skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t go there more than once a week anymore because there isn’t a good mobile app. I previously doomscrolled Reddit for a couple of hours each day. It’s been great for me!
Archive link since the site seems to be down... http://web.archive.org/web/20230518081635/https://blog.eamon...
Some people think it's not a big deal. I don't know why.
I think you forgot to include:

toolchains
\win arm
\linux x86
\linux arm
\macos x86
\macos arm

What I do think is that dependencies should be versioned, and their artifacts should be immutable.

Dependency management is not the only thing wrong with gamedev
Given we have old binaries on old Linux installs on QEMU, couldn't say myself. It's nice to run old hardware, but at a certain point it's not power efficient anyway. Securely running things on the old hardware is about the only thing I can think.
Further down:

>... it is disabled on our release builds, because it's nothing but headaches for us, because of its broken by design nature causing issues for users. I listed a bunch of them in the OP as well.

>We're sick of getting blamed for bugs in wayland compositors, while the various committees sit around arguing with each other, finally decide on standard ways of doing things after half a decade, then GNOME ruins it all by refusing to implement it.
You're the one obsessing over an imaginary need for them to be revolutionary to add value, while having given examples of companies that largely have had successes without doing anything revolutionary other than in sales and marketing, like you've criticized Musk for.
Part of the problem with teaching Git, aside from the terrible interface design, is probably that programmers are the ones teaching it. This is very nearly indisputable/self-evident. Look at the Git man pages. (NB: Documentation falls under the umbrella of "teaching".)

I went to a short, semi-casual digitization symposium. It was a couple hours long with a handful of lightning talks and a keynote. All the presenters were researchers in the humanities versed in the subject matter of e.g. library science. I later learned that the university had recently introduced an "open source program office" that's supposed to be a resource for crossing the discipline divide. The idea is that the progress that the world of software development is making should leak into other disciplines to the extent that it can be helpful. There's a course in the School of Information taught by a programmer that tries to do something similar: people with domain expertise are supposed to take the course to pick up a little bit of programming and get exposure to Git to help with e.g. data science projects.

In thinking about how the material would hypothetically be presented to these folks, I realized that the humanities folks in particular were uniquely positioned to be able to grok Git the best—almost certainly better at grasping the underlying fundamentals than, say, a group of freshman programmers with no experience with version control, Git or otherwise. Programmers lack the foundation and interest in the underlying discipline.
This is both right and wrong:

If you're shipping shrink-wrap product, or equivalent, then you should freeze everything in carbonite so you can later recreate the thing you released. The article is written as if this is a novel idea but it isn't. Decades ago when I worked on products shipped on CD it was standard procedure to archive the entire build machine to tape and put that in a fire safe. In fact I subsequently (decades later) worked for law firms on patent cases where they were able to get those backup tapes to prove something about the content of software shipped on a specific date.

otoh for the typical present-day software project you don't want to re-create an identical build result as someone else got six months ago. For example if it's a JavaScript project then Node is going to be two versions out of date and probably full of security bugs from that time. So you actually want "code that behaves as expected but built with current dependencies and toolchain". Admittedly experience shows that for some languages this is an unreasonable expectation. Some level of ongoing maintenance to the codebase is often required just to keep it building with security-fixed dependencies.
The Death of a Relic Hunter
I believe ChatGPT is "self-aware" in the sense that it can distinguish itself in a conversation. I don't believe it to be aware in a conscious sense. How strict are the definitions?
Innovation Map
I think it’s really sad Sydney is so car centric now.

I remember reading about these projects when first commissioned and it really felt like more rail was a better investment.

I took the westconnex on a visit a year or so ago. It was freaking empty. I couldn’t believe it.
I hate Docker (honestly I can't believe the MacOS version requires a Linux emulator :rolleyes:), but it basically is the best way to run server software. The only major alternative is Nix, which might actually work out.
That was more a parody of the Atari 2600 (1977). While it had very blocky graphics, the sorts of games it could play (crude versions of arcade games of the time) seems more like what this is parodying rather than Pong-like games.
Probably a integrated in-ice Cerenkov + radio neutrino detector with a giant cosmic ray detector (scintillators + water cerenkov tanks + fluorescence detectors + radio) on top, perhaps with some fluorescent/radio detectors deployed on tethered aerostats to look for upgoing air showers from taus. Sort of like IceCube Gen2 Radio on steroids, mishmashed with Auger and ANITA/PUEO/EUSO-SPB. Both in Antarctica and in Greenland to get both hemispheres. But there are arguments for other types of detectors too, and perhaps I'm not thinking big enough since 100 Billion is several orders of magnitude above what is probably reasonable :)
Don't forget https://fossil-scm.org/
I'm doing that right now. It works, but tethering limits are definitely enforced.
What color is this curtain?
Some subreddits such as r/malefashionadvice did achieve the critical mass required to fully migrate to another platform.

