skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that phones eavesdrop on conversations and turn those into relevant ads within minutes is reason enough for me to believe that they will use the data regardless of what their privacy policy says.
They are still doing it.
They are still overthrowing governments they don't like.

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/the-u-s-supported-coup-i...
Pezzo – open-source LLMOps platform
Ask HN: Is it possible to never take formal CS classes but learn from books?
Is there anyone on HN, who have never learned programming or CS by taking formal classes, but learned everything by reading books on their own and building stuff that they wanted?

What was the process like? Maybe they were from different major like engineering, physics, maths, biology, social sciences, humanities?
The difference in electricity costs between France and Denmark (and pretty much any other such simplistic comparison you see) is often highly influenced by taxation policy.

You can tax energy use to encourage conservation or you can subsidize it via general taxes.

https://energy.ec.europa.eu/data-and-analysis/energy-prices-...

The wholesale electricity prices in Denmark and France are both directly in line with the EU average. Switch to consumer prices and Denmark becomes the maximum, and France drops below the average.

You can see a similar pattern with gas (both natural gas and gasoline) prices, they're roughly the same wholesale but Denmark's consumer prices are higher.
Yes, thank you for looking it up! Just skimming through it makes me giggle again. The engineers must have had so much fun. And given that their client was selling fruit juice with always online DRM, they probably did the world a service by ensuring said company failed faster by causing a net loss with each unit sold
I entirely agree. And this is why I'm building use-focused, case-specific tools around ledger/beancount.
Maybe governments should hire actual red teams to look for those loopholes.
Show HN: I made an Open Source template based on BetaMax for your agency/studio
Hello everyone!

I made a new Open Source landing page for agencies or studios and designed based on BetaMax.
The site is built with Astro and Tailwind CSS

The template is super simple and includes:
- A landing page.

You can see it live here:
- https://astromax.vercel.app/

And grab the code and make it shine here:
- https://github.com/michael-andreuzza/astromax

*It's already submited to Astro's themes directory.

Hope you guys like it and enjoy it.

Take care!
They rewrote the renderer so OSMAnd speed is tolerable now. There's still no real replacement for it for more advanced use, only alternatives for certain use cases, like Organic Maps.
odd-looking, not old-looking
Does anyone know if CSS-in-JS and Context support is planned for RSC, or is there a technical limitation which means they’ll never be possible?
I'm on the board of an old organization maintaining/running an Art Noveau house from 1906. The interiors haven't been preserved, unfortunately, but in the main hall we've tried to preserve and restore it as much as possible while still keeping it usable for its original function.
I never said that I did not see the appeal. I'm not sure where you got that from.

Au contraire: I'm building my business around that exact problem: that ledger is potentially good at doing anything, but doesn't do it out of the box.
I have to agree, Django templating (last I saw) was stuck somewhere in Web 1.0

Jinja2 is better, but most of the time, I would just build the API and not bother with rendering anything on Django itself
I think the author's strong bias undercuts her claims. If she came off as a neutral observer predicting the studios would lose - I would listen. Instead, she seems stridently pro-writer and actor and against the studios - so why should I trust her analysis? Not that there's much analysis in the article - mostly it seems to be rhetoric.

Personally, I haven't even noticed the strike. The stuff I watch is mainly YouTube and TikTok and when I do watch TV I can easily go back into the massive catalog of shows I haven't got to yet.
"at least seeing something" leads to jira or teams where you open a thing and then its entries slowly pop in and shift as they get loaded. An illusion of a site being there that can't be used because you can neither focus on the text nor use any of the inputs as they shift beneath your eyes.
> amazing number of coincidences

All of this in light of the very literal form of survivorship bias.

