skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After a screengrab with quicktime you just > edit > trim and then save as. Transcripting audio and summarizing would be nice creature comforts but I'm in the "billion dollars for what now?" camp.
For the typical laptop? I’m going to replace my Mac before I need non-warranty service. I’d say the typical user is in the same boat
Actually a mildly interesting response! - thanks. If we ever meet, £2 is yours.

When I was 20, the idea that my eyesight might have become meaningfully worse over time never really occurred to me. Fascinating.
Adventures in Network Repair
You can use a 'sticky film' for the glass that allegedly really fucks w/ any burglar.
I'm not an education expert. But I think you have to ask why the disruptive kids are being disruptive. It might be that #2 is caused by not having #1 (at least, that was my experience: I stopped being disruptive when they let me do my own thing).
Offline warning: "Your pants aren't off yet"

I can't vouch for the rest of them and a couple seemed to be veering into anti-Semitic territory, but that one got a neckbeardy chuckle out of me.
Ruining the educational experience for the 90% to drag along the 10% is likely a bigger net negative.
Yes, but it's basically the same story with the playstation.

VDP1 draws distorted textured quads (it's misleading to call them sprites). The playstation's GPU displays distorted textured triangles.

The playstation GPU also knows nothing about 3D, it doesn't have a depth buffer. Like the Saturn, you have to implement depth sorting on the CPU and link all those distorted triangles up in the right sequence of 3-corner polygons to render a 3D model.

Yet nobody ever claims the playstation isn't a 3D console.
https://github.com/nature-lang/nature

The programming language project will be the next golang or rust. It has not yet released an official version.
You're welcome!

> found the projects troublesome or management unwilling to listen, or sometimes people taking advantage

You have two options: reject those projects, and prefer to work with people you've worked with in the past and trust (even if at a lower rate); or raise your rate for those projects until they either self-select out, or you feel like it's worth your time. :)
You’re shooting for one of the hardest types of jobs out there: entry level remote work with decent pay. There’s not much of that around, which means it’s gonna be highly competitive.

I’d advise against setting a hard timeline like 6 months and instead focus on finding something that is interesting and you can devote free time to.

I started out in software sales a decade ago and realized it wasn’t for me. I learned basic web dev at home in my free time and got my first dev job after about a year of building stuff at home. I found a path that was sustainable and cultivated my interest, which is the most important part of career switching imo.

Also, working in an office for a few years was invaluable, I had to do it to get the experience that has allowed me to work remote. If you restrict yourself to remote jobs then you are cutting yourself off from vital opportunities and experience.
yes, just for the temporary monopolies thing.

but outside of that article it can recognize any kind of asset for at least regulation
I feel like they either have zero or infinite value. On pure "which laptop would I pick to do a task" it's almost never going to be a Framework. It's objectively a worse laptop for almost all daily tasks.

The issue is that repairability and upgradability are, unless you regularly break your computer, at most a once a year occurrence. On that day, you have a better laptop with the Framework (maybe). The other 364, you're dealing with new and novel frustrations you haven't had to deal with for over a decade in computing. Is your value system such that, being able to potentially manually replace a broken part is worth dealing with a bad computer the rest of the time?

Just today, I spent 30 minutes just trying to work out how to get my system clock to sync with my hardware clock, and how to get both of them to be accurate, because the Framework's battery management is so abysmal that I have to keep it shut down at all times it's not in active use/charging, and even fully shut down, it'll still so deeply discharge the battery after a week that the bios loses power and unsyncs the hardware clock. It's quite possibly the worst computer I've used in 20 years.
I believe that aforementioned “robust security model” was removed several years ago due to issues with its actual robustness https://openjdk.org/jeps/411
> The wife could not operate the devices in her own home.

Hopefully this isn't a common situation. I know that for me, not being able to control basic things like lights/heating/cooling without calling on and waiting around for somebody else would drive me nuts and one way or another the situation would have been resolved before the only person who knew how to handle the tech had a chance to sleep let alone die.

I've known a lot of people who couldn't figure out to how to use their own TV remove for anything more advanced than getting to the point where they can watch their usual shows and change the volume, but not being able to turn off a light at night is like not knowing how to turn a TV on at all!
I'd say in the free to use/FOSS category there are couple of contenders here: R Studio & co, Jamovi, Stenci.la, KNIME, PSPP and Quarto.

R Studio for the uncompromised R language integration.

Jamovi for the clean interface
and simple to use analyses and workflows.

Stenci.la for the multiple language notebook paradigm.

KNIME for the node based interface and workflow productionisation.

PSPP for the 'same but different' SPSS interface and feature set.

Quarto for the 'analysis as publication' approach, reactive notebooks and custom integrations.

Myself I often opt for BigQuery + Javascript stat libraries, which is free insofar you remain within the sandbox mode.
I am getting a 404 Thursday Oct 12 at 7:45 Pacific.

