skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 12" Macbook was my main computer for 2022 and part of 2023. It ran smoothly for my workflow, even with a 4k monitor.

However YouTube and Gmail brought it to a crawl. I had to sell it because Youtube Music slowed down my work.
When kernel developers violate POSIX standards and break the JVM (and other applications not yet reported), it's a bug. Can't justify it or make excuses. Apple really fucked up here.

Linus Torvalds has a policy: "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!". You just don't release stupid changes like this in a kernel. I'm sure the team at Apple are not pleased that this bug got into production.
Provide a simpler alternative.
You can create a Gantt chart without logging in and registering, and you can export it as svg, png, or even directly reference the Gantt chart in markdown with an online svg address such as this https://gantt-online.com/api/svg/f14661caf04661f6fe/ or you can Share the Gantt chart with your friends.
If you are more privacy conscious you can privately deploy gantt-online.
You're totally right about the underlying container image format being much more powerful than what you can leverage from a Dockerfile. That's exactly the thing that makes nix a better Docker image builder than Docker! It leverages that power to create images that properly use layers to pull in many dependencies at the same time, and in a way that they can be freely shared in a composable way across multiple different images!

A Docker FROM is essentially the equivalent of a dependency in nix... but each RUN only has access to the stuff that comes from the FROM directly above it plus content that has been COPY-ed across (and COPY-ing destroys the ability to share data with the source of the COPY). For Docker to have a similar power to nix at building Docker images, you would need to be be able to union together an arbitrary number of FROM sources to create a composed filesystem.
> you CANNOT brick your device with this software!

Disable Knox on a Samsung device and it will brick itself. Luckily when this happened to me I was still connected over ADB, able to re-enable it and the device unbricked
You're both right. Apple believes (as do many) that one way to achieve great shareholder profit is to differentiate yourself and perhaps get some pricing power is by truly prioritizing consumer privacy. They're both true.
My point exactly. By making your website fast and light, you make it easier and more pleasant to use. HTMX has a limited set of actions that it supports, so it can't do everything that people typically want. It can do more than enough though. (remember websites that actually used the `<form>` element?)
It's not news that there's an oxytocinergic, calcium-mediated neural pathway..
You won't find good startup ideas
Years ago, in a pool of improperly disposed of motor oil in the corner of my ex-girlfriend's parent's yard, I was amazed to discover mushrooms that started growing in the oil and looked like they were consuming the oil. Each winter, when mushroom conditions were ripest, they returned until the stump the pool of oil gathered around sprouted new branches and started growing again. Turns out there are species of mushrooms that consume oil on the surface of the planet.

So this doesn't shock me at all, its an example of how regardless of humanity's arrogance, life on Earth will be around long after our species and its descendants cease to exist, to think otherwise is to prove one's ignorance.
Provide a simpler alternative.
You can create a Gantt chart without logging in and registering, and you can export it to svg, png, or even directly reference the Gantt-online svg address in markdown, or share it with your friends to edit the Gantt chart together.
If you are more privacy conscious you can privately deploy gantt-online.
Is the hardware much more robust than modern hardware? One would assume it was more primitive. Yet it survives beyond the lifespan expected of modern components even in the harsh environment it is located, for decades.
Yemen's Houthis reported to have a hypersonic missile
There’s a flip side. A culture that thinks end-to-end testing is the only legitimate way to test a system and that TDD is an unnecessary expense that is neither necessary nor sufficient for success.

That culture is right, but it’s also wrong [1]. Although it is true that you can spend most of your time testing, providing little value, it’s equally true that with any software system, that by developing it, you will break it in subtle ways; ways in which you could spend weeks fixing bugs you introduced and fixed before, therefore creating little value.

Unfortunately there is no substitute for critical thinking when engineering. This piece says we need to practice critical thinking with tests and that having a test that moves a mouse and clicks to confirm functionality, with suites that take 40 minutes to run, is going too far. Ball cites two examples of projects that strike a balance in testing speed and coverage. But how do we achieve this?

I used “culture” in a specific way to describe working environments. Culture, not process, politics, or incentives, drives how you do testing. A culture is an environment that has preferences. A culture that will generate good tests is a culture that values technical rigor. Rigor is important for forging tests, but it’s also important for removing tests. To make these good test suites, we need to be comfortable with removing tests, but more importantly understand why a test is needed and remove it when we can’t explain it.

