skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In recent years I had a manager who read a lot of pop-psychology and self-help books. His 1:1s turned into pseudo therapy sessions where he tried to assume the role of therapist. He and I did not get along because I politely changed the subject back to work and the office every time he tried to get me to “open up” about my childhood, my home life, my fears and anxieties, and other topics.

I thought he was a weird outlier, but I joined an invite-only Slack for management a while ago where I’d estimate 1/4 of the topics in the #1-on-1s channel are from managers trying to psychoanalyze their team or act as therapists. The good news is that the Slack is very good about correcting these people about their role and what is appropriate for work. The bad news is that these new managers are getting the idea from somewhere that they need to be some type of therapist and patriarch of the team. It feels like a weird iteration of new-age management philosophies that breed in B-list business books and social media like LinkedIn.
america is nothing if not the land of opportunity to make stupid decisions and have to live with the results
Not disagreeing, but I find it very ironic that there’s little difference in performance between Excel as a native app and as a web app. I don’t know if that mostly reflects the technical prowess of the web dev team or the inefficiencies of the native app.
Thank you for this comment. I know the US is different from where I live, but the distrust shown in other comments just made me very depressed.
None of this makes any sense at all. This sounds like it belongs in the same category as gold-plated HDMI connectors improving your TV's image quality.

Some comments suggest it's because it's cooked at a higher temperature than boiling. That doesn't matter because the inside of the potato obviously never goes above boiling, since it continues to have lots of water inside after being cooked. The same exact effect should be achievable simply with deep-frying the potato at the same temperature.

Other comments suggest something somehow preserves the potato's flavor more than other methods. But that's not how cooking/flavor works. If the rosin (or boiling water or frying oil) were seeping into the inside of a potato then sure any or all of them could be leaching out flavor compounds, or reacting with existing compounds... but they're not.

All this is doing is heating the inside of the potato, where literally the only variables are the amount of heat being applied and the moisture escaping at the surface. If you were eating the skin then yes there's a massive difference between boiling vs. frying vs. roasting. But not on the inside (except for how much water vapor escapes which is a question of temperature and wrapping). And this article is literally about eating only the inside of the potato, since the rosin itself is apparently not fit for consumption.

Best I can guess, this is just a novelty thing about eating potatoes encased in newspaper that has wound up essentially glued to a hard potato shell? Seems like it's more about the experience, and nothing whatsoever to do with flavor or taste.
That's true - but they're already targets for Chinese espionage. This just another vector. And once that I can't do much about this on a personal level.
Mayor Adams issues drought watch for NYC
If we lose desktops as a platform to run arbitrary code without permission from the giants then we'll be in a very dire place.
I taught both of my kids. Dark room, by themselves, door left open a gap so they could hear us talk. Only stayed with them a few minutes to calm down before i left the room if they had falled asleep by then or not. This was just how i felt it had to be done and even though my wife had doubts it worked out extremly well. Or maybe i was just lucky.
Sysprog-JLS/SIM6502: A 6502 Simulator / Emulator that runs under MVS 3.8J (TK5)
I'm an Excel person who is branching into PowerShell. Similar "no tools required" approach.
It still kills me that Altsys/Aldus/Macromedia let their NeXT codebase for Altsys Virtuoso whither (v2 was essentially Freehand 4 w/ a couple of unfixed bugs) so that when Rhapsody was announced they weren't ready for it.

In some other timeline, I am using a Mac w/ a current version of Macromedia Freehand running on Rhapsody and I am a _much_ happier person.

As it is, I'm about to give up on interactive vector drawing and just code everything either using METAPOST or OpenSCAD, or some mix of both.
I mean... I have some spreadsheets that are pretty complicated and almost certainly could be a fully fledged program but, well it's already there and I don't need to figure out whatever framework / library I need to present the data as a PDF, excel already does that...

