skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve blocked out 2 4 hour blocks for some work mandated sabbaticals for months now. It’s been great! People now remember the days and which block they can’t contact me, and work around it. It’s become such a successful thing that we recommend this to others within my team.
my 95yr old grandmother who still has her OG chompers always told me to only floss the teeth i want to keep, and given hers are still usable after 9 decades, i listened
One part of the problem with traditional plants is that they are massive mega projects which the US does not specialize in. I am assuming by building smaller you are able to iterate on designs quicker.

I also wonder how much of the cost is tied up in the upfront construction and engineering compared to operations.
React, Node.js, TypeScript
I switched my iPhone to Bing recently because of this. It’s in the same order of magnitude of usefulness.
Umm, if you wanted/want to draw to the screen, what library will you use?
> It's not the web in the strict sense

It kind of is though. Maybe not with discord specifically, because it’s a closed platform. but communities on open ones like matrix are just as much part of the web as any forum.

It’s not a big platform with all users in one space. There are dedicated communities with passionate people talking, sharing ideas, helping each other out.

Would you’ve considered IRC chat rooms on freenode part of the web?
I think the assumption is that the assumption assumes asinine intent akin to adopting ambiguous alliteration.
Adobe has a really huge moat they can leverage to acquire users.
Very true - I'll admit that while I knew that peanuts are legumes not nuts, I didn't know that the others you mentioned were not nuts. I learn something new every day (and my son has a severe allergy to many of them - though not all - so I should know these things!).

And while I know my son can safely play with conkers, we most certainly have not tried to eat one!
You clearly understand that there's a difference between the colloquial name and the scientific definition. In the context of the GP comment, the discussion was related to nuts that are poorly named (like peanuts and tree nuts that are actually seeds).

Strawberries aren't berries and tomatoes are. You can say that's wrong all you like, but in the context of how they are botanically classified rather than what we named them you're incorrect.
For 420 joking around on Twitter.
disclaimer: just an old grumpy customer, not an industry expert.

There were pointless debates around ITU-T and 3GPP as to whether the LTE is 3.5G or 3.9G or 4G next to the pink fact elephant that _it_ is going to be _the_ next cell standard anyway. That hot debate delayed voice call discussions to post-launch matter that eventually coagulated as the VoLTE.

The Voice-over-LTE was a total kludge together that were(ARE) carrier specific implementations. In Japan at least, it seemed to have had push from KDDI, esp. with hindsight that NTT docomo and Fujitsu, both formerly influential in 3G, both seemed on fire majority of that timeframe, while Nokia being a supernova beyond fire. It would be very natural if Samsung would have made vital contributions, but I don't have much informational pressure from that direction. VoLTE is phone company mannerisms, remnants of retro-futuristic media features of 3G, weird spaghetti codes from carrier labs, and international call exchange system, all homogenized in a blender; the artefacts were co-developed pair of server and client implementations that are standardized in the way there aren't many implementations but not something carefully spec-worked before construction for interoperability. That all happened ~a decade ago. Some point between Android 4 to 10.

I suppose it was all retconned into 3GPP standards after action, but the whole stack is still like a lobotomized Android call app and private fork of Asterisk embedded into the cellular core monstrosity. I guess embedded modem people(like Quectel) had finally got to port functions into modem chip firmwares so they can make calls, after someone done it for non-smartphones(KaiOS, Smarterphone...), I think around 2019 +/- 1 year.

What I'm trying to say is, VoLTE is complicated. It's something like SIM-authenticated SIP/RTP over IP under IP, not even regular 3G data session let alone SIP-VoIP on Layer 3 UDP/IP.

Osmocom project Wiki summarizes it better than I[1]: "Voice over LTE is an adaptation by 3GPP to use IMS over an LTE cellular network. The LTE EPS (Evolved Packet System) provides the functionality of the underlying IP-CAN. ... IMS is much more than normal SIP/RTP. And in addition to that, there is a tight integration between the LTE system and the IMS on top of it."

And it's supposed to be the core feature of a phone, "not".toupper() a party trick... There are better things to do in life for most people.

1: https://osmocom.org/projects/foss-ims-client/wiki/VoLTE
They show strong evidence for more profit.
'Islands of regularity' in the post title is a thoughtful allusion to the 'island of stability' long anticipated (and at the hairy edge, starting to be seen) in a cluster of superheavy element isotopes (like in tbe 110-120 atomic number range).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
Now we can nuke a database to the orbit for real
This seems like an irrelevant tangent. Powerful men can hold other powerful men to account, that is still holding powerful men to account.

(In fact, one change desired by is for powerful men to stop reflexively responding to allegations like these by protecting each other and being more skeptical of unsubstantiated pleas of innocence, given the statistics that we know on the nature of sexual assault allegations).
Just slap a buncha RCS on there, maybe a reaction wheel or two, and presto.

