skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of my favorite copypasta:

>If you're reading this, you've been in a coma for almost 20 years because of a car accident. We're trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope we're getting through. Please wake up.
How are you discovering art? What discovery mechanisms are you utilizing?
It would be a lot cheaper to do as the slavic shamans do: collect amanita muscaria caps, dry them by your campfire to denature the poisons, and … well, you can figure out the rest.
While building lix change control I figured out that collaboration was/is the driver behind local to cloud. A secondary reason is compute.

If a system exists that enables (distributed) collaboration on files, the appeal of cloud-based software vanishes. Remote compute becomes possible as well.

At least, that’s the bet we are taking with lix https://lix.opral.com/
Anyone has more information or discussion around this?
Great documentary, New York collector (Kim) gifts huge video library to an Italian town. When a former Kim's customer hunts it down, he finds water-damaged tapes in a disused store-room - and mafia overtones standing in his way!
Ooh sleep like an android app is crazy good at this. You can turn it off, volume down, and try yo uninstall all you like. The darn thing WILL sound.

I like two of the puzzles it has : laugh out loud for some time, or should swear words
There are literally thousands of ways someone can be self destructive and ruin their lives or blow up their family.

I’ll never understand the mentality of “please govern me harder daddy”. If someone wants to self destruct they’ll find a way to do so. Taking away something that millions of disciplined people also love while simultaneously setting a precedent to let the government tell you what to do seems like a foolish and slippery slope.
Show HN: After 4 hours learning React, I made a joke app based on ur fav topics
Hey HN,
I built this app for 2 reasons:

first, to apply my new React knowledge after watching a 4 hour React tutorial and second, to spread some laughter. We all need a little humor in our lives, and I wanted to create a space where people can enjoy jokes based on their favorite topics, like productivity, programming, relationships, and more.

Please check it out, let me know any feedback you've got and i hope you'll enjoy the jokes.

Mandy
Movable Objects
Just upgraded Supabase to a Pro account to try FDW but there doesn’t seem to be solid wrappers for MySQL/Vitess from Planetscale. This would help a ton of people looking to migrate. Does anyone have suggestions?
Right, I should have phrased it better - did not intend to make it sound like criticism of your reply. Was just aiming at the tendency to dismiss valid concerns with "it's actually a good thing we don't have it" or "it can't be done well".

Of course changing the concurrency guarantees the code relies on and makes assumptions about is one of the most breaking changes that can be made to a language, with very unpleasant failure modes.
Gattaca here we come. Can't wait until I start getting denied for service/opportunity X because some computer somewhere used DNA from a distant relative to determine I'm a risk.
I bet it's still designed to and trying to, and simply failing to for any number of reasons.

It's fine if it tries but only weakly, and fails sometimes because of that.

One fridge failing every time is still just "sometimes" for the design.

Failing to chop off a babies head is an intentional part of the design, and it's still auto-close even when it fails to close because of an obstruction or improper installation or manufacturing defect or even because of a bad design that would never work well but was intended to.

There's no way any fridge is actually designed to stop before closing. That will be some assembly or desgn flaw like the seal rubs or something.

I had to hack my mother in laws fridge to prevent the door seals from interfering and preventing the doors from closing all the way. It worked fine when it was new, but after a short while the shitty design of the door to door seals, the seals hit and rub on each other and and after a while the seals started to pull out to where they then interfered. The door was still designed to close itself, and tried to, just another part of the design sabotaged that intention.

It's such a weak force normally that it's easy interfere with. A hinge installed slightly off will look fine and work fine, but the seal on the hinge side maybe rubs just a bit, and that's enough to spoil it. Or a nick in a teflon washer acting as a bearing, producing a detent resting spot. Could be anything but there is no way it's in the drawings and designed to do that.
Very cool work.

FWIW the aparatus site says

> Apparatus is under active development. Discuss how Apparatus should evolve on the Apparatus Google Group.

Which seems like it's no longer accurate. Has it moved to a different repo?
i use quad9, but good to know alternatives are showing up.

just never believe they won't collect data. no matter who is saying so.
Pyodide: A Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly
Using package layering (rpm-ostree install [...]) used to be discouraged unless strictly necessary, but it's no longer the case: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/getti... . Nowadays you can as well use only that if it suits you.
> The computer should be _reactive_, not proactive. It should never give you a notification. You should be in charge of retrieving all information yourself, like a library, not a call center.

