skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Europe has generally done a very good job with urban transit. The real problem is that long-distance train trips cost a fortune, typically several times more than a budget airline. And ticketing systems between countries (within the EU) are poorly integrated.

Despite many years of hand-wringing about environmental impacts of air travel, almost nothing has been done to address this.
Note that vim also has windows, tabs and tiling, along with terminals.
The git server can echo whatever it wants down to the client (this is how Github put in those neat URLs to create a PR when you push a new branch) so this is very much already possible.
Original author here. I have no idea how my 7 year old post made it to the front page today, but I’m happy to say that the situation is even worse than it was back then. Desktop OSes are even more bloated and less under user control since then.
I’m heavily invested in 1p for years now, but have been impressed by the new Apple Passwords app (in beta) - it’s nowhere near as advanced, but it implements like 90% of what you need including 2FA. I’m sticking with 1p for now but worth watching as well.
Here's what helped me. I would not wake up rested, I could not fall asleep properly. I was tired and moody all the time.

Living was turning into a hellish nightmare, one sorry day at a time.

There were a few aspects to this for me, most of which I'd be cancelled for bringing up here -- so won't venture there. What I can say is:

Do the opposite.

Which means, stay awake till you can't physically stay awake anymore. But your wake up time is fixed.

You wake up at 6am now. Don't stress the bed time.

Like another poster said, go all out physical activity-wise. I'm not necessarily talking gym. We move our body a miniscule amount compared to even 100 years ago. This is manifesting itself in many diseases, the mildest of which is sleeplessness.

- do some gardening or spending time with soil and nature

- does it take only 2 type to bring in groceries? Make it take 5.

- always take the stairs.

- can you walk or bicycle to work/grocery?

Your intent should be to fall dead when you hit the sack at night.

What helped me was eating freshly made food only. Either raw or just cooked. No food from the fridge. Eating twice a day - brunch and dinner.

This will actually reduce the amount you sleep, but when you sleep the quality is much higher.

I also stopped eating anything meat-based and dropped all caffeine, but that's up to you.

It's been a complete 180 -- energy, mood, clarity and enthusiasm. I don't feel half dead everyday.
Who is more impartial than the US, in these scenarios?
If it’s a federal or state tax break it shouldn’t affect cities’ revenue too much?
When the obvious desire of 90% of customer support is to make the customer go away being able to use a box rather than a person to get rid of them seems a perfect solution.

Support is a cost centre, the people calling support are not the ones who will be making purchasing decisions so why provide anything close to decent support. Vendor lock in, subscription services and other ways to reduce the chance that the customer will go elsewhere all contribute to the downward spiral in support.

Truth is, if they can manage to provide proper feedback to the AI for when the support that is provided is actually useful or successful this may actually learn to be better than employing someone to read off a support flowchart that hasn't been updated in 20 years.
Maybe Talkomatic
I racked my brain and couldn’t think of a single example of something released by Microsoft Research offhand, so I proceeded to visit their website. It can be found at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/

I found exactly zero things that they have provided to the world. Literally none, and I really came in with an open mind. All I found was marketer drivel telling me how I should feel about the impact of the marketing copy I was currently reading. No concrete examples after fanning out 3 links deep into every article posted on that site. I must be missing something so can you point me to at least one example of work that’s come out of Microsoft Research on the same scale as Meta’s LLM models or ReactJS?
Dissolve the entity if they cannot survive damages, and require data destruction as part of the wind down.
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> I would ask for lua or scheme.

Scheme? Did somebody say... Scheme?

https://apexdatasolutions.com/home2/acce%CE%BBerate/

It's a paid addon, but still...
> if your AI can't be intelligent about sensible requests, I'm going to say it. It's not intelligent, it's really useless

it is a complex autocomplete at the end of the day. all these guardrails are implemented as a byproduct of the sentient marketing.

ironically the systems that implement the censorships partially use regex to analyze the user prompt.
> It increased its oil exports

Revenues are down [1].

> Here's what's relevant

You're linking to a paper on bank runs. We had a bunch last year, and another a few months ago.

You didn't notice? That's okay. Most Americans didn't notice either.

(That said, I appreciate your citing a source. You'll note that the authors suggestions were recently implented.)

> None of that is applicable to the actual reality that Russians themselves report

Real disposable income is down. According to Russia.

