skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been discussed since 1985, with implementation attempts in 1986 before the Chernobyl disaster, but only accepted as the official policy (Glasnost-Perestroika-Acceleration) in 1987. I still have a Uborevich-Borovsky's satirical comic book published in 1986 with Glasnost taking probably one third of it.
Sadly can confirm, I have been working as polyglot dev for years, also a reason why I have so many opinions, never siloing under a specific XVYZ Developer label.

Several CMS on the .NET ecosystem that relied on .NET for their plugins, when they went headless, decided to focus on supporting Next.js and friends for their UI component layer, removing Web Forms, MVC, Razor Pages support for these kind of workflows.

Others, like Sitecore, decided that it was too much code to rewrite from .NET Framework to .NET Core, and not only refocused on Next.js with Vercel agreements, they also pivoted for an API first approach, and acquired non-.NET based products as means to evolve their product roadmap away from .NET.

Myself, I have been involved in a couple of .NET Framework to Java migration projects, as given some of the stuff the customers would need to write from scratch in modern .NET, they decided it was the right time to move away from Microsoft stack on the server infrastructure.

It should be noted that it isn't an accident that Microsoft, after all these years, has acquired jClarity and is now an OpenJDK contributor.

Who have thought to see this kind of stuff a few years ago?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/31/microsoft_seeks_rust_...
Edward Glaeser: Triumph of the City
Ill take "what is vault 7" for $500.
Hitting some classics I missed.. Moby Dick and the narrative of Arthur Gordon pym. Also in nonfiction thanks to recent HN.. only the paranoid survive
> .. "no BTC, more energy storage and shifting existing production" ..

The underlying claim to this statement is: more storage could easily be built because it is economically feasible.

Which is - apparently - not the case.

Apparently, the end consumers of electricity (private households, businesses) are not willing to pay enough money for more storage. Or the other way round: storage is too expensive for it to be deployed at a significantly greater scale than it currently is.

Cheap electricity storage is a tough problem. If storage was much cheaper, we'd see much more of it being deployed.

As always, politics has all the levers to set the direction here. Subsidize storage massively and more storage is what you'll get.

What politics can not do through such policies: lower the overall cost of storage for the consumers of electricity (apart from stimulating effects such as economies of scale, ..). Why? Because the subsidies will still be paid by the consumers in their role as tax payers.

You don't get around the fundamental principle that everyone is sensitive to prices. If electricity storage were cheaper, we'd have more of it.
Node-GTFS
'The Systems Bible, 3rd Edition, by John Gall as a light introduction to Systems Theory as well as 'How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know, 3rd Edition' to brush up on my Linux. "Computer Organization and Design, 5th Edition" after those two.

On the fiction front, I just finished "Queen City Jazz", by Kathleen Ann Goonan, and I've got "Daemon" by Daniel Suarez queued up as well.
> Many relays you find on amazon and similar marketplaces are CE or likewise rated.

The tutorial got them from AliExpress. The links are long-dead, but if they have any ratings they are almost certainly fake. Also, CE ratings apply to finished products - they don't make sense for individual parts.

> Add a quick blow fuse to the circuit if you are skeptical of the thresholds.

... which the tutorial didn't do.

> I would also say if you sat through a primary school science curriculum, it doesn't take a "loooot of research" to understand the basics of residential electricity. Fifteen year old students learn it in vocational technology courses.

That's the problem: this isn't basic residential electricity! You're building a new device, without all the mandatory safety precautions you'll find in off-the-shelf products. The most dangerous part is that at first glance it looks fine, while it's actually violating some quite basic design rules.
Yeah one wishes it would actually work like that.

Unfortunately there’s many drivers that drive below the (already low) speed limits.

Add to that curvy road and it becomes much worse (you can drive much closer to the limit by accelerating and braking dynamically).
Indeed. The incentives are all in the wrong place in the American system.
Depending on how defunding worked so far in one's area, but NHS generally prioritised potentially dangerous issues.

Means it's easier to be frustrated waiting and then getting a 10 minute talk when it's flu or something similar, but get seen to in 10 minutes after arriving at a walk-in centre because you're worried of bine fissure in leg (turned out to be inflammation fortunately)
> good wireless coverage

We were talking about houses blowing away and falling over but sure.
This is literally the 'carrier liability exemption' that section 230 is based on, HN gets all up in arms whenever carrier liability is threatened to be taken from internet sites...
"The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder"
On a bit of a Graham Green kick lately. This happens every few decades.
That is all far too American for me!
Refactorings are one example where LSP can’t match IntelliJ. A language server also takes far more skill and effort to implement than the equivalent IntelliJ plugin, where much of the heavy lifting is done by the IntelliJ framework. And you still need at least a lightweight plugin for each supported editor. That’s why a language server isn’t necessarily the best place to start but hard to avoid in the long run.
Just like every other industry, we're trying to deliver at the lowest possible price, which leads to the lowest acceptable quality level.