Long story short, it's not at his blog, nor at his notion.

The wayback machine has it at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231012051743/https://blog.will...

There were 14 captures yesterday and today and no more, it seems.

I remember when life was simpler.

Last week.

Cheers
What about calling navigator.storage.persist() to prompt the user to allow persistent storage?

Wow, thanks for the warning about that itch.io problem. It's discussed here: https://itch.io/t/2636350/localstorage-doesnt-work-for-html5... and behaviour of Safari's default-on "Prevent Cross-site Tracking" here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63922558/safari-localsto...

So this is happening because itch.io hosts the game on a CDN subdomain such as v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net which may change at any time? If it doesn't change, it sounds to me like there should be no problem, but I suspect I misunderstand. And sounds like it's Safari, not just iOS?

I'm about to start letting users export their games to html5, almost all of which will end up on itch.io, so really need to solve this too.
> many people thinking mathematics is anything other than a language.

I disagree with the claim that mathematics is only language, if by language you mean terms and definitions.

The EASY part of mathematics is the language.

There are deep truths, too, and they are not just language.

For a (kind of) popular example, the question of "Where do the zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie?" is way way more than just vocabulary. There is a 20 minute video by 3Blue1Brown on the subject. [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0NjbwqlYw
The example that you're using is ridiculous and doesn't even support your point.

https://www.whalenlawoffice.com/blog/legal-mythbusting-serie...

I give thanks every day that I live in the USA where we have a written Bill of Rights and a Supreme Court with the courage to stand against government overreach.
Forget Gtk or Qt, we may as well link against libXaw. It's a perfect match for the detail in "modern" UIs.
Doesn't that depend on extradition treaties which are on a nation by nation basis?
> As the root comment pointed out - we already know that you improve outcomes by excluding low performers.

That’s not quite the point. By excluding low performers, you can improve the outcomes of the other kids, beyond what would be possible by mixing everyone together. So you can achieve a net societal improvement that way.
A library for memory- and compute-efficient backfills of ActiveRecord models
> They showed time and again that they don't want a too-wide developer audience.

Indeed. And that is (one reason) why Mac will never be more than a third-rate platform. As I said, they're shooting themselves in the foot.
I still have no idea what you're ranting on about, but it's clearly not related to anything I've said. Cheers.
https://github.com/LorenDB/muziko

I'm building Muziko, which is an app that will give you a list of songs every day to practice on your musical instrument of choice. I was planning to post it here eventually, but not for a long time, as I still need to build a UI that doesn't completely suck and fix some big issues. However, if this sounds cool, please have fun with it!

It's written in C++/Qt/QML. Native apps that are also completely crossplatform ftw.
I wonder if it's the opposite.

Like electromagnetism behaves a certain way because of fundamental properties of numbers.
SQLite3.43.2 Released
The insert key seems to be fn-f10 now. I have to say I don't really ever use it? What do people use it for, if I may ask? I configure everything to use vim-style editing, so maybe that's why.

I can't really speak on the display stuff, but I fell like I saw something related to that in the BIOS. Haven't had issues with sleep either, but maybe because I've only been using the machine for 2 days.

About the battery, I really wonder if ASPM is off for you as well? It seems to be a common theme among HP Laptops. My battery life nearly doubled when I set it up.

What is your output of

$ sudo dmesg | grep ASPM

(if you use Linux?)
It's more, there's no attempt to structure information anymore.

All the settings menus are a nightmare of lists upon lists and each app has a completely random layout for it's menu-ing, often with links to external sites, for what could be set locally.

It is geniunely confusing to try and understand the designers intent. I can never tell if I missed a setting, or if it was never meant to exist in this menu at all.

The amount of times I've had to Google how to change basic settings is way too high, even for Games where the experience is half the ticket value.

CS2 has a settings menu with text buttons at the top (like a tab) that drag you down to an arbitrary point in a long list of settings. There is no tabs, it's impossible to mentally separate what the text button represents mentally, from every other option, because they all point to the same page anyway. Why bother with the buttons?

The semantic meaning of concepts don't relate to each other and are not structured accordingly. It is waaay too unnecessarily difficult to navigate around computing.

I miss Macromedia Flash's UI. I didn't use the program much, but it was so simple and easy to use.

One my biggest drives for privacy and self made solutions, is to get away from the experience and knowledge pollution we've been seeing lately.
I built a mood boarding app yesterday, it's a very simple "arrange images on a plane" tool to keep references handy when I'm arting.

It has one specific neat feature which is that it can pack itself into a single HTML file so you can share your mood board with someone in a very simple way.

https://thot-experiment.github.io/big_mood/

Here's a mood board for some art I'm currently working on, a single HTML file generated by clicking the "save" button (NSFW warning (artistic nudity)).
https://thiic.cc/heavy/mood.html
the article literally points out the somewhat rare configuration you would have to have to be exploited by this.

