skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's fun is, because everything is decided in papers, we can find out why! https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/884

Accepted paper here: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2022/p20...

> The proposed std::print function improves usability, avoids allocating a temporary std::string object and calling operator<< which performs formatted I/O on text that is already formatted. The number of function calls is reduced to one which, together with std::vformat-like type erasure, results in much smaller binary code (see § 13 Binary code).

Additionally,

> Another problem is formatting of Unicode text:

> std::cout << "Привет, κόσμος!";

> If the source and execution encoding is UTF-8 this will produce the expected output on most GNU/Linux and macOS systems. Unfortunately on Windows it is almost guaranteed to produce mojibake despite the fact that the system is fully capable of printing Unicode
That's the modern-modern C++ :-)

More seriously, though - the language is changing gradually: Features are introduced (and rarely, deprecated); and the missing bits of the standard library are added. C++11 was a _very_ significant change - but not to how you print output. C++20 and C++23 introduced `std::format` and `std::print`.
A few versions back, iOS started sometimes not finding my searches in settings at all.

Like I’ll search the full word “passwords”, pausing after each letter, and not get the entry titled “passwords” in my results the whole time. Back out, do it again, this time it’s there by the time I type “pas”.

This used to work perfectly, but has been inconsistently broken for years now. Most recent time I saw it was a week or two ago, so it’s still happening. What’s most baffling to me is that a search over such a relatively static dataset (app settings are in there, but those don’t get added or modified often) can be non-deterministic.
I really wish more companies would use this strategy, it works so much better for everyone involved.
Which costs a lot of money. Which is also needed to build new ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_renaissance

"Since about 2001 the term nuclear renaissance has been used to refer to a possible nuclear power industry revival, driven by rising fossil fuel prices and new concerns about meeting greenhouse gas emission limits."

Just like today.

Since 2001 and now, mostly nothing happened which could be seen as an "nuclear renaissance" in France. Other than the EPR having extreme cost increases and extreme construction times.

Why should the "nuclear renaissance" happen, this time? Given that the situation is only worse: engineers are aging, plants are aging, current nuclear technology/companies are not delivering, money is tight, ...
Not really. $15 pulse oximeters on Amazon are coming straight out of China from fly by night companies in a country that doesn't particularly care about IP law, and even when they do make it amazingly hard for a foreign company with even the most absolute, solid, novel patents to fight against a Chinese company blatantly and openly infringing.

Trying to frame this as a money grab from Masimo is overly defensive of Apple.
Inflation is the rate of change of prices. In calculus terms, it's the first derivative of price. (I'm not sure what you mean by "the rate of inflation growth." Do you mean the second derivative of price, maybe?)

Inflation has gone down in the US. The last few months, if you extrapolate them to an annual rate, would (I think) be between 2 and 3%, which is the Fed's normal target.

Unfortunately, some of the recent price increases may stick. However, the US has seen strong wage growth, and many areas have high demand for labor. I've seen a surprising number of businesses with 1/4th of their usual positions open.

It's a good time to apply to better-paying jobs. Not so much in the tech industry, but in other industries.

On the other hand, with rates as high as they are, it's an awful time to buy a house or a car using a loan.
Fallocate is a much better interface for this than sparse files. The torrent client does not care how the underlying filesystem provides the ability to randomly write a large file. And fallocate is a much clearer signal to the filesystem than a sparse file.
I really wish there were more non-collegiate hackathons available out there.
Some things I noticed:

The list is fairly short (70 activities total). Once filtered it would be easier to simply display all matching activities.

Many of the "Low" cost activities have significant upfront costs. I wouldn't describe Archery as "low cost", nor describe Astronomy or a board game night as Free activities!

It was easier just to read the raw JSON than browse the site. ( The activities are https://www.whataaabout.com/activities.json and seem to be static, not based on parameters. )
I give up. Best of luck OP.
One way you can think of the exception unwinding stuff is that each call provides not just one continuation (the usual return address) but two (also one for the cleanup), and that these are combined using the & connective of linear logic.

This means both paths must use the same set of resources, and exactly one of them must be invoked. Interestingly, in linear logic this is equivalent (using De Morgan dualities) to a single continuation that expects a sum type: A^⊥ & B^⊥ = (A ⊕ B)^⊥.
Indeed. When I worked retail sales there was a blackout period for time off. Something like mid-November through New Nears.
It would be good to hear what the gap actually is, if it’s so obvious.
:D sorry about that! Well, it could be... but no, not ALL of them are, of course
I've never seen HN more pro-patent than when it means being anti-Apple. I wonder how an embedding model would rank "What is the best Thing?" for HN commenters... my guess is patents would be near the bottom, but Apple would be even lower. Where would "proprietary software" fit int?
One thing that’s interesting today is how in the corporate world, even in big tech companies where one might naively think black triangles with explanations might be appreciated by more technically literate managers, working on these sorts of building blocks for big wins will often actually result in projects and teams getting axed. I’ve seen serious attempts at innovation get thrown out the window a number of times in favor of shiny demo projects that demo well but can never go much further. Black triangle projects require time investments that at least big companies only rarely bet on despite being in possibly the best position to do so.

