skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least for me this often means, that I just keep on lookin up the stuff over and over again. Takes some deliberate effort to actually store some obscure things in my memory.

When I was still active with Anki, I was mostly picking up some random things I knew I would need fairly often and included those in my deck.
I love xkcd. Most of them resonate with me.

However, for some reason #1053 (number three on this list) does not feel right.

Maybe it’s oversimplified. I don’t think linear interpolation works in this case. Most things are learned in bursts at certain ages.

Then again: maybe I’m wrong and need to learn this!

https://xkcd.com/1053/
I like good food, so I’ve started to follow recipes on sites like this one.

However the thing that no one talks about is that cooking “properly” takes a huge amount of time cumulatively for a single person or even a small nuclear family.

A blogger will talk about a quick little dish. First of all it is going to take you longer because you haven’t spent the last decade chopping onions. Second, even as written this “quick dish” is 15 to make, 15 minutes to eat, and another 10 minutes of cleanup. That’s 40 minutes per meal for a total of 2 hours a day.

Uber eats is just 5 minutes to order and clean up plus 15 minutes to eat, for a total of 1 hour a day. That doesn’t even get into the extra time shopping for high quality and sometimes obscure ingredients, learning these recipes in the first place, and so on. And again that’s assuming only quick little dishes.

So best case scenario net one hour a day every day to eat high quality home cooked meals. That’s 6% of your waking life that’s not available for work, exercise, dating, playing with your kids, calling your parents, reading a book, etc, etc, etc.

Like so many things in our atomized world, the math has gotten worse as we’ve discarded large, extended families. If that cooking time is divided among several people, feeds even more, and is often taken as an opportunity to teach and bond, then things start to look a lot different.
This reminds me of wholinator2's comment two days ago on the 'Apple announces...' thread, regarding the received wisdom that Apple is more secure because it's a walled garden fallacy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39141228
Thank you.

When people say "Russian" they have an expectation. What is the difference between these foreigners and there ethnic groups in your eyes?

>They surely have Russian documents and were allowed to vote in Russia for their president.

I'm not sure if you were trying to be funny but you are.
There are many different motivations for people posting content online. Some may blog to get recognition, others may do it simply as an outlet to write what's on their mind.

Personally I'd argue that the very likes and comments you point to are what's most wrong with social media. When people are incentivized to chase engagement they'll post more often and post more extreme content.

IMO blogging into the void seems much less likely to lead to morale or anxiety issues than being in a bubble of people all trying to say whatever gets more engagement.
I totally agree. And most boomers I know have iPhones and iPads. I would hate to have to start supporting my parents using a different app store.

Plus, I don't think the majority of iPhone customers are asking for openness.
Also power trips (especially by radio hams) and territoriality (impinging on "their" spectrum). It really is animal behavior there, people are supposed to react better than that when such trivial "offenses" happen.

If there's deliberate high powered jamming going on, it's a completely different matter.
Depends where in Italy and what you're doing. In the north where I'm originally from we used to use butter more. In the south oil is king. But that's just "historically". Nowadays there's been a big push towards olive oil in the whole country.
Yes. For a long time, butter and cheese were the _only_ toppings for pasta. If you're interested, I'd really recommend reading The Discovery of Pasta by Luca Cesari, which traces the development of a few well-known pasta dishes through historical documents, cookbooks, etc.
Just here[0] they say that that’s a myth. I don‘t know what to believe anymore.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156692
It's not a problem of macOS in the strictest sense but we're talking about highly vertically integrated platforms. You don't get macOS without a mac, so it _is_ a macOS problem in that sense.
Correct, and a drill master has a lot more authority for discipline than a school teacher.
> No, it will still suck, but it'll be the kind of suck you can survive without fleeing

Still. Moving now to North Europe because maybe 30 years from now you'll have to move? Why not wait it out and see if you have to move? The whole thing is one huge speculation. There's no telling if Finland will be secure since its quite weak militarily. And we we don't really know what's gonna happen - we have models with very differing scenarios.
Yeah, the AMOC collapse predictions are interesting.

I'd love to see a much colder Finland, personally, since I want to know what a developed country that has 6 months of winter feels and looks like from the inside. But I do agree that for most people here it would be unfortunate.
Graphical programming just does not work, it has been tried often enough. As soon as you step beyond toy examples, you need a hierarchical organization, functions calling functions calling functions. How do you represent that graphically? You put additional graphs side by side or allow some kind of drill down. Now all your graphs are pretty trivial and you have not gained much over a hand full lines of code but you have reduced the density a lot with all the space between nodes and all the arrows.

Natural language programming is not going to happen either because natural languages are to ambiguous. You can probably write code iteratively in a natural language in some kind of dialog clarifying things as ambiguities arise, but using that dialog as the source of truth and treating the resulting code as a derivative output sounds not very useful to me. So if I had to bet, I would bet that text based programming languages are not going anywhere soon.

