skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always wondered this. When a site like "MAterial for Mkdocs" can implement such a featureful search (with autocomplete, spellcorrect and such) in a browser for a website, how could it be this hard for a desktop application with several orders of magnitude of resources at its disposal?
I'm using the amdgpu driver with Window Maker, i didn't need to do anything special for it to work. FWIW variable refresh rate also works (my monitor has VRR support and displays the current refresh rate in an overlay), though it needs an option in xorg.conf to enable.

Note that i do have tearing in the desktop if i -e.g.- move windows around, but this is something i want as i do not like the slight input lag compositors add (even on my 165Hz monitor). However there isn't any tearing in VLC or in games (which, depending on the game, i might also run with VRR).

AFAIK the modesetting driver got VRR support only recently and the TearFree mode only just a few months ago so if you used that you might have used some older version.

Though if you tried a compositor, i don't remember using any compositor that didn't do some form of vsync to avoid tearing. I just started KDE Plasma with Xorg in another virtual terminal with its compositor and default settings (i started it as a different user with default settings that i sometimes use for testing) and there wasn't any tearing at all even on the desktop (again using the amdgpu driver).
As a designer + developer, it always frustrates me to see a design not translated into code well. If this is built using css, there really aren't any excuses for not making this look as slick as the visuals. Especially when the design doesn't appear to contain anything which looks especially difficult to recreate.

It's difficult to overemphasise how much this kind of thing gives users of your software confidence. The common assumption is, if it looks good, it works well (and the opposite).
I think we're talking past each other. You say "communism doesn't work because we can't reach it", and I say "it's not entirely clear if communism doesn't work because we haven't managed to reach it".

Don't you think that you risk missing interesting ideas if you reduce communism to temporary dictatorships?
As much as Win32 app development can suck, please make a time machine and get me out of this "cloud native" hell hole..
I think there's a lot of projects within Amazon that get extra marks for dogfooding AWS and for providing materials / whitepapers for use cases of various AWS services.

I've done some AWS training, especially the introductory ones are intended to get you to use as many different services as possible. I'm sure Amazon's internal training is just that.
Interestingly, no! For example see:

https://blog.jfallen.org/2016/12/26/newport-home-of-the-mole...
But isn't all this something the carrier can do anyway on their side? What do they gain by controlling the modem that they can't already get just from their own equipment?
This is super cool, and reminds me of when I first learned about <summary><details> tags for some reason.

It also reminds me of this, which sadly loses some charm now that browsers seem to love to hide the full URL:

https://matthewrayfield.com/articles/animating-urls-with-jav...
The same thing we did when basket weavers were upset robotic manufacturing took over. Let supply and demand decide what society considers valuable. If we want the $2 basket that gets delivered yesterday but breaks in 1 year, so be it. If the master basketweaver thinks there is a market for selling human made baskets at $100 a pop, but they last 10 years, then prove it.
I think even moving as fast as the average student is a generous assessment. My dad was a math teacher at a public high school in Southern California. At the end of his career he was the math dept chair. He retired recently but he was constantly battling administration who wanted them to focus on bringing up the bottom of the class. It was a battle that partially led to his retirement. The admins just wanted the test scores to go up and they saw focusing on the bottom as the easiest way.
> Meta is in the crosshairs of regulators after Cambridge Analytica.

I'll believe it when I see some actual results. With the kind of money and influence that Facebook has, the wrist slaps they get are just BAU.
> then you will not get a second round of funding.

A couple of years ago when the VCs were throwing money around like crazy, I had this bright idea that perhaps all I'm ever going to need is a single round of funding. Use the money to put the company on a modestly profitable track, cut the head count, cut the cloud costs, eliminate the office, and cruise along indefinitely. Just like passive income, but on a corporate scale.

The reason this doesn't work is that the market changes very, very quickly in our industry. You can't just put your app on cruise control and expect a consistent ARR forever. As soon as some other VC finds out that you aren't making an "optimal" use of your money, they'll invest in a competitor who will eat you alive for breakfast.
For a while I thought it was AGPL, but after reading it it looks like there are no provisions against using the code for commercial purposes, only that if source code is used, the modified source code must also be made available to the public.
>but not if it prevents authors from being able to make a career out of producing great work

Why? Why should we hold back technological and social progress because it might make it more difficult for some authors to have a profitable career?

Are only people that have the mechanical skill to draw and write well the only ones that should be allowed to profit from creative work? Because that's how it's been so far. You might have the best ideas for a story, picture or movie, but if you lack the mechanical skill to bring them to life then your creativity is worthless. AI generation can help those people have a chance too.
They did use XULRunner in the past, but probably something else nowadays.
I think they used the word "monolith" to denote that 4 different things[1] (orchestration, detection, media converter, aggregation) were running together within a ECS task/container. Rather than each in their own, separate, horizontally scalable thing. So there was horizontal scaling, but not independent horizontal scaling for each of the 4 things.

