skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fwiw, I've never had good flow states. :p

When I code, there's always so much stuff I don't know that I have to look up or so many big design/refactoring questions that I'm discovering in real time and have to grapple with. It's as flowy as your car getting stuck in the mud every 2 miles and having to get out and push. It's as productive as having a bipartisan Congressional hearing on the best posture to use every time you have to push it out of the mud. Incrementalism and time management are my friends cuz it's exhausting to do that for too long without breaks!

Nevertheless, programming remains my favorite professional and hobbyist activity.
I wonder if there's a marketplace or active efforts for bad actors to buy popular vscode extensions so that they can inject malware into formerly trusted extensions? If you have a popular vscode extension do you get people reaching out to you to offer to buy it? I know this was fairly commonplace with browser addons.
> You are paying for prints, not ink

> I never have to buy ink

You are buying ink, since you're not just sending documents/images/etc. off for some company to print on their hardware with their ink and their paper, you're getting ink in vendor-locked cartridges which you can only print while within their arbitrary "no. of pages" metric.

Also, you bought the printer, you buy the actual pages of paper, the subscription is called "Instant INK" and [1] literally says:

> To enroll in HP Instant Ink you need to have an eligible printer, which tells us when you're low on ink or toner and orders it for you. (emphasis mine)

Additionally their "plans" table in the FAQs of [1] makes clear that "unused" pages that you supposedly paid for with your subscription are limited in how many roll over each month, essentially invalidating a number of your "purchased" pages if you don't print as often as they would like you to.

Scummy all the way down

[1]: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/cv/instantink
I tried signing up but the form didn't complete and wouldn't say why. I had to open up my browser's Developer Tools to see that my submission was being rejected because my password was too long
I don't think I'll ever stop coding, even after I retire. I originally learned programming in order to bring the random ideas, worlds, etc in my head to life. Even though I've now been doing it professionally for over a decade, the ideas never seem to run out.
Gold courses are the equivalent of "welfare queens". They don't really matter much in the big picture but look bad and are often used for political purposes.
> "There's no shortage of information about memory allocators on the Internet, and if you've read this far you should be well-placed to dive in to it.
Join the discussion on Hacker News! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029087 "

Interesting to use hacker news as the blog's own comment section in this way.
In a democracy it does correspond with votes though. Other than one person = one vote, how would you structure a global government?
Other artists calling him out isn't convincing to me. Every rock band that makes it big is a "sellout" to their unsuccessful colleagues. He had art that people wanted so he sold it widely and efficiently. Is that not the description of every monetarily successful artist? Or are you supposed to make poor business decisions and stumble into success on accident?
This is a great article. I also recommend K&R Chapter 8 if people wanna know more. Do the exercises and it’ll just click.
Show HN: Benchmark two strategies for a pivot operation in Snowflake
I have generated a decent sized dataset to show Snowflake's Pivot function is underperforming and a different strategy can give us much as a 2x improvement in runtime.
> It sounded digital in nature and was repeating.

My tinnitus is somewhere between a sustained chorus that slowly changes its primary note, and yes, a low-speed multi-tone frequency-shift modem. [1] Closest description I can come up with. Seemingly discrete, constantly changing, warbling notes. First time I realized that, I thought it might be a sign of mental illness - misinterpreting sensory information as coded messages is never a good sign! But apparently not. Just how I perceive my tinnitus. I've heard others describe it in similar ways. Obviously, cultural priming is a factor here; if we had never heard digital modems before, maybe we'd describe it as bird song (as many with tinnitus do).

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/OLIVIA_5...
> Honestly, I have pretty much zero expectation of privacy when I fly.

Me too, which is why I avoid flying unless there are pretty serious consequences to not taking a flight, and why if I am forced to fly, I get pretty grumpy about it.

> If privacy advocates keep crying “wolf” about everything, there won’t be much response when there really are significant threats to privacy.

