skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pure gold...
"...male fruit flies, essentially, know when they've reached the optimal level of inebriation to attract more females and successfully mate, before they become so intoxicated that they repulse the females, or approach other males by mistake."
Probably stemming from David Shor's Blue Rose Research. I bumped into that @ https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/new-insights-on-why-harris-...
Adam Neely and his band Sungazer did an interesting live experiment with his audiences, to figure out the slowest beat or pulse that people would be able to "feel" and dance to. Slowest possible isn't really as interesting in my opinion as slowest practical, which I think Neely and co's experiment explored. The track was Threshold on the album Perihelion.

The whole album explored beat, pulse and timings as it relates to how people can actually feel and interact with music. Really interesting!
> I look at a lot of books. I don't think you've summarized them well here. I suggest you look at more yourself. You're missing a lot of beautiful art.

This comment is pretty obnoxious. (I've stepped into a library, thanks.)

For all the books that you're thinking of that don't fit the mold, when you put that set up against the set of those that do, it's not even close.

I'm not talking about hypotheticals (i.e. the potential for stuff that could be made that deviates from the norm) or creative works that really exist but only at the margins (i.e. in small numbers by comparison). I'm talking about what people actually produce and consume in large numbers and the average experience for each context/form.

There is undeniably a lot more homogeneity in books than blogs to a large degree. It's something like over a hundred or a thousand to 1.
Is not the US export higher if they take into account all the Software and software as service they sell?
We Are a Part of Infinity
Isn't this just common sense? I mean, if there are no people/production/imports in a certain territory, it doesn't mean that all of this won't appear there literally tomorrow, especially when tariffs on goods from these territories are zero.
>If China makes better phones, it won't be long until they make better drones.

They already do. China makes the best drones. Most of the drones in the world, most of the drones use in wars, etc. are manufactured in China, or are comprised of mostly Chinese parts.
X220 owner here. You will have to pry it from my dead cold hands. I don't use anything that can't run on it well, my workflow is mostly shell based. Even Firefox don't do that bad when JS is disabled.
> The piece is called "As Slow As Possible", but it's not as slow as possible.

In what way is it “possible” to play an infinitely long piece of music?
one quick reason: if amazon has my data, then they'll work with it. Depending on my AOB (area of business), amazon won't be a competitor for my. Also, they won't use the data in a big & disrupting competition based on customer data, because then no company will use their services anymore for sure. So, there is a slight barrier of data-usage. Also, contracts are in play and for sure amazon does have a clause like "your data is safe. Only you can see the data" in the contracts.

With AI like chatgpt, your data is their business and their business is also the competitors of yours. You can't control who is using it (potentially the whole world), you can't control what & how it is used (potentially everything) and you don't have any control about YOUR data, which is also produced by YOU with YOUR money. AI is trained on that and use it without paying, f.e.

so, having providers saying "we dont use your data" and having AI providers saying "we use your data" - its a trust issue and an issue of disclosing crucial business intelligence so your competitor can save on money building that knowledge..

something like this.
My interpretation is: it’s domestic overproduction because China isn’t exporting as much to US so it will consume domestically and then not have need for imports from the other SE Asia countries.
Of course. If you can't drive a car anywhere cars would not be as popular. That doesn't sound like rocket science to me.
I saw a post on X which said it was "vibe tariffing" and I think the person was speculating that the tariffs were probably generated using an LLM and saying "make me a tariff chart with ALL the countries and each one about 25% but randomize them."

That's the only plausible explanation I can see. A human with any brains wouldn't put tariffs on islands only populated by penguins.

Doge should look into this inefficiency.
I think that we're diluting the scope too much. Not only do people get paid to solve problems, also to execute them. When we get into the non execution zones, it causes many layers of beaureaucracy that will bankrupt any respectable company.
I wonder what was wrong with uvcvideo in the first place.
For reference: https://vat-one-stop-shop.ec.europa.eu/one-stop-shop_en
If you claim GDPR is "not affecting" EU companies your position has nothing to do with reality.
Without descending fully into epistemology, I tend to think that there is no proper "idea" in your head before it's phrased in language - the act of initially describing something in natural language *is* the act of generating it.
This reply makes the mootest point of all the moot points.
Because then you don't know what the computer's doing. The whole point of this article was that there is value in the process of writing your ideas out formally. If you "let computers help you along the way", you'll run straight into the issue of needing an increasingly formal natural language to get sufficiently good results from the machine.
Maybe. Killing or stealing for a reason doesn't make the action morally good, just less morally bad than the outcome it was intended to prevent. I've never heard the first parenting example.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Is not the US export far higher than import if they take into account the software and other IT services they sell?
I would expect other countires to tarrif that.
Let's imagine they do come back. Let's say you have a toaster factory in Vietnam, which allows the US company to produce low-cost toasters for about $100. The factory workers earn $1 per hour. Now, due to the tariffs, a toaster will cost $146. And you say, "Okay, they just need to move their factory to the US and then the problem will be solved - no more tariffs. " Fine. Do you really think a US worker will work for $1 per hour? Even if you automate 80% of the factory, you still won't offset the 46% tariff. You will never get a toaster priced at $100. More likely, it will be $300.
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> The experience is great.

