skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some profile managers or registration forms in European sites asked me how I want to be addressed, including a menu with Mister, Doctor, PhD etc. American sites usually have at most name, middle name and family name and mails start with Dear Name. English is easy because Dear is OK for all genres. Other languages need a different word for male and female people so their either end up collecting personal information that they wouldn't need for the service they are offering or they have to find some impersonal way to address you.

An example with Italian. Welcome is benvenuto for men and benvenuta for women. Welcome back is either bentornato or bentornata. It's impossible to use them unless we ask for the genre of the customer or use a DB / AI to infer it from the name. We still need a way to let the customer fix any mistake, a mistake which would probably be unwelcome.

So the common workaround is to use words like ciao, which is informal and possibly not well received by older people, or buongiorno which is OK for most of the day but not in the night (good morning vs good evening) or just use the name.

Best solution, if you don't need names to serve your service or because of regulations, don't ask them, use only the email address and make GDPR happier.
Life in 1080p
Seventh century BCE, not AD!
It's not implausible if you consider that you're taking a rule that usually but not always works in the US and try to apply it to the whole world.
and you can still combine them for tasks that require strict output control (e.g. alphanumeric sequence recognition, noisy keyword spotting, strict grammars, etc).
Sleeping at Night
This seems wrong, though?

For cars the inventor is (Mercedes) Benz, the people who first mass produced it was Ford. Both seem like good investments.

PC: Who is this early mover you talk about? I guess not Apple in your mind, since that would've been a fantastic investment. Hard to think of any better.

Plus, there are hundreds if not thousands of companies along the way you could've invested in that were swallowed up by the bigger fish. That's still a good investment since you either get a good exit or shares in the bigger fish.
Most of what exists doesn't work for my application. It either assumes an unbounded resource budget, or makes different priorities that don't scale by e.g. permitting arbitrary realtime updates.

I'm building stuff myself because it's the only way I'm aware of to run a search engine capable of indexing quarter of a billion documents on a PC.
If straight up keyword matching was enough then Google would never have overtaken Alta Vista. Ranking useful high quality information higher is the entire point.
Turbo Pascal – Turbo Pascal Compiler
That is trivially solved by using the output of a PRNG as heartbeat signal. You can't copy a signal which constantly and unpredictably changes.
Title factually wrong and edited, nowhere to be found in the linked article, which clearly states: Contrary to often-repeated claims, the Library of Ashurbanipal was not the first library in the world. Libraries existed in Sumer, attached to scribal houses, temples, and palaces by the Early Dynastic Period (2900-2334 BCE). Akkadians and Babylonians also had libraries and so did earlier Assyrian kings. Scribes in ancient Mesopotamia also kept private libraries aside from those they would have referenced at the palace, school, or temple. The Library of Ashurbanipal is just the oldest one systematically organized to preserve a comprehensive collection of knowledge (not limited to one subject or type of work) and, owing to the importance of the tablets found there, the most significant.

With being predated by other know collections by ~2000 years, hardly "the oldest known", not by a long stretch.
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37332582
What if runtime performance and developer performance aren’t inversely proportional?

It might just be to a certain degree, we’re not actually getting any business efficiency from creating bloated and slow software?

A lot of things, especially in business IT, are built on top of outdated and misleading assumptions and are leaning on patterns and norms touted as best practices.

We sometimes get trapped in this belief that any form of performance improvement somehow costs us something. What if it’s baggage that we didn’t need in the first place?
> It's not like they're implementing their own DB to get to a MVP of their product "Tinder, but like for dogs".

Well, funny you should say that, https://explore.marginalia.nu/init
Since it's an airline flying between the Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean, I doubt there's a big demand for the "business" seating at the front of the plane. All they've done is rebrand it.
My Roborock S5 works fine with no internet connection. I just put it down and pressed a button. Otherwise there is Valetudo which has been going solid for over a year on it.

Oh and it runs linux. I managed to run a website off it.
Vim has both. I know because I use it daily.

The spellchecker is enabled with

set spell

There are also countless features for linter integration. Quickfix, location list, line gutter, highlight groups, popup windows, and much more.
Starting a new OS in those languages today would be heavily questionable.
- Quit your job: save up to survive a year or so, then quit and focus on other stuff. This is really a stand in for: pick 1, not all 3.

- Read "Deep work": 3-4 hours of deep work on 1 thing gives you more time to spend on the other things.

- Wake up early: Get started at 6-7 am and be done with your deep work session by noon. And/or work on it at night.
> What could be better is to be happy with what you have.

This statement requires further qualification; for example, you certainly wouldn’t say that to someone in an abusive relationship - or someone living in poverty.
Have you seen the new AI photoshop where you can just AI fill anything? And it just works?

The amount of people who can edit photo's is now basically unlimited. That's thanks to generative AI.

