skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the practical difference between an unenforceable and unobservable explicit instruction and a polite suggestion?

My point is not that Google is good or bad or that all the other kids are doing it. My point is that DNT is at current fundamentally incapable of delivering what we're asking it to do.
This is something much, much more easily learned with your second, or maybe even third programming language rather than with your first.
that just moves the eavesdropping part elsewhere.
The VC is never going to spend the money on services for the public good. They will always gamble 1x money on a handful of startups, hoping that 1 hits and returns 10x, rinse and repeat. So one can choose to take the money for a chance at success, or not, but public services was never the opportunity cost.
It’s raining cats and dogs :P
Well, nearby share(soon to be called quick share [1] already exists, and works pretty well.

1.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-nearby-share-renamed...
zsh has a comprehensive hook system available for these types of tasks¹(zshaddhistory in this case). It gives you more options to control how/when the history is preserved, and allows you to be more selective in when it should be written.

Possibly worth noting for others that you'd want to think this through if you're using any of the history eliding options(hist_ignore_space² for example), as one history file may contain secrets when you're really expecting that it wouldn't.

There is also a better interface to work with hook functions through the add-zsh-hook mechanism³, which allows stacking multiple hook functions together.

¹ https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Functions.html#index-...

² https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Options.html#History

³ https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/User-Contributions.ht...
A person sitting in an art school/museum for a few hours ingests way more than just the art in question. The entire context is brought in too, including the artists own physical/emotional state. Arguably, the art is a miniscule component of all sensory inputs. Generative AI ingests a perfectly cropped image of just the art from a single angle with little context beyond labelling metadata.

It's the difference between reading about a place and actually visiting it.

Edit: This doesn't even touch how the act of creating something - often in a completely different context - interacts with the memories of the original work, altering those memories yet again.
Is that so? I thought it’s enough if they provide an advantage for their genes.

Maybe healthier older fish protect their offspring more effectively.
Nobody is forcing you to. We can have alternative stacks for as long as we like. Any new stack is strictly opt-in.
> The chase for subscription revenue is destroying a lot of potentially-great software.

Phone OSes aren't nearly as well-optimized for backwards compatibility. Speaking as someone who works in this field, your phone app is almost never "done." Once you hit publish, you're signing up to continue providing updates for the life of the product. I've got binaries from the 90's that will run on Windows 11, no issues. But apps? Forget it, we just had to publish an update to a racing application for Android for literally no other reason than the binary was old and google said so, or we'd lose our Play store listing until we did.

And in the process of doing that, while changing basically nothing you actually use as a user of that app, we had to update several permissions-seeking dialogs to be compatible with newer versions of Android, along with some changes to how we share files. You might notice the second one if you look hard. That took one of our developers about 4 days of work, and a fair amount of testing after that.

Like, you can hate the game, I certainly do, but the way both Apple and Google go about arbitrarily changing and updating the OS, you just have to update your apps, which takes labor and time. And we have no mechanism to gate updates behind price tags. So like, I get the frustration, I really do and I share it a lot of the time. But I also understand the economics at play here and I won't ask someone to work for free for me.
I just bought a new phone. I havent migrated over yet. Do i install graphineOS or wimp out and stick with google's evil? Things like this are a weight on the scale.
Hard to make a blanket statement here, but if I get absolutely nothing out of it then it’s probably a hard pass from me.
> They are equivalent to the Lisp condition system

Not exactly correct due to the lack of higher order effects (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20513370), but the condition system is "good enough" for a lot of use cases
All of these "alternatives to airdop" don't seem to actually do what airdrop does, which is create an ad-hoc wireless connection. Airdrop isn't just a nice UI for sending files between people, it allows a wi-fi speed transfer between two devices that aren't connected to an existing network of that speed.
Ask HN: Recommendations for videos/documentaries about building things
What videos/channels/documentaries do you recommend that watch teams of people designing/building things? For example:

1. [DarkAero (airplanes)](https://www.youtube.com/@DarkAeroInc)

2. [The Great Robot Race](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCRrXQRvC_I)

3. [PsychOdyssey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlI72bsNRc&list=PLIhLvue17Sd70y34zh2erWWpMyOnh4UN_)
Ask HN: Any way to write a simple desktop app anymore?
Back in the day I used Foxpro, originally for single users, then LAN, then client/server.

