skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have a powerful machine, but it still takes 20-40 seconds for a one line change, which would normally be 2-3s (editing the config + restarting a service)

A bit late reply, but by default Nix runs on single core. Have you made it use multi-core and max-jobs?
FBI Arrests Man for Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
It's my understanding that extracurriculars are heavily considered in the college applications process.
I don't see how that would be possible considering Bitcoin Core was always open source.
People seem to have an aversion to using medicine to impart QoL benefits.

It's "too easy" to lose weight now.

It's like being upset at the discovery of toothpaste since it enables people to eat simple carbs and still retain their teeth, rather than relying on restraint and stoicism.

Or using insulin to manage diabetes rather than a no carb diet
Under the Geneva conventions, yes, but the Rome statute only copies select passages of the Geneva convention, and I don't believe the "we can commit war crimes as long as you don't promise not to commit war crimes" is part of what's copied.

The Rome Statute does allow foe the ICC to convict according to the Geneva conventions as well, but the exemptions therein don't necessarily apply.
Not in the least. I'm looking forward to when this trend dies and all of these worse than useless features hopefully get scrapped. Meanwhile there is now extra hardware being put inside new laptops. I wonder if we'll be able to buy CPU's without NPU's?
And if you make your page slightly bigger than the threshold for triggering HN's "mobile view", there's still padding in the top bar but the page is 53 pixels too wide, and you have to scroll horizontally. Hacker News is an example of why we don't use media queries to hack in a responsive layout. Websites are responsive by default, unless you're using <table> layouts (as HN does) or the <div>pocalypse (as every other website seems to, these days). Building different versions of your site for different widths is not a solution.

The more subtle things you describe seem quite sensible. I'll probably steal those ideas, if it comes up.
My "favorite" non-cloud issue was dying/dead RAID card batteries in DB hosts (to preserve unflushed cache in RAM on the card in case of power failure).
I would call it more of an honest statement about what happened there, as opposed to an overly positive one.

Having said that, I do have a long-standing issue with the relatively small group of people who try to go their own way from society without a modicum of understanding about what kind of work and skills will be required. As well as an issue with the larger group of people who cheer on these folks and either enable this behavior or become subject to this behavior themselves.

Where do my feelings on the subject come from? Well, "into the wild" was required reading my freshman year of college. And I was forced to engage in dozens of discussions treating McCandless as a tragic hero, instead of an idiot.

My issue isn't necessarily with people wanting to get away from mainstream society, but it is going about it in an absolutely boneheaded manner. I have an immense amount of respect for people like dick proenekke
As with everything in engineering the definitive answer is "it depends".

If your JSON API is guided by your UI then you are gonna have a fun time keeping with the changes (been there, done that). Sure you know that to add a new field on your page you will need to add it on the API's JSON, then on the JS client code, then on your client template... Compare this to adding it on the HTML generated on the server and... done!

There is value in differentiating between Data API and Hypermedia (UI) API, you can read more about it here https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-apis-vs-data-apis/

And note that is not an universal truth applicable on all cases because "it depends"
The issue with this mentality is it ultimately leads to doing nothing at all. It's incredibly easy to look at an obligation and turn it down, even if it will benefit you and your family. My kids would love to do nothing but play video games all day long. Honestly, so would I. But I coach them in sports because it gets me involved, gets me out of the house, and teaches them a ton of valuable lessons. Lessons I wish I had learned.
Get on Mastodon:

https://peoplemaking.games

https://mastodon.gamedev.place

https://indiepocalypse.social

https://gamemaking.social
That and that the manufacturer has worked to ensure that at least some version of Linux works on it well, i.e. has done the systems integration work. Otherwise it can be a death of a thousand paper cuts, where things kind of mostly work, sorta, occasionally.
I would say the compiler explorer[0] fits the definition perfectly. It may seem like a straightforward piece of software, but it has immensely changed the way people discuss and share knowledge around compilers and performance optimization.

I regularly feel the impact on the quality of forum discussions. There's a lot less speculation about if "call X gets inlined", or "Y gets vectorized". Bold claims can be supported or disproven quickly by sharing a link. And then you have tools like llvm-mca[1] or uiCA[2], if you don't mind going into the weeds.

[0] https://godbolt.org/

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.html

[2] https://uica.uops.info/
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Learning. It is not passive anymore. You have a conversation, you can ask why, if something different would work, how something would be done without going though a lot of documentation, criticism on your proposed solutions, you have all the time you want, go at your own time schedule, ask about ideas you got while walking, etc.

It may make learning more personal, your own path, and you can ask if you are missing something important doing it that way.

