skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's like VSCode, but without the bloat of electron or Microsoft's telemetry.

But isn't the bloat of electron which enables the greatest benefit of VS Code? By which I mean the plugins with their wide range of abilities and UI-integrations.

> It's like sublime text, but it's open source and has first class LSP support.

Sublime has LSP since a while now.
Yes https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-buys-javascript-deve...
Those are both unusable too. If only the author had put it on his own blog like in the good old days.
I know, the point was about any FOSS engine, and the overflow expectations of pushing them as alternatives.
This is written by GPT right? Or some 12-year old who hasn't done anything on a computer except some school assignments and a few emails?

Cmon.
If this is true why did the previous US government set up Space Operations as a new department of Defence?
A website that finds a livestream of a sunset somewhere in the world
Could just not name things after people.
AI is not after anyone. It’s still those same executives that compare people with domesticated animals (or whatever).
I've wanted blankets like this for my roof in the summer and the black alternative for winter. (I suppose my roof is black, but the equivalent for the exterior walls for my home)

I'm almost surprised this isnt already a thing.
I think it will have been fine-tuned to use functions if they exist, as for most use cases if you specify a function then it means the other end of the connection is an automated program and not a human, so returning pure text without a function call would be a failure.
Nope. The part of a DMCA notice that is under penalty of perjury is that you own the copyright in question. That's what the defendants here lied about.

You can't get sued if you believe something is infringement but the person using the copyrighted material believes it's fair use. Honestly I'm not even sure how that could work.
IDK, I also think a lot of engineers are actually just not good - but the overhiring that happened over the past few years really brought down the overall quality at MANGA. Now you have a bunch of "MANGA level" engineers / other employees who are all mid tier and feel "underemployed" at whatever job they have now. That does play into your easy to game comment.

I say that because I'm aggressively not a good engineer. When I joined FAANG years ago I couldn't get hired as an engineer. I joined the company working in Operations and both myself and that side of the house benefited from me being able to script out automation or describe to internal Eng exactly what needed to be built. I chose to not role as an engineer to work at FAANG.

While there, I watched the quality of hiring erode drastically over the years. With that, came a lot of super mid employees including on the business side who were frankly extremely entitled and felt like they had justified that they were actually great hires because they worked at MANGA. That shift was really quite annoying to be around, since it became a game of B players hiring C players hiring D players.

Leetcode is fucking awful though, I'm confident that if you could solve "hiring incredible engineers" you'd have a great business venture. Also, I don't want to say that the hiring market isn't tougher than before right now, but maybe that it is a good thing that will push qualified engineers to companies that can't pay MANGA salaries and where they'll be very valued.
I'm using rclone to sync with Backblaze nightly, executed directly from a cronjob.
Tesla solar panels were going to change the world. What happened?
Why are things in space round?
I was most impressed by the documentary Wild Life, which is part love story part “life’s work”.

Themes: billionaire founders Patagonia, North Face, Esprit… nature conservation… largest private donation of land.

Inspiring. Must-watch.
Reaction: (1) If a candidate's knowledge of basics is so weak that he can't handle linked list questions, then we don't want him; and (2) How he answers such questions is at least as important as him getting it right.
Not an expert but your question intrigued me - I found a document (https://pancanal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/N07-2021.pdf) which has a lot of info about how transits work. It does look like commercial passenger vessels get special treatment: they're exempt from a requirement to arrive the day before their booking, and they're allowed to book transits up to 730 days in advance, and on the other hand required to book no less than 366 days in advance. Other vessels wanting to transit the Panamax locks in the normal fashion have booking available on various schedules between as much as a year in advance and as little as 2 days notice, so queuing is inevitable. Essentially the uniquely predictable schedules of cruise ships mean they can be handled separately from the often ad hoc trampiness of cargo arrivals!
Here is an interesting paper on the topic.

https://cooperlab.wustl.edu/PracticalAdvice/Purcell%201977.p...
Ah, so this is what the whole polylogue has been surrounding
Not necessarily. Another scenario would be: Tesla anticipates the 2nd hand market getting flooded, undermining primary sales.
The only sensible thing that would produce Earth based revenues would be some kind of intellectual property, but I don't know what is both sustainable enough and valuable enough to fund a colony.

EDIT: this is also made worse by the fact that the first few colonists should be farmers, mechanics and doctors (aka human mechanics), since all the intellectual work can be done on earth.
Arq is the best set-and-forget option I know of for macOS.
Ever since the Ukraine war has gone into the second phase there is a significant uptick in hostile activity against EU infrastructure.
I wrote my own program to parse the logs I get from exchanges and compute the taxes.
I drive a 23 year old car, and the only thing I've had to replace that I wouldn't have to replace on an EV is a timing belt.

