skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do something similar for my reports. I write most of it in markdown using Typora and then I export the last draft to docx for fine tuning and distribution (the agencies I work with want docx submissions, not pdf, which always bothers me).

Typora uses pandoc to do the conversion. My reports are mainly text, charts, and lots of math formulae and it works great. You don't get fine adjustment of layout, but I find that a feature not a bug. I see so many people waste time to put a figure in just the right place. It doesn't matter. The goal is clear information transfer so just get the figure in the doc where it makes sense and go on.
From what I've seen of my friends' gears, iPhones beat conventional cameras easily if you don't do any processing. But if you're going to process your DSLR RAWs, smartphones will just lose in comparison.
EDIT 2: Wanted to say that personally I have an interchangeable lens camera _and_ a Richoh, and think of the Richoh as costing about the same as a (nice) lens. The more you do photography the more you will realize there isn't just one thing you can buy and be happy with forever, you'll be constantly buying and selling used gear, so don't fret it :shrug:
NpgsqlRest
I was surprised that there was not more mention of the clones of the mid 1990s. The Pioneer clone mentioned in the article sure is an interesting curiosity, but clone brands like Motorola (Starmax) and Power Computing were much more widely available. My brother had a really generic looking beige tower that was a 68040 Mac, from one of those brands. They were equivalent to a mid-to-high-end Performa, but significantly more affordable. I would love to hear more stories of folks who owned one of those. The clone era was short lived, IIRC once they became too successful Apple ceased the licensing program and that was the end of that.

Here's a Starmax ad from 1997: https://archive.org/details/MacWorld9710October1997/page/n7/...
The panels might not prove to be reliable in the long run - breakdowns, output degradation, weardown because of weather etc can happen.
> I guess if we repeated that experiment nowadays it would be the other way round.

As somebody with a long unused DSLR packed away… I’d say it depends on the lens. Maybe. One thing that iPhones still can’t do as good as a DSLR is very low light (eg starfield), however the current crop of phones are getting pretty good at even this.

Those DSLR’s are huge and quite frankly their workflows aren’t as smooth as on phones. If a DSLR could automagically upload all images to my repository (ie icloud) then I’d probably use them more.

But as they say, the best camera is the one you have on you and the camera I have on me is almost always found in my phone.
Me too :). I do wish fish could seamlessly convert and run bash script on the fly..
I don’t think that was around back then but I can add it to the backlog of things to try for next round. Does that play nice with rust? Presumably I’d have to at least build the standard library from scratch (which I’d want to do against musl as a separate benchmark anyway since it’s now a single environment variable away).

(Not that the codebase makes much string function usage.)
Putting Mazda Emblems on a Tesla is sort of embarrassing. Just debadge your car.

I'm in the DC Metro MD VA area and Teslas feel as common as civics now.
This looks exceedingly cool.

I probably don't have a use for this type of thing, any more, but, at one time, I would have snatched one up, immediately.
Yellow fever and malaria were brought to the New World by Europeans.
Spark is still pretty non performant.

If the workload fits in memory and a single machine, DuckDb is so much more lightweight and faster.
I know lots of compilers/linkers don't optimize for it but it should be possible to 'tree shake' libraries so only the parts that are used by an application are included. That would shake off a lot of the 'bloat'.
Good use of doxxing
Web Calendars Should Be Discoverable and Provide iCalendar Feeds
Rails isn't super opinionated about database writes, its mostly left up to developers to discover that for relational DBs you do not want to be doing a bunch of small writes all at once.

That said it specifically has tools to address this that started appearing a few years ago https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/35077

The way my team handles it is to stick Kafka in between whats generating the records (for us, a bunch of web scraping workers) and and a consumer that pulls off the Kafka queue and runs an insert when its internal buffer reaches around 50k rows.

Rails is also looking to add some more direct background type work with https://github.com/basecamp/solid_queue but this is still very new - most larger Rails shops are going to be running a second system and a gem called Sidekiq that pulls jobs out of Redis.

In terms of read queries, again I think that comes down to the individual team realizing (hopefully very early in their careers) that's something that needs to be considered. Rails isn't going to stop you from doing N+1 type mistakes or hammering your DB with 30 separate queries for each page load. But it has plenty of tools and documentation on how to do that better.
I must say that almost 30y later I can't be certain
I have a fairly large Canon DSLR FF system I rarely use. There are a few cases (wildlife photography, sports, concerts, certain nature) mostly with very long or very wide lenses but, for most other shooting where I'm not going to spend an hour setting up a shot? Not worth it--especially when traveling or hiking.

