skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The creator Ivan is on HN as well, stating that he made almost $1 million in a year with this site. Very inspiring. And of course PhotoPea itself is fantastic, essential for every digital designer.
Surely you are not the only one. I hate going into a restaurant being forced to use my phone to read the menu. What the hell? Is printing menu cards that expensive? Also our kids can read but don't own phones yet.
But still: How on earth could a nerd/hacker/tech enthusiast have the position of "I should not be in charge to decide what Software I install on hardware I own"?

Do these people really think that Apple knows what's best for them and has the sole right to decide? Do these people not trust themselves at all to know what Apps they want to install, what music they want to listen to, and what content is safe for them to read?

This just doesn't make sense to me.
It's a pity the title is that bad, because the article is good
^think
Overuse of monorphisation by the community is typically the right choice given the average use case for them is servers where this need not make a meaningful difference. As with any ecosystem, choices folks make may not be suitable for everyone. Those differing requirements require fracturing into smaller ecosystems which share common requirements. Ultimately, that's what's happening with rust and it's very healthy to see in my opinion. You can't force the overall ecosystem to optimize for a minority of users.

This is also true for everything in general. Having the one best thing for foo isn't as helpful as an array of choices, each with different tradeoffs. You simply choose the one best for your needs. Whether it's cheese at the supermarket, an webserver framework, operating system intrinsics, or command line argument handling. Some things can be standardized and serve as a common base for everyone, but it's challenging to do that without at least one person's requirements. Standards also always feature creep until someone tries to reset it with a new standard which is less complex, but I guess that's a different topic.
Software distribution should be a perfect competition economic service. The fee should not be 0%, but it should be driven to effectively 0 profit. And a very large population of apps could very comfortably be direct downloads from the web. Or say, in a timely manner, a simple portable web app.
You listed a bunch of reasons that you personally don’t want to live in an apartment building, but the issue at hand is whether other people should be allowed to build them on the land they own.
I give it two years tops, for the last macOS release with x86 support.
How much of those 20K lines are Rust infrastructure, versus drivers written in Rust?
Two suggestions I'd have for it:

1) Don't automatically mark an answer as correct. Sometimes I stumbled on an answer and didn't really know how I got there. Making the user check once they think they've got it is more engaging.

2) A kazoo cover of Cruel Angel's Thesis for the BGM.
When I was a young man, I believed in computers. No more, and every time there is news about Altman, I get a fresh reminder that computers are probably going to be the end of us (because we are clever enough to create powerful AI but not yet clever enough to create safe powerful AI).
I'd prefer that than having some kind of censorship of the Internet.

Enter your IQ to allow access to Wikipedia ...

Societal changes such as free education might improve the situation, not more segregation.
yt-dlp[1] can also do this:

```

$ yt-dlp --write-sub --sub-lang "en.*" --write-auto-sub --skip-download 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…'

```

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
My immediate thoughts as well, but I wonder about how exactly this could be implemented in current game build chains such as unreal or unity?
One sometimes sees Mach diamonds in geysers (the speed of sound can be quite low in steam loaded with water droplets):

https://seismo.berkeley.edu/~manga/kieffer1989.pdf (see figure 26)
Your point is addressed elsewhere in the document; cherry-picking individual sentences from complex legal documents isn’t a great idea.
Different stokes for different folks but this is dystopian to me.

I prefer the approach of standard french restaurant: 2-3 options for each category of appetizer, main course and desert. Don't paralyze me with choices. Too many options also mean the establishment has no focus - they won't be all good so it's a lottery.

If I have question I will ask the waiter. And I am as asocial and introverted as any common nerd.
Bumpy Road Code Smell: Measuring Code Complexity by Its Shape and Distribution
That isn't true though.

In the US, Apple is a minority player. I have no clue why Wall Street values them as a $1T company, when all they do anymore is make a bunch of phones that are under-competitive and over-expensive.

The only time in the past few years that iPhones out sold Android phones in the US (the only market which Apple is a major player in; any of the global markets, they're virtually a nobody) was a glitch in 2021, most likely due to being pandemic-inspired. Never before nor since have they broken the 50% barrier.

Although I 100% agree with what the EU is doing to Apple (and I hope they keep going), I don't understand why they're bothering with such a relative small fry, when Google doing the exact same thing on the Google Play Store is right there, and Google has far more capability of paying fines than Apple does.
While technically correct, is this really how "outliers" is generally used? I tend to think of it as "the forgotten few," not "the select few."
Cute, seems legitimately useful, succinct. Not everything has to be super technically challenging to be valuable. I can see how this would be really handy.
The USGS's viewer is kind of odd in that unlike every other online map in existence, double clicking does not zoom in. It also overlays all of the maps with a weird color tint (which you can fix by turning off "Turn map boundaries on or off" in Settings). Both viewers annoyingly fill your browser history every time you move around or change zoom levels.

