skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the locals aren’t reproducing so they’ve essentially have said that the idea of Germany (and more generally the west) isn’t important

That is if you have an explicitly ethnic understanding of "the west" and Germany and, implicitly, that there is any kind of significant ethnic overlap between the west and Germany: there isn't. The west is made up of Anglos, Scots, French, Germans, Portuguese, Spaniards, Italians, and many hundreds of smaller cultural and ethnic groups which have spent the better part of the last 2000 years of european history trying to utterly annihilate each other (not to mention that larger "political west" which can include Japan, Korea, and other non-european liberal democracies).

Imagine going back in time and lamenting to the French people of the late 1800s that there aren't going to be enough Germans left. I don't think they'd react with the same sadness as you but rather breathe a sigh of relief. "The west" is an invention: what matters is the survival liberal democracy and the human race
>do something serious

I guess it depends on what you mean by serious. Pre-training a competitive LLM with current methods and consumer hardware is prohibitive for sure. Solving a classification problem could be totally doable depending on the domain.
I think the politics aspect should be one where there is a separation from work and strongly held and compelled to discuss. A company I have worked at had a slack / similar channel where tantrums about very personal self esteem / political view issues were not uncommon. It got old especially given the political leaning (in general) of said company was much in that individuals wheel of support.

There was some very visceral discussions in one of the CNCF groups late last year around the events in the middle east that impacted discussions, saw individuals publicly at odds, etc. Technical conferences, in a sense, may be different than work, but individuals participating in conferences should feel supported in engaging, discussing, and presenting the material relevant to the conference. Harassment/etc should be frowned upon and actively dealt with. Conferences, unless political/societal in nature, should also be political free zones.
these are really great, thanks for sharing! love the simplicity.
Your politics are bleeding through here and it’s clearly fogging your mind of reality. I made a statement considered factual by political science/international relations and you’re strawmanning about “neoliberalism” and bringing up climate change. Do better, be less emotional. If you can’t do that you have no business making statements about nations and their relations with one another which are rational.
FUSE was 2004, so it's anyone's guess.
> We have a right to speak to a lawyer, but that could be over the phone and they are not present during questioning

You can refuse to answer most questions during questioning, but even if you yell “lawyer!!!” A million times and spill the beans after the millionth repeat question, you’re screwed.

Then there’s the constitution “protections” about illegally gained evidence where the judge can say “yeah, it was unconstitutional but I’ll allow it anyway”
Since density with Si is approaching a wall soon and thus a switch in materials likely to end up being necessary at some point in the next 2-3 decades anyway, I feel like rather than being immediately revolutionary, all that'll end up mattering is where the theoretical limits are. After all, at that point, you need to retool and retrain anyway.
I've had the opposite experience, personally. There's a ton of helpful information on their forum both from community members and employees. Getting NixOS on my AMD Framework 13 took some doing and the forum was super helpful when it came to various issues.

That said, I _do_ agree that the information isn't as well organized as a result of the nature of its creation.
this is exactly what Slack does (or did, I don't know if they still do). they only charge you for employees that have used slack during the month. though I don't know what "use" entails.
your comment would make sense if there wasn't 340,000 k in your parent comment
If you invoked the fifth, you'd be made fun of, since that's a US thing.

But section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

> Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.

has been found to provide similar protections. You can be required to identify yourself, and, in drunk driving cases, you can be required to do roadside sobriety tests, but in general, you aren't obliged to answer questions from the police.
That's an interesting feature. I didn't know that audio technicians and scientists solved this problem. My father-in-law started wearing a hearing aid a year ago (before Biden made it easier so It had a hefty $4k price tag). It was hooked up to his phone. I don't think he was very savvy with the volume button. Often times he didn't know if the sound was coming thru bluetooth or the phone directly. Now he has a ringing problem that keeps him at night. And he needs a white noise maker to tone it down.

