skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do some kids want to learn and others don't? Why do some kids have infinite curiosity about the world and want to figure out how it works? Perhaps we should focus on figuring out how to encourage this curiosity in humans.

A newborn seems to be incredibly curious about the world. With age, this curiosity seems to fade, for some more so than others. If we can prevent curiosity from fading, people would be excited about learning.
Because there's no money to be made in just being a clearinghouse so nobody does that
> I've lived in many countries, small, large, rich, poor, and I think Ger many is the worst among them to start a business (and also to live, but everyone has their preferences) unless you have a really good reason to be there.

Try India. There was an HN post the other day about a guy who tried to set up some manufacturing and 2 years in he was still far away from all the permits.

One thing the article we are discussing notably lacks is the mention of bribes. Obviously, you'd add, those would be illegal. Haha. True! They are illegal in India too. And in all other countries. But compared to some forms that are (outrageously!) in German, those re a real PITA.

I'm living in Germany now, by choice, and it's a lovely country with lovely people. Not everything is perfect, but many of the imperfections contribute to the loveliness. Just like in many other countries, rich and poor.
Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List (2014) [pdf]
Great article. Answered a lot of questions I've had as I toy with the idea of making part of a C++ project in Rust.

Regarding Slint and all the other new GUI toolkits, one thing I don't understand is why they all seem to completely ignore any controls more complicated than the basics (buttons, checkboxes, drop downs, spin controls, sliders, radio buttons, and a basic list control).

A To-Do app is a proof of concept, not an endgame.

Beyond those basics I need combo boxes, date time pickers, color pickers, font pickers (fonts are hard, I get it, but my users expect access to system fonts), dockable windows, splits, tabs, modal dialogs, tooltips, masked text input, auto completion text input, context menus, calendar controls, file and directory pickers.

Some of the new toolkits offer an assortment of these, including Slint but they rarely get all of them but the biggest thing missing from pretty much all of them are sophisticated data grids (both list and tree varieties). They need support for custom cell rendering, custom cell edit controls, and variable row heights. They also need to be fast even with tens of thousands of rows.

Oh, and think about your printing story. You don't print a UI obviously but if I'm rendering diagrams and stuff using your rendering facilities I at least need a way to hook them up to the platform's system without just duplicating all of the drawing to a completely different rendering API to make printing work.

This isn't a dig on Slint. I'm eagerly watching it, along with egui, as I desperately look for a cross platform alternative to all the legacy stuff I'm neck deep in. I just can't consider anything that has no good support for data dense applications.
Show HN: 500 Letters – A fiendishly addictive word game
In this context you are looking for fakes, but on a website with Sales Person Avatars e.g. in a Chat I wouldn't search for fakes.

I wouldn't assume the Avatars are the real persons either but yeah persons...
KDE Neon. I love KDE Activities I setup a sperate activity for my main job, freelance work and Personal Usage(Non work related). I have seprate Desktop Folder for every activity and Wallpaper. Each Desktop have shortcuts to applications I use for that envirnment.

Also I love Debian 11. Thinking to install KDE with it but I dont have time...
> Say the first thing that comes to mind when you think “Coca Cola.” Say it out loud, don’t edit

Cocaine
Paying X per area code is justified, nobody is arguing against that.

Paying $2500 per area code is unreasonable, as, like I said, there is nothing inherently special about 206-555-1234 vs 206-689-5312.
The next frontier platform or app
Last few decades we have seen shifts in tech and massive growth from emerging tech such as

Late 1990s - internet
2000s - social media
2010s - mobile

what do you guys think will be next frontier in technology or platform? Will it be Meta or something else?
I like AT&T more, because it have no of that "dword ptr" nonsense. AT&T more logical when it comes to differentiating between an immediate value and an address of a value. Everything else can be done both ways and do not matter much, but using dollar sign or not using it to distinguish immediates from addresses is a really nice touch.
Programming for me is both:

- reading and understanding existing code

- a often very goal oriented activity (but sometimes exploratory) where I (try to in the latter case) transform a part of the system according to my visions of a better system

- the mechanics of moving the caret around (arrow keys, file selection), selecting text (shift and ctrl modifiers in addition to arrow keys), using shortcuts to invoke pre defined transformations (automated refactoring) etc.

It is the thinking I get paid the good money for.

But if I was constantly struggling with my tools then it will take more time and I would get exhausted faster.
Try LyX
These are the best sharpeners for the price and then some.
Brian Armstrong has to say Coinbase is risk-free... I mean, what else is he going to say?
Game Pass runs natively, though...? (At least it does on my PC.)
so next: generate green backgrounds and use the same background in both pictures
So this guy make bucks by drawing 2 layered triangles of common place, general, not so much insightfull, management concepts.

