skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A well-functioning organization would not devalue people who are more judicious about their use of time, preferring productivity over unnecessary socializing.

But while what you're describing does not describe a well-functioning organization, it's definitely true in practice. People who buck the silly social dynamics in office cultures will be perceived as less productive whether it's true or not and are frequently devalued.

A knee-jerk response to what I just wrote of course will be maybe those people just can't see the real value of all these allegedly silly office rituals, but before you jump to that conclusion, consider the possibility that it's at least equally likely that the people perpetrating the rituals are overvaluing them.

The point is all of these social dynamics and office rituals should be open to being reexamined every so often to see if they're truly adding the value people think they're adding so they don't devolve into rituals people do because they're rituals. Keep the good ones, ditch the useless ones, and be proactive about objectively evaluating which are which.
I just checked the web. I wanna see first how it works but it seems there is no demo?
> Posting video on someone else's hardware is not a human right

Straw man. Nobody in this thread argued it is.
I assume they are talking about scatter/gather load and store. But even using those I assume performance typically will be worse due to cache misses.
In my last role I was CTO of a ~650 person multinational. I agree with almost everything in this piece, perhaps even absolutely everything (although I admit to skim reading it quite quickly so I may have missed something).

A lot of this is summed up for me by a piece of advice to managers that I read several years ago, almost certainly in an article linked from this site: "don't be spooky".

I.e., be clear about what you want. Don't leave people in the dark. Particularly as a manager, if you send a vague request for a quick chat with someone, they're quite likely to think it's something bad or they're in trouble, and become anxious, particularly if they don't know you well. So not only are you breaking their flow state, but you're freaking them out as well.

Specificity, along with an appropriate level of detail are profoundly reassuring from a variety of perspectives: including reassuring people that you're not simply about to waste their time.
The first thing that comes to mind when I hear "Pale Moon" is their toxic developers. But let's ignore that... Is it safe to use Pale Moon as your main browser? How many security patches is it missing from upstream Firefox? Do they have any security team?

I don't mind using outdated software for a specific task, but I feel uncomfortable after a certain point. Unless you absolutely need the old XUL-era functionality, does it make sense to use Pale Moon when you can tweak Firefox to be more private? In my case, I'm not sure.
You didn't say that isn't PHP, so can we explore that further? I write a lot of my own little php shell scripts to do things. I use laravel zero for a framework of related tools. I wrote a cli RAG app for LLMs using it. You might look into TUIs people are coming out with like from Charm.sh, written in Go.
The solution for Mac is called „have a separate Windows ITX machine on the shelf and Steam Remote Stream the games to your MacBook“.

Works reasonably well on a fast wifi.
This is impressive, it's hard to imagine all the implications of a BMI.
works here.
> We cannot forget that we also loose something with working remotely (say more than 75% of the time) and that is the occasional bumping into each other at the water cooler or in the morning when coming in. These are situations you can artificially create by scheduling calls to socialize etc, but that is still not comparable with being in an actual office.

To me this sounds like neither you nor your coworkers... talk? Like you're not used to communication unless the photons you receive in your eyes are the same ones that bounced off someone's face (or unless there's a face at all).

I still took coffee breaks to unwind for a tiny bit of time, and I still talked with teammates during those times while I was taking a moment to unwind. Async. The conversation would either stop after a few exchanges, or continue for the next minutes.

Not much different from, say, IRC or Discord. Obviously there will be professionalism in the "real" channels, but other than that it just happened that sometimes a teammate would just send me a DM like "hey, have you watched this series?", or I would post in a shared channel something like "yooo look at this thing I built last night".

