skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience[1], if there’s no bike path roundabouts are better, in particular for left turns. But on a bike path they are usually not much fun, basically requiring negotiating with drivers 270 degrees apart at the same time.

My preferred roundabout is separate bikepath that joins the road just before and is a part of the same surface, usually found in bike friendly places.

[1] 60000+ km throughout Europe
Well, there's also the data point that demand is so low the AM radio industry has literally gone to congress and asked to make receivers mandatory.
+1

This is why in 2024 you still must use XmlHttpRequest instead of fetch() when progress reporting is needed. fetch() cannot do progress reporting on compressed streams.
The ability to read digital data in the future is a very good point.

I recently wanted to retrieve my PhD (2000). It was on a disquette, I found the correct reader and had high hopes to connecting it to a contemporary PC.

The thing is that I could not find the disquette anymore, despite being sure it is "there"
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Stacks and stacks of encyclopedias and atlases, some for adults and some for kids, the way things work, books in foreign languages
It would be interesting if AI could be used to isolate bugs?

Have it run through all the branches of spaghetti code and isolate the problematic sections along with proposed changes.
I hired someone to do that for me.
What do people think about the Copyright notices on the images? Can someone with knowledge of Irish law comment on how something so old can still be considered copyright? Is there separate rules for images of art in galleries?
I love HN for these moments - when you learn things that are orthogonal to the original post.
Yeah when you RAM sizes are measured in KB or low MB and your processor has not support for 64-bit integers you tend to think about works now instead of what will still work in 60 years.
I still don't understand the selling point of Wayland. Something about screen-tearing? Surely that wouldn't require throwing out the whole thing. Something about "security"?

To this day, Wayland has problems that X never had, particulary screen-sharing or window management being dependent on the compositor implementation. What problems does this solve?
In the real world, unlike your delusional fantasy world, it matters what you deliver, not what you promise.

Its pretty hilarious to blame a CEO for growing a company from basically bankrupt with no revenue to one of the top car companies in the world, and then saying see you can't dominate the global car industry when there are literally multiple of the largest cooperation's in the world with strong support nation state governments doing everything they can to change that. You are just comparing him to something absurdly perfect and then saying 'see he is an idiot'.

I have read multiple books on SpaceX and watched interviews with lots of people inside and outside of SpaceX, and you are literally just factually wrong.

This whole 'pile of money' theory nicely ignores that many much richer people then him (he wasn't a billionaire when SpaceX started) tried to do the same. Bezos invested about 100 more (literally, Musk 90 million $, Bezos over 10 billion $) then Musk in his company and we can see the results. And by LITERALLY any measure, Bezos was far, far, far more hands of then Musk. Musk didn't have as much money as many others who tried their hands at this.

It couldn't be clearer that you just have an axe to grind.
That page correctly mentions what is really happening: the same set of headers was used for all source files, so they were very easy to eliminate either by a single compile process with a shared cache or by having headers pre-compiled. The test header file also contains <windows.h> and <iostream>, which are known to be very large and only sparingly used compared to others, so unity builds were unexpectedly close to PCH in terms of performance here. (Also typical mid-sized C++ projects that benefit from unity builds are not that fast to compile ;-) In any case, the distinction between unity builds and PCH should remain clear.
Would this dedrm my audible stuff?
I believe they were mostly Nokia employees from the Maemo group who “escaped in a dinghy” hence “Jolla.”

Frankly I’m surprised that they have survived this long.
How does someone gain experience if they are using AI from the start? They never develop the skills by putting in the reps.

I also find it much harder to go through someone else’s code than to work with my own. If I’m just glancing at it, it seems to technically work, and it needs a rubber stamp… sure, that’s easy. If it doesn’t work, especially if it’s a logic issue rather than a hard error, that takes time to read and learn the context of everything that’s going on. Will someone in school today even have the skills to do that if they only ever use AI?
The sun will have died by then so we will have bigger problems. Slightly different timespan than 60 years where some people will be able to experience both the start and the end.
Like all “based on a true story” or whatever movies/tv shows, the BlackBerry movie has a lot of fiction:

https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/blackberry/

There is no way for a viewer to know which parts are real or fake, so watching it is not going to help educate.
Not just dropping old stuff immediately when its no longer hip is one of the main strengths of Gentoo.
Roundabouts with traffic lights are a bit of a failure alright - and the larger ones are i'd argue not roundabouts at all - they just share the shape.

