skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can't, but arguably they don't need to. Look at China, for example.

Personally I'm on social media to talk to my friends. If they block just 1/3rd of my friends, when there's a different non-blocked service my group of friends will move to it. A sort of reverse network effect.

The ban and fine will deter advertisers, anyone making traceable payments, people using their real name, anyone operating a business presence, and anyone straight-laced who believes in following the law. Thanks to this fine, nobody's going to be in a hurry to encourage their friends to get a VPN. And thanks to app stores the state can also get the apps yanked from almost all phones. That's more than enough to trigger the reverse network effect.

The aim here is to either get Twitter to the negotiating table, or to punish them. That's accomplished by blocking 90% of users, the last 10% really won't make a difference either way.
To mirror the sibling comment, where's the POSIX container/zone/vm whatever specification? If the BSDs and Linux can agree on a meaningful subset, macOS might actually follow
Probably wouldn't have applied to exempt employees which many of us are anyway.
Elon Musk eyes role on Donald Trump's government efficiency commission
I can't think of any fairer way to decide whether a crime was committed than to have clear evidence, consensus on the facts, and a jury of your peers to decide whether the events were worthy of punishment.

If there really was all this evidence and the jury overwhelmingly wanted to acquit...maybe there really wasn't a crime?

The problematic cases are the other ones, the he-said-she-said ones, where even if the guy seems like a scumbag it's impossible to decide beyond reasonable doubt that he's the one lying.
Interesting project! Wondering how the generated results compare to other popular system instructions like the ones found on https://cursor.directory/
Yeah prover time is the big challenge rn
Show HN:AceVocab - Learn and master the vocabulary featured in the GRE/GMAT
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>If need be, send a zipped and encrypted text file and share the password via a voice call.

Because people are lazy and not everyone wants to write a file, zip it, encrypt it, call someone, spell the password... Consider sending the password regularly over slack, wait a minute till the other side confirms they got it, and remove the message.

Mediocre solutions that people use are better than perfect solutions that everyone circumvents.
Not only user-based value metrics - but also SaaS apps don't implement collaboration in approachable ways for groups.

I can setup shared inbox and shared account that all users will have access to.

If we would properly manage configuration for each SaaS app we would have to have full time employee just to do that.

Yes there is SSO and you can setup roles and rights and align that - but let's say you have Joe in CRM SaaS that has customer X - Joe leaves and only he gets notifications, now someone still has to reconfigure CRM so Jane gets the notifications, removing access from Joe is easy. That is why companies get shared inboxes because then you have pool of employees that will check shared inbox and also shared account.

Yes in ideal world Joe does handover of his customers and configurations before he leaves, but we know world is not ideal.
That's why the conversation in Europe is usually about Freedom of Expression, not Speech.
I'm glad I'm not an entrepreneur when I read stuff like this. I have no interest in a rat race. I'm not very ambitious or competitive. I just want a normal wage and financial stability, not the sky :)
> That's not low risk, that's higher risk. Letting the founders continue in Founder Mode can be both lower risk, and higher expected value, at the same time.

It depends on how the founder and their investors perceive risk. If they have the risk appetite to stay in founder mode at scale, even when they have a lot to lose, then they do. But most don't. That's my point. And so, they take the advise to derisk for themselves – they take some money off the table, they hire professional managers and delegate, they take their new found time and money and put it elsewhere.
How many tries it will take depends on a lot of factors, mostly luck. Pay attention to what works and what doesn't, and keep improving.

Somebody else saying "it took me N tries before making $5000/month" won't mean much for you, because their circumstances are different from yours.

and for the record, I'm on attempt 3 and overall something like $10k in the red. (in terms of money invested, I'm not in any debt personally)
Yes, it usually is. See, e.g., smart pointers.
Show HN: A public build log for all builders
It actually is, as it is voiced in a way as if preprocessor was better than using templates.
Your work and art are an expression of you. How can you express something effectively that you deem unimportant?
This sounds like the backstory for Alan Dean Foster's "Cyber Way". I enjoyed the novel, didn't realize how well rooted it was in actual history.
Register to vote here:

https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote
Thanks! Yeah, the pages weren't linked properly.
I think this has a few big social components to it.

- If you find yourself surrounded by a community that’s unsupportive, making disability a part of your identity could be an attempt to extract what you need from a community that’s unwilling to give it

- If you develop unrealistic standards or expectations, you might reason that “I can’t do $hard_thing is $self_diagnosis” and not “actually, everyone struggles to do $hard_thing”
I like my job, it can have 4 days. I’d like 3 for myself and my family - doesn’t seem like a big ask!
> RSS and ATOM feeds are problematic for two reasons; 1) lack of history, 2) contain limited post content.

