skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a ton of little macOS apps I love. Part of the reason I’m married to the Apple ecosystem, despite wanting to switch out of it.

I’ve written hundreds of thousands of words in iA Writer over the years. It’s the only way I can get any writing done, I find every other writing app too distracting. Somebody on HN called it an “overpriced minimalist lifestyle app” in a reply to one of my comments, not realizing that the minimalism is a real feature for those of us who have brains that work differently.

In the same vein, the only task management app I can use without tearing out my hair is Things. It makes a distinction between the start date for a task and the deadline, which very few other apps do. I might want to start working on my presentation on Monday, but it might not be due for another two weeks. Those two dates are different! I don’t understand why few other apps allow you to do this. I feel a sense of physical anxiety when all my tasks in Apple Reminders show up in red because that app is just the worst.

MindNode and Bike Outliner are great “tools for thought”, if you like to brainstorm digitally. I’ve tried infinite canvas apps like Freeform and Muse for this, but I personally prefer the structure of an outliner or mind map. MindNode is my favorite app to fire up when I need to break down a big idea into smaller chunks, or when I need to drill down into the specifics of a problem, or when I want to impose some structure on the chaos of the problems I’m dealing with at work.

These are the apps I miss when I use Windows or Linux. If I ever switch to a non-Apple computer as my primary machine, I might get irritated enough with what’s on offer to build clones of these apps. Nothing like them exists on Windows or Linux, despite my attempts to look for equivalents every few months.
Very cool! Practical.
If this is true, so Bethesda, Activision-Blizzard is still not enough for them?

This is probably what happens when you let them get away with monstrous acquisitions like Activision-Blizzard and they continue to reduce competition further.
When venturing into the file transfer territory, a lot of employers are going to veto the device over security concerns. Just like they wouldn’t want employees plugging in random USB drives found on the street.
Sounds good. Most traditional provider orgs don't care about open source and lack the IT resources to look under the hood. But some newer digital health companies do care and will see that as an advantage.
Any chance you'll make a laptop with this display in the future? Coding in the sun is a wet dream of mine..
> More Americans are in the workforce than ever before, because every household requires more laborers to do work for less compensation.

That isn't what they show. Actually what they show is that households have gotten smaller over time, because people have gotten richer/older and no longer live with their parents.

> Federal employment data also does not paint a cohesive picture of the situation.

These numbers come from a monthly household survey and don't have this issue. They know what they're doing.

> For one, it does not include undocumented labor - the labor that makes up the vast majority of incredibly low paid positions.

Such people have, since 2019, actually gotten the most pay increases of any part of the working population.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010

> Secondly, it is inflated by the fact that so many people are forced to work part-time positions - usually multiple at once.

Only 5% of Americans report working multiple jobs, and that's not particularly historically high.

Your idea of how the economy works is just a decade out of date. In the ways you think it's bad it is specifically the best it's been in decades, or in fact ever.

This is a common issue though: https://x.com/dkthomp/status/1793270876550398329

The cause of this issue is that the US media believes their job is to avoid reporting good news, unless they can do it ironically.
Birds of Prey.
Well not sure what you mean by 'Conman'. Wildly successful people do aim high a lot, a lot. They don't meet 80% of their goals, that is perfectly ok. Even as low as 20% success on a lot of these moonshot things sets you ahead of the masses who aim very low and get there 100% of the times.

This whole idea that some one has to comply to your idea of how one must set goals, and get there is something other people have no obligations to measure up to. Also that's the deal about his lies? He can say whatever he wants, and not get there. He is not exactly holding an oath to you or any one that he is at an error for not measuring up.

Musk might not get to Mars, he might end up mining asteroids or something. That is ok. That doesn't make him a conman.

tl;dr. Any one can say, work and fail at anything they want. And they don't owe anybody an explanation for a darn thing.
Wait is he actually criticizing it in this song? I always thought that he was mocking people who didn't understand borrowing by sounding disbelieving about it, when it's in fact obvious how & why it works
There's the spacedesk app that can do this with Android and Windows. Works fairly well.
Close it’s ~99.85% excluding the ort cloud. However there’s a major bias towards smaller stars because they last longer though conversely they are harder to detect.
This is just unnecessary contrarianism.
As the Reddit post linked in the article mentions, the photos that reappeared were manually saved as files by the user, e.g. via the share button.

In fact, I believe iOS uses hardlinks for this, as it is possible to save a 40GB video on a device with 64GB storage instantly - while logged out of iCloud and without an Internet connection.

Since hardlinks are used, there is likely no way to tell the original and copy apart except by their paths. The photo-rescuing algorithm that shipped in 17.5 probably wandered around the filesystem farther than intended, possibly via mds.

