skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations on writing a book! That is a big deal.

I spend a lot of time writing blog posts, where the limited length (< 2k words) helps with sticking to a style. Longer proses are more difficult. You have more transitions to manage.

I mostly use direct language ("X is Y. This means..."). I try to be as concise as possible, but I sometimes I am more wordy than I need to be.

With that said, I pay attention to how I can be more welcoming "In this guide, we will..." (emphasis on "we"), "we are going to walk through" ("walk through" rather than "discuss", etc.), and so on.

In my personal writing, I like being more humorous where I can. I have an upcoming guide coming up on content deprecations which will start with:

> Taylor Swift's lyric "'Cause we never go out of style" doesn't apply to documentation.

Everyone writes in their own way. This is to be embraced. There are so many words from which to choose. We can choose which ones we want!
What you're saying makes sense, and I think it highlights that these days the line between a CLI and a GUI is less clear than it once was. Specifically, if an interface allows you to organize things spatially on screen in a way that's meaningful to you (eg org-mode) then it's already well on its way to supporting the epistemic action I was referring to. To me, CLI means you enter a series of sequential commands and you receive sequential responses. I'd put emacs somewhere between that and a GUI, as it includes features of both.
Idk wtf architects optimize for. Some sort of truisms about what buyers want and builder cost I think because a lot of houses are designed really poorly.
There is nothing distinct about a window or piece of fruit. Obviously if you made an operating system called Windows and used a window as a logo that would be trademark violation, but there's nothing stopping me from opening John's Windows with the logo being a window.
Village's amateur archaeologists find lost Tudor palace in back garden
Is a Calorie a Calorie?
Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxyxcTZccsE
I mean the realpolitik of increasing the EU budget, currently for the aid for Ukraine. (If I'm not mistaken.)

Back after 2009 the whole discourse was about bailing out the southern banks, of course not via direct aid, but via ECB operations, standing up various credit/emergency facilities, basically anything that leads to more gross EU credit risk (or risk sharing).
On the Planning Abilities of Large Language Models: A Critical Investigation
It’s still cheaper than hiring American workers
And that they're not if-elses but nonlinear functions.
As a fellow Monkey Island 2 and iMuse nostalgiac, I also really enjoyed the user-controllable musical segue effect used in the recent game Sea of Stars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dOG4DECEGk

(technically speaking I assume that is nothing like the MIDI-based iMuse, but rather, something like a cross-fade between 2 synchronised versions of the same song, but still! - it sounds neat, and makes me feel a little like iMuse did back in the 90s)

Musical invention and interaction is a wonderful aspect of video gaming.
Here's the music that I used in my most recent game (which I call: Fore! Track): https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/173255553386375169...

This track is by an amazing, long-standing musician that goes by the name watson and I listened to their entire catalogue and made a playlist of my favourites to be able to easily select a piece that fits any game I'm working on. Their umbrella website MusMus is https://musmus.main.jp and whilst you'll need to run browser translation on the site you will see all their music sorted across many categories. That said, it is definitely easier to listen to their music through the albums they've released on streaming platforms: Spotify and Apple Music for certain, and probably others. They're also on YouTube.

Of course, there are many more Japanese services and people writing great royalty free music. Another of my games used royalty free music by a young Japanese musician named YuyakeMonster, again picked specifically to fit a particular game: https://soundcloud.com/mac-vogelsang/sets/sparrow-solitaire
> overengineered design

Having operated a large Vault (FOSS, not commercial) installation, "overengineered" is not the word I'd use.
My parents were college professors, English teachers, and two things they kept pounding into my head all my life was to one, learn to write a sentence and two, college is not there to teach you a trade it's there to expand your mind. I think it's unfortunate that companies feel that they no longer have to invest in their employees and teach them the job, they have pushed this off on the employees. Sadly, people think college will teach them a job and except for a few degrees Medicine, Law, Engineering it doesn't.
Most of these new techniques (spritz before grinding, pre-infusion, puck screens) don't help at all with traditional dark espresso roasts. If you aren't brewing light roasts, then you don't need to worry about this.
> Not only in regards to figuring out the language and resources available but also the fact that creating a GUI still requires external dependencies.

What external dependencies does Java need that's not in the JDK itself? I have an app with Mac and Windows installers (and thus bundles JDKs), it also runs on Linux (via a fat jar), I tested it on Ubuntu, but for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to package it properly. It was more complicated that I cared to invest it at the time.

As for the barrier to entry, I feel the same way about the web. I find the JS and Web ecosystem to be utterly overwhelming, one reason I stuck with Java over something like Electron, and the installers/footprint of the app are smaller to boot.
This is a problem that is meant to be solved by distros. People who don't want many choices should be using a distro that makes a bunch of choices for them, instead of pushing to remove choice from the ecosysytem altogether.