In that case, the moderators never re-opened and were replaced by scabs by the admins. But the sub remained fully dead. The userbase had moved to a discord server, which is well run and has plenty of users in the 50+ age bracket not normally associated with the platform.
My course was more focused on hardware, silicon design and low-level programming.
There are things that grow organically and arent anywhere near as shit as Sydney
I respect Kramnik a lot both as a player and as a commenter on current top chess. I thought his research on chess with the castling rules removed was fascinating, for instance.

I honestly watched his entire Youtube rant, and by the time it got to his actual data, I was so mentally drained from trying to understand the long, poorly structured 45 minute rant that preceded it, I was unable to even parse his figures and tables.

I think his focus on games that can vs can't lead to higher earnings is interesting. But his inability to communicate his ideas clearly and in good faith doesn't paint a picture of someone who understands what he's doing.
The exodus was worse than the numbers indicate.

Platforms are heavily Pareto skewed.[1]. The top 5% of reddit users are the primary (posters, mods) and secondary (commenters) content creators who are responsible for 95% of the life on reddit.

The protest was led by this top 5%, and I presume they're also the main group that atrophied. The scale of damage is therefore underreported in simple usage statistics.

[1] I just coined the term, and I'm proud of it. Now shatter my dreams, and tell how it has already been around for decades.
Do you know of a better setup? I’m naïve on this front
None, they should’ve built more rail and light rail.
Ignoring the exponential pace Wayland has improved for end users in the last 36 months (see for example Plasma/Wayland Showstoppers[0]), would staying on X11 not be more of a sunk cost fallacy? There aren't even any Wayland alternatives with meaningful momentum

[0] https://community.kde.org/index.php?title=Plasma/Wayland_Sho...
Show HN: SpaceHey Mobile – the retro social network
Nice overview about FontForge. I dabbled in it once too. Yes it is a bit clunky, but I have serious doubt that the (commercial) competitors are much better. Not that I know any, not even names.

Also, awesome website! Very quirky, very distinct style.
What a great tool! Got me inspired to play with CSS animations for a bit. I would suggest adding some animation timing functions to the animation presets. Without them, they look a little stale.
Show HN: I built a domain name marketplace for folks (like me) who hoard domains
Problem: I (accidentally) hoard domains :')

1. I get excited about a new project
2. I buy a domain
3. I get busy, and the domain collects a thick layer of dust

I know I'm not alone in this, either

So, I had the idea of creating a simple and casual marketplace for folks like me to list their domains at a fair price with a nice community feel to free up these caged domains

It felt like a great project for me to pick up some new skills, so I got to it

All up, it took me about a month, and I built the whole thing live on Twitch

I've always sat on the design, marketing and front-end side of the fence, so this was my first attempt at making a 'full' web app

Here's the stack I used:

- SvelteKit (https://kit.svelte.dev/)

- Supabase (https://supabase.com/)

- Resend (https://resend.com/)

- ShadCN Svelte (https://www.shadcn-svelte.com/)

It was super fun to build, and as a beginner, I learnt so much

I leaned on AI quite heavily to help advance my speed of groking certain concepts within both SvelteKit & Supabase, and I blogged about the experience and my learnings here: https://aroreretini.dev/projects/dwarf/

Any feedback/criticism very much welcome, I've got a lot to learn :)
Can you elaborate? Curious how the stress profile differs in alternative family structures.
Well, for whatever reason, it doesn't meet their requirements...
See the String section of https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/blob/master/doc_int...

edit: here is a more specific rationale: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512#discussio...
Why the local development experience matters (a lot)
>Something like doctor or lawyer feels like it would much better chance of being AI-proof.

For variety of reasons someone might prefer a person performing medical operations, giving legal advices, or designing software.
Systemd adherents cannot seem to get past this deficiency in the software's messaging.

Same with Wayland. "it's not a program it's a protocol"

Still sucks, still is a thorn in my side and gets in the way.

Systemd is an attempt to consolidate the OS/service layer into one thing. Compilation options don't mean shit when every component is tightly coupled to systemd, its journal, dbus, or some other quackery.

Systemd would have been better as an entire distro to itself.

But as usual, people cannot handle the idea of running anything other than what's shoved in their faces from corporate programmers.

If I wanted corporate software I'd buy Apple or Microsoft.
The movie "The Pod Generation" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15768848/) has a theme that touches what you state. No need to get pregnant, give birth, stay home with your kid. While in the pod the fetus can be trained, educated, etc...
Wayland lacks a crutch to work around broken multi-monitor handling in composit
Since everybody is slagging this, let me provide an argument for the opposition:

Sydney has long needed something like Westconnex. Here's what the motorway network looks like:

https://roadsaustralia.weebly.com/uploads/7/7/9/8/77988430/s...

