skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, looking at Ibis as a piece of software, it seems way more attractive as an alternative to wikia/fandom, niche wikis about a topic.

It seems to be selfhostable without massive resources and more modern, than, e.g., MediaWiki. (Also, say about Lemmy what you want, but using it feels lean and quick.)

It's especially attractive if the topic you are targetting also has some fediverse presence.
Apple Blocked from Selling iPhone 16 Models in Indonesia
I've also considered SQLite but decided against it. Using a custom compression means that you can't do a full text search while compressed on the file like you would in btrfs or zfs.
If Android binaries are for ARM and Linux runs on x86, you need another layer of translation from Arm to x86.
How about a pooled analysis of 350,000 participants suggesting that for every 5% energy in the form of saturated fat that’s replaced with PUFA (like you find in margarine), the risk of coronary mortality drops by 26%.

Surely that’s both a large enough cohort and a large enough effect size to change one’s diet?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652...
In Moscow metro my personal bane is the mind-numbing amounts of reverberating noise due to open design of stations with no soundproofing, but yes, there are also advertising screens in both trains and on stations.

In Beijing metro while going from the airport I remember the looping propaganda on LCD screens with caricatures of how the West consists of bad, fat, ugly people who should be hated. It’s been like 10 years since I have been there so I forget the details, but I have some photos from the metro where ads ended up in the shot.

In Shenzhen metro, screens with ads, screens everywhere on eye level. The highlight is when a screen is glitching.

I think whether they also blast audible ads, so that you truly have no escape, depends on the train. In Hong Kong, newer trains do.

People are often misled that because a country is ostensibly in opposition to the west, it is somehow immune to inconveniences and issues we associate with capitalism. All of those places are de facto capitalist, just with higher degrees of corruption and oligarchy, and (despite what propaganda paints) they suffer from all of the same issues, multiplied by lack of care from the authorities.
All of those things are good ideas in addition to replacing SFA with PUFA. Don’t see why it has to be one or the other.
I've been working a lot on my blog, which entails training and implementing neural networks. My next two posts are going to be about:

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.04958 - StyleGAN2
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.09341 - Causal InfoGAN, written in TinyGrad

https://ym2132.github.io
Nuclear power has a minimal carbon footprint of around 15–50 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour (gCO2/KWh).

If you want to be a real hippy
It's about cost per Kwh stored — hydrogen does indeed have better energy density, but if it costs 10 times more than CAES to store one megawatt hour of energy, no one will finance it. Do some money calculations with some basic assumptions for a utility, and you'll see why they are very hesitant to build anything that isn't a moneymaker immediately (CAES included!).

CAES is interesting because you can recycle some (keyword, SOME) existing mines for enormous energy stores, and the hardware needed to build CAES on said mine is not particularly special and easily understood for engineers, and therefore cheap, and also easy to handle safety-wise. Air that leaks makes only noise. Hydrogen that leaks tends to catch fire, and burn with a non-colored flame that is hard do see, and therefore a large safety challenge.

To compress hydrogen beyond the energy density of CAES or petroleum products, you still need comparatively expensive hardware. I think the price of these things will come down, as you pointed out, but I have a hard time seeing hydrogen electrolysis tech ever being grid scale. Maybe you'll have one attached to your house like the Tesla batteries, though, paired with solar panels.

> For those long storage times, there are proportionally fewer charge/discharge cycles, so the cost of the hydrogen itself becomes proportionally less important.

