skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may want to check out previewjs.com (disclaimer I'm the author) although it's unfortunately not getting much love or attention lately, my kids are using all of that.
From the Google translate of that article:

> The concept was born from the chroniclers of the Christian kingdoms “when they recovered what is called the neo-Gothic ideal ” by which “the kings of Asturias, then of León and then of Castile proclaimed themselves descendants and legitimate heirs of the Gothic kings,”

> ...

> the idea of Reconquista “was a myth that only began to take shape from the 11th century as part of the program of royal legitimacy promoted by the clergy of Burgundy in support of the claim of the dynasty of Castile and León to have sovereignty over the entire Peninsula.”

So it's medieval propaganda, not early modern propaganda. That I can buy.

I'm not particularly interested in whether the word Reconquista is used by these people if even these historians agree that they saw themselves through that lens. Whether they had a correct understanding of the history behind the Muslim presence is a separate question from whether they believed they were reconquering.
The idea of paying for services online that most people expect to get for free is great, actually.

There was a time when you simply expected to pay for anything that had value. Whether that was a newspaper, a magazine, a movie, music, or even an online service like AOL or CompuServe, you paid for it and you expected a certain level of quality in return.

In the early days of the Web, it wasn't clear at all that sites could pay their bills with advertising. Then in the mid-'90s, Ethan Zuckerman invented the pop-up ad (he's apologized since) and things progressed - or regressed, if you prefer - and we slid down the long slope to companies selling your data, hyper-targeting ads, and worse.

So many of society's ills right now can be traced to the ad-driven model. It's why clickbait is lucrative, why it's more profitable to run a populist site filled with misinformation than a trustworthy news org, it's how scammers and spammers are incentivized to flood social media sites with slop.

I'd love to see Kagi succeed, and others to follow their lead. I'd much rather spend an extra $20, $30, even $50 a month or more to subscribe to a bunch of ad-free sites that I can trust than to get it all for "free" at the cost of ads, data mining, and scammy clickbait.
those 2 websites were distracted eyesores. is this what people find helps attention
When it comes to what's on your property, every place I've lived in the US lets you do your own work as long as you follow code, you just can't do professional work for other people.

Connecting to the grid might be different though - I've never had to mess with that.
Any job should be able to afford a single one bedroom apartment - this is part of the calculus of why people stay in bad and abusive relationships/situations.

Any job, no matter how meager, should be able to sustain you, the individual, by yourself, should you choose to leave your situation.

Any other structure is a failure somewhere (policy, incentives, housing, structurally).

Fantastically popular city centers still require a huge number of people; what’s implied by having them waste their time on a commute and being unable to live near their job is that they’re “not worth” their presence - which, again, is required in the city center.
Also harder to discern and then quantify the loudness of a sound or brightness of a light as a human modem but we are better and more certain of the color. We have different names for the ranges and everything.
This looks really great and love that it can be self hosted. Nice!!!
In some things, yet, but you wouldn’t want the plumbing, wiring, roof, and foundation from 1920.
Newton's laws of mechanics are high-school physics IIRC; my son studied them at 8th grade or so. They are really simple; an evening with Wikipedia or 3blue1brown or whatever floats your boat will let you get sufficient understanding, provided you're also comfortable with high-school math.
Amazon sells homes.
Much less labor!

Can't believe they charge $26 shipping for this.
https://a.co/d/dAh8OCf
I certainly can explain it, I'm just not sure I can do it in a way that you could understand. If you yell me what's one of the greatest things you have seen and why, I might be able to better relate.
VDH's career skyrocketed once he became a regular among the RW media, especially when lots of handwringing about Western values under siege is required.
What percentage of developers in india do you define to be from good colleges ? 15k IIT grads out of 1.5 million total ? So about top 1% ?
Sure it's not very convenient, but adblockers still exist, and the author had enough time to show the full install procedure

And my criticism isn't about toxicity as in "ads are bigger", but search result quality, where the level of degradation is an open question. Like with your DDG example: I've tried to switch to it permanently for all search many times, but couldn't because found many instances where Google was just better (think DDG is mostly Bing, which isn't better vs Google)
fwiw, the author:

>My name is Daniel Holden. I'm a programmer and occasional writer currently working as a Principal Animation Programmer at Epic Games and doing research mainly on Machine Learning and Character Animation.

Their quality content is assuredly building tools for other professionals. So, B2B. A very different kind of "content creator" than those working B2C.

And their pitch itself is already done, likely being paid 200k+/yr to directly or indirectly help make Fornite look better or iterate faster. So... mission accomplished? How Epic is sourcing their deep learning tech will be interesting to see in the coming years as society figures out boundaries on AI tech.
Okay so they reinvented delta packages but added a whole mess of AWS on top of it.

