skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think XDG base dir will ever be fully and universally adopted. It's been years (21 years to be exact). If it wasn't for Arch Linux getting hostile to programs that don't follow (like locking permissions of the root user directory), it probably wouldn't have grown as much as it has recently to what it is now because, honestly, the spec is not actively solving real problems people have. Most of the adoption is happening because people are getting cranky about their $HOME directory layout enough that they are annoying enough to bully maintainers into supporting it, but 99% of users don't give a damn if the program follows XDG base dir or not. It's just making the things arguably "cleaner" according to freedesktop from a spec that hasn't gained wide adoption over 20 years.

I, however, don't like the loosy goosy config/data/cache split like they have it and the implied intent because not everything falls into those buckets and then you don't know the behavior of some system thing (is Dameon going to wipe my cache? are users going to copy the config folder around? what gets backed up exactly?) There is no standard for how the folders are really treated in the spec. Intentionally vague but possibly vague in ways that will break things if people make assumptions.

It's like the /usr split from the root. or /usr/local from the root. Or /opt. Left overs from a bygone era that seem to stick around. Trying to create yet another.

I reluctantly support it in our product, but only when those ENVs are explicitly set, and I 100% ignore XDG's behavior and what it says should be the default on every linux system when it's not set because it's not what other UNIX variants like MacOS expect. Just enough to keep the Arch Linux zealots from flooding our bug tracker each week, literally demanding we adopt it when they account for less than 1% of users. It's hard enough with docs to let users know where to find their files from our product on their system because users don't know what XDG is all the time and XDG for most is not the established convention they expect already. Frankly, there is too much legacy with trying to move everyone over to this spec, especially when it isn't driving some real compelling value for anyone except for folks who want a pristine user directory.

Honestly, we should rethink it entirely and move to a container-based solution where our desktop apps can't escape their little jails (almost like snap apps). Maybe learn from NIX a bit. Admit defeat that will ever get every linux user app in the world to care and adopt XDG base dir (or even user dir). It's hard enough we are supporting Mac and Windows ports that don't follow this behavior. Get away from the UNIX permission model of running the programs under the user and run each program under it's own uid. It's now android works.
I don't need AI to check this info.

In the same way I don't need a car if I have a horse :)

I could have spent much more time compiling the same information myself.

You're free to keep using horses though.
There's many factors that make Europe less competitive than the US: small fractured markets, low salaries, high cost of living relative to wages, Brexit costs, fear of being labeled a failure, working to live, focus on worker's rights, stability, and pensions, general risk aversion etc.

A big issue is there's a lack of mega successes high margin software businesses that pump knowledge and money back into the startup ecosystem. From a cultural standpoint, some countries like France are also obsessed with credentials and what you could call a notion of 'innate superiority'.

The end results is a VC ecosystem filled with young finance types that went to locally famous schools with little experience in startups that deploy small amounts with deal terms that would be considered absurd in the US.
Pong Wars with C#
Right, this will probably end up being like how autotune was for singers.

I don't really want "anyone" to make music. I want people who are good at making music to make music. Yeah we should remove barriers for those people, but honestly nothing beats practice and dedication. Tech seems more and more focused on regurgitation instead of creation.
It's the rush to use these services everywhere and mindlessly that is a big problem imho.
You appear to agree with the parent commenter about the practical matter at hand: they believe existing settlements in the West Bank need to be dismantled, as do you. At this point, do we even reach the question of whether there's special pleading happening?

The subtext here (clear from the invocation of the Mizrahim) is existential arguments against the the state of Israel as construed in its conventionally recognized borders. In that sense, the "settler colonial" notion is complicated and unavailing.

