skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
to be honest i think the warts of svg aren't necessarily the worst for writing svg by hand, though it's not great.

but it makes writing design programs that output svg, annoying. the need for a `textarea` element is so great it's already in what was supposed to be the next generation of the spec; and pretty much all SVG output software has a way to input text boxes to treat them like that. But I suspect the complexity of dealing with svg is why alternatives to the Adobe Suite have only become more numerous recently; it's a complex beast.

to me, .ai and .svg are the equivalents to .doc and .docx, but we don't really have a great alternative a la Markdown that is significantly easier to output.
Yep. Coming from everywhere and moving outward in all directions at all times and ‘absorbed’ or ‘blocked’ by mass
I’ve been keeping an eye on these open source block based apps, and this kind of feels like you set out to scratch your itch and managed to release the most feature complete and polished one out there. Well done!

Something about SQLite at the core just seems to drive a direction I like, and pushes an open ethos. (Shout outs to Grist in this arena as well.) So much power in such simple interfaces… and when I saw you could just drop in your own SQL into Eidos, I shed a tear at the graveyard of my never-quite-working attempts at data-fying Obsidian.
Despite Criticism, the Last of the Rattlesnake Roundups Hang On
I bet that many people having both crisis and kids don't particularly enjoy spending a lot of time around their kids. They can drag through for a while but their hearts suffer too much in the long term.
It might be difficult to control the heads if each one has other heads moving right next to it. Magnetic effects of the voice coils, mechanical vibration, maybe electrical even. It seems a much harder control problem given that the requirements are so stringent.
? That was just an unimaginative take on the current state of computers. Don't get me wrong, I love the vibe, they are some of my favorite movies, but it seems like lack of imagination rather than trying at all.
This review felt biased only highlighting positive aspects.

I saw this detailed review recently which talks about some negative things i.e. low contrast, viewing angles and some marketing bits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHeIw9rXzUQ

and while searching for this review again to post here, I their follow up on this review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ac-qtk2lmk
Four is pretty good. Same count as it is (in English). I think it's neat.
> How many paid products have an open source competitor at all? How many have a credible competitor (GIMP isn’t a credible alternative to PhotoShop for the people who pay for it for example).

I'm not sure how we could figure out the numbers, but this just doesn't feel right. A lot of important and key paid products have open source alternatives. Some examples:

* Windows/macOS -> Linux

* Microsoft Office -> LibreOffice

* Adobe Illustrator -> Inkscape

* AutoCAD -> FreeCAD

* SecureCRT -> PuTTY, Urxvt, etc.

* Maya -> Blender

* ESXi -> Proxmox

* VMWare Player -> VirtualBox

Whether they're "credible" depends on the user and their use case. I'm sure there are plenty of things the paid products do better than their open source counterparts, but at the same time, there are likely plenty of users who don't need those features and are perfectly fine with the free alternative.

I don't doubt there are more closed source projects than open source, or that there is closed software with zero open source alternatives - just that the claim that open source is a tiny set of all software use cases doesn't seem right.

>> It is in nobody’s interest to do any hard work. If you don’t reward great effort, virtually nobody provides it.

> And not nobody. Virtually nobody. Yes open source exists.

In 2018, GitHub reported on their blog [0]:

> Today we reached a major milestone: 100 million repositories now live on GitHub. Powering this number is an incredible community. Together, you’re 31 million developers from nearly every country and territory in the world, collaborating across 1.1 billion contributions.

I think it's safe to say there's more than virtually nobody doing hard work in the open source world and creating gratis software.

