skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One time, like a decade ago, I went through my inbox and clicked all the unsubscribe buttons from the previous month. The quantity of junk mail I got over the subsequent month exploded. I'm pretty sure the majority of the time you click an "unsubscribe" button, the person you're unsubscribing from sells your info to other companies with the "this is a real living person, they clicked on our button" label. I just put everything in spam now. I don't trust anyone.
It's indeed getting worse and worse driving cars.

I drive a Tesla Model 3 daily and agree to the critism about it's interface. On my last holidays I rented a Suzuki Vitara. Indeed it's much easier to find and operate the standard controls like for climate. Also cruise control with its 6 buttons took only a little learning.

The worst turned out to be CarPlay, a feature I always thought I'm missing with my Tesla. Occasionally it just didn't work, even though the phone was connected. So you get no navigation or you stop/start/wait until it works. And repeat that after every car stop situation. And when it works, forget about zooming or seeing anything more than the next step on this tiny display.

All in all I was happy to return to my Tesla again. But then I know all important controls from memory.

Anyway: Analog cars ruled indeed. I'd just use a simple phone holder too rather than anything like CarPlay.
Still wondering how AMD has only ~25% of desktop market share given recent Intel issues.
That's great! Corpo beancounters want us to move off docker on EC2 onto bare metal, making both dev and deploy experience terrible. This will help ease pain!
Society might have the will to move towards economic policies that would encourage a fertility rate closer to replacement rate as the global population halves. Today's politicians clearly don't, but 50-150 years from now, new folks will be in positions of power who might make it worth potential parents' time and effort. Unfortunately, if you can't convince women it's worth their one life to raise children "for the good of society" or whatever the messaging is, you're up a creek without a paddle and the situation is likely hopeless. Society should make them a very compelling offer (exceptionally robust support to be a parent), if it is willing and can, otherwise, prepare for the consequences of people having free will and self determination.
yup, and gun ownership rates are at an all-time high

maybe they really are inversely correlated
This is exactly the difference between being "nice" and being "kind". Nice is giving someone what they think they want. Kind is giving them what they actually need. I would frame it as: your parents saying "no more" was a genuine act of support.
Yes, it's pretty lame that Raspberry Pi has such a "flexible" definition of "low power". i.e. the RP2350 is not low power at all.

Looks like Espressif will keep getting my business. What a missed opportunity by RPI.
I just don't understand. If I want to unsubscribe from a list or subscription service, I'll do it anyway. Does such a system really work, and are there people who don't unsubscribe?
Why does Patreon need an app?
I would also love to use it this way in Go. Currently we dump SQLite compatible schema to use for SQLite powered integration tests even though we use postgres when live. It allows us to have zero dependency sub-second integration tests using a real database. Being able to use postgres would be even better, allowing us to test functionality requiring PG specific functionality like full text search.
I like Podcast Republic (https://www.podcastrepublic.net/). Going through your list:

* Comprehensive online search/discovery for podcasts and individual episodes through the app

It does have a search for other podcasts, but could stand to be better. However, you can easily add an apple podcasts URL or RSS feed if you find the podcase elsewhere

* Group subscriptions into folders/tags/_something_ to help me organize the list

You can group subscriptions or episodes by playlists

* Sleep timer with fading playback

Pretty sure it can do this. You can also set default hours for sleep operation so if you wake up at 2am and want to listen to a podcast to get back to sleep you don't have to re-setup the sleep function.

* No in-app visual ads or other ad breaks that are not part of the podcast recording itself.

Not that I have noticed.
Oops, "eccentric"
Clicking "New database" doesn't do anything for me...? No changes in the UI, and no messages in the console. Admittedly I'm not signed in with Github, but isn't that only for the AI thing (that really I don't want to use).

Edit: Okay reading kiwicopple's comment makes it clearer that chatGPT is not-optional. I'm... not enthused by this. Why would you take something that's local-first and gatekeep it with something as useless as an AI-for-your-db?

https://pglite.dev/repl/ is available as a more barebones browser-pglite playground.
Wish I had found this repo earlier.

Just finished a heatmap feature that took much effort.
>LLM training is copying. Next question please.

Says who? At best it's murky since AI companies argue that it's fair use, and that's entirely unfounded, eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
Researchers crack a celiac mystery: Where does the gluten reaction begin?
They tried, it roused the snooze mob
The 30% fee is steep, but conversion rates using in-app purchase are astronomical compared to regular webpages with a credit card form. Everyone hates it (developers, I mean), but it works very well.
Korea is perhaps the clearest disproof of the resources -> children argument, because it was an order of magnitude poorer within living memory. Do modern South Koreans really feel more resource-constrained today than they did in the 1960s, when the most common housing was literal mud huts and 80% of people had no running water?
That sounds frustrating.
That is my sentiment as well.

