skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention the best touchpad in existence.

One of my friends loathes everything Apple does (on principle, basically) and has tried several times to convince me that the ThinkPad X-series is just as good (or better) than an M-series MacBook Pro. Testing it out for a bit, there’s just no comparison. Even leaving the software aside, the hardware is just leaps and bounds better from Apple.
How is this an improvement or even a goal in itself, though?

At best it is irrelevant (what should we care about people's ethnicity or 'race'), at worst it is a negative, cue social issues all over Europe.
> alot of work for micro companies. We already felt it with GDPR

No. No, you haven't. GDPR was literally a non-issue for micro companies, because all micro companies had to do with GDPR is not gather data they didn't need.

Same here: all you'll need to do is to do due diligence you already should have been doing to begin with
No. They want sites like savefrom.net - which is hit number one on Google.
Strong vibes of soviet pipe dreams. The ESA is by all intents and purposes irrelevant.
You only have to set up CI/CD once for each package type, afterwards all the packaging work is done for you automatically.

Ripgrep is also quite a large project (judging on both star count and contribution cout), so people probably volunteer to support their platform/package manager of choice.
Super interesting and I will try it out for sure!

But: The mode of operation is quite different from how GitHub CoPilot works, so maybe the name is not very well chosen.

It's somewhat surprising that there isn't more development happening in integrating Large Language Models with Emacs. Given its architecture etc., Emacs appears to be an ideal platform for such integration. But most projects haven't been worked on for months etc. But maybe the crowd that uses Emacs is mostly also the crowd that would be against utilizing LLMs ?
> in 235AD, a legionary was paid about 1350 denarii per year.
> 301AD, price of salt was capped to 100 denarii for about 17 liters of

There was massive inflation (by premodern standards) during those 70 years. The price edicts also caps the wages of semi skilled labourers at 50 denarii per DAY. So an ordinary person could supposedly buy 10kg of salt every day (of course in reality it must have been more expensive but the income-cost ratio in the edict might still be semi accurate).
vmcache: Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management [pdf]
Would pay if you had an option for removing any mention of streaks. Just a percentage of days i did that task over X range. I can’t be the only one that has a destructive relationship with streaks as a motivator.
You can buy access to the Google Search API, which is what I assume Kagi does. Building your product on being able to circumvent some Google restrictions seems like a bad business move, if you can buy the same service for a reasonable price.
still waiting for apple to release a 11-12 inch macbook with an M processor, nice screen,keyboard and touchpad. I mean something the size of a surface go. It's not for everyday use for sure (maybe only if you use a bigger display). But too often I want to bring a laptop with me and even the M1 MBA feels too heavy compared to my Surface Go 2. Even with a slower processor, I would take the surface just because it's so light, eventually I can take a dongle/hub from anker/other brands to have both a lite 'laptop' and a ton of ports
Strapdown.js is an on-the-fly Markdown to HTML text processor
Surface users: is Linux well supported there?
What about data export? Is it easy to get out?
It is the same using Google.
Aren't you exaggerating a little? My main PC has 16 GB and the only way I ever run into the upper bound is when I run a heavyweight Minecraft modpack.
20 years ago, at least in my circles, it was ubiquitous. Because we did it manually, no one had the time to linearly search out a regression.

(BTW sccs was 1972; no doubt it had predecessors. Before disks were large enough to hold multiple versions of a source tree we kept them on tape)
The escape hatch is where most low code products fall down, I think. This is because of market fit as you correctly point out, but not only that.

It's also because knowing where the escape hatch and how to use it requires greater than average development skill and finesse and it isn't at all obvious when this is required.

The people who use these platforms aren't usually able to tell what kind of problem requires a developer and what kind of problem requires them doing just a bit more research. They're usually vaguely aware that the limit is out there somewhere but in the specific instances when they hit it they often don't know it's happened.

