skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
swype was so damn good and nothing comes even close. too bad it got killed off.

windows phone keyboard was good too. the key "hitbox" would grow or shrink based on predictive text and typing speed, so if you're writing something from the dictionary you could just slap the rough area of the button and it would register the most likely one. You'd feel it though when typing in something from outside the dictionary, suddenly it felt like you forgot how to type. Once you slowed your typing down it returned to behaving like a standard keyboard.
Also, it had a little trackpoint-type nub on the virtual keyboard which you could drag for moving the cursor. It was significantly more accurate than anything else in any mobile OS.
An RAF Typhoon has landed for the first time on a road recently as well https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/raf-typhoons-land-and-t...

Perhaps people are looking a Ukraine and current events and think that thios capability needs to be reintroduced.
This point of view is conflating two meanings of the world "real".

The "real" in "real numbers" has ultimately not much to do with our everydays notion of real. I'd rather treat it as an arbitrary name. You could as well call them "asdfasdf numbers" and they'd remain the same.
> As does most of our current industrial processes.

Thanks for backing up the original OP's reasoning. That's why you should always try to reuse instead of buying new.
You can't buy a replacement USB port if the one in the phone breaks. You can't buy a replacement charging chip, RAM chip, etc.
> I gave a talk (with transcript) about this

Thanks. A fascinating history. Do keep making them.

One thing that had me scratching my head was the "green threads made C calls slower" comment. I don't understand why C would care where you call it from.

> This is not the case. Both have pros and cons.

Your talk highlighted on green thread con I hadn't though of. It hadn't occurred to me green threads introduced coloured code, just like async does. That was made plain by it needing a std::io implementation.

But that isn't an additional con green threads have over async - it's a con they both share. While I get that green threads didn't interact with native threads very well, but I'm making a bet that was because they tried to hide the colours (different IO library) it needed, so the programmer didn't have to care. Async would have had the same problem had it tried to hid the colouring it introduces, but they solved that by not hiding it.

Async warts over green threads of introducing a new syntax and a slightly different programming style remain.
I say this as someone who has used Unix, MacOS and Linux for most of his long life: not being able to write to /bin and other system directories is a feature and I really don’t understand how anybody in 2023 could see it otherwise.

Freedom does not just imply the ability to do the things you want, but also the ability to avoid the things you don’t.
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” VIII: What Is the Zoo Hypothesis? (2020)
If I'm reading https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3585765/ correctly then it says that the maximum listed dosage is safe but the FDA recommended lowering it with no supporting evidence.

It claims the previous higher maximum was anecdotally established but later supported as safe by multiple studies and the reason for the article seems to be concern that the new lower maximums could cause confusion in patients and doctors.
Plastic has so many use cases that probably all of them individually is a drop in the ocean. Starting to actually do something is what matters.
I disagree, there are at least 2 reasons why eps can be better.
a) you can exactly match the fonts in an eps figure to a latex file, which will look much better.
b) you can use \psfrag to change text to get proper mathematics in figures, like gamma2 in an eps becomes $\gamma^2$
c) maybe also, the pstricks package is very nice, but does not work with pdflatex
if pdflatex could do both, I would switch today
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For an individual, perhaps. Even there some exceptions can be found though: taking on a mortgage to buy a house can be the right decision even though you could keep on renting and don't technically need to take on the debt.

For a business it gets much muddier: do they "need" to take on debt if it makes them more competitive in the market? A company with a well optimized capital structure containing both debt and equity can be much more profitable than a company without, and can use those extra profits to out-compete companies that are less efficient.
Presumably the RAF performed the test in Finland because our roads are too full of potholes
Remember when it was supposed to happen in 2000, 2012, 2020?

Apocalypse chasers always have one thing in common...
> Maybe they want a unixy desktop with working sound ?

In my experience, this has not been an issue for the past 10-15 years atleast. Before that there were some problems with few (external) soundcards or random cpu spikes with the mixers.

However, the UX can still improve. Switching audio outputs with multiple outputs like external displays etc is not very smooth or intuitive.

Some bluetooth headsets have issues but I've had those with a mac as well.
Rowling said she was only able to write because she was on benefits, which allowed her a short reprieve from poverty.
We have some decent evidence, though.

The most innovative ideas in mathematics were discovered by mathematicians in their 20s and 30s, even though older tenured mathematicians should in theory have more knowledge, experience, and time / resources for deep work.
They did only 3 passes to generate this image.
Congratulations!

Looks like a fun project and Java really could need a bit of minimalism. I'm always intrigued by small frameworks like Minum et al. even if it's just to learn how things are done in an approachable way.