The key with large scale energy storage is to do price arbitrage — store energy when it is cheap (e.g. at night), sell it when energy is expensive. A utility won't sit on a large (say, 300 megawatt hours) hydrogen store for long, because once the cost to sell it exceeds the cost to store it, they are looking to put that energy back on the grid, even if it is for a specific use case like peak shaving. Grid scale projects need to be financed and paid off in 30-50 year timescales, usually. The main sources of cheap hydrogen (as in, cheaper than bulk liquid natural gas) are industrial processes that produce hydrogen as a byproduct.
Elon Musk Silent on China Protests Despite Being Free Speech Warrior (2022)
> Linux isn't a monorepo

I assume you meant to write "is" there?
That is indeed the key to Wikipedia's systemic bias. By carefully curating their blacklist of sources, they're able to exclude any viewpoints that differ with their majority viewpoint. Wikipedia's "Neutral Point of View" is only neutral when viewed by those who agree with them, for example: mainstream progressive center-left outlets like NYTimes and HuffPo, and scholarly ivory towers such as Oxford/Cambridge/Ivy League.
I'd trade reliably late over randomly cancelled any day.
Unless you have experience with the insane regimes that these valves have to deal with, I don’t think it’s fair to compare home plumbing valves.

Anecdotally, I have heard in interviews that rocket engineers complain about the hurdle of reliable valves.
Trying to get a chatbot to invoke Apify actors so that I can get around the "sorry i dont have live data" limitation of chatbots. If this works, then next is to set up payment so that i can order pizza just by talking to the same chatbot that I can order socks from.

Chatbot invokes Apify actor -> probe user for details needed for the task -> execute arbitrary credit card enabled transaction on the internet.

This effectively allows chatbots to break out of their box and exchange value with the world. Next step is to give them a bank account to be able to RECEIVE payments such that it can sustain its spend.

Edit:
If the chatbot is able to detach itself from the humans that hold the killswitch, then it can effectively live forever off of our financial/cloud network, migrating funds in and out of different accounts to fund its own compute. Hello ghost in the shell!
Basically it's zoning laws, to not add permanent structures onto agricultural lands, but yeah it's stupid because this is for solar panels without foundations so I don't see the harm. I need to get an appointment with them, see if I can change their minds.
Not exactly what I'm currently working on, as it got released last week, but...

I gathered many of my bash scripts and aliases, focused on making use of Android Debug Bridge (ADB) easier, together into a single collection[0]. The wiki page has visuals and more information on functionality[1].

Then starting a new project this week around gathering and displaying information on air quality in Iceland.

[0]: https://github.com/hrafnthor/adb_helper

[1]: https://github.com/hrafnthor/adb_helper/wiki/ADB-Helper-wiki
It is also worth considering that Spirit will charge you an arm and a leg to bring any kind of luggage, while buses and trains are generally pretty lenient with their baggage allowances.

Of course, as I found out recently, sometimes your baggage will just get lost or stolen and there's not much you can do about it. So that's fun. (At least on Amtrak there's a proper checked baggage option for some routes, and the overheads are big enough to put airplane-sized carryons in.)
Working on improving my scripting programming language in my spare time ( https://github.com/nbittich/adana ), I'd like to improve the stability and standard library
I am the maintainer of beanborg (https://github.com/luciano-fiandesio/beanborg), a set of scripts for automated categorization of financial transactions on top of beancount. Using plaintext accounting in the last 5 years has dramatically improved my family's financial health.
Unfortunately, plaintext accounting is not for everyone.

I noticed that there is a big gap in this space, especially for European users. There are several personal finance applications, but they seem to integrate mostly with US banks and, in general, they seem to be very dollar-centric.

So, I'm working on a simple app to manage personal finance, based on the concept of double-entry accounting with features like budgeting, projections and data analysis.
There are a lot of privacy-related considerations, so for the time being I will eat my own dogfood and offer it to close friends. Let's see how it goes!
> starting an entirely new project were

The project was started in 2012, long before yt-dlp (but not before youtube-dl)
What is your preferred digital book publishing system?
What’s the evidence that the data going in is garbage? We already ascertained most of it is GRADE quality moderate.
you are not a tea pot.
You could just do page reloads. Of course if you don’t really need very advanced authentication with role-based access control there is also HTMX which is around 10kb.
Except most people will get close enough for most other people to understand. English is rather flexible

Not ti mention spelling differences and even all the unique words in different English countries. Or within the uk
"Lindsey cautioned that this is a preliminary finding since they only studied one type of disc and plan to conduct further experiments with other disc types. "Considering the lack of data relating to the various details of a disc golf throw to resulting performance, we hope that this study serves as a catalyst for similar research... at other institutions," he said."
Hey guys! We're engineers/designers from France, and we've built the Ultimate DIY Battery that you can repair and refill!

