skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 makes sense, somewhat.

2 sounds like a bunch of bullshit. WHICH more restrictive licensing rules? WHERE were the rules made, everywhere? There are no new rules where I live. HOW did these mythical rules impact things? WHAT the fuck is this guy talking about?

3 and 4 are: tastes change. People don't like sock hops anymore the same way they don't like raves anymore.
Your username is RubyMine... is this an official jetbrains account?

Maybe just one suggestion, for the data-id attribute on the hide post button, it might be a bit better to use an action param, since it can be scoped to the controller: https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/reference/actions#action-param...
Dang, IIRC, some of these stories had 30-40 votes and no flagging. They were 30 minutes old or less, yet none of them were making it to the home page.

Is that the ranking algorithm? It felt suspicious that these headlines were getting substantial early HN user attention (double digits) but not showing up on the home page.

I know HN isn't a gossip rag, and that we don't tar and feather people, but the story did feel notable.
I tend to thing that non-modular is a better place to start. Modular is great, I've wasted untold shameful consumerist dollars on Eurorack, but I think it's better to get the core concepts from a well-known fixed-architecture synth (like a Minimoog clone/VST) before moving on to modular. Modular can be very overwhelming when you're new.
>> In Tony’s ordeal, the crooks appear to have initially contacted him via Google Assistant, an AI-based service that can engage in two-way conversations.

This type of scam has been going on since the early 2000's.

Back in the day when I was a fresh faced high school kid working for a mom and pop wireless shop, criminals would use the NAD rely system to call dealers like the one I worked for. They'd offer credit card payment for phones without any service on it ask for it to be mailed to a PO Box. Back then, companies like Verizon subsidized their phones so to buy a phone without any service on ran $500+ and we rarely, if ever sold phones without service on it since that's how me made our money.

As soon as a new model phone would come out, it was like clockwork. We'd start getting relay calls everyday for about a week. Once they figured out we weren't a mark, they'd stop.

Kind of interesting thieves are just utilizing newer technology for the same type of scam.
You do have a point you know. I have actually been thinking about this recently and have decided to try and focus more on extracting value out of abstracts instead of summarising papers, and relying on embeddings of the paper in case the answer needs more context.
Just as an interesting FYI for those who care: the parent poster is the CTO of CloudFlare.
It's worth recalling that in the early days, GUIs always had underlined letters showing what the keyboard shortcuts are. That's been lost now, I suppose because it looked messy or confused people or something. Some tools show you the underlines only once you push the modifier key that can activate them.

Unfortunately, one of the many shortcomings of the web as an application and GUI platform is (a) no menu bars, (b) no context menus, (c) no accelerator key framework, (d) keyboard focus is often nowhere in particular or somewhere stupid that will do something bad if you touch the keys.
Verilog describes the logic. This is extremely simplified, but you can imagine that verilog and other HDLs are "compiled" into a big schematic of logic gates and a big list of signal timing constraints between them. From that schematic and constraint list, a solver then works to do place and route.

Both of these intermediate stages between verilog and the final working hardware are where all of the secret sauce in semiconductor design actually lives. Both of these steps will be affected by the process target. Are you building for an FPGA or CPLD? Which one? If for an ASIC what is the process node? What logic elements are available in your node? Just like when you order a PCB, the process design rules generally come with prescribed information about the manufacturing constraints -- what works and what doesn't. And ultimately you cant rely on hand layout to throw down millions/billions of circuit elements anyway so you have to build solvers and all kinds of other mind bogglingly sophisticated automation to the party.

The diminishing returns of manual optimization here should be evident; if you want to do that work, become a process design engineer.

We do need more open information in this space! Tiny Tapeout is such a great project!
My parents' independent gas station in rural western Ohio (in a town of sub-1000 population, albeit on a state route that sees significant commuter traffic) was targeted for a voice phishing scam over the last week. A caller left voice messages to multiple recipients (we're not sure how many, but it seems like at least double-digits) purporting to be the gas station and asking to settle-up unpaid bills via credit card over the phone. I didn't get to hear any of the callers, unfortunately. The call-back number they left wasn't the gas station's number, nor was the caller ID the gas station's number.

