skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's getting better but, in my experience, once metro systems got away from manned booths and tokens, the systems worked fine for commuters but led to lots of fumbling and long lines for tourists.

Trains in the UK still have a certain amount of "Which of these tickets/receipts go where?" while a line of irritated locals is building up behind you. Fortunately, also being the UK, someone will help you if you're struggling with something sooner rather than later.
If you'd like to explore syntax tree and related IOperations, there is a VS Code extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=333fred.... which lets you do just that, it has been very handy for writing source generators.

(though I end up disabling it to reduce extra pressure on language server when it's unneeded)
I've been a happy paid user of LINQPad for over 8 years now. Love it, well worth the price.
Ask HN: Which task do you dislike most as front-end engineer?
Hi all, which type of task do you find most boring or frustrating when you need to do them? For me, it's dealing with HTML and CSS it is just boring and predictive and less challenging then other things.

Which task do you dislike most?
Living your life as if conspicuous consumption is bullshit is much more distinguishing.
Stock price isn't based on demand, so no that wouldn't work the way you think it would. These same stocks would be overvalued, with no fundamentals backing them as everyone wouldn't be buying the products/services to create those fundamentals.
I mean we do have “old growth standards” that are legally mandated in the tech industry… EU mandates for USB micro-B and usb-C are an example, as are PCI standards and similar security standards around banking endpoint security etc.
Hate to say that but it works for me. I am using the largest regular* font size on an iPhone SE and there's no issue on the exact same page in the weather app.

Perhaps OP is using one of the extra-large font sizes hidden behind the "Larger Accessibility Sizes" toggle. It can be expected users at that font size value accessibility over aesthetics. As screen space is limited there is of course a point where things start to look broken.

The weather app could include a TV or clock-like layout for extra-large text sizes but that doesn't really fly with Apple's UI/UX consistency.
My interest in programming in general has been fading since the child birth. It has been a few weeks since I actually dive into a coding session. This was unthinkable a couple of years ago.
If this is used for the wrong reasons, so using something other than a hat… This could be lethal.
You'll have to wait 10 years to see. But on paper it does (we aim for 15) and we have devices in field for some three years.

But for the "simple well-designed" - the problem is, the whole thing is a black box for application developer, and not a bugless one. So much of the "well-designed" part is to figure out when is the right time to pull modem's proverbial power cord. If you don't, it'll gladly eat up your battery in 48 hours after a cell handover goes wrong with no warning.
That seems like cherry picking winners knowing that Apple roughly ends up on top. If your stock basket resembles other home purchases, you are going to see more modest returns.
I daily openSUSE Tumbleweed on a Thinkpad X1 Yoga, and while I don't use the 2-in-1 functionality a lot, I've found it to be a solid experience.
I disagree with this uncharitable view of the paper.

First, an important missing point is that the protocol does not require trusted setup. In contrast, most prior works require that parties hold threshold secret keys (necessitating a trusted third-party or expensive setup procedure).

Second, a lot of effort is currently being poured into the transition to post-quantum. So having a post-quantum secure protocol is evidently valuable to a lot of people.

Third, Byzantine agreement protocols usually always assume pairwise private and authenticated communication channels. It makes sense that protocols should not need to concern themselves with the communication layer and such channels can be realized from standard cryptographic building blocks anyways. Here the paper not using any PK-cryptography is especially nice because the protocol can be layered on top without a lot of fuss—no matter what the channels are based on.

