skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You know what they are, but I will elect to avoid an instaban by posting them here.

You cannot list them, because I already have and I have not been instabanned.

There is not actually much chaos in these supposed "bastions of free speech". Because in practice, threads are often created by highly motivated users and can be brigaded by coordinated groups (IRC/Discord groups). Even without so, culture and groupthink emerges simply because people mimic each other.

This is the problem with all utopian first-principles liberty thinking, in practice, they fall prey to the same easily observable defects in human nature. Thus, forums like hackernews thrive because of competent moderation in their stead.

High average information quality is a top 3 important metric for browsing any content on the internet, and quality does not "emerge" effectively through this supposed "diamond in the rough" system.
narcissism: it's easy for the wearer to forget.

perfect Apple products for the perfect individuals narcissism.
Bear in mind that on iOS, you can't just prompt for permission; those "regular users" need to be able to navigate to the settings app, find the relevant (deeply nested) section, and enable it there.

That narrows the gap significantly - to users who can't understand the issues, but can (even with the app providing an explanation) find reasonably well-hidden settings.
Shouldn't it be up for grabs then?

According to the logic of "you don't call retarded people retarded. You call your friends retarded when they're acting retarded."
More like this:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/FridayNightZillow

The article’s snark was not always that funny. These places generate their own humor.
How long does it take to really “read” GEB?

There are puzzles and problems inside that could really extend how long you spend in that book.
Just checked and I'm getting about 5% CPU on idle, with no animations (for FluentAvalonia) and about 30% (did observe 40% once but was an edge case) when animations are playing on screen.

Sorry for the misinformation. (I can't edit my previous post unforunately because of how HN works.)
Optimistic thinking linked with lower cognitive abilities
This is a real problem that doesn't get talked about much...
I assume civilizations on heavier planets just use nuclear propelled rockets. As I understand it, the fuel density is so much higher that you could likely manage to build feasible nuclear rockets for far far higher g than you could chemical ones.
I have no intention of even trying one, it's a more immersive screen that further detaches me from my environment. It looks incredibly impressive and Apple's engineering team should be really proud, but it's not for me. Maybe when I'm 60 and I can put on a pair of glasses or contacts instead.

Social media has a bad reputation for good reason, but people understate how much the iPhone fuels addiction. I'm worried this kind of device catches on and further degrades real-world socializing. I don't want real eye contact to become rarer because everyone is plugged into their own little worlds everywhere.
When I was in college, programming assignments were turned in with a code listing and a 3.5" floppy disk shoved in a paper folder.

Kids these days just push to a code repo and call it good - they'll never know the joy of seeing "unreadable disk" scrawled in red on their code listing when they get their assignment back.
Yes, it is annoying, and its not about the straw. Its 100% about vapid environmental policies that do nothing for the environment.

-The soil quality is going to hell, is it the fault of nitrogen fertilizers? It probably doesnt help, but far worse is the over farming of corn, which is the direct result of farming subsidies that shouldnt exist.

-The chemical train crash in east Palestine Ohio? Operating per EPA regs; a company that had actual liability for harm would never transport chemicals without insurance, and the insurance company would base the rate on everything you would want them too, like installed safety features, rail upkeep, and training; instead, they are off scot free because they are protected by the people who are supposed to regulate them, as is only natural.

-We are decades behind in energy infastructure because of nuclear alarmism.

-Flint was an inside job, the government poisoned the people there and said it was safe.

-I almost forgot paper straws, which are also terrible for the environment and even worse for humans.

-We always ignore the biggest polluter, the pentagon.

I could go on all day. If the EPA set out a few basic guidelines like "hey, make sure people wear respirators!", "dont dump chemicals into the river!", no one would complain. Its just, that will never be the federal government of the united states.
I can live with that. I'm not on a campaign against the book, except maybe to say, "Hey, if you don't care for it, there's nothing wrong with you."

I don't know the exact quote, but I think Joyce also said that it was just a funny book. I didn't find it all that funny, and especially, didn't find any of the three main characters at all interesting. But YMMV. Check it out.
haha, took me a moment to fully appreciate this fine word.
Maybe but I doubt the NFL would continue on the way it does without TV. They must make a ton off networks who then make it back via advertising, but maybe I’m wrong. My group of friends and I definitely watch and don’t go to games because of the cost (we would not go to games just because they are not in TV).

