skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, Bruce Gray was a major influence for me as well a couple of years ago. He often participates in the "Raku Study Group" meetings as well - these are very broad and informal meetings every second Sunday but around the end, Bruce almost always brings up some Raku (sometimes Perl) solutions for the weekly challenges from https://theweeklychallenge.org/. In case you are interested, the repo of the meetups: https://github.com/doomvox/raku-study

Back to the topic. I picked up Raku a couple of years ago and I mostly use it as a better shell.

The pros are that you can really quickly and swiftly deliver CLI automation tools and scripts; the language has a unique but very practical regex syntax, you have very rich tools for string manipulation and you have good utilities to "drain CPU" if you are willing to spend more resources to make something faster (e.g easy multithreading for operations). Also, the language is very pleasant to use, it makes you feel very clever and powerful.

The cons cannot be neglected, however, the biggest problem probably being the performance and stability of the only actually working compiler, Rakudo, and its most functioning bytecode VM, MoarVM. The rich string-processing system and regex engine can be surprisingly slothful if you have vast amounts of text, same for precise bigint and rational computations (which are the default). Not many people understand Rakudo (and especially the VMs) enough to work on bugs or performance improvements, and there are not many low-hanging fruit remaining. Considering this, I'm sad that there has been little strategy regarding getting new maintainers, or having a release strategy besides "we will not change anything that might break code, and just release new compiler versions every couple of months".

Also, I don't know how much this is a con for you but Raku is not a language you can just "learn", you have to explore it and always be ready for a new journey. It's a horizontally huge language with a lot of corner cases you probably cannot all keep in mind. I think I'm managing pretty well but it is definitely a risk; you should probably either find a small subset you are comfortable working with and stick to it, or be okay with exploration using whatever goes, from asking others and reading the docs to investigating the core library inside Rakudo (which is not as bad as it may sound but not everybody wants to do).
Full moons are terrible for stargazing. Good bye night vision. A full moon is the least exciting moon to look at it with binoculars (apart from a new moon, I suppose). Look at it in any other part of the cycle and you can see 3D detail on the surface. Much more exciting.
My ultimate take-away about LK-99 since the start has been that, even if it doesn't turn out to be a holy-grail or whatever, the novel ideas behind the material are incredibly interesting.

The idea of causing tiny (~0.5%) crystal lattice shrinkage with cuprate percolation is a really interesting idea.

So far, only huge pressures or very low temperatures (i.e. Physics) have been used to cause that shrinkage, therefore perhaps LK-99 could, at the least, mark the time that Physicists hold up their hands, admit that they have failed, and let the Chemists give it a shot.

I'm slightly oversimplifying the situation, of course, and the disciplines of science cannot be so distinctly separated, but, y'know.
The Meissner effect requires a temperature transition in the diamagnetic behaviour. As you increase the temperature, you would expect a sharp drop with the material falling back on the magnet, and then levitating again once the temperature drops.
I can confirm he's definitely not a czech native speaker. He doesn't pretend to be one though: https://nitter.net/VasutTomas0423/status/1686528417662189574...
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Strangely back then the sky did not fall, automatic restarts were Windows’ solution to paper over its poor reliability.

I think we either started demanding more from our services or just accepting worse quality. And with the mainstream accepting silent restarts it’s only going to get worse.
> N=1 is not a trend.

Every spammer is N=1.

> We don't know if the submitter has other active accounts that aren't in their real name.

That would be yet another HN guidelines violation: "Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> If they are new to this site, can we be more welcoming?

Would you say the same to all spammers?

> This is cool content and made the front page.

There are a lot of cool paid products in the world. You're giving permission for everyone to just post their own "Buy" page here. That's not what HN is for. I'm a software developer myself, and while I have submitted some of my technical blog posts, I've never just submitted my product marketing pages.

And as I said in another comment, this shouldn't even be a "Show HN" post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36959608
Debate? Do we even need to discuss it?
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Been all, now CTO of Fintech; usually wearing many hats, always hands-on.
Have my python course, coding style, some open-sourced things. Opinions.

