skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hot take: Only having menus are bad UX because they force the human to search for things instead of making the computer search. I have zero fond memories of trying to find options in the giant menu structures of larger applications. I especially don't understand the reverence of the old-style start menus without a search field many seem to have.
sshuttle does that, with ssh protocol rather than socks.
Where's the Muscle?
How is it that several other measurements have error bars that don’t even overlap with this one?
Ironically, that post is marked as dupe atm.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/11/business/russia-economy-s...
My understanding is that Russia's gold reserves are pretty tangible where the west has some pretty mysterious gold reserves.

I'm a US/UK citizen, I'm not arguing a pro Russia position here just talking realpolitik and geo politics.

Here's a Russian position which arguably gives away that gold and currency control is central to their positions
http://thesaker.is/natos-internal-gold-war/

There are endless articles elsewhere questioning whether there really is any gold in Fort Knox etc because gold reserves are the king in the geopolitical chess games
Airbotics – DevOps for Robotics
A few years ago I co-founded a robotics startup as the lead software engineer and was frustrated by the lack of tools and APIs in the space.

We built a lot of things in-house that could have been done with external tools if they’d been available. I’ve talked to quite a few people working in robotics and still find it fascinating how many people are building the same tools in-house.

Shipping code was a big problem for us and we didn’t have time to build something scalable in-house. Since then, we’ve made a proof of concept of what we would have wanted.

It works like this:
1. Install our agent on your robot that monitors for updates and manages the lifecycle of your ROS containers.
2. Add a Dockerfile to your ROS packages, install our GitHub app, and we'll build and test your software every time you push.
3. Control how and when code is deployed to your fleet from the dashboard, CLI, or yaml files in your code.

We believe open source is essential to a healthy robotics ecosystem, so we're licensing our agent under Apache 2.0 and designing it to work with any registry.

We've a demo video on our site and we'd love to hear what people think.
Ask HN: What are the typical or usual non-IT/Tech backgrounds of HN readers?
The court's answer to that is that the language in the Neo4j license referring to "this License" should be interpreted as referring to the entirety of the license (i.e. AGPL combined with Commons Clause), which means there is no conflict.
> Specify a unique reference? (`&T` is shared, `&mut T` is unique)

shared T

shared mut T

> Specify a lifetime? (`&'a T` is a reference to T with lifetime `a`)

shared T lifetime a

> Specify a raw pointer? (`const T` and `mut T` are const/non-const raw pointers)

const point T

point mut T

> Specify that the argument is moved into the function? (just the raw type `T`)

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"never give out any info on incoming calls". 100% agree. It's such a simple rule that I don't understand why it's not part of everyone's DNA. Should be taught at home and in schools, same as "look both ways before crossing a street".
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These "slack farts" really irk me. The first time someone does it, I usually respond with the nohello.com link and a brief note letting them know that the niceties aren't necessary - you can just ask your question.
Artificial software barriers are the norm, and often desirable. Cars, TVs, dishwashers, game consoles, etc etc.

General purpose computers are the exception.

While most people have never given it any thought at all, many of the rest of us absolutely do not want our phone to be a GPC.
It's technical debt if you may need to change your product because a third party makes changes. The beauty of software with little dependencies is that you can run decades old software on a system just fine with no need to regularly refactor.

I know how tedious it is to maintain decades old enterprise Java software, but from a cost perspective, it makes much more sense to keep those rather than constantly refactor to chase the newest trend.

As an example, if you had a software that was written 20 years ago to store data in a relational DB, updating it to work with current versions of that database system won't be much work (if any). If you rely on managed services, I wouldn't be too sure that you get away that easy.
Used to be on android and it wasn’t that much better either. I love the GitHub app, and with good CICD I have made many PRs from my phone itself and let the GitHub actions tell me if I did something wrong (though creating PRs I need to open the website). If I can get a really good code editor integrated with GitHub I can totally see myself working half my day from the phone.
Against Scientific Gatekeeping
"Users beware, AGPLv3 removes freedoms, adds legal headaches" over MIT or PD.
>sftp(1): add a "cp" command to allow the sftp client to perform server-side file copies.