None of those are problems with RSS or Atom¹ feeds. There’s no technical limitation to having the full history and full post content in the feeds. Many feeds behave that way due to a choice by the author or as the default behaviour of the blogging platform. Both have reasons to be: saving bandwidth² and driving traffic to the site³.

Which is not to say what you just made doesn’t have value. It does, and kudos for making it. But twice at the top of your post you’re making it sound as if those are problems inherit with the format when they’re not. They’re not even problems for most people in most situations, you just bumped into a very specific use-case.

¹ It’s not an acronym, it shouldn’t be all uppercase.

² Many feed readers misbehave and download the whole thing instead of checking ETags.

³ To show ads or something else.
No. The attacker can mock that just as easily.
I really like my job. I just like the other parts of my life much more.
I'm logging in on a laptop and getting notifications on my mobile that contains my laptop hostname.

I don't have any banking app installed on either device.

It's confounding.
Historians of the future will read this article and chuckle over the quirk that no matter how diligent the handicappers of the time, 21st-century writing style demands that the woman must be described as having "the odds stacked against her".
I can't imagine that subtle light intensity would survive the various light amplifiers used along the way.
The disparate experiences people have on the same piece of software is interesting. I'm on a Mac M1 (so definitely a higher end laptop) and have had zero issues with the Discord app. It sits comfortably on my second monitor and I use the Cmd-K shortcut to quickly snap to the correct channel/user when I want to chat. While I wouldn't call the app "blazingly fast", I don't really notice any meaningful latency.

I mean it's not like it's a low-level ASIO driver for pete's sake.

Memory usage is also reasonable. Continuous uptime is over 4 days now, and combined real mem shows it's using about ~400mb which honestly is about what I would have expected from an Electron app.

I think some of it comes down to user expectations. When I'm playing a game, we're primed to look/notice choppiness and dropped frames particularly since the graphics are constantly animated. When I'm using my DAW, I'm primed to hear latency between my interacting with a midi controller and the audio output. I don't have any such expectations when I'm using a glorified text messaging platform, so while there might indeed be some latency, it would have to be significant for me to notice.

That being said, I'm not a fan of the Android app - the UI/UX experience is rather rough.
I’ve had issues like this even for non chronic things. Repeated visits for an obvious or easy to determine diagnosis. Unwillingness to order certain blood tests or whatever. Sometimes it is because of health insurance rules, which is itself a problem since it forces me to deal with the big inconvenience and expense of several visits, but other times it is because of the doctor’s arbitrary unwillingness.

One example that frustrated me recently was an issue that could be one of three things, each of which could be confirmed via a DNA test. The hospital’s genetics department was unwilling to just go ahead with the three different tests (they aren’t tested as part of a general DNA screen so it is three specific tests instead) even though it’s the fastest and least invasive way to diagnose. Instead they want an invasive surgical confirmation first, which is far more expensive and time consuming. They shared no good reason when I challenged this - just vague patronizing language that reiterated their unwillingness.

In general I’m frustrated that patients can’t just order the exact tests they want. Why do I need a doctor’s consent for various blood draws? I should be able to pick from a menu and pay for whatever I want.
No, advocating for a 30-hour workweek isn't just about not enjoying one's job. It's about people who feel they don't have enough time left for things that are important to them but don't provide financial compensation. It's also about those who are passionate about their work but still experience burnout because they don't get enough rest. There are many other reasons, too.

If your job aligns perfectly with what you'd do in your spare time, you might not see the appeal of a shorter workweek. But that doesn't mean others don't enjoy their work — they might just be overworked and need more balance in their lives.
Meanwhile the fine for driving drunk and endangering people in Brazil is only $500. $9000 for just visiting(not even posting) any Twitter page seems excessive.

What if people that normally use a VPN or a remote job corporate VPN in another country accidently click or get redirected to a Twitter link? Twitter links are all over the web.

List of countries where its illegal to access X: Russia, China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Venezuela, Brazil and Turkmenistan
I've never actually understood the difference, curious if you can help fill in a few blanks for me.

How is expression different than speech here? Is a European really free to express themselves when they are limited to expression that the government approves (or hasn't banned)?

It feels like a lazy attempt at rebranding speech so they can claim its free...with government restrictions.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "user account", but you need some way to authenticate the fact that an incoming request has been paid for. Maybe that's via a traditional auth method like a user account, maybe that's a client key whose accesses are kept track of server-side, maybe it's something stupid like bundling every request to your service with a cryptocurrency payment on the blockchain that your service watches for, and then responds to.
Bluebrixx produces in the EU
My father-in-law does that with coffee. Fill a mug with milk, add two scoops of instant coffee, 60 seconds in the microwave at 800W, stir, another 10-30 seconds in the microwave, stir, drink. He won't have it any other way.
>>It's true that there are a lot of people who got into the industry just because of the comp though :(

Lots of people are just tuned out. And just don't care. With or without the comp.

