skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I counted Figma as one of the components. And I find that people talking about Figma-like tools are interested in Penpot, and thought the authors of the product featured here should be aware of it as well.
No idea. Apparently if you're doing it through a limited liability corporation and have the right jargon in your PowerPoints no-one bats an eyelid.
Ruby video has an AI generated transcript and summarization as well: https://www.rubyvideo.dev/talks/in-depth-ruby-concurrency-na...
It's the perfect store of value.
Even gold's above ground supply doubles every 3 or 4 decades.

It's optimised for storing large amounts of value for long periods of time. Nothing else has the fundamentals that come close.

As more and more people/countries realise this, the demand and therefore value will continue to increase. The earlier adopters will have a large advantage over the late adopters.

It's the perfect savings technology for people/companies/nations.

Just as TCP is the digital protocol for the internet, bitcoin is the digital protocol for money.
It's quite something.

https://x.com/SimplyBitcoinTV/status/1868035093178056803
I'm not American but I do like Robert Kennedy Jr.

He has to start somewhere sorting out the health of the American people.

Just look how extremely unhealthy and obese everyone is over there.

It can't all be down to excess carbs and lack of exercise.

USA obesity rates have tripled over the last 60 years.
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Well said, friend. That is an important aspect of the Way. We must be gentle with our mother Earth in order to compassionately harmonize with future generations' happiness.

But what I really, really want is hemp clothing. When I was in Atlanta in the 90s, there was a hemp shop, where I bought the best jeans, shorts, and hats I've ever had. They got nothing but more comfortable over time, breathed excellently and never molded (not that I tried). I could imagine that they would've lasted my lifetime, or even more.

Sadly, they shrunk terribly over time, and by that I mean I "grew" out of them :-)

Now, all I've seen on the net are 60%-40% cotton blends, IIRC, not the 100% hemp that was available back then. It doesn't look like the new cannabis acceptance here in America has produced hemp cloth, but I could be wrong. I imagine that growers are more focused on the likely more lucrative drug version of the plant. That said, it's been years since I searched the net for sellers, but my daughter has the skills and the 503a to make me a sweet kilt and jumpsuit and long-sleeve long-hanging shirt, should the funds come through.

"Hemp for victory!" --WWII American poster slogan
Of course MOST rags to riches stories are accumulated over decades of hard work with some luck sprinkled in; but almost every day you hear of a few turning a few bucks into a fortune overnight. Lottery winners, meme stock traders, and sports betting are just a few examples.

Everyone knows it can happen. That is why get-rich-quick schemes work.
reality tends to have a left-leaning bias
Vim stands for "Vi IMproved" so it literally is meant to be an improvement, and IMO it really is although plain old Vi is still better than most editors.
"I buy a laptop - it's USB only. No HDMI, DisplayPort..."

So it has no video output?
While not an article, a more recent listing (current as of 15 January 2021) is:

https://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/info/knuth-pdf/...

and he also keeps track of errors in his books:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/books.html

and issues certificates for the Bank of the Island of San Seriffe for finding them (used to be physical checks --- I got one for an error and a minor point of improvement in his book on _Digital Typography_).
Alex? :p

I'm sure not, but fun to imagine this written by someone I know.
Humans also consume more meat than required to stay alive ...

(Before anyone starts to make moral statements)
They both have their place. Ideally the design doc flows out from the proof of concept to document the non-trivial assumptions and decisions. But nothing beats an actual PoC to demonstrate that something will actually work.

I like the phrase “weaponize” to refer to the evolution of a PoC into a workable application.
> They choose not to seek them out.

Some of them. And the answer to "how many?" is incredibly hard to answer.
I had one of those. Good times! Also, came with a (treasured) spacefighting game on a cartridge (can't remember the name) and another - rather more strange one - on a listing, where you could run a (rather detailed) nuclear plant. Great machine ...
Buying a number of puts on airlines and calls on defense contractors would have worked.
As they say,

> Build one to throw away (You will anyway)

(Probably first phrased "plan" by Fred Brooks)
It is a way of life too: having fun.
I crossposted this to the os2 reddit, as well as LinkedIn and my personal Facebook page. I used to write about OS/2 exclusively, so I'm still connected with a lot of the IBM engineers and executives. Though I would not count on them keeping every language version, any more than I kept the 300 OS/2 applications I'd acquired.
This is a great presentation.

Where I work we don't use any process level parallelism at the ruby level, we hoist that up to the kubernetes level and use signals (CPU load, job queue sizes, etc) to increase/decrease capacity. Workloads (replica sets) are segmented across multiple dimensions (different types of API traffic, worker queues) and are tuned for memory, cpu and thread counts according to their needs. Some heavy IO workloads can exceed a single cpu ever so slightly because db adapter isn't bound by the GVL, but practically speaking a pod/ruby process can only utilize 1 CPU, regardless of thread count.

