skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without taking away from the great things they are also doing, I'm mostly amazed at how bad and laggy the Steam app is, and has been for years, on all 3 platforms I've used it on.

(I'm sure there are loads of people who have never had any issues but to me that's like people saying there are no problems with Linux on the desktop because they don't have any problems.)
Was just about to comment this. Wonder if anyone more mathematically inclined can see a relationship.
> There is no "carbon neutral" consumption

What is, is not all that can ever be.
There are lots of small text-only providers, but they're not widely known because they're small. ES is special because they allow low-friction signups; others you will mostly need to know the admin to get an account.
Ask HN: How do Chinese dissidents protect themselves from being spied on?
There are quite a few well known Chinese dissidents that appear to still have contacts in Mainland China.
Since this is literally a matter of life and death, how do they do it, given the extended capabilities CCP has at its disposal?

It’s really hard to imagine the level of stress, precautions and self-doubting they would have to go through, but they still do it. And I doubt that all of them are suicidal, so there must (still) be some rather safe ways available.
I think of myself as a very "semantic, HTML-forward" guy when it comes to front-end work and I found myself disagreeing with the vast majority of this.
Around 23% in 2020, based on the difference between GNI* and GDP. It has been higher than that in the past, but increased medical manufacturing pushed it back. It's not just American companies, but they're certainly the largest.
The most notable effect here is that you learn to be wary of any stat mentioning "GDP" or "GDP per capita".

In 2015, when the US cut-off date for many of these transfers hit, the CSO refused to release accurate corporate tax numbers because it would have identified the companies involved.
Very clever! They should have hired you to run future campaigns.
That seems unnecessary. Why not just forward through an anonymous SSH box?
Our legal system typically isn't built around vengeance.

And if Experian knew who was viewing our info inappropriately, they'd know it's not us -- and stop it. Instead their lame system assumes that anyone who has minimal information about us _is_ us.
The empty set is 1 set. Can’t have 0 without 1.
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Similarly for every React/$oftheday dev who creates a snappy, race condition free, spinner free, app that feels almost as snappy as the web prior to React/$oftheday, there are 40 who create sluggish, unmaintainable tyre fires.
All mentioned projects look to be web focused? I would assume most of Porsche’s software value-add is in embedded systems. Can open source make a dent in the car components themselves?
If apple stopped existing shortly after android phones became available, everyone would just be using android phones now and the tears would be long in the past.
HN opinions are not representative of the general population.

There's definitely an echo chamber here, and as long as we recognize that and not think opinions here are normative, we can appropriately discount very emotional and contrarian opinions.

I use FB and so do many of my friends. Why? We're all older and people like posting pictures of their kids. It's also a lot less intrusive.

I'm sure we've all been at dinner parties where someone wants to show you your photo album and you have to pretend to be interested but it's a chore. FB lets them show their photo album in a way that is passive, and if something catches your eye, and you can comment but otherwise you don't have to engage. Win-win.

I unfollow or block friends that post politics or other stupid stuff. It keeps my feed fairly clean, and I get to see what my friends are doing. When I meet up with them, I have context for starting a conversation that is less surface level.
I think the point that's trying to be made is, the traditionally recognized 'victim' is not the actual victim. The person whose "identity" was "stolen" is not a victim, the bank is. What was stolen was money--from the bank. But, we've designed our system, laws, contracts, etc such that the third party who was not involved at all has all responsibility of cleaning up the mess shoved onto them
In my limited math experience, I really found an appreciation of the number one. My favorite part of high school algebra was realizing that "solving for x" was often just a repeated exercise of multiplying each side of the equation by a "clever form of one."
This feels closer to a tarot reading than mathematics, and I’m here for it
Of the brands I’ve run across for SD cards, Sandisk has been top 3ish for quality. I’ve never had major issues at least for SD Cards?

Samsung has been catching up though.
All school subjects are niche outside of arithmetic, spelling, grammar, reading, writing, civics, typing and recess.

Offering practical subjects that people will actually use in their day to day lives can only be a good thing. Dudes go to college and don't know how to do laundry like good lord.
I remember hearing as a kid that $2 bills in weren't popular in Western Canada as that was the common price prostitutes charged and the stigma stuck around.
"concerns about our team's focus."
I often hear this, but don't know what VCs actually want to hear, besides $$$
There's a place in Vegas where you can drive one around and crush scrapped cars.

