skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it is not like I buy smartphones for emergency purposes

How strange. That's the main reason I expect most people (especially on HN) would own a mobile phone at all. The ability to be contactable/make contact in an emergency is the greatest value it holds, surely?
What is Microsofts vision with Bing? It looks like it is slowly transitioning from a search engine to something else.
Yes, this is exactly what I was getting at.

The Rust static type system is actually not that rich for enforcing compile time constraints on values and states. It appears rich compared to C or Java or Go or something, but it's not that expressive even compared to languages in similar spaces like Scala or F# or even C++'s (rather terrifying) template system.

This has advantages and disadvantages. But for the kind of thing we're talking about, there's some disadvantages. There are things a richer type constraints system could offer beyond even the 'range' constraints other people in this thread are referring to.

e.g. I work on a (embedded-space) application that has a bunch of state machines in it. We naturally use Rust enums to describe these states. How nice it would be if Rust's enum system was rich enough to be able to describe and enforce the valid state transitions rather than just the set of possible states. There are various ways to try and approximate this (I've seen a few articles), but on the whole they're rather awkward and full of holes.

Also the verbosity of Ada's syntax looks painful to write but actually pretty nice to read. This has got to have lots of value for paranoid organizations.

I've seen plenty of terse and impenetrable Rust code, especially stuff that makes heavy use of rich static type action or funky things like GATs, etc.
Watching the video, thanks. But back to my question, what of those is missing today?
"SWers don't fuck for a living; they lie for a living."
> simply no tangible, concrete reason to have kids

That's fine for you but what about society?

A few western societies are below the child replacement rate.

How do these places keep their society and social programs going without growing the tax base with new births?

Are immigrants expected to move in and have their own children to insure the tax base stays stable?
Dataset of 250K Books and 1.5M Scholarly Papers with Extracted Text Layers
> None of those strategies involve changing how the internet works. Website owners generally need to pay for their sites. Currently their payments are subsidized (sometimes to oblivion) by advertising. Mozilla is doing nothing to change that, Brave is.

But that's exactly what it was...

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/02/25/exploring...

If you want to argue that they should have done it themselves rather than in partnership, or bought out Scroll, then sure, I agree. Especially given how it turned out after Twitter bought Scroll.
To quote:

> I could learn to speak a language from another planet if I were immersed in it.

Maybe others and I misinterpreted but it very much came across as "I would learn it simply by being there"
I try to avoid prompts like "Can you ...?" because they could be interpreted as yes/no answers as opposed to commands to do something.

I've been prompting Bing with "Draw me an image of..." or even just "Image: image description" and it's worked well for me so far.
Bing is kinda desperate it seems. I went to install GPT on my device yesterday and the first app result was a sponsored one - bing - telling can you can earn prizes by using the app.

Don't know if they are more interested in growing the number of users or collecting that sweet data. Probably both.
Fortunately for me I have both FF and Linux on the desktop. Now that they've finally fixed web midi even that reason to have Chrome has gone away.
It looks like the device even includes a little battery; I wonder if it holds enough charge to charge a phone battery fully, or if it just needs to be active charged for a while.

This is definitely more about the message, but actually, if a person could pedal pretty hard for like a half hour and get a couple charges out of it, that doesn’t see too impractical (ignoring the obvious objections, like usually coffee shops will let you get a little charge).

It could be a nice camping accessory. I bet a product already exists.
Small robots, Raspberry Pi, small drones: those are the things I’ve seen at high school level.

The terrifying part is that the great majority of my 9th graders are not very experienced with actual computers (laptops included). Their knowledge of computing extends no further than their phones, but because phones are so powerful, there’s nothing, particularly mysterious or compelling about computers. They were like magic boxes that you just had to figure out somehow when I was a kid.
Finnish translation is a horrible word-by-word thing, too. That does not work at all translating to a language that uses very few prepositions. Words like “for” and “to” get replaced with ones from a totally different context. The thing reminds me of machine translations from around 2000.

