skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently, sending pictures from an iPhone only group to a group that includes an android reduces picture quality significantly.

Sending video is atrociously bad potato quality. How to send to android? Easiest is email and then the many other options. According to Steve Jobs “get your mom an iPhone”.

I swear at one time I could not edit a group chat if an android was in the group chat but that must have recently changed.

Maybe they think they lose the group chat transferring to android or the chat history.
Windows phone link is bad with an iPhone also. Can’t even text an android phone. For me, Android->Iphone->Macos->Windows and now I’m considering looping back to Android.
Tell HN: HN is not HN anymore
Why is there lot of news in HN that is nothing to do hacker, entrepreneur, technical or even anything that is remotely related what our community stands for. This is especially true for most discussed items here.

5 years back, everything I read here is interesting no matter what .

Now it is more like general news website, with main emphasis on backlinks, click baits .

Is anyone else feeling the same?
'Money dysmorphia' traps the younger generations
>The entire trading industry is a zero-sum game bro. For someone to win someone else has to lose.

Traders add liquidity. That liquidity allows me to easily buy and sell stocks without waiting long periods or worrying about getting ripped off by the spread. And since the economy isn't zero-sum, it's possible for everyone to end up better than before.
Actually, this explains quite a lot of things that I knew, but couldn't express before. Thanks for the useful chunk to add to my map[1] of the world. It'll be interesting to see what other things fall out as I check against all the other chunks.

If I could reset my browser's state with the single exception of cookies.... it would be amazing. I just don't want to have to authenticate all over again, everywhere.

[1] https://wiki.c2.com/?MappersVsPackers
There’s a few things that usually need to come together in various ratios for success - hard work, efficiency, talent, and luck. A person can still be successful with any single trait, but it’s less likely. What’s more, with multiple traits, the additional advantage is multiplicative.

Hard work and efficiency are the two that are most easily under our own immediate control, though talent can be developed over time. (Some might argue luck to be a thing that’s made, but I’m using luck as purely uncontrollable outside influences.)
It’s 2024. We should be able to pitch some PE firm to help us buy the global banana supply as an option on future antimatter value.
Probably not what you want, but the Lenovo Workstation TB 4 dock has 230W output but uses a proprietary "Thunderbolt 4 split cable" that is only compatible with certain Lenovo laptop models.
Of course. But one can know it can hallucinate and I still get value from it.
>We only capture the local scope of the call stack, so the amount of data that we need to record is pretty small and stays in the order of magnitude of the data being processed

What if the local stack references a deep object hierarchy? The classical "I wanted a banana, but got the gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle"

>What if your program stops then? Without capturing the state somewhere, it remains volatile in memory and the operation would be lost when the program stops.

You persist coroutines on disk?
the article is about the edit-compile-edit loop during development, which has absolutely nothing to do with CI/CD at all

If you are pushing your code elsewhere and then waiting on CI to test single line changes that you make during development, you're doing it wrong, and the problem with that would be an obsession with CI/CD running all tests instead of allowing for developers to build and run tests locally.
That's more annoying than the consequence, so I won't do it. I am not so poor and unskilled that a $79.99 macbook battery swap in a 10 years is worse than the daily annoyance of thinking about a plug every hour of my life. But that's all moot. The latest MacOS already accounts for this, and lets the battery drain while plugged in, instead of topping off to 100% https://support.apple.com/en-us/102338. So it's not even a real issue anymore.
Why CBS Thinks It Can Survive the Streaming Wars
This observation applies to software and frameworks as well. I think this is the secondary draw to FOSS (the first being the price of course). Being able to see the source and fork it if necessary fosters trust. Closed source products only offer brand recognition (kinda like the organic label on produce).
Yup, that's why they cleanly use web searching to find information.
> The entire trading industry is a zero-sum game bro.

It's not, and even a cursory understanding of what zero-sum games are and how the stock market works would tell you that.

How does the market grow if all trades are zero-sum? How do recessions happen if all trades are zero-sum?

Some portion of trades are zero-sum, maybe even most of them. Stock markets don't function if every trade was zero-sum.

Pump and dump schemes are bad because they distort information in the marketplace. The tradeoff is supposed to be that these major firms perform price discovery, and in exchange for providing accurate prices to the market, they are allowed to arbitrage off the difference between the current price and the "true" price.

Pump and dump schemes don't do any price discovery, they do the opposite. They create a fake new price, arbitrage off that difference, and then leave the followers holding the bag.
My first response when I saw "collective responsibility" was "So no one is going to do it and everyone is going to diffuse the responsibility to some greater force they have no control over".
I dont know if you want to monetize this. But I suggest make it open source.

