skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People say this, and yet XML's origins as a markup language make it baffling as a data format. No sane human being should choose a data format with such confusion between properties that no user knows whether to go with

<Foo>
<Shininess>HIGH</Shininess>
<Luck>7</Luck>
</Foo>

or

<Foo shininess="HIGH" luck="7" />

and yet countless thousands decided to do just that, for reasons that are totally inexplicable to me.

Obviously as a markup language this is fine; as a data format it's bizarre, since the division between attribute vs child doesn't match most in-memory data structures.
((0^0)+((0^0)/0^0)))^((0^0)/(0^0))^0 = 2
Yeah, XGBoost (and all tree methods) are basically if-else on steroids.
> very much not insane USA.

Is that supposed to be a joke or does it just reflect your extreme bias?

You had a failed coup attempt in January 2021; your speaker of the house was just toppled by a few right-wing extremists in congress; government is on the edge of a default every few months; lots of important leaders (Biden, Trump, Pelosi, McConnell, to name a few, not to mention ones that straight up died of old age in office like RBG and Feinstein) are old to the point where one questions their mental acuity, a gerontocracy reminiscent of the last decades of the Soviet Union.
Well, it is impressive for sure, but it on an emulated 060.
Finding Performance Issues in DB Engines via Cardinality Estimation Testing
Unfortunately, "UK Plans..." has become statements for the purpose of electioneering rather than serious intent.

See also the list of announced projects that mere days later had to said to be "illustrative": https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/09/list-of-proj...
Low downtime Postgres upgrade: the runbook (AWS Aurora)
They won't find anything.
I disagree, it’s not equal but different. The French famously tried to switch to a decimal system for angles before, but failed in no small part because of the relatively few unique prime factors. Being able to divide evenly by three turns out to be more important than five.
> If you rear-end me while I’m stopped at a light, your intent doesn’t matter, only your actions.

Bullshit. If you intended to do it, it’s something like assault or attempted murder. If you didn’t, it’s likely a civil traffic ticket and an insurance claim.

SCOTUS precedent permits use of legislative intent to resolve ambiguously worded legislation, too.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_v._Southern_Pacific_Co...>

> The rule that penal statutes are to be construed strictly does not permit such a construction as defeats the obvious intention of the legislature.
I know I am in the minority but I cannot understand how mercilessly taxing providers of services that improve our lives is not... theft, honestly.

It is not about how much money they make but about about a third party appropriating what a company that provides such a big value does because, hey, you are "stealing me because I exist"...

Now people will vote me negative, I know...
When was the last time a major corporation went bankrupt for failing to pay its taxes?
You're using the wrong product. Spot basic beaconing is $2.50/month.

If you also need a PLB, don't cheap out on a safety product.

But if you're wanting reliable Gigabit unlimited data globally for <$1000/month, then you're asking for something for nothing.
Are you sure? Isn't the average calculated by dividing by n, an integer?

Edit: I mean, you're right that nearly every number is irrational. But I think averages are going to be some of the tiny fraction of numbers that aren't.
How would that solve the issue of keeping repositories in a both well-tested and up-to-date state? It seems to me it would only make the problem worse because we'd have different, possibly incompatible or unmaintained PPAs
I think that's because tinnitus comes in very different forms and intensity, and since it can't be objectively measured, it's difficult to compare between individuals. My guess ist that you can only silence very low intensity tinnitus with this technique.
Can definitely be, I never investigated in detail, although I used alternative open source clients for both (signal-cli and a long time ago yowsup), so the information should be in there...

