skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last project I was involved with deals with Google Sheets. They were using it as their multiuser read/write database. I offered to migrate it all to a proper database for FREE during my own personal time outside of work. Blank stares were all I got. I really hope AGI will soon be able to replace those humans that cannot be reasoned with logic. Millions were involved, hundreds of employees, thousands of sales, all being tracked in a couple of sheets. The faster data retrieval alone was worth it if we migrated it to a proper database.
> anemic tax revenue

You mean, spending >1/2 their budget on police?
You're right and I was wrong to say that a scheduler isn't needed. I assume a fiber scheduler is usually much simpler than a thread scheduler though, since it just needs to decide which fiber to run, rather than how long to run a thread for and where.
Ask HN: OneNote Alternative?
OneNote helps me a lot at work. Specifically the ability to just click and write or paste text and images anywhere you click on a page.

Like everything else, Microsoft has been ruining OneNote with Mac like design and oversimplification + removal of UI elements. The recently pushed a design update for OneNote 2016 (round tabs, lighter colors, whitened side panel, etc).

Is there any other tool like this? I thought Obsidian canvas would be it but it's absolutely not. Is there any other tool which has free form and free size pages like OneNote where you can freely dump stuff?
You think Microsoft are at risk of bankruptcy? Why?
I've never seen chromebooks in continental Europe though. Maybe it's an AMerican & UK thing.
> We try, we can, and we do. Successfully.

My point is not that you can't do it. It is about what kind of abstractions people have hacked past to beat a document into behaving like an application.

That's why I think every couple of years people keep reinventing the wheel to accomplish the same basic things. JQuery-Ui, Sencha, Angular, React, Vue, Svelte etc... Inline styling was a sin. Then it's the recommended practise. Not even sure what's hip these days in what framework.There is a reason why your actual application abstractions get lost when you inspect an element in developer tools.

I'm well aware of button tags and i am also aware of the reasons why people styled div and anchor elements to behave like buttons in the codebases I've dealt with. They had good reasons why they did those things the way they did.

If you reread my above comment, You'd see how I've also mentioned the tradeoffs of actually using proper ui/application development libraries and frameworks to make "Web Applications".

But if one is making an electron application, search engine discoverability and content addressability bring absolutely nothing to the table and one might as well use a more appropriate framework.
> Tidal forces are the result of a gradient in the field of gravity.

Thanks for clarifying that you aren’t referring to the cyclical temporal variation.

I see your point. AI advances are not accessible or “felt” the same way across civilizations, cultures, industries, nations, or people.
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning.

Wikipedia works thanks donations.

Voluntary donations are the free market libertarian equivalent of involuntary taxation.

Web3 doesn't work because there's not enough value being provided, party because paying micro transactions is too unfriendly.
That's a hard problem and it's lack of success is a clear demonstration of the market working as intended and not rewarding something useless.

The socialist equivalent is a government owned web3 which we all have to pay with taxes and we're increasingly close to getting this.
Once you develop in a non single threaded ui framework it is not only about performance.
I personally find that those two videos are much better at conveying the foundational knowledge needed to invent and understand something like Clean Architecture than the book itself:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries

It seems unrelated in the surface, but I feel like they explain the "why" of a software architecture in a much simpler way and without the prescriptive and hand-wavy "trust me" nature of most software architecture books.
They can already be given that ability by using something like langchain. You tell the LLM what tools it has available to it and it can call out to them if it wants.
His view would be that if the stock price went up as a result of some action then that action would be the right one (its orthogonal to the point about short term profits).
I wouldn’t describe that as ironic.
Except it doesn't seem to work very well. A quick test using https://skybiometry.com/demo/face-detect/
On one of their model photos https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8fdf8a_54f20de903e848c783... shows easy facial detection.
The thing is, the designers of machine learning pipelines can now add these to the training sets
Hmm not sure it's really anything as bad as Python2/3. I haven't came across a library that doesn't support netstandard (and 99% of those will do async/await) in a long time now.

There are a lot of libs that haven't been updated for years and therefore don't support netstandard. But you probably don't want to be using them outside of very specific use cases given they are likely to be insecure by now.

There definitely isn't a 'we're holding on to netframework' vibe in dotnet, like there was for python2.
So you made an MS SQL consulting company? Did you talk in your blog about building up the business? Getting your first clients, how much to charge etc..?
Eh, I think people are okay, they just line to whine and moan. Certain groups of people do that (and sometimes exclusively that). Lots of old people just love to rant about bad the worlds getting (and always have). Or other people love to complain "this neighborhood used to be so great before [3 years ago]"...

The whining is often just a (I don't want to say pathetic but, not socially adaptive) form of attempting social-belonging/bragging ("The movie sucked the book was better" hipsters == Look at me I read books, I don't own a TV, etc).

