skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From what I've seen, a lot - I'd say most - of the communities that existed outside of the major platforms have dried up or ended (the famous/infamous bodybuilding forum apparently just went down). Web forum communities, mailing list communities, communities built around an individuals website (it sounds strange to say now, but this was pretty common a couple of decades ago).

I would say that is simply because bodybuilding sucks and everyone with half a brain has moved to other activities like crossfit or similar that allows you to have a nice body that you can actually do something with instead of a useless one :)

More seriously this is not my experience. Two of the websites I visit the most in 2024 are the "traditionnal participative type", ie, privately owned, not social medias but with membership and comments and stuff. One is using a custom cms based on rails and has been launched in 1998, the other one is only 15y old but is running vbulletin.

And I still encounter many websites like this. Last time I had an issue with my Piaggio motorbike, I found a vespa dedicated web forum that was really helpful and active.

I think there are lots of people deep in social medias, reddit and discord and some who are fed up by this stuff and stay out of it. The issue is that privately owned websites cost money to run usually or are very stripped of customization/features/storage and moderation is a burden so you need very motivated people to keep the light on compared to say, a discord or reddit community that can stay online for months/years while the initial admins/founders aren't even connecting to it anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_to_Be_Reproduced
Ah yes your experience of a 2008 BBC news article from Copenhagen outweighs my lived, witnessed reality.

How could I be so clueless?
Why not just use Substack. It's great
did you have tonsillit's as a kid?
I heard the conkers cheater was an illegal immigrant, the establishment covered it up and now they wont even report on conkers anywhere in the main stream media (/s?)
To be fair, there are some considerations here:

1) There's plenty of old data out there. Newspaper scans from the days before computers, or digitalization of the newspaper process. Or the original files simply got lost, so manually scanned pages is all you have.

2) There could be policies about making the data public, but in a way that discourages data scraping.

3) The providers of the data simply don't have the resources or incentives to develop a working API.

And many more.
LibreWolf with uBlock + NextDNS as DNS resolver (or PiHole) at home router. All phones are connected via Wireguard to router.

I don't remember, when I saw an ad on web on any home device last time.
> I'm almost 50, and to me the image of boys playing conkers only comes from books or TV based in early 1900s UK. I've never actually seen anyone play it.

Extremely common for kids to play this at least into the mid 2000s where i'm from, i moved away so i don't know if they still do
Most of these wouldn't qualify as "puzzles", would they?

I find it nice to learn new languages via data structure puzzles, because to me the data structures of a language feel like the grammar and once I have that down everything else falls into place
I mean, in a way this really wouldn't be that different from having to authenticate when installing software on a desktop OS if this was required for all apps.

And AFAIK Apple already requires you to confirm with your unlock method when installing apps from the App Store.

Honestly I wouldn't mind enabling requiring my pin for all app installs.
Definitely not all wisdom teeth come in like that: it's possible to have all 4 aligned normally and have have enough room (I do).

But coming in towards other teeth and hitting them, or other forms of impaction, are pretty common. You probably saw (or could have seen) the situation pretty clearly on an x-ray.

That being said, there is/was definitely an air of "this is just what we do, it's easier this way" for removing wisdom teeth, akin to say, what removing tonsils once was.
I think that applies to any industry! Like nothing is stopping a car mechanic from overcharging you. But dental treatments need to be clinically justifiable, so I'm sure any well-meaning dentist will happily explain their reasoning for any treatment.

Patients regularly push back on some treatments I've recommended, and I've always enjoyed the discussion. If a dentist is offended, then something is not right
I have a boox note air, and if you use it as a "full tablet" then you're doing it wrong and will not enjoy it. It shines as an ebook reader (it runs kindle and kobo as well as epub readers and calibre companion). I run file sync on it so it always matches my library. I take notes (using the remarkable pen which is better than the boox note one and works great with it). But I don't use it for browsing or anything like that, the slow screen refresh just makes that sort of thing miserable.
> I'm almost 50, and to me the image of boys playing conkers only comes from books or TV based in early 1900s UK. I've never actually seen anyone play it.

