skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I find myself learning about something where I know that I will not use it frequently enough to actually remember its keystrokes/commands/etc. I create a new “personal documentation” for it as an .org file (I have a central folder and a git repo for all of them). Here I’ll write all the information (like keybindings, details of commands, common procedures, concepts, etc.) down that is specific to my own use-cases and organize it in a way that makes sense to me.

It takes some time and effort and may seem redundant when there is good documentation out there already (as with most of Emacs). But still I find myself wasting a lot of time looking for that one piece of information in the docs where I forgot how to even search for it. Maybe it works so well for me because I kind-of enjoy the process of writing it (which many people might not). But I feel much less frustrated afterwards when I come back to some tool or language after years of not using it and find it really easy to remember what was important to me at the time and how to do X.

Tools like Casual Calc are great because they reduce the need to do that manual work of going through the docs and writing down what one want to remember in a (for them) more clear/concise/practical way. However, the way they select and organize knowledge/commands only reflect the common use cases, so there may still be a need to write stuff down.

As a more general helper, I really like to use Emacs Calc with `which-key`, which provides a similar interface to see what keybindings are available under a specific prefix-key. What also helps is if you press `h` and then search for a specific function (`h f`), key (`h k`), etc. or just type `x` to enter a function name directly (or by keyword using text-completion).
I think it's true for a lot of people, but not for everyone. There's not much my phone does for me that a laptop doesn't do better, and I probably use some form of desktop/laptop about 10X the amount of time I use my phone. Sometimes I forget where my (8 year old) phone is for days, and life trucks on, but I probably sit in front of a computer for hours a day and that's just for work. I guess I'm turning into an outlier.

I personally could not even fathom spending $500 on a telephone let alone $1000. It's just not an important enough gadget in my life.
Finding dirt for blackmail ? :)
I remember reading, a long, long time ago, a paper where the authors suggested if the universe was slightly hyperbolic, it would also cause a redshift effect. I can't seem to find it (and as far as I remember it was purely theoretical), but at the time I thought it was an neat idea.

Not that I have the background to know what else they might not have accounted for to reach this conclusion.
Profitable products attract copycat designs. Samsung copied no removable battery and the metal used. The first Google phone was a Blackberry style layout until Apple popularized the all touchscreen design.
You'll get the same mileage out of a €300-€400 Samsung.
Could both statements not be true?

The ice age may have encouraged humans to hunt more mammals than previously required.
In the US at least, you get cashback, extended warranty, travel insurance, and better fraud protection, to name some. all of which can be had for free if you pay by credit card.
how do we know the orion browser isn't somehow spying on you? I want an opensource browser, that's where I do so much financial and other transactions (as well as like bank company apps).

That browser should be something like a fully opensource de-googled chrome browser, but it doesn't seem to exist on mobile.
I may switch this time since they're finally offering trade-in offers here in Ireland. I like my Pixel 6, but wanted a better camera for a while (to be clear, the Pixel 6 camera is really good, especially considering the price the phone was, but I still miss things like e.g. better optical zoom), so I may get a Pixel 9 Pro.

BTW, for those talking about issues: I bought my Pixel 6 at release, and yes, I had some strange Bluetooth issues during a few months. Not anymore, and for a while the phone is solid.

Also, this is probably the first phone that I have that I don't feel the battery got worse after 2+ years of usage, maybe thanks to the Adaptive Battery. My wife iPhone 12 (that she bought around at the same time as me) already had a ok-ish battery when she bought, but nowadays the battery is just plain sucks (battery health is 87%, that doesn't explain the whole story), one of the reason that she may switch to a Pixel too. Another thing I like from my Pixel is after those 2 years, the phone still feels snappy. I know people like to say that Tensor CPUs are bad, but I never had any issues with them.

