skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not disputing spreadsheets as an assessable IDE for “non-programmers”.

I’m a big fan of spreadsheets for “getting shit done”.

But if you’re building a UI for other people to consume, you’ll quickly find that they’d break it in all manner of exotic ways.

This is why CRUD solutions exist. Sometimes you want the relational bookkeeping but with a more restricted UI. In those type of scenarios even MS Access is a better option than Excel (for example).
I think that's only generally true for the period of time where the new tool has yet to achieve full functional parity with what it replaced. As that functionality gap is closed, the performance increase usually declines too.
There are more efficient ways, but batteries are heavy and still not as compact as liquid fuels. If you want to run ships on non-carbon-based energy making a liquid fuel is one way that can work today.
The long flight to teach an endangered ibis species to migrate
> By all means, rewrite it in Rust

No
> The UX of Facebook is a huge mess, a never-ending, non-chronological scroll of dopamine slot machines.

This is not really relevant to the discussion of the content of the post: "do what others are doing, do what your users are already used to doing"

Whether Facebook's content is good or bad is not really relevant; the UX of FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, and almost every other social media app is remarkably similar in layout and function.
On the one hand, having less RMS and GNU software in the world is better.

On the other hand, I'd prefer for basic system tools to be provided by an established and well-funded project, and not just switch to something written in Rust because Rust is the hype these days.
Please fix fractional scaling first. The performance is still bad.
Last I checked, WASM support isn't quite there, yet, basically. I haven't checked in a little while, though.
Have you compared OpenAI to the current leader of the free world?

>The Globalist Wall Street Journal has no idea what they are doing or saying. They are owned by the polluted thinking of the European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of “screwing” the United States of America... (Truth Social today)
I used to use that occasionally!

It was Pournelle that inspired it? Really?
But the Rust toolchain adopted for a given Ubuntu version can compile the Rust core utilities for that version. I don't see what the stability problem is here. Furthermore, doing this in Ubuntu will nudge other distros to do the same, furthering the long-term goal of the Rust project: to rid the world of C, C++, and all their scourges.
It may sound obviously silly, but if you know how the edition system works, it’s not. Most things land in all editions, the only things that are edition specific are the “breaking” changes, and those have such limited scope that it’s not difficult to support all of them.
I thought dash was an upstream Debian thing?

But I agree in principle
Beautiful project! I've been obsessed with modeling soft materials since playing Dead or Alive in the 90s.
Sound proofing is really challenging. I've gone through similar dilemmas as the author. Just short of blocking all ability for air or vibrations to transfer, I don't think there's much you can do. Soft textures absorb sounds, which can kind of help. If it's via air ducts you can try to add baffles. I've been curious if there's studies on noise pollution and mental health.
Not in my case, I do not provide my Social Security Number to (new to me) healthcare providers from small practices to major hospitals with different branches, either.
The problem is not in starting a company. It's in the 20 to 100 million investment if needed: those do not exist here.

You'll get up to 10 million investment from whatever bank + state arrangement no problem. But when you want to scale up you're fucked if it requires money. So no "let's get 1 billion users and then think about milking them" way to do business, you have to be profitable a lot earlier. And you better not require too much R&D.
That sounds like a great reason to avoid 6G for as long as possible.
It's also easier to do things in parallel in rust that might otherwise not have been considered in a C version.
I started writing C code again because i started using gstreamer and needed to write a modem plugin for ModemManager. This meant i had to get familiar with glib. Even thought the learning curve has been steep it been worth and I am really enjoying writing in C again, even going so far as to refactor some existing code of mine use glib and make it GObject based. The end goal here is to use gir to use my code from scriptable languages like python.
Maybe someone could make xlsiptables.
Good old times :) I miss F1 help, which was usually very good and contextual. On a Settings dialog? Press F1 to view help just for that dialog - offline, instant.

For me, Norton Commander specifically, among other TUIs, was very influential in shaping my keyboard shortcut preferences. I used to rely heavily on Function keys; both for lightning fast file management, and also for code navigation and debugging.
My startup is a non-standard domain targeting the iPad.

Our need for a designer with functional knowledge and creativity is very high.

I’ve muddled through with iterative designs of my own, but this challenge has delayed our beta.

Designers don’t work for equity where nearly every other kind of talent will.