And it works for most topics, for most ages, at your own pace. We are entering a Diamond Age.
This is a glib and dismissive response that tells me nothing. It's about as helpful as "do your own research". Mate, I have done my own research, everything I can find is either a vague association study or has a tiny underpowered treatment group and reeks of publication bias.

If Google Scholar is providing you with papers (other than this one, which is about rich Swedish people/Swedish people who go outside more) that prove your hypothesis (which you haven't even stated, just hinted at) then you should either link to those papers or not reply.
Null Bitmap Builds a Database #1: The Log Is the Database
I agree that a lot of this is true while disagreeing that it renders mobile a consumption platform. It’s outstanding for many productive tasks that “real” computers are either much worse at or no good for at all. Being in a tiny long-battery-life package with tons of sensors and radios opens up a lot of possibilities, many of which are in fact realized by the platform, even if it’s not a very good platform for writing custom programs on the same device. It’s especially great when you need the real world and computing to interact, “in the field” as it were.

I’d further agree that mobile’s used for far more consumption (or, presenting [multi-]media) than PCs! But I think that has more to do with PCs being a lot worse at those tasks than mobile devices (generally speaking), than mobile only being good for that.

I think there’s only a little overlap between the productive tasks real computers are helpful for, and what mobile’s good for, and that mobile also happens to be better for presenting media in most cases.

> The Mac is headed the same way

I’ve been reading this stated as fact since like 2012 (I became a Mac user—in addition to Linux and Windows, which I still use for some things, especially Linux, in 2010 or 2011). I’ve seen no sign of it.

> To that end they have avoided adding professional features to their mobile devices to reinforce the content consumption loop and artificially inflate demand for the Mac.

I do believe that’s some of it, but I also think a lot of the features certain types of professional want them to add are absent for the good reason that few people want them and they’d likely harm ux or security. Not all such features! But probably some.

> Instead of playing Fallout: New Vegas (like any respectable person should be able to do in 2024)

Well that’s just true, yes.

> Or maybe you just get frustrated trying to set up Delta

It’s one of the easiest emulators-with-game-library I’ve ever set up :-)
At least they do allow emulators now. Emulating a whole Nintendo DS is lighter on battery and faster to resume than nearly all the native iOS games in the App Store, which is just an absurd situation. Better overall game library, too.
I don't judge the enemy of the state, merely point out your status when you take on a state.

Also, "they just wrote some code" isn't a defense. Some of the greatest criminals just pushed some buttons. Adding extra steps or using a device to do what you do doesn't change the nature of your actions. The people who you are trying to take down and label as oppressor just happen to write stuff on paper or on a computer too.

If you think that all the monetary transactions should be unstoppable and anonymous(which I actually agree with, IMHO the state should be taking on criminals through proper police action and not meddle with other systems or force companies act like police to make its job easier) and you make a device that helps people do that and if the state disagrees with you you become a criminal.

If I ever build a money laundering device, I wouldn't be claiming responsibility for it or say it can't be illegal because "its just some code".
Hard to take your comment seriously when you immediately use a phrase like "virtue signal" and infer that everyone stating this desire is disingenuous.
> Is my kid really going to be a better student because she volunteered at a hospital or played high school softball?

Not if it's a mere exercise in box-ticking.
COBOL Programmers Are Back in Demand. Seriously.
To quote from a post I made in a previous thread: I'm increasingly of the opinion that the winning move is not to play.

The educational Red Queen Race that S.Korea and China have been famous for -- with childhoods utterly dominated by schooling and "extracurriculars" -- is now also an American thing. It's hard on kids, hard on parents, and the real educational benefit is less than zero. (In that kids would genuinely be better off without excess schooling and with more self-directed free time.)

The Ivy League path is simultaneously ultra-high-stress and ultra-conventional. It's no longer a golden ticket to the good life. Unless you like grinding and competition, and want a career which features both, I feel it's usually just the opposite. So it makes sense to "say no," as those in OP do.

Truly, kids aren't getting a "head-start" these days -- they're engaging in ever more complex and Byzantine make-work. And, emphatically, I do not believe it has any impact on their intellectual achievements later in life.
I think the biggest thing the US is doing for Israel is discouraging regional actors from getting involved. If the US took no position here either way, the conflict would probably turn into a proxy war pretty quickly. Whether you think that's good or not depends on your viewpoint. I personally prefer that the states in the area, even if they don't necessarily directly represent the Palestinians, negotiate the conflict because they have to deal with the fallout on their own borders/politics.

