skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I normally just cry in the shower with a bottle of whisky. Are you saying, I should just do that outside? ;)
I mean, only 15% of Manhattan population owns a car.
I know this is a post about Anki specifically, but Refold looks like an interesting product in general. Has anyone used it? What was your experience?
I keep a list of (mostly) open source tools, scripts, etc. for debloating Windows 10/11: https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy

This thing is not on the list, because it's obviously extremely sketchy (in addition to it being illegal / piracy / etc. the actual "functionality" of removing Windows Update and Windows Defender is bonkers).
the monetary cost is misleading. you can't take 4 billion dollars and use it to hire developers for a year and then expect something equivalent to the linux kernel after a year. money doesn't actually translate on its own into valuable things - people have to actually do work to make that possible. and not every task is infinitely divisible such that it can be worked on in parallel by many hands.

the actual cost is in person-years of work, not dollars, and even then you can only speed up the time it takes so much by throwing money at the problem.
> You'd have to take all of the text from the Wordpress blog and format it into Markdown

No you wouldn't. Just dump it in as-is.
Putin's Invasion Part IV: The View from Russia
I can't seem to find the erectile dysfunction solutions on your web site any more, can you link me to a reputable reliable source, please? I so miss your site. Good luck getting it back up.
Elon Musk is offering to buy and own Twitter personally. There would be no Twitter stock if the transaction went through, unless he decides to issue some new stock, or IPo the company again at some point in the future.
Which Pascal?
You’re arguing from a point of misunderstanding. Pedestrian triggered cross walks these days have signs that only flash while occupied and have signs that warn drivers again by flashing, ahead of the crosswalk.
Ya I'm not sure how anyone could have missed the numerous and very public insanity-descents from known figures or their own relatives, and think things are still business as usual.
I’ll try it. I followed the advice of a razer employee who messaged me on Reddit and it worked for a while.
Thanks for being honest. I find your comments fascinating.

You mention, in passing, how immigrants are making the country worse because they are left-leaning. The left-leaning behaviors you mention are a disregard for the environment (?), being concerned with one’s own family and fortunes (??) and mocking traditional American foods (???).

Even if these things are happening but what does this have to do with being left-wing? The myopic mall-goers sound more like suburban GOP types. And who is mocking hamburgers and meatloaf? That sounds like a white college student to me.

Lastly - I think it’s a dubious proposition that America single-handedly brought democracy to the world, but there’s no question that it was an important step in human political evolution.

But that’s because the USA is uniquely blind to ethnicity, religion, and origin, defining government as the guardian of everyone’s liberty. Probably everything you cherish as all-American is a direct result of that attitude, including hamburgers and meatloaf.

America, so far, has been really good at turning newcomers into Americans - or turning America into someplace that values what the newcomers brought. Why are you losing faith in this now?
New magneto-electric transistor cuts energy use while saving space
Well, now you are double-backing on yourself and trying to use sarcasm to suggest that Cameron really is like Hitler! This is silly. Any choice a politician makes "kills" people. Cameron "killed" x people by not making the NHS budget higher. Blair and Brown also "killed" y people by not making it higher still. Raise taxes? Businesses fail, owners kill themselves. Cut defence? You kill people because dictators start wars. Borrow too much, cause inflation? The poor are hit by lost spending power, some of them will die. Life is real, politics is serious, analogizing your opponents' policy choices to genocide is for tweens.
I've just released OctoSQL v0.6.0 which fixes the issue and adds eagerly printed CSV and JSON output, as well as a non-buffered LIMIT implementation. It's now just slightly slower in the benchmark than SPyQL.

Thanks for the motivation!
NTLite (www.ntlite.com) should be mentioned itt - it's a nice tool for stripping functionality from the Windows installation media and can be used to produce a stripped down ISO like this.
I'll check out "Digital Minimalism"

I've been employing a daily breathing method I feel it helps clear my mind a bit and relaxes me. I think I need to cut out Coffee but yea... not sure I want to :)
I'm looking for one alternate implementation of a subset of Racket so that I can justify using the language for things.

All of your links are someone implementing Scheme in Racket, not Racket in Scheme. So that would make Scheme "safe", but not Racket.

It would be possible to write an interpreter in any language, but I can't tell if that would take weeks or years before it could run most racket/base programs.
The literal value is their share price x total shares.

The notional value is at best the NPV of future profit streams. However Twitter's track record on profits are dismal so the claim is dubious legally.
Where could someone read about implementing immutability checks in a compiler?

