skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to contrast Flexner's great optimism about his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Study (which he founded) with the severe criticism the IAS has received from a number of scientists such as Richard Hamming: https://gwern.net/doc/science/1986-hamming#fame-working-cond...
Common Lisp's BLOCK / RETURN-FROM and UNWIND-PROTECT
Green hydrogen, produced by electrolysis, requires a source of energy (also, if my memory serves, platinum). Do you mean that one can use hydrogen as storage to bridge the gap between daylight/wind/tides/... periods?
I totally fail to see how you got that from my comment.
It’s cool that gamedev.net is still around but I really miss flipcode!
> a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool

Honestly this is not a terrible approach. Years ago I bought TLPI and TAOE and have in felt a little guilty when I see them in my library (TBH being displayed with a bit of pride) but I haven’t read them.

The thing is that it’s been actually multiple times when I need to look up how to write to pipes in C or how to use a FET and I’ve just gone upstairs, grab the book and learn all I need to know. Sure, there’s kagi and chatgpt but I’d argue that both of those resources are not the same level of quality than a good book is!

Same has happened a Lua book, multiple Maths books and so on… bought them aspiring to read them, felt guilty about not reading them cover to cover, turns out they have been actually useful when I least expected.

Than Taleb would come up with the idea of an antilibrary in black swan makes a lot of sense… that might be another I might need to buy and not read :-)
> What's Next for Mozilla?

Nothing. A ghost browser in the shade of Chrome.
It is just sad.
Patents are also very broken, the patent trolling ecosystem is the demonstration of that.

Copyright is several times too long, but making it more like patents wouldn't help at all. On the contrary.
I know this is standard headline grammar, but my god it was very hard to not read this as the mouse doing the filming every night. Specifically, filming a shed that belongs to a tidying man.
Over those "decades", the median has absolutely risen dramatically, across the entire world.

Generations of historically poor and disadvantaged people have been lifted worldwide. Literacy rates, secondary education, and post-secondary rates across the human population are dramatically higher than they have been in the days of our parents.

That has created it's own problems - student loan debt, overeducation, wasted degrees, and so on. But I don't understand how you can claim there is no evidence to this effect. The evidence is all around us.
Your quibble there does absolutely nothing to refute my argument, so why did you make it?

Of course green hydrogen is storage. So what? It acts as a way to produce the firming that is needed to deal with long wavelength intermittency.

Your concern mongering there seems entirely vacuous. If anything, wind/solar have seen aggressive experience effects that reduce costs at larger scale, not increase them.
If you’ve never been to a comedy show, they’re not usually during working hours.
VAX is certainly the CISCiest of them all --- looking at the opcode map makes x86 seem like a RISC in comparison, as there's very little structure in it beyond the (copious amounts of) addressing modes.
Choosing to Remember with Anki
"creator" is a weird descriptor of a guy who uploaded a public domain video
https://hbr.org/2011/12/just-because-you-can-doesnt-me

Did anyone ask for this model or are IT companies out of ideas and using their social leverage (fiat capital) to force them on us?

Just because we can allow this doesn’t mean there’s an immutable obligation to allow it.

For example; running Google translate servers 24/7 for translation services humans can do is a huge waste of resources building those systems when humans are going to exist anyway.

Not saying AI is good or bad. Just saying no matter how stubborn IT people act about it, the aggregate can put on them what the aggregate prefers. IT people are a minority and human philosophy about freedom is rather strained when we’re all obliged to prop up big tech minority.
> Fast and intuitive keyboard only control

I'm sure the author had nice intentions, but the very first thing i tried when i installed this (it is from openSUSE's repository so it might not be the latest version) was to resize the xterm window as it was too small and then tried to click and drag the edge of the file tree window hoping to make it smaller as i wanted most of the visible area to be the diff (and the files in the tree have small names, meaning most of the file tree window was wasted space). Turned out it was not possible.

The help shown with H didn't have any keys for that either, meaning it may not be possible even with the keyboard, though IMO this is one of the cases where even if it was possible via keyboard, being able to resize with the mouse is vastly easier and faster (keyboard resize is still nice for the cases where a mouse is not available though, like using the program via a broken ssh setup).
Out of curiosity, what are you talking about?

Large parts of Western Europe have been using nuclear energy since the 70s without problem. There will be difficulties, of course: the plants are growing old and drought does affect nuclear energy production.
Ask HN: What trade shows are you attending in 2024 that are open to the public?
Unfortunately trade shows like CES are closed to the general public.

I'm looking for trade shows where you can get inspired with technology and get ideas for businesses. It can be any topic from manufacturing, tools, electronics, food production etc.
Narcissism and psychopathy are recognised psychiatric disorders. It is a breach of psychiatric ethics to give a professional opinion on anyone who you have not personally assessed (the Goldwater rule).

