skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is one page on the website, the rest of it is a lot more friendly (https://qbix.com/communities or https://qbix.com/invest for instance).

Sorry the experimental stuff is not slick enough for you yet, we don’t have the resources of Facebook or even Automattic. We worked very hard for 12 years on the foundations at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform but I am sure you can find many faults there. (I’d like to hear about them btw.)

On the other hand, many other projects like the E programming language, Capn’proto, Linux etc. are also very complex and did not have fantastic and slick documentation, first adopters also had to read some words in order to get it.

This is an open source project. You are welcome to reduce the words and make a summary. Perhaps when we start marketing to a broad audience, we’ll reduce it to 10 word slides and sound bites, or jingles.

Until then you can try it yourself, the documentation is at https://community.qbix.com and technical documentation is at https://qbix.com/platform/guide
Hey! That's my side project. So glad to hear people enjoy it.
There's also the issue when private companies just do what the government expects of them, or even pressures them to do. There was a brief controversy (canonized by CBS news) when the current administration ordered social media sites like twitter, youtube, and and facebook to remove posts that they thought were false or painted them in a bad light. What is the point of placing restrictions on government if they can just have a private company do it?

I'm also tired of seeing people say "It's a private company, they can do what they want." I don't know why the average person is so enthusiastic about the idea of getting taken for a ride by huge corporations.
Dockable UI, fast, stable, form and function. Really a masterclass in software design to this day.
I’m sure the coked up Reddit executives and coked up open ai sales teams really care about that one
I remember saying at one point to my operations manager at Ericsson, "how does anyone make money in this business?" he laughed and said "I have no idea".

I cannot explain how poorly managed Sprint was, it'd take me an essay to just explain the various dysfunctions I saw there.

That said, it did improve some once Softbank bought them.
~9500 BCE + 2024 - 1 = ~11,523 years ago.

So yea not quite 12,000 years ago.
> My hope when buying it was that I could have my car drop off my then 11yo son at school and save me a commute.

I’m always slightly amazed that people bought this. Like, everyone who worked in the space was saying “yeah, no” at the time, as far as I remember; it was really just the techno-optimists claiming this stuff.
You can make any lossy compression scheme into a lossless scheme by appending the diff between the original and the compressed. In many cases, this still results in a size savings over the original.

You can think of this as a more detailed form of "I before E, except after C, except for species and science and..." Or, if you prefer, as continued terms of a Taylor-series expansion. The more terms you add, the more closely you approximate the original.
If you were able to read the statement you would clearly see no such thing.

Erecting more and more wind farms to make you feel fuzzy at night is absurd. We have the solution - metaphoric you just doesn't want it because reasons.
I think that's a socially very interesting comment.

Sadly I'm afraid that the ToS is going to f*k us on this
My understanding is that Rust has designed the rest of the String API under the assumption of validity. You can't create an invalid String because the methods that operate on strings strive to be tightly optimized UTF-8 manipulation algorithms that assume the string has already been cleaned. Pack all of the actual robustness in the guarantee that you are working with UTF-8, and you can avoid unnecessary CPU cycles, which is one of the goals of systems languages. If you want to skip it, go for raw strings or CStr -- all raw byte buffers have the basic ASCII functions available, which are designed to be robust against whatever you throw at it, and it shouldn't be too hard to introduce genericity for an API to accept both strings and raw data.

That being said, I'm not sure how this is actually implemented, I assume there is still some degree of robustness when running methods on strings generated using `unsafe fn from_utf8_unchecked` just by nature of UTF-8's self-synchronization, which may be what the article is pointing out. It's possible that some cleverly optimized UTF-8 algorithms don't need valid data to avoid memory issues / UB that trips the execution of the entire program, and can instead catch the error or perform a lossy transformation on the spot without incurring too much overhead.
I too always got the impression that 'cancellations' were spearheaded by young, leftists. Not sure where gender comes in to play though.
I was surprised to find how many people still use Winamp now.
Good point. Lot of people do not have a plan to wean off of these class of drugs. Lifestyle changes can be hard. Sadly some just have to stay on them for long periods to maintain their loss.
Of course, there would also be other markers. Fertilizers is one.

Another is the plants and animals they used for food. Why are some plants and animals still indigenous to certain areas, assuming there was a small globe spanning civilization at some point in the last million or so years? Shouldn't this civilization have at least brought the crops and livestock to other areas of the globe they visited?
That is a very common thing with ancient and even modern shamans.

So, how does saying so in a book about ancient shamans equate to an endorsement that aliens built the pyramids?

