skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That might be true in the US (where the president is leader of only the executive branch, and there is a two party system with not much difference between the two parties), but it's decidedly not the case in other systems. For example, here in the UK we also have a two party system but a greater difference between the two, and the Prime Minister also largely controls the legislative agenda.
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Looks super interesting. I would love to see some reallife feedback. Such are the moving parts prone to jams and stuff like that.
> I don't see psychedelics, and their use, as being particularly risky to physical health

Maybe if you don't count frying your brain as a risk to your physical health.
In the post-9/11 United States, power is much more concentrated in the Executive than you think.

Remember that in the classified 2012 Inspector General's report that Snowden leaked it states clearly that President Obama asked the Director of the NSA that if the warrantless wiretapping program were deemed to be illegal, would he continue it on the President's orders and that the Director's answer was "Yes, Sir."
A bit more small scale: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hiive/hiive-better-for-...
Which is a point where, say, Westminster system or similar really starts to move ahead of the US system - not only do you have reasonable multi-party options (to varying degrees) but also issues don’t boil down to a single person - the douche or turd sandwich - because whilst the modern media state does actually distill everything down to that single person as a figurehead, you still have to win 50% of electorates (or form coalitions to get there) and power is more devolved
Yep, absolutely true
I'm saying forks aren't for eating soup, and you're showing me soups eaten with a fork.

In case of languages' general capabilities/applicability, I don't think singular counterexamples are sufficient, because they prove "can", rather than "should". Turing Tarpit means you can push languages way beyond their appropriate use-cases.

There are also weird cases like Java smart cards and LISP machines, but I don't think it's useful to use these exceptions to classify Java and LISP as "assembly" or "machine" languages. Go does very well in the network services niche, but you can also write such network services in Bash (determined-enough people have written Bash HTTP servers). You can write small shell utilities in Go too. Does this mean Go and Bash are the same type of language?

The lines are blurry, but you have to draw a line somewhere, otherwise every language is a shell scripting systems programming assembly machine language.
I think you overestimate how “well” things work.

I’ve had cases where hardware worked great with Linux and was buggy or unusable with Windows and vice versa. I’ve even had some hardware problems on Macs. Hardware can have bugs, revisions, or interpret a standard in their own way that causes problems. Just look at hibernation, it is often buggy on Linux and sometimes even on Windows.

Rare hardware is likely to be problematic on any os.
New hardware is likely to not have a Linux driver yet.
Old hardware is unlikely to have a modern Windows driver at all.
Drivers can have bugs and crash. (I’ve had cases on Windows where I needed to instal the MS driver because the Vendor driver crashed or vice versa)

You notice a lot of this stuff if you build your own computer, try different OSes and distros, are into retro computing etc...
It is easy to forget misbehaving hardware/drivers because until you have a solution, you are not using that computer.
When I read satellite hacking I recall Tamil LTTE ,hack of Intelsat.
mbps != Mbps
I'm not exactly sure why Debian supports alternatives, that seems like a terrible idea when you're already stretched thin, but most everything else about it seems to be less tinkerer-friendly then Arch.

Seems like a lot more people can kind of grudgingly tolerate systemd, but they really seem to hate outdated packages, and anything "unnecessary"..

Some of them are pretty neutral on systemd itself, or have given up on fighting it.

They seem to mostly just want maximum ability to build their own system
Good showcase of how far web (specifically CSS) has come. Back in the day we had to use images to achieve this kind of effect on websites. Otherwise it probably won't stick too long.
This reminds me of Floors [0], an app where you could scan hand-drawn platforming levels on graph paper. I was only 12 or so, but I had so much fun with that thing. Unfortunately it seems the app has been discontinued as of 2016.

[0] http://www.projectpixelpress.com/floors
I wouldnt be surprised if they'd also refuse to stop it on the president's orders. Post-9/11 the security establishment has become a law unto itself.
Poor young people walking on the street alone wearing a mask. Wealthy people and politicians going to the Super Bowl not wearing a mask. Does not look very healthy
But the PM in your country doesn't have unilateral authority to commit to military action, which is not the case in the big powers. That's the point.

Of course yes, yes in the United States the President can't declare war without Congress, but we just don't call them wars anymore.
Cal me old fashioned but this is the default bevel and emboss effect from photoshop 6.0
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Using terms from technical/software fields to talk about brains and behavior leads to inapt analogies. People are not computers.

Brains evolved from the material available, to serve some basic purposes: improve chances of survival and reproduction. Brains were not designed and don’t have “UX.” What each of us experience is an emergent property, or side-effect, of the brain’s evolution.

