skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company makes Flipper Zero as well. When they launched that product, the same topic came up [0]. The strongest argument given seems to hinge on the former nationality/residence of many of the original team. Obviously, different people will weight that above or below the UK address / USA incorporation.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32168388
If I'm in an open office and can set my status clock on top of a monitor, then I don't need the manual controls because I will be changing it via the computer. If I'm not using a computer and setting the device down on my desk in a cubicle, then the primary screen is going to be turned towards me and I will need to use the manual controls. For that specific set of use cases, I see the logic behind the manual control label positions.
where to read more, post article like this?
I'm sure that includes labor.
I recently discovered that the SuSE based distribution used by some libraries on NRW a decade ago, is now Windows running in kiosk mode instead.
> Is there anyone else that enforces a simple "just squash & merge everything from PRs into main" across the entire team?

No. This kind of policy has plenty of downsides[1] and the upsides are relatively minor.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41653892
I think the prevailing theory of evolution is punctuated equilibrium(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium)

Which holds that rather than a slow gradual change, species under go a rapid change and then are stable after that change.

If that hold true, then the driver would be that you have low impact changes going on all the time that do not take hold but once a beneficial change is introduced it spreads rapidly.
Search for Mullenweg's comment, here: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/10/13/fields-api-team-s...
So this is a cloud connected LED sign that tells people to ~~fuck off~~ leave me alone. For 189 USD. This is the most Hacker News thing I've seen in 2024.
The main advantage is just focus. ReMarkable is an eInk tablet that's only really good at writing and passable at reading so you're not going to wander off to the web or something. This model has some uniqueness from the kind of color eInk display it has but if you don't care about that you're probably better off with a Kobo Elispa, some model of Boox or the Kindle Scribe.

But for READING I would not go for a ReMarkable. They can't do Adobe DRM'd ePubs, they can't do library books and ePub support in general seems really subpar. Makes way more sense to get an Elispa or Boox model.
Can somebody explain to me why this is apparently being downvoted ? Is Richard Lenski very far from the consensus of his field ? Scientific dishonesty ?
The technologies of education and advertising have proven to be quite good at changing people.
I loved and used to use Gestimer. Then, it released a new version that did not add practical value. That's when I stopped using it. Now, I use Apple Watch Timer (the only complication on my homescreen). However, I have always like a Gestimer replacement but simpler — I hope this is the one.

Best of Luck with the release. I’m trying this out.
Good job.

A voice interface to an unmanned eye in the sky or close air support is every soldier's dream.
Second this. Just change the EDITOR variable.

You’re getting downvoted (probably because of the mini Vim tutorial in #2) while the author of the post wrote a whole TUI because they didn’t know to change their EDITOR variable.

Learn your tools, people. This is the equivalent of a contractor taping rulers together because they didn’t realize their bag comes with a tape measure.
The 'Status' in the product name has two meanings, with the second being the standing conveyed by being able to shell out $189 for a pomodoro timer.
Are the side boosters going to be recovered?
Those of us who travel in particular like to know that, absent some cultural anomalies like eating dinner in Spain, local time roughly corresponds to activities where we’re from without constantly doing mental conversions.

Yes, there are a lot of weird often politically-motivated time zones out there but for the most part it works
Anyone else notice the gimmicky titles

"everything you know about X is wrong"
I went to Thailand shortly after the covid lockdowns ended, and the corals were all coming back. I talked to a boat captain about it and his comment was: “yeah, there were no tourists to abuse them”.

I can’t help but wonder what effect tourism (and lockdowns) has had on corals. For example, It is common among scuba divers to only use mineral sunscreens because standard off-the-shelf sunscreen floats on the top of the water and blocks UV from the corals
The community is just one fork away from a plug-compatible replacement.
I regularly walk by the Denkmann building at Augustana College.

Frederick Denkmann was one of the founders of Weyerhaeuser, and my hardwood floors were likely sourced from him. He is responsible for a few other things around town.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Denkmann

Weyerhaeuser is still a major lumber company today.

https://www.weyerhaeuser.com/
Information is fine, overconfident denialist commentary earns a downvote. When you see a comment to the effect of "The self-proclaimed experts are wrong! I know the truth," you should heavily discount the conclusions it draws.

Just because the mechanism of resurgence is unknown does not mean that all previous science on the topic is invalidated.

It can simultaneously be true that ocean warming is devastating the Great Barrier Reef corals and that the GBR has the ability to rebound on its own. Here's a question the parent comment didn't address: Are we seeing the same species in this resurgence that we saw before mass bleaching, or is biodiversity reduced?
In 2015, it was found that threat-processing parts of the brain could be disabled by magnets which induced both weakened faith in God and made participants more accepting towards migrants.

https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/3/387/2375059
I assume lawyers have some mechanism like this already. Law firms can require staff to allocate every 6-8 minutes of their day. Which sounds terrible and likely to be wildly inaccurate as people cannot be bothered to invest that much overhead into their job.
I said "the" because you said "it conveys 'some' temporal information".
IMO this situation is what the GPL was created for.
You're part of it as of 2 hours ago when you replied to Matt's comment in TFA asking who should step in to replace the people that he locked out of the previous team? Or were you on the team before that comment?