People love attacking this guy but the attacks always seem to be remarkably poor strawmen. What's so hard about believing we were smarter than acknowledged 10,000 years ago?
I think the Raspberry Pi foundation doesn’t have a very compelling runway to launch their products into many areas. Someone, contradict my thinking.
I'm one of those 12 people apparently. I don't know, I still listen to mp3 music on my PC almost every day... And I have yet to find another player that is as fast and lightweight as WinAMP
The effects ware off after about 3 days and your normal appetite generally kicks back in. Mounjaro is intended for long term use for diabetics so, assuming you’re taking it for weight loss like myself you’re generally able to quit whenever you feel like it.
Firefox also uses reference counting plus a trial deletion based cycle collector to manage C++ DOM objects (and cycles through JS). In fact, Graydon was responsible for the initial implementation.
Remember that Google demo where they showed an assistant who could make phone calls on your behalf?
Really we do have numbers on that?
It's windows-only? Weird.
Actually repeated, bot posted topics might not be bad for AI training. Maybe AI can learn sentiment by seeing answers to the same question change over the course of several years.

Examples from the current top rated askreddit monthly thread:

Scientific breakthrough

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1c9kenq/what_sci...

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/wrbrs9/what_scie...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/x17fuf/what_scie...

Travel Tips

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/10iptoa/what_is_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ueoys0/what_trav...

https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/16lzwfc/what_are_yo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1iqvhc/whats_you...
> It's just not possible these tools were used to create the amazingly accurate pieces you find in Egypt, fashioned in some of the hardest materials we know.

The pyramids are almost entirely made of limestone. Limestone is around a 3.5 on the mohs hardness scale.

The scale goes up to 10 (diamond).

Granite (king's chamber, sarcophaguses, plugs) is around 6, 6.5.

Guess what's above that? Quartz. AKA your common desert sand.
Was it more about the device than the network? I used mobile WiMax from Clear for years until it ended its service. For what it was, it worked great. It wasn't necessarily a speed demon, but it was reliable. I used it to avoid public WiFi congestion, as a backup when my home network was down, and in 'bring your own infrastructure' situations.
Tell that to the massive increase in relevance and usage that Linkedin has seen, and the huge money maker that is now Github Copilot / Actions / Dev Environments.
> You get that strait of gibraltar [sic] is so small you can see the other side right? So hardly middle of the ocean to sail your boat when you can see land on both sides with your eyes.

Not sure what this was supposed to say, but it appears to be a red herring.

Proactively: Design and build yachts that are more robust to blunt impact.

Situationally: Hunting rifle or speargun.
Myself as well. I recently listened to an episode on Egyptian history from this podcast and really enjoyed it — consider checking it out!

https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/
I’m not sure I’d call Reddit ‘open’ after their plug-in hostilities.
Beethoven's deafness may have influenced his compositions in unique ways, leading him to focus more on the emotional part of music..
Lean in fact compiles to C so the C FFI is trivial to use. However, the only general programming facilities Lean has seem to be those required to bootstrap the language. I find it equal amounts funny and sad that you still cannot get the Unix epoch in Lean; you need to call the C functions through the FFI.

For verifying code Lean is not great right now (see a sibling comment in this post). For embedded code in particular, I remember there was a low-level formalizer, but I cannot remember what it was. This post here has many discussions and links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31775216

Maybe I am remembering this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS_(programming_language)

But I was under the impression there was an almost assembly-level functional programming language with formal verification capabilities; I cannot recall it.
But you can go to non-mainstream subs where there's a different voting population and that doesn't happen (well, it does, but the "popular opinion" can be different within the sub).
Kepler-62's Rocky Worlds' Discovery
This is certainly overhyped or even hyperbolic to claim, unless the real claim is that AI will maintain its own source code, and presumably also improve on it, which is a massive claim at the moment.
Megalomania is characterized by delusion.
A long list of xgboost code examples
That's the thing, I feel like the moderation of HN is really good. The admins do a pretty good job stopping things before they get too crazy, and as a result it's just a lot more interesting to talk to people.

I still argue with people here occasionally but I generally actually feel like the person arguing is actually willing to change their mind, not score points for some pithy remark on Twitter.
It will possibly kill lots of community contributions. Currently its easy to add missing features to things like filters.
Who is going to do that in rust? I'm yet to see a practicing rust programmer IRL.
Well, language benchmarks fairly uniformly show that to be untrue in general. None of the fastest languages have forced immutability. It's not like it's a novel, untested idea.
> I can't recall any other company doing this

Years ago Microsoft used to do stuff like this, notably releasing .NET Framework under its Reference Source License (you're allowed to look at the code, but that's about it).
The sidecar and the main container run in the same network namespace. They can reach eachother over the loopback interface. It's "safe".

However I'm also of the opinion you should just be mounting tls certs in your container and use your TLS stack of whatever language you're using directly instead. It's a lot simpler
You’re talking anecdotes, I’m talking data. Working in financial services though, I am definitely interested to hear what establishments nearby you do not support contactless payments at this time.