I don't think anyone is crying "wolf" here. This sort of thing is a significant threat.
I'm mildly curious: about how many of the books in this series have you read?

I'm with you on feeling jaded by pop science in general, but I'm struck by the lack of specific comments on this specific series in the HN reactions here.

My opinion from reading 10 of them in the last few years: 3 were worthwhile to me (The ice age, Stoicism, and planetary systems), and a couple more in the sort-of-OK range. An 11th I quickly gave up on (Anatomy: A VSI -- I'm still on the lookout for a book in that niche).

I'd really value a series like this which presumed a reader comfy with basic freshman math for a STEM major, or even high school math -- it's some kind of indictment of modern education that educated adults are taken by the whole industry to be repelled by even that much math in pop science.
I wish more people were aware how much water goes to agriculture and would react accordingly when their government asks them to cut water usage or raises prices - 90% goes to (largely wasteful) farming and they don’t really pay…

It’s not the people taking 2 (gasp) showers a day fault, it’s the almond farmers using floors irrigation
Ask HN: Why most WordPress sites can't meet Google's speed and core web vitals?
I wonder why most Wordpress websites can't meet Google's requirements for a "healthy" website even when they look quite usable in real life. For example

https://www.rollingstone.com/

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-rollingstone-com/adieds44wz?form_factor=mobile

For speed, it has 13/100. It failed at the core Web vitals assessment.

Most little websites based on obscure frameworks that I know do much better.

Any hints for the reasons it is so slow?
But at this point, why not use OSX directly? In the end, you can do the same things as on Linux. What can you do on Linux that you can't do on Mac?
Patching Is an Anti-Pattern
Visualizing recursive call frames using depth-first search
A small tool I made to help one understand and visualize depth-first search and recursion. Enjoy!
> I don't know why some people struggle with this.

Because the internet is flooded with idiots, this is a massive waste of perfectly good ink cardridges.
> When the war started there were no talking what's so ever about NATO expansion to Ukraine

Ukraine adopted a policy of seeking to join NATO after the current Russo-Ukrainian war began in 2014.

Immediately prior to the war it had focussed on seeking to join the EU, but had disclaimed any interest in joining NATO.
Migrating an ERP System from IBM RPG to Python
Go+ is a successor to Golang, optimised for data science
To be fair, pro-immigration is governnment policy too. Just for different reasons. The Tories want cheap labour/low wages, and sky-high house prices.
My wife found some deal on Facebook marketplace for a HP 5550DN for $75. Had an extra set of toner cartridges for it, though the ones already in it aren't only a little below half full.

Though, if you don't have ample floor space... it's the size of our washer I think, what with the extra trays and whatnot.
While I agree with the general premise, don't you think that if we were to find a simple explaination that elegantly explains many things at once, it would be at least worth a try to find ways of falsifying that explaination?

Not at any cost of course, but the falsifications gathered e.g. in trying to disprove the string theory might also help us figure out what is actually going on.
The trick was to have a broken window pane that you patched with duct tape and cardboard.

Not one break in!

Figured no one thought we were worth it. Although we were two houses across the street from Kool Korner, so maybe that was the "nicer" part of Home Park?
I've set one up before when the pandemic was in full swing. I haven't really been stuck in group call hell for well over a year with my work now but at the time I was really impressed about how much higher the video and audio quality was over what zoom had at the time.

The only complaint we had was the mobile performance. Made older phones hot and killed the battery fast.

Other than that great software suite!
And you don't actually see a singularity, you see only an event horizon, and more accurately, the matter trapped orbiting the event horizon.
That's exactly the problem with seniority. You overallocate and the highest seniority levels get everything. Basically there is no need for allocation at all.
I've had really good luck with the one generation old relatively up-market Dells - their consumer products tend to be mediocre, but the Latitudes and Precisions are typically good hardware ... look for Dells that start with a "7".

