skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you're looking hard enough or think differently then me. I don't need an IF app, but if I did I'd use Siri. Try this for pomodoro. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timer-loops/id1662287175

For exercise I never felt like tech helped me at all. If it's a huge problem fdroid will probably have it free. I'm doing self hosting some cloud services and I've gone back to paper for so many since they're needlessly complex like taiga.io
There is a 20 hour time difference from when the wind picks up in the UK until the wind picks up in Denmark
The original collectable trading cards were printed in a stiffening board used in cigarette packaging. Very popular with children!
What if its free of charge but I'm rattling a tin can? Is that "thanks for making my life better free of charge, buy yourself a beer" or is it "here's a quarter in exchange for 100% insurance covering anything I use this free thing you made for"?
that and sharing with friends. also, spotify has made playing a shared live playlist usable (although why they don't add a toggle so tapping a song will just add it to the playlist when in that mode bloggles my mind).
It’s neat to think of time capsules as time travel. We know of at least two possible methods of time travel into the future for human beings, namely cryogenics and rocket travel at some appreciable percentage of the speed of light. Time capsules are a form of time travel for our thoughts and ideas.

I wonder if there might be methods for creating personal time capsules that don’t depend on a historical record of their existence. For instance could you determine the rate of erosion of a particular river, then drill a hole into the rock and encase a bottle-sized time capsule within it. At some point centuries hence when the rock wears down enough, the capsule would become visible or dislodged, perhaps to be found downstream.
Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol
The German industrial base was not totally destroyed after WW2.
Especially in western Germany most of it was still good and they had to rebuild little to get it going again.
The myth of the Trümmerfrau rebuilding Germany into a Wirtschaftswunder from total destruction is exactly that, a myth.

Edit: also the effect of Marshallplan is usually vastly overstated - due to the massive bureaucracy involved it had relatively little impact.
It’s very person to person I think.

Maybe I have bad hearing - but even with good, wired headphones I have to try really hard with lots of repeats to identify the lowest quality sample in a blind test.

Example:
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...
> Half the mainboard is already just a PSU

So the solution is to.make 75 % or even 100 % of the mainboard, the PSU. /s
the potential is there but everything said could also be said about a generic post on IG or a sponsored post which is a different type of ad not tracked here. IG is a cesspool but not because of the ads. look at a generic reels post and view the comments
Yes, proportionality, or at the very least some sort of clarity on where the line is drawn. Nobody wants to be the test case that determines if something is commercial or not.

An acknowledgment that it costs some small amount of money to host a website for the code, or that you may from time to time want to hire someone to do something specialized (design a logo?) and need to raise some amount of money for that to happen.

By world-wide standards (though not necessarily by Silicon Valley standards) I am fairly wealthy and thus could afford to support a completely commercial-free open-source project out of my professional salary. And this would make my project liability-free in the EU. But someone else, who didn't grow up in the USA at a time when university tuition was cheap, would not be able to do the same and their otherwise-identical project is subject to legal liability.

How is that fair? Isn't this just going to further concentrate open source contribution and leadership in a handful of rich countries (that are mostly not in the EU)?
Between uBlock in the browser, ReVanced apps[1] (YouTube, Twitter/X, TikTok), DNS ad filtering[2], and Spotify Premium, I don't see ads. It takes some effort but isn't that hard for an HN poster.

Also, I'm quite skeptical of caffeine and aspartame being bad for health (in adults at least).

[1] https://revanced.app/

[2] https://mullvad.net/pl/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls#...
LMDB works the same way. But it also stores a second data structure on disk listing all free blocks. Writes preferentially take free blocks when they’re available. The result is it doesn’t need any special compaction step. It sort of automatically compacts constantly.
Well, but the cases he mentions are really not “just not being thoughtful”.

I’m old enough to remember that Python 2 in fact had “print <string>”, and I think also “exit”. Exactly because once upon a time Guido thought about what would feel nice to users. In time it turned out that special casing a handful of special functions introduces pain across everywhere else. Because of its valid syntax in REPL, it’s valid Python. So they removed the special casing for these functions, and added a helpful comment for people who might be confused.

Ditto for wrapping comments in Rust. Doc strings in Rust can have doc-tests in them. Meaning that whatever comment wrapping you do must not break syntax there. I don’t know what feature exactly is needed there that’s currently nightly only, but I’m very sure it’s not just something trivial that nobody has gotten around to yet.

Point being, no, everyone else except _me_ is not some dumb f*ck, who doesn’t do the obviously right thing because they hate me.

Like, that _sometimes_ happens. But these are not those cases, and in my experience it actually happens pretty rarely. I think the default disposition towards seemingly stupid implementations or behaviors should be that people working on the implementation were not sloppy idiots who hate their users, but rather that they had their reasons, and me being put into their shoes would’ve likely done the same.
We don't need unreliable renewables when we have reliable nuclear. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But it can be nice on top for things that can be deferred or that align with availability.

