skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still like the basic idea. I'd push carbs and dairy further up, which naturally brings vegetables down.
Very cool. At first I thought it's about Zapier being an MCP client, but having Zaps exposed as MCP servers is actually a lot more interesting.

I'm very bullish on MCP in general, and really hope to see OpenAI announce compatibility.
is it? It is unclear that two measurements a day vs one measurement a day is going to make a meaningful difference.
> If solar/wind producers had to guarantee power 24x7 at fixed rates the cost would vastly exceed natural gas costs.

Possibly, but neither usage nor generation is 24x7 at fixed cost, so what would be the point of that requirement?
Show HN: I made a tool to collect recipes from anywhere and store them your way
I’ve been trying to level up in the kitchen and wanted a simple way to collect recipes, guides, and cooking frameworks.

I’m a heavy Obsidian user, and inspired by the Obsidian philosophy of giving you full control over your data, I wanted to bring that same idea to recipes.

So I built Cooksync: a transport layer for recipes. Instead of being a recipe manager, it imports recipes from anywhere and syncs them to the tools you already use. Use the Chrome extension to save from websites, or the mobile app to grab recipes from social media. Once imported, recipes are automatically synced to Obsidian or Notion (with more platforms coming soon).
Infinite Mac can now emulate early Mac OS X in the browser
As the author puts it: tl;dr: Infinite Mac can now run early Mac OS X, with 10.1 and 10.3 being the best supported versions. It’s not particularly snappy, but as someone who lived through that period, I can tell you that it wasn’t much better on real hardware. Infinite HD has also been rebuilt to have some notable indie software from that era.
UDDI = Universal Description, Discovery and Integration

(I didn't know what UDDI was.)
Google's is initialized with a gridded dataset, ERA5, from ECMWF. Using ERA5 is the current standard here, and ECMWF themselves build on that mostly now. Meanwhile, Aardvark tries to do the same directly from observations.
Bezos made some pretty technologically prescient decisions too, the obvious example being the API mandate, which set the ball rolling for AWS. I think leadership can be a factor, but to me what you're doing is a massive simplification. In any case, I don't think being a programmer would make me more qualified than anybody else to make good decisions for a rocket building company.
How does windy do it? Did they just scrap all the sites or api. Would be great to have global dump every 1 minute of all the countries. Or have it have in a radio broadcast.
Why is that? He's not a Nazi, or support that kind of stuff, yet so many believe it? Has left leaning media pushed a false narrative again?

Do you know about VW? Why is no one burring those?

EV's were pushed by the left, now they are bad? So burn them.. what about the environment?
>Open-ended prompting seems to go against your prescription of more curation

Not at all. There is the selection mechanism and the universe of templates. Both can be greater in a system where there is user creation and voting. Otherwise we're saying Goblin.tools has searched and found the best templates possible. Seems unlikely. And even if true now you dont need Goblin.tools anymore because you have just recreate the static templates.
then I don't understand the issue ! this seems really great imo.
I think about this every time I install software. As a citizen of a small European nation, 100% of the software I use is under control of a foreign government, and I trust none of them. At least with open source software, there is a better chance of nefarious changes being detected by at least one of the parties building and packaging the software. With proprietary software, even that small level of assurance is not available.
What is Windows 365 Link? [video]
For sure. The Apple hardware is going to make your voice sound better/richer/clearer to begin with, and then Meet's AI is great at removing background noises entirely.

In comparison, if you're on Meet with a crappy mic, it will still remove background noise, but your voice will still sound crappy. I.e. like a crappy mic in a quiet room.
Everything except "It's Better If You Make Art". That's not very fair to those of us who don't have a creative bone in our body. No one is better because they were born creative. Besides, who would there be to appreciate art if everyone were a creator?
In case of a bird flu pandemic, could immunity from seasonal flu help?
This is the part that saddens me the most. Watching that spark of curiosity and intrigue dwindle from the hearts and minds of nerds like you and me. I noticed it start to happen to me back in November when I truly began to understand where we were headed.

