skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly why would anyone do anything other than Blink at this point?

For one, there's so many examples to crib from about how to do it.

But more generally, I just feel like every other player in the space has adopted an adversarial stance. For sure, sometimes Safari or less typically Firefox do lead, but it's rarely by much & usually the set of capabilities overall is far far less.

I don't want a monoculture either, but until we get a other pro-web player who can web-forward their shit, who is aggressive about making the web better, there's just zero hope for this conversation. Blink plus two boat anchors isn't good.

The IE comparison is so woefully out of touch & distasteful. Hard pass. Chrome tries. There wasn't the ecosystem of standards bodies back when IE was inventing stuff whenever they felt like, but today there are tons of expectations & reviews happening at multiple levels to try to refine & figure out what makes sense. In some ways it works great & a lot of review happens, but Moz + Apple hate any real power for the web & kick & scream & don't actually review what should be done if we did want to do the capability & reject on principle making a bigger web platform. There's no real debate because 2/3 players actively believe & push for a small web. It's a miserable rock & hard place situation, trying to figure out what to do when there's only one ayer who believes in a web platform at all.

I love the new entrants, but I really worry they'll also be into their own jam & not excited or interested in making a broader better web platform, and just turn the 2 Vs 1 anti/pro web into a 3 Vs 1 battle.
> The medical community is a joke

I've been reading "The Medical Detectives" and it seems like there used to be a stronger drive to seek understanding of the unheard.
HTTPS -> https://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-fin...
On the flip side of that, I've recently had to deal with a few issues with some proprietary software, where it would have been really, really useful to be able to look through the source code, but I couldn't. Instead I had to rely on incomplete documentation, and customer support that didn't have enough technical knowledge to fully understand the problem.
I sent you an email. Hope it satisfies your curiosity.
I take it you haven’t seen our open-source commoditized commercial trash fire?
> it is sad to hear about yet another case where doctors are too arrogant to listen to their patients and try to understand

It's not 'doctors', it's 'people'. The width and breadth of the world is a greater challenge to our understanding than most of of are even able to comprehend. I suspect.
Meh, several my friends and I did. Each of us were very successful but we all had slightly nerdy jobs that were a bit hard to explain to muggles.
The ISO standard is all there is.
From https://blog.ansi.org/2018/10/sql-standard-iso-iec-9075-2016...

'''

The “ANSI Standard” for SQL

There is no such thing as “ANSI Standards,” as ANSI does not develop standards. Instead, there’s American National Standards and other documents written by ANSI-approved committees of standards developing organizations. Nonetheless, we get a lot of inquiries for the “ANSI standard” for SQL. It’s worth noting that, while this phrase is misleading and inaccurate for numerous reasons, it is referring to existing standard documents. SQL, just like many great things that outlasted the 70s, has a powerful history auspiciously intertwined with standards. At the conception of SQL’s specifications was ANSI (just another great feat throughout our 100-year history).

The Current Edition of ISO/IEC 9075 for SQL

If you don’t want to read all the history on SQL that we’ve detailed below, to make things short, SQL was standardized in ANSI X3.135 in 1986, and, within a few months, it was adopted by ISO as ISO 9075-1987. While most vendors modify SQL to meet their needs, they generally base their programs off the current version of this standard. The international standard (now ISO/IEC 9075) has been revised periodically ever since, most recently in 2016. It exists in 9 parts: [...]

'''
Sorry for the ignorance, but it's only software emulating a CPU, or there is a actual hardware?
This article says that 70% of Cobalt comes from the Congo and “no way” can they avoid the taint of this.

So no, they don’t care that Apple changed suppliers for Cobalt to avoid this very issue.

Also the recent news that Apple is aggressively pursuing 100% recycled Cobalt.
They should not be receiving public funds if they are going to continue to produce ideologically inclined content. At this point, they are no different than a little neoliberal/progressive think tank. And an honest assessment of the content means that they lean heavily to the left.
I think we'll remember 21st century as the age of overoptimisation and hustle culture, only to realise all the YouTubers were selling us a dream of forcing being and doing our best. We lost track of doing something because we are intrinsically interested in it. And that process of working on something useless for ourselves in the end has an effect of being useful to others and worst case -> time well-spent since we enjoyed it anyways.
Give Nomi some scratches from a stranger. Wonderful of you to care for him the best you can.
What were the thinking patterns that you changed? What did you do to fake it in the beginning?
If it makes it any better, I wasn't trying to be helpful, I was trying to understand Ireland and someone else started whatabouting with other countries and states.

You see, people sometimes use familiar locations or factual references to draw comparisons to other items or places.
I've explained quite clearly why I think it is misleading without misrepresenting anything. Some of my points you've conceded others you've decided to ignore and make it about me.

