skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In real life, if I ask someone to go get me four empty buckets, I expect them to come back with four distinct empty buckets.

That's not what you're asking for, though. You're asking for one bucket, and then you're putting it in another bucket, and then you're duplicating the contents of the second bucket four times.

This isn't whitewashing, this is just what those expressions mean.

It's not like it's hard to get four buckets in Python, BTW:

[[] for _ in range(4)]
I found this as a refreshingly accurate take on NPR. The fact that a senior editor and reporter at NPR published this self-reflective portrait of his employer is also newsworthy. It's good to consider all things/viewpoints as a journalist.
Is it not? Looking at the March jobs report,

-MoM full-time jobs dropped by 6,000 as Part-time jobs soared by 691,000

-the unemployment rate for Blacks (6.4 percent) increased to the highest level in almost two years

From 12 months ago,

-in February 2023 the US had 133.2 million full-time jobs, or more than it does one year later

-all the job growth since then has been in part-time jobs, which have increased by 870K since February 2023 (from 27.020 million to 27.890 million)

Source: bls.gov
Thanks for writing. While I agree with your answer, I ask of a niche because I want to tunnel my job opportunities and expectations. If I'm aware of what's in store for me, and I'm stoked about it, I will be more likely to put in more effort in learning and actually doing the job.

Anyway, as you said, there's still much time left, and I'll begin with small steps: C, DSA, OS, etc., and hope my niche finds me.
Wordpress.com owner Automattic acquires multi-service messaging app Beeper
Enterprise? Feature paywall? Adobe purchase? Leaning into ‘open source / free to lure designers until then?

If one can’t easily see a straight answer then assume the worse.

Squarespace and Invision had similar paths. Best buddies with freelancers / small studios to gain traction / marketing. Heh.
They gotta sell their managed cloud service somehow, I have always assumed that this is part of the sales strategy
Maybe software would have been more efficient to do the same, and software developers would still begin with an understanding of hardware and what's happening at a lower level (Assembly) before sending it instructions in an interpreted language.

The sharding of the developer has made things more inefficient in some ways.
> I love how history has been rewritten such that a company that was profitable was "hemorraging money".

It was only profitable for 2 out of 8 years post IPO, and had 7500+ in headcount [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter,_Inc.#Finances
Can I send a PR extending the benchmark against doctr and potentially textract? I believe these represent the SOTA for open and proprietary OCR.

The benefit is to let people evaluate surya against the open source and commercial SOTA, improving the integrity and applicability of the benchmark in a business or research setting.

There's a risk: it could make surya's benchmark look less attractive. Also, picking textract to represent the proprietary SOTA might be dicey, since it has competitors (Google cloud ocr, Azure ocr)

Still, ranking surya with doctr, textract, and tesseract would be really nice baseline. As a research user, business user or open source contributor, those are the results I need to quickly understand surya's potential.
> Anger ends up being destructive because we think we have to suppress it or neutralize it. This just increases its strength over time until it explodes out violently.

Dunno.

One are going to end up in alot of avoidable verbal and physical fights if ones anger is not suppressed.

Just such a simple thing as the comment answer timer on HN helps alot.
Last I checked cheaptickets doesn’t. I’ve never used kayak. I just stick with a single airline nowadays.
Tinboard (TUI for Pinboard.in bookmarking service) adds inline bookmark dialog
The overall number is quite small. Looking at the number going back to 70s and it's practically flat, while population has grown 50% since 1975.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...

This is hardly a crisis.
So what's the problem with taxing a deci-millionaire?
But if the plastic is put in a local landfill (my local waste is) then is there any non-negligible harm?

(As an aside: I find it odd you seem to have plastic reduction as a similar priority to oil use reduction given the effects of climate change seem far more severe than even third world plastic disposal)
Google was paying $1 to put Mozilla Firefox on a computer.

