skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That could be, although I'd guess obscurity in this case might reduce the likelihood of random mentally ill people minor threats, and also reduce the likelihood of being the chosen target of some more capable terrorist threat.

(Even random mentally ill people are likely to have access to firearms, and maybe heavy vehicles.)

Before cloud got big, I used to have a personal physical server colocated at a network facility, in a nondescript commercial building that you had to know was there, and turn off the main street to get to, with no signage I could see. (Also, biometrics scanners, when those weren't consumer things, and a waiting room that seemed to securely lock in visitors, in view of guards.)

I'd previously heard of non-government buildings without signage, for security reasons, so I figured that was it. Rather than not wanting to spend the money on a sign that would make it easier for customers to physically find, increase brand awareness, or raise their prominence in the minds of local officials before whom they might occasionally have business.

And, over time, you hear of other non-government unmarked buildings that are arguably "sensitive", for one reason or another. The ones that personally come to mind, historically that type has been threatened before (by, e.g., people angry at a company that they blame for automating away jobs, people who saw a movie involving blowing up records of bank loans and think that will work in real life, animal rights activists who want to free lab animals (and didn't see that other movie), eco-terrorists, people who are are mentally ill and found something conveniently located to fixate on). Maybe also no need to invite protestors?
I get a build error where it can not find "prepend.js". Indeed it appears to not be in the repo.
Smoking Banana Peels (2023)
The Many Lives of Iron Mountain (New York)
https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-many-lives-o...
Ah, I see. Best of luck with that!

There are a few projects where I'd love to see a modern spreadsheet
implementation. CryptPad comes to mind. They use OnlyOffice, which is
quite featurefull, but takes awhile to load and isn't as responsive.
The way PhD programs work, pursuing a research career is an extreme lifestyle.

Don't make it a game of extremes, and you'll get more of the "boring" work done.
Divers need to decrease pressure slowly because it causes dissolved gases in the blood to become gaseous again, which can block blood vessels. I don’t see a mechanism for something similar with gravity. Otherwise fighter pilots would be dead with every flight. The only thing close is muscle loss, all other detrimental effects of zero g don’t really care if gravity returns fast or slow, I think.
Count up the number of bribes you have had to pay as a normal working person in the west.

Places with big corruption problems have people demanding bribes at every turn.
Note: This study was on a particular species of fly. I think that's an important detail left out of the one-sentence summary.
At one time, partnered with North Korea!

https://apjjf.org/2015/13/4/Moe-Taylor/4258

> Mass Games in North Korea.. are without comparison the largest choreographed performance in the world.. There are three central components.. gymnastics, music, and the panoramic backdrop.. The backdrop is created through tens of thousands of children aligned in one side of the stadium seats holding books of illustrated cards positioned contiguously with each other to give the illusion of an imperforate surface; by changing the pages of the book in precisely coordinated unison following the signals of a conductor, the backdrop image is transformed throughout the performance.
I have a lot to say about this.

First, Software is saturated. Every idea is being attacked such that the boring things are the only niche available. That’s why you see more boring startups in software.

Second the innovation in software largely raw garbage. Humanity moving forward is developing a light speed drive but software innovation is mainly something along the lines of: instead of looking through the phone book for a plumber there’s an app for that now.

And if you look even deeper at the technology of software itself it’s mostly horizontal development of endlessly making new abstraction after abstraction without ever really knowing if things are improving. Case in point we went from server side rendering to single page apps and now we’re heading back without ever really knowing if things have improved or gotten more complex.

I don’t want biology to model software. Software is a bunch of illusions and no progress anywhere.

Ironically I think AI is the one part of software that isn’t an illusion as this is real progress in creating an entity that can’t be differentiated from a human. The thing is most people think AI is an illusion because it “hallucinates” and I’m just thinking the whole time that the fact that we created something that can lie, deceive and hallucinate is a marker of progress bigger than all the bullshit progress you see in the rest of software and the software startup world.

So I disagree with op. Good on biology to not do boring bs.
Your rant is like blaming drug addicts for the existence of cartels: ineffective.
I'm a software developer with extremely bad marketing skills...

This project targets both end spreadsheet users and developers. In its first an engine (a Rust crate) then a full fledged product.

FWIW, I'm over them moon this project is getting some traction :)
The key to mass arbitration filing is that it's the lawyers doing it, and they're the ones showing up wherever in place of the people who have signed agreements with them. Said lawyers are essentially gambling that the target company will give up and allow normal legal maneuevers, because doing arbitration en masse is actually really expensive for the company mandating arbitration.
How Far Behind Are Open Models?
I’m a non-Westerner (Nigerian in particular). Corruption in developing/underdeveloped countries is extremely worse than in developed countries.

