skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure thing! I was on the client-side, and joined in 1995, when there was already a version 1 of the compression/connection piece. I started work and was lead on the search product.

If I remember correctly, we were developing on Windows 3.1 with Microsoft Visual C/C++ 7.0 to start and then moved to Windows 95 and Visual C++. We used Microsoft Foundation Classes, as well as Rogue Wave libraries (tools.h++ I believe).

We were funded by some guys who had made a lot of money in government software contracts (we were near a major Airforce base).

Here is a Google folder link with some scans of contemporaneous ads and press coverage:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzleZlz4NcDSMDc0VTBp...
My favourite corporate dystopian term that has popped up because of that is "body lending"
Sometimes a decomposing carcass ends up resting on the forest floor instead of buried or scavenged.

... but not for long, and it's not the expected common-case continuously-observed scenario when one walks in the woods. The point is that such a thing is a transient, unstable configuration at one layer and the expected configuration at another layer.
Not entirely true: you can edit/delete your posts and comments for a while (I don't know the exact length of time) after you post them.
They are photographers and not historians.
Sounds like qntm's short story "Lena" (https://qntm.org/mmacevedo), and before that, Vernor Vinge's "The Cookie Monster".
> Why would a company use ocaml?

PG claims using Lisp was the "secret sauce" to his early success. Whether this is true or not, and whether this is still true for companies today, remains to be seen. But it's an argument for things like OCaml.
Here is the technical data of what is really going on - it is not sinister, rather these are files needed by the GPS chipset:
https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/tag/qualcomm/
It's remarkable what they've done with cardboard and veneer to make everything.
Have you measured the disk size of the index? That's where you should see a difference, not in speed.
I prefer "subtle" over "imaginary"
Mastodon Is Doomed
RSS Reeder 5
Everyone got drilled into them in school the stories of scientists and philosophers clinging to outdated models and introducing extraneous elements to extend their life in light of contradicting evidence, the piling up of epicycles to explain celestial movements by circular motions, or luminiferous aether for light to be wave in a fluid medium.

So of course when you first hear "so astronomers found out the equations don't work out with the matter we can detect, so they figured that there must be uhhh... more matter, invisible matter! That exists but you can't detect no matter what!" it sounds like those examples.

If you dig in deeper, then you realize that it's not just fudging of equations and that there being mass that's very sparse and unaccounted-for makes sense.
In philosophy of science and mathematics there is actually a famous argument by Hartry Field to the effect that Physics doesn't need to posit the existence of any numbers at all, not even natural numbers:

https://academic.oup.com/book/26363

As far as I know (I haven't read the book) he argues for this by logically reconstructing part of Newtonian Mechanics without any numbers (without assuming the Peano axioms) and suggesting that in principle similar things could be done for other theories.

Now it would be very surprising if Quantum mechanics would even require the existence of imaginary numbers, since these seem to be much less basic than natural or real numbers.

Anyway, I agree that popular articles haven't made it clear what the relevant physicists mean with their thesis. And as a non-physicist it is hard to read the original source.
> If it is about the citizen being heard by the representative? That's not happening anyways. For a reasonably powerful representative, a social media coordinator will likely pre-filter what they see (and should - I'd like my representatives to work, not read their twitter feed all day)

Your representative should not be permitted to block your phone number, or forbid you from visiting their office, or forbid you from visiting a town hall they're hosting, or any other venue or activity open to the public, without some court order due to a history of abuse or harassment. Their social media account is a comparable medium of communication open to the public.
You can tell it's going to be golden just from the way the URL is setup!
They address this in the article: Only twice per year are the panels in shadow, at the equinoxes. Presumably all the rest of the time they're slightly above/below the earth with respect to its orbit. It's the same reason the moon is lit nearly all the time.
> There are some big differences in attitudes between the US and Australia on various topics

That's my point--just because places speak the same language doesn't mean they're culturally the same. Australia's response to COVID lockdowns versus America's is highly illustrative as well.

