skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is that useful pedantry? From context, you really think that's my confusion here?

I don't know what could possibly confuse anyone about the role of GTK and QT in the Linux ecosystem.
In fact I only use Apple Silicon macs, where the issue is still quite evident.
Intuition is often wrong, even for high IQ people, like your average HN user. lol.

For a long time it was intuitive that you cannot find the area under arbitrary functions, but then Calculus was invented, showing us a new "trick", that was previously unfathomable, and indistinguishable from magic.

I'm just not sure mankind's understanding of Mathematics is out of new "tricks" to be learned. I think there are types of algorithms today that look like the require N-iterations to get X-precision, when in reality we might be able to divide N by some factor, for some algorithms, and still end up with X-precision.
The 5k iMac used to be an incredible deal considering usual Apple pricing and the quality of the screen. I miss it.
That's not Qatar citizens complaining.
Jeff Bezos: Americans don't trust the news media
I OCRed your comment with Tesseract:

```
I've been really impressed with Tesseract - | used it last month to add invisible OCR text (1) to scanned PDFs I reference a lot. My scans are quite good,
but | was still impressed with the accuracy.

| also OCRed the TOC, playing with the page segmentation setting (2) in the terminal until | got output I could copy & paste to add a navigable table of
contents.

1: with the help of https://github.com/ocrmypdfiOCRmyPDE

2: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Command-Line-Usage.h..., “ Using different Page Segmentation Modes”
```

This kind of mirrors my earlier experience with Tesseract, if it can't get OCRing a screenshot right, what can it get right? It's not like "I used" is such a rare phrase either, but it replaced the I with a pipe.
> Device was instantly blocked by Apple from accessing most websites because the factory version of the OS was deemed insecure by Apple.

Is that your way of saying "it doesn't support any modern SSL ciphers?" I don't think there is anything built into the OS that asks Apple if it's allowed to visit websites.
Python is an engine, flutter is the whole car.
> excessively high cholesterol levels over a lifetime are correlated with heart disease

You're talking about blood cholesterol levels. Yet we're talking about dietary cholesterol. Totally different things, it's now well known that they're unrelated. The cholesterol in our bodies is produced by the liver by a completely different process. The old science is pretty foolish for assuming dietary -> blood cholesterol, as if we didn't have a digestive system. If your point was "stick to the settled science and don't believe the alternatives" you couldn't have picked a worse example.

To the original topic, dietary saturated fat does appear to increase the risk of heart disease by increasing LDL cholesterol. In other words, blood cholesterol is a problem but it's driven, at least partly, by saturated fat intake. High dietary cholesterol food like eggs do not increase serum levels, unless you deep fry them in butter.
Pretty sure it can be done with aluminum pretty well, so it probably wouldn't be that expensive compared to some rides.

You couldn't use multiple magnets on the person or they might smash together, and you'd have to be very careful guests stayed apart, and that they didn't have anything magnetic in their pockets to go flying towards the magnet and hurt them.

You could do it with air pressure, like indoor skydiving in a confined area, but it would probably be loud and somewhat unpleasant.

Since people aren't magnetic it would probably feel exactly the same as jumping with a harness on a cable instead of with magnets.

Unless you used the frog levitation thing but that's a different effect and would probably be really expensive
Sheep cloned by nuclear transfer from a cultured cell line (1996)
Absolutely true. It’s so much easier to upgrade dependencies and if it works / most likely works. We had a small UI regression in a very large app and that hadn’t been touched in 1 year.
Perhaps the same reasoning that IDEs show syntax errors before you save the file? (No, I don't like that feature either.)
I'm too young to truly appreciate this, but I have spent my time going through archives of the Cypherpunk mailing list.

The one thing I always think about on HN is what some of those guys would think (or presently think) about the cultural shift among nerds and otherwise techies such that this comment is even possible.

They all projected, correctly or not, such a potentially dystopian/utopian world. And they definitely didn't agree with each other. But there was still this sense of shared belief and shared cause of generally being, to say the least, skeptical and antagonistic to the state, of the kind of formal potential for liberation in code. That things could be different.

But here we are now. Computers and what they do are no longer a source of hope or doom. They either make us money, or they help us catch ambiguous enemies.

I wish I had been around for the golden era. All that is solid melts into air.
Artificial price ceilings and floors are a classic cause of "fake shortages" in basic economics. I'd be curious what would happen if we eliminated the minimum wage.
Both. It powers old school telephones.
This is definitely helpful! Thank you for building it : )
Tasty marmite would be a distinct product space free of trademark.
Does that automatically run against every PR? What mitigations did you have to put in place for Google security to allow running untrusted code from PRs on internal CI?
I’m skeptical that people surveyed are being honest about their gender in the survey.