I think I occupy a sweet spot now with my current skill set - AI can’t solve the problems I work on - but it can really help empower my workflow in small doses. Nevertheless, it’s a moving target with lots of uncertainty, and the atrophy of my skill and passion is palpable even in the past 6 months.
not so much a taboo as much as "not proper" thing. But yeah, if there's stereotypes about city vs country than it couldn't have been that.
OpenAI Expands COO's Role as Altman Focuses on Research and Products
Humans sometimes write punchy lists, too, especially when they're trying to prove a point. Where do you think the LLMs learned it?
Congratz Marco!
The way things are going, we're likely to see how things turn out without the global nonproliferation system. I'm not looking forward to it.
Writing something that large in assembly is pretty crazy, even in 1979!
Growing in the Soviet Union, you should also remember the story that the airplane was invented by Mozhaysky, radio by Popov, lightbulb by Ladygin, and so on. No one in the US disputes who the first man in space was - the narrative rather highlights the US achievements. The soviets (and Russia) take it to the next level. It took me a while to understand why none of my colleagues have ever heard of Ostrogradskiy and Kotelnikov theorems
a currency is backed by value generated by the people and the natural resources of a country.
This expands to any department, or really any human activity.

I had an econ teacher who loved the phrase Rules, Incentives, Action, Outcome. She even had pens with RIAO printed out for students. The meaning is that each step led inevitably to the other, but also that you could start at the outcome end, and work your way backwards to what rules created that outcome.
Never understood the appeal of stanley parable or beginners guide. After the initial fun wears off, the constant abuse and sarcasm from the narrator is abrasive and noisy. Not as clever as they're hoping. The Beginners Guide even worse. Empty test levels strung together with tedious narration.

The developer's depressed? That's the least interesting thing to learn about anyone. Depressed people promoting their depression sounds disingenuous.

Not to be all negative, for walking simulators with no interaction but nice dreamy atmosphere, try Liminalcore. Relaxing and calming, great on an ultrawide OLED. Lots of vast shadow areas. Huge scale architecture. Bump the FOV setting up a little from default. No cheap gimmicks, just a restrained dream world with subtle hint of something lurking in the shadows. In terms of artistic walking games, this is one of the good ones.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3107900/Liminalcore/
Google AI is not really useful, but going to an actual reliable source from that such as California's emissions inventory:

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-inventory-graphs

The graphs seem to contradict those in the article, as the article has a huge annual variability not shown in the government data, and also the article does not show the decline in the "Electric Power" sector that's shown so clearly in the CA government data.

I also would not agree with the article's assessment that Texas is a "disaster" based on the same sort of plot. Serving the needs of ever more people, with an ever growing GDP, but keeping emissions constant is a win environmentally.
I feel the exact opposite.

7 was the peak. 8 was awful because it tried to be both a desktop OS and a tablet OS. 10 doubled-down on the flatness that I despise. 11 is simply trying to be MacOS, which is a massive bug, not a feature. I use Windows because it's not MacOS.

Personally, I use WindowBlinds on my Win10 PC to skin it to look like Win7. I love the grey taskbar with items that look like 3D buttons. Most of all, I much prefer that if I have 3 Firefox windows open, then I should have 3 Firefox items on my task bar. I should be able to switch windows in a single click.

When I'm eventually forced to downgrade to Windows 11, I'll have to buy the new WindowBlinds11 and Start11 to bring back the UX that I love.
It's unlikely that there is one.
I recall some very nasty hacks and often-won't-work-at-all issues in trying to get Delphi 6 to run on Vista or Windows 7. Windows breaks backwards compatibility more often than "never".
And in what world is the incentive of cutting costs and price gouging - of necessities no less - aligned with the incentives of the vast majority of mankind who would just like energy, healthcare, housing, public infrastructure, etc. to be as affordable and high quality as possible.
Check out Gregs Airplanes and Automobiles for really well researched aeronautic docs. He made one specifically about the Wrights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkpQAGQiv4Q
>>some company outside the EU

its not relevant, what really is important is Googel/FB siphoning money away from EU companies that pay for ads.

