skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't win elections because of their conservative takes but because of protest voters. If you need a concrete statistical example: in the state of Hessen, the far right party AfD gained by far the most new voters from the social democrats which are firmly center left; ten times more than from the largest conservative party. This is an alternative to not voting or destroying your ballot paper because it actually reflects in polls shown on TV (which do not show absent voters). They just want to piss off other parties, it's not motivated by support for the (barely existing) far right's programme for the largest part.

Obviously you also have people who actually support the far right ideologies but lot of these voters were recently found to be willing to switch to a new far left party as soon as it runs at an election (catapulting it to 20 % off the cut at a federal level); same motivation. Protest votes
Did you use the custom ranking feature? Pin the official docs, raise good sources, lower or block bad ones.
As i understand it, the fame industry always has been.
Most copy programs do not preserve much or all metadata by default because this was the original behavior of the UNIX cp command, which copied only the file data, but none of the metadata, except the file name, when it was not specified for the destination.

The first time when I have used cp, more than thirty years ago, it was a shock for me to discover that this is the default behavior, because it is not something that I can associate with a command named "copy".

Since that day and until today, I always alias the various copy commands like cp or rsync to include all the necessary options for making perfect copies.

I have never needed to use them with different options, which would make imperfect copies, but there have been countless situations when my usage would have been broken by lossy copies.
Surely it depends on how you obtained that book?
A pure function is by definition side-effect free. What you write makes 0 sense. Maybe thinking of total functions?

But not all FP languages have to be so puritan to only allow pure functions, most have escape hatches and it is just good form to prefer purity (even in more mainstream languages!). The most common way to circumvent this problem is through a Monad, which very naively put, just a description of the order of side-effecting functions, and their inter-dependencies. This will later get executed at a specific place, e.g. the main function -- the point is, that a large part of the code will be pure, and much easier to reason about.
The overdrive app has supported digital library cards for years now.

I agree having all the cards in one place is nice, but the fact is libraries put their cards in overdrive, so in effect all my library cards are in one place.

Since overdrive is also how you access ebooks from the library, there is a good chance that any "technologically with it" people have it installed already.

Now overdrive not being part of Amazon Kindle Fire for Kids tablets, separate issue I have..

Edit: I just checked, Google Wallet has built in support specifically for Seattle Public Library cards. Thanks, now I don't have to worry about forgetting my card ever again!
Well phones have worked rather well for the past few decades. These days video calls tend to lead to rejection while phone calls leads to a successful engagement. Seems as though lack of video is more anonymous and removes the ability to judge someone based on their backdrop
There’s two options that comes to mind. One is to get better results by avoiding SEO.

E.g. try using “site:Reddit.com Mac text editor”

The other is to use some GPT based system. I’m not a ChatGPT booster, I do think this type of thing it does excel at. Using your query on ChatGPT 3.5 I got the following result.

Some popular Mac text editors for writing include:

1. *TextEdit*: Comes pre-installed on macOS and offers basic functionality.

2. *Sublime Text*: Known for its speed and extensive customization options.

3. *Visual Studio Code*: A free, open-source code editor that's highly extensible for writing and coding.

4. *Atom*: Another free, open-source text editor with a strong community and numerous plugins.

5. *BBEdit*: A feature-rich text editor for more advanced users.

6. *Ulysses*: A writing app with a clean, distraction-free interface and organization tools.

7. *Scrivener*: Great for long-form writing projects like novels or research papers.

8. *iA Writer*: Known for its minimalistic design and focus mode for distraction-free writing.

The best one for you depends on your specific needs, preferences, and whether you're writing code or prose.
Trabant jokes were also quite popular after reunification, when the first trabants showed up in West Germany. Every kid in school knew at least some jokes. Most were centered around the atrocious build quality.

How many people does it take to build a Trabant?

Two: One folds, one glues.
This is one of the weakest releases in like a decade. It’s disappointing that they delayed class getters and setters for another year. Php is my favorite language and would love to see more and more features.

What I want the most is scalar data types as objects (like calling string and array functions as instance methods) but no one seems to be talking about this.
Oh I remember these so bad! There were either Skoda or Trabant in Slovakia in early 90s.
Coverage in The Guardian turned me on to the Rugby World Cup, I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to see a game in person and take photographs (sports photography is my obsession right now) so instead of staying home and watching the finals I drove 2 hours to go see a college game which was a great time also.
You still have to point it at things. I had the worst possible plot for my HF antenna which meant the lobes were in the wrong place for about 5 years :(
Callinicus: A Defence of Chemical Warfare (1925) [pdf]
My bet was that it was going to get crushed because of saying anything remotely neutral/positive about social media.