Surely the bullshit run high in modern corporate.
Microsoft requires a CLA. I have contributed small fixes before and am working on a smallish but bigger impact fix, and I’ll have no problem signing again.

Why is it an issue? I’m using their free product, and I’m making it better by contributing and them accepting the contribution. The CLA absolves me and absolves them and let’s them keep power over the licensing. Code bases with all sorts of “rights holders” for various pieces of the codebase are probably a nightmare to deal with if the license needs to be adjusted for whatever reason.
I'm not sure that this wasn't known before. They claim "...while some works have hinted at the possible hardness of SR, no proof has yet been given that SR is, in fact, NP-hard.". Here is a counter example:

https://erikdemaine.org/papers/ArithmeticGames_ISAAC2020/pap...

If arithmetic search is NP-complete so is every superset of it: this was just a cursory google search.
They have 300x more SHIB than DOGE[1]. Is that realistic reflection of their users preferences?

[1]https://portfolio.nansen.ai/dashboard/crypto.com
This is the kind of tooling that needed to be in Java day one. I think Java has always had a developer experience problem especially compared to other languages. I remember looking at the Ruby on Rails demo video circa 2008 on the main website and how fast it was to get a basic blog compared to Spring or worse JavaEE. Even today innovation is lacking. I was hoping the advent of multiple JVM providers would cause competition to improve experience but instead it has further divided and confused the Java community.
Minor nitpick, but over 90% of the Dutch population can read/write/speak English. It's compulsory education.
MacOS Monterey. Rock solid, does everything I need.
> This channel is also good, but it is a bit wacky:

Messed up the link. This is the correct one.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ZackFreedman
You are very smart, thank you for your very important and pertinent contribution.
> CUPS is still great but mostly because it's initial implementation was so straightforward. It's existence today is mostly maintenance-mode with a priority for fixing Mac bugs, which is understandable but also occludes the possibility for future improvement or adding support for other platforms.

The CUPS lead author left Apple a couple of years ago, and CUPS development is now mostly focused on Linux under the auspices of the Openprinting organization. (I understand the CUPS lead author still has some side consulting gig in providing bug fixes to Apples version of CUPS.)
I still don't know them personally so I cannot judge whether they involve themselves in crypto because they are... ethically flexible.. and in it for the money or whether they truly have a rationale why this a useful way forward for society.

As far as the latter goes, I have yet to hear a vision of a crypto-currency-future that not the wet dream of a neo-liberal born-into-riches person or the wet dream of someone doing scams and selling illegal stuff habitually.

I mean they are trying to replace currency systems that have been around since thousands of years, so you better have more going on than "it is on computers" and "I know/am the person who is in control of the system" or "I know/am the person who invested a ton into this so it must work".
But I don't generate or ship electricity.

I buy both my electricity and my gas from PG&E, and pay whatever price they charge for each. So the question of which is cheaper depends not on the fundamentals of physics of it, but on the relative prices PG&E charges for each.
I'm trying to figure out what this means, if it is suggesting that they can find employee's personal accounts, or if it means that they want to become like LinkedIn.
Tor 'Community' presents 'State of the Onion' – Nov 16, 17:00 and 19:00 UTC
The November 16th Program Agenda - 'State of the Onion' for the 'Tor Community', is now posted online.

Current UTC : https://time.is/UTC
New Netflix show
Shyam Saran Negi never failed in his democratic duty
I cannot say much about which Assembler Xenix used, but in 1992 it was clearly still K&R C, the version I had access to was either lacking X installation or pure text based terminals.

It was so expensive in Escudos, that for teaching an high school class about UNIX, the teacher would bring a tower (286 or early 386 model) that would be timeshared with the whole class, meaning taking 15 minute slots seating at it, while having prepared the exercises, as much as we could, in Turbo C 2.0 on MS-DOS.

It definitly wasn't SCO UNIX though.
I understand why you are angry, but keep in mind that western europe is no saint either. Dieselgate something something.
F500 is a global list, not a US one.
I found that in direct comparison, the background often was enough to tell the difference - but that was mostly because one of the images had a detailed background with text or architecture, which I know the AI would struggle with.

