skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HarmonyOS is the only thing really new that I've seen , but I wouldn't touch it with a 10 ft pole.
> USB9

You mean USB 2000 SP1
Meh, you gotta admit management of software projects tend to suck. Yes scoping and planning is hard, but management that don't even try either (and is not agile either) is fairly frequent.

Also, we are for some reason blessed with management with not much soft skills. Stuff like new manager coming in and insulting people right and left on the first day with no reason just because they are insecure or arrogant is frequent too.

There are good manager, I worked with some. But bad management is frequent and there is very little accountability for managers, so they get stuck for years and decades.
There are many "shortest route finders", brouter isn't one of them. Shortest route finders are easy.

Brouter is far beyond that, it's all about finding a route that is better than the shortest one. With a wildly configurable preference metric, because cyclists have wildly different preferences.

(and it's designed to run offline, on an android phone with no connection, the linked page is just a web front-end)
We can’t even get human languages right. I can imagine walking into a Lion pen with a steak and saying “here is your lunch, eat up!” and having it converted to “I am your lunch, eat me!”
I don't want to use JavaScript for everything. I have to, because my team is only 6 people, and we're responsible for the entire stack. If I chose literally any other technology, I'd be the only one able to maintain it when things go wrong.

If it was a choice between JavaScript or Elixir, it would be Elixir every single time for me.
No one had the sheer power of Apple though. In Australia, when the first iPhone hit, Apple was able to dictate certain things with carriers if they wanted to carry the iPhone. Plans suddenly got better and cheaper. You could just walk into an Apple store and get an unlocked phone (although the 3GS was first available only through carriers). iPhone launches had people camping out for days so Apple managed to exert their influence for years.

Before this, data was really expensive, phones were all locked. None of the other device makers exerted their power like this. Or even had that sort of power. The iPad also had a similar effect with data only plans for iPads.
is there a difference in how tiktok handled music and copyright strikes (or at least for a while after launch until it was big)? I assume part of tiktok's success is that people can put in current music at all without getting instastruck by a neural net
To me "stuck in problem solving" doesn't mean what it sounds like. Stuck in problem solving means putting out fires. You're constantly in a losing fight against the decay of the current system and therefore you never get to actually solve any of its problems. You're stuck in the solving phase, and never get to the execution phase where you get to interrogate product market fit and the needs of your users. You're forever "solving" the same problem but the solution is never implemented and in 6 months you'll be asked to solve it again.
But areas with higher densities tend to have more regulation than those without, so I'm not sure what your argument is? I totally agree suburban sprawl is the really of poor government policy but I'm less convinced it's an issue of building permits being overly restrictive. It's not hard to envisage high levels of regulation that are designed to make sprawl unprofitable - e.g. a maximum distance between residences and retail/industrial developments or PT facilities, or even regulation that prevents provision of ground-level parking etc.
The best phone I owned was Nokia Lumia with Windows phone 7 OS. Too bad Microsoft was led by Ballmer at the time.
I would also add that we are never truly done. Always refactoring some parts, changing some underlying library, ... . Given how things are we deprived of the joy that, for instance, a civil engineer gets when a construction project is finished.
https://www.nintendo.com/switch/tech-specs/ says "USB Type-C".
For reference, as I didn't know, posits are a modern float number alternative to IEEE 754. Wikipedia[1] claims better in many aspects, but, as ubiquitous as IEEE numbers are I don't see them getting replaced soon.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)#Unum_II...
> Intel Gen doesn't support denormalized floats and gradual underflow (and I think other GPUs are similar here)

It differs from vendor to vendor. I know at least one major GPU vendor that has full denormal support, at least for normal arithmetic (not sure about transcendentals etc). In Vulkan, it's possible to ask the GPU to either always flush denormals to zero, or (if the HW supports it) to never do so, but I think nobody uses this, and there may be a (huge) performance penalty from requesting either of these!
IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power
Not sure if IMDb has a history of deleting negative user reviews made in good faith, but worth noting that IMDb and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV series) are both owned by Amazon.
It will actually be USB 4.2.1c.1
Since Microsoft acquisition GitHub quality seems in decline, constant outages, git pushes that doesn't goes through while status page is green and now the attempt to remove trending page...

Is it the end of the original GitHub's spirit as a social coding?
> This is bad logic. Almost everyone goes to the doctor in a year.

They do?

I'm not even making a point about developing countries and access to healthcare, I assume 'everyone' was implicitly 'everyone here' or in developed countries or whatever. But I would be incredibly surprised if that's true here in the UK. Is it an artefact of US health insurance that you can typically claim a 'check-up' per year (so why not even if not needed, you paid for it) or even that it's insisted on for the validity of the policy (ensure you don't have something expensive developing) or something?
They talked about it on one of the podcasts [0].