I hoped that Signal's use of HTTP was as a fallback in case a direct connection could not be established to use a more "compact" protocol, but I possibly don't remember correctly what I've read...
The biggest problem with Bristol is how much of it has been taken over by upper and upper-middle class people moving from the South East.
To be honest, I don't know much about homelessness in Japan besides what little I've read online, and what I actually see in public (and considering how much I walk around different places, I do see a lot of places). Anyway, I suspect this is probably another case where America spends a ton of money on stuff, but does so poorly and with bad effect. Just look at healthcare: the US spends far more per person than any other country, but outcomes are pretty lousy on average because it's so unequal and because treatment costs a fortune compared to anyplace else. I'm sure many other spending comparisons between the US and other nations are similar. How much money has the US spent on high-speed rail in California without getting much done?
Hope it helps! A cool feature might be to be able to select which shelf to check as well, for giving recommendations to friends from my "Read" shelf, etc. :)

Btw, I was curious to see how it looked when it works. I hope you're not planning to borrow "The Great Believers", "Watchmen", "The Paper Palace" or "Harlem Shuffle" from the New York Public Library[0]. It currently has a listed wait time of 9007199254740991 days, or ~652,615.4 cosmic ages.

[0] https://projecttbr.com/?goodreadsProfile=121455547-bella-vic...
Is SQLite not useful because some of their test harnesses are private and they charge for certification when it gets used for avionics?
We just need a Jumperless Excel Add-In that's all.
To be more cynical all products from all companies are in the “embrace and extend” phase
Hi, author here: please do have a look on the first part, in which I give a bit more context on some decisions I had to go through https://brunoluiz.net/blog/2022/nov/low-downtime-postgres-up...

Observe that we only went with the approach of cloning and doing some "hacky" stuff with the replication because our database was quite large. Small ones might be okay with only using the logical replication + COPY.

The method described might be applicable to other managed Postgres, but I haven't tried it out.
In my experience SOAP was near-universally used as an RPC encoding, where the schema was whatever types the exposed API defined and no-one gave the tiniest anything about the data representation on the wire. If you insisted on schema first SOAP, people looked at you as if you had fallen through a dimensional gate from an alternative history parallel universe full of Zeppelins and domesticated dinosaurs. JSON on
the other hand came riding on that REST wave, where the data models on the wire were given more consideration than just an outcome of the serializion process best never looked at. Some people even considered idempotency more than just a funny sequence of letters. No, I'm not surprised at all the SOAP mindset disappeared. (But SoapUI was really a pleasure to use, spent an ungodly amount of hours staring at that thing, never in anger)
Making it oriented on UTC+0100 is dumb
SWMobile https://www.meetup.com/swmobile/ is good if relevant.

Also SWUX https://www.meetup.com/swux-meetup-com/ which is UX (so not technically tech), but has an excellent tech-adjacent community, and lot of members who work for tech companies even if they're not techies themselves.
Lol, this was EXACTLY my high school sr. year social studies project in 1980, with roughly the same effort (sadly, I didn't create a working clock). I won first place, with just this. The only difference is I named the metric units 'mints.'
I had tinnitus for 1 month or so when I was living in London and it went away on its own. Can't remember if it stopped before or after I moved to Germany. In London I was living in a busy area above a grocery shop overlooking a street with a lot of buses going past so there was a constant hum from below. Not sure if it was related but my tinnitus just wouldn't go away. I had had tinnitus before but only for short periods if time and not so intense; only if the environment around me was totally quiet and I was very tired.
A 24 hour clock with midnight at the bottom tracks the motion of the sun if you are in the Northern Hemisphere looking South. If you are in the Southern Hemisphere looking North you need a clock that goes anti-clockwise.

See: https://sunclock.net
Don’t worry, we’ll start with that, and we’ll replace it when we have the means to do so.
Ask HN: How many tabs and bookmarks in browser do you have?
I have two scenarios of browser usage.

For work.

One main window with relatively static set of 10 to 20 frequently used tabs. There are mails, task managers, monitorings, documentations, interesting work-related topics, ambient music streams etc.

One separate window with tabs for current task.

Which is pretty common way to stay focused and productive.

Everyday use.

This is a different story.