Wealthy and successful people are probably slightly more prone to exhibiting the behaviours associated with those disorders, but the evidence base for this is low quality. If there is a difference then it's fairly subtle; there's certainly no clinical evidence to suggest that the ultra-rich are significantly different in their psychological makeup from the ordinarily wealthy.

It's a bit odd to call for fairness and kindness, while in the same breath dismissing a diverse group of people as essentially being irredeemably evil based on little more than speculation. It seems particularly weird to conflate Bill Gates and Roman Abramovich, when the only thing they really have in common is that they're very wealthy.
> What does a record label provide when you can just upload music to Spotify?

I believe this is an illustrative example in support of my proposition, not against. Many artists are in fact turning away from record labels in favor of self publishing. Similarly for books.

But I will say that I still think there's value and so I'll expand on my ideas about conferences. I think they should exist, but be focused on meet and greets. So instead of being an indicator of the validity of work, have them invite authors to speak about their works. Allow others to sign up for poster sessions. How to do that appropriately does need to be worked out, but there's nothing wrong with it simply being under recommendation from the advisement of the organizing members. Yes, there will still be preferential bias, but I do mean "still" because we do have preferential biases towards certain institutions and labs. This would just make it a bit more explicit that they are not the arbitrators of quality but just treated as a "reward."

Importantly I think this allows opening the doors for different kinds of research that are not incentivized by our systems. Most important being reproduction
Russia just started burning MOX fuel with minor actinides extracted from spent fuel [1].

> Afterburning of minor actinides is the next step in closing nuclear fuel cycle, which should not only reduce the amount of nuclear waste for final isolation, but also significantly reduce its radioactivity. In the long term, it could avoid the complicated and expensive deep burial of waste

[1] https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Mixed-oxide-fuel...
Oh I just realised who I’m talking to haha! I’m Sam from shg!
Just did that, good replacement, thanks for the tip.
They're building out wind and solar much faster.
We had it running in terminals when I used to work in the national museum of computing in the UK (on machines where you can just pull the full source up from floppy disk)
Show HN: I made an interactive math crossword puzzle with infinite levels
Hey there! I'm the brains behind the math crossword game on my site.

This game is all about making math a little more fun – users just drag and drop numbers to fill in the blanks and move on to the next level if they get it right.

Let me know if face any issues or have any suggestions! :)
Riddles are also explanatory.

The best programmer I ever worked with writes drivers for a hobby.
“Land use minimal” seems often to exclude the exclusion zones in Chernobyl and Fukushima. Which isn’t nothing.

Chernobyl 4000 km2/1600 sq mile, Fukushima 800 km2/300 sq mile.

https://www.britannica.com/story/nuclear-exclusion-zones
Rob Pike – What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong – GopherConAU 2023 [video]
We are probably agreeing but Pascal at least was explicitly designed to allow and to teach “structured” programming. In some ways, it is designed to limit your options. Their is no denying though that it makes code easier to read and also makes intent much clearer. This in turn makes not just creating but of course maintaining and extending large code based much easier.

In terms of complexity, it depends on how you measure. In assembler, it does not take long to learn how to compare and jump. That gives you the power of while, do/while, for, if/then, and of course “goto” ( which your “more advanced” language may lack ). I would argue though that it is easier to understand the syntax of if / else than the equivalent assembler. Again, if not easier to write, it is at least more obvious when reading ( for less experienced eyes ).
I'm all too familiar with this. Also, they will pretend that the con is not happening while they are in the middle of being conned.
I wonder how long it will be before they have an incident that stops everything.
Hanlon's razor. Disney disputed it because it disputes 1000 things everyday. They realized they screwed up (totally not because they hit someone with 1M subscribers who can probably fight), and reverted it.

Now, independently, UMG is going through the same thing. I don't know why nor how, but it's no secret that at this point that DMCA claims are rampant, with litte consequence for a false positive.
Meanwhile valve's own games like portal 2 and team fortress 2 no longer work on linux. Inspires confidence -_-'
They've admitted it costs more to do so than not doing so, and the benefits (in thermal reactors) are limited. The value of separated Pu in MOX fuel is actually negative (it's cheaper to use freshly enriched uranium), and MOX fuel cannot be recycled again in thermal reactors due to build up of undesirable Pu isotopes. France has terminated their fast reactor program, which had been the actual intended use for separated plutonium.
Have been using a cotton bud dipped in hydrogen peroxide for many years. The wet bud is gradually inserted and GENTLY rotated into the ear. Ear wax being dissolved is heard and indicates current status. Apparently dropping olive oil into the ear can also release wax.
Impressive. Maybe I can get it to train my kids :)
You are being overly dramatic.

_Everywhere_ has politics. It's not special in universities.
Windows 2000 was windows XP without all the candy interface... Best version ever.
If you're going to offer an offline-capable Linux app then no-one wants to use Snap. AppImage or Flatpak is the way.
If you do Jellyfin and. SiliconDust 4x atsc3 tuner, you can RECORD the shows you want, and watch them later.

