skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry to raise your blood pressure (;p), but this laptop (bought over 3 years ago) hasn't seen anything else other than KDE Plasma, the first couple of months with X, but with Wayland since then. I have seen none of the issues you've listed, nor did I notice any performance or battery life degradation with the switch, quite the opposite -- while the battery life seemed to have remaining pretty much the same, performance (specially with multi-monitor setups) is much better. My laptop also has dual GPUs (discrete Nvidia and integrated Intel) and I notice no differences between running with nvidia completely turned off and in optimus hybrid mode.

My only issue is, ironically enough, also with multi-monitor setups, where the layout and main monitor selection seems unstable and sometimes changes when waking up from sleep. I've been following KDE's development (through Nate's incredible blog[0]) and I'm pretty sure these problems have been fixed with the new 6.0 release.

But yeah, you seem to be particularly affected by bugs, sorry for the experience. What Nvidia card do you have? And driver versions?

[0]: https://pointieststick.com
There are folks that think they can still reason about code being executed on 128 cores (AMD EPYC™ 9004).
Also I have seen some papers on Arxiv from FAANG companies that have a half-dozen or more co-authors, and almost all of those authors have Chinese names.
There is not exact definition. Real world is messy.
I was really curious about one thing, but unfortunately it was omitted from the article: performance. Whenever I do anything FPGA related, it makes my machine sweat when it comes to synthesizing... must admit that I don't have top of the line high-end machines, but I'm also not using a raspi for this.
You don't remember the "What's a computer?" ad?

iPads are most definitely marketed as devices suitable to take the place of conventional computers.
So your government physically blocks you from entering the government building to get something done? No? Congratulations, you just have a bad government.

I can only watch cable news on TV, am I going to call that an essential computing device too?
One of my great fears in life is getting locked out of a Google or Meta account. I have resolved in myself that should that occur the account is forever lost because there is no way to get support. The best that one can hope for is that a media publication takes up their plight and writes about it, or they know someone who is employed by one of those corporations. Even when customers pay for a product, Meta and Google customer service is horrible.
Well, I guess I’m fucking old now so fuck me
Nvidia's Museum of the Future
Same as you. I am trained to add Wikipedia or search in another way, because of the namespace conflict.

Even that is not enough, after a while, and more and more words are needed.

Some search engines are better or worse about this.
Free 60-page guide on how to reduce GenAI hallucinations by modeling your data
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I've worked for a Chinese company and with Chinese company partners, but I am not Chinese, so my understanding is probably very, very incomplete. The way it seems to work is that the "influence" from the CCP scales with the size/success of the company. Every business in China operates at the very least with consent of the government. As they get more and more successful, they gain a little more influence/encouragement/cooperation with government. By the time they are giant, successful companies, they're all but an appendage of the government. Hard to explain as an American because we don't have similar "quasi-government" institutions like this. I guess it would be a little like the Federal Reserve--it's technically not the government, but works hand-in-hand with the government.
Or keep it to remind yourself of what a toxic relationship looks like, be that the case.
For those that don't know the author, Marijn Haverbeke is the creator of CodeMirror (code editor) and later ProseMirror (text editor).

https://codemirror.net/

https://prosemirror.net/
> In particular it's hard to get a crow to do tedious, boring chores for some almonds or whatever when they know there's relatively fresh pizza in a dumpster 2 blocks down the street.

I have the same problem with my parrot. He’s too smart and unlike dogs has zero desire to please. If he doesn’t like the trick you’re teaching him, or it’s taking too long, he’ll just fly to the nearest food bowl and help himself. He even knows where the treats are and will get them himself if you’re taking too long.

On the other hand, he actively prefers treats in foraging boxes. He’ll fly to his treat bag, get your attention, then fly to a foraging puzzle and indicate “yo put that shit in here”. They love foraging.
Remove the risk.
Good to know it has a well-known name
I interviewed for the water treatment facility for Vail and part of the package was heavily-subsidized employee housing. It was the only way for them to get the salary numbers to work out.
@para_parolu yes, correct. We implemented the bot to bootstrap first submissions.

You think it would be a better platform without?
Chapter 11 on async is particularly good, I still get confused by async/promises sometimes in Javascript - https://eloquentjavascript.net/11_async.html
I’ll look into it. I really enjoyed the book Command and Control (about the bureaucratic handling of nuclear weaponry), so maybe that submarine angle can deliver it to me in a more digestible way.
In other news, Apple continues its quest of suicide.

I can't decide who do I hate more? Epic, desperately attempting to portray their acts as Holy sacrifices by being martyred in the hands of blood thirsty, evil Apple corporation or perhaps Apple double downing with malicious compliance, scummy tactics and lording their mob-boss like attitude towards EU and its citizens?

