skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spend 3-10 minutes scrolling over at least 1/3 of 5000 headlines. Today I open 12 in tabs doing that, I've looked at 3 of those.

I got rid of most things, I only keep [pubDate, url, title] and only if the title doesn't contain any badwords and the pubDate isn't older than the oldest item.

Each item comes with a hours and minutes ago a translate to English button, the domain name, and a blacklist button.

While it does take opml most of my feed lists are just txt files with one url per line.

It loads one of those files then pulls x feeds per second and parses y per second where x and y are adjusted to the pending requests and pending parse jobs.

While you could certainly do many interesting things most of my experiments didn't survive my desire to keep it simple. I for example use to dump the results on a web page. I couldn't convince myself it was useful to the goal.
Tech billionaires' push to reshape San Francisco politics: 'a hostile takeover'
Possibly, but in reality, not really. Without buy-in from the OSMF (the foundation) this could result in a lot of effort and time ultimately wasted due to overlapping roles of people concerned in the Operations Working Group.

Most people with the knowledge and capacity to do this have spent their energy on other initiatives not hosted directly on openstreetmap.org instead (like OpenStreetMap Americana destined for the US chapter's OSM website), or contributing to OsmAnd or OrganicMaps.
A single failure doesn’t somehow cancel out the more successful versions, it says you should learn from them how not to repeat the mistakes. The toxic stew of racism of the south in the 1950s, for example, seems significant as does the realization that you can’t just toss up a building with no shopping, jobs, poor transportation access, etc. and expect it to go well.
The article explicitly says that UCI banned NDD bikes. Given that the Tour de France is a UCI event the answer seems obvious.
How about a world that is awesome and also doesn't pay off corporations to destroy the best work of irreplaceable, dedicated humans?

In all seriousness, why pay them to do that? What possible benefit is there of bribing the corporation to be so wasteful and irresponsible? If the thing is made, what possible justification can there be for this wanton entropy?

Why do that, ever? Signs (that the coyote holds up as the anvil's shadow covers him) indicate that lots of people would enjoy the work, that lots of other people have done. What possible excuse can there ever be for doing all that and then un-making it? It's nihilistic, madness.
Considering the worldwide population of coders don't all share a common native language, no - we need to embrace fluidity in our vocabulary.
The Boeing of 2000s was also hell-bent on switching to outsourcing, down to cutting off its own pieces like Boeing Wichita (which became Spirit Aerosystems)
Before the Rust accident, the Twilight Zone movie accident (1983)
Incident with Copilot
I did not realize how much I relied on copilot until it suddenly died. So much tedious boilerplate to write...
It does say the UCI banned NDD bikes in 1999.
The article mentions that at the time they were looking at the 737 replacement in the early 2000s they didn't think they could scale up the production to the volume needed for the 737's market. I think this fits the general theme of the article - they probably could if they started work now, but they had to make the decision on replacing the 737 or creating the 737 Max whilst guessing on the future years down the line.
This is, unironically, the most sane comment in this whole thread.

I don't even think you are in a bad place from a mental health standpoint. Hell, I bet you would be a fun person to have a couple of beers with.

I have a child by the way. Not a sadist, but in my hubris I imagine I am able to raise a child and protect him or her from a some of life's misery, and provide an interesting living experience.

In a sense, in my hubris, I am tempting fate, in hope fate doesn't turn its ugly head in my direction and decides to bite me in the ass.

Have a nice day, kind sir.
All You Need Is S3
YALPAAG (Yet Another "LISP's Parentheses Are Actually Great") article.

One would think that if they really were that great, there wouldn't have been any need to keep writing such articles after several years, and yet here we are again.

> humans can’t immediately parse structure with a glance

No, humans absolutely can, as long as those structures are: a) delimited; and b) the delimiters used aren't nauseatingly repeating. LISP's parentheses start failing at the b) condition much sooner than semantic whitespace/indentation starts to.
FOSDEM is amazing for hanging out with old friends and the vibe is excellent. Lots of conversations to be had.

