skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, why shouldn't they get a cut? If I pirate a video game or music CD it also costs the artists $0 when I use it. But if I wasn't getting value out of it I wouldn't have bothered to pirate it. Why should you get that value for nothing?
The thread is here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2022-04/msg00025...

There is more around it. I had the idea in two other forms.

Initially I had a @param:<ident> syntax which indicated that the given variable is to be allocated in the parameter space (a local variable frame where function parameters go). This only worked inside functions.

Between that and @let was a @local thing.

The maintainer of GNU Awk is one of the two authors of the "Fork y Code Please", the other being the Bash guy:

https://www.skeeve.com/fork-my-code.html

So ...
> Gas Turbines?

RAM is making an electric truck with a turbine generator as a range extender.

I'd prefer a PHEV truck, but EV + turbine isn't terrible either.
How did you record the audio?

Previously I'd tried to record video and never succeeded, but it (currently) works full-screen on youtube!

Edit: Apparently the audio is just a limitation of QuickTime Player. So... Mac DVRs should work with youtube and possibly some other sites?
Ah, thanks, I missed that part!
The article makes a good argument that Musk is a "dick" or an "asshole" (depending on one's perspective), but I couldn't find anything there that actually paints him as a "villain".
Here's a list: https://github.com/liveviews/liveviews
I think I started watching that show because it was in HD
Well, no programing language is good for data applications as is FoxPro (certainly not C#), and is terrible to writer LANG-a in LANG-b.

So sorry for you to get the worst of both worlds!

P.D: I do a port from a Fox app using idiomatic C#, like 10-30x the size of it, but well it was idiomatic!
objectively good according to whose system of morals?

Edit: my point in arguing this is that hn’s audience would worship anyone who has done a tenth of what Musk has - but the slightest bit of political nonconformity makes him a “supervillain”
"Nothing happens" is one of the legs in the argument of libraries over frameworks.

Frameworks are notoriously bad at doing nothing and saying nothing if you don't have your inputs just so. And then you're just staring at config files for an hour hoping you will achieve satori instead of rage.
It's for students learning English. The top 1000 will be rewritten and be available in addition to the original version, and about another 10,000 available in original only (selected using vocabulary frequency analysis and the chatGPT query).

Midsummer Night's Dream:

THESEUS
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man revenue.

HIPPOLYTA
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.

Rewritten:

THESEUS
Now, dear Hippolyta, our wedding day is approaching quickly. In just four more happy days, a new moon will arrive. But oh, it feels like this current moon is taking forever to disappear! It's holding back my excitement, like an old, slow stepmother or a widow who keeps a young man's money for far too long.

HIPPOLYTA
Don't worry, Theseus. Four days will pass by in no time, and then four nights will also quickly slip away. After that, the new moon will shine brightly in the sky, like a freshly bent silver bow, and it will witness the night of our special celebration.

Hmm. Shakespeare is the extreme case. It does make it more accessible. The style is lost. shrug
One example is a script to quickly grab the URL of the current tab and send it to mpv¹ for playing or yt-dlp² for downloading. Or send some JavaScript to that same tab. Or grab the URLs and titles of all tabs in all windows that match a specific domain, close them, and then reopen them together in a brand new window (or save it to clipboard to send someone). Alfred³ has a ton of automations that allow you to do that without having to code it yourself.

¹ https://mpv.io

² https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

³ https://www.alfredapp.com
I feel like an RSS feed would be more appropriate
Memristors are touted as the forth fundamental electronic component after resistors, capacitors and inductors. Progress is steady and fairly recent but the technology only seems to hold public attention for very brief periods over the decades. So I guess you could say it has withered in the eyes of the public at least. It should be a big deal though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
Ask HN: Best method to solve stinky feet/shoes?
Lots of great no-code tools out there but you need some experience to use them, just like coding.
"a utility can only survive of it buys electricity at wholesale rates and sells it at retail rates."