I don't really need any specific medium to talk to a person. I can have my preferences, and other people can have their preferences as well, but there's still not much difference either way when it comes to getting to know each other. There's some people I only know through text chats that I'm on better terms than with some I know in person. There's some people I know in person that I'm on better terms than with some I only know through text chats.
Is it worth upgrading from 10 to 11 yet? I downgraded back to 10 after I had to change default programs by individual file associations rather than having a 1-click option for default audio player etc.
The US is not a very friendly nation...
Indian ed-tech giant Byju's insolvency case fans employees' fears
It removes cognitive overhead. People are getting burned out on fiddle-farting with web UIs. We need styling but it is not the main focus 99% of the time and adds very little business value.
Handy for the 7 people in the entire world who a) knew this existed and b) bothered to change it.

(Realistically I expect that's mainly used for debugging purposes for the Shim authors.)
Apple never had a comparable program.

This was a program finding vulns in non-Google apps on Play. A cool idea, but I suspect challenging to operate without teeth making the developers actually update their apps.
The phrase "a power user who eschews desktop environments" was irritating. It brings to mind a "power gamer", still playing Colossal Cave Adventure.
"More importantly, its intended targets are unaccompanied ships that may be carrying contraband"

I wonder what kind of contraband the ship has to carry to warrant the use of a bomb to tear said ship in half
The pedigree is outstanding, but what makes Djot superior to, say, reStructuredText or Asciidoc?
I see your rhetoric and raise you one.

Please don't post shallow dismissals.
> Apple has historically not cared about mid-level companies and above

I wouldn't say that. I've worked for a couple of marquee corporations that did a lot of work with Apple.

They do things like assign direct contacts to larger corps. They don't really rely on their "popular" culture docs to support bigger companies.

It's pretty natural to use their popular front as an "onboarding" system for smaller acts, with the plan to integrate them more tightly, if they get successful enough.

That said, their App Store is quite restrictive, and can be a big fat pain to deal with; even as a bigger corporation.

Quite doable, though. I've released over 20 apps to the iOS/Mac App stores, over the last dozen years.
The program was operated through HackerOne (at least the last time I looked at this thing back in like 2018), which does the basic due diligence to address things like this.
Google to help build cyber protection for Australian infrastructure
As memorably dramatized in the Inside Out movies, each of us is a sort of committee, and Nate’s portrayal of different people’s attitudes toward risk can perhaps give us a better understanding of our own incoherent selves and how this incoherence can be a strength.

Linking his own professional practice to psychotherapy…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/movies/inside-out-2-thera...
Why do sunrises and sunsets look slightly different?
Did you create Sonarr? Show HN is for things you've made yourself.
And also one's siren should be more audible from inside the car.

It would help drivers use it more thoughtfully, instead of pressing it multiple times at the slightest feeling of inconvenience.
First open source Legal AI retrieval benchmark for RAG finally released
> because otherwise they're shipping a vector that can be used to attack other operating systems and that's kind of a violation of the social contract

I see the end of the chain still ends up at "trust" in humans/companies at some level. Microsoft broke dual boot systems because they think they know what's best for someone else's system and that's not okay.
At the end of each slide animation, the slide seems to jump a few pixels.

I'm on Firefox.
The US election will be key. Trump already said he wasn’t going to maintain the founding at the same level of help as today. Germany is already pulling out. Ukraine is entirely dependent of foreign founds to sustain its campaign.

Plus the situation regarding troops on the ground didn’t change. Ukraine didn’t rotate enough and is reluctant to conscript more. Soldiers are tired and morale is low.

Kursk is there to try to extend the front and have Russia pull troops out of the north. It’s mostly guerilla warfare on a weakly protected area. They don’t have the man power nor the logistic means required to prevent Russia from retaking the region but doing so means that Russia will stop pushing further into Ukraine for some time. It was sorely needed but it’s a stopgap measure not a complete revirement unless something else happens.

It has changed the timeline however. I expect Russia to stall until the US election to see if it’s better to enter negotiations now or keep fighting.
Who Is Nicolai Winther?
Yes. They are all crap.
No of course that’s not my position, that’s quite a conclusion to jump to. But I’ve definitely seen a lot of drivers going 35-40mph in 25mph pedestrian-heavy zones where they should be driving the speed limit or possibly even slower. Those drivers are barely saving seconds of time in their travels while increasing the risk to bystanders dramatically.

