skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pages collector on TheGuardian, of a few reading suggestions by topic, updated since yesterday.

E.g.: "The best ideas books of 2024" ( https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/03/the-best-ideas... ); "The best science and nature books of 2024" ( https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/02/the-best-scien... )...

Many other similar initiatives are expected, as is customary, on other publications. For now, others that have "opened the dances" not systematically have been The Independent, The Smithsonian Magazine and the Financial Times.

The submission title is editorialized exactly since a large number of "Best Books of 2024" titles, from different sources, will soon appear.
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Problem solved:

strSum = sum . parsed . words
where
parsed = map read
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There's no claim about it, it actually happened.
Always amazed at companies that extort their customers because it might be too expensive to move off those products.
I remember Computer Associates back in the 1980s and 1990s, that was their business model, buy out a company, fire all the engineers, and Jack up license fees. Rinse and repeat. I remember seeing them at unix expo at the javits center, they always gave out the best chachkis
> Why can't Côte d'Ivoire do the processing themselves?

Capital.

Historically, Asian LDCs like Vietnam and Cambodia have had access to Japanese and Korean development loans and grants which allowed for businesses to build and innovate.

Most Sub-Saharan economies did not have those kinds of capital markets.

Depending on where you are in Africa, the Gulf, Turkey, India, and China have stepped in to fill the capital gap, but they tend to be much more extractive in their terms.
there is a thing I don't understand.

isn't spherical harmonics similar to spherical fourier transform?

in theory spherical harmonics alone can represent high frequency.

but gaussian splatting implementations usually use only the first spherical harmonics coefficient.

if more coefficients are used, is it still necessary to add textures?
Compiler version issues are a pain. For most programming languages I use, I like to constantly update toolchain and library versions. I fight that tendency with Haskell. “cabal freeze” can be your friend.

I now find that using some combination of Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT makes using Haskell more pleasant for processing compiler error and warning messages, suggesting changes to my cabal or stack configuration files, etc.
UAD and WAVES, amongst several other companies, operate their business on the premise that there is some 'magic' as to why it sounds that way that is somewhere between difficult and impossible to manage (sufficient to enthuse a musician/producer).
Fair enough, but I think car people remember or know of the history, and they could in principle reclaim it with high end products like they once made. Almost all car manufacturers that are still around have gone through rough periods and had to revive their brand image.
The film secret sauce is usually varying temperature/hue in different regions/brightnesses of the image. The 2005 digital example exhibits this via red/magenta being excessive in the shadows, but falling off in brighter areas
(AGC) calculations were carried out using the metric system, but display readouts were in units of feet, feet per second, and nautical miles – units that the Apollo astronauts were accustomed to.

https://ukma.org.uk/why-metric/myths/metric-internationally/...
:( the QOM inheritance is where I've had my wrist bugs. Recently I merged from master (upgrading me from version 8.something to 9.2.?) and they dramatically changed the resets. I tried the new way and had segfaults in bad places that went away when I reordered code that shouldn't have ordering requirements. That was too scary so I switched to their legacy reset function and it was all fine again. All this blind casting of opaques makes me nervous.
Is your Kubernetes cluster ready for traffic growth?
Hi, we are working on an autoscaling platform based on KEDA, and our recent post discusses how to handle traffic growth.

Maybe you have recently experienced similar challenges due to the Black Friday mania.

If you are interested, read it here: https://kedify.io/resources/blog/black-friday-kubernetes-autoscaling; Thanks!
I have several Home Assistant Automations. The most useful one is blinks my indoor lights and sends a push notification to my phone when my garage door opens and closes.

I also have automations for sending a notification when my chest freezer goes above 10 degrees.

In the winter, I have an automation that turns my humidifier on/off to keep the indoor humidity within certain ranges depending on the outdoor temperature, to avoid excess condensation on my failing windows.
People like to look at the start of the sigmoid and extrapolate.
An Easier Way to Enable IMDS Defaults Across All Regions
The other possibility, if it's a shrinking market, is they are just strip-mining it.
I would have thought download would be more interesting. Dodge the egress charges on cloud migrations
Show HN: Revolutionizing the Chat Experience with Modern Features
At Chat-to.dev, we’ve created a chat room system that goes beyond simple messaging, offering a rich and integrated experience. Here are the key features that make our chat rooms stand out:

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"C# libraries"

Isn't this just .NET?