I believe traffic lights are always trying to solve a capacity issue - where the roundabout has hit it's maximum capacity and is suffering some throughput issue, which tend to sort of get exponentially worse. With traffic light sequencing, particularily dynamically, there is always a way to even out the flow - prioritize a flow that is backing up undesirable or give a particular entrance fair chance to enter the roundabout.

Though once there are traffic lights on every entrance, plus traffic lights mid roundabout and some/all exits, and explict lane markings and merges I think it's not a roundabout.

Slowing down is important though, as it give drivers time to think and react. Whether they choose to use that time correctly is a problem, but hopefully some or all of the other drivers can use patience and avoid an accident. Where accidents happen, I see it's often from mistakes from two drivers, and it's relatively low speed. Better still, accidents are at shallower angles, so injuries are rare. I've heard an statistic that could well be fake that roundabouts have more accidents, but significantly better outcomes overall.
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Yes but file offsets are a lot less common in library interfaces. And failures require files that are actually that large (well, inode numbers are also affected) so the impact is a lot more limited and gradual - everything will still work with small files whereas time_t will fail from just the passage of time.
You're not wrong about the ideal case, but I've never seen the ideal case in any real (read: paid) context. I've seen hobbyists with very solid setups that were well managed, I've made the thing that kubernetes wants to solve by hand and I understand it's not a trivial (that is to say, not a single afternoon of design and implementation) to do.

I guess I'm just really frustrated with seeing the people that get paid to use and promote it be so bad at what they do and I don't like cleaning up after them :)
> But what's MSFT's scheme here?

They realized by pushing typescript they can drive companies away from java, then when those companies will realize typescript sucks they'll be redirected to c#
This!

JQ is great because JSON didn't have a query language & needed one. JQ isn't the best query language - it's just the one that won adoption.

DBs already have query languages that are mostly superior to JQ's.
SQL interop is where the pain is at. Using standard tooling of most database systems, best you can get is CSV with all the pains this shithole of a data transfer format brings.
There can be only one answer to that - the Bible. Twenty years ago, I was convinced the content alone justified the claims of a divine origin, which opinion has only grown stronger in the years since. Even if you don't believe in it, it is worth reading as literature - an extraordinarily epic story, and a lot of stuff to say about humanity and divinity along the way. Everything else, comparatively, seems to me like it was written by children.

But that's a useless answer, as the purpose of such a question is to generate recommendations, and that's unlikely to be a new one to anybody.

One of the books that's impacted me the most in the last few years is Homer's Illiad. I used to wonder why we read The Odyssey in high school and never talked about The Illiad, but I don't wonder now! I think all the violence in Illiad would warrant more than a PG-13 rating. ;) But it is a great story about men and gods and struggle and war, with a lot to say about what mankind is and what it can be, and a lot of heroes to want to grow up to be someday. The introduction to my copy includes the quote, "It is a good thing that war is so terrible, otherwise we would grow to love it too much." That quote will make no sense to most people; if it resonates with you, this book is your kind of book.

I am currently reading through Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology, as I am looking for wisdom on how to navigate the highly technological time I find myself in. I haven't finished it, but I find the insights profound, and I see the ideas everywhere. I think it may prove to be the best thing I've ever read on the topic of what it means to interact with technology and remain human.

Shakespeare is legendary for a reason. I haven't read one of his plays yet that that I didn't deeply enjoy. They never hit right in high school, but as an adult I find them profound. I giggled my way through A Comedy of Errors recently and it still makes me smile.

A Christian recommendation - I've very much enjoyed Jeremy Taylor's 1650 Holy Living and Dying. Probably the best book on Christian life I've read, and I've read quite a few - and it's a book that rarely makes people's short lists. It's long and I haven't finished it, but as much as I've read so far continues to impact me.

Edit: I almost forgot! I read The Princess and the Goblin several years ago. It is a fairy tale intended for children, and is yet one of the best books I have ever read on the subject of girlhood, and I have spent a lifetime searching for them. If you have (or are, or find yourself in an occasion to love) a girl, I can't recommend it highly enough.
You will be happy to learn that it was not in fact downvoted at all. I think this may be the first time I've expressed this sentiment to (mostly) positive feedback and I'm pretty sure it's because it was explained properly this time. That is I think a good thing - the downvotes that came before gave me the impulse to improve, and I was rewarded when I did.
Brave's shady crypto strategies [1] and history of injecting headers and affiliate codes in your navigation [2] makes it an untrustworthy browser to me.

[1] https://coinfomania.com/brave-browser-users-monthly-bat-rewa...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...
That's interesting, thanks for sharing. Does anyone know of a good solution for seamlessly switching between audiobooks and ebooks for books that are not bought from Amazon on Kindle?

