skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From vague memory, I'm not sure Frank Zappa lost his way, but actually found what he'd been looking for the whole time. Prior to the Synclavier he was forced to use humans to bring his compositions to life, and therefore his compositions were written with this in mind; a forced compromise of sorts.

Can't be too upset though given his prolific album releases prior to his Synclavier moment.
Reminder than when you use seemingly impeccable logic and arrive at the wrong conclusion, it's the logic that is wrong somewhere because of a missed assumption.

No, people are not going to pay much for browsers and websites, that's why ad supported products and services exist. Otherwise someone would make better software and charge for it. The only way this works is government intervention, which is what's happening here.
The first moon landing cost $300 billion+ in today's dollars.
> I think that was the wrong decision.

Could be. But this decision is why we even have other browsers.
Some people do actually pin versions, like me. For instance:

- uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f0deed1e0edfc6a9be95417288c0e1099b1eeec3 # v2.7.7

or

- uses: subosito/flutter-action@f2c4f6686ca8e8d6e6d0f28410eeef506ed66aff # v2.18.0

It's a bit more manual work, but lepiej dmuchać na zimne (lit. it is better to blow on something cold), as the Polish proverb says.
North Korea's $1.5B heist puts the crypto world on notice
> privacy-unfriendly moves

Which is a UX issue, not a Web standards issue. None of the major forks were made due to a difference opinion about how the standards should be implemented, so they are all dependent on Mozilla to implement the standards.
the road to recovery will be long and hard. tesla hit everything perfect, built charging infra before they had many cars, started with luxury roadster/model s and built a brand. showed the world EVs don’t have to be uglier and smaller versions of prius. the owners overlooked A LOT of insanely subpar things about the cars because of all this.

now there is serious competition that did not exist before and every single price point (model 3, model y, model x…) there is serious and pound-by-pound superior competition. add to that all the politican nonsense happening and you got a perfect storm.

not impossible of course but I think tesla has an uphill battle ahead
2.4Ghz WiFi networks should use 20Mhz bands generally. No idea about specifically with ESP32s, but this is good guidance for not congesting the 2.4Ghz space.
I don't think you understand the difference between a fundamental restriction and a restriction in general.
But free range laws are a good thing right?

Free range laws say the opposite: that a kid over a certain age is allowed to be alone and the parents CANNOT be charged for it. It’s to encourage free range parenting.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/ was conservative. Great movie though.
Hey HN,

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You're right, he was such a misanthrope that he didn't enjoy working with musicians, yet, he worked with so many brilliant musicians that made his work great.

I think of his albums where he heavily overdubbed concert footage, probably peaking in The Man From Utopia which just sounds like the greatest concert you never went to.
It is safe. People do this already on their own with some medications.

If you’re very paranoid, you can get it third party tested again and it will still be way cheaper than buying from a compounding pharmacy.
Show HN: Open-Source E-Ink Weather Dashboard Powered by a Raspberry Pi
I’m pulling weather data from OpenWeatherMap and rendering the dashboard with HTML & CSS. Chromium captures a screenshot of the HTML, which is then displayed on the screen.

This is a plugin for my open-source e-ink display project, featuring a 7.3-inch 7-color Inky Impression with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. A local web server hosted on the Pi lets you update the display through your browser and schedule automatic refreshes.

github repo: https://github.com/fatihak/InkyPi
youtube tutorial: https://youtu.be/L5PvQj1vfC4
building the weather dashboard: https://youtu.be/65sda565l9Y
I agree about late 70s - early 80s being so good across a wide variety of genres. Especially if you're willing to narrow 78-83.

Such a variety of sounds which somehow all seemed somewhat original.

You had the new wave thing in pop music while the hard rock had resurged with Van Halen/Boston/AC-DC/ZZ Top/etc. Early metal (Metallica). Early hip-hop (Sugar Hill Gang/Houdini). Bands which had emerged in the late 60s like the Rolling Stones/The Who/Pink Floyd still putting out quality.
I agree, the lack of social media, secrecy in production techniques, dawn of digital technology, big names in synthesis pouring millions into r&d was an amazing combo, and most importantly production heavily sampling and dubplate culture....hard to replicate that!
I hear you ... but I think you are massively downplaying how much many creators are earning a living largely off of YouTube monetization. You are right about that for some portion of creators but there are many that are earning most of their income off monetization (both from ads and premium).
HTML is underrated. Most of the screens we look at daily, including our code editor are HTML pages.
This might not be a popular opinion: but I think that for roughly 99% of people losing weight and keeping it off long term is impossible once they’ve become overweight. They are just destined to be fat at that point no matter what they do. Weight may come off for a bit, but it returns… their body is irreparably compromised.
You have be able to communicate with your slaves.
The Quake soundtrack was what got me too. Sorry to hear that. Music certainly is a powerful modulator of the psyche. It can be devastating like a drug if young vulnerable and unprepared.
Reasons why it's not a good idea to look for a "10x engineer":

- There is no "10x race horse", as there's different kinds of horses who win different kinds of races (and those horses don't win consistently). Similarly, "10x engineer" would imply there's only one kind of engineer, one kind of engineering, or only one way they can be productive. You can certainly find a "person who is very productive under certain circumstances". "10x engineer" is an extreme oversimplification of a generic person doing a generic job; but people aren't generic, and this job isn't generic. There just is no "10x engineer". It would be the coder equivalent of the Übermensch.

