skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there an OS it's not horribly laggy on? Last time I used it you couldn't even get previews of things when you dragged them around, it would just degrade to a bounding box. Heaven forbid you have a scene with any complexity.

Every time I see an Inkscape update I skim it for "massive performance upgrades" and am invariably disappointed. Inkscape doesn't need features, it needs to not lag for 5 seconds when I open a menu, it needs to run at 100+fps when I'm editing paths.

EDIT: I installed the latest version (under W10) and while it doesn't degrade to bounding boxes it's still like 10fps and it leaves trailing copies of the item being dragged around the canvas while I'm dragging. Really disappointing.
Hi Peter,

Few months ago I've applied for F2A visa for my spouse from Russia. Official sources state processing times in California at 4 years plus.
I am 2 years away from obtaining a citizenship in US by which I then can do K1.

Would you advice to convert F2A to K1 visa in the future? How do I do that?
Is there a way to speed up the process at all?
You are correct even today. Inkscape is great but it’s a fraction of the utility that Illustrator offers.

The only people who would actually equate them are people not professionally using these tools everyday.

Even paid apps like affinity designer are a fraction of the functionality of Illustrator.

Again, a great product but people are just dead wrong if they compare them as an absolute.
at one point I couldn't access amazon at night.

I would get different captcha, one convoluted that wouldn't even load the required images.

And I would get the oops sorry dog page for everything.

I finally contacted amazon, gave them my (static) ip address and it was good.

In other locations, I have to solve a 6-distorted-letter captcha to log in, but that's the extent of it.
Some developers can see adding layer upon layer when developing software as bad. However, this essay gives examples of how these kinds of "bloated" solutions can be more efficient than more direct ones with fewer layers of abstraction. This is why I liked it, it seems a bit counterintuitive, but it makes sense.
This is missing a makefile to automate the manual installation steps
IMHO Krita has really become the cross platform open source darling for graphic editors. There are some things that are unintuitive but it's leagues better than GIMP.
Skew coordinates aren't orthogonal.

Skew coordinates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew_coordinates

Are the feature described with high-dimensional spaces really all 90° geometrically orthogonal?

How does the distance metric vary with feature order?

Do algorithmic outputs diverge or converge given variance in sequence order of all orthogonal axes?
Does it matter which order the dimensions are stated in; is the output sensitive to feature order, but does it converge regardless?

Re: superposition in this context, too

Are there multiple particles in the same space, or is it measuring a point-in-time sampling of the possible states of one particle?

(Can photons actually occupy the same point in spacetime? Can electrons? But the plenoptic function describes all light passing through a point or all of the space)

Expectation values are or are not good estimators of wave function outputs from discrete quantum circuits and real quantum systems.

To describe the products of the histogram PDFs
Apple's 2011 Patent on Dialog Assistants with Tools
Redirecting, forwarding, copying and other email rules being set by system administrators is normal. "Heinous" is grossly disingenuous.
New Jersey internet gambling revenue set record in Sept. at $208M
Correction: lost 72% of it's market cap, not "value"

Elon bought himself a media company that he is using to help his preferred presidential candidate get elected. If Elon/Trump are successful, I imagine that Elon himself will impute a lot "value" to the Twitter purchase

Hard to accurately value a "kingmaker" like Twitter in traditional finance terms, but Elon (and his backers who will get Tesla stock) do understand what is at stake.
I think the question is interesting because I've seen a number of people making claims such as "ChatGPT cannot do this/that".

No. ChatGPT as it currently stands can execute any possible program (within practical constraints: no infinite memory/time/etc.)
Those chips were designed and fabbed by Intel, not by Apple/TSMC respectively. That’s the relevant difference, not the instruction set.

The instruction set has only moderate impact on the chip’s frontend, and no impact on the backend. Most design decisions are unconstrained by the choice of instruction set.
Alignment only matters when you use a pointer. This is a question of if technically non compatible signatures are UB by them selves. Unaligned access is UB for sure, but even if everything is perfectly aligned they may still be UB according to the standard.