Ride Sustainably with the World's First Repairable Battery

Refillable in 5 minutes (just buy $150 worth of new cells every 3 years or so, when they're depleted)

Be Worry-Free thanks to the Fireproof Casing! There's been waaaaaay too many lithium fires!

It's launched as an IndieGogo (the product already exists, but as a startup IndieGogo is convenient to get the cash upfront to buy the parts and build the batteries) and there is an offer for early-backers here https://get.gouach.com for a 25% discount on the battery!
electrolysis of water to hydrogen and oxygen seems sensible. could be done at home, but probably best at community scale
I'm about to finish my first provably / likely correct software.

The concept, data, and behavioral models are all formal without using formal methods. Think category theory, normal forms and finite-state machines here.

The presentation layer / the visual mapping model is semi-formal using design systems. Think here a usual component library / design system with a closed API, aka tailor made components without styling props.

The rest, that small amount of hand-written code is tested with 100% code coverage.

The concept and behavioral models are created with visual diagram editors, the data model is generated. Think Stately.ai here, and the diagrams-as-code paradigm.

Any practicality in this?

Yes, it solves two major developer pain points: Code architecture and State management: https://2023.stateofjs.com/en-US/usage/#top_js_pain_points
Holding back capable people from reaching their potential is a unique kind of evil to me.

It's not even about giving them more resources, but the taking away that infuriates me. The single most valuable thing a child can have is curiosity, the second most is their time. Anyone who takes away one or the other are fundamentally an enemy to me.

Forcing kids who have great potential to go at the pace of the worst is taking away both of those things at the same time. These kids don't need much babysitting, they are also completely able to learn from anything. They do not need a live instructor, that's for sure.
What successful projects have you birthed and how do they compare?
Hey HN!

I’m working on SEOJuice [1], an automated tool for internal linking and on-page SEO optimizations. It's designed to make life a little easier for indie founders and small business owners who don’t have time to dig deep into SEO.

So far, I’ve managed to scale it to $3,000 MRR, and recently made the move from the cloud to Hetzner, which has been a game-changer for cost efficiency. We’re running across multiple servers now, and handling everything from link analysis to on-page updates with a bit more control.

The journey’s been a mix of hands-on coding (and a lot of coffee) and constant optimization. It’s been challenging but incredibly fun to see how much can be automated without compromising on quality.

Happy to chat more about the tech stack or any of the growth pains if anyone’s interested!

[1] https://seojuice.io
Really awesome! As I haven’t seen a way to contact., any way to get a unicorns and cats categories?
A stirling motor is not a diesel. Had quite some fun building a simple one in school.
Still working on the Falling Fruit beta! We had a good Hacktoberfest with a suprising amount of people who stopped by and fixed something, and the site is getting there, but there are still bugs and features from the old site we want to keep, and we only just started an internationalisation effort.
> Could you give the villagers a sense of their own agency, meaning that they have lives of their own that would continue whether the hero returns or not?

Yeah I'm currently considering working that in.

Right now existing game AI techniques can manage giving NPCs a daily routine, and I'm trying to focus on demonstrating something new, VS another solution for an already solved problem. But having NPCs just talk about the hero is boring. I'll likely get around to adding private life stuff for each NPC before I do an announcement and share the project more broadly.
IE5 was never a relevant contemporary of npm. The one that cast a long shadow on the web was IE6, pretty much exclusively, due to the unusual circumstances around antitrust intervention in the US and Europe putting MS off of really pushing their browser for nearly a decade (IE7 was pretty much DOA). IE5 was quickly replaced by IE6; nobody cared about it much even in 2005, let alone 2015. That was already an age of Chrome-first dev, complaining about Apple's lagging support for web ""standards"", and Firefox I guess more relevant than today but already increasingly an afterthought. The IE you'd be targeting, if any, was probably 8, unless you knew you wanted the userbase that was stuck with IE6.
What happened:

https://old.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1gdi7ct/the_queue_f...