Everybody using the same software creates a monoculture which is more prone to attack than a diverse ecosystem. There's a reason Windows was targeted so much by viruses: not only was the target BIG, but it was also consistent. If you broke into one normie's Windows machine, you could probably break into the rest. You're going to have a harder time of that if you target Linux.

Also, it's libre software. Unless you pay someone to do something for you, most of it is volunteer activity. And who are we to tell someone what they should do with their volunteer time?

It's also an indictment of the dominant social structures if there are all these groups and nobody wants to join them. They could start by getting rid of Codes of Conduct that give them permission to punish you for out-of-project behavior. Try that.
Um... Twitter isn't bound by the First Amendment. That's a constraint on government, not corporations nor individuals. Which is fine.

I own a mastodon node. If I authorize a member to post from my node, and they start spewing pro-Nazi shit? I can and will cut them off my node. It's mine, not theirs. They can go start their own if they want to spew that shit. Otherwise, people can and will assume I'm comfortable with that signal coming from something with my name on it, and they will be right. If you, personally, think that's wrong of me, you are under absolutely no obligation to appear to my node or relay my content. It's a very free country.

We constrain the government from stopping speech because it has the power of violence to do so. Individuals and corporations do not. Indeed, the case can be made that when somebody who owns a forum or message board moderates the community, they're exercising their freedom of the press. Same amendment, cuts both ways.

... And your conclusion doesn't follow from the previous statements. Regardless of the beliefs of the previous ownership, musk claimed he was "liberating" Twitter, but that didn't prove out. He basically just replaced one idea of what content isn't allowed with another idea of what content isn't allowed. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Europe “missed the Internet” (and the US didn’t) because of various underlying factors - smaller/more fragmented markets, a more muted entrepreneurial culture, shallower pools of capital, etc.

I don’t think the fact that Google, Amazon, and Facebook were built in the US is down to EU regulations.

It’s no more difficult to start a tech company in Europe than it is in the US, and it’s generally no more onerous to grow it, from a regulatory perspective. But ambitious entrepreneurs often head to the US in order to tap into a larger market and more developed ecosystem.

So I’m not sure the analogy is that valid. But yeah, I do think that EU regulation of AI may be an additional factor that skews the playing field.
How easy would it be to make a Socket-based GUI program, stick it on a thumb drive and run it on a friend's PC?

The Distribution Guide (https://socketsupply.co/guides/#distribution-guide) has instructions for code signing on Apple platforms, but I'm curious about the "weekend project" angle. Like, does `ssc` produce exe, apk? Could I use it to make a self-contained app that can launch without installation on Linux?
Yeah, that caught my eye too. I would have disabled this anyway, but this seals the deal. Although it will probably nag at me unless I disable it.
I know people with English degrees in IT and Music degrees teaching school, why would anyone consider this wrong or a waste?
I'm sympathetic having worked in anti-fraud adjacent fields before, but this extreme pendulum swing - if that's what this indeed is - is at least inappropriate and at worst nefarious. All of my transactions go through this card; they owe me to represent me well when I'm a customer like that. When they fail to, someone needs to deliver some ire with sticking power. Same way that there's ire that can be felt by a consumer facing charges of fraud.
What I meant is that what your "favorite" food/dish is is influenced by a huge number of factors outside your control, for example an Italian may like olives much more than a Russian might, simply because of where (climate & geography) olives grow.

For meats, I don't think there's that much of variation as grains/vegetables as it appears that the "main" meats (poultry, fish, pork, beef) are relatively common globally. But there have been several "uncommon" grains that were popular but were pushed down as governments pushed for specific crops to meet short term food security. For example India pushed for high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice in the green revolution, while some other grains (buckwheat iirc) have been around for a long time but have fallen out of favour (due to cost, I would guess).
Firefox Keeps Getting Faster
When you frame it that was ($450/month) I'm more amenable, but then I check myself: am I reacting emotionally to "low margin" and the bitterness, and maybe I'm just amenable to that?

Double checking myself, the person we're looking for:

- [works at / owns] a low margin business in downtown
manhattan

- has a car

- needs their car in Manhattan

- has to take their car out of Manhattan at some point

- can afford to wait N days to enter Manhattan

Looking at that...yeah I do still think that's a null set.

If you're gesturing at the more general "it sucks people gotta pay $450/month", yeah, I can imagine this being a substantial addition to a pizza place's budget if they were relying on workers driving their own cars in from Queens.
Which ones? I got a PO12, PO20, and PO33. They're great!
This is all completely untrue in general. There are many fields in which you'll be the annoying weirdo who tries to force their tools on others if you insist on using latex.

For example, Nature is so kind as to accept final submissions in latex, but they'll convert it to Word. So it's completely pointless.