Source: Kerbal Space Program
I think it's important to have high quality TTS on arbitrary web articles.
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Have you looked into structured generation with a library like outlines? https://github.com/dottxt-ai/outlines
Note that Gödel's incompleteness theorems do not apply to just any system of logic: they are about particular formal systems that can prove certain facts about the arithmetics of integers. So, for them to fail, it doesn't even take a non-mathematical formal system, just something that has nothing to do with natural numbers, for example, Euclidean geometry, which happens to be fully decidable.
We often plan projects in release stages including a limited alpha to a few customers who are interested in a feature. We expect that during the alpha period, the developer who worked on the feature will need to make changes and address feedback from the users. And the same after a general release. We have longer rotations than yours so there is usually time to schedule this in around feature releases before that developer is responsible for general defensive work.
Thousands of cars that crash in US are ending up in Russia
Do you have a name for this practice?
The article is from almost a week ago, and the original paper from August. Yet, there are two submissions on HN within an hour. Now I wonder where HN posters steal their content from :^)

Edit: Nevermind, according to the timestamps both of these are from 3-4 days ago. Interesting that they both just hit the front page again. I'm not sure why HN is showing both the post and OPs comment as posted "3 hours ago" when the timestamp is several days old.
Some trees are pretty damn good for climbing. It scares the shit out of me now, but I’m fairly certain I’ve gotten to some 7-10 meters up. That’s only like 30 feet though, I don’t think I’ve even seen trees that were 100ft high xD
Fair play -- I didn't know about that one. It does seem to be less of a protocol and more of a specialised DOS client app, though...
Conkers is a traditional children's game in Great Britain and Ireland played using the seeds of horse chestnut trees—the name 'conker' is also applied to the seed and to the tree itself. The game is played by two players, each with a conker threaded onto a piece of string: they take turns striking each other's conker until one breaks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkers
Apologies - feeling quite dim now.
Would you not want to read the XBRL from the filing? I thought those are now mandatory.

This is one of those interesting areas where its hard to innovate because the data is already available from most/all data vendors and its cheap and accurate enough that nobody is going to reinvent those processes but also too expensive for an individual to purchase.
>Mediatek

If in any doubt about whether to buy this, look at Planet Computers offerings and the quality of their Linux build. They have been offering Mediatek-based Linux phones for several years.
Spoiler: garbage with ancient proprietary kernel, thanks to Mediatek
Well said. Much of work is "look what I can do" without much regard to the quality of the results. Those who spend time taking a deeper look at correctness often just get chastized by bad management. The sectors where correctness is valued in software are few and far between.
Timeless HN: Random good HN stories from the past
That and an average headphone wire being somewhere around 3ish feet is pretty close to a quarter wave for commercial FM frequencies.
Show HN: LaunchYourApp – A React Native Boilerplate with AI
For over two years now I have been developing mobile applications as side projects, and one pain point I have always had is finding a good standard for my projects that could be replicated across almost all of them and that would give me the ability to launch them quickly so I could test different project ideas. With this in mind, I developed a product that solves this problem.

The project is called LaunchYourApp, It is a boilerplate in react native, with a complete authentication system including social authentication like apple and google, it also contains several ready-made components to facilitate development in react native, in addition I also added AI, so it contains a ready-made chat in the boilerplate integrated with open ai and also a chat for generating images using Dall-E!

I know there are a lot of developers and very good technical people here, so I would really like to hear your feedback! :)
Misuse the trademarks licensed to one of their competitors while relying on that competitor to provide them infrastructure for software updates and provide product improvements.

Adjusting their product names sounds like a small change they could have made to avoid antagonising a close partner.

Running their own plug-in mirror infrastructure is something companies often do to reduce the risk from relying on a third party.

Similarly having some stake in the development of WordPress reduces risk of them being shut out if there is a license change that necessitates a fork.

Less about caving in on wishes as more that it's risky to choose both to rely on a third party and wind them up at the same time.
TIL that Excel saves files as source code, as xlsx is XML
If SpaceX finally succeeds in driving down costs of moving matter to space, we can find a faroff place and store the really hazardous waste there.
Maybe not so relevant to the economics of a dining car, but I have to take issue with “just as much of a bullet train”. Shinkansen are proper high speed rail with dedicated tracks, top speeds of 320km/h, and high speeds (260km/h or higher) across basically the entire network.

ICE trains run on the same lines used by slower services, and no train in Germany exceeds 300 km/h, with even that speed being attained only on quite small upgraded parts of the network.