- It's not a good idea to bet the farm on one lone genius. They could get hit by a bus, be hired away somewhere else, or just not be "inspired" by your company or team and end up not producing. Instead build a team of competent and diverse individuals led by a decent leadership/management team who can create consistent results without having to find a magic wizard coder. (Personally, if I found out someone in my org was risking the business on a single person that was impossible to replace, I would be upset)

- There's just not that many super-talented people out there. The few that are, pick where they want to work; you don't hire them, they hire you, so to speak. And even when you think you've met one, it may actually just be bluster or a false reputation.
Chase it with sudden repeated exposure to "hermeneutics"!
The interpretation of "you won’t catch them saying it in public though" that you offer is NOT the only one. The one the OP most likely meant is: "out of fear for their careers and livelihoods, they will not state such things given that such facts are outside of the current overton window"
Browser engines have become so complex that each ultimately represents a massive attack surface. I think, rather than trying to pick the most secure browser (which may change over time) instead:

* Stick to one browser engine per device as much as possible. Two at the most.

* Isolate installed browser engines as much as possible (i.e. Qubes or mobile operating system levels of sandboxed or virtualized isolation, not just containers or flatpaks for dev-environment tidiness and separation).

* Connect end-user devices with browser engines installed to the Internet only while actively using the Internet.
Please try to enjoy each post equally.
No, basic set theory: not every restriction is a fundamental restriction.
What’s not fundamental about the OS pausing any background thread that doesn’t have an excuse to continue running from a relatively short list?
Sure, even PL/Rust is available. But what does the deployment pipeline look like, from version control to a live instance?
Wish we could help. Good luck!
If you have an ESP32C3 board with poor wifi performance, check if it's a boad with poor design that has the ceramic antenna is too close to the oscillator: https://roryhay.es/blog/esp32-c3-super-mini-flaw

YMMV but adding a loop of wire in parallel with the oscillator improved wifi performance on mine.

(I first tried moving the ceramic antenna a millimeter outward, but that made no difference.)
I mean, I certainly hope you’re right, and I am wildly wrong. But I simply can’t imagine a scenario where the US isn’t damaged by this long term, in such a way that far right extremists don’t get further along in their agenda. But as you say, time will tell.
The wysiwyg buttons don't seem to function on Android Chrome mobile, at least for me.
Nice. I do backend web dev, and it's sometimes useful to have a lightweight testing frontend that's more flexible than Swagger. I've had a lot of success vibe coding my way through these frontends with Claude by rapidly iterating on a single file containing HTML + CSS + JS. It's quite fast to get something good enough working, and putting everything in a single HTML file format keeps it simple enough for me, a guy who doesn't do frontend, to mostly understand what's going on. "All in one" HTML file is a good trick :)
I still love the Beatles, but I still lament the breakup. Of course it was their lives to live, but all that talent together was other worldly.
> Schools also used to teach sarcasm detection.

Aha, I had briefly considered whether that was your intent when you made your original claim, but had mistakenly assumed earnestness:

> The entire world has too much riding on the US not collapsing.

Because, obviously, there's no such thing as a self-assessed 'too important' as some kind of safety net when a nation state is being actively sabotaged from within and without.
I'll have to refer you to my forthcoming paper for the full argument, but basically, humans (and all animals) experience surprise and then we attribute that surprise to a cause, and then we update (learn).

In ANNs we backprop uniformly, so the error correction is distributed over the whole network. This is why LLM training is inefficient.
I'll try to smwoothio out my Welsh wrinkles.
I wasn't clear. My friends are all vehemently anti trump. That's why he would consider them enemies. Not because they are women.
What is your real goal? More money? Larger scope and impact? A “Director” title?
Should add support for Apple platforms (i.e. LPLinkView used in Notes/Messages/Mail etc.)
I had been learning my target language mostly from books (and then watching/listening to media for osmosis) for years before I discovered Pimsleur. I can confidently say that Pimsleur increased my skills by orders of magnitude. Being forced to 1) speak out loud, 2) create sentences under time pressure and 3) absorb language rules implicitly rather than explicitly was a major game changer.