[1] https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Russian-Oil-is-Fu...
GitHub is pretty open, I'm not sure what the problem is.
i like your reasoning
What's the state of things at Libre office regards to this? Do they support python or other languages for macros and for formula/expressions?
"a wizard of earthsea" is one of my gold standard novels in that respect
Personally, I enjoy that we rally around a common set of tools, as an industry. And Git is probably the best choice in its category. But that may have to do as much with adoption and network effect as it has with inherent quality. It's an advanced tool, but many folks struggle with the less common tasks, while many others struggle with even fairly basic things like a rebase. In an ideal world, if I imagine it, there'd be a tool like Git that lives at a different plane of usability. And I am unsure that a monoculture would be very encouraging in ever getting us there.
I wrote a response but it is too long (11019 bytes is too long, apparently). (I have saved a copy on my computer, so that I may post it later (fully or partially).)

But, I have commented about most of the article, and about my own ideas of operating system design (which is capability-based); there are some similarities, but many things are done differently. However, some of the functionality they describe would be possible with how my ideas are doing, too.
Should Zap Switch to a Non-OSI Approved Licence?
Piwigo.
A bit sad (I prefer hg.) But at least just about everyone is now using a VCS, which was very far from the case when I started programming seriously back in the early 1980s.
I dunno… sometimes a tool is simply good and self-justifies why it’s broadly useful and used.
No, hire all of them. Ideally design both the game and the company to blur the line between them. Each job title matches a monster in a dungeon, each manager an end boss. The product could be a dungeon master style taskmanager where you drag and drop minions onto tasks that have custom art works to fit the cliënt.
TV Networks Fight for Fewer Dollars in Upfront Amid Big Streaming 'Rollbacks'
Eh, I mean if GitHub does something really crappy, it wouldn't be _that_ hard for them to move to GitLab or self-hosted. Git remains a free and open standard.
Yes, that's the primary complaint of the article, but the actual report just doesn't back that up. There's no mention of false positives or negatives. Probably because, as the report notes, it doesn't know who removed the comment, let alone what the rationale was. So it could be that they are attempting to comply with broad and vague laws, or they could just be against hosting MLP memes.
That doesn't mean that hot days tend to be cloudy.
"Don't invade fellow democracies".

Business doesn't like things like wars of conquest where the legal system your factories operate under, your workers and the factories all seized by force or blown up when someone artillery strikes the town they're in to the ground.

The whole point of being a reserve currency is to be stable and a key part of that is also enforcing stability - which the US does through things like it's naval supremacy.

"Don't invade fellow democracies" is a pretty easy set of rules to play by, and is appealing to every country which would like not to be invaded - which is to say, economically doing business with the US is a very good deal if it means the US has your back if someone does look like they want to invade you.

This entire concept is one of the ideas currently being used to try and keep China in check, and it was presumed in Europe that this was what would keep Russia in check (and the failure of that assumption is now the cause of the huge uptick in orders for US military equipment - so even there, the US is doing well out of the policy).
This is almost making me want to try out my ideas.

https://gavinhoward.com/2024/05/a-new-architecture-for-a-gui...

https://gavinhoward.com/2024/05/a-better-os-design/
Yes, push to toggle microphone is another great use for these!
I was using the Kinesis Programmable Foot Switch 26 years ago with ps/2 connectors (later they switched to USB). You would get 3 foot switches in each unit and chain them together along with your keyboard so they only used one host port. The most similar thing I see now would be https://www.amazon.com/X-keys-Foot-Pedal-Playback-Control/dp...
It's frustrating that I can't reprogram my old foot switches since the manufacturer stopped supporting them. If buying today, I'd look for something based on open source QMK firmware like my keyboard uses. This project looks cool: https://github.com/christrotter/qmk_firmware/tree/arcboard-s...
It's the "btw I use Arch" of programming
Seems like a source that one should not generally take seriously (Tipranks) being syndicated by a source associated with an important name (Nasdaq) as part of a larger wave of articles about how some "pact", "treaty", or "contract" ended on a specific day.

Having done a little more digging, I could find lots and lots of pieces about this topic, but I could not even one coming from a recognizable journalistic source. (Far from the top of search results was a piece that seemed to have some value: it noted the wave of coverage of the purported end of this pact despite the fact that no such pact existed. It also identified a possible connection between pushing this story, which makes the dollar sound endangered, and attempting to promote cryptocurrency.)

Lots of HN commenters taking this at face value. To me, the overall situation looks like an object lesson in basic critical media literacy.
> Two of SIO’s major initiatives — the peer-reviewed Journal of Online Trust and Safety and its Trust and Safety Research Conference — will also continue. (The journal is funded through a separate grant from the Omidyar Network.)

