skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience lying still doesn't really work, because it's a deliberate practice with a goal and your brain starts analyzing that as well. You know the inner voice that says: I am still not calming down, I am still awake.

I once read that sleep therapists sometimes give people with bad sleeping problems the opposite advice: keep your eyes slightly open and try to stay awake. Not in the sense that you should put on loud music, put lucifers between your eyelids, etc. But just lie down and don't try to fall asleep. It often works, because people let go of the goal to calm down and get asleep (which makes it hard to do exactly that), once you let go, your body does what it wants to do, calm down and sleep.

A similar approach works very well for me: just stop caring. Ensure that you are on a regular schedule for going to bed and waking up (so that you biological clock doesn't get confused), don't drink alcohol (bad sleep quality), don't do anything exciting the hours before going to bed (heated discussions on HN), and write down stuff that bothers you before going to bed. Let your body do the rest. If you are awake for some more time, then just interpret it as: my body isn't tired yet, I am just going to enjoy the cosiness of my bed.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor/therapist.
Love this. I’ve written a ton of Python in recent years but never used the ‘is’ operator. After reading this I’m glad I did not.

I can see usecases but clearly it should be used sparingly.
Because tax is always the best way to solve the problem? I never understood this logic of “tax first!”

How about provide incentives and legislation to reduce the actual pollution? Making it a tax is punitive and nobody will care.
Acces to a doctor appears to be quite inequal in Canada as I can log on to my doctor clinic portal and book an appointment to see my doctor in the next week. However, I live in a town with a research hospital affiliated with to an university, so maybe that help.
But please let's let them try. It's their money, however they extracted it, and you never know. Trying new things is one of the singular positives in this country of ours. We don't know how to maintain things, we don't really know how to refactor and fix the laws we have, either because of entrenched interests, inherent racism, or a lack of willpower. But we can still create new things, prototype and try out new ideas. So let's keep doing that, and let the rest of the world take our best experiments and make their little socialist utopias while we continue to live in this extremely heterogeneous, unfair, and idealistic but somehow pragmatic place.
This is a very annoying problem, it's infuriating, you pay 10 USD<->20 USD/mo, and the ads are not even removed.

I hope Google is going to wake up on this.
So it uploads my code to their server? That's a deal breaker for me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columb...

Cops exist to protect capital, not the working class.

SocialistRA.org
I evaluated this as a sort of batch job UI for internal staff, but it doesn't handle even moderately large files and has no concept of streaming.

If you want to do a basic task like download and load a file into a database, n8n doesn't work well unless the file will fit entirely into memory.

I'm sure it's great for other use cases, but that limitation ruled it out for me (for this use case).
I had the same thing happening to a bunch of apps based upon a framework I built. The newer API version had problems with existing dependencies, really a shit ton of work to get back to exactly the same place I was already.

I really respect Microsoft a lot more, where stuff from the 90's has less issues running on the latest Windows version that mobile apps I wrote four years ago on Android.
Companies in a panic because some critical system broke / some critical system needs to be kept alive for a bit longer but all of the original people maintaining it have already left.
100% if you live in a city and don’t have outside space for yourself.Plants are the last line of defence for your mental health in that case.
I had some weird issues with Ubuntu 22.04, the OEM Steam Installer and some missing 32-bit library. Steam required it, everytime I tried to install it it broke somethong, mostly WiFi. No idea why, and I am no expert, not even close.
I've got ALS (MND). Completely agree UX is the problem, gazing at a keyboard on a screen designed to stop multiple keys clogging (QWERTY) feels wrong.
Some ideas

- gesture based eye movements, maybe two sweeps on a nine by nine grid, which map directly to phonemes

- enormous 4k 75inch tv with thousands of words or ideograms or phrases

- "writing" with your eyes then doing line to text AI to clean up

- standardish keyboard with massive LLM prediction and clean UX for autocomplete/throwaway with branching options

Ideas are cheap so no clue if these work. Also Tobi split between cheap good non-hackable gaming eyetracking and medical products doesn't help. Finally, with ALS you want to communicate about different things and are more tired.
I'm glad you have a toolset that works for you. To each their own!

