skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I intend to keep it free for now. It would be a shame to put all this behind a paywall right now.
I first saw it in school, at 15 (a looong time ago). Could not believe my eyes. Could not believe one was allowed to even do that. The incredible freedom of it all, starting with the title sequence, and the incredible irreverence, crazyness.

I think it's fair to say it changed me as a person. I never took anything too seriously after that.
There is always microgravity, i.e. residual acceleration due to drag and thrusters, and especially vibrations.
Worst offenders are actually the astronauts, especially when they work out on one of their exercise devices right next to your experiment
> That can only happen if you ban all imports of anything those small business manufacturers would made

Consumers could always make this decision for themselves and pick domestic over foreign. It seems extremely unlikely, but I also see bringing back manufacturing without massive economic shock as extremely unlikely. If I want a pipe dream, it be for manufacturing to come back because consumers actually care that it comes back.
It would greatly reduce the barrier between receiving transfer money and earning for yourself that the existing need-based transfer system creates. This is a huge hindrance for jumping off the receiving end. Lump sum transfer also creates an incentive situation where non-standard frugality approaches can thrive (e.g. various shared living concepts), whereas need-based transfer really only just shoves every receiver into a pretend-middle class standard cookie cutter pattern.
They’re doing what we do when GitHub goes down: checking out.

The courts are pushing back but even though Congress has a republican majority they are allowing the president to make them a less than co-equal branch of government. They don’t seem to care. They care more about keeping power, winning their seat, than actually governing. They’re just as corrupt and vile as Trump in their indifference.
That was the point of his character arc. All SV Big tech Bros turn into the people they sought to destroy. Chasing money and growth.
Between this and node adding the --experimental-strip-types option which would otherwise allow people to skip compilation, I'm not sure I would choose Typia right now. I'm sure it's a great library, but these don't bode well for its future.
> Am I the only one to stick with the std lib, read the docs and changelogs carefully

I work in healthcare. If I have a choice between "reading docs/changelogs carefully, implementing functions", and "adding an extra dependency", I'm taking the dependency every single time.

I don't want footguns in my code, I don't want code I have to write and test myself, and I don't want to have to become an expert in a domain before I can write something that serves my purpose.

For the datetime library, specifically, I'm switching to whenever for everything, because I've been bitten by conversions and naive/aware datetime confusion too many times.
> it's that they did it constantly

That amounts to objecting to representing females. Rule was: "female unless awkward → one of the pythons; when awkward → Carol Cleveland".

The point was that the writers would also be the performers.
How AI Creates Synthetic Data?
> What if pigs fly?

Oh why, do you think that people living together in peace and freedom is as physically impossible as pigs flying? Guess what, most people disagree with you, and that's why the protesters chant what they chant. And now disprove this.

> I think [Likud] will probably be [genocidal] in the future

So you tell me, pacific protesters chanting "from the river to the sea" are genocidal, while the party that has the same in its platform, has bombed tens of thousands of civilians and is colonising the West Bank, isn't?

> Obviously but just like most of the shit he says its just a distraction

So you tell me, pacific protesters chanting for freedom are genocidal, the prime minister bombing his neighbours and the president of the most powerful nation in the world declaring they want an ethnic cleansing do so just as a distraction?

Listen, are you for real? Because if you're not purposefully being dishonest, then there's some serious cult shit going on here.

Anyway, that's the end of the conversation for me.
But it is proof of manipulation.
Thanks for providing more insight into the development process that went into designing this algorithm! :)

> Contrast that to a weighted random shuffle where each subscription's weight is its affinity score and we sample them based on weight without regard to their order in the original list. That approach is much more influenced by the size of the total list, and my experience is the handful of subscriptions that I really liked were always drowned out by all the other "speculative" subscriptions I had accumulated in my account.

I personally see that as an argument for having the original position affect the weight.

I experimented with modifying Fisher-Yates to generate a slightly less left-skewed distribution, and decided upon inverse transform sampling as a fairly cheap solution -- basically, with some function f(X): [0,1) -> [0,1), you can transform a uniformly-distributed random variable X ~ Unif[0,1), which then allows you to bias the shuffle without affecting its asymptotic performance.

> There probably is some more efficient way to implement this though.

One potential optimization is to use rejection sampling: keep track of the elements you've seen, then reject any duplicates when pulling out a sample (instead of manually constructing a new list every time). Now, this interacts poorly with your biasing -- in the extreme case where p=1, you'd keep trying to select the first element, then rejecting it. I might then suggest tracking the first element you haven't selected yet, but at some point this ends up being a lot of complexity for asymptotic behavior when what you have is more than good enough for the scale that you're considering.

This also only addresses the "copy the list every iteration of the sampling" aspect of your algorithm's performance, not the fact that with p=0 (or arbitrarily low) you may end up walking the entire list.

