skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really a complaint - but I am surprised to see this on the front page of HN. This is an enormously popular project that's been around for over a decade that basically anyone who writes Python regularly is aware of.

Only marginally less surprising than seeing a link directly to python.org.
I don't condemn it. I condemn the implementation that doesn't render it with the latest widgets and, instead, implements the same widgets that have been abandoned ages ago.

At any given time, there should be one code path to render an abstract UI definition to a screen. It might depend on screen capabilities or running environment or size, but it should be one, so you don't need to maintain and ship ancient unmaintained software.
This is the correct formulation.

I also have a blog post coming out tomorrow with a bit of justification for this.
Nice idea - although I hate having to start from scratch and having to "train" the system to know my level and vocabulary. I think it's a bummer that it's not common to be be able to exchange vocabulary lists between apps.
I don’t understand why more people aren’t boycotting Twitter at this point.
> hedge fund guy’s opinion? They are the ultimate bean counters

Finance and accounting are totally different professions, especially when it comes to the dispositions of the people at the top.
If you want to go full Haskell on the problem for purity-related reasons, by all means be my guest. I strongly approve.

However, unless you're in such a language, warping my entire architecture around that objection does not provide a good cost-benefit tradeoff. I've got a lot of fish to fry and a lot of them are bigger than this in practice. Heck, there's still plenty of programmers who will consider it as unambiguous feature that they can add IO to anything they want or need to and consider it a huge negative when they can't, and a lot of programmers who don't practice an IO isolation and don't even conceive of "this function is guaranteed to not do any IO/be impure" as a property a function can have.
I think it's really sad they replaced the disk defragmenter UI. It was nice to look at the blocks being moved around. Worth keeping a spinning metal hard disk just for that.
The article mistakenly refers to Sagrada Familia as the cathedral of Barcelona. It's not. It's a minor basilica, not a cathedral.
Cookie prompts is the best example of bad faith compliance. Please inform yourself and don't spread this narritive further.
I was referring specifically to using the text messaging system, not the Internet.

You still cannot send livephotos via Whatsapp/Telegram. They convert to still photos. So you still lose something there.
I live here in Barcelona, it's a sight to behold :) It's minor basilica, not a cathedral though,
Proper functioning of a healthy market is hardly the worst. These giants would sell people if they could get away with it and make money doing it. The people behind them would not think twice before damaging the society if there were few bucks in it for them to hoard.

It's making me sad that this world is full of so many people and massive states/corps and only the EU tries to navigate the new challenges of integrating technology in our lives responsibly. It feels like the world is full with idiots, cry babies, and evil geniuses and just the EU which is such a small fraction of the world acting like a grown up.

I mean, many people would agree that the US is the face of the western world. How come such a massive group of people act so irresponsibly making the same mistakes over and over again, causing a significant amount of suffering, and then saying the east is evil. The EU is the only body that advocates socialism and democracy while the US doesn't live to its standard, which is a shame really. In these challenging times the west needs strong leaders, not the horrifying shit show there is now.
An engineering background doesn't protect from the incentive to squeeeeeeze -- the best you can hope for is that it calibrates the C-suite instincts for having squeezed too far to a level more sensitive than "doors are literally falling off." But that's just hope, and hope vs incentives is a game that, well, has a favored player.
Iterators blew the writer's mind... Most languages have iterators, come on... Java, C#, Python, C++, only to name a few
Apparently I don't understand. If the code isn't poor, why throw it away for a new even more complex system? I don't know how code isn't poor, yet is indecipherable.

Regardless, the method works even in a complex environment.
You could easily make the box expandable with a home rolled browser extension by changing the input field’s properties. You could even ask Claude to write it for you.
Well, considering the company's been bought by a Chinese consortium and this happened, https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-19-opera-accused-of-predato... , I'm not sure this is such a great news.

One of the original Opera co-founders is now founder and CEO of the browser-maker Vivaldi
Yes and no. They try to integrate more system thinking in order to justify larger risks. He explains it very well with the factors that the hedge fund guy considers that the accountant does not.

Not that I’m a huge fan of hedge funds but I believe the OP’s point is very valid.
It's cool that this is available via a JSON endpoint.

https://instances.vantage.sh is another one that has some really nice filtering, makes it easy to find a deal.
I am in Lithuania (EU) and when I had solar panels installed on my house, I got them installed and manufactured by a local company - whose factory is less than 10 miles from my house. I got quotes from a few companies, and this was was more expensive, but it was only around €1000 (10%) more than the cheapest company which offered Chinese panels. I figured if I need to make a warranty claim in 20 years time, this company is likely to still be around, plus I'm supporting the local economy.

