skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know academics that use it to make sure their arguments are grounded, after a meaningful draft. This helps them in more clearly laying out their arguments, and IMO is no worse than the companies that used motivated graduate students for review the grammar and coherency of papers written by non-native language speakers.
The parent comment mirrored my sentiments exactly.

In my company, I'm often the person who joins a production bug troubleshooting call, after sometimes hours of investigation, and rapidly identifies the root cause.

My typical workflow is:

* Clarify the issue and our assumptions. Often, simply restating the observed behavior aligns everyone.

* Pose questions to validate or challenge those assumptions.

* Suggest alternative methods to test the primary hypothesis.

Often, testing the initial hypothesis reveals its inaccuracy, leading to a swift discovery of the actual root cause.

Ultimately, it comes down to critical thinking and questioning assumptions I think.
Sorry, but I don't trust add-ons. They sometimes change ownership, and I don't want to keep track of them.

This is also an area where browsers can differentiate.
Thanks! You might like the In Our Time podcasts from the BBC.
The cryptocurrency field is so overrun with bullshitters and con artists that I have a hard time being very charitable. You're right though - I should have just assumed that they were exaggerating for rhetorical effect and not trying to mislead.
Looks horrible to me. Why not a spreadsheet?
I still find the decision questionable. No embedding meant that Gecko missed out by default on the wave of embedded WebViews in the early smartphone era as well as the “desktop web stack” boom that Electron/CEF came to dominate.

Additionally, I believe that one of the reasons why Firefox has struggled to maintain market share is because it’s a bit of an acquired taste. Relative to Chrome, Safari, etc it’s kinda quirky and not to everybody’s liking. Alternative browsers wrapping Gecko could’ve helped a lot here.

Camino was a great example — Mozilla couldn’t justify building a Mac-specialized Firefox and that makes sense, so Camino filled that gap instead and became quite popular among Mac users. When Camino had to close up shop following the removal of embedding, most of those users didn’t switch to Firefox but instead to Chrome and Safari because those were better suited to their needs.
> As a thought experiment: If one person bought up all the bitcoin in the world and monopolized it, would it be valuable or worthless? The answer is clearly "worthless".

This is a good place to highlight where we fundamentally disagree.

Assuming this is just an temporary situation (i.e. miners are still operational) and the person with all the bitcoin was committed to selling it slowly, the bitcoin would be extremely valuable. There would be enormous demand for the time-proven, hardest asset mankind has ever seen and hardly any supply of it coming onto the market.

Most of the value in the world is stored. It is always looking for a better home, and there is no better home than bitcoin.

Gold isn't valuable because of any usefulness as a material - it's because of its fundamental attributes relevant to being a store of value: divisible, extremely robust, non-fungible, portable, easily to assay/recognisable, scarce etc. It is the optimal physical substance for use as a store of value that requires divisibility and liquidity (relative to say, real estate).

Bitcoin is the digital counterpart, and being digital has numerous benefits: perfectly scarce (above-ground gold doubles every ~40 years), way more portable (you can store it in your head and send it around the world in minutes), you can buy/sell it in any quantity 24/7 from a phone, the node you connect to assays it automatically, it can be better protected from theft (multisig etc). This is why it is demonetising gold over time - it's beating it at its own game. It's beating real-estate as a store of value, bonds. Soon pensions. Not only that, but with higher-level payment rails, it can beat fiat at it's own game.

When I say bitcoin is what it is - I'm talking about these fundamental monetary qualities. How Satoshi envisioned we'd make use of them is irrelevant.

Also, I should add that an asset has to first find it's potential as a store-of-value before it has any shot at being a medium-of-exchange or unit-of-account, because otherwise it's value will change too much, while it grows, to be of use for those things.