> Matt: We should find some new team reps to replace them, do you have any suggestions?

> Blake: I’m of course happy to do whatever it takes to make WordPress Accessible. How can I jump in and help?
Flushing is displacing the content of the bowl down the drain. This is usually done by releasing a volume of water at once, which is a rate of flow higher than what your water line allows, hence you have to store a volume of water somewhere in order to release it at once (flushing).

You can, for example, fill a bucket of water then releasing that water into the bowl to flush its content, but more practically, that water is stored in the cistern/tank that comes with the toilet or that you can purchase separately.

Your water pipe supplies that cistern with water, but there must be a way to stop the water when the cistern/tank fills up or it would overflow and flood your bathroom.

So, you need to control the process of water filling up your cistern and, in order to control something, you must first measure it. In other words, there must be a way to know the level of water in the cistern to prevent it from overflowing. This is usually done with a floater inside the cistern, which floats on the water surface.

Now that there's a way to know the water level, there must be a way to act upon that information and stop the inflow of water when the water gets to a certain level, or as we have it now, when the floater gets to a certain level.

This is usually done with a coupling mechanism that ties the floater to a sort of valve. The water level rises, the floater rises with it, and this force closes the valve that's letting the water in the cistern/tank. The water then stops. You have a full cistern/tank.

Now there must be a mechanism to release that water all at once from a hole at the bottom of the cistern/tank. This is what happens when you "flush" by pressing on a button or pulling down a lever or something. The water goes down all at once and the cistern empties. The water level goes down, the floater goes down with it, and there is no force closing the inflow anymore given that the floater is down, so the cistern starts filling up again...

But, you have a hole down there... Which means that something needed to be closed down there in order for the cistern to fill in the first place and you need it now to fill it again... This is a "flapper". This is usually a membrane of sort that closes the hole in the cistern at rest, but that gets "lifted" when you action a the "flushing" lever or press the button in order to let the water into the bowl.

So, water goes in, floater rises and reaches a certain level, that water pushing the floater is a force that closes the inflow, and the tank is full. You pull down a lever or push a button to flush, the flapper is moved and reveals a hole down the cistern from where the water goes out all at once. The water level goes down and so does the floater, there's no force closing the inflow and the cistern starts filling up again.

Happy to answer questions.
I can't seem to tell: is this run off a battery? If so, any specs on the battery? Or is it powered via cable?
My jewish sephardic family was compelled by country's authorities to finance the expedition only to have been expelled (with the whole community) right when he embarked, and of course never saw any of the money back. I really doubt that he had any relation to the community at all. He was just an instrument of robbing it.
Not a great solution, but install emacs and then magit. A bit of a learning curve but works great.
Sitting at a keyboard for 8+ hours a day for years is super unhealthy.
No. All cores expended in this launch.
In most settler-colonial situations during history, unless strict separation between races and nations was maintained, the conquerors intermingled with the conquered so thoroughly that you cannot tell them apart nowadays (Who is a Norman and who is an Anglo-Saxon? Who is a Roman and who is a Celt?). That included a lot of Amerindians in the US.

This is pretty much the norm across the ages. You could probably say that it is wise from the vanquished to adapt at least partially the culture of the conquerors; after all, it might be better suited for victories in wars, and that was a major factor in survival until recently. (In some places, still is.)
you've misread the comment, weakened rule of law and lesser regulations are two different things that (according to the comment) are being exchanged. For example firing Comey had nothing to do with regulations.
I read an article by Rhiannon Gibbons, which suggested that music was primarily regional until the 20th century, and that the taxonomy of genres emerged alongside the nationwide distribution of recorded music, which is of course worldwide now.

Likewise, my bike is regional -- it's thrown together from what I've found in my neighbors' trash. Most non-sportive riders use the bike categories to narrow down their choices in search of a bike that's comfortable, practical, and at least moderately stylish. In the early years of mass produced "mountain bikes," most MTB's were purchased for use on pavement. People liked them because they looked like they'd be sturdy and comfortable. It helped that MTB's were also most people's first introduction to indexed shifting and aluminum wheels.
> It may be possible that this recent spike in growth indicates that there is a strong recovery, but looking at the data it also seems inarguable the ecosystem has become highly unstable as well over the past 20 years

Could you expand on how the recent explosive growth is unstable and fits with the predictions that the coral is dying?

