skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine one leaves bunch of jewelry and antiques. Does a family member need a will/trust to sell them? Obviously not. You buy a lot of stuff on craigslist, Facebook marketplace, offerup, without having any proof whatsoever. Does this logic extend to immovable property (say, land or home)? Imagine I buy a home from one of the kids(say, X) with cash, without any financing whatsoever, as the will states that upon death, this home goes to X. Another kid disputes this will, saying that (a) there is another will, which supersedes; or (b) that will in the question is fake; or (c) that will in the question was written under duress; etc. That's why buyers want a proof that the will is proper/proved through the court system, before he/she buys such a home. That's why it is called "probate the will". 'Probare' in latin = to prove; probating the will is very important step for buyers of immovable property (land, homes).

In India, often times, multiple kids sell the same inherited property to different parties. Then, this property ends up in legal disputes. Often times, thugs buy such disputed properties, then kicking out other buyers who don't have the political/thug backing. Why such disputes arise in the first place? Dumb buyers, who don't demand the probate.

Probating a will takes time and money: you need to hire a lawyer; these lawyers want 10 percent of the estate or even more; and it takes some time. How to avoid this nonsense? Create another legal person/entity, called trust(treat trusts like companies with assets, stock holders, etc). Have the trust, transfer the ownership of land and real estate to that legal entity, establish trustee and beneficiaries. Dissolve the trust and distribute assets to beneficiaries, without involving the court or even lawyers.
There are a lot of people who could benefit from git (or who are forced to interact with it sporadically) for whom this is a real problem.

The problem is also, if you don't use it daily git knowledge decays fast.

There is a piece of advise that was making the rounds (unironically) at the research institute where I worked before: "Before you do anything with git, first make a local backup copy."
I hope he has a non technical life too. I just don't assume that he would enjoy that interaction with other 14 year-olds. If he is used to studying and now working with adults, he might find them childish, boring, and unrelatable.
They tend to be evened out in aggregate with different imports/exports. Also we're not talking an apples to apples comparison here.

Back then economies were extremely dependent on silver for international trade and only so much of it came from so many places every year. Trade depended on recirculation of silver.

The closest you could get to that today would be one country hoarding the shit out of US dollars and somehow the US being unable to print more.

If you look back to the 90s/00s when the US was heavily importing from China and China had no local buying power, the trade imbalance was combatted by the US Treasury creating debt instruments for exclusive buying by China. This diplomatic/economic tool benefited both sides at the time.
Visualisation of Live Code (2010)
Excluding current m1 and m2 generations and going back 2-3 years back what did you get?

Laptops that keyboards was breaking and to replace it you had to remove the whole top of laptop for like couple of hundreds of dollars. Hard drive soldered with price for 1TB around $1k with even backup port removed in case of failor. Battery glued.

I used to have thinkpad x1 extreme gen 2 which price was $1.5k, 2x nmve slots, 2x removable ram up to 64gb ram. Battery removable with just a screws. Wifi module replaceable and could be upgraded. Display could be replaced and upgraded. Durable case from carbon fiber. Solid keyboard with even track point. And was still very lightweight - because carbon case.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it's a default in Chrome and Safari too!
Because I can skip tons of pages, I can go back to the same page later.
The current generation of LLMs will never generalize on problems whose expected complexity is significantly harder than the training set. One way to think of why this is the case is because transformers are learning shortcuts to multistep reasoning tasks [1, 2], but do not learn to reason systematically and unsurprisingly fail to generalize when presented with more challenging tasks.

The proper way to evaluate systematic reasoning is by training on a curriculum of problems of increasing average-case complexity. Think random k-SAT in the critical region, bisimulation games, or interpolation in certain logical theories. Although there is a growing evidence that Transformers and GNNs have foundational limits to expressivity [3, 4, 5], if the scaling crowd could show strong generalization results on these sorts of problems they would have the last laugh...

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.10749.pdf

[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.18654.pdf

[3]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.16213.pdf

[4]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.10743.pdf

[5]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.04613.pdf
> So 3w could select three words but also move the cursor to the end of selection

I mean, if you hit v first, that's exactly what it does.
Ah, but if you Google Paris in the first place, that is an outcome of marketing - which is for all intents and purposes brainwashing. Bernays, who invented modern advertising, said as much himself in “Propaganda”.

So: Why google Paris? Why even Paris as an example? Hell - why Paris, period?

Examine your answer carefully, and you’ll see the non-sequiturs in our reality that we usually happily ignore.
> But 20 hours seems a worthwhile investment to me for something they will likely use for at least the next decade

Yet most people just want to use VSCode and don't want to invest 20+ hours learning emacs or vim
> You would expect that apple with bigger R&D, bigger product price and much bigger margin would focus more on repairability by itself instead of waiting for EU to force it's hand.

