skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do find it baffling the mythos that surrounds "talent" and "meritocracy" in the West. I subscribe to the idea that so-called "geniuses" are made and not born that way. Obviously there are factors into this, like success early on, and a variety of factors that may influence your predisposition to doing a certain thing well.

But, at the same time, I know for a fact that far too many people put way too much weight on "talent" and often tell themselves that they can't do something. Someone may see you do something (like drawing or playing music) and say "wow, you are talented, I could never do that" but what you didn't see was how awful they were when they started and the thousands of hours they put into studying light and practicing constructing form from abstract shapes.

I think that this is a dangerous lie. You, in fact, could get good at drawing... and you could overcome any blocks to that if you put in the effort and work. You just don't want to or are not following through. Some people will naturally be better, sure, but that is no excuse to say you are incapable of doing something. I almost find that notion insulting.
What really sucks ass is mpv doesn't have features to show what the frame count of the frame you're looking at is.
the more people trying out alternatives OSes, the better
thanks, msft
This is absurd! How would you feel if your workplace implemented such a rule?

Why don't you propose you just shoot them on the spot instead, that will teach them that actions have consequences and will scare them straight!
Tencent is using Epic Games to drive a wedge in the US-based tech companies and raise anti-trust concerns with them.
> I can't believe he didn't notice immediately too.

Is it possible that maybe Kasparov noticed and just like you, he went with it instead of making the hosts look bad?
For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37684624
you're not there to make software. you're there to pad out someones headcount and not make any trouble. associate yourself with an enterprise that becomes successful independent of your contribution, and leverage that to get similar roles elsewhere.
This is actually terrible. I tried that a while ago, but after a short while removed all of the Optional[] code and went back to pointers. Why? The default ser/des in go just cannot play. It instead works great with pointers.

Using pointers that are nillable whenever I want to have an optional value. How did I solve the usability problem? I just introduced 2 simple methods: Or and Of. First one will resolve ptr to a value or default if nil (provided in param) and the second one will make a ptr from a value type. That is actually all you need! Don't have the code here or I'd post it but it's easy enough to make your own (with generics).
The conservatives tend to be literalists when interpreting statutes and regulations. There are judicial philosophy reasons for that, but also, statutes and regulations can be changed in response to court rulings. That said, the conservatives tend to be literalists from the perspective of the legislature or regulator at the time the law was enacted, though all the justices (conservative and liberal) recognize that it’s a fiction to say Congress has a single point of view.

When it comes to interpreting the constitution, conservatives likewise tend to be focused on the point of view at enactment. But it’s even more of a fiction to say that the states had a single point of view, and in any case, the text of the constitution often isn’t precise in the way contemporary statutes are. So the conservatives are guided more strongly by the historical evidence about what the sovereign states would have “understood” themselves to be giving up, in replacing the Articles of Confederation with a central federal government.

Given that, they interpret the Fourth Amendment by reference to the historical evidence of what phenomena it was responding to. And as a historical matter, the aim of the amendment was to require warrants, not to narrow the scope of what could be searched or seized. So where there’s probable cause that a crime has been committed, a warrant may issue, and it can be directed at the property that “committed” the crime, since that was a known practice in English law at the time.
You're falling into a common trap: assuming that presenting people with information will automatically persuade them. Jonathan Haidt, in his insightful work The Righteous Mind, demonstrates that there's scant scientific evidence for this belief. While some individuals can indeed be swayed by facts, the vast majority are not. This explains why effective marketing often appeals to emotions rather than relying solely on rational arguments.

It's crucial to recognize that the will of the people varies significantly across Austin, Travis County, and Texas as a whole.

The map clearly shows Amarillo and Odessa within Texas, granting their residents the right to expect state laws to be enforced within Texas borders. Similarly, inhabitants of Spicewood and Cedar Valley can rightfully anticipate Travis County's enforcement of municipal ordinances within its jurisdiction. Austinites, naturally, should expect their local authorities to uphold city ordinances.

Your point about localized governance is well-taken. It's worth noting that Attorney General Paxton has ardently advocated for local control regarding the Texas-Mexico border, despite federal preferences. This raises an intriguing question -- should Paxton maintain consistency in his stance, or does this situation reveal a fundamental flaw in the federal government's approach?
> what if device manufacturers worked with schools to implement some kind of “School Mode” on these devices?

How would you enforce this?

> as our devices become increasingly wearable and integrated with daily life, it seems like a ban is only a temporarily viable solution

I’m a strong proponent of these technologies. But the truth is we mandate, and as a result do, zero testing on how it affects kids before deploying them. For the consumer market, test after selling makes sense. For kids, European-style whitelisting might be better.