Sadly the new features on Windows, like forced Onedrive sync, also use similarly bad translations. Phishing emails have nowadays better Finnish than Windows does.
Your explanation of a bidirectional translation layer analogs a lot to where I am in my study of Japanese. Three years in, there are quite a lot of kanji where I see it and think the English word; the Japanese pronunciation takes a noticeable amount of processing time to surface. My word count is fairly low (maybe 500 - 1000 words) and my grammar is on-par with a three-year-old. However, I'm getting better. Not bad, I suppose, for someone who started study at the age of 46 and only devotes about an hour a day to the task.
The title is catchy!
Chatgpt ?
Ah thanks, I had never heard of Scroll. I guess it's nice that as of very recently they thought about this problem and then immediately failed.
Let us know about the utility of those (excellent) tools for:

* a four part acapella group

* a traditional western european orchestra

* someone who wants a recording of the call to prayer

* anyone who needs to make a recording of anything at all?

The original purpose of DAWs like ProTools was recording, editing and mixing. Composition and instrumental performance crept in later. Even if that aspect were to be completely replaced by hardware (possible, but unlikely), it would leave the original DAW functionality just as in in demand.
> a possible resumption of a network-level of cognitive and neuronal activity emerged up to 35–60 minutes into CPR.

That sounds rather disturbing TBH. I was hoping that when you're done, you are done.
This looks like another set of Rust proposals that are going to go exactly nowhere. Skimming, looks like the PR was closed, and the RFC has been open since 2015.

Again, Rust is a great language. I work in it fulltime. But this is not a focus it currently has. Hell, they can't seem to get allocator-api and simd stable, after years.

Embedded has taken a very... backseat to webby, async stuff, unfortunately.
> It really depends on where you draw the line between “humans” and “hairless monkeys”

"hairless apes" -- we diverged from monkeys around 20 MYA.
> 112 (Europe's 911)

Small point, but many (most?) countries support 112, and it's definitely worth knowing as "911" likely won't work outside of the US.
Man, when I saw "hack" I thought the Santander bikes are e-bikes, and the hack would be a device that leeches power off their batteries...
You are bad at managing money if you think eating out is just a bit more expansive than cooking
How about if the melee fighter switches weapons to a bow and arrow?

In games, things often transform into other things, and we want to still consider them the same entity.
While I can’t argue against the idea of an erotic city builder I feel like it’s antithetical to the actual doom guy advice
>it's kind of a front for the real business that gets discussed once you're in private and deemed trustworthy.

Atlanta, Houston, NYC, Miami, Vegas have all essentially legalized clubs into brothels (whether on-site or outside-club).
> Safari? (Limited to just one OS.)

The underlying WebKit engine is the interesting part and is portable, with multiple other browsers using it.
This. I own two Pint Xs. Ride almost every day for three years. Had two nose dives at full speed and ran both out. I'll never upgrade to a faster model for this reason. You can't run out a nosedive going any faster. Also, the Pint X is just so nimble and fun. To me it's the sweet spot.
Look at his nickname…
> can still make both sides happy.

> Has nothing to do with feelings.
Man how do people have time for this.
>fair: impartial and just, without favouritism or discrimination.

We should be fair to everyone. But there's no contradiction - you can be fair to someone, and still judge them very harshly.

Disclaimer: I'm not a native speaker, feel free to correct me if I'm misinterpreting something.
I wonder if this article is somehow related:
"https://www.gamesindustry.biz/machine-code-is-for-kids-artic..."

TLDR:
The author (a game developer who started with BASIC on ZX Spectrum in the 80s) asked if there's a modern equivalent of BASIC with "little to no abstraction". In the past, it used to be the BASIC-asm combo.
Bcache – Awesome and terrible at the same time
...and before that it was refined as multi-page copy in direct mail, and full-page or long copy in advertisements. Even if you changed only the formatting in a direct mail piece to make the copy spread over more pages, response rates went up.
Covid-19 vaccine-associated mortality in the Southern Hemisphere [pdf]
JWT and CWT Status List IETF Possible RFC
Wrong reasons to become an engineering manager
In the areas occupied by russians the killing does not stop when the fighting stops. There are countless examples of this from this war and previous ones.