Well, goes to show how little I know. Been using this for years but apparently not!
There are a bunch of “small subset of HTML” UI toolkits already. The first that comes to mind is Sciter: https://sciter.com/ which bundles QuickJS interpreter, built in support for React-like syntax, and a HTML/CSS like markup and rendering environment. You’ll see on the homepage how it’s used in many products you might have heard of.

The issue here is re-use - Sciter is small and very fast, but won’t run an arbitrary existing web app that targets Chrome. Maybe you could argue for a middler-ground, add more HTML features to Sciter until it can run “most” things… but you’ll end up back to having the whole banana.
All I got out of this blog post is that its author appears incredibly toxic. There's no need to waste your time with it.
Would it not be better to just read the low score reviews instead and decide then if those apply to you?
Why aren't they normal? I know very little about this topic, but i would generally assume that measuring most natural phenomenon would be normal.
Ask HN: Which algorithms based on biological ideas do you know?
Algorithms don't have to be state of the art.

One of my favorites is a prime number generator based on a predator-prey models of cicadas: http://www.j-npcs.org/online/vol2000/v3no2/v3no2p208.pdf
Show HN: A poem inside HTTP response headers
And what happens when air traffic controller make mistake? Or the terminal malfunctions? This somehow did not limit air travel boom. Those are really minor problems when there are thrillions to be made.
I don't get it... you want money or to preserve your soul? If the former, bend over to the occultists. With the time as you prove obedience, you'll have served fresh meat in form of new hires as well.
I've been using this for the past month or so in Beta and it's fantastic. I'm a DS at an NLP startup and it's totally changed the way we develop new tagging and classification models (and how we explore unlabelled data more generally).
Cool! I'm not on Mac so not for me, but always inspiring to see innvoation in editing.

One more typo, under "Exceptional Performance": "It can to generate symbols [...]", the "to" should not be there.
I mean, even then it's contextual surely. How far can the police go? Can they look around for someone who's having an incredibly tough year financially, and offer them a one-off way to scrape through by selling drugs, even if the opportunity would never arise otherwise? We're in the realm of hyperrealism and state-constructed narratives here.
>I don't know how real estate market works in Canada, but I can totally see how 5% of buyers could mess up the market in the U.S..

5% foreigner owned is not big enough to have an appreciable difference. How about funds buying real estate? What used to be around 10% went to 20% in 2020 and then went to 40% in 2021. Nobody will buy negative yielding bonds. It only leaves a couple other options.
Happy National Poetry Month (USA), HN!
The rate at which heat conducts out is also affected by the temperature gradient, which is inversely proportional to radius.
https://www.space.com/spacex-air-force-102-million-dollar-co...
It's worth reading that excellent article alongside Glyph's excellent article from the opposite perspective: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2014/02/unyielding.html

A few languages avoid the pitfalls of threads, like Rust where its ownership system protects you.
In some countries ISPs work closely with the government and block certain websites the government asks them to etc. In these cases I would trust cloudflare over my ISP
It’s probably not even possible to emulate the Pentium Pro (or any other out-of-order x86 CPU) in a cycle-accurate fashion at the original speeds on contemporary hardware. Just attempting to match the original behavior for instruction scheduling, cache models, branch prediction, etc. would blow your CPU budget.
Because (I can assume) the chart isn’t made for private consumers: “This parameter corresponds to the global average price per kWh (in USD cents) paid by miners”.

By the way 0.5€ is a lot, I pay 0.08€/KWh here in Italy. You guys from the north Europe are too rich =D
My girlfriend was conceived in Crete, by her Greek father and her Italian mother.

