skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Microsoft got dragged through anti-trust hell for just bundling IE with Windows and letting you install whatever browser you wanted after that, but Apple gets away with literally banning you from installing the browser you want on your own device, but that's ok? Make it make sense.
> It made sense in 2007 when your resolution was 1024x768.

Yes and so it makes sense today because CSS pixels are resolution independent. If something worked on 1024x768 monitors in 2007 but is too small on your monitor today then the problem is with your settings not the website.
Medical technology has also improved dramatically since the 90s.
Note that I’ve noticed that it consumes quite a bit of CPU on average over time, if you use the “monitor app/process” functionality.

(reported it to the Developer. It basically runs some `ps -a …` command every x seconds.)
It could be a backronym for some buildings owned by someone.

According to the 2010 United States Census, Warf is the 17883rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1564 individuals. Warf is most common among White (91.43%) individuals.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Warf
Actually, many of us do.

My company has been trying 4 day weeks twice a month since 2022 without salary decrease, the trial have been mostly conclusive, and we'll probably move forward and have 4 day weeks all weeks at some point. That's the stated goal anyway. The main difficulty is probably the fact that customers don't have 4 days and expect support all week. A partial answer to this is people have been able to pick 2 additional days off each month no questions asked, and not everybody like the same days off so it has been working out.

Studies show productivity is kept at the same level when companies switch to 4 day week, but people are happier and feel more rested (which is why there are more productive, there's probably also the fact you don't have to worry about life stuff as much at work since you can do many things that need to be done during the week during the off day). Since we produce the same amount, I don't see why the full salary should not be kept.
I've always felt this way, and while I never thought I was alone exactly (the documentary, Koyaanisqatsi, literally translated as "life out of balance" suggests that some have come to this realization before I was even born), but I thought that perhaps others were better able to deal with modernity than I. That is probably true to some extent, but increasingly I think that most people are affected but aren't as conscious of the reasons for their malaise. Also, a lot of people still seem to be able to believe in religion (I'm sadly not one of them) which seems to help them.
Do you believe that people were happier in pre-modern times?
Nvidia has released Enterprise AI suite in 2022 as the first company in the world.

While everyone thinks that CSP will catch up with Nvidia in chips, Nvidia is actually working in displacing CSP in their domain which is SaaS. Nvidia has already NIMs which go into the category of AI development/deployment as a service.
"The sun never set on the British empire, an Indian nationalist later sardonically commented, because even God couldn’t trust the Englishman in the dark"
No, workers in Germany already have the right to work less hours in return for less pay.

The idea is to lower the default weekly working hours while keeping the same salary. If productivity slowly goes up over time, it should be possible.
Many of the assembly writers have exposure across platforms, but often with modern assemblers whose syntax tracks Intel syntax more closely.

I don't know why 68000 is so popular here (maybe people on HN learned it in school?), but you're far more likely to be writing ARM assembly or these days RISC-V assembly than writing for an antiquated core like the 68000.

Believe it or not, outside the x86 world, Intel-style syntax has basically won.
my bad, you're right. Thanks for pointing it out :)
MacPorts is vital for package management—has many more packages than Homebrew, a more sane implementation, and was co-created by Jordan Hubbard who worked for Apple and also created the FreeBSD ports system. Also pretty straightforward to create your own ports using built-in templates for GitHub projects, Makefile-based projects, etc.

MonitorControl is great for interfacing with external monitors using DDC/CI.

I recommend primarily using Safari with a Content Blocker (I use AdGuard) as it uses far less battery than third-party browsers and feels more native.

VMWare Fusion is now free for personal use if you need to virtualize Windows; the official download link is a Byzantine nightmare but you can find mirrors if you Google for them and you can verify the hash against those listed on the official download site.
Computers Can't Do Math
LibreWolf, Mullvad Browser, Brave, Chromium
This smells like LLM bot
> I like Epinio which does the same but on top of kubernetes

So basically not at all the same? :D

The point of piku seems to be: Heroku experience without requiring docker, and with a really simple architecture, and that it works on ARM.

Kubernetes works on ARM, I give you that. But AFAIK, Kubernetes requires you to use some sort of containers (Docker or otherwise) and its architecture is anything but simple (for obvious reasons).

Besides that, I don't see how epinion enables the "git push" workflow, the quick start tutorial seems to tell you to run "epinio push manifest.yaml" or similar to deploy the application, so it doesn't fit with the "Heroku-like experience" either.

