skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love dive bars.

All of my training is focused around persuading a machine to do what I want. I get pedantic. I think this is rooted in the computer not doing what I want all day, and me, little by little finding the correct path.

Lawyers and combat veterans are the absolute best to interact with. Lawyers will give you 6000 reasons why that blue car is actually red. Sometimes they get lucky, and strike upon a workable solution. Combat veterans believe what they believe for a reason, someone might die. They've really _really_ thought it through.

Lawyers and combat veterans don't get mad. They really want to either win or communicate the point, respectively- unless you're a complete asshole, don't do that. Being an asshole will get you kicked out, or your ass kicked. Drunken dive bar patrons genuinely want to help improve your understanding of the world. They're bored. They're literally killing time.
Grad students and post docs are kinda shitty. I enjoy hearing people be passionate about things, but they have a zealotry that can be hard to take. there's a deep commitment there that gives zero space for beliefs that disagree with their own, especially when drunk. But you can learn a lot of high level perspective.

Sports fans and enthusiasts are beyond my bar skills. They require an encyclopedic knowledge of whatever they're into. it's hard (for me) to keep a conversation rolling.
Machinists are pretty cool, they've become assembly programmers worried about crashing heads. I get of easy, I just rerun my program. They trashed a 5k piece of steel, and possibly damaged a very expensive machine.

There are lots of folks in dive bars. Most of them are willing to shoot the breeze. It can be a very mind expanding experience.

On the other hand, at a dive bar, you're probably interacting with the alcoholic version of X. That also applies to you. You'll find people that are more open and willing to talk and argue about whatever in a consequence free (unless you're an asshole) environment. But you also need to think hard about your level of consumption. It's probably not great.

Dive bars are a funny thing. they're a social space I haven't found replicated anywhere else.
Social stability IS econimic power in the long term. Any anti-trust enforcement of that sort is beneficial for the overall market, even if the largest business in that sector will suffer. Short term economical metrics really don't and shouldn't matter that much to a well functioning economy.
There is an incredibly large difference between effective scoring for data that is being gamed and data that is not being gamed. Most people's full text data isn't being gamed quite like web search SEO.

There is also an incredibly large difference between effective scoring for data that has deep relationships and data that does not. Most people's full text data doesn't have deep relationships like web pages do with inbound links.
The article touches on your first comment:

> Fractons are quasiparticles — particle-like entities that emerge out of complicated interactions between many elementary particles inside a material.

Quasiparticles are common models in physics. Sound waves in solid matter are sometimes modeled as phonons, for example. Do they exist? Sure. But they're not what you probably think when you hear the word "particle".
For example, if you took a photo of her while she was alive and still want to keep it in an offline backup, but don't want it in your face every time you open up the website.
Synthetic Data May Be the Solution to AI Privacy Concerns
I think it's likely that they directly share an allow list of each other's server to form some sort of network of email providers.
I'm guessing that Blender has more funding available to it and/or has retained more of its senior developers, compared to GIMP.

Expecting that a piece of software undertakes an ambitious UI overhaul (which is no small feat) without one or both of those resources shows, to me, a lack of understanding.
I find this depends highly on where one lives. If you work somewhere where a significant chunk of the workforce are local either by growing up there or graduated there then this separation comes naturally since people have established social circles outside of work. It's different where the majority of the company's employees had to relocate to work there, people will be more open to making friendships at work and this will be a good thing. In the end it will be down to good leadership to manage the conflict of interests and they will arise anyway. I've seen this happen where due to the lack of friendships inside and outside of work some employees can be targeted and corrupted by vendors who take advantage of a person's social needs.
Umbilical cord-derived stem cells show promise to treat muscular dystrophies
SpaceX preparing salvo of polar Starlink launches from West and East coasts
> something like a VDO or ZFS backed storage system

And what text search engine?
3D modeling and novel UI implies there's a new way to interact with the content on the display. Aside from the shallow depth effect, the input is still perfectly 2D. You can't touch and manipulate a 3D object here any more than you can on a tablet.

The fact there's no killer app here and potential uses fall flat upon closer inspection will likely mean this technology has more of a future at entertainment venues, maybe museums, I don't know. But not as personal mainstream devices.
TLDR: bike stolen.
Nothing to do with tech or bitcoin
I don’t like Erdogan as much as the next guy, but the claims of a ‘corrupt’ judiciary and ‘paramilitary’ organisations are big accusations that need extraordinary evidence.
As an occasional user of GIMP I'll gladly donate to the developers. This is a piece of software that has made me money, so it is only fair I give back.
> who are unable to build what they can imagine because of the coding bottleneck

Sounds to me like a generally applicable thing to be honest. Even as a programmer I can't just pick up my favorite language and use it for any type of software. There is mature/user-friendly infrastructure and libraries for X/Y targeting Z, for a limited set of permutations.
I’d call Excel a database with a simple interface and relatively thin layer of optional coding that can be combined into very complex combinations that mimic programs. But a lot of programming is via building your own interfaces and input methods, whereas Excel is better for the computation (found in ‘backends’) and data science-y parts.

