skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really miss the old phpbb web forums internet, where people could have interesting discussions with way longer attention spans than the 24 hours most platforms have nowadays.
> In my opinion, interesting topics need active debate and cultural and knowledge exchange to make progress, but we somehow totally fucked that up on the internet.

A professor once complaint about lab politics and I asked why [given his position] he didn't get more involved. He said: I must try to solve it inside my domain of knowledge - even if that wont result in the desired outcome. If I get involved it will distract me and I stop being a scientist.

You've nicely reduced the problem to a computer science problem if not a [be it raw] idea for a startup.

Among all those daily topics on social media are some worthy of years of debate (if the measure is a productive result) A thousand post forum thread is a workable but crappy solution. Newer thing seem exponentially worse. Wiki's barely keep track of who wrote what and turn into a hard to navigate forest of articles.
A quarter of a cost of monitor stand.
I know lots of people who play Factorio but for me, I guess it just feels too much like work? Whenever I play it, I get the distinct feeling that I could instead do the same thing but productively instead, such as by contributing to my OSS projects (sometimes, maybe even for profit instead). I never got into these types of programmatic games for precisely this reason but I'd like to understand other perspectives on this.

The games I play instead are wholly unrelated to my work life, such as FPS or RPG ones, where there is a clear distinction between what I can do and what I want to do.
"Code is law" is a meme.

Law is a social concept, it has many parts, the statutes, that serve as mementos for past power struggles, the active part which consist of the courts, prosecutors' discretion, enforcement, and of course society itself, as the workings of these reified components reflect society itself.

Code can of course model some of these, be part of law, and even it can try to complement or supplant certain roles and/or functions from the aforementioned ones, but as long as there are humans in the loop code will not be itself law.

Sure, soon we'll probably end up with RoboCops patrolling the streets, and maybe even AI writing much of the statutes, and eventually even AI making most of the law, but even then code won't be law.
Idk. I’d imagine it has more to do with the preorders and how they can stuff shipments.

I got to drive one… it’s an objectively terrible car. I would imagine that as the look gets let’s novel that attention will wane quickly. When they get the inevitable prominent pedestrian collision on video, it has Pinto potential.

It’s weird because the last “new” Tesla was the Model Y I think, and that is an incredibly well thought out car — probably the 2020s equivalent of the 1980s Taurus or Camry.
Right? So I'm apparently an idiot for thinking Rust's borrow checker, or Go's blissful deployment experience, or Zig's clever comptime system are good... Ok I guess I'm not going to like Odin then.
At this point in mice must be a HN in-joke?
What ChatGPT and Claude can see on your screen
> and fast changing area

Who cares? If backwards compatability is maintained then this fails to have any impact on my experience as a developer. It sounds like the VM maintainers are busy making their own lives hell. Not my problem.
High voltage transmission lines are remarkably efficient, with losses of 2-3% per 1000km. And while I assume you were using hyperbole, nobody needs to get power from San Diego to Maine in the first place.
I think McDonald’s is under different ownership in different countries. They may even be using a different supplier for ice cream machines in Australia!
I hate this take.

Expecting employees to compartmentalize their personal lives completely during work is unrealistic and dehumanizing.

I’ve worked with American companies for years and sat through countless meetings where U.S.-specific events were addressed—9/11, BLM, elections, Black History Month, Thanksgiving, natural disasters, even sensitivity and active shooter trainings. Outside of local disaster/issues, none of these are directly relevant in my country, yet we empathize, because it’s human to care.

Here’s the problem: When divisive topics arise, companies either censor them entirely or let them play out. Censorship may be inhumane, but it’s efficient. Or, a company can solicit feedback and allow employees to hold non-disruptive, neutral events outside of work hours.

If this is the path, it has to be consistent. No exceptions for topics like the war in Ukraine or U.S. cultural movements. This approach avoids corporate bias while enabling individual expression without disturbing business.

Publicly held or large companies shouldn’t hold positions on sensitive issues, but employees should have the freedom to engage, with policies that prevent harm or offense.

And, by the way, a vigil doesn’t count as harmful.
Salty for sure. But, gooood, at least to me! A sinful indulgence.
In the remote era this is the only way that 2nd level managers can exert authority. In the office they have a nicer desk and eat lunch with a different crowd so you know they hold power.

If it makes you feel any better the director is doing exactly the same thing to them.
I tried to sign up in Hetzner but always got rejected. Also, the idea of providing my ID/Passport to them is odd. I’m running stuff on Digital Ocean without having to hand over any IDs or using my real name. So far, so good.
> Now scale that up and consider - at which point such project would start being "FOSS" in your book without actually providing its sources on an appropriate license?

At the moment when the copyright holder stops ever recompiling the code from scratch and starts just patching binaries.

