skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought in this thread we were discussing homelessness and a persistent nomadic lifestyle as a result of a cost of living crisis? It sounds like you must be referring to something people are choosing to do for fun or specifically because they want to take your hard earned stuff from you. In which case.. sure? Don’t give them your stuff then? But nobody said the magic word “lifestyle” before you called them leeches.

> We are seeing the re-emergence of a form of persistent nomadism, as cost-of-living crisis forces people to abandon (or escape from) the liabilities which come from sedentary living. The cost to kit out and maintain a vehicle is not trivial but almost certainly less than keeping up monthly rental or mortgage payments.
Based on playing bots and watching them do a series of good moves followed by a “blunder” that no human would ever make.
I didn't know you could specify a DNS server with a name. So does dig first look up that name using whatever DNS server is normally configured to determine where the intended DNS server is?

NextDNS gives you a name that you can put in certain UIs (like "Private DNS" in Android) -- I always assumed there was just something special about those.
This is something I wondered about the idea of life beginning in the oceans and spreading to dry land.

If approximately 70 percent of the total number of microbes on the planet live underground today (number I googled) wouldn't it make more sense that life began underground and slowly spread to the surface? Is this a theory anywhere?
> You aren't software. The laws that apply to people reading and learning do not apply to software.

If you're going to draw a sharp distinction between reading/words/people (software isn't people, etc.) and software I would argue that the legal and copyright considerations should be stronger for software, not weaker, precisely because of your argument.
.....such as?
Ask HN: Internship Machine Learning, Causality and Biology
Hi everyone,
I am doing a PhD in Bioinformatics, where I use Machine Learning and interventional data to understand which genes regulate each other (causal inference). It's really exciting.

Now, I am looking for internship positions, but I have the impression it's hard to find the really interesting groups by googling, because many biotech companies are new, small teams don't have webpages, my supervisor is not very well connected, I don't have a strong network yet (coming from a different field), etc.

Here is a list of companies I had a look at/already applied: Owkin, Microsoft, Recursion, Genentech, Novartis

If you know some other people/groups/companies that are doing interesting work combining ML/causal inference and biomedical data, I'd be super happy if you could let me know!

Thanks in advance!
Riemannian calculus.
Literally never found an use for WordPad. Neither for Notepad, if we're at it.

For text files, Notepad is pretty much useless. For short files I'm using Notepad++, I tried using plain Notepad and I can't describe exactly why but it's almost unusable in comparison. And for large files (MBs to GBs) I'm using less. From git bash.

And if I need any sort of rich text formatting, there's the free Libre Office which is usually good enough for the job. In case I need the actual MS version suite, I've got a Microsoft Office Home and Student retail license on my wife's laptop. The one that I actually own, not the SAS crap they're pushing nowadays.

Otherwise I find Libre Office fairly crappy and barely usable but for opening and looking in the occasional MS file, it's good enough. The "Excel" (Calc) is by some reason horrendously slow in drawing charts. Like if I got an 1000 rows CSV, it becomes almost unusable. On a machine that could have been used in the 90s to do galaxy collision simulations at NASA. Excel, obviously doesn't have this problem.

In summary both Notepad and Wordpad are useless to me.
VCs weren't behind SpaceX. Musk invested his own money.
I was looking for a frontend I could use out of the box on top of a sqlite database to design and store my wine collection (since I removed Vivino and its 800+ "partners" it shares my data with).

Looks like a single executable, the admin interface and the database I can store on my laptop (and add it to my backup) is all I was looking for. Thank you for PocketBase and thank you for sharing it.

That's why I always come back to HN :-)
Related: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359310 from September 2023 (356 comments)
Now you're moving the goalposts. The history doesn't agree with you:

https://www.howtogeek.com/795478/windows-31-30-years-later/

https://www.pcworld.com/article/469692/windows-3-1-twenty-ye...
Unless it’s some context where someone is expected to do a lot of home entertaining I have believe would be unheard of today.
Reprint from 2018
Class action notices are incredibly difficult to distinguish from scams. Unsolicited emails/texts with a random domain name promising money if you just fill in a form with some personal information!

I really wish the courts would set up a `classactions.gov` site; if a court approves a settlement, you get `foo.classactions.gov` for it.
AWS is pretty aggressive about banning senders with high bounce/report rates. I know from working in an industry where customers had terrible email systems
NASA, United Arab Emirates Announce Artemis Lunar Gateway Airlock
> 2. Older batteries aren't able to produce the same voltage as fresh batteries

Nit-pick: older batteries aren't able to produce the same maximum power as fresh batteries.
Like I say to my toddler, there is no need for rudeness to make a point.

