skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's slower, tbqh. It choked on a decent sized Rust project (scrolling became laggy/unusable) that VS Code handles fine.
Ok i have added zen-mode(no picture) and high-contrast(full black and white) in version 2.0.4. I hope this helps!
Patagonia still makes their garbage with slave labor in the third world.
If we are talking about alphabet as Alpha, Beta, etc...

but not sure What your point was here:

> The alphabet was invented once, in Greece around 700 years ago. How could nobody else think of it?

As there were other writing systems before.
I tried it last month and loved having Alacritty there. It built easily and ran well on both OSX and Fedora Asahi Linux.

That said, it does not seem yet ready to be a daily driver, small rough edges in the terminal behavior or the editor when using Vim mode were too distracting to do a long programming session.

Kudos to the authors, looking forward to giving it a spin again the future.
> it made it easy to pull hundred of MB of nodejs dependencies

That's exactly what "more embeddable" is. It made itself easier to turn into Node.js, Electron, etc. I don't think it was a pure coincidence.
Cull the herd.
I am not sure that is a good thing or bad thing?

I cannot seem to find in the paper if there is a bias in selection of fact checkers. How is it measured and mitigated in fact-checking?

The second part is fact-checker qualification. How is the fact-checker's expertise in the checked article measured? There is reference to quality based on quantity of "fact-checking articles" written, but that, even under the best circumstances cannot be considered expertise in the subject of the fact checked article.

What I would like to see is explicit & published procedure of fact-checking by every fact checking organization.

That is, as a process something like:
Article to be checked --> extract statements --> verify statements through predetermined sources --> result.

I think it would eliminate most (some?) of the distrust with fact-checking.
It is a bit of a culture shock for me to see someone describing this car as "small" (how I understand "econoboxes"). This car is far from small.
> Fair enough. I was providing alternatives, not prescribing a single solution.

Yes, I agree completely. Sorry that I gave a different impression.

> Xournalpp, is free and open source. It is actually a fork of an older software called Xournal. If it stops being developed, C++ compilers aren't going anywhere, I'll compile it myself -- beyond that it's just pedantic to discuss what and what won't be possible in decades.

Few users will compile anything, and eventually incompatibilities arise between the application and the latest platform. My PDF reader functions fine with documents that are decades old - that is part of the PDF specification; it's not pedantic, it's deliberately and successfully engineered.

> PDF readers on the other hand, especially proprietary ones have a bad habit of, for lack of a better word, enshitifying (cloud, saas, subscription, etc). I've had PDF editors corrupt my PDF as well, my fault for not having backups I suppose, but I've avoided them since.

There are many, many PDF readers. I have no problem finding a good one (I agree, stay away from Adobe, which you seem to describe). Yes, I'd be careful with PDF editors - that's not really what PDFs are designed for afaik.
How Google Maps' technology works
I like knowing something is written in Rust because (1) the staying power of a language has implications for the staying power of the project (how many Ada projects do you see nowadays?) (2) I write Rust so I'm more likely to contribute to this, (3) I care about the safety and speed implications of language choice, but most of all (4) building from source usually isn't a pain with Rust's Cargo, but it is for most other languages.

All these things materially impact how interested I am in using and contributing to the project.
They have a donate button. Which is all about subscriptions. Which is why I went away without even doing a one time donation, as my original intention was.

I deeply resent being pushed into subscriptions and you should too.
Label the things unsafe that are currently banned. Not everything is currently banned, is it?
It's not the GUI itself. A console application in a window is still a gui rendering console text. It's the fact that Vscode and jetbrains use a high level language/engine that makes it slow.

For jetbrains it's java and for vscode it's an html rendering engine. An IDE built from vulkan or some other low level graphics API can likely be even faster then vim depending on the console it's running within.
Can you provide any cites?
Who said anything about hands? I'm trying to make an analogy between shuffling a deck and shuffling xkcd comics. I thought having a visual, physical analogue would perhaps help in seeing that randomness still exists in a shuffle.
The coconut crab is more like a tree lobster than these stick insects:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/coconut-crab

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

Coconut crabs can climb trees and hunt birds.
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Updated how? By what? Who is going out and investigating the world to write about? An AI does not have LEGS it can not go outside and go talk to someone and interview them, it can't attend a press conference without human assistance.

You have not at all explained how an AI is going to somehow write a news post about something that has just happened.
IANAL but aren't the key terms there "selectively banning" and "publicly available"?

NYT articles are largely behind a paywall for everyone. That means they are not publicly available, and a competitor who was blocked from accessing or reproducing that content without a license would not be "selectively banned"
It makes more sense when you see the wreckage. The entire booster looks like it is made of very thin metal. It is falling on its side just before impact so it has maximum drag at that stage. I would guess it is going 100km/h or less.
That's why you don't pay for news?