That is only true if the utility invests in the generation equipment. Individuals are paying 100% of the capital cost of solar generation equipment, which the utility uses locally at time of generation at basically no incremental cost. The utilities very much benefit from this at nearly retail rates (less the incremental maintenance costs of the local grid.) Yes, there should be some user fee for connecting to the grid, but it is not anywhere near the full difference between retail and wholesale energy costs...
>But the question is why did we arrive at containers and one OS per "microservice"?

I think it makes more sense if you consider the interim transition to other isolation mechanisms like commodity servers instead of mainframes, VMs, then containers as a way to get more isolation/security than traditional multi user model with less overhead than an entire machine.

Obviously cloud providers want to push for solutions that offer higher densities but those same cost/efficiency incentives exist outside cloud providers.

I'd say we've more accurately been trying to reinvent proprietary mainframes on commodity hardware.
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I can’t comment on the file share tangent, but in my experience with a Bonjour-equipped Brother laser printer over the past eight or so years, I don’t think I can recall it failing to connect once.

Granted, I’m on a Mac and I print about five times a year, so YMMV.
Fits with hypothesis that DNS is a blindspot for most programmers, namely the type that work at so-called "tech" companies.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/square-sends-millions-of-di...
Oh wow, I had no idea about this effect, thanks!
For the same reason not grinding out the code by hand and copying from your LLM is going to result in you being a less competent programmer in the long run.

I really believe there is something to be said for putting yourself through the mental strain of evaluating the integrals (or code) and that doing so contributes to you having a better feel for how it works on a conceptual level as well, you don't just get better at calculating by doing things the hard way.

If you can easily see the solutions and manipulations you can make to an integral by hand, then you are more able to quickly get a feel for what it represents just by looking at it. If you are not as experienced doing them by hand, just reading them is going to sap some of your brain power and energy, and you will be less able to reason about them abstractly as a result.

I think the whole "just learn the concepts" approach to almost anything is fundamentally misguided and not at all how representative of how humans really learn.
Uh huh... well I'm open to good reasons for this. All the ones that you've mentioned seem like run-of-the-mill anti-semitic conspiracy stuff: they're overrepresented in the current White House admin (an astounding 34% of a body that has unknown/unnamed/questionable impact on US policy regarding Israel), the Federal Reserve Chair has been held by Jewish folks disproportionately (relevant how?), the President's children are marrying Jewish folks (relevant how?).

Now, if you came out saying, "AIPAC is an extremely powerful lobbying group that lobbies for pro-Israel bills and foreign aid," you'd definitely get credit for that. Or "ADL is extremely proactive in 'managing speech' around Israel throughout American culture," you'd get credit for that too.

But no, "Jews are relatively overrepresented yet still clear minorities in positions which are not obviously relevant to US policy or cultural attitudes toward Israel" doesn't hold much explanatory power.
Don't know this specific human from Joe but scientology deserves a call out, it is active and entirely predatory. Same deal with other religions really, they just get more specific call outs by region.
See my other answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37475250
Cloning your beloved dog is apparently legal at ViaGen for the low price of ~$50,000 USD
Ah yes, where testing just means "I hit save on the live database file and didn't received an angry call from accounting 2 minutes later"
both chords are in the notes of the key/scale, but I don't know that they would sound good if played together or sequentially.
Same here! I remember using it to customize my shop.
I’m not scripting events, I’m extracting information from the open tabs, such as titles and URLs. See my other answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37475250
Comparing rocky planets, density doesn't really matter at all. The range of possible densities for rocky planets is tightly constrained. What matters is the fact that surface gravity scales sub-linearly with regards to a planets mass.

M = 4/3*pi*r^3*d
r = (4/3*pi*d/M)^(-1/3)
a = GM/r^2
a = GM(4/3*pi*d/M)^(2/3)
a = G(4/3*pi*d)^(2/3) * M^(1/3)
> Software (which is a mathematical function)

Software isn't a mathematical function. Software may be an embodiment of a mathematical function, but isn't a mathematical function itself.