Generally, once or twice a month, I skim through my feeds and open all articles I've been interested in. Some of them I read right away but most are leaved for the next read them all phase.

At that moment, there could be up to 250 of opened tabs. Many of them are topic-related, or even with the same topic, but from different sources.

But because they are placed in order of opening, not by relevance, it is exhausting to search and switch between relevant tabs.

After reading, some articles may go to bookmarks. And when there are already thousands of them, this is no easy task neither.

Other articles may hang unread for a long time.

At some moment, I get to the point that I cant take it anymore. So, I have made a browser extension that keeps me sane.

It:

- groups relevant tabs and bookmarks closer to each other;

- breaks bookmarks into smaller, better manageable folders;

- closes or bookmarks tabs that are hang unread for a long time;

- reminds you about unread articles if you are reading the one with similar topic.

Clearly, a more tabs and bookmarks you have, a more helpful the extension become.
But even in my work scenario it is very useful.

P.S.

I don't have much karma to create HN Poll.

So, in your comments, please refer to the following answer variants for convenience.

How many tabs do you have?
0-20 tabs,
20-100 tabs,
100-200 tabs,
200-500 tabs,
500+ tabs.

How many bookmarks do you have?
None,
1-100,
100-1000,
1000-5000,
5000+
Story of Train18: By Sudhanshu Mani, Former GM Integral Coach Factory [video]
I spent a lot of quality time in the 1980s recording with 4-tracks and editing with splice blocks. I do not miss it but I miss the live performance it necessitated.
You meant "Fahrenheit" rather than "Freedom", didn't you?
I stopped twisting my neck to look at a second monitor. I think I was irritating a nerve or constricting blood flow
Been there about 15 years.
Contemporary compilers are "optimized" to optimize for superscalar, fully pipelined, out of order cpus with plenty of ram and caches. Literally nothing in common with a 68k. Also modern compilers wouldn't even know how to produce code for the amiga coprocessors.

This engine very likely is written in hand optimized, clock-exact, asm.
MicroOS doesn't require flavors. You can select whatever package selection you want during installation.
The western neighbours have outsized influence on EU policy compared to the east, of course they have to take part of the blame.

EU energy policy made visible changes on the markets and landscape of the eastern republics - and the people here hate the EU for it.

For example, it created a whole class of "solar barons" who used the EU regulation to get free money that now everyone has to pay for, and for the necessary energy storage that the "barons" are not on the hook for. The population here would've preferred to go nuclear, but EU forced it to support this instead.
You can acquire with shares though. They or they could raise 30Bn pretty easy.
Salem MA jumps out even more to me, these days it's only even locally significant in October.
Also have the worst data protection agency in the entire EU
The story of India's fastest train and how it was built in India.

* An interview that covers similar territory: The man behind Vande Bharat Express
(https://www.rediff.com/money/interview/the-man-behind-vande-...)

* Typical Indian bullshit where jealous/unhappy bureaucrats tried to derail the project by triggering corruption cases against the team: 11 ICF officials exonerated in Train-18 case after 2 years (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/11-icf-offi...)
> If you rear-end me while I’m stopped at a light, your intent doesn’t matter, only your actions. If you fail to stop for a school bus displaying red stop lights, your intent doesn’t matter.

Huh? In both of these examples, intent 100% matters. If I rear ended you because I had a medical emergency vs I was texting on my phone vs I had a bout of road rage and wanted to kill you vs I know who you are and you’re sleeping with my wife so I followed you from work to try to kill you:

All VERY different levels of potential punishment based entirely on my intent.
Anyone looking to apply and compare frequentist and bayesian methods within a unified GUI (which is essentially an elegant wrapper to R and selected/custom statistical packages), should check out JASP developed by the University of Amsterdam [0]. It's free to use, and the graphs + captions generated during each step are publication quality right out of the box.

