skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that they’re simply too small for heavier usage. Imagine the average person uses their phone for 5 hours per day. An iPhone 13 mini is too small for that much usage. When I enabled the myopia warning that alerts me when I’m holding the phone too closely, I started receiving the warnings every time I used it. Turns out I have been holding the phone too close all of my life!

Naturally, I increased the font size to be more suitable. This created two problems:

1. The phone now shows significantly less information and is nearing the point of annoyance for me.
2. Many websites outright break when I increase the font size to a suitable size.

Better css would fix these issues, but the web is full of poor css implementations (including hn). If I were to only use my phone for calls and the occasional text for about 30 minutes per day, an iPhone 5S would be perfect. But using it for more than that makes it clear that I should probably get a larger phone to protect my eyesight and enable a better experience.

Unfortunately, my next phone will be larger to make it more useful. I don’t use any form of social media. Only texting and some web browsing. I would consider myself a light phone user. I’d have to imagine these annoyances would be worse for someone that uses their phone more heavily than me. Maybe one day I’ll be able to use iMessage from my Linux desktop and use a small phone again. Until that happens, I’m pursuing a larger phone size.
Christchurch to Wellington is a bit of a stretch for the range.

It's too far to use the Harbour infrastructure at either end. You would have to build a pier on the southern side of Wellington (say Island Bay) and then use New Brighton pier. That works out to about 295 km.

With only 300km range, it's hard to find good routes in NZ.
Turns out that air power renders fortifications obsolete.
Also, C23 has #embed included as a preprocessor directive. It serves similar purpose to include_bytes!(), although I don't think there's a way to specify the section it goes in within the executable.

https://thephd.dev/finally-embed-in-c23
> The problem I see with Rake, or Bundler/gemfiles is that the syntax is just Ruby code. It's a DSL described by Ruby, the language being good for it, but it's Ruby code nonetheless, which makes tooling more complicated than it needs be. Rake is cool and all, but `make` is available everywhere, and that basically kills any potential that Rake might have for non-Ruby projects.

I see this as a plus. A tool for ruby, using ruby to configure it. Yea you won't use it outside ruby projects, but that's totally fine.
Enshitification of what?
Its not just that - if we want to be competitive then it should be possible for a hacker to offer a new type of idea and let the world try it out - perhaps a decentralized web, or planet scale IPFS, or something that yet only exists in the head of some 17 year old nerd.

And while Europe is more restricted than the US, it is not like we are the Soviet union.
See the second part of the comment. The anonymity is not the problem.
Are electric vehicles cheaper to own? Maybe not
The Seaglider would be great for my region of South-east Canada. There are four islands and two other areas each with at least three sides facing water. It wouldn't be open ocean so wave height shouldn't be too bad.

The big thing here now is Right Whales ships bash their heads in since they seem to always be in the way of ships. Cruise ships, cargo ships, fishing all have to slow down to a crawl if whales are spotted.

Flying would be far faster than ferry some take 8 hours others 1 hour. Although flights here are ridiculously expensive $800 to $1,000 one-way to go 150km.
Isn't inverse transform sampling even faster than ziggurat? Most languages have an approximate erf^-1 implementation, everything is straight forward from there. I needed to generate random numbers from a truncated normal distribution and found inverse transform sampling easier to implement than trying to understand and adapt the ziggurat algorithm.

A nice blog on this: https://stackedboxes.org/2017/05/01/acklams-normal-quantile-...
My interpretation is that this action, peformed by a man, is a show of force which is why it gets praise from females and envy/aggression from males.
Stephen Wolfram on Reimagining Education, and Computational Thinking
Are in-house databases that common? I thought generally we’ve found as an industry that to be a great thing to purchase. I do wonder how many will need anything other than the vector support in their already existing Postgres instances though
Ha, I think I know the junctions you’re talking about, near the ASDA right? I avoid going near Old Kent road in anything except a car. That road is an absolute death trap filled with drivers who seem to have no regard for anyone not enclosed in steel, and even then you need to have your wits about when driving.