I will take a trip to the audiologist at Costco to get more insight. I hope it is as good as you say it is.
In this Oklahoma town, almost everyone knows someone who's been sued by hospital
TeamViewer abused to breach networks in new ransomware attacks
Wise offers them: https://wise.com/gb/virtual-card/
I'm an immigrant in Germany, and I'll likely apply for citizenship now. I was waiting for this, as were many of my friends.

The alternative is eternally staying on a residence permit, and getting kicked out when you stop making money and paying taxes. It's not what I want, and the transactional relationship cuts both ways, but it gets you taxpayers with no strings attached.

However I want to be more than a worker. I want to build a life here and I'm getting really tired of the humiliating residence permit renewals at the dysfunctional immigration office.
Miseducating the American Mind
> There is a bill moving rapidly through the U.K. Parliament that poses a significant threat to data security and privacy in the U.K. and beyond. It is ill considered and should be amended substantially before it moves forward. The bill is flawed in several respects

UK citizen (person of interest?) here.. sadly, this summarises what passes for the New Normal here in Britain. Contentious bills are always "rushed", and will only be considered by the people it will ultimately affect. These bills are always flawed in some way, but somehow, the Oppositin never seems to oppose. I'm not surprised.
This was a great read. The human conditions and the trials and tribulations faced by each and every one of us are plentiful and can often be over-encumbering. Be kind to everyone :)
Stellantis warns of EV 'bloodbath' as Ford cuts F-150 Lightning output
People to need to understand that human nature and incentives are easy to talk about changing, and nearly impossible to change. It's why we're slow-walking towards catastrophic climate change.
I love reading Doron's opinions, whether I agree with them or not.
Yes my point was more "this policy is nothing special or more lenient than the usual"
Pretty much every immigrant friend of mine (including myself) has been waiting for this. It's really good news and it means a lot to us, especially those of us with an equally strong citizenship.
Open-relationship enthusiasts crash mainstream romance apps
Django Software Foundation calls for applicants for a new Django Fellow
Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says
My automated translations do have context and aren't bad at all. Not perfect, but not crappy either.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39056824 (HN: Venture capital firm General Catalyst to buy Ohio health system Summa Health)

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/17/summa-health-ohio-general-c...
I sort of have a compromise solution for this. I use my banks autopay whenever possible which is a push instead of a pull. That way I can just shut it off instead of finding some weird website I haven't used in a million years or call and wait on hold for 20 minutes. I started using it mostly so I didn't have to buy checks but I saw it had some advantages beyond that.

It doesn't work well with variable bills though because I can't schedule an amount I don't know yet to be paid. I'm stuck using a pull for my power bill for instance.
> They make you call between 9 am and 5 pm

This is customer service. A written notice of termination works for any consumer contract.

> but you paid for the year

Unpay for it. This is the utility of credit cards.
> This discussion is about subscriptions but the general idea applies to so much more – basic budgeting, retirement savings, not paying random fees, not paying interest, moving spare money to investment accounts every month, rebalancing your investments every quarter, negotiating rents, negotiating your salary.

I think it's one of the major failures of the education system. Why is there no class in school which covers taxes, savings, budgeting, etc? People are seemingly just expected to know this on their own.
I think there’s different ways:
- take random samples from the area and statistically come up with that value
- put a radar/sonar/ xray etc in a hole and get an outline of how big the deposit is.

I did not work in this field explicitly, but worked on Gaussian processes which were first used as a way to aggregate data like this from multiple sources to minimize the number of drillings required to find oil.
Just use lima.
https://lima-vm.io/

You have an option to use Native or QEMU.
Apple Vision Pro Sold Out, at Least for Pre-Order
Show HN: I Created a Snake Game
I wrote this game for fun using JavaScript and a bit of JQuery. Hope you enjoy playing it!
There is a difference between short-term and long-term storage. Smoothing out hourly or daily variations is pretty easy with batteries or hydro. The problem is deficits on cloudy, calm winter days. The amount of batteries would to cover a week would be too expensive.

