skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. I was born in the 80s so had a few tastes of the programs of those early days when people still appreciated a smiling face, calm words and long explanations without flashy special effects. They were quite good actually.
Red Blobs hexagon guide[0] (linked in the first paragraph) is an incredible collection of knowledge around hexagon-based maps. It's fueled numerous random side projects of mine and has probably made hexagon-based indie games way more numerous than they otherwise would've been

[0] https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
Why should it be a public service?
This is a circular argument. In order for it not to be, you need to show how “having a computer in the house in 1991” is already a not uncommon thing for that to then apply to 1 in 5 not being uncommon.
TFA seems to be making the point that it could become more common in the US if the school commute were more walkable - shorter and safer from cars.

I have observed many kids walking and biking to and from schools when these conditions seem to exist. Crossing guards help out for crossing busier roads near the school. However, there is also a car queue, perhaps for students who live farther away.
I have found in life that the true art of doing things very well is to look into those countless small details that no one notices when they are going well, but everyone notices when a few are not.

Kinda like system admin or devops teams.
I’m not sure that’s true either.

See for example “effective altruism”, which turns out to have been neither, but more of a self-deluded justification for insane greed, coupled with a god complex.
pirating who? I actually don't know who holds the copywrite to youtube videos. I assume the creators do, and that a lot of them would be happy to have their videos shared. It's google that wants suck the value out of the creations for themselves.
Even when games were much simpler 20 years ago we tried to outsource some development to other studios and it was very difficult to find a good match, we were so unsatisfied with the results eventually brought all development in house. My experience using EA as a publisher back then is they were already ossified in their ways, nothing like their early days.
The problem with postgres scaling is that you have to have a single master which means horizontal scaling really only gives you more reads and a failover. Eventually you wont be able to find a server big enough to handle all the writes, and if you get enough reads with even a small number of writes single master setups fall over. Distributed computing gets complicated very quickly but the gist here is basically that you need to be able to have multiple instances that can accept writes. Lots of literature on this but good starting points imo would be the paxos paper https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf and dynamo db paper https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sos...
I think the company named Topaz had a photoshop plugin to remove "jpeg artifacts" - I don't know if they are using a neural model for it though.
AdaFruit FruitJam is a Mac 384K
script type="module" doesn't work from file systems. To my great annoyance. Other than that, I'm quite certain JS has worked from file systems since it existed.
Apple supports it on mobile and Mac OS, so it's alive enough to be on however many billions of devices that represents.
Amazing link. Including the car mechanic joke.
>The alternative to highly technical, agile quantitative trading is fat middle men, wide spreads

No, this would be the alternative to securities and derivatives markets being electronic.

>If it didn’t provide value, nobody would pay for it.

The parent was remarking on the value provided to society, not the value provided to the firms.
I think the amount of money that is creamed off for this service is disproportionate, and the amount of benefit to wider society a case of diminishing returns.

Allocation of capital, market liquidity etc are useful, but the size of the financial sector and the rewards it gives out for this shuffling of money are insane.
Given the fact that nobody actually knows how to solve this problem to a reliability level that is actually acceptable, I don't know how the conclusion here isn't that Agents are fundamentally flawed unless they don't need to access any particularly sensitive APIs without supervision or that they just don't operate on any attacker controlled data?

None of this eval framework stuff matters since we generally know we don't have a solution.
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I deal with a lot of archival and forensics and tools like yt-dlp are invaluable, even outside of YouTube.

There are important use cases for these tools outside of "free stuff".
Also worth remembering that his most synclavier-heavy work came as he was dying of cancer. And also that the "synclavier phase" is like 4-5 albums out of over 60.
> The effect of consistent, careful, workmanlike effort over time trumps any number of crunch weeks and burnout episodes, to an almost absurd degree

This is worth remembering for basically anyone who works on anything, or manages any kind of project.
Panama has been us aligned and a huge trading partner since the late 80s. We don't have any mutual military aid pact or anything but we give them a substantial amount of aid and they give us favorable trading conditions through their sovereign property.

They are a sovereign state. They get to build relations with whoever they want. That's how sovereignty works. The way you win those countries over is with the use of soft power, something that China understands but seems to be outside the grasp of the current admin, who is banging around like a band of drunken apes.
Why prediction markets aren't popular (2024)
they make the mistake of paying for it unlike those who know what to do https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030916/buffe...
Keep in mind that my own knowledge of physics is very rusty, so some of this is definitely making bad assumptions.

The density in the singularity (centre) of the black hole is in theory infinite. But the event horizon (the part where light no longer escapes) is not the singularity, it's simply where the gravity becomes so strong that light can't escape.