College football around here is much more affordable (as are college basketball games, G league for basketball, and minor league baseball).
Doesn't seem unrealistic if the money was right and public outrage could be controlled. Not all governments thought it was outlandish to search peoples homes looking for a tv or a radio. Hell, we kill kids for no reason.
Pick your favorite programming language. Do you think it should be tested on people in a nursing home? I'd argue that's the wrong audience. (A programming language isn't a graphical user interface, but it is a user interface!)
I suspect the person is an actual communist and not one fond of dictators? no? :) . I still stand by the idea that real communism as professed by Marx can't survive in groups bigger than the hunter-gatherer groups of old for much more than a generation before it will self-immolate. Most people are "greedy" and will only truly sacrifice for their loved ones like family and their "best of" friends. I will dive to push my child out of the way of an oncoming vehicle without regret or pause (or at least hope I would) and would stand back in a similar situation happening to a neighor and hope my neighbor "survives that" or ponder "that's gonna hurt"
Also available as an extension itself: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chrome-extension-so...

Edit: Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crxviewer/
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39255524)
A practical guide to quitting your smartphone
Powell Tells '60 Minutes' Fed Is Wary of Cutting Rates Too Soon
Nitpick: the 486 had versions without FPUs, or which had them disabled. I had a 486 SX 25Mhz.

"Because Doom was written to run on early 386 and 486 processors which often lacked a floating-point unit entirely, and its use was slow even when present, the game was written to exclusively use fixed point math." [0]

[0] https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Approximate_distance
> I’d say the investment is also worth it for those who don’t like developing lowest common denominator apps.

If I look at Electron, that lowest common denominator is pretty high. I'd argue that if you put the same effort into an Electron app that you have to put into an Apple app, you get a much better Electron app compared to the Apple app. And you can run it on Linux and Windows.

So, unless there is something essential for your app you cannot do in Electron, not liking the lowest common denominator still fits into the resource blowing category. Hell, blowing resources can sure be fun!
In swagger/open API, why is everything a post?

I tried the first endpoint get suggestions and tried searching for Gemini or Gemin hoping it would at least auto complete a word but the result set is empty.

https://stract.com/beta/api/docs/#/autosuggest/route
That's not within your skills?
Why is it stupid to require devices have parental control settings that are default enabled when you indicate during device setup that the user is a child and, when enabled, turn on a "generally accepted and commercially reasonable filter", with a password for the parent or guardian to disable/re-enable?

Or is it stupid that it's illegal to turn off parental controls for someone else's kid without the parent's consent (the article author is upset about this one for some reason)?

Or what part of the policy is stupid?
If you have to question yourself that then you seriously lack experience with the language.
Well I'm not waiting for Jai, I'm happily using C++. If Jai eventually comes out and turns out to be a cool language and the tooling becomes available under sane licenses I might pick it up, or I might not. I'm in no rush either way.

If it's still not available in 2034, I guess you can fairly say it's taking a while. But then again, so what; if it comes out in 2036 it comes out in 2036.
Reminds me of: https://fuckyournoguchicoffeetable.tumblr.com
They are accessible, press "M" to open the menu.
It does improve the show
I agree. When an app uses GPS on my phone, I'm informed of that: a notification permanently displays in the top bar until it is no longer being used. Same with the camera and mic. If my clipboard is copied, I get a notification as well informing me of that and telling me which app did it.

I'm not sure why a similar system doesn't exist for browser extensions. Furthermore, there are limits to what features you can and cannot disable for Chrome extensions, and as far as I'm aware there are no logs of what actions they took.

I had an extension that randomly redirected me to scam URLs while doing completely innocuous things such as visiting the homepage for Gmail, YouTube, or performing a Google search (after pressing enter for the initial query, before clicking on any URL.) I had 15 extensions, and the redirects were infrequent enough that disabling extensions one by one wouldn't help much: it could potentially take months to track it down, and there's no way of disabling the permission to redirect to different URLs. I searched the minified source code for all of the extensions that I had, but none of them had the URLs I was redirected to. My guess is that they pulled data from a server and then redirected me to whatever malicious URL it pulled at that time. I also checked network traffic in the Chrome Task Manager to see if there was an extension sending data for unknown reasons, but again, nothing, so it likely periodically pulls a URL to redirect me to from some server, redirects me, and then sleeps for a few days. Short of un-minifying all 15 extensions and trying to understand the purpose of every redirect, many of which would be legitimate, I'm not sure what can be done.

In the end, I removed every last extension aside from my password manager and uBlock Origin (which fixed the issue — over one month later I've never been redirected to a scam URL.) Many of the extensions I used were open source, but I don't think any hash system exists to verify the minified code matches the source files for Chrome extensions (maybe I could do that manually, but I don't want to do that every time there's an update for any of the 15 extensions I had.)

It's unfortunate, as many of the extensions I used improved my productivity and helped me focus better and be distracted less. But as it is currently, the browser extension ecosystem simply isn't safe.

From what I've heard, Firefox's review process is better in some ways than Chrome's, but their extensions can have even more control of your browser.

