skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, from what I understand after watching some of the video demonstration in the Q&A, I could just have another EFI entry point towards the nmbl configuration with a grub like menu, and get an exact replica of the grub experience. Having to go through the BIOS boot menu for those rare occasions where I need it is perfectly reasonable.
I wouldn't say afraid but don't see the reason. Vast Majority of Developers are working where repo = single application and their git workflow is Scaled Trunk Based: https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/#scaled-trunk-based-develo... main, branch, work, merge, repeat and they almost always fix forward.

Also, Rebasing is cause for Dev Riots because of nightmare merge conflicts that can result.

Since the author is from Google, my guess is they are seeing issues that hit the level of "WE MUST FIX THIS" that only arise at Google Monorepo size.
The publication date is unclear, but the latest citation is 2011. It doesn't make economic sense anymore to use seven segment displays in new products, small TFT/LCD and even OLEDs are cheaper.

It probably does make sense to use them with legacy equipment that require a large certification effort (most of the examples are medical).

The advice the author gives for situations where seven segment displays are used is good, though.

What really doesn't make sense is using a seven segment font on a high resolution device to make the product seem more technological, I guess, but I don't think that was mentioned.
It shouldn't matter; public is public, private is private. If you're in public, you don't get to decide what is done with recordings of you in public. It's part of the price you pay for civilization.

This means you have to behave in public in a way you might not behave in private.

The problem we have is not that people are posting recordings made in public, it's that social media platforms are incentivizing the exploitation of those recordings, surfacing them in ways that maximize engagement, such that it's usually some of the worst moments of a person's life being broadcast to the world just so that some people can materialize some pennies.

Maybe we should regulate adtech and enforce existing privacy norms, and if we don't have incentives that normalize exploitative recording in public, maybe we can normalize a sense of shame and decorum around public recording.

You can't legislate or regulate public recording beyond where it's at, because the enforcement of it eliminates an immensely valuable governmental and social tool of accountability. Free press and journalism matter a helluva lot more than comfort in public.

You can legislate and regulate better adtech and social media platform laws, and there are a million other reasons this must be done. If it weren't for the fact that all the politicians are funded by the companies dependent on the adtech situation staying the way it is, or even getting worse.
> the other 99.99% of academics should reconsider their presentation style; the reason their papers don't spark such arguments is that they've given up on educating the ignorant the way scott does

I don't see how the second part of the sentence implies the first. The primary role of academics is generating new knowledge. Educating the ignorant is a public service that few are willing or able to do. Scott Aaronson deserves a lot of credit for dedicating so much energy to his blog, it does not mean that 99.99% of his peers are wrong in focusing on advancing the frontier of knowledge.
Both the suggestions I gave were designed and built to be FOSS and work with any OS.

UEFI is more restrictive -- and tightly controlled by large industry vendors, not the community -- than either of them.

So, no, I totally disagree on all points.
"late Middle English humaine, from Old French humain(e), from Latin humanus, from homo ‘man, human being’. The present spelling became usual in the 18th century; compare with humane."

and for man:

"Old English man(n), (plural) menn (noun), mannian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch man, German Mann, and Sanskrit manu ‘mankind’."

Interestingly enough, Manu was "the progenitor of mankind" and in Persian (which shares roots with Sanscrit) after Islam the equivalent "progenitor" Adam [aa-dam] is also commonly used to intend 'mankind'.
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Do you want every person in the world to run a line to your house, or do you want to have 1, and use that service to talk to them?
Show HN: Made an app to get businesses across the world without sites and more
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT2RLQV-Q7A

Features:
- Business data synced across devices
- Export business data to CSV
- Spot "fake" business websites in case they use social media or any other subdomains as their "site"
- Drag an area across the world map and filter businesses by name or type
- Run Lighthouse for all existing business websites all at once asynchronously
- Contact businesses directly with only one click of a button

Notes:
- There is no trial version. Only paid.

I also need feedback. See the demo on the website. Are there things that need to be done or improved?
This must be new. It's been about 8 years since I've had Xfinity but I always had my own modem and router and got a discount (i.e. didn't have to "rent" the modem).

Iirc it was something small like $5 or $15 a month... I really only did it for the better hardware and software.
A friend and I forked UE4 a while back and stripped all of the bloat to try and get it running well on a shit-tier Chromebook. We only stripped it down to 30 mb, but the end result (physics + terrain) ran way smoother than any Unity game I've played on that ToasterBook.

Plot twist: people stop writing casual games in Unity and switch to Unreal to target low-end hardware.

Needless to say: as someone who spent my teens and early 20s working on multiplayer web games, I'm incredibly excited for this.
The first stage and second stage engines are using LOX+LH2, so sustainability-wise, that's hard to beat.
It already is: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/rye#default
You forgot to mention if you're using speakers.
I don't know how obsolete it was since it appears to have decent performance numbers even if its not lading the boosters for re-use, but its a common theme when the government is involved. They like to play it safe(at least in perception) and comes with added rigidity since public funds are involved.