[1] I’m not going to say there’s a “balance” to be struck, because that’s the language of people who say we should not write any tests.
We have an expression in English for a day in which lots of things happened as well! We call it a "full day".
Depends on what you mean by modern notions. Western tradition of formal legal education has its roots in ancient Rome. It was less prevalent in England than on the continent until the revival in the 19th century, probably because there was less Roman influence in the culture in general.
Law school was already not required to sit the bar exam in Washington State. See https://www.wsba.org/for-legal-professionals/join-the-legal-....
I guess I don't really care if there is a bar exam, some other test (perhaps one even more difficult) that isn't controlled by a state's bar association, or some other means to demonstrate that someone is qualified. It makes no difference as long as the quality of newly licensed attorneys doesn't suffer and more importantly as long as we can still revoke the license of attorneys who can't or wont do their job.

Any concerns about people ending up able to practice law when they are unqualified can be addressed by exactly the same kind of oversight and accountability we should want/have in place for everyone in the field no matter if they took the bar or not.
I try to be open-minded, but frankly this looks awful. It seems to combine (wishful thinking about English-like syntax being an improvement), with (tight coupling of logic and presentation), and (a new half-baked non-standard DSL). It's hard to imagine this being anything but a nightmare to maintain, or ever surpassing the minimum threshold of adoption that leads to a real ecosystem or even decent tooling needed to solve any but the most trivial use cases.

I wish HN supported markdown for code fragments but the 1st example of code in the post looks something like this:

div _="init fetch https://stuff as json then put result into me">Using fetch() API...
/div>

and, IMHO, it's just gross. Worse in ~every way.
There's a popup if you want to subscribe to the newsletter.

But the article should be there and free.

Did I mess up somewhere?
I get where your cynicism around standardized testing comes from, but I don't think the solution is to throw up our hands and just trust any rando with an immense responsibility that can have profoundly negative consequences for their clients if done poorly.
How Netflix, Meta, and United Cloud Choose New Codecs and Why
Don’t disagree and I think it is natural evolution similar other aspect of tech. We innovate and then make it more efficient. I don’t want to stop the opportunity to innovate because of electricity usage though.
What are you doing on a desktop computer that can only be off for five minutes a year?

A laptop is even dumber to complain about, because they're (suppose to be) suspended every time you close them.
I'm also wondering to what extent does the stack or framework force you into prioritizing velocity. For example, I've never worked with Vue but if it's anything like React, I can imagine that a library could quickly become "outdated" after a year or so unless you constantly keep the dependencies up to date and maybe even change any dependency that becomes deprecated.
I apologize for the misjudgment. I just followed the link to can_ada and saw really minimal tests, e.g. https://github.com/TkTech/can_ada/blob/main/tests/test_parsi...

I didn't understand that can_ada is not where the parser is developed.
They are free to continue that kind of work, it just gets harder. Look at Asahi Linux. While it might not be Hackintosh in the same sense, it is the same spirit. Hackintosh worked because the systems were built on commodity hardware. Now that Apple is using custom chips, they've definitely made it a bit more difficult, but in my experience that just brings out the really talented that step up to the plate to take a swing.
Please show the math and sources, I would love to see the sauce.
I've got an old MacBook Pro from 2013 that I still keep around because the keyboard is the best Apple ever made. It's not fast by any means, but I haven't encountered any difficulty with websites whatsoever. They're not as snappy as I'd expect on new hardware, but perfectly usable. I do use uBlock Origin, however.

Are these Androids actually less powerful than an 11 year-old, base-spec MacBook?
Many companies and individuals are figuring out the benefits. There are number of companies that are seeing real value. We are not skipping anything.
Doesn't that mean we should stop growing crops in such regions?
On the Malta page it says "CitizenX is the most trusted platform to invest in citizenship in a safe and simple way. Secure a Caribbean haven and travel freely to 190 destinations worldwide with your Maltese passport"

I think it should be Mediterranean rather than Caribbean
I like the idea in principle but I would love a more clear analysis of where the lead paint from old dismantled houses ends up. I wouldn't want to use mycelium bricks in my house, if I thought they were going to leach toxins into everything they touch...
Why did this surprise you? Because the seasons are “backwards”?
gets stuck when i was changing the end date on task 3.
Yeah. Lookup Mycellium Running by that wacky dude Stamets. There are mushroom species that can be emplotey to cleanup nasty oil spills and stuff.

Also, there are mushroom species that can breakdown plastics in effect getting rid of stuff that woulf take hundreds/thousads of years to decompose.

Mushrooms are amazing
You're own tools are your own personal files?

