skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i feel similarly and have had an adjacent experience with anxiety. the more i got to know myself, and the more i've accepted myself over the years, the more i've found myself self-advocating and validating my own existence (to myself) -- i do not need to prove or justify it to others, and i have been working on keeping this mantra alive.

a large part of this experience has been overcoming things by applying a healthy dose of, "fuck it -- this is for me." [1]

[1] obviously one can suggest there is an element of hedonism or selfishness inherent in the attitude, but i think we can appreciate framing it in the context of not using this attitude or mantra to justify being self-destructive, or harmful -- that is not the point. it's more about applying it in a way, that combats the mundane insecurities i've faced and experienced in a range of extremes, which otherwise get in the way of personal growth.
It generates bugs in pretty similar ways. It’s based on human-written code, after all.

Edge cases will usually be the ones to get through. Most developers don’t correctly write tests that exercise the limits of each input (or indeed have time to both unit test every function that way, and integration test to be sure the bigger stories are correctly working). Nothing about ai assist changes any of this.

(If anybody starts doing significant fully unsupervised “ai” coding they would likely pay the price in extreme instability so I’m assuming here that humans still basically read/skim PRs the same as they always have)
There's nothing silly about wanting to avoid the sandcastle-built-on-quicksand world of web applications.

Sadly, the world of native apps, at least in the commercial space, seems to be drifting away from the tenants of stability and user control that the space used to exemplify. Excel 365 (or whatever the hell MS wants to call it) randomly auto-updates itself without warning or confirmation.
Interestingly enough, even in countries with tax funded healthcare people with lower income and socioeconomic status tend to receive worse healthcare (fewer expensive interventions, etc).
> (...) and a consumer of that event goes back to the source of the event to query the full state of that customer 123, it may have been updated again (or even deleted) since the event was emitted.

So the entity was updated. What's the problem?
In practical terms:

Back in those days, people would store a mixture of ASCII and other data in the same database, e.g. ASCII in some rows, ISO-8859-9 in others. (My bank at the time did that, some customers had all-ASCII names, some had names with ø and so on.) If unicode were only mostly compatible with the combination, it wouldn't have been safe to start migrating software that accessed databases/servers/… For example, using UTF8 for display and a database's encoding to access a DBMS would have had difficult-to-understand limitations.

You can fix all kinds of bugs if you're able to disregard compatibility with old data or old systems. But you can't. And that's why unicode is constrained by e.g. the combination of a decision made in Sweden hundreds of years ago with one made in Germany around the same time. Compatibility with both leads to nontrivial choices and complexity, incompatibility leads to the scrap heap of software.
> I recall Vanguard not, and a quick google seems to confirm that. I do wonder why?

It’s a crappy price weighted benchmark with 30 stocks invented over 100 years ago, that’s why Vanguard doesn’t offer a fund.

The largest DJIA ETF is small potatoes, SPY’s average daily volume is higher than DIA’s total assets under management.

VOO tracks the S&P 500 and VTI tracks the US total market, both of these are much better, more diversified options for equity investing.
I don't think foreign currency reserves of a country that are being actively used are an adequate metric for comparison. The cash tech sits on would be more appropriate. Or even GDP of a country. But foreign exchange reserves of a country can be influenced by a number of factors that are not relevant to this article. Specially since you didn't even mention the country name or it's gdp, it doesn't give us an idea of the scale of the foreign currency reserves. For all I know, the us might as well have that amount of foreign currency because it's mostly using usd anyways. Maybe you could elaborate a little bit, why the scale of foreign currency reserves of a given country can be relevant?
To be honest, is that such a bad thing?

I understand worrying about destroying the native ecosystems, but about some long-lost ruins?
I already answered that- your best deal to get an unlocked phone is to buy a locked one and pay out the 2 months service to unlock it. So add about $20-30 to the price, which still gets you a new iPhone free and clear for about $200.

The thing that makes getting an iPhone like this so much cheaper than even a base model 3rd world country targeted Android is the really long support life.

