skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not wrong, but I'm willing to guess the biggest reason is: Analytics
I'm not sure what you mean with dependent here.

I never said that boats or AC don't exist. Both exist, and I did saw and experimented many of them in commercial context. But not everyone can afford them plus the cost to operate them.

Sure I should broaden my horizon and even consider to look people enjoying their private jets and some helicopters. But a mere wage slave like myself will never have the chance to afford one, that's for sure.

Now let's consider back in initial context: mere mortals around me are definitely all using internet as soon as there parents will let them do so, and even a homeless person can afford a first price mobile access (2€/months) with a phone they can receive for nothing in some charity organizations like Emmaus. So affordability of access to online search is definitely several order below AC.
Not a matter of if but when. Biosurveillance costs money that farms and meat processing plants don't want to spend. So drink up that raw milk, it's totally safe.
If it "uses symlinks and caching" in the way you describe, then it isn't really "throwing everything away again", surely?

Also, how is that different from `pipx run`?
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I have never heard about this before. What exactly would happen to broken code? For example, would it skip the equivalent of the broken source line, or would it stub out a function altogether or what?
> all integers are little-endian

They really should be big-endian, because that’s network byte order.

IMHO it makes sense to use decimal-encoded ASCII digits instead and keep the protocol readable. Nothing like ‘telnet host.example 80’ followed by ‘GET / HTTP/1.0.’

> (1 bit) request_type: integer representing type of request

With two types already defined. No room for future extensions, then. Is the idea to just use another protocol altogether if change is necessary?
Wouldn't it be simpler to implement an Mobile device management app / overlay that restricts all actions but the select few.

Phone calls / SMS to 5 numbers
Clock
enforce GPS on until battery is less than 20
No smart phone functions
No data access
Among my children, my oldest got an iphone for Christmas in 2007 when he was 17. The other four got them spread out over the following ten years but progressively younger in age. I cannot say that I see a big difference in their phone usage, grades, or social development. It seems to me that they all just got more attached to the phone the longer they had it. I am starting to see some push back from my 16-year-old after reading "Stolen Focus" a few months back and I hear that other kids her age are doing the same.
> You can do DMA cheating if that’s a non-negotiable for you but it is far more expensive.

Cheap DMA cards go for couple hundred dollars which isn't all that much. Although unlike what most people tend to believe, the DMA cards do end up getting detected quite often.

> Pretty sure there’s hardware to blend both monitor outputs, though most people do two monitors I believe.

It's called a "fuser".
Kids entire social lives run on their phones. Covid accelerated this and pushed down the age for where this was true.

Denying your kid a smart phone is basically denying them a social life nowadays. It simply doesn't work unless everyone does it.
I see the good intentions, but it's too idealistic. In many families both parents work and kids are expected to get home by themselves (such was the case for me from 3rd grade onwards). Smartphones are simply a necessity for communication and Google Maps. I can only ever see this working with upper middle class nuclear families with a stay at home parent.
Gabb seems to be the closest, but even that has a "virtual pet" type game built in that gamifies certain things.

I've also done an android phone with an MDM in kiosk mode. None of those let you limit who is contacted though, so it ends up being more like a classic dumb phone in that you can't browse the web, but can dial whomever you want. Just make sure that you disable the Google SMS app and use a stripped down one (I used simple-sms).
> The starting slope of the line in your carefulness graph has no slope. Which means you’re basically telling X that we can turn carefulness to 6 with no real change in delivery date.

This strikes me as a pedantic argument, since the graph was clearly drawn by hand and is meant to illustrate an upward curving line. Now, maybe there's essentially no clear difference between 5 and 5.1, but when you extrapolate out to where 6 would be (about 65 pixels to the right of 5, if I can be pedantic for a moment), there actually is a difference.
Having worked with RTP, I was honestly very confused why anyone would pick this as the one protocol to rule them all. (Especially as most applications need RTCP too, so at best it would be two protocols to rule them all…)

It’s odd that someone would propose a new protocol but not check the IANA port number registry for whether the name is already in use. Surely you’ll eventually want a port for your new protocol when it’s massively successful.
what they do is just this side of magic, so maybe it's not really a costume?
> You can look at it with an owned copy. What is the issue? Is premature optimization the default mode in writing Rust? You don't see the issues with this?

uhm, common sense isn't a premature optimization. Avoiding a needless copy is the default mode in writting rust and any other language.
Everyone despises ads until other revenue streams run dry
100%. Medication is one piece of the pie for many people but definitely not the whole for most. Thanks for sharing a piece of your ADHD story though, I think more people need to hear stories like ours (and others) so that they don't feel discouraged if they try ADHD meds and it doesn't act as a magic pill as they expected. This expectation is dangerous.
Also interested in this - the Apple Watch for Kids setup seems a possibility, but it's only available in certain countries
I’d like to see something for this for travel sports.
Absolutely. Framework laptop and a custom-built desktop each running Fedora, has been a wonderful experience. If I could have any setup I wanted with no consideration of cost, I would choose this one.
Wouldn't any company unscrupulous enough to advertise a job opening without a genuine intention to hire simply disregard such a rule?

