skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The shinkansen doesn't have any locomotives: all the cars are powered.

Maybe it's a translation issue: for locomotive I mean a both a dedicated wagon with no passengers and a single or two wagons with motors and passengers while all the others have no motors are just pushed/pulled by the "locomotive".

> Japan is constantly scaling up their train service.

Japan is not Tokyo, Osaka alone, it's much vast than that and economically it's passengers rails get MUCH from the State to be sustained. The issues with passengers is that you need to move them everywhere at every time, and a country is not few large (and unsustainable) cities sucking the entire country resources just to stand. You might have specific paths at specific times running at full/nearly full/overfull capacity, but we have 24h/day, 365 day/year. Or a system can satisfy 99% of the people needs or it's wasted resources, that's why https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/european-gover... and anyway take a look at http://carfree.fr/img/2015/06/sncf.jpg as a good dimension. I bet the situation in Japan it's not much different in that historical perspective.

Consider a thing: having cars, buses, metro, trains means under-utilizing all, it's very expensive. Having a single tool that scale means efficiency. That's why in the past we have decided the "convergence toward IP" even if IP it's not the cheaper signaling protocol, not the simplest, the point is that we need it anyway, so for scaling it's better doing next-to-anything with it. For similar reasons we choose a convergence to electricity because we need it anyway so it's logic to try using it for all. Despite all the claims and the so far little tangible progress the transportation future is by air, because not needed to maintain large and fragile and hyper-expensive to evolve ground infra it's much cheaper than the energy we still need to flight especially with chopper-alike devices (like drones).
Thus breaking the no-communication rule.
> Ironically it is power users that I tend to see having the most "problems" with Linux.

This is because things like web browsing, email, and light word processing are well supported by the software that's out there. The moment you get into applications for any creative endeavor except maybe programming, you run into a "Photoshop vs. Gimp" problem. The polish for the Linux apps just isn't there.
> What I don't like is that the performance is quite bad, especially when there are many equations in a note.

Installed it now on Linux Mint 21.1. Takes a full 13 seconds to just start(!)

Otherwise, looks quite pretty.
poster here - yeah if i have one cricitism of their readme/marketing this is it. you can see it in the demo video but this needed to be up front
DST is excellent. I use it whenever I need to implement hard-to-prove-correct algorithms and systems.

It is not as good as proving the code correct of course but it is very pragmatic and you are testing the actual code.
this isn't the case, both are stored. microsoft's website has a number of pages about the feature.
As censorship for FOIA requests is done manually, it may be beneficial to request the missing figures directly without noting you have them in a censored context. Censoring is subjective, so that would at least draw out either the figures or a justification.
If I am ever traveling to US, I am wiping the system, installing a clean, stock Linux distribution without any encryption, keeping everything valuable at home.

Once I am behind the border, I am reinstalling the system with encryption, then proceed to download key material and other important stuff from home over the internet.

I am never letting anyone near my unlocked laptop and if I ever find it turned off e.g. while visiting office toilet, I just assume it has been infected with firmware level rootkit and I am wiping it without decrypting.

If it's removed from my sight during the border check, I assume the same, purchase a new one in a brick-and-mortar shop and sell the infected one when I am back home.
The food at those IKEA stores has gone so so bad. It used to be pleasant but last couple of times I’ve been they’ve got rid of the cream meatball sauce and replaced it with thin, school dinner type gravy. It was awful, not even close to being the same experience.
The +x needs to belong inside the {}, ie. "${var+x}" not "${var}+x"

But I agree I wouldn't extrapolate too much from one such brain fart
The Wow Signal Deciphered. It Was Hydrogen All Along
This is true but you’ll have these risks with any paid service/dependency that has non-zero migration cost. Startups still use such products all the time, assuming that a huge price spike is not that likely or that there’s going to be some viable alternative with a migration path. I’d say it’s quite different when you can’t even guess what your starting point is going to be once you hit those $10M.

But I do agree with the general argument that lock-in as this for your core technologies (a database certainly counts) should be avoided.
I suppose it's a compromise; the lower you go, the more control you have.

I used to work on an app where we used the UI builder at the time (I forgot the name) at first, but my colleague asserted that building the UI in code resulted in a faster app, because (according to him) parsing and rendering the XML output took longer than interpreting the code. I don't know if he was right, but a while later Apple introduced devices with different sizes (iirc the iphone 5 which was a little taller and the ipad) and doing all the layouting became impossible.

Anyway when I rejoined later it was a (I believe) healthy mix of the UI builder tool and custom code for some graphic / coded elements (think a fancy progress indicator). I suspect it'll be the same for SwiftUI.
A constant time guarantee would make this unimplementable since CPU vendors do not make that guarantee.
> So it's also "bring your own keys" but then how do you monetize at all?