The peninsula to the east where the M1 is the city core and everything around it is very, very densely built up. Before WestConnex, from where I live in the Inner West, getting to the airport, under 10 km away, required zigzagging through residential neighborhoods and going through approximately a million traffic lights. There were no motorways to the city, no motorways away from the city, and no motorways radially around the city either.

WestConnex, the bit in blue, fills all three of these gaps, and since it's all underground it's out of sight and didn't require demolishing entire neighborhoods like previous 1970s-era plans did. And having driven through the newly opened interchange yesterday, I don't really buy all the "confusing" whining either: follow the signs and it'll get you where you want to go, you don't need to worry about 15 other tunnels going in other directions.

The usual argument against building more roads is that they just induce demand and immediately jam up again. This is why I think the high tolls are a feature, not a bug: they ensure people will only use the roads when the time savings pays off. (Although I do wish Sydney would bring in Singapore-style dynamic road pricing instead of flat fare that means the tunnels are sitting around empty on Sundays.)

What you can criticize WestConnex for is the corruption and the opportunity cost: that $18B could've bought a lot of other things too. But on the upside, Sydney is finally getting serious about metro and light rail, so things are looking up on that front too.
Actions like this will just hurt Wayland in the long run. It needs more users, and for that more applications that support it by default. No one will bring X11 to the level of Wayland, but someone might fix the existing Wayland problems.
Yeah, looking at a map, it looks pretty vanilla and I'm not sure why it had such a notorious reputation at this point. If I recall, I think the original was a cloverleaf design, so in every direction you had people merging on and off in a span of about 300 feet.

Ah, yeah. It was renovated in 2007. [1] An LA Times article on its reputation is here. [2]

> And there are plenty of accidents. Sgt. Morrison of the California Highway Patrol estimates that his officers respond to about 30 calls a day in and around the interchange. They handle fender-benders, stalled cars and the occasional 20-car pileup.

That said, either way, it is pretty vanilla compared to the legit spaghetti mentioned in the article with regard to the Sydney interchange.

[1] https://www.caltrop.com/project-details/sr60-sr91-i215-inter...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-freeway21sep21-story.htm...
Basically Wayland only supports a subset of what X11 could do. It's more scoped and does a good job with what it's supposed to do.

That said, the rest of the functionality is now an exercise for desktop environments, and they can (and do) things differently.
Just in case anyone hits a paywall.

https://archive.ph/M32VG
Which drama of last week are you referring to? The one about the openai guy saying it's all just the data set? Or something else?
Ask HN: How do I Convince someone the Earth isn't flat
Ran into a few religious people who suggest the earth is a firmament. How do I prove it's not round/sphere.
I'm still sad that --sort-files makes ripgrep run in single-core mode. (I know you can't make --sort-files _free_ in multi-core mode, but it would still be faster than single-core)

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/152
Also Lena by qntm: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
> There are other chargers out there but all the others work poorly

No. The best chargers are manufactured by Alpitronic and Kempower.

If you want to see EV infrastructure done right you need to look at Europe. North America's EV infrastructure is a basket case in comparison.

Alpitronic 400 kW charger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ZWN_-a2j4

Alpitronic 300 kW chargers two years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TVohXHjLro

Kempower 400 kW charger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR2M5W6saAk

Europe's plan to further improve EV charging: https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/article/f...
What's the story angle/line/tanent/"e"/"pi"/etc.? (linear algegra, Lewis Carol math, Claud, Shannon, etc. ) -- Physical reminder/context for why 'booked ticket to get punched'?

Target audience? -- is journey a story in which 'instructions/learning' are actions used to get the reader to partake in story? aka humanities novel as wrapper to 70's wall of documentation volumes.

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> Should I just focus on creating the content and making sure it’s useful/valuable and treat the book as just another method of presentation?

Is this for a 'Go Forth' TeD book of the month talk?

Any further clarification on type theory / category background? (cs, art, architecture, fonts, LaTex, ascii, utf, ...)

"The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners" by Ron Ritchhart (Author), Mark Church (Author)

"The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. (Author), E. B. White (Author)

"Thinking with Type: Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students Paperback" by Ellen Lupton

"Unleash the Power of Storytelling: Win Hearts, Change Minds, Get Results" by Rob Biesenbach

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> ... book just a nice to have thing?
Wide variety of catecorical/topi types.

Physicall book can be less expensive / less hassel than mangaging drmo on elecronic tablet/format only to have reference auto-erased. Dont have to worry about battery leaking/exploding. Thankfully, electronic formats allow for circumventing the imaginary wierd mechanics of trying to carry around wall's worth of pearls within multiple physical book encylopedia volumes without spending one's life working out at gym to be able to effortlessly carry/handle the encylopedia volume(s).

