skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> its own notion of ethics, legitimate and illegitimate exploits, etc.

There are run “categories” for any given game. Super Metroid’s arguably most prestigious category used to be called “Any%”, referring to the required item collection percentage as distinct from 100% or Low%, and now it’s called “Any%, No Major Glitches” because someone discovered that you can go out of bounds with the X-Ray Scope and a door. It specifies “major” glitches because the run otherwise makes heavy use of (among others) a “minor” glitch called Mock Ball, which lets you move in morph ball form at regular form running speed. Ultimately, the community has to agree on what is major and what is minor but it’s usually moot until a new exploit is discovered.

It is interesting and it makes a whole lot of sense once you look at it from this angle. The categories actually have pretty rigorously defined rules precisely because there is so much competition involved.
Calibre is another free easy to use epub making software
No, I think there was little benefit besides overinflated tech salaries and founders cashing out in tech unicorns. Smartphones are products of Big Tech, EVs a handful of startups (Tesla, Rivian, Lucid).

Most recently, Silicon Valley is a grift ecosystem (fueled by zero interest rate policy) masquerading as innovation and a load bearing component of the economy. We can do without unicorns, the world will be better off for it (and legit value will need to be demonstrated vs fairy tale valuations).

(VC as an asset class has poor returns, VC funds make their fees throwing darts pretending to be thought leaders when it’s mostly luck, etc)
> You are seeing the Great Firewall in action

Why? It's just that Apple has CDNs in China. Yes, as long as you do all the bureaucracy nonsense and comply to censorship you can do that.

e6858.e19.s.tl88.net resolves to 221.194.154.187. tl88.net is the domain for a CDN vendor mainly operating in China.

And it does serve www.apple.com content with actual www.apple.com TLS cert.
Very neat way to browse a feed.. Any plans to implement up/down voting?
What would $100 billion more do for them?
I am actually on the direct consumer side, but I feel for you. Occasionally we'll take intermediate data though from third parties, and good god the quality is atrocious.

This is especially true for datasets that don't have a single authoritative source, like corporate calendar actions, where you have to consume data from 3-4 vendors and reconcile for a 'shared consensus' on simple shit like..."When is a company going to release quarterly earnings?"

I'm ever grateful that I do not work in asset classes that are not centrally traded and centrally cleared. I recognize there's more money to be made in the uncertainty, but holy crap it drives me insane.
Those did not emerge from these unicorns, except maybe OpenAI. (Tesla was already public prior to this. Smartphones didn't come from a VC-backed startup.)
The article has a link to the licensing agreement between Taylor Hobson and Gorton, links to other posts explaining how Leroy bought Gorton machines, an interactive comparison where you can see the similarity of the letters, and dozens of photos and scans of docs where you can compare them yourself, too. I would say that is a lot of evidence presented.
That's also present in the regular YouTube video scrubber. Maybe less prominently?
This is my personal blog if you have the time - https://rxjourney.com.ng

If you liked it and are feeling extra generous you can leave a donation -

https://buymeacoffee.com/chistev12
JEP draft: AOT cache command-line ergonomics
> Just buy ebooks from somewhere else!

Where can I buy ebooks (epub) that give me access to download the file so that I can copy it to my other devices and keep it on my own backups and organize it in my digital library the way I want to? I want a good selection of anime / manga / sci-fi, and a little bit of the typical best seller stuff.
Charge bleeding through a semiconductor
My computer is not compatible and I still get nagged about the need to upgrade and support ending soon.
In classical thermodynamics heat transfer is modelled using non-stochastic and fully deterministic PDEs.

The examples in this article all seem to involve infinite forces and speeds... I don't think they're as interesting as they are made out to be.
Look at Texas, pretty much the only energy system that is capitalist with people trying to make money by producing energy cheaper than the competition. It's allllll solar and batteries going in, because it's the cheapest energy source.

If people were pragmatic and cared about money, that's what would be happening everywhere. Instead, most utilities make more money when energy costs more, so they go with the old fossil fuel tech and keep old infrastructure in place.

If you're on HN and don't know how cheap renewables and storage are, that's a really bad sign, and proof that people are not very pragmatic and fundamentally lazy. There's a massive technological shift going on and nobody even seems know about it.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050423
A turn of phrase ;-) I spent thousands of hours working with closely with LLMs. It took me a lot longer than it should have to realize they were slowing me down, not speeding me up.

I’ll ask the off question here and there, they can be good search engines, but realistically if my time with the LLM can be categorized as “reviewing code,” it would be a waste of my time.
Last I checked WASM applications are single threaded, not sure if that's changed. GC is concurrent, but not parallelized.
I stand by my comment. Thank you for sharing the full quote.