In this case you already have the input file, and the audio output file but I guess there would be an app that takes these two files to provide a good reading experience. As they are based on the same source it should be possible to keep the reading progress matched between them.
Not very. The system might allocate that length ahead of time (I've seen that option in torrent clients and iirc ftp systems) but, latest by the time a FIN comes in, it'll know the file is finished and can truncate it. If finished-early downloads are not implemented despite it doing preallocation, that's still not a security bug
See also the 14KB website article: https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-i...

Optimizing per-packet really improves things but has gotten very difficult with SSL and now QUIC. I'm not sure Google ever got the front page down to a single packet (would love a reference!) but it definitely paid very close attention to every byte and details of TCP performance.
> their data is not being used for ads

Bullshit. Even if that were true they still collect the surveillance data to funnel it to another arm of the government.
I'm sure the next MacBook Pro won't have a notch. This was a stupid design decision and was only done to align with the "distinctive" notch of the iPhone. Now that this is gone, I'm sure the next the MacBook Pro will have the same dynamic island thing.
I've wanted to abuse this to support a static site "hosted" entirely from a QR code, but I haven't found any QR scanners that interpret the data URI as something to open in the browser. And without wide support, that project is hardly worth bothering with.
Incidentally Middle English referred to the womb as the matrix iirc
It is using ';' instead of parenthesizing the messages to the objects, correct?
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I didn't say this at all. I said you should understand what you run, and if you understand it you realise it adds complexity.

I don't really see how this is a particularly controversial statement and I will say I don't appreciate you trying to reduce it to some ridiculous extreme. You didn't add anything to the discussion and it's tragic, because you could have made a nice point about system boundaries, levels of abstraction and perhaps information overload.

That would have made a great point about why abstraction is sometimes necessary. Then we could have spoken about what makes good and bad abstractions. Perhaps someone who came upon this thread later could have learned something and we'd have made the site a better place together.
honestly I'd rather have sql for json than jq for a database... guess this is exactly what clickhouse-local does
One issue is that with GC, you lose prompt finalization of resources. A lot of code is written with this assumption in mind (e.g., file buffers are flushed if the last reference to the file is dropped—which is arguable incorrect due to the lack of error checking). And the borrow checker is the only thing that keeps everything from being mutable in place in Rust today. Having GC would open the possibility for alternatives to the borrow checker without compromising memory safety, but even Pony-style reference capabilities probably won't lead to a language where abstractions compose much more easily than in Rust today.

Maybe a language with a similar syntax, traits, monomorphization, and macros would still be interesting to many people? Would people prefer traits and macros over ad-hoc polymorphism (in the style of C++, which could subsume the macro use cases, too)?
Next.js won't require a Deno backend. You can define backend data fetches [0] along with the UI Pages and routes for an API [1].

Of course the NextJS application could call out to a Deno backend as well, but the external app is not required.

- [0] https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/data...
- [1] https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/rout...
No, for this you need https://github.com/rmcrackan/Libation
Web scraping is a powerful technique for extracting data from websites, and Python offers excellent libraries to help you do this efficiently. Whether you're looking to gather product information, social media data, or research content, Python’s simplicity and the robust ecosystem of libraries like BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, and Selenium make it the go-to language for web scraping.
Thank you for your feedback! I truly appreciate you sharing your thoughts. As I'm still in the early stages of development, I plan to adjust pricing in the future
I was there for ten years but moved to the Netherlands. You might like the Irish tech community slack, though they’re not fans of this site.
Batteries included: how AI will transform the who and how of programming (2023)
I don't want to sound too negative, but I will say that this is an extremely optimistic take that doesn't often pan out that way.
That doesn't say that power is out, which is what is described up thread and what I meant by "total".
I thought I knew basic HTTP 1(.1), but I didn't know about trailers! Nice one, thanks.
If there are bacteria that can feed on plastic (not saying there aren't), wouldn't they have essentially no competition and thus thrive in plastic polluted environments?
I remember this! How cool is that!

It's always bothered me that there isn't a layer "above" the web that integrates discussion features. I always thought a browser addon would solve that by now, but nothing seems to have caught on.
> And do you know a good speech to text model?

OpenAI's whisper, code+model are available, and multiple projects have built on it. You could try this wrapper: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX -- or for short utterances on a smart-phone https://github.com/futo-org/whisper-acft
Thanks! I hope you enjoyed, it is really much more difficult!

Hmm that's a new one... There is no puzzle of the day, you get a random puzzle served, identified by an ID number. If you could check history and let me know the puzzle ID I can look into the bug.
Try driving in England, rural or otherwise, and you'll see our current trend of adding traffic lights to roundabouts.

