skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're using an extremely narrow definition of "mount" here, as in natively mounting the filesystem. Accessing your phone via MTP is still a form of "mounting" the storage over USB. Different than how one would mount an SD card, sure, but its still "mounting" the storage.

I've had no problems over several years using my Android device as essentially a large external storage device to move files around. For the purpose of copying photos, videos, documents, other files, side loading apps, etc. it works well.

And one can go the other way and take an external drive and plug it in to most Android devices these days to copy data off of it without having to use it with a Windows/Mac/Linux device. So from the perspective of someone who went on a vacation in the woods and is shooting hundreds of gigs of videos it is possible to plug in external storage and copy off to it directly. One could even use a USB SD card reader and write it to SD cards. Or MMC cards. Or floppy disks if you're so inclined.
Ask HN: Should we plan for a life after HN?
While reading about the death of Omegle, I came across this comment and it sent a chill down my spine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38201035 ("Omegles come and go, but "[how is it] hacker news?" is here forever.")

Although the comment was not necessarily about the longevity of HN itself, it made me realise that HN, like any other online forum, has a finite lifespan. At some point it will end (although that seems like a distant possibility right now).

Should we plan for this? I.e. building some sort of mirror platform with the same profiles, same data and as much of the algorithm as possible, with the agreement that we meet there should HN unexpectedly meets its demise.

I understand that a huge part of why HN works is dang. I'm unsure how we mirror him though.
> and of all the problems in the world child porn and even terrorism are lower on the list than people slipping in the bathtub and it's all FUD.

You can also bust the terrorists and child pornographers without breaking everyone else's encryption.

Get a warrant, break into their homes and install a keylogger and snarf all their passwords and break into all their accounts if you have to.

And that's assuming they aren't just stupid and talking about what they're doing on unencrypted channels, which is usually what happens.
Yeah, elevenlabs supports input text streaming but in practice it seems to wait for quite a while before it starts streaming. Should look into ways to make TTS much more instant
I realized this for different reasons, but it resonates with me.

I’m a perfectionist. The pursuit of success can be consuming. When you achieve it and try to connect with people over it, you’re typically coming from the wrong place. It isn’t really sincere, it’s misguided, it’s often achieved through unsustainable behaviour. The whole thing is a bit uncomfortable. Whether people are conscious of it or not, you aren’t coming from a relatable place. People will typically be kind and supportive, but typically, the perfectionist causes people to pause and analyze. They might make others feel worse about themselves, they might be obnoxiously modest or self-deprecating, and so on. It’s a hard way to be and it’s hard to be around.

You can turn it into something great, though. A retired perfectionist can be one of the most compassionate, supportive, understanding, and encouraging types of people once they let go of their inward obsession and put that energy towards others.
If I gave you a programming problem and all I told you was that the problem name was Traveling Salesman, you might be able to solve it based on that.

If not that, then if I just said "fizzbuzz" to you, I'm sure you would be able to give the solution without me needing to say any other descriptions of the problem
> A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Was this trained exclusively on snapshots of the more annoying bits of Reddit from about ten years ago or something? Like, it's not just cringe, it's _vaguely retro-feeling cringe_. Annoying internet people have moved on from this particular style.
Nobody could ever launch a Melee refresh because even the community today can't agree on what the best version is. 1.01? NTSC? PAL? PAL Yoshi and Fox with other characters NTSC? UCF? Neutral starts? Scientists should take note of our achievements in how finely one can split a hair.
Functional composites by programming entropy-driven nanosheet growth
This exact issue is what eventually persuaded me, over 10 years ago, to switch from Windows to Linux, having already been on the fence for some time. I've never looked back. Installing all my software and configuring it on a new machine is a simple matter of running one command and waiting for it to complete, using Ansible (or similar alternatives). This is highly problematic in Windows where (at least at that time; I don't know if things have moved on) each item of software tends to have its own custom installer which isn't easily automated in a consistent way.
Ah got it! So basically the prompt to GPT4 is an image + text (converted from audio).
> The press is supposed to check and balance, but in this case they walked hand-in-hand with the agencies.

Please substantiate the first clause without

1. Using the Press as a source

2. Using some aspirational/normative source that tells us nothing about how things work out in practice
But nerds are a minority, most people don't know or want to take all those workarounds. They aim for them not for a minority.
I want to build a DSL for a really specific reporting use case. It's daunting though. Not sure if what I have in mind is a true DSL, perhaps just a souped up builder pattern.
They did it to themselves and I don't feel bad about it at all. Everyone I know is canceling their video streaming subscriptions but nobody is canceling Spotify/Apple subscriptions.
This is a fascinating analysis of the introvert/extrovert thing.

