skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which links to:

‘Does it have a Gail’s?’ How a bakery became middle-class England’s most powerful political bellwether

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/22...

We had a low aspiration baker before Gail set up. My main dislike is a cafe in a narrow shop from means nearly all the seating are is in a dank windowless back part of the shop.

This episode has pointed out the Private Inequity drowning out shops, I guess the brand awareness goes someway to garnering business.
Also single threaded...
> It is unlikely that any alternative versioning system would improve the developer's productivity or quality.

This is likely true for existing developers. But might discourage some fresh blood from joining.
So in the long run the overall productivity might suffer from this.
The science of Russian Internet censorship and surveillance
Perhaps it might help to seek out hackathons that are better organized or have a clearer focus on areas that interest you.
> Teaching to _think_ is just as important as teaching to code, but this is seldom done

Oh, the arrogance of thinking that the other person doesn't think.
That only makes it easier for those with the $$$ to control the narrative.
From my technical understanding from a few friends who may or may not know what they are talking about, the caps issue has to do with the processing delay between billing events being emitted and understood. That by the time the billing events have been processed and action taken, the damage would already be done in all but the most extreme cases.

Secondly, the best solution is to simply stop everything. But now the customer has to cold-start their entire infrastructure, which may actually cost more than paying the bill.

Thirdly, it is likely that customers will set a billing limit and then forget about it years later. Suddenly, they've got a complicated infrastructure setup spanning the globe. They finally hit a scale where they hit their billing limit that they had completely forgotten that Bill configured in their early days (who doesn't even work there anymore). Suddenly, the entire global infrastructure is shut down in the middle of the night.

That's the gist of what my friends said.
Was open access actually expected to "put an end to the era of impact-chasing, false-positives, and unpublished truths?"

Generally speaking, I don't see how the going ons of seconds tier matter.
To be fair, Reddit started circling the drain a while ago and paywalling the API was their hara-kiri.

I miss the old Reddit, I hate the new. I used to use it a fair bit (and even contribute to niche topics) but deleted my account and content when they announced the API changes.

Reddit is a zombie site now, it’s effectively dead. Unless you’re into arguing US politics then that’s where the party is.
Sort of find it interesting no one here questions whether or not he found the actual owner.
Just like every tourist visiting a new destination, we believe aliens deserve their own guidebook when they visit our planet.
After all, Earth can be a bit of a maze, and we want to make sure our extraterrestrial guests have all the insider tips and tricks they need to navigate with ease and enjoy their cosmic vacation to the fullest!
> every comment you want to post costs one cent

People were saying this about email 20+ years ago.

Not sure if it's the case here but there's a tendency for those in tech to think people problems can be solved with code.

Many of the bad things on the internet are a layer 8 issue and collective human behaviour isn't an easy problem to solve.
FWIW, "fwiw" was already common on Usenet concurrently with this purity test.

(I'd call 60% of that list to have been in use before the turn of the century)
Thank you so much!
I’m a first time builder of a bigger CRUD app. While I’m happy to build it with traditional methods the first time (REST API, SSE, auth etc.) I would love to use offers like Instant or Convex in my next projects.

Both look really promising in my opinion.

(Edited for typos)
It goes downhill after Aaron Schwatz death , and doomed after investor comes in, they bring political agendas with their money.
The shift of screen sizes for computing devices from a single aspect ratio (4/3 monitors) to just about anything created a nightmare for UX, and web development is suffering from it. I still maintain that no-one should have to scroll to use software. Everything you need for a certain place in an application's workflow should be on one screen. If the size of the screen means that more steps are needed to complete a task using software, then that should be handled by the adaptability of the software (including larger text for visually impaired people). Scrolling was the work of the devil. As for accessibility, it makes a blind person able to become familiar with how many elements are available on any screen they use based on their own experience.
In my previous job, I used Make for my asset pipeline and compilation of javascript.

At some point, I discovered esbuild and realised that I had to split the file in two for tasks that had to be done sequentially and those that could be done in parallel.

Esbuild still had dependencies, but needed to be run only once for those dependencies.

Still got great results ultimately. Going from something like a minute to four seconds.
I think part of the issue stems from html being seen as the boring and needed stepping stone to the “fun stuff” and people writing it off as “not a programming language”

When people realise how much functionality you can get for free using semantic tags they get right on board and start seeing html as a tool rather than simply labels that some pedant insists can’t all just be divs.
If you use `<i lang="la">sic transit gloria mundi</la>` then your screen reader should read the text in a Latin accent rather than munging whatever your default language is.

As for the rest, they look the same now. But HTML is supposed to be future proof.

Suppose, in the future, people prefer emphasised text to slant backwards, definitions to hover holographically, and cites to render directly to your neural link. Or, suppose right now you want to screen-scrape a page and get all the definitions.

