skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How come? Basics such as lack of nourishment is not a solved problem in many parts of the world. And of course thats the bare minimum of material existence. Human potential offers way more, right?
> especially with the bespoke `{|h|...}` syntax.

It’s similar to Ruby.
Nothing to do with the industry - it's marketing, it's designed to make people like the company/product more, and the very nature of marketing and people means that if you do a bad job it can have the opposite effect.

This is just how marketing to humans is, and anyone creating a promo video for any type of product knows that the goal is to increase positive sentiment and the risk to try to avoid is increasing negative feelings instead.
Read somewhere that Rutger Hauer wrote the monologue the night before the scene was to be filmed and they went with that.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attacked ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion ... etc". Great scene, but with a bit of spacey nonsense.
European countries must choose between Americanisation (becoming a nation of immigrations) or Japanification (becoming an elderly nation with plateauing economics) because of the low birth rates & high life expectancy.

I see the UK/France going for the former option and Poland/Hungary going for the latter. Will be interesting to see how Germany and Sweden decide.
My recent model Subaru Ascent came with a "smart mirror". When enabled, the rear view mirror is actually a display, showing a view of what a rear camera, mounted high in the rear window, sees. This is not the backup camera, it's got one of those too, down by the license plate.

At first I had a little bit of skepticism. I figured it would be useful when the back is full of cargo or whatever, but limited beyond that.

A year on and I scarcely use the "real" mirror. The image on the camera is brighter at night, has less obstruction of the cars pillars and such, and it's automatic gain control reduces the amount of blinding a big truck behind me can cause
> Is Microsoft canibalising Microsoft ?

that is a very microsoft thing to do
You can open the command palette with : and search for commands and their bindings.
The circle of life. We used to track jobs in a db, but that would eventually hit performance issues (locks, noisy neighbors, etc). So more nosql solutions and services showed up. New devs gobbled up the concepts and APIs but were frustrated that distributed nosql solutions were SaaSified and wanted to bring control back in house, in a single db, and we are back to square one. But with better tooling and hardware in theory. Hopefully you have a dedicated db at least to avoid noisy neighbor workloads but you may still have task queue work that hits scaling limits on the single db causing tasks to interfere with one another--so you can shard the db and isolate task streams, and the circle continues
I believe the answer is much more pitiful, and is a mix of not-invented-here, and “it ain’t written in c”.
As terrible as it is, blowing people up at least serves a purpose (an evil, mean-spirited, ego-driven purpose). A colony on Mars is entirely pointless. It would be like spending $100 billion on a performance art project.
I come from a country where work culture has gotten to the point where no one cares. It's a self-fullfilling prophecy of delays, lies, and lower compensation.

The correct approach is to be flexible, recognise that your family is worth more than the company, but still give a shit about your work and getting it done.
I do not expect to see large-scale germline modification for non-disease purposes in my lifetime (another 20-30 years).

I had to read that twice. Non-disease purposes?

The term "Gene-therapy" to me means therapy as in treatment of a disease or condition. If we're talking about non-disease purposes like enhancements then you're damn right thats still a long way off. I would have put it further off than that, its going to be a minefield.

(Although with 200 different countries in the world it seems like someone will just do it anyway. Maybe someone is doing it now?)
I think modern guitars have their own niche, with a whole scene of people building, modifying, tweaking their guitars, and a flurry of accessories, variants and innovations that expand the artistic range.

I kinda feel it's not so far from synthesizers in a way.

Wind instruments will also probably fall in the "handle casually" space, while still sensible to being dinged and needing care ?

Classic instruments have a harsher split between the centuries old instruments that just can't be replaced [0], and the modern versions that are left mostly for amateurs or pros expanding their range and aiming for different sounds. That's where pro instruments end up at five~six figures prices, and are definitely not tossed around.

[0] I remember being told by a player that their instrument was there before their birth and will still be in people's hands way after they die.
Honestly, yes. Reading the overly emotive language in these comments, it’s pretty clear that many people here are just looking to be outraged and / or got caught up in the herd mentality of it all. I genuinely don’t think that most of the people here would feel this strongly if they hadn’t seen it through the lens of some tweet or click-hungry Apple blog exclaiming “what the hell!”

The error here, on Apple’s part, is that they made an ad that people can so easily lean into hating and publicly attribute it to some sort of intelligent, intellectual attribute that they want to signal to others.

