skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Essentially giving up on artificial light has been life changing for me and my family… all of us used to take melatonin and have an awful time falling and staying asleep. Now we let the house go dark at sunset, and we all just fall asleep easily.

I think individuals sensitivity to artificial light varies a lot, but for many people - including me- it can basically destroy your ability to sleep, and as a result your overall health and quality of life.
nobody wants independent journalism. never wanted. people want something that aligns with their point of view.

that's why streamers, podcasters and subgroups are so successful - you find like-minded folks there that agree with you. And that's why you often have forums and discord groups that literally ban people left and right.

It has always been the case.
> Flutter Founder here.

Flutter was a company acquired ala Firebase? Always thought it was a project (like Golang) incubated by/for/at Google.
How does it scale? Can you spin up multiple containers?
For upcoming features auto archiving to cloud storage old data would be great.
Ionic&Capacitor with Angular/React/Vue

NativeScript
If you really want to see the shady, dishonest side, try to have a discussion about nulling plugins. You'll get called every name in the book for adhering to the GPL.
I only got one (ASDA), I'm pretty sure it's just a webview though so I'm not sure why they are using Flutter.

Hard to say it is "everywhere". It's probably more popular than any of the other cross platform alternatives though.
Maybe the silver lining is that billionaires and large corporations might look less favorably at owning newspapers when it's seen as a net negative and a lever for someone to use against them.

If Bezos didn't own WaPo, it wouldn't be a bargaining chip to get Trump to the table with Blue Origin, and wouldn't suffer in this way because of that causing him a loss.
I think Egan is much better known than most (if not all) of the authors in the list. I've heard of Andy Weir and Hugh Howey, but not the particular books listed by them. Conversely I've heard about Permutation City quite often.
> M4, iMac is up to 1.7x faster for daily productivity, and up to 2.1x faster for demanding workflows like photo editing and gaming, compared to iMac with M1

Huh? how about than an M3?
Show HN: Query standup data in natural language
Hey HN,

I was a PM for ~ 4 years before deciding to ditch everything to learn how to build software on my own.

As a PM, I was doing standups every day with our engineers, but whenever I'd need an update I'd still end up pinging them on Slack. Why?

- No notes from those standup calls
- Folks being unavailable
- No solid insight from those standups.

We ended up using a Standup tool but it didn't do much apart from converting our calls to text + making standups async. Sadly, there was still no insight.

So decided to do build something myself: howsthisgoing - it's an AI-powered standup bot that lets you query team updates using natural language (built with Gemini, Claude, Python/Django, Celery, Tailwind).

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ijCTM3PmaU

Technical details:
- Set up slack apis for running standups
- Use gemini for standup based summaries
- embeddings using voyageai
- natural language queries handled in 2-parts (first with claude for extraction, then gemini for filtering)
- first time setting up RAG pipeline was fun! (let me know if you'd like to know how I did this)

Currently exploring integrations with Github/Linear for deeper context on technical updates. Particularly interested in solving the challenge of connecting different data sources (commits, tickets, standups, sales updates) into a queryable knowledge base.

Looking for feedback on:
- Which data sources would be most valuable to integrate?
- Planning to pivot to an "all-in-one updates app with github/linear/hubspot etc. being as source. What do you guys think of this idea?
"Dumb move by Jeff, and probably a dereliction of duty as a founder who has taken public money."

Unless Trump wins and Bezos benefits from the secret deals that were just made behind the curtain.
What are you saying? That because I can take steps to avoid getting a cold that I should just avoid getting a cold and insurance should not pay out on it? That's a big stretch considering you can literally get diseases from mosquitos and wild animals.

You're making a bald assertion that "insurance has no business paying out for you going in for strep throat or the flu or an annual checkup." Imagine, for a moment, that you run an insurance company, and you have a lot of people who need knee surgery or hip replacements or spinal surgery or who have triple bypasses or COPD or name any chronic or acute disease that requires expensive treatment.

Think about how many of those people wouldn't need that treatment if they went to the doctor every year. If your company had to pay out for treatment on every single one of those cases, wouldn't it be smart to spend a small amount every year to try to prevent people from becoming one of those serious cases?

What are the "market forces" that you cite here? Is this another one of those magical invisible hand arguments? Have you considered that insurance companies offering these yearly physicals is a result of some market force where business-people figured out that it was cheaper to do that then let peoples' minor problems blow up into major problems and then pay out on that instead?
A hypothetical problem that we can tackle when (or if) it's actually a problem. Thanks for your metadata, regardless.
> the version of passive income where you don't do anything productive at all, ever, and just put up some initial capital in exchange for even more money back, is always a scam

No, that's just investing.

