skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, here in 3 the hardest part of learning a language has little to do with the language itself and more to do with the ecosystem of tooling around that language. I think we could more easily get on to the business of using the right language for the job if more of that tooling was shared. If each language, for instance did not have it's own package manager, its own IDE, its own linters and language servers all with their own idiosyncrasies arising not from deep philosophical differences of the associated language but instead from accidental quirks of perspective from whoever decided that their favorite language needed a new widget.

I admire the widget makers, especially those wrangling the gaps between languages. I just wish their work could be made easier.
A meeting with HR too, talk about adding insult to injury
re: up XX number of points, I haven't bothered for many years, but that sounds like NPR's "All Things Considered" or "Marketplace". Always drove me nuts too and does nothing to help people understand financial markets.
Still, you'd rather save your push back privileges - which come with a cost - for something actually important and work-related. Not for random crap like that, being put on the spot randomly in a personal way.
Modern stuff? Possibly. Most of the hobs still in use today? Nope. Turn knob, get gas. Mine has a separate button for the piezo ignition. There don't seem to be particularly many accidents with these either.
I wonder if full unicode range was accepted because some companies are writing code in non-english.
Yeah, I'd start with AWS then. Once you understand that you'll be able to map concepts to different providers.

I wouldn't focus on other offerings (lambdas etc) until you are solid on fundamentals (the regions/zones and networking stuff) that allow you to deploy the current product.

I'm most familiar with AWS (used to teach certifications for them) and think you'd benefit from studying for the AWS solution arch - associate exam. It focuses on core cloud concepts and AWS. Given the customer distribution, that's where I'd start.
The “weird crippled z80” is the GB/C cpu which is indeed a z80 with some things removed and a few added.
Local VectorDB in Raw TS Without Docker / Server
It was so annoying to figure out how to connect React or Electron.js apps to vector databases that used Docker or an external server. I only needed max 100k vectors, so I built this local in memory HNSW implementation and thought I'd open source it: https://github.com/Tej-Sharma/astro-vectordb

With local-first AI applications getting popular, I thought it'd be useful for local side projects. Of course, this helps build self-hosted applications instead of ones like Pinecone

The RAM usage is not very high at all for ~10k vectors so it's great for searching on users' data.

It's my first major open source and the algorithm could always be improved so contributers are welcome
OpenAI hallucinates badly during long silence
Just to clear up a possible misunderstanding, the word church in the bible is derived from a word that simply meant assembly, as in an assembly of people. The above poster was referring to the institution of the church, which wasn't formalized till long after the death of the Christ figure.
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I'm aware that this is what happens. I can still think it's asinine.
> don't see the US activity working to give that up

It’s the law. Which means it’s an option. My takeaway is the law should be amended to include a statute of limitations. (More broadly, I'm not thrilled about how comfortable both parties have become around talking of stripping citizenship.)
How about wrapping the potato on something that seals it before heating it up?

Some recipies instruct you to wrap the potatoes with aluminium foil. I’ve always thought this is useless, but maybe should give it a try.
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All you have to do is read Eusebius to find that the church existed long before Constantine, and as a formal structure. You can also read the Early Church Fathers to find that the Bishop of Rome was respected as the leader even before Christianity was legalized.
Even with this objective, using the share prices and not the market cap of the companies involved creates enormous skew.

For example UNH and especially GS take up the largest individual components despite not being being amongst the largest companies, giving their share movement disproportionate weight in the “index”.

Perhaps it made sense 140 years ago but today it belongs in the rubbish.
No, but you need to be able to write a well-formatted diff, which is pretty much the minimum requirement for sharing changes.

Emailing the entire new file every time will not work in anything but local tests as it cannot handle change conflicts. The format needs to know which parts of the file you changed, so your change does not accidentally undo other changes merged ahead of you.
This is an excellent document. I disagree with its normative conclusions, because I think being incompatible with ASCII, Unix, Emacs, and TeX is worse than being incompatible with ISO-8859-1, Microsoft Windows, and MacOS 9, but it is an excellent reference for the factual background.
> Biden. So if they take this case up, it will be another obvious example of authoritarian lawfare

Your comment is much stronger without this.
No need to generalize, or assume.

> I’d already had a successful career as a software engineer for the better part of a decade.