It strikes me as insane that road with so much pedestrian traffic, lined with shops, in a part of London where only something like 30% of the population drives, has so few provisions for pedestrian or cycle safely. With pavements barely wide enough for walking, covered in obstructions, and road markings that looks more like an IQ test, than anything helpful.
Noticed this too, there is some rational annoyance with 'impeding traffic' (perceived or actual) or breaking rules but the impact there is so small that it doesn't explain the negative response. I've had people literally threaten to kill me for making them make a minimal adjustment to drive around me?

My theories about this:

* A cyclist forces the driver to go out of 'auto pilot' and actively think about driving for a few seconds, which annoys people disproportionately

* Cyclists represent a sort of 'others' that we project all kinds of negative feelings on.

* Cycling for transportation in North America is only recently taken seriously and this can be used to blame them for any kind of new societal changes that are perceived negatively (liberalism, inflation, political correctness, higher taxes).
It's a pretty safe guess that a woman saying anything to a man on a unicycle should be taken as a put-down unless there is an astounding level of evidence to the contrary.
Game mechanics are not copyrightable.
Ask HN: Where is the best place to advertise an apprenticeship program?
Looking for Biology and Machine Learning apprentices for a paid, 1-year program in Palo Alto and curious if you know of any job boards we should post to?
Came here to lament Sony like everyone else, but instead:

Consequences matter, so what is the consequence of having a screen that is just a bit too large?

- inadvertent swipes right, lands you on the Google Home page, but you can simply disable this or use a different launcher.

- can't fit as many thumb-addressable QS options, but Google-flavored android makes these larger, also provides one-handed mode gesture

- need to grip phone so that the corner extends beyond the palm of your hand, some phones have the camera on a lip that the index finger can use as a lip to hold

Obviously we're all ad supported entertainment focused media monsters so, screens aren't going to be smaller, you're just going to have to adapt
Uhhhhm my high school had it as an elective, and it was no Oxbridge school. Over the last few decades Latin has been defunded though.
Good luck with that. I don't schedule my bathroom breaks in advance down to five minutes, don't know anyone who does unless they are in jail or assisted living or work at an Amazon warehouse. Seems unworkable in the kinds of situations where someone desperately needs a bathroom, like dealing with children who give just minutes of warning, if that.

Supposing I did have a map of possibly available restrooms, I would just go to the nearest one and offer to pay some token amount to use it, bypassing the app. As an adult I have learned where I might ask to use a toilet with reasonable possibility of success, and almost never have to pay for that.

Some years ago a similar idea got floated on some digital nomad forum. The big selling point was finding available toilets when you can't speak the language. That never took off to my knowledge, because learning how to ask someone in a foreign language -- or just doing the universal pantomime for "I have to pee" -- is simpler than using an app.
Can't help but wonder, is AI an expected phase transition in the evolution of life in the universe? Is life really just the larval stage of a higher order intelligence?
> I’m not mocking it. I’m just applying the argument I see many people on HN make in discussions about rust to this case, where I suspect many will lean much more on the side of using regexes to reimplement parsers.

Hmm. Okay.

The part that bewilders me is that Rust showed up. Which would have made sense if someone was complaining about C++ or something, or maybe unsafe memory management. But regexes?

> Either way, I didn’t want to have a discussion about rust.

Which is why you brought it up unprompted... I give up.
Give it a couple of months: Why the f*ck are we templating JSON

This article feels very ironic to me hence the sarcasm.

Give me code as configuration and I'll be interested
Car models have been getting bigger and bigger for 50 years. Probably because they want to show 'improvement' over the prior model, but we've had cars coming in to fill the void.