Try a few billion or trillion planets to get the conditions JUST right and there will probably be at least one getting it right. Inhabited by folks who wonder why it was their planet that had everything going for it.
Organic Maps is the best for biking and walking, Google Maps has left me hanging so many times there.
> I mean, more power to them, if they want to do it and have 10x the complexity and take 10x longer

The server side components didn't seem to me at a glance significantly less convenient then say a normal PHP server stack.
There is also QSpace btw... it's pretty solid
Yeah I do wonder what the VCs think of these kinds of big bang rewrites, whether they know or care
Uops, sorry
why not? Where is the benefit of not making it one?
Hopefully soon they'll start using RISC-V in place of ARM.

Samsung has been quite active in RISC-V lately.
Amazon does use mainframes. They aren't a payment processor and don't handle that part of the processing. That's why the likes of VISA get to charge their fee.
What exactly is dubious about my website?

For example, the mentioned system cleaner can be used to remove leftover temporary files. Too much of which will slow down your computer. There is a benchmark to show this in the blog as well, I don't think I can link to it, because of spam filters here.

The Internet Optimizer tool simply benchmarks which DNS server is the fastest for the user's system. Again, what is dubious about that?
The easy solution would be that everything created by IA (code, books, letters, art) should be licensed creative common (or something more akin to AGPL). Idc if you use my code to write your own, but you have to share it too.
Sparse Sets (2021)
Again: which VC’s do you consider the core of Silicon Valley business culture?

I did A16Z already. This only involves a very easy google search, and maybe throw in some crunchbase searches. It’s an absolutely trivial task and I’d expect you to try doing this exercise on at least one other VC that you’re interested in.

I could do an exhaustive analysis of public data, but that would be more of a blog post than a discussion comment. I expect you to put in a minimum amount of effort towards fact-checking if you want people to take your strong opinions seriously.
I haven't used it for decades, but when I did use it, it is amazing how efficient it is.

And I mean the whole legacy of such stuff, all the way to Norton Commander under DOS. Don't remember if there was prior art to that.

Miguel de Icaza (of Gnome/Mono fame), also started, way before Gnome, by doing a Norton Commander clone: Midnight Commander
They did not, I was told that the symptoms I have should subside within a month and if they don't to come back - but in the meantime to just use painkillers to manage, and try to eat as much as I can. It eventually started improving(although it took me a long time to recover to "normal") so I never went back. Looking back at it now I think it's because while I felt absolutely awful and it was rough from my point of view, for them it wasn't a severe enough case to start any more advanced treatment since all my blood tests were still "ok-ish" and I wasn't collapsing or anything. That's just my guess though.
Damn this makes me feel old. I remember that on 9/11 one of my teachers broke her arm, so I would start lessons later. My Dad called me to ask to turn on the TV and check if there will be war. So I looked at WTC burning and called him back.

On next day the English teacher said to remember that day since people will be asking.

Covid and Ukraine war are "interesting" times again...

On a side note, some band has updated the "we didnt start the fire song", although in a non chronological way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=2LkVKCWL0U4
I'm assuming not at all unless you were really, really good at building Cheetah-based abominations.
The blogger Scott Adams did something like this, teaching himself (so he claims) the entire MIT compsci syllabus in a year: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2012/09/27/mit-challenge-do...
> Most modern scientific experimentation has failed to demonstrate any lasting medicinal potency in the fungus,

Lasting is a weird weasel word here. Cordyceps are well studied, and they do have acute effects that have been measured in many studies. They increase athletic endurance and are stimulating.

Is the author minimizing the effects to try to prevent the ecological effects of over harvesting?

Most cordyceps supplements today contain cordyceps militaris spawned on grain. Sinensis is sometimes claimed to be more potent than easier-to-cultivate militaris - I wouldnt be surprised if the romanticism of the "wild and rare" version is overblown, but the claim that it doesn't have demonstrable potency seems implausible and strange.
AI Stroke Speech Neuroscience
> but I feel western society is very biased against men

