skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, as a person who came to the US in his late 20s in '95 from a country where Halloween was not "celebrated" (of course, now it is has expanded there, too, like in many other countries, fueled by the incentive to sell stuff) I have had an outsider's PoV of the celebrations over the years, here's my chronology in chronological order with my son:

1. Baby Halloween: When you have children this is from birth to approx. 4yrs old, where they don't have much input into costumes so parents can buy the cutest, funniest costume, e.g. a small cow or a bumble bee.
2. Kid Halloween: From about 5 yrs to 11yrs, when kids join you in costume planning and are so infatuated with candy its cure. Some Halloween decorations may still be scary for them :-)
3. Teen Halloween: From about 12yrs old to perhaps 13-14 yrs old. Halloween is a guilty pleasure for these kids, who think they are now too old. You see them still collecting candy but not in costume and using pillowcases for loot
4. Sexy Halloween: Starts around 18 yrs old and covers college years and single adulthood. This is the realm of spooky houses, sexy witches, skimpy costumes
5. Interlude: Early years of marriage, when (4) is fading but you don't have kids yet. You still go out to parties but they are not that wild.
6. Grandkid Halloween: You get to live (1) again but you have much more time!
My grocer emails a receipt, so it's even better, lol. Although at the store they print out a short receipt with nothing on it, and I had that in mind when thinking of the "ML scanning groceries" bit. whoops!
Project 2025 describes NOAA as a primary component “of the climate change alarm industry” and said it “should be broken up and downsized.” Talent is probably worried about the future political climate as well.

https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FUL...
I think what GP is saying is that white lies are not necessarily betrayal. Betrayal is when someone violates your trust somehow. [0] You can see some examples of lying in the wiktionary definition I linked. (see the last two definitions) However, both these definitions involve the lie causing some negative consequence. A white lie is specifically a lie done to spare someones feelings. It's possible that the white lie can cause negative consequences, but that is not always the case.

To take a concrete example, consider the classic white lie "no, that dress doesn't make you look fat". It is possible that this could cause someone to wear an ugly dress, but the person probably looked at themselves in the mirror too, so they probably will end up choosing a dress that doesn't look awful. In this case there is no negative consequence associated with the white lie unless person wearing the dress is unable to accurately self assess. (which is something the speaker hopefully would know about the dress wearer)

You could define being lied to as a violation of your trust. In particular, I think autistic people often can't pick up on social cues, and so rely more on people speaking the truth to them. However, that doesn't mean white lies are betrayal for everyone. If you in particular feel like white lies are betrayal, you might want to tell people in your life that so they know it's important to you. They won't automatically know and it isn't automatically important to them.

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/betray#English
Detecting the center of a circle in an image (2017)
> Except for book publishers, the Internet Archive has done no one any harm.

I strongly disagree with this statement and would argue book publishers have done more to damage their own reputations and finances than anyone else.
Autonomous exploratory website testing based only on a URL
Rather than focusing on traditional test-case-based testing, we’ve drawn from fuzzing and invariant testing in building Squidler. This approach enables website testing in a way we think non-technical users expect: simply enter a URL, and Squidler autonomously tests the site in various ways every day (or weekly for free users). You get a visual step-by-step walkthrough for each problem that is found, showing you how it was detected. There’s no need for humans clicking through, defining specifications, or maintaining test cases.

Squidler explores websites in a browser like a human — clicking on components, inputting data in fields, navigating back, and more. Today, we identify issues like crashes, code in content, failures in scroll resets, WCAG/accessibility issues, and spelling and grammar mistakes. As we continue development, we will improve relevance when Squidler searches, add autonomous login capabilities, set goals for Squidler to achieve, and more.

