skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how would that be possible, tires work based on traction which depends on friction, you're gonna have to lose material.

At the end of the day, I disagree with you, you play with the cards you have at hand, and at the moment tire technology isn't gonna change, so at least we should push for using less and smaller cars.
ADSL would need a much bigger solar panel and battery considering most people use ADSL 24x7. I believe the power requirements for ADSL modems are much higher too.
That test was indeed interesting.
But, one thing it didn't mention was audiation. Various people I know (including me) can hear music in their heads, almost like a recording. This is very useful when performing as I can pretty much play along to this internal track. Some people appear not to be able to do this at all.
As an anarcho communist and prolific HN commenter I sigh every time I see his name. Sadly he doesn’t actually understand communism and seems to be stuck in 1980’s anti communist propaganda. For example the sibling comment to this one where he conflates collectivism with being “anti freedom” (lol). At least he’s getting the downvotes he deserves in this thread.
That's inherent in anything which represents a tree of nodes though. The nodes themselves have a set of attributes, and they have a list of children. JSON has the exact same "problem" if you choose to represent a tree of nodes as JSON with a "children" field which is an array of sub-nodes.

This isn't an issue if you use S expressions, simply because S expressions get rid of the concept of properties. But at that point, you end up with a rectangle with a sub-node called "width", which feels weird as well: the width of a rectangle is clearly a property of the rectangle, not a "child" of it? I'd argue that using S-expressions where each rect node must have x/y/width/height children is just a poor attempt at adding back properties to a syntax which doesn't natively support it.
Ford even did an ad campaign around this concept some years ago
https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2017...
Why Steve Jobs Went 'Thermonuclear' over Android (2014)
Anecdote: I once tried to suppress my internal monologue. I found thinking elaborate thoughts and checking them for soundness was a lot harder. Might just be not being used to it.

These days I mostly use words but there are many concepts that don't have a short number of words corresponding to them, which makes recalling them much harder for me.
Changing the internals of a net is more likely to affect its training speed and ability to converge than its observable behaviour after training (in my experience), and in general mutations make things worse unless you have good reason to believe it'll make things better (e.g. residual layers in resnets).

(disclaimer: I'm not an ML expert, maybe this is just a me problem, but I find nets extremely sensitive to stuff like changing activations, adding normalisation, layer initialisation, layer sizes, all this stuff that seems kinda arbitrary to a non-experts like me)
The person ignoring their subordinate’s reports to protect their own next promotion has entered the chat.
I find the opposite. The more complex a thought, the harder it is to reason about using language in my head. Speaking as someone who has a constant inner monologue.
Is this essentially a weight loss drug that helps sleep apnea? Seems like weight loss and metabolic improvement is the thing that is the actual thing that helps sleep apnea.
I would disagree with that. We have quality measures to assess what 'better' can mean in software engineering (e.g. maintainability, reliability, security, performance, etc.).
You are right that it is not fixed what is most important. It may vary from one organization to another, but it can be conceptualized and then made measurable to some degree.
which indicates that something shady is going on
Just use butter or ghee. Problem solved.

Vegetable oils aren’t safe for human consumption in any form.

Plus the majority of olive oil you’ll find on the shelves is fake.

Even EU had declared an emergency and stated that olive oil is the most faked food stuff. And that’s EU that produces said oil and has some of the most stringent food rules on this planet.
IMO most of the problem with XML, and the reason why I hate using XML but find JSX and HTML perfectly fine, is that every XML document needs to start with some bullshit like:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

or:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">

It's not only verbose and extremely ugly but also impossible to remember.
> just how much of a wierdo

I was surprised to learn the other day from HN that not only some people, but some commenters here, consider the notion of "not opening one's mouth to start a sentence before knowing how it's going to end" an impracticable ideal.
He should look into C, not C++. With Duff's device[1] trick, it becomes surprisingly lisp- and forth-y. It can be used to implement coroutines in 100% portable C[2]. And I'm pretty sure you can use the same trick to implement infinite recursion (stack on heap) and maybe even backtracking a la prolog.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device

[2] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
> All this fuzzy language

That's not the exclusive problem to Microsoft - it happens all around us within the IT world. The corporations stopped acknowledging the permanent "No" anymore and the actual user choice. It's a plain harassment up until you give up and agree to what you get shoveled with.

Whenever I read comments regarding last two Windows versions and issues people had or have with these, or news about newest Microsoft "ideas" - I ask myself, where the hell are regulators?
Its the users fault: this is what is wrong with systemd
This comment from a systemd develop is what is (the most important thing) wrong with systemd. Its not the first time I have seen comments like this and its not hard to find them.

