skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why must it be a binary? Either you support Google or you support the content creators?

You don't think it's possible for someone to simultaneously think that Google has made a terrible call, while also thinking that the IP industry , copyright people, and yes many content creators have gotten insane with their "rights"? (And I say this as a content creator)
710kg for the Deutsche vehicle is only for the payload, that doesn't include the weight of the vehicle.

I found a PDF fact sheet for the vehicle [1], it looks like the gross vehicle weight rating (vehicle + payload) is 2,800kg. That is still 1,000kg less than the USPS vehicle, but I wouldn't be suprised if that comes down to a combination of capacity, safety requirements, and maybe top speed needs in the US compared to the average European city.

[1] https://group.dhl.com/content/dam/deutschepostdhl/en/media-c...
Someone was paid to write this, and didn’t get fired in the process. It’s sad.
Year 6024: Robots discover that a species called 'Humans' once existed on Earth
HN is one of the few places on there internet where, more often than not, assessments and arguments are mostly integrated based on their merits, logic, and referenced sources, rather than the credentials of the author of the comment.
User authentication? While there are alternative methods, a very large proportion of website logins will not work properly if you reject all cookies and prevent them from setting a session identifier.
> simple version of the {} macro shown in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1611453

That's not implementing a literal (an object that can be read), but a short hand notation for constructor code. The idea of a literal is that it is an object created at read-time and not at runtime.

In Common Lisp every literal notation returns an object, when read -> at read-time. The {} example does not, because the read macro creates code and not a literal object of type hash-table. The code then needs to be executed to create an object -> which then happens at runtime.

The ANSI CL glossary says:

https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/26_gl...

> literal adj. (of an object) referenced directly in a program rather than being computed by the program; that is, appearing as data in a quote form, or, if the object is a self-evaluating object, appearing as unquoted data. ``In the form (cons "one" '("two")), the expressions "one", ("two"), and "two" are literal objects.''

CL-USER 4 > (read-from-string "1")
1
1

CL-USER 5 > (read-from-string "(1 2 3)") ; -> which needs quoting in code, since the list itself doubles in Lisp as an operator call
(1 2 3)
7

CL-USER 6 > (read-from-string "1/2")
1/2
3

CL-USER 7 > (read-from-string "\"123\"")
"123"
5

CL-USER 8 > (read-from-string "#(1 2 3)")
#(1 2 3)
8

But the {} notation is not describing a literal, it creates code, when read, not an object of type hash-table.

CL-USER 9 > (read-from-string "{:foo bar}")
(LET ((HASH (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))) (SET-HASH-VALUES HASH (QUOTE (:FOO BAR))) HASH)
10

This also means that (quote {:a 1}) generates a list and not a hash-table when evaluated. A literal can be quoted. The QUOTE operator prevents the object from being evaluated.

CL-USER 13 > (quote {:a 1})
(LET ((HASH (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))) (SET-HASH-VALUES HASH (QUOTE (:A 1))) HASH)

CL-USER 14 > '(defun foo () "ab cd")
(DEFUN FOO NIL "ab cd")

In above example the string is a literal object in the code.

CL-USER 15 > '(defun foo () {:foo bar})
(DEFUN FOO NIL (LET ((HASH (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))) (SET-HASH-VALUES HASH (QUOTE (:FOO BAR))) HASH))

In above example there is no hash-table embedded in the code. Instead each call to FOO will create a fresh new hash-table at runtime. That's not the meaning of a literal in Common Lisp.
It depends on what you go on X for, I agree most people probably go on X to read some combination of politics or news but likewise I know many people like myself who just want to use it to read people talking about tech or business without all the politics BS.
Excel is made for spreadsheets, not databases. Microsoft already has a database application in Access.
There was more to what dropbox was to FTP/CURLFTPFS/etc. then than what this webapp/page is to a Claude API now.
I appreciate your attempt and time spent. It's an amazing showcase how simple things could be easily expressed in OpenSCAD. But the part in question sadly is not that simple. All tangents are wrong.
Its entirely possible to have an AGI language model that is periodically retrained as slang, vernacular, and semantic embeddings shift in their meaning. I have little doubt that something very much like an LLM (a machine that turns high dimensional intent into words) will form an AGIs 'language center' at some point.
That's worse than pay-to-play.

I lived in a tourist-driven coastal town for a few years, builders there regularly paid off our corrupt mayor to avoid the rules.

When the government is dodging its own rules its "rules for the, not for me."
Designing mathematics standards in agreement with science [pdf]
I think there is a broader thing going on. The amount of garbage out there means every decision needs to be critical. Everything needs to be viewed through various lenses to decide if it is good for you, the people around you, the planet, and so on.

