skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small correction, Windows CE and Pocket PC weren't Windows so we didn't "bring it over". That mess didn't come later until windows phone.

In the defense of ce/ppc, we weren't really thinking about the fs as user visible so didn't give it much thought. Also, while I'm not shifting all of the blame, lots of that cruft was driven by OEMs as well. Our internal images were pretty clean on the fs from what I can remember.
I freakin' hate telephones, and I always have, and the Dowager Countess of Grantham was correct in surmising that they are torture devices of the highest caliber.

I always try to prefer virtual meetings with video and all the trimmings, especially screen-share capability. If not, in-person. Telephoning is like a last resort. I've pondered using TTY/TDD even though I have no physical impairments, but most agencies seem hostile to that sort of barrier and most of the time, I find myself needing to pass voice-recognizing gatekeeper AIs first.

When I was promoted to "sysadmin" in my first job they set me at a desk with a computer and a PBX telephone. (It was an office at a gov't defense contractor...) The computer I could relate to on an intimate level; the telephone scared the living bejesus out of me, and I prayed it never to ring.

A disembodied voice in your ear, especially one that interrupts everything you're doing and demanding a real-time conversation across space and time, that's incredibly rude, yet normalized for 100 years. I have PTSD and other disabilities, and I can get completely rattled and downright hostile/aggro when someone calls me and I'm not prepared, I'm not at my desk, no notes in front of me, even if I'm relaxing at home I just can't deal. I may answer the phone while on a bus or train, but I certainly won't sustain a conversation that way. Outgoing calls are sometimes OK but often end in disaster as I become increasingly frustrated.

Now it's not uncommon for someone who's standing at my front door to telephone me. What the hell, I'm less than 3 yards away in here, please don't send me across Cyberspace when you're manifesting in meatspace...

On a phone call I have no idea what office I've reached, what is a person's job title or role with a company, what their face looks like, when they may be taking a breath or using other physical cues to aid the conversation. So much metadata is lost in phone conversations that they are wholly dehumanized and require a revolution in etiquette, just to keep the peace.

Here's your uptalk origin: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM&si=3j3bYd_0rPa... "Valley Girl, she's a Valley Girl!"

I'm not autistic and I can read expressions and body language, but perhaps autists are the evolutionary result of disembodied telephone conversations taking out the human element from verbal communication. It is simply amazing that even with apps and ubiquitous Internet and website portals that I still require the telephone to get important business done (and I'm always, always ticking "it's something else/other/Live Agent/Oh god this is an exception to all your rules please send me a human being").
There is so much love and attention to Haikus
Same approach over here for side projects, I only put up with "modern" Web development when ir isn't my choice.

Classical ASP.NET, Spring with vanilla js.
> To illustrate, let's pull some query code [3] from Java's Hibernate, a prototypical ORM.

ORM and entity manager – which, in turn, is a query builder combined with a few other features. Your code is really focused on the latter. While the entity manager approach is not the same as active record, that is true, the bounds between query building and ORM, I think, are even clearer. In fact, your code makes that separation quite explicit. I can at least understand how ORM and query building get confused under active record.

> We can stop speaking of Active Record

While I agree in theory, since we are talking about ORM only, if we go by Wikipedia we cannot as is ends up confusing active record and ORM as being one and the same. That is a mistake. But as my teachers, and presumably yours too, told me in school: Don't trust everything you read on Wikipedia.

But we don't need to go to Wikipedia here anyway. Refreshingly, ORM literally tells what it is right in its name. All you need to do is spell it out: Object-Relation Mapping.
This is good info. Thanks for sharing!
>He was no longer the priority

Paying him was legally no less a priority than paying any other owed employee wage. Maybe it was indeed a major priority to him.

>and, no, I wouldn't take a cash advance to pay him his last 2 weeks in arrears. He did eventually get paid.

So al though there were options available to you that would have caused you some temporary economic pain, you did indeed decide to fuck him over for a long while anyhow.
Fun story: in childhood I played with father's vinyl and reel-to-reel magnet tapes. They had different recording speeds and typically I could easily guess which is correct by funny singer voice. Until I discovered Jean-Michel Jarre -- I had listened for hours, but haven't been able to figure out which speed was the correct one.
It would seem at some point that even manufacturers of contemporary turntables forgot (or just don't care) about this, I've seen multiple turn tables with trimming potentiometers, lacking the speed indicator and strobe, and I've put off buying, because.. gee.. how am I going to trim it without them.
Sadly Shoelace doesn't play well with Rails' FormBuilder...
In China, we called this battle as hypoglycemia (China) versus hypertension (USA), but, what do all the grand narratives have to do with me, I just want to live a good life.

fxxk xi, fxxk trump
That's like asking Stormfront if they think there's a threat from non-whites.
You r forgetting nasty neighbors like Sweden. First thing they do, is to destroy the energy infrastructure. There used to be plan B and C, with several reserve plants near by. Only plan Z is now left, which is to gather people in underground shelters powered by diesel engines.
In China, we called this battle as hypoglycemia (China) versus hypertension (USA), but, what do all the grand narratives have to do with me, I just want to live a good life.

fxxk Xi, fxxk Trump,
For me it just proves how ineffective big companies are…
Made a web-app for visualizing time a bit more interactively
> The title is about R&D, but […] applies to […] development, […] "research" or not.

