skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i’m just so over microsoft. mac is expensive, but otherwise great. nixos is awesome. have to use a windows vm for work, but thankfully IT deals with it. when microsoft launched wsl, I thought it would be amazing, but all their forced bing integration has driven me nuts and i’m out on them.
All we need to see is a computer that operates itself according to what you ask it to do, and the hype will be back. For some reason nobody's really showing this, but it seems obvious. Maybe it's too dangerous.
How to build a 50k ton forging press
My understanding is that I the time it takes to build a nuclear power plant, a helluva lotta solar power generation can be built and up and running and generating power.

And in that time span as well, solar power will increase its efficiency.

And then batteries, to store and deliver that power outside of generation hours, are a parallel to that.

If a nuclear power plant could be built quickly and simply, the equation would be different.

Unfortunately, from the limited amount that I've read, nuclear power plant projects often run over time and over budget, exacerbating the time scale issue I described above.
Really depends on what sort of person you are I guess.

Some people appreciate being shown fascinating aspects of human nature. Some people don't, and I wonder why they're on a forum dedicated to curiosity and discussion. And then, some people get weirdly aggressive if they're shown something that doesn't quite fit in their worldview. This topic in particular seems to draw those out, and it's fascinating to me.

Myself, I thought it was great to learn about spontaneous trait association, because it explains so much weird human behavior. The fact that LLMs do something so similar is, at the very least, an interesting parallel.
Moving mitochondrial science beyond function and dysfunction [pdf]
Sims are (significantly) older than instagram. I have a lot of fun playin Sims games for like two decades now. I do as well enjoy playin other simulator games, like Sim City or Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Those people who have dedicated their career to a narrow topic can also be wrong. Not so much about the facts, but in assessing whether or not certain compromises or analogies that don’t map 1:1 matter for the purposes of what is trying to be communicated.
>I mean do you keep all your important stuff under a pile of papers on your physical desk?

No, it's under a bottle of antacid.
Do people really care about the engine being used under the hood?

From a user perspective, I see no difference between Blink, Webkit and Gecko.
And when there is, it's a website that has only been tested on Blink, or uses features not available elsewhere.
I've never done a bug squash interview. I have done PR review interviews that are similar - given a PR that technically runs but has tons of problems, then see how many of the problems the candidate identities. I really liked that interview.
Mozilla maintains a Firefox extension that does split view in the browser. Its called Side View. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/side-view/
US appeals court revives Google privacy class action
CrowdStrike unhappy with "shady commentary" from competitors after outage
Depends on who your employees are. Are they all retained to one state, or several, or international?

It's commerce because money exchanges hands. Labor is sold and bought. To me, and I think almost anyone reasonable, it is obviously commerce.

Personally, I think this entire textualist idea of "let's interpret the constitution like its the 1800s" is bogus. The founding fathers were not stupid and short-sighted. They could see the growth of this country and understood, as time goes on, technology changes and culture changes. They wrote the constitution in such a way where it will remain reasonable.
Doesn't change the fact that N is 10 and evidently 5 in the same sentence. Does author think only 'N' can be used for variables and readers are left to figure out which 'N's are the same and which are different?
Most workers make about the same as before the pandemic – except in these states
One of the more satisfying things I do with new computers is disable secure boot.
Wow I can really relate.

The customer support efforts when you don't feel like it, being ghosted after helping a customer, the random or fraud disputes.

It's really tricky at that stage between hiring help and having the time/motivation to maintain those very non-tech parts while trying to continue doing other core parts of the side project / startup.

The first sale feels great, as does first showing the prototype.

By comparison, extra $100 MRR milestones don't feel so great, nor does dealing with customers/disputes eventually (it's a lot of negativity in general - pleased customers just leave reviews occasionally, negative ones email you). And a down negative month or two always feels like a stabbing and like it's all over.

Really don't know how to avoid this. Scaling quickly? Via investment in most cases? Maybe.
I've never heard of it, it's wild that it's so popular, where are people hearing about it?
Trillian Tessera: Next Generation Tile-Based Transparency Logs
Very true. I suppose Wine has to do this as well for Direct3D?
To add a bit of color, first sale doctrine does not apply to licensing, rentals, etc, which is why it won't apply to most digital sales (though it does not apply to _all_ as you can still outright buy some digital media beyond mere licensure).
The semantic web has been, in my opinion, a category error. Semantics means meaning and computers/automated systems don't really do meaning very well and certainly don't do intention very well.

