skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly OT, or tangential. But then this is HN, so

> Various Package Managers

Quite a long list at the right side, but... no Debian?

I'd think that the user base of Debian would be larger than of some of the other distros listed (edit: changed wording here) there, so ...what up? why?

This is not the first time I've witnessed this exact situation during the past half a year or so. Is this some weird conspiracy among Rust devs (joke!), or is it the Rust tooling that makes integrating into the apt ecosystem a challenge, or what?

I mean, if I really insisted on getting that tool installed I see there's a binary, and if there was not, I'd find a way, but I'm genuinely curious. This seems counterintuitive, so there must be a reason? no?
Not just “modern” computing. Your point has been true since the beginning. That said, the line of middlemen is indeed longer than ever.
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20240105232652/https://www.middl...
While I'm with you, I can't really do that given the company I work for uses Slack.

If there was a self-hosted service that could translate Slack to IRC, I'd switch over in an instant lol
First time hearing any of that. but if they can make a quick buck on gmail's huge machine exhaust fumes, why shouldn't them?

it's not like they are increasing gmail's brand awareness, the domains won't be at gmail. they will just abuse their cost covering to mine your content, which is already a lost battle from your other link
Hi kragen, hi amatecha!

Someone sent me this thread so I could answer, and I do agree. I for one think uxn is trivial, it was directly inspired by the VM running Another World and created to address a similar need. It's not especially fast, or welcoming to non-programmers, it was a way for my partner and I to keep participating in this fantastic universe that is software development, even once our access to reliable hardware was becoming uncertain. It's meant to be approachable to people in a similar situation and related interests, and possibly inspire people to look into assembly and stack machines -- but it has no lofty goals beyond that. We're humbled that it may have inspired a handful of developers to consider what a virtual machine designed to tackle their own needs might look like.

A lot of our work is owed to Wirth's fantastic documentation on Oberon, to the p-machine and to pascal. Niklaus' works has influenced us in ways that it would be very unlikely that we could pass forward. I'm sad to hear of Nicklaus' passing, there are people who inspire me in similar ways, that are alive today and that I look up to for inspiration, but to me, Wirth's work will remain irreplaceable. :)

-- Devine

http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/devlog
>And as such, I'm confused why this exists.

Beyond the standalone server mode, I'm able to literally import this as a library/framework right into my Go app (https://pocketbase.io/docs/go-overview/). Having a single binary that contains my custom business logic + a very nice DB/Auth/Admin/... is a very compelling option.
A "mysterious" metal that happened to be used in the making of the same aeroplane DB Cooper was flying on?

Why does it sound like there is nothing to see here?
It is $200-300 per license times 5x. It it worth $1000-$1500 for it?
> still a nightmare of finding drivers, scripts, etc. to get everything setup

It reads like the prototypical "I tried Linux a decade ago and keep repeating the experience as if it represents reality today". Hell, 10 years ago was when I met my ex and I can't remember any time during that period that I actually "struggled" with anything other than Nvidia+Wayland before I stopped giving Nvidia money.

"finding drivers"? really? For what? I can't remember the last time I've even heard of anyone mentioning compiling a module manually. Running random scripts from the Internet haphazardly trying to "fix" stuff? Yeah, okay, I'm getting a mental image.

I can't name the last thing or feature that required any amount of fiddling to get working in Linux. Premium webcams, audio equipment, Chromebooks, Lenovos, ASUS gaming laptops, brand new laptops, 3 USB-C hubs, complicated docked, multi-monitor scenarios. It all has just worked out of box with Linux and NixOS, and requires less maintenance and hand holding than my single Windows dual-boot install.
Rice, chicken, and potatoes in bulk are leaps and bounds cheaper than instant ramen considering both caloric and nutritional content. It might be a sign that young Americans do not feel comfortable cooking at home.
The US has a modern history of systemic racism out of step with the rest of the developed world. Inequality was enshrined into law until 1964. My parents were already alive, and I'm a millennial.

So, since then, the US has had to overcorrect to try to heal centuries of wounds, and as a result is more direct about actively promoting equity based on racial lines in a way that seems horrifying to the rest of the world (nay even racist itself).

This era seems to be ending - for better or for worse - with affirmative action being struck down, with standardized tests now being considered the MORE equitable solution rather than an explicitly racist one. We are heading towards an alternative path.

I agree with you the CA math reform is insane, as is cancelling things like AP and Gifted classes. However, I again maintain that I think the intention is that those that benefit from those classes will be able to thrive with or without them, while the funding for them can help lift the FLOOR for those disadvantaged - those without parents with high income who can afford tutors, or spend extra time with their kids.

I again acknowledge that the full picture of this change will not be visible for some time. But I think it's an interesting premise.

