skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 3 years late (better late than never I guess) but this was a brilliant read and idea: simple, neat and no bloat. Love it!
If webOS came out with WASM already in place, it would have been even better :)

When the Touchpad was firesaled, I got one and was disappointed with the PDF viewer. Because there was no such thing as WASM (or even asm.js) at the time, it used out of the box a service provided by Adobe that on request from the UI rendered tiles of the PDF at different resolutions, depending on the zoom level.

Since the frontend code was JS, it was easy to implement an alternative via mupdf (https://github.com/filmor/webos-pdf/blob/master/arxservice.c...). Via the same inefficient process (rendering png tiles onto the filesystem), the mupdf implementation was about 3 times faster than the original (though, it's been 13 years, the actual speedup might have been less :)).
Also found a comment from myself warning of using this anywhere near Germany (tldr kz stands for concentration camp).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26423117
> I think they’re making a mistake using EWS

In 2024.

Should they did it in 2012 the people would actually use it. For now - yes, anyone needing a thick mail client for Exchnage but not Outlook has figured their workarounds years ago.
Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, insects may be sentient
You are supposed to be able to choose for each module the language of the module, I think.
You can utilize all technics from article with the help of TestContainers.
They will help with setting up DB and providing connection strings to running images
There was a nice extension called DivaScheme that used unchorded keystrokes like vi and allowed structural editing but it stopped working when PLT Scheme reached version 5. (Which I think was when they changed the name to Racket.) https://cs.brown.edu/research/plt/software/divascheme/
As a human, I like anomaly tracking if I understand what you mean by that. LLMs are maybe 99% good and 1% totally wrong (hallucination). Lots of profit betting against the 1% totally wrong. Not hard to see when wrong but do need to act fast.
LittleBigPlanet 3's servers will be kept offline indefinitely
I wonder how much of that is due to Covid, but I remember some stat like the number of people learning Chinese since 2008 was down at least 50% even before Covid, and that includes people studying in their home country.
I remember the original leak was announced at the beginning (?) of December 2021 – and that Cyberpunk 2077 at that point was far from fully functional, even after release.
"Privacy Friendly" advertising with a screenshot with a bunch of Google services on it. The irony is hilarious.
> maybe dosage matters, maybe strain matters

Yes, absolutely. For a first timer, a single drag from a joint is enough. If it's a spliff (weed mixed with tobacco, IMO makes the taste better), then maybe two drags, and you're all set for the evening.
(non informed, layman sideline perspective from casual reading on this subject over the years)

Real time (financial) sentiment analysis on financial news sources has been integrated for a long time. Thing about LLM's is, while they could improve on quality, they need to get the latency down before being useful in straight trade. For offline analyst support where time is less of an issue they can ofc be useful, e.g summarizing/structuring lots of fluffed or trawled content.
Do you think – a school for global issues is a good idea
millionaires and billionaires love this one weird trick!
Show HN: Oscar Stories – personalized bedtime stories for kids
And most of the time thinking about things that should not be done.
Do you need antivirus software in 2024?
Slightly off topic question:

I want to publish blog on a domain I own -- I currently use Netlify+Hugo and NetlifyCMS but the editor experience (Richtext / Markdown + upload individual images) is very poor. There is no concept of saving drafts either; or ability to edit the hierarchy/URLs of posts after they are published.

I wish this tech got out of my way and simply let me focus on the content -- text, formatting, pasting images -- and one click save/publish.

Is there a simpler WYSIWYG editor that allows us to simply type, format and publish blog posts?

Life is too short to deal with high-maintenance / high-friction / brittle setups.
Your part of your comment doesn't fit with the rest. With complex projects, you often don't even know exactly what you're building, it doesn't make sense to start coding. You first need to build a conceptual model, discuss it with the interested parties and only then start building. Diagrams are very useful to solidify your design and communicate it to others.
By HN members, not moderators:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100680>
Grazie!
Love what you've built, it must've been a lot lit of work!
> Instead I am pro-anthropocene because even if humanity died today, there would still be an extremely weird layer of rock that would need to be explained and

Would there be enough to make it an epoch rather than just an event though? Most opinions on the "silurian hypothesis" thought experiment seem to suggest not. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-an-industri...

Our current impacts are significantly different from what they were four hundred years ago. They will probably be even more different in another few centuries. Assuming we do not wipe ourselves out, our eventual impact will be very different from our current impact. Maybe we will even reverse many things, and a millennium is just a blip in geological time.

