skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, thanks for the interest! For now, I launched RemotePulse Pro as an MVP (minimum viable product), and it’s 100% free at the moment. The current features include:

- You can create tasks, start a timer, pause it, and stop it. The app calculates the elapsed time between start and stop, minus any pauses, and stores the session of time spent on that task.

- There’s also an inactivity detection feature: if a task is running but there’s no activity for 5 minutes, it automatically pauses.

- You can set dependencies between tasks to ensure that certain tasks are completed in the correct order.

- Once you've completed a task and tracked the time sessions, you can mark it as "done." This moves it to your task history, where you can see the sessions you spent on it, and it also unlocks any dependent tasks.

Let me know if you have more questions !
Live in London in Zone 2 and there are absolutely tons of conker trees around me including in areas which are not posh. They are very common in an urban setting.[1]

[1] Which kind of sucks for me personally because they cause me really terrible hayfever. I think I'm specifically alergic to their pollen maybe.
At this point I don’t care if it cures cancer. There’s zero chance I’d ever buy it or even look at that page now. We get it. It exists. Stop spamming it.
What bug(s) were shown?
Apparently, Twitter now is hyper-leftist. [1]

[1] The comment you're repling to.
That’s a good article. I found this one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-8

The L-8/Ghost Blimp took off with a crew of two from San Francisco in 1942. They found an oil slick (which was the last time either crew member was known to be alive) and then drifted before it crash landed in front of a home in Daly City.

I had never heard of this event before now and it’s a heck of an interesting late night rabbit hole. Thanks for the link!
"startup" + "nuclear", what could go wrong
Reference? Them being eventually autonomous has been covered in the events and his talks about the eventual AI that will drive them.
I enjoy this metaphor of the cow and the papier-mâché.

Presumably, there is a farmer who raised the cow, then purchased the papier-mâché, then scrounged for a palette of paints, and meticulously assembled everything in a field -- all for the purpose of entertaining distant onlookers.

That is software engineering. In Gettier's story, we're not the passive observers. We're the tricksters who thought papier-mâché was a good idea.
I’m willing to take that bet.
If you're actually interested in learning something new, here you go:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/16330-24-h...

You managed to spout enough crap about the history of Javascript that it summoned Brendan Eich himself, and you even then continued to double down. It really seems like you might get some benefit by taking a deep breath and not letting every correction or even just piece of added information enrage you. That may also likely help your blood pressure.
Eachlabs: Zapier for AI Development
Yeah but I think that's the point, isn't it?

The author expected the people who were gatekeeping which tech got built to understand the tech that they were deciding on [0]. Instead they did not understand tech but understood business. Which means that a techie explaining the idea to them had to couch it in business terms. Y'know: a pitch.

If a techie is explaining a tech idea to another techie, we use completely different language than if we're communicating to a non-techie. This blog post feels like that, like they're talking to a group of peers rather than an audience with a different viewpoint on the world.

[0] I think it's a little naive, but perfectly understandable, to expect this kind of person to understand the tech. It is interesting that these decisions are made by business folk with no understanding of the tech. There are, after all, business people who do understand tech available to make this kind of decision.
Hey, thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. You're absolutely right—there isn't much information upfront before the sign-up page, and that's something I need to improve.

To give you a quick overview, the tool focuses on simple time tracking for tasks with some automation, like detecting inactivity and allowing task dependencies to ensure tasks are completed in the right order. It’s still in the MVP stage, so there’s definitely room for adding more details and differentiation from other tools in the space.

I'll be working on making the landing page more informative soon. Thanks again for pointing this out!
Error budget or recovery cost tracking goes a long way towards defeating the We never have time or money to do it right, but we’ll find time and money to fix it later mindset.
> In this specific instance, of using phones at restaurants, you seemed to think people could not go without them due to addiction. Are you saying that was not your position?

Correct. I only brought up addiction after I thought we moved to the general argument, because it's so easy and objective. If we stayed with phones I probably wouldn't have mentioned addiction.

> Not so much an exemption, more that when you make an abstract argument it's going to change when you zoom in a few levels down, and it's going to change depending on what is being discussed in.

It will change some, but if the general idea is that people are bad at knowing what they want and avoiding temptation, that can only change so much. If it's not true for phones at dinner then that sounds like it has to be an exception.

> In this case, I certainly disagree that it's safe to assert that "a lot of people would enjoy their meals better if they didn't have their phones with them" - is that a fair paraphrasing of your point?

I think that's fair, but I'd replace "have their phones with them" with something like "use their phones for more than a minute or so per hour".