EVs are heavy. Their weight eats through tires, and reduces the service life (or increases cost) of suspension components. The battery in my mother's Chevy Volt is doing fine at 10 years and 100k+ miles, but there's no telling what condition it will be in at year 15 or 20 - both reasonable benchmarks for durability that no mainstream EV has reached yet.
Even Trump himself doesn't believe in banning abortion; he's criticized DeSantis' 6-week limit (which is also not a ban) as being too restrictive: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-labels-desantis-...
Ask HN: Why, during the year 2023, does iOS still autocorrect .com to .con?
One of my biggest pet peeves is the iPhone/iOS autocorrect constantly being wrong, and changing correct spelling to something else it "thinks" I'm trying to write.

The biggest offender has to be when I'm typing out web addresses in various apps. It constantly changes ".com" to ".con". It's mildly infuriating that we're on the precipice of going to Mars yet the iPhone doesn't know that web addresses end in .com

Can anyone shed light on why this issue is so hard? (the engineers at Apple are much smarter than me, so there must be a reason)
AI Copyright Law Proposal That's Good for All Parties
Really sleek looking product, pretty impressive.
For context, it’s the last article in this series:

https://gethisword.com/tech/exploringai/index.html
> Sorry, are you saying that

No.
https://x.com/jamesncantrell/status/1513580207390670853?s=20
She knows it's some flavour of linux and she knows it's way faster than windows she had before. These are simple facts improving her day-to-day experience, no need to be negative about that.
Developers are some of the worst customers you'll ever have the displeasure of experiencing. We are incredibly cheap and price sensitive, have literally zero ethics around reasonable usage (if they didn't want me to do it they should have stopped me), we're loud and obnoxious with strongly held opinions, think the world revolves around us and our pet issues, and will work tirelessly to make sure you make no money. We're the Karen's of the digital age.

This is a self-callout, I'm guilty of all of these.
Well, that is a problem with government and banks, not the universities.
I think liberal arts degree is a good thing if you are already set for life. Getting it on credit and expecting to repay that credit with job is of course, crazy.
Few users / clients actually know tho'. They think in wants. They think in - because of past disappointments - what they can get. They think in what they think the boss wants. They rarely think in actual biz needs.

You can give them *exactly* what they ask for and still be wrong. The user / client isn't going to admit that. Nah. They'll just play the "Damn IT" card and it'll be back to the drawing board but now with a shit load of tension.

It's best to ask - sooner rather than later.
An engine that also targets consoles and VR headsets, uses C# as the main language, has an AOT toolchain for it, thanks to HPC# subset also allows for low level engine code in C#, and naturally the graphical debugging tools for profiling and GPU.
Sounds like a great idea. We should also have a global government too!
I never understand what's the driving force behind it until recently. It also tended to follow me for some reason; not because of me... but it just seemed to always be there.

Worse yet, I always found the warring sides in the social justice battles are almost always the same kind of people. 1 side seemed to hate the other side, not because of what they were, but because they saw their own hate personified in their opponents? Both sides see each other as nazis.

So for example, the atheist four horsemen. Dawkins, Harris, etc. But then "Dear Muslima" from Dawkins went down.

Then the james randi, penn jillette, bill nye, etc. The amazing meeting of skeptics and scientists. But then yikes social justice had to destroy them.

Then gamergate at basically the same time. Armor isn't allowed to have boobs!

shortly there after was comicsgate, but it was the opposite. Like comics aren't allowed diversity? James Damore happened roughly here.

But then Trump got elected and the social justice warriors became anti-trump. Literally the world has ended because he got elected. I'm not in the USA, I dont care about US politics, But Trump is LITERALLY HITLER.

But then in 2018, a terrorist killed a bunch of people in Toronto and the CBC invented/boosted the word Incel. Organizing a group of people for the first time ever. Really bad decision.

Learn to code happened next after this.

Everyone involved in social justice or for that matter anti-social justice are just the same thing. I have been watching autism tear itself apart publicly over and over.

Autistic people, who lived a life of trauma, are very social justice. But also really bad at communicating. Some unintentionally say painful and cruel things. There's no way the autism identity or label could ever stay unified.
An alternative way of looking at this: a text editor's main job is to turn keys pressed into characters to be inserted in the document and commands to be executed.
Ivy League schools are so good at marketing that they have brainwashed the youth into thinking community colleges are worthless.

Spoiler: all bachelors are foundational, meaning they are taught basically the same not only in the US but around the world and don’t require any fancy equipment or laboratory to complete
Increased precision typically costs more economically, so I think it's a pretty good analogy... precise physical measurements require specialized equipment, precise floating-point calculations require more computational power, etc
Yeah I walked in, honestly a split second decision not to go to Starbucks across the bridge in Port Isabell saved me. I veered to make a u-turn after deciding it would be too close and saw a parking spot right there. Walked from the bridge to southern tip and had minutes to spare until it launched.
eheh luckily I knew the gender ambiguity of Italian names ending in A/E (Andrea/Luca/Daniele/Michele) compounded by the fact that in French male and female names can end in e.