In R&D there are R and D.
What’s your browsers user agent and what plugins and extensions do you have?
Good engineering skills are transferable to being a good PM: you need to break down problems, scope them to fit a particular time allotment, estimate an effect on user experience (stats, tracking, what is a good signal and what isn't) and have the agility to react to changing requirements as things are getting built.

Why it makes sense for them to be a single person? Often, "changing requirements" really comes from an engineer learning new things (this framework does not provide this, this external dep is going to be late, I'd need to learn 2 new things so will need more time...), and really, an engineer is the first one who'll know of some of the challenges and what's even feasible!

Now, the skills an engineer needs to develop to be a good PM is good communication and ability to document things at the right level, and lots of empathy for a customer and a business person (so they can "walk in their shoes"). Arguably, all things that will make a great engineer even better.

I've been in teams where we've had a very senior, experienced PM tell us that he's looking for another position in the company because our team does not need them: we already did the stuff they were hired to do. That was a sign of a great PM who did not try to actively wrestle control out of our hands when the team was chugging along just fine.
And look at how much effort our industry goes through as a whole to work around it! Managing people is harder than wrangling machines, even if the upfront cost to "train" and build the machine is multiples higher. Once a deterministic system works, it will keep going until a variable changes. The "problem" with humans is that our variables change like the weather and it takes a lot more effort and resources to keep everyone on track.

"If you just get out of people's way, then they'll do a good job and the right thing!" - yea, perhaps. But how much of "getting out their way" is more a product of providing meaningful ownership and compensation in the workplace? See the paragraph above. Good employees are expensive and as time marches on, their compensation will need to continue to increase at least with inflation, while the machine will likely become cheaper to operate over time as societal advances bring down the cost and complexity of operation.
Neither one of this are issues. Devices need to be manufactured so that you cannot touch potentially live connections if they are connected to sockets.
> would fail the quizzes.

not those who did actually do the work, and learnt.

The change ought to be that students are allowed to be failed, and this should be a form of punishment for those who "cheat".
The most fun way I’ve seen users explore its origin is to give it a single period (”.”) as your first query. Only OpenAI answers in this way with a smiley at the end, and it’s probably a more certain way to check it than asking about its arch, because many will incorrectly answer OpenAI and GPT-4 due to (?) tainted training data as ChatGPT has been so much in the news and became a de facto LLM early.
> But that's not always the model we pick, often we just assume that arithmetic is O(1) and sweep length considerations under the rug.

So, I only have rudimentary undergraduate knowledge about complexity theory, but my materials (e.g. in theoretical CS, cryptography and computational algebra) were always incredibly clear about the fact that arbitrary integer arithmetic isn't constant - this is why complexity classes such as weakly vs. strongly NP-complete exist. Do you have any examples of where people would treat arbitrary length integer arithmetic as constant? (I think most people just never have to use arbitrary precision arithmetic, so that's why they'd not talk about it explicitly.)

You're right that computational complexity depends on the model and that this makes it nontrivial to use in practice. The theoreticians would sweep this under the rug with "these models are all polynomially equivalent to Turing machines" (which lets us formulate a conjecture such as P=NP precisely), but of course that doesn't in practice help you distinguish between a constant, linear or quadratic algorithm.
I never got paid! Sadly enough.
Grok 3 now available via API
This looks to be an in memory db, with a wasm runtime to host domain logic. The hand wavy part was how do they handle scale and clustering? Are we sharding the data our selves (atm it seems so.).

This is nice and all but the hard part is replication and consistency in a distributed database. In memory has its uses, also disk backed tables can have their uses. Pretty much normal databases already do this, just writing domain logic in stored procs is kind of annoying.

I'd imagine embedding sqlite in your binary using memory tables is equivalent at the moment. Well you'd have to write code to publish table updates to clients. I suppose it has that going for it.

I've seen some hand wavy docs about clustering but nothing concrete.
> the intention and the purpose of slamming on the brakes is obvious: to stop the car.

Not always, often it's to slow down or to control or initiate a drift.

Hard braking can be done to warn a tail gater to back off, it's also done to sharply reduce speed when headed for a kangaroo or other road hazard .. even though the car can't be stopped in time the aim is to shed speed while staying straight before a probable impact and to increase the time for the animal to move.

