skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only follow the Hacker News guidelines. (I see the whole article because I pay for it, but there are other ways.)

If you don't like the Hacker News guidelines about links to paywalled sites, you're welcome to try any of the other websites on the Internet.
How does this hurt the US?
It feels like magic to be able to highlight and translate the Russian and Japanese birds on macOS. Japanese bird: "Help me!" Russian bird: "I understand!" And I do too!

There are a couple more in this series here: https://rabbitwaves.ca/site/about.html
The subtext comes off like that movie with Tom Hanks trying to jump off the Empire State Building because of the nefarious influence of dungeons and dragons.

It sounds like mom let her 9th grade kid completely detach from reality and pour himself into a Game of Thrones chatbot. Now she wants to sue. I am bearish on AI adoption but this just seems like a total capitulation of parental responsibility.
For reviewers they are usually least bad, but still bad. For example Manuscript Central still requires pop-ups and can be more or less impossible to use with mobile devices. It also has separate login for all journals and password rules that makes it very common for people (including me) to have to reset the password every time they need to log in.

For editors they tend to be a lot worse. E.g. with Editorial Manager adding reviewers is really painful and the search is totally useless. The process to add and be added as a reviewer takes multiple messages in a quite confusing process. Decision letters are sent with bizarre template hacks that are really easy to mess up.

Some submission systems still require formatting of images etc to some arcane formats like tiff and eps. Or to have figures and captions as separate pages. These cause significant work for submitters and are a disaster to review.

Compared to typical enterprise systems they could be even worse, but I'd say still worse than average in that class too.

Don't know if these are a significant barrier. For me they have been and I've resigned as an editor due to the unusability. But I find that they easily cause enough loss in time and nerves of authors, reviewers and editors to be of negative value.
A good example is TiDB's implementation of vector indexes. TIDB is also a MySQL-compatible distributed transactional database, which separates the storage engine for vector indexes from the transactional store through an extra replica in its OLAP engine (via TiFlash), avoiding resource contention.
long-long time ago (think end of last century) friend of mine take contract to automatize gas-pump stations on long gas pipe. Stations were here, with analog gauges and valves.

Offer from some "big" business with digital / connected gauges and motorized valves were too much for customer. He wanted much, much cheaper.

There were special modems, which use pipe as data line (think something like 150 baud shared between all stations).

So, solution implemented by my friend was like:

1) Electric motor with gearbox to motorize valves, it was cheap, as standard electric motors are cheap and customer has its own mechanical shop, so everything was cobbled in-house from standard of-the-shelf components.

2) Modem for each station (it was inevitable)

3) Laptop with B/W web cam on each station.

4) Software which can read gauges from webcam shots.

5) Software which transmit values from all stations to central station and allows to manipulate valves from central station (no automation here, 24/7 human operators)

Laptops and cameras were not cheap from personal point of view, but like x100 cheaper than special gauges and valves offered by gas-pipe equipment manufacturer.

It was not called "computer vision" at this time.
How to Spot Red Flags When Interviewing for an Engineering Manager Position
noice. i’m working on a similar cli tool for the octatrack.

everyone has done GUI apps for octatrack sample chains so far and GUIs are a right pain when you’e got like 50+ chains to make in a batch.
updated June 2024

Update: Today, marking the 56th anniversary...1966

Please forgive my pedantry but 58th. It was a busy year.
I disagree with "there's really no reason". The reason is so that app developers can easily recompile existing apps for their platform with some minimal changes. If their system is completely incompatible, then it's probably a much bigger effort to build apps from scratch and many companies might not do it.
It is very easy to make a Brotli file that would give the entire Brotli built-in dictionary when extracted, just call this JS function to get the base64-encoded file:

function makeBrotliPreset_COMPACT() {
let r=0,b=0,n=0,z=0,w,d,e,f=i=>{for(n+=i;n>7;n-=8)r.push(b&255),b>>=8};
[40,152,97,209,26,138,12,124,68,179,18,73,128,184,45,100,156,211,1,28,56].map((v,i)=>{
for(w=0;w<(32<<v%7);z+=4+i) {
d=z+w++;
for(e=0;d>>e+2;d-=2<<++e);
b|=(e*8738&4740)%63*32+v/7<<n;f(9);
b|=d%(2<<e)*2+(d>>e+1)<<n;f(e+2);
}
});
return'U5/fAQA4OCClQ2D/NdDb5IaNGzcQ'+btoa(String.fromCharCode(...r,b));
}

Don't ask me why.
He is talking about the difference between intension and extension. The properties "creature with a heart" and "creature with kidneys" are different, even though they may have the same extension (if the set of creatures with a heart and the set of creatures with a kidney happen to be the same). This also applies to relations of arbitrary arity. In mathematics everything is usually treated as extensional, because all the mathematical objects, like numbers, exist "necessarily". This is not the case for other objects, where things could be the same (like the set of creatures with heart and the set of creatures with kidneys) but they aren't necessarily the same. It's possible that there is a creature with heart but without kidneys. Though even in mathematics, properties that define the same objects are often not trivially equivalent: they are necessarily equivalent, but it may take a complex proof to show that they are.
Hundreds Of Millions Of Entities
They need to hire a firm with experience in operationalizing the existing market synergies that Boeing already possesses to maximize profit opportunities.

Normally I'd suggest firing all of the experienced, well-paid staff and offshoring as much of the work as possible. It appears that may have already happened however.
But if it's a predefined list of flows, you can just throw Selenium/Puppeteer/Playwright/whatever other automation tool at it, rather than relying on an unstable AI that will do different things every time.

This is just a solution in search of a problem. AIs aren't reliable enough if the content changes constantly since it'll just click on the "close my account" button for no reason half the time, while a legacy website with no changes is much easier to program a tool like Selenium around than relying on the AI that will still be making random choices half the time.
> what happened with piano rolls, with records, with radio, and with cable—isn’t that copyright holders squash the new technology. Instead, they cut a deal and start making money from it.

> “History has shown that time and market forces often provide equilibrium in balancing interests,” Wu writes.

It is completely braindead to argue that market forces had anything to do with compulsory licensing. It is a matter determined by courts in the public interest.
Only do this for big corporate apps. The little guys are struggling just to keep their heads above the water because Apple punishes them if they aren't getting reviews.
I started work and abandoned a small clone of this wonderful game a long time ago

https://github.com/nibrahim/Devious-machinations
Depends on what you are optimizing for.

Long term value, I agree.

Fundraising, hard disagree.
I will admit that MC is pretty annoying. Particularly the issue of having separate login/passwords for all journals. I haven't been in the position of Editor at this point, so I can't speak from that perspective.

I haven't yet run into submissions systems as arcane as those you mention in terms of format requirements, but that does indeed sound very messy and I hope I never see it.
Loved del.icio.us. This is a pet peeve of mine, that proper tagging (with AND & filtering properly implemented) is rare in software. Tagging peaked with del.icio.us.
The Open Source Initiative is a hypocritical organization that tried to trademark the term "Open Source" and was denied because they don't control the term and have no stewardship over it. Your interpretation is not accepted by the overwhelming majority of "experts in software engineering" (whatever that means), and I don't know of any way to quantify your claim either. What you are referring to is most likely FOSS, which is a more rigidly defined thing. Open Source, to most people, is a colloquial term that simply means that the source is available to be viewed.
I was replying to this:
>The issue with some college programs is that they focus more on getting students to pay for degrees than on preparing them for the future.

I agree that we oversell the value of a collage degree. To me it feels like that some point in the 80's or 90's that everyone in the US decided that collage was "this one simple trick to get rich" that they had to have their children try out. I would note that this occurred at the same time that we decided that we needed to move to a service economy rather than a manufacturing economy.

