skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does it download a JVM separately instead of packaging the app with jpackage (which would result in a much smaller footprint)?

EDIT: I mean jlink - jpackage would be an alternative to creating installers, but jlink just packages the app with parts of the JVM it requires, which seems could make this tool better by avoiding the need so maintain JREs (which are deprecated) on the user's machine.
I believe back in the day CDN could also help with libs due to maximum number of connection to same domain; but with http2 this issue went away.

Still, localized content delivery is still needed even today, so CDN usage is still preferred. Unless your provider actually does CDN already, like github pages or something in those lines.
In another content they wrote "hope they raise a financial instrument just so I can short the living daylights out of it". So that's what they're cryptically referring to.
Hm, new account posts the same comment here multiple times. Makes me wonder if he's the editor of this website and is following his own advice...
"Abundant and cheap" energy means nothing if it's not also clean and renewable energy. The real problem is that nobody who's getting filthy rich off energy wants abundant, cheap, clean, renewable energy unless it somehow makes them more money than the current status quo does. If it does not, then they'll fight it tooth and nail all the way to everyone's graves.
Not a very good landing page imho. It doesn't address why I should pick it over Ory Kratos or Keycloak or okta and such.
I'm getting more and more convinced that git is way too powerful/complex for most people.
Sounds just like scrum, and the job of the scrum master, as it is (was) actually described.
a more comprehensive roadmap regarding SEO

https://learningseo.io
I would argue the 'standard' Unity game dev shop are made of experienced burned out developpers from 'standard tech' big shops managing enthousiastics but 'incompetents' (I quote the word i'm not sure it's the good one, it's not they are bad as persons but they lack experience and game development school have an abyssal level of formation in programming) interns, wich is not different than a lot a place I worked before going to game development (and sometime as the enthousiastic but unproductive intern myself of course) ^^
Where I work it is a hard convention. It is also a sensible convention because anything else makes the codebase even harder to navigate/refactor and whatever.

When working in teams, you really shouldn't put more than one class in one file, except for rare exceptions of very small and inconsequential classes. Otherwise the files get pretty big and the chance of merge conflicts get bigger.

The underlying problem - in my opinion - is that C# encourages you to overcomplicate things and that it is relatively verbose. Of course you can put a class with multiple members and methods in one line. But then it's also unreadable. Readability matters.

All languages with a syntax derived from C have a fundamental readability/verbosity problem, C# is no exception. F# for example doesn't have that baggage and is a lot more concise.
$400m/year is in the ballpark for estimates of Chrome's _advertising_ spend, at various points.
Please, yes!

It may sound dumb, but such a "simple" change (simple conceptually, can't speak of the dev challenge involved) change would be an enormous quality of life increase to me. I've ended up looking into scoping rules and what not when bug-hunting because of this, but often just ended up going back to a language with stricter syntax around variable creation (goes for moving away from Python etc as well). The more the code, the bigger of an issue this becomes.
Code::Stats
I love this site for a few reasons and wanted to submit it:

- Features I was looking for (I like seeing my statistics)
- Conservative use of JavaScript
- Useful and intuitive features (Language aliases, multiple machines)
- Easy data export (one click to CSV)
- Individual, non-anonymous creator
- Free (though I would totally pay a few euros)

Plus some things I don't care as much about, but HN would probably like:

- No ads or tracking
- Open source
- IRC channel for support
- Matrix channel? for support
Ouch. That's the worst example of "Befehlstaktik" I've read so far.

Try Auftragstaktik instead:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission-type_tactics
I didn't state that the document can't have audio or video or whatever. I am just sceptical when I see someone sending over the browser some wasm for singal processing or for rendering a video game. Don't get me wrong I think it's is useful but I am really worried that people are basically overcomplicate things with hacks on top of hacks instead of someone saying f#@k it we need a different approach.

My problem is that when I want to do some simple web app the industry standard is to have all these abstraction levels, this makes me think that maybe we are building on the wrong fundamentals. And people instead of refactoring the browser they make more abstractions/hacks on each other.
I actually develop for Android and literally worked with those permissions on 6+ too.

I was answering parent's concerns in their context.
I think they're great when you need to extend a bunch of views at the same time without changing their core logic.

It was trivially easy to add authentication, caching, multiple response types and other magic without bothering the rest of the dev team.
You can see in the receipt how it says "high demand" next to technology fee :). I don't have an article, but I used to work for a major rideshare co, hence the industry knowledge.
First things first, I think it’s important to recognize that this book may not be for everyone.

I was recommended and read Blood Meridian a while ago without having any prior knowledge of it, and I now rank it as one of the best book I’ve read that I’ll almost never recommend to anyone blindly.

