skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shoutout to Philippe Vibien for creating “NYC Subway Stringlines”, one of my favorite (and certainly most used) data visualizations ever. Made possible by the MTA’s GTFS RT feed.

https://pvibien.com/stringline.htm

Note: If you’re checking this out around 6 PM EST, look at the E train to get an idea of what a bad night on the subway looks like.

Each line on the graph represents a train with the Y axis as stations and the X axis representing time. You can follow the trip of the train and get an idea for how well the line is running based on the straightness of the line. If you see areas where the line is flat in the Y axis, you know that a train is being held at a station.

Here’s an example where “stringlines” provide information that a countdown clock couldn’t convey: https://i.imgur.com/u5VGqH4.jpeg

Because the “line” is not progressing past 5th Ave/53rd st, we know that that is where the issue is occurring. A countdown timer would simply either say static or start adding time, but you wouldn’t know how far the next train is from you.

Here’s another example: https://i.imgur.com/mrvrbUt.jpeg

What I can glean from this is that the E train is running with much lower frequency than it was an hour ago, so I should expect longer wait times.

It’s truly a marvelous invention.
And why not? What's your authority on the subject? From here, it looks like more internet arguments. I mean, I don't use twitter at all. I've never understood the UI. But if you like what it's recommending, why should I believe your assertion that I "shouldn't" be looking at it?
.mpy modules can contain MicroPython bytecode and/or native machine code. In this case, WASM is compiled (via C) to native code. So the performance is very good, much better than interpreting either MicroPython bytecode or WASM bytecode.

The conventional way of creating native modules for MicroPython is to write them in C. This work allows to use any language that supports WASM output target.
I benchmarked and nginx can host 30 Gbps on cold cache, on actual real world load. (I played back a log of 1 million real world requests).

So using nginx in a 1 Gbps server is definitely not asking too much of it, or I might not have understood your comment clearly.

Why would Facebook decide to use my tile server? When a company's business depends on having reliable map tiles, they either self host or have an Enterprise deal with Mapbox, etc.
The whole time I grew up Department Stores were not functioning like old school department stores. With the exception of the cosmetics area in Macy’s and Penny’s that’s still pretty true.

Meanwhile Best Buy is looking more like an old school department store, with sections for one vendor.
It's a very easy way to write some markdown that renders as a website. If the URL didn't have obsidian in the title I wouldn't have guessed it was involved.
yeah nothing compared to Sam trabucco
UPI requires a one time password sent to your phone to work (via an app or text message, app being obviously more secure). Now, if you lose both your phone and your card, you would need to apply for a new card - hopefully your phone is password protected.
Caroline Ellison, former FTX exec, sentenced to 2 years in prison
I guess Musk wants everyone to see the posts from people they blocked for their political views prior to the US election.

Is there any scenario where this is a good idea?
No, that demonstrates that the monetary delta wasn't a good incentive. But I challenge you to find a lot of people working jobs without pay. There are some, if they have independent means, but not many. Likewise, most fiction authors expect at least the potential to make an income if enough people read their book -- etc.

There are other incentives, for sure. Evidently not enough of them attract Debian contributors.
I think having high-quality documentation in one language would be
a huge win.
That is lots of effort can be spent improving, expanding, and editing
existing documentation.
English is a prerequisite for the wider Debian community, and it is
the most widely spoken language in the world says Wikipedia¹

English 1.5 billion
Mandarin. 1.1 billion
Hindi 0.7 billion
Spanish. 0.6 billion

I wonder how real that number is for English.
In a lot of nations, people are taught English in school officially,
and it is true but with very poor results.
(I was taught French in school and that had catastrophically bad results)

When it comes to Mandarin Chinese, I wonder if the wider community has
better mastery of it compared to English or if its the same or if it is
much worse.

When it comes to the tools used for communication,
having a strong standard is again beneficial.
What every 10 years? Every 5 years?
There is a new and hip platform that "everyone" uses.

If you can't expect younger people joining to adapt some to
the wider community, then you will need a lot of difficulty to
handle bridges that will cause all manner of problems.

Or should "adult" community members have to adopt whatever
"everyone" is using every 5 years?

IRC has all sorts of different clients, in all sorts of different platforms.

Becoming a developer or maintainer for Debian will involve learning to use
a lot of different tools that are needed to perform the tasks involved.
Surely most of those tools don't change around every year?

¹
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...
People have said that for many years. Very few companies are choosing Google's TPUs. Everyone wants H100s.
when I used it instead of block lists I filtered based on emojis and that got rid of most of the noise. I left X because either I couldn't escape my filter bubble in spite of following some very diverse accounts, or people on it were really just that mid.

it's optimized for engagement, so what you "like," and what keeps you there are probably not the same things. we complain about slop now, but the algos were the original slop, the future was here it just wasn't evenly distributed.
>In particular, BitLocker means that it's harder to share disk space between Windows and an alternative operating system

BitLocker is completely optional, even on Windows 11 (although in some cases encryption does kick in automatically - but you can revert it).

