skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would never use an iPhone for certain software and UX related issues (biggest is the missing back gesture/button).

During my time as an Android user, that back button struck me as the single biggest anti-feature in the Android UX. Every application implemented it differently, sometimes I'd find it bumped me right out of an app if I tapped it once too often, others didn't do that. I hated the thing; it required learning a different set of mysterious tendencies for every app and situation. So happy that it's not stinking up the screen of my first-ever iPhone.
Any reason you prefer Exim? I've enjoyed running Postfix forever and though the config is a bit baroque, have had no issues with running it in my somewhat weird setup.
> There is a quite common "design feature" in official functions which says if you stick to a rulebook you can be covered for indemnity and if you divert from a rulebook you are on your own.

The reason that I don't find discussions of the Trolley Problem very interesting is that we as a society have largely solved for it already: If you take responsibility and change the default state, it is your fault - if you leave it alone, it is nobody's.
Not to be overly facetious, but if SemVer is so great, then why do we hash the content of inputs at all? Just hash the `major` and `minor` components of the version number, since `patch` updates do not change observable behavior and/or spacebar heating is not a thing.
i never had anyone complain, but if i miss a call and feel they need an explanation (maybe because it was important or urgent) then i just apologize and tell them that i have to keep my phone on silent when i work. and i prefer it silent in the evenings when i don't want to be disturbed. or kids are sleeping, etc. for in between i just forgot to turn the sound on (which is what i actually do if i am expecting a call)

that covers most of the waking time, so if they want to argue that's a hint that they are probably not very good friends. and if they are not friends to begin with then i just tell them to stuff it. they are not my boss and i am not here to do their bidding, and i already apologized to forgetting to turn the sound on when expecting their call.
Most of the train companies in Tokyo have signs asking you to use "manner mode" (vibrate). Some also have signs asking you to be considerate and not have your headphone volume too loud because it can disturb others.

However, my impression is that this is mostly advisory/social pressure and not actually a ban that has any consequences if broken.
We're talking different things here. Many others are talking about incentivized KPIs or KPI that become target. You treat KPI as measurements which is a legit things to do.

IMO keep measuring, identify all the problems and fix/improve them, and reward based on team achievement rather than target, it'll boost morale overall.
Draw is a super underappreciated piece of software imo. It's not quite Publisher, not quite Inkskape, but something in between. I'm not sure what people use it for, but I used it in college to make diagrams for all sorts of projects. LibreOffice's equation input is great, too.
What does this have to do with conscientiousness?
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/introducing-flakehub/32044/3

I am very disappointed. Instead of focusing on actually fixing problems with Flakes and trying to stabilize them, DetSys goes full in on experimental Flakes, advertising them as the future, ignoring all problems with them and building products on top of them. Meanwhile everybody trying to help out official efforts, the Nix team, Nixpkgs maintainers, the documentation team and more are suffering because Flakes isn’t stable. It seems like DetSys has no interest in alleviating the pressure and bridging the gap that Flakes has created in the community.

And more concretely, it’s a well-known problem that Flakes suffer from an explosion of dependencies 64 with little reuse and interoperability. The design of how dependencies are locked just isn’t right. But oh surprise, that’s exactly what FlakeHub seems to help with by adding an ad-hoc third-party versioning scheme on top of Flakes. And all that centralised (wasn’t the whole point of Flakes to not be centralised?), proprietary and with seemingly no intention of upstreaming it in any way.

This all just doesn’t sit right with me :frowning:

I don't want to discredit what this person is saying at all but does anybody else read things like this in regards to open source software and instantly think "sheesh, that person could benefit from going outside and touching some grass every once in a while?"

Oh, and it has 50 likes, lol
In Arrested Development his character solves everyone’s problems to the detriment of his personal life.
As I said, I haven't seen them. If they get downvoted immediately so they are hidden then just don't enable showdead... And you cut out the 'violently' part.