If you decide to read it, and I actually hope you do, please be aware that it is —- as the article describes —- heartlessly and brutally violent.

That being said, I think the author justifies their use of it, as does the linked article. In my memory it stands more as a work of poetry than a novel, in as much as it provoked emotions more than tell a specific “story”.
I have this reaction every time some mentally ill person murders some people or sets fire to a building or something.

In general, people react with "The laws need to change! We need to ramp up surveillance/social care/police capability etc etc" or even the "What shall we do? Something needs to be done!" type response.

But I think that usually the answer is "Do nothing". It was just one edge-case disturbed individual. This is not a common event, and will not be a common event. We cannot generalize any learnings from this tragic event. We just keep on keeping on, and know that one time in a thousand a bad thing will happen but for the other 999 times everything is fine and will be worse with more rules and restrictions.
DHH and Jason Fried are masters of marketing. Marketing != paid ads. They are great storytellers and have been doing it consistently for the past 20 years with blogs, books and podcasts. The story they built around their products also serves a culture and philosophy of people using their products, and telling other people about it.
OfferZen's State of the Software Developer Nation: 2022 South Africa Report
Yep, he had the balls to stand up for the team, and to get away with that the organisation has to be very pragmatic and reasonable, which is not always the case..
What's inside a black hole? Physicist uses quantum computing, machine learning
Mozilla itself didn't think the Gecko engine itself has a long term future either. After all, Mozilla funded the development of the new Servo engine for eight whole years, and it slowly replaced pieces of Gecko with Servo.

After Mozilla laid off all Servo developers in 2020, the future doesn't look bright for Gecko or Firefox.
I second that. SEO is a slow growing channel and it takes some time to get effects. Starting earlier can help out.

Also, make sure that your page loads fast - especially the content that you are trying to index. Low hanging fruit like optimising image size or cleaning up your imports can have a big effect. When just starting out with little backlinks, good page speed loads can be the differentiator that will put you ahead. Use https://pagespeed.web.dev to check how fast your website loads.
Delete everything from anyone's repositories on GitHub (like torvalds/Linux)
Yeah, that trending and content suggestion algorithmic feed idea seems to be at the heart of the problem. Maybe making that illegal would go a long way.
Depends on what you are doing. I'd also question the need for "compiled language" in most cases.

.NET is sometimes/often chosen for "performance reasons". In my opinion, for websites or web applications this is completely bogus. ASP.NET will slow your development down so much (compared to Django/Node/PhP/RoR) that you won't see any of those benefits any time soon.
That's such a privileged point of view. Do you not see how minorities will suffer from being exposed, unable to hide? Human society is not ready for your idea.
In this particular case, the fraudster was detected because the person handling the interview was also involved with the person on their actual work day. But how many large corporations have an impersonal interview process handled by HR, while during their regular work they become a cog in a machine that nobody notices?

The best defense against this sort of fraud is clearly to have a human, humanised work environment where people are seen and appreciated, where candidates are interviewed by their team mates, etc.

I've been in an interview process where we played a game with my future team mates: everybody tells 2 truths and 1 lie about themselves, and the others have to guess which is which. It's fun, you get to know each other, it's memorable, and any fraudster like this will be immediately spotted on their first day.
For a less wholesome version of this, it'd be fascinating to read an article about the exhibitionists who add pictures of themselves to the wiki articles for various carnal activities. Over the years most of the photos have been replaced with horrifying WikiHow-style cartoons, but a few remain.
If you’ve been physically penned aren’t you just rolling dice from then on anyway?

A financial org I worked for back in the day planned on slagging hardware in the event of a coloc breach of any sort including fire response. How else could you be sure?
I can confirm the use of south american engineers, as a Brazilian myself me and my IT friends receive a LOT of contact from north american companies
Not exactly "business" from a company perspective, but:

Learning Solidity. I've been in crypto space for a long time, always wanted to learn Solidity to write contracts, but always postponed. Played with some toy code in the past years and that was it.

Recently got back in the scene and saw how many new business opportunities it opens and how financially feasible they are now I hate myself for not going more serious in crypto and Solidity in the past years.

Anyway, later is better than never. (Which applies to pretty much everything in life)
Absolutely wrong. They settled for the Nvidia acquisition after they saw things were not going as well as they planned after years and years. Now it looks like they will have to settle for even less.
It's the other way round. The vectors-in-state-spaces representation is necessitated by the fact that it is a probabilistic theory, and has no physical content itself besides that.

The first half of "The Structure and Intepretation of Quantum Mechanics" by R.I.G. Hughes [1] lays this out very clearly. He derives most of the framework simply from the premise that it's a probabilistic physical theory. Then he shows how you can add a single extra element to it (eg. unitarity [2]) to turn it into full blown quantum mechanics (i.e. derive Schrodinger's equation), and lists several alternative ways you can do that.