Even the USA has these problems, when it comes to government contracts Musk and Bezos fight over it, the Boeing swoops in etc. Can you imagine how hard it is when it involves not only multiple businesses but also multiple countries?

It works well when it has a market dominant customer base, like with Airbus, but when its the governments pushing things into existence its is usually optimised for other needs like contracts being given in such a way that stakeholders are happy.
I thought it would be a good opportunity to improve some of my setup, in particular because I migrated my work config that covered way more cases. Also since I had all those setup scripts that I wrote to setup servers (git, python, postgresql, nginx, ...) I expected it would barely take more time (this part went fine actually!). In hindsight I regret not going the dd way which I had initially planned, even if the new setup is a bit cleaner.
"Just use a high resolution display" doesn't seem like the corect remedy.

Next cheapest would be a low resolution LCD display, (30x80) that has its own set of issues. 7 segments at minimum provide for high visibility even if they fail at high readability.

note: price doesn't have to be money, complexity is expensive

Why isn't there a market for 14-segment displays or other simple alphanumeric displays?

edit: Childen comments use the phrase "for a few more $" a lot and i think they miss the point that if that was acceptable and easy we wouldn't be talking about it.
it does if I hack your dns server :)
Oh my was my read wrong (backwards!) (and perhaps also my comments above?).

So there are others I see...it's a shame there's no way for anomalous agents to locate each other in this simulation. :(
Synthetic User Research Is a Terrible Idea
I disagree unless you state what you mean by "loop". If it's just "repeat a state" then any 6-state TM "loops" or halts after at most 6 turns... and many that "loop" will eventually halt.

There are infinitely many configurations if you consider the tape.

It is still true, of course, that every Turing machine either halts on a given input, or doesn't.
My examples are of core browser functionality, just implemented with a different tool chain (a web app instead of C++). Should the user be asked for permission for C++ to send an IPC to another C++ component? Should the Chrome Web store ask for permission to install extensions in Chrome?

Down-thread I see that this is being used for Google Meet functionality, for which I agree it should ask for the user's permission.
I can't agree with this enough. If you could just drive at 55mph in a straight line everywhere with nothing in your way, current education would be fine, but that's not reality. Part of driver's training should involve you driving a vehicle hard (autocross, slalom, etc), preferably of multiple different sizes/configurations so you can see the differences in handling. I know that idea will make people squeamish, but people panic in dangerous situations and do crazy shit like turn their wheel full lock and lock up the brakes because they actually have zero idea what that results in.

On a similar note, maintenance should be mandatory training, as well. Basic ability to evaluate brakes, tires, suspension, etc. should be a given. I live in a state without inspections and the number of people whose reaction to metal-on-rotor in their brakes being "teehee whoops!" is shocking. If you can't afford the maintenance, that's fair enough in the sense that you need a vehicle to live in much of the US, but you should at least know the state of your vehicle and what that means when you're driving it.
No, it’s not an open-source license because it’s not OSI compliant https://opensource.org/licenses.

Open-source has a specific meaning that too many people don’t know or forgot.
I've often thought the same is true of most well-intentioned efforts to protect young people - young people still have to learn the same lessons later. But I was most stuck by your first sentence:

> Where I qualified, there’s a mandatory speed limit of 45mph on all roads (even motorways) a year after qualifying.

That sounds terrifying and dangerous! Aren't the other cars on a motorway there speeding past at 70mph+?
I actually think that Python's tooling should not be written in Python. Because if yes, you end up with at least two version of Python, one to run the tooling, one to run the project.
Some thoughts on real open source Artificial Intelligence
Again, not true, that's a false dichotomy. Political pressure is an alternative. The justice department is already suing. Clearly it can be done.

You writing your congressperson is more likely (albeit, still not at all likely) to make a difference than you not going to your annual concert.
I live on the west coast near San Luis Obispo, we get at least monthly rocket launches from so many vantage points I wouldn't bother traveling to Florida and dealing with all the crowds. Vandenberg Space Force Base is where the rockets launch on this side at the moment. You'll see SpaceX and ULA rockets.
The Talking Postgres Podcast (Farewell to Path to Citus Con)
I live in BC and have been on the Island and the Mountains for the last five years. If you think housing costs or doctor availability are ok here, I strongly suggest coming to see. I also lived briefly in Nova Scotia and suggest the same thing applies there within the context of their economy (house prices are lower absolutely but massively higher relative to what they were a few years ago). There isn’t a city in this country - no city, town, or single intersection hamlet - where house prices are cheap relative to local incomes and some newcomer can get a family doc without waiting multiple years in a list or having some special connection outside the official routes.

