skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a question maybe someone can answer for me, or maybe I'm just stupid and other people don't need it, but...

What's up with the "man Y" aversion towards the usage of examples in the man pages? I don't expect some behemoth like ffmpeg to have a billion examples in the man files, but damn, every other reasonably sized CLI app would be so much easier to use, if you had just a dozen or two of examples at the end of the man file.
Are you sure it is the letter and not the graphic that is trademarked?
As a deaf person, I don't use Airpods. But I'm aware of hearing aids and their pricing. AirPods are far far cheaper than hearing aids for slight hearing loss and I'm hoping that Apple will do something in this area to improve actual hearing aids.

Many hearing aids for profoundly deaf people (like myself at the 80-100dB mark in hearing loss) are just insufficient.
> User modifiable firmware is the same thing as the power boosting potentiometer.

It's a third party modification to the device. Why is it any different than any other modification to the device that could make it non-compliant? Why does the OEM have to prevent the user from modifying the device in this way -- notably by also preventing them from modifying it in many ways that aren't a compliance issue, which is by far the more common reason to modify the firmware -- but not prevent them from modifying it with a screw driver or a soldering iron?

> It doesn't matter what you think the law should be

It matters what people think the law should be because when regulators set policy that causes widespread security vulnerabilities in common consumer devices, we get to apply pressure to them using every means at our disposal until they do better.

> The FCC as a regulatory body doesn't care about FOSS

Regulatory bodies have to care about anyone they negatively impact who can marshal enough support to make them feel pressure. "Open source" is a lot of people, and a lot of major companies. Right to repair has seen some significant legislative support.

> they care about keeping an easy to over exploit shared resource continue to have significant and extremely profitable use.

Which user-modifiable firmware is no more a threat to than any other modification the user might make to the hardware, or for that matter the widespread availability of hardware you're intended to need a license to operate even though anybody who doesn't care about breaking the law can still buy it and use it.

> But they don't exist for no reason and didn't just appear overnight to inconvenience FOSS enthusiasts.

I don't think they exist for no reason. I think the OEMs like rules like that because they can point to it as the fig leaf for not allowing users to continue to maintain their own devices after the OEM stops supporting them, or add software features they would otherwise reserve to a more expensive model, because the OEMs would prefer that you buy a new one instead, or pay more. And that kind of regulatory capture causes me to advocate for its removal.
What walkie talkies and WebRTC signaling have in common
X WDV
Funny enough, "pricing too low" is still a common piece of feedback I get as well.

I wonder if the fact that there are now voices on both sides could indicate that it's finally in the right territory. Or perhaps that there should be additional tiers. Just not sure how best to carve up the feature set in that latter case.
> Except what people in America actually want to do, which is not ride a train outside of novelty.

It's not like there's a convenient alternative to be chosen, it's a country where for a lot of people the choice is either to have a car or to starve (by proxy, not being able to get to your job). Doesn't sound much like a choice about what Americans want to do.
Reminds me of WinPopup spam on Windows 95
I'm not an expert in whether this technique yields better or worse results. But it seems plausible that the proposal would yield a reduction in memory requirements and thus beneficial.

But in terms of a written piece of technical content, this is brilliantly written. Easy to follow and stay engaged. Well done.
Safari has the fastest JavaScript engine. In many respects, Safari's implementation is top notch. Apple makes money off phones and people use Safari a lot on phones. I don't understand why people think Apple don't invest on Safari.
What was your incentive to dedicate so many hours for this website? Can you list a few if possible?
For someone who doesn't follow the Israeli politics, your reply lays out a broader picture of what's happening.
I think the author's intended use of the word 'hack' is less about veering off the beaten path to get it to do something unexpected, but more inline with 'life hack' or 'cool things to try'. The intended audience for a post like that might be the less-technical crowd.
Who gives a shit if advertising works. Just stop fscking with my web experience.

User Agent. Not advertiser agent, not government agent. USER AGENT!
The armed citizenry is certainly shabbier in the UK or Canada. Americans retain much more ready access to basic small arms -- in particular, semi-automatic rifles, banned in the UK in the 1980s -- and with some trouble can get machine guns, grenade launchers, rockets, mortars and many other squad and platoon level level weapons. There are at least 600000 machine guns in private hands in the USA today, registered under the terms of the NFA; and there are probably quite a few more, since many people become Class III dealers more or less just to have them.

Now, none of this is half as good as colonial times. In the United States, we didn't see much restriction of the arms market until the 1930s. Americans freely traded all classes and varieties of weaponry -- small arms, cannons, swords, &c -- during the colonial era and for more than a century after. Americans today have much less of the freedom promised by the 2nd Amendment than we used to; but we have retained much more of this particular right of the English than any other English speaking country.
Is it a bad idea to use Tesla? I’ve got it in my app, but I never know.
Prompt: "Set a reminder to buy groceries tomorrow at 5 PM."