This is a real blocker for startups.
The Arch documentation is so good you don't need the forum. Man pages, however, are useless.
I prefer draw.io, honestly. It's lighter weight and does 99% of what I use Lucidchart for. However, Lucid has a bigger icon library, which matters sometimes.
good article, but, web dev side showing: the link underline color is bugging me as it looks like someone thought these words were misspelled.

aside from that - if Uber had actually started an international taxi company they would not have been able to get away with the stuff they did for so long, and the same with AirBnB if they started an international hotel chain. It was that these things were obviously not exactly the old business forms that the laws had been written to regulate that allowed them to "break the laws", until the laws and courts updated things.

So as much as I agree with the basic idea that disruption was often code for "ignoring laws", it was also slightly different than that, and you can't just rewrite the reality of those years to say that was what was being done.
Yes to both, this is what I do for my day job.
Just because one is something people rely upon and the other isn't is not really a reason they are incomparable. Just because the end goal is different doesn't suddenly mean nothing applies.
He has Internet access in prison? He has rich friends on the outside?

Same way gangsters can reach out and have people offed from prison.
I think that all of those tools can be recompiled with Fil-C today and you get memory safety while retaining the original functionality.
The failure of the land value tax
> instinct to take the path of least resistance.

It’s least resistance initially, but much harder in the long run.

It’s like the children with marshmallows experiment.

Give a kid a marshmallow and tell them if they don’t eat it for 20min, they’ll get 2 more.

Some kids will eat it right away and some will wait.

We’re just seeing that play out for adults.
I still need mouse gestures in all browsers and extensions are still in comparison hot garbage at it.
I really wish people, widely, would stop blaming bots. I am sure there are plenty of bots doing lots of things, but by immediately attributing this behavior to bots I think we detach ourselves from a fundamental fact: there are a lot of US citizens that are so far drowning in propaganda that they actually manufacture reason for much of this insanity without much provocation or incentive beyond it being done by their tribe.
Really? How have policies been made for the past hundred years without it then?

In the United States, lobbyists have approached lawmakers with pre-written legislation and pitched it to them.

I would rather have lawmakers asking LLMs to explain concepts to them than the absolute mess we had back when a House committee was trying to evaluate SOPA with absolutely zero domain knowledge:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrrj9Wc2L84
> what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses?

You use dyndns
In my experience, no one has ever asked it when booking, just when you fill out forms on your first visit. I always leave it blank (and most other things that don't pertain to my healthcare issue) blank and have never been hassled.

I also always ask for a paper copy of the disclosures to sign, saying that "I don't sign blank checks" when asked to sign the electric pad. I've never had an issue with them printing it out, letting me sign, and them scanning it in.

Healthcare "security"/"authentication" is just "protected" by your name and date of birth which is easily discovered for anyone online.
Didn’t slap systemd hard enough.
It's quite telling that these discussions often end up at conclusion that we are becoming a developing (or 3rd world) country again, and not Star Trek society.
True. When the complexity of the software causes lot of usability issues in ”edge cases”, these technically capable customer connected people are really worth it.

I’ve also seen good things coming from hiring actual ex-users from potential customers that were using competitor’s products. They’d do user training, customer software configuration and development team support. Sometimes even full time.

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But these people are good day-to-day at ironing out the details. Maybe even discovering underlying dissatisfaction with the product.

But the startup’s constant worry should be what else software is being used, how to be relevant in the future. Maybe through cutting costs in the process by co-designing new workflows to eliminate current tasks.

Executives at the client may be more intrested in finding ways to eliminate all the staff with automation in the process rather than optimizing their tools.

You’re not getting that input from the people working on the tasks now.
Pluto+ SDR
And do it faster than your enemy, in the context of the military setting in which it was developed.

Also recommend the book Science, Strategy and War which is a PhD thesis to answer the GP’s question on research.
I'd say misplaced evangelism.

ls, chgrp, chown, etc are applications that the current user will use to interactively work with them. Or maybe use in a shell script. They are not to be exposed to malicious inputs, so any bugs are usually not security problems, because you can't really do anything that the user couldn't do anyways. There is no security boundary, so nothing to secure there.

However, if you e.g. write your webserver as a shell script or using shell commands you are doing it wrong and you deserve the evil things an attacker does to you.

Also, very often, the insecurity is codified in the relevant standards such as POSIX, so you cannot really fix anything without breaking everything. E.g. newlines and various kinds of whitespace characters in filenames are a huge pain to handle safely in shell commands and especially shell scripts, if possible at all. Because shells do split things at any whitespace (unless quoted properly, which is hard to impossible to do) and shell commands usually separate their stdin/stdout at newlines (unless you know about -print0 and everything in your pipe does as well...). None of this is fixed by rust, everything could be fixed by throwing away existing standards first, but then the language doesn't matter.
https://archive.is/XcbSW
> they'd have to arrange some way for a photographer (or themselves) to take a better picture and then CC license it.