> What are you considering a lot, then? Even 0.1% of the population could be considered a lot, so what's the low end percentage of western phone owners you would suppose your position would apply to?

0.1% is still a million people. I think that has a good chance of qualifying?

But I would bet the number is >5%. If it's 5% that's definitely enough for me to count it as a lot of people.

> In the context of statistics, what do you think the split is between people that think they would know what you want more than you do, and those who actually do? I'd think it's something like 9:1.

If those odds work the other way around and 10% of people would be happier without phones, then I would take that as very strong validation of my position.
Thanks for sharing. Some link to software section ends in „File not found”.
Middle click still closes tabs which is my most frequent way to close tabs.

As I mentioned Vivaldi is my Chromium based browser of choice, and it is far better in the handling of pinned tabs. They go up to a separate section at the start of the tab list without reducing in size, and then they absolutely cannot be closed without unpinning the tab first
So a platform is a failure unless it appeals to zoomers?
> Puter is free forever for developers! Puter introduces a groundbreaking approach to infrastructure costs, called the "User Pays" model.

And how much does the user pay?
The 'cloud' requires energy to stay aloft. could synthetic DNA be d answer? [video]
In my opinion, you're shooting the messenger.

Why does Gen-Z like Discord? No advertising, no enshittification, just a simple solution to a common problem.

It's just modern AIM, but AIM wasn't blamed for "killing" forums. AIM and forums coexisted because they serve different purposes.
You've called J and T into question, so let's do B as well. Physicists know that QM and relativity can't be true, so it's fair to say that they don't believe in these theories, in a naive sense at least. In general anyone who takes Box' maxim that all models are wrong (but some are useful) to heart, doesn't fully believe in any straightforward sense. But clearly we'd say physicists do have knowledge.
I was reading somewhere, probably here or reddit, that the concept of 'ancient Greeks' is mostly made up with things attributed to them really having been done by the previous people who populated the region.
This post mentions using Wordpress as a proxy (?) API to Mastodon, https://daveverse.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/why-is-this-possi...

> Mastodon, while they’re doing excellent work, is trying to wrangle an already large community into a set of consistent interfaces.. Automattic has a small team whose only job is to make WordPress work with Mastodon. So I can build software that works with Mastodon without venturing into the rough seas of Mastodon-land, I can stay on the cruise-liner, which is the WordPress API.
Hey, thanks for your question! My goal is to keep the app as flexible as possible for the user. Right now, users have complete freedom to create their own tasks, manage them how they want, and organize their workflow in a way that suits them best. I don't plan on imposing rigid structures or methods—it's all about giving users control over how they track their time and complete their tasks.

Let me know if you have any other questions!
Fair points overall. I think KSM is still useful and worth the overhead for things like sprawling browser tabs and densely deployed microservices.

I disagree that swap is only (or even primarily) for situations where you're running out of memory, though. It is useful for reducing I/O contention and improving memory utilization by replacing underutilized pages with file cache when it makes sense to do so. See this for more details: https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html
I have a bit of a strange question for you: as a physicist I sometimes really wonder if quantum computing will ever work. Any chance you could elaborate on that? I guess you’re biased but still love to hear your thoughts.
I've migrated from WordPress to Laravel-based CMS before. There's Statamic, but it's not free, though. It's good, my users love it and I can easily add functionality in contrast to WordPress, you'd have to install a plugin or dig into the digustingly messy code. Hated it.
They are also able to swing their wings quite rapidly while charging you. In this way they can throw a surprisingly hard punch. But not break bones in healthy humans - kids included.

https://outdoorswimmer.com/coach/myth-busting-can-a-swan-bre...

The beak is probably more dangerous, or at least give you a nasty pinch or nibbing.
No one will stop you from freshing up your diagnosis, even if it's just to figure how severe your symptoms are compared to those diagnosed at a later age.
Just like Autism, it's a wide spectrum, some are worse, some are mild, some cope a lot better or have to right support around them to function better.

Don't feel bad about it, make an OG ADHD or pepperridge farm remembers meme instead :-)
Wit may be the epitaph of an emotion, but it may also be the shem capable of animating a golem...

