skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of them seemed to be ran by an older man (70+, I’d guess)

Yep. Stopped by two on a trip to Japan earlier this year and one run by an old man and one by a woman apparently 80+ years old (!).

I had a great time but yeah feeling anxious in that for natural causes, many of these places will be closing very soon as their owners surely retire at some point. I do not think many have succession plans in place. Neither place I visited had any staff. The gentleman said he'd run the place by himself for decades.

It makes one want to immediately make more travel plans to Japan as a sort of depressing "last chance to see"[1] type trip to go visit more of them. I'm upset I was only able to visit two.

Much like how the amazing game centre culture of Japan has pretty much completely vanished from its 1990s era peak, I expect soon Jazz Kissas will be almost entirely impossible to find.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See
Every time I've moved, it involved getting rid of piles of stuff. And my next move will probably be a downsize. I'm already on a mission to get rid of X cubic foot of stuff per year. After helping my mom downsize, I've lost my nostalgia for keeping old stuff around. And my kids want none of it -- they don't know if they will ever own a house, or necessarily what country they'll even live in.

And of course I wonder why stuff piles up. The reasons include laziness and probably a mild hoarding instinct.
Jarko27: on my Android 9 phone of a few years ago, i cant install it : the play store says it Cant be installed on my device. Why?
You’re welcome!

I’m not very well versed in Spanish typography, so I don’t know whether they do this or not in Spain :-)

I have been fascinated by typography since a long time ago, though.

If you want another weird (foreign) typography fact, I’m French and we have very strange rules in French, in particular for book titles, how to capitalize them. As an example, a book whose title would be “Les Belles Maisons bleues” would be capitalized differently than “Des belles maisons bleues.” (Nobody knows that in France; only the people interested in typography!)
I like the initiative, hopefully your data quality will improve:

Country: NL | The Netherlands

European Union: false

Time Zone: Europe/Amsterdam

Calling Code: +0

Currency: Unknown
Modern low-latency GCs never reach 1ms on all the workloads I've put them through. Mind you I don't GC terabytes of RAM so who knows what happens there.
As I understand it, it's not about aesthetics per-se, but rather that "nature" is a semantic concept defined by us humans for anything that is outside of the human sphere - i.e. something is "natural" or "out in nature" or "nature's way" if it's what would have been if humans hadn't been involved.
Eventually we all die and our heirs if we have any tend to value our possessions closer to the market rate ($0) than we do.
All methodologies are about the allocation, and specifically the abusive allocation, of responsibility, authority, and blame.
Ask HN: How not to write code with Claude
I have been using claude for a while, it works quite great for writing code. But sometimes I need some high level insights but it straight away starts implementing things.

I add some smippets in the prompt itself like "just discuss and do not write the code".

Is there a better way to tackle this?

Model - Claude 3.5 Sonnet
We're talking about the internet, not physical spaces where different rules apply.
For one thing, the ease of access to any given space is much lower off the internet.
There is also Fauna Query Language. I gave up on choosing a unique name.
https://fauna.com/product/fql
1Q84 is one of the ones I haven't read personally, so it's hard to say. I can just comment that all of the other Murakami works I've read really "hooked" me right from the beginning.

After Dark was my first and that was pretty much a "I sat down to 'read a few pages' to see if I wanted to read the book or not, and when I looked up I was 2/3rds of the way done" experience.
True, Docker makes everything much easier. But Docker engine needs a server to run. So learning how to work with servers and goes a long way for software engineers.
You can say whatever you want when discussion the cost of nuclear in France because of the structure of its nuclear industry. Part of it comes from the government’s budget, so depending on your point of view it can be accounted for differently. Then, there are externalities (pollution, greenhouse gases, etc). And then there are strategic aspects and associated costs. The alternative in the 1970s was skyrocketing oil, which is much more costly at the planet’s level, and was on track to be much more costly at the country’s level as well. And in the meantime, consumers got reasonably cheap and clean electricity for decades.

Skimming your source, I would not trust it very much.
I wish my phone was more like a bop-it.
The article is mostly focused on race tracks, and especially drag racing. But to me "hot rodding" explicitly means street racing.

And in street racing, and driving fast responsive cars in general, electric is the future.

I just recently started owning one, and it drives better than any other vehicle I have ever driven.

The instant acceleration, the very fine power control, and the weight distribution make it more responsive and better handling than literally any other car I've ever driven (and I've been driving for 50 years).
It's currently 1000 photos total that you can divide between as many albums you like.

