skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: I am looking for a book of number facts
That is, a book with interesting facts about different numbers. Prob mostly integers, but maybe including stuff like pi, e etc. Something like this, but in book form:

https://mathigon.org/almanac

It's for a 12yo with an interest in maths and numbers.

I've googled, amazoned etc but can;t find anything. Thanks
This is a claim without evidence and simply not true. There is no argument that private organizations are perfectly efficient. Rather, that there are built in feed back loops that drive towards efficiency. This includes bankruptcy as ultimate conclusion in some cases.

Government on the other hand, has no such feedback loops and misaligned incentives which produce enormous fraud, waste, and abuse. There is no example of government being more efficient at any activity. Pick one, and there is a counter example in private industry doing it better for less.
Discord's Grooming Ring: Exposing Lukenkray, Opsecdaddy and Ashtray
the article discusses the author's concerning experience with encountering an individual on discord, revealing the ongoing operations of harmful networks on the platform. these groups engage in illegal content sharing and victim coercion, often involving minors or threats of self-harm. the author notes a new network formed from a combination of entities like the uttp (utubetrollpolice), raid communities, and extortion groups. specific individuals mentioned include airssair, opsecdaddy, ashtray, lukenkray, cmd, madi, stasi, syracuse, vinixy, rootie, and honista. it is highlighted that these activities are occurring on a server named "majesty," which remains active despite these alarming reports.
Assault is nonviolent affront, compared to battery which is violent.
The DeskThing: the perfect desk assistant
I discovered MQTT with Home Assistant (a home automation solution, no, sorry, THE home automation solution).

It helped me to understand pubsub philosophy and I ended up using it for my personal development - to the point where I was misusing it (which is the typical path with technologies one discovers)

It is a great protocol for home automation but quickly gets annoying for more complex scenarios.
On the other hand, when you don't want laziness you really won't like if it's present anyways.
simple as two config options in `.zed/settings.json` (or `~/.config/zed/settings.json`):

```
{
"telemetry": {
"diagnostics": false,
"metrics": false
}
}
```

for anyone who wants a fast, modern, resource-minimal, gpu-native text editor that is open source.
You make the software button once and it's there for the many millions of cars. You have to actually manufacture and stick in the many millions of buttons otherwise. Besides the actual action was going to be software on the bus anyways. Your window switch hasn't been directly connected to a motor in decades. It's sending a "window down" message to the bus that goes to the window actuator unit that then drives the motor. You're still paying someone to make it computerized anyways, you were going to pay a team of designers to draw it up and make the plans for the physical switch as well.

The screen was going to be there anyways due to backup camera requirements and because consumers want AA/Carplay.
Vou atravessar aqui
Automated manuals and DCTs also don't naturally have creep, but sometimes it's added in. I imagine that's bad for the clutches.
Well most of YouTube I can easily do without, but there are a lot of good demonstrations of crafts and repairs on there that are way easier to understand than a text explanation of the same thing. If "indefinite" means "it may be that society's ability to send you stuff and fix what you have goes away for a while", I would want an archive of a lot of that. But it's <1% of the YT content, so I'm not sure if there's a good way to filter for just that.
AI integration is really handy for coding. I wouldn't consider an editor that didn't have decent support for models and getting diffs back.
People talk about investing in physical gold for an economic meltdown, I think stacks of microSD cards with the full contents of Wikipedia and a Netflix archive is worth orders of magnitude more in the event of a catastrophe
Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32652291

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34064921

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805529

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36224084

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42033790

Edit: looks like submitter is spamming https://news.ycombinator.com/newest with old submissions
Mmm, AI integration for coding is table stakes for any development tool right now IMHO. Even for things as simple as "I have an idea about how I'd check to see if the time is between midnight and 4:30am, but I don't have the python datetime module locked into memory, how would you do it" is extremely useful.
Show HN: A new webview binding for Python call 4 test
If physical keys were the way to go in smartphones, we’d all still be using BlackBerrys. If it’s a dumbphone you want, there’s plenty of models available with physical keys.
Yup. One of the biggest learnings of E2EE in Matrix is that the complexity is 95% user experience. However, in Element X, we've been determined to get it right - although there is still some temporary UX in there while full-blown Invisible Crypto is still rolling out (as it requires a breaking change to stop encrypting/decrypting with unsigned devices - the equivalent to a browser refusing to talk TLS to self-signed certs).

If you haven't seen MSC4161 (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/and...) i highly recommend it as evidence of how we've made a serious effort to fix the terminology and copy - not just for Element X but across all Matrix clients.
Kind of nice of FIRE to go to such lengths to highlight that most Americans, including most men and most Republicans, don’t agree with FIRE, or it’s directors, in the slightest.

Kind of odd they didn’t seem to take any notice of the why behind that fact, though.