I think a similar test that is not asking for a direct comparison but just "is this image real?" would be much harder, since there is no better "safe" choice to fall back on.
The Rise of Product-Minded Software Developers
Product thinkers see technology as a means to an end, not the end itself. They take joy in product discovery, suggesting improvements for new features or how to improve the existing ones. They weigh every technical choice against the impact on the user experience or on the business. They want to see their work being used by real people, see how they react and be happy to know that they’re making their life better or worst and act on it. They don’t go all-in in developing a feature, but they like to understand the why behind it. They like to have the big picture, and understand the domain within the product works, so they can make good decisions. They like to prototype, they like feedback. They are product thinkers!
20/20 chosen correctly. Yes I think I can. The AI images are very impressive, but there are always artifacts that give it away.
I love that dmd follows the home computer school of having inline Assembly done properly, instead of mini-languages stuffed inside strings.
"premature optimization is the root of all evils" has a lot to answer for
There absolutely is. Notaries in Germany do a lot more than in the US and must hold a law degree.
Ah yes, let's force a government mandated culture on people. Can't imagine anything going wrong with that.
Heat pumps can also be run by generators. Typical coefficients of power are above 4, and generators can be in the 30-50% efficient range, so end to end, it's likely you burn less gas via the generator + heatpump route than via the direct heating route.
Is this a serious topic worthy of serious responses from high ranking HN readers?

Depressing. They're both photos. A photo (of 'reality') is at its very best, at very best, already just a representation of the subject. Both are (technically) fake, aren't they?
You can run pretty complex UI already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkBwNocItGs
A Fourier expansion is a symbolic fitting of data to a curve, yet it provides no information about the systems sampled as shown by the fact that it fits a geocentric model just as well as a heliocentric one.

The idea that an arbitrarily large expression is somehow more understandable than the fourier coefficients of a the first few large terms could only have been done by someone who hasn't looked the the vast array of semi-empirical formulas out there which are as clear as mud.
> In the US a marriage is not a contract. We are not Ferengi. A marriage is a license from the state.

That is so strange to me. In many European contracts, by default (unless you modify it with further contracts), marriage makes you co-owner of each other's property _and debts_, it makes you responsible for caring for each other no matter what happens, it automatically recognizes both sides as parents of any children born during the marriage, and so on. Even in case of divorce later there are alimony rights, and if there are children you probably have to deal with each other forever.

How can you go into such a big arrangement with each other and not have it be a contract?
They will after January 2023.

And yes... bitcoin has gone up a lot in that time. That doesn't mean the creditors are happy about their crypto being stuck on a bankrupt exchange for almost a decade.

I have a small fortune in the civil rehabilitation proceedings. Since mtgox went down, I've since met my wife, got married, had children, started a Masters, finished a Masters, and bought a house. Having access to my crypto at any point during that period would have been really nice.
It is same in India too. The amount of time that is wasted on it is absolutely massive.

There is no benefit. We have director and ID sign which is accepted in a few departments for what they ask for a notary to witness in others.

Printing something on stamp paper changes absolutely nothing.

The amount of mindless bureaucracy just to waste people's time gets me every time. If you want more money, just ask for it directly.

Also all the penalties for not doing redundant and useless paperwork.
You can pay all the taxes and be compliant yet if you don't fill form saying I paid everything, they penalize you.
That date is pretty misleading unfortunately. And note "it happened recently" and "it took a pretty long time" are different claims.

IIRC the aspects of the ABI that "broke" across (say) 2013 and 2015 were generally (if not entirely) for the support of newer features, like thread-safe static initialization. That stuff was only standardized in C++11, which is 4 years, not something I'd call a "long time" (especially considering how long it took everyone to finish implementing C++11).

But even worse than that, it's not like GCC had been compatible with the basics before this. It couldn't even bring itself to mangle "void foo() { }" in a platform-compatible way, and it's not like that took until 2015 for Microsoft to settle on.
None of what the OP said indicated anything of the sort.
What if nearly everyone is a bad actor?
Work doesn’t have to tax the sprit so greatly; there is a way to work that gives you energy.
GitHub's Copilot faces first open source copyright lawsuit
Not really, that is what people think, while forgetting that it comes along with a type system, has two models of method invocations.

And with the introduction of WinRT extensions, it got even richers.

Naturally one can try to call COM via C, and there are some COM APIs that offer C versions of them, however the tooling is already bad enough for .NET and C++ devs, doing it from C only for masochits or people that are religiouly against productive tooling.
I know, but the RWLock itself also did not work. Complaining about safety and the only solution seemed to wrap the value itself into mutex inside rwlock. If I still had to go back to this, I would just write the function in C and go from there. Rust is productive when you can work with the highest level of abstraction and when it can copy values freely. When you want to work with copy-free or shared memory, is when rust becomes special kind of hell, and you have to dwelve deep into the depths of rust to get it to do what you want. Somehow the meta-programming is even more unreadable than C++.

I also get slight PTSD whenever I have to write `new`, not sure if the method will allocate or not behind the scenes. This is one of the things zig gets right I think:

- No hidden control flow.

