skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't just the middle east. Follow UK history, or any other royal system, and you will find the primary job of the King is always to appease, flatter, suppress, or otherwise occupy the elite families that might one day challenge his. It continues to the present day. All those garden parties. All those property development schemes. All those royal charities run by Oxbridge grads. All those offshore tax havens. Royal families today play the same games in Europe as they do in the middle east. It isn't healthy, but the system has survived the centuries.
See “salients”, “pockets”, psychology of war, the advantage of defense over offense, crossing rivers, etc. Tanks and all that technology really matter but infantry is just as important as it was in the time of Rome.

Clausewitz doesn't talk about it but you can derive very interesting case studies from China in the "Three Kingdoms" period and also in Japan after the Heian period. For instance there was coevolution in Japan in the long time involving armor, bows and arrows, swords and firearms. The story of competition in technology is structurally the same even when the technology is quite different.
Maybe I agree with that, but I also know that firewire helped usher in the digital video era. It allowed the transition from tape based acquisition when media cards were prohibitively expensive. Audio/Video/Deck control all down one single cable straight from the camera to the computer was what really kicked the prosumer market into being able to lean closer to pro than consumer. Now that media cards are actually affordable, that does seem like ancient history. I could see how you might think of firewire as a failure if you're looking at it as a USB type transition, but for the camera/video professions, it served a very good purpose even if short lived
URL should refer to the original source, which is https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34149383
I’ve found that it’s pretty much impossible to talk to a person in most customer services in the past few years, it’s always a “robot”. And this has been going since well before LLMs.
> If you want to put Emacs on the same footing with modern IDEs I don't think you get around to at some point getting it to a modern GUI system.

Maybe I'm in the minority on this, but I'm not interested in emacs being on the same footing with modern IDEs. I'm happy with what it is, and would be sad if it didn't exist as it does today. (I only ever use emacs without -nw by accident)
Explains the lack of emojis

sews thread
> We use OTA to watch the local news

You're lucky to be able to do this! Since the digital switchover, the number of OTA channels that I can receive was reduced to one. So that was effectively the death of OTA TV for me. Which admittedly wasn't the worst thing, as it got me to stop watching television entirely.
I wish Intel or someone would get into the enthusiast firewall market. Very High GHZ 2 to 4 core CPU, 2 to 4 NICs, x86, <$250, 1-8GB soldered RAM, Simple M2, very basic video out, would be very popular for home firewalls and maybe even businesses with a decent IT department/person as a Firewall/VPN appliance.
> Twitter’s best defense against Threads may be to retreat to that lower left corner: focus on what is happening now, from people you chose to follow. The problem, though, is that while this might win the battle against Threads, it means that Musk will have lost the war when it comes to ever making a return on his $44 billion.

This hits the Jackpot, I'm desperate to get off Twitter, but nobody gets it right, and Elon is trying his best to ruin it with mindless crap in the for you page.

The thing is, Twitter already solved this, the old algorithm was actually pretty good! It balanced between speed and showing me what I missed, that is till Elon messed it up.

I was very optimistic about threads but it turned out to just be text Instagram, which is not at all what I want from an actually relevant platform.

> Ultimately, though, I think they may be disappointed: Meta is about algorithms and scale, and I would bet that Threads will leave real time reactions, news, and pitched battles to Twitter; Musk’s most important decision may be accepting that that is enough, because it’s all he’s going to get.

Absolutely, but I doubt Elon would stop trying to run Twitter to the ground to get every last cent out of it, and unfortunately it seems nobody is willing to replicate the Twitter experience.

Mastodon is too hard for normal users, bluesky is a glorified tech demo and threads is pushing its users towards memes and influencers asking you what you ate today, completely missing what made Twitter special, culture relevance and speed.

I don't want to see a threads from two days ago about a ground prix that already ended, or a random celebrity selfie, I want to see the latest news in sports, tech, open source and reactions from people in those communities, a good example is the current RHEL drama and all the news coming from Oracle, SUSE and others, it's all on Twitter, and unfortunately threads doesn't seem interested in changing that.
IMHO levels.fyi, and to an extent Blind, are both semi-disrupting this. (You can see Glassdoor considers Blind a threat bc of their Fishbowl offering).

Both blind and levels are missing somethings though. Levels was just comp for the longest time but their forums are an attempt to move into this space. Blind has other issues with their user demographic and moderation imho - its a little too toxic at the moment to compete at the highest level. Theyre also too focused on tech and software careers alone.
You used to be able to bring your own themes. Now if you're lucky, you might get dark mode, as a treat.
Retro Forth Casket Report
This is like the analog loophole. If data is transferred from Server to Client, it's always possible to scrape.