There are browser extensions that block ads. They are called ad blockers.
That’s a bit of a stretch. You’re not allowed to start a business selling cocaine.

You’re not allow to start an airline without adhering to regulations.

You’re not allow to sell certain unapproved pharmaceuticals or medical devices.

This is a relatively narrow scope.
> How does someone know that a particular application is something lives depend on? Either your lawyer, insurance company, or regulator explicitly tells you.

To make an analogy to the physical world. We have a company, B, that makes bolts, they publishes the characteristics of that bolt but do not certify it for any particular use.

Company C makes cars and decides to use bolts form company B. It turns out that is not a good choice since company B bolts do not have the characteristics that are need to use in a car.

The CRA from the a simple reading used in the discussions here[1], holds company B responsible for company C using the bolts in a way where peoples lives depend on it.

This sort of reuse can be much more common in software than it is bolts for example and just like company B did not control how company C used their product after buying it open source developers do not control how others use there software but CRA might make them liable for it.

This does not make sense to me, company C should be liable for their choice of bolt, company B should be liable for any false or incorrect claims for the characteristics of their bolt. Company B should not be held liable for the misuse of their bolt by company C which is what the CRA seems to do.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788919
https://neon.tech/blog/change-data-capture-with-serverless-p...
Average new car transaction price in the US is $48k.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43611570/average-new-car-...
> But it would almost definitely have to be species that never got to the "expand rapidly into other solar systems" phase.

It's certainly not a given that our species will ever do that or that we'll last long enough to do that.

> This doesn't preclude us knowing about that 1.

Let's say we're the 1 currently in the milky way galaxy. There could be another in the closest galaxy the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy which is 25,000 light years away. But being able to detect a signal from 25,000 light years away... well, that's the problem. And what if they're just getting to the point where they could transmit a signal now? So maybe in 25,000 years we'd notice something... maybe? (if we're still around) As far as physically traveling 25,000 ly, well we know that even trying to go 1 ly is going to be super difficult technically. Similar problems even if there's an intelligent species on the other side of our own galaxy since it's 52K ly across.
Part of the problem is the ranchers don’t have good tools to repel the wolves. They can’t kill them. Wolves get around fences, kill guard dogs, etc. They are persistent, smart, and learn, so they can learn to defeat traps, and quickly lose their fear of non-lethal deterrence.

You might be tempted to say, ok tough luck then, ranching is just over. But the public does like the product (beef), and ranchers will fight all the harder if your proposal is an existential threat to their way of life.

With time, the loss program, and involvement with wildlife management, hopefully good methods will be found.

If it was as simple as build a fence and tolerate a little risk, we wouldn’t be stuck in this debate.
For starters, it doesn't seem to use a browser engine to render its UI. Seems to aim for a VSCode look and feel. Installation on macOS is about a third of the install size of VSCode (105 MB vs 330 MB), and it's a single statically linked executable (vs a plethore of files in a VSCode installation).
Yeah, I can't shake the feeling it should be possible to mass produce most of the difficult bits, and then have a per-site specific foundation of sorts.

Then again, perhaps it is one of those things where you actually need to make a few of 'em to gain experience.
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There was a flash game called Tanks that looks a lot like Scorched Earth, AI was bugged in that it would purchase better weapons but never actually use them, tons of fun to play against others though.
Legality aside I think copyright of digital things in the digital age is a net negative to humanity.
It is completely disputable. Why did Walker have to manipulate the graph if it wasn't embarrassing? And if you don't believe the 'less sleep is good for you' part of the graph, why do you believe the 'more sleep is good for you' part of the graph?
> Besides those, I don't understand what I'd want to sync.

I think it's useful to sync extensions, and personal configurations.

For example, I have a userchrome.css (or something like that) file that, for the news.ycombinator.com domain enforces a maximum width on paragraphs, so that on my really really wide screen I don't get 900 characters per line, I get 78 or so.

Without sync, I simply copy the files to the correct profile whenever I buy a new machine. With sync, I wouldn't have to.
>I don't think this is the most effective way of distributing capital, but wouldn't call it nothing.

I think this is the scary part. Ballmer has billions, ok. This extreme gilded age we're living in doesn't end when Ballmer, Musk, Bezos, etc... die though. Their great grand children are guaranteed to wield far more power than anyone you are related to or know and that doesn't sit right with me.
And that makes sense, since in some countries Master’s degrees are dime a dozen. PhD still means something
Related:

Lapce Editor 0.3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38262775 - Nov 2023 (98 comments)

Lapce – A code editor with LSP and DAP support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38100570 - Nov 2023 (2 comments)

Lapce Editor, Release v0.2.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32714191 - Sept 2022 (40 comments)

Lapce – Fast open-source code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30708505 - March 2022 (224 comments)

Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29549173 - Dec 2021 (145 comments)
> I'm not a neuroscientist, i have no idea.

ok!
Thanks. (And I think I've seen you quote that here before. I just didn't realize that this was what you were referring to.)

