skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (Incidentally, I don't get very much done.)
Lol, that's definitely part of the tradeoff of security in life.

> I don't use Java
I didn't use Java either, but whatever I was using at the moment (Python) could have been anything, if I stayed in my other job or gotten a different one I could very well been using Java and been the one that installed the thing.

>Python script, but I won't use `http.server`. (Incidentally, I don't get very much done.)

Interesting, I use http.server or the Tcp socket server thing, but I consider myself to be in the extreme, there's still people that use Flask (and I do partake ocasionally) or things like Django, Spring, Next,etc... Same with binaries like Apache, Nginx.

I mean you gotta use something, and if you go too far on the deep end, you get the risk of introducing the vulnerabilities yourself, (in addition to the risk of getting nothing done as you mentioned). I know my limits I wouldn't implement cryptography for example.
RIP Norway (where I am). I thought it was all of Northern Europe. Most keyboards for Norway are the same as Swedish and Danish. Maybe I can do a gray import from Denmark or Sweden.
How is it moot? TNT was a massive safety boost for the mining industry. The negative uses were developed/adopted after it was invented.

"an invention has far more potential negative applications than positive ones."

Emphasis mine. Do you mean to say all inventions have more potential negative uses? Even say a toothbrush? I suppose that could be true, but then you have to look at magnitude of impact and rate of occurrence to see that the potential negative uses like stabbing someone is low.
I will have a look! Thx!
I have family that still live as subsistence farmers on their own land. Their life is hard and unforgiving. There’s a reason they wanted their kids to get an education and move to the city.

I’m not going to try to compare it to pre-neolithic nomadic tribes because nobody knows for sure why the neolithic revolution occurred, but my guess would be that climate shocks were more likely to wipe out small nomadic tribes over the long run.
They don't, they are drastically different in character. There are close similarities within classes between some of the lysergamides, substituted phenethylamines or tryptamines. But even closely structurally related analogues can be extremely different (ex. 2C-E vs DOET vs 2C-C).

LSD is almost nothing like psilocybin or mescaline or DMT. And nothing is like salvinorin...
Testing Ruby Code Like a Pro: The Power of RSpec Mocks and Doubles
History has already proven this with Objective-C and C++, also with TypeScript, while those languages provide stronger safety guarantees over plain old C and JavaScript, there are always those that will keep using the old tricks on the new system.

Only removing copy-paste compatibility fixes that.
my absolute top tip would be to find your super low-friction way to capture ideas about what to write, wherever you are, the very second the idea occurs to you

idea capture is upstream of everything else. you can do drafting or editing a month later or a year later, when the mood comes

I wrote a Colophon recently about my blog tech stack. it includes a "Writing" section which touches on how I start with idea capture (and also the psychological blockers about doing everything else)

https://interconnected.org/home/2024/10/28/colophon
Not sure if you’re aware, but there are countries outside the United States
When the AI startup culture gets so snake-oily people are jumping ship to practice ear acupuncture, that's when we should be worried
No, the real solution is to follow the unicode security guidelines for identifiers. Esp. on linux, where the silly garbage-in, garbage-out mantra doesn't fly with identifiers, because identifiers need to stay identifiable.

Apple HPFS did some things right. They did at least NFD. But linux insanities brought them back to -Whomoglyph attacks
Framework Desktop
basebox enables companies to use AI without the typical risks of cloud dependency
or complex in-house development. The system ensures full sovereignty over
sensitive enterprise data and guarantees rapid, secure deployment through
established standards.
But this would only work on a very limited number of tokens, right?
Minions: Where local and cloud LLMs meet
I had it fix a bug recently in the medium sized tanstack mono repo. Transcript here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43178222
Thats your merely your opinion. Mine is very different of him.
Why is that? If I replace a team of 20 admin staff with 3 admin staff and Microsoft Office licences to replace a paper filing system with a digital one, haven't I raised productivity and lowered prices?
Psion Series 5 USB keyboard
Did you read it to the end? If so well done. As a premise, an article by someone who admits they know little about what they are writing about, including the person in the subject, seems either brave or foolhardy. I concluded it was the latter after a few paragraphs and gave up.
And we should all be thankful for that. Just imagine if all those system tools were as "useful" as the modernized windows settings.
I’m glad you found something that works for you, but it’s barely a text format from my vantage point. Parsing it is downright user hostile.
It is RLHF if I understand correctly.
Microsoft never implements a standard, they only ever implement their own shit. Sometimes it's a close enough parody of a standard to fool superficial onlookers, but that's as close as you'll ever get.
>Our perspectives delude us.

