skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble is that all the existing xNix GUI shells suck. They suck in widely varying degrees, from ones that could suck a bowling ball through an iron water pipe, like GNOME and KDE, to ones that could merely suck a golfball through a hosepipe, like Unity and Xfce, but they all suck.

There have been GUI shells that didn't perceptibly suck at all, such as early versions of the Windows 9x shell, classic MacOS, and Acorn RISC OS, but they're all largely dead and gone now.
This is an awesome app that my partner half-joking had been asking me to build for years. Glad to see someone actually made it!
A Language a Day – A Collection of Brief Overviews to 21 Programming Languages
Taking a photo of the ballot is illegal. Also, one can just always strike the ballot before putting it in the
machine after having the completed ballot. In some places of mail in ballots it's possible to cancel the mail in ballots and vote in person after.
NEAT feels like "the path that wasn't taken" to me. It can't see the GPU speedups that matrix methods can, but offers more understandable and flexible networks.

It was the first ML algorithm i ever implemented back in highschool when it came out, there was a "Game" called NERO https://nn.cs.utexas.edu/nero/video.php that was a joy for a teenager to play with and really start to understand at a guy level, what was going on in the networks.
I used to work for a company that started using Gitprime to measure developer productivity. Gitprime would show a nice dashboard with stack ranked employees based on their git commits. Besides the obvious effect that it had on cooperation (you don’t want to help another developer lest they go before you in the stack rank) it had also funny effect on the code we wrote. For example, replacing old code with new code was penalized as “code churn”, so we had to write something like

if (false) {
// old code
}
// new code

In Golang projects we avoided pushing the vendors directory in one commit. Instead we had to strategically commit it piece by piece to satisfy “frequent small commits” metric that apparently is a signature of good developers.
And ridiculously expensive to replace for what is a glorified magnet if you happen to accidentally burn the plastic a little bit which is enough for it to becoe unusable.
The absence of recent work on reconstructing and contextualizing Marcion’s Evangelion and Apostolikon is disappointing, particularly given the implications for understanding early Christian texts and the development of the synoptic gospels. The pre-Lukan theory, which suggests Marcion’s gospel may represent a version of Luke predating the canonical text, challenges traditional views on the formation of the gospel narrative. This theory raises important questions about the so-called “Q” source, a hypothetical collection of Jesus’ sayings used by Matthew and Luke.
There's a business idea: let users buy apps that cost $10 for say $2/month, 3 months minimum. Eat the risk of users cancelling, make bank on the large minority who end up paying 50 times. Add some dark patterns and confusing language to keep your margins up. Liberally claim fraud for apps where users consistently pay $6 but you're out $10.

If you could execute this technically it's clearly a billion-dollar idea, but maybe the only people with the right connections to do it are Apple and Google.
Are health officials rejecting the idea that viruses can spread airborne? Or merely rejecting the idea that we should have some common, widespread intervention to prevent it?

It seems like there’s not much room to disbelieve the former, but plenty of sensible people could have different opinions on the latter.
All of this stuff is promising, and I hope the diagnostic side catches up as well.

Just went to a funeral this weekend for a 40 year old who died of breast cancer 4 weeks after diagnosis at her first annual mammogram.

A lot of skeptical people under 30 here haven't lived through regularly various cancer diagnoses in their friends & family group that your late 30s/early 40s starts to bring.

I don't have the data on it, but anecdotally I notice that women's cancers seem to strike 5-10 years earlier than mens even if they can be caught early & treated well.. Though apparently men have overall worse cancer survival rates.
Bring back some old school methods with a modern twist too - upload all your contacts.

Instead of just emailing everyone inviting them to join and telling them which kind friend reccomended they join - use the birthday and home address information and send them real tangible marketing material for their birthday (+ on Anniversaries, Christmas, Easter and on any day ending with a "y").
Would love to see this repeated. This is divisive, and so many arguments spawned.

It would be good to replicate it, just to put down some of the naysayers that quibble over a point or two saying it was staged or influenced.

And, to gain more knowledge about the causes and effects. We have more information today, and more data gathering. Would be good to do this study again in a modern lab.

Though not sure this type of experiment would be allowed today. Thus the problem. Some of the more well known studies that had a big impact on our way of thinking, aren't even allowed to be done today.
>I once interviewed and by dint of knowing Python’s itertools module, absolutely destroyed the interviewer’s questions that they clearly thought would take some time to do.

If I see such a situation I usually ask the interviewer whether they want a concise solution using libraries or they want to see how I would do this if I had to do it from scratch.

Or I just offer both, I show that I can do it, but that I know it would be easier to do with x.

I think this is a great opportunity to show you're a good communicator as well as a problem solver.
5 (Wrong) Regex to Parse Parentheses
If it were my stated goal to create a Time Machine and kill my own grandpa, thus ending the universe, I doubt many would take that seriously, yet in this bubble, putting carts before horse is not just seriously discussed, but actually gets encouraged by the market.