But I swear as an IDE user, when non-IDE users try to describe to me how their toolset is just as good as an IDE ("most of the same capabilities in a different form"), it is like I'm a modern human coming into contact with member of a tribe that has been isolated from civilization, and they're trying to convince me how it's just fine to live in a mud hut without AC or running water, and that they've got all the basic stuff they need. Instead of going to a grocery store or farmer's market, they forage and hunt for food (and they're very proficient at it!). Instead of using bikes/cars/trains/planes to travel, they walk everywhere (but it's great exercise!).

And of course there is nothing inherently wrong with living any way you choose. In fact there are many merits to living more "primitively". But it'll be over 100 degrees today in Texas and I'm really glad I've got AC.

I'm genuinely not trying to be condescending here, so I apologize if that is how this came across. My main point is: I really think you should give IDEs a shot. The good ones are very good!
> It's like saying that grocery store's owner's daughter shouldn't be hired at their grocery store.

We're all here trying to tell you that the grocery store's owner hiring his own daughter is literally, indisputably, paradigmatically nepotism, but somehow you don't seem to get it.
Not quite wfh specific but as I was having to type and diagram more, I found an ipad, apple pen and nebo notes was an incredible improvement in my productivity.

I can easily share my ipad screen and draw like I would with pen and paper, and then save the notes to send or keep alongside code/docs.

Also being able to quickly handwrite notes and memos, double tap to transcribe, and then copy them to slack/notion/an email is awesome.

I will admit it feels like a bit of a waste of an ipad with that being its only function for me, but if anything in this setup broke I would replace it in a heartbeat.
This "couldn't there exist..." is doing a lot of work that I don't understand.

"Couldn't there exist different laws of gravity for big things like planets and small things like rocks, which explains why I've never seen rocks attracted to each other?"

Yes, there could in some alternative universe, but not in this one that we know of, and it's not necessary to explain why you don't notice rocks being attracted to each other.

There could exist some difference between "microevolution" and "macroevolution," but not in this universe that we know of, and it's not necessary to explain species.

The entire concept was made up by creationists to try to add a patina of science to their deeply-unscientific beliefs. And the problem with an unscientific world view is that science will never change your mind about things, you'll just decide what science to accept and which to not accept.
I'm sorry I've been searching steelcase and Herman Miller for a chair for awhile. what does "Real" mean here?
It’s basically a take on “it hurts when I do this.” “Have you tried not doing that?”

But I guess if trying to sleep helped someone get to sleep… awesome!
Yep.

I think it’s because we as humans are extremely selfish creatures…

It’s the same reason that software developers wouldn’t support the guy that built Sublime Text even though they used the app for their jobs and to build personal projects. It was undoubtedly the most popular text editor until Visual Studio Code.

It’s the same reason that the majority of successful startups don’t go back and support the maintainers of the FOSS they used to get rich.

It’s the same reason fans “pirated” their favorite bands music on Kazaa and Limewire without paying for it.

It’s the same reason we won’t ban assault rifles in the US, even though there were more than 400 mass shootings this year because we would prefer to have our guns then save a life.

We may even have an “evil nature” but I’ll leave that to theologians and philosophers to figure out.

Altruism does not come natural to us without obvious direct benefits unfortunately which is why we’ve developed governments, laws and weapons.
Nobody does city and infrastructure planning better than the Dutch.
> If you don’t care about the creators then why watch the content?

Because it's there and I can.
I think they have something a bit like a container built into Steam: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime
Do you mean the Y Combinator sponsored posts? My understanding is that they are normal, on-topic posts that are just artificially promoted to the front page. I wouldn't even call that an ad any more than Tinder Boosts are ads.