Same like how the computers enabled billions to do the most complex calculations within a second, while before you needed to learn that skill over years or practise.
Perhaps you mean circadian rhythm?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm
Nice. That's a good way to rephrase the rules. Only thing to note is this part:

> When you capture a black piece, your white piece turns into the type of piece you just captured.

The echoing mechanism actually applies to any captured piece. You'll see this mechanic in action starting 12+. By "you'll see", I mean the game progression and level design will purposefully force you into following a path which illustrates the new mechanic that needs to be learned. The lack of explicit text instructions, tutorials or handholding in is a feature of echo chess, not a bug. See the 'difficulty curves' section of the post.

> Currently stuck on level 10.

Yes, this is one of those levels that feel incredibly frustrating until it just 'clicks'. In my playtesting experiments, users either smile/laugh audibly when they finally get the solution to level 10, or they let out a big sigh of relief. Let us know how it goes :)
By contrast, as a Canadian, I visited Germany last year and noticed a strange amount of BKs. We don't have many of them on the West Coast, perhaps because in comparison to Canadian A&W and Wendy's, BK might as well be cat food. Either way, I decided to try one at the train station, and it was surprisingly similar, if not identical, to what's served here; not competitive.

Fwiw, I did also try McDonald's over there, and it was also indistinguishable, which is better than BK per dollar, though still not ideal. (McDouble)

I think BK legitimately has one of the worst quality burgers on the market, but I did enjoy the Stackers when they came out as a kid. Not to rag on your personal experience btw, I just hate that they can get away with serving literal garbage for the same price as much better fast food.
Funny in some cultures calling people by their last name is actually respectful.
Yeah for common sentences it's easy to type quickly with a good pinyin keyboard.

Like "what do you want to eat"
「你想吃什麼」
Is typed with
n x c s m
It's not just programmers. Plenty of genealogists, do things like automatically give a wife their husband's (male!) patronym. Even though they see it doesn't work that way in the sources, they seem to feel that it "should" work that way.
In this case, "listing problems" - as you dismissively call it - takes a lot of care and effort, the article is a distillation of experience and knowledge that very few possess. It's up to you to use this understanding of the problem space to decide which aspects you're willing to trade off. The article's job is to help people make these tradeoffs consciously, instead of designing based on simplistic assumptions made in ignorance.
People who don't care, or want to talk to their friend/colleague/family.

In my experience the quiet coach is generally quiet.
The rich man is not he who has a lot, but he who needs little...
Glad you're enjoying it. What level did you reach?
I honestly thought I made this up myself. I've told so many people over the years about the rule of three. I guess there's a chance I saw this before and forgot, or that I converged on the same rule.
I'm sure you're completely unaware of the fact that your world view comes from protestant religion, which equates richness with god's favour, thus ending up considering poor people as worse sinners who don't deserve a better life due to their moral failings.

People of other religions and cultures don't necessarily share your same faith (I realise you think you're being completely rational, but to an external observer you are not).
No, if you can see it, I think you should be pretty sure. I just managed to see it the first time of my life, I was shocked, it's so amazing.
Reminds me of "Steno" - a German fast writing form
There is nowhere on earth that this mustang could be called an SUV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(seventh_generati...
Disease isn't even the half of it. As you age your body simply wears out. Your muscles begin to wear out and break down, eventually including critical ones such as your heart, your bones become frail to the point that even slight fall becomes potentially lethal, and of course as I assume you were alluding to - your mind also begins to give way such that even if you might still have a heart beat, you're hardly alive. Imagining all of this will suddenly be overcome is neither rational nor in any way supported.

Individuals like Ray Kurzweil intentionally lied to themselves. His argument was that human life expectancy has been increasing rapidly over the past 'xx' years, and eventually it will accelerate to a rate such that life expectancy will increase by more than a year, per year - immortality. But it's just complete and utter nonsense. Life expectancy increased largely because of reductions in infant mortality - not people living longer. And he certainly knows that. Individuals like Hippocrates (of the Hippocratic Oath) lived to their 90s 2,400 years ago. The peaks of human longevity aren't changing much at all. The only thing that's changing is that more people are able to get to them.
> Storing your data on a single HDD you got off NewEgg will always win if you only use the one metric of $/GB.

That right there is the mistake you're making. Storage is not the only way that AWS charges you for S3. You're also billed for stuff like each HTTP request, each metadata tag, and data transferred out once you drop off the free tier. You're basically charged for every time you look at data you put in a S3 bucket the wrong way.

I strongly recommend you look at S3's pricing. You might argue that you feel S3 is convenient, but you pay through the nose for it.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
Same thoughts on shelter vs water. But maybe there’s an assumption that there’s a barrage of elements or the environment.
If I'm remembering correctly the example they've used is the first video uploaded to YouTube. https://obra.github.io/Youtube2Webpage/example/
Only very few people are asking for a completely different system, they usually demand fine-tuning the system so that it improves median life quality.

