skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My low, low priority side project has been to make a VR app that lets you (create and) move around 4d environments. I'm pretty sure that navigating even moderately complex 4d environment can be used as some kind of proof for 4d visualization/intuition capabilities. Level 6 on my toy maze game has all of 4 tesseracts within the maze tesseracts and after some hours of playing, I am still completely lost there.

If someone wants to have a look, feel free (but it is hard. You need time. If you do not have vr headsets but want to have a look, you can install browser add-ons thet let you simulate vr headset and controls):

https://www.brainpaingames.com/Hypershack.html

I have been planning to write a Show HN any day now for months, but maybe someday.
Thanks for the sanity check... but, we would have noticed this previously if it wasn't new, right? This is a major change to google.com, isn't it?

If I am not tripping, then this is a billion dollar SEO change, right?
Couldn’t this also be solved in much simpler ways? Product substitutions is just a similarity problem, which isn’t exactly a new area at this point.
Yes I remember seeing this video when I came out and he explains it quite well. I don’t know who was the first to use a linear encoder in a digital caliper but it’s ingeniously simple. And omg have I gone through some LR44 with my battery eating clone as well, good to know I’m not alone.
Looks cool from what I’ve seen (well done on the release) of it (I read the read me and poked through your code).

I’d be interested to see how this does against sites which have things like Cloudflare’s bot detection enabled and sites such as Google Trends.

From my experience the stock version of playwright doesn’t play all too well with them and for sites like google trends there are a lot pain points when trying to liberate data.

Still interesting nonetheless
The Encyclopedia of Polyhedra
I run it on the offers page https://global.americanexpress.com/offers/eligible

The wrapped async function is for Firefox I understand.
Show HN: Where to Launch Your Startup?
occasionally when it was told "down".
Side of the same coin. Salaryman earning millions are still salaryman. You're bounded to the whims of the employer, and can lose it all from the ups and down of the personal relationships that surround you. The American dream is not the rich employee, is moving out to that relationship and build something you own.

Building something that is bounded to the marked at large and can weather the individual change of whims is increasingly harder as megacorp are capturing more and more value in every corner of the market.

The entire mechanism that elevated the working class to entrepreneurship is broken and the effects do include a working class increasingly repressed, at ever income bracket.
But it does. How many grains of send form a heap? How many atoms form a fluid? Is it something a particle or a wave? The line can be drawn depending on specific problem, on how useful a heap/fluid/particle/wave model for this specific application.

A label (abstraction) allows us to bring corresponding tools that were developed for it. If you can count trees then the same math can be useful to count people.
How Google Maps fixed India's street name problem [video]
Recommend you take the CR2032 out when not using the calipers. Cheap/no name ones (atleast those sold 5-10 years ago) have a relatively high standby current, even when the LCD screen is off.
That was... unexpected. Actually made me laugh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_(computer_vision)#Dete...
Yes: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/443706/why-it-is-im...
It's sad that for some people animals are still just property
An engineer who has been working some number of years, regardless of level of responsibility or skill, is a senior. If you've been working in the industry for 5 years and you're applying for junior positions then people are going to be really confused.

It's the minimum level of industry credibility.
This is delightfully clever and hacky (so basically like every 3d rendering technique ever) but the end result isn't exactly beautiful unless you're trying to recreate an old school electronic billboard. You could improve it by adding more bits, but long before it starts to look good you'd be searching for an easier way to handle setting all the bits... And there's almost certainly no more efficient solution than using black and white pixels in a drawing program then saving the results in a texture. So, full circle.

If anyone is interested in the a more common way that modern 3d rendering engines draw text, look up SDF text (and related techniques like MSDF etc.). This uses a traditional texture atlas in a preprossing step to create an atlas of signed distance fields.
But you could insert ASM instructions directly into PASCAL code, in case you needed something fast and without bounds checking.
Fun, I really wish I had the ability to reason around shaders and draw calls to do things like this :-).
People have forgotten how horribly it failed last time
Yeah seems like it. I’m still working with startups using Rails.

