skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just one well known difference: Human have two eyes and we use the difference to determine distances. A photo is flat.

Another difference: In human sigth you can only focus on the center of the vision field, while on a photograph you can look at unfocused points and observe the distortion on the edges of the picture. Human observation (like looking at the bridge in the pic) is really a series of observations where we move the focus.
> The British abolished slavery with a vote of parliament

The situation was fundamentally different. Colonies that allowed slavery had no representation in parliament and the slave owners received massive “compensation” that the British people had to spend decades paying off..

Also AFAIK most slaveholders were living in Britain and just viewed their plantations as just another investment. There was very little ideological/“way of life”/racial supremacy stuff involved. So if some Liberals wanted to buyout their not necessarily very liquid “property” with cash they didn’t really have much reason to oppose it.

And then there were 5x more slaves in the US in 1864 while the population was only ~30% higher than that of Britain in 1830 (only if we don’t count the colonies).

Not sure how excited would the inhabitants of New England and other free states would have been if they were forced to buy out all the slaves in the country (if that was even an option).

Slavery for the British was a side note at that point while it was a fundamental component of the US economy.
> Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world

Am i behind the moon because i haven't heard of xAI?
Yup, and you can apply the same technique to any language. The obvious example is bash with all the dependencies specified, but I’ve also hacked up quick single file rust scripts using nix shebangs.

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix-shell_shebang
(PO! lead here) You are right, that's one of the unfortunate limitations of the format – having to constantly scroll the PDF. And this is on me, since ultimately I've made some decisions when establishing it which basically boxed us into this format.

I.e. thanks to using a PDF we can give authors full flexibility on how to lay out their article, which allows folks to be really really creative (as you can see in this issue). The obvious problem with that (apart from countless hours foxtrot_charlie - our DTP/PDF programmer - has to spent on fighting with PDF weirdness) is that reading an A4 PDF isn't great for phones, computers screens, or tables. It's even worse if you're using a screen reader, since getting PDFs in the way we get them and making them screen reader compatible is... complicated, to say the least (that's why it's not yet there). On the flip side, everyone has a PDF reader nowadays, articles look everywhere the same (this wouldn't be true for other formats), and it's also printable almost out of the box.

So, pros and cons. At the end of the day I don't think there's an easy out for us without breaking any of the things which make Paged Out! what folks like about it. The things I want to improve is getting printed versions more accessible, and some day finally getting solid screen reader support. But other than that I do believe the scrolling problem with remain with the zine.

ETA: Actually I also want "readings" of articles to become a thing. From the get go we put the in the author's license (note: not all articles use it, but most do) the ability for folks to agree to have their articles be recorded in an audio form. I think that would be cool for folks who like consuming things like audiobooks or podcasts. And it would save us from scrolling (for the cost of having illustrations described instead of seeing them).
Check Space Engineers 2 and Enshrouded. They push voxels in that direction. Similarly, SE2’s watersim on planets will be incredible as well.
Also the modal verbs (must, can, may, shall etc.) are irregular in the present third-person singular, because they do not add "-s".
I used ActivityWatch with vim, browser, everything on Linux. (Last time I checked, make sure to have a firewall on the port)

Although did not know what to do with the data. I just saw my chess addiction subsiding. Maybe it was a side effect of seeing it at 60 hours a week.

Now it’s at 0 hours.
Actually you can via private API, which Apple app use all the time but forbid other app to use

https://blog.verichains.io/p/technical-analysis-improper-use...
This started out as an interesting and fair take until “…enough to supplant it”. Freedom from the government is the original vision and one of the core principles of America assuming that anybody that wants smaller government just wants to supplant it is a massive misunderstanding of most Americans today and certainly the founding principles.
In my tests it's been ~1.5-2x faster than Rhai, but Koto's still some way behind Lua in benchmarks so I'm not trying to make a big claim here (although that said one of the reasons I started work on Koto was to avoid the runtime overhead of Lua <-> Rust conversions, e.g. Koto shares the same string representation as Rust, Koto lists are just wrapped `Vec`s, etc).
That, but consider also how an application running with your user privileges has full access to the filesystem with those privileges, so it can read your entire home directory, for example. That includes your browser profile with all cookies, and all credentials that applications store there unencrypted. Not to mention how that allows for all the fingerprinting even the most nefarious marketer could wish for.

Oh, and the UAC confirmations to elevate your apps permissions to root? People will gleefully confirm them without reading what needs access anyway, so you’re golden to do whatever you want.