Would love to hear thoughts on this approach.
What exactly magic command line tool are you referring to? What cmd tool configures the frontend framework to use a particular css framework, webpack to work with your backend endpoints properly, setups cors and authentication with the backend for development, configures the backend to point to and serve the spa?
But this gives you the functionality of a $200 system (Nest, Ring, etc) for ~zero cost, and not all property owners will approve a Nest camera on their porch.
I think a big problem is that Flutter's approach is very labor intensive.

It takes over responsibility for the UI, which is tough when you want to be cross-platform. You need to keep up with the native UI across all the platforms. (Or, of course, you don't, in which case there are gaps, bugs, inconsistency, jank, etc.)

Beyond the UI, it needs to offer integration with platform services and conventions, which is another perpetual treadmill.

Not to mention it includes a dedicated language, which takes significant effort in its own right.

Add to that, that as a project gets larger and more complicated, it becomes harder to change and tech debt builds up.

It's not surprising to me issues are building up. I've got to wonder if a fork, while it can move forward in one respect, may just be adding more complexity in a project that already has too much.

It wouldn't surprise me if Flutter's unmanaged complexity is exponential, in which case quadrupling the number of dedicated engineers won't move the needle a lot.
You can try: https://github.com/swirlai/swirl-search

- doesn't indexes data
- has connectors to various apps
- metasearch under the hood
- re-ranking of search results before RAG
One example that springs to mind is slime molds solving traveling salesman routing problems: https://www.sci.news/biology/slime-mold-problems-linear-time...

Also coordinating UAV swarms based on bird flocks: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S12709...
Here's a few cursor perks:

1. Auto-complete makes me type ~20% faster (I type 100+ WPM)
2. Composer can work across a few files simultaneously to update something (e.g. updating a chrome extension's manifest while proposing a code change)
3. Write something that you know _exactly_ how it should work but are too lazy to author it yourself (e.g. Write a function that takes 2 lists of string and pair-wise matches the most similar. Allow me to pass the similarity function as a parameter. Use openai embedding distance to find most similar pairings between these two results)
But wayland merges more components into one server than X11 did. Therefore, there is a need for more wayland server then there was a need for X11 servers.
Wow that’s a surprisingly aggressive comment. I’ll share why I used to text and call “I’m here”. I’ve had many experiences where the residents had dogs that would absolutely lose their minds and bark non-stop or go crazy when you ring the doorbell. It’s just a better experience when their owner opens the door and there’s a guest. Other times, my friends lived in a multi-unit apartment and I didn’t want to bother 5 other people who I didn’t know. Other times they lived with their family and, again, just didn’t want to talk to them that time. -shrug- but I guess these are examples of not being able to think without a device.

For you, if you’re expecting guests, just tell them to ring your doorbell. Get rid of the ambiguity and give them comfort in knowing the “right” thing to do. You clearly gave it some thought and have strong opinions about it. I’m sure other people are just trying to be considerate in a generation where they mostly grew up living with lots of other people.
Just to make clear, so you are saying Serge Lang is wrong, too? And as proof you cite various anonymous HN users, most of them heavily downvoted?

> I agree it's inaccurate to say it's decided primarily by Foundations vs Analysis, but I'm not sure how else to slice the pie.

Seems you agree with me after all.

> I agree it's quibbling, but it's harder to teach maths to people if these False Friends exist but don't get pointed out.

A distribution is a function, but considered on a different space.

It is even harder to teach math to people by insisting that above fact is wrong. Schwartz got a Fields medal for this insight.
New Mac Mini with M4
I totally get your sentiment and also try to instill the culture of "add dependency only if it's absolutely not possible to avoid it". For small widgets, I often just copy the code into my tree. And I absolutely hate when library authors break API for no reason (something that the Dart ecosystem inherited from the web one).

But limiting yourself only to standard widgets seems to be extreme.
>The legitimate answer would include some sort of real-world attestation about you from a trusted third party.

It's annoying to find someone (or some service) that is willing to attest on your behalf and have that person (or service) be trusted by your provider more than whoever filed the abuse complaint.

>Maybe including a video call or something.

