skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Also, I know several parents who would love to see Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings

I'm sure there are.
But was Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings restricted? Or literature kids want to read? No?

Then you don't have an argument.

If the books that were restricted are of no interest to kids, nor does their parents want their kids exposed to it by ideologically driven librarians or teachers, I don't see any issue in it whatsoever.
actual structural steel round and square tube in 20' sections from a steel supplier isn't any more expensive than black pipe and is stronger and considerably easier to work with (no paint, less grainy). you can also make your own fittings since the right tube sizes are nesting. I do 1" square and clamps made out of 1-1/4" with 1/8" wall. that is quite a bit stronger than emt for maybe 20% additional cost.
And even assuming it's one molecule thick, how did he know how tightly the oil molecules in that layer pack together?
Yeah I had issues with the Tracy sampler. It didn’t “just work” the way Superluminal did.

My only issue with Superluminal is I can’t get proper callstacks for interpreted languages like Python. It treats all the CPP callstacks as the same. Not sure if Tracy can handle that nicely or not…
Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi
> Is there any legitimate use for filenames with newlines?

IMHO no, but they can exist, so you need to handle them without blowing up. Also, even spaces are considered delimiters here, which is why it's bad form to parse the output of ls.

$ touch "foo bar baz"
$ for f in `ls`; do echo $f; done
foo
bar
baz

# always use double quotes, though they aren't needed here
$ for f in *; do echo "$f"; done
foo bar baz

At least the OS guarantees you won't run into NUL though.
Navigating Community, Open Source and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with Tim Banks [audio]
> This is a strange narrative to me. Google and other companies have done crappy things without people calling for a break up of the company.

Just a minor nitpick/correction here but there are multiple ongoing anti-trust suits that Google is getting killed on that very likely will lead to the breakup of some of its company's products, so that may be where the comment you are replying to is coming from.
Useful for sure, but not world changing.

1) Most people have no need for translation software

2) Before LLMs we already had decent free translation in the form of the free Google Translate, using pre-transformer NN models

Personally I still use Google Translate as my go-to for translation, rather than using Sonnet 3.5. Maybe Google now use an LLM under the hood, but I haven't noticed any increase in quality in last few years.
Yep, in very rare cases. Less than Palestinian who killed American Israelis.
Platform Engineering vs. DevOps
Was the dotcom bubble burst in 2000 a bust? Or was everyone just too early and several individual investments were busts?

I think it's the latter. They were absolutely right about the internet changing the world.
Imagine being this much of an asshole about... laundry.
I don't think I've ever finished a _single_ personal project. At least for me that's _the_ hardest skill to develop.
Hacking the firmware in consumer DSLR and mirrorless cameras. I've been there for 3 years so far.
I live in a part of the US which apparently isn't a low-social-trust kind of area (Target and Walmart haven't put underwear behind locked cabinets for us like they have other places).

Practically every self-checkout I use is like this experience. I put my reusable bags in the bagging area first, sometimes it asks, "Are you using your own bags?" but most stores just don't care. Then I can start scanning and just put things directly into my reusable bags. The checkout machines alerting on things like "unknown item in bagging area" seem to rarely ever happen.

Or even better yet, when I shop at places with scan and go I can take something off the shelf, scan the barcode with my phone, and put it straight into my bag in the shopping car. Then at the exit the LP person will sometimes scan the items in my bags, but often the store's cameras will automatically clear me to just walk out the store.
sorry, yeah, thats a much better way of saying it and my smooth vs continuous was just confusing
Jon Postel was instrumental in making the Internet what it is today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel

The Wikipedia article is kinda unclear and doesn't provide the proper context, so:

- Ran IANA, which assigned IP addresses for the Internet.

- Editor of RFCs, which are documents that defined protocols in use by the Internet.

- He wrote a bunch of important RFCs that defined how some very important protocols should work.

- Created or helped create SMTP, DNS, TCP/IP, ARPANET, etc.
A Chatbot Is Now Cleared to Give Buy, Sell Investment Advice
They say the same thing in their blog post announcing it.

https://winamp.com/press/winamp-open-source-code
Analysing the impact of generative AI using the Laws of Media
It's a matter of getting used to. I raised it little by little and I'm comfortable at 3x in most videos now.
Latest Google Chome (Chromium) Release Breaks Popular Styling Libraries
My point with regards to 2 is that it would have to maintain consistency across translation runs. Entire novels don't fit in the context so it can't make up a logically consistent novel across prompts.

When I do the translations, I actually don't even include previous chapters in the context.
Yup, fan of the LGTM stack + Alloy
>Before this new surge in activity, the firehose would produce around 24 GB/day of traffic. After the surge, this volume jumped to over 232 GB/day!

>Jetstream is a streaming service that consumes an AT Proto com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos stream and converts it into lightweight, friendly JSON.

