skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Mac app scene especially is pretty small and tight-knit. Lots of indie developers have been around for decades and know each other well. That makes it even more jarring for an app to get acquired by a totally unknown company.
Clear requirements are needed regardless of methodology. The simpler (briefer) the requirements, the more likely to be understood and followed. Iterative development processes can leverage more concise (and thus clearer) requirements

> One standout statistic was that projects with clear requirements documented before development started were 97 percent more likely to succeed.

Also, if a project doesnt have requirements, how can it either fail or succeed?

EDIT: agile is one type of iterative, and iterative exists in contrast to waterfall. go ahead flame away :)
I think Dato can do this: https://sindresorhus.com/dato
Huh, if they are going to create a new partisan exchange, I wonder if it’ll also get ideologically aligned recessions.
I got it in 5 seconds, am I the singularity ?
Meta has suspended and blocked numerous accounts of people supporting Palestine. Apology after apology anytime they are called out on it. It does seem to be happening too often to be considered accidental now.
That is an obvious of post-hoc rationalization. It appears no where in Scripture or in any other culture's history or mythology. And even if it were true, it still doesn't amount to more than "the Jews are just better", which is just a pathetic theology.
> Which let's the Texas of Canada, Alberta, run it's own stock exchange with much looser listing requirements and security requirements. This Texas exchange will not have that advantage.

One point of note, there hasn't been an Alberta stock exchange since 1999. The Toronto stock exchange bought the Vancouver, Alberta and small cap option market form Montreal and merged them into one stock exchange called the Toronto Venture stock exchange.

Its head quarters are in Calgary but its computer are located in Ontario and its under IIROC supervision and rules. And the BC and Alberta government co regulate it but their securities commission rules aren't what's followed, its the IIROC rules that apply.
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Evernote worked reliably and well for me across Windows, Linux, and macOS when I was at school in the early 2010s. It had a great web clipper and it was good at handling PDFs and images. Apple Notes could not replicate that. While I pay for Obsidian nowadays, I find it nowhere near as usable as my Evernote setup at that time.
That was my assumption too, but it's not across the board. For example, AT&T, Inc (HQ in Dallas) is a Delaware Corp. But, I expect that any of these companies that have many years of history will have complex organizational structures. As such, I'm not sure what benefit a brand new exchange would have for them.

If I were TXSE, what I'd be arguing is that the new market would have a benefit for new companies. Can you list faster with fewer requirements? Will there be capital available on the market? Can an IPO on their market be a replacement for later stage VC?

These are the companies they'd want to recruit.
Seems like an odd thing not to state prominently. ChatGPT 4o solved it every time for me.

Seems to work OK even with the "hands tied behind back" prompt. Wonder if this paper is just inaccurate or if OpenAI adjusted the model -- seems unlikely.

Actually, 4o is reported to solve this riddle 60% of the time. I guess I have to test more, but with my about a dozen tests so far, all were correct.
What is 'Legal' nor Not-legal about succession .

Legal implies some authority over both parties, that they have agreed to some common rules.

If you are succeeding, you are no longer bound by the laws of the original country, you are your own country with own laws. And then you can just make some new laws to make it 'legal'.
The Texas electrical grid is great. It had one rough event that has been echoed all throughout the internet endlessly because the left thinks it is a dunk on a red state.
Yes, indeed, people do know that when I say "I have some private information to share with you", it means I am going to let another party in on the secret.
There is a lot of inefficiency in CI today and we're out to solve it.

Thanks for the WarpBuild love!
I saved a few dozen dollars by migrating my personal projects from the cloud
Big Mac vs. Supermac's: McDonald's loses EU trademark fight
Many California corporations have moved to Texas. These include HP, Oracle, Tesla and Charles Schwab. It turns out many companies like less regulations.
> Not all grapheme clusters have composed forms so normalization doesn't actually gain you anything here.

