skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen both sides of this idea many times, and from my personal experience, this idea looks good on paper, but usually implodes in practice. Bootstrap gives you a baseline quickly, but what pretty much universally happens is that at one point a feature requires you to venture outside of its constraints and that's when the trouble starts. Overrides and extensions, then something changes in the underlying theme or you update Bootstrap for some adjacent reason, that means more changes to the custom logic and eventually it's a big ball of yarn. Since you're working within the confines of Bootstrap and what it does and doesn't let you customize, you're never in a position where you can refactor all of it to make complete sense. In my opinion, if you're already working with a designer, it's way easier to build what they delivered from scratch, rather than try to bend Bootstrap over backwards to fit over it.
It all doesn't quite work well enough to justify all the new tech. My 7 year old car is pretty good, it has a small 8 inch screen which does car play/android auto and has nice buttons and dials for all controls. No distractions!
You are right. Most people confuse Holland with Netherlands.
Ask HN: Modern GUI Research
I know 'everyone' is on the HTML/CSS train for all GUI work, however, I wonder what the 'cutting edge' research is for responsive, cross device GUI's (from embedded/immediate to web to mobile to desktop to AR/VR gui's). I searched on Arvix but seems everything with GUI is about AI the past years so maybe someone here is doing this research or is doing research themselves.
Installing nix from a package repository feels very wrong.
It boils down to building big surface area mirror cheap enough. Once you prove there is business demand, and you have your cheap Mylar satellites working, you scale your system up with better technology.

Of course they don't reveal their neat trick now because from a strategic point of view it would be bad, because other people would copy them, and probably outpace them.

Once it's only a physics problem, it becomes quite easy. Here are two potential solutions to the physics problem : Liquid mirrors, and plasma mirrors. The easiest being the liquid mirrors so let's explain this one. In fact it's so easy, it's child play.

Have your kids ever played with soap bubble : It's the same thing but in space. You make a big ring (roughly of the same area of the spot you are trying to make on the ground) (thin circular wire that you fold so that it will unfold itself like these tents) and you flow liquid metal (like mercury) on top to form a thin layer, hold by surface tension (and eventually electric field to have finer control of the shape or the surface).

The mirror will be a few atoms thick, a design that must be fabricated in space directly. It's just that we are not used to thinking with low force zero gravity environment. You don't use motors to move your mirror, you use fields spawned from precisely positioned points (and you have to compensate for solar winds).

Of course there are still technological problems due to the harsh conditions of space, but it's not something unheard of : https://engr.ncsu.edu/news/2024/03/06/reflecting-the-future-...
I used to do that. Use OneNote. And then I discovered that OneNote really sucks when it comes to 1. Syncing across devices. 2. Large documents

I searched high and low and found Obsidian. Now the idea of using OneNote sends shivers down my spine.
Why? I don't have a problem recognizing that "being convincing" to the right people is a very good way of learning and verifying knowledge about objective reality. Just because it's by proxy, doesn't mean it doesn't work. This is how every one of us learns most things, and what's really sad to me is deluding yourself into thinking we're more special than that.
> when you live in a European country where there is no Tesla you have to import your car from Holland (See NOTE).

> I estimate that the total import costs were slightly over 2000 EUR.

I live in Slovakia and bought a Model 3 in Slovenia. I rented transport plates in Slovakia, took a train to Ljubljana, stayed overnight, took delivery of the car in the morning and drove back to Slovakia.

It cost me maybe 150€ and I got a pleasant trip out of it. The car price in Slovenia was ~5k lower than Slovakia back then.
Early on (Model S being new) they used to do a lot of "hypercare" as some corps call it, short of white glove service, to keep customers happy and essentially advertising their brand.

I suspect a lot of reputation from then helped them paper over naysayers when they abandoned it with expansion
People who sexually harass are on supreme court and literally the president. For considerable amount of people, it is a positive sign that "the guy is like us".
There are many plausible "skins" for Aquinas. He didn't come from relatively homogeneous place like Japan on Iceland, he was Italian. And medieval Central Italy was a massive genetic melting pot of Etruscans, Latins, Greeks, Celts, Germanic people and North Africans. It used to be crossroads of a massive empire once, and was overrun by several invasions of other peoples afterwards.
You do need to care about large non-uniform branches as in the general case the GPU will have to execute both sides.
They just don’t die. My 16 year old one seemed end of life 10 years ago and when I holed the sump, I was resigned to getting it wrecked.

After driving it for a few months it didn’t die so I took it to a mechanic. I got told off for my dry sump technique and told not to do it again. It got a new pan and some oil, that was it. It’s done 5 or so years of light service since. It’s been stolen, carried masses of firewood, too many dogs and too much concrete.