I don't like the fact that Google increased the prices though: Pixel 6 was an amazing value for EUR649, but at EUR919 the Pro looks a more interesting choice since the gap reduced between the two. I think the reason is because the Pixel a series is such an amazing value that nobody care about the normal Pixel anymore, but if anything this is Google's fault.
Someone picked Java at the start of the millennium-ish and they never dared to move away. =)
I'm not saying it's a dupe. I was referring to the fact that the HN timestamp says it was posted 3 days ago yet the comments are only 10 minutes old yet I remember reading the comments days ago.

I was wondering if I had gone insane or if there is some bug with HN.

Not complaining about this being a dupe at all.

For the record, I have nothing against you reposting it, but I am weirded out when the timestamps don't match my memory.
There are a few free open source tools available these days to manage the stacked PRs. Eg: https://github.com/aviator-co/av
> Looks like, unsurprisingly, the resolution is more about mandating censorship than it is about curbing actual crime

That is a fairly bad take tbh.

I mentioned this in my previous comment about this treaty, and the primary driver is the fact that most countries (especially China, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, India) are NOT parties of the Budapest Convention because of the Censorship or Surveillance portions.

Now that offensive security capabilities have proliferated, some amount of norms are required (which is what Article 12, 13 and 17 touch on), but the countries listed above will not budge on their censorship or surveillance stance.

This treaty is itself is a result of the Track 1.5 Dialogues around cyberwarfare happening between the 5 Eyes and China [1][2] after tensions became dangerously bad in the early 2020s.

If letting China continue their Great Firewall means we can formalize the rules of engagement for gray-zone operations using a third party (Appin/India, LockBit/Russia, ChamelGang/China or NK), so be it.

The UN treaty is superseded by American jurisdiction anyhow.

> future of a free internet

The internet was never truly free. Access was always arbitrated by telcos (and a major reason why the tech industry has been a major donor to the EFF) who themselves are strongly regulated by governments.

The difference is, the internet isn't only a Western project anymore, and consensus will need to be formed with other nations, unless we want to end up forming regionalized "internets"

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41210110#41211961

[1] - https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-departments/intern...

[2] - https://www.idcpc.org.cn/english2023/bzhd/202406/t20240618_1...
That's good to know - thanks! My astigmatism one is definitely special, because it takes an extra two or three weeks to get it from Costco, but I didn't know there was an orientation mark on it. I'll take a look.
Yes the valuable part is what someone mathematically proves. We can use that and cite it in support of a statement. Just because someone says “and therefore, we aren’t sure what can be successfully done about it” doesnt prove what you think it proves, in fact it doesnt prove anything at all. Asking a question is not a proof!

I never claimed they mathematically concluded that cartel-like things that arise naturally can't be regulated.

That’s what makes it a strawman. Nevertheless I already addressed your strawman above and you ignored all of it!
Looks great. Really nicely designed except that camera bump is intense. I like having nice cameras on my phone, but I wish we could go back to the flush camera design. I guess they know you will put a case on it anyway.
The way it should be.
I came here to write the same thing. It absolutely does.
Mobile phone design peaked with the Nokia 3110 and the Motorola MicroTAC, and it's been downhill ever since.
I don't like the "range-over-func" addition. I feel like it is adding complexity and syntactic sugar to the language that has thus far been mostly avoided.
For most people the amortized cost of a phone over its life is pretty small. If you spend $1000 on a phone and it lasts you 3 years, that's ~$28 a month. A lot of people spend that on coffee each month. The value they get out of their smart phone dwarfs most other big expenses.
These price increases for what appears to be marginal upgrades is such a splash of cold water.
Yes and i said "IBM PC"...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38699223
Ask HN: Which charities do you donate to?
Dear community,
As the title suggests, I wonder if you:
- support a charitable initiative. If so, which one(s)?
- do not support any nonprofits. If so, why not?

Being both inside and outside the charitable giving sector, this topic fascinates me: why and how does a person start their giving journey?
As well as: why not?

Looking forward hearing your thoughts!
Musk makes lots of claims. I don't know why anybody believes him.
Double the noise cancellation

> Compared to Pixel Buds Pro (1st gen). Based on mid-frequency ranges (400Hz-2kHz).