And if you want to both use BitLocker and share files with another OS, you can easily do it with a separate unencrypted drive or partition.
Discussion (45 points, 1 hour ago, 51 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41640789
Nobody said that jail time is trivial. I take it very seriously, but you're going way overboard in saying you would refuse $1 billion to spend 30 days in jail. That is such a large amount of money that you are set for the rest of your life, never have to worry about any needs again. 30 days of pure concentrated misery is something a lot of people would be willing to pay for that kind of reward.
> I wouldn’t serve 30 days in jail for a billion dollars.

Prison isn’t that bad. Especially a federal minimum security woman’s prison. It’s basically like a summer camp, but with nothing fun to do.
> Then a couple of weeks ago, added [direct] links to the Wayback Machine

Hopefully they are also making substantial donations to the Internet Archive, since they will be directing a lot of traffic into it and basically using their infrastructure as a feature on their main product...

EDIT:

Apparently they are collaborating but there are not much details [0]

[0] https://blog.archive.org/2024/09/11/new-feature-alert-access...
There is a pretty good syntax for dealing with nasty filenames, if you must: ANSI-C quoting[1].

If you have to output in a shellscript in this format, use printf %q

from man printf:

%q ARGUMENT is printed in a format that can be reused as shell input, escaping non-printable
characters with the proposed POSIX $'' syntax.

It is just $'<nasty ansi-c escaped chars>'

$ touch $'\nHello\tWorld\n'
$ ls

One thing I do like about a filesystem that fully supports POSIX filenames is that at the end of the day a filesystem is supposed to represent data. I think it is totally sensible to exclude certain characters, but that it should be done higher up in the stack if possible. Or have a flag that is set at mount time. Perhaps even by subvolume/dataset.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that POSIX filenames are so permissive that they allow you to have bytes as filenames that are invalid UTF-8. That's why the popular ncdu[2] program does NOT use json as it's file format, although most think it does. It's actually json but with raw POSIX bytes in filename fields, which is outside of the official json spec. That does not stop folks from using json tools to parse ncdu output though.

Another standard that is also very permissive with filenames is git. When I started exploring new ways to encode data into a git repo, it was only natural that I encountered issues with limitations of filesystems that I would check out in.

Try cloning this repo, and see if you are able to check it out:
https://github.com/benibela/nasty-files

It is amazing how many things it breaks.

If you are writing software that deals with git filenames or POSIX filenames (that includes things like parsing a zip file footer), you can not rely on your standard json encoding function, because the input may contain invalid utf-8. So you may need to do extra encoding/filtering.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/s/bash/manual/html_node/ANSI_002dC-Quoti...

[2]: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/jsonfmt
So the patent system and medical device regulations that prevent imports, two things specifically controlled by the government, create a situation which allows the maker to charge a ridiculous price.

I would rather they reformed patents for pharma and medical devices, and fought regulatory capture more than intervening more.

Small government types are often caricatured as being blindly pro business, but they realize that every new regulation is a chance for regulatory capture and help businesses to build a moat.
Additionally with cash, people often just don't buy things. If they're running low of cash on-person, don't want to lose a certain type of bill (e.g. for the bus/tips), or simply don't want to carry coins.
Building an image search engine on Postgres
What's a "camp"? Is it not a prison? Non-US person here.
As a consumer, I also have no incentive to help FedNow. Unless they are offering cash back on my taxes.
Thanks for this! I'd never checked. Turns out I'm on https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network. I do want to host my own PDS someday, but then I'd be responsible for keeping it up...
They do: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/partne...
I don't think that a lot of people realize that this is why cashback exists, to get physical cash out of the drawers and electronic cash into the retailer's account where they can spend it.
I'd call that "fraud".
The SpaceX 'Starship Human Landing System' is supposed to land on the moon in 2025 or so and should have a cargo variant able to deliver quite a few tons of gear. It would interesting to send some prototype telescope stuff. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS)
For anyone wanting to do this in JS, check out Dan Shiffman’s Nature of Code https://natureofcode.com/

Uses p5js, so nicer than pure canvas.

Note there’s a big leap from making a simple physics toy to making a game.
I get your sarcasm. But at this point, unless you are willing to give up all of AI to a single source for hardware and software, we've got to start to work towards alternative solutions. People are working against a massive head start and there is clearly a lot to work on on the software side. Give it time.
Was this message composed by a chatbot? It feels exactly like Linkedin clickbait.
I think the best place to start is by getting your hands dirty with a real deal API. https://learnopengl.com/ is a great place for that. Oh and the best part is that the book is FREE.