Think this was a feature. F# has access to all of the existing libraries, plus those made for F#.
On a gigabit connection. It's hard to imagine clusters running on anything below 10Gb as an absolute minimum.
I would guess they know it's dying and they're trying to get everything they can out of it while they can. Vendor lock-in is a real risk everyone should be cognizant of.
One of the struggles I have with my illness and diagnosis has been trying to convince people that I am not completely stupid and delusional about things in which I am an expert. Yes, I do occasionally suffer from delusions. But those delusions don't detract from my non-delusional-state ideas in areas about which I am well-informed. While I am not black so I am not on the receiving end of racism, I can certainly relate to feeling ostracized and isolated by those who are supposed to be helpful or at the very least tolerant of those of us with mental health issues.
The repository for the 2024 IEEE Cloud Submission of OS4C:

https://github.com/UIUC-ChenLab/OS4C
There’s thousands of different tax regimes in the US - dozens to hundreds in every state, thanks to city taxes and the like. All businesses would need to advertise the right price everywhere. Doesn’t scale.

It’d be neat to see a campaign to popularize a term like “final price” or “all-in price”. It’d encourage the creation of products that always show the right price even as taxes change. And consumers would be empowered.
Thanks for sharing. Can you add a simple example that is more concrete and less abstrwct to the docs? It would be easier for people to understand if you did.
It's interesting that I'm perfectly fluent in both US and metric units, yet I don't have a personal frame of reference for the magnitude of many of the numbers given in the article, in either unit system. For instance, how they compare to rockets that are actually in practical use.
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Senior / Lead React Front-end Developer, Design Engineer -- Part time

- Location: Europe

- Remote: Yes

- Willing to relocate: Maybe

- Technologies: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Design systems, XState, Functional software architecture

- Résumé/CV: http://metamn.io/

- Email: bartus.csongor@gmail.com

I have dual skills: a degree in Computer Science and UI/UX design works featured in online galleries.

In the last 15 years I've been designing and developing websites and applications. From back-end to front-end, from architecture design to UI/UX design, on different stacks. I've built and managed front-end teams, shaped products.

Right now I focus on React and I can be helpful in a couple of ways:

- Leading, guiding React teams to produce high quality code

- Designer / Developer communication

- Design Engineering: Building robust design systems, rapid prototyping new ideas or features, shaping product design

I prefer a part-time job because I run a research and development studio focusing on correct software: https://www.osequi.com/

If you are interested in likely-correct React apps, or planning to train your AI to generate React apps, then I'm available full time.
Automated Architecture Synthesis via Targeted Evolution
The receptive partner in sexual activity is at much higher risk of infection than the penetrating partner.
It's probably along the same line as how vinyl records supposedly sound better.
> price was mostly determined by CPUs on the hypervisor, now it's mostly by RAM.

I think you might have that backwards, before we paid based on ram and now we pay based on cores
There really needs to be a different mode of compensation that forces the C-suite to prioritize long-term company success.
> I live in Norway, most people I know in private life that are of working age do not actually work

Can't say it any better than this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42244367
What is with the new "JaGUar" logo?!? Leaning into Jeremy Clarkson's pronunciation "ja-goo-are"?
My pet peeve goes in the opposite direction: the use of multiples and percentages greater than one to describe smaller numbers: "This is 3x smaller."
Another favourite after „I have toyota corola” emails to curl maintainer
All true. For anyone unfamiliar, WC3 Remastered also did two other things:

1. It changed the ToS so Blizzard owns the IP rights to any third-party maps, effectively killing this community. Why? Because of Dota 2. There was a customm mode called Defense of the Ancients ("Dota") that somebody took and basically created the MOBA genre. Blizzard decided to sue and lost. They tried to create their own (ie Heroes of the Storm) but the space came to be dominated by League of Legends. Blizzard didn't want a repeat of that. Ridiculous; and

2. WC3 Reforged ("Refunded" as it was commonly called on release) also made the original game worse even if you didn't have Reforged. The game downloaded a bunch of assets you didn't use. It broke compatibility with some maps. I think there were a bunch of other problems too.

