skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also:

> Granularity of your financial amounts should ...

... comply with relevant regulations.

I worked on a gambling webapp a long time back - we were bound by government regulations on gambling licences to perform all calculations at a precision of one ten thousandth of a cent, and were only permitted to round to cents once at the very end just before displaying a dollar amount to a person.

(This suited me down to the ground because I pointed out to everybody that Javascript couldn't be guaranteed to treat numbers and calculations in a way that would keep the regulators auditors happy, and managed to push _every_ calculation involving dollar amounts off to the Java backend team.)

We also used integer UTC milliseconds for time, so we'd have good enough for the auditors timestamps showing who placed a valid bet at (say) 12:34:59.9997 and who else place an invalid bet at 12:35:00.0003 for a wager with a cut off time of 12:35. (We asked for and got a ruling from the regulators that the time that mattered was the time the API call was processed by the backend, since network latencies between the webapp and the backend platform were impossible to predict. I have no idea if the backend had millisecond accurate time, that wasn't my problem and I _so_ didn't want to have them make it my problem by asking the question.)
Who cares about single person?

Just look at the majority and how big that group is
My theory is that your subconscious knows you have to wake up at a fixed time and that's extra stress, even if it wakes you up before the alarm. As you're saying, it even cuts into your sleep time.

One point in favor of this theory is that even I, a night owl, manage sometimes to wake up before the alarm on the rare days that I do need to wake up early on.
That's fair. Attempting to rationalize my choice of language:

- Their homepage defines reproducibility to be something other than bitwise identical results.

- Getting actual bitwise reproducible builds is still hard for most large projects, even with the work Nix has done (note that the quote you pulled doesn't actually say that Nix _does_ provide such builds, and the rest of that linked text just tries to highlight some of the tools you have at your disposal to achieve that).

They do "try" insofar as they're aware of the desire for bitwise identical results, provide them in some cases, and provide tools to diagnose problems. They're also 20 years old and more than happy to call the current results reproducible. At the very least, it doesn't look like one of the top properties for the project.
Don't forget to bring a diesel generator if you forgot to build your own electric grid.
Whats the benefit of this over something like WeTransfer?
They're hardly being advertised or sold on that premise. They advertise and sell themselves, because people try them out and find out they work, and tell their friends and/or audiences. ChatGPT is probably the single biggest bona-fide organic marketing success story in recorded history.
Conversational Surveys – The future of user research?
I'm exploring an idea for a survey tool that uses conversational AI to conduct more dynamic, in-depth surveys. Instead of static questions, it would:

1. Based on the goal the model auto-generate questions

2. Allow users to respond in text or audio (like WhatsApp)

3. Use AI to analyze responses in real-time

4. Generate follow-up questions to dig deeper when initial answers lack depth

The goal is to get the qualitative richness of a conversation, but at scale.

Has anyone tried something similar? What challenges do you foresee? Would this be valuable for user research, customer feedback, or other use cases?

Looking for validation, critiques, or any thoughts on this approach. Thanks!
Do they have a drivers license that is the kind US citizens have, or do they have another form if photo ID?

In Texas, there are many variations on ID cards and Drivers Licenses. The style and color say a lot.
So many articles on this paper, none link to it: https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e001000

In case you want other mental health tips from the study: "Individuals who abstained from alcohol showed lower cognitive scores than those who consumed alcohol"
> There are 210 packages which include a top-level test or tests directory

Now there's a somewhat useful "make a pull request to an open source project" exercise.
Show HN: Magic Top Hat, an infinite library for Python
Just for fun I wanted to write a library that generates the functions you import from it at runtime using the context in which you called them.

It's just a joke, but it proves what I was always afraid of: dunder methods are way too powerful and sometimes python seems to be broken because of it.
I have only now realised the reason my name is fairly unique.

My father was a teacher, so he did know names people were using, and for any given name could probably think of a child he wouldn't want me to share a name with!
Maybe letting Boeing collapse is too scary, fine. Find people who signed for the fraud and throw the book at them. Decades in prison, millions in fines. Nothing will collapse from that. If that's not happening then thd concern is not the noble one about the country bug selfish one about never letting the elites suffer any consequences of anything.
According to the docs [0], Plausible CE is installed as a Docker image, running in its set of containers, as an independent service from your site, which you only add the tracking snippet.

This doesn't make your site as a derivative of Plausible, but you're installing Plausible as a different tool, independent from your site.

Like installing a GPL binary doesn't make all BSD licensed binaries switch to GPL license on your system, running an AGPL licensed service on your server which communicates with your site doesn't make your site AGPL automatically, because you're not deriving Plausible, but you're installing and using it.

