skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just downloaded it which was a bit of a job as it said not yet available in UK/US but Kobo with the VPN set to Singapore worked. It seems quite jolly. Maybe a bit more philosophical than the last one.
Companies intentionally trying not to hurt their competitors can't really be described as anything else than a cartel (even if it's not explicit) that's almost invariably horrible for consumers (.e.g. telecom companies, banks, etc. in many countries).

Ideally you always want to see companies trying to run their competitors out of business by undercutting them and offering better products at lower prices. The issue when the playing field isn't level e.g. what MS is doing here is basically predatory pricing. But even then it's not exactly clear cut, e.g. did Uber running out many taxi companies out of business (or destroying their profit margins) was a net-negative or a net positive to consumers?
Am I reading wrong or is the penultimate part just basic two's complement?
Have you looked at old books in the google books archive? You quite frequently find pages where the page-turning robot has screwed up, with results like distortion, lack of focus, weird smearing effects as the page was still moving when the picture was taken, or plain thinks it can't deal with like fold-outs. I recently tried to find a 'plate' (illustration) in an engineering journal from ~1864; it was missing from both the google and archive.org scans; probably due to being a fold-out. If all the archives throw their paper copies away, quite a lot of information will be lost.
Seconded. I changed from pyenv to mise because pyenv was slowing down my shell startup (probably the shims, which mise doesn't use by default), and I'm slowly using mise for more stuff. Right now, I'm using it to auto-turn on virtual environments and add project scripts to the PATH, and it works very well.

I haven't felt the need to use it as a task runner yet, but that's probably because I'm used to having a bunch of shell and Python scripts in a `scripts` folder.
Only create new tables, don't make breaking changes to existing tables. If needed dual write both versions. Looks a lot like a live migration (zero downtime) due breaking change to a SQL DB, except you have to keep the logic longer because you're at the customer's mercy of when the switchover happens.

Also it's important to have a table that is used to coordinate latest version. If you make a breaking change have the client that is behind to ask the user to upgrade. You can also tie this into how long you keep the dual write/read around with a min version supported across all clients.
so simple, yet one of the best things to happen to my desktop ever
Congress warns Microsoft about foreign hackers again – will it matter this time?
The A.I. Boom Has an Unlikely Early Winner: Wonky Consultants
> FICO prohibits not only validating different models against FICO scores, but even displaying FICO scores next to non-FICO scores.

The problem is that your competition is engaged in anti-competitive practices. Any bank can make an underwriting model, and the large banks already have enough data to pull it off. They haven’t done it, and they won’t do it because the agreements they’ve made with FICO makes implementing that impossible and Government agencies require FICO.

If a startup wants to change this, they better get real good at lobbying because government policy is the biggest constraint.
Have to say, Google results are now utter cr*p. I was relying on Google for searching. But now, it's useless for me.
It’s an application fee so it applies just for trying to get a mortgage, which is entirely different.

The mortgage companies have to pay it even for applicants that don’t end up actually becoming customers.
It's still available, just hidden in the search tools.
Yup. My company was seriously considering slack, but then teams came in the o365 bundle they were already paying for, so we went with teams.

It's better than where we were (Cisco jabber) but also worse than what's out there.
TL;DR: Investing money smartly at the local level and cooperation between stakeholders on a long-term vision produces positive outcomes.
As the article outlines in detail, this is definitely not the problem in this market.
Toppan and Toyo Seikan plan to manufacture European EV battery packaging
Because of the IndexedDB API?
Unlike Waymo, hotels can't really bar the bad actors from staying in any hotel ever again.

At some point, the people who tent to leave a mess in Waymos just... won't be allowed to ride in Waymos any more.
Creative Coding with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and p5.js
Futo Circles[1] may be what you're looking for. I haven't used it so I can't speak to the service itself, but it's a selfhostable e2e encrypted social media app built on top of Matrix.

[1] https://circles.futo.org/
Do you have any evidence for Skoda developing a platform on their own?

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/skoda-handed-con...
> it does not ignore it; it explicitly describes the case being dropped, explaining how and why

It discusses it in a manner unrelated to the agency of the women involved, ignoring the fact that they were involved in it being reinstated. I should have associated the two clauses there more closely to make it clearer what I was objecting to.

> implies that caitlin johnstone, the author of the post that you were presumably commenting on, believed or at least suggested that the alleged situation would not amount to rape, if it had happened

This was intended to be in reference to the observation that initially nobody asserted that they'd been raped. Rape isn't defined by whether someone believes they've been raped, and there's evidence that many people who will disclose that they've been subject to all the elements of rape will refuse to describe it as such. A victim failing to describe it as rape doesn't give you a significant amount of information.
DLAs were my "breakthrough" in college. Where I could first apply my self-learned c++ chops to code some fast DLA number crunching including a real-time OpenGL visualization. Professors were happy to pay me money for code from there on, which in hindsight kickstarted my career.

