skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took it as a count, "x2" as "two" and "x3" would have been "three".

I have no idea if there actually is a "X2" truck of some sort though.
They need to make a miniature version that I can attach to my headphones because that is my busy indicator.

If I'm at work and need to focus, noise cancelling headphones are a must. If they're off then I'm not busy.
They tried the "but what about biodiversity" argument back in 2020 when the regrowth started.

It is automatically true that in an ecosystem that experiences a population decline, when the population starts growing again the subtypes that grow fastest will become more common than those which grow slower, and thus there will be a temporary decline in biodiversity. That doesn't indicate a problem of any kind. It's just the natural state of affairs.
How ham radio endures
> I mean, they're too busy adding emojis over there to work on support for human scripts any more...

What makes you say that there are human scripts being left out, or which nobody is working on (or that the work is displaced by emoji support)?

One challenge of large projects is that what's essential for some users is not even within the experience of other users. Sometimes humans make the fundemental error of thinking the range of their own experience defines the range of everyone's experiences, when the truth is that each of us sees only a tiny portion of an enormous canvas.
Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years
https://archive.is/WSQ9G
Who will be buying these? Developers?
Making modal editing with a leader key the default rather than an option it currently is, is a pretty trivial thing to bring up as the stand-out "feature" a rewrite could provide.
And also, which person setting up an air gapped system allows execution from a removable media? You'd think with that level of paranoia you'd have a couple more rules in place.
I'm not spending money to watch individual shows on Netflix. If a programme's crap I can just hit stop and watch something else. I assume it's the same on Apple TV.

If I'm spending money up front for a product, show, album or game, I actually do want those reviews.
WordPress Doesn't Matter for the Future of Web
They should hang the people who make these threats to send a message both against those who may do so in the future and to those who have spread the disinformation fueling this particular instance of stochastic terrorism
I'm not really a frontend dev, but React (w/ JSX, and w/o Redux or whatever) is the only web thing I've ever used that made sense. Everything else like CSS, Angular, and jquery made me go "wtf."
Sure, but the idea you can share multiple windows this way.

Can Google Meet (or hangout or w/e they call it now adays) do some of this?
Yeah, that is the scary part, the extremist complaining about the other extremist . Goldwater: "Yeah, those guys are really out there".
The goal here is speed, a pre-approval of a specific template means you can attain high velocity in deployment.

Even brutalist monsters keep people off the streets, which is where we are now.
Finally I can use one of the random facts that have entered my brain for decades now even though I can't remember where my keys are.

If I remember correctly, "ichigo" means strawberry in japanese. You are welcome.
&value would be a pointer to that integer. Instead, it's using references, which also use the & character. References use different syntax, but they're like pointers that can't be reassigned. Examples:

int x = 0;
int &r = x;
r += 1;
assert(x == 1);
int y;
r = y; // won't compile

void inc(int &r) { r += 1; }
int x = 0;
inc(x);
assert(x == 1);

The equivalent using pointers, like in C:

int x = 0;
int *p = &x;
*p += 1;
assert(x == 1);
int y;
p = &y;

void inc(int *p) { *p += 1; }
int x = 0;
inc(&x);
assert(x == 1);
Hasty guess: fast is responsiveness, performant is performance per watt?
That does seem like the best way to go about it, but I have family who are doctors and they frequently talk about how tired they are of tech guys who read "The Mom Test" who now skulk around asking probing questions about pain points in a doctors daily work.

It just seems like any time there is a repeatable process for doing something, people will latch onto it and then do it until it is totally exhausted. Tech Entrepreneur especially has such a low barrier to entry and so many 'How To' guides that it feels super impacted.

Makes me wish software was closer to art, where someone has something they need to make just for the sake of bringing it into existence.
But it sure seems like they greatly exceeded your initial expectations, no? They aren't adding it today, they already did it in 1996! Maybe they aren't what you thought they were?
its complicated by fact that the Russian and Chinese govs run ops to try to compromise software and systems worldwide, partly to help achieve certain goals like stealing IP or acquiring blackmail, to cite just a subset. And while not in a hot (shooting) war with the US/NATO/EU we are de facto in a soft/hybrid one.

Current generation is far too trusting of any ole rando FOSS code or SaaS they see pitched. Recklessly naive. If I had the amorality to be a black hat I'd be having the time of my life right now. GitHub alone is one of the best malware injection vectors ever.
I really don't understand you here. Yes you do need to run `git rebase --update-refs` constantly but you want your commits to be meaningful enough to be preserved, you are doing the rebase anyways. If you don't want to type `--update-refs` put it in your .gitconfig. And what do you mean vanilla forge PRs don't support it? If it's GitHub you simply tell your reviewer to look at the commit diff view not the PR diff view.
Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press; or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the government for a redress
of grievances.

