skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me wonder if there will ever be a day in the distance future where the final Bitcoin node will be turned off forever vanquishing the cryptocurrency to the digital graveyard.
Interestingly this wouldn't be allowed at my university:

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Student Recordings

14. Unless students are specifically required by the University under a programme of study or research to make recordings, prior consent by the member of University staff managing that activity will be required.

15. Only in exceptional circumstances will consent be given. An example of an exceptional circumstance could be where a student with a disability needs to make a personal recording. It is to be assumed that where consent is given the recording may only be used for private study. This will not allow for further copying or sharing with other students.

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https://secretariat.leeds.ac.uk/policies-procedures-and-code...
Some professors and lecturers don't release any PDFs, so this might be invaluable to have at least a transcript of the lecture.
For me the Fallout 3 was the "3D remake".
It's also a perfect example of uncanny valley phenomenon and the reason why older games has so much charm. When I play Fallout 3 I see empty spaces and unrealistic places. At the same time, playing Fallout 1 or 2, visiting cities made of a very crude architecture and a few sprities invokes deep connection and memories.
Same as with books, your mind has to fill out all the empty spaces and make the story yours.
For that reason I don't look up for any 3D remake of any old game I played and treasure.
> removed the batteries before putting it away so they did not leak.

Smart. This is in great part what has kept it in such condition.-

PS. I am sure you have tried an USB to Serial port converter of some sort. I am sure they exist.-
I'm going to have to say that high clarity seems to equate pretty much to "cool, memorable bullshit" and low clarity seems to equal to "boring and understandable by target user-base"
I have been using it as my only searching engine for my blog in years and it’s much better than anything else I’ve thrown at it. For bonus points, peewee ORM supports it directly.
FTS5 got added to SQLite in October 2015 (3.9.0). But it's nice seeing it trending here on HN.
Inconveniencing your users because of misplaced ideology is NOT a feature.
You might be right about the min() call being the major penalty.

When I avoid the min() call like this ...

min2.py:

i = 10_000_000
r = 0

while i>0:
i = i-1
if i<500: r += i
else : r += 500

print(r)

I get a speedup of about 50%:

time python3 min2.py
4999874750
real 0m1.338s

Still 4x slower than PHP though.

With PyPy I get an amazing speedup of 96%:

time pypy3 min.py
4999874750
real 0m0.088s

4 times faster than the PHP version!

I'm not sure what the state of things is regarding PyPy and running a web application. Doing a bit of googling, it seems that calling C functions from PyPy is slow, so one would have to check if the application uses those (for example to connect to the database).
It's a fair comment. Give our VSCode extension a go: the aspiration is to provide uniform developer experience across Linux, Windows, and MacOS.
> The "update" badge is a minor, ignorable inconvenience

This badge is something I can not remove. And I can't ignore it, it interferes with notification about regular app updates. I can block updates on Windows, so there is NO "in-your-face modal that blocks your entire desktop". So it's not minor vs major (it's correct, forced restarts are a major awfulness), but minor vs nothing

> There are various alternative file manager apps for macOS the same way there are for Windows

Yes, but some operations require Finder to be running (don't remember the list, some permission settings breaks without Finder, and trash can undo delete?). On Windows I never have file explorer opened and don't suffer for it.
Just like Edge is getting more integrated, so it's hard to completely remove (by the way, hello, Safari!), Finder is also way too integrated

> sometimes ... Sometimes ...Sometimes

is a far cry from "ads everywhere"

> Apple doesn't do that.

Apple requires online connection for (re)install, maybe there is some complicated step to avoid that like on Windows, but this is similar user hostile stuff

> can use macOS without one perfectly fine if you don't need their online services.

Like that service called App Store you can be just fine without?

> not saying that macOS is an ideal .. But compared to Windows 10 and 11, it could as well be ideal.

Understand that, but it clearly can't, it has way too many bad design decisions on its own to be anywhere close to ideal even on a comparable basis.
I mean, I'll take the ability to find any file on my computer instantly with real time updates (that I use many times a day) over some garbage XP style control settings panel interface (which I rarely use) any given Sunday
Sure, that's no thanks to the OS, it's an external app, but Apple's new shiny APFS doesn't provide me with that awesome benefit
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aren't workspaces the same as containers? when I right click the new tab icon in firefox it gives me an option to open them in work, personal, banking, etc or to create a new container

3 is also built in, called firefox sync. You can open any tab from any device on another one and send tab(s) to other devices
I am aware.-

I just find it objectionable.-

Imagine any superpower dumping garbage into the ocean - for example ...

PS. Then again, they often do ...
All magnetic compasses are magnetometers, but not all magnetometers are compasses. Some magnetometers output absolute magnetic field strength (scalar) while vector magnetometers output heading and strength of a field.
What are you talking about? History shows that a partially communist country that has extreme regulation has come to dominate huge swaths of global business.
1) EU gains on CH transportation just as well.