The changes coming with Rails 8 are really good for small teams working to tight budgets.

The new deployment strategy is amazing compared to some of the complex react, micro services, k8s and cloud stacks I’ve worked with.

They always involve a lot of engineering effort and a lot of expensive proprietary services.

If you want to get off the ground quick for little money a Rails monolith with the frontend using Hotwire still looks very hard to beat.

If Shopify, GitHub, etc can scale to be the largest vendors in their respective markets you know you can too.
Let me try a short reply: if the manager needs to see what somebody is doing, he hast to look at it. Not look KPIs and metrics.
KPI and easy metrics are for lazy bad managers.
You can have multiple small materialised views, which get updated when appropriate and are composed by a regular view. It’s more convenient than a single large materialised view.
Turn the jars into spare screws/bolts/etc.
Planned obsolescence scam in plain sight.
I don't think they really "want" you to die; it's just that their priorities do not align with your well-being. Consequently, their actions negatively impact the welfare you could have enjoyed if this power structure prioritized your needs more. Allocating billions to Ukraine and Israel doesn't necessarily directly worsen your situation per se, but it is one of the reasons why the state can only provide $750 USD to families affected by Hurricane Milton if they applications go through.
Won’t work without trying.

It wasn’t hard 10-15 years ago when it was at its peak. I suspect all it did was relaxing walk rules and simply presenting more diverse selection, which optimizes for surfing but deoptimizes for some modal group.

I also remember right-bar surfing techniques that don’t work anymore.

Front page is distilled garbage to me.
What kind of city? I thought of getting one but suburban sprawl means I’m riding it on 45mph stroads.
Turns out that money is still the strongest alignment signal.
Yes, great, so if neither of you were actually involved in the crime and they tell you that the other guy gave you up, you can fabricate something that implicates him instead so they take the rap because you’re scared of being blamed.

This isn’t a hypothetical, people have literally gone to prison for decades before some new DNA evidence exonerates them and the ‘accomplice’ admits they lied…
Criticism is one form of support, yes! Despite my previous post sounding pretty sympathetic to kowtowing... It bugs me when people don't get that. The so called free world was built on antifragility.
You might find this interesting:

"Clinical potential of sensory neurites in the heart and their role in decision-making"

[] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10896837/
Not very harmful on an absolute scale != harmless. There is a whole spectrum between harmless and bloody heroin.
- awkward groping for how to explain things
- none of the words match how we talk about things now

My life in a nutshell these last few years.

Glad to hear it might not be utter incompetence.
Pretty confusing to say you're not going to store a bitmap in the shader... and then explain exactly how you stored a bitmap in the shader!

(TL;DR, he embeds a bitmap font in the shader.)
Thanks for your insightful comment! The funny thing with dreams is that they may not be fun.
Ah that’s a fair point. I asked him:

https://bsky.app/profile/tlalexander.bsky.social/post/3laiw4...

I think I have heard that in the country he was living in, violating patents for personal use was okay. My understanding is that things are much more strict in the USA, where I believe you can’t help others violate patents so you can’t publish work the way Adrian did. I know that in the early days of 3D printing everyone wanted a belt printer, but users and hackers on the forum regularly expressed concern over MakerBot’s patent and the associated legal risk of violating it. That’s why today’s belt printers have the head at a 45 degree angle. It’s a patent workaround because MakerBot’s patent specified a belt that was parallel to the motion axes. At least that’s what I think Brook Drumm of Printrbot told me.

So even if they didn’t affect Adrian, they certainly had a chilling effect. And I don’t think even under Adrian’s legal regime he would have been allowed to sell the work, so more expensive engineering development was prohibited. We didn’t get cheap 3d printers until companies could mass produce existing low cost open source designs, and that mass production was obviously prohibited by the patents. We didn’t get low cost machines until competition was allowed in to the space. And I’ve heard directly from 3D printer hacker developers that patents affected their decisions not to prototype certain new components. Sorry I can’t point you to a source directly but this would probably have been on the mailing list for the Bay Area Reprap club in 2010-2014, or the Ultimaker mailing list in the same timeframe.
The reason John Wick did that is because "man murders hundreds of people, but its ok for us to admire him for it because they deserved it because they killed his wife /girlfriend" is entirely overdone.