Frankly I don't think someone's views on whether it is possible to change gender is relevant on every topic that tangentially related to a transgender person. But if someone disagrees, and disagrees that it is possible, that doesn't make their comments "violent". This is reminiscent of the "trans genocide" conspiracy theory.
I thought of this. When 3000 comes around, they can just add the fourth digit (1000). They won't have any regrets until the year 12000.
Interesting. No, I went to that page but on mobile. I didn’t scroll all the way down past the tiers. You have to scroll way down to see that info. It’s probably fine on desktop but less than ideal on mobile. My 2-cents anyway.
Markmail.org has been shut down
It seems that the markmail.org open source email archiver/indexer has been shut down. Recently all web connection requests to markmail.org have failed. I can't find any public notice of this anywhere. The MarkLogic developer page for it is still up, but all the links to markmail.org are dead:

https://developer.marklogic.com/code/markmail/

One of my colleagues sent MarkLogic an email asking about its status, and he received this reply:

> I’m sorry to inform you, but with the acquisition of MarkLogic by Progress, it was decided to shut down MarkMail.

(Sorry there's no attribution, but this was private email, and I didn't want to post names without an official public announcement.)

The last time the Wayback Machine successfully indexed markmail.org (at least its home page) was Aug 1, 2023, so this seems to have happened sometime during the past few weeks.

I don't think there's anything to be done about this, but I figured I should let people know. This feels like a great loss to me. I suspect a bunch of open source projects were relying on public email indexers. I also note that quite a number of links in the HN archives -- and probably a lot of other places around the web -- point to markmail.org, and these links are now broken. I don't know whether these can be resolved through the Wayback Machine.

(Sigh.)
And I wholeheartedly endorse and love D2, as well as the Terrastruct Studio web interface for it. Although Iainly use the VSCode extension now and the local TALA install.

Now if I could only get Posit to put D2 into Quarto alongside Mermaid and GraphViz, I would be set.
I mean that's really what it comes down to, isn't it? The incentives. Why should any of them care? They make thousands of errors with regularity that cause millions of consumers endless hours of agony trying to get jobs, trying to buy homes, trying to buy cars, but like, we can't not use them. In my entire long life I have never once done business with Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. Yet each of them have an entire drawer's worth of data on me, all of which is stored incredibly insecurely, is rife with errors, and the only time I really hear from them is when they've once again screwed something up and have dropped it in my lap like a cat showing up with a dead bird: "Heads up, you gotta handle this."

Like, name one thing they actually do right. Literally anything. I challenge anyone who reads this to name a single bad thing that would happen if all these leech companies got Thanos-snapped out of the universe tomorrow.
Misuse of the sirens on one occasion might also cause people to hesitate in the future if there were to be a tsunami. And you really don’t have time to hesitate in that situation.
This is, um, not how I remember things going.

I remember years of fighting. If you visited the page for downloading Flash with an iPhone user agent, you'd see a passive-aggressive message explaining how Apple sucks and everything is their fault.
Bitwarden Secrets Manager now generally available
BitWarden Secrets Manager is now GA.

Sadly no self hosting until the $12/month tier but still very exciting!

https://bitwarden.com/products/secrets-manager/#pricing
They're referring to this: https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/mps.html
This stuff reminds me of the days when it was trendy to put a swingy ball that follows the cursor. It’s technically cool (as in “hmm how did they do that?”) but it adds little to the experience aside from concentrated cringe.

I absolutely do not want animations that emerge when scrolling down a page. Im scrolling because I want a linear view of things, and the silly animations take away my control of the experience.
Where to find startups looking for funding?
I was wondering if there was a repository of startups looking for funding, I recently built out https://investorradar.io and wanted to connect. Doesn't have to be emails or any of the like, just in a more general sense people who are looking to raise.
Which website (AnnualCreditReport.com? or the three bureaux' own sites? or some other third-party website (which?)) and what do you mean "the website" just doesn't work?
Be aware there are tons of unaffiliated copycat websites claiming to be the official one and just want to serve you ads; don't use them.

