skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm... "Why don't more people use XXXX" type of posts seem like an invitation to argument and drama. But I'm a Lisp fan, so I can't ignore this opportunity for people to down-vote me because I don't make a full-throated endorsement of their favourite language. I'm also somewhat tired of reddit, so I'm responding here.

a. Lisp isn't a single language, but a family of languages. There's Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure and even Lisp Flavoured Erlang. They're all similar, but different enough that you can really shoot yourself in the foot if you assume code for one will do the same thing (or even work) in the other. C/C++ have a long history of reverse compatibility and a strong spec that insures interoperability between different implementations (mostly.) Java and C#, for all their perceived faults, have language definitions which are well defined.

b. Functional programming is different. Sure, you can do OOP w/ Lisp (google CLOS if you're unfamiliar with this.) But maybe it's not really a syntax thing and more of a "I have to bend my brainstem around a bit to do 'true' functional programming." (for some definition of the word "true".) And then there's the Haskell guys running around saying you can't do functional programming unless you've written a dissertation on category theory.

c. Other languages have stolen Lisp's functional thunder. When I was a young coder, Lisp was pretty much the only functional language out there. Sure... ML and OCaml existed, but this was before the intarwebs so we had never heard of them. Java and C++ have lambdas these days. And sure, they're not REALLY lisp-like lambdas, but they're close enough. And JavaScript lets you do reduce, forEach and filter, so you can get your monoid in a category of endofunctors on. And if all you're trying to do is irritate your co-workers, FORTH is better for doing that.

I use Scheme and a home-grown lisp-like language every day. I've taught a few co-workers how to cope with it. There are great benefits. But management doesn't pay to send me to conferences like the Java and C# guys get to go to. We also use SPITBOL for a few tasks just because it's A LOT easier for certain parsing tasks than Lisp and more powerful than awk.

We have a lot of engineers who's brains grok Java/Spring. They're reliable. We know what they can do in a given month. None of us Lisp guys want to do the same things. Larry Wall once said something like: "Languages do not differ in what they make possible, but in what they make easy." Lisp makes a subset of tasks an enterprise must perform easy. But it requires time to teach gigging coders how to use it effectively. Some enterprises just don't want to invest that time.
Spearheaded of course by the late E. P. Onymous, may he rest in peace.
Looks like some useless fancy-looking stuff for managers.
> people who definitely won’t use the product they can convince to think “I will definitely use this product”.

Not unlike the iPad market.
Funny because I bought a pocket operator because it was the cheapest drum machine I could find. Glad they made the jump from Kia to Lamborghini.
I would assume that neurons would behave more like a wavefront processor, but even this analogy is still a big stretch.
It can be genuinely difficult to find optical drives that aren't crap these days. All of the quality manufacturers left the scene years ago, so everything is a rebadged no-name Chinese cost optimized system, at least for DVDs. Blu-Ray might be in better shape, I have not messed with them much.
Please don't do nationalistic flamewar on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
we were speaking about modeling for vpn systems, wait for a thread about air gapped networks to be fascinating enough and for me to stumble across it for me to give a wildly inappropriate but technically correct though complex and subjective answer.
What SearchApps could emerge if Google opens its tech after antitrust trial?
The Wall Street Journal published an article about six possible consequences of the historic trial against Google[1]. All are interesting, but the first point is the one that caught my attention.

If the DOJ were to force Google to open its technology and had to create a platform similar to "Nvidia NIM" (for example), here are some SearchApps I would like to use or connect with my developments:

* Choose whether or not; to show ads based on curated searches from third parties.

* Refined results from Hacker News, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Quora, etc. Without magic like "site:http://..."

* Search for graffiti, urban art, street artists, etc.

* Explore among tens of thousands of recipes without ads ← filter by regions, historical periods, allergies, budget, routes.

* Specialized search in manga, anime, animation ← by period, style, directors, language, etc.

* Limit to fiction literature, for example. "I need you to show me stories of dystopias written by authors from Eastern Europe between 1940 and 1960"

* Movies: "List and/or show all scenes where Martin Scorsese makes a cameo" | vlc

* Only news from reputable sources[2]. Improve the search in the historical archive of: NYTimes, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, etc. Combined outputs related to historical events: global or just at the birth of my child ← what news happened that day? What films were showing in theaters? Improvement in information visualization.

* Medical cases similar to "this file"

* Information on trials and legal documents by region, period, judge, lawyer, litigant, etc.

* Specialized in engineering and/or industrial design: parts, DIY, tutorials, manuals, hacks, suppliers, etc.

* Search engine for 'Verified Facts,' filtering only Wikipedia, Britannica, Nature, Our World in Data, etc.

* Specialized searching for vintage and collectible items: including auctions, buying and selling, rentals, stores, bartering, and exhibitions.

