skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I remember lengthy debates about porting just about everything from C to C++ in the Linux world

Fun fact, the kernel patchset to do this was recently resurrected https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3465e0c6-f5b2-4c42-95eb-2936148...

We'll see!
if you read the article then you'll come across the section titled "Other Tesla drivers report no issues"
Sounds like winfs: https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php/WinFS#:~:text=Win....
source: https://github.com/ktye/ktye.github.io/blob/master/apl.k
Anyone familiar with both have a comparison with org-roam mode?
It's because people are defending the principle, not Apple.

I think Apple is wrong, but I don't think they're wrong because they're successful - in fact I think saying Apple is wrong because they're successful is against the concept of objective reality and not appropriate for HN.

The idea that Apple are wrong because they're successful is the same awful thinking that advocates for violence or systemic discrimination against people based on their skin color (because they're considered 'successful') and is abhorrent.
Tried Obsidian multiple times, can't make it work for me.
Tried Zettlr a week ago, same result.

Somehow I seem nobody noticed anytype - https://anytype.io/
They're still in beta, looks like they draw inspiration from Notion but it's more closer to what I need.
> My new computer has no hardware.

Funny, that's the opposite of my dream computer, which is running low amounts of software (or at least low amounts of dependencies for userspace) on lots of trusted and open hardware.
Or not.

To achieve the same with syncthing you'd need an aditionnal layer for the config like: git + stow, puppet, ansible, or using a distro like nix.

+ several GB of data may be moved faster from A to B using sneakernet than internet.
Excuse me, but maybe read the article (and the links to several articles published on Neri Oxman).

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/style/neri-oxman-mit.html

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-year-of-neri-o...
Cool, and thanks. I think my comment is completely reasonable and obv it started some decent discussions.

Replacement is defined as "a person or thing that takes the place of another"... when a town has 100 people who are German, and then in the future it is 50 Germans and 50 French -- the Germans have been half replaced by the French. It's a simple term, and I'm using it 100% as it is defined in our English language.
I've used bluetooth on linux, windows and macos. It mostly works (definitely nothing as bad as "never seen BT work at all on windows". There are so many keyboards, mouse and audio devices working pretty decently that I wonder what you are using and what is your use case.

My main gripes with it are:

- (lack of) selection of which device I end up connecting to (typically previous used device, unless not, and if you don't want that and it connects anyway, it is annoying to go and disconnect it)

- shitty audio quality in most implementations if you want to use microphone at the same time as listening to audio

- lack of support for actual multi-device connectivity (not 'this headset can switch between two "connected" sources, only playing from one' but 'this device can mix those two audio sources and play the result', for example. Which shouldn't be much more expensive than the worst case of adding another entire BT circuit + mixer)
It's easy to see this is untrue. replace intelligence with physical ability and it quickly becomes obvious that not everyone is going to be a great boxer or a great basketball player.

The standard is fuzzy by what you mean a 'great boxer' or a 'great basketball player'. I'll simply replied that with a fuzzy answer 'at least highly skilled'.

I believe most people can potentially trained to run a marathon. By my standard, that's a high level feat. Now, most people aren't actually capable of running a marathon right now, but my point is that it can be achieved.

Now you might see that as wildly optimistic, but as I explained, there are factors that prevents people from learning these skills, which can seem pessimistic. We are clearly not teaching in the most optimal fashion with the most optimal mindsets.
Why are you pretending to not be associated with "Canonic"?

Your github profile says "Full-Stack Web Developer @canonic-dev"

https://github.com/pinkman7009

And the other 2 accounts commenting were both registered 2 hours ago and have only written here "in support" of you
It's because Google has never been focussed on search quality imo. No search engine produces high quality results anymore.

Especially since you get the clear spam sites that somehow reference your query in the page content (where they've just spammed loads of keywords, but also pretty sure some spam sites are doing something dynamic with it).
-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks
You have to leave it for a couple of hours to consolidate the local SQLite DB and iCloud. The results are not immediate.
Surely if you disable bluetooth in the OS it'll disable any bluetooth dongles as well?
Could write your notes to a dir in your iCloud folder or equivalent; bind keys to the dir in netrw or whatever your choice of filetree explorer plugin
More like the opposite.

If you had $1,000 invested in Apple around ten years ago (a reasonable amount in a retirement fund), you'd have made around another $8,500 by now.

While if you'd spent $1,000 on apps and subscriptions over 10 years, Apple would have taken $300.

So Apple would take $300 of your money from one hand and give you back $8500 with the other.

That's a difference almost 3x larger than the difference you suggested... but in the opposite direction!
My dad had to use some warm water in a sealed bag to get his charger to engage and disengage, seemed to work well tho.
It's more like "let's improve on C by catching errors C compilers don't check." Rust took a lot of inspiration from Cyclone, which was meant to be a safe version of C.