2) unfair in what way? Swiss taxes are lower than most EU countries, that's true. But not all: Income tax in e.g. Bulgaria is lower, company taxes are lower in Ireland. But even if it were the lowest, why is that unfair? Can't voters decide by themselves how much taxes they want to pay?

3) 15 years ago, yes. But then Switzerland had to give up banking secrecy, at least for EU and USA citizens.

4) This is your only point that is true

5) Switzerland, by its constitution, is neutral and can also not give military support to countries that are at war. The last part was not always like that, during WO2 neutral CH was still selling lots of weapons to Germany and making a fortune with that. After the war allied forces made CH pay recovery payments for that, so CH decided to amend their law to forbid selling weapons to countries at war. They stick to that law but do care about Ukraine, so they found a workaround: they sell weapons to e.g. Germany, who then can replace their own weapons and send them to Ukraine.
On the other hand if you have ever worked at a high level in these companies they are hardcore evil. Maybe not in this case but they 100% do the evil thing and press it to their advantage.
Companies don’t care about any of that, they care about cheaper labor that comes from a larger hiring pool.
What helps me as an ADHD-student is to turn off any laptop or device completely. Desk empty, no notes, no distractions whatsoever. Just focusing on what the teacher is saying. The real studying comes after or before the lesson and that's when these tools help. I also just think many people never really learned how to study.. the magic never happens as one is in class.
It's not yak shaving. Yak shaving is (possibly) recursive explosion of seemingly unrelated tasks which are required to complete the original task. The comment fits description of a maladaptive perfectionism.
Libre isn't a portuguese word so it doesn't mean free asshole. Livre does mean free, but these are different words.
> Migrating onto Kubernetes can take years

What a heck am I reading? For who? I am not sure why companies even bother with such migrations. Where is the business value? Where is the gain for the customer? Is this one of those "L'art pour l'art" project that Figma does it just because they can?
And there is truth to that.
Most deployments are at that level, and it absolutely is way more performant then the alternative. it just comes with several tradeoffs... But these tradeoffs are usually worth it for deployments with <10k concurrent users. Which Figma certainly isn't.

Though you probably could still do it, but that's likely more trouble then it's worth

(The 10k is just an arbitrary number I made up, there is no magic number which makes this approach unviable, it all depends on how the users interact with the platform/how often and where the data is inserted)
Yes, it is CPython. Added data on the PyPy performance to this comment now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41199431
> What SpaceX has been doing with Starship is very novel

It's not novel. It's just not NASA. It was the norm in the early days of ICBM-type rockets. The original V-2 had about 700 failures before they hit a target. The original Atlas booster failed about half the time. "Nearly every component in the Atlas managed to fail at some point during test flights, from the engine combustion chambers to the tank pressurization system to the flight control system, but Convair engineers noted with some pride that there had never been a repeat of the same failure more than three times."[1] The military was fine with a high rate of failure at first in exchange for faster development.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-65_Atlas
Well I highly admire the effort and it looks to me like you're heading in the right direction with the milestones you have lined up.
Eh? The tokenizers are fully pluggable, the Unicode and ICU tokenizers will be good for many purposes and you can always drop something specific in.

Eg https://github.com/wangfenjin/simple
You say that as if I give a shit about sanctimonious HN downvotes. :-)
> will arbitrarily use 2-3x idle power draw while on battery for no apparent reason

You might be thinking about Linux? IIRC OS X wasn't particularly impressive about that back in the x86 days and high-end Macs had horrible battery life.
I’ve had the chance to watch Sam Aaron (Sonic Pi’s father) doing a live performance with Sonic Pi several years ago.

He was impressive. The music was evolving each time he changed code in live. And it was good.
The funny part is that the importance in taking notes is the physical aspect of the fine motor control associated with writing making it easier for you to remember what you wrote. Even pressing keys on a keyboard eliminates this factor.

Edit: Let me get an actual source..

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....

> As traditional handwriting is progressively being replaced by digital devices, it is essential to investigate the implications for the human brain. Brain electrical activity was recorded in 36 university students as they were handwriting visually presented words using a digital pen and typewriting the words on a keyboard. Connectivity analyses were performed on EEG data recorded with a 256-channel sensor array. When writing by hand, brain connectivity patterns were far more elaborate than when typewriting on a keyboard, as shown by widespread theta/alpha connectivity coherence patterns between network hubs and nodes in parietal and central brain regions. Existing literature indicates that connectivity patterns in these brain areas and at such frequencies are crucial for memory formation and for encoding new information and, therefore, are beneficial for learning.