Thinking out loud:

* What if there were a bit more restrictions to posting on Who's hiring? Perhaps a counter of how many times a profile has posted, with a max of N posts allowed per M months, or something.

* Would also be nice to have some feedback from HN profiles on outcome of the job posting. Add a link to the job posting to your about page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=##### NOREPLY|HIRED|OK

... this way you can attempt to disregard the feedback if the profile posting it seems bogus. Posters wouldn't want to hurt their own reputation by lying about the quality of a job posting.

Anyway, maybe something like that would be out of scope for HN, but just thinking out loud here :-).
Plus now you can basically cripple any agency by suing them since the supreme court's view is that agencies can't do anything that isn't explicitly dictated by congress now.
Could this be a case where companies have a "people-ops" person who needs to justify their position even though the company hasn't hired anyone in months? So they create some new OKRs like: "Get 20 qualified candidates vetted and ranked in case we do decide to hire someone.", "Create 40 job ads" or something?
> nobody had to fact-check the answers ever

Even with perfect knowledge right now, there’s no guarantee that knowledge will remain relevant when it reaches another person at the fastest speed knowledge is able to travel. A reasonable answer on one side of the universe could be seen as nonsensical on the other side - for instance, the belief that we might one day populate a planet which no longer exists.

As soon as you leave the local reference frame (the area in a system from which observable events can realistically be considered happening “right now”), fact checking is indeed required.
How is that the same and how different than the prior issue? I feel like your comment sets me up to work that out - it's your comment, what do you think? :)
Indeed. Search was working reliably for me for a while using gpt-4o via the API then yesterday suddenly stopped altogether right when I needed it. Hoping this fixes it soon.
Update, it's off now. Thanks for the flag!
Well we are working on scaling them.
Somewhat unrelated question for developers: when is an app generally better suited for the desktop vs a web app? Asking for myself.
Substack is great. Right now.

If you weren't born yesterday, or remember that "enshittification" describes a process (great for users, then great for businesses, then great for the middleman), then you already know that it's just a matter of time before Substack becomes Shitstack.
In my area it's becoming very popular for schools (middle and high) to restrict phones. They put them in the pouch things. I'm a bit surprised how much the parents support it. Talking to a local journalist he said he couldn't find parents with good arguments against it. One of them was "my son runs an online business and needs access to his phone for it".

I couldn't get a cell until I had a driver's license, which I think made sense at the time. Today, a kid might be alienated without a phone.
I know a fair number of Silicon Valley "townies" and they are not trying and failing to get into tech companies. Only the Asian ones with tiger parents are even considering it.

The hippie aligned ones just want to get infinite degrees in something natural like forestry management. The rest are nurses or civil servants if they want a career, or real estate agents or artists or game streamers otherwise.

If anything I think younger Americans tend to go for the kind of vulgar Marxism where everything bad is caused by "corporations", and women in strongly prefer work that comes off as being good for society, which means they won't even consider it.

Same for me of course; I work in tech because I was on the computer too much, not because I was greedy and looked up good careers.
That sounds like the opposite of simple
The people don’t fight. The governments do. War is the racket where the government convinces the people to die for them.

Nobody dislikes the Chinese people . But we also recognize that China has ambitions to expand its territory and we assume that the us government will oppose that.
Phil Lesh's Alembic 'Mission Control' pioneered the boutique bass (2021)
I said "or any other reasons" because I was in a hurry. Internet existed way before ads, I agree, but even then you wanted people to visit your site to see what you wrote. Maybe to become an expert in a topic, maybe to feel better, but you want people to know who did it. That's why websites used to have a webmaster and info about that particular person.

If people stop visiting websites because LLM give them what they want, websites will stop existing. Don't believe me? Check how many "fansites" exist now about topics compared to ten years ago, when there weren't social networks. They have been replaced by influecners with huge followers on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and more. The same will happen.
Two years after the begininng of secondary school; in general lower-secondary starts around age 11, and in the US it usually begins with Junior High which is often, but not always, 7th grade,
> If the agency grants moral authorship to the forest alongside the song’s co-creators, it is expected that copyright authorities in other nations would have to acknowledge the same moral authorship.