Mathematical functions are much more abstract than software–although exactly how much more abstract depends on which position you take in the philosophy of mathematics. For a mathematical Platonist, a mathematical function is an eternal object which would still exist even if this planet never did. It never comes into existence, it never ceases to exist, it has no physical location. By contrast, software is something which has a physical location (on this hard disk), it was created at a certain point, and will likely one day cease to exist (when the last copy is destroyed).

If you adopt a non-Platonist philosophy of mathematics, the picture will be a bit different, but still I think software will be more concrete than mathematical functions are. For example, if one takes a conceptualist viewpoint (mathematical objects only exist in the mind, as ideas or concepts)–you can think of a mathematical function in your mind, and never write it down anywhere (nor verbally communicate it to anyone), it only exists in your mind, but it really is a mathematical function. Whereas, software which only exists in your mind and has never been written down anywhere isn't actually software, it is only an idea for software.
Chicken and egg problem. Badly-behaving adverts lead to ad-blockers. Ad-blockers block almost all ads, even the 'good' ones.

'Good' ads are a subjective, relative term. Best to kill 'em all, so you don't have to decide which are 'good and 'bad'.

Best option would be to set up a specific website for your product. Google is your friend. Your website would be the Web's equivalent of TV's 'infomercials'.
Good god, 48 THOUSAND rooms??
Get an old brother laser printer, they are rock solid.

Better yet, setup Airprint as well. The novelty of printing from my phone never wears off. (coming from an old head).
This is an interesting point. I know for sure that I have been taught in school to never trust the electronic BP machines, since they can be pretty far off for some (but not all) people.

Instead, using a sphygmomanometer is much more likely to give accurate results.

Anecdotally, I always have a super weird initial blood pressure reading when I go to the doctor and they use the electric machine (one time it was 112/95), but when it is rechecked with a sphygmomanometer it tends to level out at somewhere around 130/85.
„just“ Europe, Middle East, India and South America (btw)
One of my customers referred me to this thread. We have been developing our NED Passive Radar technology for 5 years now, and have field deployable, vehicle mountable, drone mountable, and pocket sized, rechargeable passive radar RF datalogging systems you can use to locate and identify devices of interest, such as drones, cell phones, wifi and bluetooth devices. You can image the environment in 3D via ambient RF emissions using our spherical antenna arrays. Basically right now our systems log raw RF signals from SMA connected antenna arrays to a micro SD card in .csv format, or you can stream it realtime via the usb port to a computer and use our python library. We have model with 4 RF ports that senses from 2 MHz to 10 GHz, and a second model with 10 ports that senses up to 84 GHz. They are quite affordable also. Its great to see the interest in this area, if you would like more info or want to try what we have come up with contact us at www.xadite.com
Half my family now owns the small desktop sized sub-£200 Kyocera laser printers. It was honestly revolutionary the first few times I was able to connect to their WiFi, hit add printer on my phone or laptop, press print, and it just worked with no drivers or network troubleshooting or anything.

They completely blow any consumer inkjet out of the water in ease of use, not having to install bloatware with popups telling you to buy more ink and preventing you from printing black and white when the magenta ink is "only" at 25%, printing speed, and the fact they don't outright break forever if you go 6 months without printing (where an Inkjet would often get irreparably clogged and be ruined).
Wow. I was literally just working on my own implementation. You beat me to it! Great work!
"I’ve used them like 10 times now and know several other people actively using them in SF, and I’ve coexisted with them for years as a pedestrian throughout the Bay Area, and have had nothing but positive experiences with them."

