skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't say where you are going, but for shopping, I'll assume it's Tokyo.

You might get more out of it by focusing on where to shop rather than what to buy. Tokyo used to have many interesting small shops, the way other major cities did before online shopping. Going around to brick & mortar shops now is time consuming and mostly not worth it if you know what you want, because the selection is so much better online. For many things, there will be importers operating in your country. For example, www.jetpens.com does a great job bringing less expensive stationery items into the USA.

I would focus on the unique shopping experiences to be had in Tokyo. If you are into fountain pens, Shosaikan[1] should be near the top of your list. This thread covers more locations.[2]

For housewares and small tools, the best browsing is Hands (formerly Tokyu Hands). I love the aesthetics of Japanese home and office goods, but the more interesting things are generally not exported. I have many things that were inexpensive but unique and very nice to have. Just one example, the Japanese "pipe pillow".[3]

[1] https://tokyostationpens.com/2020/04/21/shosaikan-a-virtual-...

[2] https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/368781-founta...

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_Pipe_Pillow...
Seems like it’s limited to ten minutes max in background by iOS
You might be right, but the Spotify user experience is really frustrating to a certain extent. Every time I leave home and go offline, there's always a chance that Spotify won't load my offline tracks, and the playlists won't load either. Thanks, I need some peace to reflect on my failed life, bro!

Honestly, the Spotify desktop client is also quite bad. Its feels very sluggish (I'm not sure about its detailed implementation, but it gives me the feeling of a web application). Maybe this level of experience is acceptable for a social media app, but as a music player, its quality is somewhat disappointing to me.
From the site:
"Privacy-friendly with no tracking:
Your privacy is important. The WiFi4EU app ensures a private online experience with no tracking or data collection."
This app can only be installed via the GOOGLE/APPLE app stores, so this is a lie.
I remember reading somewhere, maybe in an essay by John Updike, that Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, who aimed to produce purely nonrepresentational paintings, had to be careful that face-like figures did not appear in their works unintentionally. They wanted to create art that had aesthetic value without recognizable images, and the effect they were seeking would be destroyed by an accidental smiley face or two among the vigorous brush strokes and dripped paint.
How satellite data has proven climate change is a climate crisis
Fluoride in our drinking water may not be as useful as it used to be
The discovery feed is barely functional . Dosen't learn what i want to see nor does the search . Open protocol and api is bskys best feature that i love but a real algo isn't one git clone away for average user nor it is is financially viable.
I guess it’s a coincidence or a configuration problem.
> Probability of a transaction resulting in value v is uniform from [0,99].

in reality, most of the transactions that use coins end up conforming to common existing coin combinations e.g. laundromats in US mostly price as multiples of quarters ($0.25)
The best advice (organizationally) is to just do everything in a single transaction on top of Postgres or MySQL for as long as possible. This produces no cognitive overhead for the developers.

Sometimes that doesn't deliver enough performance and you need to involve another datastore (or the same datastore across multiple transactions). At that point eventual consistency is a good strategy, much less complicated than distributed transactions. This adds a significant tax to all of your work though. Now everyone has to think through all the states, and additionally design a background process to drive the eventual consistency. Do you have a process in place to ensure all your developers are getting this right for every feature? Did you answer code review? Are you sure there's always enough time to re-do the implementation, and you'll never be forced to merge inconsistent "good enough" behavior?

And the worst option (organizationally) is distributed transactions, which basically means a small group of talented engineers can't work on other things and need to be consulted for every new service and most new features and maintain the clients and server for the thumbs up/down system.

If you make it hard to do stuff, then people will either 1. do less stuff, or 2. do the same amount of stuff, but badly.
The hedge lions!
please read the documentation before dispensing uninformed advice like this -- it works using the output of the preprocessor and optionally, file paths
Spider - The Video Game [1] - a little PS1 platformer that had you playing as a cybernetically enhanced spider that could replace its limbs with various weapons, as it tried to save its creator. Its 90's charm, old-school cinematics and it being the first time seeing what could be called "nanotechnology" still blew my mind as a kid. I still go back sometimes and listen to its 'Level Select' theme. [2]

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider:_The_Video_Game

[2] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tzn-eNeq6w&pp=ygUoc3BpZGVyIHR...
Integration and socialization is definitely a challenge for homeschooling

it is possible to manage that. the problem is people intentionally avoiding socializing to prevent their children from learning alternative ideas.
I don’t think less of King for it, though it strongly disagree with him. An artist sometimes has a much different connection to their artwork than the audience does.
> just makes me think less of him (King)

He's a great writer and I was following him on X, but his constant attacks on random people who don't share his political ideas had me.

He's still a great writer but probably a real AH too...
But why?

