skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who is the "they" here? Remember that we haven't been told that Dex is a genderless person yet. Which means "they" probably means more than one person.

Dex's relationship with gender is unambiguous-- before that sentence are multiple paragraphs where Dex is referred to exclusively with "they" and "they" refers only to Dex. We don't need to be told Sister Mara is a woman, she is just called she. This is an unreasonable standard that doesn't apply to any other pronoun.

> They idea that Dex is genderless and using "they" to deal with that didn't even occur to me until much later.

I can even tell this "they" you use in the beginning is a typo or something due to the grammatical structure of the sentence. Are you sure the writer's mastery of English is the problem, here? Or maybe you're just personally unfamiliar with third person singular pronouns, and fall under the category of another commenter who admitted that their first experience with "she" protagonists felt different? (btw, is it ambiguous which "they" is being referred to there?)
>These days we can barely survive without a mobile phone always on, permeating every little interaction we have with the world. It’s quite a difference.

reading all of these 'royal we' anecdotes makes me feel grateful that I can survive without a mobile quite fine. HN is as close to social media as I get -- so I guess i'm stuck wondering : are all these 'conditions' of the modern world inexorably linked and self-perpetuating?

Like, if I wanted to develop a mobile-phone habit would it be best for me to get interested in social media, and vice versa?

Maybe my ducking of these trends just stems from my aversion to social media all together, and that saved me from mobile-phone overuse?

I don't know. But it is interesting, and wildly segmenting, that everyone around me refers to these problems that 'we' have -- but I don't. I can't be alone in this feeling.

p.s. to be clear, i'm not gloating -- if anything it's kind of loneliness inducing that I can't relate to the struggle.. but it's kind of a bittersweet feeling like being one of the few who doesn't catch a plague and has to watch others suffer.
Yeah. I hope not. We'll see though.
How to view the size of Dropbox files and folders
I have nothing but good feelings about LaserJet I-6 and the 4000s era circa 1998. I've heard newer models aren't quite as tanks.

Lots of good/reasonable experience with Deskjet 660 and 720C. Although the driver situation for 64-bit windows got real terrible (microsoft had a working driver for server 2003, but insisted on shipping a broken driver for vista/7, so you had to dig up the old one. I think Windows 10 changed the driver model, but I had abanonded the printer for something worse by then. HP support forums could tell you how, but couldn't get it fixed in windows update)
Meanwhile, what router do you suggest, to be used with openwrt?

There isn't a wide consensus anymore, like there was with the buffalo model.

Integrated modem would be nice, but it is very difficult to find it.

edit: available in EU; Linksys E8450/Belkin RT3200 aren't available on Italy it seems.
Sounds like the rack of newspapers and magazines that have now disappeared from the newsstands, which now sell consumer packaged goods.

Fair point comparing infinite scroll to slot machines. Books end, newspapers and magazines get thrown away. Always more to scroll.
If there might be a problem, then we should investigate it, correct? But instead, we’re just rolling it out more and more and faster faster. Whatever happened to the precautionary principal and health?
Intel Unveils 14th Gen Core HX Series Raptor Lake Mobile Refresh, Thunderbolt 5
IIRC they sat on the story for a year before publishing, understandably worried about the blowback.
>I don't think he touched the scroll wheel in the keynote. Why is it there?

Same vibe as Humane not using the projector for almost anything and then explicitly saying "You dont have to use it" in an interview. Like why add it then
Going Freelance
it is 11:26:45 EST. Ready. Go.

"Hi, we have fixed the issue you reported to us. Thank you so much. We are willing to offer a reward of <x> dollars to you, because you have protected our customers. Please reach out with a payment address or any other questions you might have. Thanks again, Tim from <Large corporation>"

and... stop timer. 11:27:38

was that so hard?
It goes several layers deep. This is the second CEO to deal with newly discovered problems. Spirit Aerosystems is a Boeing spinoff, for cost-cutting reasons. Boeing moved their HQ away from the engineering center. 737 software was outsourced to cut costs. 737 technical details were purposely omitted from FAA filings and training materials to minimize the cost of pilot training.