Aside from it being a principled thing, Linux does work a lot better on older machines. Newer hardware tends to have shit driver support for a few years.

Like my 10 year old Asus laptop which is supposed to have horrid Linux compatibility runs multiple versions of Ubuntu with KDE perfectly, with only bluetooth crapping out occasionally.

A new Lenovo laptop that we just got at work that's supposed to be tested with linux? Completely broken, can't adjust the display brightness, can't read the battery level, touchpad doesn't work, and more. I'm sure it'll be sorted out by Ubuntu 26 or whatever, but damn is it a crap experience. Using linux on a machine that's less than 5 years old is already too bleeding edge for productivity.
Fully agree. The physics of solar panels on cars just doesn't work. It's bizarre that this is actively pursued by startups and concept cars from large manufacturers when it takes just quick back-of-the-napkin math to see.

A car has about 5 m^2 of flat space on the roof/hood/trunk so that's the maximum surface area that can capture solar energy at any given time.

The total energy to hit the area is 1000 w/m^2.

The panels can't rotate to track the sun so the effective area is the cosine of the angle. So you end up with about half the amount of effective sunlight hours as the actual daylight hours. So in summer you get about 6 hours of effective sunlight.

Good panels in real world conditions can give you 22% efficiency.

So in optimal conditions you get: 5 * 1000 * 6 * 0.22 = 6.6 kwh

That will reflect your best days. It can be dramatically less if it's cloudy, overcast, winter, far from the equator, car is dirty, parked in shade, etc.

6.6 kwh is about one tenth of the battery in my Hyundai Kona EV. With very conservative highway driving, 6.6 kwh can get about 40km of range and about 50km in city driving. It's what I get from plugging into my home charger for 30 min and what you get from a fast charger in about 3 minutes.

So besides some very niche uses, there's no sense in massively increasing the cost and complexity of a car by installing solar panels. Far better to put the panel on the roof of parking and just plug in for a few minutes while you park.
The handling, the speed, the unavailability of functions and the idea about it.
This is why I don't get why my EU people are attacking Trump - he singlehandedly gave Europe political capital to rebuild itself as an independent player on the international stage. He created an environment where tighter EU integration might take precedence over petty interest squabbles. For example in what other scenario would Germany making massive investments in military be politically acceptable ? Even talking about military on EU level ?

Framing this as purely a win for China and Russia is very partisan, this has potential for all non-US countries to get away from under US thumb long term and at least for that we should be grateful to mr. Trump, from his foreign policy it seems like he is not interested in those games as he views them a net loss for US.

And the Greenland situation is showing us exactly what happens when you position yourself as leech on US military/NATO.
Thank you for finding this. It's extremely valuable for those of us who are trying to make sense of the tariffs.
I agree that Project 2025 broadly sets the agenda, but when it comes to tariffs specifically, I'm under the impression that Trump is singularly obsessed with them and the conservative think tanks are, even if they're pro-tariff, uneasy with how far he's going with it.
For example:

https://studyinternational.com/news/trump-student-wharton/

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/09/14/donald-trump-at-wh...
Is there a visual interface for Mermaid?

I can blast out auto-reflowing flowcharts in Flying Logic on a keyboard but it's moved to a subscription model that doesn't make sense for my irregular use.

Seeing the connections in real time really helps with my thought process.
The Perils of Early Springtime
> I suspect this is a bit of tongue in cheek

no
I have also dealt with EU compliance, and I have never seen the EU act quickly on anything concerning business. It's a slow, bureaucratic institution.

With all due respect, when you are given years to comply, the problem is not that the timeline is impossible, but that your organization chooses to ignore the regulation.

If the same laws had been passed in the US, the company would have complied already.
was thinking the same thing. US is a giant in software.
Reminds me of the time we made geometric art using a compass.
https://homeschoolmath.blogspot.com/2013/02/geometric-art-pr...
Great project!

If the database grows it would be nice to be able to exclude tags, not only to include them. I'd like to exclude anything modular for example.
> If being able to replace a part requires me to have a screwdriver (literally a Philips one should do), the component, and no additional PhD or bravery coming from youth, inexperience or both, I will welcome it with open arms.

You have to understand though that people like us are a tiny minority.

