skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"we have no stemming support in Confluence" goes far beyond unfortunate defaults.
There wouldn't if the computer algebra step was integrated in the typesetting. Rather you first derive/verify the equations in a CAS and then write them in TeX for the paper. Even if export (like Mathematica) you may still decide to fix formatting a bit doing a seemingly obvious change which ends up changing the expression.
It's Electron, but it's one of the few Electron applications that is actually fast.
Ok but the comment your replying to is pointing out that a super majority of this countries voters are heavily incentivized to be NIMBYs because they own their home. Even if every renter voted YIMBY the homeowners could outvote them. Why would waiting change any of this?
One question comes to mind: isn't cyclic dependencies something to be resolved at the root cause (remove the cycle)? It's an issue that causes various pains down the line, like type checking in this case.
> Paul Graham said “Sam is extremely good at becoming powerful.”

Are you paraphrasing, or did he say that verbatim? Not attacking your statement, just curious. I always am reminded of this part from a pg essay:

> Sam Altman has it. You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king. If you're Sam Altman, you don't have to be profitable to convey to investors that you'll succeed with or without them. (He wasn't, and he did.) Not everyone has Sam's deal-making ability. I myself don't. But if you don't, you can let the numbers speak for you.

http://www.paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
I've realised that making my note taking process simpler leads to much better productivity.

At times I've just stopped taking notes because of the high activation energy required, now I just work with my Tablet or Notepad and worry about organising or integrating into my knowledge graph later.
Ctrl + Opt + D also conflicts with Rectangle, which is a more popular MacOS window manager.
I partially agree but early on there's an reference to a balancing couterculture that is now missing. However basing this on his current experience of a visit to London vs living there is short sighted. Merely visiting does not let you truly experience the massive breath and depth of a city. Even people living in city only experience a minority of the city.

I lived in London for years, earlier than the author, and could be considered to be part of a counter culture. I have friends & family still part of what I'd call counter culture in London and both then and now it was always a game of cat & mouse, with alternative scenes moving and reacting to the rest of the city. The corporations definitely hold most power and alternative cultures exist where their reach fades. To find the counter culture you needed to find the hard to find and personal links to it. They're still there, just purposefully hard to find.
Because ATC has nothing to do with airports. The only people directly involved from the airports are GND/TWR. APP is not directly related and Centers cover large swaths of territory and just make sure planes fly safe.
> The technology looks at hundreds of signals that could indicate a booking is higher risk for this type of incident, like the duration of the trip the guest is trying to book, how far the listing is from their location, the type of listing they’re booking, and if the reservation is being made at the last-minute, among many more.

This is most likely a (simple) ML model trained on previous reports of such bookings.

Not newsworthy, but probably not a bunch of if-statements.
This does look really good at a first glance. It seems like it uses mathematics that I'm not fully comfortable with yet -- but also takes a slow and intuitive enough approach that I may be able to infer the missing knowledge with some effort. I'll give it a shot! Big thanks.
They have a good conception and promises but their UX is painful to say least.
I'm a https://logseq.com/ fan.
Great to see the zero knowledge security model being adopted more widely across different types of applications.

I wonder how the interoperability between E2EE (end-to-end encrypted) apps is going to look like. Zero-knowledge sharing is a solved problem, but it is not easy to implement - and many choose not to implement it. They just use key sharing in URLs, making the actual secure sharing the user's problem.
"Hold the handrail", "mind the gap" and so on are there because falling down escalators and falling between train and platform are the leading cause of injury on public transport in Britain, especially London. There are also signs advising people not to run down stairs.

I think "MIND THE GAP!" (when a recorded male voice pretty much shouts it[1]) on the platforms with the sharp curves and wide gaps is fine — it's unusual, and especially useful for visually impaired people.

The more common "Mind the gap" with the female voice is worse than useless, as it is used far too often, when there is barely any gap, and detracts from the significance of the other announcement.

"Hold the handrail" is ridiculous; we should expect some personal responsibility from people. I laughed the first time I heard this, 15 years ago in China, and was disappointed some years later when I first heard it in Britain.

It would be interesting to see statistics on accidents before and after these messages were introduced.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Em-xoAtSM
For those interested, you can also take a look at our open-source project DeepFlow
- https://deepflow.io
- https://github.com/deepflowio/deepflow

We use eBPF to achieve non-intrusive (we call it `zero-code`) observability without modifying any application code, and have implemented three core features: Universal Map, Distributed Tracing, and Continuous Profiling.

Yes, we have implemented *Distributed* tracing using eBPF. Because of this achievement, we have also published a paper in ACM SIGCOMM 2023.
Lex ;)
> Ruby has had a huge decline in the past ten years, IMO.

