skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people mod their terminal prompt to display the current date/time?

It feels like one of these "ricer" things like opening 9 terminals just to run cmatrix and screenfetch.
Yeah, I figure 1/3 of the attendees would book both cons anyway.
> This is pretty standard history. Modernism dominated most art forms at the time.

Not sure what “standard history” you are relying on, but gothic horror was a major influence on movies (and other popular media like comics). Modernism is a somewat nebolous term, but German expressionism seem to be generally categorized as modernism, even when the movies are clearly gothic horror (eg Nosferatu is heavily based on Dracula, they just couldn’t secure the rights to the novel, so changed the name).
Afaik from other discussions of this Apple do not allow apps to inform users that they can pay cheaper outside the app
Most current founders now go to VCs rather than an have employee owned model because VCs wouldn't be happy with employees owning the size of the pie. The changes they would want aren't in line with their goals.

VCs would want founders to restructure the company and would not invest for future rounds for Series A, B, C, etc, (unlikely to happen since employees own the company) or tell founders to dilute employee owned shares for funding (also unlikely), employees would rather make more self-fund the company with profits than go to VCs for funding.
You are effectively updating many todos. The benefit of the solution presented by the author is not about performance, but rather minimizing change.

Imagine a situation when multiple clients keep copies of todos and rely on optimistic locking for updates.

This is a cool little problem brilliantly solved.
It's unacceptable since it circumvents the core aspect of the game.
We knew that selection for emotional illness was going on, and it is almost refreshing to find it so candidly acknowledged, but who is daft enough to expect good outcomes? The answer comes: it isn't about outcomes. It's mime.
It's restricted to constant QP rate, and I haven't managed to get it to produce a playable file yet. Maybe I'm holding it wrong. But anyway, it's exciting seeing bits of this land.
What exactly are you alleging here?
It’s not that abstract. You can literally write down the isomorphism: v —> [e_v: V* —> F, e_v(f) = f(v)].
If they’re risk averse, they shouldn’t, as the OP claimed, implement basic algorithms such as rolling median, or finding a maximum instead of loading data into Pandas and doing a group by, would they?
I wonder how many we could fit into powerline pylons too.
Standup! god I wish.

It'd more like a producer going:

"is it done yet?"

"what do you mean it'll take half our rendering budget, I need that for delivery"

"Is it done yet?"

"can you make it look more spacey?"

"no thats too spacey now"

"Why isnt there lens flare?"

"Why does it take two weeks to render, can't you fake it?"
Roenxi, you ignorant slut, you can’t figure out which skit they’re referring to?
That's not quite it. Golden handcuffs refer to financially significant unvested shares or options (e.g. RSUs) that you will forfeit if you leave the company. Some companies include quarterly RSUs as a significant percentage of total comp. They have a vesting schedule of four years, so that at any given time, employees have almost four years of unvested RSUs. (After four years, some RSUs fully vest and more RSUs are added.) No one wants to leave that much money on the table.
For most of the algorithms even if the supplied algorithm is a naive approach it's harmless, maybe some people learn from it, and some don't, nobody is harmed so it's net good.

Unfortunately this has cryptographic algorithms, and while they're initially quite simple like XOR, eventually we have what look at a glance like more substantial and useful primitives such as RSA encryption†. The authors doubtless know not to use these, but to a student it all seems to work as supplied, but of course it doesn't.

I think the simplification needed to make RSA explicable in this setting makes it so useless and abstracted from reality that it's net harmful, and I'd recommend against providing any of the cryptographic algorithms for that reason.

† Yes I'm aware that RSA encryption is obsolete. Does this site feel like the right pitch to explain that to students ?
I know this is HN and here it's not a popular opinion, but maximum security is _not_ always a good idea. Even setting aside the problem of many different actors having to access these details mentioned below, there's value in a simple login process. Specifically for airplane tickets, the most common ones I had to struggle with multiple times are retrieving reservations bought from a different computer, or by a travel agency. In all these situations, it was exactly the simple approach that saved me. If 2FA was mandatory, the best case scenario was that the travel agency would have to send you a separate e-mail with details about how to access their portal where this 2FA would somehow work. The number of systems multiplies, the number of credentials to remember does, as well. If you are not from your usual workplace (and chances are, if you are travelling, you are not) or from a shaky connection (same), you are in a real problem. In a time-critical scenario, which makes it really worse.

Implementing a "secure" connection here would be a sure road for pain ahead, at least it would need the airplane company to increase customer support a lot, and likely a lot of bad publicity every time something fails. Delays cost money, especially in this industry. And what would you get for that? The safety that, if you publish a picture of your reservation / boarding pass online, nobody can log in with your credentials and cancel your flight? That's a rather niche and very targeted risk, which is better handled by a single customer support agent who, simply, issues you a new ticket.