Looking for Mentoring a team. About programming and life - with me coming there.. or them coming here. As Playing trainer, within the team and the project. Did it once officially, 2013/Ericsson/Ireland - 10 newbies, young+old, 4 months.. all seniors now. Many times unofficially, 2005 Singapore or 2019 Varna.. Life-coached someones. Made good friends along.

or.. maybe Principal/Staff engineer.. or even CTO - if the people-Manager is somebody else.

i mean - architecting, coding, requirements, reverse engineering, DIY, decisions, strategy - is fine, but management-politics isn't. i like teaching people about programming, life, 42, and how to live as programmer, without going crazy, and without making others crazy.
And how to tweak that function- interface- architecture- app- or relation, so all works better together. Nudging or nagging here-there, smiling or kicking elsewhere..
IMO the interesting part of software, is the people - technicals are fixable.

have fun
You might not need JS, but you will need a SCSS transpiler.
Google is just as beholden to Firefox existing, if it doesn’t want to be sued to oblivion.
Assuming they continue to earn net incomes like the most recent quarter. Which they just did for the first time ever.
curious to hear your thoughts
There are people out there who do whatever pop ups tell them to do. I was in a meeting once and we need to check something on a site the other person just clicked yes on the cookie banner without reading. I told him “You should click no on those” and he replied “I know, every keeps telling me that but I just click yes anyway”. I just blankly stared at him for a couple of seconds and returned the focus to the meeting.

This experience reminds me the “normies” use the internet very very differently than techy people and it explains a lot of the weird quirks on the web.

We are at the mercy of the lowest common denominator which happens to be a majority
Currency hijack aside, will this be usable without paying royalties? Adobe and Autodesk are involved...
Does Someone Know of a ChatGPT Plugin for Hacker News?
Does someone know, whether there exists a ChatGPT plugin for HackerNews?

Maybe similar to newsminimalist.com/ ?
Web pages can still be in HTML. It's a bad choice for UI apps.

(With current state of web ecosystem it's hard to tell the difference between what is page and what is an app, of course. But imagine we had a real choice on the outset of web.)
It's been on front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36955806
I’ve been happy with what modelviewer.dev offers me; someone with very little experience with 3D on the web. It’s basically a wrapper for three.js to view glTF files quickly and easily. It lets me load very small files and interact with them with JavaScript.

It’s perfect for my needs as an educator and I know just enough to be able to show other educators how to create and deploy their own learning materials.
rejected in Nov'22
now growing fast
just launched on PH
> is very straightforward

This must be some strange use of the word “straightforward” of which I was previously unaware!

There is no rocket science in there, such that a sufficiently focused non-techie could do it, but I think this comes under the same umbellar as “just stop saying just” and “don't describe everything that you are do as simply”.
<abbr> has always been interesting to me. I've been aware of it for as long as I can remember, since it's been in all the tutorials I remember reading as a teen, and other docs as I got older. Unlike some other forgotten elements, it's one that's clearly very useful, and yet I can count on one hand the amount of times I've seen it used in the real world (yet plenty of times where someone has reinvented it with JS)

Likewise, image maps. Remember messing about with those when I was young, but Wikipedia is the only place I've seen them used. To be fair, the UX isn't great, and I've often ended up navigating to an article when I was expecting to view the image page instead
> Sometimes there are external demands that require the system to always be up or to minimize any downtime

Then the solution is redundancy. Especially with todays frequent downtime for security updates you can’t deliver a singular system that’s always up.
"Cited by examiner"
You don't need a jail or a container to change the origin, you can just add an entry in your hosts file that points to 127.0.0.1
That time an Air Force sergeant spotted pulsars months before astronomers
Beating the odds – four times lucky
Whatsapp doesn't know what you're talking about, but facebook stills increases its power and presence if you use it
These comments should are as useful as claiming that that magic alternative bullshit medicine cured my cancer. N=1, not reproducible and likely has zero relevance.

You should post to firefox support/some stackexchange site or whatever to fix your problem, not comment on the quality of a product you have failed to properly evaluate.
Always a bit funny when openai makes use of trademark and copyright law that they so frivolously ignore when actually training the models.
My argument was that the _video_ evidence is not strong, because it's poor quality and videos are easy to fake, while also linking this to another piece of techno-optimism which has made it easier to fake videos.
My guess is that they're skimping on support, like every other tech company. Having good customer support with human support workers costs money, so some companies have taken the calculation that losing some small accounts might be worth it if they don't have to pay to provide proper support.
This all sounds like a false dilemma. Why do they need to choose between either one?
Why your GPU can (and probably should) do real function calls
16% of the average but compared to micro full moon, 30% brighter:

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/super-full-moon.h...