Did you grow up in a city? I'm mid 30s and we used to regularly play conkers in the village where I grew up.
AI Is the New Plastic
Do you think there's something that can be done in the area other than education?
Ok i see that you are being deliberately obtuse. Because by saying some, you meant time aspect was not primary. Which is wrong.

Anyway, I have put a bit more information about this tense up in the discussion.
Afaik illegal in UK without first getting an amateur licence from Ofcom
I agree that it was a grift, I tried to tell my penny-stock chasing friend to not toss a single penny on it after he showed me their pitch deck (which made it look like nothing more than a consulting firm for large enterprises). He didn't listen...
Down under, we have a term for them: wowsers [0]

The term was coined a hundred years ago. Every generation has a different version of the moral scare that will corrupt the children and needs urgent policing. The policing is always about controlling other people's behaviour (rather than, for example, educating the children).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wowser
compass makes a ton of sense, and that is indeed a sweet video, thanks for sharing!
Dask and Pangeo: Better performance thanks to science/software collab. (2023)
I used to play conkers at school in England, however my children didn't.

The reason? Schools have banned the game of conkers due to health and safety reasons.

I asked my 17 year old this morning and he had never even heard of the game of conkers.

So I think the age of conkers is passing, alas.
Eton wall game is a class thing. Conkers is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_wall_game
Yeah, very much fron the 1950's 'Beano' era, but it did still go on in the mid 90s, at least in a wild throwing them about the place as entertainment. It was indeed a simpler time.

A lot more kids in the background smoking cigarettes around the bike sheds as well, but that's another story :)
Pokémon developer faces major data leak
An Example of Throughput vs. Latency
If you think that human mind works like this, then you'll find out that those precious ideas and things you want to think about come once in a blue moon if ever. ChatGPT is going to make you even dumber than you already sound like.
Perspectives on Floating Point
SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027
It's crazy how good Windows 7 was and how hostile were any subsequent releases. I bet most people would be fine with a Windows 7 Eternal Edition.
It is a crime against oneself.
I’ve had pretty dismal results doing the same with spreadsheets—even with the data nicely tagged (and numbers directly adjacent to the labels) GPT-4o would completely make up figures to satisfy the JSON schema passed to it. YMMV.
Only on HN are graphite pencils used less frequently than graphene tech.
Fillings are definitely a staple of the procedures a dentist would perform. The article does mention overtreatment, so really depends on your child's caries risk. As mentioned in another comment, healthy dose of skepticism is always required. I usually try to show signs of decay either intraorally or detected on radiographs.
Gotta admit, it takes some nuts of steel to pull this through.
The latest version also goes after adults.
Artificial Intelligence Raises Ukrainian Drone Kill Rates to 80%
Redis Pipelines to the Rescue
Why would the extremely long term be a useful measure, when we have no way to know how long that will take to happen, and no way to know what will happen in the meantime to disrupt it?
Whether the CPU is busy because of a loop with a sleep depends on the ration of the sleep time and the time to perform the rest of one loop iteration. Doing stuff in a loop iteration that takes 1min and then adding a ms sleep will not drop CPU usage a measurable amount.
So both children of Larry are doing movies then, right? The daughter did the movie Her, which is funny, cause OpenAI used the same concept for ads.

Wonder if my children would achieve my dream to be a director. I only got it to being on stage as an assistant professor, and a deejay. And promoter also. The promoter is sort of director, but is more an executive production role really.
> unless you actively disable your brain's pleasure center

Wait, you can toggle that thing on and off? I knew I've been doing something wrong!
SpaceX uses several different shapes for the nose and areas on and around the flap.
I don't think 'making it big' is the point of FreeBSD anyway. Right now the share of the desktop market is 0.01% (of which I'm a proud part)

I'm not hoping for 'the year of FreeBSD'. I wouldn't even want that to happen because with that comes much commercial involvement like Linux is seeing.

