skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that was indeed a hot take in my original comment. Net 5 downvotes for a comment that is not at all slurs and represent a genuine opinion about the future of software development.

Anyhow, I am concerned about how the new wave of AI tech is going to affect the software development market. A lot of people are focusing on code synthesis. I don't think that is just around the corner. I think think it is going to be in assistive technology, such as learning / helping writing code.

I also think a lot of contemporary programmers are attached to documentation and overly focus on it's value, which indeed was important in an age of that being the only way to disseminate the intended workings of a library.

I can say that already know https://inkeep.com/ is working on this type of tech (The I prefer over reading documentation on bun.sh), Pulumi also have https://www.pulumi.com/ai that I prefer over reading Pulumi's documentation.

Anyhow, the future will show how this works out.
Ask HN: What do you use to track alerts instances
We've been looking for a tool to centralise our alerts and have one overview of rules, when specific instances started firing and when they stopped, and possibly the ability to attach some information to the alert such as acknowledgements.

Most of these requirements lead us to incident response platforms like PagerDuty. Opsgenie, Grafana OnCall, etc... but most of them are either not on premise/self hosted (which is a deal breaker for us) or the features are really lacking in some areas.
Grafana OnCall seemed like a good option, especially because it integrated with Grafana, but there's no severity and no integration with google chat.

Would be nice to know what other people are doing where a fully fledged IRM platform isn't necessary but there is still a need to have a central view of the alerts.
> But how does it drive?

I think it's more "performance" oriented than comfort

> Does it rattle and creak when you go over bumps?

I can feel all the subtle feedback, and the modern filter filters it better. But I didn’t feel like the car was going to fall apart.

> Does it hold its speed indefinitely at 100mph like an ICE car?

Why not?
The whitepaper behind the iterations of the product: https://doi.org/10.22541/au.169754941.18437909/v1
I have a steam deck OLED and I am very happy with it, but there are a few minor annoyances I don't see a lot of people talking about:

The 800px screen size is lackluster and very noticeable for that size of screen (dunno about the LCD deck). It is one of the main reasons texts are not very readable in some games. Games that use non-standard fonts (which is quite common surprisingly) and haven't been made with small screens in mind (or have an UI-size slider) have this problem a lot.

Besides the fonts the low resolution is still noticeable, but not a HUGE issue. I hope they bump it up to 1080p for the next model.

Another thing is that games don't go on suspend mode once you go to steam menus like other consoles do. The game is still running in the background (with audio and everything). In fact there is no game-suspend functionality at all, only having the device fully going to sleep actually pauses the game.

Going to desktop mode and back to steam-mode takes quite some time, making dual-use a bit annoying. It seems KDE is not actually running in the background if you are in steam mode. Which is fair enough I suppose, but the thing has 16gb of RAM, a toggle to make both load at the same time would be nice.
Planet Money had an episode on this. I liked it, like most of their show.

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/15/835571843/episode-991-lives-v...

The topic is also related to yesterday's thread "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38905889
> Most Libre Office users I have come across seem to be running it on Windows.

Right you are! I stand corrected: https://stats.documentfoundation.org/downloads#week,os
I dont like the idea of embedding a scripting language in my documents at all.
No. All these content creators, regardless if it is an online magazine or YouTubers, should forgo the clickbait by default...
In the context of my car speedometer I am concerned about my speed for three main reasons:

1. safe speed
2. legal speed limit
3. time to destination

I am not particularly worried about change for any of these.
As a Mac user this stuff hurts to read and as a Linux user it never gets old.
Yeah, you are right. I reverted the commit.

About the generations, do you imagine a function that accepts a generator function and the user uses yield? Something like:

```
mainThreadScheduling(function *(yieldOrContinue) {
yield yieldOrContinue;
})
```
Not sure if OP talks about CSS or just some JavaScript supporting invalid CSS styles.
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The tone is probably flamebait, but the content is on topic imho. 15 papers before getting a phd?! Being a phd myself and having serious issues with a lot of the academic practices, reading the title i thought i would identify with the author and situations, which i didn't. I don't think this kind of experience is representative with the common "struggle with papers" among young researchers i have seen around me.
> While <progress> is fairly self-explanatory – it shows how far along something is, such as your progress through a form

My understanding is that this is incorrect.

<progress> is for a progress bar, such as downloading a file, or a loading screen.

<meter> is for showing a value in linear space.

The progress through a form is a value in linear space, not a task that the user is waiting for. Their progress can go forward and back. The user is in control of the value. Therefore <meter> is the correct element.

