skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I was trying to achieve. You can find information like latest commit date which can indicate that the projects is actively maintained. Plus, I picked mostly hosted, freemium applications which have incentives to keep the software up to date and maintained.

As pre your comment about descriptions, I took them directly from the repositories where most of them brag about being "open source". That could be a good idea to modify that to me more informative.
DMA = Digital Markets Act

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/about-dma_en
It would be great if we were a bit more respectful towards our natural resources. Using so much energy to play with language models is a waste of resources.
The 8x slow-down argument is so naive, it's bad. Perception and interpretation change with speed. Listen to a song you slowed down. It becomes something entirely different. Compare https://youtu.be/r2ozuCXpVJY?t=70 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspuCt1FM9M&list=PL19J-0p1Ir...

If you can't see the difference at normal speed, there is no difference.
Five is small enough that you can get away with sin(5 deg) = 5pi/180
> But I constantly see checkboxs without the question label.

Properly so.

Imagine every real-world appliance power toggle was labelled "Power?".
Just turn off Javascript with No-Script and selectively turn it on.

It makes the web such a better place.
Any plans on supporting AMD? In Germany, the price of an 7900XTX is HALF of a NV 4090...
Then why's it relevant to keep mentioning it's a woman?
Exactly! That was kind of the point of this to pick freemium software which gives me more confidence of the future of the project in oppose to free open-source without a proper business model.
> the expertise of seasoned credentialed professionals in the field

Given how bad UIs in general have become, some scepticism over that expertise is warranted.

To be clear, UIs weren’t all great across the board 20 years ago. But there was a general agreement between UI experts and power users on how a good UI with standard desktop controls should look like and behave, whereas now it’s a mess and there are significant disagreements.
Claude 3 Writes a Fuzzer
Doesn't really matter if it was man made or not, it was really large. I would expect that someone, somewhere is tracking things that large.
CSS animations are much lighter on battery and computing resources than JavaScript and potentially smoother too. Something to take into consideration.
Is Photoshop open source?
I always thought Epic wanted to push Apple's button until they showed their true face which, by the way, it seems to have worked wonders on EU upon DMA.
The issue is not about maintaining reasonable backwards compatibility. It's about refusing to fix things and using ridiculous backwards compatibility as an excuse.

1. Even Windows doesn't maintain full backwards compatibility all the way to the 90s, which is what you are advocating.

2. You could even fix this in a backwards compatible way if you wanted!
> On a touch sreen, chances are the finger obscures the state change, or much of it.

Here's how I deal with that, in my app: https://imgur.com/a/6uQnuox

It's accompanied by haptics.
Works fine for me. Could you check again?
The future of US astronomy just dimmed by half
Nup. Satnav must be analog too.
What will happen to the world if we found a way to calculate matrix multiplication that uses 0s time and 0 resource?
true, but nothing there say that russia cat't apply to join
Boots orders staff to come back to offices full time
Can't give upvotes, but +1 for this insightful framing.

The "Police and thieves in the street" problem as I call it, is that
in most discussions we hear about the two big noisy players duking it
out for control.

In reality it's a three way struggle. By far the largest and most
powerful group is often completely silent and omitted from the
analysis.

"Consumers" or "Voters" (although I would prefer the term "people")
are subsumed into the other camps, each claiming to "represent" the
people.

Yet the silent, overwhelming majority are starting to reclaim a voice
of their own. This is a worrying sign. Not because people shouldn't
have a voice, but because it shows clearly that at best, governments
and commercial markets are failing to represent the actual interests
of people. Perhaps we've become complacent allowing plurality of power
structures, unions, assemblies, societies etc to weaken?
Limiting characters can also be a feature, so users can't use emojis in their password (this is so fun), to realize later they can't login, because they don't know how to input emojis from their desktop computer.

Hopefully passwords will be gone soon (at least that's my hope).
> If 1000 milliseconds is that valuable to your productivity then why the hell are you waste millions of them arguing with strangers on the internet?

Yes it is that valuable to me, because it isn't a single 1s delay. I endure it many times per day (or I would if I didn't fix it for me). And of course you know that little delays cost more than their "raw time" because they interrupt flow.

And I'm arguing with people on the internet about it because 1. It's fun to argue with people who are obviously wrong, and 2. I care about other people and I would like them to not have to endure this idiotic paper cut.
I got curious and went checking a bit deeper USRTK, haven't found much to discredit their reporting.