OP's resume suggests they've been a professional engineer for over a decade.

I agree with your points about perfectionism and idealism, but they are not isolated to Gen Z.
I never bothered with structural editing on Emacs. I just use the sentence/paragraph movement commands. M-a, M-e, M-n, M-p, M-T, M-space, etc.
Not according to the last couple of threads about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25770858

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7152068
Are you referring to exFAT?
I've always found this website absurd since almost every example is harder to read and remember in native JS than in jQuery.

It makes an extremely good case for jQuery IMO.
As someone who worked with Python professionally for like 8 years, I wholeheartedly disagree with this. Python is an ok scripting language but it's an awful command script language. The extra ceremony to just invoke another command is a complete non-starter IMO. Ruby handles the cases where a shell script makes sense way better than Python does and I still wouldn't pick Ruby. Rc's syntax is better than ba(sh), which is the point: you get things like pipes and easy commands without some of the cruft.
Can't you just use Bitwarden or 1password or similar? They just store your 2FA in the cloud so it's not tied to any device.

It's a hassle for you, but Amazon isn't going to go out of their way for you. $100k is chump change to them...
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The past few years have been pretty unfortunate for Intel, even though I think they could have been a pretty decent player in the market.

Their new Core Ultra chips have pretty okay performance and good energy efficiency, their P/E core design seems to make sense, even their entry into the dedicated graphics segment seemed like a good thing for the average consumer.

But the 13/14th gen issues were a pretty major hit, I do have an Intel Arc card that I got for a really nice price (cheaper than similar AMD/Nvidia GPUs) but it's not without its own share of issues even with pretty decently developed drivers, people seem to have taken the Core Ultra being a bit of a sidegrade pretty badly and the pricing doesn't always seem all that competitive when it comes to CPUs (even the motherboards seem more expensive when compared to AMD).

What a bummer.

That said, when it comes to the consumer segment, even AMD doesn't seem to be doing all that well, for example their net revenue for gaming is down 69%: https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1224/am...
Looks to me like you might still want plenty of wrappers though.
Isn't cal.com open source already?
> lawfare from one side has become

Bad laws are weaponised by both sides. The problem is bad laws. Not Trump threatening to arrest his enemies under 18th-century sedition laws or Biden having the theoretical power to denaturalise Musk.

Also, Musk maintains a security clearance—an instrument granted at the pleasure of the President—so it’s a bit silly to be conspiracy theorising about denaturalisation.
10% more vulnerable? Ok, I’ll make up a story about how some weekends I keep working because I love this job and team so danged much!

A team isn’t a family. A company isn’t a family.
Cal.com is free open source too. React+TS, shadcn-style components. Built on Nextjs though. https://github.com/calcom/cal.com
> If you’re ignoring copyright and IP rights while catching up? That’s just freeloading, you need someone to pay for all the research/innovation.

This is not true. Everyone, everywhere, who created any thing ever, built it on the backs of [millennia of] previous creators.

History teaches us that innovation flows in the absence of restrictions - including rent-seeking. Conversely, modern history teaches us that IP gets in the way everywhere it can.
Dystopika is a beautiful cyberpunk city builder without the ugly details
You do not even need anything special to build a capacitive pad with a Raspberry Pi Pico. Basically only an insulated pad and maybe a resistor (even though I think it is even possible to do without).

Here is an example of someone building a touch midi controller [0] with nothing more than a custom PCB and some resistors or a touch input device with varied inputs like sliders and buttons [1].

[0] https://github.com/todbot/picotouch

[1] https://github.com/todbot/picoslidertoy
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Having young children is conveniently not mentioned.
This is not just true of Standard ML; it's also true of regular ML.
Stagehand - Browser automation with AI
First saw a post [1] linked via Mastodon regarding the migration. The time window feels short between announcement and the move.

Also concerned as the salt admin at $DAYJOB about the falloff of commits to the salt github repo over the course of the past few years.

[1] https://nlogic.systems/notice/AnVTFSNaqTYIph1AP2
I was not a PhD, but I studied both around that period in university and can confirm that neural networks were only seen as a kind of theoretical plaything. All the libraries were pushing SVMs.
> How did the studio think that was going to play out?

Well, it was the 80s. Studios got away with that kind of stuff all the time.

