skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you using something like Wails or Electron to wrap this into a desktop app? I’ll have to sign up for Thymer and check it out!

I’ve been prototyping my app with a sveltekit user-facing frontend that could also eventually work inside Tauri or Electron, simply because that was a more familiar approach. I’ve enjoyed writing data acquisition and processing pipelines in Go so much more that a realistic way of building more of the application in Go sounds really appealing, as long as the stack doesn’t get too esoteric and hard to hire for.
I owned a house once that was balloon framed, with 2"x4" black walnut studs in the walls.

They just don't make things like they used to. :)
Cascading may be good for publishing, but the many benefits of cascading don't really play in your favor when you are trying to use the web as a platform to make _applications_. Documents are mostly static; apps have a lot of moving parts. Apps are a lot more complex than documents.
As someone who has been searching for a Rust job lately, few rust roles are only Rust. Many are Rust + another niche domain.

- Must have 5 years of Rust and 8 years of embedded experince

or

- Must have 5 years of Rust snd 10 years of writing SQL engines.

or

- Must have 2 years Rust experience and 5 years with Linux kernel development.

etc...

If you are looking to hire someone with specific domain experience, it makes more sense to compromise on the Rust language side of things. A developer can learn Rust on the job, but it is harder to learn to write a production SQL engine on the job. But that means you aren't hiring Rust devs.

Developers who just specialize in Rust are behind their peers who are domain experts when it comes to looking for a job.

IMO that means Rust will "win" not when a bunch of undifferentiated developers learn Rust, but when the domain experts learn Rust. e.g. Kernel maintainers.
That's a horrible rule of thumb, because C++ adds a ton of complexity with little reward except for speed. Rust adds less complexity (still a lot ofc), but it also gives you awesome tooling and dependency management (much better than python for example), and and extemely powerful typesystem and functional programming features, that make writing correct code extremely easy.

Rust is a complex but overall good language for writing solid software, C++ is making a deal with the devil in exchange for speed.
This belongs to a category of rabbit holes of the human condition that are entirely pointless to argue or worry about.
My understanding is that rods from god are not easily detectable during reentry the way an ICBM's warhead is.
That's really just being a Luddite, I understand the mindset but that's a very poor strategy if one cares about job security. A (good!) senior developer has a ton of value outside of the pure mastery of a language specs, not to mention that learning a language for 1 year with 15 years of prior knowledge really doesn't lead to the same level as a student who does the same.
At least you can pretend you've hired someone that's going to solve your python problens. And to mgmt, that's sometimes the only thing that matters.

Greasing the wheels of the corporate meatgrinder with Rust is almost impossible, actual work quality notwithstanding.
How does the radio follow the frequency modulations if the radio cannot "see" at a specific direction?
People hand over the knowledge all the time. It is not like everyone quits at the same time.
With maybe totally different requirements on the G forces and vibrations that the equipment and people inside a Starship must withstand compared to flying. Not necessarily all the existing equipment can survive a Starship launch and not necessarily all military personnel can fly in a rocket. Of course they can select the personnel, like they do select paratroopers. Fixing the equipment or developing new one might be costly.
Before JIRA became ubiquitous, before Slack even existed, I used to set up company's tools with MediaWiki, Jenkins, IRC, Redmine and GitWeb. The reason I'd choose these is because I knew more or less how to install them. It wasn't based on any sort of comparison of features etc.

Looking back at those days, I'd still take IRC over Slack any time. Just for the self-hosting part, but also because of better integration, simpler interface, simpler way of extending it to fit company's needs.

I'd also take GitWeb over Gitlab, Bitbucket or Gitea. None of the extras offered by these tools add any real value. The only reason I want any Web interface to Git at all is to be able to link to the code from Wiki / chat.

But, Jenkins turned out to be a really bad pick. And so is Redmine. I've tried many popular CI tools, and they are all bad, so, who knows maybe this project will do it better?.. but they don't seem to tell much about how they see things working. I also haven't found a good bug-tracking tool yet. So, maybe this project will make something better? -- Let's hope.

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Ideally, I'd prefer it if tools around project management standardized around some basic interfaces, so that no single company was tempted to create "package deals" where you choose to use crappy tools because they are packaged together with what you really want. But, I don't think it's clear to anyone what such interfaces might look like. So, this isn't happening probably in this decade... at least.
United States, so ten and eleven year olds.
There is no common ancestor. Abraham is a mythological character.
The problem is not for lack of terminal apps, there are some very good ones. What is lacking is excellent keyboard support for the full range of keys. The only one I have as yet seen is Hacker's Keyboard which is sadly not supported in the later Android releases.
There are relatively stable orbits over the equator.
You're right -- after reading some of the peer responses, I realized that (I think...) my response is just how the Broadcast FM signal modulates the parts of the signal, and not how it actually 'locks on'. I'm still learning!
Sure but currently this is not a competitive industry because nobody else can do this.
> I personally have not seen

At this point we're all just speculating wildly from subjective biased anecdotes.