Response: "Reminder set: Buy groceries tomorrow at 5 PM."

Uh... what? All this does is yield the usual "As an AI language model, I can't set reminders on your device. But here's how to build an alarm clock..." response.
SO is weird. Or the people on it are weird. I once provided an answer but without code. Someone posts the same answer with code (effectively my answer); he gets upvoted and since then I get down voted. I get most of my reputation from a really really old answer about what the right mime type should be for JSON[0]. When I look at the question now there are a more than a dozen answers added...and loads of edits by moderators.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/477816/which-json-conten...
The only interesting piece on here is “Set a reminder.” How is that supposed to work?

Edit: I’m going to flag this and I suggest others do as well—it’s blogspam with a clickbait headline, and incorrect information in it. I’m pretty sure it’s written in GPT.
No, I used the word 'heteronormative', which has a specific, clinical meaning.
Right on. He wants to make it more than just a tweet message platform. He wants to make it his own personal portal. That will do X.

The price he paid is for the human traffic. Redirected to his world of interests
SO by design gets its traffic from Google Search. If Google for whatever reason is sending less traffic, then SO will decline.

Yes, AI coding assistants will mean less frequent Googling occurs during development, but also, when Googling is required it usually goes beyond SO and more towards primary sources as the former's results strongly overlap with the AI assistants capabilities.
> 4. "the plaintiff shows e-mail is likely to reach defendants"

JFC
Vector instructions speed up things like:

for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
{
a[i] = b[i]*c[i];
}

Effectively, they let you do this in chunks of 2, 4 or 8 elements in a single instruction instead of element by element. Usually the clock speed of the processor drops slightly while executing these instructions but not so much as to make it slower than not having the instruction.

New instruction sets usually do two things - add support for new operations, and widen the registers and allow you to perform the operation on more elements at a time.

If you’re writing in a high level language, you’ll only really see performance improvements if your interpreter or library takes advantage of them. For e.g. the Python library NumPy makes good use of vectorisation.

In terms of writing low level code, simple loops are often auto-vectorised by the compiler so you often see a sort of odd style where a loop doing many things is split up so the compiler can deal with it. You often end up having to run the code through something like VTune to work out whether a particular loop has actually vectorised.
While I fully understand the feeling of the author being a Googler doing their job, being a cog in the machine and launching something to advance their promo case, would be visibly upset that people who actually care about the outcome are actively fighting their project, I also think from the users' perspective, dealing with a powerful corporation, it is the right thing to do to bury this type of danger as soon as possible.

(The piece where the author suggests focusing on "technical arguments" when the issue at hand is fundamentally political is frankly laughable; can't really tell if it is naïveté or deception.)
> Can you give a link on how to use it? Every time I tried to google it returns lots of different results and when I tried it it:s not even usable for basic things I want.

Here is an example of using it to write simple powershell scripts:

* https://chat.openai.com/share/17a9d185-4a8c-4c10-97a2-0c5b08...

Here is an example of using it to merge different types of json configuration files:

* https://chat.openai.com/share/ed0c9cf9-7586-43df-9271-7b5859...

You need to pay for it if you want access to the latest version of the model, along with some beta features like plugins. Plugins are extremely useful and it is worth paying just to get access to them. For instance, you need to have a certain plugin to get it to read links.
Is this a real article?

> 9. Personal Assistant and Productivity Tool
ChatGPT functions as a virtual personal assistant, aiding users in managing daily tasks and increasing productivity.

> Example:

> Prompt: "Set a reminder to buy groceries tomorrow at 5 PM."

This is obviously nonsensical. ChatGPT can't remind you of anything because it only responds when you ask it, and it doesn't know the time.
> The Qualcomm AI researchers found that 97%+ of outlier activations in LLMs occur in whitespace and punctuation positions.

This is striking. If true, why not try to ignore whitespace and puctuation?

In old Latin, scripto continua [1] was a way to write continuously, for the exact same reason: to save space. Other modern languages still do that, and are no less parseable.

Granted, it's unlikely a commercial LLM would become popular if it produced output without spaces or punctuation; but an open source one that promised to be much more compressible, and therefore work on smaller machines, might be super useful.

It's not hard for a human to add spaces afterwards. It used to be a job for beginning journalists at the time of telex machines: press releases were sent in all caps without spaces, and interns were tasked with adding slashes between words. In French it was called "bâtonner les dépêches" (literally: add sticks to press releases -- not sure about the idiomatic English translation).

