skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The second thing is, I think, the problem of personality defects. Now I'll cite a fellow whom I met out in Irvine. He had been the head of a computing center and he was temporarily on assignment as a special assistant to the president of the university. It was obvious he had a job with a great future. He took me into his office one time and showed me his method of getting letters done and how he took care of his correspondence. He pointed out how inefficient the secretary was. He kept all his letters stacked around there; he knew where everything was. And he would, on his word processor, get the letter out. He was bragging how marvelous it was and how he could get so much more work done without the secretary's interference. Well, behind his back, I talked to the secretary. The secretary said, ``Of course I can't help him; I don't get his mail. He won't give me the stuff to log in; I don't know where he puts it on the floor. Of course I can't help him.'' So I went to him and said, ``Look, if you adopt the present method and do what you can do single-handedly, you can go just that far and no farther than you can do single-handedly. If you will learn to work with the system, you can go as far as the system will support you.'' And, he never went any further. He had his personality defect of wanting total control and was not willing to recognize that you need the support of the system.

You find this happening again and again; good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system and take advantage of all the system has to offer. It has a lot, if you learn how to use it. It takes patience, but you can learn how to use the system pretty well, and you can learn how to get around it.

Hamming, “You and your research”

Astronomers saw me that way. "Cliff? He's not much of an astronomer, but what a computer hacker!" (The computer folks, of course, had a different view: "Cliff's not much of a programmer, but what an astronomer!" At best, graduate school had taught me to keep both sides fooled.)

Cliff Stoll, “Cuccoo’s Egg”
If you look at sports, it used to be that people looked at basic stats for hiring. Then came the age of money-ball where people started looking at group success. Turns out that those people are often quite valuable even though their metrics might not be as sexy.
What is it that makes the web documentation atrocious in your view?

As for man pages, HTTPie has been shipping them since v3.2 [1].

Try `man http` or `http --manual`.

[1] https://httpie.io/blog/httpie-3.2.0#man-pages
yes true. but isnt using addicted people for the own benefit the whole premise of most social media and alike. apple is maybe not into social media but I cant imagine zuckerberg not wetting his pants from joy if he thinks about million more people crippled to his attention gathering devices.
everytime i code i feel like i need to complete side quests. you find one problem and the solution online requires to solve another 2 problems and so on. add to that the fact that our brain can't help and get distracted, by the time you finish the side quests you need time to remember what brought you there in the first place.
an FYI-You-should-too -- I am a huge fan of telling claude to give me mermaids and swim diagrams of most of the logic and code I am iterating with.

I like to do the following:

"Review this code and give me a readme, include mermaid, swim diagrams to draw the logic."

Claude is great because it renders the mermaid in the artifact (most times).

then I can copy the mermaid into a mermaidlive (I still havent found the best mermaid site because some of them choke on the mmd output of claude and I dont know how to fix it sometimes...

for example - here is a mermaid where I was looking into how the universities, professors and families of SBF, Holmes and Ellison were tied:

https://i.imgur.com/njFKvmJ.png

Here is a mermaid of who sits on the agra committees, who funds their campaigns, and who did they make investments into wrt to the sugar lobby:

https://i.imgur.com/FGGcvxL.png

Having chatbots do mermaids is fn fantastic
I don’t think google’s problem is a necessary outcome of relying on engineers for the glue and project planning/management. In fact, Google does not do that. They’re full of glue people.
Let's work out whose intellectual property it is and see if they will license it as MIT.

Microsoft has shown MIT to be a good standard under which to license retro software from DOS to Windows file manager.
Please see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41337485
I think it's fine (necessary?) to have people who fill gaps, it keeps morale high when everyone is spread paper thin. But it's better for those same people to ALSO have some core competencies in which they are capable of diving deep and being a direct contributor.
> I am not an accountant or a lawyer and you shouldn’t take advice from random strangers on the internet,

Useless article. Get an accountant they are better than you at this.
how every accessibility effort ends
The whole "semantic HTML" debate really seems like the two-state solution of the web world. Browser vendors are profoundly uninterested in the whole topic. It could be relevant for search engines in theory - but in practice, the only remaining relevant engines (that happen to be identical to the browser vendors) use proprietary algorithms that deal with messy, un-semantic HTML just fine. (Or, if they have a specific need for semantics, they will just invent their own markup).

