skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah on premises share point is absolutely still a thing. it’s not as common as i get it as microsoft wants you to migrate to share point online and at least clients i talked to said they did the migration because of licensing pressure from
microsoft but i cannot comment on that personally.

Share point is just MSSQL in the backend and while setting up share point is mostly a simple affair with clicking through the wizards, managing it can get complex for the inexperienced since there’s a lot going on for on premises. the allure of a quick and easy self hosted share point site vanishes pretty fast once the reality of protecting it and keeping it running hits.
Of course. I'm a big proponent of Open Access. OTOH, Elsevier seems to give 50 days of Open Access via share links. I didn't know that.

I was away from academic arena for some time. Looks like I'll be returning soon-ish.
Especially since SQLite would give a near-instant reply if there was an index in the table. The entire example is wrongly reasoned from start to finish.
Phlogiston, C-field... the list of such "placeholders" is pretty long.
>So I find it entirely believable that there were multiple “standards” for Roman numerals that spanned different regions and periods of time.

That indeed seems to be the case. Apparently it largely standardized at some point in the Middle Ages as usage was decreasing. Although I can't find a reference, it's logical to assume given the timeframe and place that the Church probably had something to do with the standardization whether formally or otherwise.
I really find it unhelpful to read these kinds of articles. We all know about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and countless other narratives that mould public opinion in the country of origin.

The stable solution was for NATO to stay in the West and for Russia to stay in the East, as was agreed upon in the 90s, around the time the Soviet Union collapsed. Instead, NATO steadily expanded eastwards until they got slapped in Ukraine in a pointless war.
I get so frustrated by these games.

Publishers should lose copyright to every work they do not offer in perpetuity with every purchase in every format, and there should be no postsale restrictions on any item beyond what is implied by copyright.
All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed- casualties of a war they had nothing to do with.

All right, look-you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia-this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.

— Randall, the Philosopher
> viable consumer product status (read: enough adoption for the device to be profitable) seems very far away

He mentions a few short term use cases for the current hardware.

For example: Productivity on the go (A laptop with the headset for multiple virtual displays) and Live Sports.

> Apple Immersive on Vision Pro is a transformative experience in terms of video quality and its ability to deliver a real sense of presence. Watching a game in high-resolution VR has the potential to be legitimately better than a regular 4K TV broadcast by enabling hardcore fans to feel much closer to the action
>Using one’s native language as opposed to English is sufficient to make one a “conservative digital dinosaur”?

That's just my opinion based on personal experience, which can't be right or wrong because like I said, it's an opinion and not a fact.

From what I saw, yes it kinda is. I'm from eastern Europe originally, and here we learn CS and everything IT related directly in English, even though we have our own words for the technical terms, nobody's using them and we just default to the English words. If you go to the Nordics or everything north of Netherlands including them, everyone is schooled in English as well when it comes to IT.

It's mostly Austria, Germany, France and few other conservative countries who insist on using their local language for IT terms out of national pride or something, as using too much English is seen as an defeat/attack on their culture.
oh....sheeeeeeet....now listen here little yella sister, this is pure alabama black snake which ain't to god damn beacoup
If you look at the skeleton you can see the neck starts out extremely massive with super thick bones and becomes very thin at the end. The skull is much smaller than the root of the neck.

This works like a human neck, the edge of that dinosaur neck looks similar like a human neck. Then you just scale up that human neck to support the last neck, and then again to support the last neck etc, iterate and you get this dinosaur. Human necks doesn't weigh that much, so you can reach quite far with that style, this dinosaur shows you can get 6 meters with it.

Also note that it has those long bones underneath along the neck, that neck wasn't very flexible, rather it shows it was extremely stiff to make that weight easier to support so it maintains that position while being relaxed, that isn't exactly a flexible snake.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/FMNH_Pat...
> I deleted all cache on my local environment, all node_modules references, all lock files.

Were the lock files not checked into version control? It sounds like the problem was that different environments had different versions of dependencies, which is what lock files are meant to solve.
Solution: AI NPCs for the neutral or benevolent roles, and the human players are the villains.
Completing the KDE Frameworks 6 transition
Could you please expand a bit on this topic, or give me some pointers? I’m not intimately familiar with what happens at the OS layer.
Indeed - that’s very often the case - the right balance between too many and too big is not easy to find.