One downside of this approach though is it takes a long time for our app to boot and this along with time to provision new nodes can cause pod autoscalers to flap/overprovision if we don't periodically tune our workloads.

In a perfect world we would be able to spawn processes/pods that are already warmed up/preloaded (similar to forking, but at the k8s level and the processes are detached from the root process) in a way that's not constrained by the CPU capacity of some underlying k8s node it is running on and instead is basically an infinite pool of CPUs that we only pay for what we use. Obviously serverless sort of offers this kind of solution if you squint but it is not a good fit for our architecture.
It’s the IMAX version of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Atom!
The blog post echos my experience that duckDB just works (due to superior disk spilling capabilities) and polars OOMs a lot.
You’ve raised a very important point, and I want to better understand where the experience might be falling short. When navigating the current body type options (like ‘skinny,’ ‘plus size,’ etc.), did any of them feel like they didn’t represent you? Or was there a point where you felt limited in finding the right fit for your needs? I’d love to hear where we can improve to make the experience work better for you.
Huge congratulations on your product launch
It turns out that you're mistaken about the laws of physics; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424292 has more detail.
> Today, companies such as Twist Bioscience can synthesize DNA for about $0.07 per base.

Marburg (what about Ebola?) has only ~20k bp, so ... about USD 3k to synthesise?
Great stuff, but if you are writing your own components just stick to light DOM and do not write code to generate DOM elements for the component to look right.

Let's say you are making a splitter component. Do not do this:

<my-splitter>
<div slot="left">
<my-handle slot="handle">
<div slot="right">
</my-splitter>

With some divs on the inside assigned to slots. Instead do this:

<my-splitter>
<div data-slot="left">
<my-handle data-slot="handle">
<div data-slot="right">
</my-splitter>

Looks almost the same right? Except the one at the bottom is trivially server-side rendered. *It already is*.

Stay on the light side.
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If you're referring to the word "isomorphic", it was quite trendy a decade ago although I hadn't heard it in a few years.
That's an interesting one, I'll have to think through that a bit more.

Just first thoughts here, but I don't think (2) is off the table. The model wouldn't necessarily have to have been trained on the exact algorithm and outputs. Forcing the model to work a step at a time and show each step may push the model into a spot where it doesn't comprehend the entire algorithm but it has broken the work down to small enough steps that it looks similar enough to python code it was trained on that it can accurately predict the output.

I'm also assuming here that the person posting it didn't try a number of times before GPT got it right, but they could have cherry picked.

More importantly, though, we still have to assume this output would require python comprehension. We can't inspect the model as it works and don't know what is going on internally, it just appears to be a problem hard enough to require comprehension.
I agree, to a point. Successful design docs require MORE work (or far more meeting time, at least) than rapid prototyping. Because they need to mentally step through all the logic, gotchas and integration issues without writing a line of code.

For a math metaphor, it's like doing a complex problem in your head then making a document stating which mathematical tools you will use, THEN writing down the actual formula. Versus the "show your work" approach of trying a few things, recalibrating or re-routing, then settling on the final approach.

So the design doc approach is truly terrible and inefficient. Except...

If a Very Smart Person is making the design doc and can pump out a perfect plan quickly...

And/or if the engineers implementing the solution are too junior to understand the build/rebuild approach...

Or if they are likely to miss various integration footguns...

Or if they are likely to go far down the wrong path completely...

Or if the organization is of such size that no one has understanding of all the parts and integration parts so you need to set hard I/O requirements for clean handoffs.

There may be more reasons for design docs, but I strongly agree they should only be used when necessary and certainly not required so that management gets to feel useful. They add a hefty tax to development speed and it's management's job to understand that cost/benefit ratio.
My chance to congratulate you on the site and work!
Even if he was a whistleblower and had documents against them, there's 12 other witnesses that prosecutors have in the lawsuits against OpenAI, and they're not dead
I thought it is excel.
very cool, loved the tv controls
No, I mean "those screens" in this very specific context, not just some random "screens".
Can't not mention a great game about programming a SIC using subleq called SIC-1: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2124440/SIC1/

Second part of the game requires writing self-modifying code which is quite mindboggling!
I don't think so, it started much earlier than that. Unless tech includes having a television in the living room.

There was the Great Satanic Panic in the 1980s and 90s, and there were more and more places where you need a car to get anywhere. Urban crime, or at least the perception of it, also did its part. It started much earlier than the smartphone era in the US and the UK, but there's still parts of the Nordics and other places where kids go out to socialise and play in the forests or fields or whatever's around today.