As always, cognitive dissonance is a bitch.
is there any page which explains how does Accelerate works? I am interested knowing the internal technical details
I'm not playing Call of Duty mobile or watching YouTube on the screen on my head unit. I'm not scrolling TikTik or having a text message conversation on a head unit screen. If you think it's the same thing, you haven't actually driven a car with a screen before.
A few years back I wished there were such things when I tried building for Gnome.
Yes this is very much the reason. It gets dry where I am in the winter, and it never occurred to me to do this. An older gent in a coffee shop once watched me try to turn a page, and enlightened me. I’ve met more than a few people who have a dedicated finger glove for turning pages :)
There exist some "artificial tongues" that people use to turn pages. It's a rosin-like substance that comes in a small can.
I also believe this, and we're actually about half way there via MPS <https://github.com/JetBrains/MPS#readme> but I'm pretty sure that dream is dead until this LLM hype blows over, since LLMs are not going to copy-paste syntax trees until the other dream of a universal representation materializes[1]

1: There have been several attempts at Universal ASTs, including (unsurprisingly) a JVM-centric one from JetBrains https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/24...
I see your point, but I wouldn’t exactly uphold TV menu navigation as a model of good user design.
Your recollection doesn’t agree with Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore.

1. It was the Bush campaign that asked the Supreme Court for a stay.

2. The initial recount was triggered automatically because of the narrow margin. It was not requested by Gore. He did still lose it but by a much smaller margin than before. It turns out that 18 counties in Florida didn’t carry out the recount, although Gore never challenged this.

3. Candidates are allowed to request recounts in individual counties. Gore exercised that right in four traditionally democratic voting counties. Bush had the same right.

4. Later analysis showed that Gore would have lost the counties he requested recounts in but if Florida had properly counted ballots in the first place he would have won.

5. The Supreme Court controversy comes from Florida’s requirement to certify results within 7 days. Several of the counties that Gore requested said they couldn’t complete the recount in that time. The Florida Secretary of State didn’t extend the deadline for certification but did allow counties to continue recounts and amend their results. The Supreme Court stepped in and stayed these recounts, forcing Florida electors to accept the initially certified results and blocking any amended results.
Your ad hominem ratcheted up again. lol. It's ok. No prob. Learn what a tautology is tho bro. It's perfectly legit to discuss how a Transformer would perform if only the Self-Attention part was removed (and everything else kept constant), as an experiment, to refute someone's bizarre claim that the SA part isn't doing the real magic in them. Insofar as the actual other networks you've mentioned they fail to beat Transformers, and will continue to fail, until something analogous to SA is built into them, because language comprehension simply cannot be done without sensitivity to word context, especially over "long ranges" in the input sequences.
Is there non-rent-seeking capitalism?
Zed's AI integration is good, Cursor's is great! I'm mostly using Zed and Aider right now, because I'm not doing a lot of coding currently and cancelled my Cursor subscription because I wasn't getting $20 of value out of it the last few months, but I plan to renew it when I'm doing more coding.
Duckdb is better at ingesting big tables and interacting with parquet, arrow, pandas etc directly. Better for analytics workflows. Better = faster and less boilerplate / data conversion code.
Looking for part time pentesting opportunities
Hey! I'm a security researcher/Bug Bounty hunter. I want to explore part time pentesting opportunities. Shoot me a DM on twitter if you are interested in working with me :)

My bio - http://www.0xmarvelmaniac.in/p/about-me.html
I'm currently using Miele with touch controls but it's really good at filtering out false inputs. I have no problem whatsoever even with my messy cooking.

Too bad you have no way of telling how good controls are in a product before you start using them.
just apply some “hawk tuah”, new tagline for yubikey nano
I use Chess Clock (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chess.cloc...) to play with my children - does the job, simple to use, free
SPANN is also implemented in the open-source Vespa.ai
That sounds more like a soft percussive maintenance
Do you have any other examples? The USPS isn’t a nationalized company, it was always a branch of the government. It seems like the USPS is only in crisis because it has long been a political target with especially conservatives trying to sabotage it in order to demonstrate the downsides of public services. But the requirement to pre-fund retiree benefits was eliminated in 2022, is that what you’re referring to with the 10s of billions in pensions? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Service_Reform_Act_of_2...
Learning Vim key bindings and using them regularly

Studying topics from first principles instead of corporate documentation

Learning the history of programming and computing

Moving beyond competency and becoming highly proficient at the command line

Understanding git backwards and forwards

Being able to explain every concept in computing from the lens of the broader field of engineering

Being able to write regular expressions without consulting too many resources

Effectively composing Unix programs to get a larger task done

Reducing every task to the absolute basics, to demonstrate a “proof-of-concept”

* I’m not claiming to have mastered any or all of these, but they do serve as my “North Star” guidances when figuring out which direction to advance in this career
venv is admitting that there no longer is a Python language, only multitudes of pythons, one for each application you want to run.
building kitchen appliances has been an incredible journey but we will be sunsetting all your appliances within 30 days, thanks for believing in us!
The commenters are wrong (unless you consider threads or spaces to be absolutely critical to your current workflows).

