skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The old memex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex concept is a different thing and most important a thing is owning the system, another is having a limited usage license with a black box de facto at the vendor mercy.

Personally I have no memex alike, but I use versioned org-mode notes for anything, meaning my NixOS boot into EXWM with the daily note opened and that note is partially auto-generated to summarize things I might want to see in a single place, NixOS config itself as Emacs config are org-mode notes as well, so it's a kind of full-text-searcheable base with history as well. I've not automated things like Firefox places.sqlite and other data source simply because it's too long to being worth the effort and way to specific and might change "suddenly" following upstream decisions, but essentially that's enough for my needs and I've chosen daily notes model for a reason: I still generate too much "noise" to keep an useful and clean note-base. Chronological division allow to keep the noise "might be useful in future" without polluting too much, collecting screnshots like Recall it's definitively way too much for personal usage, while might be a nice mine of behavioral data for deep analysis on someone else CPU and storage...
Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020)
To quote Nicolas Cage in Gone in 60 seconds:

[in a Ferrari dealership]

Roger the Car Salesman: My name's Roger, sir. May I be of some help?

Memphis: That's funny, my name's Roger... Two Rogers don't make a right.
[laughs]

Memphis: Roger, I have a problem...

Roger the Car Salesman: Yes?

Memphis: I've been in L.A. for three months now. I have money, I have taste. But I'm not on anybody's "A" list, and Saturday night is the loneliest night for the week for me.

Roger the Car Salesman: Well, a Ferrari would certainly change that.

Memphis: Perhaps, mmm. But, you know, this is the one. Yes, yes yes... I saw three of these parked outside the local Starbucks this morning, which tells me only one thing. There's too many self-Indulgent wieners in this city with too much bloody money! Now, if I was driving a 1967 275 GTB four-cam...

Roger the Car Salesman: You would not be a self-indulgent wiener, sir... You'd be a connoisseur.

Memphis: Precisely. Champagne would fall from the heavens. Doors would open. Velvet ropes would part.

I think this person and its neighbors are just living in a different world. A world where a million is similar to what us is a grant or something.
Ah, if only the personal gods and goddesses of academics would directly intervene in proceedings, like (corneal arc'ed) Athena and Apollo (strewer of sandcastles) during the Iliad!

For example, Namagiri might ask Narasimha to disembowel that person, neither colleague nor rival, using a mike that is neither free of feedback nor delivers adequate volume, who is neither asking a question nor making a statement, yet commenting upon something that was neither in the slides nor part of the presentation...
> "I find it fascinating to know what previous generations thought was safe, and then we learn, oh, actually, that might not have been a great idea to use these brilliant dyes," Weinstein-Webb says.

Yep. William Morris was a divil for this, and refused to acknowledge the dangers well past when they were known.

I wonder though - in terms of human potential and lives lost, do all of those examples put together come anywhere near what we're doing today with PFAS, microplastics, agricultural & industrial runoff, neonicotinoids, etc.?

It's easy to point fingers now and laugh at the Victorians smearing lead pain on their face, or the folks taking radioactive suppositories for health... Fun too. But like... We're in the most glassy house imaginable.

We know better, like Morris, but we're still letting people away with this stuff (and even imprisoning the activists fighting it). Takes a lot of the fun out of it :/
Another bullet point in the list of benefits for GLP1 RAs -- it's amazing all the areas that it seems to touch.

I've been on the lookout personally for more negative side effects (it's almost suspicious how little there are, though it varies by person to person), but also excited to hear of benefits.

Some of the benefits recently led 23andMe to get into GLP1s:

https://glp1.guide/content/23andme-gets-into-glp1/

They even a paper on some possible benefits with Alzheimers, though I think the research is in it's infancy. I think the plastic story is a bit more compelling though.
Do123 was not referring to the screenshots, but to the lists below, which are in alphabetical order, while the screenshots aren't.
Sadly I feel GDS is more of an outlier than the rule.
that seems to me like a bad faith interpretation of what I wrote—I'm using "bloat" to mean all additional changes beyond the vanilla ff installation

re: "ridiculous", do you think it's likely that there's a deep conspiracy within mozilla (at the behest of google) to make users watch ads? or were you hoping that they'd write a whitelist of adblockers that should never be removed, even when wiping the browser?
From 2008:
http://www.geocities.com/currintrading/
> Nintendo will release a paid version of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp so that existing users can continue to play an offline version of the game. The paid version will allow saves to be transferred over (...) it will not have in-app purchases nor will it require an online connection