This is how savings accounts work, this is how CDs work, this is how treasury bonds work, this is how passive investing (e.g. via ETFs on index funds) works, and there are many, many more examples.

If you're keeping your retirement savings in an IRA / other local equivalent, whether owned privately or by your government, the same processes happen behind the scenes.

You put in capital, you lock that capital away for a while, you get back more capital later.

The differences here are in terms of possible returns. Bonds have (relatively) low returns but almost 0 risk, index funds have significantly higher returns but are also higher risk, though it's still pretty low if your time horizon is multiple decades, and there are crazy investments (think Bitcoin) with possibly eye-watering returns, but also an enormous amount of risk.

Now investments with "guaranteed" eye-watering returns (think >10% per year) and apparently 0 risk? Yeah, definitely a scam.
> Once the project already exists, is largely feature-complete

That may be a reachable state for a command-line oriented operating system itself a clone of an older operating system, but is likely unrealizable in any sort of system that is trying to be actively more innovative.

> mostly in the "fixing bugs and small annoyances" phase

I don't know of any UI framework that has had the luxury of ever reaching that phase.

> then Linus's Law [1] takes over.

If you maintain a widely used framework, I think the more meaningful eponymous law is Hyrum's: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

This is probably the #1 source of friction for contributing to Flutter. It's not that the Flutter developers are overworked killjoys who don't value external contributors. It's that when, as the author of the blog post says, your codebase has a million users, it's really hard for a contribution to not end up breaking someone.

> if you have a good test suite you'll know if your fix has broken other invariants elsewhere.

Sure, but the fix itself will still need tests. So now you've got to walk the contributor through the process of writing tests which is definitely not a skill that most software engineers have and is not particularly rewarding for an external contributor who already has a working fix and just wants their patch to be "done".

Fundamentally, coordinating thousands of people to make a single codebase used by millions of people is hard. There is no silver bullet. It's a miracle it works at all.
> the first amendment is about protecting free speech principles, which are actually much bigger than just what the first amendment says.

The First Amendment definitely is not about "free speech principles." It's the first of a short list of absolute restraints on the previous text, which is a description of US government, insisted upon by interests suspicious of federalization under that government. Free speech writ large is good and something to fight for, but the First Amendment is not an ideology, it is law.

The reason (imo) to talk about the First Amendment in terms of these giant social media platforms is simply because of their size, which was encouraged by friendly government acts such as Section 230 in the first place, without which they couldn't scale. Government encouragement and protection of these platforms gives the government some responsibility for them.
Everyone is equal.

Just because they don't "meet the minimum standard" doesn't mean their view or opinion is irrelevant.

There are people sprouting crazy ideas in actual public town squares all the time, and they have done so forever. You don't have to go there and you don't have to listen.
Because they sign an exclusive contract with either coke or pepsi and take what you get. the owns of the venue don't care about customers just that contract.
The issue with alcohol is that it's present in a lot of foods in concentrations suffient to cause an effect. Same goes for fermented fruit. Additionally even today it serves as a preservative and solvent. You cannot meaningfully eliminate it from use.

Meanwhile drugs were always understood as something produced for the specific purpose of getting high.

There's a distinction because these are in fact different things.
I don't see the clickbait / extremism promoting content as anything particularly new. In the UK the "red top" newspapers used to supply it and in the recent past it was Fox News.

It was always possible to cocoon yourself into news and opinion you agreed with.

AI slop does seem a little different, if only because it's machine generated and the sheer amount of it would not have been possible when rubbish was human generated and the gatekeepers of publishing were newspaper editors.
Some courts have interpreted the definition of "unauthorized access" in the CFAA pretty broadly. That checkbox about WP Engine is arguably an "access control mechanism" since you can't access the site without checking it. Maybe it's a stretch but it's not that much of a stretch.

I could see a breach of contract argument too.

IANAL.
I’m developing a simple iOS app to detect Ultra Processed Food (UPF). The ones that are in Apple Store now are either too complex or paid-only without a chance to test it for free. I believe people should be able to detect UPF and learn how to detect it even without the app (in a long term). I will launch it in 2 weeks max.
Flutter in Kotlin instead of Dart would have killed! Alas. Hopefully, Kotlin Multi-Platform holds up as good as Flutter has (the rendering architecture based on Skia seems similar between the two frameworks).
Back in the real world however you have canonical for years now who have made flutter the default for all native linux desktop development.

I think your anecdotes are a bit out of date and irrelevant.

