skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks pretty neat I'll take some inspiration from this.

Though you shouldn't upload the text and inputs of the puzzles (maybe .gitignore them) as per [0]:

> Can I copy/redistribute part of Advent of Code? Please don't. Advent of Code is free to use, not free to copy. If you're posting a code repository somewhere, please don't include parts of Advent of Code like the puzzle text or your inputs. If you're making a website, please don't make it look like Advent of Code or name it something similar.

[0]: https://adventofcode.com/2024/about
Interview with Guido Scorza [video]
Big fan of timelines. I am going to use this for sure

Have had an idea for a timeline search/visualization. Search a thing and that pulls pages and related pages with date/times from Wikipedia. With a zoom in/out to adjust resolution like google maps - weight nodes on timeline based on page views/edits/links. Have not gotten around to try to make something like it.
I bring it up here just in case something already exists and I missed it.
> Also really love that Varian Data Machines logo.

I am much more familiar with seeing that logo on diffusion pumps and klystrons. Never knew they made computers.
And I'm pretty sure the Spanish matches (except in reverse, like Spanish usually is relative to English):

11:15 -> once y cuarto

11:30 -> once y media

11:45 -> doce menos cuarto

edit: and about the subject of the thread, "por sí" or "por sí mismo." "per" afaik is a preposition like "por" that means to pair or match things: so it can mean by, through, around, with, for, and even times("×") i.e. doesn't mean anything in English.

"si" is the 3rd person reflexive pronoun (when placed after the verb), and is probably similar to "se." ("mismo" is a redundant clarification is Spanish, probably because "si" and "sí" are homonyms.)
That mechanic is so creative. I love the gave but it's hard to describe what's so great about it to others without also revealing that brilliant mechanic which is really fun to encounter for the first time without expecting it.
Well that's what happens when you exclude every interesting historical person from Paradise.

Eternity in heaven with a bunch of joyless saints and martyrs just sounds like an additional circle of hell.

Reminds me of this post:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qZJBighPrnv9bSqTZ/31-laws-of...

>Beware of packing your Utopia with things you think people should do that aren't actually fun. Again, consider Christian Heaven: singing hymns doesn't sound like loads of endless fun, but you're supposed to enjoy praying, so no one can point this out.
Any day! I love learning and sharing :)

And I didn't make anything that automatically populates files in VR, but I did use a program (XSOverlay) that lets me use 2D desktop windows in VR, and I would open a crap ton of files at once and have them positioned all around me (along with the directory listings they came from).
Michael Levin has been doing research activating certain types of cell growth based on certain field frequencies. I wonder if this ties together.
https://youtu.be/p3lsYlod5OU?si=BY6DRnqUZtc12wFH

I wonder if neurons are actually the hard drive and ephaptic fields are the software or network the software runs on.
I still target Android JellyBean as the minimum version with my apps. I have never increased the minimum version since I created the app. Google makes it difficult, but I refuse to give into their quest to annoy users. I love my 3 JellyBean users as much as the rest of my users and they deserve to not have their software break for no reason.
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> The overall point is that work is being increasingly done _not_ on the CPU.

Eh? GPGPU has been a thing for decades and yet barely made a dent in the demand for CPUs. Heck, CUDA is 17 years old!

The world has not budged from being CPU-centric and it isn't showing any signs of doing so. GPUs remain an accelerator for specialized workloads and are going to continue to be just that.
Playing devil's advocate: why assume Iraq would (attempt to) store VX in the same way? It actually has a thin ring of plausibility around it in the same the way you sometimes hear stories that Kim Jong Il would watch American movies and demand "I want us to build that".
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I realized the original link is missing most of the information, so here ia detailed link:

https://www.twz.com/air/ai-enabled-hx-2-kamikaze-drones-now-...
>A lot of people will only buy Intel. Businesses and IT departments rarely buy AMD

That's because Intel bribed OEMs to use only Intel chips
OSC (Open Sound Control) is just awesome. It's basically a lightweight protocol on top of UDP packets. It's not hard to roll your own implementation if there isn't one for your platform. It's lacking a lot of features you'd need for a scalable system, but when you just need a few systems to send realtime messages to each other, it's tough to beat.