We are trending towards a world where kids of the poor and middle class are addicted to screens. That’s a horrifying class divide.
Being vague is often necessary. E.g., what is cruel and usual punishment.
Nothing prevents you from writing the same game in assembly on top of the frame buffer of the BIOS. It will be a major PITA (I did that in the past), but I’m sure you’ll enjoy the small size of the binaries.
Yes, well “actual” law-enforcement agencies “actually” use tons of data that originates with Meta and alphabet respectively - at a scale that literally no other organization has the ability to comply with
Oh we can’t just avoid context switching, can we? The way the company works is completely beyond the question. I should have to aggressively protect special “focus time” instead, because it’s my problem I have to solve.
Other commenter posted some data.

My point is that lighter attacks (scratches, jumping, sniffing, licking...) are so common, they can not even be reported.

If students have no cameras, many more teachers would bring their "pets" into school.
If there is a "school mode" you are not the owner of the device and it will be hacked very soon. It is important to realize that there are zillions of different devices beyond the Apple brand.
I see slippery slopes, but will most likely, this will become a feature.
Show HN: Wd-40, a static webserver with automatic hot-reloads
It works by injecting a websocket script which listens for file changes. The filechanges are detected using the go fsnotify package, which in turn uses the different OS's equivalent to inotify.

I basically got bored with alt-tabbing and refresing when developing 'vanilla-js'. The hot-reload in the modern frameworks are very nice, so figured I'd recreate it.
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/05/09/supreme-court-issues-fl...

Reason has a good analysis. This recent case was about preliminary hearings in civil asset forfeiture cases in which it was ruled 6-3 that preliminary hearings weren’t required in such cases, but if you read into Gorsuch’s concurring opinion, it looks a lot like he believes civil asset forfeiture is over applied and shouldn’t be used outside of exigent circumstances like those covered under admiralty, customs and revenue law where a ship might leave American jurisdiction before a proper hearing could be held on the asset.

So… with the right case brought before them, the current SCOTUS bench might be ready to gut civil asset forfeiture like a trout.
The specific Brazilian issues aside, it would be great if we coiuld shut down these platforms in the US!

Proprietary mis-information platforms aren't helping anyone except their over compensated ownership...
Careful now. You'll be saying waterfall processes are a good thing.
> watches provide some pretty useful health and emergency benefits

Fitbits let you “see calls, texts & smartphone app notifications on your wrist when your phone is nearby” [1]. It has all the attention, focus and de-socialisation problems of a smartphone.

[1] https://www.fitbit.com/global/us/products/smartwatches/sense...
The way I usually phrase the problem here is that the market strives to push average disposable income to zero. Average here means that there will be people with various degree of spending money surplus (the rich) and those not able to afford even the essentials (the poor). This is a stable(ish) state, even as people move up and down the wealth ladder. However, when suddenly a large chunk of population gets extra disposable income - say a hypothetical UBI experiment (or not so hypothetical universal or near-universal social handouts), or as two-income household model gains popularity in a country, or (indirectly) some innovation creates a new, widely-applicable efficiency - then the market absolutely swoops in and eats all the average surplus.

You mention some regulatory overhead being eliminated, but more often than not, a surplus of disposable income enables passing further regulatory requirements that improve (or at least purport to) safety or quality of products and services, and that were hitherto too costly to implement. Then, most sectors aren't nearly competitive enough to keep the margins to zero, and some degree of price fixing is a natural thing that happens without any actual collusion, so things get more expensive (per unit) (or don't get cheaper). Then, like with new regulations, you also get new products and services that had no market yesterday, become popular today, and a de-facto requirement of living tomorrow. Etc.

> Oh sure, but there's a vast difference between "people make $1000 more and landlords take $0.05 on the dollar" and "people make $1000 more and landlords take $0.95 on the dollar".

If I parse this correctly, then the latter is definitely the case. Real estate is the prime force that eats all surplus disposable income. Houses and apartments get smaller, get built from worse and worse materials, using inferior techniques, and designed for ever shorter life span, all while getting more and more expensive. Any sudden bump in disposable income across the population is, first and foremost, likely to be eaten by rent.
That will be your perfectionism.

Joking aside yeah that's perverse.
> Obviously it's not going to work because the only advantage Windows had was being the last popular platform that didn't work this way^ but the admins in charge of the decisions probably don't understand this.