Last, this problem is far from "made up". It was an obvious (and also seemingly hard to solve) to people working in this area. Also, Byzantine agreement is a practically important problem and this is an elegant solution.
The vision of a world where you need a sandwich on your way to work and it just drops on your head is both hilarious and something I really need in my life.
It's difficult to say what thought is, but LLMs also solve more problems more correctly if you allow them to feed back through themselves multiple times (ask them to show their working) apparently for the obvious reason that it allows more computation to happen. I hypothesize that different people build different recurrence circuits, by chance. Some go through the audio cortex, some through the visual. Helen Keller described herself as driven solely by emotions, like a beast, before she had any kind of language: https://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/1jyo53/hellen_kel...
Is there even any possibility of using a different seed? I'd doubt the WASM shaper has accesss to any source of non-determinism.
why should i save software to disk when i can run it anytime i want in the browser? :p
I'm not saying it's as hot here as it is in Florida. But we've been breaking records left and right up to the point where I've purchased an AC (a crappy mobile one for lack of better options here for rented apartments) because we go through months every summer now where I can barely sleep without one anymore.

My point was that people often don't realize how humid it is here. You apparently also can't believe it. And how our buildings are not made to keep heat out, but rather in. So I expect many more ACs to be sold here as well in the coming years.

It might just be a month or two each year. And it might be worse for you. But it's also getting pretty bad here already thanks to climate change. And that's not going to improve anytime soon thanks to all of us.
Yeah that's a stupid system and I've seen it in many places. Being asked to go to <some random convenience store> to get the official public transit card, even the dude at the station couldn't sell me one.

The vending machines at every station should be capable of directly vending public transit cards. I think most of the better systems around the world do work that way.
A failure to account for accessibility modifications is endemic to mobile devices.
Importantly, box plots are also ugly. Beauty matters.
> A good two lane street can have similar or better average speed than a bad four lane stroad.

Average speed isn't the goal. Bandwidth is.

And, in case you're thinking about talking about "induced demand", that's fallacy.

The demand is/was there. More bandwidth means that more people try to satisfy it.
In my case it froze instead of regressing.

My previous employer didn't give people raises and then later laid off me and most of my department. My new employer didn't give people raises and then laid people off, but not me.

My salary didn't decrease, but with inflation my buying power is lower.
Your link does not say what you purport it to say. It limits things to particle pollution. It makes sense that tires will create more particle pollution, but gasoline creates a lot of gas pollution as well.
A mix of quality, management of scarcity, x-factor (call it what you will, some kind of intrinsic appeal to the in group who buy this sort of thing or otherwise inherent desirability), and marketing
Failing at accessibility is not nothing.
Which giant trucks “need” wider roads? I see pickup trucks in the 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 ton range drive on standard roads around me every day.
It’s not the wealthy making LVMH stock rise. Look at the stock max history and you’ll see it 100% coincides with low interest rates - in a low interest rate economy it’s those who can’t afford it and borrow that spend the most. The genuine wealth class are not spending more because they can borrow more, although they are likely making more money because they are an asset class who’s assets are then artificially inflated.
Again, only on Windows.
Then you haven't heard electric cars running at low speed or put in reverse. Try to chill near any space where EVs frequent (like near a parking lot or train station with lots of traffic) and it's a constant source of artificial speaker noise:

WHIRR! WHINE! HUM! LOOK AT ME I'M ELECTRIC WITH A BIG SPEAKER! WHINE! WHIRR!

BING, BING, BING, BING, BING! LOOK OUT HERE I COME IN REVERSE! BING! (The Ioniq 5 is a particularly bad offender here ... the reversing bing can be heard multiple blocks away).

I wish EV auto-makers would turn the default warning noise levels their cars emit WAY THE FUCK DOWN because it's seriously annoying! I get not wanting to startle pedestrians, but you don't have to alert the entire neighborhood...
Thanks for that small piece of history, that's indeed fascinating
You mean something like the Onyx Boox Tab Ultra ?

https://ewritable.com/tablets/onyx-boox-tab-ultra/review/

Not sure about the battery life : since it's one of the higher powered e-ink tablets, it can probably only last a few days ?
> Unnecessary bloatware?

Yes. I don't want it, I don't need it, my OS does not need it to function, I never asked for it and (until the EU forced them to change this) I could not remove it.

> Bloatware really?

Yes, really. "Unwanted software included on a new computer or mobile device by the manufacturer". What in this definition does not apply, according to you?