My country is a fitting example. Most citizens (of all classes) don’t pay taxes, people pay petty bribes to violate laws, government officers request for bribes to carry out mundane activities like getting a driver’s license or passport, and citizens are happy to oblige.

Everyone wants to bypass the law and feel smart, not realizing that it makes the whole system terrible and everyone poorer in the long run (people generally don’t want to make long-term capital investments in corrupt countries, so that’s why most of Africa struggles to get foreign investment).

This kind of petty corruption is hard to explain to a Westerner who hasn’t experienced it. And it’s no surprise that corruption is keeping African nations (and many nations from other continents) behind.
I would legit support a law that gives every 18 years old 50k to decide what to do in their life. And to adjust it with life.

As a society we would be making a better long term investment in the economy.

And give them good education, but most importantly examples we can.
Have you tried p4merge? It's usually one of the first tools I install.
Why is it his problem what you all do afterwards?
Very cool! good job.
I don't think the hurricane Milton support has any relation to arms funding in Ukraine and Israel.

The hurricane victims don't get money because Americans don't want the government to pay disaster assistance, and military aid is given because Americans like buying guns.

You could drop military spending to zero, and there would still be peanuts paid out for disaster relief.

There is some limit where the US runs out of money to spend on anything, but we're already long past a balanced budget, and instead the government spends whatever it wants, and the debt ticker goes up
> or are you smarter than those results?

“Smarter than” are your words. I’ve just yet to get any real utility from them.

> When I read such comments I ask myself, do you even use stackoverflow

I find this a strange comparison.

I’ve yet to see people replacing employees with “stack overflow” or M$FT shoe horning “stack overflow” into their flagship product or former NSA members joining the board of “stack overflow” or billions in funding pouring into “stack overflow” or constant posts to HN asking “how do you use ‘stack overflow’ to improve productivity?”.
Thanks! We've changed to that from https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04905, which is also linked there.
If you look at the bottom of the page you see that the group is formerly known as Trumpistan? Is this some sort of right wing thing?
I have a data set from the 1980s and the programs to apply these techniques to it, written in compiled BASIC (predates Microsoft QuickBASIC). They ran their analyses on run of the mill IBM PCs. Really wish I could get it all into a modern framework…

The authors published a respected book based on the data and used it as the foundation for a bunch of other applied research. Sometimes I wish I could resurrect those researchers, or at least have one of their ghosts stop by and see what we can do with computers today.
I suspect this is where Windows backwards compatibility bites them a bit. I've got a very old tool [1] that uses WriteProcessMemory and CreateRemoteThread to create a thread in the command process that launched it to remotely change the directory in that process.

It works to this day, despite looking exactly like what malware would do. My tool is nothing in the grand scheme, but I suspect I'm not the only one doing these sort of shenanigans, and no doubt some big important app is doing it and can't be bothered to fix itself, so MS is stuck supporting it.

[1] https://github.com/seligman/ccd
I don't know what jurisdiction you live in, but in the UK there is the small claims court, which is not expensive (but only for claims up to a few thousand).
I guess opportunistic fining and wide publicity would be more than enough.

It's only a poor tax if you make it so. The fines are proportional to net income.
If you're interested in other cases where people have self experimented and made a breakthrough, Roger Altounyan[1] is another fascinating case - he managed to discover sodium cromoglycate[2] was an effective treatment for Asthma.

Arthur Ransome also used him to name one of the characters in his book Swallows and Amazons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Altounyan
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromoglicic_acid
Probably easier and more comfortable to move to Canada or Europe.
Most of what you’ve written is just plain wrong, but I’m not responsible for clearing up the propaganda.

Let me just say this: No political fear of any foreign influence on a bordering country ever justifies invading this country, killing its citizens, and destroying its infrastructure. No matter how you try to frame it, Russia committed crimes in Ukraine, which it is completely responsible for. You may try to blame the victim here, but that will never become the truth.
Helping Rural America may have been a noble goal previously, but now best to speed run its decline and leave the sunbelt to address its insurance and climate crisis alone.
You're mostly right. The ban should be on addictive media, not "social" media only.
> I thought we could have cut the entire thing short by vaccinating everyone who wanted it, and letting them quarantine, while at the same time encouraging everyone who didn't want to be vaccinated to socialize as much as possible (while watching hospital capacities carefully.)

We sort of did do that because of how much policies varied from state to state and even from county to county or city to city within a state. For nearly any aspect of of pandemic response it is possible to find demographically similar counties that differed on that particular are and compare outcomes.
> The bottom line being that America really needs a middle/center party

What does that even mean? What would a middle/center party do, exactly?