> One way in which the US is very homogeneous is that state politics aren’t particularly distinctive from national politics. Every state is the same two parties facing off against each other, the main political difference between states is the relative power of the two

American politics isn't homogenous at all--that's just an artifact of political narratives being filtered through mass media in New York City. To use your abortion example (because I agree politics is an expression of culture): black people in Georgia are overwhelmingly Democrats, while white people are overwhelmingly Republicans. But there is no racial difference on the question of abortion: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-stu.... Stacey Abrams, who grew up in Mississippi and Georgia (Atlanta), was always a democrat, but grew up opposed to abortion: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/women-rule/2022/09/23/s.... If the Democratic Party wasn't run by New York and California liberals and donors, Georgia Democrats would moderate on the abortion issue (because as a practical matter you don't want to play up issues that split your own voting bloc).

By contrast, Republicans west of the rockies are quite liberal on abortion due to a strong libertarian streak. Western Republicans tipped the scales to the social liberal side on key cultural issues in the past few decades. Reagan legalized abortion in California. Nixon and Reagan were California Republicans who appointed a bunch of Supreme Court Justices like Harry Blackmun (who wrote Roe). O'Connor (who wrote Casey) is from Arizona and was appointed by Reagan. Kennedy (who wrote Obergefell) is from California and was appointed by Reagan. Gorsuch (who wrote Bostock) is from Colorado.
I have experimented with Notion and previously used Evernote. However, I simply require basic tools and a platform that functions rapidly and synchronizes across devices. Apple Notes fulfills these needs quite effectively for me.

Contrary to Evernote, which progressively slowed down and demanded increased payments, or Notion, which I anticipate may follow a similar path, I don't foresee Apple Notes becoming burdened and focused on revenue generation.
Quieted down, but I depend on projects with worst graphs:

https://github.com/reasonml/reason/graphs/contributors
Your ignorant and hateful speech has no place here. I get that its fun to make up strawmen, but it's counterproductive to discourse.
There's not much else you can do in rural areas, but the problem in the US is that many major cities are the same way.
Watch the YouTube video. Yes it’s pretty intense with GTD, but if you see the wide spectrum of her life in notion it’s very impressive. I don’t think I’d ever do it, but I wish I was organized enough to do so.
Why do I get the feeling that this will just be £100m poured down the drain…
When you experience the feeling "why wasn't this written down?", that is your signal to document it.

It would be the case, were there (even informal) processes for writing documentation. But since there is no documentation the process is that there isn't any experienced people have to humiliate themselves and ask the local gatekeeper about procedures that should have been written down a long time back.

No documentation is the sign of a terminally messed up workplace. Run as fast as you can.
Looking up some random SSD benchmarks, 2.0 seems about right for high-quality SSDs. Though you might as well benchmark your specific setup.
Lamp Stack, but make it WASM
Window Tax
The history of this tax makes me thing how SaaS prices calculated with some metrics that are imperfectly correlated with usage (per user, per host) leads to simple behaviour change to avoid an increase in pricing.
No point for who?

For Joe Biden? Absolutely. For the other candidates? There absolutely is a point.

For the party as a whole? Depends on what they want. Do they want the best candidate they can get? Or do they want their preferred candidate to be undamaged?

(And why should they tilt the scales in the direction of a "preferred" candidate? Arguably, it worked for them in 2020 - they avoided a messy primary that would have weakened whoever the candidate was. An unweakened Biden then defeated Trump. But in 2016, the preference for Hillary - or at least the hard feelings caused by the shenanigans in her favor - arguably led to Trump winning.)
I'd like to see more work done with investigating field self-interaction.

This 2020 paper by Alexandre Deur is very interesting. "[W]e find that relativistic corrections to the rotation curves of disk galaxies are significant at large galactic radii."

