skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?
Hey HN! A few weeks ago, meet.hn was released: (Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41539125)

We are now about 1700 hackers willing to meet each other in almost 700 locations worldwide.

Since then, some requested features and bug fixes have been implemented:

- locations are now searchable and not restricted to a simplistic city-country pair

- locations work with diacritics and diverse languages

- new socials: personal website, email, Mastodon, Discord, GitLab, Google Scholar, YouTube, etc.

- upon user request, I can now showcase your local meetups on your location listing, as it's done for Old Toronto: [1]

About actual meetings, I'm aware of around a dozen so far, but I think many more occurred.

Why am I writing this post?

About 80% of the ~1700 signups happened in the first 36 hours after launch.
As expected, signups dropped pretty quickly, and now it gains about one new user every other day.

I think a ton of global value (and local joy) can emerge from HN users meeting each other.
That's why I'm writing this post. To answer the question: how can we meet more? and how can meet.hn help?

What I thought about:

1. Implementing RSS for each location: helpful for RSS users only, and not that useful if there are no new registrations.

2. Email notification system: wide audience, but requires users to give their emails.

3. Turning meet.hn into some sort of an atproto [3] project, or at least leveraging it somehow. Might be more Bluesky centric (if we use labels, for example), but maybe not?

4. A bookmarklet which, once clicked when on a HN post, would insert a meet.hn logo next to all user names of users commenting there and registered on meet.hn

5. An HN "proxy website" which would copy HN in every way, but would add the meet.hn logo just like the bookmarklet described point 4 would do, but everywhere and automatically.

6. Create Telegram (or equivalent) channels for each location

But all of these ideas are unideal fixes. The lowest common denominator between everyone on HN... is HN.
Hence, meeting right from HN would be best. An MVP for this could be to have a "willing to meet" attribute with a boolean value (like the "showdead" or "noprocrast" attributes).
When enabled, an icon would be shown next to the user name in threads.

I talked to dang, and even if the idea of implementing something on HN is not out of the question, it is not on the roadmap yet.

Let's discuss all of this in the comments. Looking forward to hearing what you think.

[1] https://meet.hn/city/43.6534817,-79.3839347/Old-Toronto

[2] https://meet.hn/city/43.6044622,1.4442469/Toulouse

[3] https://atproto.com/
I stand corrected then, I didn't realize exceptions are this cheap. That's good to know.
> bloated abstraction that's just in the way

I agree with this, but would argue it's not even useful for exploratory work. Most of it's function can be generated in a single prompt for your use case.
What is the density of a normal set of polynomials?

More importantly, how does Szemeredi theorem fit in here?
I don't take issue with the critique per se, but the shallow and dramatic complaints about the website. In no way was the website "unusable" or "trash." If you wanted a photo of the brewer unit you could click through to the shop page.

No curiosity or questions or clarification about how it makes better coffee, spare parts availability, food safety, where and how it's assembled, thoughts about the aesthetics of the unit. Lots of "the site sucks, I bounced."

Edit: happily, there's more and better critique on the thread now than when I posted the GP comment.
I don't really understand this. Not saying $1M is nothing, but it does sound like it, even when it comes to Trump, who is so poor that he would be kicked out of the country club, if he didn't own his own one. Not even mentioning the mega-billionaires who are "donating". Drop in the ocean - on both the receiver's and sender's end.

Is it something symbolic, like "paying respects to the Don"?
I first learned about this from Richard Dawkins, but apparently there's a push to consider Maori mythology as science: https://richarddawkins.net/2021/12/myths-do-not-belong-in-sc...
funny thing, economy is a social science.
GitHub – corkami/pics: File formats dissections and more (Ange Albertini)
This might be one of the coolest maker projects I've seen. Congratulations!
Looks fun, and certainly worth a star. =3
The Spanish city where water defies gravity (2022)
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The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla (TSLA.O)
, opens new tab, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.

Musk, the world's richest person, spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars helping Trump get elected president in November. Removing the crash-disclosure provision would particularly benefit Tesla, which has reported most of the crashes – more than 1,500 – to federal safety regulators under the program. Tesla has been targeted in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigations, including three stemming from the data.

The recommendation to kill the crash-reporting rule came from a transition team tasked with producing a 100-day strategy for automotive policy. The group called the measure a mandate for "excessive" data collection, the document seen by Reuters shows.
/QUOTE

The best politicians that $$$$$ can buy...
Obesity is down in the US in a decade
The contrast between true black and white or even light gray font is just too harsh on most readers' eyes.
Really? I don't share either sentiment. I found multithreading in C++ to be pretty mundane, and in fact a lot easier than it probably once was with lambdas. You definitely need to be on top of the multithreading primitives such as atomics, mutex, condition variables, shared_ptr, etc. But otherwise it's pretty straightforward.
> I might try a different theme than Among Us

This might've been thrown out for being too obvious, but did you consider Ghostbusters? Swap the magic wand for a proton pack wand and it seems to fit almost too well.
It’s already implied by the presence of secure_random and it isn’t insecure when it’s being used for the appropriate use case.
Well I do I know that pounds are same order of magnitude as kg, miles same order of magnitude as km, and so on.