Just because the worst case can't improve doesn't mean that making the average case better is worthless.
The article says this:

> The Irish company doesn’t sell a sandwich called the Big Mac but does have one called the Mighty Mac with the same ingredients.

So it sounds like they do sell beef burgers.

Unless the EU is a bizarre place, like the land of Rand McNally, where chicken and beef are considered the same ingredient.
"I had a problem, and here's my working solution for my specific case."

-"Don't do this. Instead use a completely different programming language."
Ask HN: Are AIs gonna get dumber?
I'm not much of an AI kind tech guy, but I've been having this question for sometime: content on the internet these days are just full of AI generated stuff. I'm not saying that would definitely be a problem, but won't LLMs get more and more overfitted if that's all they have to eat in the future?He would not likely grow up to be a nice kid if the only food he eats is produced by himself.Am I right? Did I get anything wrong here?
That’s fine unless you are a language or library creator in which case knowing how to do it properly can’t be deferred to someone else. Perhaps porting someone else’s correct implementation is good but someone somewhere has to implement this. If they don’t share their knowledge this will always be esoteric knowledge locked away unless those who do that kind of work share their knowledge and experience. Most of us are not those people, but some are.
They claimed their trademark included more than just hamburgers.

"connection with chicken sandwiches, food made from poultry products or services associated with operating fast-food, drive-through or take-out restaurants"

They can't use a trademark on a food product and then not allow someone to make a POS system with Big Mac in the name.
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They don’t.

California has 57

New York and Texas are at 52

Source: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/06/04/icymi-california-is-now-ho...
I sense a troll, but

> C and C++ all have been universes. Heck even Python.

> It's only new fangled languages like Rust and Go that make an ball ache.

is not even remotely accurate. The whole idea of the Rust and Go standard libraries is to abstract platform differences away, and in cases where they're unavoidable, to make them impossible to ignore. Python, by comparison, handles them badly. It does certified Bad Things like making POSIX operations silent no-ops on non-POSIX platforms. C doesn't even try. Any cross-platform C program is an #ifdef minefield, and you'll only find out whether it works on a given platform when you try to compile it and start getting obscure library header errors.
Can I now sell a laptop named "Big Mac"?
tbh, I probably wouldn't have written zfind if I had known about this.

fselect still takes the SQL analogy a bit too far for my taste, still cool though :)

Oh and fselect doesn't do tar.
No - they sell burgers. I have actually had one a long time ago. It was comparable to McD's offering.
Does this maybe help alleviate Google having to deal with warrants for tracking suspects or not really?
I find this last paragraph from the article funny:

>Some GOP members have called for funds to pull their money out of BlackRock because of its environmental, social, and governance policies.

The same BlackRock that is investing heavily, along side Citadel, in this new stock exchange, mind you.
Or a different angle is, this is being setup by companies who have large investments in non-public companies.

Seems like they are making it easier for them to cash out their investments with less scrutiny.
Hi!

I have experience with your tech stack. Is it possible to work remotely 100% from another EU country all the time, without having to visit France(Lyon) monthly or without having to relocate to France? Hybrid work might be possible, but I am not a fan of it.
Related side note: I've always had a suspicion that one of the ideas I was working on using Google Colab was viewed by an employee and leaked, because someone wrote a blog post with the exact same idea (very niche) before I got round to releasing mine (I ended up not bothering due to being gazumped), and a Google Colab employee tweeted that blog post. (Puts on tin foil hat.. I stopped using Colab after that.)
- one Big Mac and Mac Book, please
Ask HN: What issues do you face in monitoring and troubleshooting Kafka?
We are building an observability product, and we see many users face issues around monitoring Kafka and async systems in general.

Wanted to understand from the community here what are the common issues you face in running Kafka and how do you resolve them today?

We have also jotted down some thoughts here [1] Would love to learn if any of these resonates.

