skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Windows' focus on backwards compatibility is part of what made it the default gaming platform on personal computers. Macs will never be a serious platform for gaming, even if they begin offering more performance, as long as they keep their obsession with wiping the slate clean and throwing developers off every 5-10 years or so. (I mean... 680x0, PowerPC, Mac OS X, x86, 64-bit-only, Apple Silicon, just how many breaking transitions do they have to go through?)
> But fundamentally no one should ever be trying to merge code that hasn’t been unit tested. If they are, that is a huge problem because it shows arrogance, ignorance, willingness to kick-the-can-down-the-road, etc.

Here you are asserting that unit testing is fundamental, and that not believing this is arrogance and ignorance.

I'd suggest your view that your way is "the" way, is an ironic display of arrogance, and perhaps ignorance.

And this perhaps I think is the core of much of the anti-TDD sentiment. It's not that we don't think TDD and unit tests are without their positives, it's that we don't like being told this is the one true way to write software, and if we don't do it your way we are engaging in poor engineering.
For one thing, they cost extra to buy and use, sometimes more than the person may have in cash to begin with.
Come on. Please don't pretend that there aren't severe institutional defects now in how design-fashion is executed that go beyond "sometimes old is better, sometimes new is better."

Large centralized purveyors of software with monopolistic-type power and no liability are generally (perhaps subconsciously) are frequently incentivized to push design into negative directions, e.g. dark patterns.
In small molecule the second player can just copy. With vaccines this is harder but a lot of the risk is already gone. Development encompases everything from tox, to dosing, and there is much risk at every step of the procees. For small molecule the lead is going to get massive amounts of small variations made and tested to try to find the one that works: that's not coming from the research that lead to a paper with a hit.
So go work for a hospital and clean up their IT. I see shit like this and wonder what you consider USEFUL. Because working for healthcare would be useful, but it is not the same as saying that you work for some hot startup.
Neither are ideal, but I'm far faster on my GPD Win 2 than my phone - especially when in a terminal.

Tactile keys allow me to build a stronger muscle memory than zero-feedback touchscreens will ever let me.
So your argument boils down to the incompetence of the Linux projects then?
It seems like there should be a setting to make this the default. Sometimes I'll navigate a bit within the in-app browser after clicking on a link from like Twitter or something, and I'd much rather it pop open Firefox or something that I can actually trust. Now it sounds like Apple and Google should start putting warnings on these things by default, yeesh.
Ask HN: Understanding L/R inductor time constant
Anyone a Physics expert esp. in electromagnetic matter and/or (nano) particle material science ?

How is the real understanding, when an external constant E potential (voltage) is imposed or applied on LR circuit

The characteristic L/R inductor time constant: the greater R the shorter time inductor get (full) charged

this absolutely independent to the E, it may be simply so great while time constant still being so short, inspect the (DE) equation
Looks like a power button to me.
developers are lazy
Debian doesn't have to spend a billion bucks to convince Uncle Sam to let you download it.
Privacy is sexy – Enforce privacy and security on Windows and macOS
Where is this guy? Is he not programming anymore?
Sounds like a crappy situation, I wouldn't blame you for looking for work elsewhere.

BUT

You do appear to be asking for help. So I'd suggest reviewing some of the things you have control over:

Do you have any conversations with your co-workers?

Maybe at lunch?

Do you express an interest in their work?

Do you offer to help them with things in their areas?

Do you express an interest in them as people?

Healthy boundaries of course should be practiced.

Let me tell you a story about when I was consulting for a religious High School. They had a 3 man maintenance crew. These guys did _everything_. Keeping the grounds, parking control, all handyman activity, repairs, plumbing, digging, heavy lifting, decorating and undecorating. Anything that required muscle.

