skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Documentation to code is what a database index is to database data. You can do full table scans but indices speeds up things by orders of magnitude. Similarly you can piece a big project picture together by reading all the code, but it will never be as fast as reading a good architectural overview or a description of concepts.

But, as a corollary, do not document what can be inferred quickly by looking at the code. I think that doc generators from code doctrings are not very useful.
The ready availability of Arduinos and similar technology has brought a lot of people into that scene who are not aware of what all is available to them, what all the bits and bobs are, and what you can bash together with a few resistors and capacitors hooked up correctly.

People like me. I think I can call myself tolerably good at programming, but I can easily tell I'm much more newb at EE and I can really only operate with things that have clearly defined outputs that match up to some other input. Where you may see trivial conversions you could bash together in your sleep, I see an output that doesn't match the input and don't immediately know where to go with that.

In my case, I'm able to follow the post just fine, but if I had to put that circuit together from scratch from first principles I'd be looking at weeks of learning more about EE. And as a result, as I am blundering about an unfamiliar landscape in some personal projects I've got going on, I appreciate posts like this.
Just wished it didn't cost £140 to get from London to Edinburgh (4.5 hour train ride). It's stupidly expensive you can fly there for a lot less
Or a beeper/clicker for disk accesses/CPU usage, so you can learn to "feel" your machine like the days of old.
Personally my main gripe is not so much the speed as going to higher speed is probably less efficient hence more expensive.

My main gripe is the price (I am poor by european standards). For example going from Paris to Napoli only by train is currently above 300 euros whereas you can find a flight for 40 euros. I am ready to pay around 100 euros for that.
Recently there was sleeper car train from Paris to Milano which was affordable but the company did not last alas.
I am personally ready to pay more in order to avoid a flight, I don't even care about the time it takes, I like being on trains. Sleeper cars are even better. The only thing is the price.
That's really interesting to know. Kind of mind-blowing, tbh.

Does all that apply to training as well, or just inference?
>>>no reason why a publisher should give up sales to people who buy a game multiple times just to make your life more convenient

Found the MBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9wStdPkQY

(although he does have a pretty cool site: https://ooer.com/ - so I'm sure he cant be all bad... :-)
Really? Terrible marketing design from Microsoft has always been something you can set your watch too.

Most people would just put a picture of an airplane on there and call it a day but that would be missing an opportunity for pointless over-branding that people have come to expect when trying to use their Windows PC.
Yes - Apple is literally the outlier. Apple is the single most profitable company by a wide margin.
Meth and fentanyl are not the only drugs. Most people who "do drugs", especially recreationally, are doing neither of those. Nor heroin, nor crack, nor PCP or whatever other drug is commonly associated with life ending effects.
This assumes that promotions depend on effort, which is more false than many people believe.

Usually promotions are based on business need. The company has a high-profile initiative; they need someone to lead it; they pick from a number of qualified candidates for the job. That person gets promoted, either beforehand based on the role they're filling, or afterwards based on their accomplishments delivering the initiative. If the company is fast-growing there are lots of such opportunities; if it is slow-growing there may be none.

If there is no opportunity, there is no sense in working hard. What would you even be doing? Oftentimes people who do a lot of work for the sake of doing work are negatively productive, because change for change's sake creates externalities that then create lots of other work for coworkers while making the company as a whole miss out on real market opportunities.

Your optimal strategy for one job vs. many jobs depends a lot on the concrete opportunities available to you. If you happen to land a job at a fast-grower, you will probably be so busy that you don't have time for other jobs. If you are at a company that is basically steady-state and just needs a body to occupy a chair, you might as well occupy many chairs.
> What is Microsoft suppsed to represent?

unreliable software combined with abusive business practices
Given that this will probably only produce a relatively low res, high SNR image, it might be the sweet spot is to use this tech to capture a true eye-contact perspective from the glass in front of a screen, then neural net combine it with images from offset cameras, to create a 'true' through-the-screen view.
> The US would probably rather turn off GPS entirely than deal with American soldiers being donked on the head with personalized grenades every day.

Would that help, considering that GLONASS, or Galileo, or BeiDou or could be used instead?

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou
No, no, no, yes (with reservations) to the rest of them.
I was in Toronto over the winter break, with many relatives and friends in the greater Toronto area. I took the GO Transit trains to travel between Union St in Toronto and nearby cities.

I was quite impressed by the system. A simple Tap on/off with your credit card works for payments. Trains were on time within the minute, which was very comforting. The trains were clean and well maintained.

I don't know about usage during normal days, but it's likely used quite a lot. Might be used a lot more if the trains were a bit faster.
Calhoun should conditionally agree to the following for FAA approval:

If this event occurs within 10 years of launch he:

* forfeits 10x the compensation he received from boeing including capital gains to the families

* spends 3-5 years in prison for wrongful death

Let's see how confident he is when he has skin in the game
I'm not sure how that has any relevance here.