Writing C makes certain classes of sloppy assembly bugs unwritable, like accidentally using the wrong calling convention, forgetting to preserve a register, or forgetting to pop something off the stack. Similarly, Rust makes classes of sloppy C bugs unwritable, like using a dangling pointer.

Why do you view that as an attack on C programmers? It's no more an attack on them than C was an attack on assembly programmers.
I think that while authors are obviously free to make whatever stylistic choices they want, it's also valid for readers to point it out when those choices are so distracting that it interferes with the intended message of the writing (as long as it's done civilly). It reminds me of another recent-ish article that was posted to HN that used uncommon ligatures looping between certain letters, where a large part of that discussion was centered around how distracting that was.

As an author, if you notice that your style choices are generating more interest and discussion than the actual content of your writing, it's probably worth considering whether the reasons that led you to those choices are really worth taking away from the messages you're trying to convey. Seeing as how the author of this post chimed in here to call their use of lowercase an "asshole filter," I suppose it's clear where they stand on that question.

I can see a future where we'll have browser extensions that use generative AI to "correct" style and grammar of articles to match the preferences of the reader, at which point stylistic choices may cease to matter as much.
I think the idea here is that Willow is meant to handle "higher order" issues like encryption and the especially prickly sharing encrypted data within a more cooperative environment, so that application builders can focus on their more specific applications.

Say that I want to implement something Figma-like for designing drug-runner operations, Willow seems to be an excellent building block (Yes, the example is kinda out-there but it's meant to indicate that genericity intended here).
I couldn’t agree more.

The saying ‘concrete jungle’ is so far off the mark. There’s no similarity between a city and a real jungle.

Once you’ve been out for a while, cities are clearly concrete zoos.
And if another developer disagrees for their app it doesn't matter because it made sense for you?
Windchill doesn't affect vehicles, since it's based on additional cooling caused by wind-driven evaporation. The base temperature would matter more.
A Root domain, or a name server authoritative for such. I don't think OP meant either.
I don't use the width of the canvas, but what I do love/appreciate is the way I can click anywhere and start writing. It feels as easy as pen and paper. I can go in any direction.

It doesn't have to be infinite canvas in practice, just allow enough width and length to let you put down your cursor anywhere and start writing/pasting images or whatever you wish.
Then add on top that Audiobook sales-volume in total is still smaller than book-sales, that Audible controls the majority of the US Audiobook sales, while the majority of consumption is actually their monthly subscription tier (which probably doesn't pay much at all).
Then Audible takes a revenue-share of 30~50% depending on content, publisher and author also want to earn money,...

Then the audiobook of "A song of fire and ice" is apparently 33 hours and 46 minutes, which is more than 3 times the average length [1], so just the narration production-cost is 3 times higher than the average audiobook.

So overall there's not so much left to make a profit, leave alone break-even.

[1] https://wordsrated.com/audiobook-statistics/
So holding people accountable is "mean and bullying"? The article points out the hypocrisy of Ackerman discrediting people for plagiarism while defending his serial plagiarist wife Neri Oxman:

> Neri Oxman, a former MIT professor and celebrity within the world of academia, stole sentences and whole paragraphs from Wikipedia, other scholars, and technical documents in her academic writing, Business Insider has found.

She certainly sounds like a "public figure", certainly public enough to be held accountable for the crap she and her husband are pulling.

Kudos to Business Insider for this excellent reporting:
https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipe...
How do you hit cmd-space when your keyboard is disconnected?
The overall narrative lately is that AI through APIs is the answer even if this paper doesn't say that. You have to read between the lines to see what's going on.

I would consider it generally accepted that having access to how something is trained and works provides a greater ability to protect against vulnerabilities.
Not so much; running Chrome headlessly can yield almost the same power usage as a graphical spawn one.
That the economics of propaganda are more complicated than hawking supplements does not change that Maddow makes a boatload of money (her income is absolutely shocking) for doing essentially the same thing as Alex Jones.
Recently a small startup CEO I know used information he got from an AI model (Bard) to get a list of relevant conferences. They created marketing campaigns based on that information, he never double checked the output. The conference dates were totally wrong and money was wasted.

Do not underestimate how fast people turn lazy.
Microsoft had the same idea in the early 2000s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
Sleep Retreats Are the Latest Wellness Travel Trend
> Practically speaking, I would recommend encoding as much model information as possible before pulling out the I term

I was referring to that part. Ie: if I know more abouty system, how do I include that in my control loop.

E.g. if I want to control the temperature of a room, I might have an idea how much energy is lost due to the gradient between inside and outside temperatures.