People keep saying that. Ruby has had a "huge decline" if you look at the percentage of commits on Github over the last decade [1], a decrease of more than a factor of 3. However, in that same decade Github has grown (much) more than a factor of 3. So the total number of Ruby commits on GitHub has grown substantially. That's not really what I would call a huge decline.

[1] https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/3
Also, no in-house or proprietary cloud-services you charge for. Thats an immediate no-deal. That was my biggest disappointment in having funded Obsidian which in many other ways is an incredible community reclaiming of Roam but the necessity to pay them like $60/year for a black box only they control and leaves you dependant on them broke my damn heart and discouraged the hell out of me.

Download Strongbox and learn from the master. That is such an amazing model from the user side and he seems to be making it work economically so thats all I got for now.
Qwen on MLX
They are apparantly allocated in a non-writable section. Non-const qualified string literals cannot* be modified in C either. The following snippet will cause a segfault:

int main(void) {
char *s = "abc";
s[0] = 'd';
puts(s);
}

*) At least in any environment I'm aware of. If you know one where they are, let me know.
Traditional note-taking is flawed. Take a look into Zettelkasten and stop caring about "folder organization". Logseq is great for that. I much prefer it over Obsidian because it's an outliner. Backlinks and tags make note-taking not only a breeze, but fun.

I strongly suggest that you completely ignore methodologies. Write wherever it first seems fit, and keep making backlinks as a way to breadcrumb your way back to your notes. That's how I do it and it has served me extremely well.
Understand the equations, yes. However, I'm sufficiently out of practise that it takes me a lot of effort to. So I guess you could say I'm not fluent to be able to grasp the meaning of these things as fast as I think I would need to in order to properly understand them.
I don't see how using a throwaway email was the giveaway that it was Chess.com sending those emails, the emails are clearly from Chess.com.

The comment I replied to made it sound as though they sold your data to a third party for marketing purposes or had a data breach.
How do RAG implementations usually get around the context size limitations in LLMs?

Since it usually deals with PDFs and other docs that can be quite big, do they take only the first N tokens? Are abstractive summarisation techniques used?
Nice, but the limitations on (image?) attachments and Markdown export on the free tier feel... cheap?

These days I've mostly been using vimwiki, Agenda.app or OneNote for notes short/mid/long-term notes, and either of them works for the contexts I use them in.

I feel like the note taking space is completely overcrowded these days, too. Even the iOS notes app does everything I could possibly need (plus syncing), and the cross-platform/private sync space is very well served with SyncThing + whatever Markdown editor you can get your hands on...
From practical standpoint, absolutely.
But the number of spare batteries laying around?
Maybe, if this will be used in the future, those can help balance the power grid while not in use.
But it doesn't.

I'm from the edge of the balkans, and have travelled all over europe, and only London gave me the feeling of some future dystopia (exaggerated, but pointing that way), where they tell you to mind the gap, keep to the left, see something, say something, cameras everywhere, and a news story every now and then about someone getting arrested because someone got offended.

Compare that to eg. the Balkans, where noone tells you anything and everything is chaotic in a "manage it yourself" way, similar with eg. spain and france, and the "everyone is adhering to a set of rules, but noone will tell you, unless you figure it out yourself" going from austria to germany and north, with some exceptions here and there (noone will "officially" tell you not to walk on the bike lanes in eg. amsterdam, but many locals may yell at you if you do).
Agree, sorry I should have been clearer - that brain washing comment was me preempting people saying that it’s part of a master plan for control etc.

I’ve never liked that argument as it those same people seem to believe that governments are totally inept whilst also being competent enough to secretly brain wash a population. Feels like Schrodinger’s government.
> how many cameras there are monitoring every moment of your life

In some areas, they get local curtain twitchers to volunteer and watch: https://www.hu17.net/2017/05/11/volunteers-wanted-cctv-syste...
> the human eye is sensitive to a wider dynamic range

But our brains are also good at adapting for lower dynamic range images. We have no trouble recognizing a smudge of white with the same luminosity as a white wall as a sun glint, despite the real sun glint being thousand times more luminous.

I had trouble noticing that an HDR video is playing as SDR (due to player or browser limitations). Yes, something feels a bit off, but it's not that pronounced until you play the same video in HDR. Then the contrast (hehe) makes you see the difference clearly.
Window Covering
I'd like to cover my windows. Goal:

- Block out light at night (neighbors have rather aggressive lights)

- Allow light in during the day, and not block too much sun (normal curtains cover a bunch of the side of the window)

- Insulate during the winter

- Cleanable (cheap blinds just get thrown away and replaced once covered with dust, since they're basically impossible to clean properly). Ideally, it'd go in the washing machine.

- Maintainable. Pure mechanical is great. Arduino / micro:bit with fixed firmware is fine. Something running in node on my desktop WILL break when node node 35 comes out running on Ubuntu 2034, and I hate projects which break. I have projects in my house from decades ago which work. NOTHING from that era which requires software works. Even one FPGA project needs to be reflashed, and there's no way to do that without some discontinued proprietary tool on Windows 98 or something.