I think we all know how impactful the smartphone has been, but your way of putting it is especially succinct. It's not the iphone that mattered in particular, it's the convergence of phone and computer. The telephone was one of the first pieces of "noisy" technology, i.e. it yells at you when it wants your attention. Merging that with the versatility and sheer power of the computer was... consequential, to say the least.
Indeed. I also noted the clarifying language here. It is great, and a great article to boot.-

Bricklaying it is ...
I briefly spent some time on Twitter a few months ago, and it was almost entirely widespread hysteria over things that were easily verifiable as trivially false. For example, at the time people were enraged about a supposed trans woman winning a boxing match in the olympics- but she was not in fact a trans woman.

My take is that X/Twitter is mostly sharing fake rage bait, to emotionally manipulate people into supporting various hate based political movements.
Soon you'll be able to remap the Copilot key on Windows PCs
Huxley’s fears presented in this particular way are immediately debunked by actual book sales and education statistics.

Independent bookstores have been consistently growing since 2009: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/growthpol...

The book industry is expanding with particularly strong growth in e-books and audiobooks: https://worldmetrics.org/book-industry-statistics/

Educational attainment is generally increasing as time goes on in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...

Voter turnout has increased over time in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States...

If anything I think that the general population is becoming more aware and educated.

A more diversified leisure industry with more options than the days of having three channels on television is not the same as drowning in amusement, or the average person spending more time on amusement than on “serious” and “thoughtful” activities. Instead, it means that the individual has more options for forms of amusement they enjoy.
It should be expensive to make business out of it.
With no plated vias, soldermask or silkscreen. I'll wait.
I'd be curious to know as well; I'd bet on things pertaining to either compilers (e.g. optimization stuff), concurrency/OSes, graphics engines & image processing.
These days, it is more harder to sell free, especially when it comes to something that is at the core of privacy. You need to clarify and sell the “why this is free” much harder and clearer.
> use a good pdf reader.. markdown flash cards

Ever had the experience that your favorite shoes or watch is discontinued by the manufacturer? It sucks because you’re back on the consumer treadmill again, wasting time and money on things that aren’t as good and struggling with an annoying distraction that previously did not exist while you try to find something that works for you again.

Software churn is just like this, only much worse. It should/could have been different, but it’s not.

So no, I don’t really think we should take away all books, buttons, and knobs that offer a reasonably consistent user experience and replace everything we can with software and tablets. At least not until software learns to behave. Reading is as basic as tying your shoes. Would you really want SV PMs in charge of revolutionizing the shoe-tying experience every quarter, or dropping updates on you that change the place you’ve always stored your shoes?
Show HN: Find book authors with a specific background, e.g. sci-fi by physicists
I initially wanted to create a static list of sci-fi written by scientists, but got carried away and made something more general. Technically, it is a simple Laravel website hosted on a cheap Linode instance. I used jQuery (!) for the front-end and Solr for the search engine. The data comes from Wikidata and Open Library with some manual categorization.

It has already satisfied my use case perfectly, filling up my to-read list for months. Curious if it works for other people too, and happy to hear any feedback or ideas!
I learned about Cuis from Ian Jeffries in this podcast episode:

"A Haskeller Tries Smalltalk" - https://pod.link/1602572955/episode/6016b230a19ac42d3d0e03da...

This led to a follow-up conversation with Juan Vuletich, who created Cuis:

"Smalltalk's Past, Present, and Future" - https://pod.link/1602572955/episode/39a08ec8b9534ad7c8ae6339...

I really enjoyed both conversations!
Spaced repetition is more than memorization – it's also generalization
At this point I'm so used to this that I mentally translate "for health" into "to look good for the opposite sex".
Massive +1 to Zotero. And 7 is out of beta now!

I recently went back to school and started using Zotero again. Reading and annotating books and papers on iPad, and then having access to all of my notes when writing on desktop is such a simple but amazing feature.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240502195544/https://ced.markt...
> Browsers are really good at doing style recalculation. This isn't something we need to worry about.

In the context of a static page, maybe not, but I found that combining :has with nested CSS can impact real-time UI interactions greatly.

Refactoring styles back to non-nested CSS and specifying :has selectors to get as close as possible to their child elements enhanced performance of an Electron app greatly when it came to render blocking of many nested nodes where parent attributes would frequently change.
"This guy is popular with the CS crowd because of his views on infinity & constructivism"

I didn't know. I'll try to find his videos on infinity. I agree with his views on axiomatic set theory. To me the axioms of ZF read like hidden definitions. First they say "in ZF set is not defined" but then they define it with the Axiom of Extension.
There have been any number of attempts of this over several several decades. I remember being an early customer of some of the first of these virtual grocery store efforts back in the late 90's. All of the pure play efforts either failed or looked more like virtual convenience/liquor stores than grocery... a small number of consumables with longish shelf-lives and booze on demand.