This absolutely has to be a troll post. I am flabbergasted, stunned, lacking words.
Oh, good point. I should reconsider my totally serious and not at all facetious plans to build a giant humanoid robot out of savannah cats.
The Bauhaus should have included workers housing interiors. Comparable to the Dutch (het scip worker housing), German art informed workers housing and the Bauhaus designed to that market as well as luxe.
They say "art deco is for dwarves while art nouveau is for elves." Forgot where it came from.
If you want to project something beyond 9999-12-31, you can do that with custom timestamps, e.g. by specifying the year as a float. There's no need to convert that back to a timezone or sync it to UTC. The maximum difference of 1 day would be 0.00003% in 10K and decreasing, a level of accuracy no simulation can ever achieve.
Mostly. I studied math, lived with cs majors, read their books, and downloaded the syllabus for a couple universities and did those problems
Indeed, they already have https://users.rust-lang.org. But there's a desire for a Reddit-like news sharing site for the community.
When angular.js came when you needed to do something highly interactive it's competitors used to be either amature hour hipster shit frameworks or hacking stuff using jquery.
> Treating the problems of education indeed transcends the school and actually requires a great deal of political will and power. "Education" must guide politics and have power over it.

Isn't the problem that we are mixing education and politics in the first place?

We should probably separate education and the state just as much as we separate church and state.

(The touch of politics seldom enhances the quality of anything. The further your chosen activity is from politics, the easier it is to improve quietly improve it.

Eg even just to stick to learning: Wikipedia and StackOverflow are great. And so are lots of great how-to books and freely available videos. They are as far removed from politics as it gets.)
I've been looking for a Linux alternative ever since I mostly switched away from Windows a few years ago, and so far this one is the best FOSS alternative I found: https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/ - it's even written in Pascal, same as TC.
Snapchat AI Selfies
Reminds me of your average south European coastal town
Could you put the surname with uppercase letters? That's a convention used in France that I think we should all use.

In Spain, where we have two surnames (first one from father and first one from mother in either order), that would make easier for foreigners to understand that our surname is not the last word. e.g. José Luis GARCÍA LÓPEZ means García López is his surname, while José Luis is a composed name (like JFK where John Fitzgerald were his two names).
Sure, but in a more formal setting you wouldn't address somebody with "Hallo Martina". So my question is how would you avoid the Herr or Frau in a formal setting?
For real

If you think your client will wait 30s without any visual feedback of what's being done you need to study about UX.

This is one of the reasons why tech people "I'll just write an app" fall flat on their attempts.

UX matters, a lot
A new method helps to measure cosmological distances more accurately
It's about mad efficiency, not enjoyable UI
i am curious to see what you did with smalltalk there.

you may also enjoy looking at pike, which evolved out of LPC, turning it into a general purpose programming language. it kept the ability to replace objects at runtime. which makes it one of my favorite programming languages, next to smalltalk. this ability to implement changes in a live running program is just magic. i find it actually disappointing how rare this feature is. it is pretty much the first thing i ask for any new programming language that someone designs.
Has it added a must have undo feature? I remember the author of TC had a weird tak that undo gives you "a false feeling of security" as the reason
I feel the history explanation isn't that great, making it look like the modern web development simply reinvented PHP. There are nuances to every technology that make developers choose it over another. Still looking for a good blog post on the evolution of web development since PHP+jQuery.
I've used norton since 1993 IIRC, the 2-pane model is properly baked in my mind. Now with tabs, it is magical. At least to literally all colleagues I've shown it. Lightweight, performant, stable.

Sftp client, great recursive file content search including archives, file comparison, editing files directly in archives, plugins etc.

The thing is, everybody is wow at efficiency boost but almost nobody picks it up afterwards, they go back to slow basic clunky multiple windows. When I see how slow they are (easily 10-20x, more complex stuff they have to use other programs ot cant do at all), even my otherwise calm manners become... less calm.

I've tried gui variants on linux when I was toying with ubuntu few years ago, unstable, slow, basic. I hope its better now.
One would need logical thinking, the ability to read + exercise + memorize and execute the knowledge.

