skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. YouTube search has become smart about this, blending search with browsing. It typically gives you a handful of reasonably close matches, followed by a whole lot of wildly offtopic suggestions based on subscriptions, watch history, or who even knows. And this happens even when there would be more relevant results to show, i.e., there's not even a pretence of trying to give the N most relevant results. The game is to populate search with whatever users will click on.
Out of curiosity, do you know off-hand how torrent clients do it on filesystems that don't support sparse files? There must be either a preallocate-the-whole-thing step, or a gather-the-pieces-together-and-write-out-the-large-file step. The latter would seem to briefly double the disk space needed at the end of the download, so I suspect they do the former.
This drives me crazy. Local stock search is different on each store and most don't work correctly.

Try searching on Walmart to find local stock. You have to click "In-Store", then change the Fulfillment Speed to today and tomorrow to find things that are in stock. Except now they also show results from other stores, like Advance Auto Parts, and there's no way to filter that garbage out.

I tried searching Academy Sports for local stock. The list of items says it's in stock but when you go to the individual item it says it's OOS.

Lowe's and Home Depot local stock does seem to work reasonably well, for now.
For me it depends. I'm still fairly new and trying to find good solutions to things, so some times I might get hardly anything done because I'm just thinking about what to do or trying various stuff to see how an idea ends up. But when I'm doing things I know I can spend more than 8 hours working productively.

On average it's probably less than 6 hours of actually writing code per day though.
I love Logseq, would even more if the performance wasn't so bad on my phone. It doesn't feel like an Obsidian alternative, though. I mostly use it for journaling.
Shameless plug: my note-taking app[1] is built using Qt C++ and QML. I’m also working on a new note taking app with a revamped block editor[2].

[1] https://www.get-notes.com/

[2] https://www.get-plume.com/
They want a stay so the courts have time to make a decision, but last I heard from Masimo's CEO they haven't even come to the table to make a deal outside of court.

Why should good faith be extended to these thieves who are acting entitled to this technology even now and show no remorse or contrition? If they worked with Masimo they could develop an accurate FDA approved health sensor, but they want to sell their customers a second rate product that they stole and shoddily copied on the cheap.
I always have one of more pages of loose-leaf on my desk. It’s messy, but basically the lowest barrier to entry. And if I’m somewhere else and write something down, it goes in the pile with the other notes when I get back.

A few times a year, I open an org-mode file and start summarizing my notes. Those sheets then get put away, to help keep things a little less messy.
That is not a consistent position. If "alcohol free beer" doesn't contain the word "alcohol", then "chicken and rice soup" doesn't contain the word "rice".

Moving the argument into the realm of things that matter, chicken and rice soup is not a product that can be called "rice", and therefore isn't an appropriate response to a search for "rice". The title is irrelevant; if you're stocking rice with a fancy name and its title doesn't include the word "rice", that product still should show up in a search for "rice".
You’re describing the problem from a computer scientist POV. OP is describing the problem from a user’s POV. Nobody cares if there’s a subset of their query in the title. That item is not “rice”. No one is searching for “rice” and wants soup. They would search for “soup” then. Tokens aren’t all of equal value in a title, and this is a big part of why ecom search is horribly bad (I have spent years working on ecom search and partnering with vendors trying to improve it. It’s a hard problem.)
I would say instead:

The Right understands that positive perception of the economy rebounds to the benefit of the incumbent President and they want Biden to lose to the Republican nominee for partisan reasons.

The far Left understands that positive perception of the economy rebounds to the benefit of the incumbent President and they want Biden to lose to Trump, who they expect to be the Republican nominee, for accelerationist reasons.

The news media likes negative spins because public insecurity drives news media consumption.
Ours wasn’t called just amount, it was called “amount_usd” and represented the local currency. Fun times!
I'll try to take this as a serious comment, but I'm unsure because it displays a lack of awareness.