Nowhere did the poster say that is “sufficient” reason to ban ai. They were clarifying how software is different from humans and only that. You need to go up a couple of comments and combine this explanation with the other part of copyright infringement concerns to see why the “whole” thing is concerning for the news industry.
The difference between burning a million dollars and a million dollars of Bitcoin? One of those simply gets printed back into existence when it's convenient to someone else's whim.
They are comparable solutions to the problem "Open-source backend in one file".
I don't care at all about "realtime database, authentication" and whatever, I care about what the title of the post says. For that purpose, Redbean is a nice alternative.

> It's like comparing a kit car to a luxury car

If all I need is a bicycle, a kit car is already over the top but will do. A luxury car makes no sense. You're thinking like everyone has the same needs that you have or something.
I used a codebase to develop an all-platform application
I have a read-it-later tool that I've been maintaining as a hobby for 2 years, supporting Mac, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, and self-hosted Docker.

All these versions share the same codebase.

VSCF: I extracted part of the source code from VS Code and developed a framework called VSCF. It includes commands, themes, dependency injection, key bindings, IPC.

https://github.com/hamsterbase/vscf

Backend: hamsterbase will run the nodejs server backend locally. Based on vscf, I developed the underlying business logic, Such as file IO, SQLite, HTTP Server.

Frontend: Based on vscf, I used React for front-end development.

Referring to vs code, I use different communication channels for my frontend and backend on different platforms. For example, electron uses electron-ipc, the other side uses websocket.

To run nodejs on my phone, I use the nodejs-mobile, This is an open-source project that allows me to use Node.js on mobile devices.

https://github.com/nodejs-mobile

Here's how to stitch the modules together into an application

Self-hosted version = local server + frontend, using WebSocket for communication.

Desktop version = （Electron + local server + frontend ) + Self-hosted version

Mobile version = (nodejs-mobile + self-hosted version + webview) , Users use webview to access the UI. It looks just like a native application. They can even use their phones as servers to access data on their phones from a computer.
Yes, the lack of clarity between human characteristics and machine characteristics here is problematic. For example, there are two particularly salient differences at hand: (1) the ability to make cheap digital copies of machine intelligences; (2) the rights granted to humans.

This lack of clarity is emblematic of how legal mechanisms operate. Loosely speaking, in comparison with computational and philosophical approaches, the law is quite lazy at drawing distinctions. Disagreements get deferred using a pre-determined legal process. One might say the lazy-approach of the law is "by design". I'm not sure; I'd need to dig into the history a lot more to assess.
The great thing about being a teenager or kid is that you don’t know why the grownups don’t think your project is worth doing, so you just do it. Even if it doesn’t change the world (most things don’t, after all) you can still learn something and have fun.
A universal molecular mechanism driving aging
OP may also want to look at discussions like these to get a feel of the general market: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847978

These are anecdotal, so you might want to supplement with something more data-analytical, but I guess my point is, for a fresh out of college engineer, it might be worth clinging onto your job for a short while until the recession (or recession worries) clears.
> The isolation was deliberate. “When the headquarters is located in proximity to a principal business—as ours was in Seattle—the corporate center is inevitably drawn into day-to-day business operations,” Condit explained at the time

I'm wondering what "management principle" this is? Is it from a book or an MBA course? It seems (to me anyway) the opposite of good practice.
We store the indexes on the object storage. We worked on the index data structure to optimize the query path.

For use cases where you have a lot of QPS, we recommend using Garage or MinIO or the feature to cache index data on the local disks (new in the 0.7).

I wrote a blog post that explains how we do that: https://quickwit.io/blog/quickwit-101
Are you an adolescent?
I don't think that's necessarily the case.

I get the strong impression that even people who have much experience using LLMs have astoundingly little insight into what they are actually witnessing. This is often paired with astoundingly little insight into what's actually going on in their own cognitive processes.

Somehow, it's still not clear to most people that LLMs and even vector databases create knowledge that wasn't in the original data.

In fact, that's most of what they do! Isolated, non-novel direct quotation is the exception, not the rule.
IBM Mainframe DevOps Distance Learning Program
I’d be interested in seeing the Verilog code but he sadly seems to never have shared it.
If you use a trackpad, you can use the scale gesture (pinch-to-zoom, but outwards) to increase the magnification of most web pages. Very useful for those of us past age 40.

On iOS, you can also use the same gesture directly on the screen.
Thanks.

The first three words on the page should be, "A transputer is..."
That's the double standard I was referring to—they didn't fire the plaintiff in this case quietly, months later, and he was only accused (incorrectly) of damaging the company. They fired him immediately, visibly, punitively. But they'll possibly lay off the actual cause of their problems quietly, later.