Mapping the incredible success of The Web onto automated systems hasn't worked because the defining and unique characteristic of The Web is REST and, in particular, the uniform interface of REST. This uniform interface is wasted on non-intentional beings like software (that I'm aware of):

https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.h...

Maybe this all changes when AI takes over, but AI seems to do fine without us defining ontologies, etc.

It just hasn't worked out the way that people expected, and that's OK.
Only in that it can cause a relatively unusual male body type to materialize.
too expensive for my needs.
Yeah. It's one of my most used apps. I pay for Sync to support their model even though I hardly use it on my phone.

Apart from no lock-in, another benefit of the open format model is that you can complement it with other tools. Since their code editor is not that great, I just open the vault folder in Vim/VSCode when it becomes cumbersome.
Why would anyone use GRUB to boot only Windows?
Comparing latency with maximum tap rate is the same kind of fallacy as comparing it with reaction time.
Understanding AbortController in Node.js
Or even just a case study in favor of an environment where there is no prohibition on the copying of ideas / bytes.
Because Radon actually causes cancer and ventilation is expensive. I’ve read many articles about people going nuts trying to manage CO2, but I think it’s useful to know if I’m being exposed to something that would actually result in early death as I’m more likely to take immediate action on that.
Show HN: CRM updating itself hands free like GA (better UX)
No one wants to talk to an AI for customer support.
> but for unclear reasons, Microsoft patched it only last Tuesday

I think it's obvious why Microsoft has only recent patched the issue: because Linux distros really lag behind on se curie issues like these. Hence the warning some people receive: they're still using a vulnerable boot configuration that was fixed two years ago.

In a similar vein, Microsoft waited a year before automatically releasing a secure boot related patch that affected Windows, so system administrators wouldn't be blindsided: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/05/guidance-related-to-...

The impact of these patches is minor for most consumer devices, but for corporate environments where IT may need to go around entering Bitlocker recovery keys in some edge cases (and where recovery media needs to be made using a recent ISO or it won't work), people need a reasonable time to prepare.
If you are chasing the best performances for desktop applications. You shouldn't really look at Python alternatives. In my opinion, JavaScript and Chrome performs quite well in practice. Plenty of successful apps use that kind of stack with good performances.

CLI in JavaScript wouldn't be my first choice, Python would, but some people do that too.

If you want to take a break from the languages at work, maybe learn a language for fun. Ruby is great and fun to learn. Golang is quite quick to learn if you don't have much time. Rust is my personal favourite but it's more challenging. And then you have all those exotic programming languages or some with different paradigms.
Yes it's great writing. But it's not really about automating I feel (please chime in author OP?). To me he wanted to get away from customer email ghosting and disputes. He chose to change the customer support approach and create customer service tools to manage the common requests programmatically. I feel from the writing that his original vision, or continuing to extend the product and scale it, has now changed to maintaining it as is. He realizes customer requests and the time/disappointment of all that grows linear to revenue and does not want to do that any more.
You haven't built a side project, you've built yourself a job.

This is why I've always been scared to make any commitments to paid subs other than "I'll send you all my blogs early"
Also important note, but Firefox account settings/sync is End-to-End encrypted, a nice privacy feature compared to the much more invasive Google Account sync.
This is a strawman argument and you know it. Cars already have pedestrian avoidance technologies, and pedestrians are not required to do anything special to avail themselves of the benefit of those features.
Yeah, I probably should have put it your way. It gels better with the next paragraph about ignoring user input for some amount of time after the initial signal.
Host Protomaps as static files on Cloudflare Pages
My guy you have never shorted a company in your life
Latest progress for Bloodborne (what 99% of people are waiting for):

This is the dev's youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC6s0avpQRE

I wonder what the hell Sony is doing still neglecting, almost vindictively, this S-tier culturally significant game. Are they waiting to use it for a launch PS6 title or what?
It sounds to me like the really valuable product here isn't the harmonic charts but the little automation platform (based on n8n?). I can imagine there are plenty of devs with even less tolerance for customer service and actually running a business, but are happy to build software and sell it to people.
The website is so bare, I'd like to see a list with all the major features and some screenshots before downloading anything.
Sometimes I think I want local types in Haskell. I'm creating some new type and some instances for it solely for this function, why does it need global scope?

