skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people value their time, energy, and money more. I can appreciate that you do not as we all have choices but I imagine that most people would disagree.
I've always thought the ratio of average residential network bandwidth to average file size is underappreciated as an arbiter of change.

The only true solution to distribution / piracy is for the file to be so big as to be inconvenient.

Which is why mp3 was such a game changer.
Some about that here: https://www.rossmartin.co.uk/private-client-a-estate-plannin...

Though that's talking about the prior monies paid, and not specifically this.
He has talked about it multiple times before, as mentioned. idk why Elon stans are always in such a rush to 'interpret' his remarks.
Not only bogus, but if you get a hit on a scaffold you can combinatorially modify that scaffold and file it with the patent. This effectively blocks the small permutation space around the drug from further investigation or development.

There's lot of promising science that can't be done because incumbents are so adversarial about patent space for structures they don't even care about. To make matters worse, patent data and notation is:

* Poorly structured and defined,

* Difficult to parse,

* Uses combinatorial/wildcard notation (Markush structures [0], which is what modern drug patent law is based on).

So it's a total mess. The best analogy I could give for software is: imagine if you could patent closed source code (the literal code) and also attach a wildcard to every branch in logic within that closed source code, but all you publish are the filenames (as screenshots of directories, not text). You don't have to run due diligence that the permutations are run to spec or even compile, but now nobody can write logic infringing on your hypothetical code (which you never wrote).

If your reaction is 'what the fuck?', yes I agree.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markush_structure
dev.to is blocked on HN for this reason (try submitting a dev.to link; it won't appear under New.)

There's an old thread where dang explains that it's blacklisted (along with many many other sites) due to the consistently poor article quality.
I think the best way to recognize a legitimate tech book is... visit a Barnes and Noble. If it's a publisher or series you can find printed on the shelf, books are legit.

Unfortunately online market "platforms" are pretty much widely untrustworthy for any sort of informational purposes.
The Unreal Engine editor also uses the UE engine which is pretty cool (but I wouldn't recommend writing desktop/mobile apps in UE)
Not sure Unity is a good role model...

Also, having used both Boo back in the day and GDScript in Godot more recently, I'd say that one big difference between the two is that Boo was really bad, and GDScript is actually pretty good.
Ya ever heard of the OAuth2 protocol? I spent almost half a decade working on identity stuff, and spending a lot of time in OAuth land. OAuth is an overly complicated mess that has many many ways to go wrong and very few ways to go right.

If you told me the NSA/CIA had purposefully sabotaged the development of the OAuth2 protocol to make it so complex that no one can implement it securely it'd be the best explanation I've heard yet about why it is the monstrosity it is.
Just a concrete example of that time we know the NSA actually did their job properly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA's...
Sadly that’s popped up for me without any interest from my end.
No it's not. It's 1/1 in your hypothetical case. The two real world cases are considerably less clear cut.
As others have mentioned, JavaScript also has had over 20 years of serious investment from the best minds in the industry to improve it. We now have V8, TypeScript and plethora of tools that make writing serious applications possible or even preferable. I seriously would take TypeScript over most languages any day.

How likely would you say the same effort is gonna go into GDScript?
US authorities ask locals for help in finding missing F-35 jet
Congrats to the nutshell team!
Sometimes they make it quite difficult to navigate to "Other" by making the font too small or forcing you to swipe to another page. I think most people are too afraid to ask the servers how to find "No Tip" option.
The other aspect that pertains to AI is the data-maximalist mindset around these tools: grab as much data, aggregate it all together, and to hell with any concerns about what and how the data is being used; more data is the competitive advantage. This means a failure that might otherwise be quite limited in scope becomes huge.
Grist doesn't have a mobile app, but has pretty decent UI on mobile browsers.
May I present, Beyond All Reason - https://www.beyondallreason.info/

Like OpenRA it's open source too.

Disclaimer, I'm one of the devs for it.
Wonder if it has to do with AWS being down:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37561424
TBH if i was making a game using Godot i'd just be modifying the engine itself to add any "heavy" functionality (the nodes system would most likely help here) and expose custom high level APIs to GDScript. IMO scripting languages should be used to script the behavior of a game: i.e. tell the engine what to do, not how to do it (which should be written in native code).

From the subreddit submission about this blog post (linked in the post itself) it seems this is something some people already do.

The GDExtension API seems something to use only if you want to write C++ extensions/plugins to be usable by other people, but i don't see much of a point in restricting yourself to it if you are making your own games.
They're biggest risk has always been the perception they peddle fraudulent simulacrums of worthy products.
So basically ODF loads everything into memory, relies heavily on in-memory structs for quick unsaved updates, and is crash-safe by writing the whole zip to a temp location during saves. Kinda similar to MS Office. The file structure also helps a little. This is good enough for small docs.

