skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've kicked the can down the road for a while, but no worries, we will pick it up soon and recycle it ;)
I really like this project, such a beautiful design carefully executed on!
The last thing that I want are these terrible drivers LITERALLY flying around me.
I like the adorable animal shaped sippy cups for babies:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/science/prehistoric-baby-...
> They have one schema (the class file) instead of two (the class file and the SQL migrations).

But what happens when that schema defining class file needs to change? You put all your migration code there? How is that different from SQL migrations?
I was there during the end of the Windows Phone era and can confirm. There were even efforts for additional Linux based OSes post windows phone. Nokia just never had software in their DNA.
The system may or may not be complex but the data is has to store and transform is not. Because it handles drivers licenses. A function that has been done on pen and paper and filing cabinets.

Study the data, study the operations, reduce complexity.

Since you imply you know more about UK budgets than I do - how much is the DVLA budgeted for IT operations like this and how much more would you give them to expect this problem solved?

I can argue real numbers but vibes about bone dry budgets I cannot.
Same, but I’m also scared of us nerds joining and telling them to just self compile/host/deploy/whatever
And it pretty much fucked up the Qt project afterward.
I have been waiting for this since the late 1930's.
Ah, we draw a distinction between checked-in generated code and JIT generated code, and the former does show up in code review (which is sometimes the point of checking it in - you can easily spot check some of it to make sure the generator behaves as you expect).
I'm not familiar with P4 but with some quick digging it seems like the compiler does support eBPF as a target. Additionally, I don't think the compiler outputs x86 directly at all, and instead includes targets like DPDK which supports ARM in addition to x86.

https://github.com/p4lang/p4c
> 25 years ago: Women on the internet?

This kind of reaction is (partly) why the women on the internet that I knew rarely disclosed their gender 25 years ago
Didn’t a group from KAUST falsify Zare’s results about microdroplets a few years ago and show that they weren’t anything special
A generative model for inorganic materials design
You don't understand that you don't understand.

What you demand for AI, is equivalent to denying humans with the requirement: "A pass is a human with no Linear A training data input that is able to reason on Linear A content".
I am always confused by this wish. If the operations are simple, why the need for ORM?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/you-blamed-dei-for-h...
So we should give Drew the other half of the keynote to make an informed decision afterward?
I'm definitely not saying any company can make any product, but it is striking when a company which is making a product refuses to believe the product category is going to evolve—even when they themselves are doing the original R&D to evolve it.
Well, now you blame AI, duh.

I mean, the whole "this group and/or technology keeps me from having a proper job" discourse is so tired, yet remains so popular on HN and similar forums...
A relative of mine had a Windows Phone and kept it running at least until the mid 10s. It was fast but he could basically only do calls and SMSes with it because nobody wrote apps for that OS. Everybody in app development (devs and their customers) was keen to see Windows Phone die quickly so they could spare time and money and develop only for two OSes.
> They are in business to maximise revenue, and profit.

Correction, "they" are not a hivemind with one goal, they are a collection of individuals with individual goals to maximize their own profit. If some marketing employee can get a bonus or promotion by showing ephemeral monetary gains at the expense of the long-term integrity of the product, they'll jump all over that.
You mean aside from being a colorless toxic gas that will kill you in as little as 5 minutes?
Do they have less power?

The conference is for sale ... whomever pays apparently makes that call.
Unless there are devices that I could buy (48 port 1U style switches) and until this supports integrating with something like switchdev ( https://docs.kernel.org/networking/switchdev.html ) then this is too little too late. I hope I'm wrong though.

does anyone know if someone can make this switchdev friendly?
1. I agree, and stopped reading at that point. If you don't want users on your site, disable the sign up field. New FOSS tool users are not your enemy, and if you don't want them taking up your resources then you should scope your resources to a limited audience. I have a hard time taking anything Drew is saying seriously here.
hnrss: Custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News
No:

> On the other hand, Ropey is not good at:

> Handling texts that are larger than available memory. Ropey is an in-memory data structure.

Also, this is a rust library, not an editor application.
As soon as you said Mafia I felt that loading in my bones…
There is the smoking gun:

> resulting in ammonia concentrations ranging from 25 to 120 μM in 1 hour

Not usable as fuel. You'd need to separate the ammonium from the water using a energy intensive process (cooking or such).
It offers first party titles, you said it yourself
It offers the first-party titles, basically. If you don't want those then there's no reason to get one.

For me, Nintendo is the most reliable game developer these days. Every main Mario and Zelda game offers something new and executes it well on the first try. I'll buy Switch 2 for Mario and Zelda alone.
Most successful games, AAA or indie, are the result of years of full time work, most of which is making the content. I just don't see that being possible in general, without being independently wealthy.

Games also benefit from a single vision in general, which is hard to square with volunteer style development.