I made a bunch of few bucks or two every x minutes or so, 24h/day. Details escapes me atm.
I know people have been doing this with movement in video games - on a keyboard it's usually very stiff but on a controller you can nudge the stick and have your character walk very slowly. Now you can press the W key lightly and have your character walk slowly and the harder you press the key the faster they move - much like the analog sticks. I think it's pretty cool personally.
Kind of surprising, 1- because Automatic is known for wordpress, what's the play with messaging? 2- They apparently acquired texts.com as well so clearly an area they are interested in.

I also would prefer not to see consolidation but also I imagine it's hard to make money on this kind of product so maybe that drove the decision to merge?
Yeah, I should learn to do better. Sorry, dang!
The tips of the trigger are moving at most 1cm. A key press travel is on the same order magnitude as the trigger. The larger challenge is you can achieve high precision and repeatability on the triggers because of your fixed point of references (how you hold the controller). This is much more challenging to achieve on a keyboard, but also not impossible. We can see analogous situations with playing keyboard instruments.

The same thought about keyboard instruments will probably point to analog computer keyboards getting the most of the analog input through velocity control as opposed to absolute position control. Ie, striking a key quickly vs slowly causing different behavior.
Ban on cell cultured food products huh? Guess no more beer or alcohol then!
Why do major sites still use Medium as a blog platform.
There's also LOUD, the mod version of the game which adds even more dynamics and higher tier skill trees.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/loud-ai-supreme-commander-forged-...

I've actually playing this the last few days :)
I figured it was a troll attempt. Judging by the replies, I'm not sure if the troller would be pleased (quantity) or sad (lack of outrage).

ETA: The idea of a troller losing faith in humanity because his trolls are taken seriously but do not stir up emotions is somewhat funny.
Yes, what. They are very well-known brands if you've ever looked deeper than surface level at keyboards.
Takerufuji Made History
Dump a CSV, import to SQLite. All your columns will be type TEXT and your nulls will be “” (empty string) but hey at least you didn’t do any manual work
Okay, Me and my friend made this simple website called Cal.et – It took us less than a week to release the first version.

Cal.et is a simple and free “Add to Calendar” link generator that can be shared on social media, newsletters, websites, emails, and everywhere else with ease.

You get a short link that contains your event information and an "Add to Calendar" button. This link is compatible with popular calendar services like Google, Apple, Outlook, Yahoo, and others.

So, Would love to hear your suggestions.
Happy to see this, I used to love coding adventure books as a kid, where you'd type in a BASIC listing and try to "hack the door" or play a simple video game. I love that this forces the reader to actually solve the problem by using a cipher, looking forward to tackling it!
Calling what is essentially Kanaleneiland "near the middle of Utrecht" is pretty disingenuous. There's not a whole lot of room to go further south without ending up in Nieuwegein.

That aside, the costs of initiatives like these will be enormous. They need to be financed with (or so projectmanagers tell me) those "XL penthouse" apartments and other larger offerings. There are basically no takers for that, not in the least because they'll be significantly north of 1 million euros. Even the affordable housing is generally pricy (think 350000+) and anything in those price ranges will be in the absolute minority.

If there is anything at all around 300000, it will be specifically for a so-called "middle income bracket". This is a very hard to attain bracket unless you are a two-person family with a relatively high but not very high income. For average incomes this bar is very hard to clear.

All that to say, it is clearly not made for most people in the country. Aspirational neighbourhoods meant only for rich people are available in many countries (as a specific enclave). It's part of what you pay for in such a location.
We just released storefront template made with Next.js. It is platform-agnostic, but integrates with Shopify by default.

It's the first template implementing Vector Search and Image Captioning while still keeping performance at 100 score, so I am interested in knowing what you think about the template in general :)
You can program an AI to need an excuse to punish another AI.
Thanks for the recs! I acknowledge the importance of interpersonal and social skills within any job environ, and I'm working through it (even though some things don't come easy to me). The university also has peppered in varying courses to improve student's abilities.

