skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have not seen anything yet that makes me reconsider

Proton will pwn you if Interpol smiles at them the right way. This is common knowledge.
Somebody should send it to Neal Stephenson
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Cantrill's reputation isn't relevant here. It is what it is, and there are no big-scale Apples's or AirBnb's in it. A decent technologist, I'd say. His advice is "almost" specific, and not in the least way actionable without the bits that are left out.
One cannot teach charisma, or leadership at that level. The exceptional founder, doing whatever voodoo they do, can convince others to follow him, or her, up the hill, with discipline, succeed, and not get everyone killed. That isn't a science; it's not an art; it's a gift. That's why they're special, and why it can't be reduced to a set of mechanical rules. This post was "five easy pieces for founder mode".
Everything you said is true. But the cheapest phones still have the 3.5mm jack. People on a budget use wired earphones because they are harder to lose, price and even fashion (color n stuff)

Flagship phones on the other hand are sold to another population who seems happy to spend more money for a small inconvenience.
Cool hack. Funny to see them drive onto RT 2 after alewife and have a 25 mph limit as everyone floors it. Also not sure where an mbta train ever hits 55.
Thanks for posting this.

I think it casts a pretty harsh light on criticisms of awk.

Ultimately awk is one of the all time great languages. Small. Good at what it does.

There’s something satisfying about using it which languages like Python just don’t give you. It’s a little bit of Unix wizardry.
Court says to remove porn child accounts. Racist accounts. Nazists accounts. Musk refuses.
Exactly. I do side projects because they are fun. No pressure,
no expectations. Simply and pure knowledge gaining and programming… which I love.

I already have a boss asking me 9-5 when I will finish project X, so I don’t need that pressure when doing things by myself. Besides, some things are never meant to be finished (e.g., eating healthy, doing exercise, gaining knowledge, etc.)
Sure, you drop heaps of sodium if you aren't careful and lose 1-3kg of associated water.

It is one of the reasons it hooks people.

Two months of weight loss is a different ballpark.
What bullshit. Their rep in Brazil doesn't control anything about the platform or make decisions about disbursement of funds. Doing so is simply a variation of nation-state hostage taking.
that’s going to have many world-wide implications
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One company rethinks 'diff' to cut code review times
The study in question is:

Ketogenic Diet Intervention on Metabolic and Psychiatric Health in Bipolar and Schizophrenia: A Pilot Trial (2024) (PMID 38547601)

Here are the findings from its abstract:

> Results showcased improvements in metabolic health, with no participants meeting metabolic syndrome criteria by study conclusion. Adherent individuals experienced significant reduction in weight (12 %), BMI (12 %), waist circumference (13 %), and visceral adipose tissue (36 %). Observed biomarker enhancements in this population include a 27 % decrease in HOMA–IR, and a 25 % drop in triglyceride levels. In psychiatric measurements, participants with schizophrenia showed a 32 % reduction in Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale scores. Overall Clinical Global Impression (CGI) severity improved by an average of 31 %, and the proportion of participants that started with elevated symptomatology improved at least 1–point on CGI (79 %). Psychiatric outcomes across the cohort encompassed increased life satisfaction (17 %) and enhanced sleep quality (19 %).

This is fine for psychiatric patients, but for everyone else, a real ketogenic diet adds substantial risks as documented in these studies:

1. Ketogenic diets inhibit mitochondrial biogenesis and induce cardiac fibrosis (2021) (PMID 33558457)

2. Ketogenic diet induces p53-dependent cellular senescence in multiple organs (2024) (PMID 38758782)

The problem is that what actually counted as a ketogenic diet in the psychiatric study will get lost in its application, getting misinterpreted as a high-meat high-fat diet, which it wasn't.
"The tools were more primitive, but they did fit in 64k of memory."

I will take "primitive" over present-day bloat and complexity every time, quirks and all.

That programs fitting in 64K of memory have remained in continuous use and the subject of imitation for so long must be a point of pride for the authors. From what I have seen, contemporary software authors are unlikely to ever achieve such longevity.
Away from normal productive people by any means necessary. Who cares about them, I care about the normal people being harassed and having their quality of life go down. People like you are what have made cities a mess and unlivable.
How does this compare to IBus or Fcitx?
Yes, but if the government censors it, it’s forbidden on both. Surely you muse see the difference?
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Then why is the UK still so authoritarian about free speech and insisting on policing online activity?
Then use a different password manager. Bitwarden has no problems with that. PaSsw0rd123$56_!
Luneforge is built on top of Pymesh docker image (a fast C++ Python wrapped Geometry Processing Library)

https://github.com/PyMesh/PyMesh

It requires docker cause its the best way to have all the required dependancies for Pymesh
Even if the interviewer is forthright, you're never going to get actionable answers to these questions in this context.