There is anonther phenomenon on reddit where (e.g. /meirl) people make jokes (and not always jokes) about how sad/lonely/loveless/awkward they are. Mostly funny to me as an anti-bragging thing.

Anyways the internet isn't angry, there are just certain sites that have algorithms that promote angry content. If you don't like those sites you can easily find other stuff (tons of non-angry subreddits, tons of positive youtube, etc).

I will agree HN's sentiment has gotten more negative and less substantive (on average, still tons of good comments but more to wade through). I'd love for HN to adopt a new algorithm that can better differentiate venting and substance.
I'm on Home. I don't remember what I clicked to make it go away, but it's gone. Turning off Search highlights also got rid of the news garbage in the start menu. Now it's more like KDE's launcher.
I personally find it full of rules that make sense in isolation and can make your code look pretty when you're a solo developer, but are actively making it more difficult to make the program understandable and flexible in the long way.
20 years of Nix
I think checking if people donates to a project is a better indicator to the value of the project than the stars. I never paid attention to stars.
Besides all sibling comments, OutSystems is doing quite well for the last 20 years.

Just like most low code, CDP and data analytics tooling.
> Not sure what you're getting at with the rest of your comment.

I gave examples of sci-fi to show some ways that many people are exposed to thinking about technological futures.

Claim : The people influenced by science fiction greatly outnumber the reach of people that get paid to do AI ethics. Agree?
Silicon Valley Lifestyles Are Being Portrayed on Screens Large and Small
Perhaps I'm underestimating it here, or they are mining a currency I'm not aware of, but how does this actually end up being worth the effort involved for the people running cryptominers in the build actions? My understanding is that they'd be making cents or fractions of cents from this..
Fwiw I’m in continental Europe too and the local Media Markt has about 30% Chromebooks in the laptop department. The sales guy actively tried to push them last time I talked to one.
The prompt isn't a creative work, it's constrained by a technical need (producing a desired response from a generative computer system).v
I've used quite extensively LSD and i never experienced real hallucinations. Sometimes i wonder if people mistake something they took for LSD.
The only reason to use Edge is because your corporate policy forces you to. There is no other reason whatsoever.

If you must, use Chrome if you'd rather send all that data to an advertising company in exchange for a familiar UI. Otherwise, use Firefox.
If a self driving car purposely ignores Giraffes or even real objects incorrectly identified as Giraffes or anything else, I think that's a problem. Africa is a place people drive cars in. And then there's this:

https://www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/cute-sew-giraffe-c...
something tells me you are not very familiar with sheer number and miles of roads there are in the US.
Erm, just look at the name: "Task.async". So there is the distinct concept auf async, otherwise why would you name it like that. Mind that I'm not talking about async/await syntax here.
Not a chance pre-IPO.
All of those are about young people who mostly haven't started families, or are only starting to in very few cases (couple and a newborn baby).

I don't know about "The Jeffersons" myself, but I struggle to remember a movie with a well-off family living in an apartment, even in areas like NYC or SF.

So obviously, you are both right: a family in an apartment is usually a poor one, yet apartments are desireable for young folk.
Mind sharing that shortcut for fellow corporate-policy dwellers?
Psychedelics don't make you see reality. They give you a different perspective than the one you usually have, in a way that is more pronounced than something as simple as a sugar high. They also have a tendency to make you a bit more curious in a way say, a drunken stupor doesn't, or a hyper focus stimulant buzz doesn't.

And the effect can cascade as well, because while the perspective shift is going to apply directly only to some pretty direct stimuli, when you build the habit of questioning your first impressions, or things you've heard repeated or repeated to yourself ad infinitum, it can have some far reaching effects.

So no, psychedelics don't reveal the truth. They just sometimes encourage people to actually look for it. There are plenty of non-chemical stimuli that can do the same thing of course (or at least, non-external chemical stimuli), such as some vacations, feats of athleticism (marathons, thru hikes, perhaps even sky-diving). Really anywhere where you step outside your usual routine, set aside preconceived notions, and just allow a bit of novelty in.
Ask HN: Do polite societies enforce their politeness via bullying?
Is there any other way to enforce politeness?
Worse, osmium tetroxide is volatile and sublimes at room temperature. I was told by my lab instructor that it is said to smell sweet, but that if you ever inhale enough to be able to smell it, you will have already absorbed a lethal dose.
I just tried to find a FOSS tool for converting MS Outlook .pst file to .mbox.

I first tried Google; the results are dominating by commercial crap.

Then I tried the "google reddit" trick to try and find some real people's opinions... but look at all the blatantly bullshit comments on this Reddit thread; https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/ae4cdg/good_ps...