I think a part of it is that humans, or at least those that make their way into management, are in large part very visual creatures. If you can’t show them progress in a traditional visual way you sort of have to figure out some contortion to show some visual thing to use as a proxy of progress to keep the faith. Sometimes it can be achieved through selling some abstract progress metrics about work remaining (most often entirely detached from reality) but that only works so long.

More often you end up knowingly spending a large percentage of resources on vacuous side projects solely because they demo well to management in the short term — it’s a distraction but a way to keep the faith and the resources. I find it funny how much time and energy we’re willing to waste to play the game — paying the souped up visual taxes for decision makers, while doing the real work independently, often in the dark because we know management will react short sightedly to the black triangles.
Of course, Apple is technically infringing here and not stealing and I'm using a metaphor.

Regarding the moral inconsistency, if we're talking about legitimately held intellectual property, I have a different attitude depending on if the powerful is taking from the disadvantaged, or the disadvantaged is taking from the powerful. My attitude towards Apple's industrial espionage of IBM back in the day is different than my attitude towards their industrial espionage of Masimo here. To bring up other contemporary examples, I support sci-hub and still consider XQC to be deplorable for infringing on the IP of poorer creators without due compensation. I tend to call the powerless infringers, and the powerful thieves.
with obsidian and IOS - you start a vault on your iphone it creates a vault in your icloud folder - then open the desktop client and open the vault from the icloud folder. perfect sync without subscription or git
I agree - car hire/share/rent works out great for these "one offs", but it's worth noting that these "niche situations" can happen pretty often, and it's entirely at odds with "getting rid of the automobile entirely".
Why do you think "best practices" are considered "best practices"? Is it because they lead to the most desired outcomes? If so, what do you think happens when best practices are broken?

Now I'll concede it's possible that RL can lead to finding new best practices. But that's not the case in the story relayed. It is only a good practice for the scenario because it was an unpiloted aircraft because it otherwise puts the pilot at too much risk (which is why the pilot say it was acting "as if" it had a death wish. He was anthropomorphizing it.) That still means it's bad practice when the goal is to save human lives.
These are all great questions.

1. Notes is completely open-source[1]. There are some awesome maintainers who help me fix and update things and sometimes even implement new features. When Plume will be released, of course, I'll put much less time into Notes (as already the case). But since Notes is licensed under MPL and Plume is built on top of it, all files used from Notes will be open source as well, so any improvement from Plume could be potentially incorporated into Notes.

2. The reason for creating Plume is that I always wanted[2] to create an advanced editor (a la Notion) but only recently realized how to be able to do it using C++ (handling the model) and QML (handling the view). I had to implement many things from scratch (undo/redo/copy/paste/multi-block-editing/etc).

3. I recently discussed my reasoning to go close-source[3]. I've been working night and day (every day) converting 4 cups of coffee into code for the last 4 months to create Plume. I don't want to risk not being rewarded sufficiently for it. But, I'm 99% sure that I'll either open source the core block editor or the entire app in the future.

[1] https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes

[2] https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes/issues/317

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38584960
I believe if you put really high prices like the big tech companies, you will get it!
I use org-roam in emacs.

I've also used obsidian and logseq.

Went back to org-roam, which I use very much like people use logseq.
I ran a hack week a few months ago about postgres internals and it was super fun!

There weren't prizes, it was just about getting ~100 devs into a discord for a week and seeing what happened. Most people who stayed involved posted an update once a day or so and as people wrote blog posts or published a project I added it to the hack week page.

I'm looking forward to doing more in the future on topics like compression algorithms or emulators or CPython internals.

I'd also love to see more companies doing hackathons not just about using their product but implementing minimal versions. How better to find out how devs perceive your product, let alone a chance to teach your community and identify potential hires! If you want to try this I'd be happy to chat with you about my experience!

https://eatonphil.com/2023-10-wehack-postgres.html
i think the real issue is inter-item inflation variability and its effect on perception and lifestyle.

Take beef. Its a 5x over last 20 years [1], while corn and chicken are about 2x, yet the price of a typical computer has
fallen year over year, which doesn't even take into account that the phone in my pocket probably out computes supercomputers two decades ago.

