skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a really hard time seeing either 100 Years of Solitude or Catch 22 as hard to read.
I'm partial to this Head-Fi review [1]. It's a really interesting read, just from the perspective of comparing a $9 USB DAC to ... pretty much anything else an "audiophile" might get.

> There is absolutely no reason at all to pay more for a USB DAC, at least when it comes to pure sound quality with headphones.

It does mention the possible desire for more features, of course. And it's possibly worth mentioning the power output is half of what you get from other DACs, but you should consider whether that means anything to your setup. I have a pair of Hifiman Edition XS connected to a Schiit Magni and the Apple USB C DAC, and I never put the Schiit volume above about 30%.

(As to the amp: I do hear a bit of an improvement connected to the amp vs just the DAC. It's not huge, though; mainly I like having a physical volume knob.)

1: https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/apple-usb-c-to-3-5-mm-headp...
If that were what it means to build a company, an operating company can never be built. There is no end to defining the product, the path to profitability and executing on that vision. You would always be building, never reaching a point where it can be spoken of in the past tense.

That's fine if we want to hold that definition, but then your insistence that Musk built Tesla does not logically follow.
Thought: inversely weight on Reddit ranking.
I rarely ever go on Facebook but found myself scrolling on a friends’ timeline a few days ago. One of the ads I saw, mixed among her posts as I scrolled, was for cotton candy flavored nitrous oxide delivered to your door. This isn’t just an X/Twitter problem.
An 18 year old boy with autism who got the scary label of "dangerous hacker"? It might as well be life.
California sure hasn't. They're billions over budget, and years behind schedule and keep putting off the part of the project that is the most challenging which is a hallmark of failed endeavors.
Great, you're arguing against your own point from earlier. Except, yes, people seem even MORE superficial when they know their partner choice is going to be blasted to everyone they have ever known.
Biden pardons marijuana use nationwide
The alternative is that software engineers are resolved of responsibility for only following orders.

Also, I don't understand why so many software engineers are willing to write code that is clearly adverse to users so their managers can get their performance bonuses. What's the upside? Narrowly escape the next round of layoffs so you can do it all over again?

The tech companies are not our friends any more than they are the users friends, they collude against us and treat us as disposable. This will continue as long as engineers do not take a stand.
I didn't know about iSH, that's pretty cool. And I agree that for most people who can afford it, Apple is probably the way to go.

I do think it's good that at least some of us are more worried about protecting users from vendors instead of about who the vendors are allegedly protecting users from.
The best technology doesn't necessarily win. First to market matters, especially when models on the scale of gpt-4 cost 100mln to train.
Yeah, but nothing was done about it and ppl still commenting here.
Starting the year, I looked at where my life was and decided work was good enough for now, but I'd been neglecting romantic relationships. A year later, and to my surprise, in my mid-30's, I have my first mid-term girlfriend.

We get along great, have a lot in common, similar values, and FAANG salaries. She's so thoughtful and caring I'm not sure if I deserve this. I'm still working through feelings on the freedom you lose in a relationship, and how this especially hard after 15 years of flying solo. I've also been seeing a sex therapist. Not that anything is wrong, but this is still new to me, and having this outlet is really helpful.
I never said what my goals were.
> nat’s provide a ton of usefulness

... to companies like IPXO that are trying to acquire, rent, and treat IPv4 addresses like speculative real estate.
I see it too, because I block web fonts. Enabling web fonts resolves the issue.

For me, this is some kind of Linux + Firefox + certain fonts issue with the ’ character (right single quotation mark, not '). We're not the first to run into it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48152 but reproducing seems quite hard.

According to https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/is9twh/why_would_a..., this happens when you have Chinese (I'm guessing Asian) fonts installed.

