skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parents getting more sleep has knock-on benefits for the kid. It's hard not to be grumpy under the influence of a sleep deficit. I wake up several times a night. So does my kid. So if I wake up every time he wakes up, and every time I'd naturally wake up, then I don't get enough sleep. Self-care is crucial for caretakers, and I was a bit disappointed to not find any mention of that in the article.
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And there's no way to ensure that only "good" actors will be able to use the backdoor. If there's a backdoor then "bad" actors will find a way to exploit it.
I was a Poetry user then I discovered the joy of virtual environment-less PDM [1]. It's really easy to import your existing Poetry project in.

[1] https://pdm.fming.dev/latest/usage/pep582/
Had similar feelings 10~15 years ago when in China.

Especially, I have full sympathy for the food safety. In 2008, there was a scandal astonishing in developed countries' standard, that nutrition deficit baby formulas have been sold for years, impacting more than 300k babies and 54k are hospitalized.

Well, things will get better with a stronger economy. The richer part of China is already at least halfway past that. Don't lose hope.
All these people getting trouble for net sending are not going far enough.

When I was in school the admin left his account logged in and left the room. I was there to make few admin accounts to myself, and later programmed malware that worked as a keylogger and gave me some remote control of all the machines (I put it inside a .BAT script that was ran after login, distributing it to every computer in the school).

I used my powers by downloading stuff and burning it to CDs as I didn't have a good connection. I also gave some access to my friends, and the computer lab turned into a war zone. We were opening stuff on other people's screens, but not good stuff. Things like Goatse and people doing stuff with farm animals they shouldn't be doing..

After some time it had gone way too mad and computer lab got shut down. But the crazy thing is, after a while the school just let it go and didn't even notify our parents. Apparently, nobody wants to tell the parents that a room in school has been OnlyFans Farm Edition for a while.. I had some stern talks with the principal and IT teacher as the only suspect, but that was it.
> I grew up in rural France. Small village have shops, bars, services like post-office, hair-dresser and whatnot. It's not a dichotomy between things and absence of things.

Ah, comparing France of 30 years ago with US today. Reality: France has changed. I mean, this model hasn't totally died, but it's in it's last spasms.
What is the most helpful thing you do with xargs and -0?
Stone tablet shows Babylonians able to approximate √2 with 99.9999% accuracy
It depends. Smaller scale prewar office buildings work pretty well (I live in one). 80's postmodern towers not so much. At least here (downtown Chicago), it's mostly prewar office buildings that are obsolete for modern office use and are being converted to residential and hotel.
The idea that dim-witted neighbors get to have a say in how you live your life is kinda gross.
I always enjoyed spacing out for 12-14 hours (long haul) with no social media, no pointless Reddit browsing and no need to contact anyone at work. Guess that's gone now.
This is something I think in the next 5 years will become a major thing. Broadly speaking from an OS level, the folks that optimize their software the best will see big benefits. I have advocated (lightly so) to some Linux folks that we should start moving to where the situation will be by the end of the decade. Optimize now before we have too.

The pessimist (AKA Stallman) in me is thinking that vendors like Apple and Microsoft are going to use things like their Security processors to force people to buy new hardware. Software optimizations can potentially keep older hardware going for a lot longer, but by having an arbitrary security chip requirement - folks can be forced to purchase new hardware every few years as older model support is dropped. We are already seeing this in Windows 11.

While we will not have a year of the Linux desktop, the ability for the speed optimizations to be more open to all people could be a sizable win for the platform. Provided the ability to do this isn't locked down.
For 2500 years, disciplined practitioners of meditation have reported pretty much the same results. There are a number of scientific papers by scientists confirming brainwave changes by those who meditate, one example here[0].

Science and Buddhism are completely compatible because Buddhism isn't a religion. It's a system of rational thought as demonstrated by Buddhist thinkers like Santideva, Nagarjuna and Chandrakirti, to name only three.

[0]https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
Counter: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-... (and it isn’t a left vs right thing, Vox is replying to a whole bunch of coverage from all angles; I’ve mostly seen Gilens&Page posted from the left).
Couldn’t have happened to a better sack of shit. His antics and platform (the MLM nonsense and trafficking of women etc and his misogyny) should end, too.
I want to break up with Python, too. The one-size-fits-all philosophy that runs through the language from end to end leaves me feeling like I'm typing with three fingers. Sometimes its Right Way really is okay or even right, but sometimes I'd really, really, rather use something else. I worry about a generation of programmers for whom this is the first, main, and possibly only thing they've learned. I worry about them being brain damaged.

But where would I go? I clicked through hoping to find a good suggestion, and found none.

Python has become the lingua franca of programming, in many contexts, in many fields. You don't have a choice. You have to be able to read it, if you want to read what people are doing. You have to be able to write it, if you want people to read your stuff. It's where the libraries are. It's where stuff is happening. For better or for worse, Python won.