Now, if you want to build a service/website by directly modifying the Plausible CE source code, you have to open that derivative codebase with AGPL, only if you're redistributing the modified code (i.e. making the modified website available to other people). If you modified the code, but you're not distributing it (i.e. Only you're using it yourself), you can keep it to yourself.

[0]: https://github.com/plausible/community-edition/
Probably a spy /s
There may be a degree of truth to “holding out against death”. It’s obvious if you step outside of the dogma of monistic materialism, but even that aside it looks like decrease in life expectancy after losing a spouse in old age, “diseases of despair” (with terminal ends), reduction in mortality associated with late retirement are allegedly things that exist. The will to do various things that correlate with not dying can do wonders.
This is a silly idea that brings nothing but misery and maintenance overhead (go check how good government and old banks apps work).

Software is well… “soft” it must be flexible and ready to change 100% when requirements, context, environment, people change.

Im both sorry for and angry at those stubborn close minded developers who dream of creating a perfect system that will last forever — this is an ignorant utopian goal.

Please stop feeding your ego - you are not an architect of landmarks, you are just an engineer serving current business needs.
And you have the option to branch off into any other kind of development. A C64 Style clone is mostly nostalgia. A raspberry pi is presenting you (or your children) with dozens of ways to learn employable skills project based and in a fun way.
My Glorious Ascension to Thought Leadership
Gen Z yearns for the pre-digital dating era – but don't ask them out in person
Why do you think it's probable? The much smaller llava that I can run in my consumer GPU can also do "OCR", yet I don't believe anyone has hidden any OCR engine inside llama.cpp.
> That’s why I believe switching to permanent summer time would be a big mistake and would make kids suffer a lot more than they already do.

But school would start at the same time regardless. They'd still have to show up at 7:45 AM in the summer and the winter. (And 9-5s would still be 9-5s.)

Year-round summer time does mean more daylight to enjoy after work, which would probably be an economic boon to stores and restaurants if it enhances after work leisure.
I hoped this was going to be a recipe on how to make gigantic soap bubbles!
Well, thank you for the comment, I do agree that the idea isn't novel in itself
but what I'd convince you is, is the approach and library choices

however regarding screenshots, I shall prepare, so thank you for the suggestion, in the mean time though I had a video documenting how to use the former version (v2.0) you can find it by rolling back to the previous commit, along with user documentation
You should give Theia Ide [1] a try. It's plugin-compatible with VSCode, same user experience. It's slower to start and takes more memory but on my 3 y.o. intel Mac it is definitely snappier than VScode.

[1] https://theia-ide.org/
I just automatically wake up after about 7.5 hours. I hate alarms and it wrecks my entire day if I sleep any less than 6.5 hours.

I can rise early without an alarm just by sleeping early.

The stupid article doesn't link the actual paper and I'm lazy to search for it but I wouldn't be surprised if this is a correlation-not-causation situation, since a lot of unskilled work does in fact require rising early while a lot of intellectual work has flexible hours.
Just because art always has a political component, doesn't mean reviews and discussions of it need to focus on viewing it through a political lens.

Yes sure, art is political, but art is political in a different way in which a discussion forum might be said to be political, and it's entirely reasonable to wish for a discussion forum with a less political bent.
Diversity Is Hard (2017)
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A subscription is actually better, because at least there is a chance of a sustainable business model.

Your phone app will stop working within 2-4 years of being abandoned anyway, whether you "bought" it or whether you were paying a subscription fee. So I'd rather not pretend that I "bought" anything, and pay the subscription, hoping that the business will be able to make ends meet in the long term and not abandon the app.
i have quite a long experience in devops myself. that's why for my personal simple services i want to have a platform that needs no maintenance from my side.

a good extension cord can serve ten years with no modifications/updates.
a good radio receiver can work for ten years with no modifications/updates.
a good power adapter can work ten years with no modifications/updates.
good simple software should work ten years with no modifications/updates.
https://www.nixhub.io/ - and I’ve seen others - make the searching easy. It’s odd to me that I rely so much on web based tools (like search.nixos.org!) to look up nixpkgs details for my commandline but eh.

For a flake, you’d specify an input of that specific revision of nixpkgs and then refer to your CMake dependency with respect to that input. You may end up with - by design - a lot of duplicated dependencies, but it’d work.

https://blog.mplanchard.com/posts/installing-a-specific-vers... is a nice writeup (not mine) with examples of a few different ways to do this in flakes and not-flakes.
Can you link to some of the cutesy code? I've never heard this before.
The Hazards of Groups and Group Work (2014)
`pip install nodejs-bin` gets you node, including npm, in your venv along with bindings for calling it all from Python.
The fixed life of plants and its constraints (2019)
How do you fix a fissure in the anus?