But honestly we've just launched, so pricing and tiers might very well change as we discover what users want and are willing to pay for.
As one who has been around for a while, has lived in various US and European cities both big and small, and who currently lives in a pleasant mid-sized city nonetheless plagued by our uniquely American problems, this comment strikes me as the critters in Animal Farm discussing how much better life got after the Revolution. The implicit message of menace towards those who disagree is no less clear.
The article actually argues that the idea that nature finds lovely balances if we just get out of the way is not correct. A lot of what we view as stable ecosystems are stable because of our management and influence over millennia. Nature on it's own is not a thing, there are no checks and balances, no intention, no morality. The quote from the article is that nature does not organise it's self into neat parables.
Oh wow! This is super-cool.

It's too ugly for "general-purpose" apps, but it looks to be perfect for internal management apps (control panels, tools). I'm definitely going to try it for my key-management server.
An Intuitive Explanation of Sparse Autoencoders for LLM Interpretability
One of the things I would want included is any and all metadata / tags that Google Photos adds to photos. For instance:

- inferred/corrected geotags
- inferred/corrected time of day
- names or at least UUIDs or something of people in each photo

I almost typed another bullet along the lines of "the top 10 most-likely features identified in the photo", like if it's a photo of a menu or a tower or whatever, then "menu" / "tower", but, it's probably encoded as some kind of embedding in some space like word2vec or something less ancient, and it wouldn't even really be that useful for them to give out the raw embedded through the API, would it?

Maybe the last one (faces/people) isn't even possible, if they don't reify found people into some actual tag or something, maybe you just have to search by person and gphotos just shows you the photos with embeddings less than some cutoff cosine distance from that person's embedding.
> A more durable product exists, and yet, even you don't want to pay more for it.

This is disingenuous as hell.

I want to buy a version that cost 15% more to make. I don't want to buy a version that cost 3x as much to make (or is priced as if it does).

When I can't find the former, that is part of problem. When I don't buy the latter, that is not part of the problem.

> They're making these options intentionally because a bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush to them.

The best way to have the most birds in hands on an ongoing basis is to optimize for both price and lifetime per dollar, not just price.
No, sounds like the kind of device that would be hyped for two weeks, sell like three units, and then be abandoned after a few months.
Cool.
Can you elaborate a bit on your issue with Google?
My kids convinced me to try out a couple of those old final fantasy games from the 90s. As someone who studied Kabbalah I was intrigued by the fact that they named a character Sephiroth, although the character really had nothing to do with the name or concept. Anyway, I was already old so I didn’t have the same emotional connection (except when that girl was killed) because neither the writing nor the realism was at a level I hadn’t seen before. It definitely would have hit me hard at 13, though. Really hard.

Video games seem to be aiming to inspire strong emotion through realism, not writing. I won’t say the quality of the writing doesn’t matter but it’s not what makes a great game. Final fantasy games have really hackneyed plots and writing but do the game part extremely well. And video games are the best way to make a story accessible to a large number of people. I don’t think the written word puts a story into the center of a culture anymore.

The voice acting probably adds realism and accessibility but I agree that it also takes something away, just as no video game can do, intellectually and emotionally, what the written word can do. The fact that mere text had such an effect is part of the artifact. Sadly, I don’t how you tell teenagers, if you’re teaching language and literature, that people had the same strong emotional reactions to these texts we assign, that they have to video games.

Oddly enough I’m reading a fantasy novel right now by someone who used to be part of this community. It’s far better than I expected it to be, and it’s causing me to rethink a number of recent events I thought I understood.
> it's not worth it because it's such a gamble.

That's also true. At the individual unit level, small differences in MTTF/MTBF are negligible because product failures are naturally distributed anyway. The mean time is just a mean, and nobody gives a shit about a good mean product failure rate when theirs happened to fail below the mean. That's true no matter how much you spent.
Because it can lock the door behind itself in an opaque hardware-dependent layer users have no control over.

If i were to design security from the ground up it would be a small external sdcard for firmware and kernel (with a hardware r/w toggle), and optionally a external sdcard adapter that verifies the hash of the content.

Everything else is as dumb as bricks and gets its firmware loaded from the sdcard.

We didn't do that because secure boot was solving the problem of large orgs with remote administration in mind, and designed by orgs happy to sell yearly advanced cybersecurity protection shield plus certification subscriptions.

Designing for remote administration by an IT department will.. increase the attack surface for attackers to remote administrate my device.
Yeah, web dev sucks.
Was it a built-in camera cover, or a third-party one? Apple specifically (and possibly other manufacturers?) recommends against third-party covers because the tolerance is so close:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102177
LLVM Merges Support the for Tenstorrent TT-Ascalon-D8 RISC-V CPU
I don't use imagination when I read. The connections are instinctual, and the layouts are often irrelevant (which I can say because I've never attempted to consider them and don't ever find myself missing out on the story).

I'd like to say I'm astounded when I hear other people visit other worlds when they read, but really that whole idea is so foreign to me, it might as well be a complete lie. I have no thread in which to pull on to begin to imagine it. I chalk it up to aphantasia, but my point is that not everyone processes and interacts with the world in the same way you might.
The claim is that the definition was changed specifically for the COVID vaccines. This is wrong, since other vaccines also weren’t covered by the old definition.