However, I can't imagine anyone actually doing that, because if you're budget conscious enough to be doing this, you'll already be using one of those low priced prepaid carriers, so the 2 month lock-in is not an extra expense.
The situation of messages vs events is analogous to append-only database vs update-in-place database. You get exposed to the same issues at scale if you rely on the later.

Being notified only _when_ something happened isn't always useful the world is changing underneath you (it _can be_ useful in particular situations, when you know state is final, but not as a general architecture principle).
I am not at all related to the business or the poster, and I have lived in Switzerland for a long while now.

This is a fairly standard range for software engineer salaries. 100k is on the junior end, 140k is on the senior end.
Meanwhile what I see is that everyone seems to think the {} type in Typescript means an empty object. Just because something has expressive power doesn't mean it's good.
It's not a strict routine, but I sometimes listen to fairy tales from Myths And Legends [0] podcast and put myself to sleep. And I'm supposedly a grown ass adult. #noshame

[0] https://www.mythpodcast.com/
Could take Intel private with nearly half a billion to spare.
I got one r-pi zero running pi-hole at .220, and another pi-hole on a server dockerized at .221.
If that server goes down, another server has a dockerized pi-hole that takes over the .221 IP.
The failover is handled with keepalived.

At parents house they got one r-pi set as DNS 1, and 9.9.9.9 as DNS 2.
This seems like the first step to forcing the walled garden model onto laptops and desktops. People should be able to use their computers however they want.
A nations gold reserve could be a good comparison?
Wasn't sure what was so special about the letters written by a mid-century neurologist, one among many, until I got to this part at the very start of the article:

> A young queer man with a growing interest in motorcycle leather, Sacks had other reasons to leave

He might have been a great guy, I couldn't tell, cause the reviewer was first and foremost interested in who this guy was having intercourse with, and not in what he was actually saying/believing/thinking of. Many such cases of late.
There are two types of languages: the ones full of quirks and the ones no one uses.
It isn't trivial but it is supported. Here is an example [0] toy.

I am not aware of any production grade replacement GCs for .NET out there currently

https://github.com/kkokosa/UpsilonGC
Yeah, it’s a silly segway. The team could have moved somewhere “safe” at any time before the acquisition lol. I’m from the Baltics as well, we are not moving anywhere from our land, photo editing features can wait.
Dotnet is also very good for building web apps, it also includes static typing and a huge ecosystem.

I agree that web dev is basically a solved problem, I don’t know why stuff like next.js exists
I much prefer ggplot over other options!
turn it the other way,

pay $30 a year, or we brick your Win10 install.

yes i know im holding it backward, but its insightful.
https://youtu.be/ZMQ2r3ofn80?t=3

https://youtu.be/kCKPYxnHUYI?t=1305
I am so sad I don't know Morse code. This is the best idea ever.
So I get an iPhone for $200 and then I can cancel the contract and pay nothing else? That sounds like a pretty good deal.
Amazing use-case
People are also free to smash their own hands with a hammer. Someone saying to them “please consider not smashing your own hand with a hammer because you will be in pain and may lose use of it” doesn’t stop them from doing so, it politely and helpfully gives a suggestion as to why they should think if that’s what they really want.
Muses, Not Sirens – Motivation in the Era of AI-Generated Girlfriends
Maybe they are just following Musk recommendation: "People who entered the country illegally should not be allowed to stay" - https://youtu.be/ZMQ2r3ofn80?t=3
> It's just Clausewitz, effectively:

Drink!

Apologies to fans of Bret Deveraux :-)
This happened to me. The result:

- secret slack room to help me overcome my depression (wasn't invited of course, I just spotted it several times while looking at my colleagues' screens)

- lowest paid member in the team, while also being one of if not the most productive. 12x: verified. 30x: speculated if I had control over the architecture.

- 70h/week, no vacations, for 3 years. No paid overtime of any form.

- Double bind situation where I was used as a punching ball between the CTO and the #2 employee.