So really, the only things they have in common is that they handle deployments?
The moment you allow someone to rank above a government site for something the government site should do, you create the incentive to profit from that position. Answering a question is probably harmless, but scrolling an extra 300 pixels is also harmless. At worst, consumers get scammed into paying for services they are entitled to for free (with a worse quality of service). Sometimes hundreds or thousands of dollars. It's not hypothetical, it's already happening.
You don't need to make DTOs when you don't have to, using AutoMapper is considered a bad practice and is heavily discouraged (if you do have to use a tool like that, there are alternatives like Mapperly which are zero-cost to use and will give you built-time information on what doesn't map without having to run the application).

Hell, most simple applications could do with just a single layer - schema registration in EF Core is mapping, or at most two, one for DB and one for response contracts.

Just do it the simplest way you can. I understand that culture in some companies might be a problem, and it's been historically an issue plaguing .NET, spilling over, originally, from Java enterprise world. But I promise you there are teams which do not do this kind of nonsense.

Things really have improved since .NET Framework days, EF Core productivity wise, while similar in its strong areas, is pretty much an entirely new solution everywhere else.
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The various ".. of the British Empire" awards are still being issued annually.

There's no "empire" in the Royal titles any more, but the King remains "head of state" for Commonwealth nations, including Canada and Australia! https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/the-kings-style-and-tit...
What does that have to do with ARM64 assembly? The ISA and CPU architecture are orthogonal to all peripherals.

These peripherals are accessed with memory-mapped IO using the same instructions any other program uses.

Documentation about ARM64 assembly shouldn't and doesn't contain specific peripheral access info. ISA docs contain info common to all CPUs implementing the spec.
Only if the expectations for quality of life, and other external factors such as supply of resources to maintain those expectations of quality of life, remain the same.

Examples of increases in quality of life include things like living into one’s 80s and 90s using dialysis and heart surgeries and new medicines.

Examples of changes in supply of resources include things like energy, labor, and a hospitable natural environment.

All of these things are constantly in flux, and automation sometimes outpaces them, and sometimes does not.
Mandatory tethered caps on plastic bottles from July 3
The first 6 words of the article clarify it, it's not like it's buried. Clickbait, yes, but hardly unusual or indicative of dishonesty in the movement.
Show HN: Will Crowther's 1976 "Colossal Cave Adventure" reimplemented in C++
Might have been interesting, but adding a Linux dependency looks like a really strange choice. And why does it refer to GCC when the Mac toolchain is clang? This feels all wrong.
> What It’s Really Like to Have a 4-Day Workweek

>Why The 4-Day Workweek Is Gaining Momentum

>Four-day workweek: Firms in UK make the move permanent after world’s biggest trial

There you go, a bunch of honest
4 day workweek headlines I found with the most basic google search. Now you can forever dispell yourself of the idea that dishonesty is particularly prevalent in headlines about 4 day workweeks.
* Homebrew - Package manager (kinda like apt/rpm on Linux).

* Secretive - Stores SSH keys in the secure enclave [https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive]

* Alfred - Better spotlight [https://www.alfredapp.com/]

* Hazel - File automations [https://www.noodlesoft.com/]

* Arq - Excellent backup software for local and/or remote backups [https://arqbackup.com/]

* ChronoSync - File synchronization on steoroids [https://www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/overview.html]

* Launch Control - Easily edit and control those Launchctl files [https://www.soma-zone.com/LaunchControl/]

* Sublime Text - Excellent and fast text editor [https://www.sublimetext.com/]

* Sublime Merge - Excellent Git UI [https://www.sublimemerge.com/]

* Zed - Currently evaluating if it can replace Sublime Text [https://zed.dev/]

* Little Snitch - Network Monitor and Application Firewall [https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html]

* KnockKnock/BlockBlock/Oversight - Various malware monitoring and detection [https://objective-see.org/index.html]

* Draw.io - Diagramming tool [https://www.drawio.com/]

* Iterm2 - Terminal Replacement [https://iterm2.com/]

I use a bunch of other apps, but the above are probably the most broadly applicable :)
My subjective definition of ethics is that they're objective :)

Of course if you define both words to be the same thing to the point where they're interchangeable then the meanings change, but that's not what those words mean to me. I don't define ethics to be a socially held belief.

What do words even mean?

Edit: I don't know why I'm arguing with you, I have no strongly held belief and don't care about this at all.
The right to a part time job has been around for about twenty years i think. The current discussion is to rethink the workweek as four days, there are multiple models in talks (4x 10 hours, 4x 8 hours with less pay, etc..)

In my opinion the real problem is that the german tax system incentivises working less instead of more, as the marginal tax increases even for hours worked beyond the 40h work week -> the more you work the less you keep per hour.
It looks like it should be theoretically possible to have the sun set on the Empire not just with a total eclipse on Pitcairn, but alternatively with one over the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The BIOT is perhaps best known in these circles for its .io domain names, or elsewhere as the site of a genocide of the natives by the British armed forces in the 1970s.

