skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps there will be a Pixel Fold Express (a) or some other moniker for a value-focused foldable that's more easily attainable for the masses? I'm trying to think how much money I'd need to make a year where dropping $1,700 on a device with a 3 year lifespan makes sense. I'm thinking I'd need to be an executive that works around the clock before I could justify that expense. Everyone has different values of course.
Definitely not a repressed line of thinking
Trash can’t: S.F.'s bespoke garbage bins put on hold because of graffiti fears
I got hired for a job specifically because I knew crystal reports! I don't miss that.
Anything is worth a shot, but 3.5 cannot consistently translate English into ROT13, so uh, corpus size matters.
oh hey.... thank you! That had totally slipped my mind as another venue to check out. Thanks!
The story, as a dialogue:

Knuth: I've come up with an idea I like, called literate programming, and a system called WEB. I wrote TeX in WEB.

Bentley: I took a look, and I love it! But TeX is 600 pages long; could you give me a WEB example of a few pages, that I can publish in my magazine column?

Knuth: Sure, but that would be too easy: why don't YOU tell me what program to write in WEB?

Bentley: Ok, write me a WEB program to find the top K most common words in a text file.

Knuth: Sure, here's a WEB program for the problem, as you asked. It's long enough that your readers can see the main features of WEB, and I also came up with a new data structure so that everyone learns something.

Apparently, according to many commentators (such as the linked post), Knuth ought to have instead replied with something like:

Knuth: Ok, well, you asked me to write a program to illustrate WEB, but actually… Most of your readers won't know this, because it's still 1986, but if they go to a place like Bell Labs they can find the Unix operating system, where Doug McIlroy has come up with a system for combining programs called Unix pipelines, and other people have already written text-processing programs with names like 'tr', 'sort' and 'uniq' (you can look up what they do). So, if any of your readers is using such a system, they can just use those pre-existing programs with an appropriate pipeline. Ta-da! Even though this solution is much slower, I'm sure you won't mind that I didn't give you a WEB program for your column as you asked.

This reply would make no sense! Only with a game of telephone/whispers does the story become cast as a "competition". Anyway, for completeness, the rest of the story was:

Bentley: Thank you for your program. I've asked Doug McIlroy to write a review.

McIlroy: (After writing the review.) BTW, our Unix land is awesome, we have this thing called pipes; we could solve this problem with just…

A couple of previous discussions (there have been many):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31301777 - Donald Knuth was framed (2020)
| May 2022 | 137 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30017311 - More shell, less egg (2011) | Jan 2022 | 24 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22406070 - Donald Knuth was framed | Feb 2020 | 183 comments
Indeed. Would have been nice to have that mentioned in the video but it was US centric. Zuse was in Germany. His computer is in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
But the data point is just wrong or poorly described. Did you really just test one side (the "funny elbow") and compare it to the possibly very different thing from the article. A search for "fake British accents" brings up multiple videos with >100000 likes each and significantly more such than for funny elbow.
Ask HN: What are some free startup ideas you wish someone would just build?
Tesla bought a battery startup and made grand claims as to revolutionary new battery chemistry, but last I checked (a few months ago) they had yet to actually ship anything other than the same batteries they always have.
One species in one small study does not biodiversity across geo-biological timescales make.
"standard" C implies default to me, so the post is probably referring to C89 or C99, which are significantly more used than C17.
It's a proven research method. I forget the name, but post the wrong answer to annoy someone else to provide the right one.
I have found my doppleganger. The exact same technologies, progression, I even wrote a VIN scanning app for car dealers myself. My mind is blown.
https://archive.is/xeWgR
In fairness to me I never said it was a panacea, just that mechanical removal and chemicals are not the only option.

Biological control practised today is vastly different to the old days of "let's just see how it goes" and introduce a large mammals, reptiles or amphibians (see the famous Simpsons episode).