Data science type tools often only have the small group of people doing the complex computations themselves as users.

The final output in graphs and reports is what is consumed by non-experts and is again where Excel crosses paths with programming again, in a much easier and plug-and-play form than making your own charts/graphs (which in my experience is quite a challenging exercise code wise but again with way more freedom).

I’d imagine a spreadsheet with a form builder interface is the fundamental implementation of what Bubble is trying to do.
Even then, I currently live in a European capital city, and my commute is either 1h in public transportation or 15 minutes by car.
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Pretty ironic, considering GTK was originally created for GIMP (that's even what the G stood for back then: the GIMP ToolKit).
> From what I can recall, the GIMP UI has hardly changed since then too.

There have actually been changes, and even if they aren't major, someone like me who has never used anything but GIMP was annoyed/slightly confused by them. I don't know what the issue with GIMP is, besides tools that Photoshop appears to have or has better implementations for. My impressions is that it is mostly Photoshop users, that are expecting something else, or am I mistaken?
Thank you very much for all your advices!
My brother is using Vypaar App. How is different from Vypaar app?

Also how much commission fee will you charge?
Why do you think that the existence of Gnome requires blame?
I think gnome is one of the better FOSS projects out there.
All of those seem pretty standard in large companies in my experience.
There are ton of docs on the subject of rce. What about tuts4you or Woodmann board?
WhatsApp is the main form of communication in India, both personal and business.
Thanks so much!

We want to make the mobile version free to use and charge them for web access currently $15 per user per year.

Also there is a transaction charge we collect on the payments made through Swipe. That's another revenue stream.

These are the 2 revenue streams we have on our mind right now :).
Congrats on the launch!

I experienced ordering medicines over Whatsapp for the first time from the local store in Mumbai a few weeks ago. Discussing order items and them checking drawers was a PITA, so I just called them to get it done. There often is no inventory management system - it's a manual check.

It was easy to tell that the person at the store didn't quite grasp how things worked around online payment, just that they knew how to follow instructions someone had given them.

1. Generate physical invoice manually

2. Send customer a pic of the invoice over Whatsapp to reconfirm order items and total amount

3. Send customer a pic of the physical panel w/ QR code from payment provider over Whatsapp

4. Wait for SMS from bank account confirming amount paid

5. Dispatch order

https://m.imgur.com/sssuU2e

Not quite there in terms of sending UPI "collect requests" or digital invoices, but it works! Receiving a picture of a QR code was a bit odd but you can easily get around that.

This space is definitely exciting, and you can already see the impact digital payments are having on small biz. Good luck, and change the world!
I always smile when thinking about the fact that GTK stands for "GNU is not Unix ... is not Unix Image Manimulation Program ToolKit"
Zero-K is a surprisingly good free (open source), community driven RTS. When you look past the dated graphics, it gives you a deep TA style game that tries to also give a few quality of life features to reduce APM count a bit. It's not for everyone, but it can be a lot of fun.
It's not just 24 hours - it can be one hour, or three days or a week.
You definitely can edit the code, but it's hidden within their plugin system.

If you're willing to spend 4-8 hours going through tutorials to understand their metaphors & setup, then you can find plenty of interesting ways to use it that are faster than "normal" coding.

But if you just jump right in on the assumption that your coding knowledge will carry you through (which is what I did the first time I looked at it and sounds like what you did as well), then you're going to have a bad time and end up without an accurate view of what it's good at, bad at, and where the trade-offs are.
Yep any time I install a new editor the first thing I do is switch it to Source Code Pro. Maybe a bit boring compared to those on Doug's list but I love it nonetheless.
Almost not joking: I wonder if it wouldn't be better if Blender grew image editing features. After all, it now has video editing features, and I hear they're decent.
I think the big issue with soft counters is rather that attention and APM is very scarce. Spamming a well rounded unit means you can spend your attention on other stuff.