I do have a Fujifilm mirrorless but with the standard long wide to short tele zoom, I still bring it on certain types of trips but honestly it's almost a backup at this point. There's not a lot it beats my iPhone 15 Pro at--certainly for web viewing which is all I really do. This is especially true if you're not going to shoot photos with a lot of care taken to depth of field, shutter speed, etc. To just shoot, the phone probably does a better job a lot of the time.
I gotta credit, at least in part, the work-from-home movement. It certainly didn't hurt, we're pulling ahead, right?
Not really anymore. Texas cities are recently much more liberal and down to earth than thier extreemist hinterlands. The stereotype diminishes every year.
Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model
288M-Year-Old Fossilized Scrap of Skin Is the World’s Oldest
Yes, if you look at a simple projector you can see it: there's a little half-loop of film before and after the shutter/lens assembly and you can see it vibrate as it buffers between the intermittent motion at the shutter and the smooth motion in the rest of the film path.
Evolution usually doesn't mean watching I and everyone I know die (or worse) in real-time. Many people want children but few would be willing to die in childbirth to achieve it.

There's absolutely no guarantee that we can construct superintelligence that will perpetuate our values long-term or even short-term.
True. And this is yet another data point to support my thesis: The state of the tooling and docs, along with Apple's increasingly aggressive approach towards developer incomes, all gives the impression of an arrogant institution which has lost its understanding of the symbiotic relationship it's in with its stakeholders. It is often at this point that future business and shareholder value is destroyed.

I really hope they turn it around, because their devices are incredible. Their hardware team has been absolutely killing it for the past few years.
> I could have surely done it for the good of mother earth but financially it made no sense.

This seems like a recurring theme in todays world.
Fake knowledge was the most common thing circulating among people back then.

People mostly couldn't verify anything.
The birth control pill and the abortion pill, possibly?
Flipper Zero is a celebration of the hacker visual culture
When I was trying to determine whether an air-source heat-pump could work to replace my old (like 1950s old) gas boiler, what I did was reduce the flow temperatures leaving that old boiler to see what flow temperatures would be required to satisfy the heat loss at various outside temperatures. (This is basically discovering the required outdoor reset curve on a mod-con boiler.)

I found the minimum temperature to maintain 71°F at various outside air temperatures and then looked to see whether the ASHP could provide that flow temp (sometimes called "leaving water temp"). (This is also what the article's author did.)

In a case like that, I'm inherently proving that the pipes are sufficiently sized as well. Now, the downside is that it requires time and effort on the homeowner's part, requires a working old boiler, requires a winter season of variable temps, so it's not a practical way for a contractor to bid the job, but for HN readers, you can do it that way. (Note also that if your old boiler is not a condensing boiler, you will be damaging it by causing it to condense acidic water from the exhaust. I was OK with that, because I knew it was going to be replaced the following year.)

If I found that the house struggled to maintain temp, that method doesn't tell me whether increasing the pipe size would help (though having a larger than desired delta-T coupled with a low flow rate is a strong hint).

For a contractor bidding/design situation, there is a universal hydronics formula which is BTU/hr = 500 * delta-T (in °F) * gallons/minute. Pick the delta-T (often 20°F) and the heat load, and solve for gallons/minute. Look up pipe sizing tables for maximum velocity, then using the pipe size and total developed length, figure out the pump you'll need. Then check the emitter sizing to ensure that it can emit the heat required (to "cause" the delta T) at the lower flow temperatures characteristic of an efficient heat pump system.

Ultimately, I proved to myself that a heat pump could work down to an outside air temp of about 18°F [which is slightly above our 99th percentile design temp] with flow temps of 135°F, so an air source heat pump could work with slightly reduced comfort on about 2% of days or could work all the time with supplementation with a 9kW [30K BTU/hr] electric boiler.

What killed the project is no heat pump installer was interested in doing the work (as reflected by outright declining to bid, while bidding a 4-hour gas boiler swap, or by bidding so high that they might as well not have bid, while also cheerfully bidding a 4-hour gas boiler swap). So my house still burns gas for heat, which matches the author's experience:

> this speaks to the third lesson in my story. The boiler market is focused on cheap and quick installation.
Yes, that's the idea. In theory.. :)
Ask HN: Have you mistaken an AI image for a real image yet?
I consider my self to be internet savvy in some regards. However, I fell for believing that a supposed picture of the 1988 Belgian grand with senna racing through the snow was real.

I must have known deep down that it was fake, but it was almost so good and remarkable I had to believe it was true.

I can’t be the only one ?
I rode my bike to school in Middle School because it was so close a bus didn’t come. When I started High School it was a 2-3 miles away but I continued doing it until I had a car.

My friends and I would ride our bikes or walk everywhere we wanted during the day from 11/12 on. We would ride to a pharmacy weekly and get a snack or a small item for my mom.
Are you suggesting that there is some kind of global warming going on?! Someone should really say something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_...

It's fairly clear that the numbers on both sides are very rough, but it's not what I would describe as very skewed at all. Also, note the Spanish themselves suffered 50%+ losses, which is a horrific casualty rate for pre-industrialized warfare.