Example:

Lets say you have a function that takes a pointer to a 32 bit integer.

void my_function(int x)

But in an other file you declare it as a function taking a 32 bit float, and call it:

extern void my_function(float x);
...
my_function(&my_float);

This is very likely to work in almost all implementations. float and int have the same size and same alignment requirements, but the standard may still say its UB. So it is technically UB, but may be relied upon in practice.
This is why GitHub CodeQL and Co-Pilot assistance is working better for everyone? basically codeql uses variant of Prolog (datalog) to query source code to generate better results.
And im talking about the fact that there are people who are perfectly comfortable using tmux and vim, + browser window for most of their work, or something similar like i3wm. They can say that its the best possible UI layout, and their argument is just as valid as yours.

Except they don't claim it as science.
But... why not just let people install open source software as is? Stripping down the OS to "just" the browser leaves most of the OS. At that point we're arbitrarily restricting users to apps that run in the browser for no real reason or benefit.
There is that general (much bigger) issue with fragmentation as well. But that's mostly seperate from 'I also need to stick a devicetree on my boot media'.

(I do know the pain of non-mainline linux SBCs, and I make some effort to avoid it now: even if it means using old chips, I'll very strongly prefer one with mainline support, note that raspberry pi is also pretty behind on getting their support upstream, even the pi 4 is still lagging, and the pi 5 isn't even usable. They just have some vaguely decent support for their fork)
Tesla's not doing so well either. SpaceX is very good at launching (and catching) rockets, but that's mostly Gwynne Shotwell.
Always glad to see Factor in the feed. Would love to see it get a type system though.
Gave up white rice years ago, tried brown rice but then remembered barley! It has many health benefits, is easily digested (unlike brown rice) and 20 - 25% protein!
https://www.nutritionadvance.com/barley-nutrition/
For reference, in the cat realm a greeble is what cats are looking at when they stare up at the ceiling or wall and there is nothing there. At least that you can see.

So instead of the real cat staring at the imaginary greeble, we the reader are the real greeble staring at the imaginary cat. Who is staring back because it can see us.
The thing is classical chess (unlike eg; go) is essentially "solved" when run on computers capable of extreme depth. Modern chess engines play essentially flawlessly.
YESSSS!

{
"email": "example+foo@emaildetective1.io",
"user": "example+foo",
"domain": "emaildetective1.io",
"valid_email": true,
"valid_spf": false,
"valid_dmarc": false,
"valid_mx": false,
"valid_tld": true,
"nonsense": false,
"role": false,
"free": false,
"disposable": false,
"score": 60,
"suspicion_rating": "HIGH"
}

So many websites refuse to let put in a tracking breadcrumb with a +name.

Cool stuff
Our society is like an old software project where we have hacked things on (bureaucratically) to address bugs one by one until we are left with an insane hydra system.

Build schools is expensive because of everything but building the school. Surveying the land. Getting approval for noise and traffic. Ecological impact studies. Permits for everything. Minor plan changes requiring re-approval of everything. Not to mention all the legal parameters and latent threats around every decision.

Yes, corruption flourishes in red tape. But it is not exactly the source of the problem.
> It can be hard to evaluate the worthiness of foreign educational institutions, but certs, such as those for AWS and GCP can be great.

Does that imply I can be competitive in the job market even without a formal CS education? Or are degrees still required?

I'm also brazilian and growing increasingly pessimistic and disillusioned about this country and its future.
Can't say about Windows but on Linux - it works flawlessly since ages.
One not-oft-mentioned thing melatonin seems to do (at least in my own experience) is that it cancels out the effects of earlier-consumed caffeine in preventing sleep. So if you're overtired and awake only because of caffeine, melatonin will put you out pretty quickly.
Tesla's market cap is 692.15 billion, which is about 692 billion higher than it was when Elon started his involvement with it.
That's a lot of trust for a project that is proud for having it tested with one browser, and wants to hear from you on Facebook or Discord. My trust in such a project would be quite minimal.
That would have been a tough environment to walk into, having your instincts shout at you there was a fight about break out.