Using it truly feels like a 'fresh way' to do statistics. Its main website provides ample use cases, guides and tutorials, and I often return to the blog for the well documented deepdives into how traditional frequentist methods and their bayesian counterparts compare (the animated explainers are especially helpful, and I appreciate the devs reflecting on each release and future directions).

[0]: https://jasp-stats.org/
The thing is, Commodore might have been as little as months away from getting the next gen chipset to production if they'd had just a bit better sales through '92 and '93. They were producing samples '92 onwards but struggled to afford iterations.

They were mismanaged enough that they might well have failed to leverage that and just failed a year or two later as you said, and it might very well be that even the best case of completing AAA[1] would just have bought them another extra couple of years.

But Commodore had faced crunches like that several times and survived and bounced back massively. So who knows what things might look like if AAA had gone to market (with chunky graphics modes, and massively increased memory bandwidth) and bought them enough sales and by extension time to complete the next-iteration - Hombre[2] - as well.

Though Hombre was based on PA RISC, so might well have ended up being the death-knell instead a bit later. Though their "backwards compatibility" story for it was based on options of either a "classic Amiga on a chip" or emulation, so maybe they'd have gotten to a sufficiently CPU agnostic position to be able to make further architecture switches survivable.

It's fun to speculate.

I'm a bit of two minds about it - I'd have loved the Amiga to have survived longer - I still miss it -, but I'm unsure if I'd have liked the direction Commodore would have taken it in with Hombre (which was being designed to also run Windows NT... Shudder). It's easier to have nostalgia when later iterations haven't ruined the original experience...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Amiga_Architecture_ch...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset
Ah yes, the ol’ “some people can’t behave, so everyone of their ilk must be discriminated against” approach.

Instead, I’d recommend requiring dogs be accompanied by a dedicated shit-carrying pack and bags sufficient for it. Similar to how humans are required to have bear canisters in some parts. (indeed some places require humans to carry shit bags for themselves!)
Also, no mention of the need for only 10 big-ass time zones instead of 24 relatively narrow time zones. The continental US might have only 2 time zones instead of 4.
> this revolution won't occur until after I'm elected God-Emperor of Mars,

And you'll have to make all your intervals slightly longer, due to Mars' solar day being 24h39m35s by standard Earth time.
By this logic, they are also currently Embracing and Extending Windows, Office, etc. This doesn't make sense to me. It's their original products, not something they embraced and plan on extinguishing.
Short term value isn’t the only thing that matters. As CEO, you could say, “Increasing ad-revenue at the expense of everything else will increase profits, but I believe it would be bad for the long term health of the company.”

The shareholders might not like it, and the board might fire you, but if you’ve acted in good faith you haven’t violated fiduciary responsibility.
I understand, and there could very well be some psychoacoustic cancellation when stimulating with a matching tone. But any effect will be regardless of the phase of the signal, because phase cancellation is a physical effect of sound waves that occurs before they are converted to neural activity (where tinnitus originates from).

In simpler terms: tinnitus does not have phase, at least not in the same way a sound wave does.
> JSON can be parsed using SGML, [...]. So considering XML is subsetted from SGML, I guess the answer is closer to yes than thought.

In the other words, SGML was way too powerful than what we actually needed. Of course we are with the benefit of hindsight though.
Last time I read the LSP specs/repos, there were 2 nuances regarding your statement:

(1) the editor read the files, display then, and then sends changes to the LSP which then mirrors the file to compile, analyze, etc it. The file is never persisted in that stage to the file system (needs to because otherwise no syntax highlighting while editing.

(2) there are conversations about that in both the LSP and Editor space about virtual file systems. Google "language server virtual file system". The core author of the LSP spec has written one issue very related to it.
Spreadsheets already use "τ time", in that a day is a single unit, which could easily be defined to be "τ".
Thats a feature request I get quite often.

From a hardware perspective it's already possible to attach a 3rd party core audio USB Audio Interface. I've just not implemented the feature yet.