We are at that point with LLMs.

> The intention behind "preferred form for modification" is to put you as a user on the same level as the copyright holder.

Exactly. And the copyright holders for these LLMs do not ever "recompile". They create brand new works that aren't derivatives at all, but when it comes to modifying the existing work they invariably fine-tune it rather than retraining it.
The stakes (there are none except ones you set for yourself)

The timeline (quick returns, but a long scale of challenges you can build up to. Lots of side projects out there with 0 users.)

You can play with friends

You can also pay 1/4 attention until you need to design something complex in the game. I find it fun, I can turn my brain off for a bit but then re/engage for the fun complex stuff.

I stopped playing as much myself because I wanted to either work on professional development (side projects, learning more) or actually make things with my hands (woodworking, chair making, fixing an old truck) that were real breaks from software engineering, and easier to share with my kids.
The world would be a better place if more people had to work an underpaid service job at the start of their employment.
What I remember from my case few years ago, incoming SMS were handled to both SIMs. Outgoing SMS from my number didn't appear on second one (so shared SMS history isn't complete in that sens). I didn't use MMS. I think all those behaviors can be different, depending on provider config.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3LjJeeae68
These are the factors to me:

* formal meetings, where I was, 30 hours of meetings a week.

* Users wanting us to read their minds

* bureaucracy, need to ask permissions to do one little thing

* Jira
Interview: Are We Misinformed About Misinformation?
That's nice. The implementation of a numerical tower is common in Lisps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_tower
Which dictionaries are they? I've never seen that. Here's the entry from the Cambridge Dictionary:

a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you should give all your time and energy, or the feeling that a type of work suits you in this way:

I feel I've found/missed my true vocation.

Most teachers regard their profession as a vocation, not just a job.

To work in medicine, you should have a vocation for it.

Synonym
calling formal

Compare
career noun

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/vocation
I don't understand "expending" energy in this case. Obviously a key part of the plan would be to use the unbelievable quantities of solar energy currently just going to waste.

It doesn't even require high tech pv, just plain mirrors to make just plain heat for a large portion of the work.

And pumping water is not just a cost, it's also a battery, a hugely valuable thing we don't have enough of yet, which would enable more of the grid to live on renewables.

It's not all magic but it's not all impossible nor pointless either.
Fps: the US military thanks you for training for infantry in your spare time.
> PeaZip is written in FreePascal compiler, a powerful Open Source cross-platform programming language highly compatible with Delphi and ObjectPascal, and Lazarus ide IDE is required to compile, build, and edit the source code.

Cool. Not many active Pascal projects out there anymore.
I'm looking for a middle ground. I need to use and trust hardware from vendors like Apple but I use as few of their services as possible (and verify that with firewalls and traffic inspection).

My concern here is with Apple Intelligence and this wishy-washy hybrid approach where some of the time your data is sent to the "private cloud" and some of the time it's processed locally on device. I absolutely hate that and need a big switch in Settings that completely turns off all cloud processing of data; but given how much they're spending on advertising how "private" their cloud is I suspect they plan to not make that optional at all (not just opt-out by default). At that point, all the photos you take might be sent to their cloud for "beautification" or whatever and there's no way to know whether they're also analyzed for other things or sent out to the CCP to make sure you're not participating in a protest against Xi.
"""Three major themes that cause “bad days” for developers: tooling and
infrastructure issues, process inefficiencies, and issues around
team dynamics. Within those issues, deeper concerns were
identified and are shared in the following sections."""

The causes will sound familiar to most developers here. The most significant causes are usually outside the person's control, as expected. Interestingly, "interruptions / randomness" was only the sixth most significant, while the most significant cause was "engineering system friction."

The average number of "bad days" per month is 3-5. Accounting for weekends and vacation days, that's nearly 20% of the time! And some report 9+ bad days per month.

So, if you happen to work on corp-infra or other tooling/support role, and you occasionally lament that your work is not in the critical path, you actually have a rather large impact if you think of it in terms of helping reduce the number of bad developer days.
Its just fun.

"Okay wth, today we're going to make the entire base solar powered"

When making software that's supposed to be used, you can't mess around that much. At the end of the day, someone has to use it and if its weird it'll be bad.

But in Factorio? Nobody is using it so sure, make it bizzare. Change the rules, let yourself go. Don't test the design just send it.

Bored? Too challenging? Don't bother finishing the design do something else.
If (stolen) data is available to download ok, that would be the accurate definition of open AI model. But "accurately specified" is not because you would need to trust that the person specifying it is actually honestly doing it. And I think we all know what happens to all that honesty when economic interests are in place.
I'd have thought the SQLite database (D1) would be a more obvious fit for a blog?
Common philosophical fallacy: just because we are able to do things in one stage does not mean we can do things in the next.