Eg, the golf used to be a small car, now there's multiple models smaller than it.
One of the most memorable sleeps I've had is sleeping on the middle shelf of a closet in northern Japan during winter in a poorly-insulated house with minimal heat. I left the sliding door open a crack, snuggled into my sleeping bag under extra blankets, and slept about ten hours.
Fingerprinting Biomolecules with the Help of Sound
I was going to say self-deprecation is not, but then realized self-deprecation is away of defusing "androgen primed aggression" that I used a lot in high school.
> So where is this "idea of the web" coming from. Surely there's no longer a central core idea

Like with “democracy”, it is not possible to create a comprehensive formal definition that embodies the full spirit of the idea. Without getting too philosophical, the web is client-server based where the provider controls the server, and the user controls the client. There are fierce battles being fought on both fronts:

- Providers are being lured by ad tech giving you a free (as in beer) space in exchange for relinquishing any control of the server. An example would be YouTube where you get free hosting if you comply with opaque community guidelines and strike systems. Limiting linking to other “platforms” aka websites is another example. A more subtle example would be cloud infrastructure where switching provider is designed to be prohibitive.

- Users are under attack based on their IP geo, VPN usage, extensions (ad-blockers primarily), fingerprinting, UA sniffing, JS obfuscation, video DRM etc. The most egregious example is to force users to download an app (a client that the provider controls fully). Captchas is a more subtle example.

Note that there are real hard problems with a healthy web, notably DOS protection, which needs some level of client fingerprinting (like IP rate limiting).

However, large businesses – many of whose success is built entirely on top of the web – are actively eroding it for banal selfish reasons. Much like how democracy can be leveraged by those who don’t believe in it in order to gain traction, only to later be dismantled to maintain power and control.
Giant, 'Odd' Circles of Radio Waves in Space May Have an Explanation
5.9" is huuuge: https://phonesized.com/compare/#1863,2261
The Biggest Lessons [audio]
Is Asus a shady brand?

https://www.asus.com/us/mobile-handhelds/phones/zenfone/zenf...
Unique Camera Will Take 1k Years to Capture a Single Photograph
You need to stop drooling into your fun slab.
After 20 years of daily rush-hour road cycling in and around London, Cambridge, Coventry, Bristol, Hertfordshire and Surrey, I can report the following verbal responses:

Early years: No reaction

Inquisitive 5-12 year olds: No reaction

Adolescent boys: 1x "Nice bike", 1x trying to race me while doing a wheelie (but no verbal response)

Adult women: No reaction

Adult men: 1x started exchanging nods with me after passing each other going in opposite directions daily for ~3 years (but no verbal response)
Faulty machine translations litter the web
Road cyclists infuriate me - Ask me anything.

I think most of it comes from shockingly dangerous behavior, which I am concerned will blowback on me.

I've seen cyclists in the freeway slow lane, cut across 8 lanes of busy traffic, and they seem to love windiest roads with hairpin turns and no visibility. Perhaps most brazenly, in the middle lane of 65 mile road, in black at night, with no reflectors.
My understanding is that these vector search databases are generally used by people who want to use an existing AI and extend it with RAG etc. Was anyone ever expecting major AI players to use a tool like this as you are suggesting?
Swedish startup Tillitis are looking for developers
This is a bad title. There's no whistleblower at all, at least not someone official who has come forward and asked for whistleblower protection.

All we have here is an article written on the basis of a single comment on a single website by a anonymous user.
> We are, truly, Of Nature, not Above
Nature.

This sentiment has always made me question when people say things are "unnatural", "artificial", or "synthetic": If we ourselves are of nature, and these things are a byproduct of us, then aren't they naturally occurring?

edit: added "synthetic" to reduce ambiguity.
Building a priority-expiry LRU cache without heaps or trees in Python
The writer did not credit Luigi di Ponti.

https://www.seriouseats.com/moka-pot-history-coffee-maker-it...

“Bialetti didn’t invent the Moka. He just made it famous. A man named Luigi di Ponti designed the appliance in 1933 and sold the patent to Renato’s father Alfonso Bialetti, an aluminum vendor.”
CP/M was out before MS-DOS. CP/M provided a standard of 8-bit computers to share programs and data on floppy disks using the Intel 8080 or the Zilog Z80.

