skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone else recently tried to search for a location, even using keyword map, and still not be shown a Google Maps link? I would much rather be shown a map, than whatever BS AI generated dogwater summary they are dishing out instead.

If Google mangement can't see the user value of putting their own useful products in search, what hope is there for the rest of the world's useful information?
>How much is 48 _megabytes_ of RAM in 2024? 5¢? 10¢?

about $500-1000 https://eu.mouser.com/c/semiconductors/memory-ics/sram/?memo...

>Why not just

he said the magic words!
Allowing that I'm simply not sophisticated enough to understand this, I think he's overthinking things. :-)

I mean, B3 D4 G4 in isolation probably does sound like G/B to western ears, and maybe the overtone explanation is acoustically relevant, but it seems like there are not too many other things that those notes could be, and the spelling clearly spells a Gmaj triad.
Yeah, but given the quote from the OSM wiki I'm a bit apprehensive about spending time uploading a couple of terrabytes / hundreds of thousands of 360 images. Either because it's not worth it (no one here will ever see them, or they may be removed), or because it would be detrimental to the .fr project for me to waste their resources.
Maybe perfectionist is the wrong word for it, but me, as a European I do feel there is some kind of (obsessive?) attention for details and (at least desire) for order in Japan cities that you don't see/feel in other places. This is my impression after 2 weeks around Japan, both cities and some country side.
As usual, there's an relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/1726/
Bought for $7B in '21 and sold at a 90% loss now? Wtf happened? How could a food delivery service do so poorly during COVID years? I hadn't heard of troubles at GrubHub before and I now plenty of folks who use it
That will run Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B just fine. I'm using a M2 Max with 64GB of RAM.
I just learned from this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HSYTIEXa5w that google localizes it's driving directions to be landmark-based in certain countries. In this video it mentions India specifically.
>we’re already trying to climb out of a hole of historically serving affluent/whiter audiences

Imagine saying this in the US about any other race. They write this stuff and then blame us for not wanting to read their other output.
this license stuff is endemic in vintage computing, very frustrating

people (usually with a limited engineering background) have a fantasy that they might start a hobby business, and are afraid someone will "steal" their design and sell a dozen on ebay
I'm puzzled how he thought this would encourage women to have children. I should think "forced hysterectomy at 30" would be met with plenty of, "ok, guess I'm just not having kids" rather than "ok, better hurry up and have kids".

But also, what, women don't have kids in their 30s ever? This is baffling from every angle.
No, but enterprises are stuck in their ways. So switching from Intel to AMD any time soon is about as likely as cleaning up the rest of this stuff.
Postgres Constraints for Newbies
> I'm just trying to be thought provoking.

Being obviously wrong is probably not the way to do that.

> Down this thread people are talking about stuff like, I don't know, home goods, or you're talking about cosmetics.

It's all kinds of products. I have a Zojirushi travel mug and coffee maker that are both ridiculously well made and designed. The travel mug keeps things hot, never leaks and has a spring tensioned juuust right to fling the lid open and lock it behind a stop without bouncing back. The coffee maker has an unusual design that makes it very easy to clean. I've been using both daily for going on ten years. Japanese stationary is very good. Until recently, a Japanese company made the best chalk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagoromo_Fulltouch_Chalk). Back in the day, Sony CRT TVs were the best you could get. That's just the stuff I have personal experience to rattle on about without doing any research.

Japan has a longstanding reputation for producing very high quality products, which you don't seem to be very aware of. I'm kind of wondering if you're trying to make a point when you don't actually know anything about the topic.

> The reason you choose a particular cosmetic is due to mastery of advertising and logistics software. You will never buy a cosmetic that isn't marketed by software.

Like you're trying really, unusually hard to miss the point and reach to pull the discussion back to software. Again, I find that really interesting. At this point, are you just digging in your heels or is something else going on?

