skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the og scan of book of kells was done by a Swiss publisher in the early 90s. since you can't copyright a scan, and the book itself is in public domain, anyone can then take the scans (if they can get hands on the high dpi originals or whatever, or do a high dpi scan of the reproduction) and publish them as whatever they want. "the complete encyclopedia of human knowledge (only $99.99 if you call now)" "the illuminated authoritative book of kells (comes with your own one of a kind handmade Irish cross)" etc. you can get the scans themselves (afaiu its at matching dpi, if not the same format) from a 2006 trinity college dvd of book of kells.

the op is an announcement of the completed rescan effort, with modern technologies and modern dpis. with a companion iPad app and a website that have consumer grade renditions of those modern research grade scans.
https://archive.ph/2024.10.06-032302/https://www.nytimes.com...
As someone who bought Microsoft Flight simulator via Steam I concur. I swear that Flight Simulator updates use at least 3 layers of redirection between starting via Steam, getting updates for the main program, and then getting updates for the scenery files,and then getting another set of updates while already running the main Flight Sim program. Absolutely bizar.
Linux Music Players (2023)
Agreed! We went last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. I understand that the Long Room in the Old Library is mostly empty for renovations, but the Book has been moved to a dedicated building during this time.

Pro-tip to any potential visitors: they turn the pages every so often, and I have heard some travel bloggers complain that the pages on display when they went weren't very interesting, but the university will show you what pages of the book of Kells are currently on display: https://www.visittrinity.ie/book-of-kells-pages-on-display/

At the moment, it appears that they have it open to a pair of canon tables which have some really lovely illuminations.
Because of shit like https://www.telekom.de/shop/tarife/smartphone-tarife?tariffI...

Data prices vary wildly by country. And no, you cannot use a foreign carrier to get cheap data and roam all year, they'll find you and charge out-of-package pricing for every gigabyte you've used (which isn't the standard rate).
Sagan’s Demon Haunted World was probably the reason I ended up going into the sciences!
Dunno, in new normal Germany, a refugee* from Palestine, seeking asylum from apartheid and maybe citizenship would first need to recognize the right of their occupator to exist. It is obviously much more important to fix sins from the past than help the living people. Politicians are full of ....

All while marches AfD closer to power every year.

* Lets pretend they could exit Gaza ot Eeast Bank.
To each their own. Mine likely 3 body problems: dark forest book
The original title is.
The browsing experience is dramatically faster with uBlock. The thousands of regexps don't come close to the CPU or memory load of ads.

A 386 could handle a regexp fine. Compare that to audio or video decoding for ads. Not the same ballpark by orders of magnitude.

It's dead because Google makes money from ads. I shifted to Firefox ages ago.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

What you cherish on your death bed is often enabled by plain old hard work. You may not love the work, but for most of it is the path to those happy death bed memories().

Skip the work, and for most of us it will be a short, miserable life scrabbling for food and shelter.

() The big asterisk of course is tech salaries are completely out of whack with effort and complexity. There are a lot of us out here who get enormous salaries for doing comparatively little in the grand scheme of things. These lucky folks are skewing the narrative for the rest of the world.

For me, I will always cherish memories of vacations, my son’s first varsity touch down, my daughter’s vocal solo for a Christmas show, hanging out with friends in the woods with little more than tents, firewood and beer. I will also be quite honest that it’s been enabled by a lot of luck at work and the incredibly high salary I earn in software - which is less than half of the FAANG salaries I see mentioned here.

Life isn’t about living in the now. Or in the tomorrow. Or ignoring the long term, or short term, or whatever term.

Life for most of us is finding balance that works in our situation,
Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut.
Like others could change any day you ask. Social commentary is probably at the top followed by well researched recent historical works.
Probably unpopular opinion here, but I hope OP feels blessed that he can retire to take care of himself and dial up his life after such a terrible event. Not all of us have that option. For most people, if someone in our family god forbid suddenly died, we would not be able to just take a month here to grieve, then another month there, then 3 more months, then just decide to retire. That is a rare privilege. The rest of us have to get right back to the grind while doing the terrible job of picking up the pieces during the evenings and weekends.