In Italy most female names end in A and most male name end in O (with some exceptions we mentioned).
It's very easy to find female Italian-French-English names because also in English and French some female name end in A/E.
So we found a lot of options for Italian-French female names.

Male names were more of a challenge since almost no French male name end in O.
It's open source. The PyTorch sources are linked from the blog post.
Previous Gallup polling found that Democrats expressed concern about the costs, while Republicans registered concern about politics in higher education.

I think both parties are right. The cost of a university education has skyrocketed, which I believe is due to bloated administration. However, what has also occurred is a campaign of political and social indoctrination, and censorship of contrarian views.

I went to university 20 years ago, and it was common for people to challenge one another, regardless of their views, and not get punished for it. You can't seem to do that anymore, at least safely and without punishment. If you can't challenge your professors, can't challenge one another, are you learning or just being indoctrinated?
Limits on all computational complexity in a given regime are a quite different result from noting particular algorithms have high computational complexity.

And if these results and the holographic principle holds, then these limits would apply to all computers. Even “normal” ones.
I often feel like some people around me have been programmed by the AI as they're constantly regurgitating some trendy mainstream narratives word-for-word. I increasingly feel like an 'Outlier' from the series Westworld.

I think it's probably because we're constantly bombarded with mainstream narratives and people in our peer group are shown the same news articles and content at the same time. People who actually believe the articles/mainstream narratives tend to come across (to the rest of us) as though they've been programmed because they're all saying and thinking about the same thing at the same time in perfect unison. There's something eery about that.
If we standardized soda to be delivered and sold as high concentration syrup only to be mixed with water right before use, it would dramatically cut amount of plastic wasted per ml of final mixed product.
> however only from their own single source

F-Droid is actually both a tool as well as a repository (which is the one that's included by default in F-Droid the tool). You can add additional repositories to F-Droid the tool.
FBI struggled to disrupt dangerous casino hacking gang
Saw;
If you can, see if you can get to a bonfire a few hours beforehand. Travel / tourism agencies can arrange this.

Also, if you'd enjoy seeing the Aurora Borealis, know that due to weather, clouds, etc., it isn't very reliable, and it may be best to plan on multiple attempts at it. The experiences we had ranged from disappointing to terrifically amazing, but if we'd only gone the one time, we'd have left without having experienced it.
Like banning flavored vapes or Joe Camel?
It sounds a lot like Pascal's wager.

The Spaghetti Monster doesn't exist: we wasted some fraction of human time and resources worshipping the Spaghetti monster.

The Spaghetti Monster exists: we gain access to the Pastafarian Heaven for eternity.

Surely we should all convert? Even if the probability of the Spaghetti Monster existing is very low it's still worth wasting just a little bit of time and resources on prayers.
I've used Thunderbird on an off for years now, and currently it's my go-to way to access work emails, except recently there have been some problems that I think are due to our email provider (our ISP... it's on my list to change that) not playing nicely, as Thunderbird doesn't display advertisements on half the page like I see when I login on a browser.
.NET Conf 2023 – Day 1 [video]
You can literally throw rocks to earth at 1/36 the cost to leave earth. The rocks would then naturally fall to earth.

Missiles have to be launched and require much more acceleration to reach the moon and leave earths gravity.

To put it into perspective, imagine the moon can catapult 5000 massive rocks at earth every day. Earth can’t make that many missiles fast enough
While this material is very exciting, wherever the reflection lands upon can cause real damage and is a problem.

It's not uncommon for developers of office buildings that use a lot of glass, get sued (and win) by neighbors because the light reflected from the glass building causes damage to their property.
https://www.golem.de/news/windows-und-office-tausende-verfah...

"Thousands of proceedings due to dubious Microsoft licenses

Anyone who buys a very cheap license key for Microsoft products must expect to be summoned by the police or have their house searched."
However, there is typically a code of business conduct and other things along that line that an employee agrees to even if there isn't an explicit "contract" as there often is in Europe for example.
Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal agency says
> but so far Bitcoin has been doing OK as a store of value

No, it hasn't. A store of value is supposed to be stable, it's about volatility. By that same reasoning you could argue that Apple or Tesla stock, or even the stock market in general, is a great store of value. But nobody would ever call it that, because it is far too volatile on a daily basis.

Trying to argue that a vague long-term uptrend in prices makes something a store of value is just more intellectually dishonest cope by cryptobros who are desperate to defend this useless technology.
You nailed the sport in one guess. Awesome.
One example would be a search field that shows suggestions from the server while typing.
> That will filter out a lot of high quality apps made by single person dev teams

Maybe.

