skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have stuff to do I carry a 17" laptop with a full size keyboard. Else I'd just have better things to do.
FOSS and Funding
… I should have carved out a space for cold prospecting. I’m using GPT-3.5 to detect it in my own inbox because bulk spam filters don’t seem to have the requisite power to deal with such highly customized messages at scale.
Still waiting for a sovereign _Libertine_ state.
This was east Pakistan, aka Bangladesh (cooch behar enclaves), and that border was resolved recently
No, the force-touch spacebar is awful.

It’s only a few characters wide, so you can’t edit large text in small input, such as… the URL, the most frequent usage of editing text on mobile. Along with tasks in the TODO app, typing a text message.

It’s only awful BECAUSE Apple is persuaded that we have fat fingers.

But I have kept a very old iPad from the pre-force space bar, and lightly touching any word would simply put the cursor between letters. Modern-day iOS selects the full word as if I had fat fingers.
Retribution would require mimicry of the original crimes. That’s not what’s going on, it’s simply an attempt to reframe an old argument.

Some cultures actually did do retribution based executions, they where horrific and very different from lethal injection etc.
It's not discoverable. I learned about it through some "things you should know about iOS" listicle or something. Once I picked it up, I've used it a lot.

I loathe when apps interrupt usage to say "did you know you can?" but... this is one of those things where Apple should point the feature out on upgrade, or something.
"AI" Piloted trains exist today. They are safe and able to be built with current technology, with not that much cost.

"AI" Piloted trucks are not.
I was about to comment that using an LLM to update a static site can be seen as overkill like using napalm bombing against mosquitoes,

and you post about those considering odd to have your own services to publish basic information...

> amazed by the hn crowd ... [whereas] Normal people...

I have seen members of the "madding crowd" amazed by people reading a book. And not one: many, in different increasingly bewildering capacities. (Including "law enforcement", calling it "suspicious behaviour".)

Be careful of what can be called "normalcy" nowadays.
strong language, but there's a mathematical proof against:

- company X raises at $Y valuation before YC

- company X raises at $Z valuation after YC

- if Z / Y > YC dilution then YC is a good value

Z/Y > dilution in virtually all cases.

Sorry, but life isn't fair.
Alfred is an advanced OSINT tool that finds social media accounts based on its input. On behalf of everyone who has worked on the Alfred project, pasto or present, I’d like to share that Alfred v2.1(e) is being released early today at 3 pm PST. What is this release? Well, this release includes new File sharing options and a rework of our site downloader as well as some major bug fixes. We also refactored and cleaned our code. Find more here: https://github.com/Alfredredbird/alfred
Can we just take a moment and let out long, low whistle at the list of applications known to be vulnerable, while pondering all the others affected but not yet discovered?
Email has higher overhead than WhatsApp
I just wonder why companies depreciate versions like this. Like, they are trillion dollar company, how much it would cost to keep the old version for those who want? Maybe the person has an old computer or something. Maybe I'm being somewhat of conspiracy theorist crackpot, but I see a lot of malice on these attitudes. It's less about this example in particular and more about a pattern of behavior you see. Everything moving from basic standard HTML to, who knows, maybe some web Integrity API, and one day you can't access the new version of gmail because you are running some unauthorized browser extension.
> I always feel like I'm the odd person out preferring local clients for everything

No you are not. I prefer to use local clients for everything as well.
The entire benefit of Ceres is that you get access to nuclear power without having to risk radiation exposure for Earth. Cold storage is famously low power usage, the storage drives are powered off. It doesn't take advantage of the entire point of building a datacenter on Ceres. It takes orders of magnitude less energy to fill a SD card full of data on Earth and leave it here than it would to launch it into space in case we need to read from it in the future.
I genuinely find this point of view viscerally repulsive. Maybe it's a common perspective, but I pray not. It really seems to be at the heart of a lot of issues with legal systems.
Acxiom started in the 1960's. They've been selling consumer data ever since.
Could you please elaborate?
I had infomaniak email with external (non infomaniak) domain. They don't seem to offer plain email hosting anymore. Please advise.
I had some seedling trees growing. Squirrels, moles and deer killed them by digging around them and through the roots or eating all the leaves.
She got US citizenship, this doesn’t/shouldn’t make her an Austrian-American actress since that implies that she has American roots.
That's exactly what they did (iirc, one side claims historical river course, other side claims contemporary river course)
Piggybacking on that question, could I use this to interrogate a device over rs485 and reverse engineer the protocol it speaks? In particular, a pool heater and a variable speed pool pump
Right, if one party puts forward an unchallenged expert witness, sure, there's not much a judge can do. It sounds like the original case was like that.

It sounds like the appeal is NOT like that, the judge having seemingly ignored the very reasonable challenge to the original witness testimony.
Right, but I didn't say that attending a concert is a civil right. I also didn't say what the real problem was.