That's why I use semantic HTML.
I dont understand what youre on about. The post I replied to, and many others, use “caps” to refer to limits of service based on billing. This is an endless source of comments on every “cloud” topic. I provided a very brief overview of why large billing systems are more complicated than expected and have an impedance mismatch to the stated desire. But sure, tautological brain rot. Got it. Im sure you have a wealth of experience with metering, billing, and pricing for billion dollar revenue streams.

Now if you have some _other_ proposal for how billing and service limits could function Im legitimately interested. But I dont see anything at all specific or actionable in your replies. Insurance is interesting for _some_ facets. Im curious how you think that aligns with dynamic resource utilization and what happens at the boundary.
Old link?

Left-wing authoritarianism is real and needs to be taken seriously in political psychology

So says a new study.

(October 1st, 2021) The British Psychological Society https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/left-wing-authoritari...
Giorgi’s posts might have a theme

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187669
On mobile (iOS Safari) the location drop down isn’t giving me any options. The sex one works fine.
How sad to see that this is no more.

I helped out reviewing the winning contribution[1] by Linus Åkesson, for what I now know was the final contest.

Linus, aka ”LFT”, is a remarkable and truly talented person in so many ways. If you haven’t heard of him before, I suggest you check out all of his projects.

[1] https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/underhanded/2015.ph...
> The key demo of 18 to 34 is mostly uninterested. Of the next demo, you only have one slice of the pie who interacts much at all. Compared to most other social media, it's not worth much.

This view may very much be the answer. Like, if the 18-34 "key demo" (which, incidentally the Millenials you mention are a part of) is "mostly uninterested", it's dumb to chase after them. Reddit had - and surprisingly, still has - its own, large core demographics, which they somehow failed to monetize. Hell, for a good while that demographics was upstream from Facebook, providing content for Facebook users to repost.

I guess the VC rules are that you either shoot for the Moon or get written off, even if you have a perfectly good submarine.
Libreddit is discontinued, but has been forked as redlib.
MBP returns you the investment pretty soon
Seems unmaintained
Apple doesn’t really care about bugs. They’ll get fixed if and when they feel like it.
Not op but I guess the assumption here is that people would rather have less responsibility so need to be compensated to have more?
I'm not sure this is true, but don't know if responsibility is its own reward. Maybe the status that responsibility conveys is?
As most places do, reddit followed the pareto principle. Most people viewed, some peopel comment, and even fewer people post. The people who post, tend to be power users. I feel with the removal of third party apps, they alianated a lot of power users who used to moderate, and post the actually interested content.

Some stayed, of course, but I feel anecdotally that content on reddit now is mainly posted by casual users and bots.
Do you have any reference resource where I can see something along the lines of "before with scrolling, after removing scrolling" examples?

I too hate scrolling, what can I do about long tables? Pagination is half the solution.

How to write documentation that fits one screen size, with images and tables?
Yes! The true magic of AR is a computer understanding the user's real wolrd context. The UX modality is secondary.
For what it's worth, my homelab machines are pets.
Exactly, Windows 98. Windows 95 was like the beta version, where all the functionality was there but did not work most of the time.
It deserializes a unicode string to a custom structure. Do not mistake it with C character-shuffling hello-world-programs.

Edit: s/to JSON/to a custom structure/
This is so on-point. Number of dependencies is correlated with ease of package management.

If you have a well-working package manager you're more likely to use a dependency than just rewrite that little part of your code.

For little programs written in C or C++ this usually means that people write their own buggy CLI parsing that doesn't produce a proper help message and segfaults with the wrong combination of arguments. In Rust people use clap. And they just need to derive on their CLI arguments struct.

And this process happens for every "small" dependency. In the end you're faster developing with cargo, you get a more professional result, probably you can even generate an executable for ARM and Intel without changing anything.

But OMG, you have a dependency tree.
A weird aspect of the reddit API crackdown is that they never actually shut down unauthenticated access to the API. rif is fun also still works (or worked last time I started it a month or two ago), it's just read-only. The JSON endpoints Geddit uses are the reddit API, and it's wide open, so in no way is it "bypassing API restrictions".
Here's the thing. We have apis for everything and their grandmother. You create an instance and there are apis for adding tags, labels, nicknames...but not for spending caps? I understand I don't know all of the complexities involved, but if you can bill by the second or by the hour, you can certainly alert by the same metrics.

We have been measuring CPU, MEM with extreme granularity, how about considering price as a resource and measuring the same way, so that a service with a price cap can self manage and self terminate according to some priority field?

This might not be the actual solution, but we have been at this for a very long time, seems like there is not even a hint of an attempt at solving it by the giants. This is about incentives, sorry.
> I still maintain that no-one should have to scroll to use software. Everything you need for a certain place in an application's workflow should be on one screen.