Don't think we will get a well thought out argument given the user's comment history, a bit of a loony with a taste for hot takes with weird hyperbole.
Well I'd like to know what radio station or cd track is playing.
Your body is switching to ketosis. You can read about it a lot and it's literally called keto-flu by the keto diet community :) If you want to ease the transition, you should first get into ketosis, but not fasting yet(so still eating but not carbs), and after ket-flu is gone then try fasting.
From my experience all that comes from shock to the body. You are simply not used to it. It gets better over repeated attempts.
Also for the headache - do you still drink caffeine? Brutal headaches usually come from caffeine withdrawal(if you normally drink it but stop during fasting). If that is the case you need first to drop caffeine slowly lowering your daily dosage so the headaches won't happen.
on top of that...whats so special about being Australia's first if we talking about Sydney?
I remember seeing how much better was iPhone than Android, having slick continuous sliders instead of old-hat binary switches.

Imagine my disappointment when I found that the iPhone slider for mute didn't smoothly slide the sound volume to silence, as per the visual effect, but snapped it to zero just like the Android switch.

;)
In this case, the DMA theoretically allows a $38 billion fine for every year in which Apple shows any non-compliance (10% of global revenue, assuming it does not change from 2023 numbers)

Given this legislation was specifically created to tackle the Apple problem, and Apple is clearly intentionally failing to comply, they may want to make an example out of them and go straight for the maximum.
Why donate blood?
Duh. I tried to view comments section but it just linked back here.

Please please please add a better comment interface and make it mobile compatible!
True! But it certainly started out as a hobby and still has that feel to it.
> I'm not aware of many approaches that aren't absurdly basic (things like get release and get fast feedback).

A bit much to call that “absurdly basic” when release cadence still varies massively even among successful companies. Patch Tuesday? Why not Patch Every Day!?
Is this something easily avoided by eating more organic foods? Or is the prevalence of this make it unavoidable?
I tried AI Assistant and it's profoundly bad. The free trial didn't work (server error), so I put in my credit card and paid the extra cost. Same server error. Asked in the Discord and they said it was a known error that you could buy the product and it wouldn't be available 'for a while'???

Come back tomorrow, it works, but barely. It's slow, inserts code in random places that makes no sense, can't answer basic questions about basic functions.

It's useless. There's MVP tier and then there's not even testing whether you can purchase the product.
Gotta wonder if the people at PostHog workshopped the name at all before launching...
If an application/service allows me to pack me an go without any friction and fees, I tend to trust that tool more and resist leaving until it starts to sink.

It signals "We believe that we can support and serve you the way you want and we trust ourselves to do it, so no fences and barriers".

As a result, instead of being on the toes for going all in, you can confidently scale in that tool/service.

IOW, it's the difference between a trusting and abusive relationship.
The point in the article is to use less resources. So, yes?
I guess the plucky upstart password manager team has one problem to solve, the entrenched web services team has its own ways.
I Built a Robot Dog to Guard My Studio – SunFounder PiDog Review [video]
I still use the window menu shortcut Alt+space and then C to close the window, it is more easy to press compare to Alt+f4 (such a non-ergonomic key combination, compare to macOS cmd+w)
I'm still looking for a "search", but have already found the link to add my adverts to the site via email, with nice form set up with subject "Advertise on OpenAlternative". So I'd say that's probably the game plan here.
Is this suggesting that when I open a link, google maps could open it, but doesn’t due to developers being unaware of a documented API?
> 1. Even Windows doesn't maintain full backwards compatibility all the way to the 90s, which is what you are advocating.

Oh yes it does! Win32 APIs have been around since the Win95 / NT4 days. And those APIs were themselves based on APIs from Windows 1.0.

Then there's those magic files like `CON` that are a remnant of DOS (in fact its even older than that because it comes from CP/M).

https://superuser.com/questions/86999/why-cant-i-name-a-fold...

Also I never said anything about "full backwards compatibility". I just think this specific compatibility is worth preserving because your justifications are weak (by your own admission, you're only arguing about it because you enjoy arguing with people on the internet).

> 2. You could even fix this in a backwards compatible way if you wanted!

It has been. You objected to those backwards compatible fixes.

I've also suggested a way of patching `reset` without relying on buggy usages of `$TERM`. That also apparently isn't good enough for you.
What happened to me once is that a long-time password of mine got truncated as the website lowered it's maximum password length, and the login page didn't truncate, so my full correct password suddenly stopped working. The pain.
LSD blotters have always fascinated me. In my part of the country they are always either classic cartoons (Felix the Cat for some reason) or "classic" psychedelic (third eye and that sort of thing).

I always wondered if they were regional. And now I know, apparently yes, they are.
I love the comment about a similar hobby website that was posted a few weeks ago (the one about the gates of Hell found all over England [1]) saying that it's part of the British culture to become obsessed with quirky and frankly underwhelming hobbies.

I adore stuff like this, I think it's nerdy and a bit daft yet the world is much richer thanks to gentlemen like these. This is what the Internet is about, let's not lose our founding culture.