(by the way, by the time you have checked in and your boarding pass has been issued, a lot of companies just don't allow you to cancel anymore, so it's really a non-issue?)
Related: https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/08/12/whats_b...

The Navy’s ability to build lower-cost warships that can shoot down Houthi rebel missiles in the Red Sea depends in part on a 25-year-old laborer who previously made parts for garbage trucks.

Lucas Andreini, a welder at Fincantieri Marinette Marine, in Marinette, Wisconsin, is among thousands of young workers who’ve received employer-sponsored training nationwide as shipyards struggle to hire and retain employees.

The labor shortage is one of myriad challenges that have led to backlogs in ship production and maintenance at a time when the Navy faces expanding global threats. Combined with shifting defense priorities, last-minute design changes and cost overruns, it has put the U.S. behind China in the number of ships at its disposal — and the gap is widening.

Navy shipbuilding is currently in “a terrible state” — the worst in a quarter century, says Eric Labs, a longtime naval analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. “I feel alarmed,” he said. “I don’t see a fast, easy way to get out of this problem. It’s taken us a long time to get into it.”
I'd just do that with tr '\n' ,

It's fascinating that there are so many different ways to do things, even within the limited confines of coreutils!
The measured rate has some of the overhead in it. That's being revealed by this change. If you don't consume enough to 'pay your share' thru that part of the bill, well, then that bill will have to be increased. Call it what you like; it's paying for infrastructure.

The farce of paying for homeowner generation is something activists (whom I love) came up with, not the utility. It's clearly operating directly against the interests of the group, in as much as it is generally paid in 10X what the 'extra' electricity is worth. So, agreed. it should be some weak wholesale rate if it's anything.
Engineers conduct in-orbit test of 'swarm' satellite autonomous navigation
Risk of cognitive decline and dementia in older adults with Covid-19: review
Yep, in Flash it was done with VP6.
To see a headline were an individual who massiveley donated his private time is suspended from doing so and then wondering before clicking it "is there any chance this doesn't have anything to do with some upper class zealot being offended by how normal people speak" – one might say "Bull's Eye! What are the chances?"

But the only thing I'm surprised of is that I'm not surprised anymore.
I think it may be ignoring a "hyphen".
Intel failures: A cautionary tale of business vs. engineering
I don't think metaverses really interested anyone appart from Facebook in recent years. Who invested in those really?

I think everybody remember that all but a few addicts got quickly bored of second life in the mid 00's and it was not worth trying a second time.
I love it personally and with gRPC I don’t really have much of a need for any kind of backend framework at all. I just follow the guidance at aip.dev and raw dog it using language primitives for the most part.
This is why world records in long-distance running are not typically achieved at big events, where winning is all that matters.

They are usually attempted at smaller events, coordinating with other runners ("hares") to achieve the perfect pace, without having to worry about the result (hares will typically drop out throughout the race).

If you want to see what happens when the favourites run a little too hard a little too early, check out the 1500m final: Ingebrigtsen and Kerr were supposed to slug it out between themselves, but they both pushed too early (Ingebrigtsen unwisely pulling from the front most of the time), so they got to the sprint too tired to match the surging Hocker.
My mistake then.

I encounter that attitude a lot here so I guess I jumped to conclusions.
Can you point to an example that you find illustrative?
I guess? Mostly the cool applications in physics and differential geometry are about tensor fields, which are more complicated than bare tensors. You could argue that they're talking about finite dimensional tensors but tensor fields are kinda a different object (at least subjectively, to me).
Instead of constantly trying to keep up with everything in an ecosystem (which is simply impossible), just keep up with the stuff you are using to get your product working. Keep a side eye on the rest of the ecosystem to see if something neat is developing that you might use, but no need to study every hyped package coming out. In the end they are all tools to get something that works.

We still use flask and it's been great all the way, and it still holds up really well, there's no reason to move to any of the other packages just because that's the next new shiny thing.
Project Babylon – Code Reflection (JVMLS)
You can't tell me something "can't reason" or "has no intelligence" without also telling me what reasoning or intelligence is. Or what you think it is. That's the technical detail that's missing. From what I know, whether LLMs reason or not is an open question - are they stochastic parrots? are they not? I dunno, but since you evidently do, so please show your reasoning and evidence. Just because a claim is repeated over and over doesn't mean it's true (or false).

> even a normal person to do it. Do you?

There are intelligent people capable of reasoning with dyscalculia. Sorry, but being unable to do arithmetic is not enough of an argument.

I have no idea what Quicken is, an honestly, ray-tracing (using the definition I'm familiar with) is a mechanical process that doesn't require any intelligence.