Frankly people using latex-beamer make me roll my eyes too. It's a sign you care about tools more than outcome. If you're making a presentation, your goal should be to produce the ideal design to convey your message to the audience. Latex always gets in the way of this. (Some latex wizards are going to disagree obviously, but for the vast majority of users it's true.)
Open Inference Engines – Feature Comparison of Language Model Inference Engines
So? What does this comparison add to the table? Is it somehow bad to create the same thing for a different platform? Did you also write on Google Chrome thread when it launched "4 years after Firefox"? It just sounds demeaning. I for one don't care what Xbox has or doesn't have, I like my PS, and I'm happy that people with disabilities can also game on PS now if they'd want to do so.
40+ extensions is insane (and that's coming from an emacs user with 40+ packages)
most of it is an attempt to escape Hegelianism/Marxism/psychoanalysis, but his earlier works (Difference and Repetition, Logic Of Sense) are much better in terms of accessibility, to me his best are books on other philosophers, on Kant, Spinoza, Leibniz.

The late stages of philosophers' works are often quite wacky.
If it keeps people off poison like SSRIs, I'm all for it.
That's actually a very good point I hadn't considered.
WDT was already super popular, so the declumping properties aren't very useful. And the static issue is mostly limited to non-traditional light roasts.
Better late than never, I guess
Yes everything that followed was entirely without US agency support. How convenient.
You see all the old retired people on Facebook spreading FUD about EVs. As soon as you see “milk float” you know the demographic.
>Pointing out flawed reasoning is not the same as defending what it is criticising.

pointing out flawed reasoning with flawed reasoning is well, a fallacy by your words?

Your link there is an obvious one: it doesn't take into account colluding data over if the most pirated stuff comes from the most popular artists who have the most demand for tours. It doesn't take into account artists who can't afford tours (so, most of them) and how too much piracy will just get them cut out of the publisher's already crappy deal.

>My point is that piracy is a natural response to a predatory practice.

okay, I believe piracy would exist even if media was dirt cheap and we were in an economic boom. Some people just don't value media and if they want to take the time to pirate it over spending the money, they would. I'm pretty tired of the Just World Fallacy here that people never steal out of convenience.
>acres of white space

I recently tried overwatch and I seriously cannot find a single damned thing in that UI.

Unlabelled buttons. Shit in completely random places. Extra buttons where not needed just to insert ridiculous white space. Components that don’t have functionality you expect, which is only granted by happening in to the similar component from a different pathway.

What an utterly idiotic UI. If you are a manager at blizzard, please fire these bone heads that did this.
If looks are a top priority, web pages seem pretty hard to beat.

They also give built in separation of frontend and backend, and the option of remote access should you later need it.

Plus, you can use them just like a native app: Just make a tiny minimal tkinter or similar kind of GUI, that just has an "Open browser UI" button.

You can even secure it against daemons running as other users on the same machine, by having the launch button put a token in the URL, but I haven't seen this done anywhere.
The EU isn’t a state at all. Getting tired of usually Americans talking about the EU as some kind of superstate. It’s nothing of the sort.
Play Protect Certified Android and ChromeOS are popular ones among consumers
I honestly believe both you and the Akeyless folks should join the steering committee once one forms, and together work towards common standards y'all can benefit from.
Shorty – short circuit finder (2014)
Random radio stream with ambient screen.
> What external dependencies does Java need that's not in the JDK itself?

I mean that it doesn't come with Java itself, but you as a developer need to pick a UI framework and not all of them actually work all that well cross platform or will get you an actual modern interface.

Edit: I should also note that the threshold for entry I am talking about is for people just generally starting out. There simply are way more resources available for web related development than there are for java.

Also, when you start bundling your JDKs I am not sure you can talk about a smaller footprint anymore.
I'll make a guess that SSRIs act by inhibiting or even destroying connections between neurons, creating the effect of dullness, while mushrooms activate connections that were previously dormant.
5 years late and only one joy stick. How can you simultaneously be late to the innovation table AND deliver an inferior product?
Great article, all very true. Just look at the patent absurdity of modern American pickup trucks. What this article was missing (for good reason) is tying this to politics more directly; IMO “I want a car that will ‘win’ if I get in an accident” is based in the same toxic intuitions as “America First”
Based on his experience with Mono, less so with .NET proper.

Also given the state of Swift outside Apple ecosystem, I guess he only plans to target developers on their platforms.
The best CLI will never have the discoverability of any competently designed GUI.
I’m saying if they favor the person who happens to be on later due to time zones, when everyone works the same hours.
Ask HN: Any browser developers out there?
I’m looking to get my foot in the door working on Chromium or other browser projects, ideally on layout engines.
My work experience is mostly C# but I’ve used C++ primarily back in Uni and a little at my first job in embedded systems.