And since they're now media files, you can also skip over commercials and ilk.

And if you look up on this post. I have a complete automated Arrs suite with Jellyfin, VPN, and bt downloader to populate whatever you want.

This is the only way to challenge the media wonks going down enshittification on services. Cancel, and pie-rat. Do so until they start behaving.

(It's so easy to make a great starting service, and degrade it step by step and rake in money.)
I think the common thread with all such scams is creating a sense of urgency and high stakes. I'd generalize what you said though: if something involves a legal process or supposed pre-existing correspondence, anything crucial will happen in writing or in person and they'll be able to specifically provide you with the dates and details of anything they claim to have on you.

Personally I haven't had fake police calls yet (well, except for one Eastern European lady in a call center using a fake mobile number while pretending in broken English to be from INTERPOL, whom I immediately hung up on) but I have had calls about contracts I supposedly agreed to over the phone and was going to have to pay for either way but could now immediately agree to a compromise so I wouldn't have to pay the full amount owed but order (this time for real) something else or some contrivance like that. Of course calling back was not an option because this was already about to hit collections and they had recorded my previous (non-existant) call but couldn't play it back to me right now. It was all a bit ridiculous but I still felt a bit unnerved until I called my lawyer and learned that even if everything they said were true the contract as described would be invalid and any claims would have to be sent in writing before anything actionable even happened on my end.
Practical, perhaps. But it doesn't hurt to have the state in control of things and no concept of NIMBYism. Add to that a growth mindset akin to the post-war US.
"a clear case of the La Tène style of sword crossing cultural boundaries – Romans are not Gauls – a thing that it turns out this sword-type will be very good at."

Yeah, no kidding ...
There are dozens of people who have either claimed to be DB Cooper, or have been accused of being DB Cooper by long time, well-meaning investigators who are each “quite sure” they have identified the real DB Cooper.
Only to a limited extent. The improvements don't scale at very low temperatures. Some weird stuff happens too: metals or resistors can get superconducting. Not always an advantage.
that's also very good. remember, the start is very hard, it is what keeps people away and makes the salaries $$$$. After you break into it it is bread and butter, you just need to be smart, listen and research. Do not give up, you will succeed 10 out of 10 times if you just keep grinding and reevaluating!

Fraudsters and shady approaches pass the hard initial "wall" easier, true, but those are rare because even if you cheat here and there you still need to back up what you do with actual skill eventually. Don't be afraid to dip your toe here and there in the corporate machiavellianism tho. You would be fool not to.
I use the autosave and take notes plugin in notepad++ which makes it perfect for this use case. I have it set to autosave when the window loses focus. And the take notes plugin lets me set a default filename with timestamp and save directory, which I set to my dropbox. The plugin also has an option to delete all empty text files when notepad++ is closed.

It feels as friction free as writing on a physical notepad with a paper and pencil.
> My fuzzy understanding is that organizationally, the teams / org that was originally responsible for writing good documentation at Apple became the App Store review teams.

Not sure where you got that, but I know some people inside Apple, and it sounds totally wrong and baseless.
Study shows that the way the brain learns is different from AI
Probably yet another mouse experiment that doesn’t transfer to humans.
1. saturation
2. takes up too much of your time compared to backend
3. salary/contract rate ceiling is lower
I couldn't disagree more. Desktop apps are often so invasive that they almost feel like malware. Every time I install a desktop app I have to ensure that it isn't reading random files from my filesystem, snooping on my clipboard, or making itself persistent so that it restarts automatically every time I reboot my computer.

Adobe apps like Photoshop are some of the worst offenders. Sometimes I'll kill an Adobe process running in the background, only to realize that there's an additional background process ready to restart the first one. It's like playing whack a mole trying to stop all of the creative cloud junk processes. I would much rather sandbox software like that in the browser where I can close a tab and be done with it (and where I'll be prompted before an app tries to read passwords from my clipboard or access files from my filesystem).
Looks like they've implemented a dark mode that just inverts everything https://blog.craftyguy.net/style.css
Implementations can be improved somewhat but there is a certain set of dependencies that must be included according to the standard and for string it's pretty big.
I might be totally misled here but, why would a company need to turn to such practices? Like, I’ve heard about enshitification but, can there be a company that provides a service, is profitable, the customer are happy and that is that? No need to swallow the world, destroy the competition, lock in their customer, sell their data?

Like, honestly, why? I know about human greed, but is greed so stupid as to destroy itself?
Is there an easy way to just get Wordpad without loading up ReactOS?
> It is not the first time he has come across an organised rodent. When living in Bristol in 2019, his friend reached out for help fixing up a night camera when another mouse was keeping their shed in order.