> 31 million Americans tapped a Visa contactless card or digital wallet in March 2020, up from 25 million in November, with overall contactless usage in the U.S. growing 150% since March 2019. The U.S. now has the most contactless cards of any market globally at 175 million, with nine of the top ten U.S. issuers actively rolling out new contactless cards to customers. U.S. consumers have been quick to adopt these new cards; not only do more consumers have cards, they are using them regularly as contactless card transaction growth continues to accelerate.

From my MasterCard citation above.
I'm hardly "up in arms", but these announcements bother me because they're just rubbing in the fact that if you object to your content being used to train AI, the only option you have is to stop participating in the internet.

That's why HN is now the only public internet site that I participate in. I should quit even this, but I just can't. Addiction is a terrible thing.
There is still the problem of recycling the blades. https://theconversation.com/wind-turbine-blades-inside-the-b....
is there a good Mac port that supports newer, especially loss less, codecs?
My answer applies to both cases actually.

For example, if one wanted to maximize profits, energy wise, there are better options than wind turbines and batteries. The choice to go with wind seems politically motivated due to optics of the alternatives.
There definitely is. You don't need support for all the obscure formats that ffmpeg supports.

It would still cost a lot though.
Ask HN: What are the most relevant IT books with international editions?
Heads up: depends on an account at Cloudinary
They did that with the special varnish in the film The Red Violin (1998)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Violin
So we're continuously beta testing with ADHD coaches, psychiatrists, and people with ADHD to understand their specific use cases. This allows us to create a tool designed for ADHD, adding things like guided conversations through suggestion buttons and integrated tools specific to starting tasks.

Right now, we have timers and music as our first tools but our future plans include an entire toolbox of tools specific to task initiation and executive dysfunction.

Our ultimate goal is an AI utilizing your specific 'user manual' with effective strategies and systems for you and then giving you tools specific to those strategies when you need them. I.E. A timer may work for one task, but it then loses its novelty, but website blockers and classical music work effectively for the next so it applies those tools without the extra micro-steps of setting up that infrastructure yourself.
GPT-2's dataset used every reddit post with more than 3 net votes as training data, IIRC. Seems likely they've iterated on that approach since.
Don't use 2-factor if they're not going to provide the hardware for it. Demand a U2F (e.g. https://www.yubico.com/) if they don't hand out phones. It's not your account and you're only responsible for the security inasmuch as they provide the means to make it secure.

(Not necessarily directed at parent, but anyone who is unsure or worried about this.)
You are this https://www.sunbeltrentals.com/equipment-rental/earth-moving... away from fast internet
The dow Jones index is price weighted instead of market cap weighted. Constructing an index like that doesn't make any sense, e.g. a stock split reduces the weight of the stock in the index even if the market cap of the company stays the same![1]

It is therefore meaningless and best ignored.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/plus/apples-stock-split
My disagreement is with what OpenAI asserts "Open" to mean in this context. Appropriating freely-available content for a privately-owned and commercially sold product is not "Open" at all. You are taking information and furnishing it to someone else expressly as a business.

I know everyone has complained about OpenAI misunderstanding their own nom-de-plume, but this extends to how they view the world. It's conceptual and literal openwashing, and you don't need any OSI definitions to understand why it's wrong.
How does this compare to Google's existing partnership from February with Reddit? https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/expa...
Mainframe systems aren't tested to the Jepsen level of standard just because they were build on mainframes in the 70s/80s. In fact, quite the opposite.
I don't think that the statement seeks to portray this as "better" or "worse".

It's reflecting on the fact that this situation affects the same groups of people that were negatively affected when slavery was a more mainstream practice in the US.

It's as if some rules have changed on paper, but in practice the same "values" and behaviours persist.
I feel like using Wuffs would make more sense.
It's very good that ffmpeg gets support and the sovereign tech fund is a good idea but for me it again just highlights how perverted the incentives to support open source are.

Millions of dollars are extracted by using ffmpeg from a lot of corporations, yet the German taxpayer pays for maintenance.
>His article drips with AI phobia.

Where? The article drips with annoyance, not fear, at 3 second searches that no longer have the results that were previously returned in fractions of a second.

>There's no nuance to it.

Why does there need to be? Author is annoyed. Author explained annoyance. The end.

>I'm starting to feel personally attacked by people like this

That is a very strong indicator that you should divest yourself from the topic for awhile. The author does not attack you in any way.
This is really baseline software development.

What's missing are the fault models with the solutions from 15 years ago:

- how to keep code review from becoming a politicized bottleneck

- deploying continuously to avoid train schedules

- comprehensive security, for both code and process

- ...
They seem to be just as cagey about the licensing. Not that there's any obligation for people to be FOSS if they want to give software away, but the intentional avoidance of the question is always instructive. Just say that it's not FOSS, it's fine.