IME AnnualCreditReport.com was easy-to-use and never sends ads. It sounds like you were tricked into using something else. If you genuinely had an issue with AnnualCreditReport.com (unlikely), please do tell the FTC:
https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/free-credit-reports
> Everyone who offers advice is just telling you their life story, dressed up as a simple directive. "Work harder" often means they wished they worked harder in some part of their life. Treat it like any other life story: learn the lessons they did, but don't let it become baggage that you irrationally follow.

I don't know how old you are but bravo - it took me a very very very long time to realize this. The converse to this is to always be very transparent and very careful when giving novices advice - when junior PhD students ask me about some kind success I've had I always make sure to emphasize the ways in which I got lucky first and only after talk about how I applied myself.

Edit: and in full transparency, I believe i had this epiphany after at some point listening to the funny poem/song/thing (from the 90s):

Everybody’s Free (to Wear SUNSCREEN): THE SUNSCREEN SONG (Class of ’99)

https://youtu.be/sTJ7AzBIJoI

which has a lyric

>Be careful whose advice you buy but be patient with those who supply it

>Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past

>From the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts

>And recycling it for more than it's worth

I'm not one for sentimentality but that nicely captures it.
That is something that pisses me off immensely. If you see version 2024.2 you can immediately recognize it is a date, but 24.2 might be a date, might be a numerical version number, who knows.

Is it so costly to write the year in full?
Judging by their code example ... one user can have only a single fine tuned model?

I am speaking as an individual developer - nor an enterprise. But would ne hood to know answer to both types of accounts.
Shared Future Fund (SFF) is an unconventional venture fund
Easy, it's 0.38mm.
adjective

1.
(of a person) wishing to do what is right, especially to do one's work or duty well and thoroughly.

"a conscientious and hardworking clerk"
Plus the "shelter in place" directive this seems very bad.
I believe you have to log into your AppleID account and click to remove yourself. If not, your AppleID in System Settings should have a way to uncheck the box.

System Settings > Click your AppleID > Name, Phone, Email

You should see buttons to turn off emails from Announcements, Apple Music etc., and Apple News Newsletter.
Largely because those plans offered to consumers are like "let us lock you out of your thermostat for $20" or "good luck timing your laundry and other usage with the lower rates" which lots of consumers would rather just avoid and pay a fixed rate.

Some Texas retail electric providers do have some types of time of use plans, but they're often avoided because people generally aren't good at timing their energy usage and end up with a bill higher than if they just took the flat rate.
Looks like the same story as this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37227902 - "Google engineer earns $150K works 1 hr/day, spends rest of time on his startup"
It's a very interesting phenomenon. There are lots of claims along the lines of "a single CPU is so fast it will exercise all kinds of multi-threading patterns very quickly" but in my experience it indeed takes multiple processors to reliably show up various races and faulty implicit orderings.
Have you tried this site? https://www.annualcreditreport.com
You know the parent comment is from an engineer right?
If you are looking for accelerators, https://investorradar.io has literally thousands of them which you can contact at the click of a button.
Charles Schwab Closing Up Shops Announces Layoffs [video]
What are you asking me to think in regards to? Can you clarify your first paragraph and separate out each claim?
when my phone broke, my biggest irritation was that i could not listen to audio-books while outside. seems the primary function of my phone is to be an mp3 player...
This is secondary one, first is on the pump in the tank.

Here it is in all its $6 glory https://www.tf-works.com/walbro-fuel-pump-replacement-fuel-f...

and here how to get to it https://www.s-chassis.com/forums/how-tos-installations-48/s1...
What other similar books would you recommend?