(Rejection sampling is more generally using some criterion to reject samples, e.g. if you were trying to select points within a circle by checking x^2 + y^2 < r^2.)
I like the way this doesn't rule out challenges that aren't known to be possible

I would look at ways to increase the fraction of human thinking that is directly incentivised to improve the lives of individuals, as opposed to being incentivised to benefit centralised organisations (whether private or public).

I think there is a potential alternative stable equilibrium where all or most of the analysis that is provided by to the public by journalists, marketers, PR, influencers etc is provided instead by 'monks of truth' (for want of a better name) who are funded by sponsorship by <(Dunbar's number) of individuals, and who commit not to take outside funding (in return for their sponsors working together to replace any sponsors who quit)

What's stopping me: severe introversion (kinda). I don't think this requires mega amounts of money to start, but it requires someone charismatic.
The issue is not that Anders is incapable. His best argument was that they wanted to have the new code look like the old code. Many of the other arguments Anders brought forward were confusing, since some of them were technically incorrect. This raises some questions.

Typescript is a huge success from Microsoft in terms of recapturing developers, without them knowing. MS is not a charity, look at how little love they give to F# compared to TS.

* My personal guess is that the age old MS instinct came into play: be coûte que coûte backwards compatible, port all the bugs, do not disturb anything.

* A second reason might be that TS people might not want to learn .net because of vibes. Do not underestimate vibes. Almost everyday on HN I see Python programs being posted where most often the creator would be better of if they had learned some next programming language. Decisions are seldomly made on a technical basis. We as humans decide emotionally, sometimes with rationalizations afterwards.
And so, maybe Anders was rational in acknowledging the dev-social situation as is.

Whatever the reason, this will not be without consequences. The team now has to invest in GO and now depends on Google to take TS forward. And yes, this is also typical MS, one department can easily undo the other.

TLDR: the technical arguments were mostly nonsense, but the real arguments have likely more to do with age-old reflexes and dev-cultural issues.
> then you can claim that it's not new and you brought it with you from your home country originally.

And then they can ask you for your Form 4457 that you filled out and presented to CBP before you left the country. Don't know what that is? Oops. Full duties owed on that iPhone then, thanks.
Everyone has different objective and subjective experiences, and I suspect some form of selection will promote those who more often feel excited and relieved by using AI than those who feel it more often a negative, like it challenges some core aspect of self.

It might challenge us, and maybe those of us who feel challenged in that way need to rise to it, for there are always harder problems to solve

If this new tool seems to make things so easy it's like "cheating", then make the game harder. Can't cheat reality.
What is "20% on Go"? What is it 20% of?
You might be able to use App pinning to stop them leaving the Spotify app...
Does someone know when these performance issues matter? My understanding is that datetime is a shortlived object, you wouldn't want thousands of datetime objects all over the codebase.

Almost all of the time UTC is enough, if I need to filter/bucket/aggregate by some range, I can reach for datetime with tz for these filter/bucket/aggregate criteria, convert them to UTC and on continues `int` comparison.

I'd imagine all of the cases handled by Whenever are mostly when datetime is a long lived object, which I don't see a need for at all.

I use it purely for allowing tz input from client, convert to UTC immediately when it arrives, or, if I really need the tz, then save it separately, which is rare (one example is calendar, where tz should be stored, although probably not even next to every UTC but at the user level, another is workforce scheduling, where 8am-4pm or 8pm-4am can mean different things for different locations -- but this is no longer datetime, it's purely time in a timezone).
The Kids in the Hall did it too, extensively, in the 90s.
Yes and yes you are correct!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42850909

Lem and Dick are such precious peas in a pod!

Too bad Dick reported to the FBI that Lem was a faceless composite communist committee out to get him and brainwash the youth of America and undermine American SF with "crude, insulting and downright ignorant attacks", while Lem asymmetrically thought all science fiction writers were charlatans except for Philip K Dick.

https://english.lem.pl/faq#P.K.Dick

https://culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw-lem-is...

Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) (depauw.edu) 140 points by pmoriarty on June 19, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 51 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17349026

https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm

>In 1973, Lem became an honorary member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, a gesture of ‘international goodwill’ on the association’s part. However, in 1976, 70 percent of the SFWA’s voted in favour of a resolution to revoke Lem’s membership. A very quick dismissal for such a prestigious author, but the reasons for his quick ejection from the organisation are clear – he didn’t seem to regard his honorary membership as any sort of honour. He considered American science fiction ‘ill thought out, poorly written, and interested more in adventure that ideas or new literary forms’ and ‘bad writing tacked together with wooden dialogue’, and these are just a few examples of Lem’s deprecatory attitude towards the US branch of his genre.

