skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow nice! Though I seem to get artifacts both in Brave and Firefox on Android:
https://imgur.com/a/vo2ZVOQ

https://mandeljs.hgreer.com/?;re=-0.751165720536567020384363...
May I suggest LessWrong?

https://www.lesswrong.com/highlights
A friend shared this thread with me... he said I should share my story.

Joining my "friend's" startup, I hoped to use my experience and connections to guide and support the team. My friend, twenty years my junior and someone I'd previously mentored, was leading the venture. He and his business partner left University, and had the dream of forming a silicon valley company. They spent several years grinding away at this dream, and fair play to them, managed to raise millions on the back of a very weak idea. They were now ready to build a team and start developing the product. They had never been an employee as such (unless you count working in McDonalds), and had no idea how to run a company. I was excited to help them, and to see if I could help them avoid the mistakes I'd made in my career. These lads were much maligned and laughed at - they were seen as a joke by many, and I didn't like that. I wanted them to win.

Despite witnessing some concerning behavior early on.... - He gatecrashed a christmas party I attended and made a scene by dry humping me from behind, and loudly proclaiming to everyone that I was 'his bitch' - I chose to join out of loyalty and optimism.

The job quickly turned sour. As CTO, his performance was far from what I expected. He was not only ill-equipped for the technical demands of the role but also struggled with the emotional and ethical aspects of leadership. His approach to technology was chaotic and misguided, often leading us down problematic paths. There was a particularly serious incident which I won't go into, but he refused to acknowledge how serious it was.

The work environment became increasingly difficult. His emotional outbursts, lack of accountability, and poor decision-making created a toxic atmosphere. When my colleagues and I attempted to intervene or suggest strategic changes, we were met with resistance and eventually dismissed for not being a good 'fit'.

Even though the company eventually pivotted towards our advice, the damage was done. The leadership remained a disaster. Their dev turnover is high. If people aren't fired they quit.

This whole mess taught me one thing: while I’d still consider working with a friend, it has to be someone I deeply respect and trust. Someone competent, with integrity, not a power-drunk disaster like this. Never again will I make the mistake of mixing business with misplaced loyalty.
You get downvoted because you argue that Apple definitely has a great idea behind the change. Why do you think that? And what are they doing about the fact that checkboxes now look like radio buttons? All you're doing is paying homage to Apple without contributing anything meaningful.
Tatin
> Being from the Netherlands originally, I know _their_ "Teletekst", not as much the BBC one. I couldn't possibly imagine it being of much use anymore.

I know quite a lot of people in NL, some under 50, who prefer teletext to other forms of news and use it all the time.
Parents, Young Adult Children and the Transition to Adulthood
If you think the kind of partisanship Lessig have taint anything negatively, you either do not know about him or hang in the wrong place imho. I happen to think he's mostly wrong and disagree with a lot of what he write (sorry, it's true), but I have to respect the thinker and his ideology.
I assume the article is refering to open technologies since it cites the arch wiki as a reference, but if not I'd say rather than take the road most documented, to take the road most open (I would also bet they are the most likely to be well documented too).

It's of no use to have a very well documented product that you can't control which version you use (SaaS and subscription based services) and that have documentation and APIs that keep changing without warning.

Betting on open tech is also more likely to be more stable in the long run because everyone involved in it, Devs and users alike, is interested in the product first and foremost. For profit companies with closed tech are only interested in the user when doing so yields the greatest results to their investors. Once the company has to choose between invertors and your workflow, you are always going to end up losing.
Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?
I have noticed Google today started displaying me a page, when I access RSS feed, like:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UClOGLGPOqlAiLmOvXW5lKbw

The text displayed:

"""
We're sorry...

... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.
"""

Disclaimer: I have a automated RSS reader enabled in my network: https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
Why don't you get your company to pay for it?
This looks very interesting. Would you be interested in adding Retable.io support as well?
> broken trust

That's the thing. If we don't trust, or accept that trust may not be merited, then there's nothing to break.

I know some outrageous characters. Many, are decent folks, in their way, but I wouldn't trust them to handle any kind of meaningful responsibility.

But I enjoy having them in my life, and have no intentions of driving them away, or avoiding them.

I have a cat. He's a great little guy. But if I pick him up, and I don't make him feel secure, he will scratch me. He doesn't want to hurt me, but he needs to dig into something to feel secure; even if that "something" is my chest.

It's possible to have relationships with folks that have no boundaries, and we need to maintain our own boundaries, ourselves, as opposed to rely on others, to respect them.

