skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at inode metadata—specifically the number of links for directory nodes—might iteratively provide a one-step-ahead view of what's left to crawl, allowing for preemptive thread adjustments during recursion.

e.g. looking at the Links: 101 metadata on the `curl` codebase for src:

$ stat -x src

File: "src"
Size: 3232 FileType: Directory
Mode: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 501/ alex) Gid: ( 20/ staff)
Device: 1,22 Inode: 5857579 Links: 101
Access: Tue Aug 27 22:21:23 2024
Modify: Tue Aug 27 22:21:19 2024
Change: Tue Aug 27 22:21:19 2024
Birth: Tue Aug 27 22:21:19 2024

But then that still involves dynamically adjusting and might be kind of overkill for a relatively uncertain benefit...
Cobot prices are dropping. This article claims $20K for a mid-range unit.[1] Nala shows two robots, one at the dirty end and one at the clean end of the dishwasher.
Dishwashing is a good opportunity for robots. There are many potential customers for a relatively standardized product. It's much easier than automated cooking.

There are other dishwashing robots. Useful for cafeterias, maybe.[2] Cute, but not too useful.[3] So far, none seem to be deployed much. But that will come.

[1] https://standardbots.com/blog/collaborative-robot-prices-the...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGP-OjkgggU

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoMuS6HPHxI
I think it had to do with their decision to design Windows as "app first," meaning around the assumption that everyone will be using it on a tablet or a phone.

I don't know why that specifically means search and even folders (a folder with nothing but text files will load so slowly it has a loading bar) are broken but it can't be a coincidence.
because they can't run Ida pro and hack it?
Contractor tech reps have been doing this already since the Cold War.
I’m a big kusto user, and it’s wonderful to have pipes in a query language.

If you haven’t tried it, it’s great!
Bird came back from extinction – scientists in glider are teaching it to migrate
I've been using several Python libraries for working with PDFs. At least one of them allows you to walk the AST. (will look up in a bit and edit this comment)
Yup! We use tree-sitter and parse it at the file-level.
Kinda looks like a half-assed version of what PRQL does. Like, if we’re going to have nonstandard sql, let’s just fix a whole bunch of things, not just one or two?
Believe it or not, most people who simply question the safety of mRNA vaccines have nothing against vaccines in general. The people who are skeptic with regarding to the mRNA vaccines (or COVID vaccines in general, whatever) are not your typical anti-vaxxers, and it is unfortunate that they are perceived to be.
Yes, but parent's example presented none of those arguments.
Commutativity of addition
Haven't thought about Peek and Poke in awhile.
How would you change the definition so that they do not?
Sounds like they amay be accepting user PDFs, saving them to a bucket, and then doing processing after.
my question is why isn't this being tested for before it is rolled out? shouldn't google be running testing on their sites for each of the major browsers before dropping it on everyone?
Nobody said it was. I'm not trying to assert that social media should guarantee free speech. That's for the platform to decide.

All I was demonstrating is that hiding is equivalent to deletion. Claiming otherwise is disingenuous.
@anonzzzies,

Hey there! Thanks for letting us know about the issues you're having searching for investors. It definitely sounds frustrating to get those inconsistent results and have to keep re-entering your filters.

We're on it! Our team is working hard to squash those bugs and get everything running smoothly again.

We really appreciate you bearing with us and letting us know about these problems. We'll keep you updated on our progress, and definitely check back in a few days to see if things are better.

Thanks again!
That sounds pretty good. Someone I know, calls me for a take, maybe offers a dinner, etc, sure. Even sounds like fun. A transactional 1:1 domain expert call, less so. I have done them from time to time but it's either been as a favor or prospecting for future business but isn't really a business model in either case.

ADDED: you've also described how networking actually works as opposed to the stereotypical networking event where a bunch of people desperate for jobs all show up which are basically useless.
I don't think "JVM is more popular" argument does justice to Java (and Kotlin) strengths. With this reasoning, you could also say "C++ is more popular for systems programming" but it doesn't stop developers from switching to Rust, Zig or even C# as a wider scope and easier to use language that has gotten good at it.

Nonetheless, you could make this argument for select Apache products, but that's Apache for you. It does not hold true for the larger ecosystem and, at the end of the day, quantity is not quality, otherwise we would've all been swept by Node.js :)

Same applies to "packages that bundle native libraries".

First, they are always maintenance-heavy to manage with ever growing matrix of platforms and architectures. Just x86 alone is problem enough as all kinds of codecs perform wildly different depending if AVX2 or 512 is available vs SSE4.2 or even SSE2 without EVEX. Now add ARM64 with and without SVE2 to the mix. Multiply this by 2 or 3 (if you care about macOS or FreeBSD). Multiply linux targets again by musl and glibc. You get the idea. This a worst-case scenario but it's something Java is not going to help you with and will only make your life more difficult due to the reason below.