And the woman I met wasn't seeking out Japanese cosmetics because of marketing software, for the obvious reason that she was visitor buying things marketed to a domestic audience.
Honestly, I'd get the F off twitter, because it's now in control of a state actor.

Any barriers, legal or otherwise, that existed between twitter and the state should be assumed gone once the new administration transitions in, especially considering it's an administration that has promised to abuse state power to target it's opposition.
Stuff your grandma has heard of.
Pretty sure Quake mappers are getting by just fine without Blender:

https://www.quaddicted.com/files/quaddicted-images/by-sha256...

https://www.quaddicted.com/files/quaddicted-images/by-sha256...

https://www.quaddicted.com/files/quaddicted-images/by-sha256...

https://www.quaddicted.com/files/quaddicted-images/by-sha256...

https://www.quaddicted.com/files/quaddicted-images/by-sha256...

https://www.quaddicted.com/files/quaddicted-images/by-sha256...
Perspective: Obesity is not a disease (2014)
> there’s great content on podcasts, substack, YouTube, etc.

There's almost zero shoe-leather ground truth reporting in any of those places. Is YouTube going to send a foreign correspondent to Crimea? Are podcasters going to start attending the mayor's press conferences?
Windsurf Editor by Codeium
- There is a natural from-to conversion of Functional Parsers (FP) monad (as in Parsec) to Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF).

- Similarly, EBNF can be applied to Raku grammars.

- Hence, the representation of Raku grammars into FP monad is doable, at least for certain large enough set of Raku grammars.

- See the package "FunctionalParsers".
In the Netherlands (and other countries), you have something called "leerplicht" or obligatory education law, and have to ask the school for permission.

The school is allowed to make an exemption for a maximum of 10 days, above that you need to contact the school attendance officer. This can only be provided if the reason falls under some specific types.

If you want to take your children on a holiday outside the national holidays, you have to provide proof that this only a possibility during term time.

You can read more about this at https://www.government.nl/topics/compulsory-school-attendanc...
Is "SQL from the front end" viable?
There is a lot of misleading information about Apple's unified memory out there so I mentioned it just to be clear.
5% of a transit authority's budget would be a lot of money! Advertising made £158 million for Transport for London in 2019, much less than 5% of their budget.
This is British empire levels of value destruction.
Yeah I get 100-250ms of latency between input and presentation. https://trace.cafe/t/UFXm7ASLQg
I see many downsides to mixing languages in a codebase, and no upside.

JS and Python have eaten the world and can do everything every other language can do (something which is true of all languages because of Turing).

There's not enough benefit in your new language to overcome the switching costs -- and that's not personal, it's true of most every language anyone can or will suggest. We've hit peak language and passed it.

Web Assembly and ChatGPT/Copilot actually work against the invention of new languages because with WASM all existing languages can be packaged up inside JS apps and run in the browser. And with LLMs, you get better results when there are more examples of code in the corpus. There won't be any examples of MSN2 nor of other invented languages.

Finally, MSN2 is a terrible name. It was the name of a failed Microsoft "easy onramp" product like AOL that served as a home page for the internet decades ago.
Well, it uses PTFE which is a kind of PFAS which doesn't have a clear future and shouldn't be scaled up for good reasons, e.g. : https://www.gmp-compliance.org/gmp-news/restrictions-for-ptf...
But the point stands, it’s about the distribution of phones not how many models support it.
99% IPA will make it removable easily without dissolving it and will not damage any of the electronics.
Russians now pay a third or less what you are probably currently paying for eggs.
Congrats on launching!

The logo looks quite out of place, I know it's AI generated but maybe go with something consistent with your website's design language.

The landing page is confusing, what exactly is the end result received with 8arms?