If they can trap 20% of tech illiterate customers into their garden would that not already count as a win? Now they can extract more money from them than they could before.
Or the long term ecological damage of solar panels.

https://www.ecowatch.com/solar-environmental-impacts.html
This kind of thing is a problem with supplements too. You kind of need to just find a trustworthy brand, by some means, and get it direct. Bad brands make bad stuff, and bad middlemen can mess with their stock, so not much can be done atm.

Cash is a perfect example of how hard it is to make sure something physical is what it says it is, especially when lying is profitable . Countries have to go to crazy lengths to prevent counterfeits.
Is that a lot or very little?

In any case, nuclear is a technology of the XX Century. The future is wind and solar.
Gentoo Linux Drops IA-64 (Itanium) Support – Gentoo Linux
Wonder how mpv deals with backwards step in infinite GOP/long GOP situations.
> Why will banning them make the enforcement problem solved?

Whether the phone was being used is debatable. Whether it exists is not. Banning makes communication and enforcement easier.
Ah, fair enough. I think we agree mostly then - he is fed up, he is justified in it, yet it is not very productive. (I wouldn't call it toxic, though.)
You are misunderstanding me in the same way the above poster is. Both you and them seem so obsessed with the idea of blind us vs them partisan politics, you can’t even comprehend that there are people that don’t think that way. It’s not that I would date someone with “opposing” partisan affiliation, but that I won’t date anyone that sees the world through a lens of politics instead of real issues they can solve with creativity and an open mind.

If my/our kid was going to lose healthcare and all they did was vote for the latest liar that says the same old idea will solve that problem- they are either ignorant, or don’t actually care.

The whole thing is largely a game people play to avoid guilt of not actually doing anything about the things they claim to care about… and is deeply encouraged in media and on social media to the point that people don’t even notice how absurd it is.

Almost every older “boomer” that I know has their brain so infected with this they do nothing but watch TV and rant about politics… and of course take zero action besides voting- which shows the only care about the us vs them conflict and don’t actually care about any issues enough to do something real about them.

I miss these people, sometimes it feels like they died because there is nothing left to their previous personalities. They take no actions, no risks, and have no ideas of their own anymore.
> For us, knowing immediate who should have had data on last scrape but didn't respond is the value.

Maybe I don't understand your use case well, but with tools like Riemann, you can detect stalled metrics (per host or service), who didn't send the data on time, etc.

> What mistakes are you referring to?

Besides scaling issues and having a simpler architecture, in Zabbix's case, there were issues with predictability: when the server would start to pull the metrics (different metrics could have different cadence) when the main Zabbix service was reloaded, had connection issues, or was oversaturated with stuck threads because some agents took more time to respond than the others. This is not only Zabbix-specific but a common challenge when a central place has to go around, query things, and wait for a response.
Do you mean Ladybird? It would be nice to see it become competitive with the others, at least. Diversity would be welcome.

I was a little surprised to learn that they'll use Swift for future development. It's not among the languages I usually think of for cross-platform work. On the other hand, maybe Ladybird using it will help drive improvement in that area.

https://nitter.privacydev.net/awesomekling/status/1822236888...
An assault rifle, a sidearm, at least two grenades and full body armour.
We did pivot to add a more premium, high touch offering and it sold very well. Thats how we came to the second unhappy realization: Despite having what we considered a very nice TAM the industry didn't really want to be scaled. This meant that our clients who paid for our premium offering were very difficult to service and create value for.

Our business was in a sense connecting buyers with sellers for a fee, and there just weren't enough sellers to satisfy the industry of willing buyers eager to pay for value. A fine boutique business and a solid way to have a $12M/year company focusing on BIG DEALS. Not much of a play to scale with tech and profit by reducing costs and friction. Nobody cared about costs and friction was oddly desirable for our customers as it meant "we're in the game - things are happening!".

Had we not "raised money" and encumbered ourselves with investors we'd have continued operating. As it turned out, we more or less took on a bunch of debt to operate the same business we could have made with no tech at all.
My only interaction with Twitter was when someone posted the link. Should I make account for every platform someone links to? Is this the internet we want? Every link behind login?
Funny how we talked about it 24hrs ago on HN.

Does Elon Musk read HN and did he suddenly realized how much of a mistake it had been, how much it harmed the platform to require login, moving people on to Mastodon or others? Seems typical from him to move in 24hrs.
Way more history than you asked for about how we got into this situation with noexcept:

Up to 2011:

https://akrzemi1.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/using-noexcept/

As of '17:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180928-00/?p=99...

