skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends where you draw the line in the tech stack. On the hardware side they've always worked at least at the same hardware level as any workstation or PC vendor, and often arguably lower than that working with component manufacturers to custom spec particular components.

They're an aggressive early adopter of new tech, putting in the work to adapt it to their product categories, sometimes directly funding tech development with partners to make that happen. They jumped on the tech for laser cutting aluminium laptop and mobile device bodies from aluminium blocks, gorilla glass for mobile devices, helped develop the specs and tech for retina and 5K displays, were actively involved in the development of open technologies like Wifi, USB, Firewire, etc. They've never been content to just buy parts off the shelf, pushing to promote the development of and get early access to new stuff other competitors didn't have.

On the software side they hired the best, including about half the former staff of Xerox PARC, the developer of the MACH microkernel, the developer of LLVM. You could argue that Apple didn't invent these technologies, but people at Apple did.
I would argue that three knocks at regular (quick) intervals is the minimum to convey "there's someone at the door" rather than "something fell down in the other room".
I think it's true to a point in english as well.

For instance people on reddit (or here?) aren't actually writing as they'd write texts in Alabama or lecture notes in Manchester. English used online tends IMHO to have less classical idioms and less respect (or more avoidance) of the weird rules.

And I assume at some point countries with english as first language sill backport massively crushingly popular memes as idioms and many irregularities will become pedantic instead of the norm. After all it's not that long that English became the linga france, we've yet to see more pronounced changes IMO.
To people downvoting this comment... to be fair, this might be a response to some of the breathless hype surrounding LLMs these days.

There are people making wild claims about the capabilities of AI right now, and it's maybe worth pointing out some concrete examples of AI limitations.
create bindings and externalize function libraries for other languages, hope to your prefered deity nothing breaks
it suits my workflow since all windows are full screen on all the monitors. I either use alt+tab or super key to get the exploded view.

it won't suit all workflows of course
> Never would I suggest that be taught to kids today.

Why not?! Understanding how to handle dangerous situations in a safe manner is a huge learning opportunity for a young person. If you have a chainsaw at home ( and lots of us do ) young people absolutely need to have a healthy appreciation for the danger of that machine.
Theoretically, the same trick could be used to double map addresses coming from an external master via an IOMMU.
US DoD heavily controls what can and can't be installed on their stuff. To make matters worse each branch and organization has their own approach to how they control what gets installed.

Sometimes it's just the path of least resistance to use what you already have.

I remember putting in a request to install Python. It took me 6 months to get a response of no. I had the opportunity to appeal with more information on the use case, but I just did it in VB for Excel at that point.
My experience wasn’t stellar but it wasn’t like yours. There’s of course no comparison between the speed of getting up and running with the official sdk and toolchain, but it wasn’t so miserable.
> If you learned to speak lojan, your communication would be completely unambiguous and logical.

> Yeah, but it would all be with the kind of people who learn lojban.

Funny!

So far I've found the Toki Pona community to be extremely friendly

Feel free to email me at hello@taylor.town if you're looking for a TP pen pal :)
Legalise and regulate production.
> by pure math the most common type of child is the first born.

I understand the sentiment you're trying to convey but I have to point out that's only true if the average family size is less than 2. The second it hits a full 3 that's very obviously untrue and most cultures in the past definitely had averages above 3.
Hello all, I'm Grant, founding engineer at Row Zero.

Working on this spreadsheet engine has been one of the most exciting, complex, and stimulating engineering experiences of my career.

Feel free to ask any technical questions about the product. We're really proud of what we've build and what's on the roadmap!
That's a good point. Very dystopian sci-fi for a mega corp to manipulate public perception of their products with entertainment.
If your fuel pump software doesn't handle leap year, no you should not be considered a professional. That's amateur work.

> professional
characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession

> amateur
one lacking in experience and competence in an art or science
> More children means more space means more cost.

Yet, hilariously, the average home size keeps on growing. Where I live, the average home built today is 25% larger than in 1990 and 100%+ larger than the average house prior to 1950. There is a pretty strong inverse correlation between family size and housing size – as families get smaller, houses get bigger.

It seems people have no trouble bearing the cost of larger housing. They just don't want to fill them with people. Again, because people don't want the children.

Why would they? You don't need the 'mule' anymore. Rich people can hire someone else from outside of the family to do the work. Today, you don't need a kid slaving away in the kitchen to ensure you are fed, you can simply go to McDonalds.
Indiana Jones and the $3,500 Headset
Why? Because all the primary characters are going to be turned into amazing strong female protagonists who were coincidentally born with the ability to solve plot contrivances?
Is there a way to run articles through this? I dread WSJ articles because I dont have a way to pass the paywall.
That's true the big fish are too busy rewriting the rules in their favor.
Trivial in the sense of googling "how to install KDE on Ubuntu", picking a result that looks somewhat recent, and following those steps. It ends up being a handful terminal commands which shouldn't be too hard for anybody who has used a keyboard before. That's how I did it at least. There might be more UI centric options.