I've also seen some low code platforms get a little excitable about the idea of nearly or even fully reinventing the turing complete programming language to introduce more flexibility to their platform and make that their escape hatch. This is when things go really downhill.
>"You have just spent a day refusing to hear it.*

No, I have spent a day trying to persuade you to explain it. Now, I'm prepared to accept that you can't.
This isn't intuitive to me. Isn't RSA actually more difficult to break with quantum computing than comparable ecc key strengths, simply due to the larger amount of data involved?

Put differently, I assumed that factorization of a 3072 bit number has a higher security margin than discrete logarithm on a 256 bit point on a curve. Is that not so?
> Boeing urges airlines to check its 737 Max jets for loose bolts

737 Max ? Wasn't this the aircraft with SW problems ? Now they have mechanical problems too ? I guess Boeing got all the way Agile.
> Back in the day people used a lot more salt than we do.[0]

Nobody needed 4-10kg salt per day (what a semi-skilled labourer and above could supposedly afford by ~300AD). The cost of salt by volume was about the same as wheat. So it was very cheap. Due to the bulkininess it was one of the worst medium of exchange someone could imagine. Just try to imagine having to transport to all the places where the army was stationed in. Absurd..

> Before refrigeration, salting (brining) was the primary method of preserving meat and fish in damp climates. Salt was used to treat olives for consumption

Yes. Not something legionaries probably engaged that much themselves in. Also their diet (just like everyone else's) was mainly grain based.

> Maybe they could make do with less than 200 liters a year. If they were economical with it.

I don't think this claim can be substantiated at all.
> “Twitter’s offer to pay him a bonus in return became a binding contract under California law,” US District Judge Vince Chhabria said in a ruling Friday.

In another article, it is said that the promise was an oral promise. [1]

> The company argued that an oral promise was not a contract and that Texas law should apply, but the judge found that California law governed the case. But, the judge wrote, “Twitter’s contrary arguments all fail.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/24/business/twitter-x-employ...
Sounds like you should start a company :)
"You can receive $100 but someone in the world dies at random"

I mentioned the above scenario to my wife and she said she thinks the majority of people would take the $100.

I don't know if she's right but I think in any country a large percentage of the population is apathetic about people they don't know (especially foreigners) and can be easily prodded to support genocide.
Mainly for the officers though. Of course kind of makes sense considering conscription became a lot more common in the later periods.
For the ad blocker results, the author judges the search engines by how they rank the best result (uBlock Origin), but I think that search results that point to Adblock Plus or AdBlock are good enough. Sure, they do not block all ads, and take money from advertisers to allow through certain types of ads, but they still block ads in general, and 'acceptable ads' can be disabled in the settings. So I would consider these 'good results', rather than 'bad results'/'very bad results' as the author does.
I searched with Chrome, perhaps that's the difference. Firefox also blocks some ads out-of-the-box even without uBlock, so maybe it was already blocked.

It could also be related to targeting, like time zone, location, IP address, age group etc.
I make a SQL-only website builder (SQLPage) that could be qualified as low code. I think all the points mentioned are valid, but some of them are easy to work around:

> They wanted truly custom functionality that the low-code solution could not handle.

It's important that the low-code solution has an escape hatch, or a way to to interact with external "high-code" APIs. In sqlpage, we have sqlpage.exec

> They implemented a bunch of custom functionality in a product-specific or even proprietary language and now their pool of potential developer talent is tiny.

I agree that low-code makes sense only if the low code is in a standard, popular language. In SQLPage, it's all just SQL.

> Upgrades to the low-code platform would break their custom implementation.

This is a true problem. The low-code solution really has to be careful with updates.

> The underlying database structure was an absolute mess, especially after a bunch of incremental modifications

This! Most low-code tools take your data hostage. You shouldn't use them. In SQLPage, we add a layer on top of a database that you still fully control.
Interesting fact: you can use the other Thunderbolt port and a regular Thunderbolt cable (with the Thunderbolt 2-3 adapter) instead of the permanently attached one (the one with the MagSafe power cable) so there’s less stuff dangling.
Thanks for the typo, fixed!
Post-quantum cryptography.

