skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Do you preffer to purchase a landing page or develop it by yourself?
As we all may agree, it's best to focus on the core functionality of our product first and then do less important things. When I was developing one of my products, it had so many technical features that I had to focus on. But I knew that if I was going to launch, I needed a good landing page that could showcase the features, grab attention, and convert leads. However, I had to trade my time instead of developing those core features for something less important like the landing page.

Now I'm thinking, why not just purchase a template from platforms like ThemeForest? How do you handle this problem? If you are a developer, would you rather write your website template yourself or would you prefer to buy something beautiful or elegant and just use it?
"Firecracker...'s excellent for running short-lived workloads...A little-known fact about Firecracker is its lack of support... for long-lived workloads."

Okay.
I don't buy Apple stuff so don't know anything about Apple stores -- but I've encountered it in other stores (usually ones that fancy themselves "high end" in some way).

It drive me crazy. It's bad enough to have to talk to a salesman when I wasn't seeking one, it's even worse when I tell that salesperson that I'm ready to buy something specific and then they waste both of our time trying to do anything other than take my money and give me the thing.

Those are stores I'm unlikely to return to.

This is different than when I want a salesperson to explain things to me. In that case, yes, please shower me with attention as long as they're one of the ones that are actually helpful rather than just constantly trying to sell.
Circa 2010 GasBuddy[0] was a pretty novel app for smartphones that allowed crowd-sourcing gas prices around you.

I imagine OPIS[1] (now owned by News Corp), who acquired GasBuddy, or one of the other Price Reporting Agencies, is providing Google with this gas price information.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GasBuddy

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Price_Information_Service
Relevant video about entropy and life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxL2HoqLbyA
This is the kind of "policing is racist" kind of propaganda that has San Francisco in it's current "hands off" state. Does anyone prefer that in every city everywhere?
I agree with both things. I think communism is unlikely to be achieved by current humans.

Also that quote really does not describe either the ideal of communism nor does it describe the historical regimes under the communism brand. In fact, I think none of the 4 categories Rury described are truly correct.

1. "Monarchy/Dictatorship: Power in the hands of one, one person is authority" is wrong simply because no one ever rules alone. Monarchy is just oligarchy with extra steps. Most historical communism is here.

2. "Oligarchy/Republic: Power in the hands of a few, aristocrats are authority", equating these two is wrong because the second is supposed to have time limits and accountability. Oligarchs are aristocrats, senators are not aristocrats.

3. "Democracy: Power in the hands of many, majority is authority", democracy is much more diverse than that.

4. "Communism/Anarchy: Power in everyone's hands, everyone is equal in authority" this is anarchy not communism. And anarchy is indeed inherently unstable. There were branches of communist thought that were anarchist but by being anarchist they were doomed to failure.

In practice we have only ever had variations of oligarchy that were more or less disguised and variations on democracy that were more or less direct.

What has not been tried and is unlikely to be tried is a democratic communism.
A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized
> I am genuinely curious: do you believe that Wakefield being discovered to be a fraud PROVES there is ZERO causal association between vaccines and autism? Because there sure are a lot of people who believe that, including a lot of people right here on HN.

That's not a good argument. If someone believes in anything then it should either be a moral axiom or they should have some kind of reasoning for it. Now, is this reasoning based on Wakefield and co. or something else that hasn't been discussed much? There is overwhelming scientific evidence that vaccines don't cause autism, so while that isn't a proof, it's the only reasonable starting point for a discussion. Science is the only tool for applying reason to reality. Not all scientists are correct, of course, but your own reasoning is flimsy if you don't acknowledge the corpus of studies which strongly favor the theory that vaccines don't cause autism. Epistemology is appropriate for your question about God but not really for this topic. If there was more reasonable division in the scientific consensus, then you would have a point.
Some acknowledgement of his passing would be appropriate.
Their entire point was that their load was static, and you've immediately started talking about how it changes constantly.
I don't know the php ecosystem well at all. I just didn't want to come across as 'Rails is the only one true way'. Lots of php folks seem to love it, and it derives a lot from Rails, so I thought it was a fairly safe shout out. But, it is HN after all, so no opinion can be put forth without and equal and opposite negative reaction.
> Recent example, there was a opinion piece about "how people were obsessed with the rich people in the sub but not the migrants in the mediterranean" roughly. You know, completely gaslighting the fact that the readers had zero say in the coverage decisions of the NYTimes and other outlets to run the Titan sub coverage so incessantly.

When I was a kid, I used to play with my older cousins at family events. They were in high school and in wrestling programs, much bigger and stronger than me.

Inevitably in my case, and probably all across family events in America, our play eventually devolved into the “stop hitting yourself” game.

Seems that’s where we’re at now.
Show HN: IronIQ, an iOS app for effortless workouts.
Spain is not UTC+1 purely out of convenience. It's because of history

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/11/30/244995264/...