On the author's defense, the GP seem to have overlooked the remaining of the paragraph. But if he actually insisted on that, widely citing a movie without even watching it wouldn't deserve that excuse.
Fair enough: so little time, so much to read.

I was just wondering if you had found it to be tough sledding, if you had read it.
I think you have the directionality backwards. Trump is not currently in office or in control of the government, therefore he doesn't have the ability to constrain Bezos' first amendment free speech rights.

If Bezos chose to constrain his own speech due to some perceived threat to his companies from a possible Trump administration, that's still a private decision (and an exercise of his first amendment right to non-expresssion).

To be a first amendment violation, the government has to constrain speech (via force or threat).
Is it even an emulator? There's an SM83 (the Game Boy Color's weird not-quite-Z80 CPU) hiding inside the Game Boy Advance's SoC.

[edit] Reading a bit more, it is an emulator-- and apparently an inefficient, poorly-written one at that.
Not parent, but in my spreadsheets fonts map to certainty ranges.

Serifs in increasing somberness for the most concrete numbers, sans for everyday estimates, and papyrus whenever I just toss random numbers in.
That reminds me heavily of krazams's "I Have Delivered Value... But At What Cost?", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ
As God, simple words like this would be like a small breeze to a great mountain. As I said, to be offended by this would require pettiness which I would have a hard time believing would be possible for such. As a human believer, I think you are speaking outside of your bounds of understanding.
Why should anyone care what a philosopher was trying to do if he didn't actually do it any sort of useful way? Stupid is as stupid does.
> Obviously, Elon Musk has contributed more than virtually every other American and is a good actor

Are you taking part in a "most citations needed in one sentence" competition?
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Is it your contention that by the time the English language was developed no machines had any wooden parts? And if so - just when do you think the English language was developed. Although it seems wrong to speak of a language as being developed.
Perl and Python stole it from Emacs Lisp, though Perl took it further. I'm not sure where Java stole it from, but nowadays Doxygen is pretty common for C code. Unfortunately this results in people thinking that Javadoc and Doxygen are substitutes for actual documentation like the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, which cannot be generated from docstrings, because the organization of the source code is hopelessly inadequate for a reference manual.
Wouldn’t be possible to let the LLM do the highlighting? Instead of returning code in plain text, it could return code within html with the appropriate tags. Maybe it’s harder than it sounds… but if it’s just for highlighting the code the LLM returns, I wouldn’t mind the highlighting not being 100% accurate.
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I'm not claiming that it did not exist before Constantine, but the question at hand is whether the institution was formalized by Christ.
And when the LLM hype dies NVDA will be the hardest to fall.
Yeah but you don't form strong social bonds through awkward team exercises. The best team I worked on was super high performing and we did end up sharing personal stuff on our spare time eventually (and some of us are still friends years later). That all happened organically.

What didn't work, however, was the office manager's increasingly awkward attempts to force socialising. When at some point we raised the issue (politely!) that this was often distracting, he became offended and lashed out. We later also found out that he was basically spying on us and reporting back to HQ.

It's one of the reasons why I'm incredibly wary of people who try too hard to be my "buddy" at work, especially if they're not peers.
I don't even know how I would react if i was caught off-guard with a stupid question like that out of the blue with everyone watching. On a good day, I would probably laugh it off and say something obviously idiotic like "my vulnerability is that i work too hard" to indicate that I don't find this amusing. On a bad day, caught off-guard, I might actually take the bait, "become vulnerable" and blurt out something far more stupid in front of everybody.
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> outside of trade show demos, kernels are condegened. What is true is there are recurring "themes/patterns" that are handled by engineers for a class of products. Lately this is flash attention

I never said they weren't using code generation. I said that each one requires a manual tune. You will set various parameters, determine if the generated code does well enough and then if there's performance to squeeze out, you modify the code generator.

> I guess you work at AMD.

Close but not quite
What Is a VAST Tag?
Ask HN: GitHub shadowbans accounts for no reason now?
A while ago, while working on one of my pet projects, GitHub's AI decided to randomly shadow-ban/'flag' my account (`cheesycod`) for no reason at all. I checked security logs and found nothing. I also haven't made any sort of offensive or spammy comments at all (did their AI just hallucinate up a shadowban then?). I have checked my account thoroughly for hacking etc. but have not found any traces of hacking or anything against Github's TOS whatsoever. To make matters worse, GitHub Support has also refused to respond to my account reinstatement request so it's basically like shouting into a black void.