I suppose that, as you say, they are worried about adding fuel to the fire by firing the parties who were actually at fault. Personally, I doubt it would. What's most likely to happen is that they get it wrong in both cases: first, damaging their reputation by firing someone who didn't do anything, and then later not firing someone who did damage their reputation, thus damaging their public reputation (perhaps) and hurting their internal reputation and morale (one would assume).
They are different, but perhaps you misunderstood my argument.

Issue of plagiarism aside, we reason from facts, and it's the facts (or some other analysis, which is itself a fact) that should be sourced. That's why I agree with the original statement, and I argue not from a (moral) POV of preventing misattribution or plagiarism, but from a (practical) POV of veracity.
No worries, the article is huge. I also agree with Lewis, in that this world is incomplete as we are not fully one with God as we were created to be. So we recognize that lack as pain, and things we do to cope can lead us into further pain. In a world where we must eat every day to be healthy, the pain of hunger drives us to food. One could argue spiritual pain is intended to drive us to God in a similar way.
If that was the case Apple wouldn't have deployed the stealthy 'fix' and instead just said 'your battery is old and hence sometimes turns your phone off unexpectedly. But it's normal'. It clearly shows that the battery aging wasn't considered normal
checkout Grazily
this is great. What would be the frontend equivalent? A simple, no bells and whistles frontend to throw something together quickly?
The balancing in AoE2:DE can't stay static either - and the pathing seems to have a different bug every other patch. Still a fun game though.
> What are the goal posts here? I'm going off the initial comment of providing literally every single person that wants it a job so that they're able to afford to live.

Yes, so are for it or against it? I can't tell. Arguments like this:

> Not doing negative work isn't an option here. How will you handle people that nobody literally wants to work with?

Are matched with arguments like this:

> If we're ok with the goal posts being 99.9% than yeah sure things such as WPA [1] or CETA [2] are great.

99.9% would be a really great result. I don't believe you can actually have a solution which covers exactly 100% percent of people. People "who can't be worked with" in machining shop can be worked with for example in cleaning services. My wife manages such people. It's very hard and a lot of drama and missed spots and occasional non-showings but everyone who actually wants to work earns enough money to provide for himself. This is subsidized by Polish government, because most of those people have some form of disability which prevents them from holding "normal" jobs. And cleaning is a little cheaper. It's still better than just giving them money for sitting on their ass all day watching tv.
For my group, there's journals and a whole ecosystem outside of the ml conference space related to the actual application area... We can go to a top-tier journal in the application domain and get better reviewers.
Shareholders rarely see past the share price. There are activist shareholders but they'd be more interested in cutting costs, since that temporarily improves the bottom line. Cutting costs leads to the opposite of an engineering-driven culture.
It's not a tunnel, it's a borehole; and therein lies the problem with geothermal power. The usable energy is proportional to the cross-section of the borehole. That's just the beginning of the issues, e.g. the magma chamber recedes or it blows out your facility. There are good reasons geothermal only accounts for a small fraction of worldwide energy sources.
How are immigrants not driving up housing costs? Aren't they using housing? Isn't housing driven by supply and demand?
It looks like Nino Sheet doesn't have the ability for chained functions, just applying 1 function to the column. I don't think it's a good replacement for Excel / Google Sheets. Can it get to that point given enough dev time? Absolutely.
A few years ago I wrote a naive SLP drawing routine and it was very slow, and left me wondering what exactly they did to make it usable in AOE2. So this makes a lot of sense to me.

Fun little format to mess with if you find the docs for it - surprisingly not that difficult to implement (there used to be a wiki with the spec on it, might be gone now?)
See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581807
It is the first time I see that "hook" pattern in a Go API backend: `hook.Hook` and `hook.TaggedHook`.

Where does it come from?

Why is it useful here?

What are the alternatives? Advantages/Drawbacks?

Is there an article somewhere, outside of the Pocketbase docs, presenting that pattern?

- https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/blob/master/core/ap...

- https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/tree/master/tools/h...
I have the same problem with a project I'm working on. In my case I'm chunking the documents and encoding the chunks. Then I do semantic search over the embeddings of the chunked documents. It has some drawbacks but it's the best approach I could think
Looks like a mammoth undertaking with endless avenues for improvement, how do you decide what is worthy and what to leave on the backlog?
Having done a similar project this year I completely agree with you. Maybe that's more a statement against Razor than MVC itself - I suspect it's much cleaner/easier to do a trad MPA+MVC-style app in a language+framework combo that is made for it like Rails.

