skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something but your first link seems to show a solid lead by the conservative party?
Maybe. Anybody have a monoidally annotated queue in C++ to compare?
Nice pics, very heartwarming and solarpunk!
Aint everybody - inflation, inflation, inflation..
> I feel like...you've thrown the spirit of the game.

It's a little "brain teaser" game, to encourage kids to practice fairly basic math. Don't take it too far out of context.
YC Combinator CEO Garry Tan supports open borders (2017)
I live in a suburban area, and I have 2 hardware stores within 5 minutes, a Menards and Harbor freight within 10, and like 5 big box hardware stores within 15.
> they're unavailable for the foreseeable future on higher priorities

Need I respond to that?
The we is capitalism I suppose. We voted for this, we chose this, we continue to choose it. Kind of like walking blindly into this unfortunate predicament a lot of people find themsevles in. Yeah, it's not necessarily a single action any single individual made, but the collective direction we as a society went. We're frogs boiling ourselves literally and figuratively; question is are we going to jump out or do nothing.
No, defprotocol and deftype have the same properties as Java interface and Java classes, and the types are checked at compile time. This is static typing. Period. Clojure is a compiled language, it does check typing during compilation.
I'm scratching my own itch with https://buildersqrcodes.com to help convey new construction details to job site workers. I'm building my own house now and I was surprised how many details are not in the plans that are critical to build a house. I think this is a common issue. I already have 10's of paying customers using it on their build too.
'We' being techno-utopian, libertarian startup types I guess. Which isn't that unfair on this site.
Peter Norvig: https://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html - "Basically, Python can be seen as a dialect of Lisp with "traditional" syntax (what Lisp people call "infix" or "m-lisp" syntax). One message on comp.lang.python said "I never understood why LISP was a good idea until I started playing with python." Python supports all of Lisp's essential features except macros, and you don't miss macros all that much because it does have eval, and operator overloading, and regular expression parsing, so some--but not all--of the use cases for macros are covered."

"Take a Lisp program, indent it properly, and delete the opening parens at the start of lines and their matching close parens, and you end up with something that looks rather like a Python program."

also Peter Norvig on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803815
Why one of the major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia
MongoDB acquires Voyage AI
iOS 17 is from Sept 2023, it is considered obsolete. Current -1 is a very normal and decent support window, and supporting that covers >90% of active installations.
Schneider Electric, a French company (owners of APC), absolutely dominates the datacenter infrastructure market at somewhere over 1/3 (probably closer to 1/2) of overall TAM.

EU companies many not be storing the data but they're certainly in the "making shovels" business. And that's kind of the deal. France quietly takes a huge percentage of revenue without most companies being the wiser.

If EU companies start moving their infrastructure elsewhere, I'm sure that American datacenter/cloud companies will reconsider who they buy their racks, PDUs, etc, from.
This one sentence is better than the original article.
> I wonder how in retrospect they will think about the decisions they made today.

The decision was not made today, what happens today (or, rather, a few days ago) is Linus calling out a C maintainer going out of his way to screw rust devs. Rust devs have also been called out for shitty behaviour in the process.

The decision to run a Rust experiment is a thing that can be (and is) criticized, but if you allow people to willfully sabotage the process in order to sink the experiment, you will also lose plenty of developers.
> It also attracts people who can do it all - design, programming, animation, etc who become stars, and then wonder why they aren’t working for themselves.

This is why you promote to full partner all the time. The people who wonder why they aren't working for themselves should answer "I will have all the advantages of working for myself, plus the advantages of partners for the few places that matter". If you don't promote to partner you lose all the effort you put into training that person if you did you get someone who can help you once in a while.
Recently, I started building a crowdsourced wiki for repairability of consumer hardware products in India: https://isfixable.com/
I really like this surgeon general. Hope he doesn't get axed.

He is also taking a stance on alcohol in relation to hormonally driven tumor development.
REM is a rare example of anglosphere building, which is ironic since it's driven by french Quebec.

REM is an extreme outlier though. Canada is filled with failed or failing transit projects that are all desperately needed:

Metrolinx is many years overdue and billions over budget on Line 5. Line 6 is also overdue, but is getting a pass since it's only bad and not horrifying. Metrolinx seems to have learned some lessons for the Ontario Line, but it's also over budget and unlikely to keep anything close to its schedule.

Calgary has spent over a decade working on the Green Line and is still a long way from putting shovels in the ground.

Vancouver keeps slipping on delivering the Broadstreet Skytrain expansion. At least Translink does seem to have reverted to the original Skytrain design pattern that has been so incredibly successful for the Expo Line expansion.

Quebec City tried for a LRT and couldn't even get the project started the cost spiralled so much and got down to a single bidder before they scrapped it and started again.