[Edited to remove snark]
WSJ paywall renders a blank page, no content.
I'd argue that humans don't have bugs but their mental models of things do, mostly as a consequence of the fact a model's complexity increases with it's accuracy.
And had a US passport, which gives some protection, which also means they can just leave.

It takes staggering levels of privilege to claim visiting China as a US national is the same as living there as a Chinese national.

People don't understand how these authoritarian regimes work because it's so far outside of their experience. During the Nazi rule and occupation most people just continued their lives as before, especially during the first few years. What else could you do, right? And mostly, it was kind of okay. But it wasn't "safe" by any means, even for non-Jews. But people also weren't shaking with fear 24/7.
> half heads, half tails.

> Under the model where the bias is 0.5—a fair coin—the probability of that outcome is (0.5)^20 or about one in a million.

No.

Edit: someone downvoted, ha. It's closer to 1 in 6.
I also regret wasting time in the past on junk content online (especially on platforms with algorithms designed to show you the most inflammatory content first), but I have personally found that online discussions and the internet have been a net positive to my life.

I've been studying foreign languages over the past few years. Even though people hundreds of years ago have learned languages without computers, I would have never been able to succeed without technology—in fact, I struggled a lot studying a required language with paper books in high school. Online discussions helped me find the best books and good-enough techniques to start, and streaming services let me easily find foreign television series (along with dubbed series) which made listening comprehension so much easier and fun.

I was also able to learn the fundamentals of software development much easier with the help of technological aids (specifically by creating my own flashcards, which helped me drill practice problems), which has helped me with work. My physical health has also improved thanks to great advice on diet and exercise available online.

Most importantly, technology has been a way for me to work closely with people living far away from me. I really have felt that I can rely on others (as I hope they can rely on me) from conversations and communication online, even if we've never met face-to-face in-person.

My personal belief is that the amount of time spent on screens isn't usually a problem for living a healthy life. What's important is instead how you spend your time using screens: anything deliberately engineered to take your attention and time is generally a leech on life, whereas anything that helps you develop a skill or meaningfully connect with other people enriches it.
what special font/characters is this article using?

in that scorecard table i got all same-looking boxes. yes/no Y/N T/F x/o would have been much more readable. And also in all bullet points also see boxes..
Seems pretty straightforward.

It's too bad there isn't direct redis integration into the database. Everyone always has to write their own method of doing that.

Did they reduce the query cache size in mysql, since redis essentially became the query cache? Just curious.
Good luck building apartments in active mudslide areas. Berkeley residents will be lucky not to lose the single family dwellings that are already built. Slide hazards will only get worse with ongoing climate change. See the map at the following link!

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/01/20/risk-of-major-landsl...
As someone who uses nodes a lot in Blender and likes to minimize link ("noodle") crossing - I found that game to be very easy :D The hardest thing about it is the very limited window - points often need to be moved into a small space, and then the points that otherwise wouldn't have to be moved - have to be moved apart to make space. Because those aren't points, they are circles that take a lot of space in a very limited space. Not just visually, I noticed a point really can't touch anything other than the two connected segments in order for your solution to be accepted.

Here's the solution to the last level - notice I make no topological change in the GIF, and yet only after it the solution is accepted. Moreover both before and after this movement no point touches a segment, and yet somehow before the movement the solution is considered wrong... The validator is way too pedantic for the little space there is: https://i.imgur.com/by42EZg.gif
> Find an average (non tech) IOS user, and try to get them to switch to these apps

You do know that Spotify has 600 million users? And that it got those users without practices like pushing its app in phone setup, account setup, settings, home screen, default music app, default music app in carplay etc.?

> As an aside, the source of this complaint being Spotify is interesting. I would love to know from artist who pays better between the two (because I dont think its spottify)

Neither pays artists directly. They pay money to rights holders. Why no one ever questions the rights holders is beyond my comprehension at this point.
Here is mine: https://www.val.town/v/taras/scrape2md

Use it like https://taras-scrape2md.web.val.run/https://youtu.be/TJqeCpx...

This is meant to be a general purpose content-to-markdown tool for llm interactions in https://chatcraft.org
Apologies, I actually intended to reply to the same comment you were replying to.
> Every time somebody says "I don't want vendor lock-in", they flip it to "Oh, so you don't want safety?"