* IoT: "Search for sensors that provide telemetry data on seismic activity along the coast of California during this period"

* With BASH commands, pipes and redirections, regular expressions, or SQL.

Each type of SearchApp may charge or not. It may show ads or not. It may be open or not. What would be undeniable is that Google would charge for it... or not. :‑)

The difference with LLMs is that Google already has all this data recorded. It doesn't need to reprocess it. Additionally, they have Gemini. Moreover, Google would only be required to open the technology, not to stop offering its own search service. So, if you don't like any of the new SearchApps, you can continue using the regular Google as always.

The important question is: what other SearchApps can you think of?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/06/google-antitrust-lawsuit-illegal-monopoly/

[2] Whatever it means for the user.
I wish I had the space, I'm too close to the city and would need to buy some land.

I feel like if software didn't pay this much I wouldn't mind having a business utilizing heavy equipment.
I used a chromebook for a long time for travel while I was using a linux desktop at home. I've now switched to a macbook as the only device I use due to apple silicon and the macbook being the only laptop I could order with a QWERTY keyboard in germany. Still there are many things I miss from the chromebook:

- touchscreen

- alt+tab

- proper fullscreen mode

- linux VM

- no annoyances like apple music or "look this up" popping up randomly

An entire category of things I miss are things that make tabbed browsing more pleasant. ChromeOS is the only OS that seems designed for that:

- swipe to cycle through tabs

- triple tap to open in a new tab

- move pointer to the top to select other tabs, in effect giving you an infinitely tall tab bar, like MacOS has an infinitely tall menu bar[1]

I hope there will be chromebooks with snapdragon x elite chips and Google will figure out distribution like Apple (order and choose keyboard layout online and pick up at a store).

[1]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/fitts-law-and-infinite-width/
Absolutely delightful. The art is the real hero, so cute!

Also, I have sound effects enabled in settings but don’t hear anything. I’m using Safari on iOS on ringer mode
Zero trust actually goes way beyond traditional VPNs. A key difference is granular access control and continuous verification. With zero trust, you're not only punching a hole through a firewall - you're creating dynamic, context-aware access policies for each user and device.

This helps contain breaches and lateral movement much better than VPNs. Plus, it plays nice with cloud and hybrid environments where traditional network perimeters get blurry.
It sucks for us who do push gear. I’m constantly breaking things because I’m well, using them. Anytime u have to buy something it involves hours of research to determine “is this a real quality product or a shitty one marketed as quality”, or “has it changed owners and now rubbish”

I don’t mind paying for quality gear at all. It just needed to be quality
The name of the company makes the title really wonky.

I do not quite understand how these sort one off tech lifestyle products take off like they do. That pin just never looked like it would do what it promised.
I love this!

I have an AirBnB with multiple rooms in Mexico (https://laotraaldeita.com/) and I get relatively often questions about floor plans.

I feel like showing floorplans directly isn't as intuitive for showing off the space, and that using 3D scanners is a huge overkill.

I do have the floorplans so I may give it a try!
There's a whole research area that tries to combine some ideas from symbolic AI with neural architectures.

IMHO, this might eventually become mainstream. For example, see all the work that merges theorem provers with RL and NN.
Reminds me of Tom Scott's "Art of Bodge up" video where he attempts to make an emoji keyboard on Windows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIFE7h3m40U

It's funny at the end he says "and don't ever suggest me I use Linux, just don't." I felt he expected it to be really hard project on Linux, while iterally his project is a single keyboard layout file.
Researchers dig deeper into nuclear fusion stability challenges–with mayonnaise
>To be fair, it's very hard in cinema to have people "get" the point without spoon-feeding it to them

And plenty of people will happily ignore any subtext you create, and most of the text you create, to just consume a portion of the imagery you put out. Neonazis LOVE all sorts of movies and characters that are supposed to be warnings about how bad Fascism is.

Yet they do NOT love Mel Brook's "The producers", because it makes Nazis look goofy. If you are trying to turn people off something, the absolute minimum bar is to demonstrate it's frank stupidity. You must eschew any and all "Coolness". This was also used to turn people away from the KKK when their stupid club rituals and limp handshake were shared without the normal framing.
Nobody climbs actual rocks with rental shoes. There'd be nobody to rent them to you. Rental shoes are for gym climbing, which is quite a safe activity if you're not stupid or crazy.
Very pretty! One thing I noticed is that when you hover over a budget item, it highlights the source and the destination of that item, but only a distance of one away. I think it would be useful to highlight items all the way to the root and leaves, so you can see where the money is actually coming from and going to. For example, if I hover over "Retirement Savings", it only highlights the "Savings" item. But I want to see where that money is eventually coming from: from the Main Account, which is fed by Freelance and Salary!
Doing penny testing yourself is different from letting a chunk of your user base test it
If this product is critical to your core. business, bring it in house. If not, then keep it 3rd party but look for a replacement/new vendor.
After the recent CPAP recall, and keeping in mind that many problems don't result in a proper recall, I would suggest avoiding a CPAP if your reasons are trivial.
I mean you're free to fork and continue developing X11; right now there is nobody with both the capability and the desire to do so.

