skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got that one backwards:

> Hyperventilation is irregular breathing that occurs when the rate or tidal volume of breathing eliminates more carbon dioxide than the body can produce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperventilation
I wonder would actually deleting questions be a good thing. If there is no old question the same question asked again can not possibly be a duplicate... So constant loop of deleting questions might actually be effective way to fix some problems. And there is enough off-site backups already.
I hope this doesn’t come off as snide, but is there a positive trait that abusive people won’t abuse for their own benefit?

In my view, if there is one I’ve yet to encounter it.

Which would suggest it’s largely the responsibility of each individual to decide what is important to themselves, and how much of themselves they’re prepared to sacrifice in pursuit of said thing.

For some, perhaps works of art that hold meaning for millions of people over many, many years would qualify. For others, it’s a highly paid dev job. I suspect the difference between the two (and all others) “exists” more in the eye of the beholder than folks on any side of the equation would care to accept.

You see it as unilateral loyalty. Perhaps he saw it as something different, or at least lived his life with both eyes open to his own experience. The only thing we can both say for sure is that we will never know for certain.
It has pattern matching, Groebner basis computations, expression simplification, series expansion, numerical integration, etc.

Deep down every CAS is about manipulating polynomials :)
Thanks!

I'm planning to add built-in sync and sharing features (so paying the cost of servers etc). I also thought about it a lot and tried to make it as affordable as possible ($2 a month paid yearly). I'm reluctant myself to pay for subscriptions, but I hope to create enough value for people to jump on the offer. Another thing is that I'm planning to create more cross-platform apps like Plume (with sync etc) and to tie them all under one subscription.
Monitors with screens on both sides. Such a brilliant idea! Imagine the cost savings for companies putting hundreds of people on rows and opposite each other.
It's good to hear from folks at Neeto! When comparing to Typeform, Inqform is much more affordable, and 99% of our features are available for free. We are still in the early stages, but we will be rolling out a bunch of features focusing on user experience and conversion that will make us distinct from our fellow form-building platforms
Because of the strong reaction against vaccination negationists, it seems we sadly are leaving stuff completely out of the debate and some topics have become forbidden. It's rather unfortunate, because this is a valid point.
A path can be reasonably retraced using inertial guidance, if things aren't too windy.

It doesn't need to get all the way home, just far enough away in the right general direction without hitting an obstacle... And most prisons are not surrounded by skyscrapers.
Hi Harshith, love what you'll are building and love the clean interface. We've started using Tegon and I think this might be the PM tool we've always been looking for
Anyone remember how he marketed his computer games?
Doesn't the CPU capability check come back and bite you when doing major (i.e. full image) updates, though, with Windows Update refusing to proceed? That's according to my experience when fiddling with a Windows 11 install on an outdated system, at least, but it could've been some other problem.
Especially in a fs that falls apart if you look at it wrong like ZFS
You remember mushrooms after.
Exactly this! Yet the overwhelming majority of the comments takes it for a real story and jumps to share their experiences. I wonder if it was generated by an AI that just does not have an ability to cross check what it wrote.
The word I would use is "appropriate". I'm not sure a couple of reactionary right wing talking points constitute good reasons, but you do you.
how much should it cost per PR, in your head, and why?
First they ignore you...
Nvidia invests in AI-powered weed zapping ag-tech startup Carbon Robotics
One case where this might go wrong is if you accidentally delete a file, the deletion replicates and you're left without a backup. Replication is nice but it is not a replacement for backup.
It is surprisingly easy to correlate continuously increasing and continuously decreasing functions

https://donhillson.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/link-found-betwe...
...in a city
You don't actually need a dedicated ZFS backup program. A simple cron script will handle incremental backups just fine. If anyone is interested, the script we use to backup our multi-TB PostgreSQL database can be found here: https://lackofimagination.org/2022/04/our-experience-with-po...
Great story, nicely written. The goal is to show off ;) But really nice to read.

Definitely, this is a bad example and precedent to build toxic and non-cooperative environments. And instead of solving the issue it make it worth.
In addition to "humility implies self-awareness", I'd like to point out a parallel thread of "disclosure implies honesty and diligence."
So who do you have this conversation with if history has shown that yes people are the ones who stay close to CTO and others get filtered?
It’s very frustrating when people consider the possession of information equivalent to malice. It suggests that the right way to run society is to keep people stupid and harmless.
One use case is in theoretical physics, where expressions that take up about a terabyte are generated when computing Feynman diagrams, but only in the intermediate stages. By the end of a two-month computation you get a result similar to equation 4.5 in this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.01044

An exact answer is desired since the final result reveals some structure that can be studied, and because it is very hard to get a numerical result due to the occurrence of spurious poles. For example, evaluating

(1-x)/x - 1/x

numerically is challenging around x=0 even though symbolically it can be made regular.
Great idea. Have done the same.
Then you risk with CTO saying "no, we just can't afford it."