Many times have I encountered large docs, often spreadsheets, that push the limits here and become noticeably slow. If you want to get more sophisticated with the indexing and paging, SQLite is a very natural path. Anything else would be reinventing the same wheels SQLite has spent decades refining.
The site:domain.tld syntax should not have a space between the colon (:) and the (sub)domain.

Incorrect:

site: domain.tld

Correct:

site:domain.tld

The - modifier to exclude a word does not have a trailing space.

Incorrect:

- site:domain.tld
- query

Correct:

-site:domain.tld
-query

I’m less certain about excluding a verbatim phrase, but I believe you can do as follows.

-“exclude this query string”

While this space rule still applies, so don’t insert a space, although this needs more testing by me to know for sure that this exclusion works properly.

- “this is not correct syntax imo”

https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/
GDScript not a great scripting language. It's an adequate scripting language whose only benefit is native integration with the client, and guaranteed support in perpetuity. But there is nothing about it that's better than any other scripting language. No one would choose to use GDScript as a general purpose programming language.

Other scripting languages are also easy to learn. Vanilla Javascript is much easier than GDScript. And so is Lua. Kids learn coding in Lua. Even Python isn't that difficult compared to C#.
When was this research established? I've heard about this a few years ago but when was it found that Arabia was green historically?
To me it wasn't until I saw his painting in person at the Van Gogh museum. I had never seen painting with just so much physical, 3D realism to them (the paint projects off the canvas some 5-10mm in places). I've never seen anything quite like it from that era.

Some others that I've gained appreciation for over time: Rembrandt (seeing the Night Watch in person, alone, was amazing), Vermeer (he was barely known until fairly recently), Suerat (didn't quite appreciate pontillism until I read more about color theory).
> on the same device

This is the issue.
Look up elastic tabstops for s counterexample.
I’m good with Amazon and Google over some unknown. I don’t want some right wing shit to be my gatekeepers.
They also have AI now. Listening in on every phone call and monitoring every video camera is a real possibility for the first time in history.
What's wrong with Unity from a technical prospective not marketing/business prospective?
> I've also noticed that the economics of fast food make no sense anymore compared to groceries

The deli sandwich thing, in particular, seems to have really broken the social compact.

Their ingredients aren't better. Their price isn't better. Their service isn't better.

It has become not uncommon for me to say "Yeah, I'll go to the grocery store and hit the deli because it's better and more convenient."

How many more people like me will it take before all the sandwich places collapse?
Why don't beginners start at Python.org, though? It's such a great resource to learn the language.

- it's free, unlike books

- always up-to-date, unlike even the best book after a few months

- easy to choose: heck, there's only one official documentation! No chance of making a mistake here!
Indeed part of this is pointed out in the video about Carbon linked in the OP: juxtaposition gives you a ‘free’ pointer going from each node of your data structure and for some tasks you don’t really need more than that.
First 3D simulations reveal the physics of exotic supernovae
The aspect ratio in that fold is 4, the very first step is folding the square down into a ribbon
>It should be a click at most.

Welcome to new and interesting ways to defraud people over the internet for money school of thought.

At least with Amazon it's a "one and done shop" of who I spent my money with when I bought something.

Imagine tomorrow with your click to pay for random links on the internet you suddenly have 60,000 1 cent charges. They all appear to go different places and to get a refund you need to challenge each one.
You keep adding noise by complaining about it tho
Why warn them? Just do it already.
>We recently have begun to pay >$50 for a family of four.

It's incredible how inflated prices for fast food are. It's the same crap as always but it costs the same as going to a real restaurant.
Explore the Ancient Aztec Capital in This Lifelike 3D Rendering
> After all, does it seem like any one of these features, or all of them combined, comprise what William James described as the “warmth” of conscious experience? Or, in Thomas Nagel’s words, “what it is like” to be you? There is a gap between the ways we can measure subjective experience with science and subjective experience itself. This is what David Chalmers has labeled the “hard problem” of consciousness. Even if an A.I. system has recurrent processing, a global workspace, and a sense of its physical location — what if it still lacks the thing that makes it feel like something?

> When I brought up this emptiness to Robert Long, a philosopher at the Center for A.I. Safety who led work on the report, he said, “That feeling is kind of a thing that happens whenever you try to scientifically explain, or reduce to physical processes, some high-level concept.”

Writers once talked of an 'elixir of life' - some indescribable quality of biological life that could not be replicated in the laboratory. It gave life a hidden, magical quality. We now know that the concept of an 'elixir of life' is false - we can replicate at a chemical level, all the building blocks of life.

