skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> man + women - king = queen

Useless correction, it's king - man, not man - king.
Switching everything to USB-C. It makes everything much simpler, especially when backpacking. Everything charges everything using the same cables. At last I also found a USB-C shaver (from Manscaped).

That aside, the desk on my balcony. I loooove working outdoors among my plants and hearing birds sing.

I also got my money's worth with Airpod Pros. I carry them almost everywhere. They're great when working in coffee shops and noisy environments.
How about just don't run SSH?
You. Were. Running. An. Insurance. Company. On. SQLite?

What?

What possessed them?
Just to be nit-picky, but Monero can be mined with GPUs.
For 1. We went with a per-routine bytes.Buffer that was batch "inserted" every x milliseconds or n messages. However, we don't care if we lose some messages on a crash. For integrity, some queues are set to 0ms, 1msg because we don't want to lose anything, but when it is ok that messages are lost, this is great for perf.

For 2. you could probably do something like this:

BEGIN TRANSACTION;
-- Select the oldest pending message
SELECT id, message FROM queue WHERE status = 'pending' ORDER BY created_at ASC LIMIT 100;
-- Mark messages as 'processing'
UPDATE queue SET status = 'processing' WHERE created_at < ?; -- assuming created_at is monotonic
COMMIT;

Basically, select a batch and then abuse the ordering properties to batch mark them. Then all messages in your select you can dispatch evenly to sender threads. Sender threads can then signal a buffered channel that they've completed/failed, and the database can be updated. At startup, you can just SELECT where status = 'processing' and recover.

This is a pretty decent translation of how ours works.
https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/explorer/auteur/91977?sort-...
I hate it too and limit my credit card to use to online transactions because of the fraud protections.
Wanna see a plot of this against each company's stock price deviation from the airline industry benchmark.
It would be incredibly useful to output the user clock and monitor it with a logic analyzer.
Break? It's practically enshrined in the law, seeing as any given bank can only have one credit card affiliated with it. So if I'm e.g. a normal National Bank client, I get to have a Visa card or no card at all.

I suppose online banks could change things a bit, but without that, introducing a new credit card provider is practically impossible.
> By cross referencing [social media posts] with actual lost luggage data it estimates very closely how much luggage is constantly being lost.

> Using social media as a data source has limitations but seems to be a good proxy indicator when combined with historical lost luggage data.

I'd like to understand the methodology better here. What's the "historical lost luggage data" referenced here?

I'm skeptical of how accurate scraping twitter posts is. Many (if not most) incidents don't get posted about, so I assume they must be doing some extrapolation.
> Sounds like the problem isn't Linux, it's insecure development practices.

No, it's making devices "smart". There doesn't need to be a wifi-connected computer inside a washing machine, cooker, or fridge. In fact all these things can run without a computer in them at all, and they're arguably better for it.
Chrome manifest v3 feels like Google bundled a browser with spyware. Safari feels like they bundled a browser with an operating system.
This is a highly entertaining recounting of the event: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/309921
Ha, I mean as a user the native iOS app is far superior to whatever Microsoft was pushing
If that sounds silly, while working in commercial construction in Los Angeles, we encountered pushback for placing UL-listed devices in a UL-listed enclosure. The city determined that to be a “new assembly” and required UL listing for the entire unit. UL has a category for this situation; the enclosure is “UL recognized” because all of the devices and the enclosure are UL-listed. Their proposed solution, which UL was happy to oblige, was to come and field-inspect the installed units and have them certified in situ, at our (significant) expense, of course.
There is no essential difference that makes Linux From Scratch not a distribution. None.

Some distros come with a lot of stuff. Some with very little.

That it can be used to make another distro has NO BEARING on this. What would you call that thing if it's not a distro? What is that noun?
One can also say it’s a duopoly of two suboptimal browsers (factoring all Chromium based browsers together).

Even though other options exist “technically”, users on the two (3?) popular mobile and desktop OS experience a great deal of platform friction when opting to make their own choice (if at all possible like on iOS).
A simplified Python simulation of diffusion
I would be surprised, if Impeller isn't eventually ported to the web, as it's much smaller (100KB per architecture) than Skia/CanvasKit (1.5 MB). But like you said, this won't happen any time soon.

Note that size comparison is not completely fair as even with Impeller, Skia (as HarfBuzz is embedded into it) is still used for text layout and shaping.

> Updating the web engine to interface directly with Impeller is a non-goal at this time. It is a significant undertaking (compared to a flag to swap dispatchers that already exists) and also bypasses display list optimizations.

> For this added implementation complexity, Web support has not been a priority at this time for the small team working on Impeller.

