skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you can't explain something to people on a whiteboard? I've been typing since I was a child but I'm still perfectly able to write legibly. If I thought my handwriting was that bad I would try to fix it as not being able to whiteboard would be terrible.
Pipefail is useful and very hard to emulate on pure POSIX; you need to create named fifos, break the pipeline into individual redirections and check for error on each line.

And that is fine; but sometimes you want to treat a pipeline as a "single command" and then you can use pipefail to abort the pipeline on error. Then you can handle the error at the granularity of the entire pipeline without caring which part failed.

Lastly, I am confused as to the "silent" failures; maybe you are thinking of combining this with `set -e`? Then yes, that is bad and I recommend against the combination; but then again, I and most advanced scripters recommend against shotgunning `set -e` in the first place. Use it in specific portions of the script when appropriate, and use proper error handling otherwise.
I think I walked past this in a European capital city, could that have been your doorbell (city not specified for obvious reasons)? Or are other people already using this?
I didn't know flutter had such good support, and I'm very happy to hear about it!

Unfortunately, most cross-platform frameworks have awful accessibility support, I've looked at various in the past and just found failure after failure. I am now going to look harder at flutter.
I seem to remember reading that fluoride in drinking water has no real effect on teeth, vs fluoride in toothpaste if you actually leave it in contact with your teeth for several minutes like you're supposed to.
Sorry, but do you really develop your software as a professional engineer based on "I heard X from few people"? With all the bias and filtering your brain does for this kind of "metric"?
I think Levine works because he writes like a company memo written after a glass (but no more) of wine.
> how do we push all that energy into the battery at home in just 90 seconds?

If they are talking about an individual cell with a nominal voltage of 3.7V, then "any" modern fast charger will do.

I don't think they were talking about a full-blown EV power bank.
> Country with no regard for privacy.

like 99,99 % of the countries. Even Switzerland gave up privacy some years ago "to combat financial crime".
Richard Dawkins called Julian Jaynes’s 1976 book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind “either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between”
Tell us about NACS.
Programming a chess program was an important challenge for the "first generation of hackers" working on the mainframe machines like TX-0 and PDP-1 in '50 and '60, as described in "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy. I highly recommend this book, I think a lot of people here can recognize their own passion and interests in the stories described there.

Also, there's interesting implementation for the ZX-81, created over 20 years later and fitting in just 1024 bytes: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~uzdm0006/scans/1kchess/
The thing is that sometimes you don't have access to a classroom
Or do all of the above https://dev.to/yawaramin/handling-form-errors-in-htmx-3ncg
> If the Cybertrucks electrical ethos is followed by others there’s only 48V and Ethernet.

I'm looking at the electrical schematic [1] and 'eth' appears 107 times while 'CAN' appears 805 times.

And if you think about it, you probably don't want your brake-by-wire system to share a bus with your sound system and your trunk latch for obvious reasons.

[1] https://service.tesla.com/docs/Cybertruck/ElectricalReferenc...
This should not be as downvoted as it is. In a way shell is broken. The brokenness is in that it requires each command to serialize and deserialize again, considering all the weird things that can happen with the "all is a string" kind of approach, instead of having a proper data interchange format or even sending objects to next steps in the pipeline. This behavior is what necessitates even thinking about the changes listed in the post. We wouldn't even have that problem, if the design of shell was better thought out. Now we are dealing with decades of legacy built on these shaky foundations. I hate to admit it, but seems at least this aspect Powershell got right, whatever one may think about the rest of it.
Static electricity could help run air conditioners
That was my exact first thought. That seems to be a lot more complicated than a traditional bell, except for the fact that you don't have to run two wires there (a thing most places will already have there).

I mean this could be a okay solution for a very certain set of circumstances, but making your visitors scan a QR-Code seems like bad UX, why not have them fill out a form while you're at it?

If I had a situation where it was impossible to run wires through the wall I'd install a old-school knocker on the door and a knock sensor on the inside. UX is intuitive and the knock sensor can still send me things to the phone if I like that.
> Well, that depends on information you haven't provided. Maybe your system does have an extra 900 MB of memory hanging around;

That's not how it works. You cannot make sweeping statements over how something is bad when you fail to consider how it's used and what are the actual real world constraints.

For example, you're arguing that minimizing memory consumption is somehow desirable, and if you're making that claim you need to actually make a case. I clearly refuted your point by clarifying how things work in the real world. If you feel you can come up with a corner case that refutes it, just do it. So far you haven't, but that didn't stopped you from making sweeping statements.
Seems like this should be coupled with an overall decrease in new license costs (even if a small one as a token of good will). Really sad to see this go.

I expect this is going to increase the rate of smaller shops doing the cheaper personal licenses for commercial work followed by Jetbrains starting to sunset their honor system followed by them spending resources cracking down on fraud.

