skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>These basic things like light and other base features you make sure can work even if smart software fails.

Even ignoring the potential privacy concerns, you're assuming too much in terms of reliability.

When an AWS region went down a couple of years ago, a lot of smart fridges and lights didn't work properly (https://financialpost.com/technology/personal-tech/pitfalls-...).
> This is the real friction point, but is it a bigger friction point than having to adopt yet another DSL?

Yesterday, I created a virtualenv, then ran `pip install`, only to see it fail. I found out that even `pip --version` was failing. I discovered that running `python -m ensurepip --upgrade` would fix pip. It did fix pip, but `pip install` still didn't work properly. I figured out that pip was reporting a different version of python than the one virtualenv is using. Running `python -m pip install --upgrade pip` upgraded pip, which should have been accomplished with the previous ensurepip command. Finally, everything was working properly.

I experienced these problems after years of experience in python. To answer the question. Yes, it's worth adopting yet another DSL than using python.
I don't understand why some people like to criticize the reputation of wikipedia.

Wikipedia is not perfect, but their process is quite mature and robust.

I even read people saying wikipedia is politicized.
Sounds like you are talking from experience. Are you storage specialist, how did you learn so much about this?
It would be so nice to read how that ancient Windows interface looks just like Serenity OS some day!
> [On] 23rd August 1994, the chaotic music duo and performance artists Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty burned £1m of notes behind a boathouse on the Scottish island of Jura. They are not alone in attempting to reduce money’s power…

They literally increased the purchasing power of each remaining pound by doing so.
Personally, I like to use wajig, which combines several (most?) Debian packaging operations in one tool.

https://wiki.debian.org/Wajig
https://github.com/gjwgit/wajig
Ask HN: How to get started as a technical writer?
My area of expertise is DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure. I've written a lot of internal docs but I'd like to be more professional about it. I also love working with open source projects.

What a more disciplined approach to technical writing would look like in my case? Any ideas welcome, thanks
The Vision Pro has a total system crash, the camera pass through keeps working
I think the public "budget" number is best considered as part of the film's publicity. It might reflect reality, it might not. Some films exaggerate their production budgets to make them seem like good value to buyers, some understate them for "plucky outsider" cred.
A government can reduce the purchasing power of cash too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis...

Or just issuing new money at a rate that exceeds demand for the money (meaning the relative desirability of the money, which relates to the trustworthiness of the community using the money and the economic productivity of the community using the money).

Like when the population pyramid starts turning upside down and the benefits promised to older people need to come into fruition from a smaller and smaller labor supply.

Edit to respond to 4bpp:

> With cash, they can only do it to everybody at once or not at all.

I think government can use the new money to inflate the price of certain things quicker than others, effectively advantaging certain portions of the population, which is what I allude to in my 3rd paragraph.

For example, inflating asset prices lets those who own more assets (or certain assets) lose purchasing power more slowly than those who do not (see most labor sellers).

This is a somewhat related example of how a policy change for all can be designed to affect certain populations differently:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-hutchins-center-expla...

Use lower CPI to update tax brackets, and higher CPI to calculate Social Security benefits, i.e. increasing wealth redistribution from young to old without explicitly saying it.
Hiragana or Katakana are not Chinese characters. They don’t follow the principles of how Chinese characters were developed(六书), nor did they follow the structures.

At best they are inspired by Chinese characters. No one in China or Japan will classify kanas as Japanese made Chinese characters, which by itself, meant something different entirely, like 畑/辻/雫
This is so so often the case. Specially in the last decades, when it is profitable to setup a company which basically does nothing more than writing specifications
Oh, the days a computer could get away with just a heatsink instead of 20 fans...
I do not know what the previous poster was talking about, but, while unrestricted access to kernel memory is of course unacceptable, a perfectly secure and useful means for the kernel to provide information to a user process is to map a page as read-only in the user address space, from where the user process could get the information without the overhead of a system call.

For information of general interest such a special kernel page could be mapped as read-only in the address space of all user processes.

Much of the information that is provided in the special file systems /proc and /sys could have been provided in some appropriate data structures in such read-only shared memory, for a faster access, by avoiding the overhead of file system calls and of file text parsing.
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And WebKit, which is the rendering engine in Chrome. (Though Google now maintains their own fork).
Know of but don’t (yet) own. Strong recommendation?
I was looking for a translation from a pkl template into an xml schema. It would probably be lossy - I think pkl can express more invariants than xml or json schema can - but still gives some invariants on the data for use downstream of the pkl tooling.
they will get you by convenience
> We offer plugins and extensions for IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code and Neovim, with Language Server Protocol support coming soon.