Its not just assembly of panels, the solar cells are also made in Lithuania (this company started out creating optical parts). Last year they branched out and launched their own line of residential batteries (not sure if the cells are made in-house) and they announced plans to build a new PV factory in Italy.

Admitidely our labour is a bit cheaper than Germany, but it's not much, and the cost of doing business here in general is higher. If it can be done here, I don't see why it can't be done in Germany.

https://www.solitek.eu/en
The US has also lost its lead in manufacturing during the same time period.
Continuing this "I saw a Starlink train" train, I was in Yosemite doing a stargazing tour (i.e. with a guide using a powerful handheld laser to point out individual stars), and we saw the clean line of "stars" making its way across the sky.

A quick search confirmed for us that it was from a recent Starlink launch, and not aliens.
Japanese programs aren't globalized and already rely on the system being fine tuned for Japanese, so default font is already correct.
Money is the usual way.

But in your case, you can make someone an equal partner.

Working with you versus working for you might be an important difference for people in your existing network.

That's important because based on the lack of interest from people you know, the idea of working for you doesn't seem to hold much appeal.

Is your job to make yourself rich?

Or is it to make everyone rich?

All the work is ahead. Pick someone you want to make rich. If your network still balks, you've learned something important about how you've treated people. If someone jumps, you've also learned something important...in addition to what you have already learned.

And again, all the work is ahead. What you have done is sunk cost. You need another person to get the work ahead done. The best person has the same motivation as you.

Besides if you go unicorn, you will probably get rich enough slicing the money pie one more time.

Finally, your ability to identify smart is probably fallible. If you think most other people are stupid it surely is. Good luck.
> are all equally incapable of creating a >32GiB file system. Why? Who knows,

Win95osr2 could format FAT32 volumes up to at least 128GiB IIRC, the 32GiB came when the filesystem was officially added to the NT line in Windows 2000⁰.

Part of the reason, I always assumed, was to push people to use NTFS where they otherwise wouldn't, which gave MS a bit of lock-in because NTFS wasn't particularly stable on Linux at the time. ExFat as a compromise didn't exist until a fair while later either.

> If you use, say, mkdosfs on Linux, the VFAT driver in Windows 2000+ will take volumes up to 2TiB

2TiB is only the limit if you stick to 512 byte blocks, the filesystem supports up to 4096 byte blocks giving 16TiB. Some filesystem tools didn't like this, and the larger cluster sizes could be very wasteful of space for small files³, so it was often avoided. I don't know if the Linux tools supported this from the start, but they certainly did eventually.

--

[0] there was at least one common 3rd a party driver, from sysinternals to support it on NT4

[1] for safety the most common methods for using NTFS under Linux defaulted to read-only, then and for some time after

[2] sometimes to the extent of causing corruption rather than just refusing to work

[3] the main reason to use FAT32 over FAT16 at the time⁴ being that above 32MiB the cluster size needed to increase about the minimum 512B, up to 32KiB for 2GiB filesystems⁵ meaning an average of 16KiB wasted per file.

[4] later the 2GiB limit⁵ was more significant as drive sizes grew

[5] 4GiB was possible with 64KiB blocks though while officially supported by the format this was not supported by all tools
There is a point a quantitative change becomes qualitative. Shaving 10 hours off a 20 hour flight makes it much more palatable. Shaving 19 hours (suborbital? hypersonic?) makes it a no-brainer.
Apparently Claude-3 Opus can do reversal tasks pretty well, even without a code interpreter (or does it use one internally?).

https://twitter.com/AlexTamkin/status/1767248600919355670
What if higher energy prices in Germany lead to increased outsourcing to countries with fewer environmental regulations, causing a net negative environmental impact?
When EU was faced with insurmountable competition in the global food market they set up common agricultural policy and straight up fueled their agriculture with tax money since then making EU number one global exporter of food and beverages.

I wonder what obstacles there are for doing the exactly same in another key sector that is manufacturing means of energy production.

And chip manufacturing in the future probably.

If the obstacle to competitiveness is the high cost of labor due to European people being so rich it's only fair to alleviate the problem by using the tax money. It already worked for agriculture.
The actual cathedral of Barcelona is "The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia", which yeah, is not Sagrada Familia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Cathedral
My goodness what a cavalcade of tedious gossip. I had no idea who this
"famous" Andrew Huberman chap is. Sure, neuroscience is interesting
but pop professors seem ten a penny these days. Reading a mini PhD
thesis on what felt a far too intimate a deconstruction of someone's
personal life was uncomfortable. I thought this "journalism" died with
Hello Magazine.
My first thought: quality above quantity. Meaning I do not mind waiting a few minutes for a really good name.
It's amazing if you haven't gone, especially when sunlight streams in through the windows.