Even if QC hasn't achieved anything tangible yet, the side effects of
it looming are pushing things on.
I blame JavaScript and the deficient culture of insanity around it. The only things that are slow on any of my computers are honking great stacks of shit built on top of browsers with JavaScript. Sometimes I have three different fucking browser engines running these stacks of shit.
Well it was. Supposedly it cost about the same as wheat by volume (and salt is ~50% more dense). So it was dirt cheap.
What blockade?

They have a border with Egypt.
Why won't Egypt let them leave?

There was never a blockade because Israel never surrounded Gaza.
I have done poorly thought out versions of this. Reading this will make me a better programmer. I didn’t know much about git bisect. Will play around with it.

It’s magical to experience a short but sweet tip and you just _know_ that (programming) life got a bit easier. Good bang for buck blog post! A few minutes well spent.
>any comparison of systems against ChatGPT that isn't using ChatGPT 4 can be dismissed almost out of hand

Does everyone or even most use ChatGPT 4? The most used version is -of course- by far the most relevant.
You should never go into politics's, now you made two main-group's mad, the Thinkpad lover's AND the Cherry "lovers", you now have only one minor group left who is not salty and that is the Plan9-Front who exclusively works with a 3-buttom mouse and drawterm ;)
Unrelated.

They are hungry because Hamas is stealing the aid: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/palestinian-terri...

And not because there is not enough aid brought in.

Hamas are to blame here, Israel does not stop any aid truck from coming in.
The same reason they wouldn't go one step further than that and say more time with my family.
The word lists are frequently updated to cover innovations in language. E.g. you'll be allowed to play VAX and ZONKEY starting in 2024.
You mainly eat a grain based diet. Consume 2000+ calories and manage to "enter" ketosis? That's extremely remarkable...
Have you tried uBlacklist?
Yeah true he has been on other things recently.
> I don't want to go into the "who's to blame because" arguments since to do this you need to pick a cut-off date

No, why would you have to? As I said:

> Everyone is responsible for what they do

There is no giant blob called "war" and you now weigh the responsibility of one of two "sides" for that blob. That is precisely my point. The crimes of Hamas do not take one iota away from the crimes of Israel, and vice versa. They each commit them against innocents.

Our opinion as "judges" or "referees" is not so relevant as what we are directly or indirectly responsible for, and what we aren't. Hamas has nothing to do with me, the US and Israel use me, so I need to speak out in clear terms or be responsible.

It's not a complex situation where both sides are kinda bad and we just can't figure out who gets the blame and who gets to get away scot-free. Israel is committing genocide. Hamas is a terrorist organization, that didn't change, and people who support it should be cut off. The same with the right-wing extremists in the Israeli government and those supporting the genocide committed by them. It's just a principle, applied to all comers without respecting the person. As it should be.
Ask HN: What low risk passive income makes you feel secure?
I don't want to start yet another net worth for retirement/semi retirement thread. Because, 1. There is no right answer. 2. Text bookish answers like 40 or X times annual expenses don't take retained earnings and inflation into consideration.

Lets put it this way. What passive income (pre tax) makes you comfortable, if you were to put all your current net worth ( Which excludes the house you live in) in a very low risk instrument, say a 10 year government bond?. Keeping in mind, 1. The retained earnings are large enough and it will be redeployed. Hence will keep compounding. 2. Occasionally, you may have to dip into the investment for one offs.

I know there is no right answer for this question as well, since it depends on the individual. But is 360k USD per year considered decent? I know it depends on the city. But I have used a normalised number of 360k to keep it simple. (Actually I have used 1 crore per year (10 million INR) Indian rupees in this example. Converting it to USD based on the purchasing power)
I remember 40 years ago as a small boy all the talk about 'abnormal weather' - abnormal weather happens, I guess to put any stock in subjective claims about abnormal weather, maybe it is better to bring 300 years of data or something.