Categorical/Topi 'sea' type stuff:

"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carol;

"Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty" by Raymond M. Smullyan

"To Mock a Mockingbird" by Raymond Smullyan;

"The New Turing Omnibus: Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science" by A.K. Dewdney

"Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing" by Martin Erwig

"The Annotated Gödel: A Reader's Guide to his Classic Paper on Logic and Incompleteness Paperback" by Hal Prince (Author)

"Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R Hofstadter

"Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction (2nd Edition)" by James V Stone

"An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise" Subsequent Edition by John R. Pierce

"Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science" by Philip N. Klein

"Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!" by Conrad Barski M.D.

"Build Your Own Lisp" by Mr Daniel Holden

"LISP IS MY FAVORITE LANGUAGE IN LIFE FOUR MONTHS TO LEARN: Funny beginner's noteook to Learn LISP Programming Step-by-Step(PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)"

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Languages have trends too.

Weak typing/Implicit conversion was cool in the 90s.

JS and PHP would have magnitudes better if they were typed like Python, but that's history.
is there a 'name' for these types of troll videos?
> they have 700 comments which is more than the peak that Subreddit Stats says they had since July.

So only down by two thirds, so they still have to double down if they want to outcompete X.
I definitely agree about URL's in go.

Maven comes up all the time as an example of packaging done correctly. It just does JVM stuff though, right? Seems like it's winning at an easier game.

Reproducible builds are a hard thing to achieve in the general case. Even something as simple as packaging your files in a tar will blow your determinism.

I think retooling for determinism is worth spending time on, but I'm not sure I could convince my boss of that.

So far as I'm aware, all dependency systems are bad. Nix is the least bad one I know.
> Classic case is health care (‘look, we spend less than the US and have free healthcare’)

Who is saying this, other than low-information Americans on social media hung up on the word 'free'? Every Canadian knows that the reality is much more complicated with capacity shortages since Covid, and an opportunistic provincial government in Ontario doing its very best to push further privatization.
A way forward probably looks like a more feature-oriented fork of wayland than a do-over. The basic protocol is fine, it's just there's no sense of urgency to actually add important features to the standard, just a long design-by-comittee process which bogs down progress and frustrates developers and users.
You get what you pay for, I guess.
The Legend of Old Tom and the Gruesome "Law of the Tongue" (2014)
The VMs have a reasonably standard interface, so do container images, so kinda either could work as your ‘everything’.

Alternatively just make a system image of the entire PC, setup exactly how you want it, with some common hardware that you can expect to be available in 10 years -like a standard intel cpu.
If you're going to mock me you could have a salient point to couple with it.
Do you have any links you can recommend for how this is done in machine learning projects?
The phenomenon has a term: https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...

Without referring to the article, my advice is to set hard quality criteria for his work. Also you could insist on test coverage and write acceptance criteria for his tasks.
However, I try to never judge anyone easily and I believe even the most stubborn person can be helped to improve.
If you could show him what he lacks - in a nice way of course - you might be surprised how much people can improve and advance.

I view the "Beginner Expert" not as a failure of character but more like a long term depressive episode
It's been ready ready for a long time now. It's been on by default in Fedora for a long time now and I've not experienced issues. Or at least fewer issues than with X11.
I wanted to like sd but it doesn't support my main use case of recursive search/replace. Imagine if every time you wanted to grep some files you had to build a find -print0 | xargs | rg pipeline... it just takes me out of the flow too much. I'm glad people are posting other options here, I'm looking forward to trying them.

https://github.com/chmln/sd/issues/62
I'm not sure that translates very linearly. Most of the chess YouTube "stars" are not even GMs. Most of the viewers are hardly good players, so what you can learn from an IM is astronomical. Charisma and good at teaching are much better skills than a 1000 ELO difference imo. To your point, beating Magnus might drag a lot of people to his stream.
It depends on your threat model. If I'm trying to avoid Google-controlled hardware or firmware, it's bad. If I simply assume that the software or hardware is compromised, I have no escape from tracking, unlike with hardware kill switches.
these are awesome projects. thanks for sharing.

it would accelerate research so much if LLM accuracy increased on biomedical papers.

very much agreed on the potential to extract signal from paper structures.

two questions if you don't mind:

1. did you post a summary of your chunking analysis somewhere? i'm curious which method maximized accuracy, and which sentence-overlap methods were most effective.

2. do you think general tokenization methods limit LLMs on scientific/biomedical papers?
Yup, same here. Also spent quite some time on it. Very pleasant surprise how easy it is to stop. Had a similar experience recently with youtube, worked well too.

Last week I clicked some link leading to reddit, I was surprised I am still logged in.
Don't waste your time?
"the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/28/bullshit-a...
I haven't even seen it on HN; frankly every Canadian on here seems to lament the difference in tech role compensation between the two countries.

Outside of HN, I haven't even heard this smugness since the early years of the invasion of Iraq.