There’s also a serious problem with the phrase “the definition.” There are many definitions. There isn’t a single authority which decides what a word means.

“It was the first time something didn't work that way and was additionally being mandated.”

Come on, seriously? The tetanus vaccine is required for school in many places. Why are you saying something so obviously incorrect, and with an example that disproves it already being part of the conversation? You accuse me of not accepting debate and you do this kind of thing? I can’t even.
Someone mentions Postman below so I'm tempted to add: can the tech crowd try a bit of Neil Postman, Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord and the Situationists, Mark Fisher, Marhsall McLuhan, presumably loads of others I don't know about who have done work in these areas, and then maybe Michel Desmurget on the more science-based side of it if they want to avoid any airy-fairy theory.

It's arguably especially wild that Desmurget doesn't get a mention in these discussions. Or, I mean, it would be wild in a world where there was a smooth and effortless flow of good ideas and arguments between people, maybe over some sort of transcontinental network...

A lot of the topics that people have opinions about when it comes to screens and devices and health and etc have loads of studies on them. Which doesn't mean that everything is all solved, there are unexplored and uncertain areas, but reading these discussions you'd think there was no data out there whatsoever. There's tons!

It doesn't mean either that people can't enjoy sharing opinions, some of the anecdotes are interesting and insightful, but there seems to be a few obvious arguments which are basically non-arguments that get trotted out, and which seem to be hindering a more fruitful discussion.

How many times have we seen someone make a point about the bad type of screen-use for someone to say: "yeah, but I use ________ like _________." or "yeah, but when you read books you're being antisocial as well." and so on. The research on the topic distinguishes carefully between the different types of use! Etc etc, I could go on.

This comment is intended constructively
Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)
That’s precisely what I mean. Each tool here reflects the will of the person wielding the tool while providing a pretense that some other force is at play.
I'm sure they'll name the new luxury apartments nice names, that nod to the former history of the site.
So it only matters on basically every classic non time trial race?
If you're talking about intermittent fasting, some of the more recent studies are showing that we aren't able to trigger autophagy as we'd hoped, and that the results of most IF users is a reduction in total caloric intake. It's tough to consume the same amount of calories in 2 meals as you'd normally do in 3.
> but there's an official definition regardless of your personal interpretation, and it does include the 'somebody else's work' part.

No, it doesn't. First of all, dictionaries aren't prescriptive and so all quoting a definition does is clarify what you mean by a word. That can be helpful toward understanding, of course.

That said, the intransitive verb form of the word does not require "somebody else's work" in the sense of that "someone else" being a human.

> to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

-- Merrian-Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plagiarize

According to this, what it means is taking credit for a work you did not produce. That work did not have to be produced by a human, it merely had to exist.

> Why is translation a different beast?

Because it doesn't produce a new work, it just changes the language that work is expressed in. "Moby Dick" is "Moby Dick" regardless of what language it has been translated to. This is why the translator (human or otherwise) does not become the author of the work. If you were to run someone else's novel through a translator and claimed you wrote that work, you would in every respect be committing plagiarism both by the plain meaning of the word and legally.

> copying the output of an LLM verbatim is not necessarily in itself plagiarism.

Yes, it is. You would be taking credit for something you did not author. You would be doing the same if you took credit for a translation of someone else's work.
Been in BigCo land for 20 years now, and have seen the rise and fall of quite a few data/analytics/BI/reporting/AI/ML fads.

Honestly the whole landscape seems broken and unproductive at this point.

Countless vendors, platforms, cloud environments, industry/technical jargon - all with different pricing models, SLAs, tooling, etc etc.

Getting anything usable is a challenge and most orgs spin in a never ending cycle of data integration/normalization work that produces little business value.

My advice to teams now is simplify, reduce, streamline - get to the kernel of what you think you need and protect it all costs. Most of the shiny new objects being pitched as silver bullets are just ways for other people to make money off your margin.
Show HN: SuperApp Local Business Social Network
But it IS what put me into it. Duh.
Doesn't dynamic allocation expose you to memory fragmentation or other non-deterministic phenomenons?
The article does not contain the words performance and security.
Poker is easier to win if you know where you can find players that aren't very good at it, but as you pointed out that's getting harder. I've never heard anyone say that about craps, I just read some math that says don't come bar is a more likely win and have come up on that while making the regulars at the table groan at me, but I used to play a lot of street dice when I was a kid haha always fun to bust out at parties to play with quarters

https://www.wikihow.com/Shoot-Dice
Show HN: Hairoin Labs: Scanning Electron Microscope Hair Analysis
I’ve built Hairoin Labs, a product that uses scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and a combination of AI and hair experts to analyze hair health.

