skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad to see I'm not the only one that wanted this workflow!

I added this the first cut of this feature to iTerm2 about a decade ago because I often work in the terminal, but sometimes need to reference files elsewhere in my workflow. The feature was named "Semantic History" although in hindsight, it's not a very good name.

To use, hold Cmd and click+drag the path to where you want to drop it. Behind the scenes, the current working directory is stored with the position of the buffer, so it works on relative paths even when you change your working directory. On Cmd+Drag, it searches the buffer around the cursor until it finds a valid path to work with.
Went "unempathetic" mode. He didn't have to do what he did and in the way he did. You were cheering for him instilling fear in the remaining employees.
Can anyone explain this a bit more?

> Stars (along with line art) are one of the most blatant tests for gamma correct rendering — if everything shimmers as you pan around, they are filtering in gamma space instead of linear space. It should all be rock solid.

Something to do with as the underlying values are shifted between pixels (as you pan around), they increase/decrease pixel brightness inconsistently if you're mapping the intrinsic values to some curve before calculating the appropriate pixel brightness? (I'm unfamiliar with "gamma correct rendering")
Starlink isn't for people who have decent copper broadband somewhere in the 10s of Mbps down that's reasonably reliable. It's for the people who can't get that and there are a lot of them.
And, on that note, Settings > [Your name] > iCloud > Messages, too.
A facial recognition network to mass surveil seals
> If you trust Elon to do the right thing

Where did I say I trust Elon or any other CEO?

Still waiting on someone to explain what is "inhumane" about getting laid off with a severance package. Remember we are talking about employees working at a big tech firm. They'll find work elsewhere, and have had pay above the national average. They likely have plenty of savings.

I don't give a shit about Elon or Twitter. My comment was just holding someone accountable for the narrative they were creating. Typical for HN to have someone jump in with an irrelevant reply.
$18 million a year is pretty steep for an RNG serving 64 people a day. More importantly, maybe the government should not be trying to make a profit off national parks?
Really makes me wonder if a fellow human didn't have consciousness if anyone would notice.
Also "Why is <number> interesting?" is an interesting question to ask. It finds something interesting about most integers, and falls back to giving you a good rational approximation for 'uninteresting' reals.
Despite its name, libgccjit does aot just fine, e.g. as used in rustc's gcc backend.
That said, I find your definition is the most meaningful.
Close to 20 years ago I got an email that in it's entirety said "I have a powful tool. I suspect youd like it", exactly as written. No links, no attachments, just plain text. I showed it to my then girlfriend and now wife and since then we have adopted "powful tool" as a term we apply to really great devices or machinery of impressive heritage or even some good software. Warms my heart.
Rented bicycles at Zion, the shuttle will take you and your bike to the end of the park. We hiked and biked our way back across the day. (Am I the baddie?)
Genuinely ludicrous to say that cryptocurrency has historically been talked up by Democrats; similarly, Republicans have historically been vastly more trusting of the financial industry
Power output of petrol in a bucket is limited by air supply. Batteries have all components for runaway energy release right there.
why I chose VSCode-Neovim over VSCodeVim
This wouldn't work for, say, programatically marking messages read or unread.
Start interviewing for your next remote role.
Ah yes, “smart people don’t get scammed, you’re smart aren’t you?”

Very smarmy line of thinking. Unfortunately on the rise in recent years. We are all vulnerable to scams and victim blaming doesn’t help the conversation any.
130 watts is nothing in this context?

One issue with most lithium chemistry is that it isn’t rechargeable below freezing - it causes permanent damage to the pack.

Practically speaking, this is solvable using in-pack heaters which divert the charging power to warming up the pack first. This takes time if it’s been allowed to sit. Laws of physics and all.

Charging these batteries is also going to take time, a lot of it, and significant charging infrastructure.

Short haul might go through a tank a day, but long haul often uses two drivers working in shifts and can cover 1000+ miles a day easily. It takes 30 minutes or less to refill a diesel long haul truck.