That said, we also don't need to defend our boundaries with nukes. Often, a simple "No, I don't want to do that." is sufficient, as opposed to "This is bear spray! Stay away!".
> People on that forum are trying to call this "stealing", which is ridiculous

You should ask a lawyer. /s
One Billion Row Challenge Shows Java Can Process 1B Rows File in 2 Seconds
I think Ruby is polarizing. It is the only language I have used that I feel a genuine dislike for. Other people I have talked to feel the same. Then there is a group who loves it.
If you have to fill out a timesheet while working at home as a programmer, you should improve your skills as fast as you can and find a better job. Only the worst managers measure programmer contribution in hours spent at a keyboard.

If your employer can spy on you and knows how much time you spend in front of a keyboard and screen, sorry. If not then what's the question?
I am particularly salty about HBO's Chernobyl.

Thunderfoot showed how misleading it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsdLDFtbdrA
Define “properly isolated”. From the electric current perspective, the cables are properly insulated, and the insulating material is air. But here what's at stake is electromagnetic (EM) waves generated by the oscillating current flowing throw the cables, and while EM shields can reduce these I'm not sure it would even be possible to shield an entire cable in order to contain the field, and even if it was theoretically possible, it's almost certain that it wouldn't be realistic at the scale of a power grid.
Harvard Lost Russia
It was not historically accurate, but it was, nonetheless, an excellent drama.
A feel that a parliament of crows would be more fitting. When do you see many owls together anyway?
China's growth model pushes Beijing into more trade conflicts
Is Automation a Bad Strategy for 2024?
A quick lesson in time management and process appraisal, for those who feel their to-do list is getting too long.
Thank you for moving the goalposts for the chance of a cheap shot comment, but you know very well that's not what I meant.

GTK doing something right , doesn't suddenly absolve it of all the wrongs. And just because something is FOSS doesn't mean it's not without fault and therefore without criticism.
“Try it” requires sign-up which is a no-go sorry
Commonly thought - as well as intuitive, but 100% untrue. The entire Apollo program, from start to finish, cost $178 billion (in 2022 dollars), over 11 years. [1] That's a bit more than $16 billion a year. NASA's budget has been greater than $16 billion/year (in 2022 dollars) every year since 1963. [2]

And that was going from absolutely nothing - having never even put a man in orbit, to putting a man on the Moon, all in 8 years.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
I keep the packaging of a MacBook power cable on my wall as a kind of satanic lamb Effigy. https://imgur.com/BXE1cFl
Total loss of control basically never happens. I’ve been reading and watching a lot of videos on aircraft accidents and near misses, and I haven’t seen a single one where there truly was a total loss of all controls over the aircraft.

Even in the case of Japan Airlines Flight 123 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_123) the pilots still had some degree of control over the plane after its tail was ripped off due to a structural failure leading to explosive decompression at cruising altitude which also caused a total loss of all hydraulic systems.

Unfortunately what they had left (control over the engine thrust) was not enough, but they sure did their best. Apparently you can still control (to some extent) the plane using just the engines, with and the vertical stabilizer being completely gone, and no hydraulics. And this was in 1985.

I’m not saying that JAL 123 was in any way survivable (although some miraciously did survive), just pointing to the fact that even in the worst possible scenario there’s still probably a way to somehow control the plane.
CachyOS x86-64-v4 Repository testing
How many of these game engines are abstracted at a level where you can swap in a pdf or svg backend? How many of them support cmyk and and print units? I'm only scratching the surface of things a gui renderer needs that a game engine doesn't.

I'm very skeptical that a bunch of game developers are going to whip together something that crushes Skia in performance without sacrificing a ton of capabilities.
Ok I'm not so sure if canvas was around back then so I might have misremembered it. But I did see div upon div with inline styles.

Maybe later they moved to canvas. Or like I said, I might be mistaken.

Recently however, Flutter had two backends for web. One HTML based and other canvas based.

Some WebGL etc might be in the works.
Sounds like this hallucinates pretty easily

From Reddit :

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ad0j63/rwkv5_1...

User: Which is larger, a chicken egg or a cow egg?

Assistant: To determine which is larger, a chicken egg or a cow egg, let's first look at their respective sizes and compare them.

Chicken Egg: The average chicken egg size ranges from 2.5 to 3 inches (6 to 8 cm) in length and 1.5 to 2 inches (3.8 to 5 cm) in diameter.[1]
Cow Egg: The average cow egg size is roughly 2 inches (5 cm) in length and 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter.[2]
Based on these measurements, we can see that the chicken egg is slightly larger than the cow egg, with dimensions of around 3 inches by 1 inch versus 2 inches by 0.75 inches respectively (length x diameter). However, as chickens are much bigger than cows on average,[3] it would be more accurate to say that a chicken egg is roughly three times bigger than a cow egg based on their respective sizes within each species.

