skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About 30 years ago in a creative 2-week fit I wrote a mini-symphony. I’ve always envisioned expanding it into a full-length orchestral piece but don’t have the skills to do so.

I would love to use a music model that could help me do that.

I’m imagining feeding it my score and then iterating with it to create the final piece I’ve had stuck in my head all this time.
It feels as if the text on top of the device is upside down.. Should be directed at the user of the device, who sits behind the device (on the side of the small screen)
Tell HN: ProtonVPN Partners with TorrentLeech
I just received the following email from TorrentLeech, a BitTorrent tracker for piracy. While I'm not all against piracy, I find pretty desperate that Proton partners with BitTorrent trackers to push its product.

https://imgur.com/a/m9vRAMZ

> Hey $username,

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Why ProtonVPN is a solid upgrade:

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Brain cells are more plastic than previously thought, study shows
How is that in anyway a comparable example? Do Democrats hold policy positions that would be particularly flummoxed by trans people existing?
No, you can still find hypocrisy in politics.

A person can vote for a party while not agreeing with every one of their platform points. They can also vote for a party and then criticize it later for not following through. As long as they're honest about the divergence and can justify it as an overall better choice, it's not hypocrisy, just being an adult.

The hypocrisy comes in when somebody claims to hold beliefs, votes for a party, and then either ignores a contradiction or spouts the new party line.
That’s the 10% that Docker can’t do, indeed. But most of what I want to do is handled fine by the area where Docker and Nix (not NixOS) overlap.
Ah, you've clearly never had to parse a CSV exported from a municipal parking database in 2004. Quoted fields inside quoted fields, carriage returns mid-name, and a column that just says "ERROR" every 37th row. Your pseudocode would flee the scene.
I'm not a neuroscientist, but it's hard to understand why anyone thinks that this mandatory downtime for all animals is just for a special reason. Why wouldn't sleeping be a catch-all window for autonomous maintenance and overall survival? Always take the most likely reason.
Exactly. At some point every parser combinator turns into a three-line awk script that runs perfectly as long as the moon is waning and the file isn’t saved from Excel for Mac.
Computers were easier to use then. They had fewer concepts and those concepts were designed as analogies to what people knew.

If you don't know what a manila folder is, the icon means nothing to you and you have to learn it as an abstract entity. That is fine, but it slows down learning rate.
The Transformational Power of Communal Dreaming
You're thinking about JavaScript but I am talking about Node, which fundamentally uses a single-threaded approach[1] to great effect.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17959663/why-is-node-js-...
Pinta 3.0: Redefining the Open-Source Image Editing Experience
Pinta 3 is a major update for this underrated open-source image editor, with GTK 4, Libadwaita, new effects, and improved performance.

We do an in-depth in our analysis in our blog post.
The last 10 years of how Facebook operates show how naive a view this is to take of Zucc
Manhattan's First 2D Restaurant
The proliferation of Chromebooks as the standard at many schools hasn’t helped.
I think a lot of it is goals/rewards. I got into computing as a kid because I wanted to play games that I saw in screenshots in magazines. Then I wanted the game I got running to run faster. Then i’m losing online so suddenly I’m learning about ping/networking.

Fast forward a decade and I end up being a programmer. Most people won’t learn technical things just for the hell of it.
A Syllabus for Nuclear Power
We keep inventing magic tools, declaring all that will die in their wake. A 50-year perspective on why this is almost never true, how magic tools help us, and why understanding the engineering is where the value always lies.
I dont know why anyone wouldnt be. Why would people, at this point, not approach the things Zuck, or Musk, say without extreme caution? They want to be rich god kings, they dont care about free speech. They say stuff they think will move the needle that direction.
Sorry, but I don't think anybody in this discussion is starving to death. I am pretty clearly discussing one's normal dietary choices. What people do in extremes is an entirely different topic, one I'd be happy to discuss on some other day, but here I think it's a gross distraction from my point.
I just don't understand how the decision of which bits of a project need rebuilding can be so complex.

If I edit 50 lines of code in a 10GB project, then rebuild, the parts that need rebuilding are the parts that read those files when they were last built.

So... The decision of what to rebuild should take perhaps a millisecond and certainly doable locally.
Making Apps Durable with 1/10th of Code
The IT Infrastructure Security Guide for Managers
IT infrastructure security is what most managers still don't even understand the basics of. As devs it's hard to explain all of it and not sure if you want to.

So we've put together an ultimate guide for managers to understand important aspects of IT infrastructure security giving an overview and basics of aspects on several levels.

Saving you time to do all the explaining yourself :)
That's just a for-instance.

The general point is that additional cash is tied up in shoes which cannot do something else. Who bears the burden of the loss of that additional cash changes over time (Nike to Footlocker to consumers) but the burden is bourn.

