skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be happy to hear about your project and share my learnings if you want to schedule a time to talk. I've put a tiny bit of thought into this problem and would love to pass on what I've learned.

The way I originally conceptualized floro was a way to version anything without requiring plain-text (ie. higher order versioning). I've strayed quite a bit from that belief and I think there's a lot of complex trade-offs involved in version control and what makes sense for specific use-cases. Floro would be trash for game development but that is an industry that sorely faces tough versioning problems involving graphical data.

Please feel free to reach out to me if you do want to chat. The discord for floro is listed on the website but you can also just check my HN bio for my email.
I have never used it, but I often see Lazarus mentioned on HN as a multi-platform solution. The downside is that it is Delphi / Pascal, but perhaps the lure of cross-platform native apps would make it worth the investment?
I was thinking at first it would be better if it takes the entire webpage as a datauri instead of the raw html like this basic business card template:

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but that's already about half the max bytes for a QR Code, so maybe its not really that interesting.
Yes, well, many young programmers today are finding it increasingly difficult to find a good job out of school, what with all the new AI tools and general diffusion of the skill across the global population.

The skills required to be a "shelf stacker" are generally taught in public schools. What did you think would happen when they started teaching all these kids to program as well? There is a good reason why these giant tech companies kept lobbying for, and creating school programs centered around code-education, and I hope you realize it wasn't purely philanthropic.
Any particular reason why you are looking at Q3 2022, other than the fact that 2021-2022 were a complete anomaly, due to Covid shortages and impacts ? It's all downhill from there - Tesla used to include their margin charts in the shareholder's deck, until Q4 2023. Care to comment why ? We all know why.

Let's wait 3 weeks and find out what Tesla margins are in Q1 2024.
If your app is only as complex as what it appears from the website, I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to build multiple apps to do that. From your description I was imagining some kind of nonlinear editor but it seems to be more constrained in functionality.

Might want to do some investigation on your web analytics to see what percentage of your uses are on mac if you're looking to have some justification for making a mac native app.
If I were starting something from scratch I'd do Bazel for internal deps, Nix for external ones. If that's a tall order, so be it: we train people. Investments in determinism usually end up paying off.
very sad, huge loss to the world and his family

his lectures and seminars were fantastic

I remember opening the final exam paper, finding his question and my jaw dropping at what had been asked (though he did warn us at the start of the course that he wrote his questions such that he didn't have to mark many answers!)

he also had a unique knack of really getting to those in power and putting them in their place (be that the banks, government, tech companies, university vice-chancellors, you name it)
Could other people have been Jobs? Sure, but they weren't. Would other people have done a much worse job of it than Jobs? Yes, very much yes.
I wonder how this compares to "Daybreak".
Tahdig! You can better control it if you wrap the lid in a towel and boil the rice on a low fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_rice#Iran
I actually prefer manned check-out. It tends to be much faster. The checkout people tend to be wicked fast at swiping groceries in front of those scanners, much faster than I can dig into the cart, find something, fumble around scanning it, then place it in that little post-scan cubbie---ughhhhh. And manned checkout is already parallelized: Next customer queues up groceries while current customer is being serviced.
I wouldn't mind if a product or food is packaged much simpler

I'm ancient enough to remember that when you took your grocery list to the grocery shop, there weren't many shelves that had packets of whatever for sale. Mainly the store had a whole series of large bins: one for flour, one for sugar, another for salt, etc.

You read out the list and the man would scoop up what you had ordered and put in into a brown-paper bag.

In today's world, that business-model is too labor-intensive. Better that you buy a standardised amount of product that a machine can measure out more cheaply and more speedily than any man can. But that product now has to travel the country instead of just back to your place, so it needs more robust packaging, and that packaging needs to be labelled clearly so you know what you are buying. That entails an inner plastic, sealable bag, and a firm cardboard printed outer packaging.

Progress? Perhaps.
I really hate this. Who were the songs hurting? Nobody, someone just decided to make the world a little bit worse because it wasn't "proper".
They are about 25 hours apart, which isn't very large I'll admit.

Thankfully, the serial numbers aren't too close to each other, so I'm hoping they aren't part of the same batch.
This is perfect summary https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline
The Crew is an open-world racing game, similar with need for speed most wanted. Exactly the kind of games where the online components can be replaced with offline bots because it already has bots playing opponent cars in the campaign. You can check the campaign gameplay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdRtfqwj2cg
It's better than me at soft skills and communication drafting, editing and critique. It's a profound help for task planning, execution, and management.

