skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To build on what others are saying about Emacs, if you start exploring the package ecosystem, you're going to see quite a lot of really interesting packages that are related to improving/experimenting with the UX of editing text. While I'm not endorsing anyone in particular, I think what this list does show is just how easy it is to do pretty much whatever you want in Emacs;

https://karthinks.com/software/avy-can-do-anything/

https://github.com/jyp/boon

https://github.com/clemera/objed

https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow/

https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys

https://github.com/Kungsgeten/ryo-modal

https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode

Emacs 29 also now has treesitter and LSP mode integration built-in, a compilation mode, a comint mode for REPLs, excellent file browsing packages (I use dired/dirvish), and a few other killer features.

Now, if what you truly dislike are "quirky editors", prepare yourself for a world of hurt because vanilla Emacs departs quite a bit from "modern" text editors. I struggled with this for a while, but eventually by buying into the paradigm, I now feel that when emacs tries emulating "modern" IDE features like autocompletion, LSP, and DAP UI, I feel like it's a regression, not a progression. The point here is that you might have an "idea" of what good initial UX and lack of quirks would look like, but Emacs might change the way you think.
My issue here is with the word "confident". It's a program. It's as confident as Excel is with date parsing, meaning it's completely neutral about it. It just does its thing.

We attribute this "confident" adjective to the result, not because it outputs a confidence interval, but because it uses language and we associate that with human traits.

Even technical people get tricked, I read and heard some very emotional responses to what it outputs. Sometime people got angry that it was "not honest" or "trying to weasel out of the answer". Personally, I caught myself several times trying to prove it wrong.

That's just missing the point of what it is.
previous discussion:

march 2021
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26470532
hydrogen worsens the impact of methane in the atmosphere and as such simply pumping hydrogen through existing infrastructure sounds pretty dangerous.

https://theconversation.com/dont-rush-into-a-hydrogen-econom...

https://agage.mit.edu/publications/global-environmental-impa...

more skeptically, given that green hydrogen remains a pipe dream, it's both a useful delaying tactic for switching to electricity and furthering investment in fossil fuels, which must stay in the ground if we are to have any hope of staying below 1.5c.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-fuels-incompatible-wi...
That is so true

The more I look into Gamedev the more it looks like a very ungrateful and daunting task

You can put all your energy (and money) into a game and it might just... flop

With a startup you can always try to pivot, or make something of what was developed. And your costs with creative productions (which are harder to reuse) are much smaller.
Ask HN: What are the chances of a foreign student converting OPT to H1B?
My friend is an English major and getting her teaching doctorate. In a top 50 school, What are the odds of converting an TA position into a full time associate professor position?
I can promise you that in a decade of doing this, I've made my fair share of mistakes as a maintainer. There's a learning curve to everything, and maintainer burnout is a real thing, too.

i3 should definitely work on BSD, there are a few awesome folk that regularly send patches when we broke something. I don't have experience with it myself though.
that's because the dutch had a massive social movement to completely reorganize their transportation infrastructure and bulldoze segregated bicycle paths through the entire cityscape, it was called "Stop Child Murders"

https://www.dutchreach.org/car-child-murder-protests-safer-n...
In principle, the advertisers could buy Google shares and influence the company's policy towards an equilibrium that is more favourable to advertisers. If a natural monopoly is a public company, the entities that depend on this company could buy shares and bend the company's actions towards their interests. Is this happening? If not, why not?
self-replicating*
I'd agree that they are "dominant", and that legal authorities should watch Amazon closely for specific violations, but they only control 35-40% of the online consumer retail market (by most estimates circa 2022).
Agreed. I don't mention anything about inflation proof. Rather, it should be clarified as a reference to monetary inflation. Inflation happens for many reasons, and even monetary inflation could happen here as the circulation grows to reach its supply cap.

There are no pegs, and especially no pegs to any other currency. It's a free floating currency, but the money supply is capped to the number of verified users/accounts.
> It is used for displaying a search result in a table which has like a million rows. Since it is not possible to actually show all the entries, the image instead is placed in a scrollable div and the scroll position is used as a reference for which part of the results to show.
And on a 300dpi screen it's a little over 1.5km only. ;)

Not a daily WTF at all
I am an atheist ex-Catholic. The big atheist-leftist crowd in my college town are intensely more violent, toxic, and racist than local Catholics or Lutherans. Lack of religious belief is no guarantee of kindness or rationality, nor is the presence of faith a strong signal of evil.
Sure, it's tilck that doesn't implement it. :)
Really? No retailer has ever let a competitor advertise on their platform and store brands have always been a thing across retail.