The reason, as far as I can tell:

- font-family is "Source Sans Pro","Microsoft Yahei",sans-serif

- Source Sans Pro has no fallback font

- the fallback font for Microsoft Yahei is Noto Sans CJK SC (result of ~ $ fc-match 'Microsoft Yahei') because YaHei is a CJK optimised font. This is configured in /etc/font/conf.d/30-cjk-aliases.conf

- Noto Sans CJK SC is a wide font (common for CJK fonts)

I think the solution to this problem is altering config files in /etc/fonts/conf.d somehow but I haven't figure out what I need to change exactly. Commenting out lines 466-473 (the alias containg <family>Microsoft YaHei</family>) to kill the association works, but I'm pretty sure that breaks any attempt to render MS YaHei.
> I do find myself wanting more features, but of course the beauty of this is how simple it is, so you definitely need to strongly resist the urge to add and add as people suggest ways to 'improve' it.

Definitely! I'm happy that you preface the feature requests with this comment :).

I've thought about the possibility of some kind of evaluation of code blocks, but at the moment I'm not planning to add it. Mainly because of the questions you posed :).

Heynote currently gets most of its Markdown features (basically everything except the checkboxes) "for free" from CodeMirror's Markdown mode (https://github.com/codemirror/lang-markdown).

Regarding tab size, I realize that it's something that I'm going to have to add settings for. Up until now, me and a few friends have been the only users of Heynote, and it seems like none of us favors tabs before spaces (or at least no one has asked me to fix it).
Don't know about Tailwind, but in DOM API it is definitely a single class.
Is the estimated hours realistic? 43 hours for part 1 and 89 for part.
Not alone. Enough descriptions similar to: 'Neuralink’s macaque subjects were euthanized after suffering various complications, including “bloody diarrhea, partial paralysis, and cerebral edema.”' [1] Apparently Neuralink then grew frustrated with UCDavis' cleanliness issues, and took the implants in a box somewhere. [2]

Same issue with implants. Do I really need a cochlear implant? Do I really need you to drill in my skull? I don't trust your surgery intentions enough. I think I'd rather learn to read lips and sign language.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/20/23882888/elon-musk-brain-...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musks-neuralink-may-...
This is non-consensual. It’s like digital sexual harassment.
Poisonous gas wave snuffed out half of all sea life in Earth first extinction
You point at something from a long time ago and say its bad, but dont reflect on what historical implications it has on the present. You cant just tie a bow on it and say it happened a long time ago, what institutions did those people find themselves in, what influences have they left behind? How did we get to a point where I can watch a video of nazis crucifying a russian jew and then lighting them on fire, and then we send them a bunch of guns? You are hunting for nazis in the wrong place, they arent your neighbors.
I generally assume that all high value targets are spying for at least one state. Some of them know it.
Right: so this would make sense:

char x = 1, y = 2;
auto var = x * y; // var inferred as int, due to promoted type
To create a RESTful client in this robust framework, harness the strengths of Spring’s RestTemplate or WebClient, both of which offer a polished experience for HTTP interactions in Java applications.

First of all, one must understand when to use RestTemplate versus WebClient.
Is there a simple diagram app / site / etc. that uses this? I love the look.I'd love to diagram things using it. Love the fill types which could be great for accessibility.
The very same for me, I have 5 MacBooks collecting dust (some are broken, some aren’t), but 2GB Samsung 11” Chromebook is my favourite. It broke recently.

Any models you would recommend to check? I haven’t been in look for Chromebooks for years (like 5 years). I would rather buy small and tiny, and also very cheap. As my use-case is just slacking with it around the house.
If opportunity cost is how you decide such things, I'm guessing this is not for you. There's undoubtedly some new JS framework that's about to be The Next Big Thing.
AI's World-Ending Capabilities Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Social media is full of this sort of nonsense.

I ad block the web in general but can't really do that on Instagram.

I get adverts encouraging me to start my own OnlyFans equivalent, the tagline being that it'll pay better than a healthy relationship with a real person you match on a dating app.