It's as if they assumed all else would remain equal, even though we know that's not the case.

It's like when Ben Shapiro said that if people were really anticipating warming oceans to engulf coastal cities, they would be selling their properties, to which one man rebutted with "To whom? To fucking Aquaman?".
Apple users (I'm not one of them) seem fine with that arrangement.
Banks are still offering ESG products. EG "Cut your carbon emissions by x% and we'll shave a couple of basis points off your loan/swap."
Patreon has been pushing an app-based approach for awhile now; every email I get from them has callouts to open the notification in their app.

I don't know why they badly want this - presumably for more user tracking, or because studies show that people engage more, or whatever - but pulling out of the app store would be at odds with this desire to push everyone into their app.
> Moisture barrier: it traps the humidity in places you potentially don't want to

Definitely a risk with any type of improperly installed moisture barrier (like ZIP sheathing).

> Structural strength: yeahhhh... no

It would take me some time to find more formal studies, but there are a lot of videos on YouTube that demonstrate the addeded strength. Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mMHJpSHKJM

> god awful nasty smell for days/weeks and can offgas for years is good for air quality ?

Everything I've read indicates that any offgassing/odor is gone in 24 hours or less.

> In the end of the day people do whatever they want

Agreed. To each their own. Closed cell spray foam also works well in conjunction with rockwool.
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Reminds me of this recent post about a woman and her washer collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627522
ya i dont know about desktop app but mobile and website wise it blows away apple, prime, pandora and youtube music like by a long shot..

not to mention the recommendations is also on another level so their curated maxtapes. although i assume that last one has a lot to do with your genre preference but rap/hip hop wise i think its true.

the new song discoverability is the only reason i prefer Spotify even though i get prime and apple free from other bundles already.

i do like the library and playlist separation tho. youtube and i think apple are like this where if you delete off playlist it deletes off your library as well. its really annoying haha
30% of a negative number, I'll take that deal in a heartbeat.
From an article I read recently (https://www.earthday.org/dear-big-oil-its-you-not-me/), it states that individual contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is only a small percentage and that industry and refining is to blame for nearly all of it.

From another article even more recently (no link, was on HN recently) it shows that energy usage by the biggest companies is up a significant percentage (30-50%) and that they won't hit their carbon-neutral or carbon-zero targets. All of this increase is because of investment in "AI" and its massive energy requirements.

So even if you were doing all you could to reduce your impact, all it takes is a single person in charge of one of these companies to do something like build out a datacentre or build a new plant or dig a new coal mine, and all your hard work is for naught.
I think it depends on what kind of data you're dealing with. If you know the shape of your data, it's pretty trivial to create a struct with json tags and serialize/deserialize into that struct. But if you're dealing with data of an unknown shape it can be tricky to work with that. In Python because of dynamic typing and dicts it's a little easier to deserialize arbitrary data.

Go's net/http is also slightly lower level. You have to concern yourself directly with some of the plumbing and complexity of making an http request and how to handle failures that can occur. Whereas in Python you can use the requests lib and fire off a request and a lot of that extra plumbing just happens for free and you don't have to deal with any of the extra complexity if you don't want to.

I find Go to be bad for interviewing in a lot of cases because you get bogged down with minutiae instead of working directly towards solving the exact problem presented in the interview. But that minutiae is also what makes Go nice to work with on real projects because you're often forced into writing safer code
> A terminal, that instead makes use of some XML tags or so, to mark text in a readable fashion as prompt, input, output, maybe variables and such, colored and non-colored, etc., and then simply has some logic to render that XML correctly?

That would be a browser. Forgive me if you were being sarcastic and I didn't pick up on it.
This post is outdated. The 2021 update sucked. They quickly fixed these issues.
SAG-AFTRA/Animation Guild's contract disputes are canaries in the AI coal mine
Nope, in fact, gun ownership has been on a steady decline since the 80s.

https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/gun-ownership.html
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InZOI
Because Intel is still top dog when it comes to single threaded performance even against Zen 5.
It's notable that the article concentrates almost entirely on the two individuals, not on the corporate culture that created intense stress for both of them.
N100 & N305 have no competition in their own space IMO. For the rest I don't see any advantage outside momentum and "nobody is going to be fired for using IBM" approach.
NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation
Ah, rats. It looks nice but to save others a bit of searching, if broadcasting to multiple panes is a requirement for you (something I use often in iterm2), it's not yet supported and not planned for support: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/2658
Yes, this is just like astrology, where controversial trailblazing astrologers upset the status quo by dramatic demonstrations in violation of the status quo!

