skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't find where to buy it or how much it costs on the site... has anyone tasted it?
better the term "non-official narrative", less confrontational.
You can still select "Amazon.com" or "Amazon Export" as the seller.
This thread is making me wonder... what percentage of HN users don't already touchtype? I learned from a keyboarding class in junior high[1] and I've kind of taken it for granted that schools taught that kind of thing earlier now without making it into an actual class.

[1] Reason 146 I'm a cynic: it was supposed to be a programming class. There was exactly 1 day that involved any kind of programming, it involved BASIC entered manually from a 1 page set of instructions, contained 10 lines of code, and the teacher, being the quintessential "school marm" of yesteryear, was not able to provide any debugging assistance. I was disappoint. To this day I can trace my undying belief that periods get two spaces after them to that class.
You can corrupt the stack without VLAs just fine. What else?
Tom Scott did a video on it:

The highway where trucks work like electric trains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg

Its interesting if it could be used in combination with self driving truck technology for long haul train style trucking.
Because the truth matters.
> There is one thing that is different. The Filibuster is very powerful in the US. I’m not so sure the filibuster is a powerful tool in UK’s parliament and India’s Parliament.

The filibuster isn't a thing in the Indian system, but even in the US it can be broken by a super majority - which the governing alliance in India does have. Besides, the filibuster has rarely been used in recent times - more often than not, it's simply the threat of one.
There is a solution to this. When it’s an option, buy locally: that is the way to be 100% sure about what you are buying. Many local shops, eager to make sales, will let you try before buying. If not, it’s unusual for stores to not have a return policy, though you do have to keep an eye peeled for “all sales final” signs. Buying local puts money into your community and adds to the sales tax base that finances schools and paves roads.
My dot files don't get commits, comments or issues. I assume that means they will be removed?
Yeah, right now any new protocol should pick either ChaCha if you want to be fast on general purpose hardware and/or be hipster certified or AES (256) if you want to be fast on AES accelerated hardware and/or be FIPS(ter?) certified. I can't think of a single reason to pick anything else right now or to support negotiation.
Before this, that was me. In fact, PL originally started as just a spreadsheet I shared around with a few friends, but as I added more to that it became exponentially more difficult to maintain. All the formulas got really nasty, which made it super opaque how everything actually worked. Eventually I realized there must be a better way!
Sweetwater is the model for online sales. Like you say, you have an assigned "sales engineer" - and you can change who's assigned to you, BTW. My first sales engineer, a good guy, we just weren't into the same kind of guitar playing. He referred me to another sales engineer that could better help me for what I'm into. When I've had questions about anything they're quick to hop on the phone and talk it through, figure out what's the best gear for you. It's an unreal experience. Whenever I need to buy any music gear I go to Sweetwater first. They don't carry everything, but even then I've called an asked about an alternative and they'll tell you the pros/cons of what they carry and what you're actually looking for. They'll even tell you to buy it somewhere else if they believe it's better and they don't carry it! It's 2022 - I'm used to not being able to talk to a human much less get this kind of customer service. It's truly awesome!
Remembering the "guru meditations" on the Amiga. HT to RJ.
I'd like to see a definition of the desired goal: when will climate change be "solved"?

I'd like to alter the earth's orbit and axis slightly, myself. There's numerous problems with the idea tho. If you have a lever long enough to move the earth, where do you apply it? The planet isn't that stiff on that scale and we don't wanna crack the egg, just nudge it a bit.
I believe the outer shell is usually fiber reinforced.
+1 on this. I'm surprised I've never come across this before. Their annual reviews are on point.
This is the first time I’ve encountered the term “single-cell protein”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-cell_protein
I think most people would find it more difficult to draw a “serkle nufding” than a “spotted dog”. At the very least, they would need an explanation that you’re looking for whatever pops into their head for the nonsense. Again, that indicates that human intelligence works in a fundamentally different way from DALLE, which has absolutely no idea what is nonsense. So, in this incredibly important task (recognizing nonsense) there’s an asymmetry: people can act like DALLE, but DALLE can not act like humans. To me, that totally breaks any equivalence between DALLE and human intelligence.
Usually it was by word of mouth, people learning of my work and contacting me for a software position. The landscape has changed a lot since those times.
Yeah, it’s unbelievable how much we have accepted being constantly marketed to.

