skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what that poster meant by that.

In this case, the Rothschilds were already a powerful European banking dynasty. There are many shadowy speculations about the different branches of this family. Perhaps this is where the confusion originates.

The Nobel family did better relative to their previous station. In the end the Baku concerns were sold to Rockefeller before being nationalized after the Russian Revolution.
Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers
> Lawyers were not involved; the point of arbitration was supposed to be a quicker and cheaper way to resolve the dispute

Arbitration isn’t small claims. It’s an order of magnitude cheaper than litigation. But it’s still subject to complex rules; you should have counsel when pursuing it. (And hopes akin to self representation in court without.)

> never occurred to me that they would allow the other side to see what I said, but not allow me to challenge (or even see) what the other side said

Which venue? This sounds more like a procedural errors during preliminary. If you honestly believe they acted incorrectly, I’d be curious how a properly-filed complaint would have been received.
You do not have to include all experimental features in your test matrix.
Were you drinking coffee before Starbucks came on the scene? I was, and if you could find a cafe that served better than a brown crayon steeped in water, it was a rare treasure.
> I’d rather go through a dev portal than a consumer portal.

You actually can, alongside with conmand line tools, additional xcode utils, debug kernels et cetera.
In the US, governmental departments and large employers frequently ask for ethnicity on all sorts of forms to help the organization ensure that it is meeting its DEI goals.
Windows+WSL (1 and 2) is a viable route these days. Whenever you feel exhausted from Windows, just continue in a nice and clean Linux shell. Sometimes, there are still very good windows oss apps, like np++, sumatrapdf, typora, keypirinha. I enjoy these on windows and ignore the rest, thanks to WSL.
Well, if anyone had any doubt that such art auctions were totally meaningless…
With opinions like yours, the US would never have developed mRNA vaccines.
I cant stop imagining the grin of an old roman historian troll doing this and imagining how confused it would make people in the future.
Love to see mecanum wheels being used here. They're so much rarer to see than they should be! I go months to years between each instance of seeing them.
If you haven’t seen it, here’s a great and funny video from Map Men about the Longitude problem and Harrison’s timekeepers: https://youtu.be/3mHC-Pf8-dU?si=OK684LLRseJETrz_
> Of course in case of disruptions/changes that requires that there are temporary signs and announcements.

Which there frequently (usually?) aren't. Because so many disruptions are unplanned.

Also it's a big waste of time to walk 10 min to the subway station and pay the fare only to discover the train you need isn't running and you needed to go to a different station on a different line.
Outside of specific domains such as finance and accounting, most people don’t really need Excel, and will be served perfectly well by Google Sheets or whatever.

Indeed, I have hardly used Excel in years. I do use Google Sheets at work, where they are used for adhoc tracking by engineering, product management, project managers, etc.

Our son who is 11, he uses Google Sheets - and I know he has used Apple Numbers in the past too. I’m not sure if he even knows what Excel is.
I’ve been interested in those “boxes and lines” frameworks for a long time. For instance numerous data transformation tools like Alteryx and KMIME and also
LABView.

Node-based systems are used in music for synthesis and effects extensively and have been so since it was feasible to process digital audio in real time. In the 60s electronic music pioneers put together analog oscillators on a patchboard. Today musicians do the same in a screen with digital operators that are accurate and stable enough to build systems (like the Yamaha DX7) that couldn’t really be built from analog parts.

It is clear how to write a compiler for that kind of graph and probably less struggle than manually writing a “shader function”

int16 amplitude(int32 time)

that composes a number of large-scale functions (resample, decimate, reverb, add, …) that are implemented using various strategies. Operator graphs can be compiled to target CPU, SIMD, DSP, MPI, GPU, Spark, etc.

The dominant paradigm in graphics is still shader programs, however.
All countries started as fictions created by con men
Notifications don't appear to be E2EEed. They are encrypted in flight. But they do change formats while on the servers. For example, the application server contacts the push server using Web Push (like a webhook), but the communication from push server to the distributor app on the end device is using some other protocol like XMPP, Server send events or WebSockets. This obviously requires decryption.

But the encryption shouldn't be a big issue as @morith pointed out. The application server can send a notification to the end user application simply asking it to refresh. The second image on their home page (https://unifiedpush.org/) illustrates this.
You need to be more specific when you say "Linux". I use Debian Unstable and stuff breaks all the time. Which is to be expected, so I'm not complaining, it's on me. My understanding is that Microsoft has shifted QA to the users quite a bit in recent years, not unlike Debian Unstable. And I am part of the QA process I guess.
Could be a Photoshop killer.
> I've been telling everyone who asks that Windows has lost the Laptop market. The market just hasn't realized yet.