[0] - https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/98
No infinities, it saturates instead. Only one bit pattern for 'NaR'. Only one bit pattern for 0. No subnormals. No overflow or underflow. Highest resolution around 0. Natural graceful degredation in resolution for larger numbers. A much higher percentage of hitting an exactly representable result over all operations. Equality and ordinal comparison is the same as for integers. Much simpler addition and multiplication. -1/x is just twos complement. Perfect reciprocals of powers of 2. 1 clock sigmoid function. A very clean conceptual design.

https://youtu.be/JJgT-YphE1Y
I smell large amounts of missing information, probably more than is reasonable to form an opinion.
>Maybe this isn't the way most people are using Twitter though

No, I think almost everyone on Twitter is there to consume stuff that conforms with their worldview/politics, same as you.
Surprisingly not, you can easily transfer your followers and follows. Even your bookmarked posts can be saved and transferred. You do lose your old posts you've made, but in the grand scheme of things that's not the worst loss
They quoted some people who described what they meant:

> “I feel negative when I get really stuck on something and cannot get around it”. Another respondent elaborated: “I also thought of situations where I’m debugging some issue with the code and I can’t figure out why it isn’t working – when it seems like everything should work, but it just doesn’t. This is definitely one of the biggest gumption traps I encounter”.
Older, 5 1/4" floppy disks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:Floppy...

were very floppy, you could bend it quite a bit!

One time, this was when I was 8, a friend was immensely frustrated with a game, just extremely pissed off, and grabbed a C-64 game and ripped the internal, softer floppy out of the shell (8" pic, but same idea):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:8-inch...

He did this by grabbing it and ripping it out via the center hole. The external shell was untouched/damaged. He then crushed it into a ball, like crumpling up a piece of paper.

Of course, I was pissed. But amusingly I then took it, and flattened it out, and then shoved it with all its creases .. back inside the floppy shell after opening it by its top flap.

And it worked!

Talk about low read density.
I would suggest to go through the Earth to reduce the pings.
My point is that the current trajectory would soon make the birth rate below the replacement rate.
Move a Photo from iPhone to iPad with Your Fingers
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> Meanwhile internet propaganda constantly tells people that it is a push based system, that somehow the Fed is telling the commercial banks to issue more loans and then for every dollar in created reserves the commercial bank calls and naggs you that you should borrow more and somehow the citizens just keep falling for it every single time.

GP is referring to Quantitative Easing which is a push based system, not sure how this is internet propaganda? The Fed actively creates new dollars and uses them to buy assets from the open market.
480p looks terrible if you’re under 70
Ooh guessing game! Here's my entry. People new to GitHub arrive by searching for <software>. They read the readme.md and then follow the installation instructions.
GP is crude, but it's not too far off reality. Managers are the first line of defense in ensuring there is slack within the team to pick up what is problematic. By instilling a mindset of "sales/finance/features/bug fixes come first, slack is a luxury", they are directly telling you the health of the codebase long term is not your primary concern, it is getting stuff done on the short term. Instilling that mindset then seeps into everything else.

Make things more open-ended so you can change things later? Too risky, too time-consuming. All frameworks, methods, etc. used become increasingly more closed off, and fixing them after the fact is an afterthought. 2 years later something that should take 2 hours now takes a week, but who cares.

Hiring weaker individuals when your codebase has no obvious flows? Clear signs of executives, HR managers etc. pinching pennies. Don't set people up for failure, and use stronger individuals to create environments where weaker individuals are set up for success instead. This is leadership and teaching 101.

No slack in the team? No time to work through codebase problems. Most of all, assumptions that there will be no slack cause the team to become so skeptical, they won't even mention long term issues. It creates the very mindset they claim to dislike: one where mercenaries shine, getting a quick buck and not caring about the feelings of those coming after them.

The only thing I don't agree with, is not matching individuals. There just isn't enough interesting work for the entire software developer crowd to go into. CRUD-plumbing webdev rules the world, it is extremely unimaginative but it pays well. Ironically, having the entire industry take a breather and look at the problem from a higher level might be the thing to make it more interesting and less painful, but I doubt there will ever be enough jobs in the more complex, visual, animated and/or hacky fields anytime soon to accommodate all the developers now stuck trudging in the stereotypical CRUD webdev shop.

I say this knowing someone from a different, non-management discipline will run into the same issues while working in a software team. UX, UI, graphics artists, testers, etc. all suffer similarly from management incompetence.
I was looking for that, but in the wrong section. thanks for pointing it out.
The most important work is done by Dalle which has no open API right now. Once they open it up - there could be a way to run a program on all 3. You would still have to cherry pick which frames from Dalle look the nicest
Are you using home-manager for that?
> ...so long it matches reality.