At first I felt like it was probably a small-time local scammer. Then I thought about how close we are to being able to run this entire scam using fully automated means (including voice assistant software and an LLM to talk to the callers, probably with a human in the loop for handing exceptions). I assume we'll see a rash of these kinds of scams targeting local businesses once the tool kits to run them become widely available.

The idea of building up the automation to run that scam sounds like fun. I wouldn't actually do it but somebody with fewer moral scruples absolutely will (or, rather, probably already has).
I think it’s a fair generalization but from my experience and my personal friend group I’d say 1/3 of ravers are on some serious mix of substances, 1/3 are keeping it more casual with some alcohol and cannabis, and the last 1/3 are as sober as can be. It really is a wide spectrum of folks who participate in raves
I find it really hard to believe this and am questioning the data.

I raved back in the early 2000s and I still rave now and the popularity is absolutely booming in a way I've never seen before and in more parts of the world.

15 years ago there was zero electronic music events in Dubai, now there are huge electronic music festivals there and it's clear a ton of people at those events are taking "something" that isn't just booze. Even Saudi has had its first big EDM festivals, albeit I think they were no alcohol allowed.

EDM artists are more popular than ever and more and more of my friends are getting into EDM and going to EDM festivals like Tomorrowland, Mysteryland, ADE, etc.
I have an RSS reader that learns my preferences the way TikTok does. Got an image sorter based on the same principles. (What a blast to be viewing and sorting images on three huge web browser windows in my Meta Quest 3) As for coffee I just pour my own drip coffee at the cafe that is between the bus stop and my office or I go to the gas station near home or the 7-11 in Collegetown and 'order' it off a touch screen like

https://www.franke.com/us/en/coffee-systems/industries/conve...
It's why Scotty was always giving longer estimates that Kirk wanted, but Kirk was also able to require an emergency fix to save the ship.

The estimate was building in the time to get it done without breaking too much other stuff. For emergency things, Scotty would be dealing with that after the emergency.

If your captain is always requiring everything be done as an emergency with no recovery time, you've got bigger problems.
Actually very few things have to be political. Politicising, that is rendering the concept to decision by a "body politic" is a choice that we're making right now, and we could choose to not do that. In fact, we have done that throughout our nation's history, and it's only in the last 20 years that I've seen the rise of "everything is political speech" to the degree that the brand of beans you buy in a store signals something to some group.

To wit there are a lot of totalitarians out there, and just because some group claims to be on your side or looking out for your interests versus some other group it doesn't mean they don't want your mind, body, and soul for their own purposes. We must take it upon ourselves to think for ourselves and to hold our own interests rather than to adopt the interests of the group we're in. Humans can engage in enterprise as a group for their own reasons, and we ought to embrace that instead of seeking to identify so wholly with the group that we lose ourselves.
Home Wifi Mesh System - https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/deco/deco-x55/

Found my WiFi dropping off walking around my house and swapping to using data. Super frustrating but since installing these I've had perfect signal around my house.
Matt is a constant source of inspiration. Congrats on the new project Matt!
i use a single disk, no backups. livin on the edge! :D (got only 1 project i care about, i back it up on gmail as zip archive sent to myself!). yes did lose a bunch of stuff once in my life whem hdd died. hence i email myself my project now ×)
My daughter graduates high school this year and preferred to take dual enrollment instead of AP classes when available largely because of this issue. She did score a 5 on all the AP tests except one, a 4, she took during sophomore and junior year. She has already been accepted to 2 out her top 3 choices and is awaiting early action decision from the other. Neither of those 2 will give credit for the 4. The one she is waiting on will and all her backup schools would have. All of the schools she applied to would accept transfer of credit for the dual enrollment classes she took. She will be undertaking a 5 year degree program so any tuition savings we can get is helpful.
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer [pdf] (2000)
Mozilla continues to add new Rust to Firefox, despite discontinuing the Servo project. A big parallel rewrite is not the only possible approach to writing Rust. "Fixing it" does not have to look like Servo. In fact doing more incremental rewrites will improve the situation shown in that chart much faster than waiting 10 years for parity before doing the replacement.