If the interviewer is not, you'll be given falsehoods and platitudes.
Oh, didn't realize that. How does it handle key input in Windows? Text Services Framework or something else?
Don't mean to sound aggressive, but no professional organization worth its salt does systematic password sharing of any kind. Password sharing is almost always a security violation and, even if shared securely, can generate licensing complications for the product or service you're authenticating into. Better to have one account per service per person who's going to use it and systematically revoke licenses/accounts that go unused. Also use official methods for resetting passwords (email link, TOTP generated by the app itself from an admin console) rather than sharing passwords.

Lastly, of course like everyone said: SSO is your friend!
I hate Stripe, so I'm going to build my own payment processor
Instead of asking your id police office pass you a circuit. You present your ID to the circuit and pass results to the officer. The officer then verifies you are not a criminal without ever looking at your documents.
That is not correct. You can use a "USB security key" - e.g. YubiKey
See https://www.bankofamerica.com/security-center/online-mobile-...
This all just feels downstream from "skin-in-the-game," which we still overwhelmingly do not have in software development.

Through regulation or liability, when software harms people negligently, you have to punish the creator(s). We've figured it out in other arenas, just have to do it here.
Microsoft has an elaborate VS Code demo app that uses this API. Click "Open Folder" to see the API in action): https://vscode.dev
Sure. But to say something is floppy, and serves multiple functions, means it is not a machine, is a stretch. They made the argument multiple times about machines not flexing, and that is just no where in the definition of a machine.
Who will the justice send a censorship request to?
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The paragraph immediately after that paragraph explains that the study was based off faulty analysis (and links to the below article).

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/4/18650969/married...
Once upon a time, if you were an avid user of bc(1) you where an avid user of dc(1). This is an extract of the Unix V7 man page for bc(1) https://man.cat-v.org/unix_7th/1/bc :

Bc is actually a preprocessor for dc(1), which it invokes
automatically, unless the -c (compile only) option is pre-
sent. In this case the dc input is sent to the standard
output instead.
Is this being done in collaboration with the Linguistics faculties of African universities?
And you just escalated a drone flying above your house into a full out gun fight with swat teams and what not. It's not like you're going to win that fight.
The earlier order ordered Apple and Google to remove VPN apps.
I agree, and even knowing this, I assumed it was finding pairs of real articles that rhymed. But no. It’s just a list of real articles and made up rhyming titles.
The question I’d like to see asked of Steve is why solo developers were able to make more reliable, faster, less buggy Reddit mobile apps than Reddit itself?

To this day I have strange bugs on the Reddit app. The logo disappears sometimes, and it’s critical for navigation. The interface sometimes stops responding to presses of certain on-screen elements.

And yet this company pushed out third party app developers in an incredibly shitty way rather than hiring them.

I’ll never forgive Steve for the loss of Apollo on iOS and the way Reddit handled the situation.

I actually understand the API restrictions and even believe that they may lead to better privacy for Reddit users. Free API access meant lots of archiving and cloning services out there when ideally the users should be able to delete their comments and posts to be forgotten if they choose. However, I think that better developer communication could have meant that we still have Apollo around, even if it meant a shift to a paid subscription.
Hell yeah! And the people who rely on their software to detect intrusions - we don't care!

They have liability and it should be somehow handled (I don't know how, I am not a lawyer/finance guy) but without losing sight of what CS provides to a company.
Why wouldn’t these substantial risks also apply to psychiatric patients - are there any studies corraborating your assertion?
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"Indignation" was a poor choice of wording, then -- I take it back.

Still - it does seem to be such a trifling fault with the article that it seems strange that it would be seen as worth devoting the time and energy to call out. When I come across minor hiccups like this (either in something I'm reading, or when someone is giving a talk) I usually just say to myself:

"Mmm -- but was it in good faith at least? Not too preachy / overbearing? Yes? Then let's move on ..."
Not sure if this makes me more or less depressed about the state of the MBTA… will definitely be thinking about this on the red line tomorrow morning! Thanks for sharing.
They won't, cos it's STILL not censorship, much though the right-of-center machinery would love everyone to believe it is.
AI for Taste and Touch
Samples on how to address taste and touch as multimodal features. Any thoughts?
-> e-tongue
-> robotics
-> bioengineering/biomaterials
You didn't even include "solve the customer's problem" or "has features people care about" or portability. Electron apps are not taking over the world because "execution performance time" is the one true metric by which all code should be judged.
Virtualization is not containerization. Linux has namespaces, BSD has jails, and even Windows has Windows containers (thought doubt anyone actually uses them). If that's the MacOS way, then the MacOS way must be incompetence.
I mean they can at worst be only 4 years behind
There is really just no demand for this, so no capital is being invested into 'solving' it as a problem. You're going to have to field entirely new solutions to make something like this work. It is "Smell-o-Vision" or "the Flying Car" all over again.
Experience is part of education.
This feels like its framed in the wrong way.