People do of course care about their pets, but John Wick used the death of a pet as its instigating event because it was different, not because it was a remotely usual way to respond to a pets death.
Yeah there's no chance Mozilla would do anything like this:

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/
Ok, but since we don't understand everything about DNA, that can have unwanted side effects.

Are you making fun of me or do you really not understand that?
The input reminds me a lot of the work pointed to here (good ole jart)[https://justine.lol/lambda/#diagrams]

Now if only I could get my head around it (shout out to the alligator eggs ref too)
Do not have it in google.com.au, just the old All
Images
Shopping
Videos
News
Web
Maps
More (Books, Flights, Finance)
Tools

Oh well, hopefully soon.
XPC has been in shipping platforms for more than 13 years... I suppose that is recent compared to NEXTstep :)
Game is super fun multiplayer experience, def recommend.
Serious question: Is there any legitimate reason for such a document to exist? Why would you want to waive your right to remain silent, or your right to consult a lawyer?
Imagining the Unthinkable: 'What If?' As a Creation Tool
SetWindowsHookEx is a blast.
Thanks for the geo sanity check.
Shifting objects by less than sizeof(T)
Azure DevOps NPM auth-lite: simplifying onboarding to ADO NPM feeds
Perceptual closure under repeated iterations is just a stronger form of perceptual losslessness, then, after k generations instead of the usual k=1. What you’re describing is called generation loss, and there are in fact perceptually lossy image codecs that have essentially no generation loss; jpeg xl is one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSWpw7zNkI
Smaller Large Language Models Can Do Moral Self-Correction
https://github.com/brurucy/pydbsp/issues/6 it's been answered! (to the best of my knowledge)
> the author seems like they were only there for a promotion?

Well, yes obviously? People get jobs to get money, and a promotion gives you more money.

The ones not aiming for a promotion are the strange ones, not the ones who are.
The story is more complex than that.

On the one hand you are right, there are military money and people involved in essentially every high-tech firm and university project in the USA.

On the other hand, a lot of the time this is done as an easy way of subsidizing a potentially useful civil technology without going into the weeds of Congress and public discussions about how to allocate grants and so on. The military budget acts partly as a discretionary fund that the US government can use to fund (civil) R&D as it sees fit without as much red tape.

Noam Chomsky wrote about this from his experience at MIT. Especially in the 70s and 80s, MIT was getting lots of grant money from defense spending, and every professor could access it by simply putting some fictitious "possible military applications" on their research into shortest-path algorithms or what have you.

Of course, this plays it both ways, because providing the money, even as a thinly veiled subsidy, also allows you to come back later and assert some control if it does turn out it could be beneficial for "defense" purposes.
Incremental Dataflow for the Masses sounds much better :)
It doesn't, you cant find any reference to the captcha solving or anything like that in the repo. There's one line for the stealth plugin that is commented out:

// chromium.use(stealthPlugin());

imo this is the hardest part about scraping, evading bot detection and captchas.

edit: and keeping the scraping logic & rules up to date
This called symbiosis. When a parasite such as a virus, a bacteria, a fungus, a plant, an insect and its host find a win-win "agreement".
The underlying thing folks
miss is - competence in what. Near as I can tell, they were quite competent in what city leadership wanted.
That’s cause you never had space motion sickness.
Just use a VPN and you'll be grand!
No, they say they are not going to store a bitmap in a texture, which is not the same thing as embedding directly in the shader code.

You could compare that to storing some data in a separate file which needs to be read during runtime versus embedding the data directly in the source code.
There are more important things in life than money.
Algol-68 is sort of the reference case for the problem with prescriptive standards.