For example, solar seems really sweet for running air-conditioning units in hot/sunny climates.

And you can probably schedule charging your EV for when the wind is blowing.

But stop an aluminum smelter for more than 6 hours and the factory is kaput. And if we're going to heat our homes using electricity, I'd rather not have that be contingent on whether the weather is feeling like it today.
There is a principle that liability rests with the party best equipped to mitigate the liability. The commercial-ness of the product doesn't really enter into it, you see this kind of liability attribution all the time in non-commercial settings. Your product being "casual" isn't a defense per se.

The gray area where this often gets litigated is liability due to inappropriate use of a product, since liability for clear and obvious inappropriate use typically falls on the user. What constitutes an "inappropriate use" is frequently unclear, especially for casual products where you are unlikely to clearly document and delineate what does and does not constitute appropriate use. If you read the fine print of commercial enterprise software licenses, it frequently has a long list of applications for which the software is deemed inappropriate for legal purposes. The product may in fact be fine for those applications but the producer does not want to take on the liability.

It is difficult to enumerate all possible inappropriate uses of software. Enumerating inappropriate use cases to limit liability arguably conflicts with open source's principle of non-discriminatory licensing.
> I would hate to see something like this in my code base:

> a = x = y;

> If that meant “set ‘a’ to true if ‘x’ is equal to ‘y’, and false otherwise.” I would, honestly, be a little pissed off.

Would you find it more acceptable as `a = (x = y)`? To me, that is reasonably clear.
Our git workflow:

master branch - code currently deployed to production. never used as the base branch except rare hot fixes

staging branch - the base branch for all feature branches. On prod deploy, staging is merged to master with a merge commit (probably could (should?) be a rebase)

feature branches - always use staging as base branch

Most critically: all feature branches are squashed and merged, so that each single commit in master corresponds to a single PR.

Makes it easy to revert PR but difficult to cherry pick after squashing. Also keeps the hit history extremely clean and condensed. Not sure if this method will scale, but it’s working well at our company with 6 engineers with 20 or so feature branches open at any given time.

Edit: one reason this works for us is we keep feature branches short-lived (ideally at most 2-3 weeks) and staging gets merged to master twice a week (we do a deploy Mondays and Thursdays)
Now you don't know what you are talking about.

German wholesale electricity prices are both cheaper than French and in line with the rest of Europe.

For the public there are quite high taxes to encourage energy efficiency, which the industry of course does not pay.
https://spinup.dev is a similar thing I made a few years ago, with free analytics out-of-the-box for each deploy. Syncing changes is a feature I'd like to add, but time is tight for side-projects at the moment.
Neat, but imagine the sheer fear factor of a 34" ultrawide monitor whipping around at 60Hz 18" in front of your face!
The irony in my case is that I have a 4k 32" where my window apps
live in the center of the monitor never maximized and the stickies go on the 2 black bands on each side.

It makes for a 3D texture monitor with task and reminders that I pull off and crush with my hand.
Every serious look into gun forensics I've read indicates that matching a casing or bullet to a specific gun is pseudo-science.
That’s not telling me why. You’re simply using a distraction because you’re unable to summarize the main ideas of those books
> Most people would think it was acceptable to sue the manufacturer of the hardware device.

Are you from the US? In New Zealand sueuing is mostly a foreign idea and very rarely occurs.

Occasionally criminally negligent behaviour gets spanked - but even there it's often an idiotic scapegoating farce (local examples: CTV building, fund fraud, Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch masjidain).

One alternative system is government insurance against harm e.g. New Zealand has a no-fault ACC system for helping victims of industrial accidents.

OSS is infrastructure and trying to scapegoat an individual developer or company for unforeseen harm is insanity. Finger pointing and a culture of blame seem to be unproductive.

A good place to start thinking about policy would be to look at log4j. What policy would prevent that? Would a culture of victimising creators have prevented that vulnerability?

> sue the manufacturer of the hardware device [that starts a fire].

There's the implicit philosophy that we can use reductionism to find a cause.

Finding cause is getting more difficult as we complexify the world. Read reports on disasters, and then try to imagine how to prevent them? There's an almost Christian religious belief that penalising the person who makes a mistake will fix the system.

Cue blaming the pilot. We still often blame the pilot even after decades of work in aviation management to try and produce safety systems that try to apply a fix in the correct place.
Korean researchers develop new modular construction technology
Might there be edge effects? (thinking of There Will Be Blood and the famous "Drainage!" scene)
Ran across an interesting observation a little while ago that while homicides—deaths—have been dropping, that doesn't necessarily mean that 'the streets' have gotten safer:

> That's how good trauma surgeons are now. They're looking for solutions [to gun deaths] outside the hospital.

