skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it absolutely did feel revolutionary.

People had seen computers running corporate departments and calculating orbits for NASA. Suddenly they were told they could have one too. At home.

The fact that it didn't do much was part of the fun, because it meant you had to master the technology to make it usable.

So it was a double pitch - personal power, personal mastery.

Modern computing doesn't offer that. It's all about playing in someone else's sand pit. Whether it's FB/Twitter, the app store, or an Amazon drop shipping business, or an ad-funded entertainment site, or a side project on GitHub - you're working inside an environment imposed on you by others, which you can't change and don't own.

You could say "How is that different to BASIC?" The difference is that using BASIC never felt like being part of someone else's machine. It was your tool, you could what you liked with it. There was no sense of being a cog in a factory which printed money for other people.
I find that most PDFs extract paragraphs out of sequence. It's so annoying.

My most effective (so far) extractive program is 'pdftotext' and using the '-layout' option:

pdftotext -layout my_file.pdf
I use alacritty. And I use Neovim on the same terminal.
“The owner of this iPhone was in a severe car crash” amusement park fail
Also, immigrants aren't particularly likely to vote for you just because you let them in, nor do they even like other immigrants themselves so they're not going to vote for them either. That's how powerful American cultural imperialism is; we make them American as soon as they get here.
> - Let's say the UK treasure issues bonds. 10, 20, and 30-year bonds at 3%, which are then purchased by pensions. - Risk of recession grows, and the price of bonds fall and yields rise because risks go up. - The Bank of England buys bonds to prop up bond prices.
> - Since the UK treasury has already issued the bonds at a fixed rate, why do they care what the secondary aftermarket price of their bonds is?

Most government are constantly issuing new bonds (to roll over existing debt if nothing else), so the secondary market of their own bonds is a direct competition to the new bonds they want to issue.
Full story: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-owner-of-this-iphone-was-in...
orgmode is so not a markup language and cant be served via lsp. its a whole ecosystem built on top of emacs. short of rewriting it, implementing it fully in another editor would require a sort of virtual emacs machine running in the background
As a German I don't have to worry too much about the prices of books. We have Buchpreisbindung https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchpreisbindung
We are delighted to announce that Professor Vijay Janapa Reddi from Harvard University has joined Acceleration Robotics Board of Advisors.
Ask HN: Do we have anything to learn from first-hand observations of the mind?
Understandably, science requires repeatability, and is mostly objective.

I'm wondering if the workings of a mind can be observed from within. Not in terms of behaviour, but more so in terms of process and function.

Among many subjects, might this yield any results of value?

The closest thing I can think of is meditation and mindfulness. Simply observing the mind and reporting results.
I'll test and fix the audio for iPhones. Thanks.
That makes so much more sense and would lead to a much better discussion. Any chance the title and linked site can be changed?

It does show quite nicely how one can lie through scientific studies and confuse people.
Prompts for Spaced Recognition
Do people still use drip coffee makers? I don't think any of the ways I make coffee are capable of clogging, and I have like four different ones.

Should descale the Nespresso though…
What about.... building a massive new City somewhere?

A new City for the Wealthy, with modern infrastructure.

Another new City that is designed for Manufacturing, with new housing and infrastructure based on those needs.
There is nothing wrong with the title. The study failed to find a reduction in death rate despite lowering the incidence of cancer, and that is the center of the piece. It goes into detail of why this is surprising. The study authors were interviewed and agreed. The reporting actually adds a lot of context that you would never get from a link to a random study.

Like, for example, how it is called the “gold standard” because it’s a 10-year large scale randomized trial, and the doctors running the study are the ones who promoted colonoscopy as a tool to reduce cancer mortality in the first place.
There are programming languages where that syntax is used for assignments to mutable vars (F# being one example).

Maybe play around with a language that uses that syntax?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...
Sorry about that. My server seems to be struggling a bit roughly 1 in 50 requests are failing. I'm scaling it up more right now, it should work if you try again.
Julia SciML Ecosystem Update: Better Error Messages, Compile Times, and Docs
I switched from Ubuntu to Debian about 3 years ago and have been quite happy.

Stable, but not "too" stable (I'm looking at you RHEL). Been daily driving Debian 10 and 11 for years now, no complaints. Even on newish laptops, fine.

Ubuntu is one of the most "normal" and Linuxy Linuxes and is probably the easiest to use due to market share. BUT drama with:

- snaps

- gnome 40

- wayland (and before that the mir/unity mess)

- spying search, etc.

I don't want drama. I want about 50,000 "dpkg" packages that all use the same libstdc++ and have been compiled within the last couple years. Not "snaps" or "flatpacks" or VMs or dockers or etc. Anything fancier than that, I'll just build myself. Turns out that old Debian is not as crusty as one would think; there's very little advantage to the bleeding edge of anything more edgy these days.