Why? Why would they not have just done the language server first (or only)? All of those have built-in support for it, so separate implementations wouldn't have been necessary; that's the point.

I just don't understand why you'd make that decision on a greenfield project today, especially if LSP support is planned at all?
that's not just a perl problem. you may face the same issue with php and also any lesser known language, if only for different reasons. either way though, popularity wins
In your example, how is this different than incorrectly creating the data structure in any format ?

I'll be looking into cue, but how does it solve that problem ?
Are there any downsides to this, of couldn't everyone take those without asking first? (aside from cost)
First commit in the Google code repo seems to be 2011-11-30
>boosts a man's testosterone by 20%

If you're looking for a testosterone boost, I can recommend you Dinesh's Maximizing Alphaness video[1]. Just don't show it to Gilfoyle.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An21fXqyqM0
> I wonder if that's because the USA is that stupid

The USA is a continent made up of 50 countries [states]. Think European Union. Most people don't grasp or understand the sheer size.
Sounds like a job for JSON Schema

https://json-schema.org
I will always recall the chaos of being in a northern Minnesota tourist town (Ely) when the single fiber-optic line serving the region was cut. I sure was glad our group brought cash. All the people with only third party companies willing to pay for them some time in the future had their trips and plans ruined. But that's sort of a trivial example. It could be much worse.

And then there's the rent seeking inherent in any commercially provider payment service combined with enshittification. No single company payment system will remain "good" for long. Not that credit cards are good to start given the puritanism and censorship they impose. And that's not even mentioning the US state dept. control of those networks preventing donations to political groups like wikileaks.

Cash matters. Having some corporation promise to pay for your stuff 3 days in the future means giving up control. You might not care now, but you might care in the future when $localpolitics get dicey. Imagine not being able to pay for an abortion with $companypay because it's illegal in $company's legal place of operation.

Plus cash is just so much more convient and faster.
It is insane how reliable landlines are, though. When the power goes out, you can make "candles" by connecting a 0.47 uF capacitor to a LED leg and connect both ends to the red and green phone wires; there's enough voltage to power a couple of them without the phone going off the hook.

In an emergency, the lines don't get clogged like cell phone towers, and the Telco infrastructure is much more protected than wireless (you'd have to bomb a pretty big building with no windows to take out a small area's lines). It's probably fine in the grand scheme that we lose these properties. We'll just reinvent them later if it turns out we miss them.
It can show actual videos using the Sixel protocol. You already have terminals that support it too. Just run `xterm -ti 340`. In that terminal, run an application such as Gnuplot:

gnuplot -e "set terminal sixelgd;set hidden3d;set view 62, 30, 1.1, 1.2;set samples 50, 50;set isosamples 51;set contour base;set cntrparam order 8;set cntrparam bspline;splot [-12:12.01] [-12:12.01] 2*sin(sqrt(x**2+y**2)) / sqrt(x**2+y**2)+x/53+y/37"
Raspberry Pi powers first driverless car in Formula SAE Brazil competition
I Denmark we are removing the 1000kr bill as of May 2025. from then on the highest bill. is 500kr which is roughly equal to 80 usd.

Denmark Is the most cashless society I have yet experiences (and I have been traveling a fair bit).

This comes with pros and cons. and I think the reason why it works is because of an incredibly high social trust.
But with cash it cannot "disable" selectively
I didn't include webkit since it's a forked KHTML, which wasn't theirs.
I learned this when the power button on my Pixel 3 started repeatedly firing. My phone started repeatedly rebooting, opening the camera, and calling 911, all with no user input.

Because the phone was booting up and initializing the camera, the GUI would take a while to respond. It would display the “slide to cancel”, sometimes overtop the camera GUI, and wouldn’t respond when I tried to cancel it.

The only thing that stopped it was running out of battery. This started at 10 PM on a Friday night, and lasted a few hours.
I use very little cash in MA. But checks are still pretty much the default for a lot of people doing various services for me. I can just leave a check for someone like my housekeeper. I could presumably make arrangements to pay in a different form (including cash) but why bother? And, in many cases, it's my bank actually "writing" the check and delivering it.

I'd change if it became an aberration or weird to do but it's just not a problem in general. (And I wouldn't try to pay by check or cash at Walmart for example.)
“Popular” doesn’t mean “fitting every purpose”.

All the listed languages are compiled and statically typed. Python is neither. Neither is JavaScript, another popular programming language which is also not listed.
When it stops being fun
It's strange that governments are not minting more digital currency if the demand for physical currency is falling.
Scotland has Americans beat on that respect. Deep fat fried mars bars and pizzas, you name it.
A little bit like the famous saying in court: “It is not how safe you made it, it’s about how much you can prove you made it safe!”
Android tablet. Chrome. "Device not supported."

