MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joules77 | 2025-09-23 04:46:52+00:00
Read some actual scholars like Charles Taylor (instead of the under developed/work in progress theories of Peter Thiel) who shows why Technocracy is not capable of generating Meaning/Shared Story/Transcendence the way religious systems once did. And how its going to try to cope with that limitation.

Why is all that required? The microbes, plants and frogs don't require all that to survive and flourish.

Chimps do. Cuz the 3 inch brain of the chimp, for whatever reason, hates randomness/unpredictability/lack of control. It exposes the limitations of rationality/logic/thinking/intelligence. So how does the chimp (and tech tools it produces) cope?

As technocracy/scaling/optimization/efficiency etc grapples with its own limitations, more and more people will start looking at how other systems produced Meaning/Shared Story/Hope/Faith/Transcendence in the face of limitations without collapse.

People like JFK and Obama (if you read their speeches) tap into those learnings to give the chimp troupe a secular version of it.

That generates hope but hope is not enough. What all religious systems do is also produce an army of pastors who will be present with people who suffer (not just give speeches, podcasts, ted talks and apps).

Pastoral Care is a missing feature of the Technocracy. The more it denies that its a required feature the more lost and confused everyone gets.
by saulpw | 2025-09-23 04:48:19+00:00
A favorite video of mine to share is this Learn how to program your computer (1977):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZRyVxnJTh4

It "booted" into an IDE before you could turn on the monitor (sold separately). You were programming within 15 minutes--you had to be, there was nothing else to do.
by boie0025 | 2025-09-23 04:48:38+00:00
I definitely agree with the spirit of this, but I also know a lot of non technical people who aren't as paranoid about things like this as I am (we have a keypad lock, backup keys in mounted lockboxes along with a 9v battery to power the keypad if need be), and they just expect that paying for something fairly critical like a door lock means it will either work normally, or give an indication that stuff might go sideways soon ("low battery! Replace or be locked out", for example).

I suspect stories like "I left my house without my keys on the day they shut it down to go for a walk and couldn't get back into my home." Or "I somehow locked my keys in my car, including the backup house key. Luckily my backup car key is in the house." Only to realize the lock isn't working normally and there are 100 emails warning them about this in their "updates" tab.. buried under a mountain of spam.

There will definitely be people who wind up stuck with this, especially with such short notice, and it won't necessarily be because they didn't plan. Now I'm going to go double check my lockbox.
by preommr | 2025-09-23 04:49:23+00:00
Not the parent comment, but I'll respond.

> Your comment shows some ignorance and a complete misunderstanding of the problem domain.

oof, this is a very strong position to take, and one would assume you have a very convincing follow up to back it up.

And unfortunately I don't think you do. CRDTs can definitely be implemented as a last-write implementaiton. This should be obvious for state-based crdts. The problem is that it's a horrible UX because somebody could type a response to something that's out of date, and then just see it dissapear as they get the most recent message.

Resolving "user intent" by choosing how to structure the problem domain (e.g. storing ids for lines, and having custom merging solutions) so that it reflects what the user is trying to do is the main challenge.

I am quite frankly baffled at how arrongant your tone is given how far off the mark you seem to be. Genuinely makes me think that I am missing something given your confidence, but I don't see what point you're making tbh.
by nimih | 2025-09-23 04:49:37+00:00
As someone who paid the $5-10 in 2014 for the same app, I think I would've just preferred it no longer updating, to be honest. When NPR bought the app, they spent the next year adding a number of features I never used (a few of which made the app function worse for my particular usage pattern, and many of which I imagine substantially increased their server costs), and pushed a number of UI redesigns that were less to my personal taste.

I don't personally have the "righteous fury" of the article's author (I'm more just annoyed and disappointed that a nice thing I liked is now noticeably less nice, for complex social and economic reasons outside any one person's control), but I can certainly understand why a person would be mad enough to fork a repo and write a couple hundred words in a blog post.
by Smeevy | 2025-09-23 04:49:46+00:00
The road to authoritarianism is apparently paved with people telling me I'm overreacting.

This classification, just like every other action taken by this administration, is a means to inflict damage on their ever-expanding list of enemies. The great thing about vague nonsense like this Antifa EO is that they can control who is and isn’t defined as Antifa.

With regard to your political affiliation, I honestly do not care. If you want to gabble on about Antifa as if it's a real threat, you might as well just fly the Trump 2028 flag and drop the silly pretense.
by kalleboo | 2025-09-23 04:50:25+00:00
The App Store does not have any kind of native support for selling app upgrades which leads to all kinds of problems:

* Links on the web to your app die since the links go to the old version, people who see your app recommended click the link and think the app is gone.