It's not just the laptop market. Windows used to be a tool that allowed you to easily use your computer and programs. It no longer does this and is now mostly a vehicle to sell Microsoft's services.
Right, though the out of bounds depends on VL, which makes it less generally useful than a known 128-bit limit. It also requires at least one extra instruction to get a mask.
I don't think ChatGPT took it personally. It probably didn't get upset. And you don't need to protect it.
Plus the worst case seems to have been a minor fever.
dayjs seems like exactly I was looking for, thanks for the suggestion! I might have tried to write a parser myself otherwise.
Depending on the language used sometimes you can even hide the type of the singleton instance in a function body (also assuming the PL support local static decls), so instead of having `TypeX.instance()` you can just have `xInstance()`.

Otherwise, the article does not mention the problem of race conditions but sometimes it might be better to use static constructors instead of performing lazy construction in the instance getter.
A month ago. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/media/cnn-launch-digital-subs...
I don’t disagree, but gamification of practice sessions isn’t a bad idea. I’ve always been very bad at focusing on some tasks and sucked at school.

Nowadays I can force myself to learn topics that I don’t care too much about by dividing it into tasks, and “levels” that leads me to feel that I’m making progress on a classic progress bar type interface.

LLMs are pretty good for this, they help a lot with coming up with targets and such.
A lot of modern scores are written with MIDI in mind (whether or not the composer knows it - that's how they hear it the first 50 or so times). That should make it somewhat easier to go MIDI -> score for similar pieces. Current attempts I have seen still make a lot of stupid errors like making note durations too precise and spelling accidentals badly. There's probably still a lot of low-hanging fruit.

This is absolutely not easy, though, given all the cultural context. Things like picking up a "legato" or "cantabile" marking and choosing an accent vs a dagger or a marcato mark are going to be very difficult no matter what.
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I can sort of see what you're saying, but I think a lot of marketing is like that. Chatgpt is just regurgitating it.
Hearty congratulations.
The fact that CSV is still strong is that it already covers all „shortcomings” (I.e. presence of quotations in the content) mentioned by this article.
If you control every implementation (ie you aren’t writing a library where others will implement your interfaces), then tagged unions are a simple way to accomplish this. See the bottom of this page: https://www.openmymind.net/Zig-Interfaces/
I suspect the intended context is most Russian billionaires.
Yeah, it really helps out, and I just head each section with a comment for fast grepping and grokking. My system combines a lot of things into the Display category which could be split out but I think I've struck a good enough balance.
Need help to go back to job market
Hi all kind fellow developers, I got laidoff last year as a ruby on rails developer, now I want to prepare for some job interviews. Since I have been traveling and trying all kinds of new things, although I have 5 years of experience as a Ruby on Rails developer, I feel like I forget everything as a developer.. Any book or website that can help me kickoff and make my old memories back? Setting up my new Mac, knowledge about Ruby itself, git, command line, and latest tools(I know cursor is a trending thing now). Or just even a list that
Until earlier this year, KDE let anyone upload a "global theme" to the official KDE Store. When a KDE user browsed the themes, he received no warning that the themes could run arbitrary code and that no one at KDE was vetting the themes. Then in March 2024 a KDE user installed a global KDE theme which did rm -rf to his home directory:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/kde-advises-extr...

So, although I agree with most of the criticisms of Gnome I see here on HN, I use it because I found a way to work in it without being annoyed too much by the overconfidence and lack of skill of Gnome's UI designers and the lack of customizability and because at least the Gnome project seems to pay enough attention to security to avoid a security hole as blatant and obvious as the one I just described in KDE.

Here is an example of Gnome paying attention to security:

>[Gnome] implements permission
control for privileged Wayland protocols like screencopy. There are other
desktop environments and window managers with Wayland support, but I am not
aware of any permission control implemented by them.

https://privsec.dev/posts/linux/choosing-your-desktop-linux-...

I.e., Gnome is the only DE the author quoted above knows of that actually takes the trouble to make use of a design feature that X lacks, but Wayland has: namely, an architecture that allows a DE to prevent the deplorable situation of most Linux installs in which any app can read the contents of the window of any other app.
Yandex maps does this at least for Russian cities. And as others said, Citymapper does it too.
Booleans get you an exponentially growing number of states. The failure mode of booleans is for some of those states to be nonsensical. The failure mode of enums [0] is having to enumerate out all of the valid states when that number of valid states is growing exponentially.

The real problem here is the same tension of typed vs untyped programs, applied to data constraints more specific than types. In an untyped language/database/etc, the expectation of isOpen could be updated to include an additional valid state of String("locked") as a third state - ugly but semantically correct (and of course now you have possible logic errors at every test of isLocked based on whether conditionals were properly created based on more than 2 boolean states (and possible how the language shortcuts "naked boolean" conditions)).

In an environment with the ability to express constraints on the data, the state (isOpen=true, isLocked=true) could be prohibited - a straightforward solution that requires some deliberate data modeling work.