(And that's before you count the impact of the inevitable reduction in unit sales. There're various kinds of overhead that don't scale linearly units sold, or that have a long lag before scaling, or have a significantly-sized step function in the scaling.)

BTW, where did the cash go? Oh yeah, into the hands of the US federal government. We have a word for that: tax.
Parsers can handle it, sure, but then you blink and you're ten layers deep trying to explain why a single unmatched quote ate the rest of the file. Sometimes a little awk and a strong coffee gets you further.
I'm faintly surprised that the Raspberry Pi hasn't made OS-experimentation more of a thing.

There are:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/risc-os-for-raspberry-pi/

https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Installation

https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Raspberry_Pi/index.html

as well as a couple of RTOS options: https://all3dp.com/2/rtos-raspberry-pi-real-time-os/ and QNX: https://pidora.ca/qnx-on-raspberry-pi-the-professional-grade...

and TRON: https://www.tron.org/blog/2023/09/post-1767/ (but that's only on the Pico? I'd love to see it as a desktop OS on an rPi5)
A little strange you’d even want to be in a CS program if you didn’t understand files. I recently heard they stopped teaching C in some of the more well known CS programs too.
This whole article has a really weird tone.

> She handed me her MacBook silently and the look on her face said it all. Fix my computer, geek, and hurry up about it.

> [...]

> Normally when someone spouts this rubbish I just nod and smile. This time I simply couldn't let it pass. 'Not really, most kids can't use computers.' (and neither can you - I didn't add.)

I wonder if she recognized the look on your face when you internally condescended to her about the network proxy which you have not adequately documented for end users?
I would guess if you were starving to death you wouldn’t think twice about killing a cow.

There’s nothing wrong with fundamentally valuing life but also consuming it for sustenance. I’m guessing you wouldn’t vote for a law to torture cows while also saying you value a cow’s life.

That is essentially what the outdoorsmen are doing when voting for a politician that’s trying to remove environmental protections.
Similar experience, generated code confidently, manually had to copy paste it in places, only to find out not only it is bad but even the code was terribly structured / random gibberish sometimes.
Not sure why this is so aggressively downvoted. I work in legacy software and it's true. A firm that's still on .NET Framework, PHP 5.6, or Java 8 is likely to stay on those versions for the near future.
Lol, I dont know what a file is tbf without further restrictions.
I find anyone this dismissive of Java hard to take seriously. Java is a cutting-edge language platform where the achievable performance at the limit is on-par with C++. Also, the article's hook didn't grab me. My laptop is way, way more powerful than any "beefy workstation" they ever assigned me at Google, starting with a dual-core 2400MHz Opteron. Bazel's server performance on my laptop or workstation are total non-issues. There are issues with Bazel of course, that's just not one that smells right to me.
It's unlikely because people don't get why jump through so many hoops when you can

new = copy(old)
new.foo.bar.baz = new_baz
return new

It won't come out of Haskell because it's uniquely a solution to a specific Haskell problem. Mutating a fresh copy through a "lens" when you have `=` is a level of geekage that cannot become mainstream.
I am curious - why is Bootstrap not on the list?
Arroyo (YC W23) has been acquired by Cloudflare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_in_China
As a treat
> When they hit eleven, give them a plaintext file with ten-thousand WPA2 keys and tell them that the real one is in there somewhere. See how quickly they discover Python or Bash then.

I wish this would still work. Today's kids would instantly use AI to solve it.

Does anyone have an idea for a challenge that will instill some level of technical literacy without being instantly gameable in the era of omnipresent LLMs?
How can you understand files without a file system.
Some people seem to need a lot less sleep than others with no deleterious health effects. It would be very interesting to find out why.
>don't know what a file is

Surely this is a wild exaggeration?

If you said "CLI" I would believe it... But they would have had to download/upload a file to apply to the university, create a resume, post a meme to reddit, move pictures from their phone to their computer, etc.
As an outdoorsman, fisher, and hunter, I view the other party as at war my hobbies.

California banned the diesel engines being used by the fishing boat I went out on. Without 300k to retrofit, the charter went out of business and everyone lost their jobs.
This is true. Only upside I can see is that the developer tools available for "unix-ish" system were really strong (if clunky at times).
>largest publisher in human history

You are of course correct, as far as scale, but I can't help feeling skeptical about how equivalent its effects are when compared to old media. On VJ day, practically every American read the headline in one of a handful of the nation's biggest newspapers. Today, we'd find this news from a post by our favorite influencer, with a built-in twist to boost engagement. There's no doubt social media has blanketed our society in its influence. but the signal has been completely scattered, lost in the sea of noise. In terms of simply learning new things, it's in one ear and out the other. You can learn all kinds of things through social media, but it requires a great deal of effort to weed out the torrent of irrelevant, useless junk data.