There are some really deranged people out there.
Show HN: Rewriting our engine on Rust and going open source
But unlike an automated vehicle, when a black swan event does occur in a human driver you can't disassemble their thought process, correct it, and apply that correction to all other human drivers unfortunately.
Sorry buddy, this is delusional and misinformed. If you’re not a troll, I hope you’re well. In any case, disengaging after this.

> the f35 launched late and still has kinks

Like every new platform, including our adversaries’. They are more than enough to SEAD Iran from BVR, even OTH. I would be shocked if more than a handful were lost in such a strike.

> we have no hypersonic weapons or defense against them

Usually war is hypothetical. In this case, we have modern Russian cruise missiles being shot down by decades-old Patriot batteries.

Hypersonics are largely a farce, but to the extent they’re being pursued, we have more programmes in development than Russia and China combined. And neither has demonstrated missile-defence piercing capability. (Even if they did, there aren’t enough to be a strategic issue.)

> wargames the US has held shows us losing

Yeah, if we try a ground invasion. Nobody suggested that. Nobody even suggested the decapitation I mooted. You’re multiple straw men deep.

American military supremacy is undisputed even by our adversaries. In a 1:1 conflict, we win. Not always, but certainly right now. We’re so overwhelmingly powerful it makes us arrogant, which leads to the very real risk of spreading ourselves thin. We probably can’t support a proxy war in Ukraine, Israel and Yemen while also fighting China around Taiwan. But engaging with any two of those alone? Mindblowingly easily.

> the rise of brics

Another vein of idiocy.

> regional war where we are being shot at from every direction

Welcome to the Middle East.

> the collapse of the currency

Let me guess, to be replaced by Bitcoin or a currency jointly managed by countries currently at war with one another.
I'm sorry, but rail is the lowest form carbon footprint you can find, if you exclude biking and walking.

Also, boarding a train is so much more comfortable and convenient than boarding a plane (no security check, at least in Europe, wide seats, no emergency tutorial, ...). Also the train drops me right in the city center.

I would argue that up to 500 km of distance, high speed train is the best option, then it becomes debatable.
+1. This would be great. I could then use this for daily logging as well.
Thanks! It's a Qt app like Notes so native-like performance as well.
Did you miss the part where it's non-consensual? We have a word for non-consensual sexuality, as well as laws and severe punishment
Because there's no platform standard or unifying governing body to define a boot interface, device enumeration interface or power management interface. The PC has UEFI and ACPI which somewhat suck in their implementation or usability but have the big advantage of just existing everywhere there's an x86 CPU.
Sure, but the point is that unfortunately a lot of the writing about Da Vinci doesn't locate his sketches correctly on this continuum. Often it is assumed that they all already worked, due to his (perfectly deserved) reputation as a polymathic genius.
building a cat from scratch

That would be an interesting project.
> You're making assumptions here. As far as I know there is no requirement that hyperloop has to be above ground.

I don't think reading a proposal to build a tube on pylons which it stated would mostly be located on highway medians to [theoretically] be cheaper than an intercity rail line and concluding it isn't intended to generate demand for a later startup developing tools to drill through rock is making a particularly wild assumption, especially not compared with taking the opposite position...
> Public transport is kind of rubbish

Tell me you're an American without telling me you're an American[0].

If travel times, cost, and availability were actually equal, you'd pick public transit every time, because you don't have to focus on the cognitively stressful task of operating a motor vehicle. The reason why you care about being driven directly to your destination is specifically because the availability is so poor and gaps in the network get papered over with shittons of walking.

The car has an analogous 'last mile' problem - i.e. finding a place to legally park it at your destination. We fixed that by mandating free parking everywhere. This pushes buildings away from one another, which means walking is even less viable, which exacerbates the traffic issue with lots of short trips. It also disaggregates traffic flows, which makes availability more expensive to produce, et cetera.