There is also an exercise in writing JNI bindings. Or maybe using Java FFM now which still requires you to go through separate tooling, build stage, deal with off-heap memory management API and still does not change the performance profile significantly. There's a reason it is recommended to avoid native dependencies in Java and port them instead (even with performance sacrifices).* Green Threads will only exacerbate this problem.

Meanwhile

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

[DllImport("libc", EntryPoint = "putchar")]
static extern int PutChar(int c);

var text = "Hello, World!\n";
foreach (var c in text) PutChar(c);

since C# 2 or maybe 1? No setup required. You can echo this snippet into Program.cs and it will work as is.

(I'm not sure if binding process on the ole Mono was any different? In any case, the above is a thing on Linux since 8 years ago at least)

Like with other false claims, the "better native packaging" one is easily disprovable. Just look at the list of supported platforms here: https://github.com/sandrohanea/whisper.net?tab=readme-ov-fil...

It even supports CoreML on iOS and macOS.

* Now applies to C# too but for completely different reason - you can usually replace data crunching C++ code with portable pure C# implementation that retains 95% of original performance while reducing LOC count and complexity. Huge maintenance burden reduction and "it just works" without having to ship extra binaries or require users to pull extra dependencies.
I appreciate you testing it! The whisper model that I'm using indeed doesn't seem to pick up filler words, I'll try to add those ASAP. I'd also like to add background noise removal as a preprocessing step in case the input audio isn't the cleanest.

Were you able to import the result into your editor?
I assume on behalf of citizens against government as a matter of policy. If you've not been targeted by the government before you might not understand this position. The government has all the advantages, massive resources, sweeping extralegal powers and and the end of the day they've seemingly abandoned all of that to target a CEO on a layover.

I don't personally like this guy or his company. I'm sure there's something wrong with how they are operating. I still cannot give the French or any other government the benefit of the doubt here.
How does one reasonably make exercise (or buy/sell) decisions if one doesn’t have access to financial statements?
Im all for the act it should be allowed just dropping some second hand observations. Full disclaimer, I had about 65k~ in debt from state schools. pinched pennies in the early 2010s and paid it off in a few years making about 90k a year (which I know is above average and I'm fortunate for).

I think the safe act and other like it incentives bad behavior from the borrower and the lender and it doesn't do much to cleanup the predatory lending practices or sky rocketing cost of college. I also think that large parts of education should be free (ie 2 year degrees, trade schools, etc).

Ive seen a few friends and acquaintances have 150k+ in loans making middle class to upper middle class salaries take the strategy of paying bare minimum for 20 years (where if you had been paying the difference would be wiped out and you'd pay income tax on the difference). They also still opt to live alone in large apartments, drive newer cars, go on multiple vacations a year, etc. The act allows them to still live a lifestyle above their means and its considered ok because culturally the majority of young adults feel the student loan system isn't fair or the economy is not fair. They chosing to take the easier route of less monthly payments. The people against the SAFE policy (and others like) see that is passing the buck of a failed student loan system onto every tax payer without addressing the root cause.
Loving this so far, I've been working with it for a week now. I have a personal app, DownPay for iOS, that is built with SwiftUI that I want to bring to Android. I tried going the React Native route to build an android-only version but the context switching between SwiftUI, React Native, and then my day job made it challenging. I also tried Ionic and Ignite and wasn't successful with those either.

After testing the feasibility of other cross-platform frameworks, I landed on Skip. I LOVE that I don't have to break out of the "Swift" mental context, I just have to focus on writing an app in 1 language.

So before I commit fully I've been testing it out (building a demo app this week) and so far I am very impressed. The syntax to write platform-specific code (#if !SKIP #endif) is very easy to use once you get the hang of it.

It's amazing I don't have to learn Android to get something up and running at this speed with Skip. Hitting run in xcode and watching both emulators open feels like magic. I want to put this to the test so I plan to build a complete App with it from start to finish, ship it to both App Stores, and if all that goes smoothly I will proceed to migrate my main app using Skip.
I used to criticize every hacker news post's use of the term 'modern' and was downvoted every time.
Brain Scientists Finally Discover Glue That Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime
Yes, but I mean the reason it's called "brutalism" isn't because the buildings look "brutal".
Certain APAC markets get Toughbooks that are derivatives of their JDM Let's Note models: https://ap.connect.panasonic.com/sg/en/products/toughbook/to...

Something that's a bit closer to a T14 in portability (albeit this is a X13 competitor - there's a JDM only 14" Let's Note).