Even if I don't care about any of that, I really don't know where to go.

I really loved perl. I loved the powerful expression and conciseness. I miss it. But perl 5 is old, and it shows -- a lot of good ideas have come along in the last couple decades, and a lot of things that seemed like good ideas at the time really haven't worked out. A decade or so ago, I was excited about perl 6, but it doesn't seem to have worked out.

I don't like python. But I don't know what to replace it with. Javascript and Ruby seem like the serious options to me, and it's hard to take the one seriously, and the other is so niche that that itself feels like a serious drawback. I want a general purpose scripting language that can do small scripts well (Messes allowed! Shortcuts encouraged! Power in a small space!) and grow to large projects well (Thoughtful object system! Good package management! Good support for alternative paradigms!)

I just can't figure out what that would be.
The IE 11 user-agent forced Mozilla to freeze part of its user-agent string
I'm totally against mandated backdoors, and I am pro-privacy. But we should acknowledge that the communication environment we live in now is materially different than it has been in the past. The past ~15 years is the first time in human history it's been possible for humans to communicate (1) instantly, (2) across any distance, (3) with no possibility of eavesdropping (given the right software), and (4) via devices that are cheap and ordinary (i.e. expected to be owned and carried by just about anyone).

Again, I think the harm of mandating backdoors far outweighs the benefit, but imagine your job is to make sure people aren't organizing mass terror attacks. I think you can take a look at the above environment and get a little worried, in a way you wouldn't be about people just whispering to each other in-person. When we say "no backdoors," we are truly making a tradeoff.
On social networks yes. Because all nuance is lost and things are only white and black.

It’s stupid and part of why they are so bad for my personal mental health
Show HN: Spotify Wrapped but for iMessage
Hellooo HN,
long time reader, first time poster.

I'm a final year cs undergrad student and this winter break I wanted to make my first real sort of end-to-end software. So I made wyd.chat.

It's a imessage analyzer kind thing - just looks at your texts to see who you text the most, when you text them, what you talk about, how many group chats you're in with them, etc etc.

I made it for fun but realized that the data kind of shows who I should prioritize in my life vs who I am not giving enough of my attention to. Just super interesting data.

Basic analytics is for free and full is for $6 one time. All data is stored locally and I truly have access to nothing.

I'm a super baby engineer so any feedback you might have I would be so grateful.

Happy new year!
I’ve heard it claimed that this behavior is just play, but all juvenile bees need to learn coordination given the way they tumble about their world. A genetic predisposition to “enjoy” play would encourage this learning just as a baby’s sucking reflex encourages the learning to suck voluntarily
I can tell that it's happening because I'm a paranoid fucking psycho. That's not true of the millions and millions of regular human beings using Reddit and Facebook every day
> At this time, crypto payments appear to be the only viable way I can guarantee my customers' privacy and protect my business

How does crypto protect your business?
I did: "net send * The server room is on fire, please turn off your computer!"

Not only that, but my computer name was assigned to my username so it said my full name next to it.....

I was called up to the office within 2 seconds and immediately suspended. I also got braces that dad. Rough day. :(
Things are undeniably better than they ever were before, especially for those outside the US and Western Europe. We need to work to continue to improve them, but we are in no way going the wrong direction outside of a few small areas such as housing access as you point out.
This is basically the social media addiction bargaining version of "I can't quit drinking, I will lose contact with all my friends at the bar!. Just have to accept that alcohol is part of society and social interaction."
>Which we basically knew already.

I disagree.

I don't think the vast majority of people realized to what extent the US government set the boundaries of acceptable opinions/topics and were given free passage and in some cases assistance in conducting psyops.

This will be especially eye-opening for non-US users who may now seriously consider whether to continue using US based platforms at all.
> History has shown us time and time again that when privacy is given away because "bad people can use it", without fail turns out to be detrimental to the law abiding citizens, with little to no impact to criminals. In many cases it further pushed the government into a dictatorial, even totalitarian regimes.

I agree with the conclusion, but I wonder about the claims and reasoning.

Can you give us examples? I don't recall that many 'bad people can use it' arguments that led to what is described. I doubt it's led a liberal democracy to become authoritarian, and under existing authoritarian regimes, there is little or no privacy to give away.

Finally, the biggest privacy threat in free countries now isn't government but corporations.
U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Consultation Finds 'Deep Disagreement' on Anti-Piracy
I don't have enough information to make suggestions. Sometimes it's okay to not have an opinion on something, especially when you have no relationship with the company and have no idea what the reality of the situation is.
Recent and related:

Bumble bees play, according to new research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33369572 - Oct 2022 (76 comments)
>they're trying to create a second "x man bad" with elon now that trump is effectively neutered and irrelevant.