Tech on the one hand has given kids a new way to socialise, even if you can't meet up in person for whatever reason, you can still video call and play minecraft together. The other side of that is all the advertising and tracking and addiction-fuelling. The particular combination of always with you, always notifying you, and turning the addiction-generators up to 11 that you get on a smartphone seems to be a whole other level though.

I wanted to make another point but I've got a ping because someone has posted on discord, sorry brb.
I’m curious to see a plus and minus comparison of web component vs other techs (I assume those are React, Vue, etc.)
Inexperienced or underqualified executives don't know any better :\

Bless their hearts.
Those questions aren't answerable in the first place.

I like the general idea behind ShapeUp: don't ask "how long will it take" but "how much time are you willing to literally throw in the bin to learn more about the problem". Committing to research is easy and HONEST. Committing to a finished product by a date is incredibly hard/impossible and a lie.

The first duty of all humans must be to truth.
Note that this is another difference between we human beings and the rest of the animals. Yes, non-human animals can take advantage of other animals' chemical factories (ants' use of aphids' sugar excretions come to my mind), but only we human beings can use our abstract conceptual thinking ability and scientific process to discover the nature of nature's chemistry and then put that knowledge to use.

After my first-glance gist of the article, I've been eagerly awaiting mass-produced spider silk for quite some time. I wonder if it will be suitable for usage as thread? Will it be waterproof? Will it have that wonderful flexibility and strength per mass that has been envisioned?
I'd be surprised if you couldn't find the sources?
You can do this if you extend your concepts of length and area to signed quantities. You have to be clear to explain how the setup of the drawing works, but instead of cutting away a square of side b out of the corner of the square of side a, you might end up appending a negatively-signed square of side −b.
I would like to dig deeper to fully understand the challenge. When you mention grouping models by fit, is the main issue that the current presentation doesn’t help you imagine how clothes would look on your body? For example, do you feel the models lack diversity in proportions (like height, width, or shape), or is it about not knowing which body type matches yours? If so, what would make this clearer or more relatable for you?
Show HN: I rebuilt my website like Windows 95
After years in the back burner I finally invested some decent time in materializing the idea. I still have a lot I want to add, but this is the opposite of a minimalist project, and I had to draw the release line somewhere.

Built with SolidJS, Astro and tRPC, because why not.
Maybe it's included and just needs enabling https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin...
Tinker Postman Collector Scribe
Nah. The Kids Are Alright.
Knuth is delightfully fun in pretty much all he does. Read his manuals for TeX, where he has exercises. And consider his versioning schemes.
My impression is that companies like databricks because of the framework it offers for organizing data workflows. Spark is then used since it is how databricks does its processing.

Microsoft’s synapse is their «ripoff product» which tries to compete directly by offering the same thing (only worse) with MS branding and better azure integration.

I’ve yet to see Spark being used outside of these products but would be happy to hear of such use.
Readme mentioned that creating the simplest possible computer wasn't the goal
Lol at work i often merge prs with huge number if file changes as a result of treating it as a poc or draft first.
We can recruit kids to fight in a war?
You would likely be interested in Jamie Brandon's work on the Zest language [1] which has planned "lax", "strict", and "kernel" modes for varying levels of performance/safety

[1]: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/zest-dialects-and...
Professor Farnsworth's Universal Translator supports that language! ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwODwwgE6rA
A nice thing that physics tells us is how to precisely imagine even amounts of energy that vastly exceed the observable universe. In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42423291 I have calculated roughly how much energy is needed and how much it will cost, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424292 I have explained why this doesn't violate either the laws of physics or even the demonstrated of currently deployed systems, and in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424748 I have outlined how we would do that without destroying entire ecosystems around the planet or introducing additional pollution.

Predicting what will happen is much more difficult than calculating what can happen, but we seem to be on a good path, with atmospheric carbon capture becoming feasible at the necessary terraforming scale within decades rather than centuries.
Ossington has basically no street life from Bloor to Dundas. Once you get south of Dundas it gets very lively, but the northern stretch of Ossington is a bit bleak, as someone who has also run a lot in that neighbourhood.
oh my heart! this is very pleasant
It’s not a secret, it’s a weak, because anthropocentric and too meaning-seeking argument.

Call it simulation, fate, or whatever, it’s still way too human-centered to be relevant of interest given the complexities of the universe.

While holding such a view may indeed « free » from any existing moral framework or ethics those that would believe in it, it doesn’t make it more real.
> The phone itself is just a computer.

But one with the special feature that's it's around you all the time.

Even a computer in a child's bedroom is not around them when they're at school, going to/from school by whatever means of transport, eating meals outside their room, going to a diner/restaurant/cafe... with family (or friends), and many other activities.
A couple more suggestions.

List the platforms (& compilers) that you've tested on.