In any case, the Holocene is defined by human impacts on the environment, so really Anthropocene is more of an alternative name for the Holocene than a separate epoch: https://www.britannica.com/science/Holocene-Epoch
oh it's definitely much more than a "baseline check", it seems to be mostly the same silly rules as the real app store

for example, the developer of Clip (Riley Testut) had to add a pointless "map" function which uses the user's location in order to be allowed to run in the background

The first version I tried used the user’s location to remain active, but was rejected by Apple. Testut then updated Clip with a Map feature — so there’s a reason for the app to remain active in the background — to receive approval.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/24100979/altstore-europe-app-market...
LOL.

Your average JS engineer needs to have all the browsers stripped from their machine. They need to be given the following VM's: 1. tool bar riddled version of windows that only has 8 gigs of ram and at lest one unreliable key. 2. A chrome book, but with all the filters of the nearst school system. 3. Chrome, on linux, 512mb of ram.

And they get what ever the low end Samsung J series its a phone that makes calls as their cell (cause no cheating).

I give that about 3 months till the web is fast again.
> What is the upside to fundraising in the next few months vs waiting for a better environment? If we have a startup and it’s profitable, does it make sense to apply it to wait?

You make it sound like you have a 100% success rate. A lot of applicants apply multiple times so getting in at a worse rate vs not getting at all, what's the pick?
So have mass extinction events.
Depends when you took it. The endosymbiotic origin theory has links being worked out well into the 2000s.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-origin-of-mito...
Once enough votes are there to secure the bill, there's no reason for either party to "waste" any more votes of their members on something that can be so politically unpopular with large parts of their electorate.
> I strongly believe THC/CBD are more like medicine

> Don't believe it's for everyone

A prescription drug then. Pharmas and the rest of the for-profit medical world will love this. And so will the street drug market for the off-medical use.
The best thing about such a rachet would be that it could still allow a tiny amount of scrolling. Just enough for the user to know that it could scroll up... if the lock didn't kick in
Seems like you are answering the first part of your question with the second part
> There is experimental maildir support (one file for each email) which is friendlier for AVs

One (whatever big) file is always way more 'friendlier' for the AV than a bazillion of files. Especially on NTFS and on Win32.

No, don't try maildir on the Windows.
The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic (2013)
The red amounts to around $190,000.00. Let's round that up to $200,000.00 for good margin. If the five executives each took a $40,000.00 reduction in their pay (and that's over the course of a year, mind), that alone puts them back in the black. $40,000.00 isn't a small amount to take off your paychecks, but relatively speaking it's a pittance when the reward is continuing operations and what your paycheck was and would be.

So getting the books straight wasn't that difficult, especially if the people concerned were passionate in their cause. This was a non-profit, after all. If they want to shut down instead, that's within their rights but it's nonetheless perplexing they gave up so quickly.
Is there also web app?
A good explanation of this is given on SICP. Ist about solving the problem, not getting the computer to do something.
Lovely! Right there in the first page of example strings:

> Huge selection of exclusive animal sex videos is what makes 3AnimalSexTube the best animal porn tube site. The site contains 100% user-uploaded free porn. Feel free to send us your feedback or question. Attention! 3Animalsextube.com contains materials of erotic character and it is intended for viewing by an adult audience. Parents, protect the minor children from pornography viewing in a network the Internet ICRA or ASACP This web site is for adults only. All Rights Reserved.
You can tell a stock time series by certain characteristics:

1) There are more jumps down than up. (Maybe not in Pharma, but in general). If there's a gap up, chances are it's on earnings day.

2) Upward movements tend to be accompanied by lower volatility, and downwards by higher.

3) There's a lot of nothing-happened days, and a lot more large jumps than you'd expect in a random walk.

I've also spent a bunch of time generating random walks, and it's true that some look realistic, but they often fall into this trap that stock returns are not normally distributed.

I also wrote a number of random trading backtests, and it's frightening how few times you need to click the "recalculate" button to get a thing that looks like a money printing machine.
You need some pretty advanced genetic and phylogenetic work to put meat on the bones of the theory though and that happened recently
> Out in the literature we can find a huge number of dataflow analyses, some of which are useful to optimize some kinds of code — but it’s hard to know which ones to actually implement. […] First, implementing the analysis itself, which requires creating an abstract version of each instruction in the compiler’s IR: these are called dataflow transfer functions. For example, to implement the addition operation for integer ranges, we can use [lo1, hi1] + [lo2, hi2] = [lo1 + lo2, hi1 + hi2] as the transfer function.

What papers would you recommend for learning implementing dataflow analysis? For example, foundational or tutorial papers.
true, though i think the code style focuses on readability
House Approves Long-Stalled Ukraine Aid over Angry GOP Objections
The Humanise Campaign call for an end to boring buildings
> So maybe my first attempts at marijuana weren't a "glass of beer" but a "bottle of vodka" as an allegory.