Think of it as the sun vs the planets - we're not in the sun, but we still feel its effects. The density of the solar system isn't the same as the density of the sun. This is bad analogy because the same mathematics/physics doesn't apply, but it should help you get the general picture based on your original assumption.

In general, the heavier the black hole, the less dense it is when measured from the event horizon. So in theory, it's possible to have a black hole so heavy that the event horizon contains the entire universe. In fact, the known universe is heavy enough to be a black hole 3 times the known radius of the universe. But as we know from stars that turn into black holes, just because something is heavy enough to be a black hole, doesn't mean it is one yet.
The Marshall Islands tests were carried out after the end of WWII.

It's worth considering that the US also used the islands as a dumping ground for waste from previous tests in the US [1] ... At a site which is now under threat of leaking due to the effects of climate change [2]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-te...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_Island
Jade Raymond was famously (gamedev famously that is) hired to lead a studio to create first party content for stadia
> Then the only way to get stuff done is go 10x during the time you have whenever you have it.

I believe PP is correct: the cost of "going 10x" is greater than its benefit in the long run, and often in the short run.

Henry Ford lowered the Ford company work week from 48 hours to 40 hours to improve cars manufactured per labor-hour, and to give employees leisure time to drive places (increasing demand for cars). Wages were raised to compensate, further increasing loyalty to the company while enabling employees to buy more cars.

For software, a 40-hour week may not be optimal, I tend to think that it may be too high rather than too low.
Perl Jam might be the most "hacker news" typo I've ever seen.
Yes, that’s it, thank you for finding it!
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I agree with both of your points, and I was born in 1979. My dad was into the music of the 60s, like Jethro Tull, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd. My mom was huge into the Beatles. I love all of the above mentioned bands, and while I listen to more metal than anything, the metal I love definitely take elements from all of the above, along with Black Sabbath. Now you need to really dig to find what you enjoy, it usually won't show up on radio, or even on a related Spotify playlist unless you make sure to constantly interact with and like music you are into.

Hip-hop and rap seem to be more divisive for boomers (not using the term as an insult, my parents are both boomers, who I respect), and I think it's more because the message was more in your face and violent (as far as what was publicized). There is a lot of hip-hop and rap that is much more socially conscious and aware from the 90s up to today, that aligns more with the messages from the 60s. I enjoy both, but I have gotten my dad into groups like the Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill/Wu-Tang Clan, while skipping over the tracks that I don't think he'd enjoy. I think it's fine to not like certain styles of music.

I don't enjoy modern country at all, but I like Bluegrass and Americana type music, with my favorite Grateful Dead album being Workingman's Dead (arguably quite a bit different from the rest of their catalog). You just have to search more for what you like now than in the past where you really could find good music on public radio.
A) The timing for this is deliberately set to be very conservative in terms of the wakeup window (at the cost of higher power), so the radio is probably powered up for a good 5ms before the beacon arrives. I don't know if you could unintentionally design a 3V3 supply so poor that it takes in the order of milliseconds to adjust to an output current of about 30mA -> 80mA.

B) Yes, this is a fair point, and why I was careful to specify a "quiet" station above. If actively transmitting then there is likely a benefit to disabling power saving, but unlike Arduino bros I will admit at this point that I don't understand the WiFi spec well enough to comment further with any confidence.
There's an optional feature in the spec I think. But in my very limited experience, it is never implemented or working correctly.
Does this seem like a plausible summary?

1. tj-actions-bot PAT spoofs renovatebot commit with malicious code - probably by creating a new unprotected branch, pushing to it spoofing the renovatebot user, then deleting the branch, but we really don't know.

2. Attacker uses PAT to also update release tags, pointing them to the malicious commit, again spoofing renovatebot

3. jackton1 tries to restore older branch, and therefore pushes the commit again. The original commit wouldn't be referenced as pushed in any pull requests
How many personal computers in 1994 still had the ability to boot after the OS was trashed?

In the DOS/Windows world, you'd insert the boot floppy you made and boot from that in order to undo changes that prevented the main system from booting, but DOS is simple enough that it's easy to make additional copies of it (two kernel files, and one shell); in that era, I'd make all my floppies bootable.
Good points
Eno's Music For Airports is another butter album.

Speaking of 'Heads, if you haven't already, check out the David Byrne/Eno collab My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts ('81). It's something like a snapshot of what what was emergent and most interesting sounds from that time from what I think are American vs European persepectives; some funky drum machines and samples (Byrne/US), some funky northwest African and Middle Eastern vibes (Eno/UK). There's a nice jam called Regiment that I can imagine Khruangbin playing
>But generally nobody pays quants to lose money. They expect value over the other opportunities they have to use that same money. Is this really controversial?