Today it is a long scientific process to ensure the control measure is hyper targeted. Sometimes it works great other times it just doesn't work at all and the agent dies off, but gone of the days of a failure being an ecological disaster.
Reflect – high-performance sync for the multiplayer web
Last week, a story in praise of ChatGPT ended with a haiku that has the wrong syllable count. Why check when it sounds good?
3 years life span is questionable considering pixel 7 and 7 pro quality issues (falling buttons, cracking camera glass)
Vint’s a solid guy in my book. Right after I joined Google last year I sent him a message on Chat. He actually responded to me (by email)! It was clear he actually gave me a few minutes of thought given his response. I saw him later by the Googleplex but didn’t want to cause a scene as he was quietly making lunch at the salad bar.
That's impressive! Is it a specific version and what features or is it a subset?
Love this as a founder! Can see value in leveraging sales specific data to fine tune results.
Yeah. And it's wildly misunderstood too, so you get random people writing and running `make clean test` stuff that inherently disagrees with itself, which can do all kinds of nonsense if your system isn't normal/clean/running on Thursday.

I do still use it for simple automation, because it's nice to have a language-agnostic way to do simple things. But once it grows beyond about a page of text it tends to become a real nightmare, and is nigh impossible for most people to help maintain... which is not at all helped by its absolute lack of clear best-practices or warnings when misconfigured, and poor meshing with many common systems (like source-modifying tools, e.g. gofmt).

It doesn't help that every guide starts out with

# so easy!
thing:
./build thing

When in reality you pretty much always need at least how this page ends, to be even slightly stable and maintainable:

# The final build step.
$(BUILD_DIR)/$(TARGET_EXEC): $(OBJS)
$(CXX) $(OBJS) -o $@ $(LDFLAGS)

# Build step for C source
$(BUILD_DIR)/%.c.o: %.c
mkdir -p $(dir $@)
$(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@

# Build step for C++ source
$(BUILD_DIR)/%.cpp.o: %.cpp
mkdir -p $(dir $@)
$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $< -o $@

It's a horrifying bait-and-switch that a lot of people never fully learn their way through to the end.
Buying data from private companies is not unconstitutional so long as the company selling it to the government didn't break laws.

As with so many american issues, just amend the fucking constitution!

I swear this country needs to stop everything and do a constitutional convention (can be done, never be done before).
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22315899 (624 points | Feb 13, 2020 | 85 comments)
The crucial part of this research that is omitted is that the type of PFAS that contact lenses contain are “fluoropolymers”, a subcategory of PFAS that is considered to be less dangerous, and is not the subject of most PFAS regulation. Still potentially harmful, of course, I don’t claim to be an expert on this stuff, but it’s an important point that was left out of the article.
"And thanks to its nuclear generation, all that electricity will be carbon free."

It ain't carbon-free to build the plants nor to mine and refine the uranium.
I suspect that the reason that people find declarative and functional programming more difficult is that they have to ‘unlearn’ a lot of procedural thinking that we get from real world experience.
There are certainly downsides to hording data. At the very least, information takes up space. It also tends to suck up mental bandwidth: you have to keep organizing, de-duplicating, and migrating to newer formats. It's much easier to just delete it. Just like it's much easier to throw old ratty tshirts. IMO, data hoarding is just as much of a mental disorder as hoarding physical stuff.

This idea that all information must be preserved for forever is also at odds with privacy. See, e.g., the right to be forgotten.
And none of those things are the responsibility of, nor in the power of hospitals.
Yes, I’ve also seen it struggle with ROT13. I’ve read that this is because the tokenizer breaks up words in a way that makes mapping to ROT13 hard. I don’t expect it to have much luck with a language with a small corpus.
I'm with you if you're talking about krita, GIMP doesn't even register as a blip, if you are comparing it with Photoshop.
Not opened but photopea.com and Affinity are the only best ones that come very close.
With crypto, you get to cut out the middle man and be your own bank.