I hope I practice and obtain the skillset.
I think I understand how a mining pool works. How would "huge payment commissions and payment pools" reduce the high PoW energy costs which the research claims? (I won't say the theory in the original post is correct. I am agnostic about that, as it's a hard equation to resolve)
Nice to see some more "mainstream" tech journalists popping into HN! I enjoyed the article btw.

(By mainstream I mean pertaining to less niche topics, e.g. articles about market penetration of alternative form factor EVs, vs. "the new version of eslint is now stable")
> lower emissions

Do you know of any cloud providers that publish actual data for this? Preferably verifiable, but I'll take anything at this point.
We do not have more free will than AI would. We are also blobs of atoms that run on physics to produce outputs as a (deterministic or stochastic) function of inputs.
Jack Altman's Venture Fund Launches Accelerator for Enterprise AI Startups
Bookmarklet code to view the archive of the current webpage:

javascript:(function(){if(location.href.indexOf('http')!=0){input=prompt('URL:','http://');if(input!=null){location.href='http://web.archive.org/web/*/'+input}}else{location.href='http://web.archive.org/web/*/'+location.href;}})();

source: https://gist.github.com/n-st/0dd03b2323e7f9acd98e
Trains in Europe don’t have one engine pulling 200 cars stretching back for more than a mile.
That works for an enterprise or business. When you are doing this stuff for fun and/or hobby, being halted during the upgrade is a MUCH better UX than deleting all my data or whatever undefined thing might happen.
There are a ton of executives too, which might be an issue.
As for the workers (including pilots), the should abolutely get paid. I'm just pointing out that "profits" does not show the big picture.
Companies have a duty to their employees & customers; as well as their owners (shareholders). Low profit is heralded when it's Amazon, reinvesting in the company. Airlines are also investing back in the company.
> while Lucifer brought knowledge of pain, lust, pride, and gluttony (among others)

Contrast these concepts with that of the prodigal son—an adherent who strays and then returns to the flock is more valued than one that never left. Why? Is it possible that in revealing these other aspects of humanity our "connection to god" could be made stronger?

Another thought that occurred to me is that life in the garden would have been painfully dull. If there is no pain, no striving, what does it mean to find pleasure in something? Similar to playing a video game with god-mode cheats enabled, it quickly becomes boring after the power fantasies are played out.
Give it a try yourself and let us know
ah, right. I do wonder why they do it that way...
> If we’re extra lucky, some of us may even get the chance to transition our meat brains to longer a lived devices.

That sounds great until you hear, "Okay the brain upload was successful. Now if you could just step into this chamber here..."
Also prefer Zero-K. The economy system design results in better team games imo. Though obviously it's a lot less pretty.
Beeper Took on Apple's iMessage Dominance. Now It's Been Acquired
There's also a fun option to use PyO3 to easily generate a native Python module from Rust.
This feels like a legitimate critique to me. I'm developing a programming language myself and I'm not going to include a syntax like this--multiplying an array by a number feels like a type error to me.
You could literally pay for it using the money you save on car infrastructure.
The study looked at keeping a paper around (underlying situation: a reminder active in a workspace) vs. throwing it away (underlying situation: removing a constant reminder).

They didn't study anything in-between, such as removing the reminder without throwing it away.
That's rich coming from judges who engaged in blatantly unconstitutional political censorship. They're the guys whose literal job is to apply our constitution but ironically they're the least qualified to do it.

Not only are they not morally qualified, they are also not technically qualified. In Brazil, judges are minted by competition, they are tested via a process known as concurso público which roughly translates as public contest. Law professionals study hard, take the tests and the best are selected to become judges. Essentially, every qualified lawyer wants these well paid positions and they compete for them. Not these supreme court guys though. They're essentially randoms, appointed to the court by the president. In Brazil, the real judges are subordinate to these political appointees. So completely backwards even laymen can see the discrepancy, they even have a saying for it: in Brazil, the utility pole pisses on the dog.