>>It comes back to the work itself being interesting and whether you actually care about the field that you are working in.

There was this HR in a company here in India. She spoke at length about what attracted people to IT. Basically the employees wanted the realisation that they were creating tremendous value for the company, at the same time earning very high, and of course wanted work life balance. It was more or less impossible to achieve this. There aren't even enough projects of substance to make this happen. At least not for everyone, all the time. The net result was people tuned out, or just don't involve themselves enough at their work, or associate the outcome of their work at personal level.

Another additional factor how quickly the product/projects get shut down/eol in our industry. There are not many things that last for years that you take pride building them.
Shrinkwrap 'contract' found at Costco on collagen peptides
Yes, the macOS way, with Virtualization Framework.
Nearly-Optimal Mergesorts: Fast, Practical Sorting Methods That Optimally Adapt
for chrome users, to bypass this: just type "thisisunsafe" while focused on the error page. not very helpful in this scenario, but for other HSTS issues it might be! 2c
You are speaking about enterprise grade hardware which is meant to be updated. Consumer stuff not as much.
Ask HN: How do you monitor LLM response quality?
For any of you that have systems with LLM interactions in production — how do you monitor how the quality of LLM outputs continuously?

Do you use another LLM to evaluate if the response was hallucinated, and grade it across a set of metrics?
Yes! Women are constantly ignored on conditions like this. It’s infuriating when you realize all the recurring regular gynecology visits are basically performative.
I agree with the reasoning but this doesn’t discuss any tools that include inflation nor any tips or suggestions in integrating it into your own tools.
I think it could potentially have had a cultural effect. Right now, working 50 hours feels like "going the extra mile" because you know the standard is 40. Well, maybe 40 hours would have become that extra mile.
Agree. The trio of Okta + Bitwarden + AWS Secrets Manager covers most bases and has served us well.

The SSO tax is real though, especially if you're a < 50 person entity and don't need everything else that normally comes with "Enterprise" plans <sigh>. Shout out to the few enlightened/kind SaaS peeps that don't do this (e.g. Windmill.dev) !
Blue Origin to roll out New Glenn second stage, enter final phase of launch prep
But how can you explain that from an evolutionary perspective then?
Where is this chronic shortage of skilled labor? Every company is doing layoffs.
There isn't any in POSIX, then again, it isn't as if we now need containers for every executable for any magical reason.

Also, just like in the good old days, it isn't hard to have something dealing with HP-UX Vaults, Aix logical partitions, Solaris/Ilumnos Zones, BSD jails, macOS Virtualiztion Framework,....
Well, this post is not a valid Ask HN, the other one kinda looks like it has inorganic voting. But I don't know which is why you should just email this stuff in.
I wrote a similar tool [1], although it's designed to let you gradually catch up on a backlog rather than write a full feed all at once. Right now it only works on Blogger and WordPress blogs, so I'll need to learn from their trick of pulling from Internet Archive.

[1] https://github.com/steadmon/blog-replay
that's cool. but i'm looking for a preemptive concurrency like golang in pyhton that schedules routines and get threads back when routine runs a blocking syscall. the hard part is detection of syscalls. is there any idea?
C was not a great leap forward from Algol 68 and what have you.
Gates is underappreciated as a real monster.

https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-one-the-balla...
For simple back-of-the-evelope stats like a saving calculator, don’t you just need to subtract inflation from expected returns to get the number?

If you’re expecting 7% returns and 3% inflation, just enter in 4% returns and then you’ll see the final estimate in “inflation corrected” today’s dollars. Right?
Fairphone has made Fairbuds [0] and Fairbuds XL [1], both with easily replaceable batteries. So at least there is one option out there.

[0] https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds

[1] https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds-xl
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That's what I have been trying to do with the B3ta site[0]. It is a UK humour site forum that was founded in the very early 2000s.
I have been looking after it's backend for about five or so years, trying to modernise what I can and keep it stable and maintainable.
I have learnt a lot of respect for people who create a site like Spacehey, it quickly spirals in to a job in itself.

[0]: https://b3ta.com/
Unfortunately Lula isn't quite neutral as he likes to parrot Putin's propaganda narratives, particularly as to the root "cause" of the war:

But it’s not just Putin who is guilty. The U.S. and the E.U. are also guilty. What was the reason for the Ukraine invasion? NATO? Then the U.S. and Europe should have said: “Ukraine won’t join NATO.” That would have solved the problem.

https://time.com/6173232/lula-da-silva-transcript/

This doesn't make him stooge or ally of course. More likely it's the toxic side effect from decades of ingesting his movement's own kool-aid as far as geopolitics goes ("The enemy of my enemy can't be half bad", that sort of thing).
It should be implicit whenever you use a compound interest calculator that you’re interested in today-dollars, not future-dollars.