[1] https://signoz.io/blog/kafka-monitoring-opentelemetry/
Dr. George Merryweather's 1851 Tempest Prognosticator (2000)
> However, while the Agile Manifesto might have its problems, those stem more from its implementation rather than the principles themselves.

Is the author an Agile coach? This is the classic response when people observe that Agile has failed to transform their team: you're doing it wrong, the problem is you. When systems seem good in theory but tend to fail in practice, you should just try to learn what you can from them and move on to the next thing.
But the fact is that they are improving it!
Sure, or it's 10% of F500 companies. Which would be about 800 if a similar percentage of listed companies were TX based and moved to the new exchange.

And if Tesla is a trendsetter, TX might be seeing an influx of large companies. At least for legal incorporation.
For clarity McDonald’s still has the trademark protection for “meat sandwiches.”

This part of the trademark was also challenged along with the other goods/services, but McDonald's provided satisfactory evidence of use of the mark.

The full judgment: https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsession...
Most times I've been in a doomed to fail agile project, it was almost always a manager or higher who overpromised with deadlines, not accounting for real world blockers. One of said projects has insanely awful app store ratings for their mobile apps.
Actually, it turns out It's been me who's been wrong this whole time....I googled "fact" and came up with:

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fact

/fak(t)/

noun

1. a thing that is known or proved to be true.

2. information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article

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I was under the impression that a distinguishing factor of "fact" was Truth, now that I know that mere information is a fact, it explains a whole bunch of what confused me about this world.

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Even more interesting:

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truth

/tro͞oTH/

noun

1. the quality or state of being true.

2. that which is true or(!) in accordance with fact (see above) or reality

3. a fact or belief that is accepted as true

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I feel like I should feel silly.
I haven’t noticed these problems at all (anecdotally) I don’t do much PDF work either but when I do Preview is what I still choose.
Summary: Ireland fast-food restaurant "Supermac" is expanding into the EU and has a burger called the "Mighty Mac" [1] which is basically a clone of a Big Mac.

You can see their whole menu here [2].

Obviously, McDonald's thinks "Supermac" and "Mighty Mac" infringe/dilute its own "Big Mac" trademark.

I don't know why this article seems to be presenting this as a fight over chicken sandwiches. From their menu, Supermac is clearly a burger chain that also has chicken sandwiches, just like McD's.

I'm genuinely confused as to how McDonald's could have lost this. McDonald's sells Big Mac sandwiches (using the Big Mac name) all over Europe. So none of this makes any sense to me.

[1] https://order.supermacs.ie/product/customise/31

[2] https://supermacs.ie/supermacs-food/
Agile is great when you want to see if you can make something work.

Agile is, in my opinion, terrible when you want to ensure the thing never fails.
I actually set up my phone to turn GPS tracking on whenever not on Wi-Fi (using Tasker + GPSLogger [1]), specifically to get better precision in Location History, and it uses surprisingly little battery if you're sampling at moderate frequencies like once per 15 seconds. The screen is the big battery hog, and also the cell radio if you have bad reception.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.mendhak.gpslogger/
I'm not really sure what to make of this article, it says itself it's a study commissioned by promoters of another methodology. If they're consultants trying to pitch their consulting services, they need these types of things to sell.

But my fundamental reaction is, what does failure mean. Because in my world view failure should be expected and accepted and learned from. It's entirely possible to spend a bunch of time avoiding every possible failure mode, and really not delivery much value at all... but we've successfully avoided the work being considered a failure.
Demystifying DList
I thought this was an interesting data structure, which is mainly used by Haskell and Prolog programmers.

When you ignore the fact that it's implemented with functions, it seems that a difference list is a binary tree of lists. Appending two difference lists is just creating a new root and making them the new children of the root. When you convert a difference list into a list, you're flattening the tree into a list of sublists, and then flattening those sublists into a list.

The most interesting part is that the tree is made of closures that capture the sublists, and flattening the tree of sublists into a list of sublists and then into just a list, is just function application done on all those closures.