There are certainly exceptions of games that are built as a community: nethack, space station 13, idk probably a third one. But I just can't see this being commonly done until we figure out how free software devs can eat.

With that said: I love free software and hope this problem is solvable, but unless society changes dramatically we may need to learn to do without not just AAA scope games, but even Stardew Valley scope games
Musk believed in the silly Peak Oil theory, and jumped in early at Tesla because he figured that Peak Oil would create a market for electric cars. Tesla itself has embraced climate change both because there are many employees there passionate about it and because it's good marketing for them.
It's not clear what the probability is over the ~hundreds of millions of years that it took on Earth. Could be that, under the conditions and on that timescale, we're an average or statistically unremarkable case.
I'm one of the flaggers. This is just my opinion, I'm not speaking for the others, but: I flagged because the piece is poorly argued and mostly just spiteful.

It starts off on a bad foot by implying that Dorsey chose to sell Twitter to Musk and made billions on the sale, both of which are false. Dorsey was forced to sell Twitter to Musk by the shareholders and the board. The shareholders profited, but Dorsey actually did not sell his shares, which means he did not cash out and instead lost money over the course of Musk's tenure. All of that nuance is ignored in favor of a swipe that's used to imply that Dorsey is a billionaire because he profited off selling Twitter to the far right.

Then later he uses his dislike for Dorsey in particular (and don't get me wrong, there are plenty of reasons to dislike Dorsey even if the Twitter sale isn't one of them) to justify saying that all billionaires should be unwelcome at FOSDEM. This isn't backed up by any sort of argument for why this generalization makes sense, it's just assumed that you should agree with him. Maybe we should, maybe we shouldn't, but there's no argument there.

In all, I'm unimpressed with the piece and the comment section reflected the mood of the piece: kind of mindlessly cranky without much thought. So I flagged the article because it's not the kind of thing that I think belongs on HN.
On the other hand, I would hate to wade through email chains, type out large emails and wait for delayed async responses drawn out over days. I thrive when I can read the documentation, come prepared to a call and have my questions answered quickly in real time. There’s also something about quickly parsing the realtime information that brings out the best and most relevant questions in me.
27% of gdp on doctors and hospitals, are you sure youre not missing a middleman or two in there?
At 18, I went to see the movie "RoboCop" in the theater and walked out because I had never been exposed to such gratuitous violence before. This was long before the internet, cell phones, or social media.

Would I have been as shocked/traumatized if I had previously been even a little bit exposed to something much less intense? Now that kind of stuff is passe.

I don't want my children traumatized; obviously I'm going to do whatever I can to prevent them from premature exposure to lots of extreme content.

But we live in a different world than I grew up in, and I'm worried that kids need SOME exposure, especially to positive experiences but also just a little to mild bad experiences, in order to build up life skills like getting along and interacting with others, even with people who aren't nice to you.

I'm struggling with how to do that and where to draw the line but it definitely involves limits (that change over time), supervision, and communication.
The best thing about Django is I don't have to write much Javascript.

Introducing a whole JS build pipeline? I'm absolutely not doing that.

The vanilla JS language is pretty capable these days. There are a few things that are still terrible, but if you're just writing a few lines here and there, they don't really bite you. I can just src a JS file I wrote and get everything I want from modern JS. What I don't want from modern JS is a quarter million 0.x versioned unaudited dependencies for every minor thing that make breaking changes for no reason. The situation with Python packages is already tricky enough.
What is the https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/attributions endpoint doing (or responsible for when not crushing websites).
> many compliant EU cookie popups have “only essential cookies” as the least permissive option.

It's still an issue that essentially all sites are required* to include a cookie banner of some kind. IIRC the EU law even claims jurisdiction over sites in other countries that only serve local audiences, on the notion that an EU national might visit the website.

* "Required" here defined as "materially everyone, including the web developers at the EU, interprets the law this way."
From a usability perspective, the Steam Deck is pretty good but the Switch blows it out of the water. Fast boot times, you don't need to restart it all the time, games don't crash frequently, controllers just work, it just slots into its dock, a much simpler UI, and no need to futz around with Proton.

The Steam Deck is cool but I waste infinitely more time dicking around with it than the Switch, where it just works. The Switch is the best console I've ever owned.
Retro things have a habit of coming back. See: polaroids
City of Paris Quits X
Usually, but it depends on the state. Remember, America isn’t a country, it’s 50 countries in a trenchcoat.

It’s often a mishmash of services too. I was told in-person at the DMV that I couldn’t renew my registration since I’m not the registered owner of my car. So I just went to a DMV kiosk at the local grocery store and did it there without a hassle.
In 2022 at the peak of cryptocurrency mania, when the market for bored ape NFTs was worth a billion dollars, Dorsey decided to pivot away from the point-of-sales business, develop a bitcoin hardware wallet, develop a bitcoin mining chip, and rename the company from Square to Block.