I don't think it's impossible to design an extension system that is secure: extensions just need to have the ability to be granted extremely limited permissions, and any permission beyond what is reasonable should be denied in the review process for putting it on the Chrome or Firefox extension stores. Most of my extensions shouldn't have even needed Internet access (if they can execute JavaScript, they'd still be able to redirect me to a scam URL, but if it couldn't have pulled a URL from an external server, then the URL would need to be in the minified JS, so I'd have been able to catch it.)
>Do You think people just don't care about security

Yes, people don't care nearly as much as we like to pretend in online debates
I’m happy others are writing on this subject! I appreciate your enthusiasm for trying to do the most “basic” things in Python. While I personally enjoy a bit more management with tools like Poetry, I believe all Python programmers should know how pip and setuptools work before trying their supersets.

To add to this discussion, I recently wrote this less wordy guide on macOS Python setup https://steins.studio/technical/01-python-setup
I think the core thought in "But Why" kind of gives away the problem this will face. The idea is that you will lose time as you "move between valid programs." A problem, though, is most "valid programs" are still not valid solutions to what you are working on.

Consider, most of us work in rather phonetic languages as we type day to day. Surely it would be easier if we worked instead in languages where you did not have to do this. Let me type only valid sentences as I move from thought to thought. Surely that would be better? Why, then, do we not do that?

Of course, I don't know why. I suspect there is a good deal to inertia style thoughts that explains this. But it is a good hint that the idea that you can break apart from symbols that need more symbols for context to build meaning is not one that really anything has fully converged to.
Makes me think that the child porn was planted by the FBI...
Yes, that’s why I described it as a management responsibility. That kind of dominance culture is very common and it basically ensures this kind of stuff will keep happening, similar to how all of the phishing training in the world is largely cancelled out by not requiring partners and vendors to have better email practices. It might take that CFO featuring in a crime like this one to get their attitude to change.
Play Integrity: What it is, and how it affects you
It’s not really a subset that I’m talking about—just a DSL that outputs JSON for easy portability. You could still use all the language’s features.
Thompson Sampling, a.k.a. Bayesian Bandits, is a powerful method for runtime performance optimization. We use it in ClickHouse to optimize compression and to choose between different instruction sets: https://clickhouse.com/blog/lz4-compression-in-clickhouse
You feel Yahoo is less cluttered than DDG?
At work I have a Windows laptop that I plug into a dock with two additional monitors. Windows correctly returns windows to the screen it was previously using if I unplug and then plug the laptop back into the dock. Is that not the desired behaviour?
>> Wrong tool for ultra low latency access

I'm not sure what you mean by ultra low latency but unfortunate to have to rethink what a tool is good for because of RDS / EBS.
What? No. Self-contained means the runtime is packaged in the binary, and then trimmed. Self-extract feature is if you want to package third-party native libraries (think tensorflow) inside your binary instead of separate DLL, it is a separate thing.

You just give the users an exe or unix binary and it runs.
Just get a new drive when the previous one is full.
They did that, and for a few years their catalog was total crap and getting worse. Then Stranger Things came along.
I feel like that's a risk for all software, OSS or not. If the OSS maintainers stop updating your software, it probably stops running on the latest version of your OS at some point. Apple or Microsoft may accelerate that process (Apple almost certainly, Microsoft less so as they're famously very concerned about backwards compatibility).

Obviously there's some software that probably could keep running without updates almost forever, but even for simple things if you're dynamically linked against 32 bit libraries is going to have a hard time on 64 bit OSes if the 32 bit versions of that library aren't available. OSes may add or remove functionality your app relied upon. Heck as long as we're imagining a world where Adobe has decided to stop making photoshop, we could also imagine a world where IPv4 is finally deprecated and removed. How many applications out there assume an IP address is and will always be 4 octets?
Something a bit poetic to have such people be stolen from. It might be good for their overall mental health.
Of this specific solution yes, of the "ecosystem" no. This has been solved by many other solutions (pipenv, poetry, pdm, etc...).
>because I already have and I have not been instabanned

Not here, at least.

>Thus, forums like hackernews thrive because of competent moderation in their stead.

hahaha, well, enjoy, then!
Guile Hoot v0.3.0 Released
Another take on that is that AVP is blinding you to reality. You are seeing the reality it wants you to see.
The standard is a printed QR code with a link. This is how I see digital stuff get bundled with stuff I buy.
A good chance money laundering justifies the weird set of decisions.
This is not 1999's Slashdot my friend.
Right, but why is it that way?

How did they manage to consolidate all music into 1 service and why can't or won't that work for video?
Related:

Centrifugal flows drive reverse rotation of Feynman's sprinkler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39128851 - Jan 2024 (19 comments)

Feynman Sprinkler [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38985308 - Jan 2024 (21 comments; top comment just added to https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights!)