They were overwhelmed. They had a board where request notes were posted and they would triage them and try to focus on tasks in a given area for a day at a time. If anyone needed something "now", they were told to fill out a request and wait their turn. But it was not that way for me. Why? Every time I saw them unloading a truck or moving a mass of stuff from one place to the other, I'd chip in and help. Not a whole lot. But my acts of kindness earned me a lot of good grace with them. I really enjoyed working with them, it was a lot of laughs. I'd also buy them each a case of Heineken at Christmas time, as a way to say thank you for all the times they would drop what they were doing and come help me.

IOW, I treated them like human beings, not the hired help.
I did call. Either it hadn’t been found yet or they never checked.
> I failed at convincing my friends and family to move to Signal, Telegram or Discord.

Mostly to others reading this, but please don't spend effort trying to move people to other walled gardens. This just guarantees you need to do it again and multiplies the effort required to get people to move to a protocol instead.
> Above Board definitely correlates with quality, because it implies truthiness, which is obviously a key consideration.

It is one of many factors. You can have a news source that is 100% accurate and virtually useless.

> CNN is a broadcast news channel that covers things as they happen, not a newspaper where they write articles as long as they like.

> So you'd compare it to MSNBC and Fox and possibly Network News, not news papers.

Depends on your goals. If you want relevant and accurate, then print is better. If you want breaking news as soon as it happens and can't wait a day - sure, TV news is better (still worse than radio). In my experience, less than 1% of TV news content is needed by 99% of Americans on the same day it occurs. They're not worse off if they find out the next day.

On top of that, a lot of "breaking news" is riddled with errors and speculation. If you want to know what happened, as opposed to what may have happened, it's simpler to wait. When I was a news addict, I was drowning with too much content. I put limits on myself: Once a month I would catch up with the news feeds (could take over a week to do so), and it quickly became obvious how relatively worthless "early" news was. I'd get all the relevant information by reading a fifth of the articles.
The Oakland example was one cited in Time magazine recently. One of the teachers who earlier advocated eliminating phonics was described as now "heading up a campaign to get his old school district to reinstate many of the methods that teachers resisted so strongly: specifically, systematic and consistent instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics."

The article includes quite a bit of history about reading instruction, insights from neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene [1], a reference to a 2000 report from the National Reading Panel [2], and reports by education reporter Emily Hanford on why the science of reading has not been rapidly adopted [3].

[0] https://time.com/6205084/phonics-science-of-reading-teachers...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0670021105
[2] https://www.nichd.nih.gov/sites/default/files/publications/p...
[3] https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/10/23/hanfordandread...
This is good. It's the price for using the site. They're not alone!
Think you mean smoking. Plenty of oils have flash points above 500F and a few have smoke points over 500
Efficiently Searching In-Memory Sorted Arrays: Revenge of Interpolation Search? [pdf]
and https://github.com/diku-dk/smlpkg !
This is great! I was just looking into buying some hardware for a Pi-hole but this is a much easier way to try it out.

I think you can solve this limitation by passing in a static machine key.

Redeploying or upgrading Pi-hole leads to a new Fly.io instance, with a new TailScale private IP, thus requiring an update to the DNS configuration. This is rare enough for me as to be a non-issue, but it might be quite annoying for very frequent travelers.

It is stored in a json in /var/lib/tailscale/tailscaled.state. It's a bit off the beaten path but I believe that'll make the new instance keep the same 100.x IP address.
> The WebKit team shipped :has() in Safari Technology Preview 137 in December 2021, and in Safari 15.4 on March 14, 2022.

Oh, not sure how I missed that.

Looking forward to it anyway - I remember in 2012 or so it had tentatively been added so some draft standard but of course never made it.
I definitely think that it's relative, or as in Vanilla Sky "The sweet just ain't as sweet without the sour". I consciously recognize (and even appreciate?) the bad times because the best times in my life depend on comparing them to the rougher periods. It's the exceptions that make me most joyful, not some constant state of happy.
> "Yes, I will n-

Great, I'll expect it by Monday.
It doesn't matter. Use the one you understand better. Both types of databases have been used to build social networks with many millions of users.