I think there are a lot more than just two types of intimate spaces for men.

The best part is people have the ability to create new spaces, then keep iterating and trying new ideas. And even more excitingly they aren’t static, they can change and adapt to what the people in the group need.

To use a part of your anecdote, that therapy group you went to sounded like not what you wanted or needed at the time. But one could imagine another guy walking in and see the facilitator with earrings and lipstick and say to themselves “oh this is amazing, I feel safe here knowing I can wear makeup and won’t be ridiculed”

It’s different for everyone.

Each individual has a responsibility to create and shape the world to be better, depending on their capacity, sphere of influence and ability to do so.

Right now my capacity is very low, so I’m depending on others for support.

But in the future I very much hope to set up groups or ways for guys to connect in a way that fits what I wish I had access to.

One specific example of when I’ve these this implemented exceptionally well is a wood working group I saw. The premise is you come and do carpentry, but what really happens is trust is built up over time. At some point an thereshold is reached where newer people feel safe enough to share, and then were able to talk about things going on in their life and get some practical support and advice.

It’s so rare so see such an effective blend of what you described as the extremes of brotherhood or therapy sessions.
Google Chrome is plenty to open up text links
I think blocking traffic from a domain into your inbox would be a better way to handle this without regulation.
Boeing really needs to get a break pretty soon.

Feels like they broke a mirror and have 7 years of continuous bad luck.
You just summarized the last 35 years of my life.
It's not quite as bad. At least A8C doesn't ask you to talk about what grades you got in high school.
> Mullenweg offered Automattic employees six months of pay or $30,000, whichever was higher, with the stipulation that they would lose access to their work logins that same evening and would not be eligible for rehire. One hundred and fifty-nine people took the offer and left.

I can't imagine what that does to a company's output. What happens to everything those 159 people were working on? Surely not everyone else had intimate knowledge of their work, unless they were just customer support staff or something.

Also, often the people who leave at the drop of a hat are the more talented ones because they're not (or less) worried about the financial repercussions of doing so knowing they can get work elsewhere.
Cost-benefit analysis exposes 'bogus' promises of palm oil riches for Papuans
hmm, I am not certain that I prefer the option without the source listed. For example, I might prefer an image from Wikipedia over another image. Or if I am searching for a map and the URL has the word 'historical' I would not choose that one. etc.

It depends on what I am searching for and why I want to use it.
But the point of healthcare is to help people not die, regardless of if they can pay or not. We have a problem then, because outcomes don't line up.

If anything, healthcare and insurance have almost completely perpendicular incentives. No wonder then we have the world's most inefficient system.
It must not be that difficult as I use it every day in my Vite project. To be clear I am no Vite evangelist, but it does maintain existing state when it live reloads modules, it doesn't just refresh the page.
There's a good chance the recruiter was just spamming anyone and everyone they could find. At least 50% of the cold recruiter messages I've gotten have been for roles that had nothing to do with my background.
Making mailing lists nicer: Writing a mail extension for macOS with MailKit
CyberChef: A web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis
At least sometimes, it really helps for a test to say WHY it is done that way. I had a case where I needed to change some existing code, and all the unit tests passed but one. The author was unavailable. It was very unclear whether I should change the test. I asked around. I was about to commit the changes to the code and test when someone came back from vacation and helpfully explained. I hope I added a useful comment.
How Prada's fancy Artemis III spacesuits work
Unless you’re legally required to handle clients’ data in the country in which they reside (more and more common), an on-prem have almost always been cheaper to run (and often faster).

It does require people with different skills to run it, which has to be taken into account.