Tbf though looking closer it does appear that there’s a similar result in the paid responses as well so I might be being far too cynical.
It should! I haven't had a chance to create an example myself yet, but there's a 500USD bounty open if anyone wants to take a crack at it https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/mill/issues/3549
Using Setapp
Ok but this is in response to this:

"Just build native UIs. I don't know why cross platform UI has been such a hobbyhorse for so many for so long: it's a stupid idea."

The stupid idea is thinking that building native UIs is targeting a clean, non-moving target and implying it is not astronomically harder than doing something cross platform that is between mediocre and good enough for everybody.

Whenever someone says “just do native” it always turns out they have a cockamamie definition of native, otherwise they would realize the gravity and general unreasonableness of what they were asking.

On a side note, what’s a major* reasonably complex app that isn’t a music player or an IRC client, or something with a simple shell around a canvas like a browser, that targets both Plasma and GNOME natively.

* And whether anyone likes it or not, few people care (as revealed by $$, not bitching on a forum). Blame electron, the web, but even Microsoft cannot even define and maintain a native LnF for their core operating system. As I alluded to, the only small community that cares are those on MacOS and iOS, where there is a HIG that more than 2 people have read and give a shit about, and there is a small market of people that value well integrated Mac apps that will actually spend money.
Targeting Win USER32 +/- XAML, Qt, GTK, and AppKit is costly and thankless when you probably could have just used Qt, JavaFX, or Flutter, etc.
“Flutter team members don't actually use Flutter.” (as per the website).

This could explain a lot.
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is my favorite of the last few years.

I thought Fractal Noise was meh by comparison
Saying “great job” after MJ sinks a shot won’t make him awful and saying “try harder” after he misses won’t make him amazing.

Baseline moves with sustained practice and accurate, actionable feedback.

The comment is speaking. To the feedback of the instructor. If an instructor is shortsighted and only looks at the immediate next effect it will always (incorrectly) seem that criticism produces better results. If an instructor has a longer lens, they will use the best combination to quite the individual’s learning style. They should focus on setting and aligning on goals and making accurate assessments and not worrying about whether they should be more or shouty.
You know you're winning when your commercial competitor drops the ceiling on you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJwG-qt-sgk
The points of standards is that they solve one or more problems for many constituents well enough so that all adopters gain in things like supply chain, design ease, and interoperability. They are rarely going to be optimal for every specific use case. They also often derive from specific designs by a specific company

Adding a standards body into the mix is going to add complexity to the process by definition, but shouldn't be taken as a default "bad", since there are tangible benefits to non-corporation-managed standards. Otherwise they wouldn't exist.
Would be a good day to have that enshrined in case law, maybe the US government would let me work on rocket GNC if code can’t be export controlled at all
> processed sewage/sludge for fertilizer

This one scares me the most, including whatever drugs people flush down the toilet that they pass
They've had this before Microsoft had bought them out. I think its fine the way its been.

I will note, I do know of one instance where a repository was taken down via false DMCA someone else sent in, though I forgot which one, I knew people who knew the person who sent it in. It was regarding a "Private Game Server" so GitHub probably thought, its probably easier to comply and move on.
> because women are neither willing nor capable of doing them in the vast majority of instances

Preposterous. I see women in construction, utility and farm work all the time – and don't tell me that I'm just seeing the exceptions to your absurd rule all localized in my little slice of rural living where hospitals and clinics are desperate for any warm body to fill nursing positions. Women are more than capable of doing the jobs you're talking about.
> All migrant agricultural workers are documented. They have to come through a H-2A visa program.

This is such a bizarre claim. Are you not aware of the existence of illegal/undocumented immigrants? Or their prevalence in agriculture?
> neither the fresh shards or glowing/molten material we would expect from a collision.

That's also an undesirable "area" of space for mining. A too-recent collision would be a dangerous area because of the excessive density. A "just right" area for mining might be a hundred thousands years old, but not tens of millions or older.

The terran analogy would be a volcano: Too soon and you're still ankle-deep in lava. Some decades later you have the most fertile land on the planet for your crops. A billion years later it's no different to any other part of the planet and not especially productive.

> whale fall

That's precisely what I was thinking of!

> I might try to write that someday.