Compare (pros/cons) against other Unicode libs (like others have done elsewhere in this thread, i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424637 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424638)
both your monitors are being fed 60hz with x11 then right? It uses the lowest supported value of all screens
And we use people as sex machines, unfortunately.
Writing is really beneficial for exploring the problem space.

Many times I’ve confidently thought I understood a problem, started writing about it, and come away with new critical questions. These things are typically more visible from the abstract, or might not become apparent in the first few release milestones of work.

I’m reminded of a mentor in my career, who had designed an active/active setup retroactively for a payment gateway. He pulls up a Lucidchart and says “this diagram represents 6 months of my life”.

They’re not always necessary or helpful. But when they are you can save weeks of coding with a few days of planning.
Yes, but such situations are incredibly rare IMO. I was just recently in a job where a self described expert was obsessed with writing all data pipelines (in this context, 1-2GB of data) in spark, because that was the “proper” way to do things since we had Databricks. It was beyond a waste of time.
Like pasteurization? -- yes it is.
I have not tried LXQt properly or recently but I think both those and lots of applets.
Well, good luck. But how many copies of OS/2 Warp do you think were ever sold in Slovenia? Heck, there were not many sold in English speaking regions!

Perhaps a more interesting question would be: "how do I create a localisation CD?"
The hidden autopilot data that reveals why Teslas crash - WSJ [video]
You can kind of get away with it, but even with just SMS you are losing a significant amount of flexibility that effects how much and what people are messaging you and is the exact reason why I stopped using a dumb phone. People sending pictures or emojis or to ask a question pointing to a link. People get tired of you asking what the hell they just sent you, whether it was a picture, or just a reaction with an emoji, because often both will fail to display right or at all.
Yeah that revealed a lot about what the base prompt might be. Fun fact it wasn't just any snow leopard, its the wallpaper from the OSX version of the same name... absolutely zero comment from the model about that fact
A good example of the shortening of proofs. Like "Observe that... {unproven thing}"

It is not necessarily bad but explains why every step isn't always proven. To avoid tedium and long papers.
The Red Beads Experiment (2019)
Talking up bitcoin before Christmas? It's quite predictable at this point

Trying to get people to put their end of year bonus into BTC?
At some point I was looking into using io_uring for something like this. The uring interface just works off of `mmap()` memory, which can be registered with the GPU's MMU. There's a submission polling setting, which means that the GPU can simply write to the pointer and the kernel will eventually pick up the write syscall associated with it. That would allow you to use `snprintf` locally into a buffer and then block on its completion. The issue is that the kernel thread goes to sleep after some time, so you'd still need a syscall from the GPU to wake it up. AMD GPUs actually support software level interrupts which could be routed to a syscall, but I didn't venture too deep down that rabbit hole.
from the viewpoint of TFA, meat is a way to (very lossily!) harvest the solar input that goes (over summer months, anyway) into extensive grasslands (inedible by humans in its unbred state), and gather that over several years into a package which (no external refrigeration needed!) transports itself to market/slaughter.
I was a little confused as why he couldn't run Spark locally because he insisted on the "Fabric Spark runtime".
I first read about industrial use of spider silk literally 25 years ago in Discover Magazine. I'm going to assume it's just never going to make economic sense.
It's always been the way I've coded, for better or worse.

I code fast prototypes though — throwing them out is easy. And when I kick off the 2nd iteration I have new insights going in.

(By the 3rd iteration I'm even hanging on to a few functions from the previous iterations.)
Machine learning experiment tracking for VS Code
And how many children did you count in that video - out of a country of 40 million?

The infinitely bigger point you're leaving out is that those camps were run by a private association, not the government of Ukraine.

To the extent the Azov "movement" still exists, it has decidedly marginal status in Ukraine both socially and politically. If anything it (and what's left of other far-right groups since their electoral collapse several years ago) are pain in the neck to the Zelenskyy government, which considers them to be "a danger to democracy":

It was a startling statement by anyone’s standards. Speaking to the Financial Times at the start of October, Ukrainian deputy Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee and a member of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, said that ultranationalist elements within the war-torn country posed a very real threat to the government – and one that could one day stand in the way of any attempt to negotiate an end to years of brutal fighting.

“There will always be a radical segment of Ukrainian society that will call any negotiation capitulation,” he said. “The far right in Ukraine is growing. The right wing is a danger to democracy.”

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241011-should-zelensky-...
Recent as in 18 months ago.

Not recent as in the last 3 months.
I am more curious on integration between pure C and nodejs though.
TBF, it's been producing all kinds of chemical effects for longer than human beings have existed ;-)

And, now it's proving its survivor's brutally superior intelligence by going from just procreating within our misery, to now tricking us into propagating it willingly and in likely far more beneficial conditions!

Is that our petri dishes softly chuckling?