A: Rectal Glyceryl trinitrate

How do you fix GERD?

A: For the majority of people weight loss and dietary changes will do the job

How do you fix Crohns?

A: You don’t ’fix’ Crohn’s per se as there is no cure. But most people with Crohn’s can be have their disease managed well with -mab medications

In all those conditions you named surgical management is very much at the end of the list and for a minority of patients who do not respond to the above. The first line management in all of these conditions very much does look at ‘fixing the problem’ contrary to what your espousing.
Worst supply chain attack you can imagine prevented with binary secret scanning
> Build secure, scalable applications in minutes instead of days—no professional software development skills required

What is the big push for companies to NOT have professionals involved. These things are not trivial, at least to get right. Not having a professional involved is not the benefit they think it is.
We swapped to AirWallex but note card acceptance is limited to companies that are controlled by directors with the same residence.

Eg US LLCs not owned by US residents can't get card acceptance.
I'm like you, but I fall asleep only when I'm tired and that's not consistent.
Earlier submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40933477
On a related note:

C. Limb, R. Limb, C. Limb, D. Limb
"Nominative determinism in hospital medicine: Can our surnames influence our choice of career, and even specialty?"

https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/pdf/10.1308/147363515X14...
When I last made a similar point someone pointed out to me that this has gained a higher priority recently thanks to VR. Janky framerate is going to be much more noticeable with a headset than with a traditional monitor, and could even result in lost lunches!
Moving 15 lines up is a basic vim motion
It's time consuming only if author interested in good UX. If author wants to use their users as alpha-testers, then he can spent a minimal amount of time on packaging.
Yeah I chose “boring” names for my kids.

I do think the best names are ones with the most meaning.

You name a kid Isaac, you could be naming him after Isaac Newton. It puts something on to him.

If you name a kid William, maybe you hope he will be the next Shakespeare.

Simply by naming someone something, you imprint something on to them. The history and power of a culture.

Yet for this very reason, especially when people see the culture as dark, they choose unique names, names that say you can be who you want to be.

Though I think I still prefer old names, looking at names of people who have done something, and then hoping to do something similar.

I think this is kind of why a convert to an orthodox Christianity, from some heterodoxy, or atheism, or from the religion of the “infadels” takes a new name in baptism. They hope to live up to whomever. If you take the name Theresa at baptism with a sense of obligation to love the lowly like Mother Theresa and so on.

Wonder if other religions do similar things?
Linux distributions are doing this for 30 years.
Ask HN: Best resources for learning desktop software development?
Hi HN community,

I'm interested in developing desktop applications and would love to hear your recommendations for the best resources. Books, online courses, tutorials, and any other learning materials are welcome!

Thanks in advance!
> Like you say, discoveries become more expensive over time, but we’re seeing similar institutional decay in non research institutions as well,

Sure, but they also might be the issue of ending on the Saturation curve. For example, chip manufacture is getting more and more expensive because it's getting up to the limit of an atom. That's caused by physics and not economics. What is caused by economics is the expectation of exponential growth.
Take down in 3, 2, …
I don't follow e-girls so I don't know Alex Hormozi but yeah it seems like that.

The whole site seems very... off to me. The basic functionality makes sense (have a forum with paid component, sort of like substack merged with reddit? ok); but all the top communities look like borderline scam/mlm
If the team was top-notch and disciplined they would continously refactor and improve the code base.
You can notice higher frame rates if you're in a competitive FPS, not a code editor. Unless you are playing CS2 in Emacs.
This was the same perspective i had as an engineer working on a finance problem for accountants and sales. So i would build a nice reporting tool that had modern ui. The people liked it at first but they always regress to spreadsheet. They just ask me to export the data in spreadsheet.
The marathon Indian wedding turning heads around the world
Isn’t that’s even worse? It would cost almost 0 to add more RAM and make it a durable machine. What Apple does here is basically the definition of planned obsolescence.
AirWallex
Why is this free? Hella sus…
What do you mean?

I think it's reasonable to assume the school will be starting at roughly the same clock time in all scenarios. That's the entire point of choosing between permanent winter and permanent summer time, isn't it?