Independent of whether you agree with that, it is just completely unrealistic to achieve, in a sane way.

Without using 7 levels of nested submenus, which is also horrible UX, it will never be possible to present all features of e.g. Word on my 4.7“ phone screen.
Ask HN: Where do I start to make a Theremin?
First off: I know that I don't have the prerequisite knowledge to actually make a Theremin if I have to ask this question, but bear with me.

I have basic knowledge of electronics but it's all very rusty. I love the Theremin as an instrument and have wanted to learn electronics (and become a hacker!) for a long time but never found any projects that caught my interest, so this seems like an ideal goal to work towards.

Let's say I want to make a really basic Theremin in 12 months or even 24 months. What knowledge do I need and how can I easily acquire it? I do have an engineering degree, but it's been more than a decade since I last refreshed my knowledge of circuits and antennas and it's mostly faded away.

I'm happy to provide more information or ask more detailed questions if needed.
Frankly web devs seem to have no idea you can enlarge fonts either.

I keep most of my browsing slightly zoomed in, especially on the laptop, and I get all sorts of glitches now and then.

Incidentally HN is Just Fine(tm).
Try Firefox with the Sideberry extension.
https://www.learnpython.org/
a less modern (1974) implementation: ordering a pizza via synthetic voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94d_h_t2QAA&t=41s
Sorry if this comes off as entitled, I'm honestly just a bit confused by the following.

I have no experience using (current) vscode, but I've used neovim on a daily basis for a couple of years. I think the thing which makes an editor a "better editor" are the small things, things which solve problems which might cause a little friction while using the editor. Having a lot of these little points of friction results in a (for me) annoying experience.

Zed has a lot of these (from the outside) simple issues and I don't see them working on them. Again, I understand that they have to prioritize. But this doesn't result in me feeling comfortable spending time adopting this editor. I'm "scared" that issues like https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/6843 might be very low on the list of work being done and always will be, while the next big (maybe honestly great) feature gets all the attention.
> People trust Reddit because they assume they're other real users. Many advertisers already know and take advantage of this. It's nearly impossible at this point to know who or what is authentic.

That's what advertisers would like their customers to believe.

The truth is closer to: advertisers are lazy, Reddit users aren't complete idiots, subreddits are moderated, and spammers are (rightfully) despised. Effective shilling takes more effort in actively moderated environment so I wouldn't be surprise if sponsored posts had a better ROI than the much more dishonest plays.
Ok, so you think unintended usage should be costed out by the provider. Sure, T&S and support definitely have a handle on the topic. Now what? Because _today_ it’s already baked in to the P&L and pricing. You want the provider to give it to you as a line item that you dont control? Or to do actuarial evaluation of your footgun propensity to charge you more or less? Why? Im totally missing what solution your suggesting, the problem it solves, and why the provider _and revenue generating customers_ care.
That is very strange and defective.
I doubt that payments of any kind will help much.

From a purely theoretical level, there's a very broad range of incomes worldwide, so any price point you use to keep spammers out makes it unaffordable to the average person in many nations, and varying pricing by nation just means the spammers pretend to be from the cheapest nation(s).

We also have a demonstration of payment-based messaging systems in that price range with SMS and voice calls, which still get junk. (Nation-specific: my German SIM gets none while my UK SIM gets a lot… but only when I actually visit the UK).

For subscription-based payment filtering, similar — while it's hard for me to determine which of Musks's statements I should take seriously or literally, twitter premium pricing it's still a test of this idea even if it wasn't the true intent behind Musk's assertion.
“Many of the residents’ comments under the petition against Gail’s in Walthamstow cite Johnson’s politics as a reason to boycott the chain. When the campaigning leftwing barrister Jolyon Maugham spotted the connection between Johnson and Gail’s, he called on X for a boycott of the chain, even offering sourdough starter to followers struggling to wean themselves off their fix of fancy bread.”

Drumming up support on X, to boycott someone brand incongruous political views; satisfyingly ironic.
The problem with generics type erasure is less of an issue though in practice because the ecosystem is generally compiled from typed code and hence the compile-time guarantees reduce the dangers of erasure. This is unfortunately not true in TypeScript where you encounter plain JS all the time (sometimes TypeScript wrappers of dubious quality) causing more havoc. So while _theoretically_ type erasure could be considered having similar problems, in _practice_ it is much more manageable in Java. I guess if the whole JS ecosystem would be TypeScript only it would be less of an issue there as well, but right now it can be messy.
Its Russia's collapse that will give Ukraine its land back and make it safe from further predations. Russia has a tendency to hide its weaknesses especially from itself and all those corrupt government officials and militaries are robbing Peter to pay Paul and make everything look hunky-dory. And then somebody invades Kursk.

