skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imo lazy dataframe syntax is a far superior frontend to a query engine. Polars also has SQL support, but really the frontend isn't generally where bugs come from but instead come from the query engine.

Postgres would be an order of magnitude slower than OLAP query engines for the types of queries that people do with them.
Sure, but the large majority of the population lives in those handful of big cities. 1/3 of the population lives in the greater Tokyo area alone. Ignoring the people who live in American-style suburban sprawl means you're ignoring a small fraction of the population. This is basically the reverse of the US, where a small fraction lives in walkable city areas like Manhattan, and everyone else needs a car.
> Big players can afford protection even when a product isn't profitable

$1 doubling each year would be over $1 million after just 20 years, and over $1 billion after 30 years. Out of the big catalog of circa 30-year-old Disney content, maybe The Lion King still brings in enough revenue to justify a billion dollar yearly copyright fee, but most other stuff from that era sure won't.

> What defines a work? For a TV series, is it the entire show, each season, or each episode?

Now this is the billion-dollar question (pun absolutely intended).
At my previous company there was an in-house training, where the first three months were dedicated to the training of a new employee. The training consisted of both the tech stack and the development and business processes used by the company.

As a result everyone knew how things worked and everyone by far exceeded the minimum level of knowledge needed to meaningfully contribute. It was a great department to work in and I miss it still.

Sadly, the company had that insane policy of only 3-4% annual raise irregardless of performance, so most people, including me, would leave after a few years.
People aren't really writing new systems in kdb+/q I feel like. And if you have a legacy kdb system why would you ever migrate to shatki?

If you have to make the choice between Shakti or some timeseries db + Python, Shakti would be a very suspicious choice. And I say this as someone who likes K and strongly dislikes Python.
Sure it's a pretty idea. But terms like "intelligent", "civilization", "duty", "alone", "advanced" or even "questions" may not be as universal as we think. It may be features of us more than they are features of reality.

People don't even appreciate how different other humans are, I don't think we're close to imagining how different other "life-forms" are (the very idea of a "life-form" is also a concept humans impose on the universe more than a feature of it).
Say What You See – Google Arts and Culture
I don't want to start a "who did it first" because I don't know for sure, but given when this was posted, it feels wrong not to mention Tito Ferradans [0][1] at all. From what I can tell, he is the one who really popularised this mod and if you're interested in getting that anamorphic look on a (relative) budget, his channel is full of great tips.

[0] https://www.tferradans.com/
[1] https://youtube.com/c/AnamorphicOnABudget
Definitely does not run 85% of the algo trading industry. That would be, you guessed it, C++ (and fpgas).

I actually don't know anyone in HFT who's ever used it.

Also it's only quite fast when processing vectorized data. If you're processing market data off the network packet by packet, it's going to be much much slower than C++.
This popped in my head every time I've seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915759 on HN yesterday. Glad English-speaking Internet now also knows about this piece of Runet history!
OP here. What I didn't mention in the article is that this actually happened in a public School (small-ish for US standards as there are just ~1000 students and 100 teachers)

Hard to get the budget for serious switching hardware, even harder to get people who know how to manage them as I'm just an external contractor but can't exceed the alotted budget for my work there
Latter also works.
Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)
Light needs four years to travel from Earth to our nearest star, Proxima Centauri.

Light need 1.3 seconds on average to travel from Earth to the Moon.

Do you still think your comment makes any sense?
Because the world is just full of airliners with ejection seats.

It's a technology demonstrator. They are testing a technology. For the reading challenged:

The X-65 will be built with two sets of control actuators – traditional flaps and rudders as well as AFC effectors embedded across all the lifting surfaces. This will both minimize risk and maximize the program’s insight into control effectiveness. The plane’s performance with traditional control surfaces will serve as a baseline; successive tests will selectively lock down moving surfaces, using AFC effectors instead.
ZetScript – Simple Script engine for C++
This is not true. It's designed to be opened when inspecting the fuselage for corrosion or stress cracks at the opening. To open it you have to remove the interior plastic panels and undo the 4 bolts that this accident is about
...okay, but in the context of:

> The "extinguish" is what happens after a substantial portion of the web is only accessible through Chrome. At some point it no longer makes sense to use a different web browser, and when we reach that point the open web is gone.