Given how hard and expensive that is I wouldn't be surprised in the least if this just ends up being a wash or worse in the long run.
Shrug, I last used windows with Windows 7, so you are probably right. That being said, at least two of the students I am currently tutoring are on XP and one of my colleagues as well :D
> How many Flutter developers exist in the world, today? My guess is that it's on the order of 1,000,000 developers.

I have a hard time taking this number seriously, that sounds grossly exaggerated.

Are there parts of the world where people actually use Flutter? Even their showcase is pretty light and a bit deceptive.
No worries, signatures are expected to illegible scribbles.
So I don't feel offended but one of them was scrapping with a minor (and once fairly controversial although I think he's cleaned up his act a lot, but I still don't trust) British political figure for not wearing a suit right or something, because he suggested that his ideology destroyed the world of menswear that he hankers for.

I'm sort of inclined to agree even if I don't care.

Dispute aside, I just found it a bit strange because the other guy shops at primark (cheap and crap mass produced clothes) and hates wearing suits, but he just kept trying to dunk on him. I'd hate to be friends with someone like that.

Obviously if you just want to know if your suit is good or not then it doesn't matter.
In Ted Chiang's short story Exhalation, a person looks at his own mind's workings. Brilliant description of the process.
tpuf’s ANN index uses a variant of SPFresh, yup. These are the only two production implementations I am aware of. I don’t think it is in production at MSFT yet
Patent Lawsuit Revival
Bad strategy for Microsoft but clearly a wining strategy for the World.
Does it? It is not mentioned anywhere in the post. Can you post a reference to your source?
Use the export feature and just save the file somewhere safe, mine is in a Cryptomator vault. You could also import to Keepass and then delete the file.
Didn't realise that. Yup, leave!
Something something Knockchain
Plenty of people definitely believe all of those things.
> QR codes can contain a limited set of data. There's no possibility of a buffer-overflow or malicious program.

Source?
They kinda already are - source code for highly complex open source software is already in the training datasets. The problem is that tutorials are much more descriptive (why the code is doing something, how does this particular function work etc. -down to a level of a single line of code), which probably means it’s much easier to interpret for llm-s, therefore weighted higher in responses.
Of those three, the only one that drives revenue to MS is GitHub.
At the beginning, you know you're mad. I remember the first hour or so, I was thinking "no fucking way this is real". But it feels so real that you quickly stop believing anyone who says otherwise and you mark them as the enemies. Your head keeps inventing reasons why is it real and the voices keep explaining it - in some cases it's religious experiences, in my case it's hyper-advanced technology enabling telepathic communication.

I didn't think it's the Star Trek from movies, I just thought we somehow made it work in secret and now I'm on it too. Paranoid people aren't paranoid just so, they are paranoid because there is a brutal mismatch between their perception of reality and what people tell them.

At one point, in a different situation, I knew I'm in the middle of psychosis - and my voices told me all about super-agent-psychiatrists who are trying to help me by doing James Bond-style interventions. So yeah, you can simultaneously know you're right in the middle of it, and discuss the situation with your delusions, while thinking the delusions are real.
The Acquired podcast also supports this claim in a 2-part episode on Microsoft I’ll link below.

Their evidence is from interviews with current and former Microsoft employees who worked with Ballmer IIRC including Ballmer himself. They basically describe him as being the rock that cheerlead, navigated, and held the company together through a decade of legal troubles. He also started many important businesses like enterprise, gaming, and cloud.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/microsoft
No way to export from the client though, so you would have to recover the server unless you previously made backups with the export feature.
A doorbell is just an easier and more polite version of knocking on your door. Do you also do something to prevent people from knocking on your door (e.g. a pit trap in front of it)?
Why does `set -e` make a pipeline fail silently?
If you don't want to use electricity, you can have a knock.

What reason would you want to be notified of unknown visitors knocking on your doors when you're away? The only people I can see fitting this description are delivery drivers & salesmen?

Further, what if you're home and your phone is in another room, is on silent, or is dead?

What is you have a spouse or housemate? Do both of you get notified?

And there's also a subset of people who get frustrated by having to use QR codes in restaurants, who I suspect would be equally frustrated by this.
and some say elephants don’t exist because they can’t see one.
Using ChatGPT and AI assistants over the past year, here are my best use cases:

- Generating wrappers and simple CRUD APIs on top of database tables, provided only with a DDL of the tables.

- Optimizing SQL queries and schemas, especially for less familiar SQL dialects—extremely effective.

- Generating Swagger comments for API methods. Joyness

- Re-creating classes or components based on similar classes, especially with Next.js, where the component mechanics often make this necessary.

- Creating utility methods for data conversion or mapping between different formats or structures.

- Assisting with CSS and the intricacies of HTML for styling.

