skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given the attachment people have to round numbers, this would have implications. Some things would be bigger. Other things would be considered in different increments.

No, they wouldn't. This would be a very minor effect, because the primary determinant of sizes and amounts is how big you need something to be, or how much of it you need.

Instead, you'd see the same thing we already do see: contexts in which an existing unit was difficult to work with would be given their own units of a more convenient size. Consider how horses are measured in increments of four inches, or how soft drinks are sold in unit sizes of 12 ounces, 20 ounces, and 67.6 ounces.

The units aren't called that, of course; those sizes are "one can", "one bottle", and "two liters".
for SVG chart try: https://www.npmjs.com/package/next-chartist
I have never lost data from well cared TDK and Verbatim disks. TDK even had scratch-proof hardened DVDs. For extremely important data, I’d burn three copies enhanced with dvdisaster error correction data.

I recently moved these disks to a distributed/backed up storage system since I’m low on physical space. All disks read at full speed with no hiccups.

Another alternative is M-Discs if you can find them.
When and where did that really ever work? Evidence please. The bible says nothing about America. I assume that abolishing slavery was where we turned away from biblical principles.
Nobody is proposing to make them mandatory.

They were proposed here as an alternative to domain-restricted sub-CAs, but GP and me have given counterexamples as to why they're not (or at least not without downsides).
Ignorance leads to the assumption a piece of economic activity is zero sum. You see it everywhere
I hope somebody will continue this project. It's a few months away to be a serious alternative to Blender / FreeCAD for certain use cases, with a much softer learning curve.
AT&T announces $7 monthly add-on fee for "Turbo" 5G speeds
Coming at this from a naive outsider perspective, the central problem described in the post (commits to PostgreSQL frequently have serious defects which must be addressed in follow-up commits) seems like one that would ideally be addressed with automated testing and CI tooling. What kind of testing does the Postgres project have? Are there tests which must pass before a commit can be integrated in the main branch? Are there tests that are only run nightly? Is most core functionality covered by quick-running unit tests, or are there significant pieces which can only be tested by hours-long integration tests? How expensive is it, in machine-hours, to run the full test suite, and how often is this done? What kinds of requirements are in place for including new tests with new code?
No, again, because L. Ron Hubbard wasn’t writing about topics generally covered by the philosophy of science. Epistemological anarchy doesn’t mean that words suddenly don’t have meaning and that a sci-fi writer is reclassified as a philosopher of science. Feyerabend was not a philosopher of science because institutions deemed him so, but because he did work on subjects considered to be philosophy of science, which was then considered exemplary by other philosophers of science. This is common sense and not at all complicated for anyone that stops to think about it for half a second.

I am really having to re-invent the wheel here, it seems. And I am having a difficult time believing that you’re discussing this in good faith, so I think I’ll end it here.
Meh. Probably a reaction to getting "burned" by it. But show me something you can't get burned by.
Which is exactly what we do with lab mice.
Just knowing how many people in the planet rely on their alarms for so many things it's definitely the case that at least innocent 1 person has been fired because of this bug preventing an alarm from waking them up for work (probably hundreds or more)

Especially young people with strict policies around hours, an alarm not functioning as expected can literally be the difference between living paycheck to paycheck and losing their income entirely.
I am doing something like this myself. SSH as the access method. Invite only. Quality not quantity. Member get member, so to speak. I can’t sit back and complain and then not do anything.
An interesting question is how much of ancient greek music might be still with us (without being explicitly identified as such).

With the collapse of the ancient world and the spread of Christianity in the Eastern Med various elements of the Grecoroman civilization were actively supressed, but evidently not all (e.g. the language survived and evolved).

Some terminology around musical modes that developed in medieval Europe is attributed to ancient Greece but its not clear how close the musical connection between these two worlds.

On the other hand, Byzantine chant and a rich collection of folk musics are still practiced in the broader region and may be echoes of that earlier musical universe.
What would an ENShitTIFIED Linux distro look like? [video]
I looked [1] at all the prominent whistleblowers in the last ~50 years, and while some people have been seriously harassed and felt their lives were in danger, there's only a single case where someone was plausibly murdered by a private company. (Governments murder whistleblowers all the time.)

Interestingly, it was in the 1970's and the woman blew the whistle for safety practices around the handling of plutonium!

[1] https://twitter.com/dschwarz26/status/1786133630474977785
Originally, NetBeans was very Batteries Included. It even bundled an app server (Glassfish, I think it still might). While it has its bevy of modules and addons, there's not a lot of overlap. My biggest problem with Eclipse at the time (and, granted this was a long time ago) was that, at least for Enterprise Java, you got the raw IDE and it was a smorgasbord of plugins and what not to get it "enterprise ready".