In a different thread we could have a nuanced discussion of both the theory and practice of medicine. But the very worst view of modern medicine is so far ahead of astrology that it isn't even a meaningful comparison.
Apple is making sure that it is not easy for Apple users to find out about this fee.
I see that FSFE has a new blog post up today [1]. There are a few links in the post; I've read them as best I can. Is this case about iMessage only, or about all of their gate-kept services? It seems like Apple is only contesting iMessage (at least in the linked case).

[1] https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240812-01.en.html
I'm looking forward to the eventual release of the new terminal that Mitchell Hashimoto has been working on for fun for a few year, Ghostty. From what he has shared online so far, it looks really awesome and well designed.
Thanks for sharing this! I miss this concise UI so much.
Yeah, but that's at the cost of a 50% probability of a CPU failure within a year. Moreover, it doesn't hold true in games vs X3D CPUs.
What do you see missing in the Java toolchain? Frankly, I see it as one of the most complete and deep of all languages.
This process can be really tedious too
Well there are several reasons:

- Intel is still competitive for gaming and productivity (albeit at a somewhat higher power consumption)

- AMD does not have a good budget offering (competing with i3 at ~120$)

- People don't refresh their desktop as often as a laptop, especially for gaming where realistically an i7-7700k from 2017 coupled with a modern GPU will comfortably output 60fps+ at 1440p.
Well, it's a very usable language which is strongly typed (by any layman's definition), easy to pick up, easy to get stuff done in, relatively easy to live with and easy to maintain. If it's hyped then it's only in the same way The Beatles and Pizza are hyped.
so you agree with the point then - that:

> All of civilization in all of history is a ponzi scheme.

But I don't understand how not having kids is borrowing anything from the future.

Wouldn't feeding in the ponzi scheme be what borrows from the future?...

It seems like you are saying two different things here.
Just read this last night!
as part of the 'Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories' collection.
What do you do for discovery?
Only for small or new projects...
Thanks for the hard data. It looks like there was a decline from 1980 to 2000 and then it's been stable since.
Realistically it has probably been too late for the last 20 years at least.

Though this kind of thinking doesn't ever help things to improve. Still have to believe that we can fix things and we can improve things.
Some people live in their editor and occasionally drop into a shell. I've personally found a lot less friction in doing the opposite. Live in the shell, and occasionally drop into your editor.

I used to think that it would be better to have a lot of scripting and automation built into my editor, but there are so many well-built, connect-able tools already available in a unix shell that it's usually easier to write scripts in that context, instead. There are often easy ways to pull the outputs of those scripts into your editor or use your editor as a thin, pass-thru layer to run shell scripts on certain selected bits of text in a file.
The world has entered an interesting phase where a large portion of the world that is inhospitable to investment of capital has become a breeding grounds with high birth rates, and western societies poach a top percent of their talent, plus whoever can brave the Darien gap or a risky oceanic raft journey.

In a way it's best we continue to encourage socialist and other capital hostile policies in their territories to ensure our dominance and a continually screening of a fraction of their populace for immigration to man the levers.
Are the reporting methodologies constant for the years compared?
conveniently timed article
The UX designer, Jenson, cites interesting concepts like 1+1=3 and cognitive load. But forgets an even more basic concept: design for the common case.

The common case is the driver being the owner. Tesla has real world data about how many times the defrost button is tapped. Their UX decision to make the bottom bar customizable is smart.

I personally choose to only put the defrost button in the bar during months of the year when I use that button frequently and remove it at other times. Keeps it easily accessible when I need it and out of the way when I don't. Elegant, functional.

It might even be the case that defrost is in the bottom bar by default and the owner of the Tesla he drove had removed it, I can't remember right now what Tesla does for newly shipped cars.
Prebuilt PC sales is likely that cause. I'm sure AMD has a much higher share for those who are building their computers. But that is most likely an overall small share of the market of computers sold.
I would be willing to give the app bar some credit if it were limited to apps, in the sense of features that you don’t really need to use while driving. But for some reason, basic control of the car is mixed up with apps. Certain controls may or may not be that frequently used but need to be readily available, and those include defogging, wipers, forward/reverse (sigh), and enough climate control to be minimally comfortable. Give them fixed positions!

If I’m driving a rented or borrowed car, it gets dark and cold outside, oncoming traffic has bright lights, and the windshield is fogging up, I need to turn on the anti-fog mode. I do not want to have to contemplate whether it’s in a menu and whether whoever drove the car last remembered to put it on the app bar.
Honestly, I agree. Bullies and assholes only continue because there are rarely any consequences for their actions, and because in some cases society will bend over backwards to help them to avoid the hassle. If companies are terrified to ban customers, and will even give them discounts/free products to get them out of their hair, what incentive do these customers have to act like decent people?