TypingMind.com is a "bring you own API key" (obviously, being a LLM frontend), that's also successfully monetizing users. The secret is that it's actually a very good product; until recently, it was far ahead of the official tools (I mean, they had plugins for like half a year before OpenAI started talking about "GPTs"), so paying for the license feels worth it (definitely was, when TypingMind was strictly better than ChatGPT Plus subscription).

It's also not a subscription - another reason "bring your own keys" apps are interesting, because you likely already have a paid subscription with the API vendor; adding another one on top of that needs some good justification.

Anyway, "bring your own key" users are a different market from general audience, and unlike the latter, it isn't already saturated with fly-by-night garbage and scam extensions, so you can both charge more for that feature, and have smaller costs marketing it.
Not bad, this gets rather steep!
"The only notable software produced ... is ... essentially a UML editor ..." Yes, correct. It's a CASE tool, at least when you have a computer to assist with using it. For harder-hitting software applications, I never took much stock in using it as much more than a better way to diagram out the basic blocks when analyzing the disassembly of something, and I'm usually doing that by hand, without computer assistance.

More broadly, I never expected much from my CASE tools actually generating code for me: the scaffolding was possible, but any sophistication beyond that just never materialized. That ship sailed right around the turn of the millennium, and none of what DRAKON does innovates on that.

"It's not verifiable." Thanks. I always figured that a lot of this chaff was just marketing.
They won't be the closest. If there are 5 people, 4 write 10 and 1 writes 510 then the average is 550/5 or 110. Which is much closer to 10 than it is to 510.
I dunno about MacOS but iOS is a potential market of billions of users; for that kind of market people are willing to eat a lot of shit sandwiches. And there's plenty of markets where the development tools are much, much worse.
I've been thinking for a while that digital photos should include a signature derived from a hardware key on each camera. That at least would prevent people lying in metadata, and give us some means to verify. If I trust Canon's signature, I trust that these pixels were taken by a camera.
> 'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP. :-?

I'm so glad I "phased out" Gmail out of my life years ago...
Even tough I like to be on Microsoft ecosystem, I have to acknowledge that Azure is the new golden goose in terms of Azure OSes, now that we are back into timesharing.

And Windows suffers from that.
Very cool. Nice effort by France.

For a while I played around with that kind of data here in Belgium, it's not easy to get it all standardized and "usable".
Many buildings also have their own postcode!
(The second half of the postcode represents the 'delivery point' which is basically limited by the amount of post that the postman/woman can physically carry...)
Lee Kuan Yew – Being offered bribes by CIA "lacked finesse"
Smoke from Canadian wildfires reaches Western Europe
this public key traitor tracing scheme is like a spy movie but with encryption keys, gotta love the drama and suspense of catching traitors in action! I appreciate the efficiency but also visualize the chaos if something goes wrong, fingers crossed for those innocent users!
I have read that before.

Things like “Core only” vs. “Everything is internal” make perfect sense to me as a developer, but this doesn’t answer my question. In fact, “everything is internal” is a downside since no one really uses all modules.

It also appears outdated, since Rack 2 supports ARM (that’s how I use it).

It is also clearly disingenuous in quite a few places, such as by:

a) providing an uncritical generous excuse for every downside of its own (e.g., lack of multi-threaded engine), but never for VCV Rack’s (an opportunity to pay for an open-source project’s development so that it can sustain itself as a proper business is a feature that benefits both the project and OSS ecosystem as a whole), or

b) pointlessly comparing to VCV Rack Pro. I, like many, am not using any of the Pro features—just one of the amazing things about the base version of VCV Rack is its completeness, combined with generous licensing. The VCV Rack 2 I use is open-source, and is free (though I paid for Pro to support the project I don’t use any of the Pro features, I literally never needed them yet), and is supported (it receives updates regularly).
Well, in a way that is what happens in ChromeOS, and plenty of people swear by their Chromebooks, and having each click going through webservers all over the place, starting with Google's.
Do you have use the mouse to use rich text? If so then no thanks.
- Where do you do business?

Limit yourself to a business that can scale fast. Target high income countries.

- Do you get partners, co-founders or investors?

Don't get any of those unless you actually need them. That is, they are providing value.

- How do you approach sales and marketing?

Read $100m Leads by Alex Hormozi

- Do you go for a lot of small customers, or less big customers?

It depends on the business choose what's more lucrative.

- Do you target a small niche market, or compete in an established large segment?

The riches are in the niches.

- Where do you find the buyer? What does the buyer want, and how to optimize for that?