She tells me that the feeling you get in Crete and the way Cretans think of life and death (what you call "something mysterious is lurking below") can be explained by the story of the Arkadi Monastery [1]: during the Cretan Revolt against the Ottoman empire in 1866 943 Greeks, mostly women and children, sought refuge in the monastery. After three days of battle and under orders from the hegumen (abbot) of the monastery, the Cretans blew up barrels of gunpowder, choosing to sacrifice themselves rather than surrender.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadi_Monastery
America Watches for a Nuclear Strike
Same here. Anyone here have any good arguments for why Mozilla should implement changes like this outside of a version upgrade? I just got the prompt on a version of Firefox that is not the latest version. At first I just tuned it out; it's very easy to think it's some banner on the page annoying you unless you're actively looking for it. Or maybe a notification or location request. I then thought my Firefox installation had been upgraded without my consent, which alarmed me briefly.

And I don't mean just arguments focused on benefits to Mozilla, like it's easier for them, it lets them run experiments, etc. I mean arguments why they should, in the process of doing this, take away my ability to make informed decisions as the owner of my computer. If I choose not to upgrade something, it should not change its behavior in a significant way like this.
If it's being artificially inflated by policy it's a bubble, even if it takes a very long time for the inflation to pop it.
Does anyone know how well modern DoH infrastructure works with geographically specific results? E.g., google.com on any "real" DNS points me to a google proxy on a nearby ISP, usually mine -- netflix also has local ISP boxes.

Don't see how this can work unless Cloudflare/NextDNS is all knowing about the world DNS infrastructure.
I have no idea what you just said, so I upvoted.
I like how the replies are starting to make the little arrow thing. Reminds me of something...
Maybe in SV the comp is that high. I only have insights into European markets, but here the comp doesn't differ too much from programmers. And an AWS expert won't be cheaper than someone with knowledge how to manage infrastructure.

And yes, you'll need three people, but not full time. From experience I can say that even with a hundred servers, it tends to be a small chunk of each of their time. And if you have a redundant system and don't deploy on Fridays, the chance that someone has to respond to a call on the weekend is pretty much 0.
This looks really nice, especially the smart refactoring features and built in documentation search... but a Mac-only app disqualifies it for me. I need an editor that I can rely on no matter what OS I'm on. That's a bigger deal today than it was a decade ago. Having to switch my tools when I need to use a different OS is a massive productivity drain.

This is clearly a very niche product, being Mac-only and targeted at Rust/Go devs. I wish you luck with it though, because the world definitely needs more people making and innovating code editors (even if they're not all for me).
My 7 years old MB Pro seems to handle VSCode fine
I use a regular office chair without the arm rests because i sit cross-legged. Works much better for me then regular sitting.
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"Closeup of a craftsman sawing a steel pipe" is great because the person appears to be using a handsaw to cut the pipe—and yet it's giving off tons of sparks. All of the individual pieces make sense, but they don't fit together.
FOR SCIENCE!

But, mostly, to understand what is possible. It's easy to read about what other people are doing, but I wanted to try it out myself.

And I figured that no one else had tried it with benches yet.
Then it would never make sense, because someone messing up somewhere is always a possibility.

I would assume that the implication is that its 7 sigma assuming the measurements were done correctly.
I had this problem too as a team leader.
Most of the time employees are aware of this bad decision but still want to make their own engine/library because it's more fun and they think they can get more credit by building their own library.

Instead of telling them what to do (nobody like it) try to give them a clear deadline for the whole project.
We're big Jitsi users around here. For me the main reason is how
WebRTC integrates with my audio visual setup - for teaching music or
live jamming there's a good link to my Linux audio environment via
Carla and talking to OBS studio. You can get 48KHz almost lossless
links over a good connection. That's also great for recording both
sides of a podcast interview and stuff like that. Both my partner and
I do sensitive work and need good security, so we can spin up our own
server and not have to worry about whether Zoom, Google or Microsoft
are MITM confidential conversations or selling data that would expose
our clients.
What about SAE Level 2 self-driving à la the Comma Three: the driver is still there, but turning and braking is taken care of by the computer. Automate the drudgery to reduce mental fatigue.