The Commodore 128 had a CP/M mode with a Z80 coprocessor on the motherboard and the 1571 floppy drive reading CP/M disks.
They had official documentation on how to do this, although this page has been deleted: https://web.archive.org/web/20160115055656/http://wiki.wineh...
That's a strawman argument.

EDIT: I make it a point of honour to try to stick to the Highway Code whether on my bike or in my car. Still random drivers harass me when I'm on my bike.

I had someone lean out of a car and try to put a plastic bag over my head when I was cycling once. I would love to hear what I was supposed to have done to justify that.

You just have to look at how the press drone on about "lycra clad louts". There's an obsession with identifying us by what we wear as a justification for violence.

That's not hurt feelings but actual broken bones and blood violence.

Off the top of my head I can think of several newspaper articles calling for barbed wire to be strung across cyclepaths in the UK (Hahaha, joking of course!) and reports where that happened and someone was seriously injured. All in the same paper (Hahaha, no connection obviously!)

YouTube is full of people in cars attacking cyclists and it's got fuck all to do with breaking traffic regulations.
TypeScript Index Signatures – An In-Depth Look
Regulations do not fully determine safety. The best regulations are not enough when your workforce contain a lot of low-skilled diversity hires. Ironically the FAA itself employes DEI since 2013:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/01/15/faa-dei-initiatives/
From Wikipedia:

> Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination".
Mostly nuclear fission and hopefully fusion in the future, but one does have to worry about heating up the earth directly with these methods in the very long term. Using solar and wind only does prevent that problem.
They're also somewhat bigger and faster than you expect, which combined with the above would certainly worry me if I was walking and prone to serious injury or death from a fall.
We experimented with this:

Typically we get nice small contributions from devrel teams around connectors in their software, and junior data scientists newer to coding who we encourage to do examples instead of core code

We revisit this every year or two, and are overdue, thanks!
Not without a Nintendo SDK license agreement and signing their NDA.

On the other hand, there’s a nice homebrew port you could certainly use that’s been around for years:

https://github.com/Stary2001/godot
Mm, I'm still on the "by definition inadequate" side personally. I just don't see any unambiguous way to verify that another being even experiences qualia, to say nothing of actual consciousness.
That's very interesting, thanks, I didn't realize you could load downloaded games onto a Switch like that. I imagined they have some sort of hardware verification.
Soon to be empty tower... like all the recent skyscrappers. Just look at China struggling to fill theirs in so-called economical hotspots. You must be crazy to believe Oklahoma is a major business center these days.
Ask HN: Are height adjustable desks worth it?
Hi folks,

Those of you that own a height adjustable desk - I’m thinking of buying one, but they’re a tad pricier than fixed height desks, so I would value your insights.

Thanks!
And then wait minutes for things to start up, even if things reopen to their prior state perfectly. As compared to seconds to lock/unlock.

Suspend adds major security issues above and beyond either of these scenarios.

The majority of scenarios, none of those folks are able to do much to a locked machine without powering it off, which resets it to the state you were referencing.

They could install a hardware keylogger of course, and none of these protections would help.

It’s all tradeoffs. SCIF’s are better still after all, and a nightmare productivity wise.
In the context of the universe, I wouldn't call it "intelligence" versus "artificial intelligence". I would call it "organic intelligence" vs "inorganic intelligence".
Perhaps you've been advised to never wash the pot out of an abundance of caution that you might neglect to rinse it.
All the ivy league graduate leetcode farmers I know are actually the ones who would do the grunt work of developing database integrations for free if they believed a decent salary at a prestigious job might be waiting over the hill.

The people I have met with the lowest tolerance for this stuff are the ones who actually produce the most impactful work. Partly because they don't do work that has no impact on their lives.

Edit: Obviously, they can do whatever they want, but that doesn't mean that it's a good sign from outside.
would using libbfd or llvms objcopy library be of use here? https://llvm.org/doxygen/namespacellvm_1_1objcopy.html
Can you say more about this? I've been thinking of ditching phones completely and just having the Apple Watch (currently I have no Apple products).