If someone is racing on tarmac or rallying on dirt they might practice BLAT - Brake Late, Accelerate Turning.

When driving heavy or articulated vehicles drivers will brake and downshift on down grades to shed speed and not lose control to mass and gravity.

Perhaps purpose is harder for outsiders to deduce.
That is great :)
Even if you use a tool to do work, you still have to understand how your work will be checked to see whether it meets expectations.

If the expectation is X, and your tool gives you Y, then you’ve failed - no matter if you could have done X by hand from scratch or not, it doesn’t really matter, because what counts is whether the person checking your work can verify that you’ve produced X. You agreed to deliver X, and you gave them Y instead.

So why should you learn to do X when the LLM can do it for you?

Because unless you know how to do X yourself, how will you be able to verify whether the LLM has truly done X?

Your kid needs to learn to understand what the person grading them is expecting, and deliver something that meets those expectations.

That sounds like so much bullshit when you’re a kid, but I wish I had understood it when I was younger.
Apologies! First time making a post on hacker news, and I thought this was really exciting news. FWIW, I talked to the presenter after this was revealed during the NEXT conference today, and he seems to have implied that zonal storage is quite close to what Google seems to have with Colossus.
s/GPB/GBP/
looks exciting, can i export images.
n[frozen water]!
It did not prevent WW1.
So it's been a while since I had an HSV scare, but from my research at the time you definitely want to start antivirals as soon as possible after symptoms start(assuming you know since it doesn't always cause symptoms). You want to reduce the viral load and let your body catch up which limits the spread and reduces severity of future breakouts.
https://archive.is/UuYVC
The Mind Has No Firewall
The "Left" and not the Communists spend energy on "safe" for the neo-feudalistic overlords and their capitalistic lackeys pushing their interests as if they were priests.
I think GP was sarcastic. We have these great technologies available but people end up using duct tape and hope anyway.
If you run 13 amps through a cheap plug it will get very hot.
Can GPT-4o Accurately Read Handwritten Proofreading Marks?
Various frontier LLMs were evaluated on their ability to interpret handwritten proofreading marks in printed literary text, using a small benchmark based on Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit". Results are modest at best, and surprisingly variable across repeated runs, even on the same pages, underscoring the challenge in building reliable, structured-document systems with current multimodal LLMs.

Curious to hear thoughts from others working on similar problems.
The weaponization of antisemitism is especially repugnant coming from an administration that hires people like this:

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/06/nx-s1-5319995/kingsley-wilson...
easyeffects has a filter just for that and you select RL
They revealed it's in private preview atm ;)
In some cases, in e-commerce your trading rent for shipping expenses. It helps you scale quicker as you have wider reach but the variable cost of shipping and taking returns can go sideways.

The good thing about rent is it’s relatively fixed so it’s possible to gain leverage with volume. That is also a risk if volume shrinks, etc.
And how much of a sucker consumers who care about the social clout of brands are
I've heard that's how studying is done in Oxford/Cambridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_system
> there's no point of rote memorization as you can just do a Google search. That's more or less accepted today.

It's not true even though it's accepted. Rote memorization has a place in an education. It does strengthen learning and allow one to make connections between the things seen presently and things remembered, among other things.
It's a good move. Cash flow is king in most businesses, so pretty universally, if you increase the risk or even just the timeline of cash payouts, you get more. It's an excellent negotiation dimension for anything involving money in my experience.

For my agency/consultancy, if a client wants a discount on the total investment, they can book a larger chunk of hours or pay upfront. More risk for them, less cash for us in total, but more reliable cash sooner, that's worth the discount. Cashback for quick payments is another common and simple example of this.

On the other end of the spectrum, if a client wants to delay payments to a later point in time to improve their short term cashflow, that will cost them more in the long run. Company shares, VSOP, revenue share agreements, success based fees and delayed payments with interest are some of the ways to implement this.

It all comes down to how you distribute the risks and rewards between both parties. Any good negotiation isn't haggling between two hard positions, but a shared venture to find a win win model. What you did there is renegotiate a deal that didn't work for one party to find one that worked for both.
Drop a coin, grab a snack: Kiosk-in-a-box spreads in Japan (2014)
Indeed. The problem however, is that they write papers with AI (and will also do so when working for a company), but it’s riddled with falsehoods.

So you make them take exams in-class, and you check their papers for mistakes and irresponsible AI use and punish this severely.

But actually using AI ought not to be punished.
That's pretty incredible, that it works from Windows too!

Now I'm just wondering if it would work from a Linux running in the browser, accessing the USB through WebUSB ;D
>I’m once again struck by the fact that none of the people in these images are still with us. If any of them somehow returned to the land of the living, I’m not sure they’d recognise the Japan of today.