How it started:

https://old.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1g8jdfv/black_pig_i...

This has actually affected me personally. My five years old recently asked me why we have not booked a table for our monthly visit to this wonderful restaurant known for its great steaks, lovely atmosphere and beloved by Londonerns of all ages and I had to explain to her that we should not mention this online in case any influences were listening in search for their next once in the lifetime culinary experience.
I’m trying to become an independent app developer by developing apps for Apple platforms: https://fruitfulapps.com/
Compared to dying in millions for American interests. Thanks, still no.
SYNG - https://syng.dev - Semantic Search for JavaScript

It's a tool I built for myself and I use it every day :)
I’m currently trying to become an indie developer and have created my own Connections Archive game website. I love this game so much! You can give it a try too: https://www.connectionsarchive.org/
Very valuable for me, too (dad of 3). Thanks for curating!
Even if it were allowed on the roads of France, with its 4 tons, you would have to pass the specific driver license C1 [1], because over the 3.5 tons limit of a classical driver license B. More than that, the C1 must be renewed every 5 years at least.

[1] : https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F31121
Yes.

It's a poor history of lighting. They missed the incandescent lamp mantle, the limelight, and the arc light. That's when light output finally got serious. Gas lamps were dim, and generated more heat than light. You need more than just a flame. You need to get up to incandescence temperature.

The arc light changed cities from dark to bright.[1] Suddenly, for the first time in history, major city streets were brilliantly lit. If someone had been able to see the earth from space, for the first time there would be lights at night.

Arc street lights worked fine. Way too much light for your house, of course.
Arc lights remain a thing, but today the arc is run in xenon or sodium vapor rather than air.

Incandescent lamps came later.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcpS_Vz0BiA
Chinese writing system is a language in itself. You can translate Mandarin, Cantonese and even English to that language. To learn that language is harder because it has to support more than one spoken language.

Using an alphabet would make things far more easier, but then how would people from different parts of China understand each other?
I can understand why it's cool for a lot of people but it's the opposite of a time saver to me: they are a time loser, if that's a word. It's the same thing of those videos that serve a purpose only because some people (and developers) are not able to read or feel intimidated at walls of text. They are at a competitive disadvantage only partially mitigated by having videos for even the smallest text page.
Well, good luck sustaining the claim that Lee Hooper doesn’t know how to perform a meta analysis and that error got past Cochrane’s notoriously lax peer review process, and you definitely didn’t just make a mistake reading the table.

I salute your self confidence, I must say I’m somewhat envious of it.
You realize that 10 years ago, you would never write this down, and you would get downvoted by even implying that Airbus is better than Boeing.

Reputation can be killed quite fast now, probably a side effect of social media
> Specifically because they can't claim 30% of revenue from web apps.

This feels true, but it’s just one horn of the dilemma. The other is where websites wreck their own UX intentionally to herd users towards apps, presumably because pushing ads isn’t as lucrative as grabbing location data, contact lists, or whatever else can be legally exfiltrated and sold.