I was in many gifted classes growing up. I skipped several grades. I started university as a teenager. This was all a mixed bag. I was intellectually over-stimulated and stunted socially. I had to recover through my late teen years and early 20's. Most of the gifted kids I know from my era have mixed feelings about our experiences. We appreciated the support at the time but look back and wish the schools tried harder to protect us from bullying "normies" rather than just isolating us to separate classes. It was a cop-out marketed as for our own best interests. Some of us have thrived. Others crumbled.

When I think of my own son (currently a toddler), and whether he would have those opportunities if he happens to be advanced for his age, I believe that the responsibility for ensuring he gets the support he needs is mine and mine alone. What i will do with the funds I have to give him extra attention is find clubs, find tutors, and not expect that the school should be the one providing him those opportunities. In school, I hope he gets to learn how to be a member of society better and sooner than I did.
I agree, I generally tend to prefer rust tools, like Alacrity.
Can this me applied to everyday software development to ensure correctness? If so do you know of any resources on this?
Yes, I'd be fine with that.

For better or worse, Windows is a key part of my daily business and life in general, and I don't expect it to be free. I regularly use Windows applications that cost more than $1500 by themselves. If I wanted a free OS, there are other OSes for that, for which I would still have to pay with my time.

$1500 for a clean, advertising- and telemetry-free Windows LTSC license would be a bargain... if only they'd ask.
New California housing laws go into effect in 2024
Lots of really good replies to my question. "Staying calm" has been a shared thread. I looked up the pilot in the Quantas A380 near disaster, and it says of of the Captain de Crespigny's time in the RAAF:

"He went on to join the RAAF at age 17 in 1975. During his first training flight the instructor did not stop him from putting the plane into a downward spiral, after which he left de Crespigny to stop the plane from plummeting to the ground alone. The incident left him terrified but heightened his awareness of the dangers of complacency and human error in flight."

This team of pilots was able to bring back the largest passenger plane in the world back to a safe landing even after an engine effectively exploded and punctured the wing, fuel tanks, and fly-by-wire electronics.

So I am thinking that the next time I am on a plane, I hope the pilot has military training.
This is clickbait it's not tidying, it's just storing away items. Squirrels that cache things aren't tidying.
Rider works fine for me.
Exactly, it's not about the amount of instructions but of the modes those instructions can take. As I understand it, having primarily load-and-store / register to register instructions and avoiding complicated mode encodings that make various processor hw optimizations much easier, and make compiler writing a lot easier, too.

Classic CISC chips were "fun" to write assembly for by hand... and RISC chips are not. But if you're writing a compiler...
Very persuasive article
"can be solved in a zero-knowledge way" - absolute zero?

I am curious how this would work - for example I want to check someone's ID, how could I take a pic with a phone and run it to prove it's real - but the gov have no idea that I ran the ID check?

Wouldn't their system know that I, my ip, browser fingerprint, checked ID X at y:yy time and likely the location?

I have a great app idea that would be useful if there really is a way to check these things zero knowledge.
I'm not from US but I bought SE. Not sure about situation now as it was ~5 years ago and it still works.
I try all these tools, but somehow always end up with some key feature missing or not working how I want. I guess it must be extremely personal. But somehow I always end up back at tig. With GitUI I couldn't find a good display of branching structure eg: in the Log view. I would love one of these that could do a good rebase-aware display of branching.
Additionally imho, Apple does a fantastic job in "naming" things, everywhere in their ecosystem - including their SDK
I'm very happy with Jellyfin. I built my entire collection in it.
Those who do not remember Lotus Notes are doomed to reinvent it.
Given the NHS' costs continue to explode, and most of the cash goes straight to padding middle management, it seems easy to see that it's a slow and bloated organization.

After all, the UK's health spending is increasing at a rate 2,000% higher than close neighbor France's is -- indicating massive fraud and waste.
Even PureScript ultimately ditched the whole row-polymorphic Eff thing and now uses one big IO monad (called "Effect").

The juice ended up not being worth the squeeze, so to speak.
Good catch, thanks! Fixed now. This explains why the difference was kinda low compared to another benchmark: https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt?tab=readme-ov-file#compile-tim....
Related:

GitUI: Terminal UI for Git - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32864036 - Sept 2022 (90 comments)

Terminal-UI for Git written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25504811 - Dec 2020 (1 comment)
Wizards of the Coast Confirms 'AI Components' Were Used in MtG Marketing
I honestly don't understand what's dodgy about Palantir. They build a platform to analyze big data and they have clients like government agencies, immigration control and law enforcement. What's the big deal here? Please educate me
I read a story about this but it was elves working for a shoemaker during the night instead
UK plans passport-free entry with facial recognition tech
I weep when I read their older HIG for macOS and then see in the current day how hard they violate so many of the principles and lessons they laid down there.
What about all those big projects like spark that use Scala ? Just because one company dropped Scala does not prove anything
I agree with you. Everything this person is struggling with is well documented on the parent class. A basic understanding of OOP is all that's needed to use this documentation and this dialog.