Our brains don’t ever get any downtime to just be. Sometimes, it is insidious - e.g., in my apartment building’s WhatsApp group, we have a neighbor who regularly posts content by dairy brand called Country Delight promoting contests for kids. I feel she’s getting paid to do this because she’s the only one who puts out this content.

Our HOA has monetized us residents by entering into an MOU with MyGate to allow promo events by brands inside the community on Sundays. In return, they get a discount on their yearly MyGate charges.

It’s all pervasive now and there’s no escaping.
Public health policy on infectious diseases is practically a joke. You think we would have learnt after covid. Or maybe there's nothing we can realistically do?

I feel like we are just going to continue to have these sorts of issues due to fast global travel. We're seeing it with covid, chikungunya, zika, west Nile, etc, and now moneypox. We've just barely been able to avoid it on SARS, MERS, and ebola. But our overall track record is pretty shitty. I wouldn't be surprised is TB comes back with a vengeance in the next couple decades, and STDs are still pretty rampant.
What about not adding even more ways how we should avoid using C?
Hi, creator of Superblocks here. We are 100% focused on developers and our goal is to make the onboarding experience seamless. We've seen many of our customers consolidate different tools so they can manage dashboards, workflows (APIs), cron jobs, all in one place. We also have a different architecture than Retool where there is significantly lower overhead for the customer because we offer a lightweight agent rather than a fully on-prem installation. Happy to dive into more details with you!
any chance you can point to a good overview on how to do this? im new to terraform and i'm trying to figure out the best way to co about local/sandbox testing
The assignment website to upload work keeps telling me that my upload is too big. It says there's a 900 page limit
The reason negotiation is in this product is that the underlying code is actually from 2008, which explains why the cipher selection exists in the protocol, as well as the inclusion of TwoFish.
Wow. Thanks. That is really blue.

I googled around, but couldn’t find any real results.
I did once spend a month arguing with a repeated spam callers who rotated their voip numbers around the globe about just how I knew it was a scam, it also didn’t go well… But they did eventually stop calling! So I’ll count that as a small victory.
> A lot of logs are just uploaded and you can't stop it from the device itself as a setting, such as battery analytics and more.

You actually can. It's one click to opt-out of all device analytics: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/device-analytics...

For anyone curious about what's being sent when device analytics is allowed to phone home, that's found at Settings > Privacy > Analytics & Improvements.
I found "Writing Without Bullshit" helpful.
https://withoutbullshit.com/book
Fun.

Should probably not let people delete the initially-provided letters. I did so accidentally at one point and got very confused for a long time.
Considering a 1% event doesn't mean the best course of action still isn't to assume the 99% is going to happen. If there's a 1% chance of rain, the expected value of amount of rain is "a little bit of rain" but the forecast is still most usefully described as "no rain".
The answer is as cruel as the situation. You need to lace your shoes only so that the laces carry the weight of the shoe, plus a bit of extra force when you are running. That force is mass of the shoe, times acceleration, so it is only a little extra force, compared to their weight.

If you are hit by a car, your body is subject to extreme accelerations, many many times more than the normal gravity. You can observe that when you watch videos from crash tests. And these G forces slip off the shoes.
Dalle is fancy content aware fill on steroids (style translation etc).
It's fair to say that Android is a big attack vector. Google is responsible for leaving the door unlocked, sure. But the data that's stolen is not Google's data. It's independently grabbed data.