Being able to purchase weapons from the US also gives them significant political latitude internally. When a significant amount of your economy and government spending goes to making weapons, you're going to affect domestic budgets, which will make coalition building much harder especially in a country with as many small parties as Israel. We see this in Russia as well but because Russia is not democratic when it comes to defense allocation, it simply throws its dissidents in jail or encourages them to leave.
I cook on a wood stove and heat the house with wood. The only time the stove emits anything into the house is when I light it and the chimney is cold - which doesn't happen that often but can happen if I have not used the thing for more than a day or 2. I built that chimney myself, it is solid brick and does not use vermiculite-insulated liners - i.e. it is built according to the 'old' standards where the chimney itself functions as a heat buffer for the top floor (which is why I built it that way). Given a warm chimney there is more than enough drag to keep combustion products from escaping even when I lift the pan off the fire.

It also helps that the stove and its neighbouring electric companion (which I use as a storage area for pans) is built under a large fume hood which ends in a flue pipe in that same chimney. The warmer the chimney, the more drag in the fume hood. There is no fan and none is needed given a warm chimney.

Of course all this only works if there is enough ventilation into the house since both the stove as well as the fume hood need incoming air to work. This is not a problem in our 17th century farm house, even with all the windows closed there is enough air coming in to keep all fires burning. As long as I keep the chimney and the stoves clean - I sweep it once or twice per year depending on the type of wood I burn - they do their job without fouling up the house.
I'm glad you liked that one, stoniejohnson!
Not sure where to start with this one.

Can anybody briefly explain what a “rot economist” is? Is it meant to be capitalised “ROT economist” which stands for something? Has my browser not rendered the characters correctly or something?

This story of course includes the now almost mandatory attack on e2e encryption, which according to this account when coupled with the people you know feature is “a dangerous tool” - with little explanation as to the nature and size of the danger.

This part is interesting: “Worse still, accounts that were less than 15-days-old now made up 20 percent of all outgoing friend requests, and more than half of friend requests were sent by somebody who was making more than 50 of them a day…”

The explanation leaves a lot to be desired though:

“…heavily suggesting that Facebook was growing its platform’s “connections” through spam.”

Doesn’t this make perfect sense where a new user joins Facebook with no friends to start with, then in the first few weeks of using it finds all of their friends and adds them?

The whole thing reads like a grab bag of grievances rather than a forensic takedown, shame.
There’s no platform SDK and everything you can do, you have to do through js. It’s pretty limiting compared to real binary applications running any sort of code (NDK)
The problem is that no one will sell me one with a keyboard or way to text people back. A second major issue is that most of them are running google on the back end, either android or a dumbphone OS. I want to get away from that stuff, that's why I want to use the dumb phone .
The problem is everything is an arms race.

You want little Johnny to do well. To get in good schools, to get a good job, to get all the good things you may not have had.

And at first, you just had to meet some qualifications, and that was good enough.

But then, Becky did all of that, and was in band. So band becomes a differentiator. So now, you have to do all the good AND be in band.

Then Tommy also does all of that, band, and wrestling.

Then Jack does wrestling, but travels to various competitions in addition to school wrestling.

And every step is just trying to distinguish yourself from everyone else doing the same. Because, all other things are roughly equal. It's why we have people graduating with greater than 4.0 GPAs. Because, after a while, straight As wasn't enough. You needed extra As.
My daughter hated, HATED, gymnastics for a period when she was younger. She would kick and scream on the ground when we took her. Part of it was that the coaches were old-school, Eastern European gymnasts. Part of it was the timing -- right after school when she probably wanted to nap.

Wife and I debated long and hard whether we should just let her quit but decided to keep her in it because she showed some talent for it. It wasn't easy because we effectively "forced" her to do gymnastics even as she would kick and scream and cry on some days just getting into the car. Some days I'd complain to my wife why we bother with this because she clearly doesn't want to do it.

This past weekend? She placed first all-around in her division at a regional competition. We got her an adjustable dumbbell set this past Christmas and she trains every night on her own volition. She hates missing gymnastics now because that's her happy place now. I'd say it's part of her identity now.

I think sometimes, kids don't want to do things because they aren't good at it. But they can't become proficient at anything without a lot of practice and training be that an instrument or a sport. And with that proficiency comes enjoyment and engagement. It's not so black and white as you propose; sometimes there's a judgement call to be made to start the ramp of proficiency that feeds into enjoyment and achievement.
The difference with the proposed mechanism of action is that there would be no severance of liability at the time of equity sale.

I.e. you couldn't sell off the stock, make your huge return, and avoid the consequences

Subsequent litigation would claw back those same huge returns.
I'm not sure if the issue being described actually exists tbh...

Within the last few months, I've bought a Nokia 2660 Flip, a fairly basic 4G phone, with big buttons for an older relative. Admittedly I was originally after a candybar style one, but the 4G variant seemed to be out of stock everywhere, and very difficult to find.

So "Will companies make them?"... they already are.