There was also a police-footage show with an episode about a guy who built a DIY tank-- a bulldozer with a bunch of cement slabs mounted to it. He terrorized a neighborhood on his way to demolish city hall over some grievance, beached it, and shot himself while police tried to breach it.
We Pragmaticists (some would say "abject pragmaticists") advocate for a compromise solution between Zeroastrians and Unitarians by taking h=½ as the fundamental constant. It satisfies several interesting identities involving other constants, like i^i=e^(-hπ), ∫e^(x^(1/h))dx=π^h, ∑n^(-1/h)=hπ^(1/h)/3, the celebrated inequality (a+b)h≥(ab)^h or the curious fact that 1/h is the smallest prime number.
ℵ0 uncountable?
If you want something you can drive around your neighborhood, you want an armored car with rubber tires (not metal treads, not rubber treads).

For instance, the UK's M8 Greyhound.
We're talking about Oberon here, not about its clones. And I based my reply on Oberon-2. It definitely sucked.

> Hash maps don't need to be built-ins, as proven in many languages.

Except Oberon doesn't have generics.

From the very beginning, Go included very practical "magic" generic functions: append, len, cap, delete. Along with slices, they allowed Go to flourish without generics.

Oberon only has LENGTH.

> re-use Oberon-2 (yet another version you ignored) method syntax

Here's Go: "func (c Type) DoSomething(hello, world string) (int, error)".
Here's Oberon: "PROCEDURE (c: Type) DoSomething(hello, world: STRING): INTEGER;" (error handling is for wimps).

It is similar, but not the same. Go also has structural polymorphism, which Oberon lacks.

> Screaming keywords, only an issue when someone doesn't use an editor with automatic capitalization, only an issue for Notepad-like users.

IT LOOKS UGLY, AND IT MATTERS A LOT, WHEN YOU MOSTLY READ THE CODE.

So yep, I maintain that Oberon is a shitty language. It might be useful as a starting point for new language design, but that's it.

It has never been practical, and on its own it only ever "succeeded" in the ETH where professors just forced students to use it.
Amen to that!

The popular pattern of constructing React components with Organism, Atoms, Molecules and so on, makes following an unfamiliar codebase a nightmare!

JSX is hard to use in my eyes.

At first I thought it must be me, but I’m glad there is a movement to reject all this front end React based madness.

Building API layers with GraphQL and React on the front end just for a few business forms is madness!
How is that achieved by capture on the iPhone 15 with the two lenses just 2 cm apart?
It reduces development complexity.

- No complex build set-up (just link the script & use it)

- Less congitive load when reading the code. Especially if it's not yours.

- Very decent learning curve.
My 2016 desktop had 22 cores and 44 threads. You can have the same processor for < $200 on ebay right now.
I don't understand the downvotes. Industrial espionage is a fact of how governments operate, all governments that have a spying apparatus at least.

For some it's a bitter pill to swallow when everyone is the bad guy, but we should just accept governments don't like being bound by international laws when breaking them can give them an advantage.
99% of small businesses just flat out ‘nope’ out when it comes to proper backups or redundancies though.
I like the basic idea, but unless Porsche moves away from manufacturer lock-in for all of the software on board of the vehicles, including the inability to inspect and/or repair the underlying hardware not much of use will come of efforts like this. It's like so many other brands that claim to love Open Source Software for marketing purposes but that continue to refuse to open up the key components of the software that they ship.

Porsche could make some real headlines by opening up their ECU code and the code that drives their infotainment systems, would be nice if it was accompanied by schematics and the tools required to read-out and re-program the hardware.

Fat chance that will ever happen because 'safety', 'environment' and a bunch of other fig-leaf excuses.
The middle 2 links are by solo developers - I wouldn't call those significant production systems. Generally tools like React are helpful for managing complexity across large systems where nobody understands the whole app and layers of of features, bug fixes and optimizations have been baked in over the years and nobody understands the whole app anymore
Another interesting velocity-related conundrum: It’s impossible to measure the one-way speed of light (from a source to a detector) because we have to synchronize the clocks somehow, which requires an algorithm based on the speed of light to account for time dilation. We can only measure the two-way speed of light (from a source to a reflector and back).

So, from the standpoint of pure math, isotropy of the speed of light is purely a convention. The argument can only be made based on, so to speak, philosophical reasoning.
The point is that the impersonated person shouldn't have these fraudulent items reported on their credit. That's the crux of how the responsibility of cleaning up this mess is absolutely on the wrong person
I love the number 27
3^3
2+7 = 3+3+3
Does anyone have the data on what an individual's chance of dying in any particular year is if they drive a car from, say, 2000, vs. a car from 2020? The difference has to be so slim, my gut feeling is the difference between 1 in 50,000,000 and 1 in 100,000,000. But I guess that's why I'm asking for the actual metric.

Actually owning the vehicle, paying less for it, having a less complex more reliable vehicle, having a vehicle I can maintain myself, having a vehicle that obeys my commands rather than deciding on its own to refuse to run or to slam on the brakes, a vehicle that doesn't phone home data about me and my driving, is so much more important to me than a lottery ticket odds difference in whether I might die.
Why would that be any better? You still seem to be saying that comment had nothing to do with the submission, and is something commonly on HN. In fact so often that one can easily predict that it'll be spammed to any post about Google. Something predictable and boring is not the good kind of HN comment.

