skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice thoughts. I think the fictional writer example is the clearest example, as a writer creates worlds within the real world.

Maybe this is could be more about information compression? The author notes that the sliver of the "hologram" doesn't necessarily contain the whole, but it's an interesting idea. If you choose a topic, there are minor aspects of much larger ideas. You then have to decompress as you learn more about the context of the information. Like in the fictional writer example, you move outward from the focus and learn more about say the history of when the writing was completed. There will be elements of that context in the writing, but clearly not as much, because the information density of the fictional work is clearly smaller and cannot contain the entire context.

Now I wonder how holograms and compression are related...
> it wont be as efficient

E-Ink is definitely not efficient for "animation". It does not consume power in static context being bistable, but switching dot state is very costly. So it all depends on the proportion "static:updating".
Or the old classic du -h / | sort -h
That's fair. I get the wrong answer on the gpt3 and gpt4-o models, but there's always some uncertainty involved in these gaps. When I appended "Consider your answer carefully." to my prompt, it answered as though the goal was for only the sheep to get across, and that the farmer had to get back to the original shore.
Looking forward to MyDeepGuide's review. The product sounds great, but when it comes to e-ink devices he's the reviewer I trust.

https://www.youtube.com/@MyDeepGuide
Russia also spends something like 7% of its gdp in the military, while for most European countries defence budget is around 2% of their gdp.

I'm not a war analyst also, but nato doctrine is kinda different from Russia'S. During both Bosnia and Serbia bombing campaigns nato inflicted most damage through bombs, not shells. In Ukraine both Ukrainians and Russians had to resort to artillery shells because none of them could fly uncontested
What is the expected useful lifespan of such a display?
I mean, how long will it last with at least 50 fps and no dead "pixels"?
Technically, it is.

Business-wise ... even inane and asinine "security enhancements" (or "security" "enhancements" to make the window dressing more apparent) done proprietary can be turned into software patents. In large orgs, this is a huge incentive. In fact, double it up by making a software patent and a trade-secret private implementation.

I may not like that ... but I also can't unrealize the facts :-(
Avoid the Long Parameter List
There's been many other good alternative of perplexica before
Yes. Absolutely. In many ways, I think Car Thing did the inverse of what I expected it to do. It was mounted on my dash for a total of about 5 minutes.
> Even in you HN comment you don't tell us your name. What's with all the secrecy?

It's in the profile.
is that supposed to be a path or a search tree?
And yet there is a part of me that wonders how much faster progress would be if today’s pharmacists and doctors would be allows to experiment aggressively, like cancer treatment regimes in the 50s-80s.

To be clear, I think what you described is nuts and the current guardrails are here for a reason, but it’s still an interesting question. And perhaps progress wouldn’t be that much faster.
> Why do people continue to throw gender studies, law, medicine, business and engineering into the same pot?

Because my generation grew up having all of those thrown into the same pot. Kindergarten to high school the constant mantra from parents, teachers, to counsellors was to, "Get a degree! It doesn't matter what the degree is, just get one and you will have a good job! If you don't you will be a garbage man for the rest of your life!"

And the adults all genuinely believed it. Because it was true in their generation. An fine arts degree was basically a ticket to a decent paying office job as some manager's administrative assistant typing out letters, taking phone calls and scheduling meetings.

It's not that true anymore, even when I entered into the work force. And that was a long time ago.
I have a feeling this advice still works pretty well, albeit probably not centered on Boston in the current age
> Cloning animals or even humans did not automatically make us understand how brains work. In fact, these were quite unrelated endeavors.

I agree. It's not copying that I'm saying is understanding, it's modelling.