So is this really meant as some kind of backdoor activist legal hack (e.g. use this copyright case to ultimately change the environmental policy of some major countries)? It smells a little like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput... [1].

[1] Also the coda of that monkey case is a pretty good example of the value of copyright outside the MPAA/RIAA/Reed Elsevier/etc. focus pushed by anti-IP activists.
I feel like every sentence on this website has a missing <sup>[citation needed]</sup> next to it.
Not a single offer for me from a startup since I got older, so not really a viable path. Can’t blame this year on ageism however, because I’ve not been interviewed.
>when you have a quantitative description available, such as an analogue sensorium, or the results of an experiment.

Textbooks uniting the mathematical relationships between physics, raw math, and computer science - including vulnerabilities.

oeis.org and wikipedia and stackforums alone would approximate a 3D room with gravity and wind force.

now add appendixes and indices of un-parsed, un-told, un-realized mathematical errata et trivia minutiae, cross-transferred knowledge from other regions that have still have not conquered the language barrier for higher-ordered arcane concepts....

The models thought experiments are more useful than our realized experiments - if not at an individualized scale now, will be when subject to more research.

There could be a dozen faster inverse sqrt / 0x5F3759DF functions barely under our noses, and the quantifier and qualifier havent intersected yet.
no, not that. It was like 5-10 full pages, talking about history, mostly western european but not only..
You can also do a filesystem scan pretty easily. Both for useful features, as well as spying.
I have used Perplexity (and AI search company) a lot and - well I don't think you understand. This is not about it being too difficult to find the information. Its that a search in Google will give you a list of places to go that are relevant to your query. AI search will give you the information you want.

This becomes even better if the information you want is in multiple different places. The canonical question for that used to be "what was the phase of the moon when John Lennon was shot?". There didn't used to be an answer to this in Google - but the AI search was able to break it down, find the date John Lennon was shot (easily available on Google), find the moon phase on that day (again, easily available on Google) and put them together to produce the new answer.

For a more tech relevant example, "what is the smallest AWS EC2 I can run a Tomcat server in?

You 100% can get this information yourself. It just much more time than having an AI do it.
Appreciate your thoughts here. The side effects of meds are definitely something to consider, for me specifically it's appetite, poor sleep, sweating, and being less social/funny. Sometimes I also zone in on the wrong thing for too long, when I'm on meds.
Exactly my thoughts. I don't understand whether I'm really spoiled, or is the crowd here weird about upgrading for some reason - if you have a laptop from 4-5 years ago, the new one would be 2-5x faster in vast majority of things - even if not critical for your workflow, it would feel SO MUCH nicer - so if it's something you use for 100h / week, shouldn't you try to make it as enjoyable as reasonably possible?

Other example - I'm by no means rich, but I have a $300 mechanical keyboard - it doesn't make me type faster and it doesn't have additional functionality to a regular $30 Logitech one - but typing on it feels so nice and I spend so much of my life doing it, that to me it's completely justified and needed to have this one then.
What does the “8th grade” mean?
Everyone has a different threshold for what they want from a dumb phone, some wants Google Maps, some think Youtube is ok, Google Chrome etc. which makes it hard to have a one true dumb phone. If you give access to the play store it's no longer a dumb phone

The best way to have a dumb phone tailored to your needs is to take a cheap smartphone and make it dumb, either by using a different launcher, or a customized OS

I wish there was an easy to customize "dumb android os" that would let you pick initial applications you want to have, and then disable play store
oh it was a pain in the gluteus maximus, this was before alsa worked properly, so it was using oss, and you could only have one application using the sound card. this means a random flash applet at the bottom of a page on Firefox could easily hold it and Skype would just not work.
Thanks for that! I think I wrote that comment a little more negative-sounding than it was in my head. While I do lament skills I've lost and forgotten over the years, I know my EE background came in handy when writing software professionally for embedded and semi-embedded devices, earlier in my career. These days I've moved on to distributed systems, so all that low-level knowledge isn't quite as useful as it once was.
if your "desktop app" gives me a cookie consent banner, i'm going to assume it's a pretty lazy effort to have a desktop app.

i can click the "install page as app" button in chrome myself, thanks.
More discussion from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36207142
I didn't have a phone at all until I was in high school! Looking back on all the times that I was tragically killed or maimed as a result, it's a miracle I'm able to write this comment today!
Is that a fact or are you speculating?
> I think there can be a tendency for some women to fixate on their problems

My wife and I used to interact a lot with newly married couples at our church and if our experience is anything to go off of, you are correct and it's the one thing that drives new husbands crazy.