I think trying to tie "the usefulness" to a loan that is being used to impart general knowledge on the basis of job prospects is going to be very hard.

For example, in the early 90's a degree in Network Engineering would be rated a a high risk as there would not be many jobs available for those with that skill set. Fast forward 10 years and the internet is the hottest thing on the market.

There are examples in the opposite direction as well, where there are fields that were booming and suddenly went bust. Mining Engineer for example when looking at coal mines.

You seem to be looking at things from a top down command point of view where our society is operating as more of a bottom push driven system.
US says evidence shows North Korea has troops in Russia for Ukraine war
Obligatory XKCD mention: https://xkcd.com/927/
I've been a mobile developer for the past 10 years and my overall belief is that mobile app development has slower growth and companies with the mobile team are investing less on mobile Dev or testing+tooling+education. Do you think the market is still hot once it was to use your product?
We all know the answer to that. NOPE. We take the short end of the stick as always.
> Now, if aesthetic is the primary factor here, the CB probably trumps the F150

there is no accounting for taste, and IMO all teslas are ugly as sin

it's an ugly, overweight, overpriced meme car hyped by tech bros and internet bots. it can't truck, in any meaningful sense, and can't even handle carwashes. like a 2017 Mazda 3 is more rugged and reliable.
Sorry for that, you’re right. For some applications, the RasPi is a good choice. I was just trying to make the point that for private use where price is important and other factors are secondary, a refurbished thin client is probably better than a Pi.

And I prefer a refurbished thin client over a new n100 because for my application, the thin client I need is much cheaper than any n100 PC I could find.
All airplane manufacturers have giant supply chains spanning countries… Airbus just considers some of them maybe a bit more "integrated". I.e. the Spanish wing-skin manufacturing unit could just be a separate company.

btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter [ed. wrong link]
It's infuriating that high compensation comes with zero responsibility. Broken system.
Everything local on my 2015 laptop is fine, but the web, it's super laggy.
Inlined micro instructions, at that, with a special flag to prevent the CPU skipping over zero runs in multipliers.
At this point the Play Store is probably more valuable than Android for phone makers. It doesn't matter that Huawei has a new operating system, if it has no apps, or just lack the ones people really need.

Depending on the country that's going to be some mobile payment options, banking apps, social media or government ID. If even one of those are missing, people will pick another brand, something with the Play Store.
we are already extracting a lot of resources around the mobile bay. i recommend that you do some research before you post knee jerk contrarianism comments
looks like the terrible car that Homer designed in The Simpsons
Can't let people know about their new "Epstein replacement" but honestly there were probably 10 others this whole time even when Epstein's was alive
Just find an employee within the company who is exceptional at both management and engineering and promote him or her to CEO.
How do you do this with other DBs?
Sure but they've had time to refine theirs, and MacOS is based on MACH/XNU and OpenBSD, Huawei HarmonyOS NEXT is apparently fully new, so lots of ways things could go wrong
First wheel may have been invented 6k years ago in the Carpathian Mountains
Is it possible to record the user screen and just generate a test case. I believe that's most efficient way IMO
Using a BCI with LLM for enabling ALS patients to speak again with family
Halo, developed by Unbabel, combines a non invasive BCI with an LLM to enable ALS patients to regain the ability to talk with loved ones. The search for a CEO is on.
The browsing-through-relationships features is very, very, cool. One-click on "related rows" saves me a ton of time every day.
Remind us, who's running Afghanistan today?
Scientists successfully revive pig's brain an hour after its death
Whats the point of even making music if you're gonna pay for hosting of music no one to even listens to? Bandcamp, Soundcloud, etc. are free for artists, and the barrier to entry is so low a nine year old can get started by themselves (I've seen it).