DLAs have some interesting properties but aren't really important in the grand scheme of things. They also can't be parallelized (or it's really hard). And the quality of the results highly depends on the quality of the RNG. It's also an interesting problem to quickly appreciate memory-boundness as a performance bottleneck. In general it's a good problem for a beginner to think about performance and how to approach optimization as the general logic is almost trivial.

Back then I also wrote a web-based 3D DLA simulation with a threejs visualization. But as so often is the fate of web-apps: This no longer runs today. Something about a used dependency (highcharts) being blocked.

Fun memories, together with the equally cherished Ising model. Seeing these patterns still puts a smile on my face. Btw they can be made to look nicer if you simulate a larger lattice and sample it down to a smaller resolution to emulate anti-aliasing.
As the article makes perfectly clear there are a series of anti-competitive actions in place that make it quite literally for a startup to compete.

As described in the story the fucking CREDIT BUREAUS themselves were unable to launch a competing scoring model due to monopoly lock in effects.
Eh Firefox doesn't work fine with at least Google Meet in my experience (which covers both Firefox on macOS aarch64 and Firefox on Linux amd64). It's alright in the beginning, but if Firefox has been open for a while, the out-going audio gets choppy and the recipients don't hear anything. Restarting Firefox fixes it, but this is enough of a problem for me to have Chrome installed on every computer where I may have to do a video call.

Firefox doesn't seem to be intentionally blocked by Teams in my experience (or at least not anymore?), but maybe it should be.
You have really proven your point even more than you meant to. Unfortunately none of these examples are robust.

The "-r" flag allows backslash escaping record terminators. The "find" command doesn't do such escaping itself, so that flag will cause files with backslashes at the end to concatenate themselves with the next file.

Furthermore, if IFS='' is not placed before each instance of read, or set somewhere earlier in the program, than each run of white-space in a filename will be converted into a single space.

EDIT: I proved your point even more. The "-r" flag does the opposite of what I thought it did, and disables record continuation. So the correct way to use read would be with IFS='' and the -r flag.
This heavily depends on the country, plenty of places in the US and other credit-card-loving countries are credit (and specifically credit, NOT debit) card only for this reason. Plenty of tourists from countries where such cards aren't as popular get bitten by this.
This isn't Singapore anything, it's just competent local government.
I've got one of these too, albeit much lower resolution. I bought it as a Krush Flip Clock at CES 2016, and wrote a Python driver for it. Looks like it's the same exact protocol.

https://github.com/dmd/clack
Probably minus the NA labor problems.
People are too easily pissed of by things that can be solved simply by communicating.
My (Neo)Vim workflow
Magma Supply System of the Reykjanes Volcano Eruptions [video]
Why isn't it called "intervallic arithmetic", sounds kinda clunky
VW mostly stopped using the Rabbit name in 1985. It briefly made a come back in 2006 - 2009 for the Golf Mk5. The 1991 model would have been the Golf in NA. My parents purchased a 1987 VW Golf new which I then purchased from them in 1990 when leaving college. I owned it for another 4 years.
To this list I would add: San Mateo county, California. I live there. Our house is located in a valley below street grade and so we have a sewage ejector pump. That pump is maintained by the county. In the ~15 years we have lived here it has failed twice. Both times we called the county and a crew came out to fix it without an hour. Both times we had to pay nothing. It was, quite literally, our tax dollars at work.

This is the thing that drive me batshit crazy about the libertarian tech bros who live here. They appear to be willfully ignorant of the fact that the reason quality of life here is so high is not because we have no government, but because we have competent government that quietly and without fanfare just takes care of business behind the scenes so that the tech bros can do their thing without having to worry about fixing their sewage ejector pumps.
Was going to say that!

I should still have a screenshot somewhere of lesstif/mwm with xsnow + xeyes (and xclock of course)
"Currently 8.371 people signed the manifesto. (updated 2023/11/04)" hasn't been updated in a while?
A server sounds quite inpractical if you could otherwise serve the application statically. Or offline.

Also having user data on server causes problems with privacy etc.
That and Apple breaking it in new and "exciting" ways...
I don’t have direct references but I know someone who was prosecuted for bootlegging. I live in the state with the lowest cigarette tax (Missouri). People will routinely cross the state line from Arkansas to buy both cigarettes (lower tax) and alcohol (most of northern Arkansas counties are dry.)
Yeah, in a way this "spicy" take is somewhat idealist (naive?). Bigger companies, even the ones that are not all that bad, can have quite a lot of process due to the fact that there are non-technical people involved, often in controlling positions for the hiring process. Although I can't say I enjoy it, I actually don't mind it that much either.
That's kind of like saying, "This isn't Space-X anything, it's just private space travel." Singapore is the canonical example of competent local government. That is the whole point.
Re: the credibility of Caitlin Johnstone: https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/179/
YouTube takes thousands of data points and signals to rank search results and there are millions of videos to search and rank, it's quite hard problem to solve. Initially I wasn't a fan of vertical search engine/s but I think vertical video search engine for particular niche/s would be a good idea because YouTube is slacking.
"Cambrian Chronicles" is a great example of this on Youtube - the channel is primarily about Welsh History, but often ends up as an academic exercise of starting with a reference on Youtube, and following through sources, often back to some Victorian scholar who mistranslated or misspelt something (or sometimes just plain made things up), which was then copied by someone else and so on - essentially a game of academic Chinese whispers.
10 years?