And it's a profound help for requirements generation, architecture/design explorations, legacy code annotation, test planning, and other technical things that I struggle to do on my own

So honestly it's not just replacing writers. It's eliminating my need for executive officers, technical officers, and PMs

I'm spending 20 month on GPT4 and I'm 2-3x more productive. Good stuff!
I shipped desktop app for all three major OS Linux, Windows and macOS.

Because of the programming choices of Rust for application/backend and Typescript for frontend - Tauri was perfect fit for me.

So far Tauri documentation has been sufficient (and good) for me to achieve what I wanted inside the application. However, platform specific packaging required extra effort because the app required installation of system service/daemon in addition to the frontend app binary - so platform specific pre-install and post-install scripts which setup (or remove on uninstall) those daemon services were not natively supported in Tauri packaging.

You can browse the code here to see what it takes to package and sign installer for various desktop platforms: https://github.com/upvpn/upvpn-app
Yes, we are working on it! :) Taking some of the learnings from current experimental JSON Object datatype, we are now working on what will become the production-ready implementation. Details here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/54864

Variant datatype is already available as experimental in 24.1, Dynamic datatype is WIP (PR almost ready), and JSON datatype is next up. Check out the latest comment on that issue with how the Dynamic datatype will work: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/54864#issuec...
> specific political goal to break up large corporations

you mean regulatory job of enforcing the antitrust laws that were passed by multiple Congresses? She's not making this stuff up she's enforcing antitrust laws that haven't been enforced for decades which is part of the reason our society is so unequal and the economy so centralized

> Apple didn’t want to pay to give Lina Kahn time on their platform.

Jon Stewart wanted her on the show, they said no. That's them exercising their censorship power. If Amazon says you can't sell a book on their cite because they don't like you that's them exercising censorship power too.

> If she, or Jon Stewart, were censored, we wouldn’t be seeing their conversation here.

Just because Apple doesn't own other platforms like YouTube and Comedy Central doesn't mean they're unable to exercise censorship.

> there is nothing requiring Apple to provide him with a show if they don’t like his approach

For sure Apple can make editorial decisions but the government's lawyers claim: "Apple’s conduct extends beyond just monopoly profits and even affects the flow of speech. For example, Apple is rapidly expanding its role as a TV and movie producer and has exercised that role to control content"

They didn't just block Lina Khan they blocked discussions about China and AI. As more power is concentrated in fewer hands and fewer media providers that's something to consider when enforcing antitrust laws. In Khan's words:

“I think it just shows one of the dangers of what happens when you concentrate so much power and so much decision-making in a small number of companies.”
Ultrahigh Quality Factor of a Levitated Nanomechanical Oscillator
I believe the polite common name is “Pin Oak” [1] a fast growing, short lived, and relatively red oak. Supposedly the smell comes from a bacterial infection that afflicts most of the Pin Oak population.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_palustris
you can register and then https://libera.chat/guides/cloaks
While I don't condone some of the treatment he received, that situation was extremely different.

A user reported a safety issue, the maintainer said it was safe. Then it was proven that it was in fact unsafe, and the maintainer justified it with performance. Then a PR was filed which was safe and did not regress performance, and the maintainer rejected it with "this patch is boring"

The behavior of both sides was deeply unacceptable. If someone identifies a legitimate issue and files a PR to fix it, don't insult them by calling the patch "boring" and don't reject it solely on that basis.
RAGFlow: Customizable, explainable RAG engine based on doc structure recognition
The wages of the scanning staff is a cost to be considered on the side .

At even 10c a tag , it is equivalent to one person scanning 200 items a hour (assuming $20/hour wages) .

Factoring in time to bag and do a cash/card/coupon transaction etc a retail employee is not doing more than 500 or maybe 1000 items a hour .

A cost of 2c is definitely close to economic feasibility if 10c is not
At the Target next to where I live, the self checkouts don't weigh anything at all. I just scan something and put it in my backpack on the floor most of the time. And this is a Target where the toothpaste is locked up! I've never needed help from an attendant, and I've never been inspected either.

Obviously it varies location by location.
I suppose I should nail down my point. No one would ever write a big report like this. A bug generally has an unknown cause. Once you found the cause of the bug, you’d fix it. Nowadays, you could just cut and paste the problem into ChatGPT and get the answer right then. So why would anyone ever log this bug? All this demo proves that they automated a process that didn’t need automation.
Starbucks is raising prices almost every month now
It seems like the best course of action is to tie minimum wage to housing costs (on a per-county or city basis), this would help ensure the ownership class has to balance the costs of assets and labor.