[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000703112
Common sense is what you call something when you can't explain yourself.
“What books do you want to read over again?”

That’s a good Ask: HN question

Do people here reread books?
One problem is the inherent assymmetry. Bambu gets to trivially copy open-source innovations like automatic bed-leveling or the corexy motion system without man-years of research. Then they get to use the saved time to improve upon those designs or the user experience but don't return anything back in return (for the most part, their slicer spawned Orca due to the software OS license). But now the OS community is at a disadvantage if they introduce something novel and keep it secret as they have to spend countless hours catching up, whereas the commercial entity can in turn just easily copy the community's new innovations and is free to spend the saved time to innovate in other areas again.

It would be nice if there was something like the GPL for "designs" or mechanical systems like automatic bed leveling where companies would have to open source their hardware and software implementation details in turn for using the "idea".
This is definitely part of it. People need to adjust to a new price reality, and while they think they want deflation they certainly do not want what a deflationary period entails is happening in the economy.
Why would it matter where they are being made? So long as those companies are good partners that align with Patagonia.

Many reasons not to be manufacturing in America and at the end of the day Patagonia afaik does not own much of any manufacturing themselves, it all happens through partners.
Ah. That make sense. I was confused by "compared with a year earlier."
If you do like 80-100mg, yes it def can be! Add freestyle yoga or deep house-cleaning and you’re in for a good day.
> that they could catch sophisticated liars who manipulate raw instrument data

There was no raw data manipulation, but fabrication of derived data. These kind of too-good-to-be-true results are easily auditable, if anything by replicating the experiment. The PI’s blind enthusiasm prevented her to do her due diligence.

> would you apply the same standards to yourself?

While I was in academia I checked basically every kind of raw biological data I was getting. Routine QC allowed me, for instance, to find contaminants in some of the reagents the lab was using.
BTW at Yahoo in the 2000s I learned that Manber had invented at least one new trade-secret algorithm while he was there. The one I ran across wasn't for string matching but it was a fairly basic kind of thing.
It’s uncommon in low paying retail jobs, yes. It is the busiest time of year.

It’s much more common in corporate jobs. So many people take vacation at that time that you can easily be unable to accomplish much at work otherwise. So either taking some of your vacation then or just having the whole place shut down is really typical.
HN is more than one person, but these two opinions are somewhat compatible: patents should not exist, but as long as they do Apple needs to comply with them, not be given a pass.
It’s not downvoted with over fifty upvotes.

It’s flagged.

Big difference.
Unless they've figured out how to let you store two bits per bit, it's still obviously a dubious claim. My x86 desktops have also had zswap for a decade, so whatever magic fairy dust they have can't be that simple.
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> "...Red Hat..."

Successful tech companies don't sell themselves, particularly to has-beens like IBM.
"In today’s filing, Apple’s attorneys claimed the $3 trillion company “will suffer irreparable harm” if the models remain off the shelves during legal proceedings."

lmaoo what a joke
I wonder if their patent is something like "This is a patent for measuring blood oxygen by using measurement tools and methods to determine the amount of oxygen in the blood", not unlike the 1990's "uses computers to store and transmit [health] information" patents.
Apple certainly isn’t a an innocent player here (they have shut down competitors with bogus patents), but that doesn’t mean the system isn’t completely broken.

The import ban is due to them using a technology that was invented in 1935, then improved to more or less match what Apple shipped in 1970. Ironically, the inventor from 1970 opted not to patent it. The history section of this article has a good overview: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_oximetry

On top of there obviously being prior work, the “court” that blocked imports is part of an expedited process, so even though the real court will definitely consider invalidating the patent (and will probably invalidate it) that hasn’t happened yet.

There are good examples in this discussion of Apple using equally bogus patents to block imports, but I hope something (maybe this case) becomes a poster child for this sort of legal abuse, and leads to real reform.
Let's just say that my initial reaction was: they must be dealing with staffing shortages. While it is fairly common for people to have time off around the holidays in Canada (which this decision also affects), the privilege rarely extends to retail employees. If anything, they are expected to work longer and harder between Christmas and New Years because it is still considered part of the peak retail season.
Not sure about archery and astronomy, but free board game meetups are pretty common. There’s normally plenty of people bringing games that you don’t need to bring any yourself.
> This is from C++23, right?

std::println is, yes.

> I wonder how available this is within compilers

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support says clang, gcc, and msvc all support it, though I don't know how recent those versions are off the top of my head.

In my understanding, with this specific feature, if you want a polyfill for older compilers, or to use some more cutting-edge features that haven't been standardized yet, https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt is available to you.
I was curious what this could be about, since I didn’t think Patagonia was a country/state/district/administrative area/whatever but a more general region there at the bottom of South America, and… oh; some company named itself after the region. Kathmandu, Patagonia, wonder if any other companies in this niche have pinched some other place’s name.
Or, they simply took the bait of 5% cash and were hoping some deals were going to be forthcoming.