That leaves a long tail of "specialized" HTML consumers and usecases, such as screen readers, niche search engines, open source projects or scientific projects that actually would benefit from consistent, widely-used semantic HTML (to an extent), but don't have the market power to push the world in that direction.

However, those still have the "founding vision" of HTML on their side, that browsers rely on for their brand reputation. So browser vendors can't simply say out loud "look guys, you lost. HTML today is for showing stuff in a browser and running javascript and nothing else, deal with it".

The result seems to be that the "semantic" people get to claim the "moral" victory of how HTML "should" be. They are encouraged to spread their vision at countless web Dev conferences, under the enthusiastic support of the browser vendors - while they are doing absolutely zero to support that vision in actual browser implementations.
Inflation calculator says Vision Pro price today is $1730 in 1995 dollars.

That is in the range of what a pc cost back then, I think? Like middle to high end but not out of the ballpark.
Some of the teachers I have worked with do this; and there are some great teachers(lecturers) like Martin who teach effective studying techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlU-zDU6aQ0

Flashcards and Anki were incredibly effective for me. I am building a study tool which automatically generates them from lecture slides. Beyond that, it applies other psychology of learning techniques - It breaks up content into manageable chunks you can see your progress on (to boost your confidence of exam coverage) and has an exam-conditions like mode where it shows you relevant slides, then asks you questions and to freely recall by blurting onto a blank page everything you remember. It's then able to give you a realistic judgement of your learning and this way of learning by actively recalling freely is, though more intense, ultimately more effective than either reading, watching or quizzing in the long term.

The part of learning that other flashcard apps miss, even Anki, is that students must be motivated. They must enjoy, visually engage, and be confident as they study. They must feel they are on a sustainable realistic path as they gather knowledge when on the way to their goals. And they don't have to study every day to do that - they just need to genuinely learn and be able to see the state of their progress...

I am excited to be working on EdTech now[Revision.ai] which unveils and detects misconceptions to aid the student in eliminating them. Misconceptions are a massive opportunity - as much as spaced repetition itself [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVtCO84MDj8]. We believe they will genuinely learn, feel comfortable and see their progress, when they overcome misconceptions with tech. Other tools really aren't identifying misconceptions; answering is still a "scale of wrong-to-right". And that's a big opportunity. To truly reduce Test Anxiety by studying and building your confidence. I think Tech can be useful in this way, even without teachers intervening, if enough of the learning content is there.
This is great! I'm trying to think of any disadvantage.
This, and the help in QuickBasic has not been beaten for how instant they were.

Hit F1 on some bit of code and instantly see help on the keyword, very quickly find stuff via the index etc.
The glue people are the cross-domain experts, the ones that stop the really deep one-domain experts from doing something bone-headedly naive and tie everything and everyone up coherently. They're infrastructure, so get no glory, but are as vital to a corp as a reliable network or a security engineer. Schmidt is such a sociopath.
> we all need to wake up.

And what do we need to do after we have woken up?

And what are your plans regarding the nukes which will fly towards our homes if we push Russia too far?
I suppose (and Gibson is great), but I've always felt that this sort of addiction doesn't require VR? Like, to whatever extent people are going to do this, it's ALREADY HERE.
Why was it called an EV summit and not a union summit then?

Only UAW companies were allowed at an "EV" summit despite barely having EVs for sale because it was a quid pro quo for the UAW endorsing Biden early in his campaign.