Found via The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/20/systemd_2561_data_wip...

Reading the comments by systemd developers on that bug, I am now confused about what the --purge option is actually for.
A very small percentage of people will trash a clean environment.

A much larger percentage of people will add trash to an already trashed environment.
Most of calculator and hardware do use CORDIC for real-time implementation.

Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40326563
Are you a Fire in a Bottle fan too?
Weird, based on the wording of the questions and the categories they presented I kind of just assumed that each question only pertained to one of them. If they're doing something more complex I didn't notice it. But maybe they have some baked in assumptions that some of these modalities are like, mildly anticorrelated? That's the thing that kinda irked me about psychology when I was studying it more seriously. The epistemic integrity of psychological research reads to me as basically castles built on sand, where people get excited about results that seem super weakly supported based on reading the paper, which is often itself laden with a ton of assumptions that don't seem justified, but people who cite them just take the conclusions the authors drew as established, build their own studies with those assumptions baked in, ad nauseum. I was not shocked at all when the replication crisis hit this field as hard as it did, and since the issue is often in the way the hypotheses are operationalized in the first place, there are inherently going to be tons of flawed studies that are hard to even detect through the heuristic of replicability.

As far as the Likert scale nonsense, I am right there with you, all these psychological instruments are pretty poorly framed from my perspective, and while there's some discourse deep in academia about the rigor of various experimental methodologies even in the most broken of social sciences, in practice they don't seem to care much because it's publish or perish baby!

It really doesn't seem like most sciences are quite this broken, though some are clearly trying. Obviously there are people in psychology trying to do good rigorous science, it seems like institutional pressures are not working to support them, and certainly won't amplify rigor over making bold claims that get a lot of press

Like, all this to say that it's definitely worth taking these things with a massive grain of salt, but if you do that, it can still be pretty interesting.
So it's a Linux issue that the 2 distros didn't work on a PC you built to run windows?
Have never played Rag, but in Runescape and WoW progression was only measured in months and years at a time when one would be completely oblivious to any kind of far out goal or meta or otherwise being good at the game, and that's because the nature of the game was to get one level higher, not to the end, and you'd be naively taking ages to even progress that far. After you're aware of the end bits or have done the leveling a few times, progression could be measured in huge time blocks, but I don't know if those have much crossover with what you get through the eyes of a new adventurer.

The only nostalgia I have in RuneScape was learning to write basic bots in Pascal using... SCAR? and then acquiring or aspiring to acquire gear that was only novel because I didn't know how or where to get it, the mystery was the magic, bots did the rest. Wow was more punishing and more rewarding during this same period of wide-eyed new adventurer mode. "How did he get those shoulders!? Maybe some day". Although I do still play retail and haven't bothered with classic, because the systems are better and the fights are a bit more sophisticated
I like to describe the shell and commands as a big dashboard with many levers and indicators compared to a much simpler one with just a small bunch of ON-OFF switches. They're indeed complicated, until the day you need to change something that isn't on the simple panel, or isn't a simple ON-OFF choice, because every operating system is complicated; you can hide some of its complexity behind a graphical interface, but you always lose something in the process because you can easily have a command with 100 options but you can't put 100 buttons on a screen. It simply doesn't scale.
So the next question is "how do we put a complicated system under control of a simpler graphical interface?" We make assumptions of course (read: we write code that makes assumptions), and there is where bugs arise or more complexity is created, because machines (still) aren't good as humans at doing some things. As an example, very complex string operations can be performed using sed, awk and the usual shell command with regular expessions, where on Windows for years (I have no experience with its new shells) many people would have to load Office, import the text, write a macro, and export back the text. The difference being that Office would likely need two orders of magnitude more computing power, memory and storage.
You don't own it, just paid for it.
Good times. Remember these?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
Indeed, that was it. All the best with your startup!
It's normally active for local users as well. It is for me and I never logged in. You're (accidentally?) running with an unusual config for some reason. The way to turn it off also changed a couple of times already, so you're really lucky you've avoided it.
Unrealized gains.
M$ is cutting the branch it sitting on. Have been using Windows for over two decades now. And I clean wiped one of my brand new Windows 11 machine for Linux just a couple of days ago. And I was surprised to see how good Linux had became.