Having said that - Java is in general IDE targeted language and once you have an IDE - many small files is not an issue anymore.
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OK. Let's bring a bit of sense to this nonsense.

- They are starting from scratch.

- They have no build facilities, no supply chain, hardly any aircraft design team to speak of.

- They are developing an oversized aircraft for 1 very specific type of cargo, meaning of little use for anything else.

- They raised $100 million.

Sorry, no. This is absolute nonsense, and a waste of money.

To bring a bit of perspective, the development of the Airbus Beluga XL, according to Wikipedia, cost €1 billion. And that was with a design team with years of experience, starting from a fully certified design they knew inside-out, with an existing supply chain, and with knowledge of all the design pitfalls of such a design as they had, you know, already built a Beluga type aircraft before.

There is a reason why the industry says it costs about $10 billion for a clean-sheet aircraft design. And that is for experienced design teams. Agreed, this plane will not have to care for passengers, but that will not reduce the development costs by 90%.

And then we haven't addressed the elephant in the room: the usefulness of an oversized airplane designed to carry an oversized, lightweight cargo, that will probably be of absolutely no use for anything else. It will be extremely costly, and they will not be able to amortize that cost by offering their services to carry different types of cargo.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” is optimistic. It asserts that we have agency.

The pessimistic argument seems to say we don't have agency. It follows from this attitude that we can only stave off a collapse.

It is one self-fulfilling prophecy against another. Presumably these attitudes are based on more fundamental philosophies.

There may be other philosophies with prophetic power than these two.
12 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39721463

7 days ago: "Anomalous contribution to galactic rotation curves due to stochastic spacetime (arxiv.org)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39650489

Also discusses Professor Oppenheim's paper.
The Rising Price of Power in Chips
Is English your native language?
> Someone might be in the cusp of retirement and looking to cash in.

If you're on the cusp of retirement (e.g. 65) you probably have another couple of decades to live, so you want companies to keep running things 'properly' for the long(ish)-term.

It's not like you retire and you convert your portfolio into a pile of cash: you still need some kind of returns if you want to not run out of money:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bengen#The_Four_Percen...
Chronic Fatigue and Dysautonomia Following Covid-19 Vaccination
> DNA checks

It's same as having keys tho. Authorization vs authentication.

p.s. pin to drive exists already.
Interesting. Does it need a PHD or a specific Master? Because I feel no one needs that kind of performance at home so the only place to train is academy or industry while industry usually does not train a junior on that topic.
You sounded way more confident and definitive than someone just doing some fun speculation.
Have any links to that?
Imho that location service is an important piece of infrastructure for web apps that need IP geolocation, especially for FOSS software given that there is no alternative, and useful for Android without Google services. Both things Mozilla should support.
This seems akin to watching those flash mob looting videos and saying “they’re just trying to feed their families”.

They are criminals. They are not trying to feed their families in a way commiserate with a peaceful society. They’re probably not trying to feed their families but even if they are it doesn’t matter if they are doing so by brutalising their neighbours.
Ask HN: ReadTheDocs Became Proprietary Now?
I went to https://readthedocs.org/ and redirected me to https://about.readthedocs.com/?ref=readthedocs.org which looks proprietary now, with pricing and such.

Is it the end of this project, as we know it?

Can someone enlighten me please?
In case it helps as a tool recommendation, I’ve had some success having ChatGPT writing & rendering MermaidJS (diagrams as code)
> a foreign person

Once again ..

"It's not that they're wicked or naturally bad

It's knowing they're foreign that makes them so mad!"

Flanders and Swann
Would be actually useful for when you share a car with family members and want it to remember seat position when you are both in car. Strange they haven't done it, but headlines "Tesla facial recognition" would make few people wet their bottoms. Even on this forum.
> Here's a Cornell law school prof saying just this. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

In fact she (Lynn Stout) wrote an entire book on the subject:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13132729-the-shareholder...
Surprising certainly not me, given my username, but: precisely this is a plot point in Anathem.
Have you seen the video on hn a couple of weeks ago about the scientist using ultrasound to halt the progression of Alzheimer’s and to treat addiction?

Most fascinating video I’ve seen in a long time.

