skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the Stream Gatherers will be very nice once they're out of preview, and the Vector API seems very useful, I'm most excited by (finally!) being able to execute some statements before calling super(). It was always possible to call super(Foo.bar()); , but it was never possible to call foo = Foo.bar(); super(foo);

I'm digging this steady progress.
Most adobe products.
> I doubt it

My earliest memory is at 18 months. How do I know? I recall the building (and some activities and decor inside) that I was in and my mom only went into that building for some medical appointments when I was that age.

How do I know it is not a fake memory? Not sure how I could build a fake memory and then ask my mom about a given building and decor (at like age 12 or something while discussing earliest memories) and she tells me, surprised, that the last time we were there was when I was that young.
the Helix text editor.

the fish shell.

atuin.

Linux with Sway window manager.
Sourcehut, Superkey (if I don’t want to use the mouse then I don’t have to), Orion (browser), Zulip (Web, their mobile app can be frustrating).
Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time

https://www.mobygames.com/game/1975/monty-pythons-complete-w...
Nuclear weapons work as a pretty good deterrent because it's literally impossible to know if your opponent will push the button. Even Russians, famous for their disregard for human life, would not take the risk.
Is there something like /r/eyebleach for software where you can go at the end of day? That being said, the best would be no screen at all and some greenery.
Deluxe Paint, Turbo C, Krita
I will never go back to using Windows Explorer & Taskbar after downloading Altap Salamander and StartAllBack. Also, "Everything" for searching.
Should they also require a F1-like cap on FLOPS for offline model fittings? A limit on bandwidth? What about quant compensation?
lol no, NSA would rather sit and do nothing, like any organization, the reason why they do anything is because they receive orders from the government to do those things.
I remember first using Expensify after years of wrangling various ERP monstrosities. Serious joy.
Looks like giving up nuclear weapons in exchange for "protection" is the stupidest thing a government can possibly do.
I know this is a horrible article written to sell services, but I skimmed through it and wanted to check their claim on alcohol being 3x more dangerous than cocaine. I tried to follow the "study released" hyperlink which just lead to reuters (another blog site) which repeated the claims and doesn't link the study either. The state of the internet is not good.
Poetry, Pipx, VSCode, pre-commit, ruff, MyPy, Make(When used for non-C related stuff).

Recent GIMP versions, Realthunder's fork of FreeCad, PrusaSlicer, neofetch, Ardour, SculptGL, Vorta/Borg, Git Cola
Ask HN: How does open banking payments work?
Can someone help me understand how it is different from the traditional schemes like ACH and SEPA? Or is the built on top of these existing rails to make the payment?

From a consumer POV is there a preference for open banking tools like Plaid or Trustly while shopping online?
> Well, obviously, far more people drink alcohol than use those two.

But saying alcohol is the most dangerous drug with this definition is still fair enough to say right? Carfentanil is more potent than fentanyl, but fentanyl is on the streets so it's what we should crack down on.

Per capita, alcohol kills more people than any other drug in most countries. It's also one of two drugs where you can die from withdrawals, being more dangerous than crack or heroin to detox from. It's also the only drug you get advertised 24/7, and that is socially forced down your throat (literally).

Not to say alcohol isn't fun, but it is the most dangerous drug to society, statistically.
In a really big, bureaucratic organization, there are some basics like "turf" and "squeaky wheels". Creepy spy stuff is 3-letter turf. If those guys keep pestering Congress for creepy powers...well, Congress has all the moral principals of a slave trader, and handing out creepy powers is pretty much free for them, so why not?
What do you like about VSCode?
Vermont is considering installing Tesla Powerwalls for every home in the state to create distributed storage of power which they can then control to optimize the grid. Theoretically those Powerwalls could be fed with DC instead of AC and use their inverters to power each home with no need for grid synchronization. Each home would have its own AC frequency. One issue might be devices which use the grid frequency to run clocks. If the frequency in each home is different or drifts then clocks across the state might not tell the same time or get out of sync. I'm not sure how common grid synced clocks are any more, most clocks these days use a quartz crystal as a time reference instead of the grid. Industry will have to remain on the AC grid and they probably do use grid frequency for a variety of things, but there aren't inverters and batteries big enough to power the largest industries anyway. So perhaps a hybrid grid will develop, legacy AC for industry and DC for homes to remove one stage of conversion inefficiencies (both to the home and in feeding power back to the grid from the batteries). Seems like it would be easy to test this on a small scale to start with on a small group of homes.
The problem is that if you do what you enjoy, it's very unlikely to correspond to what customers want.

I suffered from this a lot because I love coding. There's a point when you may want to adjust your priorities. Beyond a certain point, it becomes defeatist to always do what you want.

I get though that the industry can feel like a giant psyop though so maybe it is better to be defeatist... Not sure.
Do we have actual data for this other then the usually wrong common sense derived from our cultural values?