The first amendment has been interpreted by the courts as applying to all of the government, not just Congress, and via the 14th amendment is has been incorporated against the States, meaning that it applies to them too.

Therefore, for a California state government agency to punish SpaceX for its founder's speech is unconstitutional.

Title 18 USC section 232 lays out criminal penalties for violating a citizens civil rights, thus unconstitutional acts can be and often are criminal acts.
Teaching the Largest Programming Lesson
Did you have any issues implementing?
I'm sorry you have to go through that. That sounds terrible to have to experience. If I may ask, how has that compromised your morals?
There's a big difference between "rely on" and "be considerate of". I'll take from the recently-created throw-away account that you know this already, and, based on this interaction, I don't think I mind not having a place in your team.
Aren't they all reflected in the market price of housing?

It's just that a lot of existing housing is out of date (so prices below new construction) and people work to profit by reducing them below what an individual can achieve working on their own.

In my small town, houses that are "move in ready" command a premium, because higher end buyers are less willing to put up with the typical condition of the aging housing stock.
Something can be fast, but lack efficiency or the ability to utilize the speed.

For example, a car can have 1,000hp, but utilizes a large turbo which takes a long time to spool up, leading to poor performance. It may also have poor handling characteristics.

On the other hand, let's use a car like a Mazda Miata, which only has 181hp. It is not fast, but it is an incredibly performant car, with exceptional handling and driving dynamics.

Speed and performance are not directly correlated, and are independent metrics. Performance is more of an indication of the overall dynamics of action, intention and results.
Having existing solutions is not necessarily a bad thing, it means there's a market and paying customers. On the surface many companies sound similar but often are going in different directions once you look into the details.

Here's what worked for me: look for an important and frequent problem that you and people you know have, where the solutions are inadequate and people are not happy.

To know if you're going in the right direction talk to people about their problem and see how unhappy they are with the current solutions. You don't need to build anything at first just to validate the problem.

Most of your time building a business will be spent talking to customers, doing sales, understanding the problem space, not so much coding.
Canada: One of the Most Immigrant-Friendly Countries Is Changing Course
You aren't renaming tables at scale because there are 27 downstream services that will break if you even think about fixing the name of the revnue_dolars table, and it's not in anyone's OKR to fix it
Indeed. Next thing somebody will be making a fuss about Isaac Newton.
And interestingly none of the socials I could find are mentioning it.

I am not saying it is a scam it's just very strange that all connections between busy.bar and flipper devices are one way. One would expect some two way mentions
Huh, so it was B then. And good idea to use the folder, that's something you'd be more likely to click on than a regular file.
this is just cmd+shift+5 in a Mac OS
Just fill needs that you have. Don't like how something existing works? Fix it. Think you can offer a better version of an existing idea? Go for it.

Also: ideas are far less important than execution [1]. That's why it's best to work on problems you actually care about. If you don't, you'll end up cutting corners or burning out well in advance of success.

[1] https://sive.rs/multiply
This is what the pause(2) syscall was made for, waiting for a signal forever.
Updating Your Priors in the Age of Scaling Compute
It's interesting that HN seems to take steps to try to hide that an article is on its second chance.

For example consider the top level comment by jfim. Right now HN is telling me that it is 2 hours old when viewed from the main article view. It also says 2 hours old if I click on the comment's timestamp to view the comment separately.

But if I click "reply" then on the reply composition screen it says that comment is 1 day old.

The article itself says it is from 11 hours ago, but checking on search I see it was actually 3 days ago.

So first question is where does the 11 hours ago come from? Is that when the article was given a second chance?

How about the 1 hours ago for jfim's day old comment? If the article got its second chance 11 hours ago and I had looked at it 10 hours ago, what time would it have shown for that comment?

Are the fake times stored in the DB, or does it generate them algorithmically when it shows a second chance article? Why does the reply page show the original date?
Sure. In the most extreme scenario I think there is flooding and debris coming up the Duwamish towards South Park and Georgetown.
This is a complex question. I have found the book "Inner game of tennis" very interesting in this regard. The book is by a coach for world-class athletes. If you try it for yourself, you will learn that your analytical mind cannot micromanage your body to even lift a spoon from the table.
"I love the new furry phone"...

Just like DuckDuckGo I think the name will hamper adoption of this.
Did you mean sscanf? You could for example parse a number into a double variable by using "sscanf(str, "%d", &x)"

You can even parse a whole line of a csv file with multiple numbers in one call "sscanf(str, "%d;%d;%d\n, &d1, &d2, &d3)"
Bring FrontPage back! ;)
Because living further apart means more driving, which sucks? And it means less community, which sucks? And it means you'll be fatter and die earlier, which sucks?

I'm not saying those are 100% true. I'm saying those are reasons and I can think of much, much more.