Though Apple is trying to make this harder: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck/prepar...
Related:

RetroForth 2021.1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26168640 - Feb 2021 (52 comments)

Retro: A Modern, Pragmatic Forth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19997008 - May 2019 (50 comments)

Retro: Neat use of ports as high-level API from inside a VM (stack language) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764962 - June 2015 (1 comment)
The modern ones have thunderbolt 3 or 4, so you have to get a dongle, but you can get a lot more IO going (including 10G)
> what tab-mgmt extensions do you use

I didn't answer before because the answer is none. Not sure if anyone will see this but today Firefox recommended some extensions and one was OneTab. That let me turn all my tabs into a list. Then I could search those and (manually, one by one) open all of the tabs from a given site as long as it's in the title. I'm already down to 264 tabs (from 900+) today in just a little bit of time, and still going.
>You can also travel on a bike from NY to LA.

You can. In fact, my brother did so a bunch of years ago. He found it to be a wonderful experience that made his life better.

He's also flown on a commercial airplane from NY to LA (as have I, as well as millions of others) and while it got him to Los Angeles, it didn't provide the levels of sensory input, personal interactions and experience that riding his bicycle did.

That's not to say everyone should ride bicycles across the US every time they need/want to make such a trip, but doing so at least once can be a more positive experience than sitting next to some strangers for five hours.

The satisfaction of doing so, or the experiences in interacting with people and the landscape during such a trip aren't quantifiable, but reducing the value of doing so (if I'm missing your point here, my apologies) to the time required to make such a trip is reductive in the extreme IMHO.

Edit: Clarified my prose.
Thanks- let's try it for now (changed from https://www.retroforth.org/)
Just because Facebook may potentially create their own app store doesn't mean others are going to use it. Even on Android, sideloading is fraught with warnings that the average older Facebook user might not figure it out.

Personally I'm looking forward to easier iOS sideloading, even if regulation was required to achieve it. Devices should be secure by design against malware, not by curation.
> Fight me.

OK.

Operator overloading is a useful feature that saves a bunch of time and makes code way more readable.

You can quibble whether operator<<() is a good idea on streams and perhaps C++ takes the concept too far with operator,() but the basic idea makes a lot of sense.

string("hello ") + string("world");
complexNumber2 * complexNumber2;
for (int i : std::views::iota(0, 6)
| std::views::filter(even)
| std::views::transform(square))
someSmartPtr->methodOnWrapperClass();
I made an AI viral thread hook generator for threadbois
Teenager ‘taken to security room and interrogated’ for throwaway ticketing
Damn you really just made up a narrative in your head and now you believe it? Lmao

Harm millions especially disabled and elderly? Cruise and Waymo give zero accessible rides. But what we do have, which already exists, are buses (which all have accessible ramps) and dial-a-ride paratransit. But sorry techies there's no profit motive there.

CFFA? FBI? Okay now you're just being funny :D
Humans benefit from good communication too. For example, annual U.S. deaths from medical errors is in the hundreds of thousands. Much of it is due to miscommunication. Is this akin to poor human-to-human prompt engineering? Of course, humans will rush and not attempt better communication, and you can take all the time you wish with an AI. And AI will continue to incorporate better prompt engineering that you won't have to write out. But there will always be a continuum from good to bad for communication, and communication outcomes.
this is needlessly reductive. to me the steps forward aren't about finding the sweet spot but bulldozing al that stuff under with new paradigms. I would hope that eventually the server/client distinction just disappears from consideration. or that its aligned with something more important like data sovereignty than programmer convenience.
Historic Aerials: Viewer
Personally, I love the idea but the execution was very strange.

Only offering automatic shifting (and lurch-y automatic shifting at that!) made the bikes basically unrideable for anything beyond a slow flat ride.

I guess the Dutch never see hills so gearing is sort of foreign to them anyway!
You can link images with org-mode and toggle their visibility [0]. You can have 'em resized etc.

#+CAPTION: This is the caption for the next figure link (or table)
#+NAME: fig:SED-HR4049
[[./img/a.jpg]]

[0] https://orgmode.org/manual/Images.html
Intel coined NUC as "Next Unit of Computing" in 2012. I don't believe they claim a trademark on the term, but I've not seen any other company use it. There's plenty of other products with a similar footprint, it's about as small as you can shrink a board with a mainstream laptop chip with modular memory and storage, and a decent amount of ports.
Oh my, sending email immediately thanks.
CoffeeScript!

Now there's a name ...
weird take imo, I played multiple sports in highschool and every year I had to go have a doctor (always female, but I'm supposed to be ok with this I guess, but I wasn't) handle my genitals or I wouldn't be allowed to compete.
> Fight me.

