skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Delays are only a problem when you put tight connection times. If you increase the buffer between railway companies/countries this is hardly a problem.

And train travel is not like plane, if you have to wait, say 4-5hours in a big city you can easily put your luggage in a locker and spend an enjoyable time in that city as the station is usually located in or near the city center and you aren't locked in a terminal nor do you have to account for extra time to pass security.

I have an upcoming transatlantic flight next week. Train is obviously not an option for this one but I will have to spend 4-5 hours at Paris CDG airport for a connection. I have to stay in the airport, pay an awful lot of money for any drink or food I and my family will need instead of visiting a monument/museum and have a nice lunch in the city...things you can do easily by just stepping out of a railway station.
Permits and inspections might be the the reason for humanities downfall then, at what point does war become the more efficient option?
> They give our licenses to establish companies.

How generous of them to allow us to pay to bypass the barrier they put in place
I'm a web dev (primarily frontend) with an undergrad environmental science degree, and would love to help in some way. I've often thought of making this exact game myself, but it was too big a project.

I would love to see if could be a persistent web game like Creeps, but it doesn't have to be.

Really enjoy the Evolution / Oceans / Nature series of board games, though those are trait based engine builders rather than ecosystem simulators.
Yes, this happens in English too, but to find examples like this you have to go to Wikipedia, or wrack your brain and see if you remember one. In Japanese, almost every other word is like this.

I went to the first link in your comment ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence ), selected the Japanese version of the article, and took the first sentence:

> 袋小路文（ふくろこうじぶん）とは、文法的には正しいけれども、誤読が生じやすい書き出しで始まる文のことである。

As is usual for Japanese, this sentence contains a mix of Chinese(-origin) ("kanji", e.g. 袋 小 路 文 法 的) as well as Japanese phonetic ("kana", e.g. ふくろこうじぶん) characters. Usually, when in a multi-kanji word, kanji are pronounced with (a time-changed version of) Chinese pronunciation. For example, 文法 is "bun-pou", not "fumi-nori" or something else. However, the first character of the article title (fukurokoubunji), 袋, is "fukuro" here despite being in a four-kanji word. Further, 小 is "kou" here, which is nonstandard enough that its dictionary entry does not even list it as a possible pronunciation! [1] Then 路文 are both in Chinese pronunciation (ji-bun), but this does not necessarily make sense because the word is not split in two down the middle, but instead as 袋-小路-文 (bag-lane-sentence, where bag-lane is English cul-de-sac / blind alley). [2]

Now fukurokoubunji is a bit of a specialised word, so it might not be a great example. But in the rest of the sentence, we find 文, which is always pronounced "bun" (sentence) here, even when appearing separately, but could also (though more rarely) have been "fumi" (letter) — nothing but semantical context helps distinguish. Then we have 正しい "tada-shi-i", where 正 could have been "sei" as in 正確 "sei-kaku" (accurate) or "shou" as in 正直 "shou-jiki" (honest), but it isn't just because しい come after. Similarly, 生 in 生じやすい is "shou"(-ji-ya-su-i), which is conjugated from the base form 生じる "shou-ji-ru" and could have been "u" (生まれる "u-ma-re-ru") or "sei" (先生 "sen-sei") or "i" (生きる "i-ki-ru") or more (生 is somewhat infamous for having many readings). And I could go on: 書 could be "syo" (文書 "bun-syo") but is "ka" (書き出して "ka-ki-da-shi-te" conjugated from 書く "ka-ku").

This is a bit like the comments elsewhere here noting that the Chinese word for "sneeze" is a bad example because it happens to have so uncommon characters in it — and then people point to examples like "onomatopoeia" and "diarrhoea" as similar tricky examples in English. I can't comment on Chinese, but existence does not necessarily say much about frequency.