Increasingly I hate creating waste, especially e-waste, and so I'll tinker with things to get them working or upgrade them, but most people don't want the hassle.
It’s in the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/palworld/id6503918400?mt=12
The folks who voted because of the price of eggs are not going to be happy. And midterm elections are next year.
> Maybe software engineering should have some sort of "Hall of Ideas That Definitely Don't Work", so that young people entering the field could save their time on implementing one more incarnation of an already known not good idea.

FWIW, neural networks would be in that pool until relatively recently.
Useful tool!

Would you mind tagging your releases? You don’t need to use GitHub Releases if you don’t want, but tagging your commits would allow system-level package maintainers to include your tool. The same goes for people who prefer to build from source for other reasons.
Keeping the LHC colliding – moving to Debian [pdf]
I don't think you're disagreeing with me. The comment I responded to says that calling Trump voters ignoramuses was -

> trying to find an easy way to avoid the conclusion that the majority of them are sane and rational people who liked what he was saying.

My point is that to vote Republican in 2024 you must either be insane, irrational, or outright evil. It doesn't make you that way, it reveals that you already were.

> Many people who voted for tribe X voted for tribe Y a few years back. Have these people irredeemably changed in your eyes?

I think that Biden->Trump voters, or Obama->Trump voters, are incredibly stupid or short-sighted. There is no good reason to have done that. If you were a consistent Republican voter you might instead be a selfish racist piece of shit, but if you've switched from the Democrats in recent years the only option I have is to assume you're a gullible idiot.

And to be clear, yes, I think this is specific to the time we're in. I don't think I'd say this in 2000, for instance - it was pretty obvious that W was not going to be a good president, but he was not an incomprehensible choice, and you could imagine people who thought Gore's brand was tainted by association with Clinton's various forms of griminess. But Trump and his merry band of lunatics are not simply "the other tribe". They are an obvious and unprecedented threat no matter what your values are, unless your only value is breaking shit for the lulz.
It's pretty obvious to me that this LLM business won't be economically feasible until it can actually produce better code than a team of humans could without it. The reason programmers are paid so highly is because their work is incredibly productive and valuable. One programmer can enable and improve the work of many hundreds of other people. Cost cutting on the programmer isn't worth it because it'll create greater losses in other places. Hence the high salaries. Every saving you make on the programmer is magnified a hundred times in losses elsewhere.
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Same with RA2/YR.

All it took was for some salty player to activate a trainer or prez IFS and kill the game.

I like that the lobbies were ran over IRCd.

Dreamforge IRCd with the server password being "supersecret".
"The golden prize for America's enemies is to remove the US dollar as a global reserve currency."

I would argue that for this to become even remotely possible, America's list of enemies must not automatically become everyone else's enemies too.

that is to say: the USA's secondary statutes have to become ineffective.

To do this, the EU's blocking statutes (to ignore secondary sanctions) have to be effective. Right now Europe's own companies just ignore the statutes to keep their US trade.

To make the blocking statues effective, the EU's own research recommended fines/sanctions/bans/… on licences for foreign (read US) banks, and companies that ignore the statue and don't serve EU companies trading with sanctioned countries.

But to do that, the EU would need alternatives to American services.

Power and influence follow sovereignty.

€0,02
Apple Stock Falls as Trump Tariffs Target Supply Chain
Alex Russel did a lot of writing on this and posts yearly updates based on the state of the phone market. You can pick median, P75 or P95 device based on the analysis and set up targets based on that.

https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-...

I did it the simple way and bought a first item in "sort by cheapest" smartphone list. That's Alcatel 1, and it's extremely underpowered. It's maybe a bit overkill, but if something runs on that device, it will run amazing on anything else.
> and they expect the coming storm because they seek what follows.

Well, a lot of economists, including one Nobel Prize winner (Paul Krugman) have commented on this being a bad idea for the economy...

On the off chance that those people who are supposed to know what they are talking about are all wrong and haven't thought about it being some genius diversion tactics -- it's generally still a pretty bad idea for a government to effectively ask everyone to "tough it out" and "just trust me bro".

It's really disappointing that people are actually trying to theorize this as some kind of genius plan. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the amount of irreparable damage they have already done to regular folks is unacceptable (uh... I'm sure some nutters out there think that DOGE is keeping track of all the damages they have done and will pay everyone once their genius plans have worked out).

That kind of logic really amazes me.
Not really - look at the feature list.