I'd wager that once I get hardware made in 2024, Wayland may work well for me (though in its defense it does work fine on my one machine with an Intel integraded GPU), but for now none of my (very old) discrete GPUs work reliably with Wayland, with 2 GPUs and 3 drivers (nvidia vs nouveau for my old GeForce and "radeon" (not amdgpu) for my old AMD card) causing 3 symptoms:

1. Crashes immediately on login

2. Black Screen

3. Kind-of sort-of works, but sometimes the screen just freezes for no reason and sometimes switching VTs fixes it sometimes not.
we were speaking about modeling for vpn systems, wait for a thread about air gapped networks to be fascinating enough and for me to stumble across it for me to give a wildly inappropriate but technically correct though complex and subjective answer.

however there is a significant issue with using hard drives to transfer data in airgapped networks without proper f-caging, optical transfer of data via taking a video of rapidly flashing QR codes is fairly secure when under enough blankets, but mylar shielding of walls and windows may be required depending on the adversary model.
Bluray is pretty much plug and play even writing data with on board tools. There is no native video playback but VLC does it without problems. I wouldn’t call it not supported…
There's a simple way to build a failsafe that the enemy can't figure out. The basic rule of cryptography--assume your enemy knows everything but the key.

When the launcher and the drone connect they make up a completely random key. It is known only to the launcher and the drone. The drone will self destruct if it receives said key. The enemy could jam the destruct but they couldn't trigger it. Note that no encryption is even needed.

One time pads are inherently unbreakable crypto other than by compromising the pad. And in this case the secret is known only to the drone and controller.
Every smart watch/wearable device has some kind of sleep tracker now. Newer ones have pulse oxymeters.

Even if they are inaccurate, they are making a lot of people self-conscious about their sleep.

- Why is my sleep score only around 50?

- Why is my HRV lower than everyone elses?

- Why does my pulse ox regularly fall to the 80s?

Some of these people are going to seek medical advice, and some will be prescribed CPAPs.

As far was why people seem to be having sleep apnea more, I like the theory that it's related to weaker jaw muscles in proportion to our bone structure, caused by the modern diet of eating softer foods. But it's a current area of research.
Is there a way to see how the money changes over time or do I need to work that out myself. Like if a bucket is filling up month by month?
I definitely watched it but missed a couple of those sentences so thanks for the timestamps above.

Yes he does name soil migration as the biggest problem with subsurface drains, but to be fair the video is contextualized around dams.

The spirit of my comment was intended to be helpful for folks attempting this stuff at home, not to suggest a lack of good info in the video.
It's funny to see it framed in the context of music when it's a pretty universal behavior, essentially limited only by how many cool upgrades exist for a particular hobby.

It's a particularly common affliction for photographers (better cameras, better lens, studio lighting, etc), but the same happens in lo-tech fields - say, woodworking (check out my premium chisels!) or even lawn care.

In most hobbies, it's just a money sink. It is uniquely destructive in photography because if you have too much gear, you can't carry it around and you end up missing out on shots.
Mitigating OAuth's recently discovered Open Response Type vulnerability
This is awesome!

I've been doing some PSX decompiling and there are lots of similar things there as well. Interestingly, something like `memmove` is linked in using an SDK library[0], but `strcpy` is a function provided by the BIOS. Later version of the SDK could patch that out for a library version, but as late as 1997 it hadn't been.

0 - https://github.com/Xeeynamo/sotn-decomp/blob/master/src/main...
For recent-construction and modern gut-renovation apartments, these simple geometric abstraction renderings are nice and helpful.

For older apartments, such as dominate many older cities or older parts of town, that existing competitor's tool, which includes photograph textures and more "organic" 3D modeling, seems more useful in getting a sense of what the place is actually like.
This is super cool!

If you're looking to get in early on a free tool that allows you to finetune your model using encrypted data sets you can sign up here: https://waitlist.bagel.net/
Scots is an English dialect, descended from Northumbrian English.

The dialect is arguably alive in some locales, including some places northern Ireland.

To me, the dividing line is code switch. There are rural pubs and such where people will noticeably switch to standard English when speaking to non-locals.

Ulster Scots, it is sometimes called.

Hard to draw distinct lines, especially since the "standard" English near Scots speaking locales is not very standard. Glasgow, Newry and whatnot have pretty quirky "standard" English.

That said, an average person from Newry won't code switch. If you can't understand the accent, they'll just speak loader, slower and more directly at your forehead.