So if you extend summer time into the months where the sun is already late to rise, now days that started at a nice hour have to start at the crack of dawn, days that started at the crack of dawn have to start an hour before dawn, and days that started long before dawn get even further before dawn.
Copying comment from another thread of the same study (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40933910)

For the pure fun of breaking the narrative I found original article, it's here: https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e001000

Time of day (or time after waking up per subject) when tests were administered has not been controlled. Cognitive abilities are mediated by wakefulness (not to mention, related for most people, digestive processes) cycle.

If '"Night owls" smarter than morning people' sounds more plausible than 'time since waking up and last meal predictive of cognitive performance' it's time to get one's identity checked. And I can't imagine 'journalists' from thrash like Sky (Guardian this time) not knowing that, which brings me to the final point: what is this link doing here?
I like to quip that many hard technical-problems are actually three business-problems in a trenchcoat.

In this case, the technical outgrowth might be heroic over-weekend crunch: Write some code that finds every affected timestamp in the DB, reconstructs the various code-chains that created them, divines an "original meaning", calculates the difference, and somehow apply changes in a way that doesn't make auditors angry or lock a key table for and hour or leads to data-corruption from race conditions...
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I wish I could have work hours more fitted to my sleep pattern. Everyone is loosing including the company I work for since I'm staying at bed until the daily, then do basically jack shit in the morning.
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I made my first video game with it. A pong game you can play, but it has not been polished. While the menu works, is yet unable to show the selected option. And the IA to play against are either too easy or brutal.

https://blog.rmrubert.eu/miniproyectos/rpong/rpong.html
> Every time I look at NixOS, I think that it perfectly solves a problem that I only have once every 5 years, when buying a new computer. I think I even looked into it once to automate that exact process, but that idea fell apart at the first line of Nix syntax. I'll stick with OSX and `brew bundle` I guess...

To each their own!

With two Mac laptops, each with a Linux VM, plus five Raspberry Pi and a Mac Mini under Asahi on NixOS it's been a godsend to have a consistent management system and setup with reusable bricks, that is also able to remote build on the Mini for the Pis.

That plus shell.nix and direnv, and you can pry Nix from my cold, dead hands.
that bug could even be... a fly...
Tried installing on arch Linux, it wouldn't start and I gave up on the idea
> We asked for and got a ruling from the regulators that the time that mattered was the time the API call was processed by the backend

I haven't been in that situation, but I imagine I would reach for a "what if it was snail-mail" analogy. "It's dangerous to honor whatever time the bettor wrote by hand, the postmark-time may not be fair if the mailman got delayed because of a half-illegible address or random USPS delays... So how about we go for when it was actually delivered to us?"
Do you know difference between alpha, beta, and quality software? Linux distros have different goals, or different channels for different qualities of software, while vendors wants their users to be free alpha or beta testers.
Thanks for posting this. My doc just prescribed vtama for me a month ago and my psoriasis was gone in less than a week. I didn’t even finish the sample tube he gave me. Far more effective than the steroid topical cream I was using before. I had no idea what vtama was until reading your post.
German Navy seeks replacement for 8-inch floppies from frigates
When a person is voluntarily unemployed, they control. I only say this because it's analogous to many of the main concepts of Tao philosophy.
Faster in all file systems I'd guess, stat is fast, opening the file and reading its contents and updating a checksum is slow, and gets slower the larger the file is.
Also good...

> Simon Shindler contributed significantly to the aesthetic
of Figure 7, but could not be named an author for obvious reasons.
How much EU MEP politicians get paid
Vacation Idea Generator
Aspect – a social network that you can only socialize with AIs
Context for who this guy is:

YouTube prankster voted in as Cyprus MEP - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nnrwr72dqo
I take notes in emacs with org-mode. It is not simple at all, in a way, but there is nothing that gets in my way either. No distractions since all features are hidden behind keyboard combos (I disabled the menu). Never felt like I had to switch to a simpler editor for certain tasks. And it runs on my phone in Termux (syncs with git) so I just use org-mode as my note-taking app.
Rent control effects through the lens of empirical: A review of the literature
> 5. Conclusion
> In this study, I examine a wide range of empirical studies on rent control published in referred journals between 1967 and 2023. I conclude that, although rent control appears to be very effective in achieving lower rents for families in controlled units, its primary goal, it also results in a number of undesired effects, including, among others, higher rents for uncontrolled units, lower mobility and reduced residential construction. These unintended effects counteract the desired effect, thus, diminishing the net benefit of rent control. Therefore, the overall impact of rent control policy on the welfare of society is not clear.
It is hard, when so many in our industry are cheapstakes and don't want to pay for their tools, like in every other profession.

They rather suffer with VSCode than pay a couple of dollars for Sublime Text.
Codium also cool. For open source projects you can just ask it to review, no install needed.