[1]: https://jisho.org/search/%E5%B0%8F%20%23kanji — Kun are the Japanese readings (chiisai, ko, o, sa), and On are the Chinese readings (only "shou" in this case)

[2]: This analysis of 袋小路文 is not completely etymologically honest. By the etymology ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E8%B7%AF#Etymology_... ), we see that the "kouji" pronunciation of 小路 is really a corruption of ancient "ko-michi", which is a consistent Japanese-Japanese reading of the two characters. However, because "ji" is also an (uncommon) Chinese reading of 路, if you don't know the etymology of the word, the re-analysis is appropriate in the context of how hard it is to read the written language.
Don't draw conclusions too fast. Airbus breakthrough was when it sold its A300 to eastern airlines. If I remember correctly it was a no strings attached deal where they could give them back.
NAT traversal with STUN and UDP hole punching, yeah. But the idea is to use IRC for the rendezvous since they're everywhere and the payload is quite literally just external IP:PORT.
Furthermore, maybe, at low latitudes you can just lay them on the ground and at high latitudes just mount them vertically and the snow will drop off. Skip complexity.
Why is this a problem for libraries? Not that most libraries handle anything about HTTP correctly out of the box anyway.
Probably "Certified Public Accountant"
I think the title misses the "Honey, " part
> Unless Chinese is somehow unique among all human languages, this isn't true.

I was talking about English in that paragraph:

> The same is true for written English - putting spaces between words, dividing texts into paragraphs, capitalizing them, differentiating between different pauses (a comma, period, semicolon, etc. all signifying what kind of pause something its), quotation marks, parenthesis, etc. - none of this is available in our spoken language, and we’re still able to understand it. In theory, we could get rid of them all and understand what’s being written. In practice, most people would find the result to be an incomprehensible mess.
Working on the official Light version and accompanying website of https://monokai.pro
Go does what RxJS couldn't – a good way to handle state
I'm working on Blazed.deals, a THC/CBD product search engine and price tracker. It scans the prices of cannabis stores and ranks products by mg/$. It has a bunch of categories and filters so people can find the perfect product for their preferences.

https://blazed.deals

I started it last month and have had a few thousand users so far. I have some cool growth hacking ideas I'm looking forward to working on coming up.
Don't worry about the paperwork.
The OP never said "Chinese", he said "eastern". Japanese and Korean are both eastern.
with a scrolling LED display for streaming updates.
This test doesn’t test whether you “understand biology.” Come on… seriously?

The mathematics is simple. The rest of it is stuff that is simple to Google. There’s a little bit of interpretation, but none of this is about problem solving or any kind of serious analysis.
Doesn't anyone smelt their own bauxite anymore ? sigh
Sounds weird. I checked Denver altitude and it is hardly air sickness territory.

You need to go significantly higher in the nearby mountains to actually feel the effects of elevation on your breathing, fatigue and brain.
I have low opinion about modern academia and quality of "peer review processes".
> A serving of whole grains would appear to be approximately twice as protective as either fruits or vegetables

this is not my reading of that study.
Hey, Julia! I know this isn't really material, but: `hallpass`, our SSH server, probably shouldn't be using 40MB. We had a bug in our `init` that we fixed recently: `hallpass` is a Go program, and we were passing user environment variables to it, so users who were passing Go memory settings were also passing settings through to `hallpass`.

If you're still seeing `hallpass` using that much memory, let me know! We'll figure out what's going on.
Elon Musk hopes Trump victory will help his $44B Twitter bet pay off
Jira Align sucks as a planning tool. But my company insists on using it for product planning. I got fed up with it recently and decided to create my own planning tools using python and REST API (which sucks too btw). My short term goal is to automate all the syncs I have to do from my personal notes to jira align, eventually who knows where this goes.
NOT (any pedos or far-right extremists) != Gerontophiliacs and Marxists
Well, I recently used it in a small PostgREST-subset query builder I wrote in case the query builder received an input more complicated that what it could handle. I found 418 a natural response in this case. In retrospect a 5xx (edit: or better 422) error is more appropriate, however.
As usual, quick googling reveals that the ZX calculus is really just a CT repackaging of Penrose diagrams, which were discovered and used without any involvement of CT.
Thankfully, error codes such as this are structured so that the initial "4" digit is the only one that really matters. Just treat it as a client error and you can't go wrong.
It seems kinda vital to me - there needs to be an informational bottleneck somewhere.
I'm in the middle of releasing my Python Component library, which makes it possible to write __truly reusable__ HTML (or any other markup) component libraries in any web framework or project.

https://github.com/kissgyorgy/compone
The first study is saying that it's good to replace butter with either PUFA margarine or TFA margarine. Since we already know from other places that TFAs are actually quite harmful, we know to ignore this study.