My little 12-13" class carryin' around laptops for the last many years have been a first-party refurbished Latitude E7250 succeeded by a similarly refurb Latitude 7390. Replacement after not quite 5 years because I finally got a tiny hairline crack in the LCD that caused some discoloration in the corner of the screen, from a hit that would have bent the corner of an aluminum chassis machine, and it was starting to struggle with running video conferencing at the same time as my usual workloads. First party refurb meaning https://www.dellrefurbished.com/ - It's a joint venture by FedEx and Dell, stock is "whatever they have right now" but there are always machines coming through, and there are usually coupons that make it even cheaper, so pick what you want and watch for a few weeks if you can.

As you note, going for a generation old machine not only gives time for the hardware support to settle out, it makes it _much_ cheaper: Both of those were around $500 for examples optioned up to 1920x1080 screens, the newer one has 16GB of RAM in it, etc., and I kind of prefer that the machine I carry around day-to-day isn't something I have to be super precious about.

In the two example cases, everything _except_ a Broadcom smartcard reader that I don't have any compelling use for anyway worked out of the box with little-to-no configuration, I get credibly 10-12 hours of usable battery out of the newer one (I'm running a full-integration KDE on Arch setup, so it's not light but it's also running active power management), and the 7250's (readily replaceable if I chose to) battery still has 78% of its design capacity after years of cycles.

...or if you want a truly low-end beater, buy an EOL Chromebook for like $50, flash a UEFI Coreboot payload (MrChromebox maintains builds for most of the common models) and hack on it mercilessly. They're low-end, but are fine at being low end, and the ones built for the education market will take a _beating_. I have one that I use as a media player/reference materials display when doing potentially destructive things like sanding/filing/paint stripping or what have you. I got it to do that as a Chromebook, but after it was getting concerningly out of date once the model passed AUE, I flashed it and now it's usually running some weird stack (currently Hyprland) that I want to try out on a machine I actually use without interfering with machines I do real work on.
Mythbusters rackled this before...

>Based off of multiple airplane movies, this myth posed a challenge to the MythBusters because they could not afford to test it using real aircraft. Instead, they used a NASA simulator. For their first test, both Adam and Jamie decided to see if they could land a plane unaided. However, since both MythBusters had no flight experience and had no idea what most of the instruments and controls did, they both were forced to crash land their planes. In their second runs, a licensed pilot give them instructions via radio. With this help, both Adam and Jamie were able to land their planes safely. However, even though the test was a success, the pilot pointed out that most modern planes are so advanced that their autopilot systems can literally land the plane by themselves, negating the need for a civilian pilot. This information, coupled with the lack of any recorded incidents, led the MythBusters to declare the myth plausible.
I was interested in Mikrotik devices, but then I looked at the API documentation[1] and was a bit horrified.

[1]: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/API
There is a subtle, but important, difference between ChatGPT and the OpenAI API in regards to data usage - https://openai.com/policies/api-data-usage-policies .

ChatGPT is free but users pay with their data.
Using the OpenAI API on the other hand costs money, but users data (the prompts they send and the replies they receive) is not used for further model training.

Additionally, when using ChatGPT, one can select to disable chat history, which prevents using the data for model training - https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7730893-data-controls-fa...

OpenAI does add some (imo, unnecessary) barriers to this, but that's another story.

Disclaimer: I developed AKME - https://apps.apple.com/app/akme-ai-knowledge/id6446436196 specifically for users that want to use the OpenAI API, but would rather not have their data used to further train models.

Users can enter their own API key (this implies they have an OpenAI account with a payment method connected) and pay directly OpenAI, based on their usage. The app has no tracking, monitoring, data gathering etc and all prompts are sent directly to the OpenAI API in this case.

Users that don't have an OpenAI account (or can't create one) can alternatively buy in-app tokens, though, to cover for the "apple tax", those are a bit more expensive than the OpenAI tokens.
In this scenario, the prompt is sent to a (very minimal) proxy that appends my API key to the request.
Yep, I ran one on bare-metal for many years, then a Jitsi-Meet server as a 'replacement' while running the original for 1-on-1 calls so the execs could use the full end-to-end crypto.

