skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very sympathetic to the article although I dont know that it's correct in every technical respect. One would hope that LO on a standard, popular distro like Ubuntu or Mint should just work, and look polished and professional, but it doesn't, at all: the fonts are janky, the UI has weird artifacts, etc. I suppose this is what you get when the renderer and the font engine and the OS and the app arent all from the same place.

Then when you layer on the problems with Office file compatibility, it becomes unwise to use it. As for the n=1 anecdotes that LO is fine for them, great, but years in corporate has left me with great awe and respect for the myriad ways people use Word. It really is insanely powerful. I think only LaTeX beats it. As for Excel, nothing comes remotely close.

I dont mind being the only LO/Linux user in the office. I do mind, very much, that I might risk my job because LO decided to chew up a colleague's Office format file when I opened it. You never want to be that kind of outlier.

I will say that it's maybe not entirely LO's fault. I have a Macbook and a PC, and 365 on Mac is also strangely janky and ugly, whereas 365 on Windows is a joy. (Mac 365 has very odd layout and rendering standards, which are glaring for apps like Outlook, for example.)
This is intriguing.

Why not embedding a browser directly though?

How do you feel about the Flutter based UI Widgets? (https://github.com/UIWidgets/com.unity.uiwidgets)

In my experience there are two kinds of games: UI is the game or UI supports the game. When UI is the game, the performance bottleneck is almost always text rendering. From a DX POV there are many solutions, but from a performance POV, how can anyone compete with Skia or the native text APIs?
No, they're platforms for spreading information that place less of an inherent value on the pedigree of the source. This is partially a good thing because opinions and personal experience have a place somewhere in the epistemological hierarchy that mainstream news discounts. Making one's news diet wholly (or even mostly) social media is a mistake, but making it entirely news outlets is little different. I've found a good mix is "reputable" newspapers plus a bit of twitter.

Of course, I've also read a lot of garbage from those respectable outlets. A lot of slant and a lot of poorly-researched "journalism". This is basically a respectability politics problem; the NPR class is offended more that people have abandoned the trappings of "proper information" than over the information itself.
What is that based on? I read most of the serious publications, and I don't see it. Could you give examples of these people? Of events?

> I don't know how to define "serious" without going into true-scotsman weeds

Yes, agreed. I'm just leaving it ambiguous.
This strikes me as kind of a naive take in 2024. Even the AP has been pushing a politicized agenda. The newspaper I paid good money to read for many years is now unreadable propaganda. I’ve been forced to get my news from X if I don’t want censorship, and oh my does X have its flaws.

It’s hardly surprising, look at who is graduating from journalism schools, what they are taught and what their agenda is. The consumers did not create this problem, they’re simply powerless to resist it - except that they can take their attention elsewhere, and that is exactly what they’re doing.

Information being bottlenecked through a handful of institutions has been increasingly harmful to society and is what has led us to this very moment. Let the people speak.
a pile of anecdotes is ... data?
I've read my fair share of Russian literature, and I never felt depressed from it. If anything works like the Notes from the Underground or the Overcoat reassured me of my sanity in the face of an irrational society and have often confirmed long held yet elusive suspicions I had on how people actually think or behave.
What was Upwork like before connects? I imagine it was difficult to control spam Job seekers?
I'm no expert, but my understanding is that Coptic made use of hieroglyphs as an alphabet, and co-existed with their use for Egyptian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_language
Mercury gives you DDA accounts at partner banks, we don't pool your money in a giant FBO account like Synapse. We also have a lot of Haskell nerds making sure our ledger is sound.

(not speaking on behalf of my employer)
Why so?

Couldn't we have a nice overview of what kind of signed modules are valid in their integrity and authenticity based on cryptography?

(Also I wanted to point out that LD_PRELOAD was specifically mentioned in my comment, but it doesn't really matter, it's the lack of integrity checks across the /usr folders that are part of the problem. Glibc, $PATH, sideloaded .so files, kernel hooks...it's such a vast problem space of insecure development practices that by now we need a better OS architecture because all (old) tools down the stack rely on 100% trustable programs being installed, which after the invention of the internet is not a reality anymore.)
That explains why they made tray icons so hard to work with. It sounds like a conspiracy theory but I buy it
How is Rust trending on Hacker News job postings compared to C++ and Python?
FYI, Erich von Däniken's book "Chariots of the Gods?" is racist pseudo-scientific claptrap. My Archaeoastronomy professor at the University of Maryland, John B. Carlson, despises it.