Also, trying to chase the elusive 'casual user' is what caused all the GNOME UX mess in the first place I guess. I'm not an 'archetypical' Linux nerd, I hate wasting time with fixing stuff that should "just work", but I'm also expecting a computer to be a professional tool which I can customize to my needs (within reason at least).
> Once change is that traditionally VPSs used local disk storage, while cloud servers use network block storage.

Hetzner Cloud uses local NVMe SSD storage. They used to have Ceph based network block storage, but deprecated that around 2 years ago.
Highly interested in collaborating – got a bunch of proprietary legal data already pre-sorted and labeled for various scenarios. I've already benchmarked legal use-cases (i.e. legal speciality, a few logic-based questions, and specific document creation) with various LLMs – so would love to see what benchmarks this can produced compared to early Mistral or Llama.

Let me know what's the best way to reach out!
That's useless for extending capability.
why would you characterize that as pop psychology?
Using Terraform to Automate Okta SSO Group Access
I feel as though a lot of newer EVs include a ton of code complexity just for the sake of having a ton of code complexity. It's as if the culture of "value-add" went into hyperdrive for some of these newer car manufacturers.

For me to return to the EV market I would require that I be able to source a third-party battery pack, at the very least. I'd be fine with government regulations to block the cheap packs that catch fire. I just want the option of swapping out the pack on my own terms if I want in the future, including getting next-gen battery tech that can increase range with less volume and weight. I'd also insist that they have a "do not phone home" mode of operation, along with buttons and knobs and a small screen. And a pull-brake. And a charging infrastructure that works. And that I can use with cash.
The Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 was the visualization translation unit connected to a dermatrode headset (superseded by neuro jacks in later books) and was not completely alien to simstim input, evidenced by Case toggling between the two.

See passage: https://genius.com/William-gibson-neuromancer-chapter-4-anno...

It was definitely less user-friendly than the AVP, so more "Power is sometimes worth inconvenience" Macintosh IIci-era Apple.
it's different from a company defending itself in court if only because a court is a judiciry power affair whereas lobbying congress interacts not with the judiciary branch of government but with the legislative
Dead Internet Theory meets enshitification. The internet was allowed to grow into a network primarily designed to connect companies with consumers to extract value. The people who make waves (good or bad) are banned from platforms because such waves are hard to control from the top down. That "wave maker mold" is also the original reason people went online -- there were cool people with new ideas to discuss. Now discussion is mostly argument so cool people are replaced with people just gaming whatever meta the platform is currently running.
Excellent suggestions thus far. I'd add volunteer organizations, which have the benefit of an existing agenda and activities which take some of the pressure off the social side of things. Getting to know someone while working alongside them is a more natural interaction than facing off with them and playing 20 questions.
Reddit continually conflates the Internet with WWW. If they got off their virtual asses and tried to explore USENET they wouldn't be so depressed about their "dead internet theory".
They get dismissed because they are toxic people and there is no value in dealing with them. They kill kids and entrap people and break them so they can keep exploiting people. Its a system of exploitation. If you're under 8yo, you can believe in Santa, but once you're old enough, you shouldn't believe in imaginary friends that someone else made up, especially if those imaginary friends are psychopaths.
Tim Cook Says Apple Will 'Break New Ground' in Generative AI
There’s also “Extrapolations” which is dour climate change dystopia but the world-building is quite good.
Have you looked into Georgism?
Ah yes, the latest post about a marginal security concern leading neatly into an advertisement to give money to an LLM startup to address it only partially and at best probabilistically.

If you're a potential customer for something like this, you quickly have to ask: why not have another 1000 contracts to separate tiny startups that each do the bare minimum to paper over an unknown portion of just one security gap? What other costs will you incur integrating with each of them in turn? How many of them will even still be in business a year later?

There would be several hundred with more ROI than this one, so why start here? Even if you undertake this costly and tedious journey, how far down the list would you have to go before you get anywhere close to this one?
Yes, this exactly. It's a small time investment that improves my experience significantly.
>I suppose most homeowners that want to rent sell and become renters

I see, so maybe selling isn't that big of a hassle then? People keep bringing it up as evidence that people would rather rent, but that really doesn't seem to be the case.
> Haskell is moving into that space via JS and WASM compiler targets and bringing along its broader user base and library support

This has been an initiative for longer than PureScript has existed. I wouldn't expect it to replace PureScript any time soon to be honest.
Sorry, you're right, that was nonsensical: I was cutting all of the percentages in half. Excuse me. (This was based on looking at a chart where sexes were split and percentages of each age/sex were given out of the total population but I confused myself into thinking it was as a proportion of that sex.)

