a 'zebra strip', gently peel it off, clean both ends, reassemble. If you see improvement, repeat with care until all segments are alive again.

Replace the backlight. Depends on the exact module, but sometimes they're just simple LEDs that can be replaced.

Ensure the polarizing filters still work. You'll need to research LCD polarizing, it's more complicated than I care to explain in a HN comment. They can degrade and sometimes need replacing.

Beyond this, you're looking at an electrical fault or the display is just dead. You'd have to start probing the display driver to examine the signals. A good starting place is to replace all the electrolytic capacitors.

Barring that, you likely have a bad display module. Sometimes you can test them by connecting some pins to ground and just touching other pins with your finger. The static electricity in your body can be enough to flip segments on
The next logical step is to use a machine-friendly format instead; that is a binary protocol.

Even HTML and XML which were designed for readability and manual writing eventually became 'not usable enough" ("became" because I think part of it is that their success made them exposed to less technical populations), and now we have markdown everywhere which most of the times is converted to HTML.

So if you are going to use a tool more sophisticated than Ed/Edlin to read and write (rich) text in a certain format, it could be more efficient to focus on making the job of the machine - and of the programmer, easier.

If you look at a binary protocol such as NTP, the binary format leaves very little room for Postel's principle [1], so it is straightforward to make a program that queries a server and display the result.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
Thanks! Yeah I agree. It was a MVP so I wanted to keep things simple, but of course it came with drawbacks.

Yesterday I shipped a search box, hopefully it'll be easier now.
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