The much simpler explanation is that both governments and big companies are large groups of people. You need to make simplifying assumptions to make large groups of people work together at scale.

That's true of any system at scale. Just consider how people give their servers unique names at small scale and numbers at big scale. Its just how scaling works.

Whether that is a good or bad thing is an entirely different question.
Based on the literature the measure would be 6dBi (relative to isotropic). This is often referred to as 'gain' as it represents sensitivity to the band of interest at a given angle of arrival.
> I also don't understand why you'd want phonetic input methods

I'm from Morocco, and most people here (myself included) are accustomed to typing on an AZERTY (or QWERTY) keyboard. Typing in Arabic using a standard keyboard layout can be quite cumbersome and slow for us (Most people never took the time to learn it), using latin alphabet for us is just more practical, and doesn't require you to learn a new way to type.

In our daily communication, when we text, whether with friends or family, we often switch between English, French, or Moroccan dialects. When writing in Moroccan dialect, we frequently use a phonetic system (read in french way) that combines the Latin alphabet with numbers to represent specific sounds or letters that don’t have a direct equivalent in the Latin script.

For example:

ق is replaced by "q"
ع is replaced by "3"
خ is replaced by "5" (though "kh" is more common)
غ is replaced by "4" (or "gh")
The rest is just a 1 to 1 conversion to how the letter sounds in french

Example phrase :

Bro, I woke up and had a sick breakfast.

Sat, 3ad fe9t o drabt wa7d ftor khatir.
The initial work was a prototype, we are currently working on the usage of text service for windows, and IBUS for Linux (mainly Wayland environment).

But the next release, will take a time, since we are not familiar with these technologies.
https://github.com/pythonbrad/afrim/issues/242
A Simple Archive Format for Self-Contained Executables
My impression is that he has not changed. He is convinced the only way forward is Mars and that Earth is doomed.

I think many mistook his interest in electric cars as an environmental concern but I think he just ran with that to get CA funding. Now that is dried up and CA wants him to pay taxes he has gone all Douglas Adams and to CA and said "so long and thanks for all the fish".

Here's what I see:

There is no fossil fule on Mars so you need solar, batteries, electric vehicles. You need boring devices to dig habitats and satelite communication. You need rockets to get there.

Everything aligns with a Mars vision. Twitter might be a distraction, but recall he was forced to buy it after offering 420 a share while high off his ass.

In the end, his Galt's Gulch in space will need a global communications system so I'm sure he will fit Twitter into his plans.
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I couldn't quite replicate those numbers (rustc 1.78, gcc 14, g++ 14) with a recent state. On my machine (Ryzen 9 7900X, LVM on NVMe) it's rustc 60-80ms, gcc 20-30ms and tcc in 2ms. Intererestingly, g++ is still 200ms on that machine. Activating time and the builtin time-passes in rustc here's also an interesting observation: rustc spends 47ms of its time in sys and 23ms in user compared to <3ms for both C variants. It counts its own time as 50ms instead for some reason, not sure what it is subtracting here. Also looking at individual passes of the compiler (rustc +nightly -C opt-level=1 -Z time-passes gcd.rs) reveals it spends 33ms linking, 16ms in LLVM and only a negligible time in what you'd consider compiling.

I think the test is uultimately non-sensical for the question being posed here. It doesn't reveal anything insightful about scaling to real world program sizes, either. The time of rustc is dominated by the platform linker anyways. Sure, one might argue that this points out Rust as relying too much on the linker and creating too many unused symbols. But the question of whether this is caused by the language and in particular its syntactical choices .. should at that point be answered with probably not. It's not a benchmark you want to compare by percentage speedups anyways since it's probably dominated by constant time costs for any of the batteries included standard library languages compared to C.
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> The glitch and its aftermath represent a fascinating case study in the intersection of technology and human behavior.

The bank was asleep at the switch. There's absolutely nothing "fascinating" or worthy of study here, unless you're writing a love letter to the bank, hoping to help them avoid any responsibility for their own failures.
Apple threatened to move Will Smith movie out of Louisiana for app store bill
I used to find myself under the effects of this curse as well, so I would recommend the author look into why he embarks on such a thicket of unfinished side projects. In my own case, it boiled down to a mix of several imperfectly aligned factors:

1. Genuine intellectual interest

2. A desire to improve particular skills

3. A vague sense, acquired by osmosis, that industriously working on side projects during one's free time is what a Real Engineer does

Disentangling these motives and identifying a clear primary drive behind each project clears up the "hydra" feeling wonderfully, as most of the heads simply disappear once you realize that you never had a strong reason to pursue them in the first place. (3) in particular is often merely the self-castigating whisper of the internalized "should" rather than a valid reason to embark on a long and open-ended project.