So your claim that borders don’t matter one should just accept conquest is utterly naive.

The human wish for fairness has a reason and this comes from a deeper place of understanding that accepting aggression will encourage more aggression.
I’m particularly tired of this point. Tech companies did a lot of unsound things in the pre-mass adoption days — for example, letting admins read stored content without any access controls. We don’t claim these things are standard or desirable just because they once happened. Moreover, these things rarely entered public awareness.

In the very early days of cloud computing (AKA the 2010s) when “upload to cloud” typically involved clicking a button and sending a photo to a server, a subset of cloud companies began scanning photos for CSAM content. Many of these companies exclusively scanned shared content rather than unshared repositories, because the purported goal was to stop distribution (allegedly Dropbox did this, recognizing that “upload” was an automated feature of their system and “share” represented a user choice.) A few companies were blurry on the distinction and just scanned everything, perhaps because it was technically easier.

What’s important is that this was never widely advertised to users, nor was there ever any sort of public debate about whether it should be SOP, particularly for “uploads” produced by default-on cloud backup software like iCloud. When people say “Apple started this” what they mean is that the first real instance of widespread public debate around this feature I know of was in 2019 when Apple very publicly announced their plans, and the feedback from customers was apparently so negative that they abandoned the idea. Moreover, Apple “started this” in a second sense of the term: they developed the first system capable of scanning end-to-end encrypted photos by conducting the scanning on-device, thus providing a technology demonstrator for the ideas in the new EU regulation.
It's not just we have alternatives for some services, the entire Internet looks like "our" thing from this side. Everything is either perfectly localized, or built and run by local entities, or dominated by local users. In rare cases that none of above are true, social graph of users are still completely closed off from the outside world.

I mean, it's even the case offline. Have anyone seen or used the omnipresent NCR made ATM, with transparent green card slot? There are lots of Ingenico Lane/5000 lately, but that green plastic cover still isn't a thing here. I think there are very few regions that you could live without ever seeing one in life. We're isolate as that.
What They Don’t Tell You About Getting Old
Unfortunately Mozilla has little input on Rust these days. They fired nearly everyone working on it.
They are hugely overrated. Most people nicking bikes use angle grinders and to an angle grinder all locks are the same: less than 30 seconds of cutting.

https://calpaterson.com/bicycle-threat-model.html
A partially facile suggestion, but it sounds like what you want is the Pi 400's board design; unfortunately there's no Pi 500, yet!

The current form-factor is based on the B+ (the B had ports on every single side, if you count the GPIO pins, while the B+ moved the power round to the same side as the HDMI), and I suspect part of the reason for sticking with the form factor is the HAT specification (which specifies physical layout as well as electrical and software requirements), which I think was published at the same time as the B+ was released (my memory's fuzzy on that point, though).
Are we neglecting managers in the new world of work?
> The academic literature is ridden with examples of state of the art (SOTA) models that weren’t reproducible

Probably too late, but Elsevier could fix its bad reputation if they required relevant academic papers to submit reproducible code and subjected them to automated testing.
don't be surprised. there's more than a couple of morons online commenting on stuff.
Reminds me of the Put-Put, Orion project's chemical explosive propelled proof-of-concept prototype: http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/Aviation%20history/...
I don’t think this experience is available any more.

The missing ingredient is not the technology, but the motivation/reward.

In the 80s/early 90s, fiddling with that system setup earned you an interactive audiovisual experience that you simply couldn’t get anywhere else, not even on TV.

Today, there is very little that kids haven’t already seen on YouTube, or that can’t be played at the click of a button.