Sometimes you need safety from the vendors. Linux is the only OS that doesn't use dark patterns to make me create a cloud account.
What existing apps could you possibly want to run on a game console without at least a few modifications to make it suitable to run with the completely different control scheme and user expectations of a console.

It seems like an enormous amount of effort for an extreme edge case. It’s this weird obsession Microsoft has with the flawed idea that you should be able to run anything on every device without modifications. It’s their unwillingness to acknowledge that different types of devices require different user experiences.
But those “rent-like fees” are not rents. HOA maintenance fees, while irritating, have no bearing on whether someone gas ownership over a condo or not. Do you decry SFH because you have to pay property tax, are they also “rent-like fees” which cause residents to be “permanently enslaved by rent”?
I've been considering compiling my Techaro stories into a book eventually, it'd probably involve a lot of editing and reformatting, but it's a thing I want to work on eventually.
The fact that the most popular option in a demographic where someone else pays for the phone is the most expensive option says almost nothing about what those users will do when they have to spend their own money on an option. I highly doubt 87% of the population will be buying a luxury brand with their own money. Convincing mommy and daddy it’s socially isolating to be on Android sure. But their own money in their 20s I doubt it.
I wouldn't be surprised if many pirates are, though.

Look at all the software that exists to help pirate stuff, the dozens of seedbox companies, the hundreds of trackers.

I'm doubtful it would have a big impact. The knowledgeable would slap a VPN on their PC or buy a seedbox. The less technical would wait for Deluge or Transmission to add a VPN panel to their settings screen.

I'm fairly certain things would go back to normal pretty quickly.
One of the companies in my early career always sent out an email blast with someone's parting words. In the case of a negative termination, the leadership usually wrote something about them. The words were always read by HR before, but I really appreciated it. It felt more humane.
I should rent a car multiple times every week? No thank you.

I don’t think people with infants and toddlers expect them to ride a bike. Taking kids around to their clubs and sports, etc isn’t practical.

I’m happy almost no one thinks like you do. You sound miserable. I hope you recover.
"And I’m here to tell you that when you ­forsake modern technology the world ­generally refuses to take part in the experiment. You find this out the first time someone behind a ticket ­window looks you in the eye and tells you to just ­download the app."

This happened to me twice just last week: first at a museum when I asked for a map and was told they simply didn't have them anymore and I'd have to use my phone, then at a restaurant where it was the same story. Browsing a menu on a phone is a really poor experience, it's just not enough space to see much at once and that's even without accounting for whatever awful navigation they built. This isn't a big problem, but it is worse than how things used to be and nobody likes when technology makes things worse.

It reminds me of how rail stations have moved to digital signs. In the past there were kiosks displaying a paper map of the rail lines, and there were other kiosks displaying ads and other things. Well now there are new digital signs that cycle between the rail map and a bunch of ads. It's a worse experience, it makes pulling up the app seem pleasant by comparison.
False equivalency galore there. Talk about ridiculous.

There's plenty of justification for allowing people to choose what type of neighborhood they want to live in. Downtown L.A. is not "full." If you want high-density living, that's already available. There's no reason to destroy already-residential neighborhoods when there are tracts of disused non-residential areas to convert into housing, or high-density areas that aren't fully occupied.

Nothing in these laws helps the homeless. Nothing. If you're eating from garbage cans, you're not going to be able to buy the "luxury" housing that developers are going to build, nor the ONE "affordable" unit they're required to include to get all kinds of waivers.
I don't know you're old enough to remember this (or if you swung in those circles) but 30 years ago if you went to the pub you were swimming in a sea of unverifiable half-baked facts. If someone asserted, for example, that kangaroos had fighting fangs and you countered with, "no, that's the llamas" the truth could only be found after a hard crawl across time and space to a physical library. It was a vastly imperfect system, but at the end of the day, lack of that answer was harmless and it meant there was something to fill up the conversation. In fact, I'll tell you this with full confidence and politely not google it: The Guiness Book of World Records was created to fill just that niche, because the people who first noticed this phenomenon were working for a beer company.
FYI HN does not tolerate articles on Gaza and will flag this immediately. It was allowed once or twice only and moderators required a "both sides" respectfulness toward, and "intellectual curiosity" about ongoing genocide.
why would it need to be everyone? is claim of absence valid at sample size one, but claim of presence only valid if all participants respond?

someone really wants to put a bow on an idea. all this needs to reach conspiracy theory is a unified idea as to why. never mind that individuals may have the same symptoms but different causes. surely this is synchronicity.
It’s really not

I think novels should be for books, and long form journalism with this mountain of exposition before the point should die. It just feels like this author couldnt make a living writing novels and burdens us in an online newspaper instead.

