skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a couple people get together and chat in a room at a higher volume than usual, I can hear voices in the noise generated by a water faucet or shower when I get home. I think it's like the Tetris effect but with audio -- I have to concentrate quite a bit to track the various conversations while in the first setting, and when things quiet down, the ol' radio still wants to tune to a channel...
Sadly, an Antitrust case against Microsoft (under Nadella's crapware reign) is less likely to happen while the DOJ is busy with Apple.
This is great, with so many laws it is hard to get any kind of overview.
John Swartzwelder, Sage of "The Simpsons" (2021)
> a person who made me better at becoming better

True that.

The article has its own blindspot, which is to understand the problem as a blindspot - as a lack of information due to some (remediable) deficiency.

But the story showed it was instead a matter of will, or agency. His girlfriend obviously knew she could learn; she just needed to decide that it was her job to learn instead of depending on others to teach.

Indeed, nearly every story on point (like the comment about Bridgewater practices) purports to be about information (delivering unwanted news), but is in fact about the will to change.

This is important because there's a ton of advice out there, and people who feel that giving advice is how they can help. But often that makes things worse: the person already feels disabled, and advice not taken basically conveys that they're faulty - disabled.

Greek philosophers argued about the phenomenon of akrasia (weakness of will), generally falling into the same trap that we do, thinking knowledge will somehow solve it. But there's actually plenty of evidence that more knowledge constrains your sense of possibility.

Mechanistic psychologists might argue for impedance-matching: challenging people without breaking them, so they achieve a rate of change above their expectations - but then expectations change. (Successful and powerful people are notoriously unhappy that their trajectories are not increasing.) Conversely, buddhists say to expect nothing and accept everything; then people become happy but low-achieving.

Sometimes what really helps is to show someone that they can change. As the story suggests, love itself, and bringing someone out of a small town, helps. As the Bridgewater comment and the 2010's workplace suggests, joining some group where peers are humble and activated can be inspiring. Therapy suggests realizing that all your fears are self-generated delusions that disappear when you stop pumping energy into them. (Nietzsche's spirit of gravity is a monkey on the shoulder, that eventually hops off.)

So perhaps the best of all is the advice above, to notice whether you're more yourself when with certain people. Those people Aristotle would call your friends; in the Nichomachean ethics friendship is the highest form of happiness because we're most actualized among those who get/demand/expect/elicit the most from us.
>> how do you not see supersonic flight as just generally good for everyone flying

Because it require vastly more energy (fuel) per mile than most any other form of travel. Because the aircraft carry fewer people per takeoff/landing cycle, congesting airports.

Those who care about time can already travel at much greater speeds. Door-to-door travel times for first class, and especially private, are already about 1/3 to 1/2 that of the common economy passenger on a domestic flight. If we wanted to speed up the process, the easy fruit is the speed of the airport rather than the aircraft.
Most jets aren’t supersonic at all.
Workspace does this for newer accounts on gsuite but unfamiliar on developer front
Pure CSS Website
I built this website to see what was possible with only one div, and a stylesheet.

No JS, No other HTML, just CSS.

Source: https://github.com/archiewood/pure-css-site
I don't think the air intake speed of a subsonic plane is ever supersonic.
This happens to me almost every night before falling asleep. I like to think I'm actually just composing what I'm hearing in my head! It almost always takes on a genre like bluegrass or orchestral or electronic. Very cool I enjoy self-made illusions!
> The heart of the A.C.L.U.’s defense — arguing for an expansive definition of what constitutes racist or racially coded speech — has struck some labor and free-speech lawyers as peculiar, since the organization has traditionally protected the right to free expression, operating on the principle that it may not like what someone says, but will fight for the right to say it.

The ACLU's position in this case is based not only on an "expansive definition" of "racist or racially coded speech," but also on a racial hierarchy. The ACLU's emails make clear that the employee's statements were deemed racist because the employee is asian and was talking about her black supervisors. The ACLU does not seriously argue it would have deemed the same statements racist if the races were reversed.

