skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i like to listen to detective fiction, louise penny, henning mankell, my favorites, then books like jusse adler olsen and lars kepler, johnathan kellerman series also.

what i do is, i put on the audiobook on play with a 10 minute timer. voice app on android has a shake to play again. so if i like the book, i can finish the 10 minutes and i shake to start playing again. right untill i fall asleep. that way the next morning i have to go back within the last 10 minutes to the point i can no longer remember what was said. that is where i continue
I thought they bought this building in 2012 for $1B. I guess that sale didn't go through.
Up until just a few weeks ago, 100% of the codegen work we've put into LLVM-MOS has been to get it feature-complete and rock-solid. It's awesome to see that that work has paid off!

We're just now starting to really optimize the compiler; there's definitely a long road ahead of us, but our preliminary investigations suggest that we'll be able to get the thing to emit really quite good 6502 assembly.

Right now, it emits near-garbage in a large number of common cases, as seen in the article. This is mostly due to technical debt intentionally accrued while getting the thing working, though; we did stuff like use the default LLVM lowering for comparisons, which are ridiculously trash on the 6502. But there's only really a couple major technical hurdles left to overcome; everything else is just painstakingly teaching LLVM what the best 6502 assembly patterns are for various situations.
The key "AI" contribution, after you dig down through all the media misunderstanding, appears to be this:

[NYT]> The time it took for the camera images to reach the sniper and for the sniper’s response to reach the machine gun, not including his reaction time, was estimated to be 1.6 seconds, enough of a lag for the best-aimed shot to go astray.

So aiming and firing was initiated by a human, but hardware and software attempted to mask the time delay in doing so against a moving vehicle. Which seems plausible: optical flow + basic vehicle vector and velocity calculations.

There's also some stuff in the various articles about facial recognition, but that sounds a bit far fetched and unreliable.

If you have a person in the loop with enough resolution to accurately aim, then why are you running facial recognition to discriminate targets?
They Americans will send you to Gitmo for wearing one of these.
I also use Calibre but I tend to get formatting issues around at 15 percent. Still love it but isn't full proof
Right, Postel's law: validating the data you receive reduces the interoperability, so don't do that.
I'm hoping the pine note will become a viable device after it releases. A fully open, respects the user, 10" e-ink reader that runs GNU/Linux from an organization that has a proven track record of upstreaming all hardware specific patches to the mainline linux kernel. I expect Debian/Mobian will be available for it, and if battery life isn't terrible, it will be my ideal e-reader.

https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/

https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/

I purchased the original B&N Nook (e-ink) and later one with the front-lit screen. The low price and ability to side-load epubs were the deciding factors, along with there being no freedom respecting alternative. But, later discovered that Nook too phones home with all your reading habits including side loaded content. I rooted both of them (the Nook runs Android), and installed a firewall to block all comm with B&N, and just side-load everything. Acceptable hardware, but the software on the newer models is a dumpster fire (crashes unless you restart device after every few hundred pages read, loses track of what page you were on, have to navigate more screens to do most common tasks, terrible to navigate to book if more than a few loaded onto the device, etc.)-- the original version's software was better in all respects, but still lacking for managing more than a few titles loaded onto the device at once.

(edited to make links clickable)
Exactly, they didn't just go straight to $22 an hour, they agreed to follow the deal made between their sector of industry and the unions for that sector. People seem to have the impression that the unions dictate the compensation and benefits, they do not. It's a negotiation between the companies and the unions, and the state is observes (unless negotiations fail).

The Danish model allow for continuous adaptation of the compensation and benefits. The companies have just as much influence as the unions do. The model allows companies to avoid a minimum wage, which may not be beneficial to companies if a particular sector has a slowdown.
I'm genuinely surprised that the US is not at the top of the list. Can anyone explain why England's tuition is so high (or has risen so much as the article says)?
Also: gasoline taxes has fuck-all to do with labor unions.
Text based pipeline YAML files are so powerful.
It's a matter of degrees...

Imagine if I went to church for the first time in a decade and the next day three monks show up at my door with a cassock and vows.

...that's the YouTube algorithm in my experience. I show a passing interest in one thing so it floods me with every drop of content they have on the subject to the exclusion of things that I have watched every week for years.

There are creators I watch every week or every drop. Somehow the algorithm chooses to not surface their videos regularly and surface 46,123 videos on Terraform because I watched a quick tutorial.
In the UK where did all the extra money go? It's a mystery!