> and now it turns out all of that could have maybe been avoided with this new app that they aren't telling us anything about?

Element X was only just declared ready for primetime in the last few weeks. It can't replace the classic app entirely yet because it doesn't have spaces/threads.
I don't see clear way of embedding this except generating images manually then embed images.
If d2 has all what it claims to have, why not just provide a way to embed diagrams into markdown rather than having it in separate files
Doh! Not sure what happened…

https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games?tab...
I should have been clear that I was referring to notebook computers coming without a brick.
It's a new app, for now. Once it has full parity with the old app (especially threads & spaces) then it'll replace the old app.
Show HN: F2 – A Command-Line Batch Renaming Tool
Hey HN!

I'm excited to share f2, a command-line tool I built for fast and flexible bulk renaming of files. It's cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows), executes a dry-run by default, supports undo, and provides incredible flexibility in file renaming with several built-in variables and Exiftool integration.

If you've ever struggled with renaming large batches of files or wished for more control and speed when managing file names, this might be just what you need. I hope you find it useful!
Ok, I didn't really define logic bugs. I think of things like race conditions as memory bugs because its improper access to the same variable.

So I suppose All Bugs Are Logic Bugs.

But I really meant that many software software vuln aren't even that fancy. Sure if you have something like an iPhone which has whole companies trying to hack it, then eventually the bugs you have left are fancy heap overflows. But lots of products have logic errors, like mischecking creds etc.

I will also pick on CISA for recommending a language that requires something like cargo. Why is it a good idea for critical infrastructure to require internet access to compile its code? CISA is supposed to be concerned about the fact that critical infra. is privately held and they should encourage secure practices. So suggest a language that in practice requires internet access? this is absurd to me.
This is so interesting; thanks for sharing. I often see my father-in-law tapping his phone a dozen times to get a response (85), and then I was teaching my mother how to use an iPad and noticed it was not that responsive to her taps. I sometimes need to tap twice to get anything to happen (50+), this helps me understand why.
half of the population has IQ below average. what 'idea' are you talking about?

Actually that's getting interesting. For non-physical jobs we already got significant boost from LLMs. Robots will be another wave when they get cheap enough. For robot like on the video $20K price for mechanics looks achievable.
Once upon a time I used Android Auto and things were good. Most controls were in the corners, you see, which allowed me to perform a couple of changes without looking at the touchscreen.
One day, a GUI designer decided to put a horizontal bar going through the top of the display just to display a very tiny clock on the top right corner.
The top left corner I used to bring up the menu and quickly select options no longer worked reliably as it was under that horizontal strip.
I stopped using Android Auto after a couple of months.
I actually love that I can easily wipe everything when it's dirty. I'd hate cleaning knobs and most of the tactile buttons.

Some touch controls are incredibly good at filtering false inputs. Unfortunately you can't tell which.
> I'm pretty sure that capacitive touch sensing is just cheaper than physical interfaces, it's more to do with corner cutting than being slick. All you need to create a capsense "button" is some traces on a PCB, they're essentially free if you're making a PCB anyway.

That makes sense. Thanks!
Kindly avoid sending me emails as I won't reply to them directly( due to privacy reasons). If you have DMed me on twitter, then just send a reminder email to check it out if in case I fail to see your DM.
The passive house trend is booming
Agreed. I don't think I'll drop gtk-rs any time soon, but this is certainly much faster for prototyping. I hope this encourages more folks to develop native Gnome applications.
I'm pretty pro touchscreen to a point. Any driving critical control should be physical. Lights, turn signals, horn, steering wheel controls, etc. Physical controls with physical feedback. Everything the driver should mess with should be either on the wheel or immediately around it and should be physical.

Other than that, I really don't care. When I'm punching in the address on the navigation system, give me a massive screen. When I'm stopped and trying to look up something in my media collection, give me a massive touchscreen. When I'm trying to quickly glance at the map, make it a giant screen so I can see it all quickly. Or better yet a HUD or have it on the instrument cluster.
Sigh, I'm sure there is zero consideration for a antitrust-style breakup. All I saw on a quick scan was "hey does any other company want to acquire parts of them" which is just another way to say "does anyone want to reduce competition even more".

I get that there is probably only one top-end fab in Intel and that would be hard to split across two entities.

But if you split Intel into three entities, they might (gasp) hire a bunch of the engineers that have steadily fled intel or be chopped off in shortsighted layoff rounds. You might get (gasp) innovation.

If you give all three the access rights to Intel's IP, things would probably be FINE in the long run. Give three separate companies a couple fabs and the IP, and see what happens. Intel has FIFTEEN fabs. So hand five to each of them.