This feels more like a next 12 months problem to me at current pace
gRPC: The Bad Parts
Agreeing on long-term outcomes is not always so easy and is vulnerable to extremists from either side.

Only with this agreement in place can stakeholders cooperate.
I already don't know what's real anymore when reading historical snippets accompanied by pictures. Especially Facebook content, it's worse than the bottom of the barrel paper printed tabloids of the 90s, with the hen that gave birth to live chicks and all.

Eventually I'll have no option but to re-subscribe to paid content, while there's a trace of quality and objectiveness left.
While you could potentially justify it by evoking an ill defined query intent detection, X returning less results than X+Y will always be surprising for me.
https://www.placekey.io/how-it-works

Deep dive on how it works: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-of-daas/id157064...
The existence of distinct variant works is mildly interesting, and so there's (diminishing with volume) value in preserving variation, Big Wave (神奈川沖浪裏)† is a woodblock print, like many modern low scale printing processes for art it produced definitely different items each time, if you've seen Big Wave in a local city gallery and can see another somewhere they're certainly not just the same thing, the way every student's identical print of a famous band poster is.

But on the other hand, most of the value is in the core thing, not the variation. Modulo special cases like the "Wicked Bible" (which has a misprinting in the Ten Commandments) we care about that and not the variation.

It's easy to say that Blade Runner is an important movie. Hard up for preservation capacity if we're choosing obviously Blade Runner beats Ghostbusters 2. Easy. Ghostbusters 2 wasn't a terrible movie but it's no Blade Runner. OK, how about the "Director's Cut"? Sure OK, two copies of Blade Runner. The "Final Cut"? Ugh. Fine, OK, let's have three versions of Blade Runner rather than kick one out for a sub-par sequel to Ghostbusters. There are four more commercially released versions of the movie. That's too many. At some point we should cut our losses and say no, another Blade Runner is not worth it, we'll have Ghostbusters 2 instead thanks.

† That's deliberately not an accurate translation, but we all know what I'm talking about.
Did your university not have a bioinformatics department?
Hell yeah you’ll get one from me! I also send out letters to people. So much fun.
People use these apps because of their personalized feeds. Saying the apps shouldn't have that, or calling it anti-user, seems pretty misaligned to what the users actually do on them. The apps are not bulletin boards.

Anyway, again - infinite scrolling is apt for their use cases. We can say that and also all frown at the concept of doomscrolling afterwards.
Our demo is more end user focused. You can find more information about our configuration options in our package configuration documentation: https://glasskube.dev/docs/design/package-config/
I hate such a bald website full with a rich text promoting in an enterprise-styled way - all of that just for the one bit flag in BIOS which the manufacturer refused to implement since this might decrease some sales.

Of course charging a battery to 100% should be considered a turbo-mode, but the industry just tends to ship more devices with "Galaxy Note 7"-inspired battery approach.
Dr Disrespect shares why he was banned from Twitch
This is surprisingly something that really starts to weight on me after having spent 15 years in the apple ecosystem. Being dependant on the goodwill of one company to disclose how things work and allow you to do things or not arbitrarily starts to get tiring after a while.
This transcript is very interesting, and in particular I didn't know about Unums (Universal Numbers), which look amazing.

Would be interesting to get more bench (speed / memory) comparing float with unum.
The "securest" way is, you start your app and the app awaits the input of the key, it is only in the RAM.

But in reality, nobody will do that.
Do you mind sharing how much the panels cost from eBay?

I feel like that's a key data point that would help people decide if they want to explore this further.

edit: someone further down the thread discusses pricing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791049
Yea, you have to click "Tools" to see the number of search results and the time it took for Google to retrieve information. Again, idk why they hid that.
With C there is the ABI which is platform specific but can't change without all hell breaking loose. Also after twenty terrible years for profilers frame pointer are returning.