For 7EUR/month I have 30GB of data transfer + unlimited SMS and calls in my my country + ~8GB of data in whole EU, every month. There is no cheaper option. Who needs public Wi-Fi?

EU should increase the competitiveness of communication operators and not finance such stupid ideas. Also map in that app is online only. So you need internet access to get internet access...
Is Excel Immortal?
4 capital letters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt0kHiRsnHA&t=1880s
Canada gave up on it over a decade ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(Canadian_coin)).
Japan is the canary. Aging population, lack of immigration for backfill, etc.

The important detail is, that Japan is not burdened with the cost of maintaining a aging infrastructure. Japan got a semi fresh start after WW II. The same can not be said for other parts of the world (e.g., USA).

Finally, Japan has also benefited from the rest of the world not *yet* contracting. It is a single outlier. It's not wise to extrapolate The Japan Story as on that will work on a global scale.
It's simple math. If the correlation between gender and sex is 0.99 then if a method can determine your sex with say a 90% accuracy then it can determine your gender with an 89% accuracy (very roughly). The difference is negligible.
I agree with your point of view. I have a music library of about 3000 songs, and it hasn't grown much in recent years. Owning this music gives me a great sense of security, as it will never be taken down on a whim by a platform.
It’s outrageous that pawn shops don’t have to eat the loss in California. They have no incentive to check for stolen items.
If true, this is a catastrophic cybersecurity failure. I’m feeling more like a Luddite every week. Systems like that maybe shouldn’t exist.
OMG, this is surveillance society, i want to be able to run over anything and not be held accountable, such restriction of my liberty and privacy is unbearable /s
People are superstitious about math, and fearful that rounding to the nearest nickel, or dime, will result in them getting ripped off. Also, it's an admission that the government has given up on inflation.

This is the country that gave up on the metric system because it involved too much math.
I retired early this year. My advice to anyone seeking to do so is think clearly about it. Because once you do it, you can never go back to that world. The world of waking up early, having a boss tell you what to do, going to meetings that mean absolutely nothing, running on that hamster wheel, seems so trite and meaningless afterwards. That's a good thing, but you can never go back. Then it becomes time to concentrate on what life is really about- your health, your relationships, having fun and discovering what life is like without that tether on your ankle. Everyone isn't cut out for that, some need that hamster wheel. The best people are cut out for it. :)
Is this because all the code you see is through HN or similar? No one's going to share something titled "an unremarkable script I use to help run my business" here. Not sure what your threshold for code golf is, but you can see APL written in a variety of styles by searching Github. It doesn't recognize K but does have Q, which is basically K plus keywords, obviously promoting more verbose code. Whitney originated the dense style of implementation shown at your link, and a few other implementers (including myself in the past) have picked it up, but it's not that common. For example April, GNU APL, Kap, Goal, and Uiua all use an idiomatic style for their implementation languages.

APL: https://github.com/search?type=code&q=language%3AAPL

Q: https://github.com/search?type=code&q=language%3Aq

Implementation: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/List_of_open-source_array_languages
The best interpretation of The Shining film that I've heard does explicitly acknowledge that the Overlook was haunted. Basically, the different murderers are reincarnated versions of themselves - this is shown in the last shot with the original version of Jack being shown in the Baphomet posture in the old photo. Jack also mentions that he felt that he had been in the hotel before and could tell what was behind each corner (there's a constant corner/hidden theme running through the film too). There's also the hint that Grady appears to be two people - Delbert Grady and Charles Grady - presumably Charles is the reincarnation of Delbert. This is also borne out by the confusion between Grady having twin daughters and also their ages being 7 and 9 (i.e. not twins).
xxHash – an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm
Man, you seem to have a celebrity barber, or are barbers so few in the Netherlands?

1. I have a recurring event on my calendar to start looking for a haircut. I will do it in the days/weeks after that event. I tend to move the event around till I get my haircut.

2. I’m no longer experimenting with my haircut, so I have a couple of photos of the haircut I liked so far. I show that to new barbers or my old ones already know how to cut my hair—one less thing to worry about.
> Way 1 is to say that x% of what you pay goes to the artists and that the streaming service takes the rest, no matter how many songs you play.

> This makes no sense; this would cause a Taylor Swift fan that listens to her for hours on end, but also listens to other music sometimes, to pay less to Swift than somebody who just plays one Swift song per month and nothing else.

If I'm understanding the first quoted paragraph correctly, the second is not necessarily the result.

Say I'm paying $10/month to the streaming service and they pay $7/month to the artists no matter how much or how little I play.

Whether or not the second paragraph holds depends on how they distribute that $7/month among artists. They could for example take that $7, divide it by the number of songs I listened to that month, and pay each artist I listened to that amount times the number of their songs I listened to. In that case the result would be that your described.