It did get me interested enough to ask chatgpt what Crundwell did. Rita Crundwell, for an article that also couldnt get to the point about her first name due to some other ritualistic journalism idea that merely frustrates
> WebDAV is a much better choice than FUSE.

That's a pretty spicy opinion. WebDAV is slow; FUSE works great. Use interrupt mounts for things like sshfs (or NFS, for that matter).

> Writes seem like a very bad idea. Keep those out unless you come up with a clean way to handle them (which seems difficult if not impossible given the differences in FS versus relational abstractions, especially with regards to data validation).

You could imagine supporting appending new records in json format to the json/jsonl files in a pretty clean way, but I agree it seems well out of scope. And removing records seems basically impossible.
> Yes, individual likelihoods are so small, that yes even a MLE solution is extremely unlikely to be correct.

Can you elaborate? An MLE is never going to come up with the exact parameters that produced the samples, but in the original example, as long as you know it's a normal distribution, MLE is probably going to come up with a mean between 4 and 6 and a SD within a similar range as well (I haven't calculated it, just eyeballing it) -- when the original parameters were 5 and 5.

I guess I don't know what you mean by "correct", but that's as correct as you can get, based on just 50 samples.
It's p̶a̶r̶t̶i̶c̶u̶l̶a̶r̶l̶y̶ pretty hard to obtain guidance systems and components or certain types of ruggedized electronics that haven't been deliberately gimped to prevent them from being used in supersonic or exoatmospheric missiles while on the USA Naughty List, and North Korea doesn't yet seem to have an advanced manufacturing base for this that I'm aware of, whereas Texas or Japan would be a different story.
RoR Debugbar
I'd like to clarify on "was killed mostly by price dumping" - that was only part of the reason. Huawei selling below production cost killed much of the EU hardware vendors (Siemens, Alcatel Lucent), but there also was a massive lack of investment in education, a terrible failure culture, and a pretty much non-existent VC market to blame.

But anyway: There is nothing left over here that could only remotely catch up with the pace technology is developing in the US and China. We would be 10+ years late to any such game.

So: It's really just about making sure some of our basic human rights, democracy and free markets survive while the US and China are fighting it out on who is going to control us.
If New York City were full of SFHs sitting on 10 acre plots, it seems like it might be more comparable to Halifax? I see a listing for a 1500 sq ft home on 13 acres for C$650k on Zillow.

To be fair, I do see a 39th floor 3 bedroom Manhattan condo for only $620k, but the HOA fee is $8k/month, which might be a little steep.
It seems prudent to limit rust usage in the kernel until that list can be burned down to zero. It makes sense that you need to at least get rust in the kernel to find out what missing features you need to have implemented and stabilized, but excessive use will make folks lives painful as they try to track upstream rust releases.
exactly -if I ran a big company, no way I would send out a notice to people still working there every time someone was let go to say who got fired or laid off.

People who need to know find out who is gone, it just takes a little longer.
As someone in CV/ML with a background in cognitive science, and partial to the work of Lakoff and others in regards to the role of embodiment, it does irk me how loose papers in vision can be with the term. In this case specifically, it's rather hard to justify. I'm guessing it may be influenced by other papers in vision that use agents in a simulated 3D environment. In those papers saying that there is some kind of embodiment is iffy, but depending on the quality of the simulation, maybe defensible.
Yay, and then you can join the homeless when your taxes double overnight and render your life savings worthless!
> Both viewers annoyingly fill your browser history every time you move around or change zoom levels

To be fair that's not limited to map viewers. A lot of web apps do that. I think finding the right balance is a bit of an art.
I think it's because smartphones don't exist. I think they're just illusions. Though I wonder if it's common to dream about the content smartphones often carry. Like do you ever dream of listening to music? These days if you're grooving on your favourite jam, it's common to be listening to it on a smartphone. Or if you dream of receiving news? I've dreamt this, but I think I almost always dream that someone is leaning over whispering in my ear. Also... are you younger than 20-something? Maybe kids who grew up seeing adults with smartphones will dream about them more often?
The single-tenancy to multi-tenancy spectrum
The best solution would probably be one of those micro "laptops" like a GPD Pocket. I think it has the ports needed... a few usbs really.

My current setup is VNC from ipad to the rpi for ham radio stuff. It works well enough, with the ipad being keyboard & screen in a small space. And lets me take an ipad with me for other uses. But the rpi4 is so darn slow at a full desktop experience, especially when then feeding it over a network connection.
It’s perfect that this article is suffixed with a notice from Newsweek:

“ To read how Newsweek uses AI as a newsroom tool, click here.”
Chinese electric carmakers are taking on Europeans domestically – and succeeding