If you read it as well and deem this paper of good quality I suppose we can just agree to disagree and move on what can I say. I believe in following the truth wherever it may lead not fitting data to politically motivated conclusions which this work is very clearly doing, sad state of affairs.
There's this abiding belief (which btw this BL post does not in any respect share) that women were chattels themselves and had no property rights in law in history. To the best of my (not very informed) knowledge it's mostly rubbish: Women held real property, kept control of their finances, were not completely alienated from signing contracts or owning companies, joined guilds, they "did things" as much as anyone did. I've always felt its a strawman. I think 18th century and victorian novels did a lot to propagate it because the myth worked to promote heroines in Austen fiction (for example)

I doubt it was fully equal, but the idea they embodied "handmaid's tale" forms of existence from the middle ages until emancipation is a bit bogus. Certainly there were pretty stupid legalisms, by Victorian times there was a bit of a problem in capture of the finances by the male partner in marriage, its the basis of many book plots but the fictionalisation of a real problem doesn't automatically translate to the existence of the real problem at scale: Financially literate women owned their own fate, even without the vote.

Dorothy Dunnett wrote about early renaissance trade from a woman's perspective (albeit with mostly male protagonists) and was a historian by training. She used masses of source documents which very clearly show women running significant enterprises across Europe, in control.

Tudor homes were wood lined, massive furniture, a lot of the stuff got cleared out by subsequent generations who wanted lighter more modern things in the home. Osbert Lancaster's "piller to post" (1938) is an amusing cartoon take on the history of architecture and interiors. You could put Alice Smythe right into his illustrations. The Victoria and Albert museum has a lot of home articles from that time in their galleries.
What CDP type platforms do you recommend? Adobe CDP?
Just tried it. The toolbar icon has colors. Should be updated to be a template icon. For it needs to be a template icon. I cannot remove it from toolbar as I don't want to allow it on every website.
> I concluded that the question of an afterlife is irrelevant... If there's something good on the other side of death, great...

I agree, I think you just cease to be, and that's it. Frankly, I find that terrifying; I'm not sang-froid about it at all. I totally see why people come up with buy into the idea of an afterlife.
This is one of the most beautiful comments we've seen in a long long time. Thank you so much for writing this <3

We are also somewhat atheistic and science-based, but we choose to believe in souls anyway because... it's the most convenient word for what we want for ourselves.

We want to believe we're 8 separate people who are just in it together. We would never want to be separated from each other... but we would never want to be integrated together, either. We just are 8 souls in one body.

It is the most comfortable way for us to think about it. Those souls don't have to physically exist in the real world or in a real spiritual dimension. They are within us, inside our mind. And we are perfectly comfortable with that.

We believe that even if what you saw was just a creation of your mind... it can still be real to you. It can still exist inside your reality. Inside the realm of your mind.

-Emily
I don't think any particular college has set the standard for compiler education.

Maybe one of these: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis3410/current/schedule.html https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring20/cos320... https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ycscs1-compilers

I think the dragon book is well respected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniq...

This one might be good too:
https://www.elsevier.com/books/engineering-a-compiler/cooper...

Reddit comparison:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Compilers/comments/pjn25h/how_does_...
Covid-19 vaccine no longer required for students to attend SUNY schools
How about the web native store?
Are you seriously arguing that plants feel pain the way animals/humans do?
Sure if someone had a certain threat model they would want to scatter their service providers more. It does go on trust a bit that Proton is doing what they say, considering you can't "prove" they don't keep logs and that I never personally loaded a public key onto a server for them to encrypt with; they kind of hand-wave it and I assume my password is used to unlock a key that decrypts content client-side.
Remember when there was an embedded web browser in emacs? https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=browse;oldid=EmacsWeb...
> The problem is that his uninformed bad takes outside of his area of expertise damages his activism within software and diminishes any of his contributions to software.

I don't see how his comments diminished his contributions to software. They were entirely irrelevant to his contributions to software.

> A second problem is placing value upon what he has to say because there's a cult of personality surrounding him as an intellectual, but the reality is that his area of expertise and rationality is in fact niche and specific rather than general, as evidenced by his comments.

I'm still not really understanding your point here. I agree his expertise does not extend to the subjects on which he famously opined. For that reason, I mostly ignored what he had to say on this subject.
I think you could reasonably boil it down to “fulfilling.” Just about every other motivation has “fulfilling” At its heart, in one respect or another.
I trust a important part of this debate is revenge porn. the uploader just want to destroy the life of their ex-partner
When I see neural net technical articles on hacker news there is not so much technical discussion anymore. Maybe all those hackers are busy doing their $10M jobs, or maybe they went to discord or to mastodon groups. Only the dumb ones like me are left. Just kidding I'm not dumb please headhunt me for $5M+
Cookies are only the easy to understand part, tracking has far more options available, including the similar other storage mechanisms, but also advanced techniques for fingerprinting.

