skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many code bases do you have to maintain when you want your UI to be available as both a desktop app and a webapp?

How many frontend developers are available for JS vs Java?

Is the JS bundle size that important when it comes to a desktop app? How does it compare to a jar file?

These are just a few of the questions that play into people's decisions.
Ban PDFs?
No. Size of algorithm is unrelated to security.
Nobody was excluded in my country but America going insane was COMPLETELY missed by almost every expert and America watcher.

It was funny how suddenly all the journalists started to report from Kentucky or Alabama instead of Fifth avenue.
As the media it is your job to explain how the world works.
San Jose is doing more to becoming a true city than other cities in the US. Hence the article itself.
I think you're on the right track. Personal screens consume so much time. Many of us defend it as just killing time, or researching, or keeping abreast of things but it eats up more than that until the average person feels harried and barely able to keep up. I know that's true for me.
My mom used to license and regulate nursing homes. When in a licensing action for a particularly bad one, the owner cried poverty, blah blah.

During the hearing where his license was getting revoked, he literally requested an emergency recess, during which closed on a deal where he bought an assisted living/nursing home complex, with his son as the license holder for the nursing home.

People like this exist and are the lowest scum.
Stadia was amazing—sad it ended.
There’s an handful of people Ukraine and Russia who services a specific model of 16mm cameras. I just don’t know how much longer these film cameras will be around.
The reference paper says it's MB40: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36646104/
ARM wants to use the extra bits for memory tagging. A feature that would allow detecting C memory bugs.
What's the Rube Goldberg device, the Fediverse, Mastodon, or Wildebeest? And do you think this is more so than other open Internet service designs?
yes I use it on macOS as well. I'm writing this on my Mac.

I am an active independent user group member. This isn't just about startups and big tech who are actually fairly low on seat counts. There are huge numbers lots of us corporate dystopias using this stack. On Windows. And you'll have never heard of any of us.
> it's worth pointing out that most AAA games now come with an incredibly invasive anti-cheat suite that violates your computer's security and thoroughly violates your privacy.

Which is why I stopped playing AAA games. I'm fine with avoiding them and having a machine I can actually control.
>> some of them were 38+ and saying they're thinking about having kids soon; there's like a 25% chance that ship has already sailed,

> 25% is nonsense.

Yes, I think it's worse than that.

"A woman in her early to mid-20s has a 25–30% chance of getting pregnant every month. Fertility generally starts to reduce when a woman is in her early 30s, and more so after the age of 35. By age 40, the chance of getting pregnant in any monthly cycle is around 5%."
(https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtrea...)
I think square, circle, octagon would make the most sense. Or maybe diamond (rotated square) instead of octagon. That way adjacent stone would always touch.
Something like this, but for VHS (aka something better than a simple filter), would be amazing
Google is institutionally incapable of producing software that doesn't track its users over the internet.

One example is the stock calculator app on Android, which according to their privacy statement may track your app interactions, device id, and email. Like what if users actually subtract more than they add or something.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.google....

Or the wallpapers they include on your phone - you guessed it!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.google....

If that's the kind of environment you work in I'm not surprised this proposals seems modest by comparison.
But google (nor bing) return the pages you're looking for even close to as reliably now as they did before. If Microsoft can somehow work out the issues with factual accuracy in the gpt interface (and salvage the bing brand) they're going to have a winning product on their hands.
Popular websites don't get to co-opt my computing device before I am able to establish policies about what behaviour I find acceptable.
Your take is cold, or lukewarm at worst.

The language is getting complicated.
One of the values of having a free, public facing API is that it discourages folks from reverse engineering your private API, the one your UI uses.

Removal like this will just push folks back to those "unofficial" libraries, won't it?
There is a lot of credible motive for the fascist russia. First, make allies distrust each other, sabotaging their unity. Second, create panic among the EU population, hoping for increased pressure to lift the sanctions and stop support of Ukraine defending their homeland. Third, force the issue with pending legal approvals for the remaining new pipeline.