Hmm, downvoted. Stupid question? Irrelevant? To go from the government paying £4000 a year for a students free degree to the student paying £10,000 a year still seems odd to me.
Same thing for Toys R Us in Sweden (1995)

https://apnews.com/6d245065b3faaadc70e6eb77e3e5c20f
Origins of Today's “Left” and “Right” by Citizen Scholar (Amazing New Substack)
To add to this, there's a misleading phenomenon that first occurs where the performance actually gets worse with too much data/parameters/epochs, but oddly improves again if you throw even more at the model.
Ah, I see. I really don't prefer having them split for a single game, so wasn't even thinking of that (in fact, I vastly prefer the pro controller if it's docked). Not that I've played it in quite a while. The kids usually have it and the docking capability broke a year or two ago (not the dock, other docks don't work either).
PH gives you a score, something #1 product of the day. It can be used as a benchmark or reference to investors and customers that this is product has a market need. It is kickstarter for software except the money part. It is also gives you some kind product and market validation. But like any other system, you can game it.
It's amazing how in less than a decade (but especially the last 5 years), I have seen the optics in the public of Blizzard went from being one of the most beloved and respected gaming companies in the space (probably only compared to Valve), to one where it's today.

From the free speech / CCP fiasco, the hostile workplace for women, the crunch culture, games perceived as irrelevant despite being ground zero of the e-sports, and a lot of great talent just leaving the company. It's sad to look how a company that I enjoy their products for so long, being down to this.

And probably the saddest part it's that a lot of those problems were there from the start, but just recently started to being public.
What app do you use for reading ebooks on that one?

And how is boox. I've been looking for an ereader with a very big screen and haven't found a decent one yet, but the boox might be the one.
Is the drawing any good?
I like your argument about sustainability. With proper free software, the code itself is part of the product. When you're left to work on a binary, it's not even not guaranteed that your patch won't work with the next version or whatever - often the authors specifically make the life of the modders harder. It's part of the product that you don't get to modify it. It's signed, obfuscated, there's checks for integrity, uglified, ABI modifications for the sake of breaking compatibility. So much of the effort is just fighthing against that, and that's a directly opposing sustainability.
I often hear about Americans having as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt… how do they get so much debt when their fees are only $9k a year? Where is the rest of their debt coming from?
What's New in Apache Kafka 3.0.0
Chess, because it's best to experience the agony of defeat early and often.

Under 7? Programming at that age is pointless.
Specifically, are you referring to JWT with Apollo client on the server-side?

On the client-side, you can just use a link and get the cookie into an auth header that way. On the server-side, you need some way of getting that auth token from the cookie and passing it into the server-side runtime so that you can insert it into the auth header via a link in each server-side Apollo client instance.
Many Iranians are very proud to be Iranians in the same way many Israelis are proud to be Israelis.

If those two countries could decide on peace (or rather, if the majorities in each country that want peace could push aside the warmongers), the Middle East and the entire world would be a much better place.
Google not jumping on the WFH bandwagon.
Since none of us knew how to write a parser, dealing with the arbitrarily nested nature of XHTML was pretty intimidating (now that I know how to do it it's not too bad, but in 9th grade I made very little progress). To my knowledge there is no XML parsing library for QBasic; it fell out of favor for "serious work" about 10 years before XML was invented.
Ok my comment was semi ironic and didn't think anyone would care much about it. I did acknowledge that things probably aren't that different today.
New Hyundai Santa Cruz review: Towing 18-foot pontoon boat
If I am going to an Apple certified repair center, I would expect they are using genuine parts. I think of it like a car dealership, you're going to pay a lot but get genuine parts. Usually it's a much better idea to go to an independent mechanic and save a ton of money (there's a reason dealerships are referred to as the "stealership" by many people).
It's challenging to find a decent reading software on android devices nowdays
Love your landing page. I know exactly what you do and how you can be of value for me without even scrolling. Well done!
This is only due to the fact that there is a good chance an engineer on github is already working on your problems and you just wait to integrate his work.

Companies that think engineers are expensive will continue to buy tons of hardware and scale rather badly. If you are not actively pushing the ceiling you gonna fall out. You should work on problems cause, who knows, it seems like there might be some value.
It looks like at least one example page is online: http://brandoncornell.com/index.qml
That story with Steve Jobs vs the Apple Extended Keyboard is quite funny because it's one of my favourite keyboards. The original mac keyboard M0110 has comparable build quality but with a tiny layout.
Could be worth it to buy a USB scanner.
Also true... but this decorator isn't going to work in that context.
Thanks for the feedback. They have great reviews, so I suspect you are right.
tbf nor can Uber.
If I was Israel, I wouldn't bet that they aren't.

The problem with populist-leveraging theocracies with bad economies is that you need a shared national boogie man. For decades, Iraq, Israel, and the US have been that for Iran.
For reading it does a bad job (check the reddit) and at a pricepoint of 800$, a boox might be better
Ground infiltration is the least bad thing to happen.

Keeping the water near the surface just results in more evaporation loss, and side effects for soil quality like concentration of salts.

Water infiltrating the ground will keep the soil "primed" for water absorption and storage, and prevent runoff and erosion and flash flooding. (Think about watering a potted plant with completely dried out soil.)