> I'm being flippant about "bleach", wherein he only merely suggested injecting "disinfectant"

Yes. Fact: trump did not say to inject bleach. He also did not tell the public to inject anything.
spa is defintely dying. a lost 10 years.
“Fuss” he tried to orchestrate a coup. The first term was almost accidental and we were fortunate in that there were a bunch of buffoons running the show.

This term is different.
Not sure I would trust a garbage collector called Neukölln
Fur Flies as Russia Takes on Young Fans of 'Quadrobics'
What do you mean it doesn't exist in nature?

Of course it does, you could build one yourself. It's just a dome with a specific shape.

Of course the ball will choose a way down based on tiny physical forces which we can't eliminate in the real world. Fundamentally, Norton's Dome is non-deterministic in classical physics, but reality is quantum.
If you want to go down the route offered by GP, buy it anywhere and then pirate the epub. The author is compensated, you get the freedom of an unconstrained ebook file, everyone wins.
> Alas, they eschewed forgery, embracing jazz instead.

Neil Caffrey would be proud!
While I'm sure brake dust is harmful, this study was done on cells in a lab (not even mice).
The amount of ads in the start menu, the browser, and Microsoft product auto-installed still makes me feel I'm being milked for money.
I recommend complaining to support if this ends up affecting you. It wouldn't surprise me if they can turn it back on for you (idk if it's likely, but I feel like it's worth a try.)
and very high contrast / sharp.. interesting.
Speaking of tsunami, I remember watching on TV a mother when was shown the bodies of both her husband and son. She was unable to show emotion at all. Just empty look and silence
What are some stores that sell DRM free books? If it's easy enough to rip that's fine too.
Here’s a piece of reality to show you how far away we are. There are 10s of millions of homes in the USA with < 100 amps and in many cases < 75 or 50 amps of service. The transformers that route this power into these homes are often 40+ years old.

In order to discontinue gas (many still run on oil!) these homes need service upgrades. If every electrician in the country was dedicated to this task it would take over 30 years to do.

There are a lot of problems like this. The scale of the infrastructure is massive. I’m not saying it can’t be done or shouldn’t be done. In fact it is getting done. But it’s at least 40-50 years away.

In the meantime it makes sense to make energy inputs as cheap as possible.
Pontus gave a good explanation of the physics. Mathematically the statement is simply that there are different trajectories with the same initial conditions that solve the same differential equation. This is easy to calculate and has nothing to do with "people wanting it". It's simply a mathematical fact. What do you not find convincing here?
> This is every person in 2007 who looked at an iphone and thought "What's the big deal?" and not only failed to recognized what had changed, but confidently insisted others were wrong.

That’s an uncharitable take. People are pointing out its problems precisely because they believe AI is going to be transformative, but will have negative consequences for humanity as well.

I think it’s more akin to someone in 2007 seeing an I phone and saying: this is a terrible device, people will look at while driving, it will be used to create vast intrusive surveillance state, etc.
No, obviously not. Smartphones are a mixed blessing, I'm not sure we're better off with the little distraction machines, but both them and electric cars were things that could plausibly have developed more slowly, deliberately and thoughtfully over time without being "juiced" by distorted market incentives. They could have developed by companies simply evolving phones and cars over time.
Or in a vacuum.
Which research is clear?

Having (a) talked with acquaintances who have absolute/perfect pitch (b) read a fair bit of research (c) practiced the “trick” under discussion (d) had a brief mid-adolescent period where I experienced tones as having an extra layer of color/personality that was definitely distinct from note memory, everything points me toward the idea that it’s a different way of experiencing the sound itself. Like the difference between “they all look the same to me” vs frequencies having faces you recognized or if numbers came with fixed colors. Honestly the experienced part was a bit jarring and I think that’s part of why it didn’t take.
Too many ebooks are Amazon exclusive for that to be viable. Within the fantasy genre, at least. I agree with you generally but this was a valid way to support authors while still reading on non-Kindle eReaders. Amazon just shut that door.
I don't like JSX but I enjoy how React/Svelte/Vue/etc do code colocation and composition compared to traditional templating systems with partials etc.

I've found dotnet with Razor and Blazor to be the exact SSR experience I was looking for. And the performance vs JS is so much better. I did a benchmark recently and got about 7x improvement.
It's painfully obvious that none of this will really improve reddit for the users, seems like just another step towards obsolescence.
fastest growing sport in the US
If one of the authors are here, can you please add Ian Sutherland to the thank you note at the bottom? He spent just as much or more of his personal time as Brody and myself. He deserves credit. Thanks
Anyone know if this means Arrow could be next? I assume GeoParquet is no longer needed; I wonder what happens to GeoArrow.
A record type representation trick for Scheme
It works - amazing - with Calibre actually. I set up Calibre-Web-Automated last week and setup my Kobo Libra 2 to sync with my Calibre server (swapping one url in a config file), and now my Kobo acts like my self hosted Calibre server is the actual Kobo Store, meaning I can browse and download all of my books. I think it syncs reading progress too.
bookshop.org is very nice alternative!

