skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not playing word games; you're shifting goal posts. You started saying it's the app's fault people put too many things into them. That's what I'm objecting to.

You're now changing that to "apps don't give you the benefits they promise - notably, calmness, clarity, a feeling of being organized". It's possible to have an overloaded Todo app and still be calm, calmly saying "I have too many things to do, good thing I have them nicely organised in this app so I can clearly see that it's too much and choose which ones to deprioritise". It's also possible to be stressed from having too many things to do. Or to have nothing to do, and still be stressed. I would happily agree that the advertising is trying to sell people on a calmness the app can't necessarily deliver, and if you say people aren't getting the calm they wanted, I can agree with that, - but that's a different dimension to how many things you chose to do and whether the app promised to put realistic limits on the amount of things you can do, or encouraged you to add more more more increasing the overall amount of things you wanted to do.

There probably is an effect where writing letters by hand is slow, a typewriter helps you write them more quickly, so it encourages you to write more letters - but if you didn't have more letters that you wanted to write, then you wouldn't write more letters, you'd just finish the ones you planned more quickly. The typewriter can't tell you whom to write to, or what you want to say, it can't encourage you to write more letters overall. If you want to write more letters than you can type in a day, that isn't the typewriter's fault. In that sense, a Todo app helps you keep track of more things, so implicitly encourages you to put more things in it, but if you don't have more things to do, you won't do that.

At the end of the day your Todo list can be a piece of paper and it feels fundamentally wrong to blame the paper for you having too many things to do, regardless of whether you are calm or have clarity or feel organized or not. You can't choose more things than you can possibly do, write them down, then blame the writing. The book organising system mentioned earlier, you can blame it if the books aren't organised after using it and it's a rubbish system and you can't find what you are looking for quicker than remembering where it is yourself, you can blame it if it promised to handle 1000 books but fails after 200. But you can't blame it that you have 1000 books, and you certainly can't blame it that you would have to read 5 books a day every day to get through your backlog before you die and that's impossible.
I don't find them lacking - I just don't use them regularly so it feels awkward when I do use them.
It's heated because it's local.

People will scream online because they don't want to have to actually talk to the people in their company making the decisions, because they know by the time that happens it's already been decided.
Apple’s first M3 Macs could arrive in October
4 years is nothing tho, things starts breaking after 5, 10, 15 years this thing will be in an open air dump in Africa by then

> improving at a similar rate as iPhones, and it's pretty great.

idk what's great about that, what's greatly increased is waste, that's for sure. Everything is becoming increasingly more closed sourced and short lived
The success of the Nutrition Facts labeling does not get enough publicity.

Rather than outlawing certain ingredients, or creating some kind of health score which a product must be above, Nutrition Facts is a way for suppliers to attest to information about a product in way that is legally binding. If it isn't accurate the penalties are steep.

Consumers then have the information they need to vote with their wallets. Markets cannot function properly without symmetric information, and Nutrition Facts essentially creates a functioning market where one did not exist previously.

Any effort to regulate what's in food would probably be better spent expanding what must be in the Nutrition Facts label. I guess it's nice that we are finally getting around to banning artificial trans fats, but anyone who can read has been able to keep those out of their diet for years. The same can be said about the next bad ingredient, and the one after that.
Javy – JavaScript to WASM
A couple questions if you're willing to indulge:

- What about friends and family? Are you further from or closer to family? Did you have friends nearby? Did your kids? What is your familial and social circle now, compared with then?
- What about school?
Institutional schadenfreude?
Even on a new OS it's going to be a compatibility problem. Implementing even partial POSIX compatibility makes porting stuff easier, but changing how stings work is going to make it significantly harder.
That's all?
Hmm this seems like a class-action suit waiting to happen.

> Amazon claims this information is otherwise protected by “reasonable technical and organizational security measures.”

That's... questionable now, huh?
The only issue I have (which, is happening less and less lately) is my debugger doesn't jump to the source. It hits and everything pauses, but I don't get routed to it and have to start progressing just to get it to work, which can make the debugger useless as you've gone past what you were looking at. This has happened across machines for years for me, and happens much less in chrome. But doesn't happen enough for me to switch.
This is a new repository combining multiple older repositories. Development started on October 2021, here is the first commit: https://github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-parser/commit/c5ed27bb1...
Bay Area drivers may soon get automatic tickets for speeding
“The bill was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 11, in a 10-1 vote”.
We should post everything that could be a migraine trigger

Sunlight, artificial light, weird smells, etc etc
Seems to me like you’re taking a narrower definition of ‘entertain’ than the parent post.
Has there been any study into the mechanism of this? I'm not finding it but it seems pretty cemented by migraine sufferers that it will trigger them.