That's just a whole lot of "mess with it" that I'm not a big fan of, so the NB out of the box experience was very good.

While NB supports Ant, for many years Maven has been the de facto project artifact. It's a first class Maven IDE. You don't import Maven, you just use Maven pom files. And that works for me. I can grab any Maven based project off the internet and readily load it into the IDE. More "less messing with it" that suits me.

It also supports Gradle directly, but I don't do much with that either, so can't comment.

My few forays into IntelliJ didn't present to me anything compelling, to be honest. I'm pretty conservative when it comes to this stuff. The free version didn't really do much with Enterprise Java. It's FX support isn't anything amazing. It has a boat load of options and features, which just, honestly, intimidate me. A friend initially tried IntelliJ and when I asked him about, he sent me a picture of a 747 cockpit control panel.

He has since converted from NB to IntelliJ, and he has been doing a lot of front end development (JS, React, et al), something I can not speak to myself. I can't rave or condemn NB in that space. He certainly likes IntelliJ for it.

I love Java. I think it's just an extraordinary eco-system, has been for a long time. NB is one of the reasons I enjoy it.
I don't think you're thinking of this in the right way. Crafting media and creative products of all kinds is like playing poker. You can go all in or you can make little bets where you think you can win.

You're making the assumption that the way to win is to GO ALL IN.

When in reality whether you're making AAA games or a small indie digital artist like Darius Kazemi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw
(Went to high school with him. Amazing guy. His senior project in the electronics lab was a teddy bear that could detect seizures.)

You are just buying lottery tickets.
One bare minimum way to not get your data "stolen" is to not personally make it freely available on the internet.
Suspicious deaths of whistleblowers is terrible PR for Boeing. Seems unlikely anything nefarious would be going on as it only invites additional scrutiny. Unless maybe we buy into the conspiracy that Boeing needed to send a message to future whistleblowers.

The airline manufacturing industry has few employers. The threat of being blackballed for future employment is much more of an incentive to keep quite IMO. But maybe I'm being naive?

Or maybe there's some backhanded government connection that someone outside of Boeing wants to keep quite.
Apple Reports 2Q 2024 Results: $23.6B Profit on $90.8B Revenue
the example files in the repo were made using the macos build of shapeUp and saved (the web build doesn't have saving)
> microsoft's enterprise AI tool isn't a utility though

It’s part of an infrastructure as a service platform, which is why I view it as utility. But I also am saying we need to broaden what we call a utility for the modern world. Not having access to large platforms (like social media) or centralized services (banking) or large companies (which have lots of market share and are one of a few options) is very damaging. What are your thoughts on that?

> and they're not banning police on political or moral grounds.

How do you know this? This seems like it would almost certainly be the result of pressure from political groups.
Yeah, seems like we are just in the same cycle of boom/bust as every other human civilization in history.
Is Hunterbrook Media a News Outlet or a Hedge Fund?
https://archive.ph/2024.05.02-132218/https://www.newyorker.c...
Thanks for mentioning - we're going to take a look into it
Is this seo? I dont care about the ENTIRE life story, just give me the recipe. Still dont know what he did.
Excellent, I've been waiting for Wifi support, it's a game changer. Will be mucking around with this at the weekend.
It's Hard to Get Hired Despite Glowing Jobs Reports
“Birds don’t see well on the old-fashioned CRT screens—their flicker fusion rate is much faster than ours” https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/28/magazine/cockatoo-p...
In CL's solution, the order of superclasses matter to avoid ambiguity. If D is defined like (defclass d (b c) ...) then a method specialized on B is called; if like (defclass d (c b) ...) then it's otherwise.
It is dangerous to allow groups of any sort to be excluded from licensing. This sort of behavior is far too easily weaponized against minority political, opinion, & affinity groups. While I'm not keen on the police having these tools in their hands, who else will be next? Who will be squeezed out of the economy because everyone who provides a particular sort of software or service decides to enact the same policies? This is why software should be sold, not licensed — a word processor should be treated no differently from a loaf of bread.
Stark reminder that Boston VCs are about 20 years behind Bay Area VCs. Can't believe this was even worthy of a techcrunch article.
TinkerCAD.
Befreak is a purely reversible two-dimensional programming language (2003)
Sama & Lex Fridman literally talked about disrupting search in their latest podcast.
"At one point, I received a well-deserved earful from our machinist about how tightly spaced the turbine blades were. The program was taking nearly a month to run and required tiny end mills that broke often. We performed a turbine blade count study to see if we could use fewer blades with more space between them. It turned out the performance impact of running fewer blades was minimal, so we cut the number down, allowing our machinist to use larger, less fragile tools. Machine time dropped to less than a day, which was a significant win for turbine cost and machine time. It was also a good lesson in thinking comprehensively about a design’s manufacturability (those passages between the blades looked so big on the computer screen!) in addition to its performance. "

Once again people learn the hard way that it's valuable to have tight feedback cycles and embedded knowledge on your team.
Would you please title this "Show HN".
I disagree. (1) is only if you don't really like what gets called 'work' and (2) is only if you don't keep creating start-ups or other new things that at least occasionally need 24h support (which includes children BTW)!
I find it amusing that an article about why the person has decided to stop using Arc did a better job of explaining what was special about it than The Browser Company's information-free website ever did.