Love to see stuff like this on HN, and I'm a bit surprised about the negativity in the comments.
The blog in your link seems to conclude that electric cars pollute less than petrol cars overall.
Still, if the blog is true, it's still surprising that such a large amount of air pollution comes from tyres and brakes. A little Googling does support this claim.
What is the benefit of storing the unstructured data in a database compared to just storing the location alongside the embeddings?
I'm neurodivergent, so it's not something that works for everyone. But I think it's still possible to love people online, without having to worry about physical bodies.

I don't mean a relationship kind of love, or even the opposite end of the spectrum being totally-platonic love. I just love my friends for the people that they are, perhaps even more than I am capable of loving a physical body.

And because the internet keeps me always connected to everyone... I don't have to arrange meetups, or worry about travel times or expenses, or about people moving away.

I've had tons of traumatic experiences too, because this necessarily comes with a certain degree of vulnerability. I still haven't been able to escape the negative effects of those experiences yet. But I'd say it's worth it just for the wonderful people that I know today.
Nokias phone business was destroyed by that manager they brought in from Microsoft. He held a speech where he called the company "a burning platform" on which they are standing.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2011/feb/09/noki...
Seems like all counterarguments to this fact sound like people who aren't competent enough and/or don't understand the basics. There doesn't need to be a higher cognitive load using Linux and security arguments make even less sense.
So with all this talk over banning TikTok violating the 1st a. rights of Americans using Orwellian, authoritarian tactics critics are decrying, you'd think DJI and sketchy cloud-based webcams would be banned first over more obvious capabilities.
I very much understand loot crates, I meant a side show to the rest of the game rather than tightly integrated into the gameplay. CS:GO for example, some people take the loot crates very seriously sure, but that's on them. Even the crate economy, as big of a market as it is, does not impact the gameplay. The actual game of counter-strike doesn't change based the crates sideshow.
Would in a completely different universe with completely different physics where some life and civilization (for whatever that means in those different physics) manage to emerge, this civilization have similar mathematics, or completely different?

Is it possible for a universe to exist where those who can think and would follow all possible logic rules, find that e.g. the natural base of logarithms turns out to be something else than 2.71828, or get different prime numbers in the integers despite using similar addition and multiplication rules, or other such changes..., or would they find exactly the same?

I think they would find exactly the same (when it comes to the real actual logic, they may use different conventions and focus on different things if they got e.g. a different amount of dimensions in their universe etc...), I simply can't think how following logic rules could conclude something else no matter in what universe...
See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37656080

As the other commentator points out, "Continuity and Limits" are fundamental to explaining physical phenomena (via differential equations) and are not "purely mathematical constructs".

PS: You might find this interesting; Imaginary Numbers are Real -
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiaHhY2iBX9g6KIvZ_703...
>you end up needing to propagate a bunch of extra stuff everywhere.

Yes, but that's not a "nightmare" (or whatever the parent called it), it's the whole value proposition.
Yes, I loved that, too. More abstract, also short, no pressure: Proteus.
Thank you for your honest take!
On that page it says:

> (all measurements of lines of code are for production code - that is, non-test-code)

Given that this is Java, the author could have measured the total size of the bytecode, which is probably a more style-neutral way of measuring the fundamental quantity of code.
It is the opposite, older people are better at small incremental innovation while younger people are better at large world changing disruptive innovation. You can see it in the article.

People grow more humble as they age so they stop trying to change the world, while young people focus more on the big things because they still believe they are special. Or something, many different reasons that happens, but we know it happens.
My view is that Math is real but the way it's represented is arbitrary. I'm sure that math could have looked very different than it does today and it would have worked better for a different kind of people. I find that some mathematical abstractions and ways of describing certain ideas are over-complicated and almost seem to be intended to confuse and obfuscate rather than to clearly explain. I feel similarly about certain fields of science; the ideas are really very simple but whenever you hear someone explaining them, the explanation seems to be full of gaps, rely on the audience to make certain assumptions, use custom terminology or terminology repurposed from different fields which can create confusion.

I often felt that being good at math requires having a natural talent for making the right assumptions to fill in any gaps or ambiguity in explanations. I feel like the language of math does not do justice to the complex, intricate ideas it tries to convey. On the other hand, being good at programming requires the opposite; it's about being able to resist making assumptions.
> homebrew is pretty great

I hear this said a lot in passing, and I'm really curious what people mean when they say this.
Ten things you probably didn't know about Wikipedia
my brain is definitevely a lot less flexible and my energy level are much lower
React Google Maps: Drawing Tools
Google Maps is more than just a navigation tool. While it excels at providing core features like adding markers, info windows, and navigation, it also offers advanced techniques that we are going to show you how to use and implement in your project.
If you require dynamic measurement tools capable of marking distances and modifying locations with adjustable polygons, Google Drawing Manager is the way to go.
In our article we demonstrate how Google Drawing Manager can be used to draw elements in your React project. Moreover, we cover all the main obstacles you can face when implementing this functionality. The code for a complete project can be found there too - so you can use it as a playground and experiment with different modules and settings.
Reactive armor would just shrug it off.
> Also I’m not sure how are “promises” legally binding unless they are part of a contract?