On the other hand, when I see an app that includes ads or in-app purchases, I assume it's a low-quality app by default. Such a filter would be useful to me and wouldn't change my selection process. It would make it much less onerous over having to "manually" filter those apps out (which would make the app store much more useful to me).

I prefer apps that just charge me up front rather than use in-app purchases or ads.
I don't think a "so-so programmer" would need to google to figure out how to select random lines from a file.
I do feel where there was a weird transition where small liberal arts schools used to just be for rich people - but then they became for all people (it just meant debt for the non-rich ones)

I come from a highly educated but not super wealthy family. Even 15 years ago, my family told me unless I got into an Ivy or similar school I should just go to my state university. I feel like that, as the starting point for conventional wisdom, would help more people.
>Curious how you would measure whether they are "performing the tasks for their jobs".

First the product manager should have some tasks in mind (e.g. get the new product X to ship), and an idea of a realistic workload to be done in X time.

No task should be given without a timeframe (which can be flexible or less flexible) for its completion in mind. When tasks are done give the next task+timeframes bunch. This can include new features, refactoring, and code-debt fixup tasks.

As long as those conditions are met, it should be no problem to see if they're "doing their job" or are getting behind etc.

If what they want is: "let's keep this person occypied to 100% capacity, giving them arbitrary new tasks or even busywork in a constant feed where everything has to be done ASAP with no timeframe in mind", it wouldn't work. But that's a slave ship, not a software planning process. Even factory production lines have specific quota to hit.

>I think most folks would say that measuring SE output is very difficult to do and as such, most managers give their team the benefit of the doubt that they are working at a reasonable but sustainable pace.

Well, they shouldn't measure SE output with anything expect whether their targets are met. If they find those targets are too lax, it's not them that they agreed to them. If targets slip, the developer should have a reason -- specific issues preventing it, waiting for other part to complet, an unexepected hard problem, etc.
You're technically correct, which, as we know, is the best (/s) kind of correct.

What matters is actual usage, and while "one person team" does grate on me somewhat, it's in wide usage, and it's understood what it means. So, "sorry, not sorry", but you're wrong.
I delivered pizzas when I was 17... Apparently this is now illegal in California, but I wonder if it was illegal in the late 80s.
Datadog acquires Actiondesk (YC S19)
Obsidian daily notes are so... Simple. It works exactly as it should. No fluff.
Every time I hear “Google pays” it makes me feel good.
It is a different game to play according to crossing the chasm. There were 8087, 80187, 80287 and 80387 is the last one. I do not know that only intel has 387 though.
Looks like frontpage url (launchleopard.com) is not working - giving me 500 response. Then in docs neither starter repository buttons works - leads to 404. Is it built using your own boilerplate? If yes, then I am not buying :)
"can't challenge your professors"

Seems more like nowadays it's "if you can't be challenged by your professor"
Aaand I've had a long series of "Something went wrong" errors in the couple of hours since I wrote the comment above.
This feels like a feedback loop where political parties defund public colleges, it becomes worse, they say "look how bad it is" to justify more cuts. It becomes worse...

EDIT. I do think there is also a phenomenon that over time corruption (administration) seeps into organizations. Wish we could tackle that directly instead of defunding which may be short sighted.
64% of young Americans would rather give up their right to vote than give up TikTok.

Picture how upset kids get when you take away their favourite video game and apply that to a group of people dozens of times larger than the NRA.

That's a lot of votes to risk.

[1] https://reboot-foundation.org/research/the-tiktok-challenge-...

++ I'd be interested to see this study replicated across the entire adult voter base with breakdowns by region etc, but I'm not aware of one.
Yeah, standard procedure (here in Germany too), except usually it's the road that's closed, and not the entire town...
I think due to $100-$200 laptops floating around in the late 2000s, people started getting impressed with computers serving more than 4 years.

Even back then, you could get almost a decade out of a computer in some sort of capacity. Give it to the youngest kid or mom, they only play clicking games.

To this day, I see people amazed that their $1000 laptop survived ~7 years. Meanwhile I have $550 laptops that are still being used for gaming(Minecraft/Steam) literally 9 years later.

I think the root cause is that people only spent $1000 dollars on a laptop when it had a glowing logo on it, and were impressed that a $1000 laptop would last more than 4 years. To any other nerd, they knew that the SSD was the real game changer.
Because in my experience GPT can produce a maximum of like 200 lines of code before it makes an error usually.
You can tell Instagram not to show you those kinds of videos. It takes persistence, but it really helps clean up your feed.
This is so wrong it's not even funny
Getting a 500 on https://launchleopard.com/

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