[0] correctly used, as in the author's door example when pertaining to a door that automatically unlocks when going open->closed (which is actually relatively rare! so if this had been an instance of modeling the real world, I question whether it would have been actually correct!). Meanwhile the author's PremiumFeature example is really just using an enum to create a booleans in a different form, and doesn't actually support their thesis.
Yes now I'm looking at the tests I can see that the coverage won't increase linearly, but 12% (with some of the hard parts) in two weeks is impressive. I starred the repo, good luck with your journey :)
The shortcoming of using the control characters is that there is no easy way to type them on a keyboard. You can trivially edit csv in a text editor.
All borders are fiction created by con artists. You're a person of my own tastes. I will follow you to downvote hell. ;)
The Practical Guide to Scaling Django
Great example. I don’t know anything about coffee, have no idea how to make it, and no desire to learn it. If I’m ever forced to make my own coffee it would probably suck. When I want to drink coffee I go to Starbucks. Their coffee tastes great to me.
And equally as important, you can cat a CSV file and easily understand it.
Avoid Tech Folklore and adapt tech in better solutions and innovation
This is a blog post of a series of posts I've been doing as a personal challenge of posting once a week.

This post I talk about Tech Folklore and how this unwritten and undocummented stories sometimes blocks us from inovating or improving our systems.
I just leave the clothes on the rack. I can see what I have better and my clothes smell better getting aired out more compared to sitting in a drawer.

This also means I use less floor space as I don't need cabinets/dressers to hold them.

And yes, I have many racks on my walls. The rack life is good.
I've used these when I've had some code with thousands of strings. I concatenated them with the ASCII separators in the source code, then called String.split as needed. The speedup was noticeable, probably since the runtime choked on instantiating so many strings at one time when launched.
House fire deaths are at least an order of magnitude less common than traffic deaths and houses are the most valuable asset that many people will ever own. They’re certainly similar but I think different enough that people would have very different reactions to robot-caused destruction.
> no easy way to type them on a keyboard

or probably to see them in the screen in any sensible form.

Also, what to do if you want to embed those ctrl characters in a field? you are likely back to the way that CSV does it with quotes, commas and CRLFs.
Ask HN: How often do you take breaks?
This argument would more compelling for BSD variants.

That aside, I've noticed that certain kinds of users spend a lot of time thinking about their operating system. Personally, it's the opposite of what I'd like to do when I'm using a computer.

For most people, I'd advocate that they buy the best hardware they can afford, which during the M1+ era has been a Mac, and Macs run macOS. Some users want something more specialized, like native Docker or Windows-only engineering applications, but those users probably know who they are and don't need to be asking me for advice.
I disagree, but we are quickly getting deep into semantics.

Surgery is not a harmless procedure. But the surgeon must decide that the patient is more likely to benefit overall from it.
This is a demo video of PageGen AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKUbb-Hh1MM
I confused this with https://frame.io/
Assumptions of Physics
Studies into the effects of social media are being manipulated by big tech
Looks less like a street view, and more like 360 images that link to one another. For example with future LA, I could only jump once forward and then back and the images didn't have any continuity between them.
I am not looking for all sources. And I do follow the field. I just don’t know the sources that would back the claim they are making. Nor do I understand why limits on recursion means there is no reasoning and only memorization.
As a German who has been horrified by Germany's reluctance to oppose Russia for over a decade now, good riddance to NS2.
You may want to watch this video to learn more about the project https://youtu.be/pIQ7CaQX8EI?si=mIsNJ-r1cfo3kokx
I'd never seen generated dinos before, they are way messed up!
Maintenance for infrastructure and buildings on solid ground is already expensive and difficult. I can't imagine how bad it would be for a sea-based town or city.
There is nothing I'm aware of that converts from handwriting to LaTeX

My general impression is that you'll still have the most-contrasty screen with black-and-white eInk. Color is just getting awesome, while black and white is already there.

The minimalism claims are real. The existence of Boox shows that reMarkable is deliberate in their minimalism. An rM2 is a for-real linux system and it does have a browser under the hood -- they could make that user-facing if they wanted to do so.
In practice, the minimalist use-case can be powerful. rM's interface is conducive to entering flow and reviewing electronic documents in a way that is far less distracting than a fully-featured iOS/Android tablet.
That said, that choice can also be troublesome. The lack of a real email client and for-real Google Docs integration (or JIRA) is a major impediment to certain forms of collaborative productivity. If you need to spend a long time with a document, or really think things through, though, the rM interface is helpful.

If you're eInk-curious, go demo some. Best Buy usually has displays of more than one eInk device. Doing so helped me to shape my decisions in the arena.
I think the most correct way to phrase this would be that the more complicated something is, the more likely it is that you believe some falsehoods about it, or that there are entire areas that you didn't consider at all. And people are often very bad at recognizing complexity upfront.