>Lem, however, considered one science fiction author as exempt from his scathing criticisms – his denouncer, Philip K. Dick. The title of an essay Lem published about Dick is evidence enough of this high regard: A Visionary Among the Charlatans. The essay itself waxes lyrical on Dick’s many excellent qualities as a writer, and expounds upon the dire state of US sci-fi. Lem considered Dick to be the only writer exempt from his cynical view of American SF. It seems likely that Dick was unaware of Lem’s high opinion of him and that he took Lem’s disparaging comments personally, stating in his letter to the FBI:

>"Lem’s creative abilities now appear to have been overrated and Lem’s crude, insulting and downright ignorant attacks on American science fiction and American science fiction writers went too far too fast and alienated everyone but the Party faithful (I am one of those highly alienated)."
Maybe I'm misunderstanding some aspect here, but it seems to me there are two choices for handling external data in TypeScript:

Either you parse / validate incoming data at an API boundary with a tool like zod, or you do not, and just trust that the data matches the exact shape you expect, opening yourself up to completely unexpected errors / behaviors if it does not.

The latter is probably a decent option if you fully control all components back to front, but if you really value type safety, the former seems like the way to go?
Why on Earth does the README start with a huge image with absolutely unreadable teeny tiny light gray text on a dark gray background?

When I press Cmd-+ to zoom into the page in so I can actually read it, exactly the opposite of what I want happens: the image SHRINKS even smaller as the surrounding text grows to push it into a black hole! So I reset by pressing Cmd-0 and then try un-zooming by pressing Cmd--, and the image STILL shrinks even smaller.

What is the point? Did a Vibe Coding Anti-Accessibility LLM do this, or was it actually intentional? That first impression makes me completely uninterested in looking at the rest of the project, rightfully afraid that it might be as purposefully badly designed and inaccessible and contemptuous of users at the first readme page.

Why would anyone bother to go to so much effort to make an image of inaccessible unlinkable extremely low contrast tiny unreadable text wasting huge amounts of horizontal and vertical white space with no usable links (so you have to type in the contact email address with the keyboard, below an ironic unclickable but button-like call to action "read more on how to use memEx": no thank you!), and then put that at the very top of the page, when it's only a few lines of all lower case pointlessly centered but otherwise unformatted text, and there's no reason at all and extra effort to do that? It would have been less effort to post a blurry cell phone photo of a Word document displayed on a laptop screen. Is this some kind of Andy Kauffmanesque trolling? Vannevar Bush would roll over in his grave.

As We May Think: “Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.” By Vannevar Bush

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...

Vannevar Bush believed the scientific record had become "inadequate for [its] purpose" due to outdated methods of access and review. He warned that "the summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate," yet we still relied on systems from "the days of square-rigged ships." He criticized indexing as "artificial" and noted that it forced information into "only one place," making retrieval cumbersome. Instead, he advocated for “selection by association,” enabling users to “snap instantly to the next [item] suggested by the association of thoughts.” His proposed memex device embodied this principle—designed to be "consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility," storing vast personal libraries with the ability to “build a trail” of connected ideas, permanently linking and instantly retrieving them.
Thanks for the clarification. I was wondering what’s supposed to be in place of the "Gulf of Mexico".
Do Games Run Better on SteamOS? Windows vs. Bazzite (YouTube; TechDweeb)
Quite an interesting comparison, as it the same hardware is used for both Windows 11 and Bazzite/SteamOS to test games like Tomb Raider, Cyberpunk 2077, and more.
Wow this is a beautiful article. I love Code page 437 - my first experiences with computers used it. I made two little things that are a homage to the pixelated and "cyberpunk" "screaming electron" "information superhighway" glory that is IBM Code Page 437:

1. Endless scrolling random Code Page 437 text: https://o0101.github.io/random/ (but it seems to be broken indicated by an overabundance of the non-existent "block question mark". Code here in case anyone wants to submit a fix :) : https://github.com/o0101/random)

2. Base-437 - a way to encode any binary file into faithful-to-code-page-437-glyphs that you can nevertheless throw into HTML no problemo: https://browserbox.github.io/Base437/ This means, for instance, you can have a "data:image/png;base437,ëPNG♪◙→◙ ♪IHDR ◘♠ \r¿f ♦gAMA Åⁿa♣ cHRM z& Çä · ÇΦ u..." URI for an image. I just think it looks cool being able to see the content rather than base64 which hides it. Code: https://github.com/BrowserBox/Base437
The only hope here, is that it will not happen.

But cutting a mission like Nancy Grace telescope that has been in the works for > 10 years, 1 year before launch and on budget is peak idiocy. I know people who spend years on this mission, and I can only imagine how they feel.