You have fraud team and IT security team on your staff, right?
I’m aware of CP-1, but has graphite been used in conjunction with any reactors using natural uranium as fuel?
"But, like Fukushima showed, control systems are vulnerable to failure."

Fukishima showed that organizational incompetence that led to backup generators being placed in the tsunami zone is a bad idea.
or you could wear glasses
I wrote a good chunk of the back end of what is now a widely referenced Standard & Poor Global Mineral Intelligence GIS database that draws together and cross references all global mineral leases and company data publicly filed in land offices and stock exchanges across the planet (and a few more odds and sods that take a bit more effort to unearth).

I don't do "enthusiam" .. just the bald facts.

Disney, like many other media and streaming companies in several countries, saw a COVID period boom in stock prices as more people watched media and more investors bet on streaming.

That peaked and passed, falling back to pre COVID levels in the majority of cases.

I dare say some day trading investors fumed and cursed culture wars attributing some facet of "woke" to what was a wide spread an thoroughly predictable occurrence echoed across multiple countries.
Would you pay for it in bulk, pre-checked so you only got valid and free domains? … asking cause I’ve already done the hard work
It's comforting to think that 2000 years from now, all that may remain of the early web and modern culture is the Space Jam website. Maybe Space Jam the movie will be looked at as our Gilgamesh or Iliad.
> Because otherwise their work was wasted.

This argument really makes no sense. If I tell Bob how to fix his transmission down at the local diner, but nobody records the conversion, that wasn't wasted work. But fixed his transmission: mission accomplished.
Yeah, the problem with your sampling experiment (as your suspicious observation makes it sound like you’ve started to realize) is that this distribution has a very narrow tail to 1 that you won’t hit by accident but nonetheless contributes very significantly to the computation of the mean.

You correctly computed that the mean of log(foo(n)) is exactly −n, and the median of foo(n) indeed shrinks like e^−n (more specifically like e^(1/3 − n), I think), but the mean of foo(n) is exactly 2^−n.
He was a working Engineer decades ago but his current job is Evangelist.
I got a new laptop recently and I hadn't used Windows in probably a decade. It came with windows 11 and I saw so many old interfaces under the hood while exploring that it made me laugh a few times.
Global impact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccination
The primary thing that keeps dictators in power is small number of allies, who help them control information (mostly the message "rebellion will be supressed"). Guns are only a tool, without the operators, they are useless.

In contrast, democracy is protected by transparency, not guns. Guns are required only to the point where there are people who suppress transparency with threat of violence, which is usually only organized crime or foreign state actors.
That's how many computer games generate their universes. It's called procedural generation [1].

One of the earliest and most famous examples is Elite [2]:

> The Elite universe contains eight galaxies, each with 256 planets to explore. Due to the limited capabilities of 8-bit computers, these worlds are procedurally generated. A single seed number is run through a fixed algorithm the appropriate number of times and creates a sequence of numbers determining each planet's complete composition (position in the galaxy, prices of commodities, and name and local details; text strings are chosen numerically from a lookup table and assembled to produce unique descriptions, such as a planet with "carnivorous arts graduates").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)
if you could build a nuke in your garage, the world would have ended long ago. the extreme difficulty, expense, and industrial-grade complexity in handling and enriching uranium and then forming it into a viable weapon is the only thing that kept that from happening
> Juniperus occidentalis, known as the western juniper, is a shrub or tree native to the Western United States…

Since you obviously don’t understand how these plants have adapted themselves and the role of wildfires to western living I’d suggest, maybe, doing a little research on the subject.

I’m also 100% certain the goal isn’t to actually combust the trees in prescribed burns.
> like any other tool, they can also be used for evil

Ok. What is this evil you speak of, person who wants me to think I'm like you? I don't get it. Define it clearly please.

(No definition follows.)

> So we, as software developers, need an ethical code

Oh, so because of <undefined thing> we need <ethical code>? Why is that, then? Please explain all the whys.

