skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After the past 5 years or so of experiencing the supposed best "folderless" computing has to offer on iOS and ideologically similar platforms.

I've gained huge respect for how beautiful the concept of the folder is.
Facebook's representative at an accessibility conference mentioned that 30% of their mobile users do not use the default text size. This is a huge number, considering how hard it is to get people to change defaults. Features that are ostensibly for accessibility may be useful much more broadly.

I've seen this in the usability feature that my startup created. I initially launched on HN and got great traction in the lifehack community. Then I started hearing from people with disabilities who find our tech to be indispensable as an assistive technology. Our partners have reported 40% more reading on general-purpose platforms and 70% more reading on platforms for people with ADHD or dyslexia. (You can see what the reading tech looks like here, under Enhance Readability: [1])

Not all accessibility features benefit people who do not identify as disabled. But the ones that do are a win-win (and they help make the case for accessibility more generally).

1: https://unreasonable.is/how-to-stop-working-and-be-more-prod...
Thanks! I searched for something like this recently and couldn't find it! Should be linked in the Actions docs.
in hard copy
According to this article [1], they have about $3B in dollars and gold.

Bitcoin needs increase 100x or they need to buy why more.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/el-salvador/total-reserves-incl...
Had the West accepted the request* of Russia to join NATO, we wouldn't have seen the emergence of cold-war again! After the disintegration of USSR, the West went into triumphalism-mode rather than showing humility.

* This request was by Putin few years before the Afghan war. Russia at that time was sharing intelligence with the US on the dangers of the Taliban to the West. In the initial phases of the invasion Russia also provided some logistical support to the Western forces.
Because the FBI might ask your government to enforce US copyright law and your overly enthusiastic leader sends helicopters filled with heavily armed Police officers to raid your house at dawn, perhaps?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dotcom-wins-settlement-from-po...
Looks really nice, i've been scribbling away in a little notebook all the things i would do in "akdor's dream sql", and what you have here hits pretty much exactly.

Wondering about generic use of `let` - you have let for col defns, but `func` for functions and a TODO for tables/CTEs - could/should `let` do the lot? (Like another commenter posted, this is how MS's M language, used in PowerQuery in PowerBI and Excel works). Could enable an escape from point-free for entire queries if taken to extreme generality, not sure if that's a good thing, maybe it could be?

Bikeshedding: even with some OCaml/F# experience, i find `f x y` harder to read than `f(x, y)`.
I guess it was so hot, that the database melted.
Does it really matter it? If this new supercomputer means that ML engineers can iterate x% faster which in turn increases FB's profits by even a small y%, I would think this would have already paid for itself.
I love my electronic shifters. I certainly don’t need them, but they never need adjusting. I just hope I never forget to charge them and have to ride home on a fixed (or manually adjusted) gear.
There are now sites for anonymous feedback on companies, such as Glassdoor or Blind, but those are always suspect to either corporate astroturfing or random trolling.
If you combine this with the E-myth advice, you realize the leadership job then transitions to one of building/tending systems for identifying problems, etc. Of course, not many organizations get that far.
In other words, 58% of NASDAQ stocks weren't?
Fair enough! Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to find a good lawyer :)
I have an very efficient and "practical" algorithm for determining the score in a sports match. In almost all cases it tells us which team had the higher score -- the only time it fails is when the game in close. In those cases, it can't accurately tell who won.

It SOUNDS like a very practical algorithm, but in reality it's precisely in the "close" cases where people care the most.
I work in hosting. A large number of DMCA requests that I've seen are very nearly scams. All somebody has to do is not like content that you host, claim copyright, and issue a DMCA takedown request. The onus is on the site owner to prove that they own the material and file a counterclaim. It's often easier for them to just take the content down, sadly.
A "closed" circuit is just an open circuit plus a pump (electron pump or water pump).

Open circuits work fine if there is a powerful source of electricity (like a a radio) and a sink (like the Earth), and same for water (an icy comet crashing into a cliff, making a waterfall).

An open water circuit is full of stationary water.
>People like Hillary Clinton have never voted consistently in the interests of people who voted for Trump.

Examples? I'm not a Clinton fan personally but Clinton and the rest of the Democrats have consistently proposed and voted for legislation that heavily benefit rural voters including importantly the ACA and Medicaid expansion which trumps base heavily relies on for access to medical care.

I'm not really interested in debating the merits of HRC because she's just slightly less conservative than the GOP in general.