I’ve been swearing on this site for 15 years, it’s rarely an issue.
> I am waiting for an AWD EV with high ground clearance and decent range, which doesn't seem to exist currently.

Don't Rivian's vehicles meet all of those requirements?
I think it's more like Erlang processes are microservices and microservices as we know them today are usually "regularly-sized services" :D
My granddad used to have one up until the late 2000's. Slow, noisy, uncomfortable, stench was unbearable. But worst of all those things were the gear shifts. Funnily enough it was the first car I ever drove - I must have been like 10 or 11 (on an abandoned dirt road in the countryside, worst thing that could have happened is running over a grasshopper). I think he got it in the second half of the 80's or something like that. Those were a lot more desirable than the other soviet cars available in eastern Europe: at least finding a half-empty bottle of vodka left behind the door panels was out of the equation. As far as that region of the world, the decent(strong word) choices were Trabant and Skoda - all other cars were practically designed to decapitate you in even the lightest accident(I witnessed a fair bit of horror stories when I was a child and soviet cars were still roaming the streets). By having a Skoda or a Trabant you had some chance of survival. This was their only redeeming quality really.
c)water scarcity makes it a guarantee that the beef production business is no longer possible on an industrial scale. Don’t forget option 3.
Potentially, yes! The scenario I am imagining is that context A as context for a query yields results 1, 2, and 3. Sometimes, finding neighbors of 1 (ie not necessarily in the top K w.r.t A) instead of going to results 4, 5, 6 might be better.
Funny how “No need to pay for Kagi” is followed by three alternatives for which the downsides all list “– ads”.

I have the opinion that I’m paying for search one way or the other. I’d like my receipt to be obvious. Otherwise I’m paying with my time whenever I don’t even know it.
TL:DR it's a meme.

The context here (as I understand it) is that Next.js, a popular React-like framework that allows (in a way) coding both the server and browser portions of a web app in one codebase, such that each portion is extracted at runtime and automatically wired up via API calls. This is a simplification but it's how you can think of it.

They've now introduced an even tighter way of introducing server code into what are otherwise frontend React components by piggie backing off the old "use strict" directive syntax, called "use server", allowing you to interleave - directly and inline - the client and browser code.

Many a meme have been created, half-jokingly comparing it to PHP, ranging from the supportive jest, to the very seriously critical, as one would expect the internet to do.

Some of those memes have been in the form of "use ___", such as "use binary", "use php", etc.

I don't use frontend frameworks much these days so maybe someone can correct me on some of this, but hopefully this helps explain it a bit.

https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/server-a...
There are lots of ways, one possible way being an indication in the beacon package via APRS or WSPR that a new image is available. "SSTV" is a protocol for sending "Slow Scan TeleVision" images over the air on 10 meters which is 28 MHz which has decent propagation. Generally such transmissions are energy intensive and might blip on then blip off given a solar charged power source. Most Amateur balloons just tell you where they happen to be at the moment via GPS co-ordinates.
A perfect use case for a Flipper

[1] https://docs.flipper.net/nfc/read
My boss/company owner, who is relatively frugal (he tends to prefer putting his money into property and his business rather than things like vehicles and the new tech etc), relayed being quoted $70k for a relatively basic pickup (F150 4x4 with a V8).
Yeah, like anything, the BEAM world can get a bit hypey.

From the first slide in the linked article, I would almost never use Erlang to store data. I'm always going to reach for Postgres there unless I've got some very specific use case.

I do think having most everything else "under the same roof" is nice for a smaller company that doesn't want to run a whole bunch of different services, though. Having an internal cron thing, and an internal job thing are probably fine for a lot of people getting something off the ground and easier to deal with than having something external to deal with. I think in particular this is often nice when trying to replicate the production environment on both a staging and local development system. If the infrastructure is complicated, that's harder to do. It's nice to be running substantially similar systems everywhere.

I'm not 100% sold that it's that big a win compared to having more libraries and such available with, say, Rails or PHP or Python or something. But it's definitely nice to have.
Underutilized and bleeding money.
What does this comment actually mean? Replace with a 2.8khz bandwidth limit?

