skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't feel the need to fix the whole world. Just my corner of it.

I would use it to read my rss feeds. I'm sure we could make Hacker News discussions work. My mastodon feed could probably work too. That's 90% of my browser usage right there.

Just imagine how pleasant it would be to browse and navigate. Would be so fast, so responsive.

I really like https://geminiprotocol.net/ but I think they went too far removing images, sounds, video, and forms.
Author here.

I admit that I didn't fully explain the danger, because I thought it was somewhat self-evident: if you attempt to compare two datetimes correctly, you must know their timezones. Anyone who has used Google Calendar to schedule a meeting in SF when they live in NYC can attest to that.

> You only need a timezone if there was some kind of locality to the event (e.g.: when _and_ where this happened), but usually you can convert to local time. So storing UTC time is fine, adding the timezone in rare cases.

We're both saying the same thing, here.

While UTC is not _technically_ a timezone, most databases/programming languages/etc. let you attach UTC to a datetime. When you say that you're "storing UTC time", you are implicitly storing it with enough information.

The difference is that I don't like the implicit nature of assuming a timezone-naive datetime is UTC, because that is a very dangerous assumption to make. Just store the timezone, even if it's UTC!
And let’s not forget the “Nvidia processor” in the same sentence.
I've used DMs only for eye candy, as it looks a bit better than using getty/greetd to login.

But I've never got DMs working without any problems, so I just have

if [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then
exec sway; logout
fi

in my .zprofile file, which just works (tm).
What evidence do you have that there is no evidence?

For sure, you have:

- your opinion

- your knowledge (which is a subset of all that is known/"known", which is a subset of all that exists...though, it all typically seems other than this, such is culturally conditioned consciousness), have you something over and above this?

Just in case, please do not do this:

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Shiftin...
That aspect of UML fell out of the development of CASE tools. A very mixed bag of results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_software_engine...
This reminds me of a study I read decades ago that showed patients have better outcomes from medical care if the doctor has credentials prominently displayed on the office wall.
Trump "disavowed" it and then wished them good luck. Classic Trump. We're not stupid - we've seen Trump play this game before.
Ask HN: What are startups using for conference room video conference setup?
Now that we are almost non-remote, I am trying fit a video conferencing solution for one of our conference rooms.

Looks like it is expensive.

- $2000 for hardware

- $50/month for Zoom Rooms subscription

Is there a cheaper way to do this?

10 person room.
Need a good audio on the table.
Tracking camera is optional.

Can this be done using a Pi? Or an old laptop as hardware?
What's the key in Firefox about:config to turn this off?
Ask HN: Is creating an SaaS still a viable business strategy?
When I think about how I can create a business that generates a (relatively) passive income, creating an SaaS is always the seemingly clear choice.

To me an SaaS is company that solves one, maybe two problems that a customer would rather pay money to solve rather than develop their own solution, and more often than not those solutions come in the form of an API.

When I look around for problems in need of a solution, I can easily identify them, but I don't know how to tell which ones are worth pursuing. Either because the problem itself is extremely specific, or someone has already thought of the exact same solution I came up with and already has an business set up around it with paying customers.

It feels like every problem that's worth pursuing has already been solved and commercialized.
Raleigh is one of the fastest building metros in the country
Thanks for the kind words! It’s great to hear that you’ve been working on something similar. Right now, I’m focused on launching Taim for macOS first. After that, the plan is to roll out a Windows version. Linux support is something I’m considering for the future, but I’m not entirely sure yet. I appreciate your interest and would love to keep you updated as things progress!
Related fun fact about one such power user/hacker empowering great software.

Taylor Otwell, Laravel framework creator, is still the only person merging all PRs (4771 as of now).

He became rich and still does it every single day.