* You can't keep supporting users of older versions with simple bug fix releases without leaving the app live on the store, which confuses users into buying the old version of the app.

* You can't sell upgrades at a discount price (which is common in any other software market)

* Just user confusion in general. They go to reinstall the app, search the App Store "didn't I already buy this? I says I haven't!" The App Store also doesn't give developers any access to customer info so you can only guide these users to the right place in the App Store to find the old version and hope they figure it out.
by LAC-Tech | 2025-09-23 04:51:05+00:00
It's genuinely too difficult for most developers.

It may sound smug but I spent a lot of time trying to understand how to sync things offline. I'm not saying I am incredibly talented, just that I put in the hard work here.

It's very, very obvious to me that a lot of people in the space just aren't willing to do that. To be frank it's obvious in a few of these posts.

So yeah, it takes a bit of effort. If you don't want to genuinely learn some new shit, dig into the papers, be confused - it's probably not for you.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-23 04:51:13+00:00
If you believe people who have no idea what they're saying, it's "慢".

I like yours though.

In the actual development of writing, it isn't likely that a picture of a snail would be used to represent a semantically related word. Even in the earliest systems, where you could use a picture of a snail to represent the word "snail", it would be limited to (a) the word "snail", or (b) some other word that was pronounced identically. This is how it worked in Egyptian, Akkadian, and Chinese.

For example, 慢 is the Mandarin word for "slow", and it's pronounced "màn". There is a logic to its appearance: the component on the left, 忄, represents that it is a mental state† (I'm not sure why this was felt to be true of "fast" and "slow", but it was), and the component on the right, 曼, just so happens to be pronounced "màn".

(Most sound indications in Chinese characters are no longer that exact. They used to match better, but many centuries of language change followed. 丁 is dīng; 打 is dǎ.)

† Some more typical characters in the same category: 情 "feeling" (n.), 怕 "fear" (v.), 懂 "understand" (v.), 恨 "hate" (v.).
by dylan604 | 2025-09-23 04:54:06+00:00
someone serving time is going to be worried about vehicle registration and insurance? just claim it as "off road" with the state since it's obvious you will not be driving it. no need for insurance on a car that's not being driven. property tax might be an issue, but I seriously doubt it's a large percentage of inmates that need to consider it. all in all, nice stretch, but off topic really
by privatelypublic | 2025-09-23 04:56:46+00:00
One of their digital lock designs had a rather cough Pleasing vulnerability. But other than that it's vendor lock-in (heh), and lack of availability in the US.

With most so called locksmiths being drillsmiths in the US, not being able to clone DD and dimple keys.

Puck one. Or maybe the OP is just bitter they can't pick it for their next "belt" after getting chuffed with themselves picking average american garbage.
by delhanty | 2025-09-23 04:56:47+00:00
For the vertex biconnected components can you say how your implementation compares technically with Boost Graph library's `biconnected_components` and `articulation_points`?

https://www.boost.org/library/latest/graph/

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/libs/graph/doc/biconne...

Am I correct to suppose both are C++ implementations of Tarjan's algorithm?
by tfourb | 2025-09-23 04:58:29+00:00
You are committing the same fallacy that you are prescribing to others. If rehabilitation is taken seriously and provided the required resources, recidivism is a „statistical minority“.

As with many social issues, the US happens to be very bad at this currently, with recidivism rates double those of the UK, for example. UK prisons are notoriously bad by European standards and they have plenty of violent crime. But criminals are in the vast majority of cases not criminal by nature. Most people want to live a socially conforming life, given half a chance.
by wraptile | 2025-09-23 05:00:25+00:00
I recently saw https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/ on the front-page but then I gave up as that's my daily reality with cloudflare and friends already. I use 3 browsers on linux with Thai IP address because at least one of them is always blocked by cloudflare. Especially if I go work on public wifi I often actually have to hotspot myself to 4g to even get stuff to load.

I've started taking more extreme stance these days of ctrl+w instantly and maybe email the admins if I'm particularly angry that I will not buy whatever they're selling because I simply can't be bothered with their spyware blocking me. Maybe some day people will wisen up on the damage cloudflare is doing to their business.
Ask HN: What Happened to Ceylon Lang?
by cinammonstar | 2025-09-23 05:01:09+00:00
A few years back when everyone was creating a new language, the creator of Seam framework created Ceylon. I think it was sponsored by Redhat, but i am not sure. I have been away from programming for a while and I am now working on Java when I rememberd the hype around Ceylon.