It was an era of constraint that has now passed, and isn’t coming back.
A Rasberry Pi. The number of things you can do with these cheap computers is astronomical. You can have a Debian Linux computer and then learn networking, programming, run your own small website. Then start on hardware. Connect up various hardware devices, maybe starting with just a fan. Turn on. Turn off. A second monitor, larger disks. Webrtc. On an on.

You never know what kinds of things kids will like. They may like building a website. Or getting the fan to turn. Or setting the prompt to "hey dude?".

My own experience is that kids like to do things - to see some result. They don't get much of that these days, so anything to encourage that vs being a clickbait consumer is good.

As for games, there were old Freddy Fish, Monkey Island games. Putt-putt does whatever was a favorite. I have not run retro-pi or whatever but I think many of those things are still available.
Action by internal affairs is often a reactionary measure, so I am wondering if there is maybe a preventative measure? I cannot recall, and I am not aware, of any existing protocol that prevents law enforcement infra from overstepping. The legal framework of a country, state, county etc. is what you'd expect them to operate under, but we're discussing this topic right now because sadly this police org was able to justify its actions under the current body of law. Technically, this is why we have politicians, to address these kinds of edge cases.
This definitely seems like an improvement over previous versions. It can now (at least in some cases) generate correct text for a given image. For example the prompt 'Neon sign saying "Scotland"' generated this https://www.bing.com/images/create/neon-sign-saying-22scotla...

it's still far from perfect though (it struggled with less common words like Kubernetes) but a step in the right direction.
> I suspect voice calling itself has become network deprioritized or still has trouble selecting between calling tech.

Whilst this may be true for normal voice, almost universally emergency calling is the highest network priority[0], knocking other voice and data sessions off another carriers tower if required.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_telephone_number#Eme...
I use an RPi4 as the sound generator for the fully weighted 88 key controller my wife plays at home. It runs just one synth - the proprietary physical modelling synth Pianoteq, available for linux, windows, macOS, x86_64 and ARM. It does have a 10" touch screen because the synth has parameters worth controlling (e.g. what piano model). No DAW complexity, but I don't see why you'd ever get a DAW involved with "a toy synth for my 3x 10 year old nephews". It was a little tricky to get the sdcard set up initially, but since I did, it's just power-on-and-play-it.
Expedition to a 6 hr dinner in Norway’s surreal Salmon Eye floating restaurant
Rust hasn’t been managed by Mozilla for a long time. It got spun out years ago and Mozilla laid off all the people working on Servo
that seems like an awful deal for OpenAI. Especially since there are so many AI Labs popping up, how exactly are they going to make enough profit to pay back 10 billion?
Yes social programs are pyramid schemes and babies and immigrants are the new money in that scheme.
Is this really such a definitive result, as the source suggests?
Letterboxd Acquired by Canadian Firm in Deal Valuing It at More Than $50M
Personally, I don’t think this is an either/or. I think both prospective user interviews and ads are tools for this.
Achar is not a Persian loan word in Hindi. Just because it's similar to the Persian word doesn't mean it's a loan word. Ancient Persian (Avestan) and Sanskrit were extremely similar to each other (basically the same language). So there are many old concepts and ideas that have the same words in the two languages. Achar is one of them, it's possibly a much older word.
I grew up (British) with it called pickle, sure we also had pickled onions^ etc. which are quite different, but that doesn't mean it's wrongly translated - for one thing they've both been through the pickling process; for another (perhaps more importantly as a layman term) everyone understands it as pickle.

I don't know what they think would be a better translation (i.e. explicitly not just borrowing achar ourselves too) - salsa maybe? Seems weird to use a loan word from a completely different culture for a different preserve, and anyway I suspect Britain had achar before salsa.