Where did you get that Elon and Trump here from?
I ran the circumference of an entire country once while on vacation:

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/616188437
> While all of these formats can be generated by the client before inserting them into the database, for the purpose of simplicity and consistency, having them be generated within the database engine is preferred.

This very much misses the point of UUID/ULID pkeys. The whole idea is that you can generate them client-side without needing a connection to the database and assume that they will not conflict. This speeds up everything considerably allowing you to just write to the database once when generating new records without holding onto a sequence, without needing to worry about synchronizing ids between client & server, and without needing to worry about synhronizing sequences between multiple shards.

We've been using ULIDs with postgres in production for years without the database even being ULID-aware at all. The only thing you might want is support for a ULID type so you can manually draft queries with ULIDs directly (rather than having to use their binary equivalent as a UUID) and to display results of manual db queries with pkeys cast as Crockford base-32 ULIDs rather than UUID format.
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DevDocs (https://devdocs.io) is a great interface to the existing (content-wise wholly OK) Python docs.
From the WSJ:

> Chip Inventories Swell as Consumers Buy Fewer Gadgets - Semiconductor companies slash production plans amid weak demand

> https://www.wsj.com/articles/chip-inventories-swell-as-consu...

Although elsewhere, I read there's still a shortage of chips for cars:

> Automotive chip shortages to continue throughout 2023, industry says

> https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/12/automotive-chip-shortag...
Nothing stops you from bundling dependencies on linux.

The reason it's a "very linux problem" is exactly because this is a sane thing to do in a pool of insane systems.

There's absolutely no reason to ship your 1k executable with 1Gb of libraries, used by 10 other programs.
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I'd gladly convert to other transport modes, but somehow I don't think a 2100km high speed rail line over the sea is going to happen any time soon.
> I still find it curious that the python language server is quite capable of inferring types from unannotated code yet most of the type checking tools for python seem to explode as soon as they encounter an very popular yet untyped library.

There are multiple python language servers, but if you mean the Microsoft one, well, that just incorporates one of the best of the Python static typecheckers (Microsoft’s pyright)
> What fraction of people who are in traffic accidents leave the scene in their vehicle before the police get there, but get found later because their license plates were known?

As a cyclist who continually sees stories of aggressive car behaviors being reported and acted on because the cyclist had cam footage of the license plate I'd say the fraction is close to 100%.

So yes, it is a trade-off and in this case I agree with the OP that is is worth it.
Absolutely 100%, I go to any meetups of conferences that are around in my areas. And I have friends who are with a similar mentality of me trying to figure it out.

I maybe should have rephrased the question.
I'm sorry, why is this on hacker news?
> But the Chinese startup behind the ESPxx chips made sure that their devkits were cheap enough for hobbyists and students and through that influence they now also dominate the professional industry.

The rest of the industry failing to learn from how Microsoft came to dominance by basically ignoring piracy among students and private individuals.
The king is dead :(
If hit and runs were known to be virtually untrackable, I'd guess you'd have a lot more hit and runs.
I agree with your comment, but: I don't think NYC was bulldozed to fit a central plan. The city's (really, just Manhattan's) street plan was developed in 1807 and finalized in 1811[1], at a time when most of the island was still wetlands and marsh.

(That's not to praise the Commissioners' plan, per se, but only to observe that no dense city was bulldozed to enact it.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioners%27_Plan_of_1811
Human infants were not left alone to go hunt for food, i believe the modern concept of family is at play here. People used to live with their parents so, much more help - much less crying.
Not sure that the four stars have much of a good reputation these days; many seem to have taken some bad risks late in their careers and after…
> Sounds like an opportunity for a type checker that uses the language server

The language server itself uses a typechecker, so you'd just be building a typechecker that uses another typechecker by a roundabout route.
Nope. The rivalry really only happens when Brazil plays against Argentina. Pretty much everyone here was rooting for Argentina to win this final.

edit: and yes, I agree, this was the greates World Cup final I've ever seen, and I've seen them all since the 80's
It's a bit weird though, I can't imagine disowning a child but why not? People put kids up for adoption.

It's really weird to insist on using your biological father's surname if they disown you.
Also Pele was always okay being used as a PR stunt during the dictatorship against which he has never spoken a word.
This sounds similar to what Core Logic [0] provides to realtors in Australia. The majority of realtors use it, and I'm sure they pay a lot more than $300/year

[0] https://www.corelogic.com.au
The Japanese only separate their rubbish into 'burnable' or 'non burnable' items. I think that's a more honest approach.
Which Github page do you mean? I wasn't aware they'd started putting properly packaged binary releases on Github.
It’s only a misteak if you eat at Geno’s. Don’t make a misteak, eat at Pat’s.
> People will work out how to trick the visual monitoring too.

