skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two issues there.

First, do you think most people mentioned in this analysis select "I Agree" or "Decline Cookies". I'm pretty sure most people select the former, in part to avoid being asked again.

Second, asking each and every time is a deliberate dark UI pattern, and if not already illegal - which I suspect it is - should be. The blame for the user time wasted selecting "Decline" every day should not be attributed to the law, but to the web site owner who want that extra bit of surveillance capitalism cash, and to the web developers who enable this practice.
Observations from using Cursor for 6 months
Based on this comment alone, Elon Musk's politics should have nothing to do with their rejection of SpaceX launches.
Please proceed, governor.
So much this. I often use DB navigator to plan trips within france. As soon as you're not going to or from Paris, the sncf offer and app are just terrible. Often, sncf-connect will refuse to offer me TER-only (regional train) trips, because one of the legs can also be done by TGV. Basically impossible to plan this kind of thing with the SNCF apps.

But even the basic UX is terrible. The most blatant example of this is the choice to make the first text input on the search the target station. If you do limit yourself to a single text input as the entry point to the search, I see the intuition. but the result is that they are the only transit search mask I know where I have to first type where I'm going, and then where I'm coming from. I hate it.
No, the honest answer is much more mundane - natural gas and Europe’s continued reliance on it to get through the winter and keep overall energy costs a bit more controlled. Who knew that denuclearizing the energy grid would have such benefit for Russia /sarcasm.
Scheme is smaller, has more static and less interactive philosophy. CL has most things you need straight out of the box. It's more like operating system than programming language. Exactly what Emacs wants to be.
I use a competitor to HackerOne. I view all submissions pre-triage and would have taken it seriously, even if I made a mistake in program scope. I have paid researchers for bugs out of scope before because they were right.
My better half is smarter than me, so I go where they go :P

But that aside, we live in a remote island and by family, that’s all we really need.

I do wish there were more “hackerman” people I could find and hang with though.

But it sounds like you have a good thing going with a tech background and a second skill (music) - why not finish the music school then have a second look at areas you can move to with more people/opportunity?

One thing I do for difficult decisions is make a basic solutions matrix: rank your n priorities in decreasing number towards 1, and then rate “staying put” vs “moving” giving each a score of 0 or 1 for each priority. You can only assign 0 or 1 once per priority. Multiply each score by the priority weight and sum up the total. Whichever wins is your answer. You should also definitely add a “green grass bias” priority whose weighting is the negative version of the weighting your most important priority. Do this in excel etc or by hand.

———

Here’s a simple attempt (not tabular):

Priority scores (etc):

- Proximity to people (5)

- Fulfilling (4)

- Software-centricity (3)

- Career opportunities (2)

- Cost (1)

- Green-grass bias (-5)

——-

Staying Put (L) vs City (R)

- 0 , 1 [proximity etc]

- 1 , 0 [fulfilment etc]

- 0 , 1 [software etc]

- 0 , 1 [career etc]

- 1 , 0 [cost etc]

- 0 , 1 [bias]

——

Total scores:

- Staying put : +5

- City : +5

—————

Add more priorities, the deeper you go the better analysis you can make of the results. I’ve made up the priorities as examples, but you will have your own!

Good luck
Ghost.org seems pretty cool.
While I understand your point, I feel like the "drones are annoying" factors kind of get overshadowed by the guns.
That 'confusing UI' is fully functional with a game controller, and consistent across many cores.

Which is a massive win when you want to run emulators on devices without mouse/keyboard, and more than makes up for minor performance issues or having out-of-date cores.
As I write this comment, it is Oct 12, 3:30 pm Central time. So the launch window starts in 15 and a half hours.

https://mytime.io/7am/CT
Show HN: AOO – C++ library for real-time audio streaming and messaging
AOO is a lightweight and flexible peer-to-peer audio streaming and messaging solution. It allows to send audio and messages in real-time and on demand between network endpoints - not only in local networks, but also over the public internet!

The C/C++ library can be easily embedded in host applications or plugins. It even runs on embedded devices, such as the ESP32. In addition, the project contains a Pure Data external and a SuperCollider extension.