What I brought up was, knowing this, is still using ID discriminatory?
On android you need a bit better keyboard that has 'paste' as part of the keyboard. It does paste at the caret position
Gboard has the spacebar drag too, though not the tap to select.
Unfortunately this affordance isn’t available when trying to make a selection in noneditable text.

Since often on mobile devices I am responding to comment threads (in slack or gitlab or Jira, or indeed right now on HN, for example) the challenges I have in copy-pasting are often in grabbing text from a prior comment to quote, rather than in selecting my own text.
Europe thanks you, so it can only pledge 1.5 %
Another interesting book about the microcosm of tech is the book Gaming the Iron Curtain. It's about the Czech Republic before the velvet revolution, so not about the Internet, but fascinating how people there used technology despite their constraints.
refreshing and optimistic take on how some of the typical skillsets (or lackthereof) that plague the startup world can still be harnessed for good
For gaming adaptive sync is important in my case, so Gnome is really a no go since it takes them forever to implement it.
I’m sure the input latency on that setup is just a joy to use
This came up on TikTok for me after visiting this post, so there must be a cookie or tracker that saw what I was reading (or I suppose, it’s complete coincidence). Whatever the reason, this is helpful: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT86HSvwL/
Probably a stupid question, but does Kindle have any "native" app support? I'm surprised the it even has a browser. I wonder what are the limitations?
I held out on 1st gen SE until smashed this year. No more 2nd hand replacements so went for 6s. Heavier, bigger, but I cope. But, headphone jack! :(
What AI Music Generators Can Do and How They Do It
ChatGPT tweaked with further fine-tuning
Free version of the ChatGPT that does not require any registration. Moreover, it operates in the Spanish language.
YC doesn't exactly need to do double-blinded controlled studies to come to some conclusions.

I'm sure they get lots of feedback from the companies in a batch, not to mention the partners' own assessments of how things work. It seems entirely reasonable to me then, after they did have different sessions with different configurations, to point to particular points and say "in-person just worked way better".
The project lists dozens of extensions that it supports. The likelihood of one of them not working properly is very high.
Surprised it didn't mention the lack of a "Delete" key (at least in the standard Android keyboard). All that is provided is Backspace. On the desktop, I use Delete and Backspace equally, depending on where my cursor happens to be.
I 100% agree with this. My teen, OTOH, refuses to use a keyboard to write papers or do anything. She finds it completely normal and preferable to write on her phone. To me this feels like using a hammer to chop wood, but it's her native input method.

Allegedly this is standard in her age group. Makes me wonder about the next few waves of people entering the workforce and whether they're going to hate using keyboards for input.
I agree for the most part.

>> The shaking could as well be caused by the damage to the brain
> That makes it worse.

Does it? I can see how an argument could be made along the lines of: the animal testing (rather than human testing) is there because of a theoretical risk of suffering, and so as soon as it happens in practice, the research should be stopped, the strategy changed etc. But does anyone here really think this is the case? I'd think everyone here knows animal suffering is inevitable on this stage of the research (obviously there could be less or more of it depending on competence and good will to invest in more humane procedures - neither can be evaluated based on such a note). What the quote does, I think, is that it implies some kind of sadism on the side of the researchers. Meanwhile I think the "uncontrollable shaking" could as well happen after a placebo procedure, just because the macaque doesn't know what is being done to it. Such a strong response to this particular quote seems to me purely emotional, which the OP confirms with his further line(s) of argumentation.

> It’s not like the original comment quoted the only problem in the article, they chose one of many.

Exactly! Why that one? After several requests, the OP refuses to explain why he thought it's such an important quote.
And that's why it's horrible. The first family is miserable, so in return you make another family miserable as well. Just more misery, not good for anybody.

We consider murderers the lowest of the low, therefore we stoop to the same level. That's the thinking?

In the US, the same people who think government should not have much power, are against taxes, think that abortion is a kind of murder and should be illegal, these people are nevertheless fine with government murdering citizens. I don't get it.
The amazing thing (as Ken points out right at the end) is the latest chips store 16 gigabits, about a million times larger, in a similar area. So you can think of each of those 1979 transistors as now containing 10^6 2020's transistors! It's mind-boggling. Also a million transistors is approximately an Intel 80386 (actually it's a little bit more).
I am sure that many people will love these photographs. And there is no doubt that the photographer is talented. But there has been such a trend in the last several years to photographers that are highly saturated and heavily processed that, to me, they are no longer interesting.
Capsule Containing Asteroid Bennu Sample Has Landed
The article paints hookworms as disease causing parasites, responsible for the poor health and economic circumstances in the South.

But this year hookworms were involved in a clinical trial on type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease with positive results, so maybe the south were onto something.

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/diabetes-study-suc...
its not mainstream
Something can be both common and amazing ?