That is really enough for most reading. As another commenter said, you can read novels from the 70s involving dollars just fine without doing inflation adjustment to present value.
They’re downvoted because there’s no evidence of corruption. Their assumption is based on false information.

> There are invoices like $500 a piece for a fastener.

Please provide an example of this fantastic claim including the accounting methodology.

The example that comes to my mind is the $10,000.00 toilet seat. That turns out to have been three toilet seats for the C-5 that had to be custom made because they were no longer available. They are now 3-D printed for $300.00. These numbers don’t explain what was involved in making the $10,000.00 one, how it was installed, or how long it lasts.

https://www.military.com/defensetech/2018/07/11/air-force-no...
At the very least all the homes in one village probably looked very similar, since in those times the exact aesthetic would be subject to the availability of local materials.
The statement wasn't that it's true in general - only that there existing constants C and X>0 for which it is true for all x>X.
Hey there!

Yep, you bring the hot water, the machine does everything else! There is a pressure seal directly in the group head that holds the water in at the end of a shot. You can preheat just by pumping water into a cup for a couple seconds, which is around the same as a purge cycle on a traditional espresso machine. The fluid path is kept as small and as insulated as possible to avoid thermal losses or unnecessary water being held in the machine.

I added a pre-release version of the manual to the warranty page! Please excuse any minor errors.

https://velofuso.com/warranty

I definitely agree that there needs to be a simple clean 30 second video of the full workflow with every part visible - I will work on that ASAP.
Why not? Technically it's possible, and while consumer drones often have altitude (above ground) limits, I wouldn't be surprised if these can be modded out.

So I think that's the most likely explanation – surely the US military would not have their drones fly around in an active final approach path of a major civilian airport...? And if it was a foreign military, I really hope that the US wouldn't be as casual about it.
Part of me wants to say, "Well, that's Silicon Valley for you," but I'm confident there are many other places you could say something similar about.

Compared to what my neighbors are working on and with self-driving cars roaming around, infrared shooting games seem pretty mild :)
Same thing in Kenya. A 150km radius around Nairobi is maxed out. I have a fishy kit that can’t join due to capacity issues. In fact, the advent of Starlink - which had acquired 0.5% of the entire market - has rattled the existing players so much that, 1. They’ve doubled available bandwidth for residential plans without increasing cost. Safaricom went way overboard and 5x-ed plans. So if you were on 40mbit for $40 USD, you’d get 200mbit for the same cost. 2. They are all writing letters to the fcc equivalent crying about GSM spectrum interference (duh…) and predatory pricing [1]. I’m all for more competition! I’m only considering moving to Starlink due to frequent fibre cuts.

1. https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/corporate/technology/...
To allow access by devices (embedded, vintage) where SSL cannot run.
For my window management on mac os I wrote some javascript and use https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

I will concede that macos default out of the box also has some UI/UX issues for people who are or want to be 'hands on keyboard 100% of the time' but there are a few tools out there that I've found for myself that solve many of the problems. Phoenix being one, but also recently homerow https://www.homerow.app/, when I was back on windows in the bad old days of the early 2000s I ran a lot of software to facilitate my workflows by tweaking the system ui/ux.

But windows in my house is an overly expensive gaming console with occasional web browsing. MacOs is a very 'cozy' as you put it unix. Much of my job is also terminal based so having a standard shell is great (even though I'm still occasionally bitten by the 'i copied this stuff that worked in my terminal onto a linux machine and I forgot my grep/awk/whatever is BSD and not GNU.. fak').

I was excited back when MS announced the Linux Subsystem.. but man fuck ... so hacky. Also why the fuck is no one at MS replacing the standard terminal with something that actually functions properly? I mean sure I upgrade to iterm2 on macos, but using the built in termial is like 90% of the way there. The windows commandline shell (and not like the antique DOS stuff, and I can see that powershell is better, but not better enough that i'm going to bother with it.. like the actual terminal software is my biggest gripe) is simply garbage, no proper support even for the global clipboard as I recall.. different hotkeys than the rest of the system.
Mr. Rogers is a great comparison. Something about the sweaters and always wishing viewers a good day!
Agreed. There is no secret sauce. Some people are good at painting a nice picture of their life for others but sometimes they struggle the most.