Foxpro was only one of many desktop tools that were reviled by Real Programmers(tm) but they sure got the job done.

For years I've missed this basic ability to make an app for myself where I could ignore the "stack" and just get the job done. Before I go off and start some side project, anybody know of anything?
Her quest for "self-sufficiency" certainly brought her into contact with some specialised and high-tech teams, eager to help!
similar: I have been using https://snapdrop.net/ for a few years now.
Who cares about money? Being free seems much more important.
The existing helicopter is extremely small and light, IIRC. less than one kg. So it definitely won't be picking up a 900kg rover, even if you tried to scale it up somehow. The atmosphere is just too thin to support anything but a minimal payload.

But yeah having more helicopters might be feasible - for surveying the surface.
Apple's Testy Developer Relationships Threaten to Hamper Vision Pro
just try to limit factory food you would be fine. There is no need for apps and stuff.

people who are conscious about this dont need an app ( its not at all hard to tell food is bad) and ppl who don't care won't use the app.

so there is no market for this kind of an app.
this also gives you wifi speed actually. thanks for webrtc.
Like agrivoltaics for out-of-season crops.
When selling our previous property, the seller agent recommended we paint it in "agreeable gray," supposedly the current color that is neutral and will not affect anyone negatively.
Ask HN: Management in early startup (with same equity among co-founders)
I have done multiple startup projects but my motivation was decreased on all of them over time. My biggest guess is because my co-founders not giving same effort as me. All co-founders had same equity share. I know I don't have to care about effort much early if startup is being progressed. But how do normal startups work? How do you determine effort equality? Do you use time trackers or other stuff.
Um what?

> Now you can browse privately

So consumers are insane for thinking they can browse privately.

Is it “private” if you’re being tracked?
But not the only benefit I presume? And in scenarios where energy has a negative price using sun directly is no longer a benefit.
I'm sure a lot of people will reflexively run in the opposite direction but IBM still has a large research organization.
It's tangential, but I hate "On the beach". Nevil Shute is a great writer. And he's technical too (he has a degree in aeronautical engineering). His other books are great. And this book is great too, except ...

Except that the book could have the subtitle "The greatest giving up story ever told".

First, the scenario of spiked nukes is not technically accurate; you'd need as much cobalt as we mine in 100 years to achieve that type of effect.

Second, even if the radioactive cobalt poisoned the lands, it would have done nothing to the oceans. Oceans contain billions of tons of uranium for example. But it's too dilute. A few thousand tons of cobalt would have not moved any needle.

So, you have a nuclear submarine and some other naval assets. It could have been a great Noah's ark story. But Nevil Shute was not interested in a Noah's ark story, he was interested in the story where there is no human alive after a nuclear war. Science be damned. I simply could not read the last 50 pages or so.
>With an estimated height of 3 metres and weighing a hefty 200–300 kilograms, Gigantopithecus blacki was the largest primate to ever roam Earth.

It would be pretty crazy to see a 3m ape roaming around. Evolution is quite interesting.
You're worried that PV is complex so you want to add a thermal cycle? That doesn't begin to make sense. Thermal power plants are insanely complicated. PV is just semiconductors.
Buddy, again, you're delusional if you think your argument would work.

Clearly you have no legal education, at all. Someone told you about jury nullification or you read an article and now you think it has all sort of powers it actually doesn't.

The judge doesn't matter. Jury nullification doesn't matter.

