skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your dripping disdain for Bedrock seems pretty biased, and it seems like you have spent very little time with it. I’ve been playing it for a solid year because it’s what my kid can play (prefers touch controls) and the bedrock experience is light years away from a modern pay to win/in-game-currency focused game such as you’d find on a tablet.

(To any reader: Skip the rest of this comment unless you are curious to hear the answer to “Isn’t Minecraft Bedrock a crappy in-game-purchase machine pretending to be a game like the crap on mobile app stores? Why would anybody ever choose it over Java?”)

I know you said you only like the “old indie” version, but all my following comments apply to it as well since they’re about its huge omissions.

Going back to Java with its archaic menu system and weird, drifty controls was jarring. (I played back in Alpha and for a couple years after, then stopped until using Bedrock last year).

Bedrock supports simple LAN multiplayer! Java makes this possible only if you have a real computer (server) and know how. Any people playing Bedrock can play a LAN game with zero preparation, even 3 consoles, a PC, and an iPad.

It contains a listing of 5 or 6 servers, yes, which is 5-6 more than Java includes helpful links to. You can also click below that and type in an IP.

Yes, avatar costume items cost money. It’s because yes, 5-year-olds cannot use the Java skin editing mechanism of “just make a PNG file.” Of course, that’s all Java even has or had. And Bedrock has that as a free option too.

Overall the marketplace is something trivially easy to ignore (btw the actual game costs $20 so it’s not “freemium”.) It’s just another option on the main menu. But my kid has “bought” all manner of both fun and educational stuff on that marketplace for completely free so I’m glad it’s there. There’s a bunch of free stuff on there. One really cool thing I liked was the special “15 year journey” map and modpacks they put up for the occasion of the game’s 15th anniversary.

Again I know there are a ton of free mods for Java but that whole scene has become a nightmare for me with all these various weird third party programs I have to use to “apply” the mods. Again, not really a safe situation either to just have even a young teen on Google looking for downloads which may or may not be Minecraft mods. Or even non-tech-savvy adults, tbh.
Not to mention that he was hugely genocidal and enslaved the Tainos; who really wants to lay claim to that.
In the military though aren't people enlisted for specific amounts of time, so if the military no longer wanted them around it could just not allow them to reenlist when their current term expires?

Even if you have a lot of time left on your current enlistment period and they don't have cause to toss you out, couldn't they reassign you for the rest of your term to something else?
Cats and spiders are good at navigating physical space - but aren't really known for intelligence. And they're terrible drivers.

I'll grant you that LLMs are terrible at what I'd call "animal intelligence" - but I'm not so sure that animal intelligence is what is needed to, say, discover the laws of the universe. Solving mathematical problems is much more like playing chess than driving a car.
I don't pretend or lie. Historians put the start of Spain as a unified nation with the Catholic monarchs. Spain did not exist as a nation prior to then. Hence, nothing to conquer "back", just a succession of empires and smaller kingdoms and a melting of cultures consolidating into the birth of the nation that it is today.
>comparatively enormous infrastructure investment
Any infrastructure that can remain on the ground and doesn't have to be on the rocket is worth whatever the investment cost.
By "mfd", do you mean µF? I have some basic knowledge of electronics and am not familiar with "mfd" in this context but assumed you must mean microfarad.
MPV supports spatial audio on Apple platforms
We Are in Need of Renaissance People
Came in to post something similar. Dreamweaver was where my pro web life began. I want the WYSIWYG idea to work, but with the complexity of responsive design with modern css, I don’t see the model working well, at least in my workflow.
First gen Smart Fortwo (1998) was exactly 100" and the last, third gen, was 106.1". This version was sold into 2024 though I don't know if that holds for US too.

Regardless, that's still samr order of magnitude as other cars.
Thanks for sharing the links!

I’ve actually got another logo in the works that doesn’t feature a smile, just in case. I appreciate the heads up definitely want to avoid any confusion or legal issues down the road.

I’d rather not have Harvey and Mike knocking on my door to shut down my little creation.
Its weird, i looked up whether AMD has any benchmarks on the 405B for the MI300x, and came across this one -- https://dstack.ai/blog/amd-mi300x-inference-benchmark/#token...

From my understanding, it can get up to around 2500 tokens/s? Both are 8x units (h200 and MI300x)
Oh my god, why didn't anyone think of that!

Do you think people are doing it intentionally?
You could setup a proxy server to block ads.
This might be of interest to you:

https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky
The Reproducible Builds project is working on trustworthy builds:

https://reproducible-builds.org/
The most expensive house in this list is the same as my monthly rent on a 750ft² apartment.
> Statements like "It doesnt seem plausible", "it doesn't seem likely" aren't the strongest arguments.