We should also learn from history that replacing our diets based on "nutritional science" has generally been unlikely to yield good health results, as long as we're not already obese. For example, nutritional science kept recommending replacing SFA with any UFA, and ended up killing many, many people because it didn't know that trans unsaturated fatty acids are actually worse than SFAs for overall health.

We can reasonably expect that similar things will be discovered in the future about other parts of margarine, and that eating traditional foods with a long history of safe human consumption is a much safer path, be they olive oil or butter or lard.
Building a pneumatic long-range candy dispersal device (candypult) to launch Halloween candy from my garage door to the street. As is the case for many of us around here, I get bored of making digital tools and want to build something in meatspace. I'm trying to use as much material I already own as possible, so building out of leftover metal framing and old decking.

Trick-or-treating at a door is so last decade; trying to catch a Snickers hurtling towards you in the darkness is the future.
Can someone smarter than me explain how it can be that it is blocked for me despite being in North America?
To everyone who also wanted to see the game itself: it's not there. It is not released yet.

Saved you 30 seconds of scrolling through the whole thread.
> in the summer there would be an over abundance.

This ain't gonna happen. Air conditioning will be saving lives.
Is there a version for adults? Something that keeps you from getting pulled down engagement bait rabbit holes would be great. I don’t want it to be overly focused on children’s education though.
This study contradicts another study you were citing in this thread . This one says that replacing SFAs with carbohydrates is a net negative, you have to replace SFAs with PUFAs. The other study was saying that replacing SFAs with either carbohydrates or PUFAs is just as good.

It's almost as if all of these studies are looking at tiny effects that they can't adequately measure, and contradicting each other.

The other study I'm mentioning :

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
Jakub Boksansky made his Ray Tracing Gems chapters available for download
I bought BoltAI and I’m using it on two machines almost every day. It’s a great little client!

I do have one small complaint: since macOS 15 (I think) I can’t seem to be able to turn off auto-spelling globally, only per chat.

Minor nitpick to a fantastic app otherwise.
Disagree. We gotta have fun.
In current pragmatic engineering projects today green hydrogen alone is rarely the product, for many of the reasons you cite.

Ammonia and methanol are seen as better products from large scale PV farms as the storage and transport is easier than for pure hydrogen.

eg. In the container shipping domain: https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/why-shipping-is-op...

( an article that highlights progress to date and challenges to overcome )
The 99% of the British Museum not on show (2010)
This sounds nuts…and exciting. Makes me want to tinker with small models, what a neat concept.
>No other animal has affected the climate at that scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

The environmental impact humans have had, if any, is astronomically negligible. Even if it wasn't, we certainly aren't the first and certainly won't be the last.
First pcb is always special. Good luck
SQLite Rsync: Database Remote-Copy Tool for SQLite
>There are still some big pieces missing.

The most glaring one is that current LLMs are many, many orders of magnitude away from working on the equivalent of 900 calories per day of energy.
In Japan, they call them "wapuro-baka"
(idiot who's forgotten how to write stuff because he's only using WADO-PUROCESSA).
>New immigrants want to fit in to their new home

Post 2015 Europe would like to have a word with that.
I am at the beginning of Territory.fun .

It let you draw and decorate the world around you (think r/place on a map). So far people seem to like it and are making some nice little drawings in their neighbourhood. I have seen some funny projects like the Star Wars Rebel Alliance logo in east of Paris, some cute ninja turle, a "Kamala" on 5th Avenue in NYC (no politics here, it is just fun for me seeing people claiming some territory on my game).

I do this as a hobby and love it so far.

https://territory.fun
Shellm: A one-file Ollama CLI client written in bash
https://josefs-picture-book.brandstetter.io

My son (5y) loves stories with pictures. So I made a small web-app that allows him to record a story idea and it will generate a story + pictures.
It will even read it to him.