You'll need to be comfortable with C++, but even without in-depth knowledge of the language, the tutorial takes you quite far.
I believe the same is also true for GEnie.
Yeah, can't have this eat into their profits.
1. Nobody has really convincingly shown a "killer app" that the mass market and/or regular people need or want or even desire. So far it's techies selling to techies with massive losses and "don't worry we will eventually make a profit somehow, now hold this bag."

2. Remembering when I was a lad in the late 90s that there was a common thread of wisdom that all the IT and techie and programming jobs were just going to be outsourced to India anyway so everyone was doomed.

Hell, you don't even have to go that far back. Remember when we were all going to be working and playing in the Metaverse on our fancy headsets after the bigbrains all went to Burning Man or whatever and came back talking about it and then decided nope?
> If you open devtools you'll see that the app is communicating with your PDS.

That's pretty cool. Does bsky.app do a DID resolve or does it have a faster back channel for determining PDS addresses for bsky.social?
That’s a lot of mental hoops you just leaped through. Are you saying you think immigration policy is the main contributing cause of poor research quality? Because that is a wild claim without evidence. Also doesn’t really make sense, immigration policy varies from state to state and there isn’t just one single country producing research.
Reddit's implementation is even worse. It breaks all sorts of commenting/replying even down the comment chain, if anyone in the parent is blocked. And, the mobile app shows no usable errors. But, you can log out, or even make a second account, and see everything.
I don't buy google devices anymore except for Pixel phones. Everything else tends to be disappointing over time.
Costco in the US only accepts Visa. I have a membership, and it's an annoyance because all of my credit cards are Mastercard or Discover, so I have to use my Visa debit card.

Bank debit cards in the US all also use Visa or Mastercard networks.
I think on Google announcement of discontinuing the original Chromecast they mentioned that Smart TVs are ubiquitous now, so this kinda doesn't speak well for their own Android TV like Chromecast 4 and forward being not discontinued too some time soon.
I agree and add Void Linux to the list in the same vein.

Generalley, ports-like package repos (all package build recipes in one repo) are really beneficial for large-scale operations or simply rollbacks.
Being able to bootstrap the distro from a git repo and a well-defined set of bootstrap tools is really nice. try that with debian.

See Void Linux and Alpine for a simple, yet refreshing aproach to distro package maintenance, with low overhead.
Create 3D Photo from Image JavaScript Tutorial (2020)
You only get a reduced sentence if you cooperate in the prosecution against someone else the government / prosecutor is just as or more interested in. That wouldn't be the case with the diddle.
Nanodjango
Systems like Ubuntu, Suse, etc. should "just work" with secure boot. This has been the case for over 10 years (Ubuntu starting with 12.04, in a quick check). I just run a custom hacked-up version of Void Linux because I'm cool like that, but no one new to Linux is doing that – they start out with Ubuntu or such, just as I started out with Mandrake back in the day.

Also I actually got my laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed, a concept that barely existed in 2000.
Content moderation and visibility is a much more interesting question and space in BlueSky/ATmosphere. It's hard to care about the Twitter nonsense now.
I think you can just ignore the apps and cast like you’re used to, if you don’t care about the extra functionality.

(But in that case, I don’t see why you bought one in the first place.)
Not yet, hadn't heard of it. Thanks for the suggestion.
> we were frustrated by the lack of LLM infrastructure

May I ask what you specifically were frustrated about? Seems like there are more than enough solutions
They're doing a radiological survey of the waterfront in Alameda county because twentieth century humans accidentally depleted it of non-radioactive material, enriched it, in other words. They already identified a small area that's dangerously active.
I made a post in here a couple months ago when I was first notified of a disciplinary hearing with Columbia University. It was stated that my website broke school policy because it allegedly promoted cheating.

After a couple weeks of hearings, we beat the case :)

Columbia understood the website was made in an effort to help students who struggle, while I understood it would be best to no longer use the schools resources to promote my startup.
This doesn’t apply to most people selling a house. Sellers are not setting the price for their house, buyers bidding for it do.

Anyone selling a house using an agent isn’t someone who manufactures houses. They are mostly people selling their own home because they are moving to a different home.

They are going to put their house up for sale, buyers will make offers, and the seller will choose the best offer. The buyers are making offers based on what they are willing and able to pay; they don’t care whether 100% of that sale price goes to the seller or if only 94% does. They are making the same offer no matter what.

And sellers aren’t going to take 6% less if they don’t have an agent. They are going to take the same offer whether they get 94% of it or 100%; they are taking the best offer made.