I actually hate that it gets distilled down to cookies in discourse.
Maybe it sounds conspiratorial but if such schemes were available, I believe Harvard is too well connected to be subject to such scrutiny by those with the power to do such an audit.

The idea that people tossing around hundreds of millions of dollars are on the up and up otherwise they would have consequences doesn't seem to have much historical evidence supporting this dynamic

The Paradise papers leak outlined a lot of these schemes
Fever is a symptom. Viral pneumonia is a disease.

Child labor is a symptom. Unchecked hypercapitalism is a disease.
>I have never, ever seen a hype wave like this. Cryptocurrency doesn't even come close.

The internet was a hype wave too. Remember the dotcom bubble? And then also remember how eventually the internet actually did revolutionize communication, business and entertainment?

Yes, there's hype. There's also a tangible sense that we're at this 'internet circa 1995' moment. I feel like the hype is warranted.
This is a fascinating question. It's incredibly rhetorical, and I've sat here pondering it for a bit. It's very easy to reply to this question with "well I suppose it depends." And then tack on "What do we consider 'doing good/more good'? What is the nature/species/alignment of the lives being saved, and how are are they equal? Who decides which two lives are better to save than the one, if it's somehow decided that one is better than two? Does the two lives vs one life involve picking between the same two lives, or is it an entirely different set of lives?" and a whole mountain of other questions. It's like asking a magical wish granter to "save two lives" and it does something predictably spiteful like saving two single celled organisms and causing a kitten to die. Thanks for giving me that to chew on.
America in 2023 is more intellectual than any society that existed in or before the 20th century. How extreme does intellectualism have to get before America is no longer considered anti-intellectual? Does manual labour need to be banned and does 75% of the population need post-secondary degrees?

America and western society is so taken with intellectualism that they spend their prime years for having children doing precocious amounts of studying while their brains are in a state of peak plasticity. Americans right now are like modern day Irish elk who need increasingly large antlers (degrees) to win the reproductive game but are so encumbered by this that it becomes difficult to reproduce at all. So fertility is sub-replacement and Americans have reacted by bringing in immigrants so they can spend more time working on their degrees.

What sort of immigrants do they bring in? University graduates!
That's pretty much my experience! I've tried switching to podman a few times now and I really wanted to like it. Each time lasting a few months, and it always ends with frustration. At this point it's like btrfs for me. Perhaps it has improved, but I've been burned too many times, the trust is gone and I just will not go back. Some software just seems to have fundamental design issues (too fast, too early?), and when that's the case, more often than not it doesn't matter how many years of development go into it, it will always have problems.

Docker isn't perfect. I wish they would put more development into rootless mode. But it has never given me the kind of issues podman has. It just does what I ask it to and gets out of the way.
Started the migration of https://lowpi.com to https://lowpi.us/us/asus-zephyrus-g14 for USA users since 3 weeks ago, however it seems that this time is not working properly for SEO perspective.

We have lost several positions on Google ranking it seems that is not detecting the change so far, will update if this recover or no.

We started to migrate to specific country domains for lowpi.co.uk, lowpi.es, lowpi.ca and so on and those were successful for SEO in most of the cases duplicating the user count. At the most it took around 2 weeks for the change.

Will investigate if there is a solution because we have been trying different things suggested in google and chatgpt but no result.
I for one am very happy that RedHat is putting in these efforts to improve startup time of podman. This is extremely necessary if our industry has to survive. Last time we tried using podman in our product, it was such a performance mess. We had to completely abandon our product. Our product would have disrupted the entire juicer market if podman was efficient at that time, our's was the only juicer which had containers running in it.

Hoping to get back to it once this version of podman is released. Thank you RedHat team; we'll send you one of our juicers as a thank you gift.
There were a number of implementations in FPGA (it was designed to use very few LUTs)
I don’t think that’s true. iOS developers are paid better and learning Swift + UIKit is a simpler target than learning HTML + CSS + JS + framework.
I read pieces of it during CS University that were applicable to whatever we were studying/implementing at the time. Got it form the library. Was worth it.

A decade later I bought it because I wanted to understand something about the selection of a specific hash function for a hash table that every book was using and no one was explaining, everybody was just referencing Knuth. That function was used in my job (in fact, the hash table at work was exactly the one Knuth had proposed). While Knuth had an explanation for it, I was not happy with it. After a ton of online researching and even reading some papers from the 70's I found an understandable explanation in a blog post by a random not-famous programmer.