I call myself an "extroverted introvert". I prefer not to engage in social situations that involve more than one or two people at a time. I can function very well in larger social situations, though, and don't feel like I'm "trying" at all. People who have only seen me in those settings tend to think I'm an extrovert.

However, it does exhaust me relatively quickly. Perhaps your explanation is why.
OK, but that's actually useful for information retrieval.
This just sounds like someone who can't write good specs
It's worth it. Goes straight at the philosophical underpinnings of software, maybe even knowledge, with a hacksaw. It's not much longer than its own Wikipedia page: https://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.ht...

Foucault wrote: "This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought [...] breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between the Same and the Other."

This is good too: https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/

But it all sums to "the map is not the territory".

Broadly agree with the thrust of what you're saying, disagree with some of the fine detail.
Isn't the keyboard connected to the computer via USB?

If I have access to the keyboard, I have access to a USB cable plugged into the computer, right?

Perhaps I misunderstand something....
That was a joke. Sorry for the confusion.
Echoing several of the comments here about learning by doing, I think Ben Horowitz’s “Hard thing about hard things” may recommend that too. See section (and blog post) “If you’ve never done the job, how do you hire somebody good?” with pitfalls:

https://a16z.com/hiring-executives-if-youve-never-done-the-j...

“The very best way to know what you want is to act in the role. ... In addition, ... bring in domain experts.”
Why on earth have they shipped with a USB-C that you can charge from _and_ a barrel charging connector? Article says exactly the same power delivery on both.

Anybody know what's going on there? Why not drop the barrel and put something else there (like another USB)? Seems bizarre.
I'm intensely curious about how Disney has lost $7.5 million per day running Disney+. Could that be a real number? Surely there have to be accounting shenanigans at play... right?

I mean, if they're really losing half of a billion dollars per quarter, they'd need to do something like doubling their subscriber count to even approach breaking even. Is that really the case?
You are erecting a barrier in your mind that does not exist in reality.
ASUS used to be my goto for quality on some items long time ago, but it has changed drastically in recent years. Sadly, it is just a reminder that one should not rely on brand recognition. Things change. Do research. Talk to people.
I actually don't think that's why they're getting downvoted, nobody is arguing that freedom isn't subjective, it's not a very insightful point.

I think they're getting downvoted (note: not by me, I downvote very little) because they've introduced a controversial strawman around a much more ambiguous topic than one about the repairability of mechanical and electrical consumer goods. It is not some sort of flight of fancy to think we could define what is important about repairability for consumer goods and have at least some objective criteria that is communicated to the consumer.
They did cover why the headphone jack was removed in the FP4

https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/983618898804...
I did most of the same, loving how powerful the N100 chipset is.

I’ve yet to go all the way with an antenna and capture device, seemingly waiting forever for ATSC 3.0 broadcasts in my area.
That's fair but the blog is not an HN post.
We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem (2020)
I'd pay for a streaming service with quality history, science, and economic content.
The situation with olive oil this year is bad... so bad that some farmers are using fake GPS olives to track stolen olives: https://greekreporter.com/2023/10/23/greek-farmers-use-gps-t...

The price for virgin olive oil used to be 3-4 €/liter in the last couple of years and now it has soared to above 10 €/L. You can find some local producers (relatives/friends) selling for around 8 €/L but most people in the big cities will never see such a low price, on the contrary it will reach them for around 15 €/L :-(

Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal (among other Mediterranean countries) rely heavily on olive oil for food preparation and this will affect prices and inflation.
Last time I tried a System 76 laptop it was great when I was plugged in at my desk doing dev work. Better than a Macbook Pro.

But when I had to unplug it in the office to go to a meeting it was just terrible... support for plugging/unplugging external monitors/docks was atrocious, I had wifi issues, and doing something like a Zoom meeting (Webex at the time) would reduce it's battery life to 1 hour or less. Stuff just got messed up using it as a laptop that was getting used at the desk and then not at the desk.

That was quite some time ago, I hope the software has gotten better. I stopped using it cause I was messing with linux too much instead of doing my work. That was depressing, cause it was kind of the same story as every time I've tried to use linux on the desktop back to the 90s.
There’s a school of thought that says if it turns out the inventor of fire was a rapist, we must never be warm.
I was going to mention Panduit too, but originally refrained from posting.

If You have never used Panduit, choose wisely the room where it initially is installed. Start off with the lab or workshop or under kitchen cupboards (ie, places where the other half isn't going to get bothered by it). Also, it helps if the area has many semi-permanent cable runs ("this extension will only be here for a few days..." - unintentional fib). Personally, every time I install a new rack or mounting board (think 1m x 2.5m board on a wall to hold tools or "temporary" power strip/network equipment/test fixtures), I put in a length of F2x3 "narrow slotted duct". I use much smaller under the cabinets. The larger ducts are good for hiding the extra cable length so only what is needed escapes the enclosure.