This is the source of high valuation of ad driven US businesses: ability to siphon money from businesses around the world simply for showing an ad. Check "Google Tax" if you are familiar with this term

Stop that pipeline and big tech will comply
The alternatives part is not right. Lot of them are Swiss but i don't think that matters.

Cloudflare - BunnyCDN, KeyCDN and quite a few others with not so complete offer.

Google Workspace / MS Teams - Infomaniak, Mailbox.org, Proton.me

Search engine - Qwant, Ecosia, Startpage

Search engine is the one where best alternative is Kagi which is US. But rest of the categories has been viable for years. Many of the companies are older than Google. Yes, UX/polish might be not same but unlike the Googles/Microsoft of the world which have been going down these companies are getting a lot better.
Not going to switch until I'm able to have several independent Quadlet environments, not "put everything in ~/.config/quadlet/systemd". This is essential for development and testing. For now, quadlets are strictly a deployment solution.
Extreme version of "great man theory" denialism claims that it does not matter even who wins elections or rules.
Well all I can talk about is the 1970s-era boxes that dominate in the Bay Area, which is the major population center that PG&E serves.

If your experience with these homes is different somehow, let me know. But go to SF, go to the peninsula, and you'll find that most homes barely stop air coming in and out of the house, much less have proper insulation. A blower test for SF homes would shock most people in the modern world.
I never understand those charts. To me a 10 is a state that only briefly exist before I passed out from agony. If I was at a 7 pain scale you wouldn't need to ask me, it would be obvious.
One of the things I dislike about the way these proof languages are documented (at least in tutorials) is that they tend to obscure the programming connection. A proof is a value of the proposition (type) you are proving, not just unit. e.g. `5` is a proof of the proposition `Int`. For a more complicated example, take this level in the Lean Set Theory Game[0]: the proposition A,B,C: Set U, (A∩B)∩C=A∩(B∩C). Here's a possible proof:

ext
exact ⟨
λ p ↦ ⟨p.left.left, p.left.right, p.right⟩,
λ p ↦ ⟨⟨p.left, p.right.left⟩, p.right.right⟩
⟩

It's kind of weird because the game puts you into tactic mode by default, but the proof here is an actual value: a pair of lambda functions (an "if"/implication is a function, so an "if and only if" is a pair of functions for the two implications). You can actually call those functions within other proofs!

Or a maybe simpler example, for this level[1], you can use `exact λ _ xBComp xA ↦ xBComp (h1 xA)` as a one-liner. The proof here is a lambda function. It's an actual value, not unit. Moreover, within that proof, you use e.g. h1: A⊆B as a function that you can call on xA: x∈A to get a proof of x∈B. Proofs are tangible values that you can build, pull apart, pass around, and (often) call.

A lot of the set theory levels can be solved with one-liners by thinking about what the proposition actually means as a programming language construct, and then making some clever use of λ and ∘ (compose). e.g. [2] is starting to get into a complicated statement, but has a short proof where you build a pair of lambdas that each require 3 function calls. To some extent, you can even figure it out without knowing about sets and intersections by just "following the types":

exact ⟨
λ hASubIntF s hsF a haA ↦ hASubIntF haA s hsF,
λ hASubsF a haA s hsF ↦ hASubsF s hsF haA
⟩

Treating proofs as programs and thinking like a programmer is so powerful that it almost feels like cheating in a game about math. Especially when the rules never tell you that constructs like λ exist, and you have to go find it in the language docs. :-)

[0] https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/djvelleman/stg4/world/Intersect...

[1] https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/djvelleman/stg4/world/Complemen...

[2] https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/djvelleman/stg4/world/FamInter/...
Native support would be systemd-nspawn running containers without podman, because systemd already have everything needed to run containers.
There's definitely an ADR (dubbing) component to movies, but it's not very much these days. (In comparison to decades ago.)