When those are the worst ads left on the internet, I'll be a happy man.
I don’t know… small companies offer less bureaucracy and a higher code to meeting ratio and fewer whisper
chains, which can be attractive
>Ubuntu avoids Flatpak for strategic reasons,

Is flatpack still Desktop focused , depends on desktop session or changed recently?

It this still holds true then your claim is bullshit, snap is a more powerful tool because I could setup CLI programs on a server without a desktop session.

From flatpack FAQ I still see

>Flatpak is designed to run inside a desktop session and relies on certain session services, such as a D-Bus session bus and, optionally, a systemd --user instance. This makes Flatpak not a good match for a server.
And the juvie outcome is so common that it makes up the most likely outcome from having a bad school experience? I think homeschooling may still be statistically worse
Python's "int" optimization of pre-allocating objects for values between -5 and 256 can be a great source of fun when writing extensions, too.

Same mechanism, overwriting the value stored in the allocated object; but when the extension is in loose C code which is casting pointers with abandon... things can go wrong.
This dove tails with the Programming as Theory thread; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37263121.

Even if the AI delivered on the task of converting the text from COBOL to Java, it’s not going to preserve the theory.
I bought standing desk legs and attached it to a wodden desktop that fit my space perfectly.

They are pretty easy to buy and install yourself, I got mine from amazon.
Behavior change hidden behind targetSdkVersion is a bear trap that keeps on providing trauma. It’s just a massively dangerous way to evolve API’s.

That said, automated regression testing, target environment deployment tests, and beta application groups are your friends. Yes, they cost money/time, but escapes are the Jack in the box cost of not having them.
I found that I never used a standing desk when I had one, and the health benefits are dubious.

I bought a decent Microphone (jlab talk pro) and a $200 Webcam (Logitech brio 4k). Since all of my interactions are over Webcam I wanted to have something better than the default laptop Webcam. Also I do my work on a desktop

I would also recommend building a PC. I run several docker containers at once and the company issued MacBook pro is very sluggish with this. I built my own PC with lots of ram and (what was at the time) a good cpu.

Also, learn about different kinds of house lights (ambient, task, accent) and get some RGB LED light bulbs so you can control the light level of your home effectively. I have some Ikea lights which light up the whole apartment during the day, but if I'm up late working, I only have a warm LED light on a spring arm lamp over my desk that I use. Some people light to get lights that attach to their monitors and point at your desktop
We literally just established that sugar is a known evil and aspartame is probably not.
The best method I found was listening to youtube videos about philosophy, especially Kant.

And rain videos also work.
Presumably not a "gaming chair" or any of the other garbage that has become popular recently.
I second the recommendation of Steelcase. I bought my Steelcase Leap chair five years ago, and it's still rock solid and has no noticeable wear.

My wife recently decided to buy one too, and she got hers refurbished from a company called BTOD. I was impressed with the quality. It was indistinguishable from mine (which I bought new) and cost half the price.
That's precisely how Mumble works. People just don't know it anymore, open source application with no profit model, doomed to fail in favor of, or competition with, commercial services I suppose...
> they're vastly different languages, like how German and Italian aren't dialects of European

They're different, but not that different. If we believe Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Chinese ):

> [Varieties of Min] form the only branch of Chinese that cannot be directly derived from Middle Chinese.

So the divergence between Mandarin and Cantonese [neither belonging to the Min branch] could be dated back maybe 1500 years. The divergence between German and Italian is much, much older than that.

English and Swedish would make a more apt comparison than German and Italian.
Ergonomic/good for your posture/body. Sitting is pretty terrible so anyway to make it flow more naturally is better.

Or you could just stand up and largely solve most of those issues.
I thinks this type of paradigm shift is what will be needed for the next level of performance for AI. But it also seems like for that to be competitive with current methods, they need to reduce the size by a factor of 2-3 and also make bigger chips.