Meanwhile people here are arguing over which sport team they belong to rather than the actual issue at hand which is the fact that computing ownership is being taken away from normal people by tech companies and frankly all of them are at fault (Amazon, Google, Apple, Epic, Ubisoft,..).

You no longer own anything, you have to rent it and smile. You are prohibited from modifying the devices you purchase or even attempt to repair it. Your movies and music libraries can be removed by the whims of the corporation and your books can be deleted should an executive feel like it does not align with the DEI flavor of de jours

My point is this, computing is no longer a niece for nerds and people literally have their lives tied to these systems and devices. We are in serious trouble if strong laws and regulations are not implemented (not only within EU but frankly everywhere) to prevent these corporations taking away people's rights, privacy and freedoms.

I don't know how this will pan out but the silver lining is that it may start a discussion at the world stage regarding these issues.
Thank you for trying my product. I understand Typeform is much more mature and has many more features, but I am trying to keep the features minimal and the pricing low.

I am working on keyboard shortcuts which for sure going to improve the UX with more components
We don’t have a single domestic TA in the department I’m matriculated in
Show HN: Bocker-compose, the missing layer to Docker-compose
A (joke?) one-liner I came up with while thinking about solutions to centralized container management across multiple SSH hosts. Shame on me.

The name is inspired by bocker [0], albeit this doesn't re-implement docker-compose in bash, I found it to be fitting enough.

I'd love to see someone come up with a smarter and/or shorter way to do this.

[0] https://github.com/p8952/bocker
I would honestly love to educate people here. But when the rabble come together to downvote you and dismiss what you're saying, the general perception from any reader is going to be that I'm wrong because so many people are disagreeing with me. Despite the fact that I'm literally an expert and they're not. So it's useless. (And just hurts my soul.)
They give people flip phones, not iPhones.

Why would I not touch a PC? You're just moving goalposts, Apple is not stopping you from buying a Chromebook. That's what anti-trust legislation is about.
In the end it's reproducibility for both - you know that when you have a specific setup, it will look exactly the same.
Hope they'll release API access soon so I can add it to https://double.bot

They've been talking about an API since June and it's now 9 months later with no updates on API access.
Well that's just terrifying.
the optics maybe be bad but violent crime is extremely low. I've never felt fear of being mugged or attacked in China.
there's nothing like that in the article, he's just outlining the things he does to compensate for his perceived low intelligence. you clearly came in here with an axe to grind based on your other replies but this blog post is not the reason your feelings are hurt.
This might be one of those 'sloppy' definitions.

From random search, seems like some people assume this : Pure=Total

"A pure function must be total
Firstly, a function must be total, this means that for each input that is provided to the function there must be a defined output."
Pretty disappointing non-article.

TL;R Smart people have some biases and flaws too.
Good for China, but since they have CCP people in every group to report on people, neighbors in every community whose job it is to report on people, do things like WeChat dropping messages containing unwanted content, censor people's postings, I'm skeptical how much privacy people are really getting. Sure, maybe BigCo can't build a profile on you, but I'd much rather have BigCo know everything about me than the State. Especially when the State is totalitarian.
>By the way, imo one of the hallmarks of impractical technology is stagnation, dude did it a decade ago, and 3d printed structures have the same problems today.

no, they don't have the same problems today.

Building houses on planar lines with concrete extrusion doesn't represent the cutting edge, it represents the technology that has been vetted and approved enough for public ownership and land endorsement.

multi-axis extruders with large DoF and non-planar routing is approaching the state of the art, and overhangs are well dealt with.

3d printing in general is one of the least stagnant industries I can think of right now. It's being adopted en masse by the largest groups and is generally receiving a lot of intellectual attention.
> someone actually had government handlers

It most likely wasn't a Handler/MSS type espionage.

It was most likely trying to grab IP to found a domestic competitor, and raise a Seed round from local government accelerators like those Beijing and Hangzhou have.
Did you mean Ehud Olmert? I don’t believe Ehud Barak was ever arrested.

Also, not to nitpick, but would appreciate publicly accessible articles… from the abstracts I can only assume these are summaries made in the 90s of pre-90s shenanigans

EDIT: saw now the edits with 3-4, will look at when I have time (thanks!)
That's fair, but using computers as an analogy: a professional-grade computer from the 90's (e.g. a Silicon Graphics machine) used in professional films would cost like $40,000, but now you can buy something orders of magnitude more powerful than a 90's era SGI workstation for peanuts; virtually any modern gaming rig made in the last 15 years or will outperform even a top of the line SGI from 1995, because computer hardware prices have benefited enormously from industrialization.