No need to gatekeep. There's both a use and a market for platforms. This does not invalidate the benefits of self-hosting, which many artists wouldn't even see.
Excel: the universal Enterprise Resource Planning tool! Not exactly liked by the developer crowd, I know (and sometimes even for good reasons), but still a mostly-useful force to be reckoned with.

Also a technical achievement for the history books (in the DOS era, Lotus 1-2-3 truly pushed the envelope and was the reason for early 'extended memory' standards, but on both Mac and Windows, Excel truly shined, allowing much larger sheets than were possible before, despite the meager hardware resources available).

Also, a true source of feature innovation. 'Autofill', first seen in 1992, was possibly the first 'AI' (and yeah I know), and even the features that were absolutely useless (like the ability to modify sheet values by manipulating a graph, introduced in Office 95, which I remember demo-ing to great applause during the European intro tour) made a mark, as did the UI.

Of all the current 'Office'-style apps, Excel is the only one that is probably still irreplaceable for me. And yeah, I know, it messes up CSV imports by default, which has reportedly set back DNA research by hundreds of years, but that's just a matter of teaching future scientists to use Data/From Text-or-CSV as intended, and will thus sort itself out within the lifetime of this very useful product...
You're trying to trip me up on technicalities that are completely immaterial to my point.

Blind deference to the status quo illustrates poor critical thinking skills.
I initially thought this was going to be about the awesome 90s game [0]. Was a bit puzzled by the date in brackets but I was wrong in my assumption.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbSMKGQ_rU
Yes, with a very limited portfolio and mainly shipping to end-users, after breaking compatibility on every major release for 20 years before that.

---

If you expect that Huawei will:

delay a million-device mass-production for i.e. China Mobile because the project-team needs to wait for the platform-division to implement a fix in their common core and complete the entire release-process, for the project-team to then merge their code again on-top of this new release and start retesting the impact of all the other patches,

-> instead of:

the project-team just patching their fork of the platform, release a new build for China Mobile immediately and take a note to "deal with this later"

then you have not seen the reality of this industry yet.

Even Huawei's existing products are a multitude of forked and re-forked codebases with changes left and right, updated/outdated libraries and ever-pending merge-tasks. I don't expect this to suddenly change now
SuperHTML is here to rescue you from syntax errors, and it's FOSS
Gee, wouldn't want people to think too hard. Better come up with a false dilemma.
I made the mistake of touching on a complicated, important, and oft-contentious topic just before starting my work day. Not ghosting you, but I'll do my best to get back to this when I have the time required to offer a worthwhile response.
Note that this is about a documentary about the human body from 1975 (according to Wikipedia), not the video game that was released in 1993.

(Though for me the game definitely also was the first association.)
Heh. The spirit of what you are saying is true, but believe me - I've worked under plenty of PMs who develop the ideal customer-focused product vision, but whom cannot get anyone to follow their lead. Look around HN discussions and you see engineers talking about how worthless PMs are, how they just fill space, etc. You cannot be a product leader if nobody follows you. And someone wanting to go into a PM role should do it with an approach that doesn't land them in that "worthless PM" zone.

Remember that my answer was not "How to be a PM", it was "how to transition from dev to PM". We are talking about a dev wanting to make a change. You lose all the value of past experience if you tell them to just go be the standard PM. That is my bigger point - not to ignore the customer, but to use their existing knowledge to do it all, and to do it better. To be someone whom the customer will trust and whom the team will follow. To make the experience of building the product as important as the experience of using the product, resulting in the mythical "high-performing team" who is able to deliver the product vision that yes, you also will come up with.

Both sides matter. Neither can exist without the other. And someone who has 15 years of building experience can be amazing at the side that most PMs neglect, driving their delivery teams into the dystopian scrum-hell with which we all are too familiar. So while your points do have merit, they miss the uncommon opportunity of an engineer's skills being applied to the whole picture.