(^Anyway you would never say 'pass the pickle' for pickled onions, maybe something like piccalilli, which is relatively achar like! Although I'm not sure how good an argument that is, it probably was colonially achar-inspired, heavily uses yellow mustard seed which I think isn't/wasn't cultivated here (for harvest of seeds for culinary use I mean).)
Bike thefts help reinforce the idea that the police need additional funding. Solving bike thefts does not.
This reminds me of the feeling of calm that survivors have reported when they are dying of hypothermia or drowning.

I wonder what the evolutionary advantage of these things is?
You are correct. I was being polite, thinking about people I've worked with in the past. They literally commit untested, not even runnable code with syntax errors, merge it into main, and wonder why other people are frustrated. It goes beyond "attention to detail" issues which are also very common with average developers.
Transcranial Focused Ultrasound to the Right Prefrontal Cortex Improves Mood
> Its makers say it could be produced cheaply in bulk and is ideal for search-and-rescue missions or even exploring other planets.

https://xkcd.com/2128/
Systems programming in a memory safe language with automatic memory management, across the whole OS, with a type safe ABI supporting dynamic loading, as starting point.

Swift is the closest to it, and it is still not widely adopted across Apple ecosystem, although as per CppCon 2023's Apple talk they even have plans to push it into the kernel (long term).
You are wrong, because it happened in Britain (about seven miles from where I live, in fact).

Witney is a medium-sized town near Oxford. Oxford is the absolute bike theft capital of Britain. I once emerged from a pub to find someone had bolt-cuttered my lock and was walking up the street with my bike. (I got it back.) You can put a £1.50 consumable bike light on the back of your bike in Oxford and someone will nick it.

Thames Valley Police don't give a crap about bike theft, but to be fair, they don't really give a crap about anything IME. I don't think they're singling out cyclists, they're just institutionally incompetent.
Agreed, they may be recalling the Podesta emails:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_emails
That is a limitation that comes along with having to be S3 compatible; the best you can do is to combine ListObjectsV2[1] + DeleteObjects[2] (1000 objects in a single API call).

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_ListObje...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_DeleteOb...
Focus means saying no to almost everything

The hourly rate example is a clear tell. If you're selling your time by the hour you're already doing the wrong work. Consulting = death, and I mean that literally. The months of our career are finite and we should allocate them carefully
That comes off as too targeted.

This instance shows a few _general_ problems:

1. Compensation is a function of power, not merit.

Merit is a secondary, indirect factor that _can_ have an effect on power, but it's not a necessary condition.

Power often comes from social currency, negotiation, manipulation, wealth and ownership.

2. Power and responsibility are at best loosely correlated.

Often those in power try excuse their obscene privileges by pointing to responsibility. According to this idea, their decisions are force multipliers and they carry a huge risk.

But reality shows time and time again, that this isn't true outside of the most extreme cases. They accumulate power and wealth to an irresponsible degree and make irresponsible decisions all the time without being held accountable. In fact, many get _rewarded_ instead.

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I want a Mozilla that is the steward of the fastest, most advanced, secure and user respecting browser. I want the best in class dev tools.

I would gladly pay good money for that and I 100% bet that there would be enough people who would too.
I didn't know Pixie, thanks !
Google won't let you turn off internet permissions on sketchy apps, why does the flashlight app need internet? They know it is needed for ads. Turn off location on android and it warns you won't be able to find your phone. Why can't you quick toggle it off but leave on selectively for find your phone? Ads need it.
This is one of those situations where it'd be nice if HN tolerated modification of headlines...
Yep. I'm almost certainly not going to cancel personal plans especially for something that's "just business." However, if I don't have any urgent plans and you want me to do some well-scoped short-term job for you or even hop on a plane for a consulting day, I'll probably do it for a fairly generous hourly rate/per diem. But I won't be a bargain unless it's something I really want to do or could lead to some sort of follow-on business.
Computers weren’t on my radar until my grandmother surprised me with one. I came home from school and there lay 2 huge boxes. I was on my own from there.

I was given the opportunity.
The more charitable interpretation is that companies sometimes explore new markets with a “see where people find value, figure out how to monetize later” philosophy.