There's always reasons people don't choose a product and there's much much bigger ones leading people not to choose FreeBSD than this.
I mean he just caught a giant rocket with chopsticks so let him go all in.
Those prices are absurd. My whole annual check up including a digital X-ray, visual inspection, tartar removal, polishing, costs less than that.

And that is in high cost Norway.
Everything can be a sport if you can bet on it.
Skiing is a much more expensive activity in most of Britain, mainly since it requires taking a week off work, international flights and hotels to be able to participate. And to become good at skiing you'll have to do that once or twice a year for many years. In places where the local ski slope is a bus ride away it is much less of a class/wealth thing.
It mentions needing a licence on the page.
Kind of related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41845846
I would probably buy a device like this not to show status to others but to myself;

I use a Life Calendar in Obsidian[1] which shows the weeks elapsed and remaining to my set life expectancy(concept made famous by Tim Urban), it helps me focus with ADHD.

Something like Busy Status bar on the table can help display the life calendar 24x7.

[1] https://fosstodon.org/@abishek_muthian/113281548403039832
Thanks! Yes I didn't realized I don't speak about this on the website, good advice!
One thing is evidence based medicine, another just simple greed: I like this older study from Switzerland where they sent the same healthy guy to 180 dentists, about 30% of whom performed unnecessary treatments, often on different teeth.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3036573
Not without help.

https://i.redd.it/2reoopbklkud1.jpeg
Now only the people in majority need to realize this, and perhaps we can have a somewhat saner web again.
Ask HN: What Technologies Should I Learn to Quickly Secure a Remote Position
Say you have three months to learn something so good that you get the job right away after applying. Which technologies would it be?

PS: You already have a solid foundation in computer science and software engineering
Depends on how re-usable you want it to be....screwdriver and a hammer anyone?
Longdue: We're a brand new independent RPG studio
They are all expensive but I'm not so sure about margins.

Them being VC funded makes me question how much loss are they eating even with these prices and hope to recoup with some future improvement/home run.
Amazing! In a... black mirror kind of way.
> Also, doesn't the conker spiral around your hand hitting it and hurting you?

Not usually in my experience, the string isn't that short and you're holding it at one end. Injury is still possible though, but that's part of the fun!
Ever the speech was just a guy trying to pretend he was a robot.
I don't understand why Musk/Tesla is so insistent on having cars do self-driving purely on cameras.

Both from the technical and the marketing point of view having a car that can do better than any human ever could, even in the most optimal of conditions would be a great thing.
The most challenging axis in my opinion is the roll axis of Super Heavy, if there is a roll angle error, the pins could not sit properly on the chopsticks and the whole booster slides off.
Eh could be worse. My daughter’s boyfriend’s parents won’t use Apple stuff because the logo has a bite out of it.

Hilariously though they are paranoid about China and Chinese influence and go on about it all the time including Apple making stuff in China but have Huawei phones.
blogging from your phone is a sign if insanity.
Musk gets obsessed with big bets when people tell him something isn't possible. That, plus the hardware costs are much saner for Tesla if they don't need a bunch of lidars.

That said, this particular big bet looks pretty bad for Musk. He's been confidently promising self-driving either "this year" or "next year" for the last several years, and so far Tesla appears nowhere close to getting L4/L5 driving down.
The first sentence says:

"I just got a call from the owner of a hotel..."

The story is probably all true, even though it does have a bit of that "Elderly man set cruise control on at their RV then got up to make a sandwich" urban myth/chain letter vibe to it.
The Ulanzi TC001 is a great, cheap piece of hardware. I found a second-hand one for $20 and flashed it via USB with https://github.com/lubeda/EspHoMaTriXv2, a more practical firmware if you already have a bunch of ESPHome devices at home.
When I was a kid and imagined the future I didn’t spend too much time thinking about the communicator. Kind of boring in the bigger picture.
I would not want to be conked on the head with that one.
Because in civilized countries insurances pay 100% of x-ray exams, and needed treatment.