This sounds great tbh.
This also reminds of how an employee single-handedly brought down UK's second oldest merchant bank at the time, by speculative trading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson
Come on, “we’ve always done it that way” is a base ground of UK.
Detecting diamonds with X-ray technology(2014)
This is the technology they used to find that huge diamond
I think the simplest explanation is that people like to stick to what they use on desktop. Firefox has a 6% market share there so it makes sense it would also be lower on mobile.
Discussion:

A Symbol for the Fediverse ⁂

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41327567
Ask HN: What is the most beautiful open source technical book you've ever seen?
I'm looking to study a technical book(s) that is published in hardcover/paperback/ebook form with source code.

A book where the source code is as beautiful as the finished product.

Any suggestions?
I never liked the idea of paying for diamonds, but what sealed the matter for me was how much my wife loved the lab diamond ring I bought her; 20% of the price of a natural diamond and indistinguishable from one without specialized equipment.

The price of diamonds will tank over time more so than it has already.
I don’t understand why you’re being downvoted. I think this is a reasonable approach. If you want convenience, you pay for it – otherwise it‘s BYOK.
Hey thanks for submitting! OP here.

It's a topic that stirs up some strong opinions for sure (at least at the other places where I posted it this week). I can understand why there's a divide between developers who are excited about frontend developers moving into full-stack roles and those who have reservations about it. I belong to the former crowd, but would be interested hearing your thoughts here!
Same in Turkey, except the map data is subject to certain limitations.
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Same in Xcode https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/15/apple-xcode-ai-tool-for...
Why can't it be taken for free? The system and data was created by a publicly owned body, surely Crown copyright.
https://archive.is/UX9d4
They're also happy to pay BMW a fee whenever they unlock their cars and a subscription to use their windshield wipers.
Porkbun, seems like the best deal I’ve found so far.
Kompromat on a staff engineer is far more effective, sustainable and silent than a five-dollar-wrench attack
I knew that hackers still would not be satisfied. Thanks for spending some time to invent a reason to continue raging against Apple, so that the rest can go back to work.
That one looks nice. We'll see where this goes, it's starting as just scratching an itch so is likely to be really pared down compared to other apps. I'm also not a designer, so far the UI is all AI generated and it's very "bootstrappy".

My gym uses griptonite which is fine except there's an ad for their premium thing every time I open it and it's extremely slow. Also either due to the gym or griptonite not all the climbs get added, and not right away. It's frustrating hitting a new grade and then not being able to record it, as then I've got a log saying I have maxed out somewhere I haven't.

The main realisation I had was that griptonite tags are IDs, I don't actually need any griptonite data or to get the gym to sign up for anything to start tracking my own climbs. I can just scan the tags as they are. I'm also making it require a photo of the climb as I'm tired of trying to talk with my wife about which ones we were working on "the pink, next to the green that's orange? With the weird hold? Oh the round one?" and would like just a picture to point at.

I'm planning to do a few things like add live customisable leaderboards, which should be easy with instantdb, mostly for fun. Maybe I'll throw on a few affiliate things on top, otherwise I expect this should be lightweight enough it won't really cost me anything to run.

Also my background is AI stuff and I'd like to try things like using SAM to pull out the specific climb from a messy image, classify holds to say whether climbs look "crimpy" or "juggy", find similar climbs by image (recommend next ones to try) etc.
> While the Control Panel still exists for compatibility reasons and to provide access to some settings that have not yet migrated, you're encouraged to use the Settings app, whenever possible."

Yeah, right, some. Though Control Panel is not a shining example of structured layout of available options, at least they're there.
> Why isn't the app obfuscated, why can it be run on rooted device and why doesn't the app use https with pinning?

The app in question: a wrapper of a PWA ticket purchase webapp which saves no payment info.

Being able to run on rooted device was determined as severe category.
The industry has made a market segment for this/largely ignored it, 'HEDT'. I'd say this is evidence to your point, GPUs being the motivator. I'm starting to think I'm the only one still using add-in NICs, sound cards, or bifurcation.

The ATX spec allows for 7 or fewer physical slots. That's not what's letting me down!

How many lanes are actually available and their division changes over time. Everything from USB to SATA has internally been moving to PCI-e, there's more 'internal consumption', too.

Gen5 is kind of a victim of success. Each individual lane is very fast, but providing them to a fair number of add-in cards/devices isn't practical. Simply physically, but also bandwidth between lanes.

