skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> US was designed to have a true republic (not a democratic republic) but with a democratic lower house as a counterbalance to a non democratic upper house. The 17th amendment screwed us as it made sure that all the drama from the lower house spread to both houses, and now our congress is entirely captured by lobbyists as every legislator now has to worry about financing campaigns. It wasn’t supposed to work that way.

That's a pretty rose-tinted description. The 17th amendment came about because the Senate was cartoonishly corrupt under the previous system. It should tell you something that it was ratified by the very state legislatures whose power it diminished.
It sounds like a clone of Cloudflare hyperdrive and others:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/hyperdrive/get-started/
Awesome! I've long felt that if most devs (especially web devs and/or javascript people) knew about Gnome's excellent javascript support (gjs) they would be much more likely to switch OSes and build some really neat apps. I've been surprised at the lack of interest/enthusiasm. My theory is that it's mostly an awareness problem with a handful of papercuts/sprinkling of technology insufficiency (such as "I'm a React person so I'd like to use React to build a UI), but I'd love to hear from people if that's not the case.

Really cool project! Looking forward to seeing what people do with it :-)
That's me. I'm a double bassist, a kind of blue collar laborer. ;-) It's worst during the winter. It's a shame because I prefer to use a touch screen on my laptop.
I've been on both sides of the table for both full-time and consultants. The first rule of humans is that they vary widely within categories (even if there are statistically significant differences in population average), so I urge people to take all of the anecdotes on this page with many grains of salt.

That said, here are some of my own, condensed across experiences:

- An executive wanted to use ML, couldn't get enough political capital to build a full-time team (and didn't have the knowledge to interview candidates anyway). A very small consulting firm, sourced from high personal trust networks, got an MVP going. That led to a FT team getting built. Code was a mess but started the flywheel and after several years everyone agrees it was a great ROI

- A large company had a tiny team using a technology that would be standard for FAANG but they had no support or training. Zero progress for about a year. Not important enough to throw huge money at but that link in the chain was becoming a bottleneck for the core product. A consultant came in explicitly as a multi-week trainer, and but the team just never got up to speed. Consultant's code examples grew until they were just direct bugfixes, and though nobody was happy, at least the crisis was resolved.

- A product finally reaches product market fit. Executives decide to hire only after the team is drowning in tech debt. But it has to be full time, and it has to be junior. It takes months, then requires training. Tech debt is twice as bad as the original crisis level when the new hire becomes value positive. For some bizarre reason he leaves after exactly 2 years.

Many consultants have a branding problem: Their biggest victories are fixing a disaster that their clients would rather not talk about publicly. Hard to put on a billboard, if you ever want work from that client again!
Yep, every knob I've ever had on a stove works this way and makes them trivial to clean. In the meantime, during regular use they're guaranteed to never stop functioning because they got wet or oily.
I can't believe they didn't get immediately cancelled after they put a hole in a navy destroyer.
My late model Subaru uses this cheap solution for the protection of the infotainment system. If it trips I need to wait for it to cool down for about an hour.
Good for them, bad for everyone else.
I didnt, I wont, and nor did the parent post. You seem to have conjured up a scenario just to be condescending. Dont do that. CarPlay or anything else designed to use while driving should never fail to the point of distracting the driver. If it does, its broken and not fit for market.

IMO in this instance, Sirri should have recognised that CarPlay was activated, that it had not got an answer it recognised multiple times in a row, and failed safe saying 'Pull over to continue' or something like that. Hiding the current navigation map and asking the same question over and over again to the point of distraction shows the system is not fit for pupose and shouldnt be used whilst driving.
Amending the Constitution is a metaphysical impossibility at this point. The Electoral College exists to give outsized political power to rural states, and they aren't going to agree to give that up.
I mean, sure, but there exist some recipes where the inclusion of a thick potato skin is not appropriate, and a russet potato ought be peeled if that is the variety of potato being used. A thin-skinned potato like the idaho gold can sometimes be used in these recipes without peeling.

The russet skin would of course not render the dish inedible, but the final result would be much more different than what the recipe was trying to achieve.

"Need" here means "required to yield desired final product" not "necessary or else you'll die".
Author here. The point of posts on this devlog is to show ways in which you can replace a bunch of different specialized, proprietary mobile apps of dubious provenance with a single general, reputable open source app (LÖVE running my carousel.love file, which is a cross-platform zip file containing all source code and live-editable on a computer).

If you have a favorite chess clock product you use, and it has any niceties or features that cause you to favor it over this little thing made with 100 lines of code, I'd love to hear about them. I want this thing to be a real product that competes with real products on mobile devices, but that can also stabilize and become a durable artifact that doesn't require funding or a business underlying it. I don't have the product/UX chops to do this, but it has time since it'll never run out of money. So all we all have to do is spend 10 years polishing and refining it without adding too many features :)
I appreciate the obligatory silent down votes on a political hot button issue.