You can make other voxel games. This game is not that, it's explicitly the list of features in Minecraft.
Merging two different ideas is almost by definition, not cloning.
>Use thrift stores, especially ones that give deep discounts for needy parents. No government will help you buy nicer things.

yeah, but I don't think there are useful thrift stores that will help you replace

8 windows

1 balcony door

a shower head every couple of months (maybe that sure, and they're cheap anyway, but it adds up)

a mac m1

2 tablets

1 phone

my front tooth (jumped up and hit me with his forehead, likes to hit things with his forehead, enjoys the sensation, knocked out my tooth)

damage to the floor when he broke the futon and the couch (although sure, the futon and couch can be taken care of from thrift stores of some sort)

the chain lock to the front door (Which freaked out my older daughter and sort of made me, huh, this thing sure wouldn't have stopped a really determined intruder)

and the stairs to upstairs (jumped up and down on it descending, and he is heavy and strong for his age)

stove, dishwasher, and washing machine and also maybe he was the one who broke the refrigerator - not sure. But he has damaged the new one which has a bunch of bumps in the metal front where he has hit it with his head.

aside from which, yes, he has destroyed lots of his clothes by chewing through them and he eats at least twice as much as what the country believe a child his age eats.

obviously the above list is what he has broken in the space of 4 years, and some of it we are not fixing but living with it broken (floor, stairs) but that is because we can't afford to fix it.
Show HN: Toutui – Listen to your audiobooks and podcasts in your terminal
Hi everyone,

These last weeks, I really enjoyed building Toutui: a TUI audiobookshelf client for Linux ans macOS (written in Rust and I used Ratatui for TUI).

With this app, you can listen to your audiobooks and podcasts (from an audiobookshelf server) while keeping your progress and stats in sync.

Any feedback is welcome.

Thanks!
I don’t dare boycott gaming companies because then I’d be stuck with indie games on itch.io. While they aren’t always bad, they’re not my cup of tea.

All 3 major gaming companies are horrible in their own ways. Just like both major smartphone platforms. The times we live in…
IMF does have Speecial Drawing Rights that kind of, but not really, acts as a global currency
can it automatically re-flow flowchart layouts?
Yes, I imagine in Singapore:
- Is this chrystal meth, lah?
- No, it's cat litter.
- You stoopid, that is even worse!
Hungary says it will pull out of ICC as Orban hosts Israel's Netanyahu
Ha. Good point. It's analogous to summoning a demon, isn't it. They thought they could control it.
>By this reasoning it naturally follows that those of a certain "personality" will also share common beliefs, ideologies

Is this not borne out in your own life experience? Because it sure is in mine.
> This is highly debatable.

Even at 10x you're still a far cry from fossils related deaths, every single year

> Because those who refuse to be exposed to induced risks can prevent most of it

??? In cities the bulk of deaths are cyclists/pedestrians, not even talking about air pollution due to exhaust fumes being produces en masse right in front of people's flats. 1/5 of road deaths in EU are pedestrians

> thanks to nuclear waste

Coal power plants are literally generating more radioactive ematerial than nuclear power plants lmao: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

The entire french nuclear waste, since the 70s, would fit in a cube with a side length of 15m... The one that matter: <3% of the total waste, the rest is low radioactivity/short half life waste
The richest country in the world cannot save their own citizens from poverty. Not to mention most number of millionaires and billionaires. Obviously the solution is to impose tariffs based on some made up numbers. Wonderful idea!
Not circles, but arcs.
where is the generated conflict?
Does it follow that Yuan would replace USD? Could it be the EUR instead?
This is the most mind-blowing thing to me: a bunch of multi-hundred-billionaries all standing beside a billionaire that shits in a gold toilet and is in charge of the richest country on Earth angrily proclaiming that "Everyone is taking advantage of us!"
DMA is applied equally, you say. How interesting! Can you link me to the examples of the EU going after EU companies for DMA violations? I couldn't find a single one. Not a single case, ever.

The EU wanted to fine Google $35,000,000,000 under DMA. That's a backdoor tax. No European tech company faces this scrutiny. Never have, never will -- because the DMA is a tax on the United States.

It's also interesting that the Google and Meta DMA fines are expected to land in the next week. What a timing coincidence, almost like it's retaliatory (as many articles have suggested).
Space Debris: Is It a Crisis?
>watching the Apple supply chain capsize.

A professional geographer says that Apple is almost unique among major American corporations in how dependent they have chosen to become on Chinese manufacturing. The US economy is in fact much less dependent on international trade than places like China, Germany, the Netherlands and most of the developing nations are. This self-sufficiency of the US economy has been true for at least a century (with a notable exception that the US was dependent on oil imports from about 1960 to 2018, which had the full attention of the US national-security establishment because of how important access to oil is during war).

You don't hear about that much because the small parts of the US economy (mostly in the professional-managerial class) that profits the most from trade with China has been effective at convincing the public that the trade is more vital than it actually is. (Note that most Americans don't even know that the US economy is no longer dependent on oil imports.)

And Apple will survive their mistake.

I'm not a fan of Trump, but I'm even less a fan of the ideology that Mearsheimer calls "liberal hegemony" that is so quick to wage war on any non-democracy anywhere in the world no matter how tangential to American national security interests and no matter how awful and large the number who have died or become refugees in places like Iraq, Libya, Ukraine and Syria because of past applications of this ideological commitment.