So Apple is probably not stealing your photos. If it is, this bug is not evidence of it.
The design of the website is so damn cool.
This is so cool! Now, I didn't notice anything about waterproofing on your website.

Any plans to come out with a version I don't have to worry about getting wet?
I'm working on something in a similar space. It's not as mysterious as people make it sound:

You do caching so you don't always have to go back to the DB is the main thing. The other interesting capability is light scripting at the edge. Think "this page is cached but I'm going to add in a custom username".

There's some more exotic stuff around sharded database locality. But I'll skip over that because distributed mutable state is hard and its not my specialty.

Connection warming and shorter tls negotiation round trip times are also a thing but probably less important compared to the database thing you are mentioning.

But mostly this architecture makes sense if you can do some caching or if you're doing more data/log collection stuff.

For prior work see ESI (edge side includes). Assembling stuff at the edge does have some benefits but it has been hard to create a good interface for that.
spacedesk (sadly Windows only)
According to [1] Fargate is actually not using Firecracker, but probably something closer to a single container running in a single-tenant ec2 VM. If true, this makes VM boot-time optimizations and warm pooling even more important for such product.

[1]: https://justingarrison.com/blog/2024-02-08-fargate-is-not-fi...
Discussion [0] (58 points, 2 days ago, 32 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40437506
I had my nickel land squarely on its edge once. The employee at the time just gave me whatever I wanted on merit.
>What I mean is that, on its own, type safety is not important. It’s only useful because of what it accomplishes: moving errors from runtime to compile time.

Air doesn't matter! It's only useful because of what our bodies do with it
What if we are successful with Nuclear Fusion?
I'm working on an even more user-friendly version of Merry Sky: https://weather-sense.leftium.com

Still very WIP, but I'd love any feedback/requests. (What do you wish either Merry Sky or Weather Sense did differently?)
IA Writer is awesome
This could easily be a new favorite thing; very cool!
I lost my wife to cancer last year; she was 46. She was my best friend, lover, my son’s mom and one of the greatest people whom I’ve ever known. Q

It is a surreal experience. For me it started as shock. I did not eat a meal for almost two months. Lots of people were around and I kept busy doing random things. Then people go away and the random tasks are done, and it’s quiet and strange.

I chose to move forward, focusing on my son, fitness (I started running), we did a charity drive in her honor, and we focused on being more social. I have a boy to take care of and responsibilities to be met - but I think this transition is where many grieving people fall into trouble.

I’ve lost my dad and my grandmother, both of whom I was very close to. But this hit different.

This column, “No Love is Ever Wasted”, captured my feelings well in a unique way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/style/modern-love-no-love...
That hasn't always been the case. Many of their products have been extremely functional -- and even repairable. Have a look at the inside of a PowerMac G4.

But they get into this weirdness where they produce a well-designed functional product, people like it, they assume it's because of the design and then produce something else that sacrifices function for design, then act confounded when people don't like it.
But the information would still be forever locked away in its own galactic island. Even transmitting at the speed of light, the information could never reach any other galaxy. So no, in this far future, a galaxy would only be able to know itself.
Slavery and Jim Crow.

See also sundown towns, racial based exclusionary zoning, racial covenants, redlining, and Home Owners Associations.
It's not imaginary if it works.
Moving On: Reflections on My Journey at Brinc
> You would have to try harder to drink too little water, because your body regulates hydration by getting thirsty

To the point of death? Sure. To the point of reduced functionality? I disagree. It's quite easy for me to feel thirsty, reach for my water bottle, realize it's empty, say ill get more water in a little bit, and then not get more water. Repeat 5 or so times and then a few hours go by and I start getting a headache.
> wasn't interested in subsidizing

That's a weird way to spell "wasn't interested in overcharging less".
See e.g. [1], [2], [3], [4] (in particular see [4.a])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_during_the_slave_per...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_Unit...

[4.a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_Unit...
Another +1 for Wezterm.
I also tried Alacritty in past, but felt it too basic.
Kitty was better. TBH, not sure why I left that for Wezterm.
But for now, I've settled and have no intention to change.

FWIW I use Wezterm with Zellij
It’s a human with the soul of an AI.
I'm curious about how Indexify handles fault tolerance during ingestion spikes and compute infrastructure failures.
Could you please provide some examples?
> Google's calculator app has no unit conversion and a very bare-bones "scientific" mode.