I'm happy to spend more money on that than using Amazon or any other big corp. They are heavily subsidized and in the long rung destroy people community and the world in general.
I love desperate cheeto
>The intuitive answer is that it's the time reversed situation to a ball being carefully rolled UP the dome so that it stops and comes to rest on the apex.

That's nonsense. The arrow of entropy always goes forward. Sure, the ball comes to the top of the dome to rest but it also carries direction, momentum and a lot of other properties that you have to put in as well in your hypothetical entropy-arrow-now-goes-back scenario.

This is high-school grade physics, come on. It's surprising some people still take John Norton seriously, not because of the dome, but because of his many other "controversial" takes on physics that fail miserably on their foundations.
Just use Ruby on Rails. Problem solved.
You sound just like those Sophists that Socrates was warning about.
Yeah I don't think I can take much more disruption. I'd like some stability more than anything right now.
OpenTalk: GDPR-Compliant Video Conferencing
Bunch of related discussions:

The Zizians and the rationalist death cult

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897871

String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877910
Pike laments the lack of sleekness, complaining about bloat and scolds us for not having terminal NIH syndrome, and in general recommends thoughts and prayers.

Which is a bit tone deaf coming from somebody who unleashed yet another bloat generator (optimized for delivering - uh, excuse my french - "shareholder value") on the world, and fails completely to reflect on his own contribution to the problem.
I'm interpreting this as the final straw for cancelling Prime.

Very small vote with my wallet, but something.
If it's OK for Meta, the society accepts it.

Personally I'm glad to pay for a book later if author provides alternate method for payment. But to pay for the book just to flip trough it and decide it's not for me is not worth it.
By "modern javascript" I refer to both the language and the ecosystem of Node, NPM, Typescript, and related technologies that have become so ubiquitous as to be inseparable from the language to most people. I don't hate javascript, I'm not one of those "javascript delenda est[0]" people who go off on rants about the language whenever it comes up. However, I don't like what the language and ecosystem have turned into, and I don't like many of the incentives that brought those changes about. What used to be a community driven ecosystem has been captured by VC and corporate interests.

Admittedly, I also don't like a lot of the more recent features added to the language like classes and templates, because I'd prefer javascript remain simple and avoid feature creep.

[0]https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Would be worth spending some community time to see what are the costs of improving non gafam or making a new distribution platform.
I am talking C without any runtime: machine code or data are _ONLY_ from the C code (and OS interaction is done with raw syscalls).

Can I do the same in rust?
I buy from Ebooks.com it comes with the adobe drm but it is super easy to strip using a calibre plugin
Yes, but removing stuff takes a lot of time and effort that most maintainers want to spend doing something more productive or fun.
I bookmark very few URL's. First, sites I visit often, like the Yosemite webcams [0], HN, and so on, and posts of mine that I often reference in replies, so they show up in the search/URL bar.

The rest? I drag the URL to a folder on disk, so the computer can search and find links. Firefox does this nicely "just drag, without clicking". Safari adds another step, rant deleted.

As files, you can do anything you want with them, unlike bookmarks, whose utility is limited by the browser (unless you export them) That's why the Good Lord invented Unix, and someone else (hee, hee) invented the browser.

[0] Courtesy of the Yosemite Conservancy
https://yosemite.org
It's not the price, it's the privacy that drives to local ones.
It's been my observation that organizations - including governments - rarely have that level of foresight. They're usually more reactionary.
Across the Atlantic, the police won't shoot you in the head for walking while black.
> The arrow of entropy always goes forward.

The arrow of what now?[1] This is classical dynamics we're doing.

I repeat, this is a math result, not an argument about physical systems.

[1] Edit as this was clearly missed: THIS IS SARCASM. Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics are excellent theories and worth studying as they tell us deep and profound things about the natural world. This particular novelty is a result from classical dynamics where they don't apply. The "arrow of time" in Newtonian mechanics is absolutely reversible, and there is no Newtonian idea of "entropy".
> researchers grew human lung cells in a lab and exposed them to dust from car brakes and from diesel tailpipes, finding that brake dust caused greater injury to the cells.

I couldn’t tell if the study found that car brakes are more harmful than exhausts, or that car brake chemicals are more harmful than exhaust fumes - but that may not be significant because they are produced in less quantities.
I wonder if this will spur mandatory regenerative braking in all cars, eventually, as a means of reducing pollutants?
> All the core decisions are the same as in C++

Not at all. In a Rust program, all objects are supposed to be movable via a memcpy (i.e. a bitwise copy) by default. Immovable objects are only supported as an afterthought, via the Pin<> featureset (which is widely regarded as unintuitive, clunky and in need of revision). C++ objects are immovable by default; alternately, they may support custom "move" operators that are closer to the way .take() is used in Rust, i.e. they leave behind the original object in some sort of undetermined state.

