skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, it seems that the intent of the code is to add two parallel, invisible kill beams to augment the main beam. The nature of the bugs are such that the added beams are positioned in roughly the right place, for a certain axis-aligned view.

I’d guess that the feature was tested manually in such a view, and seemed to work OK. And that the feature was subtle enough of a behavior tweak that no one noticed that it didn’t work correctly in most other situations, since the main, visible beam worked correctly, and no one could see it killing enemies behind walls.
What specific list do you mean? Googling Epstein list wasn't very enlightening.

Is it the list of people that went to his parties? Specific sexual acts? associates of his sex trafficking underlings?
To boldly go where no Reddit community has gone before.
I think about it the other way around, actually.

During the prototyping phase diagrams do help, but they're usually sketches written on paper or whiteboard. You don't want to waste time with tools and strict specifications to design perfect diagrams, mostly because the design will change frequently, and you don't want your tools getting in the way.

Later on, once the design has settled down and maybe once development has started, those initial diagrams are mostly worthless, but you _do_ want neat and professionally done design documents that describe the system. This allows you to share them with coworkers, and quickly onboard other developers to the project. Hopefully by then the design won't change frequently, which would make updating these a chore.
Didn't they just introduce the .zip TLD?
Higher quality applications. Fewer privacy violations. Lower chance of identity theft. Better overall security. Longer life cycles for new features. Even longer cycles for critical/security updates. Reduced effort to maintain and keep secure.

On top of that, but not because of the walled garden aspect: Better parental controls. Consistent user experience (although for this one it helps to have the walled garden). Better device interoperability across the ecosystem.
For me, “it just works.” The amount of time configuring a OSX vs Windows work computer was huge.

For personal use cases it’s the same. Smartphones are so advanced that there’s not that much functionality I’d get. The benefit from customizability of an Android is less than the stability and ease of access of an iPhone. Maybe ad blocking is the only issue, YT on the phone is unusable, but I have a pi-hole for my home network so I don’t mind.

I still have a rooted Android and a jail broken iPad to mess around with. But beyond some nerdy stuff or hacking a mobile game, it’s mostly a gimmick.
iPadOS is mostly delivering on what you describe. Plug into monitor, mouse, keyboard, window manager, multitasking. Only gap is the “open/unlocked” bit, but Apple is making slow progress there.

It shows the horse power is there in iPhone. I’d guess it’s a UX decision to limit to iPad - iPad apps can scale up to monitor size, but I never want to use an app designed for a 6 inch screen on a 27 inch screen.
TFA says this clearly. The whole point of the article is that the device can be used to develop and build software for the device, on the device, without an external system...
Most Android devices are pretty much a walled garden too.
Ask HN: What are some useful websites that most people don't know about?
Financial metrics were probably meh.
> And they'd know the classics, like memorizing all design patterns.

That sentence is bringing back ptsd-like flashbacks.

I remember distinctly how much everyone thought that approach you describe was broken when it was the trendy thing.

I'm not sure how universal it ever was, but it was at one point a trendy thing that everyone thought they should be doing... and that so many people subject to found disastrous. [The phrase "architecture astronaut" was a common epithet, and not a friendly one]

That above paragraph [without the brackets], ironically, could certainly be said of "agile" more recently too. I don't know how universal it ever was, but it was at one point a trendy thing that everyone thought they should be doing... and that so many people subject to found disastrous.

But yeah, I'm pretty convinced going back to appointing some almighty deity architecture astronaut who isn't responsible for or involved in any implementation (let alone operations!), who hands down plans from on high after "memorizing all design patterns" and drafting some diagrams, never sullied by "contact with the enemy"... no thank you, but thank you.

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Instead of just complaining about that though, what I'll say in addition is -- I think the real problem is that engineers aren't given the time to carefully consider top-level designs. it's a basic business/resource issue -- until engineers have more breathing room to talk to each other and research and consider and come to decisions in an unhurried way, the top-level design stuff will remain chaotic. It's not an issue of appointing an ivory tower "architect", or something solved by it.

Although sure, there should be senior and even "staff" or "principal" people with more authority/responsibility for higher-level designs.