If you want cheap labor, housing costs must go down. If you want expensive real estate, labor costs must go up.
Human Anti-Mouse Antibody
I don't find this article newsworthy, but your very reaction/response makes me pay much closer attention to it!

Lina Khan is the FTC chairperson. The FTC regulates monopolies, so it can be said Lina Khan regulates monopolies.
[Assumption by the FTC] Apple is a monopoly.

Based on this assumption we can say that Lina Khan regulates Apple (and others).

Apple did not want to produce an episode of a show which might mention Apple (or companies like it) in a negative way. This would likely have happened because the FTC has increasingly focused on tech monopolies.

Is the headline really that wrong? The fact that we publicly learned that Apple didn't want to produce an episode featuring the FTC chairperson is what is referred to as censorship here. Of course that is simply editorial control by the producers - but it does feel like a protective move, retaliation or something in between.

I don't find the story interesting (no company would produce content which could make the company itself look bad), but I do not believe it to be wrong as you allege.
Cyber Safety Review Board Releases Report on Microsoft Online Exchange Incident
It’s definitely trust issues here in the Netherlands.

Buying something for under 5 euro bucks in a shop where middle school kids buy their lunches is almost guaranteed check. More than one in three times.

A different shop and a bigger amount — checks almost never
Thanks - that link does not appear to be open access, anyways I don't think I've seen it. I'm familiar with Flutter at a high-level (Kevin Moore gave a great talk on it at Wasm I/O), and I think other than requiring users to work in Dart, it is probably one of the most powerful ways to do cross-platform UI today.

Worth noting that their original GPU backend was Skia, and now they are retooling around Flutter GPU (Impeller)[0], which is kind of designed similarly as an abstract rendering interface over platform-specific GPU APIs.

[0] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter-GPU
It's not really a nano-oscillator if it's not mechanically part of a chip, in my opinion. If this were a MEMS device that could self-initialize, I'd buy it.. but it's more like a lab full of equipment, with a nanometer sized object trapped inside.

Cesium Beam resonators have a really high Q, somewhere around 10^6. Cesium beam optical lattices have a Q of about 10^15, well over the 10^10 Q of this device.

For a purely mechanical resonator, strained crystalline nanoresonators with a Q of 10^10 have been described[1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-021-01498-4
With Pyodide getting some serious backing, is there a glimmer of hope that we could end up with Python as a real alternative to JavaScript in the frontend?
I met Ross when I was a student member of the university council where he took a very active role in holding the university leadership accountable.

Interestingly, he only started his PhD aged 35/36 after some time in industry.
Thanks t888 for presenting us with this veritable Brazilian barbecue [rodízio] of fallacies:

- Straw Man;

- False Dilemma;

- Begging the Question;

- Oversimplification;

- Ad Hominem;
That's one zoom level. Another one that's just as relevant is: What is the effect on me, personally? And there are other zoom levels in between.

None of these zoom levels are more "true" than the others.
Full report: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/CSRB_Review...
Languages with capability-based security may not be supply chain safe. For example, Pony allows third-party libraries to use the unsafe FFI by default.

I think Pony is close to a supply chain safe programming language, but it looks like it's not safe by default. I don't know enough about Pony to understand whether this is a fundamental design issue or just a question of carefully invoking the compiler to avoid unsafe features.
I wouldn't call it a decent fraction.
https://www.lumina-chat.com/ the competitor you saw maybe?
>> But somewhere along the line other Callery pear trees and Bradford pear trees cross-pollinated and some began producing viable fruit. Birds and mammals eat the fruit and poop out the seeds, often far from the tree from which it came.

"Life ... finds a way".

... with bird poop.

The latter probably not in Jeff Goldblum's voice though.
I think this is the best way for most apps. But in this particular case, the main part of the UI is the preview animation, which by principle needs to look and behave the same on every platform, anyway.
> Personally, the only reason I still run my pbx (aside from something to faff with, and a platform for testing silliness) is the fact I can easily record phone calls.

I was running an Asterisk server in the early 2000s and recording phone calls was one of the things I did, so that I could record phone calls with friends and family and replay them decades later.

Fast forward a few years, we moved, cell phones became standard issue in daily life, the server got put in storage, and my father passed away. During an equipment purge, I took the drives out of all of my old crap and wiped them before sending them off as e-waste. It wasn't until later in the week that I realized what I had done.

