skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 19th century, two competitors set out to build railways in England. Brunel in the south, Stephenson in the north. Stephenson used what's now called the standard gauge because the axon length was already in use for horse chariots and therefor easily available. Brunel however, set out to find the optimal gauge and settled on a wider one (around 2m). He also invented the black box as a side effect to prove his gauge was better and provided more stable rides. When it became time to connect the two railway systems, they settled on Stephenson's preference for political reasons.
It’s not a troll (someone being deliberately offensive). If you make something free, you do get some amount of just this kind of entitled, abrasive users. It can be soul-draining and I admire Don’s kindness here.
Yeah, but most of these operations declare the goods as low value gifts to avoid paying customs and taxes in the destination country. You get a good deal, but then the government doesn't have enough money to run hospitals, schools, roads, etc.
I love the irony that Musk wants to buy Twitter and force it to promote "free speech", but is also worried about "fake" accounts.

If I want to run a thousand bots spouting fake news, isn't that my freedom of speech in action?
Chromatic aberration must be the most annoying effect I'm seeing in games recently. I don't want most of my games to look like photos or movies, that breaks immersion. I want them to look like reality!
mDAU being monetizable daily active users for those who are wondering
Running Twitter into the ground for 50 a share sounds like a great deal for shareholders. Heck, given the cesspool that Twitter is, it might even be good for society.

It would suck for Musk and his financers, but they have a simple alternative: stick to the agreement they signed. It's not like the risks of merger agreements are unknown. And the waiving of due diligence wasn't a minor, easy to miss, point either.

Musk wants to back out because of price. He cannot, and he is throwing the equivalent of a tantrum.

I do hope this doesn't end up with Musk losing control of spaceX. Some actual quality is comming out of there.
Out of interest, do they still do that?
> - zoom audio needed active confirmation to connect to audio.

I don't know if it's just me, but even as an "IT person", I never understood this "connect to audio" phrase, I just learnt that it is required for calls...
How will you switch back to the new server once it's ready without losing database records?
I am surprised the forum rich of tech people is not yet containerised. A simple helm chart would make deployment to AWS (or any other kubernetes) a 5 min job.
I haven't written a parser with Chumsky, but I've played with a little one a bit if you wanna see an example syntax. The error reporting for this project is implemented with `ariadne` which is also really slick.

Parser: https://github.com/ekzhang/percival/blob/main/crates/perciva...

Error reporting: https://github.com/ekzhang/percival/blob/main/crates/perciva...

Datalog playground: https://percival.ink/

To see an error report, delete some punctuation from one of the Datalog code blocks then press shift-return.
Some quotes:

> If you must use Unix, Apple's AU/X was arguably the least painful way to do it (much easier to use than OS X), but even AU/X was so bad it didn't last long.

> The Mac OS gave my productivity an order of magnitude boost; everything since then (even Mac OS versions after 6) only goes backwards.

His design for an OS:

http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/IttyBitty/OSblue.htm
Dutch Ask If German Nuclear Plants May Stay Open Amid Gas Crisis
Depth processing and the portrait modes on both the iPhone and pixel is pretty bad though, if you know what real glass can do.

For a simple example, they still mess up the whiskers on a kitty and even for portraits of people it’s super obvious that it’s an artificial image.
I thought it was Langley.
$10 bn out of $200+ bn won't make him go broke though. Don't see the logic in that, Mike.
I am using Todoist. Its okay a bit on too much on the human side (one can accumulate karma in it, believe it or not) but it isn't worse than you can just chuggle and ignore it.

The upside is that it is fast, has natural language processing and decent shortcuts.
8 ft seems pretty reasonable... Not sure why people are upset over this. Police officers can't question and keep track of bystanders hanging over their shoulders. Am I missing something?
Yes, flying first class or even coach in Emirates in an A380 was spectacular and a whole different experience than any other flying, full stop. I wish everyone could experience it.
Thanks for this piece, I enjoyed reading it.