Bonus: Automatically (and quietly) have these open to let sun in during the morning, and (quietly) close at night.

I don't like pull-to-the-side, since they cover up a lot of the window during the day, and take up a lot of space.

Resources:

- I have a nice sewing machine

- I have a basic machine / woodworking shop

- I have a very nice EE lab

- I have time (I can't say I have too much time, but I don't need this today, and working for a few hours each week for a few months, projects eventually get done)

I'm not rich by HN standards. I can afford normal stuff, but I can't afford e.g. a $1000 contraption engineered in Japan for rich folks. I'm much more in the "rig something up with a used car window motor" camp than the "buy something nice" camp.
It still annoys me how badly AMD botched their Fusion/HSA concept, leading igpus to be completely ignored in most cases.
> That's obviously because a tweet is more public.

That doesn't justify it at all.

> Again, there are lots of countries where you can get arrested for publicly saying something that's 'harmless' as far as the First Ammendment is concerned. There's nothing particularly notable about the UK in this respect.

You're in denial. People in the UK get arrested for mundane things and there is no equivalent on the US.

> A simple Google search will turn up examples of people being arrested and detained in the US for similarly silly reasons, e.g.: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/01/british_touri...

I agree the example in the article was silly, but the people were not US citizens but were looking to enter the country, and had joked about destroying the USA. It was bad judgement to arrest them, but not the same as being arrested for wondering if transwomen competing in female sports is fair.
My guess is that the actual behaviour depends on the runtime environment. On some platforms you might get a segfault, on others it might overwrite the first character.
How does logseq implement end-to-end encrypted sharing between devices? Logseq Sync promises "encrypted file syncing" without any details.
I thoroughly enjoyed that story. I know it's a BBC patriotic puff piece a little but the tech tricks they did were neat. I hadn't heard of Elite at all and that's too bad because it would have been right up my alley back then.
I didn't understand why Confluence's search engine works so poorly before I built my own search engine, and I especially don't understand why it works so poorly after. It's an absolute mystery and goes far beyond misconfiguration. Feels like they're just using a binary index and completely the skipping relevance ranking.
For those interested, you can also take a look at our open-source project DeepFlow.

[1] https://deepflow.io

[2] https://github.com/deepflowio/deepflow

We use eBPF to achieve non-intrusive (we call it `zero-code`) observability without modifying any application code, and have implemented three core features: Universal Map, Distributed Tracing, and Continuous Profiling.

Yes, we have implemented Distributed tracing using eBPF. Because of this achievement, we have also published a paper in ACM SIGCOMM 2023.
EU asserts extrajudicial authority but it's pretty meaningless. Can't see why it would apply to UK citizens in the UK at all.
All of this. None of the physical or network stuff requires aws. Not even close.
Which is the height of bullshit since Confluence uses Lucene internally, which obviously does support stemming (at least it didn't. Luckily, I haven't had to use Confluence for ages). Confluence search is what happens when some dev gets told "hey, add search, we need to mark a checkbox", searches for 30s for "Java search lib" and just adds Lucene without knowing anything about it.
Vintage IKEA furnishings fetch £32,000 at auction in Stockholm
I wish them luck. I use Apple's Notes app for work. I keep simple notes, but the two features I can't live without are folders and pinning notes to the top of folders.
This is the best thing I've ever read on substack. I still remember reading 1984 on my commute, getting engrossed, not realising the music in my headphones had stopped, and then hearing the "see it, say it, sorted" announcement echoing through my mostly empty station. It was a surreal feeling to seemingly be inside the book I was reading.
It’s insane to me that anyone would use a terminal that is Electron. A terminal should be really light weight and not use up many resources.
I'm always intrigued by this. How big a rock would need to impact to throw a chunk all the way up Earth's gravity well? And does escape velocity create the same kind of atmospheric friction problems that re-entry does (so it'll need to be a big chunk or the bacterium needs to resist extreme heat)?

The whole chain of "really big rock -> chunk of Earth leaving the gravity well -> getting into some kind of stable orbit where it can be pulled into Mars -> surviving re-entry on Mars" doesn't seem like it would happen enough times to create the kind of odds of success that would be needed for a bacterium to successfully colonise Mars.
...not in WASM (running in browsers at least, other WASM runtimes might implement the WASM heap differently and allow write-protected pages).

PS: FWIW, wasmtime happily runs the code:

wasmtime bla.wasm
dbc
Stephen Wolfram's discussion of free will in his book A New Kind of Science is the most relevant:

https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p750--the-phenomenon-of-f...

Daniel Dennett's book Consciousness Explained comes at the problem from a similar angle.
And not just surveillance, but also direct involvement of the police.