One day I'll read it. But my Comic Book collection and Video Game backlog has been taking the priority for a while.
“Show HN” is generally reserved for things the author themself created. Looking at your post history, you’ve made “Show HN” posts on a wide variety of topics every couple days. If you made all those things yourself, that’s incredible, and I applaud your productivity, but if not they shouldn’t have the “Show HN” prefix.
You are correct. Let me rephrase: if, like OP, you are a working professional wondering if you should get a firmer foundation in your field by reading Knuth, my recommendation would be to read Sedgewick first. (Or one of many other comparable works; Sedgwick is just the one I used.) The useful, practical knowledge is roughly the same in both works. But Knuth comes at it from a very unique, principled, ab initio perspective that is perhaps more valuable if you want to go into academic research.
hacker news thread on his associated new yorker article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35560019
It’s funny that we call them bootcamps and then expect anything to come out of them besides soldiers.
I strongly disagree with Cal on most of his points here; Cal wrote an article in the New Yorker yesterday that effectively recapitulates the "Its just guessing the next token" argument. In his example, he explains that ChatGPT couldn't possibly understand how to remove a PB&J from a VCR, but asking GPT what to do discredits this analogy almost entirely. It is true that GPT doesn't have servos with feedback or other hardware to remove a sandwich itself, but it can certainly explain the process including how to clean the leftover residue and follows the details by suggestion you seek out a professional technician.

In the same article he admits ChatGPT is immensely complex and that "any number of humans" could not reproduce the rules by which it works; but then goes on to assure the reader that is naive and is not a threat to their jobs or safety.

This seems really disingenuous to me given he's a professor of computer science at a respected university. This kind of cynicism, that you might call naive, leads readers to put aside concerns about safety.
You could look at Adobe Character Animator.
Depending on your country, FF counts as mainstream on Desktop. Hi from Germany ;)
I just wrote a long post about web platform & balance of power. And this is like 3000% more the real feels of the situation.

I really really hope it pans out & delivers. But it properly & rightly should be an ever shrinking piece of the puzzle. It underpins it all & flexility here would be key, better tech (parallelizable!) very empowering, put to the sword many criticisms, but yeah: it's an ever shrinking factor versus what we can do with the web.

And there are so so so few powers helping us make what we can do with the web better. Even the historic pro-web folk are trying to end the web as we know it. The "Towards a Modern Web Stack" Hixie mentality (Flutter CanvasKit) is to basically ignore destroy & end the contemporary web & html & make the browser a native app delivery platform with zero user-agency, to make it a giant moving picture show. The rest of the browsers have adopted a highly adversarial stance where every possible feature is portrayed as a threat to users, as ruin. There's just so few visionary hopeful excited people left building browsers that do stuff for people. You are so right on.
You got more use out of it than most.
Ask HN: How can a high school student get started with open source projects?
My daughter is fairly proficient in Python (only language she has been learning for a couple of years) and I'd love to get her to contribute to open source projects as a way to get real-world, team-collaboration exposure.

I thought I'd find open source mentorship programs online but to my surprise I found zero. I think young kids interested in CS majors will benefit from open source mentorship programs as a way to learn the craft and get real-world experience. I see so many college students reaching out for internships - instead, they should just contribute to open source!

Thoughts?
I strongly disagree with Cal on most of his points here; he effectively recapitulates the "Its just guessing the next token" argument. In his example, he explains that ChatGPT couldn't possibly understand how to remove a PB&J from a VCR, but asking GPT what to do discredits this analogy almost entirely. It is true that GPT doesn't have servos with feedback or other hardware to remove a sandwich itself, but it can certainly explain the process including how to clean the leftover residue and follows the details by suggestion you seek out a professional technician.
In the same article he admits ChatGPT is immensely complex and that "any number of humans" could not reproduce the rules by which it works; but then goes on to assure the reader that is naive and is not a threat to their jobs or safety.

This seems really disingenuous to me given he's a professor of computer science at a respected university. This kind of cynicism, that you might call naive, leads readers to put aside concerns about safety.
> I brought it forward as an example of the difference between their criticisms of other people’s donations and their own actual choices for grants.

As I mentioned in my previous post, there are actual reasons to sponsor HPMoR, which you seem to ignore. Perhaps you disagree with those reasons - but there are still reasons.

> The multi million dollar castle purchase is more recent and more ridiculous. It used ill-gotten FTX funds in the process, too.

It kind of sounds like you have an axe to grind; when you examine any large-enough organization under a microscope, you'll probably find something. Why not grind it against the millions of people who aren't donating to charity?
What’s most surprising to me is that the average car purchase was $48K. Seems like a lot of money given that the average salary in the US is $60k. But then again, people on lower income brackets may be buying used vehicles.