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1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39356066
We used the Markdown plugin that comes bundled with IntelliJ IDEA alongside this Mermaid plugin for diagrams: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/20146-mermaid

As for the code samples we simply used Markdown's backtick syntax: https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#code
I don't find believability difficult. Leftwing marxist analysis seems to live in a pre-20th c. non-empirical environment where we havent learnt anything about markets, and should just engage in speculation.

We know that the system of collectivisation called "businesses" produces incredible levels of cooperation between people at massive scales; we know that making businesses in the same market compete on a level playing field reduces the power of owners, increases the power of labour, and delivers what customers want. We know that when the playing field isnt level, ie., competitive, then all those benefits disappear.

What's remarkable about much far-left analysis of markets is their arguments are usually to make markets less competitive, and the markets they choose to demonstrate problems (eg., of wage-setting, of unfair practices, etc.) are always those with a massive lack of compeition.

One great irony of what the left most decry (monopoly, wage-setting, wage-deprivation, top-down control, etc. etc.) is that these are found most extremely in the state.

As ever, the far left project all the problems with the state on to the market; and the far right, all the problems of the market on to the state.

The most useful approach is profoundly empirical: you actually have to spend years of study and research on a case-by-case basis to know what the answer is. Of course, no ideologue wants to hear that.
I agree to an extent, but they could have satisfied the EU just by changing the prices for EU customers. They are doing it globally because they expect other regulators to do the same.
Is the current event a tragedy? It seems maybe a tragedy in the literary genre sense of the word more than in the disastrous event sense of the word.
Yes, 千字文 is not common in mainland China at all. I was born and raised in mainland China, and have no memory of the content of 千字文 other than the title.

三字经 on the contrary, is ubiquitous. I am guessing everyone heard of the first 2 terms of 三字经: 人之初 性本善, meaning "the human nature is good"

This can be seen as a foundational psychology imprint of relatively dossile personality on every Chinese.

Nowadays, I always get a vibe of Dune when reading Chinese ancient classics. What a monumental accumulation of human cultivation in those classics!

Despite communism transformation, China actually get back to its traditional way of thinking and dealing with the outsiders around the world.

Or a different interpretation: the conventional mandate of heaven returned, but with a communism decoration.
And to add, this isn’t about where I live or my government, this is about apple choosing to be monopolistic assholes.

They have some excellent engineering, as does Microsoft, but the unscrupulous business side leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
A long read but I have summarized all my trading knowledge here, that I hope will help people.

Any experienced traders can comment on what I'm doing? Any caveats? Anyone agree this is very low risk?
This is a rationalization after the fact. Checkboxes used to be used in contexts where they are effective immediately too, and nobody was confused by that. The real reason switches were introduced was to be able to line them up on the right side in iPhone OS Settings, whereas checkboxes would have to be on the left side, costing too much extra margin space on the then-small iPhone screen.
I agree more with James K on this, but see your point too. Maybe this should be abstracted away such that each person can set their own preference which would be applied across all websites. Similarly how some of them respect your theme (dark vs light), they could be made to respect the animations, so that all toggles behave the same way (fast animation / smooth animation / instant).

I would choose instant thou.
It would be great if I had a bathtub full of ice cream as well, and if we all lived in a world overflowing with love, respect and joy for all living things. Until then, I'm happy that these kinds of incredible tools are (and increasingly will be) be in more of our hands for close to free. Upwards and onwards!
two years in of what? only russia is in war economy, you say like every one is spending as much effort on this as russia, drink less propaganda
Lots, but generally to work at the Chinese offices of their US employer.
Not anymore. On Windows 11 you can use spy++ to check the taskbar window and it will show up a single window and everything inside it, start button or program buttons, all are not a window. This seems to be the case for any app that is using <whatever is the new windows app framework>.
Older workers will have to face this more often. Younger generation, coddled on campuses and not used to be told "no" to will cause absolute havoc in the workplace.

They don't know how to politely say "maybe don't use the phrase 'you guys'" - they just right away accuse you of assault. Who can work like that?

https://www.thecoddling.com/
You also can't underestimate the possible behavior changes of seeing a massive blood sugar spike from oreos, causing less oreos to be consumed.

To believe measuring something doesn't change behavior is just wrong. We know this.
Dragon Ball Z wasn't the first anime I was exposed to but it was my first exposure to anime culture.
You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.

[0] https://avaloniaui.net/
lesson of fosdem: stay the f*ck away from c++ or latest ISO C syntax tantrum.

Aka, stick to C99 (with very few and benign c11 stuff).

Or code rv64 assembly, as this is the new C (just use a userland interpreter on x86_64/arm64).
plain old phone bugging...he was using a phone call relaying to WebEx...in a hotel...overseas(in Singapore)...thats why its so embarrassing
Tangential at best, but this project made me think of evilpass, which is the funniest password validation scheme ever!