So let me get this straight. if you did want to run Jetstream yourself you'd still need to be able to handle the 232 GB/day of bandwidth?

This always has been my issue with Bluesky/AT Protocol, For all the talk about their protocol being federated, It really doesn't seem realistic for anyone to run any of the infrastructure themselves. You're always going to be reliant on a big player that has the capital to keep everything running smoothly. At this point I don't really see how it's any different then being on any of the old centralized social media.
WhatsApp never had persistent server-side storage. I believe they keep media binary blobs only for a few days after each recipient has downloaded them.

If you delete your local copy, that's arguably on you – there was never any promise that WhatsApp would be holding your media for re-downloads forever.
It's endemic. I should put "Expert at Writing Compliance Copypasta" in my CV.
Yeah we use Artifactory internally as a proxy for DockerHub, Pypi, NPM, etc.
Three Sister is a common technique. At least in my region for First Nations people (as we say here). Three Sisters is corn/maize, squash, pole beans (climbing).

Squash leaves are big so shade the roots of the corn, the beans fix nitrogen in the soil, the corn stalks give the beans something to climb on.

Then there is the food types each providing different nutrition.
By what definition of photography is this true?

Is photometry photography now? Is the barcode reader at my supermarket performing photography? The encoder on my scroll wheel? My solar roof?

Cameras can be used for many things other than photography. Many other things than cameras can be used for photography. The two are not synonymous.
Their official blog post does

https://winamp.com/press/winamp-open-source-code
Here's an example[1] examining the functional role of gamma oscillations in the hippocampus:

[1] https://www.jneurosci.org/content/15/1/47
Could it be just amount of energy available to the organism? Modern humans are in completely unique position relative to all history of life on Earth, having access to as much food (and energy) as we want, and having a widespread problem of eating too much. Evolution didn't have any chance to catch up with this reality.
The ARM instruction set was a thing of beauty, right through ARM6. Thumb sort of ruined it for me.
Hetzner Object Storage Beta Test
The only way to raise living standards is to become more productive. Manual or not manual is not really the point. The point is output per hour worked.

Producing far less per hour worked than what is possible is either low paid work or a hobby.
> "We are in a post-Postel world" is a great way to put it.

See also RFC 9413 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9413.html), originally called "draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong" (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thomson-postel-was-wr...).
Enjoy. Will watch the Verhoeven too. Hope he gets to make his new one.
Imagine thinking fabric bags are unusable because there's just no good way to keep fabrics clean.
Perhaps but we could be smarter about human liquid waste. Human urine is nutrient-rich and is effectively nitrogen-rich liquid fertilizer.

Wanna help your garden soil in the off-season? Pee in a bottle and dump it in the garden.

You're welcome.
Back from the dead: could AI end grief?
The irony of the #3 thing on HN today being this, and the #5 thing being 'Finish Your Projects' haha. Good points all around.
Invoke 5.0 – OSS Canvas with Layers and SD/SDXL/Flux Support
Like John Lennon once said, time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted.
I also don't see the bugged light mode until I allow 3rd party scripts on the website in uBO
I'm not a start-up, but I want to use Llama and related model to transcribe historical handwritten documents, and if possible to extract structured data from them which aren't directly visible in a word for word transcription (many of the documents are forms).

I've tried many different models, but vision models are overwhelmingly oriented towards pictures rather than writing, and results aren't good.
This seems to go against GitHub's own ToS[1]:

> By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and "fork" your repositories (this means that others may make their own copies of Content from your repositories in repositories they control).

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
Back when the Arch came out with a full desktop environment, the typical PC was MS or DR DOS with TUI based WordPerfect. The full GUI Impression word processor was released in 1989, about the same time as the first version of Word for Windows, but was much, much, better (having used both side-by-side when I was a school kid). Also, RISC OS didn't BSOD.

But, anyway, it's all might-have-beens.

My point, really, is that any business in the US has a massive head-start because of economies of scale. States the size of European countries, less punitive taxes, and a single language for almost 400m make for a large market. It's just a shame Acorn wasn't based there.
I'm totally on board with the idea that permission requests should include complete context, separated from any product description written in the App Store.

For example, there's the case where you download an app today, and don't get around to trying it for hours or days or longer. Curt "duh-style" permissions requests are user-hostile.

Apple insists that developers "try harder". In almost all cases, this is the right choice for the user.