Pretty much all of gen4 is nice, those systems are perfectly viable. More lanes that were slower offered me more utility. It's multi-faceted, I overstate it too. I like hyperbole :)
Nah, that's the sarcasterisk and should replace /s in modern communication.
>I very much resonated with Karl in that thread

(That's me, by the way.)

>Some of us do need special treatment.

In some cases, not even "special treatment", but even just the sort of courtesy that they describe as being expected for everyone seems to be withheld.
> On the other hand, if you aren't getting 100% GPU utilization, you aren't making good use of the hardware.

Some of us like having more than 2 hours of battery life, and not scalding our skin in the process of using our devices.
Being confronted with a list of browsers you know nothing about, a decision most people don’t understand the consequences of, the first time you use your phone, is very annoying, confusing, and stressful.
This idiocy can be seen very frequently. Even McDonalds app doesn't allow rooted users...
Yeah of course they’re fantasy numbers. It’s called a TAM and it’s how VCs get comfortable with putting $60 million into a company like Cursor. I made no claim as to what the company is actually worth.

And right, some people claim AI will reduce number of SWEs. If you’re Cursor, you’re probably arguing the opposite.
Off-topic: why does the Firefox icon has that unappealing black background?

I don't understand why lately on iOS, MacOS, Android etc the app icon has that black (dark blue?) background. The Firefox website does not use a dark background icon anywhere, there's not one available in the design kit, although it does mention the preference for either light or dark backgrounds due to the color gradients being potentially confusing with mid-tones and color mixes. I still don't see the need to distribute such a broken-looking one - it makes it look like they messed up the transparency setting on a png somewhere. Compare it to Chrome's (in the OP) which looks fresh, lively and friendly.
Agree. Don't think gp has any idea what they're saying. Using nix to install python dependencies is a disaster, it's only good for the python versions themselves.
> There are certain writers you should never read before you yourself sit down to write, like P.G. Wodehouse and Tom Wolfe

Dave Barry, too.
Full. agree on the data loss issue. I have experienced it myself, and their forum and issue tracker also show this. Its not a « trusted system » at all.
The plugin "Remote Sync" works well too . It supports S3 , Drop box and many other cloud targets
Control panel is bad. The alternatives are worse. Prepare to have your settings gated behind several menus you have to navigate through!
It is nice, and it's also nice that it contains notes on how right-shifting a signed integer is implementation-defined in C (it's not the much-feared undefined behavior) so inherently non-portable.

You should of course always check your compiler output when doing stuff like this, but doubly so in those cases.
I can't find any good information post-privatisation, but at least before 2013 the postcodes themselves were copyrighted by Royal Mail (likely Crown Copyright as with government data). There were attempts to enforce this in 2009[0]. I suspect the copyright is now owned by Royal Mail Group Ltd.

That aside, a practical issue is that Royal Mail still retains the rights to _allocate_ new postcodes for any new properties. Yet another failure of this particular privatisation.

[0]: https://www.techdirt.com/2009/10/06/uk-royal-mail-uses-copyr...
Yup, for development purposes I've used a self-generated root and signed certificates for it (and I also understand the risks).

Though, on topic, Claude enabling access for browsers adds nothing specific to this risk - it's a generic risk for any TLS connection.
Yep, it's basically a distributed gym membership without the gym except for a single expiring, proprietary widget that lives on your property.

It's largely ineffective to lose weight by exercising, and so much easier to reduce caloric intake. https://youtu.be/mTABw0EyIWY
I don’t know why they bother with such functionality. It’s clearly not the tool of the trade for such types of diagrams. What is IMO much more relevant is the ability to create concept maps. Mind map always has a central theme but that is not necessarily the case with concept map. So if you create children nodes in mind map, they will automatically take a smaller sizes, denotes a hierarchy, which may not the case at all.

Xmind has a beautiful UI, but they still lack the ability to define defaults for connectors and other things. And the 200 MB electron behemoth does not encourage me to buy it, either.
Depending on where you are in France (especially places with lots of housing stock being older buildings), it's common (if not the norm) for there to be no unit numbers and to direct people to apartments by floor number / door position relative to stairwell.
Biocomputing Breakthrough: Human Brain Cells as the New CPUs?
I've lost 60 lbs. so far using GLP-1 agonists. It's quite a bit easier to get around, so I'm easing into cardio and weight lifting once again.