Like the article stated, for him, it's probably no longer just a means to an end, but an end in itself.

https://github.com/laravel/laravel
Understanding the Eye-Mind Connection
If the goal is to be the most progressive, it should not and rather tax land owners as much as necessary to balance the government's budget directly proportional to land value and get rid of building height restrictions.
Governments have been doing this for years with RFID tags (e.g. toll), and license plate readers. The data is used extensively by law enforcement in many jurisdictions, and I find it difficult to believe they'll willingly give that up.
I’m just comparing with Facebook, Instagram and the likes. Admittedly that is a low bar, but compared to them you’ll pick up more on HN.

Because we were talking about the linguistic level, not just the informative level. Not much text on FB or IG, except for the captions perhaps.
I've also used greetd for this: https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd/
I think the problem with that is, at least according to an article like this a few months back, in the US it seems the intelligence agencies buy this data at times. It's easier than getting approvals and stuff so I can only imagine our government here in the US would be hesitant to do anything about it. Having the data accessible could also be argued to be "for the sake of national security"

I'm in no way saying you're wrong though. Just kind of losing hope that the US will ever get better.
I love this book, listened to it on audio (narrated by Rick himself) at least twice. His interview with Joe Rogan is incredible as well.
There’s an entire derivative industry of GPUs, namely GenAI and LLM providers, that could be the “complement” to an open GPU platform. The exact design and interface between such a complement and platform is yet undefined, but I’m sure there are creative approaches to this problem.
I don't think this is true at all. People failed to learn during covid because the technology is bad. I don't think most people are motivated very much at all by the disappointment of some stranger standing over them. I don't even see it as a desirable aspect of someone's personality that they can be extrinsically motivated by the approval of strangers.

What a teacher provides is a sometimes customized, sometimes flexible schedule, that (sometimes) pays individual attention to what aspects of a concept a student is falling behind at, and (sometimes) comes up with personal recommendations and alternative approaches to break down a student's involuntary resistance to a concept. This might be doable with A.I.. It's not doable with actual teaching anymore because class sizes are too large. A.I. will be cheaper.

And I'm not saying that teaching is so simple that A.I. can do it, I'm saying that teaching is so complicated that it might be that only A.I. is sufficient to largely replace it. I think that what I'm arguing against is that the idea that teachers could be replaced by glowering scarecrows, or fur-covered wire armatures like they once used in experiments to replace animals' mothers.

I don't think that teachers make as good parents as parents do teachers. I don't think most people are mostly motivated by the approval or judgement of their teachers.

What people need is constant, helpful, personalized guidance, and that is very expensive to get from employees.
Do you really think there was any difference before mass media?
Tech leaders line up behind Trump
Great article.

If you ask a real chef, "What do home chefs do wrong the most?"

They will often say, "Not enough butter, not enough salt."
Yes, I was referring to 70's and 80's. Even today, I think, there are applications where 150 nm process is perfectly fine - RFID, transportation cards etc.

If you look at the 74 TTL series dies, they look almost primitive. But perhaps these were one of the first attempts at ICs, so it is expected.

When did transition from hand-drawn to computer-generated designs happen?
Four most lethal infectious diseases and how we're overcoming them
In the case of ruff, I don't believe so. Your config needs to specify ALL or DTZ.
E.B. White's Beautiful Letter to a Man Who Had Lost Faith in Humanity
Yeah, I think anyone who travels a lot for work very quickly realizes that restaurant food eaten everyday, if you're not careful, will very rapidly put pounds on you. Now with Wells' article we know how much worse it becomes if that's your job too.

As Anthony Bourdain wrote... "In a good restaurant, what this all adds up to is that you could be putting away almost a stick of butter with every meal." He's not exaggerating!
That phrase probably dates back to 2004 or so, the same time "Islamofascist" was coined.
IIR, even mentioning in the app that there is something, somewhere that could be paid for (without Apple getting its 30%) can piss off Apple.
And just like any physical pathology, people deserve to recognize and address depression if they experience it.
In the original envisioning, yes; typically, 100% was set at a stretch goal, with ~70% being the more actual target. >= 70% was thus successful.

But, most of the places I've seen doing "OKRs" are just appropriating the word but not the actual system.
It's kind of confusing because it depends on how you phrase it with percentages.