I was in Naples a few weeks ago and they drive theough all the tiny streets there, it was so stressful. We saw Pompei also. I could not help but marvel at how closw and homley everything felt. Abolish cars in cities!!
$150 50mm f1.8 from all camera systems are fairly sharp but have soo much chromatic aberrations
Okay, if everyone is posting conspiracy theories - here's mine. Musk did this for people to stop clamouring about his alleged twins with that blue-eyed smarty from Neuralink.
I’m seeing a density of 2,419 per sq km for SF urban core at https://www.newgeography.com/content/007367-toronto-solidifi... and that beats New York at 2,054 people per sq km. Probably has something to do with how the urban core is defined and NYC sprawl, but still interesting…
Reminds me of someone I knew at university whose T-shirt was the definite integral from 10 to 13 of 2x dx followed by a question mark.
I believe I have seen exponentially growing daily fines for contempt.

Besides, you can jail people for contempt.
You are not a "bystandander" in that situation, are you?
Nominal typing means that two types are different if they have the same structure but a different name. Structural typing is the case where they are considered the same type if they have the same structure.
>> They need to sum an array of int. So they spend 4 days getting a function and a generic type that can sum every numerical type, rather than 15 minutes to sum int arrays

> More likely they install a 3rd party generic sum function and don't have to write their own at all. Well, in the case of a sum function it's probably only 15 minutes to write to generic version

I'm not sure "sum over an array of int" is a great "simple" example - how do you guarantee that the result can fit in an int?

This is (one reason) why Julia implemented a full, scheme-style, numeric tower right in the core language.

Sure there are some examples where you can sum N Mbit numbers into an Mbit number, and either want overflow, or is somehow "confident" things will fit. But in general it's just lazy "no one will ever have such a large shopping cart"-design...
Anti-tipping was also an important consideration due to the intense Bay Area winds against the sides of the cars.
We are not discussing every single road in existence.

We are discussing high-density cities where the problem in the article is occurring.

There is more entitlement in your argument than I care to address, but it serves as a strong reminder of why American cities are so travel-hostile compared to European cities.
If you don't include late term non-viable, threat to mother etc nobody should vote for the bill.
This is a very effective visualization for illustrating age breakup in a population.

I wonder if they are called doner kebab charts. You know, in the tradition of pie charts.
I'll save someone else the search.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum
You can use CompileIt! here:

https://archive.org/details/hypercard_compileit-251-working-...
Isn't acc and the xs same width here? So you risk overflow?
The podcast Opening Arguments had two great episodes about the legal details of this deal (note the first episode doubting this deal would go through was from 2 months ago):

July 4th: https://openargs.com/oa610-elons-twitter-deal-was-a-complete...

May 12: https://openargs.com/oa595-shareholders-sue-twitter-alleged-...
SpaceX is actually doing great things.
Tesla was very innovative 5 years ago.

These two, especially spaceX, are quite impressive.
What if 40% of the percentage of users that twitter proposes are real people are actually bots? Wouldn't that qualify as material adverse effect?
You would try to get $12 at least before accepting $10.
Garden of Life: "Global Ingredients". Why even list a brand when you have no data on the source?
I see "17 supervisors of mechanics" but not "mechanics" (other than 22, "Heavy vehicle mechanics").

Maybe supervisors of mechanics should keep a distance from the mechanics; perhaps stay in the back room and reorganize the files in the cabinet.

OK, jest aside. Could this be an age/experience effect?

Here is the idea: over time, mechanics get promoted to supervisor positions, right?

Suppose the average number of years for a mechanic to get promoted to supervisor is X. Then suppose that, for a mechanic, the average number of years on the job before a fatal accident is Y.

If it happens that Y >> X, then more supervisors will be killed than more junior mechanics. This is something akin to or a form of survivorship bias.

