skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t recall people striking up conversations in grocery lines before smart phones, nor would I have been interested in it.

I do. You may not quite be old enough to have seen/participated in this. Or maybe it wasn't happening where you live for some reason? (E.g., this was probably more common in the urbs than the sub-urbs, due to other alienating forces in the latter).

> people also downplay how much smartphones just replaced rampant TV consumption for people who like to be entertained constantly

It was (mostly) not possible to have a TV with you at all moments, on the bus, in line, in the toilet. This meant lots of times where people were with their thoughts or one another. Also, phones have not replaced TV but overlay it. Many (most) now watch their TV (even if streaming) while also layering distraction from their phone.

> Personally, I handle smartphone usage just fine as do most of the adults around me.

Good for you! I'm curious, what's your average phone usage in hrs/day?

IMO, the degrading effect of smart phones (and the distraction machines of the attention economy more generally) is something that should be discussed and problematized. If some are good at self-moderating, their contributions to the discussion may be especially helpful.

> I reject the idea that all techies need to reject technology and smartphones

Just to clarify, rejecting smart phones as they are currently designed and implemented as bad technology is not the same as rejecting all technology per se.

> projecting their own solution on to everyone else is about as appealing as the person who had a problem with drinking too much trying to insist that nobody else should drink any alcohol at all either

This is an interesting analogy b/c ["No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health"](https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...). I doubt that smart phones are as unequivocally toxic as alcohol, but I do suspect that the current way they are used and developed may be, esp. thanks to gamification, nudge design, and surveillance. Research is coming out on this, but I think there is good reason to not assume it is systemically innocuous as you think it is.

However, b/c living in an inattentive society may actually be worse for everyone, it's possible that a better analogy may be smoking in public or drunk driving: if you smoke in public places or get behind a wheel, everyone is at greater risk.

> I also use my smartphone for important things like maps, taking photos, keeping lists, and even paying for groceries if I forget my wallet.

Imagine a utility that enabled these important functions but did not also constantly disrupt your attention with push notifications, harvest your data, or present the temptation of hours wasted in toxic digital fun-houses! :D It's possible!
No it doesn't. Unbalanced quotation marks are a crime against humanity.
Almost every sufficiently large employer does this. Instead of paying premiums to an insurance company which owns the risk (and also makes a profit from that) the large employer pays the actual costs of care, and a percentage to the insurance company for the administrative work (using their provider network, claims processing systems, etc.).
I'm amazed at how "we" have managed to turn such a simple idea as "128 bits is a large enough address space for uncoordinated generation to be essentially collision free" into such a "heavy" concept with 7 different versions

If you want to do something smart like encoding your node ID within the value, or prefixing a timestamp for sortability, then sure, do that in your application. No one else really needs to care how you produced your 16 bytes. Just do some napkin math to make sure you're keeping sufficient entropy

I'm not sure "UUID" even needed to be a column type, versus a "INT16" and some string formatting/parsing functions for the conventional representation (should you choose to use that in your application). You could also put IPv6 addresses in the same type. Though I guess this depends on how much you think the database should encode intention versus raw storage in types
Okay, okay. I've been a diehard tmux user for a decade, but I'll finally give this a try.
I was answering on the assumption that the previous poster was surprised about the UAE/Israel relation. Maybe I misread him.
It does, as well as overflow checks, you can re-enable everything to be safer with a custom build profile, but you'll loose at benchmarks
Honestly, it kind of warped my brain. Every fall my anxiety would peak until I found whatever project I had to keep entertained during the winter months.
Android/Linux and ChromeOS/Linux have been working fine with clang for quite some time now.
Do Friend-Finding Platforms Work?
That reminds me, I've been meaning to order a portrait of Gauss from him. (https://www.kleinbottle.com/gauss.htm). I'd order a Klein Bottle but with small kids in the house that's just asking for trouble.

I also regret never stopping by when I lived literally right down the street.

(Apparently you can get portraits of Gauss cheaper on eBay! But I would like to overpay for this one for the cool story.)
Ask HN: SE and Team Leads, Frustrations of juggling multiple tools?
Hey y'all, I'm curious about the tools and software you use on a daily basis to manage your projects and teams. Have you ever found yourself switching between multiple tools, and do you sometimes wish you had everything consolidated in one application?

