skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How big is/are your monitor(s?)?

I only maximise windows frequently when I work on a single small monitor (and sometimes I'll use window transparency to be able to see multiple windows simultaneously.) With 2 or 3 large monitors, there's rarely any need to have windows maximised.
I guess I'm not really understanding what you're complaining about. Why not use a desktop OS then in the first place? MS Surface Go 11 tablets have been selling for like ten years now, and so have "convertibles"/2-in-1's.
Seriously. Change the damn title.
>All of this was taken away from us in the holy name of convenience (and corporate greed)

Corporate greed will serve up whatever people will pay for. I (and nearly 100% of people) am willing to pay for the convenience of not running my own email service, so the greedy corporations which sold that solution succeeded while others failed.

Also think of Capex vs Opex. I don't want to drop $4k on an at-home PC to play with new AI toys, but I am willing to spend $20 per month paying for ChatGPT and Claude AI access.
I just want to get my vote in early so I can say I told you so later. This does not sound likely to me. Also, If they try to catch the booster on the next launch (November?) it will make such a mess that they will be delayed for a long long time (compared to the time between the first few launches). It might even mean the end of the program. It would be nice to see it work so we will see.
You're in luck! I have water to sell you. Get out that checkbook!
Yep campaign finance laws really feed this mess. Both parties love to blame the Senate Filibuster, but no one want's to eliminate it. This specific problem would end rapidly if the insurance companies were on the hook for having to honor their 'in network' lists, they should be liable for any inaccuracies on that list, and any fighting about money should be between the providers and the insurance companies, both have money to litigate. Patients do not have the time or money to fight effectively.
sqlite3 is part of cosmos https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/
I think I'm getting a glimmer of understanding on this now

From what I gather, a set of possible transformations is a group in group theory

Physical space is a type of group, i.e. a Poincare group, and is described by the set of all transformations on objects, or something (i.e. motion or lack thereof)

An irreducible poincare group is a tinest example of physical space, i.e. a 'particle'

So although it has no physical space, yet the irreducible Poincare group is intrinsically (but not practically) capable of those same types of transformations within itself as in the larger Poincare group within itself

E.g. a larger object (many particles) can undergo shears and strains, i.e. internal motion. In theory an infinitesimal particle can, it just doesn't have the space to undergo those

I'm inferring from this that a subset of physical space is also a Poincare group?
You are blind, and supporting something that is both incredibly evil and destructive.

If you can, take a look at what abundance does to people in the real world, objectively, do some actual research. Look at mortality for lottery winners, and business tycoon heirs; read their horror stories.

When there is no work, there is no purpose, no growth, no value, and no life, nothing new happens.

It is death, either quick and self-inflicted, or slow until madness from suffering takes over, where you can't notice it along the way like a person suffering from a progression of Alzheimer's. That is the abundance you seek.
> try explaining that to a bunch of business school people

Never mind them! I have been programming for decades and have been defeated twice by Python and its disrespect for semantic versioning

Those version 3s often introduce breaking changes.

I continue to be amazed and astounded that it is so popular. A poster child for "do not choose software based principally on popularity". Being unpopular is a handicap, but being popular - just look at Python. The Python ecosystem is a *nightmare*
I just found it, myself. Great so far.
These days B.C. seems to be preferred due to the colonial connotations of "British Columbia".

https://tnc.news/2024/02/21/stop-saying-british-columbians/
You are giving me flashbacks back to 2008.

"THeY aRe Gonna KILL GrandMA"

Healthcare companies are entrenched politically with expansive lobbying efforts and advertising dollars.
...OMG. Getting worse
Imagine the ramifications of this. I’m not a technician for any secret agents but I can see how this will make black hat attendees very excited.
The migration issue is why I've never bothered with the "fediverse/mastodon".