Another way they could decide the value of a song is by taking the total amount they have to distribute, $7 x the number of subscribers, divided by the total number of songs listened to, and pay each artist that times the number of plays of their songs. Let's call that amount per play a share. In that case a person who only listens to one song a month and that song is a Swift song causes Swift to get one more share than She would have if they had not played any Swift songs. A person who listens to many Swift songs in a month causes here to get many more shares than she would have if they had listened to no Swift songs. The results is not what is described in your second paragraph.
This better not result in another push by the Pacific Northwest about removing fluoride from drinking water. Don't rest on your laurels people, complacency leads down the path of rotting from within. It's not as useful because it's working, the things we are doing are working, keep them up. Fight tooth decay.
"Gizmodo tried to contact representatives from Truth Social on Thursday, but after sending an email to the address listed for media organizations on the social media platform’s website, it bounced back as undeliverable."
The limit could also be in the training data. If we could train LLMs with a corpus generated by some super intelligent entity, maybe we'd consider them super intelligent even with the same model size/architecture we have today.
Prompting Claude 3.5 to behave like o1
It's possible the better link is to the GitHub this was based on: https://github.com/bklieger-groq/g1

However the writeup is interesting in its own right, I think
Very misleading title. From the article:

„The crutch is a dangerous approach because if we use a crutch, we stop thinking. Students who use AI as a crutch don’t learn anything. It prevents them from thinking. Instead, using AI as co-intelligence is important because it increases your capabilities and also keeps you in the loop.“
Why not just re-index the dollar so that coins are useful amounts of currency?
I know mikrotik supports this. On the higher end, most of the Dells switches I interacted with as well as Aruba had LLDP. Different manufacturers tend to report their interfaces slightly differently though
perhaps if we reduce these coins to some units of digital currency so we don't have to physically carry them around, like bits, but for coins
I think you can use the HN API to restrict the search to only the title field:

https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=http&restrictSear...
Maybe I was over-harsh - I think less of Stephen King's taste in films. And yes, he's absolutely allowed to like or dislike any adaptations of his books. I used to think that the majority of Stephen King film adaptations were likely to be rubbish, but I think there's plenty of exceptions to that now.

I can imagine that King has a very deep connection to The Shining as Jack is probably the closest that King has got to an autobiographical character.
Pretty great advice!

I think the one thing you can run into that is hard is once you want to support different datasets that fall outside the scope of a transaction (think events/search/derived-data, anything that needs to read/write to a system that is not your primary transactional DB) you probably do want some sort of event bus/queue type thing to get eventual consistency across all the things. Otherwise you just end up in impossible situations when you try to manage things like doing a DB write + ES document update. Something has to fail and then your state is desynced across datastores and you're in velocity/bug hell. The other side of this though is once you introduce the event bus and transactional-outbox or whatever, you then have a problem of writes/updates happening and not being reflected immediately. I think the best things that solve this problem are stuff like Meta's TAO that combines these concepts, but no idea what is available to the mere mortals/startups to best solve these types of problems. Would love to know if anyone has killer recommendations here.
I think the OP is tyring to filter out hits that have HTTP in the URL (which is all of them), so they need a way to exclude the URL field from the search.
We are not using a Proxy, the implementation of the signals is as follows: https://github.com/brisa-build/brisa/blob/main/packages/bris...

By rule, reactivity is broken if you declare a variable using the getter (.value) outside the JSX. This is because the component is called once, and during the rendering of the DOM elements, effect wrappers are added to register the getters (.value) of any signals.

However, to make life easier for developers, we make some optimizations in build time, to:

1. Support early returns.

2. Not having to use .value in the props (well, “WC attributes”) and being able to define default values, do destructuring, etc. without losing reactivity.

Apart from these exceptions, it is as I said at the beginning.
I'd suspect they rejected the metric system because it would have cost money to change everything over. The argument would presumably have gone something like "we can't have the federal government imposing a cost on the citizens / corporations".
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That only really matters if it's hard to feed generated data into a camera/microphone that does this signing. It's not that hard already (you can just film a screen showing the generated video for a very basic version of this), and if there was significant interest, I'm sure it would become commoditized very quickly. Not to mention that any signing scheme is quickly captured by powerful states.
No, because here to listen to music on Spotify you pay a subscription price. You're paying Spotify to download music, they're paying you to upload music. There's an arbitrage in that pricing model which means you can pay less to down load than you earn from upload. There's no reason that should be possible. It's only like that because they're burning investor money to fund it.

The answer is for Spotify to properly manage downloading so that people who download music are actually paying for it.

If you need 100 accounts to download 1,000,000 plays then whatever Spotify has to payout for those plays has to come from those 100 accounts. Whether those accounts are bots or actual people doesn't change the irrationality and going-to-zeroness in the business model.