It was a government event and not to include an American company that pioneered EVs made it a very political move.
It also lives on as .NET and C#, at least a little bit.
Firewalling your code
The fediverse is also very disconnected.
LangGraph Studio: The first agent IDE
Deepmodules: Analyze Depth of Go Packages
> Throughout Europe, we're allowed to eat whatever cheese we like.

This is patently false: Casu Martzu is technically outlawed in the EU.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_martzu#History_and_lega...
There is no open Russia support. They just want to trade, just like with various highly questionable OPEC countries.

No one in Germany wants to be occupied by Russia again.

They said the same about Trump, yet Trump delivered more Javelins to Ukraine than Obama.
PCs costs much around year 2000. and porn and email and messenger where the bonus to games. its was like
“hey look counter strikes etc .. nice games”
“hmm not sure”
“ there is also porn”
“bought”
^^^ this.

A good example of this principle is the diffusion of analog chip and memory chip fabrication in the 1990s to early 2010s (US/TW/JP/SK in 1980s-90s to MY/SG/PH in the 90s to CN in the 2000s).

The ongoing diffusion of specialized DUVL processes like 20nm, 28nm, and 40nm is another great example (US in the 2000s to TW/SK in the 2010s to CN in the late 2010s/early 2020s).

Nowadays companies like PSMC are selling the entire end-to-end Fab IP for 28nm/40nm processes to companies in JP, IN, ID, US, etc, further diffusing the know how.
I'm already doing AI search optimizations and the early results are quite promising!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/e5tOt2MRPC
Sure, but now we've shifted from "isn’t gameable" to "gameable for a price", perhaps to inflate the stock price as you make the news for outselling Tesla or something.

And yes, you'd need to deliver the car to consumers. I'm just saying that you can time shift when that happens, if you wanted to inflate the numbers in the short term for whatever reason.
One of the Weirdest, Most Treacherous Math Problems You Will Ever Encounter
Ask HN: Can anyone recommend me an open source software to calculate footfall?
Hi I am organising an open event for public to celebrate a festival, in which more than 3000 are expected to come. I need to count how many people are coming in and outgoing from the event. I can have a camera attached at the entrance with a top view. Software/library can use ai or image processing, anything to keep track of how many have entered the event and how many have exited over a period of time.
The data can help me to be more efficient in my future events.

Thanks in advance
Where did I say I’d waste volatiles moving things around?

(1) Build a solar sail factory on a CC asteroid and you can deliver sunshades to Earth-Sun L1 without wasting volatiles as reaction mass

(2) If you read this paper and really thought about it

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.07487

You’d realize that it strictly dominates all other space colonization schemes that have been proposed because it doesn’t waste volatiles for transportation. Certainly O’Neill’s ideas look infeasible in comparison (where do you get the nitrogen to fill those big airspaces? My plan for a baby Bernal sphere intended to be a luxury hotel in LEO still takes 15 starship loads of LN2 for the atmosphere)

Even Musk’s plan to colonize Mars is something that only makes sense to people who were born on a planet. If “grabby” aliens capable of interstellar travel and building such things here they might find the Earth a curiosity at best.
Are there some examples of this from the past few decades?
Fundamentally, the problem is today science is framed as nothing else but a competition, an olymic event, that produces winners that we celebrate and losers, rather than cooperation.

If you got the grant, you won; if you did not, you lost. Losing means you cannot hire graduate students you cannot perform your job at all!

Now consider that around 15% of grants get funded, and it takes about six months to determine whether you got that grant or not.

The desperate competition for money overshadows everything in science.

Science is often thought of and presented as huge leaps, when in reality, it is an iterative process that builds on small advances.
Make can do all of those, easily, even eliminating TABs if you really care that much (I don't, my IDE handles them and it's really not a big deal). Have you ever taken the time to learn how to use it?

Make targets can be whatever you want, and don't have to produce files.

Make -n TARGET will list everything that Make thinks it needs to do to achieve TARGET, including anything that has to happen for any expressed dependencies (which can be tasks, and don't have to produce files).