Not a linear scale, really.
Show HN: Project Timestamper: Protecting human culture and science from AI fakes
Project Timestamper is an open-source effort to digitially timestamp real human works of art, movies, literature, and science as they exist today, before AI-created content begins to pollute humanity's cultural heritage with false memories.
when you want to share a password with someone but don't want the password to remain in chat history
> How many kids/teenagers know what 0x20 is these days without doing a WEB search ?

I mean I still had to stop for a brief moment and do the arithmetic in my head as I do when reading any number in a base other than 10.

Unless you mean recognizing "0x" as a prefix indicating the following number is in base 16?
Computer programming and all that is quite difficult. I don't think kids are likely to get it before about 10-12. I was a very bright kid, into computers from an early age, but programming came much later. I found the ideas of computers interesting though. When my dad explained how microkernels and monolithic kernels differed to me I was fascinated.

maybe you are pushing them to do things with computers too early and you would have more success if you focused more on trying to capture their wonder.
I feel like this is really to the heart of "your vibe attracts your tribe".

It's kinda risky to but something like this in the comments, what if nobody ever sees it? What if it never beeps?

It's just weird enough people (like myself) would do it. I would have if I saw it, but I missed it.
Where did you get the idea anyone will be paying my pension when I retire?
Maybe they are interested in making mobile apps, or video games.
> I eat cow while I'd be horrified to eat horse or dog.

Horse is good, and while they are noble and majestic, so are cows (which are also cute to boot). I think the same of fish, and while less cuddly, I still feel a tiny bit conflicted about taking one's life just to eat when I do it.

Dogs are family for me. I'd probably be OK with wolf or coyote or similar.

I don't begrudge anyone how they want to align their morals with how and what they eat.
> The vulnerabilities they found enabled them to use the infotainment system’s Bluetooth capabilities to infiltrate the car’s internal network.

How is it that I, a layperson, know that infotainment should be airgapped from critical car functions, but a 91 year old $87 billion/year revenue multinational car manufacturer doesn't?

Eventually this kind of repeated reckless disregard for security has to be treated as malicious.
Most people are too lazy / busy to hunt or fish, so this will only become a problem if food becomes unaffordable compared to spending a weekend trying to track a wild boar or going fishing as a necessity.
Yah the way he reacted about “the internet isn’t working” is like the teachers who were anal about “can I” vs “may I”, but with some shaming thrown in.

I’d say the same thing as the other teacher. I left out the word “connection”. But apparently he’d judge me for that.
But that is what you are insinuating about Ukraine. We should not have let the Ukrainian people self determine their path and instead given them the cold shoulder and left them to Russia.
It's because they're too indoctrinated by modern culture to say "when it actually comes down to it I'd rather live in a prosperous but polluted society, at the end of the day like the necessity of making ends mmeet more than the luxury of bass fishing" which is basically what they're getting at with the sum of their beliefs but is an opinion that is fairly taboo to voice without a ton of beating around the bush.
> I’d imagine you can set this up and run it easily from a NAS at home if you want, but I opt to keep my data safely protected in Switzerland, so I subscribe to about $100 monthly of server time to run my websites and all my integrations

This part confused me a bit. Wouldn't running the NAS at home be more safe and secure? Or are they talking about backup safety?
Europeans can tell the same story about Americans.
Intelligent caching is also table-stakes though. It requires a detailed dependency graph and change tracking, and that's not something that can simply be relegated to a plugin— it's fundamental.
Citizens are skeptical of lawmakers' commitment to free speech.

https://netchoice.org/democrat-leaders-dont-like-the-first-a...
One 1-2k/year seems rather cheap to treat an ongoing chronic illness? As asthma will be an ongoing problem when started?
I think Apple captured this very concisely (for better or worse) in one of their ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfR_Jj4grZE

"What's a computer?"
Why would I need to read someone's AI-generated blog if I can just make the AI generate it for me?
It seems that given the options of 1) staying awake and active as normal during the night and 2) using the night period to run various maintenance task but without awareness the second option apparently turned out to be the winner as far as evolution is concerned.

What's interesting to me is how many animals beyond humans do it - so it's not purely tied to the human cognitive functions like higher order thinking etc.
The problem is we have a strongly factional two party system where the most productive strategy is to reap hatred between the factions. This is mostly a consequence of our plurality voting system.
Xkcd: Push Notifications
We shouldn't need any new laws since it's so fundamentally and blatantly explained in the first amendment that no government official shall tell anyone what they can or can't say. SCOTUS has carved out certain language about credible threats of incitement of violence and the like and I'm ok with that.

Where it gets muddy though is during COVID+Social Media, we found a new threat against speech, e.g. the suppression of "reach" which accomplishes the exact same goal as suppressing speech, but it's legality is clouded by semantics.