Initially, it is often ugly. I would not want to live without it. Bonus points for creative mounting (the other half still has not noticed the piece across the lower back of the upright piano but has noticed the lack of cables).
Sometimes that works if you get to call the shots...
> Mozilla has (many) problems, but it remains the main organisation fighting for the open web.

Well, it’s a different organisation from MS and Google anyway. I’m not sure how much I’d say they’re fighting for an open web, so much as I’d say they’re fighting for their slice of it. But the end result is more or less the same.
I worry about this myself. I feel like HN is the last refuge of what the old Internet was supposed to be like.

I'm not sure it can be replicated. The future of the Internet seems to me to be small private "hidden" communities and mega platforms filled with garbage. No room for a middle

Maybe a paid platform?
I'm team barrel connector after having broken many usb-c ports. That's a plus not a minus.
Ah I see, thanks. Probably Typescript, although I'm considering Rust as well. I'm using tree-sitter for the lexer.
How long did it take you to build this end-to-end? (including landing page)
I've replaced the battery once and the wifi card twice, the second time in SFO at a cafe table with some random screwdriver I stole from the office. The internal layout is SO easy to open up and put back together, and all the parts and instructions for repair are posted on their website (and are super easy to navigate!). Idk why you would say "farce" but that seems extremely strong. I guess it's kind of inconvenient that they didn't fix the laptop you broke in a timespan you liked, but that's got nothing to do with the thing's "repairability".
Yeah, need a UI overlay assist atleast. sort of like hints in games
Personally, I find ThinkPads and any of the Dell laptops without discrete graphics cards, reliable for Linux.
No it doesn't. How do you write good specs for someone who is meant to own marketing for your business. You don't know marketing. You need someone who does.
Dead Perverts Society: A Review of "Selective Breeding " by Costin Alamariu
Child of Light is a story-heavy game where one co-op player has a significantly easier time (playing a flying ball of light that supports the main player)

Never Alone is a Native American mythology game where the second player plays a supporting spirit fox

The Lego games are great in co-op, and the first player can do most things to progress

Roblox is more of a community of minigames and sandboxes, so you can choose fun ones together

When they're a bit older...

Trine is an excellent physics puzzler

Grounded is a co-op survival game where you're kids shrunken to the size of ants

Unravel is a... eh... yarn puzzler? Hard to explain but cute in co-op

It Takes Two is a wonderful series of puzzles in 3D.

Farm Together is a farming game.

Stardew Valley is also a farming game but with a story.
I would wonder how they're measuring this, and I'd suspect it varies a lot depending on field.
That's including platform capex against ARR though...
Other niche features like water resistance can be achieved other ways, like suitable cases or removable sealing compounds along seams. Engineers are clever, they solve problems the simplest way possible within a given set of constraints. Changing those constraints won't change the possibility of achieving similar outcomes.

> If more people wanted them, more people would sell them, but most people prefer the additional battery life, increased water resistance, and thinness of modern phones.

You're overstating the preferences and availability of alternatives here. All the best engineering talent went towards sexiness hype cycles, little went into making phones with that were more eco friendly.

Lots of people also liked Tho-Radia, a radioactive cosmetic from almost 100 years ago. That's not a justification for permitting it.
Can you be suspended/expelled from a school for things that are done outside of school? I don't think you can in the several countries I've lived in.
It sounds like you got by more on thorough knowledge of Tolkien than your knowledge of Finnish. I'm going to guess there's more speakers of non-English languages here than of Quenya and Sindarin (which may have been pharmaceutical names for all I know).
Do you reward these people with more than a fraction of a percent of equity? As someone who likes WLB enough, isn't enough of a gambler to take a 0.001% chance of being a millionaire over a 25-50% chance of getting a nice 6 figure payout from a more established startup, and has too many kids to boot, I never bothered looking at a company that didn't have a health insurance plan and a 401k match. But when I learned it was common for a founding engineer to get like half a percent of the company, I was appalled. I'd rather just start my own startup and roll the dice there if I'm still going to have to build the whole damn thing just for a fraction of a percent in equity.

It seems super weird that you'd literally be in the trenches with 1-2 other people who each have as much equity as 50-100 of you.

Otherwise, I mean, why should someone brilliant work for you instead of a company with much better odds of success?

Clearly, companies do hire founding engineers at these rates so maybe I'm the crazy one. But it just seems wild to me.
It is, because in some older payment systems all payments go via the same "rails" as they call it.