(None of the whys follow. I guess we're not so alike after all. Drat!)

I believe we as a cohort, a group of similarly-titled people, a group seeking possibly similar things should have a code of ethics. I really do. But not because of no reason and "so there!"

What separates most of us from actual engineers is not just an iron ring, but a code of ethics (well, nowadays, also common scholastic training - can I get a "hell yeah" from the code bootcamp folks?). Most guilds used to have those codes, in fact. And union membership is predicated on agreeing with the union's goals. And I could never quite agree with the Cub Scout oath or the twelve steps' higher power, but those serve the same purpose, too, and I admire them even when I don't agree.

I think I disagree with the post's first reply, from "anonymous:" "really well written." There's not enough thought before the writing started. I think it deserves a little more of that and then probably a bunch of editing before it's worthy of a real takedown. And being worthy of a takedown is a badge of honor. (Honor being related to ethics but given ethics isn't defined, I won't bother either.)
Which distribution? I just learned about waypipe and took a quick look

I found it for Ubuntu, Fedora, Alpine, Arch, and Gentoo - the first two make extending availability elsewhere pretty simple.

The specs covering the package managers for most derivatives are already written
...but when you do encounter major problems, they are definitely major.

That's the point I'm trying to make: new cars are lasting longer because they were designed with a more definite lifespan (and all the "improvements" can be seen as a way to make that lifespan more definite.) Parts being made to tighter tolerances means far less margin and variation. The "bathtub curve" is being made sharper at both ends.
Given how much data years worth of high resolution, 3D video and audio takes up, arguably you've trained on several orders of magnitude more data.
I'm still trying to read it in depth but I skimmed and didn't see anything about controlling for wealth. I've heard many people talk about when a family isn't well off and both parents need to work, there's a trend to give them a device because it makes for a cheap babysitter. We also know poverty has a big connection with mental health in adults.
Elon's 7 months into a 17 year old company we finally have encryption.

But that's not fast enough because it's not perfect yet?

Do we think there's more dead wood Imposters that needs to be fired at Twitter to get progress even faster?

> Then they'd have the corresponding private key, and would be able to obtain the message encryption key.

This is technically wrong or badly worded. Is it just saying since you run their software on your device they could steal your private key? Same as WhatsApp or Signal? Not sure I get this point. If app developer turns evil and no one notices you are always stuffed.
There's a man named Chuck Hutchins who pioneered computer numerical control machining over many decades. He started his career as the first bonafide engineer at a machine tool manufacturing company. He took the job even though the salary was lower than his other offers; the deal was that he got to shadow every other employee in the company for a week each, from the shop floor to management.

He is quite old now, but he published a book a couple years ago describing his experiences in the industry, founding a scrappy startup in the early 60's and growing it to a highly profitable business with thousands of employees. If you like engineering non-fiction, it's called "Hot Tech Cold Steel".
Do people actually give a shit what Gartner says?
Both. It's barely mentioned, though, and clear that they intended people to use ReGIS instead, presumably due to bitmaps not being very useful at 19.2K.
For more background for those interested, this is known as Universal Grammar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
If a fire burns down your house, it's ok because it doesn't matter on bio-geologic timescales, right?

You're the one bringing the idea of bio-geologic timescales to an issue that is having an impact right now.
Sam Harris did an episode on existential threat and nuclear war where he talks about certain knowledge potentially being deadly for humanity. The knowledge of how to build an atom bomb is an example. Knowledge of how to build an atom bomb with household items would almost certainly end humanity.

Super-intelligent AI with poor alignment could totally give us this knowledge. This information could already exist somewhere, or we might be only a few thoughts away from discovering it. At the very least, we probably already have some prerequisites to discover humanity-ending tech and we will probably continue to close the gap as we don’t know what the dangerous technology is.