It's not the mid-frequency I need to cancel. It's the shrill children and babies on airplanes.
I remember a large bank building a major new project in 2017 with python 2.7.
It's really trippy to think about how hawking radiation becomes 'real' once its sufficiently 'far' away from a 'strong' gravitational well, and how this can be thought of as a Doppler shift giving real physical presence (in that we can interact and be affected by ) to what was once a 'virtual' particle

I think scienceclic does a good job visualizing this, but end of the day I can't see a way to distinguish event horizons regardless if they're a black hole or the distant past/big bang.

https://youtu.be/isezfMo8kWQ?si=9wGliV-Qo1bXCTRy

Specifically look at the relativity of the vacuum section, which builds to a great insight at around 5:45
Nice concept. If it delivers, it genuinely solves a problem i’ve been struggling with for ages.
... it's about as much water as this place

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)
Not doubting your experience, but you've had the phone for less than a year and haven't had a major Android version update.

You are 1/7th of the way of your total support period. If you can say you have no problems in 2030, that would be much stronger evidence.
Show HN: I built a free AI alternative to Typeform
You can get flagship Android phones for $500 or less if you are a bit patient and have a good carrier.

I just ordered a Galaxy S24+ from Google Fi for $450 and it's a better phone than the $1100 pixel 9 pro XL imo.

6 months from now and on days like Black Friday you'll be able to get the pixel 9 for less than $500.
Would have been nice if they did a regular size (5.8”) for normal people and 6.8” for the genetic freaks with dinner plate hands.

6.3” is still huge. 5.8” is workable. And it’s not like there’s no precedent, the Zenfone 10 is also 5.8” and is adored for it.
There was a lengthy discussion to persuade them to not have it on by default: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
Hey HN,

When I saw the mad AI rush begin, I immediately saw how it could improve the modern form experience. Here’s a list of a few things that Deformity can do that aren’t available in static forms:
- Internationalization (forms can speak 100+ languages)
- Easier to develop logic (tell it what you want and quit playing logic games)
- Give them a personality + teach them things so they can speak intelligently with users

I hope Deformity is as useful for you as it is to me. I would love all feedback!

Cameron
Hopefully someone decent buys it and reshapes the direction without major layoffs.

I use GitHub because there is no compelling reason not to and that’s what we have at work. But GitHub is stagnating and I have the idea of them having even more market share. Their AI propaganda is also insane.
> Low context window.

Gemini Advanced has 1M context window. If this is low, I am not sure anything else on the market will satisfy you.
Yeah, I have a Moto G84 12GB RAM for $180 - and it has features that these Pixels do not have:

- SD Card up to 1TB

- 3.5mm headphone jack
I usually sell my $1k phone after a couple years so I end up paying much less than $1k in the end, while getting a better phone out of it than had I just bought the $500 phone up front.

It blows me away that people actually care how much other people spend on something at all. Want a $50 flip phone? Cool. Want a $1300 fancy fold phone? Also fine.

When I had my last kid we got a Snoo bassinet, $1300 or so. Anyone that saw it couldn't help but inform me that their baby survived in a trash bag with holes poked in it or whatever for a bassinet. But I sold it 6 months later for $900, and my overall $400 investment was very worth it. Thing was a miracle.
That's a cracking result! I'll definitely keep an eye out and hopefully the second hand market is healthy.

I think the SE never really turned any heads from the flagship causing the second hand market to be lively. With these new touted SEs, they're looking to be as good as iPhone 14 (maybe pros) which has a very wide reach.
Definitely applies to many Asian countries as well.

Often, eSims get significantly better latency too, since you get an IP from close to where you are instead of your data having to cross one or more oceans. A VoIP call between two US SIMs/phones roaming in Asia is not a great experience.
Everybody knows it, but the principle is selectively applied.