As with your other comment, this has nothing to do with what the original parent comment was remarking on. They didn't claim, nor did anyone else, that proprietary trading firms weren't making money and that people weren't well compensated due to helping firms make money. Their remark was that the value these firms are providing to society is questionable and that the highly intelligent employees could likely be providing greater value to society elsewhere.
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See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_trees

I hadn't heard of the second and third tallest species, South Tibetan cypress and Yellow meranti. There are also far more very tall eucalyptus species than I expected.

Unfortunately these are just the tallest current trees, and there are records (some believable, some dubious) of much taller trees in the relatively recent past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superlative_trees#Tall...
Not just influenced, Led Zeppelin stole tracks from black musicians.

Even worse (in my opinion), is Eric Clapton, who stole so much music from black musicians, and then went on to disparage them and go on racist rants about who he wants in his country. Even worse when you see how he gave and received praise from artists like Jimi Hendrix.
I think they're claiming that it won't roam between APs with identical SSIDs.
I once worked a job that involved training for handling anhydrous ammonia.

No amount of training could ever make it feel 'safe', everything about it is 'if you make a mistake, even a small one, it WILL kill you'.
People have thought about how to do forward secrecy with PGP:

https://sequoia-pgp.org/talks/2018-08-moving-forward/moving-...

https://sequoia-pgp.gitlab.io/openpgp-dr/openpgp_dr/index.ht...

https://github.com/stealth/opmsg

https://github.com/autocrypt/autocrypt/issues/444

There's a lot going on in the space. It is more innovative than you're giving it credit for, especially around double ratchet. Not there yet, but there's a good reason why I don't mind: control. Multi client support (DeltaChat desktop, hallelujah) and the fact that email remains federation-first.

My identity definitely leaks to my server because I pay it's bill. Not only that, but most of my contacts run their own email or borrow it from me or someone else. Our data does not leave any EU countries apart from the UK. We have IM that doesn't involve any Americans.

Some might imagine we feel terribly smug about that right now :)
To expand on what the other commenter noted, these are well known industries, mostly in India. Just like this also well-known romance scam slavery industry existing in SEA (especially Myanmar, Cambodia, Philippines).
Amazing. Like a 38 story building. Much taller than the Statue of Liberty. Almost as tall as Starship.
It seems like this hack would be fine for notebooks, but not something I’d be interested in for production code.

Why not just something like this?

def f(n):
time.sleep(random.uniform(0.1, 0.3)) # Simulate network delay
return pd.DataFrame({"A": [n, n+1], "B": [n*2, (n+1)*2]})

with ThreadPoolExecutor() as ex:
df = pd.concat(ex.map(f, range(3)), ignore_index=True)
The thriving wildlife sounds a lot like Chernobyl.

When humans disappear, nature thrives. The higher mutation and cancer rates don't really matter in aggregate.
Deal with what? I would argue that if you're going to the effort of writing a blog post on the topic then you should at least go to the effort of skimming the docs to make sure there isn't already a solution for the common problem you're experiencing.

It's literally one word to change in his WiFi config to get the behaviour he wants. It's already implemented. Who can't "deal" with that?
I think the liquidity argument is overrated.

The market has two functions:

1. Incentivizing convergence of the price towards fundamental value, to support proper asset allocation decisions.

2. Supporting buying and selling (ie "liquidity") to shift consumption in time (and enable productive investments with the delayed consumption).

Suppose a retirement fund holds their investments over a 20 year period on average, growing at a modest 4%. A 1% wider spread would reduce the return from 119% to 118%. I'm not sure avoiding that is worth the financial sector constituting 30% of GDP.

What would happen if equity markets were only open a very short period a day? Say you have one auction a day, or maybe two, and no continuous trading?

Everyone whose advantage is speed would lose out (HFT, some prop traders). Their current gain would instead accrue to those on the other side of the trades.
Okay, they didn’t bother to completely sequence neanderthal dna…

And now we make the claim that their Y chromosone is non existent in humans.

Let’s finish the sequencing before being so definitively factual about it.
Yeah that guy
Much of the heavy lifting is done by this simple but powerful attribute, something surprisingly few developers seem to know about. It's been around for quite a while.