By garbage I don't mean low-quality, I mean systematically bad. From sports where you have to look out for slave labour and greenwashing; clothing where you have to look out for PFAS, microplastics, ocean pollution; food where you have to look out for various poisons and almost-poisons categorised by the western diet; tech where you have to look out for privacy and all else covered on HN; online services where you have to look out for enshittification, addiction and depression caused by social media; and so on.

Nothing is simple anymore. If you haven't proved or signalled that you are on the right side of history before I start consuming your content, you get a critical eye. I wish it wasn't like this, but it has to be, because of the garbage world we/certain systems have created.
New to this puzzle! Do you have a more detailed resource to the puzzle? Is it basically brute forcing based on all public keys available on the Bitcoin blockchain? Could this be considered stealing?
The military cares about reliability. Emissions systems on modern heavy duty civilian trucks are hell on reliability.

There's a reason many people owning diesel trucks in states that don't do emissions testing pay a lot of money to delete the systems after purchase.
Currently posted .NET 9 articles talk mostly about platform-wide features and improvements, pretty much all of which equally benefit F#. Probably even more so when it comes to performance - I expect devirtualization and escape analysis improvements to impact F# to a greater extent than C#.

Language-specific articles are usually posted closer to the release date. Example: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-fsharp-8/
> If I was a multi-billionaire, I’d hire 1000 of the world’s best surgeons <> supply them with 10,000 ethically donated willed bodies

No, this would be like like giving the best programmers super computers in the 80's.

What's needed is a better way of doing anatomy. The tools and access are the problem.

One cadaver x-rayed and MRI'ed and ultra sounded in great detail then the raw data shared for free for instance.

Or do what really really matters and is also the end goal, a cheap way to see inside the living. Cheap ultrasound chips with open data APIs so people can try and find ways to increase accuracy for instance. Every farmer should have an ultrasound but they are too $$$
I feel the same way you do, then I realize how depressing it is, this attitude that the only thing that matters is monetary compensation / ownership of monetizable patents. I guess I was naive, but that's the game and everything else is noise.
A single tool must work for ever use case or should the tool be picked based on the use case? Tool X doesn't work for use case Y. Regardless of where you shift the blame, tool X doesn't work for use case Y holds.
> The point remains that technology has to have utility to be technology

I haven't argued otherwise. My argument is that utility alone is not enough a justification to keep working on specific technologies, much less to promote them as an universal solution to existing problems.
Wow, this link sent me down a rabbit hole! What a great website! Thanks so much!
Didn't know I was in a museum ;D
Are you in your top fitness condition?
Most of the times, looking good means being in your top health condition, right body weight and % bodyfat below 13% (for men).
Thank you for explaining why the CadQuery and its successor Build123D are better. Thank you for explaining mesh Vs BREP.
In an Italian crypt, evidence of cocaine use from the 17th century
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I don't need to be a caretaker of cave systems to notice the manipulation in this article. Lying for a good cause is still lying, and in the end destroys any credibility.

Bullshit like for example saying that cave ecosystems could be destroyed because <huge improbable number> of trash has been discarded in the sum of <every> protected areas.

Sorry but, how much of these areas do have cave ecosystems? A cheetos bag does not have the same impact in a prairie than in a cave.

The article is leading the reader toward the assumption that caves are flooded with millions of tons of trash; but does not show any data to support that claim except that "the problem was solved in 20 minutes".

If we don't have a real value, we should do research and find a real estimate. Extrapolating from things unrelated to achieve our desired emotional response (based in fake data) is dishonest towards the public. And eventually they will discover the trick and will stop caring.
(not a professional coder) "writing an X on Y" brings in my mind the meme of Ryan Reynolds "But why?" [0]. If it is for training purposes, then by all means, go nuts!! The more one codes, the better.

[0]: https://screenrant.com/ryan-reynolds-but-why-gif-harold-kuma...

Sidenote on "MOROS" - cool project/page!
I live in a very rural area. We don't even have the 1980s era of mail trucks here, out delivery drivers have passenger SUVs and vans retrofitted for right hand drive.

I'd be really surprised to see these new vehicles in truly rural areas any time soon.
I was just shocked when I saw how much more people spend the last few years on gaming. It's exponential and most new money comes from in-game.

But the 39€ must be bs. I think just a really few children have so much money left just for in-game.

It's also a well known fact in such ecosystems, the big part of the money comes from a small part of (addicted) people.
What about "Lean In"?
I didn't say that it is bad. I said I can't understand it. I also cant understand quantum mechanics, it doesn't mean that QM is bad.
As a private sector company their job is maximizing revenue forever.
There old slogan was "don't be evil"
they have a new slogan, which is "vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears"
So if I left a deep fryer full of oil on a burner set to "HI", then the resulting fire would be the stove's fault, right?