I never tried Arc because I couldn't find any actual information about it that would have told me why I might be interested. The only way to discover anything about it was to sign up for something.
Just do what every generation who couldn't afford housing has done. Move in with your parents again, you'll even save money.
This sounds like a pitch for a Timecop sequel.
There are frozen bags of heat-in-a-pan Italian dishes in the grocery store that cost half what Olive Garden does (so, the slightly-fancy frozen meals—there are even cheaper ones) and also taste quite a bit better (though still not great).

They used to at least be better than high-side-of-mid-tier frozen grocery store meals. Not anymore. Their continued existence confuses me.
Yes, the background is odd but the foreground is definitely not smooth. I see small little jitters occasionally. At one point I had to wait 15 seconds for it to jitter, though.
I think this is an appropriately flippant response. If you're on YouTube or listening to podcasts or browsing hacker news, it's extremely important to qualify everything you see as something to engage your specific curiosities, advertise, or to serve an algorithm that people have made their jobs.

People are hard up for content, a lot of their audience doesn't have employment anymore and are scared, and they need to put things out at a regular cadence. It's not (necessarily) a conspiracy that you see the same copy pasted tech thing appear everywhere simultaneously, and because it does, it makes you think everyone in real life knows and cares, but that's far from reality. Even someone who's terminally online and chronically checking these things could have taken a long weekend away from their phone and not have heard about it.

As an aside, no employer really gives a shit about your curiosities, so you need to separate all that chronic consumption from what is efficient and practical to do in a job if you have one, rather than leaning into what someone online thinks is the best way or whatever you think is the future.
I think a company that makes diamonds from remains-based carbon already exist
IIRC it defines some common words too like all the color names and uses a lot of names that should be prefixed. Good otherwise.
If there are hundreds of thousands of plant varieties in that massive seed bank in Svalbard, and only 150 plants are cultivated for consumption today, how the heck is eating a more diverse range of plants supposed to replace seed banks? Is it that everyone on earth is going to eat 1000x more plants than we do now, or is it that there will be 1000x more farms, each making 1/1000th as much money?

I know the author is not arguing to tear down all the seed banks, they're saying we should keep plants alive by growing them. But I don't see how it pencils out. To me, this article makes the case for seed banks stronger by pointing out how that proposition is just impossible in reality.
Most database companies run only a small amount of tests before committing. After committing, you run tests for thousands of hours. It sucks. You probably do this all day every day. You just run the tests on whatever you have currently committed. you kind of have to be careful about not adding more tests that make it take much much longer.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
Zero documented cases of corporate assasinations in the US?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdga/pr/two-sentenced-their-rol...

Homicide is a top 10 leading cause of death for americans in their mid 40s.
And sometimes more than one method is invoked, using a sophisticated method combination infrastructure.
I think at this point diffusion model super-resolution out-beats everything else.
Improving this is the subject of RFC #3621 [1], which appeared today.

[1]: https://github.com/Darksonn/rfcs/blob/derive-smart-pointer/t...
I've had an M.2 NVMe drive start reporting bad blocks via SMART. I kept using it for non-critical storage, but replaced it as my boot drive. Obviously not the same failure pattern as spinning rust, but I was glad for the early warning anyway.
I don't get it. Why is it called that?
> This function is O(1)

I think I addressed that in my comment, but to be more explicit, this function is O(1) too:

size_t find_sorted(void* object, void** list, size_t size) {
for (size_t i = 0; i < SIZE_MAX; ++i) {
if (i < size && list[i] > object) return i;
}
return SIZE_MAX;
}

If O(1) cannot distinguish your function from this function, what is its informational value?

> Asymptotic bounds are useful when your input can grow arbitrarily large

But your inputs can't grow arbitrarily large, that's why you can hardcode 3 levels. O(1) is an asymptotic bound, and my point is that it is not very informative here.
it would have more comments if we moved all of these there! Fair enough there's not that much discussion but this one's still a day late dupe.
Such a good list.. worth a submission of its own IMHO
> I saw a Twitter thread arguing how the video game Stardew Valley succeeded due to the way it was marketed. Marketing is important, but maybe the game succeeded because it was cute and had a soul and is fun to play. You can't measure that.