It attributes the achievements of ancient non-European civilizations to extraterrestrial visitors, undermining their intelligence and capabilities, promotes speculative theories without empirical evidence, misinterprets artifacts, ignores scientific consensus, perpetuates harmful cultural stereotypes, and plagiarizes French author Robert Charroux's "The Morning of the Magicians".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods%3F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoastronomy

>Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary[1] or multidisciplinary[2] study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultures".[3] Clive Ruggles argues it is misleading to consider archaeoastronomy to be the study of ancient astronomy, as modern astronomy is a scientific discipline, while archaeoastronomy considers symbolically rich cultural interpretations of phenomena in the sky by other cultures.[4][5] It is often twinned with ethnoastronomy, the anthropological study of skywatching in contemporary societies. Archaeoastronomy is also closely associated with historical astronomy, the use of historical records of heavenly events to answer astronomical problems and the history of astronomy, which uses written records to evaluate past astronomical practice.[6]

A Brief History of the Center for Archaeoastronomy

https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~tlaloc/archastro/cfaintro.html
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I’m kinda interested to know what dataset would benefit from visualization number 26
How do you want to prevent something that is ultimately not in your domain of decision. Most wars are started by autocrats under the belief that they can gain something from them. Those beliefs are often false or at least unfounded, but how do you want to change them from the outside? It is no more realistic than changing someone's religion by persuasion - possible, but rare.

"Knocking people's heads together" doesn't work on people who have the entire military force of their country at their disposal. Such heads are basically un-knockable. Unfortunately one of the things that the state as an institution is really good at is projection of force; and outside democracies which divide power in a state deliberately, that force usually answers to a single person and their whim, or, at best, a small inner circle of people.

And frankly, I trust scientists even less when it comes to politics that anyone else. Khmer Rouge was an academic enterprise. There isn't really a reason why an educated person should have any better sense of morality than a random farmer from the bush. When I look at the activity of the IT giants, it is 50 shades of moral grey underlined by stuffing their pockets and trying to project a cool vibe. It seems to contradict your idea of superior morality in the IT circles.
狐假虎威 ? [does it matter if chengyu are quoted in simplified or not, or is that just a geographic sibboleth?]

(foxes are foxes the world 'round, even if lions acquire stripes. what are eastern designori?)

it looks like .jp has the tanuki, which even outfoxes the fox.

Guess my life is out of balance: I have local representatives of the foxes, weasels, hedgehogs, and crows, but no snakes. Am I too far west?
Sorry to take so long to answer. Good questions. 2 space indents, in (say) 30 line functions, get harder to discern the more indent levels. This problem is exacerbated by bad eyesight.

Bigger monitor with higher DPI does help, yep.

Horizontal scroll: I suppose it could help. The more immediate tradeoff tends to be that I use a terminal full width on a large monitor when needed, and tolerate the fact that I'd prefer to have space to have a web browser open on the same screen.

I'm a big fan of Sandy Metz, who advocates 5 line routines. In Python and Ruby, this is possible, and the indentation problems go away. In C, it's more of a challenge.
I think you have to assume that there's kind of an ambiguous continuum between art and writing. Obviously hunter-gatherer bands likely had reasons to communicate with band members, whether by sounds or visual signals. And obviously they made art, and humans being humans, presumably a lot of the art hat some kind of meaning. I think there are uses for using symbols to communicate well before you need ledgers or anything similar. But I don't know exactly where art turns into writing: Even when the world was mostly illiterate, it seems clear than lots of humans had some level of symbol literacy. And in some places that symbol literacy gets so dense you have Chinese or Egyptian hieroglyphs. And maybe in others you maybe have something similar but less preserved.
I wonder what the sources of the maps are. They seem most plentiful around the Netherlands amd Belgium. Also, the map for Stockholm had what looked like handwritten Dutch text om it.
It says so in the last paragraph
I believe this disarmed part is referring to the nukes Ukraine used to hold, specifically.

On the other point, Russia intends to hold the territory and integrate the civilian population they conquer while Israel seems less interested in incorporating Gazans as equal Israeli citizens any time soon. (Not defending Russia but I suspect the different motives lead to different outcomes).
Agreed on that odd trade-off. I'm assuming an implicit love of extra space? Definitely not really rationally compared.

Even odder are the insistence on public transit or similar. I share the preference, but if time is valuable, a personal car or small car pool would almost certainly cut time.

Again, I used to bike about 3 hours a day. I can't really blame that on the job, though.
I'm only biking in the morning and late afternoon. So yes, 9/10 days the weather in the morning and late afternoon is nice. It can rain every single day of the year between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. without bothering me.
> reporting the news and not reporting their opinion

That business model has failed over and over in the past few decades.
No, but it does help incentivize people to do those things using transit, or at non-rush hours and gives less traffic to everyone else.

It doesn't work if there aren't alternatives, of course. But NY and London do have them.
"The only thing that the lower courts held [previously] is that Facebook can be liable if the statement, in context, was materially misleading. The investors, a bank and a public pension plan, are seeking compensation for the lost value of their stock.

