skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He did some guest strips on Pearls Before Swine a few years back, but I think he’s been largely enjoying just making the art he wants to make which isn’t comic strips.

I’ve often said that Charles Schulz was the Beatles of comic strips. The cartoonists who came after fell into categories: those who said they were influenced by him and those who lied about it. But given your evaluation, perhaps it’s more relevant to say that the Beatles were the Charles Schulz of rock music.
Is this available and usable on a raspberry pi?
I see annoying political messages all the time, there's an ocean sized gap between virtue signaling and cyberterrorism.
Monotheism is one of the big contributions to culture by Judaism.

Presumably you mean Abrahamic monotheism -- as monotheism throughout the world has had multiple sources of origin, generally predating Judaism (and Yahwism).

But Yahwism itself most likely arose out of the Canaanite pantheon (and its monotheism).

So really is the latter -- the mighty Canaanite religion -- that we should be thanking for this great gift to the world that has been Abrahamic monotheism.
Yeah I cant imagine a use case for this
Oh please. It's shared blame, not no blame.

The provess needs to improve but the query didn't run itself, leaving the person in their position but giving them what sounds like a light chewing out isn't a sign of bad leadership.
I think the L.A. Times might have had three pages of comics in the dailies back in the 80s as well. It’s been a long time though.
And not just any ad company:

> Anonym was founded in 2022 by former Meta executives Brad Smallwood and Graham Mudd.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-t...
Forget accidental deletion - this same exact incident would've occurred as soon as the database's hard drive failed, or some similar infrastructure disaster occurred.

Lack of backups is inexcusable, and ten times more egregious than the author's mistake.
The Asus Zenphone 9 is basically the same size, and two years into it I still average 25-45% battery usage from rising to sleeping for the night. GSam says average per complete battery charge is 2d 16.2h, and Screen On is 11h 58m with an observed maximum of 8 hours 30m.

So battery life and a smallish phone are completely compatible with each other.
You may want to look into Graphene OS. It comes with zero Google products preloaded (you can install them after the fact) and permissions controls are great. Ironically, the only hardware it works on though are Google Pixel phones due to their hardware security chip.
Absolutely genuine level marketing concept. I can imagine this appealing to people I know personally and have the money to do it.
A New Way to Look at Networking (2007) [video]
Australia is an aberration (I can go into it in more detail if you'd like), but for the most part, the reason the US is (substantially) economically better off than most European countries (like the UK, where the GGP is from) is inextricably tied to the unique ethno-cultural characteristics (descended from a weird mish-mash of quakerism, scots-irish borderer culture, etc.) of the USA. Major relevant factors include a high degree of individualism, relatively high risk tolerance, relatively strong belief in property rights, etc. - all of which are coincident with a belief in and desire for public gun ownership.

I look at the US and I see one of the richest, most successful, and most impactful countries in the world (and not through any sort of low-liquidity arbitrage like being a tax haven).

Our crime rates are moderately higher than countries in similar wealth brackets, but this is entirely (and I mean, non-hyperbolically, entirely) attributable to factors besides our relatively high gun ownership rates.
> This is a risk indicator.

I'll be sure to pass this valuable message along to vim users that have been :q'ing political messages for the past 15+ years. They're gravely endangered!
Weird, if true, but far from the implied cyberterrorism.
Temu is loaded with devices like this. Why would I spend $200 on this when I could spend $75 for a device with virtually identical feature set and manufacturing methods?

Blah blah blah "because it isn't from Temu." Like any domestic retailer is any better these days.
Probably more methane. As mentioned in the neighboring post, hydrogen is an energy storage mechanism, not an energy source. It's also a feedstock for some other chemical processes.

Unless we can tap into some sort of "too cheap to meter but too hard to transport" energy source in the future.
Nobody has ever linked me or talked to me about something on Threads, and the only reason I know it still exists is because of annoying ads on Instagram.

Is it a ghost town or am I just not the target demographic (what is the target demographic)?
why are these being flagged on hackernews? i understand it's highly controversial, but this is literally a historic moment unfolding before us
The default wallet if your bank is going to make you install a shitty app when you want to use their debit / credit cards.
> once Nostr is adopted by the wider user base

I think you mean "if." And it's a big "if."
> I think this sort of thing is going to become more commonplace, but I'm not sure I or anyone else can think of a better solution for now.

> When dealing with unconventional warfare such as this, you have a couple of options as far as I'm aware: innoculate your own populace against harmful ideas; retaliate against opposing powers with your own harmful ideas; or mitigate and remove sources of harmful ideas. That's where events like these start unfolding.

Don't be so defeatest. There are numerous ideas for handling this problem.
For instance X/Twitter's Community Notes, which is now being trialed on Youtube too last I heard. There's also efforts towards eliminating secrecy (which is sorely needed in any healty democracy).