I'd be interested to hear why someone disagrees with me here to go along with a down vote.
Thus an emphasis on engineering. Building rockets is no walk in the park either.
...and Skitt's Law also strikes: sorry, I said "first five declensions" when I meant "first five grammatical cases."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
It’s funny seeing Shannon as an old man. Yeah, sure, it was a long time ago and everyone gets old. For some reason, in my mind’s eye he is immortalized as the ~35yr old of his prime.
Why they don't need to be wet?
$200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for North Korea in joining war
Needs login. I don't want that.
Notes (builtin to iOS)

Reminders (builtin to iOS)
Mechanical punch-card voting machines fell out of use after the 2000 election showed that they're more error-prone than either electronic voting machines or paper ballots.
Can Nintendo's Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can
How does it stack up against GitHub's own search?
Oh that's interesting. I don't remember the last time I had to register to vote but it was probably done at the DMV who would already have on record my birth certificate or similar.

If just an ID is used, how do they confirm someone is a citizen? Can you only get an Illinois ID if you are eligible to vote?
Any link on the HN front page gets flooded with bot traffic.
I’m working on an SDLC app that will end up with inspirational sayings as interstitials once I run out of bigger features/desperately want to procrastinate.

I’ll stick heavy hitters from Goldratt, Fowler, Feynman et al in there, but there’s going to be a “dark humor” and “snarky” category and this will definitely go into one of them, along with some Ambrose Bierce.
I’m in full agreement with everyone here who hates touch screens, and I also spent a long time looking for induction ranges with physical knobs (IIRC there was only one model in the universe with them), and was so mad that I had to get one with touch buttons…

But I gotta say, the ability to just simply wipe the whole stove surface with a towel and be done has more than made up for the touch buttons sucking.

With physical knobs: Take knobs off and soak them, use a towel and wipe a circle around the nub that’s left, try not to leave a circular streak pattern, put knobs back. Or just wipe the knobs with the towel and get close enough on the surface.

Touch buttons: wipe the whole thing in big strokes, you’re done.

I clean the whole surface after every use now, because it’s just so damned easy.
I agree that it does feel overly complex, and generally speaking I loathe complexity, but Next.js does do a lot for you in exchange for that complexity. If you don't want/need the fancy client-side/SSR/SSG abilities to really optimize your app, then some of the hoops feel unnecessary, but if you really want that sweet edge, it's fantastic.

That said, I rarely choose Next.js nowadays because even though it enables some real incredible performance/optimization, Phoenix (Elixir) is still great and uses a much simpler (IMHO) model. That could just be because I'm used to that model though from many, many years of Rails and MVC patterns in GUIs before that.
I am not an American diplomat…???
I did this (3 elections in a row from 2018-2020), and .... now I don't vote, because it became clear to me that the process is not trustworthy.
Julien Tayon: Tune your guitar with Python
I am an author, and I don't think I'm entitled to have my work protected for 90+ years. Also, "piracy" is inevitable so the assumption is built-in my strategy.
The studio driver also opens up some functionality that the game driver does not.
Duolingo Unhinged Growth to a $500M Business – Cem Kansu (Duolingo)
Oof, I’m about to buy our new family car which has not a single knob anywhere, they all were replaced by those sensitive switches and sliders.
Parallel track:

- MacBASIC: Mac GUI programming w/o Pascal or C https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html (which is something I'll never forgive Bill Gates for)

- HyperCARD (also on that list, and agree with almost all points made): It was magic to get into Developer mode and to create stacks --- it's unfortunate that Asymetrix Toolbook didn't get further, nor that the Heizer stack for converting HyperCard stacks to Toolbook wasn't more widely available, and a shame that Runtime Revolution which became Livecode reneged on their opensource effort --- hopefully someone will make good on that: https://openxtalk.org/

Unfortunately, I never got anywhere w/ Interfacebuilder.app or Objective-C....

- Lua: real variables in TeX! (and latex), and one gets METAPOST as well --- even recursion becomes simple: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/723897/breaking-out-...

- OpenSCAD: Make 3D things w/o having to use a full-fledged CAD program

- BlockSCAD: Make 3D things w/o typing: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ (though to be fair, https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor also allows that)

- PythonSCAD: variables and file I/O for OpenSCAD (though to be fair, RapCAD had the latter, it was just hard to use it w/o traditional variables) https://pythonscad.org/

Still working through a re-write of my OpenSCAD library in Python: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview and am hopeful that a tool like to https://nodezator.com/ will make that graphically accessible (w/o going into OpenSCAD mode to use OSGE).
Probably a technicality, but he did still decide to concede. The Supreme Court only ended his specific bid for a recount, they didn't call the election winner or end his campaign.
So every person needs deploy before using it.
AFAIK, car manufacturers want to bring more software in house as a core competency, which is probably good because the "Tier 1"s are generally even worse at software than them and have worse aligned incentives.
That's rolling over and giving up early.