> Our findings suggest that the spatiotemporal pattern from visual and proprioceptive information obtained through the precisely controlled hand movements when using a pen, contribute extensively to the brain’s connectivity patterns that promote learning. We urge that children, from an early age, must be exposed to handwriting activities in school to establish the neuronal connectivity patterns that provide the brain with optimal conditions for learning.
I feel like there should be a contengency for social platform so that they can still be accessed without vpn if they are banned by dictators.

Social platform are like water for modern age.They must be purified to consume but not outight banned.
Formulosity: Self-hosted app for building and deploying the surveys using code
Never underestimate the power of internal company politics? Jokes aside, I do agree with you
This summarizes my career nicely.

Great advice IMO.
I have to admit, Bazel as a build system would mean it wouldnt even be considered by me, it has to fit in with everything else which typically means Makefiles, like it or not.

TBH, Java + Bazel + Discord makes it seem like its out of step with the embedded world.
> people's life would be better with a decent-travel keyboard

Most people don't generally seem to agree with that, though (not explicitly, they just generally don't prioritize things like that)
> Why isn't that a solution? Are you saying aritmetic is wrong?

I’m saying that you just proposed random idea that has nothing to do with solving the workforce crisis. Reducing welfare state will not increase birth rate, if anything it will decrease it. Lower taxes will not lead to bigger families, with scarce housing the additional income will be simply redistributed to landlords thus increasing inequality. You propose to treat symptoms, but this treatment will only accelerate death.
This is such a ridiculous take and a ridiculous cited source.

Apple makes 25% of its profit from laundered ad money. Like you need to stop trying to understand a sophisticated duopoly ecosystem from a fanboy blog.
Has anyone tried this out on mobile? I have a list of app ideas that all center around shipping a big database to a device and allowing complex querying while offline.
Great, it's a quest - I can use coconuts!
I travel frequently. Thinness is absolutely a significant mobility factor.

I actually hate thinness for the sake of being thin, I want practical amounts of USB-A ports and a god damn headphone jack. But a thinner laptop is easier to stow in my luggage and handle in space-limited environments like a hotel room desk or a seat table in an airliner or lounge.

Likewise, I don't want a chungus portable phone from 1993, but I also want my smartphone to be thick enough to reasonably grasp and have a headphone jack.

This is also putting aside the fact that most people in general clearly prefer thinner and lighter computing over thicker and/or heavier.

There are times and places for a bigly desktop replacement tabletop heavy enough to crush your kneecaps and hot enough to burn your skin, but most people don't need that.
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But you need to think farther. Let's use writing a book as a stand in for other things, e.g. being able to code, playing an instrument, mastering embedded electronics programming, you name it:

The person who enjoys¹ writing a book and wants to finish them will likely become better at writing books than the person who just wrote a book to cross it off their bucket list.

There is also people who enjoy the process of writing so much, that the outcome literally doesn't matter anymore and they don't have any ambition to finish anything.

In reality most people who achieve great things have both a way/process/quest and many destinations/outcomes/goals along the way and the two things have to be somewhat in balance. Thst balance can differ for different people.

When people say you should focus on the way, not on the destination what they mean is: Don't be the person who just writes a book to cross it off the bucket list, while hating every second of the process and learning nothing from having done it.

¹: The word "enjoy" doesn't have to mean they feel good doing it, it just means there is an urge to do this versus something else
I think it’s the difference between why and what.

Yes, there’s not a lot of ‘why’ in just three words, but it’s more meaningful than the latter examples.

IMO they’re not bad examples, just different target audiences. The latter ones are more technical and assumes you know what you’re looking for. The former ones are trying to describe why you would use them.
Quick note from a place with feet of snow to say that AWD vehicles work well here. People either drive trucks or Subarus and I don't see more of one kind stuck in snow than the other. Obviously winter tires required.
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it has secure boot and TrustZone.
Interesting tool, makes tweets easier.
I have given it a try. For technical errors, exceptions it is fine. But if you have to narrow down on to user experience challenges in the user flows - it's difficult to do that. How do you manage those? Also, crashes is hard on sentry - we use crashlytics for that.
What do you think about opensourcing this project?
We were working on a few AI consulting projects and developed a backend framework to bring repeatability to our services. When an interesting hackathon took place in the UAE, we quickly built a small UI and created a PoC. Now, we're considering open-sourcing it instead of keeping it proprietary. What do you all think?

Video : https://www.veed.io/view/16531375-a106-4523-82d5-bc1f318461d...
Website : https://www.raggenie.com/
I hope they never know what it was like playing World of Warcraft in 2006, when quests sometimes asked for 10 of an item with a low drop rate, from mobs with a low spawn rate.
Please explain how android isn't competitive with apple.