So any interest rate you estimate should already have inflation factored in.
Good question. To list a spot, users first have to link their bank account with Stripe, which requires identity verification. Additionally, users can easily report listings. Like plenty of other apps, it's impossible to completely stop fraudulent activity. We can just do the best to mitigate it.
Revolution: Google Password Manager Syncs Passkeys to Apple and Windows Devices
I think that's quite an interesting strategic move which could have tremendous impact on the whole passkeys provider / password manager ecosystem.

What do you think will be Apple's next move?
Got grizzly there pretty quick
For me, it's just the opposite. I enjoy my work very much and like to work very intensively for 30 hours, usually at least 10 hours per day, and deliver lots of value. Then take a long break, spending time with family and hobby projects.
Punishing Brazilians by not letting them access Twitter? Hah. Our definitions of punishment are ice ages apart. I’m waiting for Twitter to fail once and for all. Let all social networks go the way of the dodo.
Retro computing to me has to benefits:

1. As mentioned by robinsonb5 -- "wise use of resources". I believe developers should test their changes on old hardware to ensure it will be fast.

2. How much I really miss laptop monitor sizes 4:3, 16:10 is a decent 2nd choice. I hate 16:9, which is the most common.

Updated per kazinator post. I got 16:9 and 16:10 mixed up
There's A LOT of good advice for SaaS companies here. The problem e.g. you desribe is clearly something thats solvable on the SaaS side.
Well the phone calls work on every device. I suppose there’s a case that phone numbers are non-standard, but I think it takes motivated reasoning to get there.

And the cross-device stuff is based on cloudkit, so it’s easy for third parties to adopt and get those benefits using apple id rather than additional signins. Of course that has some lock in, which I recognize is so offensive to some people that the upsides aren’t worth it.
Yeah fair point, in blue collar and trades there's definitely a shortage. Hopefully more people will see trades as a career path instead of getting a bachelor in human resources management.
To be fair I don’t support the VPN thing — people should be free to use VPNs.
The productivity difference I think is controversial. Some (most?) of the biggest tech companies have a grind culture. If working 60 hours per week isn’t productive, why is Apple, Tesla, Netflix, etc so successful?

I’ve had the full range of experiences (full time work or 20-30 hours of freelance work) and they are just different, not necessarily better
HR might be a more suitable place to decide who is in what role than IT is, though?
I can unfortunatly only link this German Video for a good example just how bad lego sets have become: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvyp2VGNL14

Comparing an old police station with the modern one but at 3:57 Left side Modern Police Station 100€ with basically no parts, right side old station from the secondary market for 45€. It's literally twice the size and part count.

One the other hand, look at this: https://www.bluebrixx.com/img/items/107/107505/600/107505_2.... It's bluebrixx flagship medieval castle. That thing is a) HUGE and b) Pretty Beautiful.
Surprised to find a bunch of anesthesiologists hanging around here. How come?
its even more complicated than that...
-Parkinson's has lower amount of GI lining
-Parkinson's is a severe lowering of dopamine...how severe...patients take 1800mg dopamine daily....

Almost kissing cousin to ADHD....
Private chat has been around forever. Encryption is just an implementation detail of how to bring private chat to cyberspace.
I find myself thinking more and more that Bryan Cantrill, despite him highly disliking Elon Musk, seems to agree with him regularly on many things including things such a this.
>3.14 bil daily active users

That's about 2 in 5 people on the planet. Astonishing.
As I see it now that whole line of reasoning is unhealthy. The normal / healthy state of affairs is that your body’s constantly telling your brain “I feel good!”. If you can’t feel that it’s a sign of dissociation.
What's your beef with 16:10? I prefer it over 16:9 unless I want to watch 16:9 video most of the time.
I believe the pandemic moved most white collar work to work from home. This has allowed softer work requirements in terms of hours and needs to step away from the desk.

Seeing posts of employers imposing spyware to monitor employee keystrokes / time at the desk should serve as warnings and must be pushed back. Historically, pushing back meant union-driven actions. WFH brings a challenge to how union-seeking employees will organize moving forward.

I believe we should absolutely push for 30 hour workweeks or 4 day weeks.
Another positive point for wireless headphones: you never have to deal with detangling a cord, getting caught in it, or it pulling on you.
I used to be on the wired only train until I got bone conducting headphones (shokz). Those became 90% of my usage. I don’t really have problems with battery life or charging now that I’ve switched.