[0] https://github.blog/2018-11-08-100m-repos/
Kinda like blockchain right? it's only been a decade, we're still trying to absorb it.
You can buy it from Google by becoming an app developer.

https://www.dli.tech.cornell.edu/post/facebook-and-google-ar...
Show HN: Collated, all your news in one page
Hey all. Like many, I visit lots of sites (tech related usually) and I always wanted to create a single page of all the news sources. I know there are a few but I wanted to create one for myself, which I could also share with others. So I built Collated. https://www.collated.io

Hope others also enjoy it! (There are a few examples on the homepage that you can check out)

- https://www.tello.app (news from all around the world - and yes you can connect to your own domain name)

- https://top-engineering-blogs.collated.io (engineering blogs from popular companies)

- https://world-music-chart.collated.io (current top music chart by countries)
Those videos are misleading. Electrons flow inside the wires. They just flow much slower than what you would expect. When you close a circuit, the information that it was closed goes very fast but the electrons flow slowly.

(It happens also with water, if you have the shower with only very hot water and you open the cold one, the output of the shower changes almost instantly but you need like a second to get the mixed water with that is warm.)

What flows outside the wires is the energy. It's very unintuitive but it's true. Feynman has a nice lecture about it. But note that most of the energy flows very close arround the wires, a very small part wanders far away.

There is an exception when you have a radio transmissor with an antena and a reciver. Then the energy flows just through the air (or vacuum). Also when you have a light lamp or a laser.

Actualy every electric circuit emit some radiation as a bad radio tranmisor. But most of the times you can ignore it.
IMO it's telling that publishers ignored the controlled limited lending that as you mentioned had been going on for a decade before COVID, and didn't file a lawsuit until IA started doing unrestricted lending.

My impression is that publishers were willing to look the other way when IA was distributing a small # of rare/out of print books, but once IA's homepage became unlimited copies of Harry Potter they felt like a line had been crossed.
The cpu has the gpio pins exposed at the back so you can control stuff Arduino style. Fun stuff
Interesting that the OP article focuses mostly on just recording activity, where this paper seems focused on electrostimulation by the device itself.

Edit: Looks like this is because the original article is talking about this paper, instead of the one you've linked https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-024-01160-w
Apparently it is an intentional riff on that kindof of color-mixing scientific diagram to create the shape of a trillium (the flower of Ontario). Though ironically it's no longer scientifically accurate as a result.
Usually when I have to use text in SVG I give up and use HTML in a <foreignObject> [1] tag. The article mentions that SVG is in an awkward halfway point between being useful for humans or a compile target for vector graphics. Text is where this becomes really obvious. Trying to generate SVG with <text> elements in it that end up where you want them is hopeless, especially if you don't know what font the text will be rendered in. I prefer specifying the x,y, width,height of a box that HTML goes into in a <foreignObject> tag and letting the browser reflow the text as necessary within that space. But that's still often not perfect, and I have run into browser incompatibilities when doing any more than basic CSS rules on the HTML inside.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/for...
Your worldview has produced Chicago. Mine has produced Singapore.
My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore
This reminds me of things my dad says about his old Chrysler Valiant, “i love turning the car over, adjusting the choke, and hearing it catch on a cold winters morning”. To me it was just inconvenient, and to him too, but now he looks back at it as something to envy.

I guess the electric car is the internet and the valiant is the cd rom? Although the valiant was more of a steam train to me haha.
Wait how does this relate to TypeScript?
The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
Has anyone worked with Wacom hardware. How difficult is it to integrate it with a new product?
The data would be sent to the browser
Nikon releases the Z6III full-frame mirrorless camera
So given the following:

The ruling comes just days after President Biden created a new program essentially easing a path to permanent residency for spouses of U.S. citizens who are in the country illegally.

...it appears that the undocumented spouse simply has to be in the U.S. illegally, for all his U.S. citizenship problems to disappear. So 'nonreviewability' has been defused, with a quick trip across the Rio Grande.
Sure, this will end well lol
It never occurred to me that I had any sway in my mom’s medical treatment until recently after about 3 years of pretty serious caregiving. It was only after things started getting so complex that stuff was starting to not work that I realized that even in that department I was now the responsible adult who needed to drive appointments, bring up things that needed to be addressed, and kind of have a vision for what “good enough” could look like.
Yes, the idea is that after being used you twist it and then "lock it" into one of the little notches.
Always a pleasure when people wail in anguish about Huawei when you consider even just the public record stuff the CIA and NSA etc have gotten away with over the years. And that's not even getting into the more tinfoil-hat shit a lot of which has mountains of circumstantial evidence to back it up.