Like it's a legit good idea but they don't even mention the existing prior art in the article. Did the EA devs not see if this has been done before? Fedora/Redhat has been doing delta rpms forever and probably has ironed out a lot of the edges over the years. Like I would have ripped off https://github.com/mendsley/bsdiff the core of drpms.
Have you thought about taking one class a semester for the next year without quitting your job? How important is this really to you? Have you been channeling your interest into building things for fun? Are you tearing through The Art of Electronics? Love of knowledge is a strong motivator but you might be able to satisfy it with a less disruptive change to your life.
I'd assume searches for the majority might be very "bursty", and while they may indeed spend most of their time in Facebook, Tiktok etc. when planning a vacation, searching for stuff to purchase or looking up recipes to try and the like, they'd issue a number of queries to narrow down into their area of interest which would blow past your estimate of 10 queries/day.

There are also a fair number of queries that are just "Facebook", "<name of famous newspaper>" etc. which would also probably count towards some of the quota; it'd be great if some sort of caching could be implemented for these.
> ... where far too many people in the US are being medicated for that and various other things.

What, precisely, does this mean? If medication is appropriately prescribed, by well-educated and well-trained doctors who have, upon actually meeting the patient which neither of us has done, decided that this patient could benefit from said medication... why is that bad?

39.6 percent of U.S. adults are obese. If all of them were prescribed GLP-1 meds (which would definitely never be true, for lots of reasons), and if all of them got healthy because of it... that's bad? Simply because they used medication to help?

Clarify for me, please, why medication is somehow not allowed to be used as a tool to fight illness or injury. Because people should somehow be "stronger" and able to fight it more on our own, despite not having been able to in the past?
>Automattic is hurting financial.

What are you basing this off of?

"In 2024, Automattic's revenue reached $710M up from $580.2M in 2022. The company previously reported $580.2M in 2022, $418.3M in 2021. They do this with a small 2k team."
I can't believe Gavin Belson is rejoining Hooli!
I’ve been an happy subscriber for nearly one year now. I even tried DuckDuckGo for some time but the quality just wasn’t the same.
Droplette: AI Color Palette Extender for Figma
> Even if someone does know about it lowering it will probably make things worse for them unless their neighbors also lower their power.

Ding ding ding! The incentives are all wrong.

Plus, if more SNR is available, you can modulate more bits per unit time, then clear the air sooner.
Super important point. I work for a very large famous company and deployed an open source project with a bit of customization which became one of the most used internal apps at the company. It was mainly front end code. It gained a lot of traction on GitHub, and the developer decided to create 2.0, which ended up having dependencies on things like supabase. I did all I could to try to deploy supabase internally but it was just too much of an impedence mismatch with our systems, so we ended up punting and going with another provider. If they just went with raw Postgres it would have been fine as we already have a Postgres provider internally, but I wasn't willing to commit to being the maintainer for a supabase and its many moving parts as a frontend engineer.
That's obviously not what I'm asking.
At some point you will hit diminishing return. That's a good time to start exploring other endeavors and add to your skillset.

It's not that specialization is junk or good, it is that we get complacent.

For example, I dabbled with programming and computery stuff all my life. I like to think I am pretty good myself. It is not until a few years ago that I started taking improv classes, a form of theater that I began finding something else that I am really good at. Today, I continue to deepen my technical expertise. Not so much in programming, but in electronics, 3D printing, and CAD. However, I will eventually return to programming to expand my skillset there. In the performing art, I am pursuing voice acting.

There's paying works in voiceacting for sure. Even improv has potential for paying work if I bother to teach a class or coach a team. Money isn't why I pursue these disciplines. I found that I am getting stagnant in my acting skill, so I decided to do something new.

Specialization isn't a bad thing, but it pays to continually expand your skill in both breadth and depth. Not just learn the 15th new framework hotness or wahtever. It might even pay to do something that could be the furthest away from your expertise.
Are you aware of what you're doing: you're removing agency from that person who transitioned. They're abundantly public about how their transition was appreciated and needed. Do you ultimately care more about the feelings of your own dad over yours?
People are fleeing 23andMe. It's trickier than they realize
Is he overweight and/or sedentary? If so, I don’t see what a doctor can do other than prescribe a GLP-1.
No I think that there's more to it than superstition - We often blame things on superstition when we don't understand them ourselves.

I've been playing around with sleeping with a fan & air-conditioning and I always notice that my throat is all dryed out in the morning from the air flow directly over my face.