Even your app example isn’t how it works. There is no “break even” price for a digital good that doesn’t have a COG (cost of good). App manufacturing has a fixed price, and then every unit sold costs them zero dollars.

They are going to set the price to be what maximizes the value of “cost per unit * units sold”. That equation is going to be the same no matter what the App Store percentage is. The only thing the percentage does will be to change the amount of money the company makes and change the equation on whether it is worth making the app at all; once the app is created, the only thing that will determine the price is the equation above, not the cost per sale.

So many people seem to have this idea that prices for things are based on some “cost per good + profit margin = price”, but that isn’t how any good is priced. Many goods end up being priced in a way that is close to that, but that is only because of robust competition. Prices are set by the seller trying to figure out which price will generate them the most profit; the cost to make the good only sets a price floor, where if they can’t get more than that amount, it simply isn’t even worth it to make and sell the good. It has nothing to do with the price ceiling.
They're trying to do native advertisements via interview candidates now? Geez... really scraping the bottom of the tech hiring crisis barrel.

Whatever you do, don't ruin your reputation or get ripped off or doxxed.
> Self regulation is much better than actual regulation.

There's absolutely no evidence of this and plenty of evidence to the contrary.

A great example that springs to mind is the Grenfell Tower fire [1]. Grenfell Tower is a council block in England. These were historically housing for poorer people and were typically built cheaply and badly in the postwar era.

So what happened? Some cladding was improperly applied to the building. That allowed a fire to spread. Often these blocks only have one stairwell. They're concrete buildings so generally fires are contained to a single unit. As such, the safety advice is, in case of a fire, to stay in place. The cladding fire was different because the fire rapidly spread ato

At the time of the fire, the UK government was moving towards self-regulation by the UK building industry. The Grenfell Tower fire kinda ruined that plan.

Self-regulation is no regulation. Deregulation is no regulation. Corporate shields limit liability. By the time a problem is discovered, those responsible might be long gone or the proceeds of their negligence might be irrecoverable.

The only reason this idea exists is to increase profits because regulation hurts profits. That's literally it. It's a completely silly idea (like libertarianism).

A strong government is completely necessary to a well-functioning society.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
FTX executives have collectively gotten 35 years in prison (with more to go). Maybe this will help people in this thread see that there is a big picture.
Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity
We want to bribe criminals to betray each other. The people who they are betraying could do anything up to killing them to prevent this, and we have to compete with that.

The world gets zero benefit to imprisoning this woman indefinitely, it in fact costs money, and if the government had to prove their case against her without her cooperation, it would just cost even more money. Not letting a fully-cooperating sucker like her off is the opposite of a deterrent to crime. It's telling low-level people who are involved in crimes that it's better to keep quiet. We want to encourage them to betray. I hope when she gets out she becomes a celebrity, and it encourages other young people to decide to whistleblow or turn snitch on the scammy companies they work for.
Kudos to Don Syme for not getting the language too bloated btw, it's hard to imagine it is almost 20 years old.
> In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true [...] where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes

It's worth noting though that in many research fields, teasing out the correct hypotheses and all affecting factors are difficult. And, sometimes it takes quite a few studies before the right definitions are even found; definitions which are a prerequisite to make a useful hypothesis. Thus, one cannot ignore the usefulness of approximation in scientific experiments, not only to the truth, but to the right questions to ask.

Not saying that all biases are inherent in the study of sciences, but the paper cited seems to take it for granted that a lot of science is still groping around in the dark, and to expect well-defined studies every time is simply unreasonable.
> So... still useless for the rest of us.

Why? How does the situation look in Java?

It also seems you have not read the original reply. So to reiterate, there is https://github.com/Samsung/netcoredbg too.

In any case, I assume none of this has any use to you and the reply is posted simply as bad faith engagement, as it continues to happen whenever a piece of software that uses .NET is mentioned, because usually very few people within community have/take issue with the current (rich) tooling options.

Note how many comments here and in similar submissions completely ignore the topic at hand and instead try to criticize the points that their authors assume are an issue with .NET itself.
Yeah, when you try new things, you often get them wrong.

Why do we expect most published results to be true?
I am tired of having this argument with people. Google's search engine requires there to be content for them to index and send people to in order for their service to be useful. Google wants useful websites to exist, websites want google to send them traffic.

LLM's don't send traffic to websites, as LLM's supplant google there will be fewer and fewer websites because they don't get enough traffic anymore.

There is a clear and obvious difference between the two and yet your reply is still "but but google bad!".
I had a similar mid 90's tour at a major provider in Washington DC (Ashburn) that had this exact problem, mantraps everywhere, great facility for the generation and then they took me out the back door to show me the basketball court in the back parking lot and no alarm went off.... Considering root dns servers, yahoo, hotmail and other majors of the day were running there, it was... sketchy at best.