Data is required.
When building at scale, it's not possible to rely on stuff like "everybody should name the iterators differently than it's normally done".

It's not inconsiderate, we are doing a job. If you can't do your job, you don't have place in my team. And properly using an IDE is definitely part of the job. What are you using that can't open web VSCode that has all these features?
Besides what 55555 said, in the near term SpaceX has indeed passed at least some of the cost savings onto customers. NASA administrator Bill Nelson quoted a member of the Joint Chiefs as telling him that SpaceX had saved the US government $40 billion for just launching military payloads. <https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/06/05/did-spacex-really-...>

On the civilian side, SpaceX saved NASA $2 billion for just one payload, Europa Clipper <https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/a-year-from-launch-the...>, so who knows how many billions more from other launches.
I recently wrote a small essay on my field of expertise and asked chatgpt o1 about it. It consistently misunderstood my arguments, and construed correct sounding but subtly wrong interpretations and explanations.

I wouldn't trust it about any subject I don't dominate so it feels kinda pointless to use it at all.
The gripe water that parents in Ireland and the UK used to give to babies used to be a mixture of sugar and alcohol. 3.6%. They took that formulation off the market in the 90s though.
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> but if e.g. what you wrote derives most of its business logic from its configuration, or the usecase is so generic changes aren't gonna be a thing for a while, why not

there’s also the fairly easy cross compilation to bear in mind.

i built a container entrypoint binary via python to stick in all our containers at last job.

getting that to cross compile was going to be a bunch of pain i wasn’t willing to go down for a simple “download files from S3, run a sub process, upload files to S3” pre-execution wrapper.

digital ocean infra + self hosted gitlab —> no readily available windows instances.

so everyone had to use linux to dev these containers with wine+mono.

being able to cross compile would have been brilliant here. i made the decision to not do this in rust for future maintenance reasons. but then people avoided using this thing because they couldn’t run on windows :/

(i know there’s that paid for package but the license fee is mind boggling from what i remember).
I suppose even if ... then ... is political to you?

How about { } ? I'm sure even that has a deep political meaning!
Most of 18-25 year olds are poor shmucks. Ask around who has their own apartment at 20-something and what their prospects are.

Military is one of valid options to improve their lives .
Why is open-source "cheap"?

It seems like you look at the cost of things only through the lens of licensing and not the cost of people to run/maintain them.

I have nothing against OSS per se, but in my experience, the financial analysis of OSS vs paid software is much more subtle.
SpaceX is profitable from that income alone, even allowing for starship development costs.
Neither is true. 9kHz, with two sidebands, means that the transmitted audio is limited to 4.5kHz, which is way too low to sound good. It was this, and not the noise, that made it sound much worse.
Pretty sure France wasn't a thing in the ice age
It is a very daunting problem no doubt, maybe the hardest one, but I also don't doubt that the end form of Starship will require way, way less than 20 000 man-hours per turnaround (as the Space Shuttle required) to refurbish the heat shield. They simply cannot afford that.
Frankly when I clicked I expected to read that the Tibetan language has been recently added to Unicode.

I mean, they're too busy adding emojis over there to work on support for human scripts any more...
FM has 15 kHz of bandwidth available for the audio signal, which is much higher than what had been previously standardized for the AM channels and which is an important reason for the perceived high fidelity.

The modulated signal that is transmitted on the air has a much higher bandwidth. How much higher may differ between various broadcasting standards, but it can be e.g. 10 times or 20 times higher.

The ratio between the bandwidth of the transmitted radio signal and the bandwidth of the audio signal is what is relevant for the noise rejection properties of FM broadcasting.

When the bandwidth available for transmission is limited, FM is not an optimal kind of modulation from the point of view of resistance to noise, phase modulation (QPSK) is better (and optimum), so that is what is used for digital communications limited by noise.
> The universally accepted ADHD community’s technique seems to be called Adderall.