Perhaps one thing that on-prem is bad at is efficiency: historically, companies often have too much capacity, mostly to cover for peaks of activity, but this leads to lower average server utilisation.
If you look closer, Kagi uses Mojeek for organic results, not images

I guess to me anyway, images/news etc is a sideshow to the wider web, as in a crawler/indexer and not a pretendy meta search.
Human Lifespan Might Be About to Hit a Ceiling, Experts Say – Smithsonian
The comments' default remedy is tribal: "The only moral content is my content." We sort of used to live in that world under the studio and TV networks system. Most consumers would say, it was not so bad, maybe better even.

Of course, the commenter never says this, living in the world today, where the writing he likes would never be published by the New York Times like it is on Twitter, the TV he likes would never be offered for free like it is on YouTube, and the music he likes would never been offered for pennies on Spotify. Some meaningful creators will lose from every remedy you could think of, where Google "something somethings" AI. Maybe the root problem is generalizing.
Parquet itself is actually not that interesting. It should be able to read (and even write) Iceberg tables.

Also, how does it compare to pg_duckdb (which adds DuckDB execution to Postgres including reading parquet and Iceberg), or duck_fdw (which wraps a DuckDB database, which can be in memory and only pass-through Iceberg/Parquet tables)?
I quit my last job on the spot without a new job lined up. Place wa horrible, my manager made me feel horrible -- even when they had spent the previous 7 months praising me, they still had a way of making you feel absolutely miserable -- and I got to a place where I had to leave or very bad things would happen. I've been with my current employer for about 2 years now and I love it here, love the people, the work, the company. It was very hard to walk away from a job without secured income but it was absolutely the right decision.
This is like, imagine David Koresh's Branch Davidian cult took over Waco, and then the entirely of Texas CD17, and the Republican governor of Texas deliberately made space for the cult for electoral reasons. Later, Koresh starts a march towards Austin, making it as far as Temple, which he sacks before being turned back; the ensuing effort to apprehend him in Waco kills 5% of the its entire civilian population.

Who do I blame for this situation? There's a lot to go around. Certainly, I do not come out thinking Koresh's Branch Davidians were the victims. I am also not so much interested in the percentage of blame allocated to each culpable party; they're all awful.
I also wrote wrote an LLM to Prolog interpreter for a hackathon called "Logical".
With a few hours effort I'm sure it could be improved.

https://github.com/Hendler/logical

I think while LLMs may approach completeness here, it's good to have an interpretable system to audit/verify and reproduce results.
Sorry what? XD. What would you name it?
Probably the best tbh
Mullenweg just keeps digging. He is the only person I have ever seen interacting in such a petty manner that he made a company backed by Private Equity look like a victim. If Trademark was the issue, why did it take him over a decade ? Why is he not going after all the other gazillion WP providers that use similar phrase on their website ? We all know the answer. The only company (WP Engine) that beat his for profit company (wordpress.com). He is just salty.
I'm not trying to solve the issue, just warning people pocketbook is not that good.

The manual on my device also mentions the cloud, but it is just wrong. I think they have regional partners with ebook stores that customize it.

Though I think you are right it isn't Android and I misremembered. I thought thats why it has a dual core cpu and make wonder why it's so slow after boot until it's ready to turn pages.
> There was no meaningful "peace deal" because there were no meaningful concessions on the root cause: the settlement policy.

I don't understand what you mean. The negotiation was to come to an agreement to stop settlement activity and give all the territory to the Palestinians.

Are you saying the problem is that there were no concessions before the negotiations had reached an agreement? That is not how negotiations typically work.

> My case is very simple: there needs to be a significant compromise on the settlement policy first, and only then can any meaningful agreement be reached and violence be reduced.

Look, I agree that settlement activity should stop. Many Israelis agree and don't want settlement activity to continue.

The problem is that many Israelis are convinced, very likely correctly, that undoing settlements without a deal will cause far more violence to happen to Israel. This is exactly what happened with Gaza - a unilateral withdrawal of army and settlements, before any negotiated agreement, led to Gaza turning into a launching pad of rockets on Israel.