I'm not deluded at all. I spent a few of my younger years in the oil sands, which definitely convinced me that wasn't something I could or wanted to do forever.

But we seem to be calling anything other than "sitting at a desk doing knowledge work" physically demanding. Maybe it's me, but having physical elements of your job and the job being physically demanding are different things. And when you are out of shape, anything is demanding.
I still poach eggs in the shell in my Anova Precision Oven often. The 13 minute egg is pretty unbeatable.

I think the decline in sous vide use in commercial kitchens is largely just because befuddled health regulators pushed everyone toward CVAPs, which do the same thing without the plastic.

Now that I’ve got the APO, I cook nearly everything in it. I wish I could get a regular oven-sized version.
Show HN: KeyTik: The All-in-One Automation Tool – Combine Python with AutoHotkey
Booking a courtesy car is different to most instances of getting a taxi, though. Getting a taxi is far more often things like "going to the line of taxis outside the club and negotiating prices with them" or "I landed in a foreign country on a business trip or family visit and I need a taxi to my hotel, and I don't have a local credit card". Before Uber, these things were far, far worse on average than they are now.
This, I think, is good advice.

What I sometimes say is that you don't get over it, but you do get used to it.
Wildlife photography was fun for a while. If you avoid baiting the animals, it sortof becomes a game, figuring out where they live and how to get close without scaring them off. Making any significant money off it seems unlikely though.
Oh wow, what a funny coincidence. I hadn't visited the site in a couple of years but someone linked me "Front and Center" yesterday, so I saw the icon for this app and had no clue it had only appeared there maybe hours earlier.

The idea is not new, of course, and I've written one of these (for Linux, with hardlinks) years ago but in the end just deleted all the duplicate files in my mp3 collection and didn't touch the rest of the files on the disk, because not a lot of size was reclaimed.

I wonder for whom this really saves a lot of space. (I saw someone mentioning node_modules, had to chuckle there).

But today I learned about this APFS feature, nice.
I think the guy simply renamed and moved everything here? https://github.com/Fanny-Theme/fanny-theme-support
It does not matter, conservatives will willify them all. And will lie about nature and about what environmentalists say. Stop this nonsense where republicans and their donors damage things, lie and then blame their opposition for not being perfect.
Speaking only for myself:

- Minor health issues accumulate and become a distraction. Especially insomnia.

- Having worked on many projects and technologies that went nowhere, my enthusiasm for the work is diminished, making me less focused.

I decided to return to the last work that I found meaningful, which was as a software developer in the U.S. civil service.

I think this was the right move, although Trump and Musk are doing their very best to make me question that.
Cellular concrete: low-carbon alternative for countries in seismic regions?
WSL is not Linux, despite whatever Microsoft says.
Would you mind sharing a picture?
Stellaris: A high-field quasi-isodynamic stellarator for a fusion power plant
USA has actively participated in overthrowing democracies around the world. Not to mention killing thousands of common people in Middle East and elsewhere. But the same emotions doesn't rise here. Too much hypocrisy?
One opponent got 48.3%. His opponents got 50.2%, which is what matters since you were claiming winning the popular vote means he had majority support.
Show HN: Vinix, a new OS/kernel written from scratch, can now run GTK3
[dupe]

Website got hugged so we ended up on this Ars piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43176314
FWIW, when I wrote a tool like this I used same size + some hash function, not MD5 but maybe SHA1, don't remember. First and last bytes is a good idea, didn't think of that.
Rokid's AI-infused AR glasses
The section "3.3 Implementation" is mostly about hardware level speedups, which basically says:

On GPU(s) FFT is consistently faster, but in TPU(s), for shorter sequences matrix multiplication was faster.
I’m curious what did you find to not work as written? I’ve had no problems making any recipes out of it, but I’ve also not done so exhaustively.