That sounds like something a publicist could easily do if it were a priority. Actors and publicists have no trouble managing their IMDB pages and IMDB even charges for the ability to contribute.
Ask HN: Have you added a Pride flag in your logo?
As a small startup, I’m considering adding a Pride flag to our logo for inclusivity.

Would this be seen as a genuine gesture or as performative marketing? Could it have an impact—positive or negative—on how people perceive the company?
They can roll up to the starlink ground station and turn of the power or cut the cords.

Edit" it looks like the inter-satellite capacity might be able to handle more than I thought

https://mikepuchol.com/modeling-starlink-capacity-843b2387f5...
This guy is a High Priest to people of a certain generation like me.

It really is a super-savage takedown. Hope they are able to understand how withering this critique is and do better.
> The CEO asked in reply what happens if we don't train the people and they decide to stay?

Then they both chuckle and say they’ll hire some other schmuck, it doesn’t matter bc they already got series A funding.
This youtube video (that was linked in their readme, seems to go into more details:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odCkR0PDKa0
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43352580
I feel quite happy writing high level application code in Rust and write most of my projects in it now
Ads in the system logs were the last straw for me.
The bacon egg and cheese is definitely up there. Other contenders could be the chopped cheese, the pastrami on rye, or the lox and cream cheese bagel.
something like this?:

https://github.com/jnsgruk/oxidizr
That's heartening to hear.
I like writing C and still write C from time to time, but I've migrated to Rust for my hobbyist embedded projects and I just cannot imagine going back. It took me some time to work out how to get Embassy working smoothly, but now I just have a project template that's (for my purposes) absolutely rock solid. Rust and Cargo made embedded fun again for me.

Basically all of my struggling now is entirely based around hardware specifics rather than ironing out kinks in my code and I'm into that.
I'm disappointed it does not run in excel but uses a google spreadsheet.
Yeah, I was about to add the test for INT_MIN / -1 but got distracted, but also not really the point of the example anyway.

I hope you realize that this is example does not need any complex C++ features.
> The joy of driving artists and musicians into bankruptcy is more important than any of that, apparently.

Comments like these distract from the larger point you're making because they misrepresent the nature of the effect that TPB (and similar services) actually have had on artists, and on the historical relationship between artists and the capital class throughout history.

It's a common misconception that filesharing harms artists - that's a misconception put forth by the RIAA and its ilk because it harms them. In reality, the relationship is much more complicated, because artists aren't the ones who directly benefit from album sales anyway, and they are themselves often exploited by the record labels who are the ones directly harmed by filesharing (to the extent that you believe filesharing even constitutes harm, which is a separate and debated point).
How does that even work? Like you can't use Swiss ammo against European nations or what? It just seems to make it literally(not figuratively) worthless.
People who oppose you aren't pretending, I have sincere and deeply held objections to this sort of language and the actions they precede.

Anyway where are you even going to put them, where is a place outside of society? If you're thinking of prisons, why do we have this problem in the first place if we already imprison more people than any other country. If this hasn't worked so far what will be different when you do even more of it? Why are other countries able solve this issue in other ways?

A sincere & informed commitment to reducing violence quickly takes you in very different directions from this one. It's other values that have you itching to eliminate people you find undesirable.
You assume other people are not more bothered by sounds than you. Also, I don't see how this isn't an example of 'dealing with it'.

You say you physically leave your house to escape the noise sometimes - getting a pair of noise-cancelling is significantly less disruptive to one's activities in comparison.
And using more efficient algorithms or data structures that are painful and/or difficult to use in C.
The presidential immunity decision tells you all you need to know. It contradicts the basic and foundational premise of the rule of law that it applies to all. They would never have ruled that way for Biden had he faced anything close to similar charges. No principles only politics.
Why not? Can you explain it more?
Outside of the workplace, many of the machines I use on a daily basis are more than 10 years old. All of my machines are older than 5 years. I don't use Apple products.

There is nothing I want or need to do that requires equipment newer than that. The same is true for the vast majority of the people I know.
>Remember when the switched the shell to dash? Not to mention, Upstart, Mir, Unity, Snap.

upstart was used by RedHat must have been good enough, before they NIH it
Unity was actually better then GNOME at that time, but in the end RH NIH everything except Qt/KDE
Advanced Video Batch Processing with FFmpeg and CSV Input
I regularly sing “I Never go to Work” and make new lyrics for to the tune.