> We are aware that these priorities might change in the future. There have been sanity checks to ensure that the Impeller API can be ported to WASM and also that Impeller shaders can be compiled to WGSL for eventual WebGPU support.

https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/main/impeller/docs/fa...
Yeah, I've definitely had my share of bad people. Generally, the people who approach you to ask for money are usually the ones who are probably scamming / career beggars. One example, I got the same story about needing to make around five quid to get a train home to the next town. I only had about two or 3 quid in loose change, so I took out everything in my pocket to give him. He fished out the big denomination coins and left me holding all the 1p, 2p and 5p coins. Just in 5ps, there was probably 60p there, so clearly he wasn't as desperate for every penny as he claimed, but I was just too shocked by that to even say anything.

A week later, I saw him in a similar spot, this time raising money the get "home" to a different nearby town, and tried approaching me. He obviously didn't recognise me, but also didn't seem at all phased by my somewhat loud "you've got to be expletive kidding me if you think I'm giving you anything else", so he was obviously used to people wising up to him.

There's one guy who's often outside the supermarket I use, I know he must be pretty desperate as he's still there when it's raining really hard, although he obviously doesn't live/sleep in the area. I started just offering him a pack of biscuits or something when I left (I'd buy more because I saw him as I went in), and then started just grabbing a meal deal for him anyway if I saw him there when I went in. After a while, I started asking him as I went in if he was hungry and what he'd like rather than just getting him something random.
Interesting how that browser user share chart doesn't go past 2009...

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http://i.imgur...
You have it backwards. They're assuming non-open source is backdoor'ed. Not that open source isn't backdoor'ed.
This is an old school reference, and I (and my childhood) approve completely. That scene freaked me out.
As a user, I don't think you have the right to say that for certain unless the two platforms actually compete with each other. iOS does not offer PWAs a good-faith opportunity to compete.

On Mac, where PWAs and Electron apps are also very common, there are still native Mac apps getting made. They're usually expensive, outdated, and left to die on the App Store, but they do exist. Most of them are a testament to how fragile and unsustainable native app development is, given the choice.
Another example of this is FIPS-140 crypto. It is objectively bad crypto in the 2020's. But it's mandated in some settings for either bureaucratic reasons or due to regulatory capture.
Or just plain theft at the airport?
I personally find PWAs to be an objectively worse experience for even run of the mill brochureware apps. That said, i also believe consumers should be allowed to make that choice for themselves.
Everything here is on the backend. The client does very little except make api calls.

It implements many of these features so far (ie, visibility timeouts) and there are some that are still in progress (long polling.) a compatibility table is a good idea.
I don't think you can say it tends to get fixed because you don't know the ratio between the number of vulnerabilities and the ones that get fixed. Closed source can also be audited. Auditing code for companies is an entire business model.
I stop consuming caffeine 2 days before a holiday and preemptively take acetaminophen for a day to prevent any headaches. Then no caffeine on the holiday. I sleep more, relax more and just generally more chilled. I sometimes try to stay off it a bit after the holiday but that rarely lasts long.
Unless you need the features, I would steer away from the "real message queues". Running these adds complexity, especially if you want higher availability and they are not always cheap.

HTTP based solution is easy to understand and implemented (if basic functionality is enough for your use case). Real MQs obviously have more complex protocols and not all client libraries are perfect.
"Do you think your motivation is so fickle as to be swayed by a bet"

Not swayed, but definitely influenced.

Every positive and negative outcome of every scenario gets evaluated and our actions result from on this evaluation. Changing some factors changes the outcome.

The details are obviously very complicated and the process far from understood, but the principle is quite established I think.

So I do not want to influence my motivation even a tiny bit in a direction I do not like.

edit:
Hypothesis, many problems exist, because too many people bet on things they do not want, but might make money. So less investment in actually changing it.
Do we really want the App Store to become the rotten cesspool that is Google Play? Do we really want to open the floodgates to thousands of third party web browsers crawling with malware and zero days? Personally I will never use Android because of this, and I thank god that Apple has held the line here. They have extremely good reasons for maintaining the policies they do, and the average user of an iPhone simply cannot be protected any other way.
I think the author is implying that even if you can't extract real world value from generative AI, the current AI hype has evolved embeddings to a point they can provide real world value to a lot of projects (like the semantic search demonstrated in the article, where no generative AI was used).
It has come to the point that I switched to a wallet that I can put 1 or 2 bills in at most before it becomes cumbersome. I just keep a $20 in it for the once or twice a month I don’t just use card.

I get the privacy issues, but in this particular case the convenience far outweighs it. I honestly sometimes get annoyed when I go to a cash only place and often just don’t go.
> Oddly enough, when Microsoft lost its cases’ innovation didn’t end. What did decline after the settlement of the DOJ and EU trials was Microsoft’s browser market share — a fact which some commentators would have you believe is a complete coincidence and nothing whatever to do with governments forcing Microsoft to stop being an abusive monopolist.