The concept of rationality is a human invention (like morality). Neither are inherent properties of the brain, they are learned behaviors and social constructs.
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Truth Social hasn't launched yet, I think.
This is a fairly common reaction, very similar to the debate surrounding Elden Ring's "outdated UI" to the uninspired, bland, extremely generic UI coming from "best practices". What is interesting is all the angry critics saying to people "you are not supposed to like that, it is bad and you should follow my theory".
Just develop for an interface, instead of an implementation.

Migraring data is no fun, but much more straightforward than rewriting a good part of your code when you decide to switch database.
Apples to oranges. Retailers don't force suppliers to give them a 30% cut of every sale. Retailers don't prevent suppliers from selling with other retailers. Retailers have competition and cannot abuse their monopoly, even if they can acquire a monopoly position.
Nobody will pay taxes?

If this were an article about a citizen killed or gravely injured at a traffic stop, would you argue that without violent enforcement nobody will stop at red lights?
> Yes it absolutely was. Neither of those leaders were very pro-actual democracy, were they?

I'm not sure they were/are anti-democracy, I think they have a very different opinion on how to exercise power in a democracy than mine.

There's no "one true way" in a democracy.

Of course they were pathologically bad and it's easy to agree, but bad is a spectrum.

> What is a better alternative?

There are a lot of them, democracy is not the better alternative, democracy only real advantage is that every position of power has an expiration date attached to it and sooner or later the people behind them must be replaced (theoretically of course, there are many examples of powerful people influencing democracies for decades without ever being subject to the voters' judgement) .

EDIT: many smaller to medium communities could benefit a lot from running them under some form of socialism/communism. For example circular economy is a marketing term to express the same concept, that cannot be used in many "free market" countries due to years of propaganda against them.
Another approach to completeness could be to remove noise from the original page instead of parsing just the text from it. In the worst case the page isn't changed at all but it's still usable (like when ad blockers miss some ads). [0]

I assume you only want always-on reader mode for articles -- and detecting what's an article is another NLP problem. Yet both the completeness and article detection can probably be solved through heuristics in 90% of cases (the evidence is that we DO use reader modes). Maybe it depends on how much the last 10% frustrate you.

[0] I'm working on a browser extension that does this: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter
The PDF in the repo contains a simple Java sample that should be straightforward to build and run.
You put a GIANT Google Play link , and a smaller link for alternative stores that will open a plain html page dense of information and with big warnings to scare away the non-tech people.
What about these videos: https://vimeo.com/496004749 and https://vimeo.com/498735070?
> We currently cater exclusively to the North American market. We plan on expanding our reach within the next few months.

> We currently cater exclusively to Commercial Beekeepers managing 1,000 beehives and above.

Genuine question: are you within their target market? I guess only a commercial honey maker would be?
The Westminster system is pretty close to the American one, and the fact that there are different parties is a bit by luck. A representative parliamentary system is much better for that - you don't disenfranchise up to half of the electorate, compromise is forced due to the need of coalitions, etc.
If you're interested in playing with Mozilla Readability.js from the command line I came up with this recipe using my shot-scraper tool the other day:

https://til.simonwillison.net/shot-scraper/readability

pip install shot-scraper
shot-scraper install
shot-scraper javascript https://simonwillison.net/2022/Mar/24/datasette-061/ "
async () => {
const readability = await import('https://cdn.skypack.dev/@mozilla/readability');
return (new readability.Readability(document)).parse();
}"
You can't tell me that the major design features of Material design are based on user research. I've seen so many people completely confused by these, even the most basic aspects, like input fields.
What's the phrase? "Trust but verify"?
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Absolutely true. It is a huge problem to have so much power among unelected career officiates. At the bare minimum we need to walk back the Patriot Act, the FISA amendments, etc. Unfortunately, I don't think any elected officials will commit to that.

These agencies have quite effectively infiltrated our media[1] as well to the point that it can't really be considered anything other than State Propaganda anymore.

The sad thing is that we pretty much all know it. Some turn a blind eye because they think "same team". But the term "National Security" has transformed from the benign "Public Safety" to "State Integrity/Consistency" right under our noses. The current systems are built to entrench those who already control the reigns of power. And will continue to do so.

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1: Not that they even need to anymore with both groups pulling from the same class of people for membership. Media used to be a very blue collar job that is now the passion-playground of those seeking wealth, connections and favor.
Looks a hell of a lot like Windows XP.

One of my employees once remarked about Windows XP (when it was first introduced) as "Fisher-Price for Windows."
Show HN: No-communication-boilerplate Stateful Serverless
Hi HN! We're Sebas and Elias, and we are building Telekinesis: a serverless platform aimed to make it easy to deploy complex applications.