Most of what I'm finding about the association also lists alcohol as a much bigger trigger, which I hear (unsurprisingly, I guess) less anecdotally among migraine-suffering friends of mine.
If you have to use Javascript (you're building the front-end of a web app), then it seems like Typescript is probably a decent solution. For anything else it (or any form of Javascript) isn't the right tool for the job, in part for the reasons outlined in this post. Nothing is more frustrating than to see people build command line apps or servers with Typescript and bring all the added complexity and bad habits of the JS world to a place where much better solutions exist. Go, Rust even Zig are better choices than introducing the JS nightmare workflow and tooling where it doesn't belong.
> Rival ebike maker Cowboy is making an app[0] that supports some VanMoof bikes and they say it will support more models in future.

That future can be very short. Cowboy is like Vanmoofs twin: proprietary parts, ridiculously VC funded, mountains of debt, more losses than revenue, no realistic path towards profitability, ... All that in a ebike boom decade. It's another bankruptcy waiting to happen.
Mastodon post by Greg Egan [1] showing the fold-and-cut for a Koch snowflake.

[1] https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/110732281169125571
Brave literally started on Gecko and ended up switching because Gecko was a PITA to work with.
Define diverse. Is it there are more black, gay, transgendered people with different forms or are they all pretty much with the same body as a whole?
In Praise of Phone Numbers
> On the other hand, his recommendation to always know string lengths and use memcpy didn't really become common practice over the last 20+ years either

It was the way plenty of languages from the 70s stored their strings, including such popular ones as BASIC.
> It certainly hasn't conquered consciousness and qualia and subjective experience.

I'm not sure how you're so certain of this. It is entirely possible that all we need to do to create a conscious mind is run a full molecular dynamics simulation of a detailed enough human brain scan. We know the equations to do this, we just don't have nearly enough computational power.
How would you like it if you were a plaintiff suffering severe lifelong emotional distress but the jury saw that the medical bills were only $1000? It's not as simple as you make it out to be.
Why would this get downvoted "as usual"? I suffer from migraines and did not know this so I appreciate the info very much. I will do just about anything to avoid a migraine as will likely most who suffer from them would. I don't get why HN would be against spreading this info?
This is just reporting bias. I've worked (on-and-off) in various scientific fields for ~30; it has always had its bad actors. (I even helped do the statistics for some!)

I'd urge you to consider following the situations:
1. Prescientific inquiry; and,
2. PreFDA food, drug, and medicine.

Both of those were orders-of-magnitude worse than what we have, now. Could we do better? Sure! Is it broken? No.
that's such a vague question

for example, if you have 50 partecipants but only provide the multimedia evidence for 20 of them your study should be thrown out the window
It's not a "God of the gaps" argument because I'm not claiming that "God" (that is, incomputable physics) exists. I'm simply pointing out that the fact that our entire understanding of physics is built on a computational framework doesn't actually say anything about the Universe, merely about the way we do physics. There is a priori no reason to expect that the Universe would be in any way amenable to human understanding. We have just found that in some cases, it is.

And non-computability doesn't make something philosophical or mystical. We have encountered phenomena beyond the reach of any computation in mathematics and computer science many times. They exist, no matter which "razor" you apply.
This is so nostalgic. And if you collected these websites it will be nice, if you could share the url's of all those web 1.0 websites on a google sheet or pastebin.
Britain Is a Developing Country
Paul Graham specifically excluded engineers over 40 years old, systematically from the YCombinator filters. I believe this is quietly known since it is directly illegal to discriminate by age, on paper.
I wrote a script (https://github.com/osmarks/random-stuff/blob/master/histrete...) to dump a Firefox places.sqlite database to a separate SQLite database for long-term storage (I run it nightly). It seems to delete stuff based on some combination of visit frequency and last visit time.

I suspect they need to do this to keep history searches fast, since I also separately hacked a bunch of `about:config` options to retain more history and they run quite slowly now, particularly on my phone.
> 4. Payloads on flying things have severe weight and volume limitations. This limits what you can deliver to things that are small and light.

This point to me seems like such an obvious hard limit on how well this could ever work without some serious advancements in battery tech, and it's why the whole thing seemed like mostly snake oil to me.

The x-copters have very low weight limits (and low flight times when loaded) and realistically this wouldn't be possible for weights over ~10 pounds without very short range limitations and massive downtime for recharging (and/or truly massive drones, which would pose too much of a safety risk in populated areas).

Not to mention the physical shape of even many small / light objects would make stable flight difficult or impossible. The second the wind picks up, they are in serious trouble.

Maybe some small and very specific niches can utilize it, but I suspect in almost all cases (even when it is possible to use these things optimally) driving is actually going to be cheaper overall.
> I wouldn't live in such a shitty, broken, mismanaged shithole. Properly managed places are able to provide good public transit.