Not much else to tell.
yeah, $15.1 million is just obviously, blatantly too much
Pandoc is amazing and immensely useful. Just in case you need something simpler, let me suggest Hastyscribe.

Statically compiled cross-platform program for convertng markdown to self-contained portable HTML with a nice styling embedded by default. Simple, small, fast, hackable, written in Nim.

https://h3rald.com/hastyscribe/

https://github.com/h3rald/hastyscribe
As far as entertainment goes, Reddit and TikTok are relatively efficient.

As far as financial instruments go, Bitcoin is fantastically, comically inefficient, and by design.
Looks like it might fix three big issues I had with Cue:

1. The only way to use it is to run their Go CLI app to convert the Cue into JSON and then load that. That sucks. I want native support. Jsonnet does this a lot better (https://jsonnet.org/ref/bindings.html), and PKL at least supports 4 languages. Cue only supports Go directly. Not good.

2. Cue has a super fancy type system, but as far as I could figure out there's no way to actually take advantage of this in an IDE, which is like 60% of the benefits of fancy type systems. In a Cue document you can't say "this is the schema". XML had that decades ago (and it has awesome IDE integration with Red Hat's XML extension for VSCode). Even JSON can sort of do it via `$schema`. The docs are a bit scant but it looks like this supports it too. The fact that Cue doesn't sucks.

3. Cue is pretty much only a fancy type system. It's a really elegant and nice type system, but that's it. It doesn't even have functions. So it isn't going to help with a lot of the things that Jsonnet and PKL help with.

This is not really in the same area as Cue. It's a way more direct competitor to Jsonnet and looks better, based on my brief skim.

My only concern with these sorts of things is that they're basically a whole new programming language, but without many of the features you'd want from a real programming language. It's in an uncanny valley.

Does look nice though.
Sure, braille terminals exist. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display for some examples.
I personally am not offended by a feature. I wouldn't march on the streets to denounce this or anything like that.

What I am saying (though I cannot speak for anyone) is that I, on the contrary, would go out of my way to not get, not because I have thin foil hat or whatever, but because the reliability and privacy concerns this kind of thing carries far outweigh (in my scale) the benefit of having something that will come in useful once in a decade.

Note that things like that have already happened.

When an AWS region went down, things like doorbells and lights stopped working properly (https://financialpost.com/technology/personal-tech/pitfalls-...). Which, if you think about it, is ridiculous. I cannot turn my lights on because somewhere, potentially thousands of miles away, some datacenters failed, even if those datacenters could, ostensibly, only give me ads and "improvements" and not any core feature.

And when it comes to privacy, Roomba employees posted on Facebook picture of a woman on the toilet, a picture that was taken by the Roomba itself while cleaning (https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-i...). Now, you might say that the Roomba algorithm has to train a lot to be able to work properly, but why take pictures? And why upload them to the Internet?

Of course everyone makes their own judgement calls. I'm not offended if anyone gets smart fridges or voice activated lights.
extremely sad, but not surprising. i used webcache all of the time. good thing the internet archive still exists, but who knows how much longer that'll stay up.

ruth porat joining was the day that old google died.
> even there Chinese characters are still occasionally used.

> Chữ Nho is still used today in calligraphic banners for traditional occasions such as festivals, funerals, Lunar New Year (Tết), and weddings.

Unless I'm mistaken the role of Chinese characters in Korea and that which it has in Vietnam as claimed in the article seems similar to me.
https://archive.is/i1k5O
For those curious / on a nostalgia trip, "mswordview" was the name at the time. The project lives as the wvWare library, which reads and parses MS Word 2000, 97, 95, and 6 file formats:

<https://wvware.sourceforge.net/>

A primer on lessfilter:

<https://www.miskatonic.org/2020/06/24/lessfilter/>

And lesspipe:

<https://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html>
Besides high social trust, I assume also a great IT infrastructure with guaranteed high uptime, a tech literate population willing to adopt new technology and not be stubborn to change, plus a small business environment not focused on cash driven tax dodging, like in the German speaking countries.
I hope people think more about cases like this and the Post Office when they go to say “it’s not like we’re curing cancer” or “my bad code isn’t a matter of life or death”.

You might be far removed from the implications of doing a poor job but that doesn’t mean everyone else is.
> The US will need to at least double power generation and transport capacity to support 300 million EVs

https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero/ele...