It's a great book, and accessible to the layman.

[1] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674843929

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarity_(physics)
The parisians surely can adjust to this reg by acting on time. What about the other europeans that posses a Ferrari or a Lamborghini and come with a lot of money to spend in?

This regulation is nonsense. Absolutely!

In Germany, we've a general regulation that a car mustn't be louder as ... If it is, it can't get the allowance to be used on the streets. The same applies to motorbikes.
Of course, here and then a small hole in the catalysator happens - but that is noisier and the guy's let repair it.

Does this mean, one Parisian can't by himself a Ferrari?? COMMUNISTS EVERYWHERE!!!!!
Show HN: Truetubestatus.com – Better service statuses for the London Tube
Amazon doesn't have a satellite internet system, they and the EU are essentially tied.

The way the title reads you'd think Amazon and SpaceX are competitors with similar offerings.
I love this. But what I'm most interested in is the low expectations that I clearly have about the things I buy. I mean - I see flip flop and the comment says "..after 5 years" and I'm thinking "WHAT, five years? I'd be delighted if my flipflop lasted 6 months..."

Clearly I need to re-assess my whole way of thinking about modern products...
If the code of the app is made by remote people in remote countries, how do you sell software to the US government? What do you answer to “What is the nationality of your developers?”?
> OPV2 (specifically 2) cures zero infections because type 2 is extinct in the wild. So explain how my sentence isn't true?

OPV2 prevents cvdpv2 infections. This is a virus similar in all respects to wpv2, except its lower rate of paralysis onset. It's effectively the same disease, just like in my forest fire analogy.

Before the advent of nOPV2, OPV2 was much more effective at this than any other option. So you could not simply cease OPV2 production, post 2016 it was targeted to cvdpv2 hotspots only.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8393165/
What needs to be done in such a case is to improve mental health care. Make sure disturbed people aren't left to their own devices, but have access to people who can help them.
Welcome to linguistics! That happens all the time and human linguists are trained to do exactly the same thing.

At one point in college, I was frustrated with an assignment and said “it could either be this or that but I need another datapoint to disambiguate it”, and someone suggested I look at the back of the page.
This is dependent on your point of view.

The Copenhagen interpretation is probabilistic. However, there are reasons to believe that wavefunction collapse is an illusion brought on by something called decoherence. The gist of decoherence is that the interaction of a quantum system with its surroundings couples that system to its environment, bringing about the appearance of wavefunction collapse, when the system + environment is still a single quantum system evolving together.

This is a purely philosophical matter, though, and beyond the scope of science, since such things are not testable. However, there is a mathematical reason to prefer decoherence over Copenhagen, which is that wavefunction collapse is inherently non-unitary, which is to say that it's irreversible. The measurement process in Copenhagen is akin to applying a non-invertible matrix to the wavefunction, resulting in its appearance in a single state.

The problem with this is that all known processes in quantum mechanics evolve according to unitary transformations. Interactions with electromagnetism and the strong and weak forces all involve unitary transformations. So where does this non-unitary behaviour come from? Decoherence theories suggest that when you're performing a measurement, this is a single transformation on the system + environment, which is still unitary, but when you examine the state of the system, for a given state of the environment, it appears to be non-unitary.

In practice, however, measurements are still probabilistic, so in that sense it doesn't really matter; this is mostly just a philosophical question.

However, in that sense, if somebody has this point of view, they could perhaps say that quantum mechanics is just as deterministic and not any more probabilistic than, say, classical statistical mechanics, where there's the appearance of randomness not because of non-deterministic laws of physics, but because of various issues like

- even if they were classical particles, you couldn't hope to measure their positions and momenta

- even if you could do so, calculation would be impractical to the point of impossibility

- even if you had a supercomputer that was up to the feat, minuscule amounts of initial error (or accumulated rounding error over time) would result in drastically different long-term behaviour

These combined would mean that only summary statistics and expectation values could be offered for such a system, even if all of the dynamics were fully deterministic with classical particles.
The Fall of Scrum?
Smol Pub: Your journal on the small net
Same about Luxi Mono. I have also added a dot. I used to program in old redhat linux with crt monitor. And at that time, it used to be the default font for terminals.
you yourself brought him up as someone to emulate if we want to fight racial discord. it seems to me that the efficacy of his methods are relevant to someone evaluating your claims.

you say "let's see the stats"-- I agree, I'd like to see them. I'm skeptical. The stories in the article I linked (that racists he "converted" are actually using him as a shield while laughing at him in private) directly contradict your point. Maybe those stories are wrong. I'm open minded to that. But you and the wikipedia article you linked certainly haven't convinced me. When I say his story as told by you is "just-so", what I mean is that it's reductive, incurious, inch-deep.