I saw a quote while I was there that was something along the lines of, "Gaudí is not an artist with whom posthumous collaboration is possible." A couple minutes walking around the church is all that's needed to confirm that notion.
I'm not who you're replying to, but I'm a bit torn on your response. I started by understanding your self-described vendetta, but then I read the link you posted.

The link describes the judgement against the company he was CTO of at the time.
So, he's been through the justice system for this, and has been reprimanded satisfactorily. He's paid the fines and made the promises and does not appear to have reoffended.

I don't think there's anything else for him to do in order to atone for this.

So, why are you still mad? What would it take for you to let go of this vendetta that you say you have?

I don't care either way, I'm not involved. I'm just curious why people will forgive some for just about anything but hold negative attitudes toward others for their entire lives, no matter what they do.
I'd say that it's realistically not possible for any amount of cost or complexity of compliance to make them leave the EU market.

Apple has a vested interest in being able to offer their services worldwide. If one part of the world is not included, companies in that part will have a much easier time to develop and grow their own alternatives. If these alternatives gain enough traction in that part they might then be able to threaten Apples services globally.

Therefore I'd assume that even if they will only break even (or operate at a manageable loss) they would still stay in the EU.
This isn't a complete answer, but HN's next "Who's Hiring?" post is in about a week. That might be a good starting point.

Although if you're dealing with out-of-network candidates, you probably have the daunting issue of effective screening.
The info you're missing is: game dev companies already get bought.

The question you should answer is: how much would an unsubsidised console cost?
It really makes no sense to look at per capita figures this way. I am driving an electric car in Germany now and I built a new home with better insulation and I have LED lights. My per capita figures went way down, I am also taking my cargo bike in the city everywhere, so my per capita figures went down again.

There's a very relevant question about the viability of energy intensive industries in Germany, but even that is dependent on energy source. A lot of industries are switching to electric heating that will also lead to lower per capita energy use.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-intensity?tab=char...
Just like old car manufacturers, there is just nothing interesting that company like Boeing can produce anymore.

I wonder if the amount of regulations are preventing something like Tesla to appear among plane manufacturers.
Would be great to see a similar project for a Yubikey, perhaps exposing the tiny metal surface next to a usable USB port. I don't like always having my Yubikey (nano) sticking out of a port, I'm always paranoid about it being knocked off and breaking in the socket.
GP didn’t imply that an engineering background guarantees success, just that the lack of an engineering background is detrimental to success (which one could argue against, but you didn’t).
there is https://ec2instances.info which has bit more filtering etc features available.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I’ve never found myself in a situation where venv did not do exactly what I needed it to do.
I'm curious what "minor" means exactly in this context?

I've seen the Sagrada familia, and it ain't small!
The Basis of Classical Liberalism
Yesterday 2 gang members in El Salvador murdered 2 of their citizens. After catching them, the president called an army of 5000 troops to eradicate what remained of gangs in the area.

Swift, strong justice is the inly way to deal with murderous gangs.

Quickly going from one of the most dangerous to one of the safest countries in the world, El Salvador is an example to the world of how to fix these problems.

It's proven.

Instead, in the US, we now routinely let criminals roam free and many of our cities are now quite dangerous, plus barely any police left to protect citizens.

No one needs "reasonable suspicion" for thug-looking people with MS-13 tattoes, except perhaps those who insult others and lack minimal critical thinking.
I prefer https://satellitemap.space/

You can see the base station locations there, which is helpful in visualizing how the system works in various locales.
Treating an animal well sometimes does not mean that the animal was treated well. It's nice that the cows you're talking about are given lots of access to pastures, but that doesn't mean that anything else can be done to the animal without it qualifying as disrespectful or unkind.

I can't think of another situation in which one could choose to kill an animal for pleasure at 10% it's lifespan, and think that this was kind or respectful. Can you?
To me, solar panels are very simplified stuffs compared to say cars, machinery etc. At its core, solar panels are Billions-and-Billions of repetitive patterns of very few basic ingredients. So, whoever is good at scaling the manufacturing will win. Even if the scaled-out panel has efficiency few % lower than state of art.
Interesting. Perhaps different tellings of the same story? This appears to be the story I read from the book Nothing to Envy:

> A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?
Find the maintainer of the main open source tooling you use. Look at thier repositories and see if there's anyone in thier network. Saved us tons of money hiring a core contributor
At what age would it be too late to try this? Asking for a friend...
Humans never had tails, just ask charlie brown.
I see what you mean.