It's not that supervisors have a more dangerous job but that they have been doing it longer, exposed to more cumulative risk.
One thing some other countries have done is break up the old monopolies into a last mile company that owns all the copper/fiber vs a services company.
We are moving towards an increasingly authoritarian American state, and whether it is flavored right or left will not matter to whatever sociopathic oligarch ends up holding the reigns of power.
Aren't they obligated to negotiate for a higher price? At least, they should try.

Who the heck doesn't negotiate?

How is no negotiation the best strategy?
this happened in the bay like 3 weeks ago. caltrain just kind of turned the trains off as they like to do, BART derailed due to buckling
IRC is pretty terrible. No logs, no persistant names, no way to catch up but to spend hours looking at text.
Thus is similar to corners in roads not working well when they're circular arcs. Going from straight to circular arc means your steering wheel needs to jump instantly from one fixed position to another. Using something like a linear change in curvature (i.e. a clothoid curve) is much smoother. This kind of thinking applies to other areas too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_spiral
I think if you integrate Yjs or a OT library first-party, you'll have a really exceptional framework - open source firebase alternative top-to-bottom, ready for "local-first" collaborate own-your-own-data apps. Sounds like my dream stack for small-scale projects or friend/family apps.
What exactly does prevent almost any company in the free market to protect their market share with this way (if they can)?
Thanks! that'll keep me busy.

I was thinking of something general like 'classical-vocal' - I've been listening to Bach lately, so I know of cantatas at least. Opera suggestions are much appreciated.
Would you be able to email me at edwin@stripe.com about what happened here?
In the very long run we don’t.

We simply trust that people in the future check their water for safety, or avoid drinking from water sources that correlate with illness.

We do this now, and humans have done it for millennia.
Is this a coincidence, or did you also happen to see this recent video [1] about that second bash script too?

1. https://youtu.be/xqo3xtkfuic
I missed it, must have been working or something silly like that
> beautiful in an intangible way

Perhaps the older lens has more pleasing colors:
normally absorbing a bit more of hi-freq(blue/violet) lens a comfy "orange sunset" effect and warm atmosphere.
Modern digital cameras tend to be "colder"
in color, with sharp blue/violet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4756677
Chancery courts will compel performance of this transaction absent a showing of an material adverse advent. Very, very high bar. The buyer is a highly sophisticated investor and the grounds that he is alleging form the basis of the breach of contract were and are public information that has not materially changed nor been alleged to have materially changed since the signing of the merger agreement. Moreover, and most critically, it is not being alleged that spam accounts have any substantial impact on the earnings of Twitter. Thus, the courts will obligate Musk to buy the business as he agreed to in April.
Thank you for reminding me about soma.fm ... Lovely
The skill and artistry with which John Plant shows how to go from effectively nothing right up into the Iron age is a beautiful thing to behold. I'm glad he was able to do this, and I hope his work is preserved for a very long time.

I feel it's quite unfortunate the way the story was named, but we live in an era of click bait, so it has to be endured.
Microsoft offering is not available for Linux, so unless you are a Mac shop they will have to use the web interface which is slow, limited in features and very buggy.
I wouldn't be surprised. A lot of outside researchers have come up with results like "at least 20%" over the years.
In most of the USA the local telcos are obligated to extend service to new construction as part of government grants they've received in the past. The obligation is usually for something like ~10 years, but the grant cycle is shorter than that.

The recent "RDOF" mega-grant has one of these clauses (at the census block level):

"All support recipients must serve locations newly built after the revised location total but before the end of year eight upon reasonable request"

https://www.fcc.gov/auction/904/factsheet

These mega-grant things happen every 6-8 years. The last was "CAP II", preceded by "CAP I", etc. The telcos are basically treated like municipalities when it comes to federal grantmaking. This is basically the system that was lobbied into place after AT&T was broken up; the FCC just took over AT&T's local-loop capital allocation.
It's mostly personal bias and circumstances.