Instead, sound engineers spend weeks cleaning up spoken dialog by hand in spectrogram editors. It's honestly astounding the magic they can do, but it's also labor-intensive and therefore expensive. They're literally individually EQ-ing every vowel, splicing consonants from one word to another... it's wild.
I think Nazism is terrible, nor do I think it was an attempt at a Nazi salute. Some people will call it a "dog whistle", but it definitely wasn't a Sieg Heil.
It is the result of cheaping out by the entire tech industry. Responsive design to support multiple resolutions and pixel density was extrapolated to use a single framework (HTML+JS+CSS) for every single device that exists. Except for a few, most businesses deploy Web based apps on browsers, desktop apps and mobile phones. Usually from the same monorepo. Add developer laziness and unnecessarily tight deadlines, we end up in the current situation.
Including being high level, low level systems programming, and compiled ahead of time.

It is incredible that given its heritage, we have had to wait 25 years for .NET to finally provide a similar experience, and there are still some rough edges.

While it offered a way to perform AOT compilation, NGEN was only meant for fast startup and nothing else.
Do you have more specific critiques? I think HN's UX is great.

I think you're just used to more bloated "pretty" sites.
Many thanks Marco for providing this.
Why America Struggles to Build
I'll provide a counter perspective: I love building things, but the minutae and implementation details of code are merely a means to an end for me, something that stands in between me and a feature/experiment. Agentic coding, especially when doing green field or prototyping takes the grunt work away and let's me build on a higher abstraction level. And I love it, though I can see that that's not for everyone.
Sorry I can't on this one. Hopefully you find value in using the site.
if you think fake 5.1ch sounds better, not like better for enjoying action movies, you've never had exposure to a >$99 pair of bookshelf speakers with a non-USB powered class D amp. change my mind.
Yes it does, because it leaves the fulfillment of those necessities to the whims of the market. If suddenly an endeavour is not profitable any more, or is simply less profitable than an alternative, what happens? You have to subsidise it, at great cost, leaving you at the mercy of those privatised concerns.

Neither public services nor private enterprise is a silver bullet to everything.
also see gitrecon
As the article says,

> Deregulated markets, which might be better described as “differently regulated” markets, separate these concerns. Independent power producers (generators) build and sell electricity wholesale to Retail Electric Providers (REPs), who sell to households, while utilities manage the transmission and infrastructure.

On the face of it this makes sense to me. Deregulation doesn't mean there are no regulations at all. It means we split up a monolithic entity into different parts that can each be subject to competitive forces and be regulated differently.
Despite that I wouldn't be surprised if China ends up reaching 90% carbon-free electricity sooner than the US.
Engineering (as distinct from something like math or science) is more about applying, rather than discovering, knowledge. Some folks just treat the models and equations as mantras handed down by some all-knowing being (the professor). The equation shall be recited in the homework, at length in the project, one final time in the exam, and then we shall release it to the universe and free our minds of it.
Every time I've shopped at a Hobby Lobby, I've gotten a weird feeling that there's something else shady going on. They don't use barcodes to price any of the goods. Everything has a sticker on it, and the cashier types up everything by hand. Your receipt ends up just being a list of dollar amounts and a total, nothing identifying your purchases in any way.

I just assumed that they're doing this so they can falsify audits. Similar to how they purchase land and donate it, claiming a bigger tax write-off, I assume they're doing the same with their merchandise. How could you audit it if there's no real stock tracking system?
The Energy Conundrum of Home AI
It's a private flight. Probably made cheaply. The article said the lander planned to drill 10 feet but could only do 3.

Whole thing smells like shoddy craftsmanship.
Deregulation is such a funny word. The California deregulation you are referring to, involved the powers that be pushing utility companies to sell their power plants.

The current energy deregulation in the EU involves forcing utilities to trade electricity in a spot market, that treats the on-demand production of conventional power plants and the random and unpredictable production of solar and wind, as if it's completely equivalent. Of course, that's a fairly effective way to promote solar, as it's far more intrusive than conventional renewable mandates.