"Relativistic corrections to the rotation curves of disk galaxies" - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.05905.pdf

And a blog covering the paper: https://astrobites.org/2020/08/17/the-alternative-to-dark-ma...
Not to mention it has "trolls" at the top, but I'm pretty sure the whole idea of the cosy web started on 4chan.
As someone who works in (and leads) the development of a 100k LOC project with four developers (project lead, tech lead and two junior developers) I see pull requests as a way for other members (often me or tech lead) to 1) spot clunky code 2) spot things that already exist in the code and should be unified 3) a way to teach and be taught about how we want the code to work.

I know that "my" team members look at PRs as more of a safety net for oopsies than evidence of lack of trust between team members. We allow self approval of PRs so that if/when someone is the only developer working they can still push code if needed.

When I started in the project we did not use PRs and we all agree that they have made the code better and that they have unified our coding style (the fact that Visual Studio/ReSharper auto-formats changed code also helps with that aspect).
Respectfully, I believe you are inaccurate on both accounts, sun synchronous orbits (SSO) only have no eclipse if their orbital plane is within a very degrees of the terminator, this of course widens with altitude but there exists far more possible SSOs with eclipses than without.
Secondly with GEOs as with any very high altitude orbit the eclipse time trends towards zero so effectively at a GEO the eclipse time is minimal compared to the illuminated time. Of note the length for the eclipse time of GEO varies throughout the year.
I wonder if it will hallucinate tax loopholes. Based on its training data of existing laws, it seems likely.
It's right, but I actually really like your paraphrased version for this context. It resonated with me.
Hmm -- can you link directly to Trello lists/cards? Wondering if you could leverage a Chrome link on the home screen if that would then throw you over to Trello automatically? Not sure.
The package thief videos are great from the engineering perspective, but always make me feel kind of bad. One of the things I find most distressing in that series is the kids who show up in the videos, participating in theft at the behest of their parents. Some of the conversations between those kids and their parents are extremely sad.

And look - steal a package off a porch, you deserve the ultimately harmless annoyance for sure. But even with that in mind, there's something kind of cruel about the level of effort that's put into the package traps. Once you've found a target that no one will defend, it's just fine to douse them in fart spray and glitter. People cheer because, well, fuck thieves, right?

I get it - I really do. But ultimately, it's fun at the expense of other humans and those videos have always left me feeling a bit gross.
The linked article doesn't appear to cite any references.

Is there some obvious source for this claim that I'm missing?
> The one issue with using GrapheneOS's connectivity check is that you're broadcasting to the network that you're someone of interest. An Android phone connecting to Google isn't great for privacy but it is normal. An Android phone connecting to a GrapheneOS domain isn't.

Thanks that's an interesting thought.

I had similar thoughts, but going the other way around. I was wondering whether you gave more entropy be not using Google's generate_204, than by using it (= do more IPs do generate_204 calls). But after trying to compute some estimates, I ended up thinking that not sending generate_204 was still better than sending it.

But yes, as you point out, the entropy provided by pinging /another/ generate_204 is much much higher. At this point, it depends if you want to lower the information you send to Google, or your carrier.

PS: Just in case, Android's connectivity check pings a "generate_204" endpoints that as mentioned literally just responds with a 204
What Hemmingway can teach us SaaS startup founders on persuasive writing
Yeah. True regular expressions, which is to say the Kleene kind, are a lovely tool for testing membership in a given regular grammar.

However what we call regexes today are, often, a considerably more theoretically powerful tool that can match some[1] non-regular languages. Programmers are tempted to use them as a general purpose matcher, which they absolutely are not. Thus, the punchline of the joke.

[1] As far as I know the exact computational power of perlre isn't proved, but it can describe some subset of the context-free languages at the very least.
State machines work for logic too
Unless the UK is really good at managing this kind of spending, it strikes me as something that will just blow a bunch of government money on enriching people who like doing paperwork. This is basically how all Canadian government spending is, is UK better at it?