The way this headline is worded is pretty misleading, and you clearly sucked it up.
https://github.com/orsi/react-gamin

A very rough prototype of a game library with modern functional React. After seeing only a few game libraries in React, and all being relatively old and class-based, I wanted to learn how to make a React-based version of some simple games.

So far I got pong and some walking/animating sprites on a map, but hopefully will find more time in the future to flesh it out.

One big issue I found out was it’s incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to dynamically add/remove react components in and out of the dom. React very much encourages not touching or modifying “children”, with most apis that do that being obsolete and deprecated.
I'm reading "The Geography of Nowhere" right now, it covers much of this in a reasonably entertaining fashion, although its not chocka-block with references.

It does make some predictions that haven't dated well though (like hitting peak oil in 2023)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geography_of_Nowhere
You people are insufferable. Why even post this garbage?
I don't follow. They are still middle men who can get cut out if either the manufacturer or the retailer decide it's lucrative enough.
I do so every couple of years. I would love to now, but my kids have smartphones, so I feel the need to be able to relate.

The one I had most recently was the Sonim XP5, which fit all my requirements (bluetooth connection for music and hands-free, mp3 player, no apps) despite running a stripped down version of Android. It was also very rugged. The only thing I didn't care for was the proprietary charger
> All you said was that selfish motivation == misinformation

No I didn't, even according to you:

> You said that ads are misinformation because they try to convince you to buy something that may or may not be in your best interest to buy

Correct. Which is true if the thing they say you should buy, you should not in fact buy.

> that's a ridiculous definition of "misinformation," and I disagree with it strongly

You don't like that definition because you don't think that pressuring someone to buy something, when you have a vested interest in that thing selling, is inherently wrong. Not everyone has to have the same opinions about business rights and ethics as you.

> You said nothing about levels of influence, or about modern ad campaigns versus word-of-mouth advertising, or anything of the like.

No, you brought that into the conversation:

> I am not so against the idea of basic commerce that I think it's useful to say that someone hawking their wares is "misinforming"

Before that, we were clearly talking about modern ads, not "someone hawking their wares" as part of "basic commerce", which is obviously far more expansive a discussion, and includes said individual sellers.

> not because you believe that's actually a useful definition of misinformation

I am not limiting "misinformation" to only that, I am including that within the umbrella of misinformation, because it is.

Misinformation is simply, "Untrue or incorrect information." You are the one trying to redefine it to exclude common forms of misinformation we're used to navigating.

> I also said nothing about you believing advertising shouldn't be allowed.

Not explicitly. What you said was

> "I do believe that it's okay to advocate for something, and then let people decide for themselves if they agree. If it's not..."

Which is an inherent implication that I do not think it's okay to do so. I do think it's okay, I just can acknowledge that it's usually misinformation. As I said, the issue here is you being unable to reconcile something being misinformation, and that thing still being allowed.
I've worked on studies of mice that went to ISS. I understand the ethical concern. Ultimately, mice are used regularly as a model of human disease. The study I worked on specifically considered whether a particular treatment could help people in space avoid muscle and bone loss.
You seem like an interesting person^^:)
I've got the 13th gen intel model so can't talk about amd battery life but I can get at least 4 hours out of the battery most of the time and for me that's good since I tend to be running between 1 and 4 vms constantly humming away using cpu cycles. I have played with tlp and bet if I lightened my load and capped the cpu I'd be able to get 6 to 8 hours without an issue but I bought the thing for the speed so I'll stick with it zooming along instead of a long battery life.
Strong Towns hy Chuck Marohn
A month or two after I started drinking a Reishi mushroom powder tea every morning, a decades-old chickpea-sized lump on my calf I'd long accepted I'd take to the grave with me completely disappeared. There's now a divot left behind where it used to be, covered by the brown patch of skin that slowly developed throughout the years.

Totally unscientific anecdata. It's just the introduction of Reishi tea that was the obvious new variable I could correlate with the change trying to understand why this happened. When I searched "reishi tumor" on google there were piles of results... shrug

Here's a photo of the divot, still surprised this thing is gone, almost had it surgically removed when it first appeared in my 20s:

https://pengaru.com/~vc/tmp/reishi-turns-lump-to-divot.jpg
So you are operating every other product that was impacted by this?

This headline is pretty misleading as the article outlines you would need a fairly non-standard config to be exploited like this.

Versus many other products that the stock configs are vulnerable.
To the commenters seeing this in 2026-2027. Turns out that timeline was a bit optimistic, but we knew it at the time
Steve Wallis is one of my favorite YouTubers lately, and his whole schtick at first was camping with cheap and unconventional gear.