My experience switching from iPhone to Android is I lost pretty much nothing and gained a lot, particularly by going to a folding phone (which Apple obviously doesn't offer yet). Android is much easier to work with in most ways - iOS is so set in its ways it can be very difficult to do basic things like transfer files from the phone to a computer.

Apple's processors may be faster, but this is becoming an increasingly less useful distinction on phones. The only thing on phones that continues to require increasingly faster processors is stuff like games, and fair enough, but I honestly just don't play them on my phone personally.
Good luck making a citation stick if the vehicle has four wheels and they're all driven, i.e. 4WD
Not at all. Yak shaving is getting caught up in all the surrounding, sometimes supporting tasks, so you never get to the main task.

Yak shaving is spending time finding the ultimate editor, choosing between syntax highlighters and schemes, configuring git, et c., so you never actually get around to write any code. That is different from wrenching the last nanosecond of optimisation from some not particularly central part of the code.
>What caused Microsoft employees to stop throwing chairs at walls?

Whatever caused them to start doing it probably had an expired certificate . . .
Thank you! Honestly, I didn't even think of it that much, but glad to hear it's catchy :D
Most of these questions would make me uncomfortable if they came from casual acquaintances.

IMHO, getting to know someone takes time. And willingness to be vulnerable yourself. It's not a one way street.
Those sorts of taxes could be made progressive. And if one wanted to be really cheeky, the progression could be based on percentages of global revenue.

Ads really are a negative externality, and they should really be treated as such.
That's weird because I find value in using this technique in both personal and creative contexts, and these kinds of reframes are used all the time in therapy, in school, with parents talking to their kids, etc.

Perhaps the finer points of those studies are not applicable to the topic at hand, which is an individuals strategy to gain new perspective on their own problems, rather than the nth-order effects of proxy words in culture, or researcher's anthropological interpretations and comparisons of languages effect on worldviews across extremely different cultures.

I get that it's a popular topic on HN to point out the replicability crisis in psych research, but the nature of the beast of a high level / subjective / messy subject like human psychology is that you have to be extremely precise about what you're testing and what conclusions you draw, or you're at risk of generalizing beyond the data. What you've cited has surface level similarity to the topic at hand, but is quite different in the specifics.

Plus it doesn't even stand up to the sniff test - language impacts us. Words impact us. The subtleties of how language is used can have profound effects on how we live our lives. Haven't you ever read a beautiful sentence over and over, or marinated in an obscure word and all its intricacies? This is a common sense proposition.
This thread is a perfect example of why we need to reign in marketing and its insistence on misleading people.

Because and only because i’ve been lingering in the off-roading community for a few years i personally understand why the NPS end goals are not only reasonable but probably necessary. but i feel terrible for the sheer number of people who have been intentionally duped by marketers.

i’ve seen it repeatedly, someone buys an “all wheel drive” truck or suv, and from the initial first commercial they see all the way through to the salestrash, they were misled.

over and over they end up justifiably frustrated finding out they’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars being misled on their vehicle’s capabilities only to learn their “off-road AWD” vehicle really really shouldn’t leave the suburban pavement. and that the misleading was all a ploy by marketers and their insistence on muddying the waters.

this is far from limited to auto manufacturers, we see this misleading trash across the entire board.

we desperately need to get back closer towards something resembling honesty in marketing.
In a sense GPT-4 is self-training already, in that it's bringing in money for OpenAI which is being spent on training further iterations. (this is a joke)
The SPA Jira cloud is faster than anything server rendered for me, my connection is shit. In Jira I can at least move to static forms quickly and I'm not downloading the entire page on every move.
Feynman has an interesting story about critical mass:

> Los Alamos was going to make the bomb, but at Oak Ridge they were trying to separate the isotopes of uranium ... he saw them wheeling a tank carboy of water, green water - which is uranium nitrate solution. He says, “Uh, you're going to handle it like that when it's purified too? Is that what you're going to do?" They said, “Sure -- why not?" "Won't it explode?" he says. Huh! Explode?" ... he noticed certain boxes in big lots in a room, but he didn't notice a lot of boxes in another room on the other side of the same wall ... what you would have to do to fix this. It's rather easy. You put cadmium in solutions to absorb the neutrons in the water, and you separate the boxes so they are not too dense ...

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/34/3/FeynmanLosAlamos....
>They are a more accurate version of an IMU to use for dead reckoning. They will still drift over time.

A magnetometer is a completely different device than an IMU.

A sensitive enough magnetometer coupled with accurate magnetic maps can act as a GNSS alternative, albeit not as spatially accurate. There's a handful of companies currently working on quantum PNT and magnetic/gravity map matching solutions. I work for one of them.
Well I do agree everyone is a cost.

But it still doesn’t make company dynamics not true. Logistics company will have bunch of logistics specialists as management and they will see it as revenue center and will see „their own kind of people” as more important.