The goal of the project is to go where people want to go. The CAHSR project took in a lot of feedback as well as local political involvement to get to its alignment. Because of this process, it hits many major population centers and destinations throughout the state. It eventually will connect all three major metro areas (SD, LA, SF) as well as the capital city (Sacramento). Once complete the HSR will be the fastest door-to-door mode of inter-city transit for many of these destinations.
B&H and Adorama, photography stores, are closed on Saturdays because the owners are (Hasidic?) Jewish and do not work (make money) on the Sabbath. This includes (IIRC) online sales as well.

For a major holiday like Passover they are closed for the entire week.
Vim, emacs Org mode (if you consider emacs "light weight"), Joplin (from what I recall, it's been a long time), sublime text/vs code.
My favourite version of this is Arc, the location tracking "guess what you're doing" thing. For whatever reason, I've always had trouble with phone GPSs being occasionally inaccurate (no idea if it's iPhone - but it's happened over 10 different models - or WIFI assist or my network or London) and saying I'm, e.g. instantly 5 miles away, there for 30 seconds, and then back to where I am.

Arc will dutifully report this and I have to delete these segments even though it's not physically possible to make these movements.

Or if I get on a bus or a bike, it'll e.g. think I've gone walking -> bus -> car -> plane -> stationary -> bus in the span of 5 minutes and... just... apply some simple sanity checks, I beg you.

(Example from today where I haven't moved more than about 50ft. Parents [Car 2m34s 188ft] Parents [Car 1m51s 327ft] Parents [Car 2m42s 262ft] Parents [Car 3m 547ft] Parents [Car 1m54s 596ft] Parents [Transport 1m14s 99ft].)
> It's much more a matter of whether you want to do something small scale and fun, or whether you want to suck all the joy out of it by applying the same soul crushing constraints we already get paid to do in our day jobs. Bleh.

Amen. And further, what better prepares a programmer to assess the relative costs of implementing a thing vs using a library providing that thing than having attempted an implementation?

Learning by doing is a valid approach, and this can even be called fun.
I'm referring to the hardware, a blog post has been shared several times in this thread.
>An Analysis Of The Processes In The Trace Field

by

Wolgang Köhler and Hedwig von Restorff

>The effects of field formation in the trace field

Hedwig von Restorff

https://www.utsa.edu/mind/von_restorff_translation.htm
Because a lot of things are not solved at the language level as the language is bloated enough as it is. Instead they are pushed into the library.

Of course if the language was designed again from scratch it might settle on a different local optimum.

From your example above, the only bit I really dislike is the handling of universal references (forward and &&), but that's the best that programmers better than me were able to retrofit onto the language, so eh.
At https://www.categoricaldata.net we claim that symbolic AI is also generative, when eg used in data warehousing. Instead of eg new images, the generatively gives you new primary and foreign keys, new ontologies, contradiction detection, etc.
politicians, haha ...
Some times if I'm struggling to sleep I write down my thoughts in a slack DM to myself. That way I can forget about it and pick it up when I'm back at work.
To people who voted for Donald Trump in the last election, the economy crashed hard in January of 2021. It’s only gotten worse for them. This is of course nonsense, the economy hasn’t registered less than 1% annual growth the whole time, but feelings matter more than facts to people it would seem.

https://images.app.goo.gl/NkTBByuiRr1H4ZxX6
Sorry this article is incorrect as it gets. Bambu could have done the same thing with Cura or any other slicer program and Cura and Prusa are built on other open source projects so to say if they kept the doors closed it would have helped is not honoring all of the engineering efforts that came before the big names capitalized on it. What has actually happened is that Bambu figured out the market isn’t people that like to tinker with their 3d printer - the market is people want to print things to tinker with. They focused on their market and made a ton of small features that add up to a user experience that is nearly as simple as it can be allowing you to do something as easy as print from your phone. While Prusa finds more places to put PRUSA BY PRUSA ORIGINAL PRUSA on their machines that look like 3d printed hacker machines Bambu made their machines simple with a minimalist design that actually looks good enough to show your friends without them wondering how long you looked at the matrix to get it running.
The gossip is that FiveM mods are based upon same leak. They probably keep their build docs private.
You realise that you are living the cliche of the uninformed but highly opinionated relative at holiday dinners?

