skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that a system like the Japanese Hiragana or Katakana are a better system: they are each 56 letters that directly correspond to syllables. So "ha" is a single letter, as is "he", as is "be". With this nearly everything you say is directly translated both directions, and there are fewer complications (there are always a few, for example in Japanese one of those 56 letters is "n".. so no vowel, and in many dialects you say "s" for the "su" character if it is on the end of a word, and there are a few oddities around letters involving "y").

English, being the composite/mongrel language that it is has really complicated patterns for how you put letters together. For example the "i before e except after c as in neighbor and weigh" sort of thing (which does not cover all of the exceptions of course). This sort of thing has lead to the existence of spelling competitions in the English-speaking world (spelling bees). My Hungarian wife was surprised that such a thing existed. In Hungarian it is much closer to see-what-you say, with only a few exceptions (not that the rules are kind on English-speaking Hungarian learners like myself).
Semi related, there is a Minecraft Bedrock Launcher that ports the Minecraft for Android app to *nix.

https://flathub.org/apps/io.mrarm.mcpelauncher
Currently, in the US, to be in the top 1% income-wise, you must earn at least $430K/year. If you'd rather look at it from a wealth perspective, to be in the top 1%, you must be worth at least $11.6M.

While I'm willing to bet there are definitely people here who fit one or both metrics, I'd be surprised if half the people here fit either.
After a little playing around (prices vary per day of week & how many months in advance) I found $1049 (for a private room still), 81h, departs 20250417. Of course you could also tough it out in coach, in which case I found $198 (!), 85h, departs 20250418.

The northeast corridor sales they've been doing recently are quite something. I swung NYC to Boston for a mere $16 (usually 10x more, especially on the weekends - and the other way was $20). Even at that price my car had only 3 people left by the time we were in Rhode Island.
TLS Callbacks (2012)
Optimizations in compilers like LLVM are done by many individual code transformation passes, one applied to the result of the previous.

This layering makes the order of the passes important and very sensitive. The passes usually don't have a grand plan, they just keep shuffling code around in different ways. A pass may only be applicable to code in a specific form created by a previous simplification pass. One pass may undo optimizations of a previous pass, or optimize-out a detail required by a later pass.

Separation into passes makes it easier to reason about correctness of each transformation in isolation, but the combined result is kinda slow and complicated.
From my perspective you are reading between the lines something that's not there. It is very strange to blame another person for your own hallucinations.

> he is demonizing people based on their country of origin

Quote?
…while living in large houses bought in anticipation of bonuses and sending their kids to expensive schools — the main reasons, according to the article, for spending 95% of income on necessities.
We are nearing the death of Proebsting's Law. AMD CEO Lisa Su's HotChips’19 keynote said that compilers had accounted for 8% performance increase over the decade. That means compilers are now only doubling performance every 90 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuVBid9e3RA
To play Devil’s advocate for a moment, an ever-present Chinese competitor means that Boeing can’t keep fumbling and expect to maintain market position.

That dividend and stock buyback cash that was not put into R&D to make a better airplane? It has an opportunity cost.

None of the above has a moral or political judgement. The question of whether the US should care that it can’t build a plane is a separate policy question.
Is that volume behaviour intentional, or just crappy sampling rate of the encoder?
China Adds 160 Gigawatts in First 3 Quarters of 2024 – CleanTechnica
The article refers to the JS-industrial-complex but only has stats for NextJS[1]. Maybe other frameworks are better? I would love to see a similar chart for the showcases of other frameworks.

[1]: https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/...
Nothing left to solve, or too stupid to care?

Our Qwerty keyboards are ubiquitous. You may think there are no problems left with that design, until you are hit with carpel tunnel pains.

Before that, you would not even be aware of the problems and their myriad solutions: better layouts, better hardware designs (like split body or 3d sculpted), or even conceptually unique input devices.

Saying that there’s nothing left to solve signals your position among the conceptually impoverished. It is fine to not know, but it is not wise to proclaim that no one else does or will ever know.

Back to browsers. How could a solution ever arrive? Perhaps someone assumes there is a better way and try to build new things? Should we have instead stopped at letter writing or fax for the solved problem of communication?

I am just glad that there are people who are willing to take on risk to pursue a solution, for problems we are too stupid to care about.
"it's a feature not a product" – this is the perfect summation of Arc for me. I use it at home and enjoy it for a small set of its features, but it's barely a product, and I don't think it's a (viable) company.

What's the business model? Sell subscriptions to their AI stuff? No thanks. Sell me a browser for $40 per version with yearly releases? I'd probably buy that, but that's a 5 person indie software company not a 100+ person VC backed company.

This is probably why they're going back to the drawing board and putting Arc in maintenance mode.
It only creates the podcasts right?