Obviously rational arguments won't work with this administration. Let's hope that the self-interested people in congress who have various space-related institutions/firms in their constituencies will lobby for the changes, but I don't have high hopes.
If you've not read the blog post that explains why this library exists I recommend it. It's called "Ten Python datetime pitfalls, and what libraries are (not) doing about it"

https://dev.arie.bovenberg.net/blog/python-datetime-pitfalls...
Show HN: A Hacker News client that only shows YouTube videos
Hey HN,

I wanted a way to quickly see only the YouTube videos being shared on Hacker News without wading through other links. So, I built this little tool. I used to use https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com to check YouTube links, but it lacked thumbnails, so I built one just to do it.

It uses the hn.algolia.com API and is built with Nuxt3. I originally made this for myself but thought others might find it useful too.

You can try it here: https://hn-yt.netlify.app/

Happy to hear any feedback or suggestions!
Its probably outdated rather than a misconception, there was a time when the republican party did actually push policies that helped small businesses.
You are never really floating freely, all gravitational wells extend to infinity. The curvature just becomes really small so the resulting acceleration is infinitesimally small too.
There's also a great documentary on Stanislaw Lem. It's in Polish, but with English subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQq4aKldaw

Lem himself talks about the movie a bit there too, around the 24th minute. He didn't seem fond of Tarkowsky's religiousness and the impact it had on the movie.

Timestamped link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQq4aKldaw&t=1434

My impression was similar — the movie seems to be a free retelling and doesn't reflect the book well.
FOSS Games: Boson (2017)
The first commenter on the article page states that his favorite is pdp-11 assembly. In the 90s at uni I learned to write assembly on pdp-11 emulator running on a pc. It truly was a nice experience.
This technique and a lot more was discussed recently in Diary of a CEO's interview with Vanessa Van Edwards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldizQkuWpDE

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/new-body-language-expe...
No it shouldn't but since it neural net there is a small chance though.
batteries are not light, that would be wasting a lot of energy to shuffle batteries around. not great for the environment.

battery packs are often structural components, this idea would make that impossible, reducing durability and safety.

not all batteries are identical. there are many different capacities and wear levels. imagine bringing in your new car for electricity and getting an old battery back. the battery is a huge portion of the cost of the car- now you have an old one!
I don't know what Sabine would spend $40B on instead, but intuitively that seems like it could buy a lot of research in a lot of areas, rather than picking particle physics.

And it doesn't have to be physics, it could be cancer research, or not even research: each country involved could upgrade their sewage system instead.

But Sabine doesn't have to have all the answers to be right to point out that there's an enormous conflict of interest if you ask particle physicists whether they'd like $40B. Of course they'll say yes.
The State of the Art in Amateur Timekeeping (2003) [pdf]
It does though? I you click on the (i) button, there's a "Libraries" section.
Google historically allowed employees to self-direct 20% of their working time (onto any google project I think).
At least historically, google engineers had 20% of their time to spend on projects not related to their core role
I would love to chip in and see if we can get this ball rolling, usually I feel like I'm the only person who cares or files AP/ACM/... complaints and then it's too small beans for them to care. I'd not submit the literal same thing again, but could you share what wording you've used? Specifically in this case I'd also not be sure whether this blocking of Graphene etc. is abuse of market power when there is another option on the market (Apple) and so it's not a monopoly

There's no contact info in your profile so I couldn't reach you. If you don't want to share it here, you could use the email address in my profile
> What if you have friends visiting with children?

As a general rule, don't let other people's kids near your TV's controls. Your friends will appreciate it, and if they don't, a kids account on Netflix won't help.
Not yet unfortunately. But if you're interested, please reach out! I currently run it in a 3-region GeoDNS setup with my self-hosted infra.
> That comparison would be fair if the generative AI you use is trained exclusively on your own (rightfully acquired) data and work.

> Existing generative AIs are feeding on the work of millions of people who did not consent.

There are LLMs that are trained on non-copyright work, but apparently that's irrelevant according to the comment I replied to.
Mein kampf is a best seller in gaza based in number of copies found everywhere there. And hamas promised to kill all jews, not only in israel.
I live in an area that is on the edge of coverage and has lots of hills. On ATSC 1.0, CBS is hard to pick up. Frequently unwatchable - which means unreliable for sports. I picked up an HDHomerun Flex 4K a few years ago. Basically the same week that ATSC 3.0 went live.

For a few weeks it was glorious. I had no problem picking up CBS (it was broadcast from the same antenna as ATSC 1.0 - so it was the modulation that was helping out). And then, after a little over a month. Whack! No more CBS. They turned on DRM. They are still the only network that in my area with DRM. Ughh.

Under the previous administration I filled a few issues about this from a public safety perspective - I live in with the FCC an area with unreliable power. During severe weather, we often lose Internet and power (which knocks out cable TV too). Requiring working internet to watch TV to monitor the progress of a tornado in your area seems stupid and dangerous. Unfortunately, nothing happened then regarding the issue and given the way that Brendan Carr is taking the FCC, I don’t think there will be any progress on this.