There's pros and cons to everything.
You probably will not find a worthwhile project outside of your area of expertise. The market for "a guy who can code built a software for your industry" is pretty saturated now.

Unless you can split hairs on why specific products don't appeal to people in a given niche/industry, at the technical level that the users care about, you probably won't find much success.

In my personal experience I come from the medical side of things. The amount of garbage software written by people who know nothing about how we work is obnoxious. They all advertise themselves as the "next generation, streamlined, efficiency boosting" magic pill for us, but it's about as convincing as your 5 year old telling you they can do your taxes.

So my advice is find something to do in an area of expertise you already have.
Lovely writing, beautiful prose, and more importantly, very cogently argued for a more meditative, attentive life.

The thoughts expressed aren't entirely new; indeed Buddhism has been teaching this for millennia (or two). But, good to read this now and then to be reminded of a more deliberate, slow(er) and intent-ful life.

Kudos! <3
Exactly. I don’t know if I’m missing something, but a fork is probably possible just by replacing the trademarked „Wordpress“ inside all translations, and a few minor code changes. Variable names/etc inside the code with „wp“ or „Wordpress“ probably don’t violate the trademark.

I would estimate a proper fork could be done by 3 developers within two weeks, but whoever is doing it, should get some backing by a company (probably also easy) and some legal consulting.
Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO.
Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret.

Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.
Delicious Brains' stuff was obviously going to make the list as they're another WPEngine acquisition. No idea what's the deal with the others though.
Obviously N<=6 is a bit too small a community for sustained autarky; has anyone made estimates of what N might have to be for varying levels of contact?
Introducing JavaScript Support in MySQL
I have stopped traveling to dive, but because it's too sad, not because I was concerned about destroying the ecosystem by viewing it. I don't touch the reef, I don't fin near coral, I can hold my buoyancy quite well... but the same can't be said for many divers.

That said, there is a factor for people that if something is out of sight, it's out of mind. Being involved with the ecosystem really is the only way I've seen protection of it happen, people just tend not to try to protect something they aren't engaged with. I'd rather everyone dove, even if that brought traffic to certain sites up, because I think they'd make the macro changes we need to make to preserve things while accepting the micro change in boat fuel use or reef traffic, or whatever risks you're thinking of. Seeing a fish trying to escape from a plastic bag is a sobering experience, you only need to see it once.
> In late 2015, Congress directed NASA to launch Europa Clipper using the Space Launch System (SLS), NASA’s massive moon rocket.

> The SLS was still in development at the time, and would be for a number of years to come. Delays with the powerful rocket, and the need to dedicate at least the first three SLS vehicles to launches for NASA's Artemis moon program, pushed Europa Clipper’s liftoff date into limbo. (SLS debuted in late 2022, successfully sending the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the moon.)

> The 2021 U.S. House of Representatives budget proposal instructed NASA to launch Europa Clipper by 2025, and to do so on an SLS "if available." Those two crucial words put the probe on a path toward a commercial launch vehicle, which turned out to be a Falcon Heavy.

So while the flight time may be longer, at least the entire mission is derisked in that it was forced to get off the ground instead of wait for an appropriate gap within the SLS's launch capacity.

[1] https://www.space.com/spacex-falcon-heavy-europa-clipper-lau...
> Phone: 171mm x 82mm x 12mm : 280g

280 grams is a lot even for today's phones. 12 mm is half a inch. Very thick.

The other dimensions are 6.7 x 3.2 inches.

Ok, this might be a phone for people that want to prove a point but it's too cumbersome. How about starting with something reasonable and fit it with only what fits within those bounds? An example: 160 x 80 x 9 and 200 g. That would be a big phone but not bigger than many phones on sale.
Report of armed militia prompts the relocation of N.C. hurricane recovery teams
It's "fury phone":

> Furious Support from the FuriOS team
Ask HN: WordPress Impact on Startups
I have a bit of dilemma. I worked for the past year on creating a startup targeting WordPress. When I started work on this, I was under the impression that Automattic and the WP Foundation were pro-open source and pro-open community; and therefore I wouldn't need to worry about my startup being based on WordPress.

In the past few weeks, I've started doubting that. I would have no problem if Automattic/WPF went to court, and asked for an injunction against WPEngine for trademark infringement. But instead of dealing with this in court, they've weaponized the control they have to engage in an erratic "scorched earth" campaign.

My product is finished and my pilot users love the product. But it's hosting-related, and I could easily imagine myself in the same position as WPEngine. I'm also concerned about WPFs supply chain attacks: cutting off update access to users; replacing a plugin and pushing code into user's websites; etc. If those tactics were used against my startup, it may be difficult to keep it operating.

I could just launch and hope this is just a WPEngine problem. But right now, I can pivot into another framework with a couple months of work; and won't have to worry about how to handle WordPress users on the product.