"I took it because I wanted it" is a shitty argument, end of story.
That's the goal, yes. Depending on the destination, naturally. Here's what's planned for Titan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(spacecraft)
Chill with the attitude, you have no idea what she’s been through with her kid. Maybe the kid just got off from a tantrum or something.
As someone with family members with ADHD and as a manager who has had employees with ADHD, the challenge is differentiate and find those cases where it can be "advantageous". Is not easy at all. Also, there are different types and levels of ADHD. It's not a super power to forget things you wanted to remember and being late all the time, there's no benefit on that for anyone. Sometimes the extra creativity or hyper-focus on things that are not a goal for an organization is not an advantage. It's very complicated. I wish I had a solution.
Even so, you can't agree that the marginal tax graph makes any sense at all.
Do you guys actually share this much locally?

I have my local sync'd to my cloud storage and just pull it down if/when I need it. I'll just email/text people around me if they don't have airdrop compatibility.
Is there a problem of scaling this up to say a 20kg payload?

I’m not an aeronautical engineer, so I guess what I’m asking is if there is some problem scaling up flying machines in an extremely thin atmosphere?
Is there a Python library that uses Markdown or another lightweight markup language like reStructuredText for TUIs?
>It seems to be not yet possible to share entire folders with KDE Connect

KDE Connect expects you to mount the phone's directory to transfer folders, a decision I will never understand. You can use globbing to send every file in a folder though.
Also, relevant in this context is the artist Tehching Hsieh, who voluntarily lived in a cage for one year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehching_Hsieh
DJI Agras T30 is coming up nicely, here with PKM and AT grenade launcher attached https://t.me/karymat/5732 ;)
I ran into the same error. Works after re-enabling WebRTC in Firefox.
So Wi-Fi Direct?
Ask HN: Conferences you're looking forward to in 2024?
Of course I didn’t mention it. What would this have accomplished, other than upsetting her and establishing an adversarial call?

I was calling in to get a task done. I got it done as quickly as possible and moved on.

Next time if I get her again, I’ll request a different agent by name, who was professional and capable last time.
You clearly don't know where to look. There is more content being made than ever before. And plenty of it is fantastic, on par or better than what came before.

The answer here is not that modern content is worse, simply that you need to expand your horizons and maybe stop judging stuff and dismissing it.
Yeah just watch your network traffic, browser open, no tabs open on google, amazon, facebook, no search bars set to google... tons of traffic to all 3.
If I turn in the same project for two different courses without flagging it, that's considered a violation of many academic (teaching) integrity codes. Similarly if you hire me to write a bespoke piece of software (with copyright assigned to you) and I re-use code I've delivered to other clients, that could be considered a damaging violation of our contract. You could refer to both of these cases as "self-plagiarism", but that's just a phrase: the actual harm caused by it is very specific to the context it occurs in. (And any punishments/opprobrium we assign to it should be similarly context-dependent.)
Taipy is 2 years old. It was developed not only for Data scientists but also with end users in mind.
First, Taipy was created because we failed miserably when we tried Python GUI tools on real data/AI projects. We tried with tools like Streamlit or even with Gradio. These are ok for having a quick pilot for data scientists not for real projects.
In addition, we wanted to embed the concept of scenarios in our backend to easily perform what-if analysis, compare your executions, etc.
We can go into more details if you are interested to delve deeper into the advantages of Taipy: performance, support for large data in your gui objects, style kit customization, gui events, sync/async calls, etc.
I work at a very successful HFT. It’s a special place, but we’re not advancing the state of the art in fundamental science like the Bell Labs/Microsoft Researches of the world.
NB resident here. It’s still miserable, but removing stop lights on route 18 between landing lane and the turnpike made things excellent for folks getting to somerset/piscataway!
... those are equivalent statements
From the original post

>Both devices need to be on the same WiFi network or Hot Spot to be able to see each other.
If you are moving many or large files, the two-pane mode allows you to see the state of the move in real time. You can also see name conflicts more easily rather than wait for a popup. Sure, you could open up two tabs or two windows, but that is more cumbersome than a single window for the task.
Yeah I kind of jumped around to figure out what the meat of the argument is. I didn't figure it out, but I do feel bad for the authors. If everything around you is consistently terrible and every waking moment is agony... it might not be the world that's the problem. That might come from inside. Maybe talk to someone about how you feel.
Let's phrase it differently: how many times do you think one should be allowed to turn in the same piece of work for additional academic credit?

