skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting ideas.....I particularly like these ones:

- Giving you a field in your profile to explain your communication style and good intentions, which is displayed whenever someone is composing a reply to you

- Asking you what you intend to achieve by participating in the conversation, and then reminding you of your goal

- Requiring each comment to be approved by the author of its immediate parent (so you can disagree with each other, but you have to be kind)

A couple I've thought of:

- have a section of the platform that is highly managed by moderators - all topics must be proposed and approved, and the manner/speaking style/community goal/allowed/disallowed behaviors for the conversation are decided before launch, and enforced with an iron fist. (One of my favourite to try: "Epistemic Standard: Extreme (all statements must be truthful)". Oh my, what a learning opportunity this would be for people, including smart people).

- rather than just one up/down vote option, allow voting on numerous other metadata, possibly custom chosen by the moderators or community prior to the launch of the the topic

- custom layouts other than simple nested comments, for example: a ~collaborative "pros vs cons" layout for a given topic - this way, rather than simple disorganized arguing, you get organized arguing, and perhaps some sort of a useful end product (that could be used to feed a subsequent discussion with new goals and rules) - with a proper platform, I think it should be able to treat human minds much like compute nodes, and these nodes even have self-awareness (well, to some limited degree anyways). Ideally, people might some day even learn how to use their own minds (rather than the other way around as it tends to be now).
Are you even serious? Cluttering the sky with THOUSANDS of sattelites is okey, while other providers offer comparable service with.. 3 sattelites, that operate for decades?

This is absolutely the worse way of providing Low to Medium quality connection to richest world, at the expense of everyone else.

I am running my half broken laptop from 2016,that I d hope, would last much longer.
Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing?
Does anyone have any advice for managing people's career progression (pathways, performance reviews, targets etc.) when they have no interest in progressing?

I need / am supposed to offer regular career planning with my team, but many of them are quite happy and settled doing what they're doing - and I'm totally cool with that because they do it well and are enjoying their work. They have families, they have lives outside of work, and they want to just get on with the work rather than constantly climbing the ladder or doing performance review documents.

I myself am more interested in the work I am doing right now (i.e. building features that deliver more value to the business than the effort/time/money it takes to build them) rather than constantly planning semi-arbitrary "targets" every 6 months for a promotion I may not even want.

So - how do you manage people's career planning (including yourself) when they have no interest in progressing? Is it OK to just say, "I'm happy doing what I'm doing"?
Then that would have been a much better answer to GP's question "can you explain how phonetics can be used in a character encoding for text?"
They look like drawings in Codex Seraphinianus. See these images https://images.google.com/search?q=codex+seraphinianus+plant...
It's a lot easier to maintain a terrestrial internet connection since you don't have to know how to build rockets.
A lot of them seem to be growing out of books :-)
Corsair has something similar called "iCue". Even if you don't bother installing it, the default Windows driver pops up an advertisement for it:
https://imgur.com/0fKRYLT
(as discussed at https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/9ws0qi/corsai...)

Similarly, I've had Windows 10 spam me about a paid subscription for Dolby Atmos.

This is just one of several reasons that I don't use Windows anymore.
I'm pretty sure that Vivaldi and Brave are Chromium-based, unlike Otter and Seamonkey.
Probably by Unicode 16 there will be. :p
Fair enough, I was shooting from the hip a bit.

I made the remark based on "Its natural audience would be control theorists, but they may find the level of abstraction very challenging" which sounds a bit condescending even if true.
And only if he wants to publish it in the store; with a developer certificate he can install his own app on his own device whenever he pleases.

But if you make something for the world at large, you should stick to the rules. They're not unreasonable, and they are one reason why iOS devices are some of the most secure devices out there.
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Lots of interesting work happening in the Bitcoin/Lightning space at the moment.

1st Place
https://theworldcomputer.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE9pbusewNg&feature=youtu.be
I would love lsp-mode with auto-complete integration to be an official package. It is still abit too clunky to get going even though it got better. Also pulling in clangd for c autocomplete feels abit heavy ...
> That's funny, he believes he owns an Apple device. Sorry, no. Apple locks down the device with strong crypto and rents you limited permissions, they sell a computing service, not a device. Apple are the only ones who get to say what code ultimately runs on their hardware.

If you buy a car, is it your car? You very possibly cannot do things with it independently, on your own, without manufacturer involvement or without voiding any warranties you have. The same idea extends to many things. I'm defending Apple here, but this idea that it's not your own device is silly IMO.

(prediction: I'll probably get downvoted)
It's perfectly possible that you are in a different cell that would have bad coverage is SpaceX were to open it up, while somewhere 20 miles over is just fine.
Post Command tool to inspect and call HTTP APIs
Why is that hilarious?
You do realise that sattelites still need this exact infrastructure to be in place right? They dont replace it. They operate on top.