For now, this would be covered by gas plants but at some point need to have green solution. It is also possible to over build solar and wind to cover more days and produce excess capacity. Generated fuels work well for long-term storage since can be generated when there is excess, stored for long period of time, and are used by long-distance vehicles.
NASA cannot independent of SpaceX?
Agreed. The change was made to conform to ICAO standards[1], which the article alludes to, but doesn't examine the implications of remaining unstandardized. Surely having different phraseology in the US is a separate risk and cognitive burden!

To me the main issue is not "wait" vs "hold"... it's that either way, pilots may misremember having been issues the takeoff clearance. The best defense against this, IMHO, is ground radar to detect the movement as early as possible.

[1]: https://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/resources/luaw
Or maybe the internet kicked off a generational shift in demand away from written content and towards lowest common denominator content like Barstool and whatever is going on with gambling. Startup brands will always be able to skate fastest towards the puck. To the extent that the SI brand is associated with substantive content it's more of a liability now.
We’ve just gone through a streak of -8C temperatures. Every weekday morning my EV is fully charged and defrosted automatically based on a schedule I set.

I definitely don’t miss scraping off ice or standing around a petrol station waiting for a diesel tank to fill.
if the app automatically categorizes things, you don't ever have to look at it. doing it yourself requires that you review every transaction individually.
Two of those can be fixed with a simple calendar entry. We do that with subscriptions but also with things like AirBNB bookings where you can cancel up to x weeks in advance.
Hey there. I'd come across aider a few weeks ago - thrilled to have your input on this.

You're correct that Voxos in its current form does not directly work with the user's file system. I'll admit I chose my words carefully in saying that it spares you from copy and pasting between ChatGPT and your IDE - not necessarily that you won't be copy and pasting any more. I feel like having the text response dump to a text editor helps me speed up my workflow considerably when contrasted with the ChatGPT UI being "read-only" in this sense.

Anyways, I'd been messing around with function calling in an earlier version of Voxos and plan on bringing all that work into this beta soon. In terms of my approach, I plan on using docker to host a network mapped drive on the host machine. Then connecting the IDE from the host to the network mapped drive. I'm not sure how well that will carry over to the non-beta version of Voxos that I envision will come with an installer for non-technical users. I haven't put that much work into the idea yet.

An alternative was to host all of it in the cloud and simply offer a web IDE to a container, then make sure there's reliable backup and revert system in place if/when things go south. That's heading more towardsa hosted solution though and I simply don't have time to support paying customers even once Voxos matures to the point I'd liked for a v1.0.

I'll take a closer look at the unified-diffs when I get a chance!
It's an awesome under-rated gem.
I'm really sorry you have to put up with people considering transgender of "low status". I admire you taking control of your life <3
I think this was progressive JPEGs

https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/website/improving-websit...
Potentially stupid question: if you cancel the virtual credit card, can't the company then send your debt to collections resulting in a bigger headache?
Yeah, HTC's brief dominance as the Android OEM only lasted until 2012-2013 or so. So a four or five year run, followed by a few notable collaborations with Google, the Nexus 9 and the Pixel.
> What counts as “using” Fair Source licensed software with respect to the Use Limitation (e.g., 25-user limit)?

> The license doesn’t define “use” exactly because the way people deploy software changes all the time. Instead, it relies on a common-sense definition. For example, executing the software, modifying the code, or accessing a running copy of the software constitutes “use.”

Appealing to common sense for a critical definition in a binding license agreement? What could go wrong!
They can go to Russia like they did for 10 years after the Shuttle retired.
Yes, but it's a minor issue of software configuration. Tiling WMs like sway can definitely do it. It seems weird to choose worse hardware to compensate for deficiencies in a window manager configuration.
Adaptation happens when it's forced to happen.
There is a workaround. Apparently you can get one single laptop display but then you can use visionOS apps on the side. That is good enough for me.
This brings so much nostalgia and joy
Mistral, in my opinion, looks to be the most exciting company in the LLM space right now; judging by their pace of releases alone.