The original article[2] about moving to a monolith didn't say much about how those 4 things were built..one binary/script, more?

So I think just a bunch of confusion on what was meant by "monolith".

[1] https://imgur.com/a/6nUFga0

[2] https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-th...
The python version is great news. I get asked fairly frequently to recommend an intro ML book. I would have suggested this, except they usually only knew python and not R. Now it a perfect first book!
> But they really don't. They might have familiarized at one point of time, but that snapshot is not where the world is at now. They cannot really expect that the world around them will stop developing, so their know-how and hacks stay current.

Maybe we have different experiences. I am not working in a computer related industry so the people I know who use Linux are the only one following tech news, self hosting services, etc. So in my experience they are more familiar with their software. But my point of view is necessarily incomplete.

What I wanted to say was that people who do not know enough to be able to not run in circle, do it because they feel attached to them after becoming familiar with them after so many hours learning their paradigms, their inner workings, etc.

Again, it may be my incomplete POV but I have never seen any Windows user look at source code to try to understand a particular function to adapt the software to their workflow. I've seen numerous Linux users do this.
Strength training !== bulking up

High (comparative) weight + low reps builds strength (and muscle recruitment) without (necessarily) building lots of new muscle fibers. Muscle hypertrophy happens most often with lower weights and higher repetitions, plus loads of calories. A program like "Starting Strength" is not about hypertrophy.

Any exercise is potentially "unhealthy," particularly if it requires specialized movements. You can learn proper form for "base" lifts like the squat and deadlift without any equipment at first.
One thing i've noticed is that the search bar is awful at finding anything, but the search tool (Ctrl+Shift+F) works much better.
TL;DR: G lit background, R,B lit actors. It doesn't work yet.
How to stop banks’ new social credit system
Show HN: Nuage – An open-source SoundCloud app for macOS, written in SwiftUI
Hi everybody,
I've been working on a native SoundCloud client for macOS called Nuage. It's still work-in-progress, but I feel like it makes listening to music on SoundCloud much more enjoyable already. Let me know what you think!
Erwin Schroedinger himself wrote a beautiful essay "What is life" [1] where he addressed those topics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Life%3F
let's consider two movements: a deadlift and a prone hamstring curl.

the deadlift is something you've done a million times whether you know it or not, though the novice is probably more uncoordinated than they realize at higher weights. like it would be a struggle if not dangerous to move a couch, for example. this is a very practical skill to develop, and you're still "targeting" the same muscle group as...

...a prone hamstring curl. how often do you find yourself prone and flexing your knees against a load? probably never, right? how do you contextualize a movement like this to someone's day to day? what i mean is, what is even compelling about a movement like this and what does it actually mean to someone just starting out?

i'm the world's biggest proponent of "keep it simple, stupid" when it comes to working out, especially as a novice. super detailed split routines are more often than not overwhelming and set people up to develop bad habits while never meaningfully addressing the core issue that drive many people to go to the gym in the first place: people suck at moving.
Its not often that HN makes me laugh.
> wasn't illegally collected

I understand this technicality; it doesn’t seem to answer my question, though I may have presented it poorly. If it’s ostensibly “wrong” (as some proxy) to collect something, it doesn’t matter how it was acquired given there’s still some intact collection.
> But Threads doesn't have DMs (by far the most important Twitter feature for any user of that platform).

... Eh?

I was a heavy Twitter user from 2007 to the ascension of naughty ol' mr car. I think I maybe sent ten DMs, ever. I don't think it even had them for years after launch.

Like I don't doubt that they're important to some people, but this seems like weird positioning.
> It’s not completely distinct, it’s a superset of Schengen called EFTA

the EFTA is not a superset of Schengen, they are completely different treaties and are unrelated

(other than the fact all EFTA countries also separately signed the Schengen agreement)

> Ireland is part of EFTA but not Schengen.

Ireland is not "part of" (signatory of) EFTA, it is however part of the EEA

> The EU is messy.

EFTA is not the EU, and originally Schengen was nothing to do with the EC either
Yep, it’s also alpha, under intense development, and by every account (including those vendors who are chomping at the bit to start selling it to customers) absolutely not production ready.
AMD lets you sell products without chipsets, they call it APU then wink wink. https://hothardware.com/news/atari-vcs-pre-production-commen... https://www.bvm.co.uk/products/asrock-4x4-5800u-motherboard-...