The security model of Windows doesn’t exist.
Can't help but agree. I would go even further and say that pride itself is problematic. Sure, it can perhaps have some good effects, but pride usually blinds people to faults, even if the do acknowledge there are faults.

"Pride goeth before a fall" is a time-worn saying for good reason.
Yep gonna be easy

Q: show me the top 5 customers by total sales

A: System.Data.Odbc.OdbcException (0x80131937): ERROR [57014] ERROR: canceling statement due to statement timeout;

Q: Why do I get this error

A: Looks like it needs an index, let me create that for you. Done. Rerunnign query.

could not close temporary statistics file "pg_stat_tmp/global.tmp": No space left on device

Q: Why this error

A: 429 Too Many Requests

Rub hands... great next 10 years to be a backend dev.
Have they "imported it" or are there outside actors trying to destabilise society by pushing divisive ideas?
> Luckily with TVs you can freeload: just never connect it to the internet and only apply updates via USB. Stick an Apple TV / Chromecast / console into it for playback

With things like Amazon sidewalk, Samsung smartthings network, etc. it can still get data out
Except schools handing out toothpaste will get brought up at thousands of board meetings across the country with sensitive or bored parents claiming government overreach and misuse of budgets.
> a non-zero monetary cost

Direct monetary cost is entirely insignificant, though. Potential risk of mental impairment (of course there is no conclusive evidence of that) seems like a much bigger issue.
You are utterly missing the point, to the point that you are analyzing this conversation through entirely the incorrect lens, in an effort to belittle.

In an effort to steelman your comment, you may have incorrectly interpreted the earlier "I wonder how well that is tested" as "this is unsafe and illegal" rather than "among the many things wrong with this, this has increased the number of things that can go wrong, and is less safe on an absolute scale, whether or not it's strictly legal and up to code", and then assumed everything else in subsequent comments was about fire safety, rather than being a series of points in support of locking people into a building is a bad idea.

You are asserting the competence of the fire marshal, as an argument in a conversation about locking employees and interviewees and visitors inside a company's office rooms.

What you may think was happening here: "heh, nerds think they're smarter than the fire marshal and nobody involved thought of this until they came along; of course there'd be a way for sufficiently capable humans to get out of a room if something went wrong, and of course this will have been made to pass fire code, which is the only thing being talked about here".

What was actually happening here: While with sufficient analysis (which has most likely been done) it is possible to provide a sufficient degree of fire safety to make it not against fire code to lock people into a building, that doesn't make it right or zero-cost or risk-free, nor does it alleviate the stress and potential problematic-but-non-fatal situations that could arise. At no point was the primary purpose of the comment "people might burn in a fire", even though the risk of that is not zero at any time and has likely been raised (within presumably-acceptable-to-fire-code levels) by such a setup.

When I said "I can very easily imagine what could have happened", I was not imagining a fire burning down the people with the building inside. I was imagining how few failures it would require to end up with people being trapped in a room for long enough to reach the level of stress required to physically break out of a room, compounded by having worked in labs where the air conditioning was sometimes woefully insufficient.

It takes a lot of stress to get normal people to the point that they're willing to break windows or doors or walls in order to escape a room, and nobody should be subjected to such things, because there's zero security justification for a company locking people inside at any time.
That is not true. You are probably thinking of iodine. Actually fluoride is prohibited in children's toothpaste in Germany because of its suspected neurotoxicity.

EDIT: I checked. It is possible to buy salt with added fluoride in Germany but it comes with the health note "Zusätzliche fluoridhaltige Präparate sollten nur auf ärztliche Empfehlung eingenommen werden.", which means you should only use it on recommendation by your MD.
There's already Amazon sidewalk and other IoT networks where they can dump data if any neighbor or passerby has a connected device.
> Canada does the opposite of America even if it hurts Canada - it’s a part of its identity.

As a duel citizen of the US and another Commonwealth nation, I have to say that this is exactly the ridiculous self-caricature perspective that gives foreign nationals a sort of combination of pity and contempt for the average US citizen.

While it's true that your cartoonish portrayal of freedom is one possible interpretation, there are most certainly others, many of which present citizens with actual measurable freedoms that they would not enjoy in the US.

For instance, Australians have, since the late 1990s, been relatively free of mass shootings, especially in schools or other public areas. Because the police are allowed to force you to take a random breathalyser test without probable cause, we are generally substantially freer of drunk driving. Because we have a social safety net, people are free from the need to opt out of life saving surgery because they fear the abject economic violence that the US visits upon the "uninsured".