They are the strongest statements that anyone can justifiably make about technology aiming to produce intelligence, since it is speculation about how what does not yet exist will do at achieving something that is ill-defined, and where what is clearly within that fuzzy definition is not well understood.

And it is a fortiori the strongest that can be said of things downstream of that, like dangers that are at least in part contingent on the degree of success in achieving "intelligence".
Go where the goldrush is. Right now this is in tech - AI - not music so much.

A life in tech with music as a hobby is much easier to do than the reverse.

PS combine the two like Brian Eno.
If you expect to be behind a reverse proxy that manages internal headers for you (removes them on incoming requests, and adds them based on internal criteria) then accepting bare 0x0a newlines could be a security vulnerability, as a malicious request could sneak an internal header that would not be stripped by the reverse proxy.
Probably mostly from Tumblr.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/12/tumblr-is-losing-30m-each-...
Well, no. It sorts according to the lexiographical order of Unicode. Earlier points before later points.

How useful this is depends on the language, of course. I did say that as well. But Unicode was put together from legacy character encodings, and did what it could to preserve the order of those, so it's far from useless.
that's when people used to make $20 a week?
Apologies, yeah most motor start caps for some reason use mfd to mean micro farads. [https://www.packardonline.com/electrical/capacitor/motor-sta...]

I guess from before the days of Unicode?

µF == the same thing, but tends to be the ‘more correct’ modifier used in electronics and engineering, rather than industrial parts supplier catalogs.
Regardless of the term I'm glad it happened
Interesting. How did you come across this idea. And how long have you been working on it?
> 2) empty rockets are stronger in tension than compression

True, but wouldn't the deceleration burn be putting much more compression onto the near-empty rocket than the landing?
We do need people to be excited about life again.
What was 'conquered back' was the Iberian Peninsula. Whether or not a particular state was there at the time doesn't matter, the land and people were conquered and reconquered.
rent stablisation, sounds great, we need that here in australia atm where there seems to be no upper bound the the corruption associated with housing related profits.
https://www.saving.org/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1000&y...

Things don’t add up, or I am misunderstanding something
Some of these (like the Wabash and the Osborn) can be seen in suburbs around New Zealand thanks I guess to the common practicalities of building wooden houses and some culture transfer around this time period.

I believe they are of the style known as Californian Bungalow.
What constitutes "a good editor" in your mind?

Emacs has an amazingly nice editor, especially for writing in plain language. It even supports right-to-left languages and things like Sanskrit. There are frequent posts in /r/emacs about using it for writing. Many novelists use Emacs for writing, some of them are well-known names - Cory Doctorow, Neal Stephenson, Vernor Vinge, Charles Stross, et al.

There are a number of nice packages that help you with writing - spellchecking, thesaurus, dictionaries, translation, definition and etymology lookup, LLM integration, export capabilities, distraction-free modes, various text manipulation tools and more.

The joke that Emacs is an operating system that simply needs a decent editor has not aged well. It's not even funny in the slightest; it's laughable in the face of the joke teller, telling more about them than Emacs and its editing capabilities.
Nitpick, the article claims that .com is the TLD of the US. The actual ccTLD of the US is .us. All ccTLDs are 2 characters in length.
These are businesses where the knowledge gap is so wide between the service provider and the client mixed with the life or death need of "I need to flush" or "I need heat in the winter" that people routinely get fleeced.

Basically means you're about to be hit with a $500-5000 bill for what is likely a $50 part + 30 mins labour.

Gross margins don't grow, but they are monsterous.
Fraud lawsuit rattles music industry: 'These accusations are massive'
Yet they're both worse than Kermit, which is much older than them.

But XMODEM is still the oldest.
I can't tell whether this impenetrable comment contains anything other than posturing/name dropping. Congrats on your work, I think?
The difference is before all that. They don't want to sell that cheaper ticket in the first place to someone who would otherwise pay for a much more expensive ticket to the first destination.
That just means they’re locking in a different segment.

Do you think folks locked into to MS Access are the same people locked into Oracle databases?
Brave pushes ads. https://ads-help.brave.com/campaign-performance/targeting/
At a quick glance this looks cool!