More [1]. Some of these might've been fixed by later updates now.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/WC3/comments/exav5v/just_a_list_of_...
Yes, that could possibly work with some carefully selected Sanger sequencing- I'd have to start with finding region(s) that had something I expected to be able to meaningfully interpret, which itself wouldn't be trivial, especially if the dog ends up being some type of wolfdog hybrid or just generally a less domesticated 'archaic dog.' Thanks for the suggestion- I'll look into it.
Really sad that nothing in the genre has changed since war3.

People still play DotA forks and successors, but the RTS genre kind of ended with wc3.
That's for 1000 nodes all sharing a single 1Gbps connection and sending 1500-byte heartbeats for some reason. Make them 150 bytes (more realistic) and now it's almost half the throughput of the 100Mbps router that for some reason you are sending every single packet through, for 1000 nodes.
Yes, 3D acceleration support is in mainline Linux and Mesa using the panfrost driver.

I think VPU (video encode/decode) support is still partial and NPU (AI acceleration) requires an out of tree driver (rknpu2).
Computer use LLM toolset tested on code editing
Happened to the thttpd author some time back.

https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html
This just reads as a random mishmash of missteps the company has taken over its 33 years of existence (remember, it's older than Amazon or Google) rather than a proper critique of when it arguably lost its shine in the public's eyes. The company still generates a ton of money, continues to set records for day 1 sales of its games, and owns extremely valuable IP in the gaming industry, so you can't really say it hasn't adapted well to the current industry norms. At times, it practically sets them. It has certainly missed a lot of opportunities, such as turning BattleNet into a public digital storefront before Steam, or capitalizing on the MoBA genre that spawned from their own games before competitors did, but I doubt that they would have had as much success even if they did because their approach would have been different.

Jason Schreier's recent book covers some of the game cancellations. The Warcraft adventure game was cancelled after they flew out one of the best designers in the genre for a week to try to make it work, and make it fun, and couldn't. It was a game that was outsourced to a different company, and they didn't feel like it was up to their quality standards to ship. Shutting down Blizzard North came about as a consequence of the distance between them and HQ, leading to a different studio culture that became difficult to manage, and the uncontested resignation of Blizzard North's executive team when they tried to make demands from Blizzard's owners, Vivendi.

Polygon [1] covered the Starcraft: Ghost game. Long story short, it got canned because it was in development hell for too long. Originally under development by a studio in the Bay area, there apparently wasn't a dedicated Blizzard producer to the game for the longest time, and the idea of what it should be kept changing as new games came out and HQ wanted them to copy those ideas. At some point, Blizzard shifted development to a different studio just miles away from them because they wanted multiplayer, but the same issues persisted. And then they released WoW, which consumed all of their attention. With the release of the gen 7 consoles around the corner, requiring further investment, they made the sensible choice to shelve it so they could focus their time and money on their new cash-printing machine instead.

Experimentation is important for finding the fun, and cancelling what isn't working is a required part of the process. And while, yes, there's a ton of games in the Blizzard graveyard, they're no exception. Valve has a list of cancelled games that's probably just as long. And they're all the better for it. Titan died in favor of Overwatch, Nomad died in favor of World of Warcraft.

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2016/7/5/11819438/starcraft-ghost-wh...
That was actually pretty fun!
Just to name a few, https://github.com/legalnonsense/elgantt/, https://github.com/elsatch/org-timeline-viewer, https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.html . Org-mode users and things like this seem to be like moths and a fire. I'm always surprised by the sheer amount of packages written for org-mode, a package itself of a rather niche piece of software.
Show HN: Analysis of CI/CD Pipelines
Hey HN,

My friend and I built a ton of CI/CD pipelines on GitLab. We realized how all these pipelines are a huge mess and super hard to maintain.

A few years ago, everyone started to worry about supply chain security. We were surprised to see that no one was focusing on the CI/CD pipeline for this. So, we started building a product to get a clear view of all pipelines and their security issues.

I would love to hear your thoughts on whether it is useful for you.

You can test it on your pipelines by following the documentation: https://docs.r2devops.io/docs/self-managed
AC is more that just a VPN client, it also can do network link authentication to switches... my biggest hell is when people's passwords expire, or get changed on another PC, which leads to PC's being knocked offline, broken network shares, and obscure error messages when applications can't access the network.
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Building Trusted Software for macOS
SEEKING WORK: Senior / Lead React Front-end Developer, Design Engineer -- Part time

- Location: Europe

- Remote: Yes

- Willing to relocate: Maybe

- Technologies: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Design systems, XState, Functional software architecture

- Résumé/CV: http://metamn.io/

- Email: bartus.csongor@gmail.com

I have dual skills: a degree in Computer Science and UI/UX design works featured in online galleries.