[1] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua
"marked as duplicate" pointing to a 5yo answer with links that 404
Around '84 doing seismic data. We just got a terminal in the office that would allow you to monitor the jobs running on the IBM mainframes downstairs. Completely new tech to all of us. It had a command line message capability. Because it was quite easy to send to all instead of just your recipient, one marriage ended rather suddenly. Seeing the effects of your actions with new tech in real time indeed.
I believe they also have cameras watching the scales / scanner platform. If you put e.g. an orange on it and then choose to manually input what type of item it is, orange is usually the first item on the list of suggested possibilities.

Do the same experiment with the orange in an opaque bag and it will still usually have it on the list (guessing by weight) but not always at the front of the list.

I would assume this will also trigger an alarm if you were to try tricking the system by obscuring the barcode on some steak and checking it out as apples by weight (but have not tested this hypothesis for obvious reasons).
Very cool. Can we see a similar one for HTTP servers?
That's not as trivial because extension that uses node also use the fact that this is the same node instance that runs vscode itself and use vscode API to do "things". Other things it does is accessing the file system or network which may anyway not work even in a WebContainer.

It is pretty easy to port an extension to be able to run as a web extension as well.
This is documented there: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/web-exten...

I've done that for my extension. My extension uses a language server through the Language Server Protocol (LSP). In order to make it work as a web extension, I had to compile the language server (written in Rust) to webassembly, and also hack a way to query "import" files via vscode api instead of file system access.
This is a wonderful summary but I'm struck with how these things all seem unnecessarily complicated compared to Python' requests, Apache Commons clients, curl based libraries... I get that a lot of magic also comes from the Erlang resilience, and maybe the functional composing is certainly interesting, but JavaScripts and Clojure and arguably you could do this with anything with promises... Anyway.

This sounds great in the sense that many of the issues I've had with those other platforms also have consideration here, but I guess my real question is:

Are http(s) requests always going to be bespoke and have application specific considerations? It also seems we can't escape having to know all of the layers ultimately, the socket, TLS, etc sometimes for even the most basic of http use cases. I feel like we don't have to do this for... Many other protocols.
http://highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/

it used to be very popular a decade ago
The facts are hard to explain without context. It's an obscure legal ruling that's at the center, the idea that a judge can make a decision based on common sense. They outlawed common sense for judges.

This is a part of a much greater movement with multiple forces in play trying to turn Israel into an autocracy. (Israeli, from Liberal side).
The subliminal message nearly escaped me.
History of Semiconductor Industry Books
Why hasn't Waler Isaacson or other tech historians covered the rise of companies like Intel, Cypress Semiconductor, Applied Materials, Micron, Western Digital and so on. These companies are the foundation for everything in the tech revolution.
Ask HN: Is there a way to “filter” the posts on HN
I'm actually a bit bored of seeing Elon this and Elon that (and other subjects as well).
Is it possible to, by means of an application or CSS or whatever to remove certain posts?
Here's something that might interest you :) https://remote.com/openings
Sounds like a decision of governments in order to penalise travelling and reduce greenhouse emissions.

Stay at home policy, but they are too shy to tell us.
> they can do a 60° bank just fine - but it becomes VERY uncomfortable for the passengers

Only if you try to maintain altitude. If you let it descend it can be a 1G maneuver and no one will be able to tell unless they look out the window (at which point they will probably freak).
Monotype Executive Creative Director Phil Garnham Executive told The Messenger in a statement that the company “can confirm that whilst it is similar, this is not the capital X glyph from Monotype’s “Special Alphabets 4.”
I'm also curious why Tesla doesn't get mentioned in here, particularly because I'd argue that Tesla is at a similar abstraction level to Req.
Happens to the best of us :-)

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Part of this is because problems (X) are complicated and people just as commonly demand the "simplest possible example" (Y) that demonstrates the problem. So people ask how to do Y, and then others ask why on earth they would do that.

One common example I've run into lately, as I've been reading about state machines, is people asking how to implement a simple react component as a state machine, and others objecting to the premise of the question since using a state machine for a simple react component is obviously a bad idea.
> "racial prejudice" is a perfectly acceptable way to use it

Racial prejudice. Which adds a boatload of social and historical context to "prejudice" alone. Not to mention that no one talks about racial prejudice without (at least) an awareness of the discrimination and oppression that such prejudice often gives rise to.

> This isn't a teachable moment to explore the nuances of racism, it's simply a metaphor.

"Tell[ing] me what I must like [on the basis of star sign]...is akin to racism" (OP's words) isn't a metaphor. It's simply stating that one thing is analogous to another. I realize this all seems totally pedantic, but making a false equivalence between an astrological stereotype and racism trivializes the experiences of people who are on the receiving end of racial discrimination.