> I'm saying there is a lack of determinism (mathematically provable, per se)

What do you mean by a lack of determinism in this case?
DataFrames at Scale Comparison: TPC-H [Spark, Dask, DuckDB, Polars]
Slavoj Žižek talks about "wartime communism", the tendency towards centralized control during extreme situations like a war or pandemic, because it is absolutely necessary for effective results at scale, when the problem is narrow and well-defined. Capitalism tends to do better at peace when there is no single fixed objective.
The Principle of Charity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Well fair enough it was a simplification. But two and a half years on they are yet to receive a single western jet. ATACMS were only supplied very grudgingly with instructions not to hit the Russian bases that are daily bombing and firing missiles at Ukraine as they are in Russia and doing that might upset the Russians. And were given partly because some of the ATACMS were scheduled to be destroyed due to old age and it would have looked embarrassing in America to be doin that while the Ukrainians were dying fighting. The Crimea bridge could have been taken down by Taurus but that might have annoyed Russia etc.
Yeah sorry I was being overly oblique above: I know a lot of academics who learn about a lot of results via twitter. Personally I don't do it, but a lot of people in academia do.

I'd consider twitter a feed, and one driven by a proprietary algorithm at that. I'm not sure if it's better or worse to have the interest of these academics guided by a company like twitter, but maybe having some other options is good.
> Autumn hasn't been replaced outside of America though

not sure how is that relevant?
> More a curiosity than something practical and it's looking like it still belongs in the 70s.

Emacs also belongs to the 70s. The UI basics were from TECO Emacs, mid 70s and many are still there. Stuff like the "Meta" key which no longer exists, or the buffer metaphor.
EINE/ZWEI and Multics Emacs were also developed then. Again, the basic stuff is still in GNU Emacs. Cursor handling in GNU Emacs is like it was in the 70s.

> For all intents and purposes, Emacs is the 'best' freely available and most used Lisp machine we have today

I don't see GNU Emacs as a "Lisp Machine", it's a mostly text-ui based development platform & environment written in C+Lisp and its usage is at the same time limited by its oldish user interface. There is a lot of useful software written in it, but the actual broader use of GNU Emacs is limited to a very nerd-like group. I've used GNU Emacs to read/write mail (for example). But that was long ago. There is a limited appeal of the text-oriented UI, which also has a hard time to adapt to devices like phones or tablets.

> practicality of Emacs

The practicality of GNU Emacs is also limited, because its user interface would not reach larger groups of current users.

> but I barely touch it these days, as I tend to reach for Emacs Lisp instead

It's also funny that many people would like to move GNU Emacs Lisp more towards Common Lisp, but they are not allowed to do so... -> see the repeated discussions (since many many years) on the developer mailing list...
The windows registry is more a unified configuration file for the whole system, I think what GP talked about is more about a general store for data
In Germany when one talks about “migration background” one is not talking about fellow EU citizens, nor about immigrants from the US, Australia, etc.

But if you take the broader, official definition then you get something like 30% apparently:

https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/zahlen-und-fakten/soziale-situ...
Both of these are built on top of git, an open source project, so Gitlab is not a riff on Github. Perplexica on the other hand seems like a direct reference to Perplexity, not on the concept of being perplexed by something.
Every filesystem is by definition a database system.

Out of extant systems, the closest to BeFS outside of Haiku is NTFS as implemented in Windows. In fact, you can run pretty much all of the BeOS behaviors on NT since ~1994 or so, it's an issue of programs not using it. Part of that is allegiance of user applications to Classic Windows-compatible APIs.[1] Part of the "WinFS" efforts was to break with the old approaches totally and push more indexed/searchable APIs etc. but in the end all we have is pretty robust internal search engine that is sadly underused (just like the extended attributes support). It really doesn't help that Explorer.exe is in many ways ridiculously outdated, with Windows95/98 peeking out from various corners when you look deeper into how it acts.[2]

Then ZFS but the ZPL/DMU APIs do not include indexing layer IIRC (also on systems that use Irix-style xattr APIs you lose full scope of resource forks).[3]

Both OS/2 (with HPFS) and OSX do some work with integrating metadata in filesystem, with various level of usage and end-user accessibility.

And of course there's some level of integration in AmigaOS Workbench and .info files, but that's arguably the most niche by now and never evolved to this level of use.