And then it feels like they might more actively look into that.
Probably this House M.D. -tier answer.
Pin Number Distribution
We've somehow gone from this:

> They do serve ads [...] Your attention isn't free.

to something like this:

> They tag my ankle to mark me as a person who enjoys beer, and make me watch an ad until 2% of my phone's battery is depleted, and then they come to my home and knock on my door at night to sell me beer.

...which... I mean, huh?

Stack Overflow is invading your body, restricting your personal liberty, and visiting your home? Really? That's a fucking thing now?
If you are asking that question, I guess you must have wondered about this for years, right, in fact nearly a decade? I mean why would Google have bought DeepMind with them publishing in peer reviewed journals for years after? Same for Meta (formerly facebook)? I think there is a well trodden path being followed here ... and I am surprised by your surprise.
Id rather not go round in circles while ChatGPT feeds me bullshit information. When this happens i go to Google and read a SO answer with the correct information and also get an informed discussion around the subject.

For the easy answers LLMs are fine, but I usually want an answer to a niche issue or edge case, where LLMs have to be constantly told they are plain wrong, before getting to something resembling an answer.
No Datadome Javascript:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=4969195955634417&w=aK3Znm4...
This is why I run both FreeBSD and Linux on my backup systems and use restic, rsync and zfs replication to move the data there.

Sure all the systems use a zfs file system but I am diversifying risk and don't really trust the other copy on write file systems.
There's no reason to use it now, yes. It wasn't a dead end because people absolutely could and were using it just fine (if not happily)
Temporal is completely above and beyond Asyncio. It's a full scheduling of work and queues that's cross-machine, cross-language, and very transparent.

A workflow is the code that handles only deterministic actions and calls activities.

Activities are functions that do anything you want, typically affecting other systems with network or file calls.

A worker is the running process connected to Temporal with registered workflows & activities for it to pass work to.

I'm doing a lot of work with alert handling and provisioning systems using Temporal. Temporal in two minutes is a great video explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-18XztyN6c
And I'd take ChatGPT any day of the week 1000x over. That doesn't mean anything.
This is why the XRender extension was introduced. There you have antialiasing, all blending modes you could wish for, subpixel coordinates, advanced drawing operations like gradients and it is fast because it is fully hardware accelerated. All working over a very efficient wire protocol. E.g. Cairo uses Xrender as a backend.
>Where?

-50

Marking duplicate. "You should attempt searching before asking such obvious questions."

This question has already been answered here:
< https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20861356 >

Closed 3 seconds ago.

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or some such ;) You may not come across it personally, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. SO is successful as a QA platform(or was anyway) despite this shortcoming, not because it is a feature and it doesn't happen. If a lot of people are talking about the same thing, maybe people should at least pay cursory attention to the issue rather than "No, it doesn't happen" (Not aimed at you, but there are absolutely comments like this every time this gets bought up.)
Doesn't Phind do this? It cites sources in its responses.
Smalltalk for example used 1 bit (or 2 bit?) tagged pointers
Compared to .NET's P/Invoke this is still way too convoluted. Of course Java has its own domain problem such as treating everything as a reference (and thus pointer, there is a reason Java has NullPointerException rather than NullReferenceException) and the lack of stack value types (everything lives on heap unless escape analysis allows some data to stay on stack, but it is uncontrollable anyway) makes translation of Plain-Old-Data (POD) types in Java very difficult, which is mostly a no-op with C#. That's why JNI exists as a mediator between native code and Java VM.

In C# I can just do something like this conceptual code:

```

// FILE *fopen(const char *filename, const char *mode)

[DllImport("libc")]
public unsafe extern nint fopen([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string filename, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string mode);

// char *fgets(char *str, int n, FILE *stream)

[DllImport("libc")]
public unsafe extern nint fgets([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string str, int n, nint stream);

// int fclose(FILE *stream)

[DllImport("libc")]
public unsafe extern int fclose(nint stream);

```

So much less code, and so much more precise than any of the Java JNI and FFI stuff.
Whether you have the same reaction or not, I think it's interesting how badly Apple mis-judged what the reaction would be.
The thing with event loops in python is that they are not a single, all-governing scheduler (as e.g. in the BEAM).

ev loops instead are a mid-layer concept that sits below other infrastructure such as threads and processes. And (perhaps somewhat frustratingly) it is not too uncommon to have multiple ev loops in parallel. See for example the proxy.py project, which offers to run one async loop per process for a speedup.