Chances are ~0% that you'll ever have enough users to care which one you chose, and if you get to that point, you'll be able to raise money to switch.

Your main problem building a social network is acquiring usere, not technology.
The open source user interface is, was, and always will be the web page.

Desktop Linux is another attempt to ape monolithic corporate desktops. And most of the people using Desktop Linux just have a web browser (and maybe an xterm) maximized on it all day anyway.
Federated protocols serve this purpose, and fediverse has clients with many of the features people use in social media.

Then for actual social networks, things like briar or manyverse are perfectly functional and only lack network effect.
Apple hashes and sends over wire every bin you run, if that's a 'bastion' then RMS was right.
Maybe the spammer used to be a client and the internal mailing list name got leaked through an email they got.
I made no such judgment call.
+1 thanks for the info - it makes sense that Apple would try to mitigate this on their platform.

I use Apple’s new Lockdown Mode on the beta iOS 16 and iPadOS 16. I generally like it. It largely disables arbitrary JavaScript, as far as I know. A few times a week, I will turn off Lockdown temporarily for a few minutes for a web site if there are any problems. This is usually Amazon.com’s Kindle preview feature.
Yeah - I never want an in-app browser. I wish it could be broadly disabled at least as an option, though I'd be fine with apple just removing the capability entirely.

It's particularly annoying with account cookies and such when I'm already authenticated in the normal browser.
I hate that if I send Wordle or something cool to a friend that uses localStorage they lose their progress/settings once they leave the chat app.

So frustrating to even explain to people that this thing they are scrolling isn't their own, Safari/Chrome!
Billionaire Peter Thiel refused consent for sprawling lodge in New Zealand
Legend. This is cool and awesome facecropping demo on your github.
The two deposit thing is pretty standard. A little odd, but it gets the job done and presumably does so using existing ACH interfaces (so they don't need to implement anything new or rely on the receiving bank to do the same)
You can ID users based on the cadence and relative timing between keypresses to identify anyone regardless of their login credentials.

You can also detect bots, even skillfully crafted ones.
Unfortunately, the issue of consent is extremely muddy as it's easy to argue that the average person is not informed enough about the issue at hand, and so they have improperly developed expectations when engaging with the TikTok browser.

Lack of consent and lack of transparency, make this whole thing pretty messed up.
Or static site generator and a service like netlify or AWS S3 plus AWS Cloudfront.
Incompetence of software projects across the board, except in a few rare cases, sure; more importantly, it’s got nothing to do with cost optimization (or malicious MBAs)
But when you click a link in the TikTok app, TikTok opens an in-app browser for you to view it in - and that’s where it’s gathering all the information. It’s a deceptive practice, since most users won’t realize that they’re not simply surfing a website as usual.
Not surprising.

> But Kotlin today is also far more than just Android. Server-side Kotlin is becoming quite common at Google at this point, it seems, with over 8.5 million lines of Kotlin code in Google’s internal codebase to date. That number, the company said, is now doubling every year.

I couldn't find what percentage of Google's backend code is Java but it sounds like that's being phased out at a reasonable pace.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here but what I took away from all of the papers on the MRNA vaccines is that they were designed to tell cells to build a protein (spike protein) that would stimulate the immune system to create an antibody that recognized said protein and it was those antibodies that made it harder to become infected with SARS-COVID-2.

One of the papers I read compared and contrasted the antibody that Pfizer used in their development vs the one that Moderna used in their development, with the conclusion that the Moderna "provoked" antibody was slightly more effective at preventing an infection from taking hold.

And based on that understanding (which may be flawed, please let me know if it is) then having a better 'target' antibody that you are trying to provoke the immune system to create, would make an MRNA vaccine more effective.
What recession? Israeli startups raise over $700M in 48 hours – Ctech
As someone who has spent quite a bit of time documenting the internal workings (i.e. design) of various software and systems and much less so user interfaces (ain't nobody got time for that), it is interesting to note that the opposite is what is available in open source projects.