[1] Know the regular posts about how you can't create a file named "CON:" or "COM1:" etc in Windows? In Windows NT you actually can, but a) the only way to do it "safely" is to use alternate NTFS namespace b) I bet most people have never heard there was more than one namespace c) Win32 applications will usually only see Windows95 LFN-compatible one (in two versions, UCS and ASCII) unless they get out of their way to get access to other namespaces

[2] It's not the most egregious though - at least explorer.exe internally uses paths that work with default APIs of the system. In 2021 I ended up having to dig out an AppleScript for converting MacOS Classic paths to POSIX ones, because it turns out Finder AppleEvents API returned only Classic paths. Or at least neither I, or anyone I could find, knew how to get Finder to return a path that wasn't Classic HFS one

[3] Irix-style xattr API is limited in capabilities to only add short K/V data to a file. Solaris instead effectively gives you a complete directory attached to a file, while WindowsNT on NTFS treats everything including main content of file as "extended attribute" and opening file as normal is essentially "open the $DATA attribute of the file".
Color blind people could add css extension that underline / highlight links.
Blind people use a screen reader / braille display, they not need an underline.

Who else needs underline?
My MO is deciding anything myself where I feel my chosen solution is Pareto better and force the PO to clarify/specify where customer feedback is contradictory or unclear.
Bartosz was definitely my biggest inspiration when writing this post. I was debating if I should actually use that domain because it might come across as a little too derivative but I couldn't resist!
.NET for NES Game Console on 6502 Microprocessors
I like that it is ambiguous. Something for everybody.
I agree. And it's worth remembering that Scrum is a starting point. The entire point is to adapt the process such that it fits the team/product/organisation, through retrospectives.
Wow. Great ideas.
As the old saying goes, “all roads lead to Rome.”
European utilities cut renewable targets as high costs and low power prices bite
How so? I’d like to hear why
Are you from Germany?
It is the same range of current high end E-Ink based Android tablets.

(See for example the Onyx Boox Ultra C.)
There are engineers at Spotify who read Hacker News. They've noticed the threads. Maybe there's one reading at this very minute. Create a burner and speak your mind, comrade.
It’s the opposite :-) the poster said “swallow your pride” … the cult-like aspect of Apple haters is such a turn off
I've had a great time discovering Fable, which compiles F# to JS or TS.

The cost of moving from VSCode to neovim has always put me off, but if I could write the config in F# it would tempt me more.

How far is standard ML from F#?

Is there any existing compiler for F# => Lua?
It could have simply been the other way around: they auditioned some unknown voice actors, then someone noted that one of them sounded like Scarlett Johansson. They optimistically contacted SJ, assuming she would agree, but then had to back off.
How many times does a module switch the domain? And in that case you can still search+replace over the whole project in one second. Non-issue.
Meh. While Cloudflare certainly isn't perfect...neither are their services provided by North Pole Elves. Doing Stuff for you is not free on their end.

And what is the betrayed-by-a-CF-held-cert scenario that you are worried about here? Given their size, and that you are not exactly a major bank, I'd say that CF has 1000X more skin in this game than you do, if the your-domain-name cert that they hold was put to malicious use.
Modern polite correct cancel culture snowflakes discover science. This is hilarious.

Everything we have nowadays was researched or discovered using "crazy", "unethical", unrestrained science.
On Ubuntu it is not quite like that.

https://github.com/ionutbortis/gnome-bedtime-mode

Yeah, you have to do some installing to get the feature you never knew you needed.
When I was young we had a PC running Windows 3.1.1 (not the first computer I remember using, but the first one whose OS I remember the name of), and I recall it having this neat feature where you could draw an image in a tiny box and it would tile it across the screen as background image.

It probably wouldn't work so well for a "4k" monitor, but I thought it neat at the time.
Shiba Inu which inspired the 'doge' meme and became face of Dogecoin has died
You could quite easily store a lambda formula (that just passes on the arguments) as a named function. Very neat trick for organizing and re-using formulas in excel.
I guess it's somewhere in the EU?
I think the problem with this is that the things that would be offensive enough to enough people to get attention are exactly the sort of things that publishers would refuse to publish.