FOSDEM is not a place to hack on new ideas with people or to learn by watching talks. That's best left for the streams.

Overall the main benefit is networking and beer.
When regulations get sidestepped or incompetence is allowed, bad things™ happen much more often.
Meta: This seems to need a (2019) tag in the title.

No idea if it ages well (I'm not a web dev) but my guess would be "no".
I'm glad someone else sees it, the undercurrent of natalist nutjobs on this site weirds the hell out of me when these threads pop up.
Remember, the person who oversaw the start of the changes was a Boeing lifer - by the time Condit left due to corruption scandal caused by his subordinates and let an ex-McD-D executive in, he had already initiated outsourcing strategy and the idea that Boeing was to concentrate only on "final integration", changed the HQ, and set goals and rules for 7E7 (today's 787) project including ridiculous cost cuts (the project, which used completely new technologies for Boeing, was supposed to cost 1/4th of 777!)
Which is exactly the opposite of software development :-). I always liked woodworking and hope some time in the future to have my own space where I can start and build things as well. One drawback I been told many times is that you need a lot of tools and they are not cheap...
The problem with aviation is that if you get your innovation wrong, people die.

With E-VTOL, which is presumably aiming for local-to-local flights, you have the added problem that if you get your innovation wrong, potentially bystanders on the ground die when your flying car falls on them.

It's absolutely not impossible to do it right (i.e. with nobody dying). But if you do that you need to hit existing aerospace engineering safety standards for stuff like multiply redundant flight control systems, traffic routing that avoids extensive flight over densely populated areas, and so on.

And then you discover you're competing with an unexpected combination like, say, robo-taxis feeding a high speed rail station with 220mph trains running every 15 minutes and your business model turns out to be the new Zeppelin, not the DC-3.
https://reactos.org/ implement some of the windows API
The Guardian posted this in collaboration with Mission Local:

https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/explore-big-money-san-franc...
Absolutely doable but not really worthwhile right now. Vector tiles open up many more possibilities for custom cartography and I have every confidence Paul’s work will live up to this promise. osm-carto is essentially a dead end cartographically and technically.
Nvidia is now worth as much as the whole Chinese stock market
Major Token Unlocks Coming for Aptos, Sandbox, Avalanche and More in February
Amazon Prime Video's New Ads-Based Subscription Has a Surprise: Lower Quality
That website is awful on iOS/Safari. Constantly scrolls me back to the top.
I used to write code. Now I just play with strings
Are you also opposed to sending your kids to school? Better not let them out of your sight for any hours of the day...
Twitter was already a horrible place to read entire blog articles anyway.
Added anecdata: A lot of my direct colleagues are getting married and having kids at the moment, often a bit later in life (in their and their partners 30's) than the preceding generation, but still.

Me and my siblings, none of us seem to have any inclination; combination of just not wanting them, having neurodiverse conditions that seem more debilitating than my parents' generation, and finances like only becoming homeowners in our mid 30's (and my younger sibling cannot afford a home)
You can care about humanity without needing to want to have kids.

Why are we acting like everyone's lifestyle preferences are of paramount importance to everyone else's existence? OP is not taking from any other parents here, and there are still plenty more humans to make more humans.

Is there a hidden fear here that having an enjoyable childless life will somehow spread everywhere and we all die in a generation?
It's the same in Sweden. My friends and I are all a couple of years passed the age our parents were when they had us.
Out of 7 people who have SO's in my social circle, 0 have children. Why? Because they simply don't have the room. The housing market in Stockholm is insane, and even though most earn above average (most are in tech) they can only afford tiny 1BR apartments. Trying to raise a kid in such a place would be impossible.
Unless you want to move out into cheaper areas, that these days are plagued by high-crime and is no real environment for a kid anyway, you're SoL.

