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I wrote a custom mod more than 15 years ago for SciTE that exposed its plugin API to Ruby and wrote some of my own plugins. It didn't support multiple cursors and I instantly switched to Sublime as soon as I discovered that feature, never looked back.
So great to see another project built on DataFusion @!
I tried it. The first week I shared your opinion. But then something flipped. I configured and learned hotkeys to hide the file/services/... pane and ended up with something I can only describe as 'calm'. Only 1 or 2 panes of code visible, and all functions hidden but available.

The main detractor is indeed the hamburger menu. Vscode had ctrl-p, emacs has alt-x, and both provide a way to search for some function to execude. I hope Jetbrains is hiding something similar in its innnards, but haven't found it yet. Ctrl ctrl isn't it, at least for me.

I went all-in on Jetbrains Ultimate last year without regrets. The thing is great and powerfull, but it is hard to find what you need in there, and hard to find out what is the purpose of some functionality. I've actually lost usefull functionality: Something usefull but I don't remember the name and can't find it in the menus. I should spend some time spellunking in there. Even so, I hope they find something better than the hamburger or the zillion hotkeys.
It's kinda sad that the state of art moved to China, Bao what? Give me a Kenwood or something
I agree in general, that if someone has a short amount of time, a small amount of money, and any kind of ability to memorize some rules, then getting a Tech license is a breeze! And if you're actually enjoying it, getting a General is not difficult, either.

In my humble opinion, the rules on antenna and transmit power for FRS are annoying - garbage range and prone to interference. I wouldn't want to risk pissing off the FCC or a ham with too much time on their hands by running hot on FRS constantly...

But for occasional backwoods travel with friends or to use in an emergency without clogging up ham frequencies, it's totally possible to reprogram certain Baofengs and these radios to transmit on FRS frequencies with low wattage. In fact, I think FRS was modified to allow higher power now, so the low-end of these radios fits. It's just the antenna reg that they break now.
In fact there were 3 massive Amazon fullfilment centres in Poland before Amazon.pl even launched lol. It's a weird(but very interesting) market with its own big players that neither Amazon nor ebay managed to compete against.
The Python package is really well engineered, and the startup that is making the OpenAPI client based on it, Stainless, is doing a good job.

This shows laypeople piling into a hype thing and running immediately into the roadblock of programming.

Normal people don't want to like, put in effort to feel like they are a part of something.

They are used to "just" having to turn on Netflix to feel like they are a part of the biggest TV show, or "just" having to click a button to buy a Stanley Cup, or "just" having to click a button to buy Bitcoin. The API and performance issues, IMO, they're not noise, but they are meaningless. To me this also signals how badly Grok and Stability are doing it, they are doubling and tripling down on popular opinions that have a strong, objective meaninglessness to them (like how fast the tokens come out and how much porn you're allowed to make). Whereas the Grok people are looking at this analysis and feeling very validated right now.

I have no dog in this race, but I would hope that the OpenAI people do not waste any time on Python APIs for dumb people; instead, they should definitely improve their store and have a firmer opinion on how that would look. They almost certainly have a developing opinion on a programming paradigm for chatbots, but I feel like they are hamstrung by needed to quantize their models to meet demand, not decisions about the look and feel of Python APIs or the crappiness of the Python packaging ecosystem. Another POV is that the Apple development experience persists to be notoriously crappy, and yet they are the most valuable platform for most companies in the world right now; and also, JetBrains could not sustain an audience for the AppCode IDE, because everyone uses middlewares anyway; so I really don't think Python APIs matter as much as the community says they do. It's a Nice to Have, but it Does Not Matter.
The number of troops was absolutely low. My read at the time was that 100,000 troops (the early build-up) was concerning but could easily be a bluff or a test. The naval movement was the tip off to me, with the blood reserves setting a very short clock on how soon it would start.

I really think the Russians believed they either were going to be welcomed by many Ukrainians, or that a blitz for Kiev would be a quick 3-7 day affair. The downed planes of paratroopers in the first day or two, plus the convoy of trucks that only brought a few days of diesel seem to line up with the second scenario.
Most people commuting to manhattan are not wealthy or middle class, judging by the makes and models and visual conditions of the cars that you see on the bridges entering Manhattan.
Sure, I also get value from social media, as a business. If I need to learn a topic in depth, I can very well look for it. Don' need to doomscroll.

Let's not kid ourselves. It requires a lot of discipline to only make the algorithm spit out useful content. It takes one slip, and all of a sudden your feed is polluted. I mean, you scroll just a bit slower on a useless post, and that is what it starts surfacing for you. Let's also not forget that it is impossible to set or reset your content preferences. You basically have to create a new account. HN does not have a content algorithm, is not engineered for attention. Most content requires reading an actual article and understanding a complex topic.

> Most of the kids will be fine. Most parents care about their kids more than you care about them.

