skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only...I have never watched his videos or read about him. I don't read tabloid news. I don't watch TV news. I only listen to 'serious' radio news stations. Yet somehow I know all about this story
iOS has that ever since Force Touch. You could peek and either abort by releasing or pop it into existence as an overlay by pressing further until first haptic feedback (second one would navigate to instead of overlay), then move through menu entries and select an entry by releasing without lifting the finger.

It was super quick to use and I really enjoyed it, especially in Music.app e.g to quickly build listening queues from a list of tracks.

Nowadays they dialed down on that paradigm (probably because of drag and drop support mostly) but you can still find it in some places (e.g home screen icons)

I find it a bit more awkward than before though because the popping is now time-based ever since Force Touch was dropped at the hardware level.

(Damn how I liked Force Touch, the irony is I realised how much I valued it only ever since it disappeared. The force-touch anywhere on the keyboard to turn the whole screen in a caret moving surface was so much better than today's long-pressing space in subtle but very tangible ways)
So has Germany and any other wealthy nation. Locals don't want to work for poverty wages but there's a virtually unlimited number of desperate people worldwide willing to. That was my point.
I haven't noticed that myself but it's been 5 years since I've been there (Zürich) - how recently did you move there and which canton are you in?

I do agree that most UK shops (Waitrose/ Sainsbury's like you mention) are really good compared with most stuff in Switzerland
This seems like the experience of Jeremy Clarkson in Clarkson’s Farm. Many things against being a successful farmer resulting in practically zero profit.
Not just Microsoft. My last job did this too.
"joining forces" means selling out to a corporate farm, and becoming a minimum wage laborer.
We've been automating away labor for 250 years now.

It's clearly the best thing that's ever happened in human history, so far.
I found a first edition copy of the Doors to Perception in a Newcastle, Australia used bookstore in ~2006-2008 for tens of Australian dollars. Not sure if it had any value, but I (naively I now realize) loaned it to my then-wife’s therapist who then stole it and lied by saying his dog ate it. I asked for the remainder. He again lied and said he already threw it away.

Joke is on him cos my now ex-wife had him dead to rights. He propositioned my then-wife multiple times and hired a former and later current female client he was in a relationship with as his secretary. (Just one person, not two different women.)

My then wife reported him and he lost his license to practice.

I consider his karmic debt still owes me a dogeared book lol
If they are applied, yes.
No big deal. That’s always a risk.
> For any system that is reasonably complex; that solves a real world issue, there's simply no way to handle all the edge cases.

There's a spcetrum between 'all the edge cases' and 'most of the edge cases'. A web app for a blog is not exactly like an automat onboard the JamesWebb telescop...
Saab camouflage net blocks radar but lets in GPS and radio signals
They still do breaking changes, so it's probably for the best.
The problem is when it doesn't matter at first and then your language and its use evolves.
> At any rate, it's a lot better to use precise time timestamps, as a single integer of seconds/miliseconds/vibrations of a caesium atom>

No, it is not always better. If you want to store when a contract is going to end you don't want care how many milliseconds are between now and then. You care that it happens exactly at midnight of the last day of the year. Not an hour earlier or later. Even when politicians intervene between now and then.
Let's check for political bias here. Suppose I rewrote your comment so instead of talking about Russell Brand, I'm talking about the right-wing Budweiser boycott. Those right-wingers are punishing Budweiser without due process of law. Just like most dictatorial regimes. How worried are you?
True. It’s just that so far in agriculture, economies of scale have been let loose without much governing for ecology.
French farmers get a lot of subsidies form the state and the EU, and start violent protests when their standards get threatened.
1.3 Million daily active users hehe
Ask HN: How do you avoid over-editing yourself when writing?
I have been writing technical blog posts for a while and have been noticing that I have become increasingly more and more perfectionist when it comes to writing. While previously I could write an entire post in a few hours, today I can easily spend 30+ minutes on a single sentence as I keep over-thinking about which exact words to use and if I'm expressing myself in the absolute best way possible.

This is obviously stupid, but I'm having a really hard time _not_ falling into this trap. I can find lots of general advice on the web on how to avoid this, but I was wondering if there are people are at HN who experienced this and managed to break free from it. How do you folks avoid over-editing yourselves when writing?
I'm actively trying to scaffold an LLM for business usecases and my experience totally echoes this. I can tweak the prompt for a very representative set of training data, and then it vomits at a seemingly normal new case.
Might have to do with https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/on-building-jpeg-xl-for-was...
libjxl being a big C++ pain to build and maybe needing some serious audit/fuzzing. Still, AVIF isn't that much better except libavif being C (libheif is C++ though, and it's probably what's in use).
Gzip in particular has more something akin to a size checksum appended at the end, i.e., decompressed size modulo 2^32. This is not very helpful, especially as the maximum compression ratio is ~1032, it means that this "size" could already overflow for a gzip file that is only 4 MiB in compressed size.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/69353889/2191065
You told me I misunderstood the facts, and implied therfore that I was naive. It is a classic 'forum' pattern, that people accept, but they shouldn't. It is a kind of sly underhand way of calling someone dumb
> But the question we should ask isn't how could we make it work, but why the hell do we need to support this use case?

