skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been clear for a while that Google was de-emphasizing the importance of Fuchsia. Chrome dropping support kind of rules it out as a viable OS for any consumer device. Next up is probably a proper shutdown of the team. Aside from some Nest thingies, did anything else ever launch with Fuchsia? Does it have any relevance for any server side stuff that Google does internally?

My guess is that what happened is that they failed to get OEMs enthusiastic about Fuchsia. At least I assume the likes of Samsung would not be super excited about giving away control of even more of their stack to Google. And I don't think it's a recent thing either; this likely became pretty clear years ago and the project has been slowly dying ever since.
You'll have much, much bigger problems if SHA256 is cracked by quantum computers.

Like airplanes falling from the sky and national power grid outages type of problems.
Sycophancy in Generative-AI Chatbots
They "haven't been convicted of any wrongdoing" because we have developed a detestable habit, in this country, of allowing—in some cases even encouraging—large companies and wealthy individuals to simply settle major lawsuits "without admitting any wrongdoing" rather than forcing them to actually, yes, admit that lying and taking money they weren't owed and didn't need (or whatever other particular awful thing a given suit is about) is wrong, and requiring them to change their behavior.

All because it would be more expensive to actually see justice carried out.

It really makes me wonder just how expensive it would be, in net, to nationalize and/or break up companies like Verizon, and force them to be good corporate citizens either by running them directly, or by cutting them down to a much more manageable size and actually giving them meaningful competition again for the first time in far, far too long.
As someone who recently moved from The Netherlands to USA, I found this article to be really great at explaining the reason why many Europeans find Americans to be fake. I myself had experienced all of the social experiences the author talked about, and found myself confused as to what a "friend" was in The USA. I also find it very interesting how the author described emotions as cultured - not just something which was the same to everyone.

I'm curious to hear your thoughts and experiences with different cultures.
What would you call it other than retaliation? Punishment? Surprise behavior?
It doesn’t sound it like it amuses you. You sound kind of miffed off about it.
> I’m sure the founder realized early on that the prospects of this becoming a valuable company on its own merits were slim

If you actually knew Eric and the history of Beeper you would understand how hilariously false, absurd and revisionist such a statement is. Eric only started Beeper after validating massive interest from Hacker News for a paid app that would unify disparate communication channels.
In that case, I wonder if that makes you seem overqualified?
I understand the fine details and it looks terrible. What it looks like, from top to bottom, is that GenAI researchers and developers are engaged in mass theft and free-riding of everyone else's work.
>Why are you defending a billion dollar company?

"Why are you defending an accused rapist/pedophile/murderer?"

>Is Verizon so hard up that they need random people to defend their shit business practices? I don’t get why you’re so invested in this morally reprehensible practice.

I'm not sure how you got the impression I support "their shit business practices". If you read my comments more carefully you'll see I was only arguing that from both a practical and legal standpoint, they don't have to change their behavior. I did not make any sort of normative claim.
> Pretty much endgame level for Bitcoin.

for Bitcoin critics
How you implemented your Python decorator is wrong
One angle to these multipliers would be this:
A generalist programmer can take other tasks of sw-engineering than just programming with the support of ChatGPT. Like DevOps, DBA and test-automation. For small team or company that is then actually saving or postponing FTE hires
BTW "Confined" has the meaning of being in labour, child birth.
Emo Philips' joke always comes to mind about stuff like this: "The brain is the most important organ in the body... says the brain". Linguists and philosophers conclude that language is central, physicists conclude that physics is central, and so on.
a 1-3 year old used car with low'ish miles and decent gas milage is the sweet spot. You save a new car off the assembly line, you save an old car from the junk yard, price is considerably lower than a new car, and it will probably be perfectly functional long after you've paid it off.
Is Andrew Ng's course Coursera? Udemy? Something else?
Thanks. Turns out the speakers are actually only 2". You mentioned MiniDSP, which seems to be a collection of commercial products. It's not clear what exactly I would do here, my intuition says it might be fun to just take one of my existing ESP32s and use the ESP-DSP library to cobble together my own frequency filters, buy a 4" woofer, build an MDF enclosure and then just enjoy :)
jerry, svix, lago etc.. clear growth hack :)
Doesn't this list the words in the order that they are grouped? The article states that randomizing the words completely eliminates any successful results
Just wanted to say thank you for doing this. I was just looking for some replacements for Simple Mobile Tools replacements the other day.