What I’m trying to say centers on this:

You say you’ve seen restricted highways with posted speed limits below reasonable and appropriate speeds.

My point is that if all drivers are limited to that lower speed, there is nothing unsafe about going “too slow.” Your opinion that it’s unreasonable is based on convenience, not safety.

E.g., urban freeways where the speed limit is 50 but most drivers are going 70 and some drivers are going much faster. That’s a dangerous situation. What ISN’T dangerous is if everyone was governed electronically by 50mph by that road. If everyone is limited to 50mph that dangerous speed differential has been removed and it’s safer.

Presumably the government could wait until basically all drivers have a vehicle with this technology and then flip the switch on the actual governing feature.

Maybe this is “anti-freedom” and all that, but my hypothesis would be that road deaths would decrease.

Almost 1/3 of all driving fatalities involve excessive speed: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/speed-campaign-speeding...

On a tangent, I have a theory that drivers who demand high throughput and fast speeds want to avoid the uncomfortable truth that alternatives like public transit and cycling are more efficient modes of atransportation. When we look at some urban freeways that slow to a crawl during commuting hours and the local news tells me that the average speed is 27 mph, that just tells me that more people should be commuting on alternatives like e-bikes, buses, and trains, because these personal vehicles that supposedly save so much time and convenience are no longer doing so.
Exchange the mortage for a watch loan.
macOS also does show desktop and apps for half a second when I reopen the lid, before falling back to showing the login prompt. super annoying. (M3 MacBook Pro, so reasonably new)
Founder had to train his AI not to Rickroll people
As I understand it, the main advantage of having separate CUSTOMER and ORDER tables rather than just have a field on CUSTOMER which is a list of order IDs is that the latter structure makes it easy for someone querying the database to retrieve a list of order IDs for a given customer ID (just look up the value of the list-of-order-IDs field), but difficult to retrieve the customer ID for a given order ID (one would have to go through each customer and search through the list-of-order-IDs field for a match). The former structure, on the other hand, makes both tasks trivial to do with a JOIN.
I wonder if we can replace Markdown by an LLM entirely. Just tell it what you want and how it should look in natural English, and then use that as your source file.
The author says somewhere that, paraphrasing, where something runs in a distributed system is essential complexity. I think the transparent part is where / when the communication between front and back end happen. The "transparency", whether or not it's the right term, it compared to having to do software development with awareness of the network interactions vs just calling out what runs where. No adding endpoints for everything, managing http calls or webhooks, etc.
Typst is trying to take on LaTeX: high-quality PDF output, equation typesetting, citation and reference systems, programmability, etc.

But if you look closer, the actual syntax of Typst is clearly a mix of MarkDown and AsciiDoc (e.g. code blocks and lists work like MarkDown, while headers work like AsciiDoc, and I think the math syntax is to some degree inspired by AsciiMath from the AsciiDoc ecosystem).

As someone who mainly uses MarkDown to author PDFs, I find Typst to be a clear competitor to Markdown/AsciiDoc/Org as well as TeX. I think they're working on basic Typst support for Pandoc, in which case you might soon be able to generate HTML with it too.
Quarkdown could be amazing, but they’re not doing a good job of selling it with such an awful, unusable website.
I’ve been learning AppKit-Swift to build my own screenshot annotation app, mostly using StackOverflow and reading Apple’s older docs which are all ObjC. There’s very few things that don’t translate 1:1 from ObjC to Swift with the same API names. As long as you know what a message-send function call looks like in ObjC, you can read such examples and apply them to Swift.