Make sure you back those recordings up.
FYI there are stable configurations to 3+ body systems. Not all configurations are chaotic.
NATS: First Impressions
wrt DoorDash (and Instacart etc), along with this squeeze I’ve observed the quality of service decrease severely. Could just be that my sample of a now wider employee pool is crappy, or workers are trying to “scale” to make a living wage with many concurrent orders, but I believe it’s part of the race to the bottom. I love the convenience, but the experience is worsening. How can these vendors continue to profit when lower quality leads to increased refunds?
How much do you enjoy endless service centre visits to correct manufacturing defects?
I know that Krogers has cameras that use some sort of intelligence. I held an object in my hand as I moved other items across the scanner, it set of an alarm and a bunch of still images of my checkout process came up with colored shapes highlighting different on screen items
I've never experienced any problems with the ones that don't weigh anything. The weighing ones get it wrong often enough to be annoying. If my closest grocery store used weighing self checkouts, I'd be much more annoyed on a regular basis.
Interesting idea, that actually could work. The biggest issue I could see though is that the people paying labor costs are not necessarily the same people paying wages so putting pressure on one doesn't necessarily get a result from the other.
Supposedly painting it on the cut end of the trunk on a periodic basis (and on the cut ends of any sprouts that do come up) is more effective than a one-time drench. Glyphosate has a pretty short half-life.

Also, a spot treatment of the ends means considerably less herbicide entering the soil.
It’s hosted at Vercel (AWS).

At least based on the IP address.
Oh well you should hear the hype from CNBC and other places, they are strongly intimating that gen AI will replace SWEs on product development teams. I totally agree it’s not likely, but it’s starting to get baked into asset prices and I want to profit from that misunderstanding.
Is there much of a performance hit with a stereo view?
Fair, the inability to remove your own items seems maybe a hang-up from an older view of privileged cashiers. The store I currently use doesn’t have weight checks except for weighed produce. You can leave your stuff in the cart and with the wireless scanner and a bit of forethought everything can stay in there. Different trust models makes things interesting. I have never been checked leaving the store and I don’t think social safety net or otherwise is the driving factor
Is this “every commit message starts with an emoji” style used on this project a widely practiced thing? Makes my muscle memory for quick reading a GitHub repo go all weird with almost every line above the README in the file listing starting with a picture. I appreciate personal preferences differ.
So that works out to $800 for a 40-hour week.

Back in 1963, blue-collar production-line workers had reached $100 per week. The buying power of the US Dollar has declined to about a fiftieth since then, meaning that blue-collar production-line workers should be receiving $5000 for a 40-hour week to maintain their buying power in the 2020s that they used to have in the 1960s.

That increase to $800 a week? Merely a sixth of what it should be to maintain the buying power of a baseline worker.

That is why the US economy is dragging. Nobody has any money to spend to raise the economy to the heights it had in the 1960s.
So I have not done this myself but perhaps look into what game engines have in terms of UI options paired with cross platform support.
On paper, Compose Multiplatform lets you do that. It's still bumpy.
I wonder if these results will stand up under independent scrutiny?

And I'm dismayed by the cavalier dismissal of lost jobs for teenagers. Getting that first job is hard enough already

(https://econjwatch.org/File+download/1296/GreenHandMar2024.p...)
A few notes:

- It should be generating `path: impl AsRef<Path>` to be properly generic.

- It's not setting a nonzero exit code on error.

- Edge case handling is a vital property for production-usable tools at scale. I'm wondering if it can yet special case situations such as creating a conditional compilation version for Linux that uses the splice syscall when the arguments are 2 file handles.
Then they can afford to pay someone to fix it?
Might be this article:

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3Gpr...
The government's job is to pass laws that benefit the population at large. They could pass a law saying "skybrian gets $100,000,000/yr" and it would be awesome for you. It would be a stupid law.
Note that retention increases exponentially with decreasing temperature, so literally "cold storage" might actually be OK for SSDs.

The retention also goes down with erase cycles, and is usually specified after the rated number of cycles have been reached; I expect those same SSDs to hold their data much longer than 3 months if they're still nearly new.

I still have USB drives over a decade old, but their contents are still intact. Then again, those haven't been written to much, and are SLC and older 2-bit MLC.
yes lets leave our 9-5 to walk instead
I'd keep a house for the skiing at Pajarito too! For those reading along it's certainly worth the trip if you're in the area.

I have a vague recollection of coming across a physical 6x6 chessboard somewhere on lab property and found it a little odd, but never knew it had ties to MANIAC. Lots of history floating around in that place.
the problem is theres no alternatives...try sending a 20kg parcel by courier, the prices are ridiculous