And for the record, I don’t really care about the ad one way or another. It struck me as unremarkable for an Apple ad. It’s blindingly obvious that the right person lit a match at the right time, and this quickly turned into something else. I truly can’t believe that Apple chose now to engage with the peanut gallery.
Both, increasingly the later, in a mix of cost (and who shoulders it and when), regulation and in how far we design around our shortcomings.

For example, a window is a very obvious thing. Obvious things, we value. A balcony. A garden. These things either exist in some capacity or they do not, and it's easily to mentally check them.

Acoustic treatment is more akin to differences in heat insulation. You notice it, when it's a problem, at best. Or it's a problem that you pay for all the time, but you don't even know how much. If buyers/renters don't value something directly, even if it impacts the negatively, the incentives on the builders end to spent on it are understandably low. It requires regulation to be done properly (which a lot of countries have understood and, hence, regulated).
“What the hell is this Vision Pro shit? Do people really want to be riding rollercoasters while they’re taking a crap?”

[1] https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/jobs-dismissed-ipad-mini...
Subaru does it this way. The rear window defrost has a higher density of heating wire around the camera, so on a frosty morning, it clears up very fast
> If anything it releases all the carbon (CO2 + CO) in the atmosphere

Not more than burning my regular fire wood, and infinitely better than fossil fuel

> compositing in the ground is a tad better option

It releases the same amount of carbon in the atmosphere, burning it is just a tiny bit faster than having termite digest and fart it away

The problem with carbon is when you take it from outside of the system (deep in the ground) and put it back in the cycle, anyways, you get the idea
My 2 cents on why I think at the moment that I would find AI-driven games boring in the future (to clear confusion I think games are art):

- Amazing art is rare. Finding this amazing art nowadays is hard, with AI generated mumbojumbo increasing the noise it will be harder. It will be easier to just skip all AI generated stuff to find the real good stuff.

- Art has human touch or a message almost always in it. Purely AI generated stuff lacks meaning, because there's no creator.

- Socially sharing experiences that are unique only to you will be hard. I like to talk with my friends about the newest Nolan film or about Elden Ring's best bosses. If the whole game experience would be unique to me I wouldn't be able to relate with my friends at all and it would be the same as playing a different game.

- Valuing human work. I idolize people who have the skills to make great art. AI takes away from it.

But to these points, I can also see the future where

- AI could generate amazing art a lot, and would make me reconsider my categorical exclusion of AI art.

- AI could make it seem there's meaning behind the art, or an artist would use the AI as a tool to convey his meaning.
- Unique game experiences would be so wild that you would be sharing them and relating via that way.

- AI becomes so common that valuing human skills isn't important anymore

Last point, I think novelty is something I value a lot and that's why in my opinion amazing art is rare. If AI would start creating a lot of novel art, novelty and rarity would just become common, and common is boring.
Please stop using the term "red line" when it comes to Vladimir Putin. There never was any red line his is a war of conquest, there are no defensive considerations it is an all or nothing personal survival gambit. He will try anything and everything if he thinks it will improve his chances of survival.
They could also do better to incentivize their own people to have families. It doesn't have to be one of two sides of the neoliberal dystopian coin.
That something is acetate.
> I feel like the logic behind it is sound, but it just doesn't work for some workloads.

The logic is only sound for interactive plaintext typing workloads. It should have been turned off by default 20 years ago, let alone now.
Can you commit/checkpoint/branch offline?
If you already now it's about an encrypted tunnel you also know it isn't literally a man.

Especially because PITM is already used in other contexts

https://www.acronymfinder.com/PITM.html
This is incredible, (3) is literally the better iPad ad. Really goes to show how poorly thought out the original was.
I'm not bothered by the destruction. Destruction itself can have artistic value. For example, you can't portray the Nazis on screen without showing how destructive they were.

What bothers me is the arrogance to say that an iPad, a device which will be obsolete in a few short years, can replace all those instruments and tools that last more than a generation.

This is similar to the history channels which use AI colorized historical footage which wildly shifts objects from red to blue in a few frames and have the audacity to claim this is an improvement over the original.
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Speaking from experience, debate is easily misread as negative arguing by outsiders, even though all involved parties are enjoying challenging each other's ideas.
At this point, I'd just use Tcl:

foreach x [glob *.jpg] {
exec gm convert $x [regsub {\.jpg$} $x {}].png
}

(bonus, you can use `foreach x [glob *.jpg] y [glob *.png]` to iterate on more than one list at once)

The truth is: if you choose to use something rarer than a ten-leafed clover, you better have massively good reasons to do so. Otherwise, there are already other languages with good subprocess integration; pretty sure Guile would do the trick too.
So were the developments before the last AI winter..
Elephant in the room:

> ...according to a new report by Quilty Space, a market research and consulting firm.