So you don't want to live somewhere near forests or lakes. Somewhere, where is still some for of nature present. You only want to live downtown in a major city. Let me guess, you don't have children. Because many people change their opinion about that when they become parents.
I think the source of your problems is that it was an inexpensive induction burner.

Higher quality ones usually scale more linearly with the power setting.
I actually think it makes a world of difference to opine about the game world. It's so much more immersive.

Have you ever gone to a living history museum? (Old Sturbridge Village is one example, my favorite I've been to). All these people in character, able to talk about the period, it makes for an amazing experience.

In traditional video games, if we try to or even accidentally push any deeper, we see the cracks in the universe. "Oh, I spoke to this person again, and they said the same thing to me." AI can help fix those cracks, and fill them in wherever the player ventures.

This certainly doesn't change Fortnite, but I think it could change immersive RPGs and MMOs.
nice name for a language. i immediately recognized the inspiration.
Close them all today. It will feel weird for like 1 hour, but you will feel much better after.
Repeatedly referring to "art" is misleading.

Think of what good movies & television do as storytelling and I think you'll agree it better fits the narrative at hand.
That's an amazing amount of effort expended on something that provides exactly zero revenue. I understand the concept, but I've never been fortunate enough to work in a business where that was practical.
+1. I have always wondered why lapce does not get the attention it deserves. Supports both modal and non-modal editing.
I mean, you can install native Linux on lots of chromebooks, they run open source firmware (Coreboot), allow powerusers to disable secure boot with a strong security stance (e.g. it requires resetting device keys so you can't just physically steal a laptop and bypass it), most of the code is open source, has a high security profile beyond other desktop OSs, etc.

> Linux is a synonym for full control from the device owner, which in case of ChromeOS is not given.

It really is not, either in theory or more importantly in practice (cf the billion devices that ship Android or shitware ARM trinkets that ship Yocto builds with forked kernels that can't be updated, userspace blob binaries, etc.) One of my last companies had an opts team that provisioned immutable cloud VMs for developers where persistent updates had to go through CI and be deployed/rebooted. Does this mean we weren't "Using Linux?" or that our VMs were "Walled gardens?" Is it a walled garden if I distribute a .deb for my FOSS project and not an .rpm or PKGBUILD for Arch Linux? If anything, the fact of the matter is that you can just install Chrome or $FAVORITE_BROWSER on your favorite distro and then use 98% of the same apps ChromeOS users do -- they're mostly webpages!

The real distinction people need to make is who controls the project and what direction it has, and whether that matters to them. The other stuff are just random goalposts that people make up. ChromeOS is Desktop Linux, it's secure, it's highly successful, and it's also lead by Google. The "Google" part is what makes everyone uneasy. But it's unquestionably a productionized Linux Desktop.
In a high-trust world, free transit is just the way to do it. It reduces friction and simplifies everything.

In a low-trust world, it removes a useful excuse for enforcers to kick troublemakers off the line.

A middle ground could be tried (and I think some cities have) where they keep fares and such (and soak the tourists, of course) but then give free passes to all residents in the city.
Wikipedia's Moment of Truth
I'm in Europe. Apple Maps have served me very well in my country as well as in a few other European countries I've visited.
What is high cardinality data?
A brief guide with some examples since this seems to come up every time we discuss DIY metrics tools, structured logs, and parsing.
Principia Mathematica for sure. Other, like visual proofs would pass this test better I believe.
Head of engineering for Trump’s Truth Social app resigns
The working stuff becomes part of a body of lore of "real science" that you soak up in the lab. Not a great method, for sure.
Industrialization happened first and fastest in places that adhered to classical liberal values.

And after industrialization, over the course of the 20th century, the most free market economies again saw the greatest gains per capita income and quality of life.

>>The peons had to get gunned down by the Pinkertons so we could get sane working hours, conditions, and fair pay. Thank god for the weekend? No, thank unions.

The unions murdered workers that crossed the picket line, or "scabs" as the socialists called them. Pinkertons were sent in to remove these violent illegal blockaders.

Once the unions succeeded in their cause, with exactly the kind of false narratives you're putting forth here, industrial expansion slowed, and eventually we entered into the current era of stagnation.

Case in point: Detroit. Detroit was the wealthiest city in the US in 1950, with the highest per capita GDP in the country. Over the course of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, the UAW union took over, with membership eventually peaking in 1978.

What followed was industrial collapse, and eventually, Detroit becoming a ghost town.

Unions are not good for labor at large, just the labor that is on the winning side of the zero sum rent extraction scheme.
Google Maps is yet another decaying Google product, unfortunately.

However it has a moat that is hard to overtake: Business information. Apple Maps is a superior experience as long as you can find the business(shop, restaurant etc) but unfortunately it's still far from matching Google at this.