But some countries still believe in the advantages of the middle ages.
H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies
I was able to keep my code small by leveraging existing protocols: TLS for authentication and HTTP2 for multiplexing, stuffing simultaneous HTTP1 requests onto a single TLS-encrypted tunnel socket.

Hopefully I'll make it on the hall of fame [1] :)

[1] https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
I have a separate PC that I access through SSH. I recently bought a GPU for it, before that I was running it on CPU alone.

- B550MH motherboard

- Ryzen 3 4100 CPU

- 32GB (2x16) RAM cranked up to 3200MHz (prompt generation in memory bound)

- 256GB M.2 NVMe (helps with loading models faster)

- Nvidia 3060 12GB

Software-wise, I use llamafile because on the CPU it's faster by 10-20% for prompt processing than llama.cpp.

Performance "Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf":

CPU-only: 23.47 t/s (processing), 8.73 t/s (generation)

GPU: 941.5 t/s (processing), 29.4 t/s (generation)
What actually positively surprises me is that the American Dental Association publishes recommendations that are to the financial disadvantage of almost all its members.
You really don't need it tho. There are already many beginner friendly distros and steam and games works on them no problem.
For logical reasoning tasks you should use pen and paper if necessary, not just say the first thing that comes to mind.

Comparing one-shot LLM responses with what a human can do in their head doesn’t make much sense. If you ask a person, they would try to work out the answer using a logical process but fail due to a shortage of working memory.

An LLM will fail at the task because it is trying to generate a response token by token, which doesn’t make any sense. The next digit in the number can only be determined by following a sequence of logical steps, not by sampling from a probability distribution of next tokens. If the model was really reasoning the probability for each incorrect digit would be zero.
I don't understand what's the message here, asides from that the author is bitter. Musk and his team have made incredible progress in many important directions, to the point that it feels the next industrial revolution is just around the corner. Let him go all in.
Musk inspired and hired a lot of great engineers that made this all possible. His vision, passion and capital are crucial in this, but he dis not catch these himself, nor did he engineer any of the control systems to the detail needed to make this work, I'm sure.
Mind sharing some use cases? You can email me (email in profile/website) if you prefer not to share publicly.
You bought it? How come you announced that you launched it 70 days ago?
Also played at school in England.... probably ~22 years ago now I'd guess! Sad to hear that era is over!
Can Google get 2GW for $34B anywhere in the world? This is the value proposition of modular small reactors.

The cost of nuclear in Georgia today is essentially subsidized by decades and decades of past investments.

And as much as some people might like that you can’t simply move Georgia and place it next to your data centers.
MTB mountain bike.

mountain bikes have a "flat" handlebar that is mostly straight from end to end.

They also have dropper posts - this basically converts a bicycle seat into an office chair. A handlebar lever you can pull will let the seat move up and down hydraulically and when you release it it stays in that position.

People use it to pedal normally with the seat up, but on tricky trails you can drop the seat down out of your way.

back to handlebars, drop bars are what road bikes have. They are the curled handlebars that look like a C from the side. If you lean forward, you can grab them by the "drops" and aerodynamically pedal harder.
SpaceX is doing ridiculously well, but that doesn't mean all of Musk's bets are equally smart. So far he seems to be terribly wrong on self-driving.
Another one: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/minee/minee-habit-track...
gosh i remember those halcyon days back when I had a niner, sadly it was taken by a fiver.
Switching to Linux has been the best and most technical rewarding decision I have ever done. I miss almost nothing and gained so much.
Which texts would you recommend students read to learn about Post-Kantian philosophy?
I hope they do that for Street View.

Actually, I would like it to be a toggle. Sometimes I might want to know if a place is likely to be busy or not. Sometimes there's a bus blocking the storefront that I want to see.
I mean, Volvo is already delivering the EX90 with a LIDAR integrated from factory for similar money to the Model X - and I can't imagine Volvo is losing money on them, so it can be done. Tesla just chose not to.