I'm sad about systemd. And happy about firmware. And Shuttleworth can kiss my ass.
Intel confirms leaked Alder Lake BIOS Source Code is authentic
Risk your neck, save your soul
Asian produced goods aren't cheap plastic junk; they're better than American made because they're better at doing it and have all the support and supply chains there.

You can't get something the quality of a smartphone or mirrorless camera assembled in the US for the quality you can in Thailand for any amount of money. Shenzhen is just better at electronics than we are.

Of course, America does produce some of the components going into them, just like Japan and Korea and the UK do.
> People will read this headline and conclude that they don’t need to get a colonoscopy which I don’t think follows from this study at all.

What this appears to show is that you need to get a colonoscopy to avoid colon cancer; but that you don't need to get a colonoscopy to avoid death. I'd much rather avoid colon cancer entirely than have colon cancer and survive.

But as GP pointed out, maybe you need something else to avoid death: something that is correlated with responding to the invitation to get a colonoscopy. Maybe if you're willing and able to get a colonoscopy when invited, you're willing and able to more pro-actively go to the doctor when you notice other issues that are indicative of colon cancer, allowing you to get early treatment. And conversely, maybe if you're not willing or able to get a colonoscopy when invited, you're more likely to ignore symptoms until it's too late.

Again, avoiding colon cancer in the first place is better than successfully treating it; but it does point to the fact that other interventions might be more helpful in actually preventing deaths.
I've read the code and I know that it reimplements a substantial portion of Make. The point is however, this project doesn't work with a single Makefile either. Traditional projects would typically use configure plus (generated) Makefile, where configure is a shell script typically built from autoconf which is an abomination. In order to avoid autoconf some projects replace configure with other languages like JS. This project went further by merging that JS configure with Makefile. All of this hassle would be pointless unless you consider one important platform: Windows, where you don't natively have Make anyway.

You may still argue that this project still requires GCC and thus there should be Make even in Windows. That's reasonable, but right now I have GCC and Clang but no Make in my Windows console. If you can remove a hard dependency on Make with a reasonable cost (and I don't claim it's the case with this project, I would have used Ninja instead [1]) it's pretty worthwhile in my opinion.

[1] See https://github.com/lifthrasiir/j40/blob/main/make.cmd and https://github.com/lifthrasiir/j40/tree/main/extra/build for example; with this setting `make` works both in the standard *nix and Windows.
It is bad for universally legal uses (sharing, mirroring) because centralised alternatives are always faster and cheaper (benefiting from economies of scale).

It is also probably (I'm not quite sure yet) worse for the illegal uses because it is slower and more compute heavy than torrents, and there is way worse discoverability and moderation, which is important in the communities sharing illegal files.

Basically any true decentralisation is an attempt to eliminate trust from the system. And there are two problems with this - 1) maybe 0.1% of all attempts are actually decentralised (other 99.9% are either self delusional or lying), and 2) trust is actually a desirable thing, especially in the important things like money or file storage.
This is just a classic combination of trie with hashmap.
This seems to be a love it mildly or loath it kind of movie. I thought it was the worst Wes Anderson movie, by a long margin, full of the "Wes Anderson" style but little substance. It made me re-evaluate his other films
> Matching private and federal funding to be identified BEFORE state bond funds are spent

I think that line suggests it's at least 3x the Bond value.
I think Airbnb rentals need to be curtailed.

I'm my county there are 65k people. It's also the largest county by size in Utah Iirc, in my city which is the biggest city in the county there's around 40k.

When we had to move it was horrifying and scary trying to find a place. There seemed to be no vacancies. Someone posted a listing on Facebook marketplace and there were 20 replies in under 5 minutes.

However, the are 400 apartments that used to presumably be college(we're a college town) or regular residential homes.

So the irksome thing is the fear of being homeless is very real even if you have money to move to another place, there aren't any. But there's 400 places that could be available which would raise supply if short term rentals were banned or taxed steeply enough that revenue for short term might only be 500 more per month instead of 3000 more.

This is happening everywhere not just my part of fantasia.
Python 3.10 is standard even in the latest debian version, nearly every Linux that you would setup today has python >=3.9 preinstalled. Unless you use some sort of "webspace" type of provider that only allows PHP, this should not be an issue (in fact I had a webspace once and it too had python, I just had to ask).

So python 3.10 is not an external dependency here, because external implies you need to install it.

But all the non-standard python modules used (humanize, ...) are definitly external dependencies and that can be an issue if you try to run your service in such a restricted environment.
He very explicitly stated what about the post was off-putting to him. You made a comment about being personally attacked while repeating the tool is better without any argument whatsoever.
You're exactly proving the point of the comment.
My biggest fear with leaving Arch Linux was the lack of the Arch User Repository (AUR)

That's hilarious.