If you are trying to do more and do it better I think most people would be shocked how much consistent exercise, good diet, and meditation can be. But if you start doing those things you might also find that your priorities change from being the best engineer to making yourself happy in other ways.
I wonder why politics is always the last thing being cut...
Surveillance Became a Love Language
And more specifically they are comparing human one who has two copies of chapter x to human 2 who has a new chapter y and the chimpanzee who also has a chapter y, and saying aha look how different males are.
Last time I saw my physio, I asked about the exercise ball sitting thing because it had come up in a recent conversation. She smirked, got a ball from the other room and then proceeded to sit down on it with the biggest hunch I've ever seen. You can have bad posture sitting on anything, for most people having the option to support their back is better, because then you're not screwed once your back inevitably does get tired.
No, they don't mean that that the application would need to be observing entropy on its own.

They're acknowledging that cryptographically useful entropy is a limited resource for the system as a whole, and naive exhaustion can either causes starvation, unbounded blocking, or degradation depending on the implementation.

Having a casual array shuffle seize up because there's not enough secure entropy available might just be an absurd nuisance in many cases. But having an session key or uuid generator seize up because somebody burnt all the entropy on casual array shuffles can be a real problem for users. (And much worse so if the implementation just silently degrades in quality instead of blocking or failing, as some have done.)
> The Marsden Fund was set up explicitly to support pure, “blue-sky” research, and its current modest budget could only support about 10% of the applications submitted. New Zealand’s science sector already has several other and much larger funding sources for applied research, including the NZ$359 million Strategic Science Investment Fund and NZ$247 million Endeavour Fund. But the Marsden Fund supports nearly all the country’s research in social science.

Tough situation. Their response doesn't sound crazy to me. You have to cut something if you don't have enough money, and if I had to choose what to prioritize, I guess it would be core science research too.

But, how did they let the budget shortfall get so large? Did this catch them by surprise or something? I'd expect this to have been a slow ramping down of new grants and renewals over years rather than a one time catastrophe.

My post-graduate degree and currently only publication is in a social science area. I'm sympathetic to that kind of research in some ways, but pretty cynical about it in other ways. Shrinking the pool of social science researchers down to a much smaller and more competitive group does not even sound like a bad idea in feast times, let alone in famine.
For example, a direct translation from Spanish to English would result in that:

* "Cómo funciona" -> "How it works", as in "tell me how it works".

* "¿Cómo funciona?" -> "How does it work?".

The auxiliary "do/does" really looks like an extra unnecessary word, but omitting it sounds wrong to a native speaker or anyone already more used to English.

Part of the confusion could be because sentences like "but she does write" and "but she writes" mean basically the same thing (they imply different emphasis, but you know what I mean). So if someone incorrectly does pattern-matching based on those examples, I can see them thinking that "how does it work?" and "how it works?" mean the same thing.

After all, the "-s" suffix kinda looks like an abbreviation of "does", the same way the "-'re" suffix is an abbreviation of "are" ("writes" vs "does write", "they're" vs "they are").
USA Anti-trust is on life support and there is generally very little political willpower to disentrench incumbent capital interests.

Wealthy lobbyists for providers and health insurance companies prevent any change basically.

Also misguided American exceptionalism whereas people think the healthcare standards will go down significantly if there is a public option (as if they weren't already down for the things people can actually afford).
OP's machine features are:

- Group preheat (so it has some kind of heater)
- "Fully adjustable power" - ???

It does seem that the water tube either goes to a kettle and the pump is in the machine, or it goes to a pump, that you then need to attach to a machine, and that clear line is pressurized.

It does potentially have one feature the met doesn't (hinted at by allowing for filter brews): it'll be able to use up the entire water source, not a small amount of water you pour into the machine (similar to the Decent).

Edit: based on the manual just added, it seems like the pump is in the machine.
Do you think they just did 12 interviews and then called it a day?
The DnD -> Linux -> Occultist pipeline. The moral panic in the 1980s was actually right.
The blue one is pretty significantly less noisy, and the animation showing the two 3D reconstructions is much clearer. The noise reduction probably has a lot to do with that.
Sure but those hypotheticals are just poorly thought out ways to visualize the imbalance. Another way to do it would be saying "Jeff Bezos has 300 billion dollars, that is 300 thousand millions. There are 300 million people in America, so $1000 has been taken out of every American's share of the national wealth and reserved exclusively for Jeff Bezos". Repeat that for every billionaire in the US and you should be able to demonstrate quite the imbalance.