I am more interested in the other features of NotebookLM. The podcasts are fun but gimmicky.
I believe most people would in fact call that greed.
Not in a city center perhaps but Boston Logan is pretty close and London City isn't bad either.
I do think regulating this would be good, but I don’t believe that’s currently possible.

All of the packages for a single product share the same barcode, so they can’t be priced per customer. Yet, anyways.
My gut says saying "June" instead of "Summer" when describing a northern hemisphere event would have no effect on southern hemisphere research funding.
If value types still require allocation for stuff larger than 128 bits then that really sucks! That’s not how value types usually work.
I agree very much that it's made to be rewatched. I found it highly unusual in that I'm a film student and have rewatched so many films and continue to rewatch a ton of favourites endlessly, but I can't remember another movie that revealed new layers and characteristics like this did over 3 watches other than Mulholland Drive. I suspect it will continue to evolve on the next couple watches at home, too.

Also agree it's a love letter to classical theatrical traditions, and I think that's where Coppola's heart has been the whole time, calling way back in time.

The movie is one big play with time as a parable with creativity, almost like Tenet but I would say it's much more effective and powerful here.

I think this is a great movie and likely a masterpiece, but it's a fascinating movie to talk about and great to see appreciation of it confirmed in others. It's a fascinating viewing experience packed with meaning, no doubt. It does many things very differently while being able to fully engage and fascinate on first watch. There's not many movies in history like that. The rest will play out as people continue to critique the film over time, and I'll be fascinated to see how that evolves.

I love that aside. The most interesting thing about Italy in the "grand political" sense (I love their culture and art) in recent history is that relatively speaking it flew under the radar post-WW2, and continues to hold deep respect for Britain through stories of great empires, lingering fixations on that kind of story that many still identify with. I'd encourage you to expand that in longer form if you are able, no doubt it would make a good read.

Finally, just to note I didn't have my account configured correctly so didn't see any notification of comments. Please excuse the late reply.
They do always seem to be on a company retreat abroad in all their marketing content. That ain't cheap.
Does that sedan trip include the cost of lodging? Because that is built into the cost of Amtrak.
Though most people really aren't in a position to take the train instead of flying for anything other than a vacation. Good luck with your 4x expense account for taking an extra day to travel from NYC to Chicago--much less anything further.
> The World Wide Web was initially designed to be decentralized, with the idea that anyone connecting to the internet could host a web server.

Yeah not really. If the Web was designed to be decentralized it would have used URNs as content identifiers instead of URLs. A URL is specific to a scheme (means of access) and authority (where to access).

A decentralized system would use URNs and any host that could service a request could return the resource. Once a resource was in "the Web" it would be accessible to future requests even if the original source went offline.

This sort of mirroring can be built on top of the Web (CDNs, traditional mirrors, etc) but it is not a foundational component. The authority providing a resource needs to online for that resource to be available.
Thanks, Dan, for that clarification. The question each month is actually two-fold: what have you been tinkering around with and what new ideas are thinking about. It's an invitation to dialogue.

We know our history and the role collaboration has played in it. Whether at Xerox PARC or Bell Labs, bouncing ideas off of other colleagues has spurred incredible innovation.

I submit that HN is a giant Xerox PARC. We have all of the ingredients for this recipe here on HN. We have the brilliant minds; we have the joy of creation. I submit that what we lack is mixing those ingredients. We lack dialogue and collaboration, and it's all completely unnecessary. It's here. Please use it.
That’s funny! I play because I don’t code in my job so this scratches my itch with instant feedback. Now if only I was good at coding…i probably should do a side project
Getting a refund hardly matters if you miss an important event. A lot of us have to travel on tight schedules due to work and family commitments, and can't spare an extra 5 hours.
It sounds like you're using the liberal definition of leftist.
Lots of folks jumping on the Arc comments. But what about the author’s actual question? I’ve been sensing it for quite some time - redesigns for the sake of redesign, not to enhance user experience or productivity.
It would result in a contingent election, meaning the House of Representatives votes for President and the Senate votes for the Vice President. It is entirely possible, if extremely unlikely, for both Trump and Harris to be in office - one as as President and the other as Vice President.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_election
First look at prototype telescope for the LISA gravitational-wave mission
Interesting! Definitely looking forward to that and I hope you succeed.
Man.. the sample is pretty rough
Well, they also have huge apartments which--like many/most urban TV sitcom characters--are pretty much totally incompatible with where they could actually afford to live.
With long distance pricing or really any sleeper, one needs to consider that the ticket price basically includes hotel as well since you’re sleeping there and they need the facilities to handle that, meals etc.
I've had carpel tunnel surgery. It still isn't a problem to solve for most people. They don't type that much, and there are other solutions. The fact that some people have issues with it is not going to lead to a clamor for a different solution.