Make recipes are arbitrary shell scripts that can do whatever you want, including changing directory. Make can also include other Makefiles, or call other Makefiles.

At its core, Make is a way to express "snippets of shell scripts, with a dependency graph between them". It can track files as dependency input and output -if you want-, but Make does not care if you don't. Call your targets whatever, and don't have them produce files. Boom, command runner. Make also has a powerful design, with a lot that you can do at parse-time.

And as it turns out, most tasks -do- have some amount of file dependencies. Maybe they need to consume a key file. Maybe they download a tarball. Maybe they produce a logfile that another task uploads. Being able to express as much (or as little) of that dependency graph as I want is a feature, not a bug.
Stoop inbox is still working fine, I have been receiving newsletters and also able to subscribe with stoop ID. Maybe it stopped signing up new users.
It's been pretty good so far, settled as my main code editor. Prior to cursor I had to constantly provide context to GPT/Claude, now that's not necessary with cursor.
I'd argue that the semantics of <bigcorp-career> vs <into-webdev-class> are different enough that it's a bit of an antipattern to apply the same style to each.
I don't know of any magic formula. We'd have to force the change somehow, because it won't correct itself. But the path is unclear, if there is a path at all. The current situation is that most clinical research is performed by MDs/MD-PhDs with no scientific background else than what is taught in medical/doctoral school, i.e. they lack the basics, and are usually more interested about advancing their careers rather than science. That said, systems shape people, and not the other way around.
Because png compression is optimized for images with few distinct colors and long runs of the same color. Photographs are not like that.
OKRs comprise an objective (a significant, concrete, clearly defined goal) and 3–5 key results (measurable success criteria used to track the achievement of that goal).

Can you please describe the association between requiring objective measurable criteria for a project and sociopathy? It's not at all clear to me.
I know a guy who lost his iPod...
Same in Estonia. You can see the owners / shareholders of every private company and also all the financial / tax information per financial quarter (and year).
Not really. Most of Europe has already been supporting Ukraine while also working on building up their own militaries. Seeing one of your neighbors get invaded is a great incentive to increase total defense spending.
> It’s been Russia and China for like 100 years.

It hasn't been. The US was one of the key players who built China up to what it is today, for a significant chunk of the past century they were strategic partners against Russia.

And it is worth remembering that post WWII the US was busy marginalising the Europeans, making sure Germany was prosperous but didn't execute an independent military resurgence and helpfully euthanising the British empire. There were enemies other than Russia and China over that period. It just happens that the other European powers were broken to the point where their resistance was ineffectual and the process was mostly amicable - if they'd been more competent it'd have been a lot nastier.
You should have seen the previous home page: https://old.hot.page/ I really loved the idea of nodding to Web 1.0 but it was a little toooo clunky heh
Inspired by Star Trek, no doubt.
Nipe – An engine to make Tor network your default gateway
Wow 1 percent in a week. I use mine every couple of days but they drain much faster. Perhaps yours decided, he, see no iPhone for a couple of hours let’s do some deep sleep.

I’d love to have more control over then charge cycle like that.
> See, when you build an education product, you’re competing against two massive institutions: the formal education system (schools, colleges, state universities, etc.), and the laws and cultural expectations around that system.

What you’re competing against is the natural tension between these things and the demands of the market.

You get a good sense of this after 5 years at a math tutoring startup that’s always grappling with the dual expectation that you give the kid the answer quickly (“the customer is always right”) vs. you patiently sit with them until they learn (the goal of formal education).
> no benefit to using Starliner suits in Dragon

Of course there is. They already have them and we know they fit.

We also know, by the way, the measurements of the Starliner and Dragon ports. Making an adapter is theoretically easier than making a new suit. If you don’t think so, then map every argument for that scepticism to remotely tailoring a spacesuit.