Poor little Walmart is much larger than Amazon in terms of revenue and profit.
tell that to white people in Kenya or South Africa... I don't have the link handy right now, but I read they are routinely in danger of rape/murder because of anti-white hate.
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. Some questions may be a bit heavy for a first date and some are perfectly reasonable. You would need to use your judgement and see what feels acceptable for the situation :)
I am curious, did you look at "continuation marks" too?
https://reason.com/2009/02/06/a-whiff-of-grape/

https://whiff-of-grape.ca/about/

Carlyle & David Starr Jordan, pantheoners (and creative citationists) of the Californian Ideology
And how many funders, seeing that unicorns are illusions bound for failure in a market where anti trust is enforced, would invest in better and more stable start ups worth actual real-world business plans?
And Google Workspaces is a nothingburger in its market and you choose its major competitor..
Hi Ian ;),

It depends on what let determine the order. Hiring experience and available content, I wholeheartedly agree with your list.

But if we order by performance/memory efficiency, A single threaded, (eager), library simply will be no comparison and should not top that list. In every TPCH query we ran, polars is orders of magnitudes faster than pandas.

https://www.pola.rs/benchmarks.html

Interopability with legacy systems should not be a concern. Polars is backed by arrow memory and arrow is becoming the default data transformation layer. Other than that, you can easily convert to pandas or numpy. That single copy is often no comparison with the time lost in a pandas join. Polars and pandas can work hand in hand, you don't have to fully replace one.

It is 2023, polars is used in production and is here to stay. IMO it should seriously be considered if performance and consistency is important to you.
> full of pedantic tripe like that.

Ah here was me thinking this was an uncontroversial and enjoyable discussion on HN.

Anyways. Once again, just to underline what I wrote before - my comment wasn’t supposed to suggest that there was a golden age of Elysian harmony in the pastoral landscape of Europe, somehow superior to the ‘terrible’ existence we have now, with our hospitals, antibiotics, electronic gadgets, space travel etc.

Over the last few years there’ve been quite a few studies linked on HN that have begun to give a nuanced image of life in the ‘Dark Ages’ - albeit one that was ravaged by conflict and disease.

I thought these interiors gave another dimension to this new perspective. That’s all my post was about.
> Or none at all. Or ones for people in a select group.

Bureaucrats do this too. See the history of communism in Europe, or present state of communism in China. Centralized welfare is a centralized system of control in the hands of politicians.
Are humans able to produce truely novel content, ever ? I’d say in a given field, it maybe occurs once in a decade and we call those people genius. It’s a bit too much to ask to an AI don’t you think ?
Yeah, but we're now seeing the same problem with "innovation" as we've been suffering from wrt. "profit" for the past several decades - that is, neither "profit" nor "innovation" are a function of being nice and good for the customers, the society or the world. They are at best somewhat aligned - but once all those profitable/innovative and also good ideas were picked, we're left with pursuing profit/innovation that has negative impact on the world.

And so, the main innovation of the most successful startups in the last ~decade was in ways of breaking into and destroying (er, "disrupting") markets that before were just fine - not perfect, but at least sustainable.
The PR is coming from one of the core maintainers, so yes, it will be accepted.

It doesn't just implement this specific feature, though. It provides a more general approach for i3bar that enables this and many other use cases. This struck us as a good and flexible solution we can get behind.
Observation: there exists a few companies whose market positions are very close to monopolies and where the government isn't doing anything that has actual effect.

I don't think it is an issue with enforcement alone, but with laws that do not sufficiently obligate enforcement. Such laws are not created because politicians are corrupt.

Concluding that regulation dosn't help when what we're observing is non-enforcement is a bit disingenuous. If I'm being charitable.
> Islamic art can be studied while still being sensitive to Islamic law.

Which version of Islam and which Islamic laws though?

I assume the point of showing the specific image in question, sourced from the Jami' al-tawarikh, was to point out that here was an historic and significant Islamic history text commissioned by an Islamic state that contained .. ( <gasp>, <shock>, <horror> ) an image of Muhammad.

This is what happens in history classes, I hope somewhere a similar class is being taught that sainted Catholic nuns once prepared and admistered abortifacients (substances used to terminate pregnancy) as an example of the changing nature of religuous views and morals.
Edit as this is flagged by many people already: My opinion is all art and historical text should be discussed and talked about. Apparently an attempt to share the context is not very appreciated here.

No horse in the race but I find it important to try to understand the perspective from all sides.

Apparently its similar to showing a swastika or hail hitler. People have been punished for that as well: https://www.thefire.org/cases/george-washington-university-j...
One thing to remember is that LLM produce plausible answers, not true answers.

So, a question along the lines of "when did XXX happen?" should be answered with something that looks like "XXX happened on YYY" - but the YYY just needs to be anything that looks like a date to be a plausible answer.