In the last 15 years I've been designing and developing websites and applications. From back-end to front-end, from architecture design to UI/UX design, on different stacks. I've built and managed front-end teams, shaped products.

Right now I focus on React and I can be helpful in a couple of ways:

- Leading, guiding React teams to produce high quality code

- Designer / Developer communication

- Design Engineering: Building robust design systems, rapid prototyping new ideas or features, shaping product design

I prefer a part-time job because I run a research and development studio focusing on correct software: https://www.osequi.com/

If you are interested in likely-correct React apps, or planning to train your AI to generate React apps, then I'm available full time.
Star: Synthesis of Tailored Architectures
This is great to think about. Glad I ran across this comment.
I guess this is why a sucessful genius can tape a banana to a wall while a run of the mill worker can only restore Notre Dame to its original state.
Oh interesting.

In sweden it's really hard to find a pub that has coca cola, they almost exclusively have pepsi.

Also in the supermarket pepsi is cheaper.
David Mayer is because he's a Rothschild discussed in 2023 on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38184195

You can see in the HN link to his bio on the AI britishheritage.org it's ***I'm unable to produce a response***

In 2023 it was getting stuck on the whole name "David Mayer de Rothschild"

There's a deep state joke here somewhere but it does seem the conspiracy clans have made the Rothschild's censor AI.

And OpenAI have now further obscured it to "David Mayer" to hide the Rothschild's involvement.

With Disney destroying the worlds media thank goodness we have real life.
The Slow Erosion of Google's Deserved Trust
> usages that people regularly used incorrectly or were regularly incorrectly interpreted should be avoided

Lordy, YES. A successful business must have good communication. Not people saying "actually, I was right, but ...".
The issue is language ambiguity, not always just math proficiency.

A "price hike" is not necessary an "increase", i.e. a sum of the old price and a change, which is X + X * (P/100). It very well might also mean "a price hike to Y", i.e. "the new price is now P percent of the old" which is a multiple (X * (P/100)).

But yeah, it's usually very confusing for all the parties involved, especially when the change is negative.
Maybe that's an option but the docs lead with stuff about connecting to OpenAI.

Dumping some stuff into Ollama is close to trivial. It's also rather slow, except on quite expensive hardware.
Is ganeti still alive? I remember it being a thing a decade+ ago, but haven't seen it mentioned much since.
Is a 200% increase 3x? When it says "200% more" then it's 2x the value on top of the original value, or when it says "levels are now at 200%" then the value doubled. But with "increase" as word, or with random other wordings as in the headline, I'm not actually sure how to take it. I intuitively took it as 10x the original value (not 11x) but I'm now thinking that's probably wrong
Out of curiosity, which API are you using, not available in Android 9 / API_LEVEL_28?
Never: a new fool is born every minute.
It was easy making it say David Mayer
https://chatgpt.com/share/674f05a8-e294-800b-866a-dd48cf994f...
Assume someone grabbed the API keys. Change them as soon as possible.
In other words, just like when I run an SQL query myself or ask a team member to do it.

The correct usage here is of course not to just run a natural language query and blindly trust the results. Sanity checking both the query and results is essential.

I still find LLMs incredibly useful in exposing new SQL functionality to me or refactoring larger existing queries to a very different approach (as SQL is unfortunately does not allow defining query components in a modular way that would let me avoid that).
The article talks about 10 times the price. If that’s true the equivalent percent would be 1100%. So 1000% is a lower, rounded estimate; presumably 10X is also an estimate.
Very excited about this and it’s future!
One of the few times I agree with the ArsTech Comments section.

If you have to write a article about how a thing is not a fad, its almost definitely a fad.
I interviewed here years ago and the founder was very nice and it was a nice interview. Pay was low, as it often is with EU based jobs.
Perfect opportunity to start transitioning from 20,000 VMs to the actual amount needed for most reasonable use cases - 0.
> You have tried to access a web page that is in violation of your Internet usage policy.

> Category Pornography
> URL https://playsnatched.com/

How much I hate FortiGuard.