Intel is a shell because existing management is financial "wizards" and war-on-labor MBAs that are trying to manipulate the stock price to hit options targets.

If you split the companies, they have to compete on engineering, or they die. You can probably also wipe away a lot of the management because the companies will have to do "real work" in the medium run and their "skillsets" won't really apply.

The MBA types will all say that's impossible. IMO that's why we should do it, because all the people that failed the industry and company are opposed to it.
I'd recommend using one of the editor bundles like LazyVim or SpaceVim. I was using Lunarvim and very happy with it, but he's discontinued development on it so I'm planning on moving to LazyVim. After 30+ years of messing around with vi configuration, I'm glad to have someone else doing the bulk of the work.
https://archive.today/WEGtC

https://archive.is/WEGtC

https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/...
In just one day?? Geez.

Wikipedia in my language.

Music and movies that are important to me that I only access via streaming. Maybe a few TV shows in SD.

A giant bundle of ebooks is I can find one (e.g., in a public torrent).

Open-source ecology.

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The things I'd really want archived but that there probably wouldn't be time to archive in such a short period without already having mostly-complete offline copies:

- Wikipedia (in all languages)
- Internet Archive
- GNU projects and docs
- Apache projects and docs
- Nix, Nixpkgs and docs
- as many books as possible regardless of source (e.g., LibGen)
- as much music as possible regardless of source
- everything public on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, SourceHut, Codeberg
- all KDE source code and docs
- maybe video content (in SD only) based on some coarse filter like whether a movie is in the Library of Congress
- maybe archives of some popular forums and forum platforms like Reddit, StackOverflow, important Discourse instances
- various protocols and standards docs?
> During the height of the pandemic, the mere idea that the SARS-COV-2 virus originated in a Wuhan lab was taboo, but now many scientists believe it’s worth investigating. (Five years on, it’s still unclear how COVID originated.)

Interesting way to turn a post ostensibly about misinformation into part of a disinformation campaign.

As with the “9/11 was an inside job” folk, the only scientists who believe that a lab leak caused the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic are those with no subject matter expertise in virology or epidemiology.
I'd like an editor that uses an open LLM like Lama locally and runs on the Linux desktop. Is this it? Does that exist?
When I worked at Toyota (well, NUMMI) in the '90s, the engineers from Toyota Japan that told me: "I'd kill my mother to save $1 on each car produced." Yes, at Toyota's scale, $1/car is a lot of money.
Seems like a good one to me. I suppose there are more blatant forms of waste and raw corruption, but the entropy kind seems like one of the most important for a society to tackle.
Probably cost and the rise of touch screen mobile phones (ie, og iPhone of 2007-2008)
Setting it up from scratch isn't, but if you just want something that works you can always go with one of the pre-made distributions, which is about as plug and play as you can get. I've had colleagues that were up and running after 10min with all the bells and whistles you expect from a modern IDE by just setting up LazyVim. Really the hardest part is the modal editing workflow, which is just inherent in how vim and nvim work - and I would recommend to set up regardless of which editor you use (e.g. by using the VSCode Neovim plugin)
This whole thread is pathetic. Gen-Zs threatening to "revolt" because they get fired soon after being hired for being lazy and not even having the skills to use Excel? Sure, children. You go and revolt. Fling your Legos. Stomp your feet. Flail your hands. Take some selfies at the unemployment office and post them on TikTok, the social network for tiktards. Then go back to your room at your parents house. They are the ones to blame for raising losers.
The important strategic part of Intel is the foundry business. You can spin it off. It will keep making CPUs designed by multiple other competent US companies. You can let the rest fail.
No doubt: Wikipedia
RSUs are treated as cash income at vest and taxed at same rates.

Stock buybacks benefit general shareholders (i.e. beyond employees) since they push up stock value without causing a taxable event. The alternative is dividends which are immediately taxed.
Old people?
Musk should by them to accelerate Tesla's robots development. Then we may have them on Mars by 2030
They also have been successful in pockets, but in my mind they're a blunt instrument and its rarely worked.

And you're right about politically heated, thats probably the biggest problem.

Not to sound like a Trumper, b/c I'm not: The media crucified Trump for installing a tariff on Chinese solar centers, which were being produced below cost with state sponsored material and labor. The Chinese intent was to keep Americans from developing the mass manufacturing capability, but this played into the hands of the US Media who painted it as "anti climate change". We are our own worst enemy.
Oh yes… never buy a Miele oven with touch buttons
As much as I love CarPlay, I don’t miss it much when driving a Tesla because they’re one of the few car manufacturers where the built-in interface is just as good, and in some ways better, than what CarPlay gives you.

The things I do miss are the ability to run 3rd-party apps, and a decent voice interface: Tesla’s voice interface sucks very bad compared to Siri.