When software companies screw up their culture, users and employees can relatively easily leave, especially compared to airlines and flyers that are stuck with their aircraft makers.
Juniper is still decently popular in their core routing business. On k12 and small enterprise they've had good fortune with their Mist acquisition. I think the latter was honestly the main driver for the merger.

I think GP was trying to say a few network companies are buying everything up not that Juniper had a majority share itself though. Look at the merger graphs for Cisco, HPE (adding in Juniper's now), and Extreme and a lot of the diversity that used to be "not Cisco" and became alternative growth is going back to being a few companies with a stranglehold on share again.
I wonder if atuin could parse tags if given at the end of a command, after a # ?

sudo somecommand arg1 arg2 # admin
mpv arg1 # media

I have work-related stuff that I'd love to be able to tag and then filter history based on that. Hmm now that I think of it, maybe it will just work like that anyway.

Love atuin btw, best of luck!
Yeah, I'd be more willing to say it's the collapse of community oriented society in a lot of places along with a general feeling of economic despair (you'll own nothing and be happy).
Please, anything but that.

I find it hard not to view stuff like this as a "if Rust gets to be in the kernel, then so should C++!".
Network chuck covers the basics. The only thing I would warn is that he only covers the extreme basics. Like the top 1% of networking. But he makes it sound like when you are done with his videos that you are ready to go make $250k as a network engineer.

So yes he's entertaining, but I only look at it as entertainment. The learning materials are barely more advanced than you can get from skimming an introductory blog post on networking.
Except the big cloud companies have been replacing more and more high end gear from vendors like juniper with in house designs, which are gradually percolating out. High end routing and switching gear is gradually becoming commodity.
It's also not an email. I've never seen a legitimate email with that string, and all of the illegitimate ones should be triggering other heuristics, such as the existence of an unsubscribe link, or things like "$x off".

In any case the false positive rate on that would likely be incredibly low, so it's a good heuristic considering how bad the false negative rate is right now.
I know it's not a popular choice, but wouldn't a PWA on iOS work fine for Rabbit's use-case?
I would also be interested to connect my DSL cable directly to a device with OpenWRT on it that doesn't cost $500+. I currently have a separate device as my modem, DrayTek Vigor 166. In case someone is wondering who's still using VDSL in 2024, that would be most of Germany.
I did a year long project to build a flexible engine for materialized views onto 1-10TB live event datasets, and our architecture was roughly converging toward this idea of "ship the code to where the indexes are" before we moved onto a different project

I'm very compelled by Rama, but unfortunately won't adopt it due to JVM for totally irrational reasons (just don't like Java/JVM). Would love to see this architecture ported!
It came with the house and I didn't think much of it. We have a well and get significant sand, iron, and a few other things without the filter. I'll probably be upgrade to carbon asap.
> Everything structural gets built with 2x4's or prefab trusses (which are also made of 2x4's)

Neither of these statements are true. 2x6's are commonly used for a variety of reasons in vertical placement. 2x8/2x10 and even 2x12 are still common for floor joists where manufactured beams (e.g. I-beams) are not used. Trusses are not always built with 2x4s either.

I'd also mention (as a recently certified firefighter) that the use of trusses in modern construction causes real headaches for the fire service: a minor failure in one part of one truss can lead the entire roof surface to become a collapse hazard. They are efficient uses of lumber but have few other merits as a construction technique.
Football and basketball fund all the other sports. That's important because there are still many kids getting their tuition covered with a sports scholarship, which, in turn, is being paid for by the football and basketball programs.