Let's also refrain from personal attacks. You don't know whether my kids even have access to social media or if I spent the time to teach them how to use it for their own benefit.

> Future generations will be fine. It's you, me and the current generation that is doomed.

Sure, they're fine in that they will continue living and have their own definition of life.
> The new redesign isn't bad if you memorize keyboard shortcuts :-)

Contradictio in terminis
Mugging is more traumatic short term? In total, white collar wage-theft dwarfs property theft but you may not feel its effects immediately.
I’m used to “inline css” referring to using the style attribute - not the style tag. Interesting that it makes such a difference, this is the sort of optimization that modern build steps enable pretty easily.
Haha looks like there is some room for improvement in the gymnastic capabilities of our characters.
While you don't get action at a distance, you do get something like "correlation without causation". This ability does let you "cheat" at particular games of chance, which is spooky in its own right.

https://r6.ca/blog/20150816T185621Z.html
"There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
That's not really what socializing losses usually means. This isn't an FDIC bailout, for example.

I'm really looking for a response from GP, bodiekane.
EFF explanation on why this is a huge victory for EU citizens:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/making-law-accessible-...

The important bits:

> Earlier this month, the European Union Court of Justice ruled that harmonized standards are a part of EU law, and thus must be accessible to EU citizens and residents free of charge.

> In 2018, two nonprofits, Public.Resource.Org and Right to Know, made a request to the European Commission for access to four harmonized standards—that is, standards that apply across the European Union—pertaining to the safety of toys. The Commission refused to grant them access on the grounds that the standards were copyrighted.

> Last week, the EU Court of Justice overturned the General Court decision, holding that EU citizens and residents have an overriding interest in free access to the laws that govern them.
I use Notepad++ on Linux, ran the installer, works, it auto updates just like it did on Windows, WINE enables it to run just fine. I use it every day for small files like my TODO, Notes and Scrap files.
If you make a scammy-looking cryptoexchange and promise I will get rich if I invest, you won't be able to steal a single cent. Only dumb people can believe that you can buy cryptocurrency and get rich without doing nothing.
Have you ever heard of https://cudatext.github.io/. It's certainly faster than Kate.
Would you say the same thing about items donated to holocaust museums? (https://www.timesofisrael.com/researchers-find-nazi-photo-al...)

It is well known that the Nazis created items like lamps, books and other items from human remains. Should all of them be buried? Or should we keep them in museums to remember the crimes?

I can see the justification for both sides, but I personally would prefer for the items to be preserved.
The American courts should hit Maersk really really hard financially and get them to foot the bill for all losses of the bridge collapse. Shipping companies should not be driving vessels of these huge tonnages with such poor levels of redundancy and poor levels of manning.

It is insane for a 100,000 tonne vessel, that takes so long to stop due to its incredible inertia, that can find itself many thousands of miles from land, to rely on one engine, one gearbox, one shaft and one rudder; without sufficient secondary and tertiary back-up systems. Why was there no battery back-up, or motor on the shaft? Surely the bow thrusters should have a battery back-up to stop such a lurch to starboard.

How can all of the generation and all electrical busbars fail at once? Even if the fuel was bad, surely the generators should draw on separate fuel tanks. For such a large and relatively modern ship to suffer a total power failure is complete corporate incompetence.

If, as some allege, the refrigeration containers were causing problems, and total power outages occurring before sailing, the vessel should not have sailed, certainly at night. If this is the case, The Master needs locking up. But, poor man has to take the blame, because he is cheaper than a Danish Master and his Singaporean employer (if he is employed and not a contractor) also operating in a cheaper flag state than Denmark. The Singaporean Company also needs hitting hard if the culture was the cause of the Captain sailing after such alleged pre-sailing power outages.

Maersk outsource to reduce personnel and running costs. They use the cheapest crews, cheapest ships and need hitting very very very hard. We might then stop this culture of wealthy shipping companies using every method possible to avoid complying with IMO and more rigorous Nation State standards, operating in the shadows and ducking accountability and responsibility.
C++ is “memory-safe” too, then; just use smart pointers and STL containers, right?

But no, that’s not really what the term means.
Ask HN: Advice for 24 Y.O. founders afraid of repercussions if startup fails?
Hi HN,

My co-founder and I have been working on a startup since the last 12-13 months or so.

It's a social media that caters to a niche and we think it will work.

We've built the MVP, and we have a certain amount of signups with minimal marketing costs. We think there is a market fit here.

To scale up, we've been thinking of starting to approach funds for a seed round.

At the same time, we're thinking of the future -- if/when we get funding, we will have to quit our jobs.

We're 24 right now.

We were discussing all of the possible outcomes that might occur. A couple of scenarios:

Scenario 1: Our product really flies to millions as we are expecting it to, and we make a decent amount of money through Series B, Series C rounds etc.