I 100% get the appeal of excel for many tasks and realistically when used as a tool it is extremely powerful and removes a lot of things (like how to display the data) out of what I need to care about.
People are very weird. 10% more vulnerable to me would be a story about “I’m not very good at painting but I like it” or “I have 6 toes on my left foot”. As opposed to divorce, bipolar, etc.
I've been curious about AdonisJS, and I think I'll give it a try thanks to your comment.

Recently, I've been fascinated by the "batteries included" back end frameworks of Rails, Laravel, and Django, but I've written TypeScript for pretty much my entire career, and it's just easier to keep it that way than to switch now.

What are your thoughts so far in your testing? Could you compare it to any of those other frameworks I mentioned?
Soon after I started my first IT job, my boss had me fill out a spreadsheet with everybody’s local desktop password so we could do updates when they aren’t around. It was a very awkward week asking people for their passwords. That was almost 30 years ago, and I still remember a few people’s passwords.
'Welfare for the rich': how farm subsidies wrecked Europe's landscapes
I may be being silly about this, and I probably should at least try how well google sheets works for me as a regular part of my workflow, but I'd really prefer an actual local piece of software than a web app.
Demo: Exploiting leaked timestamps from Google Chrome extensions
No. Not without allowing me to configure what gets synced and what does not.
You're making this out to be some British/American difference but it isn't. OP is just wrong about potatoes.

In America also, baked potatoes are baked skin-on whole in the oven. Often wrapped in aluminum foil.

Roasted potatoes are cut up, tossed in oil, salt, and sometimes other herbs, and baked that way.
Pennsylvania has oil and was formerly a British colony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_oil_rush
There are many reasons.

1. Aliases can work with the callee scope.

alias MY_VAR_MODIFIER='local foo=bar'

MY_VAR_MODIFIER () { local foo=bar; }

Calling the alias by the name will set the callee's variable foo, while calling the function does nothing (local foo is local to the function and never leaves scope).

It also works similarly for working with the set ($@). You can do `set --` stuff and it works on the scope of the callee.]

Aliases on most shells also don't need to be fully valid _before_ expansion. You can alias a compound command:

alias foreach='for EACH'

foreach in $MYVAR #perfectly valid for most shells.

Only ksh93 will complain about it, it requires aliases to be complete valid shell programs.

Finally, alias calls don't appear in xtrace (set -x). Only the final expansion will appear.

TL;DR aliases in scripts work a lot like macros.
> as most high tax countries

Yet you listed two relatively tiny countries. Which don’t even have (relatively) very high taxes.

France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece etc. all have higher taxes on labor

https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/tax-wedge.html?oecdc...

e.g. Denmark and Norway are closer to US than to France

> have full employment and very high standards of living for decades now

Yet those standards have barely improved over those decades. Prior to 2009 the gap between US and the EU was closing, not it is the complete opposite.
The article linked in the post mentions specifically 15.1, which released a few days ago. The article in your comment is from August 2024.

>Starting with MacOS Sequoia 15, the easy bypassing of this feature with e.g. holding Control when clicking the application icon is now no longer an option, with version 15.1 disabling ways to bypass this completely.
Excel is probably the most useful application ever made. Pretty much every professional services implementation and technical account management engagement is done via excel.

For me, I've used it for budgets, to-do lists, etl, reporting, financials. Its data handling utility is pretty much unmatched. It's super easy at this point to see anything with it.

It's well worth any price for sure. It's really the only reason I have a 365 subscription at this point. And like everyone else, I doubt I've used more than 2% of it.
Context-Augmented Code Generation Using Programming Knowledge Graphs
Ah. What a refreshingly hopeful story from the German car industry after the whole VW and EV subsidies disasters.
Codebases outside of security-contexts are rarely audited, much less professionally so. The culture of code reviewing PR's from 14 years ago is a little different from today and is also why any "quick hacks to make things work" should always have some form of "//HACK: REVIEW OR REMOVE BY <DATE>" attached to it to make it easy to find.