It probably does increase security, but it also gives the impression of actively hacking you.

https://github.com/kitzin/evilpass
If I'm obviously wrong then I assume you can point me to an independent study that proves a 1 second delay in `reset` has measurable significant impact on peoples productivity?
We don't use Teams because it is fancy, or smooth or appealing.

We use Teams because the company that pays our salary tells us to use Teams. End of story.

And I would definitely trade opacity and fancy buttons for a client that loads and runs fast.
I'm pretty sure Normality ran on the in-house Gremlin Interactive engine that powered the excellent Realms of the Haunting.
Is this true? From what I've read musicians are hardly making anything off of streaming whereas they used to make much more prior to the popularization of Spotify. And AFAIK Spotify has never had a profitable quarter.
Regulations require backup cameras now, so you’re not going to get it.
They are using gaming GPUs. If you want to complain about a waste of natural resources there seems to be a lot of people playing games...
Would "freemium" mean "currently trying to leverage free labour from external developers while gaining traction, at which point we'll switch to closed source with an abandonware 'free' version in order to extort companies who have found themselves with vendor lock into what they thought was free software but actually isn't"?
wonderful. now the Iranian regime can stop their payments to China for their use of this tech to block Iranians from accessing open internet. funny how open source can do a full circle to prevent the very thing it set out to open.
^ This. Or no money at all, just a dedicated student.
I am curious if carrying at all on average has a negative or positive expected value. I know firearm companies love to talk about stories of it saving a life, but I wonder how many times it unnecessarily escalates a situation and causes additional harm to the carrier. My gut feel is carrying is negative on average, with enough positive anecdotes to make it seem good.
Writing critical utilities in memory safe languages is probably a great idea. These are already fairly hardened and extremely complex code bases where the economics of developing a clever memory exploits is still rewarding.

For the rest of us mortals, I suggest you all harden your existing apps before rewriting everything. Broken access control, injections, and insecure design aren’t going to be saved by rust and are comparatively easy for any attacker to pull off compared to crafting a memory exploit and getting around ASLR, stack canaries, etc. If you’re stuck in c++, focus on functions that handle untrusted data, validate that data to death, and exclusively use memory safe constructs like strings and shared pointers.
British Library cyber incident review [pdf]
Classic site, and used to be the only way to find out anything sensible about train travel in Thailand. I wonder how hard it'd be to throw an LLM interface on top of it for natural-language queries
Nickel metal is benign. Oxidized nickel (II) in the salts used in battery chemistry are toxic, carcinogenic [0], and water-soluble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IARC_group_1_Carcinogens#Chemi...
孫悟空 is how it's written in both Traditional Chinese and Japanese. That's Son Gokū, as read in Japanese. For some reason it became Sangoku in France. While we're on names, did you know all names fell in themes. Vegetables for the saiyans (saiya-jin, vegetable in Japanese is yasai). Goku is Kakarot (carot), Vegita (vegetable), Raditz (radish), etc. Underwear: Bulma (bloomers), Trunks. Chinese(ish) foods: Yamcha (yumcha), Tenshinhan (tenshindon), Chaozu (jiaozi), and many more themes.
Well, since matrix multiplication also contains regular multiplication (multiplication of 1x1 matrices) and addition (multiplication of 2x2 matrices of the form

1 x

0 1

Then you can do basic arithmetic with 0 resources.
Could we have a decade or two of expensive civilian spaceflight to work out the kinks before Ryanair get involved ?
The problem is that you don't know if ``on`` mapped to what you think it does.

https://i.imgur.com/cflIbUv.png

for example. Light grey is disabled. Light blue is enabled. It's not accessible. It's not obvious. It's not great for colour blind people. It's probably in this case a deliberate dark pattern. The only case where a toggle is ok is if the word for the each state is to the left and right of the toggle.

https://i.imgur.com/skPP5Cu.png
This is only a small part of the pb.

The stuff happens on technical interop, client and server alike. Namely simple but able to do a good enough job, stable in time open protocols.

(smtp/irc/noscript&basic (x)html/etc)

Only regulation and legal can do things here as technically, eveything has always been there.
Apernet is especially active in enabling circumventing the GFW of China, so I'm pretty sure they are aware, and have thought about the consequences of this project. In fact I assume they developed it in order to test their circumvention methods.
No, but people don’t generally want to browse for "an open source tool that is an alternative to some random thing", they want to find "an alternative to Photoshop". As far as I can tell there's no search at all, maybe that's just on mobile?
I wasn't aware of that fine print, but in light of that, let me rephrase it:

Certain topics on HN can induce commenting behaviour among seasoned HN users often attributed to Reddit users, including, but not limited to:

- being contrarian without fully reading, understanding or contextualizing the article or comment in question

- weaponizing downvotes

- being overly cynical, lowering the overall quality of the discussion

- repeating, or tersely acknowledging what has been said by most upvoted comments in order to gain more upvotes