For instance, our observations imply both general relativity and quantum field theory are necessary to model various aspects of the world. That’s an example of a Y. The only known X that’s ever been discovered that can encompass all aspects of that Y at all energy levels is string theory. Yet we are rightly careful to assume string theory is correct and enshrine it into the core body of scientific consensus. That does not mean we cannot or should not investigate it or even theory build on top of it, but it does mean we should refrain from assuming it must be true just because nobody can find anything better.
I really seem to like software that's configured with Lua.

It looks nice just as a basic setup (key = value type stuff), but you can do really complex dynamic configurations with it (like the dark-mode config in the linked article).

Hammerspoon is another, you can do so many things with it - I replicated most of Rectangle/Manget with Hammerspoon+Lua myself and now I can do the minor tweaks I couldn't do with the pre-packaged apps.
Tim literally wrote the Zen of Python and also came up with Timsort, he’s not just some random contributor.
Definitely a page full of eye sores. Also the branding is all over the place, the page itself feels more like it fits BestBuy's branding than Google's.
Do you intend for companies to use your software, just not resell it? Or do you not even want them to use it?
You mention validation and schema guarantees as key features for high accuracy. Are you using an LLM-as-a-judge combined with traditional checks for this?
As someone who was advocating for a similar warning in Rust (finally added to clippy in 1.78), I'm glad to see this improvement in `go vet`

> The go vet subcommand now includes the stdversion analyzer, which flags references to symbols that are too new for the version of Go in effect in the referring file. (The effective version is determined by the go directive in the file’s enclosing go.mod file, and by any //go:build constraints in the file.)
>
> For example, it will report a diagnostic for a reference to the reflect.TypeFor function (introduced in go1.22) from a file in a module whose go.mod file specifies go 1.21.
Antimatter over Eurasia
Good points, thank you! I'm lucky enough that I don't really need to worry about operating cost because I self-host the few things I have built and am nowhere near maxing out my hardware, but your point is well made.

Although...

> writing the equivalent server in go wasn’t really all that different from the typescript code

I think _that's_ true - one strength I'll absolutely concede to Go is that spinning up a basic server is very concise with the stdlib. The problem is that implementing its _logic_ is then super-verbose.
How do you personalize to the specific signals of the product, do they ingest into your infrastructure? What happens if a customer discovers a bug in a feature they're ingesting, how do they have control of retrains/pinning model versions? Who handles monitoring, the customer or your service?
Yeah, it is overlooked because the real answers are 'hidden' behind a lot of graduate level math. And most people don't really want to learn a bookcase worth of math first to talk about it, but they talk all the same.

Like, if you'd like to really dive into it then you're going to need to go through a lot of textbooks first.

If you are moderately familiar with multi-variable calc, then here is a good book to get started down the GR hole: https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physicists-Compr...

Suffice to say, yes, there have been a lot of grad students that have the exact same questions and issue that you currently have. Further, once they have reached the end of the mathematical education required to understand how space time works in the first few minutes of the universe, they focus those questions into the issues we have with inflation. Those issues mostly come from our lack of understanding about how GR and QM interact, so the first 10e-43 seconds or so. At least, that is my understanding. Physicists are welcome to tell me how dumb I am right now!
I hated the camera bulge and in display finger reader on the 7 so much that I downgraded to a 5
I have a lot of data on my smartphone I want to be secure, plus I like the OLED screen for reading ebooks/watching videos and I also want to make great photos.

Only Google Pixel devices tick those boxes, but at least you can buy older gen Pixels rather cheap (Google Pixel 6 Pro with similar camera setup as the Pixel 9 for example)
FWIW, I use a Pixel 8 with an aramid fiber case (Thinborne), and it's pretty much a strict upgrade over the Pixel 5. Only real downside is that it's ~1.6mm thicker than a caseless Pixel 5, but on the other hand the added protection of a case comes in handy.
The issue with having an explicit threshold is super heavy users will use right up to the limit and recommend it to other super heavy users. This MVNO then gets a disproportionate percentage of unprofitable roaming costs. The solution is for them to pass through the costs so there’s no dancing around the costs by suddenly cutting you off.
The lesson I've learned from this: Ambiguity may not always resolve. If some technical details in a spec seem confusing or ambiguous between two contradictory options, then half of the implementations will probably do option #1, the other will half will do option #2 and some may do both at the same time.
I apologize for misunderstanding you.