Lunch, behind the cafeteria. Closed fists allowed, nothing below the belt.
Blind is even worse than Glassdoor. Last I checked, it had some kind of weird restriction about if you are not in a big tech or a well known startup, you can’t see any reviews.
This strongly depends on what you're going to write and in what genre.

For example, if you were going to write Fantasy Litrpg or Progression Fantasy you'd want to consider publising on royalroad.com (with eventual patreon) before moving completed books off royalroad and onto Kindle Unlimited.

Advertising, in litrpg you'd post on reddit r/litrpg and r/progressionfantasy to let people know about the story.
Weaviate 1.20 Released
* Multi-tenancy – A scalable, efficient and easy solution for use-cases with many tenants per Weaviate cluster.

* PQ + Re-scoring – Product quantization (PQ) allows for faster vector search - now at basically no cost to accuracy!

* Autocut – A new way to set a threshold - set how many groups of results to retrieve from the result set.

* Search re-ranking – Multi-stage search (& re-ranking) for better end results. Multiple re-rankers available!

* New hybrid search ranking algorithm – Additional method available for deriving hybrid search scores.
Ignore whatever expectations people put into you, and go at something with a clear and unprejudiced (in either direction) mind. Take things on their own terms, that way you'll see far easier that a lot of well-known stuff is nothing special and that a great deal of common, overlooked stuff is actually a damn sight better than people give it credit. It's a net win.
Microsoft failing to create a compelling product in two decades isnt Sony’s fault
Back of the envelope calculation says it could be possible now.

Twitter gets about 500M tweets per day, average tweet is 28 characters. So that’s 14B characters per day. Converting to tokens at around 4 char/token that’s around 3.5B tokens per day. If GPT 3.5 turbo pricing is representative it will cost about $0.0015/thousand tokens which is $5k per day. So it’s possible now.

However, you can probably get that cost down a lot with your own models, which also has the benefit of not being at the mercy of arbitrary API pricing.
> A carefully shaped money-backed lever over the market is absolutely part of reason you never see DisplayPort inputs on consumer TVs, where HDMI group reigns supreme

What does this actually mean?
Extremely good point! I think with stock android, not really. I use grapheneOS so I guess as much as reasonable.
Corrected link:

https://github.com/g-truc/glm
Meanwhile Perl's over here like "we had this in the 90s!" (:

eg:

perl -e '$x="AAA"; print "lowercase: ${\( lc($x) )}\n"'
> due to so many benefits being tied to full time employment in the US and a general lack of any kind of social safety net, you have to already be independently wealthy or willing to be a starving artist to do something like that

Something that is kind of wild about the USA is that for as much as the culture seems to value entrepeneurship, the political and economic system is designed to stifle it and discourage people from starting businesses.
For a site espousing UX platitudes, I don't feel it's too nit picky to call out their completely terrible back-button behavior.

You click on one of these items, read down the item detail page, then click back to go to back to the index page, and this happens:

- it scrolls you back to the top of the item detail page

- it fades out the detail page

- it fades in the index page

It's janky, and wastes my brain cycles trying to parse the fleeting intermediate states. Also, the fade animations are too slow -- literally making me wait through the jank to get back to the content I'm looking for...
Thank you. We fixed it now.
This is disappointing - I own four of these. I deliberately bought the older new-old stock units that were on clearance prices. One sits on a shelf in my basement next to my Synology NAS, and is a headless Ubuntu box I use as a very low-end build server for my blogs and writing projects. It mounts a server directory, I VSCode into it and run Makefiles. It works wonderfully... plenty fast. One is a media server machine in our family room, mostly for streaming TV shows. One is currently waiting on a replacement fan. One is a Windows box for those rare times I need to run Windows specific programs for work.

These were the perfect sweet spot for me between abusing low-end laptops and shelling out real money. My kids put them together with me and it was a nice learning experience for them, too.

I was hoping I'd be able to upgrade/replace these piecemeal as needed. I guess I'll have to look into other replacements for when these give out.
Sure bud. What is it about HN'ers talking with such confidence they legitimately have no idea what they're even talking about? I googled it for you, and gave you two sources are probably amicable towards - there are THOUSANDS more[0][1]. It's exhausting that everyone here talks like they are an expert at everything. I thought I left that when I came here from reddit.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/do-other-countries-pigg...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/29/us-health...
You will be pleased to know that isn’t actually the case and it’s instead an example of a single metric taken from a larger suite of metrics known collectively as core web vitals which is what is actually used https://web.dev/vitals/
Mac mini? It's a BTO option though. You can also just get a mini PC with Thunderbolt and add a 10gb nic that way.
My guess is you never had to parachute into a project using operator overloading in strange, inconsistent, and undocumented ways with no original maintainers to show you the ropes
Should be off by default :-P
I feel for her. Should have thought twice before giving an internship to one of those Berkeley SJWs. Lost a 9 billion dollar company and all those talented people fired.
> “It will enable competition rather than allow entrenched market leaders to continue to dominate our rapidly growing industry.”