Scenario 2: Our product shows decent promise during seed stages etc, we raise money through two rounds but then the startup dies for some reason.

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For the second scenario, we'll be 28.

We will probably have made no savings through the four years, and will be behind our peers in terms of professional growth and monetary savings.

28 also happens to be the age when most people get married. It seems like not a great idea to not have a good financial cushion at this age.

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Both of us are decently smart I think, and if things end with scenario 2, it simply won't be great. We'll be so behind people our age in terms of money saved etc.

This post does focus on the monetary aspect of the process, even though building something of your own will be super fun. How would you approach this predicament?
The GUI is made with Qt, for which the preferred programming language is C++. So that could be one reason already. There are a lot of bindings listed for Rust in the Qt docs [1] though, but they will always be a subpar experience compared to the first-class support for C++ in Qt.

[1]: https://wiki.qt.io/Language_Bindings
Quantization of parameters in neural networks is roughly analogous to introducing noise into analog signals. We’ve got good evidence that these architectures are robust to quantization - which implies they could be implemented over noisy analog signals.

Not sure who’s working on that but I can’t believe it’s not being examined.
I was thinking the same thing. Why didn't they do it in Rust? But probably because the GUI story with Rust is still evolving. Only recently have I started to see UI frameworks popping up for Rust.
Having talked to many friends at Dell (interns and full time), I have a few observations about this:

1. I know many people on HN hate the idea of RTO, and for good reasons, but one downside I saw of remote was that junior engineers struggled to get mentorship and guidance as well as an in person setting. A lot of the learning junior engineers get is through water cooler talk, informal suggestions, and off the cuff comments, rather than stuff brought up in stand-ups or asynchronous slack messaging

2. Dell already seems to have a culture of trying to avoid promoting junior engineers quickly/for multiple years, through avenues such as the rotation program which ensure you don't get promoted for at least 2 years.
Visual Studio (not Code) lets you move it all around, remove pieces, and add things. It's one of the reasons I love Visual Studio. I otherwise use JetBrains for other languages, or when on other OS' it was a shame VS for Mac went away, but I assume adoption was not very high.
You're delusional. Anything is "incredibly popular" nowadays, like all the Marvel movies and nostalgia reboots. I don't know how any old Trek fan can stomach the new Treks. But I guess you can since you're defending them and know the lore. ;p

But that's weird because they're a completely different genre. They're closer to Star Wars (the one dumb people liked, cuz that's where the $$$ is) than Star Trek.
my GM rolled a number of dice based on the difficulty, one for easy, two for hard, etc.

you're right, it should totally clarify though
"AUSA Nicolas Roos: Samuel Bankman-Fried stole $8 billion dollars. It was theft, from customers spread all over the world. It was a loss that impacted people significantly and caused damage. I want to address a few of the new victim letters"

"AUSA Roos: They lost their life savings. A man who lives in Portugal - the day before bankruptcy his daughter was born. He was marred by the ominous specter of financial instability and his daughter's future. Then there's the 23 year old from Morocco"

"AUSA Roos: He is the eldest son. He kept money on FTX not to loan it out to the defendant but for family's security. One more - a couple in the later stages of their life, late 60s, they invested with life savings. They were depressed, they had to go back to work"

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/177336575999912795...
https://github.com/daimo-eth/daimo
Is there a point in comparing CLI-based, primarily-*nix-userbase editors with a GUI-based primarily-windows-userbase editor?
Congrats on launching. Will play around.
Ask HN: How do I learn about designing my own LLM?
I’m a full stack consultant with a background in Analytics looking to learn about designing my own simple LLM’s. Where do I start? Just purely to understand how they work and not necessarily try to launch any commercial product.
Last time I did this for cryptography, I learned a lot.

Thanks in advance.
Wasn't perjury and witness tampering significant here though? Messing with the actual justice system should end with heavy punishment I guess.
Settings -> Preferences.

[x] Restore previous sessions
[x] Unsaved changes
[x] Temporary files
You say that like it's a problem. Isn't the point of open source to be able to share so that others can take advantage of a solution to a given problem?
> It's way easier to find the correct tool bar icon than trying to hunt for a feature inside the menus.

What? I am just completely confused by this—menu items are labeled in clear textual language, sorted roughly by functionality. icons greatly depend on cultural context. Looking at a screenshot of notepad++ I could would understand maybe a third of the icons and could guess at another third at best.

That said, it's not that big of a deal—I'd probably just disable the toolbar rather than figure it out. I don't really use the mouse outside of selecting regions of text anyway.
I use Notepad++ every day, that WINE runs it is implicit, it's like running any other app. I love KDE but I'm not a fan of the Kate editor. Notepad++ even automatically checks for updates like it did on Windows, downloads it, installs it, etc. Works exactly the same. It's great.
Everyone keeps repeating "first time offender", but I think that term is kind of misleading.