So you can use Googles platforms to gather data, but you won't be getting what Google has.
> I see no solution to this

Small (online) shops focusing on their products, with a set of blogposts describing the products they stock that doubles as reviews.

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/Guides/ct/9

It can only scale as far as the jetpens owner's ability to write blogposts on pens / stationary. But it turns out that they're pretty good at writing about stationary.
+1 for zerotier
I upvote comments I like and downvote comments I don't like. This is independent of whether I'm replying to them. The one exception is when I'm arguing against the comment, in which case downvoting feels like bad etiquette as long as the other comment isn't clearly harmful.
Yes I know macOS is POSIX certified.

But the entire OS is certainly not FOSS and it limits me very much in what I can do with my computer, unless I switch off its security completely. It's an all or nothing model.

POSIX compliance is not something I actually care about. Having full control of my computer is.
My cat is a genius, as I swear that's what he typed after walking across my desk a couple of times with a text editor window having focus
This is such a yikes quote: "So while community spread in the West is new this year, for years the rich world ignored a growing public health problem in Nigeria in a way that eventually led to spillover."

I'm currently living in NYC so this is something I've had my eye on the past month or two, but I haven't seen the mainstream media discuss the fact that the outbreak has been ongoing for years in other parts of the world. If only we had learned from our mistakes with Covid and actually took budding viral spreads seriously. :/
Your article starts with a caption of

> Automation reduces costs, improves quality, increases turnover, and reduces the amount of static work.

(Where turnover here is presumably the British English definition meaning sales of goods and not the American Engish definition meaning employees leaving)

When technology lowers costs, increases quality, reduces time to manufacture/install, or otherwise improves the product, then technology is likely to be adopted in manufacturing or construction. Not a lot of people are hand hammering roofs or hand screwing decks, because nail guns and power drills lower the cost and improve the quality of the result.

If 3d printing buildings was faster, cheaper, more reliable, or resulted in better quality than other alternatives, people would pay attention. Until then, what's the point outside of R&D or enthusiasm? From what I've seen, 3d printing buildings is currentlt mostly slower, more expensive, less reliable, and results in a poorer quality product than other options; although maybe it's not always worse in all aspects against every other option; if you had me construct a building, I'd be pretty slow, even if using a flatpack kit, but if you get someone decent or a team and have a functional supply chain (which is not always a given), then it'll go pretty fast.
regulations which ban them from being made
I'm not sure the average person is going out of their way to look for an app in the app store to solve their problem. I think they are just searching for something on Google, and if an app is recommended they might install it.
Some of the reason the very rich say that is to encourage others to invest less in their own kids.
Evolution is the result of the environment not a response.

Giraffes didn't get a long neck because the food was out of reach, giraffes have a lock neck because the one without just died.
One of my favorite OSS projects! Probably the most flexible and fully featured distributed SQL query engine around. Congrats and looking forward to the next decade!
TuSimple reportedly tried to pass off a selfdriving truck crash as ‘human error’
Nudges, Not Hail Marys
> Apple is using their dominant (monopoly) position in mobile devices to shut down competitors…

Except that Apple not only hasn't done that, but has created ad network APIs and processes to support "competitors".

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/skadnetwo...

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/skadnetwo...
For context, i don't suspect Godot has too much of what i'm focusing on built in. Versioning of my assets, build pipelines for asset source to optimize it or generate variations of it (2D images, renders, etc), generate configuration of available assets for use in game, etc.

Though i am purposefully using Rust, so even if Godot did it's a bit more awkward. There are Rust libs for Godot, though i'm not entirely sold on the libs quite yet.

My basic thought process is never do anything more than once for the creative work. If i can't find a way to keep overhead obscenely low then long term i will drown in one-offs.

I think the same way with game code. A heavy emphasis on testing, integration testing, etc. I don't have the time to Q&A for all possible regressions, so i have to ensure i do everything i can to make the engine very testable.