Acquired.com is very comprehensive. So is Tiny.com Company. They explicitly list their requirements.

- Is it possible to reliably plan for acquisition by one of the Big Tech companies?

Big tech companies cannot just buy a startup at random. You need to build a prior long term relationship & demonstrate that your business can offer value to them.

But $5m is such a small acquisition that they wouldn't pay attention. Maybe small PE funds.
They don't; OpenAI maintains a separation between "general population" ChatGPT Frontend and the LLM API on purpose. It's arguably a good purpose.

And the issue should really be inverted: it's not about excluding less technically savvy users - it's about recognizing a market niche of more sophisticated users, that really want that feature, can likely pay more for it, give you word-of-mouth marketing for free if you execute well. It's a niche so underserved that you don't even have to compete with scammers and shovelware all that much.
ultrasound is like the superhero of medical imaging, but can we talk about the sci-fi vibes of those dual-probe technology integrated ultrasound machines? i mean, who wouldn't want to peek inside their body on a smartphone?
> Simple answer is people like to eat, lack discipline, and want to look good

this is not the answer to the question they asked, just a useless triviality. They are not asking _why_ people would like this, it's obvious, they are asking how is this possible to continue eating garbage and living a bad lifestyle, and keep losing weight, and is it then still a health positive or not?
the wow! signal is now explained as an astrophysical phenomenon, not aliens. but still, that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep looking for eti signals, right?
the diamond is fab but is this really necessary? we need to focus on real issues! also, why do diamonds cost so much when they're just old rocks?
Yep, https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.htm...
Recall, even if run locally, is a security and privacy nightmare. Imagine all of your activities and data stored on one database. It was discussed many times by security experts.
if you think lasers and warships are cool, just wait until they start adding lightsabers to the mix! may the force be with the amphibious assault ships.
Unfortunately the British mindset these days is to either rent it out or sell it but, whatever the hell you do, don't grow it.

Somehow these idiots managed to strike a deal to keep the sovereigns figurehead on stamps (which has no economic value whatsoever, and actually the Crown should be compensated for this) but, in this data age, didn't safeguard such a critically important database to e-commerce

It's like selling off the Tower of London because you can't afford to repair the roof and forgetting you left the crown jewels inside
In this context, it's not terribly hard to divine that they probably mean EPSG:4326 coordinates. I was going to comment that one of the ETRS89 UTM zones might be easier to work with, but on second thought the data almost certainly includes the DOMs if not the TOMs, so a global coordinate system is probably best.
Also from the product side, if you're making client side requests with users' own keys, doesn't that also mean that your LLM prompts are visible to the user if they just inspect their network requests?

If your app is largely just a wrapper around a neat prompt, it means I can just go and copy the prompt and use it myself and save the fees on your app.

Your app has to really be a valuable UX wrap over the calls in that case, or catering to a nontechnical audience.
The app looks clean. The problem is there are way too many note taking apps. You may have to find a differentiator.Best wishes for the future.
wow, these cfrs[] demos are mind-blowing! if programming were a dance, these demos would be the funky moves that get everyone grooving!
You might be interested in Peergos for the storage and access control part. We have a profile where you can control access (and revoke) to each field individually. E2EE because most people wont want to self host.

https://peergos.org/posts/social-profile
I sincerely hope so. Possibly my favourite lunch in the world can be had at Malaysian Laksa House (formerly Coconut House) on Elizabeth street in Melbourne. Their laksa is mind blowing.
Bidule!
>nothing to be gained from bleeding it

They proved they can do it and that it is defeatable. That's a big gain, especially for those who have suffered under the repression that the iron dome protects and prolongs.

Dismissive arguments such as yours allows that suffering to continue. It can be defeated, also. Do you not observe the daily murder with earnest humanity?
Kelis planned to visit Kenya for a month. Still there after seven months
I have borrowed Art of Computer Programming from a interlibrary loan in the past (although I do not own a copy), and I have written a MIX simulator, and an assembler. It supports both decimal and binary. (I also have written programs in both MIX and in MMIX.)

I had never used computers with cards, but I had made an option (it can be switched on and off) in an assembler so that you can easily find the first and last cards from the holes and the rest are allowed to be in any order, in order to solve a problem of getting them mixed up, many years after they have been no longer in common use.

I have written self-modifying code in a few programming languages, including uxn (it is common to modify literal values but I have also sometimes used it to modify instructions, in an error handling routine), and PostScript, and in 6502 assembly language (with code running from RAM in NES/Famicom). I had also once written a self-modifying code in GWBASIC by opening a file and writing to it and then using CHAIN MERGE to load the modified code. (I had probably done some others as well but do not remember the details.)