I'm saying how a PWA approach doesn't make people switch web browser, when they don't know it happens to be a Chrome library rendering their PWA?
Have you tried Kagi? It's subscription and doesn't really do what you suggest, but it's results are good, you can prioritise and block specific sites and they have a project called Kagi Small Web: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
The Python Requests Cheatsheet
“This aircraft failed because Boeing is too woke” is a pretty amazing take, I’ll grant you that.
> and the CEO did a resigned after the Max crashes

That was a funny one. They replaced him with his chairman... hence, more of the same.
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I have a somewhat rugged chromebook(Asus C201), which is not waterproof, but quite waterresistant and still with a decent keyboard. I used it while backpacking in rough areas and it got wet and sandy and got dropped in wet dirt - but never had an issue with typing. So I think it is possible to get a good balance of waterproof and ergonomic keyboard. But full waterproof would be probably indeed hard.
Real question / No trolling: I feel like I am the last living human who still uses the headphone jack. When I walk around my city, I see almost zero other people using it. They using wireless earbuds. I avoid wireless earbuds to avoid yet-another-battery-to-be-charged.

Is this true for other HNers also?
Just convert it to pandas/numpy at the edges?
The whole MCAS was just unnecessary feature (bug fix).
Without it the plane would have worked just fine. The pilots would just have had to go some amount of training scenarios to get the certification on how the MAX plain flies.
It seems they do now. They returned cash to investors and got pro-rata shares back to founders and employees putting them at 80%. Not sure what order it all happened though.
Plastic is just a bad medium to store liquids in. I bet there are plenty of issues that will come up in the future with Nalgene bottles as well.
The UI is in Docker but the Ollama server isn't.
In a first, 'minibrains' grown from fetal brain tissue
OP here. Court records are thankfully not public in europe and it's even illegal to name names in public (unless it's about a public figure)

As far as I know there also were no court proceedings as this was handled internally
You may want https://search.marginalia.nu/

It gets mentioned here on HN quite a lot.
There has been an increase in SMS phishing attacks too.
Mine has been great too. The battery barely holds a charge anymore, and the hinge is a bit stiff, but I mostly use it at home so not bothering to fix. The thing I’m going to miss though, is the glowing Apple logo on the back of the lid. Completely useless but I like it!
iPhone owners get $92 payouts from Apple in phone-throttling settlement
Here's my low-effort snarky response to your question: Pesky Laws, ordinances, labor rules, and MBAs with fancy graphs that say something is "unprofitable".
> This could include unnatural-looking star arrangements, technosignatures in stars, etc.

If humans saw an unnatural-looking star arrangement I would expect them to expand a lot of energy trying to come up with an explanation as to why this star arrangement had formed naturally?

Semi-Zoo: We, seeing something that could be explained as alien, will explain it in some other way.
Isn't this how we classify web "generation"?

* Web 1.0: independent websites, self-maintained, hard

* Web 2.0: hosted platforms like blogs and social networks, easy, but rely on providers

* Web 3.0: promise to free users from the platform providers but are mostly crypto scam currently.
Made me remember this old video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW_DhjbHC-U

no idea if it's still a thing or not though.
The fix would have nothing to do with caching the string length across multiple calls to sscanf. The fix would be to have sscanf not call strlen on the input string in the first place, and instead only process the input string up to the point where it satisfies the format string or the input string terminates. After all, regular scanf works fine without the length of stdin. As TFA also says:

>To be fair I had no idea most sscanf implementations called strlen so I can’t blame the developer who wrote this. I would assume it just scanned byte by byte and could stop on a NULL.

The author's replacement strlen does the "cache the length across calls" thing only because bolting that on top of the default strlen was easier than doing the lazy parsing thing, since the latter would've required making an actual sscanf implementation to do that from scratch.
> $39 is the cheapest offer (well, beyond free ones). If you want to cover your mortgage, your charity giving, savings, maybe a little stock investments, maybe some side gigs, then you very quickly get to $100. And of course state is extra (my tax return, if I choose to file with Intuit, would be at around $120 with current prices).

That's the right now pricing, which is basically an attempt at price discrimination or bait and switch -- lots of people have common deductions like that and then they get sucked in with a free offer or $39 only to learn it's going to be more. But those are the kind of things a government system would be likely to handle well, because they actually are common deductions.

Whereas what you'd need from a private system then is that they don't phrase the questions in such a way that it pressures you to be unnecessarily fearful and overpay your taxes, and strike the right balance in the interface between simplicity and complexity so that you actually find every deduction you're entitled to without having to spend many hours looking through forms.

So then the customers are the people who have weird taxes, rather than the ones who have some mildly complex but fairly common deductions they can navigate in the free system. And yet not the people whose taxes are so weird or complicated that they end up going to a private accountant.

That's not necessarily a huge market.

> They already have the platform and 99% of stuff implemented.

By "they" you mean an incumbent. What about anybody new who wants to enter the market once the dynamics are different?
> It’s like the open source side stopped building the protocol after web 1.0 was finished and left all the emergent use cases for start ups to solve.

Interesting take
Maybe it's how you think about it today, but it's not how you learned it, and it wasn't a way I succeeded at ever becoming fluent in it.

Grammar is just as important in English, it just hides its complexity elsewhere.
What also works, is developing a habit of double checking bottles in your bag - as spilled liquids are never nice in your stuff.