Data engineering and systems design are incredibly close. After some time, they completely mesh together.

And from personal experience, the knowledge-volume to become practically potent is actually smaller from data engineering side (than from normal software development side).

I've found it easier to get data gigs and simultaneously strengthen the knowledge.

(I love databases, so that's also a factor)

The bonus $$$$ is also a nice side effect.
Called my ISP and complained that internet was not working as HN didn't load.
Ask HN: Copilot Coders, do you look at your code and feel like it's not yours?
The webapps for MS works terrible on Linux and there isn't a native client (Word _native_ is pretty good for Mac).
what would be those subs?

at least on mobile you can use Boost or Sync, but on desktop it's more difficult, really only old.reddit.com and experience is vastly inferior to mobile apps
India doesn't have a monopoly on spirituality. The Holy Spirit corresponds to kundalini, and many ancient cultures around the world have their own methods of awakening.

I think you misinterpret the meaning. It was a test for royalty, not just any old upper class women. And royalty is also associated with enlightenment. Wearing crowns (crown chakra), sitting on thrones (traditionally with a lode stone in to stimulate the root chakra), that long stick thing they carry (enlightened central channel), etc.
> Because I kept reading about why DNS was created and always encountered the same parroted explanation, year after year. Something along the lines that IP addresses were constantly in flux. That may have been true when DNS was created and the www was young. But was it true today. I wanted to find out. I did experiments. I found I could use the same DNS data day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.

I have never in my life heard anyone claim this as the reason for dns.

The usual reason given is two fold:

Flat /etc/hosts files were getting large enough to be annoying.

The set of all dns records as a whole change constantly. Individual records dont change very much. But the time between at least one record changing is very small.

Both of these things are even more true today then they were when dns was invented.
HTML Nestings such as a <p> inside a <p> is invalid and browser automatically fixes it by putting the <p> outside the parent <p> and so the DOM ends up rendering different structure than JSX. There are a lot of such invalid nestings. See [this](https://github.com/MananTank/validate-html-nesting/blob/main...) For Example.

This is problematic and creates all sorts of bugs in Frameworks. Most Frameworks that use JSX (such as React, SolidJS, Preact) checks for invalid HTML Nestings at runtime and logs an error. ( Though this runtime checks are not very comprehensive - React has decent list of checks but is still missing quite a few )

Until now there was no way to check for such invalid Nestings without running the code. So I've created this ESLint Plugin to do just that.

This does not mean that we get rid of runtime invalid nesting checking, because This ESLint plugin can not predict what your component's top level element will be - because that would require running the code. So consider this as a tool to catch 99% of the invalid nestings without running the code.
Is there are some sort of stats to observe? Genuinely curious
what you mean binary hell?
seems entirely focused on devs as if people didn't work in other tech fields
You're welcome.

Also, keep in mind that the first month could be incredibly frustrating. (it was for me).

Once you understand the industry meta, until you learn the tools, it may turn into an exercise of frustration management.

But it is also a lot of fun.

All the very best.
I loved NAPS2 on Windows! Sadly on Linux I could never got it working reliably and had to switch over to VueScan... But I'll always miss NAPS2.
You might be able to take a decent recording from 8 feet away, but:

- there may be obstructions or bystanders closer to the incident, partially or fully blocking your view

- you may only be able to see clearly from a limited range of angles, and they may all point off the sidewalk into the road, meaning you need to risk your life to get a usable shot
How long ago was this? I am seriously not a fan of this product but it's not known for CPU issues, aside from a particular hack where half its users deployed cryptominers.
Haven't tried it since I'd rather not sign up for an account. But regarding this example:

Minimum eight characters, at least one letter, one number and one special character
>> ^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*d)(?=.*[@$!%*#?&])[A-Za-zd@$!%*#?&]{8,}$

I assume the "d" characters here are supposed to be "\d" but the backslashes wandered off somewhere. Not sure if that's just in the example or the actual output from the AI. Some of those special characters like "*" and "$" need a backslash too.