It's an even worse comment when nothing was killed in this instance as far as I can tell. The headline is just a total fabrication. Nothing had been hosted on that URL for 22 years except a 302 redirect. The archive is just as functional (or non-functional) as it had been for the last two decades. But maybe I'm wrong about that. Maybe something did use to work for the OP and was broken recently.
Airbnb was good. Now it is an abortion of good taste and joy.

I wonder if product managers are inept or just cynical and know how they trade off customer value for their own profitability. Does it wear on them that they know the right thing, but don’t do it. Or are they deluded and think that what they are making now is good, and beautiful, and loved by customers?
People keep asking him.
If you like Bank's writing try 'The wasp factory'. It's rather dark, but quite brilliant with an amazing twist at the end. It's not sci-fi.
I don’t think this is _that_ interesting because the probabilities don’t add up to exactly 50%.

We have:

- the smallest prime factor of less than half of all integers is ≤ 31

- the smallest prime factor of over half of all integers is ≤ 37

So, clearly, the prime p where exactly half of all integers have something ≤ p as their smallest prime factor must lie between 31 and 37 :-)

Alternatively, one could argue such a prime doesn’t exist. That, I think, is the better answer.

That doesn’t imply there’s no good definition of that median, though because it’s 100% acceptable to have a set of numbers whose median is not an element of that set. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median#Finite_data_set_of_numb...:

“If the data set has an even number of observations, there is no distinct middle value and the median is usually defined to be the arithmetic mean of the two middle values.[1][2] For example, this data set of 8 numbers

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 has a median value of 4.5”

So i guess the hunt still is on for a good argument as to why a non-prime such as 36 or even a real such as 36.716… should be called the median of the smallest prime factors of all integers (I wouldn’t know whether that exists)
> The best part is that Peppermint OS is free to download and try.

An odd comment. Isn’t that the case for all these distributions?

Edit to add: I would say a more interesting factor is being able to test drive from a USB drive without having to install anything.
I've read through pretty much all of Hamilton's books, as well as the mainline Expanse books.

The number of times I've muttered "James fucking Holden" is orders of magnitude higher than the times I've been frustrated by Hamilton's verbosity.

I was truly disgusted and disappointed to see the Expanse series jump decades into the future and it's still about James fucking Holden

Say what you will about Hamilton, but he's got more than one character to beat up on. I found Banks to be much more tedious to read. He says the same things over and over and every story is the same as the last. Every problem has a deus ex machina solution. Every problem is also a deus ex, but that's kind of the point.

The ending and epilogue to the Expanse was deeply unsatisfying. More deus ex, more protomolecule. Nothing truly resolved, nothing answered.

My read is that Banks is an inexperienced author with more space to talk than things to say.
I didn't hear many episodes yet.

Jeremy Howard was just awesome, I love that guy.

The episode with Michael Royzen was so full of jargon that I often couldn't follow and didn't finish it (yet?), even though I am really interested.
> Some of the shots would fit right in with a Portal cutscene.

The music really helps sell that idea.
Sounds like https://gokrazy.org/ might be of interest to you.
Most of the U.S. debt is owed to domestic creditors (about 70% as of this July), and of that 40% is held by the Federal Reserve (for 28% of total debt). (These numbers don't include benefits-related debt like Social Security funding.)
> That being said, everyone claiming it was "shady" is off base. Sarup didn't make any effort to hide his affiliation (I personally would have assumed my affiliation is obvious if it's the first line on my GitHub page) and if that was the intent it would have been trivial to use a sock puppet account.

I'd give them (codecrafters) the benefit of the doubt if they hadn't opened half a dozen similar PRs to similar repos using the account of someone employed by them but without any clear affiliation in their github profile.
Not easily. You could run through the big instances (mastodon.online/social, hachyderm etc etc) but there are quite a lot of reasonably large ones, and also some interesting people either use extremely niche ones or have their own single-user instance.
bing chat actually lists the sources
The reason "nobody understands the app anymore" is due to the complexity of React and not the application.

HTMX tries to reduce the complexity.
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I always found it somewhat amusing that SanDisk is very similar to to the french Sans Disque.
Like the Chevrolet No Vá situation for spanish speakers.
Very cool. They've done what I've daydreamed about, and actually got it to work!

When I played Elite: Dangerous I used a "hand on throttle and stick" (HOTAS) setup, along with foot pedals. I couldn't help but think that there must be a better way to control a spaceship: your ship can pitch, yaw, and roll in addition to being able to fire thrusters in 6 directions.