GPT3 to 4 took almost 3 years. Google Gemini took around 3/4 of a year.

Mistral 7b to Mixtral 8x7b and simultaneously Mixtral Medium was ~82 days.

That's crazy fast.
Use means account is in an "active" state, so no, not really what parent is talking about.
Thanks. I agree that data structures are even more important. So I plan to make this for for data structures too (this is not a full proposal yet, just testing the waters):

#define foo(tag, T) struct tag { _Var(T)* p; }

then we also need a solution for the problem you mention. One option I thought about is to allow strings as tags: https://godbolt.org/z/cMc3aPjsK And if the builtin that transforms types to strings you be used as a string literal, this could work nicely. But even better may be to just all parametrizing the tag with a type: struct foo(T)

I am still thinking about this.
I'm also amused by the fact that the file format GIF became a name for a snippet of animation, and you usually get a webp when you search for a GIF (for good reasons too, but funny nevertheless).
> philosophically extravagant mathematics of transfinite set theory

And poorly-founded, I would add. Cantor's diagonal proof is, quite literally, question begging. Sure, you can construct a number not in the infinite set of natural numbers via that diagonalization method, but only if you're at infinity, or if you make very liberal use of "..." -- otherwise, you cannot.

And Skolem was quick to discredit Cantor's extravagances, on grounds that tend to support finitism generally.
Friends don't let friends use anything but web safe colors. Everyone else can enjoy dithering on their 8-bit CRT
Not exactly, people moving without trying to take control is just settling, when they try to overtake control instead of assimilating into the culture they immigrated to then I think it can be considered some form of colonisation.
In 1999 websites were a little more modern compared to the early 90s. By 2000 there were many online gaming communities already. The BSOD is so realistic though :D
Delivering value as an entry level software development position requires some soft skills, but it's probably mostly determined by skill/mastery over technical subjects.

As one advances, particularly at larger or more bureaucratic organizations, soft skills become more important. Being "most trusted" for instance, is of significant value. It suggests that one has built a reputation and delivered on his or her promises over a period of time and thus, can be trusted to lead a difficult or ambitious project. These things you mentioned, being important, influential, needed, or trusted, are all proxies for providing value over an extended period of time while maintaining good relations with peers. This is a good thing to select for when promoting up a hierarchy in a large human endeavor.

Of course we all know cases where people get promoted because of their social clique for whom this isn't true, but it's not crazy to not just focus on mastery of hard skills.
I wonder whether these are communities that would accept him or that he wants to belong to.

They speak a language and it's probably not his either.
This looks like an easy thing for Walmart to prevent if they bothered. On Amazon if you add a new shipping address, you can't ship to it until you re-verify your credit card CVV. With just that simple check this attack would be blocked (unless they steal the entire CC info of course).
The money shot:

https://youtu.be/Jv65B_FtrCA?t=4577

https://youtu.be/Jv65B_FtrCA?t=4682
That refers to Markdown. I'm asking about how Org Mode is 'standardized'.
John Carmack can have all the soft skills in the world. If he wasn't technically credible, it does not matter. This topic is about how to get that level of technical proficiency, how to become a great programmer.

Jumping in and telling folks to be a great communicator or tech lead instead is not the way to become a great programmer. That's the way to become a great staff engineer. They're not the same things.
especially in Germany
I don't know, ask any online maps site.

Or, say, literally any number of e-commerce sites that give the user an interactive and/or customisable view of products and not just static imagery.

Or, say, any number of pages that embed complex data visualisations.

"Why does a graphical UI platform need performant graphics" is an incredibly tautological question.
The World's First Microcontroller
> With the utmost of respect to M. Chabant, that is not exactly first-class.