Maybe one day there will be no code at all, everything will just contain small artificial brains doing the things we want them to do without anything we would recognize as a program today, but who knows and seems not really worth spaculating about to me.

In the nearer term I could see domain specific languages becoming a more prevalent thing. A huge amount of the code we write are technical details because we have to express even the highest level business logic in terms of booleans, integers and strings. If we had a dozen different languages tailored to different aspects of an application, we could write a lot less code.

We have this to a certain extent, a language for code in general, one for querying data, one for laying out the user interface, one for styling it. But they are badly integrated and not customizable. The problem is of course that developing good languages and evolving them is hard and lowering them into some base language is tedious work. But in principle I could imagine that progress is possible at this front and that this becomes practical.
This is how I feel about the public NTP pool on which so many IoT devices depend.
> Fashion

Were both of these just trial and error or was there a process you followed to ensure you got it right?
The cracks are on purpose.
Nice write-up.

I'm one of the Debian maintainers of curl and we are close to enabling http3 on the gnutls libcurl we ship.

We have also started discussing the plan for enabling http3 on the curl CLI in time for the next stable release.

Right now the only option is to switch the CLI to use the gnutls libcurl, but looks like it might be possible to stay with openssl, depending on when non-experimental support lands and how good openssl's implementation is.
I've made 2 laptops in KiCAD:

https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform

https://source.mnt.re/reform/pocket-reform
India speaks 100 languages. Microsoft thinks AI can bridge its linguistic gaps
This blog's neon yellow color scheme makes it unreadable. Luckily, it has a dark mode... which is unusable on mobile. Ironic this post about design is on a blog that's poorly designed.
Would you say that's spoken from firsthand experience?
I can understand that, I'm a ham, if someone was doing something that was interfering with my station then I would be unhappy… Especially if it was deliberate. If it's not intentional, then, I really don't have much room to complain. I should better insulate.
There are lots of scam apps in Apple’s AppStore with weekly subscriptions for basic functionality. Apple let’s them fly as they get a cut of it.
Not commonly in my (Tuscan) experience but there is regional variation, in some areas (mountains, some northern areas) it's used; the French use a lot of it.

I would avoid using it as a partial substitute of olive oil, however. Use butter if the recipe calls for it.
The 1990's were looking so great for C++ adoption on desktop, we had Mac OS (pity about Object Pascal, but at least there was PowerPlant), OS/2 (with CSet++, and OWL), MS-DOS (with Turbo Vision), Windows (with OWL, VCL, MFC, ATL), BeOS (with its Kits), Epoch/Symbian, Windows CE (with MFC),...

And then rise of FOSS happened, with the original GNU contribution guidelines asserting only C and Lisp as the all mighty languages for the GNU ecosystem to build upon.
> Of course, there is a reason for the separation of the closing and locking functions, but not the opening and unlocking functions: it avoids a Denial of Service attack where someone can just press “close” and then jump out before the door closes. If the interior “close” button automatically locked the door, this would result in the toilet becoming permanently inaccessible.

There was a class of rolling stock used on UK lines (I encountered them over near Bradford IIRC) that had precisely that misdesign for the inside close button.

I had to be really careful using those because my natural reflex is to hit 'close' on my way out for tidiness' sake, and I think I actually -did- the first time I used one of those and only realised what I'd done to my fellow commuters immediately after I heard the click.
Don't be so quick to assume. In law school in Australia (20+ years ago), they specifically covered this point: third-party/outsider could not legally trade on information that wasn't conceivably available to the wider public (there were more specifics, but that was the gist).

Buying puts inside the plane may very well contravene that law, because there's only a couple of hundred people who theoretically had access to that information. Once it was radioed back to ATC, then it's actually available to the public (irrespective of who is actually listening, much like your satellite imagery).

I'm not saying that's the law in the USA (or that it's still even the law in Australia), but "that's how the law should operate" isn't the same as "that's how the law does operate".
What's your tomato sauce?

I do something similar but add pepper flakes with the garlic, use canned tomatoes and finish with some butter.
Is it really that "bold" of an assumption to make that most shell companies aren't mom and pop small businesses but rather just fronts for money laundering and tax evasion?
Peter Millican is the world authority on Hume, and created the CS and Philosophy course at Oxford.

https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/peter-millican

Nick Bostrum is an occasional favorite at NH because of his early thoughts about paperclip maximizers, superintelligence and simulation.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professo...
New Jersey approves two offshore wind projects totaling 3.7 GW
> reading more than a few paragraphs is rapidly becoming something akin to a chore for the majority of the population

I agree with that part. Some people will do anything to avoid reading articles: they watch shallow videos with 10 minutes of advertisement-friendly padding, they ask ChatGPT to hallucinate something. But I don't see that those people become better informed as a result of those tools. It's not working, it's only a simulation of knowledge acquisition.