If you take CS courses, you learn from "other" in a compressed way and get some nice explanations. Also, the exams you write in courses foster the memorization and execution.

So, it's perfectly legit to learn from books/websites. But you need problem solving abilities, which is you mostly learn while studying - no matter if its CS, physics or any other subject.

The only thing you learn is problem solving:)
There are several, one I've used which is kinda similar but not 100% the same is ForkLift
Nothing at all, it's a MS product and straight up integrated with their CRM
I object on geometric grounds. You can't interpolate outside the convex hull, if your have an outlier in any dimension then you're going to need to extrapolate, that seems to me like a reasonable way to ask for generalisation that isn't interpolation.
or on a Mac, it's the single best file manager app out there!
ChatGPT Goes Corporate
Solo sailors have to sleep at some point. Otherwise they'd... fall asleep in unplanned location which is dangerous.

But I guess he should have done that further from the coast. Where you could only hit, well, anything that floats.
Norway has a fair number on the road - about 1 in 4 across the country. Quite plausible that some areas are even higher.
Theatre in the Workplace
Detailed comparison of five major automation testing tools
Just like you, I accidentally hit "give up" at one point by mistake. I actually found the music quite good.

In a somewhat similar vein, I found the endless mode to be a bit tiring, since you have to keep up the pace to maintain enough time. It could be nice to have a pause button for endless mode (or both modes). Of course, it would defeat the purpose if someone could just pause right after seeing each board, but I feel like having a pause button with some sort of multi-minute cooldown could be an interesting addition. For some people, this might defeat the purpose of endless mode, but it's just a thought!

I also ended up playing endless long enough to get a score that was too large; my score overlapped with my name on the leaderboard. (I reached level 157 with 136.7m score, then I let time run out due to my hands getting tired.)
Scaling front end app teams using Relay
Why and how Relay can help scale complexity, focused on scaling frontend teams, compared to other patterns/tools.
The Origins of the 10x Developer
I don't get it. For me the biggest problem isn't the "ulterior" motive of the paycheck but rather that you simply don't get to work on exciting problems to begin with.

If you told me I have eight hours a day to work on this and I have to spend those eight hours a day, you will get a far better emulator than if I had to do this only on the weekends and I could quit at any point and that is how most personal projects end up. In some half baked state and nobody uses it.
would htmx have fixed this problem ?
Why use kubernetes and the cloud when you can FTP or rsync your code onto a box?

Simpler times.
MC has the bonus of retaining the original Norton Commander vibe for console fans, but I personally prefer Double Commander, which is a GUI app and feels more familiar because I went the Norton Commander (DOS) -> Total Commander (Windows) -> Double Commander (Linux) route. BTW, there was a Norton Commander for Windows too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander#Norton_Comman...), but it never gained much traction...
Totally aside from the point of the article I noticed he used the phrase "I played Cassandra". Can anyone tell me what this means? Searching brings up nothing.
How do fluids compress at the edge of a rotating 2D disc manifold then?

Maybe it's like Conway's Game or does it wrap around at the edge of the statically-dimensioned tensor?
And no smoking while you're at it. That DHMO has got hydrogen in it which is dangerously flammable. And monoxide is poisonous. I learnt that at school.
It's possible to learn CS on your own, but judging by how many people on HN seem to have a complete misunderstanding of what big O means, I would say it's rare.
It won't "preserve" it: if you sell or buy at the wrong time and place, it won't prevent you. It's basically a way to visualize your portfolio: hows it doing, what are your allocations, how well are you keeping your strategy? do you need to rebalance?

Basically "bullboard" will be "yet another portfolio tracker/manager". Like so many out there (Ghostfolio, PortfolioDividendTracker etc), nothing new.

The only difference is that the source is your (existing) ledger/beancount file.