Jitsi is great, IMO. Highly recommend.

I've left the company since, I believe they were bought out and switched to MS Teams now.
I did an echo server with multi-shot here (using the io_uring rust bindings) https://github.com/thinkharderdev/io-uring/blob/ring-mapped-.... My biggest issue with io_uring is figuring out what is available in which kernel version :)
I don't have a facebook account. Yet, my personal health information was shared to FB via an API that my health application was using. Not only this, meta will face zero consequences for this and freely use/sell this data.
Have you considered the use of a tool such as a password manager or book?
Let's say a train ticket costs $10. If you board without a ticket, the probability of getting caught and having to pay a fine is, let's say, 10%. Do you see why the amount of the fine must be greater than $100? Otherwise the optimal strategy is to never buy a train ticket, and just always pay the fine when you get caught.

That's a slap on the wrist: it's cheaper to pay the fine than to follow the law. The correct amount of money for a fine is a multiple of the amount of revenue gained from ignoring the law. I don't know what that is in this case, but I'm fairly certain it's at least an order of magnitude larger than $1.3B.
Who knows, some idiot keeps using my email and signing up on various spammy services. Probably time to get a new email address.
In order to collect, store and process data about people in the EU, you have to do so in a manner compliant with the EU law on that.

Collecting that data on a web page is a choice.

A semi-hidden security benefit of GDPR is that it makes people think twice before collecting and keeping data - you can't leak data that isn't in your database in the first place.
> Looking at the modem's status screen, I could see that I only had a single upstream channel connected.

Is this really a reliable indicator of a problem? I'm also on Xfinity, and see the same thing - 3 out of 4 upstream bonded channels are in the "not locked" state according to my modem. They've been that way ever since I moved here.

However, I receive the full upstream bandwidth that Xfinity allocates for my plan (a pathetic 20 Mbps), and it has been extremely reliable, no outages. Since it looked like this from day 1, I made the assumption that Xfinity only uses one of the channels since the bandwidth they provide is so low. The power levels and SNRs for all locked channels (up and down) are green across the board.
Yep. And this goes back to my initial comment that this an an Apple thing. It happened on their payment ecosystem.
I have a Dell 1320CN Color Laser, which has been great for some 15 years. The sad part is that it needs drivers on macOS/Linux which only work on Intel CPUs. So I have to cuddle an ancient iMac so to keep the ability to print.
Twitter's UX has changed. Blue checks are now just showing paid subscribers. Gold[1] checks are the new standard for verified media or corporate outlets. This seems like someone didn't update their trading algorithm to account for this change to the platform.

[1]: https://twitter.com/MarketWatch/
> You can cancel or change your plan anytime. If you don't use all of your pages, they automatically rollover to the next month.

> HP Instant Ink uses high-volume cartridges, pricing based on pages printed, and direct-to-customer shipping delivered only when you run low.

> You’ll get your first cartridges when you sign up and then receive replacement cartridges based on how much you print—not every month, like other subscriptions.

Ok, Jan.

This was called out in literally my very first reply to you. I'm done with this bullshit. I'd say have a good day, but I'd rather hope you didn't.
Essential to mention that Soylent Green makes a key plot point out of Global Warming.
> if you are too short to play on the NBA, you won't play on the NBA no matter how hard you practice

Tyrone Bogues played 14 years in the NBA despite being by all pundits way too short to play basketball at any level.
Here you don’t pay a fee for the modem but they don’t let you run your own. Among other reasons because they want to force retire unsupported frequencies.
There's a very large difference between arguing in favor of Russia's actions versus attempting to posit any degree of complexity and nuance in explaining how we reached this point, who shoulders responsibility, what a realistic end to the conflict is likely to look like, etc.