> What does it bloat?

My OS, duh. It probably does not waste too many resources, as long as I don't engage with it, but the fact that it's there and it was shoved into my face on every explorer window is something worse than spam. It's basically the modern day equivalent of those shitty browser toolbars that some programs used to try to sneak install.

> You can make all of these things disappear

False. I was only able to fully disable OneDrive with registry hacks, before EU forced them to take it out.

So you are telling me, a Windows power user since 3.11, that I should just rtfm?

It's not about being able to turn certain things off, it's about the playbook that Microsoft is following these days, displaying malignant, almost petty behavior, like restoring the Edge shortcut on the desktop after updates.

It's about all the black patterns, like how you need to first go back a page in the post-update maze before you even get the option to continue without attaching a Microsoft account to your OS. Yes, I know that you can turn the maze off, but that option is hidden so far in the settings most users have no idea it even exists.

It's about the fact that they even dared to suggest putting ads in Explorer windows. It's about the clear sensation that my OS is no longer on my side. It's selling out, stabbing me in the back, turning rotten. It's a crying shame, but I may need to take it out to the back of the shed one of these days.
Noise pollution affecting children(or adults) in negatives ways is not an exactly an original claim that the paper make nor is it the first one to say so.

It would be like a paper claiming that exercise is good for you, which is heavily supported by robust evidence and mountain of papers.
That has nothing to do with setuid, and is a very different argument from an unqualified "suid feature is huge security hole."

sudo etc. already clear much of the environment. And you're going to want to keep some of it because people expect "sudo foo" to work (which you can't do without PATH).
Did you have a child birth? This event was the biggest source of my fading interest in programming and fading health.

Regardless, I'd recommend taking more notes and set up 15 mins before and after work to go over them. I'd also recommend using a paper notebook in supplement of an electronic one as you can spontaneously put down some notes on paper.
Show HN is for showing your own work, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
How to scale your product team with product ops
Here's an old video that I have. The timestamp is long gone, but I know it's from 1997 +/- a year. It's MPEG-1 with no sound. We were clowning around on the lab, testing a new encoder. Check out the SPARCStation 20 in the background.

https://www.w6rz.net/melissa.mpg
Won't be a problem if we scale up the mosquito zapping laser system...
I'm not saying there's anything necessarily sinister or surprising about its police department. I'm just trying to be more complete. If we say the City just collects bins and runs one school, well that's not really giving the full picture, now is it?

Beyond that, consider this:

-The City has one of highest concentrations of global finance power in the world, if not the highest.

-That global finance power--global banking and commerce--has been accused of illicit activity, largely money laundering.

-If they do engage in that illicit activity, they probably collude with whatever governments they need to to advance their interests. It only makes sense.

-And, they probably would cloak these activities under a veil of secrecy. That also only makes sense.

Little if any of this is in dispute. What seems to be in dispute is the answer to these related questions:

Money laundering can happen anywhere, in Canary Wharf, in the Channel Islands, hell in New York and Delaware. But, is there something unique about the square mile? If so, what is it? Whatever conditions create a money laundering opportunity, are those conditions enhanced by what's unique about the City? And if it's not the Corporation, then what is it? If there's a high degree of money laundering there to go along with its high concentration of global finance power, then why is that? Because there hasn't been equivalent such accusations against New York and Delaware. The square mile has been called out as playing an outsized role in corruption. If that's true--supposing for the sake of argument it is--if that's true, then why? Is it just coincidence? Global finance and the vices it's indulged in had to land somewhere, and the City was as good a place as any?
I noticed a couple months ago this same issue with the vertical alignment of the temperature numbers in the first summary bar at the top of the app. I too have text size increased. Days with a different weather icon pushed their numbers down a bit. Gives me the feeling of janky HTML box flow issues.
It all comes down to personal preference at the end, but battery life to me is overrated.