The guy this article is talking about? He went to public events to brag about how he personally abused his supreme court powers to defeat Bolsonaro. It's just incredible to see all this play out in real time.
Great work!

But why would anyone use an ORM that is specifically to one database? For me, using an ORM is the ability to switch between databases, specifically SQLite for testing and PostgreSQL for production, without having to change any logic.
I feel like this would be more plausible if the bug hadn't been introduced more than 3 years ago.
Free income?
The simple beauty of XOR floating point compression
These are ARM processors using standard ARM instruction sets.

I don’t see any lock in here.
Machato: A native macOS client for various LLMs
I hope they don't change the pricing after this. I've been using Beeper for a few years now.
Except that it’s a massive change in behavior from what they have done for over a decade, which is to prioritize the product they built: a streaming media platform intended for personal collections.

It isn’t about the users being Plex users “even though I and they don’t want to think they are” (an incredibly presumptuous way to phrase that, honestly) it’s about a fundamental change in behavior and execution in their product.

Nobody said they weren’t within their right to do what they’re doing, but people should be allowed to point out when this happens. They are fundamentally changing the way their app works. That is an user-hostile action regardless of how you slice it. And that might be fine from their point of view, but it clearly is an issue for existing user, as this entire thread of comments shows.
Qualcomm is the reason that for years Google couldn't offer more than 2 or 3 years of updates for their phones.
> What? So he carried out nation building in 2 countries rather than 1 and that means he kept his 'no nation building' promise?

He didn't carry out "nation building". Blasted both countries to pieces and left them mostly alone with reconstruction, didn't install any oversight mechanism against corruption or other issues (such as the "military" serially raping young local boys in Afghanistan) by the local sham governments, and instead funneled insane amounts of money into military "contractors". Zero perspective for the people to make a living, zero incentive to not just go to the Taliban or whatever other warlord.

I don't even have anything against the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq per se, freeing people from dictatorships is a worthy goal in itself, but come on, if you want something sustainable you have to invest into more than guns, ammo and fortress walled gardens for Western embassies and army outposts.

Want to see what "nation building" looks like, look at post-WW2 Germany. A decades long occupation, with serious oversight to make sure that what caused the war never appears again.

> I don't think most of the world cares one bit if europe burns or not.

Skyrocketing prices for food and fuel affect everyone.
Plenty of counterexamples. Road rage is one
I wonder if the plan is to merge Beeper and Texts.com.

They both look verify similar in their features.
Maybe texts.com for the Apple Ecosystem and Beeper for the Android one ?

After all, Beeper just released their new version of the app for Android.
If you have expensive electronics or a controlled substance prescription, you're a fool to let them pry your bag from your hands. United recently forceably checked my carryon bag (because I hadn't paid extra to be in a lower boarding group) on a long international flight (multiple connections) where I would be without my belonging for 40 hours. Pretty rough when you will start going through withdrawals after 8 hours. It was like the end of the scene from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles where the car rental lady (after receiving abuse from Steve Martin's character, which didn't happen in this case) coldly tells him, "you're fucked."
Eclipse April 2024 – Power Grids
> Akko, Drop, Ducky, Epomaker and Keychron

I've heard of all of them apart from Epomaker and I'm not really into keyboard stuff (despite owning a split keyboard).

I would say they are probably well known if you're always online and into techy geek nonsense. They're not as well known as, say, logitech. But even logitech is probably not a "household name" either. I think we forget in tech how much the world doesn't really care about tech.
Turns out south-facing mountain slopes are nearly ideal for solar panels. From a quick Google Maps view, the country is about half that kind of terrain.

And nobody is going to convince me you can't find the same square footage as, my god, some radio dishes! somewhere in Switzerland.

No, this whole OP article is eco-theatre.
Automatic Is Buying Beeper
I've been eyeing a VictoriaLogs setup for my docker container fleet, but I haven't quite spotted where docker's remote logging export options overlap with VictoriaLogs ingestion options.