Why would you expect that? If the EU is going to mandate something, it’s in Apple’s best interest to wait for them to mandate it and build it so that it’s compliant. Otherwise, there’s a risk that they could make something “repairable” by the own standard but does not meet EU standards, forcing another redesign to do something they didn’t want to do to begin with.

It’s also much easier to handle any criticisms in the design when they are forced upon you. You can be certain that Apple is thrilled that the EU forced their hand on USB-C. They’re going to get a juicy bump in accessory sales with the format change, with none of the criticism that came with the switch from 30-pin. “The EU made us do it! We would happily have maintained compatibility with all the accessories you’ve bought over the past 12 years but gosh darn it, looks like you’ll need to re-buy.”
Ask HN: What would you do with 7 extra days in Warsaw? Other airports ok
Hi HN,

I've gotten some good travel suggestions from here before (thank you for the US national park advice!) so thought I'd ask again as I'm feeling a bit stumped.

Solo female traveler for context.

I have a business trip to Warsaw in September and am able to go a week early. I can fly into nearby or other airports. I'm feeling a little uninspired so all suggestions welcome.

Option 1: Fly into Helsinki, take the ferry to Tallinn, rent a car through Baltic Net car rentals that does 1-way rentals from Tallinn to Warsaw and then drive to Riga, Lithuania and then Warsaw.

Option 2: Fly into Berlin, see Berlin, then drive to Leipzip, Dresden, Prague, Wroclaw, Lodz and then Warsaw.

Option 3: Other suggestions??

I've already seen Copenhagen, Krakow, the salt mine, Auschwitz, Budapest and Zagreb so don't want to revisit those.

Feeling a little intimidated to do the Helsinki/Tallinn/Riga/Lithuania route solo. I'm pretty adventurous but for some reason that makes me a little nervous.

Any thoughts/suggestions? Thank you for any ideas!
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It seems to share the fundamental goal of empowering devs to do infra for their apps. I’m very skeptical that this is generally possible or a good idea though
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> Eventually nobody well-connected wanted to hire him because they had heard so many stories about him underperforming and bailing at the 1-year mark, despite interviewing well and performing great in the first few months

How does word get out like that?
I've done a lot of csv parsing with shell scripts (usually using awk or cut). My rule of thumb is that if i know the csv may have some commas in quoted text, I can just remove them and work with the shell script. If it's going to have newlines or anything more complicated, I need a real csv parser.
Me too and I don't even bother with LIMIT 10. However, the "proper" experienced way would be DESCRIBE I guess.
Probably meant not familiar with Red Hat’s automated testing?
The new move-ins seem to be drawn by all the recreation marketing. The ads seem to leave out the ever-increasing heat for some reason.
Apparently, just fine. On paper, do a quick check and clean on mount. There are mount options for full check, degraded and recovery modes.
About the paper https://bcachefs.org/bcachefs-principles-of-operation.pdf
and a video discussing the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl_9mnauHhM
Couldn't find what I was looking for in a store? Better walk out feeling like I took money out of the cash register.
Infinite scrolling needs to die in a fire. I'm sure it increases some fallacious "engagement" metric like time spent on the page or something, but it's an utterly horrible experience. Scroll down one and a half pages, watch a spinning circle as the next few results load, then watch the spinning circles as the result images load, repeat until you can't take it anymore and give up.

On the whole this assertion of always-available javascript has basically destroyed the usability of the web as every small minded manager/designer thinks that inserting themselves in the way of the user makes for some endearing "experience". It doesn't.
How was he caught?
I got 2.8, which I think is not too bad for a non-Brit, since I didn't ‘cheat’ by looking up clues I didn't already know.
It being extremely difficult or impossible to design a convincing study doesn't make the other ones convincing.
The MS Office 2003 toolbar version of religion. You got some people to write some code/rules, and then didn't fire them, so they just kept making the code/rules more complicated to keep their job.

I'm super sure that God really really cares about the kind of wine, and not the intentions of the humans asking for help
The porcelain parts of git are terribly complex (though improving; especially if you just apply the config changes it suggests during normal operation).

However, the core data model is simple (it is a content addressable store, where each commit contains pointers, forming a directed graph; the pointers are unforgeable, so the graph is acyclic).
are you saying that in the USA, a Microsoft-funded lawyer group is training people that the GPL does not have legal force edit in some conditions they declare? Do you have evidence of this? links?
You only need to understand {init,commit,diff,status,push} to use git. When something goes wrong you can delete your .git and start new. This obviously not what you want when you have a codebase with collaborateurs somewhere public accessible, but its fine to get used to it.
You're talking about apples and oranges. Deck can also be pushed to 25W but most users have it at 15W witch the Asus can also scale down to. Then you have the manufacturing process, with the Deck using an older less efficient TSMC process node than the SoC in the Asus. So the fight is on.
Your comment made me curious so I did a bit of research - kosher wines are not boiled or adulterated for the purpose of making it unsuitable for Eucharist.