You could say I'm one of those people. I want home prices to come down.

If the property-owning Boomers were to respond, in that housing-crash scenario, by voting for Trump, that'd be on them. I'm sick of being held hostage though.

You want me to choose a political leader? How about Mao, to shoot the landlords, or Khrushchev, to build some apartments?
We are already on post-neo-modernism.
> The vast majority of animals can't even recognize themselves in a mirror let alone conceptualize other planets, atomic structures, mechanical processes and forces, mathematics, abstract concepts, create social contracts, etc.

This is true, but it takes a great deal of creativity and awareness of a species, to create a “mirror-test” that applies to said species.

The naive mirror test is flawed. That’s not say most species will pass; just that it was laughably bad experiments that are being revisited.

> It's just....ridiculous to even be having a discussion on this. It's honestly akin to discussing vaccines with a COVID denier.

Why is it ridiculous? Nobody is saying humans aren’t smarter.

You’re looking at the end results of societies to prove that we’re orders of magnitude smarter; but take away our ability to write and record knowledge for the next generation: What are we left with? How scalable and robust are oral-tradition
cultures?

Also note that none of the things you’ve mentioned came naturally to humans: It took many millennia of trial and error to build up and even so it takes the threat of homelessness starvation for the majority to give a shit and learn this stuff.

Instead, I’d argue it takes a great deal of self-awareness and humility to tease out what gives us the leg up over other species, even if it makes some uncomfortable.
Exactly. I don't know where people get this about Apple. There are so many things that one could criticize Apple about, but older hardware support is not one of them
I worked for a medical company in ‘97 that had an SPO2 meter they thought was pretty special. That would surely be out of patent now. Wikipedia has the first example as 1935, and Minolta making the first commercial model in 1977.

Most of them have the sensor and emitter on opposing sides of an earlobe, or a finger. So maybe that’s the unique part?
1. That turns out not to be the case. Yes, nuclear currently is not built very efficiently, but the efficiency of the plants is so amazing that they are quite competitive.

2. There are several companies that are planning to build reactors in factories. Rolls-Royce is one. I was wondering where they're going to put all those reactors, and the only reasonable answer I could find was upgrading old coal plants.

In fact, that appears to be exactly the plan:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/rolls-royce-in-talks-t...

Pretty cool, when you think of it: all that big and heavy custom infrastructure is already in place. The reactor is built in a factory and shipped there.

And there are a LOT of coal powered plants in the world about to be or already decommissioned.
It still seems like a useful metaphor when talking about the interactions of higher level entities like corporations.
Sure, this would just desugar to normal control flow and be checked for linearity in the usual way.

I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "tie to the type," though? Just some kind of standard name for it? The benefit of linearity here is that you can change its signature while still getting the compiler to enforce its usage, so you probably wouldn't want it to look like e.g. Rust's Drop trait.
This was one of the early RFCs from the era when they were issued on paper..

One notable bit about this (and what caused it to appear in the RFC series) was that the conversation happened over the ARPAnet - it was driven over the network from USC, with ELIZA at Stanford and PARRY at BBN.
Ah, apologies. I misread your comment.

If you wanted to know the jiggler is safe, "just" write your own firmware and program a micro to do it.
I have to think about this sometimes. I worked in the feds a while ago, and the whole Federal Gov gets Christmas Holidays (Day, NY) (plus, usually you've got so much comp time [hour overtime -> hour comp time] built up anyways, the rest is paid.) And "In Lieu of" Holidays (if you miss the exact holiday). A lot of the time the President would usually also grant a half day or day extra (Christmas Eve).

I didn't think it was all that incredible at the time, yet 11 yearly paid holidays, really easy to earn comp. time, and kind of silly layers of special pay when you work tough shifts (working Sunday + Night Shift + Overtime + Holiday? A few special modifiers...) is really pretty incredible compared to some places.

Also, weird to see that Slack has just turned into the new email. "Should I even worry about my messages, or just let em pile up?"
This video is great but the guy is just not by any degree presentable to a wider audience.
I think the ideal situation is that the judge fines both sides for wasting everyones' time. IANAL tho.
Coding, debugging, random questions I would have searched on Google.
Jokes on the downvoters who thought kelp couldn’t turn sunlight into biofuel.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37885853
There's std::print
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Indirectly, as in I worked on both, and they are directly inspired by ideas from Smalltalk. Both Lively Kernel and Croquet were done by members of Alan Kay’s group.