The reason fiat currencies never went through this process to become a medium of exchange is because they are tokens, boot-strapped into value by representing the existing time-proven, market-saturated hard asset and taking on its stabilised value, and established status as unit-of-account, similar to what Tether has done (what a house of cards that is! - a token representing a token representing....nothing anymore)

The key to understanding the bitcoin proposition is to understand why and how gold became so valuable thousands of years ago (and it's not because it's shiny and electrically conductive). Bitcoin is following the same path, albeit in a much-accelerated way due to our increased knowledge and communication ability nowadays.
Hmm, instead of an hour shift, a 30-day shift of 2 minutes per day would be an interesting experiment. Hey why do I see so many raised pitchforks all of a sudden?

Getting anything figured out would be a mess, obviously, if everything were synced up (from the clock on your grandma's kitchen wall up to the clock on say Air Force One) it'd be easier (hmm, I see even more pitchforks). Someone's daily meeting with overseas colleagues would be e.g. 9:56 today and 9:42 in a week's time.

Another alternative would be 4x15 minutes jumps, every Sunday in a month.
I have a very weird situation where my right eye was fine but my left, for reasons unknown, has a thicker lens. This can be happen with cataracts but I'm just under 50 and have zero clouding. The eye doctor said it's not myopia in the "usual" sense but the end result is the same: myopia prescription lens.

Thing is, I ignored it for about 10 years and my brain simply ignored whatever signal was coming from that eye. I'd look at things and see no blurring unless I closed my right eye. However, at a certain crossover distance my brain "switches over" because my left eye has amazing close vision and my right eye doesn't. I can actually feel it when this happens, like a physical sensation. No headaches, but it is "odd".

Anyway, I decided to get glasses, and it turns out I need two different prescriptions. One is close up (not longsightedness, it is still a myopia lens). The other is for 1m-∞
Yep. I used it once for a personal project involving GHTorrent [0], and each query was about $20. That may be peanuts for a business, but for someone playing around on their own, it's incredibly prohibitive.

[0]: https://github.com/ghtorrent/ghtorrent.org/blob/master/gclou...
You can use async to implement continuations, and async is very much included in quite a few 'systems languages'.
i don’t have a stake in this at all, but i've seen dozens and dozens of comments of exactly what you’re asking here on HN.

People have been sharing that, plus the problems they’ve solved or products they’ve made.

Though, most of these workflows are no longer really just “chats” at like chatgpt.com. A lot of that has changed.

i’m not saying you need to do it, or change anything, but… i’ve seen people do shit with a computer lately that 6 months ago would seem weird and alien.
That was quite late in the game, though. Kind of like closing the barn doors after the horses have already bolted.
OP here - wow, didn’t expect this to resonate so strongly! Thanks to everyone who’s commented or reached out directly.

I’m currently lining up interviews to learn more about your experiences. If you’ve commented here but haven’t connected yet, feel free to email me at: jbornhorst [at] gmail [dot] com.

I’m especially interested if you’ve experienced persistent discomfort even after updating your prescription professionally (headaches, eye strain, subtle blur, etc.). Pure research, no selling. Your insights will help shape a better solution.

I’ll do my best to reply promptly to everyone. Thanks again, and please keep the stories coming!
Great, I love Douglas Adams!
I mean, yes, the hobbits go back home where Sam becomes the mayor of the Shire for 50 years, and Gimli and Legolas sail off together into the sunset.

But it's also unambiguous that Aragorn, who was previously a nobody raised by elves, turns out to be the long-lost king and definitely does not just go back to whatever he was doing previously.
I think you meant “any sufficiently commoditized magic is indistinguishable from technology”, or “any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science.”
The Clacks, the Disorganiser, Dwarf-discovered Devices, and L-Space are all wonderful ideas. I'm a huge fan of the City Watch series, with Thud! being my absolute favourite.

I envy those reading the series for the first time!
Common Mistakes in Modularisation (2024)
I think you overemphasize the pain. A good design will handle lots.
> There are many countries, e.g. in Europe, where people with many children have disproportionate advantages, because the state takes money from the people with few or no children and gives the money to the people with many children.