> Not saying Trump's presidency was any more beneficial, both parties don't give a shit about the little guy

One party has proposed voting rights bills, a massive infrastructure program that would provide jobs and opportunity for millions of rural people, bills that would massively lower the costs of prescription medicine, and bills expanding access to medical care for millions of impoverished Americans. The other party was in power for four years and only accomplished one massive tax cut for the ultra wealthy. The "both sides" thing is bullshit. The Democrats aren't perfect and lord knows that the Democratic leadership needs to go but to pretend the Democrats and republicans are the same is delusional.

>but calling 30 million people "deplorable" certainly qualifies as broad brush hate.

Here is the actual quote

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”

She's not wrong about that. trump is a hate monger and his supporters reflect that. The last time I checked, HRC wasn't a tastemaker. The question was whether urban Americans hate rural Americans and they just don't. Most people just want to reduce the influence rural Americans have over the majority of Americans lives. If people in Alabama want to live in a religious back-water, that's their call, just stop dragging the coasts down with you.
The coin has a picture of King Henry III of England on it.

A coin used earlier in the Roman province of Britain, even in the same location, would have a picture of the Emperor in Rome on it.

That's what makes it "one of England's earliest gold coins". One of the earliest coins of "England as a state".
The big advantage of "from first" like we have in Kusto KQL (a database we use at Microsoft) is that it provides much better autocomplete (if I write the `from` it can easily autocomplete the projection).

If you want an interesting example of how a query language built for developer experience and autocompletions looks definitely check it out!.
Git Internals – Git Objects
Tool & die does ok still doesn't it?
When I first looked at Huginn, it wouldn't run on ARM (raspberry pi). I eventually just went with Python3, Cronjobs, and an app called Pushover (push notifications). No visual niceties, but it works rather well for my purposes.

I have scripts for:
- checking exchange rates
- checking the price of wine or other products
- sending me the latest messages that interesting people on HN post
- etc.
Writing an alternative syntax is straight forward. Perhaps prototype PRQL using xi's excellent FunSQL backend? This way it's working out of the gate. Once syntax+semantics are pinned, writing another backend in the language of your choice would then be easier. Getting the backend correct is non-trivial work, and xi has done this already. Besides, we need a sandbox syntax anyway, so it might be fun to collaborate.
On Chrome or Brave for Android, I use: chrome://flags/#darken-websites-checkbox-in-themes-setting
What timezone are you in?

id EMEA, you can grab a list of startups that got funded in EU last year, visit those one by one and see if they employ remote workers. Ive seen many many job offers not advertised anywhere else that accept remote workers.

I cant guarantee you they will hire outside EU, just one tactic to find jobs with low competition
I signed up to the beta but have heard nothing from them since regarding an invite. I’d pay for it now even in beta. Why won’t they take my money!?
That's the contact info for Mason Donald King!

https://www.masondonaldking.com/
I'm not seeing an easy reference right now, but I feel like a number of articles bemoaning the state of open source maintainership have come up over the years, particularly in conjunction with high profile security issues like the ones in the OpenSSL and log4j projects.

But in short, the maintainers are mostly uncompensated, and therefore have no sense of urgency or obligation to a faceless stranger making a drive-by contribution. Every accepted contribution is something that has to be understood, supported, and even justified by the project's maintainers going forward, so each one is an opportunity to take on more work and risk, and obviously by definition almost all them are things the maintainers didn't themselves "need" or they would have done it themselves. So each new branch or bugfix is relevant to a codepath that no one involved in the planning, testing, or release-preparation for that project has a first-class stake in. Each new capability added is an opportunity for there to be shrieks following a release because it was inadvertently broken in the course of some other bit of development.
Since my original reply was for some reason flagged, I'm reposting it:

If I were a woman and my genitals were mutilated, would your response be the same? That I should just get over myself? And before you play the well-female-mutilation-is-worse card, let's just restrict it to clitoral hood cutting, which is the analog of male foreskin removal.

The issue is that part of my body was removed without my consent and that my parents infringed upon my basic rights to an intact body. That is the issue. That may be inconceivable to you, but I assure you that it goes no deeper than that and that I have accurately represented my feelings in my post. There is no hyperbole.

But hey, it's a tough world out there so I guess we should all just suck it up and man up when our parents cut off part of our penises.
The Pacific Ocean is ginormous (I think that’s the technical term?) I often find myself surprised when I spin a globe (physical or virtual) and compare the expanse of the ocean to my neighborhood of the planet. The scale also makes the history of Polynesian seafaring all that more incredible.
It's actually not linear, its a power law. That means we need exponentially more compute, data, and model parameters to see linear improvements in performance.
Yeah, I spent the first 24 years of my life in St. Louis and have no memory of ever encountering this, although I was kind of a shut-in so maybe I was just out of touch.
The animation with it placed over Florida helped me understand, but also gave me a really good idea...
Whereas for electricity, voltage drop is always proportional to current.