Perhaps the judge can explain how the multi-decade jail sentence which he gives this guy is "all the law's fault"?
The Arch wiki is the 1st party official place for developers, maintainers, and users to maintain updated reference material. Whether one considers it up to date "enough" will be a personal judgement call but there is no better place to go in the long run.
It’s remarkable how such destruction of value can still be lucrative to the people who did it.
I suspect there are far too few jobs meeting that description relative to the number of people needing employment.
Oh then are we cave system caretakers, able to accurately assess the logic and technical merits of different approaches to cave management?
"Probably" this is the study being referred:

> Hospitals led by doctors outperform those run by non-medical managers. Universities, business schools and academic departments led by good scholars outperform those that are not. The best sports teams – using data from 15,000 basketball games and 60 years of Formula 1 racing – are led by great former players or run by racing specialists.

https://www.city.ac.uk/research/impact/case-studies/evidence...
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It’s certainly feasible. I’d need to put together a corpus for training and I’m not terribly familiar with what’s available for French language.

I have done some training with the Mistral family of models, and that’s probably what I’d think to try first on a French corpus.

Feel free to open an issue and I’ll work on it as I find time.
`isset` will return true/false and it will only return false if the value is null (never initialized or specifically set to null).

Example:

$myVar = null;
var_dump(isset($myVar)); // false
$myVar = '';
var_dump(isset($myVar)); // true
$myVar = '0';
var_dump(isset($myVar)); // true
$myVar = 0;
var_dump(isset($myVar)); // true

If you have a property on a class that was never given a value it will also return `false`:

class MyClass {
public $myProp;

function myFunction() {
var_dump(isset($this->myProp)); // false
}
}
Its probably too soon to know if that pressure succeeding was lucky or a mistake.

I love the idea of having an all electric fleet if it's feasible and better than the alternatives. I also have to assume the original plan to only electrify part of the fleet has functional reasons behind it.

If those reasons are overcome, or if that decision was somehow entirely political, then the pressure is lucky. Otherwise...we'll see?
One should probably also ask how much research would not have gotten done or other issues that would crop up if less tech-savvy researchers didn't have a beginner friendly tool like Excel available.
I left google a while ago, removing cache is yet another reason to leave.
Are these reports public? If so, please provide a link? I haven't been able to find them.
After some Herculean, world-saving feat.
Who is the royal "we" here? Are you claiming there is no market or that there shouldn't be one?

Techno optimism and opportunism go hand in hand, of course. But I don't see anyone else inventing the future. To paraphrase Alan Kay.
I know that the "anything" goes nature of excel is part of what makes it such a universally reached for tool, but every time I see sonething like this, I think that there would be a clear use case for a more restrictive spreadsheet.

9/10 spreadsheets are tables, but because they're spreadsheets they inherit the behaviour of "no conistent behaviour in columns, everything is independent and different".
If it is a scraping thing, I'd rather they added captchas than took the feature away entirely. I know captchas can be bypassed, but so can paywalls.
It would achieve a balance but not necessarily the original one. How long it would take I'm not competent to assess unlike apparently everyone else commenting here.
As a general rule (for established libraries at least), the docs for rust crates stored on https://docs.rs are pretty good. This comes from having docs being built-in to the tooling, so it's really easy to deliver docs in a consistent format.
What, you've never heard of a "black light" before? They just turn on the black sub-pixels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklight
Ask HN: What are some essays that profoundly changed the way you think
No specific themes here, I'm curious to read about things that changed your mind!
It's a shame that barratry isn't taken more seriously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry_(common_law)
I haven't thought of that. It might be cool to add something like that for some extra puzzle/optimisation element. I guess it might be useful for netlist export? thanks
what attachment to bcachefs do you have? the concerns are valid and at first i didn’t read it ask Linus not wanting another btrfs. But now thinking about it, why do we have another competing filesystem being developed at this point at all?
Sure. But the OP doesn’t really state any sources not does the argument have a ton of merit. It kinda reminds me of the legendary Onion article “This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t”:

https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mi...

Being a person of authority might help make up for the evidence being entirely lacking, hence requesting it.
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Yup, that's right. Libraries can expose the wrong thing, or just space leak internally. Here's an example:

https://github.com/mrkkrp/megaparsec/issues/486
I get all the points made (and the many more not included).

The point is that Excel works great for 99% of the people and for 99% of the use-cases. I am a heavy excel user, for my financial planning, work, etc. And it pisses me off when I see a column that should be "networkdays" (working days) becoming $ or getting decimals, but hey, you take the bad with the good.
There are a few companies working on actual flying cars. But they are lousy cars and lousy airplanes typically. And to quote doc Brown: “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” Or cars.
At one point in time I was looking into:

- writing out a text from OpenPythonSCAD

- reading it into LaTeX to measure it[1]

- re-setting the text using METAPOST embedded in LuaLaTeX so as to write out an SVG

- reading the SVG back into OpenPythonSCAD

Bailed when it looked as if the latter step would require using Inkscape to convert to paths (at that point it seemed it would just make more sense to do it all in Inkscape)

1 - https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/31088/any-...
> Additionally, it would be good to see some proper refactoring tooling. Renaming, moving types/functions from one module to another, etc.