If PE had been from Krypton, would death have been the moment one left the essential truths of mathsing for the accidental truths of sciencing?
Quite the same if you use nested css on the div.class-name-here. The diff is in the semantic. My post was about using nested CSS to "emulate" @scope
Or in a shorter sentence: getting a video to 1M views is a much different achievement from getting 1668 students in a single room to learn about something.
I work in a large biomedical research institute with in-house sequencing. It's a constant point of contention that many labs continue to send their sequencing out to external companies as they can still be cheaper and more reliable.
Emit and Capture Signals with OpenTelemetry Instrumentation in Node.js
So you can get one for 6 at AliExpress or >100 at western vendors... might be worth playing with the AliExpress one I guess. Wonder what the difference is.
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I just got 8 of those with no authorization
Hey, I totally understand your perspective, and I get that time tracking isn’t for everyone. For me and my company, for example, they don’t even require me to track my hours. It’s really more of a tool that I’ll personally use to see how much time I spend on each task or ticket. It’s mostly for my own personal organization, not something imposed by anyone else.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
But it can call into systems that can do compute.

Do you think your inner monologue is any different? Because it sure as hell isn’t the same system as the one doing math, or recognising faces, or storing or retrieving memories, to name a few
None of the hairstyles depicted in the source link are afros, although I understand why the difference could be confusing if you’re not familiar with type 4 hair. An afro is a specific style where the hair is combed out into a spherical puffball.
The bugs that always disappear when I try to demonstrate them to others - my favorite. Reminds me of the "Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine" koan. This is largely true, but I remember a failing piece of authentication hardware that I didn't understand but was convinced was failing. Every time I called someone over it would work, so I couldn't get it replaced. Eventually the failure rate got so high that everyone agreed the damn thing had failed, "dead as a brick". But until then I was SoL. What are the chances that something 99% towards "dead as a brick" would always work around a superior.
This pattern has a smell. If you're shipping continuously then your on-call engineer is going to be fixing the issues the other engineers are shipping, instead of those engineers following up on their deployments and fixing issues caused by those changes. If you're not shipping continuously, then anyway customer issues can't be fixed continuously, and your list of bugs can be prioritized by management with the rest of the work to be done. The author quotes maker vs. manager schedules, but one of the conclusions of following that is that engineers don't talk directly to customers, because "talking to customers" is another kind of meeting, which is a "manager schedule" kind of thing rather than a "maker schedule" kind of thing.

There's simply no substitute for Kanban processes and for proactive communication from engineers. In a small team without dedicated customer support, a manager takes the customer call, decides whether it's legitimately a bug, creates a ticket to track it and prioritizes it in the Kanban queue. An engineer takes the ticket, fixes it, ships it, communicates that they shipped something to the rest of their team, is responsible for monitoring it in production afterwards, and only takes a new ticket from the queue when they're satisfied that the change is working. But the proactive communication is key: other engineers on the team are also shipping, and everyone needs to understand what production looks like. Management is responsible for balancing support and feature tasks by balancing the priority of tasks in the Kanban queue.
>The tech industry is currently bending backwards so far it's collective spine will snap any second now trying to convince people LLM's are the next big huge thing, and there's just nothing there. 150 billion dollars for fancy autocomplete.

I wouldn't say nothing there, and that something is something. Translation, rephrasing and a lot of management tasks like summarizing what happened are way easier and better than any previous models I've seen.

Creating images and logos is usually very constrained by what you can describe without describing what's not there, it's impressive nonetheless.

Autopilot code autocomplete is pretty good, but not replaces all engineers good, rather increased efficiency good.

The problem is they all lie about it being the thing that will replace all knowledge work. CEOs are buying it up and salivating.

It could replace a lot of middle management at my company. But those are the people that are staying.
We didn't have conkers so we played mumblety-peg.
Well it is banned in schools. I'm not sure how many adults you believe actually play conkers, beyond a few nutters (sic), but its mainly been banned for the people that used to actually enjoy it, kids.

I do wonder if by banning it in schools it will get less and less common till it disappears. I suppose you predictably think that's nonsense.

But pedantry aside, its banned for the people who used to play it most and enjoy it, at the place they did just that.
Can you post a transcript instead? I’m allergic to videos
That's exactly the issue the parent poster is talking about. It's not the web in the strict sense, it's the siloification.
Am I the only one here who instantly redirected mentally to "Conker's Bad Fur Day" ?
LLMs have pen and paper: it's their output buffer, capped to a few KBs, which is far longer than necessary to multiply the two numbers.

If you tell an LLM to explain how to multiply two numbers it will give a flawless textbook answer. However when you ask it to actually multiply the numbers it will fail. LLMs have all the knowledge in the world in their memory, but they can't connect that knowledge into a coherent picture.
'The answer appears to be yes. Both Arabic qanāt and Greek kánna are related to the Akkadian qanû, meaning "reed". The Greek word became latin canna for cane, then canalis for pipe or channel. See this entry in the Etymological Dictionary of Arabic for more: https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=record&view... on May 18, 2016 | parent | prev | next [–]It's the exact same thing.For example, Suez Canal is called "Qanat al-Suez" in Arabic.' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11719441
Doesn't the large "Start/Pause" button on top invite for any Product Owners or other managers to walk by, hit the button, and start talking to you? Knowing my manager would.
Do you think there are any better frameworks for open source development of cross-platform GUI apps? I keep seeing mutterings that Godot or some other game engine could become that, but have yet to see anything materialize in that space.
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- Testnet access is available without an API key, making it perfect for integration tests and development.
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If you need dedicated nodes, support, or an SLA, feel free to reach out to me.