No, I think the US is a much less reliable trading partner, even for aligned Western nations to say nothing of the rest of the world, and the pivot to China that virtually every nation on Earth is making, if it's not a functional tributary of the US (and even many of them, actually), speaks for itself.
They had been building up to a court case over that decade, including a 2019 open letter from most of the major players of the lawsuit. And if their problems were just with the NEL, they would have dropped things after the IA shut down the NEL.

The NEL was a PR boon for publishers, allowing the narrative to be "the IA deserved it for the few weeks they allowed a couple hundred copies of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe be unfairly borrowed." But it's irrelevant to the actual lawsuit.
Whoever down voted you is a fool. You precisely answered the question and reasons why.
Are you a lawyer? Can you point to the relevant statutes? I don't ask this flippantly as there exist many forms (private / public / academic) of library which allow for both physical and digital lending of owned assets and are not subject to lawsuits like this. It's not at all obvious that IA's interpretation of the law is in error.
I wanted to programmatically generate chord diagrams for ukulele in SVG. My solution was to make an SVG file in Inkscape that had everything in it that could possibly be in the diagram, and then marked it up for use with a template library.

Not very elegant, but it saved me time to work on the thing I actually wanted to work on. Not sure if this sort of approach would be applicable for your cut lists.
My assertion is that, having been made aware of the pitfalls of effectful imports, continuing to argue for using them requires a willful misunderstanding.

People outside the context of this discussion could simply be uninformed, they don’t need to be willfully misunderstanding.
Thanks, Chuck Wendig!
The heads were very lightweight, and defragmentation algorithms were supposed to make sure that the heads seldom had to move far. Far more energy was wasted spinning the platters. And the benefit of the old system was that you only needed one system for ultra-precise positioning of the heads. This was probably not just simpler and more compact, but also more reliable. In a multi-actuator design, the failure of any of the independent positioning mechanisms kills the drive.

Not saying that this isn't progress, but 3.5" and 2.5" HDDs were a true marvel of engineering when they came out, and maybe we needed a couple of breakthroughs in electromechanics to get to MACH.2.
We use them for several domain names but very little email per domain. Very happy customer! They recently rolled out webmail as well.
That's fair. Being blackout drunk is more than just memory impairment though - significant parts of the brain unrelated to memory also have impaired function during drunkenness. I would also suggest that there is a level of impairment where the impaired person lacks a sense of self while still being animated and seemingly conscious. This is what makes me think a blackout drunk person seems like a p-zombie (albeit temporarily).
All this could be avoided with some sensible legislation. Publishers should be prohibited from taking advantage of libraries, and some minimal compensation scheme should be offered for digital lending. Of course, that's not what companies want. It is the wild west of modern capitalism.
I don't think it holds up to much scrutiny. I think it's mixing up "less improvement than expected for the effort" with "actually measurably worse".
That's actually basically what I was doing! Was able to run programs compiled for a "normal" OS on a single unified distributed virtual address space!
That’s an awesome policy. Compare to car share services (in SF.. apples to apples) such as Gig Car and Getaround which allow unsupervised general access (i.e. no driver there to witness car treatment)… those are generally pigsties. Blunt ash all over the dashboard, used kleenexes in the door handles and cupholders, trash on the floor. It always blew my mind that the perpetrators weren’t fined into the dirt. Good for Waymo.
Does your theory apply to the content consumed during the training of LLMs? If not why not? Where should we draw the line regarding intellectual property rights?
90% of all safety critical software is written in c/c++

There is no good safety language right now to write a browser in, except for c/c++.
Rust might sound like an alternative but it's safety story is sad when compared to c/c++.