The water metaphor works fine for many DC circuit comparisons, up to and including basic transistor operation. Meanwhile, at AC, your statement above doesn't hold up much better than the water analogy would. Lots of additional terms come into play... skin effect, radiative losses, displacement current and phasor relationships, even quantum effects.

Every once in a while, a huge Internet argument springs up among people who don't understand that the Ohm and Kirchoff laws represent the steady-state map and not the time-variant territory. Do a search on eevblog for "Lewin," for instance. (Actually that's terrible advice. Don't do that, and forget I said anything.)
Agree it sounds like the job structure isn't supportive hence causing burnout. I will say though that after working in software the desire to work in the physical world to make physical things can be a real lure. So I understand the core question of switching to physical engineering work. It also provides a lot of understanding of how the physical world works which computer engineering doesn't provide.
Cameras made it easy to copy things, so did printing presses, photocopiers and now computers. None of them have killed copyright, which is still functioning just fine. Musicians still sell music, directors still make films, the apocalypse simply isn’t happening.

Yes there are occasional abuses, unfair YouTube takedowns and crap like this from Google. They must be fought, no argument there. Life will go on.
When I say "Russia" I am talking about the government of Russia, just like how people often use "Americans" when talking about the USG, or "China" when talking about the CCP. I would actually bet that average Russian and American people probably have a lot more in common with each other than they do with their political leaders and elites.
SELECT * FROM desktop_icons WHERE ...

I used to be one of those people who had to sort my desktop icons to find stuff, because there were so many icons they'd overlap. Today, ~/Desktop is completely empty. I've gotta say, folders are far superior to a rubbish bin, even when it isn't hard to search files by name & contents.
What’s the alternative? Centrally planned economies lead to people dying, messing with them via regulation hasn’t seemed to help at all, just leads to some financial crisis.
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Anecdote + rumor + poorly summarized links to external sources ≠ data. Another day, another misleading substack article trying to push an agenda.
It doesn't really matter. Use 11 for 1, 00 for 00 and 01 for next number. Most ways you can come up with have the same length up to multiplying with some constant, and the constant does not matter in the analysis.
Pretty sure fixing deeply technical business to business transparent-but-potentially-terrible pricing models are pretty far down the priority list on things that will get them re-elected right now (not even counting campaign donations).

Contract dispute cases might clarify it, but probably not in the direction any of us is hoping.
>I said built-in, you seem to have missed that part.

I did not miss that part, you're just mistaken.

>SELinux is not built-in(though it is for certain distributions of Linux).

Wrong. SELinux is 100% "built-in" to Linux. That's like saying btrfs or Wireguard are not "built-in" to Linux because certain distros may or may not have them compiled in. Nonetheless, SELinux is part of the kernel [0].

The rest of your dribble is a painful Gish gallop because you were decisively proven wrong. Mature up a bit and take the L. Fomenting about being proven wrong is against the Guidelines here.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/
"deserve a license to kill" is a crappy framing. Vaccines are different for a number of reasons; see the history of antivax (predating modern antivax).

all medicines come with risks, vaccines probably have a higher risk than aspirin, but still represent a massively overall good thing, and the public is very sensitive to hearing about extremely small numbers of adverse events.
TPUs are amazing, but in my experience, debugging issues with them can be a bit tricky. Since nvidia's gpus are more common place (especially outside gcp), you can find a lot more information when you get stuck, it's also more battle tested, etc.
> But it's not going to be Unix as we know it.

Right, that's Plan9.
If Putin doesn't want NATO countries at the border,

it's not because he thinks NATO would attack

it's because he cannot invade NATO countries.

So, the more NATO countries, the smaller his future Great Russia would be.
This is not science, this is heresy, anecdotes, confirmation bias, self-referencing, and regurgitation of political theatre happening across the wold.

This article even includes using Facebook responses of people claiming to be part of the "consilience" of vaccine data being incorrect as one of the most egregious examples of proof of "consilience".

Some people are saying: "this person is a biologist we should trust them". Please check out their Linkedin, Linkedin posts/resposts, and Twitter and understand this persons background and where this information is coming from.
why choose?