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(if anyone is wondering, the best option for Windows is to use 'readpst' command via WSL. Comes in the 'pst-utils' package).
Why do you think this?

“The whining is often just a (I don't want to say pathetic but, not socially adaptive) form of attempting social-belonging/bragging ("The movie sucked the book was better" hipsters == Look at me I read books, I don't own a TV, etc)“
Oh yeah, and you don't need to search it many times. Do the window shopping a couple times and "someone" will get the domain right away.
But still you train one human teacher to teach a class with many students, while the idea with this AI stuff is having a single tutor for every student.

In America, 10 years is quite alot of schooling if we are just talking about K-12 education.

And regardless, this is just one of the many ways we will be firing up these GPU arrays..
> If you struggle talking to people Like I have, have a few drinks. That's been my experience anyway.

This is a lot of people's experience... and a whole lot of us really, really, really regret it years later. Alcohol is an incredibly dangerous and insidious tool to use for social anxiety. It works great at first, so you ignore the negative effects. But over time, it makes everything worse.

Drinking alcohol decreases anxiety initially, but over time causes the body to raise base anxiety levels. It also lowers testosterone, messes with the lining of the gut and gut microbiome (which can also increase anxiety and negatively impact mood due to the strong gut-brain axis of emotional regulation and signaling) and negatively impacts numerous other parts of the body.

My education around "alcohol is bad" was either warnings about bad behavior while inebriated or vague intangible health risks in the distant future, both of which were easy to ignore. Sharing because I wish someone had informed me that the drink in my 20s to temporarily blunt social anxiety would make my life so much worse by my 30s.
Am I correct in understanding you that you're saying companies shouldn't be able to sell at the lowest price they can sell at? How is that anti-competition, a monopoly?
You are better off growing a beard, wearing glasses and a hat.
I believe that is what Tauri is for.
Perhaps our gut is right and our conceptual models are wrong
No, not at all. That's my point. All these ads, data collection and selling of data, that's just unnecessary. Microsoft don't need the additional revenue, yet Edge is filled with stuff that I'd only expect from a shady online gaming company, or a company that's severely short on cash.

As others have pointed out, maybe it's actually "features" that adds value for the general public, maybe it's just greed. In any case from my point of it taints the image of a company that's otherwise highly respected.
Still more than a Google search!
My point exactly, thanks.

I'm not arguing against them being "different", I have noticed there's a true disinterest in life and going out and enjoying things that I haven't seen in the other groups that we share this slice of time with.

Reminds me a bit of the Lost Generation, with a bit of that thing that happened in Sweden(?) where the youth revolted just because they didn't have much else to do but that.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Generation
But there are OSS projects that are VC backed. They don't take donations.
I only recently discovered PBS news. I thought it was great to have #1, #2 without much entertainment. Realistically I stopped watching after a few weeks as it was kinda boring. There needs to be some #3 in any offering.
I am thinking more like webauthn - but where I own a key pair, and I go to post office with my passport, they give me a nonce and prove that my it's my key pair then they post that public key is definitely me. I then can use that posting as my "username" and any challenge response includes the public key so they know that only I could be signing up

I am very aware of "designing a security system they themselves cannot break" and the difficulties of key management etc.

Would be interested in knowing more from smarter people

(probably need to build a poc - one day :-( )
Can’t stop laughing, it’s a funny analogy. Im trying to find a case where the user would be okay with that but not even the staunchest fox news fan would be okay with it. I really hate this model where windows is free but infested by ads you can’t get away from. The other day someone came over to me asking if they should get a windows laptop upgrade and I recommending them getting a mac
Wait until ChatGPT11 is embedded with Bing, Edge, and Windows. And it cannot be turned off because it will make the user's life easier according to MS' sales team.
Am I correct in describing above evidence as a throwaway claim on HN that was never substantiated and the throwaway account never responded to any requests for data?

Do you have any other evidence that you used to form your conclusion?
They don't need to be profitable since someone else is paying for power, maintenance and hardware.

That makes it pure profit (for the scammers)
There’s also shunning.
I would say KDE Plasma surpasses anything out there even closed proprietary alternatives. From time to time I have to use Windows and mac at work (to test on other platforms than GNU/Linux) and they are much worse when it comes to desktop use, especially macos is quite terrible. Not even considering all the trends of surveillance and ads they try to add into those two now and constant dumbing down of the interface.
Probably nothing we've built should belong in nature but probably we are part of nature too.
Namecheap is now a shit company to do business with.

Also had the same experience, I even complained to their customer support about it. The cheap price is already in my cart then when i try to pay it, it doesnt proceed.

Keep in mind this happened to me already over the course of many years, just as what other users have experienced.
My point of saying "piracy is preservation" is that even those who pirate because they want free stuff are helping to preserve works, even if that isn't their primary goal. Look at the entirety of the C64 cracking scene, and look at all the programs that would have had much less of a chance to exist today, in 2023, if they hadn't been cracked.