Are they mad at Java docs? Or C# docs? Or any other OOP doc that follows the same pattern of not repeating the parent's documention on the subclass unless the subclass adds to it.
> I'm not gonna risk the most expensive thing I own with tinkerer tech

Different strokes I guess. Until I've put the vendor in a box, I don't consider it "my" phone, and I'm not gonna pay more than $300 for a phone that serves some other master. Yesteryear's refurb pixels are doing just fine.
"Built without Machine Learning" is something I like to boast about.
Lol. Oblig IN MICE.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the peak content era was actually the peak blockbuster era. Apparently stores had a couple thousand titles in each (1). They would of course have all the new releases across any major motion picture studio too. There's no streaming service that maintains such a comprehensive catalog of the classics today along with all the major releases that a blockbuster might have stocked.

1. https://old.reddit.com/r/blockbustervideo/comments/gum716/ho...
I see your point and I think that brings us a bit closer to alignment. But I think if someone is __incapable__ of writing such a paper there would likely be many larger flags and they probably should not have been able to pass their undergraduate curriculum.

I do want to make it clear: I'm not opposed to arbitrary filters when there is a high number of applicants and you simply need to reduce the number. I am opposed to pretending that such a filter is not arbitrary. I think we need to be clear about how strong of a signal any filter is, and be quite explicit that they are not all equal indicators. That is my main point: being explicit about the strength of a signal.

On regards to training, I do agree that schooling isn't __just__ training, but I'd fully disagree that this isn't one of the most important aspects of it, even in grad school. Your first two years (in US systems) are nearly identical to a masters and highly focused on classes. What are classes but training? Even being a TA or lecturer is, in part, training (full instructor of record would not be). Post conditional, I still think you are in training at least up until candidacy. That is much more arguable given the variability of advisors, with some being very hands on (training) and some being very hands off (on your own).

I'd prefer something as "The purpose of PhD programs is to train people to advance the field." Because by all accounts, it seems like you've done this (even with the self-deprecating humor. That is exceptionally common in PhDs too lol). I still maintain training because this isn't the end, but the beginning. Post PhD is where you can choose to go to be an academic researcher or industry researcher (or abandon research). Those are the actual jobs (which should have continued training) but your degree is more akin to a certification from your institution. You do come out with a body of work that is distinct from the institution, but the institution's goal is not to keep you around and continue performing work. They are explicitly formed to graduate you. To educate you. And what is education except a form of training?

Fwiw, I think we are decently aligned, but sometimes text is hard to communicate, especially post by post. I do think your critiques are valid, even where I disagree.
ChatGPT has been a godsend for helping me figure out how to use quite a few Mac and iOS APIs in the last year. There are APIs that would’ve taken me an hour or more to work out how to use by searching online, experimenting, digging up old WWDC videos (often the only place to really learn how to use a given API properly), but now it takes seconds of ChatGPT. It’s been a game-changer.
I use GitUI daily. It’s fast and I find it very useful to double check changes before committing.
Agreed just finished both Agassi's biography and Elden Ring and they were much more entertaining than all those braindead movies out there
They've been in power for a long time and yet NHS spending increases are 2,000% higher than France's equivalent health spending.

Can you explain how someone can "hate the NHS" while drowning them in cash far beyond what they need to operate?
Many react to copyright with the image of a greedy, large corporation in mind. Unfortunately. While they are a bit of a problem (although mostly nuisance), solutions that attack them will not help the millions and millions of small creators and starting artists. Lawyers will see to that.
The "Inside Macintosh" series from 1985 was a masterpiece of documentation. It was a bliss to read.

Check the updated docs for "The Standard File Package" which is the UI for selecting files. Page 3-4 (all page numbers has section number). It has full description of the UI, keyboard shortcuts, data structures and example code. It even includes how to customize the dialog.

There is 69 pages of documentation of just how to select a file!

https://vintageapple.org/inside_r/pdf/Files_1992.pdf

Apple no longer understands that good docs is a competitive advantage. The web has such good docs at developer.mozilla.org that it is a world apart.
At this point you gotta wonder if the DEC name would have better marketing/branding power than HP.

Have to say, I'd be more stoked to buy a "Digital Equipment Corporation" branded server or workstation than "HPE ProLiant" or "HP Z900".

Leadership of Carly Fiorina and successors, the murder they committed on the Palm brand and product line, not to mention their whole world of junky printers,... I think have ruined their reputation of that brand forever for me.