But you and the preceding commenter would seem to agree with the common argument that settlements in the West Bank are a direct, probative, and actionable instance of unjust settler colonialism.
Spotify is already filled with “10 million of functionally identical songs” made by people “looking to scrape off a few cents”. The state of the art, such as it is, could hardly be any worse.
Love that you took something that meta wrote about but didn't actually release and then... did it for them haha :)
Why so many posts about Firefox bugs getting fixed after N years?
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=firefox+bug+years
I suppose, but if the price is non negotiable like with the Tesla model, does it really matter?

Would you really prefer to buy online and it gets shipped to your house via a trucker, vs buying it on the dealer website and their local driver or the salesperson delivers it?
Context of the iTunes hard drive scandal, for those who don't get the reference:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160506100227/https://blog.vell...
The title should be what the article says. We are not to editorialize or rewrite titles.

> June 2024 pricing update for Instant Payouts for businesses in the United States
This is just completely disconnected from my original comment. What if someone reads "drink fruit juice to clear up kidney stones" from an AI and doesn't have a question about the answer because they don't fully understand what kidney stones are? The only response AI advocates seem to have is "not my problem." Or, far too often, the vindictive irresponsibility of "it was his fault for being so stupid that he trusted us."
I got it too; it's real. Using the "Web" view gives the correct result on top, the AI overview looks like it picked 1789 as the starting point.
> They make fan games.

This is the subject at hand. Got any examples?
What I Learned at Buildium
The number's up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111
Really the only 100% in-house products are Search and Gmail. The rest was bolted on piecemeal into the Borg: maps, android, double click, docs, YouTube, etc. - all acquired.

That’s not a bad thing, Google is really a story about a shrewd - even brilliant - acquisition and integration strategy.

However, they have systemically failed to grow new things in-house - be it space balloon internet, being an ISP, games network, etc etc.

They are likely better off just buying Anthropic at this point.
it means someone is marketing
Not the physically violent ones with impulse control problems.
Not just "no 3 dots", but it's "settings" not preferences, and even after getting to the search settings, the instructions don't make sense.
> We've been doing it for a few weeks and she now knows ~100% of all countries and their flags. Just absolutely domination level learning.

is this just for fun?
Most non-programmers use dd-mm-yy[yy], despite 'March 28th' & 28-03 being the norm in America.
When ChatGPT first came out, you were getting everyone's first impressions, which LLMs are notoriously good at. And if you ask me, mostly useless once you get past those first impressions.
I reckon advertising the fact you're willing to pay to get around this, which I expect is probably against ToS and the employment agreement with the company name isn't the best choice.
Wow, I hadn't, thanks!
Research finds daylight saving time spells bad news for healthy habits
> lawmakers voted 71-10

That’s pretty wild you can just to shut down the operations of two news organizations that don’t tow the official line. Democracy though I suppose. Would it be legally possible in the US?
Or through any of the data being sold by companies who send someone mail.
UK Regulator Opens the Door for Credit Card Data Reporting Mandates
> Personally I don’t think the platforms being private matters - at their scale the big social media platforms are public squares, and should be regulated like that.

Malls and shopping centers in California are treated as public squares for 1st amendment purposes. It's unclear why Facebook et al aren't given the same treatment, at least in California. (Note this is California, not Federal, law.)

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/pruneyard-shopping-c...
They just take the money at this point, I don't blame the low rang employees too much. Google isn't what it used to be and is not inhabited by the same spirit of the early days, most of those employees are long gone, the culture has changed, etc...
> Closed: 24 years ago → 6 hours ago
Report: https://www.psr.org.uk/media/pcvem3uq/interim-report-market-...
You can be broadly for cities rolling out their own broadbands while still pointing out that on the long term your local government growing its spending can be an issue.

10Gbps is absolutely great, but then the city might create an entire bureaucratic structure around it and in 30 years when it's not great anymore the apparatus won't die or be displaced like a company eventually would.

Which is not to say that in this scenario this is not a bit of a farfetched scenario considering that's precisely what the incumbents are doing as you pointed out.
Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel
I have created an open-source alternative to Mixpanel and will explain a bit about why I decided to do this.