If each side had a team of people controlling their units then you could imagine one guy could focus on the economy another on producing the right units and a third on combat micro. This could make soft counters become more important.
The same argument could be used to forbid social media censorship. The objection there is that forcing social media companies to publish something they don't want to publish is compelled speech, but if the state is allowed to compel speech, then that objection becomes irrelevant.
Yes. I think that, for example, a low self esteem could be a contributing factor to a burnout. I have been suffering from a low self esteem for almost all of my life, probably fueled by my perfectionism. I think this is a common thing about professionals in software development and IT.
I'm not affiliated with either site. Just thought it was cool. I don't think one could argue that building an MVP/SMB on a platform is more buggy than a 1-2 man shop building from scratch, though. At least not in the same amount of time.
> You always come out full of ideas and papers to read or implement.

is it really what GIMP needs though ?
If ./configure just would work for that project out of the box, that would be great, but it seems more like an exception, because usually it's not sufficient and it breaks on some dependency issues that are easily solvable if you know the dev environment and pretty much need mailing list assistance if you don't know how their project works and you just want to fix an off by one error.
Sounds a bit like a bad stereotype no?
Dogs can tell when people are lying to them, study finds
> Most seem to be sold at standard desktop font licensing rates, i.e. the $30 to $100 range. 99.999% of developers are not going to spend this much on a nice-to-have.

Sure, but 99.9989% aren't going to spend money on programming fonts, period.
I've gone back and forth between consulting and working full time in an office for the last ~12 years of my career so I have a good amount of experience with both WFH and working in an office.

I prefer an office mostly because unfortunately the only way to make some people "behave" and work together is actually by forcing discipline on them. My biggest frustration is the type of person who only values their own personal productivity to the detriment of the team. The type of person who joins a "useless meeting on mute" then after whatever time period produces output that wildly varies from expectations because listening to others is beneath them, and they're too smart/disinterested to ask questions about what they're building. The type of person who replies to messages hours and sometimes days after you message them because they turned their notifications off to "focus" and never bothered to check them after. The type of person who you have to message about everything because they can't be bothered to document anything they do (never updates tickets, never comments their code, doesn't write readmes etc). The type of person who writes tests that assert 1 = 1 for the sake of adding tests like their team lead asked.

I don't know OP personally, but I get the impression that they're exactly the type of antisocial person I'm thinking of.
Did you try Krita ? https://krita.org/en/features/highlights/ (the doc is great too: https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/getting_started/naviga...)
> "unit testing is a magic bullet" cults

The thing is, those unit tests achieve practical utility in those language environments, because without the protections of the type system those kinds of errors bring down systems all the time.

I agree that more rigorous type systems can spare you from having to write a lot of boilerplate tests, and I prefer to work in more strictly typed language environments. Nevertheless, "unit" tests that prove the functionality of individual elements, even if you write fewer of them, still offer a huge ROI. They are damn close to a "magic bullet", and every project that neglects them pays the price.
More people should think about “Why are you doing this business?”
Hold on “clean room” and “reverse compile dump”.
How can it be both? Or is that the point!
And AWS has a ton of crossover knowledge with using any open source operating system (not even just limited to servers but using Linux desktops) and plenty of other deployment systems both hosted and self hosted.

So your expertise is much more easily transferred in or out of AWS. Making the lockin argument less persuasive.

Compared to learning the complex interface of one app like Bubble for building ‘no code’ apps which only has some value to some junior programmers looking for basic expression of ideas to get them motivated and/or some limited mental analogies to the real work of programming.
I was pretty excited by this, so I went to pre-order. On the add-ons page, there are some nice additions like a leap motion controller. But there's also this:

2D-to-3D Conversion: 1000 Credits
Convert 2D images into 3D depth images for holographic display.
+$150.00

2D-to-3D Conversion: 100 Credits
Convert 2D images into 3D depth images for holographic display.
+$20.00

There's no mention of this type of per-interaction charging model on the product's splash page.

Instead of excited I'm now disillusioned and irritated.

Imagine Adobe tried to charge you every time you converted an image format in photoshop. Is the conversion process so complex that you need to upload a sample image to their servers or something? Why on earth can't I do that locally as many times as I like? It totally stymies experimentation.
I like to think we've learned some lessons on how the online world impacts the offline world that will cross over into the metaverse vs. real life. Especially since the metaverse will more closely resemble real life than an AOL chat ever did. Remains to be seen, I guess.
The concern I have with China, right now, is that I suspect liberal democracy in China will be in favor of someone like Donald Trump, who will then have the power to turn it into dictatorship and this time 70% of the population will vote in favor of the Chinese Trump. Or likely a civil war would break out.

The ideological difference within China is not anything less then that of America. The gay marriage issue along could leave the country 80% to 20%, with the liberals on the 20% side. Yet in a authoritorian state like China, I don't think I've heard anything amount to hate crimes like that in the US, A lot of them would be scared to come out, but no one would be murdering them just for their identity. I think the issue with electoral democracy is that every issue is public, in constant debate, and people's political identity became so important to some that they are willing to kill.