Unless they can get charging times down to an hour or less (which if it is a 875kwh pack like some folks think, that means literally megawatt sustained charging rates), it would require a major change in how long haul truckers work to have a chance.

Current superchargers max out at 250kw, which at max rates would take 3-4 hours to recharge, and they require a decent amount of expensive infrastructure to be able to support that.

If it is much cheaper, that could happen though!
ARC does not offer much as a modern cache replacement algorithm, so it passing into the public domain is little more than a curiosity. Even in its day it didn't stand out as a better algorithm in real systems.
Why I only use plain black wallpapers
Yep! I grew up in San Jose, and back in the 1980s, each year the company my mom worked for rented out Great America for a day in September. It was pretty awesome being able to just go on any ride you wanted without waiting.
> door unlock/lock behavior

I just imagined the wireless unlock button sequentially stepping through the 16 lock/unlock states for a 4-door vehicle. "The car is locked. 13 quick clicks later, both front doors are unlocked and both back doors are locked."
> It subsidizes everyone else's tuition

I think that is a myth, unless the student is paying more than say $100k per year. Elsewhere I read that average fees were about $50k, but I presume there is quite some variation.

Total operating expenses = $5.4 billion[1]

Operating Revenue: Endowment income 36%, Education/Tuition 21%, Research 17%, Gifts 9%, Other 17%[1]

The 21% Education/Tuition income is split: Degree Seeking Education 13%, and Continuing and Executive Education: 7%[3]

Student income 1.2 billion[3]

There are 30,391 students including 8,527 undergraduate and 21,864 graduate students at Harvard University for academic year 2020-2021. By attending status, there are 19,030 full-time and 11,361 part-time students[2]

Assuming teaching the students costs 2.5 billion (rest is research costs) and 25000 full-time-equivalent students, then if each rich student pays enough to fully subsidise a second poor student, the rich student would need to pay $200k, and you trend towards a larger percentage of the students being rich.

Argued from a different perspective (with a similar outcome): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838201

[1] https://finance.harvard.edu/financial-overview

[2] https://www.univstats.com/colleges/harvard-university/studen...

[3] https://finance.harvard.edu/files/fad/files/fy22_harvard_fin...
Isn't he the very visible tip of a very embarrassing series of many recent events for the Bahamas as a business haven? Or is it the opposite - the Bahamas (or its current leaders) is going for it and embracing the Caymans style, wash your money, hide your business here model?
Not exactly -- my claim is the the most successful organizations (both governmental and private) have high alignment between power and responsibility. This produces good incentives.

Bureaucracies (both governmental and private) tend towards poor alignment for the reasons I outlined.

Most mature companies eventually become bureaucracies, a process I like to refer to as "becoming IBM". Big tech companies (e.g. Google, Amazon) are well on their way to becoming IBM, and much of the dysfunction is exactly due to your point about deflecting blame and taking credit for successes.

So the distinction is not between government vs private, but rather bureaucracy vs non-bureaucracy. Many governments, such as the US, do tend to be highly bureaucratic -- much more so than e.g. IBM.
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Reasons why people may continue greeting cats in public elevators

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There is no reason why someone should continue greeting cats in public elevators, as it is not a common or accepted practice. Greeting a cat in a public elevator may be considered strange or inappropriate by others, and may also cause the cat unnecessary stress and discomfort. Cats are generally not socialized to be around large groups of people and may not enjoy being greeted in a confined space like an elevator. It is best to respect the cat's personal space and avoid greeting it in a public elevator.
Racism is not a disability. No one gets to use mental illness to excuse being an vile asshole. Musk tries to do this by blaming "Asperger's" when in reality he too is just another asshole.
Perseus Digital Library
"Back in the day"? Software from motherboard manufacturers is still terrible now!
A vice principal is an administrator, not an educator. The problem with schools these days (tm) is that power within the system has been given to or taken by these administrators, and there seems to be no way to reverse this.
You used to be able to buzz the other person in Yahoo Chat
My Microsoft Edge on macOS breaks when updates are applied (through my company's 3rd party updater). New tabs just go blank.
I really liked golang's blog on pipelines:

https://go.dev/blog/pipelines
Guns and bottles is fun.
> They presumably don't do this because "not my problem".