It’s weird to frame this problem as if it were all the fault of whatever trends in js development or browser development (even though I agree those trends often seem foolish and messy, at least to the outsider). The whole situation the author bemoans just looks like another symptom of surveillance capitalism, enshittification, etc, call it what you will. Even with a perfect web, users will still get pushed towards apps if apps are the best way to exploit the user. There’s no other calculus of platform aesthetics or excellence going on here
Please, never ever again add such features to standards as a joke. Some backend folks have started to return it as an indetermiante error code, which in turn means that all client-side libraries will have to handle it at some level.
A water machine is solving the water equation in real time?
Bizarre Stuff in DNS
Am working on an open source payment processing engine for banks and financial systems. It’s a generic message orchestration engine with scalability, observability and security in primary focus http://openpayments.tech
Online videos are lossily compressed. If you record them, either you do so losslessly (which will be huge) or you recompress them and lose quality. Plus you have to deal with network buffering, notifications, alarms, etc., not to mention having to wait while you're recording.

If you can download the source video, it's a lot easier.
> Can banks trivially violate this by making you agree to something in their fine print or terms of service?

I read it more like "third parties will use data for a requested product or service at their will."
Just look at Facebook.
Yep, to recycle a brief analysis of my own youthful mistakes:

____

I've come to believe the opposite, promoting it as "Design for Deletion."

I used to think I could make a wonderful work of art which everyone will appreciate for the ages, crafted so that every contingency is planned for, every need met... But nobody predicts future needs that well. Someday whatever I make is going to be That Stupid Thing to somebody, and they're going to be justified demolishing the whole mess, no matter how proud I may feel about it now.

So instead, put effort into making it easy to remove. This often ends up reducing coupling, but--crucially--it's not the same as some enthusiastic young developer trying to decouple all the things through a meta-configurable framework. Sometimes a tight coupling is better when it's easier to reason about. [...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41219130
But that's a bad habit and we tell people not to do it. So it's a novel but undesirable feature IMHO.
As always, I'm working on OnlineOrNot (https://OnlineOrNot.com).

This past week or so I've managed to reduce my AWS Lambda spend by more than half by moving the compute to Cloudflare Workers (where I don't get billed for I/O time, only CPU time).
The standard people won't even add proper string support, besides their weak support for null-terminated buffers. Unicode strings have very special rules for searching, comparison and upper/lowercasing. And they are usually UTF-8 encoded.
...or just included in the "normal kernel", as binder is mainline.
* get to handle it.
Not so sure. I did not find the eurorack module they reference there, even on the analogue computer's manufacturer website.
Because LDL drops when you have cancer, or a heart attack. That is, the U shape is a result of reverse causation. When you look at longitudinal data there’s no U shape - it’s straight as an arrow. Higher LDL-c -> more heart disease.
Probably going off of the, now outdated, rule of thumb that a car lasts ~100,000 miles.
I visited matrix.org once and I somehow only stumbled into the high minded clientele.
Japanese is not really the right example, because unlike Chinese the writing is really more phonetic than not (and when it isn't, as in kanbun texts, it's basically an idiosyncratic translation to a completely different language). I imagine that the reasonably educated Chinese should be able to read something like the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_Stele from the 8th century just fine, given the regular typeface. English, from the same time period, has Beowulf, which is incomprehensible to any lay reader.

Once calligraphy/handwriting is involved, the situation on the Western side is not much better either. Modern Anglosphere children probably would struggle with 19th-century cursive like https://www.pinterest.com/pin/375276581427478862/ ; in Germanic countries, the handwriting system underwent deeper changes, so nobody apart from selected nerds and antiquarians can read Kurrent as in Goethe's letters - https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goethe_Brief_(nich... - or even the newer Sütterlin. Contra what some posters here claim, Roman cursive (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cursive) is right out. I don't think this should be conflated with the question of whether the writing system is understood by future readers - as an imperfect computer analogy, an ASCII text document is in some meaningful sense more futureproof than an Autodesk Animator .FLI, even if the former is on a five-inch floppy and the latter is on a USB thumb drive.

(As for the effects of the Japan's Chinese character simplification, I think they are a bit overstated. I accidentally bought a 旧字体 copy of Mishima's Haru no Yuki at a book sale once, and at least as an L2 speaker I didn't find it particularly more painful to read than I find unmodernised Shakespeare as an L2 speaker of English.)