skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a good time to repost antirez's piece, "TCL the misunderstood":

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html

TCL is a fun language, which seemed to get orphaned ahead of it's time. Like FORTH a lot of the joy of using TCL comes from updating the language itself, rewriting how it works. The downside of that is that you're never sure what is "real" TCL, and what is your in-house addon.

Still TCL is a fun language to implement, and I guess a lot of people have implemented both FORTH and TCL, in addition to the more typical LISP systems.
I've always thought that "too expensive and detrimental to the environment" was a bit 'too simple, sometimes naive' for an explanation.

Panama was split from Colombia thanks to the US right before the Panama Canal was built. So an obvious line of thought is that the Gap has a defensive purpose to keep both sides well apart. It also helps reduce the flow of people.
Schneier is on the money again and it's painfully true.

Elsewhere I've said why cybersecurity is a losing battle and a
significant part of the problem is the educational and HR side of
things [0].

There's a motivation and engagement problem. Generally, people have no
idea what cybersecurity is. It scares them, and they either don't
want to talk about it or will let any random "expert" assuage or
distract them. That's made fertile ground for a flourishing
certificate and compliance racket of clueless gatekeepers who only
make things worse, because the field is so deep and dynamic this stuff
is ossified before the ink is dry.

I also see that it's an entirely reactive affair. People and companies
will spend zero attention and money on cybersecurity until they get
hacked, then run around spending their fortune like there's no
tomorrow of stupid things. This attracts opportunists who are often
as bad as the ransom-ware gangs that preyed on them in the first place.

Unpleasant as it is to say, it's the fault of the companies who do not
value the deep and hard won knowledge of those who could help
them... a cohort who are growing older and giving up caring.

And frankly, universities are fucked, to put it as politely as I
can. At least in Britain, nobody who can do this stuff wants to be
within a clear country mile of these crumbling institutions with their
awful pay and working conditions and total lack of vision.

Elsewhere we have military and intelligence groups playing at 1980s
"cyberwars", completely missing that the real war is going on within
our culture.

So what we're left with is a technologically over-extended society
that cannot meet the maintenance needs of its structure.

As educators, sadly we might set many young people up for failure and
struggle since the expectations and demands of "the industry" don't
match what they can deliver. Consequently the high churn leads to even
more disaffection and panic in the industry.

Worse still is the fate of women in cybersecurity. Again and again
I've seen equally qualified candidates go into a firm on the same pay
grade, the guy gets out on "pen-testing" and the woman gets put on
front line support (read: stress and abuse hell). The women are almost
universally demeaned and given "agreeable" public facing work, while
the men are streamed into "technical" roles. The tragedy is, it's
usually the females who seem to understand the higher-level strategic
and operational wisdom that is so desperately missing.

[0] https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/why-we-cant-teach-cyber...
Lamport’s time/clocks paper solves this exact problem, using this exact example, without locks.
The big difference is that the private sector is burning their own money. If a private company burns their own or their investors money thats on them and they’ll probably go bankrupt sooner or later. Whomever was involved in this will naturally wise up next time.

On the other hand, when public sector burns through money that money isn’t theirs. It was mostly taken away by force through taxes from private citizens. So even of they burn through any money with inefficiency, corruption, bad decision making or anything, they can demand the same or usually more of the same money next year. And next year. All the while that bureaucracy is growing and private sector is shrinking.
It is required in the EU. The mobile device only connects to the network in case of a crash. Of course, manufactures having to add a mobile device prefer to keep it connected continuously to use it for other things than required.
This probably explains recent battery issues on my 2022 Outback. Took it in, they admitted it happens frequently but didn’t explain. Replaced with larger battery for free.
Yggdrasil: Upcoming v0.5 Release
April 6th
Not a big deal, you pull the fuse you don't do it everyday - you can also just unplug the module. Also not a big deal.
git fetch is basically just one string comparison if there are no new commits [0], I don’t think it’s as costly as you make it sound.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/44476803
Idea is good, write-up not so good. You need to cater for people using differently sized reading devices and rewrite the article to be more readable. If it alienates people then you've lost the battle.
Is there a measure of something being "canvas complete" where you can construct "any bitmap" given it? Analogous to Turing complete but limited to drawing on a bitmap canvas.