And GPs post was evidence based, your interpretations were not, they were subjective and a bit handwaving, which is why I would like clarfication on your above view.
This reminds me of my first job in London looking after the network of a recruitment agency. The consultants got headsets for the first time and one got so annoyed about being interrupted when on a call - because you couldn't tell when people were wearing headsets the whole time - that she taped a big bit of card to the top of her headset saying "ON A CALL" that she could flip up and down depending on whether she was speaking to someone.
Nope. They needed the maximum amount of thrust from those boosters in order to propel the spacecraft toward Jupiter, so they couldn't save enough fuel for the boosters to land themselves. This was the 6th flight of these boosters, so we thank them for their service!
https://archive.ph/COmuh
Where does it draw power from? Does it have to be permanently connected or does it have a battery?

I have a lilygo T-Display (which costs less than a 10th of the Busy Status Bar), but I intended to use it untethered and freely movable on the desk. Sadly the battery life is so bad that I basically have to leave it plugged in all the time.
This looks retro-sleek. Really cool design.

Does this work without cloud-connection? Does it work with the Flipper Zero? Considering it's from the same company, I would think there is some synergy available. And it seems to lack a speaker. For some reason, I would love to play radio on it, not sure why..

EDIT Ok, found the speaker. Nice.
i thought someone had finally productized a clock i built for myself a long time ago, which, instead of showing you the time of day, counts down to your next meeting

https://github.com/jareklupinski/count-down

google and apple dont make it easy...
This is the debate I'm having internally. I like the RM2, but the appeal of a full Android tablet is hard to get past.

How hacker-friendly is the Note Air? Is it heavily locked-down or is it more on the open side?
Not this time, only the payload fairing.
This is so puzzling to me. It’s like people[1] get so stuck in the GitHub PR framework/mindset that they then, after realizing that GitHub PRs suck for reviewing individual commits, discard commits as the reviewable unit and then shoehorn one-commit-per-PR as a replacement.

The PR is just the best GitHub had to offer. There are other approaches to code review.

[1] Here we are generalizing.
Per NASA, no

> Because Europa Clipper needs a lot of energy to start it on its interplanetary trajectory to Jupiter, the rocket for this launch will be fully expendable, with the exception of a recoverable fairing. This means that there will be no return of first-stage boosters for this launch. Although SpaceX has flown a fully expendable Falcon Heavy before, this is the first time that NASA’s Launch Services Program is launching a mission for the agency with this Falcon Heavy configuration, though the program has extensive experience now with both expendable as well as reusable rockets. In addition to not recovering any boosters, technicians removed components only needed for reuse to increase the performance of the rocket, to launch the largest planetary spacecraft NASA has ever developed and give it the power it needs to travel to Jupiter.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/europaclipper/2024/10/14/nasa-launch-...
I don't agree with you that many people prefer old and dated hotels. If you read thousands of reviews online about any hotel, the majority of people give a negative review if the hotel has old carpet or has not been well maintained.
I guess I agree. I tend to try to view others actions in best reasonable light, so I default to the idea that they are simply blind to their own limits, but mean well.
Why not rama/defop and rama/defn?
Not sure, but every video shows a huge graph with all of the watches on it, ranked by accuracy. If you just view the latest video you can get an idea of the best watches, or where a watch you might be looking at falls, then you can search for the specific video where he tests it to see specifics.
Yes and no. Yes, Linux kernel is good example of project where development is done by employees of various organizations. I'd argue that is big part why Linux kernel community is as healthy as it is. But also no, because so much of Linux development is driven by HW vendors (instead of direct users), and that is somewhat special situation. Although there is also good chunk of work done by organizations that directly use Linux, I don't want to dismiss that by any means.
IMHO, redis is either used as a key value store (which can easily be replicated in application code) or as a central storage to synchronize tasks (like counters).

For the first case, dev should just build on SQLite or use application code. For the latter case, choose a single storage engine and use it for everything (Postgres?).
For what it's worth, Kobo is similarly open with tons of hacks and add-ons for their devices. They do have a store but you can just not use it and even sync books from your own server running Calibre-Web if you want.
A mouse is a small rodent with a tail, which I don't really see here.
I suspect that a lot of the recent dirt about Columbus comes from documents involving his (and his decedents) court case to assert ownership of the New World. In particular, I suspect that the most damning accusations come from briefs filed by opposing counsel:

"In 1500, during his third voyage to the Americas, Columbus was arrested and dismissed from his posts. He and his sons, Diego and Fernando, then conducted a lengthy series of court cases against the Castilian crown, known as the pleitos colombinos, alleging that the Crown had illegally reneged on its contractual obligations to Columbus and his heirs.[93] The Columbus family had some success in their first litigation, as a judgment of 1511 confirmed Diego's position as viceroy but reduced his powers. Diego resumed litigation in 1512, which lasted until 1536, and further disputes initiated by heirs continued until 1790." -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus

280 years of legal battle is going to be a treasure trove of dirt, if you want to find it.