The next British territory west of the BIOT is Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus. [0] The next territory east is Pitcairn.

When it's 06:30 in Cyprus in the winter, it's 20:30 in Pitcairn. The sun will have set about 75 minutes previously on the latter [1], and won't rise for another 15 minutes in the former [2], so there's an hour and a half each day where the BIOT, not Pitcairn, is the only British territory where it's daytime.

And... there's a total solar eclipse coming up there as soon as 2027! [3] Unfortunately it's in the summer, in the evening, and it won't be total over the whole territory at the same time (though another eclipse could be). So it doesn't quite qualify, but to fully answer this question, the BIOT needs to be considered.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories

[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/biot/diego-garcia?month=12&y...

[2] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/cyprus/nicosia?month=12&year...

[3] https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/biot?iso=20270802
I'm sorry, is this homophobia supposed to be a defence of child abuse?
That doesn't inspire confidence in Levin's research, if it were true. Wolfram's quixotic quest for a theory of everything is something basically only he believes in, with very little shot at doing anything worthwhile, at least for physics. I hope that Levin's notions are more likely to bear some fruit.
Show HN: I made an animated QR code messaging system
Hey HN!

I'd like to share my weekend project for encoding/decoding messages using animated QR codes. It takes a message and creates a GIF image where each frame contains an individual part of the message in QR code format. The scanning feature reconstructs one of these GIFs back to the message's original form.

This was a fun little project. Give it a try and let me know how it goes!
If productivity is kept at the same level, and people work a day less, you wouldn't produce the same amount.
CC and Communia Statement on Transparency in the EU AI Act
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Show HN: Crawl a modern website to a zip, serve the website from the zip
C# is way more similar to Rust than Java, please do not bundle it together: proper generics, async, iterator expressions, trait composition (through interfaces), extension methods, higher order functions, low-level control with `unsafe` syntax when necessary, slice types.
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Calendar 366 seems nice, thanks for the tip.
I loaded it into Numbers (Apple's spreadsheet program) and changed the input. It recalculated in a few seconds (M1 16/512 Mac mini) but the output didn't change. It needs a deeper drive.
A problem is that a substantial amount of people make more than enough money, and therefore they are looking at ways to have more free time. While at the same time there are not enough people to do all the work (in part due to retiring baby boomers).

There's a labor shortage so you'd think wages would go up, but if people make more per hour then that just means they're going to work less.

And migration is already at levels that gives fuel to right wing populists.
4x10h 4 times per week, every week sounds horrible IMHO. I personally definitely can't be 20% more productive per day by working 2 extra hours.

This would only work if you clock in 10h on paper, but actually work much less hours from home where nobody tracks how much you actually work, but if have to actually clock in 10h per day at the office, plus commute time, I'll most likely just space out and watch the clock for the rest of those two hours. And then that extra free day per week would be to recover from the long working day at the office nullifying any advantage.
Why not both. :-)
why not 2 days a week with full salary then? where do you stop?
I remember getting it in the late 70s and early 80s. More in the 80s but that was also when i relocated to city life. Before that we were a commune and there was always "mother earth news" readers (or writers) around, so I got exposed the very flakiest of the cutting edge of progressive thought.
Kinda opposite in my circles - techies are just meh while creatives use to do tons of writing or summarising stuff. Of course tons of friends never even heard of it.
GitPanic online presentation – Merging and Rebasing
Oh, so it's like kernel32.dll on the Windows side of things?
Hudson's Bay Company
After incorporation by English royal charter in 1670, the company was granted a right of "sole trade and commerce" over an expansive area of land known as Rupert's Land, comprising much of the Hudson Bay drainage basin.

This right effectively gave the company a commercial monopoly over that area. The HBC functioned as the de facto government in Rupert's Land for nearly 200 years until the HBC relinquished control of the land to Canada in 1869 as part of the Deed of Surrender,authorized by the Rupert's Land Act 1868.

At its peak, the company controlled the fur trade throughout much of the English- and later British-controlled North America. By the mid-19th century, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling a wide variety of products from furs to fine homeware in a small number of sales shops (as opposed to trading posts) across Canada.

These shops were the first step towards the department stores the company owns today.

In 2006, an American businessman, Jerry Zucker, bought HBC for US$1.1 billion.
What a weird comment considering that free time is a major component of quality of life.
> And yet, it's completely illegal for me to travel to Japan for even a day with my ADHD medication. I could be carrying my script, a letter from my doctor, and have literally only a single days supply, and I'd be risking a very serious prison sentence.

Ok, I Googled about this.

English language policy from Japan gov't: https://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/policy/health-medical/pharmac...