Completely understandable decision at the time. Who wouldn't want a piece of that action?

But we can't retcon the pivot out of existence just because the blockchain hype has cooled off.
It also only works if your product is quite good. I think we can assume a fairly normal distribution for the quality of products where the vast majority are neither very good or bad. An average company with average products will be more inclined to try aggressive sales and marketing tactics because they don't have a great product to help motivate sales.
That's partly true, but "competing interests and problems" have a tendency to accumulate in much the same way as technical debt.

Particularly so in a world of longer lifespans and careers, higher information connectivity and so on.

It's arguably one of the reasons nations tend to experience boom periods in the aftermath of major wars. The destruction has a way of clearing out the accumulated complexity, giving people a clean slate to decide what's _really_ important/valuable/productive.

(To avoid any doubt, this is not an argument in favour of major wars.)

I live on the fringes of an old European city which was damaged but, largely, not destroyed by WWII bombing. The difficulty of building new transit lines here is legendary, essentially they're almost entirely paralysed by the web of competing interests, and this grows more every year, not less, as new ones arise.

Places that suffered nearer total war damage have a two-fold advantage. First, they could build back a city-plan that was more suited to the modern era - and secondly, nobody had time to get all that attached to the new city-plan, so they've had the flexibility to iterate further, things like retrofitting trams, relocating the main traffic arterials further from the city centre, new metro lines to adjust to changing demographic/geographic patterns and so on.

To this specific example - it's not that the competing interests are worthless exactly, but their sum total value is surely orders of magnitude less than a new metro line. However, because of the due processes that hold sway in a peaceful, democratic and rights-based society, they're able to gum up the works to the point that we can only build about one genuinely new metro line every 30 years, despite being one of the richest cities in the Western world.
This particular thing might be difficult to change because it's 50 year old COBOL or whatever, but my point was more that I've encountered pushes from architects to "eliminate batches" and it makes no sense. It just means that now I have to re-batch things in my code. The correct way to think about it is that you want smaller, more frequent batches.

Do they really need to do work on all records every night? Probably not. Most people aren't changing their license or vehicle info most days. So the problem is that somewhere they're (conceptually) doing a table scan instead of using an index. That might still be hard to fix, but at least identify the correct problem. Otherwise as you say moving to different tech won't fix it.
Jimmy Wales has no involvement in editing such articles. The Wikipedia Foundation doesn't involve itself in such matters either. For example, when concerns were raised about the ADL (a Jewish NGO) being banned as a source, they responded by (correctly) explaining that "neither the Board or the Foundation make content decisions on Wikipedia. A community of volunteers makes these decisions".

Such content matters are entirely community decisions, so of course a biased community results in biased decisions.
Yet Another Perl-Powered Company: Geolytica
The SI was specially aimed to reduce such meaningless discussions, yet we steel have big endians and little endians comparisons, long after the dust settled.
I work at a public opinion data archive that is unmatched for legacy data, we deal with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-track_tape

and

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

The IT guy in the office next door has a setup to read old floppies in whatever format.

We also get boxes of paper documents and we use AI to OCR and clean up documents like this

https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/...
My expectation is that:

1: people will use ChatGPT to write their formal emails based on a casually written text
2: people will use ChatGPT to convert their emails from formal text to summaries\
3: this will get automated by email providers
4: eventually the automation will be removed and we'll just talk in plain language again
This is honestly awesome! And I love the design as well. Is it open source?
The inscription on the Sword of Goujian, the translation for which is displayed in the article, says that the King of Yue made and used the sword himself. How literally do people with knowledge of the period take that? Is it surprising / unlikely for a king of that period to make anything themselves, especially something so ornate, rather than commission it?
Discourage reading Jesse Schell if you want to make _good_ games instead of corporate slop. He's never made a game you like or anyone you know likes. Agreed everything he says sounds great but then why hasn't he made any good games?
Raycast Focus
I make interfaces sometimes and don’t like using “frameworks”. But if I don’t use one, all sorts of issues start to emerge. V-scrolls in single line inputs, my hbox/vboxes start fighting over margins when nested, labels don’t baseline align with input texts and look real ugly, scrollbars suddenly pop up into existence because something is 1px larger than expected.

Of course the next thing I “should” do is to “learn css”, which is a steaming pile of crap that makes no sense and is barely generalizable even with a few megabytes of any reasonable “framework”, which usually still uses non-css-compiled-to-css sources and multiple auxiliary tools to add polyfills and browser specifics. No desktop framework I worked with required so much tuning and fixing and adjusting just to look normal-ish.

So no. “You wanted 500 bytes? Too bad, here bootstrap.css.”