Sometimes it's hilariously wrong, of course! There are humans in the review loop, and I've been on the wrong side of some epic ridiculousness. But on the whole, they're usually more frequently right than wrong. I'll take it.
iOS devices are not professional tools, that’s primarily why. Ignore whatever preconceived notions you have about “pro” devices as well.
Perhaps (although unlikely) this thing I created 5 years ago helps, it's a react component created to be embedded in a go app but is independent, created just to scratch my own itch and not published to npm but anyone can just vendor it:

https://github.com/egeozcan/json-tail/tree/master/data

also has storybook but no online demo I'm sorry :(

edit: ha, I also found the plain js/css/html version there, a surprise from past me https://github.com/egeozcan/json-tail/tree/master/data/legac...
Some examples:

- c2c and Avanti West Coast: partially and fully owned by Trenitalia which is wholly owned by the Italian government

- London Overground, Chilltern Railways, CrossCountry, Grand Central: Owned by Deutche Bahn until June 2024 which is wholly owned by the German government

- Elizabeth line: Wholly owned by MTR transport which is wholly owned by Hong Kong government

I'm sure there are a lot more I missed. It doesn't just appy to foreign governments either. The UK government subsidized all TOCs with taxpayer money, many of which turned around and gave out dividents to shareholds (foreign government or not).
I don’t know where people get the idea that pesticides are forever chemicals. All of them denature, The problem is sometimes not before they reach your table

Chloripyriphos (sp?) are probably the longest lasting one and they don’t use them in any first world country and they’re half-life is something like 60 days

The days of ddt are passed
Fides: The Privacy Engineering and Compliance Framework
You still haven’t given any specific examples of the so-called ideology you believe librarians are peddling.

Keep in mind that school libraries can allow books about World War 2 without promoting (or peddling) war.

Also, Harry Potter constantly tops lists of most-banned books in libraries.
Why is it difficult to measure the phase directly for optical wavelength as opposed to radio? Is it purely because the shift is smaller?
Open an issue and type your patch into the description.

Note that you can't test or debug your patch, because that would mean creating a modified version of the codebase, which is prohibited. Just type that stuff straight in, directly from your fever dreams, unmediated by common practice. If it's good enough for the license, it's good enough for the code.
One could say similar for Excel, helping MBAs to sell and destroy organizational value that benefits many built over many years for short term gains benefiting a few.

Also, in your example, I would expect a smartphone to be more distracting to someone that doesn’t already sit at a desk on an internet capable computer. The person in the field is the one who now has the ability to browse the web or whatever, whereas before that was limited to the person sitting at their desk.
> It truly is the most toxic community.

Which one? Rust?

Coming to an existing project and expecting them to convert to your pet language is pretty toxic, yes.
I know that they have male and female accounts in the article, but it's hard to overstate just how bad the experience is from a male's point of view. And this is coming from somebody who gets regular matches & dates (just trying to provide context...).

So yea, it's terrible you get instant sex talk. But a lot of the complaints & negative experiences in the article go both ways.
Its not everything, just almost everything. You don't need to be logged in to view a tweet from a direct link.
This is not my experience at all (frequently visiting datacenters for my job).
At the main entrance, anti-tailgating locks requiring an electronic badge + fingerprints are the norm. Once inside, electronic badges required at all doors and in the lifts to navigate in the building. Badge + fingerprint to enter server rooms.

Deliveries are only received under the supervision of a DC employee (or received directly by a DC employee) and must go through a lock to enter the building. No extern (delivery person or w/ever) is allowed in (if somebody sneaks into the lock, the guard never opens the second door obviously).

The biggest weakness imo (but still requires a bit of insider access, so it's not completely out in the open for anybody to exploit) is that the registration process for new access requests seems fairly weak security-wise.
It's usually a simple email from the client to the DC provider with the date of the intervention and the identity of the person. Will the DC provider notice if the access request is sent from a spoofed domain? or from a legitimate domain but by another person than the one who's accredited to issue access requests? Will they notice if the person who shows up for the intervention has a fake ID?
I did 150TB+ on a 40 Euro Hetzner server for years without any issue and also did the same amount in a similar price range on multiple different providers. The cloud and CDNs charge a huge markup.
Well, the number of people "in tech" worldwide is a hundred million or so. OpenAI reportedly has 11 million subscribers, presumably a lot of them are developers or similar. But I also know a bunch of people in advertising who uses chatgpt all the time.
Buyer beware – as a a legacy mainframe user of INTERCAL (IBM VM/370), steer cleer of mainframe migration services that promise migration from INTERCAL to BF on commodity cloud on a fixed time scale – they use AI tools but don't do robust testing. Much better to stay on IBM but write new modules in enterprise z/INTERCAL, even if it's not the best developer environment.
The "upgrade path" is for individual packages (providing portable build scripts) and for client-side Python package management (actually providing and running next-generation tools), not for PyPI which already supports package metadata stating what platforms a package is compatible for.
Another story for me to add to https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/app-store-rejections !

Please submit others if you have any.
It's definitely not Open Source as it has pretty restrictive terms. :(
Somewhat related to this, when I first setup a compost bin at home it was simply to try to reduce yard and food waste, and I hoped it wouldn't be too annoying to use. I was surprised to find that I've actually had a lot of fun with it! Especially around trying to optimize the throughput. It's interesting to me to try and find the ideal balance of inputs that will generate compost quickly and minimize organic waste.