EDIT: Here's an article that has the technical details (and it's not a 15-minute read): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/06/a... The original article is 80% PR fluff aimed at emotional influence, the one from Guardian is just good journalism. I have an allergy to the former.
This doesn't seem like a problem though? As long as it's open source with packages available, that's just a CI process. At some point those machines are building those packages anyway, so the content is also already cached.
So few people these days are willing to say what you just said!

I applaud you, and (with AI assistance) I've written you an acrostic poem.

Holding oneself lightly, not with pride

Understanding we all have flaws inside

Modest in manner, gentle in speech

Inclusive of others, willing to teach

Learning from mistakes, growing each day

Ignoring the urge to have our own way

Thoughtful of others, putting them first

Yielding to wisdom, quenching ego's thirst
So take this with a big mountain of salt as I am newer to Go and my experience with .Net is a bit dated but I do have 7 YoE with C#.

The C# stdlib is larger and more batteries included for sure. But, it feels less focused than Go to me. Over its history it has supported a ton of different styles of programming. Whereas Go’s maintainers have been, at least so far, more obsessive on keeping the language small.

As a result you get libraries and codebases that have a mix of legacy and modern flavors of .NET. That isn’t the fault of the language but more of its large history and wider scope. GoLang doesn’t have a rich UI library built in for example whereas .NET has 3 if I am remembering correctly.

I like the focus of Go but C# is a great language and .NET is an excellent framework.

Here are some things that I think Go does better though:

- TLS and x509 stdlib is fantastic

- Explicit error returns instead of Exception throwing

- A developer culture around idiomatic Go. It’s subjective but it sets a tone for a single coding style.

- Less “magic”. This is more of a sin of Java frameworks but .NET has lots of higher level abstractions the push lots of interactions behind the curtain.

- tiny docker images and super fast startup.

Here are some things I miss from C#:

- really nice Enums

- Better support for functional programming.

- LINQ to objects

- Annotations, specifically validation logic as annotations.

- JSON handling is more straightforward

.NET is super capable though. Nothing wrong with using it and it is much more broadly applicable than Go in my opinion.

But, I like the ergonomics of Go and for backend services and CLI tools I think it is a strong choice. But, I wouldn’t choose it to build a game or a desktop/mobile GUI application currently.
Sponsorblock is not as blunt a tool as people make it here. You can only block specific type of ads and you can whitelist whole channels which I do for some niche channels I subscribe to. In Android, I use Tubular [1], the NewPipe fork that integrates Sponsorblock and ReturnYoutube Dislike. My only additional request in this awesome app is if we can download the video after snipping out the sponsor block sections.

[1]
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular
Long-distance running races pre-date cycling and skating by decades. If anything, it's strategies from running that inevitably find their way into more modern sports.
> How do you build a BIOS successor that's not complicated, when it has to be able to reflash bios from a file on a fat32 partition on a usb stick, because all the other historical ways of reflashing bios were difficult and more fragile?

It doesn't need to do this at all. Just make the flash accessible to the OS and have the OS do it. Machines without an OS can be booted into a live image. Put a write-protect jumper on the system board if you like.

> How do you build a BIOS successor that's not complicated when it needs to allow an OS to alter boot settings for the next boot?

You give the OS access to the flash and then document what the bits do so the OS knows what to change.

> Granted, most of what goes on in a BIOS is displaying and changing variables involved in getting the system running, and maintaining those values, which just requires some sort of minimal editing interface and nv storage, but then... users appear. They want to be able to use a mouse. They want an ability to configure their raid chipset prior to boot, or netboot, and HW makers want to implement that in a way that's not some arcane raw assembly dance between BIOS and additional chip FW. What then?

Limit the firmware UI to extremely basic settings like "restore factory defaults" and "choose boot device", none of which need a mouse. Boot an OS to do anything more complicated.

> UEFI is terrible. Baseband firmwares are terrible. Security processor firmwares are terrible. AMT is terrible. Okay, but we still need them.

The reason these are all terrible is that they're supplied by the OEM. Delete all of them and replace them with hardware documentation that allows anyone to write their own. Ship the machine with an open source reference implementation that most people will never have to change unless it's terrible, in which case the 0.1% of the users that care will fix it and you can incorporate the fix into the reference implementation.
Same, if they want people to side with them, quotes are vital.

I wouldn't jump to conclusions either.
python-dev is a repressive organization run by those who put themselves up for election and get 30 out of 90 votes.

Inexplicably, the elected "leaders" also have/had positions at Google, Microsoft, RedHat and Bloomberg (the Googlers may have been fired this year).

The council prosecutes those who contradict the hierarchy and have an own opinion. Tim Peters has contradicted the council on many occasions. The council is unable to summarize even simple mail conversations, disregards historical context, applies the CoC selectively and does not shy away from defamation.