It would be easy to add 20% of time and budget to a project and just let your developers work on bugfixes and improvements. Maybe even let your dev team interview a customer or two to truly understand what matters to them. But that's considered too expensive. (even though some SaaS have 90%+ profit margins)
Publish it in your Twitter bio,

or as a Nostr note, for cool kids to share with other cool kids.

Defeatists get defeated!
> And there’s a funny story about Chomsky... He went to the dentist and the dentist said, well your teeth are alright but you gotta stop grinding them. He said, I don’t grind my teeth. The doctor said, you do, your enamel is worn off. So Mrs. Chomsky was there and he asked her: does he grind his teeth in his sleep? No, no he doesn’t do that. Well they both got terribly interested—when did it happen? Well they finally found out that in the morning while having coffee, and [Mrs. Chomsky] might be out of the room, he would start to read the New York Times and his teeth would GggRRrGRrr hahaha

— Gore Vidal

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4507208/user-clip-york-times-...
Are these people digging the whole thing by hand? It sounds exhausting.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. It even talks about what is the best way for a worker - capitalist relationship, among everything else.
They don't work. All the time I see what looks like flashing as the "clever" automatic headlight tries to work out if I'm there or not. Countless times I've had someone driving behind and hogging the lane to the right of mine and have their full beams shining through my mirrors. Moving into the same lane in front of them causes their headlights to dip, but I shouldn't have to do this (especially because being in that lane is against the highway code).
Alongside C++ Builder, except for Borland, no one else has managed to create such a great product for doing GUI development in C++, bringing it closer to the Delphi/VB experience.

C++/CLI and C++/CX never had that kind of support on Microsoft, even though they get associated with having pushed C++ on the industry (ironically given that it is a Bell Labs UNIX born language, and they were the last PC compiler vendor to support it).

Even MFC never was as good as OWL/VCL.
According to State fire officials (Cal Fire), the entire state of California will burn. It is simply a matter of “when.”

There is practical wildfire risk in the Bay Area. You should drive down 280 some time.
Euclids Elements, Thomas Heath translation
The CFO already separately sent him a message before the call, and I wonder if they'd get access to the CFO's number in a central directory (leaving aside the fact that you're asking to message them while they're live "in front" of you).

I fthe CFO gave a number on the call, it wouldn't also be much of a check.

I think the real improvement would be to have the CFO file a ticket, but obviously that company was used to play it loose and fast.
The upside of inefficient privatized process is that you can replace them.
This is more or less the reason I don't like adding "const" to member functions in C++, or setting any method or field to anything but public.

Working with the code base gets so annoying if you suddenly want to change something you didn't plan for.

Such changes can have a domino effect through the code.
The Mystery of the Dragonfly in the Rainbow
For many of these "attacks", it could be thwarted as simply as opening the messages tab and seeing no prior history.
The Compleat Meadmaker (sic), lol.

[1] https://store.schrammsmead.com/the-compleat-meadmaker-p78.as...
That's taken into account while rendering the graph. The attraction force between two nodes is inversely proportional to the number of edges a node has.

If a node is depended upon a lot, all the resulting edges induce weaker forces to adjacent nodes, so this accounts for the fact that some files will be depended upon a lot, and that's fine.

There's also the option to just exclude that kind of files from the analysis with the --exclude flag. I've found that to be useful for massive auto-generated files.
Today's subway riders "watch people around them?" That's creepy and rude. Has NY changed so much?

> I am one of the last Mohicans who reads the print news

Ok, by this point I'm wondering if the article is AI-written. Several things are patently untrue but patterned after existing text elsewhere.
In Journalism school I used to read 3-4 daily newspapers. Slowly it dwindled to one. Since COVID they no longer deliver it to my door. Guy drives by at 30 mph and just chucks it. He has unerring accuracy to land it in a puddle if there is one nearby. Or he forgets to deliver at all.

The newspaper will not take phone calls from subscribers. The customer 800 number routes you to India where you can hear roosters crowing whenever you call them. They always promise to send a 'strong letter' to the circulation manager but nothing ever changes.