On the other hand, if someone sees one of this pictures without any explanation, he will recognize it's made in Japan.

I think Japan changed, but not so much.
Yeah, nah.

I worked on telco grade systems running on Rhino, in interpreted mode, in 2006. Leveraging Java to JS bindings. Responding to HTTP/JMS/etc.
I think a more realistic thing would be adding a few custom OPs to make binary rewriting more performant.

Another interesting thing would be implementing a subset of RVV with AVX512 hardware primitives, although idk if/how they are exposed in micro code, amd you likely would need to use a different instruction encoding.
I don't want there to be a war with any of those countries, but if there's one thing we should all have learned by now, it's to take Trump at his word. When he says he wants to do a thing, he's not bluffing.
Basic string search and indexing operations (especially when there is language/library support for cheap spans) are definitely underappreciated.

I wouldn't reach for them as a first step though, because they'd take more automated tests to give me confidence of correctness, and most problems I end up solving are not CPU bound but programmer time bound.
Creating new standards is not easy, largely because everyone has to agree that they will use this particular one. Plastering it with endorsements attempts to show that there is consensus and give confidence in adoption. If they didn't put them in, you'd instead say nobody is using or going to use this.
What amazes me is the quality of these pictures. Are they digitally restored?
Ovens in the UK are usually wired in. Plugs go up to 13A, suitable only for small (e.g. tabletop) ovens.
My only issue with the plug is 3. sort of. I prefer the cable being perpendicular to the plug (prevents accidental removal), but I wish there was a standard dictating which way it should leave relative to the earth pin. Drives me mad when plugging in items to an extension lead and they all come off in different directions.
Its prussian restorationism, it oozes out of berlin since the reunification and with it and its disciples (AFD) comes that idea that you can ignore the small countries if you are a big country. There are people not falling for it, but real-imperialists like Steinmeier, Schröder or Gauland are ready to send other smaller nations to the slaughter for their own benefits .
The evangelical angle certainly applies to a subset of the republicans, but not all of them.

The difficult and uncomfortable truth is that ardent supporters of Israel wield immense power and influence, and they are able to significantly damage the careers of politicians that do not align with their interests.

The fact that many repugnant racists, antisemites, and holocaust deniers make a comically exaggerated conspiracy theory out of this core truth makes it impossible to discuss it rationally.
Is this part of the reason why developer salaries are so much higher in the US? They're being used as tax write-offs, i.e essentially government subsided?
You need to put "gross example of DEI" in qoutes if you want to indicate your disagreement with it. The way it stands in your comment, it reads like you agree with a classification the current fascist regime would make..
Clean up the crisis, yes. Destroy the future of the US economy by endorsing ZIRP and massive government spending for more than a decade? No.

People give Obama a pass when they shouldn't. This stuff didn't start with Trump. The problem goes back much further.
> First tier, high cost of living should be for high earners, singles or childless people, they should pay more taxes while second tier areas should offer UBI, and should generally subsidise people having children

That seems unfair to me. Why should singles and childless people subsidise people with children?
Incomprehensible? No, Trump is still bitter about losing his presidency due to Covid and is exacting revenge on science and the medical community.
It's in closed alpha so there's a limited number of players but I am curious to hear more about how BitCraft is scaling out. Is it a single, seamless world for all players? How much scaling is currently required? How is data replicated when horizontal scaling comes into the picture?
Wait until it’s released, and you can ask it about its name.
Yes, they do have such script.
> now deprecated javascript `with` statement where `with foo; bar` will resolve to `bar` if it is in scope, otherwise it will resolve to `foo.bar`.

Technically, in JavaScript it's `with (foo) bar`.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
> The shutter prevents someone (including children) shoving something metal into the live/hot.

Child protected schuko sockets exist and work just fine. We have them installed in our place and I never had an issue with them. Neither do things fall out, nor can you poke at them with a screwdriver.
I have a few theories. One is that Washington has been looking to knock Silicon Valley down a peg, for various reasons. Another is that big tech incumbents prefer this arrangement because it blunts the competitive bite of scrappy upstarts. A third is that Republicans are too busy sucking up to Trump, and Democrats are too busy rage tweeting, for any of them to do anything useful.
About the editor, do they allow Flutter development in a Monaco stack? Last time I checked, it was tied to their Intellij-based IDE which needs regular force updates.

About the executables, are backend apps running on a temporary VM which can run Postgres etc? Does the Android emulator launch from web?
Targeting the mouth - where a lot of these viruses actually spread from - seems like such an obvious approach I'm honestly surprised we don't already have something like this in common use
here is one example: https://github.com/gojue/ecapture

in short, you can hook calls within SSL libraries (like OpenSSL)
c.f. guix, where the command is simply `guix hash`.