If you're unfamiliar with Haskell syntax, note that (xs ++) is shorthand for (\ys -> xs ++ ys), which, in Lisp syntax, would be like (lambda (ys) (append xs ys)). The notation (f . g) is shorthand; "(f . g) x" is equivalent to "f (g x)", so just writing "(f . g)" is the same as a function that returns the result of applying g and passing the result to f. Finally, "$" is the function application operator, so "f $ x" is equivalent to "f x", and "f $ g x" is equivalent to "f (g x)"; its only purpose is to reduce the number of parentheses you have to write when applying lots of functions.
I worked for a bank for about three months last year, specifically on the ACH processing system.

I had previously kind of bought into the cryptocurrency crap about how "bloated" and "draconian" the banking system in the US was, and that's an easy narrative to fall into...the ACH standard is 800+ pages long! Surely us genius software engineers can do better than all these dumb financial regulators.

But as I read through the standard (I'll admit I mostly skimmed, 800 pages of dry financial text isn't exactly exhilarating stuff), I learned that, actually, most of these rules are actually pretty reasonable. It turns out that sending money between people is actually a pretty complicated thing, with tons of edge cases that you have to consider (e.g. How do you deal with fraudulent transactions? How do you deal with situations where you send money to a dozen accounts but one of the account numbers is wrong? Which transactions need to be reversible? etc.).

Definitely having a "why" attached to every single regulation could be helpful. I'm not going to claim that every regulation associated with finance is (still) necessary, but it's rarely as cut and dry as it initially seems.
If I understand correctly it seems like this only applies to chicken/poultry sandwiches since it's supposedly a different product category.
I'm using chatGPT 4o and it gave me the following :)

ME
Alice has 40 brothers and she also has 50 sisters. How many sisters does Alice's brother have?

ChatGPT
To determine how many sisters Alice's brother has, we need to use the information provided:

Alice has 40 brothers and 50 sisters.
Since Alice's brother is one of the 40 brothers, he shares the same family structure as Alice. This means he has the same number of sisters as Alice.

Therefore, Alice's brother has 50 sisters.
> This breakdown can be considered to be dramatic ... because models tend to express strong overconfidence in reporting their wrong solutions as correct, while often providing confabulations to additionally explain the provided final answer, mimicking reasoning-like tone but containing nonsensical arguments as backup for the equally nonsensical, wrong final answers.

People do that too!

Magical thinking is one example. More tangible examples are found in politics, especially in people who believe magical thinking or politicians' lies.
> Over the next 25 years, the development, and successful use of genetic engineering in the production of agricultural crops, will play a vital role in the support of human flourishing and save and enrich the lives of millions. This will, however, only be possible if we support the research, development, and use of GE technologies in a rational manner.

seeing the side-by-side comparisons of how much wheat has increased in yield from radiation-gardening made me realize that all we're really doing is speeding evolution / domestication using technology, and this was over 50 years ago! https://youtu.be/LPZqVSu_fu4?t=549

the most democratizing step would probably be distributing CRISPR kits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR_gene_editing) to farmers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening was close but I guess we can't have errant atoms running amok ("The Atomic Gardening Society utilized an early form of crowd-sourcing, in which members received irradiated seeds, planted them in their gardens, and sent reports back to Howorth detailing the results.")
The private information is shared with Youtube/Google, so the assumption is that anyone who is an agent of Google is in on the secret. If it must only be in the hands of one or a small group of people at Google, you'd best go to those individuals directly, not through the overarching entity of Google as a proxy.
I'm surprised people keep trying to touch macOS apps like this. macOS productivity app users are some of the most keen and aware users on the market.

Trying to pull a move like this and trying to hide it away like a quiet fart? We can smell enshittification from a mile away and we already know it smells like shit in here.
There must be a name for the new phenomenon, of which your post is an example, of: 1. Someone expresses that an LLM cannot do some trivial task. 2. Another person declares that they cannot do the task, thereby defending the legitimacy of the LLM.