We love serverless because it abstracts away the infrastructure but we think we can take it a step further: abstract away the communication. Effectively, a place where you just code any function or class, we run it in the cloud, and then let you connect securely to it. To be truly easy, it has to support:

- stateful objects: you can instantiate classes and manipulate them through our secured websockets connection

- any pip/npm package dependencies: we'll keep a container with your dependencies ready to run your code when your service is invoked

Since now these services would be pure logic, we can efficiently compose them, just like with open source (pip or npm) packages. However, there would be one key difference, here you can put a price on your code. In this setup, developers could opt in to have their code become open source automatically after a certain amount of time or if it hits an income threshold.

We're a long way from the "function marketplace" idea, but we have an early version of the serverless platform you can try at https://www.telekinesis.cloud

We are looking for our first users to try our product. We're especially interested in working closely with anyone that's building a prototype. If you are interested you can register for early access or email us at contact@telekinesis.cloud

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> but still technology should NEVER be your first, second, third or fifth solution proposal!

So always the fourth, then?
Is this overengineering attitude coming from those few longstanding members?
Because if so, I don't see how You can convince them of the value of simplicity (and that any kind of abstraction have a cost) if they themselves does not see value in it. This intuition can only come from long exposition to consequences of adding to much of accidental complexity.
And what is more by openly contradicting their intuitions You directly threaten their status in company (because Your solutions will be directly opposing their way of solving things).

There is of course second possibility - are You sure that the problem is not You ? Are there other team members that also complain? OOP style of programming takes a lot of time to get used to, but sometimes it can work if programmers are familiar enough with it. The use of strategy pattern can be good if there is enough variability in parts of algorithm that is being implemented.

Personally I hate this style but its because I lack imagination (which is necessary to select proper patterns and create proper abstractions). I can only create them as an afterthought (by extracting them from existing codebase). But I know that there are people that can do it up front and hit the right spot enough times (and refactor if not).
Friendly reminder to check your backups and don'g wake up a fool tomorrow. :-)
Speaks Persian, went to Tehran University, has Iranian name.
On the theme Even Better Error Messages, it would be nicer if the executable detected whether the output buffer is a terminal supporting color and use color by default. The user could decide via flag if they want the various underline styles, color, both, or neither.

The error message highlighting is one of the few things I appreciate about Rust.

The dream for me? If Rust, Python, C++ compilers could prioritize errors and then show only the most important n errors "plus 749 less important errors (E0412 x 503, E0425 x 110, E0599 x 93, and 43 various other errors)" (I've read that normally the top errors are most relevant, but I don't have enough experience to confirm.)

I just compiled a demo resulting in thousands of errors---mostly "not found in scope". Forget about whatever was in the terminal buffer before! And tools like grep, head, sort+uniq only give 10--20 percent of the necessary info. If the root cause is a missing declaration causing 500 type errors, I want to know about the declaration above all else! (g++/gcc usually gets this right, cargo not so much...)

Python also wins here, because you often get one error and the traceback, so you rarely experience the stdout vomit that a compiler for other languages can sometimes provide.
You subject yourself to various penalties. As a sibling comment remarks, Reagan used a similar case to essentially wipe out the air traffic controllers' union.
FWIW, I'm a happy customer of https://mailbox.org for more than a year now. I know several other users who are also happy with them.

It's a no-frills, secure setup for a decent price. I definitely recommend mailbox.org.
In my opinion that's a stupid saying because democracy isn't a "form of Government". In reality there is an infinite range of forms of Government and people can argue for ever about which form is more or less democratic than which other forms.

I also find that the conclusions, if there are any, from that kind of argument are often not very useful. For example, the UK is in some ways a great place from a constitutional point of view, but that's despite having a totally crap electoral system (I usually don't bother voting: it makes no difference). What makes the UK's constitution great is the way the judiciary really is independent and really can rein in the government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(Miller)_v_The_Prime_Ministe...

Is that part of democracy? Probably, but it's all very vague and subjective.
This is made of separate codebases with new licenses, instead of being part of the MIT-licensed Redis, in order to prevent AWS from doing that.
Unless you're a sociopath, as a manager it's never easy to think of firing a person (where the alternative is improving them - sometimes people do things that make it easy). It's usually sleepless nights, stress, alcohol, sometimes counselling or therapy.
I think these insights capture very clearly why "hooks" are a problem rather than a solution.

Hooks are the kind of complex technical idea, which some developers (a certain Mr Abramov) find interesting.

However "complicated and interesting for navel-gazers" are normally rather negative characteristics in tools. Tools which are "reasonably simple, predictable, easy to reason about and easy to compose" are far more productive.
Very true. Do you think there is a role for humanity to self-improve the UX? Whether with sufficient technology or collective will? I've heard the idea of culture as an operating system of sorts (a spin on being a product of your environment I suppose). Could the UX be improved with the right culture?