People, expats especially, who live in affluent areas of China often lack the knowledge necessary to understand the less-developed areas of China. Like how people in California lack understandings of Alabama.
Biggest mistake of free software: It's too much hassle to donate. Show me a PayPal yearly subscription confirmation dialog on first startup for something less than 10 dollars, and if it takes 2 clicks at most and less than 10 seconds, you will get my money.
"Kenalo, for those with Google of Facebook accounts that want to be found..."

NEXT!
IE7 brought PNG transparency support. As a webdeveloper in those days, this was huge. IIRC this was just at the start of the "shiny buttons" web2.0 design era.
I've got a broken combine harvester – manufacturer won't give me software key
If you are genuinely interested, one nice example is this animated short series that sold out yesterday in half an hour: https://www.stonercats.com/faq

It sold NFTs (characters from the show with random properties, look at https://opensea.io/collection/stoner-cats-official for some examples) and each owner of an NFT obtains the right to view the actual episode when released. As these NFTs can be resold, people are collecting their favorite characters, bidding against each other. The makers of the series get a kickback for each sell

Because this is on Ethereum, this unlocks all sorts of other possibilities, some of which are described in the FAQ. Additionally:

* people could rent out their NFT in the future for others to view the episodes

* NFTs can be used as collateral for loans

* the makers of the series could distribute additional earnings back to the NFT holders

Of course, this is doable without a blockchain. But then it wouldn't have these directly on launch:

* a platform to sell the initial set of NFTs, publicly accessible and distributed provably fair

* a large number of wallets (and websites), all able to visualize the NFT to their owners

* a simple method of restricting access to the series to NFT buyers
I was thinking "Wicker Man"

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/

Ah this is great: The *police in Wicker Man is played by the same actor as the old neighbourhood watch guy in Hot Fuzz!

Edit: He would have been about 42 at the time of filming Wicker Man
Interesting. I can't say whether the judges' decision is a good legal theory, but it seems like, in practice, trying to enforce equal access to buying creative goods is a total non-starter.

If I sell lots of identical goods, it's totally clear what the law is entitling prospective customers to buy. But if I make and sell creative works, I'm naturally making something different for each client. How could anyone decide whether the work I do on one project is "equivalent" to the work done on another, or if a completed workpiece is up to my "usual standard", or even whether I put in "the same amount of effort" for this client as I did for a different client, when by definition each project is one-of-a-kind?
past returns are not indicators of future ones
The most thorough treatment of means and their applications in statistics is the monograph by Corrado Gini.[1] It is also available in a 1970 Russian translation.

[1] Gini, Corrado. (1958) Le Medie. Torino: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Trinese.
Funny you mention log files with extra spaces. At my current job, I deal with an API called the RTO, and I wanted to log the requests to that API and the matching responses.

Of course the words "request" and "response" are not the same length. But I thought it would look nice to line things up for a request and its matching response, so I just added an extra space after "request:", like this:

RTO request: {...}
RTO response: {...}

When testing locally in a terminal, this looked great. Everything lined up and was pretty.

What I didn't realize was that most people view these logs in New Relic, which does use a monospaced font but does not prevent collapsing of adjacent spaces. So the logs look like this:

RTO request: {...}
RTO response: {...}

Obviously not the end of the world! But it did happen that the first part of the {...} stuff should match between the request and the response, so it made it easier to understand (if it worked) to line them up.

I am tempted to change the messages to this, which I think will work around this problem:

RTO request : {...}
RTO response: {...}

Sometimes you can't win for losing!
If you pay, yes.
To me java spring boot is a yes code platoform.

There is library basically for anything you can think of.
Out of the box you get all the batteries you need
What framework in Rust would give you anything close to Django? Or even close to what Java has to offer?
This is actually a pretty difficult problem. I have been trying to learn bird songs for a very long time and it is pretty difficult. Saying that a bird has 3-4 bird sounds is an extreme simplification.
It is a nice starter blog. However, I disagree with few things as follows -

1. I think you should be able to run any service that you are building locally because faster the inner loop or feedback cycle is, faster you can iterate. So starting out right away on kubernetes prevents you from doing that because you can get stuck with unnecessary chores.

2. The blog makes sense in the context of a large organisation. But if you are a small startup or scale up, have simple RoR, Django, LAMP stack. It is really a lot of unnecessary accidental complexity you have to deal with before solving the real problem. You are better off with docker compose.
Imagine you're retired, you own a house on an island where you like life.

Why do you care if your house is "worth" $50k or $1m?

Maybe you don't have kids to inherit it. Maybe you consider yourself at home where you're living, so you wouldn't want to sell it anyway.