My guess is that the justices will be frustrated by how little the issues on which the parties discuss in their briefs resemble the question they agreed to review. In an effort to offer something predictive about what we might see at the argument, I would point to two things. The first is a deep-seated skepticism of securities fraud litigation held by some of the justices, who tend to view litigation in this area as akin to extortion based on hindsight. The court has also issued a number of decisions in recent years in favor of corporate interests that have weakened federal regulators, including at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

On the other hand, it is a powerful benefit to the investors that the government filed a parallel suit against Facebook, contending that its disclosures about security breaches were insufficient; the government appears in full support of the investors and will share in their oral argument time. It similarly helps the investors that there is a forceful and direct friend-of-the-court brief signed by most of the most famous securities law scholars, arguing that the securities laws bar any kind of categorical exception for misleading statements made in forward-looking risk disclosures."

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/11/securities-disclosure-ove...
I build a RAG system with voyage and it crushed openai embeddings, the difference in retrieval quality was noticeable
> They were bog standard D batteries:

I'm well aware. How is a bomb squad member supposed to know this, while looking at it stuck to the side of a bridge I-beam, wrapped in layers of black plastic? Bombs are often designed to blow up when disturbed, in hopes of injuring or killing a member of the bomb squad.

I'd like to see you work a bomb squad and see how brave you are when you come across a package with some long cylinders wrapped in black plastic and wires sticking out, and how you feel when some smarmy programmer tells you "HAHA YOU'RE SO STUPID IT WAS JUST BATTERIES" after the fact.

> This has literally nothing to do with anything.

Yeah, it does. It shows that Boston police thinking the city might be a target of bombers wasn't so absurd and paranoid after all, and that appearance (the bombs were in cooking pots) means nothing.
I just remember it as part of the craze in the 1970's for "Mysteries of the Unexplained" type stuff. Pyramid Power, UFOs, Sasquatch, etc etc
> Relative, or absolute?

Relative.

"Prior to November 5, Threads had five times more daily active users in the US than Bluesky, which has just 20 full-time staff and was initially funded by Twitter when Jack Dorsey was its chief executive. Now, Threads is only 1.5 times larger than its rival, Similarweb said."
I can vouch for the 13. I got one and liked it enough to write about it [1] and prompt my brother to get one.

They're worthy, but if getting a 13 make sure to get an AMD mainboard and buy your RAM and storage seperate to shave down the cost.

[1]: https://vale.rocks/posts/a-year-with-the-framework-laptop-13
44% shorter: is your claim that limiting line lengths to 80 or 100 characters is going to 'massively impinge' your productivity? That seems unlikely to me.
this story never made sense to me. he disassembled a digital clock then put the pieces in a pencil case? he didn't fabricate it or design any of the electronic components; what was he supposed to be demonstrating, that you can put a digital clock in new case? also his dad was a sudanese opposition politician??
Google is prepping Gemini to take action inside of apps
Yes, you are correct

Also OO was (in)famous for vendoring almost all dependencies (optionally - to make matters even worse), not sure how that works with LO
Why a table is not enough?
C++ Standards Contributor Expelled for 'The Undefined Behavior Question'
Timing and scale. 800 Minuteman I missiles (the 1962 model were produced), each with its own guidance computer.

The Apollo Guidance Computer came out in 1966, by which time transistorized computers were a mature technology. The IBM 1401, all transistor, came out in 1959. IBM System/360 systems came out in 1964.
What's your explanation?
There’s just better things to do nowadays. A YouTube video from my favorite expert on a topic is so much more engaging and enjoyable than reading a long article from some staff writer.
Yeah that was a typo
Lima did not use ITC in its product anyway, we used classic version vectors. We considered them for future evolutions but never implemented it. It's funny that Fred Herbert's use case was a "peer-to-peer Dropbox", because it is basically what Lima was.

I don't know many systems that use ITC. Version vectors are simpler and sufficient in most cases. One of the authors of the original paper mentioned in a later presentation (https://cbaquero.github.io/web/pdf/SDLtime2021.pdf) that they were used for tracing, in particular in a 2015 system called Pivot Tracing.
Have any of these countries (except the US) bombed Syria within the past few months that this discovery could be from?

Also the discovery is actually from 2004, so the point of my question was valid, it's not safe to do such research there now due to geopolitics
The only compile time guarantee you'd have by making changes is that it would run, not it being correct nor functional.
Anyone know if they plan to chop down the trees when they grow and use the wood somehow, so they can capture more carbon through growing new trees?
Thank you for answering, That's very interesting! Yeah, I recall being excited about ITCs, but it doesn't seems like they made their way into too many practical distributed systems.
i don't have one because it makes no sense! but frankly if it were me at that age i probably would have been showing it to my friends because it looked like a bomb
Didn't Bill Gates once say that planting trees has no impact on global warming?
I yearn for the time when traditional newspapers used to be the standard mode of news consumption. No sensational bait, no unlimited length, no "personalization" of content.. just a small daily digest of all that's happening in the important corners and domains of the world, enough to keep you from being ignorant of the times. Not only were written articles a superior form of communication with much lower ambiguity, but they also offered more flexibility and freedom for the reader to digest and discuss happenings at their own pace.