It's annoying to find someone at your provider who will take the time to do this. It's annoying to take my time to have to do this.

My point, overall, was that this is just a really annoying problem.
A "smart" doorbell that can notify you in various ways makes sense - even without hearing loss you may not always be able to hear the doorbell (headphones).

Expecting guests and random strangers to go out of their way to accomodate that is not ideal. I don't know how I would react if I had to scan a QR code to ring a doorbell but chances are I would leave.
I’m going to link to my own comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41945124

This is super easy in kakoune, requires few keystrokes and no customization, and can be done in any kind of buffer.
Reading through the comments I realize the subheading on the site is not sending the right message:

> Replace your doorbell with a QR code

The purpose of the app is to create a doorbell for instances/contexts where there isn't one. Not to replace currently working doorbells.
I found it brilliantly tongue-in-cheek! So many useful things could be done by a single multibillionaire, yet there are several of them in the world…
Is that legitimate? A path name is just a unique identifier for a file, IMO it doesn't make sense to put a whole novel in there. If anything, a giant summary like that should be in the meta tags?
I have a 5yo daughter, and I appreciate that *What Do People Do All Day?* have female characters in homemaker roles, which is still common in most of the world. Many of her other books have female protagonists doing everything else.

Part of an education should be learning how other people live, whether it's in the past or in another part of the world. And of course, there's nothing wrong with being a homemaker today.
Interesting; that's certainly a bigger baseline than the one hour or so that I tried, which wasn't big enough to reveal that.
Sounds interesting, what are you working on?

(Fellow Qt developer)
Should she have been more honest and said "X will be their shortly. I'm really worried about you, please stay put."? Just trying to follow this chain of reasoning.
I was at Microsoft under both Ballmer and Nadella leadership.

Ballmer was stuck on the old ways. I was connected to a team that had made iOS office apps but Ballmer blocked because MSFT jewel apps on Apple meant Apple would gain marketshare over Windows Mobile. That team was fairly pissed and some folks quit.

Nadella was leading cloud division at that time, but they were not getting the firepower to go against AWS. Azure succeeded despite Ballmer. Nadella clearly saw Cloud was going to be the next big revenue firehose.

Ballmer closely held onto Windows walled garden. His bet on acquiring Nokia and Skype had spectacularly failed. Android and iOS had won, they entirely lost on Windows Mobile.

VSCode had just started but it was seen as an experiment and the sentiment was it could absolutely not jeopardize actual Visual Studio. Linux was seen a competitor to Windows.

Under Nadella, he saw an entirely different Microsoft. He was playing bets on the future, while Ballmer held onto the past. The game had changed.

Nadella didn't care about Windows walled garden. He wanted Microsoft on every platform where developers and Enterprises were. VSCode wanted to cannibalize VS go for it. MSFT apps on iOS go for it. Linux on Windows, go for it. All of MSFT switches to git, to for it. Acquire github and cannibalize Azure pipelines, go for it. Use chromium base for Edge instead of mshtml, go for it. Nadella made good bets over and over again. Ballmer doesn't have the same record.

Nadella + Scott Guthrie went all out on Azure to be #2. The infra spend alone was in billions. Remains to be seen how OpenAI bet pans out.
Not even 1024 bytes. There were 1024 bytes available to the computer, but some of that was required to store what was displayed on the screen. Exactly how much depended on how much of the screen was used(!).

Different times...
> But React Native is different , JS code compiled to native code using c/c++ compiler on target system. Flutter also do like this one.

Sure, but you're compiling two radically different languages. JavaScript is dynamically typed (even with TypeScript) and Dart has a sound static type system.

It's much easier to compile Dart to efficient native code than it is JavaScript.
What do you wish a new full-stack developer to do before their first day to ensure a smooth onboarding experience?
Arch – intelligent application middleware for agents, engineered with LLMs
Ever stop to think that the fancy restaurants they're going to are using these artisan bakers? The vast majority of high-end restaurants are not baking their own bread or doing their own pastries. They're outsourcing them because of the sheer amount of space you need to do that sort of specialized work.
In my example, the point is we do not known the trait distribution -- so how are you accounting for it?