It's not just the ACLU. Many organizations and corporations seem to have assumed that certain progressive ideas about racism are actually reflected in the law. That is not the case, and many organizations have left themselves open to civil rights suits based on these misconceptions.
Ironically and historically it has been mostly the Green party which was against building new dams, as they disturb natural ecosystems.
Try to see it from the positive side: GP is one of today's lucky 10000 :) https://xkcd.com/1053/
Quality of Outcome
Do you know there is already a programming language called Ada ?
https://adaic.org/
>I want to sit in a plane for less time, always.

In principle, yes? I also want to sit/lay more comfortably. I also want to pay less money. In general, halving my in-air time is honestly not worth a lot.
> The West is risking the emergence of a new Second World n the form of the BRICS+.

Highly skeptical of this ever happening. BRICS is a joke and the countries involved have 0 cohesion aside from some 'America bad' rhetoric, which is not enough to create an actual productive alliance. You should check out their summits where they meet up to disagree on pretty much everything.

The greatest threat IMO is from the inside. The backlash caused by income inequality has been channeled into a far-right revival in the west, which may cause existing functioning institutions to basically stop functioning. At that point, it doesn't matter whether the anti-West factions are actually allied or not (they will likely not be, don't think for a second that China/Russia don't have their points of contention. By the end of the decade, Russia will end up being China's puppet and the Russians will not be very happy).
> What made Bridgewater a one in a million company is precisely that we all opted in to operating in this transparent and “harsh” way.

I find this very hard to believe. I can buy that everyone knows, and even accepts, the risks coming in, but that doesn't mean that everyone opts into it, except in the weakest possible sense of opting in (the sense in which I opt in to cookie collection, for example, but weaker—because I just want to get to a website, whereas the people 'opting in' to this feedback system have to get a job, and may not have the resources to pick and choose).
I donated $1,000 to the ACLU after Trump was elected. I am not rich, but believe strongly in the ACLU’s historical mission to defend civil liberties. I deeply regret that donation. This story provides an example of how the ACLU leadership has been overtaken by people steeped in an illiberal philosophy that is too often antithetical to the tenets of classical liberalism.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/09/04/the-threat-from...
There are also fare adjustment machines, you put your ticket in and it tells you what difference to pay to "upgrade" your ticket.

Many travelers will just grab a ticket that sounds vaguely correct and then fare adjust at the end. Grabbing an IC card or one of the apps is the easiest course for virtually everyone though.
Cool, what's the software stack in use here?
Seems like they should release whatever API is needed to make it possible from their end, and then they can say it's not their choice, android manufacturers don't seem interested in making their devices compatible.
> Right now the regulation is a very strict "you cannot fly supersonic over the US", except military aircraft of course

I bet it wouldn't if Boeing or Lockheed managed to make their Concorde competitors.
Thoughts on contributing.md this early?
Appreciate it, and glad to hear you like it :). That's a great point, we've experimented in the past and it's a tricky balance between making sure there's no false negatives (actual workflows that we can automate get denied), so we defaulted a little more permissive, but we're gonna take another crack at it!
> It's the easiest because businesses have easiest way to accumulate enough captital to bribe the politicians.

This is the easiest way to tell someone is wrong about politics. This doesn't happen, but everyone who doesn't know how anything works thinks it does. You just can't handle the truth that other voters actually believe different things than you.

> While the business in US was content to sit on their throne and milk the consumers, US consumers uplifted the entire country of China.

Think you forgot every other country exists here.
Yep!

It sucks, but libertarians were right. ;p
Nope. Real person, sorry! Yes i make a new account every time I lose my ddg session. Not llm spam. Just a very opinionated human/dog
Using a 3rd party interface to the LLMs (like typingmind.com) is both better and cheaper than using chatgpt.
You don't know what future technological capability will be. Current Alcor and CI patients are preserved well enough that their bodies and brains could in theory be repaired by technology at the physical limits of possibility. The information is there.