From a quick skim, every dollar figure in the entire article is covered by that caveat.
This would never have happened on Steve’s watch.
Wonder how much effect HN regular Clifford Stoll and his SDInet had on Soviet thinking.
> The sound-suppressing silk builds off the group’s prior work to create fabric microphones.

>In that research, they sewed a single strand of piezoelectric fiber into fabric. Piezoelectric materials produce an electrical signal when squeezed or bent. When a nearby noise causes the fabric to vibrate, the piezoelectric fiber converts those vibrations into an electrical signal, which can capture the sound.

Well, that is ... disconcerting. A slightly funny and dystopian future comes to mind of world leaders having to get naked to ensure they're not being spied on by the possibly nation-state-hacked ad-tracker-subsidized clothes.
Ukraine's Air Force receives first F-16 fighter jet trainer – video
This is a false choice.

Population cannot grow forever, birth rates are dropping globally, and in fact birds rates are already below replacement rate in most developed countries.

So stagnant or decreasing population will happen, and I think actually should happen considering the global environmental crisis.

This does not imply plateauing economics. We need to start focusing on figures per capita, which means using education and technology to maximise productivity instead of relying on cheap human labour and overall GDP figures. What's important is for people to be better off individually.

Mass immigration is destroying homogeneous nation states in Europe, hence the backlash and hence why Eastern Asian countries do not want to follow down the same path.
> It's a similar feeling I get when I observe the vast array of notetaking apps I see made and think here is a place where it would be better to pick one FOSS solution and contribute.

I feel the opposite -- I use a commercial note-taking app for the same reason I use bash. It kinda sucks, but it's on all my devices, and the extra work imposed by the suckiness is more than made up for by familiarity and by not having to invest any energy to make it work seamlessly across my devices.
This is a L2 vs L3 thing.

Most network links absolutely will detect that the link has gone away; the little LED will turn off and the OS will be informed on both ends of that link.

But one of the link ends is a router, and these are (except for NAT) stateless. The router does not know what TCP connections are currently running through it, so it cannot notify them - until a packet for that link arrives, at which point it can send back an ICMP packet.

A TCP link with no traffic on it does not exist on the intermediate routers.

(Direct contrast to the old telecom ATM protocol, which was circuit switched and required "reservation" of a full set of end-to-end links).
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Wow you're so out of touch with reality.

Low/medium end music instruments are certainly cheaper than ipads, and last way way more.

Learning to use your own body is now obsolete? Ok… sure…
Very interesting. In fact this is funny, because trailing slashes are a topic of this article, and news.ycombinator is adding them. But the actual URL is https://michaelnordmeyer.com/benchmarking-hugo-vs-jekyll-vs-... (without trailing slash)
Calculators are one of my favorite "engineering as marketing" tactics. Planning on trying it out.

Why did you choose quarterly pricing over monthly?

p.s. You should post it on product hunt and other websites targeting growth hackers and indie developers, they will find this useful.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40316922 : "pipe" is L3, the network links are L2.
I think that's broadly true, and possibly an aesthetic thing that in part is what pushes me away from certain types of classical music, but look up, for example, Rushad Eggleston[image: 0] for a counter-example of whether or not classical instruments (cello, here) are "allowed" to be tossed around.

[0]: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQX0RCg...
A better reference for us could be to look at a monitor getting smudged with greasy fingers, people eating crisps above a keyboard, or a ball pen repeatedly scratching an 8k monitor ?

I think everyone has their pet irritating thing.
Privacy policy and terms of service should be visible on homepage and in the sign up dialog

The pricing page is also visible when signed in and in a story (no dedicated pricing page yet but it's in the backlog)
It can also drop in accuracy all the way to 100m and often to 30m.

It can be very accurate (depending on conditions), but steady accuracy and momentary accuracy are two different things in practice.
Shouldn’t that go through some buffer? Unless you fflush() between each write?
If you play it in reverse it works much better while simultaneously being more or less still the same commercial.
Expanding to markets outside the US, if I had to guess.