From a security perspective there are only two kinds of code bases: open & closed. By deduction one of those will have more eyeballs on the codebase than the other even if "nobody looks".

Case in point: It may have taken 14 years but someone looked. Had the code base been closed source that may never have happened because it might not have been possible to ever happen. It's also very easy to point to the number of security issues that never made it into production because it was caught in an open source code review by passerbys and other contributors while the PR was waiting to be merged.

The fact it was caught at all is a point for open source security - not against it. Even if it took 14 years.
It's funny how people in this thread are arguing that the 10% isn't a big deal when we have TFA describing how they shared personal details about their divorce upon hearing this prompt, and that other people apparently shared even more intimate things.

There are ways of lighten the mood that are decidedly less abusive, such as "tell us something funny about yourself" or "what is your hobby?". You don't have to like such questions either but at least they're not open invitations for trauma dumping.
“Well she was still guilty of something”
“Well she would have spied if she could”
Feeling relieved HN comments sections aren’t responsible for handling death row appeals
Study finds comb jellies can reverse age
Thank you, this looks cool, bookmarked!
Will WIRED be advocating the same penalty for everyone who has violated this law?

Odd that they've never turned this up before now, in all their previous reporting on Musk and his enterprises.
Cynicism is a cope for not doing the work. Minimum effort is exhausting for the long term.
Complicated interpolation can be lexed as a regular language if you treat strings as three separate lexical things, eg in JavaScript template literals there are,

`stuff${
}stuff${
}stuff`

so the ${ and } are extra closing and opening string delimiters, leaving the nesting to be handled by the parser.

You need a lexer hack so that the lexer does not treat } as the start of a string literal, except when the parser is inside an interpolation but all nested {} have been closed.
I can agree with the "lyrical philosopher" quote, but for anyone with a background in science that think that Bruno Latour was a "serious man", I suggest reading the book that made him famous: "Science in Action". It's so bad that it's funny. Out of his 7 rules for studying experimental science, the third one is outstanding:

> Since the settlement of a controversy is the cause of Nature's representation, not its consequence, we can never use this consequence, Nature, to explain how and why a controversy has been settled. (Science in Action)

Bruno Latour was among the selected few that were criticized in Sokal and Bricmont's "Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science".
I object to touch screens being used for ESSENTIAL controls needed to drive the vehicle --- primarily for safety and convenience reasons. Fiddling with a touch screen while driving is fundamentally bad and even illegal in many cases.

A competent, experienced driver should be able to instinctively operate any vehicle without training, reference material or questions. Anything other than this is a sign of basic design failure in my opinion.

I don't object to touch screen being used for things like setup, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, navigation and as an alternative backup to physical or voice controls while the vehicle is STOPPED.

I'm open to the idea of voice being used to replace some NONESSENTIAL manual controls. This could actually be a safety improvement. For example, lots of accidents happen when people try to fiddle with the radio.
>don’t use 9 different fonts. You have ... font size, bold, underline, italics

so, what you are calling "fonts" (Arial, Times) are actually called "typefaces"

every pointsize in a typeface is a new font, and bold and italics the same.

so, we don't know if Excel is making the same common/casual error you are, but if their error message is "technically correct (the best kind of correct)", then italics and bold in each pointsize are all separate fonts, and that's what he might have too many of.
I guess when you add type safety and tests to an app like Excel, it becomes so much closer to programming languages that it makes more sense to ditch the app and just write code directly.

Even today, complex logic in Excel is mostly done through VBA, JavaScript, Python and the like.
Yes, it's a classical Buddhist symbol (and Hinduist), hence why it's used to indicate Buddhist temples on maps and appears here in Hokusai's art.
> average Norwegian

That’s the problem. You should comparing it only with states like Massachusetts, Connecticut etc. (and even then.. Norway is inflated by oil revenue, IMHO Denmark is a lot more impressive).
As an American, we have the same names for the same types of potatoes and cooking methods. I have no idea what OP is on about.