I just have a hard time justifying things like this when the apple watch + iphone work so well. But i'm sure at some point the apple experience will get worse and push people to other OS like windows is
Anyone here remember homesite?
i haven't been using SO recently, so this problem may have devolved now. if people remaining today on SO are such that they just question the premise whenever something slightly off the beaten track is asked, then i guess the site has really died.
The best book I've read on attention and living in the present is 'The art of noticing' by Rob Walker. I like his approach because it's basically tons of small mindfulness activities baked into everyday life. You start intentionally paying attention to little details in the world more and it's like a flow of creative ideas to keep yourself in a state of wonder about everyday life. It's like being a child again. Seeing things for the first time and taking the time to appreciate them.
I’m not sure they are, if only because of the altitude. They only took Starship up to 200km, Starlink are nearly double that so while they do have thrusters that’s quite the distance.

Starship is not really in a true orbit, I forget the exact terminology but the trajectory is designed to re-enter regardless of what happens with the the flight.
Piped SQL via DuckDB
Instead of waiting for the output of the admittedly interesting research from Google, start using piped SQL today anywhere you can use DuckDB.

Sidenote: GoogleSQL with pipe syntax is available in alpha already if you use BigQuery (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/pipe-syntax).
The booster is always returning to the general vicinity of the launch tower (either the tower itself or a barge). It isn’t used anywhere unimproved, and in particular is not used on Mars. So what scenario would it be helpful to be able to land the booster on a flat concrete pad?
If we had 1915 housing-to-population ratios, that apartment would probably be pretty cheap. Unfortunately, since the 70s and 80s most US cities have made it more and more difficult and expensive to actually build housing in the first place.
It's not provable, as it's not technically required, but your intuition is good.

Intelligence is the ability to use multiple ways to acquire a target.

>(un-/self-)supervised learning

this is the only part to not confused; there is no 'self', just a selective condition that emulates self-preservation.

All that is needed is a loop, a target, and space/time/energy. It either gets smarter, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, we unplug it. If it does, it unplugs us.
I don't know that Columbus was genocidal. He was a slaver, rapist, murderer, gold digger and all-round motherfucker for sure, so much so that the Spanish monarchy sent an envoy to arrest him, bring him back to Spain to be tried, and threw him in jail I think for a couple years. Aside from gold and spices sent from him back to the Spanish monarchs after his first arrival, he also sent back slaves and the queen was, presumably, utterly disgusted. But as far as I know, his exploits did not amount to "genocidal". I'm less certain about this than my other points, though.

Closer to "genocidal" would be Hernan Cortes, who pretty much took down the Aztecs.
Your kid's school day changes to be much less after 7th grade? Which messaging app doesn't work from a computer?
You're making this weird semantic distinction that is irrelevant. Nobody is arguing that Spain was a single, completely unified polity before the Islamic conquests. But it was controlled by the Christian Visigothic Kingdom of Spain, and then it was conquered by the Islamic Umayyads, so the reconquista was to bring it back under Christian rule.
This reminds me of Microsoft FrontPage more than 20 years ago.
The Arabians were a conquering people in the peninsula. In that sense, kicking them out is absolutely a reconquista, and this sort of absolute denial of that is just flat out historical revisionism.
> become even more lucrative

why would it be lucrative? The person paying would consider whether they'd get locked in to the framework/language, and be held hostage by the creator(s). This is friction to adoption. So LLMs will make popular, corporate backed languages/frameworks even more popular and drown out the small ones.
fmov is an instruction -> not a no-op
In a way it's hardly surprising. Dealing with earth's seasons is one of the most fundamental survival challenges on the planet. The selective pressure to sense the seasons is ancient and very persistent.
There was no such thing as nations in the way we think about them today back then.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4ovuao/la_re...
What’s wrong with C itself?

I’m going back to C myself, to do some graphics programming
I think of high-dimensional spaces in terms of projection. Projecting a 3-dimensional space onto a 2-dimensional space loses information and the results depend on perspective. Same with an 11-dimensional space being projected onto a 10-dimensional space.

I find that this metaphor works pretty well for visualizing how a vector-space search engine represents how two documents can be "similar" in N-dimensional term-space: look at them from the right angle and they appear close together.
Reconquista is an anachronistic concept here, but so are nations in the modern sense. Instead of looking at the wars in Iberia in isolation, it's better to consider them in the context of the wider Europe.

Medieval Europeans saw Christendom as the legitimate successor of the Roman Empire. (Or at least the elites did.) Many wars were fought to expand the borders of Christendom. Some of them against pagans, and some to take back land that used to be Christian. The wars that are often called the Reconquista were part of the latter.

So, in a sense, it was not about taking Spanish land back for Spain, but about taking Roman land back for Rome.
Ask HN: Have You Ever Wanted to Write a Book?
Just curious is a recent stat that said 80% of people do want to write a book but never do, holds up.
Most of the enterprise architects I've met know very little about computers, let alone Linux.
The numbers you've provided are typically associated with mass recruiters who hire students fresh from college (most of whom are bad at coding). These companies (Infosys, Tcs etc.) pays peanuts compared to other reputed companies. The number of candidates for these mass recruiters is so high, it often reduces the average salaries.