ObjC: [[FooClass alloc] initWithFoo: foo and bar: bar]

Swift: FooClass(initWithFoo: foo and bar: bar)
And those two are different from each other. It’s still the case that a wide variety of species seem to have evolved this way. I’m not saying our skin has the same tolerance - that seems unlikely. But I do think we benefit greatly from some level of sun exposure, ideally more than most people get today.
It invalidates the assertion that the ideas page isn't listened to and that it's a waste of time to vote on the features.
Wonderful article.

Indeed, "Just be yourself in everything you do" is good advice in general not just for this situation.
Same here.

But having worked with PHP and Python, who having typing annotations like Ruby can have through addons (sorbet) and might get to core someday, I would not go back to Ruby if it got this.

Typing annotations in PHP or Python are hardly useful to me. Their net benefits aren't there for me.

So, rather than trying to make Ruby (or Python, or PHP) like Rust, or .net or Java, why not just pick Rust, .net or Java instead?
When I don't need typing, I'll gladly pick ruby still. But when I do, I don't want to shoehorn Ruby into something it was never designed to be, but instead pick an option that has typing designed into its core.
Looks like a JDAM with IR and radar final guidance. The attack is also interesting: instead of hitting the ship it aims a little to the side and explodes underwater:

https://www.twz.com/new-look-at-air-forces-ship-killing-smar...

Apparently the term for this is UNDEX: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_explosion
I don't experience a murderous rage from drivers, but I'm also not american.
I suppose it would be relying on being trained on code that followed good practice. If this is true then we might suppose that this API isn't following good practice. However, a gigantic feedback loop is appearing on the horizon.

The AI of tomorrow will be trained on the output of AI today.

(Somewhere in my memory, I hear an ex-boss saying "Well that's good - isn't it?")
Spanish judge calls for end to social media anonymity in hate crime cases
I think it's "you pay 20k because you don't care how much you pay as long you get a good product, unless the cost is at least in hundred thousands." Elite showing off behaviour seems to be either about cool unusual things that others "couldnt do" or elite women dominating poor women.
Also the compiler vendors have seen this movie before and know how it ends. Too often a "performance hint" is garbage and ignoring it will improve performance.

Which is unfortunate because these are genuinely sometimes useful, but it's a "We can't have nice things" situation - for every expert who is carefully applying a hint to a hot path after careful reading of the manual for the specific CPU model they use, there are dozens of idiots who will copy-paste that hint believing that it's magic speed-up juice, never having measured and with no idea what it's really doing or why.

The intrinsics have the advantage that at least you're expressing what you meant, and it is obvious whose fault it is when that's slower because you screwed up - hints make it too easy for programmers to justify a tantrum when their "hint" isn't magic speed-up juice after all.
I can see a formal meeting, but a quick call? a hello? what's next? a text? an email? a chat message?

this dude sounds like an introvert that doesn't work well with others.
I think it's actually people bringing their norms from social instant messaging tools.
I will need to take a look at this list later. I just run Windows 11 LTSC and it’s great (previously ran 10 LTSC), curious how many of these are still relevant.

Honestly LTSC has been great for gaming. Highly recommend if you don’t want any compatibility issues and are running a dedicated gaming machine (so no need for any other crap on there)
Debian != Linux
> The YouTube size estimates represent between 10 and 15 exabytes, that's not a possible volume for Torrents.

Since filming, editing, and streaming videos already consumes users' storage and bandwidth resources anyway, the total amount of resources available to a P2P torrent-style network clearly is already in the ballpark of what's needed for YouTube.

> Serving the video fast with adaptive quality and having the available bandwidth close to the user is another much larger problem.

No idea how well it works in practice, but in theory PeerTube has already solved this using WebTorrent.

The nice thing about P2P is that your network's capacity scales organically with load. More users⇒More capacity.
Second language speakers, careless typos because HN is not that important that you _need_ to check everything…
Do tell us more on how you use Ruby everywhere? I use Ruby exclusively for scripts (I love built-in inline deps with bundler/inline).
The political consultant was criminally indicted in June [1].