Now, the newspapers themselves have "adapted" to internet consumption by dumbing down and commercializing their own content to be at par with internet slop. Live news, on the internet as well as on TV, are a curse on consumers.
Anything other than ceding their nation to fascists would have been insufficient. Letting Hitler take Poland didn't prevent conflict.
To me it seems like a prank. He made something that looked like a bomb from movies, basically.
There is absolutely zero meaning that can be derived from that marketing blurb.
"without restriction"
Great article!

> Note that when the chip is completed, every transistor gate is connected to another transistor's source or drain (which provides the signal to the gate)

That's a very curious assertion, which made me think a bit more (it feels incorrect at first but on a second thought it looks correct)

I would think of "pure input pins" but I suppose those have pull-up or pull-down "resistors" which in silicon are actually diodes? gateless fets?
> it is clear that Russia is targeting infrastructure and not humans

Russia is targeting both. In particular, Russia targets glide bombs without precision at cities. There are also cases like Bucha, where people were rounded up and killed. And the execution of POWs.

Keep in mind that Gaza is both more concentrated, and it doesn’t have air defense systems like Ukraine does.
It's a 14 year old kid. He wasn't demonstrating anything.

He took apart a clock, stuck in back in a different case, wanted to show his teacher that in a, I am guessing : "Hey look, I took all this apart, and managed not to destroy it"..

Honestly, this entire event shows me two things:

1. The jumps people make to crazy assumptions when faced with someone they don't like because of ideological reasons.

2. The low level of technological acumen/knowledge to assume that this is even similar to a dangerous device.
In many parts of Europe, forested areas have actually grown since the 20th and especially the 19th century.

People no longer use wood as a fuel, or in very small amounts compared to the past, and some former pastures have been re-colonized by trees.

Czechia is currently 34 per cent forest. Used to be less than 20 per cent in the Theresian cadastre (mid 18-th century).
Archaeoastronomy was one of the most interesting courses I took at uni, and professor Carlson was extremely enthusiastic about it. It really opened my mind to how smart and motivated ancient people were, not at all like our stereotypes from "The Flintstones" and "Chariots of the Gods?".

For example, The Anasazi Indians made significant astronomical observations that they integrated into their architecture and cultural practices. They tracked solar and lunar cycles, aligning their buildings and ceremonial sites with celestial events like solstices and equinoxes. A fascinating example is the "Sun Dagger" at Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon, where they used sunlight and shadow patterns on petroglyphs to mark important times of the year.

They deserve an enormous about of credit for what they achieved without all our received technology, and left behind for us to reverse engineer.

https://spaceshipearth1.wordpress.com/tag/anasazi-indians-as...

https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/education/prehistoric-southwest/su...

It's disappointing when people reflexively attribute ancient achievements like that to religion (or aliens), when it's actually hard objective observation based science that deserves credit!
It has all the same problems in games as it has on a website, it's just more acceptable to sacrifice usability for 'looking cool' in a game.
Bluesky has zero popular cultural adoption and users are already weirded out by extreme left influence on the discourse. I set a calendar to check this post in 18 months, now we wait
Also, Israel claims it must preemptively strike and do all sorts of things due to what its enemies may do to them, but given how much slaughter and actual genocide Israel sanctioned its allies to do in Lebanon in its history, they would be equally justified in reverse
This is great work, the interactive demo is a good way to show it off too. It’s fun to drag the window over the moon.

That said I dislike the use of frosted glass in user interface design, and feel it was a step backwards for Mac OS when it was added. Designers (hypocritically including myself - I use it too sometimes) are so seduced by it. But in practice it’s never ideal. Especially if the content behind the panel is dynamic or user generated.

It’s the brushed metal of the 2010s, I’m surprised that it leaked out of Windows Vista into everything else!
The trees will ride through floods and reduce water flows, improve species diversity for insects, birds, small mammals, improve temperatures and ameliorate winds, provide shelter for farm animals, can enhance grazing. And there's wood to harvest in due course.

There's a lot more reasons to plant trees than direct AGW offset.

A huge amount of farmland is now surplus to production. Grasses and fields of weeds aren't always ideal. Taking land out of production can also attract offset funding for farmers (-yes, this is a secondary economic outcome and may also incur other costs)

People are healthier around trees. People like trees. Even Bill Gates may actually like trees.
It may be entirely done within the GPU, making the energy cost insignificant. At least apple added an accessibility setting to reduce the blur.
Aw. Kind of like Windows 7 Aero theme.