Blaming forrest fires on global warming when ignoring lapses in forrest management, seems a bit problematic too.

After listening to both experts and sceptics as much as I can, all I can say is I don't know for sure, but my suspicion is that scepticism is healthy to keep.

Whenever people insist the debate is settled, or that there is not time for debate, be extra sceptical.

Otherwise, for me, I tried to get really deep into the guts of this, to try and figure out what is really true, and determined it impossible for me at this time.

I did find a ton of lies and bad arguments, quite a bit of it on the 'official position'.

All I can say is, if you really care about the environment, don't use lies and dishonest arguments to win in the moment, you just turn off more people from wanting to support you.

I don't have my huge stacks of notes anymore, a Phd in Chemical Engineering friend who is very pro the official position had to concede that I had indeed demonstrated important peer reviewed published lies/deceptions in a few instances.

Haven't touched the field in many years.

I was just curious about the question, can a generally inteligent person with a basic science knowledge build up from first principles and eventually properly. understand climate change and determine beyond a shadow of a doubt what is true?

So far, I have to remain agnostic on this question.

Which is itself a dire warning to a field that claims so much certainty when making trillion dollar policy recommendations.
> Operation Igloo White was a covert United States joint military electronic warfare operation conducted from late January 1968 until February 1973, during the Vietnam War. These missions were carried out by the 553d Reconnaissance Wing, a U.S. Air Force unit flying modified EC-121R Warning Star aircraft, and VO-67, a specialized U.S. Navy unit flying highly modified OP-2E Neptune aircraft. This state-of-the-art operation utilized electronic sensors, computers, and communications relay aircraft in an attempt to automate intelligence collection. The system would then assist in the direction of strike aircraft to their targets. The objective of those attacks was the logistical system of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) that snaked through southeastern Laos and was known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail (the Truong Son Road to the North Vietnamese).
And you have to go back 4000 - 7000 years to get to a time when "diets were mostly meat" in Europe and the Middle East.
This is amazing, I was maintaining my own custom solution that did this.
I'm agreeing with everyone who says this is terribly confusing.

It also is flawed in that if I wanted to spin, for example, BED, I could not - it would spin once BE was clicked.

Edit: I see in other places you explained how to do longer words. But that just proves the point. This needs a serious refactor of the UX.
I'm also in the same camp who think search results from Google is very good but ChatGPT based search with RAG is better, granted it's a paid version. The latter however is kind of experimental, personally would love to have another column on ChatGPT with RAG (Bing) and the fact the author ignored RAG is rather strange.
He increased from 4-8A over a period of over 5 minutes. After going to 10A the fuse failed instantly.
> if you need a payment plan to pay off a book, you're in a very dark place and you probably should simply pirate it

You appear to be arguing against buying a house/book when I wrote about building/writing?

As in, if I write a book, and then thanks to copyright law own the right to make copies (hence the name) I and my estate get to make money from every new[0] copy sold for 70 years after death. That's what I'm saying smells like rent.

[0] But not re-sold copies because first-sale doctrine, and I hope equivalents but that's a US law and I don't know what if anything is the equivalent in my jurisdiction, but I hope there is.
A future for SQL on the web (2021)
That's showing one instance of Hamas stealing food. And you just go "so obviously, the whole situation is their fault case closed who cares". You're not even trying to hide it.
How does it work? Are all of them have just one password, or is it login and password for each member? Is it Hugo built-in?
> There is an organization called Ondsel which is taking on a lot of UI and assembly bench improvements,

They don't have any screenshots on their site.
> or we accept this doesn’t provide significant benenfit beyond enforcing branch protection rules and restricting pushes based on SSH keys.

This seems wrong. It ensures you can't push commits on behalf of a third-party since it would require their keys. Auth and branch protection only covers write access and allows you to push any unsigned commit.