The issue with self plagiarism isn't that you are quoting your own previous work (you are free to do that), it's because you're not tagging it as a citation and thereby passing it off as new.
Ingenuity was just a technology demonstrator. I think it demonstrated the technology splendidly, so we are likely to see more helicopters on Mars in the future.

Not sure if Nasa has said yet which roles they see for future Mars helicopters. The initial idea behind Ingenuity was to use them as scouting vehicles for rovers. Of course rovers improved a lot too, with better autonomous driving. But with a Mars rover driving about 100 meters/yards per day scouting helicopters are still useful.

Maybe we will also see Helicopters carrying more instruments themselves. But I imagine in the beginning that's mostly better imaging instruments. Weight is still an issue for flying things, no matter the planet. But maybe we will see some future missions that instead of a car-sized rover and one tiny helicopter have a fleet of helicopters with a small support-rover for exploring wider areas.
New Lithium Battery Tech (HN do your worst)
I just like to read HN responses to battery news.
Apple usually does excellent integrations between their devices. But I haven't used AirDrop so I'm not familiar with how it works: in order to create an ad-hoc wireless connection, if the devices were already connected to some wifi access point, are they temporarily disconnected for the duration of the ad-hoc connection?

If not, I'd guess that Apple devices maybe come with 2 WiFi adapters inside?
The "Visual" series of IDEs used to exist. Also the "Builder" series from Borland.

It was the reason why Delphi (a kind of Visual Pascal Builder?) Was só stupidly popular. Same thing for Visual Basic.

I used to look down on then but now I realize they being gone is a bad thing.
Thanks for your suggestions! I'm currently in The Netherlands but I'll keep these in mind (though they sound more "math-ey" than engineering-ey but that's fine).
Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story
Where did I say these ideas shouldn’t be legislated?

You can’t be “morally indifferent” if you’re engaging in activities that aren’t morally neutral. You’re just being indifferent to the fact that your actions aren’t moral. This isn’t complicated.

Your paying something to someone else doesn’t absolve you from not paying someone.

People generally see themselves as good people, and they use who they are, and other things they do to justify wrongdoing. This is a great example of that.
They're wrong, for a simple reason: my build jobs that can run on a Mac finish faster on a Mac.

As far as the complex list of reasons:

- Correct.

- Do they run the server park, or AWS?

- "Services" is a word Apple uses as shorthand for Wall Street types to mean "monthly subscriptions to consumers", it doesn't mean "things we charge for", because at that point it has 0 meaning

- Why would anyone run an LLM on an M-series server?

- Why would Fleetsmith help manage servers? It's MDM. You don't need or want provisioning profiles on servers.

- Nested virtualization makes sense.

- Cloud isn't highly profitable, it's highly revenue-able. Profits are declining as the titans bash it out.

- They didn't spend a "lot of resources"

- Xcode Cloud is in the cloud - but they're already offering it.

- The timeline for iCloud elides a whole lot of time.

- They don't need a 4T or 5T marketcap and those aren't the only options.

You know too much about Apple and it's blinding you because you can connect all the info you know about it to any other arbitrary trend. Been there, that's why I'm comfortable being overly concise about it.
I wonder, now, how many “authors” in the same space or similar spaces, are guilty of the same thing? I wonder how widespread this all is
I'm trying to learn how to use Tiktok (yes, I know, I'm sorry) and other social media and cross-posting isn't really great and some platforms pretty much force you to post from mobile devices or vice versa (Tiktok, Instagram for mobile, LinkedIn for desktop web), and I need to pass source videos from mobile to editors on PC and back and forth for posting on the different media.. It's a big of a mess, I'm kinda sure there are crossposting services out there already, but it works for me so /shrug!
I don’t think we can generally eyeball if things will collide with the accuracy needed for a physics engine. For example, consider golfers, if they could just run the simulation they would get excited before getting a hole in one, not after.
Sorry, what's HFT?
What are ±ve?
I mention "GNU compatibility" for Bun Shell specifically because there are some incredibly commonly used GNU extensions even in the JS ecosystem like mkdir -p, and yes, even the GNU specific find extensions. I don't think we need total compatibility for everything. However, OTOH, Nushell is targeting being the default system shell, not just something off to the side. They could decide to be not GNU compatible and it's not like I'd complain, but I agree with their choice to be GNU compatible 100%, and it makes me more likely to consider it on my own machines.

