skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit tangential, I understand that Google is not well-received, and rightly so in some regards. However, has anyone been using something like this with Google: "<search-terms> site:blogpost.com OR site:github.io OR site:wordpress.com OR site:medium.com OR site:substack.com"?

And occasionally throwing in reddit.com and news.ycombinator.com as well. Google seems to be slightly biased towards github.io and medium.com, but I've quite recently found that it is a great way to browse the web.

The above search command is similar to what these niche search engines are doing but gets much more diverse results. Sure, it is likely to miss certain niche blogs. However, this is where adding site:news.ycombinator.com comes to the rescue - good niche blog posts are highly likely to eventually appear here.

It is far from a panacea, but I have found the experience to be quite decent. I have this command lying around in my shell and notes, so I just copy-paste it and add on to it.
The Decade of the Second China Shock
I couldn't disagree more, and this feels very tired.

Antitrust does not mean literal monopoly, and 57-70% share is certainly big enough to exert anti-competitive pressures, which are detailed in the antitrust suit. It's also not like the government is trying to break Apple into multiple companies, like Standard Oil.

Moreover, the author himself then goes on to detail for most of an article some of the ways that Apple doesn't play nicely with others (of which there are many many others) and how their own reasoning for why they need to be this way doesn't hold up (all those fake Sora apps), but then comes to the conclusion that it's not bad enough for him (who happens to be inside the Apple ecosystem). The author does not address people who are pressured to be in the Apple ecosystem (see teens & the green bubble), but just says they didn't feel any pressure.

He doesn't even seem against the EU restrictions, but he still, without listing any concrete repercussions, doesn't want the government to make choices for Apple.

Overall, it was a pretty unhelpful article to me, with a kinda odd stance of yes they do bad stuff but I like my iPhone so the government shouldn't try to make them play nicely.
This is a very natural technique in concatenative languages.
Thanks for looking into it!

It turns out that 3.37.0 is the version that added the `table_list` pragma. I've added that requirement to the README.
You made a point about devs underappreciating the work of other professionals, like CEOs and designers. You made this point in the context of Emad and the success story that is Stable Diffusion. The implication in your point is that Emad surely contributed to the success, even though the CEO is not a developer or researcher. My counter to your point is that Emad wasn't there when the inventions were made. He joined the party after success was already evident. Emad's main contribution to the success of Stable Diffusion is that he funded the training of a large model. That's great, but this thing would've happened with or without him. The inventions were made before he funded the training of SD1.4.

If Emad had been supporting the research team from the beginning, one might argue that he created the conditions for their success, or whatever. But he wasn't there at that time.

None of this is related to whatever Emad is accused of. I'm just making a point about how we attribute contribution for success.
OpenDevin – open-source implementation of devin
Thanks for that blog post! I have been meaning to tip my toes into nix for a while now, this might actually push me to it. How long have you been using nix for? How do you like it?
> Instead we need some way to tell a new joke each time.

Simple. After presenting the caller with a joke, ask the caller to tell a joke of their own — without the punchline, press # when done. Record joke. Then tell caller to tell the punchline, press # when done. Record punchline.

No one would possibly abuse that, right?
Gather what properties you can dissect, sort the props of the search results by how many share them, display the most frequent x with a more button.
I'm amused by your incredulity at how Trump could become president while simultaneously rationoalizing Modi being PM. The gullibility you so freely ascribed to the US Midwest and South... Is that not the same as those of the bhakts ? Like Trump, isn't Modi too not a self-aggradizIng, opportunistic felon ?

I mean for all its faults the US did not give Donald Trump a second term and that's all that I have to say about this matter.
internet archive links
Yes, I do. Don't assume you know what I want!

I want not just the US Government to win its antitrust suit, but I want it to bring many more (against not just Apple).

> On the other hand, I don't believe companies should be forced to make their products work with competitors' products

To me, this is the crux of the issue. They shouldn't get to be competitors. No one company should be able to have such a large market share in so many different spaces. This is so obviously bad for consumers, as well as for smaller companies that might want to enter any of these spaces.

> Everything worked fine and I never felt that, for instance, my iPhone was trying to nudge me to switch to a Mac, or that my Apple Watch harbored secret disdain for the Windows platform.