> text-first platforms don't have a mass-market future

They never had. High-information media have always been a niche. It's when economic effects cause them to die out completely that we get a problem as a civilization.
> Google pisses me off so much by constantly bloating more and more the "message" app.

This is one of the main reasons I use iPhone.
I agree, but there is a meaningful difference between having dispossessed hordes on your doorstep and being among those dispossessed hordes having to find a place for yourself; and if the price of grain doubles, for a poor community that means starvation while a wealthy community would barely notice.
iPhone Prison? That is the perspective of a very minor part of the market.

I know hundreds of people who have iPhones and iPads. None have ever told me they fell imprisonned by their iPhone.
Sitting down with Michael W. Lucas's Networking for System Administrators and making Anki flashcards out of them was probably the highest impact thing I did for my career last spring. It's an incredible tool, truly.

Anyone else who wants to learn just enough networking to never be 100% stumped by it again, I recommend both tools.
Don't have to go that far back. The union did this during the Civil War.

A boat comes in from EU with immigrants, men get off the boat, are handled a Union uniform and are put right back on another boat down south to the war.
https://shopcaterpillar.com/products/18v-5ah-1-for-all-graph...

You can buy graphene batteries right now.

They are more expensive than non-graphene batteries so unless you have a need for the extra performance you tend to overlook them when shopping for batteries.
Uesmartradio and Mmysqueezebox Closing
Notable because the users are understanding and don't complain. Woah. Worth posting.

This proves by existence that user do consider something to be good enough. I quite agree, BTW. Not sure where my threshold is, but ten years is more than enough.
damn acronyms. I was genuinely excited to learn about more Exploratory Data Analysis tools.
Ask HN: Do you know of anyone getting fired and replaced by AI?
Welcome all to the new year with layoffs in full swing. Ive been hearing (youtube) people who got fired and replaced by AI. Is this really true and common nowadays? Does anyone have personal 1st or 2nd hand stories and would like to share?
Unfortunately WinDev has decided all modern Windows APIs are based on COM.

They aren't alone, Apple's XPC, Android and Fuchsia's Binder, and even Linux D-DBus, aren't much different.

They have much better tooling though, something that Microsoft folks keep ignoring, so I understand where the pain comes from.
> Apple doesn't disparage Chinese legal requirements in this manner. Its contempt is reserved for the EU.

There we go.

All of the whining about how much more secure things are with a forced walled garden all assume that Apple's intention is to serve the user with these limitations.

It's not.

Clinging to this idea with all of the evidence laid bare as it is today, is the epitome of cope.

P.S.: Also, arguments like "Yes, but, making all of this money this way is why they're able to make the best phone" is literally just another "the ends justify the means" defense. It's probably not true, but if it was, that wouldn't necessarily justify what they did to get there.
Housing, Supply and Demand
1901 might also be an artefact of data with invalid dates passing through legacy systems that only support dates between 1901 and 2099 (because both 1900 and 2100 are non-leap years divisible by 4, breaking naive time calculations).
I usually maintain a little git repository `.dotfiles` with all my personal preferences and config files. Although it is designed to be made public, I didn't do it - I was too scared I forgot something :-) In this repo I also created subdirectories for automated setup scripts for different operating systems. It looks something like this:

docker
... custom docker files and scripts
etc
git
.gitconfig
.gitignore_global
ssh
hosts.d
config
vim
vimrc
zsh
... (multiple config files and dirs, e.g. powerlevel10k)
linux
artix
setup.sh
fedora
setup.sh
ubuntu
setup.sh
macos
setup.sh
common_functions.sh

All I need to do is install git, check out the repo and run the setup script of the current system - works for linux and macOS, although I don't use macOS that much any more. These Scripts are designed to be run multiple times without damaging anything.

Works out pretty well. For macOS I tried to automate as much as possible (via `brew` and `brew --cask` and for settings via `defaults write`), similar to all these repositories using this technique: https://dotfiles.github.io/inspiration/

Additionally from time to time I try to lookup hardening guides like this: https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
I always tell my gun-hoarding, go-box toting, bug-out planning prepper friends the same thing. You don't have enough guns and ammo to stop the masses coming for your canned pork'n'beans.
That's a bizarre question. Luu's blog post is about longform primary content: blog posts, YouTube videos, and long Twitter threads. HN comments are neither longform nor primary. In this case, Luu's blog post is the longform primary content, and these HN comments are short, secondary content.

I don't actually delete all of my social media posts. The point about deletion was to emphasize that they are fleeting thoughts. The crucial distinction is between spur-of-the-moment hot takes and carefully crafted, researched essays.
Maybe you never heard of

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053

I think it is funny and amazing, that there is a whole dedicated wiki about xkcd.