Calling people stupid is not a useful response.
One thing I learned about optimizers is some optimizations undo earlier optimizations. The state of the optimized program will sometimes flip-flop back and forth and never converge on a solution. Then you have to rely on a heuristic to guess at the better form, and live with it. The optimizer has a counter in it so it will "pull the plug" if it fails to converge, and will just go with the last state.

My optimizer first appeared in Datalight C around 1984 or so. It was the first DFA optimizer for any C compiler on the PC. C compiler benchmark roundups were popular articles in programming magazines at the time. We breathlessly waited for the next roundup article.

When it came, Datalight C was omitted from it! The journalist said they excluded Datalight C because it was buggy, as it deleted the benchmark code and just printed the success message. The benchmarks at the time consisted of things like:

for (i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) a = 3;

so of course it deleted the useless code.

I was really angry about that, as the journalist never bothered to call us and ask about DLC's behavior. Our sales tanked after that article.

But it wasn't long until the industry realized that optimizers were the future, the benchmarks were revised, and the survivors in the compiler business all did optimizers. DLC recovered, but as you can tell, I am still annoyed at the whole incident.
Murdoch's outlets are prime purveyors of this particular conspiracy theory, but you're absolutely right I shouldn't have assumed they had a hand in how you developed your idea. I also agree it's a valid question as to whether the best way to reach someone down a rabbit hole is to gently cajole them or slap them in the face. Where in Melbourne did you see the placard?
>wouldn't it have a more precise number What is unaccounted for?

The audit likely uncovered conflicting information and records. The range represents the high and low bounds of possible interpretations of that conflicting information.
There was significant debate within Boeing about aerodynamic fixes for the forward mounted nacelles. The aerodynamic fix was rejected because it would result in additional regulatory requirements for flight testing and certification. The FCS was certifiable with a pen.

You are correct in saying that the accountants are a critical part of the company and the engineering, it’s the MBAs in leadership that I’m referring to derisively.
No wonder why Steve Jobs was so obsessed about focus, he loved not only a clean interface but also wore same type of clothes and lives a minimal lifestyle.
There are so many great vegan protein powders these days. I'm not vegan but enjoy most of them. Soy goes down the best for me.
If you purely want to debate semantics then sure. Cause by.
Genius Lies in Interpreting the Rules
It has been a while since a software update was something to look forward to, not something to dread.

I'm sure there must still be problems that can be solved with "more" software or "better" software, but those problems are getting harder and harder to find.
There’s always closed source, subscription based, privacy invasive software causing problems to be solved. If people didn’t want solutions to these problems I wouldn’t see so many ads for data broker removal services or people complaining about their Adobe subscriptions.
only genetics influence those markers? I thought even stress causes increase in cholestrol levels. How is this person so sure that Masai have some sort of special genetics when there are so many other factors.
Not all of us agree that artists should charge for their products.
The SpaceX Advantage That Rivals Are Trying to Emulate
https://archive.ph/dBaaI
What you're missing is that it's a chicken-or-egg problem.
Speaking of physically immune schemes, I remember some protocol which relied on a gigantic amount of data present behind a link that was, on purpose, very low bandwidth (physically low bandwidth: not by software as in rate limitation. That was the whole point: the link was physically low bandwidth).

So the data was impossible to exfiltrate remotely: it simply wasn't physically possible to do remotely (it would be way too slow).

I forgot the name and what the data was used to protect/derive: maybe some authentication scheme?

Anyone knows what I could be talking about? I'm pretty sure I saw that posted here on HN in the past.
Okay, the cereal commercials in the 1980s: they would have some ridiculous cartoon mascot and sing a catchy jingle about their sugary cereal treats, and then at the end, they were legally required to say "Part of this balanced breakfast" while displaying a tray laden with fresh fruit, buttered toast, perhaps a glass of orange juice.

https://youtu.be/reLIPoZQZ-8?si=lLXfhsdm89zlOWsI

Those commercials played multiple times a day in my childhood, and they never failed to piss me off, because they clearly demonstrated that "milk and a box of Chex" was not by any means a "balanced breakfast".
I know? I am using that page as a reference.
The author actually links to the NextJS page for server components as "a tacit acknowledgement that their shit stinks". I guess this is how you acknowledge progress if you want to write an article in the tone that is expected on HN and mastodon now.
Sorry, but I don't see much on https://docs.feldera.com/sql/udf/ that suggests how CEP would work. The example is single-valued and doesn't indicate if state or windows for CEP would be supported.
> which cap it is

One of my led wall lamp died. I opened the driver/transformer and has a very suspictious capacitor with a curved top.