I'm getting older (maybe ancient in the tech world), and just during my lifetime I've seen the terms "left", "right", "liberal", "conservative" morph multiple times into things that, if not hopelessly vague, are unrecognizable from previous definitions.

Maybe the particular issues need to be specified. Economic issues are very different from social and cultural issues. And then there's also foreign affairs, if anyone cares about that.

The politicans who are considered "centrists" nowadays, for example Joe Manchin, just seem to me to be sellouts with no principles who go to the highest bidder. Am I wrong about that? I honestly respect a consistent ideologue more than that. In any case, what message do the so-called centrists have for young men?

From what I've seen in the exit polls, if they're to be trusted, economics was the most important issue for voters. Those who felt worse off now voted for Trump, and those who felt better off or the same voted for Harris. For the first time I can remember, the Democrat won the upper income voters, while the Republican won the middle class voters, which is a reversal from 2020.

I remember that Harris's opportunity agenda for black men was like... cryptocurrency and legalizing weed? WTF was the campaign thinking (other than taking donations from crypto advocates)?
So, could we call the earth at that time Global Britain?
Would you please stop taking HN threads into hellish flamewar? It's not ok here, and your account unfortunately has a long history of doing a lot of it. I really don't want to ban you, but if you keep doing this, we're going to end up having to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not the OP, but IIRC Google Docs has no support for this feature.
Show HN: Visprex – Open-source, in-browser data visualisation tool for CSV files
Hello HN. I've always found writing data visualisation scripts boring and repetitive in data science workflows earlier in my career, so I built this tool to automate it. The available methods are based on my experience in econometrics where histograms and scatterplots were the starting points to check data distributions.

The link is to the documentation and the app is freely available at https://visprex.com, and if you're curious about the implementation it's open source at https://github.com/visprex/visprex. I'd appreciate any comments and feedback!
That's what I'm saying—corruption looks different in different places but society still bends towards the cash
"Yes, and" Your Next Assignment
Thanks. Looks like the buying limits are a legal requirement: https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/pseudoephedrine-and-ep... )
Seems like it was also classified as Pharmacy only (behind the counter) or prescription instead of just OTC.
> You mean all the other OS's reverse engineering Cocoa?

I mean the mainstream toolkits and their vendors all providing a Cocoa-shaped API that solves the problem described in the article and solved in a way that is relevant to the context.

> it doesn't feel native anywhere but macOS

"even if only in order to provide a lowest common denominator"

See also the alternative we're talking about: Electron—how native does it feel?

> macOS apps tend to use a lot of OS APIs (e.g. Metal) that are outside Cocoa

You're moving the goalposts.

> Objective-C isn't that productive of a language by modern standards

I never mentioned Objective-C.
I hate it when someone tries to take it in a subjective direction without accounting for fundamental human biases.

Like any human can understand why space x catching a freaking rocket is less boring than stripe payment processing. I mean come on!

Do you really expect me to believe you fundamentally think payment processing is so much more cooler than catching a freaking rocket? If anyone believes that I’d point to them having more of an axe to grind with Elon then any depiction of what they really feel.

I subjectively think I am god. That’s just my subjective opinion and it’s valid because everything on the face of the earth is subjective.
Isn’t this the whole plot behind Assassin’s Creed’s Animus where they are able to look into (and “interact “) with the past based on information in the cells/DNA.
After you've been writing zig for a while, seeing `.{}` in an argument list intuitively means "default arguments".
Yeah for that you want to do something better than the nearest neighbor sampling I did there. Multisampling can help but there are definitely some other alternatives. This is where the texture/atlas method the author avoided comes in very handy, because it typically comes with mip-mapping which will help small text look good. There are also analytic stroke drawing methods, though even that isn’t perfect (it always depends on your choice of filter and what actual display you use, and what your goals are, etc.)

ShaderToy comes with a texture atlas built in. I have one or two examples of that, for example https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ltBfDD In addition to mipmap textures, there are other pseudo antialiasing methods people use on ShaderToy, for example when doing 2d stuff you can use the pixel derivative to make 1 pixel wide blending functions, and use it to antialias hard edges. Example https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MtyyRc
Google accidentally leaked preview of Jarvis AI that can take over computers
After realizing I spent 10% of my work week in agile meetings, I built https://teaminal.com to let us do those rituals asynchronously.
>Due to the prevalence of forking and copy-pasting within the codebase, nearly
75% of files are completely duplicated.