Sure, one could move away from Stockholm into smaller towns up north, but then your career will suffer. Also not something most are willing to consider just as they've gotten a foothold in their respective careers.

The next couple of decades are going to be real interesting, and I don't mean that in a good way...
My parents had three kids while living on a single salary that put us below into the poverty line for the first half of my childhood. I had a very happy childhood. Everything I had (even my underwear!) was a handmedown.

I’m not saying it’s easy, but it’s possible. It’s a matter of priorities. I’m glad my parents made the hard choices they did.
i have also noted that venezuelans living in argentina are highly critical of the current venezuelan government, while venezuelans living in venezuela have a much wider diversity of opinion on this point
> And this is, in fact, a made-up example but the thing is, I was a C programmer for the past 5 years, and I was working with low-level code (bare metal actually). And I have never seen the use of explicit scoping of variables. [...] I find this a major problem when dealing with C because I always see about 10 uninitialized variables at the start of each function, where half of those are used only once. Somewhere. And thank god, if there are no global variables.

Sure, if you write C like it's 1995, it's not going to be very readable. You don't need to define variable at the beginning of a scope, and you can use {} to scope variables to tighter blocks. And functions can be small.

(Sometimes you need to keep variables for longer than you would like for cleanup reason, that's true.)
In the olden days, students at Oxford mainly studied Divinity; nowadays there are schools of Business, Islamic Studies, high-energy physics and so on. There is still a number of Oxford "halls" devoted to Divinity, but the number of students and fellows engaged in that kind of work is tiny.

So I agree: it's no longer the same institution at all.
Seeing the name Watcom takes me back to my days of high school computer science doing BASIC and Pascal.
If you're possibly using Feedbin, I've been successfully using Feedbin's "Actions" to select for Shorts with the search field media_duration and then marking those items unter 60 seconds as read. That feature and the search syntax are a little bit hidden, but are worth it:

https://feedbin.com/help/search-syntax/
In a simple DSL I am working based on s-expressions I enable things like removing parenthesis in single line expressions. For example, (define a "hello world!") is just define a "hello world!" <EOL>

Another example that could work more than RPN/FORTH (or close to the ; operator in smalltalk) is:

(* 4 (+ 1 2 3))

equals to:

+ 1 2 3 . <EOL>

* 4 <EOL>

The DSL is not LISP based but s-expr to define a DAG like in an spredsheet.
Graduated in 2008 right in the middle of the mortgage crisis.

It was really bad, but I was fresh out of college and had no experience.

Took me about 10 months to find a job in that market.

The market is definitely rough, but I wouldn’t say it’s that bad yet.
I always prefix commit messages with the relevant ticket number and write what the change _will_ do. I also use a few verbs: add, del, fix

e.g. "PROJ-1234 add: new dependencies section in README. fix: typo in SECURITY"
I agree with you.

I respect my father more for telling me he actively doesn't place care expectations on me in his old age. "I made you, you are not responsible for me but I am responsible for you".

Does that mean I won't care for him? Of course not, but it's good to know I haven't come into existence just for that.
So, does this still work for touchscreens, and how does it sound when you touch the screen while playing music?
I discuss NVIDIA's valuation here, and the A.I. ecosystem at large.

https://www.philoinvestor.com/p/downside-at-nvidia-and-the-n...
I propose two possible solutions:

A. Build some huge-ass rockets on the moon to accelerate it to offset any slowdown from changes in tidal energy.

B. Divert a few billion tonnes of asteroids to crash into the moon's aft, adding both to the moon's velocity and mass.

I believe that if we begin working on any of these solutions within a hundred thousand years or so from now we should be able to offset most of the projected long-term lengthening of the day.
"the public" and "public" are two different things. the labor and resource markets are private, not public.
I do not miss the days of trying to figure out which FTP mode would work through a given firewall configuration.
Financing is a big barricade for creating a worker owned enterprise in the US.