To me that makes it "not a dialect."
I see, thanks for filling that in.
> They read UHD blu-rays and have support for MakeMKV.

List:

* https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19634
It's funny thinking about how the founders raised 250 million. It's a reminder, when you see founders of unicorns, often they arent really an "entrepreneur" that started from nothing. They just had the right resume to attract large volumes of capital.

People should view founders as more similar to hedge fund managers, who get a cut of the money they manage. Its largely the same, raise 30m because you went to Harvard, you are bound to cash out a few million, regardless of your ability to leverage that money.
Maybe they have hearty toasting of drinks frequently?
I believe that this flow diagram would be greatly enhanced by having a "balance" type of node where you could see the balance at start, balance at end, net increase (decrease) within the popover (obviously the flow in - flow out should = the net increase). Would obviously make sense for bank account, and same for savings account nodes.
Thanks for reporting this issue! I reproduced it on my device and will patch soon. Edit: this should be fixed.
I agree with your first point, which is that by all appearances the acquisition of the product is the entirety of the hobby -- look at any subreddit for musicians or ham radio operators or whatever, it's all photos of some newly-purchased toy with titles like "I couldn't resist!". I think this is in part because it's a lot more effort (and risk of criticism) to post a video of yourself e.g. playing that guitar... and in part because of the feedback loop that makes us think buying shit = participating.

On the second point there is some basic level of quality which is just unpleasant to go below. Sure, maybe a $500 ukulele isn't that much better than a $100 one, but that doesn't mean you should try to learn on a $10 plastic ukulele from Aliexpress.
The fact that it costs the government money to do things is obvious to the point of pointlessness. I could understand pointing out the actual cost of producing the info if you had it, but just pointing out the fact that it cost them money to produce some report doesn't add anything to the discussion.
> But now these tech titans all have unassailable positions.

It sometimes seems this way, at least over the near term. But even giants can fall. Time will tell.

It is interesting that their advantages don't solely come from economies of scale or bundling ... there are other factors at work, such as:

1. They leave space for lots of others to make money...

2. ...Until a subspace grows into an attractive product opportunity for the giant to scoop up. How convenient that the market was pre-validated!

3. ...But even competitors that grow powerful are tempted to "defect" and join the Borg by being acquired / absorbed.
Amazing stuff.

I'm CTO of a company called FORMATION. We build an app that uses indoor maps to allow workers in offices, factories, and other workplaces to interact with their workplace via search, QR codes, and just clicking around in the app. We are pretty early stage but a big bottleneck in onboarding new customers is getting decent quality indoor maps. There are a lot of apps and tools for this.

I'd love to see a 2D version of this. 3D is nice but a bit fiddly to interact with. 2D works much better. Especially on mobile. A second point is that the map is a the backdrop for our app and not the main focus. I think this is true for a lot of apps that use maps: the map is not the main feature but merely to context in which you present information.

So far, we've just been winging this. We work with external designers to clean up whatever images we receive to make them a bit nicer and then just georeference the bitmap on top of openstreetmap (via maptiler and maplibre).

If you want to discuss further, feel free tor reach out privately, my handle is globally unique ;-).
My mind was absolutely blown by mercury delay line memory of the UNIVAC 1. The things we did before silicon dynamic memory were works of crazy engineering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory
I had thought to design the window system and operating system, that the keyboard manager will handle the keyboard translation and can be set to several modes by application programs. Only the server knows the keyboard layout, although clients can tell the keyboard translation modes:

- Text input with large character sets (Extended TRON Code)

- Text input with small character sets (the application program can select which one (although it is not guaranteed to be available, unless the user installs an appropriate keyboard layout); e.g. APL character set)

- Command mode

- Game mode

- Hybrid mode

This way it can handle IME as well, and also specialized layouts for purposes (such as APL programming), and can handle nearly raw keyboard events when desired (although, for purposes of security and others, some combinations might still be handled by the operating system or by the window manager).
Note: this is about people returning the product in greater quantities than people buying the product

My initial thought was about stock price appreciation diverging from fundamentals. Private company anyway.
And hashes with salts of course. Without, get a rainbow table and the password becomes plain as day.
You can't get a CPAP without a prescription (at least in the US).
Yep: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/241379/what-is-t...
So many "AI" products have already fallen flat or crashed and burned that I can see a day coming when the word dissapears from marketing, that it becomes a net negative as a buzzword.
This does not affect Brave entirely. It will affect MV2 extensions on Brave generally speaking, but it will not affect Brave's shields that are built in. See my response to another comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41181701

It will apply to all the other Chromium based browsers that are wrappers and not forks.
I’m not surprised.
The attitude of build a prototype and ship it fast, we can fix problems with software updates only works if the hardware and the UX are really compelling.

IMHO humane pin was dead on arrival, using a pin to interact with an AI sounds great on paper until we realize it’s awkward and slow in real life use