> In the US, the grid is equally capable of handling more EVs on the roads – by the time 80% of the US owns an EV, this will only translate into a 10-15% increase in electricity consumption.
No, there is no escape code to shrink a sixel image. You have to do it the hard way: erase it, shrink the bitmap, and then redraw it.
If anything, people who rant on social media expect to be ignored or blocked.

They wouldn’t rant like that in real life on a bus with a captive audience.
I also take issue with the idea that non-flat means skeuomorphism. That false dichotomy robbed interfaces of a lot bandwidth.

Our visual system is designed to operate quickly, on a 2D field with 3D effects.

The latter aid both our fovea and peripheral vision in quickly categorizing, grouping, distinguishing elements and their roles. They are a significant help even when we only use one eye and only see a pure 2D field.

Careful use of color, shading that raises, lifts and sinks visual areas, textures, boundaries and other cues that demark coherent interface objects (is that editable text? a button? non-editable text?), smooth motion reflecting state changes, is not a misguided attempt to pull non-useful elements of our 3D world onto the screen. It is sensible design for the sense system that is being interfaced with.

Similarly, making many user interface elements invisible until somehow discovered is not "simplifying".
RIP :(

I remember reading The Codebreakers with great joy some 30 years ago. Very fascinating stories and well presented history of cryptography.
But not for you specifically.
The best thing about Perl in comparison to Python is that programs written in Perl age very well. You can run decades old scripts without any updates, versioning and/or dependency hell or other headaches. Even better, also across platforms. I stopped using Python because of the anti-experiences with all that.
Ah right. But it will be a bit problematic, since the subnet size may vary between different ISPs, no?
500 Lines or Less a Template Engine
Global-Lemmatizer: lemmatize every word in the world with the help of Wiktionary
Perl5 it's like merging an enhanced ksh, easier awk and less difficult sed in a single tool.
It can do the same exact thing as the previous three but with less headaches.
Except acting as an interactive shell as sh does, OFC.
Also with CPAN you have lots of nice tools out there.
Oddly, I’ve never been inconvenienced by my wallet.
Meh. Apple already know your location, and its not in EU.
Displaying More with Less (2023)
Criterion Collection material, certainly.
Pakistan is still a cash based economy, many outlet either deny card payments or apply a processing fee to encourage cash transactions.

"State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) data indicates that the Cash in Circulation (CinC) has increased to Rs9. 2 trillion ($32 billion) at the end of June 2023, which is equivalent to 30 per cent of the total money supply (M2), or around 11pc of the national GDP." [0]

0: https://www.dawn.com/news/1779399
that's not an excuse for poor formatting, especially when not breaking just a couple of formatting rules would make it a better reference, and doing a couple of more tweaks would make it an even better reference (e.g., you could easily see all experimental features with a simple tag in a column instead of having to reach the end of each description)
'Collection of routes' is a really intuitive description, thanks.
People are probably more worried about the 'AI' training itself on the code that's sent to it and then showing snippets to everyone else that tries to do something similar.

If the IDE without the plugin would send code to JetBrains, someone bored and with a packet sniffer will catch them.

If the AI plugin actually sends code to JetBrains, it's part of the plugin functionality.
I've definitely been to many FOSDEM talks where the room was too full and they weren't letting any more people enter.
FYI -- on my MBP I use a program called Spectacle to snap windows around, and I now have no complaints relative to what you can do on Windows.

Development on Spectacle ceased[1] and it looks like the community may have rallied around an open-source program called Rectangle, which is open source. At least, judging from this single Reddit thread lol:

https://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/kazpcn/spectacle_alter...

[1] Although when I search for it now, I see an update from 2023 on softonic? Although the original dev's github repo for it hasn't been updated in years. https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle
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Aren't cheques even worse for privacy though? Not only your bank knows exactly who you paid and how much, the seller also now has your actual name since it's just written on the cheque - at least when paying by card they get nothing.

Maybe I'm getting it wrong - cheques are something I've only seen in films, in my country no bank accepts them since 2020 anymore, they've been completely phased out.
"mozilla slams microsoft" conjures up an image of a chihuahua biting microsoft at the ankles
Linux doesn't have a big "enable IPv6" switch, so it's not clear what you mean.

The only way I can think of getting the behaviour you describe is if you configure the network to hand out v6 addresses and routes to hosts, and then just black hole the packets. What you have then is a broken network.
> Because the developers of Pkl are Python haters

Look at the languages that they do support - Go, Swift, Kotlin, Java. These are all robust languages for writing production grade software. That's probably why - the people at Apple using this don't need it for their hacky Python scripts.