skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A hero doesn’t martyr themselves for the satisfaction of randos. He fled a corrupt nation state that wouldn’t provide justice for disclosing the US and UK governments violating citizen rights at scale. These operations were revealed by previous whistle blowers who followed the proper procedures for reporting illegal activity. They testified in congress about it. Their claims were dismissed by the government and instead, budgets for large scale data storage and analysis facilities were approved to handle the data the NSA claimed they did not collect.

The US could do the right thing. It is a choice. But other choices are made, as is tradition.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/edward-sno...

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/07/05/how-the-snowden-leak...

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/07/02/national-int...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clapper#Testimony_to_Con...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

https://privacyinternational.org/learn/five-eyes
It's selection, not a filter. Works in dropdown lists too and across multiple operating systems.
What about lentils, beans, wheat, soy etc? They're packed with protein and are cheaper than chicken where I live, especially if you get dried legumes. Are you saying that if you want a high protein diet low carb diet, then it's harder as a vegan? Probably. Just look at low fat cheese vs that vegan gunk.

I switched to vegan after 20 years of being a healthy vegetarian. I stuck at it 18 months, but reverted because I wasn't healthy. Colds, coughs were frequent and lasted weeks, often turning into infections. The worst was an on/off respiratory infections that went on for 3 months. Doctors were useless, I was handed antibiotics and inhalers (although the inhalers did help the symptoms) but a week after it had gotten 90% better, I'd wake up with night sweats and a fever and the whole cycle would start up again. I was on a by-the-book vegan diet, watching my vitamins etc. No idea what I was missing, my bloods looked fine, and I was still able to do 10km runs when I wasn't sick. I went back to vegetarianism have been fine ever since (5 years ago), aside from occasional minor colds and COVID. Never again.
Sure, but if you want to keep your terminology consistent with the math, you would then have to make a distinction based on the types of the accounts involved in a journal entry.

E.g, this would be correct:

increase bank
increase equity

but this would be incorrect:

increase bank
increase receivables

If all numbers are positive then there would be no way to check whether the journal entries balance out without considering the account types.

If, on the other hand, you encode the sign in the amounts then the sign would disagree with the semantics of the label and you would have to flip signs based on the account type at the time of recording the entries:

increase bank $100
increase receivables -$100

I don't suppose this is what you meant.
For ad-free YouTube on Safari (mobile and desktop!), I recommend Vinegar [0].

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303...
Primary motivator being insecurity and rapidly deteriorating mental health
You present old tu => new tsu as a difference in the Japanese spelling. Is it? I had the impression that "tsu" is just a western transcription, the reformed Japanese spelling is still "tu", and the sound sequence "tu" does not exist, being obligatorily "tsu".

Isn't that why English words ending in -t or -d get transcribed into Japanese with a final vowel of -o rather than the -u that is used for other final consonants?
The primary situation where I find this behavior useful is on the web where I find Country drop-down lists. I am trying to find United States. It could be "United States", "USA", "U.S.A.", "United States of America", etc. All you have to do is keep pressing "U" until you find the match you want. It really helps when the desired match could be formatted several different ways.

That assumes, of course, that the website isn't using some ridiculous drop-down component that doesn't support keyboard interaction or tab handling. Sadly, that's about 50/50 these days.
Yes I think I would have to call you old fashioned here. I’ve had my Apple Air Pods for years and have never had one fall out of my ear except when stupidly trying to put on / remove a shirt while wearing them. No issue running or anything like that. The Air Pod case does have a silly issue that if you drop it they will fly approximately 300 feet in opposite directions, but I don’t think that’s relevant to your point. All other things considered charging them is definitely an inconvenience but I am responsible enough to do so as needed. In my opinion there are many other conveniences gained. I think the wireless earbud form factor is here to stay.
Not a puristi as well, but once you switch back to good audio equipment, those little buds clearly lack sound pressure
While I somewhat agree and I use cheap wired earbuds as well, this consumables part annoys me a lot as well. These just don't last even a year for me and are unrepairable. There has to be a better way.
the state-of-good-repair grift will continue until the morale improves! SelTrac is fine. and if it ever actually breaks (dubious) they can fall back to block signaling which comfortably handles more trains than muni is capable of running. the MBTA does just fine with it on the green line, and when the MBTA is making you look incompetent you've got to question where it all went wrong.

this is the agency that brought you the central fucking subway, a $300M sewer project masquerading as some red paint on van ness, that picked the already-mostly-grade-separated M Ocean over the N Judah to subway-ify and that is incapable of flicking the traffic preemption switch on the rest of the T to the on position without a decades long pedestrian detection LIDAR project for the unique in the world needs of san francisco.
> doesn't mean it's abandoned or unsupported

I didn't use those words though. I just stated that I have switched to a competing product which is more feature complete.