Your relatives are almost certainly in the right, just by vaguely following whatever the mainstream media is saying, even if they can't penetrate your carefully crafted wall of internalised propaganda you've thrown up.
I started working at a lab where I am the only SWE and everyone else is a scientist. I have a lab notebook, but I don't use it properly (thankfully nobody gets on my case about it). I usually just use it as a short-term working memory, but it helps me keep track of the progress I've made. It's nice to look back on something I was working on two months ago and see all my thoughts written down about which library to use or architecture to use. Looking back at my past struggles gives me a sense of accomplishment and progress.

That said, I usually try to preserve the results of my "experimentation" in documentation with the software, so I can share it with others. It's a good sign when people never talk about X to me, and I end up asking them if they ever used X and they tell me "I just used your documentation". Best feeling ever.
That's not the point. The point is you shouldn't need that crap in the first place.
We have a couple dozen pots/pans, collected from merging two households and a few decades of collecting pots/pans as needed.

So far we found one that doesn't work.
It shows up as important because it means you're well enough to go outside and be active. In other words, it's mostly correlation. The question is: is _all_ of it correlation or is there actually something else there too?
GitHub Release Asset Scanner
> I disagree with Dijkstra that it will do any permanent damage

Dijkstra's quote about people who learned programming with BASIC being beyond repair is obviously hyperbole, but given the number of programmers he taught, I'd assume he was seeing some significant difference that was important enough to prompt his statement.
Yeah, B&H doesn't allow you to check out online on shabbat. But you can browse the site and add items to your cart.
maybe: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37494449/
or https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36935365/
found by searching for mentioned researcher: Stavrinidou

also from 2015: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26702448/
Great recommendation on Relevant Search. I worked on an ecom site trying to improve search relevance for years, and it’s an incredibly difficult and challenging problem. Especially because it’s difficult to measure success, and execs would constantly come up with “hey why does this query not return exactly the results I expected” which led to a lot of resources spent optimizing a handful of queries based on executive input instead of based on query frequency and query result conversion metrics.
Saying that finder should sum file sizes in a way that accounts for this makes sense.

I'm not sure adding a separate "Sanity check" would help though. If the sanity check is that the reported file sizes shouldn't exceed the disk size, that's still a lie.

If you have 1000 duplicate 10GB files that are sharing storage blocks in the file system, that's either 10TB or 10GB of stored files depending on how you count it. Reporting 2TB because that's the size of the disk is a less accurate answer than either of those.
Disappointment in the permanent increases in prices. All else equal, people want deflation after a period of elevated inflation levels.
Foxconn and TSMC have good businesses on being suppliers to Apple. Sharp too until they got acquired by Foxconn.
And how do you revoque authorizatio to read it?
It has nice linking and macros, it is very painful when it comes to code blocks. It's also a bit weird that every paragraph is a bullet point. I prefer being able to write Markdown documents where not every paragraph is a bullet point.

For an example of macros, I have a macro that makes it so when I enter `{{mergerequest JIRA-1000, 2222}}` I get links to the JIRA ticket and the GitHub PR. JIRA-1000 is the ticket ID and 2222 is the GitHub PR number. Macros are really powerful and a lot of fun to customize.
> - The instantaneous transfer of value between two parties, without an intermediary.

This is the only one that isn't nonsense word salad. But it's simply not true.

The intermediary for a blockchain transaction is the group of people who run that blockchain.

The intermediary of PayPal is the group of people who run PayPal.