I just feel like IBM has a track record recently of doing great research but not actually manufacturing anything. Kind of like Google.
Static Site in C
- A pair of wireless headphones with good battery life

- A pair of wired earphones/headphones with an attached microphone in it for meetings

- An external camera for meetings, or if you have a spare phone you can use Camo (or iPhone's continuity camera) to stream video from the phone as a camera. When combined with a good phone stand, this setup beats most external cameras.

- A footstool/ottoman to rest your feet

- If you drink coffee, then experiment with and find good coffee beans that you would enjoy

- A desk placement that has you facing a window, this makes sure you can just look up to see outside and also keeps unwanted reflections on your monitor low

And of course a good desk and a chair. Search on FB marketplace for really good deals.
Especially when it's a movie that's made from a biography. The mines weren't in the book, so they're not in the movie.
The mystery of why some people develop ALS
Looks like it’s a long way to go before it can do the types of stuff NextJS is doing, but this sounds great. Weirdest part of React server components these days is that there’s only one framework that appears to support them.
There has been a lot of push back lately that the current hype cycle is completely un-warranted, in the process of fading away, and generally that LLM's aren't that good really.

I thought that was what this post was about.

Really, this is just trying to 'cut through the hype'.

When we get beyond the hype, here is a list of articles to explain current state?

Am I correct here?
Same but in Euro in Germany
Yeah, that's also true, but at least this kind of problems can be handled by a roll-back or whatnot. Situation we're currently are in does not allow to do anything while we know that bad build is in production and phones are updating to it automatically. That's the worst situation to be in.
If your idea of homeschooling is to sequester a child away from all human contact to try and indoctrinate them in some crazy belief, maybe. Plenty of homeschooled kids have homeschool play groups, athletics lessons and other non-compulsory classes which they're free to leave at any time if they don't like their peer group.
I would love to pay for YouTube, but I don't have or want a Google account.
Drone shootings I think are likely more fatal. Ask Obama et al. Government isn't above illegally murdering Americans from the sky with sky robots.
It’s the name of the compilation target architecture in the compiler. Unless the architecture changes, the name doesn’t change. i386 refers to Intel 32-bit, which was superseded by x86_64
Java implementation of the q language.

The other jq is for processing JSON:

https://jqlang.github.io/jq/
Jordan programming language, the new approach to modern software development
The Jordan programming language emphasizes DSL, type aliases, pattern matching, objective and functional paradigms, removing redundancy and boilerplate, boring coding.

I need your feedback after reading the readme.
It is my current project which goal is to create something after my over 20 years of using many other languages and gathering my ideas to make something that will make codding more pleasant and more efficient.

Code readability, DSL, and autodetection of plurals and multiple keywords with type autodetection, to make code more understandable.

https://github.com/DevellSoftware/jordanlanguage
Those ratios drive my music brain crazy.
> [S]adly, mathematics doesn’t work like that. Your MPs’ WhatsApp group can be secure, or it can readable by law enforcement and the Chinese, but you cannot have encryption that can be broken only by our spies and not their spies. Pick one.
As the article says:

The news is disappointing, but we don't think most
people will care too much. Few sync their phones to
a computer with iTunes these days.

I can imagine Apple differentiating models (duh) to entice people to buy the fancier model but I can't imagine this particular thing is part of some strategy to spur upgrades because I can't imagine this being a useful carrot to dangle.

I'm trying to think of a use case where I'd even want to plug an iPhone into my computer.

I guess if you're doing local backups, or if you have a limited internet connection and you'd like to sync downloaded media from your computer to your phone directly. That cannot even be 1% of users, though, can it? Maybe 0.1%?
Are any of the YouTube clones any good? I know Rumble has a bit of a reputation, but I like that it’s, generally a more hands-off environment.