Also, this pattern will not allow any character which is not a letter, number, or in that very finite list of special characters - so no spaces, no carets, no quote marks or apostrophes, etc. Not allowing certain printable characters in a password is a bad practice (I won't complain too much if you forbid the non-printable ones).
The "next" link is such a godsend, and a nice little surprise when I discovered it. Love it (and not getting an obnoxious "what's new" dialog box)
The issue boils down to responsiveness (multi screen size support). Remove that constraint, and making UI builders become trivial.
Honestly, I feel like the whole thing is one big license violation. I stopped using it.

Cool tech but upsides weren't even close to being worth the unethical downside quandaries.
for exactly the same reasons the corners of apple products aren't just an arc. They change the tangent smoothly over time.

Curiously Dubins paths do have instantaneous steering changes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubins_path
Why would it cause job losses? Wouldn't others be able to hire due to the money transferring to them?
It's been pointed out here a few times that piano keyboards depicted in User interfaces are mostly wrong. The common mistake is not having the key widths at the top be the same width. Just check out a real keyboard.

see
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29941801#29943285
Assuming we're not talking about technical photography - cameras don't capture the real world, neither do they capture impressions. They capture flat projections of the scene, frozen in time and displayed on the flat media with limited dynamic range and gamut. The human brain doesn't operate pictures at all. It reconstructs a set of ideas about the scene, and relationships between entities, which makes it impossible to represent the scene in a single picture - because those ideas are usually contradictory.

Here's an example: perspective works completely differently in a photo. Brain "sees" a heavily nonlinear perspective with the focused objects seem closer, but at the same time all straight lines are perceived as straight. This is impossible to represent in a photo, it has either linear or curvilinear perspective but not both simultaneously. Non-photography artists such as painters or game developers often mix different perspective planes in one work to depict this, but this is also just a rough imitation of what they really see or imagine.

Everything else works similarly. The dynamic range can't be represented in a camera+monitor system (or camera + printed media). The colors are impressions by definition, but are also skewed by illusions well known from the color theory. The motion requires you to use longer exposures, motion blur, and composition to convey in a static photo. Sense of depth, same story.

Nothing you see can be "faithfully" represented in a photo. The best you can do is to interpret the scene yourself and use crude artistic tools (tonemapping in post, composition, capture-time camera tools such as DoF etc) to hope that it will induce more or less the same impressions when viewed. Painters use extremely low-contrast media for centuries yet are able to convey the impression of a blinding sun, exploiting the human perception artifacts.

You can see the non-ideal lens as one of those capture-time tools to convey a certain impression. It might be imperfect at that, it doesn't induce the same impression in everyone, it can be imitated in post with technical precision - sure.

People who make or listen to different mixes, listen to music with their own settings they like more, abandon FLAC in favor of vinyl, people who don't care about high fidelity in general outside of archiving, just embrace this point as well.
totally click bait title.
I actually have experience with this type of stuff, some business tried to acquire mine and kept postponing, and ended up with some excuse that there wasn’t enough technical design documentation, which would be a real-breaker. It wasn’t super big money, but also not small (high 6-figures).

I ended up suing them, won on all counts, and the deal had to go through.

Unfortunately, this company simply refused to do that even after the judge ruled against them, and I had to renegotiate the terms set by the judge.

That was one hell of a ride.

Point being, if Musk really doesn’t want it, even if Twitter wins a lawsuit, Musk will probably find another way to postpone or renegotiate or whatever. In the meantime, Twitter is not in a good shape, and this whole thing is probably hurting them so much more than that they could possibly benefit from.
> The gist was "we have DNS because without it, people would have use numbers. people don't like numbers." DNS is primarily there to provide semantic meaning". The fact that it allows the numbers to change is.. a secondary bonus.

This is before i was born, but that sounds more like the reason why /etc/hosts was invented, which predates dns.