- Excluded from secret negotiations to obtain a raise.

You know what I did ? I quitted, cold turkey. That's when the CEO started to hate on me, feeling betrayed. The #2 left shortly after confiding he wanted to punch the CTO in the face. After realizing hiring someone to replace me wasn't cutting it, they distributed overtime to everybody on the team. Result: unionization. One year after my departure I received a call from the COO telling me he was willing to hire me back at the condition I would behave (since I was thrown at every hot issue, semantic propagation tied in their mind the idea I was also problematic). He was let go shortly after and replaced by a manager from the holding company (if you know what I mean). I haven't worked in 6-7 years. Most colleagues who left have had a similar empty period.
The article, by Stephen Shapin (another famous figure in the history of science / STS) is actually mostly about Latour’s Catholicism — something nobody in the field remembers. (I had to read a lot of Latour back in the day, and I’d always assumed he was non religious like most late 20th century intellectuals.) According to Shapin, the Catholicism, together with the climate emergency, is at the heart of his “seriousness”, although apparently he didn’t really do “belief” per se:

> in his own words, religion was not to do with “belief.” God was not an entity you believed in: God did not exist outside of the practices—what Bruno called “the processions and rituals” that make Him present. That is, God is made manifest in an actor-network of religiosity.

The other interesting things you learn here is that Latour was from the famous Latour wine family, he was a youngest son so his family kind of expected him to enter the church, and they were apparently unimpressed and uninterested in his academic career.
Fwiw the term "prompt engineering" begins as a joke or at the very least half-serious, along the lines of "naming engineer" etc.

But it turns out that a) it's useful to know how to write prompts effectively b) it's time consuming c) it requires skill

So it became more and more an actual thing (discipline?) worth to be taken setiously
I submitted this link after reading this gem of a discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004508
I'm no fan of Musk. However, building companies is generally considered to be a good thing. Doing it with taxpayer money is only bad if it's somehow fraudulent - if you make a company and get a government contract and you actually fulfill that contract, that's neutral or good.

Spreading misinformation is definitely bad, but I don't think I'd class it as terrorism.

Regardless, I don't see any chance of the US throwing Musk out.
Well, not all its alternatives. There's one spreadsheet out there that has better performance than Excel: https://rowzero.io/home
Try Steve Ramsey: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBB7sYb14uBtk8UqSQYc9-w

He's got a very nice approachable style (almost the Bob Ross of woodworking?) and has some great beginner videos, including guidance on which tools to prioritise (and deprioritise) at the start of the hobby. He also sells a course with plans for gradually increasingly challenging projects. No affiliation, just watched a lot of his videos when I was first getting started with woodworking.

There are also (as you'd expect) thousands of other Youtubers doing woodwork, too. Steve's just a great starting place.
Since when is the basic pager an exotic terminal app?
not the parent, but 'everything' is a mostly unhelpful answer.

A few important concrete examples would be much more interesting. In fairness, you did somewhat, but I would be interested in some more details.
Yamaha throws in the towel, pulls out of e-bike market in North America
He’s set to scoop everything up at a steep discount—a textbook example of patience and gut instinct rewarded when passive-investing.
From my perspective, it had already devolved when you started making dishonest whataboutisms and accusations of being "indoctrinated" in your comments. Just to humor you though, what is the "truth" that you say you were enlightened of?
Put yourself in their shoes.

They idolized a company that is known for top-shelf engineering talent and, more importantly, brutally hard interviews...and they just got an opportunity to interview with them.

You have no idea what the interviewee will "no hire" them over, so you assume they want perfection because obviously. You're deathly afraid of making any mistakes because not getting the job you've been dreaming about for years is not an option, so spiraling straight into the ground after your first minor oops makes total sense.

Once you've gotten the dream job, you now have to work even harder to keep it because, shit, have you seen the engineering talent in this place? Getting a "failing" perf review from your management sends this anxiety into overdrive, so you work harder to prove your worth.