The other one is choosing a server. That's actually a critical first step that most don't really understand about the "fediverse". Just looking over the "rules" of mozilla.social is insufferable and a non-starter.
Free speech, should not just be for people we agree with. Although I agree conspiracy to commit a crime is something else.

My point was that AI faked content could certainly get you locked up in the UK.
That issue may very well be solved. We added C++ exception support shortly after that issue was filed. You may want to try https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/releases/tag/3.9.2 and see if it still impacts you.
This reads so fucked up... pardon my language . But after every paragraph I was shouting "why don't you go to a private psychiatrist, even if it is out of the insurers network!!!!"

Of course I already know the amswer: apparently in the US the cost of that is prohibite. Over here I can go to doctoralia.com.mx and book a next day specialist for at most $100 for the first consultation. Just to get my message, and the ask him to help him refer to whoever takes my insurance, if needed.

US health system keeps beeing THE reason why I would never think to migrate to that country. No matter how pretty the American Dream sounds like.
There’s a lot of WSJ articles all of a sudden, all of them seemingly paywalled.

‘is this some sort of DDOS attack or are there just a lot of interesting articles that have come out in the past few hours?

Or have I fallen prey to a statistical anomaly?
Yes, mathematical constructions are merely a model of reality

It is interesting to note that (correct me if I'm wrong) perhaps our mathematical constructs are based on a classical intuition and perception of the universe?

And here we are trying to fit that classical intuition into the quantum realm

Perhaps that can be related to why shit gets complicated with particle physics?
Looking at the Flappy Bird post earlier I noted the structure of the repo to be simultaneously elegantly structured and yet still more complex than I would prefer.

The structure is (using [dirname] notation for directories)

[Repo Root]
...git and github files, READMEs...
[Flappy Bird]
... project files, keystore, build.bat ...
[App]
[build]
... I'm ok with tools making a mess here as long as outputs is tidy ...
[outputs/apk]
..the actual .apk
[src]
[main] this seems a little off, main contains libs and resources
Android_Manifest.xml Yep ok, I'll rant about that later, that's its own thing
[assets] all good
[res] Wait what? that's like a synonym for assets, (but for a different layer)
[libs] Hang on, these are .so files. built libs should be in the build dir
[jni] This looks like what src or src/main should have had inside it

So ignoring the outer layer for the README etc. which isn't needed for an Android app, Just encapsulation for presentation. Arguably the same applies for the next layer too. I feel like the contents of App could be placed in here at no loss.

I'd Shuffle it around to make [Flappy Bird] contain [main] and [build]. move [libs] to [build/libs] rename [jni] to [src].

If you had an architecture like that then the one-true-build-system should be a command line tool that you can point at [main] and it does what [Flappy bird]/build.bat does only with auto detection of the installed tools, optional config file overrides, optional commandline overrides.

AndroidManifest is another issue entirely I'd like something that invisibly converted something sane to XML and I'd never see it again, but I'll grin and bear it. A decent validator and maybe I'd like a standalone AndroidManifest editor that knew what everything did and could provide appropriate boilerplate.

After typing this up (mostly as organizing my thoughts), I actually think you could have a relatively painless way to make Android Apps.
I completely understand the point of your comment. My comment was on how yours was only tangential to the wording of the parent comment, which used the wording price of "admission". No-one is obliged to finish a game that they started, and the admission price to this particular game is nothing given that it's free, so there will not necessarily need to be any opportunity cost.
That doesn't really cover it
Fediverse, sadly, goes against the full experience we requiere

The objective is desc network but also want a single place for all our stuff, topics, news, etc

Same reason why Reddit haven’t been replaced yet :/
Exactly right. No one is bemoaning the lack of restauranteurs constructing their own buildings or farming their own food. Why do we want them to host their own website?
Taiwan had similar problems for Traditional Chinese in the early days. Their solutions were specific hardware cards in the beginning, then software-only OS compatible with IBM. It is not necessary to reinvent the wheel.
I've been using a Bluetooth mouse and a keyboard with my old 2018 iPad Pro for at least 5 years. It's basically our travel computer when we're on vacation.

