skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A picture is worth a thousand words" or some such.

That said, I've certainly heard that different people prefer different ways of learning/consuming knowledge. I myself will choose video for some things, illustrations/graphs/images for other things, and text/tables for yet others. I do have a fondness for well done images, though.

Even the style of text can have an impact. Bullet points for providing instructions, instead of a long paragraph of sprawling text.

Another thing I picked up some 15 years ago is borrowed from newspapers: the concept of "above the fold"; get the main points out there near the top, and keep it concise.
Ah, does that mean autocompletion for fields is off the table?
Is Rust a bad choice for GUI? (genuine question)
Shout out also to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat - the Salt section alone has transformed my cooking.
What do you suspect will be the practical uses of this? Could it help researchers run experiments to develop better fertility protocols? Or depending on costs, fertility clinics could test various protocols to find the optimal "hormone environment" for promoting high quality egg development? Or is this going to a more "out there" direction as in you could grow an egg entirely in vitro for later fertilization and implantation?
That's another 'which clouds' question.

Banded pressure troughs in areas with sufficient water vapor will form clouds, these can be seen on synoptic weather charts and meteorologists will predict cloud cover.

You could train an AI to predict cloud patterns from synoptic charts and humidity data after backfitting doppler radar that images water heavy clouds.

probably (also it's probably been done already).

See: https://www.open.edu.au/advice/careers/science/meteorologist if you have an interest.

Weather Radar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ7rNeQck2A shows 'wet' approaching clouds

Australia has the fourth-largest weather radar network in the world, with more than 60 radars. But what's inside those big golf ball shapes, and how do weather radars work?

Met Stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blsc7GahthY
If you have too many creators, something will filter them out. It could be celebrity status. It could be marketing skills. It could be something else. But either way, it will be something... and the people who have a problem passing that filter will complain that it is unfair.

> A reality where every creator needs to be a celebrity to make ends meet is a horrifying one.

More horrifying than a reality where every creator needs business skills to make ends meet?
Goodbye, Bram Moolenaar ♡
Show HN: A copy of LangChain swift for iOS or macOS applications
langchain-swift is an open source project I created, it's business-friendly, and it helps iOS/macOS projects add AI features. Here's where the project came from: I had a lot of ideas for AI, and after some research, I found that LangChain was a good abstraction, so I made a copy of Swift and posted it here because maybe people had some good ideas or would like to help. Two real-world examples are shown: AI Summarize Pro https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-summarize-pro/id6450951898 and AI Pagily https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-pagily/id6452588389. One of them is to summarize Youtube videos, and the other is to summarize any web page, the code is on my github.
Do you think what comes next is going to be more sane?
It doesn't work as a 100% replacement but I'd really like to switch. They need to work on better docker compose compatibility. Anything with custom network settings and it pukes.
Well, the thing is that EVs are just “less bad” version of personal automobiles, which are a very inefficient way to get a large amount of people from one place to another.

Houston is a city that is so large that it should have frequent passenger train service to other metropolitan areas, but it doesn’t because it has been designed for cars and planes.

You can fit a lot of people in a train, and in emergencies even more people can occupy the train in standing areas.

When cars get stuck in traffic where they’re going <25mph their main flaw is revealed: the fact that you can frequently beat a car stuck in traffic using a bicycle.
Books I had to read to develop a game engine
Elisp is actually exceptional for scripting :). You can also compile Emacs without graphics for even faster startup, check emacs-nox, and you can run it as a script: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScripts.

What you get extra is a really good debugger (edebug), and text processing library extensions so you don't need to start extra processes (grep, awk, tr & co) just to extract some text from one output and send it to another.