Aside from that, it's historically very common for one side to win even against much higher numbers with good (even accidentally good) strategy and with decisive bold actions, or even just good luck.

edit: also worth mentioning that the Spanish were mostly fighting with their lances and swords, not guns.
there is a class system, it comes with a support system. I quantified what that support system was while you want to split hairs over the specific word used, an answer that requires a whole dissertation in lieu of a simple word that conveys a shared concept. The support system requires being able to close your own seed round and be unemployed, and having friends in your network in the same situation.
Multimodal brainwaves,Hourglass Diffusion Transformers and more
> Really? It was exactly what I expected.

Shoot, somehow I actually commented on the wrong article. That's a first.

TL;DR: There was an article about "architecture", but it was about building architecture, not computer architecture. That's what I was trying to comment about originally.
also don't forget precise F-control and shutter speed, which are worlds of exploration for artistic outcomes, as well, better looking photos that the non-knowledgeable eye won't notice but the overall feeling is just better than a freaking constrained 700 mega-pixel iPhone camera... now, if one travels to rural Kazakhstan and register a touching moment, i think we can get along even with a Nokia pre-2010 camera
I have compiled JQ to wasi (in terms of moderately complex ( and useful )).

Took me a couple of hours, mostly because of some pthread stuff I had to noop. And that's being fixed with wasi-threads

https://github.com/rockwotj/jq-wasi
> everyone hates them and just clicks allow anyway.

This is an overbroad generalization and false for me at least. I will always take the two seconds to disable non-necessary cookies, or just bail on the site if it doesn't have the option or isn't absolutely necessary.
> My career solely exist because of foss.

You are likely an excellent software engineer. Why would a company not have hired you to work on non-foss software?
LLM Psychometrics: A Speculative Approach to AI Safety
Preliminary report on a weird artistic I've explored throughout 2023.

Let me know what you think
US citizens can afford a vacation in Europe but Europeans can't afford US
Syphilis appeared in Europe in 1493, and it's widely believed the Columbus crew brought it back from America, though last I heard it's not considered 100% proven.

The Old World had bigger cities and more domesticated animals, which promotes epidemics.

I also assume the fact the our species is indigenous to Africa means that's where our natural predators have had vastly longer time to evolve.
I think what many people miss about the Europeanization of North America is how often the Euros formed alliances with different tribes. Some tribes formed a bond with the French, some with the Spanish, English, Portugeuse and probably a few others too. It was much more complex than can be described in a sound bite.
Dynamic linking served us when OS upgrades came infrequently, user software was almost never upgraded short of mailing out new disks, and vendors had long lead times to incorporate security fixes.

In the days of fast networks, embedded OSs, emphemeral containers, and big hard drives, a portable static binary is way less complex and only somewhat less secure (unless you're regularly rebuilding your containers/execs in which case it's break even security wise or possibly more secure, simply because each exec may not include vulnerable code)
So maybe then F-Droid on Apple doesn't have that feature?
Typically some kind of steak dinner or fast food. I don't follow the various advice about gradual refeeding... doesn't seem to hurt me.
Hard to blame "masculinity" for that when the problematic expectations are largely coming from women. Often in an entirely inadvertent way, but this does not make them any less real or consequential to the men themselves.
This is far more a consequence of the problem. These other social problems are not fixed, are causing the divide, men become conservative and thusly the role models arrive.

the liberal counterparts like Greta thunburg, bernie sanders, aoc, noam chomsky, justin trudeau, rachel maddow?

yikes...
That’s only used for .NET and other ms technologies. There is a totally different ecosystem surrounding WebAssembly.
I will go so far after argue that Apple is only one of the major vendors actually adopting EPUB books.
Ghost Rockets
You have to navigate around to find different critters that play music clips. The minimap in the top left tell you where they are in your vicinity.
> Would you accept that kind of reasoning for software running on your pacemaker, or on your insuline pump?

God helps me I wouldn't implant anything so fundamental in my body with hard dependencies on encrypted communication to a remote agent elsewhere, no matter the advantage.
HTMX 2.0.0-alpha1 has been released
If you're using this technique to 3D print a key to match a specific keyway, you probably already aren't the average person.
This is a false dillema. Seeing garbage "fixed typo" commits has nothing to do with MRs being squashed or not. Squash merging may be used as a really poor way to clean them up (which happens at a wrong place in the process, leading to loss of actually valuable context), but that's pretty much the whole connection.