I don't even think it is necessary to ask that question. The only question that should be asked for something like this is "How do we handle all unsupported use-cases?"

Because then it becomes simpler, when an edge-case causes the software to freeze, to detect for that edge-case and hand it off to the "not supported" handler.

In the best case scenario, we simply detect whether the use-case is supported and then either proceed or hand control to the not-supported-handler.

In the worst case scenario, when the bug report comes in, we don't even bother trying to reproduce it, we just add a general check for it and move on to the not-supported-handler.

In this particular case, the detection can do any one of the following:

1. Check for english, and if not, display "unsupported language".
2. Check that input language and system language match, or display unsupported".
3. Check that the OS is supported, display "unsupported OS" if not.
4. Check that the input is valid (i.e. no special codes, whether by holding down halt or otherwise), or display "unsupported input".

Whether the spec is narrow or wide, the developer needs to do the work to ensure that the user is running within spec.

Not checking results in more "bugs" that are, as you said, use-cases which shouldn't be supported anyway.
US Military plans to thwart China with 1,000s of autonomous war drones
Be sure to also imagine all the car traffic it replaces gone.
You may also wonder how many would it fix if it wasn't hidden behind a flag?
JPEG-XL is a fantastic format but it has a big marketing/naming problem. I think the the lack of popularity/adoption is in big parts due to the confusing name.
DeepMind founder says AI existential risk 'completely bonkers distraction'
Maybe what's unsustainable isn't their business model but our way of life, that's all I'm saying, and so far everything points that way
Programming was hard in the past, nowadays with all high level languages and advanced monitoring/debugging tools programming is easy.

Today, the real challenge is correctly managing and delivering changes and integration with other programs or external systems.
Good BAs that have domain specific knowledge are really valuable.
We have tunnels (in cities in the UK), they're called storm drains. Using such tunnels for deliveries when it's raining would be right out.

However when cycle lanes are put in, alongside them we could have delivery-bot lanes, maybe? Although if you have to install infrastructure then it might be as well to go full Futurama and have giant vacuum-delivery tubes.
> Cheap food prices are a very good thing.

If anything, food should be more expensive. Current prices do not represent the cost of production, hence subsidies. The consequences are nefarious: farmers spending their entire career paying off debt, half of produce ending up in the trash, underpayed immigrants working in agriculture, cheap imports (subsidized by the origin country) putting pressure on local producers...

Food is literally something we cannot live without. It should be valued accordingly.
Perhaps I'm out to lunch here, but...

No mention of the role of software requirements ? Has prompt engineering somehow replaced them ?
I absolutely have to go to this cool museum...
Estonia is a great startup country: Online administrations, ect...
They love startups. Tallinn, the capital city, is an european hub for small startups.
And this comes by no miracle: - First let's not forget that Estonia used to be part of USSR from 1945 to 1991. This is not ideal for startup land...
- The real trick is that long before communism came, society in Estonia was rich and full steam on trading with boats. Hansea ligua was a big a thing in Northen Europe. Trade, compromise, innovation was already rooted in the Estonian working culture.
Vive l'Estonie
Cool demo!

Re: click and drag: I love those kinds of menus (notably on macOS, the menubar works like this when you drag). It would be better however if you supported click to open as well, as this is what most users would expect.
Nobody cares about performance if you build a business application with a couple of users, a common use-case in 2005. The reason a lot of Java people jumped on the Rails bandwagon, was that an application that would take a month to build in Java with Spring/Hibernate, would take a day in Rails.
See also: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/beyond-java/0596100949/
As the Wikipedia article states, it's more about the specific period of late 1993–early 1994 when some large online service providers in the US started providing access to the greater internet, the USENET in particular, and masses of new (and usually clueless wrt established norms and netiquette) internet users flooded newsgroups and forever changed and disrupted their character and culture.
If you're in Budapest some time, I recommend the "Flipper Museum".
> so far in agriculture, economies of scale have been let loose without much governing for ecology

Sure. But scale isn't the problem. (Focussing on its is counterproductive. Amidst falling efficiency, no population will choose long-term ecological impact over short-term food availability.)

Solve the problem directly: incentivize land owners to steward their land. Regulate where needed. Improve agricultural education.
If by "rules" you mean vague references to "harm" then sure.

My use of the word "explicit" here was intentional. As it stands the "rules" may as well just read "if we don't like what you're doing on or off our platform we reserve the right fire you as a content creator". And again I'll note, if you're fired as a content creator for some arbitrary reason you have no way to challenge the decision.