You are saying that existing technology is unable to fix the issues of vitrification. That is correct, but irrelevant.
When scheduled commercial flights arrive ahead of time it's because ground delays were less than average and/or winds were favorable. Airlines don't control those factors and don't really account for them in crew scheduling. They can sometimes cruise at slightly higher speeds to make up a bit of time when running behind schedule, but this comes at the cost of higher fuel burn and can only save a few minutes at most.
A supersonic passenger jet would not find much of market on short haul flights. They would either stick to the dense pockets of wealth, the biggest airports beside the biggest cities, or rely on feeder airports to bring passengers in. Either way, I don't see this saving much in actual travel time over the current system.
My understanding is the the Concorde wasn't profitable to fly (too large!)

You can fly subsonic over land and go supersonic over oceans. That would make a trip to Japan much faster! And won't impact humans living underneath the flight path (since it won't go supersonic until it's over the ocean)

Flights these days often aren't even traveling close to the speed of sound, so there's room to design a plane more efficient at that speed as well.
It's intended to validate their design models. The next one will be much bigger.
Because you have to be able to take them on the plane, obviously. /s

But seriously I think 'fitting in a suitcase' wasn't the design goal, per se, but an approximate description of the design goals. The engine was designed to go in a missile.
I was thinking more about how it's not very easy to walk to many parks. Most of the park area I'm aware of is more of a "you have to drive X miles" instead of being able to walk by or through a park on my way somewhere.
Why is this game so good and WHY does nobody know about it [video]
I think dams are also used to control the water flow and prevent floods, how to solve that instead?
In the prototype, which far from full scale.
I think this would still lead to the DEA being responsible for the enforcement of alcohol and tobacco, which I don't think is a desired outcome by the public.
Same here. I'm saving my pennies to buy a decent machine to work on precisely that.
> undesirable user population

Above all the examples you listed: tech-savvy redditors who know how to use adblock and Old Reddit.
Others have mentioned a limitation-creativity link. But I wonder if there's also an implicit... "impedance match", to the current state of interface devices? "We'll make it more creative and popular by requiring physical punched cards! Think of the lovely chunkchunk-chunkity-chunk sounds!", or "You have to hand punch holes in paper tape!", would seem unlikely. On the other hand, decades-old ux is well matched to decades-old current keyboards.

When I wanted my own laptop more "cozy", without the silliness of "you can only press two keys at a time, so no chords", and "most of it isn't a touch surface, and can't even tell which finger pressed were on the cap", and "it's oblivious to hand pose and gestures above the surface", and "the screen is only 2D and can't even tell where you're looking", I had to kludge the entire stack from hardware to apps. If you could sculpt, dance, and sing code, perhaps 8-bit might have less appeal? Like the appeal of entering programs with faceplate bit toggles instead of a keyboard?

Maybe. Counter argument: pico-8 mobile/tablet. Counter counter, historical state of pico-8 mobile/tablet??
tl;dr: It's a long and entertaining review of Peter Jackson's King Kong video game tie-in.
It is! Voice communications currently still require an external antenna today, but there's a lot of movement in this space.

Text messaging is already possible on iPhones 14 and newer, on the Motorola Defy 2, various handheld GPS messengers (Garmin InReach and others), and soon supposedly on all unmodified LTE phones when Starlink launches their "Direct-to-Cell" service: https://www.starlink.com/business/direct-to-cell
This is not surprising if you think about it.

You understand a new airport generating complaints based on loss of value.

Have you considered what successfully getting an airport shut down might do for the nearby property owners?