Sadly, it's a few generations behind the latest 12" Let's Note model that have welcome improvements such as 3:2 displays (rather than 16:9).
yes unfortunately only postgres has that convenient thing where you don't have to go out of your way to specify all the column names. SQLServer has it too by a different name but not MySQL
I have not tried it, but I used to be a .net developer and worked a lot with LINQ (and contributed a bit to NHibernate and its Linq provider) and I am a big fan of the approach.

Kusto does seem interesting too, and i think some of the stuff i want to build will find a use for it!
Collectively, we spend an awful lot of resources on air. Clearly it must be of some value, otherwise we wouldn't bother. Unless it's a scam.

Sure, we're not being metered and charged by volume of air used. But someone, somewhere, is spending money to make sure it's suitable for breathing. And it's a pretty penny too.
https://archive.ph/MSetk
I agree to disagree. I don't see a world where this creates a net positive on a platform.
There's also uneven concentration of the open-source effort.

In the past 15 years, companies, or at least the companies I worked for, loved open sourcing their systems for better reputation, for larger community support, and for not getting left behind by competing solutions.

I sense that the tide has changed. Now we have a lot more mature solutions than a few years ago. Few companies are growing so fast on a new domain that calls for brand new systems, either. So, the cost of open-sourcing a system may outweigh the benefits. Nowadays, it is more often than not that a system startup open-sources their systems to gain user traction, and soon makes their systems only source-available. And rightly so. They have a business to run anyway, and they certain don't have any obligation to open source their bread and butter.

There is another factor: the fun is always in new challenges, yet a lot of software development has more chores than challenges. I remember many years ago a pretty popular blog explained why Linux did not have a nice UI compared to Windows or MacOS. The main reason, the author argued, was that tweaking UI was not necessarily fun, and we achieved great UI from thousands and thousands of incremental improvements, more often than not painstakingly. An engineer who worked on open source in her spare time most likely did not have incentives to make such improvements. I mean, what's the fun in that? In contrast, people work for free to create amazing libraries in the field of deep learning. I'd venture to guess that's because there's tons of fun in working the "sexy" part of the engineering: deep understanding of optimizations and healthy dose of mathematics, chances to apply or even invent all kinds of engineering tricks, very cool results, potentially huge impact, cheering from a large community, and etc. Such projects are deep, are personal, and are super fun to work on. On the other hand, I'm not sure how many new fun projects (at least in the area of distributed systems) are out there that have outsized impact to the community, compared to 10 years ago.
True, I wanted to register crowdstrike.sucks only to realize it’s owned by some PR firm crowd strike keeps on retainer.
That's a take, but I think its quite generational (I could be wrong).

Twitterlikes to me seem utterly public, and I get really confused when I encounter people who think they are having a private group chat.

But as I said, I do understand how and why these different views of the same technology could arise.
More Calories Less Crime
What a bunch of greedy bastards. Not being able to repair an appliance/device/tool/whatever in some contexts could make the difference between life and death.
And not just in combat. Imagine if the air filter on the Apollo 13 couldn't be hacked with what the astronauts had at hand up there because it was driven by closed electronics whose brain was sandwiched in multiple layers of DRM, NDAs, stupidity and lawyers: the guys would have been doomed.
Super curious if you're evaluating options what you're finding on the market we (hedra.com) are evaluating options right now and the cost is astronomical when you go above 500,000 contacts. We're exploring Brevo (FKA sendinblue which allows unlimited contacts) vs. Salesforce.
Is there research on what is easier to read when you are sifting through many queries?

I like the syntax for reading what the statement expects to output first, even though I agree that I don’t write them select first. I feel like this might be optimizing the wrong thing.

Although the example is nice, it does not show 20 tables joined first, which will really muddle it.
Heroic laptop takes bullet for US soldier (2007)
When is it a good choice, and when is it not?

Just saying that it's "worth using it" gives the impression that it's a good choice for all levels of traffic, all security requirements, all isolation requirements (yeah it's serialisable, but this comes back to levels of traffic), the kind of use case where you need SKIP LOCKED instead of just a single writer, etc.
So only applicable for students, but office hours are frequently extremely under-utilized, and professors love to talk about their subject of interest.
That was always the case, to argue otherwise required new physics. I.e. hypothetical physics that probably didn't exist.
That's a way of adapting the fundamentally public design of the Twitterlikes to be like a listserv.

I'm not convinced that this is where we should be starting if creating a 21st century listserv-alike is the goal. You're taking a technology that was fundamentally conceived of in a "push-to-public" mindset and trying to fit it into a "push-to-the-group" mindset.
And the SpaceX flight that is grounded will have passengers.

No one cares about the booster that's already failed, they care about making sure others don't.
"Short-lived"? LINQ is very much alive in the C# ecosystem.

And FROM-first syntax absolutely makes more sense, regardless of autocomplete. You should put the "what I need to select" after the "what I'm selecting from", in general.
Sounds amazing. From a career point of view it is good for a dev as they click up native skills instead of some abstraction layer, while being able to do cross platform.

