skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You underestimate my brain's super human ability to justify leaving that stuff right where it is until "later" which actually means never but for some reason I accept it lol. Oddly enough, this only applies to things that I personally leave in stupid places.

If I work on my PC or server hardware at the dining room table I will end up with random components/tools/hardware left there after I finish and my brain will tell me "This is fine, we have something else to do right this second!"

If one of my kids leaves something like a bag of chips on the table right next to that pile of stuff I left behind, my brain will blow a gasket and make having the remediation of the chip bags misplacement by the offender as the super most toppest priority to address right this very second.

So under your system I'd end up with all my stuff in my house's doorways and 2 annoyed teenagers who will probably extract revenge by "cleaning up" my doorways and since they are teenagers and share DNA with me, not a single one of those items will find it's way to it's proper place! ADHD is an adventure for sure lol.
There are no hoops. You sign a work contract, invoice the company and they send you a wire transfer.
Right. Passing pointers is much cheaper than passing values of large structures. And then references are an abstraction over pointers that allow further compile-time optimization in languages that support it. Pass-by-value, pass-by-pointer, and pass-by-reference are three distinct operational concepts that should be taught to programmers.
>axios' badly configured (or default) cloudflare MITM

Weird, it works fine for me even on tor browser. Are you using an user agent spoofer?
I've read, and mostly enjoyed the experience, KSRs Mars Trilogy. The all-encompassing scope definitely gets tiring, but I found most of it interesting enough that I'd look forward to the evenings going to bed and reading to find out the next stage of the evolution of the society or terraforming progress or political (in)stability.

I'm glad I've read it, but I doubt I'll return to it.

I'll definitely be looking for this as a book gift to myself.
you did not read his post.
Nit: the usual term is "vapor barrier".
> Unlike residential power, which typically uses single-phase electricity,

Most people (myself included) who charge at home with any regularity will buy a wall-box, those are often 3-phase (mine is). Might be different in US of course, but almost every building here (Germany) receives 3 phases.
Isn't this the case for all countries that accepted the Berne Convention?
Of course it would be. That’s not what my comment is about.
I have tried so many I can't count. I have settled on one that seems to be not as well known but should be. Black Box Terminal. It checks all kinds of great boxes for me, I love it.

https://github.com/yonasBSD/blackbox-terminal
Many other countries have all-inclusive prices. Most of Europe from my experience. I wonder, how do they handle it? One solution could be to price things such that any amount of tax is included in the margin so the price is standard but profitability varies in minute ways between locations (which it does anyway due to labor, transportation, advertising density, etc.).
I'm curious about the implications of "deeper relationship".
I dig through trash, go to flea markets, and recycle materials all the time in the Bay Area and won't even go to Urban Ore. Their prices are shockingly high. It's as if you're paying the designer the 1000% markup for having discovered this old window frame.

Builder Resources in SF is quite a bit more reasonable, but prepare yourself for a bit more of tweaker/ghetto vibe.
You have a different reaction than most Tesla owners [1].

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-has-the-most-loyal-b...
Almost certainly not. Apple wants people to use apps, so "pushing people to use apps" wouldn't be cause for backlash.

Instead, I suspect they saw the money that patreon made and want a (30%) slice of that pie.
Answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41224295

> You might remember an earlier WASM build[1] that was around ~30MB. The Electric team [2] have gone one step further and created a complete build of Postgres that’s under 3MB.

> Their implementation is technically interesting. Postgres is normally multi-process - each client connection is handed to a child process by the postmaster process. In WASM there’s limited/no support for process forking and threads. Fortunately, Postgres has a relatively unknown built-in “single user mode” [3] primarily designed for bootstrapping a new database and disaster recovery. Single-user mode only supports a minimal cancel REPL, so PGlite adds wire-protocol support which enables parametrised queries etc.
Maybe the old days when you needed multiple maps folded up on paper instead of one zoomable super map containing the entire world.

Also "Google Map" sounds like a map of Google.
Spack doesn't require any particular prefix... it has a deployment model like nix, and the store can go anywhere. Binary caches are relocatable.
I do exactly the same thing. I’m even running SQLite in wasm so I don’t have any C dependencies. Switching out for Postgres would be awesome
Looks like pyenv does the same thing as asdf, except only for python.

https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

And here's a list of everything it supports: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-plugins/tree/master/plugins
An extreme overuse of everything. Like "give me a formula to color every second Excel row blue". "Sure! First make sure you have installed Excel, here are the steps..."
It seems that you might be asking this question in bad faith.

But on the off chance you are not, please find previous replies that address the same kind of question below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41037792

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41189309

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41211767

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41197493

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41218353
Exactly, all your favourite PG types, plus any that come with extensions such as vectors with pgvector.