Mixpanel is a GREAT tool and quite easy to understand (compared to GA4 and similar). I have used Mixpanel extensively for one of my React Native apps, but the last invoice was $300, which was way over my budget. I think I was paying for MTU (monthly tracked users), which was around 7000-10k users.

However, a downside of Mixpanel is that it is purely a product analytics tool; you don't get any basic web analytics similar to what GA4 or Plausible offers.

Therefore, I have combined the best features of Mixpanel and Plausible to create what I believe is the ultimate experience in an analytics tool (product and web).

The focus has always been: it should be easy yet also powerful. This has been a challenging balance, but I think I have managed to keep it somewhat simple.

Key Features:
- Privacy-first
- Visualize your events like Mixpanel
- Plausible-like overview
- Self-hostable
- Better support for React Native than Plausible
- Real-time (no delays for events)
Ability to access all individual events and sessions

It's currently in beta and completely free during the beta period.

Give it a spin: https://openpanel.dev
I think a part of the reason why I'm kind of dismissive of AI when it comes to creative endeavors is that I haven't seen it do something that isn't already possible using a "not-intelligent" solution.

For example, AI website builders. It's impressive as a tech demo that you can prompt an AI to make a website for you, but otherwise I don't think this is going to be disruptive to the web design industry since it's already pretty easy to make a website using a drag-and-drop builder like Squarespace or Webflow. Granted, it can get complex when you add certain special features on these platforms, but same goes for an AI-generated website. AI doesn't eliminate the complexity, it just hides it. At best it'll get you maybe 80% of where you want to go and you can get to the remaining 20% by hand. At worst, the complexity is so thoroughly hidden that addressing it isn't an option. It simply does not allow you to manually edit the outputs, or makes it unreasonably difficult to do so.

In that same vein, an AI game maker is pretty impressive as a tech demo, but I feel like it isn't a huge improvement over a code-light game maker. You're not eliminating the complexity of making a game, just hiding it.

Nonetheless, it's a pretty interesting tech demo.
Not make but generate. The time comes when music played by real people, even with mistakes, will be valued more than electronically generated performance.

Thus spoke me
Nice collection of species! I think the Suriname frog (toad?) is my favourite.
Automating slop will absolutely increase its volume multiple orders of magnitude. At least human made music, however terrible, stands the chance of accidentally being interesting.
Multiyear long spotify listener.

I think it's already flooded with spam from non real artists. I had weekly discovery playlists, where I did downvote all of proposed songs... Each new set was still coming with most boring, uninspired, flat and predictable structure (and abstract cover art), which for me is an exact equivalent of those NFT images.

The images are designed to be a set of replaceable elements that have to follow the same "joint structure". Once you see it, all charm is lost and that vague "why does it look so funny" feeling is simply replaced with disappointment.
I think that a big part of Hertz’s business model is to deliberately overcharge as many of their customers as possible.
Russia begins nuclear weapon drills
Ok what's 2/8/24 in words?
Wat? Macroeconomic observations don't individually track every single microeconomic occurrence and assign a root cause that "Bob did it". There are many possible factors leading to recession but no singular root cause because it's macroeconomic, some include:

- OXPC: Over-expansion of productive capacity

- Contraction of credit

- Contraction of demand

- Knock-on effects of layoffs harming other sectors
It’s great for what it is. Go to their site and give it a listen. I was even able to generate my own stuff that sounded quite good to my hobbyist musician ear. Some tracks are so good that you wouldn’t know they’re generated if you heard them on your favorite streaming service
Apparently this is real.

Surely, every other "dear leader" out there will want one of these.

They'll say "my loving subjects can now have me ruling forever" or something similar.

It's both unbelievable and entirely predictable.
it’s just ten RNGs and a dictionary in a trench coat.
> It's a software problem, nothing we can do about it.

there can be standards/requirements developed how to handle important data, and it will harden system.
In the free tier, Suno owns all of the Output. I'm wondering when someone will make a song, realize it's pretty good, and attempt to recreate it after creating a paid tier account.