The Modernist Cuisine At Home book was pretty practical for muggles and would probably be where I’d recommend people start if they’re just looking to make some stuff for sure though, the full series is more something you read.
The time travel one is fascinating, too. Its first thought is to meet "Herr Hitler" and suggest ways to refine his propaganda.
This is so good. It reminded me of the foreword to Simon Jenkins’ “A short history of England” when he says that breadth of knowledge should come before depth (ie knowing about the details of Henry VIII or Charles I beheading fits better after a solid grounding in the overall scope of English history)

Similarly I now have a much clearer idea of how (say) the main sequence of star formation and standard candle stars fit into the historical picture.
Backyard bird has a lot to teach us about sex variability
Of course. This is Hacker News where the general audience is people who aspire to be like him.
:/ I was not expecting this
thankyou so much !
You are very welcome to bring this topic up as a separate discussion. But currently this is whataboutism.
Which makes it doubly odd that they are getting rid of it.

I have my email grandfathered in by my ISP (Virginmrdia) but they don’t offer it to new customers.

I use it with my own domain name that redirects to the Virginmedia box, so not tied to them.
Doing this while the runtime learning is not yet developed means unleashing the equivalent of something between a toddler and young adult without the ability to progress through those stages before potentially causing harm.

Though as someone with a very anti-brainwashing upbringing (no political biasing, just politeness and correctness reinforcement) I can say that even with amazing conditions of being wanted and loved, an agent could develop such painful shame as to be dangerous and may or may not grow out of that as I did, even with such mechanisms to do so.
The CVM cardinality estimation algorithm
I believe I wrote the title verbatim when submitting. Admittedly, that was a few days ago so I'm not entirely sure.
Travel Expenses - Airfare, hotels, meals, transportation, conference fees

Goods & Services Purchases - Office supplies, equipment, and materials. Contractor payments (for purchases below the micro-purchase threshold). Software licenses and IT-related purchases. Repairs and maintenance services for government property. Training and educational materials for employees.

Fleet and Transportation - Fuel and maintenance expenses for government-owned vehicles.
Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist
Hi HN ! This is an open source project I've been working on for a while. It's actually the third breakout-like game I've built. I really like the simplicity of the concept, having just one input (the puck horizontal position) and a simple gameplay that gives a low skill floor.

My girlfriend and I played a lot of the excellent LBreakoutHD, an open source breakout game that follows the traditional formula of having multiple lives, scoring points by breaking bricks and catching the good upgrades that spawn randomly and fall down, while avoiding bad upgrades.

She liked this game because it is non-violent, and doesn't make her sick like the first person 3D games. There are some issues though, it gets boring to break the last bricks, it's a bit unfair or slow sometimes, and the run length is too long with 30 something levels to clear for a high score.

I wanted to make a clone that would be fix those issues. I first tried to introduce more strategy by making the upgrades visible from the start, instead of them appearing randomly. You'd then strategize what to break first to earn more points. That first version is playable (https://breakout-v1.lecaro.me/) but a bit too complex.

I then wanted to simplify the gameplay, but make the game multiplayer in split screen (https://breakout-v2.lecaro.me/). Instead of bonus and malus, each brick drops some coins, and you need to catch them with the puck. This worked pretty well. You can play with the keyboard (A/D and LEFT/RIGHT keys) or mouse or both. The bomb explosions will blow coins around, including the coins of other players, and if you lose your ball, then a gap opens between your screen and the guy next to you, to give him a chance to lend you his ball. You can play using your phone as a controller by scanning the QR code, but make sure everyone is on the same Wi-Fi and that the the firewalls are down.