So we desperately need new laws clarifying that government officials may not suppress 'reach' just because they don't like what a person or persons are saying, and most importantly we need it crystal clear that this applies even in the face of a pandemic, so that the government's embedded rent seekers can't once again force a lying narrative on the people that nobody can find their way out of, save for those who engage in 'conspiracy theories' and listen to 'conspiracy theorists'.
You can try out everything for 300 dollars easily. Most expensive thing you can do is get a server with 8 h200s and spend 90 dollars an hour.
How would I connect it with any username or login? I just made it because I wanted something like this and make it available to others in case they find it useful. It is free and no ads
> Sorry, but I don't think anybody in this discussion is starving to death.

We were talking about making tradeoffs amid the choices available to you, where a burger was supposed, for the sake of discussion, to be the best choice available. I assume you haven't randomly changed the subject.

If you can choose between a hamburger and a dog leg, then, sure, a hamburger, at least to my taste, would be the better choice. I would choose it. But that doesn't mean I would never eat a dog leg. Where the dog leg is the best choice, why wouldn't you eat it?
The original post was talking about cognitive dissonance in other people. My point was that we all experience things like this. Food is a convenient example, because the few people who aren't hypocritical about it in some way are very familiar with how other people are.

My goal is to get others to realize that cognitive dissonance is not an us vs them thing. I freely grant that MAGA followers, as part of a cult of personality, are notably worse. But it's a human problem.

Does that clear it up for you?
I've heard this too. Specifically they won't know what a hierarchical filesystem is, and their understanding of files is based on iOS/android where you can do many of those actions directly from the share menu without ever interacting with the underlying file or the Files app.
They cant access the AI without the WPA key. Probably there'd be some documentation printed out or local in this scenario.
Agree, very weird
I don't even remember Java 8 to 9 (our platform vendor updates his product and after that we have to update ours in a fairly short timeframe, so it must not have been too painful), but I think there is a breaking change in every recent release, most recently we had to rename javax.mail to jakarta.mail and some other stuff like that when upgrading to Java 21. I don't mind but would not describe that as hassle free.
Well that’s a resume, a meme, and a picture. A file, much less a directory, is a more abstract concept that a lot of young people don’t grok.
I do not want to kill a cow personally, but I am aware meat I eat comes from cows. I would be against law that would make cow killing illegal. Not wanting to do something personally and accepting it happens for food is not cognitive dissonance. In general, I am ok with killing animals for food. If you killed a cow just for fun or sport, you are an asshole and I am against it. I feel no cognitive dissonance here.

Likewise, I am pro cleaning shit out of places. I prefer when someone else does it.
The way dolphins sleep with half of their brain asleep is fascinating to me.

https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/how-do-dolphins-sleep/
samply: Command-line sampling profiler for macOS, Linux, and Windows
How the Military Hid the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant
My neighborhood school issues Chromebooks to all kids starting in sixth grade.

It's been an interesting, um, pedagogical experiment.

In my kid's friend group (now 7th grade), the usage is all over the map. Some kids write C++ code or do Tinkercad. Others watch YouTube from 8am to the closing bell, during class and lunch. Still more spend their lesson time on Minecraft Educational edition.

(YouTube is a bit of a loophole... Since some teachers use it for lesson material, the school's WiFi leaves it unblocked. So YouTube Shorts stands in for IG Reels and TikTok, which are blocked.)
This is false. The cost of building is going up because of tariffs. It isn't going to be profitable to build new wells. Wells, right now, are about 30% more expensive to build vs pre-tariffs, but this is likely to keep changing.

Add in that oil is dropping in price to the point where many wells are going to be shut down because it isn't profitable to operate them, and this is going to have the opposite effect. ~$60/barrel seems to be that point right now. We're trading at/around $60 right now.

Oil and Gas are going to become less attractive to investors because of this. Solar and wind are already dirt cheap, tariffs aren't really going to change that THAT much. They'll still be cheaper and a better investment than Oil/Coal/Gas.
Yep, that's also my experience, my current job uses it for some products.

I find it that if you accept Supabase as-is, it can get you pretty far and save a lot of time and money.

And for edge cases, it's like you said above about ORMs, we don't have to throw it out, we just handle those cases separately.
I learned that you can often make a lot more money by not chasing it directly.

Any chance you get to trade some capital for a better relationship or network, you should seriously consider it.

Being completely inflexible with others regarding direct and immediate exchange of value for labor is not a good way to get in deep with revenue sharing and ownership agreements. This is also colloquially known as "being an asshole".

Building a reputation sometimes means doing great things for free.
I think almost all 0-background beginner level tasks are gameable.
I've used Radicale for a long time. It works well. I recently moved to next cloud, only because my shared host is handling the deployment, and it comes with an integrated web UI, which is much less hassle to setup.