We'll probably feel this way about consciousness in the coming years, but articles like this from the NYT indicate that the general public is not there yet.
If I'd lost an aircraft with a bunch of classified stealth features, and I perhaps also had air defense systems with a bunch of classified stealth countermeasures, I might be inclined to ask the locals if they've seen the thing in the swamp out back before I did anything that might reveal anything about the limitations of that stealth tech or abilities of the system that could track it.
Another option is to use RSS readers. Every YT channel page has <link> elements pointing to RSS feeds, which means you can paste channel URLs into any RSS reader and subscribe to them through that.
By not paying. Your continued tipping allows restaurants to not pay their employees a living wage and forcing the customer to subsidize them. Once a sizable percentage (let's say 30%) of customers don't tip, it will become progressively less effective as they have to jack up the percentages even more for people that do pay, resulting in more of them joining the non-tippers in a feedback loop. And then, maybe tipping will become a thing of the past.
Similar situation with space hardware. Even cots memory chips hardened for radiation and space are ITAR export restricted.
In most cases it is that various rights are held by defunct or disinterested parties and so it's near impossible to get relicensing done legally.
If you ask LLM something you know you can distinguish noise from good output. If you ask LLM something you don’t know then how do you know if the output is correct?
There are cases where checking is easier than producing the result, e.g. when you ask for a reference.
Can you give some specific examples of the add-on fees when vertically scaling EC2 instances?
Well that's a point a lot of other people have raised and is the one I am trying to make, Godot and the associated ecosystem could become like the next generations Javascript. Companies didn't start investing an enormous amount of time and effort into improving JS because they wanted to, they did it because they adopted it and then ran into cases where they needed the performance.

My point being that a lot of the concerns are not foundational to Godot and GDScript and can be improved if there is an investment. But that investment will come with adoption, not the other way around.
Is it just a general fear of technology as to why or is there some other reason why you don't want to install an app?
I wonder whether their subsidizing the app orders to push users over: not just because they can presumably mine other data but because they can hire fewer cashiers and maybe keep their kitchen utilization up if there’s never a delay due to someone slow ahead of you in line. It would not be surprising to see a logical endpoint here treating the cash register like banks treated ATMs where there’s eventually a charge to talk to a person (who might be on video so they can farm it out to a call center?).
Yes, you can. AI can mimic some behavior well by using simple regression. AI hasn’t shown the theory of mind necessary to have a legitimate thought which is the first barrier before then having an original thought which would deviate from the norm and display imagination, critical thinking, and synthesis of diverse information.
See also the Year Without Summer, 1816.

Apparently Frankenstein and Dracula were both born that 'summer' at one of Byron's gatherings. Something to pass the time indoors.
Ask HN: Anyone else finding Google Maps terrible?
Planning a Japan trip and it's acting very weird.

1. Just now I was zoomed into Kuwana, Nagoya and clicked the 'restaurant' button they show at the top. It then moved to Tokyo and showed me like 3 random restaurants there. Clicked back, tried again and it showed me restaurants in London.

2. I searched for 銭湯 (public bath) while zoomed into my hotel and it zoomed out to basically the whole of Japan suggesting some random places. I KNOW there are multiple good options nearby.

3. Similar searches for supermarket or convenience store showed results 10-15 minutes away but completely hid some places really close to the hotel. This seems to be based on them having a 3/5 rating - it's a convenience store. Rating is not the issue.

This is on top of the badge spam (Google show so many badges for hotels and things that I can't even recognise my own marked locations in the quagmire) and it's tendency to zoom out to the whole country when I search for things, which is very frustrating as I almost always want to search nearby.

I have maps search and location history off, so it might be punishing me for that.

Just curious if anyone else has noticed this, as imo this is a fairly recent (last year or so) issue.
You’re totally right, but there are a few things missing: this isn’t a DBMS, really, and the files are not going to be huge.

You need fast listing/pagination, key value get/set, and transactional updates. Basically DynamoDB, but for a single file. Build a query layer on top of that, sure. Use those primitive to build persistent indexes if you want.

Or just iterate through the keys in a for loop. It fits in memory anyway.

You don’t need a fully fledged DBMS for a word document. And if you’re shuffling around lots of data in a structured format with no updates needed, you probably want arrow/parquet rather than sqlite because the read performance is going to crush SQLite.
It's probably not ideal for large projects, but it adds huge value for small ones, and for people who are learning, and I'd expect probably even in larger projects if combined with C++, C# or Rust. It's miles better than the joke Unity had that was called Boo. I also like it a lot better than Blueprints in Unreal while still remaining extremely simple, although I can see how Blueprints can be better for more visual people.
The terrible paradox of air pollution and climate change
Which sql authors specifically ?
Definitely suboptimal, no question.
Using meatspace doesn't solve the problem, using meatspace exclusively solves the problem. And it's not a great one given, you know, how much of the world "happens" online now.
Just like Luke's X-Wing on Dagobah!
There are modules where you just have ethernet and few IO ports, for example WISE-40X0LAN series.