My biggest fear with trying to play with Arch was that I wouldn't have my apt/dpkg/synaptic tools for the Debian/Mint/Ubuntu .deb repositories.
I'd stick with pure JS for web apps, and markup (HTML and evolutions thereof for the content we're actually creating) for documents with basic GUIs such as tabs, menus, and the like.
Transmission used to handle more simultaneous torrents. Looking at the changelog, seems like 4.0 should handle even more.
Not everyone grew up in the thick of the Anglosphere :)
Well, to be fair, the overall risk of death did not seem to be lower for the invited group. The risk was 11.04 vs 11.03 for those with invited colonoscopy, with fairly large confidence interval on the control group.

But the risk of colon cancer did decrease, with a risk reduction of 18%.

Maybe they just didn't track long enough to tease out a bigger risk reduction in overall mortality, or maybe colon cancer is associated with other risk factors for mortality (like age).

Why someone would latch onto one result and not the other is probably just "blow the lid off" style reporting.
Get a Parallels license and use it as the vagrant provider. That still seems to be the only real option. https://www.parallels.com/
People are aware that every job you take or have to move for is an opportunity cost. Not just in getting paid, but also in other places you could live, or other skills you could be learning, or training you have to take.

In other words, if you only get this job for a year or two and then lose it, it's not worth the risk. You'd have to be paid enough to retire on, like football players or anyone else whose career is expected to be a few years long.
Neat. I have an order-of-gigabytes hash table I'd love to shrink. Will experiment with this technique.
No, they stated that they personally have no interest in using better tools (lsp, autocomplete etc).
I think it would be a fairly clear cut debt case. It might take a bit of lawyering to collect on the debt, but there are firms which would take it on a contingency basis.

If they are trying to avoid payment it will kink any activity in the EU, all over a relatively paltry sum.

The lesson though is that if you're dealing with potential shysters, like NFT promoters and other dodgy stuff this firm is doing (who else pays 70k Euro per year plus commissions to telemarketers??) then make sure they have assets in your jurisdiction that you can put a lien on, and ideally require cash up front.
Yup.

The study answers a question from health policy makers: Should we invite everyone (in some age group) for a colonoscopy? Based on this study, probably not.

It does not answer questions from individuals: Should I get a colonoscopy? If you have some good reason (symptoms, doctor advice, family history), probably yes (based on other studies, not this one).
Do I have it right that a Hare compiler is supposed to emit barriers around every single memory access? Because it’s not just the compiler that can reorder writes, but the underlying CPU as well, which means the compiler has to be aware of concurrency during code generation if concurrency is to behave with any predictability. Which is the point of the article: concurrency cannot be provided as a pure library facility without any participation from the compiler. The language has to define which concurrent memory accesses are valid and how they interact. Otherwise you’re at the mercy of however the platform decides to flush caches that day.

I mean, of course you can just mandate sequential consistency everywhere and bloat your codegen in the process, but if you care so little about performance, why even bother with Hare? If I wanted a poorly specified, badly performing language with no concurrency support and a superficial appeal for simplicity, Python will suffice in the role.
You don't have contact details in your profile, but I have in mine. Shoot me an email and I'll explain more about the challenges. If you can help I'd be really interested in talking with you.
In my experience, the key thing is to have a "layered" culture. Yes, you start with a general "culture", which ideally boils down to "don't be a jerk", "respect others", and probably "we're all in the same boat"; but then you give the managers and team leads the authority to adapt that to their respective departments and individual teams.

You have people who enjoy meetings and talking directly? Great, have some meetings and calls with them as necessary. You have others that - as a sibling comment stated it - don't want cultural cohesion and don't want to be "friends" with their coworkers? You implement techniques that allow them to be productive without constant interruptions and required interactions.

On one hand, implement async working practices; but on the other, offer people a chance to meet their local colleagues (not necessarily on the same team) in a coworking space (e.g. using Hubble [0]) or on regular "offsites".

For some reason, managers keep trying to find a "perfect" methodology they will just implement and things will keep running smoothly on their own; but that's an illusion. Management is all about constant adjustment and adapting to specific people and circumstances.

[0] https://hubblehq.com/
There are browser extensions that do this
Yes, automation causing unemployment is a myth that seems to be related to the "AI is going to eat us" Singularity people. Automation does the opposite, it creates employment.

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/american-workers-need-lots...
I'm a nordic-layout user as well and whenever I look at the actual differences side-by-side I get reminded about how much easier it would be to code if I had all those symbols that close.

https://www.farah.cl/Keyboardery/A-Visual-Comparison-of-Diff...

And for me I'm pretty sure that this "remap everything and translate every tutorial" barrier is why I never have been able to get into vim.
Right, so to properly isolate the effect of the colonoscopy on mortality, we need to do a randomized trial with just people like you -- people who would definitely get a colonoscopy if invited -- to see what the effect is. Because you're also more likely to act on early warning signs and get a cancer diagnosis in time to treat the cancer rather than die.
Really interesting. It is really good to go through pros and cons of certain decisions like this.