"Trust and safety" - brought to you by a left-wing activist billionaire megadonor.
>dumb phones, or completely open-source smart phones.

What use are dumb phones (i.e., feature phones)? They're only good for actually talking to people, and the only people I know who regularly use their phones for talking are my elderly relatives (in their 80s). Everyone younger than that uses their phones for: texting, games, web, various apps such as banking, etc. Actual talking is fairly rare, and usually only with some business (e.g. calling the doctor's office to schedule an appointment because they don't have a website reservation system, and even these places are dying out or moving online slowly).
For a while, I was an absolutist on the git CLI. Recently though, I've been using fork for git. I've found that it is much easier to do rebases on it than the interactive mode. It's good to have something as powerful as git, and then build upon it to make it accessible to everyone.
They could, but a lot more people already know Python than Lua.
When it takes actual effort to create something, you tend to think about what exactly you are creating ahead of time. Time commitment and opportunity cost mean that the resulting work is a combination of both your raw mechanical effort and critical thought (both ahead of time and during the actual work).
> I think the way to continued prosperity are the old principles: Free Markets, Liberal governance, Property Rights, Fighting corruption, and Ensuring robust multilevel competition in the marketplace.

Don't forget accepting immigrants and makin babies.
Typing with eye movement. https://www.optikey.org/
Typing with head pointer. https://www.alimed.com/adjustable-head-pointer.html
One handed typing. Various keyboard layouts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout#Variant...
Speed recognition, Text to Speech, Windows accessibility features.

Products do get worked on and have been released. But yes, more work needs to be done and this product is a welcome addition.
>there needs to be something in it for them.

There is. The Fed's 5% rate (along with 3% inflation) is the envy of the entire world right now. Where else on earth are you going to get that, with the only stipulation being "don't violently invade your neighboring countries"? There's simply no alternative, unless you trust China more than the US Government.
> In an ideal world, if I imagine it, there'd be a tool like Git that lives at a different plane of usability

Isn't that exactly what Mercurial is trying to be?
Yeah this is one of those times my lizard brain wants to say, “that’s terrifying” but my not-as-lizard brain says, “you don’t have a frame of reference. What’s normal?”
> Lots of HN commenters taking this at face value

It's monetary policy, international finance and geopolitics. Famous HN fortes.

(For the avoidance of doubt, only one of those is even remotely something I have competence in.)
Ok. It's ridiculous. But let's do this thought experiment. If Tesla ever gets to be a 25T dollar company, would it be ok for Musk to get a pay package of, let's say, 1 trillion dollars? I mean, the chance that will ever happen is zero, right?
ADB tips and tricks: Commands that every power user should know about (2023)
I have lived in Scandinavia.

I would describe it as stifling. Great if you want a Volvo. If you are ambitious you are socially ostracised.
Robust enough to not need testing == too heavy to be cost-effective.
This is the most laughable thing I have ever read.
The United States are a bully that has proven time over time that are completely agreement incapable and that has resorted to force more than any other country in modern story. It is not loyal even to its friends, except for Israel.
The author's most recent post on this topic is here (2022): https://joshondesign.com/2022/09/21/idealos_mark6
Not so trivial if you use GitHub issues, PRs, etc.
> “tweeting to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “Stop hitting on me”;” LMAO no way this is a real lawsuit

Where is this quote from? I may be blind, but I don't see it in the article or linked document.
This... doesn't feel responsible. This is "we uploaded malware to the app store and people installed it"
> Just look at what Android had to do to implement a secure platform with somewhat of a well defined non-1980's OS API - it basically removed the Unix part of the OS and built a Microkernel-like thing on top of it.

...Huh? Pretty much all Android adds to the kernel is Binder, which is really a performance optimization for it's version of IPC, which today has equivalents that mean it probably wouldn't need it's own version now if it didn't need compatibility.

The security model allows native apps, which have access to all the normal libc, or even direct syscalls. Some hardware access is marshalled through userspace daemons, which may implement security for things like camera/microphone access, but that's been a pretty common thing on other unix-style OSs for ages.

Though the separation of each app into it's own UID might not have been the original intent, but it seems to work implemented with those same unix capabilities.

Yeah, most apps probably don't use POSIX APIs directly, and instead the java Android APIs, but they are very much build on top of the "crufty 1980s OS APIs", rather than bypassing them.
It's a spectrum, not a binary distinction. The answer would be don't go to war with the explicit notion of overturning the very system that maintains the security of those assets. Any system that is totally impartial to enemies that seek to exploit it's rules against itself is doomed to failure; Ergo there will be ALWAYS be the distinction between "insiders" and "outsiders".