Wrinkle: two docker remote logging plugins I tried (e.g. loki, elastic) didn't seem to work on ARM processors out of the box.
> As usual comes the variation of the comment "leftists with iPhones" to shutdown discussion. This is a thought-terminating cliche, and a tired one at it. Don't use it, it just displays a lack of arguments.

Rules for thee and not for me. Classic.
This is really cool, I also love the modularity of this computer setup.
Just throw it away? This looks like much more fun: https://signalvnoise.com/svn3/the-making-of-a-dumpster-fire/

You send it an email. It prints it out, dumps the printout into a dumpster, and burns it in the dumpster.

I don't know if it's still online though...
Maybe I am naive but whatever it takes to bring critical manufacturing back to the United States is a good thing.
this is really neat. the gallery page has some great little gems, like the among us logo and of course lots of fractals: https://blot.hackclub.com/gallery
Who will impose any judgment in this case?
It's detecting my Sony original DS4 controller as a clone.
I’m not familiar with their business model - what value are you getting by paying for a messaging app?
about a decade ago i stood in as a pall bearer for someone who didn't have enough people and i decided it was important to be able to convene a party of six. found a fraternal organization and after some vetting, joined. it's what you make it, someone dies every couple of years and the loss of loose acquaintances and casual friends gives you some valuable perspective on lives lived and how to apply the time you are given. overall, recommend.
Smart of Beeper to accept an acquisition/exit as soon as possible before their product gets further eroded by non-public APIs they're reliant on. Tough to build a business where at any time your product can get wiped out by Apple/Meta.
Beeper is cross platform. They have an app for iOS and Mac.
Then we are probably in agreement :)
Well, I’ll take both fixing the symptoms ( loved one can’t control their anger and hurts everyone around them ) and the syndrom ( therapy sessions to understand the cause of the anger ).

Now, based on my experience dealing with such situations around me, some people have difficulties considering they should even talk to a therapist. They will violently reject the very idea they might have a problem, and will keep hurting people around them. Controlling anger allows having a discussion in the first place, which then can turn into the understanding you’re talking about.
There’s no way of knowing from the outside, but nothing in the April 1 announcement for D1 suggests deprioritization to me. They just announced that they’re doing read replication, describing how it will work in detail. Why preannounce it if they’re not working on it?

My guess is that they wanted it for 1.0 but the release slipped. It happens.
That kind of reminds me of the idea I've heard several times of compression by indexing π. The idea is that every possible finite byte sequence occurs somewhere in π [1] so if you've got some file of N bytes that you want to store you just need to store N and an index to a place in π where that sequence of bytes occurs.

The problem is the the index to the first occurrence of any particular N byte sequence will on average take around N bytes to store so your "compressed" file is about the same size as your input file.

[1] This is not known to be true. A number that has the property that every possible finite sequence of digits in base b occurs in the number's base b expansion is called a "normal number in base b". A number that is normal in base b for all integer bases b ≥ 2 is simply called a "normal number". Almost all real numbers are normal, but it is not known if π is among them.
High-Performance Tandem White Micro-OLEDs for VR and Mr Displays
Looks great on mobile, fwiw
Spotify just uses electron, if you want your app to look like an electron app, use that. I think it's hideous.
a fun activity is to ride a bike across the golden gate from SF up to Tiberon, have lunch, catch the ferry back. If Tiberon is too far you can also catch the ferry from Sausalito
Different frequency.
Nope, and I don't think Google will publish concrete numbers anytime soon, if ever.
Ugh yes. The first thing I see on clicking the link is an overwhelming login/join pop-over. I’m never visiting that blog again…
Introduction to APRS
> In this case, the default arguments get compiled as part of the function code and are part of the function's environment.

Yeah, I understand that; I'm saying that was a choice they made, and I think having the defaults be evaluated at each call time would have been a better choice.