Current desktop operating systems have hierarchical filesystems and support flat lookup via indexing (e.g. MacOS's spotlight).
> COVID conspiracy theorist

vs

> your puritanical world-view
Against the Survival of the Prettiest
Scaling hypothesis says that we just need more processing power to achieve things we regarded as "impossible for non-intelligent agents". So far, scaling hypothesis is proving itself correct despite still prevailing skepticism.
Briefly discussed August 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24114402

To restate my comment from that thread: here's the CHERI project home-page, which may be more approachable than the paper:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
Author here - I saw a few analyses of Wordle on here over the last few days, but it didn't seem like the strategies others used were optimal. They managed to get very good results usually by only training on the "target" set, which is the list of solutions, rather than on the more correct list of all words, which is how a human approaches this problem. I believe that this solution is indeed optimal with respect to the problem.
Would you mind sharing the services you’ve found that have fixed prices? I haven’t had much luck finding services like that (although I’m looking in the < $20/month range).
That's true I should've said wealth. I think many people don't see many paths towards wealth if they aren't entrepreneurial, college used to be a good way towards upwards mobility. I think we're all realizing it's not really the case now
Or RosettaFold

https://github.com/RosettaCommons/RoseTTAFold
https://archive.is/M9r4Q
I was thinking that too about whales and birds. Some species are found only on/around an island or two, like many of the Galapagos species.
If colleges can discriminate based on race, then everyone and every business should be afforded the same privilege.

Meaning, there should be no diversity quotas, mandates, or accusations of racism, even if there are hardly any minorities employee at a business.

It is this double standard that no one likes.

If Harvard wants to admit only blacks for 2025 let them, but stop telling companies in CA they need at least 1 non white on the board or that there aren't enough blacks in tech.

If you don't agree that everyone should be treated the same, then we have to go by race protections and colleges are discriminating.

What is next, mandating you date a minority if you a white?
I like the design, pricing can be better. But very good overall.
Hope it is okay and not too much off-topic. I just donated. He deserves it for this service!

Fact is that stuff like this can happen. Consider how many variables are in play to determine the final cost of a cloud service it is very much a double-edged sword. Sometimes you cut yourself unintentionally.

So now we all learn from this, I suggest we help him out.
This thread should probably be merged with this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30062019
I just published a post in the same vein: The Best Accessibility Features You've Never Heard Of. [1] I describe several examples of super helpful features that most people don't even know exist.

1: https://beelinereader.medium.com/the-best-accessibility-feat...
Flagging is doing more harm than good. I wanted to see the discussion and counterpoint when I finished reading the article. Except the thread vanished and I had to count on Google to find it. Thankfully it was easy this time, but if it hadn't been, what am I supposed to assume, especially when the narrative is framed around censorship?

The dismissive attitude of many of the commenters (present company excluded) is sickening. I'm weary of the "I don't have to refute this, I declare that it doesn't rise to the level of scientific discussion" argument. Thanks for actually saying something to address one of the claims here.
This comment is helpful for places that don't have modern tech. Though the tone is fucked.

"Will Deskreen work on my 1st or 2nd generation IPads? Will Deskreen work on some really old device?

No. At the moment we are looking into solutions on how to add a support for really old screen viewing devices with old and outdated browsers. The problem is that WebRTC is not supported in old outdated web browsers, but we may fix this in the future. In future releases this issue may be fixed. Stay tuned. You can find updates in the following link: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/issues/90"
IMO, this appears not to be something that solves the SQL learning curve but rather the usability of a query language with tooling.

I don't think there is much that could be done to address left, right, inner, outer join semantics. It's just something you have to learn if you want to do a lot of SQL (though, you are likely only ever going to use left and inner joins).
I don't mean to complain--actually, yes I do, so never mind that--but do you march into a fast food restaurant that claims to serve "the best burgers in town" and demand to have the manager issue a correction because the other place across the road also advertises the best burgers?

Or do you return a hat that reads "one size fits all" when you find a toddler whose head is too small for it?

I fail to see the need for such pedantry, at least put in such a way that seems very demeaning to the author (who, I note, does not appear to have English as their first language and so might have learned this turn of phrase by reading other advertising). If it bothers you that much, make a pull request to correct the record: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen
one of my hopes after things calm down a bit is that people will be more reluctant to use the "racist fear mongering" and "killing grandma" arguments.

This bothered me back when we had to hear about "death panels" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_panel and nearly everybody ignored that fact that since we have finite funds, we have to make difficult medical decisions that lead to patient deaths.