Of course, I am an optimist, but one cannot relate historical circumstances in the same way. I will be glad if it does happen of course, but I do not expect it to be so based on past performance.
Okay, let me explain it a different way. Much like TCR is in principle supposed to be about blocking phone spam, wouldn't it just be a matter of time before cell providers start cracking down on cloned SIMs with the intention of preventing criminal activity? Whether you cloned the SIM for legitimate use or not.
Here's the NYT report: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/los-angeles-times-endo...
just looked up Against the Storm, looks like the board game Agricola, where the goal is to build and farm and survive the winter. I always found Agricola ironic, in that is masquarades as a PvP game, where your survival outcome is then compared to the other players, but its very stressful as there are not enough resources on the board for your family.

so thats what made it too much like real life for me, because you're like struggling but then pretending like you are flexing (look at the size of my house! my farm!), but really everyone barely made it at all

maybe Against the Storm as a single player journey makes more sense
Shouldn't brand new ones and old ones get more inspections (assuming bathtub curve applies to buildings), rather than uniform?
Ask HN: Does this desalination idea work?
Invention idea. Rip this apart and tell me why I'm wrong.

Ok, here's the idea - it's a desalination plant like the windtrap from Dune.

You make a mega structure like the windtrap from Dune 2000. You then coat the outside of the shell with solar panels and the inside with thermoelectric strips that make it colder on the inside. So after a while there should be a cloud within this several story building.

Then what you do is you put a Tesla coil on the inside so that when it goes off the lightning makes it rain. It turns out that lightning inside clouds can make it rain! Which might work even on smaller clouds with less moisture content.

You'd probably have to make it quite large to have the necessary efficiency gains. And I don't know if this would work all the time as you might just end up sucking all the moisture out of the air around the windtrap unless there was significant amounts of wind.

Thoughts?
Just like any other video games, I like these type of management games because it's "work" without real-life consequences.

I can play the min-max game without any unknowns that comes from real life management. Or I can destroy everything and mess everything up too.

It's my escapism.
Yes, we have. Those same people who whine about "misinformation" are repeatedly caught lying to the public - for the public's benefit, of course, which they get to define. Which only makes sense - if you think the public is not smart enough to be trusted with figuring what is true and what is false by themselves, and needs a gatekeeper class to define it for them, then it's only a little step from that to deciding the public is not smart enough to make correct decisions based on facts, and needs to be manipulated by the same gatekeeper class by telling them what they need to hear, for their own good. Again, this happened many times just in the recent years.
> the death of the third space on the West Coast must be well and truly complete

100% gone. I've been wondering lately if companies might benefit from investing in getting the third space back; increase in employee creativity would offset the drop in overtime hours.
Yes! Tesla is the best example for this...
Okay, that is a problem then. If both phones cannot see all messages, how would both parties have full context on the conversation? This would inevitably lead to both of us sending a response.
Solar Gravitational Lens
This is the thing I have been seeing more and more which I was attempting to push back against in a lot of my conversations. If people are thinking for themselves and being honest, I don't think they can perfectly fit into the little boxes people are assigned by all the caricature designers. And you're right, once someone assigns a box to you, it is very difficult to break free of it, especially on the context of a one-off online conversation.

I truly believe that most people want the same things, we just have different opinions on the best way to get there. If we can focus on those shared goals, and use those as a vehicle to discus the different options to get there, maybe it would help for everyone to start off with common ground and avoid casting anyone with a different opinion as a villain. I've probably been somewhat naive thinking this can change or I can help shift it, even if just with a few people, but I don't like the idea of giving up hope and accepting that this is just the way it is. I want to believe in the future we can openly discus different and unpopular ideas with the shared goal of finding the best solution to move us forward toward those shared goals. At the very least, I expect this of our politicians and leaders, and am continuously disappointed.
Ritchie's paper on the history of C discusses that prefix dereference thing: another Bell Labs researcher pointed out that C's notorious issues with declaration syntax, etc., would work much better if pointer deref were postfix instead. Ritchie said it was already too late by then to fix it in C, but didn't contradict the point.

Odin had no such block to improvement. Props to them.
Funnily enough, I actually used to play America's Army 3, a game which explicitly was funded by the DoD. It was pretty fun, not gonna lie, much more tactical than many other shooters during that time.
I love the art for two reasons:

1. It’s simple, charming, and nostalgic.

2. I view it as a defense mechanism against the onslaught of modern gaming that’s locked in a race to the lowest common denominator (i.e. “Stay away! This game isn’t for you!” ;) )
> The tooling idea is particularly appropriate for JavaScript since many developers actually code in TypeScript and rely on compilers such as Babel, Webpack or the TypeScript compiler to output JavaScript.

Hot take
Nit: what you're describing is Free Software as put forward by the FSF, not Open Source as put forward by the OSI.