And so on. You can tell they are intermediaries because without them you can't transfer the value. There's no way to do it just between the two of you, you need this loosely organized group of people in between the two of you.

And that loosely organized group of people, it turns out, is WAY less reliable than basically every other option.
> I prefer to determine when I take my breaks. That's what PTO is for.

That's fine, I'm sure they have vacation time too, but it can get into being a coördination problem: if you want to spend time with friends and family during your time off, it may be hard to arrange the same days off. One benefit of holidays† is that everyone gets the same ones, and so large(r) gathers can happen.

† From the Old English for "holy day", where "holy" (originally) means 'set aside' or 'apart from'.
Why do you feel the need to use every single feature? Are you constantly joining new projects that use vastly different features? Most programmers find a handful of features that gets the job done, and keep using them. Your knowledge from 10 years ago (C++11) is still valid and useful.
I see a lot of love for Obsidian, so I want to offer an alternative that I loved this year: Joplin. It has become my go-to note taking app, and the main feature in my opinion: I give it AWS keys for a bucket I provisioned just for Joplin. My keys, my data, and someday if I want to build RAG on top of my notes database, I know it’s just a few S3 calls away.
Does anybody have a reference/example of a lab notebook for software engg ?

If I'm forced to log my thoughts/actions it comes out as either too terse(everthing feels obvious) or it's too verbose and it's often difficult to find the right balance.
The two situations are different. The Thai rescue had Elon exhibiting strange personal behavior. I never agreed with it.

When he admitted he built a staged rail company to subvert public high speed rail and encourage more sales of his cars, it strikes directly at the heart of his "mission" and "values" that are so adored by the auto & tech industries.
Is there any way to get a permanent link? If I wanted to share an idea with friends, how would I do that?
The UK doesn't think for itself much anymore when it comes to geopolitical disputes. They copy the decision making of the US almost always.

Have a look at this: https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/INTERAC...
For anyone interested, this 2-volume series is gold. The first volume deals with numerals and arithmetic, and the second with algebra, linear equations, quadratic forms, solutions to pell's equations, etc.

https://archive.org/details/historyofhindumathematicsbhibuti...
Oh it’s for copyright only. So what legal standing does Apple have and why didn’t they just pay the licensing fee? Unless they wanted litigation to go after these type of patents being sealed off?
Research citation & abstract, for other PDF-challenged individuals:

Braddy, Jon. “Utilizing the Octothorpe (#).” Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, April 2022. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i2.837.

”Felix Guattari’s ‘Schizoanalytic Cartographies’ acts as a methodological blueprint and can be used to explain a subject’s lack of expressivity when confronted by Foucauldian systems of discipline and punishment. Understanding mechanisms of regulation and control within a closed or open system is the purpose of cybernetics. This communication studies tradition emerged from the artificial intelligence work of Norbert Wiener’s data flows with the intentional purpose of steering people, thought, societies, and the cosmos towards—becoming. Using the analogy of the octothorpe (#) as a roadmap explaining the four cartographies (Flows, Phyla, Territories, Universes) as outlined by Guattari, this manuscript will analyze the film, ‘War Games,’ demonstrating schizoanalytic technique. Another layer of power over humanity is not a panacea, rather it ushers forth civilisation’s speedier, and predicted, demise.”

Here’s also a web version of the PDF, as processed by Readwise Reader: https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01hjkgjb3qb9408fk8pg8xap3x
agreed. the richest company on the planet with its massive army of lawyers are either incompetent and could not see they would be affected by an existing patent, or so egotistical that they felt they could bully their way around it. either way, that's not a good look for Apple in this.
You are seeing Covid associations where none exist.
It does, to the extent that you can’t normally take a 50mm shot and crop it to the same framing because of resolution limits - you’ll end up with a blurry 128x96px image. Maybe a fuji GFX could do it, but here the long range is what allows this particular image and perspective to be produced.
I'm not saying it's bad or impossible, just that Open Source was not designed with your employer use case in mind. If you want to use it that way and it works for you, great.