I looked up and it looks like it was a Eclipse project and now terminated? What happened? Surprisingly, on their X account, just a few days back, I see that the creator of Ceylon, says he wants to create yet another new language. Why was Ceylon abandoned then?
Show HN: Signal Snapshot – Generate visualizations of your Signal message data
by gumbojustice | 2025-09-23 05:01:33+00:00
This summer I decided to create an analytics dashboard of my Signal data. For those unfamiliar, Signal is a messenger app, similar to WhatsApp, but heavily focused on privacy with their end-to-end encryption.

This was initially meant to just be a bespoke dashboard to share with some Signal friends. But as I continued to build it out, I decided to make it into a web app in case others wanted to play around with it too.

So here's what I have so far: signalsnapshot.com

It's still pretty raw, but maybe some of you will find it fun.

Important things to note:

This only supports Signal Desktop at the moment In order to use the tool, you need to first decrypt your Signal database. I also wrote a program to handle that, and the app has the necessary documentation on how to use it The app is purely client-side, meaning that your uploaded data never leaves your browser. There is no server, this is a static web page. Nobody but you can see your data.

If you're a Signal user and interested in this stuff, check it out! If there's enough demand, I'll build out the analytics a little more, and maybe add support for Signal Android. There’s a ton of meat left on this bone, chat analytics is a cool world.

Here's the GitHub if you want to check out the code. https://github.com/ahstewart/signal-snapshot
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-23 05:02:09+00:00
If there were a Windows on ARM laptop that blew peoples' socks off (the way the M1 MacBooks did initially), it'd make waves but that has yet to happen.

The initial round of Snapdragon laptops had battery life that was better than what Intel/AMD machines were capable of, but not quite MacBook level and performance wasn't quite there either. Then Intel's Lunar Lake came out and was about as good or better with none of the compatibility problems, basically stealing Qualcomm's thunder.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-23 05:03:51+00:00
that's kind of funny though as any lock can be picked. if someone wants into your house, most of the time they will not enter the locked front door. they'll find a window in the back that is easier to open with whatever they find in your back yard. they might exit the front door on their way out though. also, most locks are easily picked by someone with practice
by defrost | 2025-09-23 05:05:49+00:00
I'm unable to tell you again given I've not yet made any comparison between the two, merely quoted the relevant passages from the GAO report.

I do note that the damages number you cite has risen from between 1 & 2 to definitely 2 and these damages are associated with a multitude of legitimate peaceful protests that became a magnet for others to stir trouble, loot and riot on a pretext, start gunfights, etc.

It's a clear false equivalence to compare the single Jan 6th event of faction aligned protesters who invaded and damaged a building disrupting a democratic transition to a multitude of other events and locations across a lengthier time frame that involved many factions across the political spectrum including apolitical criminals of opportunity.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-09-23 05:06:25+00:00
The majority of all commuters in SF do not commute by car

A plurality do (35% in 2022 vs 17% via transit). Remote work knocked down the percentage that commute by car a bit, but took a bigger chunk out of the other modes (e.g. 34% used transit in 2018 but 17% in 2022).

I've used a messenger bag for decades and never felt marginalized in the least. Plenty of other folks seem to rock employer swag backpacks. vOv
by tpmoney | 2025-09-23 05:06:56+00:00
I was really hoping Apple’s involvement in the matter/thread design would have pushed the local control and configurable by default into the mainstream. Sadly it seems like it got tossed along the way. I have a new Honeywell thermostat that supports Matter and supposedly local control. But as far as I can tell in order to get access to the QR code / pairing data for connecting it to a matter network in the first place, you have to set it up online and sign up for an account on their (terrible) app. Zigbee and Z-Wave it is then. And anything that is WiFi connected must run or be earlier flashable to esphome.
by bathtub365 | 2025-09-23 05:07:59+00:00
The app updates aren’t free, I paid for them with my lifetime subscription.

They could do what other apps have done and release a new SKU for a new business model or with a new feature set that justifies asking for more money. Reeder has done this, for example.

I think JetBrains has one of the most fair and honest subscription schemes where you pay for a subscription but when you stop paying you’re free to keep using the last major version that released while you were subscribed. I think that’s much harder to do on mobile app stores, though.
by bxparks | 2025-09-23 05:08:18+00:00
In my opinion, a language that requires a programmer to have a "revelation" to understand basic control flow is not a language that is useful or practical for solving real world problems.

I would prefer to write in assembly language than write in Forth. Which is what I have done with one of my current projects.