If I stole exactly one empty car exactly one time, then yes, I'd be a first time offender in the sense everyone thinks it. If I stole a thousand empty cars, and only got caught after the 999th, then sure, legally I'd be a "first time offender", but I would have still committed the crime a thousand times.

This wasn't a one-time clerical error that he failed to report. This was an intentional bit of theft that kept going for years. It's really not a "first time offense", and I don't think it's fair to categorize it as such.
Distributed systems are cool, but people I think got carried away with complexity. Hardest part here is active-active replication, but this is needed for very few who need true 100% availability and big scaling. For majority of people active-backup setups are perfectly fine. You can also run frontend-backend mode where frontend takes care of caching, passing write to backend nodes. I run couple of systems like this and lives good. Failure of frontend node is absolutly no brainer. Failure of backend node with active-backup is also easy. You just lose last not commited and not synced transactions.
I’m wondering how this compares with other cryptocurrencies that seem to be getting some attention, like Solana?
> Competent people are a source of pain to higher levels of management, because they don't just say "yes boss"

This sounds more like they aren't competent at the kind of politicking and development of political capital required for middle management.

In other words, someone competent is promoted and which they are incompetent at because they lack the skills necessary for the new job - the Peter Principle.
"Won't someone please think of the poor criminals" is definitely a tough sell in the US.
ChatGPT hallucinated badly when I was trying to learn about generating functions. It took me a good twenty minutes to figure out that I did understand it and the computer was just making things up. I do not use ChatGPT for learning anymore.
I mean, it's one banana. What could it cost? 10 dollars?
I hope this is better than other offerings on Linux. I've tried a few and none of them come close. Fingers crossed.

I hope this will be compatible with np++ plugins which makes np++ even better.
Fraud affects huge amounts of people, and is always premeditated. Murdering one person is much more excusable than defrauding hundreds of thousands.
It's good to process the emotions associated, if truly is none, then great! Still suggest meditating if something didn't get pushed under the mind's rug with the financial loss.

Definitely move on, this case had some external closure where most hurts in life don't.
>Delicious in Dungeon would be almost entirely influenced by this genre of anime and not so much the video games.

The author herself has cited Wizardry as one of the biggest influences, among other Western and JRPGs, D&D rulebooks and ancillary material, and Western fantasy books like LOTR and Neverending Story.

>I guess you could argue that the video games are influenced by D&D but now we're talking many steps removed.

Influence is influence.

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20240216-27312/
Non-deterministic means random. AI or natural I is not random. Analog suffers immensely from noise and it is the reason the brain has such a large number of neurons, part to deal with noise and part to deal with losing some neurons along the way.
There's no need to. It installs, updates and runs exactly as it did on Windows, I use it every day.
Why are Irish and Scottish toponyms always anglicized but Welsh ones aren't?
And I wonder if certain calculations, like preventing vigilantism, tend to act on the behalf of not the majority of a population but an extreme few. Or in other words, if 95% of the population support an idea but 5% violently opposes it, does the government cater more to the 95% or 5%? At what point are government officials afraid that the 5% will commit violent acts against society or them and their loved ones and therefore cater to their perspective more than the majority?
Not sure how relevant this is but note that Coqui TTS (the realistic TTS) has already shut down

https://coqui.ai
Also Morrison & Foerster (aka Mofo) were involved in representing the nonprofits Public.Resource.Org and Right to Know to the ECJ. Not exactly cheap and not exactly small fries....

https://www.mofo.com/resources/news/240305-morrison-foerster...
Harsh sentence. What could possibly have helped reduce it?
What kind of organization culture do you have where someone leaving after two years causes an "amount of pain" and you have to spend considerable resources on-boarding new hires? That sounds like a deeper problem to me.

I tend to work pretty short stints at places, but in the vast majority of cases am shipping things to prod the first week or so and building and releasing revenue generating products in the first 6 months. Most of the places I've left, even after a short tenure, are continuing the work I started just fine and generally get lasting value from a even a year of my time.

With few exceptions, most of the teams I've left are sad to see me go, but that doesn't diminish the befit my time there has provided.

On the other hand most of the people I know that have worked 7+ years at a place aren't particularly engaged in the products and certainly aren't keeping up with major industry trends/changes/etc, and generally just go to work each morning without leaving much of an impact. Even at places like Google, most of the 10+ year people (with some notable exceptions) are the "rest and vest" types.
Notepad++ is what I have for any random file format I need to right click and open quickly!
Upvotes and downvotes on Hacker News. It’s a joke with some truth.
I'm glad we're seeing exploration into scaling post-transformer LLM architectures, but I'm disappointed that it has a context window. That was kind of the selling point of Mamba(and SSM models in general), right linear scaling because state+input=next_state+output?