Interesting. How do your vacation pictures help you do your job?
How the eff is the presidential election a toss-up? Your options are: Rapist and sexual abuser, or... slightly doddery old guy.
“People who disagree are stupid and are just attacking a strawman”

Clever
You need to understand the bias of many HN commenters. They are running businesses, aspire to run businesses or employed by businesses that are monetizing the work of tinkerers and packaging it for a mass market where they can sell higher volumes or mine more personal data. There are a lot of people who will recommend spending massive amounts of time and money learning and renting proprietary services over learning fundamental concepts and owning your own stack. I just ignore them along with the crypto bros before them and the AI pumpers now. Renting proprietary closed services to people who don't know better is their bread and butter.
Time to stop using term 'long Covid' as symptoms no worse than those after flu
2 spaces before text makes it preformatted

like this

make sure to make it a separate paragraph
Here:
https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_6_ways_mushrooms_can_...
Dan’s site has been like this for over a decade. If it’s a fashion, then he’s one of the creators of it.
Given the headline, there are some points not raised, which I'd love the poster to cover.

A) income. A chunk of mental health comes from the security of a steady income stream. To what degree does the poster have this?

B) environment? Another chunk of mental health comes from interacting with others. Ideally in person, but online is also good. Human contact, meet ups, conferences, are all good ways to feel connected and appreciated.

C) Content? Do you feel like you're doing enough? Do you feel like your projects are meaningful? Are you content with the users you have? My own mental health benefited from becoming content with my place, my work, my reach. I measure my reach in hundreds not millions, and for me that's OK.

Mental health is important, Open Source or not. But the above 3 factors seem to me to be the big hurdles for those in that space particularly.
I would just hop the gate in that case. Unbelievable that they would lock gates. That's going to get people killed. If it's not locked, just trigger the alarm.
Looks similar but that’s a good thing for me.

I hate JIRA as a product but do find Gantt views useful. Often using sheets or excel for that.

Nice to see another option and looking forward to trying it.
Most of law school (especially at top schools) is not the "black letter law" that is tested on the bar exam. Law students typically take a bar prep course from Barbri or one of its competitors.

Regional law schools tend to be more focused on black letter law, partly because their students tend to be less capable of cramming all the black letter law in the 2 months before the bar exam.

But it would not be difficult at all for someone who had apprenticed for a lawyer for multiple years to take a Barbri class and pass the bar.
It’s not a “hard truth” if it wasn’t true until a law that just passed in one city.
How does one solve an arbitrary law problem? Algorithmically. Test questions have solutions, sure. They are guaranteed to have solutions, in linear time. You sit down and write the test in constant time, either you find the solutions, meaning your algorithm is good, or you don't, and have to modify said algorithm.

This modification costs time, and money. It's expensive.

They don't predict the ability to solve any law problem. How could they? How could they guarantee such an algorithmic solution? To an arbitrary law problem?

Is the solution to do away with such testing because of this potential undecidability? No, it is not. Write the bar exam, and pass it. Then move on to law problems that may or may not be solvable.
Similar GUI tool for debloating and customizing non-rooted Amazon Fire tablets via ADB:

https://xdaforums.com/t/windows-linux-tool-fire-toolbox-v33-...
Also "CitizenX is the most trusted platform". You just launched. What are you talking about, trusted by who?
and middle managers start their own firm, consisting entirely of manager managers
NextDNS is pretty good for this - just change the DNS in your network settings.
Smarter ways to boost drug innovation
What about the birth rate collapse[0] and how this affects things? It’s easy to project out with holding population levels but as the oldest among us die in the next 20-30 years there will be significant drops in population worldwide, before factoring other forms of population decline it’s already naturally going to happen.

I wonder how this factors into all this.

[0]: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/06/01/global-fertilit...
"I'm demoting myself to Chief Do Whatever I Please Officer" hits a little different than most demotions.
The comprehensive list of companies making up 2023's and 2024's tech layoffs
Docker – Building with Bake from a Compose File
We had web pages with big lists and tables in the DOM 20+ years ago, they were fine. The difference is that now we use web frameworks that do work proportional to DOM size many times per second.
Thanks! I have come across yarl, but not hyperlink.
It won't be different from any of the other silicon valley companies that went public based on numbers inflated by click fraud, but it may be one of the few that gets caught for it.
Hyperlink (which I didn't know existed, by the way) is not a parser for the WHATWG spec, it's for RFC3986. You seem to be getting things confused.
Why start at 2014?

https://archive.attn.com/stories/1164/heres-exactly-why-coll...

Between 1975 and 2014 college books outpaced inflation over three times.
agree, but not in the context of a gatekeeping exam.
Yeah would've made way more sense. Either that or centigrade.
Brutalist web design has been a thing for a while: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05...