On the other hand, if the bans start coming and everyone enacts a zero tolerance setup for abusive customers, they'll realise their mistake soon enough when half the town doesn't let them shop there. Companies just need to put their workers first, and realise that assholes are not valuable customers.
I think it's fair to take a fee for payments through Apple's infrastructure... but 30% is egregious.
Unless your workloads are not very cache optimized like most games, then AMD's 3D V-cache CPUs take the lead.
> I know people who treat their family members kind of like that, so I don't think it's so much a case of not seeing the workers (specifically) as human beings. I think the behavior is probably more about thinking of some person as being "safe" to take anger out on: that could be a low status stranger or someone close who won't/can't dump them.

I thought about this and think you're right and getting at what I was trying to say - they're in a position of power over the worker, and they know it, so in a sense that means they're "beneath" the abuser - and you're absolutely right, the fact that the worker cannot fight back at all is a factor in these types of cowardly attacks.

One of the worst things I wish I could stop doing is any time I see abusive behavior out in the wild towards a low wage service worker, I flip my shit on the abusive person, because it is so infuriating to me as someone who has been in the worker's shoes that they cannot do a single effing thing about it or get fired. The reaction is typically shock from the person being abusive, but I hate the fact I'm unable to control myself because eventually I'll get stabbed over it or something stupid, and it's not worth it.

It feels really good though.
I don't think I believe this as an accurate prediction of the future, but if anything like this comes to be, I think I'll probably just keep doing what I'm doing now, for fun. The predictions here sound pretty bleak. I don't want to manage a team of LLMs sloshing around vectors all day.

I can only hope I finish out a fulfilling life doing things I think are interesting that the author seems to dislike in favour of "non-deterministic software" and "manage[-ing] AI tools".

I await their first non-deterministic nuclear power plant from a safe distance!
It's fine for App Store developers to complain about their costs of doing business like any other business. I'm not sure what the point of bringing up nonsensical hypotheticals like bank payments is.
"Public posts are by default copyrighted to the author of the post"

US Centric and also moot given you agree to twitters terms of service before your first post.
That’s hyperbole. There’s no data to back such a claim.
Sciter is not open source, so it's in a whole different category, not applicable to many many things that interest people on HN.
The problem with C# is its created by Microsoft, even if its a good language its hard to look at it and not think how much its limited while used outside of Windows.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/david-lewis/
I am well aware of that, but there is a very huge and crucial difference between putting something in the newspaper for the sake of public dissemination vs. for the sake of making sure one specific known private entity gets the information. The only case I can recall off the top of my head for the latter is for things like service of judicial papers, and even then as a last resort, only when direct attempts to reach the party have failed. I am not aware of a single case where a party that is already reasonably reachable has to monitor public media for private communication.
Whether Apple believes it can strongarm the related companies.
WezTerm is available for Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD also. See https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/installation.html
> Snapping pictures of things as easier form of notes

How do you get a hold of the picture later?

I've tried doing this, but I have a hard time finding the pictures if I haven't quickly moved the information to textual form.
Yeah, that's what I see as well. Steady decline is probably the wrong way to phrase it.
I wonder why some words are overrepresented. Isn't the whole idea of language models to model word distribution as close as possible? Does it have something to do with RLHF? Or it's the training data?
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It's complicated.

Apple has given me a simple way to manage many of my subscriptions, a single pane of glass, which I appreciate. I'm fine paying a little extra for that.

It would be more valuable to me if Apple didn't charge too much, which turns away service providers.
Arbitrary Apple rules. Apple decided that "physical" goods & services in app purchases don't get taxed (e.g., clothes, uber rides). Digital goods do because they feel like they can get away with it which is why you can't buy eBooks from Kobo or Amazon on iOS, can't buy or rent movies from Google on iOS. People will tell you this is for "safety" and to keep you from getting scammed but there's nothing stopping malicious actors from creating apps that promise to ship physical goods and just don't. At least with digital goods you should get whatever you pay for immediately after purchase.
This is how I interpret things. People from that kind of background are also notoriously well-connected, so attempting a startup early or mid career isn't going to damage their ability to go back to the job market. For the rest of us, that would take some explaining at the interview table.
It has been suggested that the whole individual change movement was created to distract the populace from the actual big polluters. Like answering the question of "Why do we keep extracting coal and oil?" with "Why don't you look at your own consumption and reduce that first".