But the US is a conglemeration of interests, and if you are businessman, an investor, a Capitalist, your interests are the US interests. If you actually understand what guides US foreign policy it's actually very easy to align yourself with US interests in a beneficial way without much costs. To become an "insider". There is no such thing as "unprovoked US aggression", it's all quite predictable decades ahead from certain actions performed today. The US is predictable, and that makes it easy to invest in.

China, Iran, Russia, NK, Cuba etc instead are still guided by nationalist impulses, which unfortunately can result in irrational decisions (Ukraine, Taiwan) that are unalignable with business interests. It's a matter of pride really, and that's a big no-no for the investor. It's unpredictable, we don't know if China will really invade Taiwan or not, and that's going to put a major cost in investing. As for other places like India or the EU, their economies aren't large enough and have good enough returns yet, but even if they did, they would likely operate in a similar manner as the US.
It is just getting started. The revenge is yet to come when it increasingly displaces the dollar in international trade, with most Americans staying in total denial until the very end.
The opposite - it would be a personal problem if someone would trust the likes of Apple giving them undeserved benefit of a doubt.
This is amazing!! What a testament to skilled engineering and teamwork!!
Lesters gonna Lester.
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Actually, quite trivial to import:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html
I haven’t seen it being used anywhere in big corporates (+20k employees) at all.

I attempted it once and stop as I found error checking impossible, source control impossible and ability to see code changes impossible - compared to a simple python script that is just text and can be source controlled.

Interested in a different opinion as maybe I missed something.
I found myself thinking of the fixed point theorems, as if compressing ideas and culture into a story must at least necessarily repeat exactly some small part of every other book written on the same subject.

But also of clean-room implementations; as if Don Quixote represents an idea and in implementation of that idea one must inevitably duplicate some small part of someone else's independent implementation.
I wonder what is the appeal of these systems, today? On what demand would one chose a POWER system like this one (which I think it's pretty cool) over a, say, more standard X86 or ARM server?
> I don't see that at all in the US

How many US transit systems have you ridden on? Several? Dozens? There's 6,800 or so public transit systems in the US, you think you've ridden a representative sample of them?
Firefox is Mozilla's browser product
1. "Android Debug Bridge (adb)": https://developer.android.com/tools/adb

2. "Smartphone-1 to Smartphone-2: "adb tcpip 5555" using a Linux server, android-tools, Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, and QEMU" -- a USB cable connects the smartphones: https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/ee883d5fd86c3b8ef0b0b8... (gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/ee883d5fd86c3b8ef0b0b84cac47b4d6)
likewise, I use `r` all the time but I never even knew about `R`
Excuse my ignorance but how are frozen assets relevant? Isn't the utility of the dollar and the unassailability of US held assets a different thing?

If we used gold or yuan and the US froze those assets how would it devalue those currencies?
As somebody who makes luxury furniture, the rest of my house is IKEA.
It turns out we all could count cycles.

Seriously, this keeps getting overhyped as some gigantic insight when it was really just a consequence of the Pentium having been released in 1993. And with the Pentium, you got both reliable FPU availability (none of the 486SX pain), and the cycle count for FDIV dropped by almost 50% (73->39 IIRC)

Everybody doing 3d gfx knew you needed a perspective divide and was looking at ways to do that cheaply. Interpolation + a long-latency instruction that doesn't block the main pipelines is a fairly straightforward answer.
Indeed. And those pesky metal and concrete office buildings sit there empty half the time soaking up heat as well. Not to mention the apartment buildings.

In fact, let's just get rid of the whole city all together. That'll solve the problem.
Fascinating to think of Excel growing into a modern replacement for Visual Basic. The spreadsheet that becomes so important to the company it’s handed over to the software developers to make it into a real application is almost a meme at this point.

Being able to steadily enhance a spreadsheet into a real application without rewriting from scratch could be a real game changer.
Why not? It’s still the best place to host a code repo.
Tangential, but I'm pretty sure bike-shedding is not the right term here.
Agreed, I looked through their “paper” and while it goes through the motions of a scientific paper, there’s barely any reproducible methodology. A single page in their paper, including the diagram.

They do reference some papers I’m not familiar with and say their method is “similar”.

If you check the huggingface page mentioned in a footnote, they have two directories: one for a model, and the other which contains a FAISS index. Although in the paper they say they use cross attention, so I have no idea how those could be combined.
It's easily twice that by the time you dig a hole and get it delivered and poured. 180-200 per cubic yard (basically a cubic meter), formed and poured is a good deal.