I don't think there's anything wrong with saying it. It's a generalization and doesn't apply to everyone, but it seems obvious to me that there are social pathologies that are sex-specific. As a man, I can rattle of dozens of pathological psychological us men are especially prone to. I think there's actually widespread recognition of this for men. I don't see why we shouldn't be able to say the same thing about women.

That's not to dismiss women. After all, the desire, especially of young men, to one up another is absolutely real (and can sometimes become destructive)! Or, the desire to simply grin and go on despite having some kind of emotional need is again a very real desire in many men. However, society realizes this and has actively tried to at least make men aware of these various states of mind that affect us. Whereas -- again if my experience as a mentor to new couples is right -- if someone ever tells a women that she is falling into a stereotypically female doom spiral, woe be to that man, or woman (in general, of course, there's always exceptions!)!
If you start to write an angry email, pause, and genuinely think of valid logical arguments (knowing that the previous anger may still be biasing the reasoning), that isn't deceptive. If you're masking the anger and not trying to reason calmly, which implies that you're using motivated reasoning, that is deceptive. Similarly with an (AI) speech editor, it depends on whether you're just trying to score points easily or whether you have the genuine intention to connect your experiences to your audiences' and give a thought out speech. Unfortunately, the results might be similar, but we should all aim to encourage the latter and discourage the former where we can.
Does anyone have suggestions on what a proper robots.txt would be?

How about:

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
Thanks, will take a look at that curl thing. We are still using this and been working for us for ~15 years (python 2, ported to python 3) and this is just an example of how to take https://fabfile.org to the extreme but still is not the best way to do it. We only ~50 servers so it is not a massive fleet. The convenience of typing `fab <env> <role> <task>` to do things under control is still better than nothing :)
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989534
What were the major differences?
People already spent upwards of $50 a month for the internet itself, plus they probably pay monthly for one or more streaming services. They likely pay separately for mobile data too.

Separate monthly fees for separate services is absolutely unsustainable already. The economic model to make the internet work has not yet been discovered, but $20 a month for a search engine is not it.
I pay for Kagi, and apparently so do many others here on HN. This, however, solves only half of the problem - publishers are not on board with the scheme, so they still output impression-optimized "content". But at least the search engine isn't working against my interests.
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It is much more expensive to run a search query with AI. I don't think ads can pay for it.
This. I still have a few XP machines/instances running software/hardware that won't work on newer stuff (logic analyzer, PROM/PAL programmers, old CAD, etc). I don't think I've ever launched a browser on them, and they definitely are walled off network wise. But they work perfectly for the use case.
I'll take a stab at it. What is the web, really? Gotta be stuff you see and interact with in web browsers right? Sure, you can get to HN, YouTube and Instagram in a browser. But by traffic for example, how much of activity on HN, Instagram and YouTube combined is through a browser? I mean, gotta be pretty low...like 5%? Just a guess, but remember all the app usage and TV usage for those sites is pretty big.

So if 95% of traffic/users/whatever metric are not using a web browser for those activities, is it really the web? It can't be called the web just 'cause they use HTTPS. It's gotta be a 'world wide web' experience, which I think a good proxy for would be using a web browser.

I got no horse in this race, just thinking out loud about it.
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at some point, the attack surface is old and strange enough that it's no longer hazardous to expose. like a spear going through kevlar ballistic armor. i guess that's backwards but you know what i mean
Is that actually the purpose though? The appearance of diversity?

Maybe marcan42 just wants to present themselves that way.
I really wish this had support for typing out code. Like https://typing.io/. Been an og EZ user for a while, really like the idea of this
Smart watches were banned in our kids primary school as some of them have cameras and were used to take inappropriate photos. We have finally decided for an analog watch and no tracking as we live in a safe neighborhood and they know most of the neighbors.
One option might be to search the web for "nand gate using relays". That will give you the answer, which might be a little spoilery, but you can try to puzzle out how it works from the solution.

I found this[0], which is nice in that it's interactive (you can click the inputs to change their values and see how the current flows), though I think the visuals are a little harder to understand. Would be nicer if it had clearer delineation of the relays, and their inputs and outputs labeled with more than just their voltages.

[0] https://everycircuit.com/circuit/4954026060021760/relay-base...
At least the news/media sites can pretend they are loading something useful for the user, even if that is not usually the case.

I can't figure out why Google needs 15X more CPU indefinitely to display a white page with a search box, though (compared to a blank tab or simple site).
Yeah I thought 8 years old was kinda surprisingly young to "wait" for!
Maybe off topic, but is that AI gen gore on the image of the small child looking down at his phone on the left?