It's pretty much what you've built but industralized. And, as it is for industrial stuff, pretty pricy, 150 EUR a pop. But works with via both HTTP and MQTT
Don’t those things usually work on concrete syntax trees? And shouldn’t the solution be to use the right data structure for the job (using language feature to make this easy) rather than pushing one system (e.g. the compiler) to be worse for the sake of another tool (the linter)?
I feel pretty strongly against the idea of immutable infrastructure when you're "infrastructure" (shared systems, running other people's software), but this article isn't about that.

In my observation (and in datasets that I have access to), computers systems tend to follow the "infant-mortality" curve. This means that if they run for a little bit, they're likely to run for a long time (and in addition, if you have many of them, they tend to die around the same time). My conjecture is that many computer systems have initialization routines which are not as thoroughly tested as the normal operating state of the system. Due to this, we tend to run into more issues in "immutable" systems than you otherwise would in "mutable" systems.
I’m sure in that case someone sensitive to that particular detail would ask a similar question to yours, because they would feel similarly outraged.
Feeding climate & biodiversity goals with plant-based meat and milk alternatives
Substituting 50% of animal products globally for plant-based would nearly halt deforestation and lead to 31% decline in land use and agricultural GHG emissions by 2050.

"If spared agricultural land within forest ecosystems is restored to forest, climate benefits could double, reaching 92% of the previously estimated land sector mitigation potential."

"While beef replacement provides the largest impacts, substituting multiple products is synergistic."
What’s the fuss about spam? You can distinguish it from useful mail? What’s the fuss about traffic jams? You’ll get there eventually.

The LLM allow DDoS attack by increasing the threshold needed to check the books for gibberish.

It’s not like this stream of low quality did not exist before, but the topic is hot and many grifters try LLMs to get a quick buck at the same time.
If I searched the Internet high and low for a whole day, I doubt I could find a better example of this phenomenon for which I don’t have a name: standards that exist to keep standard authorities busy. Standards that are actually seventeen layers of standards, all developed in isolation from the real ecosystem. Standards that will have between zero and at most three implementations, all mutually incompatible.
The PGP source code was published as a book so that it could be exported under the theory that the first amendment beats ITAR. https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/BookPreface.html
I could certainly use the sparse disk feature.
I'm thinking about going back to 2d. If Factorio and Slay The Spire can be smash hits in 2d, perhaps I can as well :)

I'm a fan of Love but I have to admit the amount of Lua I wrote for just my prototypes did start to get a little scary.

I might have a play with raylib.
Depends a little on the type of file. A prose document, sure, probably want autosave by default. A vector graphics file? I want autosave when I'm creating it, but I do NOT want autosave when I'm copying out a piece buried several groups in and behind some things I need to delete/move out of the way. I also don't want to have to think about whether I need it or not.

But generally the way autosave works is to save a copy that can be recovered on a crash, and only overwrite the original if directed by the user. That works for both use cases. (Haven't used Word in years, so I'm not sure if they have a different behavior now.)
https://webmail.migadu.com

I'd say the web client doesn't get any simpler. I'm sure my parents could easily figure it out (they're not tech savvy).
Oh man, I remember being shocked a Big Mac Meal went for 11 CHF in Lausanne in...2006. It must be up to at least 20 CHF now.

I just got back from Japan, however, and I was absolutely spoiled by how affordable eating out was, really good food and no tipping culture. Heck, even the convenience stores in Japan provide better options than most fast food restaurants in the states. But I got a sense that the workers are struggling with the current system.
What a complete nothing-burger of an article. "People who self-report that they are open to seeking out new experiences tend to self-report that they seek out new experiences. People who self-report that they don't like new experiences tend to self-report not seeking out new experiences".
It obviously doesn't cover the why of Sahara's greening, but for anyone who has access to BBC iPlayer, the following programme [1] has a nice summary of humanity's journey out of Africa.

It's amazing that the majority of the world's population is descended from the couple of hundred individuals that left during one of these greening periods.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kfqps/the-incredibl...
Have fun searching for a stealth fighter...
In simple terms a tab character is a shortcut that inserts N spaces.

So you don't even get the basic premise right. Jump right to the hyperbolic "criminal" (don't be that guy). And end with the "Q.E.D." (don't be that guy).
I guess book authors don't like my perspective...
We use languages to express ideas. Sentences are always subordinate to the ideas. It's very obvious when you try to communicate in another language you're not fluent in. You have the thought, but you can't find the words. The same thing happens when writing code, taking ideas from the business domain and translating it into code.
Hey! BAR sucks up an unreasonable amount of my free time. Good stuff!