Surely there are untold many suitable calculator apps on Google Play or F-Droid?
So after reading this thread, I saw people testing out Gemini and ChatGPT, I didn't see llama3 being used, I went to my terminal and had the following discussion:

>>> hi there, I have some questions, can you help me out?
Hi there! Of course, I'd be happy to help you out. Go ahead and ask your questions - I'm all ears! What's on your mind?

>>> Can you list the 5 countries in Africa that start with the letter "A" please?
Here are the 5 African countries that start with the letter "A":

1. Algeria
2. Angola
3. Antigua and Barbuda (note: not fully in Africa, but has a portion on the continent)
4. Afghanistan (note: not commonly considered part of Africa, but technically is)
5. Afar (a disputed region claimed by both Ethiopia and Eritrea)

Let me know if you need anything else!

>>> this was great, can you give me 10 US States that start with the letter S?
Here are the 10 US states that start with the letter "S":

1. South Carolina
2. South Dakota
3. State of Alaska (note: while not officially named "State", it's commonly referred to as such)
4. Samoa (unincorporated territory, not a state)
5. Saint Pierre and Miquelon (unincorporated territory, not a state)
6. Saipan (unincorporated territory, not a state)

*Wait, I apologize! It seems I got a bit carried away with the "S" territories. Let me correct that:*

1. South Carolina
2. South Dakota
3. States of Alabama (note: while not officially named "States", it's commonly referred to as such)
4. Samoa (unincorporated territory, not a state)
5. Saint Pierre and Miquelon (unincorporated territory, not a state)

*Only 2 actual states start with the letter S: South Carolina and South Dakota!*

I hope that clears things up for you!

This is extremely interesting to me... this actually didn't do to terrible.
Could you clarify what's missing with this kwin script? The only thing I see is that window stacking doesn't work on wayland.

Personally, I've given up of controlling all pieces of my DE like setting up busses and keyboard shortcuts. KDE already does all of this brilliantly and kwin scripts get the rest so I can have my cake and eat it too.
This whole thing is so bizarre.

A lot of people look handsome, sound handsome and are even stylish. So some rich person can randomly claim some one looks closer or sounds closer to them and hence needs to forced to wear a mask to prevented from even talking?

So what happens next, when AI bots begin to sing, compose music, teach, paint or anything for that matter?
Speaking of not wanting to get locked in. I work for Heroku and we are previewing an open source buildpack that produces docker images here’s a tutorial

https://www.schneems.com/2024/05/01/build-a-ruby-on-rails-ap...
*tweak

> especially when you consider from OpenAI’s view the fact that they hired a different actress and didn’t ask her to do a Her impersonation.

That’s not specifically what they are accused of doing. The voice actress’s raw audio is only half the story, how they manipulated that audio makes a real difference in what the model sounded like. As many people assumed it was her objectively the end result was close. Worse the model sounds closer to Scarlet than the voice actress does.

Put another way, they wanted to end up at X and also happened to end up close to X when the search space was huge. Where did you get that Huge TV? It’s the craziest thing it just happened to fall off a truck.
I just saw this on YouTube and came to post it. It is really cool idea, I love these alternative input methods.
Xplore file manager has this ability
European leaders are planning a $4.3B Iron Dome-style defense system
This was happening to people who don't have iCloud enabled, it has nothing to do with the cloud
What is the magazine article they’re flipping through?
After years of programming against REST(ish) APIs backed by statically typed languages, I'm now fighting one built by a team that loves ruby/rails.

It's a terrible experience. No auto-generated specs. Can't even look at the code to know what some request parameters are supposed to be (had to go digging through pagy docs for that one). One day, a value in a response that is normally a string was suddenly an array on certain queries.

The whole approach is so haphazard move-fast-nobody-cares that it grinds my gears and I'm not even contributing to their code, just consuming it.

My kingdom for a better experience.
FrankenVAR: Enabling generative vision modality for text-only LLMs
The idea looks technically solid to me. Would be great if someone committed a few grand to check if it works on Llama-8B.
Don't forgot the recent Samsung repairman incident where the guy cut a customers tv with a box cutter, then claimed the customer did it. Just to avoid having to fulfill the customers warranty claim:

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

Pity for them that it was all clearly captured on camera.
CAIR2 is specific to California. Every state registry has some technical differences in HL7 V2 Messaging support but most are reasonably close to the CDC/AIRA spec.

https://repository.immregistries.org/resource/hl7-version-2-...

The CDC IZ Gateway can make it somewhat easier to work with multiple state registries.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/iz-gateway/overvie...