It's not uncommon for people to try to (often successfully) tell other people what they can and cannot do with their own land, simply for the benefit of the one trying.
You can buy a Tamron or Sigma lens and mount it on a Nikon or Canon camera.
I did a similar thing recently: https://twitter.com/tbragin/status/1749580473800556779

And it is entirely trivial:

ITEMS=$(clickhouse-local --query "SELECT arrayStringConcat(items, ',') FROM url('https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/updates.json')")
clickhouse-client --query "
INSERT INTO hackernews_changes_items SELECT * FROM url('https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{$ITEMS}.json')
could you elaborate on what you mean by perf?
cost we'll add soon
Puhleeeese. Yes, I'm sure they "investigated" it. But it's clear they determined their business incentives were not aligned with bringing it to Android. I have no doubt Apple teams would have overcome any nebulous "technical limitations" if they were actually incentivized to do so.
>> 9to5Mac’s Take... It’s not Apple’s fault that there’s no Apple Watch equivalent on Android. Google bought Fitbit and still hasn’t created something that is good enough to entice Apple Watch users to switch.

The DOJ is going to argue about the Apple Watch being a lock-in? Isn't that like telling Toyota, you need to make engines for Ford cause theirs suck... Hey Tesla you need to make batteries For ford cause theirs suck.

I dont think there is a real case here. I think this is going to be a big fat L for the DOJ. I think at that point in time the US will have the ability to say other countries actions around apple are anti free market/trade.

This is political theater at its finest.
This is very vague feedback. Can you be more specific on what exactly you asked it to do and what it output that didn't work?

I am not affiliated with them, was just curious on what your experience was.
http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=features
All I see is a middle man, who I think the world would be better off without, telling people that they are harmed because a good which only exists as a legal fabrication is being replicated without them being able to tell people what to do.
There are Xiaomi and other low-cost brands that work perfectly fine on Android, of course it's an excuse.

I am a happy user of basic Apple Watch but I am no fanboy to pretend they are something magical.

I understand some vertical integration is only possible with iOS devices but basic pairing for notifications etc should work with Android.
In the us transit isn't normally good enough. most people rent a car. I wish that would change.
I think it’s reasonable to recommend a doctor’s visit to rule it out, though. I’d personally feel better if I were experiencing that and a doctor said there was nothing more serious going on.

That goes to show how variable the human condition is. I had an MRI a while back for an unrelated issue and the doc found that I have a Chiari malformation in my spine near my brain stem. I’ve never had any symptoms from it whatsoever. Before MRIs were common, it was expected that a change the size of mine would cause problems, because when people with symptoms got surgery to fix them, that’s the size range the doctors found. Turns out there are a lot of people up and about with those same measurements who’d never know unless it turned up on a test like mine did. Go figure.
Lmao no. How will it increase tx volume.

And fine, let apple collect their fee, but also open up payments on iPhone to other providers. Why can't my native bank app use the nfc hardware itself, hmmmmmmmmm? Oh Apple lock in so they can collect their $$$ for literally no reason; the payment network already exists, Apple is just a middleman.
This happens to me occasionally. I don't use white noise machines but I might hear babble in wind noise, etc. Actually the source that triggers this the strongest is the rain SFX in the video game Escape From Tarkov.
I don't think any dams that produce meaningful amount of energy are going to be removed any time soon. These are the ones that used to power mills and like. So we are talking about way under 1MW in power each.
I think it's a bit easier to swap watches than engines or electric car batteries.
Yes technically it would limit their lock-in monopoly, it’s a business technical limitation. There is no technical hardware or software limitation.
Show HN: Prisma Assistant – Conversational Assistant for Prisma ORM
Hey all, I've been working on a tool called Prisma Assistant. This tool lets you interact with your Prisma ORM schema conversationally, generate code snippets, understand your database structure, and gain insights. It's still in early development, but I'd love to get your feedback.

Visit https://prismaassistant.com to learn how to run it locally and access an online playground where you can try it out.

It's also open source on GitHub: https://github.com/agencyenterprise/sds-prisma-assistant.
It's not quite about whether the person reading is offended. It's about whether a "reasonable person" would find it likely to "stir up hatred" against one of the protected classes.