They also have really, really good integration with system, almost on par with Bash. So despite Lisp being more verbose than a DSL like Bash script, you win tons by just having a debugger. Completion and Emacs auto-typing features (snippets, abbrevs, autoinsert etc) compensate for the verbosty.
Might also be because people misuse the dishwasher a lot - by overloading the machine past capacity, and then running an underpowered (or "eco") program. All those other programs are on the dishwasher for a reason, and it's not to trick the user into wasting more water.
I am pretty sure wikimedia addresses this use case entirely. Some extensions may be needed.
Journey to Fearless Concurrency: Rust vs. Go
That's a hard sell for those who work in companies that prohibit dependencies on free 3rd-party web services to discuss business confidential ideas in an unsecure way.
>Apple prioritizes speed, security, and usability over repairability.

haha, you forgot reliability for perfect joke.

This video explains how Apple SSDs work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR7m4aUxHcM "replace EVERY DEAD SSD for M1 Max, M1 Pro, M1 & T2 Mac, T1 Mac, BONUS:M1 Ultra (FOR DUDES IN DENIAL)"
That's modern farming. Keeping animals away from plants, and herding animals is older.
I thought “oh, they’ve subtly changed the design of HN for some reason, that’s interesting”.
You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out

- Warren Buffet
Chopped tomatoes, veg and crusty bread is a winter staple here too, now that you mention it. Something like a basic ratatouille.
Same experience. How did/do you get out of that maladaptive behaviour?
The header gen is much faster than compilation, and is just a code generator. My project takes about 20 minutes for a clean build, the header generation is about 10 seconds at the beginning.
> The very short answer is that "an edge" is only loosely coupled to superior knowledge management. In the vast majority it is obtained by proximity to existing power structures

I somewhat disagree. A memex is effectively the plain old notebook/wiki, with the potential capability raised to the second or third power.

Does a personal diary, calendar, home budget, or a small library help you get into places of power? For average people, no. But it does make organising life, and figuring out where you are, and charting how to get to where you want to be, much easier than it would be for your peers without such tools.

So yes, it gives you an edge. Whether that edge has anything to do with power is a completely orthogonal concern.
I most enjoyed his recollections about each episode at the end of the remastered ones. Watching these shows again for the first time in 30 years was very nostalgic, and his recollections made it feel like I was watching them again with him right there with me.
This phenomenon is largely due to the inability or perhaps unwillingness of venture capitalists to identify outlier businesses. The recent generation of startup investors turned the industry into a rent-extraction scheme by chasing growth and paper markups over identifying valuable businesses. And research now shows that most of the popular heuristics VCs' use to select startups are negatively correlated with returns.

One solution is simply to disendow large VC funds, and change the processes limited partners use to select investors.

https://www.wired.com/story/to-save-the-innovation-economy-b...

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/venture-capital-isnt...
Agreed.

Good architecture diagrams require genuine knowledge, insight, and, yes, effort. The creator needs to carefully decide what to show and what to omit from each perspective.

It goes way beyond dependency diagrams, which is what automated solutions are pretty much limited to. I wrote on this a couple of years ago: https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts/beyond-whiteboarding-cre...
Signal is what you use if you want your chats subpoenaed
Air travel is cheaper because in Europe at least, we have achieved near perfect competition between many low-cost airlines. This isn’t like dictated by laws of physics.

Trains, on the other hand, are a natural monopoly, and Britain’s privatisation efforts have been a failure. These companies contribute nothing to infrastructure investment, most of our rail is 150 years old and trains between Britains largest cities don’t have access to electricity.

For like 70 years western governments did not take train infra seriously. This created huge problems - stations in UK are designed for small population, platforms are short so you can’t have long trains. the whole point of a train is that it can be long, longest trains in the world are measured in kilometres. Eurostar is 400 meters long. British trains are often tiny.

the new Elizabeth line in London uses 3 different signalling systems because it runs across some track that’s new and some rail that’s prehistoric.

But if you look at physics of it, trains are the only vehicle that does not need fuel or batteries, it feeds on electricity directly from the grid. Electrification of aircraft is both fantastic and fantastically inefficient
Trust Cafe
I think biology has a lot to do with it. I pronate and seem to have weak ankles naturally and boots provide and immense amount of support on uneven terrain that I would not be able to get otherwise.