I realize I'm the one who used the combo acronym first, but this is a discussion about the OSI, which exists to champion the cynical company-centric version of the movement, and for that version my description is accurate.
Add structs/value types, pattern matching and we can freeze the language until end of days.
No MSG.
Split it into a thousand pieces and send each to separate, distant stars. Put three in a Phantom Zone.
The Lost Tribes of RadioShack: Tinkerers Search for New Spiritual Home (2010)
I don't remember a paper with that name, I think it must be more recent than my time there.
> Is there a client-side way to tell if an SMS is sent via TCR?

The TCR is a list that wireless carriers use to decide if they'll let a SMS message proceed or not.

I doubt the message itself indicates that it was weighed against the TCR list (it would require modifying the message).
It can run Windows 11. Presumably you could also dual-boot.
And Mongols conquered almost whole of Asia in less than 100 years, what's your point?
Factorio is more fun than any side project. While it hits a similar area of the brain as programming does (the problem solving zone), it's definitely not the same.
The Aztek would have been a cult car if it wasn’t GM. It had the hoseable cabin, the center console was a removable cooler, etc.

But it had all of the stupid GMisms. Every expense was spared. It turned out to be like the malnourished love child of a Nissan Xterra and a Ford Windstar.
Then shouldn't they allow us to self-host the entire stack? That would surely put me at ease; if I can self-host my own "Apple private cloud" on my own hardware and firewall the heck out of it (inspect all its traffic), that's the only way any privacy claims have merit.
> This is a value system disagreement.

Sorry, this is not a value system disagreement. It's definitions, pure and simple. As I mentioned in my sibling comment, the definition (and thus boundary) has been pretty sharp and clear for decades: the user group. If you're a standard user, such as in the "Users" or "Guests" groups, you're behind the boundary. If you're in the "Administrators" group, you're already past it.

That's all there is to it.
It depends on your kind problems and the community, so it depends is the answer.
Personally been using anveo.com with a small GCP cloud run [1] I made to forward SMS to my email. It is the only provider I found that is allowed for 2FA most of the time. I think it is because its numbers are not in the VoIP range.

[1] https://github.com/Sytten/AnveoSMS
I submit that if "but I could be doing something productive instead" is a common thought when you are trying to have fun, that is the problem and not Factorio. It's perfectly ok to just have fun and not build something meaningful.
It's telling when people resort to ad hominem. The government is in the process of confiscating tens of billions of dollars from him - if thats not a real consequence I don't know what is. Wether or not that ruling only happened because of his political position is a different matter, it's not like the judge mentioned it was because of his political posts on social media - like other officials have [1].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-11/la-me-sp...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821837

>photomatt 14 days ago

>It actually is an excellent website, and the repo is here: https://github.com/bullenweg/bullenweg.github.io
Seems to me like a demagogy to compare income taxes to social security taxes. Social security tax is just a mandatory participation in government social security program, which has personal costs and also personal benefits. Income tax has no associated personal benefits.
To your point, they are coincidences of the base you are using, not really any inherently interesting imo
> least claiming neutrality after baking that sub stack title needs an explanation or apology

I don’t think the ability to deliver a nonpartisan lecture hinges on one’s “neutrality”, which is largely a fictional quality in human beings.

> avoid a hatch act violation

I don’t think it’s even hypothetically relevant to this case, but if recent years have taught us anything, it’s that nobody involved in US politics, law enforcement, or government is interested in seeing the Hatch Act enforced. I’d be delighted if that weren’t the case.
It is not really.. there is massive polutionnof waterways. Iowa is one off the worst states for nitrogen pollution. In that state "just 24% of stream segments and 30% of lakes that were sampled were deemed healthy." [1]

I was traveling through iowa recently. There were ducks floating face down dead in polluted waterways. Algae so thick it looks like you could walk on it. It is quite bad..

[1] https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/03/15/more-than-half-of...
True, but the fact that a revolutionary social movement was organized across an entire global region was enabled because of the internet was what I was trying to highlight.
It also convinced me to never join the army, because I was a bullet magnet haha.
Not really shocking- I live in the desert southwest and can see the remnants of the genocide of natives here. There are plenty of folks who are at peace with the "historical necessity" of that mass murder, so it doesn't ever surprise me when the ancestors of those folks are at peace with similar violent efforts to take a space.

I can't ignore it, but the more I look at this place the less it seems like anything truely new- it feels like a product of the kinds of governments that rule the world at the moment.
Ha yes, definitely better in that regard. Also they now have a lidar too so navigation is trivial, but the M0 controllers and the Pi 4 are all really underpowered for ROS 2 so... there are still various issues lol.
Your implication that the definition of fun excludes meaningfulness is equally problematic.