skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish Sublime would make an email client :).
Sublime's pricing is fair, and it's cross platform. I use their text and merge apps on both my work Mac, and my personal Linux desktop. It's a bargain.

The fact that Mimestream thinks they can charge $50/y means that either a) they'll fail, or b) there's plenty of room for more competition, and Sublime should come and eat their lunch.
Thats pretty cool. Even today, I continue to use Winamp.
portacle is an emacs based ide for common lisp

lem is a common lisp ide for several languages
As you mostly change jobs every couple of years, I’d say you should be looking for way more than 5%. Unless you are at the top of your pay scale, in which case it’s not worth moving for money, certainly not 5%.
Paywalled. And the title sounds like clickbait.
FYI: Another round of massive layoffs at Meta this Wednesday. Stay-at-home lockdown ensues.
> Now Porky Pig gets greedy and raises the price of ham to $60. Now you have only $40 to spend on eggs, and (due to the Law of Supply & Demand) the price of eggs declines.

Pull the other one, it's got bells on. Supply and demand is a nice theory, but calling it a law is magical thinking. If I go to the store and say "please sir I'd like to buy eggs but I don't have enough money" they tell me to piss right off, this isn't candyland.
Hard Puzzle (Game)
I just want to translate a movie language audio from one to another, whats the easiest way to do this at home?
You state that "Most relevant child abuse was covered by famous politicians" and list 5 examples. This does by no means prove your claim. For all I know, the rate of child abusers could be much lower among politicians than in the general population.
Nice /s. Regarding "forcing boss hand" you just wrap it in nice words "Hey John! I just got this juicy offer and I don't know what to do! I really love working with you and I prefer to stay here but they gave me the offer that is hard to reject."
I think to be clear - firstly it's a hot topic in Cornwall not because of nimby-ism but because the developments are all pitched at hyper wealthy individuals, whether retirement individuals with £500k to spunk on a 1-bed per my example or people from outside the region who are buying holiday homes at similarly inflated values. I don't think anyone locally would say "don't build", instead it's "please build for locals" (where "local" = normal locally employed person).

Secondly, my point is kind of more general. I think if anyone with reasonable intelligence were given £1m they could make fairly reasonable profits in fairly short time, possibly from land or maybe from other investments. Of course there are risky investment strategies that could easily see them losing the lot but in general I think you'd be hard pushed to not find some level of success given this initial starting point.
Yes, exactly. The "greedflation" label definitely has an element of truth to it, but it strikes me as misleading. Why is everything so expensive? Oh, it's greed. Guess we'll just have to either shrug and live with it or dismantle everything and go to a centrally planned economy. Greed is part of the human condition that will rear its ugly head whenever you allow individuals or groups freedom. Not something that could have been easily foreseen and dealt with by good governance.

Something like "trustflation" would be a better name. Want to reduce prices by allowing/encouraging corporations to consolidate their supply chains? Maybe that's a good short term trade off. But prepared for the inevitable trustflation when your too-big-to-fail, risk-averse monster can now hike prices as it sees fit.
> one medium-sized (an hour or less time) thing done

Totally off-topic, but this fascinated me because it highlighted how differently people regard task size. If I have a task that can be done in about an hour or less, I call that "very small". A small task can be done in a day, a medium in a single-digit number of days.

Just a thing that struck me as interesting.
Does relying on Chinese companies in India really accomplish the goal of independence from China? If there's some kind of political conflict, isn't it likely that China can shut those down using leverage at home?
Meta has plenty of EU-based assets which are not liquid enough to just pull out in a matter of months. The EU and national governments would also likely have options under insolvency laws and criminal statutes to freeze some of Meta's assets in the EU if the company made an attempt to pull out to avoid some fines. Of course Meta won't. The EU is a valuable market and even if Meta would stop making any profit (they won't), it can't just leave that market to the competition.
I remember many distinct moments walking under moonlight when I was a kid. At the family ranch, when visiting relatives in a very remote place, walking on the beach.

Sadly I think this is an experience very few people in this era will ever get to experience.
Iridium SBD Module for Zephyr OS
Iridium SBD module for Zephyr OS
What's wrong with SSH and API access?
Correct, the benefits of the paid version are support and convenience. 100% of our code is in the open source repo.
diffrax is absolutely magical. I had to integrate a lot of ODEs during my PhD, so I spent quite some time choosing and tuning the scipy solvers for my problems, and I thought that I came close to the fastest I could do in Python. Recently, out of curiosity I rewrote a stiff system that I was studying to solve it with diffrax, and was astonished when I saw it being solved 150x faster.
I'm jealous of technology workers from about 10 years ago, before work IM tools like Slack, HipChat, and Teams became the standard. Being able to work uninterruptedly except for emails (for which a delayed response was acceptable) sounds like an absolute dream. I dread the constant feeling of low-level anxiety induced by these tools (Gotta keep that status icon green! Gotta respond to messages right away!)
It's not, but not paying a fine can quickly become a criminal offense.
I've never understood this. If you're not making enough profit - or even loosing money - selling to a large client, you are better off without them. Profit should come before everything else, including growth.
Sure but SF isn't just another run-down city, it's also the center of the tech universe! So you've got the driverless cars, geeks on one-wheels, the salesforce tower's continually animating digital display, &c. That's what makes it feel cyberpunk to me: The latest tech rubbing shoulders with grimy urban decay.
Are you saying if we use the URL parameter "useskin" set to "vector" we can get the old layout back? I wonder if this applies on other sites using mediawiki.