The article seems fairly badly researched in general, and based on false assumptions. It bemoans dumbphones being 2/3G, when most recent releases are 4G.
> None, though I might be swayed if there were something that muted or, failing that, blocked users.

Comments Owl for Hacker News: https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/

Blocking doesn't seem to work on the new comments page, though.
That's a fair point, I hadn't considered the relative ease of opting out of tracking on a PC in contrast with mobile devices.
iOS and iPadOS 17.5.1 fix a nasty bug that resurfaced old photos
Pretty sure the whole extracurricular thing is to look for upper class markers than success in the field they major in... Probably just SAT would be enough for that lol.
Were they ever not, at least in recent memory? All those govt and banking mainframes out there were the entire pool of COBOL devs retiring
The social aspects of these things also cannot be underestimated. For both the kids and the parents. Many friends are made and networks expanded through school sports.
i was sort of hoping for something like https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/10/08/, which shows a bunch of inventions that simplify your programming. some of them may be more trouble than they're worth, but they're at least novel and interesting

by contrast, this document is largely motherhood and apple pie — and where it isn't (e.g., when it advocates titlecasing struct types or never typedeffing primitive types), i often think it's wrong. 'Write assertions to meaningfully crash your program before it does something stupid, ... to prevent a security vulnerability' is especially wrong; one of the major features of the standard assert() macro is that it's turned off in release builds!

the named-arguments macro hack is an example of the kind of thing i was most hoping to find in here

if you write something like this, don't dilute whatever value it may have with your opinions about tabs vs. spaces, line length, what natural language to write your comments and identifiers in, include guards, how many blank lines to put between functions, etc. these have been debated to death, and you're unlikely to have any brilliant insights about them that other people will be happy to have read
None, so far. I had high hopes for copilot and JetBrains Assistant, but both of them are way more verbose than my usual coding style. Maybe that's just me, but I have my set of libraries that I use in C++ or Go and the result is that I rarely need to write much boilerplate. But I guess for that LLMs would work great, if only I could trust them as much as battle-tested libraries.
> What would have been an impressive final-year project when I was in university is something high schoolers are churning out as a bare minimum

Isn’t this progress? The stress components, obviously not. But over time our teaching methods and tools progress, at least in respect of specific concepts.
> I recently embarked on a journey to make myself a "dumbphone". I started with an iPhone 12 mini, removed every app possible and kept Phone, Contacts, Messages, Camera, Photos, and Safari with a 15 minute daily limit. My main motivations for going with iPhone were

I did the same with Android. I even removed the browser. All the installed apps fit on a single screen and three of them are basically authenticator apps.
Yes they do, as I am one, and it has nothing to do with virtue signaling, because I would be embarrassed to tell someone. For me, it's more about my brain keeping an undesirable tether to my phone, which appears to be a real phenomenon [1].

My experience may be different from yours, but try this if you haven't: one by one uninstall each of your social media and media apps. When I do this, I feel a tangible silence when it uninstalls. With massive amounts of addiction in my gene pool, maybe I'm wired different than you, so maybe don't come at it with such negative assumptions.

[1] https://blogs.iu.edu/sciu/2023/05/20/brain-drain-smartphones
I can't say anything about sports but volunteering at a hospital or long term care home is a good way to find out if they've got the stomach for it. Nursing programs suffer huge drop out rates when they put kids in a clinical setting so they move that up as early as possible the program. An applicant who has already done some volunteering and still applied isn't the one whose going to bail out after seeing blood and poop their first clinical day.
>What is Netflix Open Connect?
Open Connect is the name of the global network that is responsible for delivering Netflix
TV shows and movies to our members world-wide. This type of network is typically
referred to as a “Content Delivery Network” or “CDN” because its job is to deliver
internet-based content (via HTTP/HTTPS) efficiently by bringing the content that people
watch close to where they’re watching it. The Open Connect network shares some
characteristics with other CDNs, but also has some important differences.
It does however diminish it's pitch as the alternative to big frameworks. My point is that there are many more points of choice than a "big framework", "htmx" or "pure html/js/css".

HTMX isn't even the biggest one outside of what you called the "big 3".
Accommodating inconsistent content-- especially in variable-shape elements like navigation link lists or headlines-- on many screen sizes and aspect ratios is really difficult. It's easy to look at a janky combo and assume incompetence, but someone probably pored over edge cases until their eyes bled to even get it that usable. If you change one thing, 3 other things break.
Does that make it any better!? That's still comparable to a small town or a large arena completely wiped away from the face of the earth. Not because they were Hamas, but because they were near Hamas.
I'm curious about alternative inputs like swiping and pie menus, or two-finger inputs, or inputs relying on corners and edges. Do you know any apps that use specialized gestures?