I can see some level of athleticism overcoming this but I would expect a large portion of people to receive the same benefits (assuming they laced them all the way up, etc).

For long distance and/or easy, clear trails I can see trail runners being great. I did all my hiking in college with sneakers of some sort and wanted boots quiet often in the mountains of east tn. But these were on clearly marked trails not necessarily clear trails.

I did all my hiking in scouts with boots and my time in the fire service with boots (for obvious reasons) so perhaps I just developed a tolerance for boots.
The Research Scandal at Stanford Is More Common Than You Think
> Trains are fine but also very expensive

But why is it expensive
https://archive.ph/Fhkps
This was essentially going to be my comment. If I can’t do something like click or hover over the bar for more information it’s not a very good feature.

Further evidence: The confusion in this thread of people who didn’t understand why it was there.

I’ve read a bunch of comments in this thread and I still don’t know who the current black bar is for.
Neurum Inc.: The new age of lingual computing
Neurum, founded by 17 year old Indian entrepreneur is Vansh Shah is bringing a new era of computing using natural language. For all these years we have been using computers with a barrier between your thoughts and the screens. The barrier of interface, buttons, and limited functionalities. But things are about to change. We went from Command-Line-Interfaces to GUI based OS. But now, Vansh Shah with his latest venture Neurum is gonna bring the power of lingual computing to your devices and let your thought take control without getting disturbed by the interface. Here everything is words and everything is thoughts. Follow their journey on X/Twitter here: https://twitter.com/neuruminc https://twitter.com/___1sh___
My guess is Kubernetes would be the way to go here? You can run k3s locally.
Oh, they're no arbiters of goodness or anything. I'm not trying to suggest they are. I am merely asking / theorizing that the slowdown in production on the 4-series is not hostile or anti-consumer any more than any other company winding down their production of previous generation inventory as they shift to their soon to be released generation.
This reads like an AI generated article. It covers some differences like pulling images with a gui vs a cli. Ok… thats incredibly unimportant.
Indeed. However you can achieve things like that in an ordinary Lisp via unevaled (special) forms, with other words, macros. In Emacs Lisp eshell does it too, though they have extra advantage since Emacs has built-in text editor and text processing extensions. Eshell implements both Bash and Lisp syntax. I am not sure if "sharp lisp" does anything special for scripting than any other Lisp, but it is possible to do.
VoiceMeter worked reasonably well for me after some tinkering with sliders. Nvidia RTX voice should filter that out too.
MySQL 8.1.0 Released
54 sounds so little, I assumed way more VC backed companies were failing per year than that.
Self-Consuming Generative Models Go Mad
> August 8, 2023: added Kevin Mitnick

Foresightful, as it's currently August 6 in most of the World...
I've been making similar calculations, but I include the travel time. An hour or so each way adds about 25% to the remuneration I expect. Given that the time is effectively fallow time that the company will receive zero benefit from, but would be available to me for reading, I can come down to 20%.

However, having to travel in to the office at all, even one day a week, would mean I still have to live within travel distance; this is a massive and expensive inconvenience. Not sure quite how to price that in.
>How much money do doctors really make and why is it such a lot?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/04/doctor-pa...

https://archive.ph/g3YkT

First paragraph of the article:

>The average U.S. physician earns $350,000 a year. Top doctors pull in 10 times that.
We had other solutions for a while too: get married and have one person do the more-than-fulltime job of homemaking.

But that role disappeared because corporations needed more cheap worker-units and politicians needed more GDP, so they rode each others' coattails to eliminate that role. With each homemaker now a worker-unit, there are twice as many worker-units but employee costs are the same, household income is the same, twice as many taxes, twice as many cars, more spending, more consumption - it's a win-win for the ruling class, while family-units and non-wealthy individuals lose.