Doesn't HLS have renaming, at least?
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You can set the format of the column when making a table. Much more than that and you've ended up at Access. The problem here with Excel is it's wonky default until you've made that explicit choice.
At the very least, epigenetics are also partially heritable.
> It's also a well known fact in such ecosystems, the big part of the money comes from a small part of (addicted) people.

How would you know?

What if they’re rich? Then they have a lot of money and time.

Can someone be addicted to golf? Anyway, why are rich people obligated to spend their money and time in a balanced, well rounded way anyway?
Ask HN: Experience with StarRocks?
Hi hn community..

I want to know if any of you folks have tried StarRocks and how has been your experiences with it so far.

We started POC's with it a few months back, and frankly saying, it has vastly exceeded our expectations. From deployment to usage, everything just works out of the box. The query performance has been super good too. We were even able to join 2 tables, one containing over 700M records and another over 25M records on small 16GB RAM, 10GB disk instance, all while selecting all, 500+ columns (some more than 100 of these are nested columns ARRAY<STRUCT>). Of course the query took a long time, but, that it even ran to completion without issues has been a surprise for us. When we gave it sufficient resources, it gave us better performance/price ratio than even BigQuery(using slots to save costs).

How has yours experience been? Were you caught in any issues that were serious?
And you keep them in the planetarium, right?
Link to Dr. Royce's paper, Managing the Development of Large Software Systems (1970):

https://www.praxisframework.org/files/royce1970.pdf
I studied in Crerar many joyful times, though long after your tenure there, in the 2010s. It's a great, quiet library. One of my favorites on campus.
I can see that, I take it mostly as a source of inspiration, I don't think we will apply it literally.

But going through the process of creating an experience map was so interesting, it helped us realize how little we knew about some parts of the user experience. And the idea of regularly engaging with users is very appealing to shorten the feedback cycle. Sometimes there are little things you could do for cheap that add a lot of value, I am hoping this will help find them more efficiently.
Yes, I want it to turn into macOS on the desktop.
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Quoting MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...

> This header serves as a hint when the server cannot determine the target content language otherwise (for example, use a specific URL that depends on an explicit user decision). The server should never override an explicit user language choice. The content of Accept-Language is often out of a user's control (when traveling, for instance). A user may also want to visit a page in a language different from the user interface language.

So basically: don't try to be too smart. I'm more often than not bitten by this as someone whose browser is configured in English but often would like to visit their native language. My government's websites do this and it's infuriating, often showing me broken English webpages.

The only acceptable use would be if you have a canonical language-less URL that you might want to redirect to the language-scoped URL (e.g. visiting www.example.com and redirecting to example.com/en or example.com/fr) while still allowing the user to manually choose what language to land in.

If I arrive through Google with English search terms, believe it or not, I don't want to visit your French page unless I explicitly choose to do so. Same when I send some English webpage to my French colleague. This often happens with documentation sites and it's terrible UX.
The good thing is it can stay respectful and patient forever. Compared to most debates on the Internet.

In Internet debates conspiracy theorists are often made fun of or the discussion is very disrespectful which would only serve to make them cling tighter to the theories.
> soft-whitelist system

A whitelist/allowlist is a system that defaults to rejecting everything, but allow someone to override that rejection.

A blacklist/denylist is a system that defaults to allowing everything, but can on-demand block/deny something.

Banking system for individuals today mostly have a blacklist/denylist for the common use case. Walk into a bank and ask to open an account, and they'll most likely allow you.

If you manage to trip up any alerts (big deposits for example), they'll ask you for more info, citing KYC/AML for the reason why.

> This is why everyone is always asking everyone to demonstrate the sources of funds in finance.

This usually happen after the funds have touched some account you own, hence it's a blacklist system. A whitelist system wouldn't allow you to deposit those funds until after you got verified somehow.
i do this on my synoligy using btrfs. i’m still not convinced SSD caching gives any benefit for a home user. 5 spindle drives can already read and write faster than line rate on the NIC (1gbe) so what is the point of adding another failure point?
Getting the tangents right is a hull() operation.

The balance is a bit more involved --- I'll see if I can find time to model this in a couple of ways....
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"Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links" (Feb 2024)

The cache is often still accessible through a "cache:url" search. There's been no official announcement, but it does seem like that could go away at some point too. That is even more likely now that Google has partnered with the Internet Archive.

What I'd really like to see, and maybe one good possible outcome of the mostly bogus antitrust suits is to have a continuously updated, independent, crawl resource like Common Crawl.