I'd read that story! It's a ripe context for drama: the luck of discovery, the gold rush, the fight over the territory by rival groups, the "frontier" aspects and lack of civilized law and order, etc...
this is just react though. it's not HTML validation.
yes that is me, but my understanding of my life path is to actually pay less attention to hierarchies, where i work, what my "achievements" - which never resonated with me in the first place and even lost further value when i was unofficially pronounced medically "dead" from cancer with metasthases no treatment options 2,5 years ago - were, where do i come from. i am new here, a friend of mine mentioned this place as friendly and open-minded, because i wanted to share with others what i co-invented by accident or by fate. i find it interesting and maybe even transformative in many ways: from scientific to deeply cultural. it never occured to me that my bio would be of interest to anyone. i tried making jokes about my contributions, sparking interest that way. but maybe it might be interesting? I will add some bio and a link to a story in which i give my best to explain what i am doing here, how did i get here, and what is this weird thing i am doing.

best,
k.
By filing a DMCA notice, you are engaging in a system that assumes guilt until proven innocent, a system that is regularly abused to take down completely legal content without any kind of trial.

Ideally, such a system shouldn't exist. But if it does, I think it is only fair that people who use it must reveal their identity.
> If you think 8% is outrageous for them, why not demand more for yourself? Instead of kneecapping people you don't even know out of a somewhat pathetic need to feel adequate, why not simply match them
Before he joined Bloomberg, Matt got his start at www.dealbreaker.com. During my stint on wall st (2006~2015), DealBreaker was THE industry rag of choice. Daily news roundups, annual bonus/compensation gossip, rumors of pending layoffs or reorgs, all in one place.

There is so much boring shit you have to read on a daily basis when working in capital markets. Breaking geopolitical news, WSJ / Financial Times / Economist / Bloomberg articles, endless internally published market commentary, all of it often written by someone who takes themselves too seriously. Matt Levine was a breath of fresh air, someone who was both technical AND irreverent.

Nobody trades off of Matt's articles. Nothing he writes about is secret. His best stuff takes the form of "this weird thing happened" or "XYZ made a dumb mistake." Matt is funny, and funny is VERY underrated in financial commentary.

https://dealbreaker.com/author/mlevine
Mainframe OSes including mainframe Linux are Big Endian. Maybe mainframe Linux could switch but thus far it has not, it seems unlikely the other mainframe OSes would want to. AIX is also Big Endian and seems unlikely to switch and will be supported until at least 2040.

Personally, I find big endian a lot more natural when doing hardware development. I understand there are people who think the opposite. As far as performance it is negligible.. network order is Big, PCIe is little so you are usually eating some conversion on either platform.

I also really don't understand why people thought it was such a hard concept as to largely force Linux (PPC, arm, mips) toward little.
I just have a hunch we're in early days still even with Transformers architectures. The MLP (Perceptron) is such a simple mathematical structure and mostly doing linear stuff (tons of multiplications, then a few adds, and a squashing-type activation function), plus the attention heads add-on from the Transformers paper too, of course (and other minor things) but ultimately it's a very easy to understand data structure so it's hard for me to believe there's not massive leaps and bounds that we can take to gain orders of magnitude more performance just like the leap that the Transformers paper had.
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> We're forking Flutter. This is why.

Cripes I wish people would explain who "we" is. "Flutter Foundation"? Which is "Flock" but not "Flutter"?
Are you suggesting that they should have used a name that might lead Oracle to sue them instead of being clearly differentiated?
You will find out in court
Yeah this isn’t drive-by contributions where you shit out a PR that works for you but makes the test infra fail and you get upset. Ppl need to think big picture.

One big problem, I think, it may not be visible all of the test infrastructure if your outside google. Don’t know. Gerritt is its own world and googlers live there not in GH (it appears).
I'm going to be honest.

C# , NodeJS, Python and rarely Java( had a rough year), pay my bills.

Flutter/Dart doesn't. If you know someone hiring a Flutter developer I'm 100% down to interview.

I don't hate Kotlin, it feels like Google's answer to Swift( although Java was never as hard as Objective C). I even built a small project with it.

Can we at least agree it's weird Google is trying to promote 2 different languages for multiplatform development?

Let me compare Unity to Flutter for a bit. When Unity jobs are hard to come by, I'm still an OK C# dev.

Flutter/Dart doesn't offer they same freedom. Say what you want about Microsoft, but C# can essentially do anything. Including keeping me employed.
Basically every sentence I read in this comment has an enormous hole in the logic or premise.