> Now, think about the implications of that in a place like Washington, DC. In the last 30 years, the number of homicides in Washington in a typical year has been cut in half. People look at that statistic and say, "Oh, the city's gotten a lot safer." But isn't some part of that decline simply that Eddie Cornwell and Mallory Williams and all the other trauma surgeons of Washington, DC are now saving lives that were once lost?

> A city's murder rate is not a measure of the number of people victimized by potentially lethal violence. No. It's a measure of the number of people victimized by potentially lethal violence minus how good a job doctors do at saving that person's life once they get to the hospital.

* https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/guns-par...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl7c_O_XtfU&t=12m27s [audio-only]

Statistics on non-fatal shootings are not reported on / examined as much:

* https://centerforimprovinginvestigations.org/wp-content/uplo...
Worth noting that this sort of thing is actually taught at the kind of universities that produce politicians. What matters is winning the argument (irrespective of merit) for whichever side will give the best reward.

For example, from [0]:-

"Consider the rules of debate: two sides are randomly assigned to argue for and against a topic – say, that we should abolish student debt. Each speaker has equal time to speak before an impartial adjudicator, who awards the more persuasive team."

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/sep/03/the-art...
Cable news are evil. FOMO induced by things you shouldn't be seeing naturally. You wouldn't be saddened by the footage of some crime that happened a thousand miles afar, back in the days before the Industrial Revolution. Is a murder important? Hell yeah, it's an absolutely serious and sad situation, thus the subconscious FOMO if you aren't watching. Did you need to know about it? No, it's entirely artificial that you can even know about some horrendous crime that happened at the other side of the world and negatively impacted by it. You shouldn't be, human mind-body and emotional systems are not designed nor prepared for this. How many murders per month pre-IR people were witnessing, let alone with their own eyes? I don't watch cable TV but my parents do, and I can see the effect.

I'm not even mentioning TV debates which are mostly BS, with all the 'experts' trying to sound important on some topic irrelevant to %99 of the population.

An again, all this is for advertising, the new root of all evil. TBH some amount is for political agendas too.

It's good that young people don't really watch TV anymore. (Not to imply what replaced it - social media - causes any less mental illness [1].)

1: https://www.afterbabel.com/archive?sort=top
This has been a long way coming and is, in my opinion, a important step in the professionalization of software development. This article seems to refer to the Cyber Resilience Act but doesn't really explain the problem many[1] open source communities seem to have with the current draft. The CRA actually attempts to exempt open-source software by exempting non-commercial software contributions from its rules. "Commercial Activity" however includes more activities than some open-source developers would like. Any kind of regular income related to the project might fulfill the requirements to count as commercial activity.

I recommend the linuxfoundations article[2] for a more comprehensive understanding of the proposed rules.

[1] https://blog.opensource.org/the-ultimate-list-of-reactions-t...

[2] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-cyber...
I would have switched to Firefox a while ago as my primary, except that it doesn't support PWA features in the same way as Chrome.

I use PWA apps regularly. Once that feature is available and capable, I'll gladly run to the Firefox team.
The diplomat in charge of central Europe thinks their declaration of war is a practical joke from another department, so nobody notices when their army (of about 10 crossbowmen) shows up in New York and grabs a fictional doomsday device out of a secret lab.
I've got a lot of friends in Portland, and the life they live, and the city described on Fox News, are so vastly different it's almost a comedy.
> This seems to me like unequivocally a good thing for open-source devs.

I'm not certain the second order (or later) effects will necessarily be unequivocally good. Software supply chains are more like a double pendulum in that changes are probably chaotic enough to obscure their effects.

For example, my very first thought was that large businesses are generally risk adverse specifically in the realm of liability. Have you ever read a TOS? It feels to me the major elements of that interminable document are statements that limit liability. It is to the point of humor that we engage in the clicking through the "I accept" of a software license like some strange universal ritual. This is the realm we are dealing in here, deep and arcane. The ubiquitous TOS ritual should remind us all that software is beholden to forces outside of itself.

Companies go through insane effort to avoid legal liability. This law is going to change that calculus. If the cost of covering that change is high this could precipitate a change to closed-sourced alternatives that come with some delegation of liability. For the cynically minded, companies that offer equivalents to OSS that come with a liability waver might see an ascendance and potentially offer a good investment opportunity. Alternatively, repackaging existing OSS as a commercial product while only adding some legal liability as an add-on might become a viable business.

Those considerations challenge any argument towards unequivocally stating this is a good thing, even if there are definitely positive aspects to this change.
Here's someone who was more charitable with their biological interpretation:
https://lobste.rs/s/hitos3/cold_blooded_software#c_mxjzwh
Sorry I'm not buying your argument. You can spin this as you want, but landlords in the private market are free to charge as much as the market will bear.