Some countries, like Italy, have programs for workers who are laid off. If ten workers that were laid off at the same time agree then the state will give them all of their unemployment wages in a lump sum to start a worker owned company together. Some countries will give workers the Right to First Refusal if their employer decides thatvthey want to close the place of employment or sale it. And the state will provide low interest loans to the workers so that they can buy the company.

There are lots of solutions to the financing issue, but we need the states and federal government to be more supportive of the practical realities of non-wealthy workers starting worker owned enterprises and implement policies that create a level playing field. Banks in the US currently frown on this type of lending.
This is pretty accurate. Price/salary ranges are much more stable than the US. His salary ask for 30 years is not as far fetched as the Americans here think. Source: live in Norway.
You can view that as precedence, but I think it's more correct to say that exponentiation binds to the single symbol it is attached to. When you write x² + 2, I don't think it's operator precedence that makes it clear this is not equal to x ^ 4.

Similarly, in the following expression:

x
_ + 2
2

I don't think it's precedence that makes it clear you first divide by 2 and then add 2 to the result.
Xiaomi Mi Mix (2016) used a Piezoelectric Speaker through the screen for audio calling
So last month [1] a screen "became" a camera [1], and now speakers. Nice.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38881981
Wasabi, Why?
US court bans three weedkillers and finds EPA broke law in approval process
So your solution to having too many () is to have just as many {}. I'm not complaining but...
What about the actual FPGA specs? Is it more power efficient per LUT? A newer generation or the same generation but a smaller chip?
It’s almost as if there is a connection between subscription revenue and development progress.
> while the bike is part of the equation most of the drag comes from the rider's body

So the real solution is to mod the rider?
I was mainly just challenging the assertion that having children, with at least part of the motivation being care in old age, is selfish.

I interpreted this as not "I will have children so my children can look after me", but rather "I will have children so there will be younger people around, who can (amongst other things) look after older people and do other important things".

Based on that way of looking at it, I think that not having children but still benefiting from younger people is more selfish than not having children and benefitting from younger people (if either of these is indeed selfish).

Basically, I was questioning why it is more selfish to use a resource while contributing to that resource, rather than not contributing but still using.

Put another way, who is more selfish - a farmer who buys some vegetables, or a software developer who buys some vegetables? Yes, they are both paying for them, so they are not directly exploiting anyone. But if no-one wanted to be a farmer, then there would be no vegetables.

Yes, I know this analogy is a stretch, but hopefully you get what I mean. Anyway, I don't think that either having or not having children is inherently "selfish", but there are almost certainly selfish motivations for each.
It's the strong believers that create schisms. Just hang around and nod -- those are your favorite believers.
The huge difference between solar and tidal energy is the predictability. Tides can be predicted in advance - you always know exactly when and how much electricity you'll get. That's really valuable in a world of increasingly volatile electricity supply.

Solar will probably be far cheaper per installed MW (although capacity factor will be much lower), but batteries are still a long way from being cost effective. The cheapest batteries right now cost $100/kWh or $100k/MWh. Battery costs are still falling, but the curve is levelling off.

That price means that time-shifting 1 MWh of energy a day for 10 years would add $27 per MWh to the cost of electricity (ignoring ongoing maintenance costs, and assuming a 1MWh battery can do 4k cycles). The company behind this is forecasting $50/MWh of generation. Solar on its own right now sits at $30/MWh, although presumably that's for places with relatively high capacity factors.

The limitations are obvious - this is very geographically constrained. I suspect there will be a small place for this type of technology in the renewable mix - especially in remote and northern places. Then again, offshore wind is already sitting at below $50/MWh and doesn't have the same geographic constraints - so maybe it's a better bet.
The name is a bit misleading.
I think it's a bit rich to describe this as the 'future of video game preservation'.

The MiSTer project https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Wiki_MiSTer/wiki more rightfully deserves that title. It's got a huge range of systems (across consoles, arcade and micro computers) and it's all GPL licenced. The base board is a Terasic DE10 Nano which is proprietary but all other hardware required is open source.