I would assume that a PID controller is still suitable for that, but I have never seen novice level resources on that.
Yea, throw the link to it out here. I was about to write something similar, so you’d save me the trouble! ;)
Possibly. You don't want to use the older client for anything except connecting to the older system. Keep it somewhere offline (encrypted, whatever: distinctly non-executable), too. (Not that it would solve the issue altogether, see Stuxnet for a sufficiently motivated attacker and airgapped systems, but it's a viable mitigation.)
There are ~200000 GPS navigation system induced accidents per year in the US [1]

Here’s a short list of just recent ones:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/driver-claims-gps-navigat...

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/driver-frozen-to-death-in...

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/couple-spends-24-hours-st...

[1] https://www.psychreg.org/gps-drives-crash/
Strong disagree.

I have indeed tried Markor and used it for quite a while. Atleast several months if not a year. It doesn't hold a candle to Obsidian.

Just two things off the top of my head among plenty of others:

1. No live edit mode in Markor. You can either edit or see the live preview. (Not sure if that's changed in recent times).

2. Here's the most thoughtful killer feature IMO of the Obsidian mobile app: it let's you configure the order of formatting tools that appear on the toolbar above the keyboard. This let's me put the checkbox edit and indent as the most frequent actions on top left. This makes my life so much better.
Yup. And some will even try to discount your opinion by "assaulting the messenger", saying that you're economically privileged by being a programmer etc etc.

It's very hard for people on both ends of the spectrum to take, analyze, and respond to a statement by itself and not to the person who is saying it.
It means they keep position as dominant Git forge, mindshare: people are most familiar with them, then think of them first for Enterprise contracts, are interested in other paid product/feature (Copilot e.g.).

Side benefit to overwhelming mindshare many people expect/require the other forge to have the Github feature: being different counts as negative. This reinforces.
Very few people bought Windows separately, its price was bundled with the hardware sale just like it is with iOS. This is a completely moot point.

You could try to argue that Apple give more value by supporting longer, but then again you would be completely wrong (some hardware manufacturer are not super good at supporting their stuff for the very long term, but windows in itself has a support timeline way beyond anything Apple ever did...)
TinyML on the Browser
I think there is a major component to the MBA program that is missed in these comments, at least based on my experience getting one almost 30 years ago. That is, going through an MBA program is (potentially) an efficient way to do a career change, post-college. The majority of my classmates, including myself, were trying to move from one career to a completely different one. In my program, the majority of fellow students had graduated college as engineers, did it for a few years and didn't like the work or the pay, and decided, rationally, that they could use their math skills to make more money in finance. And the MBA program, in addition to providing both a broad set of overview business classes and a few more in their area of focus, ends with a recruiting program where the graduates are basically getting a do-over.

If you were an engineer four years out of college, working at HP, and wanted to become an investment banker, how else would you break into the field? You can't just email Goldman Sachs and ask for an interview and say you've read some finance books. The MBA program gives you the do-over pass, and most of my classmates did it for this reason. Separately, back then it was really cheap (mine cost a total of $10k, and my salary in my new field was $50k higher) so it was usually worth the money. At current tuition prices, the deal may not be as clear. Anyway, I think people asking "couldn't you just learn accounting in night classes?" are missing the point of the program: Learn something new PLUS get a career do-over without penalty.
I agree. I’ve considered trying to use Keyboard Maestro to implement an ersatz Markdown mode, like “replace '##<space>' with ‘trigger the Set Heading Format menu’” or “replace ``` with ‘trigger the Monostyled format menu’”.

Huh. Having actually written that out, that should be easy. I know what I’m doing this morning.
Why don’t science grad students take over the publication industry and run it like they do in law?
BMW showed off hallucination-free AI at CES 2024
AlphaGeometry, DeepMind's new model that can solve olympiad problems
I think it’s pretty likely that a lot of Obsidian users use it for their professional activity without paying.

Personally I haven’t considered it because of that. I have no use for a complex notes app in my private life, and there’s no way my employer would pay for the subscription.
I love it when the wokest of the woke mob get outed with revelations about their past history. Maybe the "church of modern day woke" could borrow something about repentance & forgiveness from other much older religions but that was never part of the doctrine from the very beginning.
We the Parents is a new documentary that was just released, free to view on YouTube, about the family court system and how it is fundamentally broken.

In many states it is actually legal to make a false accusation against a parent without evidence or history and use that unfounded accusation to separate children from their families without ever having to substantiate or show any evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever.

An army of immoral and corrupt attorneys have learned to use this loophole to perform what they call, "The Silver Bullet," a technique in which a false allegation is filed, generally physical abuse against a child, take the children away and then use the fact the children have been removed as the sole justification to assign full custody to the other parent along with monetary support. This is what happened to me and countless other parents but as more and more families have been destroyed by this cabal of corrupt attorneys, judges and associated service personnel people are slowly waking up to this grift and are demanding a change.