My only disappointment is that Pimsleur only created 2 levels for my target language, so after I had repeated them a number of times I had to look elsewhere for other (less effective) materials. Recently, I've been using the ChatGPT Voice Assistant to try and approximate the Pimsleur experience - it works to some degree, and it's novel that I can ask it questions during learning, but it can't really offer a curriculum in the same way.
Inference is already wasteful (compared to humans) but training is absurd. There's strong reason to believe we can do better (even prior to having figured out how).
Timezone matching and sharing made too easy
Ask HN: Is Model Context Protocol an Opportunity for Native Internet Money?
There is currently a lot of money being spent on Large Language Models (LLM). Model Context Protocol (MPC) for LLMs is being widely adopted but has not finalized standardized yet. This could be an opportunity to natively implement money in MPC (and the internet) the right way. There are a few advantages we have now:

- Systems which run LLMs / MPCs have large amount of compute power

- System which run LLMs / MPCs will be always online

- Lessons learned from Bitcoin and Blockchain systems

- There are new Encryption Protocols and Cryptography breakthroughs:

- Mutual TLS

- Zero Knowledge Proof

- Fully Homomorphic Encryption

- Multi Party Computation

I wanted to hear your thoughts on this.
Duolicious: Open-Source Dating App
the other day I was washing the dishes and in my head I started hearing "listen to the sound, of my big black boots"

My favorite collab is the record he did with Saul Williams, it is a banger. You can hear TR all over that thing, and that was the one (or released at the same time as the one) that was given away for whatever you wanted to pay for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz6VQCNkjAU&list=PLaqsB45loh...

My wife is going to hate me, but I am going to listen to this rn on my monitors, sorry honey!
Frankly a shame. Since there's a been a lot of development in mining technologies over the years.

Even for the folks that have an ecological focus, there's quite a few methods developed with limited degradation of the landscape, and reclamation of the mining sites into alternative uses (park, forestry, entertainment, tourism). The Wieliczka saltmine in Poland's an especially impressive example [1]

[1] https://www.wieliczka-saltmine.com/individual-tourist/touris...

And these days, there's also a huge number of resources in terms of mineral identification and site mapping. The EMIT Imaging Spectrometer from NASA's a cool example that does remote satelite mineral identification from orbit. [2]

[2] https://earth.jpl.nasa.gov/emit/instrument/overview/
Thanks for making this. Sometimes I want to just write a quick note and serve as a static html file and this is very useful for that purpose.
This article is interesting because it talks about not just the obvious ultra processed foods, but also things that look healthy and natural, for example purées of fruits and vegetables with no added sugars. One interesting example in the article was purées that appeared to be a mix of a few different fruits or vegetables, but are mostly just apple purée, which creates a craving for sweet foods. Another interesting problem is sugars in purées being digested very quickly because they do not have the fiber that is naturally occurring in fruits.
By 'note' I guess they mean rich text editor.
> If your network hardware allows it, you should pin the device to the closest one.

In Wi-Fi it's always the client's choice on where to connect to at the end of the day and any hacks the APs try to do to steer clients are "suggestions" at best and "signal ruiners for everyone" at worst.

You may be better off specifying which specific AP you want to connect to by specifying the BSSID argument in the WiFi.begin() call on the ESP32 side https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/master/libra...

Alternatively, if you REALLY want to force it, the sanest way is to use a uniquely named IoT SSID on each AP so there would be no other option for those clients to choose to latch on to (and you can leave the other SSIDs shared for normal clients). E.g. "IoT-1", "IoT-2", "IoT-3" on 3 separate APs. It may clutter up device screens more when you list available networks but it's just visual because, as far as airtime, they all beacon just as often if the names are the same or not anyways.

> From what people and the internet tell me you should set the band width on the 2.4 Ghz network that your boards use to 20 Mhz, not 40, not 60, and definitely not automatic.

This is spot on in that 20 MHz is the ideal channel width on 2.4, doubly so for just an ESP32. Some things to add are I'd say it should apply to any of your 2.4 GHz networks unless you live out the sticks and really want to race a few extra mbps out at the fringe of your AP coverage (and even then the wider channel width is probably going to make your SNR worse even in the sticks). Also, I don't believe the ESP32 supports 60 MHz in the 2.4 GHz space at all (it's certainly not an option in the Wi-Fi standard).

I'll also tack on that the ESP32-C6 can be worth springing for if these kinds of thing are a particular concern as it support Wi-Fi 6, which has a few enhancements for connecting lots of IoT devices without so much noise.
Focusing on the number of “keys” is an attempt to deceive.

Yes, moving focus to the location bar and then copying the URL gives you the same result. It’s not the same number of steps as copying the URL without changing focus.