Is there anything else you'd like to see from the Bitcoin Blockchain?
Hey everyone! I just wanted to share that this is the first time I've had so many users sign up at launch, and it really seems like there's genuine interest in the app. Even though it's still a pretty basic MVP, I'm feeling really motivated to keep improving it and adding more features.

I’d love to hear from you all—what do you think I should prioritize adding to the app next? Any feedback or suggestions are super welcome!
Simple. Codebases on GitHub, research papers posted on journals, raw data posted online, phone data, emails..

There is plenty of data even without QA forums.
There’s a reason D&D has intelligence and wisdom as separate attributes.
Some options:

You can keep track of which email addresses have been invited to a specific org (or match by domain if specific domains have been allow-listed) and post-validate that the email address you get from social login is allowed. Maybe your invite flow is just the login flow.

Alternatively ou can bind some state in your backend to the state parameter in the oauth flow. The state value gets passed to your oauth callback so you can look up the details for the invite and do validation at that point. This lets you be quite specific about how a particular invite link gets processed.

Both of these are a ltitle bit sucky because they throw errors right at the end of the flow and you have to ask the user to start over again. This hurts because users often aren't clear what account(s) they are logged into in their social provider, how to log out of one, or how to switch between them.
People are conflating the problem space and this solution.

This doesn't let you do deep work! Probably the opposite, it is a gimmick that will attract a nerd mob to your desk to ooh over it.
I'm having the utter best time as a 12 year old replacing conker with something less wholesome
I'm not from Britain, but we used to craft with chestnuts. We always used a small hand drill (Wikipedia tells me it's called a gimlet). I assume it's the same in Britain
Some irony in this post.
Apples and oranges. Of my many engineer friends none of them thought the hyper loop was viable, it’s an absurdly bad idea. Like installing compressed air jets in cars for faster acceleration. Another one of Elons missives.

Reusable rockets were more of an economic issue, is there enough demand for economic viability. That was always going to be the real magic. I think that is still an open question but it at least appears plausible.
It is banned in schools. As I said in another comment, that outlaws it for the vast majority of players at the place they used to play it.

Believe it or not adults playing conkers or people playing conkers outside of schools isn't a common pass time.

It is pretty much RNG, though you can massively nerf a conkers structural integrity by making the hole through the middle poorly, so there are some techniques. People also used to use thicker shoelaces like in vans, which I think made the centre more solid. I've never run an experiment to verify the difference that might make.
The example is also a joke. Many things shown on screens are CGI or AI-generated, so the belief here is not justified.
Why not fork it then? You don't need to be able to set the agenda for a project if you just fork it and rename it: you can now set the agenda for your fork and ignore the other project, while not having to spend time reinventing the wheel.
It is an LED screen that I can put anywhere. While the intention is as a busy screen, it can be utilized in a variety of ways. So, ultimately, why not?
I might be doing the famous "just use ftp" to dropbox. But I highly doubt it for this product.
Great post, well written.

I almost thought it was written by a human till I got to "In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-assisted coding tools...."
Not to mention it was well timed with fury against Twitter. And there was (still is) no way to close your Threads account. And instant onboarding
AoC is still is algorithms and data structures: there's minimal interaction with the outside world, just solving the problem for the input data. It's just about coming up with the algorithm yourself instead of applying fancy well-known ones.
Hmm - too broad a statement. Teaching load varies - it can be as low as 3 hours per week concentrated in a single term.
Well that's not the same is it? They aren't creating a whole new extremely professional product and just saying "made by OtherBrand"; they just cloned a website (probably using an LLM).

So yes except for the last point, and also the other points...
It’s weird how different cultures can be. I’m in Sweden and never had a boss with less than 30 reports.
That’s cool, but also a quite different business and operating model where storage and delivery multiplexing are much more of a thing than with air freight.

The other problem is the drones. For this to work you’d be shipping either regular TEU containers or the air freight equivalent (not sure what they’re called but there’s a standard shape I believe), however no drone available today can move either of those. That means new drones, new shipping form factors, or both, and those are both hard problems that you probably don’t want to face when already trying to launch a new freight modality.