This is so cool by the way! I love this! Thank you for making this!! :)
On that thread, his garage is larger than the entire space I rented for living in when I was his age.

But the point I'm going on to make isn't just about how stupid the cost of housing is; it's that the high cost of housing comes with extra costs that we might not even see.

How many people would be doing all sorts of neat things, some of which would genuinely bloom into real advances and ideas and genuine new wealth (by which I don't just mean an income; I mean the creation of wealth) if only they could afford some goddamn space in which to do it, without having to move so far from the existing life they have that pays the bills and keeps them alive and sane (by which I mean to suggest that not everyone has the luxury of moving to where there is cheaper space, if their job and support networks won't move too).
It's a way more workable solution than having the plane burn down.
There it is: the least charitable comment I’ve ever come across on HN.
Author wants to understand and control the whole toolchain used to build their website (of course excluding most basic things like CPU architecture up to the programming language), because they want to be able to fix it themselves and want it to work in 10 years too, so not relying on others. They tried Hugo, didn't like it because of that, writing plain html was too much work, so they built a single binary dynamic site generator with a webserver themselves
how does not exploring negatively effect human prosperity and flourishing? That seems to be the question one should ask.
Implementing the NTFS filesystem in Rust [video]
literally pop the hood and remove a fuse - https://youtube.com/shorts/y8xxT3bVf6I?feature=shared less than one minute. and now you aren't trackable. win/win.
Or the park in a garage with no coverage?

One can only hope that "smart" will have very bad associations in the future (for the general public).
I restarted my build journey
I have been building products and startups for more than 5 years now. For the last 3 years, I've been deep into Veertly. But this July, I decided to go back to build mode. This time, I'm aiming to build smaller products in public. I chose to build a Crisp plugin as first project.
GP was speaking in no-exception absolutes, though.
> On the North American mainland, populations of mammoths and mastodons were still living as recently as 12,000 years ago; all were gone 1,000 or so years later.
It’s contract only, mobile carriers are not happy that they have to maintain the 3G equipment just for IoT.
Never heard of standbys?
Superlensing without a super lens: physicists boost microscopes beyond limits
Wait with Building Your MVP
Canada has all the issues and none of the advantages of the US market 10 times its size.

Real-estate securitization has DoS’d key class 5 to 7 zones. This means empty industrial buildings stay empty, as the tax-deductions on inflated-valuations are also used to underwrite more debt... worth more than any lease sucker deal. Try to convince a competent CEO a small $32k/month triple-net lease isn’t going to bleed an inexperienced company into receivership eventually.

Pick just about any US state, hire 30 locals, and making a profit gets so much easier. The US financial ecosystem is generally far more harmonious even to type C corporations.

As an outsider in unregulated markets, one could see Corporate sponsored prostitution, targeted bribery, and blackmail. You just aren't important enough if you don't know these facts yet.

Canada has some of the silliest smart people in the world =)
That lady could have automated that with just a little glue code. Let the program do the work and use that time to do nothing. Nobody's complaining.
>I helped a lady on Friday at a midsized bank whose job it was to take a set of dates in an Excel file, search each one individually into an internal search tool, then Ctrl+f the result report and verify that every code listed in the original document exists in the report.

I happen to work in a midsized bank, and we have TONS of these sorts of manual processes. My favorite unintuitive fact is that 90% of them turn out to be some outdated compliance process that nobody remembered a person even did, and that is no longer necessary.