Huh? I mean, it was a coincidence. Internet Explorer peaked in 2003, not because of the 2001 antitrust settlement, but because Firefox came out in 2004 and then Chrome came out in 2008.

The government didn't create Firefox or Chrome, nor is there any reason to believe that Firefox or Chrome wouldn't have been developed or become popular absent action from the government.

Or we might even say that if it wasn't coincidence, then that's because of a pattern where slow-moving governments often only try to regulate antitrust in the tech industry by the time the specific issue has ceased being relevant.
Very much underestimate the impact of exhaustion. If I recall correctly, I read a study that driving after a long day of work was many times more dangerous than driving over the legal limit for alcohol. Kind of puts both into perspective
A Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy
You will find out how easily you can wire money to someone in the EU if you decide to hold political opinions that are not in line with the ruling elite.

The truckers in Canada for sure found out how "free" the digits of their bank accounts were.

Russian oligarchs for sure found it out in 2022.
Same is happening aggressively in Japan. It's quite sad.
It's often pretty hard to do public protest without breaking some kind of law, even if you do everything you're supposed to.

I'm not a fan of the truckers (the loud horns were totally infuriating) but the fundamental problem was that the police didn't want to move them on, not that they were breaking the law.
I do not have any credit cards, and I prefer to deal with cash as much as possible. When I am going out to buy something, I will take the money with me; I am OK with carrying coins. Even if anonymous payment is available, I will still prefer to deal with cash.
Sure would be funny if those operating systems were spyware too. But definitely not. Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL And Apple all care about our privacy too much: https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/06/google-facebook-apple-deny...
Ladybird browser update (June 2024) [video]
Good idea! fyi this is not meant to be used as a library. It runs as a standalone server, and then your application connects to it using an existing AWS sdk.
Cool project, but aren't luggages handled by the airport crew?

Attribution to airlines doesn't make much sense to me. Country ranking is better but anecdotal experience tells me there are some cursed airports.
I think that it was the kind of screed that an incel might regurgitate
Note, the data source is social media posts.
> modern HA and reliability expectations

For most businesses, this is a fiction. Typical users are just as accustomed to outages and feature failures as they were twenty years ago, which is to say that they swear for a couple hours but almost never migrate to competitors just because a service goes down now and again. They anticipate that the other service will be down just as much, and the friction of moving to a new service means there's got to be a real gain, not just a speculative one. Even in retail, users typically come back to where the catalog and price is right, and where they've had good post-sales experience and loyalty points, just like when a shop around town in unexpectedly closed because of a water leak or whatever.

Further, it's unclear that cloud vs managed hosting vs experienced self-hosting vs fairly naive self-hosting has a particularly different net reliability or availability profile for most use cases. That was the sales pitch of the cloud and it became acargo cult saying for a while, but it's very hard to demonstrate in a scientific way. It turns out cloud services fail plenty and of course the vast majority of services hosted in other ways do just fine.

There are exceptions to all this, but they're rare, not routine.
The reason is demand. There's nothing wrong with a smart device (even one you find to be useless) if it's secure. Just.. don't use its smart features.

I of course agree with you principally, I don't want smart devices, but it's not very malicious to have a sleep number bed sitting unconnected...
The history of the first two centuries of the US is one where the powers that the states initially retained were gradually moved into the Federal government.

My evidence is literally several decades of early SCOTUS rulings...

The primacy of the federal government over the states was well established during the lifetime of the Constitution's signers. Chisholm v Georgia (1793), Ware v. Hylton (1796), Martin vs. Hunter's Lessee (1816), McCulloch v Maryland (1819).

uses almost the exact inverse of the language you use to take all powers not explicitly granted the Federal government and grant them instead to the states:

The 10th Amendment was regarded then, as it is now, as a sop to the states to give them the illusion that any "remaining" powers were granted to them.

Any astute lawyer will point out that the Constitution already granted the federal government explicit powers; there were no significant powers left to delegate to states aside from hyper-local matters like policing. And the SCOTUS rulings from the first 50 years of U.S. history back up the understanding that the 10th Amendment didn't actually give the states meaningful powers.

The idea that the 10th Amendment actually granted the states any powers was a fiction first employed by the Southern states to try to secede from the Union, and resurrected a century later by the Federalist Society.
It isn’t. That’s a vast oversimplification. I say this as someone endlessly frustrated with the way Apple treats the web.
That's good, I'm going to switch to cash from now on. I think a bit of inconvenience isn't a huge price to pay for a vote for autonomy.
little late but, smarts can make money, but money doesnt make smarts.
iOS 17.4 and later allow using other browser engines, so this isn't true anymore.
Yes [1], but it sounds like they committed the sqlite file into Github as well?