Ctrl-L, then while still holding Ctrl, hitting C is not the same number of steps as chording Ctrl-Shift and hitting C. Two steps vs one step.
A Revealing History of Lotto Scratch-Offs (2016)
The hygiene hypothesis seems likely to be a good explanation for part of the problem, but there is good evidence that it is only a part explanation.
> how so many of the Chinese social media platforms just let you download videos

The rate things are going I’ll just have to use those sites instead.

YouTube is a weird position. A lot of content is public domain and should be freely downloaded. Other content isn’t.

A good middle ground would be for YouTube to just give uploaders an option to enable downloads.

I do agree that people need to STOP trying to make yt-dl easy to use to the point it actually competes with YouTube. YouTube Red when you factor in music is a very good deal. I’ve been subscribed for years.

Like it or not but YouTube is almost entirely funded by ads. You don’t have a right to use the service without paying.
Then what’s the jive about needing to drill around the old bits?
Now, now, that’s just a Terrible Lie
The unlisting from GitHub was precisely due to the reason I mentioned, and Nat Friedman himself, CEO of GitHub at the time, dropped into the youtube-dl development IRC, assured the team that he had their back, and that the moment the infringing test was fixed, he would personally restore access, which he did posthaste.

Regarding the website being taken down, it was hosted in Germany and it was a German court order. Germany is notorious for this stuff, and it should never have been hosted there. If they wanted, they could have found a more reasonable host.

I understand the burnout, but it comes with the territory, and powerful enough people made it clear that the team did have their support. With some effort, the project could have continued on at full pace at least as uninhibited as its forks.

Now the URL just redirects to the yt-dlp GitHub repository, anyway.
gamification, trusted computing, semantic web, big data, blockchain, NLP, metaverse, IoT.
> Yes your example is extremely niche

No. It isn't.

Mining related excation energy requirements are a major component of the global transport related energy demand.

So much earth is moved on an annual basis that the earth's axis alters from the mass balance change.

Mining excavation and artisinal water extraction are the two primary human activities that account for the bulk of these mass changes.

Simply being unaware of the scale of tonnages moved globally on an annual basis via mining related earth moving equipment doesn't make it niche.

This might interest you: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met... although you can find similar data scattered across other presenters.
I'm sure some of these newly discovered undocumented commands could help.

https://www.tarlogic.com/news/backdoor-esp32-chip-infect-ot-...
SAML is not the only standard for SSO. Before SAML we had Kerberos and nowadays you can use Open ID Connect. Other standards can have their own gotcha, but SAML is uniquely horrendous.

When we get vulnerabilities in the SSO protocol (SAML or otherwise) these vulnerabilities generally only affect some of the clients (identity consumers) who have implemented the protocol incorrectly or are using a feature that the provider has implemented incorrectly. Vulnerabilities that break the entire provider are less common.

When comparing this situation to having multiple different accounts, I can't see how SSO is less secure. Sure, when you have breach that affects the entire identity provider the damage is high, but the risk of having a breach (any breach!) is lower, since implementations are fewer, more consolidated and usually developed by people with better expertise.
List of Germans Relocated to the US via the Operation Paperclip
Is there a more Amazon word than "table stakes"?
“The method has been used for everything from measuring the age of ringless trees in the Amazon to examining whether humans generate new olfactory bulb neurons into adulthood”

…do we?
I think this is what you want

https://youtu.be/3uxTpyCdriY?si=Au5WAA8jxi66JVG3
This is neat! Reminds me of the good old days of single-page websites. Now, if only it could automatically back itself up to the blockchain... just kidding (mostly).
In fact it's quite the opposite. If you need to do something to save your life and youre weighing the decision of take no action vs take action via tor; you and anyone else would take the risk with tor.
We agree most content is only viewed once, and thus DRM is still pointless in terms of advertising revenue from people that likely won't buy anything in the first place.

Both YT premium and Netflix is around $100/yr, and I seriously doubt you will find 14TB consumer storage media at that cost. It is a silly behavior for sure =3
Show HN: Vibe Coding Prompts Collection
I don't understand how you consider all this complexity to be better than to just have an inventory of what have to be ordered once in a while.
In a batch, at the secretary or office manager own time.

Instead of all the things to be managed, the tickets that have to be written, with somehow a kind of brain fuck logic, someone going to this person desk at any interval, might even be interrupting the office manager, the other one having to keep and manage the tickets.

Like when things are ordered, you have to let the post-it in another place like "ordered but not here yet". And maybe the day after things are ordered, another ticket will arrive but sadly the order is already done, so will have to wait for next week anyway...

And think also, like when you are using milk for your coffee, and crap, it is the last drop, so you have to drop everything to bring this stupid ticket to the board or secretary desk.

If it is such a brillant idea, I'm wondering why no one use such a strategy for managing home supplies...
You should be working 4 hours a day. It's 2025.