> So on Oct. 23, 1940, Hitler took a train to the Spanish border to woo Spain's Fascist dictator, Francisco Franco.

> But Spain was in ruins from its own Civil War in the late 1930s, and Franco didn't have much to offer. He stayed neutral, but switched Spain's clocks ahead one hour, to be in line with Nazi Germany.

> Ever since, even though Spain is geographically in line with Britain, Portugal and Morocco — its clocks are on the same time zone as countries as far east as Poland and Hungary.

And the country/politicians are thinking about going back to UTC+0 due to all the problems UTC+1 poses due to geography.
Not that surprising when you consider that some Japanese companies still weave jeans by hand.

Japan is an interesting mix of old and new.
I like it! Definitely looks better than it did. I can see some more work needing to be done, but this is definitely a huge step in the right direction.
Yeah, even crystal clear messaging won’t fix all cases.

But crystal clear messaging is low hanging fruit that does help. The goal is to raise the bar for the wishful brain, and to eliminate as many semi-plausible wishes as possible.

Combining this with a cooling off period is probably the next best step.

There will always be exceptions, no matter how much wordsmithing you do.
If I was worried about people speeding in my neighborhood I would find some Crown Vic or other common vehicle used as a police car that doesn't pass inspection (maybe even a blown engine) and leave it parked by my house. If it is a real used police car all the better.
Since we have mouse wheels and touch screens scroll bars transformed mostly away from interactive UI components to scroll position indicators. Good components dynamically get bigger when you hover over them with your mouse or long press they on a touch screen.
> It's fine to have the "works on my machine" attitude for a user discussing this on the web. I just hope the devs of what is being pushed as a replacement for what works don't have it. (and the signals aren't good)

The problem is that it's "works on my machine" on both sides of the debate. Elsewhere in the comments is someone saying that they've never seen screen tearing and have perfectly good HiDPI on X.

I will make one statistical argument - Fedora is Wayland-by-default now. Plenty of people still use Fedora and have no problems.
> Deployment disparities, the researchers wrote, can result in downstream biases like increased arrests: A neighborhood that’s more heavily policed than another might not necessarily have more crime, just more people arrested for it.

The discussion section of the paper also speaks to higher police presence being correlated with areas that are being gentrified.
Thanks for the link to the elaboration! FYI footnotes 3 and 4 seem to be swapped.
Nothing really. I think you have to do something to make sure USB audio is routed right (I think its in their wiki). Other than that, it would work just fine!
> For maximum reliability, better to use W APIs only and do the UTF-8<->UTF-16 conversion yourself.

You mean the WTF-8<->WTF-16 conversion.

https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
The most widely used browser automation frameworks for scraping, end to end testing, and so on is literally called Puppeteer [1] :-)

[1] https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer
As long I am not working the same hours as people in the far east of China, I would not really care about what the clock reads at sunset: I'd just get up around sunrise at n o'clock, spend my hours at work and finally go to bed at m o clock. The only difference between n=6, m=22 or n=22,m=14 is habituation. We're used to the former.

But it would definitely screw up cultural references, e.g.: a "5pm tea" then can only be understood with a broader cultural context: "UK, 5pm is late in the 2nd half of the working day for them".
> self-inflicted injuries.

> the EU's top court struck down two previous agreements over fears of U.S. intelligence agencies' snooping.

Yeah, if only America's government agencies could keep within the confines of the law.
Wasn't there an HN thread recently on how many people accidentally flag stories and comments?

ETA: Found it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657663
I wouldn't say "even fraud." My experience is about half of the high-profile results from my alma mater (MIT) these days are fraud.

Note the selection bias: "High-profile." Plenty of grad students still do honest research. They just don't generate thousands of citations, media coverage, or find academic jobs.

I firmly believe tenure should be obsoleted, and academics should be fired for any sort of documented dishonesty, anywhere. Lying is not okay if you're engaged in the search for knowledge. If a person intentionally lies in a popular science book, a court case, or a newspaper article, they should be out.
This looks like sabotage from the Wayland-centric mesa developers who didn't add TearFree to the core xorg modesetting driver because the older one had this feature. Use V-Sync in the compositor.
Managers are a form of government; that is to say, a necessary evil. Companies should spend as much energy reducing the number of managers as they spend worrying about useless employees. But it never seems to be that way.
When it does break, you can rest assured a Rust rewrite is guaranteed.
> cassettes have a kind of built-in "soft" DRM feature, in that reproduction is possible but goes hand-in-hand with a loss in quality

