skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no particular reason people need to use cursive rather than printing. I personally always struggled with cursive due to eye-hand coordination issues and teachers' demand for it just seemed like hazing (and I'm a boomer). Good riddance to cursive.
Fjall: LSM-based embeddable key-value storage engine written in safe Rust
Slow death is the worst kind. We'd have wonderful lives, our grandchildren may too, but their grandchildren is a ???

I am still amazed that modern fossil fuels only really took off in 20th century.

We found Pandora's box of cheap portable energy. That could be our slow demise.

But who cares, we'll be long dead before it becomes a problem for us.
"Hidden APIs" is clickbait; VS Code is open source. Unless they're saying the published VS Code binaries are somehow altered to offer the APIs that are not otherwise available in the open source repository (which is not the case).
I learned about it when they knocked on my door (UK). Said I didn’t have a TV to which they replied they’d like to look around inside to confirm. LOL no.
Note that the technical term for this is “just”.
The comparisons are to show how other professions have a common level of benefit. On the overall market, RTO is not exceptional and it is understandable why employers for a particular field would be hesitant to grant WFH as an added benefit on top of already provided ones. As it turns out, even for the software field, this is not something easily granted.
Yeah not happening here. I am Adobe and Apple's bitch.

I mean I'd really like to but the software I use just isn't there.
You are welcome. I probably don't know the full picture though, but I think the biggest difference between now() and now() - 12 YEAR is that digital surveillance is way more advanced. Other than that, I don't think the logic changes. CCP has been learning from USSR's experience and successfully converted itself away from an ideological party many years ago. It started around the early 90s and took about a couple of decades for it to happen.
It's literally the explanation. The only identification we have now is "this local part is often used by an AI model" and "this global structure is often used by an AI model". There's nothing more fancy about it. The heatmap would literally just point out "this part is suspiciously unlikely" - that's the explanation because that's the classification systems use.
I care a lot about the environment, and worked in climate tech for 7 years. I also am very hopeful for AI's contributions.

When we say that AI will help save the environment, I can see short term gains in things like nuclear energy expansion and improvement, better educational opportunities, robotic labor and other efficiency automations, etc. On ecosystems and biodiversity, I don't see a clear path.

AI can improve our understanding, but a systems collapse requires very complex bio-chemical systems that are all interdependent. Maybe we all live in bubbles of AI controlled environments post Holocene, but we rely on larger earth systems that will be difficult to rebuild post collapse.

Does anyone else worry that AI will not be rapid or sufficiently impactful to deal with ecosystem collapse?
Used code project for over 10 years, wrote 88 articles & now there is no way to stay in contact with all those kind readers and writers.
Really too bad.
The explanation is that this contracted out to Capita, which is the go to outsourcing company for UK government for tasks where a capacity for self reflection would be a disadvantage.
I used to be a TV-free non-license-holding resident and found the constant accusations of criminality from "TV Licensing" (the BBC) infuriating. So I'm pre-disposed to be sympathetic to his crusade. Nice to see others enjoy it too.
It's so unfortunate that this effort is still alive. The ACM canceled its involvement for excellent reasons which are worth reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815071233/http://www.acm.or...

It's probably also worth reading Dijkstra's assessment of the "software engineering" field (roughly coextensive with what the SWEBOK attempts to cover) from EWD1036, 36 years ago.

> Software engineering, of course, presents itself as another worthy cause, but that is eyewash: if you carefully read its literature and analyse what its devotees actually do, you will discover that software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot.".

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF

The ACM's criticisms, however, are much harsher and much more closely focused on the ill-conceived SWEBOK project.

The IEEE's continued involvement calls the IEEE's own credibility and integrity into question—as do its continued opposition to open-access publishing and its recent history of publishing embarrassingly incompetent technical misinformation in IEEE Spectrum (cf., e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41593788, though there are many other examples). What is going on at IEEE?
> I used "perfect pitch" in the ordinary way ordinary people ordinarily use the phrase.

I’m a little confused by what you are saying here, because most people who say “perfect pitch” mean that you can tell which note is being played in isolation. That’s what “perfect pitch” means to ordinary people, as far as I can tell.

It’s something you have or don’t have. Like, “I have perfect pitch” or “I don’t have perfect pitch”.

If you mean something other than that definition, maybe you could find some alternative way to express it because I don’t understand what meaning you are getting at. I’m not trying to be pedantic here, but “perfect pitch” is right there in the dictionary and it’s most commonly used to mean that you can recognize pitch without a reference, i.e., absolute pitch recognition.
Gross vs net.
I blame Elon Musk. He bought twitter and broke it.
Scotch tape. Those poor students couldn't afford duct tape!
Can confirm that it doesn't require an email these days. You can create an account and upload your recordings but otherwise no account needed

I've been more than happy with it's id abilities.