I believe you are right. The DMS (Driver Montering System) needs to work on so many outliers: damaged face, porslin eye, niqab and other health related issues. It is more important that the system let these people be able to drive the car than it is to stop abuse.

Many car manufacturers test the DMS alot regarding of how to trick them when they select the supplier but so far they don't want to pay for better protection (to my knowledge). (Well. they don't want to pay for anything to be honest but still have all the features)

I believe there will be a cat and mouse situation for a while until it get to expensive to catch them or to inconvenient/costly/looking stupid for the driver to trick the system.

But I am sure it is harder to trick DMS system than Teslas system today. And harder means fewer people will do it.

disclaimer: one of many engineers working with this.

(It is btw one of the most interesting problems I have encountered. Just think for a second of all engineering expertise you need: biological, optics, electronics, medecin, high performance computing in C and assembly (you need to get it to run on a "toaster") , AI (a lot), etc. etc. Just collecting ground truth of drowsiness is a tricky topic by it self... if someone here has a boring job, I highly recommend to think about this field)
> Change your distro.

I ship on-prem software, so I have to test on a certain set of distros using different package managers. Changing distros isn't an option for me.

> Or become packager itself.

While this would technically solve the problem, nobody wants to do this.

Instead I use Homebrew (Linuxbrew) which just works.
My personal observation is that all companies that succeed, succeed despite themselves.
This is basically why you need Product Market Fit. It forgives all sins.

It is all that matters. You can even completely fuck up a la Southwest and be totally fine.
They wouldn't include the commentary in their official copies if they didn't intend for it to affect how the law is interpreted. That makes "legislation" vs "explanatory notes" a meaningless distinction. It has a direct effect on the actions of people with guns and badges, therefore we the people have a right to know.
I find it interesting how most of the comments focus around maintaining quiet on the aircraft, and very little about the technical details behind this rule (interference with communications radio, interference with ground-based navigation signals, and impact on the cellular network itself).

At least in the US, there's two different rules relevant to in-flight cell phone use:

- 14 CFR 91.21 [1] - FAA rule prohibiting use of any electronics during air-carrier/instrument flight which the aircraft operator hasn't approved, in order to prevent interference with the avionics.

- 47 CFR 22.925 [2] - FCC rule prohibiting airborne use of cellular telephones specifically, in order to prevent phones from talking to too many towers at once and stressing the cellular network. (As altitude increases the radio horizon increases, so at altitude your phone can "see" significantly more towers. The cellular network is built on the principle that a phone can only see a small handful of towers at a time, enabling frequency reuse.) This rule technically only applies in the "Cellular Radiotelephone Service" band, which is one of several different bands a cellphone can use, and it's one of the older ones — but you have no idea which band your cellphone is using at any given time.

The FCC has talked about updating 47 CFR 22.925 and/or harmonizing the rules between cellular bands, but who knows if they'll ever get around to it. [3]

FWIW, as a private pilot, I have first-hand experience with interference when somebody forgot to switch their cell phone off. It was difficult to hear ATC over the "click-click-BUZZ" of GSM interference through the headset. Granted, this was a small airplane, so passengers were much closer to the avionics... but it's not just a hypothetical.

Cell phones tend not to work very well (if at all) above about 5,000 feet anyway, since cell tower antennas are directional and pointed towards the ground.

[1]: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...

[2]: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-B...

[3]: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-04-288A1.pdf
These settings are still there you can access these settings via the group policy editor if you are on 10 pro. Its probably possible to do it via the registry editor also
I understand what you're saying, and I also would love a middle-ground.

However, as the article explains better than I could, there's no way to get the upsides of privacy while mitigating the downsides.
Thanks! Sorry about the Vivaldi experience :(
I accused you of hyperbole because I did not think anywhere in the world sold just water, or at least no high sugar beverages like coke in a vending machine. If that question was meant in earnest then I apologize.

I think that cheeseburger might not be representative, the quarter pounder might be more so [1], at 520 calories, regardless I think it’s clear that my calorie estimate was wrong and plainly too high (I think you are correct that I was referring to the meal option calories), I retract my claim that total calorie count was likely the dominant factor.

That leaves me without further points as I have conceded or apologized on the ones that mattered to me. I think that means I went off half cocked, my bad, thank you for explaining yourself to me.

[1] https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/quarter-pounder-w...
It was promoted by a politically-homogenous group of people as a COVID-19 cure

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/28/covid-telehealth-hydroxy...
What level of risk do you believe allows massive corporations to loot the government?

1 in 100,000? 1 in 10,000?
I use airplane mode to cycle the radio. Sometimes the firmware gets wedged and cycling it (by turning airplane mode on and then off) forces it to reset and reacquire a signal, which leads to better connectivity.