I am currently wearing a shirt with the circuit diagram of a "blue box". I had also programmed a computer to do the functions of blue box and red box (but had never used them to control any telephones), and also to generate a dial tone and many other tones relating to telephones.

I do have a flowchart template from IBM.

I also have a fortune file, which I maintain.

I have also reverse-engineered and decompiled some parts of some of programs, and I have patched binary code too.
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Compiler vendors are the ones who add both the intrinsics and attribute hints. I also don't see a reason why "programmers" who engage in wishful thinking would limit that to hints and not apply the same to intrinsics.
Microsoft is slowly making the transition from Windows to SAAS, where user is the product.

Yeah, maybe recall data are stored locally. Windows accounts were always local some time ago. Remember. A frog is boiled slowly.
linux has had some pretty bad bugs as well. "North Korea" (not sure why you threw that in? are they exploiting this specific vuln ITW?) can only drop this if they can send you packets which they'd need to be on your network to do, or for this machine to have ports open directly to the public internet, and that shouldn't be the case for my mama's laptop...
Sure, but this approach also has a lot of benefits, and there's a market segment that really appreciates those features, one that you likely aren't even serving right now, and which you could capture nearly for free by just adding a form field that stores an API key client-side and forwards it to requests to the API vendor. No operations costs for you at all.
It's such a pity that Russians had such a bad luck with their leaders. First the society was tormented by their tzars, with most of the population living in poverty. Then the communists killed the tzars and made promises they couldn't keep and introduced new levels of terror. And in the end a guy who pushes the country back a century or two to the epoch of territorial wars, sending thousands to death. I just want this to be over.
If I call some place I've never heard of before, know nothing about, my first interaction with them on the phone shouldn't result in "Oh my god, these people seem like scammy used car salespeople!"

If your assertion is true, that it's a joke, it's going to backfire. That's because that call is the equivalent of what's happening here. I called, and the person on the other end ... thinking it a joke, funny, did their best to convince me that they're scam artists.

That's what's happened here. I know nothing about this website, and this was my first impression. And no... my initial reaction isn't "Hmm. This website seems scammy and lame. Maybe I should spend my time investigating to determine if I'm right or wrong!". If I did that, I'd spend my entire life looking at scammy websites... I have better things to do.

Like I said, it's a shame to see this on what seems to be reputable website. But I literally stopped reading, and moved on to other things when I saw it. The website owner should take that into account.

(And indeed, I may be some small ratio, 2% of users, but it could be higher. It could be a lot higher. Or it could obviously be 0.2%. But that's a bold move, putting a big "I'm a scam artist!" sign on a website, first engagement is going to bite.)

Heck... if I was Google, any page with "One * trick" on it would be downranked.

TL;DR don't put a massive sign on your website that reads "I'm a scam artist, clickbait website!"
I would recommend https://logseq.com/

As an outliner, and being block-based, I think it's more suitable for Zettelkasten and generally atomic notes.

Progress on the `master` branch is a bit slow because there's a transition towards using a database instead of the filesystem https://github.com/logseq/logseq/tree/feat/db

https://discuss.logseq.com/t/why-the-database-version-and-ho...
The Media Server NixOS Module
Linux for life. I’ve successfully helped two people make the change and while it isn’t a lot it makes a difference I think. People need options and they have them.
That's why the secret key is compromised.
That's quite interesting.

Now, I'm left to wonder if this could have been used to better handle the Python 2-to-3 transition, e.g '# coding: six.python2' would adjust Python2 code to be valid Python3, or '# coding: six.python3' would adjust Python3 code to run under Python2 - e.g adding/removing the b"..." or u"..." prefixes!
It's a welcome change from the extroverted era to be honest. There's a middle ground somewhere though, including but not limited to cutting through the bullshit, posturing and rituals and getting to the point.
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the idea of personal data centralization sounds intriguing, but let's be real - companies will always find a way to keep a grip on our info. maybe it's time for a digital revolution, or just another excuse for me to procrastinate on coding.
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As opposed to everyone’s database on a single prem/management plane?
> Your app has to really be a valuable UX wrap over the calls in that case, or catering to a nontechnical audience.

There is space on the market for such apps, too. Lots of space, in fact, as the idea of making software tools instead of toys seems to be forgotten. "Bicycle for the mind" got stolen some years ago, and it's time to get it back.

And frankly, an app that's "largely just a wrapper around a neat prompt", is something I consider to fall somewhere between Fischer-Price copycat toy and a direct scam. It's definitely not a tool empowering people, if it can be replaced with "paste this into ChatGPT config" (or "paste this into this more configurable bring-your-own-key frontend for ChatGPT").