The paper is a third the size it was in the seventies. I am close to cutting back to the digital equivalent which is a poorly formatted PDF :<(. The Detroit newspapers only publish 4 days a week. They stopped accepting letters to the editor. They couldn't be working any harder to drive people away.
Subscribed to Literary review print magazine for 2 reasons. Firstly, it’s like TIL but in print version. Secondly, it’s a relief to read something interesting unrelated to IT on a range of subjects. Every now and again I find a book recommendation that I buy.
I found this magazine by accident in the airport bookstore when flying out of UK, so if you are at the airport in uk give it a go (it’s almost impossible to find a print version in bookstores).
35-40 years ago I had to switch to left because of too much strain on the right hand. I was very happy when I found a way to mirror my cursor. Am back to right hand now though.
Best practices to prevent alert fatigue
I remember creating account there with pseudo-name for a few years. The admin there one day gotten extremely hostile and request me to give then real biodata. I didnt even consider to contribute anything not even simple comments. Just being quiet user. I would even pay annual subscription to have the site access but not contributing like E. Britanica site. Regardless, I have been extremely detrimental to that website with maybe running a multi year hostile anti-Quora campaign across the world. Quora just made an unnecessary enemy user with me. All I wanted just like HN, probe in, read, and maybe comment a bit maybe once or twice a year. Instead their admins turn very hostile threatening to remove my account simply for not giving them real biodata.
Ask HN: What are some of the best LLM explainers you have seen for non-techies?
I am not looking for explanations like "The illustrated transformer" but rather intuitive explanations for non-technical people.

I have figured out how to explain the simple version of such a model using histograms, even able to explain the concept of embeddings, but I am stuck on the final step - how to explain and visualise the modelling process.

My flow shows that histograms using bi-grams, tri-grams, n-grams cannot scale - we need too many variables. So a model is used, but I am not able to explain this final leap in a non-technical manner.
"close to the machine" by Ellen Ulman.

So far i am very pleased!
I know we like Musk-bashing in leiu of sport here, but 4chan is objectively worse.
Welcome to the generation of drivers that have never switched their headlights on or off ever. They'll drive in inclement weather with no lights because it's still bright enough to not trigger the dusk sensor. They'll sit on the side of their road with headlights shining fully for no reason. They basically don't know the lights are there. Why would they? Never used the road outside of a car. Never known any different.
The person you're replying to didn't say where "here" is. I took them to mean they were in Europe, which could explain why your experience was different.
Wikipedia agrees, with sources too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling
Im not sure I get what a snowflake represents. Is each corner a detail in the story?

Also, will this not just end up with a story that is without a clear red thread, seems like quite a disjointed way of writing.
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_the_World_Is_Just_t...
Why do you use your mouse with the right hand? I’m also left handed and use the mouse with my right hand, I think mostly because my parents bought a computer table with our first computer that had the spot for the mouse fixed on the right side (keyboard drawer with just enough space for the keyboard alone and below that a little extra drawer to the right to create space for the mousepad and mouse when the keyboard drawer is open). So I had to learn using the computer that way …

Seems inconsiderate from my parents, but I think they just didn’t think about that aspect.
I'd say these are mainly popular among people who could be categorized as Apple enthusiasts; I've seen these on various Apple-related discord servers, news sites like macrumors or mastodon, bluesky profiles.

Nobody from my friends who happens to own an iPhone uses memoji avatars - they either prefer plain "old" pictures in their avatars or no avatars at all. Maybe not everyone wants to look like a cartoon character - I wouldn't be surprised if this could be perceived as childish behavior on levels of using anime avatars.
I don't feel there has been a difference where I live in Europe.

And my personal experience is that the driving culture in the US (east coast) is more aggressive to start with (except, maybe, sparsely populated remote areas).
I’ve been working through the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, reading Stillness is the Key and Siddhartha.

The SICP might take me a year.
This is a way improved[1] version of the official installer, capable of uninstallation among other things, there is no need to use the official one: https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer

1: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer?tab=read...
Heading in that direction

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/05/04/how...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/verified-id/how-to-d...
I am still waiting for Dennou Coil to become reality...
You can say the same about any hobby that is more dangerous than sitting in the sofa. We would need to make it illegal to do any type of diving, climbing of mountains, skiing off-pist etc.
> or else you put up the two pages on the screen at the same time and then they get… small.

Or else you put up the two pages on the screen at the same time and then they are totally fine. Because they can't be not fine on a 43" in the landscape orientation.

Even when I had 27" it was totally fine to read comics and manga on it.

> And I’m also not going to go sit at my desk with the big monitor to read a comic book

To each their own

> Enter Vision Pro. There are no limits to the page size because the screen is filling your field of view

Is this supposed to be a good thing?

> and then walk up

> ... I went ahead and stitched a few comics pages side-by-side ... The photo at the top of this post gives you a rough idea for what it’s like

Ah, yes. Using a touchscreen of your computer would give you Gorilla Arm Syndrome, but constantly turning your head, repeatedly, in span of minutes to hours is totally not give you a nastiest neckache.

> But the interaction is, at this point, really fiddly.

Yes, the most useful interface for something more than just turning pages (ie zooming and panning) is.. a computer mouse.

No, not impressed.