I wanted a handheld ship model that I could move such that the ship in Elite would move in the same way. The linked project looks like it could do just that. Thrust would be controlled in a similar way, but with my other hand.

Strange or new input models like that are so amazing to me. Our imagination can really fly high with these sorts of capabilities.
I have to ask: were you using your dad's Usenet account?
They two authentication systems that I know of that allow users to freely choose between authentication suppliers are websites supporting openid and RFC 6238.

There are works being done in Sweden to create an open government identification standard where users can choose which trusted entity to use, assuming that those entities are trusted by the government website or service that require government ID. For Sweden that would likely mean a choice between banks or government issued digital id, which is a step up from current system of only having banks being the authority of online identification. An EU digital identity would be a third options.

Those are not a digital certificate. They are more similar to single-sign-on system. It is the "authenticate with facebook" but without facebook and for things like healthcare and taxes.

As a side note, the current system in Sweden is such that if you do get banned from banks in Sweden then you also loose your digital identity and will be unable to do most things in relation to government or healthcare.
A great beginner guide to GPU programming concepts:

https://github.com/srush/GPU-Puzzles
The casino industry is as highly regulated as they come. Code is inspected, fines are huge and licenses to operate can be withdrawn in case of established fraud.

There are many ways casinos try to part their visitors from the money but fraud - these days, not the past - usually isn't the driver. But psychology, greed and environment are just as effective, if not more effective at accomplishing the same goals. The best way not to lose any money in a casino is by not going there in the first place. Most people believe they are immune to the envy of thinking other people around them are winning but they'd be wrong and the whole environment there is geared to make you move into FOMO mode until you're broke.
Big headline, small impact
I mean, if I was a well funded security agency, I'd absolutely poor lots of money into setting up a well-known VPN provider with an excellent reputation - wouldn't you?
That link doesn't open. (Unable to load conversation)
So pelican and hugo are not frameworks? How is a static site generator any different from statically exporting next.js/nuxt.js or similar?

I've used all the things mentioned, and I quite like the ergonomics of frameworks for static websites. Added benefit is that I can make static sites dynamic if necessary.

And to be clear, these static exports are incredibly fast and performant.

> you could roll your own SSG in a weekend

Sure, I could do that, or I could build my app/website in that weekend..
Until you factor back in buying a usable config. And the fact that Asahi is still not totally feature complete. Three years on and DP alt mode for example is still a WIP.
To be fair, most UX "experts" are too busy chasing interfaces that are "inclusive", i.e. built for toddlers.

Show me a powerful program with a "good" UI by modern standards and I'll show you a mess. VS Code is a prime example.
SanDisk used to have a good reputation, but after being acquired by WD they've turned to shit:

* https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/sandisk-extreme-ssds...

* https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/sandisk-extreme-ssds...

* https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/lawsuit-takes-wester...

* https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/sandisk-extreme-ssds...
Religion will take care of the remainder. And I don't doubt that plenty of Hamas' motivation can ultimately be boiled down to power and greed.
Shut up and take my money! Where do I sign up?
There are rarely any bargains there, now it's a tourist attraction and everything is marked up much higher than it would be at a real fence, I mean used goods retailer like a flea market or thrift store
The biggest excuse is much more reasonable (albeit annoying, the same reason why most board support firmware isn't open source): ECUs are built using code generation from models (ASCET, LabView/Simulink, etc.) on top of 10 layers of proprietary middleware and compilers, using components supplied by hundreds of consulting firms, so an open-source effort would have to be a paradigm shift in the industry from the ground up. It's not something Porsche could decide to do on their own.
Yes! I used an Aeropress for many years and was shocked that the Clever Dripper made noticeably better coffee. Water first makes more consistent coffee indeed. Just gently stir the floating grinds a little to mix them in. For the filters I found Melita Mild to be best (of course depends where you live if you can get them or similar/better)
Quick thought regarding date pickers, specifically:

> Is the look/feel/controls consistent across browsers? (No.) Can we style them to get there? (Also no.)

Assuming you design this website for users. Each users may use a different browser, but they probably use this same browser for all websites they visit. Hence IMO its more important that date pickers are consistent across all websites on 1 browser, then across 1 website on all browsers. (Its of course a different story if you need custom functionality.)
That's probably why Boeing didn't pay, mustn't be very valuable hostages there.

OTOH, this isn't plain ransomware, it's exfiltration+ransomware. More and more bad actors ransom, and after being paid, sell anyway. Why pay if they're going to slap your other cheek regardless?
This.
Only 5% of post-consumer plastic waste in the US was recycled in 2021.
Americans actually like to pay people for the work they do...it may be bizarre, but it's part of why America has the world's strongest economy.

Huh. How about that. A country of people who don't just think they're entitled to the labor of others.