I wish you the best and hope you get enough community financial support to continue the project indefinitely.
> The author should have taken the time to state that homebrew doesn't offer features such as (…). A bit unfair, though, because that was probably never Homebrew's mission.

Depends on the wording. It’s perfectly fair to say “I use Nix instead of Homebrew because the former supports X which is useful to do Y”. That way it’s not important if Homebrew intends to have Y or not, it just clarifies what the author cares about in a package manager and the reader is better informed if they care about the same things.

Or they could’ve not mentioned Homebrew at all. There’s zero positives to that sentence in that post.
Probably the right of publicity:

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/right-of-publicity/
The problem is that most Americans view cars as status symbols and want them to be as luxurious as if they're buying a second home. Ironically according to AAA the average American spends about 300hrs a year behind the wheel. In other words about 3.5% of your time is spent actually driving while 96.5% it's garaged or parked. Spend money on a better a bed where you spend 33% of your life and buy a used 2009-2019 Toyota Yaris, agreed to be one of the most reliable commuter cars Toyota has ever made.
Basically any URL shortener would be an example.
You aren't.

The economy is absolute garbage right now.

I'm in the US and the situation is similar here. I've never had an issue finding a job before either, but I've been unemployed since the middle of 2023.

Assuming you aren't under financial hardship, my advice is to spend more time on your hobbies and check back in around July/August. That is when the layoffs are projected to drop and hiring is expected to keep up.
A beautiful “battle of the sexes” themed story, all dialog, similar to “Hills Like White Elephants” (that one was published in 1927, maybe Shaw was influenced by it? Or it could be the influence of his theater background).

This being 1939, one shouldn’t visualize the women Michael was ogling similar to the Distracted Boyfriend meme, luckily there’s a movie called “The Fifth Avenue Girl” from 1939 that gives an idea what they were wearing at the time, https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1222/fifth-avenue-girl/#over....

I read this story for the first time; another story that he published in 1939, “Main Currents of American Thought” is widely anthologized (I personally found it dreadful).
The specific laws depend on the jurisdiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

Specifically, here, the issue would be "appropriation".
To emphasize this, Techmoan does thorough mechanical and electrical reviews of cassette decks across eras, and had largely critical reviews of similar new portable players and recorders, such as the We Are Rewind: https://youtu.be/WleZGWAebsY

Many—not all—of these criticisms are based on the fact that the only new mechs coming out now are the same budget Tanashin mechs from shitty 90s decks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nezGOVOpHtc

This effectively sabotages any new deck, from a $20 Amazon white label portable to a $40 Walmart Sony to a $500 Teac with the same fundamental reliability and quality problems.

Unlike turntables, which demand precision but are fundamentally simple machines, cassette mechs are complex mechanical devices and nobody wants to make things like that anymore.
Not sure what the situation on MacOs is, but you don't need to use home-manager, do you?

You should be able to simple use:

nix-env -I <package_name>

Or (new flake enabled CLI tools):

nix profile nixpkgs#<package_name>

That's quite close to other package managers. You still have the massive nixpkgs repository and tools like nix-shell as an advantage.
Very cool, the article is worth reading but here is the link to the YouTube channel of the production company making these robots and films is here:

https://www.youtube.com/@JohnDownerProd/videos
Everything, man. Everything.

From the perspective of pulling some C++ programmer in 1993 into 2024, and dropping them into a large C++ code base consistently written with the latest C++ idioms.

