skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The syntax may be eyebleedingly awful but damn if it doesn't actually keep working. Justfiles aren't even parallisable, but make had that baked in decades ago.

And no matter how much vi(m) might be a plugin-bloated mess that never really gelled for me, it also never lagged out or randomly failed to do things like autocomplete or formatter running to nearly the extent VS Code does daily. And it didn't use half my CPU just sitting there.

Autotools, now, that's some real self-flagrllation.
One of my children is affected by a similar change. The number of foreign students grew to such a number that the admission threshold for locals exceeded the best possible grade (ie. my child would need perfect grades plus bonus points).

What puzzles me is that very few people understand the motivation for the change. The minister stated before the reform that the goal would be ease the painfully high admission threshold, and even so, when the reformed rules were published most people assumed that the real goal was to keep foreigners out.
Because it's interesting and, probably, the easiest way to bring significant business value. Most of the problems and opportunities I saw lies somewhere on the border of different departments, technology stacks and abstraction layers. And so little people want to dive into this mess, because it requires knowledge from other domains to solve.
Disambiguating iPhone Model Names That Have the 'S' Suffix
Just ditch green credits and call it the "American Freedom Enterprise Credit" for buying Tesla cars. Government money siphoned into Elon's pockets.
It boggles my mind that people don't read Chris McCandless' story and notice that in his previous adventures, he'd also fucked up, but always got bailed out by other people. Then he got the brilliant idea of going someplace where there were no other people...
Title actually is “ Lost at C? Forth May Be the Answer “
How do you figure? Electric cars aren’t really that great for the environment. They still consume extreme amounts of resources.

Public transport is what should be promoted, not electric cars.

Full disclosure. I invested in TSLA in 2012 and made a substantial amount of money. I think Elon is a solid dude
Sounds like process-level garbage collection. Just kill it and restart. Which also sound like the apocryphal tale about the leaky code and the missile.

"This sparked and interesting memory for me. I was once working with a customer who was producing on-board software for a missile. In my analysis of the code, I pointed out that they had a number of problems with storage
leaks. Imagine my surprise when the customers chief software engineer said
"Of course it leaks"

He went on to point out that they had calculated the amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time for the missile and then doubled that number. They added this much additional memory to the hardware to "support" the leaks. Since the missile will explode when it hits it's target or at the end of it's flight, the
ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention."

https://x.com/pomeranian99/status/858856994438094848
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile
i sometimes wonder what it was to live in early human times and make sense of everything: time, phenomena etc. i am not religious but i guess back then i would have ascribed anything to gods
You might struggle using microphones if it's very low frequency because most human audio microphones intentionally filter frequencies that are below (and above) human hearing range. Perhaps fixing to he contact mic to the right resonant object might serve to translate the low frequency to a higher frequency?

Could you use the accelerometer on a smart phone to 'hear' the vibrations?
Could be that or an RNN/LSTM as well
Nim also supports this.

var age: range[18..120]
The postgres ecosystem keeps impressing me with it's creativity
Phones handle that this way, but it's not necessarily a good thing if that's the only way they can get the ephemeris data. I used to navigate in Japanese cities using not my phone, but my tablet. Worked fine. Then I changed to another tablet. Didn't work at all, could not. The only time I could get a GPS lock was if I could connect to a local wi-fi, which is not something easily done. Its GPS software clearly didn't even try to get the ephemeris date via the GPS signal, it relied 100% on network download. Which made it utterly useless, in the place where I needed it most - another country, non-EU at that, and my tablet doesn't even have a SIM slot, and if it did, I would have had to buy/get a SIM card (as would I for a phone, something I normally wouldn't need).

In short - downloading ephemeris data from the internet is fine, but if it also cripples the whole thing by not using the embedded GPS ephemeris data.. horrible.
With MLX:

Prompt: 49 tokens, 95.691 tokens-per-sec
Generation: 723 tokens, 10.016 tokens-per-sec
Peak memory: 32.685 GB
[Rust] Next-gen builder macro Bon 3.0 release. Revolutional typestate design
Yes, though perl5 is also an incredibly bendable language syntax wise - you can add keywords and operators to the compiler via CPAN modules (our async/await syntax is provided simply by doing 'use Future::AsyncAwait' for example).
Dog, get a dog. Then, train the two of you well & go outside and let the dog play cupid for friendships and neighbourly bonds. Other people share a lot of your hatred, anger, depression as well as the deliberate positivity, compartmentalisation and even hypocrisy that we use to cope with all the fun we don't and do have in life. But you have to be direct and radically honest. You can't be fooled, anyway, you read those books. And what do you have to lose?
Can you share a transcript?
Exactly what I want (or exactly what I don't want) is often a unique attribute of a home that is only available in the description. The higher level filters are a good way to narrow things down, but lacking in specific details. While you can progress interest to find that kind of thing out as well, it saves a lot of hassle when the description is right there.
I looked at it and initially thought this is a stupid idea to store PDF files in your database and I continued to think this is even worse when it uses files on the file system. If you want this, index your PDF files into a table when they are uploaded.