(I think this is the final word; I don't see any changes to exceptions in high-level release notes for c++20 and c++23 -- did I miss anything?)
Germany also has giant piles of nuclear waste and doesn't even know yet where to store it permanently. Recently an assessment concluded that the process to select such a storage facility might take at least until 2074! [1]

[1]: https://www.base.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/BASE/DE/fachin...
We shouldn't need a court to make this the case...

The police have a role of serving the publics interests. Taking someone's phone and keeping it for a year is clearly substantially detrimental to that specific member of the public, and rather unlikely to be of commensurate benefit to the rest of the public.

Therefore, such activity isn't what we pay them for or expect them to do - at a minimum we should be firing any cops who do this deliberately, even if it weren't illegal.
It certainly seems like in the future there's going to be a market for user-controlled personal-data stores (using a standard format for certain types of data) + library glue to load them into apps on-demand, as that'll be the only way to accomplish features like this in a privacy-preserving way.

Or, you know, the platform companies end up being the only ones who can access the on-device stores from local apps.
i think the fcc might have something to say about that
The US report 453 thousand bankruptcy filings in 2023. There are 33 million small businesses in the US. Etc, etc, etc. Big numbers are hard to put in perspective - which the very fine article was very careful NOT to do. Obviously it was not 52 thousand large companies but there again, one would need comparative numbers to say for sure. On top of which most single large corporations usually owns dozens to thousands of separately incorporated units. Who knows what that number is about.
I know you think you're being facetious, but you've just described how modern operating systems work.

They give programs a reasonable amount of memory, without getting into specifics about the limits. And they reclaim memory as necessary based on the demands of the OS and other programs. See, for example, browser memory usage vs video game usage.

It turns out that in practice "reasonable" works quite well as long as you are reasonable about it.
> more effective to just install a cell phone jammer in the schools

It would be very difficult to engineer this to not jam cell phones just beyond school property. (You’d also need federal approval. Banning is easier.)
I did a lot of C programming on an IBM XT - 8088, 10mb hard disk, WordStar and DeSmet C. All worked very well.
Coincidentally (to the fact Germany is actively phasing out nuclear) Germany is the very country I would trust to run nuclear power plants without worry - every other nuclear-powered nation seems less good at quality and safety, the safety measures Germany applied seemed really good.

Yet nowadays it appears Germany essentially outsources nuclear power generation to its neighbors who would still contaminate Germany in case of a nuclear incident at their land.
Assessing the Learning Limits of LLMs with Synthetic Impossible Languages
> But watches provide some pretty useful health and emergency benefits

For kids? How ever did anyone survive before 1990.
Those Online Accounts You No Longer Use? For Your Own Safety, Get Rid of Them
Vastly different kinds of satellites. The KH-11 satellites weigh 17,000 kg, these weight 150kg. KH-11 has 2.4m mirror and resolution of 6cm. The UK ones are resolution of 90cm.

Both kinds are useful, cause the UK ones are small and cheap and good for general surveillance. While the big ones are useful for detail. My feeling is that the US should launch some small ones, but I think they buy that from Planet Labs and others.
Show HN: A self-hosted Twitter/X thread scheduler
> or writing a quick functional script

It's exactly a quick functional script.
Because our writing system is unidirectional. Documents have a direction that they flow in (typically vertical), and text within those documents is written along the other axis (typically horizontal) and wraps when it hits the edge. So in a viewport, a document has three fixed edges defined by the viewport dimensions (typically top, left, and right), with the other edge (bottom) defined by the size of the content. So the horizontal axis works in a very different way to the vertical axis.
> Is that a lot or very little?

Read on my link. It's very little.
While this study is very interesting, the way the Energiewende itself was applied was also not ideal. Some of the steps in the Energiewende were not applied properly, probably because the German government at the time was center-right and had conscious or unconscious biases in favor of coal and gas generations.

It would have been interesting to compare the reasonable benefices of a properly-done nuclear path with the reasonable benefices of a properly-done renewable path (properly-done renewable path being constructed the same way: triangulating the situations in other countries), instead of comparing it with what really happened with the German renewable path.
Debugging operating systems with time-traveling virtual machines (2005) [pdf]
I am quite alright, thanks.

Just want dog owners to take some responsibility.
Isn't it possible to engineer plants which use this waste for fuel?
Interesting fact, police seizure (police stealing from people who are arrested, even if they are never prosecuted) is more than criminal theft. In other words, police steal more from people than criminals.
I am a great admirer of Chandrasekhar but his style of writing is very difficult to learn from. I thought I was common enough to read his Principia exposition but learned I was a few levels below standard.