They don’t care. It’s that simple. I’ve (on Facebook/Instagram) reported scams, and they always say it doesn’t violate their community guidelines. But it turns out the computer “reviewed” my report, so I appeal it, and it’s always “sorry, but we don’t have enough people, so we’re ignoring this appeal. Here’s the report ID for the ‘review’ board.” On the rare chance a human does review it, they say “a human reviewed your report, and you’re right.”

They so much don’t care that, now, reporting scam/spam just says, “thanks for letting our system learn” without a way to make an actual report. I’ve given up reporting scam/spam.

For a real kicker, I’ve reported a literal terrorist threat-like post, and it was still “pending” after a week.
Helko Guide to Axes
Yes, but that's much less likely to happen accidentally/implicitly, whereas accidentally leaking secret strings into logs etc. is extremely common.

It's not a silver bullet, but it doesn't need to be to radically improve security in practice.
Why not? Is it bad for the government to have money? Should they lose money on national parks or break even?
Exactlty. Everyone's freaking out over TikTok while conveniently ignoring the fact that our own social media companies have been doing the exact same shit for over a decade now.

This is why I reject any talk of regulating TikTok that doesn't apply equally to all social media.
No, in fact it is probably a complete waste of time - which makes it such a neat thing.
Just a small note on the shot-scraper post (very cool stuff!): You can use Array.from(xs, fn) instead of Array.from(xs).map(fn). Same semantics but it happens in one pass with less garbage.
> add sharpening to only clouds in the sky

Of all the dumb things in this thread, this has to be the pinnacle!

(Clouds are inherently fuzzy)
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1200/
One thing I didnt say was that technology producers like SAP and Oracle are disincentivized from transforming their products into glorified frontends to a shared public database. Such a change would drastically reduce the lock in they benefit from. Firms could be swapping accounting software like one can switch between Chrome and Firefox when surfing the web.

I see the revolution coming from newer entrants or a smaller big producer like Acumatica who can throw it on as a feature for existing clients, and as a value add to new clients (we are just a front end, leave us at any time if you dont like us!)

The world seems to not want to envision product categories where the user experience and database are two different providers.
If a star is halfway between two pixels, its brightness should be distributed evenly between both pixels so that the total emitted light from that area of your screen is the same as if it was all on one pixel. Applying a nonlinear function to the values will usually mess that up.
Frequentists define this as their challenge (and in very specific ways).

Some other subfields doing similar things don't.
Don't you need to turn it on?
I love those recall features (tagging and timeline). Too many chat apps are built for fire & forget messaging, with finding older messages as an afterthought (or not present at all).

Case in point, I was trying to find a message in my Google Hangouts chatting history today, and I just found out that it's now split between "chats", "spaces", and "legacy hangouts". Chats that I've made from (what appears to me as) the same place seem randomly spread between those three. What a pain if I need to try a few different keywords.
No, it hasn't always been this way. The "legacy news media" itself hasn't always been this way: 40 years ago, 50 or so companies controlled 90% of American media. Now, 6 companies control 90% of American media. "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy," just like all the newscasters simultaneously say on all the different channels at once. [0]

It's always been the case that Power tends to do whatever it wants, but Power is usually polite to other Powerful entities. When enough of them are at the same table, they tend to keep their elbows tucked in, but when it's too centralized people start talking about lebensraum.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
Same reason Nigerian 419 scammers continue to make it clear they're from Nigeria: If you're unaware enough not to know that "Nigeria" is a red flag for "scam," you're exactly the mark they want.
For some reason, everyone wants to hold TikTok to a higher standard than our own social media companies. Facebook, Instagram, et al have been running by the same playbook as TikTok for over a decade, but somehow the impact this has on adolescents only became a concern when the company doing it is Chinese.

