skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never had the pleasure of trying one of those keyboards. The 6–7u-long spacebar is a trapping of its typewriter heritage just like QWERTY and staggered keys.

Even on their full-size keyboards with numpads, Apple spacebars are only 5 keys wide. Thumbs are for Command!

Even better: split spacebar! On my daily driver I only have a 1.25u key for my primary space. On the left I have a luxuriously large 2.25u SpaceFn key.
> This creates a disdain for SMS, and anyone who uses it over iMessage. It is such a strong feeling, that having green messages makes you "uncool", especially in the younger crowd.

When iMessage was introduced it was at a time SMS and MMS incurred extra charges, or, at best, came out of a fixed monthly allowance.

Making the user aware of whether they were using SMS/MMS or iMessage was actually a technically important feature, not a way to shame Android users.
Our disclosure mentions how to try and detect a vulnerable hotel, but it’s not possible to patch the lock yourself.
I think basically the category is "things that aren't DEA scheduled."
And I bet H2O was found in 100% of colon cancers.
I'm not seeing what he said wrong in the context of dating for men in the bay area. Anyone will be more choosy if they have plenty of options, so yes women act different in heterosexual dating when they have tons of options (like in the bay area) vs where they have to compete with other women.
I noticed the "eternal September" happening in years prior, as Reddit became more acceptable to the wider public and as a smartphone app rather than a forum host mostly for techies.

And with those "normies" came the low-effort posts that totally ignored things like stickied posts, subreddit rules, and the overall culture of the community (or site.) Take a look at /r/roms, for example. The sidebar, the top announcement sticky, the rules, and the automod on every single post says "here is where they are" and what is most of the subreddit? "How do I find game" - same thing for BuildaPC, or Tech Support, or Linux.

Then the mods have to remove the low effort posts and get called names, or they get upset that the resources they've taken time to make available to the community are ignored for the 500th time and blow up, just to get called more names or even censured by the admins.

The only way to win is to not play. And that's why I use a combination of HN and an RSS reader now.
I originally started smoking to help with my insomnia, and it was effective for quite some time. However, I also learned that I just generally enjoy being high, and am reasonably functional on it, so I started smoking for general relaxation purposes. Now that I am a frequent smoker, my tolerance has grown, so it is more of a mixed bag when it comes to putting me to sleep. Heroic doses don't help, at least when smoking (even when using high purity concentrates, etc.) (though edibles are more consistent in this regard,) even though I stick to the general "wisdom" of only using indica strains. There's mixed science on how impactful the terpene makeup is, though some are considered psychoactive or at least modulating on the uptake of cannabinoids via the entourage effect, so it's possible that terpene content could impact how useful you find it for sleeping. Or you might just respond to it more similarly to how I do now that I am a regular smoker, and not see significant impact on your ability to sleep.
I don't know what you were prescribed, but for me, smoking and vaping doesn't have the same effect. Edibles, and in particular I take ones that use Indica strains with some CBD, do the magic for me.

And it took me a bit of experimentation to figure out the correct dosage in milligrams for my body. An interesting thing about cannabis is that you don't really risk a ton from over-indulging besides maybe just having a bad time with some uncomfortable mental state (paranoia and dizziness.) I'm a fairly small person and 20mg is what does it for me. But you might try 10mg or 30mg. I know people that take 50mg, or have (perhaps irresponsibly) taken 100mg. It's mostly up to you to figure out your dosage, and in most cases I'd say listening to your doctor for dose is the right call; for this I'd say maybe take it a bit more as a suggestion than a rule, until you find a sweet spot. If you find a sweet spot. Wish you the best!
Massive cost decreases. Price increases. Forced json. Seems pretty incredible to me. Gpt4 on release a year ago was completely different.
Indeed, I'm quite fascinated by last 4 years in the stock market - and what happened with companies like Tesla !
Phones do browsing only until you switch to another app and it has to kill the tab to save memory.

And remember, they don't do Flash ;)

It's web pages that changed to fit on phones, more than the other way round.
Molecular Assembly
Can't compare myself, but here's a general comparison table between various alternatives in this space that someone has been maintaining.

https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries
It's crazy how literally R takes "Everything's an object." While parentheses can be treated like syntax when writing code, it's actually a function named `(`.

Of course, playing with magic sounds fun until you remember you're trying to tell a computer to do a specific set of steps. Then magic looks more like a curse.
When iMessage was introduced it was at a time SMS and MMS incurred extra charges, or, at best, came out of a fixed monthly allowance.

Making the user aware of whether they were using SMS/MMS or iMessage was actually a technically important feature, not as a status symbol.
So you’re saying there is some chance then. Can we let go of the pseudoscience and quackery quote from the early 90s then?
I turned 65 this year. I've been using weed for over 50 years now. I have never had any serious health issues at all. My hips are started to tell me I'm getting old but otherwise I'm still doing pretty good.