Managing a system that takes a whole bunch of scrap and turns it into something useful, in a largely autonomous way, tickles the same part of my brain that gets satisfaction from writing a custom script to automate away some annoying but useful task.
I used that for about twenty years before switching to Jetbrains Mono, perhaps worth checking out if you're looking for something more modern (ttf, ligatures, a bit more modern design thought about disambiguation, etc).
The company is actually working on one, but with the idea of a couple ending their lives together.
> Most people have no need for translation software

Most people benefit from translation software indirectly. Every localized app / translated tv shows / etc.
I'd appreciate ranked results in a tool like this.

My top ranked font contains a significant issue (0's that look like O's); it would be useful to be able to go through "next best" etc. in cases like these.
Does Linux really need another media player?
It's CEO is a god. Or at least will be soon. Of course everyone want to invest and have a share in a god's enterprise.

PS: of course there is that small insignificant chance that he may be a false god, but that thought is heresy, so we don't say it usually.
Hollywood is in panic (just as every art related business) about AI, but in this case I'm sure they pushed some buttons to delay the inevitable until they're ready to build an infrastructure that rents famous deceased actors/actresses tracts, voices and characters through their respective agents.
Living actors could also agree with that. Would a old retied actor refuse a boatload of money to allow putting a 25 years old clone of him/herself in a new movie, if they could oversee the creation/direction and veto what they wouldn't like?
I don't think AI clones in movies are going away anytime soon, there's too much money that can't be ignored.
Severe Obesity Is on the Rise in the US
I really appreciate the commentary here on HN. The headline was awful enough, but the quotes, really let me know the level of horror movie aesthetic there is in the commentary supposedly about biology.

Thanks, NewAtlas, but it's just not the mixed metaphor I'm looking for.
Generative Models for the Psychology of Art and Aesthetics
(2014)

irrelevant nitpick: you can dig upwards. You undermine the face of you trench, let it collapse, then climb that pile and repeat. It is laborious and unsafe, but it'll get your excavator out of the hole.
Probably this one:

https://winamp.com/press/winamp-open-source-code
What's the advantage of metal pipe over treated wood?
Why is assisting someone mentally ill wrong?
This is a wider problem than just software. We need to find a way for people to be able to afford doing things they want but don't profit them directly. Pure capitalism has too many bad incentives for enshittification of software, entertainment, food, and so much more.
The language is pretty clear to me. I understand what you’re saying, and suspect that this is an honest oversight on their part, but as it currently reads forks are prohibited.

They may have meant something else, but what it says now is “no forking.”
You're not the only one. I don't get why they couldn't have named it something that wasn't very similar to something already around for several decades, or at least insist on the shortened ATproto name (one word, lower case p). Sure, in practice, no one will actually confuse them, but that could be said for Java and JavaScript.
Weekends go back at least as far as the Old Testament and god resting on the seventh day. While the first recorded labour strike in the United States was by Philadelphia printers in 1786.
This is going to keep happening until there are some real regulations with teeth in place.

If your private data is leaked, the company responsible should have to pay you some significant amount proscribed by federal law, regardless of whether or not you've had your identity stolen. A leak like this should bankrupt the company responsible.
At least that beer is now completed :)
Side note: tell your startup to switch its “hardware with Ubuntu Linux inside” to BSD. You will have a much more stable and simple platform that can last a long time.
Customer service is the first and easiest thing to take a backseat in the quest for ever-increasing profits. I don't know if it was ever good but I'm sure it didn't help to be acquired by Microsoft. It's shameful that the only way to get customer service from many companies is to be loud enough in public. Good luck.
A GUI file browser will display the filename with a newline in it as a new line (and an icon above it) so as to be asthetically pleasing.
> Beach sand may or may not be radioactive, but California only requires Prop 65 warnings on things for sale.

They're not just on things for sale. They're also required at workspaces, businesses, rental housing. I've seen them on unpaid parking structures.

If the beach was operated by a private entity instead of by public agencies or just public access with no supervision, a warning might be needed.
> So the assistant at HD isn't adding a ton of value.

They are, in that then I don't have to pull out my phone, wait for the app to load, wait for the app to interrupt my workflow to flash up the latest sale ad, wait for the search to time out a few times, then realize I'm in the store so it reloads to show the in-store experience, then go back to the search and have it not remember the history, then have to wait for the search to go through, then scroll through the list to find a version of whatever item that's actually in the store I'm at, then wait for the item to load, then finally get the isle and bay info. Pulling out the app is often my last resort.

Or I just ask the person standing next to me "hey where are replacement blades for utility knives?" and instantly get a response.
It is interesting that in a hypothetical scenario if someone did fork it and then thes goes to court. Which licence would take precedence here?