SEM uses electrons instead of light, and their wavelength is about 100,000 times smaller—this lets us see details like damaged cuticles, microfractures, porosity, and buildup at the nanometer scale.

It’s kind of like 23andMe, but for your hair. You get personalized insights and care recommendations based on both AI analysis and expert review.

My hair is shown on the website. Would love your feedback or ideas!
At my last company I helped build the experimentations platform that processes millions of requests per day. I have some thoughts:

- The most useful resource we've found was from Spotify, of all places: https://engineering.atspotify.com/category/data-science/

- For hashing, md5 hash on (user-id + a/b-test-id) is sufficient. In practice we had no issues with split bias. You should not get too clever with hashing. You'll want to stick to something reliable and widely supported to make any post-experiment analysis easier. You definitely want to log the user-id to version mapping somewhere.

- As for in-house vs external, I would probably go in-house, though that depends on the system you're A/B testing. In practice the amount of work needed to integrate a third-party tool was roughly the same as building the platform, but building the platform meant we could test more bespoke features.
I think that this article [1] by Mike Masnick (not a lawyer or professor, but often writes about First Amendment issues) and Brian L. Frye (a law professor) is useful for understanding the nuances of the Pruneyard case. Here's an excerpt (but I recommend reading the entire article):

> That’s fatal to AELP’s argument. According to AELP, the First Amendment allows states to prohibit social media companies from censoring users, because social media websites are “open-access.” But newspapers are also “open-access,” because anyone can buy an advertisement. So, AELP’s argument necessarily implies that the First Amendment also allows states to prohibit newspapers from censoring advertisers.

> Wrong. The Supreme Court explicitly said the opposite in PruneYard itself. And if the First Amendment means anything, it means that the government can’t tell newspapers what to print.

> What’s the real difference between Miami Herald and PruneYard? It’s simple. Newspapers are in the speech business and shopping malls aren’t. The First Amendment says the government can’t force you to share someone else’s speech, but sometimes it can require you to tolerate speech you dislike. And which is social media more like? The business that is in the speech business, or a shopping mall where speech has nothing to do with its business?

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/22/social-media-isnt-a-shop...
> If you think people want 30 year old washing machines, you're kidding yourself.

You say this in the same breath you talk about people being desperate for any cheapest appliance instead of having nothing?

> And literally zero people are buying a house based on the bearings in the washing machine.

Well that's them being dumb.
Fun fact, there has been some investigation into Rust for Nonstop, but it’s just not feasible. Like a lot of software. I hear they tried to port gcc multiple times and failed too…
Advances in Biorefinery of Cattle Manure for Value-Added Products
I don't want to yuck your yum, since it seems like this solved your problem for your crew. However, I always value launch posts like this which have a "why not ..." section, since (a) it helps folks who want to adopt your toy to understand its tradeoffs and know if they are the right tradeoffs for the adopter (b) it shows that the system was at least plausibly well designed and not filled with "oh, is that a thing?!" which requires abandoning it shortly after stumbling on real problems (I think of this as "The JavaScript Framework Lifecycle")

For example, this sure does look like Dagger <https://github.com/dagger/dagger#what-is-dagger> in its use of golang-as-ci <https://docs.dagger.io/quickstart/daggerize#construct-a-pipe...> and plausibly "run ci locally"

Dagger doesn't ship with a dashboard (that I know of) but I also struggle to think of why one would want an artisanal dashboard when <https://docs.github.com/en/actions/use-cases-and-examples/de...> and <https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/environments/index.html> exist in close proximity to the existing CI infrastructure. I guess if one is trying to be "CI agnostic" but my life experience is that trying to be CI agnostic leads to a lot of NIH which one cannot hire for and cannot take to the next job
Thank you!

Pricing is indeed something we're still trying to figure out.

Currently we see differentiation as a combination of simplicity and elegance/visual quality.
Meaning platforms like Flicker are too cluttered and outdated in terms of how galleries look.

But in this too we still have a lot to learn and figure out.
HighTech Ferries Tarnished the Legacy of Transatlantic Ocean Liners in the 1990s
I wanted to clarify part of your point.

Violence is literally always a last resort. It is the last possible thing you can do to affect change.

People who would nitpick on the mode of protest always conveniently dismiss the thinking and talking that came before.
Apparently it's embedding actual TeX for this purpose: https://git.sr.ht/~sbinet/star-tex (TeX is written in a Pascal variant, and this kind of transpilation is by no means unusual.)

It's common to have HTML widgets in GUI toolkits, and some may even support MathML, but this here is a bit different.
Or it could just be straight propaganda from the oil cos, as they are so fond of doing
My impression is that (intermittent) fasting is just a convenient way for many people to decrease their overall calorie consumption. I personally prefer eating low-carb for the same purpose.
This is called the "baseline" problem among conservationists.