Other memoirs by people who worked in computing and became disillusioned or dissatisfied with it:

Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason (1976)

Cliff Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil (1995)

Neither is all memoir like Ullman's book -- both are mostly exposition and argument. But both have some passages of memoir, and in both the author's personality shows through clearly throughout.
I don't like the stuff, and I don't touch the stuff. But I've seen it solve pain that cut through 5ml of oral morphine. Anecdata, ymmv, etc etc.

I'm not entirely convinced it's a painkiller in the normal sense, though - I think it might be doing something dissociative. Talk to someone who uses it for pain relief and you'll get a lot of "it's still there, I just care about it less"-style descriptions.
My read is that their APIs weren't ready in time, so "make a web app" was a stop-gap they tossed out to developers while they were preparing UIKit for its 1.0 release.
> The near loss of texts in the Nag Hammadi library and the fragmentary transmission of Parmenides (or Sappho, Thales, Manetho, and countless others, for that matter) is not about book burning.

I can't speak to the reasons for the loss of Parmenides' poem, but scholars seem to think that the Nag Hammadi was indeed buried to prevent their destruction after Athanasius condemned non-canonical sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library.

Regardless, my point is that at least a written text has the chance of being discovered and understood in the future. The arctic code vault is actually interesting in this regard, but decoding it to find the jewels would likely be extremely challenging. There also is a lot of important technical information that isn't on github.
Read yes, understand... that's a different story.
I wonder if he finally cracked the shell
Wouldn't they likely have seen the smoke instead of hanging out in there houses until it was too late to leave. People that are out and moving can choose to move in the right direction but people who are stationary are just waiting to die from a crisis they don't understand is happening. I think it was the wrong call.
(a) It being in defence

(b) The force used being proportionate to the danger

In that case John wasn't attacking anyone at the monent, so no defence. The 4 shots are also way disrpoportionate to the non-danger. And they came within 5 seconds of ordering to drop his knife, which again is not enough time to react (also assuming he could hear it).

In this case the shooting is more of an illegitimate action of offense.

Note that police doesn't just do actions for defence, but also e.g. to enforce some law. But the shooting, 4 times, lethally, of someone away from you, carrying a knife, within 5 seconds of you having told them to drop it, is not justified even under this context. At least it wouldn't be acceptable in any civilized country.
I don't have Uber Eats app or use the service, but if I could use the marketing cash they offer as currency I'd have a nice chunk of the office rent paid each month.
> For me the normal solution of creating separate profiles in Firefox is to use Firefox Portable and have each profile live in their own directory / installation.

That seems a bit overkill to me.
Creating profiles can be done at about:profiles and starting a profile with a shortcut to firefox --profile $PROFILENAME. Not sure how that could be simpler
I use the notifications for the once-a-month reserved ride I have to take. Else this would be the solution.
Is your vendetta against IPs the reason why you can't remember that my home IP that has not changed in 3 years is actually not a bot?
I used a paid app to block the whole entire area code my number is from because 99.999% of the spam calls I got were from there. The phone app is in the "Notification Jail" folder 3 pages deep on my phone.

Getting a call and being like "I don't use my phone for that." and ignoring it is a realistic description. Now it hardly ever rings, but it's still spam 85% of the time.
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like the people of Maui are demonstrating a particular lack of critical thinking and a stronger-than-usual mob mentality.
Ok, well, I would bet that any consumer of your newfound protocol and its DID-but-not-that-DID system will still value knowing how yours differs from the AT protocol, and extra credit for whether their concepts are interoperable

So, while you may not have known at the time, it will be in your best interest to have an answer and it would be stellar to put said comparison in your GitHub repos to prevent every single person from "emailing you to collaborate"
Just want to throw out a link to a good wiki for this sort of thing: https://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia

It focuses on DIY, low-tech sustainability stuff at the household/neighborhood/village level. It's not really a prepper site, more of a bunch of "why not" projects that can help improve local sustainability, resilience, and community -- worth doing even if the world doesn't go to shit.