Ada might be a cool option, so is ATS.
> Putting your kid in a car (self driving or not) is putting them in the most dangerous situation they could possibly be in - car crashes are the number one cause of death for kids (in the US.)

It would follow that since no children die each year playing in active volcanos that's the safest thing they could possibly do. Kindergartens should be filled with magma.
Even if it presented an opportunity for them to pull the trigger, the publishers had their eyes on the lawsuit for years. The NEL may have been a mistake, but it's not relevant to the actual lawsuit.
"significantly lower level affair, on par of the other Star-something languages for the CM"

I'm not sure what this means. C* and CM Fortran weren't particularly low-level, unless C or Fortran 90 are "significantly low-level". For low-level fun, you'd drop to Paris (or to CMIS for "breathtakingly heart-stoppingly low-level").

For the curious, a great archive of documentation for stuff that actually shipped is here: https://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/
Good points. Even a DVD company could look like a good investment under ZIRP. Many were lured into the gamble that those good times would last forever.
Depends on the website, right. Because a single index.html can easily be a website which it cam generate.
We're using the term "Blue" ambiguously.

The term was invented; its assignment and scope were invented, too. The wavelengths themselves were discovered.

So there are two different "Blues;" signifier and signified.
what did it look like though? I'm really keen to hear what the common patterns you saw emerging were
Nailed it. The opportunity cost is simply too high for educated, empowered women.
> the professors are literally practicing communism and giving away the book for free.

Ah, no. That isn't communism.
We're using the term "Blue" ambiguously.

The term was invented; its assignment and scope were invented, too. The wavelengths themselves were discovered.

So there are two different "blues;" sigmifier, and signified.
Yeah I genuinely cannot understand that comment.
I'm not anti-alarmist. I think we are screwed. And need to triage. Global warming first. If plastics save us some CO2 then we should use them. We will deal with them maybe next century. Same goes for nuclear. Sustainable farming and other things. Trying to solve all problems at once will ensure that we fail with solutions to all.
I agree with you in principle, but RMS, he got other things on his mind right now I'm guessing i.e. https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/richard_stallman_canc...
Ask HN: Hiring an external CEO for your business?
Hi all, I am preparing to start my next venture this time I am thinking about not being the CEO myself, but instead contracting that position out.

I imagine the CEO I want to hire would focus on administrative tasks, compliance and cash flow while I handle the meat of the business (tech & sales).

From what I understand this would also allow me to compliantly setup the business in a different country than the country I live in.

I'm wondering who this CEO for hire would be in terms of skill profile and age and what the comp expectations would be.

Does anybody have experience with that scenario and can point me to resources?
ecshafer's response seemed more productive. He was effectively providing an explicit maintenance budget in his estimates, which in practice seems to be exactly what Mr. Senior Project Manager wanted. No real cost to the team. Everyone a winner.
I've stayed in many Airbnbs all over the world, and the majority of the city ones for the last few years are clearly just fulltime Airbnb, with basically zero personality. As soulless as a hotel room, sometimes more if they're trying to seem personal but clearly aren't.
I think you are looking at the term generalizing and memorisation.
It have been shown that LLM generalize, what is important to know is if they generalized it or memorized it.
It should have helped its constituents by ensuring homebuilding meets population growth over periods of time, rather than allowing it to be constrained for decades and then point at AirBNB as the source.
Honestly it hasn’t happened for my two micro communities that I follow related to my PhD and postdoc work. We are still all on X and mastodon, even though I have an account, it just doesn’t serve the messages properly and I’m unable to easily find new people. That network effect is super sticky..
The question ("Why not a memory safe language?") has never been more appropriate than when we're talking about writing a web browser.
Not if everybody's goes up or down.
Thanks, I'm going to give it a shot.
You quoted this part,

> Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy.