The main impact is mild inconvenience: lugging and managing an external battery, babysitting battery when needed or plugging it more than less.

That sucks, but you can deal with it. There's little way to deal with the iPad having a restricted OS with no JIT/compiling/virtualization support, or the MacBook having no touch or pen support.
Time for a promotion!
6+3 on DEC TOPS-10.
EMV (specifically EMV contactless) is also based on ISO 14443, it's more like an application layer protocol on top of it.

Apple Pay Express is just Apple Pay without the need for the full system UI: "If iOS isn’t in use because iPhone needs to be charged, there may still be enough power in the battery to support Express Card transactions." it interacts the same way as the physical card equivalent (otherwise they would need a reader upgrade).
Wet lab. It was horrible. 6 years of dishwashing and monotony. I write software now and am much happier.

The numbers were very difficult to reproduce and sensitive to tiny variations in experimental conditions, to the point of mystery. My MSc took me 6 years rather than 2, and that’s with a >90% scope cut.

I can say that there was a “comparable” proportion of freeMitos to mitoMPs in the samples I was studying, which were induced from 786-O and 786-O/VHL cell cultures using a variety of agonists (atypically low concentrations of A23187, compared to literature, and serum-starved cell culture medium, seemed to work best; usual concentrations of A23187 seemed very violent on the cells, which is relevant if you’re trying to ascertain anything about physiologic conditions). Shockingly, a very sizeable proportion (10-50% of EVs above a certain detection threshold, probably near 100-150nm) of total EVs were either mitoMPs or freeMitos.

I did not study mitoribosomes.

I was trying to optimize conditions for the generation of EVs (literature is lacking here), enrichment of samples, and flow cytometric techniques for measuring EV subpopulations. Mitochondria make everything much more complicated and even gum up the tubes, requiring special care. Experiments that measure EVs without controlling for the presence of mitochondria are IMO inherently suspect. Their prevalence will depend on sample types, but from what I’ve seen, I believe the default assumption should be that they are present in relevant amounts. I’ve observed similar subpopulations in other cell lines, but with fewer controls and validations (I was focused on 786-O cells).

There is a really great paper published by L Boudreau in the journal Blood with better results than anything I ever achieved, it’s very interesting stuff: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25082876/
VS Code has no bug which is not also in Neovim. So VS Code is the best of the lot.
> I wish EV auto-makers would turn the default warning noise levels their cars emit WAY THE FUCK DOWN because it's seriously annoying! I get not wanting to startle pedestrians, but you don't have to alert the entire neighborhood...

I'm pretty sure this is a legal requirement not something the EV manufacturers are choosing to do. Although I guess this may vary by juristiction.
Don’t forget the brakes. When the rotors get worn down, where did they go?
No particular book, but 2 hi quality areas that may boost your reasoning and critical thinking skills: philosophy in general (like ancient greek philosophers etc) and theology (from medieval arguments about how many angels on the tip of the needle to modern debates).

Historically those were the 2 main intellectual and spiritual drivers behind the creation and rise of modern reason based (as opposed to superstition magical thinking) western society and modern science, etc.
(i didn't watch the video but) The method section in the wiki page says

> 3. Stopping when reaching "Philosophy", or a page with no links, or when a loop occurs[4]

So, philosophy is explicitly chosen by the method as the "positive" occurrence vs its absence. If this is not the case, then wiki is doing a bad job explaining I think.
Ask HN: How to avoid subscription practice while pricing the product
I am trying to see what other alternatives exist other than subscription model. Subscription model is annoying to me. I had to track my subscriptions. I am in subscription hell.

So now I am planning to launch a SaaS product, I am trying to is there a better way to price the product other than subscription.

