skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maintenance of one's muscular-skeletal system is a Goldilocks problem. Too little exercise leads to atrophy, but too much also leads to degeneration. Eg the productive lifetime of slaves in the labor-intensive Caribbean sugar plantation system was only about 10 years. Breakdown of joints, ligaments and tendons was a common problem related to overwork (and is commonly seen in athletic training today).

Similarly, my understanding of the history of yoga in India is that it was introduced because of the sedentary lifestyle of the Brahmin caste, and much like with office workers today in the USA, it served to keep them in decent physical shape.
Why is the US so hostile against Europe lately?
Ah, forgive me. I was going off memory and thought you meant during the heat testing portion which only used water for the test.

It seems you take issue with calling it non-stick when oil is involved? To that end, sure, Teflon-like pans beat everything. But I don’t know many people cooking without oil even in Teflon-like pans.

When people say that properly heating a stainless steel pan will allow non-stick cooking there is certainly an implied asterisk involved re: oil. That’s because it is in direct contrast to a cold stainless steel pan which will cause foods to stick even with oil.
You have to have everyone go into the splintered metaverses to avoid physical expansion. Everyone. Every biological body. Every AI. Every AI written for the specific purpose of having a long enough time horizon to settle new locations physically. Even the AIs written specifically to marshal together the physical resources to build more metaverse computing power. Even the AIs and fiesty biological bodies who one way or another end up with a 100% bias towards physical reality. Even the many, many beings who will quite accurately observe that no matter how short-term appealing this is a long-term loss. Even the beings who specifically want to be the ones in charge of the physical machinery and see an advantage to continuing to expand it. Every. Last. Being.

I don't think this degree of uniformity is plausible.

I reject this as an explanation for the Fermi paradox for similar reasons, except they're even more relevant across all of the putatively common alien civilizations. I don't even find it plausible that all of human civilization would do this, let alone all of every civilization ever.
However much credit Ada deserves for her programming techniques, to me the thing that always stood out is her ability to see the big picture wrt computation:

> Again, it [Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine. Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

Imagine coming up with this idea in 1842, a whole century before the first actual programmable computers would be built, based solely on a description of a prototype of a mechanical computer. This is hacking extraordinaire.
Except I suspect that Carmack would not be where he is today without a burning intellectual draw to programming in particular.
To let you into the pizzeria, they assured you they didn't mind which topping you like with the Gourmet Pizza License v2. Now they tell you you have to like a specific topping and shouldn't be allowed to eat the pizza of you don't like it.
Note https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429693
A 1-form is a section[1] of the cotangent bundle[2] of a manifold. In other words, a rank 1 covariant tensor field.

At any given point p on an n-dimensional manifold, a 1-form defines an n-dimensional cotangent vector (in the language of bundles[3], a point in the fiber over p).

So how do we define fractions of sections or vectors?

In the article, Baez defines fractions of 2-forms on the plane as the pointwise ratio of coefficients of a basis vector, which he can do because, as he points out, the space of 2-forms at a point on a 2-dimensional manifold is a 1-dimensional vector space (more generally, for k-forms on an n-dimensional manifold, this dimension is n choose k, so only 1 for 0-forms [functions] and n-forms).

[1] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BundleSection.html

[2] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CotangentBundle.html

[3] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FiberBundle.html
> "a BBC Micro for today"

It saddens me a bit it doesn't come with a black top, red function keys and a beige bottom.
Yeah, maybe just remove those from your library (archive them somewhere)?
This software is excellent for keeping a fast local searchable catalog of the filenames from all your drives, even after they are unplugged or powered off.

I found vvv after looking for something that can replace Sisoft Sandra.
Replace it one cell at a time. Ship of Theseus awaits to set sail.
Study: Young children less likely than adults to see discrimination as harmful
- "bitter (if it's fresh)"

It has a very unique bite because of this *proteolytic* enzyme it contains (when fresh),

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromelain

It's literally trying, and mostly failing, to digest your tongue.

One other very unique one is the Sichuan pepper, which is not a "spicy pepper" in the conventional, capsaicin sense, rather an idiosyncratic chemical that's... Wikipedia calls it "tingling, numbing":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_pepper
A lot more, the Online Safety Act is just a symptom of the structural problems (Lack of de-facto governance, A hopelessly out of touch political class, Voting systems that intentionally don't represent the voting results, etc).

Argentina has had nearly 100 years of decline, Japan is onto its third lost decade. The only other party in the UK that has a chance of being elected (because of the voting system) is lead by someone who thinks sandwiches are not real [1]. It's entirely possible the UK doesn't become a serious country in our lifetimes.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-tory-leader-sandwiches-no...
Physical health is directly correlated to mental health, if anything we'd all be jacked to the teets
Show HN: I made LLM alerts for Upwork
I honestly hate freelancing because it often feels unclear and stressful when starting new jobs, especially when employers aren’t sure what they want.