This is probably the important bit here!

One can probably talk about having a positive outlook being overall a good idea in life in many cases, but I'm also inclined to agree with you that experiencing the whole emotional spectrum when appropriate is also an enriching experience.

Just as long as you don't let certain emotions or feelings overwhelm you too much, e.g. getting used to being angry about something and focusing on it too much. Learning to let things go is probably also a useful skill, as is self reflection.
I'd be fascinated to hear examples of what you think of as "new" and not a reimplmentation. Because the entirety of human history is learning from others, improving it and releasing that as a new invention. All of us stand on the shoulders of giants whenever we do anything.

Databases, text editors, network protocol implementations, GUI frameworks, command line argument parsers, game engines, search engines, build tools - no matter what program is written in any language, there is a program written elsewhere in another language that inspired and informed it.

That's not a knock on the new language, it's just stating a simple fact about human beings.
There isn’t yet but my company’s goal is precisely to make this kind of thing accessible to everyone. I don’t want to spam and we haven’t launched yet anyway, but there’s a link in my profile if interested.

I suspect there will be a lot of companies that build businesses out of chaining models together for specific kinds of users. The more you can focus on a niche, the more you can paper over some of the limitations in the models.
It depends on what is "problem solving". Philosophically everything is problem solving.

Here's a contrived example.

Let's say you became a house builder because you liked building houses from scratch. In a few years you find yourself working for a company and you are the window frame expert. You calculate, design, draw windows for the bespoke houses. You also make sure they fulfill building regulations. All day long. Note that you don't get to make the windows, other guys in the company do that.

Then you realize that this is not what you had in mind when you wanted to become a house builder. But the company pays you very well and you have some nice co-workers. You need to leave but you don't.

We can argue about the specifics, but stuck in solving that type of problems (especially if it's for incompetent co-workers) can drive you mad in the long run.
There's a common belief among inhabitants of American bureaucracies that expertise does not exist, only knowledge, so if that knowledge can be written down then there's no need for training or experts. Many people in HN have likely encountered middle-managers who ask their senior engineers to write policies, and then hire teams of juniors to implement those policies rigidly -- same principle.

When applied to education, this manifests as a belief that the teacher is less important to education than the textbook. The people writing the educational policy framework might understand that it's not a one-size-fits-all, but they're not allowed to write one policy per child. The teachers in a classroom environment aren't given the autonomy to teach according to their own judgement, because (in the eyes of the administration) if their judgement could be trusted then they would be writing policy instead of teaching.
I believe (but not 100% sure) you can achieve this with Stable Diffusion also, which is something you can run locally.
1. "stuck solving a problem I should be working on" That's awesome. I call it flow and truly enjoy it.

2. "stuck solving problems pushed onto me" Oh wow, how I hate that. Like when a user f*cks up their account on a Friday evening because they mixed up the "Delete" and "Rename" buttons (how do you do that? they are even color-coded..) and of course they have an urgent deadline so now instead of going home early to enjoy the sunshine I have to clean up this mess. And of course it's always the big important clients who employ cheap unskilled employees, so of course their mess gets triaged as critically important.

I believe the study intended to poll for #2, but clearly they didn't formulate it well so that #1 fits, too.
It seems like every headline from American newspapers is now about the rise, the fall or the death of a social phenomenon for which the author coined a new term.

More often than not, it was never alive, or it's changing rather than dying, or the whole rise and fall occurs in a small circle of people.

I have come to treat those headlines as clickbait for pearl-clutching twaddle. Same as "We need to..." and "It's time we..." headlines.

Is this one any different?
Medical professionals worry a lot about "compliance". It would not be unusual for a doctor to unironically believe that "leverage" like this—forcing the patient to come in for a check-up instead of letting them make their own decisions—actually benefits the patient. So it's not necessarily about money, but that's not imo saying it's much better.
> "stuck in problem solving"? Hell, that's like half the reason I chose a career in computer related stuff.

I highly doubt you are referring to the same thing.

One thing is being challenged to present a solution. Another entirely different thing is being stuck with an impossibility when you are reaching a deadline and all your managers and peers look at you as if you're hopeless when in reality you're just working a workfront that is not practically solvable.

I've been in a project where I was assigned a task that was severely underscoped and was riddled with emergent blockers. The quick description of the task sounded like a trivial thing that could be done in a couple of days, but in the end it turned into a months-long, multi-team effort. I was a few weeks into the project when another engineer was tasked to help me out, in the spirit of "let's pull this idiot out of the mud because this is getting embarrassing". It took a week or so for that engineer's mood to change from "here I am to save the day" to "please someone, anyone help me".

Does this sort of scenario fit your "problem solving" ideal, where everyone just loves the whole experience? I highly doubt it.