I really envy people who lucked out in tech and can simply decide to retire like this. I guess I would say to the author (and others here in the comment section who somehow have $5M liquid saved up): "Turn your work/life dial over to life and move on as you are planning, but please be grateful and thankful that you ended up with such outlier financial results that allow you to do so." I think it's good for people who have these kinds of options to take a step back, reflect, and recognize how lucky they are.

Like most, I know I will probably be having to work until something disables me and prevents me from working, regardless of what tragedies life decides to throw at me.
Believe it or not, this lush landscape is Antarctica
> I just dream of spending a life of slow breakfasts, hiking on Monday mornings to celebrate a new week, reading books, slow traveling, and spending more time close to my aging parents.

What is really stopping you from leaving the US and go back to your country? Is it your girlfriend? Is that it's hard to leave Silicon Valley and its tech-scene (i.e., FOMO)?

The money would probably be more than enough in your parents' country. And eventually, you could probably get bored and would find hobbies or passions to entertain yourself..
Maybe because my salary doesn't depend on any of this that I think this whole framing is science fiction.

A calculator needs direction on what to calculate because the machine doesn't have agency.

We are going to a higher level of abstraction and at that higher level you probably need a different skill set than before. Humans aren't going to get cut out of the loop but you always have to level up your skills.

I think there is just a generation of tech workers that got lazy and thought they were immune to change some how. I didn't even know anyone that had been on the internet when I graduated high school. Someone older and wiser though told me I would have to constantly reinvent myself, always learn new skills and will have several different careers. They were so spot on. Guess what? Nothing has changed.
Doesn't this make assumptions about the relationship of economic and environmental problems to population.

I don't think it's a given that more people automatically means greater environmental problems or that fewer people means less economic growth.
Dungeon Crawler Carl (series)

Sinusoidal Circuit Analysis
Speculation, but maybe because there is nothing of interest or to note in the comment.

It's not clear why the poster prefers that other implementation, or that they understand APL or array programming.

So as a result the comment reads as "it's in a language I don't know. I'd prefer it in a language I do know." Which is a fairly useless comment.

If that's not what they intended, it would be helpful for them to add some context to their comment.
Mate, you've just outlined what I'd describe as a conspiracy theory:

You've decided to weigh social factors over evidence because you believe the other side isn't behaving rationally.
Ask HN: Is GoatCounter Down?
I’m seeing zero views on few projects on Goatcounter dashboard. Is it down?
In terms of HN probably. In terms of all users, probably very few
You don't even need to go so far as to sniff traffic on any interface. Most linux distros have either lldpd or lldapad built in which gives a bit higher-level interface to the raw LLDP data on the wire. The BSDs also have it. Bi-directional so info can be updated switch-side too. I've used it in combination with other tools, DHCP and whatnot to do something similar to what she wrote about, have individual machines 'know' where they are in a cabinet or facility and change functionality based on that. Works great!
I’m pretty sure most large storage operations (U-Haul, extra space, etc) have per unit door sensors which work in concert with customer check in/out to verify authorized openings.
With universal EU roaming, I usually just get an esim from outside Germany to use in Germany.

For one thing, that bypasses the German requirements regarding presenting a physical id in person to get cell service.

It’s possible that only works well for travelers though.
I think a better maxim would be to never have an un-indexed ORDER BY or JOIN.

A big part of what many "nosql" databases that prioritize scale are doing is simply preventing you from ever running an adhoc un-indexed query.
What does it matter? He didn't say anything about missions. He said we believes in the work.
To be clear, both are fiction, it’s just that one is fantasy and the other is set in modern reality.
Big Tech has cozied up to nuclear energy
Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide, by Darian Leader and illustrated by Judy Groves.