I don't think this is acceptable. I think Google should ultimately be able to run their platform however they like, but they have a responsibility to make those rules clear when people are dependant on them for their income.
I never order takeout etc, because getting in to my building is so complex it's easier for me to go to the restaurant.

If a drone could gently drop items on my roof, that would be a real game changer for my life!
that's on you i think. quite a lot of people enjoy tofu and it's a cute name imo.
Not all tofu lacks texture or flavour. You have only tried the simplest version I guess.
> what's unsustainable isn't their business model but our way of life

What does that actually mean? (I can point to any sociecoonomic problem and solve it by accusing someone's way of life.)
Ukraine was known as "the breadbasket of Europe" and the majority of the crops grown there were exported. In particular, grains such as wheat, corn and barley provide approximately 10% of the world's supply.

From what I understood of the news, the exports weren't massively affected in the first year or so of the war due to a treaty with Russia that protected ships transporting grain from attack. In the last couple of months, Russia announced they weren't renewing that (yearly) treaty and would treat foreign ships transporting as if they were warships, and so viable military targets. As Russia has long had a massive sea base at Sevastopol in the south-west of Ukraine (when it gave Crimea to Ukraine in 1954, this base was kept as Russian territory due its significant influence over the Black Sea), this base is now a choke point for all sea vessels in and out of Ukraine, which is probably why Ukraine is now stepping up attacks here - because with the ending of the treaty, they need that export route to stay open.

That last paragraph was a long winded way of saying that actually, until recently, the war in Ukraine shouldn't have affected the price of grain all that much, because it was largely continuing as before, so any prior price increases being blamed on the war were possibly just opportunistic. With the ending of the treaty, it's not unlikely that there will be significantly less grain exported, or more exported over land, and so the price could increase. Obviously in the situation where demand exceeds supply, price increases aren't proportional to the reduction in supply, but based on the willingness of buyers to pay more than someone else to secure their supply, so the increases will probably be more dramatic.
Show HN: AI to Import CV from PDF [video]
My experience with blood pressure measurements is that no matter what I’ve ate/drank, or how fast I walked down the hall in the Dr’s office my BP is never over 120/80. If mine did jump, even at one appointment, it would stick out pretty quickly.
Why not, you know, Lisp?

(Also, the examples seem to be Scheme)
The question is when

we know software and hardware are not static, so your anecdotal evidence is only admissible if associated with time
This is a fun narrative that the US is just the same as the Russian or Chinese governments, i wonder who could benefit from pushing that...

The fact Snowden is still alive pushing anti-US propaganda shows the difference, if the roles were reversed he would have been assassinated long ago.
> 50$ will make our investors very happy but then customers might complain.

Look at the pain points of customers. It is obvious they are willing to pay higher price for convenience. Anyone visiting India would not complain about $50. Especially since you say it is a one time fee for opening the account. You need to rethink your price. You can even make it an annual fee so you have consistent revenue. The current pricing model is nuts. $10 is too cheap for foreigners.

EDIT: You write elsewhere that there is a markup of 3.5% on top per transaction. Is this credit card fees or your own markup on top of the credit card fees? If it is the latter, then I would advise you against it. Rather take 1 time payment annually ($50 or even $100) instead of 3.5% markup per transaction.
No, it can't stop in place. It drops its payload on a parachute quite accurately.
What I don't like about the I standard is that the plug can become loose from the socket if there is downward force on the cord. I would strongly prefer it if the socket were recessed.

The plug is also very large and round, which makes it hard to run cords through narrow gaps.
As an aside, there are a number of Turing machines defined in Lean's mathlib. https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4/blob/2c3ee3...
It does give more space in the sense that the model generates more tokens of steps/etc that it can then base its actual answer on, rather than being forced into generating the answer right away.
Didn't read all the leaks but it seems a bit wild to conclude a vendor implemented a backdoor purposefully. There's some been found ofcourse, but simply being SIGINT capable, why does that imply 'backdoor'.? If they have a nice exploit for the device it would also make it SIGINT capable no? without the vendor's cooperation (apart perhaps from a buggy implementation.)

If you have the chip, you can find the backdoor... if you cannot find it, you can't conclude its actually there. There's ways to analyse chips to see if they are backdoored. Decapping, fuzzing and whatnot. Simply basing such of a conclusion from a few lines in a document seems a bit off to me...

Did anyone actually find the thing??
I have come to the place where I feel like the word "persistence" when applied to data / knowledge / information in this way is almost offensively reductionist and actually ignorant of the background in the field...

... Just going to put this here, since it's clear the world still hasn't read and absorbed this knowledge, 50 years later.