I’ve always wondered if there’s a way to know at compile time whether a value is being mutated, rather than throwing a runtime exception.
> In short, “there are more natural numbers above smaller natural numbers than bigger ones”

I get what you are trying to say, but this isn’t true… every natural number has the same amount of numbers greater and smaller… an infinite number.
What lies? Let's iterate through them.

If you're referring to the funding secured thing, that was true. Watch his TED talk from yesterday where he explains that he was forced to concede by the SF SEC.
I think this is where most of the divide is coming from. Single engineers with studio apartments have no interest in working from home (at least I don't) because I'm just working alone from my box all day, save for the time when I go to the coffee shop every day.

My most productive hours are away from home, at the coffee shop, even without my relatively nice wfh setup.

Some claim that people who don't like wfh wrap too much of their social life around work, but I'd just like to be around people while I work rather than sitting in my bedroom alone for 8 hours a day. This might change when I find a partner etc but I'd really prefer a hybrid environment for now.
And there's always the power button on your computer :-)
> They aren’t leaning in heavily to blame Github here.

> Honestly, they are blaming Github here.

I think both of these statements can be true at the same time. They are taking much of the responsibility while also explaining how some aspects of Github's design are partly responsible for the outcome.
Wow, this looks like a pretty serious manipulation game they were playing:

> First, the defendants and their co-conspirators secretly amassed control of the vast majority of the stock of certain publicly traded companies that were traded on the over-the-counter (“OTC”) market in the United States. Second, the defendants and their co-conspirators then manipulated the price and trading volume for these stocks, causing the share price and trading volume to become artificially inflated, through coordinated trading and false and misleading promotional campaigns that they funded.

I'm curious about which stocks were actually involved.

I'm also curious how much they profited on this scheme, and how much capital they had to amass to get it started. It seems like a big investment and a lot of hard work by a lot of people! It's too bad they were using it to defraud people.
clojure in and of itself is a very pleasant language, and was an exciting new lisp when it came out. i remember going through the same journey as the author, venturing into jvm land just because i wanted to use clojure, and eventually deciding i preferred the unix/c ecosystem.
The other thing you miss with hearing aids, and even headphones, are the low frequencies picked up more by the body than the ears. Sunn O))), for example. I’d rather listen raw, too, but I raise the level somewhat, which can bother others.

What I probably need is a DAC for my sound system. The music streaming services like Apple don’t provide an adequate way to equalize the audio and balance to compensate for my hearing loss.

Edit: I keep hoping that Apple will do a better job here with their next release of AirPods Pro. One of the problems with Apple Music is they set the max volume too low. I can sort of understand the desire to help people protect their hearing, but their max level is less than IRL, and there is no way to bypass that setting.

Tidal is better. And there are plenty of YouTube channels I listen to at half volume, so it’s not the Apple hardware causing the problem.
Is there some humor attempt lost in translation here?

The first part seems to accurately describe the sad state of affairs regarding European VCs that are too risk averse, and, in this particular example of deliveries-by-bike, unoriginal.

But the last part about the Utopia seems like 100% sarcasm?
I massively reduce my sensory inputs: no social media, no news, no TV, no podcasts or audiobooks.

Just exist in silence. Let your thoughts wander and observe. It works wonders and I'm currently doing it on my commutes, on runs and walks, and at home.
Haha that was definitely a miss. We normally do include that section at the end.
From a high level, breaking ground on the Bevy editor is my priority. But getting there still requires some intermediate steps (finalizing UI, scenes, and assets, which are all functional at the moment but still need some work).

Some of my priorities for the next 3-month release cycle are: high level render targets, asset preprocessing, a new "stageless" ECS scheduler, multi-track animation playback / blending, and bevy organization scaling.
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We use sqlite for everything. One novel application is the evaluation of business rules. What we do is create an in-memory sqlite DB, fill in with relevant domain info, then execute the queries against it to evaluate logical outcomes. Sqlite's unique application-defined function capability is what sold us on this path. It's very very fast too. Thousands of queries per second per instance are no problem.
they were viciously attacking me for my risky behavior in light of dastardly drivers, I was merely defending my honor, sir or madame.
Reading the article, it reminded me of the "how to draw an owl" meme[1].

Not quite as bad but, I didn't really get any good insight in how ECC works.

[1]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl
> Ultimately the C (and C++) memory model is meant to help us write fast, safe software

Fast, maybe. Safe, not really.
Peter is starting to sound a bit like Mao, denouncing people as "enemies of the revolution".
Usually need lossless integer math for cryptography to work. So the form might be similar, but you’re working over finite fields (ie of integers mod some number), not real numbers.