Subject to your compliance with the terms of this Agreement, if you are a user who has subscribed to the paid tier of the Service, Suno hereby assigns to you all of its right, title and interest in and to any Output owned by Suno and generated from Submissions made by you through the Service during the term of your paid-tier subscription. If you are a user of the free tier of the Service then, as between you and Suno, Suno owns all Output generated from Submissions made by you through the Service, and, subject to your compliance with the terms of this Agreement, Suno grants you a license to use such Output solely for your lawful, internal, and non-commercial purposes, provided that you give attribution credit to Suno in each case.
I think a voice more like Harvey Keitel's would be better!
I don't get why the electron Office apps are so much worse than the browser-based ones. Shit's mind boggling.
I mean, that’s not wrong depending on the home…
What were you using to discriminate between true information and false before?
It can work for more complex tests, but you have to give it an initial test that already sets everything up and utilizes mocks correctly. From there it will generate mostly correct tests.
Don't forget true factual information disappearing due to things like the GDPR Right to be Forgotten. It's not just about creation of misinfo, but also about censorship of true info.
I never knew that, actually. I developed a habit of writing my dates with dashes instead of slashes because I thought the latter looked too much like the number 1. Makes me wonder how many people I've confused after they read paperwork I dated. I currently do ISO order with forward-slash as a separator, which might be similarly confusing.
Assuming you know what the shareholders and founders and execs were thinking, then yeah - that might not qualify for my definition of exit
I haven't read Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, but I did enjoy The Martian and Gödel, Escher, Bach, so maybe I should read it. What kind of writing do you like?
It blows my mind how well Suno works. It's one of the few products I tried lately that exceeded by expectations by a wide margin. As an amateur songwriter who is a bad singer, hearing its interpretations of my songs was beautiful. The implications of this for the music industry is pretty disruptive.
Even brand new restaurants do this, and it's maddening. I also go straight to Google Maps for the menu. The best restaurant websites have the straight PDF of their menu, and automatically visible from the landing page of the site. Don't make me interact with a burger menu and then several clicks later finally get the menu, grr.
Does anyone know a way to get a full dump of pre-2021 Wikipedia?

Their dumps page only has current dumps.

I know it’s not perfect (i.e. anyone can edit Wikipedia), but I think having it would be a good hedge in case things get really bad.
Why Some Songs Make Everyone Want to Dance
I find it amazing that your subscription to that bug thread survived all those years. Wow!
Note 2017 though.
Plain old web search wasn't deterministic either. At least for the past decade or more. I mean different people getting different results.
I think when it comes to success Google's products find success with either (or both) of the two factors.

1. Excellent integration with rest of the google ecosystem which ends up me and my friends using it and it is good enough so we continue using it. (E.g. Chrome, Photos, Drive, etc.)

2. Products are genuinely better and leagues ahead of nearest competition. (Gmail, Docs, Youtube).

I suspect Gemini is relying more on 1 rather than 2 at this point as it is not clear if it is indeed the best. But if it can play well with other Google products I am happy.

For example, I have Google One 2TB subscription to pay for all the storage and extra features, result of which I get Gemini Advanced for free and it also works in Docs. I rarely have the need to open ChatGPT even if ChatGPT is better than Gemini.