I agree with OP that the $13 I spend on YouTube is easy money. Would happily spend that amount or more on an alternative.
Depends on the design of the helicopter. They are, in general, extremely difficult to control. About helicopter autopilots, I'm not qualified to answer so: https://www.quora.com/Do-helicopters-have-autopilot
How is this a problem for most users? When was the last time someone actually plugged in an iPhone to a computer to sync data? Most syncing happens over wifi for most users (90%+ I would say). Even development happens over wifi now.
Ask HN: What non-coding hobbies do you have?
I always get excited when I hear about the hobbies people have. I was wondering what the HN community likes to do in their spare time, away from programming!

I like to play piano (sometimes in public!), write, and re-watch 90s sitcoms!
Is this a deliberate limitation, or is it just that the base iPhone 15 chip does not include an USB 3.0 controller?
A Herman Miller Aeron, Mirra, Cosm, or similar can usually be found at a liquidation company for a lot less than retail. Keep in mind that they are repairable and parts are readily available, there are not many other brands that have that kind of support.
To be honest this response underscores the problem with pages like this. In Python, strings and numbers are objects, and “is” tells you if they are the same object. You wouldn’t compare strings or numbers in C using a pointer comparison, and you shouldn’t do it in Python either. The fact that it works sometimes in cpython is a coincidence.

It’s interesting to learn about how the interpreter is implemented, but that’s about it.
Good point, but as I also wrote in the article then one and only reason for doing anything was an API level deprecation e-mail from Google less than 3 weeks from its deadline and it states that review could take a week (never happened before with me though). If I would have noticed the "extend to November" immediately then it would have left more time. But yeah, I'm not saying that this situation could not have handled better, I'm saying that as soon as you make a mistake then there's nothing you can do. And mistakes will happen, even when testing thoroughly with every Android version.
Seems that way. "Hype free" would probably be a better way to put it.
A Herman Miller chair (the Mirra). Cost me $400 from an office supply liquidator, or you could spend about $1000 brand new.

It’s the only way I can be truly comfortable at a desk for 7-10 hours a day.
If HN allowed bots, this would be a good bot to have.
But who pays for the medium? Someone needs to. And YT offers an alternative where you can be the customer not the product.
PS VR2 uses Tobii's tech to do eye tracking, it is mostly being used for foveated rendering but some games also use it for gameplay, one for example allows you to shoot at enemies with your gaze.
Noise canceling headphones. It's like having an extra room.
It's those creators (albeit I mostly listen to music) that want to rob me of my time in first place. I fight back.
- Microphone

Should be above all. A camera is a nice to have, but a decent mic is a necessity.
You haven’t read the article carefully… It seems you halted early.

But the whole goalposts argument is dopey. How are we supposed to do this? Should the entire field have imagined the entire future of the field in 1952 to set ultimate goalposts? Of course not.

I personally specified unreachable goalposts in 1990 or so (general AI is only achieved when we can test it, and testing it is only possible if we can specify the behavior of general AI). I haven’t moved them and they haven’t been reached (Nobody has tested ChatGPT4 against a consensus spec of intelligence because there is no such consensus. For that same reason we can’t even prove that a given human is not insane— we only accept that people are sane due to social convention. Yet social convention cannot be enough to say that a machine built by humans is equivalent to a human).

Isn’t it okay if people come up with interesting smaller goals and explore them without committing to the larger implications?
What does that have to do with his point of birds killed by wind turbines? Or did you just feel like your favored energy source and ideology was attacked and decided to shift the debate to grounds you think you could win?
SponsorBlock effectively does this without the creators help. Even directly subscribing to creators these days isn’t enough, they want you to buy their merch and they almost never consider that a sponsorship. Need to stop acting like these big players are barely making any money.
I read it as sarcasm, but the author should add a "/s".
This agrees with all those times I wake up a bit before my alarm rings and then I can't go back to sleep UNTIL my alarm rings and then suddenly all I want to do is drift off...
Depends on the person RE the chair, some friends seem to get various pains with Herman Miller chairs, I see practically no difference having used one vs using cheapo ones. But if it works for you then more power to you!