Some people barely last under these conditions. Others will gladly torch everything and everyone in their life to succeed, whatever that means.
AFAIK, C didn't get single line comments until C99. They were a C++ feature originally.
Show HN: I built an app that turns long-form articles into LinkedIn posts
Hey,

Ever felt Linkedin was overwhelmed with marketing and corpo posts everywhere?

That was me.

So I decided to post educational content on Linkedin with some AI assistance.

Problem: this takes a lot of time. Really.

And the existing post generators suck in science and engineering communication. They are tailored for marketers and for telling life stories, etc.

I needed something tailored for engineers and tech entrepreneurs.

I needed an app where we can ingest research papers, generating good drafts for compelling linkedin posts.

So...

I built it.

I have just a few users, and want to launch a public beta.

So here it is.
- 20 credits to try for everyone who joins.

It's my first product as indie hacker - feedback would be amazing.
Yeah, you know the “open-source X alternative“ branding has gone too far when we get to this point. With that said, this seems cool as far as being built on Google app scripts.
isn't most of the payoff from stock? which means that if the CEO gets a payoff it's because he is unlocking & selling stock to the market?
Location: College Park, MD, USA
Remote: Yes, but open to hybrid or work from office.
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python 3, HTML5 and CSS3, Google Cloud Fundamentals, Data Structures, SQL, Database management systems, Design
and analysis of Algorithms, Operating Systems, Mentor Graphics, Verilog, MATLAB, Memory Design and Testing.
Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EPf8Y2MV9vRd2RayoE0oSwvdaFQ...
Email: sgarlave@umd.edu
I think it's a long game for them and normalizing the loss of freedom on mobile platforms was the major step. By now most Apple users are conditioned to find this acceptable.
Many people here are heavily invested in NVDA stock, which certainly clouds the judgement.
That's the idea behind patents. You get a period of what is essentially monopoly license in exchange for the idea being made available to the public. The issue with copyright is that it lasts far too long now compared to the original length (14 years in the US), which throws off the balance.
ah that’s what people were looking for

a jquery alternative

actually the native typescript is interesting
Thanks for linking my comment. Would you mind explaining exactly why you disagree with it?
Someone in the comments here posted a version of that and was downvoted. Probably the author doesn't like competition.
at its heart its a piano roll, pretty much all DAWs have them somewhere.
Stocks aren’t necessarily vested immediately. So that number can be reduced.
I agree, but many people in this world are raised by parents for whom "fuck it" is not an option. Escaping that kind of environment is very difficult.
I think 3 is not only a natural state, but the best state.

I don’t think we can have 1 language that satisfies the needs of all people who write code, and thus, we can’t have 1 syntax that does that either.

3 seems the only sensible solution to me, and we have it.
Although it wasn't the cause of this particular vulnerability, this kind of application, which communicates with large numbers of potentially malicious nodes, seems like it would really benefit from memory safety, but all the current implementations seem to be written in C++. (The article does mention the potential for this kind of vulnerability in point 4.)

Even Deluge, which is written in Python, relies on libtorrent which is written in C++.

I don't suppose there is a modern fork of the old Java-based Azureus client? Many BitTorrent clients nowadays split the GUI from the daemon process handling the actual torrenting, so using Java for the daemon and connecting it to a native GUI could strike a good balance between security, performance and user experience.
Based on this, I'd love to brainstorm here on HN about what a next-generation Excel could look like, one that keeps Excel’s core strengths without expanding into database like features found in tools like Airtable. Here are a few ideas:

1. Clear Separation between UI/UX and Backend: By separating the user interface from backend processes—perhaps as a module or library—Excel could maintain its clean, familiar interface while supporting more complex calculations and data handling in the background. This concept is somewhat akin to “Microsoft Excel Services.”

2. Multi-Language Formula Support: Similar to how VSCode supports multiple programming languages, Excel could allow users to choose between languages for cell formulas. Many users are comfortable with the current formula syntax, but it feels outdated, and even Google Sheets has (obviously?) largely replicated this old model. Allowing for different languages, while keeping the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) structure, could enable more advanced and flexible workflows.