If I ordered a baked potato in a restaurant and did not receive an entire, whole, skin-on potato, optionally sliced open across the top, I would be shocked and would have a negative opinion of the restaurant.

We make roasted potatoes all the time, much like you describe. When we do it at home, we'll frequently use Idaho Gold potatoes that do not need to be peeled, and we'll skip the parboiling step. Plenty of places make this without skipping those steps, and they're delicious, just more labor intensive.
I frequently use copilot and also find that writing comments like you do, to describe what I expect each function/class/etc to do gives superb results, and usually eliminates most of the actual coding work. Obviously it adds significant specification work but that’s not usually a bad thing.
It's on the roadmap! A few other priorities are higher at the moment, but we'll be excited to see a PR for it in the meantime.
If they told me the SE was the premium phone and cost more, I would still consider it- I just like the design a lot more, however I wish they would bring back the even smaller SE1 form factor. I'm not watching movies or playing games- I don't care how big the screen is. I just want it to be small, rugged, and light but still secure and work with modern apps for things like 2FA and remote entry systems.
How to work with Dynamic Island in the Flutter application
I really like it when developers and designers add little details to an app. It shows that they really care about their user. In this article, I will discuss how to make your app a little cuter for the user with Dynamic Island and a little pet.

https://github.com/khlebobul/dynamic_island_pet
I guess my point was it won’t be a “tidal wave” of solved security issues. No all the effort that went into find buffer overflow and use after free errors just gets shifted to combing through code for logic errors and missed opportunities to tighten up checks. It’s not going to be 50-70% reduction. Maybe half that? I mean it would help, but it’s not going to fix the problem in a huge way at all.
All nice and welcome. At what point browser becomes full blown OS with the same functionality and associated vulnerabilities yet still less performant as it sites on top of other OS and goes through more layers. And of course ran and driven by one of the largest privacy invader and spammer of the world
The guardrails should have prevented Trump's 2016 election, but they didn't. I'm sorry to say that any remaining guardrails are nearly worn down to the nubs, especially with the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing the president to essentially act as a king.

When half the country is angry and foolish enough to select someone like Trump and his MAGAs to lead them, there's only so much you can do other than waiting for the next generation(s) to replace them.
They are not advocating, they are reporting. Don't blame the messenger.
I don't where is "around there" but https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/con/17848 says:

Très familier. Stupide, imbécile, idiot.
Ooooo thanks for the rare gem of comment to give me fun things to look up.
Show HN: OpenQuest, connect with people around a shared goal for a short time
Hey everyone!

I built a little side project called OpenQuest over the last three weeks, and I'm looking for some feedback to see if it's worth taking further.

The idea is simple: it's a place to create a chat room where you can connect with people (a maximum of 8) who have the same goal as you, for a short time (7 days for now).

Think of it as a way to stay motivated, hold each other accountable, or simply work together with new people on something specific.

Some examples can be:

- Following a programming course
- Reading a book
- Getting back to the gym
- Cleaning up your home
- Shopping for a mechanical keyboard

For example, here's a room I created to get things going: https://openquest.app/rooms/6

Why did I build this?

Mostly as a response to what the internet feels like these days. Social media is to me an overwhelmingly negative time waster, where it feels like we're uniting more around things we hate than common interests. And search engines are so SEO-optimized that it's now almost impossible to find new and genuine things. Crowdsourcing research, even for something simple like shopping for a new graphics card, seems like it could be more enjoyable with a small group of people going through the same thing.

And if anyone is interested: the tech stack is Elixir + Phoenix + LiveView.

I’d love to hear what you think, whether it’s positive, negative, or somewhere in between. Any feedback is helpful, please don’t hold back.

Thanks for taking a look!
If my argument is whataboutism then yours is too lol.