I still think the settler violence happening today in the WB is abhorrent, all new settlements must cease immediately, etc. I'm totally with you there. I don't know if it'll happen - we may be too far gone at this stage.

In any case, Palestinian violence has basically always backfired on Palestinians. Even if you can somehow accept it morally (which you absolutely shouldn't), the end result is that every single bad condition of the Palestinians has been the direct result of violence, including the horrific condition of Gaza right now. Maybe trying a different approach like renouncing violence is just a good idea?
I used to fall into the trap of always wanting to build everything myself, which ironically led to me building a framework so I wouldn't have to do that over and over. So I agree totally.

Every "framework" available when I started with Node seemed to be a collection of loose opinions regarding Node best practices, lightly dusted with syntactic sugar. Functionality I considered table stakes for web apps usually involved choosing from several middleware packages with different maintainers and different syntax. Didn't like it.

Thanks for the compliments. I hope the community sees the value.
The conversion is from an F2A to an immediate relative green card application. This will be the fastest path. You would want to notify the U.S. Consulate in Russia when you become a U.S. citizen. The K-1 is for fiances of U.S. citizens, not spouses of U.S. citizens. Has the I-130 already been approved?
NLRB has ruled many times on companies "prohibiting discussing of salaries while using company property and company time", virtually always striking down the prohibitions and in many cases sanctioning companies for trying to impose them. Labor organizing activity is absolutely allowed to happen on company property and company time. It would be impossible otherwise at many workplaces. Think about auto factories, coal mines, offshore oil platforms, etc., especially before email.
> Maybe he's right about WP Engine, but the way he has and continues to handle everything has been disastrous.

As forseen by silicon valley
Matt has a history of doing this. There was a similar blowup at Tumblr (owned by Automattic) earlier this year [1] where Matt did the same thing, DM'ing users criticizing him and even tweeting out the private handles of the user he was beefing with.

1: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/tumblr-ceo-publicly-spars-...
Why would we ever use the obscenely expensive channel? Surely there are ways to solve this with only the single-bit channel?

Some error correction codes, some cryptographic hash checksums, and now you have a free trustworthy bidirectional bitstream.
At first glance, the concept appears to serve as the basis for a 'portable' magnetic field generator, which could be installed on an interplanetary spacecraft.
Show HN: Did – Decentralized global social feed
I wonder if he reads Casey Handmer blog, or maybe got a snippet of that article? :) Finally important figures are talking sense about SDS program.
Hi I wonder how valuable patents are for EB/O visas? I have worked 10+ in a global tech company, through which I am named on about 20 US patents. I don't have external visibility except for through those patents.
How are patents judged when it comes to these visas? Are they enough to prove what needs to be proven?
>You can see exactly what our software does, how it handles your data, and verify that there’s no funny business going on.

I certainly don't understand what the code does. It needs to be heavily commented and include clear explanations for each function, such that a layman (or lawyer) could interpret it. Pasting into chatGPT gave a pretty clear summary of it's purpose and uses, so I imagine that could be automated.
Its not about pushing anything alternative as "the best". Its about saying that you prefer Mac OS based on your personal preferences and not trying to make up bullshit objective reasons for it like they are fact of the world, which Apple users tend to do A LOT, and I don't really understand why.

Like I use Windows solely, because I need to run CAD programs, I like to Game, and I use WSL2 for development purposes, and I prefer having everything in one place. But Im not going to make up reasons why its the "best" because it does all of that.
I don’t see how that is relevant? Switching job is a fairly painful process.
Doesn’t mean I’m not in it for the money.
The prices you're getting are fake, whether you know it or not. Because you're not the one paying.

This is why it's sometimes cheaper to have no insurance than insurance.
Since the people making the innovations and regulations are different, I fear there’s no way to implement regulation that doesn’t lead to suboptimal results.

And to be clear, when I say suboptimal results I mean misery and death in large quantities.
A taste of Go code generator magic: a quick guide to getting started