Ten bucks of blankets from the thrift store, no tent, for instance. (The blanket fort remains one of my all-time favorite episodes.) Or a tarp and some straps from the hardware store. Or those $0.99 mylar "survival tent" things, what's the experience in one of those actually like? Another classic is the "can you make a tent from bubble wrap and survive in it in the dead of Canadian winter?"... No spoilers, but it's hilarious.

I forget which episode he explains it in, but the idea was that he was sick of seeing all the glamping channels with expensive gear in exotic locations, and their implication that camping and being out in nature was somehow a luxury for the rich, when it should be, no, it IS, everyone's to enjoy.

From there, his focus grew to the locations themselves. Opposite of exotic. Downright silly. Behind billboards, in a storm drain culvert, in the landscaping in the middle of a suburban roundabout... Not only can you camp without gear, you don't need a campground either.
I spent the entirety of my elementary through high school life on a military base and schools on it.

1. On our base, school involvement was “easier” for the enlisted parent. They usually worked consistent hours and were available for after school involvement. They weren’t generally working late and night shifts allowing time to be involved with sports and other school activities.

2. Healthcare was provided and for regular services it was consistent and available. While we didn’t have to pay for it, we would often spend several hours at urgent care waiting to get seen when one of kids was not feeling well. It was a little strange that when I went to college, I had little understanding about how to go about seeing a doctor.

3. We had a small school which allowed everyone to know each other by name, even if we weren’t friends on day to day basis. We knew who was enlisted kids and who were officer kids and who were staff kids. This didn’t generally color attitudes, just part of who we were. It was a good community.

4. We had access to technology early and part of what led me to career in tech.

5. It was a very diverse environment of kids. It was just the way it was and I never gave any thought to race growing up.

6. We had a decent house on base (1950s brick) with each kid having their own room. If there was issues, like ceiling falling in on kitchen, base housing fixed the issues.

All of this took burdens off of my parents and us kids. I try to provide my kids with opportunities I had or even more than I had, but it certainly is a much different environment to do so.
Scroll wheels and gestures are paging mechanisms, a scrollbar does that as well but it’s also a “take me to the middle of the document” control.

Assuming a properly responsive document (not something you can take for granted today, especially on the web), you can readily use the scrollbar to navigate large ranges within a document, especially large ones.

Countless times, on large, old PDFs with no links and that use that kind of “B-29” section page numbering have I essentially used the scrollbar to binary search the document for some buried page.

Of course the modern web has practically destroyed the applicability of the scrollbar as indicator because of the rampant use of lazy loading and endless scrolling. Many times on the Mac I’ve tried to use Cmd-down arrow to jump to the end of the document, hoping that there IS an end, and that it will load all of embeds that wreak havoc with the formatting.

But, alas, I find I’m on some endless train, with no hope of knowing how far I’ve gone or how far I have to go.

All that said, I happen to have a weighted mouse wheel on a bearing that is specifically designed for high velocity doom scrolling, partly because the scrollbar is effectively useless.
I’m surprised Linux doesn’t have some ubiquitous “use the camera to do auto-brightness” option (pinging the camera on a proprietary OS would be creepy, but if it is open source…).
To me, now, the Hacker News user interface has become one of the best on the Web!
Yes, but most areas under-served by ground based networks have very few people - so it'll be interesting to see how it works out. Even fewer Optus customers.
Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins works more universally than Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V across Windows and Linux.
You're the one justifying Hamas killing 1300 people in cold blood. You're the one saying that's justified.
Under traditional Irish law, there was no significance to any particular color, but the number of different colors you could wear simultaneously was determined by your status.

The general phenomenon of legal protections on status signifiers goes under the name "sumptuary laws". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law
Except it's only impacted in a pretty non-standard config.

Not that it's not important to disseminate the knowledge, but the chosen title here is deliberatley sensational
Yea, I've had no issues with the Linux of it really, the hardware is just... bad. It feels cheap, the battery is terrible, having it near any magnet messes up its sensors for if the lid is closed and causes random issues, and the screen is so glossy you essentially can't use it in natural lighting.

I guess I could potentially spend the cost of a third Macbook Air on replacing parts to maybe fix all of that and generate as much carbon and e-waste in the process as the sum total of the last decade of my Apple laptops, but that seems like a pyrrhic victory.
The way I've heard it told GNOME 2 was the cat's meow. I myself only switched to GNU/Linux in 2012, so I missed it. Unity (Ubuntu's erstwhile competitor to GNOME 3) with the HUD was quite the joy to use, though.
Yesterday, we were “rethinking” open source licensing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37849958

Today, we’re celebrating the bait and switch.

I can’t wait to see what nonsense we’re doing tomorrow.
"Important engineering lessons" lol. True, though. Like any accident.
You could simply encode the json to base64 and put it in the url fragment (hash). Then you can save by bookmarking the url and share by copy/pasting it, all without a server. I've seen some web games use this method but I can't remember which off the top of my head.