"Candour" is an odd way to describe stenographical repetition of the same blurbs he uses to get booked as a paid speaker.

There's a real telling moment where he takes the time to straighten a klansman's white hood. People who are reading this comment are probably wondering if I'm joking right now. I encourage you to look into it
Very true but I believe this is changing for the better and people learn to differentiate. Maybe not today, but it is on its way.

Although it does not seem to work for journalism ironically. Any opinion article is seen as the opinion of the whole journal.

But I don't see her as unfit for the role. Sometimes you have to accept the things like they are and sometimes you have to take a stand. To generally criticise this behavior would be wrong as it would promote CEOs that are braggarts.

I also think this will damage the brand image and that is not because of the CEO.
Yes. The main use case I have for markdown is:

* reading documents in the terminal (like man pages)

* note taking

In both those instances the less auto-formatting that the editor does the easier it is for me to use the use the file format.

I’m sure you can say that editor auto-formatting isn’t an issue because people manage fine on MS Word. But the point is I want as little distractions as possible when not taking but I also want to be able to add headings and code snippets. So wrestling with an editor when it gets its formatting rules in a mess is the exact opposite of productively. Eg take a look at the number of authors that still use DOS editors for similar reasons.
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>> Microsoft will frequently hype up things only to drop them 1-2-3 years later.

Same as Google. Same as YC :)
In other words you always win lottery, you just happen to be entangled with universe where you don't, sorry.
> No one has ever paid me to just noodle with Mathematica, either.

Get a job at Wolfram as a software tester :) Otherwise, it's probably not going to happen.
I snorted.
The Lightning port preceded USB-C by many years. And it was a huge improvement in every way over everything else available at the time.

Apple didn’t invent Thunderbolt or USB-C. Intel did. Apple is the biggest adopter, but most blame for all the crazy shitty problems with USB-C should be laid at Intel’s feet, just like they should take the blame for all the crazy weird shit with older USB standards.

I’m still pissed at the loss of a 2.5mm physical jack. Don’t get me started on this one.

Bluetooth is a big bag of shit, and way worse than Blueray. At least Apple is trying to fix some of these problems with their U1 and W1 chips.

As for external monitors, HDMI works everywhere HDMI works. And USB-C or Thunderbolt to DisplayPort adapters are easy enough to get. Apple has done nothing wrong there.

Apple works harder at maintaining backwards compatibility than any other major vendor in existence. Your extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, of which you have provided none.

Looking back at this post, your score appears to be one for six, so far. That’s not great, but you could improve on it if you were to provide adequate evidence of your claims.
I have used RenderDoc (https://renderdoc.org/) a couple of times, where i could click on a pixel to debug, and step through the shader step by step like regular debugging.

I haven't used it alot, but it was quite excellent out of the box for me. I needed to pass some debug flags to shader compilation - and it was only automatically able to capture output to the screen buffer as far as i remember. But there is an api to integrate it if you want offscreen target debugging i think.
SWT offers native UI support for Java apps, but the developer has to integrate it.

https://www.eclipse.org/swt/
Nuclear power may be the key to least-cost, zero-emission electricity systems
"The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data."

-- John Tukey
Exactly this, this is how a scum master is intended. First line of defense against distractions, nonsense and micromanagement.
Advanced TypeScript: The ultimate Tailwind typings
was is too costly (memory/instr) or too difficult to model/type properly ?
Most prop trading firms arent public. Rentec have something like $150bn under management and are making 20-40%/yr return. If they had a public "market cap", they'd be huge
In matrix, the act of participating in a room means your server gets a copy of it (with as much history as you choose to pull in). Anyone can add an alias to it, including after the canonical alias has died, if necessary. The alias setting UI in element web should be ok.
How I Use Clojure to Build and Scale My SaaS
This is more of a GUI concern, and I wouldn't expect a bundler like JDeploy to be able to do something about this.

An appropriate GUI toolkit should be able to integrate with the native fullscreen.

I briefly used the webview for java library [1] and it does the right thing because the browser handles it. JavaFX also supports [2] native fullscreen if appropriate integration is used. Not sure about Swing/AWT etc.

[1] https://github.com/shannah/webviewjar

[2] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/stage/Sta...
Ask HN: What newsletters are worth paying for?
Do you pay for any newsletters that offer premium content?
What convinced you to take out your wallet?
What was the value prop?

Thanks!
Texas sues Meta's Facebook over facial-recognition practices
Laws differ on that subject internationally. You can’t assume that your American-centric views on that subject are universally applicable. They’re not.
I mean you can just fake it, you don't even need real bots,
like random letters discovered every 60-120 seconds
it could be done in less than 30min imo