I don't feel as though anyone is forcing me to do anything though, that's definitely not the tone I intended to convey.
It depends on the industry really. For a lot of things, it can be as simple as hackernews as long as you deliver your message appropriately. You should prioritize usability and readability above design as a solo developer.
That's the reason why I have not used asciidoc, the libraries are either incomplete or inexistant for many languages.

Too bad because I found it superior to markdown for my uses.
Fuzes Part 3
I'd rather say that such conduct is mostly confined to evangelicals. Mainstream Christianity teaches that prophecy ceased with Maleachi, and form then onwards we have only the traditions of the Church to go by. That would include a sober ("chaste") lifestyle.
I was remembering this story vaguely today out of the blue. I'm pretty sure I got to know it via some HN discussion (or was it Reddit, in better days?).

After taking a while to remember the details, I was surprised to see it hasn't been submitted (but mentioned in comments).

Thank you for your impression of the book, maybe I'll order it now.
If there was one.
Probably not. Plants have a relatively small "sweet spot", and greenhouses try quite hard to prevent overheating. The glass panes can be raised to let hot air escape, and they'll even have blinds.

25C (77F) is about ideal, with 20-30C (68-86F) being somewhat acceptable before seeing a huge reduction in crop yield. Higher temperatures will also significantly increase water consumption.

Temperature in a solar updraft tower is about 20-30C above ambient. That pretty much immediately rules out dual use in all but the coldest environments.
Plus it has to be a "personalized" service, apparently?

I was genuinely curious so I googled where I'm supposed to tip and how much. It seems like there are an awful lot of rules about tipping, and they don't follow a clear, consistent pattern, not even for when to do it, e.g. before or after receiving a service.

So much work to keep an outdated tradition alive.
> I don’t feel a lot of guilt, and neither do they

I can tell you haven't tried to date such guys. They may not feel enough guilt to keep them from engaging in casual sex, but many of them absolutely feel guilt. Indeed, sometimes it's a complex of immovable guilt and shame, in the style of classic Freud, with the entire panoply of coping mechanisms deployed to deal with the dissonance (projection, affect isolation, displacement, dissociation, reaction formation, etc.)
I would recommend pairdrop [1] which works even in situations when you have Apple Private Relay or a VPN.

[1] https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop
Awesome Mojo
I think the current plan is that helicopters will be very light with minimal instrumentation and will be used mostly to scout ahead for rovers. The rovers will be much heavier and include many instruments.

(Of course, all of NASA's long-term plans for Mars would be completely disrupted if Starship lowers the cost-per-kg of delivering equipment by two orders of magnitude, which arguably is likely.)
"""
The baker, in fact, had unwittingly become a textbook example of how to survive a shipwreck.

First, he delayed immersion; among those who went into the water that night, Joughin was the absolute last to get wet.

Second — and most important — he managed to stay calm and strategize a way out of the water.
"""

I'll consider this next time I'm in a shipwreck.
Yeah! Watching any episode of (UK) daytime-TV's "Homes Under the Hammer" will reveal any number of properties - some with real character - refurbished with every shade of grey you can imagine. It looks awful to be honest and really, what kind of philistine paints over real wood anyway? What really bugs me is the way the estate agents visit afterwards and say "how tastefully it's been renovated".
Let's call it "Steamboat Willie" instead