Maybe give it another try?
"Avian paleontologist on the brink of major discovery found dead from suicide of two claws in the back of the neck, very sad."
The Internet began on it's long path of Balkanization the moment people realized they can make money off of the Internet.
This. That malaria is not prevalent in the Southern U.S. (there's a reason the CDC is in Atlanta) is as much an economic choice as an epidemiological success story.
Seems to me if you see someone crossing the border illegally that’s only really useful if you can apprehend them before you lose track of them.

How would you propose to respond to detections, if the cameras all worked?
Thread premise began with the homeowner insulating the interior door.

Assuming that's done properly, the door should not leak humid air into the (likely uninsulated) exterior wall.

If anything, it's the currently uninsulated cooler doors that would be of concern. But, at least for the real life constructions I've seen, this has not been an issue.
the inbetweeners who are here aren't motivated to post about being in-between, which is why it reads that way, unfortunately.
Has Microsoft allowed Cursor to access the VSCode Marketplace? As far as I know, it is against the ToS for any editor other than VSCode to access it.
> Is migration the number one problem that Americans struggle with? Or even in the top ten concerns, your average American holds?

Per recent polling [1], it's the sixth most important issue. It's consistently been raised as one of the top concerns in polling data going back as far as I have political consciousness, although a decent part of the existence of that concern is effectively a dog whistle for racism.

> Is the border an actual problem though?

The border itself isn't the problem; the actual problem lays in the extremely fucked-up nature of the US immigration system (and the actual problems are almost nothing like what people are complaining about). Even for as long as immigration has been a major political concern in the US, the border "solutions" have for as long been lampooned for the fact that they are doing absolutely nothing to actually fix the problem, even as politicians double down on proposing harsher solutions to fix the thing that isn't the problem.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/09/09/issues-and-t...
Hi, Freenet's FAQ explains the renaming/rebranding here: [1]

Neither version of Freenet is designed for long-term archiving of large amounts of data so it probably isn't ideally suited to replacing archive.org, but we are planning to build decentralized alternatives to services like wikipedia on top of Freenet.

[1] https://freenet.org/faq/#why-was-freenet-rearchitected-and-r...
Take a look at videos on YouTube by ThunderF00t. SpaceX is pretty problematic. Currently, around 80% of SpaceX's rockets are dedicated to launching Starlink satellites. This is because they've already soaked up all the demand for satellite launches, and things like starship don't really have a reason for existing. Also, in spite of massive improvements in technology since the 1960s, they're vastly underperforming the track record of the Apollo program.

My view is that Tesla, SpaceX, etc. are just cults of personality. Sure, they've produced a non-zero amount of technological progress, but for the most part they're leading us to dead ends.
> Remember, in European countries students are admitted to study a specific subject at university, rather than being admitted to the university as a whole and expected to choose a major later on.

This is true in the US as well. You can change your major, but you are admitted into a College in the University. Moving to another College is not guaranteed if you later change your mind.
But then the government has a copy of your handwriting and may be able to use it in the future to incriminate you in some other setting.
> Everyone is reading this as intentional anti-competitive practices

Who cares about intention? Anti-competitive behavior is anti-competitive behavior.
There is also an interesting analysis about the control engineering perspective:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QHikx6kVvAo

It talks about how real time control system algorithms work with algorithms like like PID and MPC. I assume the SpaceX solution is likely one of the most advanced control systems in the world.
Agreed, but employment in software is not about effectiveness. Its about conformity. That is why the decision is a forced dichotomy.
It’s possible to be both critical of Microsoft’s past and also pleased at their last decade of efforts in OSS with things like vscode and typescript.
FP languages will give you the exact same abstraction (not that you'd want to use any on a device driver). And before OOP was hyped and pushed everywhere, you could already get the same thing, but better (not on C, of course).

The fact that you need objects to get this on your current language is a bug, not a feature.

(There is the one version of OOP that most people call "multi-agent systems" that would bring very good abstractions to a driver, but it's not C++'s OOP, and you'd need a heavyweight library to get it there.)
It’s not plainly obvious at all. Because the border is fucking huge, surrounded by a vast, inhospitable desert. It can be tunneled under and/or more simply just trafficked through the formal crossings.

There are some areas where cameras make sense. There are some areas where guards make sense. There are vast tracts where it’s an idiotic idea.

The bigger question though is whether other approaches besides just trying to catch and stop people could be better.
This sounds like something the Announcer voice from Portal 2 would say.
The few people I know in the Copilot team(s) (not necessarily VS Code) are laser focused on prioritizing features based on customer demand, not top-down guidance :)
Apple's AirPods Pro 2 Hearing Aid Test [video]
Sometimes silly stuff stays around for years because there isn't anyone obstinate enough to question it. Good to have a little check on reality every now and then.
There were two sets of rules to the Landlord's Game, monopolist and anti-monopolist. One of those was left out of Monopoly, making it harder to get the point across, I'd guess:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game#Descript...
Microsoft gives a product for free. It is free to add whatever features it wants in it. No?