Everyone should be responsible for design at the level they are working. Everyone needs enough time to feel like they are doing it well, instead of running on a sweatshop code production treadmill.
But the GIL doesn't need to be held in I/O-bound code anyway, so why does it matter?
Fortunately, none of my computers have power LEDs. Also, I don't live in a nuclear weapons facility where I need "security keys."
Comes far from even closing the gap on the net favorable tax treatment of capital gains which itself favors the wealthy, but, sure, “totally abandoned” the classes below the haut bourgeoisie may be a slight exaggeration; there is some concern which occasionally manifest is some small policy measures.
It spent 12 hours on HN's front page.
Surely they would understand it's an opportunity for networking, but I'd still say Tom would be a little surprised to read this:

"Tom: spend max 10 minutes on him as he's the vehicle to his boss Richard that is my gateway to a promotion. Ice breaker: he's a dweeb that studies fungi. Memorize one fungi name and say it grows in my garden and you're about to eat it, so that Tom can save my life by saying its toxic. Exit: isn't that Richard, your boss? I'm going to tell him how you saved my life lol."
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Different climate but I lived in two poorly maintained Queenslanders[1] which were a popular style of timber on piles here, both 50 years old and would easily last longer. One even had minor termite damage which was later treated.

Many people here do knock down rebuilds but most would easily last longer than 30 years. Many timber houses get re-stumped after a few decades and concrete piles seem to be a popular choice for replacement.

I see a lot of poorly built homes on slabs as well which seem to have a similar lifespan as the Queenslanders (anecdotally).

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslander_(architecture)
How would rounding up, arresting and forcing to work the "too lazy to work" fly these days? Seems like like it would be antithetical to the small government, person freedom types?
As others have mentioned, Samsung DeX does this very well. Plus, there are several apps out there for setting up a near Linux desktop experience on the device. Previously DeX itself used to support running Linux applications, it's a shame they dropped that.

As a result, along with the ability to access my proxmox VMs if needed, I've been able to retire my laptop in favor of just a Galaxy Tab Ultra.

It's overall pushed me heavily into Samsung's devices. They are not that much worse than most Android phone makers, have nice integration with their other devices, but don't lock things down as much as Apple. The wacom pen support across both the Ultra tab and phone has also been a huge draw for me. Makes me wish my desktop pentab also supported the same kind of pen for seamless interoperation.
I do largely agree with you, except here:

> Deadlines are about synchronizing different groups

If we agree that software frequently runs late (and this is backed up by plenty of research) then deadlines necessarily won’t succeed in this role.

Instead, we should be identifying the points where synchronisation will be possible, and using these as triggers.

For example, we could say, “when this set of features F is running with performance P and is passing tests T then we have 2 months to develop a marketing campaign”.

As an enterprise product developer, I’ve been involved in maybe 100 software projects in three industries and I’ve pretty much never seen a situation that actually needed time based synchronisation. The projects launch when they are ready - deadline or not. While my projects were typically small (3-6 months) they were key infra for the businesses I was serving.

Deadlines definitely serve a purpose but given that software is almost always late, using them as a sync point is just asking for failure.
> I don't get what "the edge" is here. I understand what the edge is with Cloudflare and how it makes sense to run certain applications there but Wasmer doesn't have this kind of infrastructure, does it?

It does, and the product page (https://wasmer.io/products/edge) makes it a lot clearer than the linked announcement that Wasmer Edge is basically "Cloudflare Workers for Wasm".

The chart at the bottom of the page¹ shows what Wasmer thinks Wasmer Edge completes with — Cloudflare Workers, Amazon Lambda, Fly.io, and "Cloud" (whatever that is). The most significant differentiator seems to be that Wasmer Edge runs on browsers and phones in addition to servers in the cloud, which makes it "edgier" than the alternatives.

¹ Note that it calls the service "Wasmer Deploy" instead of "Wasner Edge", which I assume is a mistake.
I briefly transferred one of my domains from Google Domains to Cloudflare, but at least at that time CF required the domain to use its DNS. While that's generally not an issue with me because I use other CF services, I felt it might limit me too much down the line so I transferred the domain back to Google after the 60-day waiting period. Ah, well.
https://archive.is/RccA2
Traffic rules should be a local matter, where people who know the roads in a town can decide where right turns on red should be allowed.
Microsoft attempted Continuum [1] with some of their Windows Phones. And as of now, PinePhone and Librem5 support USB-C dock with HDMI output.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Continuum
I don't want to manage the OS on my phone. I want it to work. Get up in the morning, make a call, read some websites, check weather, mail, maps, have music in the car. That's it. I don't want to manage sd cards, memory, processes, I don't need a text editor, shell, ssh, openssh, ..., on the phone. I rarely buy apps and games. I want a solid OS working for years.

Frankly, everybody keeps saying that iPhones are e-waste. Well, without starting a flamewar. I have managed more Android e-waste for the family than Apple. Just my mother had 5 different Android phones in the last decade. 4 of them laying dead in the drawer next to me.
Is it really a worthwhile platform if you have to buy a file manager?