> display that’s at least 13 inches wide and a little more than 10 inches tall

> There’s a few monster laptops that get close, but I’ll never buy such a beast

Chromebook: 10.22" x 6.66"
13" notebook: 12.20" x 7.48"
14" notebook: 12.26" x 8.80"

Not 1:1! My dots are not exactly the same size they are on paper! Totally, absolutely unreadable! (proceeds to wear Apple Vision Pro (r)(tm) to have the page fill all their field of view)

More important part, totally omitted in the article:

Even if it would somehow work then it would work only when you are home and/or alone.

It wouldn't work on a bus (and I mean a normal bus, not a US one) or almost any other public transportation, except some long distance trains. You wouldn't take out these and wear them, to read the next issue while you have a spare 5 minutes while at the bus stop or waiting a doc' appointment.

Sure, I'm not a comic connoisseur, but it's really looks like a solution in search of a problem.
Credit to you: you "forgot" about the "in Rust" part. But it makes a material difference to me.
> an actual electrical engineer

An actual electrical engineer is unlikely to have the necessary certification to do electrical installation work for someone else. What you want is an electrician.
All fiction so far (and with similar themes)

- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

- Pachinko

- Homegoing (just started)
Just wait until you find out why scroll bars are on the right.
This is an amazing animation!
I'm reading What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders.

It says it's not a self-help book, but in practice it's the first book ever that helped me with my lifelong anxiety.
Production user here. I've found no money "gotchas". They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1].

The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases.

See my comment [2]

[1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
For non-commercial and personal projects, the runtime licenses are free.

For commercial projects, the online form https://slint.dev/get-price (from https://slint.dev/pricing page) automatically sends an email with pricing info (no marketing person is involved :) ). Note: you need to enter your business email in the form.
For a finance worker I actually wonder how much it means to transfer $25M.

I have no idea, but I suppose moving funds from one subsidiary to another for instance wouldn't be for a few thousands only, and he's seeing money fly around day in day out. Would it feel the same as an infra engineer rebalancing a few millions of access from a cluster to another ?
It was really interesting and well-made, thanks for sharing!
I just finished "Song of Solomon". Toni Morrison needs no introduction, and the book is simply an irresistible whirlwind of emotions and lessons.

Currently reading "The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews." Shakespeare and Co. is a bookstore in Paris with a long history of inviting authors to reside at and give talks there. A nice and fun pot-pourri of down-to-earth wisdom, it does not exude the typical literary snobbery from this kind of book. I like it so far.
The nihilistic view is that nothing matters anyways. The sun will die. It doesn’t matter if you are Bill Gates. In 1,000 years, most traces of our existence would have been forgotten. Look at the ancient kingdoms and rulers. Sure, the pharaohs we care about, but some random king elsewhere? Maybe not.
I think the strangest design decision is not even EyeSight display, but the battery pack design. The whole thing is so insanely overbuilt, with the metal frame and the battery itself weighting only half of the entire device.

It looks completely align compared to the Nitecore powerbank I use for hiking trips, which packs 10000 mAh into a 150 gram shell.
> It is much harder (or impossible) to improve lifestyles at an industrial scale when it is shrinking.

The abundant consumerism wrecks peoples lifestyles. I don't see the need to jump through hoops to support planned obsolescence consuming of widgets and eating so much food obesity becomes the major health concern.

The growth worship need to stop.
I don't get why it matters so much to people. It's all just incentives aligning and how the deals work. Having a subscription can actually be beneficial in terms of incentive to keep up supporting the product in my view.

If it's a huge problem psychologically for you, maybe you can just take the following 5 years or whatever time you estimate you will be using the product and calculate that into the base price to make your decision.
An experiment with calling Python code from Assembly
Asimivo's sci-fi
Blockchain-powered microtransactions for using server's resources such as storage, traffic and computer time.
Phone numbers are trivial to spoof or steal and there is currently no way to protect against that.
Honestly I think the front display is the first thing they will drop when they try to get the price down so regular people can buy it.
Found this on a friend's bookshelves: Warfare in Antiquity
- History of the Art of War, Volume I [1], a 1970 English translation of a book written by a very knowledgeable German guy in the early 1900s, and I must say it is very intellectually challenging, helps you see battle/wars in a new light.

[1] https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska-paperback/9780803...
Yeah, although AF 447 would like to have a word. ~ one minute freeze of Pitot tubes caused a jump out of normal law and then the dramatic event unfolded.
In 97 I was still regularly booting to DOS to play all kind of games. I'd use Windows 9x for internet (Netscape) but Windows for gaming? Nah. Space Cadet Pinball maybe.

Dune 2, C&C, WC2, Duke3D (the nemesis of Quake), Twilight, Crazy Bytes.

And MSDOS was relatively stable, quick to boot. Windows 95 wasn't. OSR2 was better. Windows 98 SE was OK, ME was not. NT didn't become dominant for home users until XP. Which was when Windows got reliable for home users. Although 2000 was also very stable.
Concurrent Processes and Their Syntax (1979) [pdf]
Hash collisions and exploitations (2019)