I wish people would stop retreading the same broken paths over and over again.

https://twobithistory.org/2017/12/29/codd-relational-model.h...

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~david/cs848s14/codd-relational.pdf

"Future users of large data banks must be protected from
having to know how the data is organized in the machine (the
internal representation) ... A model based on n-ary relations, a normal form for data base relations, and the concept of a universal data sublanguage are introduced."
I'm not overly familiar with it but isn't this already a genre of gaming YouTuber?
><td> for example obviously ends when you come across another <td>, another <tr>, or the required </table> //

Only a madman would nest tables!!

/me crying in 2000's web design.
ignoring the tone of this comment, “charged an arm and a leg” = pennies. i guess pennies are now valuable in the netherlands?

in any case, the Dutch supermarket chain albert heijn still doesn’t accept any cards except some non starter locally developed ones.

i always found it interesting that the netherlands are so far behind places like the UK when it comes to payments. even countries in SE Europe have better payments infra than the Netherlands.
> Does that matter if I can IPO the "future of delivery" for billions?

Unless there's a downside, not really. The downsides are often hidden from the IPO. But, let's go on.

> Corporations consistently show us they are willing to eat fines as "the cost of doing business", especially if its a means to eating all competition.

I concur with you. Being willing to eat fines, for just about any reason, is unethical in my opinion.

Being willing to destroy all competition is the opposite of my understanding of capitalism insomuch as I understand capitalism wants to encourage competition. And it's unfortunately very prevalent in societies that claim to love capitalism.

> I also lament a future that has me looking into the sky to see no birds, only Ama-line™ drones dragging TikTok banners behind them.

This is a valid complaint. I suggest that if you care about birds, with respect to drones, then you should become active in drone communities to determine the effects that drones have on birds. How do drone activities affect birds flying patterns or nesting habits? How do drones affect birds' food chains? Some birds have been known to have some level of intelligence and can mimic human behavior -- will birds mimic drone behavior?

> The future probably has no birds anyway - nor can I halt the drone delivery progress, so I guess it's not worth thinking about.

While I agree that, due to climate change, the future probably has far far fewer birds (perhaps even no birds), I think drone delivery is young enough that you can affect progress. There are government agencies that drone companies are beholden to; the FAA is certainly one of them, and the FAA (for things that fly) often works with the EPA (for things that affect the environment). There's plenty of avenues to affect the progress of drone delivery.
I played pinball at a metal festival (Wacken 2022), because I was bored of loud music and wanted somewhere to chill. for some reason there were a few real machines there in tents outside. I think 8 or so, and no one was really playing them. We got to have quite a lot of goes without having to pay that much, and it was quite. Also the fun thing is that we had a lot of beer so we got to drink beer while playing them. The tables were messed up and dirty, so I didn't worry about putting my beer near them. There were some interesting tables there, Terminator 3, Lethal Weapon 3, Godzilla...and a few others I can't remember
Don't ignore the fact that unlike WebP (lossless: missing grayscale | lossy: forced 4:2:0 chroma subsampling =x | both: missing metadata and progressive) and AVIF (lossless: worse than PNG in many cases, i.e. useless), it's both a very good PNG and JPEG replacement; only AVIF wins in my books are very low bpp lossy quality (not very interesting), hardware decoding support and dav1d being amazing.

I seriously see JXL as a "keep it for 50 years" codec to replace our aging tech.
>It is funny while postmodernism is all about deconstruction and questioning existing values, social structures and authorities, when its authorities are questioned by an outsider, it becomes so defensive...

Not that funny in this case, since this has nothing to do with "postmodernism".

The artists that did those things we discussed were peak modernism. Dada/surealism (Duchamp), or nouveau réalisme (Klein) for example, and of course the entirety of data, lettrism, etc. have nothing at all to do with postmodernism.

In fact post-modernism, both when taken as a critical stance and as an artistic theory, was precisely against modernism (that those artists represented).
I really doubt it. Modified glasses are too much of a change, compared to earbuds which can be the bridge to the phone in order to provide a conversational assistant. For normal use there is almost no benefit of having something visual available without the need for manual interaction, which is the benefit of glasses compared to the smartphone screen.

But being able to have a verbal communication with a chatbot is of immense help. It can be used while driving, while cleaning or doing anything else which requires the use of your hands or while they are dirty or covered with gloves.

These glasses will be expensive for at least 4 more years and most of us just won't feel the need to invest in it.
> Most apartments don't have fire escapes

Show me the overlap between potential demand for drone delivery, on one hand, and people who have no porch, fire escape, balcony or window from which they can suspend a platform?
The link and github does not tell much what OpenTofu is. So I opened the official website. Again very hard to find out what it actually is. Goals and why it was created, and a hundred times that it's a fork of another product.

But still does not explain what it is or does.

I had to open the website of what it was forked from.
Sentry is not a tracker