Minimizing repeat work is my goal with everything. Also insanely stable builds, i suppose. Ie i don't want a change in an asset to break historic builds or source. My source is tied to the assets at that time. etcetc

edit: And to be clear, i'm not writing a game engine myself. I'm using Bevy atm.
I actually made, IIRC, $500 from a comment I made on a HN post. The story is here:
https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/nyt_opini...

TL;DR I got asked by the NYT to expand my comment into an opinion piece, the NYT then changed my writeup of my opinion a bunch which was annoying but it was still basically my opinion. Anyway, I got paid for my time.
This used to be the case, but recent advancements in mosfets has made them more suitable for voltages up to about 1000v.

The 'high speed' bit actually translates into more efficiency, less cooling, less weight, less cost, etc.

Thats because when designing any switched mode power supply, you need to decide on a switching speed. They might range from ~8kHz (in early EV's - they make a whine) to 2Mhz+ (used in phone chargers), and can be dynamic.

Every switch loses some energy, since while the switch is mid-switch ie. 'half on', it is having huge resistive losses. You therefore want each switch to be completed as fast as possible, and to do switching as infrequently as possible.

However, switching too infrequently has downsides. For a given motor inductance, if you switch less frequently, there will be more ripple current - ie. the current flow in a motor coil will rise while the switch is on, and fall when it is off, and if you turn the switch on and off less frequently, that rise and fall will be more. Ripple current reduces efficiency, because the power delivered to the wheels is proportional to the average current, but the losses are proportional to the instantaneous current squared - so ripple wants to be minimized.

The only other way to reduce ripple current is to increase the motor inductance - but that involves more metal in the motor core (heavy, expensive), and that also has other negative performance side effects.

So, in summary, system design is about balancing the desire for high switching speed (less ripple current therefore more efficiency) with a low switching speed (fewer switches therefore fewer losses during switching). Since MOSFETS can switch faster, the losses involved with each switch are lower, so they can use a higher frequency and reduce ripple current, less iron in the motor core, less weight, less cooling in both the motor and drive electronics, and generally better all round.

Apart from cost. They cost more. But the cost is usually outweighed by the savings in all the other systems of less cooling, smaller motor core, higher efficiency therefore smaller battery, smoothing capacitors can be smaller.
> Perhaps history will conclude killing Google reader killed Google, an overly-simplistic conclusion but poetically ironic nonetheless.

Or maybe it was an omen to their own decline.
There is no counterfactual to suggest anything is not transitory independent of the shit that's gone down. And the shit that's gone down has clear and undeniable inflationary effects. That's the short of it.
Applefritter Mac Hacks
This is only tangential to the article:

C isn't Turing complete without `fseek` (as far as I can tell).

Turing completes requires you to be able to read/write from an infinite tape (essentially infinite memory). This isn't possible in C, because `sizeof` is a constant expression, thus limiting the size of any type, and importantly also pointer type, to a finite number, thus making the addressable memory finite.

From what I can tell, the only way you could theoretically access an infinite tape is using `fseek` with `SEEK_CUR`.

There might be more shenanigans possible with `stdio.h`, but I'm pretty sure C can't be Turing complete without the `stdio.h` function (assuming no special language extensions).

If anybody is wondering, the preprocessor isn't Turing complete either, because you might theoretically have infinite memory, but then you only have finite recursion, which also isn't enough for Turing completeness. File iteration can have infinite recursion, but can also only carry over finite state between `#include`s.

Edit: I'm not talking about any real world implementation, but rather about the theoretical bounds of the C abstract machine.
Yes, I know the feeling. My first job after my Symbolics/MIT experience was writing a 3D rendering system in Fortran. :)

That would be a dream. One I'm hoping to make happen here.
Problem is, you still get shit quality from Walmart. They optimize for lower cost items. Everything from the spatula to clothing I'd have to rebuy from Walmart, in 3-6 months anyway. No thanks. I want quality items, and I want a store I can trust to get that at. It isn't Walmart, and it's no longer Amazon.
>Bots break.