Anyway, I just bought a $3 driver replacement in front of my home. (I'm bad at soldering, so I'd probably need a whole afternoon to try to fix it).
If someone in the US hasn't been in a position to take commuter rail with any frequency in a relatively small number of places--or maybe take Amtrak on the Northeast Corridor sometimes--it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest that someone would never have been on anything beyond light rail (if that).
If you're the only one doing it, sure, but if none of your information is reliable at all, then every single other "totally unique" visitor is in the same category as you. From the other end, it could be 10,000 visitors or 1, all you know is that they are unique...since they look like a different totally unique fingerprint on every visit
Selling a loan does not change the terms of the loan.
Its about the Palestine Israel fighting, if you are curious about this .....
NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They're AI, Spiral into Existential Meltdown
Original title:

NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They’re AI, Not Human—Spiral Into Terrifying Existential Meltdown
No, they really just forgot the characters. I lived in Japan for the better part of a decade and it isn't at all uncommon. There were many times when I explicitly asked natives to recognize or help me with a Kanji and they struggled as well. I doubt everyone's been systematically lying when you genuinely ask for help.

The reason is just digital input really. Pinyin and Romaji typing have become so common that a lot of people write Hanzi/Kanji by hand less and less and it's so complicated of a skill there's really no other way to get it in your brain other than practice. I even notice it myself, I easily recognize 10x more characters than I can accurately write.
The BBC produced a great series, The Secret History of Writing. There's a segment where you can watch some Chinese speakers experiencing this while being prompted to write mildly uncommon words like "cough" or "embarrassment".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3seWGtZ3DQ&t=3035s

The whole series is worth a watch if you're into writing.
Shit is not even available in Linux.

I use mainly Vivaldi, and Firefox as a backup browser. I wouldn't mind trying Arc to see what the fuss is about even being closed source. But no deal when they don't even support Linux.
The fonts and colors on that website are really nice. Just thought I'd add that.
I don't drink that much any more but I still carry one just to prevent people opening bottles with their teeth
It's a setting in Firefox that is off by default because it can make some websites super annoying to deal with. But it's easy to get to, and allows you to be totally random per request or per tab-session, iirc
I've been working on an automatic sky tracking telescope over the past few months. I'm a few weeks behind on blogging but making solid progress. V1 is nearing completion. Then I want to rework some of the electronics to design and get a custom PCB printed. Also the physical design needs a complete redesign to make it more sturdy for long exposures and solve some wiring pains.

The software allows the platform to automatically align to north and working on accounting for imperfect leveling (such as placing it on a slanted surface) through software and accelerometers.

Next challenges I want to solve in software is focus detection and then automatic image stack and post processing.

Primary goals of the project is a deep dive into robotics and electronics, along with brushing up on webdev which I don't touch too frequently being in the gamedev world. Also allowing me to explore things like digital signal processing.

I'm keeping a bit of a running blog here. [0]

[0] https://gdcorner.notion.site/Stargaze-Telescope-Build-Log-6f...
Its actually a negative selling point for me. I do not want it on my phone. Hopefully any such features are optional.
When are they going to finish making progress? I've been hearing about this for years now and it doesn't seem to have happened. Which means Java continues with just about the worst design for memory efficiency you could have.
Now do the wrench attack.
> socialism

That's too broad of a term to carry universal meaning without the context provided by the article.

The piece is more of a modern translation based on present conditions, and it isn't to be confused with "the Nordic model" or any other instance or attempt that readers might instinctively cling to when hearing the word.
Uh oh. What do I need to know about PIA and do I need to cancel my subscription?
I think he's mostly right. I think it's driven by some of the same panic that pushes so much of the AI boom: companies trying to find the "next big thing" in software. A real possibility is that we are near the end of the era of software innovation. Not that there will be none, but that it will slow down, because so many problems are, well, solved -- at least to the point where most potential customers are satisfied with current solutions.

People will continue to innovate, and some of that will involve software, but it doesn't mean there is a desperate need for software innovation.

There was a point where radio innovations were coming fast and furious. There was a point where mechanical engineering was progressing in leaps and bounds. Fields eventually slow down. It didn't put mechanical engineers out of work. But it's not the kind of field it was in (guessing) 1850.
I'm looking at the list of top websites and thinking "when have I ever wanted to install the mobile app?" The only one I see that I use is Spotify. Maybe the time spent on mobile is in other apps?

But I'm probably an outlier because I spend most of my time on websites, even on phone and tablet.

It would be nice to see this broken down by market segment. I don't see any banks in the list. I use my bank's app for certain reasons like depositing checks and Zelle.
I suspect HN is much more diverse than you make it out to be. I see _lots_ of non-US people around.