FLOSS file-managers were decent already in the 90s.
You could maybe fix this with a cooled dock. I'm thinking of all kinds of wacky designs involving exposed heat pipes/metal on the outside of the phone that makes contact with something on the dock.
All animals produce CO2 just by breathing. Should we cull their populations? Sterilise the largest mammal species so they can become extinct?

To revert global warming, the breathing of animals such as ourselves is rounding error. Furthermore, reducing population is only useful to the extent that the population is assumed to have a carbon footprint (breathing excluded) which is still unsustainable as is that of the current population. It is a measure that can have an effect on the macro policy level of "promote the conditions that will encourage demographic transition" [0], not on the micro "don't have kids" scale.

Honestly, the idea that having kids is irresponsible because "population growth causes global warming" is a prime example of an infantile idea.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition
Not really familiar with the startup world but do investors really want you knocking on their door like that? Seems rather spammy.
No.
I'll miss a couple of things, but the time I used to spend there wasn't wasted, but it would be from now.

Well done Reddit - thanks for breaking a habit. A shop near me recently made some changes, so I went through the nightmare of trying a different place each shopping trip - still not found one I like, but I've now turned it into a game - now many habits can I break.

Quite a few and somewhat easily, it would appear.
I like porkbun.com for the same experience.
fundamental reading comprehension failure on my part, thanks for the correction.
Please don't cross into personal attack and please avoid tit-for-tat spats on HN, regardless of how bad someone's comments are or you feel they are. We're trying for just the opposite here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
`is != induces`
It really wouldn't require that much work. Just expose the unix tooling these devices are running under the hood anyway. Expose the actual file system not a toy one. All of these complaints kind of go away when you simply jailbreak your iphone, expose the filesystem for yourself, and can do whatever thanks to the built in unix ecosystem the device already runs, but walls off from you normally until its jailbroken.
Modern Android (11 onwards) no longer allows full filesystem access for file manager apps. Apps can opt into exposing some of their files for management by implementing a horrible Java API designed for cloud storage services. Some vendors' forks probably disable this change but that's not something that can be relied on.

Meanwhile iOS also has sandboxing but at least you can still meaningfully use normal goddamn filesystem APIs and there's now a system file manager.
Oh they definitely had enslavement from birth. But generally the original reason for enslaving the parents/grandparents was because they were a prisoner of war, or ended up on the wrong end of some power imbalance - it's unlikely they were enslaved for any reason directly related to their physical attributes like skin tone.

(I guess you could argue that an empire that invaded another culture/nation/territory and then enslaved its people was effectively enslaving them based on something akin to "race," but that argument is slightly weakened by the fact that the Roman army didn't only conquer "barbarians" but also went to war against their contemporary civilizational peers, often driven by familial disputes between emperors.)

So while enslaving someone from birth is undoubtedly bad, I'm not sure it's fair to characterize it as enslavement based on racial attributes, if the slave's ancestor was originally enslaved for reasons unrelated to race. Like, I guess you could call it racism if you squint, but only in the sense that skin color (or whatever other physical attributes you might associate with race) is an inherited characteristic, which seems like self-referential reasoning.
I wanted one of these so bad back in the 90s. I'm surprised I didn't buy one but I think it cost about $1,000 CAD (stuff here is much more than in the US). That's about $1,700 today but really $1,700 now doesn't really compare to $1,000 in the 1990s. It would probably be at least a month's pay for me back then.
I've been using https://www.namecheap.com for a while and am pleased with the service.
> You could try being the kind of person people want favor/approval from by providing some kind of service instead?

Unfortunately the people who open PRs against my open-source code are the same kind of people with the same problems. :P
Thoughts on Cloudflare?
Agree re Porkbun.
Only thing missing is inlining your css styles on each element, only a mad man would try that though... [cough]... https://github.com/samwillis/x-style
> The reason why I'm personally sticking with the iPhone is exactly the walled garden.

I was thinking about this and video games lately. The Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation; they have some pretty mediocre games if you go looking. But it's still nothing compared to the biggest attempt at a fully open platform for games (OUYA; and long before them, Atari). That went well... and so, even the App Store, you can find bad apps and scams, but every time we have a store that has no enforcement it's amazing how quickly things get overrun.