Been a long time since I worked on mobile (pre Kotlin!) but how does it handle differences in the UIs. Do you need "is android" directives. Are there Swift objects in your library that are android specific.
Would you be willing to share an example of the prompt you use to generate it?
Yes, the docs even say that integrating into an existing app is way harder than starting with a new one!

https://skip.tools/docs/gettingstarted/#existing_development
And the times you end up needing tools like valgrind very much feel like a grind
Let me spell it out for you:

1. I publish the source code to a program that inputs a list of numbers and outputs the sum into a text file. License is open source. Result according to you: this is an open source program.

2. Now, using that open source program, I also publish an output result text file after feeding it a long list of input numbers generated from a proprietary dataset. I even decide to publish this result and give it an open source license. Result according to you: this is NO LONGER AN OPEN SOURCE PROGRAM!!?!!

How does that make any fucking sense?

You have the model and can use it any way you want. The model can be trained any way you want. You can plug in random weights and random text input if you want to. That is an open source model. The act of additionally publishing a bunch of weights that you can choose to use if you want to should not make that model closed source.
This hole still bothers me. And I would have preferred if the story had turned out to be about VR-pleasure machines.

The matrix could have been created to run worlds where humans could get hooked into and be happy ever after. Only, regulation processes would have discovered, this would devolve into gross realizations where the humans would want ever more extreme satiation of all senses. And in the end they still wouldn't be happy, just addicts. Eventually the machines reverted humans back onto the treadmill they knew from the earlier human culture, the best way the found to keep humans balanced: merrily running after the next carrot.

In this telling the matrix is just the machines following the original order: make humans happy.
It's perfect with the EverythingToolbar. Can't go without it
The first failure wasn’t an overworked booster, it was a second stage which are always new off of the factory floor as they aren’t recovered.
Note that while the default download is for the stable version (1.4), 1.5 alpha (which adds a lot of features) has been available since 2021 and very stable in my experience.

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9787
It makes sense that the military would be the first organization to get widespread federal R2R protections. The US Gov't basically uses the DoD as a funding firehose for private sector R&D, so it's only natural that there would be some ground rules for companies that want to "take a drink from the hose," so to speak.

Hopefully this will serve as a "Eureka" moment for the powers that be in DC. Just cut out the part that says "but only when the military is the customer."
I like the robots.txt comparison, at the root it is about respecting someone else's wishes

I'm trying to decide how I feel about this unlinking quote feature, something about it strikes me as undesirable, kind of insulting, like the way I'm treated at airport security, presumed to be a bad actor

Of course, social media is rife with bad actors and harassment campaigns, so bsky is trying to create a world with tools to prevent that, but it just seems very reactive - here's one way harassment happens so we're building a button into every post that prevents that particular touch. Makes me think bsky is not forward thinking or creative, but just patching the old ship.

Last time I used Twitter for a couple months I feel I became enculturated very quickly into the popularity contest of picking a gang on some divisive issue and then making arguments or insulting arguments for internet points (Twitter is a very metric-forward interface, it's hard to use it without adjusting your behavior to try and make the numbers go up, and you make the numbers go up by jumping into a contentious drama and shooting your shot, aiming for reshares, requoting an opponent to dunk on them / make an example out of them)

I noticed this behavior change in myself looking forward to getting into internet arguments and deleted my account, it was a waste of time for me but the people inside the matrix seem to enjoy it.

The point I'm attempting to arrive at is that the design of Twitter encouraged this kind of behavior where you're ganging up on each other and so I find it foolhardy to duplicate the general design of a tool and patching it up in places hoping that people use it differently than the original.

They want to be a Twitter clone without the bits that made Twitter interesting and addictive.

(I ran in anti-e/acc and x-risk circles and also argued with people about Israel a lot, your cultural bubble may vary)
Minimum wages are not "good on their own"; they're a solution to a specific problem: making sure people can survive with at most a relatively reasonable amount of work, though they're currently failing at that goal. If we stop having that problem we stop needing a solution to it. Making it so people don't need to work to survive is strictly better.

And if people have a guaranteed level of support, then yes, there is a downside to saying "you're not allowed to exchange sub-self-supporting amounts of work for money". You don't need to ban wasting people's time; if people don't have to work to live, the uninteresting or unpleasant jobs will be having to raise pay to get people to work them, or figuring out how to automate them when previously it was cheaper to pay minimum wage.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of things people might want to do that aren't valued enough by society to pay even subsistence wages for. In a minimum wage world, those things either don't happen or they happen as side hobbies for people with other means of support. If you have UBI, you create the perverse situation of "I might do that for free because I don't have to work to live, but I can't take any money for it unless I can get someone to give me a lot of money for it".