All that to say there is some academic good that comes out of all this.
The issue is it is often impossible to distinguish from a white hat or a black hat hacking your live systems. It can trigger expensive incident response and be disruptive to the business. Ethically, I think it crosses a line when you are wasting resources like this, live hacking systems. There is usually a pretty clear and obvious point where you can stop, not trigger IR, and notify the companies. Not saying that was the case here, but I have been doing cybersecurity assessment work for 17+ years. Even when you have permission sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze to keep going as you often have proven the thing you needed to or found the critical defect. There is a balance to whtie hat activities and using good sense to not waste resources.
Indeed, this is exactly the kind of workload where PyPy historically outperformed CPython by a long shot.

I think there have been incremental optimizations in the bytecode interpreter for things like this in recent versions, but a JIT is going to be a real game-changer.

It will be interesting to see what happens to the PyPy project after this, as well as the HPy C API effort.
People keep saying this but having to go through the Apple lock screen for every interaction would mean it never even gets used at all.

Not sure if the Rabbit device is the answer but I definitely see why people are trying.
my wife gets these regularly. there's a few people in the UK (we're in the US) that have similar gmail addresses as hers, and use her email address often. she'll get restaurant reservation notices, dr appt confirmations, tv repair schedule confirmations, delivery notices, etc. She's called the vendors a couple of times, and also called the people directly a a couple times. "You've entered your email wrong, please stop using my email".

One person, one time, understood the situation, thanked her, and updated things. And a year later, we got email for them. There's lots of mischief we could get up to, if so inclined, but we're not like that.

Someone last year accused her of 'hacking' in to their computer and stealing emails, so she's basically given up. But these people are missing their dr appointments, delivery change notifications, etc. And by 'these people', I'm meaning - it's perhaps 4 other people with slight variations of the same spelling.
This is why for pretty much the majority of human history, we had some form of religion to trick ourselves into ignoring this. Now that religion is on a decline...
It also created other famines.
OOOh, climate destroying shitcoin-inspired /r/place ?

I'll just take https://paint.adminforge.de/?lang=en as FLOSS and not climate destroying thankyouverymuch.
None of this seemed to be aiming at getting anyone depressed.

Every single one of those adverts gave the message "If you don't buy this product you'll be unhappy/unattractive/hungry/missing out/uncool." Every single one. None of them aim to make people depressed, but they all do exactly that if you don't buy the product.

It's worth noting that all the adverts you remember are for products that were wildly successful at the time. People are very willing to pay to avoid being unhappy, even if when the message is coming from a cartoon rabbit.
I think you'll find some of the tricks that (mostly) viruses use to be interesting. Take a look at ribosomal frameshifting [1], where the viral RNA has a special structure such that at a certain point during translation in the ribosome it will skip back 1 nucleotide (a -1 frameshift; -2 and +1 frameshifts have been observed as well, more rarely), thus changing the whole reading frame.

Viruses use this to encode multiple protein products in a single strand of RNA, a sort of compression. But that's not all. Say that the amount of "0-frame" protein to "-1-frame" protein needs to be at a ratio of 20:1; then if the frameshift occurs with a probability of about 5% (i.e. 5% of the time that the viral RNA is translated), these protein products will then be produced in just the right ratio (this isn't a made up example either, see [2]). So not only does this trick allow for the RNA to be compressed, it also regulates protein expression. All with just one strand of RNA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosomal_frameshift