[EDIT] Fuck me! It does work both on wikipedia and the Arch wiki. So long.
Fake Pentagon attack hoax shows perils of Twitter’s paid verification
It's easier and cleaner to automate than sending SSH commands.
FYI: There will be another round of layoffs at Meta again this Wednesday.
There's a really obvious reason why QE wouldn't have caused consumer price inflation in 2008 and its immediate aftermath: the financial crisis effectively shrunk the money supply. As the Bank of England's economists are fond of explaining, every time a bank writes a loan this creates new money from nowhere and every time a loan is paid off money is destroyed. When the financial crisis hit, banks became unwilling to loan money which meant that businesses couldn't afford to operate and laid off their staff which meant they couldn't afford to buy stuff which meant businesses couldn't afford to operate in an endless loop.

Crucially, though, the actual underlying productive capacity was still there. The factories still existed, the workers and materials they needed were still available, and if only the money was there to run them then they could pay their staff and those staff could buy stuff allowing the businesses to keep operating and making everyone better off once more. This was what QE tried to do, with mixed results and some side effects.

This was not true during Covid. Large chunks of the economy were effectively shut down, their workers forced to stay home and their customers legally barred from buying their products. All the capacity that went unused was basically lost; when factories tried to catch up on production and people went on holidays they'd missed, that came out of 2022 and 2023's capacity and had to compete for it with everything that people would normally have bought. Yet many contries tried to make it seem like people weren't actually worse off due to that long economic shutdown by printing money and handing it out as furlough or enhanced unemployment to replace what they'd have earned for the work they didn't do. That fell apart when the world reopened and they started spending the money because the actual underlying goods and services hadn't been produced.
Yeah I do. They need printers for what reason?
Here is an example of gpt-4 not having a realistic model of the world.

“ If it takes 4 hours for 4 clothing items to dry in the sun, how long does it take for 8 clothing items to dry?”

“[maths calculations] Therefore, it would take 8 hours for 8 clothing items to dry in the sun“

It was much easier to find examples like this with previous models, but it’s still possible.
FB internal researches have already found that Instagram is having negative impacts on the mental health of teenagers: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/09/14/faceboo...
> Banning from where?

I used to buy the incrementalist argument that these books are inappropriate for grade schoolers. But then the law, predictably, was extended to high school and shows no sign of stopping.

Banning books has never been looked back on as a sign of a strong society. School is meant to be about resolving conflicting ideas. Pretending kids aren't getting 10x worse on the internet, or from their friends with an internet-connected device, just separates society into an imbecilic underclass and ones who can afford a more interrogative education.
At least for me the problems start when 15+ people join the call (about the size of a small classroom). I've tried both their hosted platform and self-hosting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I always thought of seeing most computations of functions as computational graphs- at least, when I used MathLink to connect Mathematica to Python, it basically gives you a protocol to break any Mathematica function into its recursively expanded definition. Konrad Hinsen suggested using python's built-in operator overloading, so if you said "1 + Symbol('x')" it would get converted to "Plus(1, Symbol('x')) and then sent over MathLink to Mathematica, which would evaluate Plus(1, x), and return an expression which I'd then convert back to a Python object representation.

I don't think we talked about doing any sort of automated diff (in my day we figured out our own derivatives!) but after I made a simple eigendecomp of a matrix of floats, the mathematica folks contributed an example that did eigendecomp of a matrix with symbols (IE, some of the terms weren't 5.7 but "1-x"). Still kind of blows my mind today how much mathematica can do with computation graphs.

IIUC this is the basis of LISP as well.
I am looking forward to io_uring support in libuv
" and suffer little more than a slap on the wrist from the international community."

Russia is a international pariah now, with no more friends and the only states doing buisness with them are doing so, because russia is weak and without choice, so you can have favorable terms with them. Even china openly condemned russias aggression. They still do buisness with russia of course, but to very good conditions.

And china just did a important states meeting for central asian states:

https://thediplomat.com/2023/05/in-xian-chinas-xi-calls-for-...

Basically all former soviet states and russia was not invited or mentioned at all. China takes what russia cannot hold anymore - and russia still has to smile and dares no criticism, because without china - they would be done economically. China could not have done this prior the invasion.