[0] Or Canadian.
Those are just proposed parcel maps, and the other document you linked says "See Tunnel Plans for more details". They very much haven't gotten into the details on how to make this segment work.
Thank you that one looks great
True, I definitely don't use non open source stuff for my business either, on the code side, but I definitely do use user land applications that aren't open source, for example Google sheets or QuickBooks for accounting, because user land applications are not necessarily something that there are good alternatives for that are open source; I'd never use OpenOffice over Google sheets.
Did you actually query the DNS from the container to verify DNS was returning an incorrect record in response to the query? I ask because I've seen similar behavior and it turned out the service was only doing DNS lookups at startup and then cached the record indefinitely (or until restarted), regardless of the TTL on the record. Unfortunately some software and libraries don't respond well to even occasional DNS changes.
I'm not sure a structural fix is needed here. It appears that EU law already requires unbundling service from sales in cases like this, and requires that necessary documentation is made available for third-party repair shops. Sabotaging public transit infrastructure is surely a crime in Poland, and I suspect it won't be hard for the authorities to prove that was what happened here.

Sometimes people do things even when those things are illegal. All that's left to do at that point is prosecute them.
> How many people fall for this stuff?

And here are many of us saying the same about the people who fall for the cult of personality that surrounds this serial liar. To be fair, many of us are speaking with hindsight, as we too fell for it years ago, before his penchant for lying was laid bare.
I own everything digital that I have, because I won't buy something digital if I need to use proprietary software or access someone else's server in order to continue to use it.
> people turn it on and then when compilers add new warnings, builds fail and developers complain to the compiler developers.

That's a strange reply to a comment which specifically acknowledges the issue and describes one solution.
Completely agree. Miss when serious folks had plain pages focused on substance, like DJB's or Fabrice Bellard's pages.

https://cr.yp.to/djb.html

https://www.bellard.org/
While we're recommending programming games, I think Virtual Circuit Board is a bit underappreciated. It's a pure sandbox, not a game, so you have to bring the ideas yourself, but it hits a really sweet spot somewhere between Minecraft redstone and Logisim.

You just draw traces and add gates on a grid, with a few special IO components like the Nand2Tetris course. But there's some kind of compilation of the circuit, and simulation can be blazing fast, way faster than other programming games/programming friendly sandbox games.
Catch-22 was hard for me simply because it was too dark to handle at the point in life when I tried to read it, although it is quite funny in places. It isn't 'hard to read' though.

I couldn't put 100 Years of Solitude down once I picked it up, and I don't understand why it's on the list as opposed to Gravity's Rainbow or something along those lines.
I'm curious, not to give a personal belief one way or another, but in this situation are you equating someone generating an image and looking at them privately - keeping them private - as a form of harassment?

That to me sounds in line with the "words are violence" ideology, an attempt at the rewriting of the meaning of words?
> Do university on the side if you really want the paper.

There are other good reasons for uni, like social and networking opportunities (doing a startup with like-minded students, maybe exploring the uni party life, learning how research is done...).

None of the reasons are worth going into debt for though. You do indeed already have the skills needed to get a good job in the field. Uni is an option for you but definitely not a requirement.

Feel free to go for a study field which is tangential to your interests (e.g. UX design, business...). Maybe you won't be doing any of that for a living but it's one of the best opportunities you get to learn how people you will end up working with talk and think. You can certainly learn the stuff you major in on your own.
My experience with apps built with Flutter is bad. Appflowy, for example, has extremely poor performance. Both in terms of loading large files and RAM usage. See my performance comparison of block editors[1].

I've built a block editor using Qt C++ and QML that is vastly more performant[2].

[1] https://imgur.com/ZL5QCS0

[2] https://www.get-plume.com/
How to Use ChatGPT for Psychological Growth
I bought a few of these (different brands) off Amazon a while back while trying to get my desk audio setup sorted and the audio output on them usually sounds okay. Some of them have noticeable background hiss at any volume.