Anybody work in marketing at HP? C'mon, do it!
The Nebula software they have anchors the screens in a stationary spot which helps alleviate the motion sickness.
Also isn’t the DNA they have just from a tie left on the plane? Meaning, the “chain of custody” of DNA isn’t very solid, i.e. it could be anyone’s DNA?
you just listed worse tortures and confirmed the abuse clouding your judgment.

like pollution, with js the only effective action is reduction.
Out of curiosity, what specific tasks are easier using a GUI? (I've never used one; keen to learn if I'm missing out)
This is my daily driver: it's awesome, and so appropriately simple. Do be aware that you will need to use Git proper if you want to sign commits.
If true, I think you can subscribe to LTSC today and get what you want.
Explain Jordan Peterson then. The only reason he ended up being "expelled" (and it was more of a resignation than an expulsion really) is because he stopped practicing for years and continued identifying himself with the position he held at the university while engaging in conduct that violated the professional code of ethics for that position. That's like working at McDonald's as a shift manager, going on indefinite leave, then touring media appearances to talk about your opinion on social issues while always making sure you're introduced as a McDonald's shift manager and then saying "You can't fire me, I quit!" when McDonald's politely asks you to stop associating with them in public. Hardly the academic behavior on par with the Russian Communist Party.
Yeah it's a nest. Very common mouse behavior here.
A fair bit of time passed before humans got here.
Related (though tiny):

The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19204087 - Feb 2019 (1 comment)
I mean, when your users need to use software that's only available on Windows and consume the entire M365 stack, Windows is the only sane choice.

That being said, those environments are generally going to EoL Windows 10 as there's just no reason to move to 11 if things are working. I have 0 experience with Windows 11 yet for that reason.

As far as a consumer goes, if you're starting from a Windows 10 machine, creating the installation media is as easy as downloading the Windows installation media creation tool, point it to your USB, and off you go. Licensing is generally tied to the hardware at this point, so if your device is newish, there's no activation or license keys.

Install takes maybe 15 minutes and is hands off other than username, time zone, pick your wifi SSID etc. Unless you have special hardware, you shouldn't need to install any other drivers. It just goes.
SE 3rd gen is a great small phone, not sure why you say its screen is dim. Glad Samsung worked out for you, that’s the benefit of competition. It’s good that Apple wasn’t able to grip all segments of the market.
Man secretly filmed tidying bank’s vault every night.
Yes exactly. It’s hierarchical thinking from an anthropocentric pov. IMO the longer I live and the more I learn, the more I see hierarchical thinking as the biggest obstacle towards learning and understanding.
In a sense, the question of the "intelligent machine" is somewhat self-contradictory: To us, the question of intelligence matters as a preposition or qualifying term, for to what extent, probability and prospects we may pose an appeal to sympathy, moral and ethics. (In other words, it is not about trust in any realistic faculties, but about judgement – and then, to what extent we may trust in this.) However, this prospect doesn't fit well our expectations towards machines, which are all about repeatability and reproducible results in given tolerances… (Compare ChatGPT's so-called winter depression and the arising need to plead and argue with the device for any complex results. As the device gains in the emotional domain, its worth in the application domain radically decreases.)
The point is that if you just look at cost of hydrogen equipment, you're missing the cost of the equipment that has to charge it as well.

Have you read Komanoff's hypothesis that any given energy technology's cost scales to first order with sector size? It's quite an argument. He used it to explain unrelated cost escalations in nuclear and coal. It says that the bigger a sector is, the more people are impacted, and the more regulations and other externalities come in. For wind and solar, you can imagine land use leading to more NIMBY and transmission costs, and increasing costs of dealing with high intermittency (e.g. 2-week long wind droughts across 4 huge states that regularly occur in January).
The thing that is not nice is that 1) content is now super split between different providers and 2) you can't bring it with you on your travels (different licensing for different countries)
Unfortunately it is not possible to find out new questions or develop new tools by just thinking about stuff. You need to also do something concrete, at which point you cease to be just a philosopher and become also a mathematician, physicist, historian, economist etc.

In the example of question of consciousness, the point of view presented by William James here was obvious to people long before him. Scientific observation have shown the possibility of the alternative theory: that we are automata. We still do not have a definitive answer which one is correct, but philosophy have not contributed anything towards finding the correct answer. And the only progress we had in last 2500 years was due to science.
Sleeping through a decade of Cocoa: Retrospective from modernizing an old Mac a
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28121309 - Aug 2021 (23 comments)

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23791427 - July 2020 (4 comments)

The usefulness of useless knowledge (1939) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18683298 - Dec 2018 (12 comments)

A. Flexner – The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14656457 - June 2017 (1 comment)

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14558775 - June 2017 (33 comments)

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4305179 - July 2012 (21 comments)
Physics Examples and Other Pedagogic Diversions by K. McDonald
Google Wave flahsbacks just from description... but I didn't click yet
Not "known suspects" but "all relatives foolish enough to put themselves into the public DBs", hence "dragnet".