The world has changed and its not obscenity that offends anymore, its racial slurs and the like that would get the most attention. Its also harder for most people to do honestly because its not the subjects you cover, but what you say about them that will offend. That kills the " deal with the facts of life frankly and honestly" idea - it would only work if your honest view is one that people will find objectionable - but then so will most publishers.
I've recently repaired a similar Samsung phone (a galaxy S9+ edge if I remember correctly).

It has been extremely difficult to source a replacement screen. I first procured some from China from sellers that promised exact same tech. Although their screen looked when displaying stationary images it fell apart during such simple tasks as scrolling a Web page quickly (it became blurry). Considering that the phone was being repaired to use GearVR this was unacceptable (blurry screen every time you move your head).

Then I finally found a non-burned-out old screen. I fitted that and it works fine, but it puts artificial limit on the lifetime of these phones. They are really nice devices that are destined to a landfill, because they don't want to sell few screens.
Kabosu, the Dog Behind the 'Doge' Meme, Has Died
Converting a Cisco 7609 into a beer tap (2021)
My stance is that if the loans were only made on degrees that could reasonably pay back, the administrative bloat that has driven up costs would not be possible.
For searching I just use DevonThink. Works with either mbox or a directory/file structure. Instant full-text search, date-based filtering, and continuous re-indexing as I archive my email there monthly with command line tools for GMail and ProtonMail's import/export tool.
Being opinionated is good, but at some point you have to realize when you went the wrong path. Window management on macOS is terrible, period. This isn't just force of habit or "just another way to do", it sucks. Even command+tab is terrible, it doesn't even browse all the open windows but the open app, which is a completely irrelevant distinction, I have to install AltTab because of this.
Who wouldn't trust their kid's safety to some multinationals that have shown time and time again that they can't be trusted.
More Nuclear Energy Means Less Mining
If doing scrum, you don't do the long term estimating. You have goals but they're not slotted into a timeline, instead they are iterated on sprint by sprint until it's done. You can do projections but even those have to be taken lightly because the point of sprints is to change direction if needed.
> the videos

Please note (you will find info in these very pages) that they are tentative, made on prototypes. And they were apparently meant to be demonstrative of capabilities, not of real-life experience.

The Company says they will be updated.
Nobody wants a phone with the utilization rate or maintenance cost proportional to a commercial airliner.

They do not "fly for 30 years": they fly for a few thousand hours a year at most, amidst hundreds of man-hours of maintenance. A high level of repairability is a requirement for them to even operate for their intended purpose.

Phones are not aircraft. (Or cars, etc.)
Of course that is google's fault too.

Google has destroyed almost every niche by creating winners out of ugly blogspam from South Asia. I invested almost a half million this past decade on trying to build something useful for my niche (coincidentally kind of a wiki/reddit hybrid) that isn't another ugly wordpress and know this firsthand.
Or, better yet, glass containers! (So you don't have to rely on PFAS-riddled or plastic-based coatings on cardboard packaging).
"Community college" in the US can offer everything from remedial high school for adults, via technical certification and job skills training to 'real' university level education and university associate degrees.
How long are you gonna keep braking HN rules? What do you gain with your low quality comments and zero arguments?
Wouldn’t face or fingerprint be more likely to be useable when memory issues strike (like they did for the OP)?
Is that maybe including immigrants from other EU countries? If so then that's a very misleading number to compare to the US's.
I'm curious :-)

I think the only other useful thing that wasn't added to the Foundation was some HL7 integration code that would sit in a customer environment and forward on requests to that backend securely. I believe that moved on with the software that it was primarily developed for, though, which is an in-hospital tablet based system for recording patient observations.
Isn't Yuzu a good counter example?
SMTP followed on from MTP, which in turn attempted to replace previous schemes involving FTP or similar "manipulate mailbox remotely" approaches.