So, the answer is: A chicken egg is three times larger than a cow egg in terms of size when taking into account their respective dimensions within each species' average range.
Thanks for the pointer on Geometric Algebra. This looks to be a promising path to understanding relativity/QM/EM, and goes some way to explaining my unease with cross products and imaginary numbers.

Disclaimer: maths degree, so my unease was not a plain lack of understanding.
Capture One Express Deprecation FAQ
Could you give examples? There is a lot of hard work and magic going on in the build system, but you're not really supposed to interact with it as a user. As long as you pull in nixpkgs' library, package definitions are as trivial as they can get.
It's a fun concept but it goes wrong when people think these are the only correct terms to use. Enforcing someone's whimsical fun as a language norm is a misunderstanding.
C++26 is slated to include std::breakpoint and a couple related features. I'm expecting we'll see more portable and consistent tech for writing recoverable assertions going forward.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/breakpoint
How long does the standards committee think it can continue this approach to developing CSS? While these new properties are undoubtably useful I can't help thinking they point to a fundamental flaw in the design of CSS. Take `margin-inline` for example. This is only necessary because CSS provides insufficient means of abstraction. If the designer could themselves define something like

margin-inline(width) = margin-left(width) margin-right(width)

(Ignoring text direction for simplicity) the problem goes away. I think the CSS committee should be focused on providing means of abstraction and composition, so that CSS users can create their own abstractions, instead of adding more and more properties to CSS.
Describing my last company’s incident process exactly.

We’d have like 3 levels of peer review on the breakdown too.

Once there was an incorrect environment variable configured for a big client’s instance which caused 2 hours of downtime (as we figured out what was wrong) and I had to write a 2 page report on why it happened.

That whole thing got tossed into our incident report black hole.
>Gtk and GNOME are not companies.

These are large entities made up of people, same as companies, not individual devs making a side project. Does that mean their work should not be criticized because their collective is not a registered publicly listed company?

>People need a motivation - from their work or from outside.

Also feedback. And that was my feedback, candid as it may be.

Like I said below, FOSS work doesn't mean it should automatically be excluded form criticism, especially if that FOSS work is so big and influential enough that it ends up having impact on other products and on people's work and lives, like Gnome being the default on most free but also commercial distros.

So please let's stop attacking and gaslighting critics, as if GNOME is some teenager developing his first app for free in his bedroom who should only be defended and praised for encouragement, instead of the giant mammoth project with private and public funding[1] developed by vested professionals of the software industry who know very well what they're doing and should be criticized when they do something wrong or are being needlessly petty and stubborn with their decisions and arguments, besides being praised when doing something right as there's already enough of that in this topic if you read it.

[1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/gnome-sovereign-tech-fun...
No, I don’t think reading this (now) has prevented you being in a plane crash (in the past.)
I've seen an instance where someone would have to be 3 years at company to be able to cash their shares. He took it as an exchange for lower salary to help company grow. The owners closer to 2 year mark would make his life at company a hell, just so he would quit.
He couldn't bear to work there anymore so he left and lost the shares.
> No, the new renderers are not faster (yet).

I think yet is here the important word.

If you see a noticeable performance decrease:

> GSK_RENDERER=gl

Please keep in mind that it is unlikely that Microsoft, Apple or Google would discuss these. It would be probably „forget the old API, here another API“ (Microsoft), „enforced from ${WEIRD_NAME}“ (Apple) or „you won’t get that update“ (Google).
If you use Safari, there's https://andadinosaur.com/launch-history-book for content saving, for your browsing history.
Base64 Encoder and Decoder
Hi everyone, I've been working with data formats a lot and needed a simple Base64 tool. So, I put together a little something during a break. It's quite basic but does the job for me.
Impermanent NixOS: on a VM and tmpfs root and flakes and LUKS
I think they removed plastic so they decided to make the self seal very strong.
The most common dark pattern: stupidity.
The X Window System was basically the wrong bet on how GUIs and computer hardware would evolve. Its client/server architecture was the opposite of the highly integrated graphics processing model we ended up with.

Instead of cutting its losses early and dumping X11, both the Unix vendors and open source spent far too long trying to make lemonade out of a truckload of rotten lemons. And that’s why Linux GUIs are so far behind.

It’s notable how rapidly Apple was able to evolve their Unix GUI because they were not tied to X11 and instead embraced the integrated model, even designing their own GPUs nowadays.
Meta Seems to Be Preparing to Let You Watch iPhone 'Spatial Videos' on Quest
You're right, sorry I was thinking of a Lorentz transformation that would make either the magnetic or electric field disappear under certain conditions.
As long as „getting screwed good and hard” means making merely $300k and not $400k or $500k you’d get with a promotion.