Next question: How did C do that? By becoming dictator? No, it did it by persuading people that C was a better direction than those other ecosystems. That is, the other direction lost the debate. How and why?
The IDE is only going to be as fast as the slowest LSP service you’re using.
Stalin was a smart guy, right? (or maybe we give up stupid generalisations)
An additional critique is that surely one of the many true-believers in old-school Internet ideals of freedom and openneess could lead for 1/10th the compensation

Then put the money saved towards allocating tens more top, full-time, aligned engineers to projects.

When I see leaders of a non-profit personally drawing more than is necessary to lead a comfortable life, I see a conflict between the mission and personal enrichment.

(There's the argument that non-profits need money, and supposedly you can't get good people to generate money except by hiring people who are personally money-motivated. But the evidence I see is that it looks like money and power potential attracts self-interested careerists, and you get people building fiefdoms, and incestuous relationships among them. Get an honest, smart, true-believer board, and anyone who tried to draw millions of dollars in compensation, or assemble an org chart of careerist execs, would get a regretful, "Sorry, this isn't that kind of 'non-profit' vehicle for wealthy executive lifestyles and careerists, and we don't seem to have alignment", as they gently dropkick the misaligned people out the door.)
But it contradicts what you say because I cannot use it to support other people.
If you're looking for ethics and sustainability in software, https://www.fsf.org/ is a good jumping off point. The Microsoft-pioneered approach of ruthlessly destroying the endeavor you're involved with but then giving away some of the ill-gotten gains to worthy causes in other areas is utterly disingenuous and dishonest. Touting a deployment of needlessly centralized servers as being somehow better for the environment is just basic greenwashing. The ethical thing would have been to not create that type of user-disenfranchising system to begin with.
Oh, I do agree there are significant differences between the ways countries conduct themselves. It's just that i do hold the EU and the US to higher standards because that's what they have been promoting.

False advertising is a very serious offence in my book. Wouldn't move to Russia unless they change course.
im not the dev but what you're wanting is completely unreasonable. No note application does this and this would slow down the application without having any additional benefits
A non-uniform probability distribution is still a probability distribution, and, as long as it doesn’t assign probability 1 to any particular outcome, is still “random”.
Interesting. So as a hobby photographer I should only publicly release physical prints? An interesting idea.
The person you quoted seems to have just generated this hypothesis out of nothingness, so it isn’t as if they are on super solid ground in the first place. However, I think it is worth pointing out that we’re all vanishingly small percentages of the population; your existence doesn’t tell us much or contradict them, I guess.
China has had more than 150 modern bridges collapse. Some of them collapsed in less than a year. China is not building or maintaining bridges any better than the US.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268466718_Statistic...

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-19365886
Use GPL so the project can go on longer than the company.
It would be unlikely to be something you'd find paying customers for, though? I suppose if you charged a small percentage of what NYT charges people might be willing to consider it, but you'd have some costs for hosting etc., so I am skeptical about its viability as a business model...
> I often talk to people who argue about whether it exists or whether governments can be sophisticated enough to launch these kinds of campaigns.

Still need to argue it exists?

IT EXISTS.

Edward Snowden smuggled out proof and Glenn Greenwald wrote about it in 2014 for crying out loud!

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
discussed a few months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015592

Moz seems like a controlled opposition at this point.
There are those of us that still use it :) productivity gains lie elsewhere. And running various maven and git commands from command line instead of clicking around... something about keeping the skills in better shape
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar (or any flamewar). It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> IBM sold some compact keyboards with integrated TrackPoint and touchpad pointing devices, which take no more bench space than a laptop does.

It's not the greatest keyboard for typing, but the Logitech K400 is a decent modern alternative for such purposes. You'd need a USB-to-PS/2 adapter, though:

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wireless-Keyboard-Touchpad-P...
https://www.beep.blog/io/
I'm not sure whether the issue is stack complexity / depth, but there is definitely something in the culture where it's common for docs and how-tos and Q/A to tell you what to do, the steps/commands/etc, but to do little to help you build any kind of relevant domain model.

This isn't exactly new, there's always been documentation like this, but I think the proportions have changed dramatically since even the early 2000s.

One of my vaguely defined theories is that as valuable as automation is, the culture of automation / process has started to diffuse and act as an influence on how we think, in steps & commands rather than models.

Possible that we've always been steps-results / input-output beings, but I wonder.
There’s a job board for companies that share certain values with respect to how they treat their employees that comes to mind: https://peoplefirstjobs.com/

But I’m not sure if this fits what you are asking for exactly.
Rule 1 of the Internet: If you put it on the Internet, it's not yours anymore.