My own home of Kitchener-Waterloo managed to build an LRT and keep costs reasonable, but costs on phase 2 to Cambridge are terrifying for at-grade construction. Many euro nations have delivered full underground metros for much less per km. We've also been promised and are waiting for all day regional rail service for a decade+.

I'm a huge fan of transit, but it's hard to be optimistic.

I am glad to see CDPQ (who did REM) is part of the high speed rail proposal. They have shown a real ability to make smart value engineering choices and actually deliver projects. Is it enough to actually build some trains? I'm not sure, even if we ignore the political uncertainly surrounding the project.
Clean air is default. You can’t make ‘more clean’ air to offset dirty air. You can just hide real and compound health impacts with the fact that someone else exercises more in clean air and lives better.
VaViM and VaVAM: Autonomous Driving Through Video Generative Modeling
It is effective because you can spend your mental energy on the things that matter, things that make difference.

Code quality actually doesn't matter when you remove the human from the loop as long as it works correctly because it becomes something made by a machine to be interpreted by a machine.
Not a journalist or a reporter, posts aren't meant to be professional. The only reason I even write any of my posts is because companies DO NOT disclose incidents at all, so I have to do it for them.
I haven't. I registered on ghost two years ago before turning 40 and have been paying them for two years now while I write nothing. It's hard to get started. I'm hoping to overcome this. This post helps.
There are differing opinions on this and there have been academic studies on what levers can an unpopular government keep themselves in power. From everything I have ever read and listened to, the most effective way for the average citizen to check government abuse is to engage in the mainstream media.

There is a reason why the US Constitution first amendment sought to protect the "free press". Support the free press, buy a subscription. Several subscriptions. Write letters to the editor. Share articles with your family and friends.
Without agreeing with the paper’s general point, imagine a coal plant that emits particles which cause asthma within a 25 mile radius of the plant that also buys legit offsets for all the carbon they emit. They aren’t buying offsets for the local harms.
commit state / pipelines roll forward, code / content rolls back
China has steadily been developing its own processes and the laser tech needed for smaller sizes.

It is very clear that both US and China are racing to onshore and establish sovereign control of chip production.

Sucks to be Taiwanese right now. The "silicon shield" is evaporating.
Yes, my comment is poorly phrased, but the spirit is valid. Linux could not have come from Unix as Unix OSes were closed source at the time. It was not a fork. However, Linux was intended to be an open-source variant to Unix from inception. Torvalds aimed for POSIX and ABI compatibility from the start, it was one of his stated goals for developing the kernel.
5th graph. The Conservative lead has shrunk from 45-21 to 41-31 in the last month.
Yes—lots of good examples of marketing agencies building themselves into product companies, most notably Moz, HubSpot and Semrush. This is the way.

In order to scale past $1M in profit, you need to professionalize the management of the agency and scale the workforce, probably using offshore/nearshore help. I've found that a lot of agency owners just don't want the hassle, and are fine taking home $1M/year (fair!)
And this unsolicited, off-topic comment doesn't do that as well? :3
I built an AI app for reading manga and comic books
too lazy to create a website, so I'm just posting the direct App Store URL. It's also available on the Play Store. (bloopworm)

btw it helps in detecting panels automatically and then they go through a sorting algorithm. expecting it to work in 80-90% of the cases.
I hate this and I love it. Good work.
Hardly, this has been discussed in parliament for years already, and the crown corporation responsible for it was established in 2022. It's not like the PM just woke up one day and decided to build a train before he resigns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_(high-speed_rail)#History
Chinese rivals to Starlink accelerate race to dominate satellite internet
Ask HN: open-source project to ingest email into a databae
Any recommended open-source project to continuously ingest e-mail (iMAP, POP) into a database? The specific database engine is not important but prefer JSON.
It's like people deliberately skip the "insane argument" part of my comment. Let me re-iterate then: the argument in my original comment is insane.
Show HN: Exiftool-web, an interface for the CLI tool (running Perl in WASM)
This was a pretty fun weekend hack, wasn't (easily) possible until a few weeks ago when I found this blog post about how to execute Perl in WebAssembly. https://andrews.substack.com/p/zeroperl-sandboxed-perl-with-...

As I gather, Exiftool is used a bunch by OSINT researchers, many who aren't big fans of the CLI, so I figured this would be a fun browser port. The above + https://github.com/bjorn3/browser_wasi_shim and some regular Svelte/file API stuff were enough, pretty proud of this demo.

Thinking if I get some more time this weekend I may implement metadata editing / deleting, and bundling these into desktop apps would not be super tricky.
If you have no intent of using the app, why install it in the first place?