And if china would try to invade Taiwan - then the military outcome is far from settled and china tries hard to avoid the political costs of a invasion. They rather want to strongarm taiwan into a forced "voluntarily" unification. Otherwise they would have invaded long ago.
This article was not a good use of time. Instead of saying how to spin, it just attacked Depp and Majors.
Good luck finding a lawyer without an optical drive to take your case :-P-
How can Facebook both allow a user in the EU to send messages to a group of people in the US and not store data in the US?
As a former admin, I don't think I ever interacted with anyone from WMF. As you probably know, deletions, locks, bans, bot approvals, etc. are normally handled by volunteers. Even requests for adminship are discussed by volunteers, then finalized by volunteer bureaucrats.

I would say the culture you mention was bred in very early days of Wikipedia. Editor activity peaked in 2007, when the annual budget was ~$2m. The prior year was <$800k.
Not everything that's uncomfortable and swept under the rug is a conspiracy theory. Calling the revelations about Jeffrey Eppstein and his shady connections in 2023 conspiracy theory comes off as dismissive.

Relevant standup bit https://youtu.be/b6NmjK2pgiQ

But I sort of get your #2.
The first few words of the article sums it up well: "Surprising literally no one..."

Elon Musk is obviously a smart guy, but he's not infallible and his management of Twitter has proved this beyond doubt.
Reminds me of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Ston...
Thank you for the thoughtful responses. I think we agree on logic, but differ on some of the facts. That is to say, I would agree with your logic and conclusions if I held the same inputs.

The first difference is that you characterize the urban water districts as the primary payers. My understanding is that many agricultural cities and counties also put money and bonds for various water projects with the intent to use it for agricultural uses.

I have also never heard of any conditions on trees or crops, so I am genuinely curious where that is coming from.

In general, I am for letting the water price vary with market demand, or as dictated by contractual agreements. This is admittedly very complicated because the supply and allowed participants is dictated by policy. That is to say, fishermen and environmentalists aren't buying up the water in the market, they set limits on how much can be sold and to whom.

I actually hear very little from farmers auguring that the cities are robbing them of their water. They seem to see the conflict more in terms of ag vs environmental groups, and take city use for granted. Urban dwellers seem to see the conflict more in terms of city vs Ag, with environmental use taken for granted.

I don't think your restaurant example is a charitable or accurate description of farmers (or restaurants for that matter). Nobody is owed anything, but people can be reasonably upset if they think their government is actively working against their interests. A farmer might be mad that the state prioritizes smelt over his livelihood or cancer treatment. In some sense it's a central function of government to pick winners and losers, and it sucks being on the losing side. A restaurant owner might be mad about minimum wage hikes while the city prevents more housing that would alleviate such need, seeing themselves as a victim of bad policy. It doesn't feel good if your life is selected as a necessary sacrifice for the greater good. People obviously have huge biases about what the greater good is when it opposes their livelihood, but let's not pretend policy is free of flaws either.
> who do you think votes for these decisions? The parents.

There are a lot of non-parents with strong opinions about this.
I don't understand how this is proposed all over again when it has zero chance to be effective.

Criminals will not use apps that compromise security. They will still use apps that are end-to-end encrypted. These people are breaking the law already, why would they make an exception for one that would compromise their opsec?
Yes? I was answering your question of why to do that.
So now the EU is saying that Facebook shouldn’t allow people in the EU to talk to people in the US?
The problem is not that they want to ban encryption but that they can't. It's like banning poetry
The idea of ZIRP seems to be relatively new... How are you sure the consequences and effects aren't still playing out? It seems SVB and FRC'd recent collapses were related to bets made during ZIRP and it wasn't ZIRP but the sudden, firm departure from ZIRP that 'caused' the issues. Tomaytoe Tomahtoe.

You also seem to lack a rational, data-backed argument. I wouldn't go as far as to say you never have, since that seems like an ad hom and not something one would do in a good faith discussion. In such a complex, chaotic system, what gives you certainty that any given things are NOT related? That seems the claim that needs justification in our globalized economy, a rational argument would presume two things can effect each other in the age of information... The question that remains is: to what degree?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230522141811/https://www.nytim...
Now you can edit your WhatsApp messages
> I really hope we have an Iraq-style mea culpa over this conflict very soon

(1) there was never a mea culpa over Iraq, though there should have been, and

(2) while it would also be nice for the lying aggressors to admit they were, well, lying aggressors in this war, Putin’s not going to do that any more than Bush the Younger did.
> because the models are nondeterministic

The models themselves are not. They are operated this way however to make them more “fun” and “creative”.
The police already have the ability to monitor you without consent. One party consent lets people record their own conversations and push back against false allegations about what they did or did not say.
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I applaud your experience, but honestly I agree with parent: knowledge acquisition for a side project may not be the best use of their time, especially if it significantly impedes actually launching/finishing a first iteration.