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_ribosomal_frameshift_signa...
Last time I checked the Linksys E8450/Belkin RT3200 was widely recommended.
It's definitely not fixed: the (likely malicious?) redirect still happens for me now. How embarassing (for you).
Think it's a mistake having the main product design team as an external resource not a core part of the company. Wont be a coherent vision.
There's also Pacifica radio https://pacificanetwork.org which has a few stations around the country, but including WBAI https://wbai.org which has had a hacker-themed and hacker-led show on the air regularly since 1989. https://2600.com/offthehook/archive_ra.html
My mental model is to think of a relational database as an amazing Swiss Army Knife. It can do anything I might need to do, but it's not awesome at anyone thing. I can cut a branch with a Swiss Army Knife, but it's much harder to open a can with a chainsaw. Unless you are 100% certain what problem you are solving take the Swiss Army Knife. Swing up multiple specialized tools or trying to make them do things they weren't designed for will just cost you time that you aren't spending on finding product-market-fit and then it won't matter if your solution won't scale to millions of users.
One really cool mechanism I didn't see listed there (at least directly) was riboswitches. Essentially, a segment of mRNA with a binding site for a molecule. Ribosomes that are transcribing the RNA will then branch into two separate flows depending on whether the molecule is bound or not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riboswitch
Mysterious 'magic' islands on Saturn's moon Titan have an explanation
The question is what counts as a crisis.

Haidt presents datasets that are very short. The graphs begin in 2004. Teens have been depressed for a lot longer than 20 years. It's hard to know what the natural variance of this statistic is given just his articles.

If you look at longer term US suicide stats (stratified by gender but not age) there's quite a bit of variation over time.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/187478/death-rate-from-s...

The 1970s were really rough for women, but not men. 1990 was rough for men but not women. These graphs show that variance can be pretty high when taking the long view. Current overall suicide levels aren't anything special, even though they've been going up for decades (watch out for the non-linear X axis).

If we look at the 10-14 girls dataset that Haidt picks where the change seems most dramatic, it goes from 1 per 100,000 to 2 per 100,000. Very few people commit suicide at that age, fortunately. We're talking on the order of 100-200 girls in that age range per year in the entire USA. At these low initial levels, even very small changes will look big on a graph. Every death is tragic, but if "crisis" now means something that affects such an truly tiny percentage of the population then almost anything can be a crisis.

The other unrelated issue is that if you look at his graphs, self harm and suicides started going up in 2007, not 2012 as he claims. I don't see how you'd pick 2012 as the inflection point if not trying to force the smartphone narrative.
Personally it's more that there is more awareness today and it's more ok to come forward saying you have a problem. When I grew up in the 70s there were a lot of people with problems but they were just labelled as "stupid" or "difficult". I personally had serious depression and social anxiety but there was nobody to talk to and I wouldn't have known the vocabulary to describe the situation. I know several people who I am pretty sure were gay. One guy was most likely trans. And a ton of people with depression and/or anxiety. My dad and a lot of men his age had PTSD from WW2. None of these went into any statistic.
There’s something about eliminating the friction of calling up the assistant. For example, I’m not using Google Assistant on my iDevice because I need to go unlock the device. It’s really a system level issue.
NASA to unveil X-59 supersonic plane that makes a 'sonic thump'
"The lifetime prevalence of child sexual abuse and sexual assault assessed in late adolescence" - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24582321/, which was cited by RAINN(Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) on their statistics page https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens

I know this might be quite shocking but in my experience, sexual abuse to children is unfortunately common. Remember the olympic gymnastics doctor that (convictedly) sexually abused "at least" 265 women and minor girls, with the overall scandal being (allegedly) over 500 women primarily under 18? How about the thousands of child sex abuse cases in the Boy Scouts? These are just the high profile cases. Literally "creepy uncle" jokes have been common crass comedy for decades.
Pretty wild to look back on this two decades later and read all the replies dismissing this as union agitprop. I’m not sure I saw anything in the open letter that didn’t essentially come to pass or was in hindsight clearly hyperbolic.

At least, I suppose, the Boeing engineers don’t have to worry about the Boeing design center in Moscow anymore.
Could be generalized to "Everything wrong with <placeholder> and why their complexity is now unnecessary"...
Research has long been held up by legal obstacles, but articles like this are promoting an entirely false optimism about psychedelics. I live with a treatment-resistant mental illness, I have participated in clinical trials for psychedelics and I follow the field closely. Sadly, what we are seeing is almost certainly a hype bubble rather than a genuine breakthrough.