You don't have to agree with it. You don't have to like it. But if you accept it and live by it, it's much harder to get burned.
PDP-11 replica kit: the PiDP-11
Hi, there is some PiDP-11 available in Tindie.

https://www.tindie.com/products/19387/

Happy New Year!
Ask HN: If you fed a D&D adventure book into AI could the AI be Dungeon Master?
Just curious to know.

Say you took a Dungeons and Dragons adventure book, which describes an adventure and usually requires a Dungeon Master to guide the adventurers and bring it to life.

https://www.google.com/search?q=d+%26+d+adventure+books

If you fed that adventure book into AI could the AI then be the dungeon master?
our company runs computations to allow investors to run this analysis (yourstake.org), though the market demand for ESG (environmental social and governance) investment analysis has sharply decreased this past year.
mozillian usually means mamagers. unless they are really old timers.
https://lfaidata.foundation/projects/
There’s a lot of comments here and in the article - and in previous (honestly better) articles by others - about the lack of sunlight, and it’s definitely a thing, but we ensured junior was outdoors for the majority of his waking life and he still needed glasses at age 9. Later than me (age 6) but we put him into MiyoSmart lenses as soon as we could and they have definitely arrested the progress of his myopia.

In fact, there’s been no change in his prescription in a year.

In fact, one side went down 0.25 as my brilliant UK Opthalmologist deduced that he was not in need of it, and many kids opt for a slightly higher power than they need during the tests. Not to be fooled, this doc. The previous tests, the first, were conducted in Germany on similar equipment, but without a master sleuth operating them.

In short - MiyoSmart lenses are fricking brilliant and kids should be put into them immediately if they need glasses. They are twice the price in Germany than in the UK, like most things, but at least we had the choice.

When I was a lad, they only had a chart of ever-shrinking letters and can-you-tell-the-difference-between-Mickey-Mouse-and-Goofy-in-this-comic before they bolted a stronger pair of goggles on, fast forward 44 years and I’m a -10, and could well have been worse had I not found my optician 31 years ago. Now we monitor my eyes for diseases and potential retinal detachment.

But yes, be outdoors AND have passionate experts looking out for your vision.
This is another dishonest talking point.

With most tech jobs if a person has a computer science background they have the skills.

The company is just lying to justify outsourcing.
https://www.bellacanvas.com/usa-strong is WRAP Certificated and is good. The Free Software Foundation endorsed vendors like Think Penguin etc. are ethical too.
That seems "open a bug" worthy, for a "lightning-fast" editor.
Yup, that's the other side of the dodecahedron.

As I understand it, it's the copying that can lead to infringement.

Then again if you have acquired a legitimate copy, you should certainly be able to retain it and use it for reference.

But for training a model on someone else's data I wouldn't even want a copy.

Just skim the data and retain my own thoughts.
The list of available Linux packages seems to be here:

https://github.com/lapce/lapce/blob/master/docs/installing-w...
Right; nobody is claiming that Firefox is doing well. But that downward trend is not proportionate with the claimed global downward trend; it's much smaller.
I had this experience making an iOS game. After a few years of making the game, I went back to it, and found that I was unable to get it to compile. I guess iOS games are very warm blooded. Perhaps if I had stuck with a desktop platform or web it would have remained fine? Not entirely sure.
Smaller cars are less available. They have longer wait times and higher dealer markup. In the article, the two smaller cars mentioned aren't even sold in the United States.
I disagree. Tiny libraries can be fine indefinitely. For example this little library which inverts a promise in JavaScript.

I haven’t touched this in years and it still works fine. I could come in and update the version of the dependencies but I don’t need to, and that’s a good thing.

https://github.com/josephg/resolvable
> You're the one presenting unfounded claims with confidence here.

No, I'm not. On the contrary, I'm really looking forward to this case because I believe it will be a great test of a bunch of concepts that are totally novel in the world of copyright law as it applies to generative AI. The only things I am presenting with confidence are:

1. That anyone who declares that something is unambiguously fair use (or, contrarily, unambiguously infringing) is likely wrong. There is simply too much latitude by judges, and there have certainly been cases where a ruling went one way, only to be overturned on appeal.

2. While I certainly have an opinion on how I think this case will be decided, I'm not presenting that with unwarranted confidence. Instead, I linked that great article on the 4 factors of fair use determination because it's clear to me lots of people are saying "fair use!" on one side or the other with no understanding of the factors judges must actually consider when making a determination.
Capitalism has failed, it's true. But communism and its handmaiden, socialism, have too, and this is provable mathematically. It's time to return to either fascism or monarchism. Discuss.

>n-noooo you're not supposed to think that