3. Enhanced Data Types and Representations: Cells or groups of cells could support stronger data types, richer formatting, and custom representations, like embedded charts.

4. Integrated Data Connectivity: Excel could come with built-in tools to connect to external data sources and export data in structured formats, perhaps managed with an external orchestrator. I know you can do this with Excel and some other tools but I would like to just mark a cell and indicating that it can be consumed in a specific endpoint.

5. No artificial limits to the number of columns and rows.
Steve Sims Interview on Soft White Underbelly [video]
It seems like I have to select the note in the piano roll to adjust the velocity, instead of selecting and adjusting in the velocity area, which is annoying.
Yes- right now on the Tracfone website I see an iPhone SE3 for $189, and single month prepaid rates of $15/mo so that would be $219 total. I'd imagine you have to really wait out the 2 months of service also before the unlock triggers. These are prepaid "burner plans," so there is no contract, you just buy months/minutes up front, and can buy the minutes as a gift card along with the phone.

However, in the past I never paid those full website rates because you can often get the pre-boxed store shelf versions of these phones new on eBay, or in person at stores for even cheaper... and the monthly service itself is also a lot less than $15/mo if you prepay for a longer period. In real life $100 total is possible for a brand new iPhone if done right, and is about what I paid for mine.
> US timezones follow counties and native reservations borders.

It's worse than that; Malheur County on the eastern border of Oregon is split between Pacific and Mountain time based on whether cities are more economically connected to Idaho or Nevada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malheur_County,_Oregon#Time_zo...
See also: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
window.$ = document.querySelectorAll
> So what it sounds like is copyright stifles societal growth to ensure the originator gets his rent

If you’re ignoring copyright and IP rights while catching up? That’s just freeloading, you need someone to pay for all the research/innovation.

> if I have to navigate patents

Albeit still more likely than if you have no funding? Investors don’t have as many incentives to provide that if they can’t get a return.

Of course you need a balance, over restrictive IP protection might be as bad as not having it at all.
I haven’t seen any image generator maintain spatial consistency for more than a few seconds of video (maybe a min for runway actually)

Definitely nothing that maintains it for hours on end.

If you have, please link them. I’m very interested.
I get that a GPU is doing it like that, but are you really sure this is the better algorithm for cpu?
i'm not likely to look for information at any site in the AI. domain
Are you referring to Bruno Latour or the author of the post? If you're referring to Latour, I would strongly urge you to read "Laboratory Life", which is [as] clear and easy to read today as it was when I first encountered it nearly 20 years ago.
BTW, when GPUs were used for Bitcoin mining (up until year 2013, obsoleted by spacialized chips after that), AMD chips were used exclusively, because they had much better integer math performance, compared to Nvidia cards, which focused on floating point performance.
We use the Galaxy A15 as a test device for entry level phones in our lab. I get to spend a lot of time with it while testing and debugging. There is absolutely no difference compared to a more expensive phone.

Of course, there is the occasional lag (and by lag I mean that you have to wait a couple of ms/s for things to happen), and maybe you won't see the camera used on a movie set... but beyond that, you can live your life and never miss anything from that iPhone.

Using such a device, you also immediately become aware of apps and websites that were released a bit too quickly - heavy, clunky things take longer to load, and you're more likely to abandon a heavy app/website.

So once again, I ask you to optimise your front-ends (both web and 'native').
I love how fast everything is, it's the best searching tool, very low overhead needs little resources.
Here's how you can do this. You have 3 accounts: A, B and in-flight.

1. Debit A, Credit in-flight.

2. Credit B, Debit in-flight.

If 1. fails, nothing happened and everything is consistent.

If 2. fails, you know (because you have money left on in-flight), and you can retry later, or refund A.

This way at no point your total balance decreases, so everything is always consistent.
Wasn't this part of the base thesis of "We Have Never Been Modern"?