I realize it's not apples to apples, but I first heard about the Red One 4k in 2008, about 16 years ago, but it doesn't feel like prices have dropped in the same way that computer prices have. In fact, it's hard to even get a used one from 2008 for less than a grand right now.

I'm not even claiming that it's overpriced, not everything can drop to near-zero-margins like computer hardware can and make up for it in scale. I just really want to use a pro-grade camera and I don't want to spend $10+k to do it.
Citizens should always be incredibly insulated from any sort of government interference, I agree. The Constitution should be ratified so any time it mentions “people” or “persons” it instead says “citizens”. We need a separate document that applies to non-citizens.
As someone that uses it for both workloads, it does just fine, don't load it with lots of plugins.

If anything, plugins creating havoc on host processes have given a reason why extensibility should be done out of process with IPC, despite consuming more resources.

Not only on VS, on other IDEs as well.

Given that, it is no surprise that the new extensibility API is out-of-process.
Good article, but I can't help but see that the author is conflating smartness and research-acumen/ivory-tower-living.

Being in academia != intelligence. In most of my experiences in the Ivory Tower, the smartest people tended to leave after a short while. Modern US based academia 'hires' on intelligence and 'promotes' based on blind loyalty to the system, boiling off anyone with dignity, honor, or self-respect.
Not down voting but... Slow clap.
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I 100% agree on the correlation of price and reliability in the professional video world. My experience is in live event production and while Blackmagic has revolutionized the accessibility of high-quality production it does come with a non-dollar price. I've never had a Ross router, switcher, or other auxiliary gear go down during a show. I have experienced multiple show stopping failures of Blackmagic devices. I once was on a show where the BM router locked up fight before showtime. Doors were open and power cycling was not an option. All existing routes were passing signal just fine, it was just control that was gone. We just had to make do for the event, fortunately there were no critical audience facing changes that we needed.

For some clients the savings are worth the risk. For others they absolutely are not. With live you get no chance to shoot it on another day or go back and fix it in post. If there's thousands of people outside the room watching you better make sure that signal chain is rock solid.
I can't speak for Chrome nor VMWare, but Firefox and OBS have received "Wayland native" screen capturing functionality, through XDG portals and Pipewire, as far as I'm aware.

As a side-note, I've recently discovered a really cool project[0] that enables incredibly fast screen capture for OpenGL and Vulkan applications, mostly tailored to games. Tried it with a bunch of stuff and it works much better than both X's and Pipewire's screen grabbing. I can actually capture videos at my monitor's native refresh rate (144Hz).

[0]: https://github.com/nowrep/obs-vkcapture
Thank you, that's an interesting link.
> I guess the engineering for cameras that nice has fairly high "minimum cost" that can't easily be brought down by industrialization?

It may be a value thing. Why would you sell a $500 toy to the consumer market who are un-fun customers to deal with, if you could sell the same thing to a professional for $5000 and they won’t even blink because they can leverage that same tool into $500,000 of revenue?

Plus at the $5000 price you can afford to have proper customer support, good service department, and all the other stuff that professionals value. You can make an actually better product even if the tech itself is the same.

And you don’t need to play silly expensive consumer marketing games. Focus on making great cameras and the professionals will market among themselves.
I'd be in real trouble if I lost emacs. Probably talking a 90% slowdown in the short term, only really getting back up to speed after I'd reimplemented it. But emacs is free and not-ridiculous to build from source so the dependency causes me no stress.

I can see obsidian ending up with similar effect. That's probably in the same category where it disappearing tomorrow would mean I drop whatever I'm working on to reimplement it, hopefully building on top of some existing alternative. However that one is not open source. There is low level anxiety there. An interesting question is how high the licence cost would get before it was no longer a net benefit.
I think you're getting at a basic fallacy. This is not a zero sum game. This is a positive sum game.

The worlds population has been steadily growing for the past 10,000 years. The quality of life has mostly increased. We're figuring out more efficient ways to extract energy from the resources around us, including the sun.

We don't live in a post-scarcity world but we also don't live in a zero-sum world either.
Swift Tooling: Windows Edition
Could've used better commit messages, but:

https://github.com/marijnh/Eloquent-JavaScript/compare/3rd_e...
My co-founder wants to bring his wife as a late joining co-founder
In 2020 (I was sophomore student in undergrad school), a close friend and I, then undergraduates, developed software now used by several research labs, particularly in the neurotech field. As a second-year master's student about to begin a PhD, and my friend a second-year PhD student, we've been the primary contributors (99% of the codebase) to this project. Over the years, we've also recruited new students to our team.

Recently, a month ago, we welcomed a new research assistant into our group. Subsequently, she and my friend started a personal relationship and are planning to marry. Amidst this, we began preparing for a venture competition submission. She has indeed contributed significantly, facilitating discussions with other companies and forming some partnerships, though often with my friend's involvement. My co-founder now proposes to grant her co-founder status with over 10% equity.