I need a couple of glasses of water to re-hydrate after sleeping with a fan or air-conditioner, so if its not too warm a night I prefer to leave them off. I seem to get a better night's sleep too, but maybe that's just because it's a cooler night.
Ask HN: Recommendations for Thought-Provoking and Controversial Books
I am on the lookout for books that are controversial or capable of stimulating vigorous discussion. I’m particularly interested in literature that offers unconventional perspectives on trending societal issues. For example, while there are plenty of texts discussing the birth rate crisis from the viewpoint of supporting economic growth and sustaining societal systems, i'd love to explore works that argue from the opposite angle—perhaps suggesting that there might already be enough people and that we should focus more on quality of life rather than quantity.
im also interested in books that provide diverse views on other hot topics such as gender equality, political ideologies, and social structures. Essentially, I am eager to dive into material that might be considered contentious but offers substantial, fresh perspectives.
To add to the sibling comments which have already covered the general idea; in many places in the US you can also do your own work and then have an inspector sign off on it.
If you adopt a wide-column db like Cassandra or DynamoDB, don’t you have to pick a shard for your table? The idea behind Durable Objects seems similar
Very good article, I 100% agree on everything. It is in moments of desperation to complete more than one task and complete them early we forget that our mind doesn't work that way, really liked the whole essay. I think one should visit it from time to time to remind themselves. Not to nitpick on CSS but I had to add following styles to the webpage to read it comfortably:
p {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
margin: 0;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
text-align: center;
max-width: 800px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
maybe you can add them if you want. Again, Great article. Thanks.
Yes and no.

These catalog homes are not really adaptable for local climates; for example, many of the Sears Craftsman homes in Seattle have issues with mold due to the constant rain.
because the FM system provides a wider audio bandwidth signal than the audio signal bandwidth provided by AM
This won't be popular opinion but I think the tech industry is out of control with targeting kids. Like seriously my job in the banking industry was more ethical than this.
Ayone can make claims about anything at all in progressively shriller octaves, be it aliens are among us or we are ruled by a world government of lizard-people. We the opposition don't actually need to address those claims, no matter how dire, if they are meritless.

A collective hallucination of what intelligence is is not a good basis for an argument about doom probabilities. We don't have a clue, yet loud people are pretending we do.

It is utterly horrifying that a contingent of Yudkowskyites essentially hijacked reasonable discourse around this subject. I grew up interacting with the LessWrong people: many of them have other problems interfacing with society that make it obvious to them they know what being "less wrong" looks like. The problem is we don't actually know any way to separate the human experience from "pure logic", whatever that actually means.
I think China has about 5 companies working on reusable launch and it is part of a national government strategy. People can argue about the timeline but it is inevitable.
Developing and Utilizing Open Source Solutions Enhances Csirt Capabilities
Because:

> If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold. -- Andrew Lewis
I suppose they were venting off and burning some remaining fuel in some conduits.
Started reading, ok... not bad... then the Musk wank fest comes in. Anything beyond that is pointless to read and everything before is devalued heavily. In the market-forum of ideas and thought, worthless to me.

No point in listening to the tax plan from someone who wants my family wiped off the earth.

X - Closed
>99% of people search less than 10 times a day with loading the next page counting as a search.

that's pretty crazy to hear. Especially since on this day alone, a weekend, I seem to have 20 unique searches. I can easily hit triple digits a day when researching for a project or on the job. Search is invaluable to me.
"We need more Renaissance people"

Me: Ok great

"Like Elon Musk"

Me: Sure. He makes rockets and cars, I guess...

"His new X replacement is an unfettered platform for free expression"

Me: HAHAHAHAHAHHA. No. Furiously Google's author's name to confirm this is indeed yet another partisan shill
Elon Musk is his example, including:

> His new X replacement is an unfettered platform for free expression. And the more the left abhors their loss of the monopolistic old Twitter’s ideological clearing house, and vows to flee X and start their own new left-wing, censorious Twitters, the more they stay on X.

So, yeah.

(also, hey!)
Consider the elephant
Paying customer here. Kagi all day every day
The link below is to a PDF of an article penned by Ward and Randy Suess for the Nov. 1978 issue of Byte, called "Hobbyist Computerized Bulletin Board". Details their development and functions. [0] Followed by a link to the 2019 NYT obit for Seuss. [1]

[0] http://vintagecomputer.net/cisc367/byte%20nov%201978%20compu...
(pp 150-157)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/technology/randy-suess-de...
I remember playing KSP, I had used some mod to program a moon lander to do a suicide burn, a maximum thrust burn to land. I did the maths myself and when it actually came to the landing I was 100% certain I had either a bug in my code or did the math wrong because I was coming in way too fast, or so it seamed, but to my surprise the thing slowed down in time!
Mind you ksp is way simpler than the real world and the spaceship could handle some… error, the landing was hard but successful

Point is it always seems like you’re coming in too fast
Consider the bulldog
Sports is one. I play in a regular pickup football game twice a week. I also took up golf, and now I'm older I have more time for that. That's a good social sport and can be played in coed groups.