I'm glad things have worked well for you, but this clearly is not the case in general. For example, I'd be happy to subscribe to Apple TV+, but they are not interested in me as I don't have any of their hardware to stream on.
Zero-Knowledge Doom: When the Doom Music Kicks In
Same reason why most really neat things aren't. The people who are good at crafting neat things are bad at creating hype for it. Meanwhile, the bullshit bingo bros come up with convoluted, marketable stuff and manage to generate hype.
Seems like it might still be worth trying to recording tool-assisted run for.
I remember getting the albums out of the sleeves, then the paper inner sleeve. Then spraying shooting my discwasher with an anti-static gun. I think there was a special deionized water you could drip on it too. Then you would clean around the disk and put it on the turntable. I had an automatic turntable, I wasn't into dropping the needle on the disk by hand.
Our protagonist hails from deeply Mormon Provo, Utah, home to BYU, a slew of tech startups, and 0.8% people who identify as Black, and they've trying to spin up their business in a wrecked, deindustrialized shell of a Southern town that's over 75% Black and they know exactly nobody. Even with the best of intentions they're going to get major culture shock.
Does anybody knows about a tiling WM that allows customising the position of the first window you open? I have an ultra wide display, and I want the first window I open to be roughly 1/3 in screen width and placed in the centre. From memory of playing with i3/sway, it would allow different layouts but the 1st screen would always be full screen and I would have to do something like choose "thirds layout" and "open terminal, open app I want, open terminal".
I'm always excited by the idea of rendering jsx from Python in the same process. Mostly as a bridge between eg. an existing Django app and full SPA React land. You'd swap out the scrappy Django string templating with jsx, then once a page passes some frontend interaction complexity threshold shift it over entirely (with shared components between both). Could this project help achieve this or are imports/build processes etc too much of an impediment?
Sure. My point is that this is still a UX change, it’s just positive for you.

What if there was a UX overhaul (again, possible just now for unrelated reasons) with a minor learning curve that would let you do things you already do, only quicker?

I’m basically presenting adapting to a new UI as adapting to the faster page load.

And vice versa, we could find people unhappy about the improved page load speeds; perhaps some plugin manufacturer now needs to do some extra work on their product because pages load faster than they expected.
But isn’t a “cell” composed of infinitely many cells on infinitely many levels? So changing a “cell” should change all cells on all lower levels, not just the visible level.
It has been obvious for some time now, that Microsoft uses security merely as a means to enhance profit. See all the security improvements that an organization gets, when upgrading from E3 to E5.

Trustworthy computing has not been the guiding principle for Microsoft for years.
How even do you reclaim Pine Bluff? it's obviously overrun with thieves and the local police are qualitatively useless. It's almost like the national guard needs to be sent in.
I have some SACDs but can't actually play them, even though my dac can do the audio. Is there some way to put the tracks on a computer?
I have to admit, the climate here looks pretty amazing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arica#Climate - it's pleasant all the time and it never rains.
I use a PIV Badge as a FAA contractor. We're told to never use the PIV badge as a means of identification anywhere. The documentation doubles down by mentioning to never use it as an ID at an airport. I've been told it is because FAA employees would use it and the airline workers would then freak out that the employee was there to inspect them.
Thank you!

Exposure comes from enthusiasts like you.

I did not want to focus the point on speed, or say, "Look, others are bad". They are great; my point was, "Look what we can do if we update our design and code". Pack value comes from user experience, and speed is being one. I was not following the best speed or compression; I wanted an instantaneous feeling for most files. I wanted a better API, an easier CLI, improved OS integration (soon), and more safety and reliability. Tech people (including me) care so much about speed

I am happy about the results, but Pack offers much more that I like others to see.
There are only a few countries that can deal with their nuclear trash in a semipermanent solution and those never had much and are relativ save from problems that could happen.
“The process was eased, in part, by the ability of macOS, iPadOS, and iOS to work seamlessly with third-party systems like Microsoft Word, OneDrive, Google Drive, Google Docs, Gmail, and Chrome. To me, this is the best of both worlds, and not a single worldview that tries to force me to see things the Apple way.“

The author is a great FOSS and open-software advocate I see.

Seriously, reading this kind of press article makes me tired, I go to bed. What a way to end the day…
Likely means the app doesn't work because Telegram is being blocked at the network level. Similar to how many telcos offer "free" Whatsapp on their plans, they can filter the traffic.
>> You can also easily only pay for the exact media that you want at the exact time you want.

Great where is the three body problem available for its fair market value.

Wait it isnt, it's locked behind a monthly subscription.

How about the bear... nope locked up in another service.

I would happily pay fair value for these items. Marking them up like its blockbuster new release shelf circa 2000 or in 15 different pay per view services is ... dumb.

This is why folks stole cable and got cracked boxes. This is why piracy ran rampant in music for so long. Video has yet to catch up and its leading to a new round of piracy...

The DOJ went after apple but we cant reflect on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....
> I’ve looked up minimal wages in Arkansas. It’s $11/h, which seems ridiculously high, but I’m not an American. I think that in a depressed town, it shouldn’t be hard to find someone for, say, $35 per 12-hour night shift

This makes sense. The legal minimum wage is $11/hr, which multiplied by 12 hours comes out to thirty five dollars
In their defense, the tectonic plates will have moved a __lot__ before you can expect to get any response from Google support.
> Seven years before that, in 2002, Bill Gates ...