Edit: I think this comment helps explain it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38053342
I'd go the other way with the buildings -- there are lots of unmaintained or even semi-ruined buildings, even in central Lisbon, which would benefit from foreign investment. Some of them are probably that way due to inheritance disputes, but others, I think, just need an owner that values their age. Maybe allow foreign ownership of older buildings over some particular size, or only if they do significant repairs, or something like that?
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/warning-seattles-f...
Wouldn't be any different than the ukrainians or israeli's using them. They are all committing atrocities.

He's stated he is providing humanitarian aid, not tools of war (regarding ukraine) so I expect the same here.
> C compilers don’t produce 100% optimal assembly language in all cases, but typically the assumptions they make are light. The executable code they output is somewhat predictable

Lol, since when? C compilers literally will run some of your code at build time, and only write the results into the binary and they do all sort of crazy "mental gymnastics" to make people believe it is still a dumb single-pass compiler.
Idle-Tyme. The Original Rolling Ball Clock
My dentist had one on the reception counter a long time ago. Always fascinated me as kid.
Definitely. Recording companies used to pay radio stations to feature some artists more frequently - until this practice was made illegal.
I was also thinking about that; in that scenario, for example instead of going to amazon.com to search and buy something you would go to a chat app like ChatGPT or Google Bard and you would interreact with Amazon's chat bot to search and buy something. Think about Chinese super app WeChat but on steroids. This is what Elon is probably dreaming about. But before that vision comes true, we firstly need protocols and standards for building chat bots inside super chat apps. If this comes true, super chat apps would be gigantic walled gardens, even worse than Facebook is today. I think the same conflicting thought process was behind Steve Jobs' push for iPhone web apps whereas web apps are more open and free for users to use than native mobile apps but native mobile apps enable more richer and better user experience. Sadly Apple decided to lock iPhone apps inside iOS and App Store.

When first LLMs and ChatGPT came about, I thought it was just another hype but the web, and the web search industry hangs in a balance (Google in particular).

P.S.

>If AI replaces the need to visit the original website and everyone just stays on google.com then a great deal of the web will just stop being updated because nobody is reading it and nobody will read it.

But even today and for a very long time as a matter of fact, you can use RSS for website updates and read them in your RSS reader and yet classic web still didn't fade away.
I'll be honest, I'm inclined not to believe this in the slightest. (Far-right voters voting far-left, or vice versa? En masse? In some kind of ill-defined protest?) But if you have any stats I'd love to see them.
Sure you can do things with a close to isotropic antenna, but there's a lot of gain to be had if you make things worth pointing at things.

You can do more with 5 watts and a decent directional antenna than 100 watts with a turd on a stick.
Wouldn't San Francisco check both of those boxes? It's easier to afford an EV than to afford to live there, and it has a major crime problem.
> as there is nothing newsworthy about this

Since when do HN submission have to be "newsworthy"? People regularly post old articles.

> If I submitted to HN a random documentation page from LWN or Linux kernel, it would surely not be #1.

If that page is particularly interesting and you're lucky, why not?
I agree to an extent. When I was younger I wanted to read anything over being bored. Sitting on the toilet would lead me to read the toilet perfume spray ingredients many times over.
Probably the cheapest way to get charging in most apartments is to rewire those shared circuits so they can handle the current of concurrent usage, and then just charge all electric cars $20/month or so rather than dealing with the expense and hassle of billing.

I know I'd far rather have a dedicated 120V outlet in my parking spot than have to share an L2 charger with other people.
DocuSign doesn't provide anything other than convenience. Generally, in the law, either a signature must be notarized or it doesn't. Docusign isn't a notary, it's really just an electronic document courier. If the legitimacy of a signature is challenged, Docusign isn't going to hire a forensic expert to testify that John Smith was actually the person who logged in and clicked the link. All they can say is that someone with access to the link from IP address 1.1.1.1 clicked Agree.
The Former ambassador and Assange advocate Craig Murray tweets (xes? or x's??) "But in the coming Gaza genocide, every act of armed resistance by Hamas and Hezbollah will have my support. If that is a crime, send me back to jail." and he wonders why he's arrested? Okay, it seems a bit over zealous to be arrested on the basis of this tweet alone but if he's okay talking up Hama's actions as armed resistance in public, there's probably more to his/this story that the police are aware of.
After a decade of flopping about he decides we all went wrong with The Enlightenment.

https://unherd.com/2023/05/is-there-anything-left-to-conserv...