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A GIF by Any Other Name
Personally know of 1 from Ghana and 1 from Nigeria - both engineers in HFT - both emigrated to the US post-college - so not that rare. Is it proportional to population? Of course not. Clearly there's going to be an english-speaking bias and an education availability bias and whatever bias du jour one wants to bake in. I don't think it is controversial to say that being born into poverty hurts - as naively as just accounting for malnutrition, for example, and going from there...
is 3 week old milk that old? usually when I buy milk the best by date is 2-3 weeks away
These are excellent ideas.
> an utterly gorgeous place of peace and serenity and happiness.

Pretty sure the people there had just as much conflict, poverty, and misery as the rest of us.
It's important to consider that rap/hip-hop lyrics are deeply tied to social issues. For a middle-class white kid, it's not super important, but for the audience that was also making the music, this is why it took off. The music was new with a message, and even if you didn't understand the message, you could feel the power behind the music. Then you had producers like Rick Rubin, and labels like Def Jam, that knew they could market the music to white kids in the suburbs. I was one of those white kids in the suburbs, and my friends and I would listen to more "underground" hip-hop/rap radio stations in the very late 80s/early 90s to find music that had a message behind it and was honest (even if we weren't the target).
And yet if there was so much gold dust lying on the sidewalk that you could pay 15 Harvard med surgeons enough to pick it up and still have some left over, would you just not?
> Sure they started Stadia but they had no internal game dev teams that I know of.

They had. They just did not end up releasing anything.
Not a new thing. In the 1980s, Australia cracked NCTR on the AN/APG-65 radar on the classic Hornet so that they could extend it to identify hostile aircraft in the region. They did this because Uncle Sam refused to assist.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/beazley-tells-of-us-code-cra...
This is such a weird take. Folding phones are a tiny market and they all have considerable durability downsides.

Also, if the market did shift Apple could easily build one. I’m sure they’ve prototyped a few already.
Discussion (243 points, 1 day ago, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43369633
For #3: You don’t have to actually have a commit in a pull request for it to show up in the PR “conversation”. Simply putting the PR # in the commit message like #2460 would result in it showing up like that (“commit referenced this pull request”). The original malicious commit copied a real PR merge commit with #2460, so anyone who pushed it in this repo to any branch would have their push referenced in the PR conversation list. It’s just a misleading UI in my opinion.
> but it removes the work for the person to monitor the milk stock.

Why is that supposed to be a problem? It's not like the person to monitor the milk stock belong to subhuman classes and doing work for them tarnishes your karma. In fact, in many tiny companies, it's more likely to be managers themselves doing non-scaling housewife like tasks. Less janitorial work for the boss and more time for executive tasks is good.
Show HN: I'm creating an app to track server-side events for free
I believe client-side user tracking is dead due to ad blockers, which also block these types of tracking scripts.

Simply wanting to know the exact number of users on your website becomes impossible if you rely on client-side tracking.

A tool I really like for this is LogSnag, but I don’t like their business model of charging based on the number of events.

That’s why I’m building my own alternative, where I plan to develop a freemium model. You’ll be able to track as many events as you want for free, and pay a subscription to access advanced analytics tools and conversion funnels.

Personally, I’d feel more comfortable paying for a service where I can predict my future expenses.

Here’s a tweet where I share more information: https://x.com/markdoppler_/status/1901124167329574955
This gives me a lot of hope because I’ve been disappointed in LEGO games for a while. They’re really flashy now but they just aren’t as fun. I 100% the original LEGO Star Wars games again every few years.
Sure, some derivatives have some utility.

But, ok, Spread Networks spent $300m around 2010 to build a somewhat straighter glass fibre data connection between NY and Chicago. Other companies spent more to build a micro wave connection, since microwaves move faster through air than light through fibre.

Is that money really well spent? And I'm afraid a lot of what happens in finance is similarly private gain, without much social welfare increase.
It seems that the actual hardware is just a dumb microphone with a Bluetooth connection to the phone and basically the whole thing is running on the cloud.
Couldn’t e.g. an always on AirPod etc do the same trick?
I'm not sure buying Traveller's Tales is a good idea.

TT had a really good engine that allowed them to pump out Lego games at an impressive rate of 1-3 per year. They maintained that cadence from 2005 through to 2019, then they stopped.

In the following 6 years, they have only released a single game: Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, in early 2022. It's been a full 3 years since they released a game.

They built a whole new engine for Skywalker Saga, so the development time is understandable. But apparently that engine was too hard to work with, so they dumped it and switched to Unreal, which has probably set their development efforts back again.

Now, I'm not saying that studios need to continually release games. Many good studios have long development cycles. But it's a bad sign when a studio suddenly switches cadence, how much of the original TT team is left?