That time stamp effect is probably the second chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool). Those submissions get their time stamp mangled because it‘s easier for the ranking algorithm.
Fewer and fewer people own any computing device other than a phone.
> The front camera is a big upgrade: 10.5 MP to 42 MP from the 8 Pro to 9 Pro.

42MP???

Wouldn't that just rapidly fill up the storage for most of their users

with little if any other tangible benefit ... maybe that is part of the plan :-) ... the profit
Why did he need 23 weapons? Seems like someone could have done just as much damage with one weapon and a bunch of ammo. I feel like it would be pretty trivial to bring a couple luggage cases in with that, plus some cameras, without hotel staff being suspicious, especially if you didn't bring any "normal" luggage with clothes or toiletries or the usual stuff people bring, to keep the total number of luggage pieces down.

Hotel staff certainly wouldn't find that with room inspections; they'd just see three or four pieces of luggage, which shouldn't raise any eyebrows. Then when the shooter decides to get started, they take everything out of the cases and set things up.

Like... this isn't rocket science. The only kind of room inspection that would actually stop these kinds of attacks would be if they do room searches, including opening and going through people's luggage. But I hope we can all agree that would be a huge invasion of privacy that no one should accept.

Of, course the actual way to stop -- or at least drastically reduce -- these sorts of attacks would be much stronger gun, ammo, and accessory controls. But of course the mouth-breathing 2A crowd (including most of SCOTUS) think guns are more important than people's lives.
It looks like yes (sort of).

"The analysis revealed reservoirs of water at depths of about six to 12 miles (10 to 20km) in the Martian crust."

So, they think liquid water but it would be hard to get to even if you were well set on Mars with a drill rig. It might or might not need to be purified. They also have not touch water itself but seen indications in seismic data (pretty reliable remote sensing tech I believe).
> Even now in 2024 btrfs is one of the slowest Linux filesystems, and it does not take long to find reports of ongoing data corruption issues.

Please stop spreading FUD, this is simply not true.

I would argue that most problems that people experience with btrfs today are because of hardware issues, btrfs is simply detecting those errors thanks to checksumming.

Yes, it is slower than other filesystems and RAID 5/6 is still unstable but blaming btrfs for everything is simply wrong.
Exactly. Give it a couple of releases and the default "for new installations" will be On. Two more releases and all other installs will be opted in. Classic pattern for shoveling stuff down the throat of resisting gray masses.
What is mpox and why is it spreading more rapidly?
Their github repo just says AGPL 3.0. Can you point me to the other constraining terms are? This would be quite interesting (like the "Open Core" people). And when I say "interesting" I don't mean a positive feature.
Somewhat tangentially, your comment made me realize there can be non-vain reasons to try and appear less poor than you are. Of course, when you’re really poor it’s probably unwise to use a new iPhone to achieve this deception.
Most people spending $1k on their phone are either trading in their old phone if they upgrade often, or are upgrading every 2-3 years, which makes the cost not that crazy given how smartphones are often essentially a part of us nowadays with how much we rely on them.
I'm blown away that apparently lots of people on here are using toric contacts but their optometrist never instructed them on how to use them ??!!?!? That is horrible.
That's not the reason why web development is in its current state (not bad, actually). The reason is simple: it is difficult and therefore costly to make good and secure web app, and their owners are not willing to spend money/energy on this. Actually I would argue the speed of changes in web development is useful, because it lowers this cost. HN folks love to hate on e.g. Next.js and Vercel, but there's a reason they're so popular (though you should still spend much more resources on UX and security than average Next.js dev does).
It can use Whisper which is open source, although optionally it can also use GoogleSpeech.
Not all of us care. I barely use the camera on my phone.