On the other hand, the US has substantially more sensible libel laws than most Commonwealth countries. These things can cut both ways, but it would be a mistake to interpret other countries as attempting a childish breath holding exercise just to differentiate themselves from the hip and cool nation.
Sure, win32 contains GUI bits, but modern apps do not use those GUI bits.

OpenGL and Vulkan ABIs are also stable on Linux, provided by mesa. The post is pretty focused on the simplicity of win32 though, which is what I'm refuting as being as relevant today for new apps.

> As long as they didn't pull a Hyrum's Law on you

It is guaranteed that they "pull a Hyrum's Law", the question is just what apparent behavior they relied on.
> Americans felt the matter is important enough to start a civil war around it.

The answer was the same then as it is now: big business. Slave labor cash crops were central to the economy of the South. Great Britain was not dependent on it in the same way.
Yeah, as an American I've always found this cringe-worthy, even kinda icky.

Claiming to be the best (at anything) is just tacky and arrogant. Especially with something as impossible to quantify as "best country". There's no such thing as the best country in the world. Every one has strengths and weaknesses, and you can't really balance and rank them.
Piranesi also made an amazing set of depictions of imaginary “dungeons”, sometimes using escher-like trick perspective.
What's a good library like this for building web-only UI?

I'm looking for something higher level than react/vue etc.

I'm looking for something that produces small standalone JavaScript/CSS files that I can embed in a static website.
>I don't think a new distro is needed. Most commonly used windows apps can be made to work through wine

I think the idea is to provide a seamless Windows like experience so the user works exact how he expects to work under Windows. Without having to fiddle, modify configurations, wrestle with different settings. Just click and run.
Had more look and learned that their privacy claim about no user ID:s is false, as they expose user IP:s:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41381204
I have a protonmail account with close to 0 spam. In fact, I get more spam on my legacy gmail account.

Email spam is not the huge problem people make it out to be. Common sense goes a long way.
You say that - and then I looked up and saw AMPDevicesAgent sitting at 95% CPU for the past - well, who knows how long. What even is that? Oh, some iphone sync thing. Why is it running while my laptop is on battery? I don't want my battery going flat in order to background sync my phone. In fact, I turned background phone sync off in finder a few days ago. Why is it even running?

Are these processes behaving properly or is it in some stupid infinite loop? I can't tell. Is it considered acceptable by apple for background processes to make my efficiency cores sit at 100% utilisation more or less all the time - even when I'm on battery power? How much will that reduce my laptop's battery life?

I can't tell. I have no way to tell. Its all an opaque jungle of processes running processes. Half of them are buggy half the time, and I don't know which half. It gets more complex and stupid every year.

I swear, macos seemed to run better 10 years ago when I had a computer that was many times slower. Strangely, at the time, there were no constant background processes chewing up CPU all the time like this. Tell me, how is any of this stuff making my computing experience better?

I think my preferred computer has a fast, modern CPU and software from a decade or two ago. Off the top of my head, I can't name a single feature added in macos in the last decade that I actually care about. (Excluding support for modern hardware.)
"The Flyover States of America"
Is there a Wine like library that helps running macOS apps on Linux?
Windows is still enshittified and everyone needs an exit plan.

For family users I recognize macOS. For windows apps I have virtualized win11 IoT with a passed through GPU. My monitor has multiple inputs and I can't even tell it's not native.
We can read this country's founding philosophy directly:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

It's not freedom from government but freedom from tyranny. They believed that governments existed to promote the protection of rights.
Huh? Linux Mint looks more like Lindows than Linspire.
The UK government is really big on doing things for our own good, but they don't seem to do much water flouridation. Which I think is some evidence that it's not a clearcut health benefit.
They're just trying to prioritize linux applications, without preventing developers who want to support linux through wine from doing so.

The key difference is that applications ran under wine will always have some subtle quirks and misbehaviors that break the usability, that can be worked around by the dev when given the chance to.
AppleTV is full of ads in its app store, is there any streaming device where it doesn't track you and doesn't put ads over your search intent?
It's called Darling [0], but is not nearly as far along as Wine is.

[0] https://www.darlinghq.org/
> and poor people aren't guaranteed to have a toothbrush, toothpaste

Considering that the number of such people is very low it would be very cheap to solve this issue.
Since don't spent a dime on transport & other things don't need to be transported the reduction is a bit higher.
Specifying lifetimes and types is mostly used when writing libraries. Writing Rust "as a user" is pretty readable and comfortable.
Those don’t have a monopoly.
In theory health insurance in the US has the same incentive. But it's cheaper to deny preventative care and then deny or minimize or cap coverage later on.
Thankfully gtk2 is now stable too.
I believe most of these people (including myself) in this context are just talking about boring / obvious / easy code. And yeah, I’d say a large percentage of code changes I do is plumbing for the few interesting ones.