Can you link to this tax that is only levied on "people with few or no children?"
The push for AI is about controlling the narrative. By giving AI the editorial review process, it can control the direction of science, media and policy. Effectively controlling the course of human evolution.

On the other hand, I'm fully supportive of going through ALL of the rejected scientific papers to look for editorial bias, censorship, propaganda, etc.
18-20% is already completely insane.
Next get rid of glass roofs or option them out.
I don't know who said "destroy" but COPPA and the DMCA have had a lot of negative effects. And some positive ones too, but it's hard to argue they succeed in their objectives at all really, and easy to see the harms.
This is the scam, the chaos is intentional
Show HN: Pytesttui, a Simple TUI for Pytest
I came to work on this, because I missed an easy, simple and quick way to run pytests. There are alternatives like in VSCode extensions and Jetbrains products, but in my opinion they miss the simplicity and convenience of a terminal UI.

`pytesttui` runs in your terminal and allows you to run a pytest by browsing your tree of tests. Right now it's in an early stage, so all it does is run your test. It scaled in the repository I use at work which contains about 500 tests. I created a proof of concept so I can share it quickly, which is why I used aider for coding almost all of it.

I only tested it on MacOS (silicon), but if you'd like to try it, then visit my github page and download the release. Extract the files and place it in a PATH location like ~/.local/bin. You will probaby have to accept a security warning by MacOS, which is done by browsing to the "Privacy & Security" tab in settings and clicking on "Allow anyway" after running it. Make sure `pytest` is also accessible in a PATH location or installed using pip.

Feel free to email me: ajsverbeek at proton dot me.
hydra/pg_duckdb embeds duckdb to query existing data on S3. So it is kind of targeting a completely different use case (someone already prepares and shared a dataset and you just want to query it).

pg_mooncake (&crunchyData) is implementing columnstore tables in postgres, so you can actually use postgres as a data-warehouse (to ingest/ update and run analytics queries)
And ~hands in latin

But that doesn’t matter if your goal is to become a global brand
OTOH, a child could do it,
Would there be any interest in someone who is already moving to the EU from the US? I'm heading to a different country for my partner's work so would likely need to maintain remote status.
Agreed - I am surprised they did are not using Pixtral to read images as well.
There are a couple of issues that get confused in this discussion that end up reinforcing the status quo.

1 - The only problem with DST is the change in timing. There is a spike in all sorts of issues including accidents, heart attacks, etc in these days. The change itself is a problem.

2 - We have constantly underestimated the need for sleep and its association with the circadian rhythm and as a result, we face a lot of problems. DST/Standard time changes were an effort to solve the problem for 1 group of people, Midwestern farmers, and imposed it on everyone else.

What we really need is to eliminate the DST/Standard Time confusion and then individual systems need to set their own times for doing things.

Those times will depend on the kind of work, the people jnvolved, and then depending on the time and the needs it may even have to change through the year.

But the onus should lie on my company and me, or my kid’s school and him to track what time they should be meeting through the year.
> And it only gets sillier from there.

That’s exactly where it fails for me: it is too cute, like a longer than necessary joke.

It’s just not my cup of tea to read and think “oh yeah, I see they inverted the thing, very cute, they even have the elephants and the turtles”. It’s ok but maybe for a short essay or a comic book only.
As always, it depends on the precision.

If the LLM spots a mistake with 90% precision, it's pretty good. If it's a 10% precision, people still might take a look if they publish a paper once per year. If it's 1% - forget it.
It was released in 2016, only two years after Atom and Slack and a year after VSCode. Not sure I'd call that late.
I evolved from pencil and paper, to text files, to minder. I stick to text and it works good for me. It is simple, fast to use, search works good, basic organization is there. Files are local and xml, so data is easy to extract if needed, backups and distribution are just file copy operations.
https://github.com/phase1geo/Minder