On a bit of a tangent here - is there a brain architecture where a consistently good (and lucid/clear) experience is guaranteed? Is such an experience within to reach of humankind?
How does this control varoa?

One of the arguments against domesticated honey bees is that they not only take food from but also spread disease to wild honey bee populations. The more diseased the domestic ated bees get the more hives keepers build to compensate, compounding the problem.
They did. One of their lobbyists Vince van Son is the son of Dutch emigrants, and another one, Edo Haveman, even worked for members of parliament before.

Maybe the problem is that Dutch "resources" are easily Americanized. The American and Dutch ways of doing business are not that different in style, just in scale. I suspect many Dutch entrepreneurs secretly think that if they just act a little more American, they can cut through the red tape and get things done. That may work on some levels, but not in Dutch politics.
Yes, for a good long time, probably 5 years at least. All of my activity has been on Instagram for ~6 years, and there's basically nothing on FB except marketplace
I don’t believe neumorphism was ever supposed to be serious. From what I understood it is just something someone played with on dribble that became popular by accident.

I may be wrong here.
I think apple is pretty invested in distributed ML training. Ie. your PC will go through your photo gallery/siri audio data, and use the labels and stuff to fine-tune an apple-provided ML model. The fine-tunings are then re-uploaded to apple, added up, and distributed to other users in the next update.

The privacy implications of this are dubious. There is as-yet no good research showing how these finetuned models can be used to reveal exactly what photos you have in your photo library, but many experts believe that won't be the case for long.
Ask HN: How to recreate scenes from the imagination? painting or 3D modelling?
I 'see' cool images in my mind, and I want to bring them to life. I do drawing/painting occasionally, but I'm unable to capture even a simple scene, let alone my mindscapes.

I know, it takes great practice, and a huge time investment. I'm seeking guidance on the most efficient method to get to the point of recreation of ephemeral images in my mind.

I've probably got more experience in 3D modelling (comes more naturally thus far), but if it's easier to recreate life-like images in a 2d medium, then I'd probably jump that way to get up and running quickly.
Is it really fried though? If I didn't want to "fry my brain" I would opt not to participate in this clusterfuck we call modern life.
I shall also look into this. Thanks!
According to the link "They constantly monitor pests within the hive and apply non-chemical treatment where needed"
Macbook Pro M1 Pro, 12.3, Siri completely disabled as most of the daemons (the ones that are possible) and I also have ~333MB across 303k files.
Site is down. Claymorphism = "Oh no, Mr. Sluggo is going to be mean to me!"?
I keep wondering if my Macbook is really mine, or if it's theirs.
Also, using a similar trick as with the dominoes, can a certain Legend of Zelda puzzle be solved?

https://gazj.substack.com/p/python-and-the-legend-of-zelda?s...

Article doesn't contain a mathematical proof (only a brute force one), but I wrote one up. Spoilers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30639211
> The U.S. model has been tarnished by hyper-partisanship, gridlock, fake news, the rise of Trump

Done. HAND.
I think developers almost always do address security, it's just that security is insanely hard and most aren't dedicating security specialists.

CVEs are almost always patching in hours to days on mainstream software, it's rare to just leave doors open, the difference seems to just be in how much people tolerate things that might possibly have an unknown risk, just because they are big or use dependencies, or because they allow a user to do something that might be a bad idea in some contexts(Like have an unencrypted hard drive).

If you need extreme security, or some other specialist requirement, you're total right, mainstream ecosystems can be unsuitable.
Maybe they need to store that much locally if they want to train models locally? In the end, I guess many folks on HN would give up a few GB of their disk space if it means all ml related stuff can run locally. And as far as I'm aware, Apple is the only one at least partly doing that.

Would be much nicer if they stated the purpose and allowed for some configuration, though. And verification by third parties is obviously still important.
This seems like Corporate Memphis absorbing all facets of design.
I'm surprised to not find any mention of how infantilizing this is -- childish is absolutely inappropriate.
I have always not cared too much about aesthetics for any product where use is the primary factor -- especially since in most cases you can easily customize digital products -- but this trend is really putting me off to the point where I won't use products from companies pushing such designs.

To mention some of the most awfully repulsive, having to interact with Travis and MailChimp are always sure to trigger a physical disgust response, and checking Sentry, I was greeted by a similarly awful cartoonish homepage. I can't not think of "cynical company that will sell you to the highest bidder if they can wants to be your BFF, they'll even give you candy!".
Google’s next US antitrust issue: Google Maps
Plus I think the ability to run continuous high precision location queries in the background is severely limited in ios.