But then, the purpose is less about going out and touching grass physically, and more about being aware of what you're spending your time on. A moment of self-reflection, if you will, and whether that's you going outside to find some grass or finding where you put your colour picture of grass and turning the lights on to get a good picture of it is by the by.
Could be, but having seen a couple of his crashouts, I don't really feel like buying that. According to his Wikipedia page, he's also been living in the States for about 25 years, and been a citizen for 15. If he couldn't achieve appropriate mastery of the English language with so much time spent collaborating with others using it essentially exclusively, and having lived for decades in a country where it is the native everyday language, I'd find that legitimately more impressive than the opposite.
why is the author obligated to use a professional tone?
I for one would love it. If I have to sell housing then I have to buy housing, it's not a benefit to me unless I reduce my quality of life.
Musk's 'DOGE' claim about USAid funds for India sets off political firestorm
"I'm not convinved it has anything to do with my work experience."

I can see how that could be challenging, but some lessons are universal. This talk touches on the problem at an organizational level:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWgRw5jiYy0

Best I can do for you right now. Good luck =3
Hard to tell from the tweet whether he meant lawlessly open borders, or if he just means US companies shouldn't have to jump through unnecessary hoops to hire talented outsiders.

I don't have a strong view on what US policy should be. But outside the US, it feels very strange to even consider overstaying one's visa. Deportation, extremely slow processing (whilst being kept in what is effectively a prison), and financial penalties are the norm for illigally overstaying in most of Australasia and South East Asia. (I'm no expert; just have familiarity with a few countries I've lived in / visited, and they treat overstaying super seriously - it's weird that the US doesn't, or, well didn't).
And the people like me that work in ERP's/bussines apps have even more langs.

I have used around 20+ in my little project (mostly solo) and I have now:

* Rust

* Kotlin

* Swift

* Html

* Sql with variations for: Postgres, Sqlite, Sql Server, Firebird, DBISAM, MySql

* Go

* FreePascal

And now is when I have less languages.

People are flexible.
For all the flak that CEOs and taylor swift gets, their contribution to global warming is a drop in a bucket (percentage of aviation emissions that can be attributed to private jets), of a bucket that's being dumped in the ocean (percentage of global warming that can be attributed to aviation). They produce outsized emissions on a personal basis, but there's also so few jets relative to commercial airlines that banning them isn't going to make a dent.
Tesla makes a lot of promises that it can’t keep and losing money and market share globally.

I doubt Waymo is going to be a big deal in much of the US over the next decade. Even if they do figure out all of the technical issues. People will accept hundreds dying from car crashes. But not one dying from autonomous cars.
Depression.

The US is a great place to have your headquarters and a terrible place to have your not-so-cheap labor.

Their actions will drive prices higher and, indirectly, wage higher. Businesses without a war chest will not be able to keep going and fold, the labor market will collapse.

The rest of the world will trade amongst each other and I suspect to save themselves, some big tech companies will relocate their headquarters.
Report is from 2023. He left the office Jan 20, last month.
Introduction to Stochastic Calculus
This comment (not mine) from the article is absolute Gold:

> "Not only did the chip designs prove more efficient, the AI took a radically different approach — one that a human circuit designer would have been highly unlikely to devise."

> That is simply not true... more likely, a human circuit designer would not be allowed to present a radical new design paradigm to his/her superiors and other lead engineers. (a la Edison, Westinghouse, Tesla, Da Vinci, et-al.)
It seems the fascist parties are mostly propelled by anti-immigration sentiment [1]. If you want to take the wind out of their sails, the best way would be by creating a liberal, progressive party, that however wants to decrease immigration [2]. This shouldn't take much work, as the left's position is already anti-immigration and anti-demographic-change when it comes to some other countries/territories, such as Kashmir [3].

[1] Though they don't always listen to their voters on that - e.g. after Brexit, the Tories greatly increased immigration to Britain.

[2] Such as used to be the position of Bernie Sanders: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/16/years-ber...

[3] Kashmir’s new status could bring demographic change, drawing comparisons to the West Bank - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/08/kashmirs-new...
Personally, I find the tone of the article appropriate for the response received. The first email clearly set the tone as cordial and friendly while still being urgent. The response was in a clearly adversarial tone. So the prompter adjusted their tone accordingly.

It wasn't necessary to match tones with the person whom wanted to be uncharitable, but it definitely feels more human to me, which is who the writing is for: humans. I would have been fine with an info dump, but I enjoy turnabout as much as any other fan of fair play.
> What would be interesting is finding which two OCR/AI systems make the most different mistakes and running documents against both. Flagging only the disagreements for human verification would reduce the task substantially.