It's mathematically impossible for them to be more eco friendly
My fault for including 'nature journal' in some prompts!
I am not fond of my device burning battery for, and being one bitflip away at a jmp-if-zero/jmp-if-not-zero, to calling an API whose only purpose is to inform the authorities that I am a suspect. If it happened server-side I would have no problem with it.
The bible has multiple verses codifying how to treat slaves. All sorts of rules and protocols. The old testament does not say "slavery is a sin" or "slavery is forbidden". It clearly says "slavery should be done this way". An as soon as you do that, slavery becomes accepted.
You should see Cuba and other places like it if you think making everything free works well to raise the levels of living.
In the U.S., “the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless searching of mail entering or leaving the United States…. Congress specifically has authorized the warrantless search of mail at the border, although some of those provisions place restrictions on the reading of correspondence. See, e.g., 19 U.S.C. § 1583(a)(l) (permitting warrantless search of mail of domestic origin transmitted for export … and foreign mail transiting the United States”)…”
I think us enthusiasts tend to lose sight of the fact that most people don’t care to learn about how their computers work, just like how most people don’t care to learn about how their cars work.
Introducing the Open Book Genome Project
Streaming videos to a TV with airplay can and does happen without the app itself needing multicast/broadcast permissions, as long as you use the provided frameworks and APIs.
Hmm. In Swedish media the prosecutor has conceded that it was a misstake and that it was done due to lack of expertise about crypto currency [0].

I'm guessing that it's fairly common that prosecutors "förverkar" regular goods (like watches/jewellery/cars) in similar ways, where they claim the physical thing and not the monetary value. BTC and other crypto should probably be treated in this way.

[0]: https://www.dagensjuridik.se/nyheter/aklagartabbe-gjorde-kna...
Unify all font-locking and textual manipulation on treesitter. See neovim.
We desperately need a true linux phone. No, not the damn pinephone which is not ready to be your moms daily driver phone.

I'm talking one that actually works and is on par with linux desktops.
You can just cache activity to a local duplicate file. It's not a new idea. There's no reason to do it on the cloud.
Interesting and saved. Some time ago I wanted to say that if I can represent a graph as an adjacency matrix, then I would have liked to say that an hypergraph is given by an adjacency tensor. I searched for that but couldn't find any previous work in this line.
Sometimes a bizarre situation warrants a bizarre strategy. Satellites will sometimes break, and even Starlink itself as a business can go under. And, as the OP describes, they become obsolete by their nature as telecom hardware. It is severely expensive to remove a satellite from orbit. But a low altitude constellation is self cleaning. Starlink can go under entirely and the entire constellation will still come down in a reasonable timeframe.
Believe it or not cloud providers don’t have unlimited compute elasticity. That’s a fundamental deceit of cloud computing. While Pinterest by itself may not make a difference, the accumulated guaranteed compute requirements across all such deals give AWS a pretty solid resource provisioning baseline to target.
A really, really long time, as long as there is power.

Modern fiber optic networks are really robust and will keep on chugging with minimal to no upkeep. Problems mainly arise when lightning fries equipment or backhoes run amok.

It’s a whole different ballgame, both in terms of bandwidth and upkeep, compared to needing to continuously launch new satellites.
I mean, of course. A lot of the men in the program I went through felt the same way, they would leave after the program back to little hillside towns in TN even and they might make it a few weeks or months before relapsing and doing it all over again.

It's just that element of having to stay in one place is what breaks a lot of people down in recovery. You end up back in the same situation as before, with the same places and faces, and there's this insidious thing your brain does that puts your progress out the window and reminds you exactly how you felt and thought when you were last in that situation.

It's the same reason residential programs work so well, because you learn to associate the place and faces with the learned behavior and learned coping skills. Programs could improve by teaching the skills necessary to recreate the behavior in new places, that's really what sobriety is all about. How can I make it through today, no matter what happens, without walking into the liquor store? If you KNOW that you can answer that question for yourself, regardless of the place, then you're sober. Otherwise, you're on borrowed time.
Yeah, that is inapplicable.

This is the relevant reference:

Arch D. Robison, "{N}-bit Unsigned Division via {N}-bit Multiply-Add" (2005)

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.51...
But those various ownership models aren’t buried behind 100s pages of EULAs. Or, when they are, you hire a lawyer to represent your interests in the purchase.
As soon as work or personal is more than one repo, that's annoying, and gets more annoying the more it is.

You could also say 'why does global git config exist at all, you can always just use .git/config on a per-repo basis'.
I admit that I'm not an IDE guy, and I don't really think this is necessarily an IDE world that I'm living in. I've never used IntelliJ, and I've never done serious Java dev.

The only IDE I've really used on a regular basis was XCode, and that still doesn't make up a very large portion of my programming experience.