Freudian theory really was just a way to psychoanalyze Freud and his complexes.

Lacan jettisoned the weirdly specific Freudian stuff and had a more general template, with a focus on the relationship between language and the subconcious.
I don’t think I will ever understand the false equivalence between asking people to cover your filthy mouths in the middle of an infectious outbreak and real life, literal genocide.

No matter how much I am exposed to this line of thinking, I will never understand it.
Google removes Kaspersky's antivirus software from Play Store
The EPA was already significantly more subject to judicial review than the NSA, even prior to Chevron deference falling.

The cops are theoretically subject to it, but in practice... nah, mostly not. They receive at least Chevron-levels of deference for things like "I feared for my life!" or "he was coming right at me!" or "I thought it was a gun!" or "based on my experience and training the suspect was acting suspiciously" sort of expert claims.
Google's Dominant Search Business Is Under Attack from TikTok to AI
Sounds like you had a shitty job. Mine is great, I’d do it for free if I didn’t need the money.
https://archive.is/CjhOe
In the good old days, if you did that, you would rightfully be labeled as an "amateur".
Real art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds
The Once and Future King by T.H. White. Fantasy fiction.
Linux malware "perfctl" behind years-long cryptomining campaign
A reasonable thing to be concerned about, but he described having a solid understanding of the backend, which is the more likely place to introduce a security hole.
That's another thing about a single database, if it's well-tuned and your squeel is good - in many cases you don't even need any kind of cache, removing an entire class of bugs.
I'm guessing the “other post” that inspired this might be:
https://research.swtch.com/nih
“Companies are warier about hiring amid high interest rates and wages. Workers are vying with more job candidates for fewer openings, forcing them to send in more applications. And a large share of employees are jittery about getting laid off.”

I don’t see the word “college” in there.
The best book I've ever read is perhaps "cheating" because it's "The Next Whole Earth Catalog" and, as the name says, it's a catalog of (mostly) books.

(You can see it for yourself in all it's glory here: https://www.wholeearth.info/p/the-next-whole-earth-catalog-f... )

Other than that I'd have to say the Tao Te Ching.

(The best fiction book I've read is almost certainly "The Book of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe. It's in the league of Tolkien and Dune.)
For me, it's The Grapes of Wrath. Simultaneously raised my bar for what I consider good writing and made me much more empathetic to the plight of those at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder through no fault of their own. As relevant today as when it was written.
Your typology of statements and reasons for stating them is lacking and unconvincing. Plenty of reason to spread verifiable lies under conditions of anonymity.
Yes, precisely this! I’ve seen more than a few people fired for generating BS analyses that didn’t help their employer, especially in tech where scrutiny is immense when things start to fail.
Any wearable that includes audio or image capture is spyware. Including the AirPods with their new hearing aid firmware... Im actively building an app that uses them to record and transcribe conversations from across a room. Where is the consent?! Its madness to me and goes to show how people put the glamor of new technology over the privacy and rights of others...
I always thought, maybe because of C, that \0??? is an octal escape; so in my mind \012 is \x0a or 0x0a, and \010 is 0x08.

So I find this quite confusing; maybe OCaml does not have octal escapes but decimal ones, and \09 is the Tab character. I haven't checked.
Using SSH in KDE's Dolphin File Browser (2019)
That’s not an accurate summary of the ruling. The ruling orders the EPA to re-evaluate the safety of fluoridation, but does so because the statutory evidentiary standard here is preponderance, not overwhelming evidence.