In older versions of iPadOS (it might even have just been iOS back then) you had to enable the mouse under Accessibility to make it work, but in current OS versions it "just works"..

You can even cmd-tab between apps and a lot of the keyboard shortcuts you know and love work in most apps.
There are bigger cargo bikes like these: https://eavcargo.com/

Think about the psychics, you remove all the steel of a delivery truck and replace it with plastic. Of course its going to be more efficient. Since it is like a bike, it doesn’t need a roll cage.

With last mile delivery, you don’t really care about the top speed of a vehicle. But how fast it can accelerate. With an electric motor and regenerative brakes, you could compete easily with an electric van. After all, there is less weight to propel.
First to market/move fast mentality will never consider it. And it’s usually over something that doesn’t really matter like this. Let people have their nextcloud!
Interesting. I never gave this whole thing much of a thought, but always assumed co2 levels would be higher during winter as there's no green outside to absorb it, plus everyone turning on the central heating systems.
While it does a much better job, public providers can be become political targets for budget cuts.

The NHS probably has a much lower approval these days and in the past, and the NHS failing to provide care has become a political topic in England after years of budget cuts from conversative governments.
I'm not so sure. One of the potential benefits of removing ports from the iPhone is improved water resistance (personally, I'd still rather have the port). I don't foresee going swimming with my AirPods case.
It's because it's a strsight full blown scam. And it's accepted by society... terrible.

The only for profit business where you pay the company to give you a "service". But the company's main objective is to do EVERYTHING in their power to AVOID giving you the service. They will spend $100,000 to avoid covering g your $100,001 claim; that's $1 to their shareholders, which is what matters to a Corp ultimately.

Insurance business is a scam.
Most large organizations don't even allow the use of gmail, let alone employees storing work-related data in someone else's cloud.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036581>
I've been dreaming of a good "convergence" device that I can use as a phone but also dock and use as a PC for probably a decade at this point. I've kind of lost hope, it might happen some day but I doubt any time soon.
I don’t think that was their reasoning.

Like, Google, all these megacorps, they are bad, but we should at least argue against their actual arguments.
Probably for being a jazz bassist. I'll just threaten to play a solo if they downvote me again. ;-)
Another problem is that, as an indie, you probably aren't an experienced marketing person. I've been the one managing "build in the open" with a founder on a popular Kickstarter project and it was awful. If we posted a lot, people complained we weren't spending our time on building the thing. If we slowed down the communications to focus on the project, people said we weren't being transparent or we had taken off with the money. Half of the comments on our posts were from people angry because we hadn't said anything about a super niche feature that only they wanted, or because it didn't do something that even a 100x more expensive product could do.

Entire communities started up around our product. They communicated publicly with us constantly. Their favorite past times were thinking up wild new features that we absolutely must have and trying to devine what was happening internally by over analyzing everything we said. Many of the community members used the size of their community to try to bully us into doing what they wanted. I personally had several emails telling me I was an idiot and a fraud. We were a victim of our own success.

It's the same fate that every open source developer experiences. As soon as you open yourself up to the world, everybody wants something from you and they want it now. If you already have a mature product with a healthy sales funnel and a clear vision, you can market what you have as you wish. If you're in the middle of creating something and you talk about it with others, they will all want a say in what you create and they will be upset if you don't act on their suggestions.

Now that I'm in a large company but working on a new and exciting project, we have hit the same problem internally - everybody who hears about it wants us to build it to suit them and they are disappointed when we instead try to build something that works for everyone. Any other product we made we never talked about into it was largely built and ready to start selling and we never had that kind of bullying behavior.