I'm not responding further until you actually read and understand what I'm saying instead of flailing at a strawman.
Christ I'm not your mother. Search pubmed.

Research suggests a link to cancer. It'd be bad for your microbiome if you die.
Don't know what "rave" is, in normal night clubs not hitting on anyone all night would be considered creepy. And dances are an essential element helping to ... close the distance. Always were, since middle ages.
TempleOS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
A lot of entertainment is priced in and the powers that be lament that young people aren't falling for it anymore.

You like sports? Well, you need a subscription to see their away games, a subscription to see their home games, and a separate subscription to see their games in season, and a subscription to see their off season. You want to see them in person? well.....

You like music? Well, the cost of a ticket to see your favorite artist is $80 + $60 in fees. Online purchase fee. Printing fee. Seat Reservation fee. etc.

Wanna go out for a few drinks? That'll be $8 for shitty beer on tap

Want to go anywhere? Time to reserve your parking spot, or pay your parking ticket. Public transport outside NY? lol. Can't really get drunk or high now either since you need to kinda be sober enough to get back. Or fuck it! Uber and pay an extra $50 in surge charge fees!

Want to go to the museum on the weekend while you visit a city? Well, too bad, it's very congested so the museum has surge charged the price of the ticket to $70 (the Shedd Aquarium special in Chicago).

I'm good I think I'll just stay home and jerk off
You see headphones used in recording studios because ambient sound (i.e. from a loudspeaker) has a habit of getting picked up by microphones.
I totally doubt this is true personally. I started raving myself in university in 2002 and see more raves happening now and have more friends who are ravers than back then...

I also see more electronic artists playing gigs all over the world, more people getting into DJ'ing or electronic music production, and there are more EDM artists getting hugely popular in the mainstream, see acts like Fred Again.
Yup and iPhone has the same feature. Seems like parent may not be aware of this.
Be sure to read Jack’s mega treatise on low power hardware/software design if you haven’t yet.

https://www.ganssle.com/reports/ultra-low-power-design.html

One of the best practical EE essays I’ve ever read, and a masterwork on designing battery powered devices.
These days there are several tools that map hand tracking to MIDI CCs and notes, you might enjoy something like that. It's on my list to try sometime in 2025. :-)

Here's an example, although I'm not sure if it's good or not because I haven't tried it yet. https://www.uwyn.com/geco/
Should I stop going to art galleries?
I’m pretty sure if Firefox started beating chrome in speed benchmarks (because of a newer, more modern engine) they would be able to claw back some of their lost market share. Even normal people care about speed.
The Robotics concentration requires Linear (Matrix) Algebra.

And some upper level courses have a prerequisite.

But indeed it does seem a avoidable for many MechE majors.

Funny thread about UM engineering students avoiding taking UM math classes. https://www.reddit.com/r/uofm/comments/15w18gv/reminder_you_...
They’ve been “in the pipeline” for a LONG time. The technology is not very complicated at all, the barrier to actually building reactors has always been purely regulatory.
"Society" didn't blame the user, I think "society" would have no problem blaming the car. Hacker News isn't representative of society at large.

The signal you're seeing is the tendency of tech people to consider any risk to human safety to be less important than the benefits of the technology itself, and to always blame the human and never the tech.

You also see this manifest in any conversation about the failure modes of AI, in the inevitable knee-jerk response of "humans also do x."
It's the name of our sun. Sun is what it is (or star). Sol is its name.
> Even two years of covid couldn't do it.