One extreme example that comes to mind is people asking contractors on websites like Upwork to implement a clone of google.com, with some ridiculous offers under $1000. The rationale being that google.com only has a logo, text field, and two buttons, so it shouldn't be too hard to make.
> ...I've noticed that certain kinds of users spend a lot of time thinking about their operating system. Personally, it's the opposite of what I'd like to do when I'm using a computer.

This is why I stopped using Windows; it now negatively forces you to think about the operating system you're using when all I want to do is use the programs I installed on my computer.
It is amazing, and interesting.

Although I used the word myself, I'm not sure that "autoregressive" is quite the right word to describe how LLMs work, or our brains. Maybe better to just call both "predictive". In both cases the predictive inputs include the sequence itself (or selected parts of it, at varying depths of representation), but also global knowledge, both factual and procedural (HOW to represent the sequence). In the case of our brain there are also many more inputs that may be used such as sensory ones (passive observations, or action feedback), emotional state, etc.

Regardless of what predictive inputs are available to LLMs vs brains, it does seem that in a lot of cases the more constrained inputs of an LLM don't prevent it from sounding very human like (not surprising at some level given the training goal), and an LLM chat window does create a "level playing field" (i.e. impoverished input setting for the human) where each side only sees the other as a stream of text. Maybe in this setting, the human, when not reasoning, really isn't bringing much more predictive machinery to the table than the LLM/transformer!

Notwithstanding the predictive nature of LLMs, I can't help but also see them just as expert systems of sorts, albeit ones that have derived their own rules (much pertaining to language) rather than being given them. This view better matches their nature as fixed repositories of knowledge, brittle where rules are missing, as opposed to something more brain-like and intelligent, capable of continual learning.
We All Scream for Ice Cream
They're different enough that they are worth trying out.
> that Rust/WASM is likely to become the go to stack for complex web apps

What kind of apps?

On the backend there are plenty of mature ecosystems already that have been around for decades. Even focusing only on performance there's not a huge difference with say .NET or Java when looking at web benchmarks like TechEmpower[1].

On the frontend nothing can really beat the DX of using Vite with JS (hot reload of JS components, styles, etc). I don't know if it's even possible to get hot reload with WASM.

I could be wrong but it sounds like doing a complex web project in Rust would be a pain with not a lot of benefits over more popular and mature solutions.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=fortune&s...
Decision-Making Using Service Level Objectives (2020) [pdf]
I (wrongly?!) assumed that Google had shut down Blogger years ago and that this was sarcasm, using Google’s history of killing services to highlight the folly of relying on a commercial service to still be around years or decades later.

Poe’s law at its best.
You can like the work but hate the jerk. The real question comes when you decide whether to financially support a jerk's work.
I wish the GIMP offered something like this.
But do you have literally anything to back this up factually? The polls were surprisingly accurate this time around. Several states were called as a tossup because it was a near 50/50 split.
Low Code/No Code Platforms
That is kind of a Pierce Morgan question: "Do you condemn $X"?

Yes, I condemn $X. Does it make a difference? Buying oil and gas from Russia, which is happening anyway by laundering it through India, does not make a difference. Ukraine knew this, so it kept the Russian pipelines open and collected transit fees while brutally criticizing Germany for Nordstream!

No one in the West any longer claims that Russia blew up Nordstream. The latest WSJ article blames it on Zalushny. That is currently the mainstream version, others still believe Seymour Hersh.
Microsoft's Edge browser used to have epub support. Then they removed it. Then they put it back again but hidden behind a command-line switch. Then they took it away again. It's mad.
> space agencies have hid this from the general public for years

Nonsense. If that were the case, they'd be shouting it to everyone and NASA would never again be underfunded.
> The social pressure to have a family didn't really disappear

All sexually reproducing organisms on the Earth have families without any social pressure and we evolved from primates who work like this.

By far the stronger pressure is biological. I doubt social pressure even comes close to moving the needle.
Maybe you with a hex editor that shows dual pane: hex and text.
Was Egypt able to keep their culture for so long, and build many structures and temples - simply because they could transmit ideas through time? Other cultures would be stuck relearning the same building techniques and religious ceremonies every generation and relying on faulty oral histories.

Papyrus as a communication method through time.
https://anonpaste.pw/v/bcf3a086-48d9-43be-8e4b-c1fe841d1093#...

>Re: Comment on "Story Structure 101" about escaping Trump news via HackerNews, finding perfect description of escape's impossibility. Two actors: Crusty (seeking refuge) and Analyst (theoretical trickster).
I think people conflate Excel the product with workflows that can be solved with Excel. Lots of tools like sheets and even numbers can do the latter, but nothing since Lotus competed with the former.

So if you've never used Excel, you can probably get away with an alternative. But if you already know Excel, why would you add another product for some subset of use cases?