I think it easy to get trapped by formatting and publishing. IMHO: Notes are fast and not pretty. If/when I come to the situation where I want to share, then formats like markdown or latex etc are a better fit. When I have to start 'coding' my notes, it becomes a time burden and I end up skipping it. In complicated situations, I will go the other extreme and fire up inkscape.
Chinese stele's are famously turned 2D through ink rubbing. Wonder if that'd simplify the task and at least provide a more consistent image to work off of (as compared to a randomly illuminated photo)

Or another intermediary would be to train a model to transform photos to rubbing and have a more standard representation to work off of before training to recognize characters
Noob question: why is there no Hadoop cluster on Clickbench?
That's just an overly fancy version of ON ERROR RESUME NEXT.
While it won't fix all the security issues that C++ might have, given its C subset, the provided examples can be improved by enabling the hardened runtime configuration, built-in compiler analysis, which also validate use before initialisation (finally fixed in C++26).

Rewriting is not always an option, so improving one's code security is also something to be aware of.

Having said this and since the thread is about text handling, Microsoft has rewriten DWriteCore in Rust.
Yes - unfortunately it seems they don't read images in the pdf.
Strongly agree. I think it correlates with high level of curiosity.

Also, for example, so many developers could see an issue and fix it without really understanding how the fix works.

I literally cannot live with that and have to understand why something works the way it works
I have a bug with Safari poor sync since about 4 years (passwords wouldn't correctly update both ways) but the tabs issue was also extremely annoying.

I just went with chrome. I used to really like Safari, I really wanted to use it, but Apple is just not competent enough anymore, no matter how good looking it is, no matter how many interesting features it has, if it doesn't work all is irrelevant.
chromatic aberration

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aberration#Noun
"Everybody stand back! I know regular expressions!"
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/208:_Regular_Expr...
(2023), i think - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34761768
In v0.2, this is exactly what we're building.

Keep your OLTP as it. Deploy Mooncake with logical replication into columnstore tables, and get DuckDB like perf.

A big part of this is not replacing your OLTP.
Thank you for highlighting the difference between onClick and addEventListener - my frontend skills are rusty and I'd forgotten how prevalent the equivalent of eval(some_string) is.
Committing fraud is,, a viable career strategy
I'm not sure that eating out solves the food waste problem. I'll agree that in theory centralizing food preparation could lead to increased efficiency, but in practice eating out is most often either a luxury or convince experience and emphasizes those two things much more than cost or efficiency. Maybe one day automation can reduce labor costs allowing restaurants to sell cheaper food, but no one has seemed to figure out that problem yet.

In addition to price (which is a function of efficiency), I wouldn't shift any more of my eating behavior to out of the house until the following problems are solved.

* Portion sizes. I usually eat 600-800 calories in a sitting at home. This portion size is considered a light meal in restaurants, and generally has less appealing options and ordering it sends weird social signals.

* Healthier food. Most restaurants use more oils and salt than my preference. The vegetables and fruit are usually less fresh than even Walmart/Kroger offers.

* Time investment. I can cook and clean maybe 25 different dishes in less than 20 minutes of focused work at home. Much more if you count semi-prepared foods that come frozen or in boxes. The only thing that competes with time investment is hot food delivery, which comes at about a 8x price premium compared to cooking.
dug too deep and awakened balrog
This sounds to me like an argument against platform centralization, as the internet itself isn't a platform, but a protocol. So this is a problem of platforms, and their improper design. Not a problem of the internet itself.
I have my own beef with 1Password, but having used both Bitwarden and 1Password, I still find 1Password to be the better UX and more secure solution. Bitwarden is also worse at filling with their browser extension, rather significantly. That said, 1Password's Safari support with multiple profiles is... frustrating... at best.
its not something you build with just a prompt. at least not yet.
If you think you can hear ultrasound, it's nearly always due to nonlinearities in your system producing non-ultrasound when you try to play it. Seriously. (You can sometimes hear above-20 if it's very loud and/or you are pressing the source against your skull. Above-40 would be completely insane.)