It's not for everyone but it has certainly been good for me.
Somebody has to pay for the infrastructure. You can either have a very loose federation of a lot of individuals running their own infrastructure like in the early Internet on one end of the spectrum or a couple of big companies that essentially run everything like we have now with Google and Meta. But someone has to run it. If you rely on a single company to stand up everyone's instance of the application, then you're right back where we are right now. And how do you manage all of the configuration data for all of the users? There are a lot of practicalities here that I worry you don't appreciate when you say "It's a protocol that anyone can implement." Well, so is PSTN. It just so happens that you need a certain amount of infrastructure to implement it, which is true of everything, even email. I'm not convinced that a new protocol gets us anywhere because it doesn't solve the underlying very human tendency to want to pay someone to deal with all the unsightly stuff so you can get on with your life, which is incidentally also the problem we have with email vis a vis Google.
I've been using Synology Photos. Not OSS but they have Android/iOS app so that I can just log in once and enable auto-backup.
Honestly, most apps shouldn’t be “adding features.” Simply because of what OP said: the new features are almost always anti-user. Most applications I use today are either as good as or worse than the apps were in 2014. Developers throughout the industry have been furiously developing for ten years and we’re not making anything better.
I was expecting a much worse comment than that to warrant an official condemnation and news coverage.
I used to think this, but now am not as sure. The experience that Portugal and the Pacific Northwest have had has caused me to question this.

I legitimately don’t know.
Yeah, it was Nixon who gave us the EPA. But Reagan wanted to gut it about a decade later.
I’m a current student in his class and the response from women (students and course staff) has been strongly negative for the most part.
I'm aware of it, but it obscures functionality for my previous statement.
Okay. But what happened to the Windows Phone and its integration with the Windows OS? It simply failed.

There is a valid argument to be made here against Apple and how their firm grip is stopping a market from advancing further. But not by using their technical success in creating a great platform.
Are these posts and comments being upvoted or just being sentinto a void that no one is seeing?
Which hits the problem pretty well, right? To do something efficiently on an iPhone, buy a Mac.
I once asked a famous biscuit (cookie) factory nearby in a smallish city that never gives tours whether I could tour the factory just as a bucket list check off and never expected to get anywhere.

They said they don't do that and will never do that unfortunately.

A couple weeks later they auctioned off tickets to the factory tours as a "special event". I felt incredibly sour from that. I felt like a little more of humanity had eroded.
Ask HN: What are some "unconventional" ways to stand out in applications?
Hi everyone,

I'm at the stage I'm starting to look for other job opportunities, but naturally (like us all!) am finding that a lot of the jobs are very competitive so I'm rarely getting much progress for the jobs that I really want.

My background is Paralegal and Sales work and this question came to mind when I recently applied for a Paralegal role at DuckDuckGo: by the job description I felt like I had the relevant experiences and a unique cover letter, but given the role was probably quite attractive (fully remote, flexible working, relatively high salary for the position) I knew it'd be quite competitive and I was rejected pre-interview. I've had similar experiences of applying for what are likely highly competitive roles.

Perhaps it's a bit harder in my areas of expertise since I haven't really gained hard "technical" skills in the same way that a software developer would have, so a lot of the roles I'm looking at could probably be done by most people after some training.

I'm just curious, from any domain, if there are tips/tricks you've used when applying to a job role that you know is oversubscribed to give yourself a fighting chance.

For example, two things I've thought of came to mind:

1) Trying to contact an employee via LinkedIn to ask questions about the company (in theory, maybe this means your putting face to an application) - however, when I've tried this, most times I get no reply and wonder if it's counterproductive (i.e. maybe recruiters/employees just get annoyed that you're bothering them)

2) Creating some unique form of material of how I'd do the job (i.e. for the Paralegal job, creating a mini-booklet on how I would handle certain tasks at the company). I thought maybe this is a way of showing that you're willing to go "above and beyond" what a normal candidate would do: even if the work you produce won't be of any real value (naturally, the actual job in practice will be different to anything you can read online) - this is the type of thing I've thought of doing since I can't imagine anyone else would do this but there's no guarantee this would even be seen in my application (if I link it on my CV) so I wonder if it's even worth the time, particularly since it would be for every job that I really want.

TLDR: Just curious if anyone has found any ways of strengthening their application above the CV and Cover Letter for highly coveted/oversubscribed job roles that have been effective in helping you "stand out from the crowd" when applying?

Thanks for any suggestions and insights!
> heads of a lot of IT departments loving the concept of a locked-down MacOS

And Airport security loves invasive search - why do people understand one is a violation of privacy, but tolerate the other?
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/14/health/measles-vaccine-vi...