> Proton Drive for Mac was last updated March 29th.

I switched back to Tresorit due to the lack of comparable features on the Mac app too. And Tresorit is not exactly packed with features.

We can debate dates and details but there is a reason why the comment you originally responded to is the top voted comment for this article.

Do you work for Proton?
I miss it after moving back here (midwest).
Show HN: We built a no-code tool on top of a spreadsheet (Game of Life example)
Hi everyone! I want to share a spreadsheet tool we are building. The main idea is to be able to specify logic for a no code tool inside a spreadsheet. We have automations, data integration, action formulas, dashboards.

Linked example: We use our UPDATECELL formula to make a step in a board of game of life. We can also use CHAIN to make it run indefinitely. The actions are exposed as buttons in a dashboard.

Our automations work by loading your spreadsheet on the server and running an action specified in the spreadsheet. So the logic could be, pull in data from google sheet, send a personalized email to every row which we haven’t emailed yet, mark those rows as complete. Run this automation on 5 minute schedule, add any other custom logic you need (e.g. test email for deliverability) and you have yourself an automatic email tool.

We are leaning into automations to differentiate ourselves from other products in the field at the moment.

Technical kinks:

- Since our automations make changes to the spreadsheet, we needed a robust multiplayer system. We implemented a CRDT system. This is a topic for a longer blog post, but one fun challenge was to implement CRDT for rows/column which allowed for adding/deleting/reordering performantly while preserving most user intent in the case of offline editing.
- Some of our formulas are inherently asynchronous; for example those which fetch data from an external data source. That added an extra kink when writing the spreadsheet engine; e.g. topologically sorting and then evaluating in order can cause you to get stuck on a long running evaluation.
- One of our premises is that we do not store your data; it gets pulled when the spreadsheet evaluates. That means everything reevaluates in the browser when you open a spreadsheet. Get this to be performant (we still have a long way to go) was a challenge. Currently, everything runs in a single worker.

Let me know what you all think.
That's a great link. Even knowing Dmiitri as famously one of the most antagonistic negative people on the web, it's still a bad look. Someone jumping in to point out the team took >two years to do the work & turn it on also seems a lot less wild than much of the selectively portrayed versions.

As Google said in the comments there, they already knew there was strong opposition in principle to this spec, and that they wouldnt get cooperation advancing it, and hence didn't spend as much time doing spec work as they normally would have.

Chrome themselves seem very apologetic about it & to my knowledge this has not happened again.

The other huge missing piece of the picture here is that Chrome didn't write this spec de novo. A huge huge huge amount of the work in writing webhid is re exposing existing USB hid standards & data structures. There should still be a good web spec & this was a failure, but the team was wrapping something that's already very well defined & that they didn't have a ton of leeway to shape and change.

So no one was going to provide meaningful feedback (just, we won't work on this feedback), and the spec was already 3/4 set in stone before work started converting it to a web spec.

It's still a dark-world fantasy to me. And it's deceitful, brazenly incorrect, & full of slanted malice to say chrome isn't or even wasn't interested in standardizations. It's super dodgy quoting the spec saying this ain't a w3c spec as proof that the team doesn't care. That is, you citing, "not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track." That's a epic & wild distortion, taking advantage of people's ignorance to make Chrome look bad when in fact using groups like https://wicg.io is how tons of amazing great work happens, is a place where all browsers have been bringing new work for a while. You'd have to say Safari and Mozilla don't care about the web too if you want to dump on Chrome here for using wicg to standardize.
I can't tell if this comment is satire.

In case it isn't, you're spending all your time on screens and not being present with your kids.

You're parenting by example that screen time is more important than family time.

Why would they listen to you when, to them, it probably seems like you're telling them to do what you won't?
I'd really urge the author to rethink doing something like this at all. The app looks great but those stats on the front page were an immediate turn-off for me (not to mention how it pops up in what looks like an annoying cookie banner). You can talk about user activity on a web service where it makes sense to be hitting a server, but for a local app that should really just be a nice GUI for ffmpeg, I don't want my computer updating you whenever I use it with data about how I used it.

And the types of users who are going to be using something like an ffmpeg wrapper are the types who are gonna care about something like that.