The operator is just there to scan the conditions and make sure nothing is going off the rails.
Thanks. As a general reader, I found that article much more accessible than the Science article.
Yes QWERTY works well enough for me, mainly because I’ve been using it for 25 years. (I’ve learned touch typing in school 27 years ago) I often find it harder to find the right key when looking at the keyboard now and my “main” problems are between small differences in keyboard layouts (mac vs pc, QWERTZ vs QWERTY (uk, us, int)).
Why disappointed in Nova [maybe vs Coda]? I didn’t use Nova much myself so didn’t get to see enough of its issues
https://www.spickermann.com

The design is several years old. I guess I should spend some time on re-designing it. On the other hand, it is not really useful and has only few visits by people who search for my name on Google.
Especially since, isn't this an average / error of a mean estimate? So even if individual observations are non-normal, this would be a perfect place for Central Limit Theorem.

I know nothing about Quantum though, only maths.
Google glass was especially cringe because of how it put surveillance straight into other people's personal space. Some nerd with a laptop typing away = no big deal unless she or he is keeping others from getting a seat.
Thought experiment: Rust half gets open-sourced and semi-stable-API-ified... and then out of several dozen community attempts to build a Linux UI, one of them eventually wins after 5 years :) (and a couple of stragglers build up small followings besides).

Realistically speaking, Linux (and Rust) UI is sufficiently incoherent at this point (heh shakes head "year of the desktop" for 3 decades at this point huh) I honestly don't think anything except "here's the code" would work because of the huge amount of keeping-up (unfortunately :/) necessary at this point.
i just cron a curl to update my A records once an hour
Mobile Phone Radiation Prompts Human Food Ingestion
That's assuming you know that your editor is collecting your data and sending it to someone else. And since VS Code is a Microsoft product, they'll probably turn the telemetry back on after an update, only allow you to disable a subset of data collection, or simply ignore your preferences and send it anyways.
https://notzeb.com/

This used to be my personal academic website, but I'm no longer in academia so I recently had to figure out a new hosting solution. (Not much to see if you don't enjoy math or puzzle-solving.)
I agree with you about content but maybe disagree about the cure. Legislation might not hurt, but if an alternative became popular that was more or less a clone, except it was federated or decentralized, it would also be enough.

The "regular" web and email get a lot of criticism for various things, but they can be thought of as federated platforms people adopted. They're the glue that makes these other things usable.

I'm not advocating for anything in particular, but if you could get enough people to start using a federated alternative, I think it would be enough.
> multiple lanes

I'll bite. Suppose you have enough peak traffic that multiple lanes are necessary to transport it even at low speeds. What do you do instead?
Ah shit that looks awesome, didn't know it! thank you!
50 million tonnes of sarcasm pressing down upon this comment has produced a diamond.
While I am an annoying stickler for safe driving (I gave advanced driving school gift certs for Xmas), one of the thoughts is - if you made an whopsie when you were 16 years old, how much should that cost you when you are e.g. 27 or for rest of your life?

I am cognizant that not everybody makes brilliant decisions when they are young, and not all of them remain awful incorrigible human beings forever.
Your experience is valid today but for a different reason: if you're comparing millions of tiny files there's a lot of back and forth. If you're streaming a single archive, it only checks if that single file has been modified.

Like everyone here I've no benchmarks but have got burned trying to rsync around too many small files.
Netherlands could nationalize gas storage facility co-managed by Gazprom
A simple unix-like way would be to use tar with plain ssh.

To transfer a set of files from local device to a remote device is as easy as:

tar -c path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ... | ssh user@hostname tar -x

The flags can be memorized with a mnemonic:

-c = create (archive file)
-x = extract (archive file)
>It's amazing to me how some people are so entrenched in believing that foreigners are to blame that they will perform such mental gymnastics.