Check AM4 pinout, you will find everything integrated. pcie, ram, usb 3.0, sata, HD Audio, RTC/SPI/I2C/SMBus and LPC are all on die.
>> Yes, I'd guess what he means is deleting code in the app until the alert disappears, which would be impossible if the alert appears only once.

> You really think that's a reasonable approach? Deleting parts of your app until it goes away?

When you send a feedback to Apple, they almost always ask for a minimal test case (Xcode project).

If you can guess what the problem is, you can just create a new Xcode project from scratch that triggers the error.

But often, when you do that, the new project doesn't fail in the same way your app does. Then you have to start with your app, and keep removing stuff until only the stuff that triggers the problem is left.
If it's backwards compatible why would they bump the major version?

Either there should have been a breaking change in there or they don't understand symantic versioning
While I generally agree that suing the government isn't in and of itself and indicator of desperation, I also feel like there's a distinction between the lawsuits that are always immediately thrown around contesting government contract awards compared to lawsuits filed against legislation.

In the former, companies sue because it doesn't really cost them much to try and see if something works out in their favor, while in the latter they're suing because the legislation would have some negative effect on their existing business.
Yes that's the point I'm making. It is now a display server. On X it was just a desktop environment. Traditionally that comprises

* A set of utility X applications, like a panel and launcher

* A recommended window manager

* A recommended display manager

And then this all runs on top of a separate X display server

Generally the last two are easy to replace, for example I have used both Compiz and Xmonad on Gnome 2 and XFCE. Gnome was probably a bad example for me to pick since modern Gnome does merge the first two bullets into one, but it's still separate from the display server and can be launched from other display managers, or none (just startx)

Again, it would be like Firefox needing to talk directly to my network card rather than the actual packet sending be managed by the layer below (the OS in that case)
Show HN: Redis-LLM – Redis module integrates LLM with Redis
Features:
- Run LLM applications with prompt template
- Vector store
- Ask questions on private data saved in vector store
- Chat with a long conversation history
Why China’s Young People Are Not Getting Married
Is this a trick question? I would listen to digital audio on a computer, which I’ve had access to for my entire life. I’m 30 years old, and I’ve never not had a computer in the house.

Also, most people purchasing cassettes nowadays most likely also own and use a smartphone.

I am trying to understand your perspective, but I just don’t, I’m sorry.
You need to install a separate app.
> Let me preface this LinkedIn execs — if any of you come a calling with a job, I’ll shoot someone.

The audacity of this is peak LinkedIn.
Choosing to deal with Musk is an equation of crossing a sufficient (if ever increasing) threshold of greed, ignorance and desperation. But the problem is a lot of people have a lot of those. Same with Trump.

They do have a lot of similarities yes. They're half conmen, half businessmen. With "half" being a somewhat crude measure here.
> As a senior dev preventing business from bad decisions and preventing code that should never be written is more valuable.

Except, this could be done better and cheaper by a literal rock with letters spelling "NO" written on it with a sharpie.

If a software company doesn't write any code, what exactly is it doing? And speaking of bad decisions, surely some have been made already, since everyone is doing the job they're the least qualified for.
This guy really is not that smart and I don't understand why people keep defending him or pretend that he's playing multi-dimensional chess or something. He acts like a gambler who keeps doubling down on previously risky bets that didn't pay off. It's worked for him for a long time, but I think his luck might run out finally, at least with the Twitter deal.

He seems to have bought the company because he felt legally compelled after running his mouth. Now he's not paying lawyers and rent and the consequences of this are likely going to be even worse financially for his failing social media company which might struggle to attract any advertisers besides erection pills and fitness supplements (the small niche of brands that wants to associate with right-leaning single men).

He'll find a way out of this fight with Zuckerberg because he's not legally compelled to stick to his word :)
There are plenty of DNA viruses. They aren't limited to RNA at all
Here's an idea for a dystopian sci fi novel: AI learning is treated differently from human learning, therefore we start building computers with human/animal brains.
> Any bread in the normal isle that you can buy and have on your counter for over a week, where it still looks and feels and tastes the same is an abomination.

Sourdough does exist and keeps well.
The app ultimately shows you your decrypted email. If client side code is compromised then I don't think this is the thing you worry about
Stringzilla – Stupid Heuristics to Search and Sort Strings 5-10x Faster
Gitlab Outage 5 Whys
Terraform plan/apply pipeline from an old commit took down production
> Well, the PBS article, first of all, is extremely poorly written. How can you write that plastic is "indestructible" and that it "breaks down" into microplastics that enter our bodies, in the same sentence, and not spot the contradiction.

Where is the contradiction? It's breaks down in smaller parts of plastic, but still remains being plastic. It won't transform into something else, like oil, coal, or food for plants. It's still the same, just a bit smaller.