People much better informed than you looked at this problem in a lot more detail in real life situations and came to very different conclusions.
It’s kind of an unorthodox take, but I’m guessing the idea is that if corporations perceived that they didn’t have secure ways to protect stuff, they would refrain from gathering as much stuff, because they would be afraid of the liability. And btw the perception / reality distinction is important here in supporting this theory.
right, making maintainers happy is part of that work.
Curl is easily 1000x simpler than Flutter and has existed for many times longer. Not really comparable.
That's a big fat zero. No MAGA people are paying for WaPO (or any newspaper aside from WSJ for that matter).
As others indicated, tail recursion exists.

There are also languages where the standard guarantees code will use tail recursion in certain cases. An example is scheme (https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/r5rs/Proper-tail-recursi...)

There also are languages where you can write recursive functions in a way that makes the compiler err out of it cannot make the calls in a tail-recursive way. An example is scala (https://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.12.1/scala/annotation/tailr...)

That removes the possibility that a programmer mistakenly believes the compiler will use tail recursion.
> You'd be the one asking your employer to clarify the terms they chose and wrote themselves which they are trying to press upon you

I’ve made edits to employment agreements. It would be totally inappropriate for the other side to demand legal advice from me. It would be polite for me to clarify. But I’m under no obligation to.
Civil infractions are still called "illegal", at least in the US
With all its present and past limitations, Brazil is a democracy. I do not know India enough, but it is not a regime either.
Lady Baker and the Source of the Nile
> People believe in index funds because of multi-decades of globalization

At some point we're going to reach the heat-death of the economy and we'll be "completely globalized", I guess?
> Inter-vehicle could be cool as the EV equivalent of jump-start

This exists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975736 But for Lucid, not Teslas. And also more generally as a use of V2L.

> in-the-field recharge for cars that run out before the recharging station

This exists: https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/latest-news/2023/06/30/elec...
https://www.taxi-point.co.uk/post/rac-to-equip-breakdown-van...

> a range-extending spare battery pack

This is a real Tesla Cybertruck accessory: https://insideevs.com/news/706702/tesla-cybertruck-range-ext...
> Back when I worked on .net we had fewer than 50 people maintaining a product that shipped to over a billion machines. If you opened an issue on github we'd usually reply that day.

It depends on an org's priorities and what gets put on someone's reviews.

During one of the years when I worked on Windows Mobile (before Windows Phone!) we had an objective handed down from on high that we were to spend so many hours a week on customer support forums helping people out.

Well, for that year, customers all around the web got great support right from engineers! I got to paste lots of positive feedback from end users in to my yearly review, and I felt great about it!

If Google cared about supporting Flutter as an Open Source project, they'd make the health of the open source project one of the measurements going into employee reviews at the end of the year.
It's full of anecdotes from apparently real individuals. Are these rewrites of content scraped from real news?
no, if I'm using your platform, it's because I really don't want to deal with the stinking pile of abstraction below that. so on the contrary, I would see it as a negative if the abstraction was that leaky.
My point was just that while it’s not low-end it’s also not luxury in a world unless you’re defining that term to mean something like “has clean lines without stickers” or “has a better display than a TV from a decade ago”.

Most of the cost of an iMac is the display and as your example shows, you don’t see significant savings unless you accept massive compromises on quality. 1080p FHDs is like saying you have a luxury car because your baseline is a golf cart and most of those have terrible color quality according to their spec sheets even if you ignore the low resolution. By the time you’re getting to models which are only one generation behind on CPU you’re looking at a $900 system with a display which is worse than what Apple shipped almost 20 years ago.
I saw a lot of that too - I just see more and worse with gradle.

Maven gave us two things; good dependency management and convention driven builds (removing the horrible scripted build stuff in Ant).

Gradle from my point of view took the second one away again and it feels like it was just because people didn't like XML and couldn't be bothered to learn how Maven's build lifecycle actually worked!

Like I say, I'm a curmudgeon...
It could be that weed is now orders of magnitude stronger than it used to be. Its almost impossible to buy something that is not some sort of specialized ultra high THC strain. A lot of people myself included don't want to be that messed up, so they cant even function. Its like if you could no longer buy anything lower than 180 proof alcohol to drink. A lot of people don't want to be that drunk and would just stop or greatly limit their drinking.
Show HN: NKode – Easier to remember and more secure than a password
nKode is a pictographic passcode that is easier to remember and more secure than a password.