And just four years before that, Bill was being recalcitrant in front of the US government, with utterances like:

'I don’t know what you mean “concerned.”'

It's possible that the whole organisation had a resilient change of attitude in 2002, but as sibling comment by Andrex
observes, there's no evidence to suggest this.

For example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702095 'Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted' from 2023-09
VCs learning nothing or cynically continuing to try and cash in on this scam isn't exactly an airtight argument, even if my original statement was wrong. FTX also raised a ton of money.
Someone posted his twitter above and on it he claims to have been running for mayor as a libertarian
Why "Freakonomics" failed to transform economics
Google Sheets is a toy. When I've tried to do complex analysis on large data sets it just completely chokes and hangs part way through recalculating. Excel is far faster and more robust.

Google Sheets is also just missing some more advanced data analysis and charting features. Casual users might never notice but power users consider it unacceptable.
I tried JellyFin but I cannot get Dolby Digital sound to play to my Denon receiver. Plex handles this fine on the same speaker setup and configuration and film. The last time I tried this was maybe 2 months ago.

Is this something you are able to work around?
https://archive.md/2024.03.22-114851/https://www.economist.c...
That's possible with Niri, with its center-focused-column and default-column-width settings. It's not a traditional tiling WM, though
There already is malware focusing on unsecured docker daemon's hoisted onto a tcp port [1]

[1]: https://sysdig.com/blog/zoom-into-kinsing-kdevtmpfsi/
There's no shortage of studies that all conclude the same thing, there is no evidence that dental cleanings have any benefit. You can do a Google search for yourself.

I'm not here to tell you personally what you should or shouldn't do. By all means keep doing dental cleanings, continue seeing your chiropractor, routinely checkup with your naturopath or guru, or whoever else you want to pay money to for whatever reason you want.

I'm just pointing out the objective fact that there is no evidence that doing so will provides any observable health benefit. It might benefit you psychologically, it might encourage you to take better care of your teeth if you see your dentist regularly, who knows... but as far as the science goes, well there just is nothing to substantiate dental cleaning.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230768070_Is_the_Ev...

https://www.cadth.ca/sites/default/files/pdf/htis/oct-2013/R...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554695/

https://www.cochrane.org/news/routine-dental-care-does-evide...
Yeah there are tools to view the layout of unbeaten levels. They also reconstruct bits of levels for practice
Graph Algorithms for Data Science: With Examples in Neo4j
there are products that do this out of the box fairly well. code spaces is an example with a single node but there are others - all of which are slightly different
I am not contradicting myself. Laws that breaks up companies that are too large is totally different than complex approval/regulatory commissions where internal lobbying and various other advantages give you the keys to the castle

The only regulatory capture in play against antitrust is bribery of the judicial system officials, which we now know is rampant, and employing executive and congressional pressure on the DoJ, which obviously exists.
For me Hyprland offers the ability to share a specific window or region whereas Sway could only do the entire monitor. As I have an ultra widescreen monitor sharing a specific window or region is pretty important to me but I can see why others may have other priorities. I do still prefer the tiling layout of Sway over Hyprland though so probably would jump back if Sway/wlroots improve their screensharing support.
So, potentially how humans turn language into a rendered version of reality? :)
I mean tasvideos.org goes back to 2003: https://tasvideos.org/SiteHistory#2003
Nvidia's Breakthrough AI Chip Defies Physics [video]
I seriously can’t tell who is the more math deficient here. Can someone add a /s somewhere so I’m less confused?
I do something like that on a 49 inch 32:9 ultra wide with hyprland.i don't have my config handy but basically you want to use the master layout and set orientation to center. You can also play around with new_is_master and always_center_master based on your preferences.

https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Master-Layout/
The Eider Keepers
Every time an article like this comes out that says that there is a STEM shortage the cynic in me thinks the goal of the article is to lower engineer salaries and shift the bargaining power to employers.

See also: https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth-2650...
It is doing business with a corporation, but it's not not doing business with peers at all.

Also, if you have any common sense you have to do business with the corp anyway to do your withdrawal.

I can see how it would be annoying when a lumberjack in British Columbia wants to sell his truck for a mattress full of dollars, but in the real world the money was already in a bank, so not doing business with that bank wasn't an option anyway.
> PG&E is a disaster.

It's fascinating to me how santa clara and palo alto are within a few miles and both have reasonable electric utilities with acceptable rates.
Well we have no way of knowing that they haven't been hacked. Foreign intelligence services have almost certainly tried to insert or recruit assets in all prominent tech companies. It's possible they succeeded with Google (or Microsoft) but haven't been detected yet.
The CG animation at the beginning to get an idea of the scale of the system is well worth it.
How much does eleven dollars even mean? That’s gotta be what, three dollars max right?
I'm fairly sure the Wii U was already hacked by 2017, so he could've just played the inputs back on the console itself. Either that or just hack the game into thinking he cleared it when he didn't.
The usual way to this would be to have the power company charge what they need to, then provide a subsidy to low income consumers to help offset the cost.