And some backpacks actually have working bottle holders on the outside ...
this site, yikes. In summary, we don’t know what happened yet, but you assume it’s the direct and obvious outcome of <your political issue>? And that <many people are saying>?

In that’s the game, then, I suspect the Spotify team was onsite to record a behind the scenes at Boeing podcast, and in the process replaced the locking nuts with Joe Rogan stickers.
See also: "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 (1014 points | 6 months ago | 1960 comments)
Hi!

I thought of it as a niche feature because I thought most of the users would come from language learning communities, where most people are not into self-hosting. So even if someone would set up a server just for this, chances are they do not have or interested in Jellyfin also. But I've seen several comments about it, and it seems like a lot of people are from the self-hosting community so maybe it's more popular.

I'm also planning to support YouTube and improve on Jellyfin support, but I'll work on other issues and features first.
search.marginalia.nu is one option. Apparently Kagi also has a "Small Web" option. Check out this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38821248
I don't see the TikTokization of the world as necessarily bad - it creates a world of fast publishing with first-class tools, no nerd gatekeeping required.
Ants and Beetles exist at the same level of scale. They compete for similar resources.

It doesn't actually make much sense in context.
I also facing the same issue, for my new site.
end up I'm moving to azure communication service.

One of the worse CustomerService for SaaS Provider.
> Excellent engine

If you drive it, yes. But for the driver behind you, blinded by the black smoke, no.
> It stands to reason that...

No, it doesn't! The scale of the universe is huge, as in HUGE! There is simply no way a microscopic bug like us can influence anything at an inter-stellar distance.
The inverse square law only applies to omnidirectional antennas though: but stars have known positions, so any transmitter in the galaxy would be focused.
I have a 300€ 2021 Motorola Defy. I wash it often under running water, took baths with it, no issues with the headphone jack, neither with the usb c port.
Had a good experience regarding this with one of the SMS API providers - Message Central.
Still doing turkeys: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5184
Looks like a good list, though missing are customization (technically you could tuck customization into "user control", but it's too important for that) and composability (which also helps with 8 memory load - you can remember 'primitive' actions that compose well easier, and that memory would be reinforced with repetition)
I share the author's feelings on the old web, but I think this misses a fundamental point about younger people: they don't really read as the default anymore, in the sense of reading longform blog posts/articles/newspapers. You could blame this on the impatience of youth, but I think it's actually more of a fundamental shift of media formats. Websites-as-default have gone away because browsing the web (i.e. reading stuff on websites) has largely gone away for most people.

It's easy to forget that reading text is in no way "natural" to the human experience, it's just an old, reliable technology. Video, which functions as a proxy to in-person presence and speech, is dramatically more appealing to the average person than the abstract symbol system that is writing and reading.

It would not surprise me at all if a century from now, video is the default format, with text-first things like transcripts redesigned to minimize the downsides of video and replicate the benefits of text.
> Energy and labor are the biggest factors that drive supply chain costs in just about every industry.

Well, scale as well. Unit costs go down as production efficencies go up.
Have you heard of https://www.marginalia.nu/ in general, and especially the https://search.marginalia.nu/ from there?
That's an excellent idea, sounds like it might be possible (ironically) as a chrome extension? Someone should make it but more importantly someone should come up with a good name for it ;)
> bit.ly/FOOBAR+

That, or add “.info” at the end, e.g. goo.gl/FOOBAR.info

Many other URL shorteners copied Google and Bitly’s approach so adding “+” or “.info” at the end of short URLs usually reveals the hidden redirection without hitting the final website.
To me, it seems the homeless may actually be a burden of society. Might widely-held definitions of "burden on society" be specious, at best? Like, I'm sure there's data that could convince many people they are right about what constitutes societal burden, but these are not necessarily people looking for answers; yes, these are people looking for problems, which is needed to an extent, but they are more likely simply confirming their own biases, which is not all that necessary.
> So this prototype doesn't fit on a $10 quad copter so it's... Flawed?

I didn’t read the original as meaning non-military drones, rather non-stealth military drones.

For example, to the OP’s point, the Predator drone is powered by a piston engine - I’m not overly familiar with other military drones, but stands to reason other UAVs use similar tech.
Are you sure about this? Polycom is part of HP Inc. This article is about HPE - the other part of the split.
Withings device to check heart and lungs health
> So if the engine shuts down you lose control of the plane?

Maybe. It may eventually have a RAM air turbine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine) to generate electricity (possibly also to directly get compressed air)

They may also only use such a device to compress air, and power the controls with a relatively small emergency battery.

I think none of those will be ideal, but modern fighters already are unstable in flight, so this doesn’t look like completely new territory to me.
Web 3 as you described it never existed.