As for "why now" and "why does it matter what his heritage is" I think it has everything to do with the cultural milieu. Modern white liberals hate their heritage which they characterize as ancestors of colonizers, slave owners, and exploiters. If Columbus was Jewish this gives left-wing anti-Semites extra ammunition against Jews. It aligns the deep hatred for colonizers with deep hatred for Israel for its actions in it's war with Hamas.
I think you fall in the typical trap of thinking that social issues are easier to solve than technical ones. This is not the case.

"Why take vaccines ? Can't we just be well-behaved, wear a mask, air spaces correctly or put air filters everywhere ?"
The answer is no.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biolo...
I have definitely not used Windows for a hobby for 19 years. Linux (and for a short time OS X) fill my needs.

I simply have no use for twitter. if the information is important, it'll turn up on bbc.co.uk, otherwise it's not really worth the effort.
Ask HN: Kernel Containers (security like VMs, perf like LXC)
Frustrated by our own challenges with Kata Containers, we have developed a new hypervisor from scratch that can run each Docker container in isolation (i.e., no shared host kernel), with native performance (i.e., no virtualization runtime overhead or cold starts).

We have been using it internally with K8s for a while now. What business models could we explore to commercialize this technology? We are thinking of licensing model for enterprises.
Show HN: Convert a link to a late night show
Hi all, I wanted to share a side project I’ve been working on for a while which, given a link to a news article, produces an animated late night show of configurable length and style.

Its conceptually similar to NotebookLM, but I’m not aware of other projects which convert to 3D.

Curious to hear people’s thoughts. For an overview on how it works I made a post here: https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelgiba/p/late-now
Not GP, but I'll relate my experience. Your attention is always automatically attending to something. You can learn to attend to your attention continually while you're functioning normally in real life. Maintaining this light noticing of what we're noticing, reveals the attitudes of the mind to various objects as we go through our lives. It's a very interesting state to abide in. This is known as the Cittanupassana practice, one of the Vipassana practices described in the Satipatthana Sutta.
I've always wanted something like this, but for i3 workspaces. Something like "share workspace 2." Anyone know how to accomplish this?
> If you can't trust your locally installed software, everything is lost.

That's only true if you decide to trust it.

You can deal perfectly well with software you distrust, and not have it harm your system.
This article is written for people who know Clojure, or at least the examples are. It might be nice to see the examples written in a non-LISP as well.

E.g.

(?<-
(ops/explode [1 2 3 4] :> *v)
(println "Val:" *v))

Is (I believe) the equivalent of Python's

for element in [1, 2, 3, 4]:
print(element)
> Building software and selling it is ok. The issue comes when you no longer sells it, but rent it instead, which is what the current subscription trend is about.

I couldn't agree more, and that's why I like the great ecosystem of pay-once quality apps for MacOS, which you can get for a fair price. Instead of subscribing to Photoshop and installing spyware, I can buy Affinity Photo for a very fair price. Same thing with all kinds of pro or prosumer software. Could this be a path for FreeBSD for people who like that kind of deal, but as an alternative to Apple? Apple will never make it easier to install a different OS on their hardware, because their business model is hardware+OS.

If you provide people with a GUI for doing things, you vastly increase the amounts of newcomers you can service. The terminal scares most people, because they are worried about destroying their computer. Which they have reason to.

Or maybe FreeBSD could become a community where also the developers pay each other for software? This would provide incentive for developer effort where it is most needed. First for the basic tools and later to more and more specialized and end-user focused tools. Compared to FOSS, where developers are just focused on what they think is interesting to work on and there's no other incentive.

> MacOS and Windows are not easy either.

It was super easy for me to switch to MacOS after years of Windows. Most newcomers to FreeBSD wouldn't be people who have never used a computer. They'll be familiar with the mouse, GUI buttons, etc.

> But there's cases that requires more flexibility and access to behind-the-scenes.

I agree, and these functions should always be accessible graphically. Think 3D modeling software, music production software, or spreadsheets. Even for iOS Safari, you can access extremely detailed settings with a graphical interface. No need to type about:flags
Your last sentence would have been a fine reply to the GP without any meta level commenting.

And GP's main point was that the data from the experts monitoring the reef did not line up with the climate change predictions of the reef.

He didn't say HE knew the truth, he's saying the truth from scientific reports are not matching the predictions.

If anything, he's pointing out the real "experts" data. The opposite of what you are accusing him of.
Here's an example of a modernized Eatons Home built in 1907 for the manager of the Imperial Bank Of Canada branch in a small town in British Columbia:

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/27172855/239-10th-avenue-...