> There are a lot of recycling centers in Bavaria

Collected plastics in Germany are usually not recycled, they are burned or shipped to other countries, often under the pretext of recycling.

> I'm having a hard time imagining that the government would ask households to go to all that trouble and then just send it to landfill.

Governments demand much bullshit to pamper the citizen. And often it's not even the fault of the government's original idea, it's just that things evolve somehow in a poor way along the way. The corrupt forces break down any attempt until it becomes twisted enough to not be useful anymore in the original aim.
They are designing it as a show-room where you can buy items, not a self-service shop. More like a car dealership.
> I can only imagine how terrible the web version of a complex software like Excel will be.

It's actually not that terrible, but I believe it's nowhere near feature parity. Not to mention there is a galaxy of add-ons that still need to be rewritten from scratch to work on the web version, and a lot of people cannot live without them.

Excel is a classic case of 80% of users requiring 20% of all functionality, but that 20% being different for each user. Still, Microsoft made it very clear that the future is web-first.
The problem is that this isn't only limited to OpenAI though. The same rules will also bind efforts like StabilityAI that does give away their models for free for everyone to use.
Is this different from selecting a higher resolution stream (with increased bitrate) and downscaling it on a 1080p display? If not, will they hide 1440+p options behind a paywall as well?

Most creators upload at 1080p, and YouTube has always given bitrate recommendations to match their service. Even with updated documentation, I'm expecting lots of people using their existing encoding presets for future 1080p uploads that can't benefit from this paywalled upgrade.
yep, i agree with this. twitter is on a long slow slide to irrelevance, but threads will not be the thing that scoops up all the refugees.

twitter never worked for me, but i can see its appeal to those who did like it. it was engaging. it was the best opportunity ordinary people had to interact with celebrities. it had an irreverent quality that invited whimsy.

(all that stuff is either completely destroyed now, or almost so, but that's what it had in its heyday.)

my prediction is that there will be no "new twitter." it was the product of a particular time and place that will not be repeated. its users will disperse to a lot of other platforms, none of which will fill the exact same niche that twitter did.
Not an issue per se. It shows the limit of the analogy used by defrost to justify such a world would be as functional as 1975’s was.

The basic assumption that the two situations are similar is just… false
There’s no technical reason, it’s just a poor implementation.

I use “notmuch” for email and it can index over two decades of emails in seconds. Search is then instantaneous.

TBH, thunderbird could just use notmuch under the hood.
Also, read the NYT article The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare[0][1] that the film Dark Waters[2] is based on.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...

[1] https://archive.is/NmSH0

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9071322/
I disagree, the business model works out just fine for a lot of people.

At the core of the problem is the concept if a contractor. These cities are trying to go around a federally defiend concept of contracting. You agree, as a self-employed business operator to provide services and get paid for it. Employees on the other hand provide labour which means performing assigned tasks under a specific job title, typically under some sort of management with performance reviews and accomodations provided. Anyone from IT workers to general contractors contract out services as a business, not labour as an employee.

When you hire a general contractor to fix your roofing for example, they are not your employee, you don't have to pay them minimum wage, withold taxes or provide medical care and paid vacation to them. I have been a contractor and hated it but I know people who love it.

The scale and nature of Uber's business is no reason to treat them differently when everyone is supposed to be equal under the law. Taxii drivers were typically independent contractors as well unless they had their own medallion back in the day.

I have not read any argument so far as to why Uber and friends should be treated differently.

I would hate to pay more for their services just because a bunch of people who can't ger a job elsewhere want to force uber into employing them when it wants to contract them. Most people I have met who do this work have another day job and uber is extra income. If you wanna do it full time, you can pick locations like airports for uber and downtown areas for doordash and ubereats, especially in places like manhattan or miami and make much more than minimum wage.

To be clear, under this law, the guy who hustles and makes $25/hr will get paid minimum wage just like the guy who takes a nap in his car near his house until he gets an order/ride. Essentially, in addition to other burdens, they want drivers to be paid for being available but also drivers would have to be told where to work and how to work, for example you can't park in the middle of nowhere, where you know you won't get any orders and get paid for it.
Without having read the study, but going on experience reading other studies of this general type, that’s a common pattern with CIs derived from predictors in logistic regression-like models (which are often used for this kind of analysis)- the CI calculations often end up having a log in there somewhere which results in higher tails. And a RR of 1.7 is still nothing to sneeze at depending on the base rate of whatever is being discussed…

But again, I haven’t read the paper! Just chiming in with some half-forgotten epidemiology. :-)
X-59: NASA’s quiet supersonic jet moves closer to first flight
You could even say we're talking about a legacy storage medium ;)