Wonder if you could respond in a way to get them to crash, or even better, to hang indefinitely.
I got my current robotics job, in a field I at the time had no experience in, because of this blog post I wrote:

https://biotinker.dev/posts/seismograph.html

It didn't get a ton of traction when I posted it on HN at the time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24138014

But something only needs to be seen by the one correct person to make a difference, and in my case it was.
> U and J are not used in classical Latin, they’re mediaeval innovations

They were totally legit variants of V and I, especially in cursive. Cursive U/V was much closer to U than to V.

When cut in stone, V was easier to cut, and stone tends to be preserved better, so we see V more often. But at the same time, people would write U when writing.

What happened in mediaeval times is that people decided that U and V are two different letters. But both U and V existed long before that, they just were two forms of the same letter.

And since our lowercase letters are based on cursive forms, it makes much more sense to use u in the lowercase. Which is what modern sources that don't distinguish U and V do (e.g. Oxford Latin dictionary would not use "U" in uppercase and "v" in lowercase).

> Back when Lutetia was called Lutetia, it was written with V.

Well, it was also written with E and not e, and T and not t, but you seem to have no problem with that.

Lvtetia makes absolutely no sense. Lvᴛᴇᴛɪᴀ might be OK, it's at least consistent (albeit hard to type). But Lvtetia is a Frankenstein's monster: you freeze the evolution of V into u, but keep evolutions of other letters intact.
No idea why you got downvoted for this, maybe because it sounds callous. Being able to evaluate all things for risks and benefits to you personally is invaluable. Best advice I ever got was to treat personal relationships the way I do business relationships, and periodically review them to see if the ROI (in terms of personal enjoyment/fulfillment/<insert non-monetary metric here>) was worth what I put into them. Just doing that allowed me to stop sinking time and energy into friend groups that never provided me with any fulfillment of emotional or social needs, that only demanded things from me.
To expand for those not reading German, the response is basically pointing to and restating https://about.gitlab.com/privacy/#data-retention

> GitLab reserves the right to delete inactive accounts, projects, namespaces, and associated content. GitLab may deem an account, project, or namespace inactive based on various criteria, including, but not limited to, the account creation date, the last time there was a valid log-in, and the date of the last contribution. If we plan to delete your account or projects, we will provide advance notice by sending a message to the email address registered to your account. GitLab encourages you to utilize your account on occasion to avoid the risk of being deemed inactive.
> that declaration is functionally equivalent, and compatible to the following:

Nice to see some vindication - I remember saying this and IRC pedants trying to argue up and down that they're absolutely not the same
Someone that far away shouldn't want my direct contact information to join a group.

However there is a medium / large organization case, where each area has local 'chapters' or some other term for a small fragment of the larger group. In that case the local leaders each operate as a small group for their areas.
I find Donald Knuth an awesome technical writer: https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/reviewing-papers/knuth_mathematic...

Skip the math stuff if you don’t need it, the rest is still worth it.

However, much better than reading about writing is getting direct feedback on your own writing. Maybe offer mentoring to your juniors?
John Carmack: Doom, Quake, Programming, Games – Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
that's a whole lot of non-sequitur there, as the weed is entirely beside the point. the russian government wanted to make a geopolitical point and gain leverage, and they would have found something else to trump up and attract mediopolitical news coverage. griner is a minor celebrity, so perfect for not generating too much outrage, but enough to get more than incidental coverage.

yes, other countries (including the US) have done this too, but in this case (and many other cases), it's a civilian, not a gvernmental or military member, who has been pulled directly into the crossfire, and that's the core "wrong" here.
Are any of these usable as a daily driver, and at least 90% as reliable as mainstream phones when it comes to placing/receiving calls, ringing, and notifying about new SMS messages?
Is it just me, or is the site usefully dead? I'm just seeing "</>", an animated GIF and "Loading..."