If you want to lessen the impact of this crap on your kids, then you need to pass regulations that prevent all social media companies from doing it. Just banning the foreign ones does nothing but artificially prop up Facebook.
> There's no way that anyone who works on Siri actually uses Siri. The only thing it does reliably for me is set timers and alarms.

I suspect resources have been pulled with the realization that there's no real way to monetize people asking it to set timers, tell them the weather, or tell them what time the Rams game is on, which is about the extent of what most people use these things for.
If you netcat a ps file to the ip of the printer that should still work yes?
It’s the same reason why it’s always a Nigerian prince who needs you help in moving money out of the country.

If you’ve never heard of the Nigerian prince scam by now, you’re their target.

It’s unfortunate that these guys end up siphoning money from fixed-income seniors disproportionately more than any other demographic.
Of all the fonts I've used throughout my career, the one I love the most is JetBrains Mono. It's just perfect. I even use it in my terminal.
Sure, children going to the most competitive universities will probably have began prep work before the age of 8. I would guess that "Did my parents go to an elite university?" has far more predicting power for who will enter an elite university than "What was my dream job at age 10." Elite schools are designed to be attended by only a small fraction of the population, hence the term elite. For the rest of the population, going to a state university, community college, or even a technology trade school can lead to meaningful employment.
Apple Now Calling AR/VR Headset Operating System 'XrOS'
As I understand it, the problem is not so much the revenue they made for the government. The issue is that they are making a much higher (and recurring) revenue that they keep for themselves, for running a website that the government may have paid, or that - as you say - paid for itself already.
The last time I saw it was a couple months ago. (I can't say whether or not it continued, I stopped clicking into the trending bar around that time as a matter of unrelated principle that I didn't want my attention to be controlled by Twitter's idea of what's trending.)
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838556
iphones have it as a button on the lockscreen. Double tap opens apple pay and long hold opens siri. Wish I could swap out siri for camera tbh.
You can do anything at puter.com, anything at all
720p isn't half 1080p, it's a quarter because you're halving resolution on both axes.
Side effects are a type of defined behavior. Crashing is not a "side effect" in C terms.
playing in the terminal, I don't think it has a compiler or python or curl. Stupid question maybe, is there a way to install anything?
Actually it seems every app is just a browser window, so you can create an app that points to puter.com, and you'll have puter inside of puter.

It's pretty cool, but I can't think of what this would be useful for. Presumably, you need a sophisticated desktop OS that can run a modern web browser in order to use this. And that OS is likely more useful than this.
I like https://www.windows93.net/ better. More retro!
They specifically said they wouldn’t take the money and run in their TOS, so they’re well and thoroughly screwed on that front.

As I said, dump truck of legos.
I remember about about 15-20 years ago, I noticed that a bunch of spam emails would open using multiple disjointed snippets of public-domain poetry before the dodgy links to try and get around these sorts of filters. I used to love reading through them to see a few words of Yeats jammed together with a bit of Coleridge or something, looking at it as some sort of weird outsider art.
The IBM S390 HMC (Hardware Management Console) is basically a thinkpad bolted on the massive S390 case.
I keep on forgetting that shortcut, thanks!
In Britain we usually write "2 December" or "2nd December" even though it's spoken as "the second of December". The words are often slurred together, "the second've December" or "th'second've December"; "the thirtieth've April".

Actually pronouncing it carefully with a clear "of" emphasizes the date, either for clarity or because it's otherwise important.
I'm not sure if you're directing that at me. We're saying the same thing.
Sounds like you want font hinting but for vector graphics.
I would argue that the better solution to the first problem is to set strict data hygiene standards to which all social media companies must adhere.