The whole mis/disinformation issue simply comes from a lack of trust (in government, authority, or generally any agency who has more legal flexibility than most people). In order to fix that, the easiest solution is for them to be transparrent about everything.

Hypothetically, imagine if you could login to your government website and see a simple chart breakdown of how much money your [insert agency of intrest] had, how it was gained, and how and where it was spent.

Frankly if any government in the world were to do that, it would influence others to ask "Why isn't my government transparrent like that?" and inevitably cause a knock on effect. Democracy was the first step, next is openness and transparency.
I don't understand this at all. So if you were playing Doom, you might get stuck because someone in some random other game needs to find your key? That sounds awful.
No matter how you spin this, it was a bad day and could have been a lot worse. You might hate the man but going out like that would not have been a good day for the US. It would go down like Bobby Kennedy as a dark milestone in our shared history. Happy it was a near miss instead of the reason for a state funeral.
Events like these will only become more prevalent as more personal, corporate and other information is digitized and stored by organizations too busy with other things to 100% button down their data (possibly an impossible thing anyhow), or simply too inept (a very common thing). There is a possible good side to it though, that it makes everyone, not just a few lone souls, much more conscious about privacy and rampant personal data collection, perhaps enough for a sea change in habits in the corporate and consumer worlds.
Just because he didn't add /s doesn't mean it's not implied
I have a Jelly pro , and has similarly fallen a fair few times and is fine. Feeling cheap doesn't necessarily mean it's less rugged though - a plastic case is generally going to absorb more shock than a glass or metal case like 'premium' phones have. I remember my first android (Galaxy S) was panned for feeling 'cheap' but I dropped that so many times and it's still alive today.
Interesting... I wonder how many other projects have had similar success, this is the first time I've heard about an opt-in number that large. I'd be interested to know what their UX for it is and if they did any research on it.
Thoughts on this comment about it? https://programming.dev/comment/11056421
If only we could standardize on a federated SSO solution for all sites.

https://xkcd.com/927
Interesting logic... what's the point of "just telling them"?
It's a !ml flag, so there's a high likelihood it's wrong, because there's no downside to false positives.

(The stuff I work on, which is all open source and doesn't even try anything silly, routinely but randomly gets flagged for some reason.)
is it usually spam?
If you're serious you might want to reach out and chat with https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jedberg for their thoughts.

There are a couple of angles, straight up representation of forum | subreddit threads after the conversation has moved on, "live" tracking comments as conversations progress, and moderation of live threads (including swatting | detecting trolls, spambots, griefers, etc) (oh, and retro sweeps looking for tail end spammers and their puppet networks eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40800160 (with "ShowDead" on)).

In post analysis there's the whole ball of wax around decrufting chat threads to pull the meat best served to (various) AI, either for training, company | group intelligence, etc. Oh, and fingerprinting across multiple sources looking for common {group | individual} traits

The intrinsic issue with excluding all but those with a current PhD on chat would be the tossing of, say, those with dated PhD in theoretical physics or somesuch.

@dang obviously mods here and likely has a slew of lisp-y scripts | tools for giving various views, @jedberg was about for much of the early evolution of reddit and took part in a lot of discussions about presentation and implemented a few.

There'll also be useful input from any of those who've moderated | admin various largish forums | channels, etc over the years.
it's higher for the exe that's dropped, but definitely still possible for it to be a false positive.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/038421636df34fbfc25cdb92...

it's got strings in the exe from RTPatch, it might be a generic match for that?
Ticks a lot of boxes for me: microSd and 3.5mm jack alone make this very useful. I'd pay extra if it supported video-out and some kind of desktop environment like my Samsung.
Note that they never say what the payload was. Was there just a pilot? Was it just remote-controlled? (I'm guessing just the pilot, but that's less than useful except as a personal transport, not a "taxi".)
My 4yo son has to have a phone to control his medical devices, we use a Kin Kong mini 3, which is pretty good. It has a few draw backs, but it being a bit more rugged than the jelly phone is useful.
Nominees don’t really mean that much. The list of nominators allows for a lot of people to be put forward. The list of actual laureates is probably better to look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Lit...

And given the global nature of the award, it’s not necessarily surprising if many of the names are unfamiliar. I’m pretty familiar with writers in English, but would have a hard time naming more than a dozen German authors and more than three or four Scandinavian authors. Scanning the list for authors who wrote exclusively in English the only unfamiliar names were Wole Soyinka and Abdulrazak Gurnah which is as much an indictment of my unfamiliarity with African writers as anything else.
OT, but:

I remember reading that post of yours a year or so ago! It was so bizarre to me, but also really fun. I feel like you are among what is probably a very small group of people who could write something security-sensitive in C, and I would feel comfortable using it. (I am still less than thrilled that I have to rely on OpenSSL, regardless of the process improvements its developer team has made in more recent years.)