I mean, it makes sense since the internals are probably moving more than the interfaces and since everybody reads code anyway they can just do that. On the other hand, design documentation allows one to quickly figure out how a particular feature works, which is more tedious to do from just reading code. Barrier for use is lower, but barrier for contributing is higher, or something...
Game of Thrones was the one weird exception to that. Would have been so much better if they had given themselves 10 more episodes to wrap up, rather than the crazy schedule they set themselves.
It is probably nice as a musician to not live in an apartment or any other shared living situation with nearby neighbors.

Occasionally I hear bands and/or people practicing on amplified instruments, drums, or brass, and I can't imagine how anyone on the same block can stand it.

Though apparently people across SF were mostly OK with hearing Green Day play in Golden Gate Park.

But all of these sound annoyances pale when compared to the horrible scourge of loud videos played on smartphones.
This happened to one of my relatives recently. The tip-off was that he doesn't have a paypal account! ;-)

I called the toll free number just to see what would happen. My call quickly got picked up by an actual person, answering in a way that is not legitimate, plus the "call center" background noise you hear that's very suspicious.

Otherwise, it is indeed quite a legitimate looking scam
Because west operate under different systems.
West has for while being about free trade free market global capitalism. Where as China is using much more controlled approach.

Fundamentally west can't get too faraway from these ideals or it will end up destroying its hegemony. Huawei has already been banned, but what comes after social media? And if some action is taken, will other countries start banning western imports specially cultural and services?
Apple needs to give us power-users the option to decide whether to load such web contents (in apps) in either SFSafariViewController (sandboxed) or WKWebView (fully exposed). This is especially critical when, for example, payment processors load your net banking portal inside apps (a common mode of online payment in India) - unless it is sandboxed, the app and / or payment processor has complete access to your netbanking credentials.
If you’ve never read Judge Dredd, now is a good time to find some copies.
You need the account holder's name as well.
I think human nature when something is young and exciting and offers possibility is to remember the beginning especially vividly since it is "new". Those moments always stand out to you later in the years when you have one of those "Holy shit, my life is now different because of this" instances.

The basic point is heard, though. When the net become more professional, it drained out all the "can do" from those who maybe were not stack (coldfusion,pearl,php?) experts. In the meantime, we have become a lot more distrusting of one another, mostly due to money.

What I notice and miss is the attention span to read what are "longer thoughts" and well-crafted writing which I think fosters better communication. Boring blogs can bring back writing partially to what it is meant to be--usually something that requires some kind of discipline rather like watching a flower at dawn slowly open its petals.
Some in app browsers can record keystrokes and presses
Chromebook's filesystem is a downloads folder.

Crouton is nice, but it's not ChromeOS.
You can get banned from the current DEFCON for not wearing a face mask, both contrary to CDC guidance and hilariously ironic since it’s in Las Vegas in close contact with hundreds of thousands of unmasked people.

Between the virtue signaling COVID nonsense, the change to allow people to buy tickets with a credit card, and whatever this current drama is I’ve completely lost interest. I hope they find their way again, but I suspect it’ll turn into another corporate cash grab like Blackhat.
That's a stretch goal I can get behind... wish I had a nice excuse to use QUIC :(
The initial mental effort is high. But the trigrams are hashed to the letters on the keyboard. so "con" is hashed to for example Lower + C. So that helps. Also - after sometime you start seeing the common 3/4-grams - tion , the, and etc. Then it starts to become like a game with a dopamine feedback loop. Every time you hit 2 keys and get 3 or 4 letters out - you start getting a high.

>Out of curiosity, what is your motivation behind the experiment?
I watched a video of NoThisIsJohn typing at 200+ words per minute. I know i cant hit those speeds, but i was wondering what hacks i could do to the keyboard to get as fast as i can.