(Okay, I have only a tenuous understanding of this myself. I’m a physicist, not a mathematician! Mathematicians are intimidating.)
> how exactly are you managing your (remaining) relation with technology
going forward? How do you see it (in the future, that is)?

Thanks for asking. Definitely one for a personal email which I'd be
delighted to chat about (follow my book site).
> And no, being rear ended is not an automatic “they should have been further away,” including potentially in this circumstance. Full stop in a travel lane on an interstate and report back on your fault determination if you survive.

You're surprised that interstates are a special case?

> What is it about driving that makes threads personal? The person was totally wrong in a heavily-read forum is all, and that’s your cue to put me in my place for pointing it out or something?

Yeah, you just wandered in and started telling people that they were Wrong, and that even if legally they were in the right they were still Wrong; I can't imagine why anyone would take issue.
The most expensive real estate per sq foot in the world and they allow people to store personal cars for free on the street. Ludicrous
Are there any legitimate reasons to have a particular file both as an input to a pipe and as an output? I wonder whether a shell could automatically “sponge” the pipe’s output if it detected that happening.
I guess my question was more along the lines of "does this at all impact the potential legalities of including ZFS in the kernel"? Very interesting details, though!
Technological advantage is not playing much role in real life, because it is usually very expensive, and (mostly) logistics and resources scarcity limit its usage.

Much more play geography and psychology, also extremely important economics, but to be strict, all these three things are strongly tied.

For this I know two excellent books:
1. Revenge of geography. Kaplan.
2. The strategy of indirect approach. Basil Liddell Hart. (He argues for indirect moves, but for me, all his examples about effective using geography and psychology).

And sure, best book on war for all times - the Art of war Sun Tzu, but should read from few translations simultaneously, because some missing important things and others are written too knotted.
NOTHING on the web can be trusted to last very long. It's the deep flaw of digitalization of paper.
Not to be confused with Franz Liszt
> Most left-leaners seem at a loss to understand it,

Caught my interest here as I feel like I have a pretty good grasp of the right in broad strokes, but there is always more detail to fill in.

> I am now not so interested in Democracy as I was when I was a child; now I am more interested in Power

Ah ok no that's exactly what I thought.
this describes me to a T. I'm dying for a nice arm laptop with a good form factor with open source bios running linux.
Linux isn't the user space.
The board explicitly stated they’re not opposed to legitimate and beneficial acquisition offers.
Instead of trying to prevent myself from getting distracted, I try to encourage myself to refocus on the goal right away. E.g. if I'm googling a random question, I write it down for after I'm done. If I'm reading an article, I note it for later. Social media, just close.

First lesson of meditation is that you can't prevent random stuff from popping into your head, but you can practice refocusing as soon as you notice
Show HN: A tiny Docker image running althttpd
Only a few need to consider and do this. And once they do, the others will be forced to do similar to compete.
Anyone know how far you could get with just SQLite and some kind of in-memory cache?
> Well, what would an MBT be replaced with?

For taking out hard targets: precision artillery firing guided munitions from further behind the front lines, with minimal armor but protected by APS, and highly mobile to shoot and scoot?
California has a fine for not having health insurance.
One of my favorite software devs I've worked with once told me that if he were elected president, his first and only action as president would be to abolish the presidency and then return home.

Obviously not actually plausible, but I got a kick out of his sincerity on the topic. (If you're out there, Dan, hi!)
Yeah really would like to relive that period...
Do not “ip -brief address show” and “ip -brief link show” serve as suitable replacements for most common uses of ifdata(1)? The ip(8) command even supports JSON output using “-json” instead of “-brief”.
The idea that the board's fiduciary means they must maximize profits at the expense of all else is a bit of a myth. Yes, they need to look out for their shareholders but they also need to do right by the company, and companies can be formed for any legal purpose and everyone (the company and the shareholders) values things differently. It's generally been upheld that the board has a lot of autonomy and, outside of gross negligence, is generally protected by the business judgement rule.
Kind of ugly, but yeah, that's what I'd imagine doing.
whaaaaat is this
Yeah idk why someone would type in the full URL of a site and not just the term they're looking for in a search engine...what a dumb way to test that on their part.
Some of that can be disabled with "O&O ShutUp10" or with some of the debloating scripts various people have created over time also mentioned in this thread.
> Otherwise Musk could orchestrate snatching up all the shares at current market value right?

Not anymore, given the decision in this article. If he (or anyone else) acquires more than 15% of current shares, all current shareholders will be given an automatic option to buy more shares.
I'm just waiting for the day they announce an NFT or a "trusted partners" program with establishment media entities. Come on, DDG, you've come this far, so truly jump the shark for our amusement.
I find it very curious that the article doesn’t mention self driving vehicles. To me that is an example for a daring risk undertaken mostly by VCs.