But then seemed to indicate evolution disagrees.

I might be misunderstanding your point, but it sure seems like, evolution tries a bunch of stuff, and whatever reproduces kinda wins.

That seems like, take chances, make mistakes, get messy. That seems like the core of evolution.

Could you clarify or refine what you’re saying? The two seem at odds.
Like a joke I once heard: "I came here legally!... and I'll never make that mistake again"
How to Pay It Forward
>Most of my 3.5" floppies from the 90s still work fine, with maybe a few bad sectors.

I never experienced such durability of floppies. here 10% where DOA, and a disk which survived 3 years was a venerable older one. Maybe the warm, humid and dusty air in here?
AFAIK, the "borrowed" books on this platform weren't downloadable on the library site, merely viewable. Per TFA:

> "We use industry-standard technology to prevent our books from being downloaded and redistributed—the same technology used by corporate publishers," Chris Freeland, IA's director of library services, wrote in the blog. "But the publishers suing our library say we shouldn’t be allowed to lend the books we own. They have forced us to remove more than half a million books from our library, and that’s why we are appealing."

Is the "lend the books we own" part somehow inaccurate? I'm assuming IA has some sort of claim to the books they're lending and scanned, similar to any physical library. This seems very different from "a gigantic book piracy site".

Furthermore, I'd argue removing access to those books on IA will likely lead to one of the following:

A. people will fall back to actual piracy through other means to get the same content "even less legally" through well known alternatives

B. people simply not being able to access the content, e.g. if it's out of print , not available locally, or only available used for some exorbitant cost that wouldn't go to the publisher

C. people will spend whatever the publisher charges by buying from them directly

My understanding is that A and B are way more likely than C, since the vast majority of books on IA's website include out of print and hard to get books.
There's no reason that "selling copyrights" needs to a be a thing. If the author themself wants to profit from their work, sure, but once they die, that's it, and there's no excuse for it to not be in the public domain at that point.
It's a choose your own adventure. It's got some neat graphics, but they're just decorative. You don't interact with them. There would be nothing different about the game if they were stripped out and you played the game through an 80-column command line.
But.. that guy said “genus”!
Hey, AT&T, that line on all of my bills that says "Universal Service Fund"? That's your compensation for it. I know you like to pretend like that's something that telcos pay into, but that line on my bill is because the FCC allows you to pass that cost onto the consumer, so of course it's passed on.
It's a little unclear to me why this category wouldn't escape regulation, since it's clearly just an entire apartment building where they converted each apartment to an Airbnb for economies of scale around cleaning, maintenance, etc. They're displacing just as many residents as the same number of equivalent Airbnbs spread around a neighborhood. Whereas most traditional hotels feel purpose built for that and couldn't easily be apartments.
Mmm, chicago
For nuclear I would turn to France long before China.
In what way do you think Fukushima is a disaster?

Reports often associate the Fukushima disaster with 0 or 1 deaths, which is an exceptionally low number that many would prefer in any "disaster."

As for the environmental impact, you can check for yourself:

https://fukushima-radioactivity.jp/pc/?lang=en

Virtually all neighboring towns have normal radiation levels. Even 3km from the plant, some spots show higher radiation levels (5μSv/h), which is roughly twice the dose limit for someone working at a plant. However, these areas are uninhabited, consisting of trees and roads, and are harmless even if you walked by them every day.

The only significant disaster here is the economic one, amounting to several tens of billions of dollars. But in total the earthquake generated 360 billion dollars in damage.
I have been wanting to build some mechanical computers.

A mechanical Conway's Games of Life would be nice.
Stashing always makes me nervous.

For some reason it feels ephemeral and I worry that I’ll lose the stashed changes like when you accidentally overwrote the copy/paste clipboard
The Battle of Wits (1987) [video]
Discussion yesterday (41 points, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40743524