The recent piece in Harper's does a good job of laying out "the other side" i.e. realism and historical context against the "Putin is a delusional Hitlerian madman bent on dominating Europe" theory: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/06/why-are-we-in-ukraine/

On the current trajectory though, the west's belief in its own eschatological hegemony looks like it's already collapsed the "unipolar moment" of the last 30 years and there's a good chance of us continuing to climb the escalation ladder into World War 3, so the narrative that none of the sowing of this conflict was remotely our fault is providing an important psychological bulwark to steel everyone's nerves for what we may reap.
Obviously what this is actually paying for is the Ink, but the way that is calculated is on a per page basis and the ink that is sent to you is basically being leased to you.

I don't know where you are getting your numbers from. If I to look at the HP Tango, and I look at the "High Yield" cartridge which is $46, that is rated at 600 pages.

So no, if you are doing 100 pages I would not expect you would be buying a new tank every month. Which is the $6 one I mentioned.

If they demanded that commitment we would just be complaining about the commitment and not this side of it... Also that doesn't account for when they do inevitably need to send you another cartridge.

The point here is simple, the marketing for "Instant Ink" is very clear about never stating how often you are getting a cartridge. It is just when you need it. They do that, because you are not buying the physical cartridge but obviously you need ink in your home to be able to print. If I subscribe to this for 3 months, spend the $18 a month. I may get that first cartridge but if O do zero prints, I won't be sent another cartridge (or at least shouldn't be).

Yes it is a bit weird to think that you have something in your hands that you cannot actually use. But you are not buying the actual cartridges in this model.

Put another way, let's assume this cartridge is actually 600 pages (it may or may not be since it depends on what exactly you print, unlike this subscription service that is just a per page). So you subscribe to this service saying you will print 50 pages a month. Theoretically that single cartridge you were sent at the beginning of your subscription will last for a year. You're paying $4 a month. HP is making the bet that you will keep up the subscription even though that first month is most likely a loss for them.

If they were to just be "nice" and allow you to keep the cartridge it just opens it up for abuse.
idk about "unnatural", it's basically death by physics. You are killed by the universe. Sounds natural to me.

I'd put in the same category as falling from a great height.
It's still one iOS SDK. As a developer and power user audience, we remember when iPhone OS was first renamed to iOS on iPad's release because they were the same. It hasn't been renamed back. Regarding usage, the term iOS development within Apple dev shops still refers to both iPhone and iPad code and App Store distribution. We generally use iOS as an umbrella term, and reach for the new term iPadOS in reference to the iPad-exclusive parts of the user experience like its multitasking capabilities and Universal Control.
I think you're meant to make your own app, but I don't have permission anyway. Some applications have their own tenant id (?) and you can copy, e.g. davmail's from ~/.davmail.properties, or even copy the token you get from it to use with something else.
Yes! jitsi.zaggy.nl

For adhoc gaming sessions, family chat during corona.

Disabled audio activity indicator(?) to severely reduce client CPU usage.
I run a Jitsi instance on Linode. I used their push-button setup, then tweaked the security settings slightly. I keep it off and on a minimal instance except when it's time for a meeting, at which point I move it to a dedicated host for the duration of the meeting. I always check my TLS/SSL certificates and update the OS before the meeting, too. It has been okay, but not as reliable as Google Meet or Zoom. There's often someone having audio issues, typically on an iPad. Before I switched to a dedicated instance, those problems were worse. One of my regular meeting participants co-founded the FSF, so I'm using Jitsi so that we're using open-source software. I'm a big fan of Jitsi, but I want to be realistic about its reliability in my experience.
That's a very good point. In particular, "complete" refers to the ability of the mathematical-logical system to prove every statement that is true within that system, in terms of the system.

This property is completely irrelevant to a theory like QM or GR - it is only relevant for a system that aims to be a universal foundation for mathematics (a formal language in which any mathematical statement whatsoever could be precisely formally encoded, and then proven or disproven).
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