It was a quick weekend project. I wanted to try v0 and cursor a bit more. And I love how simple it is to use LLMs (structured mode) + DALL-E to build creative things.

Other AI/LLM projects I've recently (~1y) worked on
- distill.fyi (professional): auto gen people/company profiles (aka LinkedIn on steroids)
- spaarkd.com (professional): create, produce and ship individualized fashion via AI/LLM
- email categorizer: used multimodal LLMs to read email + attachments and categorize them (complaint, sign up, signed form, cancellation,...)
- line-items.com (hobby): converts receipts into JSON

PS: I'm currently job hunting. Please see my profile for more :)
Conveniently, author of these benchmarks remains silent on topic every time. Think about it :)
Hang on, there's such a thing as non-trans margarine? Sheesh, I'm behind the times.

(And really, margarine can be plenty tasty. As a kid I actually preferred it to butter for some reason.)
Out of curiosity, what would happen if a giant saltwater wave got into those jet engines?
As I got laid off 2 weeks ago, I finally have the time to work on one of my side projects:

Breathing Tips - a free web app to practice breathing exercises.

Tech stack: Ruby on Rails 7.2, sqlite3, BabylonJS for the 3D visuals, hosting on hetzner for 4$ and deployed with kamal 2

https://breathing.tips
Never understood how. Law is messy. There is no algorithm that can properly capture it.
I am playing with a Tillitis TKey, to use it as an HSM. I write its firmware in Zig (works great on that small RV32 chip), while learning it.
I am also launching a consulting firm specialized on cryptographic solutions.
Sway 1.10 Released with GPU Reset Recovery and Other Wayland Enhancements
For people without Twitter/X account, this is a summary as a single post https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1850658084491874555.html
This is a very dangerous take - while at this point in time the RTS have not yet been formally adopted by all the relevant bodies, they will be, at which point they will be enforceable.
Way too low resolution to see anything there.
This an ad blog post by a compliance company. Somewhat surprisingly it does not spread typical techbro anti-EU FUD, though.
To train my memory and keep up with my sons I built a daily memory game!

https://memory.ka.ag
On my free time, I am creating a Restaurant POS on Cloud with Online ordering. Let me know what you think. Basically A POS which you can use to start using in 30 min or less with scan and order online. https://get-prest.com feel free to send out your suggestions or say hi at hello@defx.in
If you have multiple servers with multiple SSH users it starts to become hard to manage who has access to what.

I wanted an easy way for an org admin to remove a users access (eg. If they leave the org), while also providing one place for end-users to upload their public keys to be synced across all servers.

There are some compliance elements too (eg. reporting who has access to what, centralized user login history, server sshd configuration).

I’m learning Go while I build it and so far it’s rather enjoyable. As one guy I’m not interested in the extra effort that comes from providing a hosted service - so I’m going to offer it as pay-once own forever self-hosted solution.

https://centralssh.com
I started a Slack community for the South African tech scene [1] that turns 10 in January so I've been pondering my successes and failures there, as well as what it's future holds.

[1] https://zatech.co.za
It can wait in line until every pre-2000 country colonised by Europeans has had their say.
I had Sonatype Nexus return to me once upon upload of an artifact. I was not impressed.
Citing a litany of stuff that happened as far back as 15 years ago and raised alarm bells way back when is a sign that the governance model of Wikimedia works, not that it’s broken. Governance is not about bad things happening; it’s about having set practices in place to manage the organization, including having ground rules when things go wrong.

That this project tries selling these warmed-over scandals as basic reasons for its existence shows that it’s not serious.

Every online collective eventually fosters corruption. The difference between this group and Wikimedia is that you know what you’re dealing with when it comes to Wikimedia.

EDIT: Since the link is broken on the site, I will make the case that the cited “investigative journalist,” Helen Buyniski, is less than convincing, using her role to criticize Wikipedia’s stance on alternative medicine, just as an example: https://web.archive.org/web/20240521014407/http://helenofdes...