(It’s also not a ruling “against” the EPA. It’s entirely consistent with the statute, and the EPA will presumably act in accordance with it and produce yet another study demonstrating marginal-to-zero harm associated with fluoridation below 1.5mg/L.)
I feel like I'm in the same boat where I spend too much time reading news articles, twitter threads, reddit feeds, etc. A friend recently shared this chrome extension with me that helps me summarize the content on these pages using LLMs so now I use this all the time https://rockyai.me/. Instead of spending 2 mins reading an article I'll just read a summary in 10s and then decide if I want to dive in deeper.
If you like that, you may like the book "Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life". Even if you don't want to die with $0 there's a lot of sound advice around having good experiences now instead of waiting until you retire.
Those certainly were the catchy headlines. Here's an interesting article:

https://news.mit.edu/2024/study-reveals-why-ai-analyzed-medi...

“We found that even state-of-the-art models which are optimally performant in data similar to their training sets are not optimal — that is, they do not make the best trade-off between overall and subgroup performance — in novel settings,” Ghassemi says. “Unfortunately, this is actually how a model is likely to be deployed. Most models are trained and validated with data from one hospital, or one source, and then deployed widely.”
Yeah it’s probably true. I explored this during a therapy session but nothing particularly insightful came up.

I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs (extremely small scale brick-and-mortar solo businesses in my home country, barely making ends meet) and I clearly remember my father and uncles in my childhood being very proud about “not having to work for someone else”, probably something subconsciously stuck.

To be clear, those same people are the ones who are now telling me to absolutely not quit my corporate march due to my demonstrated earning power, and to toughen up and suppress my feelings of unhappiness for as long as this money train can continue. My mother is a bit more romantic and she’s telling me to set a deadline in my 40s, which is still way, way too far.
Is obesity a disease? It's complicated
Apple Slowly Moves Away from Its Annual Product Release Strategy
I flagged this because the title of this post is completely wrong and not representative of the content it links to.
this is a nothingburger of an article
Yeah they have a pager number, not a phone number.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

It’s kind of cliche for a white male nerd of a certain age, but it has stuck with me. How imaginative the book is, the huge mix of characters and stories in the book, and the style of writing are incredible. The pace of interesting ideas is very fast and engrossing, and the language used to describe things is complex but not overly so.
Is Europe Becoming Ungovernable?
If you've never contemplated the value of your life, an encounter with death awakens novel feelings and thoughts, and may lead to changes in meaning.

But changes can't escape your circumstances, which you must suffer nonetheless. Make any change in priorities and you're still as beholden to your life's vicissitudes.

It's common with death to find sudden compassion for self and others, and a compassionate disposition may lead to remarkable changes of feelings about life and attenuate obsessive responses. This is not necessarily good.

All thinking about death misapprehends the finality of death for thought.

You can learn do what you want, but you can't conserve time. Life can't be optimized. Moreover, an efficient world would have prevented your existence in the first place.

But there are trails left by others to follow.

The time to make things right for yourself and others is always here and now. In any situation, there's a chance things can improve because you're here. And if you can't make things right here and now, maybe you can elsewhere later.

Going for treatment? Appreciate the work of those treating you.

Not going for treatment? Appreciate being of service to others.

Don't understand the importance of your work? You have something to work on.

Others don't understand where you're coming from? Be on lookout for others who need attention.

Pass on enjoyment.

——

Bob Dylan:

The man in me will do nearly any task
And as for compensation, there's a little he would ask

It take a woman like you
To get through to the man in me

Storm clouds are raging all around my door
I think to myself I might not take it any more

Take a woman like your kind
To find the man in me

But, oh, what a wonderful feeling
Just to know that you are near
It sets my a heart a-reeling
From my toes up to my ears

The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from bein' seen
But that's just because he doesn't wanna turn into some machine

It take a woman like you
To get through to the man in me
By that measure naming a variable “objUser” instead of “user” is better because it has more information, and naming the same variable “cgjkkytdvjkftujmhffetb” is even better because it contains more information.

The parse tree approach is trying to get at a fuzzy notion of useful information and useful density of information.
The USB rule.

