skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Until the 80s you were under a dictatorship with rebel guerrillas/paramilitary organisations which later became gangs/pseudo governments in large parts of your cities. You're not really comparable.

You have a very superficial understanding of Brazilian history.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world I'm referring to the countries in dark blue.

Countries in light blue are subgroups of the Western world and not groups apart. Just say rich/developed Western countries instead.

> You're not really comparable.

Of course not because you are cherry picking data. You want to compare a single ethnically diverse and large country (USA) with many ethnically homogeneous, small countries with much older population. You're an ignorant racist.
The solventless extracts (mechanical separation) are what the premium market enjoys for quality reasons.
hmm, you're right. I would probably have realized it myself in a triduum.
Thats basically what the Galaxy NX was.
Classification authority derives from the executive but the president himself does not exercise it directly. But assuming for a moment he could -- did Trump scribble out the classification on these documents, to at least make it seem like he declassified them?

Also, when did he transport them to his compound? Was he still president at the time? Former presidents do not have the legal right to declassify anything at all.
I didn't, either.

This was the single most hard-to-understand Computers.RIP post yet, as a non-American who bought their first car last year, when I was 55 years old. Loads of US car tech I've never heard of and never seen, mixed in with weird US phone tech.
Also given that phone cameras have absurdly high image quality at this point.
Hi! I did not implemented something like that, but I can say this year textual has a great set of features and a nice community willing to help and share. I totally recommend textual.
> How do you expect a user to guess the subtle differences

Software developers should never rely on guessing. Always, always read the specification.
https://libraryofbabel.info/

you might find this to be pretty cool. It's similar to what you're describing. Whoever made it has an algorithm where you can look up "real" strings of text and it'll show you where in the library it exists. you can also just browse at random, but that doesn't really show you anything interesting (as you would expect given it's all random).
I love it! One of my big hesitations in using LLMs in any projects is the inherent instability of it, so I'm excited to see some concrete strategies on how to mitigate that.

Actually, I host a podcast called Book Overflow ([YouTube link here](https://www.youtube.com/@BookOverflowPod), but we're on all major platforms). Each week we read and discuss a new software engineering book. We also love to interview the authors when possible. Our [interview with Brian Kernighan](https://youtu.be/_QQ7k5sn2-o?si=bi3omgmNW7bs50NQ) actually went viral here on HN last week, peaking at #3.

If you're willing to provide us with an advance copy and one/some of the authors are willing to sit down for a digital interview, we'd love to devote a discussion episode and bonus interview episode to the book. We could even time the release to line up with the release of the book.

Let me know if you're interested. We can work out the details either here in the thread or you can reach us at contact at bookoverflow.io.
They list Steve Jobs as dying from pancreatic cancer but that's not really correct as it was a different type than the aggressive cancer for which the advancement was made.

Steve had an islet cell neuroendocrine cancer which is much more rare.
> "If the struggles outweighs the pleasure you should stop doing it".

Kind of bleak when it comes to romantic relationships
Coping with extreme heat without air conditioning
Additional citation:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-15/climate-c... | https://archive.today/m8xjc
Right, that's something that I'm actually sometimes missing on my NX500 when using vintage lenses, but I'm not sure how relevant it is for pro amateurs in general.
Is there a newsletter/e-zine or something similar that specifically follows research presented at these conferences?
Super interested in this! I left a main comment in the thread about a potential promotional opportunity for you all, so let me know if you're interested!
Indeed. The state health department tried to stop it a few years ago. The $8 billion hemp product industry in Texas ended that in about 3 days. The state was found to have no jurisdiction.

Recently, there was an "alternative hemp products" expo here in Houston (that's the new word for this stuff). Just like the marijuana expos in Colorado when that first became legal, Texas is a dry state for pot with no legal states within an easy drive. This, combined with our huge population, makes it a natural market "alt hemp." I don't think it will be going away here anytime soon.
I don't like to think in absolutes, so I was a little hyperbolic when I said he was responsible for the failure. You're probably right that it would have gradually happened anyway, but my limited understanding is he became the celebrity face to it that legitimized it and made it the defacto strategy. He is more than a little responsible for the mess we're in.
The evidence is coming out now that real experiments are easier to do.

See Russo’s latest double blind work on distillate + specific terpenes.
Only a few were domestic designs. Most of them were copied almost 1:1 from HP and Casio calculators, and adjusted for the inferior production capability. B3-38 in particular, MK-51 etc. Die shots almost match each other, and even the microcode was 99% copied with some fixes. [1] That likely was the reason they never updated the firmware.

The "Eggog" message was likely copied too, although I can't think of a good way to display an error in Cyrillic in 7 segments.