With assembly language, there is a good chance that a random person with some minimal programming skills would understand my program if I were hit by a bus. With Forth, I think the chances of that are close to zero.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-09-23 05:08:31+00:00
In the best documented runaway escalator case I'm aware of -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Rome_escalator_accident -- it was determined to be the result of criminally negligent maintenance practices that included the use of zip ties to keep an emergency brake mechanism from engaging.

There was a similar incident this summer at a subway station in Atlanta but there doesn't seem to be a clear root cause published yet. As in Rome, the trigger was too many people on the escalator, but the mechanism is supposed to cope with overload by stopping the escalator.
by dhosek | 2025-09-23 05:09:06+00:00
He knew that i was the square root of 1 and he had learned some really basic skills like the distributive law, so he managed to work out that (a+bi)(a+bi) = a²-b²+2abi, but it was entirely self-directed on his part. I had taught him some how to solve simple linear equations but he didn’t have the skills to be able to work out that he needed a=b and 2ab=1 so there were some trial and error attempts at finding values that worked.

(I did the same thing as he did, but in high school sophomore year while bored in health class and with a bit more sophistication mathematically than what he had.)
by molticrystal | 2025-09-23 05:09:37+00:00
I think you'll find it not as comprising as you believe, and might be a fun project.

Since you'll likely be scrapping it in some fashion, might want to try disassembling it first to see what would need to be done.

If you are not handy with electronics, there is also a chance their will be some work around the 3rd party server at some point, as in the protocol and such being deciphered, or a custom firmware you can build and flash.

If you do get it working, it would make a great spare.
by mikestew | 2025-09-23 05:09:42+00:00
The old ones are rock-solid. I use one to control an attic fan, which isn’t easy to get to, but it has never failed in three or four years of use. Another sits outside under the eaves, to control the hummingbird feeder heaters. Again, several years, always works.

The new ones, however, are unreliable garbage. I have no idea what they broke, but they were a waste of money. Same symptoms you report.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-23 05:10:56+00:00
PC requires coordinated hard work, funding, formalish education.. in contrast, memes are cheap (antidotes to religion)..

(For better or worse Thiel is only capable of building the scaffolding for memes, but not generating the memes themselves..)

Mimetics/Memetics are the AKs or mocktails of an emotive war
by Tade0 | 2025-09-23 05:12:14+00:00
> it seems to have become urban folklore that laptops turn on in bags, overheat and get damaged

My previous laptop cooked its screen like that. Some of the layers warped into a wavy pattern visible through the backlight.

My Windows work laptop has a low-power CPU, so the danger is minimal, but still it consistently goes full throttle when asleep.
by Someone | 2025-09-23 05:12:41+00:00
> We can categorize things: > IMMEDIATE words used here are : ( if then ;

`:` normally isn’t immediate

> First up is `:`. `:` is an IMMEDIATE word, so the compiler just calls it now

`:` gets executed because the interpreter, when it isn’t compiling, goes through a loop:

1) read a token until the next space in the input 2) look up that token in the dictionary 3a) if a word is found: call it 3b) if no word is found: try interpreting the token as a number 4a) if it can be interpreted such: push that number on the stack 4b) if it cannot: bail out with an error message

So, `:` gets called in step 3a.

> Now the compiler sees `0`. This is a literal token, so we don't even bother with the symbol table; we special-case code to push this value on the stack.

As indicated above, that’s not how ‘normal’ forths work. A lookup is done for a word named `0`, and if it exists, a call to it is compiled.

Many forths had words named after small constants such as `0`, `1`, `2` or `-1` because compiling a call to a function took less memory than compiling a call to the “LIT” function and compiling the constant value.
by Foreignborn | 2025-09-23 05:12:42+00:00
the cheap house thing has nothing to do with if you’re foreign and everything to do with a bank not wanting to lend money for something there’s no market for.

you can easily buy these homes with cash. i know because i have a ton of friends that have done exactly this.

if you want a cheap house in a good market like tokyo, osaka or fukoaka, then you can do so through a bank via the normal routes
by necovek | 2025-09-23 05:12:50+00:00
The entire thread is about risk of death/injury due to distracted driving due to touchscreens in cars, and who is more at risk: we don't have the numbers for this very specific context, but we can look at the whole picture and "interpolate".

I would argue that touchscreens see more use on motorways, and thus lead to more accidents than outside motorways (citation missing). This would mean we should be more or equally worried about other drivers and passengers who are at risk than about pedestrians.
by emmanol | 2025-09-23 05:16:20+00:00
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