Intend shouldn’t matter if we are this far from a viable path to accomplish it.

Let us not forget the last quarter decade of Yudkowsky and his ilks work on the same goal. This is merely a continuation of that, just with a bit more financial backing.
Gwern's deep dive into Calhoun's scholarship suggests taking his "results", & popular/stylized glosses thereof, with some pretty big grains of salt - in line with the fall from academic prominence described in later parts of this article. Gwern's abstract:

> Did John Calhoun’s 1960s Mouse Utopia really show that animal (and human) populations will expand to arbitrary densities, creating socially-driven pathology and collapse? Reasons for doubt.

https://gwern.net/mouse-utopia
An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy
So much this. Write code that you can reasonably expect to not be slow af, while not sacrificing readability. Then profile and optimize if necessary.
Hi! thanks for checking it out. Mostly based on my own familiarity and interest at the time, especially with NATS Jetstream being out now. That said, depending on the feedback and roadmap evolves - I have thought about, say, supporting different intermediaries where it makes sense. The API interface is more/less left open from that perspective. I am also planning on also making NATS optional, for smaller and simpler setups.
I understand that. I think it's morally repugnant and a sign of an ethically bankrupt society. I also have very strong feelings about the amount of debt we place doctors into as well as the fact that we place all the burden for malpractice on them vs. putting some of that burden on the insurance companies and administrative overhead that create the policies that make malpractice more likely. Doctors wouldn't have to be artificially scarce in order to make giant salaries if they weren't almost all in exorbitant amounts of educational debt. The lack of political will the US has to take care of sick people is a disgusting symptom of our infrastructural and institutional collapse.

Is a healthcare system where nobody cares about the desires and will of the patients a healthcare system or a sinecure producing machine for people who know anatomy and physiology?

I personally will likely be fine. I did a stint in a medical library and am literate in medical research (and can therefore take on a lot of the work that doctors previously did when they had more time with patients - I can show up to appointments/procedures with very clear recommendations and advocate for them in a way that is respected as I have the credentials to be taken seriously by medical professionals). I also have a medical doctor + several NPs in my family and can be tended to outside the system if it does collapse. I'm worried about everyone else and the society in which we're raising our children and grandchildren.
Grindr is testing an AI 'wingman' bot, CEO says
In the world where most of the work is done by robots defamatory nature of the currency might be a desired feature. I would buy bread because I hungry, but otherwise I restrain myself from spending on things I don't need. Saving the planet in the process :)
I think in US barriers of entry are lower. I've seen a video about a software developer in US that lived in the neighborhood where garbage collection company wanted to charge extra for getting out of the truck and emptying the trash bins.

This guy basically told their neighbors that he can provide same service they used to have at the same rate, collected orders and bought random used "smaller" (but still quite large) garbage truck with robotic hand to pick up the bins.

In Europe without special driving license for trucks he wouldn't be able to drive it (it weighed above 3.5T). I'm assuming other kinds of licenses are also required to ensure the collected garbage is disposed of properly.

In many places garbage collection is a service that's ordered through the local government so that the prices can be kept similar for everybody so that people from remote places (who'd need to pay more for collection) won't just toss their garbage into the forests and such.
There are some cases where you actually need physical controls.

One example is card payment terminals. Vision impaired users don't know where the buttons are for entering the pin code. On a phone they could allow the phone to read out numbers, but you don't want your pin numbers to be read out loud in a public space.
Making unspoken rules public saves everyone time and heartache.

Except perhaps where there are too many contrarians, folks looking for a problem, authors who are being intentionally vague, or acts of malicious compliance.
I worked in a place where... regardless of what I did in branches, someone else would merge it and their name would be the only thing that showed up in the git metrics, because we only looked at the final 'main' branch. I'd looked at the 'develop' - where feature branches were merged before master - and I think I had something like 75%+ of the commits (over a 14 month period). But to look at the daily dashboard, I was doing nothing, and someone who was barely in weekly meetings for more than 15 minutes was doing 95% of the work.

I didn't particularly care, until people started looking at 'dashboard metrics' to see 'who's doing what'. I wasn't initially wanting visual credit, but when my contributions were effectively erased to the casual viewer, it pissed me off...
This is why I can't contribute to google projects, you need to sign their CLA, which requires a google account.

Maybe there is a way to do it without one, but I couldn't figure it out.
Yeah, I've looked into PeerDB but in terms of self-hosting it's not really lightweight, as they depend on Temporal [0]. I'm currently optimizing for less complexity/budget, as I have just a few customers.