Don't present garbage commits to review in the first place and you're golden. It improves not just the history, it makes reviews easier and more effective too. The problem with it: it requires some basic Git skills, which is too much for some professionals out there.
Citation on cost?
The WebAssembly standard breaks into two parts, "core WASM" which is the spec the browsers use and everyone else. Then in the non-browser space there is WASI (system interface specification). The WASI-Preview 2 standard uses component model as the underlying mechanism for implementing the APIs it supports. It is not compatible with existing WASI functions... you need to change your binary with an adapter to get existing wasi binaries to run preview2, and of course, preview2 binaries won't work on non-preview 2 runtimes...
Poor code quality due to AI assistants GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT
You can also shoot raw with many smartphones. And there are camera apps that give you more control. I'm not sure it's categorical that DSLRs clearly win over iPhones if you process (including cropping etc.) both.

As someone else noted, DSLRs really win on lenses. Also things like high burst rate, high shutter speeds, etc. (And the viewfinder can be handy for better framing and just seeing what you're shooting).
The real comparison is: musl does not provide any preprocessor macro to tell you what libc you're using.

And it has so many weird quirks that you need to work around.

***

Static linking makes linking more painful, especially regarding global constructors (which are often needed for correctness or performance). This is not a musl-specific issue, but a lot of people are interested in both.

Just do your builds on the oldest supported system, and dynamic linking works just fine. You can relative-rpath your non-libc dependencies if they would be a pain to install, though think twice about libstdc++.

***

The major advantage of MUSL is that if you're writing a new OS, it's much easier to port.
And you can kind of see this in the their culture. Everything is, our way, or the highway. I feel bad for people that have to work in that poisonous environment.

When you come from a place of "We have all the right answers and your views don't matter" like how Steve Jobs operated, you can see the harm that mind set is causing in the world today.
I'm generally with you in terms of think—then—write, and wondering how people can write/type rapidly then endlessly edit. But I do have some modes where it works to write out incomplete thoughts, getting them out of my head, and then edit them into something workable.

Perhaps some people just really need to take that to extremes, getting out of their head all their fragmentary or preliminary thoughts, and filtering and working them down on paper or the screen?

It generally seems (to me) that a good-heavy amount of thinking first works best and/or is most productive, but overall, we all have different brains, training, and experiences, so I'd go with: "whatever works for you" (but try multiple methods).
I'd say hard limits, the ROI of those users makes it uneconomical to support them.
In depth: New Zealand fruit giant's kiwi battle in China
Do you think Samsung does not have non Korean employees?
Did they have samosas from Ken’s at grad tea time back then? :)
Even in with large scale data Hadoop/Spark tend to be used in ways that makes no sense, as if something being self described as big data means that as soon as you cross some threshold you SHOULD be using it.

Recently had an argument with a senior engineer on our team because a pipeline that processed several PB of data, scaled to +1000 machines and was all account a success was just a Python script using multiprocessing distributed with ECS and didn't use Spark.
> If you want to make an epub file that works universally, you can do that, within the existing standard.

Yes, that’s what the author is proposing we do.
Still using AWS but ever since Amazon shipping went from 2-day to 5-day in my area I've been thinking about migrating to Azure.
ChatGPT 4 Turbo Released?
I just noticed this is accessible on the API.
Muhahahaha
AI hiring frenzy to fuel layoffs in other tech as firms strive to balance costs
The article seems to suggest that this is bad and "heartbreaking", but at least it does admit that the animals are doing it by choice. Maybe they like the colorful detritus and they gain status by wearing it? After all, humans used to like to wear animal furs for status. It's only fair.
Yeah I’d prefer we just use another gigabyte of storage than add so much complexity. Even with what is a modest SSD capacity today I have a hard time imagining how I’d fill my storage. I’m reminded of my old workstation from 8 years ago. It had a 500GB hard drive and a 32GB SSD for caching. I immediately reconfigured to just use the SSD for everything by default. It ended up being plenty.
It definitely matters for some photos.

For example, I would want a very powerful telephoto lens when photographing this lion: https://i.redd.it/706yzd4nhs211.jpg

I definitely would not want to be taking that picture with my iPhone, even though it is possible if I got close enough and held the phone still enough.
That says 'from' the alternative app store. The alternative app store itself needs to be installed via Apple's app store, and the wording for that made it sound like you have to pay .50EUR for each first-annual install of it.
I have no idea above this, but aren't there plants growing on permafrost? As permafrost only starts in a depth of a few inches, those plants may well enter permafrost if they are in the ground above and slowly get submerged more and more.
Still does. Kamasi washington, thundercat, louis cole, kadhja bonet, laurel, haitus kaiyote are all at the top of their game and signed to ninja tune.

It's a really different sound from "back in the day" and likely to be rejected by a lot of the people who grew up on like, bonobo and dj vadim. But the label plays the same role, favoring experimental & alternative groove-based musicians.

The "original" ninja tune artists were so influential that key elements of their sound just became part of the main stream of pop and hip hop today. The current crew is similarly disproportionately influential on other musicians, and I'm nearly certain it will play out the same way.
> It's imperfect but better than nothing.

Is there any evidence supporting this statement? It could very well be _worse_ than nothing.