We are working on PostGIS to, which will bring the geo types to PGlite.
If nothing else, to get consistent notifications from the creators you are a patron of, as Apple dragged their feet on web app notifications for many years, and they are still crippled and unreliable.
Unrelated: but can we also force websites to have SIMPLE settings pages? has anyone tried to change ANYTHING at all from a facebook page via settings? how is that legal?
It must because their signs are all wrong because they didn't account for the precession of the earth's axis... /s

https://www.livescience.com/4667-astrological-sign.html
Patreon doesn't currently and doesn't want to us Apple's infrastructure. They're being "forced" to do so, hence this post.
Agreed. I was (barely) willing to tolerate a touchscreen interface for my car, as long as the UI didn't change ever. Without tactile feedback, I need the buttons to be in the exact same place every time so that I can develop the muscle memory to hit them without looking. When Tesla changed the UI layout as part of a software update, they eliminated themselves as a manufacturer I'm going to buy from. As the author of the linked piece says, "move fast and break things" is simply not acceptable for the controls of machinery that can easily kill someone if you make mistakes.
and thrilled
Patreon should just remove the ability to subscribe from the app, and just offload the process to Safari. Let Patreon users purchase their memberships using Apple's own browser app. Let Apple decide if they want to try to take 30% of all transactions made using their browser and see how that works out for them.
There's also an official app that has some nice features:

- You can generate grids on multiple devices with a seed

- If the phone displaying the grid falls over, it automatically hides the grid.

I don't know if the grids in the app are truly random or if they follow some constraints though.
I'm bothering the PGLite team a lot to help us enable this :-)

We have different options like embedded-postgres or integreSQL, but none match the simplicity of PGLite. I hope this wish comes true soon.

https://github.com/fergusstrange/embedded-postgres/tree/mast...

https://github.com/allaboutapps/integresql
The problem is the line to breakage. “Technically still works” doesn’t lead to adding back. It hasn’t broken yet.

In ux technically still works is a very low bar.
If you use X, you can use tdrop to do this with any window. I have it set up with kitty, pcmanfm, and emacs client.
If they pass the 30% on, sure. Not so easy for smaller apps. Patreon might pull it off.
> Why it matters: The drop in violent crime puts a serious dent in one of the most frequently used lines of attack by former President Trump and his allies, who have sought to tie Democrats to the issue since 2020.

I imagine in a few years there will be reports of police departments and various reporting agencies to "not report that" and the order "comes from the top".
The Amazon statistics show much higher sales of AMD CPUs than of Intel CPUs, so this supports your belief about DIY computers.
I have driven quite a few different cars, and I have never had trouble finding the button by simply scanning the actual visible controls, except in a Tesla.

(Some cars don’t gave have a defogger, in which case one will obvious never find the button. This is unlikely in a current or remotely recent production car…)
>Over the past decades, in addition to large Java and Go memory-safe codebases, Google has developed and accumulated hundreds of millions of lines of C++ code that is in active use and under active, ongoing development. This very large existing codebase results in significant challenges for a transition to memory safety:

We see no realistic path for an evolution of C++ into a language with rigorous memory safety guarantees that include temporal safety.

A large-scale rewrite of all existing C++ code into a different, memory-safe language appears very difficult and will likely remain impractical[0].

[0] https://security.googleblog.com/2024/03/secure-by-design-goo....

Long story short; they are stuck with millions of C++ LOC and they can't transition to Rust completely because of the enormous complexity of various gigantic codebases e.g. Android, Chrome or whatever they want to move to memory-safe language/s.

They said they will try to write as much new native code in Rust as they can plus they will interop from C++ to Rust in order to reduce memory-safety bugs.
https://www.westonboxes.com/ I recently discovered these. Lifechanging in two ways:

* you can put them on their ends and they don't fall over, which is ideal for storage on shelves

* translucent so you can see what's inside

Pull off the shelf, open up, rummage / sort / process (with extra space in the lid if needed) then pour everything back into the main storage from the lid and reshelve.

It's amazing how being able to shelve on their sides (rather than in a stack) changes things.
More ‘school choice’ for K-12 students
How to keep up with AI/ML as a full stack dev?
I am working with full stack solutions consisting of node.js and React among other things. Different app solutions both for mobile and web. I most often can’t see any use case for AI/ML in our products but I suspect that it is easier to see opportunities when you have some experience with the tools. Any ideas on how I can keep up my learning in these areas so that I stay relevant as a software engineer in the long run? I know that it is a general topic but I think that it is important to stay up to date on the subject.
So for nothing then.
Why would holding a pen stop me from losing things? Seems like I'd just end up losing the pen too. Ooooooh, a holding pen.
elevated latency in the UK (europe-west2)
Repair and Remain (2022)
it's that competing in the sport would be economically out of reach for much of the world.