Is the element there to keep the user amused while they are waiting for something? Could it conceivably be styled so as to include a waiting animation? Does it only ever move forwards and never backwards? If yes, then it's a <progress>, if no then it's a <meter>.
What the article means is that the bitcoin protocol does not have an official way to burn coins. But if you need to burn coins, you could very well send them to an address you know is inactive and lost manually.
> I regularly travel for work and it's impossible for me to make any purchases on major sites like Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Costco, etc. They all will accept an order, charge my card, and then randomly cancel the order some hours to days later, and refund me.

These sites are not cancelling your orders. The card-issuing bank is.

If you have persistent trouble, switch banks.
C is unsafe
“Stealing” intellectual property from other countries has been going on for a while now and basically nothing is done about it.
Future of construction workflow automation is in the web
> Nobody knows the odds a company will profit or lose money or by how much, or if they will go bankrupt, merge with or acquire another company

Do you think companies randomly decide merge? Do you think antitrust investigations are random? The SEC flips a coin every morning?

The markets are proven to be NOT efficient. Now, for retail traders like FAANG SWEs, the markets are practically efficient.
Or maybe a speed limiter. You can’t go over 25mph until the seatbelt is fastened. That would let people move a car in the driveway or something minor, but force them to buckle to get on most roads.
These seem highly related to neurodivergence, such as ASD and ADHD.
Do ants comprehend humans? No they don't. Ants can comprehend only other ants. By this logic we can interact only with civs that are similar or same as us.

How much detectable technological signature we emit for others to detect? I am not a physicist but I guess that would be next to nothing for any considerable
space distance.

So every other civ that is tractable to us is not detectable (just like us!)
Any other civ that in theory can be detectable is incomprehensible just like humans are intractable to ants.

Even if we exist as a civ in current state for a million years (which we won't given out history) our signature will still be negligible for likes of us to detect.

The rest is just empty talking for the talking sake.
In emacs you can use syslog-mode for analyzing strace output: https://github.com/vapniks/syslog-mode
It allows you to easily navigate, filter, highlight lines, and lookup documentation.
Disagree, I specifically talked about some use cases in my blog post.
> Nah, C++ needs more than that. There's some ridiculous template heavy code out there where the majority of time is spent linking.

C++ does not "need" more than that. You personally might find it more convenient if you don't have to think through your software architecture, but the truth of the matter is that you only need to spend a few minutes looking at your project to speed everything up, which is exactly what everyone does the very moment they feel they have a problem.

It makes no sense at all to demand a whole tech stack to change around you when you can't even spend a few minutes looking for an answer to the problem you have.

> There's some ridiculous template heavy code out there where the majority of time is spent linking.

That is not a problem. Templates are only special in a build because compilers spend time generating code. Again, you can work around that without any problem at all with the tools available to you for the past two or three decades.

Properly modularizing your app with explicit template instantiation already drives down the build time of any naive project structure to a fraction of the time, and basic stuff like onboarding a compiler cache tool and moving template code out of interface headers is enough to get the linking stage to be the most expensive step of a build.

> You can't even do a debug build without optimizations on Windows with these programs because the coff file format can't handle it, even when compiling with "/bigobj".

I'm sorry but this is simply not true. I suggest you start to look at your projects to break it down to subprojects and see where the critical path of your build is. There is absolutely no project in the world whose build would not take less than a minute (or even a few seconds) with incremental builds, even if it's code that uses template metaprogramming extensively.
So, being in airplane mode helped it land safely? :)
> The amount of money our governments waste on stadiums and financial incentives for sportsball teams is already ridiculous, it should at least not be completely fraudulent.

What makes you think that "Bread and Games" is no longer relevant today? It was an effective way to keep the masses under control 2000 years ago, and it's possibly still very cost-effective today.
Banking regulations and poorly understood rules by lawyers transform into monstrous implementations of security for banks.

For example, my banking app requires Face ID to unlock it and to approve payments. But for certain types of payments, such as more than 3k USD, instead of using Face ID to process the payment it requires and SMS OTP entered into the app. Which tends to suck when I'm using another SIM or if the SMS does not arrive in time if I'm traveling internationally. How on earth do they think SMS is more secure than biometrics beats me.
Maybe it's my accent but I've never gotten reliable recognition out of the tesla nor siri so I never use either.
OMG! I had a flashback. Do any of you remember HP Quality Center?. Its early versions had entire UI in activeX and I remember a bunch of progress bars installing DLLs.
>MS Office has officially supported ODT for years. [...], or are is MS's ODT support incredibly buggy or what?

The bugs of programs trying to read others' file formats goes both ways. LibreOffice has problems reading some *.docx files -- and likewise -- Microsoft Word has problems reading some *.odt files.

Example thread of trying to keep "tracked changes" preserved in .odt files when co-workers open it in MS Word: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=99962

That type of interoperability issue also happen with *.xlsx and *.ods spreadsheets that have non-trivial formatting or advanced functionality.