> no risk to using Dragon IVA suits that are based on the measurements they already have of both of them

Measurements can change or be faulty or be critical at different parts of the body for different suit designs. “No risk” doesn’t exist in aerospace.

They should send up the new suits and then evaluate.
Its so successful and nice that Microsoft poached the good employees.
Article from 1997
https://www.zdnet.com/article/borland-sues-ms-over-staff-poa...
I think the German national Football team of 2014 would beg to differ.

Lukas Podolski played only 56 minutes but was important to the team at such a glue people position.

You need people you like at your workplace.
GoPro Fusion devices to record walking videos and serve in Vision Pro would be amazing for location bound people
IMO we got used to GitHub’s UI, but it’s far from intuitive. Just watch someone who never use it before.
I washed my Airpods in a washing machine once and they continued working normally for 6 months until the noise cancelling started to fail on one side.
A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD
Bubblekern (2015)
Solar sails are at this time quite useless for most purposes, and always will be if we can't build, fold, and deploy working sails of micrometer thickness, and/or build gigawatt-scale laser launch projectors.

Using ion thrusters it is already the case that we have access to power-generation-limited domain of specific impulse; Nobody thinks a mission at 30,000isp instead of 3,000isp is superior for interplanetary because of the sheer amount of waiting time and the extreme mass fraction of the solar panels. Solar sails, even moreso.

And one more dream to kill - large open volumes are probably never going to happen. This is implied by the mathematical engineering reality of the thin-walled pressure vessel, whose minimum mass scales directly with (volume * pressure) / tensile strength. Contrary to my naive expectations, there is no square cube ratio to the structure of a pressure vessel, so every cubic meter costs mass.
You can disable it: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/460992/how-can-i-r...
It's sketchy because I don't really like social media heh. I only created these social accounts to promote Hot Page so that's why they are only a few months old. I somehow hoped my writing was better than ChatGPT. Now I kinda wish I had just used it -- that would have saved a lot of time!
this (I know because they're my accounts)
I don't buy this, at all.

In my industry experience software is slow because:

- time to market is overwhelmingly more important than performance so the pressure is to have something that works, not something that works smoothly. You can fix performance or bugs later (Notion is an easy example of such evolution).

- the industry keeps being largely understaffed so finding resources to allocate to performance is hard

- most of the industry is managed by people that are neither good at product nor tech, but think they understand products and tech
Reportedly, Ukraine also recently flew a Russian drone over a German power plant. Why does Ukraine continue with these proactive acts?
Is Secure Boot worth using?
Zig and Emulators
Clever. I definitely figured it "had" a limit that varies by path - I'm not a mathematician but I instinctively distrust singularities like this one's 0/0. But it's a surprise to see a function whose limit varies between the linear and nonlinear paths.
> ”you are the problem”

This is so true. Whenever the power is out, my neighbors are all outside complaining, ”the power grid doesn’t work!!”

I try to tell them, if your power goes out and you can’t build your own wind turbine, maybe the power grid isn’t the problem.
You can rather easily write rules with GNU make that sit at the comfortable middle ground between these two.

E.g. if you have 1000 JS files to generate from 1000 source TS files you'd "shard" them dynamically by having them batched N at a time, e.g. batches of 10 or 100.

You need to dynamically evaluate Makefile rules into existence for that to work.

I haven't used "tsc", but most compliers with start-up overhead care if you invoke them for every file. But if you can amortize that over N any resulting slowdowns are generally lost in the noise.

Why do that? Because if you have other rules that rely on all that JS being built, it can be much faster overall.

If some of the files are finished you can use free CPU cores for those follow-up rules, as opposed to waiting for "tsc" to build every last one.

It also makes your build system UK much better.

I know some think "good UX" and "GNU make" are diametrically opposed concepts, but being able to ask it "what do I need to incrementally generate to make X" for any file is really useful.

That works much better if your build system doesn't have one big "do all the things" step that's essentially reimplementing most of GNU make.