That also usually the reason why something is "too small of an impact". Having 2 engineers come in to figure out that something is obviously just busywork, and then try to run some political process to convince leadership, is very expensive.
The 100ml limit is starting to be lifted in some countries that have upgraded their x-ray machines.
There are two dozen Wikipedia harassment scandals against women
That website contains

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
Re your edit: I suspect that down voter's issue with your post is the aggressive nature of it.
Possible MeToo moment on 80s band scene
Not only did I watch the moon landings but I also worked in television broadcasting. Add to that that I knew people involved with the Parkes Radio Telescope and the Tidbinbilla tracking station near Canberra as well as people in OTC - Australia's Overseas Telecommunications Commission—the organization responsible for conveying rhe signals to the US. Having people I know add to the 'conspiracy' is ludicrous (and back then even the thought of a conspiracy would have been ludicrous).

He's absolutely right about the tech not being up to faking it, and I know what I saw was fact and it happened in real time.
How would you get the phone to your destination? Phones are banned in checked luggage.
> Drop the word "illegal" and you will see a lot.

There are major differences between legal immigrants, who have to pass some pretty strict tests of suitability, and uncontrolled immigration. Legal immigrants have most of the rights and obligations of citizens, including access to healthcare and paying taxes.

> How do you expect illegal immigrants to get to Canada when they only border US?

Canada has thankfully developed enough by now to have airports.

> I don't know why they [sic] are homeless

You said it yourself: expensive real estate.
Lovely! Learnt about the Hildas.

One possible bug (??): when looking down on the system (press the system button on the bottom centre panel, 90 degrees to the ecliptic) the orbit of pluto will be projected to cross or not cross that of neptune depending on which side of the system you look down from.
Great write-up once again Jeff. Thanks!
> How many people would be doing all sorts of neat things,

Not many, same distribution would apply to that population. Most would scroll tiktok in a larger house.
Maybe alcohol shouldn't be served on flights? Just throwing that out there.
Ask HN: What's the latest and greatest being used in tech?
Tools like Kafka and Temporal have been gaining a lot of momentum lately - the former already has some reputation with the latter gaining a quite a following lately.

Usually I go to Thoughtworks Tech Radar to get myself informed but more often than not I find them to be a bit behind or have a more conservative view of what's trending in companies.

So I thought would be a good idea to ask around what people have been using these days that is making their life easier or that solves some real engineering problems or make difficult problems easy to solve, etc
This judge’s proceedings were often live-streamed and as such he often appears in the various legal commentary YouTube channels. He was notable for being one of the friendliest judges you’d ever see. Very sad.
Ask HN: Speech to text models, are they usable yet?
I found the following models / tools:

* https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-robust-ft-swbd-300h

* https://huggingface.co/datasets/sil-ai/bloom-speech

* https://huggingface.co/spaces/Matthijs/speecht5-asr-demo

* https://alphacephei.com/vosk/

It's a bit hard to search for, since "speech to text" results are more often than not interspersed with results for "text to speech" (for which there are many more results altogether apparently).

In any case, there seems to be quite some hardware and/or tinkering required to experiment with the ones I found.

So I'm asking if anyone here has already experimented a bit in this space and would share their experiences? Would also be great to learn on what hardware.
I have sciatica and lumbar pain. After many years of search through every major chair designer, I now work with something that eases my pain quite a lot: A 40$ 0-gravity chair. Yes, it seems unbelievable but it has been the best purchase for me in the last 10 years.
They're Called Slices Because They Have Sharp Edges: Even More Go Pitfalls
Any sync needs two phases:

- active state transitions (webhooks)

- reconciliation (api)

You can do reconciliation without active state transitions, but it usually takes awhile (slow and scheduled). However, it’s a requirement with webhooks because you don’t know if they are in-order or delayed or just broken. Thus, you need to reconcile your state every so often.
I meant tires were the biggest cost in my example, I looked at my invoice.