Great car.
You know, when I buy brand new car I expect it not to work. Some adjustments must be made. As valid for BMW as for Tesla. Start with level of all lamps, angle of wiper arms, tire balance and silly wheel alignment. It’s enough to leave the factory, but mostly poor settings for daily driving. And since the car is under warranty I will not fix these by myself.
I’m currently driving a 20-year old Honda, I wonder if Tesla can last the same amount of time.
True, but SteamOS does much more than just provide the Steam client. I'd stick with SteamOS ona Deck.
By "go out of your way" you mean "trying to copy the contents of any "system" folder in your HOME to a new machine? :)
Reversing cameras are required by law and they need a screen.
Page-grained mappings UML does make for tons of overhead. AFAIR Linux even considered a specialized reverse page mapping structure just to accelerate those, but ultimately dropped it because of memory overhead and code complexity.

Realistically, the overhead isn't ever going to be lower than hardware virtualization unless one goes for an API proxy a-la wine and WSL1 - but that's tons of work.
Good riddance - it's garbage "pizza" constitutes a poor choice in Japan where good food is everywhere
In the name of $DEITY: WHY?
I would pick without thinking the car without the child tablet attached to it, too.
We will be forced to switch to this kind of stupid cars by regulation, or planned obsolescence, not by choice.
>>1) voice control actually works

English is not my native language so I'm yet to find a car where this works. But it's not a problem with the car, it's Google's voice assistant being useless for anything other than English sounding names. I can say "Google call Janusz Zawadiadzki" and there's exactly 0% chance it will work. It just can't do it. Don't get me started on it trying to read texts that aren't written in English when the system language is set to English, it's hilarious.

>> picking extremely mediocre hardware that is too slow to run it.

It freezing and losing sound and generally being in all kinds of non-operational state isn't due to the hardware being slow, it just doesn't pass muster for automotive-grade software which should never exhibit any of these behaviours no matter what.
Can i get your feedback on https://thehardway.app?

I tried the best I can to test specially Japanese and Chinese without speaking those languages myself.

the app uses real human content (audio and text) for the most part, so hopefully it comes natural enough. there is still some AI though
People's faces are very rarely that symmetrical which raises doubt in my mind.
I think that in the cases you mention, the extreme-right social media posts appealed to Musk and Trump actively wants people to do violent crimes on behalf of his coup.

Neither case was them valuing loyalty over something else. They rewarded people who did exactly what they wanted.
In theory same EU consumer protection everywhere. In the reality one needs layers in seller’s and buyer’s countries. Then the law can be exercised for many thousands euros.

Edit: had this situation in 2024. BMW sold a faulty car with international warranty. When the buyer found broken rear differential BMW offered to cover 3% repair cost. So the question was to sue BMW or pay 4000€ for by warranty covered repair out of own pocket.
Yeah I agree, someone saying they don't want to talk anymore because they've already written about something stops it being a discussion and makes it into some sort of lecture but without the notes. If you're insisting on telling someone you wrote about the current topic of conversation, you can just mention it and carry on with it. Like authors who go on podcasts, they'll say "Like I wrote in chapter X, I think that..." - the conversation shouldn't be killed off. Comes off as a bit arrogant.
Volvo Cars are owned by Geely, a Chinese company. The Volvo Group (which shares branding and names with Volvo Cars) is public, but Geely also has a fairly substantial percentage. Volvo Group makes HGVs, buses, military vehicles amongst others.

The situation is not dissimilar to Rolls-Royce plc (publicly-owned, mostly British; makes jet engines and other high-performance turbines) versus Rolls-Royce Motor Cars (owned entirely by BMW; makes cars only, and use BMW engines).
And people like C in spite of the segfaults. It's the same disliked thing, Rust just moves it to compile time instead of production. Which many people prefer, since it avoids security issues, data loss, and mysterious crashes.
I've been told directly by HR that "your next hire better be a woman", and not in a joking way.

So, anecdatum, yes, but until studies come out like the one posted then nobody is allowed to even express these anecdotes.

BTW that experience was not a fun one as it really harmed my self-image, I really felt like I was less valuable as a person and made me quite bitter for a while, I will admit that right-wing rhetoric became very comforting, luckily I was not seduced but I can understand how people could be.
You really can’t win with these types…

If Chinese phd students stay and work, they’ll complain about them “stealing American tech jobs”. If they leave, then they’re “parasitizing” the tech industry.

Though I think their real solution is to probably ban all Chinese students / tech workers. And fortunately for them, that likelihood is at its highest under the current administration.
What are you actually talking about here?
I'm driving a 2022 Kia Niro EV. Yes, the sign detection is pretty unreliable, but otherwise I've had no (software) issues with the car yet.
I worked for years on decentralization projects so I wish this would happen, but I think in the current climate there is a much simpler and more direct option that Apple is far more likely to take. Perhaps the author's politics prevent him from seeing it: Cook will talk to Trump, Trump will announce crippling sanctions on the UK unless they leave tech firms alone, the UK will fold with some excuse designed to save face (perhaps pretending they never issued such an order at all) and everything will continue as before.