(And yes, this is humorous exaggeration. But the name of C++ is apt. A C language dedicated to accumulating features.)
It was a simplified example. Obviously on a real world resume you would say “was a part of a team that did X.”
I swapped out the screamer fans for Noctuas on a 1U server and it's significantly better. Needed a custom mini PCB and a bios setting to ignore fan speed feedback but it's extremely quiet and runs cool.

I don't think it uses much power when idle either. I think that rack servers being expensive is a myth.
How did they also think that Rockstar/Take-Two would be fine with it?
But why would you be worried about it? The world having a great open source microkernel-based OS is a _good_ thing.
Maybe try the "lite" version ... substitute "lite" for "www" i.e.:

https://lite.cnn.com/2024/01/15/us/antique-dress-maine-encry...
"while used car prices fell by only 2 percent to an average of $31,030."

This is simply not true--average used car prices are well under $31,030. They get these high numbers from car dealers who only deal in fairly new used cars as that is what is profitable for them.

There are a huge number of much cheaper, older used cars available directly from private parties--on venues like Craigslist.
In my opinion, advertised prices should always be inclusive of taxes and fees. Anything less is cost obfuscation. It's like the ol' eBay scam of 1 cent items that have the whole cost of the item built into the shipping just to confuse people.
Voice actors generally are freelance, not employees. He almost certainly did not sign away the right to use his voice or a simulated version of it.
In general, yes, but I was thinking specifically about how hard that division was hit last year. This kind of thing can become self-fulfilling and since it’s not tightly coupled to revenue I’d be worried if I worked there, which is never good for productivity.
In that data, India's agricultural TFP is higher than the United States.
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect should have taught us not to sell things that don’t exist yet and possibly never will.
Not the OP but it looks to be https://ghost.org/

I use it as well for a small development blog and it's been an enjoyable experience
There are also adapters from USB4 to 10 Gb/s Ethernet, for the case when it is desired to use a switch or long cables.
I'm also working on nothing for the past two years.
After about 10 years into software development and side projects, keeping up to date with new tools and frameworks, and so on, I'm now feeling both overwhelmed and bored at the current incremental upgrades tech is having. Similar to smartphones, they're getting boring.

I feel that my level of knowledge allows me to easily grasp new concepts, and that exciment fades when I realize that the most juicy part will be implementing it in a big project, and not another CRUD SPA.

This pause/gap I consciously took made me realize I wanted to make my knowledge broader, and go all the way down to learning what makes software and tech exist: fundamental concepts like math, physics, calculus, probability, yada yada.

I'm also using this time to learn about cultural aspects of software, it's history amd methodologies.

Without being overwhelmed by tech, I took the decision of starting an engineering degree. And with that, I think I'm keeping the tech grinding on pause, until I learn how systems work, how tech is able to exist, with the hopes that after having a structural foundational base, I can go back to tech and move aside from CRUD SPAs, solving exciting and hard problems.

I'm really glad I found this post, this is something that keeps resonating in my mind. This is a really overwhelming industry.

And as a closing note (maybe I'm talking to myself here), never ever feel bad about doing what feels good doing.
I was always curious what was going on there. I definitely have a negative impression of them already based on their recurring job ads for the elusive 3rd engineer.
How odd. I was just thinking of this story the other day. I'd heard it read on NPR maybe 25 years ago, and then just happened to think of it and look it up and read it last week. Now it's on HN. Whenever things like happen I wonder if there was something in the news that subtly reminded many folks of the same thing. I can't remember what brought it up for me, but there must have been something.
My guess is that you just thought ahead further than anybody in their executive team has in quite a while.
You might enjoy takikomi gohan.
I’ve been using Nix directly on MacOS with minimal issues for a few years now. Works great.

I hate using docker on Mac and have since replaced it with flakes and devenv.