This is all due to Trudeau’s idiotic immigration policy, which is idiotic only due to the fact that they didn’t even try to coordinate a proper plan. I support immigration and believe our nation needs it for future economic viability due to declining local birth rates, but it has to be prepared for, both for those that live here and the poor suckers who come thinking it will be a land of opportunity only to find they will never have a doctor or a house or a reasonable standard of living thanks to Trudeau and his idiot lapdog.

Also, I’ll state it again: I am a lifelong liberal who has only voted left (Liberal or even NDP), and I highly doubt after Trudeau I will ever vote Liberal again.
That's what I read when I see complaints about wind turbines not being recyclable;

The ignorance to ignore nearly a century of coal ash in unlined ponds (and lined ponds aren't perfect) contaminating groundwater must be blissful.

Between that and fiberglass boat shells that end up in landfills that nobody really cared about the last 50 years.

And here's betting, like most municipalities in the US, they're complaining about the waste in landfills without a serious household composting, cardboard + aluminum recycling. - Nebraska recycling and compost appears mostly commercial, and the city only has a contact for household waste - https://nrcne.org/where-do-you-recycle/
Here in Switzerland all shops selling electronics must also take back any used electronics you might bring to them. A smaller shop (of which there are less and less) might be more reluctant to take your scrap but any chain won't ask any questions. So there is a possibility, if only people would also use it enough...
I love how people have this unqualified belief that the OSI somehow owns the rights to define the term "open source". I guess these people don't know that OSI doesn't own any rights to the term "open source" AND when OSI tried to trademark the term, they were rejected. So "open source" doesn't have to mean what OSI says it does. OSI has their own definition of what "open source" means (which I disagree with them on). FUTO and others are well within their right to define "open source" the way they want.

If OSI had the right to define it, then they would be suing FUTO right now. They aren't because they know they can't enforce any definition of "open source".
Ask HN: Why is Meticulous (YC S21) still hiring to eliminate E2E tests?
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLC – The oral history of a media player
I was just going to ignore it since they obviously missed the point entirely (and it's not a hard one to get) or were being disingenous.
Why would you artificially encumber a significant invention from benefitting the world just because you don't have the wherewithal to sell it?

Seems awfully self-centered.
Are you the kind of person who doesn't understand the difference between "tries to influence" and the obviously much stronger "pretty strongly influenced" claim the above commenter was making?

Or who thinks: "Okay, so we've been hearing a lot about the FSB and attempted election meddling. So if someone on the internet makes a spurious claim about an amazingly successful operation the KGB supposedly pulled off back in the 80s -- heck, why not just believe that also? Even though apparently nothing has been ever been written about it; and in fact what they're saying runs counter to direct observation of events at the time."

You certainly sound like that kind of person.
Commerce includes many unspoken agreements. Order a meal at a restaurant and expect to pay list prices +taxes etc, you don’t expect to be charged for using the salt on the table, or the price of a doggy bag etc. Airlines don’t charge people to go to the bathroom, though they may reserve better bathrooms for first class etc.

Companies breaking with these trends face a backlash assuming a competitive marketplace.
So after 15 years, I can start selling other people's movies and books? That seems odd.
Gleam v1.3.0 Released
GP isn't totally wrong. With folly::Synchronized, you can lock, take a reference, then unlock, and continue to (incorrectly/unsafely) use the reference. The compiler doesn't catch that.

folly::Synchronized<int> lockedObj;
auto lockHandle = lockedObj.wlock();
auto& myReference = *lockHandle;
lockHandle.unlock();
myReference = 5; // bad

Still, it is harder to misuse than bare locks unattached to data.
In one word. Nothing.

But I personally think it does some things a little easier, a little faster and little more conveniently than the other libraries and tools out there.

Although there’s one thing that the JS version of Crawlee has which unfortunately isn’t in Python yet, but it will be there soon. AFAIK it’s unique among all libraries. It’s automatically detecting whether a headless browser is needed or if HTTP will suffice and using the most performant option.
I am starting to wonder if I’m the only one that just types “brew install NameOfThatThingTheyWantMeToPipeInFromCurl” into my terminal as a reflex.

It’s already available: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/rye#default
the US government's brilliantly boring websites
Show HN: Perplexity Without the Filler
Hey HN,

I've been using LLM-powered search engines like Perplexity a lot recently for question answering but had two major qualms:

1. Too much text: I'm already tired of wading through LLM-generated meaningless filler when debugging my code. The last thing I need is more of it when I'm just trying to find a simple answer.

2. The Reddit factor: I've realized that half my search queries have "Reddit" appended to them, especially for experiential questions or recommendations.