Feynman sprinkler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14531297 - June 2017 (6 comments)

The Feynman Sprinkler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11720126 - May 2016 (1 comment)

An elementary treatment of the Feynman sprinkler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11626758 - May 2016 (1 comment)

Feynman sprinkler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9710119 - June 2015 (3 comments)
I kind of like it. I wonder if the whole house was built from new or did they build on top of some old structure? Definitely has character :-)
Well, how much do you think it will cost then?
I miss the CyanogenMod days. I've been really disappointed with lineage OS's approach to things - specifically if you ask for help with any issue and mention the device is rooted, they refused to offer any support regardless of whether or not the issue occurs on unrooted devices. It's such a 180 from the earlier days when installing SuperSu was on both supported and expected.

(And without rooting, I can't fix the CTS profile check that prevents things like banking apps, netflix, games, etc. from working properly, so it's still very much needed if you're going to run lineage OS and use your phone like a smartphone.)
Although this is also my impression based on personal observations over the years, I concur that it seems like a lot of activism in general is just a thin socially-acceptable wrapper around hating on other groups of people.

Take carbon-neutrality for example. There's no shortage of people who will rage against flyers, car users, cruise takers, etc, etc as the cause of all carbon related ills in the world. And of course, the complainer's personal use of polluting energy is always objectively correct and morally just. And there are extreme examples like the "Tyre Extinguishers" group, which is clearly just a group of individuals who want to damage others' property under some thin veil of "doing good for the environment".

I say all this as a person that actually does care about the environment, but have not fallen into the easy trap of thinking that hating on others is a solution.

Meaningful central solutions are the answer. If one cares about carbon neutrality, I'd recommend advocating for across-the-board carbon taxation that is directly and honestly tied to the cost of fully and immediately offsetting a product/service's carbon footprint. And then it wouldn't matter one bit if someone wants to take several cruises a year, or drive an "unnecessarily" large car. But the social justification to hate on those people would evaporate, and that would make some other people sad.
I wonder why did the rights management for music and video come about so differently.
Here are recent results from a large US DOE-funded project related to perovskite reliability: https://pvpact.sandia.gov/results-and-data/

The “record holder” lasted about 150 days outdoors before dropping below 80% of original efficiency. But there are a number of samples that are still going and catching up.

For reference, 80% of “new” output is close to what many solar module warranties cover.
> They get the same amount of residuals if someone doesn't watch something or if they pirate it.

That doesn’t make the actions equivalent.

And in OP’s case, it certainly doesn’t given him any moral authority to speak for the plight of the artists.

I’d be curious if he’s spoken to any of these artists, on the best way to support them. Somehow I doubt most of them will be appreciative of the moral stand the OP is taking here.
> For us ADHD people

How often do you forget your wallet or phone?
Torrenting is very easy on Android.
Elevated anxiety levels about career uncertainty
I recently graduated about a 1.5 years ago. I'm 24 and I'm scared shitless about my future in software engineering. I don't have a formal CS education (failed out and switched to something completely unrelated) and I've graduated.

Given the current job market, I can't lie if I did not have my current job at a decently sized ecommerce firm, I'd be toast. My anxiety levels about my future are through the roof. Can't even sleep at nights let alone socialize because I'm scared of layoffs and not being competitive enough to go elsewhere.

I keep thinking about doing another degree but this time in CS (from a no name school online), however, people telling me that its not the best use of my time and I should just focus on my career moving forward.

How I can stop getting paralyzing thoughts about the future? My anxiety stems from my undergrad for sure and my failures. I'm trying to use school and a crutch for all my problems and I've realized this. Should I drop everything and go get a bachelor's in CS?
The issue is time.

Say it's a YJ-83 clone, so around mach 1.4 terminal velocity (476 m/s).

Phalanx tracks at 10km, engages at around 4km.

So it has ~8.4 seconds of engagement time to try to destroy the incoming missile.

... And that's a relatively slow modern target. A P-800 gets up to mach 2.4. BrahMos is mach 3?

I'd guess the Navy would generally rather keep CIWSs on a hair trigger, and just space their ships further apart in combat situations.

And afaik, most of the CIWSs have been removed in favor of RAM, since the gun-limited engagement ranges don't make much sense anymore.
I've personally got more attached to receipts here in Japan since I refuse to pay for any plastic bags (I carry an eco bag in my backpack for big stuff). I just put my purchase in my backpack with a receipt just in case.

I don't know if it helps much because everything in Japan is wrapped in plastic it seems.
Fair point. I meant proofs about semantics, unless stated otherwise. So using tools like HOL and Coq. Can't edit the original comment anymore.
Lists like this don't make great HN submissions because the discussion ends up scoped at the most general a.k.a. common-denominator level. (In this case, for example, we'll get a generic thread about octopuses).

What works better is to pick the most interesting thing in the list and submit an article about that.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...