You'd be surprised. Claims that are made as part of any marketing material or promotion can absolutely result in lawsuits if someone built their business on that claim and then Unity screwed them over. In that way at least, Unity is liable for the things that they say in a public capacity.
It doesn't have to be "disgusting on the part of the US telcos" to route Chinese SIMs through the Chinese Firewall if the other side of that agreement is that non-Chinese SIMs in China get to bypass that firewall.

Because ultimately, that means more ways to bypass that firewall. Chinese people in the US could but a US SIM to avoid the firewall. They could even take it home.

But routing Chinese SIMs through the firewall is only acceptable if the reverse is also true: letting non-Chinese SIMs in China bypass it. Otherwise it's just more censorship.
Are you saying that sound conduction doesn't behave linearly?
It is a bummer, yes, we have fiber across all Azores' islands but latency to the US is high because we have to go through mainland Europe.
To be fair, only the consumer facing operations of those brands have been wiped out, same as with Motorola, but their enterprise/network-infrastructure businesses from Nokia, Siemens, Ericsson, Alcatel still exists, and Sagem is still in the military business (as part of Thales).

However, the big issue is that those companies don't see much growth or sensible profit margins anymore compared to what US tech companies are raking in, fact reflected in their sweatshop salaries as well (I interviewed for Nokia and Ericsson a few years back).

In a sad way they're a direct reflection of the EU economy: stagnation and lack of future prospects. Yes I know of ASML and German mittle-stand but they alone can't competitively support the entire EU economy the same way US tech companies do.
Great, even more traffic jams
UI frameworks are stuck in the last decade
with reverse charging it's not a problem? From pixel 5, I could charge my earbuds from the phone, no problem. 5 mins of charge are enough to keep me entertained for at least 30mins
How can you trust that Google will still be making Pixel phones in 7 years?
> there will only be a few of these highway airstrips

In Finland there is hundreds of them of various levels of preparedness while we only have 4 actual air force bases.

Some of them have nice extra wide tarmac, bunkers hidden in the forest to store gear, etc. These are the ones used during peace time for practice.

During wartime if those are destroyed you use the less prepared ones which are just normal roads with a long enough straight and no bridges etc. You go and cut down the trees and electricity poles next to the road, fill any potholes and use that.

In the end all you really need is a road wide enough to fit the landing gear of the plane and enough length to speed up / slow down. Though obviously you use the better/nicer ones if you can (especially during peace time)
This signals the beginning of the community brain drain from Unity. This will continue to happen until no one is enthusiastic about Unity anymore.
New Study Definitively Confirms Gulf Stream Weakening
I'm old enough to remember when Al Sharpton used to do similar. "Your company has been accused of racism. I'll have 200 protestors outside your head office for 6 weeks unless you donate $2m to my charity to make this go away."

The ADL just does it all electronically now.
Is Google getting some sort of kickback from the Portuguese gov?

The cable has 3 emerged locations (NC USA, Bermuda, Portugal) but the whole press release reads like a foreign investor ad for Portugal?
Also to intent. As you get older, you need to focus your energy and your intentions. And it may very well depend on the context then that innovation is or is not the important/urgent thing.

Reciprocally, youth can be highly innovative because it’s more/still full of energy and discovery and randomness (or intentlessness), which favor unusual/new approaches.
> Disable System Identity [sic] Protection.

Aaand, it's stillborn. Not happening.
lol what?

What's the point of this exercise? Is this some kind of power play against the... operating system?!

Did this prevent you from achieving anything?

In any case, I'm fairly confident if you disable SIP and do a couple extra steps, you can get write access to those.
Yes, not stronger but AS strong for less weight.

So, if the steel frame wasn't a problem stength wise, the titanium should be one either is my point.

Because I felt like the parent's comment "The previous iPhone used a steel frame. The titanium makes it lighter, not stronger" was about how titanium is at fault here (implied: weaker, not just "not stronger").
Huawei was on a trajectory to become the biggest smartphone vendor in the world, when they were kneecapped in 2019, mostly by blocking their access to Google services (which cratered their sales outside of China).

https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/canalys-global-smartphone-m...
RussiA was downgraded to RussiC during this conflict.
> With a grinder, trolley and 5 minutes you could remove one from a car.