While many of the positives you mention are true, I think it gets more difficult once you get into the logistics around storing and especially moving smaller lots of products, many of which aren't shelf-stable or require special handling such as refrigeration. These things limit the delivery areas and order volumes per vehicle that can reasonably be served by any one warehouse or vehicle which pushes up the costs of executing those deliveries. In a traditional bricks-and-mortar grocery, those transport & logistics costs still exist, but are born directly by the customer who can skip things like refrigeration during transport since they are only servicing themselves... and often don't think of those costs when considering the price of groceries since the purchase of things like gas for the car aren't directly related to the grocery purchase.

I think all of this is why many grocery chains deliver out of traditional stores or offer pickup or why things like Instacart and the currier-like services have been more successful.
Can Powder Mountain Go Luxury Without Sacrificing the Rugged Vibes?
I must have been about 8 years old when I played Eliza for the first time on some home computer. Even to a dumb kid it was very obvious how it worked, two questions in. And I am far from being a genius. Maybe it was more convincing in English than in my native language, but "delusional thinking" seems about right.

Tbh, I don't care about Turing tests, or the AI narrative of big corps or doomers. I do care about my personal experience with LLMs and diffusion models. Not in a mighty serious way, but in mighty fun and entertaining way that wasn't possible before.
On call is kind of like Open Offices layouts. It was created to reduce costs for companies, at the sake of abusing employees.

Whatever happened to hiring people in schedules that will cover the 24/7 shift.

Manufacturing companies don't have "on calls" they have 12/12 shifts, or 3x4 shifts.
La Boétie?

Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects … that the stupified peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures, … learned subservience as naively, bit not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books.
Morphy, one of the greatest players of all time, is famous for this.

"The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."
Nazare is around 28m max. Been there, and I know the world record holder.

You mixed up feet with meter.
I didn’t see a mention of the mesh density, but peeking at the main scene file (I assume the one seen in the video), this appears to be the mesh used: https://github.com/2Retr0/GodotOceanWaves/blob/main/assets/w...
Shopify, but yes!
Autoregressive language models, the discovery of the Chinchilla scaling law, MoEs, supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, whatever was used to create OpenAI o1, diffusion models, AlphaGo, AlphaFold, AlphaGeometry, AlphaProof.
Paper microfluidic sensors for rapid on-site wastewater surveillance
Agreed; after 7 hopeful years this feels like a declaration of defeat for V8 isolate-based FaaS.
My kids’ tomes don’t even have vellum! They use paper! Next they’ll be printing them with moveable type instead of illuminating them.

Kids today!
For the non-GUI guys there is visidata.

https://www.visidata.org/
The wave of AI apps was definitely not good for the platform, they should make a leaderboard for non-AI products.
I come from a town where the biggest employer is the state in a few different forms. I think it's entirely valid for the government to keep them all busy 9-5, salaried and pensioned. Main function of the state IMO.

I don't fear government, I fear the lack of it.
May export an snapshot of the VM as it is running in production (depend on the virtualization, and how unsure I am of manual changes or tweaks were done on it in the past. I can do that once or after big changes are done (configurations, distribution/db versions updates, things like that).

For databases they all have programs to export their databases, like pg_dump or mysqldump, and compressed. Is good to keep some historic backups (not just the last one) do you can go back in case to before some not yet detected harmful change. How much? It depends on for what you use them, some may be required by law for years, or be totally meaningless for you in a few days. Backing up the transactions that happened since the last backup to do a point in time recovery, even having a running slave with that information, will be good too.

About files and directories, borg backup is great. You can have a remote server with ssh as repository, and you may use it to have very efficient historic backups too.
Tech Dirt is an equally generic Trademark as Super Hero!
Solid Queue 1.0 Released
Agree, based on the clips, it looks a bit random.

I think it is looks to be very good, and probably the best I’ve seen having given it a cursory search recently to see what was possible.

In terms of what I’d like to see, open ocean waves generally have more rhythm, I’d be very interested to see a simulation of 15 knots of wind blowing over 1km for a few hours and see if that matches what I observe, which would be relatively organised wave trains (sets) that build and disperse.
I agree that for the act of learning, the tactility of paper is a huge benefit. But for preserving and recalling notes and highlights, electronic wins. I can have hundreds of books or papers on whichever device I'm on and look up notes and annotations I've made over several years.

I've tried figuring out how to get the best of both worlds, but maybe you really just need to decide which trade-off to go with.
Subdomain monitoring (e.g., via crt.sh)
I guess we might have a similar age, first computer Timex 2068. :)
This looks like a nice case study for when you're already using Rust for other reasons and just want to make a bit of numerical code go fast. However, as someone mostly writing C++ and Julia, this does not look promising at all - it's clear that the Julia implementation is both more elegant and faster, and it seems much easier to reproduce that result in C++ (which has no issues with compile time float constants, SIMD, GPU support, etc.) than Rust.