I'm concerned about the fairness of this decision to other team members who have been with us for over a year, contributing significantly to our project. Additionally, I feel somewhat sidelined, as my friend and the new member often reach consensus without involving me in the preliminary discussions.

I seek advice on handling this situation, especially regarding the proposed equity distribution and the changing team dynamics. How can I address these issues while maintaining both our professional relationships and the startup's integrity?

Thank you.
> twisted by a political insider into jail time

No - you seem to be assuming such a law would only be invoked in cases where the company legitimately did something wrong. But that's not what's at stake here. We're talking about what happens when someone with political clout and a vendetta is able to use that law to wrongfully get a a CEO tossed in prison. Because sometimes laws get twisted for personal gain, and you're raising the stakes pretty high.

I wouldn't want to do business under those conditions, not because I might violate the law, but because it could be used wrongfully against me.
In neon you can create different branches but there is no merge functionality. I think merge functionality is very hard to implement anyway. not sure if it is worth the effort.

To have the same state on two branches you would need to run the same queries that you ran on the other branch.
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> Why is this taken as a given to be a good thing?

So that we can prove things about software more easily. If we only write stateful imperative programs, we're stuck with tons of Hoare triples and separation logic rather than being able to use equational reasoning or type-driven deductions. For example, this person wrote a parallel wc in Haskell, and they used semigroups to parallelize the word counting.

https://chrispenner.ca/posts/wc
By all means, try living in one of the numerous countries in the world where graft, extortion and outright criminal kidnapping of you and your family members are common occurrences and then declare that tax returns shouldn't be private or that financial privacy isn't more than just a silly little fixation.

Aside from very good arguments for why people deserve financial privacy as much as many other types of privacy for all kinds of philosophical reasons, there are also very practical, life and property-protecting reasons for why any abrogation of this type of privacy should be very, very carefully qualified and measured before being applied.

Also try remembering the other 99+% of the world's population that doesn't live in your Nordic paradise and won't live in anything like it for a long time to come. Their circumstances aren't something you can indulgently apply your ideas of what's "correct" so easily just because you think it works in a very small part of the world that has unusual conditions in its favor.

Some people on this site truly seem to live in bubbles of armored plexiglass when it comes to resisting flexible thinking or wider considerations about anything different from what they experience. It's almost amusing.
When I was in Mongolia, I met a group of American peacecorps who helped nomads with planning for winter, and taught them how to better manage their resources to avoid this exact scenario. As soon as they left, the locals reverted back to their old way of doing things.
Micro-plastics are just going to be our generation’s lead poisoning, aren’t they? :(
I am genuinely confused and can’t tell if circleback is chosen unironically or not. The argument against would be that it’s risky to take an unserious name, although I think it’s an overrated fear. But if it’s serious, how do people not have an instant cringe collapse? Are there people who say circle back without needing a shower afterwards?

Anyways, those are the key takeaways from your data driven thought leader, yours truly.
I agree with the spirit of your statement that no crime has occurred. But this isn't a case where someone just expressed a vague interest in a related topic of national security, but their specific intent to steal secrets and give them to an adversary. And then go ahead and interview at certain companies with that intent.

This would be like someone specifically (not vaguely) stating their intent to commit a violent crime and then spend months preparing for it. Yeah, law enforcement, please definitely follow up on that one.
This is precisely what people say right before they start victim blaming.
I have little care about something that happened 100-300 years ago. I wasnt alive. My opinion has literally 0 bearing over stuff that's happened.

What I care about now is that we quit supporting Israel's own holocaust. Just because they had something horrible happen in the 1940's, doesn't mean they get "One Free Holocaust Ticket".

Let them fend for themselves. Sanction them. Run battleships in the Mediterranean to break the Gaza blockade. Basically we should put them in the proverbial time-out corner until they can behave like civilized adults.
Because politics. Doesn't change the simple facts of this case.
Usually, give it enough time - eg 90 seconds - and things will time out and recover from errors.
Is the source for the original 1995 version available? At a retro arcade it is the one game you can never play because there is always a line (harder to get a spot than Tron). I remember playing it on pc around 1997 also.
These things happen and all that, but this is why steer-by-wire specifically scares me a lot. Happy the family is safe, and hopefully it was just an issue with this unit.
My thoughts exactly.

I'd be surprised if blood tests don't include a microplastics section in the coming years.
Part of the force of this book comes from its explanation of fundamentals of computing, and how it relates to javascript. Another part is due to how interesting are the projects that it proposes that the reader build. I don't even like programming in javascript but was drawn to read the book.