Uh, whoah there. I'm just gonna say, you're describing a general lack of impulse control and risk assessment here. This is a significant contraindication to inebriants of any kind.
Here is an joint CSA about Volt Typhoon.[1]

1. PDF https://media.defense.gov/2023/May/24/2003229517/-1/-1/0/CSA...
Try WordPress,

it’s not as bad as you think. Either the hosted version or on a php hosting which are cheap.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544283/nordenholts-million/

> In this novel originally published in 1923, as denitrifying bacteria inimical to plant growth spreads around the world, toppling civilizations and threatening to wipe out humankind, the British plutocrat Nordenholt sets himself up as the benignant dictator of a ruthlessly efficient, entirely undemocratic, survivalist colony established in Scotland's Clyde Valley.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

Albert Allen Bartlett

If there is even a 0.001% chance of an organism with this artificially tacked on to it getting in to the wild, the experiment is not worth anything to be potentially learned from it.

It could cause our starvation well before we could respond effectively.
What matters to me are certain small differences in the UI.
I’m assuming you signed with your own developer certificate and resigned every 7 days?

Last time I did this I was using Cydia Impactor but it’s been a while. I had an automatic local resigning tool on my device that required jailbreak but I think you can also do this with AltStore/AltServer iirc without jailbreak or just do it manually with Xcode.

To your original point upthread, you can run Xcode on a macOS virtual machine if you don’t have a real Apple desktop or laptop.
Their job is to represent us, supposedly. And they keep trying to whip their own supporters into frenzy against each other (quite successfully, I should note - so much so that it's already getting violent at times). The fact that the people doing so are themselves chum buddies tells volumes.
> Boy am I happy not to work with you.

It wasn't my decision to introduce such draconic rules, but in practice it turned out to be a non-issue. Production code should be warning-free, and warnings should be treated as errors. Two simple rules that both make a lot of sense, no matter what language.

PS: that 'unused variables are errors' linter rule is actually coming from the airbnb eslint plugin (which AFAIK is quite popular in the JS/TS world: https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/blob/c25bce83be4db06e6a...)
In Praise of (Physical) Buttons
Like, oh my god?

vocal fry: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3626 (2011) including samples from the 1980s of speakers born in the 1950s

uptalk: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=568 (2008) has samples of US Presidential uptalk, references to 1975 monographs, and:

> Let's note in passing that 9th-century Viking warriors were not stereotypically insecure or in need of approval or affirmation from their interlocutors.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM

(when I discovered they were also wearing leotards and leg warmers on the other side of the Iron Curtain during that era, I was like freaking out?

eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlrRKindB-U&t=120s

but I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised: the 80s were the 80s, everywhere:

eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h-5G58Jask&t=80s )
There'd be less drag on rockets too. That could be a plus for when we need to escape the death spiral we create
I used to smoke weed quite regularly in college (had a well-supplied friend), but had to stop for two reasons. First, I felt it was making me dumb and less ambitious, and second, my body slowly stopped tolerating it. The high was still pleasant, but I'd feel like shit the next day. Then I started getting nauseous and at the end it was just two pleasant hours and then straight to the bathroom to vomit.

I haven't had any weed for 10 years now and I'm not very interested in it. Maybe an edible here and there when I'm retired, that could be nice.
Most data structures taught with imperative languages are just that, data structures for imperative languages, which run on a single CPU core and do not utilize multiple cores well, or at least not without locking mechanisms. One can usually find one of them and copy paste the code, when needed. Much more interesting are purely functional data structures, that can be easily parallelized. That is what universities should teach. I feel like we are quite backward in education with data structures. I can watch a whole data structures lecture/class at no cost besides my own time on YouTube, for famous professors, but when I want to apply it in an FP setting, I will still be dumbfounded and looking for other solutions, which I do not know how to arrive at.
These clickbait articles about PHP and other languages just mislead and portray the programming business as little more than fad and fashion, as if programmers read a TIOBE or StackOverflow survey and suddenly change their languages and tools. These same journalists predicted things like Tesla making every other auto manufacturer irrelevant -- they love the competition narrative and don't actually understand what they write about.

WordPress has pushed their users to use Gutenberg, but you can also see a huge number of WP sites not upgrading to recent versions. I don't think anyone using WP cares about PHP or Javascript, but they do care that they either get left behind with buggy insecure old versions or rewrite their site with the Gutenberg UI.

I have seen lots of PHP development in the last five years, mostly with smaller corp sites (where the PHP portion may live alongside Node or Java or C# pages), and internal sites that won't show up for crawlers and surveys. And I've seen more companies disabling PHP advertising itself in the HTTP response headers, a best practice, but one that can make PHP sites look like "other/unknown" to crawlers.

I have also seen plenty of Javascript development. Pretty much every PHP site uses JS on the front-end, but I've also seen PHP and Node.js mixed on the back-end. Now I see companies experimenting with Go + Node, Go + PHP, and other mix and match stacks.