The following article provides a high level introduction and demonstrates some use cases: https://www.soundingfuture.com/en/article/aoo-low-latency-pe...

AOO has been in development since 2020 and it has been used in several art projects since. Now it has finally reached a stage where I feel comfortable presenting it to a larger public.

This is still a pre-release and I want to get more feedback before making a final release, so tell me what you think!
In the event of war, or sufficient provocation elsewhere, you'd think that Kaliningrad is compact enough that its harbors could be swarmed by underwater autonomous vehicles on missions ranging from recon to harassment to kabooms. After that it'd be an ECM battle to reduce its air defence.
I'm a big fan of public transit, but it's not entirely "baffling" why the US lags European countries (and Japan) - the US is a MUCH larger country.
I can't tell for other countries, but SNCF digital solutions have been a great example of everything you should not do for as long as I can remember. Actually bahn.de used to be a far better interface to consult french train hours than whatever fancy new name SNCF would come every few months or so.
I only pay 20 EUR a month because a 25 EUR subsidy by my employer. It is a total nobrainer although, I often even use it less, just because I can jump on any local train, tram, bus without worrying about a ticket (particularly as we don't have NFC payment). Actually the 9 EUR will effectively mean a 50% raise for me, so I am not sure if the raise even makes sense economically because people like me just would cancel.
Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially Unix
I don't understand the Musk comment at the end. Can you please explain what you mean by that and what is the significance of him growing up in South Africa?
Mine finished loading, but it’s a good joke.
recommended reading about the environmental factor hypothesis

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NRrbJJWnaSorrqvtZ/on-not-get...

it doesn't have to be just habit, but cultural/learned factors likely play a huge part.

each generation eats more, gets bigger, obesity runs in the family, (many obesity associated genes are mostly expressed in the brain ... the typical cursed environment-gene interaction), portion sizes got bigger, it became normal to gulp down a lot more sugar, etc.
Is there any legal operation possible?
Forking isn't the issue. Here they just took the whole ID/address from which existing installations will continue to be updated from. This is theft. I have no doubt it will be added to the lawsuit.

While technically they own the platform and can do whatever they want, there is clearly ill intent here and it'll be used against them.
lol you know websites exist right. what a luddite approach. Paper is expensive, wasteful, environmentally harmful, and time consuming.
It sounds amazing. All these prices seem crazy low. A significantly zone limited monthly commuter ticket here in Denmark costs over 500€
Fair enough. I guess I didn’t consider dual boots.

Out of curiosity, any reason you don’t just use Proton and stick with Linux?
I don't see how this is problematic if it works. And it does seem to work. Are humans not allowed to alter nature? We have been doing that for a very very long time.
Same same, now imagine him singing… https://youtu.be/djzKCZHeVjY?si=mw0P14f_hUE_kIlW

I love that people like this exist.
This is the press release explaining the move - https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/
Conspiracy thinking: Musk may have made some personal enemies by stealing Twitter from the left and siding with Trump's camp in the upcoming US presidential election.
First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected with NASA-Designed Instrument
It takes forever compared to driving in most cases, catching the transit often involves a walk, and a lot of public transit is kind of grungy. This doesn't apply or matter as much in some cases (e.g. the NY subway) but in general it's not great, at least not in the USA.
Pathetic. I guess this is a GPL violation? I mean, taking over a code in a directory with million of customers isn't “forking it”, right?
Haha same, and it’s perfectly capable of anything a smallish company would need for general on-prem hosting.
Isn’t that improving the housing shortage in the bay?
Now resigned maintainer Scott is also lead dev of Pods, awesome ACF-like plugin.

Lines have been crossed when stealing other people's code, what happened in the case of ACF to SCF, IMHO.
Automobile lobby? That's BS. The German rail system has been cost-saved to death, it now barely handles the increased passenger volume as a result of the D-Ticket. Overcrowded trains, even more delays and train cancellations (b/c of insufficient staff coverage, malfunctioning doors, etc.) even with S-Bahn trains are getting out of hand. "Transitwende" my ass! Same with the "Energiewende".