Of course, that's still highly problematic. Is a statement like "Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to replace secular democracy with a theocracy based on a twisted interpretation of Christianity" likely to stir up hatred against fundamentalist Christians? It's ambiguous enough to have a chilling effect.
Why assume "cramped overture"? What if overture feels like first class but is ~faster?

I suspect fast planes are going to have an enormous amount of demand - people value their time. What's the most important part of travel? The flight cost? The lodging? The days off of work?
His point seemed pretty simple to me. If you're running local apps, not going on the Internet, you don't need TLS. Nobody expects a 30+ year old retro system to run a modern browser.
I mean the level of integration and seamlessness I get by using their products on their ecosystem is not matched by many (if any?). Microsoft has a few things here and there that reach that level, and maybe Google, not sure about Amazon. You can buy every piece of tech from Apple in your life and the experience is insanely seamless from device to device. I can't think of a company that has achieved this in a cross-platform way. Bluetooth is a nightmare, but I dont ever have issues with the Airpods.
> Saying "it only predicts the next token" is not untrue but easily leads to wrong conclusions.

Indeed, it's akin to saying that "only quantum fields exist" and then concluding that therefore people do not exist.
This may be a strawman, "9to5Mac's Take" points out Google's acquisition of Fitbit has not resulted in a competitive product to Apple Watch.

Fitbits were very popular, is this a fair characterization that lack of comparative first party hardware in the Android ecosystem demonstrates Apple Watch's limitation to Apple is not an anti-competitive play?
Anyone have a link to "Apple's response" that they're talking about? There's nothing on the docket [1] so I assume it's a press release or something?

[1] (updated well after the date on the article): https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68362334/united-states-...
Ha, my point is iPhone has become so ubiquitous that is has created a natural monopoly for Apple (50%+ US market share).

Like it or not, there are different rules for the biggest players who wield market power. If you want an iPhone, then Android is not an alternative option. DOJ's argument is that Apple has added artificial disincentives to enable switching to a non-iPhone and also favor its own apps/services.

This is verbatim the argument against Microsoft and how it was wielding its Windows monopoly to stifle competition like Netscape. Easy to forget that Microsoft had closed APIs for 3rd parties and dictated how OEMs installed its OS before the US government judgement. You could've made the same counterpoint at the time that there's theoretical alternative OSes like Linux and Unix.
DOJ antitrust chief's message to Apple shareholders
And even if it runs on 100% sustainable air fuel 100% of the time, that fuel is better used powering more efficient planes.

It’s not as if we’re having surplus production of sustainable air fuel, or will have it any time soon.
Whatever the "technical issue" was, it would have to be hardware related givent that AOSP is open source.
Lots of android watches work great with an iPhone. Maybe you won't get full notifications and all the other bells and whistles, but it's pretty trivial to get the basic stuff working.
Pipes, Forks, & Dups: Understanding Command Execution and Input/Output Data Flow
Very excited for the DOJ to finally require HP to support Brother toner.
My wife buys a new watch and keeps her iPhone, so now we have 1 useless watch as we only have 1 iPhone in the house. I would use the watch as would my daughter, it's a nice watch, but we have Androids.
Only because of Apple's refusal to implement RCS for feature parity. They're doing this on purpose, claiming anything else is just wool.
GP explicitly referenced this phenomenon in an unqualified manner when addressing ocean warming. If they wanted to be understood the first time, they should have clarified the context.
"No developer in their right mind wants a developer portal"
"No developer in their right mind wants a developer portal"

This was a quote I heard from a platform PM. And he was right! It reminds me of the similar quote: "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!"—Theodore Levitt

It might be a tough pill to swallow but:

No one wants your platform.
No one wants your tool.

What developers actually want is what your product enables them to do. Shipping faster, feeling more autonomous, mastering their craft.

Developers don't want a developer portal. Developers want to be better developers.
The Apple Watch has it's own CPU, RAM, display, potentially even cell signal. Why should it need an iPhone to work? Should your Honda motorcycle stop working if you get rid of your Civic?