Then I get around to remembering module scope is the actual important thing in Haskell, make sure that type isn't exported from the primary API modules, and get on with life.
Revisiting the Classics: Jensen's Inequality (2023)
Over the years I have had some good (to me) ideas for side projects, but I have always hesitated to build them rationalizing that the potential market was way too small (a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of developers).

If anything, this post shows how wide - or deep - any internet niche is.

Silly me.
Why do we need to “use” it? Just leave it alone.
In my experience, especially in web development, senior developer just means excellent with boilerplate and an awareness of many tools. Thats it.

The problem is nobody bothers to define competency and very few people can actually program for the web. I mean almost nobody. Countless times here on HN I have had hiring managers tell these people don’t exist.

The way I would define competence in web development is super simple:

* Can you program in JavaScript. I do not mean React, Vue, jquery, or other abstraction bullshit. I actually mean can you program in that language, as in writing original software. This eliminates about 95% of developers.

* Can you program outside the browser in any language? This can still be JavaScript via Node or Deno but it could also be Go, Python, or Java.

* Do you understand transmission debugging for HTTP, WebSockets, session management, and messaging as an event?

The problem is most developers can at least half way accomplish the second bullet point and then attempt to fake the rest. It’s like toddlers playing pretend, which is why everything in both the startup world and corporate world are generally the same copy/paste spa app. Copy/paste is about all the developers can do.

There are many developers that can do much more, but work culture often seems hostile to originality and so they keep it to themselves for side projects.
Very candid experience - I love it.

I've been in a similar boat running a small B2B Saas over the last 2 years.
Over the years I've learnt a lot of tricks in this area.

- You need to develop a polite but curt tone of voice for customer support.

- Once your core product is built, its worthwhile spending some time automating the heck out of everything. This will save a TON of time in the near future.

- Invest in good docs, even if you're not running a api saas. Good docs + consistent ux + rock solid support will solve most of your support issues.

I think a lot of literature around running a online biz has been boiled down to rather basic advice and its hard to find anything solid in this area. I've been running a small blog where I document these issues(operational.co) if anyone wants to check it out.
As someone who remembers 1990-2000, I'm always amazed that these little bugs always seem to just randomly favor Microsoft. It's kind of miraculous, really. A Windows update roaches the Linux part of dual boot. How about that, nothing could be done.
Watch a star get destroyed by a supermassive black hole
13" e-paper display that can operate wirelessly, without the battery
NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
It's real RDF. You can process this with RDF tools. Certainly do SPARQL queries. Probably add a schema and have valid OWL DL and do OWL inference if the data is squeaky clean. Certainly use SPIN or Jena rules.

It leans too hard on text and doesn't have enough concepts defined as resources but what do you expect, Python didn't have a good package manager for decades because 2 + 2 = 3.9 with good vibes beats 2 + 2 = 4 with honest work and rigor for too many people.

The big trouble I have with RDF tooling is inadequate handling of ordered lists. Funny enough 90% of the time or so when you have a list you don't care about the order of the items and frequently people use a list for things that should have set semantics. On the other hand, you have to get the names of the authors of a paper in the right order or they'll get mad. There's a reasonable way to turn native JSON lists into RDF lists

https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/#lists

although unfortunately this uses the slow LISP lists with O(N) item access and not the fast RDF Collections that have O(1) access. (What do you expect from M.I.T.?)

The trouble is that SPARQL doesn't support the list operations that are widespread in document-based query languages like

https://www.couchbase.com/products/n1ql/

https://docs.arangodb.com/3.11/aql/

or even Postgresql. There is a SPARQL 1.2 which has some nice additions like

https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql12-query/#func-triple

but the community badly needs a SPARQL 2 that catches up to today's query languages but the semantic web community has been so burned by pathological standards processes that anyone who can think rigorously or code their way out of a paper bag won't go near it.

A substantial advantage of RDF is that properties live in namespaces so if you want to add a new property you can do it and never stomp on anybody else's property. Tools that don't know about those properties can just ignore them, but SPARQL, RDFS and all that ought to "just work" though OWL takes some luck. That's got a downside too which is that adding namespaces to a system seems to reduce adoption by 80% in many cases because too many people think it's useless and too hard to understand.
I normally don’t mind but this landing page in particular is a bit extra.
I wonder what makes SIMD an improvement here - in the end it all boils down to TTF bytecode and I don't think this comes with SIMD instructions, right?
There is an app called Kiwi Browser that does support extensions on Android. The issue becomes no sync, which I think is also a feature you are looking for.