You will receive tons of improvements and updates. I love this idea!
Good tools prevent mistakes from happening rather than blaming the user for using it wrong
What mechanism wound deny you access to those group chats? I honestly can’t imagine why that should happen.
Few more dystopian phrases than "military-civil fusion." I'll remember the ending of this program when someone asks me to say something nice about Biden.
Could be. Haven't really looked into third party scripts development since I'm not using tiling. But actual KWin APIs should support it.
Whilst I agree, not everyone is able-bodied enough to exercise - even just walking which is an under-appreciated form of exercise. If it works, this pill could be invaluable for those that are bed-ridden.
The SEC only found wrongdoing in eleven trades, whose profit netted approx $272K. They did not penalize him for trades not found in violation of the law.

Clearly, too long, didn’t read.
Maybe the image would look just as random if a space filling curve were used, but I was hoping it would resemble the XKCD image somewhat.

I have tried to rearrange the pixels to see if there is any resemblance, here:

https://gist.github.com/uguu-org/5dadec83394d9ba5ea88e0f6e25...
I'd love to see this on top of audible. Game changer for language learning!
https://archive.is/x4zIN
I've been on about this for years. Very few people give a shit until there is a price on not doing it. We already have 8 layers of VMs running interpreted stuff on supercomputers just to display a web page. What could possibly go wrong.

Edit: Back to bare metal OS + compiled stuff is where I want to head. Go on Debian on native hardware is the most bearable stack in that space I have used.
There has always been a large spectrum from overly censorious forums to 4chan. There’s a lot of room in between those. I don’t want nor do I visit 4chan but I do want something less censored than Reddit.
Confusingly, M3 Air can support 2 external if laptop is closed
I mostly favor what archivists and preservationists do. But I don't really disagree. Some things are important (and you may not know what ahead of time). But there's nearly an infinite amount of paper with black characters on it. A nearly infinite number of photos. How much video of conference presentations do people watch a month after the fact? A day?

Some stuff is interesting to preserve. I scanned a Year in Life of Development book from a long-ago company and it's a neat look into mid-1980s computer development.

But you can't save everything and you probably just need to let go sometimes.
> The romans practiced ritual murder (among other things). Which is not that different to human sacrifice to me.

Yes, this is also how the early Christians felt, which is why they eradicated Roman paganism once they became the dominant religion within the empire.
We can solve the problem by continuing to burn fossil fuels, then there'll be nothing left to conquer.
Incorrect. Capitalism allows economies to accelerate the birth of new companies that benefit people.

When it's policed and regulated poorly, yes, scammers can proliferate. So don't vote for politicians who lie without apology, and don't let people you don't trust manage your money or provide you with goods or services.

Predatory people will exist with or without capitalism, only Capitalism is fine-grained democracy where you vote literally every day with your dollar.

I should also add, don't do any scamming or predatory behavior yourself. Because the most important vote you make for how society is run is with your own actions.
Ah, but how can politicians personally profit from this? It'll never happen
> Do you find yourself thinking “whats the point, some AI will slurp it up and regurgitate it without attribution” when started to type out a technical answer on a forum?

Not really, but, “this will get incorporated into other people’s knowledge and repeated without specific attribution if it is useful” has always been part of my baseline background assumption (not really front of mind) whenever I would share knowledge in any context, so I’m not sure why the fact that that process might involve generative AI would change the equation at all.

I suppose if “sharing knowledge” was just a tactic for seeking credit / personal brand marketing, that would be different, but...
I feel a lot closer to grokking electron spin now. It's like when a spin up electron and a spin down electron fall in love, all of the resistance of the world melts away. Meet Mr and Mrs Cooper-Electron.

Meanwhile, the pair blissfully traveling through the superconductor entrains the |A| field, which the flux pinning of the superconductor drains off?? If the |A| field gets too strong, the energy difference in the pair becomes to great, and they get divorced. 8( The quench that results is divorce court.
I believe they’re saying that antimatter functions, essentially, as a normal fuel (although an amazingly dense one, far surpassing the energy density of anything else we’ve ever used as a fuel). But it, ultimately, has all the drawbacks that are inherent to “normal” fuels.

But there have been proposals for other ways of traveling through space, that involve manipulating space itself, so the distance between point A and point B are smaller. Think of wormholes, or similar. One such proposal is the Alcubierre drive, which warps space around it to cause the total distance traveled to get from point A to point B to be much smaller.

But such exotic drives require exotic forms of matter that we have no evidence of
My last crack should probably have had a /s. I don't actually believe that.
Not at all.

Go read Algol 60, Pascal, Modula-2, C manuals to understand what enumerations are all about.

Not a comic dance between iota and manually written constants.
I do think if there’s an objective thing that can condemn a culture, it’s willingness to sacrifice its children is that thing

And I do think this extrapolates to modern cultures, from slapping a suicide vest on a toddler, to “one child” policies to “children are bad for the environment” type movements.
While dunkelflaute is a problem, they are as rare as events where a nuclear power plant has to stop production for an unexpected reason.