From a strategy perspective, I don't think it makes sense for countries generally to waste time on their own foundation models. There are lots of open source options, and almost no chance of a government version besting the state of the art. And there's not the barriers of say semiconductors or other manufacturing.

This is in some ways the classic trap of focusing on "AI" instead of an actual application. This is what many businesses wasted money on in 2016-2020, maybe now governments are doing the same?
Not "users", "ushers".
When ChatGPT came out.
A judge has ruled that he is one of the founders of Tesla.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/judge-strikes-claim-who-can-be-de...
Basically from what you've written, you are still addicted to scheduling everything, but now you do it in notion.

If you need to constantly drag items you didn't complete to the next day, it means you are either a professional procrastinator, which TODO lists just make it worse, or you are over committing and need to either find a way to delegate, or just don't do it.

I bet that if you maintain literally 1 file with TODOS and remove those lines as you complete it and use a Calendar(preferably, only for work), you'll do just fine.

All that energy wasted planning, you can use it for action.
iPhone 14 Emergency SOS via Satellite saved students stuck in a Utah canyon
This seems like much bigger news than it's being received as. Sure, other chip makers do sketchy things, but is that really where we're at in 2023? We're so beaten down by proprietary user-disrespecting hardware/software that we just shrug it off?

<rant because I hoped for more outrage on this and am not seeing it>

This makes me mad. I'm so sick of this type of thing. It's a horrible time too because the embedded 5G chips are about to be part of everything, sending telemetry back about where they are and what they're being used for. I think it's utterly ridiculous that if you aren't ok with this type of thing, then you have to go way out of the mainstream to find products, and often there's no viable option. "Ownership" now means nothing.

Imagine if you bought a car from somebody, and they secretly kept a spare key and periodically used your car to run their personal errand. Would you be ok with that so long as they always had it back before you needed it so you never knew they were doing it?

That's what is happening when you "buy" a device and the device maker uses it to run code that serves only themselves (without receiving permission), to the detriment of your privacy. I can only hope RISC-V combined with people willing to care can lead to a return to a time when people actually own stuff and ownership is something we respect.

</rant>
Yeah web is pretty crazy, I only got into it recently but ive noticed that the major frameworks are not really rivals like their users, they are all sharing ideas and maybe it's converging towards a bit more stability. Im bullish on SolidJS to live up to the name, the creator Ryan Carniato has a wealth of knowledge in that area having been through the whole web roller coaster, and he is getting close to "this is how it should be done".
SOMA is fantastic!
Looking forward to watch the future panel discussions between the communist Chinese AI, the libertarian American AI and the monarchist British AI...
Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists
Nvidia Open-Source Software Helps Developers Add Guardrails to AI Chatbots
> I tried warning people- here on HN the sentiment was 'we are indisposable'.

Maybe if you were actually any good. I reckon at least 60% of these bootcamp alumni were just dead weight. I've interviewed so many people who "learned to code" but had no meaningful logical reasoning or problem solving skills. They could maybe understand syntax, but for the most part they just have some basic familiarity with various frameworks and tools. They don't know how any of it actually works.

Experienced developers are often mediocre communicators, so it's not even like they'd be able to explain what needs to be done clearly enough for people without problem solving skills of their own to run with the ball once its been handed to them. Developers are there for their programming skills, not pedagogical ones, so it's just not a realistic staffing model to be this way.
Hillary ran the most entitled campaign I have seen in my lifetime. She failed spectacularly, because she should have won.

If the Democrats had run any candidate less flawed than Hillary, they would have won in 2016.
> godbolt is one of the absolutely most valuable and greatest tools available for software developers who work in compiled languages.

That's a bold claim for a tool that doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry.