Share your experiences and insights on what functionalities or features you feel are missing in your current workflow.
Can you comment on what you prefer about it? I find npm/js pretty smooth and the rough edges of Deno seem to kill the purported improvements at this point. That was just my gut-take several months ago and I was already steeped in the node/npm ecosystem so I'm curious about your perspective.
I think small chance of collision is a misleading way to think about it when any malicious client can submit 100% collisions if it wants to. Dealing with this isn't a big deal, but if you ignore it completely as unlikely/paranoid in a hacked together app you risk letting someone do something like take ownership of an existing record by pretending to create it.
Do you mean those features added to WebAudio or that you could use WebAudio to implement those features, because the latter is not really true
The $700k Vesuvius Challenge prize has been won
I think factory birds stop laying real young because of stress. You
can buy them for pennies, and miraculously when you take them home to
a nice big garden, and talk to them, they start laying again! Yea
they're fun! (context: we kept hens when I was kid)
I was on a Grand Canyon river trip and offline content decided to offline itself giving me no music for three weeks. That was annoying and made me cancel my subscription for a couple years. I tried Apple Music but I think Spotify does a better job making recommendations for me.
I'm self-unemployed :D Helped a startup to exit a couple of years ago and had a small amount of equity. Been working on building a game since then. I don't think I'm going to make it to the finish line before I need to get another job, but maybe after that job I'll have the game finished and can build a more sustainable path from there.

Definitely envious of those with actually sustainable business models, though, heh.

(p.s. https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants, come say hi in the Discord if you want to talk shop about Rust/Bevy/WASM/gamification of mental health)
One problem with that is that the correct start/end quotes to use depend on language which is not always know for all text snippets.
> AnyDesk spokesperson Matthew Caldwell did not respond to an email from TechCrunch. CrowdStrike, which is working with AnyDesk to remediate the cyberattack, declined to answer TechCrunch’s questions when reached Monday.

> AnyDesk did not respond to questions asking if any customer data was accessed, though the company said in its statement that there is “no evidence that any end-user systems have been affected.”

> “We can confirm that the situation is under control and it is safe to use AnyDesk,” AnyDesk said. “Please ensure that you are using the latest version, with the new code signing certificate”.

Mmm. If I were an AnyDesk customer I'd definitively want more details on what actually happened before I used their software again.
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Economic shocks are simply unavoidable. Supposedly the goal is to avoid the yo-yo effect of them, e.g. try to control the rate of inflation and unemployment so it doesn't feel so chaotic. The COVID shutdown and money print to deal with it kind of worked on that front if you consider just how disruptive it all was and how people are still going about their lives, contributing to GDP.
https://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-sch...

Closest guide I’ve read and used.
I have never wanted to use database cursors and I predict that I never will.
sounds like you simply really don’t like freelancers. you know no one stops you from accumulating reserves in your company or in general, right?
The issue I find with the first linked article is that the people tested were not allowed to type normally.
They were required to type with their dominant hand only, which reduces most people to hunt and peck typing.

Typing this way is a very different experience from typing with two hands, especially for people who can otherwise touch type.

I'd like to see a similar study with people allowed to touch type.
More info: https://scrollprize.org/grandprize
Unfortunatelly it goes on. After the sitcomes came social media and cats.
Most Americans knowledge of Russia is based on movies depicting the Yeltsin era during the 90s. For them Moscow is like a giant prohibition era Chicago in a cyberpunk scenario.
Motivation has nothing to do with it. Destroying someone else’s property is not something I’d support society doubling down on. Saying your car doesn’t count is horse pucky.
They also leak information.
You beat me to it. I love this one.
I expect that LLMs will help to make a breakthrough in reverse engineering by helping giving meaningful names to variables/functions.
All wars have something in common: they end. That thought in your head about lack of hope of normalizing relations is just the current propaganda working.

Edit: it's amazing just how short-sighted people can be. Look, we still bring up the Nazis as an unassailable argument for how something is bad. And yet the war with Germany ended and they are now a US ally fighting Russia. I'm sure in the midst of WW2 the common folk also believed that there can be no peace with Germany, after all the man on the radio said so.

Besides, during WW2 the situation was the opposite: Russia was an ally. And hey, if you study European history at all you'll note that it's a series of wars with shifting alliances.
I worked for a while in the DVD authoring industry and we always left a secret code (always the same) to bypass mandatory clips. I don't know if it carry on to BR but I don't see why it wouldn't (until everyone got on the Internet and then clients hear of it and check for the code themselves).
> When the real estate bubble burst and took a good chunk of the financial industry with it…

Didn’t a large amount of those finance people just end up at big tech or in crypto? Plenty of news to be found suggesting as such (that people who previously would’ve gone into finance are going into big tech or crypto instead).

Which, if true, sort of just proves my original point.