You can tell how good a job corporatists and statists did at eliminating and vilifying homemakers by observing how furiously most moderns rebuke even the mere suggestion that the role was A Good Thing.
Especially the chain talking about Knuth, my superstition grandmother would have come after us with a flyswatter for “wishing death on someone”.
3 months wasn't enough for me to be fair, I did half capacity freelancing remotely for about two years and that was what allowed me to re-engage with work in a healthy manner. I learned a lot about my limits, how to work within them and how to spot when I'm draining my bucket so to speak.
Show HN: A collection of Sci-Fi stories written by ChatGPT
A collection of short Sci-Fi stories, sorted by category, written with the use of ChatGPT API.
Enjoy reading :)
For a little bit, but it will eventually devolve into the same Unicorn or bust scheme once the interest rates go low enough again.
It's just annoying to me. It looks like the website is broken. I'll be trying to add it to uBlock or something. If it had text then maybe I'd keep it. As it stands it's not actually communicating anything meaningful. Poor UX.
No style attributes. You just use HTML markup and use a classless CSS framework to take care of making it look nice. My favorite is Marx, but there are others you can find here: https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

Water.css, MVP.css, sakura, and Tacit are among the most popular.
Problems having a daemon solves:

1. You need a watchdog process anyways to handle stdout/stderr processing (to not block those pipes), namespace setup and teardown, etc. Why not have 1 daemon, rather than 1 daemon per container?

2. You need root to setup networking and various security controls (seccomp etc). Having a daemon lets an unprivileged user delegate to a privileged daemon. This was especially important in the early days when rootless containers and slipr4netns didn't exist or were immature.

3. You need to avoid contention between two "docker run" commands, such as avoiding downloading the same image twice, or running the same name twice, or so on. In-memory locks are really easy to get right and cheap

4. You need to be able to efficiently gather state for things like "docker ps" etc to work. A daemon lets you cache a lot of information very easily.

5. A daemon lets you provide a clean rest API to other components that want to "exec" or "list containers" or so on. Without a daemon, your API is just "exec this command, use stderr/stdout", which is worse, right? An API also helps immensely with "docker desktop" like stuff, where you want to run a client on the host, and run containers on a linux VM. I guess the daemonless answer there is "exec over ssh", which is slow, and also eww.

So, how does podman solve these? I'll number them the same:

1. Watchdog process per container (N daemons) plus centralized systemd daemon if you want to background a container, or for restarts to actually work.

2. slipr4netns, which is buggy and still less featureful than docker networking. It also just doesn't implement various security features that would require a privileged component to setup, and makes it harder to run root-ful containers.

3. Contention is avoided with an incredibly over-engineered filesystem locking scheme that has had a long history of deadlocks and bugs.

4. Again, the filesystem locking scheme and api. It's slow, can't cache well, and also has a long history of deadlocks

5. The API for podman is uh... "run a daemon" https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-serv... lol. Except how does another app know if you ran the API because it's optional? This makes it so other applications that want to integrate with podman have to say "use podman and also run the podman daemon if you're not, and if you forget we won't auto-detect podman sorry".

In general, podman's answer to all the problems the daemon solves seem materially worse, and more overengineered. Except to the API bit, where their answer is to post all over the place "podman is daemonless", but then to package a daemon, which is just funny.
Backers have no control over their research.

Thanks to Lawrence Livermore Natiinal Laboratory for their largest donation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111128032051/http://berkeleyea...
Oh yeah, that's the other thing, tags effectively require an auto complete interface, and I didn't have that.
In my opinion, this is just too much effort these days.
Show HN: Gmail GPT – Bringing AI to Google Gmail a new way to get done
Write emails just in 1 click using AI and ChatGPT. Making it super simple to get started with this powerful tool.
w3schools is only bad in comparison with MDN, but it still always rises to the top. I don’t think people have a problem with w3schools as such, but with the fact it always bumps MDN.
Where does the melted ice goes ?
UEFI is a bad choice for embedded. It has too much of the PC quirks, which is mostly irrelevant on ARM or RISC-V. They should have tried to create something new, without x86 cruft.
Looks good, i would hide the button and make the dropzone area clickable.
It may be that I just don't know enough about the software used to control old versions of Windows from UNIX, and I just found Back Orifice the easiest option. In any event, I appreciate the cDc software. That was the point of the story. I have used their nc for Windows as well, the one written by Weld Pond.
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later P.K .Dick, 1978
Excerpts here:
https://write.as/agndjsmt55yr13p3.md
> As it stands it's not actually communicating anything meaningful