Most drugs are relatively harmless if taken rarely and in relatively low doses, the problem is that a lot of users don't and that because of our shared cultural history Alcohol typically gets a pass where as things not alcohol is vilified even if the data(as is the case for Cannabis) suggest that they might be more equal in actual harm done.
Ask HN: Will you contribute code to a BSL Licensed project?
We can see that many well-known projects, such as Terraform and Redis, are not using true OSS licenses. As developers, do you mind contributing code to these types of projects? Why?
I really like to use Elm (yes the compiler and ecosystem around it). Good feedback when somethings goes bad, simple enough to learn in a weekend and allows me not to use JavaScript (which to my is a total kill-joy).
yeah, seems to be one of those studies where the outcome was known from the start due to bias in the method.

>In an effort to offer a guide to policy makers in health, policing, and social care, Nutt's team rated drugs using a technique called multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) which assessed damage according to nine criteria on harm to the user and seven criteria on harm to others.

>Harms to the user included things such as drug-specific or drug-related death, damage to health, drug dependence and loss of relationships, while harms to others included crime, environmental damage, family conflict, international damage, economic cost, and damage to community cohesion.

>The scientists found alcohol was most harmful, with a score of 72, followed by heroin with 55 and crack with 54.

Indeed, because if I drink one beer it'll be 17% worse off than doing one dose of heroin.

My only gripe is that they seem to intentionally mislead readers by treating heavy users of alcohol the same way as light users of other harder drugs. Clearly, the issue is real, but actions like this will only worsen the public perception on the subject instead of re-affirming it.
I know what you mean, but we both know the how. The "I will be rich by the end of it" square is fixed, the route taken to that square will go by any path just barely plausible. If you point out one is impossible - that the Big Them will screw them over - well, the Bigger They In The Shadows will force them to follow The Secret Rules. Yeah, you and I wouldn't entertain this, but if one fixes the desired ending, then the contortions in the middle don't matter as much. "if not like this, then it will be that".
So what? 500 years later, a typo could be part of the English language taught in school. It doesn't mean that every single typo has to be accepted from day one as valid. Otherwise the mere concept of typo, or even the concept of English language itself, stops meaning anything.

I don't get the urge many English speakers have to justify any deviation (i.e. any typo) as valid and indisputable. There's grammar nazis, but there's also illiterate people :)
Heroin is less social than alcohol. You don't go on a date and take heroin. Because the effects don't match what you want. To be fair you don't go on a date and take cocaine really either, because you "won't work". Parties with only cocaine or heroin would suck.

But yes they are more dangerous to the individual and would be more dangerous to society if everyone decided to start overdosing heroin all the time! But they'd all die and then alcohol would be back at number one.
FWIW: My hardware designer friends find software tediously limited because only one thing happens at a time.
3 per day is absurd, but so is a maximum of one book a year. Here are some people who beat that by miles: https://thebookslist.com/most-prolific-authors/
The hack for that is walking the dog after work.
Déjà Experiences in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
cowsay always makes me smile.
> Amazon is filled with garbage. Full stop, no need to specify e-books.

But the problem is where else can you buy things online where this isn't a problem these days? Everywhere has become a marketplace akin to Alibaba (where people traditionally accepted the tradeoff of poor reliability in exchange for good prices when decent products were actually delivered).
Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)
Yes, you come out after the fallout and hope for the best. There used to be supplies during the cold war, probably not anymore. Masks and some anti radiation gear is still there though.
What part doesn't make sense? Any why this wouldn't make sense unless "personal financial gain" was involved?

Even a true believer three letter agency head, thinking he does something good for his country, could have their team use information to blackmail a politician into giving the agency more power or greenlighting this or that operation. No financial or other personal gain need be involved.

And that's the best case of the "true believer". More cynical types (the type that rise in every organization) would also use it to score points within the agency, expand his teams scope and budget, and so on.
This might be referencing older Macs, though it also could be referencing the default allocation ceiling of ~2/3 unified for GPU usage on Apple silicon. That said, the latter issue can be expanded to a higher hard limit so it's kinda moot.
WinAmp and MPC-HC are still my go-to zero-bullshit solutions for playing video and music. Inkscape and Dia manage to amaze me even after 15 years of working with them.

Ada (is programming language a software?) is my most recent discovery and I haven't experienced such pure joy of working with a programming language in, like, 10 years.
It's pretty funny that they just came up with a ranking system of their own criteria and we're expected to take it seriously as if it were a real study. They also rank cocaine and weed about the same at 27 and 20 danger points respectively, both of which are more bad than steroids at 9 points.
What did you do to your Windows?
A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2]. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?

Lavender is Israel's system of "pre-crime" [3] - they use AI to guess who to kill in Gaza, and then bomb them when they're at home, along with their entire family. (Obscenely, they call this program "Where's Daddy").