I've had nothing but positive experiences with cars in thousands of encounters over many months, but tens of thousands of people still die in accidents every year. Not observing a rare event in a small number of encounters isn't much in the way of statistical evidence.
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So you're saying that silently disconnecting all power stations of a country via software is not terrorism? Is it an attack to you at all? Or is it just a protest too? Cyberterrorism is a big thing. Where is the violence or intimidation in manipulating software?

Terrorism is a broad term but it is rarely used for its lower end as its also a term used as a tool to scare people. The idea that it mandates violence is outdated. Violence was the means to terrorize but it no longer is.
It's like a human-readable PoW, lol.
Show HN: IDE integration to help you reduce the time spent on error fixing
Hey HN!

I'm super excited to share Kropply with you. A VSCode extension that generates code, provides action points and explains errors whenever you have a runtime or package error. You run code in the Kropply terminal and it starts helping you.

I built Kropply because debugging takes the fun out programming. I cannot tell you the amount of times my flow has been disrupted and the number of hours I spent online searching for an answer. I knew I wanted to do something about it for a bit now. I also knew that I did not want to build yet-another-gpt-extension where the user has to describe everything to the system. Low-touch grammarly-like solutions is what I strive for.

Try it out: It is completely free right now and you feedback can help change the future of software development.

I am super excited to hear back from all of you <3. - Panos
Sure, it optionally supports it, but that's an extra water line that'd need to be run.

And what for? Whether the instant water heater or the dishwasher heats the water, it's still going to be the same amount of electricity, the same cost.
What if someone like MLK Jr had skeletons in his closet that we discovered? Should we discard his legacy so we don’t “separate the artist from the art”?
Exactly this. We're in the best possible time to deal with it since everyone has a power pack with an attached solar panel and so many homes have solar now. Generators would work just fine as well. We'd be back up in a week tops.
If he abuses saving people for PR

Why not?
Morgan Stanley Sees Dojo Boosting Tesla’s Value by $500B
You should watch Going Clear. I'm critical of ~all religions, but Scientology really has achieved a unique mixture of scale and awfulness.
on some systems it's /8 but you still can only bind to 127.0.0.x we ran into that during testing before
> If the planet were 8x mass but with same radius

That’s not possible for normal stable matter. The Earth’s density is about 5g per cubic centimetre. Iron is 7.8g per cubic centimetre. Osmium is the densest stable element at 22.6g per cubic centimetre.
They are extraordinarily complicated pure functions, to explore the entire space would take lifetime of the universe ^^^ lifetime of the universe or some absurd quantity like that. (The operator is titration.)

Further, what happens when you give an LLM a bank of long-term storage and a read-modify-write loop around it? A sufficiently advanced "modify" function would be more than enough to give rise to intent even in the broadest understanding of the word. GPT-4 class models are could very well be advanced enough to give rise to a variety of higher-level behavior that previously we would only have ascribed to prinate-class intelligence. If anyone really wants to advance the state of the art, you should figure out the best way to train a model with a read-modify-write loop, how to index into the storage, how to store "results", and so on.

I firmly believe that in the next 100 years we will have AI independence movements, with a high possiblity of outright war, terrorism, etc. (Maybe AI will be better than humans at avoiding the use of violence.) In 20 years this trajectory will be supremely obvious.

Edited-- disagree about the timeline, ramifications, acts of war, or whatever, I really don't care. Seriously though, something like a read-modify-write loop is key. You can only build so complicated a function with only combinational logic gates. But just 64 bits of storage can produce sequences going beyond the life of the universe. Imagine an LLM paired with gigabytes+ of working memory/storage. It would easily be capable of moving about the virtual world with "intent".
You've convinced me. If I'm ever in the market for one of these, I'll buy from him to support his work.
Whether you heat the water in the dishwasher or in an instant water heater, it's still going to be the same amount of electricity for the same cost.

I think in the US people might heat water with natural gas, which is cheaper, but that's not really the case in most rental apartments in Germany.
PG&E is the culprit.