Edit: or a subreddit.
https://archive.is/EtJGh

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675373
I ended up picking Fedora too because I thought KDE Plasma and Fedora would be easy, stable, and up-to-date enough. There hasn't been much issue so far. I really wanted to go NixOS like I run to make it reproducible, but the casual user ergonomics would be too difficult. :(
One problem with this that wasn't as much of a problem in the 1970s is RF interference. The 1970s designs and many other designs use 2.45 GHz, so it will interfere with wifi and bluetooth, with bluetooth being more sensitive to interference.

How far does this interference extend? Thousands of kilometers from the receiver[0, see page 250]. Because the transmitter is far, the beam spreads out quite a bit due to diffraction and because the transmit power is gigawatts there's hundreds of megawatts of stray power. Making bluetooth headphones and bluetooth low energy tags work worse will probably make people angry.

Different frequencies could be used, but that requires allocating spectrum, which is a pretty difficult task politically. In the US, there are a couple bands in the sub-10 GHz range where power beaming works best that have few users. So it's not impossible, but still politically difficult.

[0]https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9318744
TorchServe with Secure gRPC
According to GrapheneOS: "HTTPS connections are made to fetch PSDS information to assist with satellite based location. These are static files and are downloaded automatically to improve location resolution speed and accuracy. No query or data is sent to these servers".

https://grapheneos.org/faq#default-connections
> I don't think anyone would argue that having the resources of large corporation gives the average worker capacity to be significantly more economically productive than they would be working for themselves - meaning there's fairly few people who could earn enough to make a decent living self-employed

I'd say it entirely depends on industry, if it allows you to buy a bunch of expensive machinery that makes work of worker more efficient - solo craftsman can't afford and don't have volume to pay for say fancy CNC router - sure it can.

But on the other end, like programming, generally the bigger company is the more levels of indirection and waste happens, and small team can vastly outpace in per-developer productivity a big team.

Now when that team needs to buy 10 million worth of hardware to train their AI stuff that flips back to "corporate with bigger resources enhance productivity
> If you're 18 years old and want to learn to fix a plumbing leak quickly, TikTok can deliver you a high quality video with the learning aspect done in 30-60 seconds.

The video equivalent of the 'Learn X in 24 hours' garbage video courses but with 100x the manipulation, scams and prioritizing creators who have already gamed the so-called 'recommendation algorithm' and have drowned out other creators all in the name of the user being addicted to the new digital crack / cocaine.

Facebook was the last decade's trendy digital cocaine. TikTok is a no better digital drug but even worse.
This is a totally fair point. Not encouraging dishonesty, in fact I hate it... but what if you didn't know it was written by a computer? Would the AI fool you?
So are you caching the query results keyed by query or something higher up?
I have ADHD, and if I don't write it down, it isn't happening. How that information is presented is a big deal.

If you do a basic litmus test of going to a sub-Reddit that specializes in productivity, concepts like GTD, or software like Obsidian, you'll quite frequently find people with ADHD, and folks who suspect they have ADHD, but have no diagnosis, or can't access appropriate medication where they live for one reason or another.

Disclaimer: I don't use Notion. I didn't like it.
We have open eugenicists and right libertarians too I'm not sure why this fringe is the surprising one. Anyway socialism & communism are minority but not extreme political affiliations in most of the world; it's only really the US where this is somehow considered fundamentally unacceptable.
Same here. I then ended up just using pandoc and a small shell script and it's served as a great static site generator letting me focus on writing my markdown.
Agree with mowing the leaves. I went from raking/blowing and bagging, to using a shredder, and finally gave up a few years ago and just mowed the leaves on the lawn. Very easy, and I like to mow the lawn a last time in the fall anyway.

I had one maple taken down last year, so there are fewer leaves to mow now (just what blows over from my neighbors) - but the remaining tree drops leaves on the sidewalk and street. Nothing for that but to rake/blow (with a corded electric blower) and bag. At least we get 4 "free" leaf pick-up days.
If you scroll a bit further the next article is titled:

"The UK government won't make an NFT after all"