Fortunately, EU managed to store up plenty of gas and the winter was mild, so russian blackmail has failed.
Google's Bard AI bot mistake wipes $100B off shares
>The "issue" isn't always a political one.

It's political because JK Rowling actively donates to enact political change for anti-trans legislation. It isn't the case that the recent hysteria is because JK Rowling dislikes trans people.
Program size has not shrunk though.

3.9M static binary for 2.84

9.0M static binary for 4.0.0
A lot of those dropped lines of code is gonna be lines which only contain }.
Personally, I would take it a step further. Even if there is a non-zero statistical chance that it causes cancer, I think there has to be some room to ask whether the benefits outweigh the costs. To some, low food prices in a world of food shortages may very well merit some non-zero chance of cancer. Grown-up societies make these kinds of trade-offs all the time. A speed limit of 10 miles an hour would result in fewer dead than 55 mph. As a society, we are willing to sacrifice some non-zero number of people given the increase in time and convenience associated with the higher speed limit. This is, to most people, an acceptable trade-off. On the other hand, you have the hand-wringers arguing "even one life" is too many, and then driving home at 55 mph.
Absolutely agree with this statement.
A Flash screen at installtime that logging is on an you can disable it in the settings.

Would that be enough for you?
haha yeah, there is a certain phrasing that just lights up from space... another similarity is the amount of projects written in go that just so happen to be "self contained in a single executable with no shared lib deps!!" (wonder why that is) :)
Yeah I argree, making a new lang for a vm runtime doesn’t make as much sense when rust is right there, because the vm itself has a lot of baggage and limitations (OOP baked in, start up time,etc). The dotnet team seems to be moving mountains to squeeze more performance out of the VM, which is awesome, but how much further can it go?
To Raise or Not to Raise
Again though, the dollars (and pound, and euro) are already overwhelmingly digital. I already don't carry cash on me, and make payments digitally.

You don't need a new currency to allow removal of cash.
You seem doubtful that there will be a lot more progress. It's been well documented how much progress we have been through and how many new paradigms have arisen when we think we can't progress.

It's spectacularly short-sighted, in my opinion, to assume that we won't make progress.

Also, some of the prompted or fine-tuned LLMs today are actually very close.
Did I say they were invalid, or that I no longer trust him and would need to corroborate with other sources? I swear people on the left either have really bad reading comprehension, or just make a habit of twisting and distorting other peoples' words as a default tactic. I'm leaning towards the latter explanation at the moment, though I go back and forth.
Thank you! The Reddit mod thing was really just supposed to be a catalyst for some of the ideas I had about group size limits, not really the point of the article. Though I WAS a little annoyed by the mods lol.

Edit: rereading your comment this is a very good summary of my article and maybe I should have put something like this up front to stave off the inevitable focus on Reddit mods…
You keep claiming it’s political when it isn’t. The mod feels personally that JKR is bad and lashes out on a website to hurt other people. They aren’t protesting the legal status of trans people. They aren’t demanding changes to health care policy. They are saying some rich celebrity is bad and fuck you if you enjoy that person’s creation.

It’s all about personal feelings and has nothing to do with politics. What role does JKRs crusade against the trans community have to do with politics? Does she hold office or set policy?

Unless you’re loosely defining politics as an umbrella term for personal beliefs which makes your initial response moot.
> Either you are in denial or a whole field of science is wrong.

The value of the advice to "man up," is that there exists a good way to be and you have to make some basic effort to help yourself before others will help you.

The field in question is psychology and its appendant body, psychiatry, who you may remember from such treatments as trepanation, lobotomy, chemical castration, solitary confinement, valium, re-parenting, diagnoses like hysteria, and the APA's most recent forfeit of any remaining credibility with "toxic masculinity" - to say nothing of what it is doing to actual children in the last decade.