Put all that aside, satisfactory of Windows peeked at Windows 7. Never seriously used Windows 8. Windows 10 was trouble, but still much better than Windows 11. When Windows 10 started rolling out, I heard there was lots of issues, so I ignored the upgrade notice. Soon I noticed the fan on computer was running crazily in midnight, but when I checked in the day time, it looked alright. It went on for around half a year or so, I was woken up and was so annoyed decided to check what was happening. It was M$ trying to upgrade to Windows 10. Alright, let me upgrade then. The manual upgrade failed and the rollback also failed. Had to clean wipe and install Windows 10 to avoid such nonsense. Then I started to notice after almost every update, there would most likely something got fixed or broken randomly. Also the Active Hours setting just annoyed me, but still not quite enough to force me to go to Linux.

Windows 11 is even worse. Got a Surface pro for the kid, took a couple of hours to get it working. Then an upgrade broke the display driver. Uninstall of the offending patch failed, could not rollback neither. So first clean wipe for Windows 10. On my gaming PC, all my settings to disable those defender etc would be lost after an update, the UI is sometimes very lagging, don't want to touch it yet as too much effort required. Then I got a new PC with Ryzen 7840u and 64G RAM, after booting up, the CPU would constantly be around 20% for no obvious reason. Since I didn't really have anything installed, so I directly wiped it and installed Linux. It was so good. Video/Audio drivers installed correctly automatically. CPU usage when idle now drops to ~2%. The only thing I miss about is Visual Studio, but that's about it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/07/26/famous-ea...
I’m very surprised re “docker works better on windows” - at work we do web dev and we use mostly macs.

We’ve tried windows machines for docker and hit a ton of performance problems that just aren’t there on modern docker for mac.
As is accidentally bringing them back. Choosing another distribution is also trivial.

Results in less work and represents the wider ecosystem, too. Canonical does what Canonical wants.
Thanks for the tip ;) Changing it soon
What I noticed in south Europe at least is that food in small quick restaurants is cheaper and way better quality than fast food. It naturally forces people to make good choices.

For example, in Portugal a McDonald’s meal is about €12.

Meanwhile you can get a meal of fish or meat, mashed potatoes and some veggies plus Coke Zero in a glass bottle for €8.50.

Or a plate of rice, good quality salad (not a token one) and quarter chicken plus a coffee for €7.50.
to be fair it really is a good idea

it's a good contender against universities and there are handful of companies in other countries that have the same model

the core differentiator and the sole reason those companies are still alive?

they don't have a fucking austen as ceo lol

the first mover advantage he got ended up being his achilles heel
I tried it, and basic Ubuntu immediately failed with my 5k monitor, especially when I changed the scaling to anything else than 100%. With my previous laptop, the whole graphics system failed. For some reason, about every fifth reinstallation worked (based on pure luck), then the first kernel update fucked it up again. So that “everything just works” is unfortunately not universal, it depends on your setup.
i don't know why systemd gets so much hate. been using it for a year or two now for all my services and it seems to work fine.
Honestly I run both a regular and immutable fedora on 2 different laptops and I wouldn't say it is "a game changer". There are pros and cons of both systems, but under most usage I haven't found a difference that I would call game changing. App installation and update is different, starting flatpak and toolbox installed apps from the terminal is different, your homedir is somewhere else...and that's it?

And while I have enabled the flathub repo, to have more choice over the limited but curated fedora repo, I am a bit wary of the flathub ecosystem as it:

- includes proprietary stuff
- a lot of "community build" flatpaks for which it is not obvious in a quick glance who build it exactly?
- I don't think the flathub packages are analysed for malwares?

I could see flatpak becoming a source of malware. Sure most flatpaks are setup to be sandboxed and you can fine tune sandboxing but most people would not know about it and a lot of flatpak already have access to your files otherwise they are not usable.
I got my first 99 after a 15 year break. Farming, obviously!
I’m not sharing the video as some foolish “proof” of the absence of labor violations. I’m sharing it as positive proof of the many very large highly automated high throughput machines they have! It’s clear they have invested a lot in machinery to produce their goods.

Did the Chinese government help invest in that production capacity? I don’t know probably, but I think the US should be doing that too so my point that we failed to invest still stands.

The point is, it’s not some evil communist plot to undercut us. They just actually invested in manufacturing and that’s what I’m trying to show with the video. Seriously click through it. There’s a lot of large high throughput automated machines there! There is no equivalent to that facility in the USA that I have ever heard of. Probably big companies like Intel have some impressive machinery but this is a job shop where anyone with $5 can place an order for PCBs. And I seriously doubt this is some North Korean style propaganda show where a bunch of slave labor is hidden behind a door. This factory is a state of the art PCB fabrication facility that gets cheap prices due to investment in capacity. They’re not cheating. They just actually invested and we’ve failed to catch up.
Seems like the “Borrow Unavailable” message should be replaced with “Borrow prohibited by publisher.”
The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred |
256 points by paraboul | 9 days ago | 216 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40661001
> Every time I search on the start menu there is a web search, impossible to turn off. How is that acceptable?