> On the other hand, if everyone had access to this capability then society and civilization would grind to a halt.

This is a non-sequitur. The world isn't binary. Whether this happens depends entirely on how much passive income people can generate, and a whole host of other factors that are unaccounted for.

> People make things; if people don't make things, then we don't eat, we don't drink.

Again, your premise is flawed. Giving everyone (say) a dollar a month doesn't mean people will stop making things. It depends how much they earn, and a ton of other factors.

> The categorical imperative roughly says that something is moral only if its universal adoption would benefit society.

No, that's not what it says. What is says is that the rules you live by should be universally applicable. Positive or negative effects on society are beside the point.

> So there is a break there.

This is a giant leap in your logic. You have neither shown that this wouldn't benefit society, nor that there would be a break if it didn't.
> Money doesn't work, people do!

Not really true at all. Production is almost always a combination of labor and capital. Consider a restaurant. People are working there but so is a stove, aka capital aka money.
This has more info on the topic

https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2024/10/28/matt-mullen...
Gentoo is faster.
what does "feed in the car" mean? a bottle or breast-feeding? Obviously the kid should be in a carseat and restrained and protected, so i'm assuming bottle?

What reason would you not give a baby a bottle in the car?

"no pillows no blankets in the crib" was the newest info when we had our last child. I'm trying to remember other things that were different between the kids, but funny thing about having children is there's amnesia about the whole process.
This sounds like the real answer. Replacing an automotive standard with Ethernet is going to reduce friction onboarding junior webdevs with MacBooks, and enable a more stable higher turnover labor intensive organization.
I like how it's open source and the site looks nice!

I missed at first that it was for aquarium monitoring. Makes sense!

I'm not the target market, but here's my user test anyway in case it's at all helpful: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.loom.com/embed/3e0de3dc94a...

Nice job.
oh, is this true ? '' FreeBSD can be booted on Octeon from disk or network using an ELF kernel through U-Boot with the “bootoctlinux” command. ''

FreeBSD is not Linux (obviously) so this is making a command named something-linux to boot FreeBSD? seems humiliating somehow
It should be about the same, though the main differences are likely to be caused by the speed of the QR code generator, and the PNG compressor.

But assuming that the hypothetical C and C++ versions would be using generators and compressors of similar quality, it performance characteristics should be similar.

The big plus(es) to using Rust over C/C++ are a) the C and C++ versions would not be memory-safe, and b) it looks like Rust's WASM tooling (if that's the approach you were to use) is excellent.

(As someone who has written C code for more than 20 years, and used to write older-standard C++ code, I would never ever write an internet-facing server in either of those languages. But I would feel just as confident about the security properties of my Rust code as I would for my Java code.)
Amazing! My son also colored a lot but he'd pick only a few pages out of every coloring book so I got the idea to find some online; one-page things to print but the ones I found at the time claimed to be "coloring book pages" but were actually more black-lines-on-white-background actual artwork. Much too complex for simple coloring. Your site would have been the find of the decade!
SeleniumBase / Playwright, Selenium, Pupeteer automation alternative
I don't know, what browser functionality are we talking about? Even this form validation has to be implemented; I don't think I've ever even seen it in the wild.

What percentage of websites are rolling their own functionality instead of using any one of the various library and framework that do this better?

There is no way that every single browser is going to implement some high-level feature in a satisfactory and future-proof. It's the wrong place to do it. Almost every attempt has been at least a partial failure. We might get something maybe a decade after it's in common use and then only the most basic version of that. And we get browser bloat for our troubles too.

I don't use the standard <select> controls in apps anymore because the build-in version is too simplistic. Don't even get me started on file uploads. Is everyone just supposed to be held-back by the minimum a browser can do everywhere? Why waste browser developers time building things that no one really wants to use.
Msft had a stock split during that time.
You have to listen to the details, like "where is the back button", "Why does text work differently". There are some people that understand that it is different from the standard, but most just get annoyed. The discussion here is from a technical perspective why it is better, conformity of the app on different platforms vs standard behavior between different apps. There are very few people that care about the technical reasons why, but when you talk about the annoyances it is easier.
oh, indeed. The Wordpress community is overwhelmingly made up of half-wits
You can do that by having several different trampolines for the merged code that stash away a unique cookie on the stack to distinguish which function the code is currently executing. This is not zero-overhead, of course, but one can argue that the slight overhead is worth it given better error reporting and increased debuggability.
Blazing Fast New Project Written in Rust (it's a SSG btw)