[0] https://docs.peerdb.io/architecture#dependencies
GLP-1 RAs can cause substantial muscle loss
29 patches: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/compare/master...edera-dev...
It's not crying wolf to ask the question (yes, leading questions can be used that way, but they are clearly asking here, not trying to imply), they presented the thing that concerned them to get eyes on it and find out if it was a problem, that seems reasonable.
Dynamic Variables – Return of the Jedi
There are plenty of kitchen appliances that have a front panel but still let you customize the rest of the front face to match the cabinets.
It's mostly the PR department of universities that boast about those big discoveries. Researchers themselves usually try to add some nuance to it.
Most programming languages ought not to be optimized for a non-programmer to read

Python 'won' mostly because non-programmers could look at it, more or less understand what was going on, and feel that this was something they probably could learn.
On my commute to work, I often run into a very sudden traffic slow-down. It's general practice round here to slow down carefully, checking rear mirrors and to put your hazard lights on as you're doing so. My hazards on my ID3 are not a proper button (it is a 'touchbutton'). It is awful, I can't find it by feel, but I want to keep my eyes on the road in these kind of situations.
Can anyone steelman the case for employee metrics and if so what are the best ones?
Things I Do to Improve My Linux Computer's Security
Facebook, Nvidia ask US Supreme Court to spare them from securities fraud suits
I don't have any experience with this, but I know that some phone brands (like Doro) exists for elderly people

https://www.doro.com/en-us/
We could do all this in Lisp more than 60 years ago, sorry.
AI search should sustain open source, not just index it
well, yeah, they are themselves goodharting the metrics that vcs use. it's fake metrics all the way down
Public sector cyber break-ins: Our money, our lives, our right to know
Yeah, totally fair.

Are you ok with a NATS dependency ? Happy to work with you in supporting a new destination like ES.

Also looking to make NATS optional for smaller/simpler setups (https://github.com/shayonj/pg_flo/issues/21)
That's kind of cool, maybe each key could be a mini apple watch screen. A digital crown mounted fairly flush into the side could handle small, precision movements with haptic feedback, and perhaps an iPod wheel.

Keen to see more of these PopTouch buttons on flat screens!
Problem with sugar isn’t that is so bad chemically from my experience, it is super mega addicting, it is way more addicting than nicotine for me for example. I don’t crave some eggs and sausage but crave sugar like crazy. So I am very likely to over consume sugar compared to other things. This is what makes is very harmful to me at least
The whole mess with them and create "unreliable allies" out of democracies will come to bite the autocracies in the ass rather soon. Every country on their border will be a south-korea, armed to the teeth having several mini-NATOs, unwilling to trade with them or share tech with them, while being willing to army anyone else resisting to the teeth. The mad zhar nailed the coffin for the age of empires.

And as much as they want to deny it, they are for new things highly dependent on the non-stagnant west.
Design over function

If they would see beyond their own circle of friends and hire someone with varied life experience, the business may actually benefit.

It's the same people who put charging ports under the mouse so that you can't use it while it is charging. Otherwise the consumers could choose to have it always plugged in, which would make it look like an "ordinary" mouse, and the designers can't allow that :-)
OTOH, a flat surface is easier to clean.

Ideal would be to put the control surface further away from the cooking surface but that won't integrate into semi-standardized kitchen designs.
> trivially gamed

Eh, there were no rewards, so no real incentive to win. The idea was just more to get the act of committing their code into their minds. Like "oh hey, everyone can see I'm at zero, maybe I should commit my work".

This was something I tried after months of poking people to commit their work.

I'd put together a whole training on what git is and why we should be using it. It came up every weekly meeting. I was grasping at straws.
peerdb was acquired by clickhouse, so if you're syncing to a destination other than clickhouse, you may see support for it wane
I am no theologian, but this seemed like an interesting topic until I started reading the article, which likely could have been summarized in a paragraph or two. The relentless onslaught of advertisements and white space made me want to claw my eyeballs out. Then the author plagiarized himself in his own article, telling us TWICE that "Q" is short for the German word “Quelle,” meaning “source”. It reads like a high-school essay that has to reach a word count.
It shouldn't spill out of the card - my problem is with the card itself. Or at least, the fact that the card hasn't expanded to make use of the window which contains it.

But then I'm coming at it from the angle of someone who views VCD files in GtkWave, and thus expects to see as much useful information as possible in a waveform view.

If it's just superficial decoration then I guess it's fine.
Meta's plan for nuclear-powered AI data centre thwarted by rare bees
Keeping the economy running is what enables people to buy bread in the first place.
No, i want the hunters to zap the prey with tiredness. Basically electron holes, hunting for free electrons, annhilating state. Neurons have something similar, were they usually prevent endless excitement and hyperfixation, which is why a coder in flow is such a strange thing.
Show HN: I Made a Bluesky Client That Renders Your Timeline as Source Code
Which, while better than buning your house down, is still needlessly annoying.