I've used it a lot for the original designed use-case (sending parameter updates between controllers and music synths), but also a bunch of other things (sending tracking information from a python computer vision script to a Unity scene).
So are you saying that when random billionaire #38 puts in $5 million to space ventures, they're willing to also give $5 million to the environment? Although just throwing money at the environmental issues is a lot less effective than powerful people, like probably those billionaires, reforming industrial practices and whatnot. Like eliminating disposable plastic bags. Positive-sum games aren't always accurate either. The issue with always-upward economic and technological thinking is that, if (when?) the bubble bursts, we realize that growth can't come out of nowhere. Even if it's just a matter of psychological motivation and not money, it turns out that people can't just focus on twenty causes effectively.
It will once it's trained on all the posts people made talking about the raspberry problem, and then the illusion of progress will be renewed. :p
Even at applebees that was sort of my response. I genuinely liked 90% of the menu. But I would also lead you along in a conversation to figure out what you would enjoy the most.
For what little it’s worth, the thing that finally made it click for me was a series of comments on HN that were discussing musical scales.

I don’t have any musical training, but I related it back to the practice and warm up sessions we had before we’d play an actual game in the sports I played as a kid.

Perhaps some explanation like that will get it to click with someone.

I also learned of the existence of soft question tags on Math Overflow and Math Stack Exchange that contained an incredible amount of guidance that I think was never possible in lectures. Sharing links to those websites in the syllabus may be helpful for the odd student that actually looks at the syllabus.
It uses the branch name instead of the hash.
It should be noted that absence of proof is evidence for absence. And since in the physical sciences, unlike mathematics, actual proof of absence is impossible, absence of evidence (after thorough searches) is the best we've got to form a belief for absence of the phenomenon.

That is, we believe, very strongly, that it's impossible for two masses to repel each other gravitationally, for example, but we will never have actual proof it's impossible.

None of this to say that it's irrational to believe in a brain microbiome despite this search seeming fruitless, as there are good a priori arguments for expecting one to exist.
I choose the cheapest technically up-to-date one. I really don't care about the camera, the gap between generation is mostly not interesting. Actually the only reason I had to replace the last one is that Apple stopped supporting it with the latest iOS...
From your lips to all software developers’ ears!

Thank You.
the Dorito effect: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/30/9070255/dorito-effect
Don't miss out these latest vulnerabilities from last week
This is a relevant-ish short story by Greg Egan on humans jumping into a black hole: https://www.gregegan.net/PLANCK/Complete/Planck.html
No. Why should I?
> It's pushing toward a stalement, far short of its initial invasion goals and at vastly heavier cost than intended.

The momentum is in Russia's direction, and it feels like Ukraine is teetering in the brink due to manpower and resource issues, and that's even without Trump.

If Russia pays the price, it won. Winning is winning, even if it's Pyrrhic.
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InterroBench
On the SE side of El Camino/Lawrence Expy in the mid '90s in suburban strip mall hell was an Indian restaurant run by a superlative cook who would get very grumpy if you tried to direct her away from her fixed price "meal". So we would gather up 6 or so eaters and just have her serve us. It was always a surprise and insanely good. Couldn't tell you what it cost. Anyway, we were there to eat her food, and she let you know it.

We always brought our toddler and at the beginning the lady says assertively something like "I'll take her" and hauls our daughter around the corner. So after about 20 minutes of no sign of daughter I decide to go take a peek at the situation. Well it turns out she has a daughter of her own, Down's Syndrome, it appears to be, and our daughter and the cook's daughter were having a fine time hanging out at the end of the corridor around the corner. I went back to the table and finished our excellent meal.

We are always interested in these sorts of things and now we find them more commonly off the beaten track in Mexico.
At least they are acknowledging skepticism now. That's a step in the right direction.
Sigh. I guess I'll post again...

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I preferred the 4 and 5 size and shape. Hate the double-tap too...
One of the recent videos that I watched was RealLifeLore : How Africa’s Geography Traps it in Endless Poverty https://youtu.be/Y8m95sCDEf0

A chunk of it is about the nature of the lack of good harbors along the coast that would be able to shelter trading ships from the open ocean.

Zanzibar is the noted example of a port https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar#Before_1498

> From the 9th century, Swahili merchants on Zanzibar operated as brokers for long-distance traders from both the hinterland and Indian Ocean world. Persian, Indian, and Arab traders frequented Zanzibar to acquire East African goods like gold, ivory, and ambergris and then shipped them overseas to Asia. Similarly, caravan traders from the African Great Lakes and Zambezian Region came to the coast to trade for imported goods, especially Indian cloth. Before the Portuguese arrival, the southern towns of Unguja Ukuu and Kizimkazi and the northern town of Tumbatu were the dominant centres of exchange.