What about things that both Baptists and bootleggers agree are false?

What about things that (assuming we have some latter-day John Snows) can easily be traced to an unreliable source?

What about AI generated footage?
I say this from my experience with people, more than with managers in particular, so bear that in mind: It's actually usually pretty easy to repair first impressions. Ask for another brief meeting with him, or shoot him an email, or try to just casually run into him at work, and communicate your concerns, reframed in a way that's likely to land with him.

For example, I would consider saying something like "Hey, I was thinking over our meeting the other day and realized I might have given you the wrong impression. I was feeling a little uncertain with the recent shakeups, and might have been a bit too focused on establishing my role in the department going forward, rather than listening to you and understanding what you need from me. I'm actually really looking forward to working with the new broader team and getting a more direct understanding of what the new director's previous team that your team is getting merged with needs from your product! Please let me know if there's anything immediate I can do to help smooth this transition."

I wrote that more as an email, but you can say more or less the same things in person. Just reassure him that you're going to play ball, give an understandable, mostly-true justification for your poor communication that's slightly more politic than "I thought I was about to be fired lol," and communicate that you understand and are committed to what he already said he wanted (working more with the other team) and you'll probably be fine.
It's crazy to me that in 2025 we still haven't figured out python dependency management
> there is a good chance it affected the outcome

Of the state? Maybe. Of the election? No. Biden won 306 to 232 [1]. Pennsylvania only has 19 EVs. It wasn’t the tipping-point state.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_president...
Most people who use an Apple mouse don't really find it to be "an issue". If by chance you ignore the days or weeks of reminders about charging, plugging in for 1-2 minutes will give you charge to last an entire day.

The people who complain about it are almost exclusively people who don't actually use it, but love to complain about it.
https://gist.github.com/romainl/a3ddb1d08764b93183260f8cdf0f...

This script in your path means that after you say pull code and have merge conflicts, "git jump" will open vim with the quickfix list populated with the locations of the conflicts.
Another great Harder Drive to add to the list: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio

Tom7 made a similar one in Tetris as part of the above video
Yes, they are binned different, I could have phrased that even more clearly (whether bins of the same silicon should be considered different SOCs or not, I can see arguments for either though agree more with the former), but that does not affect the point I made.

Let's look at Nvidia again. AD102 is used in the RTX 4090 Ti, RTX 4090, RTX 4080 Ti, as well as a less common variant of the RTX 4070 Ti. Each uses the same underlying silicon, just differently binned with certain parts fused off, similar to Apple.

Yet, and this was the point I made, what Apple currently does would be equivalent to Nvidia just calling all of them RTX 4090 Ti (they are the same underlying design after all), with reviewers and customers left to hunt down the specific core counts and differences between them.

And as mentioned, Nvidia tried something even more egregious with the 4080 12Gb, though (this time) were faced with such backlash that they pulled it back. Whether with Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, Nvidia or AMD, every time these practices aren't pointed out by the media, we get closer to a world were a 4080 12Gb will be pushed onto consumers who assume launch day reviews of the "proper" 4080 show equivalent performance.
See also Fitt's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law) and with regards to Apple OS design, Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Tognazzini), now at Norman Nielson Group.
Bailouts are constructive under only one circumstance: when all shareholders lose a proportional stake in the company in exchange for financial intervention, with said stake going to the government/taxpayers as a public control/interest.

As in, if a company receives a bailout equivalent to 50% of the company’s market value, all shareholders have their stake in the company decreased by 50%, permanently and irrevocably.
I kind of wonder if touchscreens and apps are a way of firing customers. Get compliant customers that won't complain and will rent autopilot or buy range upgrades their cars already had the hardware for.
My wife and I are using https://shared-lists.com mainly for shopping.
Free, no-login, no-AI checklist app.
Neovim? There are plugins for Llama
TodoMVC/examples has 40+ open source todo apps written with various popular and obscure frameworks: https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/tree/master/examples
To activate a touchscreen they simply need to have capacitive properties.
I would place the blame for that on the GNU coreutils project. At best, it’s feature creep. At worst, it’s embrace and extend on the POSIX standard.
Interesting, I was a year out from high school and remember it being really contentious. I just don't remember the phrase "stolen" being thrown around, but that would have been very easy for me to not notice at the time or forget since then.
> I don't know why people feel this need to take the words that someone said and add an entirely new meaning to them.