- GPT4 o1 is significantly better at handling more complex scenarios in creation and refactoring.

Current challenges based on my experience:

- LLM lacks critical thinking; they tend to accommodate the user’s input even if the question is flawed or lacks a valid answer.

- There’s a substantial lack of context in most cases. LLMs should integrate deeper with data sampling capabilities or, ideally, support real-time debugging context.

- Challenging to use in large projects due to limited awareness of project structure and dependencies.
But this isn't free, though compared to Matt Levine's newsletter.
> ‘embrace-extend-extinguish’ model is what it _truly_ is

With this mindset, what could MS possibly create that wouldn't make you say this?
Qrs may have other data, not only links, and there is always the extra (but minimal) risk of a vulnerability in the qr reader itself.

Other than that, it's the same as clicking a link on an email, yes.
> you need persistence to win.

You also need a plan. How would Windows Phone displace either Apple or Android?
They knew that the target had nearly half a million [child ab]users.

That's sufficient motivation right there.

The problem is that once you have the infrastructure you can go after, well, any other random Tor onion service you damn well please, all with a minimum of judical oversight (if any).
That is Code OSS, MS official binary builds of Visual Studio Code, as explained at the top of the Readme, include proprietary code. MS also has several very popular proprietary extensions. Some of those extensions, older cersions were open source.
... in macOS all drives always need to be "gracefully ejected".
My problem with gradle is that they keep making breaking changes for low value things like naming of options, so I have to chase deprecation warnings, and can never rely on a distro supplied gradle version

Gradle devs, please get over yourself and stay backward compatible.
> Like, what meetings or policies drive this sort of thing?

A phone call ? /s
Corruption is everywhere. Big companies spend a lot a money for lobby, that's why they don't want to upset politicians.
Absolutely unhinged(based)
Before the Ballmer/Zune use of the term I remember my father talking about data being squirted to A2A missiles (he was military) prior to launch, so perhaps that is one of the niches.
It sounds like the parent comment was referring to geological timescales. In that case, the 16th century would count as recent.
Prtty much echoing what you said, in this video Cecila McGough, who has schizophrenia, talks about how important it is that people don't do anything to confirm her hallucinations.

https://youtu.be/7csXfSRXmZ0?si=GT6zn_Sytcfw011H
To the person that made the loan, to compensate them for the risk they took. No need for anyone to profit from the work of another forever.
> The unfortunate part is that these aren't for sale yet […]

They were announced 'all the way' back in June, and I've heard rumours of October 31 being the ship date, so perhaps check back next week.

In the US, B&H is taking pre-orders, so presumably it can't be that far off:

* https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1850479-REG/asus_pa27...
Retrospectively, it was a total blunder - not truly hers since she couldn't be expected to act perfectly in that situation, but it's definitely something we've discussed as the TOP ONE thing to never do and always mention it to others when discussing situations like that.

It didn't postpone anything. I called her because I knew I'm going mad and wanted to confirm if it's true or not. Of course I didn't word it this way, though. What she said confirmed the delusion, nearly got me killed and even though I didn't jump, I got lost in the city, hurt myself, nearly hurt others, until someone called the police few hours later.
> he is doing is alienating a lot of customers with his terrible decisions

Windows doesn't even make up 1/5 of their income, and in contrast a bit over half of their income is Office and Cloud*

The real money is in enterprise IT and cloud services. The average consumer doesn't keep their prebuilt computer long enough to buy another version of the OS. They don't need to keep a niche within a minority (privacy-oriented customers who would buy an OS) happy with Windows to continue drowning in revenue.

It seems like he has done a fantastic job, if the goal was to decouple their fortune from Windows.

*Based on googling and a lazy reluctance to dig through their earnings calls
the new [revolutionary] chemistries being developed by startups/universities are running against slow incremental, yet non-stop everyday, improvement in lithium batteries produced and used by huge industries. I.e. yesterday new chemistry was required to beat 170Wh/kg, $500/KWh of the yesterday's lithium batteries, and today the goal post has moved to the $270Wh/kg, $100/KWh of the todays' lithium batteries. I'm all for the new tech, yet the situation looks tougher and tougher for it.
It's a good thing we invented video compression and hardware codecs/encoders a long time ago.