The council censors and does not let the accused defend themselves.

Tim Peters is the good guy here. Intelligent, non-threatening and easy to deal with. Like in the Soviet Union, these qualities make him a threat to the system.
Like most programming languages Perl is fine, but there are things in it that could be better. Yes you can make a mess in it, but you can do that in any language.

P.S. Why did you write a blogging system in a language you obviously hate? :D
Earlier today we got the "Taco Bell Distinguished Professor", now here is the "Panasonic Professor Emeritus of Robotics" (at MIT no less).

When did academia stop to even pretend it was independent of commercial interests?
When it’s impossible to prevent bad actors from gaining access to weapons, the best thing to do is to level the field by giving the same weapons to everyone.

It’s kind of mad.
Same happen to crypto.

I'm an huge crypto enthusiast, but whenever I see the term "crypto" being used somewhere I just cringe.
I prefer apps when they work mostly offline and don't try to send my private data to various third parties. I tend to prefer the browser which allows me to control a little bit more what it does for everything else.
I disagree. It's good that people scrutinize and resist corporate greed. Accepting that "AI" (whatever that means) should be in every single product I use is not adapting. It's bending over. People have the power to vote with their wallets (and their actual votes), and they should do so.

Now, I'm not American and not an expert on the Rust Belt, but I'm pretty certain this is not the reason why the Rust Belt exists. Probably rather something to do with corporate greed and greedy politicians.
> mechanism to remove them – if they've been found to have violated the CoC – is seeking a vote from the full Python Community. This is undesirable, because it would "subject members of the community – including people directly impacted by that violator's behavior – to undue distress.

So... down with voting, up with secret police? Wouldn't want to stress the commoners with the power of a vote.
The AI selects the most fitting icons for summarized content text. I am currently enhancing its capabilities by amassing an extensive collection of icons for the AI to select. Additionally, the system now facilitates the incorporation of images sourced from provided website URLs into infographics.
Formatting serial streams in hardware with Clash/Haskell
> take an existing database schema, developed either in the Supabase migrations ... and draw the diagram?

It might not be so obvious, but this diagram tool is already built into the Supabase Dashboard (under "Database")

I can see some value in providing this as a generic service for any PG database - I'll look into it - but I know that Dbeaver already has something like this built in (and I think pgadmin too)
Same here. Landlords do inspections when moving out. Maybe they come, with notice, once or twice a year to repair something or show the place to potential buyers.
> how normal people speak

Normal people don't use the N-word in 2024.

Also, being neurodivergent isn't a "get out of jail free" card. Plenty of neurodivergent people know or at least try to not be a jerk.

Edit: I'm wrong. I confused 70s SNL skits that didn't age well - He referenced the S** skit.
Show HN: Twitter Widget for Android
I've built a widget for Twitter/X on Android
It loads tweets from the "For You" feed of your account to the homescreen of your Android
It is still in closed testing on the Play Store so you will have to enter your gmail on the website before it redirects to the app link.
I think you mean resilient or robust, not antifragile. I know of no building which gets stronger under/after hurricane force winds.
I mean, i think anytime something gets to the point of CoC issuing a ban against a well known community member, it is always dramatic. I dont know anything about this particular case, but in every community i have ever been a part of, the ban hammer equals drama. That's true even when it is the right course of action.
Is this a volunteer or a paid position?
Different strokes for different folks. Used Go for ~5 years, would be happy to never use it again. Typescript is in a similar bucket, lots of professional usage (sadly still using it) would also be happy to never touch it again.

Kotlin/JVM became my hammer and I currently don't feel like there are any gripes I have about it except maybe that the Gradle/Maven dichotomy and associated anxiety that build systems give people makes it harder to sell people on it.

Otherwise language feature wise and runtime wise it's about as good as you are going to ever need for 99.99% of (non-frontend) use cases. You have C++/Rust/Zig to fill in the few places where a runtime isn't viable.
> and they don't have automated systems that cram cat pictures down your throat.

Yes they do. It is your aunt who is crazy about cats. Nearly every family has one.
One reason I can think of is the amount of capital required. So basically when Microsoft or Apple started out, you didn't need a lot of capital to build a minimum viable product. There were not many tech products.

Nowadays, it's it's obviously different. To come up with something innovative, you need to develop something for a longer time so that it's better than everything that's already out there.
Stray gusts of wind, slight irregularities in the track's surface, other tiny inequalities between lanes or starting positions are probably going to nudge runner performance enough to overwhelm the precision of even a fairly unremarkable finish camera.

If fairness were the primary consideration, then they would use any old junk camera and be generous in calling ties. This kind of theatrical accuracy is there purely so that Omega can advertise.