Minimalism doesn't sell everywhere.
The google ad was showing you your data, what's important to you, is safe.

The Apple ad is showing things people love being destroyed and replaced by a inferior replacement
any interest in pointing someone curious about those repeatable patches in the right direction?
Just indicted.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/2-indicted-85-million-n...
Modern Ethernet has what it calls "fast link pulses"; every 16ms there's some traffic to check. It's telephones that use voltage for hook detection.

However, that only applies to the two ends of that cable, not between you and the datacentre on the other side of the world.
Yeah weird. If it was done for length-reasons, maybe better omit the "long" instead of "before"?
From April 17, 2024:
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Tonally isn't it kind of like the 1984 Apple commercial?
MamaRap seems like a fantastic way to celebrate moms in a truly creative and personalized manner! The idea of generating customized rap songs based on specific traits and memories is both innovative and heartwarming.

I'm really curious about the user experience with MamaRap. How intuitive is the process of inputting the mother's traits and memories? And I'm wondering, what do you think makes MamaRap stand out from other AI-generated music platforms?
Union types are my biggest wish for Dart, but unfortunately it doesn't look like they'll be added any time soon.

They've recently added support for compiler-enforced pattern matching over sealed classes, which I suppose does get you halfway there though.
Until a competitor comes along. Companies, do in the end, suffer.

ChatGPT is little more than Google c. 2010
There's no recipe policymakers can follow to raise birthrates over extended periods of time. Sweden, South Korea and Poland have all tried generous financial supports that failed; the smaller Soviet republics tried authoritarian methods that failed.

Even nineteenth century France & Imperial Rome under Augustus don't appear to have been successful in raising birthrates, although I can't pretend to have great data for those examples.
Last time I looked the behavior differed; some OSs will immediately reset TCP connections which were using an interface when it goes away, others will wait until a packet is attempted.
I wonder what kind of entity will find my lost necklace 2000 years from now and what would it think about me.

It's such a shame we can re-live the past through history but there is no way we can see the future.

It makes me think like in every moment of our lives we're on the tip of the ice berg of humanity.

And we still end up being history anyway.
I certainly understand the sentiment, but my question to someone on the "anti" immigration side would be this: what do you see as a possible alternative solution?

Populations are shrinking and to keep the economy in a healthy place, money needs to come from somewhere. The easiest solution is to add bodies via immigration. Otherwise taxes need to go up or governments need to spend money incentivizing people to start families, which will also probably necessitate an increase in taxes.

I moved to the Netherlands a couple of years ago and it's clear to me that the status quo will slowly degrade society eventually. Maybe not in my lifetime and perhaps not in the lifetimes of my future children, but not doing anything is also a decision.

I think if a country decides that it wants to go down one path that essentially leads to a "natural end" that should be their right as a democratic society, but don't try and hide your nations intentions behind flowery language about inclusivity and diversity. If some ideals are so important to the culture, then I think these nations need to be honest and start codifying more aspects of their desired culture into law or start investing heavily in social programs to foster that longing culture.

Please, I absolutely want to here some of your ideas on all sides of this issue! Right now I'm just an immigrant sitting on the sidelines waiting to see how this all shakes out.
Apple "Mother Nature" Ad
There's a minor storyline in an episode of 'For All Mankind' where a NASA engineer urinates on himself in the flight control center so as to not leave his post while astronaut lives were in danger. Always wondered if it was inspired by an actual incident during the Apollo era.
I haven't played my guitar in ages and this comment was so bleak that I had to pick it up and play a few songs just to feel good.
Well, isn't it like a nice purple car or a cool looking NFT with extra (or less?) steps?
I don't have the answer, but I was reminded of a comment years ago, which linked to a scanned news paper, which contained a bit about it.

Comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20854234

Scanned news page : https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19800707&id=...

It talks about out-spending to force negotiation.
It will never be enough.
I think your current layout is great
Is it possible to set it as a global OS setting, inside a container?
Yea, i am mostly rambling about the "only" part
Try Mack's silicon earplugs.
they are not to be placed inside the ear canal
but only to cover the entrance from the outside.
so no unpleasant pressure, no heart beating etc.
using them for years.
Why is it soul crushing? It looks to me like people are projecting their fears and insecurities onto this single ad. Sure, strategically Apple possibly should've caught on before releasing, but people are still being overly sensitive. Should everyone be throwing tantrums about Devin as it's presenting itself to replace developers? It is what it is, things change.