For the past few years, I’ve focused on specific projects like mobile chat apps using Flutter. With my existing codebase and experience, these jobs are easier and less stressful. I usually sell my codebase and move on.

However, finding these types of jobs is challenging. I tried many Upwork alert apps, but they either don’t work well or have over 95% false positives.

That’s why I created UpHunt. With UpHunt, you can create multiple profiles, and AI will match your profiles with Upwork jobs. You’ll receive instant notifications and can be the first to apply.

It's still a completely free project. I just need to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2024 edition)
I got some nice tips from some previous threads but did not find any for 2023 and 2024. So decided to raise it myself.

2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849208

2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069106
Is chat really the best interface for a stock market analysis tool?
To Whom Does the World Belong? The Battle over Copyright in the Age of ChatGPT
Show HN: AWS Data Landing Zone CDK Construct
The Data Landing Zone (DLZ) is a CDK Construct designed to create a landing zone tailored for supporting and enabling AI, data-driven, data mesh, and cloud projects.
If you only care about static data that you can optionally freeze to a permanent read-only mode, NTAG21[3|5|6] tags are probably among the cheapest ones that reliably work with all iOS and most Android devices.

MIFARE Classic supports (completely broken and for this use case) useless encryption and doesn't work with some Android devices, as they're not really a part of the standardized NFC stack.

If you want to get really fancy, you can also get a Java Card based smartcard and install an NDEF application yourself. You could then also install a FIDO application and use the same card as a "homebrew Yubikey" :)
Whisk
ELF

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency
As I said I haven't frequented the forum for years, so maybe things have changed but I highly doubt this is a knee jerk reaction.
I actually would disagree that Bond Graphs are the "underlying mechanism" in Modelica. The Modelica community and the Bond Graph community are a bit at odds in fact. My side of this story can be found at [1] and [2]. I disagree with the idea that Bond Graphs will give you an intuitive understanding of just about every system. What it will give you is an appreciation for the elegance of the Bond Graph formulation. But the analogies drawn there are, in my experience of 30 years of modeling in industry, extremely superficial. The analogies all break down once you get past passive, linear elements (e.g., why isn't there momentum in thermal systems, what if I have an compressible fluid, what is the analogy of a clutch in an electrical system, etc). Bond Graphs also aren't really acausal either, they are just a different causal formulation that is closer to the physics.

I'm sure Bond Graph fans will disagree. I am just sharing my personal, subjective opinion here.

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:72725163...
[2]: https://mbe.modelica.university/components/connectors/simple...
I try to go to the lowest level I could. During my recent research into PowerPC 32-bit assembly language I have found 1) Not many material online, and what available are usually PDF with pictures which could be difficult for LLMs to pick up, and 2) Indeed ChatGPT didn't give good answer even for a Hello, World example.

I think hardware manufacturers, including ones that produce chips, are way less encouraged to put things online and thus has a wide moat. "Classic" ones such as 6502 or 8086 definitely have way more material. "Modern" popular ones such as x86/64 too have a lot of material online. But "obscure" ones don't.

On software side, I believe LLMs or other AI can easily replace juniors who only knows how to "fill-in" the code designed by someone else, in a popular language (Python, Java, Javascript, etc.), in under 10 years. In fact it has greatly supported my data engineering work in Python and Scala -- does it always produce the most efficient solution? No. Does it greatly reduces the time I need to get to a solution? Yes, definitely!
Are you doing it? What business are you running? How do you find customers?
everyone knows our future is predicted by Wall-E
>A lot of white western adult men fantasize about being female Asian children.

wtf
Cool way to obtain ideas from people free, for the developer ofcourse ;) convolutive
One was free
I don't worry about it, because:

1) I believe we need true AGI to replace developers.

2) I don't believe LLMs are currently AGI or that if we just feed them more compute during training that they'll magically become AGI.

3) Even if we did invent AGI soon and replace developers, I wouldn't even really care, because the invention of AGI would be such an insanely impactful, world changing, event that who knows what the world would even look like afterwards. It would be massively changed. Having a development job is the absolute least of my worries in that scenario, it pales in comparison to the transformation the entire world would go through.
Sounds like an interesting book, added it to my reading list.
- The app was accepted to the app store without issues

- I'm allowed to upload the app under another id and name, but changing both with be a pain, especially the name

- Also, if they flag another app, the whole account gets banned

- It seems like there are lots of complains about this new policy: https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1ck1wyp/did_goo...

- Big tech really needs an ombudsman
What would happen to the human body moving at near lightspeed?
checkrestart does everything you need. And browsers like firefox display a helpful "restart me" button.
Sorry Sherlock, I meant charge back as in "refunds" not credit card disputes. Also, merry Christmas.
I would include dropping tethers to many places as part of a viable plan?