One of the key factors in happiness and fulfilment is the sense of mastery and performance. Sometimes we need to shift to a lower gear to move over bumps in the road. Sometimes we find ourselves in the depth of a gorge with no possible way out. The latter leaves everyone miserable.
I'm far from an expert in these things, but I've seen SD cards with WiFi servers that allow remote browsing photos on them straight from the camera itself (not using the weird WiFi-over-SD extensions to give cameras themselves WiFi, which the SD standard allows for).

Surely someone could take one or those IDE/CF adaptors and add small (100MB) write only and read only partitions controlled by a chip like an ESP32. You'd get two drive letters, one you can use to push data to the WiFi server and one you can use to pull data from there. That way you don't even need to write much of a driver for the DOS system at all because there's no locking and filesystem corruption to deal with. The parts are worth a dollar at most, all you'd need to figure out is the interfacing with the file system. You can even do Linux style device control by exposing fake files to DOS that the system can try to write to for things like configuration.

Maybe someone in the legacy gaming space can work out an open source product for this! I think many people would love to transfer stuff through easier means and selling such devices to enterprises stuck with old hardware can be a significant business opportunity.
The average person now has a laptop without an HDMI port, without a dedicated GPU, without Ethernet. It only has one or two USB-C ports.

A USB cable replaces the HDMI connection. That by itself requires more than USB 2.0 speeds. HDMI is 3.2 GB/s vs USB2 480 MB/s.

Now add connecting an external GPU, Gigabit Ethernet, they require faster speeds.

eGPUs in particular, use a lot of bandwidth.
Thanks for giving it a go! I’ll check sentry, etc. to see if there’s anything obvious.

On the off chance you see this reply: what browser/device were you using?

I also see that step 4 is the first multiple choice question, so it doesn’t auto-scroll to the next question (you have to hit “next” to move on).

It’s not obvious. Perhaps the culprit here is just bad UI.
> This has created problems with bad device driver support for non-Windows operating systems, as discussed in a recent HN thread.

That story for the interested was "The growing image-processor unpleasantness" and can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32516826
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

You keep most of what you'd expect when you transfer, but you do lose your posts.

However, I agree with you that (over-)moderation is a huge issue facing Mastodon. However, that's true of any online community run by users.

The ideal, in my opinion, it's improving the process for people to self host instances. It's simply too hard for the average person currently and the copy on websites such as masto.host is ambiguous for people who may not be experienced with such concepts. My belief is that Mastodon will thrive when there are more communities of smaller groups.
The creativity happening around AI right now is incredible. I came across this recently and was blow away: https://twitter.com/xsteenbrugge/status/1558508866463219712?...
What sort of telemetry are they using for this, I wonder?
How would Meego have succeeded where Windows Phone, which had Microsoft’s backing, failed?
Can't Dart do both the mobile app and web on its own?
Maybe add a page-improvement survey banner, where one option is to take the survey and another is to say "it does all that I need" and another is "I don't need it". Note on the banner that this is about the page not seeing much use.
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Peter Eckersley has died
Wow, that's like a month earlier than the best case I was expecting.
Nothing that’s controlled by a corporation can ever be trusted.
It seems to be a complicated way to explain that, if you need decimal values, you can just multiply then by a power of two internally. e.g. if you just need a resolution of 1/256 (a case that comes to mind are measures coming from a analog-to-digital converter), you just multiply everything by 256 and do your arithmetic as usual. Or actually you don't have to do anything except remember to scale your constants the same way and do the conversion for I/Os where needed. Might be wise to protect those values with a dedicated type to prevent mistakes.

The "saturation" thing in the article is a joke; no way you can get correct results at the end if you cap the result of computations on overflow. That's slightly better than letting the overflow happen, but the right thing to do is to throw an error, not silently min/max the result.
I can’t speak for the Australian market but in the U.K. it was a very different story. The iPhone arrived locked into one specific carrier (O2 IIRC) when most handsets were available on multiple carriers. As a result, a contract for the original iPhone was more expensive than most other handsets.

There certainly where handsets that were locked to specific providers but even in those cases it was much easier to unlock them than it was to unlock the original iPhone.

In fact the iPhone has actively worked against interoperability. Take charging, everything has standardised in USB-C except for the iPhone. Their app ecosystem is another walled garden (other handsets ran a third party OS but Apple rolled their own). Lack of a support for SD cards, etc.

If anything, one of the biggest achievements of the iPhone is successfully programming people to be OK with being locked out of their own hardware. A trend we’ve seen Google, Microsoft, Tesla and others follow suit in.

If it weren’t for the fact that they are (presently) strong advocates for privacy, it would be hard to say something positive about Apple. But given the current technological climate, they’re definitely the lesser of two evils.