Search is where I am somewhat skeptical but this experiment is totally worth it in my opinion in Google's perspective and not doing it is stupid. Human beings adapt to the error rate of the Gen AI over time. So unless someone else delivers say 5x better accuracy than Gemini, I think it wont matter.
That price point is one of the most ridiculous I've seen, and is just lighting money on fire! The game looks great (erm.. so to speak) - clearly extremely heavily influenced by the Gold Box games, but I have no clue at all what the dev was thinking with that price. I am his demographic, and I'm not even considering the game at that price.
As expected. Related:

Suno, a Music Generative AI, Likely Trained on Copyrighted Materials

https://80.lv/articles/suno-a-music-generative-ai-likely-tra...
I think that was humour, but I could see someone having multiple heart attacks perhaps- and being technically dead, coming back with … encouragement given by CPR, and then sadly dying from a second heart attack/stroke/stoved-in-ribs…
Correct = JTB or something else?
Anyone can already make music
I regularly use the quick results feature of Kagi which seems to be similar in scope to this, but this is so hilariously bad :D
Sounds like the premise of Tom Clancy's EndWar from 2008. It was supposed to be an entirely controllable via voice commands. No clue how well that worked out in practice.
Beautiful. Buy a copy and frame it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/355379334117
Yeah that sentence would literally be caught by a rudimentary grammar checker. This is what happen when you apply YOLO-driven design decisions on the basics of your core product.
We had a system. We saw deflationary collapses in that system. We've seen them. They're real, and they are very destructive.

So we mostly kept the same system, but tried to tweak them to make deflation 1) much rarer and 2) less destructive.
Vector Database Capabilities in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
When everyone can produce “slop” in seconds the value of slop rapidly approaches zero and you have to do something the machine can’t do, which is produce original, superior material. You also get to use generations as a starting point and improve upon them. I think if anything this will only improve the human SOTA.
> At university, the work load was too high. I think if I had taken six years to complete the 4 year program, I would have been a lot better off. Too often I didn’t have the time to really dig into the material and explore related ideas (side quests). Instead I settled for memorization which was enough to do well on exams. My GPA at graduation did not reflect my command of the material.

This perfectly describes my experience too. My learning style is to 'ride the wave' of curiosity where i am obsessed with something and keep digging into it. Uni learning was antithetical to this learning style with strict schedules and tests. I got mostly As and some Bs by doing what you did but i didn't learn much of anything.

My son is somewhat like me and feel kind of sad to see him at a university to earn a living. I feel disappointed that i didn't provide him enough financial freedom to really gain enjoyment from learning istread of grinding at a uni.
> Since monospace fonts are fixed width, wouldn't swapping out 1 monospace font for another monospace font (that's more readable) be seamless?

Not sure I exactly understand this suggestion - but if I do, wouldn't it require a different monospace font for each possible configuration of the window size?

The "normal" window size was set such that each character cell was 9x19 pixels; this makes the window 720x475 (ignoring window borders added by the OS). If the user resizes it to, e.g. 721x475, there is no specific font that can be added to substitute; instead that extra vertical line needs to be inserted somewhere.
One reason I personally prefer proper, physical menus is because they are always physically bigger than my phone or the tableside tablet if a restaurant uses those.

Why the sincere fuck must I peck around on a screen for ants when I am paying money to be served?
What Is the PowerShell Echo Equivalent?
I have a bridge to sell you then
Well the output isn't created by a human, so this concept of a license is invalid. You can't copyright something generated by AI.
It is kind of crazy that "BBL Drizzy" of all things set a precedent. Using AI to create an incomplete song and then a real producer using it as a royalty-free sample to create an actual hit song.

I could see this paradigm becoming insanely popular with indie artists to make high quality / low skill backing tracks for their vocals.
Are the participants in this systems bare metal professionals? Prices seem suspiciously low.
Truth was so last century. Now everything is performance. It doesn't matter what you say -- or read -- as long as you look good doing it. This is irreversible. We are very near the end.
Same boat here, but with DSP/SSP bidding statistics. Generating around 1 billion rows a day and still going strong. Single table, partitioned by week. BRIN index on timestamp, normal index on one column.

Postgres is just a beast.
CloverLeaf on Intel Multi-Core CPUs: A Case Study in Write-Allocate Evasion
Ngrrram: Improve typing speed and learn new layouts (incl. free cat)