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I've also read (but can't find the links for numbers) that the brightness of a full moon compared to just a couple of days before and after is on orders of magnitude brighter.
It might be that a supermoon is 150% brighter than 2 days before, for example.
A.I. is on a collision course with white-collar, high-paid jobs
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If the author has interested you in the possibility of doing the other 10% of work, I would recommend the book "Traction - How any startup can achieve explosive customer growth" by Weinberg and Mares. It actually suggests gaining traction at the same time as developing to ensure a constantfeedback loop. In some cases you will even want to build parts of your product to help you gain traction.I think they even mentioned alternating each week, one week dev, one week marketing, i.e. 50%.
people forget that AI was already in control of the markets since 2014 at least. it's bootstrapping
Actually they’re required to pay it in order to dispute it, so it’s more like “Uber trying to get a £386M VAT refund from HMRC”
Just a thought.

If Microsoft can provide WSL2 that enables Linux seamlessly running alongside Windows (native speed with hypervisor), why can't Google or Android community provide the same functionality? With numerous and pervasive existing Android installations on phone, tablet, etc, perhaps then we can finally claim the elusive "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" title.
copyright is very hard to get right if you have 5TB data, if we now start pulling trigger for copyright enforcement it will just create moat for OpenAI and basically kill open models.
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What is core work and what is tangential work?
Well the one where they immobilized the legs just got eaten, so... yeah.

The photos of the escape make me imagine the world's strangest motivational "hang in there" type of poster.
a wee bit over 2 standard deviations usually
I think I'd ask you what I'd ask L/K - why do you think it works?

They're experimentalists: they didn't find the material from first principles, they appear to have made it and decided to continue.

So did you make the engine and notice it's efficiency, or did you find it using first principles where no one else did?
> Being fully remote, but needing a London salary is the worst possible combination for an employer.

Salary is only one of the axes. Qualifications is another one. You can get the same qualified candidate for less salary, or you could get a much more qualified candidate for the same salary.
In my experience this last 10% is the one that differentiates great work from good work. In my team we use to call it "put the bow on the gift". Receiving a well packaged gift makes the difference.
I've been using Styled Components exclusively for years and have no issues with selector complexity.
That's certainly up there, along with our ex prime Minister Tony Abbott eating a raw onion with the skin on

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkRWRn...
If I had to take a slightly snide guess: because these are low level tools, so there's a 90% chance that these parsers/prints are written in C, or ultimately depend on C implementations. As any C programmer would know, C loves to throw "undefined behavior" at any problem it doesn't bother to document. Which is a lot.

That combined with almost zero package management for retrieving things that were solved decades ago means we keep coming into this issue, partially
because of the mindset of C programmers.
In theory healthcare and social security could provide positive roi. For healthcare due to a healthier workforce being more productive, and for social security by removing family burdens and freeing up prime age workers from elder care.
UK CMA seeking additional views on Microsoft and Activision Blizzard merger
As per the notice, _representations made in response to this Notice should reach the CMA by
the end of *4 August 2023*_.

Only two days from now, so make sure to have your say.
.exe's (for the usual architectures) run on finite-state machines, not Turing machines. So, indeed, that is possible.

If the .exe connects to a service that runs on something more powerful than finite-state machine, though, I don't know.
I remember a while ago Valve said eventually a base OS that resembles how Steam Deck OS is gonna be officially released, do you know if there are news about this?

For the time being HoloISO seems like a nice alternative, are there any caveats or problems? Are you using an AMD GPU like the Readme says is more likely to work without issues?
> XML <-> XHTML + UIML

I agree with this idea. We need a toolkit standard for the web and to stop shoving application code into a document model. What's strange to me is that so many people have been trying so hard to either resist or deny this.

The proposed solution is a non-starter, though. Anything involving XML is probably DOA for the web. I know I don't want to touch it. But something needs to fill this space because UI on the web is so god-awfully atrocious.
adding another from a person affiliated with THU https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV14z4y1s7Vo/
> I smell a GPL violation here.