Home computers is another story, in particular the 1801 series which was a domestic PDP-11 compatible design underpinning most of the Soviet personal computing boom of the late 1980s. (it was slow though, holy hell)

[1] https://habr.com/ru/news/765316/
They only have absurdly high resolution. The optical quality is rather mediocre if you need to zoom or shoot in low light.
The same way you can make model trains and not make money.
There have to be limits somewhere. Memory and storage space is not infinite. On the other hand, "how many characters can someone have in their name" is infinite. That means that no matter what limit you choose, someone will eventually exceed that limit. And you have to have a limit.

This is not a matter of "wrong assumptions". At the end of the day, all you can do is set a limit such that you're comfortable with the risk that someone will be outside the limit you have set. And risk tolerance, as always, is a matter of opinion and not fact.
I thought this wasn't actually mathematically established - the related property would be whether or not pi is normal.
Sony used to have a whole Android subsystem on their Alpha cameras. It kind of surprised me more 3rd party stuff didn't come out that took advantage of this programmability. https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE
Is this known to be true? Its obviously not true for arbitrary irrational numbers
There are techniques which allow you to, for instance, calculate the 'n'th digit of Pi in base 10 (or binary, or hex, etc.) These are generally more computationally/memory expensive than the techniques used to calculate as many digits of Pi as possible.

So, you run your big calculation to get all XXX trillion digits on one machine, and run a completely different calculation to check, say, 1000 of those digits. If all match it's a pretty convincing argument that the calculation is correct.
IANAL but I had one who advised us our Trade Dress was defendable.
The problem is that in leaving much of undesirable things behind, we've also left many of the desirable things behind and it's not entirely clear if we can ever reclaim them in society as it is. One paragraph stuck out quite clearly to me in your link:

---

"Of course our farmers don’t care about maximum efficiency (because that means for maximum efficiency of people who aren’t the farmers eating the surplus). They care about marrying, having families, raising children, keeping friends, staying close to loved ones and so on. Farmers, after all, are people, not mere tools of agricultural production (we will talk about non-free farmers next time) and so they do not serve their farmers, their farms serve the needs of their families."

---

And "friends", as the article also describes, meant something very different. It was not infrequent that friends could be entire households where relationships would last for generations. Modern life has really done away with most of these things.

I'd also say that many things people look on as negative, like difficult labor, are not necessarily so. I spent a fair amount of time when I was young working in construction and it was some of the most rewarding paid work I have ever done, by a wide margin. If it paid as well as the path I ended up taking, I would have absolutely stayed in construction for as long as my body held out. That last part might sound grim, but it's the exact same in fields like software development. Over time your mind will slow, as will your motivation to keep up with the latest API, language, and just general trends. At that point you're going to be headed for 'early retirement', quite likely even earlier than a guy working construction - with construction workers having a median age of around 40!
> Steam for example, allows user submitted ratings with explainer text. This is huge for online shopping decisions.

Arguably, it requires an account, and has things like "number of hours played" included in the review.

Far, far more useful than the easily-gamed spam reviews on places like Amazon. Doesn't mean spammy things can't happen, and the aggregate reviews on Steam usually mean what the 14-24 year old demo think
Love it! It's not really Jeopardy without the buzzers, is it?
If you work in a scif, then I might assume you already have a security clearance and were read-in to the program. Is so, that might explain the trust.
Inflation, eh? :)
Malloc never fails on linux in most configurations, problem #1. Overcommit and other "defaults" make this a non starter.

If the API can't be trusted as accurate, the rest of the issues are not worth using. No matter how the 'api' is presented, it will still have the same problem.
and overmorrow

probably not understandable to many English speakers - however archaisms might not be equally archaic in every region and dialect of English.
It was a kid out of highschool who had confronted a policeman just moments before. The guy was under a lot of pressure.

You know he wasn't that well trained when you see that he killed a bystander.
As discussed, there is much less of a chance that you'll suddently find yourself with no income when you live in most of the EU+UK+Aus+NZ.

And if you do, you're still less uncomfortable because your healthcare is not tied to your employer. Unemployment and other related aids/insurances/benefits will vary wildly between countries, but I'd still bet the majority do it easier than in most US states.
Just for point of reference, there are a handful of AAA motion graphics studios that put together visuals for these tours -- for instance, IMMANENT did Excision's current Nexus Tour visuals. Really amazing shit.

[0] http://www.immanent.tv

[1] https://www.instagram.com/immanent_vj
The March of the Penguin Diagrams (2013)
Just having exchangeable lenses is a huge boon. The sensor is probably worse than what you can find in a modern smart phone, but phones simply don't have the space for deep lenses and thus have to emulate effects like zoom and depth-of-field. On this camera you can have the "real" thing without paying $1000+ for a DSLR and $300+ for a lens.