As a side note, I cannot believe that the average person who can navigate to a chatgpt prompter would fail to correctly answer this question given sufficient motivation to do so.
I don't think that's what a selection bias is. If I have two cars, and electric for getting around locally, and a guzzler for road trips, you wouldn't call it selection bias if I always chose the guzzler for the road trips.

You'd just recognize that they are better for that task.
I think it's saying that McDonalds has lost the "Big Mac" trademark in relation to chicken sandwiches. Presumably they still retain it for beef sandwiches.
Great observation. It would be really interesting to repeat this research with less limiting prompts. I assume they made the restriction to make it easier to parse the answers, perhaps make it two phase, let them respond unlimited, then a follow up prompt ask to compress it to a single answer. I wonder how the results will vary.
I gave up on Evernote around 2009 when they lost notes, corrupted them, and formatting was highly-inconsistent. Neither the Blackberry nor the iOS apps were entirely usable at that time. Maybe it improved after that, but it was just too slow, limited, risky, and untrustworthy.
From point 6a:

Struggles at Intel. Lasertec’s EUV mask inspection effort is Intel’s baby, which it
sponsored with $300-500MM in advances >5 years ago as its “founding” customer after
failing to convince KLA. Intel’s mask group is trying to save face and cover up that its
investment has been a debacle, giving it supplier prizes for public PR while “blowing up”
on Lasertec behind the scenes, according to multiple research sources

Intel currently has issues with marketshare from amd and arm maybe they don't want to post that loss and setback for some targets?

Edit: spelling
This is probably just a preemptive move in case of a New York state financial transaction tax and has less to do with any other political issues. This isn't "Texas" setting up their exchange, it's Blackrock and Citadel. The CME had this issue with Chicago/Illinois politicians demanding a financial transaction tax so they are did things to be set up to leave immediately if it passed.
No, because CO2 is only 0.04% of the air, O2 is 21% and N2 is 78%.
My favourite are the one that leaked a tank data on a discord just to prove that they were right.
I know at least of Textual. Open source but you can buy a pre-built binary for $10. Compiling it yourself was fairly easy when I tried it out once though.

https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual
Then you should upgrade your imagination ;-)

REPL-based development in a language that does not have large scopes of nested things is just so great. You can redefine everything on the fly. That is incomparable to restarting whole programs. Scala also has a repl but it not nearly as useful with idiomatic Scala code, because lot's of stuff is defined in nested scopes and by inheriting and extending trait. After a simple code change you have to recreate lot's of state. That does not happen in Clojure when you work primarily with builtin data types and lots of functions. This advantage is not only based on the REPL, but also on the way the syntax of is designed.
It's an acceptable heuristic at the moment.
i'm confused at how you'd gauge relative performance of something if not by looking at the past
This very obvious PR stunt appears to be based entirely on redefining "working software over comprehensive documentation" to mean "don't gather requirements and don't write a spec".

Here's the report itself which makes it very clear that the survey was commissioned deliberately to help promote a book about an alternative development process: https://www.engprax.com/post/268-higher-failure-rates-for-ag...
> if you have a project that is Very Important To Succeed, a team might be more likely to adopt waterfall

Yes, but that is directly in contrast with what Agile promises to do, namely helping teams to succeed.
Alice has 50 sisters.

Alice's brother has Alice as a sister (1) + Alice's sisters (50).

Therefore Alice's brother has 51 sisters.
Well, McDonalds would never have had a case against you because trademarks are domain specific. However, Apple Computer may have a beef with you.
Articles get flagged if users perceive it to not be desired content and not necessarily because it violates a specific rule.
So they still aren't getting to orbit?
No. Apple's trademark would probably apply and they actually use Mac to refer to laptops.
Can you share the blog post?