[1] https://apnews.com/article/new-hampshire-ai-robocalls-biden-...
> Swift: FooClass(initWithFoo: foo and bar: bar)

Often looks like:

FooClass(foo: foo, and: bar)

These days.
That's the general problem of economic inequality, though. It's not specific to the Internet.

Disadvantaged groups will already have less free time to share content, less exposure to the technical skills needed to do so, less attention, respect, and opportunity from doing so, etc. Advertising places a fig leaf over unequal access, but really makes the inequality worse by centralizing wealth and control in the hands of a few rent-seeking operations.
I understand the categorization but what applications do you propose?
I won't say all investors are entitled and overconfident, inspired by grifters, emboldened by survivorship bias, and motivated by greed. That would be rude
Neuralink's 2nd implant recipient is using it to play Counter-Strike 2
They give the address in the paragraph above: "5 Rue Danou", so yes, badly mangled phonetic French (first word is "cinq").
Really? Wow. I have like 20 gmail accounts. I guess I got them before they started requiring phone numbers.
Filing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/2a00ce74-6d58-4f8e-...
It's likely part of their August 2024 release:
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/08/august-202...

https://developers.google.com/search/updates/core-updates

According to their [status dashboard](https://status.search.google.com/incidents/gVx6b2o78zke7GrMi...) the release will take about a month to roll out, so you may have just experienced an update to that search.
Bless your heart for trying to be so witty but in fact coming off foolish.

Texas is simply hot and has been for our timelines. You could make the same silly comments about locations that have long and cold winters. Texas is hot we get it, you don't like it but it does not change that this summer has been great, it is a lot cooler than usual.

;-)
> The one that shows my desktop for 0.5s before going into lock screen after I close and reopen lids?

It's 2024, and it's still not even the year of the Linux lock screen... loginctl unlock-session 5

I'm using Linux exclusively since two decades, but I think I've never had a fully working lock screen setup.
German Navy blasts out Darth Vader theme on Thames
>>>> As I said, according to the three sources above, which are the first sources I clicked on which didn't seem like blogspam, the phrase "proof by contradiction" is a term of art which means "uses the law of excluded middle to conclude the truth of a statement given a proof that its negation is false"

(quote from you; my emphasis)
Spiraling Out of Connection
I am curious about a couple of things to do with this project. Given the solar panels will cover about 30,000 acres of land [0], and a factory is being built to manufacture the panels (because there are so many), how will decommissioning of the solar farm be done at end of life? How does one process that many panels in an environmentally friendly way? It sounds like another factory will need to be built to process the waste.

I hope that the decommissioning of this kind of solar farm is better managed thant the likes of the Northern Endeavour FPSO, where Woodside offloaded it to a small company to dodge the decommissioning costs of the field, leaving the taxpayer to foot the bill[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link
[1] https://www.industry.gov.au/mining-oil-and-gas/oil-and-gas/o...
Pfft

...

fin
I immediately recalled this scene from Short Circuit:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XLn38HQNSYo
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix#MINIX_3

> All Intel chipsets post-2015 are running MINIX 3 internally as the software component of the Intel Management Engine.
Google Talk enables "Service choice"
It isn't super clear from first read, but that design is not by the author, but by the company. He gave them specs for what he wished for in a design, and they came up with a design.

I guess they now own and can continue to sell that design. They've gone all in on online customization at least: https://www.ochsundjunior.swiss/customizer-1-1/?watch=112&cu...
New genetically engineered wood can store carbon and reduce emissions
> though I'd argue that the loss of the smoke break did a lot more damage to this than remote work.

Eh, coffee breaks serve the same purpose as a smoke break in my opinion. I'd guess nowadays the amount of coffee drinkers is probably the same as the number of smokers back in the day.

Interestingly, in my experience, a "quick call" has been something where the other person doesn't want an email to get forwarded. That's why they don't include the subject in the message/meeting invite. Usually some political maneuvering to try and get ownership of a project or push off a failing project to another team/organziation.