So to be clear: if Apple printed on every iPhone box, "This phone is 30% cheaper on Apple.com", you feel that Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, %LOCAL_TECH_STORE%, etc. should be legally obligated to stock those iPhones?
> Zeiss isn't going to aspire to sell cheap glass on razor thin margins.

Especially true since Zeiss isn't planning on selling these at all. They're selling licenses to the tech.

I doubt that undermines your privacy argument in any meaningful way however. Even if the license was free, the cost of producing the components is certainly magnitudes higher compared to the cost of current tech that accomplishes similar goals.
They have. There's only so much you can do. Crew have been known to throw breakers to disable systems they find "annoying".
Apple 2 speaker can be made to work like that too...
Japan is better than the US, but I've definitely been standing around in Shinjuku station waiting an extra long time for a train, freezing my butt off, while the signs scroll "because of heavy snow in Gunma prefecture, trains are running with 15-30 minute delays." Weather is weather.

My favorite US-ism is when Andrew Cuomo (the governor of New York at the time) shut down the NYC subway because of a forecast of 24" of snow. The reason the subway was built was because of the transport disruptions caused by a big snowstorm in 1910. To close it for a snowstorm was the ultimate irony. The snowstorm didn't materialize and he looked like an idiot. The MTA then developed an actual service plan to keep the subway open during snow, and it hasn't been a problem since. (Well, not for me. For people that live on non-underground lines, they are probably annoyed. I think the pre-Cuomo policy was "play it by ear and hope for the best". That was rarely ideal but probably let a few people get home from work before trains started getting stuck. Now nobody gets stuck, but they also get stranded when the snowstorm ends up not being bad.)
> No. Matrix is not usable on plan 9, to my knowledge

I think it's a bit of a shame because Matrix the communication protocol lends very nicely to distributed systems, and I believe it may actually play cool with 9p.
We've tried basically everything else, let's try this.

We take a thousand square miles of BLM land in the middle of the desert, and turn it into freedrugcity, and ship anyone who wants free drugs there.

Probably cheaper in the long run.
They aren't even new. Go back a hundred years and Nazis were spouting the same bullshit about impending genetic and population decline.

Given modern technology such as IVF with embryo selection based on genetic sequencing, the concerns that genetic decline is unstoppable are unfounded. The biggest problem is that the people interested in these things are mostly tactless and stupid. The lesswrong crowd really loves building polygenic scores for IQ. They don't realize that overzealous genetic selection has similar problems as nuclear power plants. A single accident can ruin genetics research for everyone. The goal should be giving birth to healthy children, not creating superhumans.
Thanks. The original description made this seem like far-future technological magic. A system that can somehow analyze a random pane of glass and derive all the transformations needed to use it as a high-precision waveguide? I actually had a manager ask me to develop such a thing, and I asked him how many dozen optics PhDs I could hire to accomplish this feat.
Working is easy, working well isn’t.
Market share of devices sold? Does it change by the year? Market share of the company? What if companies just introduce small changes to the device that result in different SKUs?

Take a look at the Nintendo Switch market share in 2020 [1]. We should regulate Nintendo and make them open up APIs but not Microsoft?

[1] Assume this is accurate for the sake of argument https://www.statista.com/statistics/276768/global-unit-sales...
Desktop PCs (and mini-PCs) still have the blinking HDD LED.

Since the first time I got a second HDD, I was always disappointed that there wasn’t a dedicated LED per HDD. NAS cases actually have that.
> While these are reasonable complaints, it might take new legislation from Congress to remedy. I'm looking forward to seeing the actual complaint when it is filed so we can assess whether the Justice Department is working within existing frameworks or is instead attempting to push the envelope of antitrust law without Congressional authorization.

I would not be surprised if they are trying to push the envelope of the current law is fine and I think that's fine. If you're unwilling to try to enforce unless you're 100% sure no judge would ever disagree with you, you're going to let people get away with a LOT of stuff by default that could very well be found to be covered by existing statute.

And the failures could galvanize additional legislation more than doing nothing.
5W is nothing to sneeze at.
> They've always preferred to have their own everything until absolutely forced to open up, e.g. USB ports.

You must not have been alive at the time. Apple's early adoption of USB is why USB became the dominant peripheral interface. People were quite upset to have lost their legacy ports in 1998.

And of course, Apple's contributions to and early support for USB-C were also industry-leading. Apple has played a key role in creating and/or mainstreaming many standards: FireWire, Thunderbolt, Wi-Fi, ISOBMFF/MPEG-4, AAC, Mini-SIM/Nano-SIM, and I'm sure more I'm forgetting.
What evidence do you have for this? Have you met an addict? Have you met a high functioning addict?
Time to buy SIM cards.
Perhaps they were so successful at getting their clients minimal punishments that they didn't see a need to meaningfully invest in proper IT security compared to the inevitable slap on the wrist.
Long time Ubuntu user here. I think caving is the wrong perspective. When both Mir and unity where created, the state of both X and Gnome were atrocious. From all the distribution, canonical was the main one pushing for simple, competent and bug fresh desktop experience.