Here are some of its unique features:
1. Keypads are randomly generated from thousands of icons.
2. Keypads are randomly shuffled after every login, so somebody can watch you enter your nkode and not know what it is.

nKode on the Server:
A traditional password is composed of ASCII and sometimes Unicode characters. These are salted, hashed, and stored in a database. nKode is similar. An unsigned 64-bit integer represents every icon, though it can be a byte array of any size. These server-side attributes can be rotated daily, weekly, or at any desired frequency. Here's how it works:

1. An administrator or cron job starts the server-side attribute renewal.
2. The server-side attributes are rotated, and an intermediate transformation is applied to the user's server-side keys.
3. After a successful login, the user's keys, salt, and hash are all replaced.
From the article.

>I know I’ve discussed this case before, but it always gets lost in the mix. In Winter v. GP Putnam, the Ninth Circuit said a publisher was not liable for publishing a mushroom encyclopedia that literally “recommended” people eat poisonous mushrooms. The issue was that the publisher had no way to know that the mushroom was, in fact, inedible.

"We conclude that the defendants have no duty to investigate the accuracy of the contents of the books it publishes. A publisher may of course assume such a burden, but there is nothing inherent in the role of publisher or the surrounding legal doctrines to suggest that such a duty should be imposed on publishers. Indeed the cases uniformly refuse to impose such a duty. Were we tempted to create this duty, the gentle tug of the First Amendment and the values embodied therein would remind us of the social costs."
If they can't explain the basic intent of the agreement in the first place, I'd be awfully hesitant to sign.

Matt was just asked if the spirit of the checkbox was to keep out customers and wouldn't answer. That's not really the same as asking him for legal advice.
You have to be joking. Having blown my nose on many subways, tissue turning black is absolutely baloney. Either you have a truly horrible disease or you're lying. I've raised two kids very successfully in a city with no car.
Freakonomics has a history (IMO) of being way too uncritical of the podcast's guests and PIMA seems worse about it. Personally, I think the article is a bit too harsh, but it's in the same direction as why I stopped listening.

> First, Levitt starts out by accepting that a certain suspect claim “actually has been replicated a number of times.” Going with your interviewee can make sense in a podcast, but, again, it’s counter to Levitt’s earlier goal of asking, “How do you know whether you should believe surprising results?”

I haven't listened to the episode, but Levitt really should have pushed back a bit more. The conversation went (paraphrased) "Here's a surprising result" "Really? Has that been replicated?" "Yes, many times sort of, now here's another surprising result from myself". She really should have been asked about replications done by other groups at least. The replication question kind of gets dodged and then they drop it for the rest of the hour-long discussion (according to the transcript: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/pay-attention-your-body-wil... ), which is a bit odd when he made “How do you know whether you should believe surprising results?” a theme of the episode. If her work had good replications, it would be more believable.
It is not illegal to shout "fire" in a crowded theater. That was from an argument about why people should be jailed for passing out fliers opposing the US draft during WWI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
Now imagine the comment sections around the Internet if Apple released a mouse that needed custom ANYTHING to charge it.
glib then?
Pitch accent in Japanese is deterministic based on the mora that is "accented". While it's true the effect of this accent "spreads" across the entire word, you only need to mark a single mora to know the effects word-wide.

> Reading hiragana is slow (and I've been reading hiragana for a long time)- it's slow, and mentally much harder than reading with kanji.

What's the ratio of hiragana-only text that you read compared to Kanji? And does the hiragana text uses spaces between words? My strong suspicion is "low" and "no", respectively. Familiarity breeds comfort with any writing system, and word breaks are a fabulous ergonomic tool for easing reading.
> They talk about green stuff because that's what they want to be, for whatever reason.

How else would the conscious consumer justify another marginal hardware update?
An "independent" newspaper should never be endorsing political candidates.
I think your choice is more readable and maintainable, but did you consider call-with-current-continuation?

It is easy to dismiss, but this may be a situation to learn where it is actually useful.
I assume he has to invest in established companies just as a practical matter. If you have $50k, you can put it anywhere from the local donut shop to Apple. If you want to invest $50 billion, your options are significantly more limited on what you can do without outright owning the target company.
200K left but some other might also join. And if taking no stance makes your audiences leave, it might just be a symptom of an existing condition.

BTW, I do not think Bezos needs npr to remind him the financial consequences.
One of these is not quite like the others...
What issue would it solve? The fact that you can build a jar in any OS and then just use that anywhere else is actually a huge benefit of using Java, as you don't force everyone to re-compile your library source code.
The problem is though that what's best for corporations and what's best for Americans don't align.

If you're McDonald's and your goal is to make money, you're not trying to make the best quality burger. You're trying to get crack legal, so you can lace your burgers with it.

Google will always inherently have a bias towards candidates that push a narrative that helps their profits. This is true of all corporations and is the intrinsic danger of allowing them to influence elections.