It used to be that the philosophy before was to have the least amount of intervention on the free market, and it's now that there should be no interventions whatsoever. Isn't that an extreme position?
We are hiring for the position of:
-Front-End Software Developer
https://onja.org/front-end-software-developer/

-Back-End Course Designer
https://onja.org/were-hiring-backend-course-designer/
It is indeed the latter, but it only knows about 19 so far: https://github.com/df7cb/sdate/blob/ace93c8d301c333a96ff354e...
Genuine question: where does CSAM and yelling fire in a theatre fit into your conception of a free society?
Nushell is part of the ongoing Visual Studio-ification of software engineering.

TypeScript and Powershell are preferences, not standards. If you want to use them, great, but its wrong to say that these have evolved into defacto ways of doing things.

Also- that everything is text in Bash is one of its great strengths, just as Powershell's reliance on Objects was generally understood to be a weakness.

Also- I don't get the need for IDE support? Surely the point of a shell language is that it is designed to be used for a terminal?

As others have said here- this feels like a better case for nushell as a scripting language than nushell as a shell.
how do you guys find the energy to hack nights and weekends? I do enjoy hobby programming but it takes me at least one week of vacation to detox from the work grind so I end up doing it only when I have extended vacation
https://www.modu-blues.com/

Automatically render Google sheets/forms into nice web pages.

https://uw.leftium.com/

Simple weather forecast that shows previous two days for comparison.

https://multi-launch.leftium.com/

Launcher that launches multiple sites with a single click, with search params.

https://tt.leftium.com/

Quickly copy some currency conversions into clipboard. Also transforms Sofi Relay HTML snippet into Excel TSV format.

---

Some tools to help with a game I used to play. The last one creates/updates a "perpetual" calendar event:

- https://orbs.leftium.com/

- https://ff.leftium.com/
Yes, this was in fact generated by a GPT model I specifically tuned for HN and that I managed to run inside my brain with minimal latency and power requirements.

[EDIT]

In conclusion
> Just add a field for the desired form of address, or a nickname.

For westerners you might want sunny, good-news messages to say "Hi John" but for an apology for a problem (like a delay or cancellation) you might want to use the more respectful "Dear Mr Doe"

On the other hand, this discussion has plenty of examples of why separate 'first name' and 'last name' fields don't work in all cultures. And I think we can all agree that asking people for a name and two desired forms of address ready to e-mail them in two different tones would be a very unusual sign up process.

I'm not sure there's any universal, fully respectful way of doing this across cultures.
Without going about efficiency and priorities. I think it's easy enough to claim that a great way to spark creativity or great solutions is putting constraints.

It's about specialization around the usage of few elements to achieve a goal vs a paradox of choice or going through common and known patterns.

Jams can be great for this and people realize they can work so much more efficiently and focus on the core of their idea.
They want investments with short term returns… and basic science isn't that.
Just an anecdote that reflects my disdain for arbitrary RTO policies. It's news to me that comments need be anything more than comments.
I fixed the title to reflect your observations.
Very interesting however

>People have exactly one canonical full name.

What is on your passport then?
>I hope that both the Indian people and the government can take more steps to promote equality. The current situation is unfair to those from lower-ranked castes and a huge waste of human potential.

It is exactly such simplistic viewpoints that allow various vested interests/grifters/charlatans to exploit/game the "Caste" issue in the US (and other Western countries). There has been more done to redress social inequalities (including caste-based) after India's independence than Westerners are aware of (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India). In urban India it is not much of an issue since only the almighty "Money" counts and nothing else.

You might also find the link to a study done by Carnegie Endowment on Indian-Americans here useful - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37333418
Worth noting the difference between an AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is HTTP request aware, and Network Load Balancer (NLB) which is not, when load balancing HTTP traffic.

AWS ALB (and others I'm sure) can balance by "Least outstanding requests" [1] which means a server with the least in-flight HTTP requests (not keep-alive network connections!) to an app server will be chosen.