The European rail network most similar to Shinkansen would be TGV.
i'm building a low volume product. if you add the cost unfortunately you will see it's impossible to do something of good quality and low volume with much lower price.

you don't only add the sum of the electronic parts, but materials, r&d, payment for the one who does the assembly, marketing, taxes & accounting, shipping package, refunds and defects, payment for someone to produce it or the usage of your existing equipment, etc. if you add all of these, you will see that it's not cheap.
It’s not necessarily about how hard it is, but what’s the ROI on learning a skill. If soldering was something I did at work or if I often repaired my own electronics, then it could even be worth learning it if it took a month of evenings. But as I’d not have many of the tools and schematics to do component level repair on today’s electronics and I almost never need to solder anything at my software engineering job, so this skill would be used maybe once or twice in a decade on a hobby project, it is mostly not worth investing even one weekend.

We can learn a lot of skills that are useless. Coming from a conservative family, I learned to play the violin and piano at a very young age instead of spending time with friends. These are skills I never have any use for and I’d rather just have some better memories from my childhood. Even if learning to play piano was relatively easy — with one weekly lesson over about 6 months it is extremely doable.

Those are sort of the real costs and benefits of learning skills. Easy or hard doesn’t mean necessarily that it’s worth or not worth learning.
Show HN: An interactive explorable map of 5M Hacker News stories
This is a data map providing a view of all HackerNews stories with a score of at least 2 (to remove most of the spam). Stories are close together in the map if they have semantically similar titles. In the bottom left is a histogram of stories over time. Hovering on a bar will select stories from that year, and dragging a selection allows selecting multiple years. A keyword based text search is in the upper left. Hold down the shift key and drag to lasso-select points and get a word cloud generated from the selection. Clicking on a point will open the URL for that story.

The dataset was filtered from https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenPipe/hacker-news
Stories were embedded in a vector space via nomic-embed: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
A 2D representation was generated using UMAP: https://github.com/lmcinnes/umap
Clusters were generated and topics named via HDBSCAN and Toponymy using Cohere Command-R:
- https://github.com/TutteInstitute/fast_hdbscan
- https://github.com/TutteInstitute/toponymy
- https://cohere.com/command
The interactive map was generated using DataMapPlot: https://github.com/TutteInstitute/datamapplot

The map provides a great way to get an overview of Hacker News stories over the years, and to explore them, and find interesting niche topics. There are limitations to both the text embedding and the 2D representation. For example posts about John Gruber's "Daring Fireball" end up in "Sun-related phenomena" in the Astronomy region of the map; and some topics get squashed into odd places because of the limits of a 2D representation. Nonetheless, most topics, regions and stories are well placed. There is a wealth of knowledge and information packed in here, and a lot to explore.
> If you’re not in the US and not a US citizen, then I have no idea what laws apply to you or how they are interpreted.

I live in the EU, where consumers are authorized by Directive 2009/24/EC to reproduce and translate computer programs on other systems in order to achieve interoperability.

But even in the US there is the Sony v. Connectix precedent that creation of interoperable products is compliant with the DMCA and the anti-circumvention provisions do not apply to them.
If an LLM is built upon a wide base of source information, I'm inclined to trust what it generates more than what a single human "professional" or "expert" says.
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That, and if the prompt to the LLM has been made with a minimum of thought you may get a reasonable answer, perhaps a better one. The consensus is powerful but the two limitations "wide base" and "thoughtful prompt" are big limitations because for specialised fields these limitations apply often. So I am surprise people are inclined to believe the machine more than the human.
But this also has a silver lining right? Candidates gain the opportunity to be a lot more descriptive about their fit and make their case better.

And companies get actionable insights that are far more revealing that a 1 page resume?
> The reliability seems great until unexpected failures drops a large percentage of the national power supply in a matter of minutes (as seen in France, Sweden and Finland for example). Such events are more disruptive than cloudy days are with Solar.

That's a failure mode common to all large centralized power plants, not exclusive to nuclear. For instance, an unexpected failure (a triple fault on one of the transmission lines coming from the power plant) of a single hydroelectric power plant caused a country-wide power outage in two countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Brazil_and_Paraguay_black...).
Show HN: Priority Management App
As a working parent to 2 kids, I have been struggling with time management. Hence I am building fhynix - it helps manage priorities and not just tasks. It empowers you to spend time on what matters to you - work, kids, self-care, fitness, call mom, home tasks rather than treating all tasks as same. I wanted to check if you would find it useful. You can send text or voice notes and it adds an event or reminder too
> That isn't directness, it's passive aggressiveness, which the Dutch are not stereotypically known for.

No need to be passively aggressive if you can be actively aggressive ;)
The mother of all the demoscene !!!
I don't know that an AI winter is bad. Frankly, I don't think society is ready for "actual" AI. It'll probably be used to entrench corporations and increase exploitation if we don't fix our current problems.
No pair programming has been pretty pleasant every time I’ve done it.

