skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can the submitter please explain what we're looking at?

I have no idea what these RSS feeds are per-language per-time period.

Since the page certainly doesn't explain.

And the RSS titles are useless -- "GitHub All Languages Daily Trending", "Daily Trending of All Languages in GitHub".

Daily trending whats? Repositories? As determined by what? Downloads? Issues? Comments? Clones? Commits? Stars?
The whole point of trademark and patents are to encourage innovation and creative production, otherwise, it would be a waste of collective resources or unfair restrictions at the very least, if they didn't result in more investment in research and development.

You're being down voted, but I am curious if there is any software product or enterprise in the market that couldn't have been competitive (not a monopoly!) without patents?
Its not possible to automate.
Log is one example. You can't just use log(x) but log(x+1).
There are other problems like the "zero problem" and its still possible to devise better approximations with other elementary operations such as |x| or ABS(x).
Are you saying dependencies are bad?

Are you saying all new languages are bad because they encourage you to pull in half the program via some language package manager, injecting problems from simple networking availability to supply chain attacks into what was otherwise a simple program?

Are you saying we should only code everything in C and C++ and Bash with as few dependencies as possible?

https://youtu.be/fDq_8y_drE8&t=85
OP here, I agree with you.
Though what I wrote doesn't contradict this; consider that the smartest is the person who knows how to play corporate politics.
Because the creative marketplaces have turned into effective monopolies or oligopolies at best (YouTube, Spotify), the market is broken. Note that an effective market has multiple vendors of similar commodities. Because the market is broken, value is payed not where it is due. This is intentional however, every big corp tries to break the market and lobbies for laws that allow that.
Thanks for sharing. Curious how things are now 6 years later: do you still keep in touch with some of the employees? Has the outcome been good for them?
Apologies, you're right. There is prior story on this[0] but it has an editorialized title and no discussion.

[0] (11 points, 23 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40754050
The case in question is about a patent registered in the European Patent Office, which is headquartered in Munich
From the linked post:

“PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 22, 2023”

So quite old news, IMHO? Shouldn’t that be mentioned in the subject?
Interesting, I agree that study seems at first glance to contradict what I am saying. Will look into it further.

This includes amortized spending for failed drugs I think, but so does pharma spending so seems like a fair comparison.
How is it different to Obsidian?
Was mildly curious how one goes about training such models. Best I could find was

https://www.amazon.science/publications/zero-shot-virtual-pr...
Yes, this is true. But I rarely send emails, it is basically the corporate communication channel these days.

I use a wildcard domain and give each business a different email, for security and privacy. I almost never need to respond.

Generally, when responding, the email is always accepted.
Unfortunately, doesn't have whole world airports
Seeking Guidance on Deep Diving into ReactJS
Hey everyone,

I'm currently working as a Software Development Engineer and tasked with creating a design system and component library for my company. While I have a basic understanding of React, I'm eager to take my skills to the next level. I believe mastering React thoroughly will not only benefit my career growth but also enhance my preparation for interviews.
Here’s where I stand with React: my knowledge is pretty basic. I'm familiar with the fundamentals and have worked on creating simple components and UI elements. Now, I want to dive deeper and cover React comprehensively.

Goals:

-Master React: I want to explore advanced concepts and best practices that will help me build scalable and maintainable applications. Deep dive into the working of react and its components (like hooks, etc)

-Contribute to React's Official Codebase: I aspire to contribute to React itself. It would be incredibly fulfilling to contribute to such a foundational library in the developer community.

Seeking Guidance On:

-Learning Path: What resources (books, courses, tutorials) do you recommend to deepen my understanding of React? Any specific projects or challenges I should undertake?

-Advanced Concepts: What are the key advanced topics within React that I should focus on?
-Contributing to React: For those who have contributed to React or other large-scale open-source projects, what advice do you have for someone looking to make their first contribution?

-Interview Preparation: How can I leverage my deepened knowledge of React to excel in technical interviews?

I appreciate any advice, tips, or personal experiences you can share! Thank you in advance.
There's levels of granularity that matter. You could just as well record all your edits in realtime. Make a script that makes a commit every second or every time you finish editing a line. It might be interesting later, yet that's usually not how people use git. Those changes wouldn't be meaningful units of work.

If you make a commit "wip" or "before lunch" because you want a backup of your work or want to continue on a different computer, then it's not a meaningful unit either. It's OK to throw away.

Most people prefer less granular commits but not to the point of having 1 commit per issue/PR. For example after inheriting someone else's code written in a hurry and not tested, I often end up dividing my work into several commits - first there's a cleanup of all the things that need renaming for consistency, adding docs/tests, removing redundant/unused code, etc. sometimes this ends up being more commits as i reveal more tech debt. Then, when i am confident i actually understand code and it's up to my standards, I make the actual change. This can be again multiple commits. The first and second group are often mixed.