(and that's why I use emacs...)
Is this true in general? I’ve had the opposite experience. I’d love to see some data if you have any.
If MS didn't owned VS code. What would they be doing?
@4:40: prescription hearing aids $2-7k vs. $250
That’s true; I didn’t realize it could go human -> mosquito -> human but according to Google you’re right.
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I think essentially you've described the methodology behind sites like https://brilliant.org/

IMHO: Sometimes I find that style of teaching really annoying, like when I'm trying to understand a topic at a high level before diving into some particular aspect of it. It is really hard to "drill down" with a lesson structured like that, where the curriculum assumes everyone is starting from the same place and wants to progress through the same materials at the same pace (it's too linear).

I would much prefer a reference-style document, like Wikipedia, but with interactive examples in specific paragraphs/sections.
Write it with your non dominant hand. Or your foot.
Ubuntu was my gateway into Linux, to which I'll be forever grateful. I really appreciated, and am doing to this day, the effort to make a nice OOTB Linux experience. I also think that the Ubuntu release names are the best in the Linux world.
Check my comment elsewhere (it's now bobbing up and down). Some things just take time, no need to assume malicious intent.
I remember that in Poland electronic repair shops offered companies removal of the TV demodulator from TV sets used as monitors. That was necessary for the TV not to count as a TV receiver and thus not to generate the fee liability.

I think there also were some large cases where a company who owned a car fleet had to pay for the car radios.
Yeah, it’s pretty annoying.

Publicly funded media is a great thing to have, and the intention of TV License is to fund it independently from interference from the government of the day. In Australia there’s frequently stories about governments cutting ABC funding, which TV License is supposed to avoid entirely.

But the implementation in practice just sucks. It’s baffling to think of how much money is wasted on administering this additional tax program, sending out all these pretty aggressive letters, maintaining the website, and paying the real “inspectors” to knock on peoples doors.
that seems fine to me. whatever they want to call it, if it applies to everybody it's just a tax and they're using tax dollars to fund some TV content and/or infrastrcture. that's all totally normal.

the absurd part is restricting that tax to only people who watch TV, and trying to do surveillance and enforcement to determine whether or not somebody is eligible for a TV tax.
This fee is hot topic in Germany. Our French friends also enjoy ARTE[1] but seem not to suffer anymore from this ridiculous fee.
Actually I’m surprised that the Swiss fee is even higher, despite everything in the Swiss is expensive.

[1] Big parts of our public television suck. But ARTE is awesome!

* Borgen
* Occupied
* Mit offenen Karten
* Karambolage
* …

PS: ARTE is watchable outside of France and Germany in a lot of countries in Europe. Poland, Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Czech and so on.
There's a variety of insecticide classes:

pyrethroids (e.g., permethrin),organochlorines (e.g., DDT); carbamates (e.g., bendiocarb); and organophosphates (e.g., malathion)

Pyrethroids are most often in bed nets, insecticide impregnated clothing, etc. How and what to apply these chemicals to is the subject of a lot of ongoing research.

Beyond this, there's just things like finding and eliminating mosquito breeding sites.
Eh not quite. Famously, you can fork VSCode, but you can't use the VSCode Extension Marketplace if you do, which loses a lot of the network effect benefits of the VSCode ecosystem. (As far as I know Cursor is flat out violating Microsoft's terms of service with respect to the extension marketplace).
Show HN: A best man speech generator
I guess by using the word "fair" I may have caused the discussion to focus on the wrong idea.

It is about what is acceptable to both the employer and the employee. The employee would like the freedom to WFH but the employer consider it a benefit that come at their cost and thus do not want to grant it. As shown by other professions, the idea of WFH is entirely new and rarely if ever granted or expected to most professionals. Software devs are in a unique position to demand and potentially getting it does not make it any less exceptional and a huge ask for the other side of the negotiation.

Whether it is really good or bad is not the point I am making.
They could have told him that though if it's the case, and the mystery would be solved. But there obviously wasn't any desire (or more charitably - time) on their end to really look into the reasoning or even understand the question.

----

Edit: I will share what I think is a nice a little counterpoint story here, from a business that is clearly still interested in understanding. I sent Lego an email a while ago:

I'm just wondering if you're able to tell me what the
tune is that the Lego Primo musical camel plays in set
number 2007. It's a set from 1998. We have the camel and
it plays a nice tune, but no-one seems to know what it is!

They replied a day later:

Thanks for getting in touch with us.

This is a really really really and I mean really interesting
question you got there for us. I have checked with all the
resources I have and come to a possible conclusion.