Though, to your point. Not trying to be an expert or to second guess any expertise out there. I was really only meaning to question the "first principals" idea of reducing it to something that still requires radio waves to penetrate deep into the water. There is no need to keep the idea that it has to remain in radio contact with something far away. You would want it to be able to establish contact, and there will be prioritized methods to do that based on plenty of other variables. Not trivial, mind. But there is already nothing trivial about going underwater.
I'm sure Big Tech helped to write the bill.
OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Search Features to All Users
What about a dumb phone ensure that call quality is terrible? Could you not have found a better dumbphone if you really wanted to stay with it?
I don't think any games require AVX512 but the current x64 release emulator doesn't support AVX or AVX2 either which is needed by some games. The preview release of Windows for ARM does add support for AVX/AVX2.
Apparently the last time it was just an html change, not stored in a database, but could potentially be stored in logs.
The most important factor in that the Patrician (Havelock Vetinari, as a joke on the Medicis) ensures that almost everyone agrees that his continued rule is marginally better than upsetting the status-quo... And in some cases allows opposition to succeed just enough to make people regret it.

Part of this rests on the ancient Guild of Assassins, which requires a certain amount of style and also has a very very dim view on anyone threatening their monopoly on killing-for-profit. Their price for going after Vetinari is high enough to discourage most bidders, and Vetinari is a skilled (mostly non-practicing) alumnus that can largely protect himself from them.

______

> “I see you're very comfortable here,” said Vimes weakly.

> “Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself,” said the Patrician, laying out the food on the cloth. “The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.”

> “We all thought you had built secret tunnels and suchlike,” said Vimes.

> “Can't imagine why,” said the Patrician. “One would have to keep on running. So inefficient. Whereas here I am at the hub of things. I hope you understand that, Vimes. Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn't in the job.”

[...]

> "You see,” he said, “it’s always the case, is it not, that should a city be overtaken by violent civil unrest the current ruler is thrown into the dungeons? To a certain type of mind that is so much more satisfying than mere execution."

> “Well, okay, but I don’t see—” Vimes began.

> “And you look at this door and what you see is a really strong cell door, yes?”

> “Of course. You’ve only got to look at the bolts and—”

> “You know, I’m really rather pleased,” said Lord Vetinari quietly.

> Vimes stared at the door until his eyebrows ached. And then, just as random patterns in cloud suddenly, without changing in any way, become a horse’s head or a sailing ship, he saw what he’d been looking at all along. A sense of terrifying admiration overcame him.

> He wondered what it was like in the Patrician’s mind. All cold and shiny, he thought, all blued steel and icicles and little wheels clicking along like a huge clock. The kind of mind that would carefully consider its own downfall and turn it to advantage. It was a perfectly normal dungeon door, but it all depended on your sense of perspective.

> In this dungeon the Patrician could hold off the world. All that was on the outside was the lock. All the bolts and bars were on the inside.

-- Guards! Guards!
Ask HN: Seeking recs for React drawing components to contrib to ComfyUI
I contribute to ComfyUI, a GPLv3 generative AI diffusion UI and backend, and I'm trying to author functionality similar to Ideogram's Canvas for open weights and freely licensed models like Flux Schnell.

I'm looking for a React-based component for light art and image manipulation. The more robust the better. Bonuses are:

- Brushes, strokes and basic image transforms

- Layered

- Undo/redo

- History-preserving document model

Stuff with opinionated UX or backend integration is fine! I think the hardest part of this is all the frontend details, so the more mature the component is from the frontend point of view, the better.
Europe signs off on €10.6B IRIS² satellite broadband deal
I appreciate they posted the skateboarding video. Wildly unrealistic whenever he performs a trick - just morphing body parts.

Some of the videos look incredibly believable though.
> The idea is so obvious that somebody must have attempted this already

You'd think that, wouldn't you?

The closest thing I know to a universal Wayland server that's WM and desktop independent is Mir.

I blame the disappearance of the one concerted competitive rival effort to the primarily Red Hat-backed complex of Wayland+GNOME+Flatpak to a single HN thread.

In my experience, HN commenters are often surprised when I say that I find this place to frequently be toxic, negative, with a strong element of groupthink. It's all on display in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821

It is also why Jamie Zawinski blocks incoming URL requests from here, and redirects to a famous image.

https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png
Yes, I see all the praises about Z2M, but don’t see any details how it’s better. ZHA works just fine for me?
Off the top of my head Oregon Senator Ron Wyden. I’m sure there are others. Millennials are in office now.
This reminds me of my favorite Allrecipes exchange of all time: Tailergate Boilermaker Chili^1:

>This boilermaker chili is the one the gang eats at Purdue Boilermaker football games. I always prep and cook the chili the night before and then reheat it the next day. This is a combination of many different tomato-based chili recipes.