What you'll actually be sending is a high bitrate mpeg stream, probably 54Mbps or thereabouts, you could probably fit 50x camera streams on a shared 10Gbps bus.
It used the Chinese Room better than Searle ever managed to do.
A book that was even made into a TV miniseries does not fit my definition of "you may never heard of".
If mathematics was as young as programming, it wouldn't use any fancy symbols and make everything ASCII compatible. Though that wouldn't solve diagrams...
That is also a way to never progress beyond the status quo.
Admittedly not really. I was more going on their reputation of being left leaning.
This seems interesting. I Would like to see further news on if this is just a conspiracy or someone insider was involved
Can you use PGP in the same way (I haven't tried)? Basically, symmetric file encryption based on a secret password and optionally a secret pepper file (effectively a secret key).
From your own quote, I emphasise:

> (1) Any person who is proved to have had in his or her possession or custody or under his or her control

So no, as much as you want to think of Hollywood-esque scenarios where a friend or some random plants a drug on you, which gets you the death penalty for being completely innocent, you actually get a lawyer and a trial in court where you can prove your innocence. Singapore does not do kangaroo courts. The prosecution needs to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that you conspired with said friend to hide the key in your locker. And needless to say they also have to prove you had the knowledge that said key controlled access to narcotics.

And chances are, this has never happened in reality because drug traffickers into South-East Asia are an extremely close-knit group who in general don't go around handing 'drug locker keys' to their friends and random people on the street. The law exists to prosecute conspirators, not randoms.
I still use a lot of Saas because it is not trivial to host and run an open source app.

For example, if I need Postiz to run I need a server and to configure and maintain a lot of services and dependancies:

NX (Monorepo)
NextJS (React)
NestJS
Prisma (Default to PostgreSQL)
Redis (BullMQ)
Resend (email notifications)
Postiz

I use mailchimp, which is not cheap. But if I want to run Mautic, I need a linux server, with an http server and a database running. It as also a cost in money and time.

I am a single man shop, so I don't want a software to take me extra time when something is broken (or to give 4 hours of my time to install and run a clone of mailchimp).
If insects can build up 5 kilovolts while flying, then why can I zap flies with a fly-zapping tool that presumably runs at a similar or lower voltage?
> Many of the Chinese characters are actually intended to be composed of two parts […]

That is not entirely true in the case of Mandarin, but it is more true in the case of Cantonese (and a few other Chinese languages).

Owing to the historical loss of sounds (especially finals) over the course of the Mandarin development, many Mandarin words tend to be longer (3-4 syllables are common) compared to their counterparts in, say, Cantonese where they are most of the time (but not always) are two syllables long due to the fact that Cantonese has retained more sounds from Middle Chinese (plus, the intermingling with the Bat Yue) over the course of its development.

Which is why the «Lion eating poet in the stone den» still makes some sense when read out loud in Cantonese (also in Wu, Min) and makes no sense in Mandarin.
I don't understand. Why would it show an acceleration in deep space?
> The whole schizophrenic spectrum is a reversion to survival mode.

There could be some seed of truth in there, but, sweeping statements about what schizophrenia is need to be delivered with more than assertion.

> This is what a animal hears all day- "They are out to get me, its one huge conspiracy"

Not even wild animals think like this all the time. I feel confident saying they live very different inner lives to what you describe.

> is the thought process of a mouse

Comparing people with schizophrenia to terrified mice is bad. Not all schizophrenic delusions are paranoid in nature, for one thing. And for another, even if the basic mechanism were fundamentally the same (totally unproven) the differences between mouse brains and human brains, mouse culture and human culture, etc, makes the comparison rather pointless.

Add to all this, the fact that no non-human animal has been definitively shown to have schizophrenia in the same way humans experience it.

And of the animals that might have schizophrenia, like mice with a disrupted DISC1 gene, wouldn't they be different to normal, healthily anxious mice?

... Please, consider trying not to make declarations about stuff like this when your domain knowledge isn't quite up to the task.
Ask HN: Do you follow any HN people? How do you follow them?
I don't know if it is possible but is there a way to follow the posts and comments of particular HN users here?

There are some HN users whose comments I like but I can't see a nice way to "follow" them. The best I can do is keep a list of them myself in some bookmarks and visit their comments page every now and then.

What do you do? Are there any particular people you follow? I'd like to add them to my list if I find a good intersection between what they post and what I like.
Vikunja – the fluffy, open-source, self-hostable to-do app
They did the right thing for this: make the tools fail on file creation, but not on existing files.

I guess it's still advisable to rename those files, I don't know how things like cp, mv or rsync will behave when copying such files in the future.
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but why do you have to impose your German Values on Singapore ? As far as I can tell Singapore is a sovereign country, and its people have their own agency. I'm sure autocracy works well for them - just as democracy works well for Germany. they're free to choose their own "medicine" to maintain social order.
Using your browser's back navigation from the error page to the form should result in the values still being there unless you are doing something stupid with client-side rendering.
Selling licenses is not where the money is. Selling subscriptions to corporations so that every corporate-supplied computer (including Macs) pay Microsoft for something, be it Office or a full Windows+Office+Sharepoint license. All things considered, they can give Windows for free and they'll still profit from it as an enabler for further Microsoft lock-in.
A modular circuit coordinates the diversification of courtship strategies