What to do? Launch, pivot, wait? something else?
Yeah it’s already been going on. All the “you need 5 years of experience for entry level work” stuff you see.

Encouraging AI to replace people is just going to make it worse, on top of all the other possible issues.
You missed the point of the rule of thumb. Maybe rephrasing it as if 15 years ago you would have written it in C++ would help.
Signing two copies solves that, or even making a copy after execution.
Using a commercial launch vehicle reduced the cost quite a bit (saved a billion on the vehicle itself and another billion by not having to design the payload to pass SLS's much more rigorous vibe checks). The $2b saved is about 10% of NASA's annual budget. The next mission to Titan has a budget of around $3b, for reference.

On top of that, there's no guarantee SLS would've actually been able to launch on schedule. The program has had a lot of setbacks, to put it lightly, and has only launched once so far (6 years later than it's original ETA). There's additional rockets in production but if it came down to it the manned SLS missions would probably get priority for political reasons.
No pilcrows ?
Register-walled.

I expect that most of the "productivity improvements" from LLMs will come from destroying the value of certain signals so that nobody bothers to generate them... with indirect new costs because now the receiver has to create new ways to try to get the data.

For example, well-written job application cover letters. When LLMs make it cheap and easy to generate ghost-written counterfeits, they will stop being valuable. Job applicants will "freed" from the time-investment of writing them.

On the other hand, employers will no longer be able to use them as an indicator for "has more than a passing interest in our field" or "can string two ideas together" or "won't embarrass us in front of clients", etc. The new mechanisms to evaluate candidates--or the cost of hiring bad candidates--will be a an covert and indirect drain on productivity caused by LLMs.
> What are some stylistic patterns that are different when something is written by a US author v/s Indian?

Largely as @brk above you already mentioned, tendency to use formal and obscure words alongside a specific tone. I'll also re-iterate what @brk said, hard to fully describe, more of a "you know it when you see it".

If I had to pick some specific examples from the blog post, the following phrase is a good example:

We systematically advanced through each tier, commencing from tier 5 and descending to tier 0.

There are 101 ways you could write that in US English, but I reckon 99% of the US population would be unlikely to pick the above unless they were writing an academic paper or something.

This one is also quite Indian English in many respects:

Our automated alerts and monitoring system actively oversees the process to ensure a seamless transition and promptly alerts of any issues that may arise.

Similarly, we have stylistic elements such as the over-breaking of paragraphs to the extent it becomes a series of statements. For example:

Upgrading to MySQL 8.0 brought not only new features, but also some unexpected tweaks in query execution plans for certain clusters. This resulted in increased latencies and resource consumption, potentially impacting user experience. This happened for the cluster which powers all the dashboards running at Uber. To address this issue, we collaborated with Percona, identified a patch fix, and successfully implemented it for the affected clusters. The resolution ensured the restoration of optimized query performance and resource efficiency in alignment with the upgraded MySQL version.

A relatively short paragraph, but five phrases. Your average US English writer would likely word it differently resulting in it being trimmed down to two or three phrases.

As I said in my original post though, none of it is bad English, its just a different style.
Meissonic, High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis on consumer graphics cards
Damn, I am impressed how nonchalantly the flagship NASA mission was using the reused boosters, dirty from soot.
Hi Pavel Zhovner. I'm afraid you're not doing a very good job of keeping it secret.

What are the odds of a kit version woth a lower pricetag and some assembly required?
> given not-pathologically-short line length limits like 20 characters

Poor phrasing; 20 characters was meant as a example of a limit that is pathologically short.
I'm so desperately looking for a DIY portable device that does not suck to build my portable audio player, best case supporting android with any of the following custom roms:

LineageOS
CalyxOS
GrapheneOS
/e/OS

I even considered making a player myself using the T113-S3 SoC, unfortunately not having the required skills. There are so many people trying to build prototypes, but this seems to be a space that is not easy to manage.

Here is my personal favorite Audio Player base device, best I found so far:

https://github.com/yuansco/TinyEmbedded-Dual
What if you try to convert a French floating point number that uses a comma instead of a dot?
Neat! Can't tell if it has a speaker at the back or not. Would like to play sounds or alarms...

I'd love to attach this to a PoE to USB-C ethernet adapter to talk to it over API via hardwired. Still looking for something like that. The flipper busy bar seems to at least have some connectivity over USB.
Show HN: Vortex – a high-performance columnar file format
Thanks for the elaboration.

That part left unconvinced though:

> If you want to posit some sort of cliff-edge response [...] There's no reason a-priori to believe that climate change kills corals given that they've survived hundreds of millions of years

I am actually realizing that you are probably talking about the effects of C02 levels in the oceans while I was actually thinking about the global rise in temperature which IIUC has seen a kind of cliff-edge change. And IIRC, ocean warmth is what I have read is threatening coral reefs, so I am bit lost here.