Plus it will just go towards recharging the water table.
Squarespace's "ESC to go to Squarespace login" is a huge pain for me as well. I think it's on by default. I CTRL+F pretty often. I press ESC to clear it. I get redirected to Squarespace if I'm on a Squarespace site that hasn't turned off this "feature".
Your definition only includes physical difficulties (although many developers can tell you that development jobs are horrible for your health, and roofing in the sun actually might be better for your health)

But difficult or hard doesn’t mean physically tiring. It is not easier to make complex decisions, nor to dedicate years of training in order to even begin doing a job.

Some trades require more training. Things like electrical work or plumbing. In those trades people apprentice and as their experience grows so does their pay, often rivaling or exceeding that of software developers… why? Because it take years of dedication.

The reductionism that hard only means physically taxing makes little sense. It leads to the idea that only physical laborers should be paid well, which doesn’t make any economic sense.

Does that mean a factory worker that stand around all day pushing a button should get paid next to nothing? Many of those are physically easy (some even provide chairs) but boring as hell. (And before someone says that factory jobs are all hellish, I have talked to people who have done jobs sorting coffee lids, or monitoring automated work lines. And those people’s first hand experience will tell you it’s often just mind numbingly boring, and not at all difficult)

Ultimately compensation isn’t made against someone’s arbitrary sense of difficulty. Instead it’s made against how many people are willing and able to do the job. And that’s the current distorted reality. Some people are thinking due to pandemic related consequences that there are fewer people willing and able to do the job.
Good questions.

For computer support, generally you would pass a -mcpu= flag (or maybe -mattr=, but that might be a compiler internal flag, I forget). Obviously then that's not portable and has implications on the ABI. I didn't read the article but I suspect they might be in ARMv9.0, hopefully, otherwise "better luck next major revision."

For monkey patching, the Linux kernel already does this aggressively since it generally has permission to read the relevant machine specific registers (MSRs). Doesn't help userspace, but userspace can do something similar with hwcaps and ifuncs.
The Material Sources of Free Speech Anxieties (2020)
The middle east is a jungle. If I had to make a choice between living close to a nuclear Iran - a fundamentalist regime commits horrendous acts, like public hangings of gay men *or* violating international law, I would choose the latter without hesitation.

Laws are great when there's someone who enforces them. When there's no entity that makes sure those rules are obeyed they mean nothing.
Look for pillars of salt!
Is the large portion of your family larger than a country of 200 million? "Common majority of muslims" is the western diaspora of a couple million? The nation is known for following the said book so it's no surprise they are extremists. You are not making any sense. What's next, Pakistanis are not Muslims?
Nobody cares for blogs. Usenet was the real thing. Distributed discussions, free from censorship and disappearing hosters.
> The jobs don't clean up -- probably to allow for caching.

Ya, this helps with a specific build cache scenario I use, A workaround if you want it to cleanup is to put `rm -rf "${{ github.workspace }}"` at the end of your workflow.
Why I’m leaving TradFi for Crypto
It's like Show HN and Reddit combined. Comments and upvotes on brand new products and services.

For founders/makers, it's obviously a great source of traffic, leads, and exposure for your product.

For users, it's more about being in on the ground floor with a hot new product. Sometimes that means getting an exclusive deal or free features. Other times it's just the exclusivity of being one of the first customers for something that may be very big one day (think lower user IDs on Twitter or GitHub, for instance).

I think a lot of people like playing with new toys, and PH is a good way to do that without having to spend actual money buying something new to play with. I think it fits in the same niche as those that watch unboxing videos. It's fun to play with new stuff.
This work only established new (remarkably exact) bounds, it was not, as the quanta article poorly describes, answering the problem in the exact sense. Their "all but solved it" is a little disingenous, as indeed it balloons quickly. Very quickly.

Exact results are only known to N=27 right now. With a single core, computing the exact result for N=16, aka Q(16), takes about 8s (using the fastest single-core method known to me). Going up to Q(17) extends that to roughly 61s, and Q(18) is over 6 and a half minutes. Q(27) took its group about a year with a large FPGA cluster.
It feels like the "Just don't do X if you are that paranoid" attitude is singlehandedly responsible for the increasingly egregious privacy invasions from the last decade.
There's never been a more expensive time to have one either.
Oh wow they still have CueCats to sell?
They aren't replacing delivery trucks that stock stores, it's adding to personal deliveries usually done by normal bike or sometimes car depending on the traffic density.
This is actually a really interesting question, although I am not sure of the exact context of what you are asking about. That is, thinking about "thoughts and feelings" in terms of "existential dread" and wondering "why am I here" is one thing. Thinking through "should I buy a house this year or keep renting a little longer?" seems like quite a different thing.