What I really want is for the controls to not be on the cooking surface at all but that only seems to be available for stovetop + oven combinations which have their own annoying limitations.
https://x.com/levelsio/status/1853203803513995718
Browser-Based LLM Playground
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct compiled for WebGPU format so it could be used in the browser
Thinking by doing is also valid.

I code similarly to how I write, which is similar to how I draw etc. I start with very rough ideas and sketches, then I gradually iterate over those, refining ideas and throwing bits away. And eventually I have a working version/first draft/etc

I just can't get things done if I were to try and think of the entire solution first before getting anything down on paper. Maybe that's an ADHD thing, needing to let the idea take form lest it runs away and I get lost in the weeds

It's less "spewing tons of code" though and more starting with an outline, stub functions and comments to break up the steps before filling those out.
> If I was researching in this field surely this is the first thing I’d try?

Let me ask a clarifying question: Are you saying that the first thing you would have tried is to synthesize bivalent molecules that link ligands of the transcription factor B cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) to inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs)?

Or are you just saying that you would have tried to drive cancer cells to self-destruct (but have no clue how)?
Nothing Releases Phone (2A) Plus Community Edition
That's not described in the documentation. Does it do that automatically or does it ask for a user action first?
Two base Mac Minis are cheaper than one Mac Mini with twice the base RAM/SSD
FWIW, It appears one of the people who saw this post asked in a comment in an issue on GitHub [1]:

> @seproDev unrelated, but what you think about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040600

.. and one of the main maintainers (ranked #14th by #commits, but a recently active maintainer) replied the following:

> False positive in virus total. Calling yt-dlp without any arguments makes no web requests.
> To expand a bit more. Our releases are built with github runners and they report back the sha hash during build. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/actions/runs/11656153929 for the release from yesterday
> You can see the commit that was built, what we merged in the last couple days, and the hash of the resulting files to check against the files in the release section.
> Those network requests are likely just other processes on the machine. I remember windows executable would regularly show microsoft servers in the "connections made" list due to windows update and telemetry still running.

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11451#issuecomment-2...
Yes, I think NATS is reasonable — I don't have operational experience with it but based on my earlier reading it seems that it can be run on a smaller budget. Is this "regular" NATS or the Jetstream variant?
Going with Ruby for the test suite but not using RSpec and Capybara is an interesting choice. Why?
I work in the medical industry where hygiene is very important and on some days I have to disinfect my hands multiple times. Capacitive touch screens ignore me regularly. There is disinfectant that allegedly retains some moisture/fat, but they can only do so much.

But here touch screens do make sense, because they are so easy to clean. I don't need them anywhere else though.
Wally Wood did "The Disneyland Memorial Orgy" (Google it) around the same time.

I'm pretty sure it was banned (not anymore, as that Google It will show).
there are plenty of things published today that push boundaries in the same way
I actually had the same deal with firewalls and prefixes, since I want to direct traffic to my server and its address obviously depends on the prefix. Turns out OpenWrt has a feature for this too [0], meaning you can use a destination address like "::1234/-56" in your firewall rules.

[0] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/firewall/fw3_configurati...
> The entire idea of multi-tier programming seems to have been vanished into oblivion

Not entirely https://eyg.run/
Similar feelings about "should". If software always behaved as it should, half of us would be unemployed.
This is a decent point.

I hadn't really thought of a good reason why we e.g. sell old army manuals with step by step guides on making almost anything but there's no (afaik) HBO mini-series "Learn guerilla warfare"
For a global catastrophe situation (WW3, asteroid) with worst case scenario consequences, here's what comes to mind:

- bootable linux usb drives which can be inserted into any PC.

- archives of programming languages - the source code for the language as well as all the libraries. Eg. mvn, npm, cargo, pip, etc.

- archive of 'important' projects on Github

Ideally, you should be able to boot from USB and compile any application without internet.

- Maps (including trails)

- Growing food - agriculture, raising animals, etc

- Medicine, chemistry, biology, pharmacology books/videos/etc

- Educational programs (like Khan Academy)

- AI models and all the dependencies required to run them offline (eg. GPU drivers, etc).

This archive would be quite clumsy if it came as just a bunch of zip files, so a search index for all this content would be of great help.

I've been long thinking about working on this Archive.. I believe there would be enough people willing to purchase it just for archival purposes.

It would come in handy if we were to travel to other planets too !

Hit me up if you think this is worth working on, I'd happily join/lead such an effort.
These days for ERP, you should make sure the contract specifies if the cost rises to a specific amount, it is canceled and the vendor refunds 50%.

Most of this I blame on the Sales People. They will promise anything to make the sale. Somehow part of the risk should be borne by the vendor.
If it’s a language I don’t know, I’d still read a book or check the doc for a tour of the syntax. I can scan one in a couple of hours and get an overview I can refer to later for a more specific question. Even if I needed it for yesterday.