The fact that TikTok has ties to the CCP is simply another data point supporting the need for such regulations.
Snaps continue to puzzle me. I have shifted away from Ubuntu (partially because of the attitude attached to pushing snaps) and so I pay less attention than I might have done previously - but I've never seen anyone from Canonical offer a compelling argument for what benefits snaps offer. Most of the notional benefits of bundled app tools like snap and flatpak have either been refuted or have balancing downsides, so what is left? Just continuing to do it out of stubbornness is a really sad but seemingly quite likely possibility.
Article is paywalled so I haven't read it, but surely the reason is not that smartphones are better than cameras as being cameras. The reason is that a) smartphones are good enough cameras for most purposes (e.g. people were happy with 110 film cameras in the 1970s) and b) people already paid for and are carrying a smartphone so they need a compelling reason to also buy and carry a camera (see (a)).
Sorry of rude to ask for a quality argument without providing one yourself.
Maybe you should just stick to email then.
> The programmer of Rensenware accidentally infected himself, and found that he was unable to get the necessary score.

Brilliant.
Is it a “paper town”. That is, a mistake they do intentionally to catch copiers?
Actually, you don't even need to go that far, because once you get sufficient coverage of the S&P you're incredibly well correlated.
Wasn't the spelling itself ringing an alarm bell?
Regarding the prompt on how to build a nuclear bomb, answering that accurately isn't dangerous because a) the technical obstacles (obtaining fissile fuel, safe handling of that fuel, chemical explosives, etc.) are so high that the person asking isn't going to be able to build one, and b) the basics are very well understood by the [techie] public.
Twitter definitely stopped feeling impartial in its treatment of information around 2012 or so. I guess it wasn't a conspiracy theory after all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838636
>Also for some my phone screen show as a black screen when using my polarized sunglasses

If you rotate your phone 90° you'll be able to see the screen.
> That's called a Local Area Network, or LAN. Not internet.

Technically it's an internet when the cable runs between two distinct networks. But the point is that it all ran on the same principle in the early days.

> That was not the 'Internet' either. That was ARPAnet, which is also not the same as 'the internet'.

You originally said "the net". Which in the early days would generally have meant UUCPNET (itself an informal concept) or even just the vaguer notion of "all the computers that are connected one way or another to each other". Either way, it remains something that was well developed long before 1993.

> Let me tell you about backbone connections then. If those go down, basically everyone's internet is down. Depends on which ones, which goes hand in hand with your comment here; but ultimately if the right backbones connections go down, it may as well be a shut down of the entire internet since many areas won't be able to access other areas networks

If you cut enough connections then you can disconnect the net, cutting it into two or more pieces (and on a small enough scale that happens all the time, as computers on the edge with only one connection do that). But no single connection is an essential part of the net; the concept of a "backbone" is something we use to try to understand the network, not an actual distinction between different types of connection. The US government ran major high-bandwidth connections; without them the net would have been a lot slower and more congested. But it would still have worked; messages still got through eventually when the "backbones" were down.

> There are caveats I admit, but the point here is that the internet is not quite as failure redundant as you seem to think it is. If it was, we would have cellular backhaul being used to ensure that at least basic connections can be made for information purposes and emergencies. But that would require world wide 5G and 6G cellular to be used. Which I guarantee you would not be free.

You can make your connection to the internet more reliable by connecting to more different nodes - whether by traditional wires, radio, or something else. (Although these days they'll probably charge you for it). That's how the core of the network works - lots of "peers" connected to each other - and always has, and that's why any single network (even the US government) can go down and not take the whole internet with it.

> Nothing, is free.

Do you believe it's impossible to have a free potluck picnic? Ultimately it has always taken labour and material to run the net, but in the early days that happened noncommercially and without charging people. Unless you define "free" so narrowly that nothing is free by definition, which would make it a rather useless concept, the net was free.
I have a feeling that social media and video streaming probably replaced casual on the go gaming. It's more addictive.