One input to the AI is whether you're in a WhatsApp group with a suspected member of Hamas. There's a lot wrong with this - I'm in plenty of WhatsApp groups with strangers, neighbours, and in the carnage in Gaza you bet people are making groups to connect.

But the part I want to focus on is whether they get this information from Meta. Meta has been promoting WhatsApp as a "private" social network, including "end-to-end" encryption of messages.

Providing this data as input for Lavender undermines their claim that WhatsApp is a private messaging app. It is beyond obscene and makes Meta complicit in Israel's killings of "pre-crime" targets and their families, in violation of International Humanitarian Law and Meta's publicly stated commitment to human rights. No social network should be providing this sort of information about its users to countries engaging in "pre-crime".
I will be in the minority here but I really like Windows 10. Might be stockholm syndrome from work.

What exactly you might ask, well, just ... how it looks, for example. Still modern. I like the search bar. Dicking around in the registry. It's weird antics, like Win32 file namespace API not allowing folder names to end with a space but the file system supporting it so you end up with some weird behaviour if some scanner manages to create a folder with a trailing space and then you end up with two folders, one with a space at the end and one without, and you can't delete the one with the space without looking up \\?\

Stockholm syndrome.

(I also like Linux)
Creator of Open-Meteo here. There is small tutorial to setup ERA5 locally: https://github.com/open-meteo/open-data/tree/main/tutorial_d...

Under the hood Open-Meteo is using a custom file format with time-series chunking and specialised compression for low-frequency weather data. General purpose time-series databases do not even get close to this setup.
I like writing HTML + vanilla JavaScript with zero dependencies in any simple text editor. Notepad++ on Windows, gedit or vim elsewhere.
IDK, the articles they post on social are all over the road. More clickbait-y than The Economist-ic.
There is logic in fairness. Especially in the context of Scandinavian societies striving for equality.
The ban is not just about the issue of traffic fabrication. The fake story created by this influencer has occupied limited social media resources. This has prevented many more important news and events from being understood by the public.
When I hit that link half are flagged dead, I see one directly from LinkedIn, and most are not hard tech articles but rather something tech adjacent such as about soft skills or selling tech.
There's a lot to unpack here and a lot of nuance that is getting missed in the discussion.

I've learned a similar thing over my years, so I'll share:

The pressure to do something amazing or uniquely is very very real. This can lead you to avoiding a lot of hobbies (sports, crafts, etc.) that would nonetheless very very personally fulfilling.

Understand that having a beginner's mentality can be fun in many pursuits. (This is an idea from zen.) For a few things we have mastery, most things we will enjoy as beginners.

Additionally, if you cannot do something with the desired results, the key thing is to find a variation of the activity that you find satisfying. For example: 1) I think I'm bad at sports. Wait, actually, I just hate sports that don't completely immerse me. Hence, I figured out way late in life that I enjoy surfing and squash. 2) I want to take photographs. I hate my photographs. Wait, actually I hate digital photography. Analog point and shoot gives me satisfying results. (Or, using a 90s Nikon coolpix if you're gen z, apparently.)

So for the people who are like: "Yeah, but you can't SUCK at your activity", my response is: "Right, but you also shouldn't give up on the activity wholesale because you're not a natural prodigy, and there's probably a non-obvious variation where you don't feel like you suck as much, perhaps because the variation is harder to critique." in the real magic here.

And, again, there's something special about trying something new. The people that tend to plateau in a pursuit are the ones who start out "good" because they are addicted to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses. Being bad with potential, those are the non-lucky people that end up mastering their field.
That's very helpful. I'm also using Elysia in several small projects. Considering that the official stable 1.0 release was in March, it might be mature enough for production use.
Because in my limited experience (I am fluent in only two other languages apart from English), "native grammar mistakes" only happen to native English speakers.

For example, I know Italian and French, yet I cannot think of any weird misspelling only native Italian or French speakers do. I always wondered if it's because of education or how grammar is taught in Anglosaxon countries that is ultimately the root cause of these errors. It is a peculiar phenomenon.
Total Commander, and Midnight Commander. We all do love exploring files, don't we?
HN is a comment site masquerading as a news site. A large percentage of commenters go directly to the comments without ever reading the article. They just want an excuse to spout their opinions.
http1.1 was a mistake mostly driven by audience analytics (in other words, advertising)

no complex cache (i.e. aggressive cache everything) with a user who can discern how to operate a simple refresh button, was the best solution.

cache today is a joke. you cannot press back after going offline anywhere.
Proof, meet pudding: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

Mozilla hasn't been a contender for, let alone are, the best player in the browser market for a long time. They often willingly trade their users' best interests with abject nonsense and gaslight them when they complain.