How i envy the Dutch and Belgian transport situation!
I looked on his GH profile page. How was he able to amass over 16k GitHub stars?
People are being hunted down and killed by unmanned drones, better make a joke about something that occasionally mildly inconveniences me.
Ironically, it's not used in journalistic contexts in Turkish. It would seem amateurish if it were, like they weren't doing their jobs properly.
create an efficient async api for plugins. it’s kind of a kernel+apps situation. an extensible editor has to have a scripted plugin system, and they should be hosted by a core that is fast, can preempt plugins, and provides “ipc” btw plugins for advanced functionality.
The correct information is that your employer created the security problem as part of their shakedown attempt. They then banned the WP Engine developers from Wordpress so that they couldn't update the plugin. Now they've forked the plugin, removed the commercial upgrade, and renamed it.

I'm not sure where values come into it. I'd be ashamed to work there.
Early in the pandemic we just didn’t know what the death rate from Covid would be. 1%? 0.1%? Or maybe 10%? How many people get long covid, and how bad is it? Does it kill the old or the young? What is the death rate for people who get Covid, and can’t go to hospital because there are no beds?

If Covid were to wipe out 10% of the population, all the draconian measures make a lot more sense. Slow it down as much as possible, reduce pressure on hospitals and give scientists time to make a vaccine.

But it turns out the death rate from Covid wasn’t that bad - and Americans would, in hindsight, largely prefer a 1% (or whatever) mortality rate over the inconveniences of masks, staying at home, and so on. But a lot of things weren’t obvious early on like they are now. We didn’t know that.

If there’s another pandemic in our lifetime, there’s almost no chance society takes those preventative measures a second time. Let’s hope we don’t get something a lot more deadly.
Seems to vary across models. Googling for Honda Civic: "And the Low-Speed Follow function can bring the vehicle to a complete stop when a vehicle detected ahead slows to a stop, and it lets you resume operation by pressing a button or the accelerator."
Make CapsLock an additional Ctrl. On many old keyboards that is where the Ctrl key was positioned [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caps_Lock#Placement
Anyone have a link to less editorialized coverage of this issue?
Exactly. ACF is free and open source. ACF Pro is not. Secure Custom Fields is based on the free version (ACF, without "Pro").
WPEngine is already suing Matt, so this will get added to that pile, it seems like.
This is neat. I've used Latex before, and it definitely suffers from poor ergonomics. Both the language and tooling contribute to this.

The selling point seems to be that this is more similar to Markdown. That makes sense, Markdown is objectively more common and has more users than Latex. I've used both, but Markdown way more often.

Here's something I don't understand: it would be trivial to make Typst even more similar to Markdown, and yet it exists at some strange middle point in the language design space, arbitrarily far from Markdown.
Should open source contributors start including license terms with every commit? Or at least an SPDX identifier.
LOL, I'm gonna need a bigger business card
There’s a happy medium somewhere though and the US doesn’t meet it at all. I can’t even take a bus from my neighborhood in a California city to the grocery store in a timely manner and it’s often cancelled
And often times that loss of service, if temporary is not all that painful -- it really depends on the exact needs/use case/scenario.

That said, sometimes The Cloud goes down too.
I was expecting a commercial license, but it is MIT licensed, which holds promise.
Pay before. That's how the transport systems generally work in Germany. In many trains you need to have a ticket BEFORE entering the train and also BEFORE entering the platform in the train station.

> Further, the process for getting refunds when you miss a connection requires one to fill in forms on paper and scan them in and then send in via email.

I can do that in the DB app.
The core should be in rust, verfied in lean, and the runtime should be in guile. Literate programming in org-mode should be a hard requirement. Package management should require patch algebra. Macros should be submitted to a leaderboard in a blockchain and yield flair in EUDC. M-x measure-beard-length should require 10000 hours of logged usage and unlock the major mode infinity-categorization.