They sound like a good idea "Lets get the best minds together and create the ideal standard" however because they are not based on anything built tend to be over engineered and hard to implement.

At the opposite end of the spectrum is posix, which is a sort of terrible "lets just glob what everyone is doing together" descriptive standard, at least it gets everyone operating on the same page. so I think of it as a good place to start, not the end result.

There is a reason the ieft was so successful with their "working code and rough consensuses". Which is why it worries me as they try to redefine them self as a "standards" body. as opposed to publishing standards.
Okay but redditors are not a historically oppressed group - the Roma are. It’s not really a fair comparison.

It may not be a slur to you, but it’s not up to you to decide for others what’s hurtful or offensive - if you care, the best you can do is listen to what they tell you.
Google works like academia because that’s all the founders knew.
As an adult citizen you should know your rights and the process.
Also obviously never talk to cops.
The vast majority of folks who get cleared based on “new DNA evidence” or whatever actually don’t have their innocence proven. Instead in most of these cases, there is shown to be some problem with a piece of evidence relied on at trial.

To be clear, the prosecutors should be held to a high standard, and they should be forced to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. But we should also be a little more cautious about proclaiming the “innocence” of people whose guilty convictions are found to be problematic. In case that evidence had been excluded on time, it is possible that the prosecutors could still have built a solid case that relied on different evidence.
Your /qrcode requests sends everything to backend

GET
https://auth.web.id/qrcode?chl=otpauth://totp/Example%20Inc.sdf:johsn%40example.com?issuer=Example%20Inc.sdf&secret=SA&algorithm=SHA1&digits=6&period=30

> all computations are performed client-side with no data storage

so this isn't true.

I am sure you can generate the qr code on the client as well
Unikraft Cloud reduces serverless cold starts to milliseconds with unikernel
> There's no security model for desktops that works well.

> Like another commenter said iOS has no legacy cruft and could deliver the security model that made sense.

Yeah I just was wondering about this. In the presentation also Seatbelt is mentioned, I thought this was considered deprecated legacy since years. IIRC the last time I checked for sandboxing I basically couldn't find anything recent for the Application level
Firejail attempts to mitigate that with secomp filters.
Interestingly enough this only works in countries where the police is allowed to imply they can get punishment lowered by talking to the prosecutor, something that's impossible in most western countries.

It unfortunately has a side effect, the reciprocating "my friend did it" defense works really well in those places - Scandinavia, I'm looking at you.

Given two murder suspects, but no witnesses, and no evidence of who actually delivered the final blow, it doesn't matter if both would be covered in the victims blood. As long as they point blame at each other and shut up, chances are they will get away with murder.

They would still very likely go to prison of course, but for some "lesser" crime like assault.
Problems in repair pathways are underappreciated. The mutations causing breast cancer, and Huntington’s disease, for example. Advancements in treating those will be advancements in CRISPR.
Part of it is also the creators optimizing for what the suggestion algorithm rewards. If you don't like the front page, you're looking for a needle in a haystack, because creators are rewarded very heavily for making the kind of content that lands on the front page and gets mass amounts of views.

Youtube doesn't have much of an incentive to show things that are not either popular in general, or that already worked on you in the past. There are some people that care strongly about that (me included), but it's a very small minority.

If the A/B test says distilled garbage is what hijacks the dopamine center the best, then you will be fed the A/B juice. And on average, people in your cohort will like it.
When you ask ChatGPT "Tell me a story" it's always is about a girl named Elara
It does seem a bit ridiculous, doesn't it?

However, you're describing what the "basket of deplorables[0]" and half of America have experienced for the last 3+ years: tilted views on all major social media platforms in concert with the federal government as exposed in the Twitter Files[1].

[0] https://time.com/4486502/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorabl...

[1] https://twitterfiles.substack.com
I've been throwing weeds in the compost for 20+ years - they break down fine .. some regrow but you can just pull them out again.