No, you cannot. Look up SuperFastMatt's video about the construction and layout of the Tesla battery he had to "chop up" for this custom build.
You cannot just take payments from citizens of the USA or Europe into some unregulated country, forever. Sure, some fly under the radar, but most gambling-like games (including puzzle games) belong to some conglomerate.

See online casinos. They exist since the 90s, before apps. In the USA apparently you can only run a casino in Las Vegas or some places with a soecific license. Yet the online casinos still exist, but operate from jurisdictions that are off limits from the FBI or whatever (something like Cayman Islands or whatever). However the owners are identified and will be detained when entering US soil.

The internet is not some loophole to break the law. If you are taking a relevant amount of money, even in small payments, they can get back to you or at least block you.
On a trading exchange at least you have the theoretical possibility of winning more than you put in.
yes it does. There’s only one contributor for most of it and you can click to see his profile.

With the source code available and the primary contributor clear, what more could anyone want? Certainly it’s a bit much for one to ask for a security audit they themselves won’t do
>exept zooming (pinching with 2 fingers)

2 fingers is already too much. Maybe I could've done it with 2010 smartphones, but new ones are so large that I switched to double-tap then drag ages ago. It's annoying having to involve a second hand just to zoom something, and trying to do it with a single hand is just a recipe for destroying your phone.
In the context of an internal CI or something, it's probably fine.
>otherwise you can swap the biometric system with one that is already unlocked.

But isn't the data on the device actually encrypted with the bio key?

So swapping out new bio data => new key => can't decrypt original data.

Or do you mean it just means you get a working device (but all stored data is lost)?
Hey there! Just FYI your APIs are reporting address not found: Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND app.fluxon.dev
Just because someone else has a different take on the market it doesn't mean that he's wrong.

I didn't ignore China, or US, I stated that on average most cars in the world sold globally will still be ICE-powered for a long time to come due to electricity constraints (and quite high EV costs that aren't gonna fall anytime soon). This is especially true about Japan which the comment was speaking of.

> The solar panel market did not and is now almost fully controlled by China.

Another take that misses the forest for the trees: China controls large parts of manufacturing globally regardless of sector, that's true for advanced electronics (80% of the components and assembly of your Apple stuff is made there) to the toys you buy your kids to the apparel you wear (e.g. 70% of Nike apparel is produced in China).

They have low labor cost, insanely good infrastructure and logistics, cheap energy and weak labor rights. You're not gonna outcompete them on manufacturing.
Then you don't know how to use it.
So it's exposing those games for what they really are: not-fun time wasters.
you can install another launcher on samsung and get pixel-like xp without compromising on hardware. Zenfone is a bit worse for hard, better for software, but much worse for update support. Fairfone is too chunky but 8y of OS updates
Ageism is a very serious problem and this article does not really help.

Most innovation actually involves applying recent technological advancements to various problems. This is the same regardless of the age of the person.

So most of these disruptions do not require some big leap or fresh new perspective.

For example, I was around 35 when Docker was really becoming popular. The immediate idea that occurred to me was to build an IaaS business around it. I believe that lots of other people in their 20s or whatever age had the same idea.

Because the idea was really just about applying the new technology in a fairly obvious way. Since it was already a disruptive technology, that was enough to be disruptive in that domain it was applied to.

So again, I think the vast majority of innovation is in this category. Maybe because those types of innovations are much more accessible than fundamental research.

When I saw what ChatGPT could do last year I immediately started trying to figure out how to use it to build a code generation startup. I know that many people who were not 45 like me and instead were in their 30s or just out of college or in college or high school or 50 or 60s or whatever had a very similar idea. I literally saw demos of software that was very similar to my own tests along with articles about how they had just finished college or whatever.

I also have seen young people in a particular domain that is obviously being disrupted ignore the disruption. You can be entrenched in something just as easily as a 23 year old. Whereas someone like me who has always been excited about applying new technologies was quite interested in shifting focus onto how the new technology really changed that area. The younger and older people who had been invested in this specific activity and were not by nature primarily into innovation were unaware or at least unexcited about abandoning their existing domain for something that was related but new.

It's really about mindset and skillset. Someone who has technology skills in certain areas and has made a habit of, for example, picking up new technologies and applying them, is going to be much more likely to do that and keep doing that, than someone who is younger and doesn't have those skills and habits. It's about an orientation embracing technologically-driven change. That isn't determined by age. It's a worldview and type of skillset.

One other thing that matters is going to be your circumstances. I have a twin brother who has a family and a real job. I have either avoided that or just not managed it, depending on how you interpret things. But at least part of it is my attitude and my identity.

As our society ages, I predict that attitudes towards ageism, even in the technology world, will shift towards less tolerance for it.