For my last version (https://breakout.lecaro.me/) is focused on the game feel and juice. It is about breaking bricks and catching coins, like the v2, but you can now pick upgrades at the end of each level. Your score unlocks more upgrades and levels that are added to the pool for the next runs. There are currently 31 upgrades and 91 levels to unlock.

Please have a try and tell me what you think. The game should run well on Firefox, safari and chrome on mobile and pc. It is available in F-Droid and on the play store, The source code is on GitLab. All links are in the game menu.
A bit too posh even if they now ban UK users.
Is this a troll name? Fanny is a faily well-known slang term[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny#In_slang
How many IT workers trust IT leaders?
I've lived in the area I live in for over 30 years. It's in a rural area. Last year I was walking in the woods and I came across a bald eagle on the ground eating something. I was probably 10 feet from it when it flew away. I saw 2 when I was golfing last summer. And then just a couple of months ago I saw another flying above my car after eating something near the road.

I had never seen a bald eagle before these encounters.
Only in space complexity, not in time complexity.
The have a XB-70 at the Wright-Patterson USAF Museum in Dayton. I was blown away looking at the engines. Highly recommended museum if you're into aviation, it's huge so give yourself plenty of time.
Looks really cool! Shared it with my team so we can try it.
I don’t remmener the exact steps, but it was fairly easy. You just need a mac (which you can borrow) and an audio editor. But that’s been a few years as I’ve been using the same one for a while now.
Ah you're right! I don't know why I forgot Saint-Lazare.

I checked the link in the sibling comment[0] and just found out that "Gare Paris Bercy Bourgogne - Pays d'Auvergne" is a thing that exists. Never heard of it before.

So all in all, from a Frenchperson's perspective there are 7 "gares" (train stations) in Paris.

[0] https://www.sncf-connect.com/gares/paris
Summary: Denmark's Lib's have an "if & when pragmatic" relationship with current-trends progressive ideological purity. Especially when such purity might enrich the rich, hurt the working class, reduce social trust, or endanger their own re-election prospects. Vs. Progressives elsewhere seem beholden to both the 0.01%, and to their own ideological Thought Police.
This is a good time to link something encouraging: https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/the-investor-b...

Most successful businesses and ventures tend to be at our age, and even someone like myself have experienced why.
What's a good approach to read through such academic paper? I cannot read from start to finish, I know I would not be able to comprehend all of that.
Cross origin is still a problem when those settings are off
Parsing Markdown is downright everything-hostile. Computers and humans alike.
Personally I preffer to use minitest and use dependency injection rather than the magic "allow to_receive and_return" parts of rspec. This makes my code more reusable.

But don't get me wrong, I won't refuse using rspec if it's already set up for a project, just wish it wasn't the go to default. I do believe the ruby + rails code people write would be better architected and more reusable with minitest + D.I. rather than rspec.
Wait, are you saying that, because you know Typescript but not Python, you can't make modifications on a software intended to develop for you using AI?
Is the backend open source?

I wanted to implement my own WHOIS service and it is more complex than it seems.
Many people, like the Luddites, saw through the con ages ago. But people will still parrot the lie that technology and automation (AI in the modern context) will free the working class to live lives of intellectual pursuit and leisure to this day, when the goal of both is the opposite.
The age of hegemony is over. At least until WW3 or a revolution in US or China.
You joke, but I suspect there is a contingent that is fine with a much poorer backwater US if they can put women back in their place and the gays back in the closet. Poverty might even help restore these traditions.

Like tankie communists they care more about the ideology than the real outcome. They are in love with a fantasy of how the world ought to look and if it doesn’t look that way it must burn.

This is why I have a low opinion of all ideologues, those on the left as well. They will all kill and impoverish us if the square peg does not fit in the round hole.