It's even annoying me on Bing. I've switched to Bing and I'm pretty happy so far but when I search for a shop or something, that's when Google still has the edge thanks to vast the business info on Google Maps which would be displayed in a Google Search result.
It's kinda interesting that some of the younger amongst us might have only ever known Chrome through the lens of its meme-like reputation for being a big fat hog.

Because when it was originally released like 15 years ago, the pitch/consensus were the exact opposite of that, i.e. ultra clean and efficient.
https://archive.ph/sxIKk
Seems like a misuse of the word value.

> Your values are a bet on what is best in life.

But then

> Our most important low-hanging fruit is to recognize the problem: most of the values we learn from the institutions around us are fake and exploitative. They do not represent our real interests.

> Abraham rejected the cults and their false and unnatural values. Instead of valuing the socially constructed and overly entangled values of the societies around him, Abraham expected a reward in the values natural to living existence

> In contrast to these false values, what we can do is recognize and orient ourselves more rigorously to Abraham’s hard natural values. Are you winning at a biological level? Are you getting more territory at a more sovereign level of control? Are you living rigorously in contact with natural law? Are you working on something that will achieve eternal fame? Are your enemies being cursed and your friends blessed? Does your winning at these things serve any great and higher plan of blessing for all creation and all peoples?

So its just caveman hedonism? or some incoherent mishmash of the state of nature. I think its error to point at drug addicts and say, "they are obsessed with false values" its just a description that doesn't do any work.

I mean what would it even mean to emulate Abraham? The most important thing about him is that we was lucky (how many people does God talk to). You can't emulate luck. So this is cargo cult values?

P(outcome | god talks to you) vs P(outcome | you have good values)

why are these distributions so different if the values are what matter?
The subjectivity behind math's objectivity
That's incredibly dumb if true, but can't be the whole story because the difference is still present in the Linux stats.
Agreed that the headline makes it sound like a strong majority, when the article isn't nearly as strong on that.

Still, "Carlisle rejected every zombie trial, but by now, almost three years later, most have been published in other journals — sometimes with different data to those submitted with the manuscript he had seen. He is writing to journal editors to alert them, but expects that little will be done." is concerning. I'm almost afraid to know what the list of rejected papers covers.
In the age of QAnon and Alex Jones and science and vaccine deniers we can’t have things like clinical studies be corrupted. Ugh.
Of note, this project also has one maintainer. It is cool to see individuals interested enough in mail to be putting effort in to it these days.

> Stalwart Labs Ltd. is a very small team consisting of just one developer, who has been implementing email software in C since the mid-90s.

https://github.com/stalwartlabs#team
Some people are better off after a divorce.

Most people are ruined financially by it. If you are a pro baseball player or Hollywood actor you can afford to lose half your wealth and support two households. People in the bottom 80% can’t afford it.
> Anyone who complains about “toxic fandom”, particularly for a franchise they inherited (which includes all of marvel and Lucas film) is thumbing their nose, you can call it what you like but the behaviour is evident.

A bunch of people who didn't inherit a franchise also complain about "toxic fandom". What's the problem with saying that? Do creatives have to butter up their fans?

I know the cases you're referencing, and I don't disagree with you that "toxic fandom" was a fake complaint in those specific cases. But it's not the writers who use this to deflect from criticism, it's the investors behind the scenes. The writers (the ones that are part of the normal work force) want to write good stuff and create good entertainment.

But, say, the actress of Rose from Star Wars? She has every right to complain about a toxic fandom. Christ, they sent her death threats because she performed as asked for by the studio!
"Results suggested that ADepT was definitely not worse than, and showed potential to be better than, CBT at building well-being and reducing depression at the end of treatment and over longer-term follow-up."

Does this sentence sound messed up to anyone else?
> the UK is now a lot more like Poland than it is like the United States in terms of the kinds of growth it needs to do – driven by improved use of existing technology and inputs, and accumulation of capital, rather than driven primarily by technological advancement. With the exception of a few sectors like AI, we are so far behind the frontier in terms of economic development that worrying about technological progress doesn’t make much sense, and at worst is a serious distraction.
I don't think that's what they were talking about. I think they were talking about "if you have kids, you still have to support them financially, and that massively limits your options for experimentation".
> it seems like an odd hill to die on to claim that such a system (or lack of one) is injust if it's not equally rolled out to the entire population, and all socioeconomic groups.

It isn't equally rolled out to to all socioeconomic groups because 'criminal behavior' automatically disenfranchises the poor and the people of color (or both) because they are more likely to engage in such behavior. This is exactly why the 'war on drugs' really is the 'war on blacks'. A war on crime would be no different.

But since you are not interested in continuing the argument we'll let it rest, but it does make me wonder why you started it in the first place.