I know this might be an extreme position to take, but if Mozilla truly wanted the best for internet users, it should dissolve and deprecate their browser. Their death would leave behind a large clearing for other projects that actually put their users first.

I use Brave now and I hate it, but at least they seem to actually care about my privacy.
Not sure what logic you're imagining. No, it's not based on location of the weapons - it's based on the fact that the top nuclear research institutions of the Soviet Union were in Ukraine.

The space program had a lot of Ukrainians too.
Average of 10% inflation for ten years and the magic of compounding means that prices were up 2.5X in that decade.

Did prices almost triple in the last ten years?

It doesn't matter whether you count the CPI that double counts interest or not.
Might as well bring back play-by-post Dungeons & Dragons while we're at it.

I know it's still going in a more modern capacity on myth-weavers.com and other sites, but I miss the mail version, chore that it was.
Dark Sky, both on my phone and on the desktop, prior to Apple's acquisition were always enjoyable to use.

Transit.app was once quite simple and elegant, though, that's less true these days.

Jellyfin may be a little rough around the edges but it works well with almost no intervention on my part.

uBlock Origin, I can't even imagine the web without it.
Okay, great response!

Very skeptical of things like this generally but that does make me appreciate the concept a lot more. The issue with glorified spamming, the pain point I care about as a sender (specifically in marketing) is the low open and response rate. Not just for deliverability > spam punishments, but for the recipient's experience.

That's the USP I care about the most - am I annoying anyone? If not, then yes I'd be interested in the laundry list of features I'd expect as a given from such a tool - ease of use, integrations, value. To be fair I'm not even interested in volume, email marketing has been adjusting to quality over quantity since GDPR/CCPA.

The feedback from your site would revolve around that for me - focus on those pain points of mass emailers, not the raw specs of your product. Even the name 'Hyperscale' is a red flag for me.

'Verified business contact details instead of personal Gmail or Hotmail' that's a great USP too.
Yes, alcohol is indeed much more dangerous than heroin. Not just when considering a single dose, though.

Not necessarily than street heroin, ie the heroin that people use, because that can contain any number of other drugs or substances, and even if it doesn't contain anything more dangerous there's still added danger from not knowing the dose.

If you could buy well-manufactured heroin from a supermarket or a pharmacy, or get it prescribed by your doctor, you'd be extremely unlikely to overdose unless wanting to kill yourself, and it would be a much healthier addiction to get than alcohol.
I am an even worse horder than Jerry, to the point of making my most fun games un-fun. I am a bit crazy in how I play games like Divinity: Original Sin 2 (and eventually BG3).

I have this obsession with playing optimally at the highest difficulty level. So I have to collect every resource, craft all the best items, etc.

But collecting all that stuff is actually quite a tedious click-fest in many modern games like D:OS2. (Dallas' bedroom on Lady Vengeance is a prime example.) And it requires going to every nook and cranny of the world map.

So I can't stand leaving anything behind, and I'll never end up using even half of it, but what if I do need it and I don't have it later on?

I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077 recently, and I don't have that problem with this game, though the solution may be unsatisfying to many. I've already hit max level on everything, and upgraded everything that I can. There isn't that much loot in the game in general (each mook has one or two items), and that can be quickly picked up and broken down as needed. I have more money than things to spend it on.

So I spend my time exploring the world rather than managing the character's inventory.

The Nintendo Switch Zelda games also do a pretty good job of balancing all the inventory / crafting. The resources regenerate (fruit trees grow more fruit over time) so it isn't necessary in most cases to try to grab everything whenever you see it.
Been a few years since I’ve used it (I’m back on MacBooks - the hardware is too nice), but Ubuntu has always felt great to me right out of the box. Of course the “Ubuntu” experience depends on the work of untold thousands of other developers - but they do a great job packaging it all together into a coherent and frustration-free experience IMO.
The issue is the misleading presentation of it. The writer of the linked blogpost is either dishonest or already missing what you're saying.

>Next time someone tries to justify drinking alcohol, remember it causes cancer and other diseases, it’s three times as harmful as cocaine or tobacco

I know people don't understand cumulative effect, and you know they don't understand per capita. It's just a dishonest way to present something. You could say it's fair that driving is more harmful than drunk driving, but that'd be misleading at best.
Google Earth is often a nice balance between usefulness and delightfulness.
Quality of Service
Blaze: A High Performance C++ Math Library
Sure, anyone who is part of a majority group. If there is only "one kind" of person with similar experiences, that's how everyone tends to think or perceive. Only when an outside enters, or the Majority leaves their population and goes to another Majority, or Mixed population, will do face that question : Am I racist?
If I was a teacher and inadvertently ended up with it somehow, I think I would be worried about the accusation so absolutely wouldn't go to the parents before taking some kind of advice or at least telling my superiors/union/law enforcement just to protect myself.