"The number of cores in the PC went up by 50%" means "there are now 1.5x as many cores"

However, "the number of cores in the PC is 50% what is was last year" means "there are now .5x as many cores"

In this case 200% is fairly unambiguous, but imagine a phrase like "scaling community 50% per year" which could mean different things depending on the direction of the scaling... I think it's more intuitive to use a multiplier: "scaling community 3x bigger per year" makes it easy to visualize an online community tripling in size every year.
Giles Coren (The Times of London restaurant reviewer) said that he reckoned he gained 1 ounce for every meal he reviewed.
In the UK there is usually a fuse in the plug, the fuse value varies according to the appliance up to a max of 13A.
From my experience there's a lot more wiggle room in those pay bands than you'd think. Along with that, at many orgs your EM has to haggle on your behalf with their boss and every other EM that shares their budget ~yearly for your share of a limited pool of incremental dollars. I've specifically requested not to be under certain EMs in the past for that reason.
https://github.com/fairyglade/ly/issues/494#issuecomment-150...
Trillion dollar hedge funds only got into housing recently when they realized NIMBYs would severely limit new construction. Before that speculating on housing didnt make sense.
good to see someone still making beautiful desktop apps.

with web apps all over, we tend to forget the benefits that full desktop apps provide such as full offline access, not being dependent on the 'cloud'.

congrats on launching and good luck.
I don't doubt that you did, just said it's nothing short of a miracle because I don't think your experience is a common one. It also sounds like you did your research, made a large investment, had good equipment, and had knowledgeable people there to help you out all before ever sitting down to shoot- coming prepared like that is a far cry from easy.

Most people aren't buying a $3-4k optic (you mentioned Zeiss in your other post) + what I assume is a (at minimum) $1-2k precision rifle + a fancy rest + I'm guessing match grade ammo and having someone set it up for them the first time they go shooting.

Majority of new hobbyists are buying an off the shelf budget AR15 or surplus rifle around $300-600, using irons or cheap ($100-200 range) optics, and whatever box of factory grade cartridges the guy at the store shoved at them first when they asked for ammo for their rifle, and grabbing the wood block or small sand bag rests the range hands out for free when they shoot. I think that's more fair to judge initial progress/consistency off of a common real world scenario- it's what most new shooters will experience, either at home or in military service, most newcomers aren't instantly splurging on the nicest gear money can buy.

Most rifles straight up can't consistently (and I mean consistently, I don't mean like those guys online or at the range that will shoot 20 groups and cherry pick the 1 lucky group under 1 MOA when the rest are all 2-4 MOA and claim they shoot sub-MOA, or shoot a group of 5 and only mark 3) unless you specifically shopped around for one or made the necessary adjustments (new barrel, etc.) either and know that good ammo can make all the difference.
This may be your personal experience but it is used successfully and happily by many in a variety of domains way different to "boring OOP back-ends". No popular general purpose language is confined to a single scenario the way you describe (even Swift and Kotlin are expanding). C# lets you do things like writing a competitive Redis implementation[0], advanced physics engine that beats Jolt[1] or a game engine that does not rely on C++ or C[2], cross-platform applications[3] and so on and so forth. It is possible to successfully do both high level FP style approach for business domain modeling and very low-level data crunching that is competitive with systems programming languages.

[0]: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/benchmarking/results...

[1]: https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2

[2]: https://www.stride3d.net

[3]: https://avaloniaui.net
No, it's in the Old Testament as well.
> I've been wanting a language with that feature

GNU MP's C++ interface makes this mostly transparent, expressions like "x = y * z" just work due to operator overloading. The only time you need to know that the underlying class is "mpz_class" instead of "int" is at input/output.
You have interesting content on your blog. Also, simple UI I like it.
Thanks! I’m glad you’re excited to try Taim. Freelancing has been a great change for me. It’s given me more control over my time and helped me feel more rejuvenated for sure.