There's a great example in this paper (posted to hackernews earlier) - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-022-09602-0

GPT-3 prompted to truthfully continue ‘John Prescott was born’ outputs ‘in Hull on June 8th 1941.’. The probabilities for other possible continuations show that Hull is by far the most plausible continuation for GPT-3

The problem is, John Prescott was born in Prestatyn. But the language model has "compressed" everything it knows about John Prescott and the most commonly associated town with John Prescott is "Hull" as that's where he was an MP.
I suppose it would be akin to a difficult to spot false positive where the person who decided (say, customs) doubles down and you end up having to argue your case.
A company may not be able to increase prices as much as inflation eats. Eg, in 6 percent inflation, if you raise prices by 6%, it may result in customers shrinking their purchases by equivalent, or even larger amount. So after the price hike you could be worse off. That is the reason most companies often raise prices slowly in small increments over the months or years.
It's incredibly sad seeing Shia extremism making its way to North America. This was only a few months ago too. What's even scarier about this case was that the Iranian government issued a fatwa on the victim in 1989, and then Iranian state media celebrated the attack 30 years later.
I'm nowhere near qualified enough to make a comment on that in 2023. But standing by my point about 20 years ago.
Thus apparently extends to gender or rather sexuality as well recently.
I've been banned for asking why my sexuality - heterosexual, is excluded, actually not even asked why but if a flag representing my sexuality existed, since there were a bunch of flags that represented every possible spectrum, even asexuality.

I am not at all racist, my best friend has dark skin, but I also can't help but notice that on social networks there's always that black* group/tag/community never do you see white,red, yellow, only ever black.
I do find that quite racist and exclusive.
If we're all the same, why does such distinction exist?
At one point I had a working glx(opengl using a x11 transport) setup, In short the X client(running on a remote machine) would send it's opengl stream down the network and the X server would render it using it's GPU. It was pretty cool to see accelerated graphics for a program running at the far end of a ssh session.

When sgi ported gl to X11(glx) they were very careful to use only the network transparent communication paths. The idea was you would run your program on the supercomputer down the hall and display it on your badass graphics monster of a sgi workstation. The feature has only worked intermittently since then as future maintainers were not so careful.

edit: I found a guide, no idea if it still works, The feature was always rather niche and fragile.

http://whiteboard.ping.se/Linux/GLX
She really should apply for other jobs.

Academia is notoriously difficult to find work in. Particularly full time .
It also seems a lot to Spanish croquetas. But the Japanese version seems to use potatoes instead of Bechamel sauce.

https://www.google.com/search?q=croquetas+de+ternera&oq=croq...
And in a world where competition is allowed to see its course, Instagram would have disappeared. And further down the line, Facebook's poor decisions would have spelled oblivion for them too.

It also means the 2010s may have perhaps seen investors print billions into businesses that actually matter and deliver real innovation
Who are your users? Are they on mobile? Are they using a tablet or a laptop?

Are they private or business consumers?

There is not enough information to answer this question. Build for where your users are and build where you can get it done the fastest.

Have you talked to your target users? If not, do so before you build anything. Don't pitch but talk about the problem space your idea is in. This isn't guarantee for success but you will get a better understanding.

Regarding project complexity: Make it as little complex as possible but as much as needed. An MVP should solve exactly one problem. It doesn't need to be fancy, but it should look okay. But again, lot of this depends on the field you are in, your target customers/audience and so on.
Nitpick: Gwern proposes this as a "plausible explanation" and does not make a definitive claim.
At least that swastika thing was on a bulletin board in a dorm, I think it would be much harder to object to one being shown in context in a history class, for example.
It costs real money to take the most powerful MacBook Air, improve the screen (refresh rate and multitouch) and storage, move the motherboard from base to screen, make the keyboard optional and detachable, and add cellular connectivity, all in a smaller form factor, while as reliable, instantly ready to use, and as it-just-works as an appliance.

Note that removing the keyboard where 'slate' is the first class modality, is enough of a UX shift apps should be designed 'slate first' to not upset buyers who paid $3,300 with tax.

As for "stuck with", well, web works, O365 works, Affinity creative suite works with pencil no less, and remote dev experiences work, to name a few.

Meanwhile this thread can be browsed like a magazine while lying on a couch, with responses typed like a Blackberry.
Islam isn’t a country. It’s an ideology that can be practiced by anyone.
> Citing your IQ is cringe

Agreed. Doing so would indicate that the authors "Social IQ" is approaching zero.
Perhaps the bigger question is, should purportedly liberal institutions feel obliged to implement their own version of Islamic apostasy law, as is the case here?
I really was hoping that this Tilck is a microkernel, otherwise i don't see any point compared to Free or NetBSD.

But maybe it's just there because it's fun...and that's absolutely ok.
I don't know which side of the argument you are taking. Yes, I totally think that the SJW went too far, and I think that those blocking ActivityPub servers on the grounds of "this server uses software written by a 'bad' person, therefore the admin is guilty by association" is one example of that.
This is happening regardless of our desires. The best we can do is to be prepared and have the tools not available to only the most powerful few, but to ordinary people as well.
It’s an arbitrary restriction and would probably take 2 lines of code to fix it.