> I think stereotypes are a kind of prejudice, again, using plain definitions.

If we're simply looking up dictionary definitions, I'm happy to point you to the dictionary-defined distinction between stereotype (beliefs about characteristics of groups)[1] and prejudice (negative feelings towards groups)[2]. That being said, you did just repeat my point that stereotypes often form the basis of prejudices :).

[1] https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=preju...

[2] https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=stere...
As an Israeli I very much agree. Wrote this in another post going into more detail on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36848564
This is purely speculation, but I wonder if this "root access" doesn't also come with downsides, e.g. more gene defects, which would help explain the short lifespan of most cephalopods.
Oh god that just reminded me how often people ignore the question asking for posix shell or “/bin/sh” or other specific shell scripting language… and processed to answer the question using bash, zsh, Perl, python, or even the slightly less wrong (because it is kinda weird to be shell scripting without a moderately normal unix environment) of using a bunch of Unix binary programs to do the requested job without actually solving the core problem of the question, because the tools made it easier…

And then to ice the cake you find the question because your question has been marked as a duplicate of the older question where they answered using unix binary tools… and you specifically asked about doing something in “pure shell script” or something similar to that phrase.

Stack overflow is fundamentally a system design that breaks down at scale due to misalignment of incentives that are necessary for it to work well at smaller scales (as can be seen in the successful operation of various smaller Stack Exchange sites for various topics such as Law, Aviation, Physics, etc)
Which is why you end up with the painful

sentinel = object()
value = dictionary.get(key, sentinel)
if(value == sentinel) ...

Which, sure, it works, but it's working around a problem that didn't need to exist in the first place. Why not just have Option work the way you expect, and be able to contain None the same way as it can contain any other value?
It is both infuriating and sad that Google can‘t figure out a way to compensate for this SEO spam. Is there an easier problem than doing it for SO (and yes, coding is a big enough problem for Google imho to be worth investing a little here).
Not to mention unsearchable, poor discovery, a chat platform is not a replacement for message boards. SO is well suited to the Q&A format and Discord just isn’t.
The police is part of the root cause lol
A lot of HN users don't want to hear this, but being good at engineering doesn't mean that you're good at business.
It's a learning experience for kids. It teaches them that they are powerless to resist big companies, which prepares them for adult life as submissive consumers.

Google giveth, and Google taketh away. Blessed be the name of Google.
Those are week tools. If you want to greatly improve your evolutionary fitness have as many kids as possible (preferably with multiple partners). E.g. sign up as a sperm donor.
This happened to me. Bought a domain for $10, and it was taken back a week later due to being a mistaken premium domain.
If PID 1 exits, the system usually panics immediately and restarts.
We have no other oversight otherwise. We don't have senate vs. congress. The court is supposed to oversee the government and our current prime minister is on trial for corruption.

For him this is about destroying any oversight which might put him in jail. His "partners" from the extreme right want to use it to annex the occupied territories without giving citizenship to 3M Palestinians.
> it seems unlikely they have access to stackoverflow's real traffic stats.

The question and user profile view stats (among other things) are public on the Data Explorer and included in the dumps:

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2677/database-schem...

Not sure what they’re counting as a “visit”, though.
Swift focus is quite clear, replace C, C++ and Objective-C on Apple ecosystem, it is even stated on its official documentation.

As such it should provide comparable level of flexibility, tooling and developer power.

Anything else isn't part of swift focus.
I agree with you, but fwiw, the conspiracy is that the Saudis want to avoid a repeat of the Arab Spring that was heavily fueled by Twitter, so in that sense, $20 bil would be the price tag to destroy Twitter, not an investment that needs to be recouped.
I couldn’t even read all the
What to Expect of AdonisJS 6?
It is not an "orientalist" way of looking at Islam. These are real distinctions that exist. For example, Wahhabism is distinctly opposed to and critical of a lot of the rest of the Sunni Muslim tradition and intellectual history, many adherents of which (and it sounds like this group includes you)[1] have started to label themselves "ahl al-sunnah" in order to distinguish themselves from numerous other positions, ranging from violent Islamic extremists with extremely literalist interpretations of the Quran and Sunnah to highly reformist modernists of various persuasions.

At the end of the day, much of what anyone labels as Islam is highly man-made. To claim otherwise is to be either extremely unfamiliar with the Islamic intellectual tradition and the religion's history or disingenuous. I say this as an adherent of mainstream Sunni Islam.

[1] This was a mistake; as the other person said, you are probably a Wahhabi.
Twenty years ago, maybe, but "Molly" supplanted it. Not even sure what the preferred term is now.
That was before the decline. Straight ChatGPT is getting more useless for coding by the day.