Should have said ~38% to ~24%.
What software are you using to read HN then?
Query Exercise: Finding Sister Locations to Help Each Other
How is this going to impact people who have to go through Manhattan to reach other destinations? Maybe I'm misunderstanding how this will work but a lot of traffic in Manhattan is transitory since in many cases that's the only viable option. I'm only a casual driver and avoid Manhattan like the plague but sometimes I'm forced to go through Manhattan to reach other destinations.
I haven't seen this on my Linux laptop, but TBH some UI elements in GNOME look so weird in Ubuntu 24 that I'm not sure if it's broken or intended (but already did before installing KDE).
That and other Jell-O salads were a main feature of our extended family get-together potlucks in rural farming Oregon. It might've been the most common dish to bring.

The fluff was usually red, occasionally green, and sometimes layered with non-fluff Jell-O. Both forms would usually have fruit embedded in them, sparsely, and usually diced small.

We never ate Jell-O at home (in the city, Portland), so I sometimes wondered whether Jell-O salads were a quirk of the Dutch-American farmers side of our family.
learning about https://web.archive.org/web/20230919050349/https://www.sigid...

and
https://web.archive.org/web/20231019154254/https://www.sigid...

took me down the rabbit hole, eventually to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project
> The where operator will validate that the syntax is valid, but it will pass unknown function calls through to the underlying database. In RunReveal's case, we use Clickhouse under the hood, so if we wanted to do a case-insensitive match we could still use Clickhouse's lower function.

From the release blog [1] they mention that unknown functions are passed through to the underlying SQL engine -- this let's them target anything from mysql, Postgres, ClickHouse or proprietary engines like Snowflake.

1. https://blog.runreveal.com/introducing-pql/
oh man, I remember when I cared about this. I am so happy to be a normie with a Macbook now
It was pretty good overall, but the ending was so bad. I think it was completely unnecessary. They could have done something different.

But that... I felt like I was tricked into seeing and hearing about something I'd rather not. Too dark, if you will.
Building a Chatbot for HN and Stack Overflow with LlamaIndex and ClickHouse
Anime Market to Reach USD 62.7B by 2032
There's a large amount of robustness improvements, particularly around multi-monitor and docking scenarios with dynamic and fractional DPI. We've also introduced technology to allow client apps to stay running should the compositor crash and restart.

We've replaced some originally homebrew Wayland protocol extensions with newer extensions maintained by the wider Wayland community. For example, our own panels now use the layer-shell protocol. This improves interoperability, e.g. enabling third-party panels.

We've added initial support for HDR and color management, in particular for games with HDR rendering (we've been learning a lot about the gaming community and their needs from the Steam Deck).

More complete porting of many little quality-of-life workspace and toolkit features and refinements when running in Wayland.

Performance work.

Screen sharing got a revamp, now supporting RDP and the latest portal dialogs when invoked by apps and so on.

Various other compositor-y bits, e.g. support for the Presentation Time frame scheduling extension, which helps video players and game engines.

Some of these got done in Plasma and KDE software itself, some in Qt 6, where we've been a major contributor to the QtWayland module. Some required contributions to the Wayland protocol stack itself, e.g. the modern focus handover protocol.
It’s not ‘the hashtag emoji’, it’s ’the number key emoji’.
Aren't lock free buffers usually just as expensive or more expensive to use as locks.
It's perfectly reasonably to consider the Internet as the thing 99.999% of the population uses, and not relatively obscure and technologist-only things like USENET.
Great article, folks, read it if you have any interviewing responsibilities! IMO.

Interviews are recognized as hard. With my experience, somebody asks me about some silly simple code problem, I never know what level they're going for. Is this in a server environment? IoT? Will it have uptime metrics? Is it business critical? Or just some utility.

The answer depends on all that. But no, usually they just want to know if I understand cooperative threads or something. Then I vector off - is blocking permitted, or do modifications occur in a driver or interrupt routine, other time-critical code? What is the threading situation? Hyperthreads? Multi-core? Different architectures e.g. DSP vs app processor? Power critical? Scheduling constraints?

No, they just want to see if I understand standard library locking mechanisms. No, I haven't used them in years (I do IoT etc where lockless queues and zero-kernel-call mechanisms are important) but let me Google something!

If the interviewer even appreciates my questions, then we can have some kind of meeting of minds. Else, it's a waste of time for both of us. We're just too far apart, operating at different layers of the software layer cake.

So thanks for listening to my personal rant about interviewing. Like belly buttons, everybody has one.
> Getting approval for funds would take 18 to 24 months. “In a typical real estate financing deal, you’re closing that loan within 60 to 90 days,” he says.

Who designs these programs? Yeah, what bank in their right mind would sit around for up to 2 years (aka, until the next administration) to close on a loan? That's insanity!