Change is an uphill battle as there are simply too many people making too much money, from the attorneys, to Judges and myriad support staff such as "coaches", coordinators, and forensic accountants and psychologists who all have a financial incentive to make sure the status quo continues. Many of these personnel are vitriolic but vapid in their disdain for the bill and opposition to it is usually the surest sign you are dealing with a biased individual who chances to lose out if and when it passes. The "divorce industry" seems to attract narcissists and immoral individuals like flies to excrement many pretending they are there to help but which is rarely the truth.

If you ever wonder why Judges allow this corruption to continue right under their noses, the answer is astounding. As elected individuals every election cycle they run a campaign and solicit contributions from the very lawyers and support staff who they are supposed to be impartial to. Most will take in tens of thousands of dollars per cycle and any money left unspent can be "paid" back to themselves. So when an attorney who has made a sizable contribution shows up in their courtroom and congratulates the Judge on their recent victory, everyone involved understands the transactional nature of the "pay-to-play" system they have bought into.
Neri Oxman reportedly plagiarized undergrad thesis of student she supervised
All compliant grid tied inverters disconnect from the grid when power is lost. This is a legal requirement in almost all jurisdictions.
Just days after the 1BRC.

Maybe, if the Devs can replicate the perf with VarHandle and MemorySegment, it could go away eventually.
I don't understand why some of you feel like you need to write such obvious lies to defend a product. Deck does not need any expansion and your Switch price won't get you Mario.
Aligned to its creator's specifications. It's value neutral, but constraints are a precondition for avoiding pathological behavior.
I really liked the idea of creating linked data to connect chunks. That is an idea that deserves some play time (I just added it to my TODO list). Thanks for the good ideas!
I have dreamed of starting a credit card/payment processor company that does this, giving users instant discounts everywhere they use it. Retailers will bend over to move people away from paying % fees.

The problem is that it is extremely capital intensive to get it off the ground.
It's absolutely true. I work 8 hours every other weekend at a local foodbank and donations and volunteers are low. A lot of people like to complain about conditions but few do anything about it. It seems the solution posited by most is simply to criminalize homelessness, which will cost us all much much more.
"B-b-but Google and others do it, too!"

I'd like to quote a passage from Reamde by Neal Stephenson: "So what are you going to do?" Yuxia asked.
"Maybe tag along. Like escorting a drunk president home after a long night in the bar."
"Didn't you say you had to make a phone call?"
"I have been trained by the United States government," Seamus said, "to do more than one thing at a time."
in that case, the source image was actually licensed:

"Years later, Goldsmith granted a
limited license to Vanity Fair for use of one of her Prince photos as an
“artist reference for an illustration.” The terms of the license included
that the use would be for “one time” only. Vanity Fair hired Warhol to
create the illustration, and Warhol used Goldsmith’s photo to create a
purple silkscreen portrait of Prince, which appeared with an article
about Prince in Vanity Fair’s November 1984 issue. "
There is more to the design space here than "exceptions vs 2x bloat." For example, Rust shares Go's "errors as values, no exceptions" philosophy, but has significant syntax sugar to reduce the bloat at the site where the error is handled. I'm sure there are also other spots in the design space to consider.

(I do not think that this means Go (from the title) or C (from your example) is a bad language. All I mean to say is that the design space has multiple different possible designs, not just two.)
Windshields cracking happens on all cars, but whether or not, it happens more with Tesla I don’t know.
Because GitHub takes a fucking eternity to load every time you click something.
They picked up the slack only after they were shamed multiple times, including by websites like https://issafarithenewie.com/ (which now reflects their progress, very honestly). A brief look at items from the last several years will return lots of pretty bad press.

> They aren’t ten times slower than everybody else.

Just to mention one, WebRTC took 7 years to go from the first Firefox implementation to Safari. Chrome had it less than 2 years after FF, so I guess not 10x but 3x-4x - still a very significant lag, which is definitely not explainable by lack of resources.
I’m glad you liked the interview.

Some people do not enjoy my writing style. That is fine; it’s a big Internet and there are writers with many styles on it. Some people think my style is poorly considered or unnecessary. I invite them to attempt writing a few million words. It will give one a very considered view on one’s own style.

I have spent half my life working in a foreign-to-me language and so I feel for non-native speakers who try to read my writing. That said, all choices in life have trade-offs. Many publications in the U.S. target a fifth to eighth grade reading level. You likely would have little difficulty reading those publications, much like I have comparatively little difficulty reading Japanese aimed at 5th graders. However, people rarely associate those publications with dense, insightful, textured prose on complicated technical and interdisciplinary subjects. (If some HNers do, awesome; stuff you’ll love is available at the obvious places on the Internet.)