Sometime an industry get in a rusty/complacent space and stop improving and only creating a competing product can change things. LLVM vs GCC is probably one of the best example in OSS. People have complaining about the compilation speed of GCC and the quality of error message for ages, only when LLVM came about and focus on those area did we see GCC make significant progress.

To me it's clear that without the competition (and relative success) brought on by Mir and Unity, Gnome and Wayland wouldn't be anywhere near what they are right now.

In the case of Ubuntu, canonical main focus was to bring linux to the masses and brush off some of that geeky/hackery. And the ecosystem was at best in interested in it and at worst hostile to this (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2986i/why_i_qu...)

So i think it was the case the canonical has not choice to create those project to fullfil their mission.And from my perspective they have succeeded. The reason ubuntu got so popular as desktop OS, is because for a long time they offered the best desktop experience.

The switch to Wayland,Gnome and systemd(from upstart) also make sense. As things improve, and some of the improvement brought by those projects get into the OSS alternative it simply make less sense to keep them around. And some of those improvement are done by canonical themselves (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/ubuntu-improves-gnome-sh...)

Snap seems to be the continuation of this process. Installing application on linux is/was a very bad experience for a very long time. Most of the efforts in that space (which were very all over the place when snap was created) were centered around server/security/containerization. Canonical was looking for something different.

I don't like snap. Mainly because of long habits, and also because the snap packages always seem to be older than what i can get through APT. But i really don't get the passionate hate snap received just for trying to solve a real problem that "regular" people might have.
You're not going to be able to hire many people with Objective-C experience nowadays. Engineers with 7 years of experience just writing iOS apps will very likely will have only used Swift in their work experience. I work with 2 of them now.
There are other factors to trains not being viable in the states: cost to build. Every project they try, it’s almost always a financial disaster.
Lua and LÖVE.

Talk about some of my apps in isolation: https://akkartik.name/freewheeling

Demo showing me combining my apps in workflows: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-freewheeling-2023-07-06

Now I've also been getting into mobile development: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel
On the contrary it servers it's purpose perfectly and lets you know exactly what the speaker means when they use those words.
Back in they day sailors would stick a lit fag between their fingers when they were sailing home from day of fishing.
With SMS using the Messages app. iMessage is 100% optional and can be disabled.
you know if the test is being skipped… might be cleaner to just delete it.
Introduction to AutoRest
I had zero trouble visiting my german friends by train last november, departing from Paris. I didn't even have to leave my seat.
I have no idea what you are trying to say.
Chris Lattner is on record that isn't something that Apple really cared about, and all Objective-C improvements starting with Objective-C 2.0 were already steps into improving the interoperability with what be later known as Swift.

Safe system programming is one of the key design goals from Swift.
Here We Go Again (Apple rejects 37 Signals Hey Calendar App)
What primitives does kotlin-js use? Promises or generators?
> The growth will happen regardless, don't worry.

I do not see why this has to be true (especially with declining fertility rates). Scale itself is a competitive advantage, especially when competing against a well oiled machine like China. The game is global, not national.
Do we think of Git commits as diffs, snapshots, or histories?
As surprising as an oncologist getting cancer.
I guess it might be not enough if the day is not sunny enough
I can see reduced prices driving the demand. I doubt about the reduced emissions part. Why should I believe that that’s what’s driving people?

To me it just sounds like a marketing spin. Don’t get me wrong: it’s cool that people are choosing a cleaner means of transport, but I doubt this is the reason.
I wonder how the families of the 346 victims must feel reading years later such a headline like "Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air"
No need. That could be done be through the system of Airworthiness Directives (ADs) I think.
I mean, yes, of course, weather is weather. Nobody expects perfection in the face of force majeure. US railways, however, seem to specialize in delivering the minimum possible experience that doesn't result in open riots.
Again, I don't understand why people try to defend Apple's shitty behavior here. As I said in my comment, I'm less arguing from the technical legal details and more from a "this is just shitty, monopolistic-preserving behavior that serves no benefit besides protecting a company's marketshare" perspective. Apple could trivially easily:

1. Allow better interoperability from 3rd party clients. All of Apple's "user security" arguments are complete and total BS given that iMessage already degrades to the most insecure method of communication if any messages (including group chats) contain a non-iMessage user.

2. Provide a compatible Android client for iMessage (like literally every other single message app out there). At the very least they could stop breaking other iMessage Android clients.