I just wanted to hack typing. I even thought of double pressing keys - for example bigrams. I came up with a new layout. When i read about the norman layout - it is criticised for same finger bigrams. But what i thought is, if I put the bigram keys near each other - then I would be able to press those with a single finger press - if the finger overlaps the 2 keys on the edge. but for that you need key wells - even at the edges of the keys - to give that tactile feeling. Similar to what the thinkpad has at the edge of the G, H and B keys . This would allow you to press 2 keys (and maybe more with a correctly designed keycap set) at the same time. But I would have to design new keycaps for something like this. And I thought of writing to Signature plastic - but I dont think i have that much money right now - but maybe a little later.

I also thought of 3 dimensional approach. Which is to insert vowel keys between 2 keys - exactly like the thinkpad Red trackball - but at a lower height as compared to the bigram consonants. This would require a special MCU and n-key rollover detection - to check if the 3rd key is pressed. If you want to press 3 keys - you would have to press deeper - so that the deeper sandwiched vowel key also gets depressed.

It would need a new PCB design and I started reading up and watching videos on PCB design and Keyboard design.

Anyways, If any Keyboard designer is reading this - reach out to me
checks open windows

few browsers, graphical file managers, email client, text editor, terminal.

AKA the exact same kind of shit I have open when I use windows.
“Nothing Is More Impotent Than an Unread Library”
Ask HN: Do in-app browsers break Wordle-like apps for the average user?
I've made several apps that I'd classify as Wordle-like in the sense that:

1. They are tiny CDN served apps

2. They exclusively rely on localStorage

I've sent them to friends via chat and we had fun but they don't understand why they lose the progress/state when we stop chatting and they open Safari and Chrome but then get it back again when we chat. Not only it is difficult to make people open the browser manually but actually explaining what an in-app browser is... it's almost impossible.

Have you encountered something similar? Personally I don't hate the extra targeting or in-app time the social giants make from in-app browsers. It's the complete fragmented mess of web sessions across apps and the difficulty of explaining it to non-tech people that makes my blood boil.
Please consider using a custom string interpolation function to sanitize SQL, not an additional array of parameters. See styled components for inspiration.
Those poll workers have had their lives ruined over allegations that didn’t stand up in court.
Mosquitoes are especially good at smelling you
It's not a good week to be a Bucky Fuller fan, between this and the Dymaxion Car piece that went by a few days ago.

I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Bucky's contribution is a vision of what he called "Design Science Revolution": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_science_revolution To wit:

Our wealth is not really the material things we make nor the factories that make them, rather it's the immaterial principles and knowledge that gives us leverage over the material world. This wealth is all informational in nature, so it can be freely shared without impoverishing the giver.

If we apply this wealth of knowledge to solving our material problems efficiently, then there is more than enough matter/energy/room for everyone to live with a good standard of living and greatly reduced manual labor. In other words, science and technology wisely applied can create a kind of secular Utopia. (We still have to contend with the human condition, of course.)
Leaner and faster lru-caches in Python
We are all either going to end up as JavaScript developers or influencers. There is nothing in between.
The benefits of additional iron in your food?
Code Coverage at Google [pdf]
Yep. Here's a news article about this: https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/01/31/51...
And here we are arguing about subgenres and band classifications. I knew we'd get here!

Nightwish is a good fit except the "power" part.
Visiting New Zealand I was impressed by the lack of development on Lake Pukaki, Wanaka, and Hawea. Such pure nature that's bound not too last, but I'm glad the Kiwis are trying to slow the development down. There's still plenty of space on the North Island Peter.
Teg: A Parser Combinator Toolkit
I think the solution to the transatlantic problem is quite simple: A nuclear ocean liner. Such a ship could make the trip in around three and a half days, which is slower, but I think is highly competitive when you consider the dramatic improvement in comfort and productivity. These kinds of ships are highly sustainable and the necessary technologies are fully mature.
I was introduced to SML in 1996. It has always been a very interesting language, but it never seemed to make it out of academia, which I guess is okay. It seems to have a very nice niche there.