To be clear, psychology isn't a science, it's a critical theory of mind. It uses drugs, dresses itself up in some limited statistics from "social science" and prances in front of the mirror saying it's doing chemistry and biology. Therapy and drugs help some people by reducing their suffering, but it's a pretext, not an empirical inquiry into the nature of matter.
>The blue-collar construction workers and farmers that I know all thought the lockdowns were stupid and ignored the rules. Financial stability or lack thereof was not the reason.

I really don't want to wade into this tarpit but it was most certainly financial stability for those that I know.
The transition from .NET Framework to .NET Core and then to .NET 5+ was rough on F#, but it's been a net positive in the end. The .NET SDK and thus F# is one of the easiest things to install on nearly machine.
What features would the average user miss out on? I'd go back to win7 in a heartbeat if I could, and I really don't remember a great difference between XP and 7 to begin with.
Were there prominent engineers making this claim or just the mainstream media that doesn't understand systems engineering?
> That even that inconsistent Bin Laden story

Worth noting that both the White House and the New York Times walked back inconsistent claims they made in the days after bin Laden's death. So the White House and Times were self-admittedly inconsistent about it. If Hersh is inconsistent it is in that light.

Hersh pokes holes in different points of the official narrative. Particularly the idea no one high up in the Pakistani government knew bin Laden was in the compound. Contradicting the White House, but very convincing to me and others.

However, to be fair to you, Hersh goes into a great deal of detail about the initial intelligence, the raid etc. Was any part of that wrong or inconsistent? It's hard to know. He didn't just make a few statements but went into a lot of detail. So there could theoretically be inconsistencies in Hersh's reporting about it too, since he covered so much ground. It is hard to know though. You just take what the White House said, what Hersh says, what the Pakistani press says and try to figure out what actually happened.
Maybe I am thick but I am not sure I got your point. You mean he would wait 2min off the runway? Why, vortex created by larger planes?
Yes, I shouldn't have to deal with this on a close to $1k device. But ~500mb or so of wasted storage is also not the end of the world.
I don't know if it's the case that

1. All people who really want to be managers are good managers

Or even

2. Best managers really want to be managers

To put it another way, a lot of people would rather be IC than managers. Not all of those people would be bad managers. In fact some of those might be the best managers.

Or to put it yet another way. Everybody wants to tinker. Managing is a pain. And the higher up, the fewer of the sane people would want it :-)
• "Stalking the Wily Hacker" is about Cliff Stoll, a physicist at UC Berkley who invented cybersecurity after noticing that a few cents were missing from the computer lab. This story is WILD.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h7rLHNXio8

• The "graphing calculator story" is about how a crazy dev snuck into Apple every day for a year to create the beloved plotting app for MacOS.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl643JFJWig
Add yellow mustard and soy sauce.

It's still an acquired taste.
Looking for things to dislike makes you miserable.
Except that's false. These LLMs can easily be tuned or prompted to say just about anything you want them to. It's only the systems that have large investment in guardrails that do that. But there is nothing about the bet that says you have to use one of those guardrail systems.
So the U.S. nukes aren't "Made in China"?
Yes, this kind of thing is common in mutex and other concurrency primitive implementations. You can store the lock's owner (an aligned pointer) and some bits about if any reader is waiting for the lock; that kind of thing.
When someone calls essentially half the population as "reprobates" and "racists", then please explain how my tone and my response is inappropriate? It is more than appropriate! It is far past time to call out that the actual demons are those who spend their time dishonestly demonizing others.
Yes you're right. Unfortunately while using things for like I keep standing in the poop on the shed carpet.
Tell that to the Armenians that Erdogan's good friend Ilham Aliyev wants to genocide (and that only Putin's Russia will defend)
Unity3D is probably one of the most widely used cross platform native app development platforms, and it’s taking c# .net code to Linux, macOS, android, iOS and browsers via wasm.
In scheme, (= (+ (/ 2 10) (/ 1 10)) (/ 3 10)) is #t.
This is interesting:

> However, the impact of salinity on the difference in sea level between the Atlantic and Pacific sides of the Panama Canal is also relatively small, as differences in salinity in the canal are primarily caused by fresh water inputs from rivers and rainfall, rather than differences in ocean salinity.