And it's important when it later turns out i broke something - i can focus on the commits that make functional changes as the issue is usually there and not in the cleanup commits which can be 10x larger.

BTW what git is really missing is a way to mark multiple commits as one unit of work so the granularity stays there but is hidden by default and can be expanded.
Things being devalued is awesome. It means more people can afford them. Keeping things being luxury was never a sign of progress.

> but no one is sitting around excited about the idea of prompting AI-Tupac rap to about them or their personal interests

Are you kidding? I specifically asked AI to generate songs about joys of programming and I was rewarded with very catchy and inspiring "Code until your dream compiles!" in the style of 80s rock/pop and among other things soft female voice singing about romantic love for her code "I know it's just text, it's true. But it's in my IDE's hue."

It's a goldmine. I haven't had so much fun "creating" "music" for at least few decades.

And I'm definitely not alone. Some AI generated catchy songs on funny subjects already started to circulate as memes.

I don't care for human artists that never thought about creating something like that even though they theoretically could.

The artists that get mimicked are the lucky ones. Last famous singers of humanity.
GitHub has trending repos published at https://github.com/trending

Which are categorised by their main programming language.

Since GitHub doesn’t publish RSS feeds, this is a third-party RSS feed for the same.
Getting Started with RAG
Build time isn’t the only benefit, but consider that the author is from ByteDance and how large their projects are.

Another important callout is how in Vite, native ESM modules are used in dev which makes it very slow for large apps with thousands of modules. So cold start of dev can be important too.

In practice HMR is mostly what you need and Vite has it covered. But slow tends to accumulate slow.
I think you would enjoy reading this which seems to agree with you somewhat. https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1cCymY7GRLn-PDwh948WC...
Show HN: I built a webapp for getting reliable MUNI time in SF
No worries about that with Hotglue (PHP), the deployment is no more complicated than dropping the unzipped project folder onto a webserver.

I really wish I knew more PHP to fix some things, as Hotglue as it is already ticks a lot of boxes for me (non-SaaS, self-hostable). I tried to find a way to make public pages password-protected, but it didn't work when I used the Apache server method (conflicts with the authentication method used for editing the pages). And I don't know enough PHP to do it on the application side.
I completely agree, that's the part that I like about the GPL. That's why I'm a bit iffy about removing copyright outright (as it would mostly affect open source projects, proprietary software rarely has an available source that would be made free by such a move). But I see the point.
It said they compared it to “broadband emitter fabric” which sounds like it is commercialized? I don’t know what the common name for that is though.
You're perhaps confusing Colorado with a bunch of the states around it. Sure, its economy looks small compared to California's, but California's economy is mind-bogglingly vast. Not many companies are willing to write-off ~12% of California.
You can have a comment above the constant explaining the math of how it was calculated.
I’ve been using https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos, which converts each language list to an Issue on GitHub which you can subscribe to. And while GitHub doesn’t have RSS feeds for issues, there’s a bunch of ways to get that: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/7871
This is true in an ideal sense, but when it comes to phones, you have to look at the whole spectrum of the situation. Given you can sneak a SoC in a phone with backdoor access to everything, can you really ever make it secure? You need open source hardware along with software, and that just isn't where we are at.

Apple is more aligned with privacy than other megacorps, so I trust their hardware more. I don't trust their software, but we need to make compromises in today's world to function.

Android devices, on the other hand, I do not trust at all. Google / Samsung / etc all have high motivations to compromise security for profit, higher than Apple.
This is a feature, not a bug.

In our system, capital tends to concentrate and flow to people who are good stewards of it.

Many of the rich train their children to provide value and allocate capital efficiently. This is somehow a bad thing?

The comment I responded to was the typical collage freshman “eat the rich” bs which is rooted in communistic ideation. Those ideas are generally worthless and go down a shitty path for both the individual and society. Those ideas result in misery literally every time we try them.
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."

- John Adams, 2nd US President
Maybe a quick, cheap NeRF with some object recognition, 3D object generation and replacement, so at least you have a sink where there is a sink and a couch where you have a couch, even though it might look differently.
What is motivating the move technically?

What is motivating the move politically?

What is motivating the move psychologically?

Be clear regarding each.

They are all there in the decision.

Don't pretend they aren't.

Only one of them is technical.

And it is not most of success.

Good luck.
If the difference between two numbers in Celsius is Kelvin, what unit is the difference between two numbers in Fahrenheit?
An Anatomy of Algorithm Aversion
The skills (or traits) that make a quick fortune are the same that lose it overnight...
> Windows is still very relevant, especially on servers

Really? The only remnants of Windows Server, that I've seen within the last couple of years, were running Exchange and ActiveDirectory.