Tech journalists (most of whom don't write code, because if they could write code they could make more money doing that) love the Highlander story when they write about languages getting more or less popular -- they think There can be only one. But actual software development doesn't work like that, languages don't compete for dominance, programmers rarely get to pick and choose the language or tools (because the vast majority of programmers work on legacy code).

You younger programmers out there supposedly running away from PHP into the arms of Javascript -- be wary of articles like this. The numbers say something but probably not what the author interpreted them to mean. And nothing prevents a professional programmer using more than one language -- in fact choosing the right language based on multiple relevant business and technical factors -- not just fad of the year and dumb tech journalist pieces -- marks the senior developer.
If the exponent is so small that it's not reached 1 in 100,000,000 years we're safe until humanity goes extinct.
Agreed. I used to go on Twitter almost exclusively for his content. Now I have him blocked. What an embarrassing fall from grace all in search of the next like and follower. Addiction to engagement claims another one. Society is materially worse off converting talented workers into social media course selling charlatans.
Are you kidding?
Most of the world is high. Allmost all my Indian or Arab or African or European friends smoke weed where they come from and especially outside Europe it is very Common
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40098469
Instead of a McDonald's order taking about 20s at some cashier it is now multiple minutes at a kiosk.

The work is offloaded to the customer.

It is quite sad since the initial kiosk app was like as fast as the cashier since it didn't try to uppsell you 15 times.

I guess it is a power problem. The employer does not have enough power over the staff to enforce BS procedures that makes them and the customers waste time while programmers happely complies since they are not the 'victims'.
Oh my, what a load of incoherent drivel.
> No, don't try maildir on the Windows.

Why, exactly? I have switched to maildir as soon as it was available as experimental feature, and performance gains when compared to mbox were enormous, especially during bulk operations. Switching folders takes <0.1s, with ~100k messages per folder, on Windows 7 64-bit.
In the Grim Darkness of 2024, There Is Only War
Petty. How’d you find this post hours after it disappeared from new?
Why do you say the IT union is super weak in Austria? Honestly asking.
Weren't these TIL's about hearing an imaginated voice VS imagining the meaning?
I don't understand. The Chinese are supposed to have infiltrated US infrastructure but no-one can do anything about it? This sounds like pure propaganda.
Meta challenges transformer architecture with Megalodon LLM
I guarantee you that whichever points you think are "common sense" on this list, there's millions of people in this country who will disagree with you on every single one of them.
Yeah obviously. Someone had this years ago. I probably didn’t even check. Hahaha ! :)
If it was actually about privacy, they should've passed a privacy bill, but nah, it's just about making sure only U.S. companies can spy on their users, not others, also killing the only competition for Meta.
Dream – A Distributed RAG Experimentation Framework
The reason those two ideas don't seem connected, is because they weren't intended to be.
Sex offender banned from using AI tools in landmark UK case
In the modern workplace, where colleagues often spend a significant portion of their waking hours together, it's not uncommon for romantic relationships to develop. While workplace romance can foster connections and camaraderie, it also carries a myriad of implications, particularly concerning professionalism. Let's delve into the intricacies of this dynamic and explore how it can impact the workplace environment.
Body can tolerate something until it can’t. The event doesn’t have always to be connected to “just getting old, d’uh”.

I have seen drugs destroy people’s bodies and lives. Were there other factors? Yes. Did drug use amplified the other factors? Yes. Does it mean it’s same for everyone? No.

But, the sentiment remains. Putting a mood altering substance in your body can change it in profound ways; be careful.
I think MITRE did a very good job in writing up the details here. If I were a system or security engineer, these seem to be immediate actionable items laid out for me.

Such transparency should serve as a model.
Have there ever been a point where our law enforcement and intelligence agencies haven't been weaponized by our politicians against their opposition? FBI under Hoover, COINTELPRO, Watergate...
I love the Brutalist Houses of Parliament! That’s such a good idea.
Maybe? I’ve thought the same about a lot of things covered in the school’s curriculum with former schoolmates or people who went to the same schools in the same district around the same time with the same curriculum; but over the course of my adult life I’ve heard variations of the question “why didn’t we cover this?” about some piece of information (including specific vocabulary) about some subject or another that was covered and I clearly remember being in the textbooks that were used district-wide. Among friends at least I’ve long ago stopped answering that question with “actually, we did”.

People just forget a lot of what they learned in school, but if you re-teach them it might jog their memory of the first time they learned it… or it might not. Pretty much a coin toss.
Agree and disagree. Certain programming domains and problems are mostly thinking. Bug fixing is often debugging, reading and comprehension rather than thinking. Shitting out CRUD interfaces after you've done it a few times is not really thinking.

Other posters have it right I think. Fluency with the requisite domains greatly reduces the thinking time of programming.