Putin has one tactic and one tactic only. Double or nothing and push painful consequences down the road. Well, there is an end to this road and it is mighty foggy.
Never tried it myself but this article as well as a couple of posts mentions it should be possible on a Mac if Find My is active on the Mac.
https://www.soundguys.com/how-to-set-up-find-my-airpods-6213...
There was somewhat of a golden era of independent forums (be them phpBB, vBulletin, etc.), but they were for the most part isolated communities. The rise of social media platforms brought some useful centralisation (lowering the barrier to engage - though arguably OpenID, etc. could have achieved the same), but realistically it has turned many platforms into a hellscape of “idiots”.
Tips to debunk false claims made by friends and family
Not only do the jannies do it for free, I bet Reddit could get them to pay to be moderators, in the same way that free-to-play games exist so that the "whales" (big spenders) can pay the game operator real money to have an unfair advantage over the regular player base.
My last day on Reddit was when RiF died.

It was surprisingly easy to abandon it.
It isn't what author argues at all. It's about teaching how to think: that you have to do some research and it's not a step you can skip; having done your research doesn't free you from having to draw your own conclusions too. Skipping either of those steps is easy but wrong.
Not really. Midjourney has no coomers and still does incredibly well

StabilityAI suffered because of a good frontend and poor models for high quality, production grade imagery
You are slightly wrong.

TLS is not mandatory in all cases, but if you want to use it, it is not an issue having a certificate. Certificate itself has nothing to do with DNS beyond the verification step.

And even then you do not have to open any ports, even to letsencrypt verification, since you can use DNS verification method instead (for example using Cloudflare API).

And there can be a public DNS record but it doesn't say anything about ports. And the CT transparency log doesn't say anything about ports or IP addresses.
Accessibility as it is in modern parlance isn't only for people with disabilities.

Disabling the annoying needless animations on iOS is in Accessibility for some reason.
The search field is just a rudimentary command line.

Reminds me of CAD programs which do have a more fully fledged command line but also incredibly dense ribbons/toolbars.
I find it strange that details of the owners of a private company isn't publicly available information in the first place (speaking as someone from a country – the UK – where this is publicly available information).

In the UK (and I'd assume many other countries), you can see the owners of private companies on the Companies House website[0], along with those with 'significant control' and financial statements. It's pretty interesting and useful to look at sometimes.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/get-information-about-a-company
I have to disagree to a limited extent. I recently tried to boot multiple current Linux distros from a USB stick for evaluation and all of them had issues. Fedora wasn't usable at all due to lack of space because it lost the RAM partition in the boot process and had severe graphical glitches. Ubuntu had issues with the Intel iGPU and installing drivers for the dGPU isn't possible in a live boot without persistence (and Ubuntu showed a blank error message when using the GUI for switching drivers). It also somehow managed to trigger secure boot so that I had to use a recovery key to get my data back. Zorin can download Nvidia drivers during boot and thus worked decently but the system would randomly freeze and had graphical artifacts when using the desktop cube. There were also other issues on Ubuntu and Zorin like with the permissions for bubble wrap to make Flatpaks work and so on. If it already requires tinkering before installing or with a completely fresh OS, then I find it hard to believe that desktop Linux can be a daily driver.
That a fairly large market exists for $2000+ Apple device.
Makefiles also have good support for tab completion of the make targets in most shells.
I’m on mobile so I can’t check at the moment. But I’d be shocked if the equivalent go binary was anywhere near as big, or took anywhere near as long to build.

I’ll check later
Yeah, it won't be usable for people who want to optimize SIMD support for RISC-V.
However it does have a few extensions we haven't seen in hardware yet, like all scalar cryptography extensions. And it should perform quite similar to the Raspberry Pi 5.
Since we are comparing to Windows, the "disabling Red Hat telemetry from command line" step doesn't really count, since Windows out of the box is loaded with telemetry.
Well, a $5000 80” TV doesn’t make you money either.
This doesn't make it a good idea to break HTTPS by default. Defaults matter, if everything ignored HTTPS errors by default, I would be talking to you over a MITMed connection right now. Because so much software stopped working, they had to roll back that braindead idea in less than a day.
I‘ve accidentally left my AirPods Pro in a safe in a hotel, and forgot about them. Over the next days I tried to get them back, but reception claimed that nobody has them.

Now the Find My app reports them in a small town near where I „lost“ them, ca 600km from my home, and clearly someone is using and charging them (with Android? Because otherwise the „Lost“ functionality would be nagging them constantly).

I won’t drive there (what would I even do if I found the person?), but this is quite maddening. I‘d rather not know where they are.
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I believe the OP was more thinking of all those corporate flights for a one hour talk. But you don't need VR for that. They could hold them over sms if they could read and write.