In practice the C-CDAs obtained from providers sometimes include immunization section entries so you can pick up some records that way as well
Fed: We're Worried About Persistent Inflation, Too
Agreed that the short scale has become more prevalent, lamentably. I find 6n more pleasing than 3n+3.
Wow, wondered when the next advancement was coming in epaper and now it's here
Ask HN: Linux vs. Mac vs. Windows for Programming, Deep Learning, AI, ML, DS
Mac works out of the box but then linux has its advantages and so does windows.
Which OS do you prefer and why?
I imagine we'll be air conditioning bigger spaces and more liberally, in a lot of places.
Oh I didn’t notice that part. That could work.
Probably your confusion stems from ignorance.

> Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the virus SARS-CoV-1, the first identified strain of the SARS-related coronavirus.

In December 2019, a second strain of SARS-CoV was identified: SARS-CoV-2. This strain causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease behind the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS

The two strains are closely genetically related.

There was already evidence of airborne spread back during the 2002 SARS-CoV-1 outbreak.
Source: I was the chief hw designer for this project.

The tablet does have page turn buttons! There is a side button and a top button. The side button in particular is nice as a page turn button.
“It’s always been like this” has never been a good reason for things to stay the same.
Sounds like the words of someone that grew up in the era of "not having to write ASM or C to get something done"

You had probably multiples orders of magnitude less people that could even speak the language, let alone do something coherent with it.
Thanks, that seems like the right kind of thing. :)
NASA's Psyche mission fires up its futuristic electric engines
Samsung's constant chasing of Apple has removed most of the reasons I would buy a Samsung phone.
Basically, this

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...

Linus tech tips made some decent videos on the topic. But basically, what this apparently boils down to, is Microsoft wants to control system power states from the OS instead of relying on the implementation different manufacturers provide in their BIOS or something.

And there are good reasons to do so, and in concept, it's a decent idea, but the feature just isn't filly ready yet, especially in terms of it being supported by software.

There is a link to SleepStudy at the bottom of that article, which is a piece of software that, from what I understood from it's description, lets you track _why_ your laptop is hot and bothered while riding in your backpack.

In the end, it could be Software (whatever programs you run), OS, BIOS or really hardware related. Probably makes it really hard to understand what _actually_ causes the problem.
this is cool! i do the same thing[1], wanted ag/rg to be able to search and replace.

1. https://github.com/nathants/agr
Now that it's mentioned... Yeah, Termux. I use it all the time. I used to always have a small laptop and/or a wearable with me constantly, now those are often still with me but Termux (with the Hacker's Keyboard) has reduced my carrying of those. I possibly spend more time (on my phone) in Termux than all the other apps combined (including the browser "apps").

Thanks for alerting me to my usage (reliance?) of it.

Bonus: Most everything also syncs easily, for me, with my more traditional computers with rsync or scp from/to a Termux session.
Seems to hold for vehicular accidents as well. https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/road-users/dispari...
How Wi-Fi sensing of movement became usable tech
The US government has already spent massive amounts of money subsidizing nuclear science programs, because much of the technology is dual-use for weapons. The same is true of every nuclear armed nation in the world.

We subsidized the nuclear power industry for many decades. We also perversely spent $trillions subsidizing the fossil fuel industry.

What the author and others point out is solar lacked those massive subsidies. Had we spent the same amount on subsidies for solar power, as we spent on nuclear or fossil fuels, solar power technology would have advanced much faster.

Yeah, maybe if we dumped even more cash in to nuclear, we might have those cost efficient reactors people keep dreaming about. Or maybe not, because there are compelling arguments that nuclear power will never be able to compete against solar on price. Yes, I am aware that the sun isn't always shining...
I didn't conveniently gloss over anything you didn't in the comment I was replying to.
This is good news for me! It shows that humans won't be replaced by AI anytime soon. AI might be smart, but it still makes funny mistakes, like suggesting glue for pizza. We still need our human creativity and good judgment.
Have you ever heard about the Jones Act? The US tried to specifically keep shipmaking capabilities, but implementing such protectionism arguably backfired. The point is, what policies would you have implemented to keep that manufacturing capacity?
Facebook does do this, and Google, and Microsoft, and Apple. I believe they call it "Getting Sherlocked."
I hear you. I looked at fixing the machine myself and we considered just replacing it when we thought the warranty was too far gone, but it seriously irks me to throw out an entire machine. It feels incredibly wasteful.

We must shop the same brands. I scratched a rear removable interior panel of a Pajero (fridge rubbing against it for 3,000km of corrugated road) and asked for a replacement price out of interest when I was in for a dealer service. $350 or so for what is a single piece of moulded plastic. Unique to the vehicle, but not otherwise complicated.

I like your idea of trying to standardise at least some components across various brands of a product (like is done with USB standards). It shits me that everything is optimised for cost and profit rather than for consumers and the broader environment.