Those responsible for it should fix this effing pile of shit that they call “browser layout and boxing model” then I’ll think about the few-kilobytes range.
The code will be spaghettified and hideous. The queries will be nonsense.

That doesn't change the fact that the ultimate goal of the system is to manage drivers licenses.

> In my experience you can't rebuild such a thing "in 3 months".

Me and my team rebuilt the core stack for the central bank of a developing country. In 3 months. The tech started in the 70s just like this. Think bigger.
Maybe the problem is paid dating aps?

Also enshitification is real there too, I don't think I'd find anyone now on the same dating app I met my spouse on years ago.
Wait till the ai checkstand stand accuses you of being a thief and forces the attendant to do var on your transaction while you watch the video replay of yourself checking out. With the same red and green boxes you see in the drone combat videos.

Had that happen last week to me at Kroger and it was really unpleasant.
Never forget, they had Rob the robot. And to my recollection, he only worked with Gyromite.
> * BTW, the Hind Rajab foundation was setup after Israel deliberately targeted and killed a 5-year old girl (along with family members, and even paramedics who tried to help).

Forensic Architecture published a detailed report on this heartbreaking case: https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-killing-...

Unfortunately that was not an isolated case. It was systematic policy. The ICC staff has a lot of work in their hands.
Just like propane, nitrogen, laughing gas, and methane ... I don't follow?
Yeah, ammonia leaks are much more nasty than methane or hydrogen leaks. Methane, especially in LNG form, is quite safe compared to ammonia. LPG is even more stable than LNG and requires lower pressures. With that said, hydrogen leaks are "fun" because large ones usually self ignite and burn with a hot but mostly invisible flame. But hydrogen itself isn't toxic. Similarly, methane and propane aren't directly toxic.

Basically, an ammonia leak will kill you. By itself. The others are only a problem if they're the right concentrations to ignite. That's a relatively high concentration and a larger leak. Much smaller leaks of ammonia are deadly.

It's still a good solution for some things, but it's a bad solution for consumer vehicles like cars for that reason.
The stock markets definitely have competition. For instance Frankfurt, London, Paris or Amsterdam very much compete with each other to offer desirable conditions for investors, and companies will move their trading from one to another if it is their interest. I think the fact they close at night is a self-preservation mechanism, traders would become insane if they had to worry about their positions 24/7.
"weakly-bound symbol" implies your a using a complex runtime library/binary format (like ELF).

A portable and clean design for a library is to allow to override the internal allocator via the API (often part of the init function call).

Look at vulkan3D which does many things right and doing this very part right. On the other side, you have some parts of the ALSA lib API which still requires to use the C lib free (may be obsolete though).
For me it's a bit of both. A programming book that I wrote over 10 years ago - the content is long out of date but the weight reminds me of the effort I put into producing it. Then there's my father's library, all 2000 books of it. I've kept about 50, on a wide variety of topics, and I value them both for the unusual content (Ancient churches of Wales; Jazz record catalogs from the 1940s; English artists from the early 20th century) and for the fact that they remind me of him.
> they used CFLs?

Nah, the lamps used (I assume) standard fluorescent tubes. Although honestly I don't know how widespread they were. They were (and still are in some areas) all over the place in Munich (and also e.g. here https://maps.app.goo.gl/M3RPqkN5MHZuPG7f7). Hamburg (https://maps.app.goo.gl/fPGfeEwWXtUGFnTL7) and Berlin (https://maps.app.goo.gl/kSemA2Md84AEJ9Py8) also have similar-looking ones.
A foreign territory that israel is at the same time at war with, but also controls borders, imports/exports, airspace and the population registry.

Also, what about the West Bank? The PA is decisively not at war with Israel, yet the occupation there is even stricter than in Gaza. The Israeli government seems to view it as a Schrödinger's territory that at the same time is part of the state and not part of the state.
Sounded like maybe a telemetry loss, which is hard to fully simulate. They'll abort to be conservative in these situations even if the rocket could land itself without tele-operation.
So many manufacturing companies fail at software. They think of software like it's any other component on the BOM. As if it's just like a screw or a piece of molded plastic: Build the cheapest "software part" that meets the requirements (or buy it from a "supplier"), and then bolt it onto the product some time during assembly.

They don't think of software as a major component of their brand. They don't think of software as the user's interface to (and perception of) the product. They don't think of software as an ecosystem with updates, a changing security landscape, and third party developers and integrators. It's just one of 500 things on the BOM that gets sourced and assembled.

I've seen companies where each branch in the software repo is named with a part number, and they're all somewhat similar, copy-pasted around from one another, but with no real concept of what's an earlier or later version or updates, no concept of where the codebase came from or is going, and no real structure other than "This software blob is part 003-2291-54 for product 003-2291-00. The product is shipped and we will never look at the code again."