Add some examples and case studies on your homepage.
The value is irrelevant. It's a conflict of interests for a citizen to be the CEO of a government contractor and work for the government, especially in a role that may have sway over how the government spends it's money.
I'd go even further and say it's corruption.
I wouldn't call it sluggish. It's just that the tiles only update on mouseup events, rather than on mousedown events. Your own finger's turtle speed is the only source of latency ;)

But I agree that applying different styling to tiles on both hover events and mousedown events would make it feel snappier.

(I've only tried this on desktop. Haven't tried it on mobile)
> People aren't reading because they don't trust mainstream news to deliver true facts

People of all stripes seem quite happy to trust news as long as it delivers facts that already fit their worldview
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-labor-market-impact-o...
Part-time work! I reject all of the full-time only positions.
Faster-than-native toHex() for JavaScript Uint8Arrays
> redis Error toomanyrequests: You have reached your pull rate limit. You may increase the limit by authenticating and upgrading: https://www.docker.com/increase-rate-limit

This is the first time I’ve received this error on the production system. Could the issue be related to this error?
Even some electronics, I don't expect anything beyond a basic BMS (which has the logic baked into the IC) is inside my battery powered drill. All it has is a direction selector switch and a trigger.
I never put much stock on internet rumours. Way too much noise to waste time on it.
It is a skill issue, but not a problem. The developer who just wants to write unrelated code doesn't need Docker to write the code that goes into Docker.

For a lot of developers who have their primary focus set on writing code and documentation, trying to remember Docker or Kube on top of the rest of your stack is burdensome. Deployment is an end-user task. Obviously the development environment fits the target use-case already.

So please understand that there are lots of people who are building the things that go inside your containers who don't want, need, or see the value of these containers. For you they might offer value, but for someone like me they bring cognitive load and troubleshooting.

Too much abstraction can be just as bad as not enough. Like Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design, but for software.
In the 1990s there was a fad to make multiple-access desktop apps where the desktop app would use ODBC or something like it to remotely access a SQL database.

It went up in flames, the security issues talked about in this article explain why, and soon we had "three tier" applications where you have the client, an application server (could just be a web server although the term was reserved back then for something offering more amenity) and also a SQL database in the back end. Roughly this is the standard now.
Google does a really good job of this.

Allows for videos too. Sauces and Main Dishes in the same recipe. It’s comprehensive.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structu...
even with electronics. Apple didn't achieve their dominance because of their software - any of the times. The physical products were continually refined and the software used as a lever to help them perfect the experience. When they focused on making the software "perfect" it almost destroyed the company.
All of those "good" reasons seem to boil down to nostalgia.
Monospace is a historical technical limitation, nothing else.

Proportional fonts are simply more legible, and programming with them is great.
NHS using drones to fly blood tests between Southwark hospitals
Ask HN: What are your favorite Bluesky accounts?
Hi all,

I’ve recently created a Bluesky account and have been pleased so far.

However, I’m wondering what accounts the HN audience enjoys? I’m looking for things around tech, nerdy topics, interesting tidbits, science, nature, musings, etc. Basically a social network that is, dare I say it, pleasant

Would love to hear your thoughts!
Show HN: Konga Beat – A custom track editor for Donkey Konga 2 and 3
Howdy HN!

For those who don't know, back in the early 2000s, Nintendo and Namco developed a series of music rhythm games for the GameCube featuring Donkey Kong called Donkey Konga: https://www.mariowiki.com/Donkey_Konga_(series)

The Donkey Konga games borrowed heavily from Taiko no Tatsujin (another music rhythm game by Namco). However, instead of taiko drums, the player would use DK Bongos to jam along with music from different eras and genres.

Long story short, I figured out how to add custom tracks to some of the Donkey Konga games (Donkey Konga 2 and 3) but found the entire process cumbersome, so I decided to make a dedicated editor. It was a lot of fun to make, and I hope others get some enjoyment out of it too!
With Agile, I have found that I'm never able to just take a day off here and there. I need to take enough time off that I can meaningfully commit to taking less work in the sprint, otherwise my day off just leads to working nights and weekends to catch up. So it's either take the entire 2-week sprint off, or an entire week and hope I can correctly estimate what half a workload looks like.