If you think roundabouts slow you down (they don't really), just wait until non-rush hour at one of these "roundabouts" when you're the only car waiting on several sets of red lights, or during rush hour when the lights have failed and it's totally gridlocked where traffic simply cannot pass.
Hemel's is much more fun to drive around though, it's bigger and has the traditional lack of signage and faded lines as a bit of an extra challenge.
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To you.

From the "we cease to be humans" phrase i would assume that you have some more extra ideas on what is a "proper" human and what isn't.
The signs preceding a UK mini roundabout would not be.

And it rarely snows in the UK these days. And I would hope you would be driving extremely cautiously if there were snow on the ground (in the UK) as it's such a rare event.
Pure Gleam will get you really far without having to touch any Erlang, I've done Gleam for almost a year now and there were very little cases where I needed to write Erlang code myself, usually there's already a library that deals with it for most common needs :)
Yeah, I've been wondering what the special sauce is. Is the religion part necessary to hold the whole thing together? e.g. you could replicate the other aspects, but would it last? It seems like people derive significant meaning from the religious aspect. Though this may also extend to ideology in general (e.g. political groups, or Effective Altruism meetups for example). The "shared mission" seems to be an important part of it.
That’s exactly my point.

People sharing ideas here is just a waste of time. People are smart in Taiwan and can come up with the solutions themselves.

The problems have to be elsewhere. They’re not lacking smart ideas for sure.
Homemade AI drone software finds people when search and rescue teams can't
We can take it one step further: There are microbes everywhere in your body, they matter and they do things. When you take them away or fuck with them too much, weird things start happening.

It is I think not a particularly surprising take. But then often it can be valuable to have things that are kind of obvious codified into a paper of some sort so that we no longer have to rely on "but isn't that obvious?" and can instead point to some primary source that actually explains what is true. That way it can be true for everyone, even the people for whom it wasn't already obvious.
I’ve got a gut feeling that we will. A gut feeling in my brain.
Affinity / Serif is now owned by Canva. And although they've pledged to keep perpetual licensing, I'd trust that about as far as their next profit calculation.
Waitlists don't make great HN submissions and can't be Show HN's which is for things that can be tried right now, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
The His Dark Materials was probably the first books I got really in to and some of the only books I've ever re-read. I read a couple of others by the same author but wasn't grabbed as much. I think I was around 13 at the time. Harry Potter were probably some of the first "long" books that I ever read but I wasn't a huge fan and gave up by the third.
I'd say those along with random Discworld and assorted fantasy books planted the seeds of enjoying reading but it did go hand in hand with sitting next to my mum and enjoying the experience. Taking a book on holiday and sitting in the sun reading rather than just playing on my gameboy, which happened too but without bans on screen time more like just encouragement to join in the reading activity. Maybe bad battery lives and non-backlit screens helped too.
One book that's always stuck in my memory since is Freakonomics. I read it when I was a teenager and the very logical thinking hit a real nerve. I know the book has had controversy since but I can't say I took away any specific example of "Sumo wrestlers like to cheat" or whatever, but the way of thinking it encouraged has definitely stuck with me.
My partner read some Malcolm Gladwell books when she was younger and she was definitely a fan for a similar reason. I think they're a load of tosh with generous leaps of logic but I can understand the appeal of something that encourages you to look beyond the obvious.
Nobody in their right mind would ever class that as a roundabout. You dont stick a high speed road directly through a roundabout.

An actual roundabout DOES solve the tbone issue.
How about having a "binary operator" codepoint, that is then specialized by a following combining character codepoint. That way it's also intrinsically obvious that the thing is a binary operator at first glance. Even more expressiveness!
Basically, the author wants Spring Boot for Rust
> But it also is so much more (and also a cult).

Way to lose readers with memeish statements like that. That said it's in good company of cultists like Smalltalk and Lisp community ;)

> * Its "oop" model is uncomfortable at first (coming from Ruby and Java)

It's OOP in the sense it has polymorphism, and "methods" . It's not OOP in almost every other conceivable way.

It doesn't fit with static OOP of Java. It doesn't fit with dynamic OOP of Smalltalk and Ruby.

> It has downsides, and I consider the borrow-checker to be one of them

I wouldn't want Rust without borrow checker, and never figured this complaint.

Yes, it's uncomfortable and will prevent you from making some legal code.

Guess what? So will a seatbelt. You move too fast to reach something and it snaps you in place.
There's a great article by Erika on use, definitely recommended :)
https://erikarow.land/notes/using-use-gleam