The MiSTeX project aims to make MiSTer portable across different FPGA platforms https://github.com/MiSTeX-devel so a DE10 Nano won't be mandatory enabling a new ecosystem of open hardware and commercial for profit solutions.

I take no issue with people wanting to make money in this space. I take great issue with trying to gatekeep system preservation behind a mostly closed system you stamp an 'open' moniker on.
"I don't want to tinker with anything and have everything work out of the box" is Apple's entire value proposition.

That's the one justification that consistently gets upvoted to the top any time someone questions Apple's pricing structure. Please don't change the tune when someone reports a serious ongoing problem.
Show HN: Bhread – Feed powered social media for threaded blogs
Hi, HN. One day I wondered what would happen if my blog had a 'shorts' page, like Youtube shorts or Instagram reels. I made it, and thought, this is just like Twitter without the replies. This is my attempt to connect blogs, even static ones, using RSS/Atom feeds in the hopes to make a social media powered by personal websites.

Just put your feed URL, and submit. We'll scan it for new posts and display them. New posts containing the text "replying to " followed by a link will become a reply to the link, making a thread.

This is a project I started last August. It's written in Django/HTMX.

Links:

- I post development updates on the [discord server](https://blog.bhread.com/posts/bhread-discord-server/)
- Occasionally, I update [the blog](https://blog.bhread.com/)
- Code in [Github](https://github.com/elpachongco/bhread)
Not to mention said company needs to pay for all the tooling from the other proprietary companies going out of business all the time.

The prices with be exponential.
At some point phones will really just become a slab of very complicated glass like in SF movies.
Went for the second time this year (after being invited by an OSS hero friend I made during COVID) and took my oldest (10) along.

Whilst last year was spent mainly on coffee, drinks and food with friends this year I basically spent the entire weekend with my son in the kids workshop. He loved it and I really enjoyed seeing him interested in coding.

Also spoke to lots of very nice and very diverse people; that whole "strike up a conversation with strangers" thing is what I love about FOSDEM and it's why we'll be back again next year. Everyone is welcome, most of us aren't there to flog something but to have nice chats and maybe catch a session or two.

Thanks to all of the organisers!

Maybe we should have a #hn community place or meet there next year? :-)
Super Bowl is a trademark of NFL, and to keep a trademark you need to "defend" it. Which lawyers presumably interpret as sending cease and desist letters every now and then
I fully agree. Yet I'm in the same boat.

Started as a Windows line of business software developer almost 20 years ago. At first we got clear specifications with UI mockups and a description what each and every button should do. When there were questions, these specs where updated and we implemented and tested and fixed until our boss was happy.

Over the years we got more and more customers yet less and less time for tests and fixes. So we switched to "agile" and dropped the specs, instead wrote quick notes about what must (roughly) be done. At first all were happy. But now we have a huge amount of features that not one dev knows. You have to ask and search around until you find all the lose specs.

Now I'm managing such a team of developers and have the same issue. I don't have the time to write a clean specification, yet alone discuss it with the actual customer, which anyway doesn't really understand all the implications. So they start coding by adding more if and else blocks to an already bloated code base.

Pity the days we would start with a class diagram or just some quick drawing about how the components would interact and be testable.
That's why when I write something that I think will be read for years to come I use archive links to link to other pages.
I wish people would stop treating FPGAs as the Second Coming of the Lord or whatever. It is really not.

It's emulation, plain and simple. Not bettero or worse than software emulators. It usually lags behind the pure software emulators because there are fewer devs and because emulating stuff in hardware is harder than emulating stuff in software.

Just because it's in hardware doesn't mean that it is "better" or "more accurate".
That is type inference actually.
> Jönköping was not until recently.

It still isn't. Unlike KTH and Chalmers, "Jönköping University" is listed as a university college, not a university: https://www.uka.se/swedish-higher-education-authority/about-...