That's baffling coming from Microsoft, given that they rake in billions via Office 365 subscriptions, where they have essentially no serious competition, mainly due to the dominance of their DOCX and XLSX formats. Unlike other game companies, Microsoft has almost unlimited money to beat the competition with acquisitions.
“can someone explain why microsoft is evil?”
>Mouse clicks and distance are two of the most basic metrics. And straight forward. So why wouldn't you optimize there?

That's the McNamara fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
Basically: enemy bodycount is easy to measure and thus you should optimize for it. Conversely if you can't measure it, it must not be important.
The fallacy is that enemy body count is not wrong per se, but oversimplified.

I don't disagree with focusing on making most use-cases faster, but treating a human like a machine ignores things like error rates, understanding, lasting impressions, and ease of learning, which are important for users who have a choice in software. If you have vendor lock for your software, you don't need to optimize at all so it's kinda moot.
Well then, start your own? Or perhaps ask around in your online social circles to see if someone is running such an instance? Or stick around wherever you currently are (I assume that it's in line with your preferences).

The strength of federation is that every instance operator can set the rules that best suit themselves and the audience they cater to. You can leverage this ability just as much as everyone else can.

It's pretty hard to think up a better scheme than this for ensuring that everyone has the sort of space they are OK with.
My reasoning if pretty simple: if a war is actively going on in Europe, European security is reduced. If a war is not actively going on in Europe, European security is increased (or at least stabilized). It's a weird inversion to me to think that prolonging a large land war somehow actually increases this hypothetical security, which it demonstrably doesn't as weapons flood the region and refugees flee their homes.

>By making sure that Russia is stopped in Ukraine, then we save Moldova.

To this point on Moldova ... Probably less than 1% of Americans could find Moldova on a map without googling. Probably less than 5% of congressmen. Pretending that it's existence outside of Russia's sphere of influence is some critical part of this war effort is downright preposterous. Maybe that's how some people steelman it, but I don't buy it. Moreover, pretending that Moldova is a critical part of the US sphere of influence is even more preposterous. Again, I don't disagree that degrading/destroying Russian combat power has some benefits for the US' ability to project power abroad (i.e. in the Pacific), and some benefits for weapons systems evaluation. I just simply don't buy these contortions that the US security sphere extends globally and any country that has weak sovereignty is now a US protectorate.

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Something appears to have happened post Cold War (probably related to 9/11 and the forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) that has caused a lot of Americans (apologies if you are not one) to reflexively want to "do something!!" about this war. It's, I think, started to jade a longer term historical perspective about why nations go to war in the first place and leads to situations like this, where we have to actively come up with reasons to continue a war in Europe because ending it would be "bad". If the war ended tomorrow with the current borders as they are today, it's not like the history books would think of Russia as the good guys or a neutral party.
> The native operating system of the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a fork of FreeBSD version 9.0 which was released on January 12, 2012.[6][7]

That doesn't mean it's running BSD. For example, MacOS runs a non-BSD kernel with lots of BSD networking code added on-top. It is not a BSD-based Operating System but it does use BSD code to create it's environment. I would not for a single second believe that the PS4 runs an unmodified FreeBSD kernel. There is just no upstream code to support this claim.
You’d need some pretty inefficient code for there to be a delay between the user clicking a button and even starting a request…

But even in that case, instant feedback is probably better for the user. It lets them know the website isn’t broken and they don’t need to click again, and it also makes the experience feel snappier.
It's not that heavy handed but if I hit the play button on my headphones/keyboard there's a pretty good chance it opens up the apple music app instead of just playing the open spotify app. Since I'm not a music member, front and center it wants me to sign up.

I definitely remember seeing a tv+ signup with I first got my M2. After setting up the device.

If you're not signed into icloud, well you still have all the apps that want you to sign in. Same goes with the tv app.

I use the music app on iOS with mp3s and 3 of the 4 main app tabs are screens trying to sign me up for apple music.
Thats what I was thinking
HAL's MD Package: Highly Accelerated Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations
I like your username. I too had to trench for new utilities, and remodel half my house myself because no trades are available in time for movein
> I've always considered the mouse & menu system to be an emergency backup for beginners who have hit a wall. They will probably never be first class citizens.

Perhaps, but ideally you'd want your on-ramp experience (or your gateway experience) to be smooth, rather than a full cold-turkey.
Implement Functional Programming in Sass