Yes, yes, doing Agile wrong etc
Yep. Reminds me of how the internet started.
Singles Want to Find Love in Real Life Again, If Only They Could Remember How
Thanks. I've sent a private message to one of the project owners.
How good and complete are any of these providers for Proxmox?
If the ratio holds (4/10 I checked), I'd have to look more closely at about a third of the providers, just based on their latest release date.
The Kim clan is definitely doing ok, could you present the argument for the rest of the population?
Firefox 133b7 and Safari Tech Preview both have a new Uint8Array.toHex() method, but otherwise browsers don't yet have a native way to turn binary data into hex strings.

I put this tiny package together to fill this gap using a significantly faster technique than I've seen elsewhere.

Surprisingly, it's actually faster than the current native Firefox implementation (at least on a recent MacBook Pro). Hopefully that won't remain the case for too much longer ...
You do know you can still use macOS to run third party closed source applications, right?
https://archive.is/fxV8a
Even with the perfect coding Oracle, you need to ask the right questions to get good answers. The LLM will cheerfully give you bad answers if you ask the wrong question. The implication is thet you still need to learn the problem space yourself, often via the LLM, in order to ask good questions. Junior developers will ask bad questions, get dangerous code, and love it. Good programmers will learn stuff much quicker. Asking good questions is not easy. As LLMs get better, we will need to ask better and better questions in order to write more and more complex apps. This happened when we got open source libraries via the Internet (we all used to suffer alone with our immediate coworkers in the before times).
Rebooting Windows IIS instances every night has been a mainstay for most of my career. haha
Does it matter? In the modern sellout world, by the time something can be considered "Mainstream", it's already well on the way to abandoning the principles that made it successful in the first place and replacing them with "Cost Effective" practices and monetization, what used to be called Selling Out and is now termed "Enshitiffication".

It does not matter whether you're talking about the broadcast and cable television media (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox), the new wave media of online-first reporting (All the properties of Conde Nast and Ziff Davis, incl. Wired, Vice, Cracked, Buzzfeed, etc.), or even the third-generation blogosphere (Substack, Medium). There's no trust because success is inversely correlated with trustworthiness.
I'm missing something I think.
Currently the `pdf` type is indeed a blob of bytes. Read from disk, but not parsed.
The type is created with storage=extended to avoid the typical 8KB tuple size limit.

In practice though, a PDF for most cases has text-like semantics, so with ::pdf::text you can have all the text-indexes you want.
My first follow was xkcd (of course) - https://bsky.app/profile/xkcd.com

Accounts similar to this energy are what I’m hoping to find
Organic Maps or OSM-based maps in general are great, but for routing nothing can replace Google Maps (or Waze) here yet, because they are the only ones with actual, near real-time traffic data.

And here in Belgium, your 100 km trip could take anywhere between 50 minutes and 2 hours depending on whether there's traffic in the Kennedytunnel or an accident in Nazareth. It's crucial for me to check traffic before I leave, so if there's a one-hour traffic jam I can just do whatever else for an hour before leaving.

And I haven't found a way to check that without Google Maps yet. But I use OsmAnd if I'm not taking the highway.
I'm not sure if I can.
But if anyone else has the file, the hash is: 82c6658d53fa611273a4742ac824cc98196fd35e

Should be pretty magnetic :)
Yeah, we're very early building this, the blog post is just a way for me to organize my thoughts and start fights online. It's, uh, embarrassingly useful to yell semi-coherent thoughts into the void and have experts yell back with a decade or more of experience and information about tools I haven't heard of.

> I'm quite skeptical that adding a layer of abstraction and switching to TOML instead of YAML will suddenly enable those scared away by compose to start self-hosting, but kubernetes and docker swarm were never in the cards.