I think the reality is that Razor has been left rotting for a while. It still works, and there's nothing that bad about it but the DX is not good, especially compared to modern JS frameworks.

It's hard to explain to people who haven't worked with Razor how annoying things like validation are. There is a "happy path" where the different parts of the validation framework all talk to each other, but it's not obvious and the Razor documentation on MSDN is very _not good_. It doesn't help that there's like 5 completely different things all called "Razor/Blazor" and a lot of semantic overlap between them all. Very frustrating to need to sift through so much to find something that feels like it should be easy and well supported.
Interestingly, the 2015 Nexus 6P had the exact same issue (among others).

> If you're among those affected, your phone will randomly shut down and completely die, even though your battery indicator might have said you had plenty of juice left. It's not a simple system crash, because your phone will stay dead until you connect it to a charger.

https://android.gadgethacks.com/news/nexus-6p-battery-random...

Google refused to do anything to remedy the situation and lost a lawsuit over that.

> Nexus 6P owners eligible for up to $400 from Huawei and Google in class action settlement

https://www.androidcentral.com/nexus-6p-owners-eligible-400-...

Doing nothing seems to have ended up costing more per device, with Apple paying out about $100 and Google paying out up to $400.
One is however solved more easily, replacing the battery for 80 bucks.
The other necessitates a new device for 800 bucks.
Apple benefits from hiding the cheaper fix in order to make $$$.

The mechanism might be technically reasonable, but intentionally misleading customers is not.
Google chrome is worse. Safari on iOS has native features like auto-filling verification codes.
Does such panic over things we have no control benefit anyone? Who is better off shitting themselves in terror over the elephant in the room rather than just making distance and leaving it alone?
That was my exact thought. Sounds like a very similar idea. Would love to know what they are thinking would be the differentiator between Notes and their offering? Specifically the hat advantages they have that would lead them to think their offering would gain traction were as Notes has been on a long slow decline.
I know this is probably not what you want to hear, but you just need to search for the right instance.

You must treat the fediverse the same way as your neighbourhood not a club. You should not go to the most glamourous instance, but find one that has people that share the same values you do.
It depends on whether you see everything as political or not. Let’s choose a children’s story. What about Harry Potter?

“Of course it's happening inside your head, Harry, but why should that mean it's not real?”
Are these particular ecosystems all that sensitive? The places where you find nodules are mostly just empty "deserts", right? The seabed isn't continuous brightly colored coral reef.
I think the article oversimplifies a lot. Resource efficiency is just a tiny part of why RSS isn't more popular, and definitely not the main cause. It's actually a complex issue; for instance, RSS deprieves services from a way to effectively profile users.

Besides, the solution is not clarified enough. I read the linked website but there isn't a lot of details. Is it a sort of cloud service that receives push notifications for the user? The only thing I see is that it requires registration, and that can't be a good signal.

By the way, most RSS clients don't update that often. Mine does it every six hours.
I did the same. “Why? Sure, knock yourself out, hope it helps.”
Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself
The purpose of writing single letter variables IMO is to allow for quick assessments of structure as opposed to meaning. For example it makes nesting more obvious.

In math there’s also some incentive to elide the meaning of a variable completely, as it often adds unnecessary tethers that hold a statement down from being abstracted. For example if we phrase the axioms of Euclidean geometry in terms of some unspecified object L, we can more readily work with a system that rejects the parallel postulate (e.g. two Ls that aren’t parallel intersect more than once is easier to imagine than two lines that aren’t parallel intersect more than once).
1st, Congrats on shipping. This is a major milestone 99% of us don’t accomplish but you have.

2nd, Unsolicited feedback, the copy needs major editing:

- It’s focused on the “how”, when it should be about the “who & what” (who should buy this and what problem does it solve for them). I literally don’t know what this is for or if I’m a target buyer of needed solution. (Even your intro of the product here on HN is better than what I read on the site itself). Notion.com has good concise copy you might want to look at.

- focus on problem uses cases it solve, not implementation details (like how it can be a building block platform)

- Pricing page is very confusing. (A) There’s essentially no differentiation between the various price tiers, which is an issue and (b) it’s way too complex in what it shows.

- Address how your product is different than competition (than the all-in-one platforms like Zoho, Notion, - which I assume is your competition but still not 100% sure)

Wishing you all the best & success.
> There are Twitter/X polls, for example, but they tend to only be answered by the Web developers on the bleeding edge and are easily skewed by who spreads the word about the poll.

Maybe MDN should have a comment section, like the PHP docs. That would be more representative.
BTW: this blog is often cited for excellent analysis in the various aviation forums I frequent.