Along the lines, bridging UUCP and other text-only email systems was also taken into account.
"Russia is having quite a struggle"

Does she? How many people has she lost in the war?
She lost nearly a 1000 in the second world war. Per hour. So in 2-3 days she sustained the losses that the US had in Vietnam in a 10 years war.
Good, but definitely not 60fps or ghosting free. Source: using one right now.
Age of Digital Darwinism and SEO
I wonder if there are any duckduckgo/other search engine devs here to answer; why not keep a limited own index? Like, wikipedia, stack overflow, build up a cache of own-scraped sites for the top hits to popular search queries?

Am a being naive with how much is possible without going all-in and building an index of the whole web, or is it possible to have some kind of in-house fallback?
If it doesn't run linux, its not a computer.
> The fact is the US Navy can blockade China's food imports and petroleum

Yeah sure, just like Russian economy was supposed to fall in a few months after sanctions.
However with a smaller prediction interval you can dampen your autoscaling more. If you predict 20s into the future, react, and 20s later you see how that changed the situation you can afford to spin very few instances up and down each 20s. If you have to predict 5m into the future you might have to take much stronger actions because any effect is delayed by the 5m startup interval.
I highly recommend https://macos-defaults.com/ for a list of useful `defaults` commands. I automated almost all my macOS settings thanks to it.

It's not exhaustive but gives a few hints to help you find the settings relevant to you.
> All in the name of "protecting" the user.

It’s a bit of a bind though isn’t it? If they loosen their rules, someone will exploit it. Where is the balance?
Hey there, congrats! I was really looking forward to a tablet made this way.

Two Qs:
1) is the refresh rate locked at 60 fps? Or does it vary between 60 and 120? This is a big deal for me, as I suffer eye strain from low refresh rate displays
2) Why does it cost 'so much'? I mean, what's included in the 729$?
"Bing but without copilot" alone would be a product worth having. But I think DDG has a few more things on top of that, like the `!bang` stuff and the bit where they don't send tracking data on you to Microsoft.
Ran some stats on my mails of the last 4 years, here are the daily characteristics:

N = 24k
Min = 1
Max = 211
Median = 11
Avg = 16.023907
Stddev = 18.312062

A lot of them are actually chat messages through DeltaChat so not representative of usual mail activity. When I remove them I get this:

N = 16k
Min = 1
Max = 56
Median = 10
Avg = 11.378933
Stddev = 8.1572529
Show HN: BigHN, DarkHN, and NoHN - Very Tiny Userscripts to Customise HN
Yes, if your module URL is on a site you control, you can serve a <meta name="go-import" ...> tag to redirect it to your source repo. The module URL is permanent but you can move the repo.

The go-import tag is documented here: https://go.dev/ref/mod#vcs-find

It's a bit more fiddly if your module is part of a monorepo and doesn't live at the root. In that case your go-import tag needs to point to a GOPROXY server. I have a proxy server here: https://github.com/more-please/more-stuff/tree/main/gosub
I agree that we may require sulfur injection, but it needs to be strictly tied to two things:

1) Compulsory reduction in CO2, methane, etc. SRM is just kicking the can down the road. It cannot be band aid for more pollution.

2) The system needs guaranteed constant funding, as again, it's kicking the can down the road. If you suddenly stop SRM after 20 years, you get 20 years of climate change increase all at the same time.

Also, it needs the greatest diplomatic push in human history to get nearly every country on-board with the plan. All countries will be affected by this. Without buy-in, it could lead to conflict. For example, Russia is looking forward to higher temps and a longer crop growing season.
That is true, but it's referring to their android browser app not their search engine, if I've read correctly.
I agree.

Journals have been publishing "responses" for ages, so there always has been a "comment section" of sorts. But it could be so much easier!

Personally I haven't really seen or been involved in a response. It would not surprise me if that tradition is dying because it's so much easier to comment somewhere on the internet where some people will see it. But of course without an official endorsement from the journal / preprint server / whatever, it's hard to know which forum you should direct your response to.
This is terrifying from a fire safety point of view. Does Norway have rescue ladders that can reach the top of that building?
Why would spreadsheet software try to differ in formula names?
You want users to be able to switch to your platform with little friction.
Common Lisp Is Not a Single Language, It Is Lots