As far as I can see, "deregulation" means, "we regulate far more aggressively than before, but there's now a market in there where Wall Street types can make money".
The future of Rails front-end is hybrid
It is a return to the age when we had BASIC and Z80/6502 Assembly, and yes doing memcpy/strcpy all over the place instead of having proper arrays and strings is that bad.

At very least, C++.

"C++14 For The Commodore 64"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLv_INgaLq8
All the fanfold green-barred paper I used had the green as a pinstripe, so it's hard to say which is closest, but I think it was probably either the #BB.. or #CC 'green's BUT perceived like the #A9 green because of the pinstripe effect.
Leadership Updates
As another AuDHD Iwish it was so.

Then I could just blink them and get benefits.

Instead I sometimes can't follow a book that is both engaging and interesting to read because 3 pages in my brain will throw at me at least one novel story plot bunny, musing on alternative solutions to whatever is the problem in the book, musing on implementing things from the book, possibly multiple software project ideas, etc.

And all of the above can happen for both fiction and non fiction.

And then come the interrupts while trying to focus, which quickly lead to situations where I can't focus due to expectation of interrupt, which only then leads to doom scrolling because it both fills a need to do something and is worthless enough to not care about being interrupted
Probably 78.0.0 as well which was released yesterday. The diff between 78.0.0 and 78.0.1 appears to be no-op from user perspective https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/compare/v78.0.0...v78.0.1
The incentive of cutting costs directly leads to affordability.
Idea I've had for years but never got around to testing due to lack of compute:

Use a microphone array and LIDAR for ground truth, and train a diffusion model to "imagine" what the world looks like conditioned on some signal transformations of the microphone data only.

Could be used by autonomous vehicles to "see" pedestrians through bushes, early detect oncoming emergency vehicles, hear bicyclists before they are visible, and lots of other good things.
This is essentially what agentic coding tools like Aider, Cursor and Windsurf use, but packaged for interoperability, right?
> Majority of the country voted for him

He got 49.8% of the vote. That is not a majority.
To be fair, #6 and I think #7 were true of Santos Dumont as well, and for years after 01903 (which did have witnesses, who were disbelieved, but AFAIK no public photos) the Wrights were very secretive. Santos Dumont himself favored crediting the Wrights, since he had achieved sustained flight but not controllable sustained flight.
Many upvotes here due to the political/religious aspect, but there should be some comment on the archeological issue. From what I've gathered in the past, the main points are:

1. An organization with very deep pockets sets out to collect Near Eastern antiquities.

2. Due to turmoil in the Middle East, many relics of dubious provenance are hitting the market.

3. The org decides to buy as much of this stuff as they can, knowing that some of it will be dubious.

4. The org voluntarily has their purchases inspected, knowing they will not be compensated for things that have to be returned to their rightful places.

In outline, this sounds like the buyers doing the right thing in a bad situation.
To manufacture products exported to the west. It's always this argument... You need to look at emissions by country of final destination of the products, not by country of manufacture. In an age where a simple t-shirt is made in Bangladesh with cotton from Afghanistan it's ridiculous to use the latter measure.
During "snowmageddon" and similar winter outages fossil fuel shoulder load also broke down, since the dynamic pricing market doesn't pay to keep spinning capacity, and the plants couldn't start up, which is why the cost curves went berserk: the price pressure escalated to try and incentivize production, but the production wasn't to be had. (The JIT nature of Texas LNG logistics also played its part; some gas turbines would have been able to start up, but couldn't get LNG to do so.)

Absent turning the Texas energy market into a more rational design (I was part of the energy market during dereg, these failures were predicted by our energy economists at the time), the state should mandate weatherization for wind generation at a minimum, and look into grid-scale battery requirements as prices fall and technologies mature.

Solar and wind are fantastic opportunistic power generators that work well together and should be a significant part of any grid's energy mix going forward, but the state needs to act like every other power market and pay for spinning fossil fuel capacity for shoulder and peak demand. Picking energy mix winners and losers is just political meddling in what was supposed to be a free market environment.