I've written very little Rust myself, but when I've tried, I've always come away with a similar impression that it's just not a good fit for performant numerical computing, with seemingly basic things (like proper SIMD support, const generics without weird restrictions, etc.) considered afterthoughts. For those more up to speed on Rust development, is this impression accurate, or have I missed something and should reconsider my view?
> Also why is Giant Eagle colored the same color as Ahold Delhaize on the map?

I had thought it was because Ahold Delhaize owned Giant, and they do. However, it turns out Giant Eagle is an entirely separate company, which makes the color pick even more confusing to me.
Do any of these space marine games have beaches?
That sucks: CEO knew the gravity of money being lost but couldn't hire 3 people to cover a 12/12 shift?
By yourself? Hardly. We all are by demanding top dollar for sitting on computers while demanding to buy cheap things without limits.

But we're getting paid right? And the Prime van will keep delivering.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669912#41672163
> if everyone is exaggerating their results you have to as well or you will be fired.

Is this really the case the though? Isn't the whole point of tenure (or a big selling point at least) insulating academics from capricious firings?

The big question I have is that there are names on these fraudulent papers, so why are these people still employed? If you generate fictitious data to get published, you should lose any research or teaching job you have, and have to work at McDonald's or a warehouse for the rest of your life. There are plenty of people who want to be professors that we can eliminate the ones who will lie while doing it without losing much (perhaps anything). If your job was funded by taxpayer funds there should be criminal charges associated with willfully and knowingly fabricating data, results, or methods. At that point you're literally lying in order to steal taxpayer funds, it's no different than a city manager embezzling or grabbing a stack of $20 bills out of the cash register.
Not as scary as Gyp Rosetti

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/AoUy5ZuK0F8
:has is still faster than the alternative that was using javascript to do the same from my experience, but I've mostly used it for small stuff
But none of that mitigates the problem of screen real estate. Maybe I'm just an old but I like to see more of the page.

The Chromebooks, do they have a jack for a second monitor? A good sized monitor could take care of a lot of these problems. Even better would be if they can also put books, pdfs etc. on an iPad for reading.
Sometimes there are forces outside of your control, that you can't.

Whether it's family obligations or online university courses or whatever else.
Which was a thing several years ago, not in 2024.

As mentioned I don't have any issues compiling it myself, more of an adoption kind of remark.
I would like a Silent Hunter III remake with this.
>No control group?

Nope. Start simple. ( if you can do a full blown experiment with multiple people, by all means go for it)

>After a decade, differences in your body will mostly be because you are 10 years older.

Correct. (did, you think I did not know that?)

>Such experiments are largely pointless

I leave you to decide that, given there are no well controlled experiments in mainstream nutrition, we are left with imperfect choices. (There are small experiments that are conducted by either small groups or individuals, that are pretty high quality IMO).
I think the point is that these parameters you adjust are being rendered near real-time, whereas back in their days you’ll have to enter these values, and add custom tweaking because the hardware just wasn’t powerful enough to do the things we can do now at many times the speed. Not to mention the vast improvement in mileage for your time.
Hawkeye?
OpenAI offers one investor a sweetener that no others are getting
Cups Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available
Honest question: why cares about the effect on sports?

The most extreme example of cheating is sports theater, and even that has a fandom in the form of WWF.

So why not let the sports police themselves, and let the market decide whether they are doing a good job with their attention?

I don't care about sports, so I am asking from a naive position, but I from this position I can't fathom caring more about the sport than the people who compulsively wager on them, and destroy their lives.
If AI seems smarter, it's thanks to smarter human trainers
> I consider Mozilla to be a public interest group.

It's not longer the case. It was a few years ago, but not nowadays.
This is astoundingly good work; even though, as other commenters have said, it could still be improved on, the fact that it achieves such a level of realism with such a simple and elegant framework is truly impressive.
We have one here in Prague
, Czechia which absolutely crushes the brick and mortar shops. I'm always shocked by how shitty grocery delivery is in the us. There's got to be some factor that makes it impractical. Maybe the distances involved? Admittedly the entire Prague Metro Area is like 25km in diameter, and very dense compared to pretty much any area in the us.
> many papers making obvious low value findings (e.g. poor children do worse at school) and so on.

Why are these obvious low value papers a) getting grants, b) getting published, c) not permanently damaging the researchers' careers?

If you do bad work you eventually get fired, why don't we do the same thing with research academics who do bad work?
But now they are good or even great at way more tasks than before because they can understand and use natural languages like English.