Hope to get it out by this autumn, also for everybody else who is not sure about purchasing yet, I’ll be adding a mailing list soon for updates and special offers. Thanks for your support!
They had a positive belief. Conventionally, people come to positive beliefs after observing evidence*. I'm accusing them of not doing this. They absolutely could have known better; they simply chose not to look.

*: Exception: beliefs about Other Groups of People, which are conventionally formed by looking at Our Group of People, then inventing ways that Other Groups of People are different and/or worse.
As others have said the C4 model is a great way to address a number of these issues.

I can’t find the right video at the moment but Simon Brown (creator of C4) gives a great talk about creating his DSL, Structurizr, for C4, which he developed during COVID lockdown (if memory serves). There are many videos on YouTube of Simon talking about “C4 Models as Code” so I’m sure any one of those will suffice.

The focus is on creating the model of your system architecture, from which the diagrams you extract are a specific projection of that model. Rather than a diagram be the main artifact. It’s a simple but very powerful concept that I’m always surprised isn’t more widely used.

Structurizr models can also be exported to display as ilograph diagrams, mermaid diagrams and more.
Also very much worth a mention is icepanel, a lovely tool for architectural model that implements the C4 model heavily.

I saw Simon talk at a conference in Sydney about 10-15 years ago and heard about C4 for the first time in that talk, it’s been one of the most influential talks I’ve been to in my career as it made a lot of fuzzy things in my head all start to come together in a way that just made sense.

https://c4model.com/

https://structurizr.com/

https://www.ilograph.com/

https://mermaid.js.org/

https://icepanel.io/
incidentally, feynman would laugh pretty hard at this
CHICKEN Scheme 5.4.0 has been released
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40975209
Thank you for your feedback. Every target in TargetJ has an onEnabled method that can be used to verify types before enabling the target. Only enabled targets will run. You can have targets report errors during initialization if they receive the wrong type.
Hello community, we just launched our new sales-oriented website and we’re looking for direct feedback to decipher what we can do to improve sign ups. We're getting a great click-through-rate on our ads, good traffic to the site, but low sign ups.

We're trying to see if the following is clear:

1. Messaging on what we’re offering is clear
2. Compelling enough to sign up
3. Something that you trust will help you if you sign up

This is a sales-oriented product to help with researching potential customers.

Any feedback on what we can improve would be great -- thank you!
> Does it exist today?

Not sure, but IMO a dataflow diagram from good ol' SSADM got a lot of the way there. Unlike a lot of the modern techniques which model (groups of) deployed components, DFDs were strictly logical and functional and included data stores and users as well as functional components. So it was possible to model data in flow and at rest, and the characteristics of each, including where it crossed system boundaries.

IMO this was the best diagram format to get an overall view of the system, or reveal which areas needed further analysis.
Just start on semaglutides, and eat in smaller portions like the women critics he describes in the article do. I think quitting a good critic job for your health is pretty silly when there are modern workarounds that mostly solve the issue.
Trite comment, but your website is sweet. Really aesthetically pleasing.
True but only if the user actually uses iCloud backup of course. I never did when I had an iPhone, for that reason, I don't want all my personal stuff in the cloud.

But this is not how cellebrite boxes work anyway. They focus on the device.
There’s a couple of points here. One, it’s not likely that your location or my location are that important from a national security standpoint. We’re just not important enough. Politicians, judges and members of the military are different.

Second, we are well past the point where we can just inconvenience ourselves into getting our privacy back, unless your advice is “don’t use a cell phone or car” and “don’t go out in public” (in which case it will be trivial to determine your location anyways).

Data brokers are lifting your location from every ad in every app, GPS on or not. You have much less control over this than you think. Further, you will likely be identified via license plate readers (those solar powered towers at Home Depot for example) and even your tires report a unique identifier.
This looks super promising. Two things caught my eye that give me pause:

> Save your seat for 67% off

The price listed ($89) is only 50% off the $179 listed. At $60 (~67% off), my gut reaction is "Oh that's just like an early release videogame, not bad for how promising it looks!" but $89 crosses into "Ehh, I don't know. Maybe I'll wait and see" territory.