I also do ceramics. I'm not terribly arty but it allows me to be creative. It's quite social - lots of chatter etc. I imagine the same for metal eork, painting, jewelry, glass blowing etc.
I'm sure that matt guy will just appoint himself or some random people to it.
The Age of PageRank Is Over (2022)
That’s exactly what I did, and it seemed to do a good job of hitting the main points in about 13 minutes (which is much quicker than how long it would take a slow reader like me read this article).

I’m sure it still didn’t do the article justice, though.
This isn’t really a fair comparison. Banning from TV was extremely uncommon in the 90s. I remember those kids, with parents like yours, and it was often just a small part of what made them odd outcasts. Their clothing choices and mannerisms put more of a target on them than the lack of TV. They were usually extremely socially awkward amongst other things that would invite bullying.

Sorry not meant as a personal attack but it’s not how kids that don’t use social media come across to me at all.
How accurate can the data of such
a smart ring be or do other smart ring have so high margins?
Oh I don't dispute that. Despite the documented atrocities, the number of.native deaths by disease are greatly exaggerated, Charles V did write the precursor document of the human rights bill (after getting wind of what went about in Peru), and the Spaniards did promote marriages with natives. Studies of racial superiority the kind of which were prevalent at the end of the 19th century didn't come from Spain either.

History is not a black and white frame that we should either be proud or disgusted about. The fact that the Spanish state promotes such historical wash-ups says more about its current leaders.

FWIW the columbus expedition was considered a great failure at the time. He did fail to reach the indies by the west, and the couple of "indians" he brought to court was little compensation for the lack of lucrative spices. Reaching Lisbon first on the way back was also a disaster, prompting an immediate ultimatum by the portuguese by violation of a treaty, which led ultimately to the tordesilhas treaty which left the kingdom of castille and aragon out of the spice trade. He felt the failure so personally that he sailed back 4 times looking for a passage to the great sea beyond the new world, failing every time and becoming so embittered in the process, that he eventually lost his allies in court. It was only 40 years and lots of failed settlements after the columbus expedition that Spain hit proverbial jackpot and found the gold and silver which made the nation extremely wealthy in Europe, for a time. By then, the new world already had a new name: the Americas. The greatest of the hostorical humiliations, named after an ordinary italian cartographer, rather than the legendary captain which reached it in the first place.

Enshrining him as Spaniard will be of little consolation for his name.
A "Renaissance person" is not a self-educated generalist but an old person who has had diverse interests and the motivation and the opportunities to pursue them.

If you work on something full time for five years, deliberately challenging yourself and striving to improve your skills, you will probably become pretty good at the thing. But because a full-time job is only 1/3 of your waking hours, you'll have time for other pursuits. If there are 50 productive years in a human live, you can probably become pretty good at 20 different things.

From this perspective, a college degree is not specialization, but the first few percent of the work of becoming a Renaissance person.
A FLOSS platform for data analysis pipelines that you probably haven't heard of
I don't think this has been discussed on Hacker News before, but I wonder if people have any opinions about Arvados?
Trump seems much more like a specialist to me.
How would you respond to the argument that the burden of proof lies with the other side, i.e, the side that says there is too little alien invasion doom risk to worry about? The whole thing is a farce, not worthy of a serious answer.
I don't really like that quote. Many services you do pay for still treat you like an asset to make money off. And many services that are free, like the internet archive for example, are not.
Over the extremely long term in competitive industries, prices asymptote at ~costs. So it's still a generally useful measure, and in ~all cases, it's at least a directional indicator.
Meta suggests AI Northern Lights pics are as good as the real thing
> Presumably this Lorente has more evidence he hasn't put on display, so it isn't completely baseless either.

Presumably, if he had more evidence, he would be displaying it in order to make his case better.
If the Amish could read this they would be dabbing so hard right now.
He billed $90k for the website, design, and motion work. Crazy.
That is so many iterations in the future, it's not really meaningful to design for now.
I can highly recommend switching to kagi. Happy paying customer here.
Agree that the whole senate field is a type of hallucination. But when it comes to thoughts appearing in our minds their transitions are much more classically hallucination like. I became aware of this during meditation. It has a strange intoxicating quality where you have to figuratively pinch yourself to notice how bizarrely one thought transitions to a thought in the periphery of your attention.
Are you looking for windows?
You note of course that instead of legs, which have mass and have to have a structure in the stage which distributes the loads the SH has those parts with pins which were locked eventually with Mechazilla's arms, and those parts also have mass and need to have corresponding distribution of loads.

How different those consoles with pins are from possible landing legs, and how much savings they provide is an interesting question. It's quite possible they provide some savings - but it would be nice to know some details.