In both case, nuclear or not, when building a network, you will need to build some redundancies and flexibility. A lot of the problems of renewables have an equivalent in the nuclear plants (for example, even with nuclear, batteries are needed because nuclear starts to be more expensive if they have to turn on and off to follow the demand, so it's cheaper to build battery).
Even the M1 Max supports up to 4 external displays, but they only support up to two display outputs per ThunderBolt port. You'd need to connect the other displays via other means (directly, or via another dock) to the Mac.
and then, crispr cat ears
Distributed coroutines are a primitive to express transactional workflows that may last longer than the initial request/response that triggered it (think any form of async operation). While the distribution allows effective use of compute resources, capturing the state of coroutines and their progress is the key addition that enables the execution of workflows and guarantees completion.

A load balancer can help distribute new jobs across a fleet, but even the shortest of jobs can become "long running" when it hits timeouts, rate limits, and other transient errors. You quickly need a scheduler to effectively orchestrate the retries without DDoS-ing your systems, and need to keep track of the state to carry jobs to completion.

Combine a scheduler (like Dispatch) with a primitive like distributed coroutines, and you've got a powerful foundation to create distributed applications of all kinds without seeing complexity skyrocket.
Why is this page double line spaced? It's outrageous on mobile.
Is it necessary for the grid lines to be composed of the little moving things? At the next level up only the filled-in pixels are visible.
"Why isn't she prioritizing firmware that doesn't crash?"

why can't xyz company build apps/websites/products that don't have bugs??
It's good to take off the nostalgia glasses and to be honest about how things were far from perfect in the past, but I feel like people sometimes overcompensate when doing so. Frankly, things weren't that bad most of the time.

I don't know what chatrooms you were in, but I've been on IRC for many years and there were always plenty of moderators. And if there weren't, people would just move on someplace else. It's not like the concept of moderation hadn't been invented yet. File sharing might actually have been easier in the past than today due to DCC transfers and fserves on IRC (and torrents already existed since the early 2000s). Sure there were pitfalls, especially on networks like Kazaa, but you can't really expect to be pirating content on the open internet and not have some basic smarts to avoid getting taken advantage of. It's not like that's meaningfully different today.

Either way, I think it's sort of beside the point. Nobody is denying that a lot of things have vastly improved today, especially in QOL -- it should be better, as we've had years to develop the tech -- but the point is that the internet has also gotten extremely commercialized, filled with spam and low quality generated content, and neutered to the point where individuality has mostly been lost.

You can talk all day long about how the modern internet is technically far superior to the old internet, and how we don't have dialup anymore -- sure, I get that, and you're right. But this article is about how the joy of being part of a great new frontier has been lost. Everything is owned by some big faceless company now, everything is being curated according to some algorithm designed to maximize profit, and you're not allowed to touch anything anymore. That's a shame! And we can legitimately look back and say it wasn't always like this.
I wonder what property tax is like - this would amount to more than the purchase price if it’s anything like as high as where I am.
Did it? It still has several warts, and now gccgo is kind of abandoned, left to stagnate in Go 1.18.

Unfortunely Rust wasn't mature enough in 2013, otherwise the main programing language of most CNCF projects would not have been Go.
Archived copy: https://archive.is/vDE2K
The author of this review doesn't know about the Three Body Problem ig lol
> It’s not for you (or a corporation) to decide what’s good for me.

True, but neither is it up to him (or a corporation) to continue issuing free software updates from now until the heat death of the Universe.

Jailbreak it and use it as you will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQKXN5F7dGI

(disclaimer: haven't actually tried this specific one... a web search turns up many sites that claim to show you how to do this).
"Visual Studio for Mac" never had any relation to Visual Studio proper, it was just a rebranded Xamarin Studio. It didn't support C++ at all.
In our repository, I've set up a few hard limits: each translation unit cannot spend more than a certain amount of memory for compilation and a certain amount of CPU time, and the compiled binary has to be not larger than a certain size.

When these limits are reached, the CI stops working, and we have to remove the bloat: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/61121

Although these limits are too generous as of today: for example, the maximum CPU time to compile a translation unit is set to 1000 seconds, and the memory limit is 5 GB, which is ridiculously high.
A hacker’s curiosity is not limited to code and silicon. The more context you load up, the more robust the mental model you can build. HN is still HN, but like everything, change is inevitable as we all evolve as humans (along with the environments we live in globally).

There is a hide flag, which I recommend using as much as needed to ignore topics that you don’t find interesting. HN will be fine as long as forum curation remains intentional and opinionated.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Stay curious.