Not just reproduction. Even just listening to them a bunch goes hand-in-hand with a loss in quality. Unplanned obsolescence?
I think there's also an issue that execs can create the appearance of being busy (and may indeed spend a ridiculous number of hours in meetings) but it can be hard to see if they're contributing anything valuable. I was at a startup which over a period of years repeatedly had new execs come in, claim that something was wrong with our planning or goal-setting process, "restart" the whole thing in a way which was virtually identical except with new exemplar docs, tracking spreadsheets, meetings etc -- and then pat themselves on the back. So far as I can tell, this is only because creating the appearance of change allows them to take credit for any later success. I asked one once what they found problematic about our prior process, and the answer was roughly "I don't know about your prior process so I cannot comment."
There is certainly a growing disconnect between federal court decisions and on-the-ground reality. This disconnect is a recognized problem. Courts are no longer respected as they once were. Many people just dismiss federal courts as political theater. And elected officials often make their reputations by defying courts, or at least pretending so to do, which trickles down to individual employees not respecting judicial decisions.
Honestly, I dont think they will have Julia version soon. I converted all the code in this book to Julia sometimes ago:

https://github.com/tndoan/ISLR.jl
> The deal, known as EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, revives transatlantic exchanges underpinning billions' worth of digital trade after the EU's top court struck down two previous agreements over fears of U.S. intelligence agencies' snooping.

Can someone explain to me what trade this underpins? AFAICT it's basically a one way street. Large corporations in the USA get to advertise to citizens of the EU. How does anyone in the EU benefit from this? Or even, how does any large EU corporation benefit from this?
The big question is it because of their race or is it coincidental with the higher crime rate?
Betteridge's law?
you can accomplish that with just modules and functions
Vintage Americana is big in Japan. I understand that has created a market for very high-quality jeans as vintage American jeans are harder to find and modern American jeans are of far lower quality.
Eclectic Architecture
So it's fine if it's legal?
Super frustrating company, just show me the dang price don't link me to a "distributor".
Apologies if you're an expert because i am certainly not, but i was under the impression that parts of the string theory mathematique had started to become useful in other endeavors. Things like a second derivation of general Relativity from first principles, or just generally an immense set of mathematical tricks for renormalization and such that are being applied even to current field theories. I do understand the political zeitgeist around string theory is that it's not useful and never will be, but I've heard murmuring recently that while 10 dimensions isn't collapsing easily to 3 or 4, the techniques learned during the exploration are actually highly useful in varied area of high level theoretical physics. Namely the much more physical models built on QFT rather than string theory
How is it a poor argument? If a crime is committed but there's no relevant reporter to observe it, it won't get counted as "crime", correct?
They have a much higher murder rate too. Murder is not caused by "cops observing crime."
An engineer or scientist will rapidly tell you you cannot do that.

A ethicist will never be caught using real inputs at all, precise or not.

A Psychologist will tell you 86% of people taking treatment X recovered. But miss out that 85.8% of people on placebo also recovered. Those numbers will be from a study of 10 people.
The Handlers implement behavior, sure. But from the perspective of the `app` object, the handler function objects are state. You can tell, because `app` is an instance of the Flask class and the Handlers are added to the instance by way of a function call.

So, Handlers are functions that "handle something", but they are also part of the app object's state, not its behavior.
I'm talking about papers in top PL and Security venues.
It's not an extra second, a clock might go 23:59:59 - 00:00:00 - 00:00:01 or 23:59:59 - 24:00:00 - 00:00:01. Both are equivalent and have the same meaning, with the only difference that 00:00:00 belongs to the new day and 24:00:00 belongs to the old day (despite both being the exact same moment in time). Of course clocks choose the former for simplicity, but for stating the end of an interval 24:00 can be clearer and preferred.

24:00 has no duration, it's only an instant in time. The same could be said about 11:34 of course, as long as you assume 11:34 to mean 11:34:00.0000000000000000000000 and not the interval from 11:34 to just before 11:35.
I think it also depends on your definition of crime or the type of crime that is being committed as outside of the scope of truly violent crimes or crime where there is a clear victim there are a lot of crimes that really should not be a crime in the first place (like possession of certain plants) and there may be many instances of truly victimless crimes that would go "uncaught" and thus untracked if an authority figure was not observing them.
Best is to ask them in my opinion. After the update: „we have a new design, do you want to use it or do you want to stay on the more compact design? You can change it any time in the settings menu <placeholder>“. The dialog should have pictograms of both designs.
That's really cool! But perhaps this should be made discoverable by e.g. showing the tokens or just a list of different search options somehow (right clicking the address bar, or a small button on it you can press, ...)

BTW something I really dislike about firefox is the switch to tab behavior when your bookmark/url happens to match an open tab: I guess it tries to be economical and bring you to a tab where you already have that page open. But that means switching context to another window or even virtual desktop for me. Also sometimes maybe I want to keep the other tab at its current state? I wish this behavior could be disabled, it has almost never been what I wanted.
I’ve never heard anyone from Netflix or Apple describe this phenomenon.