Edit: If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend checking it out https://youtu.be/7BGtVJ3lBdE
Yeah he means fixed. It's a common way to stop bookshops being squeezed out. They abolished it in the UK in the 90s which combined with internet sellers emerging led to the odd effect that book prices didn't really rise for 20 years.
> Documentation is just plain AWFUL (as in: complete and technically accurate, but maddeningly obtuse)

That has been the case for as long as I can remember. I gave up on Nix about 5 years ago because of it, and apparently not much has changed on that front since then..
Ask HN: Would you use continuous profiling to help refactor code?
Hi HN! I'm the creator of a piece of Java software that I want to improve the performance and readability of. I have a fairly good test coverage to ensure that the software continues to run correctly, but I now want to refactor the code to:

* Make it easier to read and maintain
* Make it faster

For the second goal, I have relied heavily on continuous profiling tools, particularly Glowroot and Pyroscope, but I seem to have exhausted the gains I'm getting from these tools.

Flame graphs seem to hide information about how the code actually runs, such as how many times a function was called, so I started thinking about what information could help me take the next steps. The current, very hacky output combines interactive charts that let the user explore and step through a complete snapshot profile of a unit test. I'm also looking to include techniques from social network analysis to identify significant and potentially problematic code paths.

I can't help but think that these techniques could be packaged into a useful product, but rather than following my usual M.O. of building first and showing later, I figured I could ask here first:

1. Would you be interested in a service where you could send profiles of your code to help you make it faster and easier to read?

2. Do you think that showing profiler data as an interactive graph that shows relationships between function, classes and packages, together with statistics, could be a useful technique to identify how code can be refactored?

3. Does this already exists? I have looked, but can't seem to find it. OpenTelemetry seems to be getting a lot of focus, but I haven't seen a collector/analysis app that does what I would like to do

Thanks!
It’s not a good look for the US either. What is the US’s jurisdiction? Dragging in a foreign journalist who has not set foot on US soil TMK to be charged with crimes yet everyone here is inundated with foreign spam communications and millions of dollars stolen from US citizens every year. It shows where priorities are.
Editorialized title. The article says that Russia is increasing arms production, aiming to double their military power. With that, an attack on NATO can _not be ruled out completely_.
The gist I got from reading this was the Mac Mini was serving files to employees at the ad agency, yeah? It doesn't seem that unreasonable to me either that this would be sufficient for the task (depending on the size of the agency).

What's missing from this article is what the service provider wanted to charge the ad agency for a new server. An M2 Mac Mini is like $600 USD. I just Google>Shopping searched "2u file server" and the prices for new equipment seemed to start at around $4,000. Is that close to what an IT company like the one from the article would charge or would there be some significant markup?
I love everything about this article. She found a real-world problem, considered the possible side-effects of her solution and made it specific to the insect in question, and melded different disciplines to make this all come together.

Not sure how scalable it is, but the creativity she displayed is impressive. I am sure she will do great things that make a difference.
Reminds me of a problem I had in NYC back in 2019. There was one station in Manhattan and when I went in there my phone always though I was somewhere out in Brooklyn. Even with WiFi off. It only happened on Android no IOS. It was like this for a long time and I tried many times reporting it as an issue on Google maps. Confirmed the issue with many friends who used Android.

I don't know exactly how these things work but I always suspected that some WiFi AP got repaired and moved to a new location and was broadcasting an SSID that used to be somewhere else for a long time.

Or could it be caused by something else?
> Even Apple, with all their resources and a $3500 price tag, could only make a mediocre passthrough on a very heavy headset. The hardware isn’t ready for AR yet.

Hugo disagrees:

> thanks to a high-fidelity passthrough (“mixed reality”) experience with very low latency, excellent distortion correction (much better than Quest 3), and sufficiently high resolution that allows you to even see your phone/computer screen through the passthrough cameras (i.e. without taking your headset off).

Even though there are major gaps left to be filled in future versions of the Vision Pro hardware (which I’ll get into later), this level of connection with the real world — or “presence” as VR folks like to call it — is something that no other VR headset has ever come even close to delivering and so far was only remotely possible with AR headsets (ex: HoloLens and Magic Leap) which feature physically transparent displays but have their own significant limitations in many other areas.
Are your solar eclipse glasses safe?
"Rechner" and "Computer" are interchangeable and probably used equally frequently, as are "Hauptspeicher" and "RAM", etc. Some words do seem to be mainly referred to by their German names ("Betriebssystem", "Datenbank"), while for many others, I'm not aware of any German equivalent in common usage ("event sourcing", "operations", "pull/merge request", "branch", ...).

Sometimes, in university courses I've seen German names for things I had only ever heard the English term of. I suspect almost nobody in the industry actually uses these German terms.