Surely "differences in salinity in the canal" are not what's relevant to the sea level on each side and how much impact ocean salinity has on that.

A fine example, I suggest, of how it does not understand things; it just spews out plausible strings of words.
Are you saying loading spinners will be the signature of our time?
I was trying to be coy, sorry! We don’t have anything to announce at this time.

You can follow us on Twitter or Instagram for updates.
Sorry, but I don't care if you ban my account. I have absolutely zero connections to this account or its username and would just simply create another account if it did get banned.
That's how they presented their argument. It can be presented both ways depending on how you want to promote it.
> it's just a committed improviser with a big (enormous) catalog of text samples to reference when composing a creative dialog with you.

That's a great description!

When feeling generous, I've called it "a sentence generator and idea exploration assistant".

As for my uncharitable take: it's "a first-rate bullshit generator".
Stack Machines and Where to Find Them
Quick blogpost about recursion, stack machines, and macros.

As always, all feedback is welcome!
> but open source one does not support it yet.

Is this on the roadmap?
The only platform that doesn't tend to is Windows?

I believe that is correct. It is an obscure thing to even consider and prone to blocking legit systems but useful if one has Ansible scripts to enable "Threatcon Alpha" so to speak when under an attack and even then I only use that on specific ports. It's less common these days for any of my nodes to take on attacks as I mostly share my unpopular opinions here now.

Another Windows vs Linux/Mac default is the packet TTL. Linux/Mac/BSD is 64 and Windows is 128. This is only useful in TCP as it decrements in UDP but useful to see some bots that set really high TTL's. There is an IPTables module to make decisions based on TTL.
There's thousands of years of history of women playing men in plays, and men playing women.
It's fine right ? Life gives you many choices.
We are not your children to be nannied and taken decisions on behalf of!

Until you can defend yourselves, you are.
I don’t think that’s a fair characterisation.

I am for instance not and have never been a twat and have disliked most of the discourse there and certainly resented the disproportionate amount of attention the twats got.

However, I had and have little reason to trust that Musk won’t make twitter into simply a different kind of hell. He certainly said as much with all his (ultimately) fake “free speech” stance.

Basically just because a thing is bad doesn’t mean it can’t get worse.

If Musk manages to make twitter irrelevant though I’ll thank him for it.
Organized labor is a mindset - management is the enemy, you are at war, their goals are not your goals. Why do you as a worker care about a problem employee? Are you feeling pressured to pick up the slack he leaves? Don't let management abuse you that way. Leave it undone. Are you personally invested in the smooth functioning of the store? Don't be. That's management's problem.

I think as engineers we like optimizing things. It feels almost intrinsically desirable for systems we encounter to be running well. And that gives us a level of sympathy for management's needs and goals that most unionized workers would interpret as betrayal.
Hm... I don't know of any. For precalculus it wouldn't make sense, since the whole point of precalculus is to make sure learners can do the `solve`, `factor`, `expand`, etc. verbs using pen and paper. These are generally useful skills whenever you're manipulating math expressions. It wouldn't make sense to "skip" this part by using SymPy.