We now have a useful body of research on psychedelics as a treatment for psychiatric disorders. We can be reasonably confident that they do indeed work, but the effect size in depression and anxiety appears to be very similar to SSRI antidepressants or cognitive behavioural therapy. Research into addiction is more limited, but plausible effect sizes are again comparable to existing treatments. We're much less confident about the risk profile (especially in real-world clinical settings), so any marginal benefits in efficacy might be outweighed by safety risks.

Psychedelics might still prove useful as a second- or third-line treatment for a minority of patients, which I don't want to underplay - severe mental illness is truly awful and each additional patient in remission is a person given a second chance at life. They might provide insights that guide us towards better treatments in the future, but in this respect the NMDAR-agonists (ketamine etc) look far more promising. Unfortunately, the promise of psychedelics as a revolution in psychiatry is a busted flush.

I wish I wasn't saying this, but the data doesn't care what my wishes are. We have reached the point in the curve where decent, well-meaning researchers are tinkering with the analysis post-hoc to try and make psychedelics look marginally more effective than existing treatments. A lot of money has been committed to research, the results are deeply disappointing, serious researchers are trying to salvage something useful, but all the while there's a steady drumbeat of deluded quacks and uninformed journalists continuing to peddle a narrative that has been thoroughly demolished.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8399008/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10278160/
AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium
I always used to just have 'echo "^G"' instead (where ^G is typed as CTRL-V CTRL-G).
Don’t forget The War In Vietnam
I think she is tackling a problem here that can't be solved by another tool, no matter how good it is. Thus, ever getting enough people to pay for it will be tough.

The issue isn't "I can't remember how to run a command I just ran." The issue is that the universe of CLI tooling you use is too large, too inconsistent, and too complex to remember how to use them all. Conventions may be wildly different between Windows and Unix, BSD and GNU, many tools have existed for over 50 years now and have accumulated enormous feature creep. Many newer tools try to improve upon perceived complexity of past tools, but by being different, they introduce even more complexity into the overall set of tools for anyone who can't abandon the past tools. There are huge debates about environment variables, config file formats, whether parameters should use one dash or two, what even is a parameter versus an argument versus a flag, how a tool should use STDOUT versus STDERR, how it should use exit codes, whether output should be structured or free text, and nobody agrees on the answers. There is very little standardization, and where standards exist, you can't count on anything to actually follow these.

Contrasts these with the tools of a painter or wordworker. They're similar enough that learning to paint in high school art class will transfer muscle memory near perfectly to every brush and surface you ever use for the rest of your life. Creating a tool like this is throwing up your hands and saying no human can ever hope to remember how to use their tools, so they need an additional tool that remembers for them. But now we also need to remember how to query this memory augmenter, so you've introduced yet another thing to learn for anyone who isn't willing to just stop trying to learn other tools at all and rely 100% on yours.

It isn't to say it can't be useful, but you're trying to solve an ecosystem problem with a tool. You can't. At best, you can alleviate a tiny portion of the difficulty for a very small number of users sufficiently similar to you. Then you run into the culture of not having to pay for these things mentioned elsewhere. On systems like Windows and Mac, they may be paid systems, but once you pay, you automatically the full suite of system utilities and CLI tooling. BSD and GNU were free creations made largely by university professors and industy professionals in their spare time for the purpose of sharing, not for making money. Fair or not, the expectation became and will likely remain that these tools either come as part of a larger package, or they're donated from the spare time of their own users.

Exceptions are few and far between. You've got things like curl and openssl that sustain themselves reasonably well as open source CLI packages, but even those don't charge for the tool itself. They only succeed because they're so ubiquitous that if a barely perceptible proportion of users ever donate or pay for support, that is still enough. That model doesn't work if your userbase isn't virtually the entire world of computing.
NASA selects a plan to "swarm" Proxima Centauri with tiny probes
In the US, most states have family exception rules where you can drink with parents

Plus, it's not like kids follow the drinking laws if they don't want to