I really don't like how all of these camps have started shouting at each other. I really like both Rust and Zig and think both of their approaches are super interesting paths forward for the industry. They are both re-examining things that has been very locked in place for a long time in the industry. Zealotry on either side is super cringe.

In Zig's case it is good to look at the choices made in the type system of other languages. What do we loose and what do we gain over these? There were probably reasons why they went the way they did. Learn from it. Don't shout that our way is the best and don't assume that you were the first to find this perfect solution to all type problems. Both of those reactions are just childish.
> American here. We draw the line correctly.

So no questioning it, no evidence or justification given, just a plain "we're right"[1]. You've made my point.

[1] and by implication "everyone else is wrong"
I love this video!

I'm sad to say that it has nothing at all to do with Smalltalk.

Its topic is an attempt to make all programs that run in Linux (and similar systems) able to access each others' data structures, including each others' functions, using new work built on the debugging facilities that unixes already have. The big picture is that so-called static languages actually provide enough information (via debugging mechanisms) so that OTHER languages can treat them as if they were dynamic languages, and (really fun big picture stuff) can potentially automate discovery of their structure to the extent that all languages can interoperate without FFIs.
Invited or not, if you don't show up to a colonoscopy you don't get one. Which means the study's data on invitations alone cannot be used to evaluate the effect of colonoscopies. Seems the study does provide data that allows this so, and shows clear differences in cancer rates and survival rates for those that did get colonoscopies.

Argueing about the randomization of these numbers, and the meta-statistical aspects of that, would be funny if the subject wasn't so serious. It is also the same level of discussion you get from people like JBP, meaning it at least misses the point by a mile.
That was arguable in the pre-Trump state of American politics. But now? You have total crazies saying whatever (either total bullshit, advocating for/admitting crimes, etc.) running for and winning elections. This is not a stable situation, as evidenced by the fact that the man who normalised this sort of thing tried a coup to stay in office, and many people, supporters of his, including people in office or running for office, supported that effort and are already organising for the next election cycles.
If people want to replace vim, they should not change the keybindings.
I wish people (children included) would go to school or work by bike or on foot more often again. And yes, I am aware that not everyone can do that. Here in Europe, however, we often see fit and healthy people taking the car for journeys that can be made on foot within 20 minutes.
In theory they could register many hostnames on the DNS, and serve each individual victim a URL with a different hostname, and delete that host afterwards.
Adding quiet onto the beginning of every trend relating to employment is beyond annoying
Not sure about Ireland, but in the UK, the TV license funds the BBC. Until the Tories made that DG a political appointment and the political coverage went to shit, I found that quite fair.

I've also spent the bulk of my life neither paying the fee nor owning a telly.

The cost is comparable to Netflix and cheaper than buying a console game every second month. Not to moralise, but are you arguing it's a fundamental right to stare at the gogglebox? I'm progressive but that's a step too far for me.
Considering that slowing down FPS doesn't alter the images, and audio can be resampled with practically no audible artefacts, I doubt that quality would ever be an issue. As long as it's done with the proper care of course.

I would think the main consideration is workflow these days.
Aren’t new cars supposed to have that feature, which can automatically call emergency services on crash?
If you are making tools for yourself to make your development life easier or automate some boring stuff, you can share them publicly on GitHub or some other place. I think it is a good and easy way to get into open source because you are working on tools that you use yourself. So you will be able to keep up the momentum of working on your project.
I believe the emerging markets are mostly mad at China because, while they may not be moralizing with their investments[0], they're bad at managing them. Japan is actually silently doing better here.

https://warontherocks.com/2019/04/quality-infrastructure-jap...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/countries-are-reducing-belt-...

[0] better not say anything about Taiwan though
I can tickle my feet and I can tickle the ceiling of my mouth with my tongue. It's hard to explain but if you very slowly and gently drag the tongue through the ceiling of the mouth at least for me it triggers the tickling response the most consistent and reliable way. Article is complete bullshit.
Mass Media Omertà: Burying Al Jazeera’s ‘The Labour Files’ – Media Lens
It doesn't mean high(er) density living at all (at least not how it is understood in the rest of the world). The US is mostly empty space, no flats or whatever required.
To the extent that there’s a spread in those answers, a third possibility emerges: how can we, as health policy makers, find a way to make the invitations more effective at converting to administered colonoscopies?
24 FPS can look "off" to an audience, too.

As someone who hates 24fps, because it looks way too jerky, and not lifelike, the sooner we lose 24FPS, the better.
Marlon Brando did it better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=101sKhH-lMQ
No, they contextualized that these improvements aren't actually improving anything for them, as they're not actually interested in using these features. And thus, it's no longer a better tool for them.