So, not everything is in German. I guess it's probably mostly the stuff that's been around a long time that has acquired a German name, but newer tech is typically referred to by English terminology.

I also agree with my sibling commentor that dismissing a culture because they don't exclusively use English terminology is silly. The German language certainly didn't stop Niklaus Wirth (who was from Switzerland and spoke German) from winning the Turing Award.
If I buy an ebook, can I give it "used" to a library? I would like to, but I don't even know if that's a thing.

(Let's assume for the sake of the question that the book I buy is also DRM free.)
I read about it few years ago in Matthew Walker's book "Why we sleep".
Pretty sure Apple use Skyhook - or at least they used to for geolocation
Yeah, I only support brutalising neighbours if its done nice and clean: by an army of attractive well-paid lawyers gaslighting everyone involved.
This robot is amazing and saves lives. But why does the site need to look like they are selling an Apple consumer device?
Try ollama webui(now open-webui). Sry on my phone now => no links
Because e-books are digital, publishers will use the the technology for increased telemetry, control, and ultimately to extract more resources. Much like music or movies, there's not inherent reason why e-books would need to work this way, but the publishers can't help themselves. For the average consumer, the solution seems obvious. Pay for physical books, and pirate e-books.
There are small windmills available for purchase. For a while campers and sailing yachts would use them. But they seem to go out of fashion. The problem is: the efficiency goes up with the size also, there is more wind the higher you go. On top of all of that, windmills are quite noisy. You really cannot use them in residential areas. Solar cells are much easier these days and also cheaper.
Fair point. I don't have a mathematical grounding, but found it a thought-provoking and accessible intro. But different people will find different approaches compelling.
The US is the only country that insists on using systems of units that nobody else is using and that hasn't stopped it from becoming an economical juggernaut.

> That's just my opinion based on personal experience, which can't be right or wrong

I think yours is actually a (theoretically) falsifiable theory about cause and effect, so it can be right or wrong.
Yep, they don't. If the prompt hadn't contain a sentence that essentially gives away the missing word, they'd have almost certainly given some nonsense answer.
Outliers in Distributions
you can add modules by using the terminal
"that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them" - Not Mark Twain

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/12/03/misinformed/?amp=1
Motivation goes down a lot when you might fear for your life.
> Until someone overwrites or deletes the Docker base image (regularly happens)

Any source of that claim?

> or when you depend on some packages installed through apt - as you'll get the latest version (impossible to pin those).

Well... please re-read my previous comment - we do Java thing so we use any JDK base image and then we slap our distribution on top of it (which are mostly fixed-version jars).

Of course if you are after perfection and require additional packages then you can install it via dpgk or somesuch but... do you really need that? What about security implications?
When I get to the point of modification, I will go with Python. This is where the AI ecosystem is largely at

I stopped using C++ when Go came out, no interest in ever having to write it again.
Code reviews in the short term [0].

Test reviews in the long term (E2E type). Effectively checking the correctness of the system as a whole to fulfill some business process. Exploratory testing as well to find edge cases and gaps.

[0] I write a bit about this here: https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2023/07/interviews-age-of-ai-ditch... and here https://coderev.app/
Yes : https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/sqlite
Axed! :)
Vampire squirrel lurks deep in the jungles of Borneo
Monomorphization.

For every generic function f, rustc will generate as many instances as there are type instances (shape instances? Does the Compiler distinguish between different kinds of references that all get compiled to pointers?).

This feature has a cost. Compare to OCaml's uniform object representation that enables comparatively blazing compilation performance but pays a prize in performance and weird FFI restrictions (integers with a tag bit).

Btw. It's misleading to say "it's the backend" when the frontend is responsible for creating so much work for it.
I’d expect that it’s probably not the ion movement but the global electric field, maybe even mechanical effects in the axons.

If you look at the Goldstein-Katz equations you see that the conductivities play an as important role as the concentrations.

Most of the voltage change is driven by changes in conductivities and not concentration changes, the ion movements across the membrane should be negligible.

Off course you have the free ions outside the cells than diffuse in a field gradient.
Dumb question. Could one instead go with some sort of inflatable system? Thin layer of plastic with some controllable channels. Inflate the individual dots? There was an early smartphone that had a system like this for tactile feedback, I don’t know if it ever went into production.
Only £12k! https://www.visionaid.co.uk/dot-pad