This is by far the most likely outcome because it's consistent with everything we know about the new US administration:

• Trump loves tariffs, he believes they actually make people richer. The previously prevailing WTO order that tried to push tariffs down is dead and buried.

• He already forced allies like Canada, Columbia and Mexico to do what he wants by threatening to impose truly massive tariffs. They agreed to his demands within days. Trump is willing to break allied economies to get what he wants.

• Elon Musk is Trump's most powerful and dynamic ally. He hates censorship demands, especially from European governments. He also hates the current British government, and via X has been exposing the American right to the off-the-charts levels of political censorship and oppression that's been happening under Labour (e.g. people getting longer jail sentences for Facebook posts about immigration than for violent crimes or child porn). The right are spoiling for a fight with Labour at the moment, this would be free red meat to their base.

• The US right also holds Europe in contempt for its failure to produce a viable tech industry and are inclined to view its regulations as mere extortion by losers for crimes that the Americans did not commit. The last eight years appear to have turned Trump into a radical libertarian, a plot twist few saw coming. The Biden administration was ideologically aligned with the EU and UK on this, but they're gone and there is no built-in sympathy anymore.

• The UK is run by a very weak and unpopular government. Starting from a few weeks ago Reform (Farage's party) now outpolls all the other parties. New governments after a long period of incumbency usually have a honeymoon period, but due to the weird way they won the election this one didn't. They also didn't campaign on picking a fight with Apple. There's no democratic mandate here and this isn't the will of the British people. If Labour push ahead with this, Reform will make lemonade. "Don't break my iPhone" is the easiest political campaign in history.
It is interesting to note that the UK is asking for this superuser privilege while also infamously silencing a literal epidemic of child sexual abuse for fear of its optics (i.e., Rotherham). It’s a difficult sell for me that the police need this to do their job when they wouldn’t do it with full knowledge of these horrible crimes being committed against literal children.
I think the best thing is to just start. As you're not blogging, there is no one that knows what you need, you probably don't even know. But after you have started with whatever is easiest right now you might discover the things that you want from your blogging tool. Maybe you're happy, maybe you'll play around a bit.

One very important thing for me is to stop the tool from distracting myself from writing. I write simple markdown files that I then publish, there is nothing that I need to do that distracts me from writing (I still get distracted, but at least not by my blog). The writing is the main task, the publishing and everything around is tiny, so I can focus on what I want to do with my blog. Write.

(Just to get back to the point, choose whatever is easy to set up and easy to maintain and if you realize that the tool is not right for you just change it. (This of course works best when you use your own domain))
> one thing that used to annoy me early on was how new panes would default to the directory where Tmux was originally launched

Not just current dir, but the whole env:

export SECRET=oops # could be silent if you use e.g direnv
tmux # first one => start daemon

Then another unrelated terminal:

tmux
env | grep SECRET # oops
It's probably fuzzy similarity search
> Model Y was the world's best selling car two years in a row for a reason.

I have no idea how it drives, and I am pretty sure the answer is not "horrible", but the sale numbers of a car that is ordered mostly online without test drives doesn't mean anything.
The phrase I've heard is "country wine" -- e.g., any alcoholic beverage in the ABV of wine (10-18%) but not made exclusively from grapes.
If you find yourself in a situation like this in the EU, where consumer protection is strong, you should talk to the consumer rights office in the country where you bought the item, or where you were when signing the sale contract.

First, they will tell you how to complain to the company - what specific terms to use, and how long they have to respond and to resolve your matter.

Second, if you don't get a proper resolution, they will advise you how to sue the seller. You will usually have law on your side by that point, so there is almost no way the seller can weasel out.

Third, the consumer rights office you talk to might have contacts for expert investigators who can act as a third party in your court case. They will provide a written statement to the effect of "this is what happened, this is the law, the buyer can demand this remedy".

Finally, the seller will likely settle out of court, because you're not the first customer they abused and they already know how these things go. In the EU, you will often get either a replacement of the item, or a full refund, or sometimes you might get to choose. That is the bare minimum, you can also demand that they pay your court costs in most EU countries, and some compensation for loss of income, cancelled holidays, and other such things. Depending on how strong your negotiating position is, you will get some of these things.

If you have a website about how bad the product is and you are willing to take it down or write about reaching a satisfactory conclusion after negotiations with the seller, your negotiating position is very strong.

The consumer rights office will tell you all this process and it will vary a little bit. But it's important to do this relatively without delay, there is no point in dealing with unresponsive customer service. You need to tell them the right things by law and they will be forced to respond or to face the lawsuit. An abusive company will not respond out of good will, without compelling them to, you are just wasting time.