(I do not know, whether your concern is adressed there in detail, but probably it is indeed just oversimplification)
I guess the central point is that us very hard to distinguish between genuine and fraudulent use cases; in absence of infallible diagnostics, doctors can choose to move the know to "stricter" (decreasing fraudulent use, but making genuine use much harder) or "looser" (viceversa). I see a similar problem with mental diseases, where the common pattern nowadays is 1) get convinced that you are neurodivergent 2) iterate n doctors until you find the diagnosis you like.
Top Breaches Caused by Infostealer Infections
Trail of Bits if you want it done right.
> why do we even have borders?

Do you mean like right now? You would propose removing world wide borders and citizenship requirements?

Or do you mean in a utopian future? If the former, is there any real programmatic intelligent analysis of how this would actually happen and what the negatives would be?
what i intended to say was that the current design of the door probably has its reason in order to support disabled people.

people who remove things from supermarkets without paying are thiefs regardless of they knew they did something illegal. In law it is never an argument that you didn't know the law this is principally your own responsibility.
(I also don't see why "boomer" is relevant)
The proposed deal seems to be the same as that suggested by numerous parties already, and where it approaches points of contention (how much aid, how many prisoners) it's not yet determined. If you had asked me to guess the structure of any deal I would guess something very close to that.

The reason the details are not highlighted is the new information is about the political process of the deal, not what its terms are.
A “continental” war without air superiority. You think Russia against Greece or Turkey who just got multi dozen gen 5 and 4.5 aircraft (not sure when delivery is) would be the same? No. It’s not even continental. It’s a proxy war.
Then don't buy second-hand devices in S-mode
> Alan Cooper's "About Face" is a great start

I'm not sure if I read all the way through it when I first got my copy but it -is- very good and I have it stashed for the next time I end up doing UI design.

Well worth a look.
Whatever bothered you about US politics is also happening in Europe. There's no Trump, he's one of a kind, but there's polarization, distrust in institutions and populism just fine.
It's the same disease really.

Also - I can't imagine North Europe will remain prosperous if America somehow fails, the West is very much dependent on the U.S (now also for energy).
But I do hope you enjoy your time, I lived in Leiden for almost 4 years and it was like living in a postcard. Shit weather though.
I popped into an Apple Store (Covent Garden) recently and directly asked (as I want the heart rate monitor Apple has)... and the assistant's response was that you need an iPhone to set up the watch initially, and that same iPhone must be used periodically for updates (which ruled out using one in-store to set it up, apparently the watch is paired to an iPhone?). I trusted what the Apple person told me.
emacs*

emacs + org-mode

emacs + chatgpt (org-ai)

emacs + evil

* finding a good reference config at
https://github.com/bling/dotemacs
after declaring emacs bankruptcy multiple times
They are not flimsy, mnless you are buying some sort of uncertified junk (rare). There are several different rating agencies that test and rate the helmets. Wearing a helmet isn't foolproof, and one could certainly die if the impact raring is exceeded or if they suffered severe trauma to another area. However, studies seem to indicate a 60-70% reduction in head and brain injuries and about a 65-70% reduction in fatalities. Clearly they are a significant factor.
Why was the link changed? 3 hours ago it linked to this:
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/i-used-to-not-worr...

Now it links to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCo3XwTRg9o
Go's concurrency in a dynamic language Rye
Setting Standards for Stool
take it from me, in London at least they really are!
You never worried particularly, but enough to move to a different country? That sounds contradictory to me.
Indeed. It’s created a system where everyone’s scared. So those who need it legitimately often cannot get it. Which honestly is a false sense of security at this point as it’s easier to get these drugs on the street rather than legitimately through a doctor and that’s what most now do. If anything, the abrupt disappearance of legitimate pharmacy grade drugs made way for the current problem Fentnyl. Taking away and restricting OxyContin literally made the issue worse. Almost no one can get their hands on pharmaceutics opioids and yet the overdose rate has skyrocketed! People just don’t learn… You take something away and people only tend to want it more. Prohibition simply does not work and we have years of experience and history to show this time and time again and yet not a single thing has changed. Never see any new approaches or ideas to fix this issue because it goes far deeper than drugs themselves. People want to self medicate because they suffer, but we haven’t discussed why so many suffered and what we could do about it. Probably because the answer to that question isn’t going to be easy and hard work will be involved.
CEO/Founder Linden Tibbets statement on 9/16/20: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=242306143839108

IFTTT Alerts on 9/20/20: "The free-forever IFTTT Standard plan no longer supports creating unlimited Applets from scratch. To date, you've created [X] Applets. That means you are at the limit. To create more, you will need to upgrade. Through October 7th, we're offering to set the monthly price you want to pay for IFTTT Pro and we’ll honor it forever."