Rather, according to ancient Jewish tradition, if kosher wine is boiled (which is called Mevushal wine), it remains kosher even if handled by non-Jews. This is in contrast to uncooked kosher wine, which loses its kosher status if handled by non-Jews.
I would have loved for gitless to become a mainstream way of using git. Unfortunately it did not... Maybe one could implement the gitless workflow in VSCode to help it take off? I still think their basic analysis and the reduction in state that the resulting system has is spot on (and I believe it is also aligned well with what works in Mercurial/Sappling).
I think tools like these are fantastic and I do not think that git "is easy" or anything like that. Lots of people do not need to understand the details of the git model and should not have to use git directly.

That said - if you are a senior on a project using git flow or something like it - you should treat understanding git as a concern of the first order. The commands are somewhat obtuse, but the tool is a pretty reasonable attempt to grapple with the underlying challenges of managing disparate work from different people going at different speeds. It is challenging to understand because it is fundamentally quite difficult. Don't under-rate the importance of this to your overall process! Learning git will help you understand the challenges of distributed development (and visa-versa) - they are real and not simply an artifact of bad UX.
AFAIK FF manifest v3 will maintain the webRequest interface.
Hmmm, maybe calling this a start-up/business might be more appropriate?

(WebP Cloud Services starts by providing a free service of Gravatar/GitHub Avatar reverse proxy with WebP optimization at first, and now it's our first attempt to make a paid services of private proxy as more of our users want this to be a more generally available service.

(And we are currently not a company indeed) ´･ᴗ･`

No intentional protesting at the notion of being a company, just unsure if "company," "business," and "startup" have the same meaning in certain contexts.
How popular are the ligatures in french in practice?
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202624
Don’t Talk to Police (2012) [video]
>* Weird that he can beat Putin in chess but not IRL*

Hope this was /s as well. Intelligence doesn't matter when you're up against the Don of the Russian Mafia, a former KGB boss who happens to be worth some $200-300 billion and has outright and undisputed control of the Russian state, which includes a powerful propaganda network and a nuclear-armed military.

>* But at least runescape teaches you economics.*

Need this to be confirmed with science. A computer game based around PvP combat probably teaches you less about economics than a game like chess teaches you about abstract logical thinking and planning.
Buy beneath your means, when it comes to a home while making sure it meets your needs.

Also be sure it’s easy to sell, if things get tough.
I keep staring at the output of sqlalchemy's "select in" eager loader trying to figure out if has managed to pipline the follow up queries into a single DB round trip for the problem of tree shaped data. Still don't know, maybe someone does.

https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/orm/loading_relationships....
Also for desktop peek you can customize “hot corners” to show the desktop when you put your cursor in one of the corners.
I’ve heard racist nationalists express genuine praise for other nations, so long as they’re their own. The internal dialogue might be that “they” are sending their worst “here” to dress and speak and act like “us.”
You've basically described Coda: https://coda.io

It has far more data power than Coda, with tables that can be used as databases, a strong formula language, and loads of other nifty features. Like Notion, it's a closed-source SaaS.
Sorting seems to be off
Ah sucks. From what I hear their support will probably not help you register but it's worth a shot.
After decades of corporate propaganda, the mainstream view is that "goverment can't do anything".

This has led to people expecting the rich to donate for this sort of outcome, instead of demanding better organization from the government that's eating away almost half their income.

Rant asside, you're totally right.
They also lead the world in successful and productive people trying to leave the country.

https://fortune.com/2023/06/14/china-millionaires-leaving-mi...
Here is a graph of affected states by NetBlocks:

https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/110560263605946001
Php and Laravel
Git is not easy, some concepts are confusing especially for newbies. I wrote a simple intro on how git works https://git-help.com
I do as well and I also cherry pick a lot specifically with —no-commit to pull together disparate ideas from various sources. I am always fascinated when git usage comes up in threads because there are so many ways people use it that differ from my own and we all seem to find value in it!
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The intention is that consumers can do this at their home. Neighbors get a little unruly when I start fires to burn my leftovers.
Set theory has traditionally been used as the foundation of maths from which you can model everything else. See the Bourbaki project.

(Nowadays it seems there are a lot of people interested in type theory taking that place.)
> But I think it would be helpful for many people to first learn logic and deduction "the precise way", and then do actual mathematical proof where you can jump over more obvious parts.

Absolutely. And I can not imagine a mathematics degree which doesn't place formal logic front and center in the first semester.
When you are starting out you absolutely need to suffer through the rigourous formal arguments.