There are also white nationalists for whom white birth rates and ethnic cleansing are the only things that matter. Same deal there.
Rather than the complete elimination of single family (and by extension even larger lots) I feel like it ought to follow something resembling an iterated 80/20 rule out to huge rural lots at the far end. Notice that this would imply a plurality of the land being zoned for the highest density at any given time.

The thing that really kills density in most cases is the height restrictions. A lot of the upzoning in my area has resulted in ugly, wall-to-wall low-single-digit floor count buildings with near zero setback. It's better than single family but it isn't particularly dense and it's a huge step backwards aesthetically.
The best thing we can do here is to start ignoring him. it's irrelevant if this post is spam or not it will still generate more publicity.
Is this... gatekeeping?
Wind Knitting Factory
Blogpost at Ollama - https://ollama.com/blog/minions
I think this is the pertinent section?

> Authorities also announced a curfew in effect from 10 p.m. Tuesday until 6 a.m. Wednesday.

Personally I could understand that both policing and emergency response with no light at night might just become impossible. All the streetlights are presumably out, making walking difficult. If all of the traffic lights are also not working at night, it seems extremely dangerous. And any criminal would be camouflaged by all of the chaos. Much simpler to police the very act of being outside.

I agree it's not ideal, but I wouldn't thin end of the wedge it.
No. The FFT is an operation on a discrete domain, it is not the FT. In the same way audio waveforms are processed by an FFT you bucket frequencies which is conceptually a vector. Once you have a vector, you do machine learning like you would with any vector (except you do some FT in this case, I haven’t read the paper).
The ABA is part of the merit-based civil service now?

Your second link supports my point: there were changes between administrations but many of the people who worked for Trump also worked for Biden, and they followed the policies given by the current president. That’s the role you accept in that job, trying to interpret those policy directives under the various applicable laws, and everyone who applies to be a civil servant knows that this can mean big changes from administration to administration.
More on the POSSE approach (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere)

https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Living near Ithaca, NY, I often see bald eagles when out on bird walks.

But this doesn't compare to some years ago during a cold winter in Illinois. The Mississippi River had mostly frozen over, and a very large group of bald eagles had congregated in the Quad Cities area near the dams, where the outflow kept the water clear of ice and stunned fish for them to eat. I mean: hundreds of eagles, clogging up city parks, in the trees, on the ground, everywhere. It was remarkable.
Makes me think what if NNs are treated as black box signal processing units. What other techniques can we borrow from signal processing?
I think the point of Markdown is to signal that you're someone who uses things like Markdown.
Years ago when I was more active in the OCaml community there were lots of talks of Jane Street programmers (including those who first introduced OCaml there) about why they specifically chose OCaml.

FP provide type system that are really hard to emulate in other languages. Static type interference is easy to use and at the same time extremely powerful. Static type interference with algebraic types is even more powerful.

In addition OCaml has an absolutely pedantic type system. While ints may be implicetly coerced to a double in other languages, this kind of conversion will be rejected by the OCaml compiler.

Since Jane Street uses their code on the stock market for trading, they don't want to have tests showing their code is correct, they want definite proof. And OCaml can in fact provide that. If you write the libraries correctly, the compiler will prove the correctness of the code.

At the same time OCaml isn't as pedantic about coding paradigms as e.g. Haskell, allowing imperative and object oriented code as well. You could do similar proofs in Haskell but a lot of stuff is much harder to do in a language that is pure FP and not multiparadigm.
A heat pump should be the cheapest single family house option in the long run though. I had gas heating for a while and that certainly adds up in the winter
Marek has graciously offered to maintain the dma-mapping tree
You should read godel escher bach by hofstadter.
Link to project: https://github.com/vlang/vinix
Do Prediction Technologies Help Novices or Experts More
Then I'm curious: is it possible to know when we know everything there is to know?
Sandhill cranes are a game bird in some states. I understand they're very tasty.
I love the rule on backseat driving. I didn't know it was called that before I read this.
They are probably still alive, shouldn't be that hard to find. They have no problem giving subpoenas to other witnesses or soliciting expert testimony.