I still (unfortunately, IMO) write a lot of C. Back in 2004 I thought it was great fun. But now that I've worked in safer, batteries-included languages, I find C to be a huge drag. I'm so much more productive in Rust or even Java. I could never ever ever ever approach the level of rigor you bring to your C code; I just don't find doing all that stuff to be fun or interesting... to the contrary, it feels like a huge drag: if I were "required" to do all that, I just wouldn't write any code at all in C in the first place, knowing that having to do all the testing and fuzzing and static analysis stuff would burn me out.

Anyhow, I hope I don't sound like I'm being critical... quite the opposite. I just think we live in a magnificent world where people's brains can work so so so differently when it comes to the same topic.
I used one for about a year. I thought I'd be using voice-to-text a lot to get around this issue, but couldn't get used to the idea. A swipe-style keyboard does make typing much less onerous that you might imagine though.
Try viewing this thread via my HN web app: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/40952952

It does a few things to make viewing big threads easier:

- Collapses large threads into a toggle button showing the number of replies in that thread.

- Highlights the OP

- Follow any timestamp link to "focus" on that sub-thread, like this: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/40953431

- The author of the parent comment becomes the highlighted "OP."

I have a bookmarklet that toggles between viewing on HN and my web app.

My app was heavily modified, but original credit goes to https://hackerweb.app/. The original author had an idea to make HN threads more like Reddit threads, which he may have implemented in the mobile app rewrite:

- iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hackerweb-hacker-news-client/i...

- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cheeaun.hacker...
Yes, I'm aware that deadlock can be avoided if the graph having an edge uv whenever a task tries to acquire lock v while already holding lock u is acyclic, and this property can either be guaranteed by choosing a total order on locks and then only ever acquiring them in this order or, or dynamically maintained by detecting tasks that potentially violate this order and terminating them, plus retries.

However, those techniques apply only to application code where you have full control over how locks are acquired. This is generally not the case when feeding declarative SQL queries to a DBMS, part of whose job is to decide on a good execution plan. And even in application code, assuming a knowledgeable programmer, they need to either know about all locks in the world or run complex and expensive bookkeeping to detect and break deadlocks.

The fundamental problem is that locks don't compose the way other natural CS abstractions (like, say, functions) do: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2887324
Binging C&H can be dangerous as so much laughter in a short timespan can make you pass out.
The whole country is in a constant state of fear because of guns. Almost every justification I've seen is about a right to protect yourselves from others with guns but you can't seem to understand that most people in western countries never have to worry about this. I don't ever leave my house worried about being shot or being in a position where a gun would help.

You keep adding more guns talking about how you need them to protect yourselves from the other guns and things just keep getting worse and worse. You're on a downward spiral of gun violence and fear.

You talk about wealth but it's not evenly distributed at all and there is a reason your richest live in walled off communities and your poorest die early due to lack of access to preventative medicine and quality nutrition.

Wealth means little when you live with a constant threat of violence, it's like being a billionaire in China or Russia.
I started reading the book after reading similar suggestions in the thread.

I know JavaScript and a bit of C and I'm not having much trouble understanding the Java code.
> They tend to have poor windows support

Does Windows claim POSIX compatibility these days? I didn't think so? I remember NT's old POSIX subsystem, but is that even a thing anymore?

> My take on POSIX utilities would be only to use them on Linux platforms

I mean, only use them on POSIX-compliant systems. Linux is just one of them.

At the risk of sounding childishly derisive, when someone is talking about "portability", I think they're generally not bothering to include Windows in the mix, as Windows doesn't really share all that much of a common denominator with much else.
Nah, I was just pushing back on the notion that Houston is that much “lower” than SF, when it is not. Wild to get downvoted for that factual statement.
> As one might expect, Bell Labs didn't use the paper tape input

tangentially related.

The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxeuwlvf8w

staring the inimitable Professor Brailsford.
I have a Jelly Pro, used it for about a year. It fits in the useless pocket of your jeans, and gets you plenty of weird looks. I got it planning to utilise the annoyance of a tiny screen to use my phone less, but it works as well as I thought it would (that's addiction for you).

That aside, two things I would really like in a phone like this are a better camera, and the ability to plug in the phone to a bigger screen (some apps have an equivalent web-app you can use on a laptop, but there were enough that didn't have that that I had to stuff around on them with the phone). Also it is quite thick, but this didn't bother me very much.
The other thing I noticed while playing around; Performance absolutely falls off a cliff if your hot loop starts missing in the L1i cache.