> The CDC estimates that 95% of the population should be vaccinated to prevent measles from further spreading. Unfortunately, the vaccination rate has been declining. According to a January 2023 report, only about 92% of US children have gotten the MMR vaccine by age 2.

> Infectious diseases like measles will spread unless our society has sufficient population immunity. It would be such a tragedy to have measles and other diseases return when there are safe and effective tools that have saved many lives.
They lost around 90 million dollars.
Drugs aren't classified schedule 1 based on the idea that these drugs are more dangerous than schedule 2. Both schedule 1 and schedule 2 are considered to be drugs with high abuse potential. What delineates the two is the notion that schedule 1 have no accepted medical use, while schedule 2 are accepted to have a medical use. Schedule 3, 4 and 5 are also considered to have medical use. If it is concluded that marijuana should be reclassified as having a medical use, then it could be put in category 3,4 or 5. I doubt it would be reclassified as schedule 2.
The Origins of the Generic Mapping Tools
And when iMessage was introduced it was at a time SMS and MMS incurred extra charges, or, at best, came out of a fixed monthly allowance.

Making the user aware of whether they were using SMS/MMS or iMessage was actually a technically important feature so the user could understand if/how they would be charged.
Not sure where you are located, but if available and you're willing to try again, look for gummies with CBN in them. There are various ratios, 2:1, 4:1, 5:1, 10:3. The 5:1 work really really well for me.
Did you work out why you have the insomnia? I just got a referral to a psych that I haven't booked yet, and I believe mine is low-level anxiety based. I can be incredibly tired but my brain keeps turning around what-if scenarios in my head. Sometimes to the point my mind says screw it, I'm sleeping without you, and I start to hallucinate a little as though dreaming has started (which often wakes me up via adrenaline, phantom spiders do that).

Something like Restavit (available OTC here, doxylamine succinate) makes me feel "tired" but does not seem to help me get to sleep. It does reduce wake-ups during the night and makes me feel like a zombie until noon the next day though.
Toba super-eruption unveils new insights into early human migration
For those who are not aware, dating in Bay Area is trash !!! Amen. I will take down-voting and ban. I had better luck dating in Switzerland, than SF.
then you have added nothing to the problem. of course if you run the program and it halts, even if runs until T+heatdeathofuniverse^googleplex (which is a finite time) without an infinite loop, you have not solved the conundrum implied by Turing’s work.
Turing proved no algorithm exists that always correctly decides whether, for a given arbitrary program and input, the program halts when run with that input. The essence of Turing's proof is that any such algorithm can be made to produce contradictory output and therefore cannot be correct.
He proved it - QED
Felonies disenfranchise voters. That's the root of a lot of this stuff, social control is mostly irrelevant by comparison.
> APL would be a better choice

I once had a Venn diagram to display the set of people who are fluent in APL-like languages but it was so small I needed a microscope to see it. Now I've no idea where it might be, I'm afraid I accidentally brushed it from the table along with some breadcrumbs
In some countries with strong consumer laws, movie theaters are not legally allowed to forbid customers from bringing their own food and drinks.
It basically destroyed long bouts of jet lag for me. I fly into LA, get some edibles and get straight off to sleep, wake up at a reasonable hour the next day no side effects.
I mean everyone is a 'poor prospect for dating' for the majority of people on the planet. No one should be offended by not being a good prospect for dating by one individual man / woman. For example, I'm a married man, thus would be a real terrible dating prospect in general.
They're exerting the same influence that Google did over their Android partners. They created a faux-open market with arbitrary rules that ensure their products always win. Google lost their case because of this and Apple should too.
The Unix philosophy continues to pass the test of time.
> That's a different species of bacteria altogether.

likely hence the "out-compete", by a different species
It's not the case in C#. It is discouraged, but mainly because there just used to be so much sloppily written async code that managed to bring down threadpool to its knees despite hillclimbing and blocked threads detection doing a lot of heavy lifting, so the community has grown scar tissue against this. It's rarely an issue if ever in the last 5 years or so.
How to add Sentry tracing to your Node.js app
I don’t believe specs were ever released, and the only inference was that 1024-bit was possible.

It seems strange that today’s key strength guidance would be within what’s publicly known to be crackable with today’s technology.
Below are the limits per carrier. You are correct AT&T is 1m. The iphone has a limit of 200k which can be raised to 300k. Parent was correct.

https://www.infobip.com/docs/mms/message-types
I found this recent thread interesting, specifically about really considering whether you're going to read the data you just wrote in the near future or not (in which case, use direct IO) and a set of (abandoned?) patches for write-behind caching for sequential writes in Linux (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/156896493723.4334.1334048120714...).