It's a nice gesture to people who likely had some impact on lots of our lives
It's a good strategy until everyone is doing it. Kinda like technical analysis.
The pork industry’s forced cannibalism
WSL2, while amazing technology, is a resource hog and still a bit buggy in my experience. I use it w/ linux from time to time when I don't have a choice, but when I'm coding, it just feels like a hyper-bloated IDE.
> Two things struck me. Firstly it still amazes me I can (virtually) stroll around a town I have never visited and get a real feel for it's space and living (oh that's what Dutch recycling bind look like!)

You should try Apple’s street view competitor (in Plans). They developed an amazing effect when you move around, with parallax, 3D and all. Very impressive.
Does this account for the 32 full awake days spent on the commute ( or 65 work days in equivalent)?

260 work days in a year X 2 hours daily commute / 16 awake hours in a day = 32 full days per year.
Or you use something like Obsidian, Logseq, Notion and so on that have already abstracted this problem away. You rename a file or move it to some subfolder and every single reference to it gets auto-updated without you having to do anything.

I'd argue that this sort of interlinking flexibility (alongside easy-to-use plugins) is what separates the current era of note-taking apps over alternatives that people seem to (ab)use: a folder of Markdown notes edited via VSCode, a Google Docs folder, or even a static site generator.
aka "How else I can justify for the company to spend money on 'Web-Developer' for another year"
It's not that sort of header generation, it's a straight up code generator. You can write

#include "MyClass.gen.h"

UCLASS()
class UMyClass : public UObject
{
GENERATED_BODY()

public:

UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere )
float MyFloat = 1.f;

UPROPERTY()
APlayerController* MyPc;
};

in a header, and you get garbage collection, serialisation, script binding, editor UI out of the generated code.
Ending fossil fuel usage and removing the excess CO2 will take at least 50 years.
I wanted to try a while ago so I downloaded Podman Desktop, but I couldn't get past the initial setup due to issues in the desktop app. I was able to reproduce this on two or three Macs, can't recall exactly.

It has been a long-standing issue but seems as though it is on its way to resolution: https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/issues/1633.

I am waiting for a few months to make sure it is all sorted and will try again to see if it works then.
I didn't even realize it had released! Feels like just a week ago I took a peek and we were still set for early access for another few months.

Guess crunch will do that to you...
"US President" is of course not synonymous with "politician"; even if we look at just the US, minor politicians that are only of limited local interest can now run the risk of becoming a target of a sea of vitriol, in Twitter or elsewhere.

If I look at Dutch Twitter then it's basically a small army of extremely motivated trolls with a lot of spare time who will comment on what seems like every single political tweet so that basically any engagement in any way has become all but impossible. These are people who call the Dutch equivalent of the Tories "extreme left" and consider anyone on the "extreme left" a traitor and fair target for seemingly anything.

Imagine every single comment you make on HN having several hundred replies ranging from calling you an asshole, to accusing you of all sorts of "crimes", to threatening to literally cut your throat. These things really do wear you down, especially if you're not really looking for the limelight, which most politicians aren't really (for every MP you can name there are a dozen more backbenchers).
Interesting there's so little for testing, especially given there's so much fir generating code that's even more requiring of testing than normal.
You can wrap a code generator by a macro.
It's not that sort of tool. It's called UnrealHeaderTool, but it's a straight up code generator.