And yes, I know the EX90 is currently an absolute mess in terms of software and their LIDAR isn't even enabled for driving assists yet, but the hardware is there so it can be built on scale.
We used to have Demon internet in the UK. The local vicar told us proudly that he was using it and thought it was funny.

Depends how backwards people are…
> on-call engineer is going to be fixing the issues the other engineers are shipping, instead of those engineers following up on their deployments and fixing issues caused by those changes

Solution: don’t. If a bug has been introduced by the currently running long process, forward it back. This is not distracting, this is very much on topic.

And if a bug is discovered after the cycle ends - then the teams swap anyway and the person who introduced the issue can still work on the fix.
21 reports may not be a lot in a vacuum. It is certainly an overwhelming number of people to suddenly become responsible for — even more so if the team is spread across different cultures and time zones.
Yea, that's quite a deep pit for no support on the sides. Definitely unsafe and against regulations in Croatia.
Looking for niches where no one else is building is overrated (I say this as someone who chose to start the 200th uptime monitor in 2021).

Tell a prospect/customer that you'll do something, actually do it, and you'll be better than 99% of the businesses out there.
More like 175M Threads users alone. They have already been set up for success given Meta's userbase. Now they have to herd that demographic among their different apps, so it was only logical to have a Twitter alternative in order to retain their usebase and profit from Elon's task oriented leadership that has materialized in Xwitter shedding users.
Of course we should also be well aware of what penguins love to do:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-...

And it was long kept a secret.

From where I come from there is a saying which goes like ‘Good thing you pulled the small devil’ (and not the big one, implied).

Besides satanism or sheitanism as far as I know, is only objectified as the horn-y thing within a Christian (ok, Abrahamic to include Old Testament and Islam) framework. A thing with horns and a fork is not necessarily within this framework.

Should you want to look further, go take a look at Kali or potentially many other Hindu deities showing here and there as mascots. These are no entities to joke with, and humility is not part of this tradition.

So I say, leave small devil do his wonderful work and all the wonderful people who have us FreeBSD and as consequence Darwin, iOS, the TCP/IP stack and many more.

The disguise of actual Satan, should we agree is a thing, is never so obvious. And typically has more humane look, very often wears Prada.
No reference, this is my personal hypothesis. Tesla still needs to squeeze profit out of all this R&D.

Eventually AI eventually could take over, sure. What I see today is they can have humans control the robots for tasks that can easily injure humans.
Is there an actual problem here that airships solve? Is getting cargo across the Pacific one or two days faster (and that's presumably a best case, since airships are heavily weather and wind dependent) actually that valuable? I would have though the scale of international shipping would anyway mean its pretty cheap to set up a continuous stream of cargo, which airships would struggle to replicate in any efficient way.

Honestly, it sounds like a cool thing to work on, but this article is not convincing about the potential market. I can easily imagine former SpaceX and Hyperloop engineers thinking a cool technology will simply find a market, but that's not really what Elon Musk did with SpaceX.
Considerably more pleasant than the St. Tadger's Day wall game played at Graybridge public school.

https://youtu.be/dDjV9iKmT9k?t=118
Of course you did—you proved to yourself that you have a closed, small mind that gets brainworms because you want to make everything a matter of politics. Every time I've posted a story that included any mention of Musk it guarantees it will get flagged on HN. It doesn't even matter if the story doesn't have anything directly to do with Musk or how tangential the connection is—the haters just instinctively flag it, like a Pavlovian response. How utterly surprising.
Was confused too. My first thought was about conker crafting [1] and I was puzzled that there was a world championship for it and people were serious enough about it to cheat - but then again, weirder things exist...

[1] https://curiousandgeeks.com/conker-animals-autumn-crafts
The digging is not a problem, lack of support for the neighbors foundations is. This is one strong rainfall away from destroyed ancient site and homeless folks.