If the market bears crazy sums then is it the individual landlord at fault, or is the market itself for being broken, as in the supply of housing is too low "thanks" to government building regulations and the demand too high thanks again to government opening the flood gates on immigration?

A couple of landlords here and there like you, charging below market rates, is not enough to fix the broken market created by the poorly though out government policies because you're not changing the supply/demand numbers.

So again, is it the landlords at fault for the broken market, or is their pricing simply just a reaction to the broken market itself? /Rethorical question

Here's a thought exercise: if there's 10 apartments available on the private market and 15 people wanting to move in due to the influx of immigrants, how do you decide who gets to move in and who gets left out if not by purchasing power?

How do you decide to fairly split a limited resource like housing without going full communist and have the state own everything and the state decide who gets what?

Here's the hard truth: If you're the government and you open the immigration floodgates then you'd better have buikt enough free housing available, or the immediate market reaction is gonna be increased rents for everyone. Simple.

What you want is social housing, laxer building regulations, and tighter immigration regulations based on available housing.
not in DC sadly
Eminent domain is the best we've got.
Lots of fun facts on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Link

> Annual transmission capacity of 12.3 TWh.

> The actual cable is made of copper, steel, paper and plastic and weighs about 40 kg per meter.

> It is similar in capacity and length to the UK–Norway North Sea Link.
>(admittedly, this usecase is nullified by tab search)

Cmd+Tab is far quicker than tab search for me.
What worked for me: Search a web-radio with a (human) DJ and a published playlist. If find there a couple of artists / songs of a certain style that match my more non-mainstream interests, I'll listen to that. Usually, there pop up some artists I have never heard before.

A variant on that is, look for such a radio in a different country.
That's also rather common. Happened to me with one of the jobs I was interviewing at in the early days of the pandemic, and a few more in the years before that. Sometimes it even gets to like, a telephone interview, take home test and 2 live interviews, and they still ghost you.
Apple's memory configurations for the M3 are confusing and expensive. Charging $400 for an additional 18GB of RAM is ridiculous. If they halved their memory upgrade prices maybe I would consider it, but as-is it's very hard to justify getting memory upgrades when you could just run LLMs on a dedicated Linux box.
As a computer, i find your trust in technology, amusing. /s

It depends on the current. Your 48 V suppply won't supply microamps, but Amps.
At the risk of losing credibility in this community, I'm going to voice an opinion which I think belongs to the silent majority: I do not want to customize anything. I want to read the news and check my bank account with as little drama as possible. More customizable settings always means more things that can break. If the best feature of Firefox is that it has lots of things to configure, that's a negative for me.

But this is coming from somebody who really would like to embrace better privacy...sigh...

Holding out hope for the DuckDuckGo browser on Windows. The current beta is decent, but extensions are yet to come, which means no ad blocking at the moment. That makes it essentially unusable with today's internet
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Apple actually did investigate Linux with MkLinux (a project to port Linux to PPC and run it on top of Mach). Neat, but arguably a symptom of their larger issues which were less technical and more leadership which was stifling whatever technical and design excellence there was left. Plus the Clones were eating them alive.

Any OS they released to replace the classic OS, which at that time would have been System 7, needed Macintosh App compatibility, and they wouldn’t have needed Linux or Unix or BSD or OPENSTEP or BeOS if they could have just shut up, clamp down on the mission creep and ship Copland. Apple’s Executive leadership in the mid-90s was unable to execute on that, and none of their side-projects were going anywhere in a sustainable (to Apple) fashion either.
That's literally a dialog that every browser gives you after installing/on start if not permantly disabled (and there is a convenient button, there), and you are calling out FF? Also regarding pocket, as an almost exclusive FF user I didn't know what pocket was until some years ago when it was in the news, similarly Mozilla VPN I found out about through the news, not a single nag. This compared to lots of "the web works best in Chrome..." nags I got when visiting google websites over the years.

Let's not even talk about Apple and their dark patterns (the whole green bubble messages as one example).
For individuals interested in the steel industry who are visiting or living in the Northeast of the United States, the National Museum of Industrial History (affiliated with the Smithsonian) situated in Bethlehem, PA is a great place to visit [0]. It's located in one of the repair shops of the now defunct Bethlehem Steel plant and offers a wide ranging introduction to the production of steel in the US as well as various types of industrial machinery. As a bonus visitors can stroll the grounds of a largely intact, but derelict, steel plant. Interestingly, that particular area of Pennsylvania was also a center for the production of silk and more women were employed in the production of silk in that region then men were employed by steel plants.

[0] https://www.nmih.org/