The thing is that support services aren't scalable. Many software businesses want a scalable source of revenue, that's why they go for cloud services.

They don't want to compete with copy cats, though, because they want monopoly-level margins.

Then they complain that Open Source won't let them have those astounding margins.

This is not an issue with Open Source licenses.
Becoming an adult is hard. It can be even harder if you live a sheltered, privileged life. Such as the life of the computer programmer. But to found a successful business, you need to be an adult. Or be sheltered by one (or more).

If you grow up programming, you are privileged: you are intelligent enough to create something complex, useful, and are probably competent enough to get a job whose starting salary is likely twice that of the average person. As an intelligent person, you may believe in a world run by logic and merit. The code either works or doesn't, has bugs or doesn't, looks clean or doesn't. You write good code, you get paid lots of money.

On top of all this, as you write code, you learn that there is a collection of people on the internet who have certain values and principles, and that you are actually using their work, for free, basically out of nothing but good will. This is inspirational, so you decide you will dedicate your life to the same. However, making something for free and giving it away means you can't pay for Mountain Dew. So you decide to make a company, so you can make and give away the code, and still make money.

There's a problem, though. So far you are still thinking like a privileged programmer. But [capitalist] business requires a different mindset. The values and principles of business are not those of the noble engineer. Business values profit, and its principles are based on solving a problem for a customer. But more than anything, business demands the will to compete, at any cost. This is dog-eat-dog. There's no room for generosity, unless you're already winning, and the generosity is ensuring you'll keep winning.

An "Open Source Company" is, by definition, nonsense. It's trying to combine two completely ideologically separate things, having both cakes, and eating them too. Sure, you can have a business that also makes open source. But your business can't be dependent on that open source to make a profit. If it does, then eventually you will have to come out from your shelter and get wet, or you will lose the business, and possibly the code too.

Most of the people in the world don't care about the values and principles of open source. They care about solving the many problems they have every day, so they can feed and shelter their families and still have some leisure time. Most people don't care about your software license. They just want to use a product that makes their life easier. And that's what a business is supposed to do. Open Source is a distraction from that aim. If you really want to solve someone's problem, do that first. Later, once you are very rich and successful, and have many different aspects of the business that generate profit, then you can release your code for free, without it becoming a distraction.

The people who value open source code may not like that your code is closed. But they will respect your honesty, and a product that solves a problem well. And you get to make something you like making, and solve problems, and feed and shelter your family.
(Context: https://learnmoderncpp.com/2022/12/07/applications-of-c23s-d...)

While the article describes why you'd want this abomination, honestly, I'd rather opt for the copy-pasted code

T& at(size_t x, size_t y) { return data.at(y * X + x); }
const T& at(size_t x, size_t y) const { return data.at(y * X + x); }

as something that's actually human-legible while also providing const-correctness. If the implementation is actually complicated enough, then sure, use the const_cast variation, but hide it away in a .cc file. This feels like a contrived example to show off new language features.

That said, I'd also rather use std::mdspan [0] if I had C++23 available, and not implement my own Matrix struct by hand.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/mdspan
>One third of British households have no car.

I'd like to believe that but judging by my neighbours I'm struggling to.
This isn't ending anytime soon.
I mean, US consumer culture also supports it. I have to admit that my brain went there yesterday. I got my kid Gift A for Christmas, and I should have also remembered to get Accessory B to go with it. But obviously most stores were closed. I briefly thought to myself "Hmm, I bet I could get it overnighted from Amazon--we know Bezos doesn't give his minions even a microsecond of time off!" But then I calmed down and acknowledged it's not urgent and the kid can wait until we get around to it. First World Problem but it kind of illustrates the US mindset. I was almost ready to get disappointed that STORES were not open and available to me on a widely-recognized holiday. Good grief!
Reads like another Sokal Hoax to me.