[1]: https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc?tab=readme-ov-file#how...
Buy two dishwashers and use one as a cup board for clean dishes and one for dirty dishes. When the dirty one is reasonably full simply run the cleaning program.
What do you do when you go out to a restaurant, café, pub, etc?
Sleepwalking is hardly fast enough. It's embarrassing that people are still forced to use cash in current year.
Safari is today's Internet Explorer in terms of holding the web back.
Yeah, I do love me some coffee, but it's amazing what just a couple push-ups will do. All of a sudden you have blood flow in the upper part of your body and you just feel "ready to go".
What market is Apple dominating? Microsoft is still king of the desktop. Android has a bigger install base for phones. Others attempt to make tablets, they just aren’t appealing to people… and the market seems open, as people often say iPadOS cripples the iPad hardware. Google wins on services.

I think of Apple kind of like Nintendo, but for computers.
Benchmarking Perfect Hashing in C++
They were peacefully protesting, how were they criminals?
What a lazy comparison and article. No relevant facts, critical thinking, connective tissue or argument being made: it's "Hey kids you remember 1998, right? No? Well, it's just like 2024 but I can't tell you how." Perhaps the author is referring to being able to install a different browser on their iPhone or paying an Apple tax from their store. In 1998, smart phones didn't really exist nor did digital distribution. I can only guess we are comparing computers to phones - why? Shouldn't we be comparing phones to phones?

2006 is a good inflection point, before the iPhone came out, I could install apps on phone from the Verizon store over cell signal which were all around at least 30 bucks per app (there was no such thing as a "free" app). I could go on the internet, via cell tower and pay through the nose to get a slow stream of data on a small screen that was totally unoptimized and tested for my dumb phone. If there was antitrust issue then, it was the cell phone companies.

When did Apple become Microsoft 1998, was it really just this year 2024? Where are the facts that give rise to the criticisms the author presumes can be levied at Apple? Because I think it was 2007 when the iPhone came out, but if you made the argument Apple 2007 = Microsoft 1998 you'd be laughed out of the room. The author needs to make an argument, I can't believe this is at the top of HN right now
Canada's credit cards work on Visa, MasterCard, or Amex networks. However, debit cards work on a domestic network called Interac. About half of card transactions in Canada are debit card transactions.

https://payments.ca/sites/default/files/PaymentsCanada_Canad... page 7

EDIT: In the past few years, many Canadian banks have started issuing dual-network debit cards that bear both Visa and Interac logos (sometimes MasterCard and Interac). These cards use the Interac network in Canada, but can also be used online and abroad using the second network. I just wanted to mention it for people who may be curious about the apparent shift in debit card networks.
The browser did it automatically.
> The bad feeling I get from cashless is "what if some future political conflict will lower the status of my ethnicity to such a low position, so I'll be denied buying food and nobody will care?" or some similar scenario.

I don't mean to be obtuse, but how would cash solve this? If someone is bigoted against you and won't take cash from you, or marks up the price or engages in some other less obvious manipulation, and you're not in a position to rely on law enforcement, then what can you do about it?
It's a note that embeddings R&D is orthogonal to whatever happens with generative AI even though both involve LLMs.

I'm not saying that generative AI will crash but if it's indeed at the top of the S-curve there could be issues, notwithstanding the cost and legal issues that are only increasing.
Adapters are not much use on a car, are they?
Plagiarizing any of those is just as much against law.

Try storing copies of all television shows out there and see how much the entertainment industry will want to sue you. Why would a corporation doing the same to other content be any different?

This is just a "rules for thee not for me" thinking by corporations.
If I am alone, I will still pay in cash (I will make sure to take as much money with me as I need or more). If I am going with someone else (which is more common), usually they will want to pay with a credit card (although I can still pay directly with cash, e.g. in case they do not have a credit card either or if they want me to pay for my own food instead), and if they want me to pay them back then I will.
This is incorrect. White box PC vendors could sell as many PCs as they wanted with Linux or any other non-Microsoft OS, and not pay anything to Microsoft for those PCs. But if they did that, they would miss out on certain discounts for Windows Licenses if they also wanted to sell PCs with Windows pre-installed.

"Missing out on discounts" is not the same thing as "having to pay a license fee for every machine no matter what".
Tell that to Hollywood.
I don't have it backwards. That is what I said. They are assuming non open source is backdoored. That does not mean open source is not also backdoored.
They're flag emoji, which Windows doesn't display (likely for political reasons)
For anyone wondering about the title, it's about p-hacking - picking and choosing variables to suit your objectives. Highly recommend trying the mini-game, it's fun!
I drink decaf in the afternoon. Otherwise I'll have an Americano with a little bit of milk at least twice a day. I'll happily drink espresso and filter coffee though.

Personally I don't find well made coffee bitter at all.
I think those might be the UK and Ireland flag emojis but they are not present on all platforms or fonts so you see the substitute.
The Center for Investigative Reporting Is Suing OpenAI and Microsoft