My wife and I really enjoyed Caspar Baby Pants and Laurie Berkner for kids music.
Ask HN: LinkedIn still the way to find jobs?
I've been casually looking for job opportunities and Searching there is painful, it was always spammy but I think it's getting worse.

I'm getting getting next to no recruiters messaging me as they did in the days of old.

I'm in the UK, is there anything better?
FORTRAN lumbers on because its memory model is simpler than C and many other languages so it runs faster.

If you write Java programs that allocate a few huge arrays and don't allocate anything after that they run pretty fast too.

I wrote a Python chess program in two weekends that was good enough to beat a serious beginner but that I didn't feel I could take to the chess club because it couldn't respect time control the way it was written. I started rewriting it in Java and realized that if I wanted decent performance I had to not allocate anything in the inner loop. Transposition tables using Java hashtables are a net loser at the depths it is working at, I really gotta write something that works at the bytearray level off-heap but it's not that hard of a project because, like the typical HPC code, it's not really that complex/complicated.
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> it is very very clear, that the atheletes were custom fitted into the altered squirl suits

Aren't the suits tested for compliance on the athlete?

> trained specificaly and extensivly in there optimal use. traditional ski jumps were done with the legs fully closed, with a last second switch to a landing posture

I honestly don't see this.

I've looked at quite a few videos now, comparing the techniques between other jumpers and their medal winning jump.

It looks close enough to me and, honestly, plenty of experts, too, otherwise they would have pointed to the difference in techniques enabled by the altered suits, rather than only having to rely on finding alterations after taking the suit apart.
https://archive.ph/oQtog
Here's another official position relevant to current events but that is beginning to change.

"Electronic voting machines are 100% safe and as safe as paper ballots if not more".
Show HN: Aries.com – a free and open development engine for fintech
Hey! My name is Reda, and I run a small company (aries.com) we’re working on a complete development engine for finance and capital markets. You no longer need to spend millions on market data, licensing, and infra to run a fintech product.

Large banks and institutions can afford to pay past regulatory & infra barriers but in our time interviewing developers and entrepreneurs we found that not only does Fintech have one of the highest startup failure rates but most of those failures can boil down to regulation, data fees, and infra hurdles that fintech entrepreneurs need to jump over. We’re designed to do all of the leg work so that builders can focus on building and getting to market from day one.

The easiest parallel to draw is what Unreal or Unity did for the video game industry. Our goal is to make it so that consumer innovation in fintech has an uptick.

To show off the power of our engine product we built two products which we will open source soon. The first is Aries Infinite which is an infinite canvas product for trading and the second is a low latency mobile trading app for US capital markets.
Mechanical computers are a great reminder of what computation is and what it isn't.

Computation as studied by computer science is not a physical phenomenon, but a mathematical construct that claims to formalize the notion of an effective method. This claim is perhaps most tangibly expressed in the form of the Church-Turing thesis.

Computing devices are not objectively computing. They simulate the formal construct. Anything that can be used "computer-wise" can be said to be a computer in the same manner that anything that can be used chair-wise can be said to be a chair. But there is nothing inherently computational about the device itself.
Is that because of the Rayon lib?
Humans in that time gave us WW1, WW2, the great depression etc.
Both Swartz and Lundström seemed to have been first and foremost passionate and unyielding about their politics and I'm sure they both considered their lifelong political activism their true meaningful work, certainly much more important than the things they're most remembered for. Both were willing to sink their considerable wealth into furthering their political causes. Both realised early that the internet would be a vital platform and 'battle ground' for spreading their politics. Both have been willing to break the law in the name of their political ideology.

I guess when I put it like that, they actually do have a lot in common.
I'm really curious about the kickbacks comment. I'm sympathetic to it but how do you root it out practically? Noone has much incentive to fix it because the people aware of the ill doing are the ones benefiting from it.
It seems you're advocating for the benefits of having a door when the objection is to locking the door.

By all means have a some kind of verified/sealed mode and refuse to support anything that's not in that mode--but there are negative consequences to normalizing a lack of control over the technology that people interact with.

Take the crowd strike incident for instance. Millions of people unable to do jobs that they're relied upon to do, and we can't even hold them accountable for that because it turns out they were never in control of their tools in the first place--locked out of the section necessary to carry out the repair.

You wouldn't tolerate a screwdriver that refused to be used to pry open a paint can. I don't see how it should be any different with a phone. I want to be able to rely on users of tools--not vendors of tools--to do things, and I can't. Not because the people are authentically incompetent, but because some vendor has made a dumb decision about what they're now not allowed to do.
Didn't that program end nearly a decade ago?
Dlang is a clean langauge. Unfortunately it never got the attention it deserves.