But anyway I don't want to argue either way, I have no love for ice any more than ev. But I wanted to buy an ev for a year and every time I do the math, I cannot afford it.
why not? she needs to be rewarded for that automation somehow.
Weird that the post's timestamp is 1970-01-01.
If we knew, we might all move there and ruin it ;P.
Good thing Go has a race detector!
They should say don't move your seat or you may shatter your screen, most people have never seen their phones explode but most know how much a oled replacement is these days
They are waiving the assembly setup fee at the moment.

https://jlcpcb.com/blog/4-Free-Assembly-for-Your-PCB

The GP commenter also wrote about a price "per unit":

> get some reasonably complex fully assembled prototype boards shipped to me in a week or two for $5-20 USD per unit.
Erlang is awesome! I never had a chance to use it in anger but I've been keeping a close eye on Erlang/Elixir for years. In fact we almost considered moving to it at my project for the sake of stability, but went with adopting some of the principles in our codebase instead (embrace failure basically, expect stuff to crash and recover properly).
Supposedly just removing the fuse could do it (and recharge the battery completely if it hasn't been drained beyond saving).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37973829
I guess that would have been fine if we didn't have alternatives (ie: callbacks). He is already running a web server, so he could listen through that for updates.
Most of the CEOs I personally interacted with spend their day bullshitting around in their offices, making bad decisions, going home at 3pm and then writing an @company email from bed telling everyone that it's on them to make the place successful.

Not everyone is Steve Jobs, or maybe this guy. Most people probably aren't, and just get lucky/have dedicated staff that can work around bad choices from leadership.
> We simply can’t rely on a class of workers to dote on us simply because we fancy living in the burbs

You make zero sense. Going to the grocery store involves the same workers helping you pay for gas and selling you groceries, or cooking your meals. Are you a recluse that interacts with zero workers? Who in their right mind calls someone else out for using a regular service? You'd prefer those people to not have jobs surely.
>"Oh why don't we do this in .NET" even when there are plenty of other solutions

That's an interesting idea for a metric: how many programming languages has Canada created relative to similarly sized countries?
In iOS reader, the line width was fixed, but there were still no paragraphs.
Couldn't wipe the smile from this old man's face scrolling down the production part of the thesis.
# 9 Charleville - I've not lived there, but I've visited. For a sense of the remoteness, when the International Space Station passes overhead, it's twice as close as the nearest major city.
When ChatGPT’s output looks correct, it usually just means that it actually met the problem already, and “learned” the answer verbatim, and now it just applies some transformations to its output to fit your context better, giving the illusion of something more than a search engine would have done.

It sucks at 3-years old level novel logic, let alone math proofs.
Then I'm happy to be in Scotland because we can bagsie Standard ML.
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Good time for archeology. Once in life opportunity to take a peek before to return and dig another day

Also an example of how damaged was the soil layer after the many wildfires that obviously happened in the past
> to buy in the Bay Area where it's even worse

Is it? If adjusted by median income Vancouver and Toronto are both more expensive than San Francisco or San Jose.
What are you even talking about? This is literally called "boots theory" and is explicitly giving boots as an example. That's what "framing in terms of" means.
Fair enough, maybe i was too harsh with their choice of example.

Community notes (hello wikipedia) should be read with caution, is my takeaway. As with anything, that is collected by an anonymous community.
It might be just me, but I like having meetings recorded, and not for having ammunition in my hands when the team starts the blame game, the he said she said. I joined a team where some meetings are recorded and I really like being able to re-watch meetings and discussions.
Let's assume there is an important discussion, an alignment where I really stretch my capabilities. I can't pay attention to the topic and take notes/memorize everything at the same time. If I know there is a recording, I can fully dedicate the meeting (where other people are present) to paying attention, asking good questions, challenge their assumptions and so on.

Then, the next day, I can listen to the call, pause, increase speed 2x,3x, take notes for myself, write minutes, write summaries for internal use (casual slack message), notice inconsistencies in our thinking, or run an AI note taker all on my own schedule.