It's sometimes shocking how some developers can be such lowlifes, that they will take a game and do an asset swap fifty or a hundred times to make a buck by crowding the storefront. Or just release games shamelessly that are completely nonfunctional or have nothing to do with the advertising. It's just stuff you can hardly believe people who program games would ever make. Where's the sense of shame for releasing things that are objectively garbage by every criteria and charging $30 for it? (Again, just look at the OUYA when they tried. 90% of it made Superman 64 look like a masterpiece.)
Thank you for the details, stranger! I appreciate it.
How to use GPT4's new function invocation
I wont argue at what takes the dystopian price. However, I did not find those types of advertisements democratic or civilized. In fact, I would argue that the type of advertisement almost fits the definition of terrorism. A veiled threat of violence for political gain. Just not the straight up obvious kind of violence. Just legal, and common place in the US. Absolutely horrifying for someone visiting during a primary/general election.

And, whether or not something is covered by slander and libel laws is absolutely meaningless. You can convey the same emotional message without actually making statements, if what you want is just to scare people.

"Do you reaaally want to find out if your kids will be safe to walk home from school if X is elected for office? Imagine the phone call you receive from the police department when they ask you to identify the body. Don't wait for that phone call. Vote for Y, tough on crime...."

No statements here, no slander. Just a perversion of a democratic process.
> If I wanted to buy phones that I'd also needed to sysadmin, I could do that.

Is "sysadmin-ing" a phone really that big of a barrier? Ideally, you'd just install Mobian (i.e. Debian Mobile) on a device, security patches would install automatically via unattended-updates, and every two years you would be prompted to initiate a version upgrade. Proprietary apps would be available from Flatpak repos with strong sandboxing applied. That's essentially the same level of 'sysadmin-ing' any iOS/Android user has to do.
I hope this isn't a contemporary project along the lines of "The Nine Billion Names of God". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God#....
We could add taxes for cement that could be redirected to a carbon dividend.

There is a environmental cost that we are not paying when we build houses, and having a tax it's a fair way to incorporate this externalities. I don't trust the state with the money from this taxes so lets share them equally with the population.

We can do the same with aviation that would also reduce speculation of the house prices.
Ultrasound Pulses to Brain Send Mice into a Hibernation-Like State
It came across as quite cold-hearted to me. But you don't have to take it that far. In particular the learning can be that you can somewhat engineer a conversation by preparing it well.
Moderations tools (Reddit has stated many times that they would retain free access to the API), blind users not being able to use the official clients (they are accessible beside very few actions that are only used by mods, easy to fix and commitment has been made on those), and porn being removed from the API (porn in the 3rd party apps is the hill people wanna die on?).

This protest has been fabricated by the multi-millionaire 3rd party apps developers that want to keep the free money flowing.
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Learn TypeScript, Next.js, Vercel, and Tailwind. That's my advice.

Sign up for Vercel and play around with the sample apps.
The coming LLM content ouroboros is a real problem. Garbage in, garbage out.
You can’t render server side if you only use the library in a client-side script tag.
I am just fine with the look and feel of bootstrap. Visual tools are great for prototyping and for dealing with fiddly bits like layouts.

Why would I want to be constrained to plain HTML when there are pre-made toolkits out there that do it for me? I don't want to figure out how to do rounded corners in CSS, but I would like to have a GUI that shows me how it looks on a page.
Oh shock horror.

The iPhone doesn't do something a niche nerd does... what a surprise.
https://archive.ph/OHfAg
(in the voice of David Attenborough) And thus starts the great domain migration of 2023. 10 million fledgling domains begin their search for safety in new homes, far away from the coming impending onslaught of upsells and limited time offer emails. Some will find refuge in Cloudflare, others, not so.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36346454
Out of curiosity, I acquired a box of Mexican Xanax today. Now I just need to figure out how to test them.

It was under the name Tafil and supposedly manufactured by Pfizer.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1119021696968556566/1...
The vast bulk of books are available used on Amazon for a couple dollars & shipping. I buy a lot that way. The local public library doesn't have the books I want to read. But the library does have DVDs I can borrow and watch, and music CDs I can borrow and see if I like. Netflix will parcel out a miniseries one disk at a time, while I can borrow the box set from the library and binge it.
I've been paying for kagi for a while now and am pretty happy with it. Switched from DuckDuckGo.
People have been developing code for the last 50 years with command line ides. So long as the device has a command line and privileges its as fine of a platform as any, and orders of magnitude more performant than the hardware a lot of developers historically made a career out of. IO should be easy considering these things already have bluetooth and could interface with a keyboard. You don't need a mouse for command line work after all.
I think Data Scientists would like a word with you. They have plenty of time since their parallel pipeline was OOMKilled.
But we have things like the Raspberry Pi, which are very low cost and completely open to tinkering. Add a keyboard and clip-on display then you have a tiny but capable development machine, in a smartphone like form-factor.
so it's just the "drag & drop .jar file into production" reinvented
Sounds like Dorsey has a major investment in Soylent and is hoping that this comes to pass.