> Will it be free ?

> Yes WACUP will be free to download & to use.

> This is an independent project & due to the amount of time & effort which is involved, I am accepting donations (and other means of support) to help cover my living costs whilst I'm working on getting this developed & released. As at this time, this is a full-time project for me whilst I see where the future will take me & this project.
Disagree - Seurat had first mover advantage with single cell but sucked with larger datasets that Scanpy could handle till the big change in Seurat 5. The preference for either Seurat/Scanpy is incredibly lab specific. That said, Seurat is better documented for sure, but the ecosystem for both is incredibly rich and flourishing.
I owned an Audi.

And...I'm sure it's better than Tesla in this regard, but it was still extraordinarily painful anytime something went wrong.

(Part of this was the engineering of the car itself. Like, something as basic as replacing the fan belt is basically full disassembly of the engine compartment.)
Interesting! What caused the deep rabbit hole into searching for a tool like this?
- delay validation until normalization

- treat non-utf-8 bytes as bytes

- regexes match bytes just fine: the article has a whole section on ripgrep’s use of bstr

- another section discusses how the length of a string is not a well defined quantity

- the article says you can delay validation until required
True, social harm is definitely high, on the other hand ~62% of US adults drink. The expected rates of all of those things aren’t 0.
I feel like the people who wonder why this is a crime are missing something pretty important: this isn't the SEC attempting to regulate a crypto market by prosecuting securities fraud, it's the DOJ prosecuting straight-up old fashioned fraud. The crime is changing the terms of the transaction within the 12 second time frame after it had begun but before it had finished, and ultimately selling something different than what was promised. It doesn't matter that it's crypto, you could similarly be prosecuted for fraud by selling counterfeit pokemon cards if prosecutors could prove you knew that you were misrepresenting the cards as genuine cards. Here, the prosecutors have all the evidence they need from the code, and the Google searches showing what their intent was in writing that code.
foobar is great
Misgendering someone (Liz Fong-Jones pronouns, as documented on her own sites, are she/her) does tend to undermine the credibility that this is a legitimate grievance. Surely given the length at which the author writes on her, they would be aware of this, so it can only be assumed to be a deliberate transphobic act.

The defamation case mentioned in Australia appears not to have been responded to (see https://austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/vic/VSC/2023...), but the judge in the case was satisfied that she was actually defamed and doxxed on the site, that she had been harassed as a result of that doxxing, and that the plaintiff had been informed in advance and had done nothing.

It seems legitimate that courts in that case should be able to take such things down.
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It also has no inherent knowledge about how to iterate over any particular structure: it doesn’t know how to iterate over lists, or ranges of numbers. Rather it knows that iterating has to answer two questions:

is there more?
what is the next thing?

In addition it knows how to ask another question:

is there any information I can use to make asking the first two questions faster?

```

This approach sounds so good. Focus on what is needed to solve the main task. Don't do less, but please don't do more. And... Do Not Assume.
Might be a change of guards that is causing this https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/17tl1du/why_is_mik...
Third time's the charm :)
Using “star / issue ratio” is a basis for your point is just an indicator that you’re too deep into the JS ecosystem. It reads into weird GitHub metrics to a unique degree.
I own a smaller unit for a portion of my home that's not connected to the main HVAC. It isn't huge. It also isn't ugly.

I don't want this. And that's because the goal of these people are to get acquired by Google / Amazon to fit into their crappy "smart home" line of products. I really don't understand how the consumer keeps getting tricked by a bit of marketing into buying products that are sold on design first and performance later. This product, functionally isn't any better than anything on the market yet comes with included obsolescence built in. For reference one of my family members still uses a mini-split system in their cabin that's over 25 years old. This thing is going to be lucky to make it 10 years based on all the additional dependencies it requires straight out of the box.

I hope consumers stop buying these types of products.
There's something timeless in the design of the IBM 360, 370 and their peripherals.
Spreading out housing more also costs lives, just indirectly. (Increases costs, pollution, land usage, travel distance/time/risk, etc.)

Very few things have a single, simplistic effect in the complex world system.
The closest I've seen is https://re-amp.ru. Not sure about codecs
Why do blades need to be recycled? What's the harm in piling them up on empty land until someone finds use for them (or not)?
Neovim 0.10 Release
QUIC has no unencrypted mode as one of its more controversial decisions, and nobody has braved the backlash to propose it despite obvious use cases.
Ending someone’s candidacy over an emoji you don’t understand seems premature at best. I know gay guys who use the nail polish emoji all the time at the end of their sentences, for example. Any chance this guy was gay and just being a bit casual with a recruiter he got along with?
That definitely matches my experience (in areas outside of psychology)…
Seem like the design decision to only allow a single thread to handle writes paid off.
Datomic is a marvel of good design, I wish I could use it again....