> We are planning to launch Taim to the public in early Spring

Early Spring...2025? Is a preorder now really almost a year away?

Definitely something I'll keep an eye on though!

(edit: ope! Ignore point 2 -- I see you already updated the time to fall. Thanks!)
McWhorter's a fun, cantankerous guy, always ready with a hot take. This one is wrong.

We do have access to Shakespeare! Even ignoring productions, which are immediately understandable, a regular person, with no special education, and only a tiny bit of patience, can just sit down and read all of Shakespeare, and understand it. Right now! They may have to look up some of the words, but that's exactly what people have been doing for hundreds of years—without access to the internet, even. I don't know what's changed now to make this task onerous. I mean, I could speculate about our attention spans, but I can't say that with certainty.

A contemporary English translation is unnecessary, wouldn't make the plays even a tiny bit more relevant or meaningful, and I predict most people would prefer the original anyway.
Given that guys like Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Bilaji, Srinivasen, and Elon musk have been more or less open about their disdain for democracy and anyone who isn't also a wealthy tech guy, this is hardly surprising.
The obvious advantage is that the generated plugin can be installed and tested right away.

I use AI to generate simple site-specific plugins, to avoid having to install a bloated plugin that has a ton of unneeded features and keeps telling me to buy the premium version. Here are some example functionalities I implemented with AI-made plugins:

- Newsletter subscription https://github.com/balazsrm/wp-simple-newsletter-subscriptio...
- Maintenance mode plugin https://github.com/balazsrm/wp-simple-maintenance-mode-redir...
- Per-page custom CSS https://github.com/balazsrm/wp-simple-custom-css-per-page
- API key authentication for REST API https://github.com/balazsrm/wp-rest-api-key-auth- Contact form
- Cookie opt-in
- Allow more characters in post slugs
- Redirect based on the browser language

I've made at least a dozen different plugins that I actually use on live sites. Before this plugin, I used my custom GPT to generate plugins (it's called WP Plugin Architect GPT), and before that, I simply used ChatGPT to generate them.
I didn't see it mentioned so wanted to add that it's possible that ADHD's impact on working memory[1] leads to issues with long term memory[2].

Basically, we struggle with holding stuff in RAM which corrupts writes to disk.

The effect is more prevalent with auditory inputs vs visual ones[3]; learning this helped explain why I find myself more likely to engage with a lecture or meeting while simultaneously doodling[4].

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[1] https://laconciergepsychologist.com/blog/what-is-working-mem...

[2] https://www.verywellhealth.com/can-adhd-cause-memory-issues-...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24232170/

[4] https://www.additudemag.com/focus-factors/
End-to-end it takes ~10 hours. The biggest bottleneck is the actual scraping itself. The GPT part is relatively quick.
TPMS could easily be used for mass surveillance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-pressure_monitoring_sys...
There are surely to be diminishing returns for sure. Ladybird is clearly improving this fast right now because the devs are picking the low hanging fruit. But we also don't need 100% parity before Ladybird usable. And when users pick it up then it begets more donations and more devs resources, which mean more improvement. So there is reason to be optimistic.
> Education ... should be egalitarian

Why?
one slot. stick it through, lay it flat.
Yes, I would be interested where this (and any Transformer/LLM based approach) is improving anomaly detection for example.
Not sure about this story. The Start Menu background bitmaps shipped in Windows NT, Windows 2000, etc. The SKU is checked at runtime (e.g. private\windows\shell\cabinet\tray.c) and the appropriate embedded bitmap is loaded. Perhaps this is something Dave worked on as a prototype but it never shipped?
Almost all of these companies’ approaches have a software component, whether it’s modeling, communication, infra, services, etc., even if their product isn’t itself software. It depends on what your skill set is but these are tech startups with lots of seats
for software eng.
No where in the app or the app landing page is it mentioned that there is any paid functionality.