Best I can tell though, LSP is making good on its promise to allow IDE features in your editor of choice. lsp-mode and some parts of lsp-ui are pretty easy to set up for most languages, and pretty helpful from time to time.
IDE world?

I had the impression, most devs today would use some editor like Emacs, Vim, VSCode, Sublime, etc.
Here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EJofIqhvHhh2Oa1GFokBIBIJlBg...
A1 size recommended, although A2 works (they're about stamp-sized)
I may be biased (as you point out), but I think that the flexibility Emacs’ architecture (and Lisp) provides is what makes Emacs such a great editor. It’s effectively a canvas for you to create your ideal text editor on. (Although not everyone wants to do that, I know.)

Re: Electron, I personally feel like Electron would be the opposite of the solution. Rather, I’d be excited to see a new high-performance Emacs GUI with graphics acceleration, greater visual fidelity, etc. similar to Sublime Text. ST is the only editor I’d consider switching back to. It just feels so snappy and smooth to use.

The only other thing I’d desire in a “NeoEmacs” would just be better performance defaults — many configs including my own have plenty of lines dedicated to tweaking obscure settings to squeeze more performance out. Ideally that wouldn’t be required.
Not all habits are created equal
Corsair is just as bad with their iCue junk software in my experience. Want to configure the LED colour of your mouse? That'll be a 750MB download currently with iCue 4.

What's even worse is that Windows automatically installs some Corsair software, which spams you with an iCue popup: https://imgur.com/0fKRYLT
Ah great argument. "Look there is so much trash in this world, let me add even more trash"
I'm pretty sure my mother would have to ask me what “local network access” meant.

Also, there is nothing mom would install that would legitimately require this permission ...
Adding a decent text editor would be nice... :D
Sickening. It's like a commercial from a movie like Robocop where freedom to travel is contingent on being injected with... well, whatever the government declares you have to have to be "fully vaccinated". Doesn't matter how tested or under-tested it is. Doesn't matter how many adverse reactions there are.

If you don't think this is dystopian, I'm afraid you have some very difficult and painful lessons ahead of you. Someday in the not-too-distant future it could be you being declined entry to the grocery store for being fed up and refusing the 10th injection.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4980
^ I live on the opposite side of the planet from my family. If something like this passes, I will not be able to visit them without getting an injection I believe to be not merely medically unjustified, but very dangerous. If you support stuff like that, we're enemies.
I wasn't expecting to like this article based on the headline, but firmly agree with the conclusions they present.

I was worried it would follow the same trajectory as the "Big corporations told us they would recycle our plastic, then they didn't" argument which bizarrely never ends with "so let's force them to do so" and more often seems to encourage burying plastics in landfills, which is exactly the thing the companies wanted. Since they sell the input for the new plastic production.

I would add that I think one angle they use is to connect fossil fuel emissions to things you like, presenting the false choice of "thing you like" vs "cutting carbon" when in fact most things could have significantly less carbon if we wanted them to. But obviously fossil fuel suppliers don't really want that as the easiest wins in almost all cases are to simply not burn fossil fuels.

There's so much low hanging fruit that we are missing out on at the moment that if someone is talking about making sacrifices, they're probably scamming you.
I’d be happy if the existing bindings just behaved closer to how they do in vim. As with all vim binding plugins there’s always slight differences that drive muscle memory mad.
So many talented artists! I have a couple of collections there - https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/johnowhitaker/creations has most of my experiments and https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/flow_jw/creations has some higher-effort pieces adding motion to GAN stuff.
Centuries of headstarts ? What we hear sometimes, China had 3000 years worth of knowledge and wisdom before Europe started barely organizing.

And China's epansion over the last 6000 years is way more spectacular than the short lived colonies of some european countries !

The EU isn't even a country yet while China had unified its warring kingdoms long ago...

China is not the thirld world country westerners like you think it is ! If we re behind the EU its by our own might, not their "headstart" :D

Headstart, smh, and what of the US, they have a headstart too? They barely started and are already telling us what to do - that says more abt us than them. Headstart...
> what happens if your configuration file contains a typo, say "eemail" instead of "email"? My guess is that Git will simply ignore

Sort of - you will set the config option "eemail", but yes, of course anything looking for "email" configuration will ignore it.
Fidenza algorithm generates art piece sold for $3.3M
Yeah it would be cool to make a VST version, a few people have asked for that. In the meantime it is possible to ouptut midi from LudoTune in the browser and connect it to a DAW via a virtual midi device.
Most of those criminals live in jurisdictions that are either unwilling or unable to prosecute them.
sigh regular satelites are expected tor run for 20 years. Yeah.
The article could be better written but I didn't find it incoherent. The point made is that even if you don't use Emacs as the application you use to write code, it's still a useful tool for a software developer.
If you find yourself missing emacs keybindings in the browser, you might be interested in the Nyxt browser, which incorporates emacs keybindings (and much of emacs overall philosophy) https://nyxt.atlas.engineer
It certainly isn't
Leasehold houses are a crazy idea and the government should certainly have stepped in early as developers began selling the freehold (and thus the entitlement to receive ground rent indefinitely) as an investment. Historically most of these leases were "peppercorn rent" which means they had some notional requirement of rent to be paid, but you were not in fact expected to pay rent. But legally any consideration works, so if you can charge a peppercorn (as a legal fiction to make this a contractual arrangement between freeholder and leaseholder since cutting up the freehold was for whatever reason impossible) you can charge £250 per year. Or £1000 per year...