It makes sense that Chrome has never built it, have to keep the users from using Adblock.
Good for them. Their culture was never designed for remote work, it’s better in the long run they close the cognitive dissonance
Build up your experience with Java, Spring Boot, MySql, Angular, React, and AWS; and build up your LinkedIn profile with these said skills until the recruiters for government contractors start messaging you.

To get into the cool defense/offense projects, you’ve got to get an offer on a project that is classified as secret/top secret with full scope poly.

There are a ton of TS jobs out there for hire right now; unfortunately you have to find a contractor who is willing to pay the fee and sponsor you on a new clearance.

Finding someone who will sponsor you right now is difficult for some reason; but once you get one, you have a ton of leverage within the government contracting space.
I just want to point out that the other device being compared actually includes a radon sensor and the cost of that device would be cheaper than the airgradient plus the radon sensor.
It makes VSCode very slow though which itself is getting heavier every release. Obsidian doesn't feel like an Electron app just like VSCode from a few years ago..
Is it accurate to call an inflation-adjusted yearly payment of ~$2000 UBI, though? I know nothing about housing and living expenses in Alaska, but I'd guess that isn't exactly enough to make work completely optional.
> It's a dangerous road

To be clear, there are exactly 0 communist politicians in the US.

You're creating a false dichotomy. It's not the capitalists vs the communists, it's the capitalists vs the slight less capitalist capitalists. The American left isn't communist, and it isn't even close. Even the closest politicians like Bernie Sanders cannot be considered communists.

> What does it mean when the things that happen in a healthy free market aren't happening

It means we don't live in a free market. Because a free market is bad, and nobody actually wants a free market. They want an almost free market. But of course child labor is bad, and poisoning your workers is bad, and also blowing them up on the railroad is bad, and then poisoning the water is bad too. And then giving your customers HIV (yes, real) is bad as well.

So we decided we need some authority over that.
Do you have any links to this? I’m very curious.
I have a Logitech G29 Driving Force Racing Wheel and Floor Pedals. Do they compatible with this PS4 emulator?
I am a bit curious how exactly Microsoft planned to identify that a machine was dual booting linux.

Looking for certain files on a random partition? A list of distros and versions? A partition type? Anything seems to be error prone and likely to miss something.
Lowering rates is fine. Lowering them to zero is bad.

Economists generally believe the baseline, target rate should be around 2-3%.

Zero interest rate is like steroids. You can take them for a while to pick you up and help fight a bug (like the 2008 crash), but if you don't stop taking them, you'll need a long, painful, 5.5% interest rate rehab.
Doesn't sound like its actually been resolved yet. This is the only article I can find that refers to how much they've had to pay out of pocket: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/10/business/marriott-hack-cost/i...

There are just "estimates" around the billions, but none of that has actually materialized AFAIK.
If a comment is not at least one of smart or nice, it's a waste of space and attention. That may not be your purpose, but don't act shocked when people respond with negativity.
The line is the reason you don’t lose a day now. When you circumnavigate the world westward, the earth has rotated one less time for you than for everyone else, so it appears you have lost a day. By artificially switching the day at the date line you avoid this kind of slippage.
I'm curious what the point of this piece is. If the goal is to sell the author's book, it has not done a great job of selling it to me. There's a lot of information missing here, and it is not clear to me that the author has a fundamental understanding of how to conduct qualitative research.

The introduction does not clearly state the problem, leaving us to understand that the topic is the "recession and crisis" from the title. But the United States is not experiencing a recession, and "crisis" is never defined.

Then we learn that 50 interviews of many different types of C-levels took place over seven months, but we aren't told which seven months, and we don't have any information from the interviews other than interview fragments. We don't even have broad topics, let alone an interview script, so the script could have been asking questions about the weather for all we know.

In-between information shared alongside pull quotes is a lot of editorializing, with lines like "There is no denying that the technology industry, for at least a decade, was seen as a symbol of stability and continuous development." I do not see Information Technology as synonymous with "the technology industry" more broadly.
PUBG is unreal engine.
Not a fork, it is just based on Gecko from what I can tell on their GitHub. To be fair, Zen is clearly targeting a regular audience who most likely do not know what Gecko is.