Even SQL Server installations are moving to Linux.
First Provably Secure End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage
Graphene has questionable dev choices, especially given the limited hardware options -- basically, Google hardware. I do not trust Google at all anymore. Their interests align directly against privacy.
It’s a thought experiment. What are the reasons you aren’t paid for the value you create? Can you fix some of them?

In this case, it’s postulated the biggest single factor is a monopsony.
I'd add all software to video games; despite all the optimization and mechanization it remains a creative endeavor.
It's not complicated. For most people, love is how you treat your family, ergo your loved ones. Extending it to the world shouldn't be that big a deal.
> You see, the money the Big Three got in the form of [Spotify] dividends, stock sales, etc was theirs to spend as they saw fit. They could share some, all, or none of it with musicians.

How can this be legal? Has it been tried in any court?

To me it feels unlikely that a court would accept the argument that since the Big Three got paid in something other than money they don’t have to pay royalties to the musicians on that. Otherwise what’s stopping any licensee from just charging their customers in gold instead of dollars, and pay zero royalty?
I implemented a morton/z-order curve, and implemented the LITMAX/BIGMIN:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_curve#Use_with_one-dim...

It helps implement spatial partitioning with a z-order curve, which makes spatial partitioning quite fast and easy to implement compared to R-tree, quad tree, KD tree and other sophisticated things.

The wikipedia article doesn't mention if it's under patent, and some link says the patent was dropped, but I am not sure.

https://patents.google.com/patent/DE10331679A1/en

I don't really know how to read this, and there are other results to "LITMAX/BIGMIN patent".

Although, to be quite honest, I don't think there is a good benchmark of spatial partitioning algorithms (like there is for hash tables), since it's often comparing apples/orange/bananas.
Majority of the so called creatives or influencers in the tech platforms produce sub standard material. There are cases of people like sssniperwolff etc whose entire content is rehashing on other peoples work and making money of it. And then there are people who produce life vlogs and shopping hauls. Are they worth more than a software engineer or a farmer who produces actual tangible assets for consumption?
Rankine.
when I first saw how the hotel I was working at was saving credit card information of all their customers forever in plaintext (to charge them later), it appalled me. all it takes is one indecent employee to take that information and sell it, and then think of how many hotels there are in the world, almost all of them also saving this info. (this does not account for booking.com stuff where there is an in-between credit card to preserve your privacy)
Aha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_Archaeology_Project#Res...

Serovo is just before 5000 YBP (3000 BC), and locally late neolithic, but that's because Siberia has no chalcolithic, so neolithic gets directly succeeded by the bronze age. Given the uncertainty of dating back then (some people believe riding had already been invented, others that it would not be for some time after), I'm happy to consider those as possible or even likely compound bows.

Sorry for leading us in circles with the pedantry!
You're free to bring anything to court, that's your right.
I mean depending on your risk aversion we’re not that far, nor have ever been.
The tiddlywiki site is a tiddlywiki document. That alone tells you the difference.
Mind if I ask what specifically you do in comms?
I built an app that lets creatives sell their digital and physical goods

https://www.makepostsell.com/

It's open source and public domain, uses stripe for holding card information
Microphone made of atom-thick graphene could be used in smartphones
$50 for a one off thing, for a gym buddy is fine. in the blue collar world, that would be a 'case of beer' for helping me out.

But in business, you need to charge an honest / fair amount. (sure, sometimes that 1 hour bug fix had $100K of 'value', but we could argue about honest / fair).

You mention being an employee at $100K a year. Double that, gives you a contractor rate of $100 an hour. That is the floor of what you should be asking floor; as in the absolute lowest. Another $50 or $100 an hour is still fair and honest in todays economy.
Phased introductions to smartphones will help kids more than bans
The original L4 (I believe) wasn't commercially available und sel4 is GPL licensed. Minix has a BSD license, so maybe that's why
Supernova Slowdowns Confirm Einstein's Predictions of Time Dilation
I have read Tanenbaum's book twice. Really great book. Very dense in information but enjoyable as well. That and the Common Lisp Reference Manual were at some point my favorite CS readings. I was reading them in printed form.
Out of Sight, 'Dark Fungi' Run the World from the Shadows
I was the only one in my class in law school who used mind maps and spaces repetition (back then on a Palm Pilot).

After I graduated, new professors came in who now are popularizing such methods, writing books about it, etc..

I think it’s a zeitgeist thing. If you’re too early, nobody will take you seriously. But at some point the tide is strong enough to break through.

Kinda the same as with AI/automation. I tried selling this to lawyers in 2020 and failed miserably. Three years later, ChatGPT became a thing, and now every lawyer wants a piece of AI.