And let's not forget when someone is sick, need to pick up a mother in law from the airport, have a parallel meeting, or joined a week after an important alignment.

If the meeting wasn't that important? No problem, just ignore it. Set up a sane auto delete rule, and that's it.

In practice, I don't think people spend time snooping around where they shouldn't, so that isn't really an issue.
What is your point? Do you like to imply being involved with open source is hypocritical unless you are using it 100% of your life?

That tells me more about you than it does about them. You must walk through your life extremely carefully not to do things that are inconsistent with each other.

If you rent a venue a lot of the tech needed for a conference is already going to be there — and for such a conference they will not have a ton of choices. Secondly open hardware is not very established in the conference hardware space. The reason for that are multiple, but one has to do with the fact that most of the gear requires extremely specialized build chains or equipment and you'd have to compete with decades of R&D and optimized manufacturing processes.

Your open source SM58 is going to be more expensive and less reliable unless you invest decades into it. To get out an okay microphone. Can you tell me why anybody should in your opinion be doing that in their spare time?
Sophgo SG2380 2.5 GHz 16-core SiFive P670 RISC-V processor
Balance.

If there would be techno pessimism we wouldn't have many life saving medicines, cars, heating and other comforts.

But on the other hand: are humans more content with life? Social media is cancer in 95% of cases.

Tech will solve many things, but the problem of the human mind and it's emotional and irrational tendencies is what actually needs to be solved and understood.
>If this were true, SCOTUS would almost always be split 5-4

That'd only be the case if there were no policies with bi-partisan support. How many of those 9-0 are for politically contentious issues?
I am curious about a rewrite in Crystal. Not to exceed or match the performance just to compare dev happiness with overall performance. Sometimes good enough is just good enough.
How about the rest of the resume? What do you think?
Thanks - that makes it clear that the PC definition is definitive. Ill get that and stream to my quest :)
Great engineering. Since the article asks about analytical tips for performance improvement: looks like you should be able to substantially get the complexity down using something like least angle regression (ie what's used by efficient implementations of Lasso shrinkage estimators). Or basically any approach where you successively add the most highly correlated variable to your set instead of checking all size-k subsets.
Yeah, pretty much. The Quest 2 is... fine, I guess. Graphics aren't great. Makes me feel sweaty. Battery doesn't last long. Social features are laughable. Most games are point and shoot.

There have been a few good experiences on it. But the cost of games is just ridiculously low value for money.
Second this.

It is really easy to get disheartened by modern C suite culture and the players.

This interview showed the other side. A great thinker and leader who appears to deserve any accolade bestowed upon him.
Bullshit Startup Advice
If I was a busy decision maker at a major Japanese firm with a dozen direct reports and a hundred balls in the air simultaneously, and if I could even spot translation issues in a few minutes on the polished demo presented to upper management, then there's no way I would ever assume anything is correct with the software when I'm not looking.

Let alone my subordinate's subordinate's subordinate who would actually be using the software day in day out with their job on the line.

So it's a very sensible heuristic. If it's supposed to be a serious enterprise software product, offered for sale in Japan, then spending a few million dollars to hire expert technical translators to double check everything should not be an issue.
This would be fun to do in zig. Imagine using comptime to bake the static vs dynamic. Then concat it together when streaming the bytes.

You get all the power of templating and minimal cost
It would only be as jarring as writing Washington, District of Colombia. I don't think many American would be offended by that.
I’m surprised to hear you using this for database normalization. Could you expand on how OpenRefine is helpful here?
A power wall 3 is 13.5kWh, many evs are 40 to 100kWh
Active escape of an insect from the digestive system of predators
Not if you want to put it somewhere small like a satellite or bunch of other things.
Sounds like astronomy heaven.
Edit: Fixed Edit: Fixed
I meant not encrypted as in not E2EE, which is true.
Telegram does so many stuff to avoid saying they have the keys.