The Musical Camel – which in Denmark actually is called
‘PRIMO Dromedar'. 1st theory is that, One DUPLO-designer
says that the melody was composed by the designer that
created the camel but no one remembers the name who created
the Musical Camel. Another thing is, one of the engineer once
had a musical box that had the same melody but he is no
longer with us anymore and cannot provide us the answer.

I am so sorry that, at the end of the day I cannot provide
you with any name to the title. But I hope the facts can
make a good story for you to tell your friends.
Apologies if that’s how it came off, but that wasn’t what I was trying to say. Of course, in the moment the law is enforced, the enforcer “is the law.” That is true for any law, at any time, but it is not literally true. Enforcing a law unfairly can be (and often is) prosecuted as a crime, and gets either new laws passed or existing laws changed.

But that they can be sued in a court of law is actually a very big deal; it is the defining thing that makes them not the law.

A reminder of what I was responding to: “They issue the claim, the judgement and the penalty. And there is nothing you can do about it. Why? Because they are the law.”

That is plainly untrue. There is something you can do about it. You can sue them, precisely because they are not the law.
You are siddstepping the issue and answering in bad faith and you know it.

What do people actually want to hear from you?
Yes. LLM:s will make it easy. Even current solutions are probably good enough for them to do what what want, with an "acceptable" error margin.
I read this with a tongue in cheek tone.
Does throwaway account negates the arguments though?
This. LSP is a great example of something that also takes a while to flesh out because the problem space spans a lot (syntax, autocomplete, etc.)
As this website showcases there's a huge variety of these letters and they are clearly thrown together cheaply by people trying to make things official looking and scary. I wonder whether the line is simply an easy way to make things official looking. Or perhaps even they once did have something to return but the designers have continued to copy and paste it forward with not connection to any actual process.
Oi! Ave you got a loicense fer dat TV there mate?!
Yes, I submitted this sub-page as I thought the puzzle might interest (and amuse) the HN crowd. I'm sure the vast majority of people arrive at the site owner's main page though.
It's not progress. Every organization has "load bearing" employees that do the brunt of the real work, and everyone else just creates a cloud of confusion about what they actually do and why it's important. Most people are doing fake work. But unfortunately "fake work" jobs are the only way to fight back about the ever-optimizing, ever-extracting process of the free market. My job is needed because fuck you, I'm not going to be homeless. It's all a big game.

And with women, employers still haven't figured out how to afford women time for traditional responsibilities, like caring for their children, while still providing them with "equitable" workplace opportunities, while not being unfair to everyone else. Likely because it's just not possible. If I don't have kids and grind harder than women who take time to raise kids, why should we have equal opportunities? Makes you wonder if traditional gender roles were onto something. Yes we can do the same things, but no it is not wise to do so on a societal level.
The illegal immigration problem can't be solved purely by making sure that anyone coming into the country illegally cannot be employed. Too many jobs are paid under the table and while almost all of the people entering illegally today are economic migrants looking for higher paying jobs, in the very near future we'll be looking at floods of climate refugees who literally won't have homes to go back to. Having otherwise open borders or just handing out green cards to anyone who asks also fails to address security concerns. No matter what, we need to be able to monitor and regulate who is coming in to the country and what they are bringing in with them (drugs, weapons, human trafficking victims, etc).

I agree that we should be strongly enforcing employment eligibility as well and that it would do a lot of good, but doing that won't mean that we can just leave our borders open and unmonitored.
I can't play them. I need to login.
On the main page of the site, there's a scanned letter shown for every month, but it ends on April 2024. Does anyone know what happened to the author? If it weren't just tv licensing, I'd say it were worrying that there's been silence for the past several months after receiving such threatening letters.
Looked at the main site and, oh my goodness, they are very, very intimidating and threatening to get one to buy a license.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/the-zen-5-ga... looks pretty good to me, for everyday & gaming workloads.

The avx512 is a monster, if you can use it.

Power efficiency & scaling is also very nicely improved.

Intel's Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake aren't monster desktop cores but they bring Intel from way way way behind in power efficiency to pretty good. And the new iGPU is far better than anyone expected, and their drivers team just dropped another huge performance win last week.

I'm very impressed. AMD's server lineup is much more full top to bottom this time around too, and the cores & their io are absolutely well epic (epic joke).
True. Honestly, I thought it was a great film, and I’ve watched it a bunch of times. I thought it explored that topic quite well.
For some mysterious reason I have a much easier time sending accurate Morse code than receiving it. This was true when I first acquired a ham license in the 1950s and it's still true today (KE7ZZ).

I was able to solve a game example at 30 WPM, but it's only five characters repeated, not so difficult. And as someone here has commented, one's code skill declines through neglect.

But, as with Latin and a few other examples, once a given skill has lost all relevance to modern life, my interest increases.

A link to my Morse code page: https://arachnoid.com/morse_code/index.html