I'm not sure if it works on Win11, but this was used to disable it in Win10:

REG ADD HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search /v BingSearchEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
REG ADD HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search /v CortanaConsent /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
Also include a loud scream as the man sees his foot is gone, And shouts "Where's my foot?! What happened to me???", being absolutely dumbfounded by this observation.
Language helps us shape our thoughts, in a way a ruler helps us draw straight lines, but thoughts do not begin with language.

Our thoughts and ideas come from an unknown source. We might call it intuition, but scientifically speaking, it remains a black box.

Lethologica - a temporary inability to remember a particular word or name - is one evidence of this. You can have a fully formed thought in your mind, but be unable to express it with words.
great points

personally i'm even rooting for companies that contend against universities

but the litmus test for lambda school is pretty fucking simple

will your company survive if you got austen as your ceo instead of you?
This is an opinion, not a fact. Many closed-source companies invest heavily in research and development to create innovative solutions, which definitely does drive competition in the market. Differentiation through unique features can enhance a competitive advantage.
I don't think uber/lyft drivers will be the culprit here. Generally, it's a pretty lousy job these days. There's also other options like survey or click work which pays more or less about the same net income.

If I were to place my bets on the biggest risk it'll be YouTubers finding out how to fuck around with the cars in unexpected ways and potentially tricking them.

Here's a dumb example. If you use one of those phone apps that flashes your screen like a police siren, could you trick the car to pull over? Would it unlock the doors and allow you to just hop in? What if you put a dog shaped balloon in the road on front of it? Could you set up some confusing cones and get it to drive into a wall? Could you confuse it at a stoplight with a green flashlight and have it start driving?
Your comment could be rephrased as:

fn main() {
println!("I really dislike trend of “written in X” in a headline. What difference does it make if a build tool is written in X? If X entails “fast, takes small amount of resources and reliable” - then just say so.");
}
Thanks; that's 1938* 《抗日游击战争的战略问题》but I'd been hoping for the 1937 work,《游击战》, which even in english only seems to appear in various US translations as well as a "collected works" that was printed in India, but is not canonical according to China?

When I try baidu-ing I get plenty of hits for Guevara's title but none for Mao :(

* I think en.wikipedia.org is just plain wrong here but maybe they consider them two editions of the "same" work?
> Let's assume people are going at a speed that the road is designed to handle

Let's not, because most of the speeding I see is from people who very mistakenly think they know what speed the road's designed to handle, because they don't give a crap about pedestrians, bicyclists, visibility, other vehicles, or really, anything but getting to the next red light faster.

Perhaps you drive in a utopia that's solely populated by traffic architects, but here in the real world, it's populated by normal people, many of whom are bad drivers, and bad judges of road safety, but are really good at hitting the gas.

Our high death rates reflect this.
And the whole wildly inconsistent UI elements of Linux shows it doesn't respect users.

You have one default app that does things one way (say, with a "Save" button, and a nice "Settings successfully changed!" message), and another that does things a totally different way (say, with an auto-save and no message that it's been saved).

Linux respects developers, in that it allows the people who make aspects of Linux to do anything any way they way -- but without consistency of UX, is it really respectful of users? Or does it just leave them at the mercy of the devs who often give the impression that they don't care about the user at all and can't be bothered to build anything consistently, or re-factor old code to bring it up to modern consistencies, or put even show a little empathy for users who aren't also advanced software developers.

Not everyone wants to learn how to build a car just to drive a car.

(Disclosure... My exposure to Linux is running various distributions on my Raspberry Pi side projects... Pi Hole, Retro Gaming, silly home automation toys. I tried to set up my elderly parents with Mint Linux and that was a complete disaster.)
They’re both “right”, people with manors have manners, so I’m not sure but think that might dq it as an eggcorn.
NixOS system configuration is centralised and documented.
germany, with the eu held captive, is really going to die on the regulation hill.

there are so many structural issues, everything trending downwards but instead of fixing those, the bureaucrats are ready to keep innovation out even more strongly and the people are so blinded by the "doing good" rhetoric that they even support it to a large part.

the bigger news should have been the looming attack on chat privacy ("think of the children!") which is somehow ignored by the "look, we are fighting the evil american bigco over here" hand waving.

it boggles the mind how this strategy is supposed to pay off in any sense over the next years / decades.