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/45odvhgymm7fxsgwpewoiiggaok...
Just watch your phases a bit:

"Several studies of PSG-measured sleep report increased SWS [25, 75], decreased REM sleep [74, 75, 160], and decreased REM density (e.g., number of eye movements during REM sleep) [74, 75]. However, this pattern is not always replicated [150]."[0]

(SWS =slow wave sleep)

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13722-016-0056-7
It might work if you divert all of the funds to recovery programs. But Oregon did not do that and now they are backpedaling.
Well, legalizing drugs won't solve other social problems. That takes completely unrelated reforms. But at least people won't end up senselessly put in prison for what they choose to put in their own body.
Mostly agree with this except for "... and offer zero support for it."

Nope, that's covered by basic consumer protections. Apple still has to offer support if the user has issues that weren't likely to have been caused by the modifications.

Your car maker doesn't get to refuse to honor your powertrain warranty just because you put in a custom stereo.
I had Shewchuk back some 15 years ago. Most memorable of all the faculty that included a couple Nobel laureates. Guy is pure genius
There have been several really good episodes of Oxide and Friends discussing the danger to open source posed by license proliferation, the danger of copyright assignment, the danger of conflating downloads or FOSS project popularity with income and a viable business model, and appropriate stewardship of a shared project. This is an area that sort of bleeds over between engineering and politics, and as politics go I think this is an a very important topic for developers to understand well and engage with.

* Open Source Inside Baseball: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1086076
* Open Source and Capitalism: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1564203
* Open Source Anti-Patterns: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1482742
Eh. At the rates we're talking about (keeping the disk 100% busy for seconds at a time) you're writing big enough chunks that isn't an issue.
Why would that matter? It's completley possible to be harmed by a companies market manipulation without being a customer of theirs.
I have chronic insomnia and weed definitely keeps me up
I wonder what the men in those classes really think if they weren't scared of being publicly flogged
this isn't how things are defined, though. these days, heroin is not necessarily the best opiate against opioids. we have more selective drugs that are better at targeting analgesia over euphoria. fentanyl and more euphoric options are generally used for high levels of pain, not routinely. and so diacetylmorphine has very few medical uses besides treating withdrawal, where methadone is a better option.

because it doesn't really have a legit medical use, it's schedule 1. marijuana, lsd, and psilocybin obviously no longer really fit these criteria, but heroin probably does.

with all that said, i'm generally against scheduling and think pharmaceutical and recreational drugs should be available over-the-counter.
In my opinion this article obfuscates more than it clarifies.

The story of the atomic bomb and the H-bomb will, for the foreseeable future, have classified details. LANL is one of the national labs, the one where the initial research on the atomic bomb was built, and some people there know the classified bits, but of course they won't write a story for the public.

Ulam work on both bombs. But his name is more often associated with the H-bomb, he is considered one of its 2 fathers (the other being Teller, as in the "Ulam-Teller" design [1]).

So, was the Monte-Carlo method that he invented used for the H-bomb, or for the atomic bomb? After you read this blog post you have no idea.

I think the reason is that the Monte Carlo method that Ulam discovered was used for atomic bombs, but not for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki ones. It was used for the post war designs. The non-sexy truth is that the Monte Carlo method was not needed at all for the development of the A-bomb. And we don't know if it was needed at all for the H-bomb, because that stuff is classified.

Why this article then?

I think it's because LANL felt the need to honor Ulam somehow. Ulam was definitely an immense genius, one in the same class as Fermi, Bethe and Teller. But conveying exactly how he was a genius means you go into classified details. So, we end up with this vague generic praise. Too bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Teller%E2%80%93...
Kratom has worked well for me, against work burnout/anxiety, while Weed I always have horrible, anxious response to.

I haven't done Kratom for 2 years now, but I'm on Concerta now which helps a bit as well.

I'm using Concerta, because I got into legal trouble due to Kratom usage... Despite just trying to handle my work and life - being a corporate drone, I was almost deemed a criminal.
I'm sure to someone getting little to no sleep, not-great sleep would sound like a huge improvement.
Fantastic project!

> No Lock-In

> Memories stores most of the metadata in the EXIF headers of your photos, which means that you can easily migrate to other solutions without losing your data. It also utilizes your existing filesystem structure for organization without converting it to any specialized format

Given that, would a standalone version be feasible, i.e. one that doesn't rely on Nextcloud and only operates on a folder on disk? I mean, while Memories might not lock you in, Nextcloud can still do so. (No two-way sync etc. etc.)

Currently, I just use Syncthing to synchronize all my files across devices (laptop, phone, home server, …) and it works splendidly! Ideally I'd just want to run Memories either locally (on the local copy of my photos folder) or on my home server (on the home server's copy of my photos folder).
Apple has a 200k limit. We can blame Apple for having the worst mms limits
Again though, it's the generalism that is offensive. It's the difference between "I disagree" (not offensive) and "You're always wrong" (offensive).
It sounds like he was trying to make a spiraling student in crisis feel better. I think the main issue is he did it in public.