EDIT: Unless they're using ad-funded free-to-play accounts, which is more of a problem. Specifying exactly what the fraud is here is difficult. They arent providing music deceptively, they arent fraudently downloading it -- it may be against TOS, but spotify isnt being sold anything in that download. If there's some sort of hybrid-way of talking about fraud here, its really across both actions (uploading knowing that users wont listen to ads?) and (downloading without listening to ads?).

It comes down to exactly what transaction terms we think are implied in the upload. You're not selling something to spotify. Likewise, when you download, you arent buying anything.
Directing a movie requires very different skills. Even on just a personality level: an author can be reclusive, but a director has to be extremely social, because a film is made by a large crew of people. And there's the obvious other skills too (this interview is from American Film magazine):

Stephen King: The movie is about all these vehicle goings crazy and running by themselves, so we started shooting a lot of gas pedals, clutches, transmissions, things like that, operating themselves. We had one sequence: The gas pedal goes to the floor, the gas pedal goes up, the clutch goes in, the gears shifts by itself, the clutch comes out and the gas pedal goes back to the floor again. We were able to shoot everything but the transmission from the driver's side door. The transmission was a problem, because we kept seeing either a corner of the studio of a reflection.

So I said: This is no problem, we will simply take the camera around to the other side and shoot the transmission from there. Total silence. Everybody looked at everybody else. You know what's happening here, right? I'd crossed the axis. It was like farting at the dinner party. Nobody wanted to say you've made a terrible mistake. I didn't get this job because I could direct or because I had any background in film; I got it because I was Stephen King.

So finally [cameraman] Daniele Nannuzzi told me I'd crossed the 180-degree axis and that this simply wasn't done, and although I didn't understand what it was, I grasped the idea that I was breaking a rule.

Later on, I called George [Romero] up on the phone and I said, "What is this axis shit?" and he laughed his head off and explained it, and I said, "Can you break it -- the rule?" He said, "It's better not to, but if you have to, you can. If you look at The Battleship Potemkin" (which I never have), "it crosses the axis all the time, and the guy [Sergei Eisenstein] gets away with it." Then I saw David Lynch and asked him: "What's this about crossing the axis?" and he burst out laughing and said, "That always gets me." And I asked if you could do it, and he gave me this startled look and said, "Stephen, you can do anything. You're the director." Then he paused and said, "But it doesn't cut together."
Beast of Gévaudan
Thanks for the link, it looks like a fascinating language
Have you seen how low it is in the EU?
<Shrugs in passive aggressive>

That’s what they said when the calculator was invented. Out with the old, in with the new! Sorry but not sorry life was so hard before but we got AI to do the work for us now.
The design decisions make a difference when it comes to fps in real world tests, but you're right they don't theoretically have to be separate categories.
In the usual model of how these problems are defined, problem inputs must be represented in binary, so the edge lengths are discrete by definition.

What problem formulation do you have in mind?
Fantastic read. Funny, relatable, all the technical details, and so much heart. Thank you for sharing it!
yeah, it's frustrating. i find it difficult to switch focus, so when i am busy with something i can't handle disruption by my kids. it's tricky to balance that, especially while working from home when work is stressful.

to engage with parents it helps to find something they are interested in.
Stone tablets stored in a cave worked reasonably well historically. Alternately print them in a book with archive quality paper and ink and give them out. alternatively creatr a static site with hugo or similar and hand that out to everyone and email a zipped copy as well.
"streaming fraud diverts funds from musicians and songwriters whose songs were legitimately streamed by real consumers to those who use automation to falsely create the appearance of legitimate streaming"

So at the end of cases like this if they can recover the "damage" cause by the fraud will the artists get a compensation based on recalculated stats or the streaming company just pockets the money?
I know in cases of ad click frauds sometimes Google compensates but that's a little different and I'm curious if there was cases for this on streaming platforms.
I agree with this.

Having worked at FAANG, I'm always excited by the fanciness that is required. Spanner is the best database I've ever used.

That said, my feeling is that in the real world, you just pick Postgres and forget about it. Let's Encrypt issues every TLS cert on the Internet with one beefy Postgres database. Computers are HUGE these days. By the time a 128 core machine isn't good enough for your app, you will have sold your shares and will be living on your own private island or whatever. If you want to wrap sqlite in raft over the weekend for some fun, sure, do that. But don't put it in prod.
Is it not on fDroid? Does it prevent sideloading?
How is Busybox security and bugginess-wise? I’m always worried about going off the beaten path, but I guess the busybox path is pretty beaten by cloud folks and those sorts… who are actually operating in a much more hostile environment than my desktop.