As a result, there are some incentives to swap out the loop itself, e.g. for faster implementations like uvloop, because they are somewhat pluggable anyways.
Why the AWS CDK won the war (inside my head)
Presumably there is some legacy integration or blocker why it doesn't run.
It depends on what you want to do. It should be much faster than Sympy and it is often much faster than Mathematica, for example if you do pattern matching or are manipulating rational polynomials.

The idea of Symbolica is that you can use it as a library inside your existing projects, which is harder to do with MM since it is its own ecosystem.

Moreover, for personal projects Symbolica is free.
Are you saying this is obvious because people have published the exact same benchmarks which are 100% comparable in journals? If so where are they? I have seen quite a few published benchmarks that could not quite be reproduced, tbh. So, again, what makes this "obvious" to you?
They seem to be struggling a bit and the there's no wind or waves. Maybe coupled with a battery like an ebike it might be sustainable for longer than a few minutes.
Why do companies keep on treating employees like they do ? Just read this article.
Yes, I recently signed up and they asked for a photo id. Just a photo id, not this ridiculous request.
Because of our limitations, we have to compress reality more in order to reason about it. This means we're blind to some ideas that computers are not. Just like a depth 1 chess engine can't see what's happening at depth 3 but has to make an imperfect guess.
Show HN: Language Learning App
Backstory: my partner and I developed a language learning app that had some good traction around 2016, but we couldn’t raise enough money to build it out and market it further as much as we’d have liked, and since 2020 it’s largely been in hibernation.
We’re talking about diving back in and fundraising again, but are concerned the market has passed us by and, product wise, things may be too stacked against us, even if we raise money.
We have some unique approaches:
- In our main course, we data mine TV transcripts to teach people vocabulary in order of how likely they’ll be to encounter it.
- We built algorithms to track how well a user knows each meaning of a word. This allows us to prioritize teaching sentences that have the most words/grammatical concepts each specific user needs to practice, and it lets us teach through personalized spaced repetition.
- We let users learn from special topics and songs whenever they want. They can help bridge their personal vocabulary with the vocab of the course/song. For example, if you already know 50% of the words in a song that you’re interested in, we’ll teach you the 50% you don’t know so that you can understand all of it.
My real question is: is our actual user experience uniquely positive enough to differentiate us?
We built the app (Language Zen) to go up against Rosetta Stone, early Duolingo, Babbel and Busuu. Since then, Duolingo has advanced a lot, and there are new, interesting apps like Speak, Mondly, Lingvist and Falou.

If we decide to stick with it and successfully raise money, our main focuses will be:
- Building out additional languages (we currently just have Spanish)
- Gamifying the experience
- Building more exercises and material to help users with grammar and other challenges (while showing
off our adaptability algorithms more)

If you have experience with our competitors, I’d be super grateful you give our app a try and let me know your thoughts on if what we have is special/worthwhile.
If you hit a paywall, send me with your email and I’ll give you free premium (micah@languagezen.com).
Any thoughts on the product or company would be sincerely appreciated.
Here are the links:
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/language-zen-spanish/id1393842...
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lzr&hl=en\...
>You mean like Allegro CL? LispWorks? Genera on DEC Ultrix?

None of these cover my whole description, namely the last part:

"Or they'd have turned Lisp machines from hardware into a "Lisp machine" OS or IDE/REPL/etc environment for other OSes SUCCEEDING".

I wasn't talking about mere existance of those.

My argument was "if the issue was not Lisp falling in adoption in general, but merely Lisp Machines being dedicated hardware (as the parent claimed), then Lisp OSes for generic hardware and Lisp IDEs/envs for popular OSes would have succeeded.
Any chance we can start reporting spam comments? Looks like the AI tidal wave has arrived.
I have not been fired, but my output has been ignored or heavily filtered by layers between high leadership and myself.

And I have been given feedback in perf reviews that I have been disagreeing too much.

And in those cases it did turn out later that I was right, so I wasn't being difficult for no reason.
Hating Apple Goes Mainstream
You can look it up and the Dunning Kruger effect is probably not real.
I think author is totally ignoring the maintenance overhead that kubernetes comes with compared to ECS. Getting up and running with the most complex Kubernetes setup is easy for a long time now. For that, there are tons of CLIs that would boot strap a cluster in a cloud and if not that, you have very actively maintained Ansible playbooks and what not.

It is the upgrade path where the friction comes from.
> all chosen because colors are deeply cultural

> all different and arbitrary

Those are the extremes of the spectrum.

Color choices are not at either extreme.

Most color choices are arbitrary, some of them are shallowly cultural, and some of them are deeply cultural.