Even the large rivers that do empty into the ocean, they have significant portions of rapids that make it impractical to use as a trading route.
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Over 60 years, actually. The coffee industry is regulated the way it is in Kenya because the current government wants it to work that way, not because of "colonialism."
So it doesn't actually spread butter, it's just named Butter Bot for the marketing hype?
That said though, there's currently no practical way to reach ChatGPT's performance locally, but I have hope that will change eventually. Of course, even today you can reach quite good performance locally, and for a lot of people it's more than good enough for their needs.
What a great start, it's only going to get better from here!
> "may" is doing a lot of work there, to the point I find it absurd

Not really something you have to hypothesise about. Cordless tools, water-purification technologies, integrated circuits and all manner of imaging, navigation and battery technologies came out of the Apollo programme.

> more cohesive biases on Hacker News I see (understandably) is that technical solutions trump everything

Irrelevant to proving or disproving mutual exclusivity between "populat[ing] Mars and improv[ing] earth."

(Also, wrong. The Outer Space Treaty and failed Moon Treaty inspired significant portions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Seas, including the assertion that the seabed is the common heritage of mankind.)
> Except it doesn't, as we have seen with another nuclear power in the course of its psychotic attempt to invade Ukraine.

Because the West has been very careful not to push too hard, and has afforded Russia a grinding and expensive advancement on its goals. If NATO forces joined directly, or Ukraine was marching to Moscow with Western aid, I think you'd have a different story (e.g. at least the use of tactical nuclear weapons, which I think would quickly spiral out of control).
I haven't ever actually used git subtree to push changes, but I'm pretty sure that all of those are true for it too, and git subtree doesn't need a `.gitrepo` file so that seems like a point in its favour.

I'm sure there are advantages to git subrepo, but I am still not sure what they are.
Are weapons the defining characteristic of civilizations? Really? What about fashion? Surely we are now in the Polyester Age.
Composiors are generally switching to being gpu accelerated, not to mention apps will do their own gpu accelerated UIs just because the OS ui systems are all junk at the moment
'Loitering munition' is better term.
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Maybe but I think AWS arguably is a different scale of automation. There’s no Amazon human in the loop looking at your source. Sure a human SRE could peak into your system but that’s something of an exception.

I can’t imagine fabs have that level of automation. It’s not like sending a file to your printer. It’s a multi month or year project in some cases to get your design produced. There’s many humans involved surely.
Battery life is not excellent indeed. I have cables and extra battery most of the time when out for a day.
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> Makes you question how productive we are in the computer age...

The difference is that modern society isn’t optimized for productivity, it’s optimized for consumption and attention. 30 years ago you could go days without seeing ads, now companies send notifications to the nuisance devices in your pocket and on your wrist. It’s no wonder we have a harder time focusing and accomplishing things. Even being aware of the problem isn’t enough to fully protect one’s attention and intention.
> However, reducing traffic speeds in cities could be a positive intervention for enhancing access to nature. Technological solutions, such as the widespread adoption of hybrid and electric vehicles, and urban planning strategies like integrating green spaces into transit routes, offer potential opportunities to mitigate the impact of noise pollution and benefit humans in urban environments.

For me, I constantly experience acute stress from ambulance/fire/police sirens which are required by law in most cities. I wonder to what degree that contributes to overall stress compared to background traffic noise. There are also other things like honking, though it depends on the city (looking at you, NYC). I don't consciously mind as much the white-noise-ish sound of background traffic nearly as much as these sounds designed to stress me out and distract me.
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This is copyright infringement and may be nuked by the Walt Disney Company at any moment.
The way I see it, it exists because it's the only one that can be reasonably implemented.
Impressive, bookmarked, upvoted.

Appreciate the demo:
https://deephn.org/?q=apple+silicon
Curious too.
Might want to check out https://www.lakera.ai/ you send every prompt to their API first and they deal with checking it for problematic content etc.

I'm not affiliated but I've enjoyed hacking their game https://gandalf.lakera.ai/ [0]

They also have a sandbox/free API if you want to test it out (they used to at least)

[0] previous hn discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905876