Unless they have been specifically granted a licence other than the GPL, which the original maintainer(s) would have the right to do (assuming other contributors, if any, agreed or signed over the relevant rights when contributing).

Edit: in fact both qucs and qucstudio are listed as authored by Michael Margraf which might make that relicensing/cross-licensing process simpler.
i think i need to buy more silver
I think I remember Galaxy Notes supporting this in the early 2010s but I'm not sure.

Edit: At least since 2012: https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/what-is-s-...

Was this actually missing until now in native iOS?
C and C++ are hardly completely different.

And C could adopt magic statics without any particular issue.
Nah 12V MR16 lights are quite common.
Humans do the same, it’s usually obvious from the context
I have to say I haven't spent a lot of time grocery shopping in English-speaking countries, so my impression is probably skewed by Halloween pumpkins...
Have other fields seen similar change?

In adjancent fields of culture, are literary authors, musicians or film makers getting their break later in life these days?
Open sourcing Listkeeper: Looking back at my suspended Twitter app
I was testing this for a bit after soup.io [1] was closed but recently I've noticed that they most likely deleted my account - I couldn't log in with correct credentials

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23804496
It has yet to be determined by the legal system whether they are breaking copyright laws or not.
The Ark Two Refuge Facility
More info:

Bruce Beach's (d.2021) YouTube channel:

[1]https://www.youtube.com/@BruceBeachArkTwo/videos/

Other people's tours of the bunker:

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3pHt1lkHuM

[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bq0378LjGQ
It's like "High Frequency" radio waves, which are actually at the low end of the spectrum used in practice today.
I would say more societal peer pressure than shame, but I don't want to argue semantics. I think that yeah, some of that went away, but another wave in another form is being created right now. Take a look at things like the fitness movement, NOFAP (which I think it's BS but that's beside the point), etc.

A lot of individuals get lost in this cultural transitional period, but I think this always happened. A good example was the hippy movement, they where very drug and free sex positive too. Society as whole will be OK I think, other non-legal checks and boundaries are being set up to prevent a major collapse. Collectively we learn from mistakes and correct for extreme behaviors.
We won’t be getting long distance high voltage electricity transmission lines made of this (possible) room temperature superconductor for the same reasons we don’t have high voltage long distance electricity transmission made of gold, a much better conductor than copper.
> They might be in an otherwise radio silent part of the world though

> Could even do human detecting wifi signals

I can confidently say that you have never tried to do anything with radio.
That's a great approach. I used xmonad for a while and switched to i3wm recently. At work, where I have to use mac, I replicated my i3 setup using yabai + skxd - that plus Emacs makes using osX almost bearable.
Might depend on whether or not Qucs was compiled in statically. E.g. they could release an OSS wrapper around it that exposes it over ZeroMQ and then talking to it over that protocol, maybe?
As pointed out later in the thread, the code in question is checking for dates before 1975, and is actually likely triggering on a zeroed-out superblock in a filesystem somewhere.

More interesting, and not noticed here, is the discussion in that thread about how Sun mapped SCSI IDs around.
Thank you. That's great. We are working on forming paradigms to evaluate Agents, I'll get in touch with you.
Completely agree, in for a dime in for a dollar. The reality is legalizing drugs is a politically untenable platform to get elected on because economic realities like supply and demand play no role in the deeply entrenched moral prejudice that is so prevalent in the (often older) voting population.

I don't mean to be offensive or ageist and I'm sure lots of older people have been touched both directly and indirectly by drug abuse, my experience is those that have been affected in some way have changed their long held views on drugs being a criminal issue as opposed to a medical one.
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I don't think big orgs post comments.
Users might prefer, say, that 99% of the time a data selection widget behaves the same whenever accessed by their browser. When devs choose a JS UI library then that's usually what users get. Wouldn't it be good to have all tables have the same features (sort, collapse, column-select, data export), rather than only having rich features if the dev implemented them, duplicating the effort of millions of other devs.

There's a sliding scale here, with html at one end and each page ships a parser and libraries at the other - why have an img tag, just let the page developer implement a JS based interpreter?
The black hour hand is moving the same as a normal clock.

The maroon minute hand is rotating at 390 degrees per hour relative to the clock face. It's rotating at 360 degrees an hour relative to the hand it's mounted on.