There have been OCR products that do that for decades, and I would hope all the ocr startups are doing the same already. Often times something is objectively difficult to read and the various models will all fail in the same place, reducing the expected utility of this method. It still helps of course. I forget the name of the product, there was one that used about 5 ocr engines and would use consensus to optimize its output. It could never beat ABBYY finereader though, it was a distant second place.
GPU Texture Compression Everywhere
I've been updating my HN bot (watch comments for keywords and post to Slack/Discord) written in Crystal to use raw SQL instead of unmaintained ORM.

Turns out the whole app needs only ~ 10 SQL requests, and it's way funier to write modern SQL than fighting the ORM.

The new code looks like this :

db_message = Model.save_new_message!(@conf.db, DbButler::Hn, item, DbState::Processing)

Than I have a Model module with all the interactions with the DB

def self.save_new_message!(db, butler, external_id, state) : Message
sql = {{ read_file "./db/save_new_message.sql" }}
db.query_one(sql, butler.to_s.downcase, external_id, state.to_s.downcase, as: Message)
end

(thanks to Crystal ability to read a file at compile time - I can write raw SQL in a file with syntax highlithing and maybe typesafe if I connect the DB to the editor)

The land page is not ready, but the bot has been working for me for months https://newsbutler.xyz/
an eternal truth, but like all eternal truths, there are many people seeing it for the first time

I would perhaps perhaps articulate it as:

you find your tribe by hoisting a flag and seeing who rallies around.

choose action over perfection - you'll be happier in the long run.

so: write on the internet.
Yeah maybe we programmers should start doing that too. Why do we use Teams, Slack or even emails?

We should submit our code to a mainframe and everyone is going to improve their skills too.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."

Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)
Presumably you don't need to let the app have access for it to work?
Seems awfully wasteful. In many (most?) parts of the the middle east you pay for water in a shower and you get 10 minutes. It's usually extremely cheap, but the added realization of water being a limited resources promotes people to be more waterwise.

I wish this was common in the US too but consumption by the American consumer is the most sacrosanct thing in the current world order. As Bush said "The American lifestyle is non-negotiable". Even while the world burns
> To prevent islet rejection, immune-suppressing drugs are given over the long term.

This makes it a non starter. Immunosuppressants are generally considered a worse quality of life than insulin treatment. That's why pancreas transplants are generally only done for type 1 diabetics if they are already on immunosuppressants.
What if the author adds some gamification strategies and awards the users points depending on how often, long, and diverse their grass-touching is, and add an infinite scroll feed of other users touching grass, which you can then upvote and engage with!

(please sign up to my onlygrass page)
This is also why I swear whilst working.
If you know the secret to getting a company to prioritize potential security problems that haven't yet emerged in forty years over meeting payroll, please share.
> How does your approach handle keys with spaces?

It doesn't, and that's OK; not a big deal.

JSON has no support for standard floating-point numbers, and that's a bigger problem for me. I can easily change my keys to make them sane, but I cannot change the numbers!
Total non-sequitur.
A lot of developers have already adopted intents to support Shortcuts and existing Siri. There will be tremendous business pressure to be able to fit into a request like "Get me a car to my next appointment"
> And 1+ billion Catholics believe that [...] The Church [...] is never wrong on matters of doctrine and morals

It's a bit exaggerated to say that. Not all Catholics believe in the infallibility, neither in every single dogma, which are not articles of faith (and not believing in them, discussing them doesn't make one less Catholic than an other).

Even wondering what proportion of Catholics know about all of them.
Not just weird behavior, but possible security issues. Browsers now automatically add a rel="noopener" to links that target _blank to prevent the opened site from gaining full access to your javascript object. Targeting _new does not do this unless you explicity add the rel="noopener" yourself.

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4078
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...
https://genatron.ai - Build ready-to-use business apps in a few minutes by providing requirements in plain English.
What is the best solution for recognizing handwritten text that combines multiple languages, especially in cases where certain letters look the same but represent different sounds? For example, the letter 'p' in English versus 'р' in Cyrillic languages, which sounds more like the English 'r'.
I'm surprised to find I feel disappointment he didn't provide a patch to fix it.
I consider now that all LLMs are just for give you a rough shape, but you must rewrite it manually, doing judgments on what to keep or not.
I don't have any specific build-time recommendations for org-mode, but I can wholeheartedly recommend the built-in 'leuven' theme for org-mode work. I normally don't go in for light themes, but this one has so many nice little touches to spruce up org-mode elements I find myself switching to it from my usual dark doom or modus themes when working on org-mode projects.
Show HN: I built a database of 1000 Solopreneurs making $10k/month
Agree. "You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole!" Best case scenario, CEO just got an annoying distraction that was a credible enough threat they had to waste time investigating. Worst case they had a breach and someone is extorting or hacking them. Some grace on the part of the researcher is warranted IMO, despite the amateur handling by the CEO. No one looks good here.