Further the list of successful startups from that era aren’t exactly a list of things that people universally consider good for society (lots of gig economy startups, for example).
That sounds suspiciously low, my naive expectation would be more than that would stick to dies/molds or oxidize, turn into dust, and escape.
FWIW I've had a lot of success with this neat little device: https://getbrick.app/

$40 and no subscription. No affiliation with the founders (who I believe have bootstrapped their business).
If you want to reduce your addiciton to your smartphone you should analyse the psychological origins of your addiction. Quitting just your smartphone feels a bit like treating the symptom, rather than the cause. That said, modern psychology is often dismissive of causes bc they are harder to empirically study, and this kind of thinking has really dominated pop psychology now
It's not that they stop laying, they just slow down. Why would a factory want a hen that laid an egg every third day when it could hatch a new hen and have an egg almost every day?
tell that to person buying cds, not me.
this can now be accomplished by vaguely describing the math to chatgpt (or your LLM of choice) in real-time, even if you describe it poorly. You can even take surprisingly bad short-hand notes and convert into good transcripts.

For example, this comment was written by asking it to guess: ths cn nw b accmplsh b vague descri da math to chatgpt (or ur llm o choice) in reltym, even if u dscrb porly. u ca eve tk urpringly bd shrthnad nts n cnvrt nto gd trnscrpts.
Hope the muscular atrophy isn't too bad when he returns.
Ok but he is wrong though.

a) he's wrong to call it outdated... because that's not the case, it's a very vibrant community and with boatloads of dev happening

b) he's wrong to say it only does 10% of blah blah blah -- capability wise my config does pretty much everything I had with CLion/RustRover in terms of my C++/Rust workflow... but also a whole lot more on other fronts

c) he's wrong to formulate a comment like that because it's inflammatory and not nice

Honestly, futzing with VSCode is pretty much as 'brittle' and 'batteries not included' situation as emacs, though obviously more popular. Every time I went from CLion over to VSCode I just threw my hands up in annoyance.

My emacs + lsp + company + rust-analyzer + projectile + treemacs setup works better for me, though obviously that's somewhat because I have 30 years of mild-muscle-memory for emacs keybindings. (Though there is cua-mode, y'know)

Would I recommend it for brand new devs, or for my 13-year old son starting out or something? Probably not. But it's really none of my business what tools other people use.
They say they can optionally use some time-dependent covariates (derived from the datetime) -- did anyone figure out if/how they are actually used in this model from the paper?
I built https://team-today.com with a friend about 4 years ago and have been working on it full-time for the past 6 months.

I tried to get funding but never really got there and we've just managed to grind it out to a point where we have enough revenue to pay ourselves.

The flexible lifestyle is great, I play golf on Wednesdays and help out with childcare much more than I would have been able to with my previous jobs.

There is the looming threat that all our customers will leave us one day and I'll have to go back to a regular 9-5 job, but hey ho.
The United States is the sole superpower and the only bulwark against illiberalism and authoritarianism so that one
You’re being overly pedantic to a fault. Here’s the definition Wikipedia gives for UI:

> a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur[0]

Further, Wikipedia lists a ton of different kinds of user interfaces. Included among those is:

> Batch interfaces are non-interactive user interfaces

And further, here’s a better explanation describing how a programming language is a user interface then I can provide here[1]. It really is as simple as the programming language being an interface to the machine, and the programmer being the user of that interface. I don’t understand why you’re arguing so much against a widely accepted fact. When computers were first made, there was no such thing as a mouse or keyboard, there were punch cards. The only way for a user to interface with the machine would be to insert a program with punch cards. Nowadays we have all sorts of input devices to give us new ways to interface with machines, but the most basic way we can interface with a machine is by writing a program with our intent for it.

And if you want to be so pedantic then is a pure HTML/CSS website a UI? There’s no program there just markup. The only program that runs is the browser. So then is the website nothing and the browser the only user interface? Or how about the steering and brakes/accelerator in a car? Those are purely mechanical, are they a user interface because they don’t have a program? Or how about the original arcade games like pong? They were directly soldered onto the board. There was no program just a circuit. There were no instructions being executed. So does that make those games a non user interface?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface

[1]: https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/books/user-interface-sof...
Norwegian coming up with a better translation than other native Dutch speakers.
I'm sure that international space programs have figured out ways to mitigate atrophy by now.
It's a weird scenario. You have node which is entrenched, feature-rich, and stable although not perfect. Then you have two runtimes/ecosystems trying to optimize on that but in slightly different ways. I love it but I feel like there is barely room for even one. It's just incredible there is so much work being put forth into moving the needle maybe an extra 20% on the existing node/npm status quo.
>When you accept some form of lawlessness or disregard to property

You talking about the example set by the owner's who have disregarded this unfinished property for years?
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Show HN: Warren.ai – AI generated reviews of 10-K forms for traded companies
Hey HN! Excited to share my first ever (released) side venture baby with you all!

Warren.AI is a blog delivering AI-generated investment scores and daily summaries of 10K forms for US publicly traded companies.

It's currently running of a couple of scheduled/event triggered Firebase functions and Firestore.