We have two three sided "bunkers" 2 metre x 2 metre square x 1.5 metre high that we fill with weeds and then cover every spring (on rotation), once covered they cook pretty hot which kills most things within, reduce them to juice and worm food and when respread a year later they grow good veggies.

We've just today finished spreading three double axle trailer loads (each about 1.5 tonne) of donkey poo and straw .. that's got a lot grass seed and digested grassy fecal matter in it .. it'll make great figs and probably grow grassy weeds under the fig tree .. that'll get pulled and thrown in the heaps also.

Pretty much the only things that don't go in the compost piles are metal, rocks, plastic, etc - if it's organic, it's in.
So is bitcoin but everyone needs a hobby.
I would like to present you with Chlamydia.

I find it remarkable that chlamydia cells, fully enter host cells and live there stealing of resources.

I would call it evolutions “half-assed attempt” at endosymbiosis. (Disclaimer: evolution has no goal)
"How to tell if someone is a racist? You don't need to, they would tell you themselves"
Why couldn’t one mathematically recreate the limitations of a VM through a namespace by means of SELinux?
Yes you can buy them from the confectionery isle in your local supermarket.
And by "reformed", you mean "burnt to the ground, for real this time".
> So, full circle

In case anyone hasn't yet seen the 1968 full circle paper, "On the Design of Display Processors": http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...

Hardware in their case, but we also have software saṃsāra.
There is also the alternative to accept, like companies exponential growth doesn't last forever, and maybe one should be happy where they are instead of pursuing growth paths that will ultimately make them unhappy while getting more money they cannot ever spend, every day thinking why go to the office.

Personally, I am happy to die as IC, having tasted management related roles.
It's available here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/wattsaver-for-octopus-energy/i...

and more info here: https://moto.co.de/wattsaver.html
I’m quite fond of watching Let’s Plays of Obra Dinn (it’s the closest I can get to experiencing it for the first time again), and there is a fundamental mistake I see happening over and over: people not getting the rules the game plays by.

First off, the game is tough but fair. I’ve seen a lot of people say out loud what the correct solution is, but not punch it in because the game could be tricking them. In fact, the game would rather give you a hard puzzle and help you solve it rather than giving you an easy puzzle and trick you away from the solution.

Second, the game does a a neat trick of using very contrived game-y mechanics (the magic of the pocket watch) to present information, but only to enable that information following fairly natural real world logic, rather than puzzle game logic. People are unexceptional — they hang out with their peers, use more or less familiar language depending on who they’re talking to, stick to their jobs unless shit is hitting the fan (and even then, their job informs how they react).
Can you post the resulting url here? Someone may try following it.

Please note that a link may(?) encode info you may not want to share, so maybe remove long parts from it. Section selectors are usually short: tbm=isch, tbm=shop, etc.
It's as simple as you'd expect: AirPods and beats have their SPLs hardcoded, everything else is estimated based on volume control.

Although Apple says there can be bad interactions between this and live listen, so maybe there is some realtime monitoring happening.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/check-your-headphone-...
>No mention of thousands of other dramatic hypotheses that turned out wrong.

In other news, Local Man Didn't Win Lottery
I think David Deutsche has this idea that the best explanations should be treated as true even if you can't test it.
Ticker Tape Synesthesia
That’s the guy who created TinyPilot. Since then he wrote yearly articles about it’s IndieHacker journey. Some of them have been shared on HN. Worth reading!
On projects I've used it, we're already running scheduled jobs anyways, so another job for refreshing wasn't a problem.
> It's true you have to use JavaScript glue code, but it's also true that won't be true forever.

I won't live forever and I'd like to deliver my product before I die.
The development and scope creep sounds a lot like what happened with Perl 6 ;P
Also, checkout tig: https://jonas.github.io/tig/
> wasn't that exactly what ChromeOS provided

The isolation in Qubes is much more reliable and flexible. I'm not even talking in Google's shady privacy practices. I'd never trust them with my OS or browser.