Some argue this is how technological species would approach the great filter.
How is this good if the antitrust laws are stifling innovation. The logical leap is obviously far, but the comment seems to lead a reader to think that antitrust laws is leading to less innovation in Europe..
Does it integrate with National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) [1] and electronic Patient Care Records (ePCR)?

Hospitals may contract emergency transport. If Fasten can share medical data right onto the EMT or paramedic's devices, that could help expedite everything.

Tapping on a tablet while speaking to family just feels disconnected. There can be dozens of fields that could auto-populate. Tens of life-saving minutes could be saved, just on effective integration.

Tapping a dropdown, scanning a list. Scrolling through.

Tapping a field, waiting for the onscreen keyboard, tucking the IV under one arm, trying to tap-type with one hand.

Glancing up at family, back at the tablet, losing one's place, scanning again.

That silence between data entry and we really need to get this person out now.

Tapping numbers one digit at a time in a jostling ambulance, sirens wailing, have to keep squeezing the manual resuscitator.

[1] https://www.eso.com/blog/what-is-nemsis/
I’d say that an understanding of causality helps people learn chess. Maths, from counting through algebra helps people learn to program. I’d imagine it would be hard to understand the concept of a loop if you couldn’t count.
Well, if we're to believe some of the recent reports posted on HN, the adult and elderly market for games is underserved. Many more people would play once companies start paying attention and realize the potential. I think of it like movies. There are movies for kids, but it's not about any one age group, it's an entertainment medium.

Also, yes once the current young people start aging it should change the gaming market, especially with VR (for games!) and hyperreal graphics.
I’d argue it’s evident large jQuery apps are a pain in the ass to maintain
I retract my comment.
That you “see” a market is just recitation of previously encountered and memorized speech.

It’s just numbers. The labels are arbitrary. A lot of hallucinated money is spent on paying people to recite the correct tags and labels.
The onus is, without a doubt, on you to provide research supporting your initial claims here.
This got me curious, so I searched for some info and found this thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039213

Looks like it may not be used exactly in avionics (or maybe most critical parts of avionics), as it isn't certified for the highest levels of DO-178B (and certification for lower levels was done by particular users of SQLite on their own, so the info is not public). Still very impressive.
Sure but they make certain things very hard or impossible, usually as things get more dynamic. But CSS has gotten a lot more dynamic capability in recent years.
Here is a discussion about introducing AVX by default in ClickHouse:
https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/40459

TLDR: runtime CPU dispatching and JIT - ok, AVX by default - not ok.
https://archive.org/details/rainbox
About as relevant as citing the Bible, with respect to this discussion.
> There's a know it when you see it difference between a folder navigator and analytics platform for doxxing dissidents.

Yes, but there's a "know it when you see it difference" between most real life activity and straw men, too.

The less like straw men the arguments are, the harder they are to discern from reality.
HN comments section will be the death of me.

There could be an asteroid impact and someone would be jocularly arguing that asteroids are neither good nor bad, and that being sad about it is woke nonsense, and that the asteroid is winning in the marketplace of ideas, or is full of iridium or some other valued metal, and is therefore a net boon to human populations in several million years (if any) who could, after all, make cool swords out of its ore.

The absolute dissociation from anything like a tender, ecologically connected mindset is laughable until you remember that the people speaking are all mostly making six figures and are, for better or worse, our generation's elite.

This plant is choking out whole ecosystems. Yes, there are (mathematical!) measures of genetic diversity; they are trending down; this is bad because it destabilizes the food web.

Remember food? You like food, right? This is bad for the food.
I tried to have Copilot extend my technical writing article. It was very fast... at writing very positive-sounding gibberish.

Possibly with a better prompt it would be better.
Oh well roll out the red carpet; let’s all set aside ourselves aside for this one guy that is good at the language of math.

Grigori Perelman is a better role model.

It’s not hard to dupe the majority into believing BS… see religion.

This math guy is just a guy taking advantage of the notion no one can disprove their divinity.
Remember? If only.

I work outside of tech. We still use it.