Some of it can be appealing, when basic ergonomic needs are met (readable text size and line length, adequate margins, and so forth). Most is just brutally pretentious, IMO.
> extremely skeptical of Sapir-Worf, particularly the sort of stoner linguistics "what if we're all, like, made of language maaaaaan"

I don't get how this kind of skepticism can exist under this current "arguably alive" LLM hype. They're machine-executable form of strong Sapir-Worf hypothesis, literally things that think* and speak solely by use of English language and English language alone(they sound quite like machine translation in other languages).
You can't employ backquote in pattern matching syntax usefully without giving semantics it doesn't have elsewhere. If `(a b ,c) means match a list in which a and b are literals, and the third item is unified with our variable c, then backquote is doing something it doesn't do elsewhere (which is conceptually related to what it does elsewhere).
Looks nice! What does "small" mean in this case, and why the restriction?
From what I can tell, this is the amount you have to invest into the country, not the application fee. They are similar to US EB-5 investor green cards, but grant a full citizenship.
I'm not a scientist and I don't do research on diseases. Some people, maybe the very small minority, have had bad long term symptoms in response to covid. There was a science education youtuber called Physics Girl who has been bedridden for the past 1-1.5 years as far as I'm aware. I bring that up because her life has been made public.

Do people have reactions like that to the flu? Or is this about the cases we choose to present and make visible? Is it misrepresentation?

It seems that some people are highly vulnerable. How do we deal with that? Or do we just have to accept it?
> put result into me

:blush:
imo if there were substantially more lawyers or startups in this forum can dole out legal advice, there would be substantially more legal interactions.

People should see a lawyer frequently for preventative care (e.g. having someone do a prenup or look over their employment contract) the same way people should see a doctor and do preventative care for their bodies.
The return of the frame pointers
> Are these Androids actually less powerful than an 11 year-old, base-spec MacBook?

Yes. Definitely. a Macbook Pro from 2013 has between 4-16GB of memory for one thing. The lowest spec phone in the article (Itel P32) has 1GB. A 2013 Macbook Pro has a 4th gen i5 processor. This phone has a MediaTek MT6580. It's not even in the same ballpark.

This is a bit of an extreme example, but the fact is that a very large number of people in many areas of the world use phones like these.
An interesting correlation that I have observed over the years is that the more one is "religious" about writing tests, the less actual understanding of the code one seems to have.

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth
The WSJ article this is based off of is a much better source.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/u-s-is-investigating-meta-for-role-...

https://archive.is/ntjdU

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39725445
Ah, good catch, I missed that detail in the question.
Was that on the MBE or a particular state bar? I don't remember having to learn what was or wasn't common law.
agree, but law school certainly didn't give me any skills nor knowledge to be an attorney too. I'd be in favor of some sort of apprenticeship like what Washington or Oregon have.

Consumers already make gamed personal injury recommendations on who has the most audacious commercials, I don't think anything here re: gatekeeping will change that.
it's just a form to leave your email, how on earth is did on the front page.
> The most satisfying answer in the end? Because the car designer decided not to put one there. Exactly why they made that decision could well have to do with any of the speculations above, as determined by their unique set of traditions, values and sensibilities.
> Apple's "privacy" is really privacy from people that are not Apple.

Sort of, but misleading…

> Apple has access to location logs via maps and location services

There are published policies about how this data gets aggregated+anonymized and then used. Care is taken to ensure data is not linked to individuals.

> The contents of your photos, iMessage contents, the history of every app usage, etc as the default settings set for most things via iCloud backup

Most people want these things backed up. Apple doesn’t just dive through data. Anything that even approaches the description of dealing with user data is carefully vetted. A big difference between Apple and other large tech companies is the internal boundaries for access to any data. It’s strict and limited by design. Apple has fought back against law enforcement for access to personal data or technology to allow governments to carte blanche access devices.

> They were almost going to deploy on device scanning that you couldn't opt out of with the few photos that don't end up on iCloud.

You are referencing the CSAM scanning for known child pornography based on international databases that was tuned for highly unlikely false-positive rates with a small group of reviewers to further reduce any chance of false-positives? Yeah, total travesty… wouldn’t want to do anything about THAT problem. (/s)
I'm shocked by how many developers check in code that passes the tests but they have not actually tested to make sure it works.

Also, I'm tired of people not factoring in (and not honestly reporting) the time and frustration spent yak shaving to keep testing infrastructures working. I believe that it's because folks convince themselves that to acknowledge time lost to the ritual preparation for testing is a kind of weakness because other people aren't having those problems because surely you'd hear more about it.

In reality, you can only write tests to cover the cases you anticipate. Correlating test coverage with reliability can be deadly; instead of losing sleep, periodically make sure that you can restore your backups to a production state and maybe even run some drills to see how your team responds when an unanticipated problem arises.
maybe work for someone else first before going at it alone? I'd have the same advice for an aspiring chef.

Also if you give me salmonella and I can trace it to you, I’m definitely considering a lawsuit.