It's not SaaS anyway, so why would I care about your current to-the-hour success metrics? Might as well just slap your amount of sales up there, it's less intrusive at least. Put some user testimonials, anything other than telemetry data.
Come on guys, this is a good joke.

new_host = host.replace( /twitter\.com/, “x.com” )

(I wonder if they have escaped the period?)
>> something that's just gonna randomly fall out of your ear and get lost in two weeks is a bit steep

I've been using AirPod's for about 5 years. Never lost one. Never had them fall out. Yours is a very out of date hot take. If people were constantly replacing these at $75 per ear I doubt they'd have the ubiquity they do.
I'd be more willing to give the book the benefit of the doubt if it wasn't so blatant in proposing that the solution he likes is the Really Good Solution that has no downsides besides being "hard to understand". As if that wasn't a major downside in and of itself.

That said, being annoyingly cock-sure when you have the chops to back it up with an actual ideal solution is one thing, the same attitude when you present a questionably engineered algorithm and blatantly disregard its drawbacks (up to ~2x higher runtime / more "reads" needed to generate an answer) by implying only the less intelligent "non-artisans" would ever fail to appreciate it is entirely different.
And if you want an easy pass will you go for the cleanest or the least clean?
Observing this happen over a decade or so has been agony. Not just the text reviews and opinions, but the star ratings have gone from being completely reliable and coherent to being exactly the same as any pop movie review site. I enjoy sharing my Letterboxd diary and reviews with my film loving friends, but I find myself having to apologize for the top reviews for a given film after talking the service up so much.

I blame reddit, mostly.
San Diego is near the Palomar Observatory and Mount Laguna observatory (see map [1]). The observatory as well as environmental concerns of bright lighting at night messing with wildlife is why San Diego in most zones at night uses what appear to be Low Pressure Sodium (LPS) lighting. See also [2] for the current code.

However, over time these LPS streetlights started to be replaced by Induction lighting. And as of 2016, the new standard is LED based, which is supposedly even better for light pollution [3].

In areas where sea turtles nest, LPS lighting is still preferred, as it is very different from the white light from the moon they use to navigate [4].

One nice consequence for residents: as a result of the strict light pollution regulation, and the consistently clear skies, most nights one can see a surprisingly large number of stars in the sky for an urban city environment. Nothing close to a clear night far north or out in the desert, but still more stars than you might expect.

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You can read more about it here:

[1] https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/pds/docs/pds2...

[2] https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/pds/docs/LightPollutionCode.p...

[3] https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/12-14-16-adopti...

[4] https://conserveturtles.org/information-sea-turtles-threats-...
Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year
That's an impressive read, thank you and congrats on the release! I think that nowadays the development and adoption of performant IPC mechanisms is unfairly low, it's good to have such tech opensourced.

My question is, how does Flow-IPC compare to projects like Mojo IPC (from Chromium) and Eclipse iceoryx? At first glance they all pursue similar goals and pay much less attention to complex allocation management, yet managing to perform well enough.
Mux (YC W16) is hiring a Senior Product Designer that's excited about devtools
These are not small startups. They are China government funded enterprises.
Electric stoves get dedicated high-power circuits, these things plug into a regular wall socket. They just don't have the same power.
None of the options seem very useful, though.

Why block execution of PowerShell scripts when batch files, WSH scripts and plain executables can still run? You could try to prevent those other kinds of scripts from even getting onto the machine, I guess, but then why wouldn't you simply do the same for PowerShell scripts?

The AllSigned policy where it asks you explicitly about trusting new publishers[0] seems like what I'm asking for, except that it apparently requires the certificate to be installed in Trusted Root Certificate Authorities! That's way more trust than should be necessary.

The only option that seems to make sense (aside from Unrestricted) is buying a certificate from an existing CA that's already trusted, so that users don't need to trust you with acting as a CA, but that's quite expensive.

[0] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/signing-powershell-scripts
Fwiw, the name clashes with Nim's package manager nimble: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble
How exactly integration with build system helps Google? Maybe you could give specific example?..
Rising popularity of MMA in the last decade or two astonished me. I was wondering if the average value of having a functioning brain dropped so much in the new millenium.
How would this work for scenarios where people take advantage of the free network hotspot connectivity provided by some Wi-Fi and cellular providers? anyone who travels throughout even a moderately dense coverage area would swiftly accumulate a history of hundreds if not thousands of briefly-connected ssids? It seems like constantly broadcasting this data would result in fairly noticeable performance degradation.
Search worked well. When I click a product, it took a while to load the page. Other than that looks cool.
Highly recommend the recent book How to Raise a Healthy Gamer: End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids [0].