If you find this interesting, your feedback would be very much appreciated, so feel free to share your thoughts :)

You can check out Meta's recent 10k review here - https://www.likewarrendid.com/meta-platforms-inc/
Good find, if I get around to updating that blog I'll add and credit your hn name.
On the surface, it seems like it would be much worse, as it seems OP is using a bunch of snippets and shortcuts to make it faster and easier to write syntax that will ultimately show a viewer nice looking math. I’d imagine the brain would be too preoccupied with translating what it’s seeing to what syntax/shortcuts need to be used to make it visually correct, and less focused on understanding what’s actually going on.

Maybe that’s fine if OP really likes to study, and high quality notes make that better. I always had pretty poor study habits, and needed to lock away as much info as I could during class.
I import lots of crap and need to declare the HS codes and everything.

Wrote a whole app that lets me search through all the HS codes and sub-categories and then check the best tariff/levy/anti-dumping fees based on the search terms and country of origin.
Author here. Yes, there is some good stuff in the logs, I found the Wi-Fi password there, that was useful. At the time I used some VSCode plugin to read the .dlt files (they are not encrypted), but later I did find that dlt-viewer on COVESA's GitHub.
So does node, only for JS though.
Serious question: Is there a dumbphone that has a camera that is even remotely near a flagship from the last year or two? (Pixel/iPhone/Samsung) I wouldn't realistically carry around a camera everywhere because of bulk/UX, yet I (and most people) do care about having a pretty decent camera to take photos day to day.
Facebook copies Googles culture, except the hard to fire part. Facebook do fire people much more than Google does, so there everyone already lived under fear of getting fired. At Google very few feared getting fired, I remember the big outcry because a guy was fired after having stayed for 10 years at a level where Google expected him to get promoted, so it took a decade of being far below mediocre to get fired, not something to worry about for most people since most people will get promoted to the expected levels or leave on their own long before they would get fired.

But after that outcry they did reduce the expected level to where basically nobody would get fired unless they were absolutely incompetent, so there really never were any significant amount of people getting fired for being mediocre.
I don't know, but the certificate I found under Trusted Root Certification Authorities was set to "Enable all purposes for this certificate," which definitely shouldn't be the case.
"Don't forget you're here forever" can be a real downer sometimes.
Who are the Virtual Reality Society??
That does sound great, but to be fair most of the time, the helm equivalent is to type one or a few more characters of the one file name you want and press enter. Avy is a great tool, but in my experience using C-s actually requires fewers strokes than Avy over 90% of the time. Being limited to whatever is on screen tends to get very annoying, as is the mental load of pressing random characters instead of completing a word you already know. For me Avy shines for things like avy-copy-line that can prevent you from moving back and forth.
this thing is going to drive "phone" addiction through to the stratosphere when it drops in price.
In my experience, hand-writing notes and then typing them up is the best of both worlds, where you end up with beautiful notes and get at least 2 iterations of reading the material, which helps retain information.
I guess that’s one way to bring up the Russian invasion topic. “Time has passed, huh”
This used to be me in grad school-- pen and paper for diagrams, vim for notes. I eventually moved to Markdown, using pen and paper more sparingly.
This is definitely a source of friction with the tax service.

A couple of years ago, the Dutch tax service was trying to tackle the problem of fake self-employed people who were really just employees without the same rights, pensions, etc. The Dutch postal service PostNL was notorious for firing firing all their mail deliverers and hiring them back as self-employed people who still had to wear their uniform and work according to their schedule. And somehow the tax service approved that. But self-employed programmers who hop between big projects, negotiate their own pay (which tends to the high side) and have a lot of control over the projects they work on and the way they work on them, suddenly have to prove that they're really "zelfstandig", self-sufficient.

It's frustrating. I recently went back to regular employment and I hated it. Tons of extra rules, limited vacation days, and significantly lower pay. I guess I prefer being in control, saving for my own retirement, and going on vacation as often or as little as I like. Seriously, how many vacation days I had left used to give me stress. It's significantly healthier for me to be self-employed.

The way I see it: if a large company can have a single client and just rent out all their employees to that single company, why can't a small one-man company do the same?

And I think I'm a lot more self-sufficient than that company; if my contract ends, I can easily get a new contract elsewhere for myself. But if their contract ends, they need to find new work for all of their employees at once, and they'll likely fire some or all of them, making the whole job security argument moot. Their risk is higher than mine, and their security isn't. I really think having lots of self-employed contractors like me is better for the industry than the overhead of having to organise into companies.
some of the best eu engineers I’ve worked with were polish freelancers
Yeah but many people go in with the goal of watching a single movie. Thus spending more time in the UI is the only way to pad that time.
Ah, I thought it didn't work to simply paste the javascript directly into the bookmark. Don't you have to minimally URI encode it? `javascript:URI_ENCODED_CODE`