I don't know anything about 'high end' bowling, but I cannot see how it could be any more expensive than many other sports at the Olympics.
So when Trump moved from DC to mar-a-Lago crime rate in big cities dropped...
What "great boxes" do you have that more popular terminal emulators are missing?
Can someone spell out the consequences of a failed thruster? Eg miss the reentry cone and skip off the atmosphere into space?
(It's a line scan camera)
Your thoughts do not match what’s on the ground.

China has not bombed entire countries into ruble. China is not currently sponsoring a state sponsored act of genocide.

I don’t really care what peoples “feelings” are on this. It’s a fact that America has fucked over literally billions of people over absolutely nothing. This is something that China has not done.

Speaking about incentives, China has an incentive to NOT do this. Their economy thrives on a global strong middle class that can buy goods. America does not have this incentive. America’s incentive is to create petrodollar dominance through its military.

So yes, I’m not going to be cheering on China because superpowers generally mean people suffer. I will however cheer on America’s sliding into irrelevance and weakness because it literally means less dead kids and less burnt generations.
Photo finishes are typically done with a line scan camera. It only captures a single column of pixels at a time. So the horizontal axis in the image is actually time, not space. Super cool stuff.
It's not a misleading title at all. It's the people that infer something the title doesn't state that are misleading themselves.
i've been using iterm for... years and had never noticed this setting. Which is a killer feature for my use of emacs.

thanks!
You are wrong to ignore it. Why would you ignore the very point that I'm going out of the way to explain? That's just asking to fail to understand.

The person who wants to shift 300000 isn't the problem. It is the bank who is saying no to the mortgage. Banking has been described as "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller". For them, a housing mortgage has limited upside, and a large possible downside. They stay in business by avoiding hitting that downside.

Therefore a property that can't be inspected property, can't get a mortgage. Full stop.

The prospective buyer can't buy without a mortgage. Sure, the buyer could pay for the removal. But now you're asking the buyer to pay for a large repair, just to decide if this might be the house for them? And that payment comes out of what they could have spent on another house! This makes no sense.

The only party that has the right incentive to fix the problem is the current owner. It's part of getting your house ready for sale. That sucks - they thought that they were improving their home, and they made it worse. But still, they created a problem, and nobody else is going to volunteer to help.
>> Why it matters: The drop in violent crime puts a serious dent in one of the most frequently used lines of attack by former President Trump and his allies, who have sought to tie Democrats to the issue since 2020.

> Maybe I'm missing the context of this publication/author as something focused specifically on electoral politics, but I find it strange that a dramatic drop in "homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault" in many cities "matters" according to this author, only because of its implications for the upcoming presidential election.

Honestly, the only people reading this stuff are political junkies who mostly care about their side winning in November. It also appears to be a national number, and those are totally irrelevant to people's everyday lives.

Also, this number is about violent crime, and I recall lots of people defending San Francisco's crime situation by pointing its murder rate, when people were actually complaining about things like car break-ins, brazen shoplifting, open-air drug use, etc.

So this number is mostly useful for bullshit and spin (e.g. "President Biden immediately seized on the new preliminary violent crime numbers showing a decline to tout the Our American Rescue Plan's assistance to police and gun violence legislation.").
Until 3 days ago, demanding a cut from sales generated over outbound hyperlinks was considered a nonsense hypothetical too.
PGLite is a wonderful achievement and I've a fan of it since it's early days.

If they get it to a stage where other languages apart from JS can use it, it could be revolutionary. The possibilities are limitless.
This story closely mirrors my (foggy) memory of “2012: The War for Souls” by Whitley Streiber.

Without giving too much away, I recalled a specific story about a human consciousness being enslaved in a particular way, and ChatGPT confirmed that it was included in the book. I don’t think it is hallucinating, as it denied that similar stories I derived from that memory where in the book.
Intel has had very good marketing for decades, and they've also surrendered to marginless sales just for the sake of appearing dominant. AMD's strategy of late seems to be for higher margins, but lower share.
I just peeked at the display in a fully updated Tesla. There is no visible defog button.
> Apart from the lack of physical controls, and the aggressive pace of changes I find it quite intuitive.

Ok, but those are huge issues. You can't just wave those away. It's like that old joke about "other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?".
Data like this has to be taken with a grain of salt, since it is largely sourced from conducting polls (as did those at RAND, whom you sourced).

We can say the per-capita number of people who tell a complete stranger that they own a gun has declined since the 80s. Growth in the number of background checks (NICS) has vastly outpaced population growth, however [1, 2]. Many gun owners own more than one firearm, further complicating the picture.

1. https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_mo...

2. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/popchange...
they should have just gone the same route as amazon with ebooks and removed the ability to subscribe in the app.
Brilliant, a dedicated staging area in the physical world for temporary short term storage. Love it.
My assumption would be that if you have a company's app installed it allows them to spam you with marketing notifications for different things. Much harder to do when you can only use emails, because too many emails can get you put into spam.
Apparently 42 teams competed in the last IFAF Flag Football World Championship. More countries than are members of the International Kabaddi Federation.
For anyone who doesn't remember: A python3 design decision they went partially back on meant it was easier to go from 2.7 to 3.3 than it was to go from 2.7 to 3.0

(I think it was 3.3 when they compromised, maybe 3.4?)
What are the sources used to measure the crime stats?

Did collection of data or filtering change ?
Biogeographic climate sensitivity controls Earth system response
That varies by the league. USADA/WADA rules are fairly strict about corticosteroids but some US professional sports have looser rules.
The article states that they could not include New York City because they could not make the data comparable, so it is likely that that is concern of the people behind the study.
> Emojis are terrible

Not just emojis. Recently I've had some fun trying weird Unicode characters in different terminals (e.g. 𒐫):

- QTerminal/Konsole: Tofu

- Xfce terminal: Results in overlaps with characters that comes after it.

- Alacritty: Similar to Xfce terminal, but glitches when the cursor/glyph moves.

- COSMIC term: No overlapping glyphs, except that the line then wraps only after it grows out of screen.

- Kitty/WezTerm: Scales the glyph to fit it into a single column. (Barely legible.)

I don't even known what to expect. It is indeed a mess over there.
> can't understand why people think that inviting new middlemen into their transactions is acceptable

Same reason people use credit cards or Gmail or hell Patreon. It reduces the number of counterparties you have to deal with and trust.
Can lazy internet help me replicate kitty's word selection (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/hints/) in WezTerm? I believe one would just have to adjust the config for "quick select":
https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/config/quick_selec...
"AI generated manual" - meh!

AR accessing manual on demand from object's bar code - heh!
It’s not abuse of the USPS. It’s literally a product they sell: to spam everyone in an area with analytics and all.
I use wingnuts on my CNC which is full of vibration and never see the nuts come loose. That problem may be specific to your table.

Nylocs can only be reassembled a few times before they stop locking, and many people use loctite to address the backing-out problem.
Butterfly keyboards are gone.
The Uncertainty Principle of Software
Wouldn't it be better if a movement to promote natalism - "pronatalist", if you will - convinces politicians to address the problem now? After 150 years of population decline, we're going to have substantial secondary issues. (Who's taking care of the disproportionate number of elderly people?)
I was pleasantly surprised a couple of years ago, when both my daughters were suddenly obsessed with SCPs. They were about 9 and 14 at the time, and I didn’t introduce them to the concept - they discovered it on their own.

What followed was a few weeks of me re-reading them, discovering several new offshoots of the SCP genre, and getting to discover those works for the first time with my kids.

It was an awesome experience, and something I honestly never expected to come out of a random “old Internet” meme like that. :)
Mostly reddit, twitter, discord, mastodon.

There are plenty of bookclubs that read similar books too. Just pick a platform and search.
For example? I don't think the GIL affects the behavior of pure python code.
I hope the automatic price offset is separated out and labeled in the cart/checkout as "Apple's user fee".
CrowdStrike eyes Action1 for $1B amid fallout from Falcon update mishap
The team that built Neovim was actually very focused on python extensibility before they went for Lua IIRC, so the neovim python library works very well I think.

https://pynvim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
(self-reply) This is basically the Microsoft Word bloat problem. NOBODY needs all the features, but everyone has 10 niche features they want, and nobody wants the same 10. So to get 10 niche features, you accept bloat.
> This all is well and good when you are just using for a pretty visualization, but it appears gaussians have the same weakness as point clouds processed with structure from motion, in that you need lots of camera angles to get quality surface reconstruction accuracy.

The paper actually suggests the opposite. That gaussian splats actually outperform point clouds and other methods when given the same amount of data. And not just a little bit, but ridiculously so.

Their Gaussian splatting based SLAM variants with RGB-D and RGB (no depth) camera input both outperform essentially everything else and are SOTA (state-of-the-art) for the field. RGB-D obviously outperforms RGB but RGB data when used with gaussian splatting performs comparably to or beats the competition even when they are using depth data.

And not just that but their metrics outperform everything else except for systems operating on literal ground truth data but even then they perform comparably to those ground truth models within a few percent.

And importantly where most other models run at ~0.2-3fps, this model runs several orders of magnitude faster at an average 769fps. While higher fps doesn't mean much past a certain point, importantly this means you can do SLAM on much weaker hardware while still guaranteeing a WCET below the frame time.

So this actually is a massive advancement in the SOTA since gaussians let you very quickly and cheaply approximate a lot of information in a way you can efficiently compare against and refine against the current inputs from sensors.
Learn about the life and death of the manufacturing startup Fast Radius, famous on reddit as "the holy grail of shit-SPACs".