My configuration with a step by step guide (600+ stars): https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config
If it's not in your fieldbook, don't eat it.
I think in OpenBSD heads, "works correctly" implies "no unauthorized access"
The tool is very simple, you upload a photograph of your outdoor space and select designs that you would like to see of your garden.
I had absolutely NO problem finding employment during that time period.

First jobs are usually the "first" to go FYI.

I'm a senior dev, and even back then I had a ton of experience.

I agree with OP. This is easily the biggest down cycle since the dot com bubble.

Just remember, things will recover. Eventually.
Ukraine's AI Drones Are Making War Much Deadlier for Russia
Microsoft made a coding AI based on your code, yet software engineers seems to be happy having such bots. So software engineers seems to have a different mindset about these things.
Is the German State in Love with OSS?
That’s not very Old Internet.
A good example of normalization is that a twitch/YouTube streamer with a large following set up an automated TTS system for his chat to read user messages using ai versions of the characters from gta5, which presumably includes Ned Luke. It's cute and very casual but that also makes it kind of insidious in that now any random user can put words into Ned's mouth without even learning how to use the tech, and it'll be broadcast to a big audience.
Surely we’ve crossed a threshold of diminishing returns on this by now though? There has to be a point where the gains in convenience/DX/speed are too tiny for the costs involved and the weight of the average app ceases to grow.
Seemed to me the same size box, less fries. I was there recently.

AFAIK UK pricing is national?
Since Beeper main product is a multi protocol messaging app and iMessage is the only protocol that resists them, yes, it’s probably both.

I know it’s marketing but at the end of the day, they are fighting for a cause that matters to me and their bridges are open source so I wish them good luck.
They don't want iMessage. They want what their friends have. If their friends used something else they would use something else.
I'm a postgres dev, so I'm surely too close to actually see what's nebulous. That said, I don't think it's that nebulous:

- data in WAL segments has to be checkpointed

- no replication slot, physical or logical, may require the WAL file (see the pg_replication_slots view)

- archiving, if configured, has to have archived the file (see pg_stat_archiver)

It used to be more complicated, for historical reasons we used to keep two checkpoints worth of WAL around, but I don't think any supported versions of postgres still have that behavior.

Edit:

What's more mysterious is whether WAL files are removed when not necessary, or whether they're recycled (renamed to be reused). That's indeed a bit hard to get insight to.
Many countries motorbike dominates. I only switched over due to infant safety restraint laws. Yes I lived somewhere in snow, motorcycle works in blizzards too.

Really only find motorcycle and heavy trucks useful though. If smug fucks in legislature gon make me have a cage, at least gon get something I can haul large loads with. Car is a weird in-between that inefficiently does both.
Probably also marketing because those yc posts get special treatment from the hn algo to appear on the front page.
we can do both, but energy efficiency is only a small part of it; still need to transition the bulk of energy away from fossil fuels
It will eat much more than 80W though
Very interesting analysis.

I'm fascinated with effect systems.

In theory they have the potential to make code both simpler and more powerful, because many complex abstractions like generators, async/await, error propagation, injected context, etc can all be built on a simple extensible language primitive.

The by far nicest implementation I've seen is Koka lang [1]. Unfortunately it's bound to be a small research language.

In practice I do wonder though if that much power won't make code very confusing to read and write, and if the general programmer should be trusted with that much flexibility.

For Rust specifically, I do wonder how generic effects could slot into a language that was not designed for them upfront, without compromising the design and DX.

[1] https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html
I'm resigned that it was all inevitable, but also just upset that we spent all this effort learning to automate away the parts of life that are actually interesting first.

How did people decide that writing and art and music and theatre were the things that we needed to automate out? Especially with these fields, it's not even about removing drudgery - the very process of creating is the interesting part!
That is not true, SDL2 port is written in C and it has to be compiled.

Here's where it's built

https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/blob/main/tool...
Show HN: Notion Habit Tracker with GitHub inspired activity charts
Hi, I find a way how to implement activity charts (similar to Github contribution charts, except it has only two states - on/off) using Notion formulas only.