Citing an apparent conspiracy theorist does not a convincing case make.
We are working on an app/platform for repeatable checklists. Things like packing and maintenance lists. Adhoc/evergreen lists are also supported.

Plus all the collaborative features that you would expect from a platform.

So essentially Microsoft To Do meets GitHub.

It is still raw but we already use it for our own lists: https://wiederhol.com/about
That a wonderful resource, thank you!
Quit my job to work on Manabi Reader, for learning Japanese through reading/listening/browsing the web/RSS

https://reader.manabi.io for iOS and macOS
Our inspiration was Atul Gawande’s Checklist Manifesto
Show HN: AI-Powered Mail Generator and Editor
Working on an AI to generate SVG vector images.

SVGs are awesome and currently unrepresented in the diffusion-based model landscape. We have something that produces pretty great results and we're working on the next version which should be even better.

https://vectorart.ai
“Eat food. Mostly greens. Not too much.”
Still are in the middle east
Show HN: The Meme Co – AI-Powered Meme Search Engine
Hi hn,

I've been working on a way to easily find and share memes for the last couple of months, just released an IOS beta and would love some feedback!

Download here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/MhmpR7HV

cheers,
Drew
Google launched the play store on Windows without wsa. I assume that's a big reason it collapsed.
"Over a decade old" is technically true, but probably an understatement, to me it looks like something from the 1980s or maybe 90s? Apparently it's old enough to not have "planned obsolescence" designed in...
Clients have always had to handle unknown return code according to the first digit, and by and large they do this succesfully, with the exception of 1xx codes which are widely buggy.
> EU regulations might be a little behind the times, not yet recognizing the efficiency of emergency braking

Emergency breaking system have been a mandatory assistance system for a while now (afaik it was introduced mid 2022). Admittedly, I don’t know how efficient they actually are in preventing injuries from pedestrians.

I just know that from my experience driving with these systems, they occasionally do seem not quite there. I’ve had my car warn me from hitting a guy that was happily walking on the sidewalk but completely ignore people taking a pedestrian crossing (maybe because I was already breaking myself).

So yeah, tech is great and all. But having design considerations as a completely passive system like your front bumper breaking off on colission still seems essential
Odd coming from such a Serious Enterprise™ Solution®
I counter-disagree. It is so easy in life to have fun. There's so much fun everywhere. If you're so starved for fun then this won't do it for you either. The higher the scale the more likely your easter egg becomes not an easter egg.

I also think the supermajority of engineers prefer fun entirely outside of work, hence why open source can feel so lonely and without corporate funding would probably shrink to a pathetic size. Hence why personal websites are so culturally irrelevant. Or why there's such a lack of artistic experimentation in apps or web. Or why there's so few non-corporate meetups nowadays in CA or NY.
Interesting, what AI are you using to generate these? Are these straight from the net or is there a post processing pipeline? If so, what are you doing?
Yes, unicorns please!
small macOS utility app that adds some missing functionality to Apple Notes, Apple Mail and so on. Things like backlinks, templates, export of notes and publishing online.

it’s called alto.computer
So, you're saying you expect libraries that don't have a generic 4xx "Oops, my bad, dev please handle it" error case to be bothered by the existence of 418 in any way, shape or form? I think you're barking up the wrong tree.
They might have been all in on HEIC, yes, but they definitely are not any more if they are introducing JPEG XL.

I rather think they are doing a cautious test run, and decided that API was for a later phase. (decision which I do not agree with btw)
I think the point here is that you can run `yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3` instead of saving as .m4a (a lossy compression) and then covering that to .mp3 (another very different lossy compression).

Under the hood, there's probably an additional lossy conversion. I'm not sure if YouTube converts uploaded videos to specific formats but if they do, then the worst case scenario is:

- original uploaded video uses .ogg audio

- YouTube converts that to opus and puts it into a container format (wbem?)

- You download the video and extract the audio to .m4a using yt-dlp

- and then you convert that to .mp3 using ffmpeg

That's 4 consecutive lossy formats, each one throwing away different data.

Honestly the best thing to do here is use yt-dlp to download whatever format YouTube provides and use ffprobe to find out what audio format is already there. Then do one conversation if required.