The only functions here all take a filesystem path which your database should definitely not have access to - why would you upload files/store PDFs on a database server!!?

These functions to be able to get the title or modification time of a PDF are also just not that useful.
>Graduate Degrees Are Overrated

Isn't that the general idea to begin with?

With some endeavors the credentials are more important than the talent or skills.

Sometimes not, and it can be sensible or not either way.

You have to work with the hand you are dealt.

A scholar who has earned an advanced degree can very easily be accepted into numerous situations and opportunities that are virtually prohibited to the same person with the same absolute abilities who does not have equivalent credentials.

A non-degree person may have even more immediate abilities on tap, but that's not what I mean.

The degree allows the exact same person to be "overrated" more than they would be otherwise.

A more faulty flaw develops after the credentials rise to greater importance than the underlying talent that was supposed to be there in the first place. I would say this occurs more often when a degree is acting as more of a gatekeeper than necessary.

If it's feasible to earn a degree by concentrating on the "paper-chase" alone while neglecting difficult subject matter as much as possible, there will be people who choose that most direct route in increasing numbers once the gatekeeping function has been recognized.
Molecular dynamics data is essential for next generation of ML protein models
Right. Have your heard of open source? Biggest concerted effort to save each other time by avoiding repeating work I've ever seen.
I don't know if a contact mic really has any filtering though; it's just a piezo element that I plug into a pre-amp.

However, what you're saying is completely legit. I read that I might want to lay a large, sturdy thing on the floor and put the mic on that, for the same reason that you gave. I used a large old pane of glass that I found in the cellar.
I'd start with a DAG.

In fact, going through a project management basics training at work recently reminded me that cooking recipes are isomorphic to project plans. Which makes DAGs an obvious natural representation for a recipe, and incidentally, makes the Gantt chart one of the best ways of looking at it.
This is something I've been working on for about 6 months now.

I often come up with simple projects, lots of which go nowhere, and I thought it would be good if I could just host stuff quickly with no configuration and after some time in the shower, I came up with Nervespace.

Anyway, the wires are still hanging out and you can't create an account yet but you can try it for free by dropping your zipped .NET app on the homepage.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Ta

Mick
Gnutella 0.6
A forgotten protocol that can bring P2P Querying to otherwise stored P2P Content. I have seen the various historical issues in the protocol and would love to understand that if this were to be reborn today, how would it look like?
Since ChatGPT added web search augmentation my usage of Google has dropped probably 90%. There are still those times where I hit Google -- usually involving "real world" things like finding a restaurant website and similar type things -- but for a shocking number of my normal run-to-google moments now I use ChatGPT.

NFL scores (live!) and random stats like point differentials or F1 driver / event queries. Of course the dozens of coding questions a day in this era where we all jump languages so frequently we have to keep looking up how to do basic stuff. Cooking instructions, and things like "can I substitute butter for lard". Product documentation stuff like "how can I assign a wheel on my Alesis QX61 to the pan in Logic Pro, and record it live to a track" or "how can I disable a malfunctioning pitch wheel on that controller". Historical and science queries. Language queries.

It has completely changed my usage, very much for the better. Web search provided RAG has been a game changer.

And while Google is outrageously fast, getting results on the screen quickly isn't the end. Then I'm digging through shitty bloated webpages or looking through a hundred Reddit comments filled with misinformation.
What I learned is that the Northern Line has the most noise complaints (from people who live near it) of any TfL line!
> You make sure to use a Japanese specific font (not just a CJK one) if the language setting is JA. It's not that hard...

I need to use Japanese language in a setting outside of the local language setting. Even my wife needs that (she's a native Japanese). Just switching everything to JA is simply not an option, and shouldn't be necessary if just UTF-8 could do the right thing. Granted, it does, to a certain point. But sometimes there are issues which I haven't been able to work around.
Firewalls solve problems like this. Relying on a secret callback mechanism to run your business is high risk, when you have sophisticated customers. A number of industries have low risk tolerance and default deny traffic, which would make those industries inaccessible to a company that tried to operate that way.
You might want to check those pictures. They’re barely bigger than the people squatting next to them. Cars have gotten a lot bigger but they were never THAT small.
Calgary's plan to reintroduce fluoride into drinking water pushed back to 2025
Yeah. Between the parent comment about the software that runs the convenience stores.

And yours, Games. Sony, Nintendo, are we really saying the country that makes PlayStation and Nintendo's is 'bad' at software?

And, Didn't someone in Japan make the Ruby language?