The advice of "just use the OpenDocument format" is not that simple because round-trip fidelity of the file may not be 100% preserved depending on what features of the software the collaborators use.
Norway. Full of snow. I usually try to enable it only on motorway, highway, or city express ring.
I think there is a bias here because a lot of us (myself included) prefer text with markup for a lot of things.

Most of my usage of the web is served better by text with markup than a (front end) application platform and every site having masses of JS makes things worse (I have JS off by default and turn it on when sites refuse to work with JS and fail with reader view).
As the article explains, Gnome developers are often hostile to even acknowledge a problem exists, even when offered patches, and instead just search for ways to deny that the use case could ever exist
> Do you have the right app, there's no TestFlight just App Store link

On chatonmac.com, the "Download on the App Store" button does not link the App Store for me either - I get a modal titled "Public Beta & Launch Day News" with "Join the TestFlight Beta" and "Launch Day Newsletter Signup Form".
The NTSB was already there before they posted the picture on twitter. They were posting it for the attention, not to give the phone back.
There was a death at 20mph around our area though, because of no seatbelt. It was specifically shown at the course to attain the driver's license.
> There's no ready record of the review process -- the comments. They eventually disappear

I wonder if someone could build something clever with git-notes [0] to capture such discussions in the repo itself.

I'm sure others have thought about it already, so there must be some kind of pitfall... A little more searching finds projects like git-appraise. [1]

[0] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes

[1] https://github.com/google/git-appraise
How Many Rounds In The FA Cup often known as the Football Association Challenge Cup, is a storied football competition. It is the world's oldest national football tournament, renowned for its rich history, volatility, and ability to produce stunning upsets. But how many rounds are there in this illustrious sport, and how do they unfold? In this extensive guide, we delve into the structure and complexity of the FA Cup, shedding light on the multiple stages that teams must navigate to reach the top of this famous tournament.
dtrace is a far more comprehensive tool than strace. The common complaint on MacOS is that SIP by default will not allow you to use it. The same issue occurs on Linux when you're running SELinux or similar.
Ironic to see tech bros be all riled up about misuse of their own data while playing fast and loose with customer data has been the norm and is considered normal practice.

Every one of their websites has multiple trackers that have access to the whole page’s JS context and the vendor could have the same “policy violation” and impact their customers (being generous and assuming that stalking customers isn’t the primary policy to begin with).
It only forfeits "income" for Elon Musk and everyone who invested in Twitter.

What Elon Musk does with Twitter has no impact on SpaceX or Tesla.
If it is possible without telling us any more about your conditions than you want us to know, it would help to know what the blocker is that prevents more than 2-3 hours of work per day. Because the answers to the type of work we recommend are going to be different if it is a physical limitation of being up and around vs. a mental limitation based on stress or cognitive endurance, etc. Answers will be different if you need 20 hours of recovery after 2-3 hours vs. 2 hours of recovery.
It's probably on transactions that are requested solely based on the card number, and no PIN.

I got hit by these blocks with a EU card a long time ago, as the shop was trying to pass the charge with the magnetic strip. Had to phone to the VISA center to let the charge pass through on next retry.

Nowadays I'd assume any "card in the machine" transaction done with a PIN would go through no questions asked, even if you're located in Antarctica on their database.
In the other words, there is a cost function `f(p)` which is the amount of money to spend in order to prevent the fatal risk of probability p. For low enough p this function can be linearly approximated, and we named the value of `f(1)` under this approximation as the value of statistical life only for convenience. (In reality `f(1)` or even `f(0.01)` is not defined, and the true value is mostly determined after the fact.)
> By historical standards, 2008 to 2022 really was an anomalous bull run.

Why leave out 2023?
On number 5, the audio layer, it's indeed terrible. So many glitches and errors. I would love to spend a week hacking the audio code and fixing some issues (by implementing proper mixing):

1) Clicking and popping of alerts and navigation speech (sounds should just overlap, i.e. like a sample based synthesizer)

2) Ensure proper ducking of music from this 'alert channel', music will now double duck when alerts are played in quick succession

3) Mix bluetooth audio (i.e. iPhone notifications) as an additional channel, right now these sounds are silently lost, unless you manually switch to Bluetooth playback. Very confusing.

Oh, and add a subtle alert sound for upcoming traffic camera's ;)

In the end it's a quite simple audio tree with a few parameters, that could be implemented with some very straightforward C++ code.

But I have no idea what the media layer looks like, I can imagine there are a few quite smart optimizations to make for example all the streaming cameras work quickly (e.g. virtual mirrors). So perhaps it's a bit less trivial than I think.
Those stats are of direct downloads?

Linux is probably under-represented on this one because most Linux users will install from distro repos (or flatpack, snap or similar).
Regarding 5):

did you enable "Joe mode"? That should tone down the sounds by quite a bit...
>Probably if they were smart they would just forego the risk of creating something in the first place as it would be a world with much less chance of a payoff.