Scary US embassy page: https://jp.usembassy.gov/services/importing-medication/

Still, that page provides an email address. Try it with your medicine, and see what happens.

More from a US-based non-profit: "Japan Focus: ADHD and Traveling with Medication" -> https://www.miusa.org/resource/tip-sheets/japanfocus/

They recommend to ask in advance. If denied, skip it for the trip (I know how people will react on HN to that suggestion!) or carry an allowed alternative.

Your last paragraph feels like it was lifted from a non-profit that advocates for ADHD disability rights. It is incredibly specific. Also, I'm really tired of repeating myself on HN: Saying "Europe" doesn't say much. Europe is huge. It is (at least) 44 countries and 27 belong to the EU. There are huge differences between each country. Do you really expect us to believe that in the Nordics that "ADHD is still close to non-recognised"? I find it hard to believe.
And I just want a reasonable font size. On desktop it is miserable -- I always need to zoom to 133% to match the font size I see on other websites. On mobile it is ok.
You should try that when things are going well, not after purchasing power has collapsed 10s of percents over <5 years and 80% of <35yo s cannot afford to buy a flat.
I would personally try to have some non-AI thumbnails. But that's just me.
I meant productivity overall is constant. Productivity "per hour" is better.
Lol at under 10 and over 75 having no interest. I know avid users … content creators… in both categories.
Part time has gotten quite common in Germany. I work 20 hrs a day and that pays my bills.

Given that there is a shortage of workers, companies here increasingly have to compete for workers by means of improving working conditions and worker freedoms.
Ah yeah. I live in Portland and this is pretty uncommon here now, but I have seen it in Seattle more often on steep hills, which makes some sense. At least in the old days with a manual transmission, parking facing uphill was safer (wheels toward the street, too). The Seattle area is also weird in that it used to be the only place in America where 4-way intersections had no stop signs at all. No one knew if you should stop. No one party had the right of way. This went for most residential streets around there in the '90s... not sure how it is now.
the idea is that if your productivity increases and you do 5 days of work in just 4 days you will be eaten alive by other companies based in countries where they are just as productive but decide to keep working 5 days instead.
> Arnsten recounted walking in the woods in Vermont, when suddenly along the path, a bear appeared in front of her. Luckily, the bear was facing the other way. Rather than consciously reasoning that most mammals lack a ventral stream, and therefore would not be able to recognize a still object, she froze. In this moment of fear, her reflex of freezing was engaged. When the bear turned around, it did not notice her because of her lack of movement, and ended up wandering off.

Such a great example of how the fear reflex is functional from a survival perspective. We often talk about how we can combat our fears (e.g. public speaking, dancing, etc) and this serves as a good reminder how this primitive response serves a purpose.
People didn't know there was a fertile land of the other side. Just like we don't know if there is a good thing that will come out of mars. We just know the constraints.

It's not about what you know is there. It's the potential.

There is no point for Usain Bolt to run that fast. There is not point in building the tallest tower in the world once again.

Meanwhile, the mars goal already managed to bring us spaceships that land and divide the cost of putting satellites in orbit by 10.

No other path lead to it because there was nothing to motivate it enough.
A guide to threat hunting and monitoring in Snowflake
This is an ad for a particular company. The article doesn't include any support for their claim that their service is of greater benefit to local hosts.

However, the general advice given seems sensible. I've traveled in this way before, without using external services, and had lovely trips / experiences.

I was unaware of https://njt.net/, which seems like it's worth looking into.
If we can show that productivity is not affected, why not indeed? Spending time at work is not a goal.

I have not seen study stating this though.
I'm a big fan of modern JavaScript frameworks, but I don't fancy SSR, so have been experimenting with crawling myself for uploading to hosts without having to do SSR. This is the result
That's always confusing. They should have said "the second most popular browser (after Chrome)", or something like that.
> “The final feature is a reduced sense of personal accomplishment,” Santos said. “You never feel like you’re doing things effectively and so you feel ineffective and like the work you do doesn’t matter. If you notice signs like this, it’s important that you pay attention early on and make some changes in order to feel better.”

I wonder if this had to do with the fact that in modern society, we often have to go through great mental loops to convince ourselves that our jobs are meaningful. After all, they are very far away from doing things like obtaining food and shelter or even learning things we are curious about.

At some point, I feel like the illusion cannot be held for long: it starts in school when the learning is onstensibly about curiosity but then the gradient between curiosity-driven learning and being a cog slowly eats away at the facade that we have constructed in our minds of actually doing something useful in society until burnout becomes inevitable.

Seems rather obvious as society these days is mostly about furthering advanced technology for very little benefit to the average person except that it keeps the economy going only due to the fact that the economy itself is based on broken principles not compatible with our amazingly high human population density.