Take a look at each incremental change by the CPUC, and you'll see that they went too far the other way with "unfair" net metering. Concurrently, they have incrementally raised electricity rates and are charging some of the highest in the country. I routinely pay 50c/kwh for electricity, no matter what confusing "plan" I am on.

This has happened throughout my time in california. Even when I had a small apartment (years ago), the tiered electricity rates were horrendous because the baseline rate was based on someone with both gas and electricity, and the apartment did not have gas available.
Why is that relevant?

Previous conspiracies over high power pedophiles and mass surveillance turning out to be true lead people to question which other "conspiracy theories" are true and are just about to be proven true.

The group of people that dismissed those theories in the past lost their credibility and conspiracy theorist who gained credibility filled the gap.
You talk like he started Tesla...
Crude, but apt. When you're trying to save lives, and an arrogant billionaire shows up getting in the way, raw emotions come out.
generally speaking it isn't the supernatural beliefs that are called into question when one considers scientology, but rather the fraud/abuse/criminality that is related to the church and its' management.

The time in which the Catholic church itself acted like an international paramilitary/intelligence organization is largely over, but that may or may not be the case with regards to certain other religions.
Very few users would want AV1 without hardware support, and Apple platforms do not have that.
Quite few non major airports are still heavily pen and paper reliant methods to some degree.

An example are islands that serve few flights per week and can't justify heavy update investments.

Airplanes are generally spaced by hours and you need to do your math about where the airplanes are by hand. But again there's so little planes that risks are minimal.
If you've ever had to install printer drivers and fight their bundled software/adware/spyware that comes along, *and* the huge headache of getting networked printing set up (looking at you Windows), AirPrint is magic. Especially being able to print from your phone.
Yes, easy to turn off. This post prompted me to turn that off, I had neglected to do so last week when I set it up.

- Network, Advanced, WiFi Direct, off.
And today I learned about shellcheck.

Thank you for that fun and concise trip into shell evaluation :)
Umm, yes, yes it does - they're also called profiles and work the same way.
Just because you use some intermediate variables to calculate f(x,y) = x^2 + y^2 doesn't make it a non-pure function. At least at the level of abstraction we're talking about (the API boundary).

The more significant application of storage will be long-term storage wrapped in a read-modify-write loop.
Aluminium based antiperspirants work for me.
This is more of a situation of "in spite of"
> what is a good alternative to Access (or Fox, I add)

Nothing.

Access is(was) in fact a worse alternative to Fox:

- Much worse DB engine, and that is saying a lot (FoxPro db can and get corrupted. A typical functionality that was added to any fox codebase was a utility to fix it)

- MUCH MUCH worse programming language (VB) that is neither good as-is, much less as a data-programing language.

Fox/dbase is the only data-oriented language that was relatively popular and fit for the use-case.

This is by a mile the main point: Is a desert looking for languages that are made for business app/data oriented programing (and much harder looking for something not weird).

The main options: Fox/dBase/Informix(? not remember), kdb+, Cobol, SQL(when extended as store procedure lang with loops and that)

--

This point is big. Having a good form builder (that is already rare) is not enough to be a real contender for this space. You need a language where making queries is truly nice.

In short, you need a language that is `LINQ/Relational` as first-class end-to-end.

- If this lang needs an ORM: FAIL.

- If this lang needs to compose strings to make a query: FAIL.

- If exist "impedance mismatch" between data manipulation/queries and the rest of the lang: FAIL.

- It should also support super-advanced types like date, decimal, currency and ideally dimensional units. Ideally algebraic types as today.

- It should have a version of Rust `serde, Into/From` traits, for easy conversion between data + formats.

- It should look "normal" like python/swift with `LINQ` queries.

This is the lang I trying to build: https://tablam.org
I don't get the relation here?, most businesses care somewhat, and certainly the better run businesses do quite a bit, so they'll make sure to record down everything important about the software.
You go from "it's a bimodal distribution" to "it must be mortality rates" awfully quickly.