The extra headroom can indeed be useful for some kinds of processing, but you can safely discard it for actual listening.
What about using GeckoView?

https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/

I don't know what I'm talking about though. I just found that and have no idea how useful it is
> Measure theory and Kolmogorov axiomatization addressed very real problems like Bertrand's paradox.

They don’t solve the “paradox” - and it can be “solved” without them.

https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/well.pdf
Ignoring the quagmire of praising/critiquing Musk/Twitter for a second…

If you’re an exec who’s taken it upon themselves to evaluate, could use the hatchet, or you take some amount of time to figure out how things work. Whether this is okay depends on who is suffering the externalities. If it’s a private corporation, legally it’s the execs + employment law. If it’s a public service that measures toxin levels in water, uhhhhh.
If you're going to be reductive, you might as well go all the way and say it's all just fluctuations and perturbations of quantum fields, right?
If just peer-to-peer syncing between a group of devices is ok, syncthing is great. You could use it as cloud backup if one of the devices is running on a server.

https://syncthing.net/
Oh man, I work so well in a busy cafe. I'm not sure what quality it is, but being around a bunch of people who aren't bothering me with questions allows me to get into flow.
I think they just invented Microsoft Access :)
This is a blow in particular to anyone who likes the Radio3 classical music station. The BBC may even block VPNs like Proton so there might be no workaround eventually.
The Forces That Flipped Trump from Crypto Critic to 'Crypto President'
Thanks for the comment but you are mixing some terminologies.

The core idea of mooncake is to built upon open columnar format + substitutable vectorized engine, while natively integrate with Postgres.

So it is indeed closer to BigQuery (especially the newer bigquery with iceberg tables) than a 'standard SQL database'. It has all the nice properties of BigQuery (ObjectStore-native, ColumnStore, Vectorized execution...) and scaling is also not impossible.
https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump...

https://archive.is/NHqWz
Both add the DuckDB extension. But the use-case is slightly different:

1. pg_duckdb is great for querying existing columnar files (parquet) in Postgres.

2. Our focus is on helping you write and query your existing Postgres table into a columnar format.

We spent most of our time on building the table access method for columnstore tables.
Spin up a quick national plutonium reserve, takes like 3 minutes, such incompetence
We can start by not separating everything into two sides, one of which we must take. Look at each conflict as a whole rather than a sports game with a winner and a loser or a Good and an Evil or a My Team and Their Team. Maybe one side really is actually very bad and needs to be stopped. Maybe there are other ways.
Chrome isn't bundled with Windows, but most Window users decided to install Chrome.

While I agree outsized influence that chrome does on global web standards, it is not like Apple doesn't or couldn't invent something as well. The reality is that no one has the incentive to make better web technology.

If Google sold off Chrome, who will buy it? Are Google even allowed to make another browser based on same technology? What is everyone just installed that again? Selling off Chrome doesn't make any sense at all. And as you said. Their influence on development of Blink is still, Google.
Can you expand why the trigger is necessary?
Go and ask the general populace of UK (you know what, focus on the school and college goers) and ask what their country and their His/Her Royal Fartnesses have done to a large part of this globe and revel in the genuine blanks they draw!

History writing my arse!
https://archive.ph/fqAig
It brings bad analogies with body parts. So, let’s change the name schema to gods, mythology or something on the sky. Maybe Uranus could be a better alternative.
Ceph and its s3 service?
It will all make sense when we acknowledge that Chrome is malware.
What's the gold standard paid offering that does this?
Looks pretty cool, p5js: https://p5js.org/reference/p5/noise/ supports Perlin noise out of the box.
people tried to run spark (better hadoop) and failed lol. https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/pull/139
We did it You can now run PyTorch models on CPU only machines and get GPU speed
I've been working on a project called Wooly for a while now and have a solid beta for it. It lets you run your Pytorch projects from any CPU machine and get GPU speeds. Instead of hard-partitioning GPUs or overpaying for unused GPU reserved/hold time, Wooly manages execution of multiple user workloads over the network on our remote GPUs.

We've got a free beta available for you to try. Check it out at https://docs.woolyai.com