Because the government didn't step in early and say "Oh, that's just an obsolete feature, you can't do that with it, we'll remove it" and pass legislation in say 2005 to set the maximum ground rent at a notional £1, the "investors" got bolder. They added escalator clauses, after all £1000 per year is a nice earner today, but it won't be much in a hundred years, so let's say it doubles every 25 years to account for likely inflation plus some profit.

Actually wait, the idiots are still buying them, let's say it doubles every 10 years.

And next thing you know, some of the people who "own" a house are paying almost as much rent as people who don't "own" a house, oops.

Funny that the property owning, rich investor classes in the Tory party don't seem to be in a big hurry to actually fix this, although they do say it's a "Priority" (like everything else) when confronted. I wonder how much money Rishi earns every day from this "mistake" that he never got around to doing anything about as chancellor for example...
multicast => communicate and find devices on your local network

I guess one sentence is enough ;=)

(Sure it's not perfect in it's explanation, but that's basically what it boils down to in it's usage.)
What's worst if even if I disable everything, I will find that some app will turn on iCloud sync by default at a later date without me knowing. I have to constantly check the settings to make sure nothing is syncing without my permission.
Yes.

But things do change. The company will change and the job will change. Someday neither one may be there in which case the worker needs to change.

Progression at work may or may not prepare for that.

I am not looking for a promotion at work in the foreseeable future but my situation is stable and gives me the foundation to pursue side projects which are outright radical.
Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning: 1.2M API Req/S on a 4 VCPU EC2 Instance
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If you buy the app and you have your favorite pet that is missing from the list, please feel free to shot me a message via the app.
Apparently the Taliban offered up Osama in 1996 after the Taliban had captured his territory, this isn't the same thing as the Taliban didn't attack anyone. Osama continued to attack the US and Afghanis with the protection of the Taliban after 1998.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/05/afghanistan.te...
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Yeah and not unexciting at all, that's a beautiful cat.
Reference books I'm bringing across the border (2014)
I recall a second hand story where AT&T technicians visited LA? after the quake and the phone switches were free floating in the air hanging from their cabling.
A new NSO zero-click attack evades Apple’s iPhone security protections
Show HN: Micro – A public API platform (now free during beta)
Ah that makes sense. Thanks for answering. I was thinking the Slovenian embassy in Slovakia takes all the misaddressed/misrouted mail for the whole country and vice versa.
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> And like for deliveries... what do you want people to do? Not stop in front of the place they are delivering?

Where do you live where the parallel parking spots in front of businesses are always open? Where I’ve lived things like UPS will just stop in the road if necessary, and other cars will go around.

Deliveries in areas without lots of parallel parking is a solved problem; we don’t need to pretend like reducing or eliminating street level parking will have unknown impacts on things like delivery vehicles.
Well I guess USA better rename itself too.
Divesting from fossil fuel companies is finally EASY AF
This is BS. Workers are poking around to know what contracts the company has with the military. Fine. Company is keeping hush on what contracts they have with military to avoid worker sensitivities. Fine.

But the activism that surrounds this garbage needs restraint. The activism is nowhere near real or fair. In a world where we try to make the biggest impact impossible, there is a line between where we create works and where that work is merged with other works to make an offensive product.

Sorry but as developers of said works we do not have any connection with the newly fused and offensive product. And this vice article is trying to ride the wave of activism on this.
This is so out of touch with the actual real world it's a bit concerning. There are plenty of open computing platforms kids can learn from these days, and schools are full of them. PCs are still pretty open, Linux is easy to install, Raspberry Pi and similar devices are cheap and accessible. My kids learned about all that stuff at school here in the UK. In most developed countries almost every kid in school gets to learn how to write at least simple programs. I taught my kids Python on their iPads.

>...pretend there are still many benefits to be found in locked down platforms and devices, which there isn't.

Now you're in lala land. People derive enormous benefits from ubiquitous access to easy to use computer technology all the time. They're just not the benefits you personally seem to value or understand.
The battery pack has a working voltage. If your charger has a different voltage you need to convert that voltage to battery pack levels. So going from 400 V to 800 V says little about efficiency.
Confirming the pedigree of uranium cubes from Nazi Germany’s nuclear program