So the ABI allows you to do this sort of stuff reliably as long as the compiler isn't doing inane things with UB.
I read the description of the product and came away with the feeling that it's safe to say it's a ball.
For the backend, that makes some sense. However, your frontend libraries and bindings are AGPL too, which means any site or app using them must be AGPL as well (since they would be derivative works). That makes it almost impossible for commercial products to use Triplit, which means there won't be companies putting development resources into the community.
I've used Firefox on Linux to regularly attend multi-hour meetings for the last at least 5 years without issues from multiple devices and it has always worked smoothly for me. The only issue I have had is that in the last year sometimes the joining screen says that I have no camera and mic for a while (maybe 20s) before letting me join.

I regularly use Meet, Zoom and Jitsi on Firefox and Meet has been the only one that always just worked for me and my guests.
Neither does a graphical front end but that’s never stopped them.
> preceding the 1980s it was generally understood that competition itself is a necessity for effective free markets and that extreme power concentration (as we e.g. see today in the IT sector)

Yet Bell wasn't broken up until 1982 so I'm not sure if it was a such a turning point. IMHO allowing AT&T's monopoly to exist for that long was much more detrimental to consumers than whatever MS, Apple and other tech companies are doing these days.

But yeah I certainly overall agree that competition has generally been the driving force behind most of human progress and economic growth at least over the last few hundred years. It's just not entirely clear what measures should governments use to maximize the competitiveness of markets without introducing inefficiencies and costs that slow down economic growth and technological progress (while not providing that many benefits to consumers either).
It's at least pretty easy to shorten the filenames:

cd some/dir/here
find . -name '*.gz'
cd - # changes back to previous directory
How this doesn't have a picture included of Steely Dan's Aja, which is an iconic cover he did, baffles me.
There are some policies and government functions that are not that expensive and have a huge return on investment for society.

It’s when there’s either no government or a huge government that you run into problems.
I'd like to see some of the leading benefactors donate to cities that demonstrate this level of civic service and professional delivery. There's no reason that governments can't receive donations like non-profits and charities do.
You pay taxes in the US as well
What a cynical take, especially here in a community that should be celebrating novel uses of technology, whether it would be your choice or not.
We have stuff like the Plank length.

And most physicists assume space and time are quantized, we just don't know how.
If you want that, a Nintendo Switch or Steam Deck will give the same user experience while each having a vastly larger catalog of AAA titles. Steam specifically also has frequent substantial discounts on games, so even the upfront purchase price of a separate mobile console may eventually be offset by cheaper game purchases.
It's not that simple; you are effectively required to use FICO if you're participating in the "normal" mortgage market due to government regulations.

From TFA:

>Even if a lender thinks the customer would be a good risk, the lender has to buy a FICO score regardless. Mortgage bankers don’t carry the capital to hold the mortgages they make. Instead they make a loan, and then send it onward to the capital markets. First, the government guarantees most mortgages through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as other programs for veterans and first time homebuyers. Then, the government in turn sends these guaranteed mortgages to Wall Street. This complex process relies on a standard to price the loans, and that standard is FICO, combined with the credit information from the three bureaus.

Doesn't matter how accurate or inaccurate it is, if you're selling to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (which is the majority of mortgages) you HAVE to use FICO.
Exactly. If you want a great example of this, look no further than Jira!
This made me think. How long before search engines flat out refuse such searches like LLMs do?
i mean, San Mateo is like one of the richest counties in America - i'd hope they would be able to do basic things like what you stated.
> tamagotchi

Tamagotchi. Now that's nostalgia for you.-
The ABI doesn't mandate were locals are located on a stack frame thought so I'm not sure how would you inspect those.

If you simply meant that you want rely on an ABI, then that's fine, although relying on those details might be UB for standard conforming code, it is obviously well defined for compilers that conform to the ABI. Just because it is undefined from a standard point of view, doesn't mean is still undefined for a specific compiler + platform.

You will still need to use compilation firewalls and barriers to avoid aliasing or pointer provenance issues of course.
I don't know but in another HN thread today they discuss a way to make the things much more efficient https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40794564

It's surprising compute/$ has increased in a fairly smooth exponential way for more than a century, long before Moore. I guess if the financial incentives are there people find a way.
There are probably better examples to be found.
The "competence" comes at a price - extremely high levels of inequality, utter lack of civil liberties, a one-party authoritarian regime and so forth.
Market concentration is really the underlying problem. Microsoft should never have been allowed to buy GitHub. Microsoft Windows should have long been split into a separate company to Microsoft Office etc. If there wasn't this one gigantic business, then whichever smaller business made Teams would have a much more equal footing with other competitors, as they would not be at an unfair advantage for integration into other currently-Microsoft-owned products as well as the aggressive bundling Microsoft does with Teams.
> Las Vegas, Nevada, has tackled a historic drought by pioneering water conservation strategies, cutting per capita usage by nearly half despite rapid population growth

Emphasis mine. Per capita does not necessarily increase when population does, and definitely shouldn’t increase at a similar rate
> David Hilbert famously argued that infinity cannot exist in physical reality. The consequence of this statement — still under debate today — has far-reaching implications.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0238-1