AI handles the boring bits very well, and to me that is the most energetically draining part of coding (the hard parts are fun and invigorating).

Whether it only fits the current codebase’s context or not doesn’t really matter, you just give it important samples from and info about the codebase at the start of your prompt. My baseline prompt length is ~30k tokens due to that.

I do review and polish everything that’s generated though, as needed. Vibe coding (not even reading / understanding the generated code) I believe was coined primarily for having fun in side projects. If you’re using it for production code then you’re likely holding it wrong.
Every year or two I check the status of ReactOS hoping that some day I will have a good alternative to Windows. After checking the project status today, it seems that day is still far off.
…but give it one little webview…
> I rather define freedom by the government not deciding what's good for me

Does that mean you are against this bill?

Before the bill, your community could either use your own water system, without fluoride, or use the wider system, which has fluoride.

After this bill, your community no longer can use your own water system with fluoride, and the wider system also does not have fluoride.

On a first read, this bill makes the government remove a choice for you, deciding what is good for you.

(I don’t have a horse in this race honestly. Assuming everyone can get toothpaste and toothbrushes, the effect is the same. But the wording of the bill is strange: “may not add fluoride” rather than just “is allowed not to add”.)

Source: https://archive.is/Nustz
Reading CSV into a duckdb table will give you that, along with a table for the errors and reason for error: https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/data/csv/reading_faulty_csv_f...

Could definitely be done as a small little bash script
All for the low, low price of $1,670,000.
If a politician talks in front of a wind turbine, does it make a sound?
Not when it comes to religion though: the European way (and I feel very much like considering Canadians something like honorary Europeans these days) was forged in painful wars stemming from and fueled by influence of religion on politics, and abuse of religion by politics. Both on the collective level, not so much on the individual level. The European way is all about having a strong firewall between religion and politics, to keep the former out of the later. Freedom from.

The American way is completely devoid of that concept. It's all built on that Pilgrim Fathers founding myth and only ever cares about keeping the state from getting in the way of individual beliefs. It's so focused on that part and only that part that even an almost-all-out theocracy would be fine as long as it did not mess with individual beliefs. "Freedom to" without the tiniest trace of "freedom from".
"freedom from", you will not be given a prevention from some horrible disease. You can buy it if you can afford it, but a significant portion of the population can't, and some of them will not be able to enjoy life because of it.

"freedom to", a prevention will be provided. You can always decide to take alternatives, if you can afford it. A significant portion of the population can't. They will be able to enjoy life.

Equating freedom with the liberties the rich have is absurd. In any society, the rich will have the most freedom, even in the most oppressive ones. The true litmus test for freedom is seeing the freedoms the poor can enjoy. By that standard, the US doesn't score very well.
> yet the US actually pushes more power to the states.

Doesn’t their comment claim the opposite?

Unlike the US Federal government EU has very limited direct means of imposing any if its laws or regulations on member states of they chose not to comply with them.
Every new Tesla drives a single mile autonomously while Tesla is liable for crashing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO1XXRwp3mc
I heard OpenGL has a bad compatibility story, which was the reason games used DirectX.
Generally speaking I see fluoridation as a ridiciulous idea, on the grounds that the vast majority of tap water ends up being used for things other than brushing your teeth. It is wasteful and damaging to the environment, that excess flouride that has no business being there ends up in the drain, or the water you use for your plants.

Flouride should be put in the toothpaste. Then people can make a choice on whether they want it, but most importantly, its in the only product that is actually used for brushing teeth
In theory. In practice not so much.

I've had enough browser apps try that on my phone. Usually they start to lag out and become unbearably slow due to the framework bloat, compared to native apps that have no such issues.
Python doesn't have anything remotely similar to Cargo that isn't written in Rust (uv is). It's exactly backwards. Python is benefitting from Rust philosophy.
Ironically, of the laptop schematics I have collected, none of them seem to have been created in Altium either; they appear to be a mix of Cadence and Mentor, which are even more expensive than Altium.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdoe.12685
Indeed some of these apps really ask for such expansive set of permissions than they need.

Obsidian for example asks for permission for entire filesystem, while it really needs to access the files which the user needs it to see.
The nvme, by far.

Hard to imagine a reasonable real-world use-case for vramfs. Still cool.