It would appear that Ludovic Chabant is working full-time at Epic Games. He is unlikely to have the capacity to be on call for Sourcehut.
What do you use to run it on your phone?
Or, if you're doing containers (like Tart/Virt): colima. (which uses lima, of course).

https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
Sure, but it's a bit absurd and disrespectful to consider moving to a country while calling their national language "irrelevant."
This was discovered in Phang Nga. It is full of natural beauty and has some of the most recognizable tourist spots. I wonder how those would be affected.
Are we 100% sure it’s a fight they really want to win?

Poor results, I might as well click on ads…
Tactical Loran, also known as "Loran-D" was a concept Dave was involved in during the Korea war. There's a pdf about it somewhere on the web.

Remember: This is way before GPS, so pilots could not just look at an instrument and know where their plane was, and many planes, both civil and military would regularly get lost (in the meaning: loose track of where they were).

In friendly skies you could have your own Loran-C, but you couldn't expect the enemy to provide that for you, so "tactical" meant that you could rig up a naviation chain where you needed it, in a matter of days.

(In the end both USSR and China set up Loran-C chains, some of them operating jointly with the US chains, and today the Rusian "Chayka" and possibly the chinese chains are the only ones left.)

So tactical Loran was basically Loran-C transmitters in containers or trucks, and because they would be much weaker than real Loran-C, being both power constrained and having much smaller antenna, they used a 16 pulse code instead of an 8/9 pulse code.

Loran-C&D is spread-spectrum transmission, but decades before the theory was fleshed out, but it was well understood that a longer pattern would improve S/N.

But Loran-C/D was just one of many DoD radionav systems that project 621B (=GPS) was supposed to kill, and eventually did kill.
NASA forced Axiom to have the mission commander be an ex-NASA Astronaut for safety purposes. The first mission had 4 guys running around the ISS not knowing what's up.
Ask HN: Is there any advanced web-based IDE?
Is there any web-based version of VSCode other than VSCode.dev or any open source alternative?

I'm looking for a web-based IDE, something advanced like Project IDX

Is there any?
I thought rice must be the most likely, but wasn't sure where to look it up.
At least as a practical matter. Some large companies (in particular) may have draconian policies about doing moonlighting but it's probably not a big deal generally as long as it's low-visibility.
There are other people still alive who know Forth? :) I thought we died out.
Top VC backed cybersecurity companies
Nice demo: https://pooyak.com/p/progjpeg/
IDK if that holds. If pricing is such that people would probably pay more, then the business will raise the price. The fact that they're getting free money from zombie subscriptions doesn't really change things.

Though perhaps you could say businesses then actively reduce pricing to keep things just under the zombie radar, but that's even more effed up: it means the pricing strategy is such that zombie accounts are actually the business's goal, not just a side effect.
Windows Support in Crystal 1.11
> Personally, I don’t want a virtual screen at all, I want all the individual windows on my Mac to hover around me in virtual space (like they do for native visionOS apps), but that’s not supported. It’s a real shame IMO.

Well, yes, that would be the ultimate. Why even think in terms of "screens" which only exist for practical reasons in physical space?
You were always able to do this, you just needed a Beibehaltigungsgenehmigung. That requirement is also being dropped but only for new cases. If you already lost your citizenship you're still SOL.
Based on the age of your account, you're new here, so...for better or worse, things that aren't "News" regularly are popular on Hacker News. Even if it's not new, it's can still be new to one of the lucky 10,000.
I feel like the difficulty between easy and medium was quite a jump. It'd be nice to dial it in more.
This leaderboard is so funny when you look at Anthropic's Claude. Every version After 1.0 gets a worse score.

It seems their vision of "alignment" does not align with the users vision of a competent assistant even remotely.
the difference is that NASA only has seats for 6-month ISS missions, not a couple weeks like Axiom missions. Totally different.
Sadly nobody says "surf the web" any more