And of course there's the effect where for every sufficiently popular camera their technical deficiencies become a desirable vintage look, given enough time. Kind of like people preferring vinyl records for their sound
No, std::string.
People vote with their wallets. It's clear that Americans either want weed or don't care if other people do. This law -- a complete Federal law, tested numerous times and not a loophole -- survives because the public wants the product and this is the way to get it.
ACHI (which is how SATA is exposed) doesn't change any of this. The only thing that is affected is how the loaded OS has to talk to the disk controller. The real thing that loses space is the BPB (a 60 bytes or so, iirc) because some BIOSes are broken and require it and the MBR (but that's only a couple bytes). At least [bootelf] manages to fit in (without a BPB or an MBR) with 128 bytes to spare, enough for a dummy BPB that makes all BIOSes happy.

Additionally, UEFI's reliability is.. sketchy, as far as I know (using the classic logic of "if Windows doesn't use it does it really matter?"). And GNU-EFI suffers from build portability troubles, AFAIK.

[bootelf]: https://github.com/n00byEdge/bootelf
Oh, are those 0-indexed seconds or 1-indexed?
What the referer-replacement page was talking is Kiwi Farms, which is doing the kind of stuff that even the US First Amendment's very expansive protections fails to protect. (The criminal liability here is "intentional inflection of emotional distress", although note that most lawsuits that allege that are groundless lawsuits that largely fail to make it pass the motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim stage as "they made me feel bad" isn't sufficient to allege an IIED).
That isn't an inevitability. The modem doesn't negatively affect the lenses and sensors, choices by people in companies are what result in worse sensors/lenses in phones.
Not that C was wise with strings, but slicing strings in general is a bad idea unless you’re doing it strictly at ascii borders, e.g. to capitalize windows disk letter or to split by cr?lf. Modern text is yet another “falsehoods programmers believe in” material.
I guess the implication I'm making is can we at some point say, we've achieved a pretty good standard of living, let's enjoy our national patrimony and not perpetuate the rat race?
Oh, so you're just fully committing to bad faith? Don't let me stop you, but please be aware that is against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Stating the obvious, the market decided that the opposite would happen, i.e. that the smartphones would take away the market share of camera manufacturers instead. Smartphone camera experience is good enough for most people and smartphones offer other features as well.
The standards, as usual for C, are paper-thin, doesn't even guarantee ordinal value for the characters specified (except 0-9) despite implementing strcmp. But GCC/MSVC do add some options on top of the standard, which includes some attempt at interpreting different encodings.

Then again, I was surprised to find support for literal encodings in C23. So perhaps my knowledge was even more outdated than I anticipated.
ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web (2023)
Apollo 11 launched this week in 1969
Well good to know, but I've never used TLS, since the apps were P2P over a secure overlay, so encrypting payloads was sufficient.
From the paper:

> Paintadosi [4] argues that one parameter is always enough. He constructed
a function that, through a single parameter, can depict any shape. However, in
essence, this work is a form of encoding, mapping the shape into a real number
with precision extending to hundreds or even thousands of decimal places. For
our problem, this is meaningless, although the paper’s theme is that “parameter
counting” fails as a measure of model complexity
Many of us would. I love my little Olympus PEN EPL8 camera, the form factor beats the crap out of phones, the quality of the pictures way better (despite "only" 16MP), etc. But the ... software experience is awful. I could come up with dozens of ways to improve the experience that would have been possible even in 2016 when it was made... (In fact I wasted a couple days writing my own custom WiFi remote control program for it a few days ago, hoping to snap birds at the feeder while I sit at my desk, cuz the "OI Share" Olympus/OM Systems one is terrible)

But there's not enough of a market at all to make it justifiable. Software developers are expensive. The interchangeable lens camera market is tiny, and the professional people who spend serious money care less about things like that and more about stellar optics and sensors.

The consumer (and even "pro-sumer") level tier of the camera market has almost disappeared. Even in Japan, which is camera crazy, it's in free-fall still.

Take Panasonic's new GH7, for example, a new rather nice Micro Four Thirds camera with a bunch of advanced features, but kind of targeted towards the video segment (so great for YouTubers, etc)... They announced the production numbers and it's only 4000 a month. That's... basically nothing... in the consumer hardware segment.

That said, I think this segment will come back in a bit. The digicam craze is evidence at least that young people (like my teenage daughter's age) can see the value in the camera form factor over using a phone. The ergonomics are way better. And Fujifilm can't keep the X100V series in stock, it keeps flying off the shelves. Phones themselves are becoming less "cool."
Who trained you to vote and - you know - buy milk and bread and fuel…?
This is extremely interesting. Add federation and you have a decentralized GitHub
Oh yeah, I notice outright wrong ones, too. In partial defense of the retailer, sometimes those seem to be due to the product being miscoded in their database (e.g., involving bundles of multiple retail packages, or maybe just the occasional typo of info that's not caught). Which could be accidental (rather than some of the other obfuscation, which is glaring and pervasive enough to seem intentional).