- No hidden memory allocations.
"should be in english", well, I am german and I have no idea what the words in my tax return mean. So to The Layman not even that may help.
Meanwhile - the UK government has a £58 billion hole on their finances…
1000x yes. I always complain how JIRA is unintuitive, clunky, and confusing. But all of that would be fine if it were fast, because at least I’d be able to try more options faster figuring out which button it is I actually wanted to press.
If you’re looking for an opportunity that might 2x your investment over a decade, I imagine the good old stock market would be better than gambling your funds on a dying exchange. But what do I know.

I put in $11k at $1,100/coin. I’ll be lucky to walk with 1 BTC after more than a decade. So, not really. And I’ll believe that when the coin is in my wallet. Till then, it’s a mental write-off.
They need atomic operations which can still stall most of your massivly parallel machine.
Which is what I was doing about 20 years ago, I know for sure how much German and how much English helped me to get by.
A real human cost? This is an exaggeration. Also, are those suffering climate impacts counting in your equations??
I had a brief stint as a technician repairing Foxtel IQ set-top boxes (Pay TV). I was just as surprised to find a UART present on the scart connector too! I guess it's relatively common
Is there any health implications to this?
Texture is a visual ingredient just like color or form – and if you see it this way it's nothing strange adding it in post. Basically any analog method of visual reproduction adds some form of texture as a byproduct, but not digital screens. Yet think of a paper, it's the texture in the paper that makes it real, that it appears as something you can touch.
Having both worked at a web agency building its own SaaS, and been employed full-time while building a SaaS on the side - I agree.

VC has flooded the market with money, so it's easier to keep a stable income while hacking on the side. At the same time, to succeed as a bootstrapper, chances are you weren't going to compete in areas where VC loves throwing money (as in, it's a tremendous challenge to build your own Linear, Notion etc on the side).
This is just crazy: "Crypto.com “Accidentally” Transfers $400M to the Wrong Wallet" [0]. How is that sort of mistake even possible?

[0] https://thechainsaw.com/defi/crypto/crypto-com-accidentally-...
It seems like the real face is always the less "perfect" one
Interesting paper for finding a function which fits the given data, however they way oversell the ability of any such model:

>Then, an SR algorithm would ideally re-discover the well-known expression
(or an equivalent formulation thereof) F = G × m1 m2
r2 , with G = 6.6743 × 10−11, by opportunely combining
the mathematical operations (here, of multiplication and division) with the variables and constant at play

F in this case is the second derivative of the curve of motion of mass, _either_ mass. Yet given a sampling of data the best you could do would be one equation for the motion of mass one and another for m2. The fact they are equal is not an NP-hard problem but equivalent to the halting problem. Similarly for deciding that the equation is a differential equation.
Why would there be?

Starlink emits non-iodizing radiation.
I've been a bit of a Mitsubishi pencil evangelist for several years now. Other than the shade of the graphite, the hardness/density, smoothness over paper, erasability, and more are all points to weigh when seriously considering a writing utensil.

The 9850 has been my preference, and it comes in a lovely deep red. Cool article!
Things No One Tells You About Going Full-Time Again
Yeah, I suppose the consequence will be, less trust in screenshots generally as it is easier to edit them.

(even though they were never secure, they are used for proof of various things)
Before or after the rug pull?
I’ve contributed bug fixes and small features to a bunch of CLA projects, and every time I do the project eventually rug pulls the license and replaces it with something that works exactly against my particular interests. I don’t get massively salty about it, but it’s kinda shitty and really makes me think twice about contributing to any CLA these days. Every time I see a CLA now I just think it’s some jerks crowdsourcing R&D from a community that they know they’re eventually going to shaft with a new commercial license.
Nope,

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

Or, for another example,

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/Kerne...

It is only incompatible with UNIX school of thought.
I first experienced a window-mounted heat pump a couple of days ago when the new neighbors' house started humming. It was about 40 degrees out when I went outside to where the hum was coming from. The unit in the window was blowing at lot of air at me that was colder than ambient. Not in Kansas anymore!
One of the reasons is: at some point you (will) have done enough of rather different projects/experiments... twice, so new ones are not so exciting.

Finding hobbies in different (even related) fields is a lot easier.
The teeth were a big giveaway for me. The gap between the central incisors should roughly line up with the nose but the fakes are almost always noticably offset.
BloodNet: We'll Take Manhattan
You can take colonies from the englishman but you can't make englishman want to stop colonizing.
You can start here, for bare metal deployments,

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc
I’m viewing this on a mobile device so I can’t zoom in too efficiently to do all the subtle detail stuff. What I caught onto was the real photos were subtly messy with imperfections. The AI ones have this idealized look to them that has a slight airbrushed effect in aggregate. If people’s faces had blemishes or imperfect skin it’s more likely real. Somehow those imperfections get chopped in AI, probably because they’re so idiosyncratic they don’t survive the AI transformations which look at features en masse.