If the balancer operates on the network level (eg NLB) and it maintains keep-alive connections to servers, the balancing won't be as even from a HTTP request perspective because a keep-alive connection may or may not be processing a request right now and so the request will be routed based on number of TCP connections to app servers, not current HTTP request activity to them.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/appl...
Generative AI startup AI21 Labs lands $155M at a $1.4B valuation
No, this is simple statistics. Just list all the words in your corpus in order by how frequently they're used, then use a dedicated software solution like the one given here to make shorthand from it and expand as you type. Machine learning is massive overkill for this, like nuking a fly-- it's a massive waste of resources (time, energy, energy over time, every metric I can think of), and you're going to have targeting issues at that scale (how exactly do you propose to ensure a LLM stays on target and doesn't duplicate answers, make up words, skip words, etc? Are you sure your LLM actually knows what the correct distribution is? If you know it does because you checked, doesn't that mean you already have a word list you can use?)
As long as we're talking about typos, you might be interested to know that it's really "champing at the bit," although chomping is commonly used as well. (Unless you were just having a bit of fun there, in which case, never mind.)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/champ_at_the_bit
Please describe what your service is for. I had to click on the Google Elevation API on your „What is Open Elevation“ page to finally understand what your service is for.
> I was surprised that very short and frequent words topped this list, such as the -> t

Having studied some shorthand, I'm not surprised in the least! There, the most frequent words tend to get single-symbol abbreviations. Common wisdom even says that much of the benefit from shorthand writing comes from these few one-symbol abbreviations.
There is no way Hashicorp would have gotten this level of adoption (and become this big) as they are today if they offered their products in a classic Microsoft, Oracle, etc. pay to license way.

Now that they have gotten what they want (get big) they have decided to alter the deal. That upsets people.
I love how all the applications mentioned skirt around what must surely be the most lucrative application currently - military.
There are so many tools to see how a website looks like on multiple screens / devices. Even full on emulation. I can see a designer making this oversight but a UX designer doing that kinda makes the UX part of the title irrelevant.
If the name on a bill to my company does not match the name of the employee who ordered the product, the bill will certainly not be paid.
Even if you did invent a better alternative, do you think you would get a fair hearing, given how mainstream/corporate media is organised and operated?

Actually, do you think there is anyone with any substance and influence out there trying to even invent a better alternative? All I see is culture wars/left vs right nonsense, but maybe I am out of touch.
I think the problem was "buy drugs online"
Many bought crypto, few used it.
Many use LLMs, few pay for them.
You're still pretending that V has never made an impossible claim, which I have clearly demonstrated that it has.

See my numerous replies to you in this thread, where I have quoted the documentation, provided the archive.org link and explained why the claim is impossible.

Do you have any other argument except "nuh-uh, didn't happen, lol"?
Are there any affordable DocuSign alternatives that do API access?
I haven't found a single DocuSign alternative that wasn't the same crazy pricing like $1.50/envelope or document.

I just want a simple mail merge on a document and send that to a customer to sign. I used to use SignRequest for that, and it used to be standard across the board, but all of them stopped offering their APIs in their normal SaaS packages; it's all under enterprise or too expensive.
Its a soft login-wall. The modal didnt come up again when I refresh the page.
Solving a "Ponder This" challenge like [1] (and getting the full bonus).

[1] https://research.ibm.com/haifa/ponderthis/challenges/August2...
I’ve only done it once as a 4 year old in a 4 person family…in a Datsun hatchback.
You might find the link to a study done by Carnegie Endowment on Indian-Americans here useful - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37333418
I think I remember the MS log analyser had some SQL like features which made it really powerful.
This is hindsight bias. You know the names of the ones history remembers.
Nihilism is a bit of a hole that is hard to dig out of, because you've, by definition, had all the rungs of the ladder back to society fall apart. Combine that with the Backwards law of Alan Watts [1], and you're left wondering if you even should try to dig yourself out, isn't that just making things worse?

[1] The backwards law suggests that if you are pursuing happiness, it makes you unhappy. If you just relax, happiness is more likely to come.
I agree. LLMs have a ton of unrealised applications in business. Imagine training one on your company wiki and chat history.

Barely any companies have done that yet because of legal and security concerns and because it isn't easy to do yet, but that will change.

It's not going to be long before someone makes and end-to-end speech to speech model. A single model that incorporates speech recognition, LLM and speech synthesis. In fact I'm really surprised it hasn't happened already because it's such an obvious thing to try. That's going to blow people's minds.
From my reading of the article I don't think the term "operation system" is used in the same sense as Linux, BSD, Windows, MacOS, etc. Perhaps the article was written by AI.
This is not related to the topic being discussed at all.
Prices started to fall during the last months, but they're still far from the pre-shortage years. It will be a slow process, and being the Pi produced by a single manufacturer, they could take more time compared to other similar products.
Well it’s more real than crypto in many ways so not a terrible gamble
No, this is false.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en#zi...

Now, it is true that this alleged "YouTube exception" was listed in emails sent to us. But those emails aren't worth the pixels they're printed on; the only policy that matters is the one published above, and you can plainly see that there are no exceptions for YouTube creators.

I spent over 20 minutes in a chat with One Support to get clarity on this, and after a lot of ignoring my plainly worded questions and a lot of Support copy pasta, I determined that the email was a malicious lie or an innocent mistake. Don't trust what they told you, trust only what they've published.