Tongue-no-longer-in-cheek:

I reckon the C core of Emacs is some of the most battle-hardened code out there. Verification, a-la SEL4, is probably irrelevant but still nice. Guile is modern and performant but Elisp is still its own little joy. Literate programming is always nice until it gets in the way. Straight is good enough for me now. Macros are always cool and a leaderboard would be fun, but patch algebra is really nice, see jujutsu nowadays. And beard length is gendered and so only partially admissable. Infinity categories are way out there and always good for a reference.
We've Just Found a New Type of Star and It's Terrifying [video]
For gui apps I consider flatpaks superior. I use opensuse Aeon desktop, which is an immutable distro where the main distro is minimal and all applications are either flatpaks or installed through distrobox (not unlike silverblue)

It has worked surprisingly well.
> The criticism is about "EPYC" not about the codenames.

The criticism above says "Turin, Epyc and lord knows what else". That clearly includes the codenames.
The politics at the national level are likely to be that states not helped by this vote against it.
New Windows gamepad keyboard will make typing on handhelds more like Steam Deck
It reminds me of this classic cartoon:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/08/11/opinion/081111kru...
Can someone summarize what they mean by not competitive? Yes a new chip from nvidia will not compete with CUDA (a software ecosystem).
Also, it's not optional. Unless you use "gossip tense" or explicitly state that it's hearsay, it must be factual. There's no ambiguity unlike English.
Emacs is fine, but buggy as hell.

Their version of Lisp is clearly not suited for any large-scale development. (This trickles down hard into user experience, i.e., lack of parallelism or multithreading.)
Not using lisp
I remember Slaughterbots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots) which was a clear warning of what the future would bring if we failed to regulate autonomous weapons that went totally ignored. It was just three years after that video was released that the UN reported the first use of autonomous drones being used in war.
WTF DO you own - just a transaction entry?
Fun fact. The new plugin uses "ACF" throughout the code, throughout the plugin reviews, and the url slug is literally "advanced-custom-fields".

Guess who owns the trademark for both those things? WPEngine, that's who.

https://imgur.com/a/D7YHn4e

This guy is so bad at this that it's not even funny anymore.
Mm.

Humans are social animals, I find a lot of things makes a lot more sense through that lens — shooting the messenger included.
Not exactly hard to nowadays in Germany

Using the rail system? Now that’s a trick and a half.
Write Vim instead. /s
This is for keeping the weight vectors in sync between two machines.

The weight vectors themselves are regular floats. But the data exchanged between the machines is 1 bit. Basically, you keep track of changes to the weight vector which hasn't yet been propagated to the other machine. You quantize this to 1 bit per weight (ie. a sign bit) and send it, together with a single scale factor X, accumulating the quantization error for the next sync iteration.

You choose X to be the RMS or some similar metric of the accumulated error.
Manim is incredibly cool, but my biggest takeaway from the video is how insane it is that Python apparently lets you reference a variable in a function that was defined outside the scope of the function.
This error is not nonsensical though as normal elementary kids would make similar error and with good episodic memory the agent will fix itself.
The A770 launched costing 100 USD more than the RTX 4060, it pulls twice the wattage while underperforming it in every way.
Quite, not sure why american puritanism needs to be exported.
I mean, we (zml) clocked MI300X ($20k) at +30% than H100 ($30k).

So…
maybe 3 hours in the car and 1h with public transport.

if you are in the rushhour and a traffic jam (not an unusual problem), then the train will be faster. Plus one can work in the train or relax.

My regional train here 20km going into the city center is impossible to beat by car.

77.77% of the people live in cities. 55% live in cities with >20k people. Generally Germany is a decentralized country with a lot of regions with local center cities. There are 15 cities with >500k people. France has only four.
Destroy all values: designing deinitialization in programming languages
More than half of the Iranian population belong to an ethnic minority, and the biggest by far is the Turkish speaking one, the Azeri - it's something like 1/3 of the population as far as I remember. I don't know if non-Azeri learn Turkish from TV, but for a lot of Iranians it's simply their first language.
Sure. And how do you pay? I mean, really. You're forced to create an account, then link a payment method (PayPal and/or Visa/Mastercard may or may not be supported, Apple Pay almost never is). Sometimes you also have to link a mobile phone number or the number is the account identifier.