I think Web 3 is more the TikTok and other mass content tools. Still dependent on their parties, but it's shifted to more access to rich content and more access, rather than the curated pinhole view of "posts", especially when it comes to live feeds.
"because they were prioritizing other factors instead of competency"

That's not a particularly outlandish take, and the other factor is orthogonal
See the same sentiment from Marginalia :
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/79-ikea-offramp/
Back in the day, the courtiers and advisers and admirers and wanna-be's of a well-off king would be telling you that monarchy was the best, nay the only way to achieve $Stuff_That_Sounds_Good.

In hindsight, they obviously were indulging in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
That’s for testing purposes. For those reading challenged “Eliminating external moving parts is expected to reduce weight and complexity and to improve performance.”
How come some submissions don't even describe what it is about than just the name of it? It's really puzzling how everyone is meant to know what it is by its name.
It's the endless chase of "GDP" points:

Somehow, through various constraints and processes it's "better" overall for me and 500 other people to buy a hand tool (drill, angle-grinder, saw, etc), than it is for a dozen of such tools to be stocked at a shared-center like a maker/hacker space for us all to use that odd time we need it in the year.

500 tools sold means X% more truck delivery trips, more than Y% of hours worked by dock loaders, Z$ of rented space, A$ of margin added by a supplier, B$ of supplier warehouse space rented, etc etc etc.

We've settled on a local-maxima that adds a lot of imaginary "GDP" points while the value is sucked out away from all of the rest of us.
The first film by Bong Joon-ho (of Parasite fame) addresses this topic, well worth a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barking_Dogs_Never_Bite
I agree with all except using german, because some model might be better at german but it doesn't necessarily means they are better overall.

For example I'm pretty sure Mistral models are better at french, so doing a benchmark using french only would be advantageous for them.

If you want to compare all models, better use english. Because now his benchmark just show which models is better at german.

That being said, it's still a very welcomed benchmark.
I don't know, the first sentence says:

> Apple’s limited warranty doesn’t cover damage caused by liquids, even for water-resistant products like the iPhone, Apple Watch, and some AirPods models.

But the article is kind of all over the place. It then says Macs can now detect water in USB-C ports while having pictures in the article of iPhones showing messages that they detected liquids. They like to make the point that Macs will report this back home to the mothershop while iPhones do not? idk

Let's assume on Macs this is used to void warranty because like you said, they are not sold as waterproof. On iPhones it's to alert the user, so he can remove the water from the port - not concerning warranty?
> The AIs are doing precisely what an intelligent human in their place would do.

Nah. Either the human is feigning, lying with full knowledge that they’re doing so, or you torture them enough and they cease responding intelligently, if they start to believe their bullshit it isn’t unreasonable to say this is a loss of intelligent reasoning. I think this is a false equivalence.

> directly equivalent to a human being forced to continue speaking against their will.

Maybe some superficial appearance, but not equivalence.

> but probabilities and hence confidence intervals

And that’s the entirety of human metacognition. Maybe it’ll get us a little closer but that’s it.
> Because of the laws of international waters etc it’s essentially impossible to police, short of aircraft/naval patrols being willing to fire on violators on sight.

Yes, but not when you are the US of A. /s
No, except in random comments on HN sometimes. Perhaps indeed I should write it all up.
It feels like the web grew up into an bitter old fart who takes everything way to seriously.

What's missing is the culture of "anonymity" where everyone was pretty much just a screen name and people did not give that much care to their long term reputations and the fall from that more or less started with facebooks real name policy, or rather when facebook stopped being an glorified phonebook and started being an content platform.

That culture of "pseudoanonymous amateurs" gave rise to an atmosphere of fun that seems to be entirely missing today as everyone is too focused on the hustle of monetization and avoiding controversy to just do silly things.

Add to that that for some reason every large enterprise organization seems to have forgotten how to actually manage and use their own websites preferring instead to blast out using the new "everything for everyone" platforms.
A design in this vein might want to keep moving control surfaces locked down in all but extraordinary circumstances: spin recovery or flameout. Maximum g turns? For that matter, it's not crazy to think that they'd want to keep the moving control surfaces available for takeoff and landing.
An explanation I read somewhere is that the radio waves reflect from the inside of your skull, the curvature acts as a parabolic antenna.
I wonder what it will be like in a few years. How much worse can it get? Will the web be a desolate wasteland with a few social media pages people "flee" to, while the more tech savvy will start using alternative platforms again, like Gemini, IRC, etc.?
How can MS Office be this example when shortcut modification is awful there, as well as Ribbon customization??? People pride themselves on all the nonsense they've invested a huge deal of time into, that's not an indication of any quality or UI excellence
Vim is another prime example of extremely user unfriendly UI design, breaking most of the principles from the linked article (but similarly, with folks who've invested a few metric tons of effort into fixing it will pride themselves)