AI assisted coding isn’t pair programming as AI never takes any initiative. It’s more like handholding or having someone poorly look up API docs for you.
The headteacher said himself that story was misreported — he bought the goggles as a joke.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/dec/09/conker...
How culpable are external lawyers in corporate wrongdoing?
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The link provided doesn't mention that.

They did in another post ask for people to "Don't necessarily upvote it -- just "vouch" for it if you think it's on-topic."

By the way the report is pretty solid.

https://mastodon.social/@report_press/113306313558293261
Sorry, full fidelity was lax terminology. What I really meant using a modern lossy codec (e.g. AV1 or H.265) at a high bitrate, so there is no perceptible loss.

I was under the impression 50Mbps was very good, even for 10-bit HDR 4K.
Joke’s on them, I just don’t listen to the PA.
I don’t think the capability precludes it from being something they’re not stereotypically known for.
Entropy is not enumerated states

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Entropy is an existential property describing the distribution of potential.
Popularly leading minds in physics, math, and information theory have long upheld a number of standing definitions which do not consistently coincide with observable or functional Truth (causing enumerations and conditions.) These have represented the best of our ideas, and have been accepted among you generationally as immutable and foundational.

These definitions are imperfect and addressing it as such has triggered a blowback of condescension revealing hypocrisy within the cult of science.

I contended this monumental revelation as substantial, edging forward the understanding of all human kind.

Entropy is an existential force, not an abstract idea. Entropy is the distribution of potential toward equilibrium.

Our Universe IS NOT COMPOSED OF STATES. States are momentary values taken under measurement (as extolled by a recent Nobel Prize.) If science can say “the universe is not locally real”, it is time to say entropy is not a number of states, it is potential distributing.

The conceptual resistance this idea has provoked reveals an intellectually brittle character among the very ideas of discovery and understanding. This inflexibility demonstrates a blindness towards one’s own learned misconceptions, the antithesis of advanced learning (which resolves our simple truths.)

Entropy is not a construct of the mind, and it is not limited to known states of a modeled problem, in existential reality it includes all possibilities even those breaking intellectual models.
Trying to relax always makes me more anxious since it reinforces the idea that there's a danger to be avoided. Over time I've learned the techniques of ERP, which basically does the opposite.
Using solid fuel in a msr is certainly a choice.

Hopefully it is just a stepping stone.
If we're going this route then maybe drop HTTPS all together, go back to port 80 and instead PGP encrypt each file with a different key and add the cool peoples public keys. This would keep malicious people and bots away from the content.
aw. I completely forgot about that. Why didn't it just work? Was it... during those "we invest all our cash to everything needed for total Win32 dominance but boldly let it rot in the backlot" days of Microsoft... yes yes it was.
I think this contributes to collaboration problems across these types of experts. Experts of the squishy have to think in a holistic way that seems jumbled, irrational and arbitrary to the more structured, reductionist, modular, step-by-step input/output thinking of computer experts. In a squishy field you have to be constantly vigilant about unknown factors and have to integrate intuitions into your work. This can make the experience of collaborating on e.g. medicine+machine learning projects very frustrating for both sides. In my experience, biologists/medical people can't think in a layers-of-abstraction manner and kind of talk about every level at the same time. Even when they model something mathematically, they blend their sentences about the concrete use case with the abstract reasoning that is really independent of it and is just math.

Of course at a high enough level, software development relies on judgments as well, and what architecture will be most maintainable or future-proof, when to go with which principle (DRY, YAGNI, KISS etc.), what approach to use etc. will be similarly squishy in a way.
This would be funny if it wasn’t likely.
I'm perplexed that anyone thinks they or really any company ever had a moral compass to start with.
Regarding the attention economy, I believe many practices utilized in today's social media will become crimes in the future due to how they exploit our behavioral structures.

I consider myself lucky because I have experienced the times where it was still possible to get bored. It teached me that consistently putting effort into things I am interested is much more satisfying than doing stuff that gives immediate pleasure. In the long run I find former to be much more satisfying. But with all the stuff we have now that can distract us, many people seem to never even notice that there is some alternative. Maybe I am overreacting but I think this will be a huge problem.
> I imagine that a washed and disinfected hand without open wounds has no measurable risks

To the patient maybe. On the other hand (so to speak), if I were gonna spend my day sticking my fingers in people’s mouths, I’d want to wear gloves.
Might not be a blog, but hxxps://daft.social posts are done by sending an e-mail.

P.S. Not affiliated
Dry cask storage is very safe and effective.
By "constantly", do you mean for 2-4 weeks in a row?
For what it's worth, around here you call an ordinary taxi exactly the same way: Press a button, get a ride. Been like that for a long time.
FWIW I wrote about this a few months ago, after trying the actual device at devconf.cz in July.

It's on HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40805156
Never? It's already a solved problem.
Folks, you all get it wrong! This is "hacking a real world system for your advantage" (YC interview question)!
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