I wouldn't call it technique. ADHD is the one condition of the mind that can be treated with medication with greater success than any other, and yet it is under-diagnosed in children and adults.
Silicon Valley is debating if AI weapons should be allowed to decide to kill
This is clearly a case where Huly's primary focus is their complex SaaS option. The self-host option has to follow core or it bitrots. I'm fine with this trade-off personally.
They're locale independent, which the C stol, stof, etc functions are not.
the cost of the people is represented by it not being "easy"
This presentation by one of the authors is a good primer on the current issues around Black hair and hairstyles in Hollywood, CGI, and video games, and why this research is important: https://www.tkim.graphics/MORETHAN/Darke_Slides.pdf
Probably Pidora, which is also not an inviting name in Russian (connotation with "fag").
Is there any good literature on building keyboards? I’d love to try my hand at building vintage-like keyboards for things like DEC terminals, workstations (Xerox Star and Apollo Domain rely so much on their keyboards it’s hard to experience them on regular PC keyboards).
I'm loving the minimalistic interface and the focus mode! I would love to know if there are any plans with other tools that might help writers stay organized or motivated? For example, integration with a task list or a habit tracker?
> This is one place where static typing and primitive types fall short.

I can't reproduce it here, but I found it really funny that "short" was monospaced, like it was the type.
The Indian Union Cabinet have approved preservation of linguistic heritage
Anecdata, but I have heard people in my life refer to Hacker News as "social media", which is why I brought this up in the first place.
Language is finite in the same way as our supply of UUIDs is, ie, not finite at all in any practical sense.
Are Online Reviews Broken?
How are we supposed to scroll through dozens of options all with supposedly great 4-5 star reviews and figure out which one is better? Which one doesn’t have fake reviews? Which one fits more into what we personally enjoy and look for?

It’s impossible. You spend hours of time and hundreds or even thousands of dollars on something to end up feeling ripped off.

The system is fundamentally broken.
I tried Pomodoro more than once, but so far always failed. I guess I have to follow Russel Barlkeys advice to externalize the internal and replace the Pomodoro app with a physical timer that sits on my desk with sad eyes when I don't use it for more than a day.
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge
There is a trillion dollar market in hair, but it is not about virtual models.
Happy birthday and thanks to all the KDE hackers for the gift of the best desktop environment on GNU/Linux and on computers in general. Light years ahead of anything else. Also so many very nice applications. Often winder how you can even manage to do it all.
I feel like CPS is one of those tar pits smart developers fall into. It’s just a fundamentally unfriendly API, like mutexes.
We saw this with node as well: eventually the language designers just sighed and added promises.

You’re better off with an asynchronous result stream, which is equivalent in power but much easier to reason about. C#’s got IAsyncEnumerable, I know that Rust is working on designing something similar. Even then, it can be hard to analyse the behaviour of multiple levels of asynchronous streams and passing pieces of information from the top level to the bottom level like a tag is a pain in the neck.
CBT is what you need, not alcohol. You need to gradually convince yourself to not fear your phobia, through small, concrete steps, reinforcement, and external, independent review. Alcohol or MJ will merely dull the symptoms. Between the two, however, there’s no question small doses of MJ are better for your health than drinking even a little every day. Note, however: taken in excess MJ can worsen anxiety.
All NNs work on latent representations.
No. But it gets within an order of magnitude, which is remarkable. Economy class on starship could be priced similar to first class tickets on transoceanic flights.
Not a medical professional,

Have a search about inflammation in your body and especially brain.
It can be the cause of your panic attacks..

As moderate alcohol can reduce inflammation. Am against alcohol consumption.. Find other ways..

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/45/6/747/2499235
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/06/is-drinking-i...

There isn't a facility for PMs on HN?
In Pursuit of Decent Coffee
Or mapping and analyzing an organization for infiltration or cyberattacks by criminals.
I’m sorry but that’s just a plain gullible user.

He gave the scammers enough info to stick his account onto their phone AND authorised the transfer via auth code too?!?

That really doesn’t feel like Revolut’s fault. No point in more security if the user actively helps the scammers around it
Additionally, Java (and .NET for historical reasons), also benefit from that Objective-C / NeXTStep linage.

The C++ like syntax was a kind of honey trap for C++ devs, the actual runtime and language semantics are closer those from Smalltalk/Objective-C, hence why Strongtalk and SELF JIT research did fit so well into Hotspot.
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024
How much of the embedded jobs are Rust? Maybe 1 percent?
Yep, monitoring live uptime here: https://reddit.onlineornot.com/
A voting system based on Web-of-trust minimizes the risk of spam or bots posting 5-star reviews. Building your own WOT however requires work. Lots of work in this direction are taking place on the relatively new Nostr protocol. But it’s not ready for full scale usage today.
Spanish empire caused a huge impact in the American continent but even so, the focus on seizing wealth and lands competed with the fact that the Spanish doctrine wanted to extend the Christendom. However anglo-saxos have established a more clear separation between colonizers and native population. I would compare what you mention about Mexico and Bolivia with how the decline of the native population in California accelerated after the independence of Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_of_Native_Californi...
Nobel for Economics Awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson
Totally not a coincidence

https://x.com/platoff/status/1737142050603086281
Caveat: this is not about neural network architectures.
When buying stuff, I use oldskool information like Consumer Report, the German TÜV, or the NYT WireCutter to inform myself.
>The media needs to stop blindly attributing this to "Elon Musk".