First time is the wrong way up

Second time is also the wrong way up

Third time works
What makes you think otherwise, statistically?
This annoyingly persists in one of the first of a series of my large format plaster paintings

My youngest daughter loves it so, I’m stuck with it luckily
And the continued punishment of RTO (return to office).
To Be Born in a Bag
Sorry, I meant the type of work where one would rather not. Of course people who like their quality of life at work will choose to continue it as long as they can.
We will strive to revive it, Inshallah. Under the guidance of the living Sufi master, Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaykh_Mohamed_Faouzi_al-Karka...
Prestige/class matters as much as we want to think we are above it. It opens a lot of doors for you and your children. Money seems to open almost every door though, but only if you are willing to drop ungodly amounts of it.
So the ideal browser is a concept that is every day more and more elusive.

For my private use, I am using an older Mac with some memory consumption issues, so until I upgrade, I am using safari because it's the most lightweight, and while the extension support is the smallest of all, at least for very major things you are still covered.

For work, the Mac I am using is way more powerful, and yet I find strange issues. Vivaldi dies if I open more than 60-70 tabs at once but it doesn't even really matter, because all the Chromium based browsers that have said "don't worry, we will keep maintaining Manifest V2" feel like they are on a "danger zone" to me.

And then, I try to use Firefox and while the extension support is the most complete, many times I am finding unresponsive pages (usually tools like Google Meet, which I need to use because of work) or even worse: profile files get messed up and I start getting an error "There was an error, that's all we know" every time I try to log into any service using Google SSO.

So to summarize, at this rate I will have to migrate to Qutebrowser... or Lynx.
I thought this was going to be about '\N' but there's only '\n' here.
I'm still new to HN so no major success yet but I launched https://rockyai.me/ last week which got some upvotes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41693218
Didnt recogize the english title before i read this comment and it immediately clicked. The copy i have is from the late 80s and even then it was a bit dated, but it didnt matter. Awesome book.
Now 35 years later my kids and I sometimes spend hours looking through the same book.
Even more dated now, but that probably makes it even more amazing for them and now they know how a tape recorder works \o/
Haven't read The Selfish Gene, but reading the summary it looks like it touches on some very similar themes as Stephen Pinker's How The Mind Works, which I thought was also a great book. Gave me a good intuitive understanding of how the human neural system evolved, and I found so much of the book to be prescient and timely in our current "AI era".
> So, critically, and as far as I can tell this isn't in the summary article, this is purely unidirectional; and so, this isn't about being able to build a network that upgrades the range of WiFi with some tradeoffs: this is about being able to send data from existing WiFi hardware to existing LoRa hardware using a relatively minimal set of changes (though I still don't appreciate how this would practically be done to the existing hardware, and they apparently only simulated this with software-defined radio).

This leads me to believe you could flip a switch and turn entire swaths of access points into a broadcast fabric for LoRa? Wifi networks meet software defined radio a bit.
You’ve never really had a reasonable expectation of privacy walking around in public.
This is experience though, and people do learn this way.

This is the exact same exercise as my first time slapping Dynamic Drive scripts together to customize EzBoard back in the 2000s. I didn't understand any of it at the time.

This style of learning is hands on. You learn a little bit about the shape of the problem before you sit down and learn the theory.

Not everyone learns by opening the book first. Some people like to get their hands wet. Introduction through practical osmosis can lead to a fertile appreciation for the theory.
Same as author, I liked Strawberry a fork of Clementine, the streaming radio works really well.

But my goto for streaming internet radio is streamtuner2 on win/linux with VLC as the player.

https://fossil.include-once.org/streamtuner2/index
What does the body of evidence show is safe for your third eye? Because that's who you're having to disprove safe flouride levels to.
This certainly contributed to people preferring card over cash, making merchants loose ~3% per transaction.

That ship has long sailed, but it does male you wonder: if everything was priced at increments of, say, quarters, would enough people still use cash to offset the lost sales from the allegedly less appealing pricing?