These are quite significant differences that make it hard to have consistent interop across both languages.
That doesn't make sense, Windows 11 was released in 2021. People who spend more money on their hardware are probably not using a 4+ year old machine at this point.
Syntax is on its way...
Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Issue Advice on Weight Loss Drug and Eye Health
What is "magical wand" here? This is simply Newton's equation and a specific dome shape. Trivially no perfect bodies can be built experimentally, and it's specific properties are not robust to perturbation, but there is absolutely nothing magical or strange going on here.
> I know you say buy a copy if you enjoyed it but that’s not really how commerce works

when I was younger I pirated all my OS X software because I couldn't afford it. That machine broke some years back (2021-ish) and I was on Windows for a while, but after I got a job I bought a Mac again and dropped probably over $500 on copies of all the software that I had once pirated.

I don't know how you think commerce works, but without piracy, a lot of this software I wouldn't even know exists, and certainly wouldn't have gotten my money, because I wouldn't have known at all which of it was worth buying to me. Sorry though for hurting all those authors by (eventually) giving them money.
I wonder if this means another advantage for EVs in terms of environmental friendliness.
isn't the point to support indie bookstores?

what are "affiliates" in this case? there aren't any bookstore chains in the US other than B&N and Amazon of course
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43046995

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039924

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041726
Memecoins are pump and dump schemes. I guess it’ll take more time for the world to know, till then it’s going to wreak havoc
>2) Pickleball is coming to monopolize the local courts, making them inaccessible by tennis players.

I'm not a player of either, but from walking around the courts at our city park, I'd say (in our area at least) it is the opposite: Tennis is making pickleball courts inaccessible to pickleball players. It is NOT uncommon to see the 4 pickleball courts packed, and 1 or both of the tennis courts empty. Our neighborhood tennis courts are basically never used, they are tennis only.

It's nice (admittedly, not living directly adjacent to courts) to see them used by pickleball rather than just sitting there idle.

Point 1 above does seem to be a real problem. I gather there are ball/racket combinations that can help, and also curtain solutions that can help?
Python dependencies are tear garden for sure.
The answer given in Stack Exchange and the Wikipedia article linked to in one of its comments provide explanations, though whether you find them convincing is, of course, up to you!

The Wikipedia article says there are solutions to the classical equations of motion: one in which the ball remains stationary forever, and then all those where, after an arbitrary period during which the ball is stationary, it rolls off the dome in an arbitrary direction. What makes this indeterminate is that the analysis of a single initial state yields multiple possible outcomes.

The article goes on to say "Notice in the second case that the particle appears to begin moving without cause and without any radial force being exerted on it by any other entity, apparently contrary to both physical intuition and normal intuitive concepts of cause and effect, yet the motion is still entirely consistent with the mathematics of Newton's laws of motion so cannot be ruled out as non-physical."

This raises the question of what we mean by 'physical', and whether theories of physics define the physical or describe something existing independently. I will leave that to the more philosophically minded; for myself, I will just note that as there are cases (and physically realizable ones at that) where classical physics gives answers that are not merely indeterminate but outright wrong (the ultraviolet catastrophe being a canonical example), I don't think anything of consequence hangs on this particular case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome#Solutions_to_t...
This comment should be its own HN post. For some reason it hit me like a ton of bricks. So true
In case it wasn't obvious... I was not being serious. I was trying to point out the reverse of the logic being applied to the right.
I have some tunes I wanted to add but it didn't let me search for them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV9IMfmqa-g
They don't add anything. But they all get a small slice of profits of the sale regardless, without having to set up their own ebook store.
The author has a hard time understanding whether the CRA applies because he is thinking like a software engineer and not a lawyer.

It would be very clear to a lawyer what "in the course of a commercial activity" means. And accepting open source contributions from a business entity normally isn't considered "in the course of a commercial activity". (It's like buying apples from the supermarket is not a engaging in commercial activity on the part of the customer, even if the supermarket is.)

No disrespect to the author, but even consulting with a law student would clear up the issue. Maybe better access to law would be nice, but if the OSS community is really concerned with this issue some lawyer would have clarified this already.

IANAL of course, and this is not legal advice.
This will not affect you at all. They're not stopping allowing you to transfer books to your kindle over USB. They're stopping letting you download book files from Amazon.
Pattern matching is on its way, one of the possible approaches being discussed,

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p26...
Yeah... I can't even imagine how that feels right now for you Canadians. :| With Russian-like rhetoric on y'all. All I can hope for is that the administration won't be that insane to actually go with it.