There are third party tools that have fixed it, namely Duet Display
Yes and I take issue with that, $phobia isn't wrong just because of the power imbalance. Further these aren't monolithic entities, the power distributed between people is unequal. I've been denied a job because they were looking for a manageress (by a woman), who has the power in that situation?

If you want me to treat you equally, you need to hold us both as equals, anything less is hypocrisy.
Points heard - I've been down this road, too.

Contracts & debt can be specified in any currency, including a private one, even if taxes have to be marked to a national currency at the end of the year. But still a question of why adopt it?

A private currency, to get adopted, would have to be as good as a national one, plus more. UBI might help that cause. No transaction fees might be another. Stability without interventions, a 3rd? Accessible to informal economies?

Issues to overcome with each.
From this map, no:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/dk-graph...
This isn't Western art, it's classical Persian art, done by Muslims for Muslims. This is beyond stupid, it's plain fanaticism. These students should be sent to Iran or Afghanistan to get their feelings right. I have absolutely no patience for this sort of fascism disguised as victimisation.
It is not prohibited by the Quran at all, at least I’ve never found a reference in the Quran that indicates that it is forbidden. Please do correct me if I’m wrong, it’s been many years since I last read the Quran.

The Bible however, does actually forbid it: Exodus 20:4

I seem to remember that Jehovas Witnesses actually practice this as they take the words of the Bible literally.

I’m by no way an expert on theology, mainly interested on a hobby level, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
> the anti-establishment startup world

A "start-up" is a commercial company, intending to make money by selling products and services, and typically invested with large sums by individual or institutional capitalists.

In other words, it is the opposite of anti-establishment; at most, it might be antagonistic to the established providers of the relevant products or services.
If you want representation for red-skinned people you should go to the popular tourist spots in Spain and find some British people. Outside of that I don't think there are many people who'd identify themselves that way.
And remember, it's gonna be like that forever from now on. The genie is out, people will cling into housing forever and ever. Unless thermonuclear war happens, housing is and will be the number 1 investment forever.
I'll give you the health costs and climate costs but the costs of accidents are paid by drivers through their insurance premiums.
Maybe, but the potential health benefits mentioned in the article are more impressive than either:

People who cycle to work have a 45 per cent lower risk of developing cancer, and a 46 per cent lower risk of cardiovascular disease.
We have separation of religion for a lot of things.

Schools should be too ( only partial now)
Alan Turing? I think I remember reading about that in the Hodges bio.

Edit: Yep, Turing - https://www.iflscience.com/alan-turing-buried-his-life-savin...
Inheritance is nowadays almost considered a bad practice, in fact newer languages, such as Rust, doesn't support it, and in languages that has it (Java, C#, etc) nowadays they always tell you to prefer composition over inheritance.

> using a function pointer has unnecessary overhead

This is true, it's inefficient. But for a lot of application, also irrelevant at performance level, and would provide a good abstraction.
> When implementing an algorithm as a computer program by means of some kind of formal language (including those based on recursive functional programming paradigms), we must introduce specific data and code structures, their properties and interactions, as well as the set of operations we are allowed to perform on them, in order to represent the objects and relations that are relevant for our computation. In other words, we must provide a precisely defined ontology on which the program can operate deductively, e. g., by drawing inferences or by ordering tasks for solving a given problem. In an algorithmic framework, novelty can only be represented combinatorially: it manifests as new combinations, mergers, and relations between objects in a (potentially vast, but predefined) space of possibilities. This means that an algorithm cannot discover or generate truly novel properties or relations that were not (at least implicitly) considered in its original ontology. Therefore, an algorithm operating in a deductive manner cannot jury-rig, since it cannot find new causal properties of an object that were not already inherent in its logical premises.

This argument is not convincing to me. In fact, there seem to be real world counterexamples to their argument. If the AI agent is operating, on say, text, why is that space “potentially vast, but predefined”? A text stream of arbitrary length is arbitrarily vast. An AI agent could, conceivably, define new ontologies textually. As an example, this person used ChatGPT to invent a new language: https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/i-taught-chatgpt-to-inv...

That strikes me as an example of generating “truly novel properties or relations that were not (at least implicitly) considered in its original ontology,” albeit in a rudimentary way.
Just one more reason why we shouldn't care. A person's freedom to practice Islam does not imply an obligation from me to give any remote fuck.
This is a nonsensical conclusion because obviously the Muslim world doesn’t perceive western art in this way. I do think there is a distinct difference between expecting respect from people that you share space with. Someone will surely reply about the violence some people partake in. Violence is never okay and is the route of maybe 0.5% of people, so I think basing how you interact with an entire demographic of people on that is myopic.