How is that an alternative?
> Everything seems to be stuck in paper based processes,

It is for that reason I'd love it. Accessible, universal, sustainable,
resilient technology!

I once got stuck in Nuremberg overnight. The ticket office was open
all night and an official looked up all my options from memory and
timetable books and wrote me a diagram with pen and paper that
perfectly showed me how to get to my destination. I'll never forget
that helpful clerk.

Not saying you can't have your apps, but systems that lose touch with
reality and human involvement are part of the emerging problem.

For my mind the smartest ticket technology I ever saw was Hungarian
and used on the Budapest transit system in the 1980s - some devious
discrete mathematics that coded the journey stops, used status, and
allowed routes all in a matrix of hole punches on a small paper
ticket. The punches (that you had to use when getting on trains, buses
and trams) were purely mechanical, and so was the validating machine
used by inspectors/conductors to see if you had punched your ticket.
Simply genius.
Well, technically this is all about different versions of the same standard.
Well if just price/performance alone is enough to qualify… viz. IBM, Then the moment another mainframe vendor decided to undercut them by say 20%, the lock in would evaporate. Of course no mainframe vendor would likely do so, but the latent possibility is always there.

Facebook is an example of ‘amazing lock in’ where it’s not theoretically possible for any potential competitor to just negate it with the stroke of a pen.
AFAIK the free version never included “pro features” in the first place
As a tourist I agree, and the Deutschland Ticket App is Region locked, so you are bound to the complexity of the system, which seems unnecessary and way too expensive as opposed to the ticket locals get.
I don't carry a phone around with me at all times. Phones are expensive, wasteful, socially and environmentally harmful, time consuming, and they erode our freedoms.
This is the de-facto Android implementation of `pass`.

Very useful, I hope it finds new maintainers!
But the DC to Boston line isn't
Weirdly, I find myself agreeing with your vibes despite disagreeing on — oh, half? — the specifics.

I'm not sure what to make of that, but thought you might find it as curious as I do.
> I don't care about company KPI or efficiency, I care about my own well-being first and foremost, as long as I have a choice.

This is a double edged sword. You don’t care about the company, you care for yourself. Your company sees that and gives you a certain treatment. If you don’t care just quit?
It's a whole subject in language design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)
Clojure + Htmx is surprisingly effective
Which, by the way, previously ended with "We expect others will defect as well." before the post was edited
What's B2?
Ok, you had me for the first three sentences.
I don’t think that’s really what Occam’s razor says.

If one’s goal is to use ML stuff to try to produce new useful theorems, it seems useful towards that goal to come up with a numeric heuristic for how useful a new theorem is. And, stating such a heuristic explicitly seems reasonable.

Just because the heuristic that they state, which they expect to be a crucial component of what makes a theorem useful to prove in a given context, isn’t particularly surprising, doesn’t make it not worth saying.

to elaborate on “isn’t particularly surprising” : if you asked many other people to come up with heuristics for the usefulness of a new potential theorem, I imagine many of the answers you would get (counting multiplicity if multiple people give identical answers) would be fairly similar.

Even if a hypothesis is an obvious-to-consider hypothesis, if one wants to talk about it, it is worth stating what it is first.
The packaging says "best by" though. That doesn't mean it's bad, just not the best.
>Thoughts came out of nowhere, I had no control over them; often the constant, unceasing flow of thought was distressing and uncomfortable.

I want to touch on this. "You" never have any control of your thoughts, because "you" isn't really a thing. Psychedelics and meditation teach us this if you pay close attention. The thoughts arise from nowhere and we - the imagined, but illusory - self are mere observers along for the ride that is consciousness.

I can imagine that using a substance such a psilocybin could cause your thought patterns to have both short and long term changes in quality (in terms of substance, not of superior gradation), however. It's also possible that your experience led to your paying greater attention to the thoughts that did arise, and over time the feedback loop of consciousness along with taking better care of yourself led to greater moderation of their genesis.