Do people create things on the basis that there might be a payoff 16 years down the line? Did David Bowie write his last album on the basis of how how much money he'd make?

The first year is $1, is that a risk? 2nd year is $2. If you written a book or whatever I would think you've got some insight by then whether it's worth paying the $4.

And the Shakespeare reference is relevant because where do you want the cutoff? Life+70 is nonsensical, unless you're arguing for perpetual copywrite you need a line somewhere. Where do you want to draw the line?
This LibreX for open source products really needs to stop. Also the loose-attribution of panasian or ancient greek/latin…
> I love that I can search my direction via Google Maps on my phone, and then share it with my Tesla. It makes navigating in unknown cities a breeze.

You know what's better? Simply projecting your phone to the car screens, able to choose your own navi software.
Going to have to go ahead and label your conception of paradise my hell on earth.
Absolutely, just the results of the factory are not physical. You can apply this analogy quite far inside software development, engineers are factories producing data for a compute factory to further process etc. Also I'll echo warnings about factorio, you will lose days. But so very worth it.
… nice
Create a subscription model with a limited free option so that users can test it. Offer a discount for users if they purchase an annual plan
Apple moment might be over. China is a huge market for the company, if domestic brands manage to displace Apple as the premium option there it is hard to see how those consumers will be replaced, as China brands typically dominate the emerging market economies where global consumer growth potential is. Cook should've built the car, rather than fight Zuckerberg in the Metaverse
Sentence Embeddings
It's definitely the phrasing.
With a directional/high-gain antenna you're increasing the ERP (effective radiated power) which may well put you above the legal limits in your jurisdiction. So be careful.

Aside from that, a much simpler antenna is this one, which can be built from a metal can + connector + wire stub. Directionality is likely a bit worse but I've used it successfully over a distance a bit lower than a kilometer. https://web.archive.org/web/20060516103023/http://www.saunal...
> I also almost never use apps like dedicated banking apps or social media apps; instead, using Safari.

Nearly every bank I know of recommends using apps over their website, since in general they're safer than using their websites. But I'm in The Netherlands and I don't know whether banking apps in different countries have the same security standards.
Not op. But still Surprise. Hard to recall one indeed.
> We are actually in that situation now where the gains of S&P 500 relies completely on the top handful of companies and as much as (IIRC) 70% of the companies in S&P 500 are lagging the market.

I believe I saw data that showed this has always been the case, but I can’t quickly find it.
Muonic hydrogen is 207 times smaller than hydrogen
Once you’re already rich, the goal is no longer to maximize upside at all costs, it’s to remove the risk from the table to so the fortune can sustain you the rest of your life. Microsoft could have just as easily fallen apart once Gates left the company and never recovered. Ballmer was a really bad successor.

Even if Gates left money on the table in hindsight, his investments are still growing faster than he can give it away.
> As I tell students, your grandmother is too sensible to be outdoors during a thunderstorm and a disproportional number of deaths are young men.

reminds me of https://xkcd.com/795/
How I kept a job at McDonald's with an IQ of 70 [video]
Although this has already been discussed extensively[0], it's worth looking at some of the other submissions and other discussions[1].

He was a giant in the field, and his influence will last my lifetime for certain, and possibly for yours.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This is what I don't understand about GNOME and their sponsors. Who are they even trying to serve? Because I could understand a project having goals that are misaligned with common users because their sponsors want them to do something else, but with GNOME they just seem to striving to produce a DE that nobody wants to use. And seemingly denying that any use case for a computer exists except staring at the desktop and doing nothing. Why are Red Hat et al. pouring money into a project that doesn't think videoconferencing is an important use case??
What if Microsoft shares went to $0? Diversification is risk management, not optimisations of returns in the sense you present this.
Does that include space-filling curves? …do those count as fractals, if the fractal dimension would be an integer?
I have driven a Twingo for more than 10 years, and I generally loved the car. But that digital speedometer was absolutely terrible.

The main problem was its slow refresh rate. I don't know if it was deliberate or not, as I guess fast changing numbers could be a problem too. The problem is that I could see my speed, but not the acceleration. With a needle, I see it going up or down, and how fast it is doing so, not with a number that refreshes every second or two. Very annoying when you want to control your speed precisely (no cruise control on the Twingo).

And the fuel gauge (with the the combined clock/trip/odometer, the only other thing on the dashboard) mimicked an analog gauge. The very first model had something like a row of 10 dots, that progressively turn off as the tank empties. Which was fine. Newer models had the same kind of gauge, but with fine graduations, but in reality, it only moved by big chunks, so same thing as the dots, except it hinted for more precision than it really had, which for me, is a negative.