To be honest I’m not even sure I understand your argument besides it being, “Some people feel like this is morally bad.”

And my argument is, “I’m sure they do! But that’s life. And some people feel like this is morally good.”
NHS pilots new iPhone adapter to check patients for throat cancer
Leveraging Large Language Models for Code Translation and Software Development
Yeah, not in Safari yet and no peer-to-peer support. Maybe someday though! It will be great if all of WebRTC's features can be replaced by better, smaller-scoped APIs like this.
"I used to have anxiety over being a good developer, but then I realized that it was about hitting story points, not learning Rust. Now I deliver business value regularly and have been able to cancel my appointments with my therapist."

"Being on-call 24/7 helps me feel like I'm a part of something, fulfilling a deep want for belonging that being kicked off the Girl Scout troop created in me."

"I've always lacked a father figure. When you told me to spend less time browsing HackerNews and more time on Jira, I felt like I was part of a real family."
> Considering that each kernel / kernel size is usually custom tuned on NVIDIA, I'd say no. Working in this field at several different companies, there are likely thousands of hand-tuned variations of a simple GEMM kernel. Each one required an engineer to look at specifically, even if they're all variations on a common theme.

Lol that's absolutely not true. What you're describing is literally impossible for any company that has more than one product family on the market since each product has different scratch sizes, number of vector registers, data types supported/emulated etc.

Outside of trade show demos, kernels are codegened. What is true is there are recurring "themes/patterns" that are handled by engineers for a class of products. Lately this is flash attention...

> Again, it is trivial to write a correct opencl matrix multiply, but that's never going to be the highest performance.

I guess you work at AMD. The reason AMD ships a whole bunch of binary kernels is not because someone tuned/designed each one but because AMD doesn't have a PTX/SASS equivalent. So each kernel has to be compiled at build time for each device (it's also why they can't have LTS support for architectures).
There's PowerQuery, built into Excel. It can do some great stuff (love me some fuzzy join) but the ergonomics are apocalyptic.

This is actually the root problem of trying to improve or extend Excel--it has a truly ancient, horribly broken sharing/ipc/embedding model that is integrated into everything and can't be easily fixed or worked around.
And you should never publish your new ideas and memes, to ensure your keep your technological advantage.
>The point of democracy is not that it always makes correct or wise decisions. Rather, its main strength is in that it gives us processes to ensure the peaceful transfer of power.

Oh, you'll still find high profile people who will argue that the January 6th attack was a peaceful event, or maybe that it wasn't violent. Politics is filled with great talkers who distort reality. But also, it seems like there's a large group that isn't concerned with preserving the system. Part of Trump's appeal is that he's anti-establishment, or so they say.

I know the linked article isn't really making an explicit political point, but I'm still hung up over the mainstream dialogue. Why else are we talking about the peaceful transfer of power anyway? That conversation only picked up steam after the 2020 election.
I just started prototyping a mobile version of my app (which shares the code as my desktop app) and the result looks promising (still work-in-progress tho).

Offering a web app is indeed not trivial. Maybe Qt WebAssembly will be a viable option if I can optimize the binary and users wouldn't mind first long load time (and then the app should be cached for instant load). Or maybe I could build a read-only web app using web technology.

Currently, my focus is building a good native application, and I think most of my users care about that. But in the future, I can see how a web app could be useful for more users. One thing I would like to built is a web browser that could load both QML and HTML files (using regular web engine), so I could simply deploy my app by serving my QML files without the binary over the internet.
Show HN: Someday, Open-Source Calendly Alternative for Gmail / Google App Script
Free and open-source. Simple alternative to cal.com / calendly, built on Google-App-Script for Gmail users. Built with modern technologies like React, TypeScript, Shadcn/UI, and Vite.
I've used the Sutab pills and they were great. They are like a large multivitamin. The number of them is a little annoying (12 taken over about 30 minutes the night before, and another 12 over 30 minutes the next morning).