Musk's biographer tweeted the pages from his book <https://x.com/WalterIsaacson/status/1844870018351169942> discussing how in late 2020 Musk suggested, then insisted against considerable opposition from his engineers, that Superheavy be caught with chopsticks instead of landing on legs like Falcon 9.

(If this sounds familiar, also according to the book, Musk is the person who suggested and, against considerable opposition from his engineers, insisted on Starship switching to stainless steel instead of carbon fiber.

Hint: Musk was right and his engineers were wrong. Both times.)
It depends how proficient you're in Rust. Once Rust itself is not a difficulty for you, there's a lot of productivity gained from having a modern language with many conveniences, and great tooling.

Rust moves more bugs to compile time, so you will technically spend more time getting the code to compile, but in my experience in 99% of cases it's a time saving. And it lets you be more confident about a program correct by construction, rather than merely fuzzed and not observed to crash. The 1% of counter-examples is trying to be too clever with generic interfaces and hitting Rust's limits.
Many years ago, our project had a library that would link our Ada code to the low level operating system calls that are in C (network, shared libraries etc).

Once it was written the code was stable, but you bring back not so pleasant memories of building / testing. It might just be our make files were unnecessarily complex or we were building libraries not executables…
I wonder how well this technique works if the distribution of the training dataset between the diffusion model and the image encoder is quite different, for example if you use DinoV2 as the encoder but train the diffusion model on anime.
"BBS: The Documenary" by Jason Scott: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7nj3G6Jpv2G6Gp6NvN1k...

Well worth watching.
> Anti-nazism laws are unconstitutional. Constitution says that "any and all" censorship of political nature is prohibited. Nazism is a political party. Therefore censorship of nazism is prohibited. It's that simple.

There’s no censorship. You are allowed to say your mind and nobody can prevent you from doing it. Freedom to do something doesn’t imply impunity for committing crimes in the process of expressing your political beliefs.

> the extreme left

Brazil had a far-right president for four years. There’s zero far-left in mainstream politics in Brazil, unless you slide the Overton window so far to the right social democrats (such as PT) looks far-left and Bolsonaro looks like a moderate right-winger.
CPS might be the underlying structure, but that doesn't mean that CPS is the interface.
It’s a literal clone of starship, down to the flaps and grid fins.
It's definitely not the first GPU. The term was apparently coined by Sony 6 years prior to that for their own GPU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit

It's not even the first PCI card that did 3d graphics.

I won't deny that nVidia ran away with the market, but 3DFX was the first to succeed at making a discrete graphics card.
KDE 2 was the desktop environment I started using with Mandrake 8.0 in 2001. I absolutely loved KDE 3, it was my favorite desktop environment. When KDE 4 was released, I even designed a few Plasma themes, one of which aimed to bring back the quartz design of KDE 3. Currently, I am using macOS, but I often find myself reminiscing about the systems from the early 2000s. Those were truly special times in the world of desktop environments. Everything was free of bloatware back then, and we didn't need a ton of ad blockers for browsing the internet. We could use Kopete for chatting, or we were on IRC with Konversation. It was a different world altogether. In memory of those times, I’m going to download Kubuntu today and see where they stand currently. It will be interesting to explore the advancements and changes in the KDE environment since those early days!
It's not just smartphones, same thing can happen with any computer connected to the Internet, any computer NOT connected to the Internet (video games), a television, radio or even a Walkman (the last 3 typically not being an issue for the classroom for obvious reasons, but still potentially a tempting distraction to not do whatever you are supposed to be doing). Heck, even books / magazines can become that in some situations.
Thanks, good work on this extension.
Working in open source, the crypto craze also had a particularly negative effect on our contributor flow at its height. Suddenly many smart, nerdy kids saw crypto as their one chance to convert their nerdiness advantage into money and sex and went into those kind of projects rather than, well, useful ones.

It consumed GPUs and flesh-and-blood compute in equal numbers.
AFAIU there are no spaces either.
Hell ya, thanks for this!
The Broken Business of Finding a Job
The bet was definitely an afterthought, but definitely not made in bad faith. The claim of 50% improvement yoy in a long established category like batteries was just so outlandishly improbable to me, that it'd be willing to bet that that's not gonna happen.

There have definitely been improvements in that regard, just not in such a short period of time
Nobel economics prize goes to researchers of prosperity
Awardees:

Daron Acemoglu: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daron_Acemoglu>

Simon Johnson: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Johnson_(economist)>

James A. Robinson <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Robinson>