Not to mention, higher levels in a company involve a ton of working with other people, so somebody with social anxiety or heavy introvertism should not be promoted to them, as they’re beyond his/her competence.
I'd have thought most people doing serious audio work (recording live performances etc) would have a core to spare for the audio process. I suppose there's probably some reason this doesn't work well, because I've never seen anybody suggest it for linux audio. Or maybe it's just that low latency was "solved" by pre-emption or whatever when cores were a scarcer resource.
The purpose of a hiring process (as in take home assignment) is to see that the person is competent to do the job. It was already established that he was. So following a formal process is a stupid waste of time (on both ends) that has nothing to do with strengthening the company and is simply an unnecessary ego trip. The company disqualified itself.
> I have never seen it work that an immediate mode rendering API translated to retained mode becomes faster.

I don’t think I get your point here. Gtk 4 is retained-mode whatever renderer you use; Vulkan and OpenGL are immediate-mode (well, kinda) whatever renderer you use. Whatever problems that forces in the new renderers would be just as present in the old ones, wouldn’t they?
For muted audio I think a muted speaker icon on a button displayed in clicked/active state would be the most intuitive version.

Aside from that roughly 100% of applications I've been using use the "show current state" approach in this specific case. I don't think I've seen a media player which does it differently.
> Offsetting income tax would be a massive handout to the rich, who have been and continue to be the greatest contributors to carbon emissions.

I'm not sure how these two ideas make sense in your head. If you implement a carbon tax and the rich are the greatest contributors as you stated, one would expect them to be hit by the carbon tax as well.

In any case, I personally see an income tax as a strange thing to have in the context of a discussion wherein taxing undesirable behavior is seen as a way of disincentivizing it.

At the very minimum free the working class and lower-middle class from income tax.
Yes that's correct. Regarding your suggestions - thank you! I've done three of the four but still missing back links. We do have 1000s of pages that have a very similar structure, so I would understand why Google would mark them as duplicates, but the content on each differs, so I'm hoping that's not the case.
Thanks, that makes a good deal of sense.

I guess there’s probably been a few places called bifteki around the uk and other countries then.
Ask HN: What to consider when looking for angel investment?
What are the most important things to consider when looking for angel investment? What are some red flags to watch out for? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> [M]ost decent graphics engine developers have created renderers that are a couple of generations ahead of the open source GUI toolkit renderers.

Step one: get the knowledge out there. Have those developers at least, I don’t know, talked about what makes those toolkits better at GDC?
The earliest known scientific hypothesis test was a Pythagorean investigation of whether the mathematical model for consonance in stringed instruments generalized to chimes — so rather than 1:2 as a ratio of string length, whether a ratio of 1:2 in chime thickness also produces an octave. It does. (This experiment was conducted by Hippasus and recorded by Aristoxenus, a student of Aristotle)

But interestingly, we still have big open gaps in our scientific models of consonance and dissonance.

Consonant tones involve a large number of shared harmonics. That alignment appears to be important in the perception of consonance and dissonance. Yet, harmonic alignment is not currently a mechanism used in the algorithmic detection of consonance/dissonance, so far as I know. This tool looks like a good way to generate stimuli for experimentation, thanks!
"usually" is stretching it a bit - fish, cows and children do not flock. Neither do puppies.
I didn’t suggest that Airbus has similar issues. What I meant by the “entire industry” also includes the airlines.

I suggested that had nothing changed, it might have been Airbus that was low-key blackmailed into making a new plane that’s of the same type, with similar issues that would become evident only after a couple of crashes.

The very root cause of the issue was that Boeing was simply allowed to say “trust me bro, this is just a 737, it’s like any other 737, no retraining of any kind needed”, when, in fact, it wasn’t just the same old 737. Now this can’t happen anymore.
Alaska Airlines Plane Appears to Have Left Boeing Factory Missing Critical Bolts
This is my number one reason not to trust anything hawkers of religion state.

And paradoxically I trust new religious manuscripts even less. In the context of the modern world they just seem like obvious hoaxes.
And how did that turn out?
> Philadelphia Jury Hits Monsanto with $2.25B Roundup Verdict

Haha, the vaccine doses thrown on the window in EU were more expensive.
I think you should first consult the discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39168105 :)

tl;dr: Hell is AI's code ;)
… claims analyst
frankly you can’t really trust any history. we all are the heroes of our own story.
In the case of Atlas Obscura I never took the articles very serious, the are all on the border between art, myth and story. I thought that was the appeal.

I think something like Atlas Obscura will be the internet of the future, wonderful collections of weirdness, with no way to discern truth.