It’s not the better mousetrap. It’s not people wanting new things that moves the world. It’s people not wanting to be left behind.

(Slightly paraphrasing the late Charlie Munger.)
> Another thing the ST had that the Amiga didn't was a port of FTL's Sundog: Frozen Legacy.

Oh, man, that brings back memories. I didn't much get into games, but I did play Sundog on my ST quite a bit.
> Central planning of anything is generally very inefficient and results in the concentration of power.

When corporations take over the central planning, what forces should counteract? Before you say 'market forces', you have to address the present case, where three music owners control 60-70% of the market on terms favorable to them rather than to customers or creators.
If you are honest, it may not even alternate. Both feelings can exist at the same time.
I built my most-recent ZFS pool on 2x18 drives, mirroring pairs "crossed" across drives. The SAS models are easier to work with because they present as two LUNs. Wendell from Level1Techs wrote some scripts (easy to find on the L1T forum) to make it easier to split up the SATA models into two partitions that can then be used as mostly-independent "logical units."

In general I've been happy with it but buying the drives new probably wasn't worth the cost. ServerPartDeals has refurbished SATA drives for $210 and that's an attractive price. It's great for smaller deployments where you might have a limited number of 3.5" drive slots available but need to hit certain sequential throughout and IOPS numbers.

Of course used enterprise SSDs are probably a better choice if you can find a good deal and buy extra redundancy.
maybe mp3?
And what effects are we seeing in nature because we bury plastics?

Because all the effects you are talking about near as I can tell is because we aren’t burying all the plastics. We dispose of them in other ways, or don’t at all.

Because when they’re buried, they don’t interact with anything anymore.

Literally.

So seriously, WTF?
> My point was...

Quite true. And it's possible that (due to regulatory/tax/social/etc. factors in India) small businesses could only be sold at large discounts to their "Wall Street theoretical" values - even in a perfectly efficient market.

I originally commented in response to amadeuspagel saying "If there's a whole industry of them, shouldn't there be lots of competition to buy these companies?" - by pointing out a simple way in which the market could be very inefficient.

Yes, even if there's a carved-in-stone rule that businesses sell for (say) 10X their annual profit, there will be plenty of business owners who imagine that their business is somehow the exception.

Related is the problem of owners misrepresenting their businesses to potential buyers. Which would lead perfectly rational and honest buyers to offer them far below 100 paise on the rupee, due to the risk of being swindled.
Anytype isn't there yet, but you should keep an eye on it
That is exactly what working for the customer is. Fundamental technology, research and science.
Could be! For some reason I was thinking of substack as more "subscribe to my newsletter" writing than "here's my bibliography" writing, but I could easily have prematurely stereotyped...
See also what can go wrong when you don't formally verify your encrypted cloud storage system: https://mega-awry.io/
A ToC is more important than a list and should build a graph to other parts of your document. If the only agreement we have is that something is a list, then we've reduced the semantic meaning of a list to the question of whether we should have visual signifiers like bullet points or numbers.

I want the niceness of Wikipedia generalized elsewhere but abstracted by my client or browser. The more we agree on the precise meaning of elements, the more we are empowered to programatically redesign or interact with content.
Well, from my first comment I have been speaking on micro terms, since I've been speaking for myself, an individual. I'm not speaking on the macro level because as an individual I have little power to make restaurants, say, pay higher wages, or Uber pay higher rates, or lower wages or lower rates. As an individual, whether or not I tip isn't going to change that one iota.

Now, if you want to talk about organizing collectively beyond the individual level, to use political and market power to make structural changes that raise wages but curb tipping, well that's a different topic that's worth discussing. But, absent that, I'm going to keep tipping.
Really? Aren't town cars nicer inside than regular cabs? Limousines tend more in the direction of conspicuous consumption, though I imagine they are also generally more comfortable/clean than less-expensive options. Limos are also not that expensive for some use cases: we once had to get 8 people from NYC to MD, and it turned out that renting a limo was cheaper than us all taking the train or renting a vehicle.
But also quality. For example, YouTube pretty much forces people toward lowest-common-denominator filler content, because if creators don't upload new content frequently enough they'll drop out of recommendation lists even for subscribers. Creative software tools are easily available and distribution is free, but YouTube has a monopoly of information and so creators have very little insight into what/when/how people see the creative product or how revenue is calculated.
The neural engine hardware is available to developers via API, even in Europe.
Math for DSA: Recommendations?
Hey everyone,

I've recently completed my engineering mathematics courses and I'm eager to strengthen my grasp on Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA). Which specific mathematics topics should I leverage to better understand DSA concepts? Could anyone suggest good resources, like books or online courses, that utilize a strong mathematical background to understand DSA better?

Looking forward to your recommendations and insights. Thanks in advance!