HN having an orange banner at the top isn't significantly cultural. Traffic lights are worldwide culture. Black or green for positive money and red for negative money are US culture. Red for positive money and black or green for negative money are Chinese culture. These choices tie into older associations, which affects the depth. But even if they were shallow they'd still be culture.
wow, a cool sites!
My experience - many are far off and most of the time published tables of different papers are hard to compare. If you make the assertion here of these results to be flawed, I would like to see more substance (code, reproduction,...). And for balance, for the same reason, hard to verify the accuracy of these results without further insight.
Your position lays bare the new and industry-destroying economic problem introduced by opaque-data-source LLMs. The economic value provided by the originator is captured fully and completely behind rentier models.

Beware the ease and convenience of all that "insane value". This way lies digital serfdom.
Awesome, this is similar to the thread conversations on Slack.
Show HN: Notion to blog and LinkedIn auto-posting
You can create your own blog using Notion. Additionally, you can generate leads by (auto) posting your blog on LinkedIn, where your colleagues will automatically share your post.
This one-upmanship is very much part of climbing culture. From the top down, the hierarchy is: free soloists (climbing at height without any protection), trad climbers (carry the rope up with them, set their own protection), sports lead climbers (carry the rope up with them, bolts are set into the wall), top rope climbers (rope already there dangling from the top). Right down the bottom, you have aid climbing, when you use equipment to haul yourself up on a rope.

And then there's indoors vs. outdoors, with some dedicated outdoor climbers regarding anything done in a climbing gym as "not real climbing".

Most people don't take this literally, and it's generally considered to be a standing joke in climbing. Sadly, though, some people take it very seriously.
To be clear, being in “the public domain” has a specific and clear definition. You’ve licensed under MIT (which is great!) but it’s not the same thing as PD or a PD-equivalent licence like CC0.
Phoenix LiveView hot-reload can preserve socket state
> If two licenses are substantively equivalent, a court is likely to rule that it's a-okay. One would most likely need to show a substantive difference to have a case.

Which does exist and can affect the ruling. CC notably didn't grant sui generis database rights until 4.0, and I'm aware of at least one case where this could have mattered in South Korea because the plaintiff argued that these rights were never granted to and thus violated by the defendant. Ultimately it was found that the plaintiff didn't have database rights anyway, but could have been else.
Someone should create an hn summary extension so that those are inserted under the link instead of having them in the comments.
What's Up with Llama 3?
Hmmm from what I understand zrepl can do copy of source to backup both in a push or pull mode. I would say the push mode is still a very fragile way to do backups.

Imagine source machine is compromised and attacker decide to delete/encrypt your data, and see there is a backup mechanism connecting to the backup machine, what prevents him from using the deleting/encrypting the backups as well?

You'd definitely want the backup machine to pull the snapshots, and have no way to connect to it from source machine directly with a user that would have access to the data or an admin account. That means no ssh keys on the source machine, no password kept in a password manager that would be loaded on the source machine either.

Another strong method would involve 3 machines:
source --push--> replica1 <--pull-- replica2

Where source and replica1 would have ZFS filesystem and snapshots while replica2 is using a different filesystem (LVM + ext4 ) and snapshots to safeguard from replicating bugs that lead to data not being available. ZFS snapshots could be saved as individual files on this filesystem.
Installing Tailscale on Asus RT-AX86U Router for a Free Home VPN
that isn't a summary. the ad for wizlynx isn't in the link
Stuff that we can't program directly, but can program using machine learning.

Speech recognition. OCR. Reccomendation engines.

You don't write OCR by going "if there's a line at this angle going for this long and it crosses another line at this angle then it's an A".

There's too many variables and influence of each of them is too small and too tightly coupled with others to be able to abstract it into something that is understandeable to a human brain.
Amazon Ads announces three new Streaming TV ad formats
Tangentially:

> [The RSL is] implemented in gittuf using a custom git namespace. The RSL is stored under refs/gittuf/reference-state-log and the policy metadata is stored under refs/gittuf/policy.

I'm glad to see more systems making use of git ref namespaces, which I think is an underused aspect of git for extending it. Other examples include git-notes [1], and Gerrit's various uses, such as user-facing push points, where the virtual ref "refs/for/branchname" receives commits for review that are destined for branchname, "refs/changes" for storing review data, and NoteDB [2] for storing project and user configuration.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes

[2] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/note-db...
Congrats on the launch! We'd be in business for an alternative and I also thought about building something on my own. What I'm missing would be project-specific workflows (i.e. coding tasks have QA stages at our company) and higher flight levels like initiatives to sync product management, design and engineering.

Do you have a roadmap?
I’ve been primarily pentesting medical devices for the past few years and these companies will never willingly hand over code. If you want the code to audit then you’re going to have to yank it out of memory, a jtag or come up with some other disclosure. Not to excuse these companies, but they’re under an enormous amount of regulations between so many different regulatory bodies. But there’s a lot of reasons why infosec people avoid medical stuff in the first place, it’s not for the faint of heart. But then there’s probably worst stuff out there.. like auditing diebold voting machines.
Nice funny joke for European people.