I think there is less confusion about this kind of thing with Clojure, where a preference for immutable persistent data structures is strongly stated in the language design. So the persistent nature of lists and other data structures is fore grounded, and there is no confusion over why the equivalent of "del x[0]" is not supported.
Recently a mysterious suicide of a Boeing whistleblower occured: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703
I am not a lover of dogs, which some people seem to find offensive? Yet, people who are cruel to dogs are, generally, dog owners and not people like me who just give them a wide berth.

Anyone who thinks an animal enjoys being locked indoors all day with no understanding of why, or for how long it will be, is a much lesser person than me.
> I saw a quote while I was there that was something along the lines of, "Gaudí is not an artist with whom posthumous collaboration is possible." A couple minutes walking around the church is all that's needed to confirm that notion.

Maybe I misunderstand "posthumous collaboration", but the church is literally being built after Gaudi's demise by a bunch of other people, isn't that posthumous collaboration?
A mom's $97,000 question: How was an air-ambulance ride not medically necessary?
Companies expecting to reduce the number of new graduate hires by 2%
Organizational hierarchy of the Catholic Church: a building is a cathedral if and only if it is the seat of a bishop, no matter how grand or modest the building is. There can not be more than one cathedral in a diocese.

But colloquially, Sagrada Familia is what most people would consider a cathedral.
Adding position-aware search to SearchArray
It won't. Gaudí's plan was to build a big staircase in front of it creating a new public square next to the temple, replacing some apartment buildings currently being used. Gaudí's project won't be finished until then.

There's some pushback from the neighbors because finishing it all means bulldozing hundreds of apartments, although those apartments were bought at a discounted price decades ago because everyone knew they had an expiration date. And now that it's here, they want to keep their apartments even though they were told about the Sagrada Família from the start.

PS: Gaudí's name is Antoni, in Catalan. Not Antonio. He was a proud Catalan, he was arrested for talking in Catalan.
> "Go enums suck"

Enums suck, period. That's why many modern languages don't offer enums at all, providing sum types instead, which more accurately model what most people are trying to use enumerations for. It is an antiquated pattern that may have served a useful purpose in the early days of computing, but we've learned a thing or two about programming since then.

Well, at least you've come around to recognizing that Go does have enums, even if you needed someone else's words to say it. After all, Go enums can't suck if it doesn't have them. But, of course, Go purposefully tries to be antiquated. That's kind of its whole deal. Naturally it is going to have enums to really drive home the antiquatedness.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815408
How does this work under the hood? Does it wrap gpt-3.5-turbo? What are the numbers after each suggested name and where do they come from? Repeating identical inputs produce slightly different outputs, for what it's worth.

Its use case reminds me of the whimsical "Entendrepreneur" project featured at a NeurIPS 2018 workshop: https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/
I found other problems in the area when trying to do this e.g. a lot of landing pages have hidden content that only animates in when you scroll down, subscribe/cookie overlays/modals covering content, hero headers that takes the height of the viewport ("height: 100vh") so if you make the page height large for taking a screenshot the header will cover all of it, and also sticky headers get in the way if you want to try scrolling while take multi-screenshots that are combined at the end.

You can come up with workarounds for each, but it's still hacky and there's always going to be other pages that need special treatment.
Note, just saw big traffic spike and realized there's no way to give feedback in the tool (sad trombone).
This was my complaint as well. I have no idea what "tonight" and "tomorrow" mean in the context of those images. The creation times help me kind of understand but it'd have been way nicer if they'd have just said "The night of 03/25/2024" or something.
Categorizing Surface Energy
There are a number of material and technology advances [1] that accelerated the pace of the Sagrada Familia's construction — the techniques used to construct the basilica have evolved significantly since construction began.

https://www.archdaily.com/964178/from-handcrafted-stone-to-3...
That does not mean they produced less energy but a sign of much higher energy efficiency, speaks better processing and technology.

It’s the same for all advanced nations: UK, Japan, USA etc.
Functions make assumptions all the time and there is often no way to specify them except with type information. E. g. one can specify that a function takes a float as input but not that the float has to be in [0.0, 1.0]. Hard to catch with static code analysis.

Idea for implicit parameters:

Implicit parameters are values from somewhere up the call stack. So make an object with a get function:

Scope.get('Logger')

But then you can get anything. So add a mechanism to put things in there up the call stack:

logger = Logger()
Scope.put('Logger', logger)

That's a key-value store with scope levels.
EU investigates Apple, Meta and Google owner Alphabet under new tech law
> Why must a generaly good improvement these days always start on HN with "rewrite in rust" like it's the only language which still matters.

I'm guessing so that its likely to 1) be safer by default, 2) likely to get more contributors, 3) more likely to work cross-platform, and 4) more likely to get attention and survive as a project.
The founding fathers would think that allowing the government to have a database on ANYTHING is a bad idea.

Plus dog poop is ecologically good for the environment and fertilizes nature.