This led to Just the Answer. Just the Answer uses GPT-4o to generate a unique search query for each message that is sent, combining your past messages, the current date & time (if relevant), and your most recent message. It then uses serper.dev to run a search for the query, and then if GPT determines that the query is asking about a subjective experience, it runs a parallel one with "reddit" appended and prioritizes those results. Both searches are then condensed into as few words as necessary to get what I need. The search query can be accessed via the link icon on the right of each answer, and the chosen sources can be seen by expanding the answer. This is all served via a NextJS frontend.

In theory, as few words as possible sounded great. In practice however, this meant that I was sometimes left wanting slightly more information, so I added the ability to select follow-up questions and dig deeper into important keywords in the answer just by clicking on them.

Since building this, I've found myself using it more than Perplexity, especially for outing and content recommendations due to the Reddit factor. The Wikipedia-style hyperlink feature has also been enjoyable, as it allows me to build my own personal detailed answer based on my choices rather than just be given an essay from one question—I read, select, read, select, and so on.

One thing I'd like to add is a built-in traditional browser interface that can be opened if needed since it's a pain having to leave the page if you want to access more search results. This would streamline the experience and keep everything in one place.

I'd love to hear your thoughts!
There is: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/18566
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Laundry and dishes aren't a source of revenue generation; that's why art is prioritized (it earns money, and reduces the costs of hiring creatives) whereas dishes and laundry doesn't earn startups cash nor is it worth eliminating the cost of.
Why is that the first abstraction? I would think at least one of these three earlier developments would be:

1) deductive geometry of Thales, where we could now prove things independent of the physical world (abstracting away from the physical)

2) Plato’s remarks on incommensurability (proto irrational numbers) being something real but not physical, because no physical process could prove to the mathematician that two lengths really have no common unit measure. Here the abstraction is again away from physical means.

3) infinity of numbers. Abstracting away from large but finite collections. We can only ever survey finite collections physically, again is an abstraction.
Monitoring seems like a strange way to solve the problem. In my experience, if there is a function in your app that calls an external service, it is just standard practice to catch errors on those calls, log the info, and sent an automatic notification to your support team.
The problem is that a lot of the time, at least online, any ground you give to men's issues is almost immediately overtaken by bad faith misogyny with the original, meaningful discourse drowning in it :/
Rye isn't aiming to replace apt. Rye is just aiming to do the same as Go, having one tool to manage dependencies. In current ecosystem there are many many different tools tho manage Python project's dependencies unfortunately.
My favorite ecosystem, Ruby, has an order of magnitude less issues in this regard, so you can imagine my sadness to discover my second tech love, Emacs, is just absolutely unreal in this regard. And there's just no way around it, I wish I could hack on Emacs in Ruby, but there appears to be no way around learning elisp. And elisp is... crufty, to say the least. At least the documentation is really good once you get past all the beginners issues. And there's a refreshing self-awareness there, fun seeing 'this function has been around since around Emacs 23' when looking stuff up.
> It doesn't make economic sense anymore to use seven segment displays in new products, small TFT/LCD and even OLEDs are cheaper.

Maybe cheaper, but what about power consumption? I would have expected them to need significantly more, which might matter for battery-powered devices.
On mac/iOS, you get this using the AVAudioEngine API if you set voiceProcessingEnabled to true on the input node. It corrects for audio being played from all applications on the device.
No, this is used by Google Meet right now. Open the "Troubleshooting" panel in meet.google.com in Chrome, and you'll see live system wide CPU usage reporting :)
16-segment displays are another longtime standard configuration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen-segment_display
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We developed Shram to make work management more engaging. Tasks are the basic blocks, with an approval cycle + rating system like Uber. Completing tasks earns XP and you must maintain a green bar until it the end of week. It then resets at the start of the week. This way Shram connects daily work with performance. It’s free to use so check it out! :)
Ariane 6 is just pork barrel politics at this point.

Will it launch? sure! Will it deliver some payloads in orbit? Of course. Is it already completely obsolete and completely overpriced? That goes without saying!

They just took the wrong turn many years ago and they have decided that it was better to keep going than to admit that they made a mistake.

If we assume it takes the same amount of time to produce a working version of Ariane Next(the European falcon 9) then it won't arrive before the the mid 2030s and by this point, I would expect Starship or another rocket to have taken over the entire market anyway.

Finally, I want to say that the money that funds this is not magic money that appears out of thin air, it's taxes or debt that we are saddling the next generation with and it seems considering the debt levels in Europe that we should aim to be a tad bit more careful how we spend these budgets.
Right, Meet is derived from the Hangouts codebase, I still think they'll probably just delete it. Meet is a stable product, how valuable is this special privilege now?
That's what I'm worried about. What if we start using Rye, bake it into our projects and then Astral goes "Sike! Now we will collect all information available to the Rye binary and require 1$ for each build"