You don't see a difference between actually necessarily controlling a cause by causal intervention, vs., "somehow, hopefully, on average" possible relevant causes are controlled for?
... while introducing lot's of other jank that was solved before.
You'd knock? Depending on our relationship I'd just leave. Especially after being asked to take a photo - I already dislike video doorbells but sending a picture via an app where it will be stored for who knows how long is not something I'll go along with.
My point is that X is in the right direction more than Wayland is, in the spirit of its design, and major pain points of X are largely due to its specific design/implementation. Perhaps an outgrowth of having a lot of tiny policy-mechanism components is lack of standardization, which did strike X, but I think that's an orthogonal concern and not better served by overly large, inflexible components.
European Vacation: Why Americans Work More Than Europeans (2003)
I loved Richard Scarry when I was little, although I think it instilled in me a belief that the world was in a constant state of chaos. (maybe that’s accurate.)

My toddler is now obsessed with them and demands “CARS AND TRUCKS”, “SITE” or “HOUSE” every night at bedtime.
I'm like you but have somehow different set

- AdguardHome

- Traefik - Cloudflare tunnels

- Home Assistant

- onedev (Nice simple one user git host)

- Immich

- Vaultwarden

- Coder

- IT-tools

- Linkding

- Clibre/Calibre Web

- Bookstack

- Nextcloud

- Memos

- Stirling-PDF

- FireFox Sync (Yes you can do that! [1] )

- INVIDIOUS (I can't handle Youtube vanilla)

And I agree that nextcloud is somehow heavy but it is the easiest solution. I use it mainly to backup my research activity (slides, books ..etc) and mainly using webdav features to sync zotero documents.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs
I love everything Nim but that. Spaces-only indentation forces you to write with an at least mediocre code editor and that's a gripe, for the rest it's just me that i'm C-brain-damaged, i even wrote an awk preprocessor for writing multi-line blocks with curly braces delimitation. I don't recommend my habits as the right way, they are probably the wrongest of ways.
Naw, I've seen enough hiring fads ;).
"Science" is not a thing in itself, or it's at the very least heavily polysemous and vague. It's a collection of institutions, processes, methodologies, and cultures that can sometimes, under the right conditions produce greater collective certainty about the universe. It's not a magic wand that works great when measuring physical processes but goes flaccid when empirical measurement gets difficult. In fact, that's why it's such a valuable concept and is clearly distinct from "magic".

Just because you prefer "hard science" because it's easier to control variables doesn't give you license to push your pet definition (notably, not provided) and value-judgements about the word onto other people. (Or at least—taking this license destroys your own credibility.) Doing so does just as much reputational damage to the aforementioned institutions, processes, methodologies, and cultures than people who try to draw too much certainty from poorly controlled variables.

What ever happened to nuance and understanding? C'mon! I believe you're capable of better. This kind of rancid tone has no place in serious discussion.
The entire underlying thesis is that somehow, someway, the bottleneck for office productivity has been manhours.

Which is accurate if you are a demented workaholic or compulsive ladder climber, but hilariously inaccurate if we look at the average office worker. Most office workers barely reach 50% potential productivity by simple virtue that going much higher than this requires well-defined tasks to be delegated effectively amongst a well-managed and motivated workforce that has been sized for the appropriate capacity instead of as an outcome of intracompany politics or as a response to concurrency issues (ergo, badly managed workloads and poorly set agendas sporadically overloading the workforce. This is never, EVER fixed by hiring more people).

Read that again and you'll realize that out of the 5 or so factors I named for good productivity most corporate settings have about 1, maybe 2.