I hate being one of those people who treats everything with suspicion, but he previously helped a friend who was also using a night vision camera to record a "tidying up" mouse?
Hey, _some_ of it isn’t vacuous!
It's not standard headline grammar by definition. They do leave out function words (A mouse was), but in the same space, you could write: "Mouse tidying a man's shed every night secretly filmed." In which case "secretly" stands out as superfluous, because nobody expects you to inform the mouse beforehand.
>solve the app chaos problem for today's knowledge worker

I'm today's knowledge worker and I don't have an app chaos problem.

Integration between different apps is not really an issue for me. Mostly I care about each individual app being as good as it possibly can be.

I don't have any need for spreadsheets to integrate with calendars, or email to integrate with docs for instance.
I ran win2k for gaming for years, even while winxp came out.
But then, every so often, people do the whole trip in reverse starting from sandboxed Javascript on a locked down phone or console and putting together an exploit chain all the way down to kernel-mode assembly shellcode

We add layers upon layers of abstraction, but the layers below are never really obsolete, it's always very useful to understand them!
I wonder if similar approach was taken for for internet/www. Google? Did anyone worry about PageRank threat to life? Maybe PageRank will turn out to have been the human nemesis after all... Only in hundred of years time frame
Yeah, I feel a bit bad for calling the guy a fucking moron; I'm sure I've spoken out of my ass about something I've never experienced in the past. I've never said that I'd fight back against the 9/11 terrorists, but I'm sure I've done judgy "If I were there..." things in the past.
Dumbphone subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/
The paper in question:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01514-1
How one line decreased Pinterest's clone times by 99% (2020)
I'm the opposite of a Trump supporter. I downvoted because it's irrelevant flamebait.
But they are not convoluted purposely to make employment difficult. They are just the result of bad actors cheating the system. A lot of time it's the general population who insist to add all these complications. Like with Uber where at first anybody could be a driver, but some bad things happened and people demanded that a driver has to have a clean criminal record. Same thing would happen to your simple 'day-to-day' employee scheme. It would get abused and the people would demand the abuse to be curbed
Handle Lookup Container (Sparse Set)
I'm not sure we have the knowhow to engineer a minimally adequate ecosystem. It seems like every time we zoom in on an ecosystem we find that it's more complex than we thought.

Biodiversity holds secrets which we have a much better shot at discovering than we do at inventing (e.g. novel protein structure and function). Committing to a large scale terraforming project means clobbering the unknown with the known and shutting the door on those secrets forever. It may be one day necessary but it's an outcome that we should avoid at all costs.
#2 is so frustrating. I have heard multiple reports of parties who were interested in remaking a game, only to discover that due to multiple mergers/acquisition/re-licensing deals over time, nobody is sure who retains the rights. Rather than engage in the legal quagmire, the remake does not happen.
You've actually shown your poor understanding of LLMs. I just asked Llama-2 7b the same question and it answered perfectly fine. It did not need to use an external python interpreter or a function call, or need to be prompted with chain of thought reasoning.

You're correct, LLMs are not (usually) explicitly trained to solve math calculations, this does not mean they cannot solve basic math equations (they can!).
Maybe I’m a bit of an outlier, or maybe personally outdated, but I find Apple’s documentation to be generally good, albeit requiring patience.

Apple’s documentation offers neither examples nor answers to common questions (features of stellar documentation), however it works well with a first principles, read-it-twice mentality. The key info is there, just not emphasized.

For those who read the documentation twice and feel comfortable organizing the architecture without guidance, the documentation is highly workable.

I wonder if folks more grounded in web development favor a quicker, architecture-agnostic, copy/paste, just-work-out-the-box style of documentation. (When I’m working on the web, I do!) But Apple’s platforms are native, their frameworks build upon native infrastructure, and so they require consideration of the fundamentals and underlying systems, features that preclude just-give-me-the-snippet development.

(That’s my take, with my own biases. I don’t mean to contradict or put down any other perspectives. I am certain that in many ways, including many of which I am unaware, I am naive.)
most enterprise. if you know the keywords and can explain the basics you ll pass the tests in many places. after that you learn what you need on the job. yes, to be a dev you need to know much more, but think about average software dev's ticket in big corp. We had tickets that are open for years and they're literally just an package update and similar.

Know enough to get hired, then grind and learn to do your job from there as needed. The corporate will shift you around if necessary.
Given my super limited experience working on the most basic bare bones of iOS apps, I would pay for this.
Also if you're in the EU make sure to check the actual SEPA/IBAN code. The first two letters are the country code and if this is supposed to be an organization/institution in your country then those should match most transactions you've done before. Don't be fooled just because the country code letter combination happens to also be the initialism of something else or a state/city/etc involved.

I've had an accountant fall for a company registration scam and while the letterhead was plausible, the bank account was in an entirely different country, which should have given pause.