Yes, this is an excellent point. I did not articulate it well anywhere, but the goal is for users to have something more like Sandstorm, with a UI to install things. The TOML is for application developers, not end users. It'll either go in a separate database or, ideally, in the source code of the applications to be installed similar to a Dockerfile. I haven't started yet, but eventually we need to work with application developers to support things they want and to make it easier to treat Tealok as the "easy option" rather than docker compose.
Just simple neglect. Not enough revenue from the region to warrant operation and engineering time.
Describing those who have lost trust in journalists as "postliterate" is not going to engender any reconciliation between the two. I for one, roll my eyes whenever journalists elevate themselves as the keepers of truth and democracy. Despite all of their self-aggrandizement they're just writers and citizens like the rest of us.
I could come out with some counterpoints, but you’re too abrasive to even engage with. It’s sad what this place has become.
Same as any other important life skill. Once you've learned it, if you don't like it and you don't need to do it, you can avoid it, but should probably still do it periodically so you don't have to relearn.
Politicians lie even more and people have had no problem believing and supporting that lately.

It’s not like journalists are collectively agreeing to lie to the public.
Worked for JET at the time of this acquisition, everybody I talked to at work about this thought the acquisition was nuts.
That and implementation detail of the cp command, not an APFS feature.

If I had to guess why, it would be because there are many cases where cp could not create a clone, such as copying to a network file system.
Shipping for your leadership instead of users is so very American and explains how serial blunderers fail from one big project to another while the employees get the short end of stick. Happy if you makes you happy that some big wig on the leadership like you, but is that really all you want to achieve in life?
LLM Inference Cost
Someone has already released a design you can 3d print that mounts the Mini on its side and makes it
resemble the cheese grater Mac Pro.

> 3D-printed Mac Mini enclosure makes the tiny PC look like the world's cutest Mac Pro

https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/3d-printed-mac-mini-en...
The Improvement of the Mind by Isaac Watts (1741) [pdf]
What is PioneerDJ?
That's great for system services, not for widely deployed applications.
I keep going back and forth trying to figure out if this is sarcasm or not. Firstly it sounds sensible, then you're talking about PDF.js in a browser sandbox?!
Maybe I’m cynical, but “innovated” and implementing classic growth and marketing tactics aren’t the same.
You're Not Testing Your AI Well Enough
And just yesterday, I was remembering a 6th grade science experiment that involved a radar gun that my father "borrowed" from a police dept (I suspect he paid to borrow or bought it outright and didn't tell me) and how that was somewhat sophisticated compared to the projects of other kids.

Really put me in my place with this one. Nice work.
Vaguely related anecdote:

30 years ago or so I worked at a tiny networking company where several coworkers came from a small company (call it C) that made AppleTalk routers. They recounted being puzzled that their competitor (company S) had a reputation for having a rock-solid product, but when they got it into the lab they found their competitor's product crashed maybe 10 times more often than their own.

It turned out that the competing device could reboot faster than the end-to-end connection timeout in the higher-level protocol, so in practice failures were invisible. Their router, on the other hand, took long enough to reboot that your print job or file server copy would fail. It was as simple as that, and in practice the other product was rock-solid and theirs wasn't.

(This is a fairly accurate summary of what I was told, but there's a chance my coworkers were totally wrong. The conclusion still stands, I think - fast restarts can save your ass.)
An alternative construction of Shannon entropy
They get way more than they need, it’s just burnt on unions, pensions, and consultants

I will literally volunteer my time to canvass for anyone who runs on busting NYC public sector unions
MacOS could automatically determine whether a clone can be done though.
Given the current political climate, this seems like an odd thing for Congress to spend time on. Is this meant to be a distraction or what's the deal here?
> Spatial memory is a very useful and important part of navigation.

Yes, if you can organize your staff.
Windows 10 and 11 will just put your icons as it see fit, without the option to change the size of them. Position is also monitor dependent.
And the ribbon is a disaster for spatial navigation.