I need to go back to the other post and re-read to find, where is the 'bad' software? How are they categorizing Japanese software as 'bad' compared to any other country? Was it just because US Silicon Valley has had a few bigger startups in general? Is that really a good benchmark?
Native Image Quick Reference – GraalVM for JDK 23
That's why I threw in "same size as your terminal window" for the Mandelbrot demo - I thought that was just enough of a tweak to avoid exact regurgitation of some previously trained program.

I have not performed comprehensive evals of my own here - clearly - but I did just enough to confirm that the buzz I was seeing around this model appeared to hold up. That's enough for me to want to write about it.
> It was more a situation of being a computer nerd at exactly the right time and place so that it was possible to really impress adults with minimal actual effort

Oh, I know that feeling.

Blew one teacher's mind by doing animations on the RISC OS machines at school, they didn't know it was even possible.

4D-maze visualisation and route-finding at university.

What was weird was all the times I've shown people Word Lens or Google Translate, augmented reality translations blew the minds of other developers even a decade after that was demonstrated.

Right time and place.
> “In just eight years after fluoridation ended in 2011, the need for intravenous antibiotic therapy by children to avoid death by infection rose 700 per cent at the Alberta Children’s Hospital.”

Fluoridation was on the home page recently. This bit was particularly interesting.
This was my experience at Microsoft. Cut our entire group, decided with higher interest rates the investment wasn’t worth it. If you’re in a group that is a long-term play and not immediately earning revenue, that’s a big risk when hard times come.
I was wondering much the same...

Xenix and Concurrent DOS 286 were the two most capable 286-native OSes. Followed, quite some way behind, by OS/2 1.3.
Brave image search is not that good though.
Hell yes, FOSS FTW!!!

Now, I can't wait for someone to run Doom on that thing.
Streamlined Contract Testing in Node.js: A Simple and Achievable Approach
Voter Fraud in My Online Poll for the School Canteen
> ... Egyptian civilization is measured in millennia.

It's kind of funny that the pro-nuclear crowd generally seem to want to bury extremely toxic waste for time periods multiple times as long as that.

Perhaps they should, and also put some fake tomb stuff inside them. Then they can have real curse stuff happening along the lines of "anyone who goes in there dies with a few weeks" or "their kids are born with severe deformities" (etc).

What a gift to future generations. o_O

</rant>
Does anyone know how much VC firms contributes to wealth inequality?
With their detailled filters and so on. any research you read before?
i've read extensively on trump and watched a lot of interviews with him. he's hard to pin down, his speaking style is... interesting from what i gather he uses 'tariffs' like threats. but does not want to tariff actually.

two guys are bargaining for who gets to use a public fairgrounds. it's trump and some European guy. the fairgrounds are public, there should be no charge. trump will say "i will kick you in the foot every time you use these fairgrounds when i want them". the European will object, "that's not fair! that's bad business! it's a public fairground we all agree it's fair use". trump will reiterate that he does not care, he will kick you. the European can either agree or trump will stomp the foot.

if trump agrees with all the economists that tariffs are bad business and never implements them, he'll never get a deal. he has to credibly threaten tariffs to have bargaining power. he's very convincing doing this

personally, i believe the the amount of tariffs will be smaller than most people expect. but i wouldn't be surprised if i'm wrong.
I'm an API customer.
LY Corp is owned 50/50 by Naver and Softbank. It started as a reskin of Naver Talk, and the product development has effectively been done in Korea throughout the years. They've intentionally marketed it as being a Japanese app/company to assauge the Japanese government, as unlike in the West, East-Asian governments understand that an app that the entire nation has come to rely is a critical piece of infra that needs to be in national hands. But this has not reflected the reality.

This strategy of pretending to be a Japanese app has worked for a decade but now seems to be coming to an end, with the JP government looking to force Softbank to somehow broker a deal with Naver to reduce their share to less than 50%.

The EU should do similar with Whatsapp.
If Argentinians are three meters tall, then their cars must be even bigger than normal cars. So these armadillos are even bigger than car size... probs the size of a small truck!
I’m defending social order not terrible government. Governments can be a pure net negative, but that’s really rare.

I disagree with the idea that ‘poor performance’ rather than ‘negative performance’ gives someone extra authority. Voiding the social contract by leaving is one thing, but “disobedience” is something else.

Anyone can disagree with how a government functions, but individuals who dislike something don’t inherently know how to build a better system. Even non violent means like tax evasion, protests, and voter suppression have real downsides. When people act with the assumption of authority they often result in serious negative consequences and only very rarely cause actual improvement.

Taken to the extreme the idea even supports wars of conquest. If your government is even mildly better than another why not ‘improve’ the situation.

PS: Which isn’t to say operating within a given system is useless. Convincing others, be that voters or a dictator, can also enact change with less risk. But again well supported arguments are safer than simply persuasive ones, because you can more easily adapt to changing conditions.