I used it in my Habit Tracker template. It is clean, simple and aesthetic.
Show HN: Wasted hours on Unit tests, so I built VS Code ext for AI tests
Hey guys,

I'm investing a ton of time on writing unit tests, for both enterprise and personal projects.

I came up with the idea to make extension for AI-generated tests and cases within a VS Code.

Happy to hear feedback, both positive and negative.
I've heard this argument that it's too long to build 10 years ago as well, the best time to plant a tree is now I guess as the proverb says? And it's not like climate change will stop in the next 10 years anyways.
nobody made that argument
The harm of leaving AI in charge of anything without a human in the loop
AI will never be perfect; I'm not sure it will ever be even "good enough" unless there's a human in the loop. It's, at best, a slightly better auto-suggest mechanism - and those only work when a human reviews the suggestions for sanity.
> "he agreed to a plea bargain; he must be guilty of something".

What do you think they would be pleading to?
Especially when most convertibles are slower than a Tesla.
IIRC the specification of Thunderbolt from Intel (which was inherited by USB 4) limits the Ethernet emulation mode to 10 Gb/s.

Why did they set a limit so low is not known, but the supposition made by another poster that this is a market segmentation feature may be right, because such policies have always been typical for Intel.
Agreed, I've had great interactions with folks from HN. If people have a website/blog, I recommend including a link in the bio. It's a great way to discover new stuff and for others to discover yours.
It's actually even worse in SDG&E territory. A kWh costs around 32 cents, but "transmission" and "distribution" are again twice that. The end result is about $1.00 / kWh.
Around 25 years after reading the second Discworld novel, I find out where the title comes from...
I would argue the benefit is also it’s declarative, done forever, and your machine becomes relatively bulletproof.

Dev environment issues are a thing of the past, once you’ve defined your configuration.

If something is broken with a package, I don’t have to figure it out myself —- I just rollback, wait for someone to fix it upstream in nixpkgs and pull down the patch later.
Can ChatGPT solve NYT's Connections game?
Venus is an underrated planet, as a target for search of life outside Earth and also as a human colonization target. The planet is thought wrong, as a hellish desert planet. IMHO it's better to think of it as an ocean planet. But the ocean in question is made of supercritical CO2. The "hellish desert" is actually the bottom of this ocean. About 50km above the bottom of this ocean, we have the environment most similar to Earth surface in the whole solar system, in terms of temperature and pressure.

To judge Venus by its solid surface is like dismissing Earth as an hostile environment because most of its surface is completely dark and under hundreds of atmospheric pressures due to all the water above.
This is a good point. “Utility” means “something that makes me happy” and “sell at higher value” means “not selling a thing”
Thousands of French villages and hamlets now have to name all their streets
At least in my opinion, the leverage here isn't about directly saving time in some hypothetical universe where you set up new devices every week.

It's about confidence in your ability to quickly bootstrap a productive system and the relative freedom/security that flow from knowing it.

When you know you can be productive this quickly without access to a backup or a working device, you have relative freedom and security from a decent spectrum of manufacturing defects, hardware failures, disasters, accidents, thieves, and so on.
In 1965 in the UK average annual income was about 750 GBP [1]. A medium priced car was about 700 GBP [2].

Sounds pretty similar to the situation you describe today.

I suspect that in the countries where annual income is only 15 kEUR now that in 1965 hardly anyone could afford a car at all.

At least in the UK the reason people can't afford a car might have more to do with the price of housing reducing their disposable income.

[1] https://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/ukearncpi/result2.ph...

[2] https://www.retrowow.co.uk/transport/60s/motoring/60s_cars_c...
Consumption (typical): 25w

So it’ll need a power brick to deliver 400 nits.
It's exhausting. I wish there were a way to quantify this, because it feels more and more unabashed, egregious, common and normalized.
Experimentalists versus modelers – whose work has more lasting impact?