Thought leaders seem to know everything except when to keep their mouth shut for once. But I digress...

If firms are being punished for poor quality, then the system is working, even with enshittification becoming more commonplace. All of the Very Important Business People can sit around and scratch their heads about why the market seems to change on them when they screw up their offering, and they can consult overpriced business fortune tellers to reassure them that it was that pesky market's fault, but that doesn't change the outcome.

I'll miss Red Lobster's cheesy biscuits, but if they've dropped the ball on quality they had this coming to them.
Tell HN: Dropbox Hacked, Passwords Leaked
https://gist.github.com/sergiotapia/5611633e94a0fac1cd1d7306...

Sounds like a bad hack.
> Wait, is that a decision a company is allowed to make ? Is it the beginning of cyberpunk ?

Yes. Freedom of association is literally part of the first amendment. The only limits are around protected classes.

How in the world is forcing a company to do business with someone a LESS dystopian solution than allowing them to decide who they do business with?
RISC OS has been limping on thanks to the efforts of some extremely hard-working volunteers, but a roadblock is coming. The Pi 5 drops support for 32-bit ARM code, in which RISC OS written, and since enormous chunks of it are written in assembly, there is no trivial way to port.

Even so, it's heartwarming that people continue to put efforts into operating systems that aren't related to Unix or Windows. I'm happy to see people use this, and AmigaOS, and BeOS, and others. Computing shouldn't be a monoculture.
Absolutely true. Rent control is the government trying to "fix" a problem they set up to be unfixable. To be honest I think it is by design, if nobody is willing to buy or build housing the government, by default, gets control over it, so they can do what it what they want.

Of course everyone on this website will hate you for suggesting that price fixing has any effect on supply.
I thought I was so obviously over-the-top mimicking the bot from the subject link that it would be obvious satire (and thus point out how easily something could be done on HN)… But I’m not so sure…
DNS is mentioned 311 words into the article.
I haven’t tested this in a while, but as at least until a couple of years ago, an incoming phone call would permanently dismiss an alarm on iOS.
Other end goals than what?

Other end goals than making people happy by serving good quality shrimps for a reasonable price? Obviously they do.

Other end goals than making money? Of course they don't. But neither did Ray Kroc, who was extremely upfront about how McDonald's is a business whose strategy is to acquire real estate, funded by burger sales. Neither do the Waltons, who aggressively cut margins on all their products and compete to drive other retailers out of business. (Neither does General Mills, who used to own Red Lobster, nor Darden Restaurants, the public spin-off that owned Olive Garden and Red Lobster, nor Starboard Value, the activist investor that pushed for Red Lobster to be sold.) None of these companies exists because of a high-minded commitment to customer service, or fair play, or delicious food.

If turning a viable restaurant chain into a chain that no one wants to go to and then selling it is an attractive business proposition for private equity, than it should be for McDonald's and Walmart too. Unless you can point to some specific causal connection between the ownership structure and the decision about whether or not a restaurant should serve stuff that people actually want to eat?
I worked for Intel at a point where it was clear they were going to miss every important technical milestone you could name. The stock stayed high through every bad piece of news and was only when Gelsinger bit the bullet and told the truth that the stock actually tumbled, and it still didn't tumble back to below the point they were when it was obvious they were in trouble. In fact it reached really good high points long after it was obvious they were in trouble.

Shorting is for only the most incontrovertible frauds as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, I could not agree more. I've been in both the dynamic servers and the dizzying array situations and those are absolutely good reasons to use a wildcard. I worked for a company that white-labelled services so every customer had a vanity subdomain, and managing certs because an utter nightmare until we finally just bought a wildcard.

Recommending encouraging non-wildcard certs is the optimal strategy. Only thing I would add, is recommending default to non-wildcard and evaluate deviations case by case.
None of my Verbatim discs (at least >20 recently accessed, maybe >200 over the years incl. the ones I have given away) rotted/corrupted after a decade. I don’t think they’re bad.
It was ahead of its time in UX, but rather behind in the foundations. It's a single user system with no real security, and there was no system of shared libraries - to share code between applications, it was usual to put the shared code in a kernel module and call the kernel. Even the standard C library worked this way.

Amusingly, when you invoked the system console -which was at a lower level than the gui system, effectively pausing it - the command line appeared at the bottom of the screen and the frozen gui scrolled up as you entered more commands; until you exit the system console. (It was also possible to get a command line in a window, which could do slightly less - I forget exactly what)
> How did Ancient Greek music sound?

Like ass. Ass and kazoo.
Hello! This sounds interesting, but I wasn't immediately understanding it. Does your project enable models like Llama, which don't have native tool use, to have tool use? If so, that would be super useful!