Pray.
> await sleep(Math.random() * 5000); // gotta keep up with the trends

Nice
I was a long-term DDG user, across all devices. The search quality wasn't great, but it usually found what I needed. When the results were crap, I'd append a !g to see if Google had anything better.

And the !g became increasingly useless, and DDG's primary results seemed to decline as well, and searching for stuff I knew was out there often didn't actually find stuff it should have.

So I tried Kagi, and ... it's pretty good. It still has bangs, which I like, and its primary results are good.

It's not cheap, but ... I like that it's a straightforward transaction: they don't need to be selling my queries or shoving ads in the results, they just collect my $10 every month.

So ... I recommend giving it a try. The results are good, and the feeling of an honest transaction is good too.
> the theory is not able to make any new predictions (yet)

AFAIK, the theory is not able to make _any_ predictions yet.

It purports to be one of those "theories of everything" in the form of a kind of "universe building kit".

But all it produces are a bunch of pretty "hypergraphs" that have some loose analogies with some physical theories.

If, at the end of the day, one's "theory of everything" can't replicate classical mechanics, the spectra of Hydrogen atoms, and the laws of thermodynamics, then it probably doesn't warrant bloviating on the big bang, black holes and information theory as Mr Wolfram is apt to do.
Really, this is the reason:

“…theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, was known for his colorful objections to incorrect or careless thinking.

Rudolf Peierls documents an instance in which "a friend showed Pauli the paper of a young physicist which he suspected was not of great value but on which he wanted Pauli's views.

Pauli remarked sadly, 'It is not even wrong'."”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
Um, no. They do full ID verification as well. If you pay for it.
Lol no, best social control tool imagianble
You really do not want to deplete batteries on devices where they're difficult to replace. Whether that is true for your sleep mask, I HAVE NO IDEA. A better way to deal with it is have them disable themselves after a timer. Maybe you can enforce that from the other side (I assume that is your smartphone?). Like, you can do some device automation with e.g. MacroDroid.
Milestone: Miniature Particle Accelerator Works
AC used to let you step up voltage easier, and switch without as much arcing, and higher voltage allows one to send more power over longer wires.

We also rate AC voltage by RMS, which (for resistive loads) is the voltage that would transfer the same amount of power as the DC equivalent.

But really the peak voltage is higher, so we need parts with a higher rating despite the fact we are not using that peak the whole time.

And then there's issues with power factor. Modern gadgets don't draw power in the nice sine wave pattern without extra tech to make that happen. The extra tech is common now, but isn't needed with DC. Without PFC, you get more line resistance losses than you want.

But now we have solid state switching, and it's cheaper to convert DC with a SMPS than a bulky transformer.

We also don't use long series circuits commonly in anything I know about, except for Christmas lights, which are mostly LED now and work fine as they are(As long as nobody forgets a smoothing capacitor to get rid of that horrid flicker the cheap ones have).

Series circuits have the same current everywhere, but modern stuff is constantly changing the current it draws to save power. Which would be an issue if one device wants to be in sleep mode but the other wants to be full power.

I suppose we could do series circuits with constant current power supplies, so the supply pushes a constant 1 amp, and the devices alter their voltage drop to draw more or less current, rather than altering their current draw.

AC seems to be more suited for higher voltages(Where arcing is a problem) and analog stuff(if you don't want to use SMPSes and you have resistive loads to drive).
Such heroes are created in war and struggle, which is not something the US have known in generations, or personality cults, which the US also do not have as a free democratic country. So if they don't have "heroes" it's actually a good sign.
> The CPU does have a huge flops number, but nothing "desktop" can saturate that many cores, especially when the system comes with a GPU.

I've seen this blend of argument being made towards multicore CPUs when AMD and Intel started selling them. Critics started claiming these new chips were being designed like Gilette razors, and there was no way desktop applications, not even AAA games, could ever saturate so many cores. It took Supreme Commander to be released to get these critics to finally shut up.

The moral of the story is that today's software was designed targeting yesterday's hardware. Nevertheless, even today you'd be hard-pressed to find a single application that doesn't run multiple threads, and on top of that you'd be hard-pressed to find a single desktop user that only runs a single application when working on a computer. Even smartphones today are packing CPUs with 8 cores.

And finally, HN being a tech-related forum, most of the people here work on software. Your typical run-of-the-mill build process is embarrassingly parallel. This means that all it takes to saturate that many cores is for anyone to hit "build". And I won't even go into ML.
There is also a wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_ball_clock