(Startups are just a way for a specific type of person to become economically empowered from their ambition and problem space understanding drive [“seeking product market fit and scaling”], hence why HN exists; to draw curious, driven people to investment)
I think everyone agrees that certain cultures deserve to be eradicated, not in the sense of killing everyone who practices that culture (of course the Spanish didn’t exterminate the Mexica either) but in the sense of converting or reprogramming them into a different culture. This is what was done to Germany and Japan after the Second World War for instance.

Literal human sacrifice is a sufficient but not necessary condition. Though I suppose in a broader and more metaphorical sense, Germany and Japan also practiced human sacrifice.
Google was ordered to identify people who watched certain YouTube videos
Well done Iceland. I would like to see ratio of jailed bankers to total bankers in country. Because now it looks like GES was mostly caused by Icelandic bankers :)
I didn't take you as believing it, just as framing what others might think. I've seen the sentiment too and it frustrates me.
> Solar and wind still have no path to stability.

This is a baldfaced lie. Batteries + e-fuels, coupled with predictable decline in cost of these with demonstrated experience effects, will enable 100% renewable energy at a cost competitive with current fossil fuels.
I have a Dell D6000 dock, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it powers and charges my M3 Max (14") without needing to use the Apple power adapter (the Apple adapter is 96W, and as best I can tell, the MBP CAN use more than the Dell's 65W, but only if I really push the GPU, which my uses don't)
Who Invented the Digital Still Camera (ubiquitous before smart phones)
I think that you'd either need a way to programmatically recognise the ones that are pure, or to make it opt-in by each crate.
HN has been like that since the beginning, and nothing has changed policy-wise on the content.

The larger issue is the startup information ecosystem as a whole on the internet. With social media getting handicapped due to profit-maximizing decisions and traditional media websites that normally highlighted relevant news to hackers (e.g. TechCrunch) have been hit hard by economic shifts, there isn't a good way to surface interesting news anymore.
Show HN: Custom Wax Seal NFC Tags
Hi everyone! I designed custom wax seals and embedded NFC tags underneath them. When you tap your phone to the seal, it pulls up a custom website that hosts pictures and videos from my time abroad (securely!).
> Lebed professes that he did nothing wrong – he did nothing different from Wall Street analysts

Except analysts usually can't trade stocks. Short sellers can. In theory, libel law makes that safe, but when it's a 15-year-old playing the penny stocks, the company won't notice or have the legal firepower to chase down a /r/wallstreetbets user.
PXE over USB-C? How does that work? Is it just part of UEFI? Or is there some magic in the dock?
What’s the planned business model? Neither the website nor the app page mention “free”. There is no pricing link or an FAQ page on the website about the business model. Clarity in this area would be helpful. Until then, I wouldn’t want to spend too much time on it. Thanks.
Not sure how this is newsworthy, there are many quad display thunderbolt 4 docks on the market and some have been available for ages: https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/usb4-tb4-docks/...
> If JavaScript was a failure

By almost any reasonable measure it is one of the strongest candidates for “biggest success ever as a programming language”. Sure, you can argue that the reasons for that aren’t mainly language design related, but it is absolutely not anything like a failure.
We are writing these comments on a discussion site created to serve the interests of a prominent private equity firm.

Perhaps we should realize how relevant that fact is to what we read here.
I wonder if we should have a kind of "hidden type system", where we still take advantage of having a single type system to reason about, but the extra-specific "weird-ish" types can be hidden, almost like private variables, where visibility is literally hidden from the programmer unless obtained from debug modes or errors.
He's not wrong. Of course, it depends on how well you want to learn something. Just to mess around a bit? Or really seriously?

Just as an example: I learned German from zero, at the age of 30ish. It was serious, because I was moving to a German speaking country. After an intro college course (with extra tutoring) to get the basics, I moved. Then I took two 2-hour private lessons per day, plus homework, plus watching TV and generally living there.

On the other hand, just for kicks, I took weekly Spanish lessons, plus a bit of Internet practice.

I'm fluent in German. I can read a bit of Spanish, if it's simple.
Winternet
Winternet
Winternet is a magnificent (soon) decentralized open-source social media platform. It is too uncensored. Its free of tracking. Contribute:
https://github.com/thegoodduck/winternet_social
He was just ahead of his time, this is an honest days work for a crypto trader.
A related method I follow is to read parallel translations in my target language and English. This way I can read the kind of material I want to read and not a graded reader or newspaper. Reading Persian poetry in parallel with English translations is one of my favourite things to do. There’s no friction with having to look up words all the time, or, much more time consuming, consult a grammar for an unfamiliar construction.
I'm pretty sure it's a common refrain, i think dang has a list of links of every year where someone pipes up "wow this place just isn't the same any more!" / "this place is turning into reddit!!" (another perennial), etc. etc.
Wouldn't this be quite difficult to upstream to users in the state presented?

At the least you'd want to make caching opt-in per macro unless something special was enabled. Forcing the end developer to blacklist incompatible macros feels like an anti-pattern.