It is super weird to make the power company responsible for administering social policy.
Wireless network modeling with Matlab [video]
Renewables don't scale and don't have the energy density to satisfy the demand that would require replacing fossil fuels. It's not even close. We don't know when that new battery tech will be ready, it could easily be another decade or more... so the real question is do we want to risk climate change more and more, or should we use nuclear to replace fossil fuels immediately while the renewable tech matures.
This was exactly my thought. We've all seen videos of giant ships caught in storms with green water splashing over the bow and are amazed they're able to stay afloat. Just from a glance at these sails, it looks like it would capsize the ship under in minutes in a decent storm. I would think either they fold down or they have to plan their routes very carefully to avoid bad weather.
Agreed I also use sway since a few years and i3 before. The switch from i3 to sway was painless, and I really felt the benefits of wayland.

But a few months ago I also replicated my sway config to hyprland, as I heard many good things about it, and it seemed like it was the new "cool kid".

But I also didn't notice any benefit.

On the contrary, I've had more problems with it, frequent crashes, flickering windows. And It misses a way to move a whole workspace to another monitor. Nonetheless I used it for ~1 month, and then switched back to sway.

Switching back to sway really felt like an improvement.

Even if they'd fix all the issues I had, I still can't see what hyprland has to offer for me, that sway can not.
(Except the animations, which I immediately turned off)
> The public library system is quite possibly the best thing this country has ever invented.

If you are writing from Egypt I think you have a strong case
thats really interesting, so cool how people seem to always add interesting features to the game of life
I play videos on LibreElec using the Jellyfin plug-in and everything seems to work fine. The audio signal goes to the TV via HDMI, then from TV to the sound system via optical cable. Are you connecting directly from the player to the sound system?
Ehh... you can't use an NVIDIA card without someone cracking the problem for you. Having started using Linux in the late 90's, you couldn't run linux on most systems without someone cracking the problem for you. I certainly can't run FreeBSD on most laptops, regardless of vendor because no one has cracked the problem for me. This is the nature of open source OS's. You absolutely can run Linux on it, because Apple worked with the Asahi linux team to make it possible.

You think Microsoft had any plans to support Linux on a Surface Pro? You think IBM ever planned to support linux on Thinkpads before users did it on their own? This isn't the example of anticompetitive behaviour that you think it is.
Something like for 3 years. Absolutely fascinated by it. Writing a book about it too: https://drakerossman.com/blog/practical-nixos-the-book

Also check the "nix" tag at blog.
Profit motive isn't a bad thing. If customers are willing to pay more for better security then of course Microsoft (and other vendors) will focus on that and make it a selling point.
I love Radiohead, but I really couldn't tell the difference either.
> I'm not sure I understand your point.

I guess my point is that though we know how to make a few humans survive in space (with constant support from the Earth) and we may know how to make a few humans survive on Mars without constant support from the Earth, I am not at all convinced that we know how to make millions of people survive on Mars.

Take point 6 for instance: power. One of the biggest problems we currently have on Earth is that we don't know how to replace fossil fuels, and fossil fuels are not unlimited. It's currently unsolved, and it will impact our lives heavily in the next few decades.

> We are not "destroying the conditions necessary for our survival on Earth."

We are, most definitely. Where the air humidity is saturated (so take a strip around the Equator), if the air temperature goes higher than the skin temperature, we can't regulate our own temperature anymore (by sweating). So we can't live outside without life support.

If we reach an average increase of 4 degrees, then 1/3 of the world population will be located in places where humans cannot survive outside without life support. And right now we are most definitely going for those 4 degrees.

Now you may not care because you don't live around the Equator, but... imagine a world where 1/3 of the population must relocate in order to... regulate their body temperature properly. And I am not even talking about the impact on agriculture in the rest of the world where you can still regulate your body temperature (because at some point you need to eat). In such a world, if you are lucky enough to be in a livable location in terms of temperature, you may just not have food. Definitely global instability and wars.

Not everyone will die, but you have to realize that everybody will be affected greatly.
Where is the hyperbole in the article?
Nope, it's still available as a one-time purchase.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/up...
It’s just further proof that people commenting on HN confidently about crypto, do not have any idea what is happening in crypto. This website is not plugged in and you won’t pick up any information about it here.
A Resource for Working with Geospatial Data in Neo4j
Google used to do keyword based search only; now, it’s a hybrid of keywords and semantics, and they seem to be upweighting the latter more and more. This can be good if you don’t care about precision (“pasta recipes” -> “penne alla vodka”), but frustrating if you know exactly what you are wanting to match.
The Invention of Writing on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)