Imagine you're a boomer who is about to retire. You told your advisor to go into safe investments but you're not going into savings accounts, money market, or bonds. Maybe you pick up some corporate bonds? But that's higher risk. Once you eliminate all these negative yielding options... you're really just left with real estate.

Then you look at Canada's economic breakdown. Oil/Gas industry is under constant attack by the federal government. Manufacturing in quebec and ontario has practically died.

The only things holding Canada together economically is Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate. FIRE. The only thing holding Canada's economy from being in a depression is banks and insurance on over priced real estate.

As a politician, you dont dare touch the housing market. If that explodes, you take the blame AND you have to actually fix the economy? lol!
That applies to a huge amount of SaaS and cloud.
Europeans don’t have kids so that isn’t as much of a problem. The US has the highest share of kids being raised by one parent in the world: https://www.statista.com/chart/21655/share-of-children-livin...

Family instability being a symptom rather than a cause seems unlikely, given that (1) rates have skyrocketed even as the country has gotten richer; and (2) poor countries manage to have high levels of family stability regardless. If you look at the Brookings chart I linked above, the share of kids living with a single parent in the second to bottom income quantile dropped 15 points from 1979 to today. That seems to coincide with Gen X growing up with post-1960 socially liberal values that emphasize individualism and self gratification over old fashioned values like duty, conformity, and obligation. There’s a whole bunch of negative social indicators, from non-marital birth rates to crime, that started trending sharply upwards in the 1960s and 1970s.

No doubt these communities are dysfunctional for other reasons (some of them also cultural); but that’s my point. Social liberalism hits these communities the hardest. Now not only do they have to deal with limited economic opportunities, but are deprived of the social infrastructure that allows communities to face adverse circumstances.
Yeah, the differences is if heh wants to change something for the better he can try.
They would need to catch up to Kotlin Native [0]. They fixed the differences to the JVM memory model in 1.6.20 [1].

[0] https://kotlinlang.org/lp/mobile/

[1] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew1620.html#concurrent-imp...
I think it could happen given legislation allowing easy sideloading of apps and competition on app stores, and maybe a production simplification where it would make sense to use the same CPU on both Macbook and tables
A measurement being 7 sigma out would still be Chebyshev bounded by 1/7^2 ≈ 0.02
I.e. the probability of it being ≥7 sigma out is interestingly at most 0.02.
I'd like to be able to sort by Date/Karma etc... its it possible that might be added?
lol no this was in NY, on wall street... in a backend financial application!
Check out ish.app also!

https://ish.app/

https://github.com/ish-app/ish
People who 'know what they are talking about' are quite often so buried in details they lose sight of possible futures. On the other hand idealists often simplify to the point of nonsense. The truth is usually somewhere in between. For example, in the case of his bicycle post, efficiency is almost irrelevant except for sports cyclists - the increasing number of people using electric-assisted bikes could well do without a chain and it's limitations, maintenance, etc. They want to get from A-B, while doing some exercise (but not too much).
Deepfake Detection Based on Original Human Biometric Traits
Is there any example of a technologically superior and higher quality option winning over a cheap and simple one? (In media recording and replay, at least).

This seems to happen again and again, with the cheap and simple option always winning.
If I recall rightly, this is why VHS beat out the higher quality Betamax back in the day of video tapes - it was cheaper to produce using VHS so everything was on VHS. Because everything was on VHS, that was what people bought and the higher quality Betamax lost enough market to survive.

It's a shame that the higher quality product isn't always what wins and kind of says something about our Walmart approach to life.
I might have missed a zero, been a while since I looked. Required to rent your plane out, which is why many will skip it when a teardown isn't needed for other reasons.
Error bars account for the known and quantifiable sources of uncertainty. They don't (can't) account for unknown or unquantifiable sources of uncertainty, such as aspects of the experimental design that were not properly accounted for or unpredicted/unmodeled interactions with other particles or forces.

Known unknowns and unknown unknowns, as Rumsfeld would put it.

About a decade ago I saw a very nice figure of estimates of the speed of light over time showing this effect. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find it since.