For example today we have more options, but in the mid 90’s the US environmentalists arguing for nuclear power could have been a meaningful contribution to climate change potentially offsetting ~10 billion tons of CO2 by now. That’s the kind of politics makes strange bedfellows compromise which you don’t see when everyone is throwing around emotionally charged rhetoric. Which sums up my argument, the perfect ideal is often the enemy of the practical.
I do not understand why there's an ISA memory card.

The 80286 can only address 16MB of RAM. Why not just fill the memory map as standard, then there's no need for SIMM slots or any other memory expansion?

Give me a few Upper Memory Blocks for DOS, and provision for 32MB of EMS as well, and frankly for a DOS machine there is nothing left to add in terms of memory.

How much is 48 _megabytes_ of RAM in 2024? 5¢? 10¢?
Autotranslation for the lazy https://iipg-conicet-gov-ar.translate.goog/hallan-cuatro-gli...

In the photo of 2020 thet have more dirt arround them. Probably they were discovered ib 2020 and there is an update from 2024.
"Where Are the Prompts?"
For at least months in my city, the screens in buses have been showing a "broken image" icon as part of their ad cycle. I'd much rather know about the next stop.
Grab built its own map in Southeast Asia, and is now going after Google
In a previous job I worked for a site doing natural language parsing on recipes.

We noticed one of our partner websites had an unusual number of unique ingredients. It turned out every ingredient was a link to another recipe to make that ingredient, along the lines of your idea.

However for some reason (presumably SEO) they took this to the extreme and everything was a recipe. Including apples.

The recipe for “apple” is

1. Take 1 Apple

2. Eat and enjoy

But since Apple is a prerequisite for this recipe, infinite looping is a risk in the kitchen now
They are Googling but I very much doubt they're doing any more than that. In 2016 we heard a lot of the same "moving to Canada/UK/Europe/Australia" but statistically speaking there was no change. Here in Australia I've met plenty of Americans, but I never met a single one who said that they left due to Trump.
Benq makes garbage. And I buy it!

Went through 4 monitors in 22 all with QC issues. One took out my macbook pro for not following the usb c spec over the built in unpowered hub. Was so angry and lost 2 months of productivity

Bought this model as well, hasn't arrived yet but expecting to return it. Their QC is terrible, their cs could care less and left me hanging and the specs are mediocre anyway. Don't buy Benq and if you do Amazon for a fast return.

They gave this guy a $700 monitor and he still couldn't recommend it. Benq makes shit.
I run https://www.plainoldrecipe.com

Had no idea about some of these other formats!
>if I can't threaten people

With domainnames?
A lot of old stuff are still very relevant, they are much resource efficient, smaller amount of RAM, CPU, performance that's much faster. Easily 100x cheaper. I mean, if you have a few things you are trying to sort out, then using LLM to solve is okay, but if you have lots and lots of computation, then it's worth going classic.
Now create a dbeaver extension to view the type
With this sort of tech it only achieves good usability if it is accurate a high percentage of the time. Anything less than 90% accuracy on a whole trip and I likely won't trust it. So that means getting to >99% accurate on each underground train stop. I'm still not sure if this tech reaches that sort of threshold or if this is one of those things that looks like a good idea on paper but falls apart in real world use cases.
Exactly, Steam is very much the worst game launcher ever created, except for all the others.
Is the 'Most Chosen' paid tier really the USD219 per year? Oh look, it's on special for $99.

How can HN readers try this easily which is one of the caveats for 'ShowHN' posts? Because paying the lowest tier of $12.99 (reduced from $39.99) isn't exactly easy.
> why would you upload files/store PDFs on a database server!!?

I don't really understand this question. You can put data where you like. There are no "database servers". These aren't whole toys, take them or leave them. They're made of Lego bricks, and so you can change them.
I like to use my vacation days to change my workweek from five days per week to four days a week by using one vacation day every Friday (could also do Monday or Wednesday, each has advantages and disadvantages). This year using this method, I managed to make it so that starting with October I'm only working four days a week.

It could be longer, but my superiors told me that according to law, I have to take one break that's at least 10 vacation days long and after that I can use the days as I wish.
Your morals are my profit.
How do you even know how big or small cars were 20k years ago?
> So the problem is…

This feels like quite a shallow reading. Being able to manage system-wide things (DNS, and a centralised Caddy, centralised database) from individual compose units in such a way that you're not going through a ton of setup each service. This much might just need Caddy to work better with other instances of itself but it isn't a solved problem.

I'll grant you that backing up volumes isn't hard.
https://archive.md/w706B
It's not just that there are few signals to prevent the wrong person being put in charge, but this kind of government bureaucratic actively selects for the wrong person. These kinds of government IT projects are often soul sucking to work on, and so they attract a specific kind of applicant.
This post was actually partly inspired by a HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426666.
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