I am genuinely curious to your definition of boycott and how that is different to what you and the original commentor are talking about. Note that this is not to say that I do or do not approve of a boycott in this case, rather I find it intriguing that you seem to argue that boycotts in general make no sense.

Also note that my comment is a question, and though I understand it can be read sarcastically, was actually not meant as such and so the entire reply you made is mostly an adversarial situation playing out in your head.
I played around with gjs in 2013, a long time ago. It’s cool in theory but in practice super frustrating to work with. There was no access to normal JS/npm ecosystem at the time; although now the bundler situation probably means you can import some stuff that will work. The debugging / error handling situation was abysmal with a mistake using the native APIs possible to crash the desktop environment and possibly kill all your GUI processes.

If it’s improved a ton maybe it’s interesting; but “you can build or customize gnome with JS” is not really exciting to me because “using gnome” is not something I want to do. I would much rather learn Apple’s toolkit and Swift than invest any amount of time in Gnome.
No, that sounds like conventional autofill.

In Excel the function is called Flash Fill.

If you haven't before, try Flash Fill. It seemed like black magic back when LLMs were not a thing.
How does a post like this gather so many upvotes? There are a bajillion "check list" apps on github
My induction cooktop has the worst touch buttons that constant beep and sense pots, tongs or other stuff as well. Very annoying.
How much space does this take? Both digitally and physically, for the stuff you have in print form?
Exactly. The guy I'm thinking of has a small number of very happy clients and he can choose who he wants to work with. It's funny that at the high end, it seems like things get easier. You don't have to haggle over an hour or two. You name your price and deliver super high value to people who are happy to pay.

It makes me think of "The Wolf" from Pulp Fiction.

"It's about thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten."
You're going to need redundancy of some sort. The Enderman can just steal your read (head)block.
An example of this could be Postman or your favorite Git GUI.

You can also learn HTTP networking and curl, as they are the underlying principles of Postman, and learn Git graphs instead of using a Git GUI tool.

Next time you're confronted with a problem, instead of starting with "let's solve this with library X or framework Y," begin by asking "what are we trying to solve?" and then explore multiple options to solve that problem.

A technique I often employ is to first ask what the complexity of the problem is, then evaluate the complexity of each potential solution.
For instance, the goal might be implementing automatic deployments, but the solution became way more complex than the original stated goal.

The technique often stil lead you to popular solutions, but it could also point you toward simpler, less conventional alternatives. Sometimes even eliminating problems by side stepping them completely.
I was fishing for that answer. Glad to hear this is the universal answer (not well implemented)
This seems pretty decent. It's 1) by a reputable site, 2) says it doesn't collect any data, 3) doesn't share any data with third parties. Only criticism I have is that 4) it's proprietary and liable to stop working on new devices if the for-profit company funding it loses interest in it. Whereas OP depends on an open source project with very different incentives (won't lose interest; someone with interest will fork it; but on the other hand it's not going to be arsed to go through painful app store review. You'll need to download and run the raw apk. For as long as Android phones owned by an ad company allow that.)

Still, 3/4 is pretty good!
YouTube how-to videos.
I rented a model 3 from hertz a while back. First time in a model 3, and I couldn't figure out how to lock the car. I finally figured out how to lock it on the touchscreen, but then I would open the door and get out and it would unlock again.

I finally figured out two ways to lock the car, but it took a bunch of web searches to get it.
My "favorite" are these pepper grinders, milk frothers etc that have a usb c plug but only work with usb a to c cables since they do not include the two resistors that are needed to enable 900mA on usb c to c cable. And if anyone says cost reduction, SMT resistors are like 0.1 cent or less... Seems just stupid.
Also, when it comes to cars, and probably other devices/vehicles in the future, they are increasingly operating themselves. You can buy FSD for Tesla and drive for hours in mixed highway and city streets without having to intervene. When you do intervene you can take control for 15 seconds and then give back control to the system. At that point, why put in buttons to optimize the experience for human drivers? This is true for other cars as well, but to a lesser extent, but the direction is clear.
How else are you going to sync your list across devices? It's Microsoft, be very surprised if you didn't have an account for any of their services.
You know what I really want to see? A new version of backpages but with peer review arms other safety tools for sex workers.

Like Upwork where the client rates and reviews the SW but the SW rates and reviews the client. New accounts on either side are treated more skeptically but also the power users are also more easily identified.

When backpages was shut down I spent a few days playing around with it but ultimately between the legal risk (which I'm fine with, generally), the social risk of being the guy who runs a SW website (even though I've never hired a SW before, myself), and the internal debate I had about trafficking (I was pretty convinced my system would protect girls from trafficking but I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I did actually enable someone to be trafficked.

I think you have a valuable website and I don't think enough people are willing to openly operate in this area.