Yes, sometimes piracy requires cracking, and that is not exactly 1:1 preservation. However, that's merely analogous to the difference between the original Doctor Who videotapes that were wiped, and the off-air U-Matic NTSC recordings that were found. While the latter were not at all the same quality as the original, they were nonetheless useful for preservation, as the color signal was able to be used in many cases with the black-and-white telerecording. If one is unable to preserve a work 1:1, it's nonetheless preferable to preserve it in a slightly modified form, than not preserve it at all.

If a program only exists in cracked form, that's a travesty for sure, but it's better than the program not existing at all. In that case, it's also more likely that the original might be found, if there is awareness of the program's existence from the cracked copy.

I fear this will only get worse with advances in cryptography. The ones spending big bucks to develop these protection systems simply do not care about preservation outside of their vaults. They would much rather see the old works go away, so they don't have to compete with them.

I believe retrogaming to be an anomaly that would not exist today without the piracy of the past. The emulation and piracy scenes of the late 90s and early 2000s were seminal in solidifying retrogaming as a subculture in and of itself.
If I had to guess, I'd probably say the XHR call that tells them when a domain is a premium domain wasn't resolving. Also kinda helps explain it not being in your cart.
No one has put forward the thesis that one should roast needy and hapless students!

Rather the opposite. Though this document is written for people who ask questions, see also the section on how to help.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#idm667 (How To Answer Questions in a Helpful Way )

(Of course: this is ESR. He's ... opinionated. But does seem to have his heart in the right place in the end)
Situationships Are the Future of Dating. That’s Not a Bad Thing
Sounds like a premium domain that they didn't know was premium until they checked the price for real rather than it being the standard tld price, at which time it cached and started showing the real price

Guessing you tried to register a dictionary word on one of the new tlds?

Been got by it too "Ah. That would be why this gem of a domain was still available"
That’s not entirely applicable to .net since you can call async methods synchronously, though there are some complications.
So, people should be anti-WFH to maintain this artificial moat that so far has kept other smart and hungry people from making a decent living and improving their standard of living, simply because they're at the wrong geographical location?

This seems like a blinkered and selfish perspective.

If the number one thing protecting your job is the office, then quite frankly that job probably shouldn't exist.
Would it be more difficult to get funding during harash economic times?
So a GPT bot instead of the human commenters would make reddit more useful in the end, this is what you're saying right?
My ex-employer used Github stars in their job description and during recruitement pitches. They regularly encouraged employees to go and star the firm's repos in Github. In all-hands meetings, the Github stars were one of the items they reported: "we've surpassed X in Github stars" (applause).

(The firm X, however, is a more well-known name than my ex-employer was).

A while ago, I listened to a Freakonomics episode where it was discussed that businesses use proxies to both boost their image and to cover up their incompetency. The example was that a lot of businesses chose fancy names starting with A (like, AAA plumbers), so that they get listed first in business directories. These firms were later proven to be very incompetent and/or even fraudulent.

The relevant paper, also cited in the episode, was "A Business by Any Other Name": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1667550.
WOW, just wow.

Thank you hayst4ck, this is just amazing!

Definitely a lot to think about.
I'd say the experiment (relying on the summary provided here) shows what works:
- Papers that are obviously poor are rejected.
- Papers that are uncontroversially good are accepted.

From a CS point of view, the problem is that in many communities, what is 'uncontroversially good' depends on subtleties only known to insiders who are willing to comply with the quirks of a community.
And most communities are very defensive when it comes to shielding their top venues from relative outsiders, who are not sufficiently close to the inner circle of key players.
As a consequence, getting the top-venue stamp (required to please the administration) becomes a social game.
I think having a more open review process and stronger editorial control (vs. reviewer power) can mitigate this problem to some extent, for the following reasons:
1. When a paper is good, but upsets the subjective feelings of reviewers, the system should be implemented in a way that there is a high social cost for killing a paper because of subjective/cosmetic issues. Having venues where papers that are sent out to reviewers are most likely reasonable and should only be killed because of 'hard' flaws creates such a system.
2. When a paper is bad and the editors push it through, publishing details of the paper's editorial flow would impose social costs on the editors. (The reviewers, who may be potentially early in their career and may need protection, may even remain anonymous, the editors, who typically enjoy a strong standing in the community, should not.)

In CS, journals tend to operate a bit closer to this model than conferences, which I think makes the journal submission and revision process more meaningful.
To conclude, I don't think getting rid of rejects is the solution, but rather editorial policies that encourage reviewers to either expose fatal technical flaws in a paper or help the authors improve the presentation to achieve a better end-result.