It's simply not a use case I have. I usually only record one Input at a time. Track 8 has 3 Inputs (Stereo/Mono/XLR) and I can wire up all my gear to these inputs and then select from what source to record via the Mechanical Rotary Switch. That's very easy to use and intuitive.

If I'd add more Inputs (like the tascam) I'd have the same Issue they have: how to map an Input to a track. Or have a fixed mapping (Input 1 only records to Track 1). In find both scenarios quite inconvenient for an intuitive workflow (I tried a lot of Multitrack recorder before deciding to build this)

So yeah, Track8 is quite opinionated in regards of workflow and features. But I don't want to turn this into a can-do-it-all DAW in a box.

And for me it's fine if it's a niche product.
The biggest risk I perceived was something I warned the team about: "The first rule of Scrape Club is: Don't Talk About Scrape Club."

It seems someone broke this rule: https://www.google.com/search?q=the+web+scraping+club
Yeah, it's a weird attitude. XML died out because it was an overcomplicated design-by-committee mess. Quite apart from the fact that meant it wouldn't map cleanly to lists and hashmaps, necessitating a query language it also led to embarrassing debacles like the billion laughs vulnerability - problem in the very core of XML.

With some niche exceptions where it has clung on, XML basically died. It's time to move on. The fact that we do similar sorts of stuff with JSON like data transformations and schema validation does not, in any way, shape or form, invalidate its flaws.
VR Yoga App Developer to Meta: I Worked Like Hell Only to Get Burned
http://scarbsf1.com/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/RBR2.jp...
Both France and Germany have nuclear plants with load following capabilities to the tune of 5% change per minute. That is 50-100MW change every minute for a single powerplant. It might not be peak-peak, but it is certainly going to handle the vast majority of all electricity generation with very small delay.
That's a good start. It's certainly a major improvement from when I still published regularly (until about 15 years ago).

One thing that struck me as a researcher back in the day was that it was much easier to get people reading things that I put on my blog than it was getting scientists to read my papers. Basically as a researcher, you are basically engaging in 17th century SEO by writing papers and getting your peers to pay attention to this. We use email these days but otherwise the process hasn't changed a lot.

This is weird considering we now have a lot more tools. Imagine if hacker news worked that way. It wouldn't work. The best kind of endorsement for a paper is not random anonymous peer reviewers giving their thumbs up or down as to the inclusion of a digital only journal that nobody ever reads cover to cover. Instead it is other researchers citing your work. This is in fact part of how most academic performance is measured. The goal is to get your peers being aware of the existence of your work, get them to spend time reading or learning about it, and then getting them to engage with it by citing, criticizing, or adding to it.

The whole business of a journal publication is just SEO. You get some renowned journal to include you and maybe people will bother reading it and maybe refer your work if they like it. A citation is just a glorified like. The real goal is to get people to read and "like" your work. It's also self re-enforcing: the more people cite your work, the more people will read it and thus cite it. But it's a super inefficient process. From idea to citations happening can take years.

Conferences and workshops are where scientists meet up and discuss their work. That's where your peers are. I always enjoyed the smaller workshops. Get some smart people in a room and beautiful things happen. The academic world is basically a social network. With likes and everything. But minus all the modern tools that make other social networks work so well. There's some room for improvement.
Easier for a heli-pilot to find when transporting a patient?
Don't expect it to work anytime soon or to supplant EPIRBs.

Even E911 locating in the US just doesn't work at all with nonzero and unknown combinations of phones, carriers, and jurisdictions. US LEOs have almost universal, real-time locating ability from N km to sub 1 m accuracy if it's in range of a single tower of any phone without a warrant. If a phone can send an SOS to a comm satellite, while there's a recent good fix from 3+ GNSS satellites, then that's useful.

The risk to avoid will be over-reliance on a consumer grade cell phone as a substitute for the ruggedized and proven EPIRB system.
Open source flask GPT boillerplate for talking with your documents