In Holland, the consumer rights office is the ACM.
Being free didn't hurt either.
You got this the wrong way around: For GPUs conditional moves are the default and real branches are a performance optimization possible only if the branch is uniform (=same side taken for the entire workgroup).
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It's usually a product-management failure that causes this. If you make your UX sufficiently invisible your department becomes invisible, and you get de-prioritized for promotion.

Management by metrics makes this worse, by forcing staff to game the metrics.
I got a ton of hate last time I said it, primarily from comrade musk's simps but I'll say it again: a former boss of mine(also musk worshiper) bought the top of the range tesla model s. We were going out of the Hague(where the company was headquartered) and I was in his car. It was brand new, like it barely had 6000km on the clock. My first impression was "how the hell is my 10 year old mid-range BMW offering a wildly better ride and build quality than something that just got off the production line". Plastic squeaking, you could feel every pebble on the road in your spine. And this is the Netherlands we are talking here, and those are by far the best roads in Europe by a considerable margin - when you see a tiny crack in the asphalt anywhere, it sticks out like a sore thumb from the horizon. We had to stop and charge it, the charger got stuck, fob was working 60% of the time, it refused to start on several occasions - all in the span of a single 10km trip. "It will get fixed with a future update, musk knows what he's doing" was what my boss kept telling everyone. Mmyeah, no thanks, I'm fine with my BMW.
E.g. the emergency braking is mandatory for new cars; https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20190410IP...

Could this mean you could get problems as this car does not conform to the standard?

It also does not conform to the reference cars which were used to acquire the type approval.
> In the reality one needs layers in seller’s and buyer’s countries

That is also not true at all. Under EU consumer law, the consumer can bring a case against the seller in the consumers country. Please stop spreading misinformation.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/1215/oj/eng (section 4)
This seems like you're trying to say that you'll leave if you continue seeing things you don't agree with.

That's 100% allowed, i'd personally encourage it, if you find yourself in a place you don't enjoy, stop going to that place.

That's a mature response to a self-imposed stressful environment.
I'm a BE dev that has do to some FE work now and again, but IIRC the shadow DOM thing is about performance: it is in theory more performant to modify the shadow tree and then send it to the browser for rendering in one go than to manipulate individual elements and have the updates render immediately.

Back in the day I had to use an escape hatch in Vue 2 (which does not have shadow DOM) to work with the DOM directly to render a fast changing component (a structured log browser window with live logs flowing in rapidly). No idea if React would have worked better though. :)
Eqonomize efficient and easy accounting for personal financies
So when you say its compute intensive, you only mean at compile time, is that correct?
> We need better timestamping services for this.

If I were to write a dozen blog posts today, and then straight up dump them on my blog, dating each of them so they're spaced roughly evenly since Jan 2021 to today, and start each of them with a preamble saying "I wrote this in my journal around [backdated timestmap]; publishing it now ([real timestamp]) as part of my 2025 blog revival commitment" - what would you say then? This little preamble explains both the sudden appearance and lack of any prior traces on the Internet corresponding to claimed creation dates. Are you going to call me a liar?

No, if someone with even half a brain wants to fake expertise this way, you won't be able to tell. If anything, what will give them away is anachronisms in text. Like idk. an off-hand remark about ChatGPT in a post dated 2021 could make you wonder.
Men, especially white men, are overrepresented at the extremes.

The worst life available to you in the west is only afforded to white men, you don't even register that they're human.

the best life available to you in the west is only afforded to white men.

Stop trying to promote suffering of the former because of the perceived injustice of the latter, it's sick.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/poverty-hurts-the-boys-th...
Easily the most sensible thing he's done. Lots of countries have done away with low value coins, and it's not like they're vital for payment. Nothing costs mere cents anymore.
The US is supposed to be a country of laws. The president doesn't get to do whatever he wants, laws be damned, simply because he got 51% of the vote.
My iCloud account worked fine in Pyongyang.
I use them as "research assistants" when google or the documentation fails me. But I always treat it as a less reliable stackoverflow - there's no guarantee what I'm reading is correct and rarely includes caveats like "doesn't work before version X" or "must have Y flag enabled."

I've particularly enjoyed converting terse documentation into a .md file and feeding into the LLMs context window, then using the LLM to "query" the underlying document.

Where it's always fallen short for me is code generation, and frankly that feature just doesn't interest me.
It's not possible for search engine to find blogs after 2000. Twitter, HN, and even other social networking sites is better.
My own grandmother was born on the shores of the Aegean Sea, in the region that now forms the border between Greece and Turkey.

She was Slavic herself, and blonde.

The Mediterranean is a lot more complicated that people from afar tend to think.