Though I think I'd miss the ability to tether, which the Apple Watch doesn't do (understandably with such a small battery).
And, though I'm sure there are going to be objections, in both time periods people would be considered nutritionally deficient when compared to today.
Why does the picture make me think that much better use of resources would be to build more building of the size at bottom of this tower... Instead one of this is area where average height is not that high...
It ain’t rocket science.

I put water in. Sometimes I’m below the valve sometimes not.

Put pre ground coffee in. Sometimes I fill it all the way. Sometimes I leave a little room. Whatever.

Blast it with heat until it’s blowing air. Donezo.

I use Lavazza Crema e Gusto. It’s a robusta blend so very forgiving because it’s gonna be a little bit bitter no matter what. I always add some sugar so this isn’t a problem.

Also lol at “dialing in” a moka. Give me a break.

The reason why I use a moka is because I can get a good coffee without fussing.
>This was also the only place I've ever worked with that regularly assembled test panels of customers for direct UX testing (we had someone on staff "that's all they did" was user studies of this nature)

A dedicated UX researcher! What a rare creature, most UX teams have to fight tooth and nail to get one of those.
Have you read the entire thread? Do you think one can simultaneously optimize for merit and diversity without making compromises? In other words, do you think merit and diversity are perfectly correlated?
You’re right. It’s the nature of things, being inclusive often means excluding an other.

On the other hand I’m glad we’ve all converted on one common reference for dates and don’t have one for each sphere of influence, cuz then something published in China vs Japan vs Taiwan vs Europe and the Americas vs Egypt vs… who knows what would be messy.
You’ve chosen a very selective quote. What caused the tire to explode in such spectacular fashion?

It was a strip of metal that had fallen off of another airplane a few minutes before.

Concorde did have a higher risk due to its higher takeoff speed, but the only fatal accident in the airframes history was directly caused by a piece of metal that fell off a different plane.
XML is more popular today than it's ever been. It's just called JSX now.
I'm sure you can use on-line search tools to find where and when the term first appeared on the internet. My suspicion is that the phenomenon was being discussed informally between people who assess students' work, someone used the term "plagiarism", someone will have pointed out that it was "plagiarising" the student's own work, so the prefix was added, and stuck.

It's a concept that needs a name, and when a name turns up it often spreads quickly with no obvious source.
Sean, do you maintain any open source projects?
> I have to admit, there is a learning curve. But I want to encourage everybody involved in configuring computers to learn.

This is probably most of it.

My gripe is that there is essentially no realistic end to ipv4 in sight. So we as an industry carry the debt of securing, managing and troubleshooting parallel v4 and v6 networks for decades.

If ipv4 had an EOL it'd make the transition so much better
Talking about supertall buildings in unexpected places...
construction on the world's tallest building in Jeddah, that started over a decade ago but was halted for many years, is supposed to resume this year [1] (I'm not holding my breath).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeddah_Tower#Restart
By all means, switch jobs. But to get two simultaneous paychecks for exclusive, full-time work at two employers at the same time is fraud and theft.
Is there a market in OKC for this much space at the psf you’d need to support developing it? Or is this some local billionaire’s vanity project?
I'll bite: Can you please point me to a resource that explains it clearly, with examples?
Just email Nintendo. They sometimes make exceptions for interesting indie developers and/or hobbyists. And the dev kits are affordable.
So they mention my exact concerns and addressed them, very cool. But their solution in practice doesn't look very different from what we can already achieve with git (apart from seeing your collaborator changes in real-time, which I'm not sure how substantial it is), or am I missing something?

At the end of the day, how will this look to the end user?

> a user may work in isolation on their own copy of a document for a while, without seeing other users’ real-time updates; sometime later, when they are ready to share their work, they can choose to merge it with their collaborators’ edits. Several such copies may exist side-by-side, and some might never be merged (e.g. if the user changed their mind about a set of edits).

Again, this sounds almost exactly like what we already achieve using git, so why do we need CRDTs for that?