The upside is huge. If we can make a robotic system which can safely pilot a vehicle on our existing roads, and make it commercialy viable that will reshape how transportation is done, how cities are built, and how people live.

Is it risky? Oh yeah. Everyone knows that computers are full of faults, sensors are crappy, hardware breaks all the time and every software is a pile of bugs. These are given, and unlikely to just change on their own. Can we, despite all the above engineer a system which provides superhuman level of driving safety, yet it costs less than a driver on the local minimal wage? This is the premise of a self-driving car.

Follow on question: is it possible to get there from here without antagonising the public with accidents? If a restaurant gives food poisoning to folks on the other side of town that won’t affect your restaurant’s business. Any self driving accident happening anywhere on the earth have the potential to ratchet up the scrutiny on every other companies. ( Think of something Hindenburg disaster equivalent.)

I believe the answer is yes we can, it takes carefull engineering and a lot of work but it can be done without needing to invent general artificial inteligence. VCs seems to agree with me because they are positively pumping money into companies in this field. What is that if not risk taking?
Closest I've come to no office coffee at a tech company is one that just had a Keurig machine and the very cheapest K-cups they could find. The only ones that even had a flavor were the ones labeled "dark roast", and that flavor was very bad. I'm pretty sure an electric kettle and a jar of instant coffee would have given better results. That place had 500 people and was growing fast. Nowhere near SV, though.
Not sure this is true, if they believe the long term outlook is higher than the hostile price, they are being good fiduciaries.
Something isn’t always better than nothing. When it comes to networking, I personally think it’s better to give people who are new to the space a lay of the land before letting them choose a path. For instance, in your example: is that information sent reliably or unreliably? Why one way or the other? Would your answer change for a different piece of data? All those questions are relevant and often worth asking up front, depending on what type of game you’re developing.
I thought yt-dlp was recommended over youtube-dl these days. Any chance DDG suppressing a less-preferred program?
To be fair, that scenario would be just as bad or worse without vipe.

Also, you can construct your pipeline so that a blank file (or some sentinel value) returned from vipe means “abort”. A good example of this is when git opens your editor for interactive merging — deleting all lines cancels the whole thing.
Hulu and Netflix do not do those things, so why are they being caught up in this?
Things are going to get very chaotic once Mr Dorsey formally leaves Twitter in May.
Even Hacker News restricts abusive behavior, whether or not it's technically on topic. There are limits above and beyond an acceptable range of topics. Maybe I could get away with more here than Twitter, but not all behavior is permitted.
I'm not sure if it's about clojure's weak points or my own weak points haha
It puzzles me how this thread is worth flagging. Let me guess, it is not topics that are censored but behavior? There must be the right wingers who censored this /sarcasm
And I would agree that it is true that this is a money-grab in this particular case. However, as one who is happy pay municipal taxes most of the time, I don't think OP was stating that this is the case in general. But when one revenue source dries up, and an entity tries to make up the shortfall by dipping into the (arguably, which is what the case is about) unrelated pockets of Netflix customers, then yeah, a negative word or two might be in order.
As a shareholder and end user of the product, I agree.
Never heard of sponge. Isn’t it just the same as tee ?
I think that electric engine in vehicle does not mean no changeable gears like in vehicles with steam powered engine. And from my POV manual is still a king, especially if your car is your work. It lowers fuel consumption (chekmate climate activists!), needs less often and less costy maintenance and still shows better performance on uphills.
JS is one of the hardest languages there is. You need enormous discipline and also a deep knowledge of its quirks and sharp edges.

You need to know about truthiness, null vs. undefined, type coercion, etc.

And if you mess those things up, you often get silent or unclear errors.

Languages that are stricter are better able to guess the programmer's intent even when a typo or mistake is made, and the static analyzer can even suggest a fix. JS can't do that.

And don't even get me started on modules, monkey-patching, and globals. JS is full of hidden footguns.
> This is why a lot of tools vendors try to push on customers feel weird - the vendor wants to make money, but they don’t know what to build. In many cases, they may even look down on the customer, like they are needing what the company produces. They attempt to sell but not learn. Because not enough of the company is built around customer experience, the tools suffer as everyone keeps their head down and builds what they are asked to build.

A very nice articulation of the arrogance of some ISVs. Worth pointing out that in some cases, the vendor has structured things internally so that they're guaranteed to ignore the customer's interests; all it takes is management setting slightly bad incentives and you get whole teams optimizing for stuff the user actively doesn't want (I'm looking at you, Microsoft).