It's a similar situation for most apps/services/startup ideas: you don't necessarily need a planet scale solution in the beginning. Containers are great and solve lots of problems, but they are not a panacea and come with their own drawbacks. Anecdotally, I personally wanted to make a small local 3 node Kubernetes cluster at one time on my beefy hypervisor. By the time I learned the ins and outs of Kubernetes networking, I lost momentum. It also didn't end up giving me what I wanted out of it. Educational, sure, but in the end not useful to me.
Oh for sure, that's fair. I still want to tell everyone they should go see Solaris and Stalker though. Maybe the list I want to see isn't called "underrated", but more of "ones you probably haven't seen, but should".
"definitely a different thing!"

Is it in all cases though? People with stuff like oppositional defiant disorder might be predisposed to act that way through biology.
@1: The limits are considered obsolete since C89 and implementations are encouraged to avoid them whenever possible. I think the same way we disregard non ASCII character sets, non two's complement encodings and similar, we are safe in assuming sane implementation being able to handle longer names. And being honest, if given implementation isn't capable of more than 31 significant characters, then it would have problems with namespaces too.

@2: Agree, although I don't recall this ever happening to me.

@3: Is it? How is libname::actual_function_name() much better?

I actually like to use libname__actual_function_name(), as it further separates "namespace" from function name (unless we need compatibility with C++, as IIRC it reserves all double underscores, not only at the beginning).
tim_sw: Thanks for all the interesting things you submit to HN, I recognize your username from a few articles I've upvoted.
Raindrop Chrome extension now reads browser history?
Noticed this also today.

Any information on why this is needed?
Do I again need to migrate all my bookmarks?

Any tips for selfhosted alternatives with good extensions?

edit: here is the justification from the author:

> Previously this permission have been opt-in to unlock features like "Save all tabs" and "Saved page indicator". But those features are esential and should be available right away, isn't? That's why I decided to require tabs permission by default. I have received dosens of emails from users complain about not working saved page indicator.

https://help.raindrop.io/changelog/#560 ... still don't feel too comfortable with that. permissions like this should be opt-in. just stating it "should be default" sounds strange to me.
> It isn't about being able to do math. It is being able to invent, mimic quickly, abstract, memorize, specialize, and generalize.

But this is exactly why average is boring.

If you ask ChatGPT what it's like to be in the US Navy, it will have texts written by Navy sailors in its training data and produce something based on those texts in response to related questions.

If you ask the average person what it's like to be in the US Navy, they haven't been in the Navy, may not know anyone who is, haven't taken any time to research it, so their answers will be poor. ChatGPT could plausibly give a better response.

But if you ask the questions of someone who has, they'll answer related questions better than ChatGPT. Even if the average person who has been in the Navy has no greater intelligence than the average person who hasn't.

It's not better at reasoning. It's barely even capable of it, but has access to training data that the average person lacks.
If the majority of people preferred their privacy, would they really be using Facebook?

And you never answered the question, how do you have a social graph with people in the US or send messages to people in the US without storing data in the US?
Of course it does. They've used you. They're laughing in mansions with brand new cars and sending their kids to Ivy League schools etc etc
Run `/ipv6/settings/export verbose` to show you the combination of your configuration and the default values on the relevant subtree. I would've expected the `disable-ipv6` to disable all ICMPv6 processing including the code paths leading to the RCE vulnerability, but the post doesn't state it explicitly.
There is the world of used Nvidia Teslas, like the M40. Very cheap, but some assembly required.
As a Spaniard, genuinely curious about why they are so worried. I mean, the real reason. My first bet is Catalonia, but wouldn't be surprised they are actually worried about their own security.
Essay author here. Success-to-the-successful is a real feature of our current economic landscape, more than in the semi-recent past (yes, ancient feudal societies were way worse). Here’s Harvard Business Review:

“… we find that large corporations are more and more likely to maintain their dominant positions, while small corporations are less and less likely to become big and profitable.” Link: https://hbr.org/2019/08/the-gap-between-large-and-small-comp...

Here’s economist Austan Goolsbee in The New York Times highlighting growing corporate concentration even pre-pandemic: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/business/big-companies-ar...

These are success-to-the-successful trends.

Disruptive shocks (like when Google created a truly better search technology and dethroned AltaVista in the late ‘90s, or when the US gov broke up AT&T in 1984) can change those dynamics. That’s how Kodak, despite having lots of resources, lost dominance and eventually failed: they didn’t have the right non-monetary resources (innovative culture and support for change) at a critical time, so disruptive shock toppled them.

Anyway, thanks for reading!
> Since we know that infinite densities cannot actually happen in the universe...

Lol, and how exactly do we know that?