Something about being on the early phases of development makes people think you want their suggestions and they get rather upset when you don't build what they have in mind. That's why it's better to keep to yourself while you get the foundations in place, then carefully choose who you discuss it with until it's ready for the world to start buying it.
I absolutely believe that it is predictive of top-performing teams. But in my experience, being a member of a top performing team is a crappy work/life balance. So for management types wanting maximum performance, it is a meaningful question. For those of us who are fine with working at a more comfortable 80% level, not 100% peak performance, it is a silly question. And that discrepancy is exactly why the question causes concern.
Further clarification: the project can be relicensed under a compatible license. This approach would mean that new code is released under the new license, such as the AGPL, while the existing code remains under the GPL. It's a little complicated but quite doable.
How fucked In the head do you have to be to train ANY AI on LinkedIn Data.
Have you expressed disagreement with a duly sworn officer of the Mastodon HOA before? Because they definitely like to yell at and call people with whom they disagree idiots.

It is, frankly, a very unwelcoming place.
Show HN: Put ful.co/ in front of any URL to easily copy its SVGs and images
I mean, it was not a smartphone but a PDA and it ran Linux: Sharp Zaurus. I owned a CL1000 (later on I went to Nokia N810, though in hindsight the N800 was just as cool with dual SD). Magnificent devices, and back then I liked they didn't have GPRS or 3G. Such was slow anyway (and expensive connection) so I felt that saved me money. Besides, the WWW was dominated by MSIE. And no GSM meant to me less tracking.
This. Even Burger joints have shifts so that they are operational 24/7.
Computing Perlin noise at 6.3 cycles/value
I find it’s when you build customizations that break in a version change where this will shoot you in the foot. Make sure it’s well supported for whatever plugins/customizations you need and out of the way and everyone will love whatever self hosted solution you introduce. Don’t go plugin crazy you’ll trap yourself when you need cross functionality of some sort.
If only Firefox OS had taken off...
So you're decreasing your ecological impact by simply not doing what other people do.
In other words it's not that you're local vs cloud. You're using local-S3-glacier and other people are using cloud-S3 + cloud-EC2.
EU is worried about the European data stored in US (for good reasons). They don’t want their digital assets leave the region, even if the American services are good.

The price is also not $10 per month. You have to increasingly upgrade for features that Nextcloud offers for free, particularly if they are used by enterprise (like multi user accounts).
I did something similar in Nim and published it in 2020 (less pretty graphics however). The difference is that I went deeper and actually wrote an assembler for the Dalvik bytecode and .apk files:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr9X5NCwPlI&list=PLxLdEZg8DR...

The code in the repo has unfortunately bitrotten. I am sometimes thinking to try and resurrect it Some Day™... from time to time I think of some simple app I could write if it was a bit more polished.
Given that most current AI generated code is dogshit, I would say we are well off from that.
Yup, I noticed this a few days ago in some subreddit like /r/assholedesign, I think a few months ago we had a similar feature on instagram and perhaps fb, I don't know if it's still active in EU on those meta products
Its interesting that he doesn't link to the original version in his Essays section https://okbjgm.weebly.com/essays.html

For anyone thinking the not so nice version is how he really thinks, it seems instead its more of a first draft and the nice version is the one that he now agrees with.
> There are many cases where the one calling malloc cannot be the one calling free and must explicitly document

That's fine. Special cases, documented deviation from the default convention.

> one cannot rely on file descriptors being closed without errors in practice, so people don't

You mean "so people don't call close(), and the error gets swallowed" (like the article points out for `cat`)? How's that good? Why is improving that "no benefit"?

> you can't just repave decades of infrastructure

Of course you can.

There are also lots of projects that were written without checking the return value of malloc() and then crashing. People make PRs and those get fixed.

Similarly people can come to the conclusion that LLVM and cat should call close() to not swallow errors, and then it will be done.
I think it depends on what your objective is. Like if you want to simulate the LinkedIn experience, it's natural to train on LinkedIn data.
My point is that physical reality cannot be made of something that doesn't exist physically, such as mathematical objects, abstract concepts or more generally ideas of any kind. Do you not agree that this must be true?
Tracing horseback riding and transport in the human skeleton
Artisan products are usually tailor made for one person.