Of course that assumes you think Earth's and society's (or at least the US's and Americans') resources should exist for all humans (or Americans) and the ideal balance would be based on as little as one needs and as much as one can contribute, i.e. literally how early human communities operated and how human communities still often operate outside economical contexts (e.g. after a natural disaster). You can say that model doesn't scale but I don't see a good argument for why that should be a reason to use a completely different model unless you're literally among the few people it disproportionately benefits (if you ignore how ruinous it usually is to them too at a human and interpersonal level because of how much it alienates them from almost anyone else around them).
People's tastes aren't innate and static. They're a function of trends, marketing, and importantly, availability.
Broadly: I don't understand the design space of "cryptographic-ish" hashes. There's an intensely competitive design space of cryptographic hashes. What does it mean to be "more secure" than an insecure hash function? When would it ever be appropriate to use such a hash?
The two out of three have evolved in this area since.
PRNGs are insecure by design, why does this article frame the problem as the implementation being insecure? Applications shouldn’t use PRNGs if they need a true random source to begin with.
If your teenager is using c.ai, you may safely assume that they are using it in exactly the way that no one uses OnlyFans just for the sports coverage: https://blog.onlyfans.com/

Pith aside, if you're not green to AGI repos, c.ai is/was like civitai for LLMs - one of the first and best resources for user-created content, but also a bit of a barely simmering vault of smut and debauchery.

It looks like they've rebranded a bit and now require an account, but that doesn't change that this guy wasn't chatting with the self-care bots. I take it you didn't try a yandere card (one of the more popular ones has over 5 million chats!) or you wouldn't have spent this long fixing on your public landing page.
I would love to see a video of it in action. Nearly all the photos on the site don’t show the whole thing, just lots of close up shots such that I can’t really tell what the whole thing actually looks like or what using it would be like.

I assume it does work, but I have this gut skepticism because it’s so radically different from any espresso machine I’ve seen before.
My idea of economics is based on people who are interviewed with “economist” written under their name when they're introduced on screen. Whether it be online or by mainstream news outlets, an economist that agreed with what the creator wants to convey is always easily found.
This bit about the pope "crowning Charlemagne the Roman emperor" was a sort of propaganda move, since the Roman empire still existed (in Constantinople), and the Franks were not Roman. The actual Romans weren't too happy about it.
Evidence is that which provides a reason/justification to change beliefs.

When it was noticed that people working with cows (and who were therefore often exposed to cow pox) didn’t seem to get chickenpox, this seems to me an example of a collection of anecdotes, and yet it was evidence.
> Are you talking about the platform rules, or merely what the community thinks?

Both.

> (e.g. lwhalen, who is engaging in blatant emotional manipulation and logical fallacies).

Is it not absolutely amazing! And I bet he's otherwise fairly smart (I am speculating though, perhaps I will go through his history to get a better read).

That ~no one finds this sort of thing interesting, is interesting. That ~everyone has a strong aversion to studying this phenomenon deeply is even more interesting, and it makes me wonder where that aversion comes from (mainly cultural evolution and conditioning is my guess).

> But, at least aspirationally

There's talking the talk, and then there is walking it. All ideologues have problems with the latter, and are rarely enthusiastic about discussing it, to put it nicely.

> the HN rules are designed to constrain rhetoric to keep the discourse civil

I'm suspicious, considering how rhetorically weaponized they are. But then, maybe it's just luck or random error.

> while allowing users to set the standards for what's acceptable logic

My very point!! :)

I'd have put "logic" in quotes though.

> although in practice, users like lwhalen and lproven just completely ignore the guidelines

The enforcers of the guidelines also regularly ignore them, though not "just" and "completely", which I suspect is a big part of why no one notices.
If you lived in a place with huge storms all the time, to live joyously would mean to affirm that life. But people are not terrible.
Google's NotebookLM now lets you to talk to its AI podcast hosts
Thank you for the submission, but next time please keep the original title.
Sounds necessary, even on some level of community vigilance.

Simply doxxing the offending parties and their operations for a level playing field seems praiseworthy.

Good luck with that!
Not fruits and vegetables. Lots of processed grain, boiled meat, suet, porridge. Add in an obsession with tea, a diuretic, with poor drinking water and I’m not surprised.

I’d bet today most people in the US are under-hydrated and don’t eat enough fiber.
"Useful entropy as a limited resource" is just an incorrect meme that has somehow brainwormed a significant fraction of engineers. Once that secure RNG is seeded, you're golden. Randomness is not depleted.

Every mainstream OS is trivially capable of seeding the system secure RNG by the time userspace applications need to consume it. There is no availability / depletion problem for userspace.
Most of what we do with computers (maybe with the exception of the current AI and ML stuff) was invented or prototyped in the 1970s or earlier. It's just gotten faster, a bit more polished, and a lot more affordable.
I've got a Bambino Plus and so far the only customizations are a bottomless portafilter, a huge single wall basket (IMS), programming the flow presets for a good ratio by weight in/out, and optimizing the grind specifically for 30s duration. I'll have to look into your OPV suggestion; anything else?