This is surprisingly high. Does the include imported libraries and packages? Since you are hashing at the file level, I am not fully convinced that this is due to people copying entire files over without modification.
Seems like it could just be elided entirely. Why can't it be?
Yes. Liberal states like the one I'm in should be in favor of massive federal tax cuts. I'm tired of subsidizing morons.
I am very excited about this tool despite agreeing with what you wrote here.

The reason for that is that most of the time when I'm resolving huge numbers merge conflicts... I don't give a shit about details like field order. I just want to get some code that's functionally correct at p<0.05 so I can figure out what performance characteristics my old feature branch would have if I resurrected it. Or I want to kick off the slow integration tests ASAP. 9/10 times it's that kind of thing.

The 1/10 times where I'm like "OK now I actually wanna merge this code, I have to look over the resolutions, I will upload them to Gerrit/GitHub and do a self-review" I am more than happy to spend 20 minutes correcting order etc. Or I'll happily just switch this tool off and do a totally manual merge.

So yeah I think it just comes down to usecase.
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Interestingly given the date and no other context I read it the other way. I read it as saying “A Canada/USA co-production”. Could go either way though. It is an interesting choice for a footer.
I appreciate your comment. I presume you prefer the west (at least in terms of political and economic stability) to your home country from your comment. Do you have any concerns about how capital openly purchases the interests of politicians in the us? I guess I had written off the difference in citizen comfort to the mountains of cash americans roll around on.
My workload is 100% read. Querying zstd parquet on s3 standard. Neither clickhouse nor duckdb has a great s3 driver, which is why smart people like https://www.boilingdata.com/ wrote their own. I compared a handful of queries and found DuckDB makes a lot of round trips and Clickhouse takes the opposite approach and just reads the entire parquet file.
A whole lot of cleverness for a language that refuses to compile when you have unused parameters.
I’m currently doing a Masters in Computer Engineering, struggling through a lot of calculus and linear algebra.

I have a Remarkable 2 for notes and working on math problem set homework to hand in as PDFs.

It’s fine. It doesn’t do anything other than record your handwriting. You can try and have it convert it to text, this works for language but fails utterly at math. I got the better pen that you can turn around to use as an eraser as using the UI to change the tool from pen to eraser and back is incredibly annoying.

I recently got an iPad to use instead mostly because I wanted one anyway, and because my handwriting is atrocious and iOS 18 pretties it up. I haven’t quite made up my mind on which one I’ll continue using. The iPad and its pen are more responsive, the fact that it improves my handwriting is a boon for the TAs, and solving some of the simpler math automatically is neat. The built in Notes app is garbage for handing in multi-page PDFs, bafflingly this is impossible, but the Goodnotes app is cheap and rather good. There’s other apps to convert handwritten math into Latex.

The Remarkable produces much smaller file sizes (I’m not sure why I care, the web app I upload homework to sure doesn’t) and the battery lasts much longer. I find replacing the pen tips very annoying and have no idea why that is needed.

I’ll probably end up using the iPad more, but I’ll guess I’ll see.
Elon is knee deep in engineering. He’s not only the person pushing this direction at a high level, he is down in the weeds.

You don’t know your shit if you aren’t aware of how close Elon is to engineering and science.
Your Discord Community Is Dead
I understand the nerdy need to automate this, but I feel like this defeats the purpose of the while experiment.
To be fair, nothing comes close to Qwen2.5 atm
Great project. I particularly love the:

1) mit license
2) using plausible instead of Google analytics. Practically speaking, uBO is going to block both by default, but for non-tech users this is great.
3) appreciate how the app respects your pc when the web app is running in the background. Very low footprint, no random CPU spikes or anything.

Wish you guys the best.
> In the sense that in Java (almost) everything is an object,

no, this is misleading. There are different kinds of objects. if you use JDBC to run a query you get back something like a Row object (sorry I havent done JDBC since the 1990s) - the "Row" like object does not declaratively define the fields of the row, the fields and the data of each field are all data. however when you get back POJOs, as you say, these declaratively define the fields that are "mapped" to a column. if jOOQ does this, it's an ORM. ORM has nothing to do with writing SQL - that's called a "SQL builder". the ORM is about marshalling data from POJO-style objects to and from relational database rows.
I can see possible ethical objections, for example if there was a risk that one of these self-ministered viruses was contagious (no idea) that would create scope for harming people.

Of if it was a form of embezzlement or something, like there was funding for X and it got used for “treat my own cancer” that would be bad.

But TFA seems to say that the ethical problem is “did experiment risky to the patient on myself”, which just seems strictly more ethically clear than “do experiment risky to the patient on other people”, which is a norm, but a regrettable necessity.

Did I misread it?