>Ironically, the one subject which often teaches formal logic as an early introductory class for undergraduates isn't mathematics, computer science, or physics, it's philosophy.

I can not believe that this is the case. Even engineering undergrads have to learn formal logic in their first semester.
I'm allowed to downvote comments that aren't replies to me all I want.
A/B testing, I have different behaviour between my work Google account and personal account. Hadn't really noticed until this thread though.
Rewriting history with rebase is a destructive operation and I would never advocate for it to juniors. Merges are much more straightforward because they follow the git mental model of acyclical directed graph.
I can give some feedback here, as a respiratory therapist, often times patients would try to breath in their inhalers too fast. It should be a long slooooooow deep breath and then a HOLD to let the medication get all the way down into their lungs.

Also you should have more emphasis on spacers as they allow for the medication to distribute more evenly and not get coated on the roof of the mouth when it sprays into the mouth.

https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-looku...

Even a toilet paper roll can be used as a spacer and help the patient take the medication more effectively.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19236210/

The other thing I would suggest is maybe having the website set up to easily identify "rescue" inhalers from maintenance inhalers as often patients get confused between their routine dose steroid treatments vs the rescue inhaler that they need to find IMMEDIATELY when short of breath.

Overall looks good!
As someone with aspirations to do what you’re suggesting, how does one find these customers without networking?
There are lots of fingers rightfully pointed at AI here, but its just excacerbating a more fundamental issue: Why would anyone fund news and web content when its more economical to fund pure SEO optimization?
I learned it’s futile to try to bring the possibility of civilizational Collapse to the minds where there are the most optimistic technologists, HN.
I think they might be able to act as a general buyer's agent

But you don't have to hire them for that even if the seller is using them
The buyers and sellers of a futures contract are both trying to offload risk onto someone else. The risk profiles of both sides don’t always offset exactly, so speculators are necessary for functioning commodity futures markets (and markets in general). Also, price discovery is much more efficient with more liquidity, which is what speculators provide, in addition to risk assumption.
The main complexities of git really come when you start having to work with other people also editing the same files you are. If you're just doing a solo project, you'll likely be mostly on a single branch, maybe a handful of others if you're experimenting a lot. In that case, you largely just need to know add, commit, push, checkout, and can largely ignore the complexities of merging and rebasing.
Rectangle integrates the way I expect window snapping to work: with easy and sensible keyboard shortcuts. They keys are much easier to aim than the tiny green circle on the corner.

I'm not saying moom doesn't have those, I just haven't used it and Rectangle serves my purposes perfectly well.

To each their own, of course. Just trading anectodes. :)
Thanks for reading my post and sharing your comments, I primarily write on telco and cloud once a week, my idea is to just point at a emerging big topic and readers dig further if needed, I have added on what is the impact of this on telco cloud which I believe is not covered anywhere much but I agree that it has very little substance, will try to add more details next time.
Incredibly reasonable. People love to trash on the performance of Python and JS saying that they're totally unsuitable for backend services with non-trivial amounts of traffic when they're usually the most cost effective solution for a business. These higher level languages are easier to hire for, much easier to prototype, allow for faster iteration, allow for substantially faster on-ramp time, and are fast enough to run these io bound workloads.
I still prefer the explanation that I prepared when I was teaching at Dartmouth College.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_uwl3WDZk_BxNOUL7W0FiPMM...

I literally gave everyone that handout and told them, "To make sense of it, you're all going to do the next proof. I'll just prompt you." They thought this was impossible. But I told them to trust me and I began.

I went around the room. I asked one person what the next step in the flowchart was. I asked the next person to do it. I just wrote down what they said. Kept going until they had produced a complete proof of a result that, at the beginning, they did not know why it might be true.

The best comment I got from that class later was, "Proofs are easy. It is kind of like filling out a shopping list."
The constitution is ink on paper, it's not some magical document that compels people follow it by merely being in its presence like you seem to think. And clinging to one example from 150 years ago isn't a very convincing. If such a thing happened today the outcome would very clearly be different.

A rag-tag group of untrained goat herders and farmers kicked out the largest military force in the history of the world using basic fighting equipment. This is all despite their invaders having tanks, helicopters, jets, satellite imagery, night vision, body armor, and 10:1 ratio of boots on the ground.

The overwhelming majority of experienced combat veterans have been out of the US military for almost a decade and side themselves more with their state of residence than the federal government. There is an entire generation of Americans that have more combat experience than anyone currently in the armed forces.

Why exactly do you think the federal government is going to do anything again? The deck is stacked against them. It's much better if the federal government peacefully relinquished power and gave it back to the states.

The argument seems to be that anyone that disobeys the US federal government should be killed because it happened 150 years ago, therefore it will happen again the same way today.
My kids thought Elmo was part of the alphabet for an embarrassing amount of time.