Think less about what they will be in 10 years, and more about what they can be great at in 10 weeks. That is why I focused on what I did.
A stock buyback only makes sense if they think the stock is undervalued, which I'm not sure is the case...
I don't think it's wrong in an ethical sense as long as you aren't violating an agreement by doing so. I think it's very unwise, though, regardless.
Totally.

TIL 2024: Systems justification theory

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

https://www.volts.wtf/p/why-social-change-is-so-excruciating...

I wish I'd know anything about this stuff back during the 90's "learning organization" mania. I wasted so much of my life believing I/we could make things better (head on).
> Why do the top 50% fund nearly all of the government (97% of all taxes)?

That's a flat out lie - that's not "all taxes", that's only one tax - Federal income. That's only about half what the IRS takes in (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/who-pays-...), and then there's stuff like state, local, and non-IRS taxes like gasoline.

> The top 25% pay around 90% of all income taxes.

Guess what percentage of the wealth they hoover up.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...

The top 0.1% holds 1.76T in wealth; the bottom 50% holds 0.71T. The top 10% hold more wealth than the remaining 90%.
That... doesn't sound like HIIT. HIIT shouldn't average out to anaerobic heart rate ranges, otherwise you really lose the benefit of keeping your heart engaged in aerobic ranges during the rests. And to be honest, HIIT used for recreation shouldn't even peak in the elevated ranges above 167 bpm, if you're talking about doing it safely over years for health. Higher than that might be effective in training to increase aerobic capacity or lower your overall heart rate, but may damage your heart over time.

The effect of taking those controls on HIIT should result in reducing the autonomic stress response of /all/ exercise on heart rate, not increasing it. The demonstrated effect of HIIT is being able to efficiently scale aerobic capacity without increasing the time required and prolonged physical stress on the body. That's why Olympic athletes have been using interval training for a century, and from the 90s to this day, have used HIIT techniques like Tabata to increase their overall ability to exercise for a long duration, without having to actually commit to exercising for repeated long durations.

I'm not sure where you got that piece of information about loads of people with great anaerobic "metabolism" vs aerobic "metabolism". It would truly be very difficult, but not impossible to consistently raise your anaerobic capacity, (which I'm guessing is the implied relation to processing lactic acid efficiently as a fuel source for exercise?) but not raise your aerobic capacity also. Most of the ways I have seen that involve some kind of ketosis, or something that would otherwise deprive the body of the baseline glucose to drive aerobic capacity up in tandem with anaerobic capacity (because there's just not available excess glucose to store as glycogen in muscles beyond basal mechanical muscle operation and may lead to atrophy from burning muscle as a fuel source a.k.a. awful orange piss). And generally you would have a hard time building up extra muscle in that state as well, so it would be generally not advisable/possibly extremely dangerous to do so without proper diet and nutrition.

disclaimer - I am not an exercise physiologist or certified in any way. I'm an idiot on the internet, so please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or don't have it quite right
> Why would they outbid each other to waste more public or non profit money?

Because like it or not, even public and non-profit institutions are in competition with one another. Maybe not for money specifically, but prestige, notoriety and having access to single “one-of-a-kind” items. All of those bring more attention, publicity and funding.

If you want to see or review the original drafts of an author, you can only do that at the single location that has those papers and documentation. Every one of these things is worth exactly as much as they will bring in in additional funding and notoriety. If these institutions are being snowed it is because of their own hubris and overestimation of the value of the artifacts in question.

But my (limited) understanding is this sort of arbitrary pricing, valuations and “just this side of legal/ethical if you don’t ask too many questions” is par for the course in any museum/artifact business. History once it passes out of memory is all about stories. And the value of any given item is how good of a story it can be made to tell, and how that story will bring in audiences. The skeleton of a crocodile might be interesting, but not worth much. The skeleton of a crocodile that was estimated to have been alive at the end of the age of dinosaurs is a story to sell, even if to someone viewing the bones there’s no difference.
It makes me want to start several PRs with conflicting licenses.