Specifically, the reason that payments are still tied to the nightly cycle is because orders submitted to the central bank aren't executed immediately. At night they suspend submission of new orders and do something called netout or payment compression on the transfer graph, the goal of which is to reduce the amount of money banks need to hold at the central bank. Every payment no matter how small can contribute to the netout, reducing liquidity needs at the CB.
Physical media has been trending towards poorly. But in a changed world where streaming media costs for consumers are doubling, at the same time content on the services are shrinking, it's not clear that this trend will continue. Why wouldn't consumers want own more media as the relative value of streaming options plummets?

I mean, sure, Best Buy evidently thinks this is the right time to exit physical media. They might be right. But "never coming back" seems like an a possibly overly confident prediction at a time when the major substitute causing the decline is on fire?
Is ladybird actually usable outside of serenity os?
> The decision to cancel the project followed an update from NuScale this year regarding the cost of building the reactors, which had soared to $9.3 billion from $5.3 billion because of rising interest rates and inflation.

Even $5.3B seems very expensive. For reference, (the new Finnish) Olkiluoto-3 was €11 billion, for 1600 MW. The article says 6 * 77 MW = 539 MW!

How is it that we've become so bad at building?
Nice to see NASM is still going strong. I used this for a class I taught back in the 90's. The class supported both Windows and Linux (but most students used Windows) and NASM supported both and was free.

I ended up creating my own free online textbook for the course. It's sorta out of date now since it was for 32-bit processors.
They're both "real". People tend to modify their behavior according to who they're near. They aren't "faking it", though. It's that we tend to behave as those we are around behave. And, conversely, those people who are around us tend to behave as we do.

Once you notice this, you can't stop seeing it.

All versions of ourself is still the real us, though -- we're just emphasizing and deemphasizing different aspects of us according to the social situation.
Popular Lego marketplace went offline after a 'ransom' demand
usually, yes (either cost of the API or cost to serve for OpenAI)
Worth seeing if it passes the SIP Torture tests - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4475
True. But it’s not only about thinking. In my experience it’s also a lot about the need for validation/ general independence. Many people (or even most?) need attention and regular pats on the back. Providing 10 people with this validation and attention can be a full time job.
New Island Emerges Off Japan After Powerful Underwater Volcano Eruption
Exactly, many people I've spoken with who have olive trees are saying this. The lack of rain and the high temperatures have played an important role to the production and yield of this years olives.
Wealthy westerners thinking climate change will only affect the global south are in for some hard lessons soon. "It can't happen here, it'll affect mostly the poors in the tropics, so we won't constraint capitalism at all for it or change our lifestyles," crowd think they're going to somehow outrun climate change. They don't realize as a group entirely dependent on exploiting the global south not only are they are risk if the gs is hurt, but their own climate is suffering now. If anything the northern West is more vulnerable to climate change than most due to it existing on a series of rube-goldberg machines in a long line of dominoes that, if hit in the right place, could cause systematic failure.

Olive trees are low stakes, but ultimately a sign that climate change is moving north.
There was an implication that they didn't fulfill parenting duties in part because their job was onlyfans.

If they were making a lot of money, and not as poor, there is a higher chance their parenting duties were fulfilled.
If you use the barrel jack you now have an extra USB port you can use for stuff!

If you forget your barrel jack connector you can borrow a USB charger and it'll work!

Win-win!
Not exactly, I'd say. It is a mutual win for the people involved in the transactional aspect, but a tragedy for the victims. Having the ability to charge the prices you want for what you offer is a superb self-organising principle; it just isn't sufficient to describe everything we want. In this case: we should agree on certain common rules on what is off limits, but other than that we should get out of people's way so they can create value for each other.
I know this is deep down a bad comment thread, but I thought I'd chime in here.

I have been writing function names and test names, and then telling gpt to fill in the test, which is usually does how I want (maybe with errors, but it tests the correct thing), and then I tell it to fill out the answers.

this is in a thing I'm building that's never been built, with names that I made up (but describe the functionality well)

It cannot have this spot memorized, I just invented it myself
What on Earth happened to Cloudflare last week?
I switched to Paw a few years back (now RapidAPI and now free), and haven’t looked back. The bloat/performance issues with Postman were too much, and I’ve really enjoyed the native experience with Paw.

Still always happy to see competition in this space because the existing tools are useful, but can still get better.

Although I have a feeling that it won’t be too many years before we forget why we ever needed these API testing tools while some API consuming LLM takes over the space.

- https://paw.cloud
It would be great if people would cut down all the olive trees in southern Italy as it'd curb the spread of xylella fastidiosa.

That disease will do to Mediterranean olives what citrus greening did to Florida oranges
There are also attacks such as "JIT spraying" where JIT-compiled code contains large constants that the runtime gets tricked into jumping into.
Execute-only would make that attack a little less likely.