In 2007, a guy from Texas makes it, then complains it's not Texas chile:

>Very disappointed. I hope he didn't make this down here in El Paso last year when Purdue played in the sunbowl and try to pass it off as authentic. Most of the ingredients are from a can and taste like it. If you want it truly hot, better add more "hot sauce" as he puts it. Not trying to be critical, but this isn't authentic chile. Pass on this and try another chile recipe that has the word "Texas" in it.

Two years later in 2009, another guy reviews it, complaining about the Texan:

>Don't listen to the condescending reviewer from Texas. This is a great chili. All Texans think they're stringy meat and watery sauce chili is the best and they have to make fun of other chilis...

Fifteen years later (and even after the Texas guy's review has been removed), people are still upset at him:

>Listen, I am from Texas, and I have won a ton of competitions with this spice mix. Whoever the tool from Texas was that gave this a 1 star couldn't tell his chili pot from his own rear end, just sayin. In Texas, they don't allow beans or veggies, so I cook them all down and blend them, then add the meat at the end so as not to over cook the meat. I also use a blend of smoked pulled pork, brisket and ground venison for the meat. It's a winner, I use my crawfish pot to cook enough to stock the freezer, and I add a lot more chilis for heat, however, the original spice mix was so interesting that I could not resist making a pot and experimenting. It has made all the difference.

Truly, the Internet forgets nothing.

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1 - https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/78299/boilermaker-tailgate...
Modelica by Example is a textbook on Modelica, not a searchable index of models. It doesn't even cover the Modelica Standard Library in any details much less the many other Modelica libraries out there. To determine if something has been done in Modelica your best bet is to Google about it. All the proceedings from all Modelica conferences are available free online and open to be crawled by any search engine. That's where you'll find what has really been done.
>No it's not. It's a very niche operating system.

It's the most popular operating system except for on phones and it has been for decades.

>Why should anyone care about what you consider? Are you an expert in this field? So far you've shown complete lack of expertise...

I have over 20 years of experience writing C++ and I know it is used widely. Your characterization of it as niche in embedded or OS is completely wrong. I'm not going to say where I work but you've heard of it.

> The Visual C++ programmers usually don't have a good grasp of what good system programming tools / practices would be. Just the very mention of C++ in one's resume would often be enough for that person not being invited to an interview.

The fact you keep referring to "Visual C++" and make sweeping generalizations about C++, especially in a systems context, tells me you are severely lacking in expertise.

> Pretty sure FreeBSD is the most popular operating system in the world, if you choose that the only computers that matter are those that run FreeNAS.

This is such a mischaracterization that you should know better. Windows is on literally billions of computers and embedded things. FreeBSD is not even on most NAS devices.

>And so are Python, JavaScript, Rust, Ada, PostScript, Awk, Forth and many, many other languages. What's your point?

If you think any of those is as easy to integrate with a C operating system as C++, you're dangerously uneducated and have no place lecturing anybody about anything programming-related, especially systems programming. I don't enjoy being so blunt but you're wasting my time and yours and spreading silly anti-C++ propaganda.
It should be a truism that down voting correlates with progressive views. Why? Because anti free speech is an integral component of critical theory. That's also why "tolerance" is a virtue that has completely fallen off our cultural radar. (If this post hasn't become grayed-out, give it a few minutes.)
My first thought is the study must be capturing what they call “newbie gains” or “diminishing returns”. The sedentary experimental group can gain muscle so fast because they are just starting out on their journey.

Also, it kind of reminds me of the idea that athletes take these as performance enhancing drugs because it helps them in the same way that following a strength-training program would help them.
The nice part about mqtt is other things can subscribe to the same stream. I've also seen people do some really interesting things with hosting a copy of HA in the cloud -- this is what they connect to while outside their network -- and using mqtt to push updates to a local HA.
Try Konnected for garage doors. https://konnected.io/collections/shop-now?filter.p.tag=Smart...

Have 2 of them and work great.
> what can XFCE give me

A working vertical taskbar.

Which, sadly, LXDE did just fine.
I gave up waiting :(. The first time in 20 years I've not used Linux on a laptop at home. The recent MacBook air deals were too inviting, and I hate to say, solved every complaint I had with my last intel machine.
Are you claiming that setting up a CIC removes individual liability for wrongdoing? So, I set up a CIC for running forums, with $0 of assets and negligible running costs, then in the event of a fine I'm scot free?
It's a balancing act. You may or may not agree that Oracle products are a good value but they generally have some good engineering behind them. Oracle also puts a ton of money into sales and marketing.
i think that when i see a captcha i usually leave and try another site.