Netflix loves to fire people and Apple likes to starve its teams of headcount to force efficient use of people resources.
I couldn't spot whether the paper normalize for dash-cam density.

If one neighborhood has more dash-cams, is this paper over counting police cars in that neighborhood?
You can easily kill people with software. It has happened.
Tinned seafood has always felt a little more cute than delicious for me. Some are good, like a can of sardines is a pretty satisfying snack. But when I went to Portugal, I wasn't very impressed with the other ones like mussels or shrimp which tasted overcooked.
As a senior engineer I don't really agree. I've had good and bad managers over time, and the presence of good managers has been key when I've had more success and satisfaction.

For me, the good ones help me do the work that I am usually bad at or don't want to do: the nitty gritty of task prioritization, keeping track of the a bunch of the higher level details, parsing leadership's emanation for product direction, etc. That, and acting like a shield to deflect any badness that might come down from above.

I like contributing opinions and so on to all that, but I don't want to be the person attending all those meetings and being the final arbiter -- at least not right now. So I'm very happy to have someone there doing that, so I can operate more at the technical level.

I guess I'm a bit ADHD, but a lot of what managers do doesn't motivate me, sorry. So, yes, please to having someone fill those shoes. If they're good.

But a bad manager, yes... a problem. Luckily it's a competitive job market, and my skills such as they are can be used elsewhere, with better management.
Is this is an observation or a command?
Well to be fair the article points out that the police aren't just racists ... that they are classists, too.
Cleff and I clearly agree that these things are all debt. And they're all in the technology implementation. I understand why Cleff wants a specific word for his sort of debt, and why he'd like to call tech debt. but I think that particular battle was lost more than a decade ago.

The reason is that it's pretty much irrelevant afterwards. If I need to work with some code but that will be slower because it needs to be cleaned up, I don't particularly care why it's a mess. I'm not going to indulge in corporate archaeology to figure out exactly what the intent is.

I also believe you're wrong about the linked article. For example: "Bringing that back to tech debt: a simple kind of high-interest short-term debt would be committing code without tests or documentation." Per Cleff, that isn't tech debt. (I suspect Ward would more flexible here.) But to this author and for the common usage, it is.
I guess that will vary a fair bit on the country in Europe. Which country/countries where you in?
i too started only 'soft-deleting' rows after my first few support calls

unless you're somehow required to delete the data, it's simpler to flip a "Deleted?" bit or put it into a 'recycle bin' that's cleared by some cron job
Short answer: Likelihood of noise (brownian motion) producing the element and keeping it interacting. Then once it gets going, likelihood of keeping state, while interacting.
You've moved the goalposts on this argument now. "$Thing is hard to implement on Wayland and requires quite a lot of effort by each DE"[1] is a very different argument to "$Thing doesn't work on Wayland". Pretty much everything you listed works well in Fedora with Gnome/Mutter.

If the maintainers of the DEs are happy with the effort, then I don't see a problem? (unless you're a DE maintainer, in which case - fair enough).

[1] When I first wrote this sentence I wrote "X is hard to implement" using X as a metasyntactic variable before I realised that was incredibly confusing in context!
Very nice to be able to look up body weight exercises and get a short video instantly. Very nice.

I wouldn't target weight lifting at all. These people already know everything. Most of them can't hold a horse stance for more than 30 seconds but they can squat with 200 lbs on their back. I used to be one of those people. All bulked up and weak as fuck.

Don't encourage people to lift weights until they can lift their own weight.
why depend on an external source?

Esthetics.
What if they staggered it and just had the women starting each stage a day behind? (Or vice versa.)
Yes. There's no getting around the fact that the sun rises and sets around the world at different times. What we do instead is get rid of the assumption that everybody works 9am to 5pm local time.

It does require a different way of thinking about time zones. It sounds complicated because it's unfamiliar, but if we ever make the transition, the system would be simpler, less ambiguous, and easier to reason about.
Doesn't really seem to have been figured out for Android
That's always going to be a subjective metric, but the general consensus, including my own perspective, is that NYT is a traditionally liberal (so slightly left leaning) paper.
This outcome is independent from the commission's decision, as the final decision is with the court.
When I was creating this tool, I made sure to abstract out the reliance on just one LLM or vector db. Instead, I focused on using langchain/huggingface for tokenization, embedding, and conversational modeling. This was done purposely so that it would be simple to replace the OpenAI dependencies with any other LLMs if needed.
Speak for yourself - when I get less than 6 hours for more than a few days in a row I am very tired by about 3PM.
> wonder how representative you are of the average consumer though?

But Apple's target demograhic isn't the average person. Apple is particularly dependent on image, and one would think that they would want every customer to leave their store with a story about how awesome they are, to ensure that they keep their image polished.