The result of this is that most workplaces are hamstrung fully by Parkingson's law brought about by 2 or more of the above factors being present. They are already capped out on productivity. All involving AI would ever do is excasserbate it, because they will have even less workload to spread over more hours.

Another thing is that by the time you've collected and thought through all the context, direction, nuance and caveats required to make the AI do your knowledge labor for you with consistency....You'll already have done 90% of the actual heavy lifting yourself, and you'll now come to realize that prior to this you just paced your typing to match your thinking, while you know think and have the AI do the typing. The eventual outcome most find is about a 10-20% boost in actual delivery speed, more consistent writing and code style, a decrease in the Stack Overflow visits, and a significant increase in junior errors who prior to this would find out the nuances and caveats while they were bashing away at the issue.
There's a wide range of activities called "genetics". I've said that many cases are science, and as you say, that would be one such case.
We are working on a way to auto-patch internal APIs that change by having another agent trigger the requests.

Regarding the legality aspects — really appreciate you mentioning this — we’ve put a lot of thought into these issues, and it’s something we’re continually working on and refining.

Ultimately, our goal is to allow each developer to make their own informed decision regarding the policies of the platforms that they're working with. There are situations where unofficial APIs can be both legal and beneficial, such as when they're used to access data that the end user rightfully owns and controls.

For our hosted service, we aim to balance serving legitimate data needs with safeguarding against bad actors, and we’re fully aware this can be a tricky line to navigate. What this looks like in reality would be to prioritize use cases where the end-user truly owns the data. But we know this is not always black-and-white, and will come up with the right legal language as you recommended. What does help our case is that many companies are making unofficial APIs for their own purposes, so there are legal precedents that we can refer to.
Is this available as a pdf? Or just yet another online subscription if you want to search it quickly? Part of the reason I never bothered with the 17th Edition was that I couldn't find a searchable pdf version (I last tried looking for one years ago though). That and they deprecated the use of ibid, which made me sad.
This reads like Apple Stockholm syndrome.

I haven't bought a device with less than 1TB storage in a decade. The users that you're talking about would be happy with a Chromebook or iPad, not a $1k+ machine that ostensibly is for "pro" work. In fact the last time I did it, it was an Apple device and I wouldn't buy one again.

AAA video games will take 100GB of local storage. I'm not claiming Apple is good for gaming, but they pretend Macs can game - never mind you can't fit many games on an entry level Mac.

I haven't checked recently but iirc a hefty chunk of disk was used by the system too - so 256GB isn't really 256GB for a user. It's more like 128.
Ultrawides are intriguing, but I'm not sure it's more flexible than a multi-display setup. Not to mention we've had 2160 pixel height displays for well over 10 years now.
I wouldn't trust flatpak enough to run a truly untrusted executable. I am sure flatpak's isolation is full of holes unrelated to windowing.

But I don't think a game purchased through steam counts as untrusted.
> As we put more of our records and news on the Web and nowhere else, that’s *vitally important for historians and other people who appreciate knowing* who said what to whom and when.

Fortunately the Internet Archive crawler has already continued (confirmed by Jason Scott), the new information is just not yet represented in the Wayback Machine.

Considering the importance of events currently happening around the world (wars, elections, ...), that's very good. (although I'm not sure how extensive its coverage is)

However, all the archiving efforts by individuals using Save Page Now or the API are still halted.
Looks like an abandoned project https://github.com/timfraedrich/OutRun
I did answer the question. You just didn’t like my answer.
I think they're saying if they couldn't do cryptography they'd push for legislation.
Oh yeah. Given that MIPS supports both, I'd have thought most would be configured for little endian, but there are still currently supported MIPS big endian on openwrt.org
Clue actually did this in the theaters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clue_(film)

Though it's just an ending.

Someone should do this again, only more subtly. The internet would figure it out in a bit, but it'd be fun watching people argue about what actually happened in the movie before they figured it out. Half surprised someone hasn't had this idea to generate buzz.