Few options I have is,
1. Pay as you use. Like cloud
2. % upfront with upfront commitment.
3. quarterly - half-yearly pay
Meteogram from meteoblue is not the same, but plots thd output of different models. Even for slightly technical users, I find weather so underwhelming in how it's presented

Just high and low numbers not graphs, no sense of variance (time or intensity). Without dark sky hard to get minutely predictions, even with large error bars
Thank you for posting an article worth reading :)
Yeah, and for me the benchmarks support the idea that a good enough CPU is all that is necessary to partner with a more expensive GPU if the machine is mainly used for gaming.

I think the extension of that is if one is looking to upgrade a gaming system, the GPU would be the best part to replace and the 'old' CPU will likely still be able to provide a good gaming experience.
Post-iPhone, it seems silly that they spent so much energy and engineering effort on shaving off a few kilobytes of 3G data here, squeezing apps into 1 MB RAM there, and so on.

From what I learned in Losing the Signal, a great history of RIM/Blackberry, their engineering leadership had the same obsession. They were convinced the iPhone would crash any network it was on. To be fair, Cingular/AT&T had plenty of teething troubles, but the product was so compelling and popular, the market for bandwidth adjusted.
Somewhere I must have a 20GB IDE disk with my data from the 90's. The disk's circuit board burned out one day (damned PSU with bulged capacitors let the magic smoke out). I bought an identical disk on eBay and managed to transplant the good circuit board onto that disk, and had my data again. But then a college friend needed a disk so I took off the good circuit board, put it back onto the eBay disk and lent it to him, and of course he moved countries with just the promise to return it to me.

Years later I managed to find another disk of the same model, but I can't find the board-less disk with the data... did I throw it away?
I built my side project in a separate, trendier stack than the one I’m comfortable with at work for this very reason.

Just to see some new perspectives and be conversant in the trends.

Some of the new stack now crosses over to work, and I have a deeper appreciation for some of the older pieces.
There are over a dozen ghost towns in California. And some of them are probably available for purchase. It would be better working on something like that with some semblance of control.

Stumbled upon this: https://m.youtube.com/@GhostTownLiving

IG : https://www.instagram.com/brentwunderwood

Steal for that price: https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/ghost-town-mining-...
I suppose my ARM-based Mac comes with weird Windows that looks like macOS!
I think the OP's question was maintaining the higher quality stream, not the act of ripping.
Who's Using Facebook Threads? Young Protesters in Taiwan
Dogs barking cannot be worse than cars, especially compensators with the pop pop pop engines or tires screeching. Live right by a doggy daycare and several busy arterials
So why would anyone designing hardware trust your third-party component library? If I don't trust it when it is handwritten by a trained (albeit probably junior) engineer, I am definitely not going to trust anything generated by AI.

Datasheets get incredibly confusing incredibly fast, and every single detail is critical. It's quite common for one datasheet to describe multiple parts at the same time, even in the same tables and diagrams, and have contradictions between the two parts. You end up with pins labeled "EN/SET" where the xxx1 variant has the pin act as Enable and the xxx3 variant have the same pin act as Setpoint. If you don't generate two separate symbols for those, the symbols are essentially useless because they can't be trusted. And that's just about the easiest thing you're going to come across.

This isn't a problem which can be solved downstream. Even trained experts are often confused because the input data is just really bad. You can't throw garbage into AI and except diamonds to come out, the only way to solve it is to convince all the manufacturers to switch to a to-be-developed universal documentation protocol.
That doesn't really matter, because you're taking agency away from people. You say that you know better and everyone should be at the mercy of the system.

But the system isn't perfect.
Easily upgradeable laptops are making a comeback and I'm here for it
Everything goes back to the PDP-10 we are all using the incestuous off-spring of DEC.

Whether that is good or bad is left as an exercise to the reader.
Maybe (see: unlikely, as the transition is still ongoing just much slower), but this was in Feb https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/cabinet_office_micros...
CAR-T treatments are expensive because they’re individualized. The process has to be repeated per-individual. That’s completely different from lab-meat.
I agree. Sleep dictates everything else. It's so difficult to get a good night of sleep, though. There are too many impacting factors. And wearing masks/earphones are usually uncomfortable.