> over-eating is a response to anxiety

It's more complicated than one cause. Overweight people have an absurd appetite and/or lack of satiation either by being overweight (self-reinforcing) / metabolic dysfunctions, from genetics, and/or from side-effects of medications.
They made about £18m in revenue though. It depends who'd be taking on the costs. If they still need to maintain the PAF (they need it themselves), then it's the revenue that would need replacing. The best solution would probably be to say that the OS will take over the maintenance (presumably funded by central government if it's going to be open data), and then Royal Mail will have access to the data and can be paid a lot less in compensation.
Everything falling at a constant speed of 9 m/s takes this probably a bit too far, on Earth this will only be true for tens of milliseconds before the speed is of by a few percent. Had you said every objects accelerates with 9.81 m/s², that would be a pretty good theory of gravity on the surface of Earth, probably still the dominant theory for solving gravity related problems on Earth.

Your example reminds me more of the difference between Aristotelian and Newtonian physics. Aristotle - looking at the world around him - thought that the natural state of motion is being at rest and that it requires a force to make an object move. Newtonian physics realizes that this is not the case, that without forces objects keep moving instead of coming to rest, that Aristotle lacked a proper understanding of the role of friction.

To come back to gravity, space flight probably still heavily uses Newtonian gravity and it works, for that reason alone I would not call it wrong. Objects falling at a constant 9 m/s seems to have much less practical use and does not even get the most important characteristic of gravity - that it accelerates objects - right, so I will agree with you and call it wrong.
Just the phenomenological covfefe of love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8OG3U66X9w
If you had ancestors that were slaves in the 1800s and for that reason want to avoid any word that looks like "master", even if used in a different meaning, then by all means go ahead and change your git branch name, that's your business, as silly as it is. I only object if you want to project this absurdity on others, and make THEM change THEIR branch names.

I personally have much closer ancestors, that were tortured by the communists within living memory. What if I told you that for this reason the word "comrade" triggers me? Or in analogy with the github situation, if I asked people to stop wearing Che t-shirts? Would you say that was reasonable, or a sign of insanity?

As I said, "allow list" is more descriptive if you don't know the word whitelist in the sense that it's easier to guess its meaning the first time you see it. My point is that this is not generally considered important, just look at 100 random words, most of them would be hard to guess the exact meaning of, even if like me you studied classical languages.
> I'd like them to imagine what would happen if after eating 2 or 3 pizza slices they'd still feel like their stomach is empty

Even that is the generous interpretation. Imagine instead of just their regular (or lack of) hunger signals, people had an alarm constantly ringing in the head telling them to eat all the time, that was only ever silenced if they over ate. The persistence of it pushes it in the direction of mental torture.

Yes, technically it can be overcome, but it is a huge tax on your life.

The truth is we can never really know what someone else's inner experience is.
It was (stupidly) included in the assets when Royal Mail was privatised, so it's no longer publicly owned.
Well this was interesting to me, thanks for sharing. Looking at https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/do-no-harm it looks dependent on what you're optimizing for (and not driving like a hooligan helps, hard acceleration and braking wears tires more).

Even so, I still find that the fewer cars there are, the easier it is for me (and my kids) to walk and bike places safely, helping us be healthier (and not reliant on drugs like Ozempic) which was the real point of my comment.
A thenable API from save() could remove the need of a explicit tx management which is a worse devEx
Far more than 5,000 users have downloaded the Safari Technology Preview.
That's a matter of perspective.

Calling a C function in a shared library (dll, so) from Java using the new FFM API has the same overhead as calling such a function from C++ (although the overhead is higher if the called function upcalls into Java again, though that is relatively rare, or if the function blocks, only that makes the additional overhead negligible). But the FFM API does not directly expose Java objects to native code at all, although it does allow Java code to access and mutate "off-heap" native memory (C data) from Java code as efficiently as accessing and mutating Java heap memory. So if your goal is to expose Java objects to native code, then yes, that would require marshalling (although ideally you should do the opposite and expose native memory to Java code as trhough a Java interface, which would have no overhead).

However, relying on FFI in Java is far less common than in Python, Rust, or even C# or Go, and in the rare cases it's done it's easy to do it cheaply as I described. So I guess it's true to say that if you wanted FFI to work in the same manner it is employed in those other languages then yes, it would be more expensive as it would require marshalling, but that's just not the case in Java given the combination of Java's performance and size of its ecosystem of libraries.

Languages with worse performance or with smaller ecosystems do need to rely much more heavily on FFI and so they often choose to sacrifice the flexibility of their implementation in favour of a more direct flavour of FFI.