I find the blue sky one of these common yet amazingly beautiful phenomena.
Not all animals are cattle ;)
Title should be "Open-source Amazon RDS alternative".
Being free sits more on the mind than the physical world.

It is a state of mind, a man can be free on a jail.

I'd recommend a read to Marcus Aurelius Meditations if you fancy that kinda thing.

Maybe the 8 billionaires you've in mind are less free in their day to day to do whatever the fuck they want than the billions of poor people that barely gets by and survives.

how many rich man have you met which aren't happy?
Agreed.

Whenever I suggest adults should be in control of their own lives, I get a response along the lines of “we’d see mass suicide if people had an easy option to end their life”.

Ok, so let’s think about that. There may be thousands of people whose lives are so bad they’d take an easy way out if it were available. So the idea is to keep that option off the table, so those people are forced to live out the rest of their lives suffering?

To anyone who holds this opinion, I’d really like to know why. What reason could you possibly have to prefer someone you don’t even know to live in suffering opposed to them having control over their own life?
If you're calling Win32 functions it's already not compatible with other OSes... If you want to use cross platform code with files, use the C or C++ standard library's file handling functions.

C++ also supports wstring, but its implementation is dependent on the platform for god knows what reason.

utf-16 is also supported in C11:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_(C_standard_revision)#Chan...

> Improved Unicode support based on the C Unicode Technical Report ISO/IEC TR 19769:2004 (char16_t and char32_t types for storing UTF-16/UTF-32 encoded data, including conversion functions in <uchar.h> and the corresponding u and U string literal prefixes, as well as the u8 prefix for UTF-8 encoded literals).

You can use uchar.h for converting instead of the Win32 functions.

Here's a helper I wrote to wrap these string types in std::string and std::wstring:

bool mbStrToWideChar(string const& in, wstring& out)
{
bool status = true;
i32 bufferSize = MultiByteToWideChar(
CP_ACP, 0, in.c_str(), -1, nullptr, 0
);

WCHAR* buffer = new WCHAR[bufferSize];
i32 conversionResult = MultiByteToWideChar(
CP_ACP, 0,
in.c_str(), -1,
buffer, bufferSize
);

if (!conversionResult)
{
cerr << "Failed to convert ANSI string [" << in << "] to Wide string!" << endl;
status = false;
goto Delete;
}

out = wstring(buffer);

Delete:
if (buffer)
{
delete[] buffer;
}
return status;
}

and

bool wideStrToMbStr(wstring const& in, string& out)
{
// Get buffer size
i32 bufferSize = WideCharToMultiByte(
CP_UTF8, 0,
in.c_str(), (i32)in.size(),
nullptr, 0,
nullptr, nullptr
);

// Set outstring to new buffer size
out = string(bufferSize, '\0');

//Convert
i32 res = WideCharToMultiByte(
CP_UTF8, 0,
in.c_str(), (i32)in.size(),
&out[0], (i32)out.size(),
nullptr, nullptr
);
if (!res)
{
wcerr << L"Failed to convert Wide string [" << in << L"] to ANSI string!" << endl;
return false;
}
return true;
}
Yeah, it does not seem like an easy disease to do anything about. Not like we're going to be able to purge it from all the dust.

Absent work on a treatment/cure, best we can probably do is education and maybe get people to wear masks while doing dusty work outside?

It does seem like the medical community isn't really _that_ informed about it either. I basically had to diagnose myself and convince the doctor at the clinic I went to.

The only people who seem that informed about it are whoever writes that "places where certain fungal infections are common" warning in every advert for immunosuppressants.
And of course the ZX Spectrum main memory used only half of the chips. Sinclair could buy faulty RAM chips very cheaply, they binned them into "top half working" or "bottom half working", then put either all tops or all bottoms into each Speccy and set a solder point on the motherboard accordingly.
Having a family or a house or a dog simply means you are not hardcore enough, woo.
I consider my phone devices mostly read only. I do have an iPad and text editing is better, but still there are still stumbling blocks. Entering text is pretty easy, and making large scale cut/copy/paste edits is OK. It's the smaller edits, adding or changing punctuation, fixing typos, transposing words, or changing small words (‘the’ to ‘a’, for example), where I find difficulty with the behavior of the selection function.
Mixing and matching methods is best, I feel. It's like ensembling models. The benefits/inefficiencies of your favorite method get counterbalanced by the benefitd/inefficiencies of your 3rd favorite method.

For ex, if you really like deep diving into theory, you can do that for 2 weeks, then maybe a week of practical coding. And vice versa. I feel in this way, you learn at different focal lengths (when you point the lens of your mind at the task at hand), and that helps build a more thorough learning rather than choosing your favorite focal length and staying there.
I had attempted to create a pass for my local library in the past, but never got a working barcode, and this post helped me to understand the issues I was hitting.