I can offer three vague suggestions, all of which concern things that I am aware of, but don't necessarily have a lot of personal experience with.

In the world of mental health, there is a technique called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy[1], which - as I understand it - is heavily rooted in the idea of breaking thoughts/feelings/emotions down in rational terms and thinking (eg, "cognition") about them in rational terms. If someone believes they have serious mental health issues, they should probably consult a professional, but outside of that context there are plenty of CBT books that you can find at Amazon or B&N to get some exposure to the ideas / techniques.

Getting away from the mental health angle, if we're just talking about making good decisions about more concrete things (buy a house or not, change jobs or not) where financial factors and such-like are key elements, then you might find some value in something like A3 Thinking[2].

Taking an even broader view, there is an entire science of "Decision Theory" (or "Decision Science")[3] which deals with detailed mathematical modeling of decisions and techniques to make optimal decisions. This comes in more for things like "I'm a company and I need to decide whether to open a new factory in North Carolina and a new distribution hub in Colorado, or open a smaller factory in Wyoming and three distribution hubs in the Northeast", blah, etc. This brings in elements of Game Theory, Optimization, Operations Research, etc.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy

[2]: https://planet-lean.com/what-is-a3-thinking/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_theory
Because web services are always better? /s

A simple utility not dependent on internet:

qrencode -t ansi https://link.com

Or if you like an image:

qrencode "$something" -o a.png && eog a.png

Copy-paste friendly prompt:

read a && qrencode -o a.png -- "$a" && eog a.png
I'm so with you!

Even thought articles like these (and all the comments here) can give a lot of (good?) information, it can also create a bunch of paralysis.

I'm also working on starting my first SaaS and I completely believe that "you don't learn until you launch".

That my product is copied and 90% of my user have been captured? WOW! I came up and built an idea worth copying and with such potential on the market!? Let's do it again!

I think this is also the freedom of no VC/investors asking for their ROI and an stable income. We can experiment, see what works and go from there. I'd also be flattered if my idea gets copied :-)
I can learn from my competitor and grow even more!

Good luck on your project!
I use the free version of Libib.com [1]. Both the Android and iOS apps work just great. The app has an integrated barcode scanner and automatically looks up for the book's info. You can even export the catalog as csv.

[1] https://www.libib.com
If Israel has nuclear weapons, then its principal geopolitical rival, Iran will want nuclear weapons. You have a proliferation risk that will greatly increase the risk of actual use of nuclear weapons.

/headagainstwall
I have this watch. My wife spent weeks trying to sell it on Facebook marketplace but they kept insisting it was an inappropriate item even after human intervention. I know it has connections with IEDs and terrorism, so I wonder if it is related to that.
> one of their barcode scanners (https://www.librarything.com/more/store/cuecat)

That's a blast from the past! I remember getting a CueCat in the mail (I guess in 2000, based on the timeline in the Wikipedia article[0]). Neat to see that they've found another life (many others, by the sounds of it).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
The Best Design of 2021 in North America
That chart is for public universities (of which America has many excellent ones). Americans with tons of college debt are likely to have attended an overpriced private institution, and financed their room and board and books as well. That can add up to over $60k/year at prestigious private colleges and universities.
I can't knock some individual's decision, it is theirs alone to make, but the decision-making process strikes me as so extremely odd that it is hard to relate, and it's very difficult to believe that this is really about climate.

It is almost in some sense insulting to one's ancestors, who traveled over glacial passes in search of the next 8,000lb mammal to eat. What would they think of these environmental setbacks as a reason to lay down your future? I am reminded of W.H. Auden's poem, Ode to the Medieval Poets, which opens:

Chaucer, Langland, Douglas, Dunbar, with all your
brother Anons, how on earth did you ever manage,
without anaesthetics or plumbing,
in daily peril from witches, warlocks,

lepers, The Holy Office, foreign mercenaries
burning as they came, to write so cheerfully,
with no grimaces of self-pathos...

Something just seems deeply off about the modern pessimism, and it definitely did not start with climate. Climate seems like a salient thing for people to point to, but something that is merely salient in this rhetorical way. Even the people in this thread saying that this resonates with them mention that climate is just one of an array of reasons for them. It's not like, after all, birth rates plummeting below replacement for many populations had anything to do with climate reasons until very, very recently. I think we need to look a little deeper than that.

(full text of that poem: https://simonsarris.com/ode-to-the-Medieval-Poets)
Spoken like someone with no knowledge of the other person, who’s arguments are based primarily on ad hominem, and who seems to be wed to a socialist workers agenda where every person should be compensated equally for any work.

I have done many types of jobs, including physical labor. I’m way more tired, and usually much more stressed out, after doing what you call “easy” jobs. Often the hard labor makes you feel healthier.
Basically the best thing I have ever used for PDF's with graphics/formulas/code. I am a very happy user.