It goes over many of the issues adjacent to social media usage and how to resolve them, starting with how to understand them.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Healthy-Gamer-Relationship/...
You made me think of the neighbouring settlements of "Ham" and "Sandwich", as seen on this sign: https://www.flickr.com/photos/doverpast/3672723972
These "sirens" actually need to be able to play spoken announcements - something they did easily since about 2005, before the fumbled 2019-2024 shutdown/upgrade.

More history, through January 2022, via JWZ's blog:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/01/the-reason-the-tuesday-noon...
Those Reaper drones show up on FlightRadar24 and ADSBExchange while patrolling over the Black Sea monitoring Crimea and beyond.
Equally annoying to finding a search result on some forum and it's full of people complaining to use the search function instead of posting a new thread, but the thread I clicked on is by far the most popular and informative
> It's clear to the reader that it's her point of view

I'm not sure how the author is supposed to have any idea that due to "so many [previous] concussions [they knew their] brain could not withstand multiple more blows to the head". A PhD in neuroscience? Maybe it's just pseudoscientific claptrap that seems be being lapped up by other sports fans.

If you actually think your brain had already been damaged, you'd stop doing contact sports immediately and completely, not somehow keep going but fighting harder and faster, Ethan Hunt style. Of course it's amazing that she "can now share her secret"... <rolls eyes>

"Her ferocity was built on a hidden vulnerability" is about as believable as your average Hollywood movie plot. A gripping story to push a new book, that's all.

Complete and utter nonsense.
Then you must not have tried many pdfs because there are many where the reader can't detect the columns. Even when column detection works, you can't increase the font size beyond what the pdf uses as the text won't be reflowed. It's of course an even bigger pita for those relying on text-to-speech to read pfs.
Perhaps that's why it's called the "British Place Name mapper"
That is just 'marketing speak' so as long you are their customers, they need to make money from users who will be using their service to make music.
Apple Store in New Jersey Files to Unionize in Renewed Push
Don't use accounts at all for non-paid features.
He means it will be smarter than Elon Musk. And maybe that is not such a great stretch, at that.
Well, I think that's a fair characterization for a non trivial portion of the users.
I see most replies here ar mentioning the the build integration is what is mainly missing in the public tools. I wonder if nix and nixpkgs could be used here? Nix is a language agnostic build-system and with nixpkgs it has a build instructions for a massive amount of packages. Artifacts for all packages are also available via hydra.

Nix should also have enough context so that for any project it can get the source code of all dependencies and (optionally) all build-time dependencies.
Also "Penistone".

(It's pronounced "PEN-iss-tun")
This. 30%+ of income just to acquire rental shelter isn't healthy.

Especially when that regressively scales with income (i.e. people who make less pay a larger percent of their total income).

And especially when the siphoned capital isn't being reinvested in new housing (because landlords and investors would rather collude and boost profit margins on existing stock).
> I think that its main problem is that no instance provides a “public” catalog of songs that can be streamed/downloaded by its users, but its “social aspect” is really cool. You can, e.g, connect with your friends and choose to share your private libraries with each other. So if you have a good mix of friends who kept/ripped their CD/Vynil collection or bought songs from their favorite indie musicians, you can end up with a pretty extensive library. This makes it a decent (and legal) alternative to sneaker-net piracy.

This sounds like it shares a lot of the UX of piracy, so I'd be interested to know the bounds of it's legality. What happens when I join the largest instance and upload Universal Media Group's catalog?
Funny I lean on YouTube for music discovery but mostly listen out of my own library. The worst problem I have managing it technically is that M.F. Doom hasn’t recorded two albums under the same name.
True! I'll look into it
Punches didn’t score as high in older Muay Thai, whereas they score equally under One rules. So you didn’t see as much straight hand striking in golden age fights. They certainly used them, but they didn’t count towards your points as much.

With 4oz gloves you don’t have as much to work with in your guard, so punches can slip through a lot easier. On the other hand they protect the hand less, so some fighters are more apprehensive throwing with them on. The small gloves definitely feel like they leave a lot more repeated damage to the face, whereas a clean headkick is probably going to result in a KO. Obviously neither are great if we’re talking about concussions!

I can only speak from my own experience, but I never enjoyed watching fights until I started training. Once I started training and began understanding the rule set, I started seeing what was going on. I don’t think that’s controversial, when you have experience in something your eyes are a little more open. Watching and training is for everyone though! Nothing elite about it all, just a lot of showing up and putting in the work. It’s definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever done physically.
> If you ever leave you can use Livegrep, which was based on code-search work done at Google.

If I’ve learned anything from the fainting spells that I-work-at-X have over their internal tools on HN: no, whatever the public/OSS variant is always a mere shadow of the real thing.