We really need federated Git hosting to become popular at this point. A company like GitHub should not be able to just shadowban accounts and never reply to support tickets, especially when it has a monopoly in the market and is basically required in the current job market. Are there any potential candidates for Git hosting right now??? Someone should honestly make one...

Has anyone else on Hacker News experienced this abysmal level of support from GitHub before?
Navigating to Parent Folder in Finder
In finder from any folder you can go up a level (equivalent of cd ..) by pressing cmd+up
Yeah I wish I could still use my S8. It was my best phone ever. I like my S23 but it misses so much.

The notification LED, the pressure sensitive display, the edge screen (rounded edges), the iris scanner, the 3.5mm jack, the beautiful orchid grey back pattern. It even had a heart rate and SpO2 sensor. But being stuck on android 9 without security updates is just too much of a problem.

The notification LED was so great to notice a missed call etc. An always on display is not as useful because it's so dim. You can't see it from a distance. It's more like an almost off display :) The LED you would easily notice across the room.
I've been working on a Rails codebase for a few years now. The biggest downside coming from TypeScript codebases is that lack of static typing and the immature static typing ecosystem in Ruby. I know DHH publicly denounced strong typing, but if you're coming from a language with it, Ruby & Rails is a hard sell.
Show HN is more about showing and discussing something someone has made than an inquiry into the existence of things like the thing being showhn.
> low accessibility AND low portability

The two main pain points everyone said PDF had solved for documents, when it was introduced.
But it doesn't do chaining and you have to loop through elements to do anything with them.
Would be much slower and eat up precious context window.
>How did the studio think that was going to play out?

I'm hoping they thought it was going to be a big hit earning a couple hundred millions of dollars and with a very profitable toy line otherwise they would have been sorely disappointed.
From Wikipedia: Initial release 1976; 48 years ago
> that each one requires a manual tune

Ya definitely not - everyone uses grid search or whatever latest BPO tuning strategy.
Because unskilled labor is incomparable to skilled labor, and various specializations of skilled labor are incomparable to each other.

It's an infinite money glitch - computers can do many unskilled labor tasks autonomously. I have an AWS account and am happy to sell.
Sure! Though the normal way to write Option<T> is simply T | null.
> At what point browser becomes full blown OS.

Happened over a decade ago - ChromeOS. It's also the birthplace of other similar tech.. webmidi webusb Bluetooth etc.
The Go decision was explicitly to not have warnings, and the unused identifier thing complained about is merely a consequence of that.

https://go.dev/doc/faq#unused_variables_and_imports
I once asked "what's my destination?" to confirm and got answer "how about New Zealand?"

To which I responded "I fscking hope not yet." because for me New Zealand is the mythical land far away that I'm gonna escape to when the civilisation mostly collapses due to for example all out war in Europe or the Pacific.
All excellent examples. I particularly enjoyed the George Washington example. Another interesting reference point would be the English coronation ceremony, which is chock full of sacred symbols and rituals, and references to what God does or does not want.
> want to censor the news, force companies to hire unqualified people for the sake of "equity", lock up politicians they do not like, and of course anyone who disagrees with them gets labeled, doxed, or even worse, etc, etc.

You’re cherry picking extreme policies that aren’t backed by most Americans, nor even a major plurality of either major party.

> over 50% of Democrats polled said that they were disappointed that the shooter failed

Partisanship drives stupidity. 70% of Republicans don’t believe the last election [1]. A fifth explicitly back violent insurrection [2]. We have a republic, not pure democracy, because the Founders weren’t idiots.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/jun/14/most-republic...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
lisp's syntax is simple - its just parenthesis to define a list, first element of a list is executed as a function.

but for example a language like C has many different syntaxes for different operations, like function declaration or variable or array syntax, or if/switch-case etc etc.

so to know C syntax you need to learn all these different ways to do different things, but in lisp you just need to know how to match parenthesis.

But of course you still want to declare variables, or have if/else and switch case. So you instead need to learn the builtin macros (what GP means by semantics) and their "syntax" that is technically not part of the language's syntax but actually is since you still need all those operations enough that they are included in the standard library and defining your own is frowned upon.