Some of it (like photovoltaics, aka solar power) depend on industrialized processes and electronics, while others like rocket stoves, rainwater catchment, sand filters for water cleaning, and passive cooling/heating just need basic everyday materials.
Ludicrous circus.

If the Canadian government thinks social media should pay for journalism, they could just raise tax revenue from social media and spend the proceeds on journalism.

Instead they create this mechanism which basically lets the social media company walk away very narrowly if they don't like the economics, and then they start crying and pissing their pants when the social media company...walks away. And then the media in this story brags about how they "undermine" Facebook by...continuing to participate and drive engagement on Facebook.

Ay ay ay.
Here’s a video on a similar “redneck phenomenon” with respect and admiration shown to what is happening: https://youtu.be/VZ6_8WJ3mh8
My intro to K-L divergence was in the context of maximum likelihood estimation with a misspecified model. The asymptotic expected value of a parametric MLE is the parameter value that minimizes the K-L divergence from the true distribution to the model. That means that when the parametric model contains the true distribution, the MLE is a consistent estimator (as is well known). But it also gives you a way of analytically finding the (asymptotic) bias of the MLE when the model does not contain the true distribution.
Never thought about it this way:0 deep
If you enjoy the intersection of H P Lovecraft and mathematics you may enjoy
https://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2009/1/15/182727/390
ctranslate2 is amazing, I don’t know why it doesn’t get more attention.

We use it for our Willow Inference Server which has an API that can be used directly like OP project and supports all Whisper models, TTS, etc:

https://github.com/toverainc/willow-inference-server

The benchmarks are pretty incredible (largely thanks to ctranslate2).
A rumor story is that Visa (and SMBC, big bank) blocks charging to Suica because they installing their open loop transit system https://atadistance.net/2023/07/15/foreign-visa-cards-blocke...
Guess it's not just an American thing then. I agree, we need more space devoted to separating out modes. Group them by speeds. "Pedestrian" paths would be 0-6 mph, "biking" paths from 10-20 mph, and high speed vehicles 20+ mph. A beginner cyclist just learning can go on the pedestrian path, an electric moped user that wants to go fast can go in the high speed vehicle lane.
Your first paragraph remains to be seen and the second is hilariously pro-Chinese. There’s little reason to think the Chinese can actually compete with the US without their help, let alone the entire western world.
It’s time for a Privacy Bill of Rights, and to eliminate credit systems that operate without explicit permission of the individual.
Ah, ok. Updating it now! Thanks for the feedback, you're totally right. It's probably 18 months old.
> $150,000 a year, according to his offer letter

Seems low for Google unless that doesn't include RSUs etc.
Making a decision isn't solving the trolly problem though
Flag as spam and report
i call BS.

it’s plausible, until you take into account that this emergency occurred in the middle of the night when many residents were asleep. And cell towers were offline by this point, so there was literally no other way to alert people in west maui.

The risk that some residents are stupid enough to run into a fire uphill seems WAY better than letting one thousand plus people die in their sleep.
First hit using the search box at the bottom of this page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20554194

There are others
This seems to be a natural consequence of training people to follow rules unquestioningly; their thinking skills atrophy, to the point that they won't be able to do anything else.
I had the same issue as you with C4, and d2 was the perfect balance of simple enough for creating diagrams almost at thinking speed, but with enough features (and growing) that I have been very pleased with it.
It’s even codified. Rule number 2 in the colregs (ship right of way rules: collision regulations) is that nothing in the rule book exonerates you from responsibility to avoid la collision if you can.

In other words, if breaking the rules is the prudent thing to do, you aren’t just empowered to break the rules, you are required to. There is no such thing as stand your ground rules at sea.
And, as I've said in other places in this thread, it's not reasonable to force non-technical people to deal with your repo. Maybe that's where this whole conversation went off the rails. When I say documentation, I don't mean javadoc. I mean architecture diagrams and business reasons for what to build and why at a high level.
Ooo, thanks for the link. Led me to this interesting app with the same concept

https://www.randonautica.com/