What are my first steps to making this movement? I’m currently working in cloud automation.

People tend to say “just contribute” but I’m always skeptical about if that would work. Let alone if I’m smart enough to even get hired by Google or any company that works on browsers. I didn’t go to a prestigious school and don’t know a lot about Big O. I wasn’t passionate about math in college but I’m willing to learn now if that’s what it takes.
Unfortunately I notice the same tricks in your comment.

I know I asked another person but the main question was :

“ What Israel should do in your opinion? What outcome you expect once it does it?”

Can you answer that question too?

As to the “agenda” I see different “agenda”.
It is mildly amusing isn't it. Not that long ago schools were kinda for trying to uphold freedoms of their students.

I do not want to presume too much, but I am assuming you are trying to make some sort of subtle point. If so, do not hesitate to do it and just play your cards. It is not like I can report you for anti-semitism or something.
> Frankly people using latex-beamer make me roll my eyes too. It's a sign you care about tools more than outcome. If you're making a presentation, your goal should be to produce the ideal design to convey your message to the audience. Latex always gets in the way of this. (Some latex wizards are going to disagree obviously, but for the vast majority of users it's true.)

It's a sign that I care about outcome and efficiency. I want the minimum effort on my part to have the maximum clarity and impact. Beamer is that tool.

I do roughly zero formatting, and in exchange I get something that looks good, is very clear and simple for the audience to understand, and has impact.

The beauty of LaTeX is that it gets out of the way. I don't need to think about formatting, I can think about content.
From my PoV I find roguelikes to be a stronger form of roleplaying and immersion; the difference is in where the roleplaying occurs — in the play itself. I’ve never found navigating limited narrative trees to be nearly as involved; you’re just going through someone else’s story.

The same occurs playing tabletop as well. When the DM comes out with his whole big narrative and players with complex backstories, versus a vague broadly defined setting that is forced to dynamically adapt to player actions, the latter always forges a stronger bond with the character being played.

Though the risk with the game in question is that NMS is/was exactly not a dynamically adapting setting; when they said random generation they meant it, and with no internal consistency between various systems you end up with… random shit happening for random reasons and no actionable or narrative control over any of it.

Dwarf fortress is really probably the ideal in terms of procgen producing not just serviceable RPG narratives, but actually interesting ones
Getting hot has a lot of complexity, actually: How hot does it get? How can you select the temperature and how accurate is that selection? How well does it maintain the selected temperature?

Simple soldering irons often don't even have temperature selection. And their predetermined temperature drops significantly when heat is transferred into the soldering pieces.

I can dial the Pinecil very accurately to anywhere between 100° C and 400° C, to provide the optimal temperature for the soldering job and it meticulously maintains that temperature (given the power supply is beefy enough).

Another nice feature is automatic stand-by when the tool isn't used. This preserves the tip, saves energy and lowers the risk of accidentally setting anything on fire. It automatically heats up blazingly fast when I pick it up again.
> People who don't want many choices should be using a distro that makes a bunch of choices for them, instead of pushing to remove choice from the ecosystem altogether.

You don't need to remove choice to push better UX and software. It's not a zero-sum game here; we can foster better conversations with people in the Linux community and start talking about what would make the experience better for the average user, not just technically proficient power-users.

> Everybody using the same software creates a monoculture which is more prone to attack than a diverse ecosystem.

That's wrong - you're using a sort of strawman argument. What makes Windows a monoculture? There's a much larger, thriving developer community on that platform with many more developers making free and/or open-source software.

> You're going to have a harder time of that if you target Linux.

"Achkshully..." Linux has had some serious bugs, but the damage was relatively low to end users because of it's low adoption rates. It has very little to do with "Linux is more secure because we're diverse" and everything to do with "1% of end users use Linux, so the target is less likely to be worth my time." And furthermore, that 1% - the majority will be more technically proficient and less likely to be tricked into running arbitrary software.

> one normie's Windows machine

This. Is. The. Problem. Framing an end-user as a mentally deficient 'normie'. Why? What's the point and what's to be gained from this?

> And who are we to tell someone what they should do with their volunteer time?

No one is suggesting we tell hobbyists / volunteers what to do with their time. What people are suggesting is that we spend a little time talking about tackling common problems together, rather than re-inventing the wheel every single time.
I often ask myself that too. The talent and infrastructure definitely exist in Europe. (until the people leave for the US)
Is it the big VC money, or some magical governmental support (military-industrial complex)? is it the english language that gives the US-companies an advantage? is it the different mindset? I really do not know.

It's very weird and also sad and a bit frustrating to see that the market is in favor of one country that seems to get everything.
I'm still crying for Nokia.