This blog post [1] from CloudFlare has a few interesting hints about the M1's branch predictor. First, (in their testing) to get the one cycle predictions at all, your hot code needs to fit in just 4KB.

Second, if the brach target isn't in L1 cache, you don't get a prediction at all. The branch target prediction probably points directly at the cache line + way, so even if a cache line moves to a different way, the prediction will still fail.

Which means, I'm not sure this optimisation is worth while. It works for fibonacci and mandelbrot because they have reasonably tight loops, and adding a dispatcher to each instruction handler doesn't push the hot code over the limit. But when interpreting more generic code, you might be better off trying to minimise cache usage.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/branch-predictor
It very well can degrade your ability to meaningfully speak
True, but none of that contradicts what I said.
This is available to anyone in Australia, although ~$500-600 a week isn't enough to support the carer and the one they care for in most personal circumstances.
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/carer-payment
I find it’s the best way to work through these types of books - otherwise I tend to just copy the code mindlessly.
Doing the exercises from a book in another language forces you to consume the semantics of it better.

I did the Torsten Ball books in Kotlin rather than Go and learned a lot
Explain how, without defining “meaningfully” as “on a platform i think i deserve to be on, that isn’t owned by me”.
wgpu is an implementation of the WebGPU API, so it's basically an alternative to Dawn.

gpu.cpp is one level up - it's implemented using the WebGPU API, not an implementation of the WebGPU API. In theory it should work with both wgpu and dawn but in practice you find there's enough differences it takes some conditional branching + testing to support both.

Having both wgpu and dawn support would be nice and I think we'll get there in the coming months but for faster early iteration I wanted to keep things simple for now. There's implementation + maintenance + testing overhead that you start to have to carry around so it isn't free.
This is not a criticism of URLs per se, but I find it troubling that the mere act of visiting one is something that we have to warn people away from. It's like:

> Don't eat moldy food, else you'll get sick (unless it's bleu cheese, yum)

Ok, that sounds like good advice, and easy do follow.

> Don't look in the direction of modly food, else you'll get sick

That's unreasonable. What kind of madman wrote the rules for this universe?!

When I try to imagine a better way, it usually disallows the referents of a URL-equivalent from changing after they're created--that way trust bestowed once can be reused without prompting the user a second time for the "same" thing.

For that reason, I'm not a fan of placeholder URL's like you're describing. The instability of URLs to me feels like more bug than feature.
Very interesting! We’ve always tracked medications on paper, but would love the option to add in reminders, etc.
Would you mind sharing any of these projects if you have them on gitlab?
>"Google-fu" sounds like a fun skill to learn and acquire, where "prompt engineering" sounds either like something well out of reach or like pretentious nonsense depending on the audience.

More likely, "prompt engineering" is a marketing term made up by AI marketroids (cf. androids) hoping to make developers feel better about their reduced roles in this "grand new AI age".
HN isn't the right place for this discussion and that is made explicitly clear in the Guidelines [1] :

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I'm here browsing the thread out of curiosity but I'm also onboard with it being flagged. There's not going to be any shortage of other places to discuss this (historic) event.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hydroponics shows that it's possible to grow most plants in water, no soil at all. So soil is by no means a requirement for plants to grow.

Source: Several Kratky method veggies growing on my balcony.
If it's a taxi service, is there a chance that +90 minutes for security and baggage could be avoided to make the door to door time more comparable?
It's reassuring to know that the CO2 that will be emitted in the end-to-end process of getting these planes airborne will be occurring somewhere far outside of my immediate vicinity.
except I think most XKCD readers are probably C&H readers too. Not sure what the 10 year olds are reading these days
Has there ever been a focus on ergonomics over aesthetics by any manufacturer of any tech product over the last decade?

Nothing comes to mind.
No doubt the tools are here to stay and I am not opposed to that. My only advice for young programmers is - when something just works like magic, dig deeper until it becomes science.
Thanks for the perspective, I sometimes have completionist tendencies so it's hard to skim without feeling I'm missing parts, but also it can certainly lead to motivation running out at times. And thanks for Crafting Interpreters, I am really enjoying it so far!
It stands for Single Page Application. It's a web application that works by loading a big chunk of JavaScript and using that to render every "page" of the application, rather than providing links to different pages for different parts of the app.

Think Trello (SPA) compared to Hacker News.

These days well written SPAs can use the HTML5 history API to provide proper URLs to different parts of the application, so linking and bookmarks still work.

Historically this hasn't always been the case, and even today poorly written SPAs may fail to implement proper linkable URLs.
Probably because there's nothing very interesting to talk about on the subject, unless it was specifically about the tech and tactics used for protection. The comments are likely to turn into a monkey shit fight and the mods probably want to head that off.