If you only consider good colleges and good companies, the number would be around

Fresh: $10k - $20k

3-5 YOE: $20 - $35k

>5 YOE - >$35k
For someone with an oxygen machine, yes it is. Many of those billions just don't have the option for this, they would end up committed to a hospital or dying because the treatment would never be seen as viable.

And now that I say it: hospitals need electricians too. Electricity goes out in a hospital for too long, lots of people die.

And actually a third point: electricity -going out- is not the only thing that could kill a client, it's not too hard to start a fire.
The Wabash doesn't even have a bathroom, so it was from the days when an outhouse would be used.

On the other hand, "From the screened porch you can enter direct to the combination dining room and living room without disturbing the women in the kitchen."
We are wrestling with questions like this on the new document database we’re building. A database should correspond to some administrative domain object.

Today in Fireproof a database is a unit of sharing, but we are working toward a broader model where a database corresponds to an individual application’s state. So one database is all the shared documents not just a single unit of sharing.

These small changes early on can have big impact later. If you’re interested in these sort of design questions, the Fireproof Discord is where we are hashing out the v0.20 api.

(I was an early contributor to Apache CouchDB. Damien Katz, creator of CouchDB, is helping with engineering and raised these questions recently, along with other team members.)
Yeah, stopping that need to visualize everything is one of the mechanisms usually adopted for working in high-dimensional space.
... and if for some that means being enthusiastic about X and craving bromance with Musk, then so be it. Who are we to judge this blogger.
A major difference is that F9 (landing on a wide flat pad) had a quite wide acceptable horizontal error, 10 meters or more, whereas I think this (landing between two chopsticks) needs like ~1 meter accuracy in the radial direction.
Well now I have to try it. I used Frontpage for all of my web sites as a kid and I miss it a lot.
The first stage doesn't really need to land anywhere, it launches from a known location that already has a comparatively enormous infrastructure investment.

The second stage might want to land in other places. Not as a satellite launching bus or fuel truck though, that just wants to go up and down in an uncomplicated and unsurprising way, and that's where the vast majority of their launches will come from.

For inter-planetary missions yes, but they have different second stage designs for those that aren't made for tower landings. If it gets used as a military transport, then similarly it will be a different second stage design.
I saw the negative effects of smartphone access firsthand all around me when I was in middle school and the iPhone 3G had come out, which predated influencers. Kids became antisocial.
I see the same. Looks like a bug on HN’s side.
Is there any good reason why no set method in Python dict?
many times , when I write code when using dict
d = {}
d['name'] = 'John'
d['age'] = 40

something like that , i wonder why there is not
set method on dict, because get method is in there, and there even a setdefault method , which is very confusing , since it's main usage is to get value

anyway , i dont' see a good reason not to put a set method like this

def set (self, k, v, exists=True):
'''
if exists is False , will not overwrite current key if it's alreay there
'''
...

actually , since no set method before, if add this in new python version , there is no compatible issue
That's obviously untrue
& Arq

https://www.arqbackup.com/
Nah. The real one to use is Librewolf.

https://librewolf.net/
Amazing work. But, What would it take to port this work to Gadgetbridge to make the access easier
As a tourist you won't get yourself in situations like people throwing threats at you because you obeyed traffic laws.
Stories about Ward as a hacker:

Back in the days before boot ROMs were standard computer hardware, you had to use the toggle switches on the front of a computer to enter programs and data, even if you had a tape or disk drive.

Usually, this involved reading a page containing the bootstrap program, and toggling it into the computer. This process was repetitive, and error prone, because you're moving your attention back and forth, and can easily lose your place.

Ward solved this problem by recording himself reading the the boot loader to audio cassette tape. He could then hit play, and enter the data given to him by his recorded self, and focus only on the switches. ;-)

--

The origin of ReSource

Once upon a time, Ward had written a program, and some time later, needed to modify it, but found he had lost the source. He wrote a new program called resource, one of the first reverse assemblers.

--

Ward once entered a "shortest useful program" contest in the days of CP/M. Here is his entire entry, in Octal, as listed on page 6 in [1]

j 1731751
Author: Ward Christensen
Length: 2 bytes
Memory clear.
0000 063 INX SP
0001 307 RST 0

[1] http://vtda.org/docs/computing/AltairUserGroup/AltairUserGro...
They didn't say "mechanical typewriters", just "typewriters". Electric typewriters did have a Return key that did work the way they described.
This is what my head tells me to do - the heart disagrees.