My jurisdiction gave free money to everyone that lost their job/income, with far more liberal eligibility criteria than unemployment insurance had, at fixed amounts conveniently we’ll above the monthly rental costs for most.

Kept the rental market propped up.
If this were true, we wouldn’t need to enforce the single family home through zoning.
I strongly suspect that had remote work remained a bigger trend post-COVID peak, you'd be seeing a lot less core urban residential demand (and all that would imply). After all, a lot of large US cities were seeing urban flight of both residents and companies in the late 1990s. When I graduated from grad school--other than NYC finance--pretty much none of my classmates went to live in a city or worked there. Urban living/working is hardly an immutable law of nature.
Yeah. In fact, the article linked below[1] is more informative than the page I linked. TL;DR: there’s a big reduction to the overall weight of an EV using these, but they do add to the unsprung mass of the vehicle (the weight below suspension, as mentioned in another comment).

[1]: https://www.cnet.com/home/electric-vehicles/this-donut-shape...
Wake me up when it supports numpy&scipy.
The only one I know of is Popeyes -- they famously never stoped frying their chicken in beef tallow. Probably unhealthy for about a million other reasons, but hey, at least it's not fried in vegetable oil!
I stayed at a place that was decades old, in part to decipher how they’d managed to get away with not only terrible engineering discipline but two rewrites without going out of business. I figured it would be good for me to stick around at a place that was defying my predictions for once instead of fleeing at the first signs of smoke. I’ve hired onto places that failed before my old employer did at least twice and I feel a bit silly about that.

I wasted a lot of my time and came away barely the wiser, because the company is spiraling and has been for a while. Near as I can figure, the secret sauce was entirely outside of engineering. If I had to guess, they used to have amazing salespeople and whoever was responsible for that fact eventually left, and their replacement’s replacement couldn’t deliver. Last I heard they got bought by a competitor, and I wonder how much of my code is still serving customers.
> delves

Dead giveaway :D
Hah, I actually wrote a similar constrain solver that uses Fidget's evaluation + differentiation! This blog post was getting too long, so I'm going to write it up separately, but in the meantime:

demo:
https://mattkeeter.com/projects/fidget/constraints

source: https://github.com/mkeeter/fidget/blob/main/demos/constraint...

docs on the solver: https://docs.rs/fidget/latest/fidget/solver/
This is incredibly well done. Thank you!

Love that it works so seamlessly on mobile. I clicked on it expecting it to be almost impossible to use

Instead, I was able to easily navigate everything without getting lost

Also, the speeding up/down controls are excellent, very useful
I get "secure connection failed".
For what it's worth -

I enjoy electronic music. I enjoy dancing. I absolutely hated the club scene every time I went. All the ones I went to were in dark and fairly disgusting venues, where people spent hours moving back and forth between sitting around getting drunk with music blasting so loud you couldn't have a conversation, and awkwardly moving around a crowded dance for floor. As the other person said, it was hard to see how anyone was actually enjoying the situation, particularly considering everyone was paying a good deal of money and screwing up their sleep schedule for it.

I can get enjoying electronic music and dancing to it, but the club scene always seemed immensely unappealing.
For me, the only thinking this inspired was:

1) Haha
2) But I already played Cookie Clicker

I've been trying to disentangle myself from the internet for the last couple years. Maybe this hits better for those who haven't yet realized they are spending too much time online.
Sex Differences in Human Brain Structure at Birth
There's no good reason at all, which is why RSA-3072 is the rarely seen "oddball".
In this case it would likely be frustrating.

Many synthesizers (especially softsynths) map changes in sound to velocity, that is, how hard you hit the key. Hitting the key harder makes a different sound (e.g. layers more samples) than hitting it softly.
That's just the extra compute required. There is a large increase in required memory that needs to be quickly accessible in a particular way. One estimate I saw claimed that breaking 1024 bit RSA would take more than 2 billion dollars over a period of years.
Programming, mostly. Perhaps I'm not following enough people, though.