But even when accidental, it gives the impression that they don't care that the information they're displaying authoritatively is outright wrong (or they would find a way not to do it so often).
Great idea here. I wonder if there's potentially more demand for new programming languages now purely as benchmarks for LLMs, like you said?
Yep, this all makes sense and is what I was thinking as well. I also think you’re right about truncation being a better idea in the rendering state rather than in the bytes themselves. Either way, truncation of strings being displayed to the user requires extra care no matter what language you’re using.

As far as this being the reason most C code doesn’t handle UTF-8 though, I’m still skeptical.
no excuse for scam postings, stop fronting
Setting up automated emails for your app can be a nightmare. Enter “The Ultimate Guide to Automated Emails for Your App.” Packed with practical steps, templates, and hacks, that simplifies the entire process. I’ve broken it down so that anyone can do it.
Meaning #2: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schizophrenic

Many words are used with different and derived meanings, usually disambiguated by context. For example, an offensive player is not offensive in the sense you used the word in.
... And? Most languages make C interop simple.
It's the 1000th time that Caltech unifies two of their large scale astrophysics computational models to bridge the gap between them? That seems off by a few orders of magnitude, at the very least?
The big problem with the NX cameras is that they are no longer supported and won’t ever get more lenses. If happy with kit lens or adapting manual lenses, then they are probably cheaper than other mirrorless.
Let me help your imagination then!

I substitute taught 10th grade math at a Midwestern public school district for half a year in 2021

I had multiple students who pulled out their calculators to multiply by 1 or by 0. This is extreme, most weren't that bad, but the median student was pretty confused about fractions.

I was supposed to teach sines and cosines.
Show HN: How many subshells should a shell subshell if a shell could subshell?
Just a little script I made in my own time. Have fun!
Isn't it a property of infinity? If pi goes on infinitely without repeating itself, every possible combination of numbers appears somewhere in pi.

It's sort of like the idea that if the universe is infinitely big and mass and energy are randomly distributed throughout the universe, then an exact copy of you on an exact copy of Earth is out there somewhere.

This property of infinity has always fascinated me, so I'm very curious for where the logical fallacy might be.
Hey ddoolin, It's so nice to read this, yes! kaskade ignores the schema registry metadata for json and protobuf messages generated for schema registry, you do not need to provide url (only in case of using avro).

The only catch (in the protobuf case) is to generate the descriptors with protoc, but the good thing is generally we all have them, so maybe is not a big problem.
There is a theory that says blackholes form on a border of energy differences and are act as a compensation mechanism allowing balancing the energies out between adjacent areas with different properties. When energy 'flows' out of our visible space it appears as a blackhole. When it flows in - it appears as a star.
Despite all that it is not hard at all to torrent a new show like Konosuba 3 a day or two after it comes out.
Back to the basics: keeping track of lost calls on MS Teams Voice
Similar here... The "look but don't touch" license they used for some things was kind of irksome in practice.
It's hard to separate out what I know now that neither I nor the initial designers knew back then from what I thought we should have done even then.

For example, optional types ended up not working out, but I don't think I knew that then either.

But even before we released, I did tell the language team that I thought it would be good to do:

* Non-nullable types. We got there eventually with a ton of engineering effort and migration cost, but this could have been a really strong selling point at launch.

* Types on the right. Think `var x: int` instead of `int x`. It's a little more verbose in some cases, but it makes the language easier to parse and makes it easier to have complex syntax for type annotations like function types, union types, etc.

* Extension members. We added them years later, which is good, but was too late to affect the design of the core libraries. I suggested that it we had them in 1.0, then the core libraries and collection types could be designed around them.

* `val` instead of `final` for single-assignment variables. It's a small thing, but it means that the syntax for single-assignment variables isn't longer then mutable ones, which is good because it doesn't punish users for doing the "right" thing.

* No semicolons. Again, another small thing, but it does help the language feel cleaner and more modern. It's really hard to do this later when the syntax wasn't designed for it.

* Coroutines instead of futures and async/await. Coroutines are definitely hard to compile to JS, so there is a good argument that I'm just wrong. But I really hate what async does to API design (https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...).
What about a function that can turn a correctly spelled english sentence into a malformed english sentence? If you truncate to a fixed length this comes with the territory.
> Only the first letter being case-sensitive is a major strike against readability

…How? Do you find code more readable when there are two different names that differ only in the capitalization of a non-first letter?
It often has large implications on how easy/difficult or self-contained/messy it is to install.
Housing in Singapore is surprisingly cheap when you compare it to European or US megacities.