The only orgs getting funding out of these programs are people who already have tons of cash on hand. So only existing real estate barons need apply.
KDE is pretty cool but I just don't get why they're still using their Breeze theme. GNOME got so much more beautiful with the new Adwaita theme. It's time for KDE to redesign their default theme as well, Breeze looks absolutely terrible and outdated, especially the icons, it all feels super cheap and like it was all drawn by some random guy, not a huge project with a UI team.

KDE can look amazing with a custom theme, why don't they just pick one and make it official?
Honestly, if someone who is an investor is complaining about the FTC, they're probably doing their job right.
That actually seems like a reasonable thing to do. Early-on going "assuming that we solve the technical issues with self-driving, can we make this into a product that works for us?" makes sense to me.

After all, if they found that they couldn't come up with a good experience for it, then they could stop throwing all that effort into solving the hard technical problems.
If I say the policies that are being implemented by your side violates my right to freedom from religion, how do you react?
I think this is the reason social media like Discord has taken off. The new generation has started to realize that any large scale community on the internet is invested with bots. So instead they've decided to create their own small communities where there's still an assumption of good faith between users.

I wonder what the next generation of social media will look like if it starts to take that into account in its earliest stages of design?
Does Apple have an incentive to minimize fears about AI?

If this were Microsoft or Google, sure.

But Apple (as a corporation) seems to, if anything, benefit from playing up fears about AI.
As soon as we decide to start building houses. Probably by liberalising planning, but also by reducing the cost of the matereials. Housing poverty is a choice made by governments, mostly on behalf of everyday people who want their home to appreciate. But banning companies from owning houses isn't going to solve anything. It's a symptom, not a cause.
no, 'inflectional language' means that different independent axes of meaning are encoded in a single word. french verbs are inflected for time (present, imperfect, simple past, simple future), mood (indicative, subjunctive, conditional, imperative), number (single, plural), and person (first, second, and third). so 'parler' can be realized as 'parle', 'parles', 'parlons', 'parlez', 'parlent', 'parlais', 'parlait', 'parliez', and so on

https://www.wordreference.com/conj/frverbs.aspx?v=parler lists all of the forms unless there are other inflected forms that are only preserved in literary french

the crucial thing that distinguishes inflections from simple agglutination (where instead of the isolating 'will talk' that english uses, you write the future as 'willtalk') is that they interact. so, for example, second-person plural indicative present 'parler' is 'parlons'. second-person singular indicative present 'parler' is 'parles', pronounced [paRl]. second-person singular indicative imperfect 'parler' is 'parlais'. so you might guess that second-person plural indicative imperfect 'parler' is 'parlonais' or 'parlaisons', depending on which order the suffixes go in, but it's not, it's 'parlions'

that's a lot to memorize for a new language learner. there are 36 distinct forms of 'parler' in that page, and the reason 'parler' is used is that it's a regular verb; some verbs have even more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusional_language describes the concept in english and https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langue_flexionnelle in french
> Are those advantages worth inherently worse amortization costs on the first stage

If you can launch from and land at any airfield, even if just any military airfield, absolutely. You've opened the market for point-to-point ballistic transport.
Esperanto as "hippie Klingon" is a very neat turn of phrase, even rolls off the tongue perfectly...
I'd love if there were just dispensers for the soaps and juices and what not I buy. Just tap my credit card, press a button, and fill a big jug. I agree I probably wouldn't want everything sold as such but loads of staples where I am probably going to go through a lot of it all the time or are already going to have a short shelf life, sure.

And yeah, I actually do go with the "line up at the beer station and get bulk beer", a number of breweries around me have walk-up growler filling stations. It is pretty nice getting fresh beer straight from the source. A few groceries near me fill growlers as well.
This was my experience too, both with my tiny personal account and my giant clients accounts
I always envisioned the Ono Sendai as something like an Alienware, except designed by Sony and actually popular amongst real computer enthusiasts (and powerful enough to warrant the reputation.)
We're seriously going to say that a substance that was very recently introduced to human society is as risky as food poisoning? How often do the commoners have to suffer through businesses ill-attempt to save money while poisoning us?

Leaded gasoline, chlorofluorocarbons, asbestos, pet food laced with poisons and filler, baby food laced with heavy metals, opioids, cigarettes, campaigns about seat belts being unsafe, round up, fracking that poisons the ground water, etc.

Excuse me if I doubt the corporations, that continue to poison the the world around us unless literally forced by nation states not to, are being honest when they safe "oh it's not harmful" and not the reality of the situation. Wanting to save a buck, repercussions be damned.

Why are you saying "clearly" as if it's 100% guaranteed? We have no idea the repercussions of introducing a new substance that has literally infiltrated all organic life on earth. This is completely new territory and acting like it's all "solved science" is extremely disingenuous.
Why isn't their US Data Centers not listed in the table of Data Centers they run?
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/data-centers-and-con...