For calculus it would make a lot of sense though. You can learn the formulas and general rules so you can do derivative and integrals by hand, but I think we could cut-down significantly on the "integration techniques" topics without any loss. I would love to see a course like that... but I doubt any teacher would be "allowed" to teach it this way, since CALC I and CALC II course curriculum is usually imposed by the university.
Would this be a good candidate for encryption on local Wi-Fi (WPA)?
what about all the people scraping HN or saving the feeds?
Not responding is not the same as responding no
The issue is that the TOS has ridiculous, absurd requirements while granting the author of the software no actual, real-world benefit. And that the software can no longer be considered FOSS when it easily could have been. It's like writing a TOS that states: "Thou shall only use this software in accordance with the seven heavenly virtues".
I'm terrible at this but I have some coping strategies, for the lack of a better word. I've also build tools to help me with this as I have personal interest in mental health. Listing them here in case you'd find them useful, as some other people have:

1. no news or HN in the morning. I could stop just here. Instead I meditate for 10-20 minutes and write using an app I built for myself (https://enso.sonnet.io). The point is to just process the previous day without editing yourself, hence the very limited UX it has.

2. I also made Sit. (https://sit.sonnet.io), with the goal of: "please share with a friend who needs to sit the fuck down or enjoy the experience yourself."
It's just a timer with a more gentle snooze function, nothing special, but also an excuse to tell people to spend more time doing nothing, instead of consuming.

That's 20-30m of my morning. It's not that much I think. I am by no means an organised person and a skip those habits on my worse days. It's just so much better than letting someone put random shit in your head every morning.

3. I try to avoid chatting on HN or Twitter and meet people using my "office ours" (https://sonnet.io/posts/hi) where anyone can just call me to chat, pair program or rant. Feel free to come and say hi!

4. I doodle in bed before falling asleep. The worse my doodles are the better. I put some of them on https://potato.horse

I guess my point is that when I'm not sucked into YT it gets much easier to get stuff done. What helps me is just trying to do some of these things in a slightly shoddy way, so I don't obsess about getting them perfect.

This feels my head with something better than noise which often is just there to dull a sense of anxiety. Hope some of that will be useful.

PS I'm writing an article about a related subject at the moment, so if you wanna check it out, let me know–I'll share it later this week.
It's just

ax1^3 + bx1^2 + cx1 + d = y1
ax2^3 + bx2^2 + cx2 + d = y2
ax3^3 + bx3^2 + cx3 + d = y3
ax4^3 + bx4^2 + cx4 + d = y4

As a matrix:

[x1^3 + x1^2 + x1 + 1] [a] = [y1]
[x2^3 + x2^2 + x2 + 1] [b] = [y2]
[x3^3 + x3^2 + x3 + 1] [c] = [y3]
[x4^3 + x4^2 + x4 + 1] [d] = [y4]

If the matrix is M, we just want to find M^(-1)y.

I think hackers should know enough linear algebra to do that, without "having to go asking the maths gods".
Ask HN: What to do when engineering details are now tedious?
Hello HN,

I just got off a two hour call where 30 engineers provided feedback on terminology being used to write a spec. This is important, and I get its important. I just sat there getting increasingly resentful on why this wasn't an emailed link on which people could comment?

Yesterday, I sat through an hour long presentation in which we got three slides through. It was on a protocol for data transfer but as soon as the speaker got past the intro and into the overview slides there were a million questions and suggestions on why he should have done things differently. I left wondering why didn't they at least let him finish? Most of the answers were on the subsequent slides.

On Friday, I was outlining a plan for a connection setup protocol in host software to a colleague who kept on objecting to various issues, and for every issue I'd address he'd bring up yet another issue. After about 35 mins I realized he wanted to do it in firmware; as soon as I did I called him on it, and presented my alternate design for firmware -- he then spent 60 mins objecting to every detail only to end up with the same protocol except the field names in the data structures were 2-8b wider.

I get it. I'm an engineer too. Engineers love this sort of thing. It's also intrinsically part of the process that makes things better and brings new ideas to the table. But on a personal level, I can't handle the tedium anymore. It's not them, it's me.

Where do I go from here?
> The only anchor in reality appears to be Biden suggesting that they knew how to take it out which seems like a pretty weak place to build a large story.

we can also choose to ignore the american material movements in the area at more or less the exact time. Coincidence im sure, after all, the good old uncle sam is an ally to europe and would NEVER do anything against citizens of other countries