I wrote a piece about signing with certificates instead of keys [1]. Unfortunately most of the issues highlighted in this post hold true for certificates too.

[1] https://sayr.us/git/ssh-sign-ca/
On the contrary that type of complaining and soft diplomacy does have a real effect. Israel's isolation on the world stage informs a lot of the decisions israel makes currently and has made in the past that lead to the present day.

Its not a "do this or else" sort of thing, but it definitely has had a major effect on regional politics.

Arguably one of the main causes of the current war is israel-saudi normalisation. So you could say that this yelling is so important to some factions that arab countries backing away from it triggered a major war.
I also got in GNU/Linux in 1998. Dipped my toes with Mandrake, then Debian, and around 2012 switched to Kubuntu.

Now I'm in the process of moving my desktop computers to Archlinux, to enjoy better control and up-to-date software.

Servers I keep in Debian for the same reasons you mention: stability and safe automated updates.
One example was when they decided to test out the idea of sending particular kinds of price change notification emails to users. They created one checkbox on a form our users could click and set up a trigger to fire notify somebody in the Philippines who would construct the emails manually from the database. They then iterated on those emails, creating them manually the whole time.

Once the email was iterated upon and the idea was proven (i.e. that users actually wanted it in the form that existed), it was handed back to me to automate properly, which in that case took about 7-10 days of dev work.

Or not, if it turned out the customers simply weren't interested. There were plenty of experiments like that where I created a checkbox or something and then we quietly removed it 2 weeks later.

It was a refreshing change from past jobs where I'd spent weeks working on a feature asked for by users that we were so sure would be a game changer only to see 1 or 2 people actually use it.
Thanks, this showcases the product very well.

Looks like I won't use it though, cause I like how Microsoft's copilot and it's implementations in emacs work: suggest completions with greyed out text after cursor, in one go, without the need to ask for it and discard it if it doesn't fit. Just accept the completion if you like it. For reference: https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el

That, coupled with speed, makes it usable for slightly extended code completion (up to one line of code), especially in a highly dynamic programming languages that have worse completion support.
Yea also seems in poor taste when the main application is probably a weapon for the military.
My top 2 (incognito) are blog posts from pcmag.com and zdnet.com listing 5 ways to download YT videos. Maybe it's blogspam, but the listed services seem valid at first glance.

savefrom.net is the 5th result (2nd page underneath 5 youtube videos)

Edit: This is from the US. If i had to guess, these are regional differences. What country are you in?
> compressor comp.exe of size S1 that compresses enwik9 to archive.exe of size S2 such that S:=S1+S2 < L

That criterion is rather more complicated than just taking the size S2 of archive.exe
There is no logical meaning to the sum of the size of a compressor and its output that I can see.

Disregarding the compressor size would make this contest easier to understand as simply trying to determine the Kolmogorov Complexity (i.e. information content) of enwik9.
I looked for the motivation of including compressor size and only found this in the FAQ:

> By just measuring L(D)+L(A), one can freely hand-craft large word tables (or other structures) used by C and D, and place them in C and either D or A. By counting both, L(C) and L(D), such tables become 2-3 times more expensive, and hence discourages them.

Discouraging word tables seems like a weak and somewhat arbitrary justification for complicating the measure of merit. I don't think the contest would be any less interesting if the nature of the compression would be disregarded. One could even argue that compression of Wikipedia taking way more resources than decompression is justified by having to perform it only once, while its result could be decompressed millions of times.
I wouldn't - 100 dollars is not worth a death on my conscience. (I do not live in a rich country and 100 dollars is not a trivial amount for me.)

Perhaps if the choice were more drastic: you can get a life saving treatment for free, but someone else dies at random, then my choice would be different.
Searching for "fedplot" looking for https://github.com/sergiocorreia in the results:

Qwant: Result 1

Bing: Result 1

Google: Result 2

Marginalia: Zero results

ChatGPT 3.5: Some Federal Reserve dot plot nonsense and no useful results.