I was able to adapt the OP's shell script to generate a working Codabar image (after I figured out that my local library used "A" and "T" as beginning and end markers) that matched the physical card exactly, and there was enough useful metadata for me to piece together a working pass using that barcode as a store card's background image. I ended up using the Pass2U Wallet iOS app directly, rather than hacking around signing keys, but found the documented process helpful.
I’m probably more like 20 with a much higher error rate than on my laptop. And more focus required.
> The lack of integration with anything. The primary method of storage being flat memory that cannot hold a DOM reference in a way that doesn't break garbage collection. The lack of string handling.

WASM spec authors and implementors seem to agree that this all can be naturally handled by providing direct bindings to regular web APIs in WASM.

I would tend to agree... Those don't exactly seem core to the design of the runtime?
Eh, I'm in South Africa and mobile and fibre internet work well for me during loadshedding (This goes for gmail, Slack, etc.).

> Also sometimes phone calls and very frequently SMS messages would not go through in many parts of South Africa including Cape Town

You say in many parts, really? What other parts?

Maybe get a local SIM if where you're staying doesn't have fibre; is this not a T-Mobile issue?
This is my hypothesis too.

I participated in YC S15.

We all quit our jobs, and my co-founders moved to from Atlanta to SF for the summer, we rented a big house as a live/work space, and drove together to Mountain View the required few times a week. We went to a lot of optional things together like additional office hours, parties, meetups, together and in person.

That level of commitment and pretty much daily face to face working time is powerful.

It's not possible for everyone given circumstances, and its not sustainable forever. But that means that the teams that can and do opt into a summer like this are very committed to their idea.

So it's not hard to imagine it's "better" to relocate for a stretch of something hard like getting a business off the ground than doing it all fully distributed.
> being bang in the midst of already disputed territory

It's kind of the logical opposite of disputed territory. Due to the nature of the dispute, the parcel is in territory that neither side claims, if they are being consistent with their claims.
Came here to say the same: editing a URL is very painful. I wish I could use a multiline editor for the URL.
VS 6 is from 1998, not 2005.
This is how 99% of cross-platform C++ works. Very few C++ is actually "cross platform" in that it compiles the same functions for different platforms
> seems like a problem with your education system. I think there's
> this thing called ethics, not sure if they teach it there.

Absolutely correct. There's an awful, awful problem with our education
system (I am from the UK). It is in ruins, completely unfit for
purpose in a modern technological society.

As for ethics, you're right, we absolutely don't teach it. Worse, we
actively downplay or avoid it. I speak from experience of witnessing
that first hand.

The result: a cult of personality, self-aggrandisement, conquest,
kleptomania, and domination passed-off as "business".

I absolutely agree that education has lost its way. Do please read my
piece about it in the Times HE next week.
scotus doctrine on capital appeals rapidly converging to 'the sign says abandon hope all ye who enter here and it would violate due process if we didn't tap the sign'
Google hasn't built one and the generic ones aren't all that great.
I expected this comment. The same wikipedia page also says:

> There are currently three territories sometimes claimed to be terra nullius: Bir Tawil (a strip of land between Egypt and Sudan), *four pockets of land near the Danube due to the Croatia–Serbia border dispute*, and parts of Antarctica, principally Marie Byrd Land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius

Next, someone says that wikipedia is not a credible source.
But what's the traditional part? Training models with other people's work without credit or pay is ok by some new form of ethics now? It's almost like you want to say it's unethical to do so, but want to side step the issue altogether at the same time.
Typing is a separate problem. And if you want a physical keyboard on a mobile device you can actually have one. But that still won’t solve editing.

Editing on your blackberry was even clunkier than the touch affordances that this post is about - just cursor keys, right? Now, you might argue that if you can type fluently you won’t need to edit as much - but the point here is about enabling mobile devices to be much more than just message input devices, but actually to do things like revise documents. You’re not using text manipulation affordances just to correct typos but to make significant changes to existing bodies of text.
I feel bad saying so because the photographer is clearly talented and has put a lot of effort into producing these images, but… this is exactly the style of photography (people-free otherworldly landscapes) that is most amenable to AI synthesis. I would not be at all surprised to hear that they had come out of Midjourney or DALL-E. That should be read as praise of the AI models, not a slight against the photographer.

Those models are going to squeeze “real” photographers into an ever smaller niche, which is ironic given that the original photography is the ground-truth training material that enabled the models in the first place, and the generosity of this particular photographer is probably furthering this vicious cycle.
I tried Linuxes on old PCs in the late oughts. Yet they were usable only for a narrow sliver of technical users. Puppy also ran as root and had a super janky collection of inconsistent apps.
One of the issues is that most of us don't want to edit text on mobile. Beyond quick checks I'll wait till I have a big screen and a full size keyboard.
People seemed to be writing all the time with the Blackberry keyboard. Pity that a real keyboard is no longer available.