There was a video clip about russia arresting people for stuff on social media, and how supposedly 400 people got visited by police 'that year' which seems a lot, but in comparison, 3300 got visited by the police in UK.

(this got posted to skeptics stackexchange, where it was established that the year in question was 2016: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/54123/were-over... )
Show HN: Easily train AlphaZero-like agents on any environment you want
Which is probably rather pointless for that usecase, because you don't want to blindly batchprocess the geodata, you want to interactively display it to the user.
The copy is way too buzzword dense imo
Alright if you think it’s pointless that’s fine, I would just say that anything necessary for basic communication is clearly useful.
On the Privacy of Push Notifications
Of course, Apple indulges in all the anti competitive practices that Microsoft is sued for, and worse.
I never found that to be true and moreover, these scenarios with nonstandard features tended to be the scenarios I was most worried about breaking.

There is also the problem of the in memory database behaving differently when given the same SQL so your test might make it look like everything works while a bug crops up in production.

Realism matters.
Aerodrome traffic pattern is completely different from holding patterns. And this is what LH was instructed to do, keep holding. Holding patterns are published for all airports and usually planes are stacked on those holding patterns and they are emptied FIFO style. Busier airports have multiple holding patterns to accommodate a large number of aircraft in case of on ground emergencies.
Architecting a Production Development Environment for Reliability
I mean they are multiple sizes but there are certainly standards. When they were more common I use to have boxes of them and could always find barrels to fit anything I needed and swap over the power supply to match whatever power I needed. Once in awhile you would get lucky and have both a matching plug and supply to match your need, like my electric piano uses my old Sega Genesis wall wart and plug because they matched voltage and barrel plug size and a cat chewed the original piano one and cause it to short and burn out.
How open source is it? My experience is that there's always a piece missing.

If I want to install it on my Android phone and my PC and have that sync "zero knowledge", do I have all the pieces in the open source release?
I likewise dislike the slogan but it has resulted in me finally remembering the BTP phone number (61016) which came in handy when I had to report an incident last Friday.
Actually several of them are reasonably fast, at least on good CPUs. What I dislike with Electron applications in general is the high overhead on the system (how many GBs of RAM for the few electron apps I need to run in the background?)... I'd like to see someone doing a study to compare how an Electron app would compare to a native one in terms of battery life on an average laptop.
the US government should tell the public what it knows about UFOs
I wouldn’t say it was early stages. The technology is new but every other country has that technology too. There is something deeply embedded in British culture that enables it.

Orwell’s 1984 was a commentary in 1948, not a piece of speculative fiction.
https://nitter.net/Conaw/status/1099181050045952006
"Surveillance capitalism" can't matter that much - you can tell it's not making anyone rich because it's happening in the UK. If it worked, it'd be happening in countries whose economies are actually performing well.
If you look at the rate of change of humanity, it's been exponentially increasing.

If you look at the direction, it's not predictable. A very different set of things will come to pass.

A child born today will live O(100 years), and will be in a very different world than I am today. Computation, in particular, is continuing to change. LLMs are a huge change, as is being interconnected, as are many other things. That's not "faster," like Moore's Law of yesteryear, but it is change.

Also: Change isn't always progress.
(speaking about strawmen) I'm not saying ILS is less safe

I'm saying that have people rely on ILS and never practice visual landings, especially when the conditions are favourable, makes pilots lose skill and confidence on it, making the overall situation less safe

Then people wonder how come other pilots miss a perfect good approach on a sunny day.
It's a problem with scale and incentives. At their scale, hiring people like Dang is not going to be particularly profitable, since you'd need thousands or tens of thousands of them to moderate the platform (and even then, it gets difficult since you really don't want too much moderation for private messages among family members and friends, companies, etc).

Add this to the difficulties of finding people that good in the first place (even more so said people willing to work for a large company and moderate at scale), and you've got a bit of a problematic situation:

- If you try to hire 'quality' moderators, then you likely spend millions of dollars a year on moderation, without any real guarantee that the moderation will actually be good (since different communities and groups disagree on it, cultural differences come into play, etc)
- If you try to outsource the moderation to some low cost region, then you get poor quality moderation due to cultural differences and a lack of understanding of the subject matter and community.
- And if you try to automate it, you arguably get an even worse situation, since false positives and negatives are everywhere and often there's no way to appeal the situation when they get things wrong.

Then things get even worse when you realise that different communities interact and have different standards...
That's why it is called an estimate. It is how much you think it might take, not the exact amount of time.

When asked about how long something it is going to take, everyone is given an estimate, not an absolute value. And this is because a lot of things can happen in between that are out of everyone's control.
Broadly speaking, yes, but for some situations like database models with bi-directional relationships that can cause unnecessary maintenance burden simply for the benefit of type checking which this allows you to work around since the cyclical nature is only caused by typing not runtime semantics
In a manner of speaking, yes