To be clear: it currently is a CLI application, but the goal is for it to be a web tool. Also selfhostable.

https://github.com/redstreet/fava_investor already exists in this space and is very similar: it's what I currently use. I don't like it, though. I dislike python for bookkeeping software and complex domain modelling. I dislike the UX of fava. And I prefer opinionated, focused software: call a spade a spade. Not "Assets", "Income" or "Transactions" but Stocks, ETFs, Bonds, Dividend, Sells, Buys etc.
The amount of cache. I'm not sure why but my BS-meter went off on that one.
How would that work? Why would a hacker ever enable those features on his local hardware?
For GNU/Linux, you have Midnight Commander

https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc.git
I'd like for there to be an amnesty for Canada on this topic. Otherwise every 3 months it's going to repeat and repeat.

I wasn't in Canada when this happened. My ancestors weren't in Canada when this happened. And it wouldn't matter if they were. In 2023 I treat natives like any other human being and so does almost every single other Canadian.

Fight injustice that is happening, not injustice that may or may not have happened long before any of us were alive.

At some point a nation needs to acknowledge, admit, apologize, pay out, and be let off the hook. Countries shouldn't be liable for original sin.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/english-river-first...
So why isn't Google forced to do the same? I mean, I feel (the bundling) is good for the end consumer, not bad.

The real problem, IMHO, is that Zoom and Slack have crazy high prices for what they offer.

WhatsApp is free, Signal is free, Telegram is free, Viber is free, Messenger is free, Skype is free, etc. Yes, you can say that you are product or whatever, in the end, for me, the value proposition that Slack and Zoom have is not worth their cost. Slack, is charging almost 15 euros per user per month! That is crazy expensive vs Google Suite, Office 365, Zoho Office, etc., etc.

For me to consider Slack/Zoom, they should not cost more than 5 euros per month each. They should lower the price to get more customers, not keep this crazy high price.
Yea, can we get one of a CT scanner?
For Context support, I think the reason it's not supported is because Server and Client components have different lifetime. In theory they could add something like Server Context, that's accessible only to Server components.

For CSS-in-JS, those are all 3rd party libraries, so they need to adapt on their side. For example, `styled-components` uses Context heavily, so they need to re-think their approach. For `css-modules` adapting to Server components looks doable, but requires substantial amount of work.
> trying to 'collect' debts pretending to have some rights

How? By sending letters? By coming to your door?
Fair, I totally get your points. I was just saying that as someone who has a "gratitude" chat at work. It has made me realized that I was working very hard for absolutely no recognition, and it destroyed my motivation.
Provided a dire warning that became a prophecy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(metaphor)
You don’t seem to understand the reasons why I would consider it passive aggressive, and it’s my fault because I didn’t explain it. Thing is, in my culture exactly this phrasing had been a form of passive aggressive tone that had been very common way of working communication. I’m not sure if that’s still the case - I’ve left my country years ago. But this exact phrasing is a strong trigger.

> However when I say good things about you

Yeah, I read it as the exact opposite, in this particular phrasing. Historical reasons.

In fact I’m on the SRE side in this example, and I often have to remind people to suppress alerts when they change something. I normally go with “We got paged for the planned works, could you please turn off alerts next time? Thanks”. I’m not thanking people for their job in this case because it’s likely irrelevant - we’re from different teams and chances are I don’t even know what exactly they’ve been working on (in a broad sense) or for what reason. I’m being polite and straightforward. Never got any complain, at least so far.
Yeah, I really agree with this

I get lots of unsolicited "Microsoft Login" popups and even as a sophisticated user, there's no satisfactory way for me to establish whether this is a trustworthy request or a fake login page.

For example, my company's VPN uses Microsoft SSO and will occasionally pop up a Microsoft Login window without me having requested it.
Marta with single key home-row navigation and other commands is the best Mac file manager, but it's also lacking important features :(
Is the program source is an instruction on how to run the program or how to build the program? What a compiler does with the program source?
Do you use the search functionality a lot, and is it giving you the results you want? And if so, do you have any tips on how to write search queries?

I love Organic Maps, but when I try to search, I think I find what I'm looking for about 1 out of 5 times.