The four-pin versions (with mic input) tend to fall down pretty hard, though. Either the volume is so low you have to yell to get anything into the PC at all, or there is severe cross-talk where any audio coming out gets induced into the input. (Turns out people on zoom are not fans of hearing echo of themselves with a 1-second delay!)
yes, a family member sent me a screenshot of a Facebook ad a few days ago for "magic mushroom gummies" that contained delta-8 THC and amanita muscaria lol O.o

I'm not sure amanita muscaria is actually psychoactive when taken orally (although delta-8 THC certainly is) but it was still wild to see that advertised so.. brazenly
People with the interest and skill to debug technical systems have always been a tiny minority
If someone pulls a photo of me in a bikini off my social media then uses an AI undress app to turn it into a nude then passes it around you don’t see how that is some kind of violation?
Probably just painfully stepping through the debugger.
There are ad blockers available for both Android and iOS. Both free and paid.

Personally I’ve got a great experience for years now with Wipr on iOS, but at this rate I should start asking for a commission because I literally just suggested it to someone else here on HN.
I loved and completed this course, just wish I could actually be working on this in my day job!
If we didn’t have NAT ISPs would provide a router with a firewall that was just as safe.
Shipping between China and New York is approximately the same distance going either via Suez or Panama. So removing Suez does not impact CN-US shipping.

CN-EU gets hurt by this. And also ME oil going to Eastern US.
I was thinking about this as well. Arrow/PyArrow integration is very useful.
Does Storey county put up barriers to building homes? Are the quick-permit policies of the county only for commercial buildings?
I built my first computer when the “turbo” button was still a thing, and have probably built dozens more (for family, friends, and myself) in the ensuing three decades. These days I do the bulk of my non-work computing on an iPad with a Magic Keyboard, only pulling out the laptop when I need Fusion 360. If I get back into gaming I can see picking up a nice laptop, but for me the need or desire to own a desktop has passed.
It’s not going to stay private.
Don’t take this is criticism at all because I think the value for what you get is worth the 3 kB. But I am curious. Why is it even that big?
Windows server. This guy is a pervert.
The more modern tunnel project in Seattle, USA would be useful to compare (instead of the Chunnel).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Route_99_tunnel
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This is a natural and expected outcome of a free speech zone. When certain types of speech are disallowed elsewhere, the places that speech is allowed will be dominated by it. "PPC" is an acronym most commonly used for "pay per click", but also has a tongue-in-cheek meaning of "porn, pills, casinos".
No I'm not?

Superficial/materialistic people existed before smart phones existed. Then, just as now, the key is to avoid dating people who care more about what you have than who you are.

To be honest, you sound a lot like the retired old white boys who move to Thailand, use their relative wealth to attract a young woman, and then spend the next 30 years complaining to anyone who will listen how "Thai women are only interested in your wallet".

Edit: to clarify a point I think maybe you misunderstood in my original comment:

When I said it's astounding and depressing, I was referring to the idea that someone essentially my own age hasn't yet learnt/accepted that there are people in the world who will like you for you, regardless of what you have, be it money, a car, or a particular brand of phone.
You can learn the easy stuff by tinkering. It's fun! Many people are smart enough to teach themselves anything. But actually sitting down and doing the work is the hard part. How many people are going to struggle through "Algorithms" by Cormen without the external pressure of coursework and exams? Almost nobody. And that's the problem. It's not that people can't learn by self-study, it's that nobody wants to.

There is no alternative for learning to the structured environment provided by a good university.
Musk probably built this on demand, gives him something to lol while at congressional hearings.

Why does anyone shock at this currently?
Reducing suicidal terrorists to natural responses to occupation feels... somewhat ridiculous. Especially so when you consider how many occupations are currently happening in the world right now without all of them having large numbers of suicidal bombings.

More, this completely ignores all other suicidal activities. Cults that lead people to suicide. Bullied people that are driven to suicide. Etc.

Seems far more explanatory power can be found if you use indoctrination as the primary driver in such activities. If you manage to indoctrinate people that their life would be best spent by sacrificing it for others, and a valid sacrifice is to strap a bomb to their body, then you will see a rise in that activity.