> The only time I saw stuff about Trump and Musk was when I didn't follow enough people or didn't subscribed to feeds.

Yeah, that pretty much sums up the dominant topic of discussion there.
Neither of those scenarios are typical for 'casual users' of the 2020s: at work, most have Windows laptops issued to them that they can't install things onto anyway, and elsewhere they are liable to do most of their computing on a tablet or a phone. There's almost nothing an exe file could do for a casual user that couldn't be done in a browser or mobile app, and most of them understand what an operating system is and that, on some level, there are cross-compatibility issues between them that they may be able to resolve with a tool.

>Photoshop or whatever

No one who _needs_ Photoshop is a casual user.
I think you have it backwards, and I think “most” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Given equal cost of a home, most people would prefer to live in a city. Especially if you look globally, cities are absolutely trampling suburbs with demand. Yes, people in the suburbs often chose that preferentially, but there are less people in suburbs.

In America, suburbs are disproportionately popular. I’m guessing that has more to do with civics than preferences. Most of suburbanites I know in America either live near their suburban job, or express some fear/distrust of various aspects of city life - and it’s mostly related to cars and transportation.
You can be in a broader metropolitan area without actually living in a city.
Brooklyn Mirage is hardly a rave place, just a club. Went last year it was pretty terrible. The sound was so quiet I could talk with my gf without yelling. There was also a food vendor inside the venue for whatever weird reason. Paid $300 for tickets and 2 drinks. I heard basement is a good place but never been. Europe's techno parties and raves are still going strong and no food vendors inside ofcourse we are not that lame.
From the article:

> Many packages with C extensions have also been ported for use with Pyodide. These include common packages like regex, PyYAML, lxml, and scientific Python packages including NumPy, pandas, SciPy, Matplotlib, and scikit-learn
Cities are not just where the jobs are, cities are where everything is. You'd likely have to offer double my salary before I'd consider exchanging my life here in the heart of it all for the lonely, empty, car-dependent barrenness of the suburbs.
Pyodide supports numpy and scipy.

https://pyodide.org/en/stable/usage/packages-in-pyodide.html
Ask HN: Freelance How?
I'm currently looking for jobs and slowly but surely starting to getting desperate.

"Do freelancing", I've heard a few times. But it's not like I will get hired as soon as I "go freelance"... is it?

I'm living in Europe and I'm wondering if there are some people here - surely there are - that are doing freelancing. I'd love to hear how you did it and how it was.

I'm a back-end software developer with full-stack experience if that matters.
> It’s not a higher level of security than password-based authentication. Why do you state that?

Personally I'm no fan of magic links.

But the people who do like magic links would say the typical 'forgot password' flow is to send a password reset magic link by e-mail. That means you've got all the security weaknesses of a magic link, and the added weaknesses of password reuse and weak passwords.

Of course you can certainly design a system where this isn't the case. Banks that send your password reset code by physical mail. Shopping websites where resetting your password deletes your stored credit card details. Things like that.
That means you have to be in driving distance of a metro with several hundred thousand.

That is very different than a Tier 1 city.
> A big parallel rewrite is not the only possible approach to writing Rust.

A rewrite is the only way to convert the codebase to Rust or any other memory safe language. Whether that happens in parallel, piecemeal, or both at the same time is down to how well you use a version control system and structure your code. As has already been shown by sharing Servo code with Firefox.

A full rewrite is particularly useful with Rust, as the language wants you to structure your code differently than most C/C++ is structured. Doesn't make sense not to have one going if that's the plan. If you're going to rewrite the whole thing anyway, might as well do it in an idiomatic way.
That’s why consistent messaging matters. If everyone agrees to make features take as long as they take, then management can’t shop things around. Which they shouldn’t be doing but we all know That Guy.

When children do this it’s called Bidding. It’s supposed to be a developmental phase you train them out of. If Mom says no the answer is no. Asking Dad after Mom said no is a good way to get grounded.