So an artisan program would involve many hardcoded variables relevant for a specific user, and hard links that connects files for a specific users computer.

Basically one that has as little abstraction as possible. The end product would look like a script.
Agreed! Performance is the most important feature.
The problem is I don't trust all those SaaS reviews in sites like G2, TrustRadius, Gartner etc. A lot of them are paid, and incentivized. Heck, I personally wrote a few nonsense ones just to get free gift cards. But I know some people give our free credits or discounts if you write a review for them.

Even a lot of "free" reviews on Reddit are secretly posted by the company, or someone who got paid by the company.

[UPDATE] Just tried the tool. 7 of the 8 bullet points your tool gave me was also given to me by Claude. I think both are using similar data sources, so I fail to see what differentiates this tool
The Mac version of Final Cut Pro hasn’t had a paid upgrade since FCP X was released in 2011.
What is wrong with "apt install python-mode"? I dont get it.

My only remarkable addition is

(global-set-key (kbd "M-+") 'hippie-expand)

which helps the use of long self-explanatory variable names.
> How many times are those types of trips done, as compared to 'just' running errands around town?

If you have children definitely more often the former than the latter. I think it's every 2-3 weeks in my case. That's also how my father would use his car and, coincidentally his father as well.

> Perhaps buy for what you actually do, and rent for when you need 'extra' capabilities.

I did. Perhaps you shouldn't make assumptions about people's habits.
I’m a senior citizen and I couldn’t enjoy the end of LPs and cassettes fast enough. LPs scratched and skipped and wore down. Cassettes stretched and broke and wore down. I thrill to the idea that I can get a perfect rendition of the bits every time (modulo lossy compression or poor remastering).
I still just throw in default bootstrap in a .container div when I need a fast prototype that looks decent.
Web dev looks sort of like graphic design without the artistry, from an outside point of view.
This is what traditional forums excel at - for instance, a niche-specific forum may also contain off-topic boards for topics unrelated to the niche, such as general current affairs or media.

wrt to Reddit, I mean, Lemmy does exist, but much like Mastodon instances try to be "another Twitter", Lemmy (instances) also tries to be "another Reddit". At the end of the day, it's a human/userbase problem of "platforms change, hivemind doesn't".
Some people would argue that a stadium is a place of worship
Interesting, I lived 4 years in Germany (Sachsen Anhalt). I had to use an ambulance for emergency (syncope , hit my head , lots of blood , middle of the night). I also had colonoscopies, MRI, and several visits.to gastroenteroloist, and one proctologist (yikes!). I the 4 years I was there.

I just remember getting some receipt for a very low sum from my insurance (Big Gesundheit) which was negligible (I think about 300 Eur) . All then other stuff was economically inconsequential. And I was on a Research Assistant salary. It was amazing.

It was not better than NHS (lived in the UK for some time as well) , but it was pretty good.
Yeah, this seems absolutely like a relevant observation -- it might be massively increasing the number of "empathetic" teachers.

To elaborate:
Certainly for me as a highschooler, I was bored out of my mind with how easy and mind-numbing the curriculum was, and as my mother refused to let me drop out and try for college early, I felt stuck for years just feeling utterly imprisoned and wasting my time. Books, drawing, writing, sure, but no doubt about it, my phone (and through it, the internet) was also one of my big escapes back then.

Noted because yeah, I can actually tell that prior to thinking about this now, in the place of many teachers I might have been very sympathetic to teens using their phones "discretely", even if it might not at all be the best thing for most of them. Especially anyone for whom it's the only source of entertainment or anti-boredom.

Can't say I understand it for elementary schoolers, or students who are obvious underperformers, but it does seem teachers who grew up with smartphones before they were out of high school could be a big aspect, just from the empathy factor.