3. Make it easier to choose a text client on startup.

4. Support a more functional interoperability standard - which, thankfully, Apple has finally said they will do by supporting RCS, but only after it looked like they became wary that their blatant tactics would look too monopolistic from a regulatory perspective.

There is just 0 user-centered rationale for defending Apple's behavior here.
Cheaper and smaller than all the existing experimental fusion reactors such as Wendelstein 7X or the under construction reactor ITER.

The vast majority of their size, weight, and cost is related to maintaining extremely low temperatures for the superconductors right next to the angry neutrons.

If you could use a regular coolant loop with heat pumps and only needed to maintain, say, -20°C, it'd be much easier to keep the superconductors cool and transport away the neutrons' heat.
If you develop SQL you need to write code and view tables. A grid with monospace characters is perfectly suitable for that.

But other than that, no, people don't love being in a terminal. It just happens that all open source portable toolkits like qt and gtk do not work via ssh and are in general total abominations for developers and users. The vt100 standard is 45 years old and turned out to be the lowest common denominator to write GUIs for better or worse.
Meshing the building volume at 20 points per wavelength at 20 kHz is going to require around 10^15 elements. Untractable with today’s hardware…

Modelling detailed individual sound sources and mixing their contributions at a particular point in space would be doable though.

My point was more oriented toward the effect of the pipe on the sound, e.g. the big square wooden ones probably bring something different than the metallic circular pipes.
The Datacenter Of Babel (2022)
Excellent post overall, but I'd point out that almost all of the imported warbirds are in fact flying as experimentals, since obviously they are not FAA certified.
This is not really true. There are high speed trains operated by Italy that start in the center of Germany (Frankfurt) and end in Milano – crossing Switzerland. There are also trains that start in Germany end end in south France (Mannheim - Marseille). Super easy to purchase tickets.
They acted on it. Wikipedia writes: "On 12 August 2009, Airbus issued three mandatory service bulletins, requiring that all A330 and A340 aircraft be fitted with two Goodrich 0851HL pitot tubes and one Thales model C16195BA pitot (or, alternatively, three of the Goodrich pitot tubes); Thales model C16195AA pitot tubes were no longer to be used."
Show HN: Trim any part of a YouTube video quickly and seamlessly
I have created a tools that allow you to cut and trim any part of a YouTube video. I always want only part of certain youtube video for archiving and viewing as reference point quickly.
I’m sorry. I think my question above was an overstep from me.
Apple Rejects the Hey Calendar from Their App Store
> SQL Server and Oracle, two of the database products with the largest market share

Agree on the first point, but is 'market share' - a metric comparing commercial sales revenue which by definition excludes open source software, really that relevant when critiquing a tagline for a FOSS tool implicitly targeting FOSS databases at a time when FOSS dominates?

If this wasn't an MIT licensed project without a single hint of a commercial offering I'd get it, but come on.
Why does Synchting need Tailscale? It establishes a similar connection.
Surely this can't be as simple as automating the icing system along with announcements to the pilot to keep them aware?
> I won't stand for your right to become a meth head or fentanyl addict. Addiction is a dangerous disease and we should protect everyone from falling into that trap and harming themselves and others around them.

Purdue Pharma[0] has entered the chat.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_...
> The way Qt Widgets is for practical purposes usable only with C++ or Python is one such thorn

What happened with using the best tool for the job?

So what if C++ and Python are the only bindings.
It's kind of funny that someone from a country like the US where the opinions which were mainstream 20 years ago are now hate crimes can say something like:

>I think the trend of modern people toward individualism is mostly the result of revealed preferences. People, for better or worse, want to make their own choices about their lives.
I tried Omio and one more, but this specific direction was not available there via train. DB website was simply showing an error at the last step. A month later, by the moment error was gone all tickets appeared sold.
> I've yet to ride one that goes faster than 200, probably because the rails aren't what they're used to be.

Then you are riding odd routes because the ICE hits 250 all the time. Piss poor infrastructures governance notwithstanding.
Because people will sell or giveaway the digital copy. Potential lost sales.
Yes, this is something people running servers want. A lot of enterprisey software is supported only on LTS releases of operating systems.
It has - but I conscientiously recheck my threads for new insight! :) Will email you when I know everything that I have!
In theory end to end shouldn’t make a big difference for short routes, but if you want to get somewhere reliably just don’t take Deutsche Bahn
and your